Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

Am 28.09.2014 um 10:44 schrieb Jorge Almeida: > I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are > unaccountably large. > > I'm talking about C programs of my own, so no version related issues > whatsoever. The computer is a core i3 with a 32 bit system. > > Example, for the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >> >> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>> emerge above. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: > > On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >> Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overl

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: > Hi there! > > So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB > already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: > > leela ~ # uname -a > Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD > A6-3500 APU

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying data efficiently

Am 17.05.2014 11:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Sat, 17 May 2014 09:59:08 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> 3. Or you could use a sequential copy: >>> >>> cp -a /home /dev/sdb1/ && cp -a /home /dev/sdc1 > >> 3.) The files I want to copy are in the size of some GB each. So the >> cach

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_COMPRESS

Am 02.04.2014 14:27, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > I was reviewing my Portage settings yesterday and I noticed that I have > PORTAGE_COMPRESS set (to bzip2, the default) on both of my servers and > it occurred to me that both of these servers have filesystems that > support compression (btrfs on one,

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD success - I think

Am 22.02.2014 16:24, schrieb thegee...@thegeezer.net: > you might want this to read relatime,discard to handle the trim > automagically. if you are concerned about writes i'd suggest noatime for > all of these "noatime" yes - you need atimes only with _ancient_ news/mail servers/clients. But I'd r

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use my SSD the right way ;-)

Am 03.01.2014 15:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 03/01/2014 15:13, William Kenworthy wrote: >> On 03/01/14 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 03/01/2014 09:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.01.2014 07:52, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 03/01/2014 00:46, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox

Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson: > As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has > stopped working in FireFox. > > I'm running an "stable" AMD64 system with FireFox > (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer > (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wra

Re: [gentoo-user] Complete list of USE flags?

Am 04.08.2013 20:31, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > Hello guys, > > I'm a bit ashamed to ask this question, as it belies how long I haven't > actually installed a 'lightweight' Gentoo system... > > But I digress. On to my question: > > Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags? > > And a related su

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

Am 16.05.2013 13:49, schrieb Adam Carter: > My system no longer had a /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 which made it quite > unhappy. I eventually copied one over from a fedora live iso i had and > things are operational again. Is there some way i can confirm if it was > the gcc upgrade? > > This looks damnin

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME configuration problem

Am 04.02.2013 11:52, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > Hi, > > I'm not using the full GNOME desktop but only single applications like > 'meld'. > > (Only) for some users (including root on one machine and a non-root user > on an another machine) > meld fails with : > > File "/usr/lib64/meld/meld/ui/h

Re: [gentoo-user] cairo USE flags

Am 19.01.2013 11:49, schrieb Florian Philipp: > Hi list! > > I've noticed that there is probably a lot of performance to be gained > from activating backend acceleration in cairo. It's just that I have no > clue about the details: > > drm, gallium and opengl are all described as accelerating back

Re: [gentoo-user] disk accesses per subdirectory tree

On 21.12.2012 14:42, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to put some subdirectory trees (of / and of /usr and of /home) > onto an SSD. > For that I'd like to count the disk accesses which go to a given > subdirectory tree > in some given time intervall. > > Is there any utility which can me

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

On 21.12.2012 12:19, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: >> On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Grant wrote: >>>> Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? >>> >>> Yes. I have be

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Grant wrote: >> Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? > Yes. I have been using the community version for several years. +1 Works good with (user)groups, important modules are well integrated into each other (f.e.: you can link objects from ad

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

On 26.11.2012 15:35, Alex Schuster wrote: > Luis Gustavo Vilela de Oliveira writes: > >> Well, with 8Gb RAM, i recommend use tmpfs on PORTAGE_TMPDIR, just while >> u are compiling anything. >> Or even with 6Gb too. > > I have 16 GB, with 8GB for $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. There were issues > with

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

On 26.11.2012 15:01, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > 2 year warranty only covers production defects. Not failure because > of abuse. I cannot imagine it to say "do not let your OS swap on this flash disk". Most people have no clue what swap is, and all those netbooks nowadays have only a cheap SSD at

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

On 25.11.2012 22:43, Jacques Montier wrote: > Each time you sync the portage, you should write on the SSD... > Is it a good thing ? It is the best thing since rsync! Really - it is amazing! And about portage: you write in your portage tree not nearly as often as in /home. SSDs don't die as quickly

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

On 26.11.2012 00:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 06:46:28 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - >> any other effects? > > Yes, no, improved virtual memory performance. +1 > SSDs aren't cheapo SD cards, they are

Re: [gentoo-user] davical & thunderbird

On 07.11.2012 08:57, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-11-07 01:48, schrieb Michael Orlitzky: > >> I tried too. It doesn't work. I guess this is our best hope? >> >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546932 > > oh my ;) > > Is it not working at all or is only the import problema

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

On 14.08.2012 11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 10:21:54 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> There is also the possibility to write a really small daemon (less than >> 50 lines of C) that registers with inotify for the entire fs and >> journals the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

On 13.08.2012 16:53, Michael Hampicke wrote: > 2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should > have some kind of DB that holds that information. > 3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should tak

Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote: > - about 20GB > - 100.000 directories > - about 2 million files > > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two > 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1. 1st thought: switch to SSDs 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a S

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

On 31.07.2012 16:30, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > latitudes E6430 6430s nvidia through optimus :( > latitudes E6330 No nvidia.

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia NVS 5200M

On 26.07.2012 22:50, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I am buying a new laptop, most likely a dell 6340. > My choices for video are intel 4000 and nvidia nvs 5200M. Just make sure, that you don't get a "optimus" notebook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers + kernel 3.4

On 18.06.2012 11:29, Philip Webb wrote: > I've updated to the latest testing 302.17 & it's working ok so far. Just wanted to let you know, that there is a bug that affects lots of people with 302.xx: X-console-switch and resume-from-suspend are broken. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.ph

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those "green" drives any good?

I'm using big WD Caviar Green (WDxxEAxx) SATA HDDs for some years now in my home 24/7 server, and haven't had any issues - they run cool and low-noise, and the performance is good. Low power and heat was what was important for me when choosing. HDD performance isn't an issue anyway, when storing me

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

On 05.04.2012 14:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:36:54 +0200, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Why can't ebuilds like icu be made like openssl or openldap where the >> libs are not replaced, but old libs stay and a text is displayed to use >> redep-rebu

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD

On 04.04.2012 20:12, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Another scare. No emacs, no apache, gnome in trouble ... > > don't install icu-49.1 > > I was going to file a bug but I see that there are a few stating that > some things fail with 49.1 so I don't know that my adding to the list > will help. > > To

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with ".O" instead of my domain

On 27.02.2012 16:16, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: >> >> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 >> Pandu Poluan mailto:pa...@poluan.info>> wrote: >> >> > I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again...

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc and mplayer crash with nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

On 20.02.2012 13:53, Bernd Butscheidt wrote: > as told in the subject. Both crash instantly or after a few seconds > when accessing or trying to play a video-dvd. Strange enough, xine > doesn't seem to be affected. Prob. xine isn't configured to use hw acceleration :) > Seems to me to be related

Re: [gentoo-user] Python+readline?

On 28.01.2012 10:01, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've enabled the readline flag for the python build, but it doesn't > seem to work. Are there any other settings I'm missing? > daniel@moja ~ $ cat .pythonstartup #!/usr/bin/python try: import readline except ImportError: print "Module readline

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

On 23.01.2012 01:00, Philip Webb wrote: > During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 > is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable". > I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, > but PDF export was not working. Has anyone used it w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT crontab not understood

On 09.01.2012 19:31, James wrote: > Daniel Troeder admin-box.com> writes: > >>>> So I have installed sys-process/vixie-cron > > > Ah, excellent. Just so you know, Paul Vixie is one of the un_sung > heros of the the internet. > > just look up Paul Vixie

Re: [gentoo-user] OT crontab not understood

On 09.01.2012 12:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:10:50 +0100 > Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Hi :) >> >> It seems I don't understand something about cron(tab). Can someone >> help me pls: >> >> I want to run flexbackup w

[gentoo-user] OT crontab not understood

Hi :) It seems I don't understand something about cron(tab). Can someone help me pls: I want to run flexbackup with the following backup plan: * monthly full * weekly diff * daily incr So I have installed sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r12 (and virtual/cron-0 and sys-process/cronbase-0.3.3).

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI Torrent client(s)?

On 29.12.2011 12:07, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I'm wondering: what's your recommended CLI Torrent client(s)? And why? > > Rgds, I'm definitely a fan (and user) of deluge. It has nice plugins, and can receive torrents from rss-parser flexget, which is very nice for tv-shows -> ezrss.it. But this was n

Re: [gentoo-user] From where the word 'gentoo' came?

On 20.12.2011 18:31, LinuxIsOne wrote: > Hi, > > From where the word gentoo came into existence? > > Thanks. > Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727 -- PGP key @ http://pgpkeys.pca.dfn.de/pks/lookup?search=0xBB9D4887&o

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

On 13.12.2011 01:44, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On my system, /usr/portage currently contains 127000 files. But for reason of > increased performance I put it into a squashfs file. (There was a nice howto > on this ML some months ago). You could try that, which will free those inodes > up and id

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

On 12.12.2011 15:54, Alex Schuster wrote: > Joseph writes: >> That is scary. I just install new HD with 2TB capacity and ext4 that is >> 2% full and: >> $ find /home/joseph/ -xdev | wc -l >> shows: 169977 that is 26% full. > No, that is 26% of the number of total inodes _Daniel_ has on his small

[gentoo-user] ext4 inode limit reached

Hello :) I have an ext4-filesystem that contains /usr/src, the /usr/portage and /var/cache/edb. It previously also contained /var/db/pkg, but I had to move that some weeks ago, because the fs was "full". Now it's "full" again, though it has free blocks. But no inodes are left: $ fsck -vf /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: multi-threaded mplayer

On 11/15/2011 10:55 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I'll answer myself: just pass the option. And when happy, put them in the config file: daniel@moja ~ $ grep threads .mplayer/config lavdopts=threads=4 > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789673-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-75.html > > On

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] - can /var be placed in a separate partition?

On 09/12/2011 01:53 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Francisco Ares writes: >> Is it possible to have /var in a separate partition, mounted during >> boot? > This is very common. The advantage is that a process filling up the /var > directory (which is bad) will not fill the root partition (which would b

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Topology Diagrams

On 08/05/2011 07:48 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:42 PM, James > wrote: >> Hello one and all, >> >> It's been a while since I've created diagrams. I'd be curious to >> learn what tools (software ebuilds) and techniques that folks >> employ to: >> >> Graphically map an existin

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

On 01/16/2011 08:25 PM, Grant wrote: > I've been running without swap for quite a while, but my system goes > into a near freeze whenever I undertake a large emerge such as > chromium or openoffice. Is there anything I can do to prevent this > besides turning swap back on? I have 3GB RAM and MAKE

Re: [gentoo-user] xen-sources and igb (intel network) driver

On 01/11/2011 03:09 PM, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > In <1294686017.7979@rumba> elw...@agouros.de (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: > >> Hi, > >> I just upgraded my box to a phenom and an intel quad gbit card. >> The card is a 82575GB. It is recognized (I use xen-sources 2.6.34-r4) and >> also trie

Re: [gentoo-user] postfixadmin vacation user uid/home in /etc/passwd

On 12/30/2010 12:59 AM, kashani wrote: > On 12/29/2010 1:36 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-12-29 3:50 PM, kashani wrote: >>> On 12/29/2010 9:14 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: I'm updating an old system I inherited that has postfixadmin 2.1 installed, and I have a question about the vacation user e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

On 10/07/2010 12:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > WOW! Those differences are crazy! > > > Please - I know benchmarking takes a lot of time - but could you check > something: the behavior those fs have at what time they flush data from > cache to disk is very different. Have you made sure t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

On 10/06/2010 10:04 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > FYI some braindead benchmarking, reiserfs vs ext4, kernel 2.6.35-gentoo-r8 > > Copy same DVD image from internal reiserfs drive to freshly formatted > external drive; > reiserfs1m37.530s > ext43m15.074s > > Then image copy on that external

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Normal disk speed?

On 10/01/2010 04:40 PM, James wrote: > Daniel Troeder admin-box.com> writes: > > >> As I read about the nice performance of btrfs with compression I tried >> it out two weeks ago. I'll be posting my benchmarks to this list soon. >> Until now I didn't ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Normal disk speed?

On 10/01/2010 03:12 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > Your harddisk seeks, everything is slow. > > So does that then mean that my options are; > 1. Defragment, so there is less seeking > 2. Get an SSD > > Since 2 is too expensive for a decent size drive, is there anything i > can do about 1 without a

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

On 09/19/2010 08:05 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > This is of interest to those of us running old versions of Flash, > especially on 64-bit installs without 32-bit support (looks in > mirror). > > Download site is http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html > To find out where to install, go

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

On 09/09/2010 08:21 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote: >> On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: >>>> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Pipe Lines - A really basic question

On 09/09/2010 07:24 PM, Matt Neimeyer wrote: > My generic question is: When I'm using a pipe line series of commands > do I use up more/less space than doing things in sequence? > > For example, I have a development Gentoo VM that has a hard drive that > is too small... I wanted to move a database

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: >> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 >> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not interested i

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new mail client

On 08/30/2010 04:10 PM, James wrote: > OK, so I/m ready to move a few users from the mail client in Seamonkey > to a new mail client package. Thunderbird looks reasonable, runs on Winblows > and Linux and is not tied to a given desktop platform. I did > read bugzilla about enigmail not working with

Re: [gentoo-user] nss_updatedb && pam_ccreds

On 07/29/2010 06:50 PM, Giampiero Gabbiani wrote: > Hi all, > I configured nss & pam in order to make LDAP authentication. In order to > have a proper authentication and attributes retrieving I added also ccreds > and nss_updatedb modifying /etc/pam.d/system-auth for the first and > /etc/nsswith

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

Oh yes - considering support time is a really good hint! Just one thing: On 07/26/2010 01:01 AM, James wrote: > http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd The radeonhd driver has been abandoned recently by its last supporter (Novell), because the "radeon"-driver includes now practically all features of "rade

Re: [gentoo-user] State of Radeon drivers

On 07/25/2010 06:00 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a quick question: I plan to buy a notebook with an ATI Mobility > Radeon HD 4250. How well would that one work? Can I reasonably expect > Suspend2Ram, 3d acceleration etc to work stable? > > Thanks in advance! > Florian Philipp

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

On 07/21/2010 04:46 AM, James wrote: > hello, > > > I can get X(kde 4.4) to start and run without a xorg.conf file > but at the wrong screen resolution. (1600x1200) instead > of 1920x1280, as it was before. Every attempt to > edit the old xorg.conf or roll a new xorg.conf with the new > 2.6.34-

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

On 07/07/2010 03:01 PM, Mick wrote: > On 7 July 2010 12:27, Daniel Troeder wrote: > >> Use "htop" to see threads. As far as I know "top" won't show those. So >> you can't check if your multi-threaded mplayer is really using more than >> 1 thr

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

On 07/07/2010 12:35 PM, App Deb wrote: > You have dual core so 60% means: > > 50% (full one core) is for decoding, > > and the rest 10% is for audio, resizing etc. Oh - didn't think about this - yes... you could be seeing the wrong thing in "top". If you have more than 1 CPU/Core you should push

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

On 07/07/2010 05:33 AM, Grant wrote: >>> I've been using VDPAU acceleration to play back Blu-Ray rips for a >>> while, but the extra layer is getting to be quite a hassle so I'm >>> trying to get decent performance via software decoding. It has >>> actually come a long way since the last time I tr

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

On 07/01/2010 05:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > would anybody please explain to me what difficulties > might occur if I mirror a live root file system > and use that for booting (in an emergency case). > > I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live > root file system but I have

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

On 06/23/2010 11:47 PM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:08:02 Daniel Troeder wrote: >> On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable >>> ati-driver + xorg-ser

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI RV710/730

On 06/07/2010 01:33 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have this ati card. I'm having trouble finding a stable > ati-driver + xorg-server combination that will compile. > > > Any recommendations as to open source drivers or getting ati-drivers > happy with 9.x or 10.x is most welcome. I read a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

On 05/26/2010 12:30 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > For quite a while I have used the following steps to perform a > "single-user backup" > > 1. Boot to single user mode via the grub command > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 single > > 2. Type in the root password. > > 3. Execute a si

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

On 05/18/2010 07:57 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Tuesday 2010-05-18 18:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Do you know any howto where it is done "the right way"? >>> >>> The right and easy way is to just use the supplied pmt-ehd(8) tool, >>> which works both interactively and non-interact

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure

On 05/17/2010 11:14 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 16.05.2010 14:36, schrieb Jan Engelhardt: >> [Replying to >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/229533/focus=229542 >> ] >> >> In my personal opinion, both the quality of shell commands and key >> generation is suboptimal. Wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

On 05/07/2010 11:14 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 07.05.2010 16:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 07.05.2010 10:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >>> I think I am gonna file a bug for this now. >> >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318865 > > Aside from the potential bug:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

On 05/05/2010 10:23 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 05.05.2010 22:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Remember that I said: "I am not sure which HOWTO I followed" ? >> >> What if I didn't use aes-256-ecb? You don't need to supplay that information to cryptsetup, it can (should) autodetect

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

On 05/05/2010 10:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 05.05.2010 10:00, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > >> That is a message from cryptsetup. As you are using openssl to get >> the key, I think the problem might be there. > > ok > >> lvcreate -n crypttes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

On 05/05/2010 06:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2010 23:24, schrieb Daniel Troeder: > >> I'm using sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.1_rc1 since 02.05.2010 and didn't have >> any issues. >> Please decrypt your partition from the command line, so we can see if

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

On 05/05/2010 02:02 AM, Indexer wrote: > I have solved this issue late last night. I took my inspiration from > fedora, who has a really nice automatic tool for adding ldap servers, > and i looked at their changes. The issue was that pam_unix was set as > required, not sufficient / optional. I also

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

On 05/03/2010 02:37 PM, Indexer wrote: > > On 03/05/2010, at 9:41 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 09:41, Indexer wrote: >>> I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate >>> users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade and now LUKS failure.

On 05/04/2010 09:28 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 04.05.2010 19:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> I don't yet have the whole picture ... > > I did some "emerge -avuDN world", quite some packages updated even > though I am doing "emerge -avu world" nearly every day ... > > After a reb

Re: [gentoo-user] Ldap authentication issues.

On 05/03/2010 09:41 AM, Indexer wrote: > I am currently trying to make a ldap server which i can use to authenticate > users. Sadly a large number of how to's are incomplete and don't work, so > after reading alot of how to's and manuals I have got 99.9% of the way. On > attempting to authentica

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

On 04/10/2010 10:21 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want > to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 > pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) > with 1980x1200 pixel monitor? > > Graphics card i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg "threads" parameter

On 03/28/2010 04:02 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > On 03/27/10 21:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 03/28/2010 02:40 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: >>> Some ffmpeg-using applications (e.g. mplayer) allow you to pass >>> numbers of threads (e.g. I use 6 on my Core-I7) to ffmpeg; others >>> (e.g. chromium) do n

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing Apple Trailers

On 03/22/2010 07:58 AM, Mick wrote: > What's the trick for playing Apple Trailers these days? It used to work fine > years ago, but now all I get is a pop-up telling me to download Apple's > Quicktime player. :-( > > I looked for mplayer USE flags to enable it, but can't find any. I did find

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

On 02/19/2010 09:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk > to a newly created one. > > I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an > unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated > (with no boot u

Re: [gentoo-user] Find out what emerge is up to in a large number of installations.

On 02/16/2010 06:56 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > If emerge has a large number of installs to do, for example, during a > world update, and I am in a tty, how would I find which one emerge is up to? Not sure if I understand your question, but you possibly want to take a look at /var/log/emerge.log -

Re: [gentoo-user] help with inaccessible (trashed?) file

On 02/07/2010 11:08 PM, Walt Rarus wrote: > WALRUS ~ # whoami > root > WALRUS ~ # ls -l /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/ > ls: cannot access /usr/portage/x11-misc/icesndcfg/icesndcfg-1.3.ebuild: > Permission denied > total 12 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot2675 2008-05-09 09:37 ChangeLog > -rw-r--r

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

On 02/03/2010 05:50 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 09:15:05 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >>> Daniel Troeder wrote: >>> >>>> On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: >>>> >

Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login screen.

On 02/02/2010 06:10 PM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Selecting shut down in the menu sometimes lands me back a gdm login > screen. At other times, the computer shuts down normally. When I had similar problems it was sometimes because of permission-problems when talking to some service over the dbus. C

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

On 12/11/2009 08:00 PM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Friday 11 December 2009 17:07:17 Dale wrote: >> >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Friday 11 December 2009 15:16:01 Dale wrote: > Rebooting will also do all of this but it is not needed. From a > technical

Re: [gentoo-user] What magic does portage use?

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 07:16 -0600, Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 11 Dec, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > >> On Friday 11 December 2009 11:11:41 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> I'm curious how portage solves its most difficult part (in my eyes). > >>> > >>> When in

Re: [gentoo-user] Bittorent black box

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:02 +0100, laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use my server as bittorent client and maybe tracker later. > I would like to have a web interface but I could also develop it myself > later. > > I saw, qbittorent and hrktorrent that looks good. I don't know any > feat

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 : X11 (?) crashing

On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 01:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > greets ... > > As mentioned lately in another thread I moved to amd64 unstable last week. > > So far OK ... but: > > I see X11 crashing repeatedly but I don't have a clue what component > might be the reason. > > Sometimes my gnom

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:08 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Daniel Troeder schrieb: > > On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> Daniel Troeder schrieb: > >> Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 06:48 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Daniel Troeder schrieb: > Same here. After booting no sound ... in PA all looks good, after some > searching I find alsamixer mutes things ... sigh ... but as long as > there aren't more problems I can live wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 19:15 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb: > > > [...] > > > > thanks for the list ... after checking my backups I now added your list, > > edited a bit and started emerging. > > > > We'll see ;-) > > looks good so far, around 60 pkgs emerged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

> Any way to share a meaningful list of gnome-related pkgs to > unmask/keyword? Just for starting off here That's my list of GNOME related packages. Probably some of them are not necessary to unmask anymore, and probably I missed some :) gnome-extra/nm-applet net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc net

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.26 stable?

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:19 -0700, walt wrote: > I run gnome on my ~amd64 machine and have had no problems at all (so far). > IMHO it's safe to run gnome on an ~amd64 machine, but I've not used the > unstable gnome desktop on a stable amd64 machine. Just from past experience > I might expect probl

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:48 -0500, James Erickson wrote: > >You have to en/dis/able: > >CONFIG_HAVE_KVM=y > >CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQCHIP=y > >CONFIG_KVM=m > ># CONFIG_KVM_INTEL is not set > ># CONFIG_KVM_AMD is not set > ># CONFIG_KVM_TRACE is not set > > Daniel i am getting the following error: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] HDMI-out working?

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 13:04 -0700, Grant wrote: > Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? > > - Grant Here on a Sony Laptop with ATI/AMD Radeon gfx it works perfectly with both OSS drivers as well as the commercial drivers. They do also distinguish between the HDMI and the VGA output. Can be set

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 22:17 -0500, James Erickson wrote: > today i installed two quad core Intel Xeon E5450's (Harpertown). i > notice in /proc/cpuinfo i no longer have a vmx flag as i had with my > previous Intel E5405's. i have also noticed that my /dev/kvm device is > no longer created. VT is en

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Setting up correct domainname

On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 21:38 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Mick writes: > > > -The following addresses had permanent fatal errors- > > > > > > (reason: 550 5.1.0 sender rejected : > > > invalid sender domain) > > > > > > -Transcript of ses

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome default file associations broken

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 12:00 +0200, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > Hello List, > > somehow all default file associations are broken in my gnome installation and > seem to point at the KDE applications instead. > > When right-clicking in nautilus on a pdf file, the default action is > kghostview instea

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