[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: Tried changing root=/dev/md0. No change. The actual failure message is the fairly standard VFS - Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(9,0) [snip] CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y That's all that needs to be enabled within the RAID section of the kernel.

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 15:20, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Kerin Millarkerfra...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/04/2010 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: Tried changing root=/dev/md0. No change. The actual failure message is the fairly standard VFS - Unable to mount root fs on

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 18:50, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] No problem supplying it. I did the rebuild this morning but forced metadata to Type 1.0. No change as you suggested there wouldn't be. OK, here's: 1) lspci to read lspci -k to see drivers both from the non-RAID kernel 2) The RAID kernel config

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 19:43, Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] Aside from all of that, notable options that are going to be required to boot in your case are: CONFIG_MD_RAID1 CONFIG_SATA_AHCI CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION (normally implicit but worth mentioning) That, and the

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 20:05, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have to move my whole system from one disk to another bigger one. I think of doing as follows: Boot a system via CD/DVD (knoppix for example). Mount small disk read-only Mount bigger disk read-write cd into mountpoint of the first one cp

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 20:52, Mark Knecht wrote: So this suggests that because I did the install from a running Gentoo chroot that the mknod commands didn't stick? Somehow they were part of, or because part of, the host Gentoo non-RAID install? Interesting. I don't know what the handbook says these

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/04/2010 23:16, Mark Knecht wrote: First, thanks for sticking with me on this. I really appreciate it. Second, I apologize for the length of the reply but it's still not working and I wanted to try and clearly show the steps I've taken. Maybe you or someone else will see the step I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 00:12, Mark Knecht wrote: 1) If you don't specify metadata then you get the newest - I think that's currently ver. 1.2 or something. Interesting. I suppose that might be a change in mdadm-3.0 (a version which I have yet to use to create any new arrays). However, that would

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 00:51, Kacper Kopczyński wrote: Dnia 2010-04-04, o godz. 21:04:03 Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk napisał(a): On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within /mnt

[gentoo-user] Re: How does grub assemble a RAID1 for / ??

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 00:58, Mark Knecht wrote: One thing about this that still confuses me is where /dev/md3, or whatever, comes from when I boot if the the mknod command is never executed within the chrrot. (As per the install guide.) Not a big deal to proceed and see what happens. Maybe the kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving the system from one disk to another

2010-04-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/04/2010 02:34, walt wrote: On 04/04/2010 01:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 20:35:11 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Whichever way you go about it, ensure that no pseudo-filesystem or bind mounts are present within /mnt/oldrootfs at the time. Use the -x option with rsync

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update gcc downgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/04/2010 11:40, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hi, I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage tree at the weekend an run emerge --update The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4, but on the system is the 4.4.3 installed [ebuild NS ]

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge update gcc downgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/04/2010 15:41, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 4/6/2010 6:40 AM, Kraus Philipp wrote: Hi, I run in a virtual machine a gentoo (~x86) system. I synced the portage tree at the weekend an run emerge --update The update runs without errors, but emerge installed the gcc 4.3.4, but on the system is

[gentoo-user] Re: help renaming files

2010-04-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/04/2010 17:21, luis jure wrote: hello list. i have a bunch of files with accented characters in their names, both upper- and lower case. i want to rename them using the non-accented equivalent. i thought that would be easy to do using something like tr. big mistake. confronted with

[gentoo-user] Re: lzma conflicting man?

2010-04-09 Thread Kerin Millar
On 09/04/2010 03:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning an update wants to install coreutils with coreutils-patches, which are compressed via the lzma-tool, which is not found on my system. app-arch/lzma is masked. I unmasked it and now emerge -pv reports: Calculating

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: hello list, after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new computer next week: intel i7 920 cpu, 6 GB ram, asus p6t mobo. i'm pretty excited, i imagine that at first i'll be shocked at the difference with the ancient machine i'm

[gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/04/2010 23:17, Tanstaafl wrote: Hello, This is on a server box, and I am *not* doing NAT on it... Do I even need the nat table? If not, I'd like to build the kernel without NAT support, but if there's a good reason not to do that, I won't... If you will not be populating the nat

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/04/2010 11:43, zeera...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] In short, use native and let the compiler take care of the details. Cheers, --Kerin There's a thread in Installing Gentoo where a dev (can't remember which), that says native isn't the best option, but the best option indeed is to

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on the i7

2010-04-11 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/04/2010 12:27, Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 April 2010 11:43:26 zeera...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 03:20:50AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/04/2010 23:06, luis jure wrote: hello list, after many years without a hardware upgrade, i'll be receiving my new computer next week

[gentoo-user] Re: ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 12/04/2010 12:57, Mark Knecht wrote: QUESTION: Assume I'm happy with ~amd64 on @system, but want to build the stable version of gnome or kde. How do I get it? Since gnome-2.26 You could opt to retain the ~amd64 keyword on system packages alone. Consider the following (which requires

[gentoo-user] Re: ~amd64 - my experience so far...

2010-04-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 12/04/2010 13:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Is there a reason why you want to run all @system as ~amd64, and the rest stable. To me it makes more sense (especially for production Perhaps he simply doesn't feel like re-installing. By going down this road, the breakage caused by dowgrading

[gentoo-user] Re: How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-19 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/04/2010 02:02, Jonathan wrote: [snip] 53 SUID or GUID programs on my system! Why does cdrecord have SUID set? /dev/sr0 is in the cdrom group with rw set so SUID should not be needed in the first place. Device node permissions are not the concern. If I recall correctly, it is so that

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread Kerin Millar
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a shiny new System76 laptop with a 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor (2.60GHz 6MB L3 Cache - 4 Cores plus Hyperthreading). It comes with Ubuntu, so naturally my first move was to split the Ubuntu partition in half and install gentoo. I will say no

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread Kerin Millar
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 12:45:51AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a shiny new System76 laptop with a 3rd Generation Intel Core i7-3720QM Processor (2.60GHz 6MB L3 Cache - 4 Cores plus Hyperthreading). It comes with Ubuntu, so naturally my

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD and naturally want to install gentoo. I have installed gentoo several times but this is my first with an SSD. Dell configures a small first partition and places windows on two other partitions (one small; the

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
Philip Webb wrote: Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1, long before the Linux ecosystem

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 21:42 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I was not surprised to see that the latest manual has root+usr combined, but was surprised that they specify an additional small /boot partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba wants to downgrade my python....

2012-09-16 Thread Kerin Millar
Andrew Lowe wrote: On 09/16/12 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:32:11 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I suppose I'll have to have a look at the ebuild to try and work out why this thingy wants Python, any python, in the first place. Portage is written in Python, which raises the

Re: [gentoo-user] qlist wrong detect samba use flag

2012-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
Alexander Y. Tiurin wrote: Hello For example: # qlist -U tcpdump net-analyzer/tcpdump (chroot ssl) # equery u tcpdump [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [: I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these

Re: [gentoo-user] Network card failing under load

2012-10-17 Thread Kerin Millar
Datty wrote: Hi all, I have an issue with a remote server that keeps losing access to the network. I've managed to replicate the issue by pulling a large file from the server at full speed (100mbit). It will cut out during the file copy and the log will show the following: Oct 17 17:47:26 eric

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Kerin Millar
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTIxNDQ This includes gentoo-sources. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-24 Thread Kerin Millar
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-25 Thread Kerin Millar
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-25, Kerin Millarkerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: The comment you linked to was fairly bereft of technical content, That comment was from _Ted_Ts'o_ for pete's sake. I don't care it was from the heavens upon high. The only remark that was meaningful in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-11-02 Thread Kerin Millar
Dale wrote: Kerin Millar wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 10/24/2012 03:54:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Kernels 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 can result in severe data corruption if you're using the EXT4 filesystem: It looks as if Eric Sandeen has found the culprit and Theodore Ts'o has suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread Kerin Millar
William Kenworthy wrote: If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument Specifying users in that context doesn't make sense. Try creating an entry in /etc/fstab. For example: 192.168.44.68:6789://mnt/cephceph

Re: [gentoo-user] zcache + frontswap + cleancache: Am I missing something?

2012-11-19 Thread Kerin Millar
Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm wondering about the usage of frontswap and cleancache. Now that all pieces are in place in kernel-3.5, is it actually used? I've found references to cleancache and frontswap in several source files of the kernel (ext4, swapfile, page_io, ...).

Re: [gentoo-user] zcache + frontswap + cleancache: Am I missing something?

2012-11-19 Thread Kerin Millar
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.11.2012 18:51, schrieb Kerin Millar: Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I'm wondering about the usage of frontswap and cleancache. Now that all pieces are in place in kernel-3.5, is it actually used? I've found references to cleancache and frontswap in several

Re: [gentoo-user] Localmount starts before LVM

2012-12-10 Thread Kerin Millar
Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I have a raid0 (kernel autodetect) array, over which I have put LVM and then there are volumes on the LVM for /var, /tmp, swap and /home. The problem is, raid0 array gets recognized, but localmount fails to mount because lvm doesn't seem to start before localmount

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-28 Thread Kerin Millar
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 01:07:11AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote On 12/27/2012 10:59 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Here's my revised Paranoia Plus ruleset. Any comments? Because I'm behind a NAT-ing ADSL router/modem, many of my rules rarely see hits. However, I do have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-05 Thread Kerin Millar
james wrote: After deleting the 70-persistent-net.rule file udev does not re-create it. All is now fine with rc-status only showing net.eth0 which is set up how I like it per /etc/conf.d/net. All services are fine Beware. The automatic persistent net rules generator is intrinsically broken

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I update *every* ebuild?

2013-01-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/01/2013 09:46, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:17:06 -0600, Dale wrote: snip Why do you say that -N will compile packages that don't need it? If a USE flags is added, changed or whatever, I want that change to be seen and the package to be recompiled. It

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I update *every* ebuild?

2013-01-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 23/01/2013 19:48, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I always thought the right way to update everything was: emerge --update --deep --newuse world emerge --update --deep --newuse system When I try the above mentioned, nothing to update is found. Yet when I try i.e. emerge --pretend nasm, I see:

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL startup problem - interface does not have an address yet.

2013-01-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 23/01/2013 18:58, Manuel McLure wrote: I'm having a problem with booting my Gentoo system due to MySQL hanging at startup. My system is up-to-date stable (including udev-197, although I believe the problem started while I was still on 171) except for the kernel, which is at 3.1.10 because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/02/2013 23:24, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-02-11, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: snip What new stuff did you get? As best I can remember: a handful of bluetooth stuff, openldap, consolekit, policykit, thunar, wxwidgets, libnotify, fam, a bunch of gst plugins, and

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libgomp.so.1 and why do I need it?

2013-02-12 Thread Kerin Millar
On 13/02/2013 01:46, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a new laptop, and I'm doing a 64-bit Gentoo install (naturally). I've run into a brick wall building xorg-server, more specifically x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-2.7. The build fails as it's trying to find libgomp.so.1. See attached log. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2 version-different libs in the same time

2013-02-16 Thread Kerin Millar
On 16/02/2013 08:36, Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi, I have an conflict wth 2 Versions of Readline: (sys-libs/readline-5.2_p12-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by =sys-libs/readline-5* required by (dev-lang/ghc-6.8.2::gentoo, installed) (sys-libs/readline-6.2_p1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2 version-different libs in the same time

2013-02-16 Thread Kerin Millar
On 16/02/2013 11:47, Frank Schwidom wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:13:13AM +, Kerin Millar wrote: On 16/02/2013 08:36, Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi, I have an conflict wth 2 Versions of Readline: (sys-libs/readline-5.2_p12-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by =sys-libs/readline-5

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about qemu QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS and QEMU_USER_TARGETS

2013-07-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 22/07/2013 06:56, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm usually pretty good a Google, but I've run into a brick wall with qemu's QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS and QEMU_USER_TARGETS settings. I find that wine on a 64-bit-only machine does not support 32-bit Windows programs. Years ago, I was able to build a

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 10:50, Walter Dnes wrote: So I emerged QEMU, which pulled in some dependancies. Things are not going well... 1) The following warning shows up in elog... WARN: pretend You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported by upstream unless you use their

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 14:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:57:41 +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: WARN: pretend You have decided to compile your own SeaBIOS. This is not supported by upstream unless you use their recommended toolchain (which you are not). If you are intending to use

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk: DOS/GPT

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 12:25, Pavel Volkov wrote: Is fdisk lying to me? It would appear so. If you are fond of fdisk, I'd suggest using gdisk as an alternative for managing disks using GPT. At least, until such time as the support in fdisk can be considered mature. --Kerin

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage elog messages about historical symlinks

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/07/2013 19:22, Mick wrote: I am getting messages like the one below from portage every now and then. Especially, about /var/run, but in this case about a different directory: * Messages for package dev-libs/klibc-1.5.20: * One or more symlinks to directories have been preserved in

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 04:24, Walter Dnes wrote: Thanks to all who replied. sys-firmware/seabios needed the binary flag and sys-firmware/ipxe needed the qemu and vmware flags. It's starting now, and most of my problems are solved. I still have permission problems as a regular user with qemu-kvm,

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote 2) What vncviewer or vncconnect parameters do I use to get to the qemu session? Assuming both server and client are run locally, connecting to either localhost:0 or localhost:5900 should

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On 25/07/2013 10:26, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When booting off the install cd

Re: [gentoo-user] which VM do you recommend?

2013-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2013 11:36, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-30 4:11 AM, Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com wrote: It needs a couple of kernel modules to work, but emerge will promt to you what it needs. Side question... I want to run the vmware tools on my gentoo VM (so the host can safely power it

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-07-31 Thread Kerin Millar
On 31/07/2013 11:11, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm looking at setting up 32-bit WINE to run a 32-bit Windows app. Since I'm on a pure 64-bit (no multi-lib) machine, that doesn't exactly work, which is why I'm looking at QEMU. I need to run WINE in 32 bit mode, on a 32-bit install in a VM. Is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-07-31 Thread Kerin Millar
On 31/07/2013 12:31, Marc Joliet wrote: [snip] There's also -cpu host, which simply passes your CPU through to the guest. That's what I use for my 32 bit WinXP VM. You can use it if you don't mind not being able to migrate your guest, but it sounds to me like you're doing this on a desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-01 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2013 22:04, walt wrote: On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on a vbox install of gentoo as guest. Working on a fresh install but don't have gentoo running anywhere to rob a .config from. This one worked for

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-01 Thread Kerin Millar
On 01/08/2013 22:38, Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 08:41:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote You can use march=native on your gentoo hosts, that's no problem, as long as you don't use it on your guests. That's the hole idea of VMs: being able to move the virtual machine to another

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any .config for vbox gentoo guest

2013-08-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/08/2013 01:13, walt wrote: On 08/01/2013 03:08 PM, Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/07/2013 22:04, walt wrote: On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on a vbox install of gentoo as guest. Working on a fresh install

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/08/2013 23:52, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: The handbook documents setting a system-wide default locale. You generally do this by setting the LANG variable in /etc/conf.d/02locale.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/08/2013 15:55, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:12:01 +0100 schrieb Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk: On 31/07/2013 12:31, Marc Joliet wrote: [snip] There's also -cpu host, which simply passes your CPU through to the guest. That's what I use for my 32 bit WinXP VM. You

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 14:24, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:04:00PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Legitimate locales are those installed with glibc. These can be shown with either eselect locale list or locale -a. Having never used eselect with locales (AFAIR) before today. Why does

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-06 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 15:26, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 02:40:04PM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote: Apparently, utf8 is the canonical representation in glibc (which provides the locale tool): http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2004/12/msg00028.html That eselect enumerates the locale twice

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 06/08/2013 23:42, Stroller wrote: On 6 August 2013, at 14:04, Kerin Millar wrote: ... If undefined, the value of LC_COLLATE is inherited from LANG. I'm not sure that overriding it is particularly useful nowadays but it doesn't hurt. It's been a couple of years since I looked

Re: [gentoo-user] export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-07 Thread Kerin Millar
On 07/08/2013 17:40, Stroller wrote: On 7 August 2013, at 13:41, Kerin Millar wrote: On 06/08/2013 23:42, Stroller wrote: On 6 August 2013, at 14:04, Kerin Millar wrote: ... If undefined, the value of LC_COLLATE is inherited from LANG. I'm not sure that overriding it is particularly

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/08/2013 13:15, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18:41PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! My company has 2 HP DL585 G5 servers and 5 Dell R... something servers. All using AMD processors. They currently are acting as XenServer hosts. How do I determine the 'least common

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/08/2013 16:23, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info mailto:pa...@poluan.info wrote: I know that the (theoretical) best performance is to use -march=native , but since the processors of the HP servers are not exactly the same as

Re: [gentoo-user] HA-Proxy or iptables?

2013-08-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 29/08/2013 08:54, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello list! Here's my scenario: Currently there is a server performing 2 functions; one runs on, let's say, port 2000, and another one runs on port 3000. Due to some necessary changes, especially the need to (1) provide more resource for a function,

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/10/2013 13:27, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I try to set up KVM/QEMU on that new and shiny AMD server 24 cores of Opteron: processor : 23 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 21 model : 2 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6344 nice I want

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
On 02/10/2013 17:47, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 02.10.2013 18:31, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 02.10.2013 15:54, schrieb Kerin Millar: Run modinfo kvm kvm-amd and check for discrepancies between the details of the two, especially regarding the vermagic field. [...] I would suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/10/2013 13:08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 03.10.2013 11:55, schrieb Kerin Millar: On 18/09/2013 16:09, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put advanced routing configuration?

2013-10-03 Thread Kerin Millar
On 03/10/2013 20:27, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's say you wanted to configure routing of TCP packets based on destination port like in this example: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.netfilter.html [which contains a series of 'ip' and 'iptables' commands to get packets

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple package instances within a single package slot

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my beloved Gentoo got a little outdated. So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: default route dependent on dest port?

2013-10-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/10/2013 21:55, Grant Edwards wrote: Let's posit two network interfaces net1 (192.168.x.y/16) and net2 (172.16.a.b/16). There's a NAT/gateway available on each of the networks. I want to use the 172.16 gateway for TCP connections to port 80 and the 192.168 gateway for everything else. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] NAT problem

2014-01-10 Thread Kerin Millar
the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. This is the the first time I'm dealing with wifi and the second time with NAT. I have a server (access point) with a ppp0 interface (internet), eth0, wlan0, tun0 and sit0. A dhcp server is listening on wlan0 and provides local ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-25 Thread Kerin Millar
Johann Schmitz wrote: We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-29 Thread Kerin Millar
hasufell wrote: snip If we support disabling all useflags on package level (and we do), then we support disabling all on global level as well. All _unexpected_ breakage that occurs due to that are ebuild bugs that have incorrect dependencies or missing REQUIRED_USE constraints. Defaults are

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 19:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +, Stroller wrote On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 4:55 pm, Gleb Klochkov glebiu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Try to use sudo with no password for eix-sync. I'd really rather not. Thanks, though. Being in group

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote: Hello all, I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform `eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the portage tree with Gentoo's master portage tree. User is in the portage group: $

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 19:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/02/2014 21:03, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 05:09:55PM +, Stroller wrote On Mon, 10 February 2014, at 4:55 pm, Gleb Klochkovglebiu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Try to use sudo with no password for eix-sync. I'd really rather

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:10:50PM +, Kerin Millar wrote As mentioned in a few other posts, recent snapshots are portage:portage throughout so it's a done deal for new installations. How recent? Looking back into ~/Maildir/spam/cur/ I see

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 10/02/2014 20:30, Kerin Millar wrote: On 10/02/2014 16:05, Stroller wrote: Hello all, I'm a little bit rusty, but my recollection is that I should be able to perform `eix-sync` (or `emerge --sync`?) as a user to synchronise my local copy of the portage tree with Gentoo's master portage tree

Re: [gentoo-user] User eix-sync permissions problem

2014-02-10 Thread Kerin Millar
On 11/02/2014 01:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:28:43AM +, Kerin Millar wrote On 10/02/2014 23:57, Walter Dnes wrote: What's the point, if you still have to run as root (or su or sudo) for the emerge update process? It's the principle of least privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to run 2.6.25 kernel (no DEVTMPFS)?

2014-02-14 Thread Kerin Millar
On 14/02/2014 21:31, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2014-02-14, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I need to do some testing with kernels as far back as 2.6.25. I've currently got a Gentoo box that can build and run

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 05/09/2013 07:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 on /boot

2014-02-22 Thread Kerin Millar
On 22/02/2014 11:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sat, February 22, 2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi all. I'm new in the list, this is my third message :) First at all, I need to say sorry if my english is not perfect. I speak spanish. I post here because gentoo-user-es it's middle dead, and it's

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 vs RAID 0 - Read perfonmance

2014-02-23 Thread Kerin Millar
On 24/02/2014 06:27, Facundo Curti wrote: Hi. I am again, with a similar question to previous. I want to install RAID on SSD's. Comparing THEORETICALLY, RAID0 (stripe) vs RAID1 (mirrior). The performance would be something like this: n= number of disks reads: raid1: n*2 raid0: n*2

Re: [gentoo-user] [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-19 Thread Kerin Millar
On 19/06/2014 12:56, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 16:40:08 +0800, Amankwah wrote: Maybe the only solution is that move the portage tree to HDD?? Or tmpfs if you rarely reboot or have a fast enough connection

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 12:30, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 13:39 GMT+03:00 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:21:23PM +0300, Grand Duet wrote This is a continuation of the thread: Something went wrong with DNS, plz help! Now, the issue became clearer, so I decided to start a

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 17:55, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 27 July 2014 18:25:24 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 26.07.2014 04:47, schrieb walt: So, why did the broken machine work normally for more than a year without rpcbind until two days ago? (I suppose because nfs-utils was updated

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: That's what replaces it when eth0 comes up. It looks like eth0 is not being brought up fully It sounds logical. But how can I fix it?

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote: Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with some blockers, I ran: emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC 'perl-core/*') emerge -uD1a $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') as advised by perl-cleaner,

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf is different after every reboot

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/07/2014 16:34, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-28 1:00 GMT+03:00 Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk: On 27/07/2014 21:38, Grand Duet wrote: 2014-07-27 22:13 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:33:47 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: That's what replaces it when

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove all perl?

2014-07-30 Thread Kerin Millar
On 30/07/2014 23:12, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 23:02:38 Kerin Millar wrote: On 30/07/2014 22:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/07/2014 23:47, Mick wrote: Having updated some perl packages, I ran perl-cleaner which failed with some blockers, I ran: emerge --deselect --ask $(qlist -IC

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: Hello all, I encounter some problems with python compiling and man errors. 1- Python : I can't emerge some python packages (ie pyorbit, libmpeg2, libbonobo-python, etc...). Even the installed python packages can't emerge anymore. Here is the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-04 Thread Kerin Millar
On 04/08/2014 17:50, Kerin Millar wrote: On 04/08/2014 15:46, Roger Cahn wrote: snip *man emerge sh: most : commande introuvable Erreur pendant l'ex�cution du formatage ou de l'affichage. Le syst�me retourne pour (cd /usr/share/man (echo .ll 11.1i; echo .nr LL 11.1i; echo .pl 1100i; /bin

Re: [gentoo-user] bash script question

2014-08-18 Thread Kerin Millar
On 18/08/2014 12:29, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 18 August 2014, at 10:42 am, wraeth wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 18:54 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: But this matches if grep fails both times as well as when it matches both time. Any ideas? If you don't mind using a quick loop,

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