Re: [gentoo-user] Straight from the horse's mouth

2012-08-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi Walter, can you expand on the LVM2 problem you mention on the MDEV page and/or a link if there is one on the status? I am building a new desktop (finally building as 64bit!) which will need lvm2 and after trying gnome3 for a couple of months on my existing machines, I have decided that its too

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken GCC

2012-09-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2012-09-07 at 12:46 +0200, Samuraiii wrote: On 2012-09-07 11:49, Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hello yesterday I

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

2012-09-15 Thread William Kenworthy
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. ... Sorta related

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall + switch to KDE

2012-09-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 18:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:44:13 +0200 Daniel Wagener st...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:44:33 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] udev not reading the rules files

2012-09-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 09:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:07:14 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: The problem is most (not all !) device nodes getting root/root owner/group. So /dev/snd, /dev/video belongs to root and not the official groups. So any kind of desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 02:38 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness when emerging ffmpeg

2012-10-07 Thread William Kenworthy
I am coming across this more often lately - last was curl with openssl or nss - anoying! Try removing ffmpeg and then re-emerging it. It will usually complain about some other package with use flag problems so remove that too [rinse and repeat as neccessary] until eventually it works and puts

[gentoo-user] macbook air external monitor causes black screen

2012-10-16 Thread William Kenworthy
Here is a wierd one, I am using macbook air (mid 2012 - 5,2) and its working acceptably finally (still some things to tune), with only one serious problem. If I attach an external monitor/beamer/projector it works as expected, after which I disconnect the cable (one of those display port

Re: [gentoo-user] no x-mouse or console mouse bud gpm started and mouse found.

2012-10-27 Thread William Kenworthy
Did you update xorg-server? - you need to rebuild the drivers (see ebuild messages) BillK On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 16:34 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, after a world update including 3.5.7 sources and nvidia-drivers-304.60 I have no mouse. In the console or desktop. The kernel

[gentoo-user] adobe flash isnt working

2012-10-27 Thread William Kenworthy
I have noticed that adobe flash isnt working and googling says some versions have an sse2 bug. I have the latest from portage (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.243 with sse2check enabled) Should it work, or should I look elsewhere. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections

2012-10-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 21:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:45:37 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:29:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP (802.11n) Several

Re: [gentoo-user] access Linux X from android tablet

2012-11-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 19:54 -0600, Joseph wrote: On 11/04/12 03:13, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] I'm running OpneVPN server/client configuration on Linux machines but I'm not sure which setting to select on Android to talk to OpneVPN Android 4 comes with VPN type: PPTP L2TP/IPSec

Re: [gentoo-user] access Linux X from android tablet

2012-11-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-11-03 at 20:55 -0600, Joseph wrote: On 11/04/12 10:41, William Kenworthy wrote: [snip] Android is more compatible with Windows than Linux, even tough is based on Linux kernel. Yes, I know I would an application like nxclient on Android that doesn't exist

[gentoo-user] OT: btrfs and qemu

2012-11-07 Thread William Kenworthy
I am testing a small ceph cluster implemented in qemu-kvm and seeing there are a few cloudy types here who may have tried this, I though I'd ask about my problem before reworking. I decided to go btrfs in the VM's and the ceph storage (all qcow2) on a reiserfs host fs. So far so good, but I am

[gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread William Kenworthy
If I try and do: moriah ~ # mount -t ceph 192.168.44.68:6789:/ /mnt/ceph -o users mount error 22 = Invalid argument It turns out the driver doesnt recognise the user or users mount option and gentoo wont let a user mount or access a root mount, or even let a user mount. Tried adding the user to

Re: [gentoo-user] More file system frustration

2012-11-08 Thread William Kenworthy
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 10:58 +, Kerin Millar wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap heavily at times which slows things down ... so I am thinking a small ssd might help here. Another slower alternative is a usb

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 00:02 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 06:46:28 schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 09:17 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 25.11.2012 23:46, schrieb William Kenworthy: Has anyone tried swap on ssd? - has it killed the drive prematurely? - any other effects? I have a system that is maxed with with 4G ram and tends to use swap heavily at times

[gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-11-30 Thread William Kenworthy
ok, major update time and I am again in a bind with the threads use flag. PHP wants it, or doesnt and so does/doesnt apache and they wont play nice. So if I have to go back and rebuild a whole lot of stuff one way or the other which should it be? - +threads for both, neither, one enabled ... no

Re: [gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-11-30 Thread William Kenworthy
. BillK On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 16:57 -0600, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: I would suggest using threads -Kevin B On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: ok, major update time and I am again in a bind with the threads use flag

Re: [gentoo-user] netmount; sshd borked

2012-12-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Best would be to delete/move the module for that hardware, and de-configure it from the kernel. or remap ethX manually using /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules BillK On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 22:12 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: On Wednesday 12 December 2012 09:51 PM, James wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to get data::util on gentoo

2012-12-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 04:18 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I was trying to install the JIRA-client from cpan, but it wants Data::Util and I can't find it in gentoo anywhere. I tried to install that from cpan, but it, in turn wants a number of modules which I don't have and on we go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/12/12 23:52, Dale wrote: Kevin Chadwick wrote: Are there any other cases, apart from emotional attachment based on inertia, where a separate / and /usr are desirable? As I see it, there is only the system, and it is an atomic unit. You should really read the thread before posting. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2012-12-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/12/12 11:21, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html I too ran into a situation where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Implicit udev dependancy in Gentoo? and workaround.

2012-12-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/12/12 11:21, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm asking questions here before filing a bug/reature-request, to make sure I have my ducks in a row. I did a big update a couple of days ago. As per the user in... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7168984.html I too ran into a situation where I

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/12/12 11:19, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: This may be related to me running mdev instead of udev. I've been using /dev/shm for creating and deleting scratch files, to speed things up when processing photographs with automated scripts. It used to work. But now it no longer allows

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-27 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/12/12 11:25, Walter Dnes wrote: chmod 755 /dev/shm/hello /dev/shm/hello as a user (not root) wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ vi /dev/shm/hello wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ chmod 755 /dev/shm/hello wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ /dev/shm/hello Hello World wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/shm permissions drwxr-xr-x root:root ?

2012-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/12/12 08:17, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:10:26PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote On 28/12/12 11:25, Walter Dnes wrote: chmod 755 /dev/shm/hello /dev/shm/hello as a user (not root) wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail $ vi /dev/shm/hello wdk@moriah /home/vm/qemu/mail

[gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi, I have a working gentoo base system on a new RPI B model. I am starting to add X and ratpoison with the aim of using omxplayer to a nfs share from my mythbox, but hope someone else has been there before me. In reality, I would like to just run omxplayer on a minimum framebuffer, but not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2012-12-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/12/12 06:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:27:21 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi, I have a working gentoo base system on a new RPI B model. I am starting to add X and ratpoison with the aim of using omxplayer to a nfs share from my mythbox, but hope

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on a raspberry pi with omxplayer

2013-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/12/12 15:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:35:36 +0800 William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: If your intent is to learn something by all means proceed (you will learn, and lots of it :-). But if you are looking for something to use that works, it's probably only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 03/01/13 06:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:57 PM, james wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: ... Also check /lib/udev/rules.d/ BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On 04/01/13 01:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: On 3/1/2013, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:43 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: When kmail was upgraded to 4.9.3 last month it made a complete hash of my e- mail system. In the end I moved my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/01/13 09:44, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 08/01/13 04:11, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own private stuff, too. Solving the problem is easy enough: - Record checksums and timestamps for each

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't build gcc-4.6.3 on old Pentium III

2013-01-12 Thread William Kenworthy
On 12/01/13 23:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/12/2013 03:24:47 PM, Mick wrote: Not sure why it fails, or how to progress from here: ... checking how to run the C preprocessor... /mnt/video/tmp_portage/portage/sys- devel/gcc-4.6.3/work/build/./gcc/xgcc

[gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Looking for comments: A while back I removed java during an upgrade on my main desktop system and left icedtea6-bin in place without any noticeable effect. Presumably icedtea6 suffers the same java bug (cant find anything in their bugzilla though?) thats got everybody riled at the moment,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/01/13 06:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:08:50 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's probably an option for that). That's for ntp-client to do. In additon to

[gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-19 Thread William Kenworthy
I am setting up a libvirt managed vm system on a gentoo server that will have a number of gentoo vm's - web, calendar/mail, ... Eventually I'll have two servers and migration will be needed. What do people who do this use for networking? - I have the native libvert nat working but I prefer a

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 on macbook pro

2013-01-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/01/13 01:03, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: Am 21.01.2013 05:04, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: I'm completely stuck on getting Grub2 to work with the EFI on a new macbook pro. I have grub2 emerged w/o issue, and efibootmg as well. I've looked at both the Grub2 wiki and the Macbook wiki and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Questions

2013-01-23 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/01/13 21:21, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:30:02 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: Did you check if the system is swapping when that happen? Im sorry, you mean Swap? How can check them best? Thank you Greetings Silvio Hi Silvio, can

Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/01/13 18:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:43:06 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a document letter size in landscape mode and I'm trying to print it with e-document viewer 4-pages per side and it will not print. Some documents prints OK but this one will not print it. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] can not print pdf w/e-document viewer

2013-01-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/01/13 20:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/25/2013 11:33:45 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 25/01/13 18:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:43:06 -0700, Joseph wrote: I have a document letter size in landscape mode and I'm trying to print it with e-document viewer 4

[gentoo-user] courier ssl on ipv6 only

2013-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
I am putting together a new mail gateway in a vm to replace my current mail server. Both are almost identically configured and built with the ipv6 use flag though I only use ipv4 (courier-imap) but I am trying to setup ssl on port 993 only and not using plain imap in the new one - the working

Re: [gentoo-user] courier ssl on ipv6 only

2013-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/01/13 21:38, William Kenworthy wrote: I am putting together a new mail gateway in a vm to replace my current mail server. Both are almost identically configured and built with the ipv6 use flag though I only use ipv4 (courier-imap) but I am trying to setup ssl on port 993 only

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: networking and libvirt

2013-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On 29/01/13 08:04, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 1/28/2013 17:52, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: On 01/20/2013 12:37 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: So what is usually recommended and works for this scenario? I personally use

[gentoo-user] keyboard problem in X

2013-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
I have two x64 systems (one was originally a clone of the other, since diverged) that have a problem with keyboard mapping. The down and right arrow keys add a CR to each keypress, things like double quotes have to be entered twice at the keyboard before they appear in a document. I think its a

Re: [gentoo-user] ebtables on Gentoo?

2013-01-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/01/13 05:14, Kevin Chadwick wrote: So anyway, my memory of this is all very wishy-washy, but ebtables turned out to be the best way to implement those inter-VM restrictions. It could probably have been done in iptables, but ebtables made it easy to say don't let these two talk. I

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 01/02/13 23:52, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 2/1/2013 03:17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I know there's a stage3 available, but don't want to use it). How do I get

Re: [gentoo-user] Feeding new versions of mdadm to genkernel?

2013-02-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/02/13 06:54, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel. I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting: MDADM_VER=3.2.6 in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel. I discovered a bit of

[gentoo-user] neon/davfs2/cadaver failing with openssl-1.0.1c

2013-02-08 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been using dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8x with neon/davfs2 to mount a share from blackboard, but after upgrading to 1.01c it no longer works. Ive been rebuilding and cleaning up the libs but no luck so far. The problem is limited (as far as I can see) to neon and the autofallback to tlsv1.0

Re: [gentoo-user] neon/davfs2/cadaver failing with openssl-1.0.1c

2013-02-09 Thread William Kenworthy
the blackboard ones :( BillK On 09/02/13 17:47, Arnaud Desgranges wrote: Have you tried revdep-rebuild -L libssl.so.1.0.0 ? - Mail original - De: William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au À: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Envoyé: Samedi 9 Février 2013 01:33:42 Objet: [gentoo-user] neon/davfs2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
Did this few years back for an online magazine sponsored by a local linux sysadmin company who wanted to see the difference between generic debian and optimised (not necessarily gentoo, but thats what I used.) Difference in times was ~10% across the board for graphics manipulations (gimp

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/03/13 22:31, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Why I prefer Gentoo over other distros: Full control. That's it, in a nutshell. I mean, I can (and do) leverage -march=native. I've been scared away from -march and instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 15/03/13 08:31, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: On 14/03/13 23:52, Dale wrote: Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: On 14/03/13 22:41, Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-03-14, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: ... RedHat maintainers aren't stupid (you can probably tell I've never used RH) – they

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/03/13 10:58, Michael Mol wrote: Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold crypto keys in a server context. Something like this?

[gentoo-user] Problem with kworld usb dvb-t stick not working

2013-03-23 Thread William Kenworthy
I have been using a kworld dvb usb stick for some time, and after a disk crash decided to move it to a new system, but cant get it to work. I am not sure if I am looking at an eudev, or a kernel 3.8.3 problem. [ 5080.420044] usb 4-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci [

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Amazon Web Services with gentoo

2013-03-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/03/13 05:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 24.03.2013 21:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anyone of you use the Amazon EC2 service with gentoo-based instances? The loud and wild echo says: no ? Interesting! ;-) moriah ~ # esearch amazon [ Results for search key :

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/03/13 06:34, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply), fail randomly when they should resolve, return

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 01/04/13 01:01, Dale wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's obvious that upsteam has this my way or the highway mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the same behavior... Rgds, -- I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev update was

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Alan. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and typing the error message here. Did our configuration get

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/04/13 20:31, Michael Mol wrote: On 04/22/2013 05:40 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 22.04.2013 03:06, schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. ... [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/04/13 06:34, Paul Hartman wrote: I'll add my anecdotes :) On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: In over 10 years, I have never had a file system failure with any of these (all used a lot): ext2 ext3 ext4 zfs reiser3 ext2, ext3, ext4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 25/04/13 23:07, Nick Khamis wrote: Ummm... *all* servers are critically time-sensitive. Yeah... I concur ;) Define critical! - to my mind if its critical you should be running your own atomic clock, and something like a pps system to distribute it ... or somewhere in the middle a local

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 26/04/13 07:57, staticsafe wrote: On 4/25/2013 19:50, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/04/2013 01:42, William Kenworthy wrote: Does anyone know a good guide to using time sync in VM's, for both windows and linux (gentoo) guests using libvirt? Especially for guests that are resumed, or the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/04/13 09:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 26 April 2013 22:43:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:10:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I wasn't born here in Africa and didn't spend primary school years here either. But I distinctly recall having to walk to school in the snow

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron job email time off by one hour

2013-05-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 08/05/13 00:47, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-05-07 11:43 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, I've googled and can't figure this out... /etc/timezone is set to the correct timezone (EST5EDT) Date command says the server time is correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN vs LAN address hostname resolution

2013-05-22 Thread William Kenworthy
I am doing something sort of similar ... use a routing protocol and set the metrics to make the LAN more attractive so it will get used over the wifi. Use dhcp to update dns. I was using ospf (quagga), dns and ISC dhcp which auto-updates bind. This is transparent to the the hosts, is a pain to

[gentoo-user] usbip

2013-06-03 Thread William Kenworthy
I am playing with usbip to export an afatech dvb usb stick to a VM. It appears to work up until it tries to load the firmware (from the vm) and fails. Google i'snt helping except very old messages saying there are problems with resetting and firmware loading. Can someone confirm that it is

[gentoo-user] baselayout 2 module arguments

2013-06-04 Thread William Kenworthy
I am trying to get an argument passed to a kernel module - it works like below but not using the /etc/conf.d/modules file. insmod /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/kernel/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx.ko card=46 In /etc/conf.d/modules I have module_em28xx_args=card=46 The only odd bit is its a qemu

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 2 module arguments

2013-06-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/06/13 15:33, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 04 Jun 2013 14:26:50 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying to get an argument passed to a kernel module - it works like below but not using the /etc/conf.d/modules file. insmod /lib/modules/3.8.13-gentoo/kernel/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx.ko card

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout 2 module arguments

2013-06-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 05/06/13 22:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:39:48 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Now I have a video0, but no /dev/dvb so thats the next hurdle to be tackled tomorrow. Missing firmware? You could be right ... but google makes no mention of firmware being required

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting the clock with ntp

2013-06-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/06/13 09:21, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hi, What is the gentoo equivalent to this ubuntu command: apt-get install ntpdate ntpdate pool.ntp.org The first command installs ntpdate, a program that uses ntp to immediately set the clock, even if it is going to be a large adjustment.

Re: [gentoo-user] Acer Aspire Part 2 - Xorg

2013-06-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/06/13 09:43, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, now i have problems with the Xorg Server. When i start xdm (slim) the Display is blank. It come slow the login Window but then blank. When i start startxfce4 the Window come but nothing can do and all fonts are symbols. I try with the

Re: [gentoo-user] swap partition on Raspberry

2013-06-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/06/13 23:46, Jan Hönig wrote: Hello, well i have set my Raspberry (B) with ArchLinuxArm. I decided againts gentoo, because of the long compilling time (for example git takes a long time). Maybe i try gentoo on my second sd card... A1: I have set an extra swap partition. I followed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way of tracing kernel freezes?

2013-06-13 Thread William Kenworthy
On 13/06/13 22:05, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/06/13 16:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. [...] [...] I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful passes. I might try that again as soon as I find out how¹, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel SRT + SSD + SATA

2013-06-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On 26/06/13 04:59, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/06/2013 21:10, Mick wrote: Hi All, I am considering my options for a new rig destined to last a few years and one of the Dell machines on offer has this Intel SRT fake-raid feature, which after some cursory googling, I am not entirely sure

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/06/13 17:58, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 30.06.2013 01:42, schrieb Grant: Can anyone think of an automated method that remotely and securely backs up data from one system to another, preserves permissions and ownership, and keeps the backups safe even if the backed-up system is

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
that they will be backing up their servers with dirvish. These servers are the primary mirror sites for Mozilla, Kernel.org, Gentoo, Drupal, and other major open source projects. - if its good enough for them, its good enough ... On 01/07/13 02:08, Mick wrote: On Sunday 30 Jun 2013 12:05:05 William

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a interesting statement that makes

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM networking help

2013-07-17 Thread William Kenworthy
have a look at openvswitch ... gives more flexibility and is relatively easy to use. I am using fake-bridges with vlans for something like this (mythbackend running in a vm on a media vlan with a hdhomerun and other frontends, and a public vlan for other traffic) BillK On 18/07/13 02:28, Nilesh

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On 19/07/13 06:23, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, Hi! i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk (my first

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/07/13 00:43, Dale wrote: luis jure wrote: on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote: Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not sure yet, i might keep /home on a HDD and mount the partition on the SSD as a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration - caveat

2013-07-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On 20/07/13 07:44, luis jure wrote: from my recent experience, a caveat if you're using GPT to partition your disk and intend to boot from it: grub won't install on the disk (at least if you have an old plain BIOS system, i understand this doesn't happen with UEFI ??? ). when i tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-20 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such kernel in /boot. Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

2013-07-21 Thread William Kenworthy
On 21/07/13 22:31, luis jure wrote: OK, now i have my system successfully installed and running on my new SSD. now i have to decide what to do with the rest of the disk (it's a 256MB samsung). the first big question is: what about swap? i found some web pages (perhaps old) stating that

Re: [gentoo-user] more on SSD: swap

2013-07-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On 22/07/13 14:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/07/2013 00:19, William Kenworthy wrote: swap: this will make one of the bigger speedups to the system when you need swap. swap is good - yes you can do without it, but the day comes when you REALLY do want it, and ... [crash!] ... otherwise it can

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On 24/07/13 17:50, 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] Upgrade only to bigger Version

2013-07-26 Thread William Kenworthy
On 27/07/13 06:19, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hey Armin, On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 23:01:04 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: ok, first make an overlay and copy the ebuild of the version you want to pin there. Than mask everything else. You can find the ebuild in

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

2013-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/07/13 19:40, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-07-30 8:30 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 06:36:57AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote Side question... I want to run the vmware tools on my gentoo VM (so the host can safely power it down), but it also requires modules.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. I've googled until my fingers

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 07:42, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: ... so why follow with unreliable fork, when there is the official package available with equal features? easy - it works and while I had machines running some

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 07:42, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 02:27, William Kenworthy wrote: On 02/08/13 00:28, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 11:01, Samuli Suominen wrote: On 02/08/13 05:48, Dale wrote: Samuli Suominen wrote: Huh? USE=firmware-loader is optional and enabled by default in sys-fs/udev Futhermore predictable network interface names work as designed, not a single valid bug filed about them. Stop

[gentoo-user] usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log are to do with systemd service files which I masked a couple of days ago - the usb

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 19:17, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-01 7:27 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: Something like olympus ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask =sys-fs/udev-180 ... olympus ~ # olympus ~ # grep udev /etc/portage/package.keywords sys-fs/eudev ~amd64 =virtual/udev-206

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze after suspend-to-ram with kernel 3.10

2013-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 02/08/13 18:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hey list My netbook doesn't freeze so often during operation any more. But now it’s started to not properly wake up from suspend-to-ram. It’s like with my big laptop: when that one runs on nouveau instead of nvidia-drivers, it behaves the very

Re: [gentoo-user] usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-02 Thread William Kenworthy
On 03/08/13 10:48, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 10:23:25AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb printer disappears on cups upgrade

2013-08-03 Thread William Kenworthy
On 04/08/13 09:42, walt wrote: On 08/02/2013 07:23 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: I have a long running machine with a local epson usb printer using the kernel lpusb Using cups =1.5.2-r4 I can print ... upgrade to 1.6.2-r* and cups cant see the usb printer. The only errors in the cups log

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