Re: [gentoo-user] SSSD and nsupdate installation issue

ut-python2-bindings' '--without-python3-bindings' '--with-initscript=sysv' Best, Alex The problem seems to be described in this bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/679838 It also describes a workaround (set FEATURES=-network-sandbox). DaveF OpenPGP_0x866016D0C7D402E0.asc Description: appli

[gentoo-user] SSSD and nsupdate installation issue

apd-plugin' '--enable-nls' '--with-libnl' '--with-manpages' '--with-sudo' '--with-autofs' '--with-ssh' '--disable-valgrind' '--without-python2-bindings' '--without-python3-bindings' '--with-initscript=sysv' Best, Alex OpenPGP_0x866016D0C7D402E0.asc Description: application/pgp-keys OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Multiboot USB - GRUB2 loop device

initrd=gentoo64.xz initrd (loop)/isolinux/gentoo64.xz } When booting, I receive the following message: isofile set loopback set error: attempt to read or write outside of disk 'loop' error: you need to load the kernel first Thanks in advance! -- Best, Alex Luehm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

gt; gpg: Can't check signature: No public key > > > I'm seeing this too. For me `app-crypt/gentoo-keys` is somehow no longer installed and `/var/lib/gentoo/gkeys` is missing. I have no idea how this happened. Perhaps it somehow got into `emerge --depclean` and I didn't catch it. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

On July 3, 2018 7:33:27 AM CDT, Samuraiii wrote: >On 3.7.2018 13:27, Philip Webb wrote: >> 180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

You could also check out Scaleway, who offer a dedicated ARM server for 3 EUR/month. And DigitalOcean which offers simply priced VMs (starting at $5/month) targeted at individuals/developers rather than big organisations (in contrast to AWS). Haven't used Linode so not sure how these compare on

Re: [gentoo-user] SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

> What can be choosen as "glue" between the > "outside world" and TeX? > If you're looking for something to convert between different markups, e.g. LaTeX and HTML, perhaps Pandoc would be appropriate http://pandoc.org/ Alex >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Surface Pro 3?

A wiki article would be great. I'd be happy to contribute my experiences with my Surface Pro 4 if I eventually get round to installing Gentoo on it. On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 at 22:30 Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2017 01:34 PM, Alex Thorne wrote: > > While I haven

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Surface Pro 3?

While I haven't tried this I would be very interested to hear how it goes, what hardware you can get working etc. Do keep us updated. Alex On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 20:59 Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/30/2017 12:24 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Subject says it a

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio - Module does not loaded

Is snd_hda_intel built as a module or is it part of the kernel itself? On 17 Jul 2016 3:42 a.m., "Facundo Curti" wrote: > Hi there. I'm having troubles to get audio on gentoo :/ > > aplay -l gave me 0 sound cards: > List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices > > > lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge is teh FAIL ! ! ! ! !

I encountered something similar to this myself a bit ago. Apparently, GCC 5.3 has a bug in how it works with the stack alignment in some cases, which causes compiling wine to fail halfway through [1]. I believe that that is the check for that bug. If you have GCC 5.3, you may want to consider

Re: [gentoo-user] Full system encryption on Gentoo

dracut, you should be able to figure that part out. (Also, if the initramfs has issues finding something, it should, again, drop you into a shell. You can then just mount the filesystem manually.) I hope this helps. It ended up a little longer than I planned, but it should be helpful at least to me in a couple more years when I can't remember how I did this in the first place. Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:06:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone's kernel getting panicky????

I'm on 4.1.2 with no problems. Sorry to check the obvious, are you sure you copied your config over from your previous kernel? The only time I got a kernel panic after a minor kernel upgrade was when I forgot to do this and as a result compiled the default kernel without support for LVM. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

:19:36 Alex Thorne wrote: I guess I did mean mdraid, but would you mind explaining the difference (I've never used raid so don't know much about this)? Is dmraid deprecated in favour of mdadm? Dmraid is the fake RAID that's included on most motherboards these days; it's meant for use

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with obscure syntax in gsignal.h?

overloading would be discouraged. However, in this case it is perhaps justified since it provides a very convenient and intuitive way of passing large numbers of objects of varying types to a stream such as cout. Hope this helps clear things up. Alex On 9 Jul 2015 1:27 am, walt w41...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

to eliminate... On 6 July 2015 at 08:54, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Sunday 05 July 2015 18:01:37 Alex Thorne wrote: Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

I have also experienced this intermittently with bash. Running *reset *returns the shell to normal for me. Echo is also set on for me, but will check if this has changed next time I experience the issue. On 6 July 2015 at 20:07, »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 20:18:18 +0300

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

Unfortunately dmraid is not in any runlevel. I think it is lvm that's starting lvmetad despite use_lvmetad=0 being set in the configuration file. Unfortunately I think I'm just going to have to learn to live with the error message. Thanks, Alex On 25 June 2015 at 10:19, Peter Humphrey pe

[gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

connect issue when lvmetad is enabled, or the fact that lvmetad still starts when it's disabled...) Thanks, Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulties to acchieve a certain time period with fcron

needs and if one is missed it gets picked up at boot as it should. Hope that helps but if not there's more in the man page: http://fcron.free.fr/doc/en/fcrontab.5.html Regards, -- Alex Brandt Software Developer for Rackspace and Developer for Gentoo http://blog.alunduil.com

Re: [gentoo-user] how to update spamassassin with sa-update

the crontab entry for it? I use a cronjob in /etc/cron.hourly so it runs as part of the system crontab. Regards, -- Alex Brandt Software Architect for Rackspace and Developer for Gentoo http://blog.alunduil.com

Re: [gentoo-user] portage summary logs not rotated any more

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 06:31:43PM +0300, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 05 Apr 2015 14:19:16 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: An observation

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Re: [gentoo-user] automated code validation

cataloging issues that people find in github. James, if this doesn't fit your vision then I apologize for the tangential reply to your thread. [1] https://github.com/alunduil/etest Thanks, -- Alex Brandt Cloud Evangelist for Rackspace and Developer for Gentoo http://blog.alunduil.com

Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

Alan McKinnon writes: This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on gentoo-user. Oh my, an I have some 6500 unread e-mails... that's hard to catch up. But I'll have a look into this month then :) Wonko

[gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

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 with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela

[gentoo-user] Remove default 'gentoo' repo in repos.conf

can indicate in /etc/portage/repos.conf to remove the 'gentoo' repository? Thanks. -Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove default 'gentoo' repo in repos.conf

. -Alex On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:42:42 -0700 Alex Crawford alex.crawf...@coreos.com wrote: I am attempting to remove the default 'gentoo' repository definition from my list of repositories. Even though I am using a custom

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

Alan McKinnon writes: On 05/11/2013 15:37, Alex Schuster wrote: [kde-misc/fsrunner pulls in QT 4.8.4] This does not make any sense, does it? Actually, it does make sense, in a weird kind of way kid3 and fsrunner are not part of KDE proper (i.e. they are not shipped in the huge KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

Alan McKinnon writes: Excuse the top-posting; if I try inter-post between all those blockers you'll never find what I reply :-) I would, but for everyone else it's a mess. E-mail with line breaks is not suited for this kind of output. First I recommend to sync your tree again, just in case

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

Walter Dnes writes: On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 11:02:27PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * * dev-lang/python-exec:=[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_2(-),-python_single_target_python2_6

[gentoo-user] Qt blocking @world update

, unknown protocol file and such errors. Alex

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

Helmut Jarausch writes: You are not alone, Alex, please see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486438 Thanks! Alan McKinnon writes: On 05/10/2013 20:30, Alex Schuster wrote: Neil Bothwick writes: And whatever package I try to update, emerge wants to remerge libreoffice

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

Alan McKinnon writes: On 04/10/2013 17:40, Alex Schuster wrote: Well. Sort of. Emerge also wanted to re-merge libreoffice, I have no idea why. The same happened yesterday when I upgraded portage. Whatever :) This time, I used --exclude app-office/libreoffice to avoid this. probably

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

Neil Bothwick writes: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 17:59:52 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: No, there is something wrong here. When I updated portage, it also remerged libreoffice. Upgrading claws-mail updated dev-libs/libdbusmenu and dev-libs/libindicate, and wanted to remerge libreoffice, which I

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

to do. I am running portage 2.2.7. Alex

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

Kerin Millar writes: On 04/10/2013 11:50, Alex Schuster wrote: [...] (mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0 required by (mail-client/claws-mail-address_keeper-1.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Openssl 1.0.1c/d have serious issues?

-- regards alex

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

simply put a appropriate ln command at the end of these scripts. Sure not the best solution, but if you only have a few machines it is good and simple enough. -- regards alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

no time for that any more :-( Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge problems

://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346075 Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart frozen X

helped me in the past to get my keyboard back. But E would kills all processes except init. Use K instead, this only kills processes on the current virtual console. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

Florian Philipp writes: tmpfs uses as much memory as necessary and nothing more. In theory, it doesn't hurt to add all your memory to it as tmpfs will start to swap when you run out of memory. However, it is usually a better idea to unmount the tmpfs and use a regular file system whenever you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev-197: what to do -- S0LVED

booting, here the devtmpfs filesystem always needs to be mounted manually after the roots is mounted. With this option enabled, it allows to bring up a system in rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory on the rootfs is completely empty. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

Alan McKinnon writes: On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 16:21:10 +0100 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Michael Mol writes: [system does not boot after UDEV upgrade] Ran into the same problem, with my sister's PC. Which I had updated from remote, so I did not see the elogs. I do not think

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-191 bit me. Insufficient ptys

in the past? Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation

Willie WY Wong writes: Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.1 removed

James wrote: Python 2.7 is my default setting. I also had python 3.1 and 3.2 both installed. I read about how I should get rid of 3.1 and force those apps that need/want python 3 to use python 3.2. (makes sense but I did not fully research it). So I did these steps: emerge -C python:3.1

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

being built at the same time. Alex

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD configuration

Jacques Montier writes: I bought a 250Go SSD M4 Crucial , read (of course) Gentoo documentation and installed the drive on my desktop pc (Asus MB, Intel ie7 and 6Go RAM). 1- Everything seems to work perfectly, but i would like to know if my configuration is ok or could be optimized. /tmp and

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install problem

刘焕杰 writes: Hi guys, I try to install Gentoo this morning. I follow the instructions in the official website. But after I reboot, it appears like below: this is (none). unknown_domain Gentoo Linux 3.5.7 (none) login: Put the host name in /etc/conf.d/hostname, and the fully

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop and tab completion acts weird

Dale writes: I been noticing something weird. If I try to use tab completion with the genlop command, I get things like this: root@fireball / # genlop -t -f /var/-su: /etc/make.globals: No such file or directory hp-toolbox.lock ^C Similar here, with missing /etc/make.conf. It's working

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

Silvio Siefke writes: i try to install a Gentoo Vserver by Hosteurope. Im have take the last stage archive, because the vserver Archiv is old i think. When i want run emerge --sync it gives only this message: [...] ERROR: out of memory in flist_expand [receiver] rsync error: error

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

Alan McKinnon writes: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:03:59 +0200 Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:50:07 +0200 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: As it says, you're out of memory. It seems you are low on RAM, what does free -m say? Maybe you need

Re: [gentoo-user] Understand Portage not

Silvio Siefke writes: i try to build freecad from source, in Portage is mask. I try to build the requirements, but i understand really not what portage me say with this message. !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - serial port

J. Roeleveld writes: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: ls -l /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root tty 4, 64 Sep 17 20:56 /dev/ttyS0 Is the above correct permission? Those are default permissions. However those normally won't give a normal user access. You can change the permissions of that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-util/valgrind-3.7.0-r4 and glibc

Nikos Chantziaras writes: What the other posters said, except that you shouldn't add splitdebug in your make.conf. If you do that, it will affect all packages. What you do instead is put this text into /etc/portage/env/sys-libs/glibc (yes, it must be a text file, not a directory):

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

Alan McKinnon writes: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:05 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Like Paul and many others I've never looked back. I'm no power user, and contrary to a lot of the press out there I don't think you need to be to use this distro. That's actually quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

Michael Mol writes: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Instead we get, try USE=-* :P Try MAKEOPTS='-j1' Which in fact often helps... especially for me, I am using MAKEOPTS=-j --load=4, and I often experience build

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Peter Humphrey writes: On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. [...] So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it might be the processor instead that has the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Dale writes: Alan McKinnon wrote: Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you need. +1 I always start with the P/S. Well, unless I see something else unrelated letting the smoke out. Even then tho,

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Dienstag, 28. August 2012, 22:57:43 schrieb Alex Schuster: This sucks. Is it a faulty board again? Is something (the PSU?) killing the board once I turn the thing on? What will happen when I have the next board and try again? Argh. so - instead of changing

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is only one that has the features I want - AMD3+ chipset, four memory

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

Frank Steinmetzger writes: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:15:20PM +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: The size of an erasable block of SSDs is even larger, usually 512K, it would be best to align to that, too. A partition offset of 512K or 1M would avoid this. Unless the filesystem knows

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Frank Steinmetzger writes: Unless the filesystem knows this and starts bigger files at those 512 k boundaries (so really only one erase cycle is needed for files =512 k), isn't this fairly superfluous

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

Am 26.08.2012 16:21, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 14:49:08 schrieb Alex Schuster: Volker Armin Hemmann writes: Am Sonntag, 26. August 2012, 13:41:09 schrieb Alex Schuster: Yes, I know that. But why exactly does it help to align a partition to the erasable block

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounts and uid/gid/user names

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: to not to stress the SD-card of my single board computer too much I mounted a directory of my PC via NFS at my single board computer, so that compilations and other task which need to be done while installing will access the hd and not the SD-card. (The singleboard

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD performance tweaking

Mark Knecht writes: I'm currently just using a single large partition ext3. I didn't do anything special in fdisk so the partition might not be aligned as best it could be. I don't know. See if the partition's starting block is 63 as it used to be in the past. In this case the alignment

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid module format

Tamer Higazi writes: I did what you say, now the magic issue comes, the kernel drivers ARE BUILT for this kernel, here the modinfo output: tamer@office ~ $ sudo modinfo /lib/modules/3.3.8-gentoo/kernel/drivers/net/wan/wanpipe.ko +filename:

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Dale spent two cents: Just my two cents here. Problems like this are usually the power supply. Could it be the mobo, yes it could but the power supply is more likely, usually cheaper to replace and easier to. I had a friends puter that was acting weird, random reboots and such, it was the

[gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Hi there! Two days ago, my PC suddenly died, after working fine for half a year. I used myrtcwake as usual to suspend to RAM, and it woke up in the morning. But after two minutes, the screen went blank and nothing, even SysRq, gave a reaction. I tried booting a couple of times again, and

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: ...shot in the dark: Remove as much as possible of the cards, addons, connections etc from the PC ... make in as much bare bone as possible. Done already. Check All coolers (the little ones also) for dust. Remove all dust even if it is not completly covered with

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?q

Randolph Maaßen writes: Aaa aAaa aaa a Am 17.08.2012 10:31 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi Alex, ...shot in the dark: Remove as much as possible of the cards,aadwqqqaaa www wpa www a weißes www aa Array www www www a aaa aa aadwqqqaaa aaa w

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?q

Randolph Maaßen writes: 2012/8/17 Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org mailto:wo...@wonkology.org Woow! What is going on here? Damn!! Sorry for this bad post, somehow my phone unlocked in my pocket. I'm happy for every reply, and this was a very special one :) -- Mit

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

v...@ukr.net writes: If the system behaves in such an unpredictable way (freezing at a random point), I usually check the following things: - RAM; - bloated capacitors on the Motherboard; - bloated or dried capacitors in the power supply unit; If your PC is only half a year old, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Volker Armin Hemmann writes: sounds like a power problem. Either psu is gone bad (get a new one) Well, I got three old ones instead :) or your mainboard's power circuitry gone bad (if replacement of psu does not help, get a new one). It did not help :( Too bad, I probably need a new

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

Paul Hartman writes: If you are using a video card (instead of built-in/on-board video) I would try a different video card, if you have an old or spare one. I have had lots of video cards die from overheating and power spikes. Sorry, I did not mention that I do not have a video card, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1 failed (compile phase)

On 08/14/2012 02:49 AM, Cinder wrote: I'm at a loss, as to how to solve this problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated # emerge --info '=dev-python/python-dateutil-2.1' Portage 2.1.10.65 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.3.8-gentoo x86_64)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

Frank Steinmetzger writes: So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

Dale writes: I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone compiled libreoffice-3.6.0.4 yet?

walt writes: This has been slow and painful so far. First, the build stops repeatedly because of zero-length library files. I can restart the ebuild manually and each iteration builds one more (real) library. I've been doing this iterating for hours and I think I may have gotten past that

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

Dale writes: I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: [ snip ] Oh, and I forgot; doesn't the links in /dev/disk/by-id, /dev/disk/by-label, /dev/disk/by-uuid do what you want to? Those seem to list partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Alex Schuster writes: Canek Peláez Valdés writes: $ ll /dev/disk/by-id ... ata-SAMSUNG_HD160JJ_S08HJ10YC13279 - ../../sda ... That's a whole drive right there. Wow, now I feel really stupid :) You are so right, they are there, and I don't why I overlooked them... too many

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails to create /dev/block, which is already existing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Walter Dnes writes: You can get the ATTRS{serial} (i.e. serial number). See the printer example at http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and adapt to your hard drive. Serial numbers should be unique, even amongst otherwise identical drives...

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Dale writes: Alex Schuster wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I do not understand why. In line 305 it tries and fails

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Check out the very nice 'lsdrv' script by Phil Turmel. Run it, save a copy of the output for bad times. https://github.com/pturmel/lsdrv That doesn't work here, and I

[gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Hi there! I do not understand the numbering of my hard drives. There may be some inherent logic, but whenever I make some changes, like replacing drives, or changing BIOS settings, the order changes. Maybe it's even more random. So I made some udev rules like this, and my drives are called

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev rules for identical hard drives

Canek Peláez Valdés writes: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: [...] Could there be another way to distinguish the drives, like looking at the partition scheme or something

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Website Survey 2012

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Re: [gentoo-user] Python TK

Silvio Siefke writes: on my Netbook i use Sabayon, because all compile from source need much time and it was not so really run. Can i ask here a question, because i has problems with emerge. Sure, and there doesn't even seem to be a Sabayon mailing list anyway. I has Install the Game

Re: [gentoo-user] Python TK

Neil Bothwick writes: On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:50:09 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: gentoo-mobile siefke # emerge --newuse --update =dev-lang/python-2.7.2-r3 Calculating dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages were found on your system. gentoo-mobile

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I rewrite all empty sectors with zeros?

Jarry writes: I want to backup my whole hard-drive (8 partitions) with: # dd if=/dev/sda | gzip /path/image.gz In order to achieve good compression level I'd like to wipe out all empty space with zeros. How can I do that? You can create files containing only zeros on all partitions until

Re: [gentoo-user] Need a clue about merging logical volumes/groups with lvm2

walt writes: I know there are a few lvm2 experts lurking here :) I have a 500gig disk that is split roughly in half between two volume groups, each containing four physical volumes, and each vg is formatted into an ext4 filesystem of roughly 250GB. What I plan to do is merge the two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The system's font display problem

Mark Knecht writes: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Do not set anything other than LANG and LC_COLLATE. Then only set vars that differ from LANG. Your /etc/env.d/02locale should look like this: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

Doug Hunley writes: On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use sets for some reason. Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become stable it seems, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

Claudio Roberto França Pereira writes: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Doug Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/ exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and friends), so it just makes sense to have

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