Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC on a hardened system?

By default, BOINC daemon is started by root and supposedly drops permissions after a bit. However, the CERNVM VirtualBox application cannot run as root, so they recommend running BOINC from a user account that has virtualbox permissions; VirtualBox, on the other hand, will not run as root for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating an old version of Gentoo

I have updated online several time over the past few years. Do portage first; then GCC and the basic system utilities (glibc, make, binutils, etc...) If you need a new kernel, make it and then reboot. I would then do OpenRC and the rest of the development chain. Finally, anything else. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC on a hardened system?

Depending on which BOINC projects you choose to run, BOINC may or may not need continual access to the Internet. Most of the projects I run only need intermittent access to upload and receive new workunits, but CERN projects need continuous access while running. Also, BOINC will run if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] router woes

I have a similar setup here in Frontier territory. The ADSL circuit connects to their Netgeat/Westell B90 which has wifi and 4 ethernet ports. One ethernet port connects to my "internal" DLink-615 which serves the rest of the unit. The only limiting link is the ADSL link, the rest of the place

[gentoo-user] Bash script: make a convenient /mnt/gentoo tree for a new install or development

The Gentoo Handbook provides detailed instructions for preparing a /mnt/gentoo file system tree for new installations. After having to dig through the Handbook a few times of doing new or re-installs of Gentoo using an existing Gentoo install as the base system, I wrote this script as a shortcut

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

I went through the list of conflicts and made a temporary @set of packages for emerge to re-install. Worked like a charm. A number of the conflicts are things that should be in a "preserved libraries" type of list, they are actually quite able to rebuild with the new perl version. I have,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > Gregory Woodbury wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk > > <mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk>> wrote: > > > > On Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2016 21:54:09 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > thanks a lot. My eyes are bleeding. > > Serves you right for being daft enough to read it again! > > I'd suggest that Alan RTFM for the commands he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

Has Alan ever posted his "jackhammer" script for some experts to look at? I get by really well with a small script that reads the eix outputs, finds the "[U]" tagged packages, and then runs "emerge -u1" on that list. Doing anything more than that will be a cause of pain and suffering. If a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Plasma migration won't launch

Just on a hunch: check that /var/lib/sddm exists and is owned by the sddm user. This bit me (through my own fault) just a week ago. -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] ATLAS@home and VirtualBox

Is the "user" boinc runs as in the vboxusers" group? By default, boinc runs as a non-root (daemon?) user and if its group is not in the vboxusers group, VirtualBox will not start or run for the user. The recommended workaround is to run boinc as a real user (generally "you") so that things

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and the new plasma 5 thing

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: > >> No idea here, logs? >> > > I didn't see anything relevant in Xorg.?.log (neither in messages) and > since there was no kdm which usually tracks all KDE messages I didn't know > where to look. Neither any new log

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

Not sure of any books, but some documents on the Gentoo Wiki about the various projects are helpful. I use /etc/portage/package.{use,accept_keywords}/* in a somewhat unusual way. For each package that needs tuning the USE flags beyond the eselected profile and some globals in make.conf, I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

I did have to redo my kernel config almost completely with the 4.4.0 release. I did: make mrproper #cleans eveything up make defconfig #basic x86_64 config make xconfig #custom configs (needs qt) The new kernel (informed by the old 4.3.3 config) booted and

[gentoo-user] A pair of bash scripts to rebuild pkgs after a kernel upgrade.

After upgrading the gentoo-sources kernel or linux-headers, there are some packages that are dependent on the kernel config or on specific kernel modules. The ebuild "inherit" for eclasses will have the classes linux-info or linux-mod referenced for these packages. These scripts do the work of

Re: [gentoo-user] The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

I ran into this one (1) time just after switching to the 4.4.0 kernel. I have an Intel HD4400 Integrated graphics card on an Asus Z87 MBoard. (Intel i915 driver) To escape, I used another device to log into the machine (ServerAuditor on my Android phone via wireless) and did a shutdown. After

Re: [gentoo-user] libav and ffmpeg on the same computer issue once again

I had a similar problem with some packages wanting virtual/ffmpeg and it wouldn't take the -libav USE flag without adding a keyword for ~amd64 on the virtual. (yes, I am going the opposite way from you, but the cause seem the same -- various USE flags are not yet adjusted in the stable branches.)

Re: [gentoo-user] unix philosophy question for old farts: the original purpose for /tmp ?

As I recall, tmp was often a small, fast disk drive, compared to the slow lumbering washing machines that most data resided on. Several sites I recall had a couple of head per track drives; one would be for the swap partitions and the other was for temporary stuff that was being worked on. After

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

TINC (There Is No Cabal!) -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] build.log is mod 0660, should probably be 0664

Had trouble sending the build log because the log is more 0660 asnd thus can't be read by firefox for mailing. Should these instead be 0664 so that others can at least read the logs? -- G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT???

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.comwrote: On 23 August 2011 20:38, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can someone point me toward somehow enabling CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT? It is apparently a kernel config option no required by

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I wish you could convince the devs of that. I already have /var on its own and was planning to put /usr on its own. I'm not now tho. Looks like /, /boot, /home and that's it for the OS part. It downright sucks. You

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:12 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Em 19/08/2011 07:09, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com escreveu: On Friday 19 Aug 2011 03:27:23 Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:59 AM, fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, guys It is a shame, I know, but after several