Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

On 19/10/2019 16:24, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:11:26 bstmad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Do systems run different memory management when swap is on versus no swap? The answer to this question is an unqualified yes, although you do not define your meaning of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

On 05/07/2019 15:30, Robin Atwood wrote: Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I tried to copy my old HD to the new one. Recommend any gpt programs? fdisk :-) ? Yes I know it was said it doesn't work,

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. lsblk is nice $ lsblk NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On 27/04/2019 18:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 27 April 2019 16:42:39 BST Wols Lists wrote: Laser printers cost up front, but once I've paid for this set of cartridges I'm probably set up for a couple of years. Just don't expect modern lasers to go on and on, and budget to replace it

Re: [gentoo-user] USB external hard drives

On 15/04/2019 18:32, Mick wrote: f) Re-enable Windows Updates and page file. Do NOT re-enable windows hibernate (note that Windows will do it itself on an update :-( if you want to mount your windows drive from linux. I run OpenSUSE on my laptop, and this mess repeatedly breaks my linux

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

On 29/01/2019 19:41, Grant Taylor wrote: The kernel /must/ have (at least) the minimum drivers (and dependencies) to be able to boot strap.  It doesn't matter if it's boot strapping an initramfs or otherwise. All of these issues about lack of a driver are avoided by having the driver

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

On 28/01/2019 16:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: I must be missing something, in spite of following the wiki instructions. Can someone help an old duffer out? Gentoo wiki, or kernel raid wiki? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

On 29/01/2019 19:01, Rich Freeman wrote: It would surely be a bug if the kernel were capable of manipulating RAIDs, but not of initialising and mounting them. Linus would disagree with you there, and has said as much publicly. He does not consider initialization to be the responsibility of

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-1 on secondary disks how?

On 29/01/2019 16:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, All. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 09:32:19 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: On 01/29/2019 09:08 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'd rather not have to create an initramfs if I can avoid it. Would it be sensible to start the raid volume by putting an mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock screwed up since last ntpd update...

On 14/12/2018 18:45, tu...@posteo.de wrote: ntpd is running and below /etc no configuration update is missing. The only thing I missing currentlu is the correct time display... What is it that is displaying the date? I often have that sort of problem where all of a sudden the clock starts

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

On 12/11/2018 14:34, Mick wrote: The problem I've had with inkjet is that the ink dries out unless used daily, the print heads clog up and as others have mentioned replacing them costs more than the printer. Hang on a sec, I was talking about a *LASER*! £350 for the printer, £400+ for a set

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanners, sane and driver support question

On 11/11/2018 14:29, Dale wrote: Thanks for the info.  I figured someone may have a little better idea on this.  After some more digging, I found a ScanJet 4570C which is actually a little better than the others I was looking at.  So, I bought it.  It shows complete but appears to be still

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

On 11/11/2018 00:45, Dale wrote: This is a lot to think on.  Money wise, and maybe even expansion wise, I may go with the PCI SATA cards and add drives inside my case.  I have plenty of power supply since it pulls at most 200 watts and I think my P/S is like 700 or 800 watts.  I can also add a

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

On 13/09/2018 12:57, Heiko Baums wrote: Wifi isn't the most reliable option. I didn't have a problem yet with printing or scanning over Wifi. You're lucky !!! Okay, my main problem is the broadband connection that takes out the router, but my house is NOT wi-fi friendly, and that's pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is that possible or nonsense (3D-Printing via WiFi) ?

On 03/09/18 05:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: If the printer requires a near constant stream of data over the USB port, you might want to look into a physical cable instead of wifi for the communication. And DON'T hang ANYTHING else on USB (except, of course, the keyboard and mouse). Actually, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

On 23/08/18 11:25, Adam Carter wrote: The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Any system that is not getting software updates is broken to some degree, just

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

On 11/06/18 16:30, R0b0t1 wrote: Federal law implies a warranty of fitness for a particular purpose* from the seller, not the manufacturer. You can take it up with them. The statute of limitations is 4 years. Make them deal with AMD. Please read the parent post !!! The seller no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

On 10/06/18 17:53, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:31:50 BST Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Okay, with all that advice, I gave it another try. I'm also setting up a VirtualBox for my WFH stuff and VB wants to use 10.0.0.0 for its networking. I've changed this to 172.16.0.0 so now I can easily

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: I feel like this is something that Windows natively gets "better" than POSIX. They have a concept of UIDs being specific to a machine or authentication server (or domain as they call it), and this concept is enforced at the host level. That said, I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre-NG

On 09/05/18 23:50, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Code may be "security-sensitive" but buggy. Is the compiler writer really responsible for guessing what the programmer meant to accomplish with buggy code? What do you mean by "buggy"? It would of course be preferable if the compiler could just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On 05/04/18 12:23, Mick wrote: On Thursday, 5 April 2018 09:57:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 19:12:23 BST Wol's lists wrote: On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote: 180402 Dale wrote: After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. Something

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On 05/04/18 09:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: Indeed, and that's more-or-less how I see the usual American insistence on a comma before the "and" before the last item in a list, even though it gets in the way and introduces ambiguity - the infamous Oxford comma. But that's a whole new can of worms.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On 02/04/18 21:50, Philip Webb wrote: 180402 Dale wrote: After each period at the end of a sentence, I put in two spaces, not one. Something I was taught years ago somewhere and still do. I only put one after a comma tho. That is correct professional secretarial style, which I always follow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

On 10/02/18 20:06, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:38:56 + schrieb Wols Lists: On 10/02/18 18:56, Kai Krakow wrote: role and /usr takes the role of /, and /home already took the role of /usr (that's why

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

On 09/02/18 00:02, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists<antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: /var/tmp is defined as the place where programs store stuff like crash recovery files. Mounting it tmpfs is going to screw up any programs that reply on that*defined* beh

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

On 08/02/18 20:56, Grant Taylor wrote: On 02/08/2018 10:11 AM, gevisz wrote: And I am going to set the whole /var/tmp on tpmfs instead of just /var/tmp/portage Is it ok? I don't know about the context of emerging, but I do know about the context of /var/tmp being volatile. More

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On 02/02/18 17:28, Grant Taylor wrote: On 02/02/2018 01:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: We could use Perl. I see your Perl and raise you Lisp. Or the "language to replace all languages", PL/1 Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

On 02/02/18 00:08, Jack wrote: >> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". > > A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin? And Latin's descendants (which are mutually comprehensible) are actually the most widely spoken first language in Europe.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

On 23/01/18 17:35, Rich Freeman wrote: Wonderful ... just finished a complete reload of Gentoo. Now have to redo it again ... ... the mistake? I used ext2/ext3 for the fs. Abandoning ext4 over retpolines/etc seems a bit drastic. My guess is that there is a bug in the latest kernel that will

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

On 30/12/17 19:11, Mick wrote: to remove the symlink pointing to the previous kernel, to create a new symlink to the new kernel sources directory, Or, to use the supplied gentoo tools ... eselect kernel list eselect kernel set n to see what kernels the system thinks are available, and to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade confusion

On 30/12/17 18:43, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: Recently there was a kernel update and I don't want to reconfigure it from scratch. In the official documentation, it told me to move the old .config into the new kernel source tree and type make oldconfig This is where I'm confused; which .config file

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of TLD for internal network

On 18/12/17 13:56, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/17/2017 09:05 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I've been running Linux systems since 1994, calling my private LAN mynet (bowdlerised). Now I come to install neth server on one machine, it insists that I tell it a domain name with at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

On 10/12/17 23:08, Walter Dnes wrote: Oddly enough, although the details are different, that passage I've quoted pretty accurately describes how I feel about Gnome ...:-) I can't find it right now on Google, but I vaguely remember that Lennart asked the Gnome people to make systemd a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

On 03/11/17 18:02, Rich Freeman wrote: My understanding is that the preprocessing is all done on the target machine, and the remote workers take all their marching orders from there. The contents of CFLAGS, libraries, and so on don't matter on the workers. You can build a program that requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic questions about Distcc

On 03/11/17 16:54, Lasse Pouru wrote: I have a bunch of old laptops that large builds such as texlive and ghc fail on, I'm assuming because of insufficient memory and disk space. If I've understood correctly, with Distcc I could build everything on my main desktop PC and have the binaries