Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:22:09 + (UTC), James wrote: If the live DVD uses GRUB, the config is at grub.cfg as usual. If it uses isolinux it will be either /isolinux/isolinux.cfg or /boot/isolinux.isolinux.cfg. using my old buddy find on the minimal cd I found this

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: The kernel is a file on the DVD, not buried in the squashfs filesystem - the kernel is needed to mount that filesystem. Given the limited number of files on the DVD it quickest to send the lot to file. Once booted up, I find did not find a file

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: email at missionaccomplish.com email at missionaccomplish.com writes: The livedvd kernel sources are in /etc/kernels which is where genkernel puts them. Likewhoa Just the .config file, not the actual kernel. Acutally, this was from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:43:21 + (UTC), James wrote: The kernel is a file on the DVD, not buried in the squashfs filesystem - the kernel is needed to mount that filesystem. Given the limited number of files on the DVD it quickest to send the lot to file. Once booted up, I find did

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng starting up; version='3.6.1' Has anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 07:18:30AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: What worries me is that Lennart has been able to get modifications done to the kernel, e.g. kdbus. I know this'll sound paranoid, but how long before

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: % find -type f -exec file {} + | grep kernel ./boot/memtest86:Linux x86 kernel ./isolinux/gentoo: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage. ./isolinux/kernels.msg: ASCII text OK so I found this old iso a workstation:

[gentoo-user] question regarding usb gadget / eth usb

2014-11-13 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I bought this little tiny linux board: http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta I setup a sdcard as described there and the board boots -- as far as I can tell, since the user led on the board starts to play the heartbeat blues ;) Now... I cannot access the board. As far as I understood the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs and gcc 4.9

2014-11-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Back to the topic of the thread: As I mentioned I started to prepare a new root-filesystem within a btrfs-subvolume. By using systemd-nspawn I chroot into it and can rebuild my system from scratch while running my main installation. I set up a second grub2-entry as well so I can even chose

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:03:09 + (UTC), James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: % find -type f -exec file {} + | grep kernel ./boot/memtest86:Linux x86 kernel ./isolinux/gentoo: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage. ./isolinux/kernels.msg:

[gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives Always suspect a vendor's purpose for fingering others. It may be valid, but often tainted. Were SSD and other storage devices

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/11/2014 18:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]:

[gentoo-user] Re: question regarding usb gadget / eth usb

2014-11-13 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta A very neat looking device for arm9. I setup a sdcard as described there and the board boots -- as far as I can tell, since the user led on the board starts to play the heartbeat blues ;) Now... I cannot access the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs and gcc 4.9

2014-11-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.11.2014 um 19:12 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: emerge -e @system went through fine completely ... but my @world is a different thing. Some gnome-related stuff does not compile yet, additionally complicated by the fact that I run the very unstable packages from the gnome-overlay,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 13 November 2014 19:35:57 CET, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives Always suspect a vendor's purpose for fingering others. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread wireless
On 11/13/14 15:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: James, Backblaze is not selling harddrives. They sell storage on their servers. The data they collect is based on different drives from different manufacturers. They are quite open on what they use, check out their website and blogposts. You should find

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives showed five SMART metrics that correlate strongly with impending disk drive failure: SMART 5 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Adam Carter
I find the confirmation of the theory, and the actual response of vendor implementations, useful. Using empirical evidence based on a significant sample size achieves that. The alternative is to make the assumption that the theory and the vendor implementation is correct, and I only do this when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: TFA doesn't mention drive vendors. Does others in the fingering others statement refer to other SMART metrics? Backblaze published their vendor stats recently. Hitachi drives were the best, followed by WD. Then WAY

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: question regarding usb gadget / eth usb

2014-11-13 Thread meino . cramer
Hi James :) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [14-11-14 02:38]: meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: http://www.acmesystems.it/arietta A very neat looking device for arm9. I setup a sdcard as described there and the board boots -- as far as I can tell, since the user led on the board

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo livedvd kernel

2014-11-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 06:03:09PM +, James wrote the gentoo.efimg looks like a kernel binary I've got to muck around awhile on this ***IF*** the option is enabled in the kernel, you might have /proc/config.gz and be able to run zcat /proc/config.gz myconfig.txt Note that

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

2014-11-13 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/11/2014 04:03 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:19:36 + (UTC), James wrote: Agreeded. But after a gcc update, I think it wise, especially since gcc-4.9 comethsoon? Yes, things may be a little different with 4.9,

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-11-13 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-11-13 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng