Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Hi while I haven't had a chance to try the external HDD on my brother's Windows computer yet, I did notice one thing: when I turn the HDD off (i.e., unplug its AC) for several hours and turn it back on (with my PC still running the entire time) the problem does *not* show up. I would think that

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, March 09, 2015 09:16:35 AM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 08.03.2015 23:20, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Sunday, March 08, 2015 10:37:22 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ... why my initrd is 21M is another question ..) Do you have proprietary video drivers in it? fglrx alone is

[gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2015 10:12 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: is there a specialised ML for the Linux USB stack? Yes, I follow it on gmane.org as gmane.linux.usb.general (not sure what the real name of the mailing list is) and Sarah Sharp is the xhci driver maintainer. She was very helpful and patient when I was

[gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Hans
On 10/03/15 19:45, Marc Joliet wrote: Hi while I haven't had a chance to try the external HDD on my brother's Windows computer yet, I did notice one thing: when I turn the HDD off (i.e., unplug its AC) for several hours and turn it back on (with my PC still running the entire time) the problem

[gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, the following happens some minutes before: I was searching on youtube for some reviews... and suddenly BOOM: Server not found: Unknow host I restarted firefox...which did not help. I did a ping traceroute to www.youtube.com from the commandline...same results... Wireshark shows the DNS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:58:20 +1000 schrieb Hans li...@interworld.net.au: [...] Have a very similar problem with a USB drive. Resolved it by installing a toggle switch into the DC power line and switched the drive on when I did a backup. I.e. power up the PC, login, power up the USB drive. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:33:13 -0800 schrieb walt w41...@gmail.com: [...] I once hated replies containing the question Does it work under Windows? but a bit of experience with usb3 external drives has made me rethink the matter. Here's my thinking: if the usb3 drive works correctly with

Re: [gentoo-user] My machine wakes up from hibernation in GMT time !?!?

2015-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:39:05AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote Are you using OpenRC? If so, do you have the hwclock init script set to run at boot? Yes and yes. /sbin/rc-update show boot shows it. rc-status boot also shows it. A tangentaial question. rc-status shows service

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: External HDD: sector size incorrectly detected on first connect

2015-03-10 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 05:38:03PM -0700, walt wrote: On 03/10/2015 10:12 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: is there a specialised ML for the Linux USB stack? Yes, I follow it on gmane.org as gmane.linux.usb.general (not sure what the real name of the mailing list is) and Sarah Sharp is the xhci

[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

2015-03-10 Thread walt
On 03/10/2015 12:02 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 16:15:02 Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: Hi, tried 'regenworld' ? marko (Please do not top post, especially when the thread you are contributing to is already interleaved.) If the OP tries regenworld he could well have to spend

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

2015-03-10 Thread Marko Weber | 8000
Hi, tried 'regenworld' ? marko Am 2015-03-09 21:00, schrieb walt: On 01/04/2015 04:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. Same thing just happened to me two months later.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: Hi, Was my DSL modem hacked? Quite possibly. There are a myriad of resources on hacking modems[1]. Also, most modems support performance configurations via S registers. Often, vendors leave access to the modem's S registers accessible and error on the side of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread wabenbau
Am Dienstag, 10.03.2015 um 19:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, the following happens some minutes before: I was searching on youtube for some reviews... and suddenly BOOM: Server not found: Unknow host I restarted firefox...which did not help. I did a ping traceroute to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with perl dependencies on emerge -uD world

2015-03-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 17:07:32 +0100, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: on one of my gentoo-servers i try to update the system with 'emerge -uD world'. i get the following output, and have no idea how to solve this comnflicts. Can anyone help me or guide me?

Re: [gentoo-user] My machine wakes up from hibernation in GMT time !?!?

2015-03-10 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:05:58 PM Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:39:05AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote Are you using OpenRC? If so, do you have the hwclock init script set to run at boot? Yes and yes. /sbin/rc-update show boot shows it. rc-status boot also

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

2015-03-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 16:15:02 Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: Hi, tried 'regenworld' ? marko (Please do not top post, especially when the thread you are contributing to is already interleaved.) If the OP tries regenworld he could well have to spend the rest of the day removing many packages

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread bitlord
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 19:16:12 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, the following happens some minutes before: I was searching on youtube for some reviews... and suddenly BOOM: Server not found: Unknow host I restarted firefox...which did not help. I did a ping traceroute to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 10 March 2015 19:16:12 CET, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, the following happens some minutes before: I was searching on youtube for some reviews... and suddenly BOOM: Server not found: Unknow host I restarted firefox...which did not help. I did a ping traceroute to www.youtube.com from the

Re: [gentoo-user] My machine wakes up from hibernation in GMT time !?!?

2015-03-10 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, March 09, 2015 10:20:39 PM Walter Dnes wrote: I'm in Canada/Eastern timezone. For some reason, my machine seems to come up in GMT when waking up from hibernation. This started happening a week or two ago. I do not think this is related to my conversion and re-install from

[gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-10 Thread Mick
This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this package. Is it a known problem, or am I the only one suffering from this? Emerging (1 of 8) www-plugins/chrome-binary- plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1::gentoo * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch progress, run *

Re: [gentoo-user] My machine wakes up from hibernation in GMT time !?!?

2015-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 02:54:04PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:05:58 PM Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 03:39:05AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote Are you using OpenRC? If so, do you have the hwclock init script set to run at boot?

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-10 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this package. Is it a known problem, or am I the only one suffering from this? Emerging (1 of 8) www-plugins/chrome-binary- plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1::gentoo * Fetching files in the background. To view fetch

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 22:45:28 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this package. Is it a known problem, or am I the only one suffering from this? Emerging (1 of 8) www-plugins/chrome-binary- plugins-41.0.2272.76_p1::gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins

2015-03-10 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 11:19:34 PM Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 22:45:28 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: This is the second machine I am getting a 404 in as many weeks with this package. Is it a known problem, or am I the only one suffering from this? Emerging (1 of 8)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

2015-03-10 Thread Justin Findlay
On 03/10/2015 01:35 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Most modems and routers have really bad DNS proxies. I tend to either run my own or use Googles DNS: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 I don't like the idea that google is getting all information about my DNS queries. ;-) If you need a temporary public