[gentoo-user] Re: USB ports reset/restart

2018-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-03-06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the computer? Did none of these approaches work? https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+restart+USB -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow!

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ports reset/restart

2018-03-06 Thread thelma
On 03/06/2018 03:11 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:40:08 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the >> computer? >> >> Two of my USB 3 ports stop working. > > Can you rmmod xhci_pci and xhci_hcd then modprobe

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ports reset/restart

2018-03-06 Thread taii...@gmx.com
On 03/05/2018 08:40 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the computer? You can issue an FLR/function level reset if the hardware supports it. I am not sure how to do this but I know it is done when one assigns a device to a VM.

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for a KMail bug fix

2018-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 13:30:06 GMT Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 12:45:52 CET schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Does anyone know the update plan for KDE? I'd like to add my gmail > > account to KMail, but I can't because of this bug: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing BOINC disk display

2018-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:44:38 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Has anyone else noticed the disk occupancy display being blank recently? A > week or two, I think. This is in boincmgr, other parts of which still > work well. Well, what do you know? It was still missing this morning but it's

[gentoo-user] Waiting for a KMail bug fix

2018-03-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Does anyone know the update plan for KDE? I'd like to add my gmail account to KMail, but I can't because of this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390763 To get the fix I need kde-apps/libkgapi-17.12.2, but it's keyworded at the moment. It looks as though I'd have to upgrade the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread gevisz
2018-03-05 23:35 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:40:00 +0200, gevisz wrote: > >> Can anybody explain me who loads virtualbox-modules without my consent >> and how I can make them loaded only when I need them (just before I am >> going to run VirtualBox, which

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ports reset/restart

2018-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 18:40:08 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is there a way to reinitialize USB ports without restarting the > computer? > > Two of my USB 3 ports stop working. Can you rmmod xhci_pci and xhci_hcd then modprobe xhci_pci? If that helps, it's a software issue, otherwise it

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 10:27:11 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32:50 AM CET Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 09:21:43 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > Ah, yes, /etc/init.d/modules-load > > > "loads a list of modules from systemd-compatible locations". > > > Ok. But the

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:21:43 AM CET gevisz wrote: > 2018-03-05 23:35 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:40:00 +0200, gevisz wrote: > >> Can anybody explain me who loads virtualbox-modules without my consent > >> and how I can make them loaded only when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in a VM

2018-03-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:05:05 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > https://linuxhint.com/install-gentoo-virtualbox/ > > > > I'm sure the author would like to correct any errors anyone finds. > > > > No, I'm not going to try this at home (grin) ! > > After a quick read-through, it seems ok. > But I

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:32:50 AM CET Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 09:21:43 GMT gevisz wrote: > > Ah, yes, /etc/init.d/modules-load > > "loads a list of modules from systemd-compatible locations". > > Ok. But the problem is that I cannot find any symlink to this file > > from any

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread gevisz
2018-03-06 11:37 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : > On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 10:21:43 AM CET gevisz wrote: >> 2018-03-05 23:35 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : >> > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 22:40:00 +0200, gevisz wrote: >> >> Can anybody explain me who loads virtualbox-modules

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread gevisz
2018-03-06 15:28 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman : > IMO disabling module autoloading by openrc seems like trying to kill a > fly with a shotgun. Just disable the configuration file that loads > the particular modules that you don't want autoloaded, as was already > suggested. Then when

[gentoo-user] Portage tarball generation?

2018-03-06 Thread Eldon
Sorry, not sure if this is the correct place to post this. I have a set of machines which I update regularly, typically by downloading a tarball like http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-20180304.tar.gz and mirroring locally. The squashfs under

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage tarball generation?

2018-03-06 Thread Branko Grubic
On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:05 -0500 Eldon wrote: > Sorry, not sure if this is the correct place to post this. I have a > set of machines which I update regularly, typically by downloading a > tarball like > http://distfiles.gentoo.org/snapshots/portage-20180304.tar.gz and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in a VM

2018-03-06 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:05:05 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> > https://linuxhint.com/install-gentoo-virtualbox/ >> > >> > I'm sure the author would like to correct any errors anyone finds. >> > >> > No, I'm not going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo in a VM

2018-03-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 5:09:24 AM CET Philip Webb wrote: > This may interest some users : > > https://linuxhint.com/install-gentoo-virtualbox/ > > I'm sure the author would like to correct any errors anyone finds. > > No, I'm not going to try this at home (grin) ! After a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for a KMail bug fix

2018-03-06 Thread Nils Freydank
Am Dienstag, 6. März 2018, 12:45:52 CET schrieb Peter Humphrey: > Does anyone know the update plan for KDE? I'd like to add my gmail account > to KMail, but I can't because of this bug: > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390763 As this is part of KDE applications it's scheduled for

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 4:21 AM, gevisz wrote: > > So, I do not know how to disable this service. > IMO disabling module autoloading by openrc seems like trying to kill a fly with a shotgun. Just disable the configuration file that loads the particular modules that you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Are VirtualBox moduli loaded by themselves?

2018-03-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 6 March 2018 09:21:43 GMT gevisz wrote: > Ah, yes, /etc/init.d/modules-load > "loads a list of modules from systemd-compatible locations". > Ok. But the problem is that I cannot find any symlink to this file > from any subdirectory of /etc/runlevels/ The file /etc/init.d/modules-load