[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 07 Sep 2017 17:46:27 +0200 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > sorry, this question is not Gentoo specific - but I know there are > many very knowledgeable people on this list. > > I'd like to "hard-link" a file X to Y - i.e. there is no additional > space on disk for Y. > > But, cont

[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-16 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:28:49 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > > At least in btrfs there's also a caveat that the original extents > > may not actually be split and the split extents share parts of the > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-16 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:39:33 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > > But I guess that btrfs doesn't use 10G sized extents? And I also > > guess, this is where autodefrag jumps in. > > > > It definitel

[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-16 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 16 Sep 2017 10:05:21 -0700 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > > Actually, I'm running across 3x 1TB here on my desktop, with mraid1 > > and draid 0. Combined with bcache it gives confident performance. > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 17 Sep 2017 01:20:45 -0500 schrieb Dan Douglas : > On 09/16/2017 07:06 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:28:49 -0400 > > schrieb Rich Freeman : > > > >> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Kai Krakow > >> wrote: > [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:20:50 -0500 schrieb Dan Douglas : > On 09/17/2017 04:17 AM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sun, 17 Sep 2017 01:20:45 -0500 > > schrieb Dan Douglas : > > > >> On 09/16/2

[gentoo-user] Re: distributed emerge

2017-09-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:35:02 +1000 schrieb Damo Brisbane : > Can someone point where I might go for parallel @world build, it is > really for my own curiositynat this time. Currently I stage binaries > for multiple machines on a single nfs share, but the assumption is to > use instead some distrib

[gentoo-user] Re: distributed emerge

2017-09-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 27 Sep 2017 02:04:12 +0200 schrieb Kai Krakow : > Am Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:35:02 +1000 > schrieb Damo Brisbane : > > > Can someone point where I might go for parallel @world build, it is > > really for my own curiositynat this time. Currently I stage binaries > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 26 Sep 2017 11:45:45 -0700 schrieb Ian Zimmerman : > On 2017-09-26 22:01, Michael Palimaka wrote: > > > If the only argument is you don't want to upgrade, I'm afraid > > there's not much we can do to help you. > > You're right that I don't want to upgrade, and I have already > explaine

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird build failure

2017-09-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 23 Sep 2017 17:53:25 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Christoph Böhmwalder : > Hey all, > > I've been trying to get Thunderbird to build for a few days now. > Since I'm pretty much out of ideas at this point, I figured I'd ask > on here if someone has an idea on what my problem is. > > I've attached

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:30:33 -0700 schrieb Ian Zimmerman : > On 2017-09-27 02:38, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > If you don't want (or cannot) upgrade, you have two options: > > > > 1. Prepare to maintain your own overlay and deal with it > > > > 2.

[gentoo-user] Re: gst-plugins-bad-1.11.90 is blocking gst-plugins-base-1.12.3

2017-10-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:35:27 +0200 schrieb Hubert Hauser : > I've got error: > > tux ~ # emerge @preserved-rebuild > >  * IMPORTANT: 8 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. >  * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild   R    ] dev-libs

[gentoo-user] Re: #gentoo experiences

2017-11-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Nov 2017 11:25:15 -0500 schrieb "taii...@gmx.com" : > > I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. > Thanks! > > I'm interested in both good and bad experiences, with users, > > developers, and operators. Basically, anything that anyone would > > care to share w

[gentoo-user] Re: How to repair a 'secondary Gentoo system'

2017-12-11 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 11 Dec 2017 20:12:49 +0100 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > On 12/11/2017 05:58:42 PM, David Haller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >But now, don't ask me why, >> >chroot /OtherGentoo /bin/bash >> >dies of a segment fault. >> > >> >Is there any means to

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

2017-12-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:54:59 +0100 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Some historical correctnesses about Canek: >> >> - He has been here for years - He has contributed here for years - He >> supports systemd and has offered more help and explanation about >> systemd to it's users on this list than any oth

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

2017-12-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:38:01 +0100 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Friday, December 15, 2017 4:05:41 AM CET Kai Krakow wrote: >> Am Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:54:59 +0100 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> >> Some historical correctnesses about Canek: >> >> >> >> - He has

[gentoo-user] Re: Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config

2017-12-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 28 Dec 2017 15:05:04 -0500 schrieb Jack: > On 2017.12.28 14:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hello, Gentoo. >> >> Having just built linux-4.14.7-gentoo, suddenly a new version of the >> kernel, linux-4.14.8-gentoo-r1 has become stable. Configuring a kernel >> from scratch is a repetitive dru

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

2017-12-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:26 + schrieb Jörg Schaible: > Hi, > > after the update and installation of gentoo-sources-4.14.7 my two > machines no longer switch to SDDM on VT7, it stays on VT1. However, I > can switch manually using CTRL-ALT-7 to SDDM and login as usual. If I > boot with the las

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean confusion

2017-12-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 19 Dec 2017 23:43:35 +0200 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 19/12/17 23:18, Walter Dnes wrote: >>Finishing off an install, and running "emerge --depclean" >> >> = > Assigning files to packages... >> * In order to

[gentoo-user] Re: Running Gentoo in VirtualBox

2018-01-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 31 Dec 2017 12:40:43 -0700 schrieb thelma: > I'm using Gentoo as a server (so it runs 24/7) Apache, Asterisk, Hylafax > etc. > > What are my chances to run Gentoo as a VirtualBox? > > Installing Gentoo takes me 2-3 days (basic setup min., I don't do it > every month so I have to go throu

[gentoo-user] Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6:

2018-01-02 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 02 Jan 2018 10:11:24 -0700 schrieb thelma: > I was installing some brother driver simply run: Don't do this... You should really not "install" software with tar. You're just unpacking an archive, overwriting everything that might be in its way. > # tar zxvf ./hl5370dwlpr-2.0.3-1.i386.t

[gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

2018-01-02 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:26:44 + schrieb Stroller: >> On 2 Jan 2018, at 11:54, Kruglov Sergey wrote: >> >> Now I have gentoo-sources-4.14.8-r1 installed. >> After "emerge --ask --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse @world" >> command emerge installs old kernel in NS (after first update 4.1

[gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 04 Feb 2018 05:20:03 +0100 schrieb tuxic: > after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to > reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. > > Emerge told me: > |>emerge nvidia-drivers > |Calculating dependencies... done! > |>>> Jobs: 0 of 0 complete

[gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:39:25 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow: > Am Sun, 04 Feb 2018 05:20:03 +0100 schrieb tuxic: > >> after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to >> reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. >> >> Emerge told me:

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:11:48 +0200 schrieb gevisz: > I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it > a try. > > I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. > > Do I correctly understood > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs that I can sa

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:42:23 -0700 schrieb Grant Taylor: > On 02/08/2018 03:32 PM, gevisz wrote: >> In this case it would be nice to hear a reason. > > I think the reason probably goes back a number of years. When /tmp was > made volatile (ram / swap backed) there was a need for non-volatile tem

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:50:31 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Dale wrote: >> As someone else pointed out, if you start using swap, that generally >> defeats the purpose of tmpfs. >> >> > I'll just add one thing to this, which I've probably already said ages > ago: >

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:58:35 + schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:12:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in >> > make.conf. Job done! >> >> Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this: >> >> #

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 schrieb gevisz: > 2018-02-09 10:11 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote: >> >>> > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be >>> > non-volatile (across reboots). >>> > >>> > Comparatively the contents

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 08 Feb 2018 19:02:10 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Wol's lists > 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* behav

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
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 it's called /usr, it was user data in early unix). The > > Actually no, no

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:06:06 -0500 schrieb Rich Freeman: > 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 o

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

2018-02-10 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:20:16 + schrieb Wol's lists: > 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 K

[gentoo-user] Re: repair FAT-fs

2018-03-07 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:17:02 -0700 schrieb thelma: >>> I 've "dosfstools" installed but I can not run: dosfsck - it doesn't exist. >> >> >> Try 'fsck.vfat' instead. There is also 'fsck.fat' or 'fsck.exfat', at least >> on my installation. > > I've tried: > fsck.vfat -v -a -w /dev/sdb1 > fsck.

[gentoo-user] Re: repair FAT-fs

2018-03-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2018 22:17:02 -0700 schrieb thelma: >>> I 've "dosfstools" installed but I can not run: dosfsck - it doesn't exist. >> >> >> Try 'fsck.vfat' instead. There is also 'fsck.fat' or 'fsck.exfat', at least >> on my installation. > > I've tried: > fsck.vfat -v -a -w /dev/sdb1 > fsck.

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrade to gcc-6.4.0

2018-03-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:37:45 -0600 schrieb thelma: > On 03/15/2018 08:26 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I'm upgrading one of my older boxes to newer gcc-6.4.0 >> After switching to gcc-6.4.0 >> source /etc/profile >> >> running: emerge --ask --oneshot sys-devel/libtool >> >> !!! Your curr

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --oneshot portage

2018-03-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:52:34 -0600 schrieb thelma: > Thelma > On 03/13/2018 12:11 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:36:12 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> >>> sys-apps/portage:0 >>> >>> (sys-apps/portage-2.3.16:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>> pulled in by sy

[gentoo-user] Re: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Chris Stankevitz schrieb: > 3. The handbook suggests that I should add this line to > /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LC_COLLATE="C"', but I do not know if they are > again talking about the language "DE". RESOLUTION: I assumed > LC_COLLATE=C refers to english and added the line without > modification. C

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage vs Qt

2016-12-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:06:00 -0500 schrieb Philip Webb : > I just updated Qt5 to 5.6.2 & ran into a familiar Portage problem. > > The emerge command responds with a list of "conflicts", > all involving 5.6.1 vs 5.6.2 versions of the c 15 pkgs. > The only way to get around this is to unmerge the

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] How to force a rebuild?

2017-02-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:36:42 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf : > On Wednesday, 15. Feb 2017, 19:27:26 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger > wrote: > > On 15.02.2017 19:10, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > I did not find this by Google. Maybe I asked the wrong > > > terms. > > > > > > The package "virtualbox-m

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:53:49 +0100 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I > start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot > of open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freezes. I cannot even kill chrom

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:41:20 +0100 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Helmut Jarausch [17-02-19 14:04]: > > Hi, > > > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when > > I start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a > > lot of open tabs. > > > > In that cas

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:11:29 +0100 schrieb Miroslav Rovis : > On 170219-13:53+0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when > > I > Ebuilds are just text files, they don't run in the background... > > > start (e.g.) Chromium w

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:05:01 -0500 schrieb "Walter Dnes" : > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote > > > Any advice about slick ways of getting fully updated but dumping kde > > on the way. > > *IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies. E.g. when a > lightweight p

[gentoo-user] Re: Collision between app-arch/lrzip and net-dialup/lrzsz

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:53:46 +0100 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > Both packages install the files: > > * Detected file collision(s): > * > */usr/bin/lrz > */usr/share/man/man1/lrz.1.bz2 > * > > I IxQuicked for that but didn't find anything useful. > Is there a gentle way

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:17:11 + schrieb Mick : > On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 10:50:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > [...] > > > > > > According to the portage manpage 'x11-wm/enlightenment-' > > > should be the correct syntax. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:29:20 -0500 schrieb Harry Putnam : > Adding the X useflag to xll-libs/gtk+ > > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/gtk+ > xll-libs/gtk+ X > > But emerge appears not to go by its own stipulation Maybe because it should be "x11" and not "xll"? -- Regards, Kai Replies to li

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:20:41 + schrieb Mick : > Hi All, > > Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought > of trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in > enlightenment, which I have already installed from the main tree and > would like to keep it as s

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:40:37 + schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:00:03 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > > > I find the package.*-dirs very nice, too. Unfortunately, the tools > > like emerge, flaggie etc. seem to not always use the same file to > > write to, so the files g

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/php-5.6

2017-02-27 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:00:40 -0700 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 02/27/2017 02:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 27/02/2017 22:14, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> When will they drop the dev-lang/php-5.6.30 from the portage? > > > > If you copy the ebuild into your local overlay, t

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-04 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 08:02:11 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > On March 4, 2017 12:41:05 AM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >On 2017-03-03, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >> On March 3, 2017 7:49:27 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > > wrote: > > > [...] > >and > [...] > > > >[...] > >

[gentoo-user] Re: No room left on /boot

2017-03-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 5 Mar 2017 14:33:03 -0700 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > After upgrading my machine. I rebooted, everything went as planned. > So I decided to upgrade to a newer kernel. I was using: > linux-3.10.7-gentoo-r1 > > and decided to switch to: > linux-4.9.6-gentoo-r1 > > I've done kernel u

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 4 Mar 2017 16:42:07 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2017-03-04, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 08:02:11 + schrieb &quo

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

2017-03-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14:23 -0500 schrieb "Poison BL." : > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Frey > wrote: > > > On 02/13/2017 10:17 AM, Poison BL. wrote: > > > > > > I've had more than one spinning rust drive fail hard over the > > > years as well, though yes, you do usually have some

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:01:57 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > On March 6, 2017 5:14:39 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >On 2017-03-06, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > [...] > >and > [...] > >> > >> Did something on the Windows

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING: Crucial MX300 drives SUUUUUCK!!!!

2017-03-07 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 6 Mar 2017 09:09:48 -0500 schrieb "Poison BL." : > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:23 AM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:14:23 -0500 > > schrieb "Poison BL." : > > > I actually see both sides of it... as nice as it is to h

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

2017-03-11 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:05:02 +1100 schrieb Adam Carter : > I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i > want to have another command run multiple times taking a single line > contents as its argument(s) each time. From what i understand of > xargs it takes all the piped i

[gentoo-user] Re: Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:24:10 +0800 schrieb Danny YUE : > Hi guys, > > I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine, > and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, which made me really > happy :-D > > However when Steam is downloading games, the speed is extremely slow, > down to

[gentoo-user] Re: Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:53:44 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow : > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:24:10 +0800 > schrieb Danny YUE : > > > Hi guys, > > > > I just got Steam installed and running successfully on my machine, > > and tried to get CS:GO running smoothly, w

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:58 +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Yes, I run as root: updatedb > > But when run: > > locate consent_extraction* > > > > It only list one file: > > /home/fd/consent_extraction1.pdf (this is a link file) > >

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS from dialup or wifi for broadband connection?

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 12 Mar 2017 03:18:59 -0400 schrieb "Walter Dnes" : > Starting a separate topic, rather than hijack the main thread... > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 01:50:26PM -0600, Corbin Bird wrote > > > > 6 # : ISP is starting to filter customers web access. The ISP is > > deciding what sites custome

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Especially people coming from Windows or DOS have problems with this > > feature. In the MS world, globbing expansion is done by the command > > itself: it will se

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:52:53 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 03/15/2017 03:36 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:31:58 +0100 > > schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > > > >> On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: some capital B blockers in world update

2017-03-15 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:00:17 -0400 schrieb allan gottlieb : > On Tue, Mar 14 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On 14/03/2017 16:43, allan gottlieb wrote: > >> I update roughly twice a week. On one machine (full output below) > >> I was told that libinput and evdev are blocking xorg-drivers > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: mpv startup times...is this guy waiting for soemthing ?

2017-03-18 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:48:45 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > very often I use mpv to watch videos. > > On my old root, the start of that tool > was nearly instantly. > > With my new root, it seems, that mpv > is waiting for something. For example: > > Playing: > [ffmpeg/demuxer] flv:

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:09:51 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > I have a smart NiMH-charger with serial port (normally used to > dump chargeing curves to the PC). > The chargers firmware can bei flashed with a flashtool provided > by the vendor. The communication is via serial port. I have

[gentoo-user] Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Hello! More and more of my Gentoo systems are exhibiting the following strange and unexpected behavior: After ctrl+c'ing out of programs like tailf, SSH password prompts, in the middle of a shell scripts, the shell echo is not restored - that is: If I type characters I no longer see the character

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:57:22 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > On 03/19 09:37, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:09:51 +0100 > > schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a smart NiMH-charger with serial port (normal

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:12:38 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > Hello! > > > > More and more of my Gentoo systems are exhibiting the following > > strange and unexpected behavior: > > > > After ctrl+c'ing out of programs like tailf, SSH pa

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:35:44 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > On 03/19 11:20, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:57:22 +0100 > > schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > > > > > On 03/19 09:37, Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 05:40:09 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:12:38 -0500 > > schrieb Dale : > > > >> Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > >> I don't have a solution but wanted to reply to say that this > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:38:56 +0100 schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > On 03/19 10:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:09:51 +0100, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > I have a smart NiMH-charger with serial port (normally used to > > > dump chargeing curves to the PC). > > > The chargers f

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 06:27:15 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 05:40:09 -0500 > > schrieb Dale : > > > >> Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > [...] > >> [...] > [...] > [...] > >> I've lik

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:37:56 + schrieb Alan Mackenzie : > Hello, Kai. > > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 09:49:50 +0100, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Hello! > > > More and more of my Gentoo systems are exhibiting the following > > strange and unexpected behavior:

[gentoo-user] Re: modules-load restart

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:31:44 + schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 17:28:27 +, David W Noon wrote: > > > > cat /etc/conf.d/modules > > > modules="vboxdrv vboxnetflt vboxnetadp vboxpci" > > > modules="it87" > > > > The above syntax is incorrect. > > > > To use multiple lin

[gentoo-user] Re: modules-load restart

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:11:33 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 03/16/2017 12:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 16/03/2017 20:04, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I compiled as module: it87 > >> run: > >> make > >> make modules_prepare > >> make modules_install > >> ... > >> INSTALL d

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:17:02 +0100 schrieb Matthias Hanft : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > > > After ctrl+c'ing out of programs like tailf, SSH password prompts, > > in the middle of a shell scripts, the shell echo is not restored > > Not here, but something similar:

[gentoo-user] Re: Shell echo missing after ctrl+c

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:50:14 + schrieb Peter Humphrey : > On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 10:59:45 Mick wrote: > > > Not sure this will help, but none of my systems have this problem. > > urxvt, xterm, konsole, terminology, all display anything I enter in > > the keyboard after I have pressed Ctrl+c.

[gentoo-user] Re: Steam downloading extremely

2017-03-19 Thread Kai Krakow
is downloading at 48 mbytes/s which is pretty much the maximum of my 400 mbit link. So, if it is still slow for you, there seem to be other issues. > Well, I am not that familiar with network tuning things...so I will > definitely check the methods you mentioned. Feel free to ask. &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > > I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely nowhere. So I > conclude all my thoughts and assumptions are wrong and not worth even > sharing (on account of them being s

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:51:05 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 21:50, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 21:35:36 +0200 > > schrieb Alan McKinnon : > > > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > >> > >> I&

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:11:58 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:04, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On March 21, 2017 8:35:36 PM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > >> This post is rather vague, sorry about that in advance. > >> > >> I've spent much time on this and gotten absolutely no

[gentoo-user] Re: disaster recovery - planning

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:15:04 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > Besides standard "data" backup, if I was to plan for a disaster > recovery; what to include in a backup system if I was to rebuild a > new box? > > - /etc > - /var/lib/portage/world > - /usr/src/linux/.config > - /var/spool/fax/

[gentoo-user] Re: disaster recovery - planning

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 01:34:04 +0100 schrieb Heiko Baums : > Am 21.03.2017 um 00:15 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > > Besides standard "data" backup, if I was to plan for a disaster > > recovery; what to include in a backup system if I was to rebuild a > > new box? > > > > - /etc > > - /var/lib/p

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:14:16 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:25, Kai Krakow wrote: > [...] > >> Good idea. For posterity so's I don;t forget: > >> > >> - gentoo home page > >> - one or more readthedocs sites (especially docs.ansib

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:22:48 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 21/03/2017 22:16, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Test one by one... Either disable all, then enable one by one, or > > vice-versa. > > > > Chances are that your FS may be blocking on sync. Do you maybe have > &g

[gentoo-user] Re: Sizing up power supplies [was: switching adapter - power supply]

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 20 Mar 2017 18:16:55 + schrieb Alan Mackenzie : > Hello, Dale. > > Apologies to Thelma for hi-jacking the thread so early, but this point > is too interesting just to pass over: > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:57:00 -0500, Dale wrote: > > [ ] > > > I might add, when I buy power

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] hylafaxplus-5.5.5 not working

2017-03-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:23:01 -0700 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > >> SOLVED! > >> media-libs/tiff-4.0.7 is not compatible with hylafaxplus-5.5.5 > >> Downgrading to tiff-4.0.6 solved the problem > > > > File a bug! > > > > Stroller. > > I did. I wish they tested more thoroughly all these

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow : [...] > BTW: Laptop disks are really slow usually because most manufacturers > only build them with 5400 RPM disks. Maybe get a hybrid disk instead > if you only have one slot. I think, Seagate still makes those. It > should

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:12:36 + schrieb Peter Humphrey : > On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 22:50:04 Kai Krakow wrote: > > ---<8 > > > I'm combining this with bcache. That's a cache between kernel and > > filesystem that you put on SSD. Apparently, it requires >

[gentoo-user] Re: After sdcard failure / filesystem corruption...out pf pure curiosity...

2017-03-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 26 Mar 2017 14:16:56 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 26/03/2017 14:14, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > ok, seems that at least the data of one of the three partitions > > of my sdcard is toasted... > > > > But it would be interesting to check, what the initial (?) reason > > for

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Redirecting traffic for a TCP port to another gateway

2017-03-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:26:05 +0200 schrieb Dan Johansson : > Slight Off-topic, but at least the host are Gentoo. > > Is it possible, using iptables or something equivalent, to redirect > traffic to some specific TCP ports to another gateway than the > default-gateway? > > Eg. > > Host 192.168

[gentoo-user] Re: Too many invalid recipients. (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

2017-03-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 28 Mar 2017 23:24:15 -0600 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 03/28/2017 10:57 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > [snip > [...] > >> > >> "man aliases" will probably give you the answer. > >> > >> -- > >> Regards > >> wabe > > > > No, it will not! Well, actually it will. But the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Redirecting traffic for a TCP port to another gateway

2017-03-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:30:11 +1100 schrieb Adam Carter : > > > > schrieb Dan Johansson : > >> > [...] > >> > The general term for that is "policy routing". > > If you're doing it to hack around some network weirdness that you > cant fix because you dont have control of the network, it mi

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

2017-03-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:19:29 +0100 schrieb Jorge Almeida : > I have net by cable with nominal speed 200Mbps. The ISP provides a > modem/router Netgear (from Numericable). I disabled the WiFi and I > have 2 computers connected via ethernet to the router. The speed is > about 156Mbps (measured by ht

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

2017-03-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:52:08 -0700 schrieb Jorge Almeida : > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:52:25 -0700, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > > > > It's more a privacy issue that security for me. I have a similar > > setup with a virgin cable router

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 Mar 2017 14:59:48 Dale wrote: > > > >> Ublock is another option as well. I use it on some Firefox > >> profiles. It does seem to respond better than Adblock but some > >> things I don't like about Ublock

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU flags unsatisfied

2017-03-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:08:06 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 29/03/2017 23:11, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > When I try to emerge any application that require audio eg: > > firefox, ffmpeg, asterisk etc. I get > > > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy > > ">=media-video/ffmpeg-3.2.4:0=[a

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox occasionally stalls

2017-03-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 30 Mar 2017 07:39:04 -0500 schrieb Dale : > Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:08:39 -0500 > > schrieb Dale : > > > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > >> I tried it on one profile I have and it was n

[gentoo-user] Re: VIDEO_CARDS= apparently ignored and new pkgs assigned

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:07:50 -0500 schrieb Harry Putnam : > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up > needing rebuilt during emerge wo

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