On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 6:00 AM, malc wrote:
>
> From man sddm.conf
>MinimumUid=
> Minimum user id of the users to be listed in the user
> interface. Default value is 1000.
>MaximumUid=
> Maximum user id of the users to be listed in the user
> interface
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Steven Lembark wrote:
>
> I've tried tracing the logic produced by dracut to see why it failed,
> but at over 1000 lines I do not have time to verify its logic and see
> where it failed; ditto genkernel: there is too much logic to ignore
> checking modules that do
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 7:17 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> No, the keyboard don't working again
>
How are you examining your resolv.conf settings without a working
keyboard? Or are you booting from an install CD? If you're booting
from an install CD then you need to set up resolv.conf yourself
follow
On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 6:12 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> I've add rescue in grub2 setting, same error with others many strange
> problems, the last with resolv.conf. What's happens? I want to modify it to
> add mine dns servers; open the file, modify it, but is impossible to save
> because system says "fi
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 11:28 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> Modules are built and installed and i have create an initramfs with dracut
> and emerged xorg.
>
> I can't login, no mouse, no keyboard.
>
Ah, this is the first mention of xorg (at least that I caught). Can
you log into a virtual console (hit ctr
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:50 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> I don't know what happens, i run manually make bzImage then make install and
> now System boot with systemd, but without keyboard and mouseanother WAR.
>
I take it you built/installed your modules? And do you need an
initramfs for your config
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 8:25 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> Here the link https://bpaste.net/show/eb3cd010be3c
>
I suspect some kind of environmental issue, as that kernel builds fine
with that config on a stable amd64 system.
An arch user ran into that error when trying to build sources on a
path that was
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:16 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> After the comand make O=/var/tmp/linux -j3 i've received the error using a
> copy of gentoo cd live kernel.
Ok, I see you're following my instructions in the previous email. Can
you post a copy of your kernel config (.config)? I don't have a copy
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:51 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> I've follow your step, and i'm trying to build a kernel hand made.
>
> I'm again in chroot and don't find any logs.
>
> Here my system in this moment
>
> http://bpaste.net/show/261475381046
>
What did you type leading up to the error you received?
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:17 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> Now i've an error during the compilation "4.1.12-gentooError: kernelrelease
> not valid - exceeds 64 characters" then don't create image and System.map
>
You might want to post more details on what exactly you're doing. It
sounds like you're tryin
On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:04 AM, mr_L4N wrote:
> Thanks for your note, now system boot with openrc correctly, but absolutely
> without network (possibly driver's problem). I'm on an Asus X79
That is quite possible. How did you build your kernel? Genkernel's
defaults should give you the same con
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 4:48 PM, mr_L4N wrote:
> Hi, i'm trying to install systemd on a new installation, without openrc.
>
> Is it possible to do? There's some guide on the net?
>
> I having many problem with correct boot, and network.
>
As Duncan suggested you could follow the handbook, and it
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> [snip empty @system approach]
>
> Wow, that's certainly an interesting approach! It's definitely not for me,
> though. While I appreciate the control Gentoo gives me, I don't need *that*
> kind of control.
>
I'd actually like to see Gentoo e
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:44 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Status: resolved/fixed, with the git commit listed/linked, less than two
> weeks after filing. =:^) Tho of course a release with the fix hasn't yet
> been made, and a fix in under two weeks there without even a comment in
>
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> The quad-core, 2+ GHz CPU @ 25W power dissipation should be plenty of
> power, even for playing media (one review said 80% usage of all four
> cores for 1080p, however, which it'll handle, but realistically not 4k,
> when I e
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>
> Regardless: thoughts?
I'd probably just do this:
> Am Sun, 1 Mar 2015 08:34:19 -0500
> schrieb Rich Freeman :
>>
>> The timer keeps running if you set the dependency on the service. So,
>> next time the
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>
> The problem with conditions (as they exist in systemd currently) is the same
> as
> with dependencies: the unit does not wait until the condition is met, but
> immediately stops (only that it doesn't enter a failed state). I mean, this
> is
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:33:37 + (UTC)
> schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>:
>
>> But you're king of your own boxes. If you want to run it as a user-level
>> service and have it quit when you logout that user, go right ahead.
>
> Again, i
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> a) If the system crashes, partially corrupted in-the-crash text logs can
> be of at least some use after a reboot. Binary journals, not so much.
Have you tested this, or found some other data to support this? I
think that
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Tue, 24 Feb 2015 16:44:59 -0500
> schrieb Rich Freeman :
>
>> > === Timers ===
>> >
>> > Can a systemd timer depend on a mount point such that it waits until the
>> > mount
>> > point e
Lots of stuff here. I'm only replying where I think I can add value.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>
> == Things I have *not* gotten rid of (yet) ==
>
> Fcron is still around, mainly because packages might rely on it being there
> (e.g., man-db and mlocate install files the
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I took a quick look this morning. I think there is some support for
> Win 7/8 on 64-bit systems. I am attempting to bring up KVM now. May
> have something to say in a few days. Would be very helpful to know how
> to convert a VB VM as full insta
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Last I knew KVM didn't support MS-based VMs. Has that changed? Because
> while if anything that's a positive for me, it's going to put KVM out of
> the running for many, if it's still true.
>
A quick google search suggests
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tamas Karpati wrote:
>
> Thanks for your toughts. Following your suggestion I'm going
> to evaluate VB while experimenting a bit more with WS.
> I think I'll let them compete.
If you're going to consider something new I'd certainly look at KVM as
well (libvirt/vir
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:15 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is there a rule or something else in the way Gentoo is set up that
> requires/states/recommends that for a package to be marked as stable
> it is a requirement that all dependencies also be stable?
Yes
>
> If someone has a basically stable sys
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
>
> FOSS developers have to maintain an awareness that there is no One True
> Way. A computer has always been and always will be a general purpose machine.
> Therefore, the only rational philosophy for OS development is for an OS
> to empower th
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Barry Schwartz
wrote:
> Damien Levac skribis:
>> My humble opinion:
>>
>> If people want to work on a project, it is their own decision.
>
> That pertains to hobbyists. I’m purely a hobbyist, filling timek; I
> work on what I enjoy. Anyone who argues with that can
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Harry Holt wrote:
>
> The systemd folks are fine - it's all the other Linux devs (Linus, too) that
> are the real problem:
>
I think we're all part of the problem to an extent. Many of us
contribute to the flames, and many more of us contribute by tolerating
the
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:22:28 -0500
> Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>
>>
>> As a professional programmer, I completely disagree with any dogma
>> based on "philosophy" rather than technical merits.
>>
>> "So I think many of the "original ideals"
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Harry Holt wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:34:23 -0400 as excerpted:
>>
>> And Linus and the other kernel devs are constantl
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:02 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:45:17 -0400
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>> You can create device nodes using mknod, and I'd be
>> shocked if that ever went away.
>>
>
> But now certain static USB nodes, in particu
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
>
> My system is booted and configured using my own custom scripts and
> I doubt that anyone would be interested in those. They work very well
> for me and as a consequence I have no interest in contributing to
> alternatives that I'll never ut
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> Linux _used_ to adhere to these two principles, but currently it
> is more and more moving toward monolithic development and much
> reduced simplicity. I refer especially to the Freedesktop
> project, which is slowly becoming the centralized h
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:04:00 +0200
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>>
>> nossp seems to disable ssp on general. Still not
>> a good idea.
>>
>
> I appreciate your concern but, all too often it seems, the notion
> of "not a good idea" becomes
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
>
> The problem with all Linux distributions, and not just Gentoo, is that
> they are directed toward a multi-user, networked environment. As a
> consequence, they exhibit security and other features that generally
> make no sense whatsoever fo
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Thu, 29 May 2014 06:41:14 + (UTC)
> schrieb Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>:
>> Thanks. I was on the user list for a short time back in 2004 when I
>> first started with gentoo, but back then it was mostly x86, while my
>> interest was am
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Bob Sanders wrote:
> Marc Joliet, mused, then expounded:
>> Am Tue, 27 May 2014 15:39:38 -0700
>> schrieb Bob Sanders :
>>
>> While I am far from a filesystem/storage expert (I see myself as a mere
>> user),
>> the cited threads lead me to believe that this is mo
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:38 PM, wrote:
> if you had lvm already you could
> simply 'move' then 'enlarge' your existing stuff (tm)
Yup - if you're not running btrfs/zfs you probably should be running
lvm. One thing I would do is backup your lvm metadata when it changes
- I once got burned by an
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> 3) Systemd network config.
>
> This one took me awhile too. After the above and a few other minor
> tweaks to general systemd/journald/logind configuration[2], the big
> problem was that I was still networkless.
I ran into th
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
>
> This represents the future trend. Udev will be an absolute, total
> requirement for everything.
>
There are other scenarios where things can break down.
I was using two pl2303 usb rs232 adapters with mythtv as
channel-changers and it requi
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> But based on previous experience once I get in this sort of impatient "I
> wonder..." mood about an anticipated switch, I usually find myself
> actually trying it within a few months, so chances are I'll either be
> switched ove
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> If I understand this all then systemd, in it's current state, is going
> to require removing udev as a stand-along package, will remove
> sysvinit as systemd provides /sbin/init, and will also replace OpenRC
> with it's own code for starting and
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Imnsho, since it is a KERNEL thingie, it should have been maintained as a
> totally separate package, or just admit the long term goal and be done with
> it.
Well, that would require somebody to actually do the work. Just about
everybody involv
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>In the last few days there is a news announcement about needing to
> change kernel my configuration to enable CONFIG_FHANDLE to support
> udev-210. I'm currently at udev-208 and virtual/udev-208-r1 so no big
> deal yet. However reading the n
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Barry Schwartz
wrote:
>
> The FAQ portions given here are not encouraging to me:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_%28display_server_protocol%29
> They make good points, but make them in the wrong way; notice the tone
> of mockery towards X. I’d be happier wi
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> That said I'm not clear about the virtual console point. I thought the
> virtual consoles were Alt-Ctl-F[1,2,3,..] When this even occurs my
> keyboard isn't working so I don't know how to get there. You must mean
> something else?
It will only
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> OK, it's a good idea just to have a Konsole terminal open. That might
> catch something.
I'm not sure if panics show up in konsole. With a virtual console the
kernel actually outputs the message. Konsole under X11 is entirely
user-mode and I
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> No magic sys request keys, keyboard and
> mouse are dead, cannot shell in or even ping from another machine on
> the network.
These types of situations are really annoying to debug. Do you get
anything on the console? Try leaving at a text c
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> The point being... if you do your partitioning right, you can get 90% of
> the benefits of full SSD at *FAR* more reasonable costs than full SSD.
That has been some of my thinking as well. I could just stick the OS
on SSD and
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:56:10 -0400 as excerpted:
>> You did mention USB3, as did others in this thread. Hopefully this is
>> obvious to all, but under no circumstances should you t
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Henry W. Peters wrote:
> So my question is: will an external HD work (I do audio
> editing/recording/graphics) as a system/work space? & more importantly, will
> Gentoo install on such a HD (external, usb 3))
>
You did mention USB3, as did others in this thread.
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Frank Peters
>> wrote:
>>> Libjpeg-turbo has been the default jpeg image processor on Gentoo
>>> for some time now.
>>
>> Really? I don't have it o
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>On the NVidia site they show a new beta driver released today, July
> 1st, 2013. The version number is 325.08. I just did a sync and that
> revision does not appear to be in portage yet, at least on the server
> I'm syncing to.
>
Nvidia not
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> BUT RAID5/6 DOESN'T USE
> THAT DATA FOR INTEGRITY CHECKING ANYWAY, ONLY FOR RECONSTRUCTION IN THE
> CASE OF DEVICE LOSS!
Well, to drive this point home in the case of the thread that wouldn't
die, I had put an entry in crontab
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>I've been rereading everyone's posts as well as trying to collect
> my own thoughts. One question I have at this point, being that you and
> I seem to be the two non-RAID1 users (but not necessarily devotees) at
> this time, is what chunk si
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 8:49 AM, B Vance
wrote:
> Main advantage of using ZFS on linux is the ease of growing your pools.
> As long as you know the id of the drive (preferably the hardware id not
> the delegated one), its so simple I can manage it. Since I'm nowhere
> near the technical level of
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:13:51 -0400 as excerpted:
>> If you protect 1 drive of data with 25 drives of parity (call them
>> mirrors or parity or whatever - they're functionally equiv
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:38:00 -0700
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Or maybe you're saying it's RAID1 and I don't know if anything bad is
>> happening _unless_ I do a scrub and specifically check all the drives
>> for consistency?
>
> No. A simple
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>One place where I wanted to double check your thinking. My thought
> is that a RAID1 will _NEVER_ outperform the hdparm -tT read speeds as
> it has to read from three drives and make sure they are all good
> before returning data to the user
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2013 06:28:35 -0400 as excerpted:
>
>> That is what is keeping me away. I won't touch it until I can use it
>> with raid5, and the first common containing that
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:31 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> So with 4k block sizes on a 5-device raid6, you'd have 20k stripes, 12k
> in data across three devices, and 8k of parity across the other two
> devices.
With mdadm on a 5-device raid6 with 512K chunks you have 1.5M in a
stripe
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>Looking for some thoughtful ideas from those more experienced in this area.
Please do share your findings. I suspect my own RAID+LVM+EXT3/4
system is not optimized - especially with LVM I have no idea how
blocks in ext3/4 end up mapping to
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> Is 'using ACLs' one of those things that if you don't know then you
> are not? I just run basic Gentoo here. All installs done as per the
> install guide. I don't even use LVM or anything fancy. (Which is
> likely part of why I'm having to re
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
> Once again, my decision to avoid the (to me) unnecessary complications
> of UDEV has got me into trouble. It seems that developers just assume
> that everyone uses UDEV and they will, inadvertently or otherwise, overlook
> those few who choose
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Barry Schwartz
wrote:
> Incidentally I have my ethernet devices configured with some udev
> rules to assign specific names to the given mac addresses, and I use
> static routing. This is for an ordinary desktop computer. I view the
> automatic stuff as useful to ge
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> I do not know the cause of your problem, but if it's a machine you can
> afford to reboot a few times, I would try doing a git bisect between
> that kernel and the previous working one, and e-mailing your results
> to the person whose name is o
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Daiajo Tibdixious writes:
>
> No, I don't think so. There's the /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages
> file, which is somewhat similar to /var/lib/portage/world, but the exact
> list depends on your profile.
The others that have suggested usi
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Alex Alexander
wrote:
>
> for a system drive maybe, but I wouldn't trust my data on it yet. let it
> mature a bit first :)
>
For something like Gentoo that uses rolling releases, a system drive
might be one of btrfs's better use cases anyway. All those instant
sn
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Lie Ryan wrote:
> Many popular torrent clients, uTorrent and Transmission for example, can run
> a webserver so you can control your download remotely with a web browser,
> see http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/control-torrent-client-mobile-phone/.
> Azureus/Vuze has pl
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Frank Peters wrote:
> (I probably should not admit this. If any Gentoo maintainers hear about
> it they would flatly refuse to help if any problems arise. But I think
> that I understand the system well enough to take this approach safely.)
echo "Frank Peters" >>
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Dale wrote:
> Is this difference because 64 bit programs use more memory, maybe they are
> larger than 32 bit programs? Just curious. I notice that Seamonkey uses
> more and KDE's plasma-desktop uses more. Those are generally the biggest
> users.
How are you mea
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