Re: [gentoo-user] DBus and network namespaces

2013-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:50:10 +0400, Pavel Volkov wrote: > I launch some apps from inside a network namespace in order to force > them to communicate through my VPN interface only. > > But they fail to use DBus then. Some examples of what goes wrong: > 1. Chromium cannot launch system proxy settin

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-15 7:15 AM, Grant wrote: You would prefer 4-drive RAID 10 plus a hot spare to 6-drive RAID 10? Isn't 6-drive RAID 10 superior in every way except for cost (1 extra drive)? I would prefer X-drive RAID10 plus hot spare in *any* situation. But, this always loses 50+% of the potential

Re: [gentoo-user] udev doesn't turn off touchpad on boot.

2013-09-16 Thread joost
"东方巽雷" wrote: >No,I only seperate /home and /usr/portage. >And now I don't use initramfs to boot. > > >2013/9/16 > >> "东方巽雷" wrote: >>> >>> I have /etc/udev/rules.d/touchpad.rules,content as below: >>> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="mouse[0-9]", >>> ENV{DISPLAY}=":0", ENV{XAUTHORITY

Re: [gentoo-user] udev doesn't turn off touchpad on boot.

2013-09-16 Thread 东方巽雷
Never work when remove them. 2013/9/16 > "东方巽雷" wrote: >> >> No,I only seperate /home and /usr/portage. >> And now I don't use initramfs to boot. >> >> >> 2013/9/16 >> >>> "东方巽雷" wrote: I have /etc/udev/rules.d/touchpad.rules,content as below: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input"

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/16/2013 02:49 AM, Grant wrote: >> >> If it's Type 2, then four drives with a spare is equally tolerant. >> Slightly better, even, if you take into account the reduced probability >> of 2/5 of the drives failing compared to 2/6. > > Thank you very much for this info. I had no idea. Is there

[gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based music/media player don't start playing music anymore. I've tried Amarok, Kaffeine and Juk, and all of them seem to hang when starting a

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 16/09/13 at 01:37pm, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my > desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based > music/media player don't start playing music anymore. > I've tried Amarok, K

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread James
Grant gmail.com> writes: > Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer > which must mean a free license. No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in" so caveat emptor.. You really wan to install IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). > It looks like a substitute

Re: [gentoo-user] All KDE-related programs don't play music anymore

2013-09-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.09.2013 13:37, schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: > Hi there, > > I've got a somewhat strange problem, which occurs on both my laptop and my > desktop-pc, both running gentoo. From one day to the other, all KDE-based > music/media player don't start playing music anymore. > I've tried Amarok, Kaf

[gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread gottlieb
When I reinstall CUPS /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is *not* updated. Details follow. Cups was behaving badly: the web interface could not be used. The browser would quickly say no process was listening on localhost:631 I compared cupsd.conf to the same file on another working system and noticed the foll

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:28:05 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > So I reinstalled cups but /etc/cups/cupd.conf was not changed and still > has its old date and contents. The merge looks clean (output below) /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed. Also, portage knows if you are reinstalling the same version of t

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble installing cups

2013-09-16 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 16 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:28:05 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> So I reinstalled cups but /etc/cups/cupd.conf was not changed and still >> has its old date and contents. The merge looks clean (output below) > > /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed. This part I k

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID >>> install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID >>> controller? >> >> Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity >> of RAID+LVM, sin

[gentoo-user] gcc specs file change multilib_defaults no effect.

2013-09-16 Thread 东方巽雷
Hello,everyone. I found that the gcc specs file has such contents: // *multilib: . !m64 !m32 !mx32;64:../lib64 m64 !m32 !mx32;32:../lib32 !m64 m32 !mx32;x32:../libx32 !m64 !m32 mx32; *multilib_defaults: mx32 // I chan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
>> Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer >> which must mean a free license. > > No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in" > so caveat emptor.. You really wan to install > IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). Nevermind! >> It looks like a substitute for N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/09/2013 07:42, Grant wrote: >>> Has anyone tried Nimsoft Monitoring? It's included at Soft Layer >>> which must mean a free license. >> >> No. IBM has a general strategy to "suck you in" >> so caveat emptor.. You really wan to install >> IBM binaries on any machine? (Think NSA). > > Nev

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID controller? >>> >>> Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity >>> of RAID+LVM, since ZFS best practice is to set your hardw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} tried Nimsoft Monitoring?

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
> Munin and jffnms bear no real relation to each other. Yes they are > similar in that both can draw graphs but that's about where the > similarity ends. > > Munin's job is to periodically poll a device using whatever means is > available and gather data from the device. The data is always in the >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server

2013-09-16 Thread Grant
>>> If it's Type 2, then four drives with a spare is equally tolerant. >>> Slightly better, even, if you take into account the reduced probability >>> of 2/5 of the drives failing compared to 2/6. >> >> Thank you very much for this info. I had no idea. Is there another >> label for these RAID typ