Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags -custom-optimization

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/26/2015 05:28 PM, Philip Webb wrote: More seriously, once you start working on (3), you'll realize that just because the error msgs suck doesn't mean you can make them better. If they suck, they're not worth issuing, are they ? I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 24.04.2015 13:56, J. Roeleveld wrote: dracut has to assemble /dev/md3 at first (this is the single PV in the VG VG01) and /dev/VG01/genroot then is the filesystem with the new gentoo-rootfs I only added stuff like rd.md=1 etc ... I think I got the assembling wrong. And maybe even the

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags -custom-optimization

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags -custom-optimization

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-04-26 10:49, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. When I read a blog in Firefox 31.6.0, there are often You Tube film clips embedded in it. When I attempt to view these, I am getting, more and more frequently, the error message (from

[gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-04-28 Thread wabenbau
I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in this list some weeks/months ago, but I can't find them. Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just add

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:24, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/26/2015 04:48 PM, james wrote: One simple fix is this blockage of packages that do not need to be blocked. When I wait more than 5 or 6 days to update, I often get many packages to build, running something like 'emerge -uDNvp world'. Yes I know I can sit there and go through every

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem compiling dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4

2015-04-28 Thread marco restelli
Sorry, the subject in my previous message was wrong. Marco 2015-04-28 15:53 GMT+0200, marco restelli mreste...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am trying to install dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4 but I see the following error: -- Could NOT find PLPLOT (missing: PLPLOT_LIBRARIES) CMake Error at

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags -custom-optimization

[gentoo-user] Problem compiling sci-libs/plplot-5.11.0

2015-04-28 Thread marco restelli
Hi all, I am trying to install dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4 but I see the following error: -- Could NOT find PLPLOT (missing: PLPLOT_LIBRARIES) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:313 (message): plplot library is required but was not found. Use -DPLPLOTDIR=DIR to specify the plplot directory tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/26/2015 05:28 PM, Philip Webb wrote: More seriously, once you start working on (3), you'll realize that just because the error msgs suck doesn't mean you can make them better. If they suck, they're not worth issuing,

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread symack
Hello Joost, We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option 'xen-gnulinux-simple-43fa46d6-a602-4281-9493-66faec5c096f' { insmod part_msdos

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2015 23:28, Philip Webb wrote: 150426 Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 04/26/2015 03:17 PM, Philip Webb wrote: Portage needs to tell users (1) more clearly what's gone wrong, (2) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. The process goes something like this: 1. Become

[gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote: I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1. I've encountered this on two systems now. The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so I've also pasted it along with some other info.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:02 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/28/2015 08:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching errors that RAID misses. The same is also possible

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: USE=bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags -custom-optimization

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/04/2015 10:39, Dale wrote: Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: When you use only LVM for this and nothing else, you have a high risk of losing everything if one disk fails. Why? Because LVM decides itself which extent it will put data on. Maybe a whole file is on one disk, maybe it's spread across

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 10:33:32 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 24.04.2015 13:56, J. Roeleveld wrote: dracut has to assemble /dev/md3 at first (this is the single PV in the VG VG01) and /dev/VG01/genroot then is the filesystem with the new gentoo-rootfs I only added stuff like

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing? Generally I buy drives at the sweet spot in cost/capacity,

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google youtube html5 firefox I find that

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Francisco Ares
2015-04-28 5:39 GMT-03:00 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. Did you see those? no ... got to dig, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 29 April 2015 00:34:10 CEST, symack sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Joost, We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread hydra
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:38 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On 29 April 2015 00:34:10 CEST, symack sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Joost, We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
150427 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's deceptively hard to automatically come up with a list of non-ridiculous suggestions before the user in question dies of old age : https://xkcd.com/1425/ . That expresses the

[gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just add

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-28 Thread Justin Findlay
I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1. I've encountered this on two systems now. The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so I've also pasted it along with some other info. https://gist.github.com/jfindlay/b3fc74bda7d4cfb5a2dc The first is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 18:03:28 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.04.2015 17:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 16:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I now booted from a recent sysresccd ... and it didn't assemble/detect the LVM-PV ... *sigh* So I couldn't even mount the LV to chroot in there. The mdadm-RAID-devices were there and active. I didn't want to screw around with the LVM

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:58:55 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: Do you have the OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems firefox add-on installed (I think it comes with firefox). I have it but I still don't have H.264 checked on that page and I can't play

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread covici
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer versions are actually unstable in any way, and if

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:18:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: I would perhaps try rebuilding with USE=system-libvpx and checking the https://www.youtube.com/html5 page again. I believe that's just an option between using the libvpx bundled with firefox as

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0300 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio playback? There is no way. Mozilla products will only ever use card 0. I had to solve it on a laptop I once had, but I don't remember the details. I think

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2015 08:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching errors that RAID misses. The same is also possible with BTRFS, I have the impression (without knowing what I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:59:17 -0500 »Q« boxc...@gmx.net wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0300 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio playback? There is no way. Mozilla products will only ever use card 0. I had to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, such as giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk failure.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, such as giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk failure. btrfs raid5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 18:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: 40 GB of unused space on a RAID1 of SAS hdds. Nice! Sounds like my new rootfs ;-) dracut plus these md-lines should work then. call me coward or defensive: I used genkernel ... and now the server is up and running with gentoo linux ;-) OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, such as giving the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives in it. I actually got

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:31:23 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: btrfs raid5 is still fairly experimental (though now it supports recovery) and works more-or-less how you'd expect raid5 to work. Raid1 on btrfs gives you the capacity of n/2 and not n-1 disks, You're right, I was clearly

[gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Martin Vaeth
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: If you're willing to wait an hour, it might be able to come up with a list of ways you could resolve a conflict, but basically all of them will be wrong, eg suggestion #1, uninstall everything. Really, this is a flippant response to a serious issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I now booted from a recent sysresccd ... and it didn't assemble/detect the LVM-PV ... *sigh* So I couldn't even mount the LV to chroot in there. The mdadm-RAID-devices were there and active. I didn't want to screw around with the LVM too much as there is data on there (yes, there are backups,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. Did you see those? no ... got to dig, thanks Sent on 25th. Initramfs in subject. Happy hunting. :) -- Sent from my Android