Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe bug? (glibc related?)

2015-12-30 Thread Elias Diem
Hi lee On 2015-12-29, lee wrote: > When you perform a strcpy() and overflow the destination buffer, you are > supposed to experience a segmentation fault. It shouldn't matter > whether you run a hardened profile or not for detecting these. Ok. Thanks for the explanation. > I imagine it was dis

Re: [gentoo-user] radeon screen resolution

2015-12-30 Thread john
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 04:54:48 +0100 wrote: > john wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 11:05:12 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On 29/12/2015 11:01, Mick wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 02:00:33 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > >> There is a kernel option DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-30 Thread lee
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:21:01 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > As 4.9.3 is marked stable, I guess that's what'd you get per >> > default. >> >> 4.8.5 >> >> I'd have to run emerge --sync to know about more recent versions. How >> is that supposed to be used, btw? I only run th

Re: [gentoo-user] Maybe bug? (glibc related?)

2015-12-30 Thread lee
Elias Diem writes: >> Whether this is a bug or not depends on what you're supposed to expect, >> which I don't know. If someone would run the test suite on a >> non-hardened profile and got the same warning from gcc, but vim wouldn't >> be terminated when the segmentation fault occurs, then I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update

2015-12-30 Thread lee
cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > lee wrote: > >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: >> >> > lee wrote: >> > >> >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: >> >> >> >> > lee wrote: >> >> > >> >> >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi. I just upgraded from samba 4.1.x to 4.2.7 and in one of m

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem after samba update

2015-12-30 Thread covici
lee wrote: > cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > >> > >> > lee wrote: > >> > > >> >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > >> >> > >> >> > lee wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> >> cov...@ccs.covici.com writes: > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > Hi. I just upgrade

[gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

2015-12-30 Thread Roman Dobosz
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 10:00:10 -0700 Skippy wrote: > I've been googling to no avail on this one. > > When using Midnight Commander, I'll select a file and hit "enter" thus > opening that file with it's associated program. > > Let's say a mp3 file with VLC as that's one I have set up. > > It runs, b

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Roman Dobosz
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 07:34:52 +1000 Hans wrote: > Is it possible to fully encrypt a Gentoo system as can be done with > Fedora, Suse, Arch Linux, Debian and Ubunto without using a unencrypted > USB boot stick or unencrypted /boot partition? > > If yes, where can I find instructions that really

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

2015-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12/15/2015 03:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-12-13 um 13:05 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 2015-12-13 um 12:50 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> If I pull the mouse down to the bottom of the screen the desktop snaps >>> into correct place. For the records and ml-archives: a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-30 Thread Mick
On 29 December 2015 at 17:51, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 04:34:33 PM Mick wrote: > > > Can you please advise what GRANTS did you use to create a dedicated > > postgresql user for akonadi? > > Grants? > Yes, in the sense that the akonadi user will have certain privileges

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail2 - I have not given up ... yet

2015-12-30 Thread lee
"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 08:03:25 PM Mick wrote: >> On Tuesday 29 Dec 2015 17:37:25 lee wrote: >> > Are we at the point where users are accepting to have to install and >> > maintain a fully fledged RDBMS just for a single application which >> > doesn't even need a d

[gentoo-user] snapshots?

2015-12-30 Thread lee
Hi, soon I'll be replacing the system disks and will copy over the existing system to the new disks. I'm wondering how much merit there would be in being able to make snapshots to be able to revert back to a previous state when updating software or when installing packages to just try them out.

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots?

2015-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12/30/2015 10:14 PM, lee wrote: > Hi, > > soon I'll be replacing the system disks and will copy over the existing > system to the new disks. I'm wondering how much merit there would be in > being able to make snapshots to be able to revert back to a previous > state when updating software or w

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
I can't follow Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide. The system will run in VirtualBox and only have BIOS. No UEFI, EFI, USB stick as boot or key disk. OpenSuse 42.1 boots from a encrypted single LVM volume on a MSDOS drive, single partition, using grub2 as boot manager, and systemd. I just have to fin

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: i7-6700, anyone already?

2015-12-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12/30/2015 08:00 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Would using gcc-5.x make a noticeable difference? Well, while you all are preparing to reply ... ;-) ... I simply went for it. unmasked gcc-5.3.0, compiled it, and then recompiled @system and the kernel ("make localmodconfig" to be curious)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:32:44 lee wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:21:01 +0100, lee wrote: > >> > As 4.9.3 is marked stable, I guess that's what'd you get per > >> > default. > >> > >> 4.8.5 > >> > >> I'd have to run emerge --sync to know about more recent versions. How

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:45:29AM +1000, Hans wrote: > I can't follow Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide. The system will run in > VirtualBox and only have BIOS. No UEFI, EFI, USB stick as boot or key disk. You should still atleast read the guide to figure out how to get the encryption part right. You c

[gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-30 Thread Harry Putnam
emerge output: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: [list of pkgs] I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad news? Or something that needs my attention...? Maybe someone can point me at some docume

[gentoo-user] Re: Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Hans
On 31/12/15 09:15, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 07:45:29AM +1000, Hans wrote: I can't follow Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide. The system will run in VirtualBox and only have BIOS. No UEFI, EFI, USB stick as boot or key disk. You should still atleast read the guide to figure out

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-30 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/30/2015 06:54 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > emerge output: > The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: > [list of pkgs] > > I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good > discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad news? > Or something that needs

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-30 Thread walt
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 18:54:13 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > emerge output: > The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: > [list of pkgs] > > I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good > discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad > news? No, it's goo

Re: [gentoo-user] Full system encryption on Gentoo

2015-12-30 Thread Alex Corkwell
On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 07:34:52AM +1000, Hans wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to fully encrypt a Gentoo system as can be done with > Fedora, Suse, Arch Linux, Debian and Ubunto without using a unencrypted > USB boot stick or unencrypted /boot partition? > > If yes, where can I find instruction

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

2015-12-30 Thread Philip Webb
151230 Harry Putnam wrote: > emerge output: > The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: > [list of pkgs] > I suspect this ground has been covered in depth > but finding a good discussion of what it means is a different story. > So, is this bad news? Or something that needs my attention...? It