s under eudev; I have not found any specific docs on that
either.
Discussion and Suggestions are most welcome.
James
with LXQT
which used QT5, but that all seems to be very news.
Once you figure this out, give some feedback to the gentoo docs
team to enhance [1]. BGO would be keen for new information
on multi headed options.
hth,
James
[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Multihead
[2] http://www.y
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> Basically, what you want to do cannot be done in a plain crontab. You
> might be able to leverage anacron to accomplish what you want.
Here is a link some options, including a brief intro to anacron.
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Cron#cronie
hth,
James
This is an interesting read:
http://www.clustermonkey.net/Parallel-Programming/an-open-compiler-for-openacc.html
And here are the compiler sources:
http://web.cs.uh.edu/~openuh/download/
No, I have not testing this gpu compiler yet.
James
/fftw-3.3.3-r2:3.0
Ok so what change and where did I miss reading about it?
James
Anyone installed this overlay? [1]
If so how do you like HalVM?
curiously,
James
[1] http://gpo.zugaina.org/Overlays/flow/app-emulation/halvm
This is the most 'bad ass' tool going for kernel problem.
Welcome to the ftrace-->trace-cmd-->KernelShark club.
hth,
James
[1] https://github.com/elbeasto/xhci-trace-plugin
only thing I can think
of is the extra flags are not every used in current packages found
in the portage tree. I wonder if gcc(++) might could make use
of those flags. I'm not making a statement, but framing a question.
But I would think that is the reason for the subset of /proc/cpuinfo
that forms the flags listed in :
/usr/portage/profiles/desc/cpu_flags_x86.desc
hth,
James
equery
hasuse) to generate the maximum flags to set by default for a given cpu. I
see no reason this should be limited to either x86 or amd64. Arm64 is out
in the wild and it will not be too much longer before this list has
numerous questions about arm64 processor flags settings, for the myriad
of arm
Alexander Kapshuk gmail.com> writes:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Jarry gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Gentoo-users,
> where can I find description of *all* USE flags? I
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
te ram performance with a real timing
chart style data sets.
TEQUILA! for all my pals
enjoy,
James
repeated from BGO-517428!
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt
[2] http://lwn.net/Articles/410200/
[3] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tracing
[4] http://git.kernel.
roid and the intersection with
Gentoo. Here are a few links to get ideas on how to proceed:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/embedded/287663
https://github.com/gentoid
https://code.google.com/p/gentroid/
https://www.kdab.com/
hth,
James
andwiched inside (2) fans to cool my 4GHz amd-8350
CPUS. The coolder the better for electonics to about few degrees above
freezing. But, also humidity plays a roll on cooling electronics.
hth,
James
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_state
[2]
http://forum.canardpc.com/threads/84663-Memtest86-is-freezing-while-running-test-7
with some other issues mixed in
> [1] When wayland becomes a first-class Linux citizen, this will likely
> change
Yep, but that's being avoided by me for now, as I think that puppy
(Weyland) is going to a difficult roll out to say the least
thx,
James
e < 2.18 .
>
> Linux systems are at risk only when admins don't keep versions upto-date.
Maybe it's time to looking into some of the work the gentoo hardened devs
have going on:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_musl
hth,
James
n the output:
dev-java/icedtea: Make X buildtime-only depenency.
!!! Metadata cache not found. You need to run
!!! 'egencache --repo=java --update'
!!! to generate metadata for your overlays
Very cool that portage picked up this need by "euse -i X".
All input is welcome,
James
Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes:
> Assuming that disks are formatted, a stage3 has been freshly extracted,
> bossman is installed, and the role/config files are on a mounted
> filesystem, it should be similar to the role below:
I think the list needs to be expanded, generically firs
is currently a gentoo-dev thread that you might find informative:
[gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=libav as replacement for broken || ( libav:= ffmpeg:= )
hth,
James
rt
of like a disk to disk "dd" install).
So how would I impress the bossman by actually saving admin time
on how to use the bossman to create (install from scratch + pxe?)
a clone.
Gotta recipe for that using bossman?
Or is that an invalid direction for bossman?
curiously,
James
[1
Philip Webb ca.inter.net> writes:
> After exactly 2 years , I'm trying to update my Asus EEE netbook.
http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/
hth,
James
ile everything else that is broken. Check your version
of python too ( and run python-updater if it has changed).
good hunting,
James
tainly appreciate your explanation and links.
James
you are using, that might affect
helps one seeks, is pretty much accepted netiquette, ymmv.
AS to the robustness of Openrc on Arch; well that is why I'm asking
here if anyone has experiences with Openrc on Arch (actually testing Openrc
on Arch Linux) and not just conjecture or attitude about it.
Just (test) experiences, ok?
James
d linux too)
is a curiosity I find enlightening. Openrc is part of gentoo,
although it can and is being used elsewhere in other distros.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/openrc/
James
emd. :)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC
James
It seems Openrc is spreading?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC
Anyone tested openrc on Arch linux? I have read in several places
that Arch linux has moved to systemd, exclusively?
James
Surely
critical data will be backed up off the 3-node cluster. I hope to use
ansible to enable recovery, configuration changes and bringing on and
managing additional nodes; this a concept at the moment, but googling around
it does seem to be a popular idea.
As always your insight and advice is warmly received.
James
>
te
reinstalled from scratch, or just purge the disk of Ceph and reconfigure Ceph?
I'm hoping to "configure ceph" in such a way that failures do not corrupt
the gentoo-btrfs installation and only require repair to ceph; so your
comments on that strategy are most welcome.
> BillK
James
>
e more
advanced members of our Gentoo community would donate a wee_bit of time
in the form of some Ansible recipes (cookbooks) it would go a very long
way to close the gap between the gentoo handbook and a happy (shiney?)
new Gentoo install; imho.
Lots of folks are using Anible with their clusters.
peace,
James
ope he posts his works for us all to follow?
Interestingly, Bircoph has solve many of the problems that seem to be in my
path of discovery. Very, very cool and encouraging. I think Sven is giving
gentoo new life, by his heroic efforts to create excellent documentation in
everything he touches!
> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
peace,
James
7;s as the machine has a number of sata ports and a PCI-e
> sata adaptor and the sd* drive numbering kept moving around when I added
> the WD red.
Eventually, I want to run CephFS on several of these raid one btrfs
systems for some clustering code experiments. I'm not sure how that
will affect, if at all, the raid 1-btrfs-uuid setup.
TIA,
James
fiers in series.
> Are there better solutions?
Go find a good audio group for details and help.
hth,
James
s
on what to do on the new server.
Just a thought, but most companies have spare machines available, just
inquire; particularly if this one is 5+ years old, maybe newer hardware
is a (very) good idea?
hth,
James
close enough [2].
I had some overall resistance to the idea too, but I thought it best to
query the list to see if something robust and simple did already exist
Thanks for all the posts,
James
[1] https://github.com/mesos/mesos-distcc
[2] http://www.zentoo.org/ (Continuous Integration)
tc/portage/make.conf need to be set (explicitly how) to
effect a solution that uses ram for compiling, but also saves those
compilation records on HD until manually removed?
Discussion and suggestions for a more robust solution are most welcome.
James
[1] http://gentoo-en.vfo
more places
than routine linux installations. Here is a bit of reading
on SeLinux, it is a sub-project of the Hardened project here at Gentoo and
it is very robust, but time consuming.
hth,
James
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened
https://source
d,
ftrace and kernel shark into a gentoo gui package. I opened a bug on
BGO (Bug 517428), but so far it is still in search of a maintainer.
I hope an active group of gentoo-clustering emerges after the herds/projects
at gentoo are re-organized. The science herd/project
is your best bet for folks
iciency. Make sure it's always has a clean, cool airflow in the room you
use it in. Heat is the enemy of all electronics, particularly if you want
the electronics to have a relatively long life
hth,
James
never be easy, but it is a very flexible and through solution for many
areas of need.
Zentoo and the (corporate usage thread) I posted all tell me that Gentoo
is not only alive and doing well, it is on the move!
James
pported by perl-module.eclass"
*
* If you need support
A perl issue I have not seen before.
Maybe something in my perl is amiss or new? Many these EAPI versions are too
old? Surely portage still has older EAPI-2 and -3 packages that 'eix-update'
works with updates.
I never had this problem with zugaina before.
ideas?
James
(cache:
parse|ebuild*#metadata-md5#metadata-assign#assign)
Reading category 163|163 (100%) Finished
Applying masks ..
Calculating hash tables ..
Writing database file /var/cache/eix/portage.eix ..
Database contains 18672 packages in 163 categories.
Usually I wait a few hours and they sync. All the other repos are fine.
I wish there was a tool, like elogviewer for eix-update.
Ideas?
James
Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes:
> James tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> > lxde is deprecated, imho. [1]
> > lxqt is the future of that lineage [2]
> Sounds like propaganda rather rather than any sort of answer to
> the question.
OK, if that is true, who is answe
o commitment to lxde long term. He is newly installing,
so lxde is probably a bad choice, if he intends to use it for a few years.
ymmv. Futhermore is Weyland in his sights? Dunno, but that seems to
be the target, with qt5 resource utilization. I bet many codes that are
centric to qt4 will not keep up, and thus be dropped, eventually.
hth,
James
Comments from anyone familiar with zugaina is most appreciated.
ideas?
James
[1] http://gpo.zugaina.org/
1 and browsers) and for
testing experimental new packages. "
[1] http://www.zentoo.org/
I have not had a chance to look it over, but at first glance it seems
some folks are already taking (CI) ideas to the next level?
interesting,
James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> You may want to read the entire bug there on the remaining
> issues with lxqt-8. From what I gather there are problems
> upgradeing an existing lxde setup; but installing lxqt 8.0 or
> 1.0 as a fresh install is working for most. ymmv.
Oops,
y want to read the entire bug there on the remaining
issues with lxqt-8. From what I gather there are problems
upgradeing an existing lxde setup; but installing lxqt 8.0 or
1.0 as a fresh install is working for most. ymmv.
hth,
James
h sqlite, which allows simple browser viewing and debugging, then
postgresql are both useful things to know, before trying to use/test
one of the 'sql_ish' big data engines.
Discussion and suggestions are warmly received.
James
us coding project (ah ha ha ha ha ha).
It would be funny, twer it not true. They put out a stable release
18 months ago and it's a fight because the module developers rarely test
their modules against one another. None use gentoo, so build me
up a gentoo-fever liveUSB, so I can put some ebuilds on it and share
it with them? Add some packages that a typical gentoo dev would use?
Share a few secrets?
hth,
James
g statement about Gentoo
Apathy. They can do (and do) amazing things with gentoo, but so little
efforts is expended in a helping hand upward.
If I'm wrong about this, then show me a gentoo-fever liveusb from several
different groups at gentoo, please?
hth,
James
inimize those write to your non-mechanical memory.
> > I have dozens of tricks to minimize a gentoo system. But it is quite
> > a bit of work, just so you know. It's not a do this and it great. It
> > more like, try this, study the result and then alter the strategy.
> &
hat I thought I had to do. I did not know if there
was some form of browser "kung_foo" I had missed to read these remotely
without download/install types of efforts
thx,
James
lt and then alter the strategy.
hth,
James
ble/useful is openrc-0.13.6) ?
I did find this:
https://github.com/OpenRC/openrc/blob/master/man/openrc-run.8
Is there some github thingy-trick I need to read this as a logically
formated doc?
TIA,
James
entoo. Gentoo on a usb stick allows for a liveGENTOO that can
be easily updated and they can jump in and out of Gentoo, until the fever
takes hold.
Or some other kind of hook? Fishing was very difficult till the hook
was refined. WE need a hook, imho. Easy Gentoo and a project to assist
in testing code; you've got a killer idea there rich, and I'm glad to
be on your team!
James
aybe Coreboot, has some old work laying around that is relevant to
your needs [2]. It is mostly a research journey, that may lead
to success or failure. Hard to say, as sometimes the same make and
model of a laptop, has diffent internal components (like firmware, bios
and chips)...
Good hun
a very large pile of ebuilds that need parsing?
James
to use it I would love to start cataloging issues that
> > people find in github.
Careful, I'm looking for someone to understand my goals and LEAD.
I'm more of a Klingon, when it come to software, that most.
> > James, if this doesn't fit your vision then I apologize f
experience in Rf and
listen to them. It's old hat.
Get real. Systemd is a piss_ant and is irrelevant, IMO!
Openrc is not in my critical path either, although I have a very,
very strong affection to it. It's called loyalty and much
of the symbiotic relational world is build upon loyalty. Some
do not understand this, and I cannot help those folks that do
not understand loyalty.
So, let's focus on modernizing Gentoo, shall we?
OK? (focus dude, focus).
hth,
James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> Virus scanner: ClamAV
> Malware scanner: rkhunter
This thread motivated me to read a bit.
What do folks think about net-analyzer/openvas ?
Any experinces are welcome.
curiously,
James
,
we can point them to your work.
James
is very lucky, he has the gentoo community to toss him ideas
on a regular basis.
So no, not part of regular system administraion. YES for a transient
solution to an embedded hack.
hth,
James
l /usr systems) out of the same core codebase. I see Gentoo keeping the
rank and file computer scientists and hackers, gamefully employed. I see
the CoreOS folks migrating computer scientists and hackers to the Walmart
model of underemployment at a few conglomerates.
Gentoo provides an excellent set of choices and a very bright future for me
(cluster). Other can pick their own poison
peace,
&& thanks
James
dynamically for whatever the failure reason is. I guess that CoreOS
is just building up clusters from derivatives ot TFTPboot.. That is
what's old (farts) is new again, as it appears we are returning full circle.
YiPe!
James
a nexus (a vergence in the force) as many
new technologies are converging very rapidly. Call it what you like,
but, we are at the crossroads of some very unique opportunites, imho.
If we had a gentoo cluster right now, something like tinderbox would
have been running there all along. YMMV.
James
s this accomplish what you want:
"sync;sync;sync;halt" ?
"man sync"
You may need to pass arguements to halt. A standard
man page may not be exactly correct in what you have,
so you may have to peruse the codes.
Think for a second. It's embedded, so why can the
board (OS) be shutdown or halted as you like?
James
damental (long overdue changes) and are
all about creating a source_to_cluster platform. (h, vaguely sounds
familiar...scratching head). It is a natural evilution for linux to take; or
are we going to embrace some much needed change (new ideas) into gentoo?
James
[1] https://github.com/co
good news is most "hardware vendors" are dumb, when it comes to codes;
so there is most always a work-around; hence "man halt" as for your
next leg of the journey?
hth,
James
ously, security
is a critical component, after the specification/model is established
realizing that the spec. will be modified based on continuous security
testing and enhancements).
James
[1] https://blog.flameeyes.eu/tag/tinderbox
[2] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tinderbox_log_collection_and_a
news item review] bash-completion-2.1-r90, version 2
circa 11/10/14.
hth,
James
s of an advance mechanism is of interest to me.
thx,
James
find a solution. Hopefully others have some ideas.
"netstat" and "arp" are also commands you should look at their
options as tools to gain insight into what you are doing, and
why what you try, fails.
[1] http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ethernet_over_USB
hth,
James
are successful at what you set up (your overlay
++) with gentoo, I'd be interested to know the details and maybe I'll move
my codes to a similar structure; mostly java and science/math codes
Drop me private email, or keep me informed whatever your chosen information
dispersement is (a blog? etc) as your code development mechanisms evolve.
sincerely,
James
gt; Do I really need two interfaces isb0 and usb1 with different
> subnets here?
No, you should not. They can be attached to (2) different PCs that
are on the same subnet. Try that first.
James
ackages, provide choices for the
init system, and strongly advocate package development within the
ranks of the user base. Clear and concise documentation, concurrent with
this effort is probably your single greatest alley, should your idea
and leadership prove successful.
hth,
James
[1] http://ww
e,
as my "auto-inflicted" current pains are sufficiently plentiful
to keep me busy.
Discussion and guidance on your experiences with lxqt is keenly appreciated.
James
; leaves me wandering "OK, but what the f* would I need foo for??"
I wonder if there is a reasonable why to extend app-portage/elogviewer
to parse more more details related to flags, or at leaset compile-time and
run-time details?
curiously,
James
gle phrase usually.
I'm looking for something (if it exists) that is more detailed
about the flag usage and issues. Maybe nothing exists? Maybe
it's only avaiable reading the sources?
James
eader that is not burnt to a crisp
by the gentoo-stress-burnout syndrome that seems to surging, again.
If you want java to prosper at Gentoo, it's gonna take an "inner-circle"
gentoo-dev to at least cheerlead for java within gentoo, imho.
hth,
James
at)?
(Gmane on gentoo user is working again from a browser window (yea).
Sorry for the recent noisy_posts.
curiously,
James
tructively rant"
excellent topic,
nowz ur chance to be heard!
hth,
James
:->
I'm not sure if Tequila and Rum make me a better dancer, or just
makes me think that 'taking a risk or 2 on the dance floor'
is a good thing. Therefore, I need, yet another Caribbean
Vacation so
(and naturally cannot remmber the name of) that
made creating USB bootable, usable, images on a usb stick
straightforward?
It even handled grub2, uefi and such?
suggestions?
James
Hello,
Has anyone experience with "oprofile"?
I'm looking for documented examples and descriptions
of what you used it for and how you liked it.
I'm hoping to use it a a companion tool to kernelshark.
TIA,
James
ntation first.
Best thing to remember about 'eix' is to run 'eix-update', periodically.
hth,
James
d answer my initial questions?
Bug 454132 on BGO.
hth,
James
l (dev or proxy) that is maintaining the
code. Or this is my understanding/speculation on how it's gonna work.
Ok, so from here all you gotta do is *dig* a bit.
Also look for overlays on nova and the other "Depends" in the openstack
ebuild to work around your issues. Also, often there is a way to get
around hard masks if you choose to go that path.
Goodhunting!
James
t regards,
> Michael
hth,
James
7;ll "get it".
Or buy a UPS with know proven functionality?
Naw, just be a "hack" and cludge something "admin_ish" together?
Those cheap UPS codes are crap. All of them. If you are motivated,
most can be "downloaded" and picked apart, if you are m
pport both qt4 and qt5. But you need to check
with folks running the latest codes for lxqt. [1]
Last, I do not remember what is holding up the current masking of
lxqt-0.8.0 but it could be related to your problem?
good hunting!
James
[1]
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Cat
gmx.de> writes:
> Hi James :)
> ...ARM9 emulator...nice idea.
> Does such thing exists for Linux?
http://www.thefreecountry.com/emulators/arm.shtml
> > Good hunting!
> ...thanks! Your good wish has already worked!
> I got access to the board 8)
I'
plementation for embedded gentoo on an arm-9 and start there. If
that does not exist, start with the debian embedded linux the vendor
offers. Arm 9 emulator on your workstation might also help decyphering
and debugging codes and hardware in the arm 9 family.
Good hunting!
James
can be included via snmp or whatever
protocol into your favorite NMS?
Something that relies of something from this vendor, that is not
opensource, is worthless noise, imho.
hth,
James
k around awhile on this
thx,
James
James tampabay.rr.com> writes:
>
> email missionaccomplish.com missionaccomplish.com> writes:
>
> >
> > The livedvd kernel sources are in /etc/kernels which is where genkernel
> puts them.
>
> Likewhoa
>
> Just the .config file, not the a
grep kernel
> ./boot/memtest86:Linux x86 kernel
> ./isolinux/gentoo: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage.
> ./isolinux/kernels.msg: ASCII text
thx,
James
e codes on actual hardware. After x86 I'm going to support
a variety of arm boards (that run linux).
*SO* do tell me more..as I'm curious about your "dd" of kernels
and such.
> Rich
James
[1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/net/netconsole.c
grub/menu.lst
when Irun "file menu.lst" tells me that:
"menu.lst" is a broken symbolic link to 'grub.conf'
curious...
James
email missionaccomplish.com missionaccomplish.com> writes:
>
> The livedvd kernel sources are in /etc/kernels which is where genkernel
puts them.
Likewhoa
Just the .config file, not the actual kernel.
is, but I cannot remember and
google yields too many (worthless) links
thx,
James
can do is copy the actual kernel off the livedvd,
I can use makeoldconfig to recover the .config settings
to the next (minor) version of the same kernel version?
Ideas?
curiously,
James
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