Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme

2013-06-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, June 26, 2013 09:54, Grant wrote: >>> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local laptop >>> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind a >>> router and the remote systems are unable to push. Is openvpn the >>> right solution here? Should I run a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Incorporating openvpn in backup scheme

2013-06-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, June 26, 2013 10:06, jo...@antarean.org wrote: > Grant wrote: > >> I have several remote systems all pushing backups to my local >>laptop >> via rdiff-backup. Sometimes when on the road I find myself behind >>a >> router and the remote systems are unable to push. Is openvpn t

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel SRT + SSD + SATA

2013-06-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, June 26, 2013 10:17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2013 08:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I sort of just keep loading it up till I run out of things to leave >>> > open, and never notice the difference. This is an 8 core i7 with 16G >>> RAM >>> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel SRT + SSD + SATA

2013-06-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, June 26, 2013 10:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2013 10:39, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Cost was ZAR 20k, I don't know if that means anything to you, it's hard >>> > to relate ZA prices with price of living in EU >> 20k Rand = 1.5k Euro. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel SRT + SSD + SATA

2013-06-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, June 26, 2013 11:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2013 11:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wed, June 26, 2013 10:53, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 26/06/2013 10:39, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>>> Cost was ZAR 20k, I don't know if that means anything to yo

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} backups... still backups....

2013-07-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 2, 2013 10:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You're welcome. A pull system does rely on the server being secure, which > is why I don't use it for offsite backups to the cloud :-O Wouldn't a push/pull combination be a good compromise? The remote servers push their backups to their own loc

Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

2013-07-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, July 15, 2013 21:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >>> On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Howdy, > > Just in

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sun, July 21, 2013 01:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > >> > Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage. > >> I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was >> useful only some of the time. Nowadays I

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, July 15, 2013 09:39, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 14 Jul 2013 23:35:50 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> > On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >>> ST4000DM000 >> >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU setup questions

2013-07-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, July 25, 2013 11:17, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 25/07/2013 09:54, Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 05:16:21AM +0100, Kerin Millar wrote >>I stumbled over the solution to my final problem by accident. When >> booting off the install cd, you have 15 seconds to "hit any key",

Re: [gentoo-user] SQL Server Advice for Small Business

2013-07-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, July 29, 2013 22:22, Randy Westlund wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm planning to set up an SQL server for my dad's small canvas awning > business, and I've never done this before. Most of my sysadmin-type > skills are self-taught. I could use some advice. > > My dad needs infrastructure to allo

Re: [gentoo-user] SQL Server Advice for Small Business

2013-07-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 30, 2013 23:34, Randy Westlund wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 07:52:11AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Will the server be internet-facing? >> I would make sure you have a firewall and only open the port needed for >> the front-end. >> Don'

Re: [gentoo-user] [Preliminary report] Gnome-3.8 update works with openrc :)

2013-07-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, July 30, 2013 18:29, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 30.07.2013 07:35, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> • Can you add a new wireless or wired networks with NetworkManager? > > Never tried NM or wifi on my workstation, but my guess would be that it > will not work. I don't see why it would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 12:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:17:06 +0100, Stroller wrote: > >>Here's a short, very in-comprehensive list of software we are aware >> of that currently are not able to provide the full set of functionality >> when /usr is split off and not pre-moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 23:24, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/08/2013 16:33, pk wrote: >> Using an initramfs means you duplicate parts of your OS and copy them >> into the kernel or using a tool (like dracut or genkernel). If you need >> it from a technical point of view (bluetooth keyboard), that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, August 19, 2013 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: >>> X11, well that's another story and probably way off topic. It was >>> >designed for hardware and architectures that haven't existed for 20+ >>> >years. Almost all factors that made X11 awesome i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I'm also lucky in that when I managed to foist all the oracle with java >> installers off onto some other team of luckless suckers, I was left with >> just the best remote interface e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:11:46 +0100, thegeezer wrote: > >> i almost would like to request tighter integration between >> portage/kernel building/initrd > > The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it the > location of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/08/2013 07:41, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Tue, August 20, 2013 00:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:51:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> I'm also lucky in that when I ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 07:55, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/08/2013 06:00, jo...@antarean.org wrote: >> I also still remember. >> Not going to mention it now. But will give a hint. >> What is the name of the computer that said: "I'm sorry Dale, I can't let >> you do that."? > > > bwahahahaha :-) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 08:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 20/08/2013 07:38, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Mon, August 19, 2013 22:51, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 19/08/2013 22:32, jo...@antarean.org wrote: >>>>> X11, well that's another story and probably way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 12:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:44:41 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> > The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it >> > the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, August 20, 2013 12:51, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-19 10:22 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> Why can't you make it work separately after 205? Because 205 is >> a MAJOR VERSION BUMP on an actively developed program. > > 205 is a major version bump over ... 204? > > Surely you jest? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2013-08-20 2:54 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> >>> Unless you want to learn the ins and outs of using an initramfs (and >>> having a lot of fun and failed boots in the process), I highly >>> recommend using Dracut. It does everything f

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wed, August 21, 2013 22:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> > This sounds like a bug in LVM. If it was down to a version clash, why >> > did a restart find the PVs? >> >> Sorry, ianap, but I do know that this kind of thing has never happened >> to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, August 22, 2013 08:39, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/08/2013 08:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wed, August 21, 2013 22:02, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:57 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> > > [snip] > >>> No one has demonstra

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, August 22, 2013 11:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:23:57 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> True, but with the scripts that are floating in this thread, a usable >> solution can be build. > > It took me a few seconds to do that, so why hasn'

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and initramfs

2013-08-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, August 22, 2013 11:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:20:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> No one has demonstrated that it can. An initramfs isn't magic, it >> > caries out a couple of trivial tasks before switching to the real root >&

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. > >I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" to >the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >installation chapter for lvm (actually lvm2). > >I can't find this

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
"Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, wrote: >> I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. >> >> I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" >to >> the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >> install

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
"Canek Peláez Valdés" wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:47 AM, wrote: >> I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. >> >> I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a "companion" >to >> the handbook. That is it would tell you how to augment each handbook >> install

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >On Thu, Aug 29 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:19 PM, wrote: >>> >>> I have experience with LVM, but not systemd or dracut or initramfs >>> >>> * both grub and grub2 support lvm >> >> Does GRUB legacy handles /boot in LVM? I haven't tried t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tue, September 3, 2013 04:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > PS: What come mind just in this moment: > Can I ran fsck on an binary image of the fs which I made with dd somehow? Yes, if you dd (or cp) the whole drive or just a partition, you can use any other tool on the image. That is how I recov

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: > Hello, > > What would folks recommend as a Gentoo > installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 > installation? My previous attempts all failed > to trying to follow (integrate info from) > a myriad-malaise of old docs. I would start with the Raid+LVM Qui

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 04:25, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Walt: > >> On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> > Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy >> > anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then >> > I'd need toner. >> >> > My ill

Re: [gentoo-user] Combining multiple workstations (multiseat)

2013-09-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
Grant, I have seen howtos for this using Xen. These were to allow multiple people to play 3D games using one PC and multiple screens/keyboards/mice. I don't have the URL handy atm. -- Joost Grant wrote: >I'd like to minimize the number of systems I administrate by combining >my and my wife's

Re: [gentoo-user] Continuous beeping with kernel 3.10 and 3.11

2013-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:09:27 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I hate getting older. lol > >It's a lot better than the alternative... > > >-- >Neil Bothwick > >A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. What is wrong with getting younger? -- Sent from my Android device wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Fri, October 18, 2013 05:33, Dale wrote: > Bruce Hill wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Dale wrote: >>> Well, this is interesting. I swapped out the mobo. First, it has the >>> UEFI BIOS thing. That was interesting for sure. I'm not complaining >>> but not used to it and wa

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph wrote: >I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. >First my login manager slim is not showing any "username / password" >text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin has no menu text on top. > >How to go about this bug? >I have four systems two x86 and two amd64 >one x86 and o

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice-bin-4.0.1 - no menu text on top

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Joseph wrote: >On 10/20/13 20:42, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 11:45:26AM -0600, Joseph wrote: >> >>> I have been hit by a bug that I don't know how to go about it. >>> First my login manager slim is not showing any "username / password" >text upon log in; now Openoffice-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New mobo change

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Dale wrote: >Dale wrote: >> William Kenworthy wrote: >>> On 21/10/13 11:09, Dale wrote: I rebooted and the newest sysrescue still wouldn't boot up. It >says it can't find /sysrcd.dat which I think is caused because it can't use >the USB port that the sysrescue stick is plugged into

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mick wrote: >On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 15:31:12 jo...@antarean.org wrote: > >> I would suggest trying it by usong the older metadata format. >> Check the man pages, but I thinl it would be --metadata=0.90 (or >similar) >> during creation. That might put the metadata at the end, rather then >at >> the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >The 21/10/13, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>Other option: >>1 install to single disk >> >>2 using sysresccd create a degraded raid1 using the 2nd drive >> >>3 copy the partitions and date from drive 1 to the degraded r

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/passwd entry query

2013-10-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
Adam Carter wrote: >I probably haven't looked at this file for years, but it contains > >named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/sbin/nologin >#named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/bin/bash > >#postfix:x:207:207:added by portage for >postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/sbin/nologi

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

2015-04-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, March 30, 2015 07:07:39 PM symack wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > New install, on a old server with raid 10 scsi... The normal installation > works fine, > the only thing is when we try to boot with xen, it gets to the prompt and > then reboots > by itself. The following message is what di

Re: [gentoo-user] what to use for a pppoe client?

2015-04-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, April 05, 2015 05:29:58 PM lee wrote: > Heiko Baums writes: > > Am 04.04.2015 um 14:32 schrieb lee: > >> Which package would you recommend? There seem to be at least two I > >> could use: > >> > >> > >> net-dialup/ppp > >> net-dialup/rp-pppoe > > > > I used rp-pppoe. I found it easi

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > 2. LD cannot find ncurses, -- It simply can't, in 64 bit mode either. > > > That is the only error message it ever gives and vast amount of effort > > > spent in sessions over the last year and a half ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

2015-04-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, April 12, 2015 12:23:56 PM »Q« wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 11:12:38 +0200 > > "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > On Saturday, April 11, 2015 08:42:20 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > > > PYTHON_TARGETS="${PYTHON_TARGETS} python2_7 python3_4" > > >

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

2015-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 April 2015 14:43:02 GMT-07:00, lee wrote: >hydra writes: > >> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee wrote: >> >>> symack writes: >>> >>> Other than that, unless you really do need full virtualization: I'm >>> finding Linux containers to be far more manageable than virtual >>> machines, and m

Re: [gentoo-user] apache and the -D parameter

2015-04-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, April 20, 2015 06:56:49 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to set up mod_wsgi and apache in an LXC container. apache > is ignoring all -D parameters on startup even though I can see them in > the startup script debug and they are being passed to apache according > to "ps

Re: [gentoo-user] How do kernel modules load automatically during boot?

2015-04-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 22 April 2015 21:17:55 CEST, walt wrote: >I just did a huge update on an older ~amd64 machine, and now only >three out of a dozen or so kernel modules load during bootup, which >leaves a lot of hardware in an unusable state. > >What mystifies me is how those three kernel modules managed to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do kernel modules load automatically during boot?

2015-04-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 23 April 2015 00:43:53 CEST, walt wrote: >On 04/22/2015 12:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, walt wrote: >>> >>> What mystifies me is how those three kernel modules managed to get >>> loaded while all the others didn't. (It's the same three modules >every >>> time,

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Java VM and SDK: icedtea X oracle's

2015-04-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 08:41:42 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > 2015-04-22 14:10 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares : > > Thanks for the tip, gonna try to understand everything from that thread, > > but meanwhile I'm going to do what Alon has suggested. > > > > Best Regards, > > Francisco > > Hi, again.

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

2015-04-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: > hydra writes: > > You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream > > > > documentation? What information are you missing from there? Maybe we can > > add the missing pieces for Xen being more accessible and easier to use

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

2015-04-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > On 8 April 2015 14:43:02 GMT-07:00, lee wrote: > >>hydra writes: > >>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, lee wrote: > >>>> symack writes: > >>>>

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

2015-04-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 16, 2015 06:38:08 PM symack wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Sorry for the delayed response. Flased the bios to the latest version 1.1.7 > dated 2007. > Bellow is xen kernel built features: > > CONFIG_XEN=y > CONFIG_XEN_DOM0=y > CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y > CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=500

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

2015-04-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, April 23, 2015 07:21:12 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 23.04.2015 18:57, james wrote: > > Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > >> On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >>> I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options > >>> and dracut mod

Re: [gentoo-user] serious problems trying to go to new abi_x86_32 support

2015-04-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 24 April 2015 21:37:21 CEST, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: >Hi. So, I am trying to go to the new support for abi_x86_32, so I >unmerged all the emul_x86 packages (after doing quickpkg on them, >because I am a coward), and then it was complaining that I should run >emerge @preserved-rebuild which

[gentoo-user] My initramfs, embedded in the kernel (Requested from "remote installation, dual boot")

2015-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, April 24, 2015 03:38:53 PM james wrote: > J. Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > This is one of the reasons why I have given up on genkernel and dracut for > > initramfs creation and now simply build my own and have it integrated > > into the kernel: > >

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

2015-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:23:01 PM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:03:53 PM lee wrote: > > Do you have anything that you find insufficiently documented or is too > > difficult? > sure, lots Have you contacted the Xen

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

2015-04-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, April 24, 2015 10:24:06 PM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > On Thursday, April 23, 2015 11:02:24 PM lee wrote: > >> hydra writes: > >> > You mean the documentation at Gentoo about Xen sucks or the upstream > >> > > &g

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" 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 file

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" 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 hu

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" wrote: >On 28.04.2015 17:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" > wrote: >>> On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>>> I sen

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 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 >'xen-gnulinux-simple-43fa46d6-a602-428

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

2015-04-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 29 April 2015 07:11:55 CEST, hydra wrote: >On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:38 AM, J. Roeleveld >wrote: > >> On 29 April 2015 00:34:10 CEST, symack wrote: >> >Hello Joost, >> > >> >We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen >> > >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] question for en_GB users of myspell-en dictionaries

2015-05-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
Top posting as not much to add. If you can get this working, I would be very happy. -- Joost On 7 May 2015 22:09:16 CEST, "»Q«" wrote: >tl;dr: Is an update to the myspell-en Oxford spelling dictionary >really >wanted by anyone? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my b

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 20 May 2015 18:46:26 CEST, Bob Wya wrote: >On Wed, 20 May 2015 16:09 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >I followed the instructions in >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Migration >, >after copying my grub.conf as you suggested, but when I rebooted, the >GRUB2 >menu text was minuscule, it only includ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: is your metadata safe?

2015-06-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 June 2015 06:09:30 CEST, James wrote: >Bruce Hill happypenguincomputers.com> writes: > > > >> "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and >I'm not >> sure about the former." > > >Your probably looking in the mirror too much. Considering it was Albert Einstein that

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 June 2015 19:50:56 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >On 08.06.2015 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I would check if USB autosuspend is set for your keyboard, and if it >is, >> disable it on the keyboard. > >thanks a lot, that seems to do the trick! > >Although I wonder where the difference

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

2015-06-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, June 08, 2015 08:56:13 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2015-06-08 um 20:25 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > There was a similar thread here before about USB and suspend. Check > > that for specifics if in a hurry. Not at computer now to find the > > earlier email. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, June 22, 2015 02:49:24 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Not long ago I bought an Asus DSL-N14U and I've been impressed by its > abilities, especially since it's quite cheap. One feature I particularly > like is its guest networks (I have a lady of advanced years* next-door), o

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, July 20, 2015 05:05:44 PM Dale wrote: > Now I'm only left wondering about mkvtoolnix package. It still fails. > Going to see what depends on that and remove it if I can. > > Thanks much. Thanks to Alan as well. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Dale, When I check mkvtoolnix, I only see a 6.x

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 02:30:18 PM Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:56:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> So, after fighting to get it to build, they remove it and it wants to go > >> back to the old version I had that worked. ROFLMBO > > > > And today's lesson is: If an

Re: [gentoo-user] Wifi slow motion data transfer

2015-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 05:18:25 AM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > the AP is now up and running ... but the the transfer rates are only > about 80 Kb/sec (conky). > > I use an Atheros based USB wifi dongle, create_ap for setup and the > internet connection goes via my PC. There are no o

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:54:53 AM Thanasis wrote: > On 07/29/2015 05:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > <...snip...> > > > 2) How I can assign a static IP to my tablet. > > At the end of /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf add a line like > > host mytablet { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-a

Re: [gentoo-user] To Wifi or not to Wifi...

2015-07-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 05:10:02 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > J. Roeleveld [15-07-29 16:39]: > > On Wednesday, July 29, 2015 10:54:53 AM Thanasis wrote: > > > On 07/29/2015 05:42 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > <...snip...> > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-224 Look out for new networking behavior [FIXED]

2015-08-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 12:47:58 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 05/08/2015 10:18, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> > > In this context does '&hostname' mean a-pointer-to-a-pointer-to-the- > >>> > > charstring we actually need? > >>> > > > >>> > > Doesn't this code seem needlessly complicated? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-224 Look out for new networking behavior [FIXED]

2015-08-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Much of what makes programming work has been dumbed down in recent years > > so that employable persons without imagination[1] can have jobs and do > > something useful. I'm reminded o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-224 Look out for new networking behavior [FIXED]

2015-08-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 06, 2015 02:59:09 PM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 22:47:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 05/08/2015 23:12, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 06:20:17 PM Mick wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 05 Aug 2015 11:47:58 Alan McKinn

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:53:38 AM Dale wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > PS: There's a post by wraeth on this thread, is anybody having > > problems opening it? kmail crashes everytime I try. > > It opens fine here. It's short and has a GnuPG v2 signature attached at > the bottom. C

[OT] testing emails - Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 04:25:11 PM wraeth wrote: > On 19/08/15 16:18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 12:53:38 AM Dale wrote: > >> Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>> PS: There's a post by wraeth on this thread, is anybody having >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 04:37:03 PM wraeth wrote: > On 19/08/15 16:31, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 2:25:20 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >> On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 4:03:59 PM wraeth wrote: > >>> On 19/08/15 15:26, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > PS: The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 03:14:36 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 8:50:30 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 04:37:03 PM wraeth wrote: > > > On 19/08/15 16:31, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > On Wednesd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 09:57:19 AM Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:54:30 -0400 > > schrieb Rich Freeman : > > I do get the frustration of the kernel developers. The GPU makers > > should be competing on their GPUs, not on their drivers. However, > > Linux isn't their main mark

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

2015-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:06:15 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, > > In fact, I can only suppose there's something related to changing from > nepomuk to baloo: > > Now, every time I log in, a window pops up asking for root password. The > window title is "PolicyKit - KDE" and pressing the butt

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

2015-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:56:58 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > 2015-08-21 10:49 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares : > > 2015-08-21 10:31 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld : > >> On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:06:15 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

2015-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 21 August 2015 16:39:12 CEST, Francisco Ares wrote: >2015-08-21 11:30 GMT-03:00 Francisco Ares : > >> 2015-08-21 11:02 GMT-03:00 J. Roeleveld : >> >>> On Friday, August 21, 2015 10:56:58 AM Francisco Ares wrote: >>> > 2015-08-21 10:49 GMT-03:00 Francisco

Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

2015-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 21, 2015 11:05:06 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > What in god's name are these "semantic desktops" good for any way? The > only thing nepomunk ever did was consume CPU resources, I think I > intentionally broke the e-build on that one to prevent it from > installing such a useful, resour

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 21, 2015 11:00:16 AM Alan Grimes wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > Yeah, I know there's a single bit error out at the end of RAM that will > appear on the third or fourth pass... Replace it > I have already RMA'd half of the ram in this machine because it was > giving a whole fist

Re: [gentoo-user] about updating gcc & wiki pages

2015-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 03:53:03 AM Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages at: >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC > > Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions? > > I am not having any problem so far (only just comp

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 05:33:33 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 27/08/2015 17:25, gevisz wrote: > > 2015-08-27 17:52 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet : > > P.S. I have too much "required by" lines. So, if the portage will not > > > >resolve this issue automatically, I will stop to update my syste

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 07:13:58 PM Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:42:07 +0200 > > schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > > I only had 1 required by set. > > Which basically got me to remove the llvm use-flag from mesa. > > > > That solved the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

2015-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:25:08 AM Mick wrote: > On Friday 28 Aug 2015 12:55:37 you wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Apparently OneDrive, the Microsoft cloud storage, is using the webdav > > protocol. However, to effect authentication OneDrive uses redirection to > > a > > different URL, which

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 02:19:24 PM Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for such WAY out of topic message, but Gentoo users are also way out > of regular computer users. > > I intend to learn more deep details about networking intrinsics, (packets, > ports, negotiation, UDP, multicast,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 03, 2015 01:16:47 AM James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > > Last, I suggest a parallel learning of C/C++ as it really helps > > > > ^this^, after the basics are fully mastered. > > > > netmasks make no sense at all until bitwise operators are fully > > under

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 03, 2015 09:28:05 AM Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > In order to complete other answers, I woul like to point out a test > environment that would be nice: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionnet Cool! :) I wrote something like this at uni. The version the professor had w

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 03, 2015 10:47:45 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > The absolute best network RFCs are the ones about coffeepot over HTTP, > and IP by carrier pigoen (or is it Avain IP? something like that) Which, if I'm not mistaken, was actually proven to provide a higher bandwidth than wired in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 02:41:48 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > In most X11 apps I can select some te

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