Re: [gentoo-user] Fast file system for cache directory with lot's of files

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 14.08.2012 19:42, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am Dienstag, 14. August 2012, 13:21:35 schrieb Jason Weisberger: Sure, but wouldn't compression make write operations slower? And isn't he looking for performance? not really. As long as the CPU can compress faster than the disk can write

Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] dm-crypt + ext4 = where will the journal go?

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
In theory grub2 is able to open a luks-encrypted volume though it seems to have some disadvantages: you'll need to enter the passphrase (or pass the keyfile) two times, because grub itself needs to decrypt the volume to get the later stages from the encrypted volume and afterwards the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 05.09.2012 17:39, schrieb Mark Knecht: Hi, I'm sort of glazing over falling asleep trying to understand the Gentoo genkernel Wiki page. This is not critical time-wise. I'm just curious about what genkernel could do in terms of creating a kernel an initramfs for a root partition on

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel examples supporting RAID[4,5,6,10,...]?

2012-09-05 Thread Michael Hampicke
Last thing you need to do is pass the domdadm kernel parameter in your bootloader. With grub to you just edit /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=domdadm I meant grub2

Re: [gentoo-user] static IP issue

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
2012/9/6 pat p...@xvalheru.org Hello, I've installed Gentoo into VirtualBox. I want it to has static IP address and I've followed Hand book instructions and the OpenRC/net.example. After reboot there's a warning: WARNING: net.lo has already been started and each network depending service

Re: [gentoo-user] static IP issue

2012-09-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Yes, I did. When the Gentoo boots to shell there's only loop back interface. Are you sure that the kernel module for your network interface is loaded? What's the output of ifconfig -a after a reboot?

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.09.2012 14:53, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 2012-09-07 7:44 AM, Markos Chandras hwoar...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: This has never happened to me before... Since when did a simple GCC upgrade *automatically* REMOVE my prior

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.09.2012 21:52, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:26:40 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Well, then this simple little command should help you refresh your memory. It shows every install and uninstall of gcc on your system. With 8 years of emerge.log you are good to go

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
2012/9/8 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 23:14:05 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: genlop -ul | grep 'sys-devel/gcc-[0-9]' And this week's prize for unnecessary use of pipes and grep goes to... genlop -u sys-devel/gcc Nope, we not only need the time when gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 12.09.2012 15:47, schrieb Michael Mol: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache forked itself to death...

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 16.09.2012 08:55, schrieb Jarry: Hi, strange thing happened to my web-server (apache-2.2.22-r1): it started forking untill it used all ram/swap and stopped responding. I counted ~60 apache processes running (ps -a), all sleeping, top showed no load except all memory being used. Log-files

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache forked itself to death...

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
* Each Apache process is consuming 80-100MB of RAM. * Squid is consuming 666MB of RAM * memcached is consuming 822MB of RAM * mysqld is consuming 886MB of RAM * The kernel is using 110MB of RAM for buffers * The kernel is using 851MB of RAM for file cache (which benefits squid). And,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with update

2012-09-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.09.2012 00:19, schrieb Silvio Siefke: Hello, i want run the update and emerge ever give message: gentoo-desk doxygen # emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1[udisks,udev]

Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install

2012-09-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.09.2012 17:08, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On my new install USERDIR is not working. When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb and the apache error log says client denied by server configuration:

Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install

2012-09-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.09.2012 19:52, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:08:41 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb and the apache error log says client denied by server configuration:

Re: [gentoo-user] USERDIR problem with apache on new install (SOLVED)

2012-09-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.09.2012 23:59, schrieb Allan Gottlieb: On Sat, Sep 29 2012, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On my new install USERDIR is not working. When I try http://localhost/~gottlieb, firefox says you don't have permission to access /~gottlieb and the apache error log says client denied by server

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 04.10.2012 08:38, schrieb Philip Webb: My new machine is working very well -- thanks again for the advice -- , tho' the sighing noise from the CPU fan is a bit trying (smile), I'm considering setting up an incremental back-up system so that if the SSD collapses, I can restore everything

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 04.10.2012 12:37, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:53 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I am using http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ (in portage) which brings some nice features like compression, de-duplication and a web interface. Once configured it runs automatically. +1

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I uninstalled it a few days ago and re-installed 23 because 24 was just too buggy to be usable. Well, I am sure there's a emacs command for that :) :) But seriously, like the other

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax but efibootmgr - google for the correct options. Yes ;-) I do that for days now. What puzzles me: I get the entries into EFI: when I boot I see the entries created by efibootmgr, but when I chose one of the entries

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.10.2012 12:13, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2012-10-13 11:38, schrieb Michael Hampicke: I just remembered another step that I missed - I dont have the syntax but efibootmgr - google for the correct options. Yes ;-) I do that for days now. What puzzles me: I get the entries

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.10.2012 15:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 13.10.2012 12:51, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Looks good, could you cross-check if the GUID is correct? My EFI partition is the first one on my ssd, so I use # sgdisk -i1 /dev/sda to check. The value you are looking for is Partition unique

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome3 haters: you should try the new cinnamon-1.6.1

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 15.10.2012 09:24, schrieb mindrunner: Cinnamon is very great. Also nemo, the nautilus fork of 3.4, because nautilus 3.6 is a very big regression in manys opinion (mine too). Thanks for the heads-up, last time I looked nemo was not in portage. I use gnome3.6 and dislike the new nautilus -

Re: [gentoo-user] nano in install-amd64-minimal-20121013.iso broken?

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 15.10.2012 20:33, schrieb Jarry: Hi, I'm installing new host, following Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook. Right now I am in the chapter 5.d Configuring Compile Options. It says: ...Fire up your favorite editor (in this guide we use nano) so we can alter the optimization variables we will

Re: [gentoo-user] nano in install-amd64-minimal-20121013.iso broken?

2012-10-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 15.10.2012 21:29, schrieb Jarry: On 15-Oct-12 21:18, Michael Hampicke wrote: livecd gentoo # nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf nano: error while loading shared libraries: libmagic.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory livecd gentoo # So what am I

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I can't get a running kernel before I optimize it, so I can do it gradually.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel 2 manual

2012-10-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 24.10.2012 13:16, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Is there any tool that can scan my pc and help me out with the .conf or even generate one? I guess not. There are lots of options that I have no idea what they are for. I think this will be the fun part, but I think I can't get a running kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Gentoo as ESXi guest: how to install vmware-tools/open-vm-tools?

2012-11-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
All I expect from vmware/open-vm-tools is ability for clean shutdown of gentoo-guest in similar way as I can do it with windows-guest. How can I achieve this? You mean shut the guest down via ESXi management console? If you, try installing acpid inside the guest and add it to the default

Re: [gentoo-user] davical thunderbird

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 06.11.2012 23:10, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anyone of you use davical with thunderbird? Especially the carddav part with those sogo-connector/integrator addons? I try to move around 600 adresses in there and it always somehow stalls or shows incorrect numbers. I read the

Re: [gentoo-user] davical thunderbird

2012-11-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.11.2012 13:58, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 07.11.2012 13:30, schrieb Michael Hampicke: I use the sogo connector with thunderbird, but not with davical - I use tine [1] (carddav) as backend. Not sure if this helps you though, as I can only tell you that sogo connectors has been

Re: [gentoo-user] deleted /var/db/*

2012-11-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.11.2012 00:09, schrieb Grant: I idiotically and accidentally deleted /var/db/*. What can I do to bring things back in line? - Grant You could start by re-emerging everything that is in /var/lib/portage/world That should pull in almost all deps

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new system hardware

2012-11-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.11.2012 12:05, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Samstag, 10. November 2012, 01:42:54 schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 19:00:12 schrieb James: Time To build a new AMD system. What I'm sure of: FX-8350 Gigabyte GA-990-FXA-UD3 mobo

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization

2012-11-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.11.2012 04:20, schrieb Dale: Original Message Subject: [gentoo-project] With regard to udev stabilization Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:40:53 -0500 From: Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-proj...@lists.gentoo.org To:

Re: [gentoo-user] threads use flag for apache and php

2012-12-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.12.2012 00:13, schrieb William Kenworthy: why? - threads sounds like a good thing, but is it really if its optional? Threads - at least for apache - is optional, because you can compile apache with different MPMs (see documentation). MPM_PREFORK for example does not use threads, it

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.12.2012 04:22, schrieb Michael Mol: So, anyone have any experience with libvirt here? I'm familiar with VMWare and Xen. Not so much libvirt, which I understand to be a wrapper around other virt models. Starting from scratch in virsh...how do I ask libvirtd what pool formats it

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.12.2012 21:29, schrieb Philip Webb: My recently-built machine has an SSD for everyday storage + an HDD for less often used stuff + back-ups (in dir /y ). To avoid having to re-install the system if the SSD collapses one day, I wanted to make a simple back-up copy of vital files on the

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt

2012-12-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Do you need a virsh command, or is it enough to know libvirt supports? In the second case you might look at [1] Well, given that I'm on gentoo, USE flags start getting involved in enabling and disabling functionality. Rather than actively examining the compile-time factors, I was hoping for

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual or Quad CPU complications?

2012-12-13 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.12.2012 07:12, schrieb Grant: I've only ever used systems with a single CPU. I'm looking for a new host for a dedicated server (suggestions?) and it looks like I'll probably choose a machine with two or four CPUs. What sort of complications does that add to set up and/or maintenance

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} anyone tried egroupware?

2012-12-21 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 21.12.2012 12:19, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Friday, December 21, 2012 11:33:49 AM Daniel Troeder wrote: On 21.12.2012 06:13, J. Roeleveld wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried egroupware? Any opinions on it? Yes. I have been using the community version for several

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012-12-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 27.12.2012 01:18, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:41:01 -0800 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Merry Christmas to all. Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid,

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-30 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 30.12.2012 15:07, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Set both mountpoints as legacy and put them into fstab - I know I could zfs deal with that, but I feel more comfortable that way. Howdy Volker, that's a good idea. For some reason - with the latest sys-fs/zfs upgrade (0.6.0_rc13) - I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Breakage from recent updates to gnome-3.6 on ~amd64

2013-01-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
On 03.01.2013 02:11, walt wrote: I use mostly the cinnamon fork of gnome-shell but I also give gnome-shell a try occasionally just to annoy myself :) The gnome updates from Jan 1-2 caused me a bit of trouble, but I'm making progress that might help some of you: First, the addition of

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average in make

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 16.01.2013 12:09, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: Hi, Make has two options which control number of jobs by load average. --jobs and --load-average Suppose I set make options as --jobs --load-average=1.7 It will spawn as many jobs as possible and limit system load to 1.7. No, it will

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.02.2013 03:41, schrieb Philip Webb: Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; this is still the case with USE=-alsa. I want to test what happens if I try to compile it without that dep, so I copied the ebuild to

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/2/1 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:07:24 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.02.2013 12:51, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Test driving this newfangled thunderbird thingy, trying to create the last of my several accounts. This account does not need SMTP settings, i never send from it. But the create Account Wizard insists on trying to validate passwords and every

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.02.2013 13:32, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/02/2013 14:30, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 03.02.2013 12:51, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Test driving this newfangled thunderbird thingy, trying to create the last of my several accounts. This account does not need SMTP settings, i never send from

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.02.2013 13:54, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/02/2013 14:37, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 03.02.2013 13:32, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 03/02/2013 14:30, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 03.02.2013 12:51, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Test driving this newfangled thunderbird thingy, trying to create

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating accounts in Thunderbird

2013-02-03 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 03.02.2013 15:08, schrieb Alan McKinnon: So what we have here is a piece of FOSS software that is too fucking clever for it's own good. It's applying insane validation checks to things that are not in any spec at all: - I want two IMAP accounts. One runs locally on port 143. The other

Re: [gentoo-user] [PATCH] Linus breaks virtualbox-modules

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/2/20 walt w41...@gmail.com Now that kernel 3.8.0 is officially released, 'tis the season for Linus to start breaking all of the third-party kernel modules he can, and virtualbox- modules is the first (nvidia.ko and other kernel modules to follow, probably ;) Virtualbox-modules fails

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxManage modifyhd - doesn't work

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.02.2013 01:57, schrieb Joseph: On 02/25/13 16:29, Joseph wrote: I'm trying to resize XP partition, the procedure suppose to be simple: VBoxManage modifyhd /full/path/to/hd.vdi --resize new_size so, I run: VBoxManage modifyhd /home/joseph/VirtualBox\ VMs/xp-clinic/xp-clinic.vdi

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Michael Mol: On 03/07/2013 04:44 PM, Grant wrote: Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when using the Worker MPM? It...depends? nginx in reverse caching proxy mode

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} RAM apache MaxClients (rock a hard place)

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.03.2013 10:02, schrieb Michael Hampicke: Am 07.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Michael Mol: On 03/07/2013 04:44 PM, Grant wrote: Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when using the Worker MPM

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.03.2013 09:54, schrieb Chris Walters: Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Alecks Gates: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: [...] I use the ati-drivers package, and I'd say there are pretty solid now. I first started using ati-drivers with my HD2600 card card - as the kernel drivers did

Re: [gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 11.03.2013 00:07, schrieb Alecks Gates: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 10.03.2013 21:48, schrieb Alecks Gates: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: [...] I use the ati-drivers package, and I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/3/14 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Howdy, Also, I read that Nasdaq runs a modified version of Gentoo. Do any other large corps run it that we know of? I googled a bit but couldn't find anything. Maybe my search terms wasn't good enough. Yeehaw, domainfactory (http://df.eu) uses a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Time-lock USB stick

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 20.03.2013 03:58, schrieb Michael Mol: Does anybody know of time lock flash drives? The scenario I'm looking at is to have a drive that's only accessible for a certain amount of time after being powered on. It would hold crypto keys in a server context. I am no expert on embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 24.03.2013 18:14, schrieb Jarry: On 24-Mar-13 17:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:26:03 +0100, Jarry wrote: [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.7.10:3.7.10 USE=-build -deblob -symlink 68,335 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/linux-sources-0 0 kB [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.03.2013 21:57, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: For a long time I have had in make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5 MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5 (for previous processors the 5 was 3). It seems that this configuration fails for several

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-26 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.03.2013 23:32, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:27:04 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: This is what I use: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs=2 --load-average=6 I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs option. The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS=--jobs --load-average=5' silly?

2013-03-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 26.03.2013 22:40, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:58:29 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: I havent't had any failed builds that were related to the --jobs option. The only exception is when rebuilding my kernel modules. I have to build spl first, then zfs-kmod. But that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 31.03.2013 05:12, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:04:24PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Did an update today. After the update, I checked again... [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv --update --changed-use

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3 only for i486?

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 02.04.2013 19:51, schrieb Davide Carnovale: Hi all gentoo people! I've been away from gentoo for a while, and I'm in the process of reinstalling it today. While downloading the stage 3 I noticed that only an i486 version is available. As far as I remember, gentoo was best known, back in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 06.04.2013 23:28, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am 06.04.2013 23:19, schrieb Nick Khamis: Our net card was also build as a module Volker, did you include your net driver for example in /etc/conf.d/modules? no I removed the 70-something rules, and did pretty much nothing else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.04.2013 16:32, schrieb Nick Khamis: No... I'm stumped. I really don't want it in there either... I will attempt removing it once finished updating the system. N. On 4/7/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using 802.1x or wireless on that machine? If not, I can't think

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.04.2013 20:08, schrieb Nick Khamis: For those that have an error compiling udev 200: # emerge -1 XML-Parser # perl-cleaner --all There was not mention of this in the news. Nor will the package pull them in as a dependency. N. On 4/7/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pidgin, gtalk and jingle

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.04.2013 17:20, schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm trying to verify whether or not Pidgin can talk to Google Voice on my laptop. When searching around for instructions, I get the impression that this is supposed to just work, and I don't see much in the way of people actually having difficulty

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.04.2013 18:16, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:42:23PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: Mike is right, if it's not a dep of another ebuild, you don't need wpa_supplicant. I just upgraded udev to 200 on the last remote box (which is always a bit of a thrill after typing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.04.2013 21:56, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:46:28PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: I have something similar with grub (with grub set default, savedefault, fallback). Also most machines have some sort of rescue access with like ipmi serial over lan or a eric card (kvm

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=? for this cpu

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 09.04.2013 05:50, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: I have two Gentoo VMs at Hetzner and the CPU supports 64 bit (grep lm /proc/cpuinfo = true). But something funny, gcc -march=native -mtune=native -v -E - 21 /dev/null returns this: Using built-in specs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3.8 - has anybody tried to unmask it

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Sure, I have 3.8 running since about one week. Almost everything works. One thing that does not work any more is suspending / hibernating from within gnome. It seems like that this function may depend on systemds logind: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464944 2013/4/9 Helmut Jarausch

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3.8 - has anybody tried to unmask it

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/4/9 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Michael Hampicke mgehampi...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I have 3.8 running since about one week. Almost everything works. One thing that does not work any more is suspending / hibernating from within gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3.8 - has anybody tried to unmask it

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 09.04.2013 16:28, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Michael Hampicke mgehampi...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, I have 3.8 running since about one week. Almost everything works. One thing that does not work any more

Re: [gentoo-user] -march=? for this cpu

2013-04-09 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 09.04.2013 14:53, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: On Tuesday 09 April 2013 12:31:44 PM IST, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Apr 9, 2013 1:16 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 09.04.2013 05:50, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: I have two Gentoo VMs

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage screwup

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 18.04.2013 15:33, schrieb Joseph: What is going on with portage? All the older packages are being removed and and some of them are not even made stable. I've masked current one app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 but looking at the web-page this is not even stable poppler-0.22.3 is masked all

Re: [gentoo-user] HD7870 AMD Catalyst no framebuffer console

2013-04-18 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 18.04.2013 17:37, schrieb Wang Xuerui: 2013/4/18 Amankwah amankw...@gmail.com: Hi all, I have a video card HD7870, I tried install the AMD Catalyst driver ~amd64 in portage, it works well under X. But when I press ctrl+alt+F1, the screen is blank?? Although I googled this

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 21.04.2013 18:32, schrieb Randy Barlow: On Sun, 2013-04-21 at 12:15 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But I've found lots of opinions that using LVM in a virtualized environment can lead to data corruption, and if this is true, I'd rather not risk it... So, LVM or not? This is surprising to me,

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.04.2013 03:06, schrieb Michael Mol: So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. Is there a relatively up-to-date list of kernel configuration options? I.e. the list of NIC drivers, video drivers,

Re: [gentoo-user] kvm/libvirt and kernel configuration

2013-04-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 22.04.2013 14:31, schrieb Michael Mol: On 04/22/2013 05:40 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: snip What I'm really looking for, though, is a list of all the devices the qemu/kvm host can emulate, and the most-specific guest driver. I.e. If I wanted to make a generic kernel configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-23 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads from a pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 24.04.2013 04:46, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough to be able to do that *easily* whilst keeping

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-24 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 24.04.2013 19:38, schrieb Stroller: On 24 April 2013, at 11:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Volume size so far fits my needs just fine, but that's because I've never needed quotas as such. I find quotas too inflexible anyway, it's a case of forcing a simplistic hardware rule into the human

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately: System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition. I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same. I'm on an HP DL585 G7

Re: [gentoo-user] can't mount ext4 fs as est3 or ext3

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 16:26, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I get the following in /var/log/messages EXT3-fs (sda5): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (240) ... EXT4-fs (sda5): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities ... EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 18:08, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs? Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems? Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight. I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is

Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-25 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 25.04.2013 22:10, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: Am 23.04.2013 22:59, schrieb William Hubbs: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike

Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.04.2013 11:43, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Kevin Thompson ph...@ewnix.net wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 04:43:46AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 12:35 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés

Re: [gentoo-user] problem trying to play sound when pulse audio is enabled

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.04.2013 14:25, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: snip Those devices in there should be owned by root:audio $ ls -al /dev/snd/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 260 Apr 28 20:07 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4100 Apr 29 12:50 .. drwxr-xr-x 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Stream Audio to RasPi on LAN

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 29.04.2013 17:26, schrieb Randy Westlund: Hey guys, I have a nice set of speakers, but they aren't near my desk in my home office. I used to carry them back and forth when I wanted good music, but that was a pain. I currently have a RasPi running arch connected to the speakers --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a shame. You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' command,

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying structure of /var/db/pkg/category/package-name database

2013-05-08 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 08.05.2013 13:05, schrieb Thomas Mueller: Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through many possible categories. I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 10.05.2013 03:11, schrieb Walter Dnes: I'm using the 20130207 install iso. This is to enable me to get a *REALLY* predictable NIC name, namely eth0, but I digress. The 2 warnings I get are... 1) WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and orca using gnome 3.8

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 12.05.2013 18:12, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Hi. I am trying to build orca from master which is necessary for gnome 3.8 which I have installed. Orca uses python3.3 and will not even use 3.2. So I emerged 3.3 by putting a keyword ~amd64 in the keywords. Now, how do I get the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 13.05.2013 13:06, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: When I start gdm, I get a message on the screen which says oh no, something has gone wrong. The log file is at http://pastebin.com/qwNE7ee6 -- I would appreciate any help. I am running gentoo testing with the 3.8 unmasked. Today I

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome not working

2013-05-15 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 15.05.2013 20:27, schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: Direct from the Making systemd more accessible to normal users flamewar on gentoo-dev... And now that GNOME 3.8 is out, the game starts over again: logind is a hard requirement, logind is part of systemd, starting logind (which

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstalled linux-headers

2013-05-16 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 16.05.2013 14:46, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Thu, 16 May 2013 14:38:55 +0200, Tamer Higazi wrote: I uninstalled the linux-headers and the kernel-sources by accident, how can I install then again?! Any ideas?! emerge -1 linux-headers gentoo-sources It just tried that, out of curiosity:

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting LiveCD iso from hard drive with GRUB legacy

2013-05-18 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 18.05.2013 10:15, schrieb Mick: Hi All, Is there a way of achieving this? Grub legacy usually cannot boot iso images, but you could try chainloading another bootloader from grub, which is able to boot an iso file. Maybe let grub chainload grub2 which can boot isos. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] dracut vs. genkernel

2013-06-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 12.06.2013 13:06, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I am currently trying to find out why my LVM2-volumes aren't activated correctly at boot time. I am using packages from the overlay systemd-love as I run systemd as init-system (why? that's another discussion ;-) ). When you find a

Re: [gentoo-user] monitoring system resource usage

2013-06-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 2013-06-14 09:56, schrieb Grant: Can anyone recommend a method for monitoring system resource usage in a way that would allow me to correlate a rise in my web server's response time with the usage of a particular system resource if such a correlation exists? I don't need it to be 100%

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