Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:59 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Gentoo Installation, Kernel Panic OK, thanks. Yes, in the last post of that thread Nilesh states "Since I use grub2-mkconfig to generate the configuration, it's there with UUID, but it works with LABEL as well, I have tried it. Also, *don't*

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread covici
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill > wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > >> I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label to > >> read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark Knecht wrote: >On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill > wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>> I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label >to >>> read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in >>> the i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-31 Thread Stroller
On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > ... > The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say > chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. But h264 in an AVI is invalid. AVI is dated and just plain nasty. You should use somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label to >> read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in >> the initramfs which this one doesn

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 02:09:35PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I don't know if you're right but it makes sense. If I need e2label to > read labels from the CLI then I probably need all the same stuff in > the initramfs which this one doesn't have. > > The problem I have with that idea is that a

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark Knecht wrote: >On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, J. Roeleveld >wrote: >> Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> Mark. >> >> I seem to remember that to be able to use LABEL for the root= line >requires an init* as you need userspace utilities to read the labels. >> >> You could try the UUIDs instead. B

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 12:53 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Mark. > > I seem to remember that to be able to use LABEL for the root= line requires > an init* as you need userspace utilities to read the labels. > > You could try the UUIDs instead. But I am not sure if that migh

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
Mark Knecht wrote: >Hi, > I don't think this is likely to be a Gentoo issue but I figured I'd >ask here first before going elsewhere. (LKML, linux-raid, elsewhere) >Additionally it's not a critical problem at all but rather something >I'd like to try and understand and then report if appropriat

[gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I don't think this is likely to be a Gentoo issue but I figured I'd ask here first before going elsewhere. (LKML, linux-raid, elsewhere) Additionally it's not a critical problem at all but rather something I'd like to try and understand and then report if appropriate. On my main i7-980x

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:33:34AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > Thanks ! -- I'm another eccentric who starts the USE list with ' -* '. > Once alerted, it's easy to add it to package.use . I'm more eccentric USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:pkginternal:repo:env.d" -- Happy Penguin Computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Philip Webb
> Walter Dnes Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote: >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog >> USE="suid" has been created as of December 20, 2012. >> If you do not enable it, you will not be able to run startx >> as a regular user. xdm and other X login managers wil

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-31 Thread Scott Ellis
I think it's a bug, but "zfs mount -a" works around it quickly. On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > one thing that baffled me was when I set the mountpoint for zfstank/var - > and > it was gone. ;) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:35:52 -0200 Francisco Ares wrote: > If my colleagues would at least be kind enough to have OpenOffice > installed on their machines also... Will they let you boot a usb?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:06:00 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > > That already has a de-facto answer; USE="suid" must be on by default > > as without it users cannot run a desktop (xorg-server does not yet > > run without root permissions) I use some hackery to run startx on some systems as a norma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread kwkhui
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:29:12 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:53:47 +0800 > kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on > > > by default. > > > > > > Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread covici
Walter Dnes wrote: > I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I > checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website > http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact > problem, and more importantly, the solution. > > * Up til now X has been instal

Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?

2012-12-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 09:07:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:42:45 +0100 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > compared with the hours of fiddling when I started using raid this > > was pretty much straight forward - and yes, I know, destroying var > > was not necessary, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Dale
kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on by >> default. >> >> Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets >> it back on for things he's checked out personally.

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 31/12/12 08:28, Walter Dnes wrote: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X has bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:53:47 +0800 kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on > > by default. > > > > Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets > > it back

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread kwkhui
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:03:40 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > It's not in the profile, the xorg-server ebuild sets USE="suid" on by > default. > > Most likely is that Walter has USE="-suid" in his make.conf and sets > it back on for things he's checked out personally. Meaning that in > this case one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 01:57:02 -0600 Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:28:17AM -0500, wrote > >> * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog > >> USE="suid" has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do > >> not enable it, you will not be able to