[gentoo-user] syslog-ng not outputting to tty12

I updated kernel a couple of weeks ago, and had to reboot. I'm not seeing any logging output on tty12. "tail /var/log/messages" shows that it is logging properly to the file. "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart" didn't help. To check that it wasn't corruption, I... * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop * e

[gentoo-user] Inordinate delay switching from X to tty with Ctrl-Alt-Fn

Hello, Gentoo. In the last day or two, it has been taking FOREVER to switch from X-Windows to a virtual terminal with, e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2. Here, forever means around 3 seconds. It used to be instantaneous. Switching between virtual terminals remains instantaneous. So does switching to X-Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Why the insistence on encryption and multiple devices?

On Wednesday, 3 April 2019 08:57:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 April 2019 02:37:46 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > Just set USE="-cryptsetup -dmraid ..." and turn off whatever other > > flags you object to. > > I did that, and also masked sys-fs/cryptsetup to enforce it. Emerge did >