[gentoo-user] dev-libs/nss-3.90

hi, just noticed that night upgrade to [~amd64] dev-libs/nss-3.90 crashed firefox and thunderbird at start: both ABENDing with `illegal instruction' diagnostics. FF rebuild did not change behavior Downgrade to ~dev-libs/nss-3.89.1 cured the issue

[gentoo-user] www-client/chromium-63.0.3239.132

just noticed new use flag in recent stable chromium ebuild: $ quse -D jumbo-build  local:jumbo-build:www-client/chromium: Combine source files to speed up build process. setting that significantly speeds up emerge time (tried it twice; the second attempt had the flag set) $ qlop -gHv -d `date

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

On 01/14/2018 07:17 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Is it posible to use Firefox wihout pulseaudio installed? > If "yes" -- how can I acchieche this? Yes it is possible; to achieve that you just have to use www-client/firefox, e.g compile it from source Due to dependencies (now ff is boud with dev-l

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

On 10/03/2017 02:28 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/3/2017, 1:27:45 AM, victor romanchuk wrote: >> there are two files to change/check before migration >> >> * /etc/inittab :: console terminal (XEN PV domUs do use hvc console and >> KVM VM employ normal linux >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

hi On 10/02/2017 08:30 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > One thing I do seem to recall is there was somewhere that I had to > define Xen as the virtualization environment being used, but I can't > remember where I did that. Was that in the kernel config? If so, their > tool should (hopefully) handle that cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

On 01/25/2015 04:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 25.01.2015 um 11:08 schrieb victor romanchuk: >> On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: >>>> The question, thus, would probably be:

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: > >> I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a >> long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in during >> the last few days (namely, chromium-40.0.2214

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

On 10/18/2014 02:37 AM, David W Noon wrote: > > > I have prepared some patches from the Xfce repository with line > addressing to match the Gentoo sources tarball. I attach a tarball of > theses patches that can be untarred in /etc/portage/patches/ applied. thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I fix wrong boot order?

On 10/29/2013 10:47 PM, Jarry wrote: > Hi Gentoo-users, > I noticed strange message during boot-up of one of my servers: > __ > [snip] > > As you see, syslog-ng can not open conection to remote syslog > collector. Reason seems to be quit

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have > xfce4-mount-plugin installed. > > box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount > xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 > > But I still can't auto-mount my removable drives. So I thou

Re: [gentoo-user] Local root exploit (not?) working...

On 05/15/2013 08:35 PM, Jarry wrote: > > Actually, it does not (?) work on my box even with PERF_EVENTS, > but when I compile & run it (as non-root user), my system is > instantly restarted. So it seems that gentoo-sources 3.7.10-r1 > are at least partially affected. I hope to see fix soon! > this

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

On 01/20/2013 12:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. > There were multiple problems & I'm now back with udev-171 . > > (1) "Setting system clock using HW clock; can't access HW clock". > (2) "Mounting local filesystems; mount point /de

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

On 12/07/2012 05:26 PM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 03 Dec 2012 10:53:16 Markos Chandras wrote: >> Any ideas? I also have a Windows Guest (Host settings Pulseaudio/Intel >> HD Audio) and the sound works there without problems. > If you're running the binary VBox package I seem to recall that sound was

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

hi Dale wrote, at 08/05/2012 04:45 PM: > Howdy, > > > I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some > testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if > it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have > never used it before. May

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen virtual devices not working -> no guests

hi Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 02/05/2012 01:50 PM: > and I checked that they are loaded. The real strange thing is, that I have an > identical .config (regarding the xen stuff) on a 2nd box and all is fine. So I > need to debug the hotplug scripts somehow to see what is going wrong. I tried >

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen virtual devices not working -> no guests

Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 02/03/2012 09:01 PM: > When I boot gentoo-sources 3.2.1 Dom0 boots, and DomUs would > boot if they had no virtual block or network devices. Both backend > device options are in the Dom0 kernel. Anybody has a hint on how to > debug this? most likely this is due to dom

Re: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

Alex Schuster wrote, at 01/29/2012 11:23 PM: > What are your impressions on this? Is it fun? Will there be a noticeable > speed difference? Do packages fail to build? We just had a 'Graphite > causing trouble' thread here, the problem was that dev-libs/cloog-ppl > has to be rebuilt when dev-libs/pp

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver?

Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM: > since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use > gentoo-sources for dom0 and the domUs. However the blktap modules are not > there. Is there any way to get this to work? blktap drivers were excluded from kernel mainline since

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...

Tamer Higazi wrote, at 01/06/2012 11:14 AM: > People! > I am not a bluetooth expert how do I configure bluez to make a > permanent connection with the bluez headset??? > > > I did: > > pcm.jabra { > type bluetooth > } [snip] .asoundrc is an audio part of configuration. bebore that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...

Tamer Higazi wrote, at 01/06/2012 09:17 AM: > however, I need to see it as an alsa device. this is my problem. it's not a problem, according to alsa docs http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc pcm.genius { type bluetooth } pcm.genius-in { type plug slave { pcm genius rate 48000 } } ctl

Re: [gentoo-user] Two issues with OpenRC/baselayout2 migration on a hosted VM

Pandu Poluan wrote, at 12/13/2011 10:26 PM: > > > On Dec 14, 2011 1:06 AM, "Tanstaafl" > wrote: > > > > What should I set this to? Assuming that Linode is indeed using Xen, would > it be: > > > > rc_sys="xenU" > > > > ? > > AFAIK Linode uses Xen so "xenU" is corre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

walt wrote, at 12/07/2011 02:40 AM: > On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> Looks like the ebuild has been updated and now has -gtk3 by default. :) thank you for the update > Yes, I just finished rebuilding it and all the painting problems are gone. > No hacking needed :) > > Just be

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

> Can anyone confirm or deny? > > i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3 after an hour of tries decided to switch back to libreo

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I disable renaming of root fs to "/dev/root"?

Jarry wrote, at 11/11/2011 09:37 PM: > Hi, > this is actually not problem but rather a matter of customs: > My new fresh installed system shows root-fs in "df" as > /dev/root, not actuall device (in my case /dev/md2). > > I think I coud get used to it, but some software still needs > /dev/md2 (i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen 4.1.1 trouble

Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 11/08/2011 02:14 PM: > Hi, > > I upgraded one system from Xen 3.4.2 to 4.1.1. Now when I start a guest > the whole machine instantly reboots. Are there any changes necessary so > that this works? I didn't touch the configuration of the guest. > It's a PV gentoo runnin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dependence question

Zhang Jun wrote, at 11/06/2011 02:27 PM: > # eselect editor list > Available targets for the EDITOR variable: > [1] /bin/nano > [2] /bin/ed > [3] /usr/bin/ex > [4] /usr/bin/vi > [ ] (free form) > > sanitize the EDITOR environment: eselect editor update then set a suitable one

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

> >> i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be >> compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these similar on >> both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is core2quad; both are >> running amd64 arch) > I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

> Both machines contain "distcc" in FEATURES. It's not using > -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference > in performance. only client (your laptop) machine should be distcc featured. for server (desktop) that feature is useless > On the desktop, /etc/conf.d/distcc con

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

>> it does not actually matter how you configured the driver -- built-in kernel >> or >> as module: everytime when driver operates the device, it checks whether >> firmware >> is loaded. > Are you sure about that? AFAIK firmware loading is only attempted once, > when the driver is first initiali

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

> > 1 Desktop > 1 Netbook (For holiday and during travel) > 1 home server (running Xen with virtualized Gentoo instances) > i own similar combination (the server is actually head/mouseless desktop powered by core i7 and equipped with 24gb of ram allowing to concurrently run number of gentoo and f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firmware exists but fails to load

>> ? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for >> quite some time. The relevant bit is in >> /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules . > Ok so that must be working on my laptop (automatically, i didn't > configure anything) but failing on my desktop. > >> However, udevd is

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-BT211 causing udev to fail, related to usb3, how to disable?

> I have an ASUS USB-BT211 bluetooth dongle, I have never been able to make it > work and it causes udev to fail at startup and sending the following msg to > the syslog: > > 2011-08-13T09:45:30+02:00 poff udevd[5235]: timeout 'usb_id --export > /devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3' > > This s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

> I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between > my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( > > After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from > using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) > > (I'll mention up front that NF

Re: [gentoo-user] Failure to compile 2.6.39-gentoo-r3

> LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `microcode_init': > microcode_core.c:(.init.text+0xaeb5): undefined reference to > `init_intel_microcode' > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > this should not happen: if you selected any module from the kernel tree to be built into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?

it could be slightly less efficient comparing to plain `rm', but worked around your problem: find -ctime -1 -exec rm {} \; basically `find' has a lot options filtering result set. these include time/date, file name (regexp), file type and so on. consult man for details victor Grant wrote, at