Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 10:55 AM, gevisz wrote: I should have used /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000* notations instead! Unfortunately, I have not found the way to change these notations other than deleting the whole zpool and re-creating it anew with the notations /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000*, which took qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-30 Thread Alexis
Peter Humphrey writes: However - stopping boinc still takes 60 seconds, with the differencec that I don't now see the trail of dots to show me how much longer I have to wait. Is that period hard-coded into the start/stop mechanism of openrc? i assume that might be a result of the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 11:49 AM, gevisz wrote: I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. Why did you have to install it anew? I've pulled Gentoo systems more than three years forward. I've talked about how to do it on this mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > On 1/30/25 11:49 AM, gevisz wrote: > > I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the > > middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. > > Why did you have to install it anew? Because, as I wrote it, it was easier than to try t

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 16:49, gevisz wrote: Because, as I wrote it, it was easier than to try to change a profile with the procedure described in the corresponding news. I take that as you chose to do the fresh install, not that something forced you to do the fresh install. It's perfectly fine if that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 16:58, gevisz wrote: Thank you for your reply. You're welcome. I will look into the link but, as far as I understand, Feel free to ask questions, either here or directly to me if you feel it's not germane to Gentoo. it does not answer the question why one of my ZFS disks does

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-30 Thread Alexander Kurakin
> Hi Alexander, >  > My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer.   Hi Bryan, thanks for the reply!   > That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement when I > import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I add a copyright line for myself > too once I've made significant changes.  Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 January 2025 13:24:20 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 15 January 2025 11:50:02 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/948143 > > That bug now has a patch, which proposes to move from > sci-misc/boinc-7.24.1-r1 to -r2. The scale of the changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 January 2025 11:59:11 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be > > bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25? > > No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream - > i.e.

[gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD tapped me on the shoulder and said: "Hi, very soon you won't be able to read any data from me." As I have not made my backups regularly, I took this warning seriously and decided to finally realize my old idea of moving from ext4 to ZFS. So, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
The small correction: the penultimate sentence of my previous email should read: "The situation remained the same even after swapping the undetected 500GB WD HDD with the spare one." чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 18:55, gevisz : > > About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD > tapped me on the s

[gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. Just to remind you: during that time we all had to switch to the new Gentoo profile scheme, which made an update from my old system more difficult than a new install. During this new

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
Correction: My second paragraph in the last email should read: "Well, maybe you are right. I did NOT know this and so deleted the old kernel immediately after compiling the new one." пт, 31 янв. 2025 г. в 00:49, gevisz : > > чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > > > On 1/30/25 11:49 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
Thank you for your reply. I will look into the link but, as far as I understand, it does not answer the question why one of my ZFS disks does not appear in /dev/disk/by-id/ directory when I boot my computer with additional disk connected to it. чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:09, Grant Taylor : > > On 1/

Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-30 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:44:18 +0300 Alexander Kurakin wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer. >   > Hi Bryan, > thanks for the reply! >   > > That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement > > when I import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-01-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 29 January 2025 21:19:50 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Thanks for the input. I do indeed have a pretty new CPU as well. > > I did try the rc.conf trick but no luck after trying it once. I'll keep it > around for a while and see if I can see an overall improvement. >