all right now.
The larger the fan, the slower (and quieter) it spins. So if it needs a
fan, try and make sure it's a big one.
Cheers,
Wol
r random writes -
think of them as a bit like a random-write tape drive ie you can get
away with it but you're better off not trying.
And yes - the 8TB capacity gave it away - I think the largest "normal"
drives available are 4TB at present ... anything bigger must be shingled.
Cheers,
Wol
then always go back as far as when they first set it up,
anyway.
Cheers,
Wol
imeouts you need to
keep the system from thinking that the drive has failed.
I'd probably boot a rescue disk and just dd the partitions across. At
least then if it barfs, you haven't lost your original.
Cheers,
Wol
er fires on Friday, the snapshot fires when I reboot Saturday morning
... and then I try not to break my system with a messed-up emerge :-)
Cheers,
Wol
ing the reason there isn't a virtual desktop is because
nobody's logged in AT THE PI and started one!
Just start Xorg over ssh, or plasma-wayland, or whatever. Sorry I don't
(yet) know how to do it, I need to find out because I want to do exactly
the same :-)
Cheers,
Wol
On 08/11/2021 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2021-11-08, Laurence Perkins wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Wol
Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 1:26 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter
Only problem was a screw-up over the router
no initramfs and my
grub.cfg gets screwed.
WHY!!!
Cheers,
Wol
speeds!
So we bought two add-in cards, with the hd and first CD-writer were on
PATA-0, and one CD-writer each on PATA-1, PATA-2 and PATA-3. They FLEW!
They were something like 32x drives and really achieved a full write in
about 2 minutes!
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Wol
in! They weren't even from the mail account I was in!
And it's a pain in the arse because all of a sudden I've got a load of
emails marked "read" (because TB's read them for me) that I haven't seen...
Cheers,
Wol
I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log in
at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
I'm GUESSING part of the problem is my video card isn't set up properly.
But I thought I'd followed the gentoo guide, and compiled
...)
Cheers,
Wol
On 17/11/2021 19:13, Marco Rebhan wrote:
On Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:51:37 CET Wol wrote:
I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log
in at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
Have you tr
On 17/11/2021 20:59, Wol wrote:
On 17/11/2021 19:13, Marco Rebhan wrote:
On Sunday, 14 November 2021 23:51:37 CET Wol wrote:
I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log
in at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn&#
e installed, I
just didn't use genkernel to do it.
Why oh why does everything change ... for the worse ... now let's see if
allowing it to mount the boot partition makes it work properly ...
and allowing it to mount boot made everything work perfectly afaict ...
what a mess ...
Cheers,
Wol
On 17/11/2021 23:54, Jack wrote:
On 2021.11.14 17:51, Wol wrote:
I'm still trying to get Wayland to work reliably. At the moment I log
in at a TTY, then fire it up with "startplasma-wayland" ... except it
doesn't start properly!
Seems to work fine for me (with minimal test
On 20/11/2021 19:59, Wol wrote:
Okay, I rebooted the system, and tried to start Wayland. The first log
is the output of my first attempt. This hung and I had to kill it.
Actually, it was worse than that, caused the video
driver or somesuch to crash - I ended up with a scrambled display, and
eshot without dependencies on each other, and then just an "update
world" to clean up the mess.
Cheers,
Wol
On 21/11/2021 20:39, Julien Roy wrote:
Hello,
Some time ago I installed Steam on my system, which required me to add
the abi_x86_32 USE flag to a bunch of packages. Eventually I r
e.
So when you decide you want to revert all those changes, you can just
delete that file, and bingo ...
Or just make all those changes dependent on the current version of
chromium/firefox. So when you update you may have to re-visit the
problem, or it may just solve itself.
Cheers,
Wol
m is it seems very short-staffed. It's clearly up-to-date
as in there's plenty of recent time stamps, but you have to look for
them as much of the docu is 5, 10 years old ...
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Wol
files it leaves lying around that use up the space.
Beyond this, not knowing how big your ram and swap actually are, it's
hard to provide better advice ...
Cheers,
Wol
oolkit via portage.
And expect to get bit by the freetype/harfbuzz circular dependency.
There's plenty of stuff out there how to get round it, but it can be a
pain ...
Cheers,
Wol
On 20/12/2021 22:28, Grant Taylor wrote:
But the latter mails were missing vital headers and thus mail had a
problem displaying them properly.
That sounds like raw, unprocessed email to me.
You mean the body sans envelope?
Cheers,
Wol
, typically when you had a scene
change, a frame was written in full, then subsequent frames were stored
as diffs. Is that what an i-frame is?
In which case, surely it can't be that tricky to delete a block without
having to decode/encode more than a few frames?
And how come PVRs do it so easily?
Cheers,
Wol
ot;~amd64" emerge blah blah ...
which upgraded glibc! So now I need to configure this to keep the
current version of glibc and wait till the stable version goes past.
Cheers,
Wol
ll let you make notes ...
Cheers,
Wol
Got it installed, got apache to work as well. Thing is, it does .php
pages and my web browsers don't open .php files. It just wants to
download them. I'm not sure how to fix that, yet. I'm making progress
tho.
Quick google - have you insta
Given that anybody with half a clue knows NEVER to open unsolicited
attachments, I'm verging on thinking it's phishing. Anyways, I'm THAT
close to setting up an auto-delete rule on anything from him. The email
address feels spammy, too ...
Cheers,
Wol
On 20/01/2022 19:57, L
, and just update @world at the last minute.
Cheers,
Wol
need to grow the lv volume after you've grown the raid? I know
I'd have to grow the volume.
Cheers,
Wol
ong as it's not another
SMR :-) (If you do a scrub, expects loads of parity errors first time
:-) but you will probably get away with it if you're careful.
Cheers,
Wol
e you
can ditch when it's all gone wrong :-)
Cheers,
Wol
everything
else!) never even started! "too many failed dependencies - aborting" or
something like that ...
Cheers,
Wol
;s where I would like --dont-stop ... if the dependency calculation
fails, just emerge everything that you have calculated ...
Because on an old system, this is the step that has a habit of failing
straight away ...
Cheers,
Wol
f it blows
up look what's in the file I've moved to see what I need to keep and
what cruft can be deleted.
Cheers,
Wol
ot of people by shipping SMR and not telling anyone. At least
Seagate appear to have been open about it.
And yes, raid and SMR do not go well together.
Cheers,
Wol
On 23/03/2022 17:20, Mark Knecht wrote:
So by 'Plasma' you imply KDE to me. Am I correct in that?
Yes and no ...
To a rough approximation, KDE is Qt4. Plasma is Qt5.
I don't really get it myself.
Cheers,
Wol
k' and vendors provide answers which they seldom did
when I was running Gentoo.
I guess that's because there's only one Kubuntu. The snag is every
gentoo is one of a kind ... :-)
Cheers,
Wol
for everything.
It looks like your home2 is 6TB+8TB+8TB. I'd get a new 8TB, put dm-crypt
on it, and add it. Now I can remove the first 8TB, dm-crypt it and
re-add it. Same with the second 8TB. Now remove the 6TB and there you
are ...
My layout's rather different from yours, so I don't think I ought to say
too much :-)
Cheers,
Wol
On 27/03/2022 21:13, Dale wrote:
Wol wrote:
On 27/03/2022 20:17, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I sort of started this on another thread but wanted to nail a few things
down first. I'm wanting to encrypt some parts of my data on /home.
This is what I got hard drive wise.
root@fireball / # pvs
On 27/03/2022 21:36, Wol wrote:
I don't know either. I'm just far more familiar with the dm/md layer
because I run md-raid over dm-integrity. Hence dm-crypt.
Is cryptsetup a layer in its own right, or part of lvm? I prefer the
Unix "use several tools each of which does one thi
r more space than is necessary ...
So --in-place actually has a lot of uses outside your two examples. I
have oodles of space, and both my source and target are on fast sata
links in the same computer, but not using --in-place would be *very*
costly for me.
Cheers,
Wol
On 03/04/2022 19:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
Am Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 05:05:07PM +0100 schrieb Wol:
Rsync has a bwlimit argument which helps here. Note that rsync copies
the whole file on what it considers local storage (which can be mounted
network shares) ... this can cause a real slowdown
em will be squeezing ANYthing into the space Windows has
left.
As for helping you do it, sorry I haven't. My two laptops that came with
linux, one I've added Windows, the other I have yet to configure. The
one that came with Windows still has no linux ...
Cheers,
Wol
6) is
not a wise idea at the moment so you don't get two-failure protection ...
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Wol
to drop history
let me know).
Look into "git pack". It won't get rid of old versions, but I think it
compresses all the old stuff. But once the repository has been packed, I
gather it's normal for the old packed stuff to take up less space than
the current stuff.
Cheers,
Wol
s you'll see all the
dates you did an update, and by branching to that tag, you'll be able to
go back to that date.
I just use "lvm snapshot" :-)
Cheers,
Wol
e a switch?
What's PEP517? What are you talking about? What's the problem?
Cheers,
Wol
have one file in package.use for each package I actually want installed.
And if you qualify the packages with "current version" however you do
that, then they'll expire regularly so you're forced to keep it
up-to-date :-)
Cheers,
Wol
going to delete, but so long as it looks
sensible, say "y" and get rid of it.
It looks like you've got seven kernels there, so five sevenths space
freed up is quite a lot ...
Cheers,
Wol
ive kernel is out-of-date and delete
it? NOT a good idea.
The OP needs to make sure that both 5.15.41 and 5.15.48 are in his boot
menu, AND that they both work, before risking clearing out the rest ...
Cheers,
Wol
let Win10 take over the port and
drive it, with linux out of the picture.
Don't trust me on this, I don't play with USB and it's ages since I
stumbled across this, but it's worth taking a look.
Cheers,
Wol
unless you tell it to poll every 5 mins or so (it's configured by
default to do so).
But if it's accidentally been configured to only check when asked ...
Cheers,
Wol
o use a mobile? (Yes that IS a
serious question - I provide tech support to family like that :-)
Cheers,
Wol
sending from one zfs to
another it knows exactly what bytes to send.
I don't think he means a corrupted file, he means a corrupted video. If
the drive faithfully records the corrupted feed, the filesystem is not
going to catch it!
Cheers,
Wol
so you can go back in time. It's nice to have both, but
snapshotting gives you full backups for the price of incremental.
Cheers,
Wol
r OEM stuff, and know the names of the range I'm looking
for - Seagate Ironwolf, Toshiba N300 - about £170 for 8TB ...
Cheers,
Wol
are CMR.
Cheers,
Wol
starts.
Because the OPs mailer sent it as one line per paragraph?
My mailer (Tbird) is configured for plain text, but still screws up when
it receives html junk.
Cheers,
Wol
On 28/08/2022 22:53, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 2:33 PM Wol <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> On 28/08/2022 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Is there a particular reason why your mailer inserts the quote
character
> > only o
packages in the last month? Despite updating loads? Is
that normal?
(Although I've not had any problems with depclean that a --bdeps didn't
resolve)
Cheers,
Wol
On 30/09/2022 20:46, Matt Connell wrote:
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote:
I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out
now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every
week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probab
ewire is intended to satisfy both.
So the intent was clearly to install pipewire underneath a working
pulseaudio, and just move applications across as and when.
Cheers,
Wol
t the dance you want to do
it will make it a lot easier ...
Cheers,
Wol
llocated, is the bad block is now
allocated to two different inodes?
If a read fails, you SHOULD NOT do anything. If a write fails, you move
the block and mark the failed block as bad. But seeing as you've moved
the block, the bad block is no longer allocated to any file ...
Cheers,
Wol
e implementation leaves a lot
to be desired and, as always, the reason is not enough manpower.
Cheers,
Wol
ew kernels all the time, is that finding the
time to actually copy the old config, make, make modules, make install,
fix grub, sort out problems, reboot, is actually quite hard.
It's not just a few minutes ...
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Wol
bviously.
I'm trying to do that. I understood that video cards didn't support it,
so I have two video cards, but I haven't managed to get both of them
working together, so far ... (couldn't even get the computer to boot
properly last I tried ...)
Cheers,
Wol
on SUSE, that day can't
come soon enough.
Cheers,
Wol
untouched.
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should "just work (tm)".
Cheers,
Wol
On 27/11/2022 15:49, Mike Civil wrote:
On 27/11/2022 14:50, Wol wrote:
Postfix afaik just has one humungous config file, so when your distro
updates the config, all your local changes are trashed :-(
I don't want to faff about with special copies, backups, origs etc.
Everything should
ings I've ever seen. I wish I
could find a few more of them, as spares if nothing else.
Yup, that's my experience of USB, too. It just isn't reliable. And
anything that works and you like, they discontinue!
Cheers,
Wol
That was about ten years before you ...
:-)
Wol
washing
machine) for our multi-user mini that served the entire company with
256KB of ram ...
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Wol
join the disks, lvm
to partition them, and ext to manage the directories and files.
I do the latter ...
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Wol
tects against a drive
failure, integrity protects against disk corruption. They're all
unlikely events, but I've got loads of disk space, a powerful system,
and I don't stress it, so I've got power to spare for it.
Cheers,
Wol
gs about switches and lowest common denominator and
messing up your speeds ...
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Wol
eggs, but that massively reduces the need for network
traffic.
Cheers,
Wol
easing disk capacities, raid-5 is said to be obsolete.
Because if another drive fails during rebuild, you are officially screwed.
Fun, innit?
They've always said that. Just make sure you don't have multiple drives
from the same batch, then they're less likely statistically to fail at
the same time. I'm running raid-5 over 3TB partitions ...
Cheers,
Wol
://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/What_is_RAID_and_why_should_you_want_it%3F
(Disclaimer - I either wrote or heavily edited it.)
Cheers,
Wol
ble a couple of the HOTPLUG options and then it showed up.
But / should (a) tell you where it is, and (b) tell you what to enable
to make it appear.
That's what Peter meant when he said / will always find it. / won't make
it appear, it tells *you* how to make it appear.
Cheers,
Wol
.
I don't know anything about clang ... it must be the default ...
I thought part of Firefox/Thunderbird was written in Rust, so I assumed
it was built with llvm as a matter of course.
I'll just wait for it to sort itself out.
Cheers,
Wol
g all those libs in an @set? Then you
could just do eg "emerge --update @libraries; emerge --update @world".
Or maybe what I do if I'm expecting trouble - "emerge --update @system;
emerge --update @world". I guess those libraries are in @system?
Cheers,
Wol
LWN tipped off. If they run an article, we might get a new upstream.
Cheers,
Wol
On 28/01/2023 06:20, Dale wrote:
Michał Górny wrote:
# Michał Górny (2023-01-27)
# GKrellM and a variety of plugins. It's unmaintained for some time.
# Upstream homepage is gone, and the whole sui
ce
these selections rather than some optional tool though.
what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
deleting the live one :-)
Cheers,
Wol
e point the customer could use the savings and replace
a failed chip. Win win ...
Cheers,
Wol
My
system (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?".
That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy.
I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) put an entry in fstab.
Cheers,
Wol
ovides me a nice progress counter, and I only look at the contents of
the console if that's not enough.
Cheers,
Wol
, seeing as grub is deprecated with EFI, learn how to boot using EFI.
Don't worry, I haven't really learned either :-) I just keep a Slack
live-CD handy ...
Cheers,
Wol
/boot/EFI, you have
to update the EFI directory.
Cheers,
Wol
On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote:
Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI systems?
Because EFI is a boot manager? Why chain-load boot managers?
Cheers,
Wol
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 15:17 hitachi303 <mailto:gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de>> wrote:
Am
fer a denial-of-service
attack that tried to fill memory, that amount of swap would knacker my
system for a LONG time.
Cheers,
Wol
ut powerful footguns willy nilly.
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Wol
ons appears to have done
the trick!
Thanks all!
Cheers,
Wol
just like me ...
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Wol
ard reader, they're pretty ancient.
Good to know it all works, but if you're sticking a new card in an old
reader, they may not be compatible.
Cheers,
Wol
pdate @system
not @world. If @system is up-to-date, it's not major if you break other
stuff.
Cheers,
Wol
that it said that was a bad idea and not guaranteed to
work. Certainly on my system, it just hung with, iirc, no logs whatsoever.
Once I enabled sddm.service, it worked fine ...
Cheers,
Wol
So, I guess, if you don't exclude these hogs from @world then you can
just find out if they are going to be emerged (and emerge them first if
you want), or if you do exclude them from @world, you can emerge them
(to some extent at least) on your own timescale.
Cheers,
Wol
was more reliable. Hey ho.
There's all sorts of tricks, some work for some people, others work for
others.
Cheers,
Wol
oviding support services on top (plus an admittedly large chunk of
value-add, if you think it's value ...)
It goes Sid -> testing -> stable -> Ubuntu -> (X/K/L...)ubuntu
Cheers,
Wol
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