Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/12/2013 03:49, Grant wrote: >>> I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if >>> anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last >>> paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of >>> systems (laptops) in an office which are hardw

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/12/2013 01:54, Grant wrote: > I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if > anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last > paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of > systems (laptops) in an office which are hardware-iden

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/12/2013 09:04, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 12 Dec 2013 10:01:20 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 21:04:00 Mick wrote: >>> Let me get this right, if I set 'kde-base/kdeutils-meta -cups' I will >>> still be able to print from kde applications? >> >> Here, the K menu item "Manage

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-12 Thread Mick
On Thursday 12 Dec 2013 10:01:20 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 21:04:00 Mick wrote: > > Let me get this right, if I set 'kde-base/kdeutils-meta -cups' I will > > still be able to print from kde applications? > > Here, the K menu item "Manage Printing" opens a CUPS web page, spec

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Recent spurious error messages from systemd?

2013-12-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:23 PM, walt wrote: > For example, during bootup, systemd said that swap.target failed, but in > fact swap was working normally when I logged in, and "systemctl status > swap.target" showed no error messages. > > systemd also warned that lvm.service failed, but in fact the

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Grant
>>> I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if >>> anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last paragraph >>> below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of systems >>> (laptops) in an office which are hardware-identical to my own laptop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Grant
>> I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if >> anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last >> paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of >> systems (laptops) in an office which are hardware-identical to my own >> laptop and

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Recent spurious error messages from systemd?

2013-12-12 Thread walt
For example, during bootup, systemd said that swap.target failed, but in fact swap was working normally when I logged in, and "systemctl status swap.target" showed no error messages. systemd also warned that lvm.service failed, but in fact the lvm drive was mounted and working as expected after I

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-12 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Dec 12 2013, wra...@privatdemail.net wrote: > On 13/12/13 09:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, wrote: >>> At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem >>> until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly. The problem must have >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/12/13 11:16, Poison BL. wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Grant wrote: >> I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if >> anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last paragraph >> below. Thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Poison BL.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Grant wrote: > I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if > anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last > paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of > systems (laptops) in an office which are

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-12 Thread Grant
I'm about to embark on this (perilous?) journey and I'm wondering if anyone would make a comment on any of the questions in the last paragraph below. This is basically my plan for setting up a bunch of systems (laptops) in an office which are hardware-identical to my own laptop and creating a fram

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-12 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/12/13 09:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, wrote: >> At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem >> until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly. The problem must have >> started s

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, wrote: > At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem > until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly. > The problem must have started sometime within the past month. > > If I have wicd started by systemd, i.e. > systemctl enable wicd >

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2013 21:04:00 Mick wrote: > Let me get this right, if I set 'kde-base/kdeutils-meta -cups' I will still > be able to print from kde applications? Here, the K menu item "Manage Printing" opens a CUPS web page, specifically localhost:631. It's a bog-standard CUPS interface, wit