Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12.03.2015 19:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > On 12.03.2015 18:28, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:12:06 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 missing disks. Then

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:38:15 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > c) Create a 4 disk RAID1 array consisting of sda2 and 3 > missing disks. Then add sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 in turn and the > contents of sda2 will be replicated to them.

[gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread German
Question is in the subject line. Another question I have is there any point to use other frambuffer device ( I currently use efifb) and I am thinking to use fb for my radeon r4 graphics in hopes to get some acceleration. Thanks -- German

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 12 March 2015 19:38:56 Dale wrote: > I build everything into the kernel and I don't even install > lm_sensors. I haven't installed that in ages. Does that mean that your gkrellm can't display temperatures? -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 05:08:16 -0400, German wrote: > Question is in the subject line. And the answer is in your hands? Does not being a member of the portage group cause any problems for you? If not, you have no need of it. -- Neil Bothwick Quantum leap: (adj.) literally, to move by the smalle

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote > Question is in the subject line. If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" [d531][waltdnes][~] emerge -pv ufraw These are the packages that would be merged,

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote > > Question is in the subject line. > > If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as > long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" > > [d531][waltdnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > > > > I don't have the same MoBo and have compiled my corresponding chipset sensor > driver as a module. It doesn't load unless I manually modprobe it or set it > up in /etc/conf.d/modules. This is how many readings I get: > > $ sensors > radeon-pci-0008 > Adapter: PCI adapter > tem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 12 March 2015 19:38:56 Dale wrote: > >> I build everything into the kernel and I don't even install >> lm_sensors. I haven't installed that in ages. > Does that mean that your gkrellm can't display temperatures? > It's been displaying temps for many years. I po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Dale
Tuomo Hartikainen wrote: > On 150312 1835, Dale wrote: >> waben...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Something similar happened to me. I accidentally pressed F6 while >>> focused gkrellm but didn't noticed it. Some time later I realized that >>> the fontsize of gkrellm was increased so that it's height doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 March 2015 06:27:00 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 12 March 2015 19:38:56 Dale wrote: > >> I build everything into the kernel and I don't even install > >> lm_sensors. I haven't installed that in ages. > > > > Does that mean that your gkrellm can't display tempera

[gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/15 12:42, Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:08:16AM -0400, German wrote Question is in the subject line. If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" Actually, users in the portage group can "eme

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 06:42:08 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > If the user is a member of portage he can do any emerge operation as > long as the command includes "--pretend" or "-p" You don't need to be a member of the portage group to do that. [fred@shooty ~ 0]% groups users [fred@shooty ~ 0]% eme

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2015-03-13 um 09:59 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having > to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device. > > % mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 > (rw,noatime,stripe=4) /boot is my vfat ESP here .. no ext2 ...

Re: [gentoo-user] best practise for 4 disks ... redundancy

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:55:27 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > See above. The reason for using a RAID1 array is to avoid having > > to update multiple disks, just mount /boot on the RAID device. > > > > % mount | grep boot /dev/md0 on /boot type ext2 > > (rw,noatime,stripe=4) > > /boot is

[gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread German
This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as root first and then su user, the user have the error message displayed in the subject line. Any ideas? -- German

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 06:27:00 Dale wrote: >> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> On Thursday 12 March 2015 19:38:56 Dale wrote: I build everything into the kernel and I don't even install lm_sensors. I haven't installed that in ages. >>> Does that mean that your gkrellm c

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German wrote: > This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can > use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as root first and then su > user, the user have the error message displayed in the subject line. > Any ideas? > > -- > German

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:59:04 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German wrote: > > This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can > > use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as root first and then su > > user, the user have the error mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:06 AM, German wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:59:04 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German wrote: > > > This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can > > > use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: heat codes

2015-03-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 Mar 2015 15:49:38 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 06:27:00 Dale wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Thursday 12 March 2015 19:38:56 Dale wrote: > I build everything into the kernel and I don't even install > lm_sensors. I haven't install

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:11:58 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:06 AM, German wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:59:04 + > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German > wrote: > > > > This is very strange. When I boot up my box

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:22 AM, German wrote: [ ... ] > > Are you using logind? > > Good question. What is logind? How I can find out what am I using? If you are using systemd, you are using logind. Otherwise you are not. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de asignatura, Facultad de Cien

[gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This is what dmesg reveals: [ 7791.880206] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 7791.880211] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE [ 7791.880215] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] [ 7791.880217] Sense Key : Hardware Error [current] [ 779

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 10:31:11 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:22 AM, German wrote: > [ ... ] > > > Are you using logind? > > > > Good question. What is logind? How I can find out what am I using? > > If you are using systemd, you are using logind. Otherwise you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:30:59 +, Mick (michaelkintz...@gmail.com) wrote about "[gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium" (in <201503131631.02862.michaelkintz...@gmail.com>): [snip] > I tried on different PCs and I am getting the same error. Shall I > forge

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. > This is what dmesg reveals: > > [ 7791.880206] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > [ 7791.880211] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > [ 7791.880215] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > [ 7791.880217] Sense Key : H

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 Mar 2015 17:10:36 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. > > This is what dmesg reveals: > > > > [ 7791.880206] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > > [ 7791.880211] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SEN

[gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-03-13, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This is > what dmesg reveals: Here's what I recommend. 1) Use ddrescue to read as many data blocks as you can off the CD. http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ ddrescue wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-03-13, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This > > is > > what dmesg reveals: > > Here's what I recommend. > > 1) Use ddrescue to read as many data blocks as you can off the CD. > > http://w

Re: [gentoo-user] Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Friday, March 13, 2015 4:30:59 PM Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I was given a CD with some pictures, but I am not able to mount it. This is > what dmesg reveals: > > [ 7791.880206] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] > [ 7791.880211] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > [ 7791.880215] sr 1:0:0:0: [

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:59:04 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German wrote: > > This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can > > use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as root first and then su > > user, the user have the error mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Yet another update]

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:59:04 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 13 March 2015 15:52:41 GMT+00:00, German wrote: > > This is very strange. When I boot up my box and login as a user I can > > use screen. But if I booted up and logged in as root first and then su > > user, the user have the error mess

[gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/03/15 14:33, Neil Bothwick wrote: Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and emerge --fetchonly. You can do fetchonly, but sync is not possible. You need root for that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:49:20 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Being a member of the portage group allows to to write to directories > > owned by portage, so you can do things like emerge --sync and > > emerge --fetchonly. > > You can do fetchonly, but sync is not possible. You need root for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. -- Neil Bothwick A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, like so: > chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use screen as a > user, however it doesn't stay permanently; after reboot, I got the same > problem. How to chmod tty1 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread wabenbau
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > > > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, like > > so: chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use screen > > as a user, however it doesn't stay permanently; after reboot, I got > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 March 2015 22:28:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime. A Smith and what? -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:34 +0100 wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > > > > > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, like > > > so: chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use screen > > > as a user, howev

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 00:00:34 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > /dev/tty1 is already group writeable, so you should get the same > > result by adding your user to the tty group. > > When I logged in as regular user then ownership of the tty that I > used for log in is: > > crw--- 1 wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:10:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 22:28:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime. > > A Smith and what? You have far too much time on your hands! I only steal taglines, I don't spell-check them. -- Neil Bothwic

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:22:50 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Interesting, here, as a normal user: > > % ls -l /dev/tty1 > crw--w 1 root tty 4, 1 Mar 13 22:26 /dev/tty1 > > > So it seems that after login you first have to chmod 770 the tty > > before you do a su - user (user have to be in group

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread German
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:28:32 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:22:50 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Interesting, here, as a normal user: > > > > % ls -l /dev/tty1 > > crw--w 1 root tty 4, 1 Mar 13 22:26 /dev/tty1 > > > > > So it seems that after login you first have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 March 2015 23:25:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 23:10:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 13 March 2015 22:28:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > A Smith & Weason beats Four Aces everytime. > > > > A Smith and what? > > You have far too much time on your hands! Tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 March 2015 23:28:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I have this in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules: > > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*", GROUP="tty", MODE="0620" # grep tty /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="ptmx", GROUP="tty", MODE="0666" SUBSYS

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2015 23:28:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > I have this in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules: > > > > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*", GROUP="tty", MODE="0620" > > # grep tty /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 13 March 2015 23:28:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > I have this in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules: > > > > > > SUBSYSTEM=="tty", KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*", GROUP="tty", MODE="0620" > > > > # grep tty /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-13 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: > > > > > after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, > > > like so: chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and this worked, I was able to use > > > screen as a user, however it doesn't stay permanently; aft

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. > > There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. Thank you all. dd and ddrescue don't work, because the block device is not