Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 21:32:37 BST Paul Sopka wrote: > On 04.04.24 00:44, Michael wrote: > > No, this is not normal. I wonder if your make.conf settings are correct. > > Start with some safe CFLAGS as suggested here: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Safe_CFLAGS > > > > Then use the

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 04.04.24 00:44, Michael wrote: No, this is not normal. I wonder if your make.conf settings are correct. Start with some safe CFLAGS as suggested here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Safe_CFLAGS Then use the package 'app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags' to set the correct CPU flags:

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 04.04.24 00:44, Michael wrote: No, this is not normal. I wonder if your make.conf settings are correct. Start with some safe CFLAGS as suggested here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Safe_CFLAGS Then use the package 'app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags' to set the correct CPU flags:

[gentoo-user] Problem when going to install refind and using musl/llvm profile

2024-04-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm attempting to set up a new machine. I want to try out the musl/llvm combo, profile 70, but am having troubles with the refind boot manager. When I attempt to emerge refind, I get, during the "pretend phase": * ERROR: sys-boot/refind-0.14.0.2-r1::gentoo failed (pretend

[gentoo-user] Program shutting down - where is its status held?

2024-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some of my machines run BOINC, which I want to stop while doing my sync & update. For some reason, '/etc/init.d/boinc stop' often takes exactly 60s to complete instead of its normal 6-10s. I'd like my update script to detect this condition, but I can't see how. I've tried grepping

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 at 09:07, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [*] Block layer debugging information in debugfs > > .. When I disabled this and rebuilt the kernel, my /boot mounted without > problem. > > -- > I have CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS=y with no problems (6.8.2 downloaded directly from kernel.org)

[gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. A heads-up for kernel 6.8: I'm playing with kernel 6.8.1 (direct from Linux). When I first booted it, it failed to mount my /boot partition with this error message in dmesg: [5.645341] FAT-fs (nvme0n1p2): bogus number of reserved sectors [5.645345] FAT-fs (nvme0n1p2):

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.8.1 onwards.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:47:43 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 12:20:29 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [ ] > > Please note the corrected subject line. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:55:20 BST Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi again, > > I tried to catch the error again and while doing so I realized you guys are of course correct: sddm usually starts on tty 2. I don't know why I got it into my head that it would start on tty 8. Anyway, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Stefan. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 15:23:02 +, stefan1 wrote: > On 2024-04-01 15:12,

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 17:48:18 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi Alan, > Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated myrsystem,2with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 16:38:57 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Monday, 1 April 2024

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jack. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 11:25:38 -0400, Jack wrote: >If you are just going to