[gentoo-user] Re: OT: cleanup after USB backup drive unplugged?

On 2018-01-12, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 12/01/18 15:39, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> I usually also include a check to ensure that some file/directory >>>> exists which I expect to be on the drive, which prevents the >>>> backu

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: cleanup after USB backup drive unplugged?

on a filesystem with insufficient space - Yep, that's being done. The backup won't attempt to run if the external drive isn't mounted. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Inside, I'm already at SOBBING! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] OT: cleanup after USB backup drive unplugged?

t; Here's the embarassing part: The /usr/local/bin/myumount script went missing (backup drive is dead), and I can't recall exactly what it did. Obviously, one should never unplug the drive while it's mounted, but if that _does_ happen, what would one put in myumount to mitigate the situation. The

[gentoo-user] Re: single core athlon?

On 2018-01-08, wrote: > Does any body know if it's possible to set up gentoo on a single core > 64 bit athlon, old socket 754? Yes, it's possible. Here's an recent writeup on installing Gentoo on a IBM PS/1 133MHz 486

[gentoo-user] Re: Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

On 2017-12-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-12-05, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >> On 2017-12-05 00:05, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: >> >>> > There are a number of third-party binary executables that I u

[gentoo-user] Running 3rd-party Ubuntu apps on Gentoo

What's a good way to run 3rd party apps packaged for Ubuntu? There are a few third-party binary applications on which I depend. They're usually distributed as .rpm for RedHat and .deb for Ubuntu. AFAICT, Gentoo and Ubuntu library names generally match, while RedHat seems to slightly munge many

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

anket. I'm pretty sure that's one of the basic underlying principles of the US GOP's tax bill. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! BARRY ... That was at the most HEART-WARMING gmail.comr

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-06, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 5 January 2018 20:19:19 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > >> It looks like most of the other broken packages just get rebuilt with >> no languages supported (which means they probably still work for an >&

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-06, Mart Raudsepp wrote: >> How do you show the complete set of use flags including expanded >> ones? > > LINGUAS is not expanded anymore. So does euse show expanded variables? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

lish speaker). I suspect that at some point, the only way you can get people to fix the last handful of packages is to force the issue by implementing the change that causes them to fail/misbehave. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hello

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> Is this related: >>> >>> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html >> >&

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is this related: >> >> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2016-06-23-l10n-use_expand.html > > I don't know. I read that news item and followed its instructions at > the time. My make con

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/05/2018 12:53 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND >> world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: >> >>>>&g

[gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

On 2018-01-05, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I tried to update today using my normal "emerge --sync; emerge -auvND > world" sequence and it's failing when it gets to iso-codes: [...] > I haven't changed LINGUAS or L10N for ages, but I've not

[gentoo-user] LINGUAS make.conf variable being ignored?

nded? How do you show the complete set of use flags including expanded ones? euse doesn't seem to show use flags generated from expanded variables. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm a GENIUS! I want at to dispu

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of a program to do different b/w dithering methods

On 2018-01-02, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-02 15:57, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> If you don't find what you want in Imagemagick, the second place you >> look is Imagemagick -- it's probably there and you missed it the first >> time. &g

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT?]: In search of a program to do different b/w dithering methods

agick.org/Usage/quantize/ Or more specifically http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/quantize/#monochrome If you don't find what you want in Imagemagick, the second place you look is Imagemagick -- it's probably there and you missed it the first time. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

On 2017-12-21, Marc Joliet wrote: > Really, sometimes I wonder why I keep seeing people on this list who > clearly haven't heard of the --keep-going option. I know about the option and choose not to use it. I don't want it to "keep going" until I've looked at what failed and

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

On 2017-12-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-12-18, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards >><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How do I skip grub

[gentoo-user] Re: How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

On 2017-12-18, John Blinka <john.bli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> How do I skip grub and continue? > > > emerge --skipfirst --resume Thanks, I just seconds ago finall

[gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

I tried following the profile 17 upgrade instructions but now I'm stuck. After running for a day or so, the 'emerge -e @world' command stopped when grub-0.97 failed to build. How do I skip grub and continue? Or do I have to tell emerge to start over from the beginning (skipping grub)? Assuming

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

On 2017-12-06, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:01:25 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2017-12-06, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I discovered that building Chromium with gcc-6.4.0 is taking an >> > inor

[gentoo-user] Re: Puzzled with duration of chromium emerge under profile 17.0

ted to gcc-6.4.0? After updating a bunch of stuff a month or two back, I noticed that builds suddently took 4X as long. I finally realized that I had broken the CPU throttling feature and my laptop was always running at 400MHz and not ramping up to 2. GHz when doing things like compiling la

[gentoo-user] Re: Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

On 2017-12-05, Adam Carter wrote: >> > Good question. I've been using a pie-enabled gcc 7.2 for months before >> > the 17.0 profile switch and both acroread and skype (the new one) >> > still work, so chances are your stuff will too. >> >> Years ago when I used acroread I

[gentoo-user] Re: Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

On 2017-12-05, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-12-05 00:05, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> > There are a number of third-party binary executables that I use >> > regularly on my Gentoo systems. >> > [...] >> > Is switching to the new 17.0 profile likely to break them? >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

On 2017-12-05, Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:42:45 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> There are a number of third-party binary executables that I use >> regularly on my Gentoo systems. [...] >> >> Is swit

[gentoo-user] Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

by their respective vendors. Is switching to the new 17.0 profile likely to break them? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FOOLED you! Absorb at EGO SHATTERING impulse gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: #gentoo experiences

On 2017-11-19, Michael Palimaka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. Just curious: what is "#gentoo"? Something to do with Twitter? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems copmiling firefox 57.0 (linking phase)

much easier to spot the source of the problem. Of course the build takes longer. [And if you're building on a laptop where you've unwittingly broken the CPU clock throttling stuff, and it's running at 1/4 speed, it _really_ takes a long time.] -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

gt; >>> >>> You can set your optimization preferences in make.conf, and still an >>> ebuild will override them if deemed unsafe. What would be the >>> difference? >>> >> >> Ebuilds are not supposed to do this, so if you file a bug report >>

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

ode of packages? "They" review the source code for the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Qt, Chrome, Firefox, GCC, and 24670 thousand other packages and make sure they all follow Gentoo coding standards? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Internal compiler error when compiling Chromium-62.0.3202.75

On 2017-11-09, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Strangely enough, I rebooted and this time it compiled without any > error! o_O > > So, all is well that ends well. :-) Ah, to be young and optimistic again... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Internal compiler error when compiling Chromium-62.0.3202.75

een a hardware problem. Every time except one, it was failing RAM. I'd run memtest86 overnight. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm definitely not at in Omaha! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux USB security holes.

by somebody who is allowed to touch the machine is indeed delusion on a pretty grand scale. Expecting a machine to be immune to other non-DoS attacks when they can touch the machine is moderately deluded. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Don't hit me!! I'm in at the Twilight Zone!!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up claws mail

On 2017-10-20, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 20 October 2017 15:29:28 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2017-10-20, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> > I don't think that can be it, because there's no sign of authenti

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up claws mail

ogged in. > [09:55:57] POP3> STAT > [09:55:58] POP3< +OK 0 0 > [09:55:58] POP3> QUIT > [09:55:58] POP3< +OK Goodbye. See you again sometime :) In the response to the STAT command, the server says there is no mail. What is it that you expect claws to do when there is no mail

[gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

ewall/router. A lot of the cheap consumer models are starting to "support" IPv6 by default when it appears to them that the ISP supports IPv6. But, the default IPv6 firewall/router settings aren't always usable. -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

chasing Your Laptop" "The Best Laptop computer Suggestions For Commencing Consumers" For 14 months ending in January 2016, the content was updated monthly. AFAICT, there are no ads, no trackers, no malware. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 2017-10-13, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > And is there a way to build systemd without ipv6? Or am I going to have > to revert these three systems back to openrc? ^^ You misspelled "upgrade". ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

cts." The assumption presumably being that your _customers_ could also figure that out from reviewing your ISO9000 documentation. I have no idea how many customers actually do a good enough review of their vendors' ISO9000 documents to figure it out... -- Grant Edwards gran

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, October 9, 2017, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2017-10-09, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> >>> This is a know bug see https://bugs.gentoo.org/633790

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

anging the version number, but maybe that's just me... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Being a BALD HERO at is almost as FESTIVE as a gmail.comTATTOOED KNOCKWURST.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-09, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > This is a know bug see https://bugs.gentoo.org/633790 Yep, that's it. Yet when you search for roundingflags or shapedtextflags in Gentoo's bugzilla, it finds nothing. Has the search feature in Bugzilla ever worked? -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-09, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In this case the namespace of the missing declaration is inside >> Mozilla's, e.g. it is part of Firefox or a closely bundled library. >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 wrote: > In this case the namespace of the missing declaration is inside > Mozilla's, e.g. it is part of Firefox or a closely bundled library. Yep, after a bit more research, that was my conclusion. The chromium build finished happily, so I've just

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-08, R0b0t1 wrote: > Usually what happens is it will be corrupted in RAM after being > verified on disk, and faulty results will be saved to disk from RAM. A > user on the forums recently had this issue compiling dev-lang/vala, > and I have had related issues. I've

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017 18:02:43 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I was afraid it might be failing RAM, but a second attempt failed in >> exactly the same way. I guess I'll delete the ebuild files and the &g

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:51:41 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> When I did my usual update today firefox 52.4.0 failed to build. >> There are thousands of compiler warnings in the build log, but the >> only thing

[gentoo-user] emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

When I did my usual update today firefox 52.4.0 failed to build. There are thousands of compiler warnings in the build log, but the only thing I can find that looks like an error is this: /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ [...]

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

d. Sure enough, deleting large files on xfs didn't cause problems. * It was probably ext3 back then, so it's possible none of this applies to ext4. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's OKAY -- I'm an at IN

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple network interfaces and openrc

work if either # one comes up. With rc_depend_strict="YES" we would require them both to # come up. rc_depend_strict="NO" -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! for ARTIFICIAL at FLAVORING!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

DPI set to (96, 96) On anything even remotely modern, it should get read auto-magically from the display itself. If that's correct, then I'm not sure what the next step would be. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The SAME WAVE keeps

[gentoo-user] Re: processor speed

ark Williams Coherent v7 Unix clone.] The original keyboard is still going strong! -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Should I get locked at in the PRINCICAL'S gmail.comOFFICE toda

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

he joker that thought that one up. > $ equery keywords sys-devel/gcc > > is more clear on this. Thanks, I should have known to not use a web page for something that had a command-line tool. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm a fuschia bowling

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

On 2017-08-01, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 16:00:07 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 01/08/2017 15:55, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Everyone is expected to be on at

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Everyone is expected to be on at least GCC 5 now. OK, next dumb question: There are 11 versions marked as stable for amd64. How does one find out which version of GCC one is "expected to be on"?

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

On 2017-07-31, Mateusz Lenik <m...@mlen.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:02:34PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> ../../third_party/vulkan-validation-layers/src/loader/debug_report.c:50:5: >> note: use option -std=c99, -std=gnu99, -std=c11 or -std=gnu11 to

[gentoo-user] chromium 60 build failure

It looks like chromeium 60 just went stable for AMD64. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to build for me. I've googled the gcc error message from the build log, and the only thing I can find is somebody claiming it's caused by a bungled upgrade to gcc 5.x. I haven't upgrade to gcc 5.x, so that

[gentoo-user] Re: maim screenshooting

er the widow you do want a screenshot of. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hold the MAYO & pass at the COSMIC AWARENESS ... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

On 2017-07-30, Rich Freeman wrote: > In my experience the people who are most likely to give you the most > helpful replies tend to also be the first people to hit mute on a > thread when the person asking for help seems determined to make this > as painful as possible.

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

On 2017-07-29, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2017-07-29 18:48, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > PROMPT='Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' >> > read -p $PROMPT device >> >> Nit: that doesn't work quite right either. It should be >

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

On 2017-07-29, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-07-29 19:13, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > >> > read 'Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' device >> >> AFAIK, this is not valid syntax for `read` in any shell (even on >> Debian. I just checked) > > Indeed. That

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

ese days, a LiveUSB.) Doesn't systemrescuecd still have a 32-bit boot option? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The entire CHINESE at WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

On 2017-07-15, Matthias Hanft <m...@hanft.de> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?) >> to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying >> representation has neve

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

any years back. That said, the actual underlying representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still going to overflow in 2038 -- same as it ever was. NetBSD and OpenBSD both changed to signed-64 on both 32-bit and 64-bit

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of >> directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked &

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

On 2017-06-16, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-06-16, Ian Zimmerman <i...@primate.net> wrote: > >> The last time I tried MTP was on Debian maybe 2 years ago or 3 years, >> using the jmtpfs package. IIRC this was what happened; yes, I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

├── amazonmp3 │   └── temp ├── Android │   ├── data │   │   ├── com.amazon.kindle │   │   │   ├── cache │   │   │   │   └── uil-images [...] 475 directories, 3238 files -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hel

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

, That seems like perfectly reasonable and correct behavior. Why is it an issue? > so I added the dep. There's been some pushback on this so maybe > it'll be reverted or maybe not. It's being tracked in bug #621754 > for anyone who wants to chime in. -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

ry and everything underneath it the exact same way I would if it were a USB-storage device. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gee, I feel kind of at LIGHT in the head now,

[gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

time to give up on Firefox? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are you still an at ALCOHOLIC? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

On 2017-05-22, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2017 18:33:47 Grant Edwards wrote: >> Having just recently allowed Firefox to upgrade from 45 to 52, I'm now >> hobbled with the GTK3 file browser dialog. >> >> It's horrible. >>

[gentoo-user] Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

tting Ctrl-L makes it minimally functional, and I can at least enter a path again. I shall probably die still longing for the days of GTK2... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I had pancake makeup at

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

On 2017-05-19, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned > keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still > seem to work fine. > > Can anybody provide any hint as to how yo

[gentoo-user] firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still seem to work fine. Can anybody provide any hint as to how you set the keybindings in firefox-bin 52.1.0? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

On 2017-05-15, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > During a routine update, emerge failed to compile nfs-utils: > > [...] > > context.c:40:26: fatal error: rpc/auth_gss.h: No such file or directory >#include And of course immediatly after po

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

other than a Sabayon user posting on a Gentoo list/forum many years ago about the exact same error message. He was told to go away. Where is rpc/auth_gss.h supposed to come from, and why does the nfs-utils ebuild suddenly expect it to be present? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Horrible English

able to read anything at all without the > eye of an editor - it's ruined my enjoyment of everything I > read. There's no hope any longer.) And that's your excuse for being rude and bitching out somebody for minor grammar mistakes in work they're doing for you for free? You o

[gentoo-user] Re: htop wants cgroups

eatures will be disabled" > > Hey, this is _very_ different to have some extra stuff off and > to have core stuff with "unexpected problems". I agree. If cgroups is disabled in the kernel, then a tool omitting features to support cgroups is _not_ an "unexpected problem

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

actually _does_ in an ANSI terminal emulator. The ANSI escape sequences only allow for 16 colors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

nal Firewire RAID array. The really convenient thing about it is that backup is simply a set of directory trees that you can peruse at any time to verify that backups are occuring or to look at old versions of files. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm havi

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0

help. It's emerged okay. In my experience, internal GCC errors that show up intermittently and/or only under heavly load usually means failing RAM (or more rarely, some other hardware problem: something bad on the PCI bus, failing swap parition, etc.). I'd run memtest86 overnight, if I were you...

[gentoo-user] Pay attention to what 'emerge' tells you.

. Now update the next machine... same conflicts. This time I paid closer attention to the emerge output and added '--backtrack=30' as it suggested. Then the update worked ran no problem. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! BELA LUGOSI is my

[gentoo-user] Re: Sizing up power supplies [was: switching adapter - power supply]

al/max power consumption numbers, but for other components it's hopeless. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.comRECOVERY!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

On 2017-03-19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > yes...no chance. > Linux is insecure...you know. > It makes it possible to spy the firmware and decrypt it on > the way to the charger. > > Windows is much more secure. Wow. It's actually much easier to grab serial data on Windows (using

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiping the old root without killing the new root

arition. If you just want an empty filesystem then just run 'mkfs -t' on the partition. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Uh-oh!! I forgot at to submit to COMPULSORY gmail.comURINALYSIS!

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > >> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Especially

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

depends on what shell you're running. That's true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells. It's not true with some others. When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is done by the shell: the way god intended. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! H

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

On 2017-03-14, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/03/2017 17:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >> After I do an update, I get this message: >> >> !!! existing preserved libs: >> >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >>*

[gentoo-user] Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

rved-libs warning. Portage seems upset tht binutils-2.25.1 is using binutils-libs-2.25.1 instead of binutils-libs-2.27, but re-emerging binutils-2.25.1 doesn't help. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's at f

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-07, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> wrote: > On Dienstag, 7. M�rz 2017 15:19:33 CET Grant Edwards wrote: >> No, as a rule I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. > > Ah, of course. I'm using ~arch kernels ATM. (As a btrfs user I was tracking > the mos

[gentoo-user] Duplicate rows in "Availble Version" tables at packages.gentoo.org

The other is all yellow except for amd64. I don't remember seeing this sort of thing in the past, but I won't swear that it's a new thing either. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... I don't like FRANK at SINATRA or hi

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

e I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. However, I'm a bit confused about the table shown at https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources There are two rows for some versions (e.g. 4.9.6-r1), with different indicators. What does that mean? -- Grant E

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of > directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked > find. > > About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-06, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On March 6, 2017 5:14:39 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 2017-03-06, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I'm going to try t

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

ot to ask questions like that. They never get answered, and it just causes problems when it is revealed that the client having problems is a Linux machine. > Maybe force Windows down to a lower SMB version or reduce/disable > SMB client side caching? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-04, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 08:02:11 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" > : > >> >> >Normally, when things are working but idle, the TCP connection to 445 >> >shows an SMB echo request/rseponse transaction once per minute. When >>

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

On 2017-03-03, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On March 3, 2017 7:49:27 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >>About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and >>work as usual as long as you keep us

[gentoo-user] CIFS mounts started misbehaving

inhost/projects cifs netbiosname=,workgroup=,username=,password=,uid=,gid=users,noserverino,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,noauto 0 0 is the username (same on Gentoo and Windows) is the Windows workgroup name is the Windows server password for Any ideas? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

On 2017-02-22, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:39:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > >> I wasn't proposing that you could easily build 32-bit packages in a >> 64-bit root (though in theory I think you could). What I was >>

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