Re: [gentoo-user] is there something wrong with net-misc/inetutils?

2024-02-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/18/24 01:50, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 23:10, Michael Cook wrote: On 2/17/24 14:03, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 20:00, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 19:56, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 19:22, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 16:38, Arsen Arsenović wrote: n952162 writes: When I try to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] is there something wrong with net-misc/inetutils?

2024-02-17 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/17/24 14:03, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 20:00, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 19:56, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 19:22, n952162 wrote: On 2/17/24 16:38, Arsen Arsenović wrote: n952162 writes: When I try to emerge it, it fails, but https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/inetutils seems

Re: [gentoo-user] "eix" doesn't find a freshly installed package

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Cook
On 1/7/24 12:35, Michael Cook wrote: On 1/7/24 12:24, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, during my last routine upgrade  package "media-video/vlc" installed new dependency  "media-libs/libmpg123".   However,  after installation "eix" did not list the new pack

Re: [gentoo-user] "eix" doesn't find a freshly installed package

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Cook
On 1/7/24 12:24, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, during my last routine upgrade package "media-video/vlc" installed new dependency "media-libs/libmpg123". However, after installation "eix" did not list the new package, while "eix-installed" did: # eix-update --quiet # env -i

Re: [gentoo-user] udev rule for periodic polling of USB gamepad?

2024-01-03 Thread Michael Cook
On 1/3/24 12:33, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it possible to have a USB controller (8BitDo Pro 2) polled every second or so with a udev rule? Or through some other mechanism? This controller has a quirk where it disconnects every 4 seconds or so and rubmbles when it does so. It also changes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-12 Thread Michael Cook
On 10/12/23 06:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook <mailto:mackal.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: >     I just --backtrack=100 and walk

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Michael Cook
On 10/11/23 09:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and being blocked. All the visible blockers are Qt itself so --verbose-conflicts is needed. That will be an

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-12 Thread Michael Cook
On 5/12/23 09:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 12 May 2023 00:08:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote: The ''problem' is this can easily hit 100% of the cores you have in the machine if

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Michael Cook
On 5/11/23 23:23, Eldon wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:07:04PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Once again, --load-average is being ignored. Why is it there? Surely, it must be to mitigate the worst effects of that N*K, but it isn't doing so. Take all of the following with a grain of salt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote: A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout... * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives" * and then include "app-alternatives" in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Michael Cook
On 11/16/22 19:18, Laurence Perkins wrote: tortoise ~ # eclean-dist * Building file list for distfiles cleaning... * ERROR: games-strategy/boswars-::poly-c failed (depend phase): * EAPI 6 unsupported. Possibly also need to upgrade portage and/or gentoolkit first. That's usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing keyword. Overlay question too, maybe.

2022-02-19 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/19/22 10:54, Dale wrote: Howdy, I'm just going to point to the gentoo page for this but I'd like to know why something is in the tree if it is not available to anyone due to missing keywords. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/libreoffice Also, I noticed I have packages

Re: [gentoo-user] why libera?

2021-05-28 Thread Michael Cook
On 5/28/21 2:44 PM, caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: hi. i personally think gentoo should've gone to OFTC instead of libera, because: - OFTC is the true libera, thanks to its better tor support, which is not surprising as it is the home of the tor project. - OFTC has more users at

Re: [gentoo-user] askterisk 11.25.3-r1 masked

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/6/20 4:23 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm looking at the output of "equery y asterisk" and it shows asterisk-11.25.3-r1 is masked and https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-misc/asterisk show as stable (amd64) Why is it masked on my system? It's EOL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-06 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/6/20 3:25 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-12-06, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 20:01:27 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I updated one of my systems a day or two ago, and Python 3.7 went away as expected. Today, I'm updating another system and it is rebuilding tons of stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/16/19 2:00 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Today's updating involves some package which causes rebuilding a package which needs Python2.7 and another one which needs python_single_target_python3_8 required by that mysterious @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ To emerge the Python2.7

Re: [gentoo-user] kodi reports symbol lookup error

2019-12-11 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/11/19 11:39 PM, Adam Carter wrote: Kodi has been dead for a while; /usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: undefined symbol: _ZN3fmt2v68internal14sprintf_formatIeEEPcT_RNS1_6bufferIcEENS1_13sprintf_specsE How do i go about troubleshooting this? If

Re: [gentoo-user] [Sort of OT] Going old school - Doom

2019-11-23 Thread Michael Cook
On 11/24/19 2:08 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, Does anyone have any suggestions as to the current "best" port of old school Doom? Spent ages playing this in the dim dark days and wouldn't mind doing a quick install and having a go again. Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma upgrade heads up for possible problem

2019-03-05 Thread Michael Cook
On 3/5/19 8:34 PM, Philip Webb wrote: 190305 Michael Cook wrote: On 3/5/19 7:47 PM, Dale wrote: I just did a KDE plasma upgrade to 5.15.  I ran into a slight problem that may or may not affect others so I wanted to give a heads up -- snip -- Doing a revdep-rebuild.sh found the issue for me

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma upgrade heads up for possible problem

2019-03-05 Thread Michael Cook
On 3/5/19 7:47 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I just did a KDE plasma upgrade to 5.15.  I ran into a slight problem that may or may not affect others so I wanted to give a heads up just in case.  Everything builds fine.  I had no compile or install failures. What I did run into tho was a missing or

Re: [gentoo-user] Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

2016-07-11 Thread Michael Cook
On 07/11/2016 04:27 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I put it into CFLAGS/CCFLAGS years ago, and left it there. During a discussion on the Pale Moon forum about build options, the opinion seems to be that "-fomit-frame-pointer" is now the default. Is that correct? I'd like to simplify my

Re: [gentoo-user] CoreOS vulnerability inherited from Gentoo?

2016-05-31 Thread Michael Cook
On 05/31/2016 01:44 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 31 May 2016 16:30:27 James wrote: Here is an interesting read:: Security brief: CoreOS Linux Alpha remote SSH issue May 19, 2016 · By Matthew Garrett Gentoo defaults to ending the PAM configuration with an optional pam_permit. This meant that

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Cook
Have you tried running python-updater? I have no idea if it would fix it, but worth a try? On Mar 23, 2015 17:38, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, For the past week or so, I been getting this endless loop with preserved-rebuild. I did a emerge -ev world last night and it still gives me

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.9.x and stack protection ?

2015-01-19 Thread Michael Cook
On 01/19/2015 06:09 PM, walt wrote: gcc-4.9.2 surprised me by landing on ~amd64 today, and I'm still very vague about the status of stack protection on gentoo. I seem to recall reading (somewhere) that gcc-4.9.x is needed for compiling the kernel with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR_STRONG so I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/18/2014 01:31 PM, Joseph wrote: On 12/18/14 19:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I

Re: [gentoo-user] About the time sync with Windows and Gentoo

2014-07-08 Thread Michael Cook
On 07/08/2014 03:04 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, July 08, 2014 02:45:41 PM taozhijiang wrote: Hi, all I have installed dual OSes on my laptop: Microsoft Windows 7 and Gentoo. But I can not sync the time with the different OSes. By default, Windows shows the right time, but Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-29 Thread Michael Cook
On 06/29/2014 03:20 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:36:14 +0300 Gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure that you need gdm at all? Yes, `startx` doesn't work well in GNOME 3 for a lot of people; so, unless one attempts to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

2014-06-24 Thread Michael Cook
On 06/24/2014 11:51 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the mouse and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature (maybe its a screen saver or something), so

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to turn numlock automatically in my ttys under systemd

2014-06-20 Thread Michael Cook
On 06/20/2014 03:46 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-20 11:26 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: I tried your idea of a shell script like this [Service] ExecStartPost=/bin/bash -c setleds -D -num /dev/%I I tried your line on my system, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-03 Thread Michael Cook
On 06/03/2014 09:48 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: On 06/03/2014 09:08 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Dutch Ingraham s...@gmx.us wrote: On 06/03/2014 07:24 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: FWIW, on my system, I had to mask sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration for it to merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm?

2012-02-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 02/18/2012 05:15 PM, Grant wrote: Has anyone set up lightdm? I'm using it with the default config file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. gdm works fine. Any ideas? - Grant I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to restart and/or shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub2

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Cook
You can't edit /etc/default/grub to customize how grub-mkconfig generates grub.cfg. Mint probably has update-grub like Ubuntu does which just allows you to use that command instead of grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg On Feb 14, 2012 2:55 PM, LK linuxrocksrul...@googlemail.com wrote: On