[gentoo-user] [OT] DisplayPort KVM switch advice please

2021-11-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Can anyone recommend a reliable KVM switch for DisplayPort with USB keyboard and mouse? I've tried a couple of devices over the past few years, but they both failed - or at least they appeared to fail, in subtle ways. I have two PC workstations and an Intel NUC box to connect to my

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with KOrganizer and Google calendar

2021-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 November 2021 17:32:54 GMT Jack wrote: > I see a checkbox for "Enable interval refresh", but if I turn this off, > when will the desktop pick up any changes made to the calendar on other > devices? I'll try turning it off - hopefully the "refresh" or "update > folder" will handle

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

2021-11-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 November 2021 08:19:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:43:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 3:21 PM Laurence Perkins > > wrote: > > > The genpi64 project is supposedly back up and running, so you can get >

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with KOrganizer and Google calendar

2021-11-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:37:56 GMT Jack wrote: > I use KDE, and have configured KOrganizer to access my Google > Calendar. Unfortunately, I very often open KOrganizer, and my Google > events are simply not present, and that calendar is not even shown in > the list at the lower left. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

2021-11-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:43:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 3:21 PM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > The genpi64 project is supposedly back up and running, so you can get > > newer images that need fewer updates again. > > > > > > > > From: Mark Knecht > > Sent:

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox-6.1.24 - not responding

2021-11-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 8 November 2021 17:46:03 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I've upgraded to virtualbox-6.1.24 but it is not responding. I have to > reboot the computer for it to work Is 6.1.24 stable? app-emulation/virtualbox-6.1.24-r1 is shown as stable here. Note the -r1. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-11-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:54:50 GMT Jack wrote: > > On Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:11:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but > > > > I'm > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 October 2021 21:54:50 BST Jack wrote: > I just noticed something which may or may not help. The jekyllrb.com > docs page, under Prerequisites, says Ruby version 2.5.0 or higher. Why > does the ebuild insist on 2.5 (no longer even in the tree) or 2.6. If > I were going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 October 2021 14:42:44 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2021, at 09:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:34:49 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> I got jekyll installed via portage by adding: > >> dev-ruby/* ~amd

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 October 2021 13:34:49 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > I got jekyll installed via portage by adding: > > dev-ruby/* ~amd64 > www-apps/jekyll ~amd64 > www-apps/jekyll-* ~amd64 > > to package.accept_keywords, and then running `emerge www-apps/jekyll'. > This is on stable,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 28 October 2021 12:08:01 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I faintly remember ... long time ago, when I had to use some Ruby gems > under both, Ubuntu and Gentoo I think I did something along the lines of > >$ gem install $pkg --user-install Er... $ gem install jekyll bundler

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:59:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > One possibility occurred to me: is having two ruby versions installed at > once the problem? I already had 3.0 installed, the current Gentoo version, > but jekyll needs 2.6. To test this idea, I'd have to downgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 17:25:55 BST Jack wrote: > On 2021.10.27 09:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > One possibility occurred to me: is having two ruby versions installed > > at once the problem? I already had 3.0 installed, the current Gentoo > > version, but jeky

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:44:09 BST Pascal Schorde wrote: > did you have dev-ruby/rubygems installed? See > https://jekyllrb.com/docs/#prerequisites Yes, but at version 3.0: $ eix dev-ruby/rubygems [I] dev-ruby/rubygems Available versions: 3.0.3^t 3.0.9^t 3.1.6^t (~)3.2.14^t{tbz2}

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:31:28 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Sorry: The site is https://jekyllrb.com/docs/ -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 21 October 2021 17:11:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but I'm > falling at the second hurdle (the first was setting package.env etc to pull > in ruby26 as well as the currently installed rub

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 21 October 2021 21:22:58 BST Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021, 18:11:27 CEST schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Hello list, > > > > I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but I'm > > falling at the second hu

[gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

2021-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I wanted to try this package to create a small site for myself, but I'm falling at the second hurdle (the first was setting package.env etc to pull in ruby26 as well as the currently installed ruby30). Does anyone have experience with this builder? I'd like to find out where I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switched from rsync to git, now emerge --sync fails

2021-10-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 14 October 2021 03:50:59 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-10-13, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 2:50 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Is there some reason it should default > >> to doing unlimited depth fetch operations? > > > > If all you want is a repo, no reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New versions of the patches.

2021-10-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 7 October 2021 20:46:51 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Here are the latest versions of my soft scrolling patch for the kernel > lines 5.10.xx and 5.14.xx. They fix bugs where a PC would crash if it > was initialised with a 25x80 console and later changed to a full > resolution frame

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 6 October 2021 21:24:07 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Well I’m on ye Olde Continent and here I use a price search engine called > geizhals (German for scrooge). But they have an English equivalent ;-) and > of course use European pricing schemes (meaning including taxes, which you

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:11:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > When I checked it in the past > > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version > > was significantly faster than > > emerge -C gentoo-sources-version > rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version Yes, it would be. The first

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 4 October 2021 07:57:10 BST coa...@tuta.io wrote: > Lol i just installed that earlier, didnt know gentoo is THAT > understaffed,looking at the history i know of i still dont understand if > the wiki dying was a good or a bad thing for the community in one hand > hardcore fans stayed and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 18:43:06 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > There are also backup tools which will handle the compression step for you. > > app-backup/duplicity uses a similar tar file and index system with periodic > full and then incremental chains. Plus it keeps a condensed list of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:38:42 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > You keep mentioning USB3, but I think the main factor here is that the > external drive is probably a spinning hard drive (I don't think you > explicitly mentioned this but it seems likely esp with the volume of > data). That math

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 26 September 2021 11:57:43 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 > .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't > need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 27 September 2021 14:30:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 27 September 2021 02:39:19 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I have an

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 27 September 2021 02:39:19 BST Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 > > .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amountin

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
> > > > [2] > > * https://github.com/vasi/pixz > > > > [3] > > * https://launchpad.net/pbzip2 > > * http://compression.ca/pbzip2/ > > > > [4] > > * https://facebook.github.io/zstd/ > > > > On 26/09/2021 13:36, Simon Thel

[gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 .tar files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need to compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have to. Is there a reasonably efficient way to do this? I have 500GB

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

2021-09-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 24 September 2021 18:29:11 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > To apply the patch (you surely know this already), cd to the top of the > kernel tree, and use > > $ patch -p1 < 5.14.5-scroll-20210924.diff [...] > .. Please let me know again how it works out. Thanks! Works for me, Alan,

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:20:52 BST Michael wrote: > Out of interest, have you tried booting a NUMA enabled kernel to see what > dmesg reports? Yes, it's been enabled ever since I had a dual-socket motherboard, years ago. I didn't understand why I did or didn't need it until I read

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on the use of a VCS (specifically git) to keep track of my Softscroll patch.

2021-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 21:56:34 BST Ramon Fischer wrote: > If GitHub is preferred, there is also an official GitHub repository of > the Linux Kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux This raises the question of which kernel to work with: vanilla source or Gentoo? Sorry to be difficult.

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:32:46 BST Charlotte Delenk wrote: > On 9/23/21 18:30, Grant Taylor wrote: > > > On 9/23/21 4:39 AM, Miles Malone wrote: > > > >> You'd need NUMA if you had a NUMA machine. In current context, that > >> would be either a) a dual socket system, b) an amd

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
memory they need the other > cpu core to pass it through) > > On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 19:39, Charlotte Delenk wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > On 9/23/21 10:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I see "[0.003162

[gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I see "[0.003162] No NUMA configuration found" in dmesg. Does that mean I should, or can, remove the NUMA settings from the kernel? This is a Ryzen M9 5900X machine. I have this at the moment: $ grep NUMA /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING=y #

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-09-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 1 September 2021 23:28:46 BST antlists wrote: > On 01/09/2021 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The thing is, there's already an ebuild for dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl, > > but since I upgraded the display card the resulting code hasn't worked. > > BOINC reports

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 18:21:48 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 16:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > AMD have published Linux drivers on their website, but in RPM and .deb > > formats. I tried one anyway, but installation stops immediately with >

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with > opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and > from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor amdgpu

[gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor amdgpu-pro-opencl can drive it. Rather spoils the point of upgrading to it. -- Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cmake?

2021-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 26 August 2021 15:39:53 BST tastytea wrote: > Don't run cmake in src/, run it in the directory src is in. I have been doing so. --->8 > # This configures the build (checks for dependencies and so on) > cmake -S . -B build > # This compiles the sources > cmake --build build > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to cmake?

2021-08-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 26 August 2021 10:49:38 BST tastytea wrote: > You need to run cmake in the directory that has the top-level > CMakeLists.txt. Use cmake -S . -B build from the top-level directory. > This whill use . as source directory and build as build directory. > You will need

[gentoo-user] How to cmake?

2021-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I wanted to try KDFM, which I read about in Linux Format. It's a file manager with some interesting features. So I went to sourceforge.net/projects/kdfm, downloaded the source and extracted it to /usr/local/src/kdfm-code. What do I do next? I tried 'cmake ./src' and similar and got

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 12:27:08 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:35:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > As the Firefox dir is all text files, I think, when you > > > > > > > > blow it away and rebuild and get the corre

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 10:26:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 04:05:12 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > > As the Firefox dir is all text files, I think, when you blow it away > > and rebuild and get the correct behaviour, grab a copy. When the dodg

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 04:05:12 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 24/8/21 10:59 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:26:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> Hello list, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:26:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Far too often, Firefox on this box will hide the tab bar, but behave as > > though it were still there. In other wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Far too often, Firefox on this box will hide the tab bar, but behave as > though it were still there. In other words, I have to aim the mouse pointer > 2cm below the thing I want to click. > &

[gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Far too often, Firefox on this box will hide the tab bar, but behave as though it were still there. In other words, I have to aim the mouse pointer 2cm below the thing I want to click. Pressing reveals the bar but clicking in it just hides it again. I can still cycle through the

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 6 August 2021 12:58:59 BST n952162 wrote: > (sorry, Peter, for the direct email, apparently a mis-click) It's easily forgiven. For who among us has never misclicked? :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 15:51:15 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 15:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I don't see them when syncing from a cron script, when all output is > > captured and emailed, but do when running sync on a shell. It seems you > > only see this when running sync

[gentoo-user] Interesting portage upgrade

2021-06-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is just an observation. I update the rescue system on this box weekly. Today, portage version 3.0.18 wanted to upgrade itself to 3.0.20-r6, plus 31 other packages, and remerge 16 others. After saying No and emerging portage, those 16 remerges were not included: just the 31

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

2021-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 14 June 2021 17:36:11 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Sunday, 2021-06-13 18:23:54 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in > > > > detail. Have you added: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > > > in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 13 June 2021 21:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 04:09:58PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > > Or the OP could use Lilo, the simplest boot manager of all. > > On a UEFI-only desktop PC? No. There is sys-boot/elilo, which ought to do, but I haven't tried it. --

Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

2021-06-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:16:59 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So what would you recommend for someone in the case Joost cites? I'm in > > that position, being a home user of a small network but no registered &g

Re: Letsencrypt (was Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates)

2021-06-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 12:40:28 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2021-06-01 at 13:17 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > It's not that easy to do it with internal-only systems as Let's Encrypt > > requires the hostname to be known externally. > > And there are plenty of devices you do not want

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:01:27 BST Michael wrote: > I found choosing a tool which is a best fit for the user requirements is > usually easier than trying to bend a less suitable tool to do what you > desire. If a boot menu at *each* start up is a must, have you given > syslinux any

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:49:01 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Thanks for the offer, Michael, but let me clear a few things up first. > > > > 1. I don't use symlinks in /boot. > > This allows a simpler

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:43:00 BST antlists wrote: > On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and > > cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB. > > I don't know how this works, but I installed Windows 10 and S

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 24 May 2021 16:14:43 BST Michael wrote: > You can contact me off list if you want to work through the detail of > configuring your system with and without a boot manager. I think once it > clicks, you'll be able to apply your preferred solution without much trouble > in the future.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

2021-05-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 21 May 2021 20:06:25 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 21 May 2021 15:42:01 BST pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Mynew machine has Win-10 installedon /dev/nvme0n1 with the ESP as > > partition > > 1. I want to install Gentoo on /dev/nvme1n1. So far I haven't found a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
I'm glad that worked. Personally, I'm pleased to have ditched grub altogether. -- Regards, Peter Humphrey.

Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 May 2021 00:06:07 BST John Blinka wrote: > How does one debug this situation? Just coming to this belatedly, not having noticed what may be a connection until now. I have an Asus X99-A motherboard, and I never got grub to work at all. I use a combination of efibootmgr and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install new ~amd64 system

2021-05-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 13 May 2021 14:17:43 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm trying to install a fresh sytem on my workstation. I've started with > no USE flags set, other than what was requested in emerge -uaDvN > @world, but the update stops at pango, which fails with a ninja no- can- > do

[gentoo-user] Can't install new ~amd64 system

2021-05-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm trying to install a fresh sytem on my workstation. I've started with no USE flags set, other than what was requested in emerge -uaDvN @world, but the update stops at pango, which fails with a ninja no-can- do error. I've followed the handbook exactly. Before I log a bug, has

[gentoo-user] Compiling/loading problem

2021-05-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm having problems with libreoffice. I thought at first it was a space problem, after the recent thread on running out of it, but I now have /tmp as part of /, not separate, and /var/tmp/portage on a 100GB partition of a SATA SSD. The root partition has 35GB spare. Before I try

Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

2021-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 9 May 2021 22:53:17 BST Michael Jones wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 4:29 PM Nils Freydank > > wrote: > > The Raspberry Pi image (stage3) seems to be unmaintained so far: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit > > There's a maintained image for 64bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby problems

2021-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:56:29 BST tastytea wrote: > That looks like you need to select the new ruby version with eselect. > It doesn't figure out the right version automatically, like python. I tried setting ruby_targets_ruby30 in package.use (and ruby26 and 27 at different times). I also

[gentoo-user] Ruby problems

2021-04-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone here succeeded in building a new system since the recent Ruby language upgrade? I keep being thwarted by failure such as this typical one: >>> Install dev-ruby/rake-13.0.3-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-ruby/ rake-13.0.3-r1/image * Running install phase for ruby26 ... *

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 12 April 2021 12:01:28 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Okay, step by step. First I chose the basic make.profile, number 1, and > installed my base system set - everything that doesn't need a GUI. Then I > switched to the basic desktop profile, number 5 and ran a -uav @world. So

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ > > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 11 April 2021 12:02:27 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 6:33 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think I must have had a bad stage tarball. At any rate, that problem > > doesn't occur now. > > Possible, though it seems more likely that it was a bad r

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 11 April 2021 11:33:22 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 8 April 2021 16:47:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:27:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ > > gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, > &g

[gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm trying to reinstall this system, but being blocked. I'm following the handbook installation instructions. Untarring the latest stage-3 onto /mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/var and /mnt/ gentoo/usr/local gets me started. Then I chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash, and that works too. Then I

Re: [gentoo-user] CTRL-C and pre-merge checks

2021-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 07:53:09 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 6 April 2021 23:08:17 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I've just started an emerge -e world to run overnight, and I realised I'd > > forgotten to mount /boot (for intel-microcode

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

2021-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 7 April 2021 08:40:44 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 23:11:15 -0600, Dan Egli wrote: > > Before I seek out a mailing list for syslog-ng, I was hoping I could > > get some tips from people here. I recently started trying to separate > > logs into various functions

[gentoo-user] CTRL-C and pre-merge checks

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've just started an emerge -e world to run overnight, and I realised I'd forgotten to mount /boot (for intel-microcode), so I hit CTRL-C to abort. It took several dozen attempts, because pre-merge checks were in progress. It seems that this operation doesn't pass the interrupt up

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 5 April 2021 19:13:18 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > We'll see how people react to it here, first. You're my hero! -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 5 April 2021 19:43:29 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 19:04:18 +0100, antlists wrote: > > > For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will > > > accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options, > > > whereas oldconfig will prompt the

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find LILO

2021-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 2 April 2021 17:29:25 BST konsolebox wrote: > Your ARCH is set to i386 most likely. Maybe it's a CHOST configuration > issue. No, it isn't either of those. Nothing has changed between this kernel and others. Oddly, 'make install' works if I chroot into this system from, e.g., a

[gentoo-user] Cannot find LILO

2021-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today's update brought in sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.27, but it comes with a problem: when I 'make install' I get 'Cannot find LILO'. Of course it can't, but why is it wanted? $ uname -a Linux peak 5.4.97-gentoo #1 SMP Sun Feb 21 22:53:16 GMT 2021 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gparted leaves gaps

2021-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 1 April 2021 11:13:07 BST Michael wrote: > You could check/set the alignment of logical-physical sectors yourself, by > making sure the start of your partitions is divisible by 8, instead of > adopting the GParted 1MB default boundary in any cases where it is not > necessary. So it

[gentoo-user] Gparted leaves gaps

2021-03-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps between partitions, so I have to do one at a time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 22 March 2021 01:25:35 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > Any advice wb very welcome ; please remember I know nothing re cell > phones, tho' of course I'm quite willing to buy one (brand suggestions ? ). Google Pixel, for the nearest thing to the pure Android experience. Others add all manner

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-03-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 March 2021 12:16:43 GMT Michael wrote: > Perhaps it is time to file a bug to propose a way forward both on the > Handbook and the Wiki pages to ensure network configuration remains > consistent across the documentation. I tried raising a bug report against the Wiki once, and was

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-02-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 21 February 2021 22:23:00 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > Hi, > > I'm reading Kerberos - The Definitive Guide[1] and it makes the > > following comment: > > And to make matters worse, some Unix systems map their own hostname > > to 127.0.0.1 (the loopback IP address). > > This makes me

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 11:12:44 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thursday, February 18, 2021 12:10:45 PM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > > > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > >

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 08:20:54 GMT Hund wrote: > A SSD is just fine. You're not gaining any performance with a M.2 disk > anyway. Sorry, but that just isn't true. The difference is dramatic. I speak from experience. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] why both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 on a 64bit system?

2021-02-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:48:36 GMT Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:51:30PM -0500 schrieb Jack: > > As I remember, /lib and /usr/lib hold not only 32 bit libraries, but > > non-arch or arch-irrelevant (I know there's a better term) files. > > arch-agnostic? ;-) No, it

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 08:43:13 GMT n952162 wrote: > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > kernel, as in: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > I currently have this situation: > > $ uname -a > Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 05:14:25 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > Use a standard Gentoo aarch64 (arm64 ) package. Add a pi kernel, the > /lib/modules directory and the /boot directory from a raspian tarball. > > I did this on a pi 3B running in 64bit mode. Once I had a bootable > system it was

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance, today I tried installing a small Gentoo system into a chroot, to do the compiling there. It seemed to be going well until

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 4 February 2021 11:42:08 GMT Michael wrote: > You may need to modprobe the relevant modules if the above won't also load > them - can't recall if it does. I believe it only recompiles and installs them. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mounting USB without root password

2021-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 29 January 2021 17:37:29 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-01-29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I uncommented in: sudoers (it works) > > %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL > > > > %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > Wow. That seems extremely dangerous to me... I suppose it is, but I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - ERROR: dev-lang/rust-1.47.0-r2::gentoo failed (compile phase)

2021-01-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 18 January 2021 07:44:33 GMT bobwxc wrote: > > I think that might have been the case, I run emerge second time and it > > compiled just fine. Maybe I will switch to "rust-bin", thanks for > > suggestion. Why do we need it, is it part of "system-bootstrap"? > Rust is a computer

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - ERROR: dev-lang/rust-1.47.0-r2::gentoo failed (compile phase)

2021-01-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 16 January 2021 20:59:17 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Reinstalling Gentoo on one box (I wiped the root partition, so it is a clean > install) and I'm getting this error --->8 Have you thought of using rust-bin instead of rust? "emerge -1 rust-bin" It saves prodigious amounts

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:30:08 GMT Michael wrote: > It seems your PC on which sysklogd works as expected has its rc script only > on 'default' runlevel, rather than default +sysinit. I don't know if > sysinit is required. If you remove sysinit and restart sysklogd from a > terminal does it

Re: [gentoo-user] syslogd hibernating

2021-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> can anyone explain this? > >> > >> I noticed today (15. January) that the /var/log/{messages,kern.log,etc.} > >> files on

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 18:14:39 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 10:30:19 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out > > [1]. > &g

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