[gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having been deleted upstream, I'm trying to install x11-themes/qtcurve, but I get this: In file included from /var/tmp/portage/x11-themes/qtcurve-1.9.0-r1/work/qtcurve-1.9.0/qt5/ style/qtcurve_p.h:28,

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 10:37:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 10:29:10AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE > > flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setting it as you say did the

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 09:43:54 BST tastytea wrote: > Setting USE="-networkmanager -wireless" in /etc/portage/make.conf should > fix that. Adding -wifi is probably a good idea too. I already had -wifi -wireless. I didn't know about a networkmanager USE flag - it doesn't appear in use.desc. Setti

Re: [gentoo-user] Updated world -> KDE colours have gone feral....

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 08:12:00 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > A few days ago I did an "emerge -NuD world" on my KDE based desktop > machine. When I rebooted the machine, the colours had gone a bit weird. > I use the Nordic scheme which is dark but now, for example, when I open > Dolphin,

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 31 May 2020 00:19:21 BST Michael wrote: --->8 > Admittedly, like you I have also installed LVM which I don't want/need on > its own. It is pulled in by sys-fs/cryptsetup, needed by pmount, which I > use and may want to use with encrypted filesystems in the future. I'm not > sure if e

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:16:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 22:46:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The point of meta packages is that they install a whole set of stuff, > > > in this case "Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages". If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:08:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 18:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared > > last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I > > neith

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 30 May 2020 19:25:41 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2020 09:06:16 -0400, james wrote: > > Yea, the QT issues, happen every time the bleeding edge (of qt) > > releases. Once I get the packages all upgraded, the bleeding edge qt > > stuff works great (thanks to all the gentooe

[gentoo-user] Have I to install wifi now?

2020-05-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I masked the latest version of plasma-meta, 5.18.5, when it appeared last week, because it insisted on installing network-manager, which I neither need nor want. Now I'm running an emerge -e @world, and portage insists on plasma- meta-5.18.5. (Why?) If I unmask it, network-manager

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:16:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:59:35 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:53:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > > > I see what you mean. I'm just remerging @world with -nls, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:56:29 BST Dale wrote: > Well, I didn't know I could kill that thing. I been logging out and > back in which annoys the stuffing out of me. I have to close three > browsers, several file managers plus whatever else I am doing before I > can logout. Then I have to reo

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:59:35 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:53:03PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > I see what you mean. I'm just remerging @world with -nls, but it > > causes 95 rebuilds, including a lot of kde-frameworks packages, > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 20 May 2020 12:42:03 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Peter, sorry for the late reply :-( > > On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote: > > ... > > What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native > > Language Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I mig

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for Docker

2020-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 May 2020 12:26:02 BST Victor Ivanov wrote: > Andrew makes a good point that, of course, not all options will be > relevant to a particular image or use case. The script is aimed to check > for "full" compatibility. Having some reported as missing is by no means > a deal breaker. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for Docker

2020-05-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 17 May 2020 00:58:54 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 16/05/2020 13:12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I can't find any of those. Any clues for the uninitiated? > > I am running Docker fine on 5.6.12 and I am missing a lot: --->8 > In regards to NF options, I use

[gentoo-user] Kernel config for Docker

2020-05-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I'm trying to follow the wiki[1] to set up gentoo-sources-5.4.38, but the wiki seems to have been written for a different kernel version. Nothing daunted, I set as many parameters as I could, rebooted and ran /usr/share/docker/contrib/ check-config.sh. I got 9 things missing, thus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-10.1.0, anyone?

2020-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 10 May 2020 09:58:43 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/05/2020 11:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 8 May 2020 15:28:08 BST Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > >> For the kernel you need [1], which is not yet in any released versions or > >> even Linus'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-10.1.0, anyone?

2020-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 8 May 2020 15:28:08 BST Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > For the kernel you need [1], which is not yet in any released versions or > even Linus' main tree. With it it works fine - using it right now. I see it's to go into the latest upstream kernel - well, of course it is. Up to now I've st

[gentoo-user] Gcc-10.1.0, anyone?

2020-05-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, Today's update included this latest version of gcc. I installed it, switched to it and rebuilt @system and the kernel. On booting, The system hung at its very first loading: as soon as I selected the kernel to boot, I got the usual "SHA256 validated" message, but it never went aw

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-libs/scipy-1.1.0 fails to compile

2020-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:31:41 BST Victor Ivanov wrote: > Hi all, > > For some reason SciPy fails to compile after today's Python 3.6 -> > Python 3.7 global update. It was the only package that failed out of all. > > Normally build.log (attached) is helpful enough to get me to resolve the > iss

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 4 May 2020 15:08:12 BST Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Here are mine for comparison: # grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' /etc/portage/make.conf L10N="en-GB en" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LANGUAGE="en_GB.UTF-8" # env | grep -E '^(LANG|LC_|L10)' LANG=en_GB.utf8 # locale -a C C.utf8 en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 4 May 2020 01:21:09 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > Any help with this would be appreciated. I'm moving away from NVIDIA due to > the requirement of proprietary drivers to get any decent performance, > however now it feels as though the AMD drivers, although open-source, > consist of too man

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing kernel modules

2020-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 2 May 2020 14:32:22 BST Consus wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 04:29:38PM +0300, Consus wrote: > > On Sat, May 02, 2020 at 02:19:18PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Afternoon all, > > > > > > Is there a straightforward way of listing kernel

[gentoo-user] Listing kernel modules

2020-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, Is there a straightforward way of listing kernel modules that exist but haven't been loaded? I'm sure I have quite a number that I don't need, and I'd like to remove them from the kernel config. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-05-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 1 May 2020 17:00:56 BST Andrea Conti wrote: > GPT is fine too, but for a 1TB disk with a single partition it has absolutely > zero advantage over MBR. I can think of one or two people who might demur there. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-05-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 20:37:23 BST Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 16:24:31 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Have I to go the PulseAudio route after all? > > You do not *have to*, but if you find the PulseAudio server and associated > GUI/CLI tools are conven

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-04-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:43:06 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:15:54 BST Dale wrote: > > Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> ... > > >> [ebuild R] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo 0 KiB > > > > > > Thanks for poin

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 10:15:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm still puzzled at why creating an asound.conf enabled - phonon? - to pick > the right device. Alsa is not installed here, apart from alsa-lib; no > applications. Well, that was a hostage to fortune. Today, afte

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 23:41:59 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:11 AM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > Ah, so now we have mo

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 19:29:18 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Ah, so now we have more clues about what's going on. KDE supplies > pulseaudio. Not here, it doesn't, as far as I can see. It may emulate it, I suppose. > AFAIK it's part of the KDE installation on other distros. I'm > running Kubuntu L

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 15:21:09 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:51 AM Peter Humphrey --->8 > OK, so card 0 is using snd_hda_intel. Card 0 is most likely the default > location that sound is going. Blacklisting it will help. That said you have > 2 USB device

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 April 2020 14:18:52 BST Mark Knecht wrote: Has KMail started misbehaving again? I'm certain I read a reply from Michael, but now there's no trace of it after a reboot (see below). Anyway, I created an /etc/asound.conf with the content he recommended. That gave me sound back. Than

[gentoo-user] USB sound

2020-04-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Morning all, The motherboard sound chip failed, so I bought a USB sound adapter [1]. Problem: no sound: firefox says it isn't working and KDE sounds don't 'appear'. I have all the likely-looking options set in the kernel (5.4.28), modules where possible. I've read the Gentoo wiki articles on USB a

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

2020-04-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:18:06 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:48:05 BST Dale wrote: > > As to the sound problem, I'd try logging out of the GUI, restarting > > elogind or rebooting, and then trying again. One thing I've noticed &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Tinderboxes?

2020-04-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:36:21 BST Michael Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:02 PM Gregory Rudolph wrote: > > I would also offer up some computing power for that, on VMs, or physical > > hardware with different configurations. I'd like to be more involved with > > the Gentoo Development

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 21 April 2020 17:58:03 BST Consus wrote: > ... and even distribution kernel is not an official thing, but a desperate > attempt of someone to fix things. Eh? Desperate? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall6 kernel config

2020-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 April 2020 15:20:43 BST Wolf wrote: > On 2020-04-18 15:03, Peter Humphrey wrote: > ># grep NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE /usr/src/linux/.config > >CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=m > > > >So yes, it is. > > > >I'm confused by having t

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall6 kernel config

2020-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:52:04 BST Wolf wrote: > > ERROR: Your kernel/iptables do not include state match support. No > > version > > > >of Shorewall will run on this system /usr/share/shorewall6/helpers (EOF) > > > >Shorewall refuses to specify which state is not being matched, and I can'

[gentoo-user] Shorewall6 kernel config

2020-04-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
Afternoon all, I did have IPv6 running on my LAN, but then I dropped it while bug-hunting. Now I'd like to put it up again, but I'm falling at the first hurdle. # shorewall6 check Checking using Shorewall 5.2.3.7... Processing /etc/shorewall6/params ... Processing /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

2020-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:48:05 BST Dale wrote: > As to the sound problem, I'd try logging out of the GUI, restarting > elogind or rebooting, and then trying again. One thing I've noticed > about elogind, if it or something it depends on triggers the need for a > restart, it causes some weir

Re: [gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

2020-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 April 2020 11:48:05 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > After the switch to elogind yesterday, chronyd now won't run. It complains > > "Could not get user/group of ntp." I remerged chrony with USE=-ntp, b

[gentoo-user] Two problems after switching to elogind

2020-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, After the switch to elogind yesterday, chronyd now won't run. It complains "Could not get user/group of ntp." I remerged chrony with USE=-ntp, but it didn't help. I know that several people here use chrony, so what is your experience? Secondly, this morning when I started firefox t

Re: [gentoo-user] Ungoogled-chromium, anyone?

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:59:24 BST Michael wrote: > On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:46:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I discovered this package today and wondered whether anyone here had any > > experience of it. > > Interesting to se

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:15:26 BST Michael wrote: > On Monday, 13 April 2020 11:08:30 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu > > with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). > > Does anyone else see that? > > Not

[gentoo-user] Ungoogled-chromium, anyone?

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I discovered this package today and wondered whether anyone here had any experience of it. Which overlay to get it from? How stable is it? Does it really "privatise" chromium? Does it allow extensions like ublock-origin? I'm happy with firefox, but it never hurts to have a choice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

2020-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 13 April 2020 06:32:37 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Assuming this information is available: Is it possible to find the > sweat spot, when to fstrim SSD? This crontab entry is my compromise: 15 3 */2 * * /sbin/fstrim -a It does assume I'll be elsewhere at 03:15, of course. -- Regard

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 20:39:47 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:08:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I wonder, would there ever be any valid reason to have the E.S.P.\ > > > and /boot as different partitions ? > > > > I found I had to do so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 10:51:42 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 3 April 2020 16:14:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Well, raw throughput is great ’n all, but in real-life you won’t notice > > much difference between a SATA and an NVME drive. > > Not so. The d

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:56:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > I wonder, would there ever be any valid reason to have the E.S.P.\ and /boot > as different partitions ? I found I had to do so. I couldn't get Neil's prererred layout to work. I forget the details now, but I only managed to build a usab

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 10:21:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:59:56 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I have some problems to understand, whether I understood... > > > > In the german language the "'s are often used to express the > >

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:59:56 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I have some problems to understand, whether I understood... > > In the german language the "'s are often used to express the > opposite of what is written in words. For example: > > What a "nice" weather it is...! > > will say:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 22:26:16 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 10:59:31 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > Is it possible to recreate exactlu the same pool of > > > applications/programs/libraries etc..., which my current > > > system have - in one go? > > > > You don't say if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 4 April 2020 11:38:48 BST Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: > On Sat, 2020-04-04 at 10:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Also, you don't need a fancy gui for nvme temperature. nvme smart-log > /dev/nvme0 will tell you the temperature from console. Thanks for the pointer. #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 3 April 2020 16:14:33 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Well, raw throughput is great ’n all, but in real-life you won’t notice much > difference between a SATA and an NVME drive. Not so. The difference is dramatic. > The bottleneck quickly becomes > the CPU again during boot or loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 03:57:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > mfsmaster ~ # hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1 > > /dev/nvme0n1: > Timing cached reads: 8524 MB in 1.99 seconds = 4283.31 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 4252 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1416.93 MB/sec > mfsmaster ~ # > > > Samsung

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 10:43:50 GMT Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid > > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. > > What is "MTBR"? > > Mean Time Between

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 27 March 2020 10:08:12 GMT Michael wrote: > man fstrim: > [snip ...] > > "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, might > negatively affect the lifetime of poor-quality SSD devices. For most > desktop and server systems a sufficient trimming frequency is once a wee

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 27 March 2020 05:34:58 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > hopefully in the next daus my first SSD drive will arrive > (corona makes everything more difficult...). > > To prevent an "installed and works"-experience which ends > a month later in a damaged or over-weared SSD with a drastically

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2020-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 26 March 2020 08:47:37 GMT Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I do have activities and semantic-desktop enabled on mine. > > > > I attached a screenshot where I found the setting. > > > > I also found it in the config-file: > > > > FILE: ~/.config/dolphinrc > > > > SECTION: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up a website

2020-03-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:35:33 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-03-19 18:53, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I found it far simpler to use Nginx when dealing with different > > websites, incl. seperate SSL certificates per site even though it is 1 > > server and public IP. > > +1 I just hadn't tho

[gentoo-user] How to set up a website

2020-03-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I want to set up a web server on a local box, and I'm following the Gentoo guide[1]. I'd like two sites: one under /var/www/localhost and the other under /var/www/mydomain, in which mydomain is registered to me. The main problem I'm having is that all the Gentoo documents I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:43:58 GMT Andrea Conti wrote: > On 17/03/20 10:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:35:10 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > >> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel quite > >> confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 09:04:55 GMT Petr Vaněk wrote: > I use tmpfs to reduce compilation writes [1]. > > tmpfs /var/tmp/portage/ > tmpfs uid=portage,gid=portage,mode=0775,size=2G,noatime 0 0 > tmpfs /tmp/ tmpfs mode=0777,size=1G,noexec,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:49:48 GMT Michael wrote: > I'm glad you got it going. I don't use NFS at the moment, but with a fleet > of ancient systems hanging around I may start doing this soon to accelerate > emerges for most of them by using a faster PC. Well, I haven't got that far yet becau

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:27:54 GMT Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:17:41 GMT netfab wrote: > > Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > > > script on the client > >

[gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I decided to have another go at fixing my nfs setup. The host 192.168.1.4 exports its portage directory to this host, 192.168.1.5. I used to use nfs-v3 for this, but it wasn't working right so I'm trying with v4. The problem is that, every time I tell this machine to mount the remote

[gentoo-user] Firefox display oddity

2020-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is www-client/firefox-68.5.0. From time to time, when I switch desktops to it, FF doesn't show the tab bar. The odd thing about it is that the mouse pointer picks up displayed objects as though the tab bar were on display, so I have to aim half an inch below what I want to sele

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:04:01 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/03/2020 15:41, Dale wrote: > > [a lot of stuff] > > I know you only reboot every other decade, so I have to ask: did you reboot? When I have a major KDE upgrade, I log out afterwards and, as root, restart xdm, then log back

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 February 2020 13:28:53 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/02/20 11:45, Michael wrote: --->8 > > http://www.runmapglobal.com/blog/fault-tolerant-dedicated-servers/ > > Noted. That link pre-dates me working on the site - I haven't checked > all the old links - I guess I should ... If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 22 February 2020 18:14:04 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2020.02.22 04:14, Roger J. H. Welsh wrote: > [snip ] > > > On another note, I don't see the "keymaps" rc-service when I use > > rc-status. Is there any chance it is loaded before the other > > services? Or alternatively, is there any

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:40:43 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-02-16 16:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 2/16/20 10:19 AM, n952162 wrote: > >> Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories (presumably, > >> those in /var/tmp) be retained instead of being cleaned up? > > > > FEATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 February 2020 20:03:00 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote: > I have an older computer with Gentoo on it. I haven't updated it in > quite a while because it necessitates a full reinstall and up until > recently, I haven't had the time to devote to this. It is mostly > backuped up on an extern

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

2020-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 11 February 2020 17:18:03 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > Have you tried xconfig? It is somewhat more user friendly. But, yes, and > alpha listing would be nice, as would an option to show only new items. Well, we have something like the latter already; anything that's new is shown with (

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

2020-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 30 January 2020 11:42:52 GMT Dale wrote: > Just to add to this. In Firefox, it worked in the past, I sort of found > it annoying when I would accidentally middle click and off it went. It > no longer works now. It does however work in Seamonkey. It worked in > the past as well. I

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2 deprecation

2020-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 05:35:04 GMT Dale wrote: > james wrote: > > just a test via another mail-route. curious if it works > > FYI, it came through but the threading was broken. It appeared here as > a new thread. Not so here. KMail threaded it right. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: Fw: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 18:36:23 GMT n952...@web.de wrote: > I guess you're referring to this: > > "The use of emerge-webrsync is recommended for those who are behind > restrictive firewalls (because it uses HTTP/FTP protocols for downloading > the snapshot) and saves network bandwidth. Reader

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:07:34 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-01-14 11:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > >> This is a fresh install from a minimal cd image. I'm starting out with > >> mkfs. I've tried that 3 times, twice using a stage 3 from 2020/01/08 >

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 09:37:24 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-01-14 09:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:04:13 +0100, n952162 wrote: > >> It sounds to me like the repository is broken - having ownership as root > >> seems to be slightly more entropy than portage and could have

Re: [gentoo-user] Netgear AC1750 C7 V2 and IPv6

2020-01-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 13 January 2020 11:00:23 GMT Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > Well, this has to be fixed or turned off completely. When I try to > emerge and it tries to download new packages, it is trying to use IPv6 > addresses which fail. It spits out this: > >>> Downloading > > 'https://mirrors.evowi

Re: [gentoo-user] Netgear AC1750 C7 V2 and IPv6

2020-01-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 7 January 2020 07:08:04 GMT Dale wrote: > Starting a new thread. I got my modem and router all hooked up. > Networking works except IPv6 isn't quite there yet. I even got my cell > phone and printer working again, IP network address changed. I'm almost > certain the modem and my pu

Re: [gentoo-user] qtwebkit problem (solved)

2020-01-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 5 January 2020 10:01:23 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > If you try to emerge LO or FF using a tmpfs , Portage tells you not to. I just thought I'd say that I haven't had any warnings not to use tmpfs when emerging LO or FF. I do have 32GB RAM though, which I dare say makes a difference. May

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 11:04:57 GMT Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 10:24:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm puzzled. Why should a DSL modem be tied to a particular ISP? The only > > thing I can think of is that one uses PPPoA and the other PPPoE. But the &

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 December 2019 19:18:47 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2019-12-30 09:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is anyone feeling less clueless than me? I'm out of ideas now and hoping > > for some help. > > I set up a new NFS server in the last weeks or so and had th

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 31 December 2019 01:25:32 GMT Dale wrote: > I found out the name and such from the previous user. I couldn't see the > password tho. Anyway, it seems this is locked to Frontier ISP. I put in > the right user name/password and it wouldn't connect. It tried but no joy. > > Before I

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 30 December 2019 23:39:52 GMT Jack wrote: > Bizarre new thought: have you tried putting the IPV6 address from > ifconfig into the browser? That's the address of eth1, not the modem-router. As the kernel has IPv6 support built in, it automatically assigns an fe80 address to the initerf

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 23 December 2019 16:50:58 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Since I set up IPv6 on my LAN, I've been unable to NFS-export a directory on > machine A (an Atom serving portage via git, among other things) and mount > it on machine B (this workstation). It wa

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

2019-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 28 December 2019 15:30:10 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 28 December 2019 05:57:16 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:42:07 GMT Dale wrote: > >>>> I think I'm j

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

2019-12-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 28 December 2019 05:57:16 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:42:07 GMT Dale wrote: > >> I think I'm just going to have to whittle down the number for a while. > >> Maybe later on a fix will come along. May

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. After losing my little server I decided to recommission another box I had handy. It's a four-core, 64-bit Celero

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

2019-12-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 20:42:07 GMT Dale wrote: > I think I'm just going to have to whittle down the number for a while. > Maybe later on a fix will come along. Maybe. What happens if you switch off file indexing in the control panel, or just its subsidiary option Also Index file conten

Re:: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Mick wrote : > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As > you > > > are using IPv4, those should

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you > are using IPv4, those should not be needed. > > I haven't had time to enable IPv6 yet, so can't check locally what works and > what doesn't. Well, wouldn't

[gentoo-user] NFS problem

2019-12-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Since I set up IPv6 on my LAN, I've been unable to NFS-export a directory on machine A (an Atom serving portage via git, among other things) and mount it on machine B (this workstation). It was working fine until then, but now mount commands fail. In both kernels I have NFSv4 selected,

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager

2019-12-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:11:30 GMT n952...@web.de wrote: > I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't power > down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I bring up > Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to echo a > few

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager

2019-12-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 21:11:30 GMT n952...@web.de wrote: > I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't power > down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I bring up > Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to echo a > few

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing git upstream server

2019-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 December 2019 10:10:38 GMT Franz Fellner wrote: > You manage remote repositories with git remote. > git remote set-url origin > should do it. Champion! Thanks Franz. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Changing git upstream server

2019-12-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Would someone remind me, please, of the git command I need to issue to change its upstream sync source? I'm debugging a local repo and I'd prefer not to keep removing the whole tree just to sync it again from a different upstream server. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to list orphaned services?

2019-12-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 13 December 2019 11:17:26 GMT Mick wrote: > On Friday, 13 December 2019 07:47:43 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 16:52:21 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > I've been merging/unmerging packages for testing and some have to be > > > started via a daemon, so I've had to add t

Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 04:59:08 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:19:16AM -0600, Dale wrote > > > I think I used ntpdate years ago. Can't recall why I switched but > > > > something wasn't working right. People here recommended chrony and once > > set up, its worked

Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 07:56:17 GMT Mick wrote: > I no longer use rdate and SNTP. I use chronyd which has no problem > synchronising with various NTP servers and is suitable for systems which are > online intermittently, like laptops. What he said. -- Regards, Peter.

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