Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:32:28 -0400, Jack wrote: > > Why not add more to the ramdisk, assuming it is a tmpfs. If it needs > > more > > than your physical memory, it will use swap, but that won't happen > > because you only need the extra space. > That's actually what I did. The problem is not

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:57:34 -0400, Jack wrote: > In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has > happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of > space and time to build. > > The build fails for any reason. 

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:57:34 -0400, Jack wrote: > In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has > happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of > space and time to build. > > The build fails for any reason. 

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 12:57:34 -0400, Jack wrote: > In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has > happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of > space and time to build. > > The build fails for any reason.  Since it has already progressed over >

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal emulator to replace Konsole

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.22 16:01, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've been using Konsole, part of KDE, for command line stuff ever since I started using Linux.  Linux is all I've ever used.  No windoze.  ;-)  While Konsole is good enough for almost everything, there is one feature I wish it had.  The ability to

[gentoo-user] Terminal emulator to replace Konsole

2024-03-22 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've been using Konsole, part of KDE, for command line stuff ever since I started using Linux.  Linux is all I've ever used.  No windoze.  ;-)  While Konsole is good enough for almost everything, there is one feature I wish it had.  The ability to edit with the mouse.  I don't know of a

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 05:52:04PM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote > Bash can do patern substitution in variable references. > > Replace accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]} )) > with accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]/'.'/0} )) > > and similarly with the other lines and any array value

[gentoo-user] how to prevent ebuild from checking for available space

2024-03-22 Thread Jack
In this case, the offending package is dev-lang/rust, but this has happened to me previously with other packages that require a lot of space and time to build. The build fails for any reason.  Since it has already progressed over half way through the build, I would like to continue the build

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Friday, March 22, 2024 3:20:08 P.M. AEDT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:02:21PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > > > Why not make the alteration one step before -- in the CSV? There are > > CSV abstraction tools like `q`, which gives you a SQL-like interface > > to a csv

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:02:21PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote > Why not make the alteration one step before -- in the CSV? There are > CSV abstraction tools like `q`, which gives you a SQL-like interface > to a csv file. Or you could write a quick transformer in python, > if you know the

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 05:46:31PM -0400 schrieb Walter Dnes: > The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I > summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g. > https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the > data gap in the pink and brown

[gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Walter Dnes
The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g. https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the data gap in the pink and brown lines on the 3rd and 4th graphs. That's actual missing data. In the

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-sources-6.8.x , xen domU, netfront ] Reporting kernel bug -- Howto?

2024-03-17 Thread Jack
On 3/17/24 09:47, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I get a stackdump booting the gentoo-sources-6.8.x kernels, and I'm wondering how to go about reporting. Pretty sure this can't be gentoo-specific, but kernel.org seems adamant that I should report to gentoo. gentoo-sources has lots of patches. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-14 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 21:20 +, Michael wrote: > Pipewire is the new sound server for KDE.  Take a look here in case > yours > needs some tweaking: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PipeWire > > I run on my main desktop with USE="-pulseaudio", but if you have any > applications which need

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash will not generate a report

2024-03-12 Thread Michael Dinon
On Monday, March 11, 2024, Thelma wrote: > I tried to generate a report in GnuCash but I'm getting and empty page. > > Can anybody confirm! > > -- > Thelma > > -- Kind regards, Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash will not generate a report

2024-03-12 Thread Thelma
On 3/12/24 11:38, ralfconn wrote: Il 11/03/24 23:44, Thelma ha scritto: I tried to generate a report in GnuCash but I'm getting and empty page. Can anybody confirm! You don't specify which report, I tried 'Cash flow' and 'Assets over time' and they work regularly. raf $ eix -I gnucash [I]

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash will not generate a report

2024-03-12 Thread ralfconn
Il 11/03/24 23:44, Thelma ha scritto: I tried to generate a report in GnuCash but I'm getting and empty page. Can anybody confirm! You don't specify which report, I tried 'Cash flow' and 'Assets over time' and they work regularly. raf $ eix -I gnucash [I] app-office/gnucash Available

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources 5.15.151 breaks amdgpu support?

2024-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-03-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and > amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G > with Radeon Vega Graphics. > > Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with > same .config via

[gentoo-user] gnucash will not generate a report

2024-03-11 Thread Thelma
I tried to generate a report in GnuCash but I'm getting and empty page. Can anybody confirm! -- Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-11 Thread ralfconn
Il 10/03/24 23:44, Walter Dnes ha scritto: On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 08:43:46PM +0100, ralfconn wrote Given the warning message reported by Peter ("Enable USE=clang unless you have a very good reason not to.") That message comes from sys-libs/compiler-rt which is a dedicated runtime lib for

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources 5.15.151 breaks amdgpu support?

2024-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics. Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with same .config via "make oldconfig") boots there's always a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.6 [was 6.3] onwards.

2024-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 12:20:29 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [ ] > > Please note the corrected subject line. This version of the soft > scrolling patch is for kernel 6.6.13, or thereabouts. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-11 Thread Wols Lists
On 10/03/2024 22:44, Carsten Hauck wrote: The CPU of the machine in question is in deed an old AMD. It's good to know the reason for that build-failures, thanks a lot. I certainly will stick to "-clang" in my package.use. Interesting. I'm not at all sure how old my CPU is, but at four cores

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-11 Thread n952162
Good tips, thank you. On 3/10/24 22:53, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 06:43:56PM -, Grant Edwards wrote Just back up your user data and re-install. Also back up /etc/ for your app configs and stuff like hosts and resolve.conf and make.ccnf and package.use and package.mask

[gentoo-user] postfix log: Non-Compliant sender address. Code : -2

2024-03-10 Thread Thelma
I'm trying to send myself an email from remote computer running "postfix" via my domain (hosted by Rogers, formally Shaw). but I'm getting an error message in log: postfix/smtp[8743]: E0DAD17E00DB: to=, relay=mail.shaw-domain.com[xx.xx.xx.xxx]:1025, delay=2.7, delays=0.03/0.01/2/0.68,

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 08:43:46PM +0100, ralfconn wrote > Given the warning message reported by Peter ("Enable USE=clang unless > you have a very good reason not to.") That message comes from sys-libs/compiler-rt which is a dedicated runtime lib for clang. It makes sense to use clang if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread Carsten Hauck
On 10/03/24 at 01:50, mp666 wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:04:06 +, Wols Lists wrote: For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an USE=-clang emerge --update @world (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would touch), and it worked. There were a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 06:43:56PM -, Grant Edwards wrote > Just back up your user data and re-install. Also back up /etc/ for your app configs and stuff like hosts and resolve.conf and make.ccnf and package.use and package.mask etc. And remember /var/lib/. /var/lib/portage/ has your

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread ralfconn
Il 10/03/24 15:08, Peter Humphrey ha scritto: On Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:17:27 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and *MUST* be built with USE="-clang". Ah. I'll change my USE flag straight away. Thanks Walter. This got me wondering,

[gentoo-user] Re: is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-03-09, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote >> I just synced my system after a long delay, > > That's your problem right there. Yep, to quote Olivia Rodrigo... Bad idea, right? >> Is there a way to do it globally? > > First of all python

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-03-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-03-10, Michael wrote: > Perhaps I'm picking up on semantics, but shouldn't this sentence: > > "... The gap between the DOS disklabel and the first partition" > > read: > > "The gap between the MBR and the first partition"? Yes, thanks -- MBR is more accurate, I've changed that sentence.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:17:27 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and > *MUST* be built with USE="-clang". Ah. I'll change my USE flag straight away. Thanks Walter. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread mp666
On Sat, 9 Mar 2024 08:04:06 +, Wols Lists wrote: > For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an > > USE=-clang emerge --update @world > > (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would > touch), and it worked. > > There were a couple of other programs that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-03-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 8 March 2024 23:24:02 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote: > > For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux > > distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition. > > > > [...] > > > > Is there an easier way to do this? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-10 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Le dim. 10 mars 2024 à 00:22, n952162 a écrit : > > On 3/9/24 20:51, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I just synced my system after a long delay, > >That's your problem right there. > > > >> Is there a way to do it

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
Sorry; that is over my head. When did you last upgrade? The error messages talk about python 3.8. But on my machine it looks like 3.11 and 3.12 are current... [x8940][waltdnes][~] find /usr/bin -name python3\.* /usr/bin/python3.12 /usr/bin/python3.12-config /usr/bin/python3.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:16:37PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphr > > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries, > are you building that requires clang? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Musl custom initramfs kernel panic

2024-03-09 Thread Hoël Bézier
Am Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 06:59:15PM +0100 schrieb efeizbudak: How could I go about finding which library it is? lddtree is only giving me libblkid and libmount, both of which are already inside the initramfs. I will try to learn about busybox. Thank you. You can try to run mount with strace on

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphr > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries, are you > building that requires clang? Firefox. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread n952162
On 3/9/24 20:51, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote Hello all, I just synced my system after a long delay, That's your problem right there. Is there a way to do it globally? First of all python targets should not need to be mentioned in

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote > Hello all, > > I just synced my system after a long delay, That's your problem right there. > Is there a way to do it globally? First of all python targets should not need to be mentioned in make.conf or package.use. Gentoo manages

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/compiler-rt-18.1.0 > * Building using a compiler other than clang may result in broken atomics > * library. Enable USE=clang unless you have a very good reason not to. According to

[gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread n952162
Hello all, I just synced my system after a long delay, and I want to emerge firefox.  I got this, first, I think, for something called gemato:   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:     any-of ( python_targets_python3_10 python_targets_python3_11

Re: [gentoo-user] Musl custom initramfs kernel panic

2024-03-09 Thread efeizbudak
How could I go about finding which library it is? lddtree is only giving me libblkid and libmount, both of which are already inside the initramfs. I will try to learn about busybox. Thank you. On 2024-03-09 17:23, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: clearly mount is using a symbol not provided by one

Re: [gentoo-user] Musl custom initramfs kernel panic

2024-03-09 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
can also chroot into the environment where you prepared the initramfs image to test stuff, which will save you rebooting time. On 3/9/2024 4:03 PM, efeizbudak wrote: Hi all, After updating my musl, my custom initramfs had stopped working. Can anyone give me a hand with this? I recompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] Musl custom initramfs kernel panic

2024-03-09 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
clearly mount is using a symbol not provided by one of those shared libraries, but no clue which it is. However you dont need dash and mount and umount. Reason its working for genkernel is because its using busybox instead of normal system mount/umount/dash. Might want to try that. Smaller

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:49:33 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I have "-clang" in USE in make.conf and no problems resulting from it. > clang seems to be another "solution in search of a problem" along the > lines of rust and cups and systemd and hatbuzz, etc, which keep trying > to worm their way

[gentoo-user] Musl custom initramfs kernel panic

2024-03-09 Thread efeizbudak
Hi all, After updating my musl, my custom initramfs had stopped working. Can anyone give me a hand with this? I recompiled util-linux and updated the related files in my initramfs and also tried building it with static-libs but neither of these helped. On the other hand, the initramfs I

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 08:04:06AM +, Wols Lists wrote > For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an > > USE=-clang emerge --update @world > > (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would > touch), and it worked. I have "-clang" in USE in make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/03/2024 23:13, Carsten Hauck wrote: So I don't know what's going on, but basically Mozilla won't emerge, and I don't know why ... Cheers, Wol Did the other 19 package emerge OK?  Are the mozilla progs crashing when running, or when emerging?  If emerging, the log is just console

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-03-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote: > For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux > distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition. > > [...] > > Is there an easier way to do this? After some additional studying of UEFI and boot managers like rEFInd, I decided

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-03-06, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... > >> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option >> should ensure a working GRUB installation. > > I tried that... > > [i3][root][~] grub-install I believe you have to run

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU ISA level is lower than required

2024-03-06 Thread Nuno Silva
On 2024-03-04, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > On Sonntag, 3. März 2024, 18:45:16 CET Alexander Puchmayr wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 3. März 2024, 14:32:41 CET schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: >> > > I set CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe march=x86-64-v2" on the buildhost and >> > > performed a emerge -ev @world, re-creating

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-06 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:45:40AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote > > Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot Thank you very much. A screen capture... [i3][root][~] grub-install --efi-directory=/boot Installing for x86_64-efi platform. Installation finished. No

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/03/2024 16:20, ralfconn wrote: Il 03/03/24 10:47, Wols Lists ha scritto: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world Calculating dependencies... done!  * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to  * the following required packages not

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 07:02, Dale wrote: > If you followed the docs for installing grub with EFI, you need to point it > to the location of the efi directory. The command might look like this. > > grub-install --efi-directory=/efi > > Hope that helps. > > Dale Specifically in your case,

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread William Kenworthy
Is your efi fat32 formatted? (required) This usually means its another partition mounted to /boot/EFI BillK On 6/3/24 14:02, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option should

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... > >> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option >> should ensure a working GRUB installation. > I tried that... > > [i3][root][~] grub-install > Installing for x86_64-efi platform. >

[gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item... > Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option > should ensure a working GRUB installation. I tried that... [i3][root][~] grub-install Installing for x86_64-efi platform. grub-install: error: cannot find EFI

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-05 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Hi, Daniel Frey writes: > I've been gone for a few days as I was rebuilding my main PC. > > I thought I'd provide an update: it was xorg-server causing all the issues. > > I figured as I had to redo everything anyway to switch to systemd and wayland > as that's what the bigger DE's tend to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-04 Thread ralfconn
Il 03/03/24 10:47, Wols Lists ha scritto: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world Calculating dependencies... done!  * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to  * the following required packages not being installed:  *  *  

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU ISA level is lower than required

2024-03-04 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, Unfortunately this still did not help. I repeat my original question: Q: The binary (e.g. /usr/bin/bzip2) obviously "knows" what it requires. How do I find out what this is? Neither ldd, ld.so or the like seem to give me this information. BR Alex On Sonntag, 3. März 2024,

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote: >> >> Since my last post, I did my weekly updates. During that, I log out, >> switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs >> it, then back to default runlevel and log back in. With the config file >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: >> I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used >> to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some >> things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try >> to make things forward

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Carsten Hauck
On 03/03/24 at 04:18, Jack wrote: On 2024.03.03 15:23, Wol wrote: On 03/03/2024 19:40, Jack wrote: On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 13:48, Michael wrote: It could be AMD have not yet released microcode updates for the community. OEMs receive new microcode first and patch it in their MoBo BIOS/UEFI firmware. Eventually the CPU manufacturers release microcode for older CPUs no longer supported by OEMs. Since you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try to make things forward compatible but no one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: >> Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, >> switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs >> it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file >> change, my monitors

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:14:23 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi all, > > I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I > have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue. > > I have confirmed it's not updating: > > > ~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode > [

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: > >> To provide a little more info on how this works. This is how I did > >> it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this. It will fill > >> in a lot of the info and when unsure, list

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.03 15:23, Wol wrote: On 03/03/2024 19:40, Jack wrote: On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm trying to get a clean

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Wol
On 03/03/2024 19:40, Jack wrote: On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Jack
On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote: On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly is wrong, or what to try ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file change, my monitors came up just like they should.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: >> To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did >> it.  It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill >> in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. >> First, I had to install the

[gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue. I have confirmed it's not updating: ~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode [0.201619] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most optimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. First, I had to install the package xrandr.  My first problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world whoops I mean "emerge --depclean" I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly is wrong, or what to try ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU ISA level is lower than required

2024-03-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Am Sonntag, 3. März 2024, 14:32:41 CET schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > > I set CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe march=x86-64-v2" on the buildhost and performed a > > emerge -ev @world, re-creating all packages in binary form. > > > > My expectation was that these packages would work on the target platform, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU ISA level is lower than required

2024-03-03 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> > I set CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe march=x86-64-v2" on the buildhost and performed a > emerge -ev @world, re-creating all packages in binary form. > > My expectation was that these packages would work on the target platform, but > they don't. Error message "CPU ISA level is lower than required". >

[gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-03 Thread Wols Lists
I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being installed: * * >=dev-libs/icu-73.1:0/73.1= pulled in by: *

[gentoo-user] CPU ISA level is lower than required

2024-03-03 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi, I tried to tweak some settings regarding CFLAGS="march=x86-64-v2" on my buildhost and then install the binary packages on the target machines. Buildhost: AMD Ryzen 7 2700; ld.so --help says: Subdirectories of glibc-hwcaps directories, in priority order: x86-64-v4 x86-64-v3 (supported,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread ralfconn
Il 02/03/24 18:17, Holger Hoffstätte ha scritto: > On 2024-03-02 18:12, ralfconn wrote: >> I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I >> gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 >> 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7.7)^bs(18:43:20 >>

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On 2024-03-02 18:12, ralfconn wrote: I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7.7)^bs(18:43:20 03/01/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) # eix -I gcc Installed

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread ralfconn
I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7.7)^bs(18:43:20 03/01/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) # eix -I gcc Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:23:37PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > I have two questions.  Does a upgrade change it back to defaults?  If > so, there may be a file in /etc somewhere that is more permanent.  If > not, cool.  :-)  No, it's never been overwritten, so far... > How did you get the info to

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-29 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > Paul B. Henson wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > > >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone > have any > > >> idea why KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:09:01 -0500, Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:52:19 GMT John Covici wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:06 -0500, > > > > Michael wrote: > > > [1 ] > > > > > > On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > > > > I got a

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:52:19 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:06 -0500, > > Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > > > > On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > > > I got a message on my world update that said my profile which is > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:06 -0500, Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > > I got a message on my world update that said my profile which is > > /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd > > / is

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > I got a message on my world update that said my profile which is > /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd > / is depricated and no longer supported. So, afterr this update is > finished, which

[gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread John Covici
I got a message on my world update that said my profile which is /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd/ is depricated and no longer supported. So, afterr this update is finished, which one should I switch to -- portage says to use

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 6:25 PM Adam Carter wrote: >> >> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. >> Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as >> far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be >> double-quoted, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. > Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as > far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be > double-quoted, and the quotes are stripped on import. > Thanks - looks like quoting

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 3:24 PM Dale wrote: > > Paul B. Henson wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > . I ended up adding

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Dale
Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: >> After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any >> idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: > > xrandr

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --primary --output

[gentoo-user] Heads-up: grub-mkconfig generates bad configs for root-on-ZFS with fully-updated pool

2024-02-28 Thread Remy Blank
This is a quick heads-up for folks who use grub, have their root filesystem on ZFS and boot from it with an initramfs (i.e. not directly from grub), and have fully upgraded their pool to 2.2.2. In that configuration, grub-mkconfig (grub-probe, actually) fails to recognize the pool, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 28/02/2024 02:17, Jack wrote: On 2/27/24 20:54, Adam Carter wrote: To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-27 Thread Jack
On 2/27/24 20:54, Adam Carter wrote: To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with shell scripting? Once Excel (or

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