Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-04 Thread tuxic
On 02/05 01:39, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/02/18 06:20, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to > > reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. > > > > Emerge told me: > > |>emerge nvidia-drivers > > As a side-note, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/02/18 06:20, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. Emerge told me: |>emerge nvidia-drivers As a side-note, I recommend using this instead: emerge @module-rebuild which will

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed builds of kbuild and cdrdao with "undefined reference to `__alloca'"

2018-02-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-02-04 15:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I still have the problem of failed builds due to an > 'undefined reference to `__alloca''. I recompiled > gcc/glibc and I am using linux-4.15.1 (from kernel.org) > with linux-headers 4.15. . > > Affected are (at least) cdrdao and kbuild. [...] > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-04 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/02/18 16:08, Dale wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> It is perfectly fine to downgrade glibc if you didn't emerge anything >>> that compiled binaries. >>> >>> If you did, you can still downgrade, but then you need to rebuild the >>> packages that you emerged

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/02/18 16:08, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It is perfectly fine to downgrade glibc if you didn't emerge anything that compiled binaries. If you did, you can still downgrade, but then you need to rebuild the packages that you emerged since the glibc upgrade. qlop is your friend

[gentoo-user] Failed builds of kbuild and cdrdao with "undefined reference to `__alloca'"

2018-02-04 Thread tuxic
Hi, I still have the problem of failed builds due to an 'undefined reference to `__alloca''. I recompiled gcc/glibc and I am using linux-4.15.1 (from kernel.org) with linux-headers 4.15. . Affected are (at least) cdrdao and kbuild. For me "alloca" (memory allocation_) seems to be quite

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery

2018-02-04 Thread Floyd Anderson
On Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:57:40 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: i.e. it still searches for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 and doesn't know about oracle-jdk-bin-9 Is this a bug or is there any means to bring eselect up-to-date ? Comment 2 on bug #641690 [1] say no. As mentioned there,

[gentoo-user] eselect mystery

2018-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, could anybody please explain me how 'eselect' works? My problem I have installed dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-9.04 and removed dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.162 but eselect java-vm list shows Available Java Virtual Machines: grep: /usr/share/java-config-2/vm/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/04/2018 12:21:13 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 04/02/18 01:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >> > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> > > While on this topic, I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root

2018-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > > I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. > > I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and > login as root. > > I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 boot problem

2018-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Magnus Johansson wrote: > > I've got a fresh Gentoo installation that does not boot. I just end up in > the Grub2 shell. > > However when there if I do 'set root=(md/0)' and 'configfile /grub/grub.cfg' > I do get to the Grub2 menu where Gentoo boots

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On 3 February 2018 17:34:11 GMT, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >> > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> > > While on this topic, I have a question about glibc.