Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 10:47, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > On 2020-04-30 22:21, Andrea Conti wrote: > > It won't, as long as it recognizes it as a protective MBR. Which is the > > right thing to do, as a disk with a protective MBR and no valid GPT is > > inherently broken. > > True. It was more my intention to

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 08:32, antlists wrote: > On 30/04/2020 18:04, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new > > system and run "testdisk" on itafter the analysis it came back > > with "this partition cannot be recovered" but did not sau. whether the

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-30 Thread Jonathan Callen
On 4/16/20 3:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 16/04/2020 10:21, Ashley Dixon wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> There's also sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel but it's description is >>> confusing as >>> hell: "Linux kernel built with Gentoo patches". Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wynn Wolf Arbor
On 2020-04-30 22:21, Andrea Conti wrote: It won't, as long as it recognizes it as a protective MBR. Which is the right thing to do, as a disk with a protective MBR and no valid GPT is inherently broken. True. It was more my intention to depict what the system "should" do in order to access

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Andrea Conti
> Since the disk was only ever accessed through an operating system that knew > solely about MBR, the GPT data meant nothing to it. It happily wrote data > past the MBR headers. Because the protective MBR is positioned before GPT > information, the primary GPT header was destroyed and most

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

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > <<>> > When it did this the other day, I closed all my programs so I could > logout, reset and log back in again.  After I hit logout, I noticed the > little memory usage meter on the bottom of my screen was down to a more > normal level.  It was already logging me out so

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wynn Wolf Arbor
Hi Meino, On 2020-04-30 21:46, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I had booted into my old system, attached the disks and both show the same behaviour: Only the device itself (/dev/sdb) was recognized. Now that is very curious. Just to make sure, the old system definitely does not understand GPT?

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi Wolf, thanks for your great input again! (see below) On 04/30 09:27, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > All the following assuming that the disk was originally partitioned as GPT, > but after that exclusively accessed as an MBR disk. > > > PT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5 > > > > Caution: invalid main

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread antlists
On 30/04/2020 18:04, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I copied the first 230GB of that disk to an empty partition of my new system and run "testdisk" on itafter the analysis it came back with "this partition cannot be recovered" but did not sau. whether the reason is a partition table, which is broken

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wynn Wolf Arbor
All the following assuming that the disk was originally partitioned as GPT, but after that exclusively accessed as an MBR disk. PT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.5 Caution: invalid main GPT header, but valid backup; regenerating main header from backup! This makes sense since the GPT backup at

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp help not available, even with USE doc

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > Thank you, that was good. > > I had /usr/share/gimp/2.0/, now, after (3 hours of) emerging > gimp-help, I also have help/en/ > > Unfortunately, I still get the same error msg. > > Here are my USE flags: > > /* Found these USE flags for media-gfx/gimp-2.10.8-r1:// > // U I// > // 

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

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
Howdy, I been noticing that sddm is using a lot of memory.  In the past, it would use a few hundred megabytes but nothing out of the norm for a GUI command.  This is what ps aux shows. USER   PID   %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS  TTY  STAT START   TIME COMMAND root   19256  1.0    10.3 

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp help not available, even with USE doc

2020-04-30 Thread n952162
Thank you, that was good. I had /usr/share/gimp/2.0/, now, after (3 hours of) emerging gimp-help, I also have help/en/ Unfortunately, I still get the same error msg. Here are my USE flags: /* Found these USE flags for media-gfx/gimp-2.10.8-r1:// // U I// // - - aalib    :

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 03:44, Andrea Conti wrote: > Hi, > > > > CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y > > > CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y > > > CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y > > That's all you need. > > > This could be the key. Sector sizes have been changing from 512 to 4096 > > over many years. If your kernel has been updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wynn Wolf Arbor
Hi Meino, Thanks very much for the info. At this point I'm convinced you're running into the problem Andrea described in another reply in this thread - best to follow up there :) -- Wolf

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

2020-04-30 Thread Martin Vaeth
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Yes. To satisfy the requirements of package "sys-apps/fwupd" I long ago > added the line > >>=app-crypt/tpm2-tss-2.2.3-r1 ~amd64 Ah! That explains it. > But this only means that I accept an unstable package here, not that > these versions are regarded

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi Wolf thank you very much for your analysis ! :) On 04/30 03:10, Wynn Wolf Arbor wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-04-30 13:17, Wols Lists wrote: > > All I can suggest is to check the kernel and see if it's an option that > > has been disabled (512-byte sectors, that is). > > As far as I know the

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

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

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 16:15:54 BST Dale wrote: > Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > 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 pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed,

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

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > 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 pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, even though > I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely).

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

2020-04-30 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, 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 pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, even though I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely). But installation took surprisingly

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y That's all you need. This could be the key. Sector sizes have been changing from 512 to 4096 over many years. If your kernel has been updated to expect/use 4096 byte sectors, it might not be able to read the

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 09:19:15 +, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > Can you configure the shutdown/reboot command called by XFCE? If so, > > you can set it to a script that checks whether anyone else is logged > > in before either executing the shutdown or displaying a "Daddy's > > using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wynn Wolf Arbor
Hi, On 2020-04-30 13:17, Wols Lists wrote: All I can suggest is to check the kernel and see if it's an option that has been disabled (512-byte sectors, that is). As far as I know the kernel still uses 512 bytes internally [1], and I do not recall having seen an option that enables or

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:48:28 BST jdm wrote: >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:17:37 +0200 >> >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: Hi, I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen freezing after kernel starts loading,

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp help not available, even with USE doc

2020-04-30 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > After emerging gimp, I tried to get help (after re-emerging with the > doc USE flag), and got this: > > /Could not open 'https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-help.xml' for > reading: Operation not supported// > // > //Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/04/20 11:36, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > But than I have the same problem another way around: I can > no longer access my new system ... due to the different > sector size > > Are there any other ways to fix this problem? All I can suggest is to check the kernel and see if it's an option

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 April 2020 23:48:28 BST jdm wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:17:37 +0200 > > tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen > > > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by

Re: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 April 2020 10:19:15 BST Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > > Basically I'd like that: > > > - if there is more than one user logged in, either locally via lighdm > > > or remotely via SSH, the shutdown XFCE button is grayed out. Once all > > > users except one have logged out, the button

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread jdm
On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 10:17:37 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen > > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB > > (no previous FB compiled in) the card has been

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/30 10:55, Wols Lists wrote: > On 30/04/20 10:32, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on > > my new PC. > > > > I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with > > a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used

[gentoo-user] gimp help not available, even with USE doc

2020-04-30 Thread n952162
After emerging gimp, I tried to get help (after re-emerging with the doc USE flag), and got this: /Could not open 'https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-help.xml' for reading: Operation not supported// // //Perhaps you are missing GIO backends and need to install GVFS?/ Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread Wols Lists
On 30/04/20 10:32, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on > my new PC. > > I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with > a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used to boot from. They are pure > data containers). >

[gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
Hi, recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on my new PC. I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used to boot from. They are pure data containers). When I connect these to my new PC, only the device is shown:

RE: [gentoo-user] prevent users from shutting down while other users logged in

2020-04-30 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
> > Basically I'd like that: > > - if there is more than one user logged in, either locally via lighdm > > or remotely via SSH, the shutdown XFCE button is grayed out. Once all > > users except one have logged out, the button is again available > > Can you configure the shutdown/reboot command

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

2020-04-30 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Martin, On Friday, 2020-04-24 17:32:09 -, you wrote: > ... > Maybe you run an unstable system, that is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64'? No. > Or do you have a corresponding entry in package.{accept_,}keywords? Yes. To satisfy the requirements of package "sys-apps/fwupd" I long ago added the

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics Card Advice

2020-04-30 Thread tuxic
On 04/29 06:05, jdm wrote: > Hi, > > I have just bought a RX 5600 XT and after a few issues with screen > freezing after kernel starts loading, resolved by compiling EFIFB (no > previous FB compiled in) the card has been working fine for 2 days > booting normally. The machine then started not to

Re: [gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-30 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
On Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Compression oo. thanks, but my mistake. i should've clarified better. i'm looking for a solution that works nicely with ext4. ideally i am thinking of a device mapper solution. e.g. we got a

Re: [gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-30 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:24 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > hi - any nice way to have compression at the file > system level, without using zfs? perhaps some > kind of device mapper that compresses data? > > i find file system compression to speed up >