Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 12:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > > several days under Windows, just in case there are any early problems. > > After that, it goes

Re: [gentoo-user] after latest update emerge completely broken

2021-06-04 Thread John Covici
On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 07:39:25 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. After my latest update, when I try to emerge anything, I get the > following: > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.8/emerge", line 51, in > retval = emerge_main() > File

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:04:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > several days under Windows, just in case there are any early problems. > After that, it goes Gentoo. I always boot system rescue and dd the entries drive to somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-04 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021, 3:05 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > Are there any (dis)advantages for RAID versus AHCI being set in > the BIOS (Dell Inspiron)? I.e. disk capacity, speed, and reliability. > > Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for > several days under Windows,

[gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-04 Thread Walter Dnes
Are there any (dis)advantages for RAID versus AHCI being set in the BIOS (Dell Inspiron)? I.e. disk capacity, speed, and reliability. Since wiping Windows voids the warranty, I'll run the new machine for several days under Windows, just in case there are any early problems. After that, it

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-04 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 09:13:45AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I was thinking along the lines of how many packages even binary distros > have to update.  I've installed binary based distros before and when > updating those, there can be hundreds, several hundred, packages to > upgrade.  Thing is, those

[gentoo-user] after latest update emerge completely broken

2021-06-04 Thread John Covici
Hi. After my latest update, when I try to emerge anything, I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.8/emerge", line 51, in retval = emerge_main() File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_emerge/main.py", line 1319, in

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious about order that emerge -u builds/installs

2021-06-04 Thread Florian Gamböck
Hi Grant, On 2021-06-02 15:22, Grant Edwards wrote: The order of package bilds often seems to be quite different after the interruption than it was the first time -- often X is a fair ways down the list. Why is that? it might possibly be related to hash randomization. I experienced a

Re: [gentoo-user] GTK Graphical Problems

2021-06-04 Thread jdm
On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 22:03:21 + z...@posteo.us wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 10:01:43AM +0100, jdm wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:14:40 +0100 > > jdm wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > At the weekend I updated my system and after reboot some of my > > > apps have lots of black black