Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
I suggest either taking a full dd|bzip2 style backup of the hardisk to removable media for the simplest reinstall. Compliment with borgbackup or dervish for space efficient backups to capture more recent changes. Reinstall is the reverse .. lay down the dd image update from the backups with

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Dale
Julien Roy wrote: > Hello, > > On 6/19/22 21:38, Dale wrote: >> Anyone have ideas on this?  I mess up something?  Catch the tree in a >> bad state?  Something else I'm not aware of?  It's not making sense to >> me yet.  :/ > > sys-fs/udev has been replaced by a USE flag on the >

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy all, > > Once a month or so, or when told to by a news item, I run emerge with > the --depclean option.  I look at the list in case there something there > I want to keep or something that shouldn't be removed, like gcc or > something.  I ran it a bit ago and got back this:  >

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Julien Roy
Hello, On 6/19/22 21:38, Dale wrote: Anyone have ideas on this?  I mess up something?  Catch the tree in a bad state?  Something else I'm not aware of?  It's not making sense to me yet.  :/ sys-fs/udev has been replaced by a USE flag on the sys-apps/systemd-utils package. When you updated

[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Dale
Howdy all, Once a month or so, or when told to by a news item, I run emerge with the --depclean option.  I look at the list in case there something there I want to keep or something that shouldn't be removed, like gcc or something.  I ran it a bit ago and got back this:  > >>> These are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Em dom., 19 de jun. de 2022 às 14:33, Michael escreveu: > > On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Em dom., 19 de jun. de 2022 às 14:22, Grant Edwards escreveu: > > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > > built along with the package installation,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > > built along with the package installation, what

[gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > built along with the package installation, what else should I backup > so that I would be able to quickly restore

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Francisco Ares
Good day! First of all, sorry for the late reply. I had to attend to a course a bit far away from home and it was pretty intense. Now, back home, I'll try the suggestions, thanks! Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and

Re: [gentoo-user] pain, PAIN, and more pain again.

2022-06-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Alan, On Saturday, 2022-06-18 23:54:26 -0400, you wrote: > ... > At this point in time, if you have a problem, especially on linux, it is > almost never the problem that existed before a penguin tried to solve it > for you. Perhaps Ubuntu would be your friend? > ... > Example: > > Old way: >

Re: [gentoo-user] pain, PAIN, and more pain again.

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 June 2022 04:54:26 BST Alan Grimes wrote: [snippage of long prose ...] > Example: > > Old way: > > "My boot drive is plugged into this port on the motherboard" > > New way: > > Spend hours figuring out what your UUID is, create a physical pocket > folder (which you will

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

2022-06-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/12/2021 09:10, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Has anyone here noticed that x.org likes to crash sometimes as of late? Never happened before, going years and years back. The last month or so, I've got three x.org crashes: systemd-coredump[204553]: [] Process 453 (X) of user 0 dumped core.

Re: [gentoo-user] I have no sound in my gentoo install.

2022-06-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 18 June 2022 19:35:54 BST Jack wrote: > In terms of replying to the list or the person who sent the message to > which you are replying, look at the "To:" field in your email software > before you hit "Send." You need to see the list address there. Your > email software probably