Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

> On May 11, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am trying to do something relatively simple and I've had something > working in the past, but my brain just doesn't want to work today. > > I have a text file with the following (this is just a subset of

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying mapping of some keys

> On 2018-05-21, at 19:38, Damo Brisbane wrote: > > Under X, xmodmap perhaps? I use this to map caps lock to escape in my ~/.xprofile (which gets sourced somewhere in my ~/.bash_profile if DISPLAY is set): xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' -e 'keycode 0x42 = Escape' (Also it

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

> On 2018-06-10, at 09:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm trying to learn how to use the "ip" command to manage routing on one of > my > boxes, which has two Ethernet interfaces. If you're using systemd, you can set it up with systemd.network in /etc/systemd/network. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

On 06/10/2018 12:58 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > It helps if I actually add the foot note. > > On 06/10/2018 10:38 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: >> I will say that you'll likely need other systems [1] to test things >> like tunnels to / between. > > [1] You can easily have one machine be multiple systems

Re: [gentoo-user] default CONFIG_PROTECT behavior

On 06/17/2018 12:17 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > What happens to files within the scope of CONFIG_PROTECT if I don't > execute dispatch-conf or any similar thingy? I have found the confusion > the latter tool generates completely unsurmountable. I think the side-by-side merger is very easy for

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

> On 2018-06-09, at 00:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? I checked and there is no way. It is recommended UID/GID be synced regularly on all client machines. NFSv4 requires user names and group names be

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

> On 2018-05-30, at 06:54, Mick wrote: > > I wouldn't think the user ever interfered with these settings from what would > have been the defaults. What would have changed to remove the permissions > this user have had? Where can I check this? These sort of surprises is why I have $HOME

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev arm-unknown-linux-gnu failed

> On 2018-05-26, at 23:32, Andrew Udvare <audv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You probably mean to use another triple name. The last part is the C library, > so you probably mean: > > arm-unknown-Linux-glibc That is: arm-unknown-linux-glic It is case-sensitive. --- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] crossdev arm-unknown-linux-gnu failed

> On 2018-05-26, at 23:06, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Hi, > > too feed a STM32F103C8T6 MCU (Core-M3) with some code to execute, > I want a compiler. For that I did a > >crossdev arm-unknown-linux-gnu > > . That one failed to build (gcc, binytils seem to be ok). > > Unfortunately I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

> On 2018-05-29, at 18:40, Mick wrote: > > It seems the shutdown, suspend, et al options are gone from the plasma > desktop > after an update at the end of the week. The user still has the option to > logout and then use the sddm menu to shutdown, but other options have > disappeared

Re: [gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport

> On 2018-05-29, at 22:03, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a way to detect when the displayport adapter is > plugged in? > The event is provided by the driver(s) and if there is no event at all then you have to use a script that loops forever querying to see if something has

Re: [gentoo-user] Menu font size in LibreOffice

> On Jun 4, 2018, at 12:53, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I think Libre Office is a GTK application? In that case, you want Appearance > > > Aplication Style > Gnome Application Style, then Select a GTK3 Theme and Font. It can be built with or without gtk/gtk2/kde USE flags. I use KDE but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 9:16 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > There are some programs that I would much rather keep open, versus > shutting down and restarting all over again. But keeping them all open > uses resources, especially on a 10-year-old CORE2 with 3 gigabytes of > RAM (The thing refuses to

Re: [gentoo-user] nodejs emerge fails

> On 2018-06-26, at 10:47, Christoph Böhmwalder > wrote: > > Hi, > > Lately I've been getting the following error while trying to emerge > nodejs: > > * Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings -me > /var/tmp/portage/net-libs/nodejs-8.11.1/image/usr/bin/node. This might be cause for

Re: [gentoo-user] nodejs emerge fails

> On 2018-06-26, at 15:44, Christoph Böhmwalder > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:15:09PM -0400, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> It should not be accessing this location in any case. What is the >> environment like? What does env show? emerge --config output? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] nodejs emerge fails

> On 2018-06-26, at 16:18, Jack wrote: > > On 2018.06.26 15:44, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 03:15:09PM -0400, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> > It should not be accessing this location in any case. What is the >> > environment like? Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib help

> On 2018-07-04, at 01:51, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > > My problem is that I've installed a multilib-enabled 64-bit system and > realised that /usr/lib32 and /usr/lib64 are vastly of different. There > are around 2200 dynamic and some 130 static libs in lib64 while there > are around 300 dynamic

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

On 07/25/2018 06:34 AM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > >> On 2018-07-25, at 04:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> Those are all kdepim packages, I run KDE without KMail and the only >> package that depends on openldap is LO. > > Figured out the patch. I have att

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

> On 2018-07-25, at 04:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Those are all kdepim packages, I run KDE without KMail and the only > package that depends on openldap is LO. Same here. I have global USE "-ldap -openldap" (shouldn't the latter be fixed in dev-libs/cyrus-sasl ?). There is no way to

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

> On 2018-07-25, at 04:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Those are all kdepim packages, I run KDE without KMail and the only > package that depends on openldap is LO. Figured out the patch. I have attached it. It does not fix the ebuild, but it does make LibreOffice build without the LDAP plugin.

Re: [gentoo-user] cann figure out this conflict

> On 2018-08-03, at 23:22, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I seem to be having a blocker which involves pulseaudio, but from > the portage output, I cannot figure out what the conflict is. I > masked off >=media-sound/pulseaudio-12.2 and this is what I got, same > thing happens if its unmasked.

[gentoo-user] Replacement for gcruft: gcrud

gcruft seems to have died off (https://www.google.com/search?q=gcruft only returns ebuild results). I was using it quite a lot and wrote many exception files. It's gone now with no way for my or anyone else's ebuild to get the original source. I did preserve it though, here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for gcruft: gcrud

> On 2018-08-16, at 16:09, Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote: > > Hi, > > So I tested it, and I was surprised how many /etc files weren't put into > whitelist. > Actually, most of /etc shouldn't be suggested for deletion if the packages > are still installed. Thanks for testing! Really

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for gcruft: gcrud

> On 2018-08-16, at 14:22, james wrote: > > Yes, but, it'll be while for me. Offer and automated clean up option, > and I have dozens of systems to test. I'll figure out the kind of tests I want to run sometime soon. > > > GLEP 64 was on the path to systematically solve what you you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE reboot not preserving running applications

> On 2018-08-28, at 18:24, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 08/28/18 02:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> After a reboot I get "Too many clients" from the remote krells, the local >> krell is absent (and if I restart it it comes up in the centre of the >> screen) and Firefox attempts

Re: [gentoo-user] kdevelop broken (llvm slot issue)

On 19/08/18 11:21, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > This issue is covered by bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/651658, which is open > since March 2018 and no progress since also March 2018. > > It seems as if multiple slots of llvm cause the problems. mesa pulls in llvm: > 5, while other programs pull

[gentoo-user] kdevelop broken (llvm slot issue)

On 19/08/18 11:21, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > This issue is covered by bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/651658, which is open > since March 2018 and no progress since also March 2018. > > It seems as if multiple slots of llvm cause the problems. mesa pulls in llvm: > 5, while other programs pull

[gentoo-user] Valgrind not seeing debug symbols

Hi all, I have this project https://github.com/Tatsh/gcrud and it uses a very standard build process with CMake, but for some reason Valgrind never sees the debug symbols. The debug symbols are definitely there as GDB can see them, but I have not been able to figure out why Valgrind can't. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Valgrind not seeing debug symbols

> On Aug 19, 2018, at 12:21, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have this project https://github.com/Tatsh/gcrud and it uses a very > standard build process with CMake, but for some reason Valgrind never > sees the debug symbols. I created a basic Gentoo machi

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

> On 2018-07-18, at 04:16, Philip Webb wrote: > > (3) I can scan without problems using Mint Xfce (on another partition), > so it's not a hardware problem. > > (4) 'lsusb' lists "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0418: 013b Seiko Epson Corp". > > (5) the 'epkowa' driver is the latest version : a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

On 8/31/18 2:41 PM, Mick wrote: > > What I have not fathomed yet is how to compile into the mach_kernel the > vmlinuz and initrd the boot.efi uses to boot linux. :-/ > (Note that I am making assumptions that the Apple TV 1st gen can be treated kind of like a Mac.) You probably should try

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process-tree memory quotas?

> On 2018-10-19, at 23:24, Alan Grimes wrote: > > How do I do this? Cgroups were sort of invented for this reason. Yes it requires Systemd. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/cgroups I too have 32 GiB of RAM and I'm curious how Chromium acts under a constrained environment, or what

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-mismtach?

> On 2018-10-24, at 23:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > How can I get around this? Removing linguist is not possible since > being used by a lot of packages. You should be able to run: emerge -1 linguist-tools This should update linguist-tools to 5.11.2. -- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo hardware database

I find unusual is that one of my machines says 'failed' for the video card. On that machine, I have not installed Nvidia-drivers as it is not necessary (not using X or the card for anything except output since the motherboard does not have one built-in). Otherwise not sure how it detects failed vs w

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

> On 2018-10-28, at 10:42, Davyd McColl wrote: > > Or perhaps go team red. Personally, I've had enough of team green's drivers. > My 660ti is still working fine, but if it dies, I think I'm going red. Not > saying the grass is 100% greener there (heh) but at least you can't be held >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia driver surprise

> On Oct 28, 2018, at 09:53, Philip Webb wrote: > > Perhaps I should buy a more upto-date graphics card. > > Does anyone have comments or suggestions ? Upgrade to the 1050 or so and you won’t have to upgrade for years. I am still on my GTX 980 since 2015.

Re: [gentoo-user] libfilezilla not available ?

> On 2018-10-26, at 22:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Since it is missing on different servers...is the nameing wrong? Seems to be working now. Probably just mirrors not in sync. -- Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

their RSS reader. I have my doubts that this app gets a lot of maintenance. > > Microsoft must be paying Good Money (tm) to the FS developers to keep > breaking stuff at this rate. =| Trouble is afoot! Given the track record of late (like owning GitHub) I don't think so. -- Andrew Udvare

[gentoo-user] systemd/dracut: Correctly boot using flash drive with LUKS key?

I have a set up like this to boot: GRUB - access non-encrypted EFI partition to find kernel, initramfs, etc initramfs has enough on it to boot minus the encryption key (Removable) storage must be inserted (UUID matching) to: - mount to expected point - use key to decrypt root partition (systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a genlop bug?

> On 2018-10-01, at 05:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > When I run "genlop -c" is it supposed to include the whole cat/pkg name in > its > calculations, or just the pkgname? I saw this today: > > $ genlop -c > Currently merging 8 out of 16 > * dev-lang/rust-1.29.1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, > wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have > been done. I'm thinking of how DECStations, Alpha's SPARCs etc etc > booted up. Try

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. Not exactly the same but I've tried converting old systems into usable ones with Gentoo involved. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Apple TV 1

On 8/31/18 11:31 AM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone have *recent* experience of installing and running Gentoo plus > Kodi on the above? It has a Pentium-M with Apple's 32bit EFI. It also has a GeForce Go 7300 which is still supported. 304.137 of the proprietary driver is still in the

Re: [gentoo-user] march cflag for Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2160 SLA8Z Malay processor

> On 2018-09-19, at 17:54, Jack wrote: > > Unless I'm missing something, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned one > potential problem. Unless you are careful, code you compile for an AMD may > not run on an Intel. If you are just going to compile binary packages to > move and install, this

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Noteworthy change in the way Chrome logs in

gle does not believe in options when it comes to Chrome. They are always removing or obscuring them. They seem to have a feeling that if there are options (more than one good default setting), something is wrong. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Noteworthy change in the way Chrome logs in

an Alphabet related website. This is not necessarily true because AFAIK it works by taking the session generated from within Google's main sign on page and applying that session to the browser. > > Is Chromium also affected by this? Yes. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Noteworthy change in the way Chrome logs in

> On Sep 24, 2018, at 10:20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > There is an option for this, actually. Go to: > > chrome://flags/#account-consistency > > and set it to "Disabled." > Flags come and go and they are not intended for use by regular users. Based on the fact that the flag can be

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd/dracut: Correctly boot using flash drive with LUKS key?

On 16/11/2018 14:43, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:15 PM Andrew Udvare wrote: >> >> I am not sure if there is a way to move the systemd-cryptsetup@home.service >> up the dependency tree once it's working, which would then remove the >> mnt-chuan.m

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

On 18/11/2018 00:23, Grant Taylor wrote: > > I'm not completely sure what that means.  I'm guessing you're asking > about accept_keywords.  I'm mostly (?) running stock amd64.  I have > added ~amd64 to some packages for various reasons over the 2+ years that > this install has been around. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

install what you need for Firefox/Thunderbird beforehand: emerge -1 virtual/cargo dev-lang/rust -- Andrew Udvare signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd/dracut: Correctly boot using flash drive with LUKS key?

> On 2018-11-16, at 08:16, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 12:11 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: >> >> - use key to decrypt root partition (systemd job in the first systemd >> launched within initramfs) >> ... >> Nov 16 00:01:52 limelight syste

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild how to find out the contents of

> On Dec 29, 2018, at 10:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > How can I find out the list of packages in @preserved-rebuild? There's a JSON file in /var/db/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

On 21/01/2019 18:50, Adam Carter wrote: > I need to clean up a file which has IP addresses with leading zeros in > some of the octets so I need to make, say, .09 into .9 > > How do i do that in sed/awk/whatever? A regex would be difficult. Parser is what you want. You could use Python's

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting windows 10 partition on linux

On 04/12/2018 13:16, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to mount windows 10 shared folder on Gentoo home folder but > I'm getting an error from "smbclinet" smbclient does not mount. It just connects a CLI client to the server (see the manpage). The -L argument is for the NetBIOS name

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing issue with OpenVPN and internal DNS

On 03/12/2018 09:49, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/3/18 5:55 AM, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> >> iptables on server: >> -A FORWARD -s 10.100.0.0/24 -i tun0 -o enp1s0f0 -m conntrack --ctstate >> NEW -j ACCEPT >> > > Is that only forwarding packets for new (i.

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

> On 2018-12-03, at 23:16, Davyd McColl wrote: > > Not so much just for verification, but I'd also check out ddrescue. If the > tool dumps your media easily, it's probably good. If it struggles, you may at > least still have a workable image by the time it is done. The lasers in older game

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

On 03/12/2018 17:50, Dale wrote: > Jack wrote: > > I was wondering if the checksums could be checked?  If the OP can find > the checksum for the DVD as it comes from the factory, then he could > check what he has against that.  Question is, is that info even > available or does it vary over

[gentoo-user] Routing issue with OpenVPN and internal DNS

255.255.255/32 link#9 UCS 00 en0 ! -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

> On Nov 28, 2018, at 15:09, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I've attached the two log files. I would like to see your syslog in both cases; dmesg output.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

> On 2018-11-17, at 19:24, Grant Taylor > wrote: > > So, will someone help me fix this cargo / rust blockage so that I can finish > my @world emerge? Uninstall dev-util/cargo and emerge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-lang/rust comes with Cargo. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

erge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-lang/rust comes > with Cargo. > > > I also had to > > ln -s /usr/bin/cargo-1.30.1 /usr/bin/cargo > > To get things working, YMMV. The correct way is to run `eselect rust set 1`. There are other symlinks besides cargo. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

time, but there is a built-in hardware deinterlacer that significantly beats filters like Yadif. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing video and CPU usage

Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 12, 2019, at 02:12, Dale wrote: > Just for giggles, I used VLC for a bit to play a video. It has a fair > resolution and is a .mp4. It uses about the same amount of CPU power as > Smplayer. I can't tell any difference even with the same video. It > appears that

Re: [gentoo-user] mac-fdisk with different block size

> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > > I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 > bytes, but I can't find an option to change the block size in mac-fdisk, > which defaults to 512 bytes. > > Does anybody know of a utility that can create and modify

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ...preventing MAC OS from polluting my USBsticks...?

SDontWriteNetworkStores true defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteUSBStores true These are only for stopping Finder from writing .DS_Store files. Anything you delete on macOS will still go in .Trash/ at the root of the drive. -- Andrew Udvare

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mac-fdisk with different block size

> On Jan 13, 2019, at 09:24, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > > On 2019-01-13, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >>> On 2019-01-13, at 07:49, (Nuno Silva) wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to create an Apple partition map with a block size of 4096 >>> bytes, but I can'

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ...preventing MAC OS from polluting my USBsticks...?

> On 2019-01-13, at 13:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Only to get sure not to break anything (the MAC is not my own and I am > not at $HOME with Macs)...the > two commands: > > defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true > defaults write com.apple.desktopservices

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild how to find out the contents of

> On 2018-12-29, at 12:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > On 12/29/2018 05:03:51 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> > On Dec 29, 2018, at 10:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > >> > How can I find out the list of packages in @preserved-rebuild? >> There's a JSON

Re: [gentoo-user] pycharm-community vs pycharm-professional

> On Sep 15, 2018, at 18:31, gevisz wrote: > > In short: What is the difference between pycharm-community and > pycharm-professional Gentoo packages. Pretty sure one is completely free and limited in functionality and professional requires a license from JetBrains. If you have a license,

Re: [gentoo-user] wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 9/17/18 3:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Does anybody have any idea what the below is trying to tell me? > > _WHAT_ two compenents are mismatched? > > WTF is the point of printing a "release number mismatch" warning > without tell the user which two components are mismatched? > > You might as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

On 9/17/18 5:02 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > It wants to re-install wxpython-3.0.2.0, wxGTK-3.04 and > wxGTK-304-r300. I've already done that a few times, but I answered > 'y' anyway and let it reinstall them again. It didn't help: > > $ python -c "import wx" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

> On 2018-09-17, at 19:51, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Sounds like a mess. The Gentoo stable versions _seem_ to work OK > together at the moment (for the apps I've tried), but the warning > every time you run one doesn't inspire confidence. That would be enough for me to stop using packages

Re: [gentoo-user] wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

> On 2018-09-18, at 18:50, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > > > Yes, it'd be nice if we had wxpython-4. Help welcome. Also help welcome > in having wxpython-3 use wxGTK:3.0-gtk3 or have a separate SLOT for > that itself as well. Curiosity: what is the reason for wxGTK:3.0 and wxGTK:3.0-gtk3 ? Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

-- Andrew Udvare > On 2018-12-19, at 21:24, YUE Daian wrote: > > Hi Gentoo folks, > > Recently I posted a bug report to Gentoo Bugzilla and submitted a > request to add package Roswell into the package tree. > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/638446 > > Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

> On 2018-12-19, at 21:24, YUE Daian wrote: > > Is there anything I can do more? In your ebuild, remove ./bootstrap and use eautoreconf. https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/autotools.eclass/

Re: [gentoo-user] New network cards default to "Y" with "make oldconfig"

> On Mar 23, 2019, at 21:03, Walter Dnes wrote: > > When setting up a new kernel with "make oldconfig", almost all new > device drivers default to "N". The glaring exception is network cards. > They all seem to default to "Y". Is this a bug or a "feature"? This has been a 'feature' for a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] dmg2img hfs+ disk image

On 23/02/2019 04:30, Mick wrote: > # mount -t hfsplus -o loop 4.hfs /media/dmg > mount: /media/dmg: failed to setup loop device for 4.hfs. What does dmesg show? It should give more detail about the problem. Also try with `mount -v`. Normally 7z gets into the partition and extracts the files

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] dmg2img hfs+ disk image

> On Feb 22, 2019, at 19:00, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > A bit off topic, but given I'm trying this on a gentoo system and the high > cumulative knowledge of contributors to this M/L, I thought I might as well > ask here. I'm trying to access the various partitions within a .dmg archive,

Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software

> On 2019-01-28, at 17:54, Dale wrote: > > So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar. I been googling for > others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they won't > do one thing I'd like to see. I'd also like to be able to point it to a > directory and let it build the

Re: [gentoo-user] Android ADB emerge fails on amd64

> On Jan 29, 2019, at 08:12, m4110c wrote: > > Thus spoke Andrew Udvare (audv...@gmail.com): >> >> Choose another JDK with 'eselect java-vm set system ...'. You might need to >> install another like icedtea or Oracle's version. >> > > I use Oracle

Re: [gentoo-user] Android ADB emerge fails on amd64

> On Jan 29, 2019, at 07:31, m4110c wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install the Android Tools to use "adb" with my phone on > gentoo. > > When I try to install android-sdk-update-manager it fails on compiling > its dependency dev-java/swt-3.7.2-r2. > > The output of "emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-php/xdebug-2.6.1 will not build

> On Jan 29, 2019, at 06:26, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. I have dev-php/xdebug in my world file, but when I tried to do my > world update I get the following. Note that I have the following line > in my make.conf > PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-0 php-7-1 php-7-2" The last two are not written

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

> On May 17, 2019, at 01:14, Adam Carter wrote: > > The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array have > died years ago... This really happened?

Re: [gentoo-user] Tracking kernel patches

se tags) you can see this patch was included in the release: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/diff/?id=v5.1.5=v5.1.4=3=0=0 -- Andrew Udvare signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gvim icon problem

On 18/06/2019 12:06, Philip Webb wrote: > 190615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 15/06/2019 12:00, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I've just upgraded to Gvim 8.1.1486 & most of the icons have disappeared. >> Is kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config installed ? > > Yes. > >> Open the KDE "System Settings", and go to

[gentoo-user] Where to put Happauge capture card firmware?

I get this error in my boot log: Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: Direct firmware load for v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw failed with error -2 Jun 16 03:54:55 limelight kernel: cx25840 2-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw I can get this file, but I have not figured

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with experience viewing EXIF data in Dolphin?

On 05/07/2019 15:37, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm transferring my install from a spinning disk to an SSD and > decided to tidy up/customise/stuff up things as I go. I've recently > taken a lot of photo's whilst travelling and I have the Coords in the > EXIF data. What I would like is to

Re: [gentoo-user] version of portaudio conflicts with itsself?

On 05/07/2019 22:05, Arve Barsnes wrote: > Portage would like to install portaudio-19.06.00-r2, but audacity > requires a version lower than that. I have the same output on my box, > waiting for an audacity release I guess. I have similar output especially with packages that are slotted like

Re: [gentoo-user] setup x11/plasma in chroot?

> On 2019-08-22, at 20:13, > wrote: > > Can I install x11 and plasma on a new system I've chrooted into or do I have > to boot into the new system? thanks. > -- “The whole world is watching! The whole world is watching!” > You can install these things fine. Running them within the chroot

Re: [EXTERNAL] [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

> On 2019-08-22, at 12:31, Laurence Perkins wrote: > > A common tactic is to use grep twice: > ps auxf | grep -v grep | grep blah Or grep with brackets: ps aux | grep '[f]irefox' I have a function for this: psgrep() { ps aux | grep "[${1:0:1}]${1:1}"; } This works because the ps output

[gentoo-user] Docker + systemd since cgroups v2

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Re: [gentoo-user] Where to put Happauge capture card firmware?

On 16/06/2019 04:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > There should be a /lib/firmware containing all the firmware files. > See the linux-firmware ebuild for the exact location. Thanks. Installing linux-firmware and adding this file to my initrd in Dracut configuration solved my issue. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] problem changing to 17.1 profile

On 02/11/2019 01:36, John Covici wrote: > Hi. Well, I was finally able to do the change of profile tothe 17.1 > profile. I have gotten all the way almost to the end of this process > to the final step where itwantsto emerge all the 32-bit packages. I > am about two from the end of that list

Re: [gentoo-user] Noah's ArK

> On 2019-11-17, at 06:19, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I'd like to "preserve" some packages which do require components I don't like > to have "regularly" installed any more like some depending on Python2 or are > 32bit. For Python (any version), use wheels: https://pypi.org/project/wheel/

Re: [gentoo-user] app-text/foliate ebuild?

On 27/11/2019 07:50, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I came across the "modern ebook reader" foliate > (github.com/johnfactotum/foliate) > Since I don't know about meson, I failed to write an ebuild for that. > > Has anybody know about an ebuild for foliate? > > Many thanks for some help, >

[gentoo-user] Kernel panic on 5.4.2 - not sure of cause yet

I have been getting relatively consistent kernel panics on some call to find_css_set and sometimes a stack trace that mentions cgroups. On 5.4.0 I don't get this same crash and I added blocking of auto-loading nvidia under the ramdisk just in case that's the issue, as I was sometimes getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic on 5.4.2 - not sure of cause yet

On 15/12/2019 01:54, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 12/12/2019 10:18, Daniel Frey wrote: >> >> I have just installed fresh new gentoo installs with 5.4.2 and both >> machines use nvidia-drivers - I have not seen this at all. >> >> I have been doing a fair bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic on 5.4.2 - not sure of cause yet

On 12/12/2019 10:18, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I have just installed fresh new gentoo installs with 5.4.2 and both > machines use nvidia-drivers - I have not seen this at all. > > I have been doing a fair bit of compiling on one of the machines and > haven't had any hiccups whatsoever. > > Dan >

Re: [gentoo-user] safe use of .gnupg

> On Dec 17, 2019, at 20:51, Philip Webb wrote: > > When encrypting a file, I was told : > > root:552 root> gpg -c > gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir '/home/purslow/.gnupg' > > The file is owned by my user, ie : . > This seems to be the default when 'gpg' is installed. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap?

> On 2020-01-16, at 02:30, n952162 wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible to a save an > ext3/4 system destroyed by mkswap? > > > Try app-admin/testdisk Get to a point where you know for sure nothing is writing to the disk (or would be) and make an image with

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