On 10/11/20 10:06 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 12:23 PM Daniel Frey wrote:
The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I
have two slotted kernels in world:
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.48
sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.66
I tried masking kernels
This is one of those frustrating times where portage is trying to do
something silly.
I have nvidia-drivers installed. It has a dependency to
virtual/linux-sources.
The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I
have two slotted kernels in world:
On 9/29/20 10:48 AM, n952162 wrote:
10 weeks ago, I updated my system and it took days to build. I just
started a new update of my system, and it looks like it will take at
least more than a day again ...
Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example?
I don't recall what flag it
On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I've been running into this a while now. It seems one server is no
longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as
it attempts to use it and retries many times. The server is
gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com. I just removed it from
On 12/14/20 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
I ordered a Dell XPS 8940 which arrived in October, but life got in
the way, and I'm only now getting around to setting it up. First thing
I noticed today is that Dell "had the courage to remove the VGA port"
. It has HDMI and Displayport. I've got
So now I have another machine that insists on pulling in another set of
kernel sources, even though I like to do this manually.
apollo ~ # emerge -auDNt world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge ]
On 11/11/20 7:56 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote:
Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being
pulled in?
You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all
the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo
On 11/16/20 11:50 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 08:37, Dale wrote:
Thanks for any tips.
If you don't *need* any fancy interface, you can't go wrong with mpv.
It is a fork of mplayer, has space to pause, arrow keys to move
back/forward a minute (up/down) or 10 sec
On 11/11/20 10:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:31:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote:
Or is this because nvidia-drivers depends on virtual/linux-sources?
Even so, the presence of the single slotted version in world should be
enough to satisfy the dependency.
Exactly, and emerge
On 1/4/21 4:15 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
On Monday, 04. Jan 2021, 07:09:06 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 06:05, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
As far as I see, I defined _exactly_ _one_ _of_ them:
Please show what USE flags you've defined for either this package or
LUA. Hard to
On 1/4/21 7:32 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
On 6/1/21 12:29 PM, n952162 wrote:
on two different machines. Is there some new USE variable I need?
I hit this and had to rebuild a package, but I forget which one...
I looked in my log and:
1622312280: *** emerge --oneshot --regex-search-auto=y Locale-gettext
I had to emerge
On 7/7/21 11:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, Gentoo.
Would somebody help me here, please.
When I try to emerge glibc-2.33-r1, the very first phase of the build
crashes out with:
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -march=native -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
glibc-test.c -o glibc-test
*
On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
The subject line pretty much describes this. How does one manage the
system.map file in /boot? Is it needed? Should it be updated with each
kernel? I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed. I tend to keep 2 that
I know are stable and one testing.
On 4/4/21 6:41 AM, n952162 wrote:
On 4/4/21 12:37 PM, n952162 wrote:
After re-running quickpkg, I still get no "binary"s in the emerge
output dependency tree.
At some point, I started getting 304 errors here again.
|304 Not Modified|
Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't
been able to update TV frontends since October.
(Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends and
their only purpose is to run Kodi!)
I'm also not interested in unmasking a ton of things to get it
On 3/14/21 3:51 PM, Steve Evans wrote:
On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:57:22 -0700
Daniel Frey wrote:
Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I
haven't been able to update TV frontends since October.
(Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends
Hi all, I've been struggling with an odd udev problem. Any udev experts
on here?
Some background: My 13-year-old HTPC finally kicked the bucket. After
looking around, stock levels of PC parts around here are close to
nonexistant. I had a newer donor board/ram/cpu around that's 5-7 years
old.
Well,
I was updating a system and gcc got broken somehow, and it doesn't seem
to be possible to fix it.
Problem:
# gcc -v
gcc: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by gcc)
OK, no biggie, I have a binpkg:
# emerge -1Ka glibc pax-utils
These are the packages that would
On 9/7/21 12:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:32:41 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote:
Why is it checking the build environment for a binary package?
I was wondering the same.
As it stands, I can't fix this problem.
I tried editing the ebuild (removing the __thread check
On 2022-01-09 05:13, gevisz wrote:
Yes, masking some new package can work in this case.
However, it is not so easy as it may seem because it is not the new
version of tensorflow that I should mask in my case as on the day
when the tensorflow recompilation failed its version remained the same
On 2022-03-19 01:03, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I been thinking. Yea, that's dangerous. lol If I logout of KDE, or
have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I
have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack? My login
manager is sddm. As a example, if someone
On 2022-04-06 11:53, n952162 wrote:
I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with
unsupported chips. I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone
had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either?
I bought a Lenovo P70 laptop back in 2018? and all hardware was
On 2022-05-24 13:20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Anyone noticed anything lately with plasmashell? I think it started
happening after Qt was upgraded from 5.15.3 to 5.15.4. At login, the
desktop is very unresponsive and sluggish. Mouse clicks take over a
second to register.
The plasmashell
On 2022-07-15 12:54, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Edwards
mailto:grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It looks like www-client/google-chrome just added wayland and jack
> audio to the dependancies. So now I have to have Pulse _and_ Jack?
>
> --
> Grant
On 2022-05-06 05:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers.
IMO, that's the logical conclusion.
I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I
ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of
them over the years).
On 12/8/22 05:58, Dale wrote:
I was thinking DAS was not a good option. It seems like a feature
removed and cheaper version of NAS.
I think I've seen a couple Synology NAS boxes but I think even used they
were a bit pricey. Still, used could make that a option. Maybe. It
could fall
I've been having this strange problem with my dual monitor setup.
While I've figured out the nightmare of auto-detect not working at all
with dual monitors and the inability to use nvidia's configure tool
combined with Plasma's monitor option to fix the problem I've switched
to nouveau and at
Oddly enough I just reinstalled on a new nvme over the weekend. I
haven't had time to mess with fonts and this is what the default
settings are (as I haven't changed anything):
$ eselect fontconfig list
Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled):
[1] 05-reset-dirs-sample.conf
[2]
On 2/6/23 08:00, Jack wrote:
If you find that the EDID is really bad for one of the monitors, you
should be able to find a correct copy and make that one available to X,
although I don't remember how since I haven't needed to do so in years.
I believe it is a setting within/under Xorg.conf.
On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
managed differently.
Should be less, since you already have
On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote:
Over the last 8-9 months I noticed an old Lenovo G505s laptop is spending a
long time in the POST process, before eventually the OEM logo shows up on the
screen. Last time I timed it, it took 2.5-3.0 minutes. Normally it would
only take ~20-30 seconds. Once
On 11/29/23 00:20, Wols Lists wrote:
On 29/11/2023 00:16, Michael wrote:
Thanks Dan, will do. I was planning to take it apart soon to replace
the HDD
with an SSD, so this would be the first thing to check. I expect
finding a
replacement unit will be difficult. Every Lenovo RTC battery seems
After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any
idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors?
All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I
have two side-by-side and one above the right monitor.) I go into System
Settings, set it up and
On 2/24/24 21:52, Dale wrote:
I have two monitors too, sort of. One monitor is for computer stuff,
checking email, surfing the net etc etc etc. The other monitor I use to
watch TV with. The output from the video card second output goes to a
splitter so I can have the same video in both my
On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote:
I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics instead
of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing screen settings
has gone. One monitor is using the DVI port of the card and the other HDMI.
It should be worth trying
On 2/25/24 10:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey <mailto:djqf...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card -
> RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port.
>
> KDE behaves
Hi all,
I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I
have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue.
I have confirmed it's not updating:
~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode
[0.201619] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most
optimal
On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote:
I think most is in the .config directory now. I have to say tho, I used
to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some
things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise. I think the devs try
to make things forward compatible but no one is
On 3/3/24 13:48, Michael wrote:
It could be AMD have not yet released microcode updates for the community.
OEMs receive new microcode first and patch it in their MoBo BIOS/UEFI
firmware. Eventually the CPU manufacturers release microcode for older CPUs
no longer supported by OEMs. Since you
On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote:
To provide a little more info on how this works. This is how I did it.
It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this. It will fill in a lot
of the info and when unsure, list the available options. First, I had to
install the package xrandr. My first problem
On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote:
Since my last post, I did my weekly updates. During that, I log out,
switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs
it, then back to default runlevel and log back in. With the config file
change, my monitors came up just like they should. I
On 3/29/24 03:55, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
Hi,
After upgrading two Lenovo Laptops (UEFI, secure boot disabled), grub does not
work anymore; instead it says "Welcome to Grub" ... And then immediately boots
into bios setup.
What did go wrong?
I did the usual things:
* emerge update world
*
Hi all,
I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd.
I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during
building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d:
DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc
DISTCC_ENABLE_DISCREPANCY_EMAIL=
DISTCC_FALLBACK=1
On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote:
think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you remove
that, it will behave as expected.
I checked all the units on one of the machines still showing the problem
and an extra '-v' is not present in any of the files.
That's a
On 3/29/24 22:38, Daniel Frey wrote:
Hi all,
I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd.
I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during
building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d:
DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc
Hi all,
Still new to systemd and am struggling with a custom unit file.
Some background:
I have a HTPC that requires loading a custom keymap in order for the
remote to work. It sets up an alternate protocol that the driver
supports but not defaults to.
In short:
# ir-keytable
Found
On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote:
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote:
What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works!
Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section?
OK, I have finally sorted out the IR keymap/lircd/irexec/LCDd
On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote:
On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote:
What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works!
Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section?
I did, it made no difference.
From what I can tell
it again, then prolly
you got the new service file which is without -v. That prolly explains
why some machines still have it, and some don't.
On 4/1/2024 12:03 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote:
think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you
On 3/31/24 07:59, Michael wrote:
On Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:33:20 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
(moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev)
Thanks for bringing this to our attention Rich.
Is downgrading to app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.2 all that is needed for now, or are
we
On 4/8/24 07:03, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
Greetings,
the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces-
sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin-
utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi-
nal upgrade of "@world",
On 4/27/24 15:30, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I finally got Gentoo on the old rig I had laying around. This is not
the one I usually refer to as NAS box. I named this one NAS2. LOL I
got one problem that is confusing me. I've compared it to my main rig
and the install guide and I think I got
On 4/27/24 15:30, Dale wrote:
Howdy,
I finally got Gentoo on the old rig I had laying around. This is not
the one I usually refer to as NAS box. I named this one NAS2. LOL I
got one problem that is confusing me. I've compared it to my main rig
and the install guide and I think I got
Hi all,
I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid.
For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!)
I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a build that's available in
portage that works with my fakeraid. All this to try to dual-boot
using a raid 1+0.
I've
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2011 10:09:38 Daniel Frey did opine thusly:
Hi all,
I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid.
For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!)
I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a build that's
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Grant wrote:
--snip--
The TV is an LG 47LH90 and and it is said to do 1080p. I looked for
ghosting in 16:9 mode instead of Just Scan mode and strangely the
shadows are there, but they're oriented top and bottom instead of left
and right. I can take another photo if anyone
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
I think this one should have worked? It seems to have found the
superblock on /dev/sda, at least.
Anyway, I imagine everyone (myself included) is afraid to tell you to do
anything at this point that might trash your data. My advice now would
be
On 01/-10/37 11:59, James wrote:
Background:
I worked on this last April can gave up on the (livedDVD)
install with too many other things to do, and pissed off at
a lack of usable (current) documentation.
So, taking a fresh look at the BOTCHED system:
The 2 drives are identical 2TB:
Greetings,
I discovered a possible reason for mdadm always marking my raid array as
bad on reboot. The problem is I don't know how to check for the issue.
When using root on a native mdadm raid, the kernel handles the array
state transition at shutdown, so it's not a big deal. However, it's
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Florian Philipp wrote:
Remounting root read-only is done by an init script called mount-ro
which is started in runlevel shutdown. Try to add a custom init script
to your /etc/init.d directory with the following content:
#!/sbin/runscript
depend()
{
after mount-ro
}
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Michael Mol wrote:
This is related to a question I wanted to poll the list with. How does
everybody here use Gentoo? For personal use? Production use? For
server, desktop or embedded roles? What's your most interesting setup
or use case?
I use gentoo on my laptop (1.6
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided
to try to update it anyway, knowing there were problems with suspend
and a few other things.
I've always used gentoo-sources. So I tried 3.3.8.
Hrm. Suspend
On 09/13/2012 10:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 17:18:38 schrieb Daniel Frey:
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided
to try to update it anyway, knowing
On 09/12/2012 05:59 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
I switched to 3.0 more than a year ago (I use vanilla-sources). Never
had a problem with suspend and/or hibernate; I'm now running kernel
3.5.3. You didn't specify how do you suspend. pm-utils? dbus-send to
upower? echo mem /sys/power/state?
On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote:
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel ...
FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A quote
that the failure happened after
a major update. This isn't the first time an `emerge -pvuDN world`
killed my computer. :-)
Dan
On 09/13/2012 07:20 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 09/12/2012 09:49 PM, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote:
So about a month
On 09/15/2012 03:26 PM, Mick wrote:
I was also replacing capacitors last weekend. It is a good idea to upgrade
them if there are alternatives of a higher maximum temperature as they will
probably last longer. A belts braces approach is to add another/larger
case
fan to keep the
On 09/15/2012 03:29 PM, Dale wrote:
Daniel Frey wrote:
Well, it turns out it was my PSU. The voltage drop on the 5V line was
4.08, but it would slowly warm up to 4.95V, then the PC would behave
normally. I opened the PSU and there was a ruptured cap.
I've replaced it and the problems are all
On 09/18/2012 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Are there any known tricks for auto-mounting an MTP device? I think
this stuff is used on some newer Android phone so I'm hoping someone
has a nice solution.
MTP is used on a quite a few newer Android devices, including my Nexus
7. I
On 12/22/2012 03:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2012-12-21, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk.
I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works far better for me,
On 12/23/2012 03:22 PM, luis jure wrote:
well, it seems i have been very lucky indeed. i just emerged jmtpfs as per
mark's suggestion, and it just worked. i just created a /media/galaxy
directory, and an entry in fstab (like yours, but with jmtpfs instead of
mtpfs) and that was it. now i can
On 01/08/2013 09:32 AM, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 7:01 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
I think my UPS is dying. Time to get a new one. It's been years, so
there may be new tech
On 01/08/2013 11:24 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
Thanks to you, and others, for all the info. And thanks for the
apcupsd ebuild. BTW, what does mailx do in the ebuild? Send an email
about an outage?
Yes, it sends email notifications. I currently have ssmtp set up to send
mail to my gmail
On 01/10/2013 04:21 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:01:47AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
I got an APC Back-UPS BX1300G-CN from the local Staples. No worry
whatsoever about overloading this baby. I'm currently running a
torture test with the monitor, the modem, and both PC's
Hi all,
It seems that the genkernel team did the switcheroo with genkernel.
I used to build an initramfs with a newer mdadm by putting:
MDADM_VER=3.2.6
in genkernel.conf and copying the related tarball to /var/cache/genkernel.
I discovered a bit of a problem, all that's been removed in the
I updated my server a while back, and just recently I noticed this in
/var/log/messages:
Feb 13 11:26:14 coretwoduo login[25575]: pam_tally2(login:auth):
pam_get_uid; no such user
I have thousands of entries in my logs. It doesn't seem to prevent me
from logging in though.
I have figured out
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote:
For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be
wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this:
#emerge -p /etc/pam.d/
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating
On 02/13/2013 02:51 PM, walt wrote:
For sure there is no user named auth on my machines, so something must be
wrong somewhere. Just for fun I ran emerge -p /etc/pam.d/ and got this:
#emerge -p /etc/pam.d/
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating
On 02/13/2013 08:56 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 14 February 2013, at 04:13, Daniel Frey wrote:
...
I've poked into this a bit more, and every 60 seconds 5 attempts at
logon are being made… This weekend I'll reformat reinstall.
Excuse me if this is a dumb question, but does this machine have
On 02/14/2013 11:26 AM, James wrote:
Hello,
Context: Stable Systems with a few newer packages
(unmasked) in portage.
--snip--
So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week
before acutally installing those new packages. This would
allow the fodder that the good folks on this
On 02/14/2013 04:15 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from
outside the local LAN.
Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to
be sure.
I just installed tcpdump and checked. During the burst of 5
On 02/14/2013 04:15 PM, Adam Carter wrote:
This particular machine doesn't have ssh/xinetd or the like routed from
outside the local LAN.
Unless someone made a mistake with the config somewhere. Run tcpdump to
be sure.
Well, an `emerge -1 libtool glibc gcc emerge -e world` fixed
On 02/26/2013 07:18 PM, Joseph wrote:
I'm running Nvidia driver: 310.32 with my GeForce GTS 450 kernle-3.1.6
but I've noticed it freezes my screen once a day or ever second day.
Mouse is moving but no icon is responding, nor can I use the keyboard
(all frozen).
I can login to the system
On 02/26/2013 07:13 PM, luis jure wrote:
hello list,
i use xfce, but i have several kde applications (k3b, digikam, tellico).
after upgrading to kde 4.10.0 i had problems with all my kde apps.
i receive similar error messages saying that the application couldn't
create the I/O slave
On 03/07/2013 09:23 AM, Tamer Higazi wrote:
Hi people!
I have tried to install the latest release of wanpipe through the
freeswitch overlay, which I did so far successfully. Shortly I have
realised, that the wanrouter module is not loadable. When I try to
load it I get the following error:
On 04/02/2013 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oh, and gentoo is fast is a nono swear word these days. That's ricing
:-) Nowadays we say the benefit of gentoo is USE so you get what *you*
want :-)
When I'm asked, I say that gentoo is extremely flexible and can be
tailored in almost infinite
On 07/02/2013 07:23 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-07-01, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
2) Unplug or power down the firewire drive when booting.
I had this problem on my Intel motherboard, and found out you can
disable booting from external drives. Boot to removable
On 08/10/2013 09:27 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
Hi all,
As per usual an update of Libre Office is failing and causing all
sorts of build troubles. I have an install, the previous version, of
Libre Office working so how do I stop portage from trying to update to
the latest.
[ebuild UD
Hi Grant,
Yes, I just had to do this myself.
There are two packages: jhead and exiftool. The former does jpegs only.
I wound up using exiftool, there's a single command to strip all metadata:
exiftool -all= *.jpg
If I remember right that creates a copy of the file it processes.
You can use
On 09/13/2013 03:47 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday 13 Sep 2013 14:47:35 Grant wrote:
Would the hot spare be in case I lose 2 drives at once? Isn't that
extraordinarily unlikely?
Not really. One fails and you don't notice for a while, or it takes a while
to
recover from it. Then a
On 10/21/2013 02:13 AM, Dale wrote:
Tyan is a mobo I have heard good things about. I think someone gave me
a puter to repair once that had a ASUS mobo. It seemed to be a nice
mobo. Pity the guys house caught fire from the central heat tho. I'm
open to ideas here.
Basically, I want to
On 10/21/2013 04:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
I probably haven't looked at this file for years, but it contains
named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/sbin/nologin
#named:x:40:40:added by portage for bind:/etc/bind:/bin/bash
Just a note to other NFS server users -
There's a kernel bug that can cause unmounting an NFS share to segfault
(and not actually unmount anything.)
I had in in the kernel 3.10 version, perhaps even before that as I don't
update the kernel on my mythtv backend server that often.
It hangs the
On 11/02/2013 05:04 AM, hasufell wrote:
Another round of questioning the users here.
more specifically:
* how often do you experience useless rebuilds?
A few times a year. To put this in perspective, I try to do major
updates (-uDN world) once a month. I used to do this weekly but can't
now
On Nov 7, 2013 9:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Mine isn't skewed to one side, it's just a fraction to large. It seems
to be cut off by a few pixels all the way around. Watching a movie tho, no
problem. Using it for a puter monitor tho, slight issue. To give a bit of
a idea, about
On 12/05/2013 03:04 PM, Mick wrote:
The connection bails out. I don't understand what the message Serial line
is
looped back. means. Any ideas?
This usually means the host is just echoing everything back to the
client. Most times this means the host is not starting the session or is
On 12/10/2013 06:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up
the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB.
I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages.
The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week.
Does anyone have
On 12/13/2013 10:56 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
Hello all,
I have a network accessible UPS (Powerware 9150 with the network option
installed), so am looking for tips on how to properly configure a gentoo
VM running on ESXi to initiate a safe shutdown during an extended power
outage via this
On 12/21/2013 05:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
I've set up gentoo on my desktop PC. I have a question about what
temperature readings for the Nvidia GPU in question are considered to be
safe. At the moment, the temperature readings for my GPU, as reported by
the XFCE sensors plugin are 73
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