p going just to see if I could make it all the way
through the process. I did. Then I promised myself never to try that
again.
You do learn alot about how portage/emerge works...
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the easiest/fastest thing to do (usually) is back up /etc,
/home, /root and /usr/src/linux/.config and re-install from scratch.
If you've got /home in a separate partition, that makes the reinstall
particularly easy.
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Grant
On 2023-06-09, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I agree that having the router/firewall do it is the right way to do it.
>
> I've currently got the app provided by Dynu working.
Interestingly, what the Dynu-provided client does is equivalent to this:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
On 2023-06-09, Robin Atwood wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 03:11:57 - (UTC)
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support HTTPS,
>> so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon.
>
> Doesn't your router have a
On 2023-06-06, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>> ...
>> This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
>> TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu mono:
>>
>> https://slackware.uk/~urchlay/repos/ttf-console-fonts/about/
>
> This URL mentions three requirements:
>
> - bdf2psf
>
On 2023-06-05, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I use DejaVu mono in KDE Plasma, which does not do this and is much
> easier to Read with the plain 0. I'd like to find a terminal font
> like it.
This package claims to be able to generate console fonts (.psfu) from
TrueType fonts (.ttf) such as DejaVu
On 2023-06-04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've found that my DNS provider offers their own client, and I'm going
> to try that.
That app seems work nicely except for one thing: it sends the password
in cleartext using HTTP. The application doesn't support SSL
connections to the server that'
On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote:
> On 2023.06.04 16:36, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> You're right, I was not running it as user ddclient.
>>
>> It's not checking to see if the file is owned by the user ddclient,
>> it's checking to see if it's owned by the user _running
On 2023-06-04, Jack wrote:
> I may have an explanation. How did you run ddclient when you got that
> error? I think its check for ownership is very specific, and if you
> just run ddclient from command line as either yourself or root, you are
> not the owner (ddclient) of the file. When
thinking that the next update might fix things, and sometimes
it does, but then something else is usually broken.
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I just bought a new 6TB WD Red Plus drive to replace a couple older
drives (one of which had generated an uncorrectable error email from
smartd). I decided that I'd stick it in an external USB-3 SATA drive
"dock" thingy from Thermaltake and do some testing before installing
it.
Using smartctl, I
On 2023-05-26, Philip Webb wrote:
> I can now boot into the embryonic Gentoo system in my new machine,
> which presents a raw TTY, whose font is too large,
> ie there are too few lines on the screen.
>
> Somewhere, there's a setting for changing this, but I can't find it.
> Can anyone point me to
On 2023-05-15, Dan Johansson wrote:
> On 15.05.23 16:41, Matt Connell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 16:24 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
>>> RuntimeError: OpenPGP signature not found on Manifest
>>
>> It sounds like your sync is hitting a mirror that is currently broken.
>>
>> Are you using a
I just installed googleearth-7.3.4-r1, from the mv overlay at
https://github.com/vaeth/mv-overlay/tree/main/sci-geosciences/googleearth,
and it fails to start:
$ googleearth
/opt/googleearth/googleearth-bin: error while loading shared libraries:
libicudata.so.54: ELF load command
On 2023-04-28, jul...@jroy.ca wrote:
> What login manager and DE/WM are you using? If you're using a WM,
> it's your own reponsibility to setup dbus when starting your
> session. A DE will do this for you.
>
> Typically, you can start your WM using `dbus-run-session `, at
> least for Wayland.
On 2023-04-28, Alan Grimes wrote:
> A decenently good OS would provide an IPC mechanism and little else. =|
> So basically this is just a hack-layer to get around the inherent fact
> that linux is garbage.
Then one might wonder why you don't stop using it.
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much more smoothly than ext<3?> did.
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report similar problems cause by incompatible versions of the
icu library or by particular behaviors of systemd-resolved.
Does google-chrome have similar problems?
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Grant
ever since on a handful of machines. I'd have to
spend a few minutes reading the man page to remember the significance
of a couple of the flags, but I note that differs only in verbosity
from Dale's usage.
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know.
There is value in not having a password in clear text on a file system.
It really depends on what your trying to protect from / against.
Grant:
This seems like the lesser of all evils to me. As I understand, you're
suggesting that I lend the email password to the daemon at start
the decrypted password in it's memory.
The difference may seem subtle, but it is very important to understand.
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it needs to without needing
to bother with GPG.
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PU clock scaling on one of my machines, and it suddenly took 4X
as long to build things as my other machines. It was running at the
lowest clock speed possible all the time. Unfortunately, I don't
remember exactly what I did to fix it...
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Grant
On 2023-02-16, Grant Edwards wrote:
> A while back, I stumbled across a web page or blog entry that
> explained how to safely use grub2 with it installed in a partition
> instead of a device (e.g. grub is installed in /dev/sda10 instead of
> /dev/sda).
And of course 20 minutes af
it — and Google is unable to find the page again (perhaps it's gone).
Does this ring a bell with anybody?
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Grant
On 2023-02-15, Grant Edwards wrote:
> [1] For this purpose you want a plain old UART on the motherboard type
> seial port. You'd be surprised how many motherboards still have
> them. Even though they're never brought out to a DB9 connector on
> the back panel, there's of
one of these:
https://www.amazon.com/C2G-27550-Adapter-Bracket-Motherboards/dp/B0002J27R8/
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Grant
On 2023-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
> A recent xlib update to 1.8.3 seems to have cause some applications
> (e.g. emacs) to dribble out messages like this while they are running:
>
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x1 > 0x45e) in reply type 0x1c!
> Xlib: sequence lost (0x1
A recent xlib update to 1.8.3 seems to have cause some applications
(e.g. emacs) to dribble out messages like this while they are running:
Xlib: sequence lost (0x1 > 0x45e) in reply type 0x1c!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x1 > 0x464) in reply type 0x1c!
Xlib: sequence lost (0x1 >
d security.
It's the overlap of those three things that suggest if a message will be
bounced or accepted.
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"this isn't done all the
time" comes into play.
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the re-sent messages would fail the same
way that the original sent message failed. :-/
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that it will also be
filtered on subsequent re-delivery requests.
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On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2022 18:12:41 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> You're right, I thought you meant two different monitors in Xinerama
>>> style. I didn't know anyone who still uses separate displays
>>> (screens) these days.
On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:50:14 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote:
>> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> >> I did have to give up the option of having mult
On 2022-11-21, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I don't personally remember NVidia ever dropping a card totally
> but I did get confused for awhile when they started segmenting their
> drivers by different families and it was up to me to figure out which
> driver package handled my card.
IIRC, towards the
On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11
>> screens. The proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens,
>> but the drivers for built-in Intel and R
n Vega
graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and
open-source Xorg drivers.
I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The
proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers
for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to.
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Grant
...
>
> No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* aggrivation.
Indeed.
> Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and
> see if your experience improves.
He's been told this many times. He prefers to wait and complain.
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Grant
o be trusted
> anymore...)
>
> Naturally nothnig worked because, hey, this is gentoo
One wonders why you continue to run Gentoo, since it's so awful and
you hate it so much.
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Grant
grades.
It's a _lot_ easier to find/fix a problem when the upgrade that caused
it is recent (and there's only the one problem).
If you wait long enough, you end up with multiple problems that
sometimes aggravate each other.
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Grant
d the new one is a
Samsung 980 PRO M.2 drive. The new one is noticably faster than the
old one (which in turn was way faster than the spinning platter drive
it had replaced).
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Grant
On 2022-11-12, Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:53:13 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote:
>
>> Badblocks doesn't ask to write anything at the end of the run. You
>> tell it whether you want a read test, a write-read test or a
>> read-write-read-replace test at the beginning.
>
> Not
On 2022-11-09, Wol wrote:
> On 09/11/2022 23:31, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> If I recall correctly, it will add any unreadable blocks to its
>>> internal list of bad sectors, which it will then refuse to allocate
>>> in the future.
>
> I doubt you recall co
ter the bad block (we'll call that the "tail"). The bad block
is then moved to the "bad blocks inode" and the head/tail files are
moved into the lost+found.
> B) Moving the file around would make attempts to recover the data
>from that bad sector significantly more difficult.
Yes, probably. Any manipulation of a filesystem (like adding the block
to the bad block inode) on a failing disk seems like a bad idea.
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Grant
On 2022-11-08, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 03:31:07 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I've got an SSD that's failing, and I'd like to know what files
>> contain bad blocks so that I don't attempt to copy them to the
>> replacement disk.
>>
>> Accordi
a non-destructive read-write test.
What happens when the bad block is _already_allocated_ to a file?
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Grant
On 2022-11-07, Matthias Hanft wrote:
> Michael wrote:
>>
>> If your customers do not have Nimbus fonts available on their OS/PDF viewer,
>> the viewer application will proceed using font substitution. It will use
>> whichever font family it thinks is the closest match, I would assume
>>
emacs, and it seems to work as my fingers expect. [My
fingers have been using emacs for 35 years.]
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Grant
On https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PyCharm_Community_Edition:
See also
* Vim — a text editor based on the vi text editor.
So what's the special connection between PyCharm and Vim that it
should be the only thing mentioned in the "see also" section?
Why not a a similar link to emacs?
your fault because
you are supposed to protect me!!!".
Sometimes there's advantages to saying "here's a gun, it's loaded, and
the safety is off. we suggest not pointing it at your foot. If you do
point it at your foot, don't pull the trigger." type thing.
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they are doing and let them do so.
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o do an installation that it's largely
habitual for some of us. ;-)
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of a third party changing sudo
right without your consent. We were at cross purposes.
ACK
Thank you for clarifying.
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unix || die
gone
back to just picking "show differences" in the etc-update menu, then
manually running merge on the two filenames shown. With the
interactive merge option, I was always a bit confused about which file
was the destination and what happened after I exited meld.
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.
If you don't have root access through something other than sudo, you
can't fix your sudo (from your existing system).
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set so that
you can fix this more directly and more reliably.
Ideally, as soon as you learn that sudo is not working as desired, use
su -- using root's password -- and revert the recent sudo change.
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Grant. . . .
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sudo, edit the sudoers file without using
visudo, introduce a syntax problem, thereby breaking sudo (fail secure).
You could easily do this to yourself if you don't follow best practices.
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Grant. . . .
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ons that it's important to have (set) a known
root password.
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On 2022-10-26, Grant Edwards wrote:
> The problem wasn't that the daemon was missing. There is a DBUS
> daemon, and other things that use DBUS (e.g. notifications) work fine.
>
> What was apparently missing was a "session"
>
> $ set | grep dbus
(same result wit
On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just
>> happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the
>> same problem. How they figured out
On 2022-10-26, Grant Taylor wrote:
> To the sudo developers, the /etc/sudoers file is *SUPPOSED* *TO* /be/
> /edited/.
And editing that file is how I configure sudo. And when an emerge
update changes /etc/sudoers, the edited file is left as-is and there
is a message that you need to r
into /etc/sudoers.d/zz
ALL ALL=(ALL) !ALL
}:-)
This is the best way. Try to be as precise as possible, but be aware of
wildcards![1]
The /etc/sudoers syntax can be tricky to master. But it can also be
very powerful when done correctly.
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f the enterprise method is that you can allow a
command as one target user (Oracle) but not the (default) root user.
Thus helping protect against people omitting a critical option. --
Many things, e.g. Oracle RDBMS, get rather upset when commands
(accidentally) change the ownership of files when run as the wrong user.
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Grant. . . .
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gcc has usually been a hardware problem.
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Grant
On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs
>> installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get
>> the impression that
>&
changed between the N distribution
file and the N+1 distribution file. Can that same change be safely
applied to the N' distribution file to create the N'+1 file?
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not to modify a file in /etc takes hutzpah.
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ed system
calls return ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUPP
The same sftp:// URL works fine in filezilla, so I know the remote
server is OK.
The loan of a clue would be appreciated.
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Grant
t turned out that any of the codec/parameter combinations would have
been fine, it was just the filename that was causing the problem.
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Grant
On 2022-10-19, Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:00:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> Why would dhcpcd have the persistent option enabled by default?
>
> I think because this causes less breakage in those case
On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete,
> useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks
> like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes up, but never removes
> it when the connection goes down.
I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete,
useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks
like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes up, but never removes
it when the connection goes down.
There are search entries and nameserver entries from
On Oct 10, 2022, 12:46 PM Alan J. Wylie wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2022-10-10, (Alan J. Wylie)
> > wrote:
> >> $ man binutils-config
> >>
> >> [...]
> >
> > AFAICT, that changes the binutils configuraiton for the entire
&
On 2022-10-10, (Alan J. Wylie)
wrote:
> Grant Edwards writes:
>
>> Can somebody give a clue how to specify the binutils to be used when
>> building a Linux kernel?
>
> $ man binutils-config
>
> The binutils-config script allows you to switch between different
&
. I've tried adding
LD=/path/to/ld to the make, but that appears to be ignored.
Can somebody give a clue how to specify the binutils to be used when
building a Linux kernel?
Thanks...
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that's been part of X since the dinosaurs were around.
Indeed. X has worked that for the 35 years I've been using it.
> Try it elsewhere, it works most places, afaik ...
If there's anywhere that doesn't work, then something is broken.
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for me. As the ... more experienced SA
on teams for a while, I tend to not tolerate people hording / not
sharing information and / or making fun of others for not knowing
something. So I counter this by actively promoting people learning
things as a good thing.
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also have comments from people who maintained
commands and possibly added the option that you're most interested in.
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and I still learn new things weekly if not daily.
Help pull others up, don't hold them down by climbing on top of them.
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at this aspect.
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removed by depclean
are old versions of gentoo-sources and the occasional old slot of
binutils (or whatever).
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Grant
On 2022-09-14, Meik Frischke wrote:
> Am 2022-09-14 19:21, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> Meld just updated from 3.20.4 to 3.22.0 [...]
>> and now meld uses client side decorations instead of allowing the
>> window manager to handle that stuff. This is extremely annoying, [.
s to use.
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On 2022-09-14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> OTOH, gtk3-classic is a set of source patches that get added to the
> "normal" gtk portage directory.
I didn't state that very well -- the patches are installed into the
/etc/portage/patches directory for gtk+, not into the normal po
On 2022-09-14, Meik Frischke wrote:
> Am 2022-09-14 19:21, schrieb Grant Edwards:
>> Meld just updated from 3.20.4 to 3.22.0 (I have ~amd64 set for meld),
>> and now meld uses client side decorations instead of allowing the
>> window manager to handle that stuff. [...]
>
unavailable for meld.
For now, I'm goint to revert to 3.20.4, but hopefully there's a way to
get meld 3.22 to behave itself?
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ed to most other distros -
Until you want to do something even vaguely unique or out-of-the
ordinary. Then most other distros are a PITA compared to Gentoo.
If all you want to do is run a web browser, then Gentoo is almost
definitely the wrong choice.
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Grant
On 2022-08-24, Grant Edwards wrote:
> What's the easiest way to get a remote desktop working for a Gentoo
> server with a Windows 10 client machine?
>
> A lot of sources recommend xrdb since Windows comes with a native RDP
> client. But there is no ebuild for xrdb in portage --
, but I'd need to install a VNC client on the
Windows end, and that may be problematic.
Does it matter that I don't run a "desktop environment"? I have a
pretty minimalistic setup using the openbox WM and a couple tint2
panels.
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Grant
driver. But the fan would kick in for some things and I didn't care for
the noise of the stock fan. I've not yet compared contemporary
Raspberry Pi 4 or other comparable systems.
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don't want to stop it if I can avoid it. It's about
half way through, give or take a little.
:-)
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sectors. Thus causing the drive to do lots of extra work to account for
the other seven 512 B blocks in a 4 kB sector.
P. S. The pulled drive I bought had like 60 hours on it. Dang near new.
:-)
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Grant. . . .
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PC / Virtual Server /
Hyper-V. Back when they still supported OS/2 as a guest OS in an
official capacity. Perhaps you can run an old version thereof or
extract the guest add-ons therefrom and use them elsewhere.
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more than normal anyway. Keep in mind, I have two encrypted
drives connected right now.
Just curious if that speed is normal or not.
Thoughts?
Dale
:-) :-)
P. S. The pulled drive I bought had like 60 hours on it. Dang near
new.
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Grant. . . .
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On 2022-08-04, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 21:49:59 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> emerge --depeclean --ask
>>
>> That removed a couple wayland packages (yay! I didn't really want
>> wayland). Then it warned me
>>
>>!!!
I just did my usual
emerge --sync
emerge -auvND world
Everything seemed to be fine (IIRC, it upgraded chrome).
emerge --depeclean --ask
That removed a couple wayland packages (yay! I didn't really want
wayland). Then it warned me
!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package:
like something other than just a slow server. When dealing
with slow servers, it never took more than 15-30 minutes.
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Grant
known_hosts file so that re-loads
would already be known. I guess I misunderstood.
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*?assword" like in all
the examples.
Currently, SSH puts the password-prompt as:
(@) Password:
As I know both, the expected string is this full line. If SSH changes
its behaviour, the script will simply fail.
Nice!
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