[gentoo-user] Re: ssh -X problem [no help sofar on ssh group]

Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com writes: [...] I believe you're looking for the xhost command and its archaic permissions setup settings. The idea is that the machine hosting the X server has an additional permissions setting that controls which hosts are allowed to use the X displays.

[gentoo-user] How to automate an sshfs (fusermount) mounted share

I'm sshfs mounting an solaris zfs file system in the interactive fashion. sshfs $USR@HOST:/file/system MOUNTPOINT passwd? enter passwd RETURN Once mounted I run an rsnapshot backup onto the mounted FS. Any ideas on how to go about doing this mount automatically (scripted) will be greatly

[gentoo-user] rebuilds during emerge

Is there something I need to do when I see emerge -vUNDp @world like this? emerge -vuNDp @world (wrapped for mail) [snipped some 43 other pkgs] [The following line beginning with `[ebuild ...' (wrapped) is just to allow any reader to understand they are at the end of pkgs ouput] , |

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just reinstalled months earlier than I did. Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted lack unix hero talk... hehe.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers (suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting uninstalling some of the blockers. So, I've made

[gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox. It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more. After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so many blocks, use flag changes and a variety of other bad news in such proliferation... I'm

[gentoo-user] emerge fails with `Suspicious PERL5LIB setting's

Setup: running gentoo inside vbox on Solaris (x86) Very new install Running `emerge -v dev-vcs/git' when it comes to installing several dev-perl pkgs begining with dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.30.0-r1::gentooi, it fails with a brief explanation: Configuring source in

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge fails with `Suspicious PERL5LIB setting's

Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On Sun, 30 August 2015, at 7:37 am, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: ... I've been building cpan packages and have them installed at the locations mentioned above. Then, to get perl to include them in `@INC', I've utilized the PERL5LIB

[gentoo-user] Re: Advantages or disadvantages of use package.use as directory

Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] I tried the later like so: /etc/portage/package.use/app-editors/emacs-vcs where emacs-vcs contains: emacs-vcs Xaw3d athena gnutls imagemagick toolkit-scroll-bars and this way: =app-editors/emacs-vcs-25.0.50_pre20150731

[gentoo-user] Advantages or disadvantages of use package.use as directory

I see there have been a change in how we list our specific use flags. I'm seeing /etc/portage/package.use/ pkg1 pkg2 ... etc rather than package.use as a file that contains the specific pkgs and use flags. I wonder if there is some advantage to leaving things as my installation has created them

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Either way, you should be back up and running come Thursday latest :-) Hey, this is Gentoo, here we like watching gcc outpt scroll by for hours/days at a time. Hehe ... It did take a while but partly because of some trouble vbox itself... but

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: I'd suggest not doing stuff like this in the future. I got a bigger laugh out of this than anything I've seen for a while. Such a mild statement... covering seriously demented mistakes.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: Uh, not to drag you through the mud, but what gave you the idea to try that? I'm mainly interested so that we can go fix it if there is some document that is leading people astray. I seriously doubt there is any such document ... My troubles stemmed from

[gentoo-user] about online database of files per pkg

Not doing too well with google on this... Can anyong direct me to a database for gentoo where one can find out which tools/files go with which pkg.

[gentoo-user] Re: about updating gcc wiki pages

wraeth wra...@wraeth.id.au writes: On 27/08/15 17:53, Harry Putnam wrote: Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions? You may not have noticed but at the bottom

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

Jeremi Piotrowski jeremi.piotrow...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff. Many thing's can be removed

[gentoo-user] about updating gcc wiki pages

Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions? I am not having any problem so far (only just compiling as I wrrite) but I have a hunch those pages may be getting a bit

[gentoo-user] Re: dec-terminal fonts

the...@sys-concept.com writes: > On 09/09/2015 03:04 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I've got to liking this font: >> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 >> >> But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available >> >> Can

[gentoo-user] Re: dec-terminal fonts

"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 05:04:30PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote >> I've got to liking this font: >> -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 >> >> But, after checking with xlsfonts... I do

[gentoo-user] dec-terminal fonts

I've got to liking this font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 But, after checking with xlsfonts... I don't see it available Can anyone tell me which font package would have -dec-termainal [...] fonts?

[gentoo-user] firefox cpu usage

Running Gentoo (32 bit) as guest on a solaris machine. My install initially had `aurora' as browser. I removed it and installed firefox.bin, thinking the cpu usage would drop. It has dropped but only minimally. The host machine (Openindian) has 32 GB RAM. My vbox setup allows 3016 MB for

[gentoo-user] emerge: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds

emerge output: The following pkgs are causing rebuilds: [list of pkgs] I suspect this ground has been covered in depth but finding a good discussion of what it means is a different story. So, is this bad news? Or something that needs my attention...? Maybe someone can point me at some

[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: > On 26/02/16 18:47, Harry Putnam wrote: >> First off, thanks to all posters for the excellent input >> >>> Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote:

[gentoo-user] using package.provided

I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the newest version at each upgrade. As I recall, and a quick look at `man portage', a file named `package.provided' is meant for such things. The syntax is not described in detail... I tried these: /etc/portage/package.provided

[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

First off, thanks to all posters for the excellent input > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: > On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the >> newest version at each upgrade. > > I'd instead

[gentoo-user] emerge of `screen' possible perl mismatch

Setup: Running gentoo thru vbox as guest on a Solaris host (openindiana) While executing `emerge -vuD world', when the `screen' package rolled around I get this `tail' of the compile process: CPP="i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -E -DMAXWIN=100 -DNONETHACK -DETCSCREENRC='"/etc/screenrc"'

[gentoo-user] puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram On first attempt at emerging sys-apps/man-db (in came up in a world update (including -N [--newuse]) emerge's output indicated that one could not have both berkdb

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

"Walter Dnes" writes: [...] > 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your > choice. Moved from: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop * to default/linux/amd64/13.0 * > > 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present. > > 3) "cat

[gentoo-user] How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

I've had so much trouble installing gentoo into a vbox vm and then setting up X that I got really sick of it and found a premade vm (vmware) and installed... unfortunately I really do not like kde plazma or really just about anything about kde. Plus the version is old enough that its giving

[gentoo-user] virtualbox-guest-additions

Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS? Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is being installed, and the host is something else. I ask, because I'm installing gentoo into a vm on a windows host. I've done this quite a few

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at > least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > but /etc/default/grub when you want to

[gentoo-user] kernel config setting for console scroll back

In make menuconfig, under: Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. As you see I set 700 but really didn't have much of an idea what that would be in lines. Can

[gentoo-user] make boot console maintain a hi-res thru-out boot

One of my vbox gentoo vms, on boot, comes up on the grub screen in a nice hi-res console. Very early in the boot procedure that hi-res console collapses into a standard console resoltion and stays there from then on. It is possible to set things so that one maintains a hi-res console all the

[gentoo-user] create network by hand with devices are not present

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Having a problem getting a network up... I know the rudimentaries of ifconfig and route enough to use them to create one. However the error I get with trying that

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox-guest-additions

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 18/02/2017 00:08, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are >> running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS? >> >> Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is

[gentoo-user] package.provided?

Setup: Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host is win10 (64bit) Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 However, my version of vbox is for a windows host (5.1.14). And actually has the guest

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger <gen...@jorsn.eu> writes: > On 11.02.2017 20:47, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >>> Again I get a kernel panic but this time its different. It seems to >>> mount the di

[gentoo-user] Need help interpreting kernel panic

I didn't want any typos in this kernel output so took a small screen shot. I'm working on a new vm (vbox) install of gentoo but having trouble getting a kernel that boots. Architecture=amd64 (not strict) I started out by copying a .config from a running gentoo vm and using it to do `make

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger writes: > I found something interesting: >> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c >> Short answer: If you are getting this error right after linux kernel >> initialization, you are likely booting a 32-bit kernel with a 64-bit OS. >> >> Long

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger writes: > I found something interesting: >> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c >> Short answer: If you are getting this error right after linux kernel >> initialization, you are likely booting a 32-bit kernel with a 64-bit OS. >> >> Long

[gentoo-user] xorg wiki and graphics drivers

Setup: gentoo (no-X) installed into vbox vm on win 10 (64bit) host. I've gotten a solid base going but now want to setup LXDE. Gentoo LXDE wiki starts after you've already setup the X server so I went to Gentoo Xorg wiki Following the gentoo Xorg setup pages. I'm having some confusion

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg wiki and graphics drivers

Willie Mattthews writes: > If I am not mistaken you would need to install, > > * app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions > Available versions: 4.3.38 ~4.3.40 ~5.0.16 ~5.0.30 5.0.32 ~5.1.12 > ~5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"} > Homepage:

[gentoo-user] Working on fresh install, question about handbook statement

I'm part way thru a fresh gentoo install and ran up on something in the handbook guide to installing that is puzzling. This URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Distribution_files >From the section of install during the chroot and start of putting together the OS.

[gentoo-user] Re: Working on fresh install, question about handbook statement

John Covici writes: [...] >>root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo >> >>root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone >> >> And there is a little part following that says: >> >>Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will >>update the

[gentoo-user] Re: not understanding failed build log

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: [...] > Sorry to post the raw pile of output but last time a used a http link > to a long log someone

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided?

Johannes Rosenberger writes: >> Can anyone offer suggestions about this... is it even the right way to >> proceed? >> >> > > Hello! > > I have portage-2.3.3 installed and in my portage manpage it is mentioned: > > The file shall reside in

[gentoo-user] Pentoo... is it still being developed

Can any say if pentoo is still under developement?

[gentoo-user] grub:2 first experience with it

Setup:INSTALLING gentoo(amd64) in VBox vm guest - win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Installing grub:0 was my first attempt, since I kind of know my way around that and have never used grub:2. But, ran into several problems concerning ncurses and

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: >> But no update-grub > > update-grub is an Ubuntuism, not part of standard GRUB. It's only a one > line shell script that runs > > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Even a large proportion of Ubuntu users would be able to manage without > it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 14:19, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> I've attached a hefty log of some 4000 lines and hope someone will be >> patient enough to try to identify what is cau

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> writes: > On 170225-09:19-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host >> Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram >> > [ some cca. 80k text cu

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > On Monday 27 Feb 2017 10:09:34 Harry Putnam wrote: Harry wrote: >> I guess I'll try this once more... Its still a big log but I cleaned >> up the escapes ... it is a fresh try at building >> xf86-video-virtualbox-5

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller writes: [...] > I would be looking primarily at the next point the word "error" comes up > properly, which is here: > > from >

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> writes: > On 170226-09:42-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > ... >> >> > Example at the beginning: [32;01m * >> > Example from the end: * >> &

[gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog box... just an error messages that says:

[gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS= apparently ignored and new pkgs assigned

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up needing rebuilt during emerge world. Decided to see what `emerge @preserved-rebuild would bring me.

[gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome?

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is to be done to prevent

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Just so you know... I did try that. [--color n] The resulting log >> looked exactly the same. I posted that fact in an earlier request for >> help a week or so ago in which I remarked how using the

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 14:19, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> I've attached a hefty log of some 4000 lines and hope someone will be >> patient enough to try to identify what is cau

[gentoo-user] Re: About "make install all" when kernel building

Alan McKinnon writes: > That config looks fine. However, you only have one kernel stanza. To be > really safe, copy the old one to a second entry and clearly label it as > the old one. Then you can select it if the new one does fail to boot. > > It's easier that way than

[gentoo-user] Re: Not able to install ksh93

Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Hopefully someone here will recognize what is happening and some idea >> what I should do about it. > > Sorry, but I'm not going to troubles

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge of `screen' possible perl mismatch

James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> writes: > Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes: > > >> Running gentoo thru vbox as guest on a Solaris host (openindiana) > >> >> XSParagraph.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched &g

[gentoo-user] About "make install all" when kernel building

I have a newish install I've been running for a while. Today I added a setting to the kernel and rebuilt. The final move I made on the kernel move was "make install all" No looking at the /boot/grub/grub.conf all I find is the example file that comes with install. If there was old version

[gentoo-user] Re: Not able to install ksh93

David W Noon writes: >> Mike Gilbert writes: > [snip] >>> Please attach full build logs of current version. Linking to remote >>> sites means several of us won't even bother to look. >>> >> >> Ok, mistakenly thought I was doing the right thing by NOT

[gentoo-user] Not able to install ksh93

I've been running ksh93 on this newish install of gentoo for a couple of months and have done several full emerge -vuD world successfully. But 2 days ago, attempting a full update (emerge -vuD world) I find ksh93 package fails... My unsophisticated look at the output which is posted in full here

[gentoo-user] Re: elog default lifespan

Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 11/19/2016 04:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Saturday 19 Nov 2016 08:54:53 Harry Putnam wrote: >>>> After looking thru the portage man pages, the mak

[gentoo-user] '/' mounted write protected on first boot of vbox gentoo as guest

I installed gentoo in a vbox vm as guest. It boots successfully but is mounted write protected. I didn't see anything in dmesg that I recognized as pointing to the problem. Thought it might be a timing issue during boot processes and so tried to remount rw with `mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda3 /'

[gentoo-user] Re: '/' mounted write protected on first boot of vbox gentoo as guest

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I installed gentoo in a vbox vm as guest. > > It boots successfully but is mounted write protected. > > I didn't see anything in dmesg that I recognized as pointing to the > problem. > > Thought it might be a timing issu

[gentoo-user] split-elog setting

On gentoo `Portage log wiki' pages one is told: "In order to create per-category elog files, enable the split-elog Portage feature." (If you want to create `category-based' subdir.) It never gets around to explaining how split-elog is enabled. There is no example in

[gentoo-user] elog default lifespan

After looking thru the portage man pages, the make.conf.example in /usr/share/portage/config, and the `Portage log wiki' it still is not clear to me how long elogs are kept if you use the `save' flag in make.conf or not. I did see something about '7 days' but it was not clear if that is the

[gentoo-user] Re: elog default lifespan

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Saturday 19 Nov 2016 08:54:53 Harry Putnam wrote: >> After looking thru the portage man pages, the make.conf.example in >> /usr/share/portage/config, and the `Portage log wiki' it still is not >> clear to me how lon

[gentoo-user] vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile Portage pulling 99% by itself at times. I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what

[gentoo-user] Re: `sets' & sets.conf

[...] Neil Bothwick writes: > You can create a set containing a list of packages. I do this for > dependencies of packages that are not from portage, so they don't get > depcleaned and don't end up in @world. Something like [...] Thanks for the nifty examples... ...

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Rich Freeman writes: > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd > and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some > packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now that I > do most of my building from cron, but it

[gentoo-user] Re: `sets' & sets.conf

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:43:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf >> > [kernels] >> > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet >> > world-candidate = False >> > files = /us

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Rich Freeman writes: > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously > gets divided n ways, but that's as far as it goes. There isn't that > much overhead switching between VMs (though there certainly is some). [...] Thanks for the fuller picture and

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I >> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. >> >> Top's cpu usage is flux

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > On November 20, 2016 6:21:40 AM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs

[gentoo-user] `sets' & sets.conf

Can anyone post, in laymans, terms how to use sets.conf. Or thru FEATURES if thats how its done, I've read the posrtage manpage that covers it and this URL: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/ch02s02.html#config-set-syntax-single Finally reinstalled portage with USE="doc" to get the

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 08/12/2016 02:26, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: >> [...] >>>> Theoretically the install should be ready now to run X and lxde. >>>> However

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

John Covici writes: > Well, you have several issues, looks like procmail executable does not > have correct permissions, should be > -rwsr-s--x 1 root root > or at least this is the way I have it. The issue with procmail was that it was not even installed... Suprised me

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: [...] >> The only thing I can think of left to check is >> emerge @x11-module-rebuild >> and see what it will install > > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.4:0/1.18.4::gentoo USE="doc > glamor suid udev x

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:17:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > Instead of setting USE=-gtk in your `/etc/portage/make.conf` try >> > setting `sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1 -gtk` in >> > `/etc/portage/package.u

[gentoo-user] go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Since I've found no way to make the machine run X and grown tired of the chase... I'm going to keep this vm as console only and it has functioning sendmail install working on it. How to return to a console only setup? Although, I may have already screwed things up. I took a bright notion to

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Andrej Rode writes: > Hi, > >> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" >> [installed]) >> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed]) >> (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]" >>

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Andrej Rode <m...@andrejro.de> writes: > Hi Harry, > > On 09/12/16 18:23, Harry Putnam wrote: >> # required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1::gentoo >> # required by x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r3::gentoo >> # required by dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1-r1::ge

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.4:0/1.18.4::gentoo USE="doc > glamor suid udev xorg -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) > -static-libs -systemd -tslib -unwind -wayland -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" 0 > KiB > [e

[gentoo-user] newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Setup: gentoo 32bit vbox guest on win 10 64bit host Installed xorg-server, lxde Meta pkgs and deps (along with many other pkgs ... to many to list here but included at the end) uname -a: Linux g0 4.8.8-gentoo #2 Fri Nov 18 20:16:14 EST 2016 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 07/12/2016 17:34, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: >> >>gentoo 32bit vbox guest on win 10 64bit host >>Installed xorg-server, lxde Meta pkgs and deps >>(along with many other pkgs ... to many to

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> writes: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: >> >> > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

"J. Roeleveld" writes: [...] > I stopped using sendmail when easier to configure alternatives came along. > Currently using Postfix. > > As such, I can't help in checking your config. But I do remember you > had to compile the config files into a format sendmail actually

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate > yourself? You are a masochist? > > I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to

[gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

After setting up the files for sendmail on my first attempt at sending a msg I get this error as reported in the smtp conversation: Temporary system failure That is a new one to me, and doesn't give much to start on. It appears not to even get past the submit agent. (Running a little script

[gentoo-user] A little help on receiving mail

I'm having an issue when retreiving mail with fetchmail. It fails at the handoff to local sendmail. It happens with the default sendmail config sendmail.mc that is shipped with sendmail when emerged. It is a very abbreviated config that is desinged only for local mail I think. divert(-1)

[gentoo-user] Re: autofs config

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. > > Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. > > I've installed the pkg: > > aptitude search ^autofs|grep ^i > i autofs - kerne

[gentoo-user] autofs config

I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. I've installed the pkg: aptitude search ^autofs|grep ^i i autofs - kernel-based automounter for Linux created mount point: mkdir /projects-nfs I've edited

[gentoo-user] Re: About the MATE desktop applications menu

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 11:46:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 02:51:50 Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Just curious is anyone else running the

[gentoo-user] Re: About the MATE desktop applications menu

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 02:51:50 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Just curious is anyone else running the mate desktop has this same >> shortfall. >> >> Usually in the Applications menu top right the last item on the menu >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

John Runyon <m...@jfr.im> writes: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:08:41PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> In the course of about 2 hrs my connections were dropped at least 15 >> times and I think probably more. At some points I have more than one >> login going, and I

[gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

Stroller, just a note on my experience this evening. I liked what I saw about linode in this thread.. Decided to try them out. Got started with them... I was working from the command line in my new gentoo vm provided by linode. Getting things setup the way I like them. In the course of about

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