Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-03-10 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:00:19 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > mark@science:~$ cat /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > 127.0.1.1 science > > > I think this is relevant to DNS resolution of/with domain controllers and > may > depend on the AD/DC topology. The idea is to

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 March 2021 17:45:17 GMT Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 11:27:23 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > >>> Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for > >>> use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion > >>> to the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward?

2021-02-25 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 25 February 2021 15:42:38 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/25/21 2:51 AM, Michael wrote: > > A reinstall in this context is not a wholesale replace. > > ~blink~ > > > It implies obtaining the latest Stage 3 archive from a mirror, > > but retaining par

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 March 2021 18:43:29 GMT Steven Lembark wrote: > Checking my environment, I'd expect that "python" is 3.9.1, I think? > > # which python > /usr/bin/python > > # ls -al /usr/bin/python > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 20 10:46 /usr/bin/python -> python-exec2c > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 March 2021 17:03:22 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 17:00, Steven Lembark wrote: > > I believe there isn't any PYTHON_TARGET-ish setting on the system: > > $ grep PYTHON_TARGET /etc/portage/make.conf > > /etc/portage/package.use/* > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 1

2021-02-27 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 27 February 2021 08:34:02 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:47:04 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The ebuild and what looks like additional metadata files are in the > > /var/db/pkg directory tree. But the source files aren't in the tree. > > At least not for the

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward?

2021-02-25 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 25 February 2021 04:29:25 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/24/21 9:16 PM, John Covici wrote: [snip ...] > > Unless you have a lot of customizations, reinstall would be much > > better. It would probably be better even with a lot of customizations. ;-) At least it /should/ be better

Re: [gentoo-user] motherboard BIOS vs CPU microcode

2021-04-12 Thread Michael
On Monday, 12 April 2021 11:56:40 BST Adam Carter wrote: > Do these largely overlap? Yes. > So if your motherboard manufacturer is diligent with releasing updates and > you've applied them, you generally won't expect a 'microcode updated early > to new patch_level' message from dmesg? >From

Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

2021-04-14 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 10:28:32 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > I tried running an old version of RHEL with an old 3.x kernel in > > > VirtualBox, however, it won't run due to my hosts Ryzen CPU so I > > > guess I need something that does CPU emulation. > > > > > > Is this likely to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

2021-04-09 Thread Michael
On Friday, 9 April 2021 00:56:27 BST Dan Egli wrote: > On 4/8/2021 5:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I > >> think I'm missing the part that I can access it with a GUI, like when I > >> go to mail.google.com or something. > > > > Dovecot is an IMP server, it doesn't have a GUI. What you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 11 February 2021 20:32:47 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > On 2/11/2021 7:05 AM, Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 February 2021 23:03:18 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > >> On 2/10/2021 4:30 AM, Michael wrote: > >>> This is how I understand the printing process ought

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 18 February 2021 06:54:29 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > The other discovery was that my /home drive is a 3.0 tb Toshiba unit > from 2014... man time flies!!! =P This means that the thing should > probably be replaced due to being old as hell... I've got disks spinning around for more

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:45:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > Most probably, both my SATA disks have connection problems as > Oli Schmidt suggested from the very beginning, and because they > both have it, it points to the motherboard that already had quite > a bad track record. > > Unfortunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch [ RESOLVED ]

2021-02-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 February 2021 17:25:35 GMT n952162 wrote: > Sorry, if I gave the impression, when I said: > > /I tried that (using "module-rebuild")/ > > that I ran it without the "@". I was just referring to the original > suggestion had "@module*s*-rebuild". Oops! My apologies - I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: TCP port 445

2021-02-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 14 February 2021 17:16:33 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/14/21 4:42 AM, Michael wrote: > > You are probably right. My knowledge of MSWindows environments has > > been on a need to know basis, when I can't avoid it. ;-) > > Fair enough. > > I've ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 14 February 2021 06:43:55 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > On 2/12/2021 4:00 AM, Michael wrote: > > D [11/Feb/2021:13:08:36 -0700] [Job 11] hpcups > > (application/vnd.cups-raster to printer/ENVY, cost 0) > > > > This is the hplip printer driver in action, u

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 13 February 2021 22:11:49 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/12/21 4:00 AM, Michael wrote: > > Samba uses the native MSWindows 'Active Directory Domain Services' > > over TCP port 445 to resolve IP addresses when printing over Samba. > > I question the vera

Re: [gentoo-user] pinentry doesn't work with Emacs anymore

2021-02-20 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:22:45 GMT tastytea wrote: > Hi! > A short while ago, pinentry-gtk2 was removed from > app-crypt/pinentry. Around the same time, app-crypt/gnupg was > updated. Since then, I can not use the gpg-agent from whithin Emacs > (--deamon) anymore. When I commit something

Re: [gentoo-user] supreme annoyances:

2021-04-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 22 April 2021 14:42:14 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > A > > I have to wait during boot while DHCP tries to bring up eth0 (cable is > plugged into eth1) and then manually turn off eth0 and turn on eth1 each > time, can't find where this behavior is configured, /etc is a MAZE Set a desired

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 07:55:34 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL > SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage > tooling... > > Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? This may help:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to configure two net interfaces (one static and other dynamic)

2021-08-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 August 2021 17:39:27 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Fri, 2021-08-27 at 16:52 +0200, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Installed Gentoo into VirtualBox and I want to have two network > > interfaces (on different networks with IP ranges) one with static IP and > >

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:21:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:21:35 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > If you are multibooting frequently and getting into the UEFI boot > > > menu to change the boot order or running efibootmgr is too much > > > hassle, then a 3rd party boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 12:08:04 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Dienstag, 31. August 2021, 00:18:43 CEST schrieb Michael: > > If the alsa drivers are not compiled as modules, the above file would not > > have any effect. Anyway, let's try this in /

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 15:33:07 BST Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Tue, 2021-08-31 at 10:04 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux. I'm not > > sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never > > actually set up EFI on

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:54:14 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 3:44 PM Michael wrote: > > Please beware, I have not used zfs to date, only btrfs, so the above > > merely > > reflects my understanding rather than in depth experience of the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 14:22:39 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 August 2021 12:27:08 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:35:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > As the Firefox dir is all text files, I think, when you > > > > > > > > > > blow it away

Re: [gentoo-user] how to run freerdp

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 20:29:30 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2021-08-30 21:10+0200 n952162 wrote: > > I just emerged freerdp-2.3.2 without issue, but there's no executable > > except /usr/bin/winpr-*, which I think just serve to set up an > > authentication system. > > > > There's no freerdp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 21:03:02 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Am Montag, 30. August 2021, 13:30:03 CEST schrieb Michael: > > There was a recent move to pipewire which could have jumbled audio devices > > around for you - but I am not familiar with how pipewire works, or why it

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop internal speakers no longer working after recent updates

2021-08-30 Thread Michael
On Monday, 30 August 2021 11:30:38 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a weird problem on my Lenovo P14s laptop. Before I applied a world > upgrade (based on August 22 state portage), the internal speaker of the > laptop worked fine, but now its all silent, although all mixer

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-21 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:11:59 BST Andrea Conti wrote: > >> This may help: > >> > >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage > > It will not help in this case, since what's broken is python and not > portage. > > If that won't work for whatever reason, chroot into

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 14:00:50 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview > > & the reduced versions are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with > > Feh. >

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-09 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 9 September 2021 00:25:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: > I have cropped some .png images using Gwenview > & the reduced versions are faded with Gwenview, but fully colored with Feh. > I've tried using 'convert' to create .jpg versions, > but while they're much smaller in Kbytes (good),

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond

2021-09-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 10 September 2021 09:15:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:29:51 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > libinput sees them both but it keeps saying > > libinput: Logitech G703 (my mouse) Failed to create a device for > > /dev/input/event23 and before that it says

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse and keyboard don't respond

2021-09-10 Thread Michael
On Friday, 10 September 2021 13:12:10 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:43:26 +0100, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 10 September 2021 09:15:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 21:29:51 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > > libinp

Re: [gentoo-user] libbpf? BTF? blinking urxvt/fish?

2021-07-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 July 2021 14:41:08 BST caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: > On Sunday, July 11th, 2021 at 13:11, Nils Freydank wrote: > > Hi caveman, > > > > you should really train your search skills :-P > > lel. more like train my cognition. I could do with a bit of the same! ;-) > > (1)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 August 2021 12:10:12 BST n952162 wrote: > On 8/1/21 8:32 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 17:32 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>* Verifying /var/db/repos/gentoo/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > >> > >> ...!!! Manifest v

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 August 2021 22:17:35 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:01:40 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > I have this problem every month. Why does it fail? Is it just a > > > timeout because my network is slow? Can that be tweaked? > > > > I get th

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 11:49:23 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:55:46 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Anyhow, I recall using git to sync a live ebuild - from some repo > > and portage started downloading gigabytes of cruft. Presumably whole > > decades of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 02:28:09 BST John Covici wrote: > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 18:42:29 -0400, > > Michael wrote: > > > > On Monday, 2 August 2021 22:17:35 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 02 Aug 2021 13:01:40 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] unregister_netdevice: waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1

2021-08-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 17:06:36 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrading to 4.14.240-gentoo, I’m seeing “unregister_netdevice: > waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1” being flooded by > syslogd. This box was running 4.14.194-gentoo before and I don’t have > any

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 July 2021 09:20:45 BST John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:20:59 -0400, > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > On 7/29/21 9:10 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > It seems to me "dev-lang/perl-5.34" was made stable and it is causing a > > > problem.> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED (hopefully) New install - Wayland and graphical login

2021-08-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:24:31 BST antlists wrote: > On 21/06/2021 16:17, Michael wrote: > > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work > > with > > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 September 2021 14:56:46 BST Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > Well, this was the suggested way to go, see > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-05-05-python3-9.html > > But also when trying "emerge -1vUD @world" (be it with or without the > package.use settings), I get stuck in

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 September 2021 15:52:03 BST Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:29:30 +0100 > > Michael wrote: > > Personally, I'd back up /home /etc and world file, plus any databases > > or websites if stored under /var/, then untar the latest stage 3 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 17:38:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've booted a kernel with no NUMA config, and it seems to run fine on this > single-socket Ryzen motherboard. I just get the one entry in dmesg: > > $ dmesg | grep -i numa > [0.297998] pci_bus :00: on NUMA node 0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Iphone and transferring image files, pics and videos.

2021-09-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 22:08:09 BST Dale wrote: > Laurence Perkins wrote: > >> CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open > >> attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is > >> safe. > >> > >> Howdy all, > >> > >> My Sis-n-law has a Iphone. She

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need NUMA set up in my kernel?

2021-09-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 September 2021 10:06:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 23 September 2021 19:20:52 BST Michael wrote: > > Out of interest, have you tried booting a NUMA enabled kernel to see what > > dmesg reports? > > Yes, it's been enabled ever since I had a du

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 crashes anyone?

2021-12-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 December 2021 07:10:59 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Has anyone here noticed that x.org likes to crash sometimes as of late? > Never happened before, going years and years back. The last month or so, > I've got three x.org crashes: > > systemd-coredump[204553]: [] Process 453 (X)

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 20 December 2021 11:16:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/12/2021 08:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:55:15 +, Wols Lists wrote: > >> With pretty much every bit of linux software I've found, I have to > >> import my source into a project, make a meal of deleting the

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

2021-12-27 Thread Michael
On Monday, 27 December 2021 11:32:39 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/12/2021 11:07, Jacques Montier wrote: > > Well, i don't know if my partitions are aligned or mis-aligned... How > > could i get it ? > > fdisk would have spewed a bunch of warnings. So you're okay. > > I'm not sure of the

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh problem

2021-12-26 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 26 December 2021 17:00:46 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 11:42:41 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > I want to login to a remote site using 'ssh'. > > The response I get is "Unable to negotiate with port > > : no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss".

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 5.15.11 won't boot

2021-12-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 19:23:31 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 18:14:51 +0000, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:09:09 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 13:40:44 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > I rec

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 5.15.11 won't boot

2021-12-28 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 16:09:09 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 13:40:44 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I recently upgraded several systems from gentoo-sources-5.10.76-r1 to > > 5.15.11, using my usual approach > > > > copy current config to new sources > > make

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 December 2021 20:21:32 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some may recall, I have quite a few deer trail cameras that use SD > memory cards. On occasion some of the cards start acting weird. I've > got one that is really weird. Usually I just replace them but this one > is a bit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

2021-12-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 21 December 2021 22:32:14 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > >> > >>From: Wols Lists > >>Oh - and as for using the command line, it's all very well until you try > >>and figure out where to tell the command line to cut the video file - I > >>really don't want to have to run the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

2021-11-14 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 14 November 2021 22:23:33 GMT Wol wrote: > Which is sadly slowly proving itself a crap piece of software. > > I don't want to blame TB for the fact it keeps on crashing on Wayland > (although it's my only software which does that), but I'm just getting > totally fed up with the number

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-28 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 28 November 2021 08:53:07 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/11/2021 07:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:11:57 +, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> Strange. try: emerge virtualbox-modules > >>> > >>> That should be rebuild after everuy kernel upgrade and that happens > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

2021-11-27 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:59:49 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/11/2021 12:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:29:10 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > >> Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer works. This > >> is to be expected, of course, BUT ... > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] external (NFTS) USB 2TB stick error mount.

2021-11-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 November 2021 21:57:04 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/1/21 3:50 PM, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 1 November 2021 21:41:24 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I format external nvme SSD (M.2) drive as NTFS on Windows (to store some > >> pictu

Re: [gentoo-user] external (NFTS) USB 2TB stick error mount.

2021-11-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 November 2021 21:41:24 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I format external nvme SSD (M.2) drive as NTFS on Windows (to store some > pictures etc.) But when I insert the drive on Linux box (it has support for > NTFS enabled) I get an error: > > sda: sda1 sda2 > sd 4:0:0:0: [sda]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: external (NFTS) USB 2TB stick error mount.

2021-11-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 November 2021 23:09:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-11-01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > On 11/1/21 4:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2021-11-01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >>> I format external nvme SSD (M.2) drive as NTFS on Windows (to store > >>> some pictures

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash prompt colours

2021-12-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 December 2021 12:08:05 GMT tastytea wrote: > On 2021-12-03 11:17+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Is there a way to set the colour of a bash prompt according to > > whether the user has SSH'd in? > > > > This machine is a compile host for some others on the LAN,

Re: [gentoo-user] pango, freetype, and harfbuzz: circular dependencies?

2021-07-17 Thread Michael
Hi Matt, On Saturday, 17 July 2021 17:19:46 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > doing the weekly "emerge --sync" and "emerge -aDuv @world", portage > suddenly asks me to set the "harfbuzz" USE flag for "freetype". The > exact messages are > > --- cut here --- > > emerge: there are no ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Make install changed behaviour?

2022-03-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 4 March 2022 17:17:51 GMT Ionen Wolkens wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 05:04:04PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I used to run 'make -j24 && make install && make modules-install' and I'd > > get kernels in /boot complete with version numbers in their names. Now

Re: [gentoo-user] what is unchecked MSR access?

2022-03-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 March 2022 12:00:21 GMT John Covici wrote: > Hi. I get this error when I boot the computer along with a call > trace, but I can't find anything definite about what the error > actually is caused by and how important it is, and what I should do > about it, if anything. > > I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-11 Thread Michael
On Friday, 11 March 2022 03:04:47 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 10/03/2022 20:44, Michael wrote: > > ~ # sysctl -a | grep fs.protected_regular > > fs.protected_regular = 1 > > To check the current value of a setting, you can just run: > >sysctl fs.protected_r

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 6 March 2022 17:31:55 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 12:20 PM John Covici wrote: > > OK, I discovered that if I add 8.8.8.8 to my resolv.conf, > > www.youtube.com becomes accessible. I would like not to have either > > google or cloudflare in there, if I can avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 6 March 2022 12:27:47 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 06:18:33 -0500, > > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 06/03/2022 09:39, John Covici wrote: > > > Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access > > > www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:34:21 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:23:58 -0500, > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici wrote: > > > Traceroute does not work, either. > > > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and >

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:34:45 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I just noticed this in my updates: > > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/llvm-13.0.1:13::gentoo [13.0.0:13::gentoo] > USE="binutils-plugin%* libffi ncurses xml -debug -doc -exegesis -libedit > -test -xar -z3 (-gold%*)" ABI_X86="32 (64)

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

2022-03-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:43:02 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 01:34:45 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I just noticed this in my updates: > >> > >> [ebuild U ] sys-devel/llvm-13.0.1:13::gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-10 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 10 March 2022 17:59:00 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Dr Rainer Woitok > >Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:51 AM > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Nikos Chantziaras > >Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 February 2022 12:07:40 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > spareproject776 writes: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 06:47:12PM +0800, Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I'm a sort-of newbie gentoo user and I just wanted to ask if what I'm > >> thinking is possible

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall configuration

2022-03-01 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 12:35:17 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I use net-firewall/shorewall to protect my machines; it's served me well for > many years. My ISP gave me a FritzBox modem-router recently, in the hope of > better media streaming, but it's spamming my LAN server with

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall configuration

2022-03-01 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 1 March 2022 16:40:30 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > I hope I'm not facing a complete rehash of firewall config. If so, I may > return the old modem-router to service instead. This page suggests it is simple to achieve, by adding it to your /etc/ nftables.conf file, assuming one is

Re: [gentoo-user] gnu-screen split region can't invoke shell

2022-03-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 28 February 2022 11:12:01 GMT russian sky wrote: > Is it a bug that the gnu screen itself can't invoke > > a shell automatically after running 'Ctrl-a S' ? As far as I know you need to use 'Ctrl-a n' to move the screen focus into the next region of the split screen and then 'Ctrl-a

[gentoo-user] Scanner no longer detected with media-gfx/sane-backends-1.1.1-r2

2022-02-26 Thread Michael
I'm trying to find out why a very old and basic CanonScan N650U flatbed usb scanner stopped working after a recent an update to sane-backends-1.1.1-r2: Installed versions: 1.1.1-r2(09:12:17 24/02/22)(ipv6 usb zeroconf - gphoto2 -snmp -systemd -threads -v4l -xinetd ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32"

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

2022-02-27 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 February 2022 22:47:52 GMT Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: > Yeah, I was just thinking about that since building a powerful, new > computer around my area is prohibitively expensive. But getting old, > prebuilt computers is ludicrously cheap. I figured that I can get a few > of them

[gentoo-user] boa server won't start

2022-03-21 Thread Michael
I've moved my local portage distfiles server to a new installation, with no changes in the configuration. I expected www-servers/boa to start, but for reasons I fail to understand it won't do so: ~ # rc-service -v boa start * Caching service dependencies ...

Re: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start

2022-03-23 Thread Michael
On Monday, 21 March 2022 16:17:04 GMT Michael wrote: > I've moved my local portage distfiles server to a new installation, with no > changes in the configuration. I expected www-servers/boa to start, but for > reasons I fail to understand it won't do so: > > ~ # rc-servi

Re: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start

2022-03-23 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 14:48:32 GMT Kusoneko wrote: > I don't know anything about boa, but I'm fairly certain that > > > Listen 192.168.023 > > is never going to work since that's obviously not a valid IP address to > listen on. You are quite right, I obfuscated the real address and made a

Re: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start

2022-03-23 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 14:51:18 GMT Julien Roy wrote: > Somestimes, openRC isn't verbose enough when some services fail to start. > When that happens to me, I just run the command from a terminal (with > appropriate arguments), and that generally gives me a better error message > that I can

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-25 Thread Michael
On Friday, 25 March 2022 16:16:10 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 25 March 2022 09:31:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I went through Jack's points one by one and answered each of them as I > > went. I got almost to the end before finding the answer. Jump straight to > > the end if you just

Re: [NOT SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 26 March 2022 17:14:52 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 10:02 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 26 March 2022 15:14:11 GMT ny6p01 wrote: > > > Just a shot in the dark, but is alsasound service starting correctly? > > > > It doesn't run at all, not even while

Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 (not ~) glibc SEGVs

2022-03-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 30 March 2022 09:38:41 BST Nikolay Kichukov (oldumnet) wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On Wed, 2022-03-30 at 00:50 -0400, James Cloos wrote: > > Anyone else seeing a multitude of segv in libc on a stable box with > > =sys-libs/glibc-2.34-r10? > > > > not everything dies, but a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 March 2022 23:04:21 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-27 22:35+0100 Michael wrote: > > I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I > > select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by > > middle-click in LibreOffic

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 27 March 2022 22:04:45 BST Dale wrote: > Wol wrote: > > My three 3TB partitions are raided, and /dev/md/home is my PV. I've > > only allocated the space to LVs that they need, so I could probably > > shrink the PV and remove a drive without needing to mess about with my > > LVs at all.

[gentoo-user] Firefox to LOCalc characterset translation

2022-03-27 Thread Michael
I can't explain why the following cut 'n paste problem happens when I select some symbols within text in Firefox and then try to insert by middle-click in LibreOffice Calc. If I select the symbols for £ (GBP), or € (Euro) and middle click upon a cell in LOCalc, a window pops up asking "Select

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

2022-03-28 Thread Michael
On Monday, 28 March 2022 04:59:04 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 27 March 2022 22:04:45 BST Dale wrote: > >> That's sort of what I'm going to do. I'm going to divide things into > >> sections with some encrypted and some not. > > > > I won

Re: [gentoo-user] Java wants cups?

2022-04-02 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 2 April 2022 08:32:08 BST Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > after "emerge --sync" today, and "emerge -auv @world", I got the > message: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > ">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]". !!! One of the following packages > is

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-04 Thread Michael
On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: > On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Is there a way force openrc and wpa_supplicant to map a particular > > access point to an interface or fail? > > > > I have two AP's (each on a different ssid) to connect to so have two > > wifi

Re: [gentoo-user] Choose a wireless access point

2022-04-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 April 2022 08:46:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 11:16:10 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 5/4/22 07:09, Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 4 April 2022 16:12:53 BST Jack wrote: > > >> On 4/4/22 01:31, William Kenworthy wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-24 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:04:48 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 2:35 AM Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > System Settings -> Audio > > > > > > should show your playback devices. Possibly the setting got switched to > > > an HDMI output on your video card or to the chipset

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

2022-03-23 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 23 March 2022 22:14:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > Yeah, ain't that the truth! I'd likely be a Gentoo user if anyone > built and maintained a 'standard', stable distro, something delivered > in primarily binary files. [snip ...] There is this experiment making available binary

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 5.15+ (thru 5.16.5)

2022-02-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 3 February 2022 08:04:07 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 21:02:46 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > > Do any of the kernels post 5.15.0 boot? I tried 5.15.2 and imediately > > wrote off the 5.15 branch because it didn't even boot. > > > > I came back to 5.16.5, same symptom,

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 February 2022 08:37:48 GMT Dale wrote: > Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 at 07:37, Dale wrote: > >> Should I reinstall grub after removing the old directory so it puts > >> things where it needs to be or what? Or does a new install have that > >> old directory too?

Re: [gentoo-user] Module vboxdrv cannot be found

2022-01-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 January 2022 12:53:12 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/01/2022 12:37, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > On Friday, 28. Jan 2022, 10:45:01 +, Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 28/01/2022 09:10, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > >>> after a kernel update and a > >>> > >>> # emerge -av @module-rebuild >

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing or renaming old /boot/grub directory warning

2022-02-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 5 February 2022 09:36:44 GMT Dale wrote: > It failed with a missing normal.mod file. That file is in the old grub > directory. Once I renamed the directory back to what grub expected, the > system loaded grub fine. Ahh! The normal.mod command:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: urxvt asking for confirmation when pasting

2022-01-14 Thread Michael
On Friday, 14 January 2022 16:53:06 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-01-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > > urxvt has suddenly started prompting for confimation when pasting text > > by clicking the middle mouse button. This is excruciatingly > > annoying. I don't see any relevent X resources when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

2022-01-08 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 6 January 2022 16:51:49 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 26/12/2021 09:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 21/12/2021 08:50, Ionen Wolkens wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 08:31:55AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> Seems to be a different issue then. I'm on an nvidia card

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