Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg on boot - is this behind my crashes?

2022-01-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 January 2022 16:20:25 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > I've got a slightly unstable system, and I'm beginning to get a feel > that it's something to do with my Radeon graphics card. I've got a Ryzen > 3 processor, so I'm not using onboard graphics. Output attached - can > anybody give me any

[gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-09 Thread Michael
I'm trying to understand why one PC in particular fails to start SDDM since an update to x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 and ends up with a blank page on VT7. I suspect some pam module malfunction, but I don't understand why this happens or how to troubleshoot it. Interestingly, if I restart the

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-09 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 9 April 2022 11:26:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:13:00 +0100, Michael wrote: > > I'm trying to understand why one PC in particular fails to start SDDM > > since an update to x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 and ends up with a blank > > page on VT7

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 12:12:43 BST Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 10 April 2022 10:26:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:18:29 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > The PC is a laptop, which is usually connected to ethernet. Following > > > > Neil's

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 10:26:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:18:29 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > The PC is a laptop, which is usually connected to ethernet. Following > > > Neil's prompt I just started it, without an ethernet cable connected, > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 9 April 2022 11:36:45 BST Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 11:26:13 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Apr 2022 10:13:00 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > I'm trying to understand why one PC in particular fails to start SDDM > > > since an update

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 10:06:42 BST hitachi303 wrote: > Am 04.09.23 um 15:04 schrieb Michael: > > PS. Is http_replicator still available/maintained? I see the wiki > > mentions > > apt-cacher-ng for local distfiles cache. > > IIRC it died when python or perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the > > > > > > quick-n-dirty solution like

Re: [gentoo-user] attic

2023-09-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant > find it on google - is it still around? Perhaps have a look here at the archives? https://gitweb.gentoo.org/ > * gentoo has moved dev-embedded/reedsolomon

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:28:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push > it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the > .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I > understand the man

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:33:43 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > And while we're at it, howsabout "emerge --sync" on one host, and th

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Michael
On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are > all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have > a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a > source tarball

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:32:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do: > > > > https://bford.info/cachedir/ > > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:10:14 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I'll gladly take any of them. One more thing; in this mode, you > *MUST* use a leading minus for "-cvzf". The lazy "cvzf" will *NOT* > work, and throws a misleading error message. See al

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Michael
On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > > so 9 hours at least on this

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-14 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:49:35 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:14:09 BST Michael wrote: > > I recall this being discussed in a previous thread, but if your CPU has 24 > > threads and you've set: > > > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

2023-09-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:53:33 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:46 AM Wols Lists > > wrote: > > It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare > > at the moment. > > > > Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

2023-09-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 17 September 2023 20:19:55 BST Jack wrote: > On 9/17/23 15:06, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 17/09/2023 19:37, Michael wrote: > >> However, unlike locate, baloo is meant to index not just file names, > >> but also > >> metadata tags and rel

Re: [gentoo-user] dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

2023-08-31 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 19:51:20 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > This is the most frustrating type of problem. On one machine I can > run dosbox fine. On a second machine... > > [waltdnes][~] /usr/bin/dosbox > DOSBox version 0.74-3 > Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. >

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:04:37 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > > Hello Gentoo'ers > > > > After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got > > fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but >

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone used openmediavault with LVM?

2023-09-12 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 08:07:59 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As some know, I like LVM. The Truenas box serves a purpose with zfs but > > I am more familiar with LVM and using zfs is sort of confusing me > > because they do similar things in similar ways but are

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-13 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:41:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:50:20 BST Wols Lists wrote: > > On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted > > > to > > > push the system hard at

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:09:15 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > I just did my usual update > > sudo emerge --sync > sudo emerage -auvND world > > I noticed that it was downgrading sqlite from 3.43 to 3.42. OK, we'll > assume that portage and the devs know what they're doing... > > Now

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo torrents available?

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:04:33 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > These days I'm having better luck downloading through bittorrent and > seeding rather than doing direct downloads with wget. Problem with direct > downloads on large files files come down corrupted and don't verify when I > try to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:21:14 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-09-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > > sudo emerge --sync > > sudo emerage -auvND world > > > > [...] > > > > $ svn status > > svn: E200029: Couldn't perform atomic initialization > > svn: E200030: SQLite

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

2023-10-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:26:29 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I also tried setting up a gmail IMAP source in KMail, and that worked so I > assume the permissions are right at their end. (I removed the account when > KMail kept resurrecting scores of mails I'd already deleted, even though >

Re: [gentoo-user] Something not right with LVM, I think.

2023-10-29 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 29 October 2023 10:40:19 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 29 Oct 2023 03:16:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I have several external hard drives. I have one that is, weird. Others > > work fine. When I first power up the drive, cryptsetup can't open it > > because it doesn't exist yet. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 November 2023 17:26:45 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > At this point I see the host can't tab complete ls, mount ... export > > > mor

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi, > > New install here, recent .isos: > install-amd64-minimal-20230806T163139Z.iso > stage3-amd64-systemd-20230806T163139Z.tar.xz > > Following the handbook, keyworded ~amd64, synced, no issues at all until > the emerge -avuND

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 November 2023 19:04:28 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > There is a new item about this: > > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-01-systemd-usrmerge.html > > I did not read or act on any of the unread news articles, leaving it for > later > If only... I make sure I scan all

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer case for new build

2023-09-19 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 10:43:02 BST Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 19/09/2023 00:40, Dale wrote: > >>> I get it when you wanna do it your way because it always worked™ > >>> (which is > >>> not wrong — don’t misunderstand me) and perhaps you had some bad > >>> experience > >>> in

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:34:20 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:01 PM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 13:45, Alan McKinnon > > > > wrote: > > > Hey Gentooers, > > > > > > Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-20 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 20 September 2023 05:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 06:36:13 BST Dale wrote: > >> Heck, a link to some good info on that would be good. :-) > > > > https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/-/blob/main/FAQ.

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Michael
On Monday, 18 September 2023 17:13:04 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > > > wrote: > > > > It may be less complex

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-22 Thread Michael
On Friday, 22 September 2023 02:13:08 BST Dale wrote: > Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > > So I feel I should add my own 2 cents to the pileor possibly 25 cents > > due to inflation. > > > > > > PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}" > > PORTAGE_SCHEDULING_POLICY="idle" > > > > Those 2

Re: [gentoo-user] dkim and dmark, how to set up

2023-09-25 Thread Michael
On Monday, 25 September 2023 12:43:36 BST John Covici wrote: > Hi. I have my mail server and I want to finally set up dkim and dmark > as appropriate, but I am not sure which packages to use and where > there is some documentation exists, so I can figure out hhow to do > it. My mta is sendmail.

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

2023-10-01 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 1 October 2023 05:56:02 BST Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > On 9/30/23 17:25, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > > Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: > >> Hello, > >> > >> For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel > >> on a Dell XPS laptop starting from

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted fonts

2023-10-03 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 October 2023 21:57:33 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:51:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Reverse? Plasma-integration depends on those fonts, not the other way > > > round. > > > > ~ $ qdepends -d plasma-integration | grep no

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-19 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 06:36:13 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I encrypt a lot of stuff here. I use passwords that I can > recall but no one could ever guess. I don't use things that someone may > figure out like pet's name or anything like that. I use a couple sites > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-19 Thread Michael
fo/?l=gentoo-user=169511184714476=2 > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:26 AM Michael wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 06:36:13 BST Dale wrote: > >>> Howdy, > >> > >> A strong > >> password, like a strong door lock,

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted fonts

2023-10-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:15:44 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 2 October 2023 12:38:02 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > > If they're actually not in use, try package.provided. > > > > # echo "media-fonts/noto" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > # emerge -C media-fonts/noto > > Ah!

Re: [gentoo-user] Unwanted fonts

2023-10-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 October 2023 16:32:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 2 October 2023 15:35:18 BST Michael wrote: > > Noto and Hack media-fonts are listed as reverse dependencies for > > kde-plasma/ plasma-integration. With no USE flag to exclude them being > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:50:28 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 07:36:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:52:58 -0500, Dale wrote: > It only does this when I'm copying files over. Right now I'm copying > about

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-13 Thread Michael
On Friday, 13 October 2023 02:35:21 BST Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # cryptsetup benchmark > # Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO). > PBKDF2-sha1 878204 iterations per second for 256-bit key > PBKDF2-sha256 911805 iterations per second for 256-bit key >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 08:36:06 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:50:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > EFI is much simpler to work with. for one thing, you don't need the > > > monster that GRUB has become. > > > > While I kinda dread it, it does seem that quite a while ago, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help: boot loader info

2023-10-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 October 2023 05:49:25 BST Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:27:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I used cgdisk and GPT for my disk even tho it is small, only 300GBs or > >> so, mostly out of habit. The grub install failed and I did a search. I > >> found this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 18:45:27 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:23:23 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > > > partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 October 2023 14:57:51 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote: > >> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility > >> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't > >> remember the

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-21 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 21 October 2023 03:20:45 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As most know, I had to restore from backups recently. I also reworked > my NAS box. I'm doing my first backup given that I have more files that > need to be added to the backups. When I started the rsync, it's > starting from

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

2023-10-23 Thread Michael
On Monday, 23 October 2023 08:29:26 BST Dale wrote: > I been working on the speed problem again. I rebuilt the kernel on > fireball and I think some changes made a huge change. This is the > results from fireball now: > > > root@fireball / # cryptsetup benchmark > # Tests are approximate

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-14 Thread Michael
On Friday, 13 October 2023 18:01:41 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 13 October 2023 02:35:21 BST Dale wrote: > >> root@fireball / # cryptsetup benchmark > >> # Tests are approximate using memory only (no storage IO). > >> PBKDF2-sha1 8782

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting output of a program running in background after a crash

2023-10-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 October 2023 04:21:23 BST Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 08:35:21PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> Am Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 10:44:39PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > >>>> Why

Re: [gentoo-user] OFF TOPIC Need Ubuntu network help

2023-10-16 Thread Michael
On Monday, 16 October 2023 10:15:03 BST Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > Well, you're probably gonna have to spam us some more info. > > On the working knoppix boot, spam lspci showing what driver is loaded. then > spam it on ubuntu to verify if it's loaded there as well. > > dmesg for the relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 20 August 2023 11:49:18 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty > > large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick > > from. I deal with torrents

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 20 August 2023 13:58:08 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > OpenVPN is a VPN implementation using OpenSSL to encrypt the end-to-end > > network connection between client and server. There are other VPN > > implementations and client-server applications using

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 10:56:52 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, gentoo. > > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious > error messages on boot up. In particular, I see this: > > * Starting DHCP Client Daemon ... > * [ ok ] * Bringing up interface enp38s0

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-22 Thread Michael
Hello Alan, On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:00:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I don't understand what I just did, by deleting net.enp38s0, though it > appeared to have fixed the problem. That worries me. Could you possibly > explain to me a bit more what that removal did? Thanks! There are

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which .keep file creation is failing

2023-08-22 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:18:08 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In an effort to sort out my ruby problem I'm building a new system > piecemeal, by which I mean one step at a time with dev-lang/ruby masked. > > The latest snag is in the early stages of the build process, when

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:00:04 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 08:24 -0700, cal wrote: > > Do you have any other (more powerful) machines at home that you could > > set up as a distcc cluster? > > My desktop is only slightly more powerful. I don't rea

Re: [gentoo-user] [offtopic] dual boot Windows 11 / Linux

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 14:58:26 BST Серега Филатов wrote: > If it's a similar laptop I assume you have grub2 installed in EFI mode. > Check if you have grubx64.efi in your EFI partition (usually / partition>/EFI/gentoo/). > Also check if you have efi boot entry for grub with efibootmgr utility.

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 16:31:01 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 15:45:39 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > The laptop has an ethernet NIC on the MoBo, which is gimped at > > > 100Mbps. This is not used under normal circumstances. Instead I use > > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa not working with hda intel sound card

2023-11-08 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 8 November 2023 19:53:56 GMT John Covici wrote: > Hi all. > > I have run into a problem, where I am getting no sound out of the jack > on my sound card. I think this happened since the last major reboot > after my world update. > > If I use a usb sound card I have things work

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 15:22:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Somewhere around here I said I had too many USE flag staatements under /etc/ > portage, so I removed package.use and just set whatever flags were needed > to install all my packages. That was fine, but it meant that USE=pulseaudio >

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : probable parts for comment

2022-05-13 Thread Michael
On Friday, 13 May 2022 09:39:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for the detailed advice, esp Frank + Dale + also Wols + Perkins. > These are my proposed parts for ANB6, wh I will buy from Canada Computers ; > prices are in CAD, of course ; a few further comments from me below : > > CPU : AMD :

Re: [gentoo-user] Change in sudoers format?

2022-05-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 26 May 2022 21:54:50 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I just ran an update and noticed that etc-update wants to change the > layout of /etc/sudoers, specifically... > > ## > > ## > ## User privilege specification > ##

Re: [SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:51:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 14 May 2022 17:34:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:22:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my > > > new Bluetooth speakers? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng LDAP error

2022-06-25 Thread Michael
Perhaps because you have not configured a LDAP database yet? Is there any configuration file(s) in /usr/lib/sasl2/ ? I don't know anything useful about LDAP - I've never used it. On Saturday, 25 June 2022 17:41:15 BST Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > Do you know why if fail at loading the plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot has no space left.

2022-06-27 Thread Michael
On Monday, 27 June 2022 11:03:51 BST Dale wrote: > Guillermo García wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was updating my gentoo install, and now it says that /boot has 0 > > bytes, however i don't know why since i never save anything in that > > folder. > > > > Any idea on what can i do? > > > > Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 15:19:08 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > One of my machines uses bootctl to offer a choice of kernel to boot (I don't > use anything else from systemd); it has these files in > /boot/loader/entries: > > 08-gentoo-5.15.32-r1-rescue.conf >

Re: [gentoo-user] ehci-pci resume error What is this?

2022-07-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 16:34:08 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran into a odd problem. I'm not sure of the cause. I was trying to > get pictures off my deer trail cameras when I noticed it. I don't know > if that is related or not. This is the error. Including a little over > a second's

Re: [gentoo-user] ehci-pci resume error What is this?

2022-07-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 18:13:24 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 10 July 2022 16:34:08 BST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I ran into a odd problem. I'm not sure of the cause. I was trying to > >> get pictures off my deer t

Re: [gentoo-user] ehci-pci resume error What is this?

2022-07-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 18:39:02 BST Michael wrote: > Does lsusb shed some light to the port which causes the interruptions? > Otherwise can you unplug devices and plug them in one at a time? Oops, I meant to say, 'lsusb -t' or check usbview, or in your Plasma check System > In

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange UEFI boot behaviour

2022-07-11 Thread Michael
On Monday, 11 July 2022 01:25:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 10 July 2022 17:37:00 BST Michael wrote: > > This is happening if the EFI firmware for some reason has re-scanned the > > attached block devices to find bootable UEFI images. I've seen something > > a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

2022-06-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:15:33 BST Guillermo wrote: > Hello, > > I still have the same problem, but the command worked fine. The command "emerge -a --depclean" will only remove uninstall the kernel packages, but will not remove files from /usr/src/, or old kernel images and files from

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 11:07:47 BST spareproject776 wrote: > They only forced turning 2fa on. There used to be a period a few years ago now, when you could enable less secure app access plus OAuth2 without giving your DOB, mobile phone 2FA, etc. They have since stopped this. I had enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 02:45:11 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Early this morning Seamonkey could no longer fetch emails. It wouldn't > accept the username and password. I did some searching and it seems > that Google is disabling plain text username and password. Honestly, > sounds like a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 June 2022 12:15:53 BST spareproject776 wrote: > How did you even enable the oauth thing ? only had security device or > push to an authenticated device available. Then lied and forced enabling > sms as a 'recovery' option. When I enabled OAuth2 it was early days and Google did not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 03:00:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Something else also changes at the first reboot after creating a new user > account: a dialogue box opens requesting permission to mount a partition - > but that partition is one of several marked 'noauto' in fstab. (Screen shot >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-15 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 15 June 2022 17:29:54 BST Julien Roy wrote: > On 6/15/22 06:52, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I do something like that by copying a good user account as a basis for the > > next iteration. The problem is just the fineness of granularity that's > > needed, now that a coarse grain hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Open PGP signatures on Thunderbird

2022-06-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:38:38 BST Julien Roy wrote: > Hello list, > > I recently configured Thunderbird to digitally sign my emails using my > GnuPG key. It seemed to be working fine with the tests I made to my > other email address, however, I noticed an email I sent to this list was >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 June 2022 07:35:54 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 02:28:26 BST Julien Roy wrote: > > It's really weird that a Firefox add-on would cause system-wide sound to > > stop working! > > Well, it may not be system-wide, but yes - you see why I took so long to > find

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma sound not working

2022-06-17 Thread Michael
On Friday, 17 June 2022 12:19:58 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 17 June 2022 09:55:17 BST Michael wrote: > > Is StartPage to be trusted, anymore than all the rest mass surveillance > > corporates? > > I don't know; is that what they do? Have you looked at https:

Re: [gentoo-user] *sob*

2022-06-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:42:56 BST Alan Grimes wrote: [snip ...] > All of the followning statemens are true: > > 1. I am never not running seamonkey, it is always open at all times on > my left hand monitor, If at any point it was not on my left hand monitor > either I must have been going

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound control in Enlightenment

2022-06-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 12 June 2022 17:13:46 BST w...@op.pl wrote: > I have just reinstalled my Gentoo and discovered some unwanted change. > Last time "Mixer" had the ability to: > 1) choose which sound output to use when connected to my > bluetooth speaker > 2) set volume above 100% >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reinstall

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 June 2022 18:22:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-06-19, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Just for the sake of preventing a future failure, besides personal > > files (minimum and obvious) the "world" file and the binary packages, > > built along with the package installation, what

Re: [gentoo-user] pain, PAIN, and more pain again.

2022-06-19 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 19 June 2022 04:54:26 BST Alan Grimes wrote: [snippage of long prose ...] > Example: > > Old way: > > "My boot drive is plugged into this port on the motherboard" > > New way: > > Spend hours figuring out what your UUID is, create a physical pocket > folder (which you will

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-16 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 16 July 2022 18:17:35 BST Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 3:57 AM Dale > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Also, the package I'm getting is 500Mbs/sec. What speeds should I > > > really expect? If memory serves me right, that is

Re: [gentoo-user] USB random disconnections in VB Win10 VM

2022-07-14 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 14 July 2022 18:42:10 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Does anyone have experience with what causes random USB disconnects in a > Virtualbox VM and possibly how to fix them? > > I have a new external DSP processor box that connects to Windows host > software over USB. If I dual boot my Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2022-07-14 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 14 July 2022 07:19:14 BST gevisz wrote: > пт, 11 мар. 2022 г. в 20:15, gevisz : > > пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 00:15, gevisz : > > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale : > > > > gevisz wrote: > > > > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale : > > > > >> gevisz wrote: > > > > >>> No sound at

Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode

2022-05-02 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 1 May 2022 19:46:45 BST gevisz wrote: > вс, 1 мая 2022 г. в 13:58, Michael : > > On Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:49:59 BST gevisz wrote: > > > Moreover, I am starting to suspect that > > > the problem with incomplete rendering letters > > > "i

Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode

2022-05-01 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 30 April 2022 12:49:59 BST gevisz wrote: > пт, 29 апр. 2022 г. в 00:42, Frank Steinmetzger : > > Am Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:20:08PM +0300 schrieb gevisz: > > > ср, 27 апр. 2022 г. в 13:55, Frank Steinmetzger : > > > > Am Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:57:49PM +0300 schrieb gevisz: > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive error from SMART

2022-04-16 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 16 April 2022 15:59:25 BST Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:49:21AM -0500 schrieb Dale: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I got the drive and pvmove is doing its thing. I would like to unplug > >> one of the drives and physically move them around without

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 14:33:01 -00 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the > > no-longer-needed bloat of GRUB. > > Hm. If I'm reading the wiki right, it can't handle choice of run

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo uninstallable on this hardware

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
What you describe may be a hardware problem, but it could also be related to the kernel options enabled in the Live-USB media. I've had some MoBos overheating when booting with one Live media OS, but not another. Chroot-ing was OK, but trying to build anything thereafter ended up in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 15:33:01 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:45:37 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I use bootctl from sys-boot/systemd-boot to creat a boot-time menu > > (photo attached) from which I choose what system I want to run. This > > has worked well, but I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-misc/sddm-0.18.1-r6 exits inexplicably

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 10 April 2022 17:06:17 BST Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 10 April 2022 16:31:01 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 15:45:39 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > > The laptop has an ethernet NIC on the MoBo, which is gimped at > > > > 100Mb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to make a boot menu?

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 17 April 2022 17:48:04 BST Martin Vaeth wrote: > Michael wrote: > > From: Michael > > > > On Sunday, 17 April 2022 16:52:34 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > Why not try rEFInd? It handles UEFI booting simply, without the > >> > no-longe

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:17:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Indeed, and I've now replaced the speakers, the 3.5mm cable and the USB > dongle - every sound component is new. When I tested it yesterday in the > plasma control panel, I heard one "front left", very loud, and then nothing. > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

2022-05-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 13:00:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 10:26:13 BST Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 09:17:32 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Indeed, and I've now replaced the speakers, the 3.5mm cable and the USB > > > dongle - e

Re: 3.5mm jacks (was Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers)

2022-05-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 May 2022 11:29:51 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Michael: > ... > > > Jacks have a TS, or TRS, TRRS, or TRRRS contacts arrangement, depending on > > the connectivity they are meant to offer - mono, stereo, stereo+mic and > > whether this is balanced or

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