Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

On Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:57:03 BST Francisco Ares wrote: > Hello > > After a main HD failure, I'll have to reinstall Gentoo from almost zero - I > have a full and recent copy of the /etc directory and the file > /var/lib/portage/world in a secondary HD (along many personal backups). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

On Monday, 9 May 2022 14:56:42 BST k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Peter: > ... > > > What would help is some idea of how the whole BT system works, > > ... > > There are two incompatible types of bluetooth: > Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) > Bluetooth Classic > see: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

On Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:21:46 BST Jack wrote: > I have a photive BT speaker that I've used successfully with plasma on > my Artix laptop. I can test later with my Gentoo desktop to confirm. I > don't remember if you use pulseaudio or not, but if so, I'd check > pavucontrol to see if it also

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio stopped working in KVM with libvirtmanager

On Saturday, 7 May 2022 14:45:06 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Audio in KVM (qemu) launched through libvirtmanager used to work fine > last time I used it (about 3 months ago.) There has been lots of updates > since then, including a switch from Pulseaudio to Pipewire, and > something along the

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

On Monday, 29 August 2022 22:23:00 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > 1) the output of "dmesg | grep iwlwifi" is... > > [0.640780] iwlwifi :03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have > ASPM control [0.641112] Loading firmware: iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode > [0.641332] iwlwifi :03:00.0: loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

On Saturday, 20 August 2022 07:30:01 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor) > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop. The Lenovo Thinkpad has the "vmx" cpu > flag, so QEMU is theoretically doable. But the mouse is extremely > flakey, to the

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

On Saturday, 20 August 2022 18:57:38 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 09:05:32AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > I've noticed the same problem with a MSWindows VM on a laptop, > > but only when the screen resolution for the VM is anything other > > than

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

On Tuesday, 30 August 2022 23:26:00 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm having problems, even running as root. As per the previous > message, the system is detecting the hardware, but wpa_aupplicant cannot > get going. I have a minimal /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

On Wednesday, 31 August 2022 20:15:41 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > During launch, wpa_supplicant blows up on... > > DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel > DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=0 Hmm ... so the example page syntax is wrong. I wonder if I came across this too in the distant past.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:30:08 BST Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:37 PM Mark Knecht > > > > wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:21 PM Dale > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have looked into

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:56:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:24:46 BST Dale wrote: > > Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file > > somewhere? I don't even know where to start on this. By the way, I'm > > maxed out at 32GBs of memory for

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

On Sunday, 28 August 2022 14:03:00 BST you wrote: > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:56:09 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 28 August 2022 13:24:46 BST Dale wrote: > > > Is this something I do on the command line or a setting is some file > > > somewhere? I don't even know where to start on

[gentoo-user] Pipewire not a dependency?

I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had pulseaudio removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have done on other systems which nevertheless have had pipewire brought in as a

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 03:06:19 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > sync-type = rsync > > #sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage > > sync-uri = rsync://192.168.1.252/gentoo-portage > > Tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dracut, please

On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:47:46 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm installing Gentoo on a new Juno laptop, and I've reached the point of > > booting into the new system. I have a separate /usr partition and I'm > > using > > dracut to create an initramfs. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync local mirror question

On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:48:29 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > No, you shouldn't have to do any such thing. Just make sure you > > have set up in your '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf' the correct &

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

On Tuesday, 25 October 2022 21:36:40 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I followed https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror instructions for > doing a local rsync mirror. I ran commented the rsync mirrors line in > the client's make.conf and ran "emerge --sync". The client still > synced from a server

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync local mirror question

On Thursday, 27 October 2022 01:24:24 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:48:29 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > * In https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror the file to change is > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: resolv.conf full of old info

On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:00:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I've noticed that /etc/resolv.conf seems to accumulate obsolete, > > useless info as my laptop moves from one network to another. It looks > > like dhcpcd adds stuff when a connection comes

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

On Monday, 12 September 2022 06:57:58 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > If your using nut, it has to be setup - and should be regularly tested > > to make sure it works. > > > > BillK > > I think upsmon is part of nut. I keep forgetting that since the service > is ups something.

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: [gentoo-user] Encrypted hard drives on LVM and urgent power shutdowns.

On Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:47:21 BST Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Laurence Perkins: > > Some of the higher-end UPS models do have diagnostic modes for simulating > > various events to make sure the connected systems behave as desired. A > > very few of the consumer-grade ones do as well.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem logging on to wifi

On Friday, 9 September 2022 15:40:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Here are the first 4 lines from scan_result at an establishment. I've > replaced the 3-word ccompany name with " ". Note that they > share the same bssids with "BELL342". > > Selected interface 'wlan0' > bssid /

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

On Thursday, 8 September 2022 19:04:42 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-09-08 12:52-0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > > […] > > > > Right now linux is so broken that the CUPS web interface will deny > > all attempts to administer the printer and reject any password. The > > config file is written in

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot shutdown or reboot because of logind disconnection

On Saturday, 17 September 2022 12:11:56 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-09-17 17:37+0800 johnstrass wrote: > > At 2022-09-17 14:15:51, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 10:40:53AM +0800, johnstrass wrote > > > > > >> Compiling gcc uses alot of memory, sometimes only less then 10MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full battery laptop only 1 hour

On Thursday, 15 September 2022 18:10:39 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > Note that most batteries these days in anything more complex than a watch > have "smart" charge controllers and so upower or similar can read what > their design watt-hours and current maximum capacity are. Also, often the >

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn experience, anyone?

On Sunday, 18 September 2022 08:52:13 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > On 18/9/22 15:26, n952162 wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I want to ssh over my openvpn connection, and I can't do it, the > > connection times out. > > > > I saw a reference to gentoo in the openvpn scripts in /etc/openvpn and >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

On Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:11:02 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 28/09/2022 13:57, Michael wrote: > > I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had pulseaudio > > removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- > > screenc

[gentoo-user] opencl runtime

This message showed up after an update today: * Messages for package virtual/opencl-3-r2: * * In order to take advantage of OpenCL you will need a runtime for your hardware. * Currently included in Gentoo are: * * * open: * - dev-libs/intel-compute-runtime - integrated Intel GPUs

Re: [gentoo-user] opencl runtime

On Tuesday, 4 October 2022 12:49:09 BST pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 October 2022 11:15:44 BST Michael wrote: > > On a number of stable systems with a selection of different Northern > > Islands to Sea Islands APUs/GPUs, I have media-libs/mesa installed in as &

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On Thursday, 6 October 2022 08:52:04 BST Wol wrote: > On 06/10/2022 08:33, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:39:59 BST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > >> with Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On Thursday, 6 October 2022 05:39:59 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > This may not exist. If not, oh well. Sometimes when I'm moving files > with Dolphin, I need a added feature. I tend to use split panes when I > copy or move files. Quite often, I want to move files from one location > to

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On Saturday, 8 October 2022 04:44:56 BST Dale wrote: > I installed Yakuake and to me, it looks like Konsole but without the > menu part at the top. Other than that, I don't see anything special. Once Yakuake is running, F12 will open it in whichever virtual desktop you happen to be and you

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging some ruby packages

On Tuesday, 11 October 2022 22:43:02 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:02:52 -0400, Jack wrote: > > For example, "emerge -1 dev-ruby/thor" gives me > > > > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-ruby/thor > > ... done! > > > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging some ruby packages

On Wednesday, 12 October 2022 01:12:00 BST Jack wrote: > On 2022.10.11 19:41, Michael wrote: > > NOTE: ruby 3.0 and 3.1 are marked as testing. > > I explicitly have ruby-3.1 unmasked with "=dev-lang/ruby-3.1.2-r1 > ~amd64" in package.accept_keyword, and USE_RUBY

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?

On Monday, 3 October 2022 22:48:09 BST Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 02.10.2022 11:47, skrev Michael: > > On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: > >> On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: > >>> On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wr

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?

On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: > On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: > > On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: > > > Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would > > > work without pulseaudio and in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

On Saturday, 1 October 2022 18:11:19 BST Wol wrote: > On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: > > Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would > > work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually > > installed pipewire Skype won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:57:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Oct 1, 2022 at 7:51 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:08:40 BST Michael wrote: > > > On Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:11:02 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > On 2

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

On Thursday, 4 August 2022 23:32:03 BST Dale wrote: > I also ordered a router that has openvpn installed on it. I watched > some videos and think I can set it up to keep my traffic out of public > view. After I learned more about it, there's no reason to not use the > VPN for all traffic

Re: [gentoo-user] pulseaudio - pipewire

On Wednesday, 3 August 2022 17:22:13 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 9:15 AM hitachi303 > > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > so there is a eselect news "2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server" telling > > that changes have been made. > > > > I care about having sound but don't care to much

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

On Friday, 5 August 2022 21:45:25 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > What kind of protection are you seeking - what is your threat model? > > I'm mostly wanting it so people can't just look and see what I'm doing > or where I am, mostly my ISP. In this case 'people' and you

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

On Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:08:30 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Michael wrote: > >> On Saturday, 6 August 2022 07:07:26 BST Dale wrote: > >>> Well, that settles that then. I guess it will be Surfshark. Pretty > >>> sure it is in the Nether

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

On Saturday, 6 August 2022 07:07:26 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > All connections to banks are encrypted end-to-end for decades now and the > > encryption has becoming stronger over the years. > > That is likely true. I still remember Snowden tho. We don't

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

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 07:06:55 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > On 6/8/22 20:42, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 6 August 2022 12:08:30 BST Dale wrote: > > ... > > > > The more you try to escape the 14 eyes Big Brother, the closer you may > > fall > >

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

On Sunday, 7 August 2022 19:27:42 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 11:36 AM Michael wrote: > > The best a well configured VPN tunnel can offer is a secure connection > > between client and VPN server, which is handy if you are out and about > > using untrus

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

On Monday, 15 August 2022 11:58:14 BST Gerrit Kühn wrote: > Am Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:50:37 +0200 > > schrieb Gerrit Kühn : > > Being a happy restic user myself, I'd like to mention that compression is > > available meanwhile > >

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

On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 00:35:05 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:04:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > So government level actors spying on your banking just go to the > > > bank. And they've been getting more nosey in recent years. Last I > > > heard, any transaction over

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox woes

On Monday, 1 August 2022 01:46:32 BST Matthew Sacks wrote: > The vbox log and screenshot are all I have to go off. Next time I”ll provide > that upfront. New to these parts (gentoo lists). No problem. :-) > It crashes on boot actually to answer your question. I've always run VBox on a linux

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

On Monday, 1 August 2022 10:43:55 BST tastytea wrote: > On 2022-08-01 07:58+0100 Michael wrote: > > […] > > > > 2. These days rsync uses hashes and gpg to check the integrity of > > portage and will flag up a warning in case of file tampering, or > >

Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

On Monday, 1 August 2022 06:09:07 BST n952162 wrote: > On 7/31/22 21:51, n952162 wrote: > > I've been running gentoo for years now, and every time I go to --sync, > > it's really a painful process. > > > > The process can take *very* before you find out if it succeeded or not. > > > > I try

[gentoo-user] Locating CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE

I got this message: * Messages for package dev-libs/roct-thunk-interface-5.3.3: * CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE: is not set when it should be. * Please check to make sure these options are set correctly. * Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems. and stated searching for ZONE_DEVICE

Re: [gentoo-user] Locating CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE

On Friday, 23 December 2022 10:09:10 GMT Peter Böhm wrote: > It is in: > Memory Management options ---> > > and you will see it only if you have enabled this: > > Depends on: MEMORY_HOTPLUG [=y] && MEMORY_HOTREMOVE [=y] && > SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP [=y] && ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP [=y] Thanks! I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

On Friday, 30 December 2022 13:29:30 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 01:05:26PM +0000, Michael wrote > > > I can't recall what else you have eliminated as the cause of this > > rendering problem. Have you checked: > > > > 1. VT console. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanner and weird streaking

On Friday, 30 December 2022 13:42:04 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 30 December 2022 02:28:32 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Howdy all, > >> > >> I have a HP scanjet 4570c flatbed scanner. I bought it used years ago > >> and most of the time

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanner and weird streaking

On Friday, 30 December 2022 02:28:32 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy all, > > I have a HP scanjet 4570c flatbed scanner. I bought it used years ago > and most of the time, it works just fine. On occasion tho, I get > something weird. When I scan something, it adds some pinkish colored > streaks. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

On Friday, 30 December 2022 04:08:51 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm b-a-a-a-a-ck... on my regular desktop. I re-installed with > unicode enabled and locale corrected. Some rough edges, specifically no > line-drawing characters. See attached image. Mutt is supposed to have > horizontal lines

Re: [gentoo-user] Locating CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE

On Friday, 23 December 2022 13:30:22 GMT Morgan Wesström wrote: > > Hidden options do not show up until precedents have been enabled. I had > > to > > enable a couple of the HOTPLUG options and then it showed up. > > You can press the letter Z to toggle the display of hidden items. > > /Morgan

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

On Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:55:30 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This is a bit of a conceptual question, simplified but based on a > machine I do own, from someone who knows very little about boot loader > implementations. (I.e. - me) Thanks in advance for any pointers you can > provide. >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On Thursday, 8 December 2022 20:44:56 GMT Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 06:36:14PM + schrieb Wols Lists: > > > > I've pretty much reached a limit on my backups. I'm up to a 16TB > > > > hard > > > > drive for one and even that won't last long. Larger drives are much

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/babl-0.1.96-r1 compile dies during emerge @world

On Monday, 12 December 2022 08:29:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:00:42AM +0100, netfab wrote > > > Le 12/12/22 à 07:30, Walter Dnes a tapoté : > > > I don't think they should make any difference, but included for > > > > > > completeness. File-attached is the gzipped

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

On Friday, 9 December 2022 17:17:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:07 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Michael wrote: > > > To check the GRUB version of the second OS without booting into it, you > > can > > > > grep

Re: [gentoo-user] Duel boot - How to verify boot loader updates?

On Friday, 9 December 2022 18:39:33 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 10:57 AM Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 9 December 2022 17:17:24 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > It's not totally a thought experiment. One machine I have which > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

On Friday, 16 December 2022 18:42:41 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks everybody. I had "-unicode" in my USE flags all these years. > "emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world" has 11 ebuilds scheduled. > and is running OK. Again, I apologize for a possible duplicate post or > bounces as the

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On Sunday, 18 December 2022 15:12:37 GMT Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 4:42 PM Dale > > wrote: > > > > > > > My reasoning is simple, I'm already familiar with LVM and how to > > > > manage it. > > > > > > Take the machine, wipe it

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On Saturday, 10 December 2022 16:30:03 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 10/12/2022 16:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Where do we confuse those two? We specifically talked of codecs and > > “contain”. > > "I didn't know .ts could contain h264". > > If .ts is the container, then surely the assumption

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and adding a option, if it exists.

On Wednesday, 23 November 2022 18:17:53 GMT Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:16:12AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > >> P. S. Now I'm trying to figure out how to change the resolution of all > >> videos in a directory. Usually going from 1080p to 720p. If you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 01:19:24 GMT Lee wrote: > And lsusb, lspci,..(I think they're both readily available) > > Lee  lsusb won't offer much info on a CPU ... lscpu should be more appropriate. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] I915 mobile firmware

On Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:59:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > My new laptop shows this from /proc/cpuinfo: > > --->8 > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 154 > model name : 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700H >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:50:14 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 > >> screens. The proprietary NVidia driver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-21, Dale wrote: > > I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...] > > > > If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. > > Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On Monday, 21 November 2022 18:12:41 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:50:14 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2022-11-21, Michael wrote: > >> > On Monday, 21 November 2022 16:11:13 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove NetworkManager without breaking cinnamon ?

You should start a new thread for your topic, instead of replying to an existing thread to avoid messing up messages listed by thread. Regarding your question: Cinnamon has a hardwired dependency on networkmanager. I understand you can mask the networkmanager service or remove it, but bits

Re: [gentoo-user] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

On Saturday, 28 January 2023 08:05:47 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:20:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Second, if no one takes it over, what could be used in its place? I'll > > be honest, I don't know of anything that could replace it but I've never > > thought about looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Last rites: app-admin/gkrellm & plugins

On Saturday, 28 January 2023 11:12:26 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 28 January 2023 09:17:35 GMT Michael wrote: > >> Since my coding ability is even worse than Dale's I join him in kindly > >> asking for a maintainer/dev to take it on and keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages

On Sunday, 22 January 2023 22:33:50 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 19 January 2023 09:30:34 GMT I wrote: > > I'll see it it's my ISP who's bouncing the message. > > It looks as though they did reject the mail. I asked them please to let it > through just this once, and now it's sitting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

ing file? > > > >On 2022-11-08, Michael wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 03:31:07 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> I've got an SSD that's failing, and I'd like to know what files > >>> contain bad blocks so that I don't attempt to copy them to the &

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 18:24:41 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > MODERN DRIVES SHOULD NEVER HAVE AN OS-LEVEL BADBLOCKS LIST. If they do, > something is seriously wrong, because the drive should be hiding it from > the OS. If you run badblocks or e2fsck you'll find the application asks to write data

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP, Haru, Ghostscript, Courier, and Nimbus

On Monday, 7 November 2022 11:56:34 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > since many years, I'm using PHP (currently 7.4) and the (self- > compiled) Haru extension to produce PDF invoices on my server. > > Internally, Haru seems to use Ghostscript, because: > > - up to

Re: [gentoo-user] Frame buffer setup

On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 15:20:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Would someone please remind me of what frame-buffer kernel settings I need > for an i915 driver? I'm going round in circles, but whatever I try, this > new laptop shows the initramfs-loaded message, then remains

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 03:31:07 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > I've got an SSD that's failing, and I'd like to know what files > contain bad blocks so that I don't attempt to copy them to the > replacement disk. > > According to e2fsck(8): > >-c This option causes e2fsck to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

On Saturday, 12 November 2022 16:44:05 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-11-12, Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:53:13 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > >> Badblocks doesn't ask to write anything at the end of the run. You > >> tell it whether you wan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On Monday, 14 November 2022 21:05:57 GMT Dale wrote: > Thing is, I may go a year, sometimes more, without updating the kernel. > If I rebooted often, I could see using a LTS kernel. If a kernel can > run for months with no problems, it's stable enough for me. Plus my > hardware works. Keeping

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -c when bad blocks are in existing file?

On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 16:53:13 GMT Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > >-Original Message----- > >From: Michael > >Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 12:47 AM > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -c when bad blocks are

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On Tuesday, 7 March 2023 18:11:01 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:41:10 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I use Surfshark and every once in a while, my VPN loses its connection. > >> I sent the info from mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Tailing compressed build logs

On Tuesday, 7 March 2023 07:52:01 GMT Mickaël Bucas wrote: > Le mar. 7 mars 2023 à 05:36, Bryan Gardiner a écrit : > > Hi folks, > > > > How can I follow Portage's compressed build logs in real time as they > > are generated? > > > > I keep build logs and use FEATURES=compress-build-logs so

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

On Saturday, 18 March 2023 19:37:50 GMT Peter Böhm wrote: > Michael, > > is this a systemd machine ? If yes: We had the same problem before some > days in our Gentoo forum: > > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1162393.html > > Here it was SystemCallFilter fr

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

On Sunday, 19 March 2023 02:46:18 GMT Matt Connell wrote: > On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 18:36 +0000, Michael wrote: > > The kernel has IA32_EMULATION compiled in: > > > > # grep IA32_EMULATION /usr/src/linux/.config > > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y > > Small nit-

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On Wednesday, 8 March 2023 18:30:55 GMT Dale wrote: > It starts at about 13:54. It seems to try to reconnect but can't. I got this > by using tail -n and then grep openvpn on the end. > > > Mar 1 13:53:32 fireball openvpn[27908]: > [us-hou-v029.prod.surfshark.com] Inactivity timeout

[gentoo-user] Plasmashell Wayland crash

Over the last couple of weeks I noticed an intermittent and annoying problem. Plasma running on Wayland crashes when I move the mouse towards the tooltray or bottom panel. Windows remain open, but all the tabs and KDE menu are gone, along with the wallpaper. I drop into a console and restart

[gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

It's only been a couple of weeks since I updated this system, so I don't know why it fails with a glibc update, while other systems have no problem: >>> Emerging (1 of 62) sys-libs/glibc-2.36-r7::gentoo * glibc-2.36.tar.xz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] *

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrade no login screen anymore

On Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:03:41 GMT Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > After having done a world update, neither sddm nor lightdm do start an > Xserver anymore. The X server itself runs fine, I can start it from the > console and I after setting DISPLAY properly can even start programs

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On Monday, 6 March 2023 08:24:35 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/03/2023 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:54:51 +, Wols Lists wrote: > >> There's another file - can't remember its name - that tells your > >> resolver what to try in what order - the hosts file, dns, what dhcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On Monday, 6 March 2023 12:05:40 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/03/2023 11:08, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 6 March 2023 10:56:37 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 06/03/2023 10:06, Michael wrote: > >>> I suspect the behaviour you noticed is related to F

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn

On Sunday, 5 March 2023 18:41:10 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I use Surfshark and every once in a while, my VPN loses its connection. > I sent the info from messages to Surfshark but the info they sent back > on how to set the nameserver info doesn't really work with Gentoo. I > suspect they

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 00:29:49 BST Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Wol writes: > > On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote: > >> Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI > >> systems? > > > > Because EFI is a boot manager? > > That is not the case any more than the classic IBM

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 14:31:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > My needs are quite simple but efibootmgr, set up by the Kubuntu install > on a separate M.2 from the Windows install the machine came with, works for > me. I always start the day in Kubuntu, then reboot to Windows if I'm working > on

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 17:52:25 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > One thing I haven't decoded is why Windows is and Kubuntu is 0003. See below ... > I now better understand Mitch D.'s point that the pointers to which OS to > boot are not in a disk file, like the old grub configuration, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

On Monday, 17 April 2023 20:28:01 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, > > > > I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain > > files? My latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest verification failed

On Saturday, 22 April 2023 08:48:12 BST hitachi303 wrote: > Am 22.04.23 um 08:10 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > > On 4/21/23 23:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm trying "emerge --sync" (few times) but I get this error: > >> > >> !!! Manifest verification failed: > >> OpenPGP

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > That > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > use ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have

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