Re: [gentoo-user] ssh from linux to Windows

2024-01-08 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 20:09:37 -0700 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I installed openssh server on Windows 11 and tried to ssh to it using the > id_rsa.pub key > but I didn't have luck.  I copied the key to .ssh\authorized_keys file. > On linux the last line ending with "\"  on Windows Notepad

Re: [gentoo-user] SDDM tmp file goes missing?

2024-01-05 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 08:04:49 +0100 Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 02:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: > > Any thoughts on possible causes or fixes? > > I've also had this happen a few times over the last months, with error > mails about SDDM tmp files from cron. Just wanted to pipe in and

[gentoo-user] Cronie update breaks anacron

2023-10-14 Thread Andreas Fink
The latest update to cronie (sys-process/cronie-1.7.0) seems to have broken anacron functionality. The file /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron tries to source the file /etc/default/anacron, which does not exist. The full error message looks like this: /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron: line 11:

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-19 Thread Andreas Fink
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:14:42 +0800 William Kenworthy wrote: > That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding > make.conf settings. > > BillK > > I would argue, that per package compiler parameters is not what is needed, because in the example of chromium 99% of the compile

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 16:42:15 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having > to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak. > > My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. > > Section "InputDevice" >   

Re: [gentoo-user] guvcview - no video device (/dev/video0) found

2023-05-13 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sat, 13 May 2023 14:50:33 -0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Getting an error message when trying to start usb-cam: > > guvcview > ENCODER: no video codec detected for VP9 (VP9) > ENCODER: no video codec detected for Theora (ogg theora) > GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.8 > GUVCVIEW: couldn't open

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:24:08 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I've just looked at 'man make', from which it's clear that -j = --jobs, and > > that both those and --load-average are passed to /usr/bin/make, presumably > > untouched unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Jobs and load-average

2023-02-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:53:30 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 13:18:24 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > > > First, keep in mind that --jobs=16 + -j16 can result in up to 256 > > (16*16) tasks running at once. Of course, that is worst case and most > > of the time you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc and binpackages

2023-01-17 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:17:29 -0500 John Blinka wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:54 PM Laurence Perkins > wrote: > > > I’m not sure if I’m doing something horribly wrong, or missing something > > blindingly obvious, but I’ve just had to boot a rescue shell yet again, so > > I’m going to ask.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to produce broken binary packages

2023-01-15 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 12:14:29 +0100 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just encountered a problem regarding binary packages and got some broken > packages and I don't know how to solve this permanently; On my buildhost I > compile all packages I need for several VMs and install only

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc and binpackages

2023-01-12 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:53:55 + Laurence Perkins wrote: > I'm not sure if I'm doing something horribly wrong, or missing something > blindingly obvious, but I've just had to boot a rescue shell yet again, so > I'm going to ask. > > To save time and effort, I have my big, powerful machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Docker installation issues

2022-12-10 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 15:51:17 -0500 Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Andreas, > > Thank you very much. In fact I didn't go that deep yet, and not sure if I > should. I just found that the url is not accessible even from a browser. > Googling a bit, tells me there is no clear URL for docker-registry and

Re: [gentoo-user] Docker installation issues

2022-12-10 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:30:40 -0500 Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > I am using Openrc > > This was my initial /etc/conf.d/docker > DOCKER_OPTS="--storage-driver overlay2 --data-root /srv/var/lib/docker" > > when I try: > > $ docker pull hello-world > > Error response from daemon: Get

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:11:18 -0500 Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm jackhammering the system now and I'm getting about 50% error spew I would suggest a different tool than a jackhammer to fix the problems.

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

2022-08-18 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:04:57 -0500 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I got my 10TB drive in today.  I want to maximize the amount of data I > can put on this thing and it remain stable.  I know about -m 0 when > making the file system but was wondering if there is any other tips or > tricks to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way to run multiple commands from single script in parallel?

2022-03-14 Thread Andreas Fink
On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:13:13 +0100 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > Hi, > > I often put multiple commands into a single file/script to be run in sequence. > (each line can be executed individually, there is no dependency) > > Is there a tool/method to execute multiple lines/commands simultaneously? Like

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-22 Thread Andreas Fink
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:21:48 +0100 Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > And none of the examples to overcome problems provided by others in this > thread ever contained "--changed-deps". Does this mean "--changed-deps" > is a NOOP, a relict from days long gone by, meanwhile without any funct- > ionality,

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread Andreas Fink
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100 hitachi303 wrote: > > emerge -av --depclean Stuff like firefox, thunderbird, etc.> > > emerge -a --depclean --with-bdeps=n > > only then when there are as few programs installed as possible I run > emerge --sync > > emerge -Dua --reinstall changed-use @world

Re: [gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-30 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 02:24:32 -0600 Michael Jones wrote: > Going forward, you could consider having your build host take a snapshot / > backup of the binpkgs it builds every 3-6 months, with the associated > portage tree, so that you can use those to update your sporadically updated > machines.

[gentoo-user] Update gentoo from live usb?

2022-01-29 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I have a couple of systems that I do not update regularily (some not even for years). But then sometimes I feel, hey I should do an update. I have one master build server which builds packages and keeps them as binary packages, annd all my systems pull the gentoo portage tree from this

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange behaviour disconnecting and reconnecting USB-C screen

2022-01-11 Thread Andreas Fink
ted.On 11.01.22 > 10:25, Andreas Fink wrote: > That did not work for me because xrandr complains that any resolution is an unknown mode. Which command do you use to change the resolution of the connected screen?

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour disconnecting and reconnecting USB-C screen

2022-01-11 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I've got a new laptop and see a strange behaviour when disconnecting and reconnecting my USB-C screen. Here are the steps that I am doing. I have a dual screen setup with xrandr, with my notebook screen being the primary screen and a second large external screen connected via USB-C to my

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 16 May 2021 13:14:26 +0200 n952162 wrote: > On 5/16/21 12:53 PM, Andreas Fink wrote: > > On Sun, 16 May 2021 12:49:26 +0200 > > n952162 wrote: > > > >> On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >>> On Sun,

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 16 May 2021 05:01:18 -0500 Dale wrote: > n952162 wrote: > > On 5/15/21 7:24 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > >> The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling > >> that in because something about that package changed and so it needs > >> to rebuild it. The --noreplace option

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 16 May 2021 12:49:26 +0200 n952162 wrote: > On 5/16/21 11:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 16 May 2021 11:26:37 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > > There are no use flags defined for any of the packages I did a random > check for, either on the server or the client.  I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups

2021-05-12 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 12 May 2021 22:44:56 -0400 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:16:56AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote > > > > Is there nothing in the system logs? What's near the end before whatever > > you get from booting after this issue? > > Where would those logfiles be? "dmesg" starts

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

2021-02-25 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:15:55 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-02-25, hitachi303 wrote: > > > I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible > > before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the > > amount of conflicts by a considerable

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Differences between wget and browser file retrieval?

2021-01-14 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 16:10:09 -0500 Jack wrote: > On 2021.01.14 15:49, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm bored, so I do a regular daily report at the DSL Reports > > "CanChat" > > sub-forum, on the Covid-19 case counts for Ontario, using provincial > > data. I download 2 files daily as source data.

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

2021-01-13 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 10:55:18 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread Andreas Fink
> > - machine 2 (with automatic update): > > $ pgrep -a firefox > *6355 firefox* > > $ pgrep -V > pgrep from procps-ng 3.3.16 > > In both cases, I start by just invoking "firefox" (no aliases) > > > > On 11/12/20 8:28 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-11 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100 n952162 wrote: > I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox > has updated, I need to restart. > > I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? > > And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-13 Thread Andreas Fink
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:10:04 -0400 Jude DaShiell wrote: > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated > program cc1plus compilation terminated. These two lines stongly suggest that you ran out of memory while compilation. You could try to build it with only one job (-j1),

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-14 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:46:58 +0100 Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:24:31PM +0200, n952162 wrote: > > binary packages: how to: > > > > 1. find out if a package is binary before you install it (e.g. where on > >app-arch/rar does it say it's a binary package) > > RAR is an

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:51:13 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 09:29:39 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to > > > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. >

[gentoo-user] Warning: Do not update PAM on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is broken and does

[gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-16 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is broken and does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stuck after dovecot upgrade

2020-05-21 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 21 May 2020 12:54:49 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2020 11:20:18 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 May 2020 06:44:35 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > > > > recently emerge started to get stuck after an upgrade of dovecot, and > > &

[gentoo-user] emerge stuck after dovecot upgrade

2020-05-20 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, recently emerge started to get stuck after an upgrade of dovecot, and it is somehow related to my /etc/portage/bashrc, which has the following content: function post_pkg_postinst() { if test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "dev-db/mariadb"; then /etc/init.d/mysql status && /etc/init.d/mysql

Re: [gentoo-user] davfs2 suddenly not working properly

2019-05-07 Thread Andreas Fink
On Tue, 07 May 2019 02:25:13 -0400 John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 07 May 2019 01:58:25 -0400, > Andreas Fink wrote: > > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:14:13 -0400 > > John Covici wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 03:20:25 -0400, > > > Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] davfs2 suddenly not working properly

2019-05-06 Thread Andreas Fink
On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:14:13 -0400 John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 03:20:25 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:41:41 -0400, John Covici wrote: > > > > > Apr 17 18:39:55 ccs.covici.com systemd-coredump[5334]: Process > > > 5332 (umount.davfs) of user 0

Re: [gentoo-user] NVM on Gentoo Linux?

2019-03-31 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:53:19 +0100 Wols Lists wrote: > If I'm booting off a live-CD or similar, then I'm not worried about the > system being available for use, and streaming the data at a level BELOW > the file system is far more efficient and quicker. It's only faster if your disk is almost

Re: [gentoo-user] NVM on Gentoo Linux?

2019-03-31 Thread Andreas Fink
On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 08:38:43 +0100 Wols Lists wrote: > I'm planning to migrate my system soon, but I'm going to do that a bit > differently. I'll dd my home partition across (I've got hard-links > galore, so a cp or rsync or whatever will have massive conniptions). What's wrong with an "rsync

[gentoo-user] kworker using 100% cpu

2019-03-04 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I have a problem which uses 100% of one cpu core on my HP-15-bs114ng notebook. I figured out already that it is somehow related to ACPI interrupts, since the following command will return the system to normal: echo disable > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16 The content of this "file"

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-72.0.3626.96 and Java

2019-02-15 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:32:15 + Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 14 February 2019 12:36:04 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 14 February 2019 12:27:25 GMT Marc Joliet wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2019, 13:12:29 CET schrieb Mick: > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > > > I just noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

2018-12-07 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 10:14:45 + Peter Humphrey wrote: > And today, of course, there's an upgrade. That's another reason I > ditched it. Is there a way to force chromium to be not ~amd64 on a > ~amd64 system? Yes, I do that with this entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords: www-client/chromium

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge completly a package but dont install it?

2018-08-09 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 19:12:37 +0200 tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to go through process of installing a not-installed > package from source to executable ... without actually install the > package - so the system as such is not touched? > > Cheers > Meino > > > You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiboot USB - GRUB2 loop device

2018-07-14 Thread Andreas Fink
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:14:07 -0500 Alex Luehm wrote: > Hello all > > I've recently taken it upon myself to create a multiboot USB with isos > that I tend to frequently use. So far I've been successful in adding > Clonezilla and the Archlinux live ISOs. I've attempted to add the Gentoo > install

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET inconsistent?

2018-07-07 Thread Andreas Fink
gle target for it. > > > > But when you explicitly specify the targets in make.conf, it obeys and > > don't > > do that magic anymore, so condition of "exactly one of supported > > single_targets (pypy, pyhton2.7)" is not meeting anymore". > > > > Tha

[gentoo-user] PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET inconsistent?

2018-07-07 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I have a question considering PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET because it seems to behave inconsistently on my system and I cannot find any documentation about it, that would guide me in the right direction how to fix it. Running emerge --info I see the following (I'm on ~amd64): ...