Re: [gentoo-user] How to replay a backup system?

2023-10-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/12/2023 07:09:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:54:10 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > from time to time - as was the case a few days ago - Gentoo updates > lead to an unbootable system. > I backup my system each day - using BTRFS snapshots. > > Now, o

[gentoo-user] How to replay a backup system?

2023-10-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, from time to time - as was the case a few days ago - Gentoo updates lead to an unbootable system. I backup my system each day - using BTRFS snapshots. Now, only a few files on current system have changed; the rest of the 400 GB root partition is unchanged. Therefore I only have to

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

2023-04-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/27/2023 02:23:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 & am at the point of designing the partitions. For many years, I've used Reiserfs, but it is now obsolescent, so I need to choose an alternative. Reiserfs seemed appropriate for a system

[gentoo-user] torbrowser : proxy server is refusing connections

2023-03-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I am totally new to "tor" I have installed torbrowser from the torbrowser overlay. When I start torbrowser, I get "Something Went Wrong" When I start torbrowser check.torproject.org I get The proxy server is refusing connections What am I missing? Many thanks for your help Helmut

[gentoo-user] torbrowser : proxy server is refusing connections

2023-03-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I am totally new to "tor". I have installed torbrowser from the torbrowser overlay. When I start torbrowser I get "Something Went Wrong" If I start torbrowser check.torproject.org I get proxy server is refusing connections Are there any configuration I have to modify? Many thanks for

[gentoo-user] error: template with C linkage

2023-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, for some of my (older) local ebuild I get the error template with C linkage What is the reason for this message? How can I change "C linkage" to "C++ linkage" Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] git command within an ebuild fails - why?

2022-09-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks!!! Helmut On 09/23/2022 06:54:08 PM, tastytea wrote: On 2022-09-23 18:17+0200 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to write an ebuild for installing nim-. > Within "src_compile" > a shell script is executed which tries to invoke > > git

[gentoo-user] git command within an ebuild fails - why?

2022-09-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to write an ebuild for installing nim-. Within "src_compile" a shell script is executed which tries to invoke git clone -q --depth 1 -b master https://github.com/nim-lang/csources_v1.git csources_v1 This fails with "Could not resolve host: github.com" When I excute the git

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils broken ?

2022-09-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/17/2022 01:58:09 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've just bin told to run binutils-config instead. This solves the problem as well. Hi, am I the only one where suddenly all binutils couldn't be invoked? My fix is cd /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ ln -s binutils-bin/2.39 bin I hope this might

[gentoo-user] binutils broken ?

2022-09-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, am I the only one where suddenly all binutils couldn't be invoked? My fix is cd /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ ln -s binutils-bin/2.39 bin I hope this might help some of you, Helmut

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

2022-04-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have purchased a new Laptop with Windows 11 pre-installed. I have managed to do (so far) - shrink the Windows partition (from within Windows since it's encrypted) - turned off secure boot to be able to boot a Linux rescue system from USB - created new partitions (boot, root and home)

[gentoo-user] Kernel 5.16.3 fails to boot

2022-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have been built (and used successfully) nearly each kernel of the gentoo-source 5.x.x. I've copie the old config to the new kernel directory and did "make oldconfig" Suddenly with Kernel 5.16.{3,4,5} these kernels hang during boot. Has anybody made a similar bad experience? How

Re: [gentoo-user] Gordian knot systemd / hwids

2021-11-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks Arve, reemerging sys-apps/hwids with -udev -systemd use flags solved it. Helmut On 11/29/2021 04:18:59 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 at 16:11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi > systemd-249.6-r1 conflicts with sys-apps/hwids[udev] > > But when I remo

[gentoo-user] Gordian knot systemd / hwids

2021-11-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi systemd-249.6-r1 conflicts with sys-apps/hwids[udev] But when I remove the udev use flag, emerge sys-apps/hwids gives The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: systemd? ( udev ) So, I would have to remove sys-apps/systemd-249.6 first. Is it save to emerge -C

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild displays an error message only

2021-11-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/22/2021 03:08:46 PM, Julien Roy wrote: emerge -pv --depclean dev-libs/imath Many thanks, Helmut

[gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild displays an error message only

2021-11-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, emerge -vp @preserved-rebuild only displays emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-libs/imath:0". (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument]) How to find out what requires dev-libs/imath:0 and how to fix that? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast

2021-10-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Many thanks to Rich, Miles, Vitor and Laurence for their hints on this subject. Especially the suggestion to use BTRFS Snapshots was very helpful. Finally I have come up with the following shell script for backing up my /home directory, comments are more than welcome, of course. (/HBackUp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast

2021-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/22/2021 06:15:58 PM, Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos wrote: The real solution would have been having a subvolume for the directory. Subvolume deletion on BTRFS is near instant. Same for ZFS with datasets, etc. Thanks! Is it possible to have a hard link from one subvolume to a different

[gentoo-user] [OT] how to delete a directory tree really fast

2021-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Is there anything faster than rm -rf ? I'm using rync with the --link-dest= option. Since this option uses hard links extensively, both, and have to be on the same file system. Therefore, just re-making the file system anew, cannot be used. There are more than 55,000 files on

[gentoo-user] Chromium Aw, Snap!

2021-02-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few days Chromium is broken here. Even deleting ~/.config/chromium I get this error message immediately after Chromium comes up. I have tried the version 88.0.4324.150 , 89.0.4389.40 and 90.0.4412.3 What might be the reason? Am I the only one with this problem? Thanks for a

[gentoo-user] [offtopic] mount with correct SELinux context on Android

2021-02-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I hope someone here can help me with the following problem on the Linux environment Termux on my Android phone. My phone has not enough storage on the /data partition but lots of free space on my external SD card (adoptable storage) which contains an extfat (sdcardfs) file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Help! the new autofs-5.1.7 breaks my autofs configuration

2021-01-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/30/2021 05:11:31 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: My previously working configuration had in /etc/autofs/auto.master the entry /- auto_local.autofs and /etc/autofs/auto_local.autofs had entries like /Src -fstype=btrfs,exec,suid,noatime :UUID=95c22160-112e-4020-81cc

[gentoo-user] Help! the new autofs-5.1.7 breaks my autofs configuration

2021-01-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
My previously working configuration had in /etc/autofs/auto.master the entry /- auto_local.autofs and /etc/autofs/auto_local.autofs had entries like /Src -fstype=btrfs,exec,suid,noatime :UUID=95c22160-112e-4020-81cc-4721cf241fd9 /home/jarausch/Gimp

[gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have no chance to change the filename. I have to 'xkill' it What can I do about

Re: [gentoo-user] strange ebuild problem

2020-11-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/20/2020 05:50:11 PM, Mickaël Bucas wrote: Le  ven. 20 nov. 2020    16:44, Helmut Jarausch <_j_a_r_a_u_s_c_h_@_s_k_y_n_e_t_._b_e> a ©crit  : Hi, I have an ebuild containing inherit git-r3 and src_compile() {         ./build_

[gentoo-user] strange ebuild problem

2020-11-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an ebuild containing inherit git-r3 and src_compile() { ./build_all.sh } The script build_all.sh contains [ -d csources ] || git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nim-lang/csources.git When I try to build I get the strange error fatal: unable to access

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more cooperative?

2020-10-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/14/2020 08:05:39 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:44:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I could be wrong but I don't think tensorflow 2 supports python 3.9 > yet... > > https://www.tensorflow.org/install/ It doesn't, at least not from the portage ebuild: % eix -e tensorflow *

[gentoo-user] How to make Gentoo more cooperative?

2020-10-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to install sci-libs/tensorflow & Co for Python 3.9 (nearly all of system has been built for this version) I've tried emerge -v --deep --verbose-conflict but it just tells me to drop python_targets_python3_9 without telling me why. I have checked all Python dependencies to

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus font for X11 : how to?

2020-10-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/06/2020 11:12:02 PM, Jack wrote: On 2020.10.06 16:33, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I would like to use a Terminus font under X11. I have emerged media-fonts/terminus-font eselect fontconfig list show that 75-yes-terminus.conf is selected. Still xlsfonts doesn't show this font. What am I

[gentoo-user] Terminus font for X11 : how to?

2020-10-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I would like to use a Terminus font under X11. I have emerged media-fonts/terminus-font eselect fontconfig list show that 75-yes-terminus.conf is selected. Still xlsfonts doesn't show this font. What am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/11/2020 03:08:16 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 10:47 AM Helmut Jarausch <_j_a_r_a_u_s_c_h_@_s_k_y_n_e_t_._b_e> wrote: Hi, in an ebuild I have to apply a patch only if this package is installed   for python3.9. The ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/02/2020 06:15:12 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote: Hi Helmut, maybe "python_is_python3"[1] will help? I am still new to creating ebuilds. :) -Ramon Thanks Ramon for this hint. I need to know which version of Python3 ( Python3.8 or Python3.9) and I could see how python_is_python3 helps here.

[gentoo-user] ebuild : how to check for python version

2020-08-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, in an ebuild I have to apply a patch only if this package is installed for python3.9. The ebuild should work for PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{8,9} ) How can I check for Pythons version in src_prepare or similar functions. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] emerge should tell me the reason for not accepting a PYTHON_TARGET

2020-07-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm on the way to rebuild all packages using Python to be built with Python3.9, as well I have created the corresponding ebuilds in a local overlay. But many times, emerge cannot proceed because one of the dependencies hasn't an ebuild for Python3.9, yet. Emerge tries to disable

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

2020-06-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/21/2020 12:21:08 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp. Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0 too late. Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs dev-python/pbr which in turn can

[gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

2020-06-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp. Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0 too late. Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be installed without setuptools for Python2.7.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48

2020-04-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/08/2020 09:47:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 4/8/20 2:26 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > Having installed vala:0.48 I still cannot un-emerge vala:0.46 > because gnome-extra/evolution-data-server depends on it. > But I cannot see that dependency in the ebuild. > >

[gentoo-user] How to replace vala:0.46 by vala:0.48

2020-04-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, Having installed vala:0.48 I still cannot un-emerge vala:0.46 because gnome-extra/evolution-data-server depends on it. But I cannot see that dependency in the ebuild. What am I missing? Thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] Gentoo's Python policy drives me crazy

2019-12-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Today's updating involves some package which causes rebuilding a package which needs Python2.7 and another one which needs python_single_target_python3_8 required by that mysterious @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ To emerge the Python2.7 package (Scribus) I do need to set

[gentoo-user] PYTHON_TARGETS something must have changed

2019-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Up to a few days ago I had PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8" in /etc/portage/make.conf and for any package to be installed for Python2.7, I had something like media-gfx/cropgui python_targets_python2_7 in /etc/portage/package.use But now, I have to add python2_7 to PYTHON_TARGETS whenever I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] blender 2.80 or 2.81?

2019-12-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/07/2019 04:39:34 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: thing is, i already have a blender file created with 2.80. i cannot open it with 2.79. any idea what's the easiest way to get 2.80 or 2.81 running on gentoo? and any idea how when to expect the 2.80 or 2.81? You could copy the

[gentoo-user] app-text/foliate ebuild?

2019-11-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I came across the "modern ebook reader" foliate (github.com/johnfactotum/foliate) Since I don't know about meson, I failed to write an ebuild for that. Has anybody know about an ebuild for foliate? Many thanks for some help, Helmut

[gentoo-user] eix-sync gets stuck

2019-11-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, recently, eix-sync gets stuck after * Verifying /usr/portage/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine ...[ ok ] === Sync completed for gentoo Killing it with C and restarting it with eix-sync -a fixes this. Do I have to clean some files? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] force re-cythonizing in an ebuild

2019-11-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know how to force to recompile (by cython) any .pyx file. Background I'm trying to install packages like sci-libs/scikit_image under Python3.8 Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] Noah's ArK

2019-11-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to "preserve" some packages which do require components I don't like to have "regularly" installed any more like some depending on Python2 or are 32bit. Is there a means to build a "mini binary system" where I can put these? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] UFO @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__

2019-09-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I saw this UFO @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ in the output of emerge. Does anybody known where this comes from and what it means? Many thanks for an explanation, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted [resolved]

2019-08-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/16/2019 06:21:30 PM, Jack wrote: On 2019.08.16 12:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/16/2019 05:25:34 PM, Jack wrote: try "lsof /cdrom"?  It says the mount point, not the device, might be busy. This didn't show anything. I still don't know the cause of my problems. But f

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
But does that mean? On 8/16/19 10:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a very strange effect on my Gentoo system. First, I've check that /dev/sr0 points to the correct device (from dmesg) For an empty drive  I get 1 # mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom mount: /cdrom: /dev/sr0 already mounted or mount

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
aps I have to remove it from my system and use eudev instead of udev as part of systemd. Thanks for trying to help me - it was a really strange situation. On 8/16/19 10:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a very strange effect on my Gentoo system. First, I've check that /dev/sr0 points to t

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/16/2019 05:22:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Sounds like error message is not clear. But as there is no disc, the mount action should fail anyway. What happens when there is a disc in the drive? The same unfortunately. Thanks, Helmut -- Joost On 16 August 2019 16:23:36 CEST, Helmut

[gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a very strange effect on my Gentoo system. First, I've check that /dev/sr0 points to the correct device (from dmesg) For an empty drive I get 1 # mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom mount: /cdrom: /dev/sr0 already mounted or mount point busy. 2 # lsof /dev/sr0 3 # umount /dev/sr0 umount:

[gentoo-user] systemd crashes when I try to mount a USB drive

2019-08-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since the upgrade from systemd-242-r6 to systemd-243_rc1 I cannot mount my (external) USB drive any more. I get kernel: sd 10:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through kernel: sde: sde1 sde2 sde3 sde4 sde5 sde6 sde7 kernel: systemd-udevd[480887]: Assertion 'key' failed at

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-31 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/30/2019 09:36:11 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: I've found all of the MTP implementations to be wanting in some way. Then I discovered SSHelper, an SSH server for Android. Now I can mount my phone's storage with sshfs using a command like sshfs -p 192.168.1.144:/storage/emulated/0

[gentoo-user] virtual eselect - how to

2019-06-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, what is the relationship of a virtual package and eselect. E.g. I have installed openblas but 'eselect blas list' doesn't know about this. I have even modified virtual/blas to include openblas. How does eselect get the list of alternatives? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I everr switch to profile 17.1?

2019-06-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/18/2019 05:43:55 PM, John Covici wrote: It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1. I say this because I can never run emerge --depclean . I have a few packages which will not compile and one not in the tree anymore. the packages which will not compile are mono-4.4.1.0

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. I had to reinstall some packages "by hand", e.g. I had to reinstall util-linux quite early. I had to reinstall x11-libs/libva without the opengl USE flag, since it couldn't find

[gentoo-user] layman : unterminated character set at position 1

2019-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm struggling with layman. Using version 2.4.2-r1 as well as version I get for several overlays like for palemoon : layman -a palemoon * Adding overlay... * Overlay "palemoon" is not official. Continue installing? [y/n]: y * CLI: Errors occurred processing action add *

[gentoo-user] eix doesn't ignore disabled overlays

2019-03-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, eix-sync and eix-diff reports (newer) packages from disabled overlays (via layman -D ...). How can I tell eix to ignore these? I'm using eix GIT from 2019/03/06. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] autofs for a symlink - howto

2019-02-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/24/2019 06:26:51 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a lot of symlinks in my home directory like $HOME/Python -> /Src/Python Now, I'd like to not mount /Src on default. How can I set up my system (using autofs ?) to automatically mount /Src if such a symlink is accessed like

[gentoo-user] autofs for a symlink - howto

2019-02-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a lot of symlinks in my home directory like $HOME/Python -> /Src/Python Now, I'd like to not mount /Src on default. How can I set up my system (using autofs ?) to automatically mount /Src if such a symlink is accessed like cd$HOME/Python Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

[gentoo-user] Is my NVME too slow?

2019-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I have a very fast Samsung NVME drive hosting my root file system. During backup 'atop' often shows 100% usage of my NVME drive while reading only a few MB/s and several thousands 'Read' ops (during 10 seconds). Is this normal or a measuring bug of 'atop'. Stand alone timing tests have shown

[gentoo-user] emerge --changed-use @world : how to interpret its output?

2019-01-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have difficulties to interpret the output of nice -19 emerge -av1 --update --keep-going --tree --changed-use \ --unordered-display --verbose-conflicts @world I get LOTS of request to change package.use to include abi_x86_32. It looks like emerge wants to change half of system (which

[gentoo-user] systemd-240 doesn't load my kernel modules

2019-01-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have systemd and openrc installed on my system, but I use openrc for booting. Upto systemd-239 this works just fine. But with systemd-240 my system doesn't load necessary kernel modules like DRM AMDGPU modules. This break Xorg : (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory Has

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild how to find out the contents of

2018-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/29/2018 05:09:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:03 AM Andrew Udvare wrote: > > > On Dec 29, 2018, at 10:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > > How can I find out the list of packages in @preserved-rebuild? > > There's a JSON file in

Re: [gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild how to find out the contents of

2018-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/29/2018 05:03:51 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On Dec 29, 2018, at 10:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > How can I find out the list of packages in @preserved-rebuild? There's a JSON file in /var/db/portage I don't have the folder /var/db/portage here. Thanks, Helmut

[gentoo-user] @preserved-rebuild how to find out the contents of

2018-12-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have some old packages like dev-qt/qtcore:4 on my machine, and other packages which need this. Therefore emerge -vp @preserved-rebuild doesn't work. How can I find out the list of packages in @preserved-rebuild? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Encryption questions

2018-12-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I use encfs (see github.com/vgough/encfs) It's in the portage tree. Here is my private Readme # Neither .Secret nor Secret should contain data before creation !!! # CREATION (only once) e.g. encfs -i 10 --ondemand --extpass=x11-ssh-askpass `pwd`/.Secret `pwd`/Secret or more simply in an

[gentoo-user] ACCESS DENIED

2018-09-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I wonder what I am doing wrong. For several packages, e.g. x11-terms/kitty-0.12.1 I get access violations like * ACCESS DENIED: mkdir:/root/.config/kitty The cause of this is clear: emerge is running as user/group 'portage' but ls -ld /root/.config gives drwx-- 15 root

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

2018-09-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
solution since - at least me - have only 60 Mbits/seccon on the WiFi but 1 Gbits/second on the wired Ethernet - and some files to be printed are quite large. Thanks again, Helmut. On 09/12/2018 02:50:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to install a very simple configuration but fail (CU

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

2018-09-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/12/2018 03:55:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:50:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On one machine - called SERVER - I have a USB printer which works just > fine with CUPS. > I've tried to make it "shared". This printer has the name USB_printer

[gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

2018-09-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install a very simple configuration but fail (CUPS is my most hated software) I have two machines on a local network (i.e., I don't need any fancy security mechanisms) On one machine - called SERVER - I have a USB printer which works just fine with CUPS. I've tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery - please help [SOLVED]

2018-08-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/01/2018 11:13:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after an emerge --dep-clean yesterday, I've noticed today that I don't have any java-jkd / jre available anymore. Although I've emerged dev-java/oracle-jre-bin dev-java/oracle-jre-bin eselect java-vm list doesn't show these. How make

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery - please help

2018-08-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/01/2018 03:37:44 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: 2018-08-01 4:13 GMT-05:00 Helmut Jarausch _j_a_r_a_u_s_c_h_@_s_k_y_n_e_t_._b_e: Hi, after an emerge --dep-clean yesterday, I've noticed today that I don't have any java-jkd / jre available anymore

[gentoo-user] eselect mystery - please help

2018-08-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after an emerge --dep-clean yesterday, I've noticed today that I don't have any java-jkd / jre available anymore. Although I've emerged dev-java/oracle-jre-bin dev-java/oracle-jre-bin eselect java-vm list doesn't show these. How make these "visible" to eselect again? Many thanks for a

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox-modules fails to update: incompatible gcc/plugin versions

2018-07-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Just for the record, I compiled this version with gcc-8.1.0-r3 without any problems. Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] how to set python version for one user

2018-07-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/10/2018 10:23:05 AM, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, I need to set specific python version to a user and I don't want to set it up for whole system. Is it possible? If so how to do it. All I found is about setting for whole system. Thanks Pat A simple method would be to set up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 04/25/2018 06:06:32 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: As this version of gentoo-sources has now hit the stable mirrors, would anyone like to summarise the position wrt Spectre, Meltdown and anything else that's relevant? Just to help us numbskulls sleep at night. I can't say anything about

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses / tinfo problem

2018-03-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/30/2018 12:26:33 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Am March 30, 2018 10:07:41 AM UTC schrieb Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be>: >Hi, >there are several packages which fail to link since they are missing >'-ltinfo' - recently >app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4-r1 > >Fo

[gentoo-user] ncurses / tinfo problem

2018-03-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, there are several packages which fail to link since they are missing '-ltinfo' - recently app-antivirus/clamav-0.99.4-r1 For a temporary fix I have edited the config.status file by changing S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses" to S["CURSES_LIBS"]="-lncurses -ltinfo" and using ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-6.4.0-r1::gentoo failed (compile phase)

2018-03-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/26/2018 01:30:19 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I've switched one of my older box to desktop profile-17 updated gcc to 6.4.0-r1 and it compile just fine. But when I do emerge -e @world recompile gcc-6.4.0-r1 get stuck on" * One or more packages are either masked or have missing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg-proto package blocks everything else.

2018-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/25/2018 05:10:29 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-03-25 13:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The only hard block here appears to be xscrnsaverproto, unmerge that and > the rest should take care of themselves. I had all the soft blocks today > but not that one, and everything worked fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg broken?

2018-03-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/07/2018 03:52:24 PM, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: I think I broke something once again... Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die. I faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that particular update, but because I was short on time I

[gentoo-user] QEMU on a partition

2018-03-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install a second Gentoo system on a partition by running QEMU using that partition (directly) - this is to create and update a Gentoo system with different CFLAGS (for an older machine). Having no experience in such setups my initial problem is how to install grub2 on that

[gentoo-user] emerge @world and package.mask ?

2018-02-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I don't understand portage (any more). I want to keep dev-qt/qt-meta-4.8.6 (QT4) which requires media-libs/phonon[qt4] I do have media-libs/phonon-4.9.1-r1[qt4,qt5] installed here. And in /etc/portage/package.mask I have media-libs/phonon-4.9.9 media-libs/phonon-vlc-4.9.9 But still,

[gentoo-user] eselect mystery

2018-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, could anybody please explain me how 'eselect' works? My problem I have installed dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-9.04 and removed dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.162 but eselect java-vm list shows Available Java Virtual Machines: grep: /usr/share/java-config-2/vm/oracle-jdk-bin-1.8: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/04/2018 12:21:13 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 04/02/18 01:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >> > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: > > While on this topic, I have a question about glibc. I have it set in > > make.conf to save the binary packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: While on this topic, I have a question about glibc.  I have it set in make.conf to save the binary packages.  Generally I use it when I need to go back shortly after a upgrade, usually Firefox or something.  However, this package is different since going

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most packages try to include which doesn't exit any more. And downgrading glibc using a binary package doesn't work. It looks like I have to restore my system from a recent backup, very annoying! (I know that glibc-2.27 is masked,

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/02/2018 11:38:54 AM, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:

[gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 gpg: Can't check signature: No public key What might have been happened? Many

Re: [gentoo-user] after finally doing my emerge -e world successfully, my regular world update fails

2017-12-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/22/2017 11:02:14 AM, John Covici wrote: Hi. So, after two weeks, I finally got my emerge -e world finished. Now I was trying my regular world update with --deep, etc., but I get an impossible situation. It seems openrc is now blocking systemd, but I apparently need both. I've noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] New Kernel - custom modules are not loaded

2017-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/20/2017 04:14:54 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, this drives me crazy. I have built a new kernel 4.14.7 with the same config as 4.14.6, I have rebuild all kernel modules, the file /etc/conf.d/modules lists my extra modules and hasn't changed. (I'm using openrc, but systemd is installed

[gentoo-user] New Kernel - custom modules are not loaded

2017-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this drives me crazy. I have built a new kernel 4.14.7 with the same config as 4.14.6, I have rebuild all kernel modules, the file /etc/conf.d/modules lists my extra modules and hasn't changed. (I'm using openrc, but systemd is installed, as well) Now, booting 4.14.6, all my modules get

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of a GIT repository

2017-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/20/2017 11:28:31 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: В письме от среда, 20 декабря 2017 г. 17:04:33 +07 пользователь Helmut Jarausch написал: > Hi, > I have no experience with GIT. > > I'd like to determine if a GIT repository in Gentoo is up-to-date. > Normally, a GIT fol

[gentoo-user] Status of a GIT repository

2017-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have no experience with GIT. I'd like to determine if a GIT repository in Gentoo is up-to-date. Normally, a GIT folder has a '.git' subfolder. Using 'git status' in such a GIT folder works fine. But the subfolders in /usr/portage/distfiles/git3-src don't contain a '.git' subfolder. A

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/19/2017 07:13:55 PM, Bas Zoutendijk wrote: On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 16:45:15 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > In addition. I keep gcc-6.4.0 since it can generate PIE-enabled > executables AND it it the last compiler with 'gcj'. > > I don't understand why 'pdftk' and packag

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/19/2017 10:15:46 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Having said that, everything built with gcc-7.2.0 after the profile switch so I now have only one gcc installed for the first time in years. In addition. I keep gcc-6.4.0 since it can generate PIE-enabled executables AND it it the last

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc : autoload kernel modules

2017-12-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/14/2017 07:43:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/14/2017 12:43 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I have added the following lines to  /etc/conf.d/modules > > modules="enhanceio" > modules="enhanceio_lru" > modules="enhanceio_fifo" > modul

[gentoo-user] openrc : autoload kernel modules

2017-12-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, could anybody please explain me how to setup autoloading of some kernel modules of mine. I'm using openrc. My modules reside in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/enhanceio/ . I have added the following lines to /etc/conf.d/modules modules="enhanceio" modules="enhanceio_lru"

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