[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,

2020-04-22 Thread Ian Zimmerman
odent for hours at a time. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: best rss reader?

2020-04-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-04-20 05:09, Ashley Dixon wrote: > [1] https://github.com/kouya/snownews Snownews seems to lack SSL support completely, or am I wrong? The great majority of feeds I read are https:// URLs. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: best rss reader?

2020-04-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-04-19 21:15, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > i have newsboat, but it got masked. Really? Masked as in package.mask? When? I don't see that. I use it too, and it is better than the alternatives IMO. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

2020-04-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
e to move the file one level down the directory hierarchy. I agree though, it seems pointless, and likely to make portage start up time even longer. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Audio Equalizer for a DAC ?

2020-04-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
er for my personal music listening anyway, so it is natural to do in the music player. In any case, alsaequal should be removed from Gentoo. It is broken, and it seems nobody knows how to fix it. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
e AWKPROG translations are bash specific (and they could probably be avoided at the cost of other ugliness, maybe with sed). BTW, the only difference between $FOO and ${FOO} is to protect against alphanumerics literally following the occurence of FOO. It has no quoting effect on the _contents_ of $FOO. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Sudden case fan problems by switching to new kernel...

2020-04-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
n. When I rebuilt the kernel with the driver built in, the fan went back to normal. In your case: are both scenarios on the same hardware, since as we all know you're just switching? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server

2020-04-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
rashes stopped when I shifted from allowing X to start on the first unused tty (which is the default) to starting it on the tty where I'm already logged in. I'm thinking this is somehow related to my user id and permissions on the tty. Possibly with one of the login managers it is not an issue. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Firefox again - sad

2020-04-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
After the latest Firefox update (68.7.0), when I try to open the menu with F10, sometimes Firefox crashes (about the 3rd time today now). Does anyone else see that? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Per package /bin/sh selection

2020-04-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ystems they will keep doing it no matter how clean the gentoo dash package is. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Per package /bin/sh selection

2020-04-08 Thread Ian Zimmerman
with bash, or with whatever /bin/sh points to? I thought it was the former. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
o give up on DSL completely, because 6 times out of 10 when we got a phone call the internet dropped. Seriously. We're not proud to support the Comcast monopoly, but what a difference. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
hat is the basis for the spam fighting tactic called "greylisting". So you will not even be original in ignoring them. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] repoman the optimist

2020-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
by gentoo, so this always fails and it amounts to a useless delay for me, and perhaps an annoyance for the servers. How can I disable it and make repoman go straight to the upstream location? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ich is in the profile set. virtuals are another area which I need to study, sigh -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
packages (notably editors/nano) and those are _not_ coming back. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
iguration to replicate, including portage's. That's what git is for :-P. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
dn't just transferring the world file be enough? If you do, maybe you can pin the versions in the world file, though I have never tried that. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Pocket sneaks back

2020-04-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
at_ long ago. Of course. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
usually makes a symlink from /usr/sbin/sendmail to itself. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Creative Sound Blaster Z 5.1 (CA0132)

2020-03-29 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-03-29 22:05, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > must be ALC892 Yeah, that's quite close to mine. What's wrong with it? I understand that for serious audio pros, a specialized card is a must, but ... a Soundblaster? Come on. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Creative Sound Blaster Z 5.1 (CA0132)

2020-03-29 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-03-29 17:36, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > The onboard sound chip of my new motherboard is .. details? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
change (remove the installation of README.org which doesn't exist upstream anymore). FWIW, I added PORTAGE_INST_UID=1000 to the environment and that made it work. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
libsamplerate latex lcms lensfun lm_sensors lzma lzo libtirpc mad mmap mp3 multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openexr opengl openmp opus pam pcre pdf png postscript readline seccomp socks5 sound sqlite ssl svg tcpd tiff tk truetype udev unicode vorbis webp yaml X xattr xcb xft xml xmp xpm wxwidgets zip zlib -cups -emacs -filecaps -introspection -java -libav -lv2 -sasl -smartcard -vala" LLVM_TARGETS="X86 AMDGPU" L10N="en en-GB en-US es es-ES es-MX cs" CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow 3dnowext mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4a" BTW, I have so far resisted enabling cgroups in the kernel. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-20 Thread Ian Zimmerman
fi ((ret|=$?)) done so it is indeed trying to set the owner to root. Maybe if I set PORTAGE_INST_{UID,GID} to my own it will not really try to change them. Are you saying you didn't have to do that? Does your version of the script contain the above code? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
all, it's just an alternate (indirect) name for the same device inode. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up a website

2020-03-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-03-19 18:53, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I found it far simpler to use Nginx when dealing with different > websites, incl. seperate SSL certificates per site even though it is 1 > server and public IP. +1 -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
tted * ERROR: net-mail/mu-1.3.9::foolinux failed (install phase): * dobin failed And yes, I am in the portage group. Of course this doesn't help here - only root can do chown(). -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
inal problem ;-( Do they in fact have labels? Just checking. Also, you're not not clear if your _partition_ still isn't getting mounted, or just the swap file not getting activated. For a problem like this, there _has_ to be something in the log. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-03-18 18:25, Dale wrote: > BTW, can a label be changed without redoing the file system? I seem to > recall that being done during the file system creation. Yes, e2label for ext[2-4] , fatlabel for vfat. Don't know about others but probably most of them allow something similar. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
.. This doesn't solve your underlying timing problem, of course. Just apropos. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Testing ebuilds

2020-03-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
to do these test runs. I remember that I could do this the first time, a couple of years ago. But I don't remember how :-( -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Pocket sneaks back

2020-03-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
is version or if firefox just started acting on it now, but in any case I am adding it to my user.js with a value of false, right now. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-03-11 22:10, Marc Joliet wrote: > "python -m venv -h" in a terminal to get started Yes, and note in particular the --system-site-packages option. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Constant compile error with different programs

2020-02-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
or this? This is a bug in the upstream build system. They should use `pkg-config --libs ncurses` to construct the link command line, which would result in the correct "-lncurses -ltinfo", but instead they just hardcode "-lncurses". Try passing LDFLAGS=-ltinfo or LDLIBS=-ltinfo to make or configure. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
sent locations. But I already have a bunch of symlinks to juggle the space requirements and I would rather not revisit that, right now. On my system /var is in the / filesystem and doesn't have that much space (less than the 8G necessary to build firefox). At some future spring cleaning time, maybe. Thanks for the help. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] webrsync

2020-02-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
nd how can I fix it? -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem merging meson with setuptools. Requesting setuptools-45

2020-02-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ool for searching dependencies while taking USE flags into account. I am aware that such a thing would be very close to "emerge -p". Maybe it would have to be identical to it? :-) -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: octave won't run

2020-02-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
e real bug here. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-02-05 22:14, Matt Connell wrote: > I know that gentoo-sources tracks on the most current LTS kernel > release, currently 4.19.97. 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
why, if you are one of the geeks who do care, the only way to prolong your life with email is to set up your own server. You're already halfway there as you have your own domain. -- Ian

[gentoo-user] Re: Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

2020-01-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-16 13:45, Daniel Frey wrote: > > * sys-devel/clang:9 is missing! Cannot use LLVM slot 9 ... > > Do you have this installed? FWIW, I get that message too during firefox builds (at the end), and yet they finish successfully. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and

[gentoo-user] Re: python and -fno-semantic-interposition speed up

2020-01-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-13 11:33, Adam Carter wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PythonNoSemanticInterpositionSpeedup > > The only downside listed is "Users will no longer be able to use LD_PRELOAD > to override a symbol from libpython". > > Does anyone know if that is an issue for gentoo? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

2020-01-16 Thread Ian Bloss
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 1:40 PM Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Hello list, > I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. > Inputs appreciated. > Thanks, > -- > Valmor > > >>> Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file: > > >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: WTF is up with mysqld?

2020-01-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-13 11:09, Alan Grimes wrote: > mysqld goes into infinite hang when I try to boot my damn manchine. Missing entropy? Try installing haveged. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-02 14:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Device Model: ST8000AS0003-2HH188 > > > > I recall reading about SMR but can't recall the details of what it is. > > far as I know, this is just a basic 8TB drive. > > This is an SMR drive. You should DEFINITELY read up on what they are. How do

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2020-01-01 18:09, Dale wrote: > As some may recall, I have a 8TB external SATA hard drive that I do > back ups on. Usually, I back up once a day, more often if > needed. Usually I turn the power on, mount it, do the back ups, > unmount and turn the power back off. Usually it is powered up for

[gentoo-user] Re: startx does not work for AMD/ATI Radion HD 4770

2019-12-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-12-26 18:12, gevisz wrote: > It seems that it finally was satisfied with those two blobs added. > At least I can now start twm. Good that you have a working system. But it should _not_ be necessary to build the blobs into the kernel. I have similar hardware (Gigabyte mobo with a Phenom

[gentoo-user] Re: CUPS/administration gives a blank window

2019-12-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-12-16 16:48, n952162 wrote: > After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer > selection item, a blank screen is displayed. Does anybody know why? Do you run apache2 just for the CUPS UI? That should not be necessary, CUPS has its own built in http server. At least

[gentoo-user] Re: What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-12-11 22:18, Walter Dnes wrote: > openrdate defaults to set correct time directly, but it does have an > optional parameter to gradually skew local time to the remote time. I > use openrdate in client mode once a month or so to sync a machine. NTP (the protocol implemented by both

[gentoo-user] Re: XDM Start Faster

2019-12-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-12-10 00:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > i login in text (no gui login). i think xdm is fundamentally a > redundant concept that should not have existed as per occam's razor. > i use i3, and start it by `startx`. i can auto-start startx upon > login, but i like it better this way, as

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-12-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-29 00:01, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > The first reason [...] was that my router does _not_ assign fe80::1 to > > itself, but rather some other arbitrary address in the fe80 prefix > > I found an article[1] that I first read years ago. "One method to make > things easier is to manually

[gentoo-user] Re: Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-30 14:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I want to start playing with IPv6 (thanks, Ralph S.) but first I need > to clean up something wrong with my existing IPv4. > * Bringing down interface eth0 > RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory > Error talking to the kernel Do you mean the

[gentoo-user] Strange and potentially unsafe openssh feature

2019-11-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
For my ssh keys that require passphrases, I use ssh-agent to cache the decrypted key so I don't have to type the passphrase every time. Until yesterday there was only one such key; last night I added a new one [1]. And, being the lazy thinker I am, I used the same passphrase as for the old one.

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-28 18:41, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > What am I missing? > > I can't really tell, based on what you posted. Is there an IPv6 Router > Advertisment service running, either on your router or another machine > in your local network? Thanks for answering; I got a bit further meanwhile.

[gentoo-user] Re: (SALT) Saltstack

2019-11-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-28 13:20, james wrote: > My specific (eventual) goal is to communicate/manage a wide variety of > gentoo systems, from servers & workstations to a myriad of embedded > and 5G minimal gentoo systems; particularly those on embedded > processors that have modest resources. I have no

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-28 04:11, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > But what about connecting to the outside world? For that, the > > link-local address doesn't work. > > It does work, actually. fe80::1 is a perfectly valid way to specify the > default gateway. Remember that NICs have several IPv6 addresses with >

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-28 03:07, Ralph Seichter wrote: > Personally, I don't think static IPv6 addresses are very useful, > because machines in a local IPv6 network can easily locate each other > using link-local addressing, without the need to configure this in any > way. In the example above, the

[gentoo-user] Re: To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-25 15:53, Ralph Seichter wrote: > https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html > > This does not come as a surprise, of course, but I consider it a good > point in time to pause and ask oneself what each individual can do to > move further towards IPv6.

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-11-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-19 03:32, John Covici wrote: > > So, I made sure glibc had -gdb and recompiled and recompiled named, > but still no symbols. It was an assertion that failed, maybe this is > the reason. I can send you the core dump if you would be interested. First I'll look into the backtraces are

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-11-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-17 06:00, John Covici wrote: > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 16:12:53 -0500, > Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > It looks like a bug. Can you build with -g and without stripping? > > Hmmm, I have split-debug on and I thought I had -g in my flags, but I > will check.

[gentoo-user] Re: daemon fox?

2019-11-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-17 10:28, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 16 November 2019 17:24:34 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any > > windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs? I have > > in mind something simil

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-11-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-19 14:23, John Covici wrote: > Sep 18 22:25:45 ccs.covici.com named[4207]: resolver.c:4917: > INSIST(dns_name_issubdomain(>name, >domain)) failed, back trace > Sep 18 22:25:45 ccs.covici.com named[4207]: #0 0x5645afbc0610 in ?? > Sep 18 22:25:45 ccs.covici.com named[4207]: #1

[gentoo-user] daemon fox?

2019-11-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs? I have in mind something similar to "emacs --daemon". I had some hopes for "firefox --headless" but that doesn't do what I want: later "firefox $URL" will not connect

[gentoo-user] Re: power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-16 12:50, Mick wrote: > > Question: when does the init program run under the name openrc-init? > > It is not simply a matter of different names, but of different > binaries. As far as I understand it, the /sbin/init of > sys-apps/sysvinit is used by openrc unless you have modified

[gentoo-user] Re: per package parallel build

2019-11-10 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-10-26 14:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: > There's no need to mess around adding and removing masks, just use the > --exclude option. Multiple exclude options seem to further lengthen emerge's "thinking" phase, which is a huge pain as it is. The increase seems at least linear in the number of

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4?

2019-11-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-11-04 22:46, n952162 wrote: > Ah, I didn't know that about running fsck multiple times - I remember > after doing my home directory - the more important one - it did say > "file system modified". I don't remember if the root fsck said that, > though. But it looks like I'm going to

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-10-18 13:57, Daniel Frey wrote: > It is waiting for entropy to build. Moving mouse or typing on keyboard > will speed it up but I have machines only controlled by IR so this was > not helpful. That was exactly my guess when I saw the OP, although I don't have this problem myself. --

[gentoo-user] libffi-3.3.0-rc0

2019-09-28 Thread Ian Zimmerman
After my weekly webrsync this morning, emerge -p showed me a whale of an upgrade, including rebuilding both pythons, llvm and firefox, on top of the legitimate and long overdue texlive update. It would have taken half a day even on a reasonably capable desktop. Inspecting the -p output I blame

[gentoo-user] Re: UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-25 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-24 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at > the beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 > partition for /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. Does /boot really have to be a FAT partition, and

[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-23 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-23 16:22, Walter Dnes wrote: > There appear to be "media-sound/jack" and "media-sound/jack2" ebuilds. > Both of them are tagged "~amd64". There's also > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit Which one(s) do I use? It's the last one, I'm pretty sure. > Youtube is a bad example to

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-09-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-18 12:00, John Covici wrote: > Thanks, I will try that, do you know why named is restarting, this is > a much worse problem? As of now I don't know. I may be able to guess if you post the backtrace. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-09-18 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-17 20:40, John Covici wrote: > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:33:51 -0400, > Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > On 2019-09-17 13:01, John Covici wrote: > > > > > > > Also, when I restart named (which I have now done automatically by > > > > > s

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-09-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-17 13:01, John Covici wrote: > > > Also, when I restart named (which I have now done automatically by > > > systemd) it gives me a lot of errors like the following: > > > Sep 17 03:11:59 ccs.covici.com named[3299910]: validating arpa/DS: no > > > valid signature found > > > or this: >

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

2019-09-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-17 03:30, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am having a very annoying problem with named. I am using > net-dns/bind-9.14.4 which I actually updated from a previous version > which also had the problem. It seems that an assertion has failed: > Sep 17 03:10:53 ccs.covici.com named[1857864]:

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-16 15:43, Mick wrote: > Actually, on two systems FF 68 has been a disaster: > > As reported by Peter, it crashes when launched. I rebuilt with the default flags (ie. with the system libraries) and so far it is working ok. > I have found three approaches to allow it to launch. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-15 16:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > > > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox twice in a row. > > The USE flags seem to have

[gentoo-user] firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
When I saw that the last update of firefox enabled linking with some system libraries -- sqlite and jpeg included -- I went to the window right away and checked the sky for flying pigs ;-) Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-06 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-06 12:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Arguing against this trivial (and IMHO, elegant) solution is tilting > > at windmills. Specially if it is for ideological reasons instead of > > technical ones. > Some of the solutions I've seen tossed out in this thread are more > complex than just

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
If I correctly remember the post by Lennart that spawned this entire debate, there were and are genuine technical reasons why a separate /usr filesystem doesn't really work anymore. Perhaps fixable _if_ all package developers (other than init) paid attention but that's not going to happen. Now

[gentoo-user] Re: HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-04 19:36, Grant Taylor wrote: > Create the bin and sbin directories inside of the /usr directory that > is the mount point so that they are on the underlying file system that > /usr is mounted over top of. Then copy the needed binaries to the > /usr/bin & /usr/sbin directories on the

[gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate > directories/ fs/partitions/disks are becoming obsolete and many of > them are due to merge, changing the baselayout.

[gentoo-user] Re: acct-group packages ??

2019-08-04 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-03 18:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It seems odd that portage would want to install packages that weren't > a dependency of something else. They are here, for example > > % emerge -cpv acct-group/kvm > > Calculating dependencies... done! > acct-group/kvm-0 pulled in by: >

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent changes to install procedure

2019-08-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-03 11:31, Dale wrote: > Do you know what tools those were? Sorry, I don't remember. I'll be sure to post here if I encounter the same kind of problem. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply

[gentoo-user] acct-group packages ??

2019-08-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
After latest webrsync, portage wants to install these: acct-group/input-0 acct-group/kvm-0 acct-group/render-0 No other package seems to depend on them, so wth is this about? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup.

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent changes to install procedure

2019-08-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-08-03 07:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hooray! They've changed the default locations to something more > sensible. Keeping data in /usr never made sense, I switched PORTDIR > to /var/portage years ago. Keeping tarballs inside the portage tree > made even less sense. I tried to do that some

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

2019-07-31 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-30 22:44, Dale wrote: > I wonder, if I bought a bluetooth USB thingy and put that on my puter, > would that help any? Since I hooked up my wifi router and it uses > that, would that help? Or is the USB cable directly connected the best > way? I have a USB to BT adaptor. It's worse

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client slows down the boot process

2019-07-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-27 07:42, Aidan Harris wrote: > I run openrc with rc_parallel enabled and I end up booting so fast > that by the time ntp-client starts DNS resolution is not properly > available yet (I use a local DNS resolver so even though networking is > up my local resolver takes a while - a small

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client slows down the boot process

2019-07-26 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-27 01:27, Grant Edwards wrote: > > By the way does "rc_parallel" really makes a difference? > > > Yes. It guarantees that when you do have boot problems, you'll never > be able to figure out the real problem. > > > Having more parallel boot operations used to be one of the >

[gentoo-user] Re: Migration from 17.0 to 17.1

2019-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-06-24 14:16, Jacques Montier wrote: > I followed the steps 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (emerge -1v > sys-devel/gcc:8.3.0, emerge -1v sys-devel/gcc:8.2.0-r6) without any issue. > Everything works fine but the step 11 (emerge -1v --deep /lib32 /usr/lib32 > /usr/lib/llvm/*/lib32) has been

[gentoo-user] Re: Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs?

2019-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-19 20:58, Adam Carter wrote: > I experimented found the following worked in /etc/default/grub; > > GRUB_DEVICE="PARTUUID=d3554d49-02" > > Which writes grub.cfg as; > linux /vmlinuz-5.2.0-gentoo root=PARTUUID=d3554d49-02 ro > init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd iommu=pt raid=noautodetect >

[gentoo-user] Re: search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-19 06:40, n952162 wrote: > Anyway, thank you for the (unexpected) tip: > > man perlre > > That says to use \b instead of the decades-old \<. I did not expect it either, but I convinced myself running ldd `which less` -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet,

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync: problem refreshing keys

2019-07-19 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-18 19:42, Stefano Crocco wrote: > Hello to everyone, > since yesterday emerge --sync fails because it can't refresh keys. The > messages I get are: > > Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... > * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc > * Refreshing

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-17 07:46, Corbin wrote: > My kernel version : 4.19.59 > > Please note that I am using the "experimental" USE FLAG for > "sys-kernel/gentoo-sources". > > CPU selected is "AMD Piledriver" > > Also, I am using the latest firmware for "sys-kernel/linux-firmware" ( > 20190712:0 ). > >

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
UH-OH, Self-followup: On 2019-07-14 21:30, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I find it odd that there is apparently no central way to track which > firmwares are being loaded without a debugging kernel. > > The relevant messages in linux/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c are > all dev_db

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-14 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-13 19:06, Mick wrote: > > If linux-firmware is emerged with the savedconfig use flag, then > > only the firmware not deleted from the config file is left. > > Yes. I used to do this, but gave up after a while. I find it odd that there is apparently no central way to track which

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-12 13:18, Mick wrote: > $ dmesg | grep -i micro > [0.622441] [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode > [5.763242] [drm] Loading hainan Microcode > [6.653025] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119 > [6.657962] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119 > [6.658890] microcode:

[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-11 21:28, Nuno Silva wrote: > vlock -n -a Does vlock work from an XWindow session? Or would I have to use it on top of whatever I do to lock the XWindow session - xscreensaver/i3lock etc? (I browsed to the vlock README page on github but it doesn't answer this question.) -- Please

[gentoo-user] Re: conditional sysctl tweaks?

2019-07-12 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-07-12 07:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > What is the cleanest way to handle the situation when a new sysctl knob > > is introduced by a kernel release and I want to use it, but I also have > > older kernels around? > > What's the point of that? What's that? :-) -- Please don't Cc:

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