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

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: > > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

Check out syslinux if grub is too obnoxious. I've found it much more straight forward than grub. On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 2:05 AM wrote: > So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually that > can handle LUKS partitions? No uefi, but GPT would be nice. The grub2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] vulkan development...

I believe the vulkan sdk provides that On Tue, May 8, 2018, 7:34 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got > inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from > github and tried to build it. It couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg broken?

Do you have an initramfs? On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, 6:52 AM 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

Probably need to pass a uuid to the real root kernel param On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 11:34 AM zless wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub. > > I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like > this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Forced rebuild of a package...how?

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade man emerge On Sat, Feb 3, 2018, 8:20 PM wrote: > Hi, > > after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to > reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. > > Emerge told me: > |>emerge nvidia-drivers > |

Re: [gentoo-user] ....Gentoo update killed Gentoo update?

emerge --sync && emerge eix && eix-update On Tue, Oct 3, 2017, 6:55 PM wrote: > Hi, > > from my qlop -l output: > Tue Oct 3 05:16:48 2017 >>> dev-perl/CGI-Fast-2.120.0 > Tue Oct 3 05:17:09 2017 >>> net-dns/dnsmasq-2.78 > > Tue Oct 3 05:18:25 2017 >>> app-portage/eix-0.33.0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world?

Running kill on the current pids? On Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 12:36 AM Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > for weekly updates, I'm using the usual update commands, such as > > emerge -NDuv @world > emerge -c > revdep-rebuild -i > > In order to find out which services are still using old

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

If you want to go with the hardened sources, there's a great wiki article on it. On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 10:20 PM Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You should use the hardened profile with the harden sources. On terms with > security you could compile a hardened kernel but you sa

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

You should use the hardened profile with the harden sources. On terms with security you could compile a hardened kernel but you sacrifice ease of use by having to manage pax and if you choose an RBAC system like SElinux or grsecuritys adds more burden. Security isn't a product, so I would

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1029959 Pretty sad, most manuals I've seen have a troubleshooting section On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 10:22 AM Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 10:19:31 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > I'll know in few days, but I suspect you are

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

Read the mother board manual, should tell you what the beeps are and how to troubleshoot them On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 8:18 AM wrote: > My 2-months old system is giving me 1-long 3-short beeps. > No, video display. > I've swapped the video cards, it is not it. > > Is it a

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

Try rebooting, worst thing you'll have to do if it doesn't want to reboot is boot a rescue image and mount it to repair it On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 10:22 AM wabe wrote: > Hi folks, > > it seems that my system is broken after recompiling everything with > the new gcc5. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Gentoo infrastructure on MacOS

Look up Gentoo prefix On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 3:29 PM Viktar Patotski wrote: > Hi List, > > I know that it's possible to install Gentoo as a dual boot on a Mac Book. > However I do like MacOs interface and it's power saving features. So, I > have a question: Is there any way

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - PDF support is disabled since poppler-glib library version 0.33.0 or newer not found

Searching with eix or Google is a good way to find things https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/poppler On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 8:54 PM wrote: > I'm trying to emerge evince-3.20.1 > but I'm getting an error: > > configure: error: "PDF support is disabled since

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

You were rsyncing from root locally to user Thelma remotely thelma@10.10.0.2 ^^^ On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 9:38 PM wrote: > On 03/21/2017 10:07 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > I'm trying to rsync (as root) files and I'm gettng an error > > rsync: mkstemp failed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

Syslinux family has been my go to boot loader On Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:12 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote: > > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first > > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012...

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

You could try running a 32bit chroot. This is how I deal with steam https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, 02:21 siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:46 -0800 > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > I am pretty sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Other thing to keep in mind is if you recently installed/updated virtbox is to reboot your host to make sure the host drivers have installed correctly, and make sure your kernel for the guest have the correct modules built. On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, 12:10 Harry Putnam wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] split-elog setting

FEATURES="split-elog" in make.conf On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 22:49 Harry Putnam wrote: > On gentoo `Portage log wiki' pages one is told: > > "In order to create per-category elog files, enable the split-elog > Portage feature." > > (If you want to create `category-based'

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

Nice On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 17:58 João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-08-26 21:10 GMT-03:00 Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com>: > >> Have you emerge -avc lately? >> > Yep. No packages selected for removal by depclean. > > Filelight helped a lot. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

Have you emerge -avc lately? On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos wrote: > Hi list, > > First of all, sorry for the English. Second, > > I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single installation, > unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Holy Quran in all languages Available

Meh, OP's the one posting this in a distro discussion mailing list On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 19:18 Deven Lahoti wrote: > make America great again amirite? is this the level of shitpost we're > falling to? > > On Jul 26, 2016 22:13, "James" wrote: > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Holy Quran in all languages Available

You can't convert us from the church of Gentoo On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 16:48 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Landis Blackwell > wrote: > > y u no snackbar? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War > > dw, had a snickers and

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-creator (and others) too slow

Are you running any special kernel configuration like the CK patches? On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:42 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:40:18AM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote: > > Thanks Alec. > > > > No unstable KDE nor Qt. > > > > From the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

check either with alsamixer and make sure the headphone jack isn't muted, or look into pulseaudio if you're using that, although I can't help much there as I don't use pulse. On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:25 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > Hardware: Dell Latitude E7450 laptop > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

Why is this guy crying about being funemployed? On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, 18:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes: >

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl

Try perl-cleaner, read the man page to see all the options. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 12:28 lee wrote: > > Hi, > > how do you do an update despite perl blocking it? > > > emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world > [...] > dev-lang/perl:0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

Usually what I'll do is ctrl-z which pauses emerge, and then I'll run pm-suspend to put the machine to sleep. After I turn it back on again I'll issue fg and emerge will resume. The --resume flag just attempts to continue a failed emerge list. On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 11:02 Hogren

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

I've always thought it was something like data/disk duplication On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 22:46 wrote: > Neil Bothwick [16-03-31 04:04]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > > By the way: For what stands the 'dd' for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific > > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

xactly that kind of > partitioning/formatting later with that or other tools: > Which tools do I need and how to use them? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > Meino > > > > Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> [16-03-29 18:12]: > > If you're gonna

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be sure you get everything you can just dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick Replacing old/newstick with the correct device. You can even keep a backup image with dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

Did you do a emerge @module-rebuild after updating your kernel? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 04:26 wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > > 160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument > > > when

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS suddenly not mounting

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS Make sure everything is set accordingly On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 12:54 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I did an "emerge -NuD world" last night and when completed, shut > the > machine down. Upon booting today, localmount can't mount ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X On Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 09:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:15:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Try an Abacus. They work as designed. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

Did you update your kernel in the process as well? On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 07:53 Bertram Scharpf wrote: > Hi, > > since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard > does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying > because when I have xdm in rc-update, X

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-browser will not start

What arch? On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:36 PM allan gottlieb wrote: > Just now chromium will not start > > gottlieb@E7450 /local/allan/gottlieb $ chromium-browser > [1318:1338:0128/133753:ERROR:nss_util.cc(839)] After loading Root > Certs, loaded==false: NSS error

Re: [gentoo-user] Adobe flash warning and tree

You can install pepperflash to chromium although it's proprietary. Google Chrome has pepper flash by default On Sun, Jan 10, 2016, 10:54 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2016 12:25:41 Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > Adobe Flash remains a bitter reality on mlb.com,

Re: [gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

It's telling you to add -xattr to FEATURES in your make.conf to get around the issue. On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 20:03 wrote: > I'm upgrading one of my boxes (last one) and get an error message on the > following packages. > > grub-0.97-r16 > python-2.7.10-r1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 16:04 wrote: > Any ideas? The error message is... > > sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem > sdl: Reason: No available audio device > audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually removing packages from world problem

Check your /var/lib/world file to see if there are any packages or sets that mught be pulling it. Also check make.conf global USE and package.use On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 17:24 João Matos wrote: > Dear list, > > I was having problem with plasma, so I decided to change it. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

ed and not just alsa alone. On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 22:26 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote > > > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host? > > > > I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

Is it a seagate? On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very > basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just have to be "persuasive"... On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV > > to sda etc each time) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand. I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for their failure rate. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:41 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice. On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09 <waben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've had more Seagates die over t

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors

What text editor are you using? On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 22:14 wrote: > I have a hard time reading text in terminal when editing *.tex files. > My background is black but the dark blue/violet text it is very hard to > see on a black background. > > Recently Gentoo changed