On 2020-04-22 13:28, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> This is the ONE situation under which I would recommend GNOME, as it
> is generally the best with built-in accessibility features [3].
I don't know about that. Mouse Keys was broken for at least 2 Fedora
releases (it would do the moves but not the
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.
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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.
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On 2020-04-19 12:12, John Covici wrote:
> I wonder why they are doing this, I find the single file much easier
> to deal with and its easier to make sure I don't have duplicate
> entries this way.
Well, as Daniel wrote, you can still keep all the entries in a single
file; you just have to move
On 2020-04-18 14:56, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Then I installed media-plugins/alsaequal, which installs fine.
[...]
> Starting for example 'alsamixer -D equal' results in an error:
>
> Invalid CTL equal
> cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
> [1]5304 exit 1 alsamixer -D equal
On 2020-04-16 12:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> find -name 'whatever' \
> -exec sh -c "
> for f in \"\${@}\"; do
> do_stuff \"\${f}\" && echo \"\${f}\"
> done
> " - {} +
# untested, use at own risk
NL='
'
export NL
AWKPROG='{print "do_stuff @" $0 "@ && printf %s @"
On 2020-04-15 07:29, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> The configuration for kernel 5.6.3. (vanilla) works fine.for me. Then
> I changed to kernel 5.6.4 using the same configuration.
>
> Suddenlu the fan at the back of my PC case never stops from rotating
> at its highest speed. Changing back to kernel
On 2020-04-14 21:36, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> Yes, that seems right. I just added "-elogind" to make.conf and that's
> it. But I'm really curious about the framebuffer stuff. As for other
> stuff (mounting USB, etc), doing it by hand it's fine.
One possible implication is that without one of these
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?
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On 2020-04-08 18:49, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> Ebuilds are bash, but the ./configure scripts and makefiles that often
> get run within the ebuilds use /bin/sh by default.
I see, but then it is an upstream problem no? I mean if upstreams keep
putting bashisms in their build systems they will
On 2020-04-08 12:14, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> We use bash as the default /bin/sh, but users are free to replace it
> with whatever shell they like, so long as it is reasonably
> POSIX-compliant. Other shells are obviously less tested in Gentoo.
Are .ebuild files always interpreted with bash, or
On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote:
> I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At
> times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should.
Are you often on the phone at those times? May it be poor filtering?
At my last residence - also "in the sticks", LOL - we had to give up on
DSL
On 2020-04-06 14:24, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> Cheers for the help ! To be honest, I don't think I'd want to receive
> e-mail from someone who cannot resist pressing a button :)
In fact, "MTAs" that don't retry turn out to be spam robots on close
inspection, more often than not. That is the basis
I am preparing some home made ebuilds and I run "repoman manifest" as
part of the process. repoman downloads the upstream tarball for the
package from the SRC_URI location, but only after trying the distfiles
directory on all servers in my PORTAGE_MIRRORS. This software is not
packaged by
On 2020-04-05 19:45, Ashley Dixon wrote:
> > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me?
>
> BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for
> rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme
> limitations. There's not really any reason to remove
Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me?
As far as I know the only use for it on a desktop system is for
initramfs. I have no initramfs, therefore I have no need for busybox.
I unmerged it and nothing bad happened except for a warning from portage
that it is part of my profile set.
On 2020-04-04 20:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Wouldn't transferring the world file be enough?
>
> Is it?
As far as I know, for having the same packages pulled in, this
is all that matters (plus possibly @world_sets as Neil mentions).
Of course you have all sorts of other configuration to
On 2020-04-04 19:34, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> Is it possible to recreate exactlu the same pool of
> applications/programs/libraries etc..., which my current
> system have - in one go?
You don't say if you want exactly the same _versions_ of everything.
If you don't need that, wouldn't just
I uncommented and adjusted this part of /etc/syslog.conf:
#
# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
# console I usually leave idle.
#
daemon,mail,cron.*;\
*.notice/dev/tty8
In general, I try to keep root/admin things away from my X11 session.
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On 2020-04-01 22:07, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> When you are on the home screen (about:home), there is a cogwhell on
> the top right, leading you to the relevant section in Firefox’
> settings. In there, you get a checkmark to disable pocket on the home
> screen.
I had done _that_ long ago. Of
On 2020-04-01 03:51, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote:
> why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info.
Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the
hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real"
sendmail - any MTA program you install usually makes a
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.
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On 2020-03-29 17:36, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> The onboard sound chip of my new motherboard is ..
details?
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On 2020-03-21 01:05, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> > No. Here is my make.conf:
>
> Nothing unusual, indeed. Could you please share the ebuild that has
> the behavior? The issue might be there.
Definitely not, it's just the latest official net-mail/mu with a single
trivial change (remove the
On 2020-03-20 10:10, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> > Assuming it's /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild-helpers/dobin, mine
> > contains as the last significant chunk the following:
> >
> > for x in "$@" ; do
> > if [[ -e ${x} ]] ; then
> > install -m0755 -o ${PORTAGE_INST_UID:-0}
On 2020-03-19 20:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> Yes and it has always worked. `dobin` shouldn’t try to chown in theory,
> it’s done during the merge.
Assuming it's /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild-helpers/dobin, mine
contains as the last significant chunk the following:
for x in "$@" ; do
On 2020-03-20 00:30, Michael wrote:
> Finally, I don't think you can use the hardware specific ID, found
> under /dev/ disk/by-id/wwn-xx-part1, which is a
> symlink to the /dev/sda1 name.
Why not? I think you can just use it directly, in place of the
/dev/sdaX. After all, it's
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
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On 2020-03-19 08:40, Alarig Le Lay wrote:
> alarig@pikachu ~ % ls -lhd /var/tmp/portage/
> drwxrwxr-x 8 portage portage 4.0K Mar 19 08:37 /var/tmp/portage/
> alarig@pikachu ~ % ebuild
> /var/db/repos/SwordArMor/net-misc/FORT-validator/FORT-validator-1.2.0.ebuild
> prepare
> *
On 2020-03-19 10:59, n952162 wrote:
> I changed the UUID of all the partitions of the second drive and now
> all my devices are linked to in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I still have
> no/dev/disk/by-label, though. Also, my swap file on a mounted drive
> wasn't mounted, which was my original problem ;-(
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.
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On 2020-03-18 22:57, n952162 wrote:
> Well, some new recognitions ...
>
> It turns out that those /dev/disk subdirectories don't necessarily have
> all the disk devices represented:
>
> 1. by-id/
> 2. by-partuuid/
> 3. by-path/
> 4. by-uuid/
There is also by-label, which you can reference from
After a hiatus I am trying to create my own ebuild repository again. I
need a way to test the separate steps (fetch, prepare, comiple, install
etc.) and I would like to do all of them as a regular user (not root,
not portage). I tried what I thought was the most natural attempt - run
the ebuild
After the latest stable firefox upgrade to version 68.6 I again started
seeing DNS queries for Pocket related domains. I found this in
prefs.js:
user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highlights.includePocket",
true);
I am not sure if this setting was new with this version or if
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.
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On 2020-02-24 18:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote:
> gcc -L../object -o gopher manager.o gopher.o globals.o ourutils.o cso.o
> subprocs.o html2.o CURcurses.o gopherrc.o download.o pager.o form.o upload.o
> ../object/libgopher.a -lcurses -lcurses -lm
>
On 2020-02-23 16:47, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-(
> >
> Offhand I'm not sure why it broke, but the gentoo repo is completely
> disposable. When this sort of thing happens I generally just:
>
> cd /usr
> mv portage portage-old
> emerge-webrsync
emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-(
I let it run unattended. When I came back I saw first some complaints
from rsync about "vanished" files ... something like
/usr/portage/_build has vanished before it could be transferred
and under that portage breaking all over because
On 2020-02-13 19:59, james wrote:
> equery depends setuptools | grep meson
I find the equery d and g operations much less useful than they sound at
the start, because they are coarse wrt USE flags. If any portage
developers are reading - fixing this would be a huge help. Or having a
new tool
On 2020-02-06 09:56, Mick wrote:
> Otherwise the latest sci-libs/lapack is 3.8.0, so your links above look
> correct as far as I can tell.
Note that sci-libs/lapack and sci-libs/lapack-reference are 2 distinct
packages. The OP presumably has the latter.
Both of them existing may be the real
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.
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On 2020-02-01 17:08, Jack wrote:
> I'm trying to move away from gmail. Especially for mailing lists like
> this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I get the
> message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in my inbox
> because it's a duplicate of a message already
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
>
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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.
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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
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:
>
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]:
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.
>
>
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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:
>
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.
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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?
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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
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
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
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
>
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
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
>
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`
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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
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 ).
>
>
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
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
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:
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.)
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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? :-)
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On 2019-07-11 09:57, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none
> > i3lock -c 003355 -n
> > setxkbmap -option ''
>
> Thanks for the idea! It won't work as is for me because I already use
> some non-default xkb options. But it is closer than anything th
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