Hi,
after updating the kernels to the latest stable version (6.6.21)
and updating the profiles from 17.1 to 23.0, the last update step
would be "merge-usr" as described at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Merge-usr
in order to have complete up-to-date systems.
But my two (nearly identical) systems
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> Do you use the binary packages supplied by Gentoo?
> Or all local-compiled?
All local-compiled, with the exemption of "monster-packages" which
would take hours or even days to compile (e.g. rust - here I use
"dev-lang/rust-bin" instead).
I don't even have any of
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> When rebooting, I noticed the "openrc" program was moved from "/sbin/openrc"
> to "/usr/sbin/openrc". I understand this is related to the merge-usr stuff,
> but
> I am planning on doing this change later.
> The profile I selected has the "split-usr" in the name (just as
netfab wrote:
>
> Have a look at ¹ to see if it matches your case.
> Please try the workaround suggested in comment 4 (set CPU_FLAGS_X86
> and re-emerge ffmpeg). Does it help ?
> 1. https://bugs.gentoo.org/915384
Yes, it helped. I have provided some more information in
that bug report. (Of
Hi,
after compiling ffmpeg (which includes libavcodec) with gcc 13,
everything which uses libavcodec crashes with general protection
fault. This includes stand-alone use of ffmpeg, but also
minidlna (and supposedly some more packages).
Oct 29 11:16:08 home01 kernel: traps: minidlnad[11961]
Mike Civil wrote:
>
> OK I don't use gsutil so can't test what the removal of the two components
> would mean but I don't see where the bug says gsutils itself is going to be
> removed?
Ehm... maybe a misunderstanding? The posting I mentioned was:
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Last
Hi,
according to https://bugs.gentoo.org/718972 (and a posting
in the dev list), gsutil (and all needed libs) will be removed
from the tree because "it's broken" (which is not true - works
like a charm).
Since I do need gsutil urgently, I have already copied the needed
ebuilds from /usr/portage
Matt Connell wrote:
>
> Do you have any packages (or the global) keyword ~amd64? Portage,
> fresh off of a sync, emerged ragel at 7.0.4 and col at 0.14.7 which are
> both lower than the versions you mentioned.
No ~amd64 (except dev-db/firebird because there is no stable
version at all).
(NEW)
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> That said, try the ~arch version of ragel. It has a patch that improves
> linking against libfsm, which appears in your error message.
Thanks, ~ragel-7.0.4-r2 did work.
(Still not knowing why the other server worked without any problems
with 7.0.4 without -r2 - but
Hi,
I just wanted to "emerge ruby" on a new Gentoo server which failed
at dev-util/ragel-7.0.4 with
make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/libfsm.la', needed by
'ragel'. Stop.
(immediately before, dev-util/colm-0.14.7-r2 was installed successfully)
I already have found
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> Nobody said anything about embedding Courier. You said the problem
> happened when the "Nimbus" font was used, so it was suggested you
> embed the "Nimbus" font.
But I don't want to use / embed the Nimbus font at all!
libharu is called by HaruDoc::getFont('Courier',
Michael wrote:
>
> If your customers do not have Nimbus fonts available on their OS/PDF viewer,
> the viewer application will proceed using font substitution. It will use
> whichever font family it thinks is the closest match, I would assume
> Helvetica. Their application appears to get
Hi,
since many years, I'm using PHP (currently 7.4) and the (self-
compiled) Haru extension to produce PDF invoices on my server.
Internally, Haru seems to use Ghostscript, because:
- up to app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.55.0-r2, when you look at the
PDF "properties" and then the "fonts" tab,
Hi,
after updating as usual (and making python 3.10 default), gsutil doesn't
work any more. First, it claimed missing "aiohttp", and after installing
that manually, it now says
pkg_resources.ContextualVersionConflict: (rsa 4.8
(/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages),
I wrote:
>
> I have also found https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79827
> and made "ulimit -s 32768" (instead of 8192), but to no avail.
"ulimit -s 32768" doesn't work.
"ulimit -s 65535" doesn't work either.
"ulimit -s unlimited" *does* work.
What the heck is the stack requirement
Mickaël Bucas wrote:
>
> It seems that the command line to compile "genautomata" contains useful
> information to understand the cause.
> Can you find it in the GCC compile logs ?
I think the command which triggers the error is "build/genautomata ...":
make[3]: Entering directory
Hi,
I have a rather old server which I still keep alive (u never
know if it's needed again), so I update all packages about
once a month with
emerge -aNDuv --keep-going --backtrack=999 --with-bdeps=y @world
which works fine - until now. I can't upgrade gcc from 11.2.1
to 11.3.0 because of
Martin Vaeth wrote:
>
> I guess that virtual/jdk prefers the non-binary package, and apparently
> portage is not able to resolve the conflict automatically by letting the
> binary package satisfy the dependency. If you manually install openjdk-bin,
> the problem is probably resolved.
Ahhh...
Michael wrote:
>
> Did you try running emerge with '--tree' to see the dependency tree with all
> its dependencies? (The option '--deep' may show more dependencies too).
Meanwhile I have found out that the culprit is "virtual/jdk". I have 1.8.0-r6
installed, and emerge wants to upgrade to
Hi,
after "emerge --sync" today, and "emerge -auv @world", I got the
message:
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
">=app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.09[cups]".
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
-
n952162 wrote:
>
> You booted the minimal install ISO and went through the steps of
> partitioning the disk, network, etc?
Yes. Exactly the same way as I did for my server at home.
> I was thinking that there were special drivers necessary for the virtual
> devices offered by the platform.
n952162 schrieb:
> I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud. The platform offers me
> some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile
> gentoo to run on it. Anybody have experience doing this?
Yes. I have a Remote Console using a Java Applet (via VPN) where I can
tastytea wrote:
>
> Another solution would be to register an inexpensive domain name and use
> that.
That's generally a good idea. After using .local for many years,
too, I have switched to my "official" domain and added "local"
for the internal IP addresses.
So my server down in the basement
Hi,
doing the weekly "emerge --sync" and "emerge -aDuv @world", portage
suddenly asks me to set the "harfbuzz" USE flag for "freetype". The
exact messages are
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emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
the...@sys-concept.com schrieb:
> Is anybody running Windows 10 Pro 64bit in Virtualbox?
No problems so far - except that it's not very fast (which
means "pretty slow"). I'm still investigating some speed
improvements, but it seems to be a common problem with lots
of hints (which, unfortunately,
John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I have to convert my mailman2 to mailman3 because of the python
> business. I installed the appropriate packages, but their
> documentation as to how to set it up and upgrade mailman2 is quite
> inscrutible -- also it assumes ubunto and some strange python things
> such
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> Have you read https://bugs.gentoo.org/710134 ?
*Now* I have - thank you :-)
Unfortunately, there's no answer either. But I've added myself
to the Cc list and will monitor that thread.
-Matt
Hi,
I'm using mailman (stable 2.1.33) for several mailing lists.
Since there seems to be only a Python 2.7 version, mailman
is now masked and will soon be removed from the tree.
I have already copied the mailman ebuild to a local overlay,
but that's surely not the best idea in the long run.
Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are
> there any better, simpler solutions?
I don't know "getmail", but "fetchmail" runs here since 10 years
without any problems. Just put a line like
poll securepop.t-online.de proto pop3
user
Hi,
since dev-php/pecl-haru seems not to be available for PHP 7,
I installed it myself from github. But at every emerge, it
tells me about unmet dependencies. Of course, I could remove
the pecl-haru package completely from @world and just use my
self-installed "version 7". But for a short
Mick wrote:
>
> Did you try the new revdep-rebuild in case it works (better)?
"Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done."
which, obviously, is not true :-)
BTW, the old revdep-rebuild.sh finally wants to rebuild hundreds
of packages... which I interrupted - makes no sense at
Hi,
many years ago, I created some libSomething.so with Kylix 3 (1)
which still worked with current (32bit) Gentoo systems (Kernel
4.14.83).
Using "revdep-rebuild.sh" (the *old* script!), for some time,
I already got messages like
broken /usr/local/lib/libxercesxmldom.so.1
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> "as" is part of binutils, not gcc. binutils is a critical package, so
> you shouldn't have downgraded glibc.
Ups :-(
Ok, I got the system (nearly) running again by copying /lib and /usr/lib
from another working system, and copying the
Matthias Hanft wrote:
>>
> I *do* have another working Gentoo system (with the old glibc 2.27 and
> Apache 2.4.38 and all binutils and all that - everything is still fine
> there). Can I use this just to copy some files (libs) to the "sick"
> system? Just unti
Matthias Hanft wrote:
>
> So it seems that I cannot emerge "patch" because I need to patch
> "patch" :-( Am I stuck now??? What to do??
I copied "/usr/bin/patch" from another (glibc-2.27) Gentoo system.
Patching now works, but at every emerge (for e
Nikos Chantziaras schrieb:
>
> See which packages were built against the new glib. Do:
>$ qlop -l -d 2days
> See which packages were emerged AFTER glibc 2.28. Are they critical
> packages? If not, downgrade glibc anyway. Then rebuild those packages.
I didn't consider those packages as
Hi,
today, as usual on Saturdays, I ran "emerge -aNDuv @world" which succeeded
without any errors. As I noticed, there was an Apache upgrade from 2.4.38-r1
to 2.4.39, and a glibc upgrade from 2.27-r6 to 2.28-r5 (among others).
After upgrading, Apache won't start any more. "/etc/init.d/apache2
Corbin Bird wrote:
> Is anyone else having a sys-libs/glibc emerge compile failure?
>> *** LD_LIBRARY_PATH shouldn't contain the current directory when
>> *** building glibc. Please change the environment variable
>> *** and run configure again.
> Same error regardless of the version of glibc I
the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>
> What are my chances to run Gentoo as a VirtualBox?
I just did it (amd64-Gentoo on Win10/64), and it works like a charm.
No problems encountered at all. However, here it's just a "server-
Gentoo" (only Apache, Postfix and all that - no GUI/desktop, no
special
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so it
> seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample
> fetchmailrc, which surprises me.
A simple example line from my /etc/fetchmailrc is:
poll pop.mail.server.example.com proto
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> This was probably 10ish years ago, but I switched my multimedia
> filesystems from ext* to xfs because deleting a large file (several
> GB) on an ext filesystem would basically lock up my machine for tens
> of seconds. The seemed to be a known problem in the MythTv world
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>> lsof | grep -w DEL | grep portage
>
> You should probably use app-admin/lib_users for this.
Thank you, I didn't know this. Looks good (and found mysql
in addition to my "lsof" command).
-Matt
Dale wrote:
>
> Correct. I should have mentioned that in my post but assumed it would
> be known. Anytime agetty is killed, it just pops back up. I suspect it
> doesn't stay dead for even a second. Sort of like those zombie movies.
Looks good. I used "pkill agetty", and now it looks like
Dale wrote:
>
> I do it this way.
> pkill agetty
> Simple, quick and easy to remember. One could script it I guess???
I'm pretty sure this would work, but is there something which would
start them again? As far as I understand, these are the processes
that provide console login - correct?
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 versions
of updated programs/libraries, I add
lsof | grep -w DEL | grep portage
and /etc/init.d/XXX restart for those
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>
> Try turning off USE="gtk" and turning on USE="headless-awt" for icedtea-bin.
Thanks. With a total of "-alsa -cups -gtk headless-awt -webstart", it reduces to
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home01 ~ # emerge -pv jre
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Hi,
I'm thinking of installing a software (not in tree) which needs
a Java Runtime Environment. I guess I need "virtual/jre" for this,
but it wants to install 57 packages, including cups and many x11-
proto packages, including "cups" and "X" USE flags, and "cairo"
keyword failure:
--- cut here
Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?)
> to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying
> representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix
> requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still
>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> That's a relief, I though we were in for another Y2K-like apocalypse.
As far as I know, next apocalypse is scheduled for January 19th, 2038,
03:14:08 UTC, isn't it?
At that time, I'll be 73 years old, and I hope I'm not gonna be sysadmin
any more... :-)
-Matt
Kai Krakow wrote:
>
> After ctrl+c'ing out of programs like tailf, SSH password prompts, in
> the middle of a shell scripts, the shell echo is not restored
Not here, but something similar: Immediately after ctrl+c'ing, no shell
prompt is displayed (in fact, *nothing* is displayed) - but it's
Corbin Bird wrote:
>
> The "sys-fs/eudev" package is the Gentoo fork of "sys-fs/udev" for
> people who don't want systemd.
Ehm... I still use "sys-fs/udev" (not eudev) without systemd.
No problems so far. Do I have to worry?
-Matt
J. Roeleveld schrieb:
>
> Virtualbox for a server?
> I only use it for a quick test on my laptop. On the server, I use more
> reliable and robust virtualisation software.
For quick tests, I'm using VirtualBox on my desktop (Windows) PC in the
meantime - runs fast and reliably. But in the past,
J. Roeleveld wrote:
>
> Are your vbox modules loaded correctly?
I think they were. Will carefully check next time (cannot do now,
it's a 24/7 server where I have few time slots for maintenance
and cannot risk kernel panic during daytime).
I do have some VirtualBoxes running on other Gentoo
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Do you have specific questions that you want a tutorial to answer?
*I* do have a specific question: What have I forgotten to compile into
the kernel when there is an immediate "kernel panic" as soon as I try
to start a VirtualBox VM?
-Matt
Stroller wrote:
>
> I had a nightmare with perl recently, too. Did you check there are no perl
> packages listed in your world file?
Yes. "grep perl /var/lib/portage/world" doesn't find anything.
> I also ran `sudo perl-cleaner --reallyall` at one point.
Trying this leads to:
* Removing
Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> But not everything with gd in its name. I had a similar problem recently
> that was solved by re-emerging media-libs/gd
Already tried "emerge -1 gd" with no success. "grep gd /var/lib/portage/world"
doesn't find anything either.
-Matt
Hi,
on one of my Gentoo machines, the package "dev-perl/GDTextUtil" refuses
to emerge after I had made the usual updates (emerge -NDuv @world), which,
this time, included upgrading Perl from 5.20.2 to 5.22.2:
--- cut here ---
fileserver ~ # emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
gevisz wrote:
>
> But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big
> hard drive into smaller logical ones?
If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to
repair it), *all* of your data is lost (instead of just
one partition). That's the only disadvantage I can think
of. I don't
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Do I actually need to configure the name of a log file in
/etc/conf.d/syslog-ng? The Gentoo installation guide didn't mention, or
even hint at, such being necessary.
The names of the log files (and much more) are configured in
/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf - since I
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
(it's also constantly tailed on vt12, just in case you need to see
what's going on it right now)
I didn't know that. Wow! Is this something relatively new, or has it
always been there?
I installed my
R0b0t1 wrote:
Anyone using rdesktop may wish to consider FreeRDP. The only minor issue I've
had is not being able to get copy and paste working, but it should.
Works like a charm, thank you! (Just a quick test, didn't try copypaste yet.)
-Matt
J. Roeleveld wrote:
Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest.
No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings.
VBoxManage modifyvm name --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ...
And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's.
The benefit is that
J. Roeleveld wrote:
And how will the authentication work that way?
Just as you like:
--vrdeauthtype null : no authentication at all (useful in a well-
secured LAN, cut off from the outside world,
for quick-and-dirty testing)
Hi,
I'm using net-misc/rdesktop in order to get access to a VirtualBox
(Windows) guest on a remote (also Gentoo) Linux:
Windows PC with Gentoo Linux with - Gentoo Linux with
Xming serverssh rdesktop programVirtualBox (Windows)
From my Windows
Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
What's the output of the command lines shown below on your system?
grep -Es 'ffmpeg|CPU' /etc/portage/*
Ah uh...
/etc/portage/package.use:# this is necessary for ffmpeg update (see gentoo-bug
290741)
/etc/portage/package.use:media-video/ffmpeg -pic
Seems that I
Hi,
I have installed the new CPU_FLAGS_X86, as cpuinfo2cpuflags-x86
told me: CPU_FLAGS_X86=mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3
When I did emerge -NDuv @world afterwards, there were some re-installs.
Everything was fine, except ffmpeg. emerge displays:
[ebuild R] media-video/ffmpeg-1.2.6-r1
Mike Gilbert wrote:
You failed to include the real error message in your email. Look
further up in the log for a line containing error:.
Ah, I actually missed that:
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-1.2.6-r1/work/ffmpeg-1.2.6/libavcodec/x86/mathops.h:94:1:
error: 'asm' operand has
I wrote:
/var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-1.2.6-r1/work/ffmpeg-1.2.6/libavcodec/x86/mathops.h:94:1:
error: 'asm' operand has impossible constraints
The piece of source code at that point:
#if HAVE_CMOV
#define COPY3_IF_LT(x, y, a, b, c, d)\
__asm__ volatile(\
cmpl %0, %3 \n\t\
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
1. remove udev-postmount:
I did this but worry that I now cannot reboot until I upgrade
udev. Is that correct?
Based on my experience, you just don't care about udev-postmount.
It will automagically be removed when you upgrade from udev-171
to udev-197.
-Matt
Florian Philipp wrote:
Is it really a drop-in? I was under the impression that for example
`modprobe -l` is not implemented (mentioned in a comment on the eudev
fork on LWN). I guess that's outdated as well.
I'm using kmod's modprobe, and there is *no* -l option.
-Matt
»Q« wrote:
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
My daily update pulled in udev-197-r3. The installation went smoothly
but I decided I ought to reboot to check that I could. I couldn't.
Udev couldn't start because my kernel config didn't have
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y. So I booted my rescue
Chris Stankevitz wrote:
In the above emerge instance, a # symbol appears in the emerge
output. What does this mean? man emerge seems to skip this when
describing these OUTPUTS.
My man emerge says:
Symbol Mask Type
--
Bruce Hill wrote:
Too late, too tired, but do you have:
=sys-fs/udev-181
in /etc/portage/package.mask ?
Ehm... according to http://packages.gentoo.org/category/sys-fs?full_cat
udev-171-r9 is the only stable x86 version, and udev-181 doesn't exist
at all?!
-Matt (still using 171 because at
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
My first -m state rule is,
iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m state \
--state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
That was mine, too (you can omit -p in this case, can't you?).
And if what you say is true, I'd be in deep shit if it reset to,
iptables -A INPUT -p ALL -m
Joseph wrote:
Yes, you are correct. Rebuilding openvpn worked; thank you.
As far as I have seen, you can set USE=iproute2 for OpenVPN which
seems to use iproute2 instead of net-tools - should avoid your problem,
too.
-Matt
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
I just emerged --sync and now when I try to update world, I get this
conflict: [...]
I had the same problem. Since openrc was not in my world file (pulled in
automatically), it was not scheduled for update. The solution was to use
emerge -Duv world including
Jarry schrieb:
First I tried vmware-tools. Installation went smoot, but
nothing happened. Just one iso-image got installed in /opt.
No doc/readme/txt, nothing. What should I do with it?
mount -o loop the iso-image somewhere and execute the install
script there.
-Matt
Hello,
after upgrading the kernel on a Gentoo machine which is a VMWare guest,
I also upgraded vmware-tools (this means, emerge the package, mount the
.iso with -o loop, and run ./INSTALL).
Basically, no problem as usual, but now revdep-rebuild complains about
some files which were installed by
Randolph Maaßen wrote:
Sorry for this bad post, somehow my phone unlocked in my pocket.
I assumed your cat walking over the keyboard ;)
-Matt
Александр wrote:
got error while emerging virtualbox-modules-4.1.12
Look here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394219
-Matt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
not possible. How can anybody know beforehand? with useflags and all?
At least, equery uses package *does* work with uninstalled packages.
(However, equery files package does not.)
-Matt
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