On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 08:43:46PM +0100, ralfconn wrote
> Given the warning message reported by Peter ("Enable USE=clang unless
> you have a very good reason not to.")
That message comes from sys-libs/compiler-rt which is a dedicated
runtime lib for clang. It makes sense to use clang if
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 06:43:56PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> Just back up your user data and re-install.
Also back up /etc/ for your app configs and stuff like hosts and
resolve.conf and make.ccnf and package.use and package.mask etc. And
remember /var/lib/. /var/lib/portage/ has your
Sorry; that is over my head. When did you last upgrade? The error
messages talk about python 3.8. But on my machine it looks like 3.11
and 3.12 are current...
[x8940][waltdnes][~] find /usr/bin -name python3\.*
/usr/bin/python3.12
/usr/bin/python3.12-config
/usr/bin/python3.11
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:16:37PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
> On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphr
> > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries,
> are you buildin
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote
> Hello all,
>
> I just synced my system after a long delay,
That's your problem right there.
> Is there a way to do it globally?
First of all python targets should not need to be mentioned in
make.conf or package.use. Gentoo manages
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
> >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/compiler-rt-18.1.0
> * Building using a compiler other than clang may result in broken atomics
> * library. Enable USE=clang unless you have a very good reason not to.
According to
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 08:04:06AM +, Wols Lists wrote
> For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an
>
> USE=-clang emerge --update @world
>
> (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would
> touch), and it worked.
I have "-clang" in USE in make.conf
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:45:40AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote
>
> Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot
Thank you very much. A screen capture...
[i3][root][~] grub-install --efi-directory=/boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No
I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item...
> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
I tried that...
[i3][root][~] grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI
On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 09:01:04AM +, Michael wrote
>
> Are you using a Display Port, or HDMI connection perhaps? Modern
> monitors come with their own onboard chipset which may lose sync with
> the PC. I've experience the opposite with mine when I first bought it
> and thought the PC had
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:21:42PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> Regardless of the above, the monitor does not blank after 10 minutes
> (i.e. 600 seconds). If I run "xset dpms force off" from xterm (both as
> local user and as root), the display goes dark... for appro
My settings...
[x8940][waltdnes][~] xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: onkey click percent: 0LED mask: 0002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off01: Num Lock:on 02: Scroll Lock: off
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 10:18:41AM +, Michael wrote
> Try > switching to [*] the following:
>
> # CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB is not set
>
> # CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM is not set
>
> # CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is not set
>
> Then hopefully you'll get a console kicking in.
It teased me. Text console
I got linux-6.1.57-gentoo kernel built and working, but
linux-6.6.13-gentoo still comes up with no console. Here's my latest
.config attempt for 6.6.13 attached. Any ideas?
--
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
Relative to you
config.gz
Description: application/gzip
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 11:54:49AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> As per the subject line, I upgraded kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13. No
> console on bootup, but I can ssh in. Fortunately I make it a habit to
> keep the previous kernel around, so I can fall back to it. But I'd like
> to
As per the subject line, I upgraded kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13. No
console on bootup, but I can ssh in. Fortunately I make it a habit to
keep the previous kernel around, so I can fall back to it. But I'd like
to get the latest kernel working. This is an old BIOS-boot Lenovo.
File-attached is
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 08:09:03PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote
> Try installing installkernel with USE=grub and reporting what happens
> when you try to config a dist-kernel.
I run grub. My flags...
[x8940][root][~] emerge -pv installkernel
[ebuild R]
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.html
for those who haven't run across it yet. The news item mentions...
> Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel
> installation automation for users of GRUB via USE=grub.
I run grub (no dracut) under
I'm back after several minutes backing up to two USB drives.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:41:16PM +, Michael wrote
> For SMTP server use:
>
> set smtp_url = "smtp://your_user_n...@www.cotse.net:465"
Just one change... change "smtp://" to "smtps://", otherwise mutt
won't connect...
set
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 04:12:05PM +, Michael wrote
> You can also try to set deprecated TLS protocols in ~/.muttrc
> to see if this will allow for a successful connection:
>
> http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#ssl-use-tlsv1
Thanks. I commented out the "no" lines. TLS 1.1 failed, but TLS 1.0
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:36:13AM +, Michael wrote
> Since gnutls is playing up with mutt, you can try setting USE="-gnutls"
> and re-emerge mutt to see if it succeeds establishing a connection.
If I emerge mutt with USE="-gnutls" and comment out
"set ssl_starttls=no", email fails...
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:08:38PM +, Michael wrote
> If your ISP *only* offers access from their own block of IPs, do
> they refuse access to their SMTP server for legitimate subscribers
> who move around and want to send messages from a different network?
I don't know the answer to that
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> > I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
> > but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long
> > s
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
> but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long
> story).
Let's start this over again, because I was barking up the wrong
tree
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:05:45PM +, Michael wrote
>
> Anyway, to take you forward you can:
>
> 1. Keyword the latest gnutls package in case the gnutls verification criteria
> have been loosened.
>
> 2. Copy the Root CA into the users ~/ and point muttrc to it:
>
> set certificate_file =
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 06:42:48PM +, Michael wrote
> openssl s_client -connect smtp.ebox.ca\:587 -starttls smtp -showcerts
openssl s_client -connect smtp.ebox.ca\:587 -starttls smtp -showcerts > x.txt
For output to x.txt, see file x.txt in attachment logs.tgz
Output to the terminal
I haven't been switched over to fibre yet due to config problems, but
I'm trying to test port 587 using your settings. I recompiled mutt
adding USE="debug gnutls". With "mutt -d 2" I get the a lot of debug
output, including the following. To further complicate things, when I
switch back to
Thank you. In package.use I entered...
www-client/google-chrome L10N: -*
...and it did the trick. Actually, Pale Moon is my "daily driver"
browser. I use Chrome for Netflix and the occasional braindead
Chrome-reliant website.
--
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
I seem to remember that Google Chrome used to build with all L10N
locales disabled. But I just ran a pretend emerge and I got...
www-client/google-chrome-120.0.6099.199::gentoo [119.0.6045.199::gentoo]
USE="-qt5 -qt6 (-selinux)" L10N="af am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en-GB es es-419
et fa fi
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:54:06PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote
>
> IIRC we both live in/near Toronto, so no doubt Big Bad Bell is
> responsible.
I'm currently on EBOX cable. Bell bought them
I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long
story). Is anybody else doing this? If so, what changes does
~/.mutt/muttrc need? I've "asked Mr. Google" but the hits are ancient,
often referring to dead
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 08:29:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
d> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:13:36 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in
> > position 68: ordinal not in range(256)
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.or
I have a desktop PC and and a "hot backup" ready to take over on a
moment's notice. I keep the configs and settings the same. Today I
tried to update both machines. The main desktop was OK, but the hot
backup ran into a prolem with x11-libs:libxcb-1.16 Before anybody asks,
/etc/locale.gen is
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> IKR, it's as if the usage of this mechanism is meant to remain secret
> and a test of the patience and detective skills of the user.
I've filed a documentation bug with bug-...@gnu.org We'll see what
happens.
--
I've seen things,
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> Try it and see. My concern is that the man page implies that with
> --exclude-caches-under the subdirectories are excluded recursively,
> but the directory with the file called CACHEDIR.TAG is not. I'm sure
> that's wrong but the
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do:
>
> https://bford.info/cachedir/
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That page explains that any random
CACHEDIR.TAG file won't suffice, and why my attempts were all failing.
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Michael wrote
> On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> > And while we're at it, howsabout "emerge --sync" on one host, and then
> > remote-mounting /var/db/repos/gentoo ?
>
> Take a lo
Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
.ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
understand the man page correctly about the CACHEDIR.TAG "magic file"?
Assume I have a
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the
> > quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested. And I never have a need to
&
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:21:27PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
>
> The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold
> the distfiles for all on the network.
Correct.
> I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you
I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are
all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have
a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a
source tarball file. If not found, then fail over to another mirror as
per
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
Welcome back. Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
rarely dies anymore.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:45:54PM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote
>
> What about sdl-related packages, same flags and versions there too?
Turns out that I had libsdl and libsdl2 flagged "-alsa" in package.use
on the non-working machine (don't know why). Flipping the flags to
"alsa", and then
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:21:40PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> Do both machines have alsa built the same way and working?
I don't know. From the looks of it, probably not.
>
> Does it work without error if you specify it on the CLI?
CLI doesn't make a difference.
>
> SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa
This is the most frustrating type of problem. On one machine I can
run dosbox fine. On a second machine...
[waltdnes][~] /usr/bin/dosbox
DOSBox version 0.74-3
Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
Exit to error: Can't init SDL No available audio device
The regular
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote
> I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty
> large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick
> from. I deal with torrents and that is my reason for the need of a VPN,
> just in case some may
I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so
consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has
successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has
decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in Google search. This
morning I tried to
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 01:38:21PM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote
>
> The date in the text file shoudn't have the quotes around it.
Thank you very much. That works. The actual data file I'm working
with has quotes around the dates, so I have to insert an extra step to
strip out the quotes with
I have a situation where something that works as a literal but
doesn't work when reading from a text file. Here's the problem,
simplified...
I have a text file ztest.txt consisting of one line...
"August 14, 2021"
...and I have a script ztest consisting of...
#!/bin/bash
xtoday=$( date
On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 04:35:41PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> Hello list,
>
> I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my
> deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either
> a dot in the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across
> it.
On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 12:50:08PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> Second, the two pages contribute actively to the confusion between the emerge
> jobs submitted in parallel by portage and the concurrent tasks that may be
> launched by each of those.
>
> The test:
>
> I ran 'emerge -e @world'
Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved,
I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain
files? My latest emerge world wanted to "update"...
1) /etc/hosts (1)
2) /etc/inittab (1)
3) /etc/mtab (1)
4) /etc/conf.d/consolefont (1)
5)
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 09:48:09AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> The update is running. I'll check the emerge results after I get back
> from some shopping and fish-n-chips.
To answer the question in the subject... YES! emerge update ran
smoothly, including etc-update and depclean. I'm
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 06:56:35PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>
> ***I CAN'T EVEN BUILD THE CURRENT GLIBC ON MY MACHINE***. It looks
> more and more like somewhere somehow my profile selection got changed
> after my previous glibc update.
>
> I regularly back up incremen
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:29:46AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
> selected...
>
> [15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
>
> ...as the profile. ***THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKING FINE FOR A COUPLE OF
>
When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
selected...
[15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
...as the profile. ***THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKING FINE FOR A COUPLE OF
YEARS.***
While updating tonight, glibc dies with a build error...
.[31;01m*.[0m ERROR:
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:20:37PM +, Wol wrote
> what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
>
> It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
> out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
> deleting the live one :-)
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Michael Cook wrote
> On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> >Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems?
> >
> You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do
> maintaining a package.pro
A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item
indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout...
* manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives"
* and then include "app-alternatives" in the file pointed to by
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 03:36:38PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> I fear that I may have to do the same with the backup machine. I run
> the same configs on both machines. I haven't updated the backup machine
> for 63 days, according to the warnings. Hopefully correcting make.conf
&g
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 06:37:59PM +, Michael wrote
> I rarely use xterm and can't recall how it behaves with mutt, so I'm
> not sure if the above flags would make any difference. If xterm is
> your favourite terminal you may want to give these flags a spin.
I've already tried xterm with
On Fri, Dec 30, 2022 at 01:05:26PM +, Michael wrote
> I can't recall what else you have eliminated as the cause of this
> rendering problem. Have you checked:
>
> 1. VT console.
> 2. Different terminal (urxvt, xterm, gnome terminal, konsole, etc.).
> 3. Different DE/Window Manager.
A bit
I'm b-a-a-a-a-ck... on my regular desktop. I re-installed with
unicode enabled and locale corrected. Some rough edges, specifically no
line-drawing characters. See attached image. Mutt is supposed to have
horizontal lines from right after the ")" up to the ">". Similarly mc
is supposed to
One more thing... can Claws spit out email to port 25 so that ssmtp
can pass it on to my ISP's mailserver?
--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars. Searching for pages with AltaVista,
pop-up windows self-replicating, trying to
On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 08:17:42PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> Another vote for Claws here, although i use the liteHTML plugin, which
> seems to handle more than Dillo, but without the overhead of webkit.
>
> It can also open HTML emails in your preferred browser.
Does Claws work with
On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 09:04:07PM -0500, Jack wrote
> Can't mutt open an html message or attachment in a browser?
You can specify a program to use on attachments. But this doesn't
work where the email itself is HTML.
--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote
> Did you try the not quite so hard "emerge --emptytree -a world" first?
Yes; that was one of my attempts to fix the problem.
--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first Browser Wars.
I gave up on searching Google, and decided to nuke+repave. I'm sending
from my backup ("successor") machine. The original machine now has basic
install plus xorg-server plus icewm plus xterm. The titles on the xterm
window bars are OK, i.e. they are *NOT* missing every second letter. I
still
mutt has served me well over the years, but thanks to *BRAINDEAD
CORPORATE IDIOTS* I need a GUI client to parse 100 K of HTML that
replaces 1 page of text. These aren't just plain spammers, but
businesses that I deal with regularly. It seems that plaintext email is
going the way of cursive
On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 09:04:35AM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote
>
> Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"?
Yes. I fixed that and ran locale-gen then re-booted; no difference.
I'll dig a bit deeper.
--
I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe; Gopher, Netscape with
frames, the first
On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 06:46:30PM +, Michael wrote
>
> Have you sorted out your locale to include UTF-8?
>
> Check this page:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide
My /etc/locale.gen has been...
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
C.UTF8 UTF-8
...for a long time.
--
Thanks everybody. I had "-unicode" in my USE flags all these years.
"emerge --changed-use --deep --update @world" has 11 ebuilds scheduled.
and is running OK. Again, I apologize for a possible duplicate post or
bounces as the mail host I use was down yestersday.
A few minutes later...
Apologies to those who've already seen this or had their replies
bounce. The mail host I use was down yesterday (the big storm?) so I
haven't seen any responses to this post. Here's a second try...
I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in
libpcre. First, here
I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in
libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere.
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit
readline (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 08:49:12AM +, Michael wrote
>
> I don't know about the UTF8 error and if it is related to your failure, but
> since it complains about the vala compiler, it may be worth rebuilding it
> first?
>
> emerge -1aDv dev-lang/vala
It still dies on the
On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 09:00:42AM +0100, netfab wrote
> Le 12/12/22 à 07:30, Walter Dnes a tapoté :
> > I don't think they should make any difference, but included for
> > completeness. File-attached is the gzipped build log...
>
> > (vapigen-0.56:375): GLib-CRITICA
The subject line sums it up. stable 64-bit Gentoo. My rsync_excludes
block the following...
app-emacs
app-leechcraft
app-mobilephone
app-pda
app-xemacs
dev-dotnet
dev-embedded
dev-haskell
dev-java
dev-qt
dev-ros
dev-ruby
java-virtuals
kde-apps
kde-base
kde-frameworks
kde-misc
kde-plasma
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 01:50:02PM +0100, Jochen Kirchner wrote
> this is my make.conf: (its a web - and mail server)
>
> MAKEOPTS="-j17 -l17"
Ouch!!! How much ram do you have on that machine? The Gentoo install
handbook has a dire warning at...
On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 11:39:47PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>
> qlist -IC | grep -e x11-base -e x11-apps -e x11-fonts >/etc/portage/sets/x11
> emerge -n @x11
>
> Saves filling @world with dozens of x11 entries.
1) Has /var/lib/portage/set_name been deprecated?
2) Will items in
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:42:24PM +0100, Michael wrote
> On Wednesday, 26 October 2022 16:48:29 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> > * In https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror the file to change is
> > given as /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo-mirror.conf There is no such
> > file
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> No, you shouldn't have to do any such thing. Just make sure you
> have set up in your '/etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf' the correct
> rsync mirror and commented out the server on the Internet; e.g.:
OK, I tried it on my other
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 05:04:35AM +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote
> Hello Walter,
>
> I do not think, that this is a bug, since it is the default file, which
> should not be edited by the user.
Firstly "grep -i uncomment /etc/sudoers" results in...
## Uncomment to enable special input methods.
I had the following in my /etc/sudoers before tonight's update...
## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
...and my regular user was able to run commands and scripts via
On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 11:07:14PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> sync-type = rsync
> #sync-uri = rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
> sync-uri = rsync://192.168.1.252/gentoo-portage
Thanks Michael (and Adam). I did indeed forget to update sync-uri.
I subscribe to Netflix, which requires
I followed https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror instructions for
doing a local rsync mirror. I ran commented the rsync mirrors line in
the client's make.conf and ran "emerge --sync". The client still
synced from a server on the internet. Do I need to manually force
rsync to go local,
On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 05:53:08PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> One of the last few items on the laptop setup. I emerged hibernate
> and copied over the /etc/hibernate/ directory from my desktop. When I
> try to hibernate the laptop, I get...
>
> [thimk][root][~] hibernate
>
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 10:40:04AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> Here are the first 4 lines from scan_result at an establishment. I've
> replaced the 3-word ccompany name with " ". Note that they
> share the same bssids with "BELL342".
>
>
On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 10:40:53AM +0800, johnstrass wrote
> Compiling gcc uses alot of memory, sometimes only less then 10MB
> left free ( I am doing this on a small yeeloong netbook with only
> 1GB memory).
Ouch, I'm surprised it compiles at all. The Gentoo install handbook
..
wpa_cli password " "
wpa_cli password \ \
...and they both return "FAIL". Any ideas on what to try next?
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
foo bar
...to log on. Is that correct?
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
the logfile which I've attached. Any
ideas?
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
logfile.txt.gz
Description: application/gzip
VM support enabled. Given that dmesg output shows "op_mode iwldvm",
can I safely get rid of MVM support ?
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
held down)...
{END} (aka down left) maps to "keycode 87 (keysym 0xffb1, KP_1)"
{PgDn} (aka down right) maps to "keycode 89 (keysym 0xffb3, KP_3)"
{HOME} (aka up left) maps to "keycode 79 (keysym 0xffb7, KP_7)"
{PgUp} (aka up right) maps to "keycode 81 (keysy
w 0x0, time 2031966946, (74,286), root:(890,522),
state 0x10, keycode 81 (keysym 0xffb9, KP_9), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (39) "9"
XmbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (39) "9"
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 38, synt
ove down and to the left
{PgDn} ==> move down and to the right
I have tried {HOME}, {PgUp}, {END}, {PgDn} on the Thinkpad but the
game did not respond. If I attach a big clunky regular USB keyboard, it
works as expected.
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
the angled arrows. Is there a way to find out the keycodes, and send
them? Plan B is to buy a hardware keypad off Amazon.
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 03:46:59PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote
> On 8/20/22 12:30 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> > Long-story-short; I run ArcaOS (backwards compatable OS/2 successor)
> > as a guest on QEMU on my desktop.
>
> Aside: Is ArcaOS really a different version of OS/2?
So far, so good. If you don't hear back from me, assume that I'm
happy with the way things are going. Once again, thanks for pointing me
in the right direction.
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
aOs can be installed in a VirtualBox VM, masquarading as OS/2 (I did
say it was backwards compatable).
Are there any booby-traps to watch out for? What I'm most concerned
about is the default "qt5" USE flag. Is VirtualBox usable without the
qt5 GUI?
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Walter Dnes
I don't run "
f allows me to get rid
of sphinx entirely.
Problem solved and 19 modules/binaries removed off the laptop. I call
that a win. I've entered "-doc" into the USE line in make.conf on my
desktop PC. Next time I "update @world", I'll do the necessary dicking
around to get rid of
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