Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-10 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] is a global use flag necessary for python?

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-06 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Problem with "GRUB upgrades" news item

2024-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] "xset dpms" not working

2024-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] "xset dpms" not working

2024-02-18 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] "xset dpms" not working

2024-02-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED?] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-03 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-03 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-02 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Upgrade old laptop kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13; no console

2024-02-02 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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]

[gentoo-user] Qustions about installkernel news item

2024-01-24 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outbound smtp on port 587?

2024-01-23 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outbound smtp on port 587?

2024-01-23 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outbound smtp on port 587?

2024-01-23 Thread Walter Dnes
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...

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-22 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-22 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-22 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-21 Thread Walter Dnes
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 =

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-18 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Google Chrome going nuts with L10N ?

2024-01-10 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Google Chrome going nuts with L10N ?

2024-01-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [OT] Anyone running mutt outboung smtp on port 587?

2024-01-09 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problem building x11-libs:libxcb-1.16

2023-10-24 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Problem building x11-libs:libxcb-1.16

2023-10-23 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-06 Thread Walter Dnes
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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 &

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Re: dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

2023-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOKVED] dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

2023-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

2023-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-19 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] [OT] Read date input from text file problem

2023-08-06 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem

2023-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-08 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-07 Thread Walter Dnes
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'

[gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

2023-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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)

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Can I safely switch (no)multilib profile???

2023-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I safely switch (no)multilib profile???

2023-04-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I safely switch (no)multilib profile???

2023-04-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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 >

[gentoo-user] Can I safely switch (no)multilib profile???

2023-04-15 Thread Walter Dnes
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-15 Thread Walter Dnes
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 :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

2022-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

2022-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Missing line-drawing characters on re-install

2022-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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...

[gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-15 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/babl-0.1.96-r1 compile dies during emerge @world

2022-12-12 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] media-libs/babl-0.1.96-r1 compile dies during emerge @world

2022-12-12 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] media-libs/babl-0.1.96-r1 compile dies during emerge @world

2022-12-11 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btop fails to compile

2022-12-04 Thread Walter Dnes
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...

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-bas/xorg-x11 removal

2022-10-31 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-26 Thread Walter Dnes
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.

[gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
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,

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] hibernate... /bin/echo: write error: No such device

2022-10-11 Thread Walter Dnes
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 >

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Problem logging on to wifi

2022-09-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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". > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot shutdown or reboot because of logind disconnection

2022-09-17 Thread Walter Dnes
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

[gentoo-user] Problem logging on to wifi

2022-09-09 Thread Walter Dnes
.. wpa_cli password " " wpa_cli password \ \ ...and they both return "FAIL". Any ideas on what to try next? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

2022-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
foo bar ...to log on. Is that correct? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

2022-08-30 Thread Walter Dnes
the logfile which I've attached. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications logfile.txt.gz Description: application/gzip

[gentoo-user] Lenovo T400 wifi scan and connect questions

2022-08-29 Thread Walter Dnes
VM support enabled. Given that dmesg output shows "op_mode iwldvm", can I safely get rid of MVM support ? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-27 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-25 Thread Walter Dnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
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. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] Software emulation of angled arrow keys on Lenovo Thinkpad?

2022-08-24 Thread Walter Dnes
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. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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?

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox question on Thinkpad laptop

2022-08-20 Thread Walter Dnes
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? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/docutils weird blockage

2022-08-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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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