Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

On 06/10/2021 21:20, Laurence Perkins wrote: But currently the WD Purples and the Seagate Skyhawks should all be CMR. Seagate have said the Iromwolf range will remain CMR. BarraCuda is now all SMR (renamed from Barracuda, presumably to say it's still the budget range, but the old drives are

[gentoo-user] Unstable compositor - help!

Systemd/wayland setup - currently no graphical login ... I know they say rebooting doesn't fix anything (and it broke a load for me), but it does seem to (sometimes) fix "startplasma-wayland". But typically, startplasma-wayland will bring up the big K, and then the screen goes black. Log in

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On 01/10/2021 22:54, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM antlists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: I think it would be much simpler to have a Type=oneshot service at boot, and the Exec= line to call a script. You can store the timestamp of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid web page

On 01/10/2021 22:21, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config FIXED

On 29/09/2021 22:15, antlists wrote: On 29/09/2021 12:06, Nils Freydank wrote: Hi Wol, my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional colons after the password: ':' I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too. For the dovecot setup I can

[gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

I'm trying to get a systemd unit to fire on boot once a week. Reading up on timer units, I can't work out how to get it to work. This is tied up with my earlier systemd mount post - I've now got that sorted - I've got dm-integrity to fire before fstab. I now want to run lvm snapshot on the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

On 30/09/2021 00:17, Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 5:48 PM Wols Lists wrote: An LVM snapshot creates a "copy on write" image. I'm just beginning to dig into it myself, but I agree it's a bit confusing. So, snapshots in general are a solution for making backups atomic. That is,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config

hashing - I've already tried hashing with exactly the same results ... These are the logs reported by systemctl ... Sep 29 22:01:11 thewolery dovecot[1328]: auth-worker(4883): conn unix:auth-worker (pid=4881,uid=76): auth-worker<1>: passwd(antlists,192.168.1.65,<0zFJoSjNUfnAqAFB&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config

On 27/09/2021 22:46, antlists wrote: I'm trying to configure dovecot to give me a mix of virtual and real users. It's working fine for my real id. But it's not working for my antlists virtual id :-( Is nobody else using virtual addresses for dovecot? I know it's the authentication messing

[gentoo-user] Dovecot config

I'm trying to configure dovecot to give me a mix of virtual and real users. It's working fine for my real id. But it's not working for my antlists virtual id :-( I know it's the authentication messing up, but I don't know what or how to fix it - I don't use anything more complicated than

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

On 26/09/2021 16:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: Or, I could connect a second USB-3 drive to a different interface, then read from one and write to the other, with or without the SATA between. If you've got a second drive, consider changing your strategy ... First of all, you want eSATA or USB3 for

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

On 26/09/2021 13:36, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Sure enough, the patch was succesful. Unfortunately, I cannot test it, because my computer is out of luck (big thunderstorm, crappy power provider, not-so-smart owner). I'm sorry to hear it. I'm sure you've done it already, but get a decent backup

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

On 25/09/2021 21:30, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 1:48 PM antlists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: [...] Bear in mind, integritysetup is not in my initrd, so ... I think you would need to put it in your initrd. If I've got my root on it (which is

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

On 24/09/2021 21:30, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 2:25 PM antlists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: This is weird ... My /home directory is set up somewhat strangely, as in I've got two raw partitions, I've put dm-integrity on them, ra

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

On 24/09/2021 21:30, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 2:25 PM antlists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: This is weird ... My /home directory is set up somewhat strangely, as in I've got two raw partitions, I've put dm-integrity on them, ra

[gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

This is weird ... My /home directory is set up somewhat strangely, as in I've got two raw partitions, I've put dm-integrity on them, raided them together, then put lvm on top of that. Which got me into a bind with fstab. I've created a systemd service, which fires up dm-integrity on those

Re: [gentoo-user] The old wine/harfbuzz/freetype circle ...

On 19/09/2021 09:58, Charlotte Delenk wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:30:45PM +0100, antlists wrote: I'm trying to emerge wine, and it's come up with this. It insisted on adding abi_x86_32 or whatever it is to loads of things, but it's now blowing up with this circular dependency. If I try

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

On 19/09/2021 14:06, Philip Webb wrote: 210919 antlists wrote: On 19/09/2021 08:03, Philip Webb wrote: Portage ought to be able to recognise when a set of pkgs are creating destructive circular dependencies among themselves & resolve the conflict by updating all of them together. Until

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle : solved

On 19/09/2021 08:03, Philip Webb wrote: Portage ought to be able to recognise when a set of pkgs are creating destructive circular dependencies among themselves & resolve the conflict by updating all of them together. Until you hit my version of the problem, where if a is not there, b crashes

[gentoo-user] The old wine/harfbuzz/freetype circle ...

I've got stuck on this merry-go-round ... I'm trying to emerge wine, and it's come up with this. It insisted on adding abi_x86_32 or whatever it is to loads of things, but it's now blowing up with this circular dependency. If I try and install one with "use = -theother" it won't go ... If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating old Gentoo on notebook

On 14/09/2021 02:11, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:59:52 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a notebook that I haven't updated for a while. After emerge sync, it said to "emerge -1 portage". Trying to do so got me the

Re: [gentoo-user] network do not come up after booting, only manual reloading (systemd-networkd)

On 06/09/2021 20:45, Tamer Higazi wrote: Dear Dr. Valdés, /etc/systemd/network/20-wirded.network: ^ Typo? Unimportant? Significant? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] haven't been able to build android-tools for months

On 06/09/2021 20:23, n952162 wrote: Aggh! 00~/adm/gentoo/emerged>eselect gcc list  [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-9.3.0 *  [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-10.3.0 $ eselect news list | grep gcc doesn't turn up anything.  When should/may one upgrade? Thank you for the tip!   That's surely what's going on.

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

On 02/09/2021 23:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 23:49:40 +0200, David Haller wrote: Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable, you won't have it. I beg to differ on that point: My bad, I was looking in the wrong part of the eix output. It seems a

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

On 01/09/2021 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: The thing is, there's already an ebuild for dev-libs/amdgpu-pro-opencl, but since I upgraded the display card the resulting code hasn't worked. BOINC reports 'No usable GPUs found' and sources on the Web say that neither of the two drivers works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Video plays past end of time it shows

On 25/08/2021 19:08, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 13:44 Dale > wrote: Hi, I have a video that does something weird.  The video plays about 6 minutes or so past the length it should.  During that extended time, you can't fast

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 without udev/eudev

On 22/08/2021 22:59, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 3:32 PM > wrote: [...] I'll be looking into that, but on some level, why should I be forced to go around udev. Can't programs be compiled without udev today... Yes, they can, if you (or

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 without udev/eudev

On 21/08/2021 21:17, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Is there possible to resurrect the old drivers ? Or is there another way to solve this ? Put in a bug report? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

On 06/08/2021 19:41, n952162 wrote: It might not hurt if that error message included the suggestion to run "emerge -u portage" to update it. It does say that the solution is to update portage - it just doesn't explicitly tell you how to do so. The way out of my dilema would be first to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED (hopefully) New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 21/06/2021 16:17, Michael wrote: Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a black screen. I've had that on a couple of occasions, now, and I just thought I'd post this in case

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

On 31/07/2021 05:58, William Kenworthy wrote: Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual machines/data stores - I get an insane amount

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

On 30/07/2021 15:29, Rich Freeman wrote: Honestly I feel like the whole SMR thing is a missed opportunity, mainly because manufacturers decided to use it as a way to save a few bucks instead of as a new technology that can be embraced as long as you understand its benefits and limitations. One

Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

On 21/07/2021 02:24, John Covici wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:52:43 -0400, antlists wrote: On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I could choose

Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I could choose the password and I would like to losen or abolish those restrictions. This is only for local consoles,

Re: [gentoo-user] libbpf? BTF? blinking urxvt/fish?

On 14/07/2021 17:02, Michael wrote: However, I'm no dev so I have no idea what the potential for BPF harming Linux security might be. Other more knowledgeable M/L contributors may chime in to explain better. The main thing I know is that the verifier enforces "forward progress". If it can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multi-user login manager

On 13/07/2021 15:07, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-07-12, Grant Taylor wrote: On 7/12/21 2:21 PM, antlists wrote: Two problems - I would like to run without X, but it seems that the greeters need X to run ... Yes, they do. Why do you need a "greeter"? Well, most modern linux sy

[gentoo-user] Multi-user login manager

Two problems - I would like to run without X, but it seems that the greeters need X to run ... Also I want to run a multi-user system. I know you can put multiple monitors on one graphics card, and that gives you a multi-head system, but I've got TWO graphics cards. I want to plug in two

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 03/07/2021 12:00, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi Wol, If I am you, I would install "mate" desktop, which is basicly gnome2 and gnome transition to wayland is as much as I know completed. XFCE is a bit behind, that takes a time ... My make.conf contains "-gtk -gnome". I have ABSOLUTELY NO plans

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

On 01/07/2021 15:41, Dale wrote: I do copy mine manually.  It's how it was done when I first started using Gentoo and I just stuck with it, it works.  It's just one additional file. I copied my kernels manually to start with. Then I discovered "make install". (and "make modules_install").

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

On 01/07/2021 00:31, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Antlist made a similar suggestion using external USB, and I gave a more detailed answer in reply to his mail. I've got this ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072J52TR1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8=1 It's eSATA not USB. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: Hi Frank, In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not very flexible. Only think you gain is the extra space in constrained array spaces. For RAID10 it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

On 29/06/2021 14:56, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello fellows This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail is about) is running Gentoo. :) There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff about storage and servers and things, so I thought I

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 29/06/2021 10:44, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 29 June 2021 08:49:49 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: X11 will ask for twm if there is no other Window Manager available, or a Display Environment not configured. Have you sorted

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a full-weight normal desktop. [snip ...] I've got this one selected, /desktop/plasma/systemd Select default/linux/amd64/17.1

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 27/06/2021 16:14, Jack wrote: I noticed that one post mentioned /dev/card1 and the other talked about /dev/dri/card0.  If the former was not a typo omitting /dri/ then that might be something to check out. The former was a what I remembered ... quite possibly wrong ... :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 27/06/2021 11:36, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 27 June 2021 10:05:59 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a black screen.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 26/06/2021 10:28, Michael wrote: On Saturday, 26 June 2021 08:19:24 BST Wols Lists wrote: On 26/06/21 00:51, Michael wrote: Given your error, you appear to not have installed the requisite packages for the Plasma/KDE. It should have been installed as a dependency of plasma-workspace:

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 25/06/2021 09:46, Michael wrote: On Friday, 25 June 2021 08:50:32 BST antlists wrote: On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael wrote: On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? I want

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 23/06/2021 10:11, jdm wrote: On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 16:17:41 +0100 Michael wrote: On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical login. When I set my old system

Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo

On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote: Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars), don't expect it to last long. I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2 duo that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB. I don't know how this works, but I installed Windows 10 and SUSE dual-boot. SUSE installed a second 500MB ESP, and it works. Somehow the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On 13/05/2021 00:51, John Blinka wrote: And it appears your intuition is correct.  I left all the “secure boot” options in the bios at their defaults except one.  I changed “OS Type” from “Windows UEFI mode” to “Other OS”.  That was sufficient to boot from my Sysrescue usb. One other little

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

On 06/05/2021 01:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: For the sake of speed and bandwidth saving, I used to sync both tree and distfiles between my hosts. When I had two machines, the second just nfs-mounted the first's repository. So updating one updated the other at the same time :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On 28/04/2021 13:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: There have been several tests posted over the years that show that using a tmpfs for TMPDIR doesn't give as much of a gain as you would expect. With NVMe drives, the difference is likely to be even smaller. But that's not the only reason for a tmpfs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

On 22/04/2021 17:29, Grant Edwards wrote: The easiest solution would be to connect both machines with an ethernet cable and run samba on Linux. The interfaces will be configured with a link-local address¹ automatically. That won't use IP? Doesn't have to. In the past it would have used

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On 07/04/2021 05:41, Dale wrote: The biggest thing, mbox.  If I recall correctly that is what Seamonkey uses and I should be able to import those easy enough.  It at least gives me a head start.  Since this is a whole new deal, going to start a new thread if nobody pops up and says nooo to

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On 06/04/2021 19:30, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 19:19 +0100, antlists wrote: Imap is quite happy with folders. Google let you create folders, IMAP lets you access them. No problem. Disclaimer: I haven't used Gmail in a few years. Interjection: Gmail does*not* support

Re: [gentoo-user] IPsec

On 06/04/2021 20:07, Sid Spry wrote: If you control everything you can use wireguard or OpenVPN. https://lwn.net/Articles/850098/ Salutory reading ... Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

On 06/04/2021 18:43, Dale wrote: Keep in mind, I do not want to disable ALL emails, just this one script.  How does one disable emails for this one cron job?  Do I have a typo or putting it in wrong place maybe?  Everything I found shows this should work but obviously I'm doing something wrong. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On 06/04/2021 18:30, Dale wrote: Wols Lists wrote: On 06/04/21 05:19, Dale wrote: Another question, can I just copy my current emails over and "import" them? I think Seamonkey uses mbox type setup. I know I could with Thunderbird but it was a bit fussy. It did work tho. It also made it

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

On 05/04/2021 15:06, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Mon, 2021-04-05 at 13:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: "make olddefconfig"  rather than  "make oldconfig" For the uninitiated, the difference here is that olddefconfig will accept the default configuration value for any new/changed options,

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback is back again!

On 05/04/2021 18:12, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Bug reports and other comments are welcome, of course. If anybody would like the corresponding patch which works on 5.4.n, for n = 80, that is available, too. Why did it get removed from the kernel? If you want to get it back in, couldn't you ping

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

On 24/03/2021 08:31, Philip Webb wrote: Fetchmail is run as a user cron job. It was last emerged in 2020. The cron jobs are running as before, but nothing is downloaded. .muttrc hasn't been changed since 2020. Fetchmail broke (or rather, MySql broke fetchmail) for me many moons ago, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo + wifi

On 22/03/2021 13:17, Grant Edwards wrote: If you don't want to spend quite that much money, I'm a fan of Lenonovo Moto "G" series phones. You get a lot of phone for your money and very little "bloat". A few of the models used to be available as pure vanilla android, but I don't know if any of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

On 12/03/2021 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-03-12, Spackman, Chris wrote: On 2021/03/12 at 02:57pm, Grant Edwards wrote: When I drag a tab out of it's parent window to create a new window [...] instead of staying where it's put the new window will follow the mouse cursor around the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird harddisk problem: AHCI disks sometimes not found

On 11/03/2021 19:39, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Only one of the two SSDs is attached at the same time to the system, the other one is disconnected. One contains a gentoo installation (just updated yesterday), the other one an Ubuntu LTS 20.04. This allows dual-.boot by switching connection

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!

On 08/03/2021 23:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: I don't remember what it was at the start, probably 8. or 9.. I did see 9.3 somewhere along the way. gcc -v says that 10.2.0 is currently installed. It means you probably spent a lot of time compile gcc versions only to carry on using the old

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs repair needed (due to fingers being faster than brain)

Firstly, I'll say I'm not experienced, but knowing a fair bit about raid and recovering corrupted arrays ... On 01/03/2021 22:25, John Blinka wrote: HI, Gentooers! So, I typed dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd, and despite hitting ctrl-c quite quickly, zeroed out some portion of the initial part of

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

On 18/02/2021 08:20, Hund wrote: Any thoughts about running a drive this old, and what I should be looking at as a replacement? No matter how old or new your disk is, keep your backups current and in working shape. If it's old, I would just keep an extra eye on the S.M.A.R.T. status and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

On 17/02/2021 11:50, gevisz wrote: It is a good question. My motherboard is Gigabyte Ultra Durable GA-MA790FXT-UD5P and I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second reboot it usually finds

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)

On 09/02/2021 04:44, cal wrote: but it doesn't, when I log-in the XFCE4 is not starting automatically, I have to type manually: startxfce4 I see you have already solved your problem.  But it bears mentioning: .xinitrc is executed by runing `startx`, not by the login shell. Indeed, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] news 2021-01-30-display-manager-init -- blocked package

On 31/01/2021 19:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:01 PM Kusoneko wrote: It states that starting the next xorg-server version, ... ... Doing the required update is currently impossible. I am definitely not gonna remember about this in a week or 2 so I'd like to deal with

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

On 30/01/2021 10:48, Michael wrote: Did you try removing the java USE flag from app-office/libreoffice as emerge suggests above to see if it proceeds? Alternatively, you could unmerge dev-java/openjdk and see what portage wants to bring in. Using '--depclean -p -v' on dev-java/openjdk before

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing some IP's from from being logged in apache

On 12/01/2021 17:11, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I wish they design blocking by country easier. Unfortunately, IPv4 in particular, blocking by country is pretty much impossible because - due to demand pressure - addresses are scattered pretty much randomly. Especially with class A or B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Your opinion on jpeg encoders, please

On 11/01/2021 19:26, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I don’t really live the RAW way. They take up sooo much space and my camera’s OOC jpegs always look far nicer than anything I can produce with darktable/rawtherapee. Okay, dunno about your Olympus stuff, but my Nikon cameras, the Nikon software

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing and moving home directory to new partition on save drive

On 10/01/2021 21:42, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I want to move /home directory to a new partition (save drive). I have 1-SSD drive: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% /dev/sda4 916G 405G 464G 47% / Home directory is on it taking about 360GB I was planning doing it in stages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Your opinion on jpeg encoders, please

On 07/01/2021 02:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 04/01/2021 23:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: However I noticed that the latter procuces larger files for the same quality setting. So currently, I first save with a very high setting from Showfoto and then recompress the whole directory in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird - Unable to save your message as a draft.

On 04/01/2021 20:18, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: With Thunderbird-78.6.0 I'm getting an error message when composing messages: Unable to save your message as a draft. Sending of the message failed. What is the solution? I've run onto few of them but they are mostly for Windows users not

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

On 30/12/2020 17:30, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: That's true, though registrars are filtering for it now. Also, I just checked, e.g. firefox always builds with unicode support (it would have trouble with a lot of websites otherwise). (: ˙˙˙ǝpoɔᴉun sǝop oslɐ ʇuǝᴉlɔ lᴉɐɯ ɹnoʎ uǝɥʇ ¿sᴉɥʇ pɐǝɹ noʎ

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

On 30/12/2020 16:35, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: I don't know if this has improved over the years, but my initial experience with unicode was rather negative. The fact that text files were twice as large wasn't a major problem in itself. The real showstopper was that importing text files into

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland side-effect?

On 27/12/2020 18:51, Michael wrote: Restarting the desktop using Xorg does NOT fix this problem. Otherwise, both Plasma on Wayland and Xorg work fine - except the clipboard does not work on Wayland (middle click won't paste selected text on another window). This sounds to me like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a USB-key-to-hard-drive-tap-dance-boot possible?

On 25/12/2020 18:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 11:41:03 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: After 20 years on linux, I've been reduced to a newbie. BIOS boot, Lilo, and fdisk served me well for 2 decades. Now I'm going to have to learn UEFI, grub, and parted all at once. I'll start

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 21/12/2020 12:53, Dale wrote: Somewhat related.  I googled and it appears I can hook a NAS to my router and share it there.  The router is 1GB, it has yellow ports.  Is it true that I can hook a NAS to the router? I think my router has 4 yellow and 1 red port. The yellow ports are, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 20/12/2020 13:20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: There is a saying in German tech culture: "Entweder sie geht oder sie geht nicht." (either it works or it doesn't). The pun is on the pronunciation of "sie geht" (it works), which sounds exactly like Seagate. → "Either Seagate or Seagate... not."

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 20/12/2020 01:06, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Looking at 4 TB WD drives as an example, the cheapest SAS drive started at 145 €, but a WD RED NAS drive (intended for uninterrupted operation) at 93 €. BEWARE OF WD REDS !!! They *U*S*E*D* to have a good reputation. They are STILL marketed as

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How do I remove pam during/after an install.

On 20/12/2020 02:19, John Covici wrote: OK, pardon my ignorance, what is wrong with pam? Aside from the fact that when you change versions you have to reboot or restart just about everything. There's a lot of people out there (like me) who've never had the (mis?)fortune to deal with it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 19/12/2020 18:49, David Haller wrote: -dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA ports onboard:) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW:( Hot-plug almost like USB but full SATA feature set and speed (e.g. SMART). Buy add-in sata cards. The ones I've been looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 19/12/2020 17:32, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 07:02:23 -0600, Dale wrote: I have another question related to LVM.  Let's say a system crashes and dies.  Or I just move a drive, or drives, with LVM on it to another system.  Does the system just recognize the drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 19/12/2020 16:51, David Haller wrote: The power supply was replaced a few years ago.  I may buy a new one that is a little bit larger. It has a 300 watt now, a 400 watt would give some breathing room for start up power for the extra drives.  I haven't measured the wattage it pulls now.  May

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware - memory problem

On 16/12/2020 22:34, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:29 PM Mark Knecht > wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 3:22 PM > wrote: >> >> I run Memtest86 on my old box and it completed 1pass without any errors. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

On 16/12/2020 14:58, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 7:46 AM gevisz > wrote: > Nevertheless, the explanation why /var/db/repos/gentoo is better than > /usr/portage is still welcomed. :) Community opinion mostly:

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade an old system

On 14/12/2020 22:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:18:19 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Moving forward like a snail. Unmerged portage to local directory and running: ./portage-portage-3.0.12/bin/emerge -1 portage gives me two blockers: [blocks B ] Probably not. It

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVI-D / HDMI / VGA adaptors

On 14/12/2020 18:55, Walter Dnes wrote: But I want to attach the XPS 8940 to the older monitor, which only has VGA and DVI-D. I use the older monitor for setup/install and to keep the "hot backup" machine up-to-date. What are my options? For the main machine I'll buy an HDMI cable. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

On 14/12/2020 12:55, n952162 wrote: On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster system?  If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

On 13/12/2020 21:02, n952162 wrote: My problem is I can't find a diagnostic methodology.  The one I most often hear is, update more often, or trail and error solutions. Although I haven't yet had the grief of something like this python thing, I've always found that unmerging everything that

Re: [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

On 10/12/2020 21:18, n952162 wrote: On 12/10/20 7:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:23 AM n952162 wrote: I need a new mainboard.  What will happen if I boot my existing system on it? Is the CPU going to be the same?  The responses already cover the mainboard itself well. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

On 07/12/2020 18:21, Jack wrote: I do an emerge -C --oneshot to uninstall those packages. That way, when emerge finally starts to update world, it pulls them all back (at least, the ones that are needed) itself without me needing to worry about it. I don't think the --oneshot is doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

On 07/12/2020 14:30, Grant Edwards wrote: I ended up uninstalling packages mentioned in those 150 lines 2-3 at a time and until emerge was willing to update world. After that I guess I start trying to re-install what was removed. I do an emerge -C --oneshot to uninstall those packages. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

On 06/12/2020 12:54, Rich Freeman wrote: I think the idea of having something more cross-platform is a good one, though there is nothing really about systemd that isn't "open" - it is FOSS. It just prioritizes using linux syscalls where they are useful over implementing things in a way that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

On 06/12/2020 07:55, Martin Vaeth wrote: Dale wrote: It sounds like a rather rare problem. Maybe even only during boot up. It is a non-existent problem on openrc if you clean /tmp and /var/tmp on boot (which you should do if you use opentmp): Which breaks a lot of STANDARDS-COMPLIANT

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