[gentoo-user] nullmailer error

2024-04-27 Thread ralfconn
Hello, after a recent world update nullmailer stopped working. /var/log/nullmailer/nullmailer.log shows for every message send attempt: "smtp: Failed: Error completing TLS handshake: The encryption algorithm is not supported." Downgrading gnutls to 3.8.3 fixed the issue for me. I opened a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-28 Thread ralfconn
Il 28/03/24 07:30, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you move a file around on one end, Unison will notice that because the file at the new location has the same hash as the file at the old location. As a result, it does not transmit the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread ralfconn
Il 27/03/24 19:58, J. Roeleveld ha scritto: Hi all, I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it synchronise in both directions. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Also, both servers are connected using

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-25 Thread ralfconn
Il 25/03/24 08:04, Dale ha scritto: Here is my update.  I wanted to skip the system update and change profiles first.  Then do the emerge -e world which would also update anything that was new as well.  I'd only have to compile once tho. Well, that may have caused a problem.  It may work for

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-24 Thread ralfconn
Il 23/03/24 20:37, ralfconn ha scritto: In the meanwhile I tried to switch to my merged 23.0 profile, in step 9 binutils updates fine while gcc builds but fails to install with no error message, so for now I'm back to 'merged' 17.1. Tomorrow I'll try to analyze the install log better. Looks

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread ralfconn
Il 23/03/24 20:18, Michael ha scritto: On Saturday, 23 March 2024 19:10:28 GMT you wrote: Il 23/03/24 19:43, Michael ha scritto: On Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:29:58 GMT ralfconn wrote: Il 23/03/24 18:42, Michael ha scritto: > I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard w

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread ralfconn
Il 23/03/24 18:42, Michael ha scritto: > I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard work and read the > instructions they have provided instead of winging it: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions > I'm currently running a local merged

Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash will not generate a report

2024-03-12 Thread ralfconn
Il 11/03/24 23:44, Thelma ha scritto: I tried to generate a report in GnuCash but I'm getting and empty page. Can anybody confirm! You don't specify which report, I tried 'Cash flow' and 'Assets over time' and they work regularly. raf $ eix -I gnucash [I] app-office/gnucash Available

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

2024-03-11 Thread ralfconn
Il 10/03/24 23:44, Walter Dnes ha scritto: 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 r

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

2024-03-10 Thread ralfconn
Il 10/03/24 15:08, Peter Humphrey ha scritto: On Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:17:27 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and *MUST* be built with USE="-clang". Ah. I'll change my USE flag straight away. Thanks Walter. This got me wondering,

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

2024-03-04 Thread ralfconn
Il 03/03/24 10:47, Wols Lists ha scritto: I'm getting this output from emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world Calculating dependencies... done!  * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to  * the following required packages not being installed:  *  *  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread ralfconn
Il 02/03/24 18:17, Holger Hoffstätte ha scritto: > On 2024-03-02 18:12, ralfconn wrote: >> I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I >> gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 >> 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread ralfconn
I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7.7)^bs(18:43:20 03/01/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) # eix -I gcc Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-db/mysql-8.0.32-r2 and media-libs/opencv-4.8.1-r1 fails to emerge

2024-02-05 Thread ralfconn
Il 05/02/24 06:21, Dale ha scritto: Howdy, This is just a heads up.  I synced on Saturday, USA time, and was doing my regular updates, weekly ones.  For some reason, mysql and opencv would fail every time I attempted to upgrade.  I've had times where something would fail on first attempt and

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode error?

2024-01-28 Thread ralfconn
Il 28/01/24 17:39, Peter Humphrey ha scritto: Hello list, For the first time ever, I received an mce error today: [11473.528812] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 1: Machine Check: 0 Bank 14: 9090909090909090 [11473.529657] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 [11473.530146] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-18 Thread ralfconn
Il 18/01/24 04:28, Philip Webb ha scritto: I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo. The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene. I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6. ... Manjaro suggests soomething called 'MTP' is involved, perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] split-usr

2024-01-12 Thread ralfconn
Il 12/01/24 08:24, William Kenworthy ha scritto: Some years back I did the usr-merge and my laptop has continued on more or less ok. Now, I suddenly have a number of packages failing to build with internal collisions as they try and install (for example) a binary into /bin and /usr/bin and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge consistently 'hangs' on kernel/gentoo-sources

2023-12-17 Thread ralfconn
Il 17/12/23 15:17, Remco Rijnders ha scritto: Hi all, I've tried googling and didn't get very far so am afraid this might not be a common thing... Since a number of months, emerge hangs when doing a upgrade as soon as it gets to the package gentoo-sources: Installing (23 of 27)

[gentoo-user] harfbuzz fails with KSPP

2023-11-24 Thread ralfconn
Hello, media-libs/harfbuzz-8.3.0 failed to build on this KSPP [1] box. The issue is known and due to the use of PTRACE during the build [2]. I fixed as suggested in the post, but I still wonder why would a /build/ process want to call a PTRACE ? thanks, raffaele [1]

[gentoo-user] hardened vs -bin packages

2023-11-15 Thread ralfconn
Hello, I recently switched to an hardened 'profile'. I have several packages installed as -bin to reduce compile time: thunderbird-bin firefox-bin libreoffice-bin rust-bin I suppose I'd better use the non-bin version of at least the thunderbird and firefox ones, to take advantage of the

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened vs desktop

2023-11-13 Thread ralfconn
Il 13/11/23 14:22, Peter Böhm ha scritto: Am Montag, 13. November 2023, 11:19:26 CET schrieb ralfconn: Hello, I've been running the desktop profile for years. Now I'm thinking to switch to the hardened. Since there is no 'hardened desktop' profile, the hint I found online is to note

[gentoo-user] hardened vs desktop

2023-11-13 Thread ralfconn
Hello, I've been running the desktop profile for years. Now I'm thinking to switch to the hardened. Since there is no 'hardened desktop' profile, the hint I found online is to note the current desktop USEs, switch to hardened and add the USEs not found there, but I wonder if it is really the

Re: [gentoo-user] Network throughput from main Gentoo rig to NAS box.

2023-09-23 Thread ralfconn
On 9/23/23 14:04, Dale wrote: Howdy, As most everyone knows, I redone my NAS box.  Before I had Truenas on it but switched to Ubuntu server thingy called Jimmy.  Kinda like the name.  lol  Anyway, Ubuntu has the same odd transfer pattern as the Truenas box had.  I'm not sure if the problem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem loading r8169 kernel module

2023-08-06 Thread ralfconn
On 8/5/23 15:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I decided to find out why the kernel had trouble loading the r8169 module on my Intel NUC server. I found which seemed to tell me all I needed to know. I got this result after

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO

2023-05-25 Thread ralfconn
On 5/25/23 08:02, Philip Webb wrote: The new machine I've built is working well in other ways, I've gone thro' the 'change-root' steps, compiled the kernel -- 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 -- , configured Lilo -- which has never let me down in 20 years -- , created Fstab & rebooted. No problem booting

Re: [gentoo-user] make[4]: *** No rule to make target

2023-05-07 Thread ralfconn
On 5/7/23 03:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Trying to compile "cifs" support in the kernel and getting an error during "make"   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh   DESCEND objtool make[4]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/11.3.0/include/stddef.h', needed by

[gentoo-user] source profile.env from non-interactive shell

2023-01-08 Thread ralfconn
Hello, I have a bash script executed from cronie's anacron daemon which performs a local rsync backup and then emails the status via nullmailer . The latter part never worked until I understood that some nullmailer-inject options that I set via environment variables are not visible from the

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-19 Thread ralfconn
On 12/18/22 23:08, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 12:20 PM Dale wrote: > root@truenas[~]# iperf -s > > Server listening on TCP port 5001 > TCP window size: 64.0 KByte (default) >

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

2022-12-15 Thread ralfconn
On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote: >    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

Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

2022-11-17 Thread ralfconn
On 11/17/22 21:30, Philip Webb wrote: I need to rewrite the filesystem on a USB stick after it got damaged. My notes tell me to use 'mke2fs', but 'which' doesn't find it : has it been replaced by something else ? I have 'e2fsprogs' installed, but there's no 'man' file for it & it doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

2022-11-12 Thread ralfconn
On 11/11/22 07:25, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been stuck on gentoo-sources 5.14.15 for a while.  I tried upgrading to I think 5.16 and then more recently 5.18.  I upgraded like I always do, copy .config over and run make oldconfig.  Once I get everything in /boot, init thingy and all, I update grub. 

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

2022-10-29 Thread ralfconn
On 10/29/22 12:09, David Haller wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, ralfconn wrote: Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package

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

2022-10-29 Thread ralfconn
Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal. Is anybody aware of some ready to use tool for the purpose, without

[gentoo-user] sandboxed Firefox

2022-10-09 Thread ralfconn
This weekend I tried Sakaki's excellent guide to running Firefox in a sandbox [1]. For the most part I religiously followed the guide, except: - being on a desktop I was not too interested in setting up the bridge needed for WLAN; since it did not work out-of-the-box (possibly due to my

[gentoo-user] ddclient 3.10 spamming?

2022-10-09 Thread ralfconn
Hello, after a recent update I have ddclient continuously spamming me with warning messages, has anybody seen the same? [I] net-dns/ddclient Available versions:  3.9.1-r2 (~)3.10.0_rc2^t {examples iproute2 selinux} Installed versions:  3.10.0_rc2^t(10:15:22 AM