Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
is in the file /var/lib/portage/world? > That is defined in your system profile, not by you. > /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and that > defines the profile you are using. A profile is nothing more than a bunch of > files that define what y

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-23 Thread Jorge Morais
> Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! > > I followed this > > http://blogs.pwmn.net/korkakak/2008/06/04/gentoo-i-unmerged-python-now-what > > which worked - in the end. couple of caveats tho for anyone 'that follows' > get python from their site as the ftp l

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a init thingy. Step two I guess.

2011-09-17 Thread Dale
wd, etc. However you also can include applications in your initramfs that give you more access to the hardware or the net. That's what I was thinking to. I know busybox does a LOT of things but I didn't think it was a nano replacement either. OK. I got both of those in there at leas

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get a usb mouse working?

2005-11-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 11/18/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > I just can't seem to get my new mouse working. Up until now I have used a ps2 > mouse with no problems. > Now I have a usb one and this is what I've done so far:- > recompiled the kernel to include usb input d

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread John Covici
> > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici > > > > wrote: > > > > > Traceroute does not work, either. > > > > > > > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and > > > > pin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas Schweikle
obably clear out a lot of orphans or > things that are config-protected that have moved that way (well, less > so if you keep /etc whole). > > I think some of this hinges on just HOW old that system is. What was > the date that it was last updated on? > > Assuming it isn

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant troubles with newly installed gentoo

2016-05-30 Thread Mick
gt; delete /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0, or is there another step which I > should take in order to connect with my wifi. > > Thanks. Do you have a /etc/init.d/net.wlp3s0 symlink to /etc/init.d/net and have you configured /etc/conf.d/net to include the necessary for your wireless interfac

[gentoo-user] wireless access point setup - bridging vs. routing (Was: Atheros kernel driver)

2009-06-11 Thread Stroller
On 12 Jun 2009, at 00:38, Grant wrote: ... I've almost got this working, but I don't know what to include in the /etc/conf.d/hostapd INTERFACES variable since I don't have a br0 device or configuration. Do I need one? If I leave INTERFACES empty and I don't start net

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-06 Thread Dale
Roy Wright wrote: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Dirk Heinrichs writes: >> >>> Am Freitag, 6. Februar 2009 22:27:12 schrieb Sebastian Günther: >>> >>>> Did you ever read anything the Windows Installer >>> What the heck is a "Windows Installer

Re: [gentoo-user] Planet Larry: Gentoo User's Blogs

2006-08-06 Thread Colleen Beamer
able online right now at > http://larrythecow.org/ > > The idea is simple -- we already have Planet Gentoo[1] and Gentoo > Universe[2] which pull in blogs from the developers, but we'd also > like something that will give us a pulse on what you, the users, are > up to. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile error in xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2-r2

2007-04-20 Thread Francisco Rivas
-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -Wall -O2 > -march=prescott -DXFree86Server -DIN_MODULE -DXFree86Module > -DXFree86LOADER -I/usr/include/xorg -I../src -MT > evdev_drv_la-evdev.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/evdev_drv_la-evdev.Tpo -c > evdev.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/evdev_drv_la- evdev.

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:59:43 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> work AROUND portage with a lot of things. This would include > >> depclean. > > > > Which is why I think you shouldn't try to work around portage. It > > provides a clean way of doing this, overlays, u

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

2022-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
te does not work, either. > > > > > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and > > > ping? > > > > > > This is sounding like a name resolution issue. Dig will directly > > > query the name server you p

Re: [gentoo-user] Dead apache (cannot listen)

2007-09-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Thanks for top-posting :o) This is still a bit mysterious for me. I've tried to do what you said, but apache still fails to start because it cannot open a listening port. Here's what I've figured out about what I have: /etc/conf.c/apache2 contains APACHE2_OPTS="-D DEFA

Re: [gentoo-user] Two portage questions

2011-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
hat > "world" is in the file /var/lib/portage/world? That is defined in your system profile, not by you. /etc/make.profile is a symlink to something in $PORTDIR/profiles/ and that defines the profile you are using. A profile is nothing more than a bunch of files that define wh

RE: [gentoo-user] browser,news,mail

2005-08-27 Thread John Dangler
I may as well explore the apps that gnome has been so gracious to include, and then, when I've discovered which are useful and which aren't, I can go back, unmerge gnome, and emerge gnome-light and build in what I want to use... The crux of the issue is that there are thousands of packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-18 Thread Dale
ng. I >> also think they should let the users send the message. The users can >> start buying ATI or other video hardware and at some point, they will >> either get their ducks in a row or lose sales. In the meantime, the >> users decide what software they want to use. >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
f [a-Za-z0-9] >> > *without violating randomness* and (if possible) without throwing >> > away bits of the output. >> >> You mean *characters* int the range [A-Za-z0-9]? >> >> > How can I do this mathemtically (in concern of the quality of output) >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/hosts include file?

2013-03-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
7;s a sub-directory as none of these >> apps run as root and only root can modiy the real hosts file. >> >> This works well enough, but a supported include mechanism would make >> life so much simpler, not to mention easier for my colleagues to >> understand what the bla

[gentoo-user] nfs mount on client end.

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
users,addr=192.168.0.29,vers=4,clientaddr=192.168.0.2) Note it says vers=4. I don't see where that is being set. /etc/conf.d/nfs mentiones NFS vers=4 but doesn't say that is what its telling the kernel to use. From /etc/conf.d/nfs # Optional services to include in default `/etc/i

Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

2013-09-06 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
that caused it, it's clear >>>>> this change was premature... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I think is a bug in the packages. In my system the only package that >>>> pulls vitual/mta (and therefore ssmtp) is vixie-cron. >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
7;t had any > > problems. I'd suggest having anything important backed up somewhere else > > since it's still seen as experimental (I think). > >> > > > > Of course. Pen drives are as such not very reliable, so backups are a must. > > > >> If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Roy Wright
(according the output I posted). Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that output. Your initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it won't emerge version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable. It's from some package that specifically wan

[gentoo-user] Re: VIA K8M890/K8M880 (VT8251) supported?

2006-03-26 Thread Jarry
Sven Köhler wrote: IMHO, the patch should only include the PCI-Id or something like that - well, but the patch doesn't seem to be as simple as that. Do you have a link to the patch? or even a link to the discussion in the LKML? The patched ahci.c is for example here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the minimal install isos

2011-06-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
;>> him install Gentoo. The tarballs still, after nearly a month I think, >>> didn't include all the required /dev stuff in the stage3 tarball which >>> caused the machine to not boot. Maybe that's what you're seeing? I >> >> I'm at the stage rig

Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???

2010-12-12 Thread meino . cramer
uot; but the svn-version of lm_sensors seems to support it. I > >installed that svn-version locally but I cant read from the ITE > >chip. > >Still only voltages and temperatures. > >GKrellm (normally I use conky) also detects no fans. > > > >@Dale: > >Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel compile error

2018-04-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
> /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86/config.sh .. >* Sourcing arch-specific modules_load from > /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86/modules_load .. > >* ERROR: Failed to compile the "prepare" target... >* >* -- Grepping log... -- >* > * >* -- End log...

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen/driver/xserver freezing after suspension

2021-01-05 Thread Igor Mróz
ks like desktop is drawn once and then it freezes. I tried to play with > kernel options, i915 driver options etc, but it doesn't help. After this > freezes I tried to look into dmesg/logs via SSH, but there were no clues. > Problem exists with external monitor connected, as well as wit

RE: [gentoo-user] Screen/driver/xserver freezing after suspension

2021-01-05 Thread y0rune
onnected, as well as with disconnected. I don't use xf86-video-intel. I include intel firmware (FIRMWARE_FILES="i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin i915/icl_guc_49.0.1.bin i915/icl_huc_9.0.0.bin" in genkernel.conf) in initramfs. Do you know what might be a case? I'm out of ideas :( Thanks Igor Mróz

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple Update Issues - what order should things be done?

2010-03-05 Thread Tanstaafl
so I'd rather ask a few questions (admitting I don't know everything - or even much of anything - in the process - try it Alan, it's actually quite liberating), and not dig myself into a hole I may not be able to dig myself out of easily. >> Also - when you switch compilers, do y

Re: [gentoo-user] problems trying to maintain inn for my own use

2019-06-13 Thread John Covici
be coming from, > and then why in isn't finding it, but didn't miss it at > configure/compile.  Do "ldd /path/to/inn" to see if there is a > library it can't find.  If it finds everything, then perhaps it > needs a newer version of whichever dependency includes

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
n >> >>> using genkernel's default configuration (the livecd config, which >> >>> enables all modules)? >> >>> >> >> >> >> FWIW, I've been F2FS plus encryption with Arch and haven't had any >> > problems. I&

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

2016-03-06 Thread wabenbau
, so I don't know if my informations are useful for you. > I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did: > yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=radeon in make.conf and rebuilt world > with --changed-use. I also reconfigured the kernel to build the Intel >

Re: [gentoo-user] Need some help with switching KDE setup from i915 to radeon graphics

2016-03-06 Thread wabenbau
, so I don't know if my informations are useful for you. > I could use some help getting it working properly. Here is what I did: > yesterday I enabled VIDEO_CARDS=radeon in make.conf and rebuilt world > with --changed-use. I also reconfigured the kernel to build the Intel >

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge media-libs/libprojectm-0.99-r1

2009-04-19 Thread John P. Burkett
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 19 April 2009 18:13:19 John P. Burkett wrote: >> glConsole.cc:50:23: error: FTGL/FTGL.h: No such file or directory >> In file included from glConsole.cc:51: >> /usr/include/FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h:29:5: warning: #warning This header >> is d

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
il-0.9.12/temp/build.log'. > [...] > > Sector9 ~ # emerge -pvD apr-util > [...] > > [ebuild R ] dev-libs/apr-util-1.2.8 USE="berkdb gdbm ldap > [...] > > I'm wondering what package should supply berkdb and why this ebuild > > doesn't force that pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread John Covici
software. > > There are a lot of packages that are just not used by enough people to > maintain them anymore.  Some are being replaced with more up to date > packages.  There are lots of reasons for that.  If a package you use is > being removed, search -dev and look to see if there is a r

RE: [gentoo-user] Fwd: apache vhost issue...

2008-03-09 Thread cypherstrong
f # Virtual Hosts # # If you want to maintain multiple domains/hostnames on your # machine you can setup VirtualHost containers for them. Most configurations # use only name-based virtual hosts so the server doesn't need to worry about # IP addresses. This is indicated by the asterisks in the dir

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

2022-12-08 Thread Dale
ing isn't a >> option. Some of the more expensive ones may be upgradable, maybe. > The NAS gets you a nice box. The nice box means fixed capacity. > > I just use USB3 external hard drives. They're cheaper and easy to > interface. USB3 also has been less likely to give m

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation for CPU type in QEMU?

2013-08-06 Thread Marc Joliet
> >>> > >>> There's also "-cpu host", which simply passes your CPU through to the > >>> guest. > >>> That's what I use for my 32 bit WinXP VM. You can use it if you don't > >>> mind not > >>> being ab

RE: [gentoo-user] What does "future video mode" mean for the i810 xorg driver?

2006-10-18 Thread Liebich, Wolfgang
solution of 1280x1024 pixels. BUT if I try to use it on my new! shiny! > gentoo PC, I only get it to 1024x768 pixels. If I specify no modes in my > xorg.conf, I get a black screen, If I specify 1024x768, it works. I > tried to include 1280x1024 and 1280x960 (VESA modi), but got a murderous

Re: [gentoo-user] My USB camera no longer works.

2009-04-16 Thread Dale
evices show up in > dmesg? If not, either your kernel or your hardware is broken, and > kernels don't often break without recompilation. > > If dmesg shows it, you have a software problem, but it can't be anything > to do with X or your USB ports would work if you booted in te

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
is not for sources. IT IS FOR NEEDED FILES. Binary, source. Does not matter. > Let's just ignor the /bin/sbin and name it /sbinge > as devs must be 'binge drinking' if this is our standard? > > /bin/ms/? /usr/local/bin/ yep, idiot. not able to think

Re: [gentoo-user] where are the version numbers of a profile stored?

2020-06-07 Thread Rich Freeman
possible. If a dependency is mentioned then the latest allowable version will be installed. The dependency can also include version restrictions in which case the latest version allowed with the additional restrictions will be installed. I'll leave out USE dependencies, which impose more r

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.1.1

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Fish
en. There are a few statically linked programs that will include glibc internally. These are used only for system recovery purposes...there is no need to worry about them at all. Again, *anybody* who claims that the end result of a compile depends upon what version of glibc you have installed, much les

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX mail hub configuration

2007-03-24 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:41:54 -0600 Neal McConachie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) mydestination = > - change it to include all the other hosts on your local network > that you want to accept mail for. > ex: mydestination = $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, > mail.$mydo

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-26 Thread Holly Bostick
and track options selected >>in various kernel builds than the ole standby 'make menuconfig'. >> >> >>ideas? >> >> >>James >> > > > I typically just use "make oldconfig", as the number of changes from > one version to the next

[gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread James
he way down to a stripped (optimized) linux kernel to the point of running embedded linux. Just take a look at Linaro. > >> Hey, I got no printer, had others print about 5 pages for me in ~10 > >> years. Why would I want cups? > >You do know that only the desktop profiles in

[gentoo-user] PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

2024-05-20 Thread Dale
tible?  You could stick a 3.0 into a 2.0 slot and it would just run as a 2.0 and vice versa.  I know the mobo is 2.0.  It does recognize the drive but seems to nuke the ethernet somehow.  I looked, there is no switches on the card.  I don't see a way to adjust how it works or anything. Second, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Filter grep output of 'ps aux'

2012-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
gt;>>> And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything >>>> you like (see the manpage) >>> >>> >>> >>> Even better, thanks Paul... >>> >>> watch -n1 "ps aux --sort=-%cpu | gawk '{ if ( \$3>  

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-14 Thread William Kenworthy
doing? Once the system is up /usr and all > > other directories are correctly mounted (most are on LVM). > > Did you run genkernel with --lvm? Sorry, I don't use genkernel, but > dracut has several options to include arbitrary files on the > initramfs. I'm sure genkern

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread Tomas Mozes
ect (project-app for application server of a project). You can even more abstract it to have a common application server or a common database, but since you can include other playbooks, we don't use it that way (also to not get lost in too many levels of abstractions). For upgrades you either wri

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen/driver/xserver freezing after suspension

2021-01-07 Thread Igor Mróz
ion. It > >> looks like system is still working (I can ssh to it, music is playing). > >> When I move mouse, then it looks like desktop is drawn once and then it > >> freezes. I tried to play with kernel options, i915 driver options etc, but > >> it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Internationalization [Gnome]

2005-06-13 Thread Rafael Fernández López
", so I assume that the one that >> is breaking everything is that tab. >> >> I need to know what provides that tab, what ebuild, to study it better >> and re-emerge if necessary with the appropiate flags. >> >> Thank you. > > To the best of my knowl

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW, 4.4.8-hardened-r1 how to fix?

2016-10-25 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
, but those files need to be patched before application > of the grsecurity patch, and that is a little more complex work. Did you tried it? The patch attached comes straight from the git repo, just run: # cd /usr/src/linux # patch -p1 < path/to/patch It'll likely work. >

[gentoo-user] Stabilization of new-style Apache

2005-09-07 Thread Michael Stewart (vericgar)
flags to let you choose which MPM is compiled. - A new gentoo-webroot that will eventually provide a gentoo-themed icon-set, error documents, and default website. This has been put in it's own package, and includes a USE-flag to not install the gentoo-webroot into /var/www/loca

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM2 compile error. Clock_gettime

2013-06-25 Thread Dale
t > $ grep lrt /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libudev.pc > Libs.private: -lrt > > In which the -lrt is the important bit. It's required for clock_gettime. > > So either eudev is broken and doesn't contain proper Libs.private: in > libudev.pc file, or sys-fs/lvm2's build system is broken and doesn't > query proper Libs.private: from libudev.pc when building lvm2 with > static. > > For the record. There is no reason to use sys-fs/eudev at this time, > it doesn't bring anything to the table sys-fs/udev doesn't have. In > fact, sys-fs/eudev has broken USE="+rule-generator" which leads to > random interface names. > > - Samuli > > I switched when all the separate /usr uproar happened. I no longer have a init thingy either. I cleaned all that out after a few successful reboots with eudev without using a init thingy. So, if I switch back to udev, are you sure that my system is going to reboot? I have everything but / and /boot on LVM. Point being, I don't want to switch back, reboot and have a non-bootable system. I switched to grub2 and would really not want to learn the hard way how to edit stuff, chrrot to fix anything with it, although I need to test on that one day. At least my guess was right on it being a *dev problem. What I saw from google pointed in that direction. Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

2013-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
y system the only package that >>>> pulls vitual/mta (and therefore ssmtp) is vixie-cron. >>> >>> >>> That is strange. I have sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r12 and yet >>> revdep-rebuild does not want to pull virtual/mta. But It should, >>> as cr

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Michael Hampicke
u "build your own kernel". I also tell genkernel not to run "make clean" - for a faster recompile if I have changed my kernel config. I love genkernel, it just makes life so much easier, you don't have enter every command manually. And still keeps it the gentoo-way: you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot btrfs

2015-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
rst time but I'd already tried device=/dev/sda3,device=/dev/sdb3 on the command line and it didn't help. I'd also tried the initramfs but that didn't help either. I'll try them again. > If you do use an initramfs you really should use a UUID or label > instead of a

Re: [gentoo-user] libselinux.so.1 dependency problems

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Niederl
Hi, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: [...] It turns out that many, many executables require libselinux.so.1, despite what the documentation of "--depclean" in "man emerge" says (or what I think it says -- is this a bug or operator error?) Sadly sys-apps/coreutils is one of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Root device as UUID not properly detected

2015-10-07 Thread João Miguel
he files in /proc and /sys). See sysctl for details. So I'm using 2. > > > > > 3. You don't use root_delay as boot option > > > > If that's what I think it is, I tell syslinux to wait 5 seconds. > > (turns out it's not what I thought it was, though I

Re: [gentoo-user] Touble with linux-headers

2007-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
block of C. The kernel-headers are there so the *user*apps*and*libs* know what definitions of data structures to use. In very broad terms, someone takes the .h files out of a kernel release that are known to be stable and work well and make them available to user-space compilation. Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : DVD drive

2012-08-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: > >> > I did give these arguments: There are variouy problems media compatibility >> > of >> > you use DVD+ with different drives. >> >> Your description runs counter

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
t remember if I've tried that combination, I'll do so now. ... you include -a.  Under what situation might I respond to the prompt with 'no'? On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 20:24, n952162 wrote: In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment), I'm zero-ing in o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nouveau-drm compile failure

2010-05-21 Thread Grant
xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so > (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation" >        compiled for 1.7.6, module version = 1.1.0 >        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 2.0 > (II) Loading extension DRI2 > (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting direct rendering (DRI) to work with ATI 9550 video card

2005-09-02 Thread John Lange
!empty dir /usr/lib/modules/drivers --- !empty dir /usr/lib/modules/dri --- !empty dir /usr/lib/modules --- !empty dir /usr/lib --- !empty dir /usr/include/X11/extensions --- !empty dir /usr/include/X11 --- !empty dir /usr/include/GL --- !empty dir /usr/include --- !empty dir /usr --- !empty dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LINGUAS, L10N, and local-gen

2016-06-25 Thread Dale
week? A month? What if no one tries to help at all? What if I have a perfectly good fix and the OP is in a hurry and doesn't want to wait a few more hours or days when a good solution is already available? >>>> what worked here and see if that worked for them too? >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Michael
too for a personal PC, if the primary > > objective is simplicity in maintenance, combined with ease of fs > > recovery? > > I too put everything on subvolumes, and set the one containing / to be > the default when mounted without a subvolid. When you say "everything",

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
96 Dec 31 1969 . >> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jun 23 12:06 .. >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 14:29 EFI >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root0 Jun 24 14:01 test >> (chroot) livecd / # ls -al /efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143360 Jun 24 14:33

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-07-31 Thread james
# # "su" or "sudo" is not required in the next step. You have write # permission to your home directory. make install The "make" command may take while to build, depending on RAM and CPU in your machine. Afterwards you probably have to include... I just use this

Re: [gentoo-user] GDM kbd/mouse lockup after emerge --update on a stable amd64 platform - need hints to cure

2011-12-23 Thread Dale
hould look like this: root@fireball / # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i sysrq CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y root@fireball / # When it locks up to the point that those keys don't work, grip the plug firmly and pull. I usually get to about the E and sometimes the I before I find myself at a console. Anot

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH question

2012-08-20 Thread David Relson
gt; How do I specify the forwarded port? > > > > If I understand correctly, with -L: > > > > ssh -L XX:machine2:YY user@machine1 > > > > This command will connect you to the "machine1" host with user > > "user", and any connection to the por

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics and HAL Device Information Files

2009-05-27 Thread Redouane Boumghar
Thank you very much for your clear answers. Now my touchpad works although I didn't change anything but I have recompiled HAL (with dell USE flag) and the drivers. In the early stage, not knowing precisely what filename to use I have used the file name "99-x11-synaptics.fdi". It

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless access point setup - bridging vs. routing (Was: Atheros kernel driver)

2009-06-11 Thread Grant
>>>> I've almost got this working, but I don't know what to include in the >>>> /etc/conf.d/hostapd INTERFACES variable since I don't have a br0 >>>> device or configuration.  Do I need one?  If I leave INTERFACES empty >>>> a

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I install pulseaudio to solve my phonon audio problems?

2012-08-19 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
; behavior and I was able to use the webcam. Of course, it was kinda extreme. > > So, I was wondering if use pulseaudio should fix it, but I'm not sure if it > can help. What do you think? > > Any help will be appreciated. I've been using GNOME + PulseAudio since the later

Re: [gentoo-user] icedtea-jdk and X

2012-07-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
edtea with USE=-X only requires > X to build, not to run. So after installation, the X packages can be > removed by "emerge --ask --depclean --with-bdeps=n packages...". Or > leave off "packages..." to see all installed packages that are not > needed for world pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
to DEPEND on jpeg-7. > > In my case, it was netpbm. Here's the steps I took to resolve the > problem: > > 1) emerge -1 -av jpeg > 2) Do NOT run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" > 3) emerge -av jpeg-compat > 4) revdep-rebuild > > I hit a problem when trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

2017-06-15 Thread Mick
s the damage. > What I think is more likely is, flash memory needs special consideration > when writing to. If the driver inside the USB flash drive did not have > enough time to write out all it's accounting data on where to write stuff > and it's cycles, the flash will

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql to postgresql migration

2014-07-15 Thread James
ql dB it to pgsql, it will require an extensive rewrite? This shouild be an easy example, which is quite common (google). So, let's just say that I run across mysql --> pgsql quite often to the point that it's time for me to develop some slick_skills here. > This is the biggest pro

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond

2013-01-31 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Can you log into a vt and tail ~/.xsession-errors and see anything > useful in there? I use a vt for this so konsole is not in the mix > while trying to tail stuff. I've historically found that lockups of > around 30 seconds are so are often DNS lookup fail

Re: [gentoo-user] portage no longer in world?

2011-07-31 Thread Albert Hopkins
ubject line. Portage isn't in world. It's in the system set. Secondly, I really don't understand the question. You are in x86/stable, ok I understand that... Even in stable software gets updated. Portage is a piece of software. There is an update. There's nothing "unusual

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant troubles with newly installed gentoo

2016-05-30 Thread Jackson Darule
>> nl80211: deinst ifname=wlp3s0 disabled_11b_rates=0 >> >> >> I wanted to ask before manually deleting /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0 in >> case this could do anything to damage my new system. Is the next step to >> delete /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wlp3s0, or is there an

Re: [gentoo-user] My first initramfs

2013-11-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
want > them), leaving only the userspace tools for lvm and reiserfsck? You need the *dracut* module for LVM, you don't need any kernel module. Or better stated: you already have the kernel modules, inside your kernel. What dracut does when you specify "drivers" (kernel modules), i

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
h tab completion that takes care of it for > > you? > > None of them are, and I don't type the names. They require copy and > paste, or very careful and tedious typing after looking them up. Well, if you're scripting them, you only need to do it once per interface, surel

Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

2008-12-22 Thread BRM
I haven't been able to follow all of this, though some of it has been of interest to me since I have a Vista 64 system I am trying to working with my server's HP DeskJet 950C. >From what you describe below, it sounds like the HP USB printer is on the >Network Server and y

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage logs

2005-09-12 Thread Nick Rout
he packages were built, rebuilt ..., how long did it take to >> >> > build a package and so on. >> >> > >> >> >> genlop -t tells you how long the ebuild took. as in "genlop -t mplayer" >> > > I decline to install a bunch of g

[gentoo-user] GLEP:64

2015-02-15 Thread James
s outside files find there way onto our systems (not even addressing the web side of things) besides what I have partially listed in this post. If folks have similar concerns, what mechanisms do you currently employ for any of these aforementioned needs? James

Re: [gentoo-user] invitation to gentobb project

2017-03-14 Thread Ural
ed >> server configuration to host everything. Thanks >> > > The concept sounds pretty neat; what do you guys do different than a > typical Gentoo installation? > > What does Gentoo do for a containerized environment? Does this project > include easier container manage

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
logies, forgot to include the list on my previous reply) What is the output of `python --version` for the interpreter you are using to execute this script?  Is it possible that your default python3 interpreter is not 3.8.5 and has different USE flags?  (Keep in mind, there may be multiple versions of py

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

2011-12-28 Thread Mick
:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: > | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root" "I:hputn...@gmail.com" > | "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN" >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Avi-player diplaying the current frame counter while playing ?

2017-05-25 Thread tuxic
from command line with these two options > > --osd-level=3 --osd-fractions=yes > > then the OSD as well as the console output shows you the > current timestamp with milliseconds. > > If you don't wanna start mpv from command line then you can > also add these t

Re: [gentoo-user] FAN-Speed readout/control ???

2010-12-12 Thread Dale
e ITE chip. Still only voltages and temperatures. GKrellm (normally I use conky) also detects no fans. @Dale: Do you have exactly the same board (ASUS Crosshair IV formula) as I, or? I tried to include "everything" into the kernel but unfortunately the results are the same: No fans and the i

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate on LUKS container -> 'Device not found'

2016-03-08 Thread Willie Matthews
rule in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf simply says the default: > filter = [ "r|/dev/nbd.*|", "a/.*/" ] > Meaning ‘include everything except /dev/nbd*’. > > Can you give me a hint what I might be missing? Perhaps I need to set some > other of the many options in lvm.con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does high-res video drop frames at 60% CPU?

2010-07-08 Thread Grant
layer >> with ffmpeg-mt support. > > There is no latest "mplayer with ffmpeg-mt" support.  There is mplayer, > ffmpeg and ffmpeg-mt.  To get what most people refer to as "mplayer-mt", you > have to replace the bundled ffmeg that is included in mplayer with >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and library troubles with GL

2009-08-01 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
stem does not have, and portage doesn't know this. >> >> So I'm trying revdep-rebuild, which also fails.  In particular, >> x11-libs/gtkglext-1.2.0 won't build because during configuration, it >> lacks "GL library".  I've been trying to use equery t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

2005-10-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
ts up without any real reference to the questions are simply poor > communicators... and that is certainly what I see a lot of. Exactly. Actually, I think that this top posting junk only came up, because a "certain" piece of crap from Microsoft didn't support threading for FAR too

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: extending volume groups and logical volumes

2011-12-17 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Dec 17 2011, pk wrote: On 2011-12-17 05:59, Dale wrote: Has anyone else noticed this? I upgraded this a while back and I didn't use anywhere near this amount of space. I'm curious as to why Allan's is using so much. Perhaps you should compare US

Re: [gentoo-user] suspend/hibernate and genkernel.

2012-03-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
ngs on hibernation and no log >> messages. >> >> BillK >> >> >> >> > > Well, patching genkernel worked so its still broken as regards > suspend/resume - so I can now suspend/resume still with some errors. > > Next problem is that there are er

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread Miles Malone
do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y > > --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it > > with some extra backtracking and increasing the scope to world might > > fix it, if not then we can revisit it? > > > I don't remember if I've tried th

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