Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

[Daniel Frey]

On 10/13/2015 09:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 151013 Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ;
>>> I can power off & restart normally afterwards.
>>> 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend.
>> There was a kernel change some time back
>> that disabled usb wake-up on all USB hubs.
>> Userspace needs to explicitly enable them or device wakeup will not work.
>> I wrote a script some time back to do that,
>> but it can probably be done with a udev rule.
> 
> Don't be coy ! -- can you post your script here ?
> what would such a udev rule look like ?
> 

Hah - sorry about that. Most people apparently use udev to do that. I
wrote my script first and used it instead. I never really looked into
udev as my script [kludge?] still works, I just tried it.

I posted it in the Docs, Tips & Tricks forum [1] some time back & it's
also on pastebin [2]. Use at your own risk! I've attached it here as
well, hopefully we're allowed to do that on this list. The forum post
lists how to use it.

Wow, 18,000 views to the forum post. I wonder if that's good or bad?

It requires root, so you may want to put it in /sbin/. Run it with no
options and it'll display a usage page. All it does is do some searching
in the /sys/devices tree and tries to find appropriate items to show.


Dan

[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-933934-highlight-usbwakeup.html

[2] http://pastebin.com/cYstsSSa




#!/bin/bash

# This script attempts to read /sys/devices/ and identify usb ports and devices
# that can be toggled to enable wakeup from sleep.
# 
# Version: 2.0
# Date written: August 20, 2012
# 
# Copyright (C) 2012  danomac @ gentoo forums
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.

# Return code documentation
#
#  1: No parameter / unknown parameter specified
#  2: Multiple actions requested, can only process one at a time
#  3: Effective user ID not root (root is required)
#
#  7: No action requested
#  8: Quiet and verbose requested at the same time! Use one or the other.
#  9: Kernel Dmesg` option requested with action other than list
#
# Internal errors:
#
# 10: toggleall() - first parameter missing (internal error)
# 11: toggleusbdevice() - first parameter not specified (internal error)
# 12: toggleusbdevice() - second parameter not specified (internal error)
# 13: toggleusbdevice() - third parameter needed but not specified! (internal 
error)


function listusbwakeup () {
# If quiet option is set, notify user it's being ignored
if $QUIET; then echo "Quiet option set; ignoring..."; echo ""; fi

# Initialize counter (to total items found later)
COUNT=0

echo "Listing USB hubs/devices and their wakeup status..."

# If verbose output is requested, switch to full detail view
if $VERBOSE
then
echo "
USB ID :: Device* :: Status
 Device full path
 Vendor :: Device Description
-"
else
echo "
USB ID:: Device* :: Status :: Device Description
"
fi

# Search for all wakeup files under /sys/devices
for i in `find /sys/devices -type f -name wakeup`;
do
# Extract the directory name where wakeup file resides
DEVDIRNAME=`dirname $i`

# Extract the actual device name (remove the power directory)
DEVNAME=`dirname $DEVDIRNAME`

# Now remove the directory path, leaving only the device's 
proper name (usb4, 4-1, etc)
DEVPROPERNAME=`basename $DEVNAME`

# Check for a product name. If none is found we most likely 
aren't interested in it.
if [ -e $DEVDIRNAME/../product ]
then
# We found one! Find other relevant information, if 
none found use a placeholder.
if [ -e $DEVDIRNAME/../product ]; then PRODUCT=`cat 
$DEVDIRNAME/../product`; else PRODUCT="No product name"; fi
if [ -e $DEVDIRNAME/../manufacturer ]; then VENDOR=`cat 
$DEVDIRNAME/../manufacturer`; else VENDOR="No vendor name"; fi
if [ -e $DEVDIRNAME/../idVendor ]; then IDVENDOR=`cat 
$DEVDIRNAME/../idVendor`; else IDVENDOR="No VendorID"; fi
if [ -e $DEVDIRNAME/../idProduct ]; then IDPRODUCT=`cat 
$DEVDIRNAME/../idProduct`; else IDPRODUCT="No 

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

[Daniel Frey]

On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed, as it should ;
> I can power off & restart normally afterwards.
> 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend.

There was a kernel change some time back that disable usb wakeup on all
USB hubs. Userspace needs to explicitly enable them or device wakeup
will not work.

I wrote a script some time back to do that but it can probably be done
with a udev rule.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

[Philip Webb]

151013 Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
>> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ;
>> I can power off & restart normally afterwards.
>> 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend.
> There was a kernel change some time back
> that disabled usb wake-up on all USB hubs.
> Userspace needs to explicitly enable them or device wakeup will not work.
> I wrote a script some time back to do that,
> but it can probably be done with a udev rule.

Don't be coy ! -- can you post your script here ?
what would such a udev rule look like ?

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[gentoo-user] Re: pm-suspend problem

[Roman Dobosz]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:46:00 -0400
Philip Webb  wrote:

> I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out.
> The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed.
> 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly :
> after  5 s , it restarts automatically & everything is back as before.
> The log file shows this happening quite clearly.
> 
> What am I doing wrong ?  Am I using the correct tool ?

>From my experience it may depend on the hardware you use. For example, 
on one of my laptops suspending worked ootb, on the other I have to 
switch off the wake on lan functionality in bios (otherwise it wasn't 
even able to properly power off), while on my wife laptop it's pretty 
random thing - suspending work most the times, but sometimes it just 
not. If you have particular hw (like Sony Vaio laptops) there is a need 
to pass "acpi_sleep=nonvs" to the kernel to make it work.

Hope that helps.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 14/10/2015 03:53, Dale wrote:
>>
>> I started to post that it looked like some other package was pulling it
>> in but portage's output is sometimes cryptic at best.  Sometimes I can
>> figure it out but usually, I have to get Alan or Neil to pull out their
>> magic decoder ring and uncrypt the thing. 
>>
>> Anyway, glad you got it sorted out and all is well again. 
>
> To figure out that "required by/pulled in by/installed" listing, you
> have to think like a programmer. That whole listing is not so much
> portage telling you what it will do, it's portage telling you how it got
> to the point where there's a problem. Think of it like debugger output -
> emerge runs, there's a problem and the dev asks for a memory dump of the
> dep tree emerge has evaluated so far.
>
> A little bit lower you find the helpful hint the some judicious
> unmasking might get around it. But what's really missing is a clear
> message about a mask.
>
> Portage is often like a 10 year old telling you why they are upset. Lots
> of tears and wailing, but no real description of /why/... :-)
>


Well, I did a debug dump thingy a couple times.  I couldn't figure that
out either.  I guess that explains it. 

Maybe one day someone will figure out a way to improve portage's cryptic
output.  I suspect that whoever does that may start with a full head of
hair but be bald when they get done.  Then they will change something
and they get to repeat that process all over again.  ROFL

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/10/2015 03:53, Dale wrote:
> Marat BN wrote:
>> Ah, I think I figured out what was the problem.  Looked down further in
>> the Portage output, and saw this:
>>
>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>>  (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
>> # required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
>> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
>> # required by @selected
>> # required by @world (argument)
>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>> # 2015-09-19--01
>> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6
>> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
>> # required by @selected
>> # required by @world (argument)
>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>> # 2015-09-14--01
>> =gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6
>> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6::gentoo[bluetooth]
>> # required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
>> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
>> # required by @selected
>> # required by @world (argument)
>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>> # 2015-06-22--01
>> =net-wireless/bluez-5.33
>>
>>
>> It appears that 'net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6' was being pulled in by
>> 'gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo',
>> 'net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]', and so on, and these
>> were just being reported further down below.
>>
>> So I added them to '/etc/portage/package,mask' as well and the problem
>> went away.
>>
>>
>> -- Marat
>>
>>  Original Message 
>> Subject: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a
>> masked package
>> From: Marat BN 
>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>> Date: 10/13/2015 05:53 PM
>>
>>> Hello there,
>>>
>>> I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system.
>>>
>>> I issue the command:
>>>
>>> emerge --update @world -pv
>>>
>>>
>>> Portage comes back with the following:
>>>
>>> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
>>> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>>>
>>> net-wireless/bluez:0
>>>
>>>(net-wireless/bluez-4.101-r9:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>>>net-wireless/bluez:0/0= required by
>>> (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>>>^   
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>>> (net-wireless/blueman-1.23-r2:0/0::maratbn, installed)
>>>^ ^ 
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>(net-wireless/bluez-5.33:0/3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>> pulled in by
>>>>=net-wireless/bluez-5 required by
>>> (net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>>^^ ^ 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>> But I have the following line in my '/etc/portage/package.mask':
>>>
>>> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo
>>>
>>>
>>> So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it?   Why does it still
>>> schedule it for merge?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot,
>>> Marat
>>>
> 
> I started to post that it looked like some other package was pulling it
> in but portage's output is sometimes cryptic at best.  Sometimes I can
> figure it out but usually, I have to get Alan or Neil to pull out their
> magic decoder ring and uncrypt the thing. 
> 
> Anyway, glad you got it sorted out and all is well again. 


To figure out that "required by/pulled in by/installed" listing, you
have to think like a programmer. That whole listing is not so much
portage telling you what it will do, it's portage telling you how it got
to the point where there's a problem. Think of it like debugger output -
emerge runs, there's a problem and the dev asks for a memory dump of the
dep tree emerge has evaluated so far.

A little bit lower you find the helpful hint the some judicious
unmasking might get around it. But what's really missing is a clear
message about a mask.

Portage is often like a 10 year old telling you why they are upset. Lots
of tears and wailing, but no real description of /why/... :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Paul Colquhoun]

On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:53:54 Marat BN wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system.
> 
> I issue the command:
> 
> emerge --update @world -pv
> 
> 
> Portage comes back with the following:
> 
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> 
> net-wireless/bluez:0
> 
>(net-wireless/bluez-4.101-r9:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>net-wireless/bluez:0/0= required by
> (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>^
> (net-wireless/blueman-1.23-r2:0/0::maratbn, installed)
>^ ^
> 
>(net-wireless/bluez-5.33:0/3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by
> 
>>=net-wireless/bluez-5 required by
> 
> (net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>^^ ^
> 
> But I have the following line in my '/etc/portage/package.mask':
> 
> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo
> 
> 
> So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it?   Why does it still
> schedule it for merge?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Marat


Try adding "--autounmask-keep-masks y" to your emerge command line, to stop it 
suggesting that you unmask packages.


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[gentoo-user] Re: persistent /run/* ownership/permissions

[Martin Vaeth]

Grant  wrote:
>>
>> The way to do it nowadays would be by placing a file with the content
>> d /run/munin 0775 munin nginx
>> into /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d (if done by the distribution) or into
>> /etc/tmpfiles.d (if this is only needed for your special setup).
>
> Will do.  Is that leading "d " supposed to be there?

Yes, see
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/tmpfiles.d.html

> Am I creating and editing /etc/tmpfiles.d or /etc/tmpfiles.d/anyfilename ?

Actually /etc/tmpfiles.d/anyname.conf (the .conf is important),
see the above link.

Note that /etc/tmpfiles.d/anyname.conf
will "cancel" any existing /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/anyname.conf:

This is so that packages can provide a default (in /usr/lib)
which you can override locally. (BTW: If that file is globally
needed, I suggest you reoport a bug to *upstream* to install an
appropriate file in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d).

One can argue whether this mechanism is better than etc-update,
but it has some advantages: It works for all distributions,
and moreover, you can see immediately which modifications
you made locally (on the file level as well as with "diff"
on a finer level).

Re: [gentoo-user] bcachefs

[Marc Stürmer]

Zitat von James :


Hello,
Anyone tested/ deployed bcachefs on gentoo yet?


Phorononix already ran some benchmarks on it. As to be expected,  
there's of course much work left to do.


http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=bcache-fs-linux=1

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS server packages

[Marc Stürmer]

Zitat von "J. Roeleveld" :


As it is related to this thread, which server would people recommend when the
DNS records are to be found in a database?


I'd recommend PowerDNS, which has also an ebuild in the official  
portage tree since ages.


It has several, mature web frontends and deploying DNSSEC with it is  
really, really easy, literally just two commands and then you go:


$ pdnssec secure-zone powerdnssec.org
$ pdnssec rectify-zone powerdnssec.org

After that you just need to publish your DS records to your registrar - done.

Compare that to BIND - much, much easier.

[gentoo-user] Re: pm-suspend problem

[Alberto Luaces]

Philip Webb writes:

> What am I doing wrong ?

I don't know.

> Am I using the correct tool ?

Yes, it works for me in all my computers, but they use a different linux
distribution.

-- 
Alberto

[gentoo-user] Gnupg-2.1.* nightmare

[Andrew Savchenko]

Hello,

I updated to gnupg-2.1.9 from 2.0.x on both my desktop and laptop
and now I have big problems.

1. gpgme is now broken.

Gpgme consumers (e.g. sylpheed, mcabber) can verify, encrypt and
decrypt messages, but can't sign them. On signing I have the
following issues:

Please enter your PGP passphrase: 
[17:26:06] GPGME signature error: Unusable secret key

Or:
** Sylpheed-WARNING: pgp_sign(): signing failed: User defined error
code 1

I _can_ sign using the very same keys and plain
  gpg -s --default-key $id
command. GPG itself works fine, something is amiss with gmgme.

I updated gpgme, libgcrypt, libgpg-error and libassuan to the
latest unstable versions and rebuilt consumer applications.
Of course, keys were migrated to the new format using gpg --import
and gpg-agent was restarted (I even rebooted the whole host), but
problem is still here.

The problem is even more strange, since I found a workaround way to
sign messages in sylpheed. Program has three options for key
selection:
a) use default GPG key;
b) select key by e-mail;
c) use key with provided ID.

Options b) and c) cause the error above, while option a) works, so
by editing gpg.conf I can set default key id to what I need to sign
a message. This is very inconvenient (since I have many keys), but
at least works somehow.


2. I have duplicated keys in the ring with the same ID and
fingerprint.

Duplication happens only to _some_ of my keys where I have a secret
key, fetched public keys of other users are not duplicated.

Examples:
a) Here I have the very same key twice:

$ gpg --fingerprint -K 0x8EE705C07CFA83D3
sec   rsa4096/0x8EE705C07CFA83D3 2012-09-11 [expired: 2015-09-11]
  Key fingerprint = 3F2D 1E49 4F96 2CE6 1597  F217 8EE7 05C0 7CFA 83D3
uid   [ expired] Bircoph 

sec   rsa4096/0x8EE705C07CFA83D3 2012-09-11 [expired: 2015-09-11]
  Key fingerprint = 3F2D 1E49 4F96 2CE6 1597  F217 8EE7 05C0 7CFA 83D3
uid   [ expired] Bircoph 

b) Now comes more interesting:

$ gpg --fingerprint -K 0x565953B95372756C
sec   rsa4096/0x565953B95372756C 2013-02-27 [expires: 2018-02-26]
  Key fingerprint = 63EB 04FA A30C 76E2 952E  6ED6 5659 53B9 5372 756C
uid   [ultimate] Andrew Savchenko 
uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (NRNU MEPhI) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (UT Department) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew Savchenko (Gentoo Dev) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (XMPP) 
uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (UT Department) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrey Savchenko (RHIC) 

ssb   rsa4096/0x7AB649CA518C8321 2013-02-27 [expires: 2018-02-26]
ssb   rsa4096/0xF6535A33BA1EE48D 2015-01-13 [expires: 2018-01-12]

sec   rsa4096/0x565953B95372756C 2013-02-27 [expires: 2018-02-26]
  Key fingerprint = 63EB 04FA A30C 76E2 952E  6ED6 5659 53B9 5372 756C
uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (NRNU MEPhI) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew Savchenko 
uid   [ultimate] Andrew Savchenko (Gentoo Dev) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (XMPP) 
uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (UT Department) 

uid   [ultimate] Andrew A. Savchenko (UT Department) 

ssb   rsa4096/0x7AB649CA518C8321 2013-02-27 [expires: 2018-02-26]
ssb   rsa4096/0xF6535A33BA1EE48D 2015-01-13 [expires: 2018-01-12]

I have two versions of the same key: the latest and previous one 
(before I added one more e-mail uid to the key).

This problem may be related to the first one, may be not, I'm not
sure. It is possible that gpgme goes crazy with these duplicates.

I have no idea how to remove duplicates and old versions. All gpg
commands are tied to either key id, e-mail or fingerprint. They
are all not unique to delete such duplicates.

I have though that this may happen due to both secring.gpg and
private-keys-v1.d present, but moving secring.gpg away doesn't
help.

Maybe manual editing of pubring.gpg will help to remove duplicates,
but it will be quite hard to handle this binary format.


Googling gave me very litte here:

1st issue: may happen for some custom gpgme client software, but
no data on global failures after gnupg update.

2nd issue: may happen when key is stored in multiple sources and
fetched from them, but I have no --keyring options in my gpg.conf
(see attached file).

Any ideas how to fix these issues, especially the signing failure
are much appreciated.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko
default-key 0x565953B95372756C
require-cross-certification
charset utf-8
keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net
keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve

[gentoo-user] Re: DNS server packages

[James]

Alan McKinnon  gmail.com> writes:


> > These are the (2) net facing primary and slave dns servers, just for the
> > few domain names I willauthenticate. They'll be behind a firewall
> > (iptables/dmz) with no internal zone information.  Strictly auth, public
> > facing, with DNSsec. 
> Then you need your chosen name server (bind), your chosen fw ruleset
> generators (iptables, maybe some other front end) and maybe fail2ban or
> one of it's friends if you find some port gets hammered.

fail2ban.   an excellent additional package.

> How much ram do you think you need?

The idea is to minimize the ram footprint.  -Os  in the make.conf file
should keep things small, with little performance degradation. Profile::
 [1]   default/linux/amd64/13.0 *

Do you think I can keep the HD size (ide-CompactFlash) below 4 gig?
I did years ago on a gentoo firewall circa 2009. Tricks for OS size
minimization are the focus now.

> > Bind9, dnssec-tools, iptables:: any other packages relevant/germane
> > on a amd-default profile [1] ?

> Yes, that's about it.
> Add in all the other usual server stuff you like to use - monitoring,
> logging, notifications, mail, whatever

mailx, another good idea.

OK, now a minimized set of flag setting for make.conf::
USE="-8 ncurses ssl crypt berkdb pam perl pcre python readline zlib bzip2
nptl syslog"


were the flags on that minimzed gentoo (firewall) systems; further reducing
the globals flag is warranted?
Any suggestions on flag minimization?

with::   CFLAGS=" -march=native -Os -pipe"

I hope I can get the total size @ or below 3 GB, as I have several 4 GB CF
cards on hand; other suggestions?


James

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

[Philip Webb]

151012 Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to be able to suspend my machine to RAM overnight or when I'm out.
> The pkg to use seems to be Pm-utils, which I've installed.
> 'pm-suspend' does suspend, but only briefly :
> after  5 s , it restarts automatically & everything is back as before.
> The log file shows this happening quite clearly.
> I'm using Fluxbox + OpenRC ; 'suspend to Ram' is compiled in the kernel.

I've done further Google research.
Many other people have had similar problems over the past few years
& the only regular suggestion is that there's a problem with ECHI etc :
I haven't tried following that up, as it's not recent.

I tested Mint 17.2 Xfce , which I have installed in another partition
& which is very quick'n'slick : suspend has the same effect as with Gentoo.
I've tried changing a few BIOS settings with no apparent effect,
but -- mysteriously -- Gentoo (but not Mint) is now actually suspending,
but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed, as it should ;
I can power off & restart normally afterwards.
'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend.

The result of all this is that I can't suspend to RAM & restart later :
that merely means that I have to repopulate my workspaces after each reboot,
but that's something I know by rote & can easily live with.

However, the one good + surprising outcome concerns the I/net.
Getting back in touch with my ISP can be slow + unpredictable,
tho' it always works after a few tries, which involve powering everything off.
However, I've discovered that if I don't switch off the router,
'dhcpcd' simply reconnects after a reboot (in Mint too)
& the I/net is immediately available : that's what I really care about.

So I can power the machine off while I'm asleep or out
iff I don't switch off the power-bar which also feeds the router.

If anyone has further thoughts on this subject,
they mb of more general interest, but for now I can carry on.

-- 
,,
SUPPORT ___//___,   Philip Webb
ELECTRIC   /] [] [] [] [] []|   Cities Centre, University of Toronto
TRANSIT`-O--O---'   purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

[gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Marat BN]

Hello there,

I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system.

I issue the command:

emerge --update @world -pv


Portage comes back with the following:

!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

net-wireless/bluez:0

   (net-wireless/bluez-4.101-r9:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
   net-wireless/bluez:0/0= required by
(media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
   ^   
   
   

   =net-wireless/bluez-5 required by
(net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
   ^^ ^ 
   
   
   
  


But I have the following line in my '/etc/portage/package.mask':

=net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo


So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it?   Why does it still
schedule it for merge?


Thanks a lot,
Marat

[gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Marat BN]

Ah, I think I figured out what was the problem.  Looked down further in
the Portage output, and saw this:

The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
 (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
# required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
# /etc/portage/package.mask:
# 2015-09-19--01
=net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6
# required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
# /etc/portage/package.mask:
# 2015-09-14--01
=gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6
# required by net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6::gentoo[bluetooth]
# required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
# required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
# /etc/portage/package.mask:
# 2015-06-22--01
=net-wireless/bluez-5.33


It appears that 'net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6' was being pulled in by
'gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo',
'net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]', and so on, and these
were just being reported further down below.

So I added them to '/etc/portage/package,mask' as well and the problem
went away.


-- Marat

 Original Message 
Subject: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a
masked package
From: Marat BN 
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Date: 10/13/2015 05:53 PM

> Hello there,
> 
> I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system.
> 
> I issue the command:
> 
> emerge --update @world -pv
> 
> 
> Portage comes back with the following:
> 
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> 
> net-wireless/bluez:0
> 
>(net-wireless/bluez-4.101-r9:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>net-wireless/bluez:0/0= required by
> (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>^   
>
>
> 
> (net-wireless/blueman-1.23-r2:0/0::maratbn, installed)
>^ ^ 
>
>
> 
> 
>(net-wireless/bluez-5.33:0/3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by
>>=net-wireless/bluez-5 required by
> (net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>^^ ^ 
>
>
>
>   
> 
> 
> But I have the following line in my '/etc/portage/package.mask':
> 
> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo
> 
> 
> So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it?   Why does it still
> schedule it for merge?
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Marat
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

[Dale]

Marat BN wrote:
> Ah, I think I figured out what was the problem.  Looked down further in
> the Portage output, and saw this:
>
> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>  (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
> # required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
> # 2015-09-19--01
> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6
> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
> # 2015-09-14--01
> =gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6
> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6::gentoo[bluetooth]
> # required by gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo
> # required by net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
> # 2015-06-22--01
> =net-wireless/bluez-5.33
>
>
> It appears that 'net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6' was being pulled in by
> 'gnome-extra/nm-applet-1.0.6::gentoo',
> 'net-misc/networkmanager-pptp-1.0.6::gentoo[gtk]', and so on, and these
> were just being reported further down below.
>
> So I added them to '/etc/portage/package,mask' as well and the problem
> went away.
>
>
> -- Marat
>
>  Original Message 
> Subject: 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a
> masked package
> From: Marat BN 
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: 10/13/2015 05:53 PM
>
>> Hello there,
>>
>> I'm having a curious problem trying to update my system.
>>
>> I issue the command:
>>
>> emerge --update @world -pv
>>
>>
>> Portage comes back with the following:
>>
>> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
>> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>>
>> net-wireless/bluez:0
>>
>>(net-wireless/bluez-4.101-r9:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>>net-wireless/bluez:0/0= required by
>> (media-sound/pulseaudio-5.0-r7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>>^   
>>
>>
>> 
>>> (net-wireless/blueman-1.23-r2:0/0::maratbn, installed)
>>^ ^ 
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>(net-wireless/bluez-5.33:0/3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>> pulled in by
>>>=net-wireless/bluez-5 required by
>> (net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>>^^ ^ 
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>
>>
>> But I have the following line in my '/etc/portage/package.mask':
>>
>> =net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo
>>
>>
>> So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it?   Why does it still
>> schedule it for merge?
>>
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Marat
>>

I started to post that it looked like some other package was pulling it
in but portage's output is sometimes cryptic at best.  Sometimes I can
figure it out but usually, I have to get Alan or Neil to pull out their
magic decoder ring and uncrypt the thing. 

Anyway, glad you got it sorted out and all is well again. 

Dale

:-)  :-)