Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread james
On 9/16/19 3:49 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: It'll be interesting to see if any stability issues come up. I run homebrew builds of Pale Moon, so I won't be affected. Hello Walter, I currently run palemoon-28.3.0 There has been quite a few releases (tweeks) since then, just not updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 September 2019 17:55:45 BST Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > On my system firefox started fine for the first time after the update > but I was only able to get it running in safe mode for subsequent starts. > > As the error message indicates as well as the fact that firefox is > starting

Re: [gentoo-user] gpicview/eom/eog not displaying JPEGs

2019-09-16 Thread Dom Rodriguez
Hello, On this date - Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:13:05PM +0100, Dom Rodriguez wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed media-gfx/gpicview and its unable to view JPEG files. It errors > with 'Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '. > > Oddly enough, `imlib2_view` and `feh` can open JPEGs

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:05:23 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > That's how I do it on non-EFI systems, on UEFI machines, I always > > > make /boot a FAT partition and use it as the ESP too. > > > > I'll try that. Thanks Neil. > > Hmm ... I think we're saying the same thing, but I may have lost the >

[gentoo-user] Re: Failures refreshing keys

2019-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-16, Grant Edwards wrote: > On one of my machines, I'm unable to do "emerge --sync" because the > key update fails: > > $ sudo emerge --sync > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... >* Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc >*

[gentoo-user] Failures refreshing keys

2019-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On one of my machines, I'm unable to do "emerge --sync" because the key update fails: $ sudo emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc * Refreshing keys via WKD ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 03:43:19PM +0100, Mick wrote > I don't mind recompiling it if this is what must happen, is there any > particular system-* USE flag which I should disable? BTW, in previous > versions I have these FF USE flags set in a corresponding package.use file: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Peter Humphrey schrieb am 16.09.19 um 09:47: > > In my case, building with all those system libraries causes firefox to fail > on > startup: it complains thus: > > $ firefox > 1568619005920 addons.manager ERROR Exception calling provider > GMPProvider.startup: [Exception... "Component

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-16 15:43, Mick wrote: > Actually, on two systems FF 68 has been a disaster: > > As reported by Peter, it crashes when launched. I rebuilt with the default flags (ie. with the system libraries) and so far it is working ok. > I have found three approaches to allow it to launch. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 September 2019 14:03:37 BST Mick wrote: > On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:47:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 1568619006132 Marionette FATAL> ^ > > JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/AutoCompletePopup.jsm, line 113: > > NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE: Component returned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:47:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:35:05 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2019-09-15 16:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > > > > > > > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:50:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:41:34 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:26:47 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Now you see, there seem to be two ways to arrange the esp and boot > > > partitions. The gentoo wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Wols Lists
On 16/09/19 08:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > I was under the impression that the ESP had to be a FAT partition. The >> > small unpartitioned space is for when you are using a GPT >> > partition table with a non-EFI bootloader. Well, it's really unformatted, >> > it is a partition. > Ah. I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:26:47 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:29:13 BST Mick wrote: > > What do you see in the / filesystem when the ESP partition is *not* > > mounted? > The ESP space is not a partition here. I think we are confusing terms. Your screenshot

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:41:34 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:26:47 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Now you see, there seem to be two ways to arrange the esp and boot > > partitions. The gentoo wiki says to leave a small unpartitioned space > > for esp data, then create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 02:35:05PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2019-09-15 16:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > > > > > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > > > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 September 2019 22:35:05 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-09-15 16:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > > > > > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > > > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 23:26:47 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Now you see, there seem to be two ways to arrange the esp and boot > partitions. The gentoo wiki says to leave a small unpartitioned space > for esp data, then create a vfat partition for /boot. That's what I > did. Other people seem to