Re: [gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. You didn't write what model, hard to help you then. It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4. When I was shopping for it, there was a $350 model with wireless, and a $450 model without wireless, I was like OMG, i DON'T HAVE TO

[gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
I spent $450 for the most beautifulest printer ever made. Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. I even have a test page from linux to prove that it did work, once... After going through unholy hell, with help from this list, I got it to print a second time. Naturally, when I went

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to locate printer

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
Don't bother, printing always stops working the day after you get it set up on linux. It's easier to ssh int your linux machine from your windows machine and then print than it is to get linux to print in any useful way. =| Thelma wrote: On 1/28/24 11:46, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 28

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Alan Grimes
I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak. My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. Section "InputDevice"    # generated from default     Identifier "Keyboard0"     Driver  

[gentoo-user] Something's actively deleting libssl.so.1.1 on my system!

2023-06-21 Thread Alan Grimes
Having manually dropped a stage3 libssl into my system, it has disappeared again!! What in god's name is going on? have I been virused -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] The Snowball effect.

2023-06-20 Thread Alan Grimes
In my panic to try to fix my keyboard layout, I did something absolutely stupid, I tried to update my machine. While this is a questionable thing to do on the best of days, it should definitely not be attempted when things are already going south. Now i've been having serious problems with

[gentoo-user]

2023-06-17 Thread Alan Grimes
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[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-06-17 Thread Alan Grimes
having extreme trouble typing this, haven't had to type qwerty in fifteen years, keyboard mapping I need went poof during recent update, rebooted for kernel 6.3, X11 is NOT recording logs to /var/log since last year.  Console seemed to be barfing about not knowing what a dvorak is even though

[gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Alan Grimes
I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI freezes, needs to be closed from console. First symptoms appeared after a game

[gentoo-user] It's working again.

2023-05-01 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium is working again. At this point I'm not going to even try to update my system until after the Jubalee which I expect to wind down by early October or thereabouts. =\ -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] Chromium build process tries wrong LLVM

2023-04-30 Thread Alan Grimes
There does not seem to be a gcc-config or eselect for LLVM / clang The ebuild for today's chromium requires LLVM 16 -> LLVM 16 is installed.  Fine so far... So therefore something selects llvm 15 to build =( # *  sys-devel/clang   Latest version available:

[gentoo-user] chromium and dbus...

2023-04-28 Thread Alan Grimes
It looks like chromium has no freakin idea how to use dbus... A decenently good OS would provide an IPC mechanism and little else. =| So basically this is just a hack-layer to get around the inherent fact that linux is garbage. Dbus is in my runlevels and shows no errors when I poke it with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
David Rosenbaum wrote: This seems to be an environment variable issue. Do you have a value set for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? No. I don't have the slightest clue as to anything whotsoever about dbus or how to begin to fix it, or why I suddenly need to know how to fix it. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
jul...@jroy.ca wrote: On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 14:40 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: atg@tortoise ~ $ chromium [19039:19057:0427/143338.626886:ERROR:bus.cc(399)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on

[gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
I rebuilt my system on gcc 13.1. I think the compiler is good but it exposed some bugs in a handful of packages, these are: tortoise /var/tmp/portage # tree -L 2 . ├── app-editors │   └── scite-5.3.5 ├── media-libs │   ├── liblo-0.31 │   └── nas-1.9.5 └── media-sound     └── audacity-3.2.5 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 4:32:59 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. How are you starting chromium? I always start it from the console

[gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] Chromium still doesn't work.

2023-04-23 Thread Alan Grimes
A new build of chromium came down today, no change in behavior. (High frequency error 11's with blank config, can't even display about:blank ) It must be some kind of dependency conflict but I don't seem to have any way to diagnose it deeper. I will be writing these posts daily until the

[gentoo-user] Chromium user files

2023-04-22 Thread Alan Grimes
AFAIK, chromium uses ~/settings/chromium  There's a lot of stuff in there so I don't suspect any other directories. I ask this because even against a BLANK config directory, the damn thing still emits crash dumps at a rate of hundreds a second, here is a sample... =\ -- Beware of Zombies.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another week without chromium.

2023-04-21 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:03:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: I've already pruned everything sus out of my home directory... I'm at a total loss.. This is insane at this point!!! I've been updating my system daily hoping that this will be fixed upstream... =( Have you tried

[gentoo-user] Another week without chromium.

2023-04-21 Thread Alan Grimes
I've mostly been living on my *cough* windows gaming machine because chromium STILL spams "Error 11" in all tabs. A 30 second test dumped bout 415 crash dumps to the log folder. =\ Has ANYONE gotten a handle on this error yet? Any idea what package causes it? Chromium seems very

[gentoo-user] Chromium

2023-04-14 Thread Alan Grimes
Looks like upstream noticed chromium was segfaulting so they took it off the every few milliseconds update sechedule and tried to fix it, looks like they added some assertion checks and shipped it out without trying to compile it.. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-clang++ -MMD -MF

[gentoo-user] Somebody deserves a medal...

2023-04-10 Thread Alan Grimes
Some hero fixed Ruby, all good atm. Chromium still absolutely b0rk3d. All tabs spew crash dumps to disk at extremely high frequency, no functionality. "Error 11" not exactly same as signal 11, but very similar. Seamonkey works fine for e-mail and non-multimedia pages; any multimedia ->

[gentoo-user] Logic?

2023-04-06 Thread Alan Grimes
1. My system was basically working last time I updated it several months ago. 2. Now both of my main web browsers are severely if not utterly foobar. 3. It required effort to change the system from the first state to the second... -> how much effort did it it take? =\ That said, the

[gentoo-user] Chromium

2023-04-05 Thread Alan Grimes
1. I've purged all obsolete packages from the system except for kernel 5.19 which I'm holding as a backup. 2. Everything looks like it compiles normally except for RUBY which is utterly broken. 3. Seamonkey crashes on __ANY__ video page, esp youtube but basically all of them, simple signal

[gentoo-user] RUBY?!?!?!?

2023-04-03 Thread Alan Grimes
Gah, the water block on my threadripper is clogged again. =\  Just ordered a fresh one, will try to clean the current one and keep it as a spare. I had been coasting for about 6 months but a power dip reset the machine so I'm updating. I had a nightmare of a time getting things to the

[gentoo-user] Preparing for video card upgrade.

2022-12-21 Thread Alan Grimes
Hey, I am getting ready to retire the GTX 980 Ti in this computer. (replace with Titan RTX which is due to be replaced with a 4090) The thing is my /X11 directory looks like: atg@tortoise /etc/X11 $ ls -l total 52 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1192 Nov 16 19:03 chooser.sh drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Alan Grimes
Laurence Perkins wrote: If you're going to try to dig all the way to the bottom first then --ignore-world and --ignore-built-slot-operator-deps can be helpful for forcing it to build what it needs to break a dependency loop. But do be aware that things may cease to function during the

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Alan Grimes
Andreas Fink wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:11:18 -0500 Alan Grimes wrote: I'm jackhammering the system now and I'm getting about 50% error spew I would suggest a different tool than a jackhammer to fix the problems. Basic assumption: Problems are caused by outdated packages. Underlying

[gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-15 Thread Alan Grimes
Even though only 45 days have passed since my last update, I felt like doing one tonight. Usually I should wait six months just to save myself the aggrivation...  (I'm looking to set up a local bitcoin wallet because the exchanges are not to be trusted anymore...) Naturally nothnig worked

[gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium has been a heaping pile of crash these days so I've been running update every few days to try to get a working version. Ok, apparently gcj is not a thing anymore and has broken libidn (iirc),  I got around that with a useflag... As always, Gentoo finds new and more bizare ways to

[gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Alan Grimes
Apparently installing libffi-compat will un-hose my system where ALL SOFTWARE that needs FFI thru python is broken, especially all portage tooling... Is there a repository and walkthru for installing this? Am I really the world's unluckiest gentoo user or was the pooch really screwed on this

[gentoo-user] Libffi and total anihilation.

2021-08-20 Thread Alan Grimes
Way to go guys! I mindlessly fired off an update after like 6 months this morning and forgot about it and, this evening, realized I had managed to utterly break python, and by extension emerge. It looks like it was meaning to shoot itself in the foot from the beginning but it ended up using a

[gentoo-user] any news on chromium + Glibc?

2021-06-07 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium is still broken here, all tabs blank after MORE THAN A MONTH... It seems they're trying to fix it because the rate of version bumps of Chromium has decreased from several times a minute to maybe one every two weeks indicating that upstream is having significant issues. I've been updating

[gentoo-user] Chromium Catastrophy continues.

2021-04-22 Thread Alan Grimes
My GLIBC situation is as follows, as you know GLIBC cannot be downgraded once upgraded. *  sys-libs/glibc   Latest version available: 2.33   Latest version installed: 2.33   Size of files: 16,676 KiB   Homepage:  https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/   Description:   GNU libc

[gentoo-user] Chromium: GIGAFOOBAR!!!

2021-04-22 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium now cannot render web pages. It's throwing signal 6 abort errors all over the place. When I try to update it it spews all of this nonsense to the console:  !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy " (2017-05-21) # (and others, updated later) # These old versions of toolchain packages

[gentoo-user] supreme annoyances:

2021-04-22 Thread Alan Grimes
A I have to wait during boot while DHCP tries to bring up eth0  (cable is plugged into eth1) and then manually turn off eth0 and turn on eth1 each time, can't find where this behavior is configured, /etc is a MAZE B. Everery. Single. Time. I have to run pavucontrol imediately after launching

Re: [gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
Peter Humphrey wrote: > I assumed the two terms were interchangeable. Is that not so? SATA: based on the IDE legacy over a serial bus, caps out at about 530mb/sec, NVME: connects directly to a PCIe 4x bus, no overhead of any kind, caps out at ~2gb/sec... (legacy HDD:  50mb/sec ideal sequential

[gentoo-user] routine maintenance.

2021-02-18 Thread Alan Grimes
I overhauled my computer today, found two things... My waterblock is clogged again, down to a trickle of flow, not bad enough to be dangerous at idle but I've had to order some fresh O-rings from Germany and will need to rebuild the damn thing again. Some of the nickel plating is scraped off

[gentoo-user] followup

2021-01-31 Thread Alan Grimes
turns out my problem was profoundly simple, I hadn't updated my portage mirror list in either of the past two geological ages...  (it should have reported "WAITING ON FETCH" in the emerge update, that would have saved me about 2 days figuring that out...) Mirrorselect actually worked. =O Perl

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

2021-01-30 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm not actually talking about the communist takeover of the planet, I mean I'm looking at what this brokenest version of portage EVER is not doing... I mean I always update my portage first thing after sync, because that's what you do, RIGHT I know you hate my scripts but they have a 15

[gentoo-user] stupifying slowness.

2021-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm trying to update my system after 71 days of uptime because I wanna start moving my stuff into a newer case (current case is 11 years old...) I started the update at aronud 3 am, it's 9 am now, the update is technically running but it's behaving as if it is running at a CPU priority lower than

[gentoo-user] The chromium fail...

2020-11-15 Thread Alan Grimes
The lines around the apparent fail with chromium look like: [8154/18666] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -MMD -MF obj/third_party/crashpad/crashpad/snapshot/snapshot/system_snapshot_minidump.o.d -DUSE_UDEV -DUSE_AURA=1 -DUSE_GLIB=1 -DUSE_NSS_CERTS=1 -DUSE_X11=1 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

[gentoo-user] Lots of Fail.

2020-11-14 Thread Alan Grimes
First, my 3960x nearly melted the last few days, my cooling loop had run almost dry. (apparent boil off...) root cause appears to be some kind of chemical issue with my coolant that had resulted in the waterblock being almost completely clogged preventing it from doing anything but getting red

[gentoo-user] kinda tight on time, what versions are good?

2020-07-31 Thread Alan Grimes
Kinda short on time to F with my system rn... Is GCC 10.2 any good or should I stay on 9.3? A few months ago I was in a squeeze play between the sound drivers and the video drivers on kernel 5.6. I even RMA'd my motherboard though there is a chance that it was only insability in the sound

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

2020-07-01 Thread Alan Grimes
Got the motherboard running, the motherboard was IGNORING the "UEFI only" BIOS setting, it was attempting to boot my system in BIOS mode, I found that I had to efibootmgr and tell the stupid BIOS what is what... why the BIOS doesn't scan the first two directories under /EFI for *.efi and list

[gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

2020-06-30 Thread Alan Grimes
https://omsi.edu/calendar/zardoz I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed.  I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic Smoke (tm) while I hadn't been looking.  So I went down to the Quickie Mart and grabbed a

[gentoo-user] upstream broke cups network printing...

2020-06-30 Thread Alan Grimes
I was sitting smug and happy thinking I could print from either of my computers to the laserjet printer downstairs. So therefore when I need to RMA my mobo and need to print out the forms, it doesn't work. The sack of crap seems to think it can connect to the printer using: Connection:

[gentoo-user] alsamixer

2020-05-14 Thread Alan Grimes
I don't really know why sound is working on my machine rn. I think there is some kind of embedded USB bus AMD thingy that generates some digital stream that is simply played by a set of DACs on my mobo. The chipset listed in the motherboard manual seems irrelevant. The capacitor in my speakers

Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer

2020-05-14 Thread Alan Grimes
Mark Knecht wrote: > Excuse top post. Responding from phone. > > 1) what desktop environment? None, I fire up pulseaudio in my xinit script. I'm trying to configure it with alsamixer as I always have... > 2) what shows up under /proc/around/cards? Interesting, didn't know about this:

[gentoo-user] GCC 10.1 SUCKS.

2020-05-14 Thread Alan Grimes
IMNSHO GCC 10-1 is the suckeyest pile of sucking suck that ever did suck I am going to have to base my system on 9.3... KDE really can't update itself, I really had to flog the living bleep out of it to get it, and a lot of other stuff to settle down... The configure phases for most of

[gentoo-user] Cmake: Just wonderful!

2020-05-13 Thread Alan Grimes
This is just fantasmagorically wonderful: tortoise /var/tmp/portage/app-arch # emerge --oneshot cmake python-exec: Invalid impl in /etc/python-exec/python-exec.conf: python3.5 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild   R    ]

[gentoo-user] a day of PAIN.

2020-05-12 Thread Alan Grimes
Ouch. Yesterday I made the dubious decision to go ahead and mobo swap my aging 1800x to [nondisclosed]. Ok... The new mobo is EFI only... Back in the good old days, the BIOS would just load the first sector off your floppy drive, check for a basic sanity check pattern to make sure the

Re: [gentoo-user] 'su' missing : solved

2020-03-13 Thread Alan Grimes
Philip Webb wrote: > 'eix shadow' provided the solution : there's a new USE flag 'su'. > when that is enabled, 'shadow' is remerged & the system rebooted > -- the last is essential -- , all returns to normal. Thanks all for having this thread, my rage would have been endless if I suddenly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nice job,

2020-03-08 Thread Alan Grimes
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/03/2020 03:22, Alan Grimes wrote: >> Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e00) with this library >> (version 0x50e01) > > RTFM when using Gentoo. Which manual? I haven't changed my behavior regarding updating my system in fifteen

[gentoo-user] Nice job,

2020-03-07 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm just writing to congratulate the linux community for F-ing up something as semingly simple as a terminal window as well as they did... Fortunately X-term is OK, you have to manually adjust the settings of each one you pop open but well... atg@tortoise ~ $ konsole QCommandLineParser:

[gentoo-user] WTF is up with mysqld?

2020-01-13 Thread Alan Grimes
mysqld goes into infinite hang when I try to boot my damn manchine. I found how to get the thing to boot into "safe mode" then I had to unix the unholy hell out of it just to get the MFing root partition mounted in RW mode then I had to remember how to use rc-config to evict mysqld from the boot

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

2019-11-26 Thread Alan Grimes
Dale wrote: > I have a question about this.  I've read about this for ages and sort > of get the idea, running out of numbers basically.  There's two > questions that I can't answer tho.  I have a old Linksys router, the > old blue thing that is so common.  Would I have to buy a new router?  > I

[gentoo-user] The Full Story.

2019-10-31 Thread Alan Grimes
and only voluntarily rebooted my machine ## GAH dev-util/meson:0   (dev-util/meson-0.52.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with     > Alan Grimes' e-mail address seems to be from Verizon, which is, if I > understand correctly, Yahoo Mail. Worse, AO

[gentoo-user] Chromium....

2019-10-31 Thread Alan Grimes
Oh for the love of god:  * Messages for package www-client/chromium-78.0.3904.70:  * ERROR: www-client/chromium-78.0.3904.70::gentoo failed (compile phase):  *   ninja -v -j16 -l0 -C out/Release v8_context_snapshot_generator failed  *  * Call stack:  * ebuild.sh, line  125:  Called

[gentoo-user] pam

2019-10-31 Thread Alan Grimes
Emperor penguin, brooding as usual: "I'm bored, how can we fuck with the users this week?" Chancelor penguin: "we can mask PAM for no reason. It has never caused anyone any problem but removing it will drive the users crazy for days trying to get their system working when they do emergency

[gentoo-user] issues.

2019-10-27 Thread Alan Grimes
Here are the issues I'm currently having. 1. Grub2 menu DOES NOT ACCEPT KEYBOARD INPUT! -- Upgraded my ram to 64gb, couldn't run memtest because grub2 is broken. 2. My current combination of Linux-Headers-5.2, kernel 5.2 and nvidia drivers is UNSTABLE and crashes X11 to command line when the

[gentoo-user] updating system with 1 thread...

2019-10-13 Thread Alan Grimes
When I started my number theory code up back in May, I left 1 hyperthread on my CPU unused for general use, mainly youtube videos... I decided to use that thread to run updates, even though I'm 6gb into swap (on a SSD!) with 32gb physical ram I found that the thing was mostly happy if I

Re: [gentoo-user] sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: I'm still as much as 3 months away from having spare CPU time, If you are unable to update more frequently than that you are going to encounter issues and maybe a binary distro would be a better fit. right now

[gentoo-user] sneak peek at next update.

2019-10-12 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm still as much as 3 months away from having spare CPU time, right now the next update is looking **BAD**: tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30 --verbose-conflicts --pretend These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done!

[gentoo-user] 2 months into an 8-month computation.

2019-07-11 Thread Alan Grimes
'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues... I stupidly fired up my number theory code which grows at roughly 3^x (where X = 49 right now...). (current position in the search space: 0x149b87d9 ) 0 hits so far, the set I'm looking for is

[gentoo-user] tried to compile tensorflow again:

2019-05-07 Thread Alan Grimes
tortoise ~ # emerge tensorflow [...] The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: ??(see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by sci-libs/tensorflow-1.13.0_rc2::gentoo # required by tensorflow (argument) >=sci-visualization/tensorboard-1.13.1

[gentoo-user] TensorFlow

2019-02-12 Thread Alan Grimes
I wanna take a whack at an AI challenge, https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/unity-obstacle-tower-challenge Ok, so I'm like "emerge tensorflow" It has been about two weeks since I've sync'd so this may or may not still be valid, updating is an extremely risky operation on my machine so I'm on a

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 1.20.x not working

2019-02-10 Thread Alan Grimes
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Another me too ... same problem, same symptoms, complete rebuild > including modules.  After hours of work I have had to mask 1.20 so I can > have a working system. > > > BillK What universe have I stumbled into? This is actually working Just Fine(tm) on my machine...

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Rich Freeman wrote: > > If you use emerge-webrsync then the sync operation itself should use > gpg signature checking and that should rule out server issues. Ditto > if you sync with git with the appropriate settings, though git also > has internal hash consistency checking (that doesn't prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Michael Jones wrote: > > My reason for replying initially was that I didn't think it was fair > to make light of users who don't expect to *need* to scrutinize the > output of emerge every single time they run it. Those people exist > (hi, nice to meet you), and it's not fair to say they're wrong

[gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Evidence: # tortoise ~ # emerge --emptytree world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [] Total: 1601 packages (421 upgrades, 48 new, 3 in new slots, 1129 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 32,663 KiB Fetch Restriction: 2

[gentoo-user] Missing file so DIE; Seriously?!?!?!?

2019-01-23 Thread Alan Grimes
99.999% sure this is not my fault yet my build gets killed dead by it, no "Okay, let's see what other things we can build", just DIE!!! ## >>> Verifying ebuild manifests !!! A file listed in the Manifest could not be found:

[gentoo-user] Worst ideas in history:

2019-01-23 Thread Alan Grimes
Top 3 bad ideas of all time: 1. Hitler picking a fight with Stalin. 2. Messing with /usr/lib, /usr/lib32, and /usr/lib64 which had not caused me a single issue since the scheme was introduced. (17.0 is broken under ~amd64) 3. Putting 320 people on a baloon filled with Hydrogen and sending it to

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash, more than once. Out of memory problem.

2018-11-26 Thread Alan Grimes
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Things I've done based on what I've noticed while sitting at the > system.  I noticed with the newer Firefox versions, the multi-process > ones, that it can hog up a TON of memory.  Sometimes I wonder if it is > trying to download the entire internet or something into

[gentoo-user] workaround for defective LOGITECH mouse.

2018-11-11 Thread Alan Grimes
My over-expensive logitech mouse has a MAJOR switch "bounce" issue on button #0 and is double clicking about 45% of everything causing major pain here. Any workaround on the software side possible? ie "disregard event if < 15ms from previous."? -- Please report bounces from this address to

[gentoo-user] What's with KDE?

2018-11-02 Thread Alan Grimes
I have not seen KDE add a single feature or even fix a single bug (while letting new bugs pile up) in FIVE YEARS. They version bump their entire suite for no reason every five minutes but nothing gets even slightly better. KDE has'nt been worth anything since the QT4 cataclysm, 3.59 was pretty

[gentoo-user] Per-process-tree memory quotas?

2018-10-19 Thread Alan Grimes
Hey, guys I'm having trouble here. =\ 1. I have a stupifyingly vast amount of memory (32GB) 2. I'm hitting swap with nothing but a few browser windows with maybe a dozen tabs each, libreoffice, and maybe 6 console windows. I should not be using more than 2.5gb ram right now but I'm using 14.6gb,

[gentoo-user] Where be me icons?

2018-10-06 Thread Alan Grimes
=\ Because each update basically rebuilds the same three or four super-packages (libreoffice, chromium, the kde collection, etc) all of which are version bumped every 12 milliseconds just to annoy ppl like me, and because I had such a Good Time (tm) last SEVERAL times I tried to update, I decided

[gentoo-user] Trouble on the horizon!

2018-09-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Whatever SJWs touch, DIES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VvJiNUCIA https://itsfoss.com/linux-code-of-conduct/ https://lulz.com/linux-devs-threaten-killswitch-coc-controversy-1252/ -- Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] The memory gremlin

2018-08-09 Thread Alan Grimes
[resend, list was down...] I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in any system ever.) Motherboard is an early release mini-ATX B350 board from Asus... Chip is a R7 1800X The pattern is: all cells test

[gentoo-user] Good news for once...

2018-07-30 Thread Alan Grimes
I guess I should mention that after the revdep rebuild and a kernel bump, everything's back, including steam. Anomalies noted: I think my memory gremlin is back, init took a dump and I had to reboot the machine, it wasn't scheduling the processeses I needed it to and it wouldn't clean up a

[gentoo-user] =|

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Look, this system was installed when I went 64 bit back in 2010... I put a great deal more work than I should into keeping it running. I use Eclean-dist every time to purge dead packages. I've learned that this is a very important step, often more important than the actual update step... I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote: > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: >> James Stevenson wrote: >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the >>> l

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
James Stevenson wrote: > I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 > libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the > library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam > from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my

[gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-28 Thread Alan Grimes
A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot.. It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but wasn't, the remaining

[gentoo-user] KDE: wtf

2018-07-27 Thread Alan Grimes
Kde is still broken here, I want to reboot before declaring Steam still dead... I read some vomit just now and it's like: ### -- Found PkgConfig: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config (found version "0.29.2") -- Found XCB_XCB: /usr/lib/libxcb.so (found version

[gentoo-user] getting increasingly worried about this.

2018-07-25 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm now running my update script daily (on a SSD...) KDE is still profoundly broken. Steam still doesn't work. -- might be fixed by a reboot but can't reboot due to dependence on kde packages... Today I get [ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-52.9.1_pre1:52::gentoo  USE="custom-cflags

[gentoo-user] correction: steam stalls

2018-07-23 Thread Alan Grimes
I had made a error when reporting my problem launching steam, I had a stalled steam launch that was causing the other launch to simply abort, steam does stall on load. I deleted my entire crufty old steam directory and am trying to run this virgin... # atg@tortoise ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Alan Grimes
Okay, very good suggestions, still broken, that bootstrap.tar.gz must be broken too. =\ atg@tortoise ~ $ steam --reset Installing bootstrap /home/atg/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz Reset complete! [### edit ###] atg@tortoise ~ $ steam which: no gnome-terminal in

[gentoo-user] Steam now not working too...

2018-07-23 Thread Alan Grimes
KDE is still very very broken. Steam is almost 1/100th as bad as filezilla at pushing out stupid updates to their beta client, which is pretty awful, whereas filezilla is unbelievable... Anyway, their client now doesn't load: ## atg@tortoise ~ $ steam which: no gnome-terminal in

[gentoo-user] KDE and pulseaudio.

2018-07-16 Thread Alan Grimes
I haven't read all the vomit in /var/tmp/portage yet but the basic pattern seems to be: Pulseaudio makes some sensible yet incompatible upgrades -> kde was excessively intertwined with a beta version of pulseaudio -> all of KDE depended on that one library, -> all of KDE fails. I need Konsole,

[gentoo-user] evil ebuilds.

2018-07-11 Thread Alan Grimes
Portage seems to be fairly OK right now but these ebuilds are really really being evil... I've spent about half a day on this bullshit so I'm in a really fine mood right now. Here are my masks right now, much of my mask file is obsolete, these are the ones I've been working with today. # DIE,

[gentoo-user] vulkan development...

2018-05-08 Thread Alan Grimes
After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from github and tried to build it. It couldn't find ... Uh, where are the headers? What package are they in? =( -- Please report bounces from this address to

[gentoo-user] ETA on mono-ncurses snafu?

2018-03-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Hey, do we have an ETA yet on when mono will be compatible with the ncurses which was released six months ago? =\ -- Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] Nvidia-drivers,

2018-03-18 Thread Alan Grimes
Gentlemen, we have a problem... Okay, ~ a week ago there was a power outage at my place, everything goes down for a day or two. I had recently refreshed my UPS batteries, so I had a chance to put that into the circuit, no biggy. Since nobody will offer me a job, I was playing Kerbal space

[gentoo-user] mono and stale files.

2018-03-03 Thread Alan Grimes
I did some neglected maintenance on my system today, cleared a few things out I then manually went crawling around in /usr/lib/mono and found 2/3rds of the stuff there was from 2014 =\ I unmerged mono, deleted the entire directory, then reinstalled mono. My pathetic reward for doing that

Re: [gentoo-user] mono is broken,

2018-03-03 Thread Alan Grimes
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, March 3, 2018 9:36:28 AM CET Alan Grimes wrote: >> I just emptytree built mono, still fails the test-install script, >> whatever that does... > It compiles just fine here. > IOW, it is not broken. Prove it, run mono-test-ins

[gentoo-user] mono is broken,

2018-03-03 Thread Alan Grimes
I just emptytree built mono, still fails the test-install script, whatever that does... -- Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] mono broken?

2018-03-01 Thread Alan Grimes
Hey, what should I do next to try to resolve this, I am pretty sure it's an install issue on my mono, haven't really tried to use it like this in years... As below, the "test install" tool tells me it's broken but doesn't give me any clue as to the next step. =( atg@tortoise

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