[gentoo-user] Problem when going to install refind and using musl/llvm profile

Hi all, I'm attempting to set up a new machine. I want to try out the musl/llvm combo, profile 70, but am having troubles with the refind boot manager. When I attempt to emerge refind, I get, during the "pretend phase": * ERROR: sys-boot/refind-0.14.0.2-r1::gentoo failed (pretend

[gentoo-user] New build, openrc, llvm, musl etc

Dear all, It's been a while since I built a Gentoo machine from scratch so need a bit of guidance. I want to build a machine, amd64, that uses OpenRC, LLVM & Musl. Looking on the Downloads page and in turn the "Advanced choices", there is two separate Stage 3 archives, "llvm/OpenRC" &

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost keyboard shortcut to KDE button

On 28/4/22 11:11 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, While playing with task bars etc. I've managed to lose the Left Windows key shortcut to open the task manager. How can I get it back? I asked this on the KDE User list eight days ago, but no reply. The thingy between "Ctrl" and "Alt",

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and missing paste file option in right click menu.

On 28/4/22 9:55 pm, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:37:12 -0500, Dale wrote: I did my weekly updates this past Sunday.  I noticed one change I like. [snip] [snip] That works here too.  As you point out, it doesn't work elsewhere like it used to tho.  Odd.  I

[gentoo-user] Graphics problem, especially when running Firefox - kde environment

Dear all, Back story, I'm in Perth Australia, hence summer has just finished. Summer here means long runs of about 40ºC during the day and nights of about 35ºC at midnight. 12 months ago, I started getting a dialogue popup that said: KWin Window Manager Desktop effects

Re: [gentoo-user] Contribution: Python C Code builder, Simple Build

On 21/1/22 10:32 am, Matt Connell wrote: On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 17:12 +0100, Attila Boczkó wrote: I would like to send a little python program that runs GCC to compile the C code. The C Code can put multiple sub directories in the main SRC directory. The python code uses os.walk method to find

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

On 15/1/22 10:47 pm, tastytea wrote: On 2022-01-15 22:38+0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does a

[gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

Dear all, I'm in the process of fiddling around with the config of my kernel. This means using the "menu config thingy" that "make menuconfig" builds. It is very frustrating. Does anyone know why stuff is not in alphabetical order? It's a pain in the clacka trying to find some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 20/12/21 11:17 am, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) BillK How easy should it be? Won't ffmpeg allow you to do this type of thing but you need to do a

Re: [gentoo-user] Video plays past end of time it shows

On 26/8/21 1:45 am, Dale wrote: Hi, I have a video that does something weird.  The video plays about 6 minutes or so past the length it should.  During that extended time, you can't fast forward, pause or anything either.  I've ran into this a couple times with my deer camera and thought it odd

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

On 24/8/21 10:59 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 20 August 2021 17:26:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 7 August 2021 10:45:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, [snip] Spoke too soon. It's back again, and it's more stubborn this time. I really don't want to keep zapping

Re: [gentoo-user] I've got a pod of dolphins after start-up

On 1/5/21 3:04 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 1 May 2021 01:24:23 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I also have experienced something like it. In my case it was Wireshark coming up after I only launched it once. It is probably KDE’s session management getting into your way. Unfortunately I

[FIXED] Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login

On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding pods of Dolphins... [snip] ... ... [snip] To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On 28/4/21 3:04 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:53:11 PM CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I'm having problems building rust. [snip] ... ... [snip] Hope this helps, Joost I fall into the same camp as Matt. My machine uses Rust only for the Mozilla

[gentoo-user] Multiple instances of Dolphin automagically appear upon login

Hi all, A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding pods of Dolphins... I've just started up and then logged into my up to date KDE machine. Once the machine is logged in and ready to go, I have, on the boot/login just now, 20 instances of Dolphin running. This is

[gentoo-user] I've got a pod of dolphins after start-up

Hi all, My desktop machine is up to date ~amd64 along with KDE. A few days ago I think I had, amongst others, a Dolphin update. Now when I turn on the machine and log into KDE, I find that I have, for example the login I did to write this email, 15 instances, hence the pod pun, of Dolphin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

On 9/2/21 8:29 pm, Wols Lists wrote: On 09/02/21 11:29, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance, today I tried installing a small Gentoo system into a chroot, to do the compiling

[gentoo-user] emerge world, Python, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

Hi all, Quick question - an "emerge world" produces heaps of work due to Python 3.7 -> 3.8. Is 3.8 around for a while or are we kicking over to 3.9 in the next week or so? In other words, is it worth doing the 3.8 upgrade or waiting for 3.9? Thoughts greatly appreciated,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Raspberry Pi 400?

On 8/12/20 8:34 am, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:30:12 +0100, Teru Yuu wrote: As long as you boot into any system, you will be able to install gentoo. For rpi4 I used alpine linux (mainly because it already had write-up on wiki for headless boot with sshd enabled) You can do

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating LibreOffice and EPYTHON

On 28/10/20 9:18 pm, Adam Carter wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:23 AM Andrew Lowe <mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: Evening all,         I'm in the middle of doing an "-NuD world" and my Libreoffice build has failed right at the finish line. I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] A How-to to keep Python on top of its game?

Should have gone to the list, went to Dale directly On 19/10/20 11:20 pm, Dale wrote: Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to remove Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. [snip] Given some more time, I think 3.6

[gentoo-user] Updating LibreOffice and EPYTHON

Evening all, I'm in the middle of doing an "-NuD world" and my Libreoffice build has failed right at the finish line. I get: * ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-6.4.7.2::gentoo failed (install phase): * No Python implementation set (EPYTHON is null). * * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line

[gentoo-user] A How-to to keep Python on top of its game?

Hi all, I've just run emerge --pretend --depclean and it wants to remove Python 3.6 - all good. But in turn it is leaving 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9. I'm fine with 2.7 as I have a specific use for that but three versions in the 3.* series? Is there somewhere a How-to or FAQ or hints & tips that

Re: [gentoo-user] ABI_RISCV -> emerge wants to do heaps of work...

On 12/9/20 1:00 am, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Sat, 2020-09-12 at 00:49 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: emerge --ask -NuD world Is there a simple way of stopping this? Unless I'm mistaken, this is happening because of the -N flag to emerge. Since the ABI changes/additions

[gentoo-user] ABI_RISCV -> emerge wants to do heaps of work...

Good evening all, Just got home from an entertaining evening in the grogshop and decided to do update the Gentoo install whilst winding down. I've done an: eix-sync followed by an emerge --ask -NuD world and am now confronted with a huge list of thingies that need

[gentoo-user] Anyone willing to share a kernel .config file?

Hi all, I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU sitting in a Gigabyte X470 Aurus Ultra Gaming motherboard with 64GB of RAM and an nVidia graphics card. For some reason I've never been happy with the kernels config. Considering the grunt this thing should have, I am seeing nothing like what I would

[gentoo-user] Updated world -> KDE colours have gone feral....

Hi all, A few days ago I did an "emerge -NuD world" on my KDE based desktop machine. When I rebooted the machine, the colours had gone a bit weird. I use the Nordic scheme which is dark but now, for example, when I open Dolphin, the alternating horizontal stips/stripes that go from the

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

On 25/3/20 8:16 pm, Alarig Le Lay wrote: On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the current crisis) https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Linux I downloaded an archive (cannot find

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

On 19/2/20 10:29 am, William Kenworthy wrote: On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote: So, [snip] James [snip] Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii yourself and build/include your own software as needed - I did it many times with its Cyanogenmod predecessor

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

On 1/2/20 1:42 am, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I posted something a few days ago about middle click of a mouse not working. In investigating this, I think I have come across something a bit dodgy. [snip] Well this problems is solved. As someone pointed out, Jack both times

Re: [gentoo-user] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

On 1/2/20 1:42 am, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I posted something a few days ago about middle click of a mouse not working. In investigating this, I think I have come across something a bit dodgy. So first off, thanks for the comments/thoughts/pointers. Unfortunately I basically had

[gentoo-user] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

Hi all, I posted something a few days ago about middle click of a mouse not working. In investigating this, I think I have come across something a bit dodgy. I have just updated my kernel to 5.5.0. This has the dodgy behaviour of the middle button not working. A bit of Googling led me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

On 30/1/20 1:41 pm, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Yesterday afternoon, and for the last ??? years, I could be using Firefox, within KDE and with a Logitech M560[1] mouse, middle click on a link and a new tab would open containing the link. I did an "emerge world", which inc

[gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

Hi all, Yesterday afternoon, and for the last ??? years, I could be using Firefox, within KDE and with a Logitech M560[1] mouse, middle click on a link and a new tab would open containing the link. I did an "emerge world", which included some KDE stuff, but not Firefox, last night and this

[gentoo-user] Dolphin problems...

Hi all, I'm running an up to date KDE machine. In the last couple of weeks when I fire up Dolphin to browse the file system I get some weird behaviour. When the app first displays, I have "Places" on the LHS, the file system in the tree on the RHS and a shell across the bottom, in other

[gentoo-user] [Sort of OT] Going old school - Doom

Dear all, Does anyone have any suggestions as to the current "best" port of old school Doom? Spent ages playing this in the dim dark days and wouldn't mind doing a quick install and having a go again. Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE machine -> Shutdown icons gone walkabout

On 20/8/19 2:21 am, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I recently, last week or so, did some updating of my KDE desktop and when I went to select "Shutdown" off the menu bar thingy, no icons for "Logout", "Shutdown" & "Some Other Thing" appeared as the

[gentoo-user] KDE machine -> Shutdown icons gone walkabout

Hi all, I recently, last week or so, did some updating of my KDE desktop and when I went to select "Shutdown" off the menu bar thingy, no icons for "Logout", "Shutdown" & "Some Other Thing" appeared as they used to. I in turn had to open up a shell, su and then "shutdown -t now" to bring the

[gentoo-user] Music player being run from an emerge

Hi all, This all happens on an up to date openrc machine with the profile default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma I've added a few hooks to the emerge process via the bashrc that is in /etc/portage. One of the things I do upon emerge failure is kill vlc, which would have been playing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone with experience viewing EXIF data in Dolphin?

On 6/7/19 4:31 am, Mick wrote: On Friday, 5 July 2019 21:22:31 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: On 05/07/2019 15:37, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm transferring my install from a spinning disk to an SSD and decided to tidy up/customise/stuff up things as I go. I've recently taken a lot of photo's

[gentoo-user] Anyone with experience viewing EXIF data in Dolphin?

Hi all, I'm transferring my install from a spinning disk to an SSD and decided to tidy up/customise/stuff up things as I go. I've recently taken a lot of photo's whilst travelling and I have the Coords in the EXIF data. What I would like is to be able to easily view this data. There is a

[gentoo-user] Turning off nVidia HDMI audio

Hi all, About year ago I updated my nVidia graphics card. The sound stopped working and it turns out the new card makes it's onboard, HDMI, audio appear before the motherboard sound hence no sound via the 3.5mm jack. I usually have all of my device drivers statically linked, no modules,

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding building Gentoo and UEFI vs Non UEFI

On 20/11/18 17:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:51:34 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > >> I just have this little niggling doubt, probably baseless, in >> the back of my mind that there maybe something that may cause a problem >> for the newly built s

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding building Gentoo and UEFI vs Non UEFI

On 20/11/18 13:12, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 10:51 PM Andrew Lowe <mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Dear all, ... ... > > I've done this exact same scenario two or three times by now. However, I > don't recompile anything, I just

[gentoo-user] A question regarding building Gentoo and UEFI vs Non UEFI

Dear all, In the past I had a non UEFI motherboard setup for my Gentoo machine. The motherboard started failing so I took the opportunity to replace the motherboard & CPU and also to buy a new SSD thingy to become the home of my Gentoo install. I'm currently running, on a day to

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

Firstly sorry about the top post, on the phone. I've had the same sort of thing happen to me. I was lucky to have available sata ports so bought two WD 8TB video archive drives and attached them to the MB. The card idea from the previous post is basically the same thing. In turn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

On 31/08/18 23:16, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On 8/31/18 10:46 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, > >> This is not to start a flame war, I just want to do some reading, >> wikipedia pages, for self interest on how a BIOS could have/should have >> been done. I

[gentoo-user] [OFF-TOPIC] Best bios type thingy to boot a computer

Hi all, A bit of an off topic question , mainly aimed at those who, shall we say, been there and done that. It is very common to find webpages stating that the BIOS that is in a PC is a mess with respect to the way things boot, device discovery etc. Looking back through the fog

[gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

Hi all, I'm in the process of installing LibreOffice. Doing: emerge --ask libreoffice gives a big list of dependencies, as I would expect. One of them is openldap. I thought that that was a bit strange, as I am a home user, not corporate so I tried to turn it off. I placed a

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Computer keeps crashing during boot, need dmesg

On 20/07/18 21:31, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 20/07/18 21:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> Hi all, >> I'm having all sorts of trouble getting a new computer to boot. I have > > [snip] > >> >> VFS: Mounted root (jfs filesystem) readonly on device 8:19. >>

[gentoo-user] Notification of ebuild status

Hi all, Yonks ago, literally four years ago, 14/7/14, I posted something here about the whole emerge process being able to make a noise when the emerge process either succeeded or failed. Success, play some decent music, fail, play some crap music. I got some good relies and then promptly

Re: [gentoo-user] Computer keeps crashing during boot, need dmesg

On 20/07/18 21:26, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having all sorts of trouble getting a new computer to boot. I have [snip] > > VFS: Mounted root (jfs filesystem) readonly on device 8:19. > Forgot to add, in the new nvme config, jfs is a built in driver. H

[gentoo-user] Computer keeps crashing during boot, need dmesg

Hi all, I'm having all sorts of trouble getting a new computer to boot. I have two NVME thingies in it with one containing Win10 and the other, eventually, Gentoo. I use Refind to control the booting with the machine using UEFI. The graphical front end to Refind boots fine and

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox & ALSA

On 05/07/18 08:54, Adam Carter wrote: >         Does anyone know of a reason why this would happen? > > > Is firefox built with pulseaudio? If so, check the pavucontrol settings > too (media-sound/pavucontrol) > > Perhaps VLC is talking directly to ALSA, but firefox is talking to >

[gentoo-user] Firefox & ALSA

Hi all, As mentioned in a few emails in the last couple of days, I had a machine fail so I've taken the disks and attempted to put them into a new AMD Ryzen machine. After a fiddle around with the Sysrescue CD and a kernel rebuild, I got the machine booting. Sound was a bit of a

[gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

Hi all, I'm trying to get a new computer working. I've decided to go the UEFI route but something is being a bit obstinate. Would anyone have the combination of a Gigabyte motherboard, x470 Ultra, with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU? Set up to run UEFI? I'm having all sorts of trouble

[gentoo-user] Installing on nvme - not all beer and skittles....

Hi all, I have an existing Gentoo install that I've "customised" a bit too much and things are getting flaky. I've in turn taken the opportunity to purchase an nvme, a Samsung 960 Pro, and do a fresh install. Instead of using the install media I've just booted the existing install, mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] what gives with -O[x] in cflags?

On 16/12/2017 4:12 AM, Alan Grimes wrote: So therefore webkit-gtk decides to be a prissy little cunt and throws an > Masterful command of the English language there Alan. How about you just pull your head in and cut down on the swearing. It doesn't make you appear any more knowledgable or

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems copmiling firefox 57.0 (linking phase)

On 16/11/17 11:05, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > building firefox 57.0 failed on my system - it looks like > the last stage (linking) fails. > > I attached the build.log to this mail. > > Is there a way around this? > > Cheers > Meino > First thing I do when I have a problem with

[gentoo-user] Any reason for "Missing digest" errors at the moment

Hi all, I've just done an "eix-sync" and upon doing "emerge -NuD world", get a few screen fulls of: Missing digest for '/usr/portage/. where the packages are mostly from kde-frameworks, -5.40.0, and a few from kde-apps, -17.08.3. Has anyone else seen this? If memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

On 25/10/17 11:28, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the power > to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, > [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I > entered my user

[gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

Hi all, My machine went feral which resulted in me having to kill the power to kill it. Upon reboot everything looked good, fsck did it's job, [ok]'s scrolled up the screen etc and then I got the login prompt. I entered my username & password and then the fun began. I got: -bash:

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

On 16/09/17 06:57, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: >> Hi all, >> I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of >> Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a &

[gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

Hi all, I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? From what I've been

[gentoo-user] Ruby - 3 versions - seriously????

Hi all, I'm in the process of doing a world update and due to a failed compile, I have cause to look up through the list of stuff to compile/update. Imagine my surprise when I saw there were three versions of Ruby wanting to update: [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-2.4.1-r4 [2.4.1-r3]

[gentoo-user] ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

Good afternoon all, Does anyone have any inside knowledge as to why 5.9.5 of KDE plasma desktop did not require ntp whereas 5.10.5 does? I use Openntp and been using KDE 5 for ages with the time being correct so was wondering why now the requirement for net-misc/ntp specifically.

Re: [gentoo-user] Clang has gone walkabout

On 10/04/17 20:58, Simon Thelen wrote: On 17-04-10 at 20:48, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 10/04/17 18:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: On April 10, 2017 12:41:54 PM GMT+02:00, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: On 10/04/17 18:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:13:28 +0800, Andrew Lowe

Re: [gentoo-user] Clang has gone walkabout

On 10/04/17 18:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: On April 10, 2017 12:41:54 PM GMT+02:00, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: On 10/04/17 18:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:13:28 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Do we have any clang users out there? I've had clang installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Clang has gone walkabout

On 10/04/17 18:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:13:28 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Do we have any clang users out there? I've had clang installed on my machine for ages and a simple "clang test.c" will result in an executable. I can even nearly build my whole mac

[gentoo-user] Clang has gone walkabout

Hi all, Do we have any clang users out there? I've had clang installed on my machine for ages and a simple "clang test.c" will result in an executable. I can even nearly build my whole machine using clang, so its up and running. I've now just updated clang, from a working 3.9.1 to a 4.0.0-r1

[gentoo-user] Strangeness with Grub and Win7 partitions

Hi all, Don't know if it's my machine or a bug somewhere in Grub, but I have a dual boot setup /dev/sda - Linux, /dev/sdb - Win7, that grub-mkconfig would find correctly and build the grub.cfg file for. Or it did in the past. I hadn't had call to boot into Win7 for a while but kept building

Re: [gentoo-user] bashrc in console

On 22/03/17 21:02, Hogren wrote: On 22/03/2017 13:58, Hogren wrote: On 22/03/2017 13:57, Hogren wrote: On 22/03/2017 13:42, Arthur Țițeică wrote: În ziua de miercuri, 22 martie 2017, la 14:34:50 EET, Hogren a scris: Hello, Anybody knows why ~/.bashrc is not running on the first Bash

[gentoo-user] Latest LLVM wants to pollute my machine with VIM stuff.....

Hi all, I'm still trying to come to grips with understanding ebuilds so please bear with me if this is a simple question. I've just sync'd and then done an emerge --ask -NuD world I have LLVM/clang installed and upon browsing the updates saw app-vim/llvm-vim. This is some sort of

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL is causing me angst

On 01/02/17 16:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 11:06:30 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: I masked this, when I originally asked the question, unmasked this morning and now all is good. No idea what I/the system/portage changed but it now compiled. Now it's busybox causing trouble

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL is causing me angst

On 21/01/17 05:15, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2017, 16:36:21 CET schrieb Andrew Lowe: Dear all, Just done an eix-sync -> emerge -NuD world and have a problem with the above mentioned package. As a quick first pass before I put all the error/debugging stuff toget

Re: [gentoo-user] Which is the Gentoo default? Openssl or Libressl?

On 24/01/17 23:47, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/24/2017 10:38 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Title says it all. I think I've managed to screw things up, a USE flag here, a USE flag there - what's a USE flag between fiends sort of thing. I want to sort things out and I know at one time

[gentoo-user] Which is the Gentoo default? Openssl or Libressl?

Hi all, Title says it all. I think I've managed to screw things up, a USE flag here, a USE flag there - what's a USE flag between fiends sort of thing. I want to sort things out and I know at one time or another I think I've dabbled in both openssl and libressl and now have some sort of mixed

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox tells me my "...connection is not secure"

On 23/01/17 16:46, Alarig Le Lay wrote: On Mon Jan 23 16:43:32 2017, Andrew Lowe wrote: HI all, Just wondering if anyone else has come across this problem. Via the search box in Firefox, I attempt to search Google for, say, "distillation columns" and I get a page sayin

[gentoo-user] Firefox tells me my "...connection is not secure"

HI all, Just wondering if anyone else has come across this problem. Via the search box in Firefox, I attempt to search Google for, say, "distillation columns" and I get a page saying: "Your connection is not secure" some more stuff then "Error code:

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL is causing me angst

On 16/01/17 01:07, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: On 15/01/17 21:27, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:36 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL is causing me angst

On 15/01/17 21:27, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: Dear all, Just done an eix-sync -> emerge -NuD world and have a problem with the above mentioned package. As a quick first pass before I put all the error/debugg

[gentoo-user] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL is causing me angst

Dear all, Just done an eix-sync -> emerge -NuD world and have a problem with the above mentioned package. As a quick first pass before I put all the error/debugging stuff together, does anyone know what the following snippet would mean, I'm totally Perl ignorant? * perl Makefile.PL

[gentoo-user] Metalog & runscript

Hi all, I'm still getting the warning during boot about metalog using runscript during the boot process. I decided to track things down and see what was going on. My first stop was bugs.gentoo.org where there is this one: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581926 Upon reading this, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Very small email sender thingy

On 22/11/16 19:09, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 07:01:36 PM Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, First up, I'm not an email admin or anything as snazzy so I'm not fully buzzword compliant. [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Thoughts greatly appreciated

[gentoo-user] Very small email sender thingy

Hi all, First up, I'm not an email admin or anything as snazzy so I'm not fully buzzword compliant. What I'm after is a tiny app that will, when called from the prompt, send an email to any address. I have several apps that take a long time to run, think Finite Elemental Analysis and

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

On 29/10/16 14:53, Daniel Campbell wrote: On 10/28/2016 09:56 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone seeing this again? I've just sync'd to two servers in Australia, and then, for the hell of it, one in Canada and am getting it for: dev-libs/botan app-arch/tar media-video/libav app-crypt

[gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

Hi all, Anyone seeing this again? I've just sync'd to two servers in Australia, and then, for the hell of it, one in Canada and am getting it for: dev-libs/botan app-arch/tar media-video/libav app-crypt/qca net-print/cups-filters I suppose time will sort it out. Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps

On 13/10/16 20:39, Michael Mol wrote: On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:54:48 PM Jörg Schaible wrote: Anyone? After upgrading a second machine to KDE/Plasma 5, I have the same behavior there. All KDE-4-based apps fail to interact with the file system. Using KMail I can no longer add any

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed: Filesize does not match recorded size

11:33 AM, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: On 08/10/16 15:59, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've been getting this output since last night. Calculating dependencies ... ... done! [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p48 [4.3_p46-r1] [snip] ... ... [snip] Or is there some othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed: Filesize does not match recorded size

On 08/10/16 15:59, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: I've been getting this output since last night. Calculating dependencies ... ... done! [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p48 [4.3_p46-r1] [snip] ... ... [snip] Or is there some other way to fix this, like running 'ebuild /path/to/ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

On 01/09/16 17:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: [snip] [snip] ... ... [snip] That is the most stupid dumbass argument I've heard in weeks. It doesn't even

Re: [gentoo-user] Wastebin or trash?

On 07/09/16 23:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, As I said in the "emerge @system" thread, I've built a fresh ~amd64 system on this i7 box. I also created a new user directory for myself, copying in only .bash*, .gkrellm2 and .mozilla. After spending a good long time setting up KDE and

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

On 31/07/2016 1:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller [16-07-30 13:24]: Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: trying the new kernel linux-4.7 (vanilla, downloaded from [snip] Short qyestion: How can I apply it...I mean...as soon as I do an

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

On 30/07/16 14:09, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, thank you for your reply ! :) I have to use the nvidia drivers, because I am using Blender, which renders via CUDA on the GPU... Best regards Meino Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku [16-07-30 08:04]: I have an earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine running before modem turned on - Network weirdness

On 27/07/16 00:10, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 26/07/2016 18:01, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I can remember in the distant past that I had to have my modem turned on before the computer otherwise, I wouldn't get an IP address. Then something changed. One day I forgot to turn on the modem first

[gentoo-user] Machine running before modem turned on - Network weirdness

Hi all, I can remember in the distant past that I had to have my modem turned on before the computer otherwise, I wouldn't get an IP address. Then something changed. One day I forgot to turn on the modem first. I turned the machine on then realised the modem wasn't on, I turned it, the

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm install and python_fix_shebang: EPYTHON unset

On 18/07/16 21:18, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 18/07/16 20:03, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/18/2016 07:19 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting to update llvm & clang and am getting a failure. Portage is reporting: * ERROR: sys-d

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm install and python_fix_shebang: EPYTHON unset

On 18/07/16 20:03, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/18/2016 07:19 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting to update llvm & clang and am getting a failure. Portage is reporting: * ERROR: sys-devel/llvm-3.8.1::gentoo failed (ins

[gentoo-user] llvm install and python_fix_shebang: EPYTHON unset

Hi all, I'm attempting to update llvm & clang and am getting a failure. Portage is reporting: * ERROR: sys-devel/llvm-3.8.1::gentoo failed (install phase): * python_fix_shebang: EPYTHON unset (pkg_setup not called?) I've looked in the ebuild and can't even find a mention of EPYTHON. I've

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