[gentoo-user] How to configure keyboard layout for X11 libinput?

2020-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't work, right-CTRL causes screen to flash, pgup/pgdown don't work, etc.). Unfortunately, all of the keyboard layout

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-06, Jack wrote: > On 4/6/20 9:35 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-04-06, William Kenworthy wrote: >> >>> Use rsync with the bwlimit option to slow down the overall data rate - >>> monitor the temp with smart and slow it up if needed (I actual

[gentoo-user] Re: Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

2020-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-06, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the harddisk from > the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ? No. The BIOS boot sequence has nothing to do with the order that mass storage devices are enumerated and named by the kernel. > Fstab

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-06, William Kenworthy wrote: > Use rsync with the bwlimit option to slow down the overall data rate - > monitor the temp with smart and slow it up if needed (I actually don't think > you will have a problem.) Does bwlimit work with local copies? The man page says specifically it's

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-05, Urs Schütz wrote: > On 2020-04-02 15:57, Grant Edwards wrote: [...] >> I installed flameshot (required no additional packages be installed). >> >> It can not be used to annotate existing image files. There's a long >> list of requests for that

[gentoo-user] Re: Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-05, Mark Knecht wrote: > If copying 100GB causes too much heat watching smartctl will show you > before it gets too hot and you can stop it. If your SSD really can't handle large data transfers without damage, I'd get a different one. Copying a few hundred GB in one go golly well

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Grant Taylor wrote: > (20)ProTip: You really do want local outbound queueing /somewhere/ on box. > > You don't want your web application to error out when it can't reach > it's SMTP server. You don't want t loose that receipt for the > transaction that the customer just made.

[gentoo-user] Re: Idea for Videoconferencing (Video part)

2020-04-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Petric Frank wrote: > Idea: Use two cameras positioned left and right or top and bottom of the > screen. Combine the two video streams and generate a third stream having a > virtual camera positioned at the middle of the screen. Can you explain how that "combine" would be done in

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-03, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your > time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? Yes. I meant the program provided by the "sendmail" ebuild. That is the MTA named "sendmail" that's been around since the universe cooled enough to

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 7:29 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: >> >> I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years >> old) from the likes of Asrock would be able to boot from an NVM

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Dale wrote: > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. > Do you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go > from BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared to ask. o_O I've been wondering if older fairly generic motherboards (7-8 years old)

[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman > wrote: > >> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the >> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real" >> sendmail - any MTA program you install

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-04-02, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> If your original images are screenshots, I'd recommend 'flameshot'. > > They're not. They're jpeg files produced by running photos though > some Imagemagick 'convert' operations. Does that

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-02, Ashley Dixon wrote: > If your original images are screenshots, I'd recommend 'flameshot'. They're not. They're jpeg files produced by running photos though some Imagemagick 'convert' operations. Does that mean flameshot can't be used to annotate them? > Unfortunately, it

[gentoo-user] Re: simple image annotation software

2020-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-01, Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:42:48 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations >> to image files? > I would be mentioning LO Draw, which you have considered. I tried LO Draw — it works

[gentoo-user] simple image annotation software

2020-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations to image files? For example, I'd like to add a few arrows, some text, and maybe a box or oval or two. I sometimes do stuff like that from the command line using ImageMagick's "convert", but drawing arrows with that is pretty

[gentoo-user] Re: Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-28, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > The SSD: > > 1.) From the pure technical point of view: Is it possible to > format the SSD with a good ole MTB and boot the system > from it and mount the hardisc (GPT) as usual? Yes. From that point of view, there's no functional difference

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC stopped working: XML reader not found

2020-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-22, Grant Edwards wrote: > The only other Qt GUI app I have installed (AFAICT) is wireshark. It > worked fine a few days ago, and now it segfaults too. > > ... I installed qterminal as a quick test, and it segfaults also. I checked another system that was also upgr

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC stopped working: XML reader not found

2020-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-22, David Abbott wrote: >>> VLC suddenly stopped working this week. Last week it worked fine, but >>> now I get this: >>> >>> $ vlc >>> VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7) >>> [55814c41d3e0] main xml reader error: XML reader not found >>>

[gentoo-user] Re: VLC stopped working: XML reader not found

2020-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-22, Grant Edwards wrote: > VLC suddenly stopped working this week. Last week it worked fine, but > now I get this: > > $ vlc > VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7) > [55814c41d3e0] main xml reader error: XM

[gentoo-user] VLC stopped working: XML reader not found

2020-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
VLC suddenly stopped working this week. Last week it worked fine, but now I get this: $ vlc VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7) [55814c41d3e0] main xml reader error: XML reader not found [55814c399580] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-17, David Haller wrote: > And they produce and use their own controllers, so they additionally > know the ins and outs of those, i.e. they can easily optimize the > whole SSD from Flash-Chip over controller up to the firmware... Yep, that was definitely the gist of my (wishful)

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice quality chips in their own drives... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-17, Andrea Conti wrote: > "NAND flash" (as opposed to "NOR flash") refers to the way memory cells > are organized and connected. See for example > https://www.embedded.com/flash-101-nand-flash-vs-nor-flash/ > > AFAIK all SSDs use some variant of NAND flash. Correct. NOR flash

[gentoo-user] Re: SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Same here. The main advantage of spinning HDs are that they are cheaper > to replace when they fail. I only use them when I need lots of space. Me too. If I didn't have my desktop set up as a DVR with 5TB of recording space, I wouldn't have any spinning

[gentoo-user] Re: Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-11, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 11. März 2020, 18:54:43 CET schrieb Grant Edwards: >> [...] >> Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python >>library under .local cause problems? > > IIUC you shouldn't have any proble

[gentoo-user] Re: Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
lity, so wrapping it a Bash script that activates the venv should work fine. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! You mean you don't at want to watch WRESTLING gmail.comfrom ATLANTA?

[gentoo-user] Python: ebuilds vs. pip3 install --user

2020-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
[IIRC, at one point I tried unmasking 2.4.2, but that caused a cascade of other problems.] Q: Under what conditions will having a second installation of a Python library under .local cause problems? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop - AMD or Intel?

2020-03-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-09, Mark Knecht wrote: > Would that be the consensus of the group here? After decades of buying AMD, over the past 5 years or so all my machines gradually shifted to Intel. So you can probably bet _that's_ not what you want... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa

[gentoo-user] Re: Nice job,

2020-03-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-08, Alan Grimes wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-07, Rich Freeman wrote: > In this case we're talking about a TPM where a threat model > is an attacker with physical access that is trying to play games with > the busses/etc, and as such it is important that it initialize using > code in ROM that is known-good. Note that the person

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-05 Thread Grant Edwards
temperature and supply voltage is usually far more significant. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! PIZZA!! at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
pare time (especially after significant updates). Otherwise, something will demand/cause a reboot in the middle of something urgent and then you know what happens... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! for ARTIFICIAL at

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild ignoring SEARCH_DIRS_MASK

2020-01-02 Thread Grant Edwards
the files that trigger the reinstall appear to be under the masked directory. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! On the road, ZIPPY at is a pinhead without a gmail.compurpose, but nev

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

2019-12-18 Thread Grant Edwards
I didn't once battle my way through an upgrade like that just to see if I could do it... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm continually AMAZED at at th'breathtaking effects gmail.comof WIND EROSION!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB sticks automagically.

2019-12-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On most systems, it was probably handled by the "desktop" enviroment — which you don't mention. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are you mentally here at at Pizza Hut?? gmail.com

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

2019-11-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-11-28, Dale wrote: > One more question Grant, if you know.  Do you know about the range of > the wireless on this router?  You ever tested to see how far say a cell > phone or something will hold a signal and work?  I had to move my > printer to the kitchen, a far bedroom was to far

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

2019-11-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-11-27, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> The TP-Link Archer C7 runs openwrt flawlessly: >> >> >> https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tp-link-archer-ac1750-dual-band-wi-fi-5-router-black/5889900.p?skuId=5889900 >> >> A couple months ago when I

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

2019-11-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-11-27, Dale wrote: > I went to your link for Openwrt.  I found Linksys E2500 in the list.  > When I go search for one, ebay etc, I then find E2500-NP with N600 also > mentioned.  Some even say E2500 and E2500-NP in the same description.  I > think the N600 has something to do with the

[gentoo-user] Re: eno1 became back eth0

2019-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
attached devices), the discovery order isn't always repeatable. The new scheme was implemented to make sure than every time you reboot you get interface names that corresponded to the same physical RJ45 jacks they did the last time. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow!

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: >> >>> It is waiting for entropy to build. >> >> Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? >> >>> Moving mous

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > It is waiting for entropy to build. Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? > Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have > machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful. Thanks, I'll try that. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

2019-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
Within the past week or two, I've noticed that on one of my machines when syslog-ng is starting at boot, it pauses for about 10s with a message something like "checking config file". I'm using the default installed config file, and it has a single non-coment line in it: SYSLOG_NG_OPTS="" I

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild ignores SEARCH_DIRS_MASK in make.conf

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
: SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/usr/lib/digilent/waveforms revdep-rebuild --pretend -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! How do I get HOME? at gmail.com

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

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-14, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: >> > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself >> > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portag

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-10-14, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Grant Edwards: > >>This morning emerge is complaining that virtual/pam-0-r1 is masked and >>scheduled for removal in 14 days. But virtual/pam is required by >>sys-apps/shadow which is part of the base profiles. > > I was just

[gentoo-user] virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
This morning emerge is complaining that virtual/pam-0-r1 is masked and scheduled for removal in 14 days. But virtual/pam is required by sys-apps/shadow which is part of the base profiles. What am I missing? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! HELLO, everybody

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

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
tinkered for an embarassingly long time before it dawned on me that simply emerging portage and gentoolkit together was the answer. It does seem like a bit of a bug when emerge tells you to run command "whatever", and when you do emerge tells you it can't do "whatever". -- Grant Edwards

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

2019-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
times. Gentoo is intended to be updated regularly (e.g. once every week or three). And if a Gentoo system has been sitting around unmaintained for more than a 6-9 months, then it's usually easier to just reinstall. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I threw up

[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/

[gentoo-user] Failures refreshing keys

2019-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
port 11371. Other machines in the same location don't seem to have the WKD failure, and don't seem to be attempting to refresh keys from hkps://keys.gentoo.org. Is the WKD failure _causing_ the attempt to refresh from hkps://keys.gentoo.org? How does one troubleshoot the WKD failure?

[gentoo-user] Re: gdb build failure: tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference to symbol 'keypad'

2019-09-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update: ... > CXXxml-tdesc.o > CXXinit.o > CXXLD gdb > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference

[gentoo-user] Re: gdb build failure: tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference to symbol 'keypad'

2019-09-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update: >> >> [...] >> CXXxml-tdesc.o >> CXXinit.o >> CXXLD gdb >> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-

[gentoo-user] Re: gdb build failure: tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference to symbol 'keypad'

2019-09-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update: > > [...] > CXXxml-tdesc.o > CXXinit.o > CXXLD gdb > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: > tui/tui-win.o: undef

[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

2019-09-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:26:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Though it might be tricky to get the mount to happen automagically >> when the phone's USB cable is plugged in... > > It should be possible with a udev rule. Yes, I

[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

2019-09-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > On 9/11/19 5:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >> >> You can mount sftp and ssh as filesystems just like you do with MTP. > > Good observation, I'll try that route. Though it might be tricky

[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

2019-09-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > On 9/11/19 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >>> After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring >>> files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become &

[gentoo-user] gdb build failure: tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference to symbol 'keypad'

2019-09-11 Thread Grant Edwards
, and initially thought it might be due to the fact that I had both ncurses:5 and ncurses:6 installed. I uninstalled :5 and did a revdep-rebuild (which found nothing to rebuild). But gdb still fails to build. Any clues? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! We're going

[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

2019-09-11 Thread Grant Edwards
IIRC, there's a farily extensive recent thread on this. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are we live or on at tape? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: packages going stable after sources become unavailable

2019-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-09-08, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 11:38 AM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> This seems to happen regularly with Imagemagick. Version 7.0.8.60 >> just went stable today, yet it can't be built because version 7.0.8.60 >> sources can no longer b

[gentoo-user] packages going stable after sources become unavailable

2019-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
I've noticed on several occasions in the past few months that by the time some packages are marked stable, the version is old enough that sources are no longer available -- so the emerge fails because sources can no longer be downloaded. If I'm lucky I may have a copy of the sources on another

[gentoo-user] Re: Migrating to python3_6 ?

2019-09-04 Thread Grant Edwards
.x can be rather painful. For most other sorts of apps, it's fairly easy to write code that works on both, and even easier to just switch over. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Used staples are good at with SOY

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
twork interface (with the phone acting as a router). For me that usually "just works". When I want to transfer files, my phone is usually already connected to the local network via Wifi, so that's what use. -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
Yep, I second that recommendation. There are also a couple free FTP servers that work well. I've had good luck with FTPServer by Andreas Liebig, but there's really no reason to pick FTP over SSH/SCP/SFTP. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Isn

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp-client slows down the boot process

2019-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-07-26, YUE Daian wrote: > By the way does "rc_parallel" really makes a difference? Yes. It guarantees that when you do have boot problems, you'll never be able to figure out the real problem. Having more parallel boot operations used to be one of the "advantages" touted by some

[gentoo-user] Re: Does root=PARTUUID=<> work with DOS partition table?

2019-07-25 Thread Grant Edwards
interface isn't showing up yet, because the firmware loading is failing. It worked when booting from the minimal install image, so I've still got some kernel configuration tweaking to do. I have vague memories of the iwlwifi driver not working well when compiled as part of the kernel but working

[gentoo-user] Re: Does root=PARTUUID=<> work with DOS partition table?

2019-07-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-07-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > All the examples I can find of people using root=PARTUUID=<> show the > longer PARTUUID values you get with a GPT parition table. Does the > root=PARTUUID=<> mechanism only work with GPT and not with DOS > parition tables? The comme

[gentoo-user] Does root=PARTUUID=<> work with DOS partition table?

2019-07-25 Thread Grant Edwards
ried a rootdelay of up to 20 seconds, and that doesn't seem to help. All the examples I can find of people using root=PARTUUID=<> show the longer PARTUUID values you get with a GPT parition table. Does the root=PARTUUID=<> mechanism only work with GPT and not with

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

2019-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-07-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/07/2019 20:59, Alan Grimes wrote: >> 'ey, I have the 2.3 months into an 8-month computation blues... >> [...] >> So basically all gentoo updates will have to be done at the end of this >> run, I'm not really sure when, sometime in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-07-09, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-07-05 14:25, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> -grub.cfg-- >> timeout=10 >> root=hd0,1 >> >> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo' { >> linux /

[gentoo-user] Re: Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
--- I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft that the mkconfig system would generate. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Inside, I'm already at SOBBING! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Video card, splitter and issues.

2019-06-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-06-19, Dale wrote: > [...] So, the splitter does in fact work but not with my puter's > video card. I suspect that the splitter only works for a handful of specific signal formats. Try configurring your card to output a typical ATSC "TV" format (720p 30Hz or 1080i 6

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage, continued

2019-06-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-06-04, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-06-03, n952...@web.de wrote: > >> Fundamentally, autounmask seems like something I don't want to do, >> at all. What happens if I just remove zz-autounmask? What do I >> have to emerge to find out? > > It occurs

[gentoo-user] Re: sysrescuecd gone rogue

2019-06-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-06-04, Mick wrote: > I just downloaded my preferred medium of choice for installing Gentoo and > discovered sysrescuecd now runs Linux Arch instead of Gentoo and to make > things worse it is running systemd instead of openrc. :-( That's sad news indeed. -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage, continued

2019-06-04 Thread Grant Edwards
rectories and /etc, and then just do a clean install. Though perhaps you want to battle your way through this upgrade to earn your portage merit badge. If that be the case, then Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close up the wall with our failed emerges. -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-29 Thread Grant Edwards
hich is a non-routable block for use by zero-conf et alia. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! OVER the underpass! at UNDER the overpass! gmail.comAround the FUTURE and BEYOND REPAIR!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-04-26, Dale wrote: > P. S.  Is there anything special I should do to make sure no one can > access my printer over the internet and do something bad?  Does the DSL > modem and router protect that by default?  All the DSL modems I've ever seen were also NAT/router/firewalls, if that's

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
usually done. > That way all puters hooked to the router can access it. Exactly. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My life is a patio at of fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-22 Thread Grant Edwards
I wish I could print color, but for the most part B/W is all I need. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hello. I know at the divorce rate among gm

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-31, William Hubbs wrote: > I would say you are left with two options. You can either file a bug > against the third party library and ask them to make the changes > (maybe providing patches) or the harder option would be to migrate > away from that library. Ideally, convincing the

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:39:03 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > >> glibc 2.27 has an include file "ustat.h" which declares a library >> function ustat(). glibc 2.28 does not have that include file (nor the >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:09:06 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb wrote: >> > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote: >> > >> >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have th

[gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb wrote: > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the >> current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5). > > I've been using Gcc-8.2.0-r6 since 170302 with Glibc-2.27-r6 : no problems

[gentoo-user] Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-29 Thread Grant Edwards
gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5). Is that a bug, or am I doing something wrong? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Th' MIND is the Pizza

[gentoo-user] Re: New network cards default to "Y" with "make oldconfig"

2019-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-24, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 24 March 2019 01:03:23 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: >> When setting up a new kernel with "make oldconfig", almost all new >> device drivers default to "N". The glaring exception is network cards. >> They all seem to default to "Y". Is this a bug or

[gentoo-user] Re: New network cards default to "Y" with "make oldconfig"

2019-03-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-24, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > >> On Mar 23, 2019, at 21:03, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> When setting up a new kernel with "make oldconfig", almost all new >> device drivers default to "N". The glaring exception is network cards. >> They all seem to default to "Y". Is this a bug or a

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel modules and security

2019-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
le-free except for... $ lsmod Module Size Used by nvidia_drm 40960 1 nvidia_modeset 1007616 2 nvidia_drm nvidia 13877248 117 nvidia_modeset -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Reduce granularity of emerge-fetch.log?

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-03-07, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 20:01:46 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I've noticed that when downloading large files, emerge seems to write >> an excessive number of lines to /var/log/emerge-fetch.log. The last >> time I looked, it

[gentoo-user] Reduce granularity of emerge-fetch.log?

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
of updating the log more than once every few seconds. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Give them RADAR-GUIDED at SKEE-BALL LANES and gmail.comVELVEETA BURRITOS!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge --sync source

2019-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
e PSU is playing up. Perhaps it's already been mentioned, but failing RAM can cause all sorts failures that might appear to be failing disks, failing network cards, failing video cards whatever. I'd run memtest86 for at least 12 hours just to make sure... -- Grant Ed

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
ributing desktop applications on Linux Start"... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! NANCY!! Why is at everything RED?! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-25, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 12:48 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >>[...] >> >> Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo? > > In my experience is amazing. Gentoo sometimes takes a lot of time to > stabilize some packages; flatpak

[gentoo-user] Re: email client: was: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-25, Jack wrote: > On 2019.01.25 13:48, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm shopping for an IMAP email client that does a decent job of >> handling HTML. After doing a bit of reading I decided the first one >> to try would be Geary. > > I can't help you with f

[gentoo-user] Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
like a lot of work. Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hmmm ... A hash-singer at and a cross-eyed guy were gmail.comSLEEPING on

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:41 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> > This any better? :-) >> > >> > echo '198.088.0.01 >> > 198.088.062.01 >> > 19

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
ood application for a regex. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I have accepted at Provolone into my life! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-23, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > How about this one? > > echo '198.088.0.01 > 198.088.062.01' | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1/g' > 198.88.0.1 > 198.88.62.1 Also no. $ echo 198.088.0.001 | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1/g' 198.88.0.01 -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> As someone else mentioned you can mask grub-mkconfig. I didn't bother, >> it isn't run automatically. > > I should have known that on Gentoo it wouldn't be. I ought to think > about

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 1/17/19 2:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Apparently they're going to try to pry grub-0.97 from my cold dead >> fingers... >> >> Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 >> install? >> >>

[gentoo-user] Re: minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-01-17, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:15 PM Grant Edwards > wrote: >> >> Do all the Gentoo package maintainers promise they'll never run >> grub-mkconfig as part of a any package (even grub:2) install, remove, >> or update? > > I d

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