Re: [gentoo-user] Question about runlevels.

2021-03-18 Thread Jack
plicitly stopped them.) Can you explicitly set up myService-default to explicitly check if myService-boot is running, and if so, stop it before starting itself? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] asciidoc Fetched file: asciidoc-9.0.5.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED!

2021-03-01 Thread Jack
On 3/1/21 3:43 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:29:49 -0600, Dale wrote: I'm not sure what is going on with the servers but when I switched to one of them, recent updates didn't even exist.  I just did a KDE and I think Firefox and neither seemed to be in the tree from those

Re: [gentoo-user] asciidoc Fetched file: asciidoc-9.0.5.tar.gz VERIFY FAILED!

2021-02-28 Thread Jack
with the new tarballs, you'll get the failure you got.  Since you already have the new tarball, maybe you just need to manually edit the ebuild per the bug, and rerun "ebuild path/to/file.ebuild manifest" to manually update the hash for the tarball, if you trust the tarball you have. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] why both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 on a 64bit system?

2021-02-14 Thread Jack
On 2/14/21 4:48 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:51:30PM -0500 schrieb Jack: As I remember, /lib and /usr/lib hold not only 32 bit libraries, but non-arch or arch-irrelevant (I know there's a better term) files. arch-agnostic? ;-) Thanks.  I think that's

Re: [gentoo-user] why both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 on a 64bit system?

2021-02-14 Thread Jack
On 2/14/21 12:22 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 2/13/21 9:38 PM, Dan Egli wrote: Frankly, I find there's still too many programs that want 32bit libraries to go full no-multilib. Are the programs that you're referring to things that are installed through something other than emerge? I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-3.18.5 build fails

2021-02-12 Thread Jack
talled. (1.9.3 is the only other one I see in Portage.) Is it possible you have an older version, and the dep needs to be updated? Also, might it be related to gcc version? I'm currently using 10.2.0-r5 ~amd64. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread Jack
On 2/4/21 11:37 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 5:17 PM, Jack wrote: On 2/4/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2/4/21 3:47 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 12:37 +0100, n952162 wrote: The VirtualBox kernel modules do not match this version of VirtualBox. Whenever you update

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox version mismatch

2021-02-04 Thread Jack
-emulation/virtualbox app-emulation/virtualbox-modules If you have already run virtualbox since the last reboot, you might need to rmmod those modules to unload the older version. Then you can use modprobe to load the new versions, without having to reboot. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed

2021-01-16 Thread Jack
On 2021.01.16 15:36, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: [snip.] 2.) The two Gentoo PC that are meters away from the switch are my concern firs. One is a server, another small PC run 24/7 and both negotiated speed of 1000 with the switch. I may be way off base here, but if the switch is

Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed

2021-01-15 Thread Jack
On 1/15/21 11:51 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 1/15/21 2:58 AM, Michael wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:42:16 GMT bobwxc wrote: 在 2021/1/15 下午4:27, Raffaele BELARDI 写道: -Original Message- From: bobwxc Sent: Friday, January 15, 2021 08:57 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Differences between wget and browser file retrieval?

2021-01-14 Thread Jack
s there some way to get around this? I have not updated this past week, so I don't think the problem is at my end. I just copy/pasted that wget command into my terminal, and it got me a 1.7M PDF doc. I'm in the US, but I have no idea if location/IP is an issue or not. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] could there be a problem with acct-group/lp?

2020-12-30 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.30 17:17, n952162 wrote: When I try to restore my pkgs, after the --depclean, the emerge fails.  It seems like there's an error in the pre-inst script of acct-group/lp?  That's need by cups: 1270~/adm/gentoo/emerged>sudo cat /var/tmp/portage/acct-group/lp-0-r1/temp/build.log  *

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-21 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.21 14:42, k...@aspodata.se wrote: Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? > > > > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: > > > > checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest local ebuild - bump version

2020-12-18 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.18 01:49, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: How bump version and manifest local ebuild. I copied barcode-0.99.ebuild to local/portage and tired to bump version mv barcode-0.99.1.ebuild ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-text/barcode/barcode-0.99.1.ebuild manifest but when I try to

Re: [gentoo-user] paraview build

2020-12-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.15 15:36, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: Hello, Has anyone been able to build sci-visualization/paraview either through portage or outside portage? Currently I can't either way. Thanks for inputs. -- Valmor I just build paraview-5.8.1 using portage/emerge with no problems,

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed

2020-12-11 Thread Jack
On 12/11/20 4:36 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I wipe the /boot, reinstall kernel, initframes, grub. The system boots, I can login as root but X is not running, the command is displaying: "(none) /#" When I try to start the network I get: fsck.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) open: no such file or

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing PC sutdown by power button when running

2020-12-11 Thread Jack
On 12/10/20 11:20 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: How to prevent PC from shutdown when running when power button is pressed? Is it a function in a BIOS or OS? You could always unplug the wire from the power button to the motherboard.

Re: [gentoo-user] The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid.

2020-12-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.10 13:11, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: When I try to select /var/spool/mail I get an error: The Local Directory path "/var/spool/mail" is invalid. Please pick a different directory. drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Dec 10 10:56 mail Why Thunderbird can not read that directory? Are

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

2020-12-10 Thread Jack
elevant posts in the dev mailing list, but my sense is there is no reason to expect the next switch to move any more quickly than this one. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-07 Thread Jack
of the same. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-06 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.06 17:04, Victor Ivanov wrote: On 06/12/2020 21:55, Jack wrote: My understanding was that "equery d" gives you a list from portage, not caring about what is currently installed, where "emerge -pvc" will tell you what is preventing the removal of the package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-06 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.06 15:50, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-12-06, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 21:25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > emerge -cpv python:3.7 will show you what is keeping 3.7 >> >> Something's wrong. >> >> That lists 43 packages. I checked the first few, and none of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-06 Thread Jack
On 2020.12.06 16:04, Victor Ivanov wrote: I'm on the same boat as Grant and, despite being fully up to date, have found it incredibly infuriating to not be able to figure out why I have so many python interpreters installed. I don't mind the consumed space, but I get the itch from not

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-04 Thread Jack
are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Explicitly stated, just so you know. Packages installed:   969 Packages in world:    285 Packages in system:   43 Required packages:    897 Number to remove: 72 Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

2020-11-26 Thread Jack
On 11/26/20 8:48 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:01:22 -0600, Dale wrote: I got a message from him.  At least we will know he is OK.  All his machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore. So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch. I had a feeling

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-25 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.25 13:08, Jack wrote: On 2020.11.25 07:24, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, if I try to save a web page containing an illegal character (like hookrace.net/blog/introduction-to-metaprogramming-in-nim/) several browser show an error (attached image) and cannot recover from it. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-25 Thread Jack
ut exactly what character it is. I have en_US.UTF-8. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel all

2020-11-25 Thread Jack Morgan
Thelma, On 11/25/20 9:11 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 11/25/2020 08:27 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 11/25/2020 08:23 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I compiled "genkernel all" instead of looking for the correct entry to boot my M.2 drive. Not I compiled nvidia-drivers and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: duplicate gentoo system - errors

2020-11-24 Thread Jack
On 11/24/20 10:41 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:01:35 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Can you imagine an fstab with 22 partitions? Doesn't bear thinking about. Yes. I have one with 12 and often wish it had more. It comes in handy when you need to test drivers and

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

2020-11-23 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.23 15:00, Dale wrote: Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Mon, 2020-11-23 at 19:24 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >> *blush* Even though I'm using "date" since umpteen years, up to now I >> was not aware of this "@..." syntax. You're perfectly right, that's ex- >> actly what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

2020-11-23 Thread Jack
On 11/23/20 12:28 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, looking for a small, fast utility (preferably written in C) accepting a Unix time (seconds since 1970-01-01) as argument and printing the corr- esponding local time to standard output. Any pointers? Sincerely, Rainer I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system - errors

2020-11-22 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.22 20:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 11/22/2020 05:25 PM, Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 22 November 2020 23:39:44 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> OK, I used Gparted (Bootable usb) to copy partition from: >> Western Digital driver, usually: >> /dev/sda1 etc >> >> to M.2 SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] error trying to mount Samsung: Galaxy android models (MTP)

2020-11-21 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.21 23:12, edward m wrote: hi, i receive an error when trying to mount an android phone under gentoo. im wondering if a fix, workaround exists or more likely its a bug. thanks in advance. error: mtpfs AndroidDevice/ Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2020-11-19 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.19 17:37, Adam Carter wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 8:36 AM Steven Lembark wrote: > > Based on: > > 2020-04-22 Python 3.7 to become the default target > > I'd have thought that using: > > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7" > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] odd issue with RTKIT syslog-ng

2020-11-17 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.16 21:00, cal wrote: On 11/16/20 4:22 PM, Jack wrote: On 2020.11.15 19:02, Jack wrote: As usual, I've got what seems to be a really obscure problem, and I have not found any reference to it searching the interwebs. The suspect package is sys-auth/rtkit-0/13-r1 (which has nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] odd issue with RTKIT syslog-ng

2020-11-16 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.15 19:02, Jack wrote: As usual, I've got what seems to be a really obscure problem, and I have not found any reference to it searching the interwebs. The suspect package is sys-auth/rtkit-0/13-r1 (which has nothing to do with chkrootkit) and I'm using app-admin/syslog-ng-3.26.1

[gentoo-user] odd issue with RTKIT syslog-ng

2020-11-15 Thread Jack
ged when it drops privileges? As far as I can tell, the log messages with the correct time are all produced before it drops privs. Am I barking up the right tree, or am I barking mad? Thanks for any thoughts. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] pip3 error

2020-11-02 Thread Jack
On 2020.11.02 19:38, Jude DaShiell wrote: When I try: pip3 install fenrir-screenreader ERROR: (Gentoo) Please run pip with the --user option to avoid breaking python-exec Did not have this happen in earlier python and pip versions on other systems. What can I do to clear this error? If it

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-30 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.30 18:36, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:56, Dale wrote: > wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl This should work just fine, you just need to specify the path when you want to use it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with locale-gen

2020-10-28 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.28 14:57, Toldi Balázs wrote: Hi, I did a fresh install a cuple of days ago. Everything worked fine unitl I realised that my locale files are incorrect. When I run locale-gen, I get this message: locale-gen * Generating 4 locales (this might take a while) with 8 jobs * Bad entry

Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7

2020-10-27 Thread Jack
On 10/27/20 8:53 AM, edes wrote: el Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:35:25 -0300 edes escribió: Just to be sure: I should enable the -suid USE flag in x11-base/xorg-server? Just for the record, I rebuilt x11-base/xorg-server with +suid, and the problem persists: $ startx -- vt7 Fatal server error: (EE)

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategies for testing an ebuild

2020-10-20 Thread Jack
, though, so others will probably have much better workflows. Alec Using ebuild instead of emerge is probably not a sufficient test. It does not check for dependencies, and I don't know what other subtle differences there are. It's probably also good to run repoman on the ebuild. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 15:19, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in '/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. Because I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.14 16:02, antlists wrote: On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick an NVMe in the second graphics card is

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again

2020-10-11 Thread Jack
, runs the entry in the EFI disk partition (usually under /boot/EFI), which then runs the kernel (and possibly initramfs) in /boot.  Unfortunately, "boot record" is probably too general a term. Jack On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 19:21:4

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with open-rc - daemon is running but rc-service says stopped

2020-10-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.10 17:30, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2020-10-10 14:02, Jack wrote: > > I suppose if I put elogind in the default runlevel, then open-rc will > hopefully start it before it would otherwise get launched, but I'm > curious how I could track down what is curre

[gentoo-user] problem with open-rc - daemon is running but rc-service says stopped

2020-10-10 Thread Jack
us how I could track down what is currently causing it to be started. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus font for X11 : how to?

2020-10-06 Thread Jack
Searching on "enable terminus font in xorg" the third hit is https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164392 and what didn't work for that person (slight variant) did work for me: xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/terminal xset fp rehash Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new USB question

2020-10-06 Thread Jack
Bottom line - as far as I can tell, the motherboard and software are actually all behaving correctly, if confusingly. Details below. On 2020.10.06 00:45, Sid Spry wrote: On Mon, Oct 5, 2020, at 1:33 PM, Jack wrote: > Grant - thanks for the info. > I'm curious about the pairing by PCI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new USB question

2020-10-05 Thread Jack
Grant - thanks for the info. On 2020.10.04 21:41, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-10-05, Jack wrote: Still not Gentoo specific, but I'm still trying to figure out if my motherboard (MSI B350 Tomahawk) is doing something funny with the USB connections. In theory, there should be USB3

[gentoo-user] new USB question

2020-10-04 Thread Jack
something funne? Until I can buy or borrow some device I can truly believe is USB3.0, is there any other troubleshooting I can do? Thanks for any suggestions. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem/questions (not Gentoo specific)

2020-09-30 Thread Jack
have other problems with that device, so I'm not really sure I trust anything it says about itself. I may start a separate thread about it, but not without more research first. Jack On 2020.09.24 15:35, Sid Spry wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 7:11 PM, Jack wrote: > I've got a Ryzen 5 2

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem/questions (not Gentoo specific)

2020-09-26 Thread Jack
On 2020.09.24 15:35, Sid Spry wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, at 7:11 PM, Jack wrote: > I've got a Ryzen 5 2600 in an MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard. The specs > imply that the CPU produces four USB 3.0 ports and the chipset produces > 6 USB 2.0 and four USB 3.1 (although the

[gentoo-user] USB problem/questions (not Gentoo specific)

2020-09-22 Thread Jack
on the MSI user forum, and none yet to my ticket to MSI tech support. Any suggestions on where to go from here? I'll be glad to post more, but don't want to spam the list with irrelevant logs. Thanks for any ideas. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-28 Thread Jack
On 8/28/20 12:33 PM, james wrote: On 8/27/20 10:11 PM, Dale wrote: james wrote: Gentoo, https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2020/08/25/is-an-umbrella-organization-a-good-choice-for-gentoo/ Surely some of the business/legal savvy folks want to "chime in" on Sir Gorny's proposal? I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine cause of xorg-server downgrade?

2020-08-27 Thread Jack
On 2020.08.27 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote: How do you determine the cause of a downgrade? Today I did "emerge --sync" and "emerge -auvNDt world" with (I think) no configuration changes since the last update a couple days ago, and now emerge wants to downgrade xorg-server from 1.20.9 to

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

2020-08-21 Thread Jack
On 8/21/20 8:28 AM, Victor Ivanov wrote: On 21/08/2020 01:28, Jack wrote: Per my suggtion elsewhere in the thread, have you tried Balsa? I hadn't heard of Balsa up until this thread. It's minimalistic. I like it. But it too fails to satisfy the PGP requirement for filtering and encrypting

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

2020-08-20 Thread Jack
On 2020.08.20 20:02, Victor Ivanov wrote: On 20/08/2020 18:16, Jack wrote: >> From what I read, there is much enthusiasm  for Claws/Evolution. >> >> Sadly, this direct comparison, seems out of date and does not include >> TB-78, but it is the most comprehensive

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

2020-08-20 Thread Jack
that last one - but I mean things like assuring your IP address doesn't end up (or start out) in a blacklisted block for any smtp attempts. In my case, it's mostly that one (plus spam filtering) which gives me hesitation to attempt rolling my own. James Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] email clients/Balsa: Was: Thunderbird 78

2020-08-20 Thread Jack
On 2020.08.20 16:11, james wrote: On 8/20/20 1:16 PM, Jack wrote: (Thunderbird, spike and slack). Others ? I've been using Balsa for years.� It was originally a gnome based app, but I use it under KDE/Plasma/openrc.� It can handle mbox, maildir, and several other storage types.� smtp

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

2020-08-20 Thread Jack
On 8/20/20 12:54 PM, james wrote: On 8/20/20 10:52 AM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Thu, 2020-08-20 at 09:58 -0400, james wrote: Thanks. What are your, or anyone's, suggestion for other mail client software ? Limiting my suggestions to desktop software, since this is still the Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 78

2020-08-20 Thread Jack
On 8/20/20 1:06 PM, james wrote: On 8/19/20 6:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 14:37:30 -0400, james wrote: It was release mid July: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/07/whats-new-in-thunderbird-78/ Any idea where the first 'beta' version can be grabbed, as an ebuild?

Re: [gentoo-user] What is faster: amd64 or x86?

2020-08-10 Thread Jack
On 8/10/20 7:21 PM, Sid Spry wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Никита Степанов wrote: What is faster: amd64 or x86? amd64. Theoretically if you dumped a lot of money into a modern x86 implementation it could be faster due mostly to a smaller die area. As stated, I think it's a

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Jack
On 7/19/20 10:57 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: [I have stripped all mention of capitalisation, as it is off-topic here. However, a seeming lack of competence in English will lead people to believe that the incompetence also leaks into the code. This is especially true when this lack of

Solved: [gentoo-user] ebuild is trying to download a tarball instead of using git

2020-07-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.14 17:05, Jack wrote: I want to try some changes to an ebuild in the dotnet overlay. So, I copied /var/lib/layman/dotnet/dev-lang/mono/mono-.ebuild into /usr/local/portage/dev-lang/mono. I cd into that directory, and run "ebuild mono-.ebuild manifest" an

[gentoo-user] ebuild is trying to download a tarball instead of using git

2020-07-14 Thread Jack
99 ebuild, why is portage (ebuild or emerge) failing to work without one, and why is it trying to download a tarball, even without any SRC_URI in the ebuild? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.14 12:23, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:05:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > Is there a subdirectory 'iwlwifi-5000-ucode-5.4.A.11' in /lib/firmware/ ? Yes. It was created when I untarred the tarball from kernel.org [thimk][root][~] ll

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh defaults to coming in as user "root"?

2020-07-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.10 19:08, Walter Dnes wrote: I've done the preliminary setup on my laptop install, and copied the package names I wanted into the world file. With dependancies thrown in, the laptop is now compiling 268 ebuilds of various sizes. One thing I noticed while setting up. I ssh in

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.

2020-07-09 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > > Would somebody please suggest to

Re: [gentoo-user] USB ext2 flash drive - No space left on device

2020-07-03 Thread Jack
On 2020.07.03 17:38, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 07/03/2020 03:12 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I have a USB flash drive with ext2 file system and when I try to copy a > file I get an error "No space left on device" > > df -Th > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use%

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-26 Thread Jack
a major annoyance for many Gentoo users, possibly more-so for the more casual users. (Is "casual Gentoo user" an oxymoron?) As the bug proposes, there are ways of solving it without decreasing security. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-24 Thread Jack
readers thread discussions using internal message headers, not just subject, so it increases the chance your message may not be seen by someone who can answer. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

2020-06-21 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.21 17:28, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:57:56PM -0400, Jack wrote > gimp can use python2_7 but it does not require it. I have gimp > installed with the following USE flags (per eix) > > alsa jpeg2k mng udev -aalib -aqua -debug -doc -gnome -heif -openexr &

Re: [gentoo-user] circular dependency - please help

2020-06-21 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.21 06:21, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I do need python2.7 since I do need media-gfx/gimp. Unfortunately, I have masked dev-python/setuptools version >= 47.0.0 too late. Now I cannot emerge dev-python/setuptools-46.4.0-r1 since this needs dev-python/pbr which in turn cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] =dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 fails @world update

2020-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.19 12:10, urp...@gmx.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:52:30PM +0100, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 19 June 2020 16:35:27 BST urp...@gmx.com wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > > Jack wrote: > > > > Not far enough back

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect not showing python3.7 or 3.8

2020-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.19 03:19, William Kenworthy wrote: I have been slowly fixing the mess that the python upgrade has made of my systems and have come across this: san0 ~ # eselect python list Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:   [1]   python3.6   [2]   python2.7 san0 ~ # equery l

Re: [gentoo-user] =dev-lang/spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r4 fails @world update

2020-06-19 Thread Jack
Not far enough back.  You need to show the actual error, not the line "Error1:" which gets printed after the error. On 6/19/20 6:15 AM, urp...@gmx.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:37:24AM -0500, Dale wrote: urp...@gmx.com wrote: Greetings. I have just installed Gentoo on a macbook

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

2020-06-18 Thread Jack
runs well, and are willing to share the .config file? Regards, Andrew Ryzen 5 2600 on an MSI B350 Tomahawk. I know I get full use of all cores/threads (6/12). Video is ATI - let me know if you want more details about that or anything else.\ Jack# # Automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

2020-06-18 Thread Jack
should know you're not alone ... :-) Apparently coolness is meanwhile dominating reason ... :-/ This is a real sore point for me.  Especially with organizations that talk about Diversity, but ignore diversity, particularly of learning style. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indicating how difficult it would be to upgrade. A hint to folks who tend to update less

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few months? :) Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous. If you have gentoo in embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.11 18:05, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:59, Jack wrote: On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.11 17:22, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:10, n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-11 23:05, Jack wrote: It would really help if you get rid of lots of extraneous messages in the emerge output by reading all the new news items (even if you already read them elsewhere) and finish updating

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-11 Thread Jack
you can get emerge to stop saying, the easier it is to read what it does say. jack

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-06 Thread Jack
On 6/6/20 6:34 PM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:34:28 -0500, Dale wrote: From what I've read, I like my way better.  I did have to change the names from bzimage* to kernel* but other than that, I can use the naming method I've used for years and keep the good kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-06 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.06 12:34, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 10:13:56 -0500, Dale wrote: > If you do copy yours manually to /boot, what command do you use for dracut?  Maybe I'm doing it a hard way or something and you have a easier method.  >>> cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Live CD

2020-06-06 Thread Jack
sys-libs/gpm perhaps? On 6/6/20 12:01 PM, jdm wrote: Hello, I have had to use the Gentoo Minimal Installation Cd to rescue my system due something going wrong with UEFI boot crazyness. Which is resolved now. What I have noticed is that you can use a mouse and copy/paste at the command prompt

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

2020-06-06 Thread Jack
On 6/6/20 10:10 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: One of the problems with drive-managed SMR is that it can seem to be ok when you're just doing light duty access, and then when one of your other drives fails and you're doing a zfs resilver the SMR drive starts performing an order of magnitude or more

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
Were you thinking about this? https://xkcd.com/927/ On 2020.06.05 22:24, William Kenworthy wrote: No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your almost fitting ones. What standard? - if don't like it,

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.05 16:24, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack wrote: > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. > > Jack I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10 compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's not som

[gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
e my search-fu isn't.) I don't know exactly when this started showing up, since I THOUGHT I had run genkernel successfully since then, but although there are several vmlinuz and sysmap files in /boot, there is only the single initramfs which I currently boot with. Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] setuptools build failed

2020-06-01 Thread Jack
/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/Grammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle A: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/Grammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle R: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/Grammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle C: python3.7 setup.py build -j 8 F: open_wr S: deny P: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/PatternGrammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle A: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/PatternGrammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle R: /usr/local/lib/python3.7/lib2to3/PatternGrammar3.7.7.final.0.pickle C: python3.7 setup.py build -j 8  * Not sure if it's relevant here, but how are you getting root privs to run emerge? I've seen similar problems because of environment variables set for the regular user which are not cleared by su or sudo. I think I end up using "su -" when I run into that (although I admit it has been a long time since I did) or log in directly as root. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Qtcurve, anyone?

2020-05-31 Thread Jack
On 5/31/20 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:36:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Still refining my plasma desktop, and recovering from bits of it having been deleted upstream, I'm trying to install x11-themes/qtcurve, but I get this: In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-29 Thread Jack
On 5/29/20 6:30 PM, james wrote: On 5/28/20 7:34 PM, Jack wrote: On 2020.05.28 19:04, james wrote: On 5/28/20 4:30 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020, at 22:11, james wrote: [snip.] [leaving only one line...] U ~] dev-python/qtawesome-0.7.2 [0.7.1] That's not output from

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating Blue-ray video discs

2020-05-29 Thread Jack
On 2020.05.29 12:00, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:12:44AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Wonder why it is not being kept up to date.  Maintainer no longer > interested in it, other tools took its place??? The code developer is a Gentoo developer. I've looked at the C (one file) and

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-28 Thread Jack
On 2020.05.28 19:04, james wrote: On 5/28/20 4:30 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2020, at 22:11, james wrote: So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library (version 0x50e02)" Which

Re: [gentoo-user] matplotlib build fails: link using /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64

2020-05-27 Thread Jack
On 2020.05.27 10:26, Grant Edwards wrote: I tried to emerge matplotlib today, and it failed because it's linking in 32-bit libraries instead of 64 bit ones: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG

Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread Jack
without knowing how to search bugzilla?  I very often search both Google and bugzilla, and often don't find any overlap. Jack

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