[gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
It produced many errors when I tried to emerge @world. Script started on 2020-10-18 15:02:00-04:00 [TERM="linux" TTY="/dev/tty1" COLUMNS="80" LINES="25"] livecd /etc/portage # cat /etc/portage/make.conf # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge --config sys-lib/timezone-data yet

2020-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
ntoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge --config sys-lib/timezone-data yet > > The very first line has a single quote as the first character > > On 10/18/2020 9:19 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Apparently a missing quote in /

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge --config sys-lib/timezone-data yet

2020-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently a missing quote in /etc/portage/make.conf but I can't find where that would be now. '# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more # detailed example. COMMON_FLAGS="--

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

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:48:01 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...]

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

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:00:36 > From: Walter Dnes > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400

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

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:31:55 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: > >On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: > >>Why d

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, antlists wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:37:01 > From: antlists > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On 14/10/2020 18:38, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Let

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 00:23:50 > From: J. Roeleveld > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:52:05 PM CES

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Wols Lists wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:40:23 > From: Wols Lists > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On 13/10/20 16:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Si

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Michael wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:04:30 > From: Michael > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 09:30:00 BST Jude DaShiell wr

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Andreas Fink wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:28:01 > From: Andreas Fink > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:10:04 -0400 &

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:28:01 AM CEST Andreas Fink wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:10:04 -0400 > >> > >> Jude DaShiell wrote: > >>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated > >>> program cc1plus compilation terminat

[gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

2020-10-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
Doing good until lvm package emerged. I don't use lvm so wonder if nolvm as a boot parameter would have prevented the profile from emerging this package. Details below: Portage 3.0.4 (python 3.7.8-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop, gcc-9.3.0, glibc-2.31-r6, 5.4.60-gentoo-x86_64 x86_64) =

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:09:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> > >>> A feature that would be useful for menuconfig would be the ability once > >>> a search is done to jump onto the desired search item directly (if the > >>> i

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again

2020-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
In gentoo in order to make a uefi system is it necessary to use douefi as a boot parameter when starting the install? If so, it wasn't in the handbook I read. If not, my guess would be gentoo discovers this information for itself. --

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI booting again

2020-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you followed the handbook /dev/sda2 would be where the boot record lives. On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 19:21:49 > From: pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] UEFI b

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
: > > > > [1 ] > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:09:00 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > >> A feature that would be useful for menuconfig would be the ability once > > >> a search is done to jump onto the desired search

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 07:30:19 > From: Ashley Dixon > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 10:09:00PM -0400, Jude DaShie

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:09:16 > From: John Covici > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:49:54 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > >

[gentoo-user] one other possibility

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
It could be gentoo-nofb can't run accessibility if it's one of the kernels not already on the install-minimal cd. Why this may be the case I don't know that's above my pay grade. I'll check that out and find out what I can find out. If I manage to get it installed and working I'll let you know.

[gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
missing lots of accessibility-related material. I've installed several other versions of Linux before and got them accessible using material found mostly on the internet for instructions. The first one was RedHat 5.0 when that was a current distribution. After that, slackware, debian, fedora ubuntu

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
o: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69 > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:36:26 -0400, > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > [1 ] > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:20:09 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > > How can

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:34:43 > From: Neil Bothwick > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:00:04 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
gt; Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69 > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:20:09 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > How can I emerge the sources for this version of the kernel? I think John > > suggested 5.4.69. > > > > > > Just emerge =sys-kernel/gentoo-s

[gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
How can I emerge the sources for this version of the kernel? I think John suggested 5.4.69. --

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, John Covici wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:52:04 > From: John Covici > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:00:04 -0400, > Jude DaShiell wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 08:17:07 > From: Ashley Dixon > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 07:45:14AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
, 9 Oct 2020 19:55:20 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > If I have a desktop on a machine I go with mate when possible since I > > > never liked unity when it was part of gnome. > > > > Then use the plain desktop profile. > > > > > I ought to check in o

[gentoo-user] about to install kernel source package

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Before I do this, would it be useful to do emerge --config espeak in the chroot environment? On a previous kernel install failure, I ended up emerging espeakup and it was only then I found the accessibility support submenu in make menuconfig had got populated with speakup-related stuff but I couldn

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I have a desktop on a machine I go with mate when possible since I never liked unity when it was part of gnome. I ought to check in on lxqt since that's what Linus Torvalds was using last time I read about that. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Screen reader users will want to uncomment the GRUB-TUNE line in /etc/default/grub and then run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg if for no other reason they get an indication their computer is willing to boot before the screen reader comes on. A friend has a system without a pc speaker so pcspk

[gentoo-user]

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
available profiles eselect profile list returns three profiles I might use all in the 17.0 version number. stable, desktop, and desktop-gnome. I suspect stable would return a console environment, desktop-gnome would get a gnome desktop, but how is desktop different from desktop-gnome? Maybe even b

[gentoo-user] sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I use this in boot parameters, along with an msdos disk label is it likely I'd be able to partition all of a 3tb hard drive? Last gentoo install failed, I expect uefi and gpt and grub:2 combination was not good for my hardware. I had to use the grub-install line in the Handbook that had --remov

[gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
I installed lspci and ran the command. On the first line lspci says Unable to load libkmod resources. Lots of information provided after that though. Are libkmod resources used by sound cards? I have sound working on the system to be installed since I'm using espeak to do the installation. Does a

[gentoo-user] emerge @world command successful

2020-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did the command in the handbook after adding a few accessibility packages for the system and I have -j2 in MAKEJOBS in /etc/portage/make.conf. The older machine doesn't like to do parallel compiles with acpi, but it had no issue doing them with apm on. If you will use linux, you will learn lots

Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 23:10:45 > From: Ashley Dixon > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 10:11:23PM -0400

[gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here is my /etc/portage/make.conf if it will help on the use variable. I'm sending the whole file since it may have other errors. # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically # built this stage. # Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more #

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
se you seem to have included > the > same text twice? The information posted seems to contradict itself, > particularly > with the USE-flags. For example, here you have the `static-libs` flag > disabled: > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 02:40:47PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
o: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc > won't work? > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 12:47:39AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I ran emerge-webrsync and agreed to merge some softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
even download the stage3 file. The accessibility use flag wasn't in effect and I could move with down arrow onto the stage3 file according to speakup but the links cursor didn't follow and would only allow me to download some image file. On Mon, 5 Oct 2020, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Date:

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc > won't work? > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 12:47:39AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I ran emerge-webrsync and agreed to merge some software titles from > > gentoo. T

[gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
I ran emerge-webrsync and agreed to merge some software titles from gentoo. The first one was pcre and so far as I can tell, all went fine until the makefile tested gcc and found gcc doesn't work. At that point the emerge errored out. Now, it's possible everyone is using the systemd profile but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation problems

2020-10-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
vinux is abandonware though for an installer environment still may work. I've never used one installer system to install another system myself though so if that's what we try it will be a new experience for me. On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 11:47:26 > From: Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] installation problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've never used a gentoo-live-cd and the reason I use the gentoo-minimal -cd is it's possible to bring speakup up on boot and for those few of us who can't see the screen and haven't got sighted help nearby, that makes all manner of independent computer operations possible. On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Ric

Re: [gentoo-user] install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
; To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] install problems > > Hi Jude, > > On Friday, 2 October 2020 12:21:06 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I made another mistake and need to find the exit. > > I did emerge sys-libs/timezone-data which downloaded that packa

Re: [gentoo-user] install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
n Friday, 2 October 2020 12:21:06 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I made another mistake and need to find the exit. > > I did emerge sys-libs/timezone-data which downloaded that package and > > dependencies and then errored out badly when trying to build the packages. > > The n

[gentoo-user] install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
I made another mistake and need to find the exit. I did emerge sys-libs/timezone-data which downloaded that package and dependencies and then errored out badly when trying to build the packages. The native in COMMON_FLAGS in /etc/portage/make.conf was not recognized by what I downloaded and that em

Re: [gentoo-user] re: install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 12:35, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > > The instructions read: > > #emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data > > That as I wrote earlier failed. so I try: > > #emerge --config sys-libs-timezone-data > > and get no packages found. > > The instruc

Re: [gentoo-user] re: install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
ntoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: Gentoo > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] re: install problems > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 10:26, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > !'sys/libs/timezone-data ' is not a valid package atom. > > ! please check ebuild (5) for full details. > > ! di

[gentoo-user] re: install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
This time, when updating @world I decided to not merge anything. I got up to: Next, reconfigure the [365]sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will update the /etc/localtime file for us, based on the /etc/timezone entry. The /etc/localtime file is used by the system C library to know the timezon

[gentoo-user] installation problems

2020-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
No mount point on the minimal isos exists under /mnt where an installer can temporarily mount another drive to copy output of errors or created scripts that help them get around gentoo's installer limitations. Earlier tonight I had been fighting with links since links insisted on downloading an ima

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