[gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

2020-07-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/07/2020 09:04, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi,     is there a way to change the MAKEOPTS setting on a running emerge? I am using "-j 5 -l 4" whilst emerging gcc-9.3 but its creating too much pressure  on memory.  I expect the emerge to take many more hours but complete eventually - but

[gentoo-user] Re: custom mount fstab

2020-07-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/07/2020 16:33, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people, I had a problem with docker on gentoo and found the solution for all my problems with a custom mount command: |sudo mount -t cgroup -o none,name=systemd cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd Can anybody of you tell me how to add that one in

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server without suid still runs as root?

2020-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/06/2020 17:24, inasprecali wrote: How are you starting X in the first place? Are you using a display manager? Are you running startx? In the former case, this is perfectly normal for many display managers, including SDDM. GDM, if I'm not mistaken, can and does run X as a regular user

[gentoo-user] xorg-server without suid still runs as root?

2020-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
There's a news item about disabling the "suid" use flag on x11-base/xorg-server, which makes it runs as a normal user rather than root. Version 1.20.8-r1 of the ebuild disables "suid" by default. After updating to that and rebooting, X still runs as root though: $ ps aux | grep X root 270

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/06/2020 00:41, Viktar Patotski wrote: I was not able to login to my notebook after battery discharge reboot... Thanks, I always have Gentoo live USB drive. So: 1. I booted to livecd 2. chrooted to my system (thanks I still not encrypted my hdd) 3. emerge --ask --update --newuse --deep

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/06/2020 15:31, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 12:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:55:46 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: And today, pam and pambase are restored to their earlier versions because sddm requires them. But sddm has not changed versions, so why did

[gentoo-user] Re: Untrusted PGP signing key

2020-05-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/05/2020 20:15, Consus wrote: I've got this today: $ sudo emerge --sync Checking signature ... gpg: Signature made Sun 24 May 2020 03:56:07 MSK gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 gpg: Good signature from

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc-10.1.0, anyone?

2020-05-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/05/2020 11:51, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 8 May 2020 15:28:08 BST Holger Hoffstätte wrote: For the kernel you need [1], which is not yet in any released versions or even Linus' main tree. With it it works fine - using it right now. I see it's to go into the latest upstream kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/05/2020 05:06, tu...@posteo.de wrote: as far as I know, the hibernation mechanism of the kernel uses swap as storage place for an RAM image. If you plan to use hibernation, I think you need swap space in the size of your RAM. For this case you can set vm.swappiness=0 and still have a

[gentoo-user] Re: 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/05/2020 22:50, Raphael MD wrote: Could I turn my Linux swap off. I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, because I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? I've been on 16GB RAM for about 10 years. I've been using a 4GB swap partition for about 8 years. Two years ago, I

[gentoo-user] Re: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources vs. sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel vs. sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin

2020-04-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/04/2020 18:05, Gerion Entrup wrote: what is the difference between these three packages? I don't get it from the description alone. gentoo-sources: A linux kernel source tree with Gentoo patchset gentoo-kernel-bin: A linux kernel binary image with initramfs? gentoo-kernel: ??? This is

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/04/2020 10:21, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:08:45AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There's also sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel but it's description is confusing as hell: "Linux kernel built with Gentoo patches". Which to me sounds exactly like gentoo-kerne

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading old kernel

2020-04-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/04/2020 21:09, james wrote: On 4/15/20 1:40 PM, Andreas Stiasny wrote: That's why I use make olddefconfig in such a case. This takes all the old config values and uses the default for the new ones. If you know that you need one or more of the new config options you can fine tune them

[gentoo-user] Re: For what is emerge waiting for...?

2020-04-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/04/2020 22:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [...] I start emerge with a bunch of packages to compile and install. And it happens from time to time that all cores seem to be on holiday: No load at all. And emerge sits there and waits... And the harddisk is not busy at all...no blinkenlights,

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard

2020-04-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2020 23:11, Alarig Le Lay wrote: The news item from 2020-04-03 says “future removal of the legacy X11 input drivers x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard“ [...] However, emerge --depclean doesn’t try to remove them. That's normal. They are deps behind USE

[gentoo-user] Re: Nice job,

2020-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/03/2020 16:29, 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 my system

[gentoo-user] Re: Nice job,

2020-03-08 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/03/2020 15:41, Dale wrote: [a lot of stuff] I know you only reboot every other decade, so I have to ask: did you reboot?

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/03/2020 00:16, n952162 wrote: I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your organization".  Oh yeah?  I guess that would be gentoo.  How can I break that relationship? I use firefox-bin and this: qlist firefox-bin | grep json reveals that the ebuild installs:

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/02/2020 21:22, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:06 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: It gets worse. The container reconfigured the keyboard shortcuts on the host! After booting a container, alt+Fn or alt+left/right on the host started switching to the linux text-mode console. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/02/2020 02:01, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 4:32 PM Nikos Chantziaras > I just tested it in a throw-away Ubuntu VM running on ext4. It crashed > and burned due to disk space. It tried to duplicate the whole "/" with > zero error checks. So f

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/02/2020 01:21, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hm. I'm too chicken to try it because I'm not sure it does what I think it does, but does the "--ephemeral" option pretty much do *exactly* what Dale was asking about? Can you start yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/2020 21:46, Rich Freeman wrote: Well, if you decide to play with it I'll offer up: https://rich0gentoo.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/quick-systemd-nspawn-guide/ Hm. I'm too chicken to try it because I'm not sure it does what I think it does, but does the "--ephemeral" option pretty much

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/2020 21:05, Rich Freeman wrote: I wouldn't use a chroot for anything at this point - anything you can do with one you can do just as easily with a container, with more separation. They're just as easy to set up as well - I personally use nspawn to run my containers but I'm sure lxc is

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/2020 20:01, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote: I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting.  Since it was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due to a mismatch in versions. [...] !!! --buildpkgonly requires

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling first and then installing using -K

2020-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote: I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting.  Since it was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due to a mismatch in versions. [...] !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange q-reinit

2019-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/11/2019 11:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a small script /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/q-reinit which is causing emerge --sync to complain. I don't know where it's come from, but its date stamp is 15 September. 15 September 2019? That's odd. AFAICT, q-reinit was only needed

[gentoo-user] Re: Imagemagick downgrade?

2019-11-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/11/2019 14:51, Mick wrote: Having re-synced portage it now asks me to keyword media-gfx/ inkscape-1.0_beta1 and once I do, portage wants to downgrade media-gfx/ imagemagick from the installed 7.0.8.67 to 6.9.10.67. I'm not sure why imagemagick is asking to be downgraded, or for that

[gentoo-user] Re: how did i get ~/26H1MJ8.txt?

2019-10-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/10/2019 12:57, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: today, i did `ls -a ~` and found the file in title. its content is here: https://gist.github.com/2eb82a8e31a3e560abd28a2c8102865f any idea what is this?  and how did i get it? (i started to worry that it might be related to the sks key server

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird-60,9.0

2019-09-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/09/2019 21:44, james wrote: [...] not sure why/where I set something to get the latest versions , that do not show up with 'eix Thunderbird' Did you forget to run eix-update? You need to do that after every emerge --sync.

[gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/09/2019 10:56, Philip Webb wrote: I'm now left with 5 problem pkgs : llvm-7.1.0 fetchmail-6.3.26-r4 qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120 spidermonkey-60.5.2_p0-r2 firefox-60.8.0 the former 3 all have in their ebuilds PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 ) the latter 2 are said to require

[gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/09/2019 07:36, Philip Webb wrote: I've been trying to eliminate Python 2.7 & have dropped the 'TARGETS' lines from 'make.conf', leaving only 3.6 , but it seems that a number of pkgs still require it : Can anyone suggest a solution ? Uninstall all packages that require Python 2.7. Some

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged/unmerged at random

2019-09-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Every time I do a world update, dev-lang/vala-0.44.7 is being emerged (parallel to 0.42.7 which is already emerged as a dep of something.) When I then do an 'emerge --depclean', portage wants to unmerge it again. On the next world update, it comes back. Then depclean wants to unmerge it again.

[gentoo-user] Re: Migrating to python3_6 ?

2019-09-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/09/2019 07:42, james wrote: I have these versions of python installed 2.7.15, 3.5.5 and 3.6.5 and these settings in make.conf::  PYTHON_TARGETS=" python2_7 python3_6"  PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" Sometimes it's hard to sort out the most accurate/current docs to read from the older

[gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/08/2019 11:18, Mick wrote: Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple vertical and horizontal window split, with kio-slaves which would process or play anything and everything you threw at it, with browser integration, ftp/s and sftp/fish, etc. Nope, evidently konqueror

[gentoo-user] Re: A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/08/2019 21:36, Mick wrote: I was wondering if I can run some/any of these apps as VM guests within QEMU, on my amd64 Gentoo. You can, although it seems very complicated to make it work. Projects like Anbox (https://github.com/anbox/anbox) exist for that reason. Unfortunately, Anbox is

[gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/08/2019 05:56, Dale wrote: I upgraded my system last night.  I logged out and back in earlier and have noticed something new.  It seems to only allow one instance of Dolphin to run at a time. When you press Meta+E ("meta" being the key with the Windows logo on most keyboard), you can

[gentoo-user] Re: Recent changes to install procedure

2019-08-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/08/2019 18:32, Walter Dnes wrote: So far so good. The basic system is installed and booting. One question... can I just set the "bindist" USE flag globally. Usually you unset it globally. If you allow some of the packages to be built with it, you're going to lose some functionality

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-headers-4.19 & glibc

2019-07-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/07/2019 16:49, Hasan ÇALIŞIR wrote: Today i got linux-headers-4.19 update. Doesn't it need re-building glibc that currently not triggered on my system? Nope. No need.

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

2019-07-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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 December-January timeframe. I guess you should have written your

[gentoo-user] Re: conditional sysctl tweaks?

2019-07-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/07/2019 20:03, Ian Zimmerman wrote: What is the cleanest way to handle the situation when a new sysctl knob is introduced by a kernel release and I want to use it, but I also have older kernels around? What's the point of that?

[gentoo-user] Upgrading to Qt 5.12.4 makes some applications invisible

2019-07-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Qt was upgraded from 5.12.3 to 5.12.4 and as a result some applications (Clementine and qBittorrent) become invisible when you minimize them and then restore them. They only become visible again when you resize their window, and resizing the window is very slow. This does not affect most

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

2019-07-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/07/2019 22:10, Christian Groessler wrote: I'm new here. My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other command line programs. Do you want to disable colors for everything, or only for specific tools?

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma teething problems - Part I

2019-06-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 24/06/2019 14:00, Mick wrote: I've installed plasma-meta plus some kde-apps meta packages as follows: kde-apps/kdeadmin-meta kde-apps/kdecore-meta kde-apps/kdegraphics-meta kde-apps/kdemultimedia-meta kde-apps/kdenetwork-meta kde-apps/kdepim-meta kde-apps/kdeutils-meta

[gentoo-user] Re: Gvim icon problem

2019-06-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/06/2019 19:06, Philip Webb wrote: 190615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/06/2019 12:00, Philip Webb wrote: I've just upgraded to Gvim 8.1.1486 & most of the icons have disappeared. Is kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config installed ? Yes. Open the KDE "System Settings", and go t

[gentoo-user] Re: Gvim icon problem

2019-06-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/06/2019 12:00, Philip Webb wrote: I've just upgraded to Gvim 8.1.1486 & most of the icons have disappeared. Attached are screenshots before/after, "before" from a desktop still running. Does anyone know how to fix this ? Is kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config installed? If not, install it. Then

[gentoo-user] Re: i don't see icu

2019-06-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/06/2019 11:57, Philip Webb wrote: For a long time, I've been having a problem upgrading 'icu'. There seems to be a conflict with KDE : !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - switching to profile 17.1 is not as easy as it sounds

2019-06-11 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/06/2019 13:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I had some trouble switching to the new profile 17.1. Following the advice in the news item didn't suffice. I'm not sure if switching to 17.1 would get me anything. I assume 17.0 will still be there for a long time to come?

[gentoo-user] Re: sysrescuecd gone rogue

2019-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/06/2019 16:10, Mick wrote: Regardless, have you used the Arch based sysrescuecd to install Gentoo and are there are any gotchas I should be aware of? You can use anything. I did use the Gentoo-based sysrescuecd once to install Gentoo, and I also used an Ubuntu live DVD too. It doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: alsa and multiple sources of sound...

2019-05-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/05/2019 10:06, tu...@posteo.de wrote: I thought, alsa could handle multiple sources of sound simultanously... Hm. It should. I use pulseaudio now, but when I was still using just ALSA alone, it would by default use dmix to play multiple sources at the same time. Check if you have

[gentoo-user] Re: keywords vs use variables

2019-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/05/2019 20:54, n952...@web.de wrote: Can someone explain the difference between keywords (as in package.accept_keywords) and use variables (as in package.use/)? Others chimed in already, but an easy way to describe it is: Keywords control whether or not a package is allowed to be

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/05/2019 18:25, Dale wrote: If my system is off, how's it going to play videos? If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels with patched ones? Anyway, it's your system, not mine. I don't really care if you run vulnerable kernels or other software. I just wanted

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/05/2019 13:14, Dale wrote: Thanks much for the info.  That was my thinking but I have been wrong before, more than I may even know about at times.  ;-)  I'll work on updating my kernel but I rarely reboot. You make it sound like something to be proud of, even though it's just

[gentoo-user] Re: Konsole colours have changed

2019-04-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/04/2019 17:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: The recent kde-apps upgrade changed the colours used by konsole, In particular, the black background is no longer black, but a sort of washed-out charcoal grey. I compared the /usr/share/konsole/Linux.colorscheme file with an earlier version, but they

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache not starting after upgrading Apache/glibc...

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 17:38, Matthias Hanft wrote: Despite gcc was *not* recompiled after the glibc upgrade, it now tells $ gcc -o hello hello.c /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/as: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by

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

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 16:07, Dale wrote: This is what I have right now. --format bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best [...] That seems to have another option I like to, get .mp4 if available.  I think.  It did anyway.  :/  Time will tell.

[gentoo-user] Re: Apache not starting after upgrading Apache/glibc...

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 15:20, Matthias Hanft wrote: Now "admin-panic" is heavily arising. HELP! What can I do?? See which packages were built against the new glib. Do: $ qlop -l -d 2days See which packages were emerged AFTER glibc 2.28. Are they critical packages? If not, downgrade glibc anyway.

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

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 14:44, Mick wrote: It still insists on downloading the largest file. It is doing this because you're asking it to download a video of [height<=? 1280], and also download potentially separately an audio file - then mux them into one container file. A *height* of <=1280 means a

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

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 11:55, Dale wrote: Just tried this as well. root@fireball / # cat /home/dale/.config/youtube-dl/config  ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best It still insists on downloading the largest file. "--ytdl-format" is an MPV option, not a youtube-dl option. Also,

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

2019-04-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/04/2019 11:11, Dale wrote: Anyway, I want to set it so that the highest resolution it will download is 720P. [...] I stuck the following into the file, in each location I tried. ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?720]+bestaudio/best From my googling, that's what is shown is several places

[gentoo-user] Big Fat Yellow Warning when emerging/unmerging wine-vanilla.

2019-03-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Does someone know why I get these when emerging or unmerging wine-vanilla (as part of a @world upgrade followed by a depclean): >>> Unmerging (1 of 1) app-emulation/wine-vanilla-4.1... !!! Warning: Skipping wine-staging. No registered targets found. !!! Warning: Skipping wine-d3d9. No

[gentoo-user] Re: Ssh problem

2019-03-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/2019 09:25, Philip Webb wrote: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 First hit on a web search:

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with emerge error msg

2019-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/03/2019 00:24, allan gottlieb wrote: The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: inspector? ( icu ) The above constraints are a subset of the following complete expression: python_targets_python2_7 inspector? ( icu ssl ) npm? ( ssl ) This seems more

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE plasma upgrade heads up for possible problem

2019-03-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/03/2019 14:39, Mick wrote: To date I have not found, or cannot recall, an occasion where revdep-rebuild rebuilt anything following a run of @preserved-rebuild. I have stopped running revdep-rebuild.sh for years now thinking it is redundant. @preserved-rebuild is only able to detect

[gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/02/2019 22:49, Dale wrote: Also, if my computer were to die a sudden death, power supply goes bonkers and burns everything in it up including hard drives, my passwords are still safe but available. Firefox stores my login passwords encrypted on a server provided by Mozilla. It syncs

[gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/02/2019 13:17, Mick wrote: You will be surprised how many people are still using passwds like: password password1 arsenal manchesterunited2018 fido on websites which store their credit card details. O_O A friend of mine used "" as a password because it matched what was being

[gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/02/2019 07:47, Dale wrote: How do you, especially those who admin systems that are always being hacked at, generate strong passwords that meet the above?  I've googled and found some ideas but if I use the same method, well, how many others are using that same method, if you know what I

[gentoo-user] Re: Android ADB emerge fails on amd64

2019-01-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/01/2019 14:31, m4110c wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install the Android Tools to use "adb" with my phone on gentoo. When I try to install android-sdk-update-manager it fails on compiling its dependency dev-java/swt-3.7.2-r2. Probably not the answer you want, but I gave up on the Android

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with Flatpak?

2019-01-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 25/01/2019 20:48, Grant Edwards wrote: But, flatpak isn't in the standard portage tree, so you have to use an overlay or local repo. This is beginning to look like a lot of work. Is it practical to use flatpak apps on Gentoo? I was using it for a while. Not anymore. It does exactly what

[gentoo-user] Re: bash upgrading problem

2019-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 21/01/2019 20:25, Jacques Montier wrote: Le lun. 21 janv. 2019 à 19:04, Nikos Chantziaras <mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> a écrit : I can't see why "emerge -uv bash" would ever invoke sudo. So I'd say that you should first find out what command is being executed with

[gentoo-user] Re: bash upgrading problem

2019-01-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/01/2019 12:51, Jacques Montier wrote: I did not have any problem with bash emerge so far. Here is the attached log. As usual, i successfully logged with my root password (su -) and then #emerge -uv bash The only thing i did some days ago, was to change my user jacques password. In the

[gentoo-user] Re: bash upgrading problem

2019-01-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 18/01/2019 13:29, Jacques Montier wrote: Hello all, I encounter some problem about upgrading app-shells/bash from 4.4_p12 to 4.4_p23-r1. After the checking phase, it stops asking for password (attached file). All passwords (root, user) are rejected, so i can't go further. Any idea ? Log

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 19:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 06:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 18:52, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a sh

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 18:10, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 04:59, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/12 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up.

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux: "make menuconf" creates a hardly useable interface

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 16:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: when calling "make menuconf" on a linux kernel source after a short period of time a ncurses-like interface pop up. But since some interations of the linux kernel this interface has become a mess: Line contents is offsetted all over the place. What

[gentoo-user] Re: Playing video and CPU usage

2019-01-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/01/2019 07:00, Dale wrote: It is nvidia based.  Question, how do I know it is using the video card to process as much of the video as it is supposed to be doing? You already corrected the vdpau USE flag thing. As for smplayer, you should select "gpu" (it might be named "opengl", depending

[gentoo-user] Re: How to trace down compilation issues if the compilation does not break...?

2019-01-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/01/2019 17:31, tu...@posteo.de wrote: The problem with this problem is, that the compilation process is successful and all files will be removed from /var/tmp/portage afterwards. I checked the manpage of emerge to find an option to prevent the deletion of the remainders, but found

[gentoo-user] Re: Contradictionary reports from eix/emerge

2019-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/01/2019 07:37, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, after updateing I have run (beside others) this command: eclean-dist -C -d -v and got: The following unavailable installed packages were found sys-devel/autoconf-2.13 Running eix sys-devel/autoconf and got [U]

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is ustat.h?

2019-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 16:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: That's the end of that idea then. I wanted to see if my problem with loop- mounting an iso was something introduced with a recent gcc, but now I may never know. It seems that if GCC 7 doesn't emerge with the latest glibc, then that's a bug you should

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2019-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 22:45, Dale wrote: I changed some USE flags.  I figure that is one thing that would make Firefox different from say the average user who just downloads Firefox from the website. Is there a reason you don't want to try the firefox-bin package I meantion in my previous post?

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is ustat.h?

2019-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras mailto:rea...@gmail.com>>: On 02/01/2019 12:27, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm trying to compile gcc-7.3.0-r3 to test a hypothesis, but I get this > failure: > > /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/work/gcc-7.3.0/libsanitize

[gentoo-user] Re: Where is ustat.h?

2019-01-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 12:27, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm trying to compile gcc-7.3.0-r3 to test a hypothesis, but I get this failure: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-7.3.0-r3/work/gcc-7.3.0/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:157:10: fatal error: sys/ustat.h: No such file or

[gentoo-user] Re: gexiv2-0.10.9 failed to compile

2019-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 08:40, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/02 08:08, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2019 07:43, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/02 07:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2019 05:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, while updateing I got this problem: Emerging (5 of 5) media-libs

[gentoo-user] Re: gexiv2-0.10.9 failed to compile

2019-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 07:43, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 01/02 07:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/01/2019 05:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, while updateing I got this problem: Emerging (5 of 5) media-libs/gexiv2-0.10.9::gentoo * Failed Running automake ! https://bugs.gentoo.org/673982

[gentoo-user] Re: gexiv2-0.10.9 failed to compile

2019-01-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2019 05:19, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, while updateing I got this problem: Emerging (5 of 5) media-libs/gexiv2-0.10.9::gentoo * Failed Running automake ! https://bugs.gentoo.org/673982

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2018-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/01/2019 06:45, Dale wrote: [...] [ebuild   R   ~] www-client/firefox-64.0::gentoo For what it's worth, I never had that problem with the official Mozilla build of Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin). Might be worth trying that instead. Don't forget to "quickpkg firefox" and back up your

[gentoo-user] Re: Smplayer and window title bar

2018-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/12/2018 19:35, Dale wrote: Thanks much.  I had, have, no idea what it was/is but when I put my mouse over it, it sounds like the setting I was looking for.  It mentions replacing the name. "Tags" is the term for embedded information in media files. Like title, artist, etc. It's usually

[gentoo-user] Re: Smplayer and window title bar

2018-12-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 26/12/2018 15:07, Dale wrote: On rare occasions, I want to see what video file name I'm watching and it isn't showing on the title bar of the window.  In full screen mode, nothing shows up as I expect.  When I switch to non-full screen mode, usually the file name shows up in the window title

[gentoo-user] Re: Error during boot up.

2018-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/12/2018 06:41, Dale wrote: Howdy, I just installed a new video card.  After a couple weeks of USPS dragging it around, it finally came in.  Anyway, I got it installed and was booting up.  I noticed somewhere between the kernel part and it going through the runlevel part, there was

[gentoo-user] Re: System reboot

2018-12-16 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 16/12/2018 05:54, Dale wrote: Just a bit ago I had my system power off. On one hand, I think it is a hardware issue with the computer. On the other hand, I noticed something odd. The display was on on my UPS when my system went down. It usually only comes on when I push the button or the

[gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/12/2018 11:18, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/12/2018 09:49, Dale wrote: This is what it says right now. /dev/sdb1   2048 15628052479 15628050432  7.3T Linux filesystem Just wanted to make sure it's not a 4K alignment issue. It starts at 2048 so it's fine. It is still

[gentoo-user] Re: eselect python...

2018-12-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/12/2018 09:56, tu...@posteo.de wrote: eselect python list [1] python3.6 [2] python2.7 (fallback) [...] How do I need to use eselect to set python2.7 as fallback" I don't see a "(fallback)" label here, and everything is working fine. I don't think it's important.

[gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/12/2018 09:49, Dale wrote: This is what it says right now. /dev/sdb1   2048 15628052479 15628050432  7.3T Linux filesystem Just wanted to make sure it's not a 4K alignment issue. It starts at 2048 so it's fine. It is still trying to put a ext4 file system on it and it has been

[gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/12/2018 09:11, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: Howdy, I bought a 8TB hard drive.  Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the exact model info.  It seems to be slow. What's the output of: sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda (Assuming it's the sda drive

[gentoo-user] Re: Sata hard drive speed question

2018-12-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/12/2018 02:48, Dale wrote: Howdy, I bought a 8TB hard drive.  Seagate 8TB 5E8 Exos ST8000AS0003 is the exact model info.  It seems to be slow. What's the output of: sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda (Assuming it's the sda drive.)

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2018 07:33, David Haller wrote: *Meh* I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked chip, much less a fan, and it ran in a PCI slot, at about ~4.5W (or was it 5W?) theoretical max usage... As it

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I never had one that powerful before.  O_O You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables for over a decade now. The GPU I use actually needs *two* power cables and

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/12/2018 09:30, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you want to see all of the installed packages that are affected, you need to set CPU_FLAGS_X86 to an empty string:   CPU_FLAGS_X86="" and then do "emerge -puDN --with-bdeps=y @world". This is because CPU_FL

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-06 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/12/2018 07:10, Dale wrote: Now this is odd.  I changed the settings and ran emerge.  I decided to use -UDNa options to see if it would catch the changes.  It did.  Thing is, outside a few video type packages, there were no packages to be rebuilt.  It seems very few packages actually notice

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