[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/09/2017 10:09 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 170105 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote: Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y For nvidia, these need to be all

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/08/2017 07:49 AM, Dale wrote: P. S. I've had emerge -e world fix issues in the past too. Weird how that works. :/ Gentoo packagers are not wizards. They cannot know which packages need a rebuild when a dependency changes. They know some of them, but not all. So over time, packages

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/07/2017 07:49 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: So I just recompiled DRM/KMS from the kernel, recompiled, redid the initramfs (just in case) and rebooted. The errors are also gone but I now have this: [ 31.918334] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/06/2017 05:51 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: I think I fixed it by accident. I couldn't find the KMS helpers to enable for an external module in the kernel, so I built the Intel driver with KMS support and it dragged in the KMS helper bits (confirmed by grepping .config). Why can't we just turn

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/05/2017 07:28 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: Actually. Nvidia complains about all framebuffers. I do use the EFI framebuffer as I want to be able to fall back to the text consoles when necessary. I have not encountered any major issues with this. Might occur if I switch between X and text

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver missing symbols

On 01/05/2017 08:05 AM, wabe wrote: Make sure that you have also enabled CONFIG_DRM. CONFIG_DRM=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER=y CONFIG_DRM_FBDEV_EMULATION=y Eh, no. For nvidia, these need to be all disabled. Disable all KMS and DRM options. Then it should work.

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

On 12/30/2016 03:44 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 30 Dec 2016 12:12:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/30/2016 12:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/29/2016 03:21 PM, Mick wrote: Hi All, My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since pulseaudio started being shipped

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

On 12/30/2016 12:04 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/29/2016 03:21 PM, Mick wrote: Hi All, My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. I had many similar issues years ago. I solved them by doing

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer and pulseaudio - which is at fault?

On 12/29/2016 03:21 PM, Mick wrote: Hi All, My sound has been behaving erratically for a while now, probably since pulseaudio started being shipped with various desktop applications. I had many similar issues years ago. I solved them by doing the following: In /etc/pulse/daemon.conf, I've

[gentoo-user] Weird warning message when emerging gcc

A world update emerged gcc-5.4.0-r2 (update from 5.4.0). At the end of the build, I got this: * Python seems to be broken, attempting to locate CHOST ourselves ... * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-5.4.0 ...PORTAGE_BZIP2_COMMAND setting is invalid: 'bzip2'

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stop ls from quoting output

On 03/05/16 20:07, Daniel Quinn wrote: Some time ago after an update |ls| started returning output that looked like this: |8hOk25T.jpg 'Janeway Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-04-06 16-15-15.png' microsoft.png 'Away mission Wallpaper-iPhone.png' 'Screenshot from 2016-03-18

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts

On 23/04/16 03:33, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:38:00 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts

I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but got the same issue. I then wiped it again and emerged normal thunderbird (sans "-bin"),

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On 17/04/16 05:26, Francisco Ares wrote: On KDE 4, it was ok, it mounted removable media in /run/[username]/[medialabel] , as the users were already in "plugdev" group and, just in case, the "disk" group as well - and they are there up to now. When the pop-up notification comes up that says a

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 5 and portable media mounting

On 16/04/16 19:30, Francisco Ares wrote: Hi, All. After some issues (some not yet solved, but on the way...), there is one pretty annoying: regular users have to provide root password in order to mount a flash drive, for instance. Am I missing something? Are the users in the "plugdev" group?

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

On 15/04/16 16:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/04/2016 15:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/04/16 01:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: We even had the choice of installing both KDE3 and 4 at the same time. That made transition far easier and it allowed me to get settled in due time. So I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

On 15/04/16 01:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: We even had the choice of installing both KDE3 and 4 at the same time. That made transition far easier and it allowed me to get settled in due time. So I'm not particularly worried about the next few months, especially with the modularity and

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE Plasma 5 moved to stable

On 11/04/16 13:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: I saw that too, and it cast a gloom over the rest of my day. I intend to stick with KDE-4 until some more sensible themes become available in Plasma 5 The KDE 4 themes are still included. (Oxygen and Air.) Breeze is the default though.

[gentoo-user] Re: to anyone and everyone

On 09/04/16 07:54, Alan Grimes wrote: Decided the corsair psu was not worth rma-ing, at similar expense so decided to trash the company instead. =| You get what you pay for ;-) http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/corsair-extends-select-psu-warranties-from-7-years-to-10-years.html

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 31/03/16 09:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 31/03/2016 00:13, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: "Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.unmask/qt: =dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt" (Doesn't work with or without the "::qt".) It's the leading "*" that's wrong there, because it's no

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 30/03/16 05:48, Bryan Gardiner wrote: On 30 March 2016 05:01:16 GMT+09:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work:

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

lay EXCEPT dev-qt/*-5.6.*. On 30/03/16 00:14, Ian Bloss wrote: Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead? On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com <mailto:rea...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So,

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work: package.mask: */*::qt package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt With this, 5.

[gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

On 29/03/16 23:21, R0b0t1 wrote: Not entirely sure what you wish. Maybe package sets? Not sure what *you* mean :-) How would package sets help me in masking all packages from an overlay and then whilelist only specific ones?

[gentoo-user] Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt". It doesn't work: package.mask: */*::qt package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt With this, 5.6 versions are still masked. How do I do this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On 21/03/16 13:52, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

On 18/03/16 23:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: KDE 5 is absolutely nothing like KDE3. So by all means try it, but evaluate it on it's own terms. It's not a better KDE3, it's a whole different DE And full of bugs :-P Holy crap is it full of bugs. Like, seriously.

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

On 17/03/16 18:00, Philip Webb wrote: I tried to fix it by setting wayland, gles2 and egl to default because they were breaking other packages. Why are you using Wayland ? -- it's still largely experimental, isn't it ? Some packages force the wayland USE flag on. Emerge that breaks if you

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE's confusing versions

On 06/03/16 22:37, Philip Webb wrote: Eix tells me : root:505 ~> eix okular [I] kde-apps/okular Available versions: (4) 4.14.3(4/4.14)^t 15.08.3-r1(4/15.08)^t ~15.12.1(4/15.12)^t {aqua chm crypt debug djvu dpi ebook +handbook +jpeg kde mobi +pdf +postscript

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On 03/03/16 12:15, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2016 21:44:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you need 64-bit FP compute, AMD Radeon is your only choice. NVidia only supports 32-bit FP and cripples 64-bit FP on consumer cards, rendering them virtually useless; you'd have to buy

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On 02/03/16 13:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or Radeon. I don't want to start a flame war, but which of those would give me the best performance in GPU

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote: Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and git to fail until I forced a rebuild of curl. Any installed package that is

[gentoo-user] Re:

On 28/02/16 21:18, Dale wrote: Donahue Trevor wrote: What was that again? I can't hear you. ROFLMBO Just HTML-only spam :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET & libreoffice

On 27/02/16 22:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: There are still way too many packages requiring python-2.7 that don't support python-3 at all. Hm. I only have one such package: app-text/asciidoc. That's out of 1227 total packages installed.

[gentoo-user] Re: PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET & libreoffice

On 27/02/16 21:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: I don't know much about PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and PYTHON_TARGET, it all seemed to just work so I never looked further. Until now. Of all packages, libreoffice seems to want only python3: I can set it in make.conf but as expected that causes all manner of

[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

On 26/02/16 18:47, Harry Putnam wrote: First off, thanks to all posters for the excellent input Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> writes: On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the newest version at each upgrade.

[gentoo-user] Re: using package.provided

On 25/02/16 05:55, Harry Putnam wrote: I'd like to stay on kernel-4.1.6, rather than keep installing the newest version at each upgrade. I'd instead recommend putting >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.2 in package.mask to stay with 4.1 (it's an LTS kernel) and always get the patches for that

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] thunderbird stop working

On 22/02/16 13:02, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, Sorry for such stupid question, but I'm lost :-( I'm using thunderbird and recently I'm not able to login to mail server. Server configuration doesn't changed. I've changed password only, but typing new password doesn't log me in :-( What makes

[gentoo-user] Don't know what portage wants here

Can someone decipher this one? As far as portage errors go, this is the most nonsensical one I've seen in a long time (before you ask, boost and boost-build are not masked anywhere): === emerge -auDN --with-bdeps=y @world [...] !!! The following update has been skipped due to

[gentoo-user] Re: ls config file?

On 02/02/16 10:54, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: After a recent update of coreutils to version 8.25, 'ls -l' started displaying names containing spaces enclosed in single quotes, e.g.: drwxr-xr-x 6 belardi users 4096 May 21 2012 'Audio Libraries' drwxr-xr-x 2 belardi users 4096 Jun 10 2014

[gentoo-user] Re: What happened to portage?

On 31/01/16 10:22, Pavel Volkov wrote: On четверг, 28 января 2016 г. 5:17:09 MSK, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Syncing resulted in thousands of lines of: app-admin/python-updater/.~tmp~/ And the portage tree is full of ".~tmp~" directories. What's going on? Did you try a different

[gentoo-user] What happened to portage?

Syncing resulted in thousands of lines of: app-admin/python-updater/.~tmp~/ app-admin/qpage/.~tmp~/ app-admin/qtpass/.~tmp~/ app-admin/quickswitch/.~tmp~/ app-admin/r10k/.~tmp~/ app-admin/radmind/.~tmp~/ app-admin/ranpwd/.~tmp~/ app-admin/recursos/.~tmp~/ app-admin/reportmagic/.~tmp~/

[gentoo-user] What is forcing the qt4 USE flag?

I have a weird problem. I have an ebuild where either qt4 or qt5 can be enabled. They are both disabled by default and I have to choose which one I want. The ebuild does that with: IUSE="qt4 qt5" REQUIRED_USE="^^ ( qt4 qt5 )" I'm on the plasma profile which enabled qt5 automatically.

[gentoo-user] Re: What is forcing the qt4 USE flag?

On 23/01/16 09:21, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 01/23/2016 06:04 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have a weird problem. I have an ebuild where either qt4 or qt5 can be enabled. They are both disabled by default and I have to choose which one I want. The ebuild does that with: IUSE="qt

[gentoo-user] Re: What is forcing the qt4 USE flag?

On 22/01/16 21:45, Mick wrote: On Friday 22 Jan 2016 21:04:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have a weird problem. I have an ebuild where either qt4 or qt5 can be enabled. They are both disabled by default and I have to choose which one I want. The ebuild does that with: IUSE="qt

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On 18/01/16 15:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote: If possible, I'd like to install any packages with abs_x86_32 which are required for dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager and app-text/acroread with a different PREFIX, such as /usr/local . Is that possible? There is exactly zero reason to do that,

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

On 16/01/16 06:17, Grant wrote: I'm considering allowing some employees to work from home but I'm concerned about the security implications. Currently everybody shows up and logs into their locked down Gentoo system and from there is able to access the company webapps which are restricted to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On 18/01/16 12:00, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:12:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery hasuse checks which packages respect the given USE flag, it pays no attention to whether it is actually set. Try emerge -evp world | grep 'ABI_X86=32' Sorry, that should be

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On 17/01/16 10:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to get rid of all 32bits libraries. There are only two packages which I'd like to keep and which need some 32bits libraries. That's dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager and app-text/acroread both of which I use only occasionally. Look in

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On 16/01/16 14:54, Mick wrote: On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 12:49:30 you wrote: On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 04:15:33 Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: It's better to tell them you're using the Windows version of Firefox or Chrome. If you send an IE User_agent, some sites will start messing with ActiveX

[gentoo-user] Re: The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

On 15/01/16 18:56, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Heiko Baums [16-01-15 17:24]: Am 15.01.2016 um 13:27 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: This has worked for years and didn't changed anything from which I think it could be related. How can I fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: The X11-trap: Once back on textconsole...and no one comes back ever...

On 15/01/16 21:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: regardless how powerful a payable graphics card may be... if one uses the same graphicsscards for rendering as for the desktop the desktop starts heavily lagging/freezing just in the moment blenders rendering engine Cycles start working. At least,

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On 15/01/16 10:15, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On Thu, 14 Jan 2016, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I thought these are only security fixes? Version 20 is actully feature-complete and in-par with the Windows version 20. v11.2.202.559 might be from December, but it's based on an ancient version from many

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On 14/01/16 21:30, Peter Weilbacher wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2016, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/16 23:10, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ page: "Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will con

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 13/01/16 08:19, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 13 Jan 2016 08:00:11 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/01/16 07:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: default should be ~/.mpv/config Or "~/.config/mpv/config". I had the former file in which I added your suggested stanza, but youtube videos dragg

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 14/01/16 01:15, Mick wrote: I am on the stable tree, but have net-misc/youtube-dl-2016.01.0 at the moment. Our USE flags are the same. I will emerge the latest version of net- misc/youtube-dl tomorrow to see if this fixes it, but I somehow doubt it. I wonder if this problem is related to

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 13/01/16 07:53, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: default should be ~/.mpv/config Or "~/.config/mpv/config".

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 13/01/16 00:40, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 12 Jan 2016 19:56:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/01/16 05:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> [16-01-12 04:00]: On Mon, 11 January 2016, at 6:15 p.m., meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Oh, how I like music

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: No audio while playing HTML5-video (YouTube)

On 12/01/16 05:08, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Stroller [16-01-12 04:00]: On Mon, 11 January 2016, at 6:15 p.m., meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Oh, how I like music videos without sound ;) I trust you're aware you can use net-misc/youtube-dl until you get

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On 10/01/16 07:27, Dale wrote: Howdy, I keep getting a warning that Flash needs to be upgraded. I went to packages.g.o and there doesn't seem to be a newer version than what I have. What gives? Adobe does not update Flash for Linux themselves anymore. They gave that to Google. As a side

[gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On 12/01/16 23:10, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 19:53:41 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: Adobe does not update Flash for Linux themselves anymore. They gave that to Google. As a side effect, the only way to get the latest Flash version on Linux, is

[gentoo-user] Why does portage want to downgrade Grub?

emerge -auDN @world ... [ebuild UD ] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [2.02_beta2-r7] USE="-custom-cflags%" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-yeeloong%" I currently have 2.02_beta2-r7 installed. It's not masked or anything. But portage wants to downgrade to 2.00_p5107-r2. I don't have any clue why

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does portage want to downgrade Grub?

On 12/12/15 18:02, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: emerge -auDN @world ... [ebuild UD ] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [2.02_beta2-r7] USE="-custom-cflags%" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-yeeloong%" I cu

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does portage want to downgrade Grub?

On 13/12/15 00:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: Hm, indeed. grub-0.97-r16.ebuild was missing from the manifest, but it's weird that this would affect 2.02_beta2-r7. It shouldn't, right? If the manifest fails, all ebuilds in that directory are considered suspect. Is the version portage wants

[gentoo-user] Re: How is /etc/portage/env supposed to work?

On 20/10/15 17:26, Michael Orlitzky wrote: The whole thing is confusing. If you ever get it working please put a decent example on the wiki because I remember spending hours trying to do the same thing. OK, I just created an account, but it doesn't look that the wiki is actually editable:

[gentoo-user] How is /etc/portage/env supposed to work?

I'm following the documentation here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/Advanced#Using_.2Fetc.2Fportage.2Fenv to hook into the postinst phase of an ebuild. The docs only provide an actual example for the global hook case (/etc/portage/bashrc), but it says it works the same

[gentoo-user] Re: How is /etc/portage/env supposed to work?

On 20/10/15 17:26, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/20/2015 10:04 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm following the documentation here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Portage/Advanced#Using_.2Fetc.2Fportage.2Fenv to hook into the postinst phase of an ebuild. Deja vu: http

[gentoo-user] Re: How is /etc/portage/env supposed to work?

On 20/10/15 18:37, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:04:10 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I assume, since the docs don't mention anything special, that I should put the code in a conf file. So I created this file: /etc/portage/env/test.conf

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

On 01/10/15 15:41, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: How do you folks clean-up root partition, I have too much junk in there. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda374G 61G 9.3G 87% / I've already removed all the files from: /usr/portage/distfiles You can

[gentoo-user] Re: clean-up root partition

On 01/10/15 23:14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ncdu also makes it easier to find where the space is consumed. "ncdu /" will scan and sort by size. Sorry, should have been: ncdu -x / This will exclude mounted filesystems.

[gentoo-user] Re: portage can not find local ebuild

On 18/09/15 06:15, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to emerge one of my local ebuild and portage can not find it. What am I missing? emerge -avq nxclient emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "nxclient". My settings: make.conf. ... PORTDRI_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" cat

[gentoo-user] Re: [solved] app-office/libreoffice-5.0.1.2

On 15/09/15 12:21, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 15.09.2015 08:49, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I will retry a build and show you parts of the log. Something in my merging history seems to have solved it now. Merged OK today, sorry for the noise. I'd run a complete memtest just in case.

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine : case + power

On 17/09/15 06:04, Philip Webb wrote: My previous machines' (2000/3/7/12) cases all contained a PSU, but it seems I now have to buy case/PSU separately, so my next question is whether I can safely use the case + power supply from the 2007 machine This should be fine, as long as the PSU has

[gentoo-user] Re: app-office/libreoffice-5.0.1.2 - fails

On 15/09/15 00:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: can't emerge that new unstable libreoffice updated everything(?) possibly needed, used stable gcc ... no way. I don't want to spam the list with the build.log and I can't find a matching bug at b.g.o. Anyone successful here already? No

[gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/notmpfs - does not exist

On 05/09/15 08:52, Dale wrote: tmpfs /var/tmp/portage tmpfs noatime 0 0 Off-topic: forget "noatime". Use "lazytime" instead: https://lwn.net/Articles/621046

[gentoo-user] Re: git clone tricks

On 04/09/15 18:51, James wrote: hello, So I'm still learning the tricks of git.. I tried all sorts of things suggested on the net, but I cannot seem to find a way to clone this site: You cannot clone sites with git. You can only clone git repositories. What you have is an HTTP website,

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] media-libs/jpeg / media-libs/libjpeg-turbo - blocking each other

On 01/09/15 03:35, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Found a solution. emerge -avC libjpeg-turbo emerge -av1 media-libs/jpeg:0 media-libs/jpeg:62 Solved the problem. That is not a solution. It's a workaround. The real solution is to make the package that depends on media-libs/jpeg not depend

[gentoo-user] Re: UEFI booting

On 17/08/2015 03:59 μμ, Rod wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to figure out how to make my boot partition to boot from UEFI, I have grub2 installed, but I keep getting a error when I ask it to install the boot information. mount /dev/sdc1 201633156 201478 1%

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

On 22/07/2015 04:34 πμ, walt wrote: Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally. No delay here with POP3. Login is instant.

[gentoo-user] Re: SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?

On 22/07/2015 04:34 πμ, Jonathan Callen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-07-21 14:12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I upgraded to KDE 5 recently, and was using LightDM as the display manager. It seems that KDE 5 prefers SDDM though and offers a config module

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

On 23/07/2015 05:49 πμ, walt wrote: Nope. Wrong. I just changed my resolv.conf back to the IP address of the router that ATT forced me to upgrade to and the delay is *gone*. The delay I was seeing was apparently caused by something very local to me, and suddenly vanished after two days. The

[gentoo-user] SDDM/KDE5: no sound card available?

I upgraded to KDE 5 recently, and was using LightDM as the display manager. It seems that KDE 5 prefers SDDM though and offers a config module for it in System Settings. So I installed SDDM. However, when I log in with SDDM, I get no sound. My sound card just... disappears. alsamixer -c0

[gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

On 18/07/2015 08:43 μμ, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Sat, 18 Jul 2015 06:47:21 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: The problem I (possibly needless) see is: While I am tinkering and testing the configuration I may setup an open Wifi access point without noticing it in first glance and BANG! get hacked

[gentoo-user] Re: In the fear of getting hacked (WLAN setup)

On 18/07/2015 06:34 πμ, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, in order to connect my ASUS Memp Pad 7 ME176CX to the internet I need a working WLAN (my DSL router/modem is of the copper area - no Wifi/WLAN). The hardware (an USB dongle) is already there...it needs only be configured and setup. The

[gentoo-user] Re: How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)

On 13/07/15 15:19, walt wrote: Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error and left the whole mess for me to solve. (To me this

[gentoo-user] Re: How to avoid perl harbor (pun intended)

On 13/07/15 16:01, Simon Thelen wrote: On 15-07-13 at 05:19, walt wrote: Today's update started as a disaster: perl wants to upgrade from 5.20.2 to 5.22.0, but all of my existing perl modules insist on having 5.20.2 so the perl update blocks and then emerge stopped with an error [...] It

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT} CPU question

On 13/07/15 19:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Are crosscompilers freely available for it (or is this CPU even i386 compatible) It's x86 and x86-64 compatible (it's a 64-bit CPU). With -march=native, GCC will use the most appropriate instruction sets for this CPU.

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 11/07/15 23:56, Martin Vaeth wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't have time to learn arcane settings anymore. That's why it is good that you can adapt the shell completely to your needs: My opinion is that the computer must adapt to *my* habits and not vice

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 11/07/15 01:18, Marc Joliet wrote: Am Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:39:05 +0300 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com: On 10/07/15 18:00, Gevisz wrote: bindkey '^[[7~' beginning-of-line # Home (xterm) bindkey '^[[8~' end-of-line# End (xterm) lol

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe-flash-11.2.202.481 available; patches exploit

On 10/07/15 14:00, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/07/15 17:41, Walter Dnes wrote: Adobe has released adobe-flash-11.2.202.481 for linux, and it is now available as an ebuild. Thanks to the devs for a quick turnaround with the ebuild. It is important to update, because a zero-day exploit

[gentoo-user] Re: adobe-flash-11.2.202.481 available; patches exploit

On 09/07/15 17:41, Walter Dnes wrote: Adobe has released adobe-flash-11.2.202.481 for linux, and it is now available as an ebuild. Thanks to the devs for a quick turnaround with the ebuild. It is important to update, because a zero-day exploit was discovered in the 400 gigabytes of data

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 10/07/15 18:00, Gevisz wrote: bindkey '^[[7~' beginning-of-line # Home (xterm) bindkey '^[[8~' end-of-line# End (xterm) lol... are these guys serious? It's 2015...

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 09/07/15 15:01, Gevisz wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:48:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote: As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I see gentoo's bash uses the standalone readline from

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 09/07/15 14:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote: As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I see gentoo's bash uses the standalone readline from coreutils, while the original bash source maintains an own trimmed version

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 09/07/15 15:24, wraeth wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 03:19:19PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/07/15 14:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote: As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I see gentoo's bash uses

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 09/07/15 19:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:07:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Don't ask such questions ;-) This is in the same vein as the emacs vs vim argument. True, people persist with Bash and vim, but in the latter case it appears to be because they actually like

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 10/07/15 02:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I tried it [zsh], for exactly 10 seconds. My home/end keys didn't work. This gave me the impression of an unfinished project. Why on earth would anyone release a program after 1990 that doesn't know the home/end keys? :-/ PS: The Del key doesn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 06/07/15 20:01, walt wrote: This is the problem: occasionally bash gets in a state where it stops echoing the characters I type. The commands I type continue to work properly and I can see the output from them but I can't see the commands on the screen as I type them. I remember having

[gentoo-user] Re: splashutils users: how often does fbsplashd crash for you?

On 31/05/15 13:33, Heiko Baums wrote: Am 31.05.2015 um 12:01 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: how often does fbsplashd crash for you? For me not once since it exists. fbsplashd.stati[599]: segfault at 7f24ceb9b000 ip 0050a6f0 sp 7f24ce35fd08 error 6 in fbsplashctl Are you sure

[gentoo-user] splashutils users: how often does fbsplashd crash for you?

Here, almost all the time on boot. How to find out (as root): zgrep fbsplash /var/log/* My logs are filled with: fbsplashd.stati[599]: segfault at 7f24ceb9b000 ip 0050a6f0 sp 7f24ce35fd08 error 6 in fbsplashctl

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