Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/19/20 11:45 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: Backtracking rarely helps in my experience. check the blocks: using --nodeps forces the install, then it may work (you may have to add to package.accept_keywords etc. to cover that angle - but I am on arm and arm64 where the most difficult of the

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread n952162
On 12/16/20 11:34 AM, Miles Malone wrote: What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it with some extra backtracking and increasing the scope to world might fix it, if not then we can revisit it? That's how I

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
if I've tried that combination, I'll do so now. ... you include -a.  Under what situation might I respond to the prompt with 'no'? On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 20:24, n952162 wrote: In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment), I'm zero-ing in on the simplest, where a package

[gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread n952162
In an update with several slot collisions (see attachment),  I'm zero-ing in on the simplest, where a package is to be replaced by the same package, but with different PYTHON_TARGETS (at least, that's how I interpret it). Is there a way to force the PYTHON_TARGETS of the dependency? Slot

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

2020-12-14 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 11:17 AM, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 1:04 AM, Michael wrote: If you're running a stable system then you should not *need* to define a particular python version or python target manually in your USE preferences configuration and you should not need to add python or any lib packages in general, in your

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/14/20 4:54 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-12-13, n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. Okay, is the solution then to re-install? That's _a_ solution, and might be less work. But, if you're not going

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 10:39 PM, antlists wrote: On 13/12/2020 21:02, n952162 wrote: My problem is I can't find a diagnostic methodology.  The one I most often hear is, update more often, or trail and error solutions. Although I haven't yet had the grief of something like this python thing, I've always

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 10:31 PM, Dale wrote: I've seen some say to start at the bottom, then work your way up.  Even with that, it doesn't help me understand it most times. It would be cool if the attached vim coloration script would be useful for somebody. " vim: tw=0 syn match maskedinstalled "^-

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
That's good.  I'll do that On 12/13/20 10:40 PM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 10:02 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 9:06 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:03 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Ne

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 10:02 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 9:06 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:03 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. Okay, is the so

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 10:55 AM, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 13 December 2020 08:57:53 GMT n952162 wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: There's a lot to trawl through here, it looks like you haven't updated for quite some time. The (compressed) log of a system and world update from 20

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 9:06 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 12:03 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. Okay, is the solution then to re-install? Person

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
I have this funny pkg entry in the emerge log: dev-python/setuptools[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-)] required by (dev-python/ipaddress-1.0.23:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" Where does the python2_7 come from?  The ebuild

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
wrong. I hope my only alternative is not just to reinstall.  A reinstall takes a couple of days of compiling. On 12/12/2020 3:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:08:15 +0100, n952162 wrote: I did a --depclean but that didn't help.  I'm not seeing where an error is

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. Okay, is the solution then to re-install?

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
(sorry Neil, that you got directly addressed again, wasn' intentional, don't know how it happened)

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 08:14:04 +0100, n952162 wrote: ... There's a lot to trawl through here, it looks like you haven't updated for quite some time. The (compressed) log of  a system and world update from 20. October (2020!) is attached. Nearly 2

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

2020-12-13 Thread n952162
On 12/13/20 9:18 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: There's a lot to trawl through here, it looks like you haven't updated for quite some time. The (compressed) log of  a system and world update from 20. October (2020!) is attached. Nearly 2 months, quite a long time in Gentoo update terms. !!! 

Re: [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

2020-12-10 Thread n952162
Thank you (all). On 12/10/20 10:53 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 4:18 PM n952162 wrote: On 12/10/20 7:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:23 AM n952162 wrote: I need a new mainboard. What will happen if I boot my existing system on it? Is the CPU going

Re: [gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

2020-12-10 Thread n952162
On 12/10/20 7:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:23 AM n952162 wrote: I need a new mainboard. What will happen if I boot my existing system on it? Is the CPU going to be the same? The responses already cover the mainboard itself well. If the CPU could change then you

[gentoo-user] new install for a new mainboard?

2020-12-10 Thread n952162
I need a new mainboard.  What will happen if I boot my existing system on it? If it would come up, what would need to be (re)emerged, as a minimum? TIA

Re: [gentoo-user] ghostview (gv) doesn't seem to work

2020-12-08 Thread n952162
On 12/8/20 7:08 PM, n952162 wrote: I always get a blank page, even with the output of groff.  Or, just a watch-face. No relevant USE flags. Anybody have an idea? Okay, I figured it out.  gv doesn't have any relevant USE flags, but ghostscript does.  And trying to emerge ghostscript won't

[gentoo-user] ghostview (gv) doesn't seem to work

2020-12-08 Thread n952162
I always get a blank page, even with the output of groff.  Or, just a watch-face. No relevant USE flags. Anybody have an idea?

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

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/5/20 11:13 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 12/5/20 10:06 AM, n952162 wrote: I understand now that you've checked this list for me.  That is really helpful.  Thank you. (in that it shows me how to go about it). Advice from a long term user who didn't do this in the beginning

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

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/5/20 10:06 AM, n952162 wrote: I understand now that you've checked this list for me.  That is really helpful.  Thank you. (in that it shows me how to go about it).

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

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:40 PM, Jack wrote: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources     selected: 4.19.72    protected: none omitted: 5.4.72 It's going to remove an old version and leave a newer version.  If you really want the old one kept, you should

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

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 23:19:00 +0100, n952162 wrote: Okay, I've never done a depclean.  Is that something I need to do?  I mean, I'm always worried it'd remove something that I need, but given all the problems I have, I guess that'd be the lesser of evils

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

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:40 PM, Jack wrote: You seem to not really understand how gentoo works. Yes, that's absolutely true. Most of the time, yes, you do need to do a depclean.  It's pretty common to do it after every world update.  In general, it gets rid of things emerged as a dependency of

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:13 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/4/20 10:49 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 21:24, n952162 wrote: I guess you mean, remove them all and then let emerge tell me which ones I need.  I'll try that.  But isn't '=' more restrictive than '>=', promising me troubles earl

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 10:49 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 21:24, n952162 wrote: I guess you mean, remove them all and then let emerge tell me which ones I need. I'll try that. But isn't '=' more restrictive than '>=', promising me troubles earlier? The earlier you encounter

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 9:00 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/4/20 8:52 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/4/20 11:07 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: Forgotten about?  I'm flattered!  That would imply I understood something here ... Here's my python situation: $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 8:52 PM, n952162 wrote: On 12/4/20 11:07 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: Forgotten about?  I'm flattered!  That would imply I understood something here ... Here's my python situation: $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python/Ip' * | sort -u

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:07 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: Forgotten about? I'm flattered! That would imply I understood something here ... Here's my python situation: $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python/Ip' * | sort -u */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7 >=dev-l

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 9:53 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 09:40, n952162 wrote: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-python/requests:0 (dev-python/requests-2.24.0-r1:0/0::gentoo

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/3/20 10:06 PM, tastytea wrote: On 2020-12-03 21:33+0100 n952162 wrote: I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks ago, but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why? Python 3.8 is the new default target and not all packages support it yet. You can

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

2020-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/3/20 10:11 PM, Adam Carter wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:06 AM tastytea mailto:gen...@tastytea.de>> wrote: On 2020-12-03 21:33+0100 n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: > I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks > ago, but it

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

2020-12-03 Thread n952162
I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks ago, but it seems not to work.  Can somebody explain to me why? These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies  * IMPORTANT: 9 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.  * Use eselect news

[gentoo-user] what's the difference between the emerge options -u and -n?

2020-11-28 Thread n952162
Assuming no "emerge --sync" has been done, e.g. I've been using -u to mean, "don't update if there's nothing new" (which I would actually think would be the default).  Maybe that's wrong?  -n is better?

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 server not seeing font dirs

2020-11-21 Thread n952162
On 11/21/20 7:02 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: $ xlsfonts | grep -i mono $ xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/freefont $ xlsfonts | grep -i mono | head -1 -misc-freemono-bold-o-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard $ I.e. it works as expected. Okay, that's good to know.  I'm unfortunately not at the

[gentoo-user] ssh key type ed25519

2020-11-21 Thread n952162
I tried to ssh to another machine and got a failing man-in-the-middle warning. The fingerprint given to check didn't match that of the target host.  On closer inspection, the entries in known_hosts are *ecdsa-sha2-nistp256* and the offending key was of type *ed25519*, as reported by the client.

[gentoo-user] X11 server not seeing font dirs

2020-11-18 Thread n952162
Can anyone say why I have the error messages in my Xorg.0.log file that I list below? xlsfonts(1) does not list fonts that are in /usr/share/fonts. If I add them with "xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/courier-prime" they appear and then disappear in the "xset -q" display.  They are not available to

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:43 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:00 AM, n952162 wrote: I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which works under python2 gives me this under python3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sqlite3' Any ideas? Just by way of comparison

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:29 AM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:26 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:20 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:17 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:10 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:06 AM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>>

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:26 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:20 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:17 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:10 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:06 AM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote:     I'm trying to convert p

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:17 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:10 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:06 AM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote:     I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which     works under python2 gi

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:17 AM, cal wrote: On 11/15/20 3:10 PM, n952162 wrote: On 11/16/20 12:06 AM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote:     I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which     works under python2 gi

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:00 AM, n952162 wrote: I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which works under python2 gives me this under python3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sqlite3' Any ideas? Just by way of comparison: $ python -m pdb ~/p/it/bookmarks/brep -A add

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/16/20 12:06 AM, Manuel McLure wrote: On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 2:59 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which works under python2 gives me this under python3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 's

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
BTW, from "equery uses":  + + sqlite    : Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database On 11/16/20 12:00 AM, n952162 wrote: I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which works under python2 gives me this under python3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module name

[gentoo-user] sqlite3 not available in python3?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
I'm trying to convert python2 scripts to python3.  A script which works under python2 gives me this under python3: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'sqlite3' Any ideas?

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
On 11/15/20 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote: Suddenly, there's no python2 on my system, anywhere.  Is that intentional? All in all, I'd say I got a lot of good feedback.

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/ <https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/> https://pythonclock.org/ <https://pythonclock.org/> Il Dom 15 Nov 2020, 14:39 n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
ncy.  Notably chromium > > On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 23:39, n952162 wrote: > > Suddenly, there's no python2 on my system, anywhere.  Is that intentional? On 11/15/20 3:07 PM, n952162 wrote: I confess, I never really read the fine print to the end because it never occurred to me th

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
the interpreter will be around a little bit longer because there's a few packages that for annoying reasons still need it just as a build dependency. Notably chromium On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 23:39, n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: Suddenly, there's no python2 on my system, an

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
probably hot out of luck. Just the interpreter will be around a little bit longer because there's a few packages that for annoying reasons still need it just as a build dependency. Notably chromium On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 23:39, n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: Suddenly, there's no p

Re: [gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
This link in the wiki (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python) is dead: Python 2.7 has reached its end-of-life by 2019-12-31. See news item <https://gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-02-07-python-2-7-eol.html>. On 11/15/20 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote: Suddenly, there's no python2 on my

[gentoo-user] python2 really really really gone? Scripts all broken?

2020-11-15 Thread n952162
Suddenly, there's no python2 on my system, anywhere.  Is that intentional?

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update??? [RESOLVED]

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
I discovered that I had significant filesystem corruption. On 11/12/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: So, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox runs, and is writable only by root.  But it can't be that the full firefox functionality gets executed in 239364 bytes! $ type firefox firefox is /usr/bin

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
your system and where it is installed. On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:19:51 +0100 n952162 wrote: Ah, that is a good point ... assuming there's not an suid-updater squirreled away somewhere.  I'm pretty sure that I've run firefox (lots) since last rebuilding it on the machine in question. Your test is

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
20 8:28 AM, Andreas Fink wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 07:55:18 +0100 n952162 wrote: I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox has updated, I need to restart. I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? And do I have to go through anoth

[gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-11 Thread n952162
I was just informed by firefox on one of my gentoo machines that firefox has updated, I need to restart. I no longer find an option to disable automatic update.  Is there no hope? And do I have to go through another 18 hour firefox emerge to get rid of their "update"?  Or is their binary

Re: [gentoo-user] mini-install-cd: default root password or other idea

2020-11-05 Thread n952162
On 11/5/20 4:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 5 November 2020 15:45:40 GMT n952162 wrote: On 11/5/20 4:26 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 5 November 2020 15:18:43 GMT n952162 wrote: I know, of course, this doesn't exist, but why is screen(1) asking for it? I'm re-installing gentoo. I

Re: [gentoo-user] mini-install-cd: default root password or other idea

2020-11-05 Thread n952162
On 11/5/20 4:26 PM, Michael wrote: On Thursday, 5 November 2020 15:18:43 GMT n952162 wrote: I know, of course, this doesn't exist, but why is screen(1) asking for it? I'm re-installing gentoo. I booted off the image and ran screen. Did everything find, with multiple screens, inclduding

[gentoo-user] mini-install-cd: default root password or other idea

2020-11-05 Thread n952162
I know, of course, this doesn't exist, but why is screen(1) asking for it? I'm re-installing gentoo.  I booted off the image and ran screen.  Did everything find, with multiple screens, inclduding for ssh to other hosts.  I got to the point where I ran emerge-webrsync.  It  taking way too long,

[SOLVED]Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: fail

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri) [FALSE ALARM]

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: fail

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
I see, with uname -r, however, that this is the first gentoo system I have that's a version 5 kernel: 5.4.66-gentoo-x86_64 On 10/22/20 11:33 AM, n952162 wrote: On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote: I just found this in Xorg.0.log

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
I mean, I looked in /proc/config and there's various vbox-specific module spec.s, which are all "m" in this case. On 10/22/20 11:38 AM, n952162 wrote: Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel parameters to be able to run virtualbox? On 10/22/20 10:47 A

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
Dumb question: do I (perhaps newly?) need to have any special kernel parameters to be able to run virtualbox? On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
On 10/22/20 11:17 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:10:41AM +0200, n952162 wrote: I just found this in Xorg.0.log: /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./ This has been discussed before on this list in 2017. Have you tried the (admittedly

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
to colour frame buffer device 100x37 Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.703824] vboxvideo :00:02.0: fb0: vboxvideodrmfb frame buffer device Oct 22 12:58:14 txm0-vb1 kernel: [    6.704225] [drm] Initialized vboxvideo 1.0.0 20130823 for :00:02.0 on minor On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
I just found this in Xorg.0.log: /[    37.362] (II) vboxvideo: kernel driver found, not loading./ Note that I'd previously brute force re-emerged x11-drivers/xf86-video-vboxvideo (i.e., no -u, -U, etc). Xorg.0.log attached. On 10/22/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: Hello all, Everybody told me

[gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread n952162
Hello all, Everybody told me to give up trying to update one of my guest gentoo systems under virtualbox and *simply* reinstall it. I did that and now, when I enter "xinit", x starts and then dies with the message: /MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)/

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-12 00:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 22:44:45 +0200, n952162 wrote: I don't know why it's written in such an opaque manner (a simple `if` would suffice), but it seems like this error is printed only if x86 is used and SSE2 is disabled, which doesn't make sense

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 22:57, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 2020-10-11 22:23, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Apparently after a long series of checks, my emerge simply ended. The only hint of a problem was this message: />>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0// // * ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 21:34, n952162 wrote: Apparently after a long series of checks, my emerge simply ended.  The only hint of a problem was this message: />>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0// // * ERROR: net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0::gentoo failed (pretend phase):// // *  

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 22:23, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Apparently after a long series of checks, my emerge simply ended.  The only hint of a problem was this message: />>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0// // * ERROR: net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0::gentoo failed (pret

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 22:44, n952162 wrote: On 2020-10-11 22:39, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:35:07PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: `pkg_pretend` issues that error only if the architecture is x86 and SSE2 is enabled in the USE-flags: (use x86 && ! use cpu_flags_

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 22:39, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:35:07PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: `pkg_pretend` issues that error only if the architecture is x86 and SSE2 is enabled in the USE-flags: (use x86 && ! use cpu_flags_x86_sse2) && \ die "Your CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-11 22:23, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Apparently after a long series of checks, my emerge simply ended.  The only hint of a problem was this message: />>> Running pre-merge checks for net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0// // * ERROR: net-libs/nodejs-14.4.0::gentoo failed (pret

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-03 Thread n952162
On 10/02/20 16:25, David M. Fellows wrote: On 2020-10-02 10:45, n952162 wrote: Have I successfully updated my system? I ran this command: emerge \     -v \     --verbose-conflicts \     --deep \     -update \     --changed-use \     --keep-going \     --with-bdeps=y \     --changed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-03 Thread n952162
On 10/02/20 12:40, John Covici wrote: Did you actually do the emerge i.e. answer the question at the end about do you wish to emerge these packages? :-) The first time I ran my script, I wondered if I'd actually indeed forget to simply accept like you  said, and ran it again ... Also, I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-03 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-02 17:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:25:54 -0300, David M. Fellows wrote: Assuming the above is an accurate transcription of the command you used. -update is definitely NOT the same as --update. -update is equivalent to -u -p -d -a -t -e Nice catch :-) :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-02 Thread n952162
On 2020-10-02 10:45, n952162 wrote: Have I successfully updated my system? I ran this command: emerge \     -v \     --verbose-conflicts \     --deep \     -update \     --changed-use \     --keep-going \     --with-bdeps=y \     --changed-deps \     --backtrack=100 \     @world and got tons

[gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-02 Thread n952162
Have I successfully updated my system? I ran this command: emerge \     -v \     --verbose-conflicts \     --deep \     -update \     --changed-use \     --keep-going \     --with-bdeps=y \     --changed-deps \     --backtrack=100 \     @world and got tons of stuff that looks like spurious

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

2020-09-29 Thread n952162
Okay, that's good to know, thank you. On 2020-09-29 21:18, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 21:03 +0200, n952162 wrote: that's going to cause the whole system to rebuild, even packages that don't have that USE flag defined? No, changing that flag will only affect packages

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

2020-09-29 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-29 19:56, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: On Tue, 2020-09-29 at 19:48 +0200, n952162 wrote: Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example? Need more info to answer. Changed or new USE flag? Well, yes, ... it was recommended that I put USE="-logind" into make.con

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

2020-09-29 Thread n952162
Okay, I was just griping, but I would like to better understand what's going on ... If I issue that command below while gcc is being emerged, is there a danger that  there could be side-effects? On 2020-09-29 19:53, Michael Jones wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:48 PM n952162 mailto:n952

[gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

2020-09-29 Thread n952162
10 weeks ago, I updated my system and it took days to build.   I just started a new update of my system, and it looks like it will take at least more than a day again ... Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example?

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background [UPDATE]

2020-09-13 Thread n952162
  But in preparing this report, I realized it's much more broken than I'd thought. On 2020-08-30 22:02, n952162 wrote: In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the image edit draw function, it includes an opaque background, rather than just the lines themselves.  I've ne

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-05 11:43, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 10:47:34AM +0200, n952162 wrote: gnokii wanted to emerge 6 packages and failed on the last: It looks like this could be an ebuild error.  Any hints, how to proceed? gettext is not providing the codeset.m4 file, which was the file

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-05 11:43, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 10:47:34AM +0200, n952162 wrote: gnokii wanted to emerge 6 packages and failed on the last: It looks like this could be an ebuild error.  Any hints, how to proceed? gettext is not providing the codeset.m4 file, which was the file

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed [sent to wrong recipient]

2020-09-05 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-05 11:03, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sat, Sep 05, 2020 at 10:47:34AM +0200, n952162 wrote: /txm1 /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1 # less /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/temp/autoconf.out// //* autoconf *// //* PWD: /var/tmp/portage/app

[gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread n952162
gnokii wanted to emerge 6 packages and failed on the last: /txm1 /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1 # less /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/temp/autoconf.out// //* autoconf *// //* PWD:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-02 09:23, n952162 wrote: On 2020-09-02 09:06, n952162 wrote: When I read the news item about elogind, it seems that it's an optional migration from consolekit.  I don't find consolekit in my /var/db/pkg directory or in "qlist -IRv" output.  In order to update, thou

[gentoo-user] Re: not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread n952162
On 2020-09-02 09:06, n952162 wrote: When I read the news item about elogind, it seems that it's an optional migration from consolekit.  I don't find consolekit in my /var/db/pkg directory or in "qlist -IRv" output.  In order to update, though, I have to select one of (consoleki

[gentoo-user] not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread n952162
When I read the news item about elogind, it seems that it's an optional migration from consolekit.  I don't find consolekit in my /var/db/pkg directory or in "qlist -IRv" output.  In order to update, though, I have to select one of (consolekit, systemd, elogind). Do I have consolekit on my

Re: [gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

2020-09-02 Thread n952162
On 2020-08-31 23:52, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 10:02:34PM +0200, n952162 wrote: In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the image edit draw function, it includes an opaque background, rather than just the lines themselves.  I've never had

[gentoo-user] imagemagick display image edit tool draws an opaque background

2020-08-30 Thread n952162
In all of the imagemagick display installations I have, when I use the image edit draw function, it includes an opaque background, rather than just the lines themselves.  I've never had this with display(1) before, and can find nothing in the internet about it.  That suggests to me that it's -

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