Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-05 00:55, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:19 PM n952162 <mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a.  No problems in /var/log/messages. Anything from 'dmesg | grep -i swap' This, from this morning: $ s

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

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote: Yes, you're right: 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json {    "policies": { "DisableAppUpdate": true    } } The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner w

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
   partition 1099772 776 10 /lcl/WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-/1/swap file    3071996 0   1 On 2020-03-04 10:43, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:24:31 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-03-04 10:10, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 10:10, Michael wrote: On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: Hi, I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which ones get "mounted" (as swap areas). Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? Here are the swap lin

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

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 09:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 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 f

[gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread n952162
Hi, I have 3 swap devices and files.  At boot, it seems indeterminate which ones get "mounted" (as swap areas). Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? Here are the swap lines from my fstab: #LABEL=swap        none        swap        sw        0 0  

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

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 10:29:39 GMT n952162 wrote: Well, I can change it. It's just that the next time I start firefox, I have the old values back (and Amazon is pinned, again). Hmm ... interesting ... when I go to Top Sites on a new tab and click on the top right of a site at t

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

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-03 11:26, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote I have a banner that says that "your browser is

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

2020-03-03 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, 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 c

[gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-02 Thread n952162
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? In particular, when I set my default home page (to blank), after properly exiting firefox and re-starting, I'm back to the mozilla

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread n952162
Sorry for the presumption. On 2020-03-02 01:08, Daniel Frey wrote: On 3/1/20 7:40 AM, n952162 wrote: "within the country"?  :-)  You must be American? No. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread n952162
"within the country"?  :-)  You must be American? On 2020-03-01 16:38, Daniel Frey wrote: On 2/29/20 11:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out there. I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo based

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-01 11:46, Dale wrote: ...  now that I am somewhat more updated, past the Motorola Razr stage. Thanks much. Dale :-)  :-) Which Razr do you mean? Are you 9 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Razr) or 16 years out of date? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Razr)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-03-01 Thread n952162
well, without wanting to get political or anything ... but your point begs the question of what country yours is, or any other country, that's not grounded in greed? "Greed" is a stupid concept On 2020-03-01 02:49, antlists wrote: On 29/02/2020 17:40, james wrote: is if the US government

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox) [RESOLVED]

2020-02-26 Thread n952162
I finally understood, more or less, this web page:   https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=186597 and added this line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf and now I have sound from both the host and the guest:   options snd-hda-intel index=1,0 On 2020-02-19 10:06, n952...@web.de

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-24 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-24 23:00, james wrote: On 2/24/20 4:33 PM, n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-24 22:18, james wrote: On 2/24/20 3:55 PM, n952162 wrote: what do you see 5G providing that 4G couldn't deliver? On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote: 5G CAN change everything! Gentoo should blaze the open source

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-24 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-24 22:18, james wrote: On 2/24/20 3:55 PM, n952162 wrote: what do you see 5G providing that 4G couldn't deliver? On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote: 5G CAN change everything! Gentoo should blaze the open source pathway of contributions and WE all should dream, build and get control

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-24 Thread n952162
What do you mean with this? On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote: Now, I'm a 5G activist, so that telcos become merely non-exclusive bandwidth providers and only the less informed use them for mobile software stacks. I, like everybody else, am "less informed", but I'm informed enough to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

2020-02-24 Thread n952162
what do you see 5G providing that 4G couldn't deliver? On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote: 5G CAN change everything! Gentoo should blaze the open source pathway of contributions and WE all should dream, build and get control of our country back! 5G may be our last chance before Satan rules via

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 23:24, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 22:08:28 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 22:58, n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 22:43, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:31:08 GMT n952162 wrote: Perhaps coincidentally, that's almost identical to what I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-20 00:36, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 23:28:54 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 23:11, Michael Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:00 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: On 2020-02-16 17:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 16 February 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 23:11, Michael Jones wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:00 PM n952162 mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: On 2020-02-16 17:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:40:43 GMT n952162 wrote: >> On 2020-02-16 16:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 22:58, n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 22:43, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:31:08 GMT n952162 wrote: Perhaps coincidentally, that's almost identical to what I have on the host: 01~>cat .asoundrc defaults.pcm.!card 1 defaults.pcm.!devic

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-16 17:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:40:43 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-16 16:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2/16/20 10:19 AM, n952162 wrote: Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories (presumably, those in /var/tmp) be retained instead

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 22:43, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:31:08 GMT n952162 wrote: Perhaps coincidentally, that's almost identical to what I have on the host: 01~>cat .asoundrc defaults.pcm.!card 1 defaults.pcm.!device 0 defaults.pcm.!ctl 1 Isn't the exclamat

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 20:42, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:32:46PM +0100, n952162 wrote On 2020-02-19 15:37, n952162 wrote: It seems like VBox is interfacing directly with "the" sound card and even working correctly (e.g. aplay some-file takes about the right amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 19:49, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:32:46 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 15:37, n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 10:48, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: I can't play audio from my VBox. The host syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 15:37, n952162 wrote: On 2020-02-19 10:48, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: I can't play audio from my VBox.  The host system only plays audio through the second sound card (1).  The VBox offers me OSS or th

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-19 10:48, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM mailto:n952...@web.de>> wrote: I can't play audio from my VBox.  The host system only plays audio through the second sound card (1).  The VBox offers me OSS or the null driver. The Alsa and pulseaudio pages  say

[gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

2020-02-19 Thread n952162
I can't play audio from my VBox. The host system only plays audio through the second sound card (1). The VBox offers me OSS or the null driver. The Alsa and pulseaudio pages say OSS is "deprecated". Is Oracle out of the picture? I can't find the straight dope. Do I have to convince VBox

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-16 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-16 16:27, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2/16/20 10:19 AM, n952162 wrote: Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories (presumably, those in /var/tmp) be retained instead of being cleaned up? FEATURES=noclean says it will do that Ah, an environment variable.  I hadn't

[gentoo-user] Portage: how can I retain build directories?

2020-02-16 Thread n952162
Is there an option to inhibit that the build directories (presumably, those in /var/tmp) be retained instead of being cleaned up?

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel failed at drivers/ssb/scan.o, what to do? [SOLVED]

2020-02-13 Thread n952162
I solved this by manually editing the configuration (using "make menuconfig") to remove the MELLANOX driver. This is just for a virtualbox machine. On 2020-02-12 21:31, n952162 wrote: genkernel failed for me.  Questions: * is this a known problem? * how can I get more informa

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel failed at drivers/ssb/scan.o, what to do?

2020-02-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-02-12 21:31, n952162 wrote: genkernel failed for me.  Questions: * is this a known problem? * how can I get more information about the error (missing file?  Both scan.c and scan.o are present) I downloaded these: install-amd64-minimal-20200209T214502Z.iso stage3-amd64

[gentoo-user] genkernel failed at drivers/ssb/scan.o, what to do?

2020-02-12 Thread n952162
genkernel failed for me.  Questions: * is this a known problem? * how can I get more information about the error (missing file? Both scan.c and scan.o are present) I downloaded these: install-amd64-minimal-20200209T214502Z.iso stage3-amd64-20200209T214502Z.tar.xz into a VirtualBox

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-18 Thread n952162
What protocol doesn't use acknowledgements? On 2020-01-18 14:50, Wols Lists wrote: On 16/01/20 21:01, james wrote: On 1/13/20 3:24 AM, n952162 wrote: On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote: I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get "attacked" before I canï¿

Fw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-16 Thread n952162
In what way is emerge sensitive to reduced bandwidth? > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2020 um 11:48 Uhr > Von: "Peter Humphrey" > An: n952162 > Betreff: Re: Fw: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > > On Thursday, 16 January 2020 07:28:19 G

[gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap?

2020-01-15 Thread n952162
Does anyone have experience with this?  Is it possible to a save an ext3/4 system destroyed by mkswap?

Fw: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine > > On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 11:07:34 GMT n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-01-14 11:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: > --->8 > > >> This is a fresh install from a minimal cd image. I'm starting out with > > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-14 11:10, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 09:37:24 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2020-01-14 09:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:04:13 +0100, n952162 wrote: It sounds to me like the repository is broken - having ownership as root seems to be slightly more

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-14 09:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:04:13 +0100, n952162 wrote: It sounds to me like the repository is broken - having ownership as root seems to be slightly more entropy than portage and could have happened as a unintended consequence of some uncarefully completed

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-14 00:16, Mick wrote: On Monday, 13 January 2020 22:40:14 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:15:31 +, Mick wrote: According to my emerge --info output I have sandbox, usersandbox and userpriv, all set. The owner of my portage directory and all files therein is

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-14 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-13 23:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 12:37:11 +0100, n952162 wrote: The portage tree is sync'ed to the portage tree mirrors. A newer fs snapshot won't include the tree itself, but it will include the new default fs locations for the portage directory. Not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-13 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-13 11:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:42:23 +0100, n952162 wrote: The portage tree is sync'ed to the portage tree mirrors. A newer fs snapshot won't include the tree itself, but it will include the new default fs locations for the portage directory. Not sure what

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-13 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-13 11:17, Mick wrote: I just noticed that there's a new stag3, from 2020/01/12 instead of 2020/01/08 so - since this is a fresh install - I'm just going to start from there. The portage tree is sync'ed to the portage tree mirrors. A newer fs snapshot won't include the tree itself,

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-13 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-13 09:22, Mick wrote: Same result. But I didn't delete "the whole portage tree". What does that mean? rm -rf /var/db/repos? If you're using the new default location, I think it is /var/db/repos/gentoo, but someone should confirm that. Yes, the new location for the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-13 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote: I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get "attacked" before I can  complete a secure install, or the hackers just read much more than I do. I guess I'm still popular, in very negative way. Hmmm.  Is that "attacked" to be interpreted in

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-01-12 23:07, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 21:51:28 +0100, n952162 wrote: While installing gentoo from scratch, after doing a "emerge --sync", the command: eselect profile list fails because it can't get any profiles, and I see that the 17.1 profile is in a .tmp-

[gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

2020-01-12 Thread n952162
While installing gentoo from scratch, after doing a "emerge --sync", the command: eselect profile list fails because it can't get any profiles, and I see that the 17.1 profile is in a .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine. 1. what do I have to do to get this going again? 2. how did I end up in

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc: NetworkManager deleted from all runlevels, but it runs anyway [SOLVED]

2020-01-03 Thread n952162
-n -e '/^Dynamic/{=;q}' -e '/^Runlevel: /{s///;h}' -e '/^ /{s/ //;s/ .*//;G;s/\(.*\)\n\(.*\)/\2\/\1/p}' | sort) <(ls */*) On 2020-01-03 11:11, n952162 wrote: What do I have to do to prevent NetworkManager from running? I am running a prepared gentoo image which has openrc and NetworkM

[gentoo-user] openrc: NetworkManager deleted from all runlevels, but it runs anyway

2020-01-03 Thread n952162
What do I have to do to prevent NetworkManager from running? I am running a prepared gentoo image which has openrc and NetworkManager configured.  The wpa_gui app doesn't see my wireless (but starting the wpa_supplicant from rc-service does). So, I removed NetworkManager with:     rc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

2019-12-24 Thread n952162
Thank you for the overview. What are the downsides of the security extension, that it's not enabled by default.   If performance, do you have any idea what the hit is (before I start re-emerging)? On 12/23/19 23:31, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 1:15 AM Adam Carter wrote: The

Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

2019-12-23 Thread n952162
ugh, the thusly generated .Xauthority file did *not* allow a subsequent usage with -X.  It's not clear to me at this point why I'm configured on the one machine to allow fake security data, but I intend to rebuild the servers with the security extensions enabled. On 12/22/19 22:17, n952162 wrote:

[gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
xauth(1) says: /if [the X server] does not support the SECURITY extension, the [generate] command fails./ The xauth command is used to generate the .Xauthority file, which is required for X11Forwarding. But the Security Extension is not enabled by default: - - xcsecurity  : Build

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
filesystem crash. On 12/22/19 19:19, Tamer Higazi wrote: sorry. I am totally stupid. I got you now. Check if the networkmanager of systemd or "DEFINETLY" openrc is used. More I cannot tell you best, Tamer On 2019-12-21 18:15, n952162 wrote: Okay, I have an update on thi

[gentoo-user] where did VBoxClient go to?

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
In app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions5.1.32, there's a program called /usr/bin/VBoxClient that is not to be found in 5.2.32.  I don't find any mention of the change in the internet or the release notes for 5.2.32.  Anybody have any idea what the story is? Does anybody use clipboard

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-21 Thread n952162
re my root filesystem got crashed by a negligent ext4 recovery, the system came up multi-homed, with a static and a dhcp-derived address. Coming from 4.9.? to 4.19.72. Could it be that something changed? On 12/19/19 08:46, n952162 wrote: I have this line in /etc/conf.d/net: config_wlp3s0=&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS/administration gives a blank window [RESOLVED]

2019-12-19 Thread n952162
On 2019-12-16 16:48, n952162 wrote: After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer selection item, a blank screen is displayed.  Does anybody know why? Because I don't have javascript enabled  ... Interestingly enough, I was able get a lot farther with w3m.

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-18 Thread n952162
I have this line in /etc/conf.d/net: config_wlp3s0="dhcp" given: $ifconfig wlp3s0 wlp3s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx   inet addr:192.168.178.42 Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 Metric:1   RX

[gentoo-user] how does the bond0 i/f get set up?

2019-12-17 Thread n952162
how does the bond0 i/f get set up? And why do I have it?

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
On 12/16/19 20:52, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:25 PM n952162 wrote: It's strange ... on coming home, I see that my machine here can display all the usual filetypes and has *no* use flags: media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.11 I'm still curious what that "USE flags&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
2.16 12:10, n952162 wrote: I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delegate for this im

[gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delegate for this image format `JPG' Am I

[gentoo-user] CUPS/administration gives a blank window

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer selection item, a blank screen is displayed.  Does anybody know why?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
But that begs the question of why my initrd is correct but  my /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo isn't ... I'll look into it tomorrow... On 12/11/19 22:56, n952162 wrote: On 12/11/19 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:55:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: I've made a new recognition

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
On 12/11/19 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:55:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: I've made a new recognition about this issue.   If I move /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo to a saved/ subdirectory, and otherwise have NO modules directory, I don't have this problem. When I move

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
On 12/06/19 12:38, n952162 wrote: I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). Anybody have any idea what could have become misconfigured? I've made a new

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-07 Thread n952162
On 12/07/19 13:17, Mick wrote: On Friday, 6 December 2019 11:38:09 GMT n952162 wrote: I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). I'm not sure which kernel

[gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-06 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). Anybody have any idea what could have become misconfigured?

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/5/19 12:33 AM, n952162 wrote: The emerge should have checked for this and failed. I don't think it should fail.  I've routinely seen emerge check for various kernel / network / other parameters and issue warnings about things not being the way

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
Very informative explanation. On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. 

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
where do I start? On 12/05/19 09:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:33:08 +0100, n952162 wrote: Okay, I see from /proc/config.gz that NBD probably needs to be configured with the kernel # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set Bummer.  At work, I could just do a apt-get install qemu-nbd

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
, n952162 wrote: The documentation emerged with sys-block/nbd includes this: /usr/share/doc/nbd-3.19/README.md.bz2:     # modprobe nbd but there's no module emerged by nbd-3.19.ebuild.  There doesn't seem to be any relevant USE flags to cause it to be generated. How can I get nbd.ko?

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 08:17, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 wrote: Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd: modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules

[gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete?

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
The documentation emerged with sys-block/nbd includes this: /usr/share/doc/nbd-3.19/README.md.bz2:     # modprobe nbd but there's no module emerged by nbd-3.19.ebuild.  There doesn't seem to be any relevant USE flags to cause it to be generated. How can I get nbd.ko?

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
do this: sudo modprobe nbd qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 drive.vdi On 12/05/19 07:34, n952162 wrote: But qemu includes qemu-nbd, and it seems that qemu-nbd requires nbd.ko, which is presumably provided by sys-block/nbd. In other words, qemu provides a facility which seems to only work with nbd

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
:28:26PM +0100, n952162 wrote do I understand this correctly? In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge app-emulation/qemu but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurren

[gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
Hello, do I understand this correctly?  In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge app-emulation/qemu but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? Why doesn't qemu have a dependency on nbd?  I don't find any relevant USE flags.

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 16:06, Mick wrote: You keep top-posting and inverting the logical Q/A flow of this thread ... On Sunday, 17 November 2019 12:53:51 GMT n952162 wrote: Ah, now I see. Yes, in that respect, that is, if you don't have a chance to get /forcefsck written. Running fsck manually

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
Ah, now I see.  Yes, in that respect, that is, if you don't have a chance to get /forcefsck written. On 11/17/19 13:23, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: How do you fix a broken filesystem, other than letting fsck have its way with it? The point is, don't touch it until you do.  If you boot

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
How do you fix a broken filesystem, other than letting fsck have its way with it? On 11/17/19 12:39, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: I'm not seeing how doing an fsck from a live cd helps. Generally speaking, something ends up being mounted rw and if it isn't clean, that can cause issues that may

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 10:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:27:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: There's a million ways a system can hang.  Acpi is a mechanism for shipping kernel events to user space.  If user space isn't working, acpi won't work.   I think. But if it's just X that is locked

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 11:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: Please don't top-post on this list. Magic SysReq would probably have helped in those situations. ext3/4 only journal metadata by default, you can specify a mount option to also journal data but it impacts performance. I wonder how often NTFS

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
I'm not seeing how doing an fsck from a live cd helps. On 11/17/19 11:50, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 17 November 2019 10:30:49 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:21:18 +0100, n952162 wrote: (in fact, that's exactly the situation that I've been confronted with and have turned

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
, with substantial loss of organization and of data (despite both being ext3/4 journaling filesystems - I just don't understand that!) ) On 11/17/19 10:35, n952162 wrote: And - although hitting the power button will clear up some situations, if your hard disk is having trouble closing, shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
And - although hitting the power button will clear up some situations, if your hard disk is having trouble closing, shutdown() probably won't be able to get around that and the shutdown will be like a power-loss shutdown. On 11/17/19 10:27, n952162 wrote: There's a million ways a system can

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
There's a million ways a system can hang.  Acpi is a mechanism for shipping kernel events to user space.  If user space isn't working, acpi won't work.   I think. On 11/17/19 09:44, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: okay, I've got ... acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
okay, I've got ... acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list [:blush:] Solution:     sudo rc-update add acpid On 11/13/19 07:48, n952162 wrote: I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
On 11/16/19 13:50, Mick wrote: It is not simply a matter of different names, but of different binaries. As far as I understand it, the /sbin/init of sys-apps/sysvinit is used by openrc unless you have modified your system to use openrc-init (a different binary to /sbin/init) as explained here:

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
    ); qdbus org.kde.kded" | grep -q powerdevil     ); then     # Get out as the power manager that is running will take care of things.     exit fi whereupon I was finally able to understand it. On 11/16/19 10:34, n952162 wrote: On 11/13/19 09:55, Mick wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
On 11/13/19 09:55, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:48:11 GMT n952162 wrote: I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore. What do I have to do to have it issue a shutdown? This is an openrc system. I have

[gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-12 Thread n952162
I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do to have it issue a shutdown?  This is an openrc system. I have this, but it doesn't work: $ cat  /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn event=button[ /]power.*

[gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-11 Thread n952162
I re-installed gentoo from the minimal boot cd (amd64), re-emerged everything from my old, saved world file, overnight, and its up and running, more or less.  Then, I wanted to see what was available and discovered, there's no /usr/portage directory! What did I do wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
Ah!  Now I found it! Thank you. On 11/10/19 12:25, Francesco Turco wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 12:09, n952162 wrote: --new-use isn't on my man page It's spelled --newuse, or simply -N.

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
ef's knife for a screwdriver) ;-) --new-use isn't on my man page On 11/10/19 11:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:18:42 +0100, n952162 wrote: even if the package was just emerged? Yes, if you use "emerge pkg", because that's what you have told it to do. If you add -u

[gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
even if the package was just emerged?

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
!!!  Ebuild on the crashed machine isn't taking it. On 11/05/19 22:30, n952162 wrote: I moved the virtualbox-6* ebuilds out of that directory and was able to regenerate the Manifest! The ebuild file merge worked quite well ... unfortunately, I ended up here: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.4.0

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
pcap also got it's libraries trashed ... On 11/05/19 22:22, n952162 wrote: I found the ebuild /file/ manifest command ... but got this: //usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox # ebuild /usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-5.1.32.ebuild manifest // //!!! getFetchMap(): 'app-emulation

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