Re: [gentoo-user] system won't boot - --no-bootloader set; Skipping bootloader update ...

2020-12-11 Thread tedheadster
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:27 AM wrote: > On 12/11/2020 07:07 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Now, when I boot I get a message: > > > > Block device UUID=d32946b3-2236-4998-80dd-68b7d78e0c7b is not a valid > > root device. > > This puzzles me. I cannot find the string "is not a valid root

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

2020-11-23 Thread tedheadster
You might be able to use this shell command: TZ=US/Pacific date --date='@2147483647' - Matthew

Re: [gentoo-user] Initial console messages garbled

2020-06-24 Thread tedheadster
Robin, are you comfortable just going with a bare-bones console and build a new kernel where you _disable_ CONFIG_FB? That might do it. Alternately, you can hook up a serial cable to another computer and set "console=ttyS0,115200n8". - Matthew

Re: [gentoo-user] Hangs at "Run /init as init process"

2020-06-13 Thread tedheadster
You might verify what kind of console your VM is using. Is it VGA or serial? You can tell it to print boot messages early: earlyprintk=vga or earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200n8 - Matthew

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake 3.16.5 Segmentation Violation

2020-06-03 Thread tedheadster
On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:43 PM David Haller wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, tedheadster wrote: > >I am getting a segmentation violation when running a recompiled > >'cmake'. I rebuilt with debugging symbols; here are the results: > > > >/var/tmp/por

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-03 Thread tedheadster
Yes, you do need to capture the kernel output. The usual way is to hook up a serial cable to another computer and pipe the output to it. You interrupt the boot (usually by hitting or in GRUB), and then edit the kernel command line thus: console=tty1 console=ttyS0,115200n8 If you can do that

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-03 Thread tedheadster
Can you provide the "Command line:" information from when the kernel first boots? It is around line 5 or so. - Matthew

[gentoo-user] cmake 3.16.5 Segmentation Violation

2020-06-03 Thread tedheadster
I am getting a segmentation violation when running a recompiled 'cmake'. I rebuilt with debugging symbols; here are the results: /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cmake-3.16.5/image/usr/bin # gdb ./cmake GNU gdb (Gentoo 9.1 vanilla) 9.1 Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ... Reading

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

2020-05-01 Thread tedheadster
Here is an article suggesting to have a _tiny_ bit of swap. They say as recently as 2019 that Linux under memory pressure acts poorly with _zero_ swap. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2019/08/08/swap/ - Matthew

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

2020-01-18 Thread tedheadster
On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 6:32 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > Not that I know any gory details, but if mkswap is ALL that you have > done, then probably it's just destroyed the ext header at the start of > the partition. > > If you can get hold of the alternate (backup) header, then you should be > able

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

2019-06-13 Thread tedheadster
Alexey, you can check /etc/portage/make.conf and see if there is a MAKEOPTS="-j8" or similar variable. If not, add it and make the number of jobs small, like "-j2". I have a similar problem when I build sys-devel/binutils; it is a huge memory hog. - Matthew

[gentoo-user] emerge with alternate ROOT=

2019-05-28 Thread tedheadster
I am having problems trying to rebuild a slave disk with ROOT=/mnt/gentoo. While it is _sort_ of working, it does something very unexpected. It rebuilds 154 packages on the _host_ system. Oddly, it does notice that I have different CFLAGS set in /etc/portage/make.conf and rebuilds the host