[gentoo-user] gentoo and gpg

2024-06-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
What is correct permissions for /etc/portage/gpg? I've got a warning that directory is unsafe. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Attempted disk repair failed. All of gentoo got cleaned off that disk along with all partition data. I thought that disk had been wiped some time ago and my mistake was failing to check what was actually on that disk before trying to install gentoo on it. The good thing about this is,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
OK, the GPT Hybrid is a hack to allow legacy OSs which do know how to process GPT table structures to be able to access up to three partitions on the disk by creating MBR entries for them. Since you have a UEFI MoBo it is best you use GPT partitioning, with an ESP and the MoBo's UEFI firmware

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks for the help on gdisk. I found both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 are mbr and not gpt partitions. The weird thing was when setting these disks up fdisk offered to go into gpt hybrid as one of its menu choices. I didn't go in there thinking that /dev/sda was already gpt. -- Jude "There are

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I didn't run grub-install yet but emerged gentoo-kernel-bin so maybe that ran grub-install for me. I'll check with gdisk and thanks much for your help on this problem. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
We have the following IDs associated with block devices and their filesystem: 1. Partition type. For example the ESP with partition type 'ef00', has the GPT UID: Partition GUID code: C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B (EFI system partition) You can check this if you launch gdisk, press i,

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
None of the uid's for sda1 sda2 and sda3 are displayed in efibootmgr. /dev/sda1 is vfat and /dev/sda3 is xfs. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Mon, 27 May 2024, Michael wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
The command: lsblk -f will reveal the UUID of the respective partitions. This is normally used in your fstab, unless you created this manually, in which case you can use logical names or filesystem labels. The efibootmgr will display the partition UUID where the .efi executable resides.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I will always be installing from stage3 not the boot media since I can't bring up speakup and have it read everything on the screen after booting. I'm glad the script will be helpful for you and anyone else that can use it in my situation or who prefers to install starting with stage3. -- Jude

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Dale
Jude DaShiell wrote: > Here's the script I used to get from an existing system into the gentoo > environment to install the gentoo system. I started with stage3 and chose > openrc and went down that path. > > #!/usr/bin/bash > # file: sgentoo.sh - setup gentoo mounts > echo "once disk setup from

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
grub-update found boot partition in /dev/sda3. The problem I now have is I cannot boot into gentoo. The efibootmgr program on original system shows no available gentoo boot drive and has lots of hex output so I can't locate /dev/sda3 in efibootmgr and all gentoo partitions I created have been

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think I fixed the problem by putting all of the boot stuff into the /mnt/gentoo/efi directory which has /dev/sda1 mounted to it. Reason I think that problem got fixed was I repeated the steps and iucode steps from emerge linux-firmware all the way down to emerge gentoo-kernel-bin and emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
Hi Jude, There are few decisions you have to make before you consider how to partition your disk, which affect where /boot may be located. 1. EFI System Partition (ESP) This is a GPT partition of type ef00 and formatted as FAT32, necessary for an EFI motherboard which is not configured to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
Here's the script I used to get from an existing system into the gentoo environment to install the gentoo system. I started with stage3 and chose openrc and went down that path. #!/usr/bin/bash # file: sgentoo.sh - setup gentoo mounts echo "once disk setup from gentoo handbook is complete" echo

[gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
After having followed the handbook I end up with /boot in /sda3 even though mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/efi had been run and /dev/sda1 is vfat 32 format and is efi system. What did I do wrong? -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo starting with stage3

2024-05-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ok in this case I'm using slint to do the install with stage3 so those lines are needed. -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 21 May 2024, Michael wrote: > The line to test if

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo starting with stage3

2024-05-21 Thread Michael
The line to test if a symlink exists to /run/shm/ from /dev/shm is only needed when you use non-Gentoo live media to install your system. With the Gentoo installation media, whether you use the minimal CD or the admincd, such an action is not needed. On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:52:01 BST Jude

[gentoo-user] gentoo starting with stage3

2024-05-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
I am installing gentoo to a different disk on the machine and the install-x86_64-minimal disk is not fit for purpose since I cannot get espeak reading the screen as I go through an installation. Most things are pointed at /mnt/gentoo on my system when doing commands. However in lines where proc is

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-sources-6.8.x , xen domU, netfront ] Reporting kernel bug -- Howto?

2024-03-17 Thread Jack
On 3/17/24 09:47, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I get a stackdump booting the gentoo-sources-6.8.x kernels, and I'm wondering how to go about reporting. Pretty sure this can't be gentoo-specific, but kernel.org seems adamant that I should report to gentoo. gentoo-sources has lots of patches. 

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources 5.15.151 breaks amdgpu support?

2024-03-11 Thread Grant Edwards
I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics. Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with same .config via "make oldconfig") boots there's always a kernel

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-6.7.7 build error

2024-03-02 Thread ralfconn
I have a build error with latest gentoo-sources (~amd64): # eix -I gentoo-sources Installed versions: 6.7.6(6.7.6)^bs(10:37:31 02/24/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) 6.7.7(6.7.7)^bs(18:43:20 03/01/24)(-build -experimental -symlink) # eix -I gcc Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 08:09:03PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote > Try installing installkernel with USE=grub and reporting what happens > when you try to config a dist-kernel. I run grub. My flags... [x8940][root][~] emerge -pv installkernel [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Alexander Puchmayr writes: > Hi there, > > Since now kernel 6.6 is stable, installation procedure seems to have changed. > > I used to install it by > > emerge --config gentoo-kernel > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg This means something was wrong before. The extra mkconfig step should

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Mr Guillaume Seren
Hey, I've run into the same issue. >From what I could backtrack it was the merge, of kernel-install into installkernel (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel). So what I did to fix was to add the following change, as suggested in the wiki to prevent the systemd-kernel-install, like: ``` $

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:10:40 GMT Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Since now kernel 6.6 is stable, installation procedure seems to have > changed. > > I used to install it by > > emerge --config gentoo-kernel I don't know what that does. I run make oldconfig; make; make modules-install;

[gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, Since now kernel 6.6 is stable, installation procedure seems to have changed. I used to install it by emerge --config gentoo-kernel grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg But grub does not find the kernel, since it is not installed in /boot's root but in some uuid named sub

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-29 Thread Bruce NCNP
unsubscribe Arsen Arsenović 于 2023年9月29日周五 18:15写道: > Hi, > > n952162 writes: > > > Hello, > > > > When I do: > > > > $ equery list cmake > > * Searching for cmake ... > > [IP-] [ ] dev-util/cmake-3.22.2:0 > > > > Furthermore, I find no /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cmake* > > > > and when I do

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-29 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Hi, n952162 writes: > Hello, > > When I do: > > $  equery list cmake >  * Searching for cmake ... > [IP-] [  ] dev-util/cmake-3.22.2:0 > > Furthermore, I find no /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cmake* > > and when I do this: > > $ cd /var/cache/binpkgs/dev-util > > $ tar -tjvf cmake-3.22.2.tbz2  2>&1

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:24 PM n952162 wrote: > > $ tar -xjvf /var/cache/binpkgs/dev-util/cmake-3.22.2.tbz2 ./usr/bin/cmake > It looks to me that it's in the tarball received from gentoo. Unless you tell portage to fetch binpkgs it won't fetch one from Gentoo. Until very recently Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread n952162
On 9/28/23 17:48, Alan McKinnon wrote: cmake is not downloaded as binary. Your system has built it and stored the binaries it built, especially if more than one package is like that. $ tar -xjvf /var/cache/binpkgs/dev-util/cmake-3.22.2.tbz2  ./usr/bin/cmake ./usr/bin/cmake $ file

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
cmake is not downloaded as binary. Your system has built it and stored the binaries it built, especially if more than one package is like that. This happens when you use quickpkg or emerge -b. I seem to recall there is a global option that can be used for this, I used it one when building on a

[gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread n952162
Hello, When I do: $  equery list cmake  * Searching for cmake ... [IP-] [  ] dev-util/cmake-3.22.2:0 Furthermore, I find no /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cmake* and when I do this: $ cd /var/cache/binpkgs/dev-util $ tar -tjvf cmake-3.22.2.tbz2  2>&1 | grep /usr/bin/cmake -rwxr-xr-x root/root  

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.15.59 un-keyworded?

2022-09-23 Thread tastytea
On 2022-09-23 10:28+0200 "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a specific reason why the keywords (apart from hppa) have > been removed from gentoo-sources-5.15.59? > > I am seeing some issues with systems running this version, but not > all. And as this is recent, I don't have an older

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.15.59 un-keyworded?

2022-09-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi, Is there a specific reason why the keywords (apart from hppa) have been removed from gentoo-sources-5.15.59? I am seeing some issues with systems running this version, but not all. And as this is recent, I don't have an older kernel to quickly fall back to. Currently working on testing

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-ser] Re: Why IDEPEND's context is BHOST?

2022-09-02 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 11:03:21AM +0300, Alexander Kurakin wrote: > > Thanks, Ionen! >   > > then amd64 will need deps to run pkg_postinst >   >   > Why? Why does build participate on installation? Maybe it's terminology confusion? CBUILD just means the machine from which the package is being

Re: [gentoo-user] [gentoo-user] Why IDEPEND's context is BHOST?

2022-09-01 Thread Ionen Wolkens
On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:26:46PM +0300, Alexander Kurakin wrote: > > Good day! >   > [1] says: >   > >  idepend Additionally, in EAPIs listed in table 8.4 as supporting IDEPEND, > >install-time dependencies can be specified. These dependencies are binary > >compatible with the native build

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo uninstallable on this hardware

2022-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
Old machine has died and gone to the recycler. It was having trouble even starting up had to hit start button multiple times. New machine has nvme drives on it and plenty of usb ports so older drives with other systems can be attached. I updated grub after connecting one of these drives so will

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo uninstallable on this hardware

2022-04-17 Thread Michael
What you describe may be a hardware problem, but it could also be related to the kernel options enabled in the Live-USB media. I've had some MoBos overheating when booting with one Live media OS, but not another. Chroot-ing was OK, but trying to build anything thereafter ended up in

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo uninstallable on this hardware

2022-04-17 Thread Jack
On 4/17/22 11:06, Jude DaShiell wrote: ... Most recent crash happened after opening links on the gentoo page itself. So far, gentoo is the only flavor of linux used around here that crashes my hardware like that. It was suggested the special glue holding the fan to the cpu may have given out

[gentoo-user] gentoo uninstallable on this hardware

2022-04-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have had several system crashes trying a gentoo install. These crashes involve the loss of speakup and no capability to resurrect speakup either. Further to that, when the system is shutdown it cannot be restarted without use of the reset button additional to the power button. When I take my

[gentoo-user] gentoo after chroot has computer crash

2022-04-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not only does speakup crash but the system once turned off cannot be started up again without use of the reset button. This amd system has about 14gb of ram and 8 cores on it. Something else that happens every so often is that the fans run really fast and sometimes not during gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 14:57 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I've got a Gentoo image running in Linode without any problem. > > I'm fairly certain that they offer Gentoo as an option when creating > the VPS.  It's been too long and I've messed with too many things > since then. They do. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-19 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
If you want to save time (and probably money), compile packages into binary packages on another server and set the virtual server to only use binary. On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 5:51 AM n952162 wrote: > :thumbsup: Thank you. > > On 3/19/22 09:08, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > n952162 wrote: > >> You

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-19 Thread n952162
:thumbsup:  Thank you. On 3/19/22 09:08, Matthias Hanft wrote: n952162 wrote: You booted the minimal install ISO and went through the steps of partitioning the disk, network, etc? Yes. Exactly the same way as I did for my server at home. I was thinking that there were special drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-19 Thread Matthias Hanft
n952162 wrote: > > You booted the minimal install ISO and went through the steps of > partitioning the disk, network, etc? Yes. Exactly the same way as I did for my server at home. > I was thinking that there were special drivers necessary for the virtual > devices offered by the platform. 

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread Grant Taylor
On 3/18/22 1:03 PM, n952162 wrote: I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud. The platform offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile gentoo to run on it. Anybody have experience doing this? I've got a Gentoo image running in Linode without any

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread n952162
On 3/18/22 21:16, tastytea wrote: On 2022-03-18 20:53+0100 n952162 wrote: On 3/18/22 20:40, Matthias Hanft wrote: n952162 schrieb: I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile gentoo to run on

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-18 20:53+0100 n952162 wrote: > On 3/18/22 20:40, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > n952162 schrieb: > >> I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform > >> offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering > >> if I can compile gentoo to run on it.  Anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Raphael Mejias Dias: > I've read this question and now I'm curious about how much it would > cost to compile a Gentoo system into cloud. Anyone know this? The cheapest Gentoo VMs of mine are based on Hetzner's CX11 [1] which cost 3,49 EUR per month (plus VAT, but no setup fees). Gentoo can be

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread n952162
On 3/18/22 20:40, Matthias Hanft wrote: n952162 schrieb: I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile gentoo to run on it.  Anybody have experience doing this? Yes. I have a Remote Console using

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread Matthias Hanft
n952162 schrieb: > I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me > some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile > gentoo to run on it.  Anybody have experience doing this? Yes. I have a Remote Console using a Java Applet (via VPN) where I can

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread Raphael Mejias Dias
On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:22 PM tastytea wrote: > On 2022-03-18 20:03+0100 n952162 wrote: > > > I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud. The platform offers me > > some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can > > compile gentoo to run on it. Anybody have experience

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread tastytea
On 2022-03-18 20:03+0100 n952162 wrote: > I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me > some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can > compile gentoo to run on it.  Anybody have experience doing this? If the platform offers you access to the VGA

[gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread n952162
I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile gentoo to run on it.  Anybody have experience doing this?

[gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-18 Thread n952162
I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud.  The platform offers me some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can compile gentoo to run on it.  Anybody have experience doing this?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

2022-03-14 Thread Steve Wilson
On 13/03/2022 22:26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 3/13/22 14:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:04:59 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 3/13/22 13:21, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Upgraded to: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 and kernel will not boot, not even recovery mode.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

2022-03-13 Thread thelma
On 3/13/22 14:34, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:04:59 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 3/13/22 13:21, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Upgraded to: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 and kernel will not boot, not even recovery mode. I'm getting some strange looping/scrolling message

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

2022-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 14:04:59 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 3/13/22 13:21, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Upgraded to: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 > > and kernel will not boot, not even recovery mode. > > > > I'm getting some strange looping/scrolling message on the screen: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

2022-03-13 Thread thelma
On 3/13/22 13:21, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Upgraded to: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 and kernel will not boot, not even recovery mode. I'm getting some strange looping/scrolling message on the screen: Kscan: watching read  1  fsk983s I followed standard procedure: emerge -avq

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

2022-03-13 Thread thelma
Upgraded to: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 and kernel will not boot, not even recovery mode. I'm getting some strange looping/scrolling message on the screen: Kscan: watching read 1 fsk983s I followed standard procedure: emerge -avq =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.10.103 cd /usr/src/ eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Dale
Hund wrote: >> My biggest problem with Gentoo was not so much the time needed to >> compile huge ebuilds like Firefox, Thunderbird, or Chromium, but that >> say if you neglected doing updates for a while and then decided to start >> again, then you'd have serious problems. This is because, at

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Hund
>My biggest problem with Gentoo was not so much the time needed to >compile huge ebuilds like Firefox, Thunderbird, or Chromium, but that >say if you neglected doing updates for a while and then decided to start >again, then you'd have serious problems. This is because, at least the >way I

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-09 Thread Marat BN
Chrome OS is made by Google to run specifically on the Chromebooks. I don't think it is intended for general computing and there is no enthusiast community around it like around other distros. The closest cousin to Gentoo would be Funtoo. It used to be that Gentoo Portage could only use

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread cal
On 6/7/21 1:10 AM, n952162 wrote: > I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google > chrome os is based on gentoo. > > Does anybody have any experience with this? > > Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I > see that there's some

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/06/21 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>> You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine >>> to spread the load. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local >> binary server

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine > > to spread the load. > > > > > > Ah, that's also interesting  ... that's like an alternative to a local > binary server (which I'm currently doing) - the compilations

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 2:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:10 AM n952162 wrote: I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Uh, you might want to read up more on what ChromeOS is. While you can in theory run it on anything, it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 4:10 AM n952162 wrote: > > I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google > chrome os is based on gentoo. Uh, you might want to read up more on what ChromeOS is. While you can in theory run it on anything, it is designed basically to power

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread sh2d000w
Maybe use firefox-bin instead of firefox?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 11:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, I wouldn't use gentoo.  And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and ... Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, > > I wouldn't use gentoo.  And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and > > ... > > > > > > Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
On 6/7/21 10:10 AM, n952162 wrote: I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Does anybody have any experience with this? Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I see that there's some concentration on a

[gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread n952162
I'm looking for a gentoo alternative and am surprised to see that google chrome os is based on gentoo. Does anybody have any experience with this? Do they support multi-media and basic modern desktop capabilities?  I see that there's some concentration on a special browser, but I'd be running

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 16:14:20 +0100, Fosco wrote: > > Also, rooting a phone to install a different OS version can stop some > > apps from working, particularly any financial ones. > Maybe Magisk is not suitable for a firt-time > Android user as it can be mind mangling, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:12:07 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > > Also, rooting a phone to install a different OS version can stop some > > apps from working, particularly any financial ones. > > Thanks for mentioning this. I always forget about this because, > fortunately, my credit union

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Fosco
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:46:45 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: >> +1 for Lineage here. >> >> I didn't recommend it to the OP because for a first-time Android user, >> this might be jumping straight into the deep end of the pool. Nigthly build for supported devices are fairly safe (from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 14:58 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Also, rooting a phone to install a different OS version can stop some > apps from working, particularly any financial ones. Thanks for mentioning this. I always forget about this because, fortunately, my credit union app is not affected

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:46:45 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > +1 for Lineage here. > > I didn't recommend it to the OP because for a first-time Android user, > this might be jumping straight into the deep end of the pool. > > Also, depending on the circumstances, installing Lineage might

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Mon, 2021-03-22 at 15:21 +0100, Fosco wrote: > I choose lineageOs . When I need a new > phone,I match supported device (from "download" section of lineageOs > website) to availability on market. +1 for Lineage here. I didn't recommend it to the OP because for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Fosco
I subscribe the wifi related sugegstions. I'd strongly suggest the qt5 use flag for wpa_supplicant: wpa_gui get easier and intuitive the authentication process. About the phone brand...I spent a while wondering about the less invasive brand to have the purest Android environment. I found the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:52:17 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Any advice wb very welcome ; please remember I know nothing re cell > > phones, tho' of course I'm quite willing to buy one (brand > > suggestions ? ). > > Google Pixel, for the nearest thing to the pure Android experience. > Others

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 22 March 2021 01:25:35 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > Any advice wb very welcome ; please remember I know nothing re cell > phones, tho' of course I'm quite willing to buy one (brand suggestions ? ). Google Pixel, for the nearest thing to the pure Android experience. Others add all manner

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 22:41:44 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > However, USB wifi adapters are quite affordable and sufficient for your > use case, in my opinion. There are also PCI wifi cards, which would be neater on a desktop. Both are very cheap, but check what chipset a card uses before

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Philip Webb
210321 Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> my question is, if I use the Wifi services, >> is whether I would need to add hardware to my machine > It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. > If it does not have an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 21:25 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > if I use the Wifi services, is whether I would need to add hardware to my > machine It depends on if your motherboard has an integrated Wifi chip or not. If it does not have an external connector for an antenna, it probably doesn't have

[gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-21 Thread Philip Webb
After many years living in the same apartment, I am going to move soon. Since before I started using Gentoo in 2003, I have been accessing the I/net via a landline phone jack, a splitter & (more recently) DHCPCD. I have never had a cell phone or accessed the I/net via Wifi. Where I'm moving to,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-20 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
It can also be a failing power supply, had this issue myself, first 1 of 3 drives was having trouble during boot, then the boot drive started having problems.  New power supply fixed it right up.  Nearly anything can cause boot problems depending on the motherboard etc.  If it's the power

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-20 Thread Edward
On 2/20/2021 12:03 AM, Edward wrote: On 2/17/2021 3:50 AM, gevisz wrote:   I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second reboot it usually finds them). It is also quite often that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-20 Thread Edward
On 2/17/2021 3:50 AM, gevisz wrote: I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second reboot it usually finds them). It is also quite often that it stops booting the legacy operating system

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-18 Thread gevisz
чт, 18 февр. 2021 г. в 01:10, Michael : > > On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:45:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > Most probably, both my SATA disks have connection problems as > > Oli Schmidt suggested from the very beginning, and because they > > both have it, it points to the motherboard that already

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:45:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > Most probably, both my SATA disks have connection problems as > Oli Schmidt suggested from the very beginning, and because they > both have it, it points to the motherboard that already had quite > a bad track record. > > Unfortunately,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:58, gevisz : > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:50, gevisz : > > > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > > > > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > > > following repeated messages: > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread antlists
On 17/02/2021 11:50, gevisz wrote: It is a good question. My motherboard is Gigabyte Ultra Durable GA-MA790FXT-UD5P and I had problems with it from the very beginning in the sense that it is quite often doesn't see my SATA disks on the first boot (though, on the second reboot it usually finds

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:50, gevisz : > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > > following repeated messages: > > > > > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > following repeated messages: > > > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.04: hard resetting link > > ata5.04: failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-16 Thread Edward
On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the following repeated messages: ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) My first thought was that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread gevisz
пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 22:18, Oli Schmidt : > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata5.04: hard resetting link > ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) > > and > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > ata5.04: hard resetting link > ata5.04: failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread Oli Schmidt
ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) and ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) beside all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread gevisz
пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 20:59, Jude DaShiell : > > Check the date and time when you boot and if it isn't correct, you > probably have a dead battery on your motherboard. I had to replace one a > couple days ago. Fortunately the kind of battery my computer uses is sold > in pharmacies since blood

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check the date and time when you boot and if it isn't correct, you probably have a dead battery on your motherboard. I had to replace one a couple days ago. Fortunately the kind of battery my computer uses is sold in pharmacies since blood sugar meters also use them. On Mon, 15 Feb 2021,

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