Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop

2010-12-11 Thread Mick
e I am now and I would be > glad to post additional information if required. You could try changing channels (if there is a clash with other local APs) but it's most likely that the dropouts you notice are due to the wireless driver. Waiting for developers to catch up or using later drivers/firmware usually fixes this problem. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Myers
t; that list you know to be needed (add it to world), then either unmerge > individually (as I do, even then, ensuring I haven't missed adding > something to world that I should have, verifying what each package does > and thinking about whether I actually do need it as I go) or if

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow internet connection

2005-12-21 Thread Dale
thing but I can't back up a version because hal, dbus or one of them requires this kernel or higher and my new KDE requires the new hal, dbus, sounds like a catch 22 don't it. What can I do to make sure it is the kernel? Is it possible to back up a kernel version, the one the old G

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-18 Thread David Haller
ges that failed to emerge. >> >> Well, there's a catch though. I did: >> >> $ emerge -e --keep-going @world >> [some failed pkg(s)] >> [Ctrl-C due to going to sleep etc.] >> $ emerge -e --keep-going --resume @world >> [Ctrl-C due to going to sleep

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread Dale
er, if a person built a system with very little differences hardware and maybe even software wise, they could still run into something different and want different settings.  The catch is, take advice from different folks and weigh all the options, then test things to see what works best.  It may be that

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Dale
roblematic. I always buy branded ones, > but even then only had mediocre results. In the past, I've had bad ram test OK with those tests.  When those tests say ram is bad, it seems to always be accurate but sometimes it doesn't catch a bad stick.  I don't know if it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean -p long list of packages

2013-04-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
>>Pretty much sure there is a "-v" somewhere. I mean "emerge --depclean >>-p" vs. "emerge --depclean -pv". As with -v the output looks like the >>one you described. >> >>-- >>Regards >>Daniel > > No I'm not puttin

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.

2013-08-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
being the same physical hardware. On a firewall or router, you absolutely need to rely on this. The udev scheme works around this by letting you specify exact rules that will always do what you want. Why was this changed rammed down your throat? Well, that is political. The udev maintainers (a

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict - xfce-base/libxfce4util

2015-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
rrors. It's the price for having the power of portage. But look closely at the required bys above. libxfce4ui-4.12.1-r2 makes sense - it's the latest version and a routine upgrade. So everything XFCE should follow, because the maintainers do it right, not so? So why is libxfcegui4 stuc

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

2015-09-07 Thread wabenbau
of access to sensitive data. Yes, SELinux can be very painfull and I also don't use it. > I needed some of SELinux features but settled for using AppArmor in > an unusual way to accomplish them because SELinux is too much > trouble. All AppArmor really does is provide process isol

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading 1-year old system

2017-01-29 Thread Dale
7;t update kde >> without @system first. Much fun comes from the package renaming from >> kde-base to kde-apps, and now KDE4 isn't even in the tree anymore. (The OP >> hasn't stated whether he actually uses KDE, though.) >> >> There are three options

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread Matti Nykyri
don't recall ever running fix_libtool_files.sh after switching gcc >>>> versions. Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to it >>>> and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then >>>> unmerge the old gcc. That's a

Re: [gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-25 Thread Bob Wya
't use it with *any* Host Controllers with LSI-based firmware (or whatever they are called now) - because trim support will be completely disabled!! Sure we all want V-NAND - but perhaps I should have waited a year or two for Intel to catch up... To quote from the bug report (referring to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-06 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 07/12/2018 07:10, Dale wrote: >> Now this is odd.  I changed the settings and ran emerge.  I decided to >> use -UDNa options to see if it would catch the changes.  It did.  Thing >> is, outside a few video type packages, there were no packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-24 Thread Rich Freeman
cking and that should rule out server issues. Ditto if you sync with git with the appropriate settings, though git also has internal hash consistency checking (that doesn't prevent intentional tampering but should catch data transmission issues). The suspicion of an error by a Gentoo developer i

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile switch to 17.1.

2019-06-18 Thread Mick
gt; > I had to remove one of these two symlinks by hand (I can't remember > > which one), and I've not had any trouble since. ("Since" meaning Saturday > > evening.) > > > >> The rest of the todo list worked fine. I'm just concerned about r

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Mick
studies published. I would think more information could be sourced in IRC/ML where datacenter sysadmins hide to compare their ... hardware. :-) Reading another random link it seems Dale's 8TB SMR drive has a 20GB conventional PMR platter/area in it to catch and cache any small writes. The f

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

2014-05-25 Thread covici
roperly at all? > > Check the following link which can be a possible solution to this: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd#systemd-logind_.26_pam_systemd > > Other than that I see gnome-settings-daemon failing as it exits with > code 1, but with no clear warning or erro

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
gt;>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>>>>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>>>>> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >>>>>> Unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >>>>>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>>>>>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>>>>>> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] update world problem (looks like slot confusion on my part)

2014-06-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
led in by something ~arch. Then downgrade that offender manually. I would also advise you speed this along by doing this: emerge -av1 @system followed by a full @preserved-rebuild, depclean, revdep-rebuild (don't skimp on these 3, you want to check everything The system set updates s

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd mount - what on earth is it doing ...

2021-09-25 Thread antlists
n them, raided them together, then put lvm on top of that. Which got me into a bind with fstab. I've created a systemd service, which fires up dm-integrity on those two partitions. But I get the impression it doesn't run until fstab completes. Catch-22 - fstab tries to mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

2021-12-28 Thread William Kenworthy
e, it started slowing down.  At times, it would do only about 50 to 60MBs/sec.  It started out at well over 100MBs/sec which is fairly normal for this rig.  I would stop the copy process, let it catch up and restart just to give it some time to process.  I can't say it was any faster that way t

Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode

2022-04-30 Thread gevisz
in a web-browser > > and in a dialog-window for saving files" but not in videos or pictures. > > I see, you mean text that was actually rendered and not part of an image. Yes. Thank you for replying to this thread once more. Yesterday evening I finally managed to catch the problem

[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

2022-06-19 Thread Dale
/udev) > root@fireball / #  This is the packages I have installed containing udev.  > root@fireball / # equery list *udev* >  * Searching for *udev* ... > [IP-] [  ] dev-libs/libgudev-237-r1:0/0 > [IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udev-250:0 > [IP-] [  ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-34:0 > [IP-] [  ] virtual/libudev-232-r7:0/1 > [IP-] [  ] virtual/udev-217-r5:0 > root@fireball / #  Anyone have ideas on this?  I mess up something?  Catch the tree in a bad state?  Something else I'm not aware of?  It's not making sense to me yet.  :/ Thanks. Dale :-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-25 Thread Dale
  If it only saves a few 100MBs or even a few GBs, it won't really help much.  The difference just isn't large enough.  If I was storing small files, then it would but then I'd need those inodes as well.  Sort of a catch 22 there.  At the moment, I just don't know enough about

[gentoo-user] gui-libs/egl-wayland and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers dependency conflict.

2024-02-17 Thread Dale
llow symbol stripping to be performed by the ebuild for special files  + + tools    : Install additional tools such as nvidia-settings  + + wayland  : Enable dev-libs/wayland backend (chroot) root@fireball / # Is there a proper long term fix for this or do I need to mask the egl pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

2016-05-30 Thread Dale
ratch. It has none >> of portage's absurdities, makes no effort at all to be helpful to the >> user and allows anyone to write any build automation they feel is >> appropriate. LFS also requires you to watch all the compiler output all >> the time to catch problems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Michael Mol
hat you can save-save-save in your > applications and not sit there and watch your application wait for the > USB drive to catch up. It also allows writes to be combined more > efficiently (less of an issue for flash, but you probably can still > avoid multiple rounds of overwriting data in

Re: [gentoo-user] re-activating a netbook

2024-09-22 Thread Michael
bit CPU. > Also, I now use Wifi exclusively -- I no longer have a landline -- , > but while Horace can access Wifi, his Gentoo doesn't have Wifi installed, > so there's a Catch-22 : w/o a landline, I can't install WPA etc. This is a matter of booting with a LiveUSB which

Re: [gentoo-user] snapshots?

2016-01-05 Thread lee
- maybe I had to run btrfsck on it. In the other case it was > being really fussy and I ended up just restoring from a backup since > that was the path of least resistance. I could have probably > eventually fixed the problem, and the drive was mountable read-only > the entire time s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
r problem. >> >> Do you now see why I'm not convinced this is a real-world solution? > > I think I see your point, but what is the worst that can happen if somebody > gets a subslot wrong? Since too *many* rebuilds aren't all too terrible (a > waste of time for

[gentoo-user] Re: log messages

2010-02-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
nged a remote host, and > logged a unique easily findable string into the log using `logger', > every 5 minutes. With that I was able to narrow down the time frame > of freeze to within the last 5 minutes (of log lines). > > Even then, there was nothing to indicate a problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
er@lists.gentoo.org > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create >

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
ed to get a LOT of false positives. Right >> now, I check via web mail and tell it NONE of what it thinks is spam is >> actually spam. It may mess up their filters but it is starting to send >> them to me so it is working a little at least. >> > > You can disable s

Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings-daemon failed]

2009-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
> now, I check via web mail and tell it NONE of what it thinks is spam is >> > actually spam. It may mess up their filters but it is starting to send >> > them to me so it is working a little at least. >> >> You can disable spam filtering. Set up a filter to catc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 (is blocking app-admin/python-updater-0.5

2008-07-26 Thread Mark Knecht
12.0-r1" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-python/pygtk-2.12.0-r1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. dragonfly ~ # eix -I pygtk [D] dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
the shelves, the experience of new Gentoo users will be better. --Andrei Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Even though I would like to see semi-annual releases, I can also understand the effort that has to go into making it happen. You would have to catch everything just right to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: help with xorg-server-1.9.4 and no hal; broken mouse/keyboard/X

2011-02-20 Thread Mick
ynaptics and keyboard input drivers. I'm also using mouse (because it > > doesn't hurt I guess). > > > > I tried of course to remove them all and leave evdev initially, but it > > all went horribly wrong. Perhaps evdev will catch up eventually, I just > > hop

Re: [gentoo-user] clamav and spamassassin

2011-12-03 Thread Michael Orlitzky
d to bother having clamav scan my incoming mail? Well, they aren't going to get infected with anything, but ClamAV could still keep the virus message (which is obviously unwanted) out of their inbox. There are also some third-party signatures[1] for ClamAV that catch scam/phishing mail.

[gentoo-user] (Solved) please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
including on > Two days ago, evince was bumped to 2.32.0-r4 to fix a crash. > Therefore, evince-2.32.0-r4 became the first gnome-2 version of evince > that had introspection unmasked, and it wanted to pull in > nautilus[introspection]. But the latest gnome-2 version o

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant connect-disconnect loop

2010-12-11 Thread Valmor de Almeida
ld be >>> glad to post additional information if required. >> >> You could try changing channels (if there is a clash with other local APs) >> but >> it's most likely that the dropouts you notice are due to the wireless >> driver. >> Waiting for d

Re: [gentoo-user] aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Dale
the process, I cleared the cache, ran emerge with the portage work directory on disk. Then cleared cache again and run on tmpfs. If you think that the cache would make any difference for the second run then it would be faster just because of that *while using tmpfs* since that was the second run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
t; plugs, he'd be doing future generations a favor in a dramatic >> reduction of carjackings. And if somehow it became mandated for future >> cars to have this added in addition to airbags and whatnot, it'd annoy >> the hell out of car makers but overall still be a good th

Re: [gentoo-user] devfs to udev upgrade issues [SOLVED]

2005-05-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
ot;The Gentoo system init." I didn't catch the error message. The MEssage was cannot remove /dev/.devfsf - read only filesystem. So.. the solution was to go to single mode and then remount the root fs read-write and then proceed to delete /dev/.devfsd Yipee.. Now I have udev w

Re: [gentoo-user] extreme clock drift / openntpd won't sync

2005-08-31 Thread William Kenworthy
g to sort it out when the system was fully up. BillK On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:13 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > My system clock is running extremely fast... so fast that even > openntpd (apparently) can't catch up! > > I tried (oh how I tried) to get the "regular" ntp packa

Re: [gentoo-user] udevstart at boot?

2005-12-18 Thread Ernie Schroder
ices.tar.bz2 > > $ sudo tar -tjvf /lib/udev-state/devices.tar.bz2 | grep dsp > crw--- root/audio14,19 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp1 > crw--- root/audio14,35 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp2 > crw--- root/audio14,51 2004-02-19 04:28:48 dsp3 > > > Also, what messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow internet connection

2005-12-20 Thread Dale
can't back up a version because hal, dbus or one of them requires this kernel or higher and my new KDE requires the new hal, dbus, sounds like a catch 22 don't it. What can I do to make sure it is the kernel? Is it possible to back up a kernel version, the one the old Gentoo uses, an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-04 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
es, which could >> be aggregated into small CIDRs. So the number of blocking rules is >> greatly reduced. >> >> I'm not a deep networking expert. My question is whether I'm better >> off adding iptables reject/drop rules or "reject routes", e.g... &g

[gentoo-user] Rant/Warning: fun with awesome and lightdm

2013-04-08 Thread Marc Joliet
ike that. ( I tried that, BTW, and it didn't work.) Several weeks pass, then today I decided to rebuild various things in the hope that it was a hidden ABI issue or something, but really I was just unthinkingly flailing around hoping to catch something. Well, after that I finally tracked it down. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The NVIDIA/Kernel fiasco -- is it safe to sync yet?

2013-08-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
hey have to drop support for much built-in goodness on Linux (KMS, shipped OpenGL and more) and provide that bit themselves. No biggy - they have it all already for Windows. The kernel shim module is GPL'ed, but not in mainline, and there's this little thing about the Linux kernel - the fam

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
n the whole, my experience with higher-end Dell is that hardware is pretty much well-supported across the boards with very few gotchas. The only two exceptions would be wifi cards (cheap to fix) and maybe GPU co-processor (if you are unlucky to get an unsupported cutting edge one and need to wait a bit for Linux support to catch up). -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] How to set up monospaced xterm fonts?

2015-11-21 Thread Walter Dnes
., Walter Dnes > > wrote: > > > > ... Apparently, > > some time ago, USE="nls" became necessary for basic xterm functionality > > ??? If there was a news item, I missed it. > > > > ...in package.use actually works the way I want, which simpl

Re: [gentoo-user] wget SSL authentication problem?

2017-01-12 Thread Miroslav Rovis
ive me more time, and I'll try and tell about those interfering unrelated network issues. ( And did anybody noticed that the network might be getting decryptable for us final users, it the Wget's trend to decrypt SSL-keys into the $SSLKEYLOGFILE catches up? Repasting the link from the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Music player being run from an emerge

2019-07-10 Thread Mick
rights would be limited, therefore you'll need to expand these with sudo. Use full paths for executables in your hook commands and add some traps to see the step at which they fail. Running a script with conditionals may be a better way to run emerge and catch a failure code, which wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
it back up the stack, essentially giving them message "stuff it, I'm not dealing with this. You called me, you fix it." Doesn't sound like good design does it? Sounds more like do whatever you think you can get away with. Good design in this area gives you something conceptuall

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-23 Thread Mark David Dumlao
most apparent in IO > error handling in early designs and it goes like this: > > We don't do error handling. We don't even try and deal with it at the > point it occurred, we just chuck it back up the stack, essentially > giving them message "stuff it, I'm not dealin

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: > Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >> >> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>> emerge above. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
;>> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: >>>>>> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >>>>>>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>>>>>>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
e 220 packages to be removed. It would be very easy to have missed openrc. (Shameless plug) only my kernel patch which restores soft scroll enabled me to scroll back and see the warning. The other problem is that, as (I think) Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, has said, everybody is an idiot. J

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-05-02 Thread Michael Mol
ot linking against a C-compiled > > object file. > > > > Granted, it'd be a heck of a lot more convenient if the kernel header > > files > > didn't use C++ keywords...but it *is* fundamentally a problem with > > compiling a source file using the wrong

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel upgrade from 4.1.12 to 4.4.6 hangs without writing logs.

2016-05-08 Thread Hans
7;t use C++ keywords...but it *is* fundamentally a problem with compiling a source file using the wrong language. Like trying to read something in Portugese, except it was written in Spanish. It might work some of the time, but it'll catch you out eventually. The Virtualbox internal runtime co

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
et loss. If > > fragmented packets cannot be reassembled due to some packets lost, > > you will probably find connections freezing or going really slow. > > I will watch the output of ifconfig today to see if there are any RX > or TX errors. I almost expect you won't

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-27 Thread Feifei WU
(both on the same channel). This to me says that the problem > is > > > one of interaction with the router, which points to tolerance on the > TTL > > > packets. > > > > > > Of course YMMV ... > > > > Last time I had this problem I tracked it to

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-09 Thread James Ausmus
sts.gentoo.org > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create > >

RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Torres
t; > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2008 2:25:52 AM > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything... > > > > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Richard Torres wrote: > > > I'm getting pretty much the same error (C

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Jeff Cranmer
/cpp" fails > > > sanity check error on a number of packages. > > > > > > After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is > > > to recompile glibc and gcc. Unfortunately, when I try to compile > > > glibc, I get the s

Re: [gentoo-user] (Solved) please explain this contradictory(?) emerge dependency

2011-12-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
gt; USE flag was masked on versions of gnome-2 packages that were already >> stable, including on > > >> Two days ago, evince was bumped to 2.32.0-r4 to fix a crash. >> Therefore, evince-2.32.0-r4 became the first gnome-2 version of evince >> that ha

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-27 Thread Mick
t; >> > panic occurred, switching back to text console > >> > == > >> > >> > >> > >> > Am I missing something obvious to make the 2.6.35 series work with my > >> > boxen? > >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-27 Thread Mark Knecht
t; >  [] ? kernel_init+0x1a9/0x1b7 >> >> >  [] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1b7 >> >> >  [] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 >> >> > panic occurred, switching back to text console >> >> > == >> >> &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
GMail invite which you can use as your "public" email address, which would then "catch" such additional unwanted generated mail so it never reaches your personal ISP email. I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. I rarely ever check the thing u

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-07-23 Thread Marc Joliet
> very granular, because it can be set up to allow one user to execute one > specifc command. If you wish, you can use wildcards, and the special > "ALL" word to open up privileges more widely. I actually know about this and have a wildcard rule for cpupower. I agree with Mick&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world looking grim

2015-08-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
er. But in this case, that's not true. Looking over the list of packages to be updated, there are 3 general classes of things: 1. Regular updates 2. A whole whack of rebuilds 3. A perl upgrade from 5.20 to 5.22 #1 is routine. Press enter, and make does it's thing #2 looks scary, but in t

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE application icons

2017-08-19 Thread Mick
application > > > icons are missing and have been missing since the move to plasma:5 > > > started. I thought my set up will catch up eventually, but it hasn't. > > > This is now becoming a problem with Kmail:5, and the decorations of the > > > main window

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Mick
ngs are not as bad. I'm on enlightenment-0.17/0.18.8 and efl-1.9.5 and it's been quite stable. Last time I tried to emerge efl-1.10.1 it failed, so I am waiting for maintainers to catch up with the latest before I try again. BTW, since enlightenment trunk moved to git, I am not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Something firewall-ish

2014-12-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
could imagine, that's why I made the suggestion > > I tried to block the accesses via iptable rules which DROP/REJECT > the name and the IP-address of that site...no chance. > > The IP has not changed of that site... > > Wireshark still reports traffic to and fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-20 Thread meino . cramer
ing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, then > >>>> unmerge the old gcc. That's all I usually do here. I have skipped the > >>>> emerge -e world a time or two. > >>>> > >>>> Am I just lucky, not likely as some may know, or does

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-11-05 Thread Gregory Rudolph
19 7:50 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > Spam filters are pathetic, they rarely catch spam.  Mine actually marks my > own post to this list as spam and puts them in the spam folder, along with > other messages sporadically.  If you want to stop spam use a "black list&

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-02 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:23 AM Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 2 January 2020 14:43:58 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, what model drive is it? Is it by chance an SMR / > > archive drive? > > Good catch! I hadn't thought of this - the Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Ashley Dixon
gt; > courier-imap do the trick on its own (with courier-authlib and mysql) ? > > You will need an SMTP server, or other tricks ~> hacks. Remember that > you're receiving email from SMTP servers, so you need something that speaks > SMTP to them. > > Courier IMAP & aut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: do subslots improve user-experience?

2013-11-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
only > a convenient side effect. > Subslots solve the plug-in modules problem, too, of course.) > > With subslots emerge -e @world will in the long run never be necessary > anymore to get stability (it might of course still be necessary due to > a major toolchain change; als

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Dale
buy a drive I do a bit of > benchmarking just to make sure - I think just running more than one > pass on badblocks would probably catch it (granted the access is all > sequential, but the drive has no way of knowing that and so on each > pass it would have to do two passes to consolida

Re: [gentoo-user] Some symbols render incomplete in text mode

2022-05-01 Thread Michael
gt; By "text mode" I mean that "it happened in Gvim, in a web-browser > > > and in a dialog-window for saving files" but not in videos or pictures. > > > > I see, you mean text that was actually rendered and not part of an image. > > Yes. Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:55:20 BST Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi again, > > I tried to catch the error again and while doing so I realized you guys are of course correct: sddm usually starts on tty 2. I don't know why I got it into my head that it would start on tty 8.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-21 Thread Grant
it could cause. >> > Please also try to find out if you're experiencing packet loss. If >> > fragmented packets cannot be reassembled due to some packets lost, >> > you will probably find connections freezing or going really slow. >> >> I will watch the

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm-helper and high memory usage

2020-05-01 Thread Dale
5  0.2  1.2 458860 418280 ?   S    05:20   0:53 /usr/libexec/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth09e6b5a4-8a3d-42d5-9068-eefeecc22458 --id 1 --start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user dale While it is better, it should be a lot less than that.  I have 32GBs here so even 1.2% is a good bit.  I'm starting to run revdep-rebuild as I type.  I'll see if it catches anything.  If not and it keeps doing this, I may do a emerge -e world which should catch any sort of linking/depends problems.  I wonder if this has anything to do with my wallpapers??  That caused other issues a while back but surely not.  Thanks for the info.  At least it seems to just be me.  Dale :-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-14 Thread Andreas Fink
chine, in which > untrusted > users can install packages - although I think you'd have more > significant > problems at that point. As you've unfortunately discovered, there isn't much > of > a concrete framework in place to automatically detect bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-24 Thread Dale
also make it accessible to the internet to but I doubt I'll do that.  If it is set that way by default, I'll google and find out how to disable that. Linky: https://www.linksys.com/us/support-article?articleNum=137552 I have a TP-Link router but figure it will work the same.  I don't think I was to clear on the connection in earlier message.  It was in my brain but didn't make it to the keyboard.  lol  Dale :-)  :-)  P. S. Now to catch up on all the emails.  O_O

RE: [gentoo-user] unable to emerge anything...

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Torres
pretty much the same error (C compiler cannot create > > executables). I'm pretty sure it's because gcc-3.3.4 is installed. > > I've tried upgrading gcc by emerging but get the same error > > (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log whic

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Anyone tried a solid state drive?

2008-11-27 Thread Joshua Murphy
ling - is > unsuitable for this purpose makes sense to me, but it doesn't jibe with the > real-world experiences of those who ARE using flash VERY happily. > > I've yet to see empirical evidence on the longevity of flash for this > purpose, but I'd advise anyone conside

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc - C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check

2008-12-21 Thread Qian Qiao
gt;> > > I am trying to update, and I get a C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails >> > > sanity check error on a number of packages. >> > > >> > > After a bit of searching, the solution that I come across most often is >> > > to recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r12 causes kernel panic

2010-11-28 Thread Petri Rosenström
0x10 >>> >> > panic occurred, switching back to text console >>> >> > == >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> > Am I missing something obvious to make the 2.6.35 series work with

Re: [gentoo-user] iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-10 Thread Timo Boettcher
rts). It greatly reduces the number > of checks outbound traffic needs to go through. I filter outbound for various reasons: generally, I like to know what happens on my internal network. You can catch misconfigured software some malware and some bad users with that. > Obviously to improve th

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

2006-09-27 Thread Mick
nstructions on the gentoo documentation (gcc), on this ML (both gcc & glibc) and the forums. With regards to Oracle, you may need to temporarily upgrade to an unstable package while devs catch up with the upgraded system tools - search the ML and forums because I'm afraid do not use

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
0.0 metric 1024 reject > > (an example from the "route" man page). iptables rules have to be > duplicated coming and going to catch inbound and outbound traffic. A > reject route only needs to be entered once. This excercise is intended > to block web adservers, so anot

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

2017-12-18 Thread Francisco Ares
might could be > >> added. I've never tried that with the --resume command tho. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >Let's not forget the '--keep-going y' option too. At the end it will > print a > >list of all the packages that failed to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-21 Thread Mick
s were found. Underclocking the RAM to the next > > lowest speed completely addressed the issue. If i get keen i may > > re-visit the RAM timing to see if it can be made to run stable at the > > nominal frequency with more conservative settings on the other parameters. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd and kernel developers cooperating to turn it into a global cgroup manager?

2013-10-19 Thread Daniel Campbell
> hm, Redhat is one of the companies investing the most money into linux > kernel, userland, graphics... if you 'don't trust them' you are pretty > much 20 years too late. Investing money does not make them any more qualified or deserving of making decisions. Red Hat is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-22 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
gt; versions. Usually when I see a gcc upgrade, I emerge it, switch to > it > > >>>> and the usual profile thing, run emerge -e world JUST to be safe, > then > > >>>> unmerge the old gcc. That's all I usually do here. I have skipped > the > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-17 Thread Dale
simpler and predictable. If > I'm updating my imapd container and imapd still works, then I'm fine. > I don't have to worry about suddenly realizing two days later that > postgrey is bouncing a ton of mail or whatever. If something obscure > like a text editor breaks

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