Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2019-07-21 Thread m4110c
t;/boot/vmlinuz-${new_kver}" ]; then > echo "==> Building kernel ${new_kver}..." > genkernel kernel > fi > else > # Rebuild initramfs if third-party modules were updated > if [ -

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread Dale
of batteries in the older one. Old one runs my TV during those frequent blinks we get here and the new one runs my puter. I usually catch them on sale for a little over $100 here. I want to get two more at some point. One for my Mom's TV and one for my sis-n-law's puter. Out of all th

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

2021-04-07 Thread Dan Egli
It's worth a shot. I never completely got boolean logic, so you may be right. And the result is no joy. I changed it to or, restarted syslog-ng and tailed /var/log/messages, just in time to catch a botnet trying a brute-force attack. Since all the sshd messages are comming in through

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor complains of no HDMI signal on wake

2021-04-23 Thread Mike Kaliman
Thanks for pointing me to that page, I didn't catch that flag. I added those in although I still get the lack of signal upon wake, sadly. It'll probably prevent jankiness elsewhere though. My next step is trying an active HDMI to Displayport adapter. On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 6:38 AM A

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not

2021-06-15 Thread Jack
ere.  While I was glad it closed, I wonder why it did it.  Did udev finally catch up to the state of the drive?  Did some other device update and allow it to close? This is weird.  Everything says it is ready to be closed but it thinks something is open.  I'm not sure what to point too for the

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

2022-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
hput. Time spent seeking is time not spent writing. There is no opportunity to "catch up" as the drive's read/write bandwidth is basically just a function of the recording density and rotational rate and number of platters/etc being read in parallel. If it is seeking it is a lost opportunity to read/write. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

2023-04-16 Thread Mitch D.
There is a catch related to using EFI without a conventional bootloader. If you want your boot menu to include details such as kernel versions, then it would be necessary to run efibootmgr every time you update the kernel. I'm not sure if the EFI variable storage is resilient to repeated w

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
; > > You shouldn't really need to add directories in your PATH manually. > > > > I agree but ls and mount and friends are in /bin and /bin is not in PATH > > and /etc/profile sets this wrong PATH > > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-25 Thread Dale
share, it would be nice.  It seems what I want to do is not very common.  Thing is, Firefox sometimes goes nuts and when it does, it is determined to crash my system if I don't catch it.  Even if I had the full 128GBs, it would just take longer to consume it as well.  The best way I see to dea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly corrupted file systems when resuming from hibernation

2024-04-16 Thread Dale
oldconfig and for most of the driver questions, I answer no.  Given I start with a kernel config that already contains everything I need, it is rare that I need anything new.  So, I rarely need any of the new drivers.  You are likely the same.  I think there is a option for it to default to no or

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] shell ouput which file descriptor

2010-04-09 Thread walt
s -n update 2>er (redirect stder to ./er) Doesn't put anything in ./er However cvs -n update 1>out (redirect stdout to ./out) Does catch the output I'm after and leave out stderr. (as one would expect) So, again, apparently I've lost the ability to trim out stderr with a r

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-box stopping services

2010-04-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
tem" ... I updated the relevant pkgs like postfix, samba, clamav ... but there are around 60 pkgs to update today. Stuff like glibc, udev, pam I will apply them now step by step ... revdep-rebuild was OK before, I had checked that after the last updates a few days ago. My first idea was t

[gentoo-user] Performing a backup during the boot sequence

2010-05-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
find two comments criticizing this approach 1. "You can also use the "*" glob [argument to before] to catch all services in the same runlevel, although this isn't advisable". 2. "Note: Make sure that --exec actually calls a service and not just a shell script th

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-06-30 Thread Dale
east. Oh, I still do my kernel installs the manual way. I have a weird way of naming my kernels so that I know at a glance what is what. I also name the config the same as the kernels so that I know which config goes with which kernel. I have had to back up once or twice. Nothing like a net t

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
hat will make this easier, but it's simple enough to script it, something like this should work: qlist -I --nocolor | while read pkg; do if [ ! -d "/var/portage/$pkg" ]; then echo "$pkg is not in portage" fi done This will not catch overlays, but it could be easily

Re: [gentoo-user] Going ~x86?

2009-11-18 Thread daid kahl
ort on. But the problems I've hit lately are taking me a lot more time. It could be the mixing of x86 ~and x86, even though the mixture is nearly all x86. While shifitng from ~x86 to x86 is 'harder' than the other way around, basically the way you're shifting is, by-and-large, just waiting for x86 to catch up to ~x86. Regards, daid

Re: [gentoo-user] can't remove device-mapper can't install it either

2009-11-21 Thread Maxim Wexler
here was a tip about putting the 'pause ' command into a certain config file, which I can't recall. Or was it 'delay ' or 'time ' ? This was meant for the hardware to catch its breath so to speak and allow the system to find the SD card. This was about the same tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Software suspend + Nvidia

2005-05-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
nt out the "UnloadBlacklistedModules yes" line in hibernate.conf. The blacklist is used as a blanket catch-all list - if there's anecdotal evidence that it causes suspending or resuming to fail, it joins the list until proven innocent. That way people that want it to "just work

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

2008-01-04 Thread Richard Torres
I'm getting 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 which is the sa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
un a > > XP-specific CAD program. So, it has to be installed in > > XP and XP must be installed on the first partition of > > the HDD, right? > > No, it can be installed wherever you want it to be installed, (but not sure > if > you can install it directly on a se

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

2009-06-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:09:56PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote > On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:07:53 Alex Schuster wrote: > > Alt-SysRq-R will allow you to switch to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. > > > > Wonko > > Unfortunately didn't help - still black screen during switching attempts. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread bn
is kind of situation? I would rather not buy a "backup laptop". > However, unlike a dog, you can catch up after a long absence: Heh, I hope so! m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread William Kenworthy
laptop". > > > However, unlike a dog, you can catch up after a long absence: > > Heh, I hope so! > > m. I get around this by leaving a relatively small partition on the hard disk and install a minimal gentoo with rescue tools and essential applications. Every few mont

[gentoo-user] Portage doesn't notice all networkmanager dependencies for rebuild

2009-09-09 Thread daid kahl
ry difficult for me to file a useful bug report on it. I do have a backup of the entire system prior to the update, but it's honestly not worth it to me to keep switching between backup and building packages trying to see which build networkmanager depends on that doesn't catch the necessit

[gentoo-user] Tablet PC? Anyone?

2009-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
device to help note-taking in class. I can touch-type in LaTeX quickly enough to catch up to most lecturers using blackboards, but using a conventional laptop there is almost no way for me to enter diagrams and simple illustrations. I won't need handwriting recognition that much: I can sti

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
out the gpl 3.0 , I'd be pretty > > comfortable having Gentoo/Portage moved to it. > > > > It offers a lot of protection that gpl 2. does not. > > > > Anyway, if it makes Microsoft "catch up" then it must be good. Actually, we should encourage commercial entities

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Opinions on Host's Decision Please

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Farrell
s better than 256k both ways, but Comcast was happy to sell me loads of bandwith. Their package was around that for the 8mb down / 768kb up , + a static IP. The only catch was the hefty two hundred fifty dollar installation fee that was waived only with a 2 year commitment. FWIW, many isp's al

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
t; Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going >well and are you doing revdep-rebuilt afterwards? Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some other stuff. Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I had to reemerge koffice-libs - som

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Dale
remember having trouble with. > Last time gwenviev and kipi stuff broke, krita broke and some other stuff. > Krita did not emerge because of some changed symbols, so I had to reemerge > koffice-libs - something revdep-rebuild did not catch. It catches changed > versions, but if a li

Re: [gentoo-user] sound (?) but no sound

2007-06-21 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 22 June 2007 04:53:36 Dale wrote: > Well, I read through the how to, I had all that done already, I just > never had removed the arts USE flag. The sounds works but it is slow to > respond and sometimes it just doesn't catch up at all. This is mostly > while swit

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-libs/glibc-2.15-r1

2012-04-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
glibc gives a system that tends to do exactly what it did before and is in no way broken. Sure, one can rebuild all of world at one's leisure to take advantage of any new features those packages give, but it is not *required* This latest pam nonsense is a very rare event. I really don't feel like doing massive rebuilds routinely to maybe catch rare events... -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

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

2011-02-19 Thread Valmor de Almeida
sn'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 hope > synaptics and keyboard don't default into being deprecated before then. I am using evdev and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kgamma 4.6.3 fails prepare phase

2011-05-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Called kde4-meta_src_prepare > * environment, line 3665: Called kde4-meta_change_cmakelists > * environment, line 3378: Called die > * The specific snippet of code: > > It appears something is missing in the tarball or something. Anybody > ever ran into this before? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread Indi
t;stable" branch. The gentoo devs are truly magnificent at their > > job. > > IIRC the approved way to do it is set arch to stable then just leave it alone > for 6 months letting packages catch up. Keep an eye out for security bugs but > otherwise do nothing. After a wh

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 & --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Dale
they guess, they should all do some basic tests to catch severe errors before committing changes and additions, and all of them rely on unstable users finding other oddities and bugs. flameeyes gave some hints and clues into how this works on his blog recently: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2011

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s)

2011-07-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
single corenow without losing A/V sync. I kinda doubt it. I've been on anAthlon X2 3.1Ghz. > > And if you're going to keep it in a cabinet, you would probably also> rather said cabinet not catch fire (I had to cut holes in the back and> mount fans). > I'm discovering

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and HARD lock ups.

2011-07-09 Thread William Kenworthy
; > > > > > > > I haven't been ignoring your suggestions but I did try them a bit ago. > It's in another reply. Thanks for the suggestions tho. > > As for trying to run from a terminal, if I do that, I can't see the > errors and when the kernel panics, I lose the messages. Sort of a catch > 22 here. Would be nice if I could tho. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox VMs not running under 3.0.0-gentoo

2011-07-24 Thread Mark Knecht
> Almost forgot: youd also have to reload these modules via modprobe (or > rebooting *hides*) > > I'm about 500% I did all that but I'll do it again just to be sure. I use modules-rebuild -X rebuild to catch all the modules I need to rebuild as well as a few applications tha

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-10 Thread Dale
slumped some but I think it was down to one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of stuff to document. If we are so skil

Re: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
hines I take care of spend more time turned > off than on. cron jobs don't work when there's no power applied, and > while you can let the machine immediately catch up when the machine is > powered back up, in my world of futures trading I need to control CPU > and network usage to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
essages to check just the libraries known > >> > to have been updated, but a full revdep-rebuild after an update > >> > will catch those anyway. > >> > >> Until recently I skipped the "--library" step exactly because I knew > >> revdep-rebui

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor problems. < sighs >

2010-12-15 Thread Paul Hartman
using fully ~amd64 system >> and it all works. FWIW, below are my settings&  a couple thoughts too. >>  <<  SNIP>> >> >> I can send you my kernel .config if you want. Let me know! Good luck :) >> >> > > You are correct, it was a kernel con

Re: [gentoo-user] Experiences with ATI Radeon HD 4250 video card?

2010-12-21 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
recent version 10.12 but not in the tree, yet. >> > > I've been using fglrx for 18 months without problem on amd64 (which is > currently using xorg 1.7.7). I would assume that ~amd64/~x86 would be more > troublesome as the driver will take some time to catch up with the lat

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot, again

2012-10-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2012-10-13 00:52, schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > > > another "feature" is you have to be booted via efi so the variables are > > available so it can install itself - sorta catch 22 :( > > Yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
> > > Ok, this is the last update. 0.11.8 fixes the issue in 0.11.7, so you > > should not see any more quick pushes to stable. I take full > > responsibility for the issue in 0.11.7, and will work with the OpenRC > > team and QA to catch issues like this better in th

Re: [gentoo-user] boot failure using root=LABEL=RAID1root but not LABEL=RAID6root

2012-12-31 Thread Mark Knecht
>> the initramfs which this one doesn't have. >> >> The problem I have with that idea is that all I put in the RAID6 which >> does have an initramfs is e2fsck, not e2label or anything else. >> However maybe e2fsck has that capability and that's why it's wor

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2013-01-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
already accepted your legitimate LAN traffic above. For this to catch anything, you'd first have to send a packet to one of those subnets and something would have to respond to it. > [0:0] -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT So it makes even more sense to move t

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing new kernels - saving dumps / strip down kernel options

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
n I usually do make oldconfig, followed by a by-hand inspection of the options with make menuconfig, to catch stuff that got through me in make oldconfig, and to see if there's any change in other options that I want to tune. > Does it make sense to take the .config from the gentoo install dv

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - ipkungfu not

2006-10-05 Thread Michael Sullivan
allow traffic. And you'll probably want > to allow 127.0.0.1 anyway (if not even 127.0.0.0/8). That configuration > seems to end up in the iptables INPUT section right before a catch-all > that drops all other traffic, and that really makes me think that > everything is

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with script for iptables

2006-11-16 Thread Mick
when you get home. :) > iptables -P INPUT DROP > iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT The "! $iface" is meant to catch incoming packets on an external iface which have their IP address spoofed to 127.0.0.1 type of thing. Will "lo" achieve the same thing? > #this wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-26 Thread Grant
morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop wasn't running ssh all night, or would

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
27;t like the bandwidth is anything at all compared to the bloated headers and redundant repeating of messages in every reply. -- is a good way to control redundancy factor And sometimes someone skips the original(s), and the later msgs become interesting, and "someone" needs to catch

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
eally want to be helpful, I'm trying to figure out how to hide CGI programs from the URL. I.e. instead of http://www.demo.org/mumble.cgi, I want http://www.demo.org/ to execute the same CGI program. I'm currently using the error handler to catch the 404 and run the program. It'

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for alternatives to Apache

2005-05-07 Thread A. Khattri
//www.demo.org/mumble.cgi, I want http://www.demo.org/ to execute > the same CGI program. I'm currently using the error handler to catch > the 404 and run the program. It's a bloody hack but a cool one. You can also designate a specific folder for CGI's so you dont need the

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot freeze

2005-08-19 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
and everything worked fine > > > again. > > > > Thought that might be it, as My laptop is really booting weird now > > after upgrading as well. It runs some init scripts twice. > > Over enthusiastic use of etc-update option 5 ? > There was a thread about this a

Re: [gentoo-user] CRON (Vixie) not working for local users ...

2006-03-24 Thread Chad Feller
t;crontab -e" ? Using the builtin crontab edit will catch errors which would prevent execution... 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest. Let me know. Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Chad Feller wr

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

2006-07-03 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:39, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg > > > stuff. > &

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

2018-07-04 Thread Bill Kenworthy
t;>>>> gpg: Can't check signature: No public key >>>> I'm seeing this too. For me `app-crypt/gentoo-keys` is somehow no longer >>>> installed and `/var/lib/gentoo/gkeys` is missing. I have no idea how this >>>> happened. Perhaps it somehow got into `emer

SOLVED - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-11 Thread Tanstaafl
earn how to do proper error detection using if/fi branching, but that will be a lesson for another day. I'll be monitoring these on a daily basis, so will hopefully catch any real problems before they cause any real problems. Thanks again to all who helped me get these functional. On 2013-

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

2013-08-06 Thread Stroller
consistent names, doubly so if the host is a virtualization host. > > The catch: RH (or more exactly the udev maintainer employed by RH) > probably couldn't give a toss what you think or want, and went ahead and > fixed their problem expecting you to "deal with it or shove off

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

2013-08-11 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-11 11:15 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:25:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: So, looks like the best strategy is not to blindly update eudev, and always check these things, before attempting an upgrade, and waiting for it to catch up if/when it happens. Well, you

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
hat 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 Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1 Cannot install on udev/devfs tmpfs.

2015-07-22 Thread Dale
015 >>> gentoo Since I synced three days in a row, I suspect the problem started on the 11th. I posted a thread on the 16th here. Before I posted about it, I had already re-synced a couple times. It was the removal of the old and broken ebuilds that fixed it but there was a decent lag be

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
u simply give the actual root device. -- Neil Bothwick Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" pgpuCkX1HJK5c.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
al" operation. But, when trying to compile something large >> like gcc, I would see non-repeatable segfaults (it wouldn't always >> segfault at the exact same point). In those cases, I could often run >> memtest for several passes and not see an error. But, _eventually_ >>

Re: [gentoo-user] a few blockers I can't figure out

2015-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
ut much easier to work with. -- Neil Bothwick Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22" pgpQ93SixUEtF.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

2015-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
> > The installation-default file causes the start-stop-daemon to catch an > unexpected interrupt and report an error, even though the chronyd process > continues to run. > > Any time I run 'strace -ff -o/tmp/chronyd.strace /etc/init.d/chronyd start' > the init proce

[gentoo-user] unexpected interrupt

2015-11-26 Thread James
Sorry, I still cannot reply from the web interface on gmane. And this is an different approach suggesting for Peter's Chrony issues so it might warrant a new thread anyway. The installation-default file causes the start-stop-daemon to catch an unexpected interrupt and report an error,

Re: [gentoo-user] Inconsistent behavior in my Gentoo OS instance

2017-05-02 Thread Miroslav Rovis
A stand alone memory test for x86 computers > ... > > > > Found 2 matches > > Received SIGSEGV - you probably found a bug in eix. > ... > > Anyone else gets this too? This below is a nice catch: > Not here (note the results of your "eix memtest86+" appe

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeCAD permission problems

2017-05-05 Thread tuxic
> FreeCAD 0.16, Libs: 0.16RUnknown > > © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2015 > > # ### > > ## # # # # > > # ## # # # # # >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FreeCAD permission problems

2017-05-05 Thread tuxic
n Havre 2001-2015 > > # ### > > # # # # # # > > # ## # # # # # > > # # # # # # # # # # > > # # ## # # # > > #

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Calculating power consumption of a running program?

2017-08-23 Thread Poison BL.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 6:29 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > As an example, I am interested in characterizing the power consumption > of rendering a PDF document. I would hopefully only need to run the > renderer once. The catch with that goal is that a) rendering a PDF is likely as much of a ram

Re: [gentoo-user] public wifi blocking ports

2014-12-25 Thread Bill Kenworthy
over >>> wifi. >>> I'm using standard IAX port 4569 to register, so this port is open on my >>> firewall. >>> >>> But when I catch an open public wifi network in a Mall or a Tim Horton >>> "zoiper" failed to register. >>> &

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

2015-03-05 Thread Dale
rc/cache is not writable" wasn't written >>>> to /var/log/rc.log >>> Of course it wasn't. Warnings about /var not being writeable are not going >>> to be written to /var. >>> >>> >> Yea, it won't catch everything. This is sor

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

2020-01-02 Thread Mick
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 kernel will need to have DM_ZONED enabled I think, for the OS to manager the shin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge latest in a certain version series of a package

2014-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
ncies... done! > [ebuild NS ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.28:3.10.28 [3.10.25:3.10.25, > 3.13.0-r1:3.13.0-r1] USE="-build -deblob -experimental -symlink" 557 kB > > Total: 1 package (1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 557 kB > > > Does that work for you? > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Poison BL.
particular has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to magic one up, there's a quick script called "Fix IDE" (or "Fix HDC" which does similar) that reverts to the generic catch-all driver that usually works to get XP booting on new 

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

2014-03-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
other people. Here's something that works for the both of us: Request someone to not CC you in a follow-up mail when you catch them do it, they'll respect that; that's a guarantee that we can be certain that you are subscribed. That way; you respect that I want to spent my time to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
x27;m not sure which of 2 CPU options to >> select in Processor type and features ---> >> Processor family (*) ---> >> >> ( ) Athlon/Duron/K7 >> ( ) Opteron/Athlon64/Hammer/K8 > I'd like to recommend you this kernel gcc patch whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Dale
en questionable for a good long while but now, zip, nada, null etc etc etc. Now to catch those 4TB drives on sale. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > 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

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

2021-09-24 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
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 /home, but it can't until dm-integrity has made the volume appear

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons?

2021-12-12 Thread Rich Freeman
e overall result is that things will get run at traditional crontab times no matter what, but if those are missed and enough time is accrued then run-crons will catch this and run the job on the next 10min cycle, such as a missed daily overnight slot. So if you don't have your computer on a 3AM

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-06 Thread Michael
is a one time action. Better than having to type all the exclude directives in the CLI invocation of tar. On the other hand, using --exclude=".cache/*" will catch any and all ".cache" directories, wherever they happen to be in the tree. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Jack
On 9/6/23 12:42, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2023-09-06, Michael wrote: The message indicates subversion needs reinstalling with the downgraded sqlite - potentially @preserved-rebuild ought to catch this, or revdep-rebuild. I used to run revdep-rebuild after every update, but a few years ago I

[gentoo-user] Question about emerge sync and where it all goes.

2024-03-24 Thread Dale
Howdy, I've mentioned before that I build my packages in a chroot.  I have a OS copy on a separate drive.  I do this because of the long compile times of some packages.  On occasion tho, I catch the tree in a bad place.  Some conflict or other happens and I need to sync again to get fixe

[gentoo-user] Re: python 3.12 update

2024-06-05 Thread Grant Edwards
ut, I decided that whoever wrote the news item probably knew what they were talking about, and chose the "Safer upgrade procedure". As you said, there's no mention of waiting between steps for various packages to catch up: First, enable both Python 3.11 and Python 3.12, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

2024-09-07 Thread Michael
backup of the same directory you could run: > > > > > > > > md5sum -c digest.log | grep FAILED > > I had a quick look at the manpage: with md5sum --quiet you can omit the grep > part. Good catch. You can tell I didn't spend much effort to come up with this. ;-) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

2010-04-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
rge -uNDvp world. Other > than issues with xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates > have been successful. > > Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until > the nvidia-drivers catch up. > > I have searched the forums, checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-13 Thread Mick
pting system files while sorting > this out. It would also show whether the problem was with an ebuild or > the filesystem. Use a tmpfs filesystem if you have the memory. I had to reinstall because I didn't catch this early enough the first time and it corrupted my other system part

[gentoo-user] Re: What do I put in the /etc/conf.d/net....

2009-09-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
NS" and start from there. David On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 21:08 -0500, David Juhl wrote: I feel like a idiot my device isn't eth0 it is wlan0 and defined it as such... No wonder I didn't catch it... Thanks David On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 04:22 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/2/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > After a few long+slow stage 1 installs, I want to give up the macho > > act and do a stage 2 or 3 next time. Am I correct to assume that I can > > set up CFLAGS and USE, and start "emerge --sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Xwindows stopped working. No errors in Xorg log file.

2005-07-21 Thread Rumen Yotov
es, then you are not running a stable system. Please do all the script updates, then reboot your system. Well, I do run the etc-update stuff, however I do it from X-windows and using 'meld' to graphically see the diffs. So I have a bit of a catch-22 here. Can you tell me how I can rem

[gentoo-user] kompozer and arphicfonts

2008-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
kages. The new project produce Chinese font that is used as default Chinese font in Ubuntu. Both new projects started after I switched away from Gentoo some 2 years ago, so it seems Gentoo didn't catch up. Maybe I am completely wrong: I am sensative to these packages

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server-console: version `GCC_3.4' not found

2008-04-14 Thread William Kenworthy
quick fix: locate the equivalent system libraries, move the problematic vmware ones out of the way and symlink to the system libs. Works fine with vmware workstation. And wait for gentoo/vmware to catch up and fix with the next iteration ... I am using vmware-workstation 5, and cant justify the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: About procmail and getline

2009-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
tempted this change myself, and am not likely too either - it's way too easy to predict the resulting mess. There was a recent thread on this, and the OP eventually decided to write a script that listed every package he had and copy this to package.mask (with ">" in front of course

[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-05 Thread ABCD
ed to the same name without the -MERGING- part after the old version (if any) is removed. The only way that that directory would be able to exist in normal usage is if either 1) you are in the middle of a merge, or 2) emerge suddenly quit in the middle of an operation. Usually, when I've ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild problem

2009-04-05 Thread John P. Burkett
stalling > a new version of a package/a new package. It is then moved to the same > name without the -MERGING- part after the old version (if any) is > removed. The only way that that directory would be able to exist in > normal usage is if either 1) you are in the middle of a merge, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
heck gnome-vfs [ Checking gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.18.1 ] * 381 out of 381 files good Sector9 ~ # I did not know about equery check. Thanks! This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them with revdep

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/12/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This latest emerge pass seems to be working better. I did have to skip > a couple of packages though. I'll go back and see if I can catch them > with revdep-rebuild when it hopefully finishes up in the next hour. >

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