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

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
. The docs seemed to have 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

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

2011-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
will catch those anyway. Until recently I skipped the --library step exactly because I knew revdep-rebuild will find and fix the broken packages after I delete the old library. So, why bother with the --library step, right? However. A few weeks ago I got caught when I deleted one

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

2011-09-19 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
some things. ebuilds sometimes issue messages 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-rebuild will find

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

2011-09-19 Thread Mark Knecht
ajglap gottlieb # revdep-rebuild; revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' SNIP Is there no automated way to catch these? --library expects an argument; how do I know which libraries to feed it? My question exactly. It's not likeyou can look at just names of libraries as I think

Re: [gentoo-user] dmraid, mdraid, lvm, btrfs, what?

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Mol
to a RAID-10 or does it simply fail? Hm. I don't know. Honestly, I didn't know about that functionality. Perhaps it's time I catch up on the docs again. -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] To swap or not to swap? Is it really needed?

2011-12-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for being so general, for not giving any real info. I'm new to system monitoring, I just learnt about iostat and swapon -s, now about vmstat. I mainly tried to catch anything unusual in top/htop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Mick
first :-) Windows goes too far to the other extreme IMO. That OS seems to have largely abandoned control and there's not much in the way of structure. Too little control is just as bad as too much Apparently they're going the 'app store' route in Windows 8. They're just playing catch up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-09 Thread Dale
. Maybe you should enable the alsa USE flag? That should pull in alsa and rebuild the packages that can use it. The command emerge -uaDN world should catch them all. This is from -dev. Note the last paragraph: Hi folks, Today, I was shocked to find that the EsounD daemon is still in the tree

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM: Removing 3 disks and replacing with 1

2012-03-08 Thread Datty
the watch, and sends you a bill for it. Ah thanks for the notice, another nice catch for my signature database. :) [...] Neil Bothwick Would a fly without wings be called a walk? What do you call a dead bee? - A was. *scnr* Thanks for the replies everyone, to give it a bit more info, its

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : CPU : 22 nm vs 32 nm

2012-07-28 Thread Pandu Poluan
, and their first pass at multicore gave each core its own port onto the memory bus, with predictably poor results. Intel's had plenty of time to catch up, but with their price-per-part, it's taken me a long time to pay much attention. Again, I might be mistaken, but IIRC HyperTransport's

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking emerge output. It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for 6 months and let stable catch up

Re: [gentoo-user] I am tired of this one.

2012-08-03 Thread Willie Matthews
emerge output. It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
visible sign in the scenario you're describing would be a read returning erroneous data. That's what I said. The first VISIBLE sign is an error. You want to catch it before then. Analogy time: A murderer plans to do Grant. By observing Grant and only observing Grant, the first visible sign

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
visible sign in the scenario you're describing would be a read returning erroneous data. That's what I said. The first VISIBLE sign is an error. You want to catch it before then. Analogy time: A murderer plans to do Grant. By observing Grant and only observing Grant, the first visible sign

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse and keyboard stopped working--WORKS!

2013-01-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
interest. I believe this is the default, but here is 10-evdev.conf # # Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems # We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers # and other devices that we don't really

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete the package update cautiously avoiding an emerge sync. This is the one that will give you what you want But when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Daniel Frey
on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete the package update cautiously avoiding an emerge sync. I suppose you could set up a weekly cron job (say on a Saturday) to do something like: emerge -fuDN world proposed_change.txt Then a few

[gentoo-user] Re: Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread nunojsilva
On 2013-02-14, James wrote: So, my latest ideas is to sync up and then wait one week before acutally installing those new packages. This would allow the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete

Re: [gentoo-user] Delayed update semantics

2013-02-14 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
the fodder that the good folks on this list catch, bitch about (um, I mean file bug reports) and fix, to occur first; then I can complete the package update cautiously avoiding an emerge sync. I suppose you could set up a weekly cron job (say on a Saturday) to do something like: emerge -fuDN world

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11

2013-04-06 Thread meino . cramer
am warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain windows has. This even happens, when the cursor and the focus is on the window of xev, with which I tried to catch the even. How can I channelize the events to the focussed window? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse Pad X11

2013-04-06 Thread Mick
. And it scrolls! BUT unfortunately the scrollevents ALWAYS reach the taskbar and I am warped through my desktops regardless of the focus a certain windows has. This even happens, when the cursor and the focus is on the window of xev, with which I tried to catch the even. How can I

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

2013-08-01 Thread Samuli Suominen
-fs/eudev specific bugs are in the github page at 'Tickets', and some in bugzilla. And yes, there are attempt at keeping up-to-date but everytime I (or we) review how it was done, bits are missing from here and there. So still, eudev is the unnecessary experimental toy trying to catch up udev

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

2013-08-05 Thread Walter Dnes
. You yourself, pointed out in http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg139485.html By udev maintainers forcing them to upgrade to the new keymap hwdb which required version to be raised to up-to-par with udev-206. Imagine 2 years of such updates to catch up with in a few

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

2013-10-20 Thread Daniel Campbell
. You're right, though. They've been around for a while, and I've never trusted them or any other corporate interest in *nix. There's always a catch when dealing with a business. 'have been around for a while' - replace that with 'are financing more core developers than anybody else'. That's

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

2013-11-05 Thread Martin Vaeth
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; also it does not catch cases where a tacit ABI change happened by mistake and the developers failed to see it.) Note, however, in the long run: The process of transforming

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

2014-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
to a grop instead of to a group, but misses dynamic mistakes like adding users to groups that don't exist. The auth-service gets the current state from a static file that is only read upon service-start? It's exactly analogous to compile-time vs runtime errors, compilers can't catch the latter

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

2014-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch Just select native and you will get both best performance and one less headache. or it creates code that is much slower or breaks in subtle and hard to catch ways. The kernel devs are very astute when it comes to gcc options - I wouldn't screw around with them

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

2014-04-19 Thread Dragostin Yanev
support for kernel compilation: https://github.com/graysky2/kernel_gcc_patch Just select native and you will get both best performance and one less headache. or it creates code that is much slower or breaks in subtle and hard to catch ways. The kernel devs are very astute when it comes

[gentoo-user] Re: package download verification

2014-05-09 Thread James
are pondering here. It seems a valid approach - if many people out there clone and make copies of the code then work on it, and if a bad hat injects some weirdness, there are enough eyes to hopefully catch it. Now that I think of it, it's an elegant solution: Avoid the problems of a single master store

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-11 Thread gottlieb
[20.607] (II) Module nv: vendor=X.Org Foundation ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). Thank you very much for this catch Plan

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

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 12:22, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 6/1/2014 1:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-04 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 04/06/14 15:15, Daniel Troeder wrote: Am 04.06.2014 13:22, schrieb Daniel Troeder: 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] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread Dale
. -- Joost I have one WD black which I think is a more expensive drive. I have to say, when I run hdparm -tT on it, it is faster than the other regular drives that claim the same specs, SATA etc etc. They do cost more tho. Some a good bit more unless you can catch a good sale. While I was looking

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

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
that like all hard drives, it WILL fail sometime. Rich What if I copied data to the drive until it was just about full. I'm thinking like maybe 90 or 95% or so. If I do that and run the test every few days, would it then catch a error after a few weeks or so of testing? I realize no one knows

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Regular user unable to use sound/alsa after upgrade

2015-01-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 29 Jan 2015 23:14:34 Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote If it reverts to root:root next boot, I'll post to the busybox list. It did... and I did. Before doing that, I did a bit of digging. Last night, I ran an update to catch

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
are unlucky to get an unsupported cutting edge one and need to wait a bit for Linux support to catch up). I'd check around on the precise details of the GPU before purchase. Some GPU use the general system ram, and that is a severe (buss-bandwidth) bottleneck that really dampens performance

[gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-21 Thread James
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). I'd check around on the precise details of the GPU before purchase. Some GPU use the general system ram

Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

2015-05-30 Thread Mick
and eventually gave up on Kmail-2. Have a look here for more details and warnings: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade I expect that sooner or later bitrot will catch up with Kmail-1 and it will stop working. I dread for this happening, but I will not move to Kmail-2 until

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

2015-08-21 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
(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_ ramtest would catch it. Run memtest for a few days. Really. Yeah, I know there's a single bit error out at the end of RAM that will appear

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

2015-07-24 Thread Dale
a week it seems. While it is possible to sync and catch the tree at a bad time, this doesn't seem to be the case here. It seems there was just a lag between some updates and removals of broken ebuilds. Dale :-) :-) In this case, it was resolved on the 20th. (That's when I synched

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

2016-05-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
pt. I'm no script guru by any means but > even I can read that thing and see what a disaster it is. > > Best of luck to him. I'm about done trying to help. Key word, trying. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > I agree Dale. Mr Grimes should probably move over to Linux From Scrat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failing to install python cryptography

2016-03-10 Thread Mansour Al Akeel
tion". With which executable ? > > look in the ebuild and see what all packages are required. I does not > hurt to manually ( -1) rebuild the dependencies (both compile time and > runtime) in case the other codes or packaging process did not catch > something. If I understand you corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Giving Gentoo Another Go

2016-03-19 Thread Gregory Woodbury
www-client.chromium www-client.firefox x11-libs.libva x11-libs.libva-intel-driver x11-libs.libva-vdpau-driver x11-libs.wxGTK zzzpackages.keywords The last entry is an empty file to catch the "automagic" changes portage may propose so that they can be broken out into individual files. pac

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary package server questions

2017-02-20 Thread Mick
> > uclibc-ng Gentoo on it. Building big packages on it is a pain. I can > > do an identical install in a QEMU VM, and distcc into it. But that > > doesn't catch all compiling work. > > > > What I'd like to do is build binaries in a chroot on my desktop, > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from USB

2017-03-28 Thread Dale
one is talking about. I use what I feel will work best. Top posting >> tho, as your example/joke points out, makes it hard to figure out what >> is going on, even if one is following the thread. Of course, I also >> realize that some devices make that hard or impossible. Most who use >> those devices say they are. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > I use multiple devices. All modern phones have apps that allow bottom posting > as default. > Inline is more difficult, which is why I leave those replies for when I have > a real PC. > > -- > Joost So those "smart" devices are finally catching up. Good for them to finally catch up to the world huh? ROFL Dale :-) :-)

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

2017-05-05 Thread tuxic
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [offtopic] Copy-On-Write ?

2017-09-16 Thread Rich Freeman
ions seem to be fairly RAM-starved at the moment as well given the ceph recommendation of 1GB/TB. arm64 still seems to be slow to catch on, let alone cheap boards with 4-16GB of RAM. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki-viewer anyone?

2017-10-06 Thread Randolph Maaßen
in portage tree. >> >> >> > >> > >> > I dont want to convert the md-files to html, since I want to update >> > the repo later (see above). >> > The problem are files referencing other files. Reading the md-files >> > via vim (for example)

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

2017-10-04 Thread Mike Gilbert
-net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 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 bloc

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki-viewer anyone?

2017-10-06 Thread Anton Molyboha
les referencing other files. Reading the md-files > > via vim (for example) would imply to grab all references by hand. > > Fortheremore, tne docs are filled with graphics (for example images > > of the fonts, which can be used), which cannot be displayed with an > > ASCII-editor. >

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

2018-07-04 Thread Mick
BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 > >> >> 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 hav

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

2018-07-05 Thread gevisz
gt; gpg:using RSA key >> >> >> E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 >> >> >> gpg: Can't check signature: No public key >> >> > >> >> > I'm seeing this too. For me `app-crypt/gentoo-keys` is somehow no >> >>

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

2018-12-06 Thread Dale
n it to be able to tell it from the old one.  I do mine > manually anyway, except for the dracut thingy.  > > Thanks much. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > Now this is odd.  I changed the settings and ran emerge.  I decided to use -UDNa options to see if it would catch the chang

Re: [gentoo-user] rkhunter reports xorddos component

2019-02-27 Thread Mick
ID file I'd assume that this is a false > positive. Yes. > It would likely be generated by openrc and the init.d script. Yes. > Since almost no other distros use OpenRC it isn't entirely > surprising that a tool like rkhunter wasn't tested using it to catch > the false positive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

2019-08-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
l EFI stub, re-run efibootmgr to specify the kernel UEFI > > will boot with, but first run fsck.vfat on the EFI partition just in case > > this fs was messed up too. > > It's grub2, non-UEFI. I don't normally reinstall it when I update the > kernel, I only run grub-mkconfig. I did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

2019-08-19 Thread Raffaele Belardi
run grub-mkconfig. I did the same this time. Make sure you are using a kernel set up for openrc. Good catch, although I'm not sure where to find that info in the available kernel log. I'll look better, I need to stop it from scrolling. In /etc/rc.conf set up a log file and temporarily

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a website

2020-03-19 Thread Michael
/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/* . There is nothing wrong with your layout. It is easier to have the webroot of multiple domains hosted under /var/www, each in their respective directory; e.g. /var/www/mydomain1/htdocs/ /var/www/mydomain2/htdocs/ ... /var/www/mydomain-n/htdocs/ and leave /var/

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed [SOLVED]

2020-12-12 Thread thelma
strap it. Recompiling anything (emerge -e system) will not help. The screen output fly by so fast that you need to have a high speed camera to catch the scrolling line. What help me is in "/" running: touch forcefsck It will force the system to run a check on all file systems in fstab.

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to load vboxpci

2021-01-18 Thread thelma
les/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxnetflt.ko > /lib/modules/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxnetadp.ko > /lib/modules/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxdrv.ko > /etc/modprobe.d/vboxdrv.conf > /usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf > > And the virtualbox.conf file contains > > vboxdrv > vboxnetflt > vboxnetadp > > No mention of vboxpci. > > Does VirtualBox work? Yes, it works. Gentoo wiki did not get updated, in addition I was copying configuration from previous kernel that I just installed a month ago or so. It is hard o catch all the changes during updates.

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

2021-06-15 Thread Ramon Fischer
, it shows nothing open.  It's weird. When this happened last night, just before I posted, I let the drive sit there while I was doing updates.  Later on, I tried to close it again and it closed just fine.  I hadn't done anything except let it sit there.  While I was glad it closed, I wonder why it did

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

2021-04-24 Thread Mike Kaliman
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 Adam Carter wrote: &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best way forward?

2021-02-25 Thread Dale
reinstalling packages from the old world file.  Once updated, the run depclean to see what you might want to keep or can be removed as no longer needed.  One issue with doing @system alone, it pulls in even KDE packages if you have KDE installed and have certain USE flags enabled.  Then those

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

2021-10-05 Thread Rich Freeman
blocks 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 consolidate writes). Usually the best prices are on USB3 10+TB hard drives. The good 3.5" drives tend to be more expens

[gentoo-user] Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

2021-12-21 Thread Steven Lembark
. I then installed a variety of packages I have on the current system like fonts, claws-mail. Catch is that I cannot update the sytem: # $emerge --update --fetchonly @world; Calculating dependencies... done! The following packages are causing rebuilds: (x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.14:0/1.20.14

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-11 Thread Rich Freeman
ed to create a new one. You can catch the failure and try again with a different name if you had wanted to create a temp file. -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

2022-03-11 Thread Mark Knecht
T and if the system call fails that is a feature and not a > bug. This safeguard forces the programmer to explicitly communicate > to the kernel if it intended to open an existing file owned by a > non-root user, vs getting tricked into it when it intended to create a > new one. You can catch the failure and try again with a different > name if you had wanted to create a temp file. > > -- > Rich > Excellent info Rich. Thanks! - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failes due to no valid source for pythonexec-2.2 when I have pythonexec-2.4 installed???

2022-02-06 Thread John Covici
On Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:52:12 -0500, Steven Lembark wrote: > > # emerge --info > <https://pastebin.com/M54kvhg1> > > I spend more time maintaining a language I don't actually use > lately... > > Emerge fails becuase python-exec-2.2 doesn't have its ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-19 Thread Dale
Seamonkey that I've found.  Lastpass hasn't been updated in ages either.  Once Firefox did their major changes a few years ago, a lot of old plugins are no longer maintained.  Seamonkey needs to catch up or it is going to die.  Dale :-)  :-) 

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

2022-08-21 Thread Dale
ted and all.  A NAS won't exactly fit in my fire safe.  :/  Bigger > fire safe maybe  o_O  > > Dale > > :-)  :-)  > > Well, 2.5 days later, first backup done.  Then I had to restart to update the changes made in the past couple days that rsync didn't catch.  When that got done

Re: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually?

2023-02-19 Thread Mike Civil
methods. Worst case uninstall the portage gsutil and look into installing gsutil into /usr/local from the official GoogleCloud site above. I'd expect Portage's gsutil to catch up at some point. IMO installing local copies of gsutil with broken dependency packages and then maintaining them looks like a potential world of pain !

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

2023-04-16 Thread Mitch D.
When you emerge grub, Gentoo compiles and "installs" grub (and some grub-related tools) to a directory inside your Gentoo installation, just like other applications. The catch is that grub isn't like other applications... it needs to run outside of Gentoo, before Linux starts. This means

RE: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Laurence Perkins
>If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is >supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without warning. > >btrfs raid is (still) full of gotchas, as far as I know. > >Don't use anything higher than raid-1. Parity raid isn't re

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 July 2023 08:07:10 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: > > Any gotchas I should be mindful of? > > If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is > supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread madscientistatlarge
e A shape before > putting a lot of data on it and depending on it. I am familiar with some > tools already. I know about SMART but it is not always 100%. It seems to > catch most problems but not all. I'm familiar with dd and writing all zeores > or random to it to see if it can in f

[gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
are the current flag settings. I'm wondering if there was a flag change that I didn't catch? What are -a52 and -aac? I do not know if win32codecs has been rebuilt so maybe I'll do that next. I'm hoping maybe I missed a thread somewhere that has some info on this. Thanks in advance, Mark dragonfly

Re: [gentoo-user] xine - No sound after updates

2007-09-17 Thread Mark Knecht
are the current flag settings. I'm wondering if there was a flag change that I didn't catch? What are -a52 and -aac? This page is for MPlayer, but the flags should have similar meanings: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Emerge_MPlayer Notice that it says a52 is needed for AC3. Hope this helps

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

2008-01-09 Thread Richard Torres
but get the same error (catch-22 situation). Here's the last part of the error log which is the same with anything I try to emerge. A quickpkg of gcc might help you out of this, it's about 7M or so so small enough to mail to you. Perhaps some kind soul here with similar settings to you can send

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

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
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 catch all of your e-mail and use the Never send it to Spam option. I am

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

2009-03-25 Thread Dale
to me so it is working a little at least. You can disable spam filtering. Set up a filter to catch all of your e-mail and use the Never send it to Spam option. I am on mailing lists that deal with spam and phishing, probably the majority of the messages would go to spam without that feature

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 Gentoo uses

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, I still can't send email. Same error too.

2006-01-18 Thread Dale
, I unmerged something that Mozilla needed. Oh, revdep-rebuild did NOT catch it either. I'm not sure if it should, just saying it didn't. My Mozilla works fine now so that is not a problem. It does not send email though, well, unless it is to myself. LOL I'm supposed to talk to my ISP

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

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Myers
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 you prefer, use the depclean without the -p, then, finally, do a revdep-rebuild (first -p it, of course) to catch any dependencies that still might have

Re: [gentoo-user] Rate limiting TCP connections...

2008-08-17 Thread Daniel D Jones
between the two PCs at 100mbps - it is only the traffic eventually routed over ADSL which poses a problem. You could add a destination parameter with -d but that wouldn't catch any downloads of packages from other than your primary mirror, and I agree that this is not the correct solution

Re: [gentoo-user] ACPI events config file

2005-05-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
the events in the /etc/acpi/events/default config file. Now I have got the ac_adapter event working nicely with speedfreq. Now I want to setup my power button and sleep button. Hope it helps. The /tmp/was_sleeping file is because the kernel catch when you press the power button when

Re: [gentoo-user] Reboot when GRUB starts

2005-06-13 Thread Holly Bostick
that be: kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r9 root=/dev/hde3 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap vga=0x31B Good catch! Yes, fix this first. Also, there is no '=' for the title. The handbook shows an equal sign. It's worked before on another system. No, it does not: Code Listing 3: grub.conf for non-genkernel users

RE: [gentoo-user] Sylpheed-Claws / Claws-Mail / Postfix -- the gentoo way

2007-02-07 Thread Michael Higgins
[or whatever related option] unset in the config delivers to ~/.maildir. Like it's a gentoo-provided default, or something. This is what I'm questioning... is there a gentoo-dev preference for not using MH (or for using .maildir not Maildir specifically) that's going to catch me up in the future. Now

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

2007-04-17 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
, 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 make it worthwhile. Example

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

2007-06-22 Thread Dale
Elias Probst wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with dbus

2007-01-26 Thread Douglas Linford
(though I did recently) because I swear it seems to catch a lot of changes on its own :-) update-eix needs to be run every time you sync. What it catches by itself though is changes to your installed packages. I expect the revdep-rebuild people have suggested will solve your trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/com_err breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
lots of others did though :-( ). It didn't catch everything. Right now I'm recompiling xscreensaver. The thing which I'm talking about is, if there are _specific_ caveats such as with this new app, it shouldn't even go ahead and compile/upgrade/update. It should just shoot the ebuild einfo

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

2005-08-31 Thread Matt Garman
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 package to work. I could correct my clock using ntpdate, but I could never get ntpd to sync with any servers (see notes (*) below). So I got fed

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-12 Thread Dale
. However, unlike a dog, you can catch up after a long absence: Heh, I hope so! m. I do it this way. I keep at least two working kernels in /boot. If I need to, I can edit the grub boot line to boot the old kernel if the new one doesn't work. I do NOT use the make install thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting an exernal usb drive from grub

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
easier to deal with than IDE, too. I can literally open it, take a hard drive out, put a new one in, and close it in about a minute. It takes me longer to catch my breath after climbing around on the floor under the desk than it does to actually change the part. :) (And it has successfully booted from

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use RAM

2009-10-13 Thread Joshua Murphy
all the config files), aterm, firefox, a few other common tools I use, and the libraries they were using on my system while logging in. All of my applications were starting in no time at all. The catch... I took the brute force approach, rather than using an add-on tool to automagically choose what

[gentoo-user] Re: Smart Database

2010-01-19 Thread Harry Putnam
is to build from the svn pkgs and ignore emerge. It should build ok... I'd think. Then just keep the binaries in /usr/local/bin and maybe later on, portage will catch up to the stuff you need and at that point... emerge it. There is no harm to the system in having a few home built pkgs long

[gentoo-user] Re: log messages

2010-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
to rebuild all the customizations etc, I finally completely reinstalled from scratch hoping to catch the problem with the shotgun approach. In that earlier OS there were no log messages regarding hdc being generated (by the way). Shortly after completing the new install and a couple of weeks of getting

[gentoo-user] Re: log messages

2010-02-17 Thread Jörg Schaible
with upgrade after upgrade. Though I hated having to rebuild all the customizations etc, I finally completely reinstalled from scratch hoping to catch the problem with the shotgun approach. In that earlier OS there were no log messages regarding hdc being generated (by the way). Shortly after

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-01 Thread Dale
or so so that others can chime in with advice. Some people are in different time zones, some answer at home, some at work etc etc so it takes a bit to let the gurus catch up. Dale :-) :-)

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

2010-05-26 Thread Allan Gottlieb
it in default with a before * in depend() Reading the gentoo handbook chapter B4.d Writing Init Scripts I 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-27 Thread Nagatoro
. The driver folks said that this request should be ignored and the wpa_supplicant folks said that this should not be ignored but instead was a disconnect request. Catch 22... Because of this I had to use wep instead of wpa(2) for along time. /Naga

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