On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 06:53:14AM -0500, Dale wrote
> Correct me if I'm wrong here, it used to be that grub, the original
> version not the current bloated one, had to have ext2. At the time,
> that was *the* file system. If I recall correctly, a ext4 file system
> can be *read* the same as ext
On 8/23/18 3:55 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:09:55 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> Next... has anyone gotten icewm-1.4.2 to not crash? I simply cannot
>> get it to run on any of 4 Gentoo machines. I've given up and migrated
>> one over to Fluxbox. The others are being held back
Oh, on the other hand, I just got a roccat keyboard. I wonder if its driver
can be hanging the system - X seems to know it personally.
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 23. August 2018 um 07:45 Uhr
> Von: cts.priv...@web.de
> An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Betreff: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU ev
Thus spoke Adam Carter (adamcart...@gmail.com):
> >
> > Or is it possible to turn off journaling for one partition under ext4?
> >
>
> My intuition is that the long term damage due to the journal would be far
> less than the damage due to the loss of effective wear levelling that would
> result fr
On 2018-08-23 09:06, Mick wrote:
> * For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in
> * /etc/ImageMagick-7 which will prevent the usage of the following
> * coders by default:
> *
> * - PS
> * - EPS
> * - PDF
> * - XPS
IM spawns ghostscript for th
On 2018-08-22, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> I have a Gentoo machine, which has not been updated for a while. Quite
> a long while, actually.
> It seems that I'm kind of stuck. Wiping the disk and rebuilding the
> system from scratch is absolutely not an option, the existing (and
> running) system must b
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 12:14:49 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> [from Neil Bothwick:]
> > The other question is why use GRUB on a modern system? UEFI boot
> > managers are far simpler to work with than GRUBs monster configuration
file and
> > in that case it makes sense to combine /boot with the ESP
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:01:18 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
>
>> The question should be if and why to use /boot at all on modern systems.
>>
>> Grub is able to boot from various system combinations. btrfs, lvm,
>> mdraid, even encrypted disks (however, in the last case, it is not
>
> The other question is why use GRUB on a modern system? UEFI boot managers
> are far simpler to work with than GRUBs monster configuration file and in
> that case it makes sense to combine /boot with the ESP and use VFAT for
> it.
>
I couldn't grok the Gentoo UEFI setup instructions before loos
>
> How often are you writing to /boot anyways? Journalling is of little
> benefit in that case, and imposes more wear+tear on SSD drives. Or is
> it possible to turn off journaling for one partition under ext4?
>
I review the Changlog on every point release and update the kernel if
there's an
>
> The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its
> job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't
> broken, don't fix it.
>
Any system that is not getting software updates is broken to some degree,
just in a subtle way.
Trimming your /var/lib/por
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 15:17:58 +0100
(Nuno Silva) wrote:
> [...]
> The biggest hurdle in your case is that you need to update tar. Do
> what was already mentioned elsewhere in the thread, fetch the older
> EAPI 5 ebuild, put it in the local overlay and let portage grab that.
Thanks, I will try to
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:28:03 BST Corentin “Nado” Pazdera wrote:
> August 23, 2018 10:12 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote:
> > That prompted me to emerge -K imagemagick, and I saw the same. But just
> > before the line " * For security reasons..." was this:
> >
> > /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/ima
August 23, 2018 10:28 AM, "Corentin “Nado” Pazdera" wrote:
> August 23, 2018 10:12 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote:
>
>> That prompted me to emerge -K imagemagick, and I saw the same. But just
>> before the line " * For security reasons..." was this:
>>
>> /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0
August 23, 2018 10:12 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote:
> That prompted me to emerge -K imagemagick, and I saw the same. But just
> before the line " * For security reasons..." was this:
>
> /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.10-r1/temp/environment: line
> 2260: version_is_at_least: command
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:06:12 BST Mick wrote:
> I noticed this enotice in imagemagick:
>
> * For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in
> /etc/ImageMagick-7 * which will prevent the usage of the following coders
> by default: *
> * - PS
> * - EPS
> * - PDF
> * - X
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 09:06:12 BST Mick wrote:
> I noticed this enotice in imagemagick:
>
> * For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in
> /etc/ImageMagick-7 * which will prevent the usage of the following coders
> by default: *
> * - PS
> * - EPS
> * - PDF
> * - X
I noticed this enotice in imagemagick:
* For security reasons, a policy.xml file was installed in /etc/ImageMagick-7
* which will prevent the usage of the following coders by default:
*
* - PS
* - EPS
* - PDF
* - XPS
Excuse my ignorance, but I am not sure wh
On Thursday, 23 August 2018 02:09:55 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> Next... has anyone gotten icewm-1.4.2 to not crash? I simply cannot
> get it to run on any of 4 Gentoo machines. I've given up and migrated
> one over to Fluxbox. The others are being held back at 1.3.2 and
> package-masking newer I
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 06:01:18 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> The question should be if and why to use /boot at all on modern systems.
>
> Grub is able to boot from various system combinations. btrfs, lvm,
> mdraid, even encrypted disks (however, in the last case, it is not that
> trivial to install
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