Re: [gentoo-user] Hangs at "Run /init as init process"

2020-06-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:45:04AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > When I boot the VM it appears to find the kernel and the initramfs, carries > on for a few seconds and stops at > > Run /init as init process This is often caused by an init script not properly returning (thus hanging). It's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:25:58 +0100, Michael wrote: > > In my situation is is not so much about speed but not bringing the > > system to its knees. I found the -j3 was generally acceptable with > > 8GB, -j2 may have been better, but as long as it worked I was happy. > > > > I run testing on this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 12 June 2020 19:09:21 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although >I >> now use Chromium from stable to reduce that. > >I run testing on this workstation [1], and today I

[gentoo-user] Hangs at "Run /init as init process"

2020-06-12 Thread Mark Knecht
I was quite bored yesterday and having looked at the install guide recently and seeing quite a few changes since the last time I did a completely new install I thought I'd pound out a super simple Gentoo minimal stable install as a VM in Virtualbox just to see how it went. I had no particular

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-12 Thread antlists
On 06/06/2020 23:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: You don't boot from an encrypted drive (yet) or use unusual hardware, that's what I meant by a plain system. Dracut handles booting from a a btrfs root on a LUKS encrypted block device here with no fancy configuration. It really is impressive the way it

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:52:50 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:44:05 BST n952162 wrote: > > And, BTW, is there a reason to do @system if that's a subset of @world? > > To rebuild with the latest gcc and work through any convoluted dependencies > cutting across into world. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > I run testing on this laptop so updates were more frequent, although I > now use Chromium from stable to reduce that. I run testing on this workstation [1], and today I emerged chromium to replace google-chrome. It took 4 hours on 12

[gentoo-user] "Procmail => maildrop" - Converter?

2020-06-12 Thread tuxic
Hi, does anyone know of a converter to convert .procmailrc to .mailfilter (or at least the recipies of it) ? Thanks a lot for any hint! Cheers! Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:17:52 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I > > >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it > > >> got updated

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:09:41 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> If it's only once or twice a month, it's not worth fussing with. I > >> swear there have been a couple times in the past few months when it > >> got updated multiple times within a week... > > > > So it's not once or twice a

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 16:05:04 BST Jack wrote: > On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just > >> occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indicating how > >> difficult it

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.12 10:38, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: What about some sort of tagging? Not bundling or packaging, just occasional (quarterly?) labels, with a matrix indicating how difficult it would be to upgrade. A hint to folks who tend to update less

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:48 AM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-12 16:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: > >> > >> Perhaps I misunderstand this, but isn't it as simple as booting off a > >> LiveCD/ > >> USB, chrooting, changing profiles, cleaning up world

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:44:05 BST n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-12 16:38, Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > >> BTW,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:38 AM Michael wrote: > > On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > > On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > > > Ultimately if there was enough interest in something like this the > > > solution would probably be another distro that just repackages

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:42:52 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: > >On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >> >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 16:38, Michael wrote: On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 16:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: Perhaps I misunderstand this, but isn't it as simple as booting off a LiveCD/ USB, chrooting, changing profiles, cleaning up world file and letting rip with a full 'emerge -e' @system, followed by @world

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 12 June 2020 16:38:28 CEST, Michael wrote: >On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: >> On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: >> >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: >> BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Michael
On Friday, 12 June 2020 15:00:25 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > >> On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least > ever few months? :) > >>> > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Jack
On 6/12/20 9:49 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few months? :) Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous. If you have gentoo in embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 4:00 AM n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: > > > >> > >> BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least > >> ever few months? :) > > > > > > Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous. If you have gentoo in > > embedded systems,

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:40 AM n952162 wrote: > > Presumably, 13.0, unless some process had already made the 13.0 -> 17.0 > jump without my knowledge. Ok, you're in fairly uncharted waters. The impact is mainly to gcc so if you haven't updated that then most likely nothing is broken yet, and

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 08:40, n952162 wrote: BTW, is it becoming clear why it is best to update Gentoo at least ever few months?  :) Well, yes, but it's really pretty onerous.  If you have gentoo in embedded systems, you've got to spend considerable administrative effort in each one just

Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed

2020-06-12 Thread n952162
On 2020-06-12 01:09, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:45 PM n952162 wrote: * portage-2.3.89-bug-718578.patch BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Please follow the instructions in the news item: * 2019-06-05-amd64-17-1-profiles-are-now-stable * or choose the