Re: [gentoo-user] emerge warnings or errors

2020-11-12 Thread Alexander Openkowski
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogv On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 12:27 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > About 6 different complaints about my kernel configuration that blew off > the screen as packages were being emerged. Does any way exist to have > emerge write these to a log file of some sort for later

Re: [gentoo-user] cant change MAC address

2020-11-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:40:38 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to change the mac address of a realtek wifi card using > either mac_wlan0="" in /etc/conf.d/net (which is in > the handbook) or manually using ifconfig wlan0 hw ether address> and its not working.

[gentoo-user] cant change MAC address

2020-11-12 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi,     I am trying to change the mac address of a realtek wifi card using either mac_wlan0=""  in /etc/conf.d/net (which is in the handbook) or manually using ifconfig wlan0 hw ether  and its not working.  Is there another way or am I stuck? BillK

[gentoo-user] portage configuration saves the day!

2020-11-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
I did some portage configuration and the kernel configuration items that are missing got saved in that log file! -- United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual significant giving.

[gentoo-user] emerge warnings or errors

2020-11-12 Thread Jude DaShiell
About 6 different complaints about my kernel configuration that blew off the screen as packages were being emerged. Does any way exist to have emerge write these to a log file of some sort for later checking and action? -- United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

2020-11-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/11/20 10:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:31:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: Or is this because nvidia-drivers depends on virtual/linux-sources? Even so, the presence of the single slotted version in world should be enough to satisfy the dependency. Exactly, and emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update??? [RESOLVED]

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
I discovered that I had significant filesystem corruption. On 11/12/20 10:47 AM, n952162 wrote: So, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox runs, and is writable only by root.  But it can't be that the full firefox functionality gets executed in 239364 bytes! $ type firefox firefox is

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
So, /usr/lib/firefox/firefox runs, and is writable only by root.  But it can't be that the full firefox functionality gets executed in 239364 bytes! $ type firefox firefox is /usr/bin/firefox $  which -a  firefox /usr/bin/firefox $ ll /usr/bin/firefox lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread Andreas Fink
Hmm, interesting that it shows not the full path on one machine. This should always show you the full path: for p in `pgrep firefox` ; do ls -lh /proc/${p}/exe ; done You could also check with the following command what will be executed: which firefox Use `which -a firefox` to see all possible

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread n952162
Ah, that is a good point ... assuming there's not an suid-updater squirreled away somewhere.  I'm pretty sure that I've run firefox (lots) since last rebuilding it on the machine in question. Your test is good, but yields new questions: - machine 1: $ pgrep -a firefox *2829

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox automatic update???

2020-11-12 Thread Fosco
I get notifications from firefox that an updates are available. Once I wondered if it would be able to update and I pushed the update button, it failed (likely in escalading the auths, as Andreas pointed). To get rid of long compilation of firefox, I use www-client/firefox-bin. The emerged