Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread Dan Egli
The R status means REBUILD. Usually, if it's an @world it's pulling that in because something about that package changed and so it needs to rebuild it. The --noreplace option would block that if portage didn't think it was needed. Based on your options, I'd say that it's probably a USE flag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
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[gentoo-user] x11-terms/xterm loops error upon launch

2021-05-14 Thread Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos
On 5/10/21 9:28 PM, Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos wrote: > On 5/9/21 9:08 PM, Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I just recently setup a new desktop with Gentoo. >> >> After the install and configuration of Xorg, I decided to 'startx' >> and open xterm in fvwm. >> >> Upon

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote: > > I had another thought. Just in case it is a bug with grub that only > affects certain hardware, maybe try a different bootloader? Maybe try > lilo or some other bootloader that works with your hardware. I seem to > recall you having EFI so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Rationalizing log files

2021-05-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 13 May 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: [..] > And maybe either stop logging Facebook, or else log iptables messages >to a separate file (how is that done?). The Facebook tracker messages >are generated by iptables rules... > >-A INPUT -s 31.13.24.0/21 -j FECESBOOK >-A INPUT -s

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:10 PM wrote: > > > Have you recompiled the kernel? Could be a random, erroneous write to > disk or something in the kernel compile didn't go well. I'd suggest also > rebuilding the initrd Yes. Same problems with several kernels and associated initrds, the latter

[gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread Dale
mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > > Have you recompiled the kernel?  Could be a random, erroneous write to disk > or something in the kernel compile didn't go well.  I'd suggest also > rebuilding the initrd and reinstalling grub.  I.e. I think there is likely a > kernel compile issue

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
n On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd,

[gentoo-user] Re: Building kernel without messing the kernel source tree

2021-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
from netfab at Fri, 14 May 2021 11:59:37 +0200: > Le 14/05/21 à 11:47, Thomas Mueller a tapoté : > > I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output > > to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree > > directory clean. > You should have a look to

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 May 2021 11:54:30 +0200, n952162 wrote: > Why does portage want to build this: > > [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB > > given this, already installed: > > /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild > > and these on my binary server (which is

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:50 AM John Blinka wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy > wrote > >> > >> Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure >> genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initramfs boot >> log to diagnose a failure

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread Jack
On 5/14/21 3:54 AM, n952162 wrote: Why does portage want to build this: [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB given this, already installed: /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly for

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy wrote > > > Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure > genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initramfs boot > log to diagnose a failure in a genkernel initramfs at one time. That’s an intriguing

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Blinka
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Building kernel without messing the kernel source tree

2021-05-14 Thread netfab
Le 14/05/21 à 11:47, Thomas Mueller a tapoté : > I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output > to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree > directory clean. You should have a look to KBUILD_OUTPUT environment variable.

[gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread n952162
Why does portage want to build this: [ebuild   R    ] x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10::gentoo 0 KiB given this, already installed: /var/db/pkg/x11-apps/xmodmap-1.0.10/xmodmap-1.0.10.ebuild and these on my binary server (which is apparently not working properly for reasons I'm trying to track down):  

[gentoo-user] Building kernel without messing the kernel source tree

2021-05-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree directory clean. If I build gcc or other software using configure script, I can go to another directory and run, for instance, ~/builds/gcc-8.3.0/configure

Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 May 2021 00:06:07 BST John Blinka wrote: > How does one debug this situation? Just coming to this belatedly, not having noticed what may be a connection until now. I have an Asus X99-A motherboard, and I never got grub to work at all. I use a combination of efibootmgr and

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On 14/5/21 2:35 pm, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:58:25 -0400, > John Blinka wrote: >> [1 ] >> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack >> wrote: >> >>> Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and >>> initrd should just have the name of the kernel and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-14 Thread John Covici
On Thu, 13 May 2021 21:58:25 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > [1 ] > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack > wrote: > > > Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and > > initrd should just have the name of the kernel and initrd files (without > > leading "/boot",)