[gentoo-user] cross compiling arm with 17 profiles.

Something I cant figure out: ARM is still on the 13 profiles - should an amd64 system used to cross compile for arm (Raspberry Pi's) be left on the 13 profiles or 17 will work fine? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Choice of TLD for internal network

On 19/12/17 04:25, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 12/18/2017 02:55 PM, Wol's lists wrote: >>> My router defaults, iirc, to .local. And I thought .home also did the >>> same sort of thing. >> >> Both are reserved: the ".home" TLD is reserved for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.14.7 no longer switches to VT7

Hi all, is there a list of known problems with kernels 4.14.x? I have a problem with hiddev, nut and a usb ups that appears kernel dependent. Cant find anything about 4.14 except for the gentoo-dev list emails BillK On 31/12/17 09:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 31 December 2017

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

On 04/02/18 01:34, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 02/03/2018 04:11:33 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2018, 10:50:53 CET schrieb Helmut Jarausch: >> > On 02/03/2018 06:54:06 AM, Dale wrote: >> > > While on this topic, I have a question about glibc.  I have it set in >> > > make.conf t

[gentoo-user] hibernate failing for 4.15.1 kernel

Hi all,     are there hibernation (to disk) issues with gentoo-sources 4.15.1?  (fails or hard locks on hibernate, oops on resume if it does hibernate and shutdown) I am using the settings which have worked reliably with the 4.14 and earlier versions (surface pro4, gentoo-sources without extra pa

[gentoo-user] OT: aggregating filesystem

Is there such a thing as a linux network filesystem that aggregates storage across a few machines? I am not talking about dedicated chunk servers and the like, but something that can make available a the unused space on a number of machines (desktops, servers, ...) by aggregating and making availa

[gentoo-user] cant find stdlib.h

I have a compile problem qtgui I cant figure out: compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:12443: .obj/qaccessible.o] Error 1 make: *** [Makefile:12612: .obj/qaccessiblecache.o] Error 1 In file included from /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.4.0/include/g++-v6/bits/stl_algo.h:59:0,    

Re: [gentoo-user] cant find stdlib.h

On 30/03/18 01:48, P Levine wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Bill Kenworthy <mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>>wrote: > > I have a compile problem qtgui I cant figure out: > > compilation terminated. > make: *** [Makefile:12443: .obj/qaccessible.o] Error

Re: [gentoo-user] cant find stdlib.h

On 30/03/18 06:42, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 30/03/18 01:48, P Levine wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Bill Kenworthy > <mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>>wrote: >> >> I have a compile problem qtgui I cant figure out: >> >> compilation termi

Re: [gentoo-user] cant find stdlib.h

On 30/03/18 10:25, P Levine wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Bill Kenworthy <mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>> wrote: > > On 30/03/18 01:48, P Levine wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Bill Kenworthy > mailto:bi...@iinet.net.au>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On 02/04/18 08:28, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-04-01 18:22, Dale wrote: > >> Just for giggles, I tried to re-emerge palemoon. This is part of the >> output I got. >> >> * Supported GCC versions: 4.7, 4.9 >> * Selected GCC version: 6.4 > I no longer use the overlay; I have my own private ebuild s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On 02/04/18 13:41, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I use the palemoon overlay. > There is also the octopus overlay. > Anyway, both can only react to upstream. > >> builds fine with gcc-6.4 > Yes, but it has random crashes which do not occur with gcc-5,

Re: [gentoo-user] sddm no longer working

On 04/04/18 23:14, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > After last update, on one machine sddm-0.17.0-r1 no longer does not anything > anymore. Systemd starts the service, and systemctl status shows that the sddm > is running, and also ps jax shows a running sddm. > > apollo ~ # systemctl s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

On 05/04/18 18:28, gevisz wrote: > 2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >> 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : >> On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >>> Assuming that NAT is in play on OR and IR (worst case), then just about >>> /any/ form of VPN initiating from the outside will be fraught w

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

On 05/04/18 22:51, gevisz wrote: > 2018-04-05 16:14 GMT+03:00 Bill Kenworthy : >> On 05/04/18 18:28, gevisz wrote: >>> 2018-04-05 12:51 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >>>> 2018-04-05 1:02 GMT+03:00 Grant Taylor : >>>> On 04/04/2018 02:18 PM, gevisz wrote: >>>

[gentoo-user] skip package

Hi,     is it possible to filter out a package (chromium) from from emerge world on the commandline?  Using files is a pain when I just want to stop a package building until I am ready to do it. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] skip package

On 02/05/18 18:48, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2018 18:40:08 +0800 Bill Kenworthy > wrote about [gentoo-user] skip package: > > Ho, > >>     is it possible to filter out a package (chromium) from from emerge >> world on the commandline?  Using files is a pain wh

[gentoo-user] apache mod_wsgi radicale and passing in an environment variable

Hi all,     how does one set an environment variable for Apache mod_wsgi on gentoo? I am using the radicale wsgi module and it requires the config file to be passed in from the environment to be set in the environment.  The documents recommend something like whats below, but is not specific on sa

[gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport

Hi all,     I have a surface4 pro and use a vga adapter on the displayport connection.  This works when manually (Xorg, XFCE4 and xrandr) configured to various external monitors and data projectors. I am trying to automate the process but plugging in the display port adapter does not generate any

Re: [gentoo-user] semi OT: Displayport

Thanks for the link, looks like its going to be "fun" :) - I think using an inotify file watcher might be the best/low resource way to detect the event. BillK On 05/30/18 10:23, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> On 2018-05-29, at 22:03, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >> Can

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU: windows guest crashing

On 30/05/18 15:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > maybe someone has hit that as well: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/656886 > > bug report at redhat is from yesterday (!) > > - > > That windows guest is shutting down and/or crashing now and then. > Same QEMU/libvirt combo at another site runs >20 VMs w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

I think its more complex than just falling behind - anything later gets the spectre fixes etc. and it appears not to be quite stable yet in some cases.  I am on 4.9.95 for everything except a surface pro4 with 4.16.17 (as stable as anything can be on those things) which needs latest. BillK On 06

[gentoo-user] python 3.6

After installing python 3.6, I now have multiple systems wanting to depclean it!  Have I missed something? Should I be uninstalling 3.4 and 3.5 which are also present? bunyip ~ # eselect python list Available Python interpreters, in order of preference:   [1]   python3.6   [2]   python3.5   [3]  

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.6

On 28/06/18 06:16, John Covici wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:04:57 -0400, > Ralph Seichter wrote: >> On 27.06.18 22:43, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >>> After installing python 3.6, I now have multiple systems wanting to >>> depclean it! Have I missed something?

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

I am using git to sync portage and have added  the enabling line to repos.conf: "sync-git-verify-commit-signature = true" but only ever get (been enabled for a week now): * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc  * Refreshing keys from keyserver ...   

Re: [gentoo-user] Change keyserver used by portage?

On 04/07/18 13:09, Adam Carter wrote: > > Since you know the server IPs, and there's only a small number so > you could try connection to each of them and see which one(s) fail. > > Or tcpdump, or netstat etc. > > > FWIW i can route to all the v4 addresses; > > # for i in 18.9.60.141 18

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

On 05/07/18 02:32, gevisz wrote: > 2018-07-04 21:01 GMT+03:00 Mick : >> On Wednesday, 4 July 2018 18:57:56 BST gevisz wrote: >>> 2018-07-04 11:55 GMT+03:00 Alex Thorne : > I use rsync and get the following for more than a day now; > > !!! Manifest verification failed: > OpenPGP veri

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

On 06/07/18 00:06, Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:57:05 -0400 > John Covici wrote: >> >> I got the following when running your command: >> gemato verify -K /tmp/gentoo-release.asc.20180703 /usr/portage/ >> INFO:root:Refreshing keys from keyserver... >> INFO:root:Keys refreshed. > >

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

On 07/07/18 09:42, Floyd Anderson wrote: > Hi Bill, > > On Sat, 07 Jul 2018 07:40:00 +0800 > Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >> I still have this error and  Ive tried a number of things including: >> >> gemato create -p ebuild -K /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-rel

[gentoo-user] OT: virtual keyboard and DM

Can anyone recommend a virtual keyboard and DM that works on a HiDPI screen?  I have a Microsoft surface4 and have tried sddm and lightdm with xkbd, matchbox-keyboard and florence and cant seem to get a working combination.  They are all too small and don't seem to work nicely or able to be properl

Re: [gentoo-user] Any real need to switch python targets back and forth every month?

On 25/07/18 23:20, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 7:58 AM Grand Duet wrote: >> After today's emerge-webrsync, I have found that python_targets >> and python_single_targets use flags have been changed again >> from python3_5 to python3_6, which leads to a lot of recompilation. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] how to update python choice

Hi, no problems doing it except because of the large number of packages look forward to hours of compiling (24hrs on my surface pro4).  Got a few other systems to do which is going to take awhile. BillK On 26/07/18 09:10, allan gottlieb wrote: > I am still using python 3.4, i.e. > > sh-4.4# es

Re: [gentoo-user] Any real need to switch python targets back and forth every month?

On 26/07/18 21:01, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:44:28 +0300, Grand Duet wrote: > >> Before switching python_targets for the first time, you could use your >> news system to inform Gentoo users that >> 1) you are switching python_targets > Like the one on May 22nd titled "Python 3.6

[gentoo-user] OT: Open source document management system

Hi all     I have been looking for an opensource document management system ... there are a few but none of the ones I have come across are in portage. Are there any DMS's in portage at all?  Otherwise, can someone suggest ones worth trying as most seem suitable from their websites but its going

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Open source document management system

On 01/08/18 17:27, Sam Jorna (wraeth) wrote: > On 01/08/18 16:39, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wednesday, August 1, 2018 8:19:50 AM CEST Bill Kenworthy wrote: >>> Hi all >>> >>> I have been looking for an opensource document management system ... >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

On 08/08/18 11:43, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Long story short that leads up to my questions, I paid off some debt.  > Hi Dale,     what you are talking about is not a real backup but a single copy of your data that may or may not be complete (the delete option you mention) at a single point in time

Re: [gentoo-user] The memory gremlin

On 10/08/18 02:00, Mick wrote: > On Thursday, 9 August 2018 17:32:33 BST Alan Grimes wrote: >> [resend, list was down...] >> >> I've been meditating on the memory gremlin on my system... >> >> The ram is Corsair, 3000mhz. (never had any problem with their sticks in >> any system ever.) >> >> Mother

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

On 10/08/18 10:46, Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/08/18 04:43, Dale wrote: >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I just bought two external drive enclosures. One is sort of a spare but >>> >>> It has power.  I'm not sure where I'd put a fridge, even a tiny one.  I >>> wish it was twice as big as it i

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up a partition

On 24/08/18 20:53, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:09 AM Mick wrote: >> However, you may prefer to use clonezilla instead of dd. The dd command will >> copy each and every bit and byte of the partition whether it has data on it >> or >> not. It is not particularly efficient. Cl

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo centric VPN

On 05/09/18 20:15, james wrote: > So, I need to be able setup and tear down a 4-component network. > Sometimes all (4) systems will be in the same location, probably about > 50% of the time. > > My (3) personal systems are: > (1) gentoo laptop (Open RC if that matters) > (1) window-7 laptop > (1) A

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo announces total website makeover :-)

On 01/04/15 18:15, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 01 April 2015 20:10:44 Adam Carter wrote: >>> I love the serial console style cursor sweep across the screen. Ahh that >>> takes me back. >> Me too. >> >> I was just trying to remember the type number of the serial consoles we

[gentoo-user] apache and the -D parameter

Hi, I am trying to set up mod_wsgi and apache in an LXC container. apache is ignoring all -D parameters on startup even though I can see them in the startup script debug and they are being passed to apache according to "ps aux". apache -M does not show the modules in the loaded list. If

Re: [gentoo-user] apache and the -D parameter

On 20/04/15 21:21, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, April 20, 2015 06:56:49 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to set up mod_wsgi and apache in an LXC container. apache >> is ignoring all -D parameters on startup even though I can see them in >> the st

Re: [gentoo-user] apache and the -D parameter

On 21/04/15 04:15, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/20/2015 09:54 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >> ps aux: several entries of >> root 7549 0.0 0.0 145116 7916 ?Ss 05:05 0:00 >> /usr/sbin/apache2 -D DEFAULT_VHOST -D INFO -D SSL -D SSL_DEFAULT_VHOST >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

On 06/05/15 05:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2015 08:53:29 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> In general btrfs tends to do most of its fixing online. I'd only run >> btrfs check if the filesystem is unmountable. > > That's the only time I've had to use it. This was on a laptop with a > s

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

On 06/05/15 06:21, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 06/05/15 05:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 5 May 2015 08:53:29 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >>> In general btrfs tends to do most of its fixing online. I'd only run >>> btrfs check if the filesystem is u

[gentoo-user] OT: webserver reccomendations

Hi all, over the years when I need a web-server I have just used Apache. I am in the process of consolidating my separate services VM's for various things into LXC containers and am looking for something a bit lighter if its worthwhile. I am currently using Apache for internal and externa

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webserver reccomendations

On 29/06/15 02:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 18:27:57 +0100, Mick wrote: > >>> Why did you stop using lighttpd? >> >> I avoided offering much explanation in my previous response because, >> well ... I would feel uncomfortable doing so without a pint in my >> hand. :-)) > > So

Re: [gentoo-user] any one using ubuntu phones?

On 29/06/15 21:03, behrouz khosravi wrote: > I believe there was an effort to get Gentoo Prefix running on Android > as part of GSoC. I've yet to try it myself but you might find that > useful. I doubt it runs x11, but your typical x11 application isn't > really going to work well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

On 07/07/15 04:43, Alex Thorne wrote: > I have also experienced this intermittently with bash. Running /reset > /returns the shell to normal for me. Echo is also set on for me, but > will check if this has changed next time I experience the issue. > > On 6 July 2015 at 20:07, »Q« mailto:boxc...@gm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google

On 11/07/15 05:54, Mick wrote: > On Friday 10 Jul 2015 22:28:24 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> On Jul 10, 2015, at 5:00 PM, behrouz khosravi >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:29 AM, behrouz khosravi >> > wrote: Do you folks notice that google >>> is tr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation failure

On 18/08/15 02:58, »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 20:46:44 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Er, no. You don't. You really, really REALLY don't want to go Stage >> 1 :-) >> >> My second install was a stage 1, way back in the day when the stage 3s >> weren't fully usable out of the box yet. My f

Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

On 01/09/15 16:10, Emanuele Rusconi wrote: > On 1 September 2015 at 10:02, Walter Dnes wrote: >> How many heads will explode? I have /etc/portage/package.use/package.use >> file (YES!) The only reason I made a package.use directory was because I >> set up a cross-build environment, so that my a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speaking to Android

On 04/10/15 02:04, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > my setup is a recent Gentoo system, which is connected to the > internet. This acts as an Wifi hotspot for my android tablet. > > What is a secure, easy to setup and convenient method > to acchieve this? > (I only need some keywords ... no

Re: [gentoo-user] strange TCP timeout errors

On 06/10/15 01:35, Grant wrote: > I've attached a PNG from Munin showing the TCP timeout errors on my > Gentoo server over the past month. The data is expressed in timeouts > per second and that rate is shown to be steadily increasing over the > past month. That seems strange to me. Munin doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS server packages

On 11/10/15 16:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/10/2015 10:18, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Sunday, October 11, 2015 09:35:39 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 11/10/2015 04:13, James wrote: Howdy, So I now have (5) statics and a fiber feed, with lots of room to grow. I need to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Technical imap mail question

On 16/10/15 02:00, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 10/15/2015 01:04 PM, walt wrote: >> My ISP recently started offering imap email service in addition to >> the pop3/smtp servers they've always had, so I decided to try it. >> >> I was surprised to see that they recommend using a different smtp >> serv

[gentoo-user] git serving portage tree.

I have been playing with using git to sync portage while watching the conversation on gentoo-dev. Works, and after the initial sync it is actually faster than rsync and you get changelogs of a sort. Is there a guide to set up git as a local server for portage? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] git serving portage tree.

On 03/11/15 06:08, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/02/2015 04:52 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> I have been playing with using git to sync portage while watching the >> conversation on gentoo-dev. Works, and after the initial sync it is >> actually faster than rsync and you get

Re: [gentoo-user] git serving portage tree.

On 03/11/15 06:46, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/02/2015 05:42 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >>> >> >> Thanks. Yes I have a few gentoo machines and around 12 gentoo VM's - I >> currently use a rsync/httpreplicator to a master machine architecture >> which c

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

On 08/11/15 05:22, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > [snip] > >>> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). >>> The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD >> >> Get 1 SSD for the OS, software and your home directory. (240GB is usu

[gentoo-user] bcache and vm's

Can anyone comment on using bcache for VM's? (kvm/qemu) - is it worthwhile? BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive. I got one on sale for under $100. > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very > basic as it is. A little bit ago, I noticed a sound. It's not a click > or a metallic type sound. It s

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM

On 27/12/16 07:15, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 12/26/2016 03:45 PM, Francesco Turco wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it >> with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some >> packages because the kernel killed gcc after

[gentoo-user] multiple monitor video resolution problem

Hi all, I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots faster but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT 610] Nouveau driver), storage and original gentoo install. The problem is that I have two monitors - a 1920x1080 on DVI and a 1280x1050 on vga.

Re: [gentoo-user] multiple monitor video resolution problem

On 02/01/17 20:16, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 12/29/2016 09:46 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi all, >> I have upgraded my old core2 to an i7 on a x58 gigabyte MB. Lots >> faster but I am still using my older nvidia card (GF119 [GeForce GT >> 610] Nouveau dr

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

On 08/01/17 01:41, gevisz wrote: > 2017-01-07 18:41 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : > >> >> Please attach the full file. You are not providing the actual error message. >> > > Ok. It is in the attachment. > I am seeing the same thing - Error 6058. The build is in a kvm/qemu VM for a mobile developmen

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

On 08/01/17 07:18, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/01/17 01:41, gevisz wrote: >> 2017-01-07 18:41 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : >> >>> >>> Please attach the full file. You are not providing the actual error message. >>> >> >> Ok. It is in the attac

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

On 08/01/17 09:32, Gevisz wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 07:55:13 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> On 08/01/17 07:18, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >>> On 08/01/17 01:41, gevisz wrote: >>>> 2017-01-07 18:41 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : >>>> >>>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Local portage git mirror

On 17/01/17 18:03, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone have some pointers to setting up a local portage mirror for git > to serve? I'm looking at http://www.funtoo.org/Portage_Git_Mirror but some > details are obscure to me. I hope I'm not going to have to roll my sleeves > up a

[gentoo-user] java replacement

The java 8u112 download that the latest oracle java pulls in requires an invasive questionnaire to create an Oracle account to enable the download. I was using iced-tea at one stage but found the android sdk didn’t work well with it - is there a less objectionable java source than oracle that has

Re: [gentoo-user] java replacement

On 25/01/17 18:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:03:19 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> The java 8u112 download that the latest oracle java pulls in requires an >> invasive questionnaire to create an Oracle account to enable the >> download. > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] java replacement

On 25/01/17 18:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 25/01/2017 12:03, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> The java 8u112 download that the latest oracle java pulls in requires an >> invasive questionnaire to create an Oracle account to enable the download. >> >> I was using iced-tea

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote: > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some > users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem > but the project has been deaf to these pr

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU: The plot thickens!

On 27/01/17 08:33, Alan Grimes wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 17:07:03 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: >> >>> 4. Create MFT partition table. >> MFT? Isn't that something to do with NTFS? You need a GPT partition table >> if you want to boot with UEFI. >> > > yeah, my bad memory, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> >> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and >> more robust. > > rEFIt or rEFInd? > Sorry, yes it is rEFInd I am using. BillK

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

On 28/01/17 07:27, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 Jan 2017 06:50:32 Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> On 28/01/17 00:25, Tom H wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Bill Kenworthy > wrote: >>>> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot ea

Re: [gentoo-user] From rsync to git: sync-uri is invalid: https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo.git

On 29/01/17 17:25, Dale wrote: > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Dale [17-01-29 09:44]: >>> ... >> Do I need to add anything else to get the full funtionality ? >> I read on the internet about GLSA and news will be not sent/synced when >> using git... >> but I couldn't determine the date of that po

Re: [gentoo-user] Any fix yet for PTE Read access is not set error?

On 04/02/17 03:40, Mick wrote: > On Friday 03 Feb 2017 09:03:10 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday 02 Feb 2017 05:12:17 Dale wrote: >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I was looking through dmesg this morning and found 1231 instances (!) of this error: DMAR: DMAR:[

Re: [gentoo-user] New Installation

On 05/02/17 00:12, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> >> Size of swap is the classic cargo-cult question, > > ++ > >> >> Modern kernels DO get nervous if they have no swap at all - it's used >> internally. So make a small amount of swap to make the

[gentoo-user] OT: webmail for mobile devices

Hi all, I needed webmail access to the home mailserver for a family member on holiday yesterday whose VPN couldn't connect and so successfully installed roundcube - works but the user experience on phone screen is "poor". Is there a better webmail for mobile devices? - roundcube has a mobile

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webmail for mobile devices

On 09/02/17 17:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 09:31:49 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >> I needed webmail access to the home mailserver for a family member >> on holiday yesterday whose VPN couldn't connect and so successfully >> installed r

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

On 01/03/17 23:05, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 15:42 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> Never hurts to try the low hanging fruit first :) >> >> Have you tried lshw? > > did so right now: > > > > *-disk:2 > description: SCSI Disk > physic

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

On 02/03/17 18:03, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 23:21 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > >> Is there actually a disk on that interface? - I have a system where one >> sdx allocated to an unused sata port with nothing attached - it returns >> similar information to

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT - My new SSD.

On 26/03/17 03:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Adam. On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 17:09:15 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: That, indeed, seems to to be the case. When I do cat /proc/interrupts | egrep '(CPU/nvm)', I get just the header line with one data line: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

On 26/03/17 03:15, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, (Running Gentoo Linux on a 4.9.17 vanilla (ftp.kernel.org) Linux kernel) I was doing a backyp of a 64GB SAMSUNG flash card to my harddiskwhich runs for quite a while... For that I mount the partitions and tarred their contents as root to the ha

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

On 26/03/17 14:25, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 05:50, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 11:21, Adam Carter wrote: Step 1: dd the contents into an image ddrescue is probably a better option than plain dd. step 2: put the sdcard to one side. step 3: loopback mount a copy of the image (not th

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

On 26/03/17 15:26, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 03:04, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 26/03/17 14:25, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 05:50, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 11:21, Adam Carter wrote: Step 1: dd the contents into an image ddrescue is probably a better option than plain dd. step

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

On 26/03/17 17:24, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 04:50, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 26/03/17 15:26, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 03:04, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 26/03/17 14:25, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 05:50, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 03/26 11:21, Adam Carter wrote: Step 1: dd the

[gentoo-user] crossdev and "masked by corruption"

Hi all, I have a gentoo based amd64 qemu VM I use for development which uses crossdev for building avr and arm toolchains inside the VM. Foe a couple of months I have been getting "masked by corruption" errors when trying o build anything with crossdev (setting up a new VM). I have checked

Re: [gentoo-user] Pay attention to what 'emerge' tells you.

On 20/04/17 04:54, Grant Edwards wrote: I did my normal (approximately) weekly emerge sync/update today, and the update failed: emerge complained about a conflict between perl 5.22 and 5.24. There were a bunch of perl modules that required 5.22, but others required 5.24. After a bit of messing a

Re: [gentoo-user] New AMD hardware. Still can't boot (but making progress).

>>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mick > > Have you tried connecting using ssh after boot? > Also, do you have the EFI console support in your kernel? > > Not near my desktop to check which ones exactly. > > -- > Joost > Second this - check the kernel options for EFI but also add the NVME drives. I f

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to find the cause of an http 500 error

On 05/05/17 20:31, John Covici wrote: > On Fri, 05 May 2017 07:24:02 -0400, > Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> >> On 05/05/2017 07:13 AM, John Covici wrote: >>> >>> The php log is not mentioned in the .htaccess file of owncloud. But >>> regardless of owncloud, php fatal errors are not logged anywhere un

[gentoo-user] libreoffice and java.

Hi, I am trying use some java based plugins with libreoffice. libreoffice is compiled with the java use flag, both the oracle JDK and JRE are installed and the user and system VM's are set and JAVA_HOME is set in the environment. In the libreoffice jre selection dialog the jre is showing

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice and java.

On 19/05/17 19:45, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > eselect java-vm Nope: wdk@rattus ~ $ eselect java-vm list Available Java Virtual Machines: [1] oracle-jdk-bin-1.8 system-vm [2] oracle-jre-bin-1.8 user-vm wdk@rattus ~ $ Libreoffice sees the jre (in the internal dialog) and its selected but

Re: [gentoo-user] local file containing a web site

On 11/06/17 00:12, allan gottlieb wrote: > I was interviewed and the material was put on a website > (news.mit.edu/2017/reflections-puzzle-keeper-allan-gottlieb-0608). > > For someone to view this they need that > 1. They are on the net. > 2. MIT has not removed it. > > I would like to produce

[gentoo-user] XFCE "Set Title" hotkey

Hi, I am using the XFCE4 Terminal in drop down mode on an XFCE4 desktop. Something has caused the "Set Title" hotkey to be set with the letter "o" trapping that key whenever it is pressed. Very frustrating as "o" is a common letter :) I've checked everywhere I can think of so I am now looki

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE "Set Title" hotkey

On 15/06/17 21:45, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using the XFCE4 Terminal in drop down mode on an XFCE4 >> desktop. Something has caused the "Set Title" hotkey to be set with the >>

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE "Set Title" hotkey

On 16/06/17 05:16, Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Do, 15 Jun 13:54:15 +0800 > Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, >> >>I am using the XFCE4 Terminal in drop down mode on an XFCE4 >> desktop. Something has caused the "Set Title" hotkey to be set with the >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 3?

On 28/06/17 02:29, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > Where they using the original RPI? I built LXQT on an RPI2 and it did > not take me a day. > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:26 AM, R0b0t1 > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:44 AM, konsolebox

<    1   2   3   4   >