Re: [gentoo-user] Intel IPTS

On 07/15/2017 05:59 AM, james wrote: > On 07/14/17 05:47, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >> Hi, is anyone using the Intel IPTS touchscreen successfully with a MS >> Surface Pro 4? >> >> I am not sure how usable it is with Gentoo: >> https://github.com/ipts-linux-org/ipts-linux >> >> BillK > > Nope, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 5.4.0

On 04/25/2017 12:18 PM, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 06:59:16PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: My personal advice & experience: * install the new gcc-5.4 * switch to it * run the revdep-rebuild command from the news item (see above) ... and everything should

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

On 04/28/2017 12:51 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Mick and the whole World. > > # Load a linux kernel, passing the root filesystem and init process as > parameters > echo "Loading kernel..." > echo "grub_platform = " $grub_platform > gfxpayload=text # For debugging.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get memtest onto a USB drive

On 04/29/2017 05:33 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 29 Apr 2017 08:57:35 Rasmus Thomsen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> actually had that screen happening to me too, but my hardware was fine. >> Could you try emerging the latest (unstable) memtest86+ package? >> Symlinking should work with that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc

On 08/22/2017 07:18 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:34 AM, Nils Freydank > wrote: >> >> BTW, mythtv has no maintainer, might you be interested in a proxied >> maintainership? >> > > I'd encourage somebody to step up and do this - I no longer use it

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

On 05/13/2017 06:05 PM, lee wrote: > It worked --- now some time when I do upgrade the kernel, I somehow need > to remove these sources from the world list, I guess ... > That's easy: `emerge --deselect sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:4.4.52` undoes my previous suggestion. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo rocks

On 05/20/2017 04:45 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 170519 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> It's about one year now since I locked myself in my room for a month >> and installed Gentoo :-) >> It has been an interesting and sometimes rough ride, >> but I learned many things along the way, and I got what I wanted :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tux AWOL

On 05/17/2017 03:35 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > It also enables me to finally use UEFI and suspend to RAM again > with NVIDIA proprietary without a dead framebuffer after resume. ;-) > I have had this problem for years and thought it was a bad card. Replaced it recently, still have the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta for my wireless card

On 05/24/2017 11:46 AM, allan gottlieb wrote: > On Wed, May 24 2017, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> On 05/24/2017 11:10 AM, allan gottlieb wrote: >>> My older laptop needs broadcom-sta. Back when I bought and setup the >>> laptop (kernel 3.18.12), I emerged broadcom-sta an

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta for my wireless card

On 05/24/2017 11:10 AM, allan gottlieb wrote: > My older laptop needs broadcom-sta. Back when I bought and setup the > laptop (kernel 3.18.12), I emerged broadcom-sta and wireless worked. > > Now I am upgrading to kernel 4.9.16. The kernel boots but no wireless. > In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tux AWOL

On 05/18/2017 11:32 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 05/18/2017 05:06 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 05/17/2017 03:35 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: >>> >>> It also enables me to finally use UEFI and suspend to RAM again >>> with NVIDIA proprietary without a dead frameb

Re: [gentoo-user] conflict with same package, same USE

On 06/02/2017 03:08 AM, Hogren wrote: > Thank you all for the help. > > I saw a "bindist" in my global USE flag ! > > I really don't remember when I had that. May be when I saw it for the > first time, I said to me "Hey a weak protocol (EC)? disable it !" … > > For the moment, no more problem !

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

On 06/04/2017 03:54 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 10:22 PM, Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Using Chromium and uMatrix / uBlock Origin Plugins, no problem with the >> page. No ads or Java errors. >> ( No, not the 'www-plugins/chrome-binary-plugins'. ) >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

On 06/04/2017 11:09 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 06/04/2017 03:54 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >>> Well, a plugin to make a browser barely usable. But what about a >>> functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

On 06/04/2017 02:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I just had the experience of visiting a linux-related site > (http://libv.livejournal.com/22968.html) and seeing a panel with ads > about house appliances (from a site I had actually visited before). > The panel actually blocks part of the page, and

Re: [gentoo-user] managing chromium exceptions

On 06/04/2017 07:39 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 06/04/2017 02:17 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: >> I just had the experience of visiting a linux-related site >> (http://libv.livejournal.com/22968.html) and seeing a panel with ads >> about house appliances (from a site I had ac

Re: [gentoo-user] port forwarding

On 06/04/2017 09:28 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > My firewall (dd-wrt) does not opening specific port. > > In NAT(QoS) tab I have: > forward from port 4569 to internal IP port 4569 (this is an asterisk IAX > port); > > netstat -a |grep 4569 > udp0 0 0.0.0.0:4569

[gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

Well, did I just have an exercise in frustration. I needed to get a couple pictures off my phone (using MTP) so I plugged it into my computer. It asked for permission on my phone, I allowed it - then KDE reports the MTP process died. So I tried a second time but faster tapping 'allow' on my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

On 06/14/2017 12:47 PM, Mick wrote: > > A long shot, but you never know if it will help in your case. (Re)install > kde-apps/kwalletd-16.04.3-r1 and see if all this multiple-asking for > permission goes away. It may just be that the KDE application in question > was > working well with

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsck -a /dev/sdb1

On 06/15/2017 12:28 PM, Mick wrote: > If you remove the USB disk while the PC is accessing it, the electrical > discharge across the physical contacts of the USB connector can cause > terminal > damage to the onboard chipset controller. > > If you're lucky only partial corruption of the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

On 06/15/2017 11:20 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:07:45 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: > >>> I avoid all those issues by installing SSHhelper on Android and >>> copying files with scp you can also open ssh views in Dolphin if the >>> mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

On 06/14/2017 11:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:29:14 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Android and iphones can be accessed as a USB drive. Doesn't this work? > > No they can't, at least not the modern Android phones. allowing two > systems to mount the same filesystem is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

On 04/29/2017 01:38 PM, lee wrote: > !!! existing preserved libs: package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so > * used by > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so > (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1) > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

On 04/29/2017 10:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I found on several systems that using "--backtrack=100" actually resolved the > latest blockers with perl. > I find doing `emerge --oneshot --nodeps perl` then `perl-cleaner --all` was faster. Portage would chug for over five minutes on some of

Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

On 04/29/2017 06:23 PM, lee wrote: > Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> writes: >> Do a --depclean and that will resolve itself. > > Last time I tried that, it wanted to remove the source of the kernel I'm > using, along with other things. It would have made sense if I h

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeCAD permission problems

On 05/05/2017 10:08 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi > > I emerged FreCAD and started it as user. > It crashes with following output: > FreeCAD 0.16, Libs: 0.16RUnknown > © Juergen Riegel, Werner Mayer, Yorik van Havre 2001-2015 > # ### > #

Re: [gentoo-user] FreeCAD permission problems

On 05/05/2017 10:23 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/05 10:17, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 05/05/2017 10:08 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I emerged FreCAD and started it as user. >>> It crashes with following output: >>> FreeCAD

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

On 05/06/2017 06:15 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 170506 Mick wrote: >> On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: >>> There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : >>> I could take the V550 back & exchange it for a V600 >>> & try to install Iscan + data + that plugin. >> If you

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

On 05/06/2017 09:15 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 05/06/2017 06:15 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> 170506 Mick wrote: >>> On Friday 05 May 2017 19:27:47 Philip Webb wrote: >>>> There is a pkg media-gfx/iscan-plugin-gt-x820 for a V600 : >>>> I could take the V55

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : how to activate for Gentoo : further thoughts

On 05/06/2017 10:45 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for trying to help, but I've bought a new scanner > & don't want the trouble of taking it back to the store. > It works on Mint, so at most I'll have to reboot to use it. > However, given that it works on Mint, it should work on Gentoo. No

Re: [gentoo-user] locale no longer recognised by Plasma and KDE apps?

On 09/16/2017 12:24 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I’m on openrc, too, and my user details dialog only shows “New user”. Neither my own account nor the guest account that I added a few days back is visible. Clicking on the [+] at the bottom has no effect at all. The machine I'm on right now

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner always wants to rebuild certain packages

On 10/10/2017 11:30 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 04:01:29 CEST schrieb Daniel Frey: I updated a machine today, it's fully up to date and depclean'ed. For some reason, perl-cleaner consistantly wants to rebuild some packages: * Locating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/14/2017 04:05 AM, Mick wrote: On Friday, 13 October 2017 22:55:50 BST Daniel Frey wrote: On 10/13/2017 02:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2017-10-13, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov <gen...@mva.name> wrote: Well, actually, you was alread adviced about some working methods of solving your

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 01:58 PM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: So, ideally, you **SHOULD NOT** disable IPv6 on your side, but shame your ISP support line (for either broken IPv6 routing or not having VLAN per customer, depends on the real case) instead. I don't want to waste hours/days/weeks trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 02:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2017-10-13, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: Well, actually, you was alread adviced about some working methods of solving your issue (both right and wrong ones, but it is anyway your decision to take ones to use), so I'll just

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 11:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Have you tried to boot the systems with  the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel parameter? I just tried this, and it doesn't seem to help. # cat /proc/cmdline disable_ipv6=1 root=/dev/md126p3 rd.auto=1 quiet rootfstype=ext4

[gentoo-user] systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

I discovered that after my update the other day (systemd is up to date as of Wednesday) that my remote nfs mounts are failing on startup. (Note: as per my other thread, I haven't tried to disable ipv6 yet. I want to figure this out first.) I use an IMSM raid with an initramfs provided by

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma5: Missing shutdown, restart and suspend button

On 10/13/2017 03:10 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote: Hello everyone, I successfully installed Gentoo with Plasma5 for the first time on first try (yay!) and now I am going to fix stuff and ran into an issue with missing buttons in the kde menu as mentioned in the subject. I followed all these

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 10:41 AM, Jack wrote: Pretty much stabbing in the dark, but can you disable ipv6 somewhere in network configuration?   Can you compile it into the kernel as a module, and then blacklist it so it doesn't get loaded? Jack That's a good idea, I didn't think of that. Now that I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 10:41 AM, dan...@sonck.nl wrote: IPv6 compiled into systemd is most likely for systemd-networkd. If you're not using that part it shouldn't be a problem. If you're using systemd-networkd, you can configure it to not do IPv6. But, I would recommend configuring your system to not

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 11:34 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 1:29 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: I switched ISPs a couple months back and have been struggling with networking issues (not LAN, just WAN.) I have discovered that something is broken with my ISP's ipv6 s

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 11:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Have you tried to boot the systems with  the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel parameter? I haven't, thanks for the tip. I'll wait until the machine finish updating and try that before messing around with the kernel config. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/14/2017 12:37 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10/13/2017 11:05 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Have you tried to boot the systems with the "disable_ipv6=1" kernel parameter? I just tried this, and it does

[gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

I switched ISPs a couple months back and have been struggling with networking issues (not LAN, just WAN.) I have discovered that something is broken with my ISP's ipv6 support, every time I go to a website there's a 10-second delay. When syncing portage today I saw what the delay is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 10:50 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2017-10-13, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: And is there a way to build systemd without ipv6? Or am I going to have to revert these three systems back to openrc? ^^ You misspelled "upgrade". ;) That

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

On 10/13/2017 12:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: Just to expand a bit on this - the Gentoo-added service manager kernel options are purely for convenience. If you don't use gentoo-sources you won't see them at all, because they're not part of the upstream kernel. All they do is pull in a bunch of

Re: [gentoo-user] Unlocking Plasma desktop in Gentoo without systemd

On 09/11/2017 10:49 AM, Mick wrote: I started a plasma session and after some period of input inactivity I noticed the screen blanked out. Later on I moved the mouse and to my surprise I obtained this message: * "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

On 09/06/2017 03:01 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> At the same time I have seen this exact situation fixed by a firmware >> upgrade. Still, this seems more alarming than the other issues you've >> described. > > Do you mean the firmware of the NVMe drive? How would I go about that? I > don't see

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure

On 09/23/2017 10:55 PM, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Stephano. I tried re-emerging libpng and running a clean Thunderbirs build overnight, however it still fails with the same message. -- Regards, Christoph I had a similar problem but it was a while ago (a couple

Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed

On 08/30/2017 01:51 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > Like I mention in another thread (and like Rich touches on) power > savings can be an incentive to upgrade, besides the increase in speed. > Power efficiency and speed generally increase in multiples greater > than one, so you are reducing the cost and time

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my SSD dying?

On 09/01/2017 02:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > For the last week or two my NVMe SSD isn't being detected on startup. I get > this error on manual invocation: > > # smartctl -a /dev/nvme0n1 > smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.12.5-gentoo] (local build) > Copyright

Re: [gentoo-user] processor speed

On 08/29/2017 08:09 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:07 AM, Dale wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Isn't it amazing how efficient and fast newer computers are? It's >> almost worth the energy saving to upgrade. If a person runs their >> system 24/7, that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

On 08/30/2017 07:42 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-08-30 09:32, Mick wrote: > >>> Unfortunately this isn't a viable strategy because typically you >>> will, in a few months, if not a single month, spend more in >>> electricity costs than you would purchasing a new single board >>> computer. >

[gentoo-user] perl-cleaner always wants to rebuild certain packages

I updated a machine today, it's fully up to date and depclean'ed. For some reason, perl-cleaner consistantly wants to rebuild some packages: # perl-cleaner --all * Removing perl-core packages from world file *emerge --deselect perl-core/File-Path perl-core/File-Temp

Re: [gentoo-user] Key reinstallation attack on WPA2 - new vulnerability discovered

On 10/19/2017 11:35 AM, Mick wrote: In case you are not aware of this vulnerability: https://www.krackattacks.com/ https://bugs.gentoo.org/634440 I read this the other day. It seems that pretty much all devices are affected by this. I'm curious to know how many Android handsets will

[gentoo-user] Re: New profile & gcc update

On 12/03/17 10:29, Daniel Frey wrote: Well, I moved to the new profile and started emerging gcc on about eight computers or so. I use distcc to speed up the compile process on the slower machines, so I need to keep the versions in sync. I forgot to prefix `emerge -1 gcc` with `FEATURES

[gentoo-user] New profile & gcc update

Well, I moved to the new profile and started emerging gcc on about eight computers or so. I use distcc to speed up the compile process on the slower machines, so I need to keep the versions in sync. I forgot to prefix `emerge -1 gcc` with `FEATURES="-distcc"` and am wondering if the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/04/17 18:15, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 12/04/2017 09:13 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Well, it copies from /usr/share/grub and /lib/grub to /boot/grub, and the sum of those directories are 270M without any kernels, etc installed. I guess I'm going to have to tarball everything up, repartition

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/04/17 17:54, Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per '2017-11-30-new-17- profiles' news item: Compiling source

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

On 12/03/17 07:12, Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per '2017-11-30-new-17- profiles' news item: Compiling source in

[gentoo-user] Upgrading kernel with gcc6... use mrproper and not clean

I just thought I'd send this out in case others aren't aware... I've updated some seven machines now to the new profile and gcc6. Out of the seven, four of them had problems rebuilding the kernel which led to an outright hang during booting (black screen, no kernel panic, just hang.) I found

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading kernel with gcc6... use mrproper and not clean

On 12/18/17 18:46, Daniel Frey wrote: I just thought I'd send this out in case others aren't aware... I've updated some seven machines now to the new profile and gcc6. Out of the seven, four of them had problems rebuilding the kernel which led to an outright hang during booting (black screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting the GPU

On 11/13/17 02:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I'm hunting a problem with cooling in this box, and I've got as far as suspecting my new AMD WX 5100 GPU. One of my BOINC projects causes the GPU temperature, as shown by gkrellm, to shoot up to 75C or more and cause intolerable system

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting the GPU

On 11/13/17 07:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: I have a Geforce GTX 950 and it does show the processes. Surprisingly, some desktop apps (not all) are also showing, must be linked to some library. Also shows the GPU memory usage. -- Joost My card is old, that's probably why, I have a 660GTX. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] #gentoo experiences

On 11/19/17 08:25, taii...@gmx.com wrote: On 11/19/2017 07:56 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: Hi all, I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. Thanks! I'm interested in both good and bad experiences, with users, developers, and operators. Basically, anything that anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] #gentoo experiences

On 11/19/17 09:02, taii...@gmx.com wrote: On 11/19/2017 11:37 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: The way it's worded makes me think feedback was requested on the irc channels, but maybe I am wrong? Ha oh boy. Most people of my generation refer to things as a hashtag on "social" media, such

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

On 10/29/2017 08:15 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: Come to think of it, I'm going to look back and see if there was an update around the time I started having problems. Maybe there was a regression of some sort. So I bought a large SSD, and cloned to it. I'm not stuck with IMSM any more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

On 11/01/2017 02:12 PM, Wols Lists wrote: What's the problem with mdadm and openrc? openrc terminates mdmon too early and so every time I rebooted this machine when it had a RAID it marked the array as dirty and rebuilt it. The PC was not usable while it was rebuilding, it was so dang slow,

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to profile 17.0 complete, completely painless

On 12/06/17 08:41, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 6 December 2017 15:36:19 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/05/17 23:00, Raffaele Belardi wrote: One (~x86) LXDE system completed the switch with no problem, the other (~amd64) built all except two packaged (sdlmame and torcs) which did not build with gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/09/17 03:23, John Covici wrote: On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:51:03 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote: On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/09/17 08:18, John Covici wrote: On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:28:25 -0500, Daniel Frey wrote: I had a lot of problems with the perl updates as well, and could not get it to resolve. I wasted over an hour trying to resolve it (my poor Celeron would take 5-10 minutes trying to calculate

Re: [gentoo-user] switch to profile 17.0 complete, completely painless

On 12/05/17 23:00, Raffaele Belardi wrote: One (~x86) LXDE system completed the switch with no problem, the other (~amd64) built all except two packaged (sdlmame and torcs) which did not build with gcc-7.2 even before the switch to 17.0. Gentoo devs and arch testers did a good job as usual.

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/28/2017 09:48 AM, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 28 October 2017 15:18:26 BST Daniel Frey wrote: On 10/28/2017 01:58 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I've been using the net-misc/knutclient GUI application to provide information to desktop users of the state of the UPS. Portage is telling me

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

On 10/13/2017 03:13 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: I discovered that after my update the other day (systemd is up to date as of Wednesday) that my remote nfs mounts are failing on startup. (Note: as per my other thread, I haven't tried to disable ipv6 yet. I want to figure this out first.) I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd fails to mount nfs4 mounts

On 10/28/2017 05:18 PM, Adam Carter wrote: I'm still having this issue, anyone have any ideas? I can see that NetworkManager-Wait-Online finishes, and that the mounting starts immediately after, but I don't think the network is quite up yet, resulting an all nfs mounts to

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/30/2017 03:15 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday, 30 October 2017 09:10:07 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: Today's forecasts of doom are the result of 30 years of dithering by governments of all stripes, neglecting to invest in new generation in spite of its absolute indispensability. I'll refrain

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/30/2017 12:40 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: I did some looking around (I had an APC) and all the APC branded crap you get in the stores are cheaper, inferior options. I found out the BX-prefixed models don't eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/30/2017 07:47 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday, 30 October 2017 14:09:58 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: On 10/30/2017 03:15 AM, Mick wrote: Now, I better look into finding a way to silence this new UPS fan which seems to be going on 24/7 with or without load on it! o_O Some new UPS systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/30/2017 12:33 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: I did some looking around (I had an APC) and all the APC branded crap you get in the stores are cheaper, inferior options. I found out the BX-prefixed models don't even have proper AVR (they only correct when the voltage drops below a certain point

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

On 05/12/18 00:09, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Saturday, 12 May 2018 12:05:47 PM AEST Paul Colquhoun wrote: >> You can add an alternate regular expression that matches the blank lines, >> but the '-o' switch will still stop that match from being printed as it is >> an 'empty' match. The trick is to

[gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

Hi all, I am trying to do something relatively simple and I've had something working in the past, but my brain just doesn't want to work today. I have a text file with the following (this is just a subset of about 2500 dates, and I don't want to edit these all by hand if I can avoid it): ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and OSS(4)

On 05/15/18 18:22, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi folks, > > usually I have a alsa free environment (as it never worked well) and > used OSS4 for long time now (>20y). > > Now with the switch to gentoo I wondering if it is possible to use oss > on gentoo too. You should be able to, but pulseaudio no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default CONFIG_PROTECT behavior

On 06/17/18 15:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I don't have any of those problems. I still use etc-update, and if there are > complex updates I edit the original file myself, using the diff as a guide. > > I never did get to grips with the more "modern" ways of doing it. > Same here, I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

On 2018-05-29 03:40 PM, Mick wrote: It seems the shutdown, suspend, et al options are gone from the plasma desktop after an update at the end of the week. The user still has the option to logout and then use the sddm menu to shutdown, but other options have disappeared from the the plasma menu.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc failed to compile, mpfr-4 compiled successfully...

On 06/24/18 10:21, Dale wrote: > Plus it does say to include that info.  If it wasn't provided, it would > likely be asked for at some point unless someone has ran into that > specific problem and can recognize it with nothing but the bare info.  > > My email program downloaded the whole thing

[gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

Hi all, Some background: I run mythtv with a single backend and five frontends. For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compile pain on my Intel NUC Celeron-based frontends. I use distcc on one to compile all my packages and export /usr/portage/packages via nfs. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

On 07/01/18 03:56, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Juni 2018, 19:50:47 CEST schrieb Daniel Frey: >> Hi all, >> >> Some background: I run mythtv with a single backend and five frontends. >> >> For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge and binary packages

On 07/01/18 08:51, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-06-30 10:50, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> For many, many years I've been using binpkg to help ease the compile >> pain on my Intel NUC Celeron-based frontends. I use distcc on one to >> compile all my packages and export /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

On 07/02/18 04:49, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: > I think autofs will fit that type of solution > And why just don't put if in fstab and forget about it? > > > I had it in fstab but the "main" frontend is not always on and it can hang NFS mounts during startup, even with the 'bg' option.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge and binary packages

On 07/01/18 20:55, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I ought to disclose that the server is Debian. But the distcc versions > on both sides were the same, and I hand-compiled a matching gcc version > on the server. > > One thing I very much dislike about distcc is that there seems to be no > good way of

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

On 02/18/18 12:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 11:10:38 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I started moving away from Grub2 mostly because on my EFI computers it >> was booting in blind mode so you couldn't see what was going on while >> booting. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternatives to knutclient

On 10/28/2017 01:58 AM, Mick wrote: Hi All, I've been using the net-misc/knutclient GUI application to provide information to desktop users of the state of the UPS. Portage is telling me this package depends on Qt4, it has received no development upstream and is due to be ditched: !!! The

[gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

Some background: A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I don't think this has anything to do with the problem I'm having, but I thought I should mention it. The RAID health is fine and I can see there's not any delay in dmesg (the RAID array is detected as /dev/sdc).

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

On 12/31/17 06:12, Jalus Bilieyich wrote: Did you perform this action: rc-update add localmount default ? On my machine (as per my other post) it's in the boot runlevel. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

On 12/30/17 19:32, Adam Carter wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com <mailto:djqf...@gmail.com>> wrote: Some background: A little while back I had a drive drop out of my hardware RAID. I don't think this has anything to do with the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On 01/05/18 13:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. Currently running is emerge -e --keep-going @world So far there is one failure (libcryptui, the fix is easy). Am I correct

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e and --resume

On 01/05/18 18:50, allan gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Jan 05 2018, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/05/18 13:15, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:00:20 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: I am finally moving my production machine the the 17.0 profile. Currently running is emerge -e --keep

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

On 01/11/18 14:41, Mick wrote: Are any of you planning to replace your Intel PCs and what are you considering as a replacement at present? I was planning to replace two of my PCs with Ryzen, but that plan was in place before Meltdown happened. At least then I'll be able to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi monitor in KDE - remember window placement as default for all windows?

On 02/12/18 01:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 20:04:27 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> After a little bit of fiddling around, I found out you can get an >> application window to remember its size and position (which is great, >> at least the option is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Unlocking Plasma desktop in Gentoo without systemd

On 09/12/17 05:13, Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 09/12/2017 05:04 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: >> According to a comment in the bug, you can try to figure out which >> session it is (ck-list-sessions) and look for the X11 display property >> set. This will not work (or could be d

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