[gentoo-user] Vulnerability info in /sys

I've read online that there should be vulnerability info (Meltdown, Spectre) in /sys under /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities but this doesn't exist on my PC. Another place is in /proc/cpuinfo, no info on meltdown/spectre in there either. Yet another place is in dmesg, (grep 'page tables

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vulnerability info in /sys

On 02/12/18 19:39, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-02-12 19:24, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I've read online that there should be vulnerability info (Meltdown, >> Spectre) in /sys under /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities but this >> doesn't exist on my PC. > >&g

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

Well, I found a pretty good deal (for around here) on a 32" monitor. So, I've set this up and turned my old 24" to portrait orientation. KDE's control panel's display setting had me get the orientation set up correctly in about 10 seconds. It took me a bit longer to figure out how to move the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Vulnerability info in /sys

On 02/14/18 09:29, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 14/02/18 04:38, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 02/12/18 19:39, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >>> On 2018-02-12 19:24, Daniel Frey wrote: >>> >>>> I've read online that there should be vulnerability info (Meltdown, >>

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2: hidden menu unless shift pressed?

On 02/17/18 12:36, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to configure grub 2.02 so that no menu is > displayed and it will boot immediately to the default unless shift is > held down during boot -- in which case it displays the menu and waits > indefinitely for a choice to be made. >

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

On 02/18/18 10:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:54:07 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> I'd also tried getting the Gentoo LiveCD to boot via grub (although this >> was almost two years ago) and never got it to boot. I don't remember if >> I tried to get Sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia driver and genkernel above 4.9 issues

On 02/15/18 10:38, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 15/02/18 09:01, András Csányi wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I have a fresh gentoo install and it works fine with 4.9 kernel, >> nvidia video card does its job like a charm. However, I compiled a >> 4.15.3 kernel with the same setup > > As an nvidia user

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

On 02/18/18 08:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 09:55:01 -0600, R0b0t1 wrote: > There's also a way to boot systemrescuecd from a bootloader that doesn't support ISO loading, like the systemd UEFI boot manager (aka gummiboot). >>> >>> I just plug in the SysRescCD

Re: [gentoo-user] help installing Gentoo on Asus Transformer T101HA

On 12/28/17 12:36, Stefano Crocco wrote: Hello to everyone, I'm trying to install Gentoo on an Asus Transformer T101HA and there are some issues I'd need help with. First of all, I must say that many things worked fairly easily. I performed the installation from a SysrescueCD USB stick where

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

On 01/01/18 01:14, Adam Carter wrote: > Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes? What are you asking for here? Just fishing for more info because I cant think of any circumstance that would cause the issue you're seeing. If it were me i'd force an fsck on

[gentoo-user] Building firefox-61 with distcc

Well, I discovered some of my plugins stopped working on Firefox because they've been updated to the new plugin format. I've been using distcc for a long time now, and I've tried to build firefox and it fails with: -- Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] Building firefox-61 with distcc

On 08/02/18 13:57, Branko Grubic wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 22:33:15 +0200 > Branko Grubic wrote: > >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 13:14:22 -0700 >> Daniel Frey wrote: >> >>> Well, I discovered some of my plugins stopped working on Firefox >>> because

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

On 07/25/18 10:22, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > > It seems to me that gentoo should behave the same way using the global > flags,  Isn't that the point of having 4 billion flags, more than any > human could remember and keep track of.  Are they all documented > somewhere,

[gentoo-user] libmysqlclient.so segfault

Well, after updating a while ago I noticed a new package being pulled in by mariadb - dev-db/mysql-connector-c. Ever since this update where it was pulled in (August 1) the mythtv backup script written in perl fails (mythconverg_backup.pl). It is segfaulting, and I get an email indicating so.

Re: [gentoo-user] libmysqlclient.so segfault

On 08/09/18 01:26, John Covici wrote: > > I had to re-emerge dev-perl/DBD-mysql and things now work again. I am > using mysql, so I hope this works for you. > Thanks, this fixed it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE reboot not preserving running applications

On 08/28/18 02:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Since about the time of the last batch of plasma upgrades (I forget whether > it was applications, frameworks or Qt), every time I reboot the box from the > KDE reboot dialogue, when I log in again I get duplicated apps and others >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

On 2018-07-17 11:47 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is _every_ fscking webmail package written in php? Why? Most likely because every web hosting package has php/mysql installed? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

On 01/21/18 11:15, Daniel Frey wrote: On 12/31/17 08:28, Daniel Frey wrote: 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 OK, after turning on some logging I

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

On 12/31/17 08:28, Daniel Frey wrote: 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 OK, after turning on some logging I figured out what's happening

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg broken?

On 03/07/18 07:02, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 02:57:26PM +, Ian Bloss wrote: >> Do you have an initramfs? > > I don't, though I just realized an unstable version of xorg-server > somehow got pulled in and merged (along with a bunch of unstable > drivers). I'll try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

On 04/19/18 07:38, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:16:30 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: >> >>> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >>> simple unreadable [...] > >> I use a light background in my

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

On 04/02/18 08:21, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-04-02 03:59, Dale wrote: > >> That last bit should read can NOT win. Brain didn't quite make it all >> the way to keyboard. lol > > I read it as beautifully subtle sarcasm, so it worked fine as it was. > > BTW, your mails are full of strange

[gentoo-user] KDE update revdep-rebuild.sh fail

I updated my PC today, and there was a lot of KDE-related packages being updated. As part of my usual update procedure I depclean'ed and ran revdep-rebuild.sh - and it wants to rebuild every single package on my system? Surely that has to be some kind of mistake? Anyone have any insight? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE update revdep-rebuild.sh fail

lease report any bugs found using it. > * The original revdep-rebuild script is installed as revdep-rebuild.sh > * Please file bugs at: https://bugs.gentoo.org/ > > On Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:29:21 AM CDT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 03/04/18 04:45, Daniel Frey wrote: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] The return of the dreaded "Cannot run C compiled programs"

On 03/26/18 06:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I have a four-core 64-bit Celeron box with 4GB RAM, on which I've just > installed a standard XFCE system on the desktop profile. It all went as > expected, but when I ran an emerge -e world at the end I had two failures: > both glibc and sandbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Bouncing Messages

On 03/01/18 12:42, R0b0t1 wrote: > I keep getting emails from the mailer daemon about bouncing messages. > I am worried. Am I missing messages from my internet friends? Please > send help. > > With much concern, > R0b0t1 > I've noticed quite a few in the last couple weeks myself. Gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

On 03/01/18 23:33, zlg wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 01:22:57PM -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> P. S.  On the rare occasion I want to add something to the world file, I >> either do it directly or use --select y to override the -1 in >> make.conf.  That helps keep the world file from getting cluttered

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation problem iptables

On 10/24/18 10:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > No, it was not installed... > I would think, that portage/emerge would resolve this kind of > dependancies?! > > See the thread right next to yours, "iptables-1.8.1 build failure". Seems a dependency is missing in the ebuild. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X.

On 11/03/18 07:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > HEADS UP!!! > > If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you > now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package. > > This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

On 11/04/18 02:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:11:45 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version >>> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify >>> users by a NEWS item, that I can see. >>

[gentoo-user] Python forced upgrade

Hi all, I had an older machine "appliance" (mythtv-frontend) that hadn't had an update in a while (migrated to 29.1 yesterday/today.) I searched around on the mailing list as portage advised updating itself but it got itself in a circular dependency with python and wanted to install an unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] Python forced upgrade

On 11/11/18 04:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I usually do a full rebuild of everything (using --empty) in a chroot and > then > update using binary packages on the main system if I haven't done an update > in > a long time. > > If it's just python you want to be sure of, you can check the

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X.

On 11/04/18 10:33, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > > > On 11/03 11:20, Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 11/03/18 07:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Hello, Gentoo. >>> >>> HEADS UP!!! >>> >>> If you start your X server from the command line w

[gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

It looks like sometime in the last few days Firefox and Thunderbird versions were bumped. I've unfortunately got a problem (oddly enough, the same or very similar problems) with both: 1:09.75 In file included from

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and > re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. > I just tried this, to no avail. I'm trying to rebuild the installed packages I have under

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

On 11/18/18 10:19, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2018-11-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > >> On 11/18/18 02:47, Alarig Le Lay wrote: >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and >>> re-emerge id again? I

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

On 1/17/19 2:52 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: Apparently they're going to try to pry grub-0.97 from my cold dead fingers... Is there any documentation on how to do a basic minimal grub:2 install? I really don't want any of the auto-magical, devs know better than I do what I want, os-probing, hide

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

On 12/23/18 5:07 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: [A] --- [B] --- === --- [C] A being the local server B being the new MTA C being the destination server --- network / IP route === VPN This is correct. A is the voice vlan, the black box is the phone server (which I am unable to add custom routes

[gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

Hi all, I'm trying to solve a very specific problem where a server on a VLAN needs to send mail through a VPN it has no direct route to. So I figured I can add a route to a different VLAN that this server does have access to, and that VLAN already has a VPN route to contact the needed

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

On 12/23/18 8:21 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: I'm guessing that you need to get voice messages as attachments from the VoIP PBX, 192.0.2.123, to the corporate email server, 203.0.113.234. The problem is the site-to-site VPN only allows 198.51.100.0/24 and 203.0.113.0/24 to communicate.  Meaning

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

On 12/23/18 8:21 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: Can the phone server in A talk to a system in B?  Or does the magic need to happen on a multi-homed host that is in both the Voice VLAN (A) and data VLAN (B)? Yes, I control the router, poking a hole allowing port 25 from the phone server IP to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail forwarder on LAN

On 12/24/18 8:40 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/24/18 8:48 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: Was a little hasty posting... That happens. Yes the new server emails voice messages as attachments. It also does things like tracking staff status (in office, away, etc) and so it has other notifications

Re: [gentoo-user] Root on NFS Suspend/Resume support

On 12/10/18 7:03 PM, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:> Has anyone managed to get suspend/resume to work on diskless machines using NFS as the root? > > Suspend works like normal, but resume hard locks, can't seem to get any error's or anything as it's not sending to any log files naturally. > On

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

On 11/28/18 12:40 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Nov 28, 2018, at 15:09, Daniel Frey wrote: I've attached the two log files. I would like to see your syslog in both cases; dmesg output. I left the laptop sitting without logging in and when I came back ten minutes later I saw that Xorg

[gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

I've been trying to clean up my machines (pruning world file, etc) and am making progress. I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I am normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something. Does anyone have suggestions for a small-footprint window

Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

On 12/1/18 9:07 PM, Dale wrote: You may want to google to be sure but I think the command can be something like: startx Should be /usr/bin/fluxbox. That's if you want to start it manually each time.  There are others ways if you want.  I think the only requirement is a working video card

Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

On 12/1/18 8:38 PM, Dale wrote: It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny.  If you just do a basic install, it isn't much to it.  Of course, it isn't feature rich either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very little resources on a bigger system.  I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Small (as in footprint) window manager

On 12/2/18 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: MythTV's requirement to use a GUI setup program on a "headless" server, always seemed like a massively stupid design decision. Yes, it was a dumb decision. However, I suppose it's better than having to edit that by hand... they could've uses a cli or

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

On 11/30/18 1:33 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Thank you, Dan. I hadn't heard of it, but your report immediately suggested I try it to reduce the wait while chronyd started, on two machines here. Worked like a charm: no waiting for enough entropy to be collected. No problem. What's weird is

Re: [gentoo-user] Small (as in footprint) window manager

On 12/5/18 1:34 PM, james wrote: Hello Dan:: lots of good suggestions. you can look in /usr/portage/x11/wm (or whereevery /etc/portage/x11-wm for a listing of what in the tree for smaller. I have been wanting to try lumina:: https://lumina-desktop.org/features/ "does not require PolicyKit,

[gentoo-user] Odd problem with Xorg

I have this very strange problem on my old laptop (12+ years... maybe it's just dying now...) When starting up, I have sddm configured to start up. But, it doesn't... it just sits there. If I log on as root, the X server immediately starts up. I'm aware of the suid issue on xorg-server. I've

[gentoo-user] Update multiple failures

Well, I haven't been bitten for quite a while now (years)... I have been doing updates to my mythtv frontends and I noticed this time around updating has been taking FOREVER. Something in this round of updates broke distcc (which worked the last update run.) In addition, I have multiple

[gentoo-user] Re: Update multiple failures

On 4/2/19 5:17 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Well, I haven't been bitten for quite a while now (years)... I have been doing updates to my mythtv frontends and I noticed this time around updating has been taking FOREVER. Something in this round of updates broke distcc (which worked the last update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update multiple failures

On 4/2/19 8:34 PM, Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM Daniel Frey <mailto:djqf...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 4/2/19 5:17 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > Well, I haven't been bitten for quite a while now (years)... > > I have been doing updates to my myth

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way to clean up the world file?

On 6/6/19 1:36 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday, 6 June 2019 05:56:53 BST Dale wrote: Grant Taylor wrote: On 6/5/19 9:18 PM, Dale wrote: I would start by removing anything that has libs in it. Generally, those should be pulled in as deps. After that, I'd go through the list and remove anything

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD RX GPU in Gentoo

On 6/11/19 7:56 AM, Emmanuel Vasilakis wrote: Hi! I'm running a pretty old PC. A Core2Duo E8400 and a GT730 nvidia card. Now, this is ok for what I need: work (emacs and bunch of terminals) and some little Kerbal Space Program. I'm thinking of upgrading some time in the next months to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

On 6/19/19 11:27 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: On 6/19/19 11:37 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote: echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels Perfect! Thank you.  :-) I did name the file /etc/portage/package.mask/gentoo-sources as I like to name the file after

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

On 6/20/19 11:10 AM, Dale wrote: Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this. You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. I read the man

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inter-package dependencies.

On 6/20/19 8:55 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2019-06-20 13:30, aleiphoenix . wrote: ewarn " I didn't know about vanilla-sources. Is there any advantage of using this package over just downloading tarballs or patchlevel updates from kernel.org? That's a good question. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

On 6/20/19 12:47 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 17:16:21 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: I was thinking about this for a bit, and thought that maybe adding the slot to the package in /var/lib/portage/world would work. Every release has a separate slot, so this would never offer

[gentoo-user] Trouble with kernel IR & by-id mapping

Well, I've been scratching my head for some time on this one. I have an HTPC with an iMon receiver. The IR receiver actually has two event inputs (mouse and button events come in separately.) Now, in the past, an entry was created under /dev/input/by-id that was the combination of the two

Re: [gentoo-user] keywords vs use variables

On 5/20/19 10:54 AM, n952...@web.de wrote: Hi, Can someone explain the difference between keywords (as in package.accept_keywords) and use variables (as in package.use/)? Or point me to concise documentation that makes the difference clear? I'll try. Keywording allows you to mask/unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On 6/25/19 11:42 PM, Adam Carter wrote: What about USE flags for mesa and libva?  x11-libs/libva-2.4.0:0/2::gentoo  USE="X drm opengl -utils -vdpau -wayland" media-libs/mesa-19.1.1::gentoo  USE="classic dri3 egl gallium gbm gles2 llvm vaapi -d3d9 -debug -gles1 (-libglvnd) -lm_sensors

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On 6/27/19 4:46 PM, Adam Carter wrote: The error was because i ran it in a remote shell. Running it locally now and it shows HEVC. I don't have any 8 bit HEVCs files so i'm transcoding one to 8bit now. Ok confirmed that 8 bit HEVC is low CPU and doesn't skip frames, so that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What the devil?!! [or Plasma teething problems Ia.]

On 6/26/19 8:16 AM, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 15:22:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday, 26 June 2019 11:20:20 BST Mick wrote: I just looked at another installation. The default sddm configuration file (/usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf) shows this: [General] #

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On 6/25/19 11:53 PM, Adam Carter wrote: This wouldn't happen to be a 10-bit encoded x265, would it? If it is, 10-bit hardware decoding is only supported in Kaby Lake or newer (this could explain it decoding in software/on CPU instead of GPU.)  That's possible.

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On 6/25/19 4:57 PM, Adam Carter wrote: My skylake (i3-6100U) system drops frames when watching x265 movies (in mpv and kodi), with all cores at 100% CPU. I've re-run through https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel and tried changing from the intel driver to modsetting, and it appears to use less

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking out a printer. Questions.

On 4/21/19 4:27 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: You will pay for it VERY quickly. A good color laser costs $200. An inkjet plus the first set of cartridges, which will last six months together, will cost you $100-150 (one way or another - either with a cheap printer with super-expensive cartridges, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking out a printer. Questions.

On 4/21/19 10:29 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 11:17 AM Daniel Frey wrote: Most companies with IT no longer bother with laser printers, they'll use large print centres (like copiers) which have a low cost-per-page (black and white can be under 1c/page.) We have retired most

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On 6/25/19 4:57 PM, Adam Carter wrote: My skylake (i3-6100U) system drops frames when watching x265 movies (in mpv and kodi), with all cores at 100% CPU. I've re-run through https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel and tried changing from the intel driver to modsetting, and it appears to use less

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

On 8/17/19 4:48 PM, Dale wrote: Philip Webb wrote: 190816 Dale wrote: I upgraded my system last night, logged out and back in earlier and have noticed something new. It seems to only allow one instance of Dolphin to run at a time. I usually have three or four running for doing different things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

On 8/19/19 5:24 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Make sure you are using a kernel set up for openrc. Good catch, although I'm not sure where to find that info in the available kernel log. I'll look better, I need to stop it from scrolling. Did you update grub and remove the init= line that

Re: [gentoo-user] visualise openrc initscript start order and dependency tree

On 2019-11-07 04:37, Bill Kenworthy wrote: I have run into some problems creating openrc initscripts for moosefs - is there something that will display the start order/dependency tree? Text or graphical doesn't matter. Bill K. rc-status does try to resolve dependencies and list them in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eno1 became back eth0

On 2019-11-14 08:21, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-11-13, Alarig Le Lay wrote: PS: Old interface names were way more guessable than the new ones (eth0 used to work 99% of time). I really don’t understand why someone woke a morning a though “we should randomise this, it’s too much stable”.

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to list orphaned services?

Subject kind of says it all... I was reading manpages and I don't think there's a way, so I thought I'd ask. I've been merging/unmerging packages for testing and some have to be started via a daemon, so I've had to add them to /etc/runlevels/* via rc-update. The problem is I was removing

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to list orphaned services?

On 2019-12-13 02:44, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: Hi Daniel, if you have color on your terminal, try ls -l $(sudo find -L /etc -type l) The combination of -L (follow symbolic links) and -type l (entries must be links) produces all broken links below the given search root. Now, I could

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to list orphaned services?

On 2019-12-13 03:17, Mick wrote: I seem to also have a few dangling on an old PC here! $ find -L /etc/runlevels -type l /etc/runlevels/boot/tmpfiles.setup /etc/runlevels/boot/alsasound /etc/runlevels/boot/swapfiles /etc/runlevels/default/modules-load /etc/runlevels/default/vixie-cron Is it a

[gentoo-user] Kernel option missing - very frustrating...

Well, I bought a new TV tuner card for MythTV, a Hauppauge QuadHD. It uses the cx23885 driver, but I can't find it anywhere. According to menuconfig: Symbol: VIDEO_CX23885 [=n] Type : tristate Prompt: Conexant cx23885 (2388x successor) support Location: -> Device Drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel option missing - very frustrating...

On 2019-12-15 09:36, Franz Fellner wrote: I can't see CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV in your list. It's not supposed to be: "=n". After 45 minutes of messing about trying all sorts of combinations, I found it has a hidden requirement for CONFIG_MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT. This is not present in the help in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic on 5.4.2 - not sure of cause yet

On 2019-12-10 21:31, Andrew Udvare wrote: I have been getting relatively consistent kernel panics on some call to find_css_set and sometimes a stack trace that mentions cgroups. On 5.4.0 I don't get this same crash and I added blocking of auto-loading nvidia under the ramdisk just in case

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is?

On 2019-12-07 16:22, Adam Carter wrote: I dont know, so i just use the ~amd64 linux-firmware version. For my 3900X its currently; microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x08701013 The last update came through in October; firmware-md5s-2019-09-09.txt:fef89be989f6a160b340027a24cd0a16  

[gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is?

Well, I managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 3950x. I figured I should be updating the microcode... so I set up early updating but it isn't doing anything. dmesg is listing what the current microcode level is. The problem is, I can't find anywhere that lists what the current (or latest)

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel option missing - very frustrating...

On 2019-12-15 12:13, Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 2:42 PM Daniel Frey wrote: On 2019-12-15 09:36, Franz Fellner wrote: I can't see CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV in your list. It's not supposed to be: "=n". I think you are reading that incorrectly. VIDEO_DEV [=n] means the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

On 10/19/19 8:09 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-19, Daniel Frey wrote: On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: It is waiting for entropy to build. Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage+gentoolkit blockage

On 10/27/19 10:34 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:36:00PM +1100, Adam Carter wrote On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:23 PM Walter Dnes wrote: I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know). Anyhow, emerge first wants me to update portage, but I run into problems. Can I safely

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

Posting from phone, please excuse the formatting. It is waiting for entropy to build. Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful. I switched to sysklogd and installed havaged and the problem went away. Dan On Fri., Oct.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

On 10/18/19 5:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: It is waiting for entropy to build. Interesting -- what does syslog-ng need entropy for? Moving mouse or typing on keyboard will speed it up but I have machines only controlled by IR so this was not helpful

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 2019-11-25 06:53, Ralph Seichter wrote: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html This does not come as a surprise, of course, but I consider it a good point in time to pause and ask oneself what each individual can do to move further towards IPv6. The end

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 2019-11-26 15:41, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Daniel Frey: Can't do anything, ipv6 is completely disabled (removed from kernel config.) A search for "linux kernel enable ipv6" just returned more than 1.7 million results. Even if I recompile my custom kernels it won't work. C

Re: [gentoo-user] sneak peek at next update.

On 10/12/19 12:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: I'm still as much as 3 months away from having spare CPU time, If you are unable to update more frequently than that you are going to encounter issues and maybe a binary distro would be a better

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.

On 10/14/19 7:47 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote: I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself after a sync I always run `emerge -a portage gentoolkit` to merge them both so this error doesn't happen. I ran into this for the first time

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 2/27/20 1:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:25 PM james wrote: Yea, I was not clear. I'd run the mail-server, on a 'cluster' (4 or more), not an individual pi-board unless it was beef up, processor and ram wise. Gig E would also be on my list. Unless you have some

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 2/28/20 5:38 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 8:11 PM Daniel Frey wrote: Thanks for the detail, I've just ordered an RPi4B to mess around with. It would be helpful to move DNS etc off my home server as I'm trying to separate everything into VLANs. Keep in mind that Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 3/1/20 6:33 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 2:13 AM William Kenworthy wrote: Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out there. I completely agree. Anytime I'm looking at an application I consider the SBCs available as options. Certainly the

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 2/29/20 11:13 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Keep in mind that rpi are not the only cheap, capable arm hardware out there. I am using a number of odroid devices, including an N2 with a gentoo based kernel and a gentoo aarch64 userland.  Its used for lxc containers for asterisk, dns, webdav,

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 3/1/20 7:40 AM, n952162 wrote: "within the country"?  :-)  You must be American? No. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

On 3/4/20 12:14 AM, n952162 wrote: Yes, you're right: 01~>cat /usr/lib64/firefox/distribution/policies.json {   "policies": {     "DisableAppUpdate": true   } } The prediction is, if I were to remove that file, the banner would go away.  I'll try that at some point. Thank you. It will

Re: [gentoo-user] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

On 1/31/20 10:16 AM, Jack wrote: I know this doesn't directly answer what might be broken, but as I remember, the kernel upgrade guides do suggest going through the full configuration when changing more than just the minor version.  So 5.4.12 to 5.4.13, the make oldconfig is likely to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

On 1/16/20 10:40 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello list, I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck. Inputs appreciated. Thanks, -- Valmor * sys-devel/clang:9 is missing! Cannot use LLVM slot 9 ... Do you have this installed? What's the output of `equery list llvm

[gentoo-user] Service marked as crashed, but it is running?

I have this strange issue. I install lcdproc to drive a VFD in my HTPC case. So I set it up and started it (it is working.) However: # rc-status | grep LCDd LCDd [ crashed ] But it is actually running (and the display is working): # ps aux |

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