Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

On 2019-12-24 02:17, Mick wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 09:03:44 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:11:12 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: What happens when you remove the IPv6 adresses from the NFS config? As you are using IPv4, those should not be needed. I haven't had

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

On 2019-12-30 09:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: Is anyone feeling less clueless than me? I'm out of ideas now and hoping for some help. I set up a new NFS server in the last weeks or so and had this weird problem where I couldn't most an NFSv4 export on clients. After a lot of head

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 1/7/20 8:58 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:52 AM Mick > wrote: > > This is getting a tad O/T, since we're talking about activation of a non- > Gentoo OS, but here it goes: > I completely agree. I wasn't expecting the conversation to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

On 4/5/20 11:21 PM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC. The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device. What

Re: [gentoo-user] dir or file? >> /etc/portage/package.mask

On 4/18/20 10:56 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, I /thought/ that /etc/portage/package.mask is a file and using it in this manner works as exspected. Also the docs are of that opinion, too: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.mask BUT! * error: please convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

On 5/12/20 6:52 AM, Victor Ivanov wrote: Python has indeed been a bit of a mess recently for me as well, but I haven't had any major issues. Presumably, this could be attributed to the fact that since python migrations started I have been using the --changed-deps flag to emerge, which I noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

On 5/10/20 1:02 AM, Dale wrote: Hi Michael, I think it is too.  Your link shows about what the link I was looking at does. I did research the SATA and SAS connector issue again.  Seagate has a picture of both for comparison and the drive I was looking at is a SAS drive.  When I did more

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

On 5/12/20 1:57 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 3:24 PM Daniel Frey wrote: On 5/12/20 10:54 AM, Joachim Gwoke wrote: Been having trouble with mainly calibre 4.9.1-r2 and have since kept it out of any emerges. Otherwise everything is alright with python 3.7 on my side I

Re: [gentoo-user] Update Gentoo recently is becoming difficult

On 5/12/20 10:54 AM, Joachim Gwoke wrote: Been having trouble with mainly calibre 4.9.1-r2 and have since kept it out of any emerges. Otherwise everything is alright with python 3.7 on my side I believe mine was soundconverter, but now I'm not so sure. It wanted something other than 3.7,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix license error during install?

On 3/20/20 6:16 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm having trouble installing Gentoo in a Virtual Box VM for testing. It is a x86_64 guest. I selected a hardened profile to test PaX, which means I selected 18 in 'eselect profile'. I'm at "Configuring the Linux kernel" in the Handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag?

On 5/20/20 12:06 PM, n952162 wrote: The command was: emerge -vu dev-qt/qtgui dev-qt/qtx11extras dev-qt/qtopengl dev-qt/qtprintsupport dev-qt/qtwidgets dev-qt/qtxml dev-qt/linguist-tools dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-qt/qtsvg dev-qt/qtcore The output to that is attached. I tried just emerging zlib with

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage being silly with kernel sources

On 10/11/20 10:06 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 12:23 PM Daniel Frey wrote: The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I have two slotted kernels in world: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.48 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:5.4.66 I tried masking kernels

[gentoo-user] Portage being silly with kernel sources

This is one of those frustrating times where portage is trying to do something silly. I have nvidia-drivers installed. It has a dependency to virtual/linux-sources. The problem is it's always trying to pull in unstable packages when I have two slotted kernels in world:

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc is being built again??

On 9/29/20 10:48 AM, n952162 wrote: 10 weeks ago, I updated my system and it took days to build.   I just started a new update of my system, and it looks like it will take at least more than a day again ... Why is gcc being rebuilt after 10 weeks, for example? I don't recall what flag it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Local mail server

On 7/30/20 4:38 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Grant Edwards: Pricing is based on what people are willing to pay. People are willing to pay extra for a static IPv6 address, therefore static IPv6 addresses cost extra. Somewhere, and some people. I'd be interested to hear from users who still

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: On 21/6/20 9:40 am, Daniel Frey wrote: On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote: Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug. Dan Thanks for filing the bug.  One of my pet peeves

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 6/20/20 7:04 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: Thanks for filing the bug. Gah! I forgot about this! I filed a bug now, I hope I made it clear enough. Others can pipe in there with comments if they like. I did indicate the two potential proposals to correct the issue in the bug itself.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 6/19/20 9:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: Inquiring minds want to know. What exactly do they accomplish, besides cluttering up a database somewhere? It's not the cluttering of databases that bother me, it's the creation of many ambiguous requests now. I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey wrote: You just pointed out the ambiguity. Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before this change. Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually want?&qu

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

On 6/20/20 11:56 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Daniel Frey: I went to emerge mythtv (I think) and now it says it's an ambiguous requests with *both* the group and user of the same name. You need to emerge "media-tv/mythtv", not just "mythtv". Nothing ambiguous about it. Fu

Re: [gentoo-user] Should I report a bad distfiles server?

On 12/21/20 6:09 AM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I've been running into this a while now.  It seems one server is no longer hosting, is broken or something and it results in wasted time as it attempts to use it and retries many times.  The server is gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com.  I just removed it from

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVI-D / HDMI / VGA adaptors

On 12/14/20 10:55 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: I ordered a Dell XPS 8940 which arrived in October, but life got in the way, and I'm only now getting around to setting it up. First thing I noticed today is that Dell "had the courage to remove the VGA port" . It has HDMI and Displayport. I've got

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

So now I have another machine that insists on pulling in another set of kernel sources, even though I like to do this manually. apollo ~ # emerge -auDNt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ]

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

On 11/11/20 7:56 AM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being pulled in? You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mplayer replacement

On 11/16/20 11:50 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 08:37, Dale wrote: Thanks for any tips. If you don't *need* any fancy interface, you can't go wrong with mpv. It is a fork of mplayer, has space to pause, arrow keys to move back/forward a minute (up/down) or 10 sec

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

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

On 1/4/21 4:15 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: On Monday, 04. Jan 2021, 07:09:06 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 06:05, Bertram Scharpf wrote: As far as I see, I defined _exactly_ _one_ _of_ them: Please show what USE flags you've defined for either this package or LUA. Hard to

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

On 1/4/21 7:32 AM, Bertram Scharpf wrote: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] pango failed to build

On 6/1/21 12:29 PM, n952162 wrote: on two different machines.  Is there some new USE variable I need? I hit this and had to rebuild a package, but I forget which one... I looked in my log and: 1622312280: *** emerge --oneshot --regex-search-auto=y Locale-gettext I had to emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.33-r1 crashes out at the start before building.

On 7/7/21 11:16 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. Would somebody help me here, please. When I try to emerge glibc-2.33-r1, the very first phase of the build crashes out with: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -pipe -march=native -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed glibc-test.c -o glibc-test *

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

On 6/30/21 11:59 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, The subject line pretty much describes this.  How does one manage the system.map file in /boot?  Is it needed?  Should it be updated with each kernel?  I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed.  I tend to keep 2 that I know are stable and one testing. 

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

On 4/4/21 6:41 AM, n952162 wrote: On 4/4/21 12:37 PM, n952162 wrote: After re-running quickpkg, I still get no "binary"s in the emerge output dependency tree. At some point, I started getting 304 errors here again. |304 Not Modified|

[gentoo-user] Kodi 19 stabilization

Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't been able to update TV frontends since October. (Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends and their only purpose is to run Kodi!) I'm also not interested in unmasking a ton of things to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] Kodi 19 stabilization

On 3/14/21 3:51 PM, Steve Evans wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:57:22 -0700 Daniel Frey wrote: Does anyone know if Kodi 19 is planning to be stabilized soon? I haven't been able to update TV frontends since October. (Before you say remove Kodi, don't bother - these are TV frontends

[gentoo-user] udev and IR receiver problem

Hi all, I've been struggling with an odd udev problem. Any udev experts on here? Some background: My 13-year-old HTPC finally kicked the bucket. After looking around, stock levels of PC parts around here are close to nonexistant. I had a newer donor board/ram/cpu around that's 5-7 years old.

[gentoo-user] Broken update

Well, I was updating a system and gcc got broken somehow, and it doesn't seem to be possible to fix it. Problem: # gcc -v gcc: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by gcc) OK, no biggie, I have a binpkg: # emerge -1Ka glibc pax-utils These are the packages that would

Re: [gentoo-user] Broken update

On 9/7/21 12:13 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 09:32:41 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: Why is it checking the build environment for a binary package? I was wondering the same. As it stands, I can't fix this problem. I tried editing the ebuild (removing the __thread check

Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

On 2022-01-09 05:13, gevisz wrote: Yes, masking some new package can work in this case. However, it is not so easy as it may seem because it is not the new version of tensorflow that I should mask in my case as on the day when the tensorflow recompilation failed its version remained the same

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE, sddm etc security. Plus LVM question.

On 2022-03-19 01:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been thinking.  Yea, that's dangerous.  lol  If I logout of KDE, or have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack?  My login manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] which lenovo or huawei laptop?

On 2022-04-06 11:53, n952162 wrote: I bought a bottom of the line HP laptop and had only problems with unsupported chips.  I'd like to buy a lenovo or huawei now. Has anyone had bad experiences porting /gentoo/ to either? I bought a Lenovo P70 laptop back in 2018? and all hardware was

Re: [gentoo-user] plasmashell becomes sluggish with 100% CPU usage

On 2022-05-24 13:20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone noticed anything lately with plasmashell? I think it started happening after Qt was upgraded from 5.15.3 to 5.15.4. At login, the desktop is very unresponsive and sluggish. Mouse clicks take over a second to register. The plasmashell

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome now requires wayland and jack audio?

On 2022-07-15 12:54, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:28 PM Grant Edwards mailto:grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > It looks like www-client/google-chrome just added wayland and jack > audio to the dependancies. So now I have to have Pulse _and_ Jack? > > -- > Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bluetooth speakers

On 2022-05-06 05:24, Grant Edwards wrote: Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. IMO, that's the logical conclusion. I've never had the audio chip on any computer fail -- ever. Nor have I ever had a USB audio adapter fail (though I've only used a couple of them over the years).

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

On 12/8/22 05:58, Dale wrote: I was thinking DAS was not a good option.  It seems like a feature removed and cheaper version of NAS. I think I've seen a couple Synology NAS boxes but I think even used they were a bit pricey.  Still, used could make that a option. Maybe.  It could fall

[gentoo-user] Strange DPMS behaviour

I've been having this strange problem with my dual monitor setup. While I've figured out the nightmare of auto-detect not working at all with dual monitors and the inability to use nvidia's configure tool combined with Plasma's monitor option to fix the problem I've switched to nouveau and at

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixing my font config

Oddly enough I just reinstalled on a new nvme over the weekend. I haven't had time to mess with fonts and this is what the default settings are (as I haven't changed anything): $ eselect fontconfig list Available fontconfig .conf files (* is enabled): [1] 05-reset-dirs-sample.conf [2]

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange DPMS behaviour

On 2/6/23 08:00, Jack wrote: If you find that the EDID is really bad for one of the monitors, you should be able to find a correct copy and make that one available to X, although I don't remember how since I haven't needed to do so in years. I believe it is a setting within/under Xorg.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

On 2/15/23 06:10, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but managed differently. Should be less, since you already have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote: Over the last 8-9 months I noticed an old Lenovo G505s laptop is spending a long time in the POST process, before eventually the OEM logo shows up on the screen. Last time I timed it, it took 2.5-3.0 minutes. Normally it would only take ~20-30 seconds. Once

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

On 11/29/23 00:20, Wols Lists wrote: On 29/11/2023 00:16, Michael wrote: Thanks Dan, will do.  I was planning to take it apart soon to replace the HDD with an SSD, so this would be the first thing to check.  I expect finding a replacement unit will be difficult.  Every Lenovo RTC battery seems

[gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I have two side-by-side and one above the right monitor.) I go into System Settings, set it up and

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/24/24 21:52, Dale wrote: I have two monitors too, sort of.  One monitor is for computer stuff, checking email, surfing the net etc etc etc.  The other monitor I use to watch TV with.  The output from the video card second output goes to a splitter so I can have the same video in both my

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote: I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics instead of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing screen settings has gone. One monitor is using the DVI port of the card and the other HDMI. It should be worth trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/25/24 10:17, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 10:35 AM Daniel Frey <mailto:djqf...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I probably should have added more details... I do have an nvidia card - > RTX 3070Ti. Monitors use 2x DP ports and 1x HDMI port. > > KDE behaves

[gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

Hi all, I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue. I have confirmed it's not updating: ~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode [0.201619] Zenbleed: please update your microcode for the most optimal

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 3/3/24 13:57, Dale wrote: I think most is in the .config directory now.  I have to say tho, I used to zap that thing about once a year, sometimes two, to correct some things that were weird but couldn't fix otherwise.  I think the devs try to make things forward compatible but no one is

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

On 3/3/24 13:48, Michael wrote: It could be AMD have not yet released microcode updates for the community. OEMs receive new microcode first and patch it in their MoBo BIOS/UEFI firmware. Eventually the CPU manufacturers release microcode for older CPUs no longer supported by OEMs. Since you

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: To provide a little more info on how this works.  This is how I did it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this.  It will fill in a lot of the info and when unsure, list the available options. First, I had to install the package xrandr.  My first problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

On 3/3/24 11:31, Dale wrote: Since my last post, I did my weekly updates.  During that, I log out, switch to boot runlevel, restart anything that checkrestart says needs it, then back to default runlevel and log back in.  With the config file change, my monitors came up just like they should.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] After Update grub does not work anymore

On 3/29/24 03:55, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi, After upgrading two Lenovo Laptops (UEFI, secure boot disabled), grub does not work anymore; instead it says "Welcome to Grub" ... And then immediately boots into bios setup. What did go wrong? I did the usual things: * emerge update world *

[gentoo-user] silencing distcc with systemd

Hi all, I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd. I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d: DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc DISTCC_ENABLE_DISCREPANCY_EMAIL= DISTCC_FALLBACK=1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you remove that, it will behave as expected. I checked all the units on one of the machines still showing the problem and an extra '-v' is not present in any of the files. That's a

[gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

On 3/29/24 22:38, Daniel Frey wrote: Hi all, I've moved a couple of machines from openrc to systemd. I have discovered this odd problem. On openrc, distcc was quiet during building packages. It would obey environment variable set in /etc/env.d: DISTCC_DIR=/var/distcc

[gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

Hi all, Still new to systemd and am struggling with a custom unit file. Some background: I have a HTPC that requires loading a custom keymap in order for the remote to work. It sets up an alternate protocol that the driver supports but not defaults to. In short: # ir-keytable Found

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote: What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works! Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section? OK, I have finally sorted out the IR keymap/lircd/irexec/LCDd

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd unit executing but not persistent later in boot

On 4/6/24 18:38, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 21:32, Daniel Frey wrote: What's even stranger is if I manually start it and restart lircd it works! Have you tried adding Before=lircd.service in the [Unit] section? I did, it made no difference. From what I can tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: silencing distcc with systemd

it again, then prolly you got the new service file which is without -v. That prolly explains why some machines still have it, and some don't. On 4/1/2024 12:03 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: On 3/31/24 13:59, Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: think the distcc.service file has an extra -v (--verbose). if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

On 3/31/24 07:59, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:33:20 BST Rich Freeman wrote: (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) Thanks for bringing this to our attention Rich. Is downgrading to app-arch/xz-utils-5.4.2 all that is needed for now, or are we

Re: [gentoo-user] Successfully upgraded to new profile 23.0

On 4/8/24 07:03, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, the upgrade on my old laptop with two 2.7GHz Dual-Core Skylake proces- sors took slightly more than 2 hours for the manual upgrading of "bin- utils", "gcc" and "glibc", and slightly more than 21.5 hours for the fi- nal upgrade of "@world",

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

On 4/27/24 15:30, Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got Gentoo on the old rig I had laying around.  This is not the one I usually refer to as NAS box.  I named this one NAS2.  LOL  I got one problem that is confusing me.  I've compared it to my main rig and the install guide and I think I got

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

On 4/27/24 15:30, Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got Gentoo on the old rig I had laying around.  This is not the one I usually refer to as NAS box.  I named this one NAS2.  LOL  I got one problem that is confusing me.  I've compared it to my main rig and the install guide and I think I got

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