Re: [gentoo-user] x11-bas/xorg-x11 removal

2022-10-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, ralfconn wrote: >Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd >like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems >to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal. > >Is anybody aware of some

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2022-09-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Jack wrote: >I now get this error trying to emerge two different packages: libofx-0.10.7 >and gnupg (both 2.2.39 and 2.3.6).  It might also be the same problem for a >few bugs on b.g.o found by searching on "cannot create exectuables." > >The relevant lines from

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Dale wrote: >Jack wrote: [..] >> Related question - how much space would you actually save by >> decreasing the number of inodes by 90%?  Enough for one or two more >> videos? > >Now I have to admit, that is a question I have too. From my tests with a swapfile (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Dale wrote: >Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote: >>> >>> Part. # SizePartition TypePartition Name >>> 1007.0 KiB free space >>>19.1 TiB Linux filesystem 10Tb >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] The old wine/harfbuzz/freetype circle ...

2021-09-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, antlists wrote: >I've got stuck on this merry-go-round ... > >I'm trying to emerge wine, and it's come up with this. It insisted on adding >abi_x86_32 or whatever it is to loads of things, but it's now blowing up with >this circular dependency. If I try and install one

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 12 Sep 2021, Philip Webb wrote: >It remains a puzzle. Any further comments from anyone are most welcome. Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH, -dnh --

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, David Haller wrote: >On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable, >>you won't have it. > >I beg to differ on that point: > >$ cd $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo) >$

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, Neil Bothwick wrote: >Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable, >you won't have it. I beg to differ on that point: $ cd $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo) $ for f in sys-libs/glibc/glibc-*.ebuild; do \ if grep -q 'KEYW.* amd64'

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 02 Aug 2021, n952162 wrote: >!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy >"dev-python/isodate[python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?]" >have been masked. >!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >request: >-

Re: [gentoo-user] Rationalizing log files

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-06 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 06 Mar 2021, Steven Lembark wrote: >Question then is why "python-exec2c" dispatched via a symlink from >"python3" would fail to see the installed copy of pyyaml (or how >should I check with modules are avalable via "python3")? [..] >I think that pyyaml is installed: > >*

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-3.18.5 build fails

2021-02-12 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Jack wrote: >On 2021.02.12 14:49, Walter Dnes wrote: >> 64-bit Gentoo on a new 12-core machine. The build fails in the compile >> phase. Switching makeopts from -j4 to -j1 didn't help. Build log is >> attached. >The error seems to be at linking: >

Re: [gentoo-user] forcing Gentoo to accept simple password

2021-02-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 06 Feb 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >What changing one need to make to force gentoo log-in to accept >simple password. The system is not a high security risk so I have no >need for a sophisticated password. >I think it has to do something with file: /etc/pam.d/system-auth

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

2021-02-05 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 05 Feb 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 06:55:12AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:45 AM Walter Dnes wrote: >> > So far, so good, but running "ps -ef | grep whatever" and then >> > typing the kill -SIGSTOP/SIGCONT command on the correct pid

Re: [gentoo-user] merged on \${HOST} with notice"

2021-01-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >On 1/17/21 2:04 PM, David Haller wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I have in a new machine (as on all other boxes) in make.conf >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="packa

Re: [gentoo-user] merged on \${HOST} with notice"

2021-01-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >I have in a new machine (as on all other boxes) in make.conf >PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice" [..] >Which file define "${HOST}" /etc/hosts [..] # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Differences between wget and browser file retrieval?

2021-01-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm bored, so I do a regular daily report at the DSL Reports "CanChat" >sub-forum, on the Covid-19 case counts for Ontario, using provincial >data. I download 2 files daily as source data. One of them is a PDF >file, which is run through

Re: [gentoo-user] ISO verification question.

2020-12-24 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, bobwxc wrote: >With the cryptographic signature validated, next verify the checksum to make >sure the downloaded ISO file is not corrupted. The.DIGESTS.ascfile contains >multiple hashing algorithms, so one of the methods to validate the right one >is to first look at

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >On 19/12/2020 18:49, David Haller wrote: >> -dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA >> ports onboard:) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW:( Hot-plug >> almost like USB but full SATA feature set

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >On 19/12/2020 16:51, David Haller wrote: >> Beware: I use a lot of disks and I tried running it with then 8 (or 9? >> or 10? Lots!) HDDs with a 500W (or even 550W) PSU. System wouldn't >> reliably boot up. Replaced with a 650W

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Dale wrote: >A friend donated a older PC to me the other day.  It's a fairly nice rig >despite its age.  Some specs for those interested but may not matter in >the end.  TL;DR, skip to next paragraph.  It's a Dell Inspiron 546.  AMD >9750 quad core CPU running at

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: filter plugin NOT not found ????

2020-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Todd Goodman wrote: >I think you need a semi-colon inside and after the right curly brace ('}') > >You right braces are parentheses and not right curly braces too (maybe a cut >and paste issue?) > >FWIW, the following is what I use to separate my mail logs out and it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel

2020-12-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >dmesg |grep nvidia > nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ^^^ [..] >Why this error message? There is no error. See

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge chromium 89.0.4343.0

2020-12-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 Dec 2020, John Covici wrote: >On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:20:06 -0500, Mark Knecht wrote: [..] >FAILED: obj/v8/v8_base_without_compiler/intl-objects.o [..] -O2 -pipe -c ../../v8/src/objects/intl-objects.cc -o obj/v8/v8_base_without_compiler/intl-objects.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > urlview has served me faithfully for many years in conjunction with >mutt. In a recent install, I find it's no longer available (python >2.7?). Stated reason was "upstream dead" (which seems the case since 2013, with issues on github[1])...

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Jack wrote: [..] >Found it. It is "middle dot" U+00B7 which in UTF-8 two bytes of octal 302 >267 or hex C2 8E. > >Also, now that I look at the page source, I see "Introduction to >Metaprogramming in Nim HookRace Blog" so I do wonder if it >is something funny with

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> Please run again with -v, such as: >> >> $ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTOZIvyXPo >> >> and then check at the top for the lines: >> >> [debug] System config: []

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a >valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl >"ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to >search YouTube >[youtube] byTOZIvyXPo:

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-27 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >This is what the conf file looks like now.  I took out the format >option.  Add it back later when this current issue is settled.  > >--format >'bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' Is that one or

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >gevisz wrote: >> Thank you for your help. I turned on the computer, changed options snd >> cards_limit to 2 and ran aplay /usr/share/sound/alsa/*.wav (I have a >> different named wav files). There was a sound. [..] >> reboot I have a sound and on another I

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: >??, 18 ???. 2020 ?. ? 09:09, David Haller : [..] >> Try this in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf (or some file there): >> >> >> alias char-major-116 snd >> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel >> options snd-hda-intel mod

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: >??, 17 ???. 2020 ?. ? 14:57, David Haller : [..] >Here is the comparative table for your kernel parameters vs those of >gentoo-kernel 5.4.64 and my last tried configuration in >gentoo-sources-4.19.86: >CONFIG | 4.14 | 5

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: [.. reordering ..] >And finally: installed on the same computer legacy operating system >never had any sound problems. Ah, oh, so the HW works and you got the speaker connector in the hole. That's good![1] ;) >At different times during the last one and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >[i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail >fetchmail:/home/waltdnes/.fetchmailrc:1: syntax error at option > > Anybody have this working? The following was pulled by getmail as >"SimpleSSLretriever" on port 995. Here's what I'm trying that's >failing... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin, CPU usage and process ID to which window.

2020-09-08 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 07 Sep 2020, Dale wrote: >Another question.  I use top to see what is using the CPU so much.  When >it is Dolphin, I can't tell which window it is.  I sometimes have a few [..] >Is there a way to figure >out which process goes with which window or running instance of >Dolphin?  In

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, james wrote: >On 8/1/20 7:04 PM, David Haller wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >> [..] >> > So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. >> >> There's already one in the palemoon overlay. > >This is w

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: [..] > So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. There's already one in the palemoon overlay. -dnh -- "If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." -- Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: [..] >[super] root@ad-gentoo-main / # etc/init.d/net.eno1 restart [..] >forked to background, child pid 14536 [..] It's just output from backgrounded processes. Just ignore it or enter Ctrl-C to get a fresh prompt. Using enter

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: >It seems that in order to un-rar something in a fully free-software- >compatible way, I believe options are limited to using a programming >language library. dev-python/rarfile is available under the ISC >license, which is listed as GPL

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >>> David Haller wrote: [..] >>>> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock >> [..] >>> I got it to compile, at least it created a

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: [..] >> Compile with: >> gcc $CFLAGS -o ones ones.c >> or >> gcc $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) -o ones ones.c >> >> and use/test e.g. like >> >> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M c

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that >currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >For the /dev/one, I found some which seems to work.  They listed further >down.  I think my google search terms was poor.  Google doesn't have ESP >for sure.  O_o [..] >dd if=<(yes $'\xFF' | tr -d "\n") of= This is correct but _much_ slower than my

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >While I'm at it, when running dd, I have zero and random in /dev.  Where >does a person obtain a one?  In other words, I can write all zeros, I >can write all random but I can't write all ones since it isn't in /dev.  >Does that even exist?  Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points >where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly >"silence" but some low level noise. > >Searching the internet for "split audio at silence" and similiar >gives me this

Re: [gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 05 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >Is there something in portage, which is recommended to >reformat/display this json-input into something more >readable...? json_pp from dev-lang/perl which you should already have installed ;) Example usage: $ json_pp < some.json | less

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, David Haller wrote: [..] >1. create a file /etc/portage/env/missing-qpainterpath-flags and insert > this line: > > >CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -include QPainterPath" > > >2. add the line > > >=media-sound/cadenc

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake 3.16.5 Segmentation Violation

2020-06-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, tedheadster wrote: >I am getting a segmentation violation when running a recompiled >'cmake'. I rebuilt with debugging symbols; here are the results: > >/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/cmake-3.16.5/image/usr/bin # gdb ./cmake [..] >Program received signal SIGSEGV,

Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

2020-06-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 03 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >In file included from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qhashfunctions.h:44, > from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qlist.h:47, > from /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qstringlist.h:41, > from

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

2020-05-24 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 23 May 2020, John Covici wrote: >On Sat, 23 May 2020 11:39:40 -0400, David Haller wrote: >> WD Red WD*EFRX are PMR. >> WD Red WD*EFAX are SMR (AFAIK, could be, that some are PMR). >> >> ISTR, that the "Red Pro" are all PMR (so far). > >H

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

2020-05-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 23 May 2020, Michael wrote: >On Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:31:48 BST Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 5:40 PM antlists wrote: >> > On 22/05/2020 19:23, Rich Freeman wrote: >> > > A big problem with drive-managed SMR is that it basically has to >> > > assume the OS is

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

2020-05-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 22 May 2020, antlists wrote: >On 22/05/2020 19:23, Rich Freeman wrote: >> A big problem with drive-managed SMR is that it basically has to >> assume the OS is dumb, which means most writes are in-place with no >> trims, assuming the drive even supports trim. > >I think the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

2020-04-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, Rich Freeman wrote: >So, "trimming" isn't something a drive does really. It is a logical >command issued to the drive. > >The fundamental operations the drive does at the physical layer are: >1. Read a block >2. Write a block that is empty >3. Erase a large group of

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

2020-04-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >On 04/13 11:06, Michael wrote: >> On Monday, 13 April 2020 06:32:37 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >My question are more driven by curiousty than by anxiety... [..] >For example [the fstrim manpage] says: >"For most desktop and server systems a

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 08 Apr 2020, gevisz wrote: >I've tried to install julia-1.4.0 but one of its dependencies, namely, >sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge with the following error message: > >* Failed Running automake ! > * > * Include in your bugreport the contents of: > * > *

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

2020-04-04 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 04 Apr 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >On 04/04 08:36, David Haller wrote: [..] >> Looking at the ebuild, it seems that it only installs libnvoptix when >> multilib enabled is *and* if it's on amd64: >> >> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/n

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia-driver, RTX 2060 SUPER. Blender and NO Optix...

2020-04-04 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 04 Apr 2020, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2020, at 00:59, Dale wrote: >> tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> I have discussed this on www.blenderartists.org and they asked >>> me to ask here to sort out, whether the problem is a Blender-thing, >>> a Linux-thing or a GENTOO-thing. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 21 Mar 2020, Marc Joliet wrote: >Am Mittwoch, 18. März 2020, 16:56:52 CET schrieb antlists: [..] >> Can't remember where it was - some mag ran a stress-test on a bunch of >> SSDs and they massively outlived their rated lives ... I think even the >> first to fail survived about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, an addendum without digging up the details ... On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, David Haller wrote: >On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >>I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >>years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufactu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-03-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Grant Edwards wrote: >I've put five Samsung SATA drives into various things in the past few >years with flawless results. Samsung is one of the big manufacturers >of flash chips, so I figure they should always end up with 1st choice >quality chips in their own

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:43:58 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: >> >> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel >> >> quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. >> > What are you using to get that

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2 deprecation

2020-01-27 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, james wrote: > * Package:dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.160.0-r1 > * Repository: argent-main [..] > * perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none >DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.160.0-r1/image/ >Can't locate inc/Module/Install.pm in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Plasma problem

2019-12-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 28 Dec 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >I've also had another KDE desktop problem for a long time. >The clock on the panel claims it's showing EST (N America), >but in fact deducts another 5 hr , so 06:32 EST shows as 01:32 EST. Check your "HW clock is on local or UTC time" settings ...

Re: [gentoo-user] kodi reports symbol lookup error

2019-12-11 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Adam Carter wrote: >Kodi has been dead for a while; >/usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: >undefined symbol: >_ZN3fmt2v68internal14sprintf_formatIeEEPcT_RNS1_6bufferIcEENS1_13sprintf_specsE > >How do i go about troubleshooting this?

Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

2019-12-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, Walter Dnes wrote: >there any public RFC868 servers? Or are there any RFC2030 client >programs other than openrdate? What do people here use? I use net-misc/ntp. As a daemon and if needed ntpdate/sntp to set the time. -dnh -- Q: Why is it that New Jersey got all

Re: [gentoo-user] Conflicting version...but the version scheme is confusing...

2019-11-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 30 Nov 2019, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I got this printed onto my console after updateing: > > (media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.9.5:0/7.0.9::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > (media-gfx/inkscape-1.0_beta1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > >What does

Re: [gentoo-user] problem changing to 17.1 profile

2019-11-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Nov 2019, John Covici wrote: >On Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:58:16 -0400, >David Haller wrote: >> On Sat, 02 Nov 2019, John Covici wrote: >> >Hi. Well, I was finally able to do the change of profile tothe 17.1 >> >profile. I have gotten all the way alm

Re: [gentoo-user] problem changing to 17.1 profile

2019-11-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Nov 2019, John Covici wrote: >Hi. Well, I was finally able to do the change of profile tothe 17.1 >profile. I have gotten all the way almost to the end of this process >to the final step where itwantsto emerge all the 32-bit packages. I >am about two from the end of that

Re: [gentoo-user] For all you sudo-happy users out there!

2019-10-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 15 Oct 2019, Mick wrote: >I have very limited sudo commands configured, but I better resync to see >what's the latest stable sudo on the tree. > >https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/linux-unix-sudo-command-security-flaw/? >guccounter=1 Yeah right, that link leads to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 12 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >I'm now left with 5 problem pkgs : > > llvm-7.1.0 fetchmail-6.3.26-r4 qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120 [..] >Can anyone explain (1) how to get around the 1st 3 ebuilds For fetchmail, unset the 'tk'-useflag: + + tk : Enable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Philip Webb wrote: >190913 Franz Fellner wrote: >> 190913 schrieb Philip Webb [..] >>> What is telling Portage that Firefox needs Python-2.7 ? >> python:2.7 DEP in firefox is coming from mozcoreconf-v6.eclass >> (through mozconfig-v6.60.eclass): >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging glib-2.60.6 failed

2019-09-08 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 08 Sep 2019, Hartmut Figge wrote: >(Nuno Silva): > >>http://www.triffids.de/pub/gentoo/glib-2.60.6/build.log.txt gives me >>HTTP 403 (Forbidden). > >Fixed. Have to investigate how that could have happened. You seem to be missing the 32bit part of dev-libs/libffi. I.e. ABI_X86="32

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

2019-08-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Raffaele Belardi wrote: [..] >During the emerge I had to hard reset the system [3] which obviously did not >boot so I found a PCLinuxOS live cd from 2014 and managed to chroot into the >partially updated system. I resumed the emerge successfully, unmerged gnome >and

Re: [gentoo-user] Imagemagick not being detected by emacs

2019-07-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, James Stevenson wrote: >I'm struggling to get emacs to incorporate imagemagick to allow for >rudimental image viewing and manipulation functionality. I have both >media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8-50 and app-editors/emacs-26.2 installed. Save the attached patch I found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

2019-07-11 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Laurence Perkins wrote: >You could also leave DontVTSwitch on all the time and set a keyboard >shortcut to run chvt (man 1 chvt) with appropriate permissions and >parameters instead. Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't get processed if the >screen is locked. The screensaver

Re: [gentoo-user] Music player being run from an emerge

2019-07-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 10 Jul 2019, Andrew Lowe wrote: > If I log in as my usual user, alsaplayer will run the song. If I then > "su" >into root, I'm in wheel, alsaplayer will play the song. The problem is that >when the emerge runs, then fails, alsaplayer can't appear to fire up. When an >emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get rid of colors (console and xterm)?

2019-07-04 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 04 Jul 2019, Christian Groessler wrote: >On 7/4/19 9:19 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: >> * Christian Groessler: >> > My question is how do I get rid of colors in "emerge", "man" and other >> > command line programs. >> The methods vary between command line tools. You can for example

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual eselect - how to

2019-06-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >On 2019-06-26 14:51, Mick wrote: > >> > I have installed openblas but 'eselect blas list' doesn't know about >> > this. >> >> I assume it doesn't know about it because there is no eselect module >> for blas. > >There definitely is, I have run

Re: [gentoo-user] "

2019-05-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 12 May 2019, Jack wrote: >I hope there is either a bug filed, some sort of newsitem, or else someone >finds a way for portage to just handle it by itself. https://bugs.gentoo.org/676024 HTH, -dnh -- Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reduce granularity of emerge-fetch.log?

2019-03-08 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 08 Mar 2019, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:52:08 -0600, Dale wrote: >> >> It seems you can change the output of wget with the --progress >> >> option, which you would set in FETCHCOMMAND in make.conf. >> > Doh! I thought that the output format looked familiar: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Video database software

2019-01-30 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, Laurence Perkins wrote: >for VIDEO in $(find . -xtype f -iname '*.mp4' -o -iname '*.avi'\ >-o -iname '*.mkv'); do > #Things in $() get run and their stdout gets stuffed into the > #command line at that point. ${} is how you insert variable values. >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 23 Jan 2019, Adam Carter wrote: >> $ printf '0.1.2.3 01.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.000.3\n' | \ >> sed 's/0*\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1/g' >> 0.1.2.3 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.0.3 > >So [[:digit:]] is another way of writing [0-9] and the + just means another >instance of the proceeding expression,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 21 Jan 2019, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 1/21/19 6:50 PM, Adam Carter wrote: >> I need to clean up a file which has IP addresses with leading zeros in >> some of the octets so I need to make, say, .09 into .9 >> >> How do i do that in sed/awk/whatever? > >The first thing you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >On 08/12/2018 07:33, David Haller wrote: >> *Meh* >> >> I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a >> whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked >> chip, much les

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >>> Peter Humphrey wrote: >>>> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >>>> the side of your screen and shows a whole load o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, David Haller wrote: >On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >>Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >>> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at >>> once. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >On 08/12/2018 03:01, Dale wrote: >> I just noticed the video card that is coming requires a power cable.  I >> never had one that powerful before.  O_O > >You've been out of the loop it seems. GPUs have required power cables for >over a decade

Re: [gentoo-user] kstars and indilib

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: >I tried to compile kstars with useflag indi, but the provided version in >portage is too old: > >[build.log from kstars] >1.7.1 is required >1.7.1 is required > >I have no idea why it pretends to find indi-1.5.0, when 1.6 is installed :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

2018-12-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 07 Dec 2018, Dale wrote: >Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Have you tried gkrellm? It's very neat. Sits in a vertical strip at >> the side of your screen and shows a whole load of things all at >> once. I've been using it for donkeys' years. > >That's what I generally use.  I don't see a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird compilation error (nasm)

2018-11-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I got a weird looking error while upgrading/recompiling nasm: >cmake -C >/var/tmp/portage/media-libs/libjpeg-turbo-2.0.1/work/libjpeg-turbo-2.0.1-abi_x86_64.amd64/gentoo_common_config.cmake > -G Unix Makefiles -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

Re: [gentoo-user] libQt5Core.so.5 => not found

2018-11-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 09 Nov 2018, k...@aspodata.se wrote: >I'm trying to build/emerge dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1, but I get this: > ># ldd >/Net/portage_tmpdir/portage/dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1/work/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.11.1/bin/qvkgen >linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff3ddff000) >libQt5Core.so.5 =>

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

2018-10-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >reemergeing cairomm fixes the problem! No wonder. The error was e.g.: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.2.0/../../../../lib64/libcairomm-1.0.so: undefined reference to `cairo_script_create' $ qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] wxPython/wxWidgets release number mismatch

2018-09-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, Andrew Udvare wrote: >Curiosity: what is the reason for wxGTK:3.0 and wxGTK:3.0-gtk3 ? wxGTK:3.0 uses gtk+-2 and wxGTK:3.0-gtk3 uses gtk+-3. HTH, -dnh -- The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger,

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect mystery - please help

2018-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 01 Aug 2018, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >On 08/01/2018 03:37:44 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: >>Do you have: >>https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/virtual/jdk > >Yes, I have re-emerged these but it didn't resolve my problem. How about: $ qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

2018-07-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 03 Jul 2018, Walter Dnes wrote: > Thanks; this could be interesting. Run "ps x", grep for specific >commands in the output, read the pid at the start of the line, and >autofreeze those processes.. Use 'pgrep [-u UID/USERNAME] pattern' or adjust ps output to only display what

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary packages for a different amd64 flavor

2018-06-12 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 12 Jun 2018, Mick wrote: >On Tuesday, 12 June 2018 19:31:32 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> I have had it with compiling stuff from source on my laptop. It is just >> too slow. So I would like to create binary packages on my desktop and >> then just tell the laptop to use them. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/vlc-3.0.2 fails during linking

2018-05-31 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 31 May 2018, Mick wrote: >Any idea what might be causing this? As it is making matroska, 'undefined >references to `libebml::EbmlString::operator' produce an error and the ebuild >fails: PLEASE, always run your emerges with LANG=C and MAKEOPTS="-j1"! [..]

Re: [gentoo-user] Several packages failing to build

2018-05-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 14 May 2018, Elijah Mark Anderson wrote: >in the build log. I had forgotten that I was running emerge with MAKEOPTS="- >j9", which means that errors are not always at the bottom of the log. When I >remembered it, I searched the log for "error[: ]", and bingo! Here's the >relevant

Re: [gentoo-user] which microcode gets loaded?

2018-05-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 14 May 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >cat /proc/cpuinfo (from one of the six cores): >processor : 4 >vendor_id : AuthenticAMD >cpu family : 16 ^^ decimal = 10h(ex) >model : 10 >model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor [..] >from

Re: [gentoo-user] vulkan development...

2018-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 08 May 2018, Alan Grimes wrote: >After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got >inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from >github and tried to build it. It couldn't find ... > >Uh, where are the headers? What package are they in?

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