Re: [gentoo-user] bash scrip prompt after bootstrap

Hello, On Sun, 01 Apr 2018, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >On 03/30/2018 11:10 AM, Bas Zoutendijk wrote: [..] >> echo 'export PS1="(chroot '$HOST') $PS1"; exec > $ROOT /bin/bash -i >The above syntax produced an error: > >chroot-eden: line 30: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the meaning of "mirror" URI scheme in ebuilds?

Hello, On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >On 2018-03-27 22:00, David Haller wrote: > >> So, using your example, portage looks up the mirror for mirror://gnu >> by looking in /etc/portage/mirrors (if it exists) and >> /usr/portage/profiles/thirdpartymirrors for a

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the meaning of "mirror" URI scheme in ebuilds?

Hello, On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >Example from app-editors/emacs/emacs-24.5-r5 : > >SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/emacs/${P}.tar.xz >https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/emacs/${P}-patches-4.tar.xz; It means take one of the list specified in /etc/portage/mirrors/ or

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

Hello, On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Stroller wrote: >> On 25 Feb 2018, at 21:00, David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> wrote: >> ... >>> I would have assumed the podcast feed (RSS or whatever?) would >>> contain both the link to the episode, with a filename like this

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

Hello, On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Stroller wrote: >> On 25 Feb 2018, at 14:40, David M. Fellows wrote: >>> >>> However the files are named by ID, which is meaningless to humans: >>> >>> $ ls podcasts/2018-02-24/ | head 20150424_blog_pmoney.mp3 >>> 20150429_blog_pmoney.mp3

Re: [gentoo-user] detox'ing files by keeping their time stamp?

Hello, On Sun, 18 Feb 2018, Floyd Anderson wrote: >On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 14:44:24 +0100 >tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> On 02/18 01:55, Floyd Anderson wrote: >> > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:07:33 +0100 >> > tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> > > On 02/18 11:38, Stroller wrote: [..] >> > > > I think: >> > > > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

Hello, On Thu, 01 Feb 2018, Harry Putnam wrote: >I did get a screenshot but it is very limited showing only a couple >dozen lines of the boot messages. (attached at the end.) Still helps: device 8,65 is /dev/sde1. Check on that ;) E.g. in the fstab inside the initrd ... And keeping the initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtdeclarative fails to build

Hello, On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Christoph Böhmwalder wrote: >I tried building qtdeclarative-5.9.3 today, but the linker failed: > >$ cat build.log >g++-6.4.0 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -shared -o >libparticlesplugin.so .obj/plugin.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

Hello, On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >thanks a lot for all the input. > >I disabled pulseaudio via USE flag and recompiled the whole stuff. >And VOILA! : Sound without apulse and pulseaudio! NICE! BTW: I just rechecked, and it doesn't use an integrated copy too, I think: $ cd

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

Hello, On Sun, 14 Jan 2018, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >Is it posible to use Firefox wihout pulseaudio installed? >If "yes" -- how can I acchieche this? Just compile with USE="-pulseaudio". Apparently, since 57.x, FF can be built directly against alsa again. I have neither apulse nor pulseaudio

Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

Hello, On Sat, 13 Jan 2018, Andrew Barchuk wrote: [..] >My fstab: > >/dev/MacVg/gentoo-root / ext4defaults0 1 >/dev/MacVg/gentoo-usr /usrext4defaults0 2 [..] >Any ideas what is going on and how do I make the fsck check succeed? Try changing

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Tue, 19 Dec 2017, Adam Carter wrote: >> # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world >> 1140 /var/lib/portage/world >> >> Am I doing something wrong? > >If you're emerging dependencies without -1, then yes, otherwise, no. Actually, it's been a long time I've not merged anything without '-1' ;) Only

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Dale wrote: >>> The key thing, remembering to force it to be added to world, which is a >>> lot easier than remembering to use -1 for ALL those things I don't want >>> in th

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >On 12/19/2017 07:13:55 PM, Bas Zoutendijk wrote: >> On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 16:45:15 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > In addition. I keep gcc-6.4.0 since it can generate PIE-enabled >> > executables AND it it the last compiler with 'gcj'. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Dale wrote: >The key thing, remembering to force it to be added to world, which is a >lot easier than remembering to use -1 for ALL those things I don't want >in the world file.  Before I added the -1 option, my world file was full >of all sorts of things that have no

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

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 12/18/2017 02:55 PM, Wol's lists wrote: >> My router defaults, iirc, to .local. And I thought .home also did the >> same sort of thing. > >Both are reserved: the ".home" TLD is reserved for the Home Networking >Control Protocol in the RFC

Re: [gentoo-user] Colorized output when piping to tee

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Ramon Fischer wrote: >I am looking for a way to have a colorized output when piping to tee, e.g.: > >/usr/bin/emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse --tree --verbose @world | > tee --append nom.txt > >I already tried installing "dev-tcltk/expect" which should

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Francisco Ares wrote: >2017-12-18 17:02 GMT-02:00 David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de>: >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Mick wrote: [..] >> >Let's not forget the '--keep-going y' option too. At the end it will >> print a >> >list of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Mick wrote: >On Monday, 18 December 2017 16:14:42 GMT Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >> > I tried following the profile 17 upgrade instructions but now I'm >> > stuck. After running for a day or so, the 'emerge -e @world' command >> > stopped when grub-0.97

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

Hello, On Mon, 18 Dec 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: >Come to think of it, I have a .me.uk domain registered. I wonder if I can >use that... Of course you can. Just add a third/fourth level subdomain and put your stuff under this. E.g. I have a domain example.de registered to me, resolving

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc : autoload kernel modules

Hello, On Thu, 14 Dec 2017, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 12/14/2017 12:43 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> I have added the following lines to  /etc/conf.d/modules >> >> modules="enhanceio" >> modules="enhanceio_lru" >> modules="enhanceio_fifo" >> modules="enhanceio_rand" >> > >"modules" is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.0 change and app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.3-r4

Hello, On Sat, 02 Dec 2017, Mike Gilbert wrote: >On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Mick wrote: >> app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.3-r4 also fails to install: [..] >> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -march=native -O2 -pipe -std=c++11 -pthread -Wl,-O1 >> -Wl,--as-needed -o toc2cddb

Re: [gentoo-user] How to repair a 'secondary Gentoo system'

Hello, On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >My procedure is quite similar, I only use > >mount --rbind /dev/ "${root}/dev" Ah, that's nice for /dev/{pts,shm,usb}/ ;) >I've tried >catchsegv chroot /OtherGentoo /bin/bash > >as well as > >chroot /OtherGentoo catchsegv /bin/bash > >In

Re: [gentoo-user] Make failed to compile: symbol __alloca not found...

Hello, On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >On 12/11 05:13, David Haller wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >> >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" >> >-DLIBDIR=\"/usr/li

Re: [gentoo-user] How to repair a 'secondary Gentoo system'

Hello, On Mon, 11 Dec 2017, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >But now, don't ask me why, >chroot /OtherGentoo /bin/bash >dies of a segment fault. > >Is there any means to repair such a Gentoo system short of rebuilding it >(nearly) from scratch? How about a bit of debugging first? # catchsegv chroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Make failed to compile: symbol __alloca not found...

Hello, On Sun, 10 Dec 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" >-DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib64\" -DINCLUDEDIR=\"/usr/include\" -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. >-I./glob-march=native -O2 -pipe -c -o remote-stub.o remote-stub.c >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I in trouble now?

Hello, On Mon, 04 Dec 2017, Marc Joliet wrote: >Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2017, 21:22:23 CET schrieb Marc Joliet: >> Of course, that doesn't mean that things are correct on your end, though. >> On one of my computers, checksec does say "PIE enabled". Maybe you should >> try compiling something

Re: [gentoo-user] How to check for PIE-code ?

Hello, On Sun, 03 Dec 2017, ckard wrote: >On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 8:06 PM, wrote: >> is there any way to check, whether a compilated binary is using >> the position-independant-code feature or is still build according >> to old standards? > >You can use app-admin/checksec to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Just when is portage/bashrc sourced?

Hello, On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, Neil Bothwick wrote: [..] >% cat /etc/portage/env/media-video/vcdimager-0.7.24 >post_src_unpack() { >cd "${S}" >epatch_user >} https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches#Enabling_.2Fetc.2Fportage.2Fpatches_for_all_ebuilds HTH, -dnh -- Yah. Spam,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: is multi-core really worth it?

Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Martin Vaeth wrote: >David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> wrote: >> autotools is _by far_the best both from a users and a packagers view. > >I do not agree. Its main advantage is that it is compatible with >most existing unix systems (but I am alr

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, J. Roeleveld wrote: >On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 8:48:08 AM CET David Haller wrote: >> So, your emerge is mostly IO and "emerge"-threads bound. Solution: >> adjust your build-threads[1], and then adjust your emerge jobs! See >> '--jo

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: >That being said: if you do a world rebuild you will have lots of packages that (even without the fetch) spend 40 seconds setting up the emerge (unpack, prepare (plus eautoreconf))... >that spend ~40 seconds doing their autoconf run, only to

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have >the impression that most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 >or 3 threads. Most should build with "many" cores, but some might be limited, but ... >I'm aware it

Re: [gentoo-user] One package needs two other packages, which cannot be installed simultanously?

Hello, On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I got this: > >* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. > > (net-libs/rpcsvc-proto-1.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by >

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error with StructureSynth

Hello, On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >(using zsh) >export PATCH_OPTS=-I; emerge structure-synth Ah PATCH_OPTS. 'man epatch.eclass' just popped up on my reading list. >which fails the same way... 'minus' little 'Ludwig'... Not 'minus' big 'Isaac' ... Read 'patch --help'

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error with StructureSynth

Hello, On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >nope...currently the cat is more dead than alive... >I looked at it! > >I did the following: > >vim >:set ff >unix >:set ff=dos >:wq >repoman -v manifest (since file has changed) Does vim really reencode lineendings there? >emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error with StructureSynth

Hello, On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >Thanks a lot for the extensive help, SIR! :) Thanks. [..] >The patch itself was found (so the local thing works fine) and failed. > >The *.patch.out is attached to the email and after looking into it I >think you will find the problem a

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error with StructureSynth

Hello Meino, On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: [..] >But it seems, that I am doing something wrong with the local >overlay... I assumed you already have one. If not, drop this into your /etc/portage/repos.conf/ directory as e.g. local.conf: /etc/portage/repos.conf/local.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation error with StructureSynth

Hello, On Wed, 01 Nov 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I am trying to compile this wonderful beast: >* media-gfx/structure-synth > Available versions: (~)1.5.0 > Homepage:http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/ > Description: A program to generate 3D structures by

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program...

Hello, On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui) >called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations. [..] >Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what >package/archive/... it is contained in? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Compilation failed: qtwidgets-5.9.2

Hello, On Sun, 08 Oct 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >compilation of qtwidgets failed. >Is there a dependency currently missing in the ebuild? Nope. Broken code from upstream. The usual thinking: "nobody will compile stuff without dbus". But I do. And you seem to as well. I guess it's actually

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

Hello, On Tue, 29 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a >gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass >hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is there >a lightweight DNS server, or some

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

Hello, On Tue, 08 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Try a: >> >> ftp> cd incoming > > Thank you, that was it. I just pushed over a file from a Gentoo >machine to my desktop for a test. The OS/2 Warp ftp client still >doesn't work, but that's probably a VM networking issue. There are >other

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

Hello, On Mon, 07 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 02:23:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote >> # mkdir /home/ftp/incoming >> # chown ftp.ftp /home/ftp/incoming >> # chmod 1777 /home/ftp/incoming >> # chmod 555 /home/ftp > > I did the above (copy+

Re: [gentoo-user] vsftpd anonymous upload illegal PORT command

Hello, On Thu, 03 Aug 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:09:15PM +0100, Mick wrote >> On Thursday 03 Aug 2017 08:13:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > >> > anon_root=/home/ftp >> >> Is this writeable? > > If I do make it writeable, I get... > >500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with

Re: [gentoo-user] Any alternativ to "autotrace" which will be removed in a month ?

Hello, On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >is there any alternative to > >media-gfx/autotrace > >because autotrace gets removed? media-gfx/potrace HTH, -dnh -- The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

Hello, On Mon, 10 Jul 2017, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Monday 10 Jul 2017 04:30:38 David Haller wrote: > >> Sorry, no such luck, my crystal ball is currently under maintainance >> and to be put in the dishwasher afterwards. > >I sent mine back for a refund - it was dead on

Re: [gentoo-user] Hall of FAIL.

Hello, On Sun, 09 Jul 2017, Alan Grimes wrote: >Hey, I'm having some pretty dire FAIL issues with respect to a small but >critical collection of packages... > >tortoise portage # tree -L 2 [..] >The most critical root failure is ffmpeg. It appears to be a gcc >incompatibility issue with an asm

Re: [gentoo-user] binutils-libs-2.28-r1 - loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

Hello, On Sun, 02 Jul 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >During upgrade I get an error trying to compile "binutils-libs-2.28-r1" > >Any hint what to do with it? > >XSParagraph.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got >handshake key 0xd70, needed 0xd60) ^^ >make[3]:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >Am Sun, 9 Apr 2017 19:09:23 +0200 >schrieb David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de>: > >> On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >> >systemd, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Something eats my memory - please help

Hello, On Sun, 09 Apr 2017, Kai Krakow wrote: >For me, it was a runaway upower process some months ago. I'm using >systemd, so I fixed it easily with the following drop-in: Tell us, why exactly would one need upower again, anyway? -dnh -- Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure

Re: [gentoo-user] puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

Hello, On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Harry Putnam wrote: >sys-app/man-db berkdb -gmdb This should be sys-apps/man-db berkdb -gdbm > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/gtk+ > xll-libs/gtk+ X This should be x11-libs/gtk+ X ex one one dash ... Not ex ell ell dash ... HTH, -dnh -- Time is an

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

Hello, On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, J. Roeleveld wrote: >I know what you mean. What I miss is an option to have gkrellm on 1 side of >the screen and when I maximize a window, that doesn't hide gkrellm. Doesn't your WM has a stay-on-top feature? And WMaker has an option not to use the Dock/Icons when

Re: [gentoo-user] conky failed to build: Missing unknown library/application/whatever

Hello, On Sun, 01 Jan 2017, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >conky fails to build: >CMake Error at cmake/ConkyPlatformChecks.cmake:353 (message): > Unable to find XNVCtrl library >Call Stack (most recent call first): > CMakeLists.txt:37 (include) Add the 'static-libs' use-flag for

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

Hello, On Mon, 24 Oct 2016, Michael Mol wrote: >On Saturday, October 22, 2016 05:28:22 AM David Haller wrote: >> And I've IIRC used plain 'x11' (or was it 'xv'?) for a very long time. > >Unless things have changed massively in the last 3-4 years, you almost >certainly wer

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

Hello, On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >> $ mplayer foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [gl] ... >> $ mpv foo.mp4 | grep '^VO: ' >> VO: [opengl] >> >> See 'mplayer -vo help' and 'mpv -vo help'. > >Thanks. It seems that mplayer is using "xv" and mpv uses "opengl-hq". mpv >work ok with

Re: [gentoo-user] screen tearing with mpv but not mplayer

Hello, On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Behrouz Khosravi wrote: >You could test different video output drivers and also hardware decoding. [..] >> vo=vdpau:deint=-3,opengl-hq:scale=spline36,xv [..] >I tried testing some options in config file, but it didnt help. Why not check what output-driver you use with

Re: [gentoo-user] ...if linking a completly unused library...

u "gluecklichen" Rindern gefuttert? *scnr* Wozu zum Henker sollte man sowas brauchen? Logo ginge auch per ASCII :) (Logo? welches Logo? Wozu ueberhaupt?) [David Haller in suse-linux]

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a good replacement for XFCE?

Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Grant Edwards wrote: >Would anybody care to make a recommendation? Ever checked out WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)? The default config is quite clunky though, but there's many themes and stuff. >The requirements are: > > * simple and lightweight Check. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] Madly flickering display

Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with Xinerama >I found from Xorg.0.log that X11 wasn't finding an evdev module, even though >I had INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" in make.conf. So I added USE=evdev to dev- >qt/qtgui* and

Re: [gentoo-user] Bash failed to compile

Hello, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >may be bash is missing a lib? > >x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -L./builtins -L./lib -L./lib -L./lib/glob >-L./lib/tilde -L./lib/sh -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed-march=native -O2 -pipe >-msse3 -ggdb -o bash shell.o eval.o y.tab.o general.o

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: >>>Strangely, I'm able to ping with that command even with a very high -s value: >>> >>>$ ping -c 4 -M dont -s www.dslreports.com >>>PING www.dslreports.com (64.91.255.98) (10027) bytes of data. >>>10007 bytes from www.dslreports.com

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: [..] >> $ ping -n -c 1 -M dont -s 1465 www.dslreports.com >> PING www.dslreports.com (64.91.255.98) 1465(1493) bytes of data. >> 1473 bytes from 64.91.255.98: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=137 ms >> >> 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

Hello, On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Grant wrote: >> MTU is per network interface but you really don't want to end up having >> your router fragment every IP packet because systems on your subnet are >> using a larger MTU. >> >> Todd > >That makes sense. So in my case, I'm thinking 1492 MTU on every

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

Hello, On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, hw wrote: >David Haller schrieb: [..] >> Yep. BTDT. I had a then 4-4.5 year old gentoo quite broken by being >> partly updated until portage/emerge broke and much else didn't work >> anymore (gcc/make/python/emerge). So, I booted something el

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

Hello, On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, james wrote: >other tools:: 'lshw' or sys-apps/hwinfo HTH, -dnh -- "I'm nobody's puppet!"-- Rygel XIV

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

Hello, On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Andreas K. Hüttel wrote: >Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 12:54:37 schrieb hw: >> I?m trying to upgrade portage because I?m getting a message that it >> needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. [..] >If you see this now, your production

Re: [gentoo-user] kactivitymanagerd endless update loop

Hello, On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Jörg Schaible wrote: >my system is still KDE 4 with the help of kde-sunset. I don't use that repo yet, but I've copied the KDE4 stuff (relevant for me) into my local overlay. >However, I face an endless loop installing kactivitymanagerd. The >package has been in

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

Hello Meino, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: [..] >WHOW! Thanks a lot for the patch! As this issue has just come up on gentoo-dev as well, has the patch worked for you (so far)? Please give a report if it worked or not. I've been unable to run/test my system with that patch for

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >David Haller <gen...@dhaller.de> [16-07-30 13:24]: [..] >> I've got it working with the attached patch in >> /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-367.35/ [..] >Short qyestion: How can I apply it...

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

Hello, On Sat, 30 Jul 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >trying the new kernel linux-4.7 (vanilla, downloaded from >ftp.kernel.org) with nvidia drivers >(Installed versions: 367.35-r1^md(03:00:46 07/30/16)(X driver kms >multilib uvm -acpi -compat -gtk3 -pax_kernel -static-libs -tools >-wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

Hello, On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, James wrote: [..] Well, the best I found is this on the gdisk homepage: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html Basically, you shouldn't. The article tackles most aspects and pitfalls. [..] >Number Start End SizeType File system Flags > 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

Hello, On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote: >Step 1: Use gdisk to create a 1M partition at the start of the disk. >Step 2: Set its type to EF02 I think the EFI-partition should be 100MiB. -dnh -- Like all software sucks, but by knowing how it works it is possible to make it suck in new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2016, Stroller wrote: >Well, I tried that. > > youtube-dl -x --audio-format best http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh > >This gives an .m4a file which also does not play on the device. Have you tried mkv? E.g. download to m4a as above and then do a quick mkvmerge

[gentoo-user] Re: undefined symbol "...[abi:cxx11]" (was: Do we have any Blender build experts in the house?)

Hello, First of all, this has nothing to do with blender "per se" ... On Sat, 28 May 2016, J. García wrote: >El sáb, 28-05-2016 a las 17:26 -0600, J. García escribió: >> BTW, eix won't help you here, I tried it, so the next step is to find >> what provides the symbol 'Imf_2_1::Header::view',

Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

Hello, On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: [..] >dev-libs/libxml2:2 > > (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled > in by > >

Re: [gentoo-user] ls config file?

Hello, On Tue, 02 Feb 2016, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >Andrew Tselischev wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:54:37AM +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >>> The option that controls this is --quoting-style, so >>> can alias 'ls' to include this option but was wondering if there is a >>> global

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of cups and physical printing ...

Hello, On Tue, 05 Jan 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:07:47 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > You stipulate physical printing. Does that mean you want to retain th >> > ability to print to PDF or PS? If so, you would still need at least >> > Ghostscript and possibly CUPS

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt5 - should I worry?

Hello, On Mon, 04 Jan 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Sunday 03 January 2016 23:50:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> I cannot work out the correct plural of initramfs! > >That's easy - it's initramfses. Well, it would be if there were any such >word as initramfs. :) Naahh, can't be. Must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

Hello, On Wed, 06 Jan 2016, »Q« wrote: >On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 08:26:42 -0800 >Grant wrote: > >> > AFAICT, details of the gstreamer bug itself haven't been made public >> > yet, and nobody is sure whether the unmaintained 0.10 branch needs a >> > patch. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

Hello, On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, lee wrote: >Andrew Savchenko writes: >> There will be no 5.3.1 likely. Numeration scheme is changed from 5.x >> series: what was middle version is now major, what was minor is now >> middle. So 5.3 is a patch version of 5.0 the same as 4.9.3 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

Hello, On Fri, 25 Dec 2015, walt wrote: >On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500 >Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... >> >> Unfortunately, it fails to bootstrap on my machine. I am getting >> differences between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

Hello, On Thu, 24 Dec 2015, Alan Grimes wrote: >Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... > >Unfortunately, it fails to bootstrap on my machine. I am getting >differences between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and it's dying... =( What compiler and C(XX)FLAGS are you using? It builds nicely with

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

Hello, On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Philip Webb wrote: >151110 allan gottlieb wrote: >> All my machines run gentoo / systemd / gnome3 >> On my older laptop when I plug in a data cd I get a popup >> suggesting that I open it with files. All is well >> On my newer laptop the disk spins up but no popup

Re: [gentoo-user] reading data cd/dvd

Hello Neil, On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: >On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:01:10 +0100, David Haller wrote: >> Add the device(s) to fstab like so: >> >> /dev/cdrom /cdrom autonoauto,ro,user,users >> 0 0 /dev/dvd/dvda

Re: [gentoo-user] Haskell stack

Hello, On Sun, 06 Sep 2015, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >On 09/06/2015 10:39 PM, David Haller wrote: >> Can anyone reproduce this problem? I did not have _any_ haskell >> package installed so far. >> >> Should I open a bug? Or just wait a couple of days, sync, and try

[gentoo-user] Haskell stack

Hello all, could it be, that the dev-haskell stack deps are broken/out-of-sync? I tried to emerge pandoc today, which pulled in haskell, and I got lots of breakages. The tree is freshly synced. Anyway, I finally got it solved by masking: # grep haskell /etc/portage/* 2>/dev/null

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I check for haveing an ethernet device

Hello, On Mon, 20 Jul 2015, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: on an embedded system I want to check, whether I have an eth0 device (ok, I know, it is not an device in the usual way...), when I attach an USB2Ethernet gadget via OTG-cable to it and whether all needed drivers are already there... How can

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:35:10 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them manually. [..] You

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Which

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:45:58 +0200, David Haller wrote: You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone That figures. On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: [..] /root/bin/chrooter [..] ### convenient way to mount further stuff outside the chroot (with the ### appropriate fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:35:32 +0200, David Haller wrote: You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE flag? The one I recommended does not. Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, James wrote: David Haller gentoo at dhaller.de writes: [..] Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And sabotaging the ebuild and buildsystem to not use cups leads to failed builds, BT,TriedThat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video

Hello, On Mon, 16 Feb 2015, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I built and tried mplayer. Again not rotated. I ran it from the terminal. Below is the output up to when I killed it [..] VO: [xv] 1920x1080 = 1920x1080 Planar YV12 FWIW: if it's just for watching the vid, try mplayer -vf rotate=1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

Hello, On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am currently checking the compression tools I know of for the best compression ration. But I will definitly miss those I dont know... And sometimes one can do magic with option and

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

Hello, On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: David Haller wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: Yeah. Oh, and I had a clean smart until a few days ago, luckily I alread had a WD Red (WD40EFRX) drive waiting when this attrib jumped from 0 to: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 087 087 036 Pre-fail

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

Hello, On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Dale wrote: thegeezer wrote: On 06/25/2014 08:49 AM, Dale wrote: Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 I have (had sort of) the same disc, with the same FW. see the following Seagate web pages: http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/207931en

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote The Linux text-console font is also very good. I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480). There are 5 lat1 consolefonts... /usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08

Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

Hello, On Sun, 18 May 2014, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 13:21:08 David Haller wrote: The Linux text-console font is also very good. Yes, except for one thing: the oblique stroke through the zero. That makes it almost indistinguishable from an 8, to my poor eyes (one acute

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