[gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Greetings, having freshly erm ... converted from Ubuntu to Gentoo and thus being an absolute Gentoo newbie I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of all the colour in the output produced by "emerge" but also by "qlist", "eix", "e-file" and so on. Is there a way to globally configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Hakon, On Tuesday, 2019-10-01 16:07:55 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I've got this in make.conf, which gets me part-way there: > > CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=OFF > NOCOLOR="true" > GCC_COLORS="" I already had the "NOCOLOR" environment variable set (there was a typo in my mail, not in my "make.conf"

[gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Greetings, though I currently do not find any relevant descriptions regarding this topic on the web I must formerly have found something there, because I had set my laptop up this way, and it worked until the last reboot. Either I somehow spoiled some configuration, upgraded some package,

Re: [gentoo-user] "equery" and "blueman"

Alarig, On Friday, 2019-12-20 19:55:32 +0100, you wrote: > ... > net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 doesn’t exists in the the, but > net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1-r1 does. Glad you pointed this out. I've still version 2.1.1 installed, due to the line =net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 ~amd64 in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Tuesday, 2019-12-17 23:44:19 +, you wrote: > ... > And ... usually by the sys-fs/udisks package, which performs the > automounting. > If for some reason you have uninstalled udisks, $ equery --no-color list -F '$mask2,$location $fullversion:$slot $cp' sys-fs/udisks *

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Neil, On Tuesday, 2019-12-17 21:35:11 +, you wrote: > ... > This is normally handled by the desktop environment, which desktop are > you using? Xfce. Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Grant, On Wednesday, 2019-12-18 15:57:41 -, you wrote: > ... > I do it by manually writing udev rules that watch for specific devices > and mount them at particular paths. It used to work out of the box without writing udev rules. > handled by the "desktop" enviroment — which you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Thursday, 2019-12-19 18:30:47 +, you wrote: > ... > consolekit will work for this purpose - is it running? It should be in your > default runlevel. $ rc-update show|grep consolekit $ Gosh! It's missing! Maybe I just started it to see whether or not it works and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 11:46:43 +, you wrote: > ... >I > don't use this desktop to be able to advise further, but generally I would > try > to run the command as a plain user while keeping an eye on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:38:27 +, you wrote: > ... > Whichever command the xface desktop is running when you select Suspend/ > Hibernate using the GUI. Problem is I can't select Suspend/Hibernate in the GUI. It's greyed out. And selecting Hibernate via the power button only

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:55:29 +, you wrote: > ... > If you can't run suspend/hibernate it may be polkit policies are not allowing > you to run these commands via dbus. However, polkit policies are > automatically installed/updated as required by the packages you have on your >

[gentoo-user] "equery" and "blueman"

Greetings, there seems to be some "blueman" specific data "equery" doesn't like: $ equery --no-color uses --all net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.6/equery", line 38, in equery.main(sys.argv) File

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Wednesday, 2019-12-18 18:10:07 +, you wrote: > ... > OK, are you running consolekit, or elogind? $ equery --no-color list -F '$mask2,$location $fullversion:$slot $cp' consolekit elogind * Searching for consolekit ... amd64,IP- 1.2.1:0 sys-auth/consolekit !!! No

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

Andrew, On Saturday, 2020-02-01 01:42:20 +0800, you wrote: > ... > 1) Is "make oldconfig" broken? Dunno. But I'm using a slightly different approach: - Copy your old kernel config over to the new kernel directory. - Run "make olddefconfig". This will try to adapt your old configurat- ion

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

Roger, On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 09:51:20 +1300, you wrote: > ... > rc_interactive means I can press "I" or "i" during boot and > INTERRUPT > the boot process; *otherwise* it will boot as per normal. > > Is that not the behaviour you are seeking? Speaking not for the original poster but only

[gentoo-user] Re: Loading Issue

Nono, On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 15:03:43 +, you wrote: > ... > If the US layout is causing too much trouble, it might be worth it to > run "loadkeys" manually. You can run this command only AFTER you've managed to BLINDLY enter your password using a keyboard layout which most probably

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop [SOLVED]

Mick and All, On Saturday, 2019-12-21 12:22:31 +, you wrote: > ... > A Gentoo user with consolekit and xfce should kindly check their settings and > compare with yours to see if something is amiss. I'm thinking, any xfce > regression bugs ought to affect more than one user at a time, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Robert, On Sunday, 2020-01-05 12:17:23 +, you wrote: > I had this issue many moons ago, which lead to my discovery of the > ansifilter package: > > > # emerge -pv ansifilter | ansifilter Nice find. However, this only produces a clean terminal window but does not prevent all the garbage in

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Greetings and a Happy New Year to all of you :-) Way back on Tuesday, 2019-10-01 16:07:55 +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 01.10.2019 13:28, skrev Dr Rainer Woitok: > > ... > > I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of > > all the colour in

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulties to install a bootloader for the new system

Meino, On Tuesday, 2020-04-07 11:32:09 +0200, you wrote: > ... > This was created via > grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg According to the notes I took when installing Gentoo for the first time I did: # echo 'GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"' >>

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Monday, 2020-04-20 18:21:00 -, you wrote: > ... > >app-crypt/tpm2-tss 2.3.3 0 1 > ... > The second value depends on your ARCH; > Since {isunstable} fails, I suppose that your ARCH is not amd64. $ eix --dump | grep DEFAULT_ARCH DEFAULT_ARCH="amd64"

[gentoo-user] Problem understanding "eix"

Greetings, after several days of manpage reading, head scratching, and testing the reactions of "eix" to various input I'm giving up and ask the combined wisdom of the Gentoo list. Here's the version of "eix" I'm using, my test script, and its output: $ eix --version 0.33.9 $ cat

[gentoo-user] Unstable package "xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.14.2" segfaults

Greetings, when I installed my first Gentoo system on my laptop back in September I had to accept the "~amd64" keyword for quite a few "xfce-*/*" packages due to stable versions not being available at all for some packages, and due to several of these unstable packages requiring unstable

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Wednesday, 2020-04-22 19:48:47 -, you wrote: > ... > I exported ARCH="x86_64" and did eix-update, but still: > > % F=':\n' eix --format '' -e tpm2-tss > 2.2.3-r2: > 2.3.3: Did you check with "eix --print ARCH"? I start suspecting that it's not the value of environment

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Tuesday, 2020-04-21 18:02:37 -, you wrote: > ... > DEFAULT_ARCH is normally not used, because it should be set in > the profile. Does > eix --print ARCH > also show amd64? BINGO! No, it doesn't: $ eix --print ARCH x86_64 $ And that rings a bell: for historical

[gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

Greetings, On Thursday, 2020-04-30 07:31:51 -0500, Dale wrote: > ... > [ebuild   R    ] app-doc/gimp-help-2.8.2:2::gentoo  0 KiB Thanks for pointing me to a package I hadn't yet installed, even though I have installed "media-gfx/gimp" (but use it rarely). But installation took surprisingly

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Thursday, 2020-04-30 17:20:08 -, you wrote: > ... > >>=app-crypt/tpm2-tss-2.2.3-r1 ~amd64 > > Ah! That explains it. > > > But this only means that I accept an unstable package here, not that > > these versions are regarded stable. > > It is stabe according to the local

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

Michael, On Thursday, 2020-04-30 16:43:06 +0100, you wrote: > ... > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide#L10N > > Meanwhile, I think the equivalent to debian's localepurge corresponds to a > dual step process in Gentoo. First update your locale as per above page, > then > run

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Friday, 2020-04-24 17:32:09 -, you wrote: > ... > Maybe you run an unstable system, that is ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~amd64'? No. > Or do you have a corresponding entry in package.{accept_,}keywords? Yes. To satisfy the requirements of package "sys-apps/fwupd" I long ago added the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel drivers and modules list

Volker, Raphael, and All, On Sunday, 2020-05-17 20:33:22 +0200, Volker Schneider wrote: > ... > I have a good manual for kernel config. > I saved the website of 'Firas Khalil Khana' called 'dotslashlinux' You can still read all 18 parts of that documentation online at

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem understanding "eix"

Martin, On Sunday, 2020-05-03 15:55:59 -, you wrote: > ... > > I STRONGLY beg to disagree! The "~amd64" notation is used to ACCEPT a > > package even though it is (still) classified as UNSTABLE. > > This is package-manager terminology which has much less states since > a package manager

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Saturday, 2020-03-21 13:01:01 -0500, you wrote: > ... >   Thing is, if I > give it to someone who uses windoze, can they just put in the password > and open it or does it have to be on the original system? They just have VeraCrypt

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Saturday, 2020-03-21 08:06:35 -0500, you wrote: > ... > Mind if I'm nosy for a minute.  I'd like to store files on a USB stick > that are encrypted as well.  However, I'd like it to be able to work no > matter what OS is used.  I googled but thought it was not possible.  You > seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Sunday, 2020-03-22 04:34:54 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I wanted to post a couple things for future reference. First, it seems > this thing requires sudo to work.  Add the executable to the sudo file > thingy. I didn't do this, and it works anyway: # cat /etc/sudoers | grep crypt

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Monday, 2020-03-23 05:50:14 -0500, you wrote: > ... > ># cat /etc/sudoers | grep crypt > ># > > I wonder if this is a version issue.  When I was googling for this, it > was claimed this was a recent change.  That's my recollection anyway.  > I'm using version veracrypt-1.24_p2.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] eselect-opengl Blockage (with a capital "B") problem

Dale, On Wednesday, 2020-05-20 07:10:14 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I did notice that my sddm problem is worse now.  It's worse now than it > was when it first started. Ever tried "x11-misc/lightdm"? Runs like a charm here ... Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Fvwm manual page

Greetings, after a routine upgrade from Fvwm version 2.6.5-r3 to version 2.6.9 I'm missing file "/usr/share/man/man1/fvwm1.bz2". Several other Fvwm manual pages are there, but I can't tell whether or not "fvwm1.bz2" is the only one missing. Does anybody know what's happened to "fvwm1.bz2"?

Re: [gentoo-user] Defining languages via USE flags for tesseract

Meino, On Tuesday, 2020-05-26 15:28:56 +0200, you wrote: > ... > > I want to include "de" (german) to the USE flags for > app-text/tesseract and all I tried has not worked. That's what I have in "package.use": app-text/tessdata_best l10n_de l10n_en osd app-text/tesseract math

Re: [gentoo-user] Defining languages via USE flags for tesseract

Meino, On Tuesday, 2020-05-26 15:53:20 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Why is tessdata are not pulled? On my installation "app-text/tessdata_best-4.0.0" is a direct dependency of "app-text/tesseract-4.1.1". Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

Peter, sorry for the late reply :-( On Monday, 2020-05-04 16:30:49 +0100, you wrote: > ... > What do you have in your kernel config, under File Systems / Native Language > Support? I only have a few selected: the ones I might use. (This may be a red > herring.) Only these: (utf8) Default NLS

Re: [gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

Neil, On Thursday, 2020-06-18 09:32:35 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Am I getting old or do others also wish they could just get a text howto > instead of watching a video every time they want to do something new? Don't know anything about your age ... but you should know you're not alone ...

[gentoo-user] "emerge --jobs=1 ..." vs "MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge ..."

Greetings, is there any difference between running "emerge --jobs=1 ..." and runn- ing "MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge ..."? Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Problems with Synaptics touchpad

Greetings, sometimes my touchpad doesn't seem to react instantly to clicks or move- ments. And after booting I find lines like the following in my kernel log: Jun 24 17:50:38 tux kernel: [2.545000] psmouse serio2: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5674], y [..4758] Jun 24

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

David, On Wednesday, 2020-06-17 17:27:30 +0200, you wrote: > ... > $ man -l -Tps -P-pa4 $(man -w smartctl ) | ps2pdf - smartctl.pdf Why not simply $ man -Tps -P-pa4 smartctl | ps2pdf - smartctl.pdf Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

Michael, On Thursday, 2020-11-26 00:10:00 +, you wrote: > ... > Check dmesg to see if initialisation of the USB 3.0 drive throws up any > errors. No errors. > Then check 'lsusb -t' to make sure it has been recognised as a USB > 3.0. "lsusb -tv" showed the stick to be USB 3.0.

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

Greetings, since my old 64 GB Verbatim USB sticks became too small, I bought two new 128 GB Philips sticks. Because I need to read and write them on both, a stand-alone Windows laptop (not connected to the internet) runn- ing Windows Vista and Cygwin and my Gentoo laptop, I encrypted them

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

Michael, On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote: > ... > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector > created > by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. This will align your partition > optimally. In addition, mkfs.ntfs will use 4096 bytes as the

[gentoo-user] eselect news read new

Greetings, running the command eselect news read new always returns "No news is good news" regarless of whether I run it from my own account or from "root". And running eselect news list currently lists 17 news items, none of which is flagged "N" even though I cannot remember having

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect news read new

Greetings, On Tuesday, 2020-12-08 14:48:40 +0100, netfab wrote: > ... > > Where does it store what's already read? > > /var/lib/gentoo/news/ Thank you for the quick response. Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

Greetings, looking for a small, fast utility (preferably written in C) accepting a Unix time (seconds since 1970-01-01) as argument and printing the corr- esponding local time to standard output. Any pointers? Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting Unix time to local time

Matt and also Mathew, On Monday, 2020-11-23 11:46:56 -0600, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > ... > Is the basic `date` from coreutils sufficient? If so, no need to > reinvent the wheel, unless I'm misunderstanding your need. > > Example: > > $ date --date='@21' > 2037-12-14T17:00:44 CST

Re: [gentoo-user] Scanning double sided documents and printing them the same.

Joost, On Thursday, 2020-12-10 10:28:05 +0100, you wrote: > ... > My old printer/scanner can scan directly to PDF using the sheetfeeder. > For double-sided, I always ended up with 1 PDF with odd-pages and 1 with even. > > There used to be tools available (python-old) that could shuffle these >

[gentoo-user] Re: error trying to mount Samsung: Galaxy android models (MTP)

Edward and Nuno, On Sunday, 2020-11-22 11:35:16 +, Nuno Silva wrote: > ... > I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details - > some phones will have trouble with some MTP tools. > > If you can, please try sys-fs/jmtpfs. Hmm, according to

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after resuming from hibernation

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-01-03 16:13:35 +, you wrote: > ... > It used to be the case modules were probed/reloaded by 'alsactl init' when > initialising the audio card. If built in the kernel binary the command > couldn't do this. Thanks for this background information :-) Am I correct

[gentoo-user] Logfiles with dates in their names

Greetings, after having installed "syslog-ng" I configured it to add the current date to each logfile name and thus to start every day with a new log- file. That way logfile cleaning is just a matter of deleting old files rather than perpetually renaming them and thus collecting

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after resuming from hibernation

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-01-03 18:43:34 +, you wrote: > ... > > /usr/share/alsa/init/default:102: value write error: Input/output error > > The above on my system refers to headphone control: > > CTL{name}="Headphone Playback Switch",CTL{do_search}=="1", \ > CTL{values}="on" > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag "unsupported" for "sci-libs/hdf5"

Netfab, On Thursday, 2020-12-31 18:28:07 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > Anybody having an educated guess what the risk would be? Is it save > > to set a USE flag even if its name is "unsupported"? > > Full story here : > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/710986 Hmmm, not very enlighting either.

[gentoo-user] USE flag "unsupported" for "sci-libs/hdf5"

Greetings, after having decided to globally set the "threads" USE flag I get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "sci-libs/hdf5[mpi]" has unmet requirements. -

[gentoo-user] No sound after resuming from hibernation

Greetings, immediately after a reboot I can clearly hear the white noise created by executing $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono $ and the "lsmod" command lists quite a few loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

Michael, On Saturday, 2021-01-30 10:48:20 +, you wrote: > On Saturday, 30 January 2021 09:37:57 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > > ... > > I mean I always update my portage first thing after sync, because that's > > what you do, RIGHT > > Not RIGHT. > > I let portage decide when it

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

Arve, On Saturday, 2021-01-30 16:20:42 +0100, you wrote: > ... > No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set, > so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do. > I would not bother updating it especially. Ok. But what if I just do, say

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

Alexey, On Saturday, 2021-01-30 18:28:26 +0300, you wrote: > ... > "The recommendation to update portage on its own is in the process of > being removed" - > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8520875.html#8520875 Hm, but the original author of this quote (dating 2020-10-27) did neith- er

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 18:23:54 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in > detail. Have you added: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting? No, this file still contains

[gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Greetings, it's been quite a while that I had problems doing my routine Gentoo up- grade. This time package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" balked, and in the build log I found this: * Package:dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: aball...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Saturday, 2021-06-12 16:29:12 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > $ sudo locale > > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > > ... > I can't speak for your lua* packages, but as long as you have defined your > locale correctly in /etc/locale.gen your system should source what it needs > from there. Erm, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

All, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 15:39:46 +0200, I myself wrote: > ... > > > $ sudo locale > > > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > > > ... > Erm, is there a difference between "*.utf8" and "*.UTF-8"? Does case > matter? Apparently yes. At least for Perl or anything else used by Portage. Running my package

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 16:16:37 +0100, you wrote: > ... > $ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_GB ISO-8859-1 Same here. > ... > $ eselect locale list > Available targets for the LANG variable: > [1] C > [2] C.utf8 > [3] POSIX > [snip ... ] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Peter, On Tuesday, 2021-06-15 08:41:40 +0100, you wrote: > ... > ># eselect locale set 4 > ># env-update > > > >>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > After that you need to source /etc/profile, no? Yes, if you want to continue working in this shell. But if I start my Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

Thelma, On Thursday, 2021-06-10 18:24:34 -0600, you wrote: > ... > It seems to me lightdm defaults to "twm" which file controls it? > I want to change it to xfce4 Not quite. Either in configuration file "/etc/conf.d/xdm" (when you have package "x11-apps/xdm" installed) or

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

Thelma, On Thursday, 2021-06-10 15:42:10 -0600, you wrote: > ... > In: /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf > I change to > Numlock=on No! Directory "/usr/share/sddm/" contains the default configuration for "sddm" for reference only. You should undo this change. As Dale has

[gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

Greetings, still hunting down the reasons for my laptop not producing any sound, I have meanwhile found reports on the web "no sound even though root is in group audio" or "Dbus doesn't "care" who root is -- it checks the ident- ity of the account that requested an action, and if that account

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-terms/xterm loops error upon launch

Vitor, On Sunday, 2021-05-09 21:08:15 -0300, Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos wrote: > ... > After the install and configuration of Xorg, I decided to 'startx' and > open xterm in fvwm. > > Upon pressing the button to launch it, nothing came up. When closing > fvwm, I saw the following message being

Re: [gentoo-user] No-multilib media-libs/opencv-4.5.0 fails to install

Michael, On Thursday, 2021-05-06 19:25:11 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Half way it complains about CPU optimisations: > == > RuntimeError: NumPy was built with baseline optimizations: > (SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 POPCNT SSE42) but your machine doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

Aisha, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? > That sounds like a recipe for disaster... Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not

Ramon, Dale, On Tuesday, 2021-07-06 20:40:32 +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote: > This is just a guess. Maybe you have two devices with the same UUID? > > If so, you can change it with: > > $ cryptsetup --uuid="" luksUUID "/dev/sdx1" Good idea. But to find out whether or not this is the cause

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

Dale, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote: > ... > > 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. Same here. And whenever I

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

Neil, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 15:28:51 +0100, you wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > Same here. And whenever I configure a new kernel my kernel managing > > script makes sure both, the kernel I'm currenty running on and the one &

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

Remco, On Wednesday, 2021-03-24 08:59:58 -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote: > ... > Of late, a lot of email providers (notably gmail, MS/outlook, and I think > Yahoo > too) require OAUTH support to access mail. Since I'm a daily Fetchmail user, I was startled at first, but startpag- ing for "OAUTH"

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote: ("> >" refers to Michael ) > Michael, > > On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote: > > > ... > > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector > > created > > by fdisk and friends on Linux these days.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

Alarig, On Monday, 2021-04-05 00:31:50 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: I'm always using "make olddefconfig" rather than "make oldconfig" and had no problems

[gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

Greetings, in a recent Heise article (in German) at https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link about "SystemRescue" the author mentions among other things that the old packet

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

Dale, On Saturday, 2021-03-20 12:45:17 -0500, you wrote: > ... > If it helps any, the newer one requires a 5.7 or higher kernel. Ok, since I'm currently only using stable kernels, I'm on 5.4, and thus I'll probably still have to wait a little before dumping "sys-fs/exfat- utils" in favour of

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

Dan, On Tuesday, 2021-04-06 23:11:15 -0600, you wrote: > ... > log { source(src); destination(smb_logs); filter(samba); flags(final); ); According to the documentation at

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

Dan, On Wednesday, 2021-04-07 12:05:10 -0600, you wrote: > I had posted the whole file. But I can do it again easy enough. > ... > filter samba { program("samba"); }; > filter ssh_messages { facility("AUTH") and level("INFO"); }; > filter syslog { not filter("ssh_messages") and not

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

Dale, On Wednesday, 2021-02-17 23:08:12 -0600, you wrote: > ... >   Still, they are closed source.  If > their code was open source then it could be that the hack would not have > happened since someone would have spotted the hole the hackers used.  I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] why both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 on a 64bit system?

Peter, On Monday, 2021-02-15 12:15:43 +, you wrote: > ... > No, it should be arch-neutral. Agnosticism is about religion and has nothing > to do with it. First sentence: arch-independent? Second sentence: yep :-) Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Start conflict "elogind" vs "fwupd"

Greetings, since my last routine Gentoo upgrade on 2021-02-01 "fwupd" is no longer started in the "default" run level. Reason is that "fwupd" erroneously thinks its prerequisite "elogind" is not yet running, starts it again, interprets the error message "already started" and the non-zero

[gentoo-user] Firmware updates

Greetings, off and on I'm receiving updates of packages "sys-firmware/intel-micro- code" and "sys-kernel/linux-firmware". My kernel has $ grep ^CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-5e-03 i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin regulatory.db

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create a local overlay?

Tastytea, On Sunday, 2021-09-19 16:40:18 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Looks good, thank you :-) Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] How to create a local overlay?

Greetings, recently I received an "*.ebuild" file for a little piece of software I need. However, trying to find instructions in the Gentoo wiki regarding the creation of a local overlay utilizing this ebuild file up to now on- ly revealed confusing and/or outdated information. Could anybody

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

Michael and All, Long time ago, on Wednesday, 2021-03-31 12:21:27 +0100, wrote: > ... > OK, unless you made a typo and the "minutes" were meant to say seconds, this > is ridiculously slow. Yes, it really were minutes. > You could run some tests to see what is causing the delay. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Arve, On Monday, 2021-08-02 13:54:07 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Depends what you were trying to solve when piping to less. Sorry for the confusion caused by dropping the "--ask" option (which is part of my "edepclean" alias). What I'm trying to solve is reading the output from "emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Greetings, On Tuesday, 2021-07-27 20:02:07 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... >Heck, when I first ran --depclean, there > were something like 220 packages to be removed. It would be very easy > to have missed openrc. (Shameless plug) only my kernel patch which >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Neil, On Friday, 2021-08-06 08:33:33 +0100, you wrote: > ... > ># emerge --depclean --pretend | $PAGER > ># emerge --depclean -- ask --quiet > > How about emerge -ca | tee >depclean.txt > > Then if the list is short you can read it in the console and just hit y > or n. Otherwise, hit n

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

Greetings, On Sunday, 2021-08-01 19:19:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > ... > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Just out of curiosity: on my system "emerge" always lists the packages that would be merged "in order" rather than "in reverse order". Where can this be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Alec, Neil, On Tuesday, 2021-08-03 13:44:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > >$ emerge --ask --depclean | less > > > ... > > Depending what desktop environment/terminal emulator, there are a few > > options. You could use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Philip, On Wednesday, 2021-08-04 07:57:06 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Why not write the output to a file ? -- eg > 'emerge --ask --depclean > '. > Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. Depending on the number of packages you've installed and depending on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

Peter, On Thursday, 2021-10-28 09:53:48 +0100, you wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:59:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > One possibility occurred to me: is having two ruby versions installed at > > once the problem? I already had 3.0 installed, the current Gentoo version, > > but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Alan, On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote: > ... > The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said > "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it > happened I didn't ignore the warning. But some people might. > > You seem to see

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

Aho, On Friday, 2022-03-11 10:17:13 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I think Rainer's problem is the nosuid mount flag on his /tmp > > $ mount | grep \/tmp > tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=3212160k,inode64) > > So if he would run the command against a file not located in /tmp

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