Re: [gentoo-user] handling a slot collision (for telegram)

2020-05-16 Thread Jack
For these, you probably need to upgrade every qt package to 5.14. On 2020.05.16 04:46, n952162 wrote: How do I handle a slot collision? I'm trying to install telegram but get a slot conflict for dev-qt/qtwidgets - it wants 5.14.1-r1 and I have 5.13-2 installed. I see that these packages want

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

2020-05-16 Thread Jack
ortage/gentoolkit required by @selected On 05/16/20 16:19, Jack wrote: On 5/16/20 8:53 AM, n952162 wrote: I did an emerge --sync and then "emerge -v1 portage" and it blew up all over the place.  Log in the attachment. How can I get things reestablished?  Or, does gentoo simply re

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

2020-05-16 Thread Jack
masked?  I suggest going for the lowest version currently in the tree.  I'm not sure if your first step should really be portage itself, or upgrading packages where the installed version is now masked due to security errors or being too out of date. Jack On 05/14/20 23:36, Rich Fre

Re: [gentoo-user] no ebuilds for telegram

2020-05-14 Thread Jack
On 5/14/20 3:57 PM, n952162 wrote: On 05/14/20 21:28, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 3:10 PM n952162 wrote: I tried to emerge net-im/telegram-desktop but it said: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-im/telegram-desktop". Are you sure there is nothing wrong with

Re: [gentoo-user] kicad failed to compile after update

2020-05-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.05.10 02:49, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, this morning I had a massive update of my system. Beside others kicad failed to recompile with this message Calculating dependencies... done! * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to * the following required packages not being

Re: [gentoo-user] kicad failed to compile after update

2020-05-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.05.10 02:54, Ashley Dixon wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 08:49:14AM +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Is it possible to install the older version of boost somehow "in > parallel" withouth screwing up the rest of the system? Gentoo calls this "slotting", in which multiple versions of a

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-libs/scipy-1.1.0 fails to compile (SOLVED)

2020-05-07 Thread Jack
can't help. Jack On 2020.05.07 19:20, Victor Ivanov wrote: In case anyone encounters the same issue, the problem was solved by single threaded build using MAKEOPTS="-j1". No other config changes. Why this works but not otherwise remains a mystery. I also had the same problem ear

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread Jack
On 5/3/20 1:44 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: [snip]... so, we get the following combinations of disk failures that, if happen, we won't lose any data: RAID0 --^-- RAID1 RAID1 --^-- --^-- F . . . < cases with

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing kernel modules

2020-05-02 Thread Jack
On 5/2/20 9:19 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, Is there a straightforward way of listing kernel modules that exist but haven't been loaded? I'm sure I have quite a number that I don't need, and I'd like to remove them from the kernel config. How about just grepping for them under

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-27 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.27 12:47, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:27 PM Jack wrote: > I just checked "emerge -pe zoom" and the only unstable qt listed is qtdiag, which has no stable versions in the tree. In fact, of the 483 packages listed, only five are unstable. If it

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-27 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.26 19:42, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:03 AM Jack wrote: > On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: The slack ebuild might go stable, but the zoom one seems to change too often to last 30 days before an update, so stable seems unlikely. At least I do

Re: problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.26 18:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:28 PM Jack wrote: > > On 2020.04.26 15:08, Jorge Almeida wrote: > [snip] > I run a mostly stable amd64 system with selected ~amd64 packages. I > use both slack and zoom reasonably often, and have not ha

problems with slack and zoom: Was: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-26 Thread Jack
to either slack or zoom. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-22 Thread Jack
On 4/22/20 11:20 AM, John Covici wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 11:04:24 -0400, Dale wrote: [1 ] John Covici wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 08:53:24 -0400, Dale wrote: I did a search on the forums for teamview but didn't find that problem. Did you perhaps install it without using portage at some

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_BUILDDIR does not exist

2020-04-21 Thread Jack
I'd start by looking at /var/tmp/portage/ (unless you changed the default PORTAGE_TMPDIR) to see what evidence the emerge process might have left. On 2020.04.21 16:58, Ashley Dixon wrote: Hi, I've been getting this build message for every package that I attempt to emerge. I'm starting to

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Jack
On 2020.04.13 18:10, Adam Carter wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:48 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > > ## arecord -l > > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable fuzzy-search in emerge?

2020-04-10 Thread Jack
on a regexp, so I'll often do "eix ^string$ if I know the package and am just looking for the info about it. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-06 Thread Jack
copies? The man page says specifically it's for limiting bandwidthon sockets. -- Grant Can't you use the network syntax for one end of the rsync transfer to bring the socket controls into play?  rsync source localhost:/path/to/dest Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Why busybox?

2020-04-05 Thread Jack
ke emerge -p -e should. I believe, tell you where every package dependency comes from. It's not always fun to read but the answer to your question should be there. - Mark I find "emerge -p -c busybox" even easier, and it tells me busybox is required by @system. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Jack
at all, without keywording it.  Even more true if you have a masked package installed. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Jack
at all, without keywording it.  Even more true if you have a masked package installed. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-03-28 Thread Jack
). However, it's clear stuff is still missing, as invoking "leave" either from the start menu or right clicking on the desktop has no effect, and the best way I've found to stop the session is to issue "killall xinit" from the other virtual terminal. I start wayland wit

Re: [gentoo-user] RYZEN 5: Hyperthreading or no hyperthreading...

2020-03-27 Thread Jack
ristics: 64-bit capable Multi-Core Hardware Thread Execute Protection Enhanced Virtualization Power/Performance Control which does suggest there might be a BIOS setting involved. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing ebuilds

2020-03-18 Thread Jack
PORTAGE_TMPDIR, there shouldn't be any problems. The final qmerge step clearly requires root, unless you are using a chroot to install somewhere other than the real system directories. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-11 Thread Jack
ntin I suspect lib64 is the correct location. I would check whether /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl.conf is owned by any package or if it might have been manually edited long ago. I don't have that file present, but that may well be a side effect of different graphics cards. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nice job,

2020-03-08 Thread Jack
un fine for me on both of them with no complaints. I have a mostly stable system, with select ~amd64 packages. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-04 Thread Jack
.  The message was that it wouldn't start because it was already started, but that implies that it simply failed to stop, without producing any error message.  I didn't want to fight it any further, so I just rebooted. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail

2020-03-03 Thread Jack
On 2020.03.03 19:33, Philip Webb wrote: 200303 Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.03 02:54, Philip Webb wrote: >> However, my ISP is now sending me an e-mail every 5 min , >> after Fetchmail checks for mail : >> >> From: "(Cron Daemon)" >> To: pursl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with Fetchmail

2020-03-03 Thread Jack
ure the message is coming from your ISP, and not locally generated, perhaps by cron? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-22 Thread Jack
some other service. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-18 Thread Jack
On 2020.02.18 15:51, Roger J. H. Welsh wrote: Hi Jack, I just looked at the comments in my /etc/rc.conf. `less /etc/rc.conf` Jack writes: I'm not the OP, but I recently had a similar situation - total freeze early during the boot process. What I wanted was a way to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-02-18 Thread Jack
to figure out in what order services would have been started. I wonder if booting with init=/bin/bash, editing rc.conf, and then doing "exec /sbin/init" would then put the system in a state (with proc 1 being init) as if it had booted normally, but with an interactive startup? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Number of open Bugzilla bugs (Was: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions)

2020-02-09 Thread Jack
sit for years. Jack On 2020.02.09 19:23, Michael Jones wrote: On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:43 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > Bugs get closed all the time. Bugs also get opened and and linger all > the time. I couldn't tell you the ratio, but that is the nature of > things. > > If y

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-06 Thread Jack
On 2020.02.06 17:36, Laurence Perkins wrote: On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 17:08 -0500, Jack wrote: CAUTION: This is an EXTERNAL email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. I didn't write that. :-) > > Relying on the coll

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-02 Thread Jack
Mick - thanks for the responses. [just replying to a few specific points] On 2020.02.02 06:27, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 1 February 2020 22:08:37 GMT Jack wrote: [snip.] Thanks for the general info on the "alias" issue.One minor problem I've had is that many email pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-02 Thread Jack
Hello Ian, On 2020.02.02 13:36, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2020-02-01 17:08, Jack wrote: I'm trying to move away from gmail. Especially for mailing lists like this one, if I send a message to the list, I never see that I get the message from the list, because gmail refuses to show it in my

[gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

2020-02-01 Thread Jack
them to add a whitelist. No such thing as clicking on "Not spam" and apparently no intent to ever do so. Thanks for any suggestions. Jack

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

2020-02-01 Thread Jack
On 2020.02.01 14:09, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 1/2/20 1:42 am, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I posted something a few days ago about middle click of a mouse not working. In investigating this, I think I have come across something a bit dodgy. I have no logitech devices, and no problem with

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

2020-01-31 Thread Jack
ting from scratch, but just to check for oddities like this. That said, it is certainly possible there is a bug somewhere, maybe even in the stuff that drives the make oldconfig, which unset or failed to set something that should have been set based on the starting .config. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage unable to write to /usr/portage

2020-01-10 Thread Jack
On 2020.01.10 12:17, Corbin wrote: > Were you trying this as root or as your normal user?  What are the > permissions on /usr, /usr/portage, and /usr/portage/distfiles? /usr : 40755 , rwx, rwx, r-x /usr/portage : 40700, rwx, ---, --- /usr/portage/distfiles : 40755, rwx, rwx, r-x You only gave

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage unable to write to /usr/portage

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
On 2020.01.09 16:03, Corbin wrote: This is the error : Fetching (18 of 1361) sys-apps/baselayout-2.6-r1::gentoo > bash: /usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__: Permission denied > rm: cannot remove '/usr/portage/distfiles/.__portage_test_write__': Permission denied > bash:

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
n Thursday, 9 January 2020 17:19:18 GMT Jack wrote: > > On 2020.01.09 11:38, Franz Fellner wrote: > > > Am Do., 9. Jan. 2020 um 18:35 Uhr schrieb Jack < > > > > > > ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>: > > > > Based on various wiki and forum posts, >

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
; Am Do., 9. Jan. 2020 um 18:35 Uhr schrieb Jack < > ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>: > >> Based on various wiki and forum posts, >> I'm using "dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland" as the last line in >> .xinitrc, and launching with startx. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
Do., 9. Jan. 2020 um 18:38 Uhr schrieb Franz Fellner < alpine.art...@gmail.com>: > > > Am Do., 9. Jan. 2020 um 18:35 Uhr schrieb Jack < > ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>: > >> Based on various wiki and forum posts, >> I'm using "dbus-run-s

Re: [gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
On 2020.01.09 11:38, Franz Fellner wrote: Am Do., 9. Jan. 2020 um 18:35 Uhr schrieb Jack < ostrof...@users.sourceforge.net>: > Based on various wiki and forum posts, > I'm using "dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland" as the last line in > .xinitrc, and launching

[gentoo-user] any experience with wayland?

2020-01-09 Thread Jack
th Wayland, but I expect that the basic stuff (especially most KDE stuff, including kwin) should work. Thanks for any suggestions. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] qtwebkit problem (solved)

2020-01-05 Thread Jack
t I'd ask what are your --jobs and --load-average settings?  Does it crash using -j1?  I realize this may be moot, since you have already completed the emerge and may not want to risk another crash, but it's a thought. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-30 Thread Jack
On 2019.12.30 18:21, Dale wrote: Jack wrote: > On 2019.12.30 17:43, Dale wrote: >> Jack wrote: >> > On 2019.12.30 15:04, Dale wrote: >> >> Howdy, >> >> I ran up on a used DSL modem that supports IPv6.  It was cheap so figured why not.  Ironical

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-30 Thread Jack
On 2019.12.30 17:43, Dale wrote: Jack wrote: > On 2019.12.30 15:04, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I ran up on a used DSL modem that supports IPv6.  It was cheap so >> figured why not.  Ironically, it is also a router.  It's a Netgear >> Frontier B90-755044-15

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

2019-12-30 Thread Jack
should be able to do "ip a" and find the subnet (perhaps 192.168.1) You might then try 254 as the last octet. Using traceroute might also show you the address. If you want/need to dig out the big guns, wireshark should also provide some useful info. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

2019-12-22 Thread Jack
On 12/22/19 4:17 PM, n952162 wrote: xauth(1) says: /if [the X server] does not support the SECURITY extension, the [generate] command fails./ The xauth command is used to generate the .Xauthority file, which is required for X11Forwarding. But the Security Extension is not enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Jack
like euse uses the info in the metadata file, so, for example, "euse -i jpeg" does NOT mention imagemagick. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed over and over again: Imagemagick

2019-12-11 Thread Jack
On 2019.12.11 13:12, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 12/11 05:55, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:49:01 -0500, Jack wrote: [snip...] The onlu one, which ich being emerged is imagemagick... But I saw this again: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed over and over again: Imagemagick

2019-12-11 Thread Jack
On 2019.12.10 23:09, tu...@posteo.de wrote: On 12/10 01:37, Jack wrote: > On 2019.12.09 22:22, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > it seems, there is an installation loop for > > Installing (2 of 2) media-gfx/imagemagick-6.9.10.77::gentoo . Nearly every morning since some days I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed over and over again: Imagemagick

2019-12-10 Thread Jack
? Is the other package (1 of 2) always the same, or does that vary by day? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] automake-1.9.6-r5 mask question

2019-12-07 Thread Jack
ave a very different world file from you, but I've got 1.11.6-r3, 1.13.4-r2, and 1.16.1-r1 installed. "emerge -pc automake" says two packages need the 1.11, one needs 1.13, and a whole bunch need 1.16. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] links that behave differently per calling app?

2019-11-11 Thread Jack
; * Execute "./bar" and the output will be "./bar" That makes a distinction based on the name by which the script was called, not on the name of the calling script.  Caveman Al, have I misunderstood what your are asking for? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Glamor use flag disappeared?

2019-11-08 Thread Jack
ns of glamor in the ebuild.I have -wayland and -minimal. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Mail still not recognising Gentoo KMail

2019-11-06 Thread Jack
he case, then we need a few more details about what's going on. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread Jack
That's odd. I have 6.0.12 installed, so EAPI 7 should not be a problem. Note EAPI is applied per ebuild, not a system-wide thing. What version of portage are you using? On 2019.11.05 16:22, n952162 wrote: I found the ebuild /file/ manifest command ... but got this:

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread Jack
On 2019.11.05 16:12, n952162 wrote: I imagine that's a line in the Manifest file?  I think it IS the manifest file. Any hope of recreating that? ebuild /path/to/file.ebuild manifest (digest and manifest are synonyms in that usage)

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread Jack
On 10/31/19 12:26 PM, Dale wrote: [snip...] I disabled that on mine.  I do my spam filtering locally on my machine. How did you disable spam filtering on gmail?  I would love to do it, but have not found a setting for such. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] pam

2019-10-31 Thread Jack
You need to pay more attention to details.  Only virtual/pam has been masked # required by virtual/pam (argument) # /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Mikle Kolyada (2019-10-16) # not needed due to openpam removal. Please # update your packages running emerge with the # --changed-deps option

Re: [gentoo-user] missing patch in latest notmuch (0.29.2)

2019-10-28 Thread Jack
On 2019.10.28 19:13, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: any thoughts? https://gist.github.com/Al-Caveman/2a72bba8c331fc40ebceca9d32de285c rgrds, cm. Works fine for me. Perhaps you synced after the new ebuild was present, but before the new patch did? Try syncing again and see if it works. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-python/cryptography-2.6.1 compile failure

2019-10-28 Thread Jack
emerge -1 everything it lists. Jack On 2019.10.28 13:54, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 05:50:39PM +0100, Hartmut Figge wrote > hafi@i5-64 ~ $ equery b /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 > * Searching for /usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 ... > dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.6 ->

Re: [gentoo-user] blt does not match version of tcl/tk...

2019-10-22 Thread Jack
they use to check for the tcl version. I don't know where you looked, but I'd search for "need exactly" not only in the blt code, but also in the files in the demo directory. You might also check on a blt mailing list or forum. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird-60,9.0

2019-09-24 Thread Jack
On 2019.09.23 20:24, james wrote: Hello, So, I've been running Thunderbird-60,9.0 with the only 2 flags set:: dbus jack. Only (broken) issue is the spellchecker (do not even remember which one I use to use) does not work. Any spellchecker that automagically corrects/highlights as I type

Re: [gentoo-user] Question : Fixing @x11-module-rebuild

2019-09-17 Thread Jack
problem? I have one older box which still behaves "correctly." On my newer box, built about a month ago, I get the same behavior you describe. I have no explanation. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange eix problem

2019-09-09 Thread Jack
On 9/9/19 11:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 9 September 2019 15:52:23 BST Jack wrote: What does "eix most' show? $ eix -e most [I] sys-apps/most Available versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2} ~5.1.0 Installed versions: 5.0.0a-r1{tbz2}[1](14:18:39 22/03/19) Hom

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange eix problem

2019-09-09 Thread Jack
hy did portage think you did? Jack

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-22 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.22 12:31, Laurence Perkins wrote: On Thu, 2019-08-22 at 10:03 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:48 AM james wrote: > > On 8/16/19 12:44 PM, Jack wrote: > > > ps auxf | grep systemd > > > > This is new turf for me. Upon iss

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-21 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.21 15:48, james wrote: On 8/16/19 12:44 PM, Jack wrote: > ps auxf | grep systemd This is new turf for me. Upon issuing this command string I get:: # ps auxf | grep systemd root 24947 0.0 0.0 13964 996 pts/6S+ 15:43 0:00 | | | \_ grep --col

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE machine -> Shutdown icons gone walkabout

2019-08-19 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.19 14:40, Mick wrote: On Monday, 19 August 2019 19:21:02 BST Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, >I recently, last week or so, did some updating of my KDE desktop and > when I went to select "Shutdown" off the menu bar thingy, no icons for > "Logout", "Shutdown" & "Some Other Thing"

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.16 12:26, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/16/2019 05:25:34 PM, Jack wrote: try "lsof /cdrom"?  It says the mount point, not the device, might be busy. Unfortunately, the problem is still there. dmesg shows [ 1326.461161] systemd-udevd[9882]: Process 'cdrom_id --eject-me

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.16 12:00, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 08/16/2019 05:25:34 PM, Jack wrote: try "lsof /cdrom"?  It says the mount point, not the device, might be busy. This didn't show anything. I still don't know the cause of my problems. But fortunately, they have been resolved by r

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage/emerge became extremely slow

2019-08-16 Thread Jack
packages did it want to install, upgrade, reinstall? In my experience, the long waits happen when portage has trouble meeting prerequisites (dependencies) due to mix of stable and testing, or due to particular combination of USE flag settings. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

2019-08-16 Thread Jack
try "lsof /cdrom"?  It says the mount point, not the device, might be busy. On 8/16/19 10:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have a very strange effect on my Gentoo system. First, I've check that /dev/sr0 points to the correct device (from dmesg) For an empty drive  I get 1 # mount /dev/sr0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-08-08 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.08 03:47, james wrote: On 7/31/19 2:21 PM, Jack wrote: > On 2019.07.31 12:25, Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> On 2019-07-30 22:44, Dale wrote: >> >>> I wonder, if I bought a bluetooth USB thingy and put that on my >>> puter, would that help any?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Jack
On 2019.08.05 19:52, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2019-08-04 19:36, Grant Taylor wrote: Create the bin and sbin directories inside of the /usr directory that is the mount point so that they are on the underlying file system that /usr is mounted over top of. Then copy the needed binaries to

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

2019-08-03 Thread Jack
anging that one setting may only have altered whether those other settings are explicitly included in the .config file, and not their value. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

2019-08-02 Thread Jack
selected and perhaps one of it's sub settings (CONFIG_CPU XXX) is NOT selected causes make xconfig or gconfig to completely reset the configuration, reducing the next saved version to under 10k. I found a (not much used) linux-config mailing list, and I'll probably post the issue there. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd crashes when I try to mount a USB drive

2019-08-01 Thread Jack
of something else you might have expected. Next time you get the error, can you do "ps auxf" to see if you can tell what processes called systemd-udevd? Jack

[gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

2019-07-31 Thread Jack
k it's related to my problem getting a non-booting kernel, it certainly has me confused. Thanks for helping me confirm what's left of my sanity. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

2019-07-31 Thread Jack
to modify my kernel config to add anything for it. So far, I have only used it for a headset, and I know I went through a number of trials and errors before getting it to work consistently, but it does work fine. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does root=PARTUUID=<> work with DOS partition table?

2019-07-25 Thread Jack
When you get the grub prompt, hit "e" for edit mode, or maybe better "c" for command line.  By typing "root (" and hitting tab, it should let you know what disks it sees.  If you're not sure which disk is which which, accept one (such as hd0) and then hit tab to see the partitions it sees.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't compile x11-libs/libXt

2019-07-22 Thread Jack
out what the problem is. Any help is appreciated. build.log, environment etc. are attached. Best regards Do you have a gcc profile selected? "gcc-config -l" should list the available ones and indicate which is selected. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem (no video output) on new PC

2019-07-15 Thread Jack
On 2019.07.11 19:08, Mick wrote: On Thursday, 11 July 2019 23:31:51 BST Jack wrote: I'm hoping the cumulative wisdom of the assembled masses might be able to figure out what I'm clearly missing, assuming there IS something I'm missing. > I've recently assembled a new PC, with an MSI B

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-13 Thread Jack
On 2019.07.13 13:18, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 13 July 2019 17:21:40 BST Jack wrote: > On 2019.07.12 08:18, Mick wrote: [snip] And, one question - if I have linux-firmware emerged with savedconfig use flag set, what's the best/easiest way to hunt through the actually available firmw

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

2019-07-13 Thread Jack
ar, I've just searched the git repository for the package. I suppose I could have kept a copy of the manifest from the initial emerge (without savedconfig) but I didn't think of it at the time. Jack

[gentoo-user] strange problem (no video output) on new PC

2019-07-11 Thread Jack
DVI cable to go directly from the card to the monitor, so hopefully I'll get that and be able to test it within a few days. Can anyone else thing of what the problem might be, and if there is any troubleshooting I could try? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma teething problems - Part II

2019-06-24 Thread Jack
d and explicitly emerged them. You can just add them to your world file (either manually, or with "emerge --noreplace package" so they won't be depcleaned. I have lots of kde stuff (37 items from grep kde worldfile) but kdecore-meta and kdegraphics-meta are the only meta packages in my world file. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Incomplete Bugzilla Search Results?

2019-06-23 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.23 19:38, wiicontrol...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I would like to be able to see a list of every Gentoo Bugzilla bug report with which I have ever interacted (reported, commented on, voted on...). This looked to be possible with Bugzilla's ability to “search by people”:

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-20 Thread Jack
On 6/20/19 3:47 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 20 June 2019 00:02:35 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 20/6/19 2:26 am, Jack wrote: Bill - you might try "rm /usr/lib" WITHOUT the trailing slash, to remove the symlink. Then "ln -s lib64 /usr/lib" will recreate it in th

Re: [gentoo-user] equery keywords and overlays

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.19 17:37, Grant Taylor wrote: On 6/19/19 3:29 PM, Jack wrote: It seems the man page is not complete.  It mentions the -k of --keywords option to the m or meta module, but doesn't actually mention the y (keywords) module itself (which IS shown by equery -h) equery y package

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card, splitter and issues.

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.19 17:35, Dale wrote: Jack wrote: > On 2019.06.19 15:43, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I have a video issue here.  I recently cut off DirecTV service and now >> watch from my puter, all those hard drives people know me for.  As some >> know, my Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] equery keywords and overlays

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.19 17:16, Grant Taylor wrote: On 6/19/19 3:10 PM, Dale wrote: I'm not sure this will apply. I know this option works in some uses but not sure about yours. You may want to try it tho and see if it does what you want.    -o, --overlay-tree   Include package

Re: [gentoo-user] Video card, splitter and issues.

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
. That would tell you if there is any inherent incompatability between what the card is putting out and what the TV can use. Can the TV handle the resolution the card is displaying? Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile 17.1 fails at the analyse stage

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
On 2019.06.19 16:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:26:50 -0400, Jack wrote: > On 2019.06.19 14:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:45:03 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > > > wifi ~ # unsymlink-lib --analyze > > > /usr/l

Re: [gentoo-user] equery keywords and overlays

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
have more ignorance of equery than you do, but have you tried eix? I don't know all it's possibilities, but I do know it handles overlays. Jack

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the "halt" user for?

2019-06-19 Thread Jack
n't already obvious.) Won't "sudo halt" work? I frequently do "sudo reboor" or just "reboot" from a root shell. (I am also systemd free.) Jack

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