Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

On 07/12/20 04:24, Dale wrote: > I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll > be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through > a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power > company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

On 24/11/20 23:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:25:38 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as chainloading a "real" partition? >>> >>> I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed [SOLVED]

On 14/12/20 05:41, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Excerpt from Michael: > >> Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate >> and >> run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the >> ESP >> may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: > If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster > system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the settings (can't remember what they are)

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

On 19/12/20 21:31, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >> On 19/12/2020 18:49, David Haller wrote: >>> -dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA >>> ports onboard:) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW:( Hot-plug >>> almost like

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

On 30/10/20 21:56, Dale wrote: > I read somewhere that > it is being fought. I think EFF is involved along with others. Let's hope the EFF / Github argue "unclean hands" - that one of the primary uses of youtube-dl is to get round the copy-protection that the RIAA has forced copyright holders to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

On 30/12/20 01:04, Grant Edwards wrote: > You must be talking about some sort of weird "wide" encoding (is there > such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that. Everybody > and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a > superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing and moving home directory to new partition on save drive

On 11/01/21 00:31, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, antlists wrote: >> On 10/01/2021 21:42, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I want to move /home directory to a new partition (save drive). >>> >>> I have 1-SSD drive: >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% >>> /dev/sda4

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

On 20/01/21 19:59, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I can understand the kernel > maintainers not being enthusiastic about the existing code. But that > dates from, I believe, the 1990s, when RAM was measured in megabytes, and > processor speeds in megahertz. Optimisation for speed and store usage > just

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

On 07/06/21 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>> You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine >>> to spread the load. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local >> binary server

[gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

I've started tackling my new build again, and when it boots root is read-only. Hopefully I've just missed something stupid, but how to I get it to transition read-write? System is grub, systemd, and root is an lv ... Do I need to do anything special with the initrd? Manually remounting fixes it

Re: [gentoo-user] Python-3.9 and emerge problems

On 18/06/21 10:46, Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > This morning : > > #emerge --sync > #emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage > #emerge -auvDN --with-bdeps=y --keep-going world You can't try just updating python? When I tried to emerge portage it blew up with loads of stuff about 3.8 and

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

On 18/06/21 10:31, Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:15 PM Wols Lists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: > > I've started tackling my new build again, and when it boots root is > read-only. Hopefully I've just missed something stu

[gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff. Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On 12/05/21 13:43, John Blinka wrote: > > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:57 PM Mike Kaliman > wrote: > > I have an Asus TUF Gaming X570 and have the secure boot OS type as > "Other OS". I've been using rEFInd to dual boot with Windows. > > > So, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

On 09/05/21 09:29, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 > GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 > GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is > there a good 4K video

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

On 25/05/21 20:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:43:00 BST antlists wrote: >> On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and >>> cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB. >> >> I don't know how this works, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Less available memory than installed

On 03/06/21 18:16, Toldi Balázs wrote: > Hello! > > In my current PC I have 16 GB of RAM installed. It worked fine until > today, when I upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 5 1500X to a Ryzen 7 2700. > The system boots up just fine, but when I use the free command the total > memory is only 8 GB. When I

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Less available memory than installed

On 03/06/21 21:20, Toldi Balázs wrote: > I tried booting from Minimal install disk. It had the same problem. > > Then I tried pulling the two ram sticks out and put them back. It seems > like this fixed my issue (Although I don't really know what caused it in > the first place). > Could it be

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

021 16:17:41 +0100 >>>>> >>>>> Michael wrote: >>>>>> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: >>>>>>> What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I want to

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > black screen. > > Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: > > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: > On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: >> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: >> >>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a >>> full-weight normal desktop. >> [snip ...] >> >>> I've got this one selected,

Re: [gentoo-user] Network switch - LED will not turn ON

On 26/04/21 22:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > If they cable is the problem the LED port on the 70ft long cable on the > switch would be orange "not green"; correct me anybody if I'm wrong. I guess it depends what's wrong with the cable. And what the green light is testing for. There'#s a

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote: > There's three options, I can think of: > > 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. > > 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. > > 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, > for

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

On 08/02/21 05:40, Dan Egli wrote: > Hey folks, I'm a bit lost on this, so I hope you can help me out. Dunno how much help I'll be ... > > I have a computer I want to act as the central print server for a > network. It would spool all jobs for all printers, and send them out to > the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

On 09/02/21 11:29, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've >> tried a >> few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For >> instance, today I tried installing a

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

On 08/02/21 21:39, n952162 wrote: > On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: >> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update >> >> You can start it without error but it just goes away. The last thing in >> the strace is a clone. >> >> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On 06/04/21 05:19, Dale wrote: > Another question, can I just copy my current emails over and "import" > them? I think Seamonkey uses mbox type setup. I know I could with > Thunderbird but it was a bit fussy. It did work tho. It also made it > easier to switch back. Consider setting up a local

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

On 10/03/21 18:37, Grant Taylor wrote: > ACK > > By default, Kerberos includes IP restrictions in tickets. It chooses > the IP based on what the system returns. So if the system returns > 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) for the hostname, any tickets that use that IP will > be non-viable / useless anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >> >> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At the momen

[gentoo-user] [OT] Saving an image as black and white

I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And they're rather big ... I want to email them. How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At the moment they are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5 bytes to store all the colour, luminance,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Saving an image as black and white

On 01/03/21 13:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:50:35 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >> >> How on earth do I convert them to T

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward?

On 25/02/21 08:45, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 25.02.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Grant Taylor: >> I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days (March >> 24th 2020. -- Life has been ... trying. >> >> What is the best way forward? >> >> It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the

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

On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with > "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve. > Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying > the writing speeds of their

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

On 26/07/21 22:00, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:10:19PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > >> I've had more drives go bad when using USB enclosures than I've ever had >> on IDE or (e)SATA. > > Interesting, I can’t really confirm such a correlation from the drives I > have lying

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) > > It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk > /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate > is calling it 5Tb - marketing! Note that it's now

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

On 26/09/2021 22:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: Hello, Wol and Dale When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

On 29/09/2021 21:58, Dale wrote: Since the drive also uses LVM, someone mentioned using snapshots. Me? Still not real clear on those even tho I've read a bit about them.  Some of the backup technics are confusing to me.  I get plain files, even incremental to a extent but some of the new

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right instruction set for > running Tensorflow anymore - so I want

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 01/10/2021 17:08, Mark Knecht wrote: This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

On 04/10/2021 07:13, Miles Malone wrote: I would strongly, STRONGLY discourage you from creating your own meta package. There are very few meta packages in the tree (in the scheme of things) for very good reasons, they take one hell of a lot of maintenance. They're really only there for things

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

On 05/10/2021 00:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:11:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: When I checked it in the past rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version emerge -C gentoo-sources-version was significantly faster than emerge -C gentoo-sources-version rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot/grub and grub2 directories

On 04/12/2021 15:53, Dale wrote: While I'm at it.  When the grub package upgrades, should I reinstall with grub-install to update what is on the drive or is it safe to just leave it as is?  I seem to recall a upgrade to grub a while back.  It just dawned on me that while the package is updated,

Re: [gentoo-user] LLVM and friends is not compatible.

On 06/12/2021 19:26, Laurence Perkins wrote: Genkernel is pretty... special... It's handy if your system is set up the way it expects. If not, well, then its utility drops off quickly. From what you're describing, my suggestion would be to simply only use it for initramfs generation and

Re: [gentoo-user] LLVM and friends is not compatible.

On 06/12/2021 17:51, Laurence Perkins wrote: Source Mage is a spinoff of Sourceror and is kind of the opposite of Gentoo. Well, I read the philosophy thing where it said it wasn't comparable with gentoo ... Gentoo is a source-based distro for people who want things to mostly just work like

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 20/12/2021 08:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 07:55:15 +, Wols Lists wrote: With pretty much every bit of linux software I've found, I have to import my source into a project, make a meal of deleting the sections I don't want, and then I can't just "save a file&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 20/12/2021 06:11, William Kenworthy wrote: On 20/12/21 13:40, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 20/12/21 11:17 am, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) BillK How

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

On 27/12/2021 13:40, Michael wrote: On Monday, 27 December 2021 11:32:39 GMT Wols Lists wrote: On 27/12/2021 11:07, Jacques Montier wrote: Well, i don't know if my partitions are aligned or mis-aligned... How could i get it ? fdisk would have spewed a bunch of warnings. So you're okay. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

On 28/12/2021 09:30, William Kenworthy wrote: A point to keep in mind - if you can feel the drive moving it may be generating errors!  Depending on the drive, the errors may just be handled internally and I can see it slowing things down though probably would be barely noticeable.  I have seen

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel's new configs not used?

On 01/01/2022 08:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:21:53 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 12/31/21 21:43, caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote: On Friday, December 31st, 2021 at 6:52 PM, Jack wrote: You would still need to run genkernel again for that new version.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

On 22/12/2021 19:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Wol schrieb am 22.12.21 um 19:45: What is an i-frame? As I understood it, typically when you had a scene change, a frame was written in full, then subsequent frames were stored as diffs. Is that what an i-frame is? Wikipedia [1] to the help. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

On 26/12/2021 18:50, Jacques Montier wrote: Hello all, I update to the last stable kernel 5.15.11-gentoo with the same configuration as the old kernel and now, the boot time is quite long. Test : 5.10.76-gentoo-r1 kernel : boot time 30s 5.15.11-gentoo kernel : boot time 70s My setup (non

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

On 23/12/2021 21:50, Mark Knecht wrote: In the case of astrophotography I will have multiple copies of the original photos. The process of stacking the individual photos can create gigabytes of intermediate files but as long as the originals are safe then it's just a matter of starting over. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote: On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) I've not seen anyone mention OpenShot. It is in portage,

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 21/12/2021 18:49, Spackman, Chris wrote: Wow, sorry, didn't realize this was such a sore issue. Especially considering we've already discussed several command line programs in this thread. To export: 1. press the red circular "export video" button (or go to File => Export Project =>

Re: [gentoo-user] Movie editing softeware

On 21/12/2021 19:16, Dale wrote: Spackman, Chris wrote: On 2021/12/21 at 05:13pm, Wols Lists wrote: On 21/12/2021 16:07, Spackman, Chris wrote: On 2021/12/20 at 11:17am, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

On 22/12/2021 19:27, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: TTCut can do "smart cutting" by encoding only the affected GOP [2]. However it only works for Mpeg2 Video and Mpeg2 Audio or Dolby AC-3 Audio. I have not tested it but VidCutter [3] should also be capable of doing so and as I see there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

On 23/12/2021 07:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:39:59 +, Wols Lists wrote: Now emerging! I shall have to play with it, but it looks just what the doctor ordered. I *believe* a ts contains an mpeg2 ... let's hope! AFAIR recall a .ts (Transport Stream) file is intended

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

On 23/12/2021 16:56, Mark Knecht wrote: Rich & Wols, Thanks for the responses. I'll post a single response here. I had thought of the need to mirror the ZIL but didn't have enough physical disk slots in the backup machine for the 2nd SSD. I do think this is a critical point if I was to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

On 23/12/2021 17:26, Rich Freeman wrote: Plus it is an SSD that you're forcing a lot of writes through, so that is going to increase your risk of failure at some point. A lot of people can't get away from the fact that early SSDs weren't that good. And I won't touch micro-SD for that reason.

Re: [gentoo-user] Synchronous writes over the network.

On 20/12/2021 18:52, Mark Knecht wrote: The thing is that the ZIL is only used for synchronous writes and I don't know whether anything I'm doing to back up my user machines, which currently is just rsync commands, is synchronous or could be made synchronous, and I do not know if the NFS writes

Re: [gentoo-user] Long boot time after kernel update

On 27/12/2021 11:07, Jacques Montier wrote: Well, i don't know if my partitions are aligned or mis-aligned... How could i get it ? fdisk would have spewed a bunch of warnings. So you're okay. I'm not sure of the details, but it's the classic "off by one" problem - if there's a mismatch

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

On 17/11/2021 11:55, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:39:14 -0800 Jigme Datse wrote: I'm using Claws Mail though I'm not sure if it is a valid answer, I do know that it's the answer I have decided on. Yes, Thunderbird is still installed, but I don't have a clue when I last used

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does genkernel mess about with mounts, when make install doesn't?

On 13/11/2021 00:36, Jack wrote: On 2021.11.12 18:34, Wol wrote: I've just been swearing blue murder because when I run "make install" it puts the kernel in /boot. But when I run genkernel it mounts a completely different boot, sticks the initramfs in there, and then unmounts it. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

On 27/11/2021 22:15, Kees wrote: >The docu says "emerge @module-rebuild". >Both of these terminate with "nothing to rebuild". Strange. try: emerge virtualbox-modules That should be rebuild after everuy kernel upgrade and that happens normally with emerge @module-rebuild "nothing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

On 28/11/2021 07:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 00:11:57 +, Wols Lists wrote: Strange. try: emerge virtualbox-modules That should be rebuild after everuy kernel upgrade and that happens normally with emerge @module-rebuild "nothing to rebuild" emerge pkg sho

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer works. This is to be expected, of course, BUT ... How do I fix it !!! What I always did on my old system was to re-emerge the modules. The docu says "emerge @module-rebuild". Both of these terminate with "nothing to rebuild". What

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

On 27/11/2021 12:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:29:10 GMT Wols Lists wrote: Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer works. This is to be expected, of course, BUT ... How do I fix it !!! What I always did on my old system was to re-emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

fails with "nothing to emerge". Unless I do an "emerge -C", but that of course will then break the old kernel (assuming I might want to go back to it ...) Cheers, Wol On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 8:00 AM Wols Lists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: On 27/

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from eudev to udev, disaster.

On 30/11/2021 04:47, Dale wrote: Now if I can figure out how to reset the list of /dev/sd* names that are lurking about and inconsistent, that would be like striking gold.  Every time I hook up my external drive, it gets a different sd* name.  It does the same on the SD cards from my trail

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get rid of preserved libs

On 12/12/2021 05:55, Bryan Gardiner wrote: I don't really look forward to uninstalling bzip2. Manually uninstalling and reinstalling freetype and harfbuzz doesn't fix the issue. I am thinking about deleting all of these libraries by hand and then rebuilding the packages, or perhaps unmerging

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

On 10/12/2021 15:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you can't do that, then it doesn't matter much whether you use a swap file or partition. On an SSD, both should perform about the same. On an HDD, swap files could run into fragmentation issues if you resize them or create them incorrectly. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in run-crons?

On 13/12/2021 22:03, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: If they are involved multiple times with the default options I think any attempt to scrub something that is already being scrubbed is just a no-op. Obviously if you don't want all that IO during the day you'll have to do something more clever - you

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

On 24/07/21 22:09, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since > there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same > place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it. THAT LOOKS LIKE YOUR PROBLEM. If daemontools has been

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

On 25/07/21 12:47, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> They are, @system is a set of packages and nothing it it will be >> > depcleaned. However, openrc is not part of @system, the virtual is. > Ah, that's it. So we have critical system packages which aren't part of > @system. I think openrc is a critical

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

On 25/07/21 14:49, Dale wrote: > The problem here is that a user installed a package outside of > emerge/portage's knowledge. No that does *NOT* appear to be the problem. The problem is that the user installed - *using* *portage* - a package that satisfied a critical system dependency. Except

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: whats a good laptop for gentoo these days?

On 09/01/2022 12:49, William Kenworthy wrote: My MS surface pro4 has died (swelling battery has popped the screen - known problem) so I am looking for a better replacement. I bought it new years ago but it only got good Linux support (touchscreen etc.) in the last couple of years so its been a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tensorflow-2.5.0-r1 compilation failed

On 09/01/2022 23:29, gevisz wrote: Unfortunately, you missed my previous message in this thread where I wrote that I do have Ubuntu 20.04 on the same computer. However, tensorflow fails to run on it because it is not compiled to be inconsistent with my videocard. So, Gentoo is my only option for

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and Firefox clash over rust version.

On 12/01/2022 10:14, Dale wrote: I tried to set up dovecut once but failed.  I guess I better get back on that since I use Seamonkey to do my email with.  I don't like Thunderbird and sadly may not like much of the other email methods either. I've mentioned it before, but DON'T modify the

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

On 13/01/2022 12:10, Dale wrote: I'm not sure about yours but I am very pleased with features and the print quality.  My only gripe is the cartridges and their cost. I didn't think £50 was that expensive for a cartridge ... until I saw it was only 1000 pages! £80 for 3000 - not superb but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

On 13/01/2022 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 13 January 2022 13:47:51 GMT Wols Lists wrote: On 13/01/2022 12:10, Dale wrote: I'm not sure about yours but I am very pleased with features and the print quality. My only gripe is the cartridges and their cost. I didn't think £50

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting a network printer

On 12/01/2022 20:39, Todd Goodman wrote: On 1/12/2022 11:45 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a Lexmark C2425 colour laser, which used to be detected automatically but now isn't. I can connect it over USB, but I'd like to use IPP or HTTP. This is a stable amd64 box, and CUPS is

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

On 16/01/2022 06:06, Dale wrote: I got nconfig to work.  The others didn't because of missing packages. It's interesting how many different ways there is to config a kernel.  I went to a link that was posted, still reading it.  May learn something else, if I can remember it when I need it.  lol

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

On 16/01/2022 09:43, Dale wrote: Wols Lists wrote: On 16/01/2022 06:06, Dale wrote: I got nconfig to work.  The others didn't because of missing packages. It's interesting how many different ways there is to config a kernel.  I went to a link that was posted, still reading it.  May learn

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

On 04/03/2022 21:18, Laurence Perkins wrote: I’d probably wait another year for all the bugs to work their way out of the system before trying it on purpose, but if you have non-critical systems to play with, well, the SMR drives are rather a lot cheaper…  I got a few for one of my server

Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube

On 06/03/2022 09:39, John Covici wrote: Hi. On my gentoo box, no application including ping can access www.youtube.com. However, a dig is doing it correctly, so I can not understand what is happening. A restart of named, gives me the same result. This is very baffling to me. If I change the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

On 12/03/2022 14:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do it? No. Unlike GCC, LLVM/Clang is always a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sys-devel/llvm and LLVM_TARGETS

On 12/03/2022 17:36, Dale wrote: I've sort of read about llvm and clang and I seem to recall things like Firefox needing them or something. I've just watched firefox emerging (yes I know, paint drying and all that :-), and there's loads of Rust code in there. To the best of my knowledge,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] mounting screws

On 21/02/2022 10:55, Dale wrote: I don't see this as polluting myself.  It is computer related.  I've asked hardware questions here quite often, even a windoze question a couple times.  After all, there is some very knowledgeable people here to get help from.  All of us know something someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

On 20/02/2022 14:40, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Or does it just cause plenty of package rebuilds without any real effect? Likewise, what about "--deep"? Should I keep it? Changed deps, I don't particularly know about. But --deep - that's to do with a dependency changing USE flags, and it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

On 20/02/2022 14:54, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 15:40, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: But if I understand the "emerge" manual page correctly, "--changed-deps" causes a rebuild of a package, if one of its dependencies has been re- build, even though the package does not require the

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

On 26/02/2022 13:20, Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: This is the page which explains how to build binary packages on one host and then install them on other PCs, without having to re-complile/rebuild them from source: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide It saves a lot of time,

Re: [gentoo-user] planning a new machine : comments welcome

On 02/03/2022 19:39, Philip Webb wrote: After > 6 years , I'm planning to build a new machine ANB6. The present machine ANB5 -- details at end -- continues to perform well, but I can't rely on that for ever. I use it for everyday desktop work + fun. The weekly Gentoo update is the main

Re: [gentoo-user] Reproducible Installation Lists?

On 26/02/2022 11:07, Dale wrote: Ramces Tampo-og Red wrote: Hello list, I'm a sort-of newbie gentoo user and I just wanted to ask if what I'm thinking is possible or if I'm just being stupid. But either way, I was wondering if it is possible to export a list of all installed software in

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

On 19/03/2022 11:08, Dale wrote: I have that installed here.  Question now is, is that what locks my screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver.  I'm trying to figure out how that works so I can get it to be

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

On 19/03/2022 08:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been thinking.  Yea, that's dangerous.  lol  If I logout of KDE, or have the screen locked, ctrl+alt=L key sequence, how secure is that if I have good passwords that are virtually impossible to crack?  My login manager is sddm.  As a example, if someone

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

On 19/03/2022 13:20, Dale wrote: I'm moving to encrypting some directories.  To do that, I need a empty drive first to put encryption on.  Then I can encrypt, move stuff that isn't encrypted then add drives back until everything that I want is encrypted.  I'm assuming I can have one large

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Sound not sounding

On 25/03/2022 15:01, Jack wrote: That second icon in the upper left looks to me (squinting a bit) like it might be a life saver ring buoy, but that doesn't help me in guessing what generated it.  Did you find anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages? VLC? Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

On 28/03/2022 07:53, Dale wrote: I looked into setting up a local mail server, it is just way over my head.  When I have time to deal with it, I'll look into it again.  I'm sure I can do it but at the moment, got to much else going on.  It's the season for catching catfish anyway.;-) If you

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and moving things around

On 27/03/2022 22:34, Dale wrote: I don't have RAID at all.  Just three drives being used as /home on LVM.  I should use RAID but I have a backup that gets done each week.  I wouldn't lose much even if it crashed and burned badly.  The biggest loss might would be emails.  I think I have gmail set

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