Re: [gentoo-user] Make QEMU guest visible to other machines on LAN

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:04:13AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > For various reasons, I need another physical machine on my small > > home LAN to be able to talk directly to the 32-bit guest. I've read > > the "Network setup" at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Weird "df" output

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 07:15:44PM -0500, Jonathan Callen wrote > Note that all the bind mounts show up with the exact same device name as > the original mount they were bound off of. In the interest of not > showing duplicate information, df will only show the mountpoint that has > the shortest

[gentoo-user] dcron problem on new install

I'm getting a bunch of messages like... > Subject: cron for user root root[ ! -x /etc/cron.hourly/0anacron ] && > { test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons ; } > > /bin/sh: root: command not found /bin/sh does exist... [d531][waltdnes][~] ll /b

[gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

I'll admit that my system setup is a bit unusual. A long time ago, in a place far away, hard drives were small, compared to today's standards. The usual unix practice of multiple seprate partitions was not feasable for me, but I did want to keep root on its own partition. So I compromised with

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:13:29AM +0100, lee wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > > > >> He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire > >> hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 12:35:34PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical > > partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up. > > And an extended

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging squid indefinitely

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 09:48:37AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Wednesday 25 November 2015 16:03:57 walt wrote: > > > And Happy Thanksgiving to you, grouchy old fart living somewhere south > > of the equator where no one celebrates Thanksgiving :) > > If I'm not mistaken, Thanksgiving is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird "df" output

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:57:20AM +0100, lee wrote > He said that he "has a primary partition 1, which covers the entire > hard drive" and "a small / partition". That made me think that he > has two disks. Primary partitions are numbered 1 through 4 and logical partitions are numbered 5 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 08:16:57AM -0500, Dale wrote > k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Dale: > > ... > >> Can a system even boot without udev? > > Yes, use sys-fs/static-dev (unless you have some special boot > > requirements). > > Well, I was talking about if udev was removed and then a reboot >

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 05:05:47PM -0500, Dale wrote > I switched mine back when eudev was new and not even stable yet. It was > as simple as unmerge udev and emerge eudev. I don't recall even doing a > reboot, which I rarely do here anyway. *** WARNING *** After unmerging udev, do *NOT*,

Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:06:18AM +0200, wabe wrote > Marc Joliet wrote: > > > On Wednesday 08 June 2016 02:43:07 wabe wrote: > > [...] > > >But I wonder why portage wanna change udev to eudev on my system. It > > >seems that this is not the case for everyone else. I'm using a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change from udev to eudev?

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:18:01PM -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote > Actually, you no longer need a user-space device manager at all, unless > you want to be able to access device nodes under /dev as a user that > isn't UID=0 or has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE. The kernel provides a devtmpfs > filesystem that

Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:41:07AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote > Well, I am trying to use the nvidia driver which conflicts with uvesafb > frame buffer, so it seems. It used to work fine, but not it does not > work anymore and the only solutions I have found was a couple of grub >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is supporting officially Snap packages?

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > > I don't see the part where all these latest fancy container thingymagicies > > are not really just "embed everything in everything" > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] wakeup from suspend

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 02:55:57PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > Hi, > > currently I am experimenting with a new embedded system > (OrangePI PC). I want to suspend the system to RAM. > After a period of time the system should wakeup. > > The RTC on the board seems to support alarms. > > Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Adobe flash warning and tree

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:50:58PM -0600, »Q« wrote > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:47:47 -0600 > Dale wrote: > > > Correct me if I'm wrong here. Isn't flash supposed to be dying > > anyway? Why are so many sites still using it if they should be using > > HTML5? Isn't HTML5

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of `screen' possible perl mismatch

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:46:51AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote > Anyone know what needs to be done here? > > Are there perl pkgs that need emerging first? Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] OT: How do I dive into directory from GNOME-type menu?

This happens when I try to "Save As" from Gnumeric or Gimp or AbiWord. I select a directory and try to navigate into it by left clicking on the folder icon. Nothing happens. If I madly left-click away on it for 15 or 20 seconds, the folder finally opens up. There has got to be an easier way.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How do I dive into directory from GNOME-type menu?

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:49:54AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > This happens when I try to "Save As" from Gnumeric or Gimp or > > AbiWord. I select a directory and try to navigate into it by left > > clicking on the folder icon. Nothing happens. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:52PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote > Alec McKinnon: > > On 19/01/2016 18:51, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > ... > > > I have had no pain useing an old plain /dev. What's the pain ? > > take a machine running a desktop. Plug in a usb printer. Where's your node? > > To find

[gentoo-user] Can I install/admin a bootmanager from USB stick?

I'm ordered a new system for use for experimentation. Right now, I'm looking at putting ReactOS and Minix3.3 on it. Problem... I don't think either one is capable of booting the other. I suppose I could do a basic install of linux, and use its bootloader. But that's overkill. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I install/admin a bootmanager from USB stick?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:56:01PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 1:39 PM, wrote: > > I'm ordered a new system for use for experimentation. Right now, I'm > > looking at putting ReactOS and Minix3.3 on it. Problem... I don't think > > either one is

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I install/admin a bootmanager from USB stick?

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 07:08:52PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote > Or this? > https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html Thanks, it looks interesting. Separate from that, I've stumbled across one lone passing reference to "extended boot code" on the minix3 wiki. Need more research. -- Walter

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 01:59:50PM +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote > On Monday, 21. Mar 2016, 12:37:07 +, Ian Bloss wrote: > > Did you update your kernel in the process as well? > > > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 07:53 Bertram Scharpf > > wrote: > > > since an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > > You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates > > the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But, > > it's fairly recent

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 06:55:29PM +0200, wabe wrote > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > The problem appears to be the "sdl" flag. It slows down things by > > adding one more layer of middleware and overhead. I also got rid of > > the "gtk2" flag, for the same reason. By building QEMU with

[gentoo-user] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

I'm involved in beta testing Gstreamer 1.x support for HTML5 under Pale Moon (a Firefox fork). So far so good; it works. I use a QEMU VM for some building and testing. Things work great on a real physical machine, but audio absolutely sucks in the QEMU VM. I get an annoying warble-stutter

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Optimum sound settings for QEMU VM?

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:37:57PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote > I'm involved in beta testing Gstreamer 1.x support for HTML5 under > Pale Moon (a Firefox fork). So far so good; it works. I use a QEMU VM > for some building and testing. Things work great on a real physical > machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:25:41PM -0500, Corbin wrote > > On 04/27/2016 09:12 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > >I'm testing uclibc in a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo VM. I want to eventually > > install on my ancient 32-bit-only netbook. I'm running into problems. > > See

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 07:30:12PM -0500, Corbin wrote > > > > Your Welcome. > > Link for "evdev" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evdev > > The default kernel config has "evdev" built into the kernel. > > On my desktop, Nvidia drivers do look for and use "evdev" without > Wayland support in

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 10:12:53AM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote > I'm testing uclibc in a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo VM. I want to eventually > install on my ancient 32-bit-only netbook. I'm running into problems. > See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7912494.html > > To summarize... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.6.0

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:44:34AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > proc/proc procdefaults0 0 > shm /dev/shmtmpfs nodev,nosuid0 0 > > Not sure about those last two - are they still needed nowadays? I'm running OK without

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 08:33:01AM -0500, Corbin wrote > > > Questions ... if you will permit : > > Are you saying that in "make.conf" you set INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" and did > a test compile run? > The emerge you tried ... was it "xorg-base/xorg-x11"? > Or did you try a meta package for a

[gentoo-user] postgresql 9.5.2 versus Gentoo wiki install instructions?

Yes, I did RTFM at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PostgreSQL/QuickStart and that's part of my problem. I figured it would be a simple search and replace "9.3" ==> "9.5" in the wiki, but... 1) The wiki recommends... PG_INITDB_OPTS="--locale=en_US.UTF-8" ...but I get... > The database cluster

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 9.5.2 versus Gentoo wiki install instructions?

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 08:55:39AM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote > Longer answer: > > On Friday, May 20, 2016 10:36:41 PM waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > Yes, I did RTFM at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PostgreSQL/QuickStart > > and that's part of my problem. I figured it would be a simple > >

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql 9.5.2 versus Gentoo wiki install instructions?

the codepage. What does "eselect locale list" show? > In other words, which locale do you actually use? en_US.iso88591 [i3][waltdnes][~] eselect locale list Available targets for the LANG variable: [1] C [2] POSIX [3] en_US [4] en_US.iso88591 * [5] en_US.utf8 [ ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > AFAICT, you are suddenly not allowed to have gcc 4.9 installed > alongside any older versions -- even though they're supposedly in > slots. > > This is odd, because my system has had 4.9.whatever along with 3-4 > older versions for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 06:53:42PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > Total: 8 packages (5 upgrades, 3 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: confessions of a former USE=

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 04:08:40PM +, James wrote > »Q« gmx.net> writes: > > > > tl;dr: Getting rid of USE="-*" was a lot easier than I'd expected. A > > little rebuilding, a lot of (easy) USE flag pruning, and I'm done. > > > Until yesterday, I've had USE="-*" for years. > > I've

[gentoo-user] Anybody got a Gentoo system working under uclibc?

I'm testing uclibc in a 32-bit QEMU Gentoo VM. I want to eventually install on my ancient 32-bit-only netbook. I'm running into problems. See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7912494.html To summarize... * static IP works for eth0, but dhcpcd fails, which is bad news for a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compile attempt

On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 07:40:37PM +0100, Mick wrote > Hi All, > > I am dipping my toe into cross-compile territory, in order to build i686 > binaries for a 32bit box, which is too old to do its own emerges. I am using > an amd64 box which is significantly faster to do all the heavy lifting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was cross-compile attempt] 32bit chroot

On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 04:46:24PM +0100, Mick wrote > On Monday 01 Aug 2016 11:23:03 waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > I recommend going with one of 3 "cheats"... > > > > 1) A 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit machine > > > > 2) A QEMU (or VirtualBox) 32-bit guest on a 64-bit host > > > > 3) If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [was cross-compile attempt] 32bit chroot

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 01:11:24AM +0200, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote > Does it make sense to compile your own versions of these packages > and then binary merge, when portage already contains binary ebuilds > for these packages? (firefox-bin/libreoffice-bin/google-chrome) I've got an underpowered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 05:09:28PM -0500, »Q« wrote > On Tue, 12 Jul 2016 12:14:57 -0500 > R0b0t1 wrote: > > > Pale Moon is routinely behind Firefox on security fixes (actual fixes, > > not wanking-in-a-corner fixes). > > Is anyone other than the Pale Moon team itself trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Delete /tmp content

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 01:43:34PM +0200, Hogren wrote >Hello everybody ! > > After several strange problems, I discovered that my /tmp content was > never deleted. > > Is there a natif mechanism (with fstab or other option) and it's just a > misconfiguration or there isn't, and I need to

[gentoo-user] Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

I put it into CFLAGS/CCFLAGS years ago, and left it there. During a discussion on the Pale Moon forum about build options, the opinion seems to be that "-fomit-frame-pointer" is now the default. Is that correct? I'd like to simplify my CFLAGS/CCFLAGS both in Gentoo and the Pale Moon build

Re: [gentoo-user] Is "-fomit-frame-pointer" a gcc default?

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 01:48:37AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > so it is not turned on on x86. Not sure about amd64. IIRC it is default > on amd64, but I am not sure and too lazy to google. Just like the thread > starter. Actually, I did Google. So did another particpant in the Pale

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 05:25:01PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > > Well, you could always suggest that in the bug report... Done; see comment 2 in the bug. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Duplicate USE flags

; packages. Would you believe 4 flags? geolocation/geoip/geoipv2/geoloc On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 11:05:54AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote > Just to add one note, this happens fairly often, and when people > notice we generally fix it. New USE flags pop up all the time, > because new id

[gentoo-user] What ebuild provides "mach" build tool?

I'm looking for the linux mach build tool, similar to "make". My Google searches are polluted by a gazillion hits for "mach kernel". -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] What ebuild provides "mach" build tool?

On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 09:32:25PM +, James wrote > > I'm not familiar with that build system. It's not Omach right? > > What platform did it originate? A few more keywords are needed > to narrow the search IANAD (I Am Not A Developer). I know just enough about building from source

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice

On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 09:37:12AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote > On Sunday 03 Jul 2016 22:58:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 03 Jul 2016 22:53:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > localization (Br. localisation) > > > > > > > > \/ > > > > > > > > 10 letters > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0400, james wrote What response do you get with... emerge --backtrack=30 -pvuDt @world Note that I've included "pv" to turn it into a "dummy run" with verbose output. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run

[gentoo-user] Former gcc "-march=atom" flag is now "-march=bonnell"

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/changes.html states... > Optimizing for other Intel microarchitectures have been renamed to > -march=nehalem, westmere, sandybridge, ivybridge, haswell, bonnell. My ancient Atom netbook identifies as "bonnell". [aa1][waltdnes][~] gcc -c -Q -mar

Re: [gentoo-user] guvcview update produces an executable with missing lib...

On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:29:50PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > Hi, > > after updateing my system, beside others guvcview was updated: > > from qlop > Mon Aug 29 17:44:08 2016 >>> media-video/guvcview-2.0.4 > > After ldconfig as root and rehash (zsh) as user I got: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

clude the monthly copying over of /home/waltdnes and /home/misc from the main desktop to the "hot backup". BTW, this is probably the first email sent out from this machine to the Gentoo list. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 08:47:11AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:45:22 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > USB sticks are not that reliable to start with, so > > relying on the filesystem to preserve your important files is not > > enough. You have spent far more time on this

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] New install, a few problems (or not?)

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 12:50:09AM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote > 2) "uname -a" gives the following output... > > [i3][root][~] uname -a > Linux i3 4.4.6-gentoo #4 SMP Wed Sep 7 17:12:27 Local time zone must be > set--see zic m x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU N3700 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:18:51PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote > I just tried uninstalling xf86-video-vesa and xf86-video-fbdev to see if > they were required, and X still runs, so you can ignore those messages. > > FWIW i'm kernel 4.7.2 with ~amd64 on a skylake i3. > > You dont appear to have

[gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

core at 100% PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3520 portage 20 0 178920 171848 2032 R 100.0 2.1 24:48.70 yasm 3749 waltdnes 20 0 21808 2824 2340 R 0.7 0.0 0:03.54 top 1 root 20 04188 1564 1460 S 0.0

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

1 down, 1 to go. Apparently, I needed to rebuild the kernel after redoing the timezone initialization. I did... [i3][root][~] rm -rf /etc/timezone /etc/localtime [i3][root][~] echo "Canada/Eastern" > /etc/timezone [i3][root][~] emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data ...and rebuilt the

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

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:45:26PM +, Grant Edwards wrote > Would anybody care to make a recommendation? How about ditching "Desktop Environment" altogether and using a "Window Manager" instead? I use ICEWM. It has to be configured with a text editor, but you can then set it and forget

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluid -- the fltk gui designer...how to get it?

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 03:43:40PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote > Hi, > > I neither found appropiate USE flags nor a seperate package > for this... > > How can I get FLUID -- the fltk gui designer? Bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595246 has been fixed. I don't know how long

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

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 11:34:32AM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote > > Rather than guess and take random values read on the net - measure it. > > Google calculate mtu - netgear and others show ways to test upstream to > get the ideal size using ping > > You are looking for the largest MTU value

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