[gentoo-user] CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS on kernel 6.8.1 considered a Bad Thing.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem .. On diffing the 6.7 and 6.8 .config files, I found a new pertinent item [*] Block layer debugging information in debugfs .. When I disabled this and rebuilt the kernel, my /boot mounted without problem. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.8.1 onwards.

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:47:43 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 12:20:29 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [ ] > > Please note

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
:12, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm trying to do > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg. > > It shows me 5

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply. Just after I first posted, I updated my system, with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged. So my qmail stopped working. I've now reinstalled and configured it. On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 17:48:18 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi Alan, >

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
16:12:51 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I'm trying to do > > > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
action. Thanks very much! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-01 Thread Alan Mackenzie
e update? I appear to be stuck. I hope I won't have to reinstall gentoo. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Bill. On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 10:14:49 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. > > This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is > >

[gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!

2024-02-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
the end I managed to recover fairly well, thankfully. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-29 Thread Alan Grimes
k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. You didn't write what model, hard to help you then. It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4. When I was shopping for it, there was a $350 model with wireless, and a $450 model without wireless, I was like OMG, i DON'T HAVE TO

[gentoo-user] The hopeless futility of printing.

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
I spent $450 for the most beautifulest printer ever made. Absolutely suprimo HP laser jet network printer. I even have a test page from linux to prove that it did work, once... After going through unholy hell, with help from this list, I got it to print a second time. Naturally, when I went

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to locate printer

2024-01-28 Thread Alan Grimes
Don't bother, printing always stops working the day after you get it set up on linux. It's easier to ssh int your linux machine from your windows machine and then print than it is to get linux to print in any useful way. =| Thelma wrote: On 1/28/24 11:46, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 28

Re: [gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

2024-01-26 Thread Alan J. Wylie
-kernel/installkernel-dracut -systemd With "dracut", it now ran dracut automatically, duplicating my install script. With "systemd", it installed the new kernel in a subdirectory of /boot, named by 32 random hex characters and

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.6 [was 6.3] onwards.

2024-01-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: [ ] Please note the corrected subject line. This version of the soft scrolling patch is for kernel 6.6.13, or thereabouts. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2024-01-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. [ First an older post, but without quoting >s on the lines. ] On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 18:56:27 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The topic of this post is my kernel patch which enables soft scrolling on Linux tty's with and , and also enables the GPM mouse utility on those scrol

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
seamlessly interact with MTP device files." -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.wylie.me.uk/ Dance like no-one's watching. / Encrypt like everyone is. Security is inversely proportional to convenience

Re: [gentoo-user] downloading from cell phone to Gentoo

2024-01-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
; but the Gentoo version is currently the same as that on github last time I pulled. [as root] simple-mtpfs --device 1 -o allow_other,ro /mnt/phone [as normal user, copy] rsync ... [again, as root] fusermount -u /mnt/phone -- Alan J. Wylie https://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Debugging NFS mounts

2023-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
I chroot, env-update hangs for > ever. > Well, over an hour anyway. > > Is it possible to export /var in this way? I can't see anything else wrong. > Did you run mount inside the chroot or outside of it? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs filling up with nothing

2023-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 3:09 PM Mart Raudsepp wrote: > On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 19:08 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:17:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM Neil Bothwick > > > wrote: > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs filling up with nothing

2023-11-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
96 184 /tmp/#184 (deleted) So here I have one. To release the 1 file, kill the process holding it open Alan -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
There is a new item about this: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-12-01-systemd-usrmerge.html I did not read or act on any of the unread news articles, leaving it for later If only... On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 8:46 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:35 P

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 7:35 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 6 November 2023 17:26:45 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > > At this point I see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 6:56 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 6 November 2023 16:16:50 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > New install here, recent .isos: > > install-amd64-minimal-20230806T163139Z.iso > > stage3-amd64-systemd-20230806T163139Z.tar.

[gentoo-user] Strange emerge behavior during new install

2023-11-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
es mplayer mtp musicbrainz offensive rar rdp slang smp snmp szip # vdpau vim-syntax webkit xcomposite zip # -cdrom -gtk -sdl -semantic-desktop" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" == And so, in the words of the wise man, WTF? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook > <mailto:mackal.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I just --backtrack=100 and walked away, seemed to have figured &

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook wrote: > On 10/11/23 09:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > being blocked. >

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:14 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 231011 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > being blocked. > > All the visibl

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:07 PM Cara Salter wrote: > On 10/11/23 09:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > b

Re: [gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 3:59 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 15:43:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers. > > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree and > > being bloc

[gentoo-user] world updates blocked by Qt

2023-10-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
lazy and unwilling :-D Has anyone seen what the actual blockers are? I spotted okular, I suspect there are more. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Jorge. On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 18:08:20 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: >6.3.11-GPM.20231004.diff works fine with 6.5.5 (vanilla from >[1]kernel.org) Thanks for doing this testing. > > References > >1. http://kernel.org/ -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

[gentoo-user] An annoyance in GPM, and a fix for it

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
< 6.1.8-TRIPLE.20231004.diff , then rebuild the kernel. Install this kernel into your boot manager, and voilà - the problem is solved. :-) The usual disclaimer applies. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c b/drivers/tty/vt/selection.c in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
That should not happen, and is probably happening because you have masked something deep in the dep graph that is required. Please post all your package.mask files, and provided if you have any of those Alan On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 7:15 PM John Covici wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 11:53

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi John All version 1.x have been masked. They are very very old and have obsolete code. Upgrade to v3.x - this is what portage is telling you. Is there some reason you require v1.1.x? Do you have a local mask for openssl? Alan On Wed, Oct 4, 2023 at 5:34 PM John Covici wrote: > Hi. I j

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2023-10-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 18:56:27 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The topic of this post is my kernel patch which enables soft scrolling on Linux tty's with and , and also enables the GPM mouse utility on those scrolled regions. Currently, the patch I posted some months ago works

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from desktop to desktop without function keys.

2023-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
that is excessive :-) Alan On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 9:59 PM Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I've googled for this several times when I got a few minutes. So far, I > don't see a way to do this. As some know, I'm on the path to building a > new rig. Some of you are about to see why t

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo packages contain binary images?

2023-09-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
on a central host to then distribute binaries to other hosts. Alan On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 5:29 PM n952162 wrote: > Hello, > > When I do: > > $ equery list cmake > * Searching for cmake ... > [IP-] [ ] dev-util/cmake-3.22.2:0 > > Furthermore, I find no /var/tmp/portage/d

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 6:35 PM Jack wrote: > On 9/21/23 12:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:45:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > Not 100% back in the gen

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 5:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 13:45:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > > > Something pulled in ruby, I know not what. > > > > What commands

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 2:01 PM Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sept 2023 at 13:45, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > > > Hey Gentooers, > > > > Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. > > > > Something pulled in ruby, I know no

[gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hey Gentooers, Not 100% back in the gentoo groove yet, forget some basic tools. Something pulled in ruby, I know not what. What commands show me what installed packages have ruby as a dependency? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:03 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 18 September 2023 14:48:46 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 3:44 PM Peter Humphrey > > > > wrote: > > > It may be less complex than you think, Jack. I envisage a package being

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

2023-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
the solitary package with the > environment > specified for it, and it doesn't start the next one until that one has > finished. > The dependency calculation shouldn't need to be changed. > > It seems simple the way I see it. > How does that improve emerge performance overall? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Invalid opcode after kernel update

2023-09-17 Thread Alan Mackenzie
a sporadic RAM failure? Running the standard RAM test (the one you boot into, I've forgotten its name) for many hours might pin down the problem. > Thanks, > -- > Fernando Rodriguez -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 11:19 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad > > as openoffice at

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
t; Hi Ramon, distcc is way more than I need. I'm not complaining about long compile times and wanting a solution, I was more curious about which packages these days take long compared to when I was last here 5/6 years ago Alan > > On 11/09/2023 23:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 11:23 PM Michael wrote: > On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > chromium has been

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad > > as

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
qtwebengine! yes that one took forever also. It also said my 16G of RAM was smaller than the 16G it needed. Weird. Anyways I enabled a swapfile and left it to run overnight Alan On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 9:31 PM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > After my long time away from

[gentoo-user] long compiles

2023-09-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
now 21:16 and still going so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a while, but I didn't record time. What other packages have huge build times? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot

Re: [gentoo-user] mcomix (really python)

2023-09-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
he version number comparison is literal not numeric. Something that starts with a 1 is smaller than something that starts with a 6. Log a bug. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
gt; On the left side pane, last item is "Guide" - docs are very thorough, they tell you how to do it -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
OSes are like biology: apparently logical but actually messy -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Messages bouncing

2023-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
k of my mail. > The bounces ought to go back to your inbox, unless you set Return-Path to be something else. But first question is, who is bouncing the mail? Your server or the list? Alan > > Sent from my iPad > -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] TrueNAS not helping me now.

2023-09-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
ave my data, >> I don't want to have to learn something only to switch and learn again. >> If there is a distro that has a light GUI, that would be fine too. I >> don't recall using a GUI to use LVM or encryption tho. Still, could >> come in handy if it is really light. Odds

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

2023-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
a few empty directories. > Try it and see. My concern is that the man page implies that with --exclude-caches-under the subdirectories are excluded recursively, but the directory with the file called CACHEDIR.TAG is not. I'm sure that's wrong but the man page says what it says. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 8:26 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 19:49:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Quick n dirty solution: > > > > put all distfiles on a central server > > FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
Quick n dirty solution: put all distfiles on a central server FS mount that remote dir to /var/cache/distfiles on all hosts Alan On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:21 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: attic

2023-09-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
ve heard the saying > that Git is a data structure masquerading as an SCM, and certainly the > inconsistencies in the command line operations bear that out. > I'd always heard that Git is a file system and all useful side effects are pure luck -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-09-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone, almost feels like I was never gone :-D Alan On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 5:34 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > > > > Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar >

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Thanks :-D On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 8:32 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Alan. > > Welcome back! > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >Hello Gentoo'ers > >After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got &

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. Welcome back! On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 20:15:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >Hello Gentoo'ers >After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got >fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but >eventually got fed

[gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

2023-08-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
bunch of familiar names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more. For those who never knew me, My name is Alan, first used Gentoo 18/19 years ago, work at a large mobile operator where I'm a sysadmin and general know-it-all-busy-body working with ICT stuff, so happy to make

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 16:03:16 +0100, Michael wrote: > Hello Alan, > On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:00:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I don't understand what I just did, by deleting net.enp38s0, though it > > appeared to have fixed the problem. That worr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Nuno. On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 22:41:11 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-08-22, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious > > error messages on boot up. In particular, I see this: > > * Starti

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:29:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 10:56:52 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, gentoo. > > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious > > error messages on boot up.

[gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

2023-08-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
might get further with this problem? Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Paul. On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 11:15:05 +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Saturday, August 12, 2023 4:46:17 A.M. AEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > For the past couple of days, after $ emerge --sync, I've tried > > $ emerge -auND @world > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 21:45:38 +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: [ ] > > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > > curl_ssl_openssl? ( openssl ) > A REQUIRED_USE of 'X? ( Y Z )' means that if X is

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 13:52:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > For the past couple of days, after $ emerge --sync, I've tried > > $ emerge -auND @world > > .. It has come back very qui

[gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-11 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Please help me understand what's happening. Thanks for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-07-05 Thread Alan Grimes
I need a way to get X11 to boot into dvorak layout mode without having to look up this e-mail to find the command to set the layout to dvorak. My current xorg.conf has: but does not do anything useful. Section "InputDevice"    # generated from default     Identifier "Keyboard0"     Driver  

[gentoo-user] Something's actively deleting libssl.so.1.1 on my system!

2023-06-21 Thread Alan Grimes
Having manually dropped a stage3 libssl into my system, it has disappeared again!! What in god's name is going on? have I been virused -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] The Snowball effect.

2023-06-20 Thread Alan Grimes
In my panic to try to fix my keyboard layout, I did something absolutely stupid, I tried to update my machine. While this is a questionable thing to do on the best of days, it should definitely not be attempted when things are already going south. Now i've been having serious problems with

[gentoo-user]

2023-06-17 Thread Alan Grimes
mt aoos, vdt; hs,lqk ,sov dgkjdoe... :dogsf;ptw, G ialqk ktrd ak app f;glu x,dokt a; G ja.dlqk f;dh gk ;glid kjd 20kj idlkfote -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

2023-06-17 Thread Alan Grimes
having extreme trouble typing this, haven't had to type qwerty in fifteen years, keyboard mapping I need went poof during recent update, rebooted for kernel 6.3, X11 is NOT recording logs to /var/log since last year.  Console seemed to be barfing about not knowing what a dvorak is even though

[gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Alan Grimes
I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI freezes, needs to be closed from console. First symptoms appeared after a game

[gentoo-user] It's working again.

2023-05-01 Thread Alan Grimes
Chromium is working again. At this point I'm not going to even try to update my system until after the Jubalee which I expect to wind down by early October or thereabouts. =\ -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] Chromium build process tries wrong LLVM

2023-04-30 Thread Alan Grimes
There does not seem to be a gcc-config or eselect for LLVM / clang The ebuild for today's chromium requires LLVM 16 -> LLVM 16 is installed.  Fine so far... So therefore something selects llvm 15 to build =( # *  sys-devel/clang   Latest version available:

[gentoo-user] chromium and dbus...

2023-04-28 Thread Alan Grimes
It looks like chromium has no freakin idea how to use dbus... A decenently good OS would provide an IPC mechanism and little else. =| So basically this is just a hack-layer to get around the inherent fact that linux is garbage. Dbus is in my runlevels and shows no errors when I poke it with

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
David Rosenbaum wrote: This seems to be an environment variable issue. Do you have a value set for DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? No. I don't have the slightest clue as to anything whotsoever about dbus or how to begin to fix it, or why I suddenly need to know how to fix it. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
jul...@jroy.ca wrote: On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 14:40 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: atg@tortoise ~ $ chromium [19039:19057:0427/143338.626886:ERROR:bus.cc(399)] Failed to connect to the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type (examples of valid types are "tcp" and on

[gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Alan Grimes
I rebuilt my system on gcc 13.1. I think the compiler is good but it exposed some bugs in a handful of packages, these are: tortoise /var/tmp/portage # tree -L 2 . ├── app-editors │   └── scite-5.3.5 ├── media-libs │   ├── liblo-0.31 │   └── nas-1.9.5 └── media-sound     └── audacity-3.2.5 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Paul Colquhoun wrote: On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 4:32:59 A.M. AEST Alan Grimes wrote: Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. How are you starting chromium? I always start it from the console

[gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Alan Grimes
Still no clues as to why chromium can't display about:blank from an empty user config folder without spewing hundreds of errors a second. -- Beware of Zombies. =O #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

[gentoo-user] Chromium still doesn't work.

2023-04-23 Thread Alan Grimes
A new build of chromium came down today, no change in behavior. (High frequency error 11's with blank config, can't even display about:blank ) It must be some kind of dependency conflict but I don't seem to have any way to diagnose it deeper. I will be writing these posts daily until the

[gentoo-user] Chromium user files

2023-04-22 Thread Alan Grimes
AFAIK, chromium uses ~/settings/chromium  There's a lot of stuff in there so I don't suspect any other directories. I ask this because even against a BLANK config directory, the damn thing still emits crash dumps at a rate of hundreds a second, here is a sample... =\ -- Beware of Zombies.

Re: [gentoo-user] Another week without chromium.

2023-04-21 Thread Alan Grimes
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:03:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: I've already pruned everything sus out of my home directory... I'm at a total loss.. This is insane at this point!!! I've been updating my system daily hoping that this will be fixed upstream... =( Have you tried

[gentoo-user] Another week without chromium.

2023-04-21 Thread Alan Grimes
I've mostly been living on my *cough* windows gaming machine because chromium STILL spams "Error 11" in all tabs. A 30 second test dumped bout 415 crash dumps to the log folder. =\ Has ANYONE gotten a handle on this error yet? Any idea what package causes it? Chromium seems very

[gentoo-user] Chromium

2023-04-14 Thread Alan Grimes
Looks like upstream noticed chromium was segfaulting so they took it off the every few milliseconds update sechedule and tried to fix it, looks like they added some assertion checks and shipped it out without trying to compile it.. x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-clang++ -MMD -MF

[gentoo-user] Somebody deserves a medal...

2023-04-10 Thread Alan Grimes
Some hero fixed Ruby, all good atm. Chromium still absolutely b0rk3d. All tabs spew crash dumps to disk at extremely high frequency, no functionality. "Error 11" not exactly same as signal 11, but very similar. Seamonkey works fine for e-mail and non-multimedia pages; any multimedia ->

[gentoo-user] Logic?

2023-04-06 Thread Alan Grimes
1. My system was basically working last time I updated it several months ago. 2. Now both of my main web browsers are severely if not utterly foobar. 3. It required effort to change the system from the first state to the second... -> how much effort did it it take? =\ That said, the

[gentoo-user] Chromium

2023-04-05 Thread Alan Grimes
1. I've purged all obsolete packages from the system except for kernel 5.19 which I'm holding as a backup. 2. Everything looks like it compiles normally except for RUBY which is utterly broken. 3. Seamonkey crashes on __ANY__ video page, esp youtube but basically all of them, simple signal

[gentoo-user] RUBY?!?!?!?

2023-04-03 Thread Alan Grimes
Gah, the water block on my threadripper is clogged again. =\  Just ordered a fresh one, will try to clean the current one and keep it as a spare. I had been coasting for about 6 months but a power dip reset the machine so I'm updating. I had a nightmare of a time getting things to the

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Installing: Boot partition: /boot or /boot/efi ?

2023-03-31 Thread Alan E. Davis
o luck. I am planning to try to mount the boot partition to /boot/efi, now, and see what happens. Any problems with this? Thank you, -- Alan Davis "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” --- Mahatma Gandhi

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
es and 17 seconds. Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz, 4GiB, not systemd Wed Sep 28 08:32:50 2022 >>> net-dns/bind-9.16.33 merge time: 15 minutes and 28 seconds. Fri Jan 20 07:50:41 2023 >>> net-dns/bind-9.16.36 merge time: 16 minutes and 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New (?final) version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-02-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. I have another version of the patch which makes GPM usable on scrolled consoles. I'd like to think that it's now final. On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 14:41:53 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 January 2023 22:31:17 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:28:36 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > --->8 > > Again, on any problems please let me know and I'll try to fix them. As > > ever, there are no guarantees, etc., etc.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - New version of the patch - with GPM handling.

2023-01-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Peter. On Sun, Jan 01, 2023 at 15:13:02 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 16:13:23 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello Alan, > > > On Saturday, 31 December

Re: [gentoo-user] Help!!! My system won't boot. (?lvm?) :-(

2023-01-12 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 20:16:07 +, Alan J. Wylie wrote: > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > My system isn't booting. In particular, most of the SSD partitions > > won't mount, because they are not under /dev any more. The root > > partition, /dev/md125 mo

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >