[gentoo-user] Peculiar problem: no su - to root

I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm. I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and login as root. I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up /etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install. Still no getting to root by way

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

Alexander Kapshuk writes: [...] >> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot? >> >> >> > Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested here [1]? > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox I did go thru that page and

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

David Haller writes: [...] >>I've never used genkernel, but from what I understand it builds >>everything + the kitchen sink.. so should get the right drivers >>hopefully. > > Actually no, you can quite easily configure it to just the tedious > work. First, thanks for the

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

80x24 <aleiphoe...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana) >> HOST >> gentoo-17 >> VBox 5.2.6 >> Kernel 4.15.0 >> >

[gentoo-user] New install .. no high res console during boot.

Setup: Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST (openindiana (powered by Illumos)) VBox 5.6.2 Kernel-4.15.0 grub2 I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer console. At gentoo pages:

[gentoo-user] kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana) HOST gentoo-17 VBox 5.2.6 Kernel 4.15.0 My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel panic... not able to mount root. I checked my /etc/fstab trying to make sure I didn't make a stupid mistake there... it appear to be sound.

[gentoo-user] Re: Which pkg installs /boot/grub?

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 23 Jul 2017 14:55:29 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Rasmus Thomsen <rasmus.thom...@protonmail.com> writes: >> > Hello, >> > >> > grub creates /boot/grub when you run "grub-install" >> &

[gentoo-user] Re: Which pkg installs /boot/grub?

Rasmus Thomsen <rasmus.thom...@protonmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > grub creates /boot/grub when you run "grub-install" > > Regards, > Rasmus > > Original Message ---- > On 23 Jul 2017, 20:46, Harry Putnam wrote: [...] I guess I should

[gentoo-user] Which pkg installs /boot/grub?

I was pretty sure that grub2 installed /boot/grub... but I see no such directory after installing grub. qlist grub shows no directory /boot/grub In other installs I seem to recall seeing /boot/grub in place after installing grub. Googling for pkg containing /boot/grub seemd pretty useless as

[gentoo-user] Re: What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> I'm starting a new vbox install of gentoo using the minimal ISO from >> 07/13 >> >> When it gets to the kernel setup... I cannot figure out wha

[gentoo-user] What to set in kernel for hi-res console terminal

I'm starting a new vbox install of gentoo using the minimal ISO from 07/13 When it gets to the kernel setup... I cannot figure out what to set to make my console terminal high resolution. Something along the line of 1600x1200. I understand this can all be done in the kernel now. But cannot

[gentoo-user] Re: grub error I've never seen in many installs

Hinnerk van Bruinehsen writes: >> Has something changed regarding using that kind of technique? >> >> I can't figure out why grub would be looking for a GRUB drive on >> /dev/sda1 as the error says: >> >> grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for

[gentoo-user] Re: grub error I've never seen in many installs

Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> writes: > On 10 July 2017 at 22:06, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > >> grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. >> grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check >> your

[gentoo-user] grub error I've never seen in many installs

Installing from install-amd64-minimal-20170706.iso into vbox vm I've done this many times and never saw this grub error: Attempting to run grub-install /dev/sda I get: grub-install /dev/sda Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check

[gentoo-user] Uninstalling vbox guest addtions

Setup: OS: Openindian/hipster (A branch of Solaris 11) Hardware: HP xw8600 workstation: 2x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5470 @ 3.33GHz - 32 GB Ram --- --- ---=--- --- --- I notice in attempts to re-install vbox guest-additions that the process shows

[gentoo-user] Re: install of vbox guest-additions failing

Peter Humphrey writes: >> Yes, or at least I have been using modules.. not sure where I would >> determine if it were enabled or not. > > Make menuconfig; it's on the first page: > [*] Enable loadable module support ---> > Ahh, at the kernel level... then yes I do.

[gentoo-user] Re: install of vbox guest-additions failing

"J. Roeleveld" writes: [...] > Do you have module support enabled? Yes, or at least I have been using modules.. not sure where I would determine if it were enabled or not. I guess I'm not sure what you mean... it sounds as if you expect there to be a conf file that says

[gentoo-user] install of vbox guest-additions failing

Setup: Running gentoo updated as vbox vm on a Solaris x86 host Having a problem installing vbox guest additions. Hard for me to tell if the problem is with vbox-guestadditions or if the newest kernel (4.12.0) really has shortcomings. Like always with guest-additions... I ran: `bash

[gentoo-user] Re: redoing grub-2 after emerge updates it

Mike Gilbert writes: [...] Mick wrote: >> As has already stated you could stay put with your old version, provided you >> have no specific reason to stop using it. GRUB2 can be installed and left >> unused. I guess from a usability perspective as long as you have no need

[gentoo-user] Re: redoing grub-2 after emerge updates it

Mike Gilbert writes: [...] > If you want to use the new version to boot your system, you should > re-run grub-install, which will copy the modules to /boot/grub and > will install the core image to your MBR or EFI system partition. Thanks for the info. I don't know what

[gentoo-user] redoing grub-2 after emerge updates it

Googling to find out if it is necessary to reinstall the bootloader and update grub.cfg afer update world installed grub2 update. I was buried in directions to install grub2, or move from old grub to grub2. But not what I wanted to know short of reading all hits word for word. So, (sniveling

[gentoo-user] Re: About using only precompiled pkgs

Rich Freeman writes: > I would tell you to search the list archives, but I really struggle to > get Google to find anything there. Well said. Thank you for the script. They are giving me some ideas.

[gentoo-user] Re: About using only precompiled pkgs

Rich Freeman writes: [...] snipped informative input > For a single system there isn't much benefit in general, though for > reinstalls you can certainly save binary packages of everything you do > build. I do this for everything I build. I also have Gentoo > pre-build

[gentoo-user] About using only precompiled pkgs

I skimmed thru some of the documentation about using binary pkgs online, but it kind of indicated it might not be possible to get everything in that format. Wondering if using mostly binary pkgs is a biggish hassle or if it can be done... and done without the time-sink always involved in `emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Peculiar problem with root login

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host > Sorry folks, my question was sent to the wrong group... intended for debian.users

[gentoo-user] Peculiar problem with root login

Running debian jesse in a vbox vm on a Solaris host I have what seems like an unusual problem with root login on this host. I've done the normal things one does to allow root login; that is, add PermitRootLogin yes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config Restart ssh, and in fact this host has been

[gentoo-user] how to get started with automated update world

I imagine automating updates has come up a few times here... I personally never have noticed it.. but haven't followed the group as close as I once did, and never really considered automating updates. Is that something better left to experts? Or are there some tried and true tools available

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

Mike Gilbert writes: [...] > If you are not worried about securely removing all data and simply > want to fool fdisk into thinking your drive is empty, use the wipefs > utility. This will zero-out key bytes like the MBR, partition table, > filesystem magic numbers, etc. > >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't remember ever running into anything like this. I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least no evidence of boot manager or fs having been

[gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

John Runyon <m...@jfr.im> writes: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 10:08:41PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >> In the course of about 2 hrs my connections were dropped at least 15 >> times and I think probably more. At some points I have more than one >> login going, and I

[gentoo-user] Re: About the MATE desktop applications menu

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 11:46:52 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >> > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 02:51:50 Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Just curious is anyone else running the

[gentoo-user] Re: Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

Stroller, just a note on my experience this evening. I liked what I saw about linode in this thread.. Decided to try them out. Got started with them... I was working from the command line in my new gentoo vm provided by linode. Getting things setup the way I like them. In the course of about

[gentoo-user] Re: About the MATE desktop applications menu

Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sunday 26 Mar 2017 02:51:50 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Just curious is anyone else running the mate desktop has this same >> shortfall. >> >> Usually in the Applications menu top right the last item on the menu >>

[gentoo-user] About the MATE desktop applications menu

Just curious is anyone else running the mate desktop has this same shortfall. Usually in the Applications menu top right the last item on the menu is a `run' command item where you can type in a command to be run. My fairly recently installed mate dt does not have that. Wondered if others have

[gentoo-user] Something is blocking an addition of fonts

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I've added some fonts from outside portage this way: (Sorry that what follows is a bit of a confusing mess) mkdir /usr/share/fonts/terminus loaded the fonts into

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

Corbin Bird writes: > > Have you tried : xterm -fa "9x15B-ISO8859-1"? I mentioned that the -fa switch was not working at all. I've since discovered that the xterms I had were compiled with useflag truetype disabled .. so `-truetype' Which meant xterm was compiled

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

at all. >> >> Some of the googling mentioned that xterm has to have that ability >> compiled in, so I wondered if our xterm is compiled for that option? A very feeble light almost came on above... [...] Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > Corbin Bird

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

Corbin Bird writes: [...] > Please clarify ... > ... if this is a console only boot ( in vm ), > ... if this is a GUI Desktop ( in vm ), > and/or specific xterm ( i.e "x11-terms/xterm" ). This is a full X host running lxde for desktop The xterm I speak of is the real

[gentoo-user] fonts mostly inaccessable to xterm

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I've been trying to get fonts to load into xterm most of the day. I'm not getting anywhere. for example: /usr/share/fonts shows all these: 100dpi corefonts

[gentoo-user] -dec-terminal- fonts

Some time back a standard part of an X install were fonts with names like: -dec-terminal-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-dec-dectech The list is about 10 lines longer. I have them on a debian install but not sure where they came from. I do

[gentoo-user] Re: lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

Neil Bothwick writes: >> Also ran into a wall trying to use the regular tools like qlist to >> determine what is in there. I found the list after search a while on >> google but I'm curious why `qlist' doesn't list off >> what is in there, like it does in all other cases. >

[gentoo-user] Re: lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences >> Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog >> box... just an error messa

[gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog box... just an error messages that says:

[gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS= apparently ignored and new pkgs assigned

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up needing rebuilt during emerge world. Decided to see what `emerge @preserved-rebuild would bring me.

[gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome?

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is to be done to prevent

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > On Monday 27 Feb 2017 10:09:34 Harry Putnam wrote: Harry wrote: >> I guess I'll try this once more... Its still a big log but I cleaned >> up the escapes ... it is a fresh try at building >> xf86-video-virtualbox-5

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> writes: > On 170226-09:42-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > ... >> >> > Example at the beginning: [32;01m * >> > Example from the end: * >> &

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller writes: [...] > I would be looking primarily at the next point the word "error" comes up > properly, which is here: > > from >

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 14:19, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> I've attached a hefty log of some 4000 lines and hope someone will be >> patient enough to try to identify what is cau

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Just so you know... I did try that. [--color n] The resulting log >> looked exactly the same. I posted that fact in an earlier request for >> help a week or so ago in which I remarked how using the

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> writes: > On 170225-09:19-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host >> Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram >> > [ some cca. 80k text cu

[gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: >> On 25 Feb 2017, at 14:19, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> I've attached a hefty log of some 4000 lines and hope someone will be >> patient enough to try to identify what is cau

[gentoo-user] create network by hand with devices are not present

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Having a problem getting a network up... I know the rudimentaries of ifconfig and route enough to use them to create one. However the error I get with trying that

[gentoo-user] make boot console maintain a hi-res thru-out boot

One of my vbox gentoo vms, on boot, comes up on the grub screen in a nice hi-res console. Very early in the boot procedure that hi-res console collapses into a standard console resoltion and stays there from then on. It is possible to set things so that one maintains a hi-res console all the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

"Walter Dnes" writes: [...] > 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your > choice. Moved from: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop * to default/linux/amd64/13.0 * > > 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present. > > 3) "cat

[gentoo-user] puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram On first attempt at emerging sys-apps/man-db (in came up in a world update (including -N [--newuse]) emerge's output indicated that one could not have both berkdb

[gentoo-user] How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

I've had so much trouble installing gentoo into a vbox vm and then setting up X that I got really sick of it and found a premade vm (vmware) and installed... unfortunately I really do not like kde plazma or really just about anything about kde. Plus the version is old enough that its giving

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox-guest-additions

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 18/02/2017 00:08, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are >> running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS? >> >> Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is

[gentoo-user] virtualbox-guest-additions

Are the virtualbox-guest-additions on portage for folks who are running VirtualBox vms on there gentoo OS? Or are they for a Vbox vm where gentoo is being installed, and the host is something else. I ask, because I'm installing gentoo into a vm on a windows host. I've done this quite a few

[gentoo-user] kernel config setting for console scroll back

In make menuconfig, under: Device Drivers → Graphics support → Console display driver support (700) Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB) I think the default was 64 but I like a big scrollback buffer. As you see I set 700 but really didn't have much of an idea what that would be in lines. Can

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at > least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > but /etc/default/grub when you want to

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

Neil Bothwick writes: >> But no update-grub > > update-grub is an Ubuntuism, not part of standard GRUB. It's only a one > line shell script that runs > > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Even a large proportion of Ubuntu users would be able to manage without > it.

[gentoo-user] grub:2 first experience with it

Setup:INSTALLING gentoo(amd64) in VBox vm guest - win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Installing grub:0 was my first attempt, since I kind of know my way around that and have never used grub:2. But, ran into several problems concerning ncurses and

[gentoo-user] Pentoo... is it still being developed

Can any say if pentoo is still under developement?

[gentoo-user] Re: not understanding failed build log

Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: [...] > Sorry to post the raw pile of output but last time a used a http link > to a long log someone

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided?

Johannes Rosenberger writes: >> Can anyone offer suggestions about this... is it even the right way to >> proceed? >> >> > > Hello! > > I have portage-2.3.3 installed and in my portage manpage it is mentioned: > > The file shall reside in

[gentoo-user] package.provided?

Setup: Installing X on Vbox vm runnning gentoo (amd64 not strict). Host is win10 (64bit) Installing the xorg-server is calling for the installation of app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.0.32 However, my version of vbox is for a windows host (5.1.14). And actually has the guest

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg wiki and graphics drivers

Willie Mattthews writes: > If I am not mistaken you would need to install, > > * app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions > Available versions: 4.3.38 ~4.3.40 ~5.0.16 ~5.0.30 5.0.32 ~5.1.12 > ~5.1.14 {X KERNEL="linux"} > Homepage:

[gentoo-user] xorg wiki and graphics drivers

Setup: gentoo (no-X) installed into vbox vm on win 10 (64bit) host. I've gotten a solid base going but now want to setup LXDE. Gentoo LXDE wiki starts after you've already setup the X server so I went to Gentoo Xorg wiki Following the gentoo Xorg setup pages. I'm having some confusion

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger writes: > I found something interesting: >> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c >> Short answer: If you are getting this error right after linux kernel >> initialization, you are likely booting a 32-bit kernel with a 64-bit OS. >> >> Long

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger writes: > I found something interesting: >> request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c >> Short answer: If you are getting this error right after linux kernel >> initialization, you are likely booting a 32-bit kernel with a 64-bit OS. >> >> Long

[gentoo-user] Re: Need help interpreting kernel panic

Johannes Rosenberger <gen...@jorsn.eu> writes: > On 11.02.2017 20:47, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >>> Again I get a kernel panic but this time its different. It seems to >>> mount the di

[gentoo-user] Need help interpreting kernel panic

I didn't want any typos in this kernel output so took a small screen shot. I'm working on a new vm (vbox) install of gentoo but having trouble getting a kernel that boots. Architecture=amd64 (not strict) I started out by copying a .config from a running gentoo vm and using it to do `make

[gentoo-user] Re: Working on fresh install, question about handbook statement

John Covici writes: [...] >>root #ls /usr/share/zoneinfo >> >>root #echo "Europe/Brussels" > /etc/timezone >> >> And there is a little part following that says: >> >>Next, reconfigure the sys-libs/timezone-data package, which will >>update the

[gentoo-user] Working on fresh install, question about handbook statement

I'm part way thru a fresh gentoo install and ran up on something in the handbook guide to installing that is puzzling. This URL: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Distribution_files >From the section of install during the chroot and start of putting together the OS.

[gentoo-user] Re: autofs config

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. > > Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. > > I've installed the pkg: > > aptitude search ^autofs|grep ^i > i autofs - kerne

[gentoo-user] autofs config

I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto. I've installed the pkg: aptitude search ^autofs|grep ^i i autofs - kernel-based automounter for Linux created mount point: mkdir /projects-nfs I've edited

[gentoo-user] A little help on receiving mail

I'm having an issue when retreiving mail with fetchmail. It fails at the handoff to local sendmail. It happens with the default sendmail config sendmail.mc that is shipped with sendmail when emerged. It is a very abbreviated config that is desinged only for local mail I think. divert(-1)

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 00:17:13 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > Instead of setting USE=-gtk in your `/etc/portage/make.conf` try >> > setting `sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1 -gtk` in >> > `/etc/portage/package.u

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Andrej Rode writes: > Hi, > >> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" >> [installed]) >> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed]) >> (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]" >>

[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Andrej Rode <m...@andrejro.de> writes: > Hi Harry, > > On 09/12/16 18:23, Harry Putnam wrote: >> # required by x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.31-r1::gentoo >> # required by x11-libs/gtksourceview-2.10.5-r3::gentoo >> # required by dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1-r1::ge

[gentoo-user] go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

Since I've found no way to make the machine run X and grown tired of the chase... I'm going to keep this vm as console only and it has functioning sendmail install working on it. How to return to a console only setup? Although, I may have already screwed things up. I took a bright notion to

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.4:0/1.18.4::gentoo USE="doc > glamor suid udev xorg -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux) > -static-libs -systemd -tslib -unwind -wayland -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" 0 > KiB > [e

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: [...] >> The only thing I can think of left to check is >> emerge @x11-module-rebuild >> and see what it will install > > > [ebuild R ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.18.4:0/1.18.4::gentoo USE="doc > glamor suid udev x

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 08/12/2016 02:26, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: >> [...] >>>> Theoretically the install should be ready now to run X and lxde. >>>> However

[gentoo-user] Re: newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 07/12/2016 17:34, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: >> >>gentoo 32bit vbox guest on win 10 64bit host >>Installed xorg-server, lxde Meta pkgs and deps >>(along with many other pkgs ... to many to

[gentoo-user] newish vbox gentoo guest crashes from startx

Setup: gentoo 32bit vbox guest on win 10 64bit host Installed xorg-server, lxde Meta pkgs and deps (along with many other pkgs ... to many to list here but included at the end) uname -a: Linux g0 4.8.8-gentoo #2 Fri Nov 18 20:16:14 EST 2016 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5450 @

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

John Covici writes: > Well, you have several issues, looks like procmail executable does not > have correct permissions, should be > -rwsr-s--x 1 root root > or at least this is the way I have it. The issue with procmail was that it was not even installed... Suprised me

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> writes: > On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:23:34 -0500, > Harry Putnam wrote: >> >> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: >> >> > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: >> > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > Am 04.12.2016 um 20:09 schrieb Harry Putnam: > > is there a good reason you chose sendmail over postfix? Do you hate > yourself? You are a masochist? > > I found sendmail the worst piece of software I ever had to

[gentoo-user] Re: basic trouble with sendmail config

"J. Roeleveld" writes: [...] > I stopped using sendmail when easier to configure alternatives came along. > Currently using Postfix. > > As such, I can't help in checking your config. But I do remember you > had to compile the config files into a format sendmail actually

[gentoo-user] basic trouble with sendmail config

After setting up the files for sendmail on my first attempt at sending a msg I get this error as reported in the smtp conversation: Temporary system failure That is a new one to me, and doesn't give much to start on. It appears not to even get past the submit agent. (Running a little script

[gentoo-user] Re: elog default lifespan

Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 11/19/2016 04:21 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Saturday 19 Nov 2016 08:54:53 Harry Putnam wrote: >>>> After looking thru the portage man pages, the mak

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Rich Freeman writes: > Are you building in a tmpfs? That would perform better than an ssd > and would be much less wear on your flash besides. Of course, some > packages do take a while to build. I don't notice as much now that I > do most of my building from cron, but it

[gentoo-user] Re: `sets' & sets.conf

Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: > On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:43:56 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> > % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf >> > [kernels] >> > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet >> > world-candidate = False >> > files = /us

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Rich Freeman writes: > IMO over-committing CPU isn't actually THAT bad. The CPU obviously > gets divided n ways, but that's as far as it goes. There isn't that > much overhead switching between VMs (though there certainly is some). [...] Thanks for the fuller picture and

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

"J. Roeleveld" <jo...@antarean.org> writes: > On November 20, 2016 6:21:40 AM GMT+01:00, Alan McKinnon > <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs

[gentoo-user] Re: vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > On 20/11/2016 02:59, Harry Putnam wrote: >> An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I >> wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. >> >> Top's cpu usage is flux

[gentoo-user] vm still grinding away at compiling webkitgtk-2.14.2

An emerge of webkitgtk-2.14.2 has been running for over 2hrs. I wonder if I am starving my vbox vm of gentoo with 3GB or ram. Top's cpu usage is fluxuating between 45% and 99% during this compile Portage pulling 99% by itself at times. I thought 3GB was a bit high for a vm compared to what

[gentoo-user] Re: `sets' & sets.conf

[...] Neil Bothwick writes: > You can create a set containing a list of packages. I do this for > dependencies of packages that are not from portage, so they don't get > depcleaned and don't end up in @world. Something like [...] Thanks for the nifty examples... ...

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