Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:

[Ian Bloss]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 1:40 PM Valmor de Almeida 
wrote:

> Hello list,
> I have been trying for a while getting firefox emerged; no luck.
> Inputs appreciated.
> Thanks,
> --
> Valmor
>
> >>> Failed to emerge www-client/firefox-68.4.1, Log file:
>
> >>>  '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/temp/build.log'
>
>  * Messages for package sys-devel/llvm-8.0.1:
>
>  * You can find additional opt-viewer utility scripts in:
>  *   /usr/lib/llvm/8/share/opt-viewer
>  * To use these scripts, you will need Python 2.7 along with the following
>  * packages:
>  *   dev-python/pygments (for opt-viewer)
>  *   dev-python/pyyaml (for all of them)
>
>  * Messages for package www-client/firefox-68.4.1:
>
>  * sys-devel/clang:9 is missing! Cannot use LLVM slot 9 ...
>  * ERROR: www-client/firefox-68.4.1::gentoo failed (compile phase):
>  *   (no error message)
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  * ebuild.sh, line 125:  Called src_compile
>  *   environment, line 5204:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *   GDK_BACKEND=x11 MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="${MAKEOPTS} -O"
> SHELL="${SHELL:-${EPREFIX}/bin/bash}" MOZ_NOSPAM=1 ${_virtx} ./mach
> build --verbose || die
>  *
>  * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info
> '=www-client/firefox-68.4.1::gentoo'`,
>  * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv
> '=www-client/firefox-68.4.1::gentoo'`.
>  * The complete build log is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/temp/build.log'.
>  * The ebuild environment file is located at
> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/temp/environment'.
>  * Working directory:
> '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/work/firefox-68.4.1'
>  * S: '/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-68.4.1/work/firefox-68.4.1'
>
>  * GNU info directory index is up-to-date
>

Gonna need the build log

>

Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

[Ian Bloss]

Check out syslinux if grub is too obnoxious. I've found it much more
straight forward than grub.

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 2:05 AM  wrote:

> So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually that
> can handle LUKS partitions?  No uefi, but GPT would be nice.  The grub2
> "documentation"  Reads like someone in the later stages of alzheimers'
> trying to tell you how to get to the moon from scratch?  The grub "legacy"
> manual was at least usefull, the grub2 manual is incoherent and has no
> logical structure or explanations in it.  It's insane that a boot loader
> takes 60 pages to document without actually explaning itself, barely useful
> as a reference IF you new it anyway.
>
> Grub2 produces insanely huge configuration files, stuffed with
> conditionals.  It's obvious even the automatic tools don't know how to
> configure it, It can't figure out how to boot redcore, on the same drive
> though it thinks it can.  It thinks you might want to try one version of
> linux with the ram disk and kernel from another, which doesn't work very
> well and WHY?
>
> any links to sane documentation or  sane bootloaders greatly appreciated,
> it'll be months before i can work on my own bootloader or extend one that
> makes sense out side of a corporate server farm or randomly assorted
> desktops that have to all work with the same config file (possibly because
> grub2 is deciding how to work every time it loads).
>
> Yeah, I hate grub2.  I"m very willing to learn gentoo,  but it does make
> some sense and there are articles that actually explain things online.  I
> can't find anything usefull about grub2 other than "DON'T MANUALLY EDIT
> THIS FILE", if it's not human editable and understandable why even bother
> to have it in human readable text?
>
>
> "Would you like to see us rule again, my friend?   All you have to do is
> follow the worms."  Pink Floyd, The Wall, Waiting for the worms
>

Re: [gentoo-user] vulkan development...

[Ian Bloss]

I believe the vulkan sdk provides that

On Tue, May 8, 2018, 7:34 PM Alan Grimes  wrote:

> After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got
> inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from
> github and tried to build it. It couldn't find ...
>
> Uh, where are the headers? What package are they in? =(
>
> --
> Please report bounces from this address to a...@numentics.com
>
> Powers are not rights.
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg broken?

[Ian Bloss]

Do you have an initramfs?

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, 6:52 AM Christoph Böhmwalder 
wrote:

> I think I broke something once again...
>
> Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die.  I
> faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that
> particular update, but because I was short on time I decided just to
> ignore those at the time (note to self: bad idea, apparently).
>
> Now when I run startx, it complains about a bunch of permissions being
> borked:
>
> $ cat Xorg.0.log
>  8< 
> [11.763] (--) using VT number 7
>
> [11.763] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [11.766] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7
> (Permission denied)
> [11.767] (EE)
> [11.768] (EE)
> Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
>  at http://wiki.x.org
>  for help.
> [11.773] (EE) Please also check the log file at
> "/home/christoph/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
> [11.774] (EE)
> [11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
> [11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
> [11.775] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
>
> (I'll attach the full log)
>
> I don't fully understand what's going on there, but I figured maybe
> someone more experienced on here might have an idea as to what I did
> wrong this time.
>
>
> FWIW, I already tried setting the permissions of /dev/tty7 to 664,
> causing the X server to work, albeit with inputs not working (the log
> reveiled that it couldn't access /dev/input/event7 or something, so
> probably the same issue).
>
>
> My user's groups are:
>
> $ groups christoph
> tty wheel audio video usb users input davfs2 plugdev christoph kvm
>
> (Note tty, audio, video, and input. That's all X should really need,
> right?)
>
> My VIDEO_CARDS contains "intel i915" (for an Intel HD 4000(?) chip in a
> Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st gen).
>
>
> Has this broken for anyone else?  Anyone who could point me in the right
> direction?  Thanks in advance!
>
> --
> Regards,
> Christoph
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

[Ian Bloss]

Probably need to pass a uuid to the real root kernel param

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 11:34 AM zless  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub.
>
> I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like
> this:
>
> menuentry "Gentoo ISO" {
> set cmdline="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs
> loop=/image.squashfs cdroot initrd=gentoo.igz BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo"
> loopback loop /path/to/iso/install-amd64-minimal-20180206T214502Z.iso
> linux  (loop)/isolinux/gentoo $cmdline isoloop=/image.squashfs
> initrd=gentoo.igz vga=791 BOOT_IMAGE=gentoo
> initrd (loop)/isolinux/gentoo.igz
> }
>
> It boots the live CD kernel, it even asks for the keymap but then it fails
> to mount the root device.
>
> Any idea how to properly boot the iso from grub?
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Forced rebuild of a package...how?

[Ian Bloss]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade
man emerge

On Sat, Feb 3, 2018, 8:20 PM  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to
> reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers.
>
> Emerge told me:
> |>emerge nvidia-drivers
> |Calculating dependencies... done!
> |>>> Jobs: 0 of 0 complete   Load avg: 1.05,
> 0.65, 0.34
> |>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
> |
> |>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
>
>
> That is valid for the previous installed kernel...but not for the one
>
> This was updated just before
> Sun Feb  4 04:21:46 2018 <<< sys-apps/portage-2.3.23
> Sun Feb  4 04:21:51 2018 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.3.24
>
> My make.conf has this options:
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=4 --load-average=4 --changed-deps-report=n
> --changed-deps"
>
>
> Thanks for any help in advance!
>
> Cheers
> Meino
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] ....Gentoo update killed Gentoo update?

[Ian Bloss]

emerge --sync && emerge eix && eix-update

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017, 6:55 PM  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> from my qlop -l output:
> Tue Oct  3 05:16:48 2017 >>> dev-perl/CGI-Fast-2.120.0
> Tue Oct  3 05:17:09 2017 >>> net-dns/dnsmasq-2.78
>
> Tue Oct  3 05:18:25 2017 >>> app-portage/eix-0.33.0
>
> Tue Oct  3 05:26:47 2017 >>> sys-apps/openrc-0.32
> Tue Oct  3 05:27:54 2017 >>> media-radio/gpredict-1.3-r2
>
>
> I tried eix-sync this morning and got:
>
> /root>eix-sync
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 22: ReadFunctions: command not found
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 24: ReadVar: command not found
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 25: ReadVar: command not found
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 26: ReadVar: command not found
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 27: ReadVar: command not found
> /usr/bin/eix-sync: line 28: local_portage_configroot: unbound variable
> [1]4865 exit 1 eix-sync
>
>
> ...end of the show?
>
> How can I fix this?
>
> Cheers
> Meino
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart agetty after update @world?

[Ian Bloss]

Running kill on the current pids?

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017, 12:36 AM Matthias Hanft  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for weekly updates, I'm using the usual update commands, such as
>
> emerge -NDuv @world
> emerge -c
> revdep-rebuild -i
>
> In order to find out which services are still using old versions
> of updated programs/libraries, I add
>
> lsof | grep -w DEL | grep portage
>
> and /etc/init.d/XXX restart for those services.
>
> But now, there's agetty left, and I don't know how to restart this
> service (without reboot):
>
> [...]
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325219 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> libnss_files-2.23.so
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325229 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> libnss_nis-2.23.so
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325233 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> libnsl-2.23.so
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325236 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> libnss_compat-2.23.so
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325238 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> libc-2.23.so
> agetty 3438root  DEL   REG8,4
>  30199325230 /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.23-r4/image/lib64/
> ld-2.23.so
> [...]
>
> There is a /etc/init.d/agetty service, but it's stopped anyway.
> I already found some discussions in the net which stated that
> "init q" should do the job, but this doesn't work here (just
> nothing happens).
>
> Is there a way to restart agetty and finally drop those old
> libraries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Matt
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

[Ian Bloss]

If you want to go with the hardened sources, there's a great wiki article
on it.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 10:20 PM Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> You should use the hardened profile with the harden sources. On terms with
> security you could compile a hardened kernel but you sacrifice ease of use
> by having to manage pax and if you choose an RBAC system like SElinux or
> grsecuritys adds more burden.
>
> Security isn't a product, so I would recommend sticking with regular
> profile with stable packages, and be mindful of what you have opened up to
> the internet. I would also recommend just reading up on linux security in
> general to understand what you're trying to make yourself more secure to.
>
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 10:13 PM Ста Деюс <sthu.d...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm new to Gentoo, and before new installation on my PC, keep trying to
>> choose between system profiles. I want to use the PC as desktop, but am
>> concerned on security and minimalism. So, I would like to use the
>> hardened profile and then add the desktop packages, namely openbox w/o
>> any X-session managers -- just logging in w/ text console and then
>> startx.
>>
>> So, is my setup wise, or i miss something because do not know something
>> on the distro. regarding this points of installation?
>>
>> Thank you for your time,
>> Sthu.
>>
>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

[Ian Bloss]

You should use the hardened profile with the harden sources. On terms with
security you could compile a hardened kernel but you sacrifice ease of use
by having to manage pax and if you choose an RBAC system like SElinux or
grsecuritys adds more burden.

Security isn't a product, so I would recommend sticking with regular
profile with stable packages, and be mindful of what you have opened up to
the internet. I would also recommend just reading up on linux security in
general to understand what you're trying to make yourself more secure to.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017, 10:13 PM Ста Деюс  wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I'm new to Gentoo, and before new installation on my PC, keep trying to
> choose between system profiles. I want to use the PC as desktop, but am
> concerned on security and minimalism. So, I would like to use the
> hardened profile and then add the desktop packages, namely openbox w/o
> any X-session managers -- just logging in w/ text console and then
> startx.
>
> So, is my setup wise, or i miss something because do not know something
> on the distro. regarding this points of installation?
>
> Thank you for your time,
> Sthu.
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

[Ian Bloss]

https://www.asus.com/support/faq/1029959
Pretty sad, most manuals I've seen have a troubleshooting section

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 10:22 AM Mick  wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 Jun 2017 10:19:31 the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>
> > I'll know in few days, but I suspect you are correct. The motherboard
> > will need to be replaced.
> >
> > Though most likely I'll select a different motherboard if that will be
> > possible.
> >
> > --
> > Thelma
>
> I'd check again the PSU output provides the correct voltage 220V or 110V
> AC.
>
> Remove and reseat the RAM modules, try one at a time and check if the beeps
> change.
>
> Replace the video card, which you've done already.
>
> If none of the above moves you further down the road of booting, send the
> board back.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-long 3-short beeps

[Ian Bloss]

Read the mother board manual, should tell you what the beeps are and how to
troubleshoot them

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017, 8:18 AM  wrote:

> My 2-months old system is giving me 1-long 3-short beeps.
> No, video display.
> I've swapped the video cards, it is not it.
>
> Is it a motherboard?
> Asus 970 PRO GAMING AURA Mobo
>
> I've taken the system to the outfit that put it together (under warranty).
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] System borked after emerge -e world

[Ian Bloss]

Try rebooting, worst thing you'll have to do if it doesn't want to reboot
is boot a rescue image and mount it to repair it

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017, 10:22 AM wabe  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> it seems that my system is broken after recompiling everything with
> the new gcc5.
>
> I even cannot execute any command or start new programs. It is also
> not possible to open a terminal or to login on console.
>
> When I type something in an already opened Xterm it says "Ungültiger
> Maschinenbefehl" (in English probably something like "invalid machine
> command").
>
> On tty12 I can see messages like this:
>
> traps: ls[4055] trap invalid opcode ip:3cd3d91e024 sp:3d6a804abb0 error:0
> in libc-2.23.so[3cd3d865000+19d000]
> grsec: Illegal instruction occured at 03cd3d91e026 in /bin/ls[ls:4055]
> uid/euid:0/0 gid/egid:0/0, parent...
>
> kernel is 4.8.17-hardened-r2
>
> (uname -a is still working).
>
> I don't dare to reboot my system because I'm not sure that it will boot.
>
> I don't even know if this email will reach the list, because claws mail
> also dropped some errors about "bogofilter doesn't work".
>
> Any help would really appreciated.
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Gentoo infrastructure on MacOS

[Ian Bloss]

Look up Gentoo prefix

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 3:29 PM Viktar Patotski  wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I know that it's possible to install Gentoo as a dual boot on a Mac Book.
> However I do like MacOs interface and it's power saving features. So, I
> have a question: Is there any way to have MacOs booted, but use Gentoo
> infrastructure (portage, packages etc.)? I'm aware of VirtualBox and
> similar options, but is there a way to be integrated in more easy way?
> Something similar to container based virtualisation?
>
> Thanks,
> Viktar
>

Re: [gentoo-user] evince - PDF support is disabled since poppler-glib library version 0.33.0 or newer not found

[Ian Bloss]

Searching with eix or Google is a good way to find things
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-text/poppler

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, 8:54 PM  wrote:

> I'm trying to emerge evince-3.20.1
> but I'm getting an error:
>
> configure: error: "PDF support is disabled since poppler-glib library
> version 0.33.0 or newer not found"
>
> !!! Please attach the following file when seeking support:
> !!! /var/tmp/portage/app-text/evince-3.20.1/work/evince-3.20.1/config.log
>  * ERROR: app-text/evince-3.20.1::gentoo failed (configure phase):
>  *   econf failed
>  *
>  * Call stack:
>  *   ebuild.sh, line  115:  Called src_configure
>  * environment, line 3131:  Called gnome2_src_configure
> '--disable-static' '--enable-pdf' '--enable-comics' '--enable-thumbnailer'
> '--with-platform=gnome' '--enable-dbus' '--disable-djvu' '--disable-dvi'
> '--disable-multimedia' '--disable-libgnome-desktop' '--without-keyring'
> '--enable-introspection' '--disable-nautilus' '--disable-browser-plugin'
> '--enable-ps' '--disable-t1lib' '--enable-tiff' '--disable-xps'
> 'BROWSER_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins'
>  * environment, line 2300:  Called econf '--disable-gtk-doc'
> '--disable-maintainer-mode' '--disable-schemas-compile'
> '--enable-compile-warnings=minimum' '--disable-static' '--enable-pdf'
> '--enable-comics' '--enable-thumbnailer' '--with-platform=gnome'
> '--enable-dbus' '--disable-djvu' '--disable-dvi' '--disable-multimedia'
> '--disable-libgnome-desktop' '--without-keyring' '--enable-introspection'
> '--disable-nautilus' '--disable-browser-plugin' '--enable-ps'
> '--disable-t1lib' '--enable-tiff' '--disable-xps'
> 'BROWSER_PLUGIN_DIR=/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins'
>  *phase-helpers.sh, line  665:  Called __helpers_die 'econf failed'
>  *   isolated-functions.sh, line  117:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *  die "$@"
>
> I can not find: poppler-glib
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)

[Ian Bloss]

You were rsyncing from root locally to user Thelma remotely
thelma@10.10.0.2
^^^

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 9:38 PM  wrote:

> On 03/21/2017 10:07 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > I'm trying to rsync (as root) files and I'm gettng an error
> > rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13)
> >
> > rsync -av computer.MYD thelma@10.10.0.2:/home/thelma/business/Monday/
> > sending incremental file list
> > computer.MYD
> > rsync: mkstemp "/home/thelma/business/Monday/.computer.MYD.sl2GiP"
> failed: Permission denied (13)
> >
> > Source file:
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  128 Mar 20 21:25 computer.MYD
> >
> > Destination:
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   96 Mar 13 20:35 computer.MYD
>
> Solved.
> The file in Thelma's dir had owner root:root it should be thelma:thelma
> (chown -R thelma:thelma *) solved the problem.
>
> Though I'm puzzled why it didn't work. I was running "rysnc" as root.
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Bootloaders: SILENT CRISIS!!!

[Ian Bloss]

Syslinux family has been my go to boot loader

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 4:12 PM Bill Kenworthy  wrote:

> On 27/01/17 01:03, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first
> > impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some
> > users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem
> > but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done nothing
> > whatsoever. =(
> >
> > I thought maybe I could go simple and use something like elilo, The
> > manual was written in moonspeak, it was very missleading and had lots of
> > omissions, and misdirection. I downloaded the 2,200 page specification
> > for EFI an quickly came to realize that the Elilo documentation was a
> > geyser of bullshit. I think it's going to be my new standard example of
> > how awful linux documentation is.
> >
> > Seriously, It deserves a few hundred more pages of ragging, and flaming,
> > and rage-ing but I've got a piece of junk to boot. =|
> >
> >
> > I don't know where Gentoo is getting it's source for Grub...
> >
> >
> > Apparently the git version of Grub was abandoned in 2015, as far as I
> > can tell... I'm trying to build it from source. As is appropriate the
> > git repository doesn't have the git scripts, I tried running autoreconf
> > on it but got error messages...
> >
> > I cleared a few of them but I'm like:
> >
> > ##
> > atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ autoreconf
> > autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not
> > AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION
> > automake-1.15: error: cannot open < Makefile.util.am: No such file or
> > directory
> > autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1
> > atg@localhost ~/source/grub $
> > ##
> >
> > Is there a way to ebuild a "grub-git" and produce a grub install with
> > version = date of most recent commit on active fork?
> >
>
> I tried grub2 and dumped it for "rEFit" - ended up a lot easier and more
> robust.
>
> This was on an apple air laptop a few years back, and currently on a MS
> surface 4.
>
> BillK
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

[Ian Bloss]

You could try running a 32bit chroot. This is how I deal with steam
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam#Chroot

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, 02:21 siefke_lis...@web.de 
wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 12:40:46 -0800
> Daniel Frey  wrote:
>
> > I am pretty sure the Brother drivers are in a compiled format (you don't
> > compile them when you install them) so it will require multilib. No way
> > around this unless Brother has no-multilib drivers on their website
> > (unlikely.)
>
> That's clear extract the deb file and moved cp -rv usr/ / and so on.
> This all do, I saw brother overlay and from there I saw multilib need
> to be activated.
>
> So I think must search a printer / scanner / fax with make the job without
> any needs of driver. Postscript I think will be find and when saw forum of
> Linux Users then should buy a HP.
>
> Silvio
> --
> Silvio Siefke 
>

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

[Ian Bloss]

Other thing to keep in mind is if you recently installed/updated virtbox is
to reboot your host to make sure the host drivers have installed correctly,
and make sure your kernel for the guest have the correct modules built.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016, 12:10 Harry Putnam  wrote:

> Harry Putnam  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 xorg -dmx -ipv6 -kdrive -libressl -minimal (-selinux)
> > -static-libs -systemd -tslib -unwind -wayland -xephyr -xnest -xvfb" 0
> > KiB
> > [ebuild   R] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.2::gentoo  0 KiB
> > [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.10::gentoo USE="dri"
> > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB
> > [ebuild   R] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.4::gentoo  0 KiB
> > [ebuild   R] x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.9.0::gentoo  0 KiB
> >
> > I'm proceeding with those rebuilds now.
>
> Rebuilds finished... still:
>   startlxde has no effect whatever
>
>   startx causes a full on crash
>
> Just a point of interest and possible diagnostic data.
>
> The lists below show a group of x11 pkgs that are uniq on a previous
> gentoo install that is successfully running lxde. That is, the listed
> pkgs are on the successful host but not on the problem host.
>
> I did not think any of them looked like possible causes of my problem.
>
> The second list (of one) below shows a pkg on the problem host that is
> not on the succesfull host.  Again does not appear to be a possible
> cause of my problem
>
>
>  uniq on successful lxde running host gv
>
>   x11-apps/bdftopcf
>   x11-apps/luit
>   x11-apps/xcursorgen
>   x11-apps/xkill
>   x11-apps/xlsfonts
>   x11-apps/xmessage
>   x11-apps/xmodmap
>   x11-apps/xpr
>   x11-apps/xsetroot
>   x11-apps/xwd
>   x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
>   x11-libs/libXaw3d
>   x11-libs/pangox-compat
>   x11-misc/xbindkeys
>   x11-terms/xterm
>   x11-themes/sound-theme-freedesktop
>
>
> Uniq on problem host g0
>
>   x11-apps/xrefresh
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] split-elog setting

[Ian Bloss]

FEATURES="split-elog" in make.conf

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 22:49 Harry Putnam  wrote:

> On gentoo `Portage log wiki' pages one is told:
>
>  "In order to create per-category elog files, enable the split-elog
>  Portage feature."
>
> (If you want to create `category-based' subdir.)
>
> It never gets around to explaining how split-elog is enabled.
>
> There is no example in /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example
>
> Can anyone post an example of how and where this is done?
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Ian Bloss]

Nice

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 17:58 João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-08-26 21:10 GMT-03:00 Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com>:
>
>> Have you emerge -avc lately?
>>
> Yep. No packages selected for removal by depclean.
>
>  Filelight helped a lot. I've cleaned 3 GB of logs and some other obvious
> files. Now I have 18 GB of free space :)
>
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos <jaon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> First of all, sorry for the English. Second,
>>>
>>> I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single
>>> installation, unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using
>>> more and more space at / partition.
>>>
>>> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've
>>> found many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder,
>>> for instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if
>>> is still been used.
>>>
>>> Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
>>> Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
>>> libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.
>>>
>>> Thank u all in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> João Neto
>>> Linux User #461527
>>> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> João Neto
> Linux User #461527
> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I really clean up gentoo?

[Ian Bloss]

Have you emerge -avc lately?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 16:58 João Matos  wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> First of all, sorry for the English. Second,
>
> I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for ten years. Single installation,
> unique. The system changed a lot and it seems to be using more and more
> space at / partition.
>
> I'm used to clean /usr/portage/distfiles, /usr/src, but today, I've found
> many files of packages I no longer use at '/var/lib'. Plex folder, for
> instance, was taking 2GB. Some folders at /var/lib I don't even know if is
> still been used.
>
> Is there anything else safe to delete? Is 30 GB insufficient space for a
> Gentoo desktop? Some times I have problems to compile packages like
> libreoffice, that requires lots of free space.
>
> Thank u all in advance,
>
>
> --
> João Neto
> Linux User #461527
> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Holy Quran in all languages Available

[Ian Bloss]

Meh, OP's the one posting this in a distro discussion mailing list

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 19:18 Deven Lahoti  wrote:

> make America great again amirite? is this the level of shitpost we're
> falling to?
>
> On Jul 26, 2016 22:13, "James"  wrote:
>
>>   uniq-star.com> writes:
>>
>> > Quran in 55 languages
>>
>> > http://www.truemuslims.net
>>
>>
>> tl;dr
>>
>> Here is a quick reference::
>>
>> http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx
>>
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Holy Quran in all languages Available

[Ian Bloss]

You can't convert us from the church of Gentoo

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016, 16:48 R0b0t1  wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Landis Blackwell
>  wrote:
> > y u no snackbar?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War
>
> dw, had a snickers and chewed it over with a twix.
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] qt-creator (and others) too slow

[Ian Bloss]

Are you running any special kernel configuration like the CK patches?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:42 PM Alec Ten Harmsel 
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:40:18AM -0300, Francisco Ares wrote:
> > Thanks Alec.
> >
> > No unstable KDE nor Qt.
> >
> > From the output of "equery l kde-plasma/plasma*"
> >
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.5.5-r1:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-mediacenter-5.5.5:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.5.5:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-nm-5.5.5:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-pa-5.5.5:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.5.5-r2:5
> > [IP-] [  ] kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers-5.5.5:5
>
> I have the same versions of plasma, except that I only installed
> plasma-desktop and its dependencies. I don't have kmail, kate, or any of
> the rest of the KDE applications except konsole.
>
> > ... and from the output of "equery l dev-qt/qtcore"
> >
> > [IP-] [  ] dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.6-r2:4
> > [IP-] [  ] dev-qt/qtcore-5.5.1-r1:5
>
> I do not have any Qt 4 installed.
>
> > From /etc/portage/package.use :
> >
> > dev-qt/qt-creator   -android -cmake -doc subversion valgrind
> > -debug python -webkit
> > dev-qt/qtcore   icu -debug
> > dev-qt/qtgui-debug
> >
>
> Hmm, okay. I have noticed some slowness when baloo is running, as
> Fernando mentioned. I turned off file indexing, which does not seem to
> have actually done anything.
>
> Anyways, other than that, KDE for me runs very smoothly. Most of the
> time, even when baloo is running full out, KDE itself is very
> responsive. Qt Creator currently segfaults when I try to create a new
> project or open a project, but other than that is generally responsive.
>
> Which version of Qt Creator are you running?
>
> Alec
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] no sound through headphones (still bad)

[Ian Bloss]

check either with alsamixer and make sure the headphone jack isn't muted,
or look into pulseaudio if you're using that, although I can't help much
there as I don't use pulse.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 8:25 AM allan gottlieb  wrote:

> Hardware: Dell Latitude E7450 laptop
>
> Gentoo essentially all stable
> Gnome / Systemd
>
> When I play a movie using totem it sounds fine if no headphones are
> plugged it.
>
> No sound at all with headphones.  I tried a few, one with a microphone
> several without.
>
> The gnome sound settings gui recognizes that the headphones are in but
> the sound test is silent.  If, with the phones still in, I select the
> internal speakers, all sounds well.
>
> I installed pauvcontrol and selected "Output Devices".
> When I selected "Speakers" as the port the volume meter moves around
> normally and the sound is fine.
> When I selected "Headphones (plugged in)" as the port the volume meter
> again moves around normally but there is no sound.
>
> This laptop dual boots windows.  I played the same movie on windows and
> sound was normal both with the speakers and the headphones.
>
> What should I try next?
>
> thanks,
> allan
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

[Ian Bloss]

Why is this guy crying about being funemployed?

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, 18:47 Alan McKinnon  wrote:

> On 26/06/2016 00:14, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> > Hash: SHA512
> >
> > Am Samstag, 25. Juni 2016, 16:31:22 schrieb Alan Grimes:
> >> Hello, Let me introduce myself again.
> > [snip]
> >
> > Alan is currently enjoying a vacation from the list. No point in replying
> > anymore.
>
>
> What happened? I feel like I missed something.
>
> Alan (the other one)
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] how to upgrade perl

[Ian Bloss]

Try perl-cleaner, read the man page to see all the options.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 12:28 lee  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> how do you do an update despite perl blocking it?
>
>
> emerge -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y --keep-going @world
> [...]
> dev-lang/perl:0
>
>   (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> in by
> =dev-lang/perl-5.22* required by
> (virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.100.0-r6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^  ^
> (and 8 more with the same problem)
>
>   (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (dev-perl/Encode-Locale-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>  
> =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
> (virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.620.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^  ^
> (and 56 more with the same problems)
> [...]
>
>
> It seems that some pppl found perl 5.24 somewhere, which doesn't seem to
> be available:
>
>
> eix dev-lang/perl
> [I] dev-lang/perl
>  Available versions:  5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20)
> ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads}
>  Installed versions:  5.20.2(01:11:43 AM 04/06/2015)(berkdb gdbm
> -debug -doc -ithreads)
>  Homepage:http://www.perl.org/
>  Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> Language
>
>
> An update is overdue.  What should I do?
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

[Ian Bloss]

Usually what I'll do is ctrl-z which pauses emerge, and then I'll run
pm-suspend to put the machine to sleep. After I turn it back on again I'll
issue fg and emerge will resume.

The --resume flag just attempts to continue a failed emerge list.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016, 11:02 Hogren  wrote:

>
>
> Hello !!
>
> I have a little question about portage.
>
> There are many big softwares like Firefox, LibreOffice. At a certain
> moment, I need to stop the compilation to halt the PC.
>
> But, when I boot up again the PC and I «emerge --resume», it restart the
> compilation process.
>
> Is there a way to not restart the compilation process ?
> I think that if I enter in the temp directory and I type «make && make
> install», it will install the software but it will not update portage
> database.
>
>
> Thank you for your response !
>
> Bye
>
>
>
> Hogren
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

[Ian Bloss]

I've always thought it was something like data/disk duplication

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016, 22:46  wrote:

> Neil Bothwick  [16-03-31 04:04]:
> > On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> >
> > >  By the way:  For what stands the 'dd' for ?
> > >  (Think unix!)
> >
> > The apocryphal story is that it is copy and convert, but cc was already
> > taken by the C compiler.
> >
> > If you have ever mistyped the of argument, you'll understand why some say
> > it stands for delete and destroy ;-)
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) is quite useful.
> >
>
> I had to ask for that :)
> I know that story from the "The heritage UNIX society" (THUS ) and
> I found that SO unixy...it put a BIG smile on my face.
>
> But "delete and destroy" is also VERY descriptive... ! )
>
>
>
> >
> > --
> > Neil Bothwick
> >
> > Top Oxymorons Number 11: Terribly pleased
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Blacklisting all packages from overlay except a specific group and version

[Ian Bloss]

Why don't you mask versions higher than 5.7 instead?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 17:00 Nikos Chantziaras  wrote:

> On 29/03/16 23:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > So, I want to install packages from an overlay, but only from a specific
> > group. In this case, the dev-qt/ group. The overlay name is "qt".
> >
> > It doesn't work:
> >
> >package.mask: */*::qt
> >package.unmask: dev-qt/*-5.6*::qt
> >
> > With this, 5.6 versions are still masked.
> >
> > How do I do this?
>
> Well, I brute-forced it. I've use this mask:
>
>*/*::qt
>
> and this unmask:
>
>
> It works, but I would have expected that computers are good with
> wildcards :-/ The above should be equivalent to this:
>
>
> but portage refuses to recognize it.
>
> Ah, well.
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

[Ian Bloss]

Checkout partclone, I think it does what you're looking for.

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 12:19 <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Ia,
>
> thanks for your reply ! :)
>
> The usbstick I want to make an initial backup is 64GB of size.
> That means, I will backup mostly zeroes.
>
> Where are the partioning/format defining on the device?
> If there are only stored the beginning of the device: How
> much do I need to copy?
>
> or:
>
> If there are tools to extract all needed informations of the
> partioning/formatting and to recreate exactly that kind of
> partitioning/formatting later with that or other tools:
> Which tools do I need and how to use them?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> Best regards,
> Meino
>
>
>
> Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> [16-03-29 18:12]:
> > If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be
> > sure you get everything you can just
> >
> > dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick
> >
> > Replacing old/newstick with the correct device.
> >
> > You can even keep a backup image with
> >
> > dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img
> >
> > Which you then can replicate to any drive
> >
> > dd if=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img of=/dev/newdevice
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 11:43 <meino.cra...@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > since companies know their usbstick internals  best, they
> > > format their drives in a way, that the performance is best.
> > >
> > > That's why I want to make a complete image "backup" of my
> > > new usbstick first before using it in case of needing to
> > > reset the whole thing.
> > >
> > > The stick is a 64GB vfat formatted device.
> > >
> > > How much of the usbstick do I need to dd/pv from
> > > the stick to preserve *all* informations to do a
> > > "true factory reset" later if needed?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> > > Best regards,
> > > Meino
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Preserving the initial partionin/formatting of an usbstick

[Ian Bloss]

If you're gonna dd a drive you either go the same space or larger. To be
sure you get everything you can just

dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/dev/newstick

Replacing old/newstick with the correct device.

You can even keep a backup image with

dd if=/dev/oldstick of=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img

Which you then can replicate to any drive

dd if=/home/user/whateveryounamedit.img of=/dev/newdevice

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 11:43  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since companies know their usbstick internals  best, they
> format their drives in a way, that the performance is best.
>
> That's why I want to make a complete image "backup" of my
> new usbstick first before using it in case of needing to
> reset the whole thing.
>
> The stick is a 64GB vfat formatted device.
>
> How much of the usbstick do I need to dd/pv from
> the stick to preserve *all* informations to do a
> "true factory reset" later if needed?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> Best regards,
> Meino
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem involving nvidia drivers, gnome and x

[Ian Bloss]

Did you do a emerge @module-rebuild after updating your kernel?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016, 04:26  wrote:

> Philip Webb  wrote:
>
> > 160329 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > With 4.1.20 the nvidia drivers I am using get an invalid argument
> > > when trying to modprobe it.  Its version 355.11-r4.
> > > If I try the latest version, I get modeset errors,
> > > although it stops giving me the invalid argument.
> >
> > I had a problem with 358 + 361 , but the solution was simple :
> > I have "-*" to start the list of USE flags in  make.conf
> > -- yes, I know ... ! -- & there were  3  new USE flags
> > which I needed to set properly --  driver gtk3 kms  -- to make it work.
> >
> > Check your Nvidia USE flags, just in case.
> >
> > HTH
> Thanks for your quick response.
>
> Version 358.16-r5 still gives invalid argument, with no driver use flag
> available and the latest version 361.28-r2 gives me modeset errors, so I
> am sort of stuck.  The use flags you mentioned are all mandatory in that
> version.
>
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>  John Covici
>  cov...@ccs.covici.com
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS suddenly not mounting

[Ian Bloss]

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NTFS

Make sure everything is set accordingly

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 12:54 Andrew Lowe  wrote:

> Hi all,
> I did an "emerge -NuD world" last night and when completed, shut
> the
> machine down. Upon booting today, localmount can't mount ntfs partitions
> I use to dual boot Win7. I get an error along the lines of
>
> Unknown file system 'ntfs'
>
> This appears during the boot process and also if I do "mount -a" for the
> ntfs partitions. This problem during booting causes many things to fail
> resulting, eventually, in X/KDE/sddm from firing up and I'm dumped at a
> cold, dark, command prompt, instead of a colourful, flashy graphical
> login. Dos and Linux mounts are still good.
>
> In fstab I commented out the mounting of the three partitions in
> question, rebooted and everything fires up correctly, with the obvious
> of no ntfs access.
>
> Checking versions, this has just happened and the latest version of
> ntfs3g is 2016.2.22. I have rebuilt kernels and ntfs3g multiple times
> and still no joy. I downgraded to the second last version, 2015.3.14,
> and now everything is good. I can only summise that the latest version
> is dodgy.
>
> Has anyone come across anything similar? I thought I would check
> here
> before filing a bug.
>
> Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> Andrew
>
>

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

[Ian Bloss]

Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the magic
sysrsc key to get control of input back from X

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 09:35 Neil Bothwick  wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:15:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > > Try an Abacus. They work as designed.
>
> > So does portage.
>
> And both require more commitment to learn from the user than some are
> willing to give.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet
> when well oiled.
>

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

[Ian Bloss]

Did you update your kernel in the process as well?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 07:53 Bertram Scharpf 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since an emerge-update-world on my notebook the keyboard
> does no longer respond in X. This is extremely annoying
> because when I have xdm in rc-update, X is started right at
> boot. I have no chance to get back to the console using
> Ctrl-Alt-F1, and the device in unusable.
>
> Yet, this is only a problem of the boot process. At home,
> when I ssh into the system, I can do an
>
>   # /etc/init.d/xdm restart
>
> and from that point on the keyboard works. It is even
> possible to disable xdm in rc-update and start it after the
> boot process has completed. I solved the problem temporarily
> this way, but the problem probably is a bug and should be
> reported.
>
> So I have a closer look. When I diff "Xorg.0.log" and
> "Xorg.0.log.old" (after removing the time stamps) I find one
> line that doesn't appear in the log of the working X.
>
>   (EE) kbd: Keyboard0: failed to set us as foreground pgrp (Inappropriate
> ioctl for device)
>
> What does this mean? I estimate that "us" is the personal
> pronoun and not a keyboard layout, and that the server tries
> to do some chgrp on some /dev/*. I have no clue what to try
> next.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Bertram
>
>
> --
> Bertram Scharpf
> Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany
> http://www.bertram-scharpf.de
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] chromium-browser will not start

[Ian Bloss]

What arch?

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:36 PM allan gottlieb  wrote:

> Just now chromium will not start
>
> gottlieb@E7450 /local/allan/gottlieb $ chromium-browser
> [1318:1338:0128/133753:ERROR:nss_util.cc(839)] After loading Root
> Certs,  loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
>
> I am running stable gentoo, gnome, systemd
>
> thanks in advance for any tips.
> allan
>
>

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

[Ian Bloss]

You can install pepperflash to chromium although it's proprietary. Google
Chrome has pepper flash by default

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016, 10:54 Peter Humphrey  wrote:

> On Sunday 10 January 2016 12:25:41 Thomas Mueller wrote:
>
> > Adobe Flash remains a bitter reality on mlb.com, nfl.com, wfpl.org, AT
> > Uverse, among others.
>
> ... bbc.co.uk ...
>
> --
> Rgds
> Peter
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf

[Ian Bloss]

It's telling you to add -xattr to FEATURES in your make.conf to get around
the issue.

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015, 20:03   wrote:

> I'm upgrading one of my boxes (last one) and get an error message on the
> following packages.
>
> grub-0.97-r16
> python-2.7.10-r1
> icedtea-bin-7.2.6.3
> firefox-bin-38.4.0
> virtualbox-bin-4.3.32.103443
>
>  * Files will be installed there for grub to function correctly.
> !!! Failed to copy extended attributes. In order to avoid this error,
> !!! set FEATURES="-xattr" in make.conf.
>
> Why is it asking for it?
>
> None of my other boxes have setting:
> FEATURES="-xattr
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

[Ian Bloss]

Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host?

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 16:04   wrote:

>   Any ideas?  The error message is...
>
> sdl: SDL failed to initialize audio subsystem
> sdl: Reason: No available audio device
> audio: Could not init `sdl' audio driver
>
>   I get this both with a Gentoo guest...
>
> #!/bin/bash
> qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \
>-cpu host -display gtk \
>-drive file=gentoo32.img,format=raw \
>-drive file=linuxswap.img,format=raw \
>-net nic,model=virtio \
>-rtc base=localtime,clock=host \
>-net user,hostname=gentoovm,hostfwd=tcp::2022-:22 \
>-m 3G -name "Gentoo VM" \
>-soundhw sb16 -parallel none \
>${@}
>
> ...and an OS/2 Warp 4 guest...
>
> #!/bin/bash
> qemu-system-i386 -enable-kvm \
>-cpu coreduo -monitor vc \
>-drive file=os2.img,format=raw \
>-net nic,model=pcnet \
>-m size=64 -name "OS/2 VM" \
>-soundhw sb16 -vga std \
>${@}
>
>   On the host, from "emerge -pv qemu"...
>
> app-emulation/qemu-2.4.1-r2::gentoo USE="aio alsa curl fdt gtk gtk2 jpeg
> ncurses opengl pin-upstream-blobs png sdl sdl2 ssh threads usb vhost-net
> vnc -accessibility -bluetooth -caps -debug -filecaps (-glusterfs)
> -infiniband -iscsi -lzo -nfs -nls -numa -pulseaudio -python -rbd -sasl
> -seccomp (-selinux) -smartcard -snappy -spice -static -static-softmmu
> -static-user -systemtap -tci {-test} -tls -usbredir -uuid -vde -virtfs -vte
> -xattr -xen -xfs"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
> QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"
> QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64"
>
> --
> Walter Dnes 
> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Manually removing packages from world problem

[Ian Bloss]

Check your /var/lib/world file to see if there are any packages or sets
that mught be pulling it. Also check make.conf global USE and package.use

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 17:24 João Matos  wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I was having problem with plasma, so I decided to change it.
>
> I've removed all packages related from world, changed the profile, erased
> use-related files from /etc/portage.
>
> Then I've used "emerge --depclean", that worked as should be.
>
> However, when I tried "emerge -avuDN world" I got a problem: portage tries
> to emerge all these world packages I removed before.
>
> What should be happening?
>
> Thank you all,
> --
> João Neto
> Linux User #461527
> http://br.linkedin.com/pub/jo%C3%A3o-de-matos/7/316/552
>

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU unable to initialize audio

[Ian Bloss]

I was saying the libsdl packages have a USE flag "sound" which builds the
sound module for sdl. So if qemu makes any calls to the sound module not
pure alsa calls, that might be causing your issue.

Wabes USE flag output shows he's building sdl with the "sound" use flag
enabled and not just alsa alone.

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 22:26  <waben...@gmail.com> wrote:

> waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 10:48:28PM +, Ian Bloss wrote
> > > Libsdl and libsdl2 built with sound use flag on host?
> >
> >   I didn't bother enabling alsa except for packages that actually need
> > it.  I've enabled it for libsdl, but not for sdl2, because I didn't
> > realize libsdl2 even existed.  According to equery, the only package
> > pulling in libsdl2 is qemu, and that's because I set the flag.  If I
> > remove the "alsa2" flag from qemu, will it work properly with "alsa"
> > alone?
>
> On my host system I use alsa and no pulseaudio. However it doesn't
> make any difference if I set the alsa USE-flag for qemu or not.
>
> I don't know if qemu runs flawless without sdl2 USE-flag. But you can
> easily test this.
>
> Btw. Since I reverted from qemu-2.5.0 back to qemu-2.4.1-r2, qemu
> hangs no longer when I specify ac97, hda or es1370 as sound hardware
> emulation. But I have to start the xfce mixer application on the
> guest OS after the desktop is loaded. If I don't do this, then one
> core on my host is always at 100% load and qemu is slow and sometimes
> doesn't respond for some seconds. But no error message appears on
> guest or host.
> Strange is, that the guest OS doesn't show a high load but only the
> host OS. After I started the xfce-mixer app on guest OS, everything
> is smooth and host load count normalizes.
>
> I now use qemu with "-soundhw es1370" and am have automated the start
> of the mixer app. With this, sound is working fine.
>
> As I already said, when I use sb16 or gus then I have no sound at all.
> Only ac97, hda and es1370 are working for me. Maybe this has something
> to do with the guest OS.
>
> Here are the USE-flags that I use for qemu, libsdl and libsdl2.
>
> app-emulation/qemu-2.4.1-r2 aio caps curl fdt filecaps gtk gtk2 jpeg lzo
> ncurses nfs nls opengl pin-upstream-blobs png python sasl sdl sdl2 seccomp
> spice threads usb uuid vde vhost-net vnc xattr xfs -accessibility -alsa
> -bluetooth -debug -glusterfs -infiniband -iscsi -numa -pulseaudio -rbd
> -selinux -smartcard -snappy -ssh -static -static-softmmu -static-user
> -systemtap -tci -test -tls -usbredir -virtfs -vte -xen
>
> media-libs/libsdl-1.2.15-r9 X alsa dga fbcon joystick opengl oss sound
> video xv -aalib -custom-cflags -libcaca -nas -pulseaudio -static-libs
> -tslib -xinerama
>
> media-libs/libsdl2-2.0.3-r200 X alsa dbus joystick opengl oss sound
> threads udev video xscreensaver -altivec -custom-cflags -fusionsound -gles
> -haptic -nas -pulseaudio -static-libs -tslib -wayland -xinerama
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

Is it a seagate?

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:02 Dale  wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I finally got a new 3TB hard drive.  I got one on sale for under $100.
> Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> basic as it is.  A little bit ago, I noticed a sound.  It's not a click
> or a metallic type sound.  It sounds like the heads are doing random
> reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily.  Thing is,
> there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop.  All the
> drives should be basically idle.  I even went to single user mode to be
> sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something.  Still,
> nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the
> hard drive light on the case.
>
> Also, I do not know WHICH drive is making this noise yet.  I have four
> in there running and they are physically mounted close together.  I'm
> not sure I would know which one it is even if I take the side off the
> case.  I just know that it is making this odd noise.  Here is some info
> from hdparm:
>
>
> root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdd
>
> /dev/sdd:
>
>  Model=ST3000DM001-1ER166, FwRev=CC25, SerialNo=Z501R198
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
>  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
>
>  * signifies the current active mode
>
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> That's the new drive up above.  Old drive that is basically the same
> drive, different batch I would assume, is below.
>
>
> root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdc
>
> /dev/sdc:
>
>  Model=ST3000DM001-1CH166, FwRev=CC29, SerialNo=W1F4C31Q
>  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
>  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
>  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
>  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
>  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
>  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
>  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
>  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
>  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
>  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
>
>  * signifies the current active mode
>
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> The last SMART test I ran showed no problems but I have a fresh one
> running as I type on all drives.  Will update if it shows anything.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

If it's under warranty you can return it because it's clicking. You just
have to be "persuasive"...

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 20:16 Dale  wrote:

> Adam Carter wrote:
> > See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV
> > to sda etc each time)
> >
> > smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep
> >
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
>
>
> It's currently running the test on most of these.  The sdd drive is the
> new one.  The sdc drive is the same model but a couple years old, which
> is why I bought this one since the last one was working fine.  The sda/b
> drives are WD of different sizes.  sda has the OS on it and I think it
> is the black type.  Sdb is a small backup drive that I copy things like
> family photos and such too.  Yea, I also have DVD backups that are not
> here at the house.  Here is the output:
>
>
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdd  | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010Pre-fail
> Always   -   0
> 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0 0 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000Old_age
> Offline  -   0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdc | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010Pre-fail
> Always   -   0
> 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0 0 0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000Old_age
> Offline  -   0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sdb | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   010Pre-fail
> Always   -   0
> 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age
> Always   -   0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000Old_age
> Offline  -   0
> root@fireball / # smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep
>
> '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140Pre-fail
> Always   -   0
> 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000Old_age
> Always   -   0
> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000Old_age
> Offline  -   0
> root@fireball / #
>
>
>
> That looks OK to me BUT it is currently running the test.  What I may do
> is redo the file system and copy a new set of backups over to it.  Sort
> of give it a bit of a workout and see if that spots anything.  I bet as
> it is, they won't let me return it or anything.  It is working, just
> making that noise.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.

I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for their
failure rate.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 19:41 Bill Kenworthy  wrote:

> On 19/12/15 08:01, Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I finally got a new 3TB hard drive.  I got one on sale for under $100.
> > Anyway, I put it in, did the LVM thing and set up my backup script, very
> > basic as it is.  A little bit ago, I noticed a sound.  It's not a click
> > or a metallic type sound.  It sounds like the heads are doing random
> > reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily.  Thing is,
> > there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop.  All the
> > drives should be basically idle.  I even went to single user mode to be
> > sure nothing in KDE was doing some index thingy or something.  Still,
> > nothing showed that there should be any drive activity, including the
> > hard drive light on the case.
> >
> > Also, I do not know WHICH drive is making this noise yet.  I have four
> > in there running and they are physically mounted close together.  I'm
> > not sure I would know which one it is even if I take the side off the
> > case.  I just know that it is making this odd noise.  Here is some info
> > from hdparm:
> >
> >
> > root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdd
> >
> > /dev/sdd:
> >
> >  Model=ST3000DM001-1ER166, FwRev=CC25, SerialNo=Z501R198
> >  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> >  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
> >  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
> >  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> >  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
> >  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
> >
> >  * signifies the current active mode
> >
> > root@fireball / #
> >
> >
> > That's the new drive up above.  Old drive that is basically the same
> > drive, different batch I would assume, is below.
> >
> >
> > root@fireball / # hdparm -i /dev/sdc
> >
> > /dev/sdc:
> >
> >  Model=ST3000DM001-1CH166, FwRev=CC29, SerialNo=W1F4C31Q
> >  Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
> >  RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >  BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> >  CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=5860533168
> >  IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >  PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >  DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> >  UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
> >  AdvancedPM=yes: unknown setting WriteCache=enabled
> >  Drive conforms to: Reserved:  ATA/ATAPI-4,5,6,7
> >
> >  * signifies the current active mode
> >
> > root@fireball / #
> >
> >
> > The last SMART test I ran showed no problems but I have a fresh one
> > running as I type on all drives.  Will update if it shows anything.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Dale
> >
> > :-)  :-)
> >
> >
>
> Mechanics trick - place a largish screwdriver end on each hard drive
> case in turn and the handle end to your ear.  You can hear difference in
> sound quite clearly.
>
> BillK
>
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

[Ian Bloss]

When I get a chance next time I'm at work I'll attach a link to the piles
of dead seagates I've been collecting for target practice.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015, 22:09  <waben...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ian Bloss <ianlin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would
> > recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand.
> >
> > I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for
> > their failure rate.
>
> A friend of mine is using Seagate ES drives since many years in his
> servers. He replaces all his drives after the five years warranty time
> is up and as far as I can remember he told me, that he never had a
> failure with all of his drives. He gave me two of his old drives and
> I used them for some years in a RAID-1 array in one of my machines
> till I replaced them with SSDs recently. They are still ok. The only
> bad  thing about these drives is their high noise level. Server drives
> are usually located in a server room and not in an office and so they
> are not designed to be silent. :-)
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal colors

[Ian Bloss]

What text editor are you using?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015, 22:14   wrote:

> I have a hard time reading text in terminal when editing *.tex files.
> My background is black but the dark blue/violet text it is very hard to
> see on a black background.
>
> Recently Gentoo changed those colors, how to restore them the colors so
> I can read the text on a black background.
>
> --
> Thelma
>
>