[gentoo-user] Re: Qustions about installkernel news item

On 24/01/2024 19:58, Walter Dnes wrote: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.html for those who haven't run across it yet. The news item mentions... Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel installation automation for users of GRUB via

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Booting - selection from command line

On 10/01/2024 02:18, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I have a box that is two HD's and both are bootable; using "refind" instead of grub. So the selection I choose at boot which drive to boot will be the default (during reboot, from command line) until I select the second drive. The box will be

[gentoo-user] Re: udev rule for periodic polling of USB gamepad?

On 03/01/2024 19:53, Michael Cook wrote: On 1/3/24 12:33, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it possible to have a USB controller (8BitDo Pro 2) polled every second or so with a udev rule? Or through some other mechanism? This controller has a quirk where it disconnects every 4 seconds or so

[gentoo-user] udev rule for periodic polling of USB gamepad?

Is it possible to have a USB controller (8BitDo Pro 2) polled every second or so with a udev rule? Or through some other mechanism? This controller has a quirk where it disconnects every 4 seconds or so and rubmbles when it does so. It also changes device number when this happens. It does

[gentoo-user] Re: alsamixer - no sound

On 17/12/2023 01:54, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: But the scary thing is I don't know what fix it and running as user: alsamixer still does not allow me to save default sound card I select with F6. You don't set a "default sound card" with F6. All that does is simply allow you to see the

[gentoo-user] Re: Python 3.11 USE flags being flipped on

On 15/12/2023 00:53, stefan1@shitposting.expert wrote: I just tried to run today's emerge, when I saw that python 3.11 was being pulled in and packages had this USE flag flipped on. Python 3.11 is the default right now (and has been for some months now.) You should follow the python

[gentoo-user] Re: No text scrolling at boot

On 13/12/2023 21:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: When gentoo boots grub display only kernel selection on the screen, hitting "Enter" there is not kernel line scrolling, only the login screen after few seconds: graphical login, user and password. Which parameter controls it. is it grub? In

[gentoo-user] Re: Wifi issues with 6.1.66 kernel and rtl8723bu driver

On 13/12/2023 22:34, Alexis Praga wrote: Hi, After a recent update to the latest kernel, I'm having troubles with a custom wifi driver [1], packaged using latest git into GURU. The laptop does recognize and connect to my wifi (that is, my iphone). But I cannot access internet and

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

On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook > wrote: I just --backtrack=100 and walked away, seemed to have figured something out for my system and updated normally. This is the one that solved it. Been away too

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

On 04/10/2023 21:11, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Similarly, with a triple click, one can select a line, or a sequence of lines. This is all very fine, but GPM adds a CR after each line in the sequnce, INCLUDING THE LAST ONE. This makes it less useful for, say, copying a shell script command from and

[gentoo-user] Re: Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

On 19/09/2023 08:36, Dale wrote: In the real world tho, how do people reading this make passwords that no one could ever guess? I use nonsensical phrases that also contain symbols instead of words. For example "all stars and cats for pies": all*s I can memorize those.

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

On 11/09/2023 23:21, Alan McKinnon wrote: Yup, that jibes with what I see. Oh well, just means that the need for overnight compiles did not go away haha Ever since I added the following to my make.conf: PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="sh -c \"schedtool -D \${PID} && ionice -c 3 -p

[gentoo-user] Re: long compiles

On 11/09/2023 22:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going so 9 hours at least on this machine to build a browser - almost as bad as openoffice at it's worst (regularly took 12 hours). Nodejs also took a while, but I didn't record time.

[gentoo-user] Re: dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

On 31/08/2023 21:51, Walter Dnes wrote: This is the most frustrating type of problem. On one machine I can run dosbox fine. On a second machine... [waltdnes][~] /usr/bin/dosbox DOSBox version 0.74-3 Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- Exit to error: Can't init SDL

[gentoo-user] Re: Migrate install from Intel 6th gen to AMD Zen 4

On 29/08/2023 13:22, Victor Ivanov wrote: Hello, I will soon be upgrading from a mobile Skylake platform to a desktop Ryzen 7000 series and a full re-install is not an option unless all else fails. I'm thinking of simply moving the drive and recompile as necessary. I don't see why this wouldn't

[gentoo-user] Re: Highlight certain packages being upgraded

On 08/07/2023 11:33, Dale wrote: that excessively long qt package Off-topic, but just in case you mean qtwebengine, I was able to get rid of it by putting "-webengine" in my USE flags. After a world update, a depclean should then remove it from the system. You might have to juggle a few

[gentoo-user] Re: QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

On 17/06/2023 08:02, Dale wrote: [...] --osd-on-seek=no Omit the "--" when putting these in mpv.conf. So just write: osd-on-seek=no

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/nss-3.90

On 06/06/2023 11:44, victor romanchuk wrote: hi, just noticed that night upgrade to [~amd64] dev-libs/nss-3.90 crashed firefox and thunderbird at start: both ABENDing with `illegal instruction' diagnostics. FF rebuild did not change behavior Downgrade to ~dev-libs/nss-3.89.1 cured the issue

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 06/05/2023 17:45, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: Unfortunately it seems that a recent change in the mainline kernel introduced a bit of an incompatibility, which is why the BMQ/PDS patch now turns it off. We're trying to get that incompatibility fixed. Anyway: glad you're up and running now! I

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 20:16, Wols Lists wrote: I've got a fancy gaming mouse and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING beyond the complete basics that is configurable :-( I also have such a mouse, but I have to configure it in Windows (using the "Logitech HUB" software.) Fortunately, the settings are stores on

[gentoo-user] Re: Mouse pain

On 15/05/2023 03:46, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: The switches themselves do that when they start to wear out.  I've had it happen to a number of mice/track balls.  Indeed I'll soon be replacing those switches on several track balls and I'll use better switches that have the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 03/05/2023 20:11, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-05-02 21:19, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton,) there's long lag spikes and freezes. Even

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 02/05/2023 09:53, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: [...] Switched back to the default (called "CFS" I think.) BMQ has severe issues. When emerging something while I play a game (either native or through wine-proton,) there's long lag spikes and freezes. Even worse, there's bugs like the system

[gentoo-user] Re: Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

On 26/04/2023 23:06, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On 2023-04-26 18:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I wanted to try the BMQ scheduler in gentoo-sources. Is just enabling it in the kernel build all that's needed? I did so, booted, and:    $ dmesg | grep -i bmq    [    0.100284] sched/bmq: BMQ CPU

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 13.1 and chromium

On 27/04/2023 21:40, Alan Grimes wrote: I rebuilt my system on gcc 13.1. I think the compiler is good but it exposed some bugs in a handful of packages, these are: Tracker bugs are always useful for knowing what will break before you upgrade: https://bugs.gentoo.org/865117

[gentoo-user] Activating BMQ CPU Scheduler

So I wanted to try the BMQ scheduler in gentoo-sources. Is just enabling it in the kernel build all that's needed? I did so, booted, and: $ dmesg | grep -i bmq [0.100284] sched/bmq: BMQ CPU Scheduler v6.1-r4 by Alfred Chen. That's all and it's in use now? Or do I need to toggle

[gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia-drivers fails to patch

On 21/04/2023 19:29, Dale wrote: I ran into a buggy driver a while back and once I synced and upgraded, the old one was gone.  So, I started keeping a local copy just in case. Of course, as long as I keep a older driver to fall back on, it won't break anymore. It will break with kernel and x.org

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 20/04/2023 13:59, Dale wrote: In place of "find -type..." say "find / -type..." Ahhh, that worked.  I also realized I need to leave off the ' at the beginning and end.  I thought I left those out.  I copy and paste a lot.  lol Btw, if you only want to do this for the root filesystem and

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 19/04/2023 22:26, Dale wrote: So for future reference, let it format with the default?  I'm also curious if when it creates the file system it will notice this and adjust automatically. It might.  Maybe? AFAIK, SSDs will internally convert to 4096 in their firmware even if they report a

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 19/04/2023 04:45, Dale wrote: Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:24:56 2012 Lifetime writes:  993 GB That's for the main / partition.  I have /usr on it's own partition tho. Filesystem created:   Sun Apr 15 03:25:48 2012 Lifetime writes:  1063 GB I'd think that /

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 18/04/2023 18:05, Dale wrote: I compile on a spinning rust drive and use -k to install the built packages on the live system.  That should help minimize the writes. I just use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage (16GB, I'm on 32GB RAM.) When I keep binary packages around, those I have on my HDD,

[gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on

On 16/04/2023 01:47, Dale wrote: Anything else that makes these special?  Any tips or tricks? Only three things. 1. Make sure the fstrim service is active (should run every week by default, at least with systemd, "systemctl enable fstrim.timer".) 2. Don't use the "discard" mount option.

[gentoo-user] Re: updating /boot directory EFI

On 16/04/2023 21:44, Wol wrote: On 16/04/2023 15:22, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 16/04/2023 07:01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After installing new kernel how to update /boot EFI directory? You don't need to. You only need to do that when you want to reinstall GRUB itself into the EFI

[gentoo-user] Re: updating /boot directory EFI

On 16/04/2023 07:01, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: After installing new kernel how to update /boot EFI directory? You don't need to. You only need to do that when you want to reinstall GRUB itself into the EFI partition. The kernel is installed in /boot, not into the EFI partition.

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 'Completed (m of n)' messages

On 11/04/2023 18:26, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 14:36:27 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 14:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:28:58 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 11/04/2023 13:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does the panel think

[gentoo-user] Re: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

On 11/04/2023 13:38, Dale wrote: I saw this the other day as well.  I just skipped it.  Still, it made me wonder, given what it does and what should update the file, why should emerge touch that file? Because the file belongs to the sys-apps/baselayout package. It's like fstab.  I doubt I'd

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage 'Completed (m of n)' messages

On 11/04/2023 13:59, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does the panel think of these new status messages from portage (~amd64)? What messages? Where? When? :P

[gentoo-user] Re: Docker mounting strangeness.

On 01/12/2022 21:48, Laurence Perkins wrote: I’m setting up an image to use Docker, which will be deployed on multiple machines.  Since the containers will be large, I didn’t want them on the root partition. Ok, easy enough, I just put it in fstab to mount a different partition on

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On 12/11/2022 23:37, Dale wrote: Usually, I try to update about once a year.  I don't change hardware much. The main reason I suggested LTS is because that, *when* you decide to do a @world update, you will get the latest LTS of the same main version you're already using. For example you'll

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On 12/11/2022 21:13, Wol wrote: On 12/11/2022 18:22, Dale wrote: Where does one go for a list of the LTS kernels?  Since I reboot so rarely, what not use one of them??  Of course, the kernel I have in use now has long uptimes so it is sort of LTS for this rig anyway. Do you REALLY want an LTS

[gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

On 11/11/2022 08:25, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been stuck on gentoo-sources 5.14.15 for a while.  I tried upgrading to I think 5.16 and then more recently 5.18. If you've been using 5.14 until now, it would appear to me you're the target audience of the LTS kernels. 5.15 is the latest LTS kernel.

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?

On 02/10/2022 12:47, Michael wrote: I applied the above and now the microphone in Skype works again. I assume the same applies to other PulseAudio friendly applications, which won't play nicely with PipeWire only. I suppose at some point PulseAudio will be completely replaced by PipeWire and

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

On 01/10/2022 19:56, Michael wrote: Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work without pulseaudio and in this system it won't. After I manually installed pipewire Skype won't access the microphone. :-( Maybe Skype uses ALSA? It's best to enable the

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-boot on an openrc system

On 28/09/2022 15:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: Looking more carefully, I see only one machine has an /etc/machine-info. I'm on systemd (openrc is not installed at all), and I don't have /etc/machine-info. And /etc/kernel/install.d/ is empty.

[gentoo-user] Re: Pipewire not a dependency?

On 28/09/2022 13:57, Michael wrote: I'm trying to understand why one laptop with Plasma which had pulseaudio removed, won't bring in pipewire as a dependency. I have set USE="- screencast", because I don't need/want this functionality, as I have done on other systems which nevertheless have had

[gentoo-user] Re: python mess - random winge!

On 05/07/2022 08:04, William Kenworthy wrote: I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are rebuilding python modules for 3.10 without any input from me [...] Yes, that's normal and there was a news item about it. Do: eselect news list to get the and then use the NUMBER of

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot has no space left.

On 30/06/2022 20:11, Guillermo wrote: [screenshot] Doesn't "emerge -a --depclean" remove all these old kernels?

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

On 20/12/2021 09:10, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Has anyone here noticed that x.org likes to crash sometimes as of late? Never happened before, going years and years back. The last month or so, I've got three x.org crashes: systemd-coredump[204553]: [] Process 453 (X) of user 0 dumped core

[gentoo-user] Re: plasmashell becomes sluggish with 100% CPU usage

On 24/05/2022 23:20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyone noticed anything lately with plasmashell? I think it started happening after Qt was upgraded from 5.15.3 to 5.15.4. At login, the desktop is very unresponsive and sluggish. Mouse clicks take over a second to register. The plasmashell

[gentoo-user] Re: plasmashell becomes sluggish with 100% CPU usage

On 25/05/2022 00:53, Daniel Frey wrote: Do you have an nvidia card? This machine that constantly has this issue does, but my laptop (intel graphics) does not. Yeah, it's nvidia using the binary driver. But I've never had this issue before. It only started happening today when I booted up the

[gentoo-user] plasmashell becomes sluggish with 100% CPU usage

Anyone noticed anything lately with plasmashell? I think it started happening after Qt was upgraded from 5.15.3 to 5.15.4. At login, the desktop is very unresponsive and sluggish. Mouse clicks take over a second to register. The plasmashell process is hogging one core of the CPU to almost

[gentoo-user] Audio stopped working in KVM with libvirtmanager

Audio in KVM (qemu) launched through libvirtmanager used to work fine last time I used it (about 3 months ago.) There has been lots of updates since then, including a switch from Pulseaudio to Pipewire, and something along the way broke it. Now I get no sound whatsoever. qemu doesn't even show

[gentoo-user] Re: Sound not sounding

On 23/03/2022 18:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: The USB sound dongle on this workstation has stopped working, but only for me. The system settings Audio setup window detects it but no sound is heard Run "alsamixer" (it's a command-line tool) and in the text UI that appears, press F6, select your

[gentoo-user] Re: Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"

On 17/03/2022 18:51, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Greetings, since quite some time, longe before "converting" to Gentoo, I've used "fetchmail" and "ssmtp" to retrieve and send mail via my Google account. Some time after I had all set up, Google started nagging about my not- so-secure access to

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-5.10.103 - will not boot

On 14/03/2022 00:26, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Simple human error :-/ When I did: cd linux cp ../linux-old_kernel/.config . mount /boot/ make oldconfig New entries showed up. Instead of pressing "enter" I made a mistake and press "Y" several times. This enabled some feature in the new

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

On 12/03/2022 18:03, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2022-03-12, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/03/2022 10:43, Dale wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/767700 Is that the one?  It mentions the target but I don't quite understand the why.  The biggest thing, will this break something if I let it do

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

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

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

On 11/03/2022 17:06, Mark Knecht wrote: Is this related to the 'dirty pipe' vulnerability that has been in the news of late and has gotten patched in most distros in the last few days? In one of the discussions about the patch, it was mentioned that "a couple of CVEs would have never

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

On 10/03/2022 20:44, Michael wrote: ~ # sysctl -a | grep fs.protected_regular fs.protected_regular = 1 To check the current value of a setting, you can just run: sysctl fs.protected_regular No grep or root needed.

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

On 10/03/2022 11:55, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: Big thanks to all kind people making suggestions. But up to now nothing helped. Are you sure that: sysctl fs.protected_regular=0 does not help? I can reproduce it here on my system with kernel 5.15.27, and setting that sysctl to 0 fixes it

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

On 09/03/2022 20:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file Password: tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied [...] Since when can't root write to files it doesn't own? And not even, if the file has write

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

On 08/01/2022 22:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is weird. When doing: emerge -auDU @world Portage says: !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

On 09/01/2022 12:00, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Jan 2022 22:44:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge -auDU @world !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

Did that already. No additional info is shown. On 09/01/2022 01:03, Jack wrote: If nothing else, I would start by adding a --verbose to that emerge command.  It may just confuse you worse, but it might add some useful info. On 2022.01.08 15:44, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: This is weird. When

[gentoo-user] Portage detects fake "world file problems" and packages that don't exist

This is weird. When doing: emerge -auDU @world Portage says: !!! Problems have been detected with your world file !!! Please run emaint --check world !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all !!! masked or don't exist: media-sound/pavucontrol media-sound/pulseeffects

[gentoo-user] Re: yt-dlp config file different than old youtube-dl

On 08/01/2022 07:26, Dale wrote: This is the line from the old youtube-dl.conf that worked for it: --format 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' The "--format-sort" option is much better for this. To prefer 720p video or lower, but not higher:

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

On 26/12/2021 09:34, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 21/12/2021 08:50, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 08:31:55AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Seems to be a different issue then. I'm on an nvidia card using the binary driver, and there's no problems like the ones you're having

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

On 21/12/2021 08:50, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 08:31:55AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Seems to be a different issue then. I'm on an nvidia card using the binary driver, and there's no problems like the ones you're having. It's a straight disappearance of the desktop here

[gentoo-user] Re: Apparently 2.4 is not >= 2.2?

On 22/12/2021 02:28, Steven Lembark wrote: Q: Are either of these issues well-known pathologies of emerge? [...] emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

[gentoo-user] Re: X11 crashes anyone?

On 20/12/2021 13:21, Michael wrote: On Monday, 20 December 2021 07:10:59 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Has anyone here noticed that x.org likes to crash sometimes as of late? [...] I have been suffering similar symptoms[1] on a AMD Kaveri APU powered box, running plasma with two monitors

[gentoo-user] Re: Movie editing softeware

On 20/12/2021 05:17, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi, what is a usable piece of software in portage to do a quick edit of a movie? (cut start/end and maybe splice a bit in/out of the middle?) I use LosslessCut for this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut It's not in Portage, but the provided

[gentoo-user] X11 crashes anyone?

Has anyone here noticed that x.org likes to crash sometimes as of late? Never happened before, going years and years back. The last month or so, I've got three x.org crashes: systemd-coredump[204553]: [] Process 453 (X) of user 0 dumped core. This is x11-base/xorg-server-21.1.2-r2. qlop -v

[gentoo-user] Re: "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade

On 12/12/2021 18:11, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing emerge --depclean: Calculating dependencies... done!  * Broken soname dependencies found:  *  *   x86_64: libexpat.so required by:  * app-emulation/vmware-workstation

[gentoo-user] Re: "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade

On 12/12/2021 18:41, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:11:53 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing emerge --depclean: Calculating dependencies... done! * Broken soname dependencies found: * * x86_64

[gentoo-user] Re: "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade

On 12/12/2021 18:57, tastytea wrote: On 2021-12-12 18:11+0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing emerge --depclean: Calculating dependencies... done! * Broken soname dependencies found: * x86_64: libexpat.so required

[gentoo-user] "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing emerge --depclean: Calculating dependencies... done! * Broken soname dependencies found: * * x86_64: libexpat.so required by: * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1 * * x86_64: libgdbm_compat.so.3

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

On 09/12/2021 21:27, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: I'm planning small /boot partition, / partition and /data (including home) partition. I just use one partition. What's the point of having multiple ones if they're all on the same storage device? But I'm not sure if I should create a swap

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to fix stuttering emulators (melonDS and PCSX2)

On 27/11/2021 09:52, Jamie Getty wrote: Hello Gentoo users. I've recently been encountering some issues running games on my PC. Here's video evidence of the issues I've seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hNwwOOikGQ That video shows your PC is

[gentoo-user] Re: youtube-dl has been very slow

On 08/11/2021 17:57, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: What was the reasoning/motivation behind the fork? I see the yt-dl subreddit recommending yt-dlp as you have here, but not explanation other than the throttling being experienced and described here. It was a fork that added things youtube-dl

[gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader

On 22/09/2021 22:29, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I have evince, it will not open it. This is the form I'm trying to open: https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf I just opened this URL in firefox-bin-93.0, which claims support for "XFA-based forms", and indeed I can fill it out just

[gentoo-user] Re: Compile large packages as last package

On 14/08/2021 22:20, Ramon Fischer wrote: Is there any way to tell "portage", that packages like "qtwebengine", "(ungoogled-)chromium", "firefox" and so on are always compiled as last package? The simplest way is to exclude those packages in the first update, and then allow them in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend C source browser/editor?

On 06/08/2021 23:25, Grant Edwards wrote: Would anybody care to recommend a tool for browsing around (and editing) a tree of somebody-else's C code? I prefer emacs for day-to-day editing of my code (when I know what's where), but I'm looking for something to browse around a tree of unfamiliar

[gentoo-user] Re: Inquiry about gentoo kernel configuration

On 11/07/2021 16:17, Dongliang Mu wrote: On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 1:54 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/07/2021 12:15, Dongliang Mu wrote: I am a newbie to Gentoo. For Debian, I can get configuration files from Debian packages. I wonder if possible to get the kernel configuration files

[gentoo-user] Re: Inquiry about gentoo kernel configuration

On 10/07/2021 12:15, Dongliang Mu wrote: Hi Gentoo users, I am a newbie to Gentoo. For Debian, I can get configuration files from Debian packages. I wonder if possible to get the kernel configuration files of Gentoo. You can use the one shipped in the sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin package.

[gentoo-user] Re: Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

On 08/07/2021 02:09, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So I just noticed that when I run: emerge @module-rebuild after having installed a kernel update, the kernel modules of the previous kernel version are being deleted. I am sure this didn't use to be the case. Found the issue. On my new system, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

On 08/07/2021 02:18, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 02:09:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: So far, so good. But when I ran "emerge @module-rebuild", which rebuilds these two packages: app-emulation/vmware-modules x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers The vmwware and nvi

[gentoo-user] Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

So I just noticed that when I run: emerge @module-rebuild after having installed a kernel update, the kernel modules of the previous kernel version are being deleted. I am sure this didn't use to be the case. I have two entries configured in grub: Gentoo Gentoo (previous kernel) They

[gentoo-user] Re: app-emulation/docker-20.10.2 ebuild is borked?

On 09/01/2021 05:02, Ionen Wolkens wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 03:46:10AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Portage was trying to update docker from 20.10.1 to 20.10.2. However, it aborts with: ERROR: setup CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED: is not set when it should be. I don't believe

[gentoo-user] app-emulation/docker-20.10.2 ebuild is borked?

Portage was trying to update docker from 20.10.1 to 20.10.2. However, it aborts with: ERROR: setup CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED: is not set when it should be. That's a stupid requirement and not needed, as it breaks realtime scheduling with rtkit (PulseAudio for example.) So I copied

[gentoo-user] Re: Your opinion on jpeg encoders, please

On 04/01/2021 23:37, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: However I noticed that the latter procuces larger files for the same quality setting. So currently, I first save with a very high setting from Showfoto and then recompress the whole directory in a one-line-loop using imagemagick’s convert. You lose

[gentoo-user] Re: Big USB disks

On 22/12/2020 14:58, Peter Humphrey wrote: Greetings, Just a quickie - is there a way to enable a machine built on an MSDOS BIOS A *what* BIOS? Do mean you run MS-DOS as on OS?

[gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz wrote: During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting when the XWindow system appeared on one of the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7. However, after installing a new Gentoo system with gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

On 16/12/2020 13:51, gevisz wrote: How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild repository (by default located at

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

On 15/12/2020 03:21, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: By mistake on new installation I untar wrong: stage-3 x86_64 instead of i686 during kernel compiling I got: cc1: error: CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set Is it possible to untar new stage-3 (i686) over current one, or

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia x server settings doesn't open

On 29/11/2020 05:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 11/28/2020 07:19 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 27/11/2020 02:56, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I just installed nvidia-drivers-455.28-r1 and can not start "nvidia x server setting" it doesn't open. running: $ nvidia-smi NVID

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia x server settings doesn't open

On 27/11/2020 02:56, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I just installed nvidia-drivers-455.28-r1 and can not start "nvidia x server setting" it doesn't open. running: $ nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver

[gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On 07/09/2020 13:13, Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 12:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote Since I don't yet have rust on my desktop, I'll try "emerge -1 rust-bin" before doing the world update. Hopefully, that'll satisfy the virtual/rust dependency from the get-go. I decided to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On 06/09/2020 10:48, Walter Dnes wrote: I notice that there is a "rust-bin" ebuild present. If nothing else, I'd like to switch over to that to save the notebook from unnecessary grinding when rust updates. What's the procedure for selecting it? emerge -C dev-lang/rust emerge -a1

[gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

On 12/07/2020 11:59, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 12 July 2020 09:29:08 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: No. But what you can do is lower its nice level to 19, and CPU and IO priority to "idle". schedtool -D -n 19 pid ionice -c 3 -p pid Another trick to use if the atom is becomin

[gentoo-user] Re: Change MAKEOPTS on the fly?

On 12/07/2020 11:54, tastytea wrote: On 2020-07-12 11:29+0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 12/07/2020 09:04, William Kenworthy wrote: Hi,     is there a way to change the MAKEOPTS setting on a running emerge? I am using "-j 5 -l 4" whilst emerging gcc-9.3 but its creating too muc

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