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

2023-09-09 Thread David Rosenbaum
hanks On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 9:42 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 January 2023 22:31:17 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:24:41 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > --->8 > > > > I've attached the reject files. > > > > Thanks for these! It looks like it'll probably

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

2023-08-11 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks I'm a dam47 year old man that pays wifi an ph.bill David On Fri, Aug 11, 2023, 2:52 PM Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > For the past couple of days, after $ emerge --sync, I've tried > > > > $ emerge -auND @world

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread David Rosenbaum
David On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:22 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote: > > > > Jul 31, 2023 13:52:25 Grant Edwards : > > > >> On 2023-07-31, Kusoneko wrote: > >>> > >>>> Don't get me wrong, I'm "team plaintext&qu

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

2023-07-11 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thank u David On Sat, Jul 8, 2023, 4:33 AM Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I was wondering. Is there a way to highlight certain packages that are > about to be upgraded? Example, I like to know when some larger packages > like Firefox, LOo, that excessively long qt package and

Re: [gentoo-user] Instrumenting emerges

2023-07-08 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hello list, > >Has anyone here developed a utility to record the one-minute load average once >per minute and log the results? The first bit is easy: just cat /proc/loadavg, >but the logging has me stumped for the moment. while [ true ] ; do cat /proc/loadavg |logger; sleep 60; done But you

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thank u Dave On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 11:36 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my > deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either a dot > in > the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd query ...

2023-05-16 Thread David M. Fellows
>Le lun. 15 mai 2023 à 11:58, Wols Lists a écrit : > >> Nothing to do with but sparked by the Apache problem ... >> >> One of the emails mentioned that the "ExecStop" section didn't appear to >> be working ... That's caused me considerable grief in a systemd config >> file I've written ... >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 14:52 jul...@jroy.ca wrote: > On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 14:40 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > > atg@tortoise ~ $ chromium > > [19039:19057:0427/143338.626886:ERROR:bus.cc(399)] Failed to connect > > to > > the bus: Could not parse server address: Unknown address type > >

Re: [gentoo-user] text output from the kernel during boot is not showing

2023-04-24 Thread David Souza
ut the above two lines are on my other boxes as well afater upgrade and > text messages from kernel boot showing OK > > > > On 4/23/23 18:07, David Souza wrote: > > Is your framebuffer device showing in /dev? It should be called > /dev/fb0,1,2. If yes could you post the o

Re: [gentoo-user] text output from the kernel during boot is not showing

2023-04-23 Thread David Souza
; I don't use EFI on these systems. > So make me wonder if has all to do with the nvidia-driver. > > On 4/23/23 00:26, David Souza wrote: > > Did you change something in your kernel config? I had the same problem > once, because I forgot to enable these kernel options: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] text output from the kernel during boot is not showing

2023-04-23 Thread David Souza
rt via sysfs Graphics support ---> Frame buffer Devices ---> <*> Support for frame buffer devices ---> [*] EFI-based Framebuffer Support Regards, David On Sat, Apr 22, 2023, 20:56 wrote: > I upgraded to kernel 6.1.19 and nvidia-525.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

2023-04-13 Thread David M. Fellows
>Greetings, > >does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- >terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a >"glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library. Would one of the functions in dev-perl/Text-Glob do what you need? DaveF

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread David M. Fellows
>I've recently gotten a few of my usual "Bouncing messages" messages >from the mailing list, but when I go to the archives to see if I can >identify the problematic messages, I don't see anything since the >middle of March. I've filed a bug (https://bugs.gentoo.org/903753) a >few days

Re: [gentoo-user] After upgrade no login screen anymore

2023-03-25 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 11:09 Alexander Puchmayr < alexander.puchm...@linznet.at> wrote: > On Samstag, 11. März 2023, 13:03:41 CET Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > After having done a world update, neither sddm nor lightdm do start an > > Xserver anymore. The X server itself

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-03-02 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 05:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:09:54 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't > > > watch out, without something deciding to install a non-existent > > > kernel and deleting the

Re: [gentoo-user] nextcloud or owncloud and qt5 or rclone

2023-02-23 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, 17:51 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 22:18:44 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: > > > so until now I am running my box without qt5. Compiling takes so long. > > > > But I am missing a client for owncloud or nextcloud. So I see > > nextcloud-cliend does not run

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it OK to get rid of app-alternatives/* ?

2023-02-14 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 20:47 Walter Dnes wrote: > A whole bunch of busy-work for emerge, and nothing in the news item > indicates it's really necessary for the average user. Howsabout... > > * manually zapping with "rm -rf /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-alternatives" > * and then include

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages

2023-01-18 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 18:20 Dale wrote: > Grant Taylor wrote: > > On 1/18/23 8:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> You can also request redelivery of messages based on the internal > >> numbers if you follow the help advice in all list message headers. > > > > The problem is that if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wrongly blocking an update

2023-01-16 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 04:53 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Today's update of my LAN server failed to resolve a block. It said it > couldn't > emerge net-proxy/squid-5.7 because of: > > [blocks B ] net-proxy/squid-5.7) > [,,,] > (net-proxy/squid-5.7:0/0::gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages

2023-01-16 Thread David Rosenbaum
Send again David On Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 19:50 Jigme Datse wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 10:25:27 + > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Saturday, 14 January 2023 07:00:29 GMT Nuno Silva wrote: > > > On 2023-01-13, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Hello list, >

Re: [gentoo-user] No New Image 15th January 2023?

2023-01-16 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 21:00 Luna Jernberg wrote: > Hey! > > Did the ISO builds not go as planned last week? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure ..

2023-01-01 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks bud Dave On Sun, Jan 1, 2023, 4:22 PM cal wrote: > On 1/1/23 13:05, Wol wrote: > > On 01/01/2023 20:08, cal wrote: > >> FWIW, Thunderbird builds fine with GCC on my machine -- I'm unsure of > >> your reasons for setting your Portage compiler to clang, but you may > >> wish to use a

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

2022-12-31 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sat, Dec 31, 2022, 11:13 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello again, Peter. > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 15:47:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > On Saturday, 31 December 2022 14:08:43 GMT you wrote: > > > > What I'm thinking here is that you might be installing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for simple GUI MUA that works with ssmtp

2022-12-26 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 9:06 PM Jack wrote: > On 12/26/22 20:43, Walter Dnes wrote: > >mutt has served me well over the years, but thanks to *BRAINDEAD > > CORPORATE IDIOTS* I need a GUI client to parse 100 K of HTML that > > replaces 1 page of text. These aren't just plain spammers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-26 Thread David Rosenbaum
Fix this Dave On Mon, Dec 26, 2022, 3:00 AM David Rosenbaum wrote: > > > Dave > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn wrote: > >> On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in >> &

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-26 Thread David Rosenbaum
Need link Dave On Tue, Dec 20, 2022, 1:52 AM Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: > > On 18/12/2022 22:11, Dale wrote: > >> Wol wrote: > >>> On 18/12/2022 18:59, Dale wrote: > Since this is local, I just use rsync to do my backups. I did have to > change the options a bit. It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-26 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 2:54 PM Wol wrote: > On 18/12/2022 18:59, Dale wrote: > > Since this is local, I just use rsync to do my backups. I did have to > > change the options a bit. It seems TrueNAS doesn't like some of the > > permissions or something. > > Are you running the rsync daemon

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-25 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Thu, Dec 15, 2022, 4:01 PM ralfconn wrote: > On 12/15/22 21:52, Walter Dnes wrote: > >I just finished solving my babl problems, but more stuff shows up in > > libpcre. First, here are my USE flags. I don't see "utf8" anywhere. > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-17 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Sat, Dec 17, 2022, 11:42 AM Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 8:52 AM Dale wrote: > > > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 8:50 PM Dale wrote: > > > > > I > > > wonder, could one install the LVM stuff and use that? That would

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaming on gentoo

2022-12-17 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 12:18 AM Alan Ianson wrote: > Hello list, > > I am a gentoo newbie. I have installed gentoo about a month ago and have > been busy since in my free time getting it up and running. > > I have a problem with quakespasm, it segfaults on startup.. this is what I > get.. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gaming on gentoo

2022-12-16 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thank u Dave On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 8:18 PM Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:06:07 + > Laurence Perkins wrote: > > > Note that some programs will dynamically load libraries at runtime, in > addition to being linked against them at build time. These don’t > necessarily show up

Re: [gentoo-user] Docker installation issues

2022-12-16 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thank u Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 3:51 PM Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Andreas, > > Thank you very much. In fact I didn't go that deep yet, and not sure if I > should. I just found that the url is not accessible even from a browser. > Googling a bit, tells me there is no clear URL for

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-10 Thread David Rosenbaum
Thanks Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 11:19 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 09:20:17AM + schrieb Wols Lists: > > > > > Depending on the PVR make/model I've seen 1080p resolution > recordings with > > > > .m2ts and .ts file extensions, while the codecs inside them are the

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-10 Thread David Rosenbaum
Can I get sum help with privacy an control of my ph. David On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 9:49 PM David Rosenbaum wrote: > Tanks > > Dave > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 9:46 PM David Rosenbaum > wrote: > >> >> >> Dave >> >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 P

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-10 Thread David Rosenbaum
Tanks Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 9:46 PM David Rosenbaum wrote: > > > Dave > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale wrote: >> >> > It does appear that several people are making i

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-10 Thread David Rosenbaum
Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 4:28 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 1:42 PM Dale wrote: > > > It does appear that several people are making it so NAS boxes can be > > easily built by us nerdy types and not be huge. Things are a bit > > interesting right now for hardware and

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-10 Thread David Rosenbaum
Someone has hacked my ph.im 44 years old an pay for every thing.house car an wifi Dave On Sat, Dec 10, 2022, 12:28 PM Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 10 December 2022 16:30:03 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > > On 10/12/2022 16:19, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > Where do we confuse those two? We

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-bas/xorg-x11 removal

2022-10-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, ralfconn wrote: >Rather than adding the whole x11-base/xorg-apps and x11-base/xorg-fonts, I'd >like to build a list of the x11 utilities currently installed on my systems >to add them to world in preparation of the xorg-x11 package removal. > >Is anybody aware of some

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2022-09-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Jack wrote: >I now get this error trying to emerge two different packages: libofx-0.10.7 >and gnupg (both 2.2.39 and 2.3.6).  It might also be the same problem for a >few bugs on b.g.o found by searching on "cannot create exectuables." > >The relevant lines from

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Thursday, 8 September 2022 21:40:25 BST Wols Lists wrote: >> On 08/09/2022 21:24, Lee wrote: >> > Who needs to go to the hassle maintaining a printer of their own, buying >> > cartridges, paper etc? I set up an online account at my neighborhood >> > Kinkos, and I just upload whatever docs I

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Dale wrote: >Jack wrote: [..] >> Related question - how much space would you actually save by >> decreasing the number of inodes by 90%?  Enough for one or two more >> videos? > >Now I have to admit, that is a question I have too. From my tests with a swapfile (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Dale wrote: >Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote: >>> >>> Part. # SizePartition TypePartition Name >>> 1007.0 KiB free space >>>19.1 TiB Linux filesystem 10Tb >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 12.1.1 compile error on loongson2f Yeeloong

2022-07-29 Thread David M. Fellows
>Dear friends, I am updating the gentoo mip-n32 system on my Yeeloong >netbook. During updating of the @world, it began to update the gcc >12.1.1 from gcc 11.3.0 which is also the one doing the compilation. And >after a long-time compilation, it stops with error messages: " .. Hmm. 1G ram and

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall

2022-05-11 Thread David Palao
Hi, What I would suggest is to try yo emerge @world first with a reduced list of USE flags, maybe the default, and after success you could introduce back the wanted USE flags and emerge @world once more. It could be a bit too much compilation, but if you have already binary packages, it

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging virt-manager 4.0.0

2022-04-06 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hi. In today's world update, I get the following strange output when >trying to emerge virt-manager. I am not even sure what this means. Small consolation, no great help, but you are not alone. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/836645 >From the bug title maybe downgrading dev-python/setuptools

Re: [gentoo-user] How to degrade Gentoo system with webrsync method?

2022-01-19 Thread Robert David
Hi, to the downgrade thing it can be partly done using the squashfs portage snapshots laying on every portage mirror. There is a long history list there. https://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/squashfs/ So you can migrate your portage tree from plain files to the squashfs. But actually the

Re: [gentoo-user] The old wine/harfbuzz/freetype circle ...

2021-09-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 18 Sep 2021, antlists wrote: >I've got stuck on this merry-go-round ... > >I'm trying to emerge wine, and it's come up with this. It insisted on adding >abi_x86_32 or whatever it is to loads of things, but it's now blowing up with >this circular dependency. If I try and install one

Re: [gentoo-user] faded images with Gwenview

2021-09-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 12 Sep 2021, Philip Webb wrote: >It remains a puzzle. Any further comments from anyone are most welcome. Gwenview uses color-management via media-libs/lcms, feh does not. See "Rendering intent" and "Color profile" under "Advanced" in Gwenview's configure dialog. HTH, -dnh --

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

2021-09-08 Thread David M. Fellows
>Thank you for your ideas! > >I was actually hoping for a neat hack with "/etc/portage/env/" and >"/etc/portage/package.env/", where you can set environment variables. Did you look at example 2 in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/package.env ? It seems to address your problem. DaveF >

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, David Haller wrote: >On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable, >>you won't have it. > >I beg to differ on that point: > >$ cd $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo) >$

Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 02 Sep 2021, Neil Bothwick wrote: >Yes it does, but only on the testing version. If you are running stable, >you won't have it. I beg to differ on that point: $ cd $(portageq get_repo_path / gentoo) $ for f in sys-libs/glibc/glibc-*.ebuild; do \ if grep -q 'KEYW.* amd64'

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon navi cards and opencl

2021-08-31 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Monday, 30 August 2021 16:08:27 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> Does anyone know whether AMD intend to make their navi cards usable with >> opencl under Linux? I have a Radeon Pro W5500, which is a navi 14 card, and >> from what I can see neither rocm-opencl nor

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Robert David
Hi John, my approach is to have EFI partition with staticly compiled grub, alpine linux rescue system and kernel with tiny initramfs for zfs root. It works really well, only thing you need to consider is when upgrading root pool, you will not be able to boot to previous BE with old zfs. Without

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 02 Aug 2021, n952162 wrote: >!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy >"dev-python/isodate[python_targets_python3_8(-)?,python_targets_python3_9(-)?]" >have been masked. >!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >request: >-

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-04 Thread Robert David
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:01:25 PM CEST antlists wrote: > On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > > > > > > > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread Robert David
Hi Frank, On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 3:56:49 PM CEST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello fellows > > This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail > is about) is running Gentoo. :) > > There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff > about

Re: [gentoo-user] Rationalizing log files

2021-05-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 13 May 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: [..] > And maybe either stop logging Facebook, or else log iptables messages >to a separate file (how is that done?). The Facebook tracker messages >are generated by iptables rules... > >-A INPUT -s 31.13.24.0/21 -j FECESBOOK >-A INPUT -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File transfer via USB?

2021-04-25 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 4/25/21 12:14 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Nope. Many years ago I used UUCP a number of times for "production" >> projects involving data gathering from remote systems via dial-up. > >:-) > >> 25+ years ago, I wrote an article about one of those projects for >> Linux Journal. > >Can you

Re: [gentoo-user] SSSD and nsupdate installation issue

2021-03-13 Thread David M. Fellows
>Hey all, > >I've been trying to install SSSD on my Gentoo laptop over the past week >and keep getting stuck at the same spot. I've tried 2.2.0-r1, 2.3.1-r2, >and even 2.4.2 - all are failing during initial configuration, claiming >that "nsupdate does not support 'realm'". I've manually run the

[gentoo-user] mu scripts on Gentoo

2021-03-10 Thread David Martí Huescar
u", I don't see anything like a scripts folder. It installed the mu-guile infodocs, but not the mu guile module. Am I missing something? Thank you in advance, David.

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-06 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 06 Mar 2021, Steven Lembark wrote: >Question then is why "python-exec2c" dispatched via a symlink from >"python3" would fail to see the installed copy of pyyaml (or how >should I check with modules are avalable via "python3")? [..] >I think that pyyaml is installed: > >*

Re: [gentoo-user] cmake-3.18.5 build fails

2021-02-12 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Jack wrote: >On 2021.02.12 14:49, Walter Dnes wrote: >> 64-bit Gentoo on a new 12-core machine. The build fails in the compile >> phase. Switching makeopts from -j4 to -j1 didn't help. Build log is >> attached. >The error seems to be at linking: >

Re: [gentoo-user] forcing Gentoo to accept simple password

2021-02-07 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 06 Feb 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >What changing one need to make to force gentoo log-in to accept >simple password. The system is not a high security risk so I have no >need for a sophisticated password. >I think it has to do something with file: /etc/pam.d/system-auth

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

2021-02-05 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 05 Feb 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: >On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 06:55:12AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 2:45 AM Walter Dnes wrote: >> > So far, so good, but running "ps -ef | grep whatever" and then >> > typing the kill -SIGSTOP/SIGCONT command on the correct pid

Re: [gentoo-user] package updated rss feed not working

2021-02-02 Thread David M. Fellows
>Lets try this again, 1st mail did not seem to get through?! > It got through to my part of tyhe world. > >On 2021-01-30 11:29, smurfd wrote: >> hey >> >> since a while back the rss feed : >> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/updated.atom >> >> is not working. today i looked into it, i get :

Re: [gentoo-user] merged on \${HOST} with notice"

2021-01-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >On 1/17/21 2:04 PM, David Haller wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I have in a new machine (as on all other boxes) in make.conf >>> PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="packa

Re: [gentoo-user] merged on \${HOST} with notice"

2021-01-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 17 Jan 2021, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >I have in a new machine (as on all other boxes) in make.conf >PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice" [..] >Which file define "${HOST}" /etc/hosts [..] # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Differences between wget and browser file retrieval?

2021-01-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm bored, so I do a regular daily report at the DSL Reports "CanChat" >sub-forum, on the Covid-19 case counts for Ontario, using provincial >data. I download 2 files daily as source data. One of them is a PDF >file, which is run through

Re: [gentoo-user] ISO verification question.

2020-12-24 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, bobwxc wrote: >With the cryptographic signature validated, next verify the checksum to make >sure the downloaded ISO file is not corrupted. The.DIGESTS.ascfile contains >multiple hashing algorithms, so one of the methods to validate the right one >is to first look at

Re: [gentoo-user] sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1 missing tcl

2020-12-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>Neil Bothwick: >> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:30:47 +0100 (CET), k...@aspodata.se wrote: >> >> > What can I do to make ./configure below use the suggested option ? >> > >> > sci-electronics/ngspice-27-r1's build log contains: >> > >> > checking for tclConfig.sh... >> > can't find Tcl

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >On 19/12/2020 18:49, David Haller wrote: >> -dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA >> ports onboard:) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW:( Hot-plug >> almost like USB but full SATA feature set

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >On 19/12/2020 16:51, David Haller wrote: >> Beware: I use a lot of disks and I tried running it with then 8 (or 9? >> or 10? Lots!) HDDs with a 500W (or even 550W) PSU. System wouldn't >> reliably boot up. Replaced with a 650W

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

2020-12-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Dale wrote: >A friend donated a older PC to me the other day.  It's a fairly nice rig >despite its age.  Some specs for those interested but may not matter in >the end.  TL;DR, skip to next paragraph.  It's a Dell Inspiron 546.  AMD >9750 quad core CPU running at

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: filter plugin NOT not found ????

2020-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Todd Goodman wrote: >I think you need a semi-colon inside and after the right curly brace ('}') > >You right braces are parentheses and not right curly braces too (maybe a cut >and paste issue?) > >FWIW, the following is what I use to separate my mail logs out and it

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel

2020-12-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 13 Dec 2020, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >dmesg |grep nvidia > nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ^^^ [..] >Why this error message? There is no error. See

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge chromium 89.0.4343.0

2020-12-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 Dec 2020, John Covici wrote: >On Wed, 09 Dec 2020 11:20:06 -0500, Mark Knecht wrote: [..] >FAILED: obj/v8/v8_base_without_compiler/intl-objects.o [..] -O2 -pipe -c ../../v8/src/objects/intl-objects.cc -o obj/v8/v8_base_without_compiler/intl-objects.o

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > urlview has served me faithfully for many years in conjunction with >mutt. In a recent install, I find it's no longer available (python >2.7?). Stated reason was "upstream dead" (which seems the case since 2013, with issues on github[1])...

Re: [gentoo-user] Browser have problems with illegal characters

2020-11-26 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Jack wrote: [..] >Found it. It is "middle dot" U+00B7 which in UTF-8 two bytes of octal 302 >267 or hex C2 8E. > >Also, now that I look at the page source, I see "Introduction to >Metaprogramming in Nim HookRace Blog" so I do wonder if it >is something funny with

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-29 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 28 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> Please run again with -v, such as: >> >> $ youtube-dl -v https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byTOZIvyXPo >> >> and then check at the top for the lines: >> >> [debug] System config: []

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >ERROR: 'ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' is not a >valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run  youtube-dl >"ytsearch:ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?1280]+bestaudio/best" ) to >search YouTube >[youtube] byTOZIvyXPo:

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-27 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >This is what the conf file looks like now.  I took out the format >option.  Add it back later when this current issue is settled.  > >--format >'bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' Is that one or

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, Dale wrote: >gevisz wrote: >> Thank you for your help. I turned on the computer, changed options snd >> cards_limit to 2 and ran aplay /usr/share/sound/alsa/*.wav (I have a >> different named wav files). There was a sound. [..] >> reboot I have a sound and on another I

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: >??, 18 ???. 2020 ?. ? 09:09, David Haller : [..] >> Try this in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf (or some file there): >> >> >> alias char-major-116 snd >> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel >> options snd-hda-intel mod

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: >??, 17 ???. 2020 ?. ? 14:57, David Haller : [..] >Here is the comparative table for your kernel parameters vs those of >gentoo-kernel 5.4.64 and my last tried configuration in >gentoo-sources-4.19.86: >CONFIG | 4.14 | 5

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: [.. reordering ..] >And finally: installed on the same computer legacy operating system >never had any sound problems. Ah, oh, so the HW works and you got the speaker connector in the hole. That's good![1] ;) >At different times during the last one and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] .fetchmailrc syntax error

2020-10-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >[i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail >fetchmail:/home/waltdnes/.fetchmailrc:1: syntax error at option > > Anybody have this working? The following was pulled by getmail as >"SimpleSSLretriever" on port 995. Here's what I'm trying that's >failing... >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @world output unfamiliar. Am I updated?

2020-10-02 Thread David M. Fellows
>On 2020-10-02 10:45, n952162 wrote: >> Have I successfully updated my system? >> >> I ran this command: >> >> emerge \ >>     -v \ >>     --verbose-conflicts \ >>     --deep \ >>     -update \ >>     --changed-use \ >>     --keep-going \ >>     --with-bdeps=y \ >>     --changed-deps \ >>    

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin, CPU usage and process ID to which window.

2020-09-08 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 07 Sep 2020, Dale wrote: >Another question.  I use top to see what is using the CPU so much.  When >it is Dolphin, I can't tell which window it is.  I sometimes have a few [..] >Is there a way to figure >out which process goes with which window or running instance of >Dolphin?  In

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, james wrote: >On 8/1/20 7:04 PM, David Haller wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: >> [..] >> > So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. >> >> There's already one in the palemoon overlay. > >This is w

Re: [gentoo-user] Python 2.7 removal : problem with Firefox + Spidermonkey

2020-08-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 01 Aug 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: [..] > So a "palemoon-bin" ebuild is possible. There's already one in the palemoon overlay. -dnh -- "If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music." -- Marcus

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 23 Jul 2020, Ashley Dixon wrote: [..] >[super] root@ad-gentoo-main / # etc/init.d/net.eno1 restart [..] >forked to background, child pid 14536 [..] It's just output from backgrounded processes. Just ignore it or enter Ctrl-C to get a fresh prompt. Using enter

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple replacement for "getmail"?

2020-07-22 Thread David M. Fellows
>On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 01:02:43 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are >> there any better, simpler solutions? > >I switched to getmail years ago because of frustrations with fetchmail. >At the moment I have getmail in my overlay and

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 15 Jul 2020, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: >It seems that in order to un-rar something in a fully free-software- >compatible way, I believe options are limited to using a programming >language library. dev-python/rarfile is available under the ISC >license, which is listed as GPL

Re: [gentoo-user] arpwatch changed syntax?

2020-07-01 Thread David M. Fellows
>hi. > > >background: --- > >previously, i used to run it by this: > >> arpwatch -i enp7s0 -m cave...@domain.com -s /usr/sbin/sendmail > >but now, after some update, apparently this doesn't work any more. > >what seems to have changed is: > >* "-m" is replaced by "-w" or "-W". *

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 22 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >>> David Haller wrote: [..] >>>> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M count=1000 iflag=fullblock >> [..] >>> I got it to compile, at least it created a

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: >David Haller wrote: [..] >> Compile with: >> gcc $CFLAGS -o ones ones.c >> or >> gcc $(portageq envvar CFLAGS) -o ones ones.c >> >> and use/test e.g. like >> >> ./ones | dd of=/dev/null bs=8M c

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that >currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >For the /dev/one, I found some which seems to work.  They listed further >down.  I think my google search terms was poor.  Google doesn't have ESP >for sure.  O_o [..] >dd if=<(yes $'\xFF' | tr -d "\n") of= This is correct but _much_ slower than my

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-15 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >While I'm at it, when running dd, I have zero and random in /dev.  Where >does a person obtain a one?  In other words, I can write all zeros, I >can write all random but I can't write all ones since it isn't in /dev.  >Does that even exist?  Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >I want to split an audio file containing crow calls at points >where no crow call is. The "silence" in between is not exactly >"silence" but some low level noise. > >Searching the internet for "split audio at silence" and similiar >gives me this

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