Re: [gentoo-user] After Update grub does not work anymore

2024-03-29 Thread hitachi303
Am 29.03.24 um 11:55 schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: Hi, After upgrading two Lenovo Laptops (UEFI, secure boot disabled), grub does not work anymore; instead it says "Welcome to Grub" ... And then immediately boots into bios setup. What did go wrong? I did the usual things: * emerge update world *

Re: [gentoo-user] After Update grub does not work anymore

2024-03-29 Thread hitachi303
Am 29.03.24 um 11:55 schrieb Alexander Puchmayr: Hi, After upgrading two Lenovo Laptops (UEFI, secure boot disabled), grub does not work anymore; instead it says "Welcome to Grub" ... And then immediately boots into bios setup. What did go wrong? I did the usual things: * emerge update world *

[gentoo-user] LiveGUI USB Image

2023-12-30 Thread hitachi303
Hi there, long time since I needed something to boot the pc. I see there is a LiveGUI USB Image to download but the handbook does not mention it. How to get a bootable USB stick? Reagds

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

2023-09-20 Thread hitachi303
Am 20.09.23 um 04:41 schrieb Dale: It is interesting what people can come up with.  Thing is, if one uses a true random generated password, they are hard to crack but also hard to remember.  I try to come up with something that will be hard to crack but easy for me to remember. If someone has

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

2023-09-19 Thread hitachi303
Am 19.09.23 um 13:47 schrieb Michael: A couple of minutes? https://xkcd.com/538/  Most crypto nerds have a wrench at home. The gov. can even save those 5$. :-)

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

2023-09-19 Thread hitachi303
Am 19.09.23 um 07:36 schrieb Dale: Maybe even a example or two of a fake password, just something that you would come up with and how. There was this TV series Sherlock. In one episode they communicated by numbers where each number referred to a word in a book. This was somewhat also used

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

2023-09-05 Thread hitachi303
Am 04.09.23 um 15:04 schrieb Michael: PS. Is http_replicator still available/maintained? I see the wiki mentions apt-cacher-ng for local distfiles cache. IIRC it died when python or perl 2.x was no longer available.

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone ever used mkstage4

2023-05-06 Thread hitachi303
Am 06.05.23 um 10:15 schrieb Dale: Howdy, Some may recall me buying a SSD for my OS.  I been busy and other than installing it in the system, I haven't touched it since.  Now that I have a little time, I want to play with it a bit.  Actually put my OS on it maybe.  I did a little research and

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest verification failed

2023-04-22 Thread hitachi303
Am 22.04.23 um 08:10 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: On 4/21/23 23:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying "emerge --sync" (few times) but I get this error: !!! Manifest verification failed: OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Sat 22 Apr 2023 04:39:56 AM UTC gpg: 

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

2023-04-16 Thread hitachi303
Am 16.04.23 um 21:11 schrieb Mitch D.: A minimal EFI bootloader can show an updated menu for the new kernels without needing to make regular writes to the EFI variable storage. I didn't know Grub was deprecated, but there are other options. rEFInd is pretty. Syslinux is flexible.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

2023-04-10 Thread hitachi303
Am 10.04.23 um 18:44 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: Is it better to us emerge -U or emerge -N I've always done -N but it didn't go very smoothly it seems to me -U might be better option but it takes longer. Right now I'm doing -U and it is compiling 549-packages. Just out of curiosity: Is

Re: [gentoo-user] slim gives me blank screen after entering wrong password

2023-04-07 Thread hitachi303
Am 07.04.23 um 02:53 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: I'm starting X server via "slim" (XFCE4) Is the fork aktiv and maintained? I had some problems using it and after Jörg Schilling died and berlinos disappeared since it was his domain I switched away. Didn't expect it to be maintained any

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to get my ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem running

2023-03-09 Thread hitachi303
Am 08.03.23 um 21:51 schrieb Security: On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 15:31:02 +0100 hitachi303 wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to get my Huawei ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem running. It is build in the laptop. #lsusb | grep -i huawei Bus 003 Device 002: ID 12d1:15bb Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ME936

[gentoo-user] Trying to get my ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem running

2023-03-08 Thread hitachi303
Hello everyone, I am trying to get my Huawei ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem running. It is build in the laptop. #lsusb | grep -i huawei Bus 003 Device 002: ID 12d1:15bb Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. ME936 LTE/HSDPA+ 4G modem #lspci | grep -i huawei - nothing - #dmesg | grep -i huawei [

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

2023-01-26 Thread hitachi303
it seems to be even bigger. Does anyone have experience with rclone? Or is there a third alternative? (except the using the web interface with firefox or anything like this.) Regards hitachi303

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

2022-11-11 Thread hitachi303
Am 11.11.22 um 07:25 schrieb Dale: 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.  I upgraded like I always do, copy .config over and run make oldconfig.  Once I get everything in /boot, init thingy and all, I update grub. 

[gentoo-user] pulseaudio - pipewire

2022-08-03 Thread hitachi303
Hi, so there is a eselect news "2022-07-29-pipewire-sound-server" telling that changes have been made. I care about having sound but don't care to much about how it is working. Any suggestions which path will lead me to the goal of having the least trouble in future? Like is pulseaudio

[gentoo-user] Is there a way to sync with next/owncloud without using the next/owncloud-client?

2022-06-04 Thread hitachi303
Hi, I am running without qt5. In my eyes it takes for ever to compile and mostly I am fine without it, so loosing vlc is hard - well mplayer remains. I was wondering if there is a way to sync to nextcloud / owncloud (idealy to selected folders) without using qt5. The clients do have it as

Re: [gentoo-user] why do I need cargo to make an initramfs?

2022-05-17 Thread hitachi303
Am 14.05.22 um 15:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would not believe. I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -DuN @system vs. emerge -DuN @world

2022-03-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 21.03.22 um 13:34 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:43:30 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: as far as I understand updating @system first should be safer and easier to perform than updating @world directly. It was mention that especially after updating the software after a somewhat

[gentoo-user] emerge -DuN @system vs. emerge -DuN @world

2022-03-21 Thread hitachi303
Hi, as far as I understand updating @system first should be safer and easier to perform than updating @world directly. It was mention that especially after updating the software after a somewhat long period this might solve conflicts. I often do experience different and wonder what the

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 22.02.2022 um 06:27 schrieb Andreas Fink: On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100 hitachi303 wrote: emerge -av --depclean emerge -a --depclean --with-bdeps=n only then when there are as few programs installed as possible I run emerge --sync emerge -Dua --reinstall changed-use @world I

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 21.02.2022 um 22:48 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 22:26:30 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: When running an update after a long long time my approach is as follows: emerge -av --depclean You don't need to unmerge them, just add --exclude "firefox thunderbird etc" to y

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

2022-02-21 Thread hitachi303
Am 20.02.22 um 16:18 schrieb Wols Lists: On 20/02/2022 14:54, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 15:40, Dr Rainer Woitok  wrote: But if I understand the "emerge" manual page correctly, "--changed-deps" causes a rebuild of a package,  if one of its  dependencies has been re- build,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the difference between emerge's --changed-deps=y and @changed-deps?

2022-01-10 Thread hitachi303
Am 10.01.22 um 01:59 schrieb Morgan Wesström: On a freshly updated system (emerge -uDN @world): "emerge @changed-deps" wants to reinstall 0 packages. "emerge -u --changed-deps=y" wants to reinstall 24 packages. "emerge -uD --changed-deps=y" wants to reinstall 181 packages. A couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the difference between emerge's --changed-deps=y and @changed-deps?

2022-01-10 Thread hitachi303
Am 10.01.22 um 07:44 schrieb Lee K: On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 01:59:13AM +0100, Morgan Wesström wrote: On a freshly updated system (emerge -uDN @world): "emerge @changed-deps" wants to reinstall 0 packages. "emerge -u --changed-deps=y" wants to reinstall 24 packages. "emerge -uD

[gentoo-user] [ebuild R ] for USERLAND="(-GNU%*)" ELIBC="(-FreeBSD%)" and KERNEL="(-linux%)"

2022-01-06 Thread hitachi303
When running my updates for some days I have received numerous rebuilds. Have I missed some changes in the handling of use flags? I think those are related to use flags, are they? Do I have to set them somewhere? https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/kernel_linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine why Python 2.7 is still installed?

2021-02-27 Thread hitachi303
Am 27.02.2021 um 14:08 schrieb Grant Edwards: On one of my Gentoo machines Python 2.7 has not been removed by deplcean as it has on others, and I've been unable to determine why. It's not in the world file, and 'equery d python' doesn't show anything depending on 2.7. I have no python targets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best way forward?

2021-02-25 Thread hitachi303
Am 25.02.2021 um 17:13 schrieb Andreas Fink: On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:15:55 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: On 2021-02-25, hitachi303 wrote: I found it to be helpful to de-install as many programs as possible before starting the update and the first emerge --sync. This reduces the amount

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward?

2021-02-25 Thread hitachi303
Am 25.02.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Grant Taylor: I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days (March 24th 2020.  --  Life has been ... trying. What is the best way forward? It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the interim; glibc, Python 2.7 being deprecated,

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby and package.use

2021-02-11 Thread hitachi303
Am 10.02.2021 um 10:06 schrieb Stefan Schmiedl: "Neil Bothwick" , 10.02.2021, 09:52: On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 16:45:15 +1100, Adam Carter wrote: It seems like ruby regularly wants to stuff ruby_targets_rebyNN entries into package.use on my machines - is this normal? Now that ruby3 is out it

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect news read new

2020-12-08 Thread hitachi303
Am 08.12.2020 um 14:41 schrieb Dr Rainer Woitok: Greetings, running the command eselect news read new always returns "No news is good news" regarless of whether I run it from my own account or from "root". And running eselect news list currently lists 17 news items, none of which

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-17 Thread hitachi303
Am 17.08.2020 um 14:11 schrieb Dale: Many years ago, before I used Gentoo, it was claimed, and likely true, that Govt types were reading our emails looking for key words.  Well, as a joke some of us gave them something to read.  We put all the keywords in emails with white letters and a white

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-07 Thread hitachi303
Am 07.05.2020 um 05:39 schrieb Dale: Well, it is about Gentoo and the perception someone had that Gentoo is dying, which has been claimed for many, many years now. Personally I like this graphic about gentoo being extinct. https://linuxfiend.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/is-gentoo-dying/

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-04 Thread hitachi303
Am 04.05.2020 um 02:46 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 6:50 PM hitachi303 wrote: The only person I know who is running a really huge raid ( I guess 2000+ drives) is comfortable with some spare drives. His raid did fail an can fail. Data will be lost. Everything important has

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-04 Thread hitachi303
Am 04.05.2020 um 02:29 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: Facebook used to store data which is sometimes accessed on raids. Since they use energy they stored data which is nearly never accessed on blue ray disks. I don't know if they still do. Reading is very slow if a mechanical arm first needs to

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread hitachi303
Am 03.05.2020 um 23:46 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: so, in summary: /\ | a 5-disk RAID10 is better than a 6-disk RAID10 | | ONLY IF your data is WORTH LESS than 3,524.3 | | bucks. |

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

2020-05-03 Thread hitachi303
Am 03.05.2020 um 07:44 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: * RAIDs 4 to 6: fails to satisfy point (3) since they are stuck with a fixed tolerance towards failing disks (i.e. RAIDs 4 and 5 tolerate only 1 disk failure, and RAID 6 tolerates only 2). As far as I remember

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-14 Thread hitachi303
Am 14.03.20 um 13:46 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 13:38:06 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: It seems that file is created/modified by the mesa ebuild. I would try removing the file and re-emerging mesa to see if it is created with the correct content. # mv -vi -- /etc/X11

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-14 Thread hitachi303
Am 14.03.20 um 06:06 schrieb Jonathan Callen: On 3/12/20 7:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:31:23 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: I do edit it every time X won't start. Then X does start. But after updating and rebooting it has the old wrong line again. You need to find out which

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-14 Thread hitachi303
Am 13.03.20 um 00:46 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:31:23 +0100, hitachi303 wrote: I do edit it every time X won't start. Then X does start. But after updating and rebooting it has the old wrong line again. You need to find out which ebuild is modifying it. Run "ql

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread hitachi303
Am 12.03.2020 um 10:37 schrieb Neil Bothwick: I do edit it every time X won't start. Then X does start. But after updating and rebooting it has the old wrong line again. You need to find out which ebuild is modifying it. Run "qlop -m" and look for the package whose install time most closely

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread hitachi303
Am 12.03.20 um 09:26 schrieb Michael: On Thursday, 12 March 2020 00:13:53 GMT Jack wrote: On 2020.03.11 19:00, hitachi303 wrote: Hi there, so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't start. /etc/X11

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread hitachi303
Am 12.03.20 um 00:06 schrieb Dale: hitachi303 wrote: Hi there, so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't start. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl.conf reads: Section "Files"     ModulePath

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread hitachi303
Am 12.03.20 um 01:13 schrieb Jack: On 2020.03.11 19:00, hitachi303 wrote: Hi there, so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't start. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl.conf reads: Section "

[gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-11 Thread hitachi303
Hi there, so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't start. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20opengl.conf reads: Section "Files" ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection but the module is located

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-06 Thread hitachi303
Am 06.06.2018 um 10:23 schrieb Mick: > Hi all, > > Since portage-2.3.40 I have been getting verification failure for > games-action > on one PC only, which is sync'ed against my local mirror. I've deleted /usr/ > portage/games-action on the PC with this problem and resync'ed afresh with > the