Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-04 Thread n952162
Okay, I think I got it. I saw that rrdtool was installed, so assumed everything was okay. But, what I didn't realize is that - back then - I guess I tried to install montorix and didn't notice, in the jungle of messages, that the emerge was not successful. Apparently, rddtool got installed

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage, continued

2019-06-04 Thread n952162
Henry V, Act III, 1598 > Gesendet: Dienstag, 04. Juni 2019 um 16:59 Uhr > Von: "Grant Edwards" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating portage, continued > > On 2019-06-03, n952...@web.de wrote: > > > Fundamentally, autounmask seems like something I don't want

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-04 Thread n952162
Or, perhaps, that's where slots come in? If I try to install package A, which doesn't want whatever's in > > > +>=net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.6.0-r1 perl graph then, it'll use a new slot? I see that I have ebuilds for rrdtool-1.6.0 and rrdtool-1.7.0,1.7.1. and 1.7.2. The one that runs when I

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too)

2019-05-31 Thread n952162
> Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Mai 2019 um 00:02 Uhr > Von: "Dale" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too) > > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:18:01 BST Dale wrote: to do.  > > If I recall correctly, I did a merge -e world when I

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
Thanks for the good link > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:52 Uhr > Von: "Neil Bothwick" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued > > On Thu, 30 May 2019 00:37:14 +0200, n952...@web.de wrote: > > > The next section of the response to my

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too)

2019-05-30 Thread n952162
that's a good libk, too > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 03:04 Uhr > Von: "Adam Carter" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too) > > On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 8:41 AM wrote: > > > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:20 Uhr > > >

[gentoo-user] updating portage, continued

2019-05-30 Thread n952162
Next comes this: "The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by sys-devel/crossdev-20171230::gentoo # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) =sys-apps/portage-2.3.67 ~amd64" If

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-03 Thread n952162
Fundamentally, autounmask seems like something I don't want to do, at all. What happens if I just remove zz-autounmask? What do I have to emerge to find out? I currently have: $ cat /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask >=dev-lang/python-2.7.14-r1:2.7 sqlite >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11-r1

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-03 Thread n952162
I'm sorry, I'm not getting this yet. What if I just don't update these configuration files? dispatch-conf tells me, for /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords: --- /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autounmask 2018-03-12 21:56:49.172491972 +0100 +++

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-06 Thread n952162
The handbook is great information, but unfortunately, it uses concepts - specific gentoo concepts - that many readers doesn't know. They are then often cross-referenced to other pages, which likewise define things based on expected internal understanding of the mechanisms, goals, and potential

Aw: Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-06 Thread n952162
Great additional information. Thank you. > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 05. Juni 2019 um 00:10 Uhr > Von: "Mick" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued > > On Tuesday, 4 June 2019 21:21:24 BST n952...@web.de wrote: > > Or, perhaps, that's

[gentoo-user] Fw: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
And, what are the consequences that I'm suffering, that I haven't done that before, for over a year? > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2019 um 23:55 Uhr > Von: n952...@web.de > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords > > I have many files like

[gentoo-user] updating /etc/package.accept_keywords

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
I have many files like ._cfg_package.accept_keywords. Is the right way to handle this to do something like: sort -u ._cfg_package.accept_keywords >| package.accept_keywords

[gentoo-user] slot conflict when updating portage

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: sys-apps/portage:0 How should I go about handling this? Slot are explained somewhere as allowing multiple packages to have different versions of the same

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too)

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:20 Uhr > Von: "Dale" > I've done upgrades that skip quite a ways using make oldconfig.  I've > never had any issues.  If it were me, I'd just make the jump but make > sure to keep the old kernel around just in case something doesn't work.  > At least

[gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
The next section of the response to my attempt to update portage is a long list of packages, each terminated with a "(masked by: something or other)". What does that tell me. If it's masked, it shouldn't be available, right? But, I've got it: - virtual/perl-parent-0.234.0-r1::gentoo (masked

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict when updating portage

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
Okay, gladly. In fact, I ran it 3 times, one after another, because I wasn't even sure if there were fatal problems or not ... trying to attach these text files... But I'm going to bed then. Good night. > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:38 Uhr > Von: "Dale" > An:

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict when updating portage

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
Oh, I wish I'd use .txt as an extension. Here's one in the raw: 10~>sudo emerge --oneshot portage Password: !!! Your current profile is deprecated and not supported anymore. !!! Use eselect profile to update your profile. !!! Please upgrade to the following profile if possible:

[gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too)

2019-05-29 Thread n952162
Hi, I'm currently at 4.14.65-gentoo and I understand my cheap hp laptop's amdgpu could finally get better support if I upgrade to 4.16 or 4.17.1. Can I just do that, or would it be better (or even possible) to go in smaller increments? Also, something's always complaining to me about my

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-10 Thread n952162
On 06/06/19 06:00, n952...@web.de wrote: The handbook is great information, but unfortunately, it uses concepts - specific gentoo concepts - that many readers doesn't know. They are then often cross-referenced to other pages, which likewise define things based on expected internal

Re: Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

2019-06-12 Thread n952162
On 06/10/19 22:42, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 5:39 PM n952162 wrote: On 06/06/19 06:00,n952...@web.de wrote: In trying to update portage (before I update my system), I have this: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-python/setuptools-34[python_targ

[gentoo-user] setting up a local mirror

2019-05-22 Thread n952162
It's getting late tonight to try this - before I do so tomorrow, does anyone have any thoughts about the following plan? I want one machine facing the internet that's my local mirror and if a client needs something that's not on the mirror, the emerge will fail and I'll get it onto the mirror

[gentoo-user] keywords vs use variables

2019-05-20 Thread n952162
Hi, Can someone explain the difference between keywords (as in package.accept_keywords) and use variables (as in package.use/)? Or point me to concise documentation that makes the difference clear?

Aw: [gentoo-user] Re: keywords vs use variables

2019-05-21 Thread n952162
That's good, thank you both. > Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Mai 2019 um 01:29 Uhr > Von: "Nikos Chantziaras" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: [gentoo-user] Re: keywords vs use variables > > On 20/05/2019 20:54, n952...@web.de wrote: > > Can someone explain the difference between keywords

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] keywords vs use variables

2019-05-20 Thread n952162
Okay, thanks. I'll take that in and try to digest it, try to find examples what that means. > Gesendet: Montag, 20. Mai 2019 um 19:58 Uhr > Von: "Daniel Frey" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: [gentoo-user] keywords vs use variables > > On 5/20/19 10:54 AM, n952...@web.de

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

2019-04-29 Thread n952162
> Gesendet: Montag, 29. April 2019 um 10:47 Uhr > Von: "Peter Humphrey" > An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more > questions) > > On Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:37:19 BST n952...@web.de wrote: > > > - Peter Humphrey suggests:

Aw: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

2019-04-29 Thread n952162
But that seems strange - why would I need both GENTOO_MIRRORS and http_proxy? GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://myserver; http_proxy="http://myserver:3142 Does the http_proxy imply that I'd need a proxy app, like squid. Between my client and server, there won't be any appreciable traffic. > Gesendet:

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors (summary, leading to more questions)

2019-04-28 Thread n952162
Thanks to all who reponded: - Rich Freeman suggests: - having apache serve the local distfiles. How? Just make them available in the apache root and give portage the URL somewhere? - use "infra scripts", but I think that's for running an up-to-date general-purpose mirror

[gentoo-user] local mirrors

2019-04-25 Thread n952162
Hi, I looked at this page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror "Many users run Gentoo on several machines and need to sync the Gentoo repository on all of them. Using public mirrors is simply a waste of bandwidth at both ends. Syncing only one machine against a public mirror and all

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors

2019-04-25 Thread n952162
What I'm hoping for, though, is a configuration flag that causes any of: - inhibits a theoretical traversal of repos.conf databases (e.g. also /usr/share/porrage/...) - inhibits trying to upgrade beyond what's already installed in the mirror server > Gesendet: Freitag, 26. April 2019 um 07:32

Aw: Re: [gentoo-user] local mirrors

2019-04-25 Thread n952162
Thank you for the explanation. I wonder what the local mirror page means when it talks about saving bandwidth. What *does* it serve if not the distfiles? And when /etc/portage/repos.conf points to my local server, why would portage disregard that? The rsync server on the mirror host points

Re: [gentoo-user] static addr in /etc/conf.d/net ignored, dhcp used. dhcpcd crashes when forced

2019-08-19 Thread n952162
c ip_address=192.168.0.10/24/ (haven't tried it yet, my system is busy right now). So, what is /etc/conf.d/net for?  What programs read it? On 08/19/19 20:11, n952162 wrote: My eth0/enp2s0 network adapter is configured so: $ cat /etc/conf.d/net config_enp2s0="192.168.179.20/24&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] static addr in /etc/conf.d/net ignored, dhcp used. dhcpcd crashes when forced

2019-08-19 Thread n952162
You were right, thank you.  When I put net.enp2s0 back in, it came up on reboot this time - the interface, that is.  I guess there was something else wrong when I still had it in the defaul runlevel.  My faith in openrc is restored :-) On 08/19/19 22:35, n952162 wrote: On 08/19/19 20:04, J

[gentoo-user] static addr in /etc/conf.d/net ignored, dhcp used. dhcpcd crashes when forced

2019-08-19 Thread n952162
My eth0/enp2s0 network adapter is configured so: $ cat /etc/conf.d/net config_enp2s0="192.168.179.20/24" but on boot, I get a bonjour address: enp2s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 48:BA:4E:29:99:9E   inet addr:*169.254.71.117 * Bcast:169.254.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0

[gentoo-user] what pgm is rotating my /var/log/syslog, etc. files?

2019-08-19 Thread n952162
I have two gentoo machines, my primary one and one I cloned off of that. The original gentoo machine has lots of nice /var/log/syslog.1.gz, etc. files. The clone has one big /var/log/syslog file. I now have logrotate installed in both machines.  I see that the original has cronie installed and

[gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-18 Thread n952162
in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending) of a word. Elsewhere, you prepend (or append) the pattern with \< (\>) but that's not working for me with gentoo. Also, where the change is  documented.

Re: [gentoo-user] search patterns in less(1)

2019-07-18 Thread n952162
of the decades-old \<. On 07/18/19 20:55, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 7/18/19 6:40 PM, n952162 wrote: in less(1), how do you search for a pattern at the beginning (or ending) of a word. Hit front slash "/" in less, and then type a perl-compatible regular expression. Specificall

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread n952162
Okay, thank you, I'll try that (in (33 - 24) hours ;-) ) On 11/02/19 16:40, Mick wrote: On Saturday, 2 November 2019 15:15:31 GMT n952162 wrote: I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata connection. It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg file. I mounted it async

[gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread n952162
I'm getting 13k bps writing to a Toshiba 3T drive over a USB/Sata connection.  It' take 33 hours to transfer a 200meg file. I mounted it async but then see that ext4 ignores the async option on mounts. What am I doing wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4?

2019-11-04 Thread n952162
their proper places? On 11/04/19 20:47, n952162 wrote: I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed.  I fsck-ed that and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer.  I guess it can happen

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4?

2019-11-04 Thread n952162
n 11/04/19 20:47, n952162 wrote: I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed.  I fsck-ed that and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer.  I guess it can happen, every once in a while - ev

[gentoo-user] What's the value-added of journaling filesystems like ext4?

2019-11-04 Thread n952162
I had a power-loss situation and when the system came up I went into the grub rescue screen - my root file system was trashed.  I fsck-ed that  and had a ton of prompts until I did the "all" answer.  I guess it can happen, every once in a while - even with a journaling filesystem - I guess. I

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
!!!  Ebuild on the crashed machine isn't taking it. On 11/05/19 22:30, n952162 wrote: I moved the virtualbox-6* ebuilds out of that directory and was able to regenerate the Manifest! The ebuild file merge worked quite well ... unfortunately, I ended up here: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.4.0

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
 * Missing digest for '/usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-5.1.32.ebuild' On 11/05/19 22:08, n952162 wrote: I found a copy of the ebuild on a different machine I have - it's a x86 not an amd64 architect, but maybe it's architecture-agnostic.  I wonder if I copy that to my amd64

[gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-11 Thread n952162
I re-installed gentoo from the minimal boot cd (amd64), re-emerged everything from my old, saved world file, overnight, and its up and running, more or less.  Then, I wanted to see what was available and discovered, there's no /usr/portage directory! What did I do wrong?

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
ef's knife for a screwdriver) ;-) --new-use isn't on my man page On 11/10/19 11:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 11:18:42 +0100, n952162 wrote: even if the package was just emerged? Yes, if you use "emerge pkg", because that's what you have told it to do. If you add -u

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
Ah!  Now I found it! Thank you. On 11/10/19 12:25, Francesco Turco wrote: On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 12:09, n952162 wrote: --new-use isn't on my man page It's spelled --newuse, or simply -N.

[gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
fsck effectively discarded many of my virtualbox libraries but I still have the ebuild and tarballs and everything.  But I don't see anything about repair in the emerge manpage.

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
pcap also got it's libraries trashed ... On 11/05/19 22:22, n952162 wrote: I found the ebuild /file/ manifest command ... but got this: //usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox # ebuild /usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-5.1.32.ebuild manifest // //!!! getFetchMap(): 'app-emulation

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
: If the version you want isn’t in the tree anymore, you can use `ebuild /path/to/it merge` On mar. 5 nov. 21:41:39 2019, n952162 wrote: Thank you for the suggestion. I had version 5.1.32 installed - several components of that. When I run the command you suggest, it prompts: /The following keyword

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
I imagine that's a line in the Manifest file?  Any hope of recreating that? On 11/05/19 22:11, n952162 wrote:  * Missing digest for '/usr/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox/virtualbox-5.1.32.ebuild' On 11/05/19 22:08, n952162 wrote: I found a copy of the ebuild on a different machine I have

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread n952162
/virtualbox # / I think I'm on EAPI 6. On 11/05/19 22:08, n952162 wrote: I found a copy of the ebuild on a different machine I have - it's a x86 not an amd64 architect, but maybe it's architecture-agnostic.  I wonder if I copy that to my amd64 machine (which has the tarball of the package

[gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-12 Thread n952162
I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do to have it issue a shutdown?  This is an openrc system. I have this, but it doesn't work: $ cat  /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn event=button[ /]power.*

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 10:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:27:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: There's a million ways a system can hang.  Acpi is a mechanism for shipping kernel events to user space.  If user space isn't working, acpi won't work.   I think. But if it's just X that is locked

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
How do you fix a broken filesystem, other than letting fsck have its way with it? On 11/17/19 12:39, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: I'm not seeing how doing an fsck from a live cd helps. Generally speaking, something ends up being mounted rw and if it isn't clean, that can cause issues that may

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
And - although hitting the power button will clear up some situations, if your hard disk is having trouble closing, shutdown() probably won't be able to get around that and the shutdown will be like a power-loss shutdown. On 11/17/19 10:27, n952162 wrote: There's a million ways a system can

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
I'm not seeing how doing an fsck from a live cd helps. On 11/17/19 11:50, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 17 November 2019 10:30:49 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 11:21:18 +0100, n952162 wrote: (in fact, that's exactly the situation that I've been confronted with and have turned

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
, with substantial loss of organization and of data (despite both being ext3/4 journaling filesystems - I just don't understand that!) ) On 11/17/19 10:35, n952162 wrote: And - although hitting the power button will clear up some situations, if your hard disk is having trouble closing, shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 11:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: Please don't top-post on this list. Magic SysReq would probably have helped in those situations. ext3/4 only journal metadata by default, you can specify a mount option to also journal data but it impacts performance. I wonder how often NTFS

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
Ah, now I see.  Yes, in that respect, that is, if you don't have a chance to get /forcefsck written. On 11/17/19 13:23, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: How do you fix a broken filesystem, other than letting fsck have its way with it? The point is, don't touch it until you do.  If you boot

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
There's a million ways a system can hang.  Acpi is a mechanism for shipping kernel events to user space.  If user space isn't working, acpi won't work.   I think. On 11/17/19 09:44, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: okay, I've got ... acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
okay, I've got ... acpid is, by default, not in the default openrc run list [:blush:] Solution:     sudo rc-update add acpid On 11/13/19 07:48, n952162 wrote: I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore.  What do I have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

2019-11-17 Thread n952162
On 11/17/19 16:06, Mick wrote: You keep top-posting and inverting the logical Q/A flow of this thread ... On Sunday, 17 November 2019 12:53:51 GMT n952162 wrote: Ah, now I see. Yes, in that respect, that is, if you don't have a chance to get /forcefsck written. Running fsck manually

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
    ); qdbus org.kde.kded" | grep -q powerdevil     ); then     # Get out as the power manager that is running will take care of things.     exit fi whereupon I was finally able to understand it. On 11/16/19 10:34, n952162 wrote: On 11/13/19 09:55, Mick wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
On 11/13/19 09:55, Mick wrote: On Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:48:11 GMT n952162 wrote: I've reinstalled gentoo from the gentoo repository and now my power button doesn't do a shutdown anymore. What do I have to do to have it issue a shutdown? This is an openrc system. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc?

2019-11-16 Thread n952162
On 11/16/19 13:50, Mick wrote: It is not simply a matter of different names, but of different binaries. As far as I understand it, the /sbin/init of sys-apps/sysvinit is used by openrc unless you have modified your system to use openrc-init (a different binary to /sbin/init) as explained here:

[gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread n952162
even if the package was just emerged?

[gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
Hello, do I understand this correctly?  In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge app-emulation/qemu but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? Why doesn't qemu have a dependency on nbd?  I don't find any relevant USE flags.

[gentoo-user] how does the bond0 i/f get set up?

2019-12-17 Thread n952162
how does the bond0 i/f get set up? And why do I have it?

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
On 12/06/19 12:38, n952162 wrote: I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). Anybody have any idea what could have become misconfigured? I've made a new

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
But that begs the question of why my initrd is correct but  my /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo isn't ... I'll look into it tomorrow... On 12/11/19 22:56, n952162 wrote: On 12/11/19 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:55:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: I've made a new recognition

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-11 Thread n952162
On 12/11/19 17:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:55:48 +0100, n952162 wrote: I've made a new recognition about this issue.   If I move /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo to a saved/ subdirectory, and otherwise have NO modules directory, I don't have this problem. When I move

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
where do I start? On 12/05/19 09:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 08:33:08 +0100, n952162 wrote: Okay, I see from /proc/config.gz that NBD probably needs to be configured with the kernel # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set Bummer.  At work, I could just do a apt-get install qemu-nbd

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
Very informative explanation. On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/4/19 11:03 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurrency. https://nbd.sourceforge.io/ I think I'd liken NBD to iSCSI more so than NFS. 

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 20:01, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/5/19 12:33 AM, n952162 wrote: The emerge should have checked for this and failed. I don't think it should fail.  I've routinely seen emerge check for various kernel / network / other parameters and issue warnings about things not being the way

[gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-06 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). Anybody have any idea what could have become misconfigured?

[gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete?

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
The documentation emerged with sys-block/nbd includes this: /usr/share/doc/nbd-3.19/README.md.bz2:     # modprobe nbd but there's no module emerged by nbd-3.19.ebuild.  There doesn't seem to be any relevant USE flags to cause it to be generated. How can I get nbd.ko?

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
:28:26PM +0100, n952162 wrote do I understand this correctly? In order to run qemu-nbd, you emerge app-emulation/qemu but that isn't all, you've also got to emerge sys-block/nbd? nbd is a "Network Block Device" driver along the lines of NFS, but it doesn't handle concurren

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
do this: sudo modprobe nbd qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 drive.vdi On 12/05/19 07:34, n952162 wrote: But qemu includes qemu-nbd, and it seems that qemu-nbd requires nbd.ko, which is presumably provided by sys-block/nbd. In other words, qemu provides a facility which seems to only work with nbd

Re: [gentoo-user] nbd ebuild incomplete? [SOLVED]

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
, n952162 wrote: The documentation emerged with sys-block/nbd includes this: /usr/share/doc/nbd-3.19/README.md.bz2:     # modprobe nbd but there's no module emerged by nbd-3.19.ebuild.  There doesn't seem to be any relevant USE flags to cause it to be generated. How can I get nbd.ko?

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread n952162
On 12/05/19 08:17, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 wrote: Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd: modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilt kernel - now doesn't shutdown

2019-12-07 Thread n952162
On 12/07/19 13:17, Mick wrote: On Friday, 6 December 2019 11:38:09 GMT n952162 wrote: I rebuilt my kernel and now have the Network Block Device, but now my system doesn't power off anymore, using shutdown -h now, and doesn't reboot with reboot (orshutdown -r now). I'm not sure which kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead.  Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, but rather a problem with the driver and hardware coordination. According to the gentoo

[gentoo-user] CUPS/administration gives a blank window

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer selection item, a blank screen is displayed.  Does anybody know why?

[gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delegate for this image format `JPG' Am I

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
2.16 12:10, n952162 wrote: I tried using imagemagick's display, and it gave me: display: delegate library support not built-in '' (X11) There's no X on the media-gfx/imagemagick web page. On a guess, I created a use file for imagemagick with X and now I get: display: no decode delegate for this im

Re: [gentoo-user] what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread n952162
On 12/16/19 20:52, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 2:25 PM n952162 wrote: It's strange ... on coming home, I see that my machine here can display all the usual filetypes and has *no* use flags: media-gfx/imagemagick-7.0.8.11 I'm still curious what that "USE flags&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
But ~amd64 means that it's unstable.  I want to use a stable version of portage. That's why I went to 2.3.69 (Sorry, Mick, for the private msg - I always forget that thunderbird replies directly, and that I have to re-enter the list every time) On 10/27/19 14:48, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 27

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
On 10/27/19 14:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync && eix-update'?  * To update portage, run 'emerge --oneshot portage' now.

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
d64is now: $ lf /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/ 17.0/  17.1/  eapi  package.use.mask  parent Is my system now killed? On 10/27/19 15:10, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:02:53 GMT n952162 wrote: But ~amd64 means that it's unstable. I want to use a stable version of port

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
Right.  But I can't --sync. But beyond that, why does emerge say there are no ebuilds when there are? On 10/27/19 14:32, Mick wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 13:21:04 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 15:11:56 GMT n952162 wrote: When I enter: sudo emerge =sys-apps

[gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
When I enter:   sudo  emerge  =sys-apps/portage-2.3.69 I get the response:   emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=sys-apps/portage-2.3.69". but this version is listed on packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/portage as being an available Version

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread n952162
/wiki/Project:Portage Description: Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo On 10/27/19 15:40, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 27 October 2019 16:03:45 GMT n952162 wrote: On 10/27/19 14:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS/administration gives a blank window [RESOLVED]

2019-12-19 Thread n952162
On 2019-12-16 16:48, n952162 wrote: After starting apache2 and cups, when I select the add-a-printer selection item, a blank screen is displayed.  Does anybody know why? Because I don't have javascript enabled  ... Interestingly enough, I was able get a lot farther with w3m.

[gentoo-user] where did VBoxClient go to?

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
In app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions5.1.32, there's a program called /usr/bin/VBoxClient that is not to be found in 5.2.32.  I don't find any mention of the change in the internet or the release notes for 5.2.32.  Anybody have any idea what the story is? Does anybody use clipboard

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-21 Thread n952162
re my root filesystem got crashed by a negligent ext4 recovery, the system came up multi-homed, with a static and a dhcp-derived address. Coming from 4.9.? to 4.19.72. Could it be that something changed? On 12/19/19 08:46, n952162 wrote: I have this line in /etc/conf.d/net: config_wlp3s0=&qu

[gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
xauth(1) says: /if [the X server] does not support the SECURITY extension, the [generate] command fails./ The xauth command is used to generate the .Xauthority file, which is required for X11Forwarding. But the Security Extension is not enabled by default: - - xcsecurity  : Build

Re: [gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-22 Thread n952162
filesystem crash. On 12/22/19 19:19, Tamer Higazi wrote: sorry. I am totally stupid. I got you now. Check if the networkmanager of systemd or "DEFINETLY" openrc is used. More I cannot tell you best, Tamer On 2019-12-21 18:15, n952162 wrote: Okay, I have an update on thi

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant not starting dhcpcd

2019-12-18 Thread n952162
I have this line in /etc/conf.d/net: config_wlp3s0="dhcp" given: $ifconfig wlp3s0 wlp3s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx   inet addr:192.168.178.42 Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 Metric:1   RX

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