Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 14:25:47 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> You should at least try to launch a X11 session using a console and see >>> what is printed out on the CLI after you exit (or if it crashes). >>> >>> ~ $ exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11 >> I tried every combination I could think of. It seems the more I tried, >> the worse the failure got. >> >> Anyway, I've started a fresh install. I fixed my partition boo boo. I >> didn't need much of anything except to just get a fresh start so I used >> the zap feature of gdisk. After that, I used cgdisk to set up >> everything else, making sure the efi partition was ef00 and had the old >> fat type partition on it. Or was it vfat? Whatever the docs said. I >> copy and paste some of it except for the partition info. > For an ESP on a disk partition, it would be FAT32 (while FAT12 or FAT16 can > be > used for removable media). VFAT is an extension to FAT allowing long > filenames. In any case it's just a symlink: > > ~ $ ls -la /usr/bin/mkfs.vfat > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 24 08:52 /usr/bin/mkfs.vfat -> mkfs.fat >
I followed the guide. I copied the mkfs command and the option then replaced with my partition info. The command in the docs was a sda drive not nvme. This part of the docs worked fine last time. I just repeated the same. >> I did notice one thing, I copied some USE flags over from my current >> rig. I found some that might not should have been copied over before. >> I wonder if that could have caused a problem or two. I realized I chose >> the merged /usr stage3 but had split-usr USE flag in make.conf. That >> was one I remembered. There was a couple others as well. > Some of the USE flags will be dictated by the make.profile you used. If you > selected the merged /usr profile 23.0 and the corresponding non-legacy stage > 3 > archive for desktop plasma 23.0, you shouldn't have USE="split-usr". When I copied over my USE line from make.conf, it is quite lengthy. I bet I missed that split-usr and could have missed a couple others. I'm not sure what problems that could cause tho. I did look through it pretty good this time. What made me notice the difference, when I got the link for the stage3 file, the one for split-usr is in a different section, most likely because it is going away. I didn't even see it for the first install. It's kinda to the right away from the others. That is one thing I noticed that was wrong, so far. I may run into something else before it is over. I said before that it is likely me that missed something. A package, USE flag or something. At this point, USE flag applies. I also ran into that locale thing again. Using your export command, fixed it, again. I find it odd that the commands to reset the environment does not reset that somehow. Anyway, it works. I have that LC_ALL set on my main rig. It's been that way for years. Should I change it or leave it since it works?? My CPU seems to be running about 20F cooler now. I may try stress again later to make sure it is maxed out long enough to show up accurately. Dale :-) :-)
