Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > On my boxes with swap files, kernel 5.7.0 barfs; > > # file /swapfile > /swapfile: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size > 2097151 pages, no label > # swapon -a > swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument > > I havent looked into it yet as they're rarely used at

[gentoo-user] Encrypting a hard drive's data. Best method.

2020-06-05 Thread Dale
Howdy, I think I got a old 3TB hard drive to work.  After dd'ing it, redoing partitions and such, it seems to be working.  Right now, I'm copying a bunch of data to it to see how it holds up.  Oh, it's a PMR drive too.  lol  Once I'm pretty sure it is alive and working well, I want to play with en

Re: [gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread tuxic
On 06/06 05:29, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, 05 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > >Is there something in portage, which is recommended to > >reformat/display this json-input into something more > >readable...? > > json_pp from dev-lang/perl which you should already have > installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 05 Jun 2020, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >Is there something in portage, which is recommended to >reformat/display this json-input into something more >readable...? json_pp from dev-lang/perl which you should already have installed ;) Example usage: $ json_pp < some.json | less HTH,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

2020-06-05 Thread Dale
Jack wrote: > Were you thinking about this?  https://xkcd.com/927/ > > On 2020.06.05 22:24, William Kenworthy wrote: >> No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there >> are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your almost >> fitting ones. >> >> What stand

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
Were you thinking about this? https://xkcd.com/927/ On 2020.06.05 22:24, William Kenworthy wrote: No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your almost fitting ones. What standard? - if don't like it, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

2020-06-05 Thread William Kenworthy
No, there are a lot of different sizes used across brands - and there are metric and imperial threads which is likely the cause of your almost fitting ones. What standard? - if don't like it, wait a few minutes and another will come along ... :) BillK On 6/6/20 10:06 am, Dale wrote: > Howdy, >

[gentoo-user] Hard drive screws

2020-06-05 Thread Dale
Howdy, I know this sounds like a silly question and I never thought I would have to ask such a basic question like this.  I bought a external hard drive enclosure and was trying to install a hard drive I had laying around.  The screws that come with the enclosure doesn't fit.  The screws have a co

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 15:57:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > When you install your kernel, do you use make install or do you copy the > kernel to /boot manually?  I do mine manually but also copy it manually > as well.  That makes it hard for me to recall how to use the dracut > command.  It requires a kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 05 Jun 2020 16:48:30 -0400, Jack wrote: > I used to do all my kernel configuration and setup manually on my old > box (with legacy grub). When I upgraded to my new PC with a Ryzen 5 > 2600 and started using lvm, I ended up needing an initramfs, and > managed to get genkernel working

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Dale
Andrew Udvare wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack wrote: >> Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. >> >> Jack > I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10 > compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's > not some serious detriment to not usi

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
On 2020.06.05 16:24, Andrew Udvare wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack wrote: > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. > > Jack I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10 compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's not some serious d

Re: [gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Andrew Udvare
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:02, Jack wrote: > Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions. > > Jack I would keep GCC 9 for now. I've run into a few issues with GCC 10 compiling various packages so I have kept GCC 9 on my system. There's not some serious detriment to not using GCC 10 for 99% of people. Mo

[gentoo-user] new genkernel problem

2020-06-05 Thread Jack
I'm currently running a 5.6.10 kernel, compiled with genkernel along with an initramfs. That was compiled with gcc-9.3.0. Since then, using gcc-10.1.0, I have not successfully run genkernel. Initially it was kernel compile failures due to the -fnocommon bug. With a patch, the kernel com

Re: [gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread garantiertnicht
tu...@posteo.de; 2020-06-05T19:26:32+0200: > Hi, > > via https://youtuberandomcomment.com/ ->Download all is it possible > to download all comments of a YouTube-Videoas a json file, which > contains exactly one, very long line. > > This is exactly the formatting I would prefer to read > threa

[gentoo-user] Got a json file from YouTube...

2020-06-05 Thread tuxic
Hi, via https://youtuberandomcomment.com/ ->Download all is it possible to download all comments of a YouTube-Videoas a json file, which contains exactly one, very long line. This is exactly the formatting I would prefer to read threaded comments ; Is there something in portage, which is

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-05 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 23:42:50 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> Providing he's just adding the line to a package.use file with a text >> editor, that's just manually doing the work of etc-update. We need >> the `emerge --info docutils` output to see full information about h

Re: [gentoo-user] docutils needing py2.7, but not wanting py2.7?

2020-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 23:42:50 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Providing he's just adding the line to a package.use file with a text > editor, that's just manually doing the work of etc-update. We need > the `emerge --info docutils` output to see full information about his > Python environment. E