Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] UEFI install noob questions

2020-12-28 Thread Dan Egli
More like off-LIST help since he was still emailing me. But I was glad to help him. :) On 12/28/20 7:18 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: I took up Dan Egli's kind offer of offline help and with that, my XPS 8940 is now booting UEFI. Thanks Dan. I've logged in both at the physical keyboard and via

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:52:21PM +0100, tastytea wrote > > Bash depends on readline. If readline was built with USE="unicode" it > depends on ncurses[unicode]. Try `chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/busybox sh`. > Busybox doesn't depend on readline so that should work. However, > portage uses bash for

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread tastytea
On 2020-12-28 16:36-0500 "Walter Dnes" wrote: > The previous couple of attempts, the install on my XPS 8940 died on > rebuilding ncurses when I copied over my full USE string from my > current desktop and updated world. This time around, I did it in > pieces. I added some variables, and

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > The previous couple of attempts, the install on my XPS 8940 died on > rebuilding ncurses when I copied over my full USE string from my current > desktop and updated world. This time around, I did it in pieces. I > added some variables, and emerged update,

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 22:37, Walter Dnes wrote: >On my other machines I tried... > > equery b libtinfow.so.6 I think you need to use full paths with equery b. I combined it with whereis to confirm that /usr/lib/libtinfow.so.6 belongs to ncurses, so I guess what you need to figure out is why

[gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread Walter Dnes
The previous couple of attempts, the install on my XPS 8940 died on rebuilding ncurses when I copied over my full USE string from my current desktop and updated world. This time around, I did it in pieces. I added some variables, and emerged update, rinse-lather-repeat.. This time the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] WKD 'if SKIP_HEADER not in values'

2020-12-28 Thread Michael
On Monday, 28 December 2020 11:36:17 GMT tastytea wrote: > On 2020-12-28 11:28+ Michael wrote: > > I noticed this error coming up today, on different rsync mirrors: > > > > ~ # eix-sync && emerge -uaNDv world > > > > * Running emerge --sync > > > > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into

Re: [gentoo-user] WKD 'if SKIP_HEADER not in values'

2020-12-28 Thread tastytea
On 2020-12-28 11:28+ Michael wrote: > I noticed this error coming up today, on different rsync mirrors: > > ~ # eix-sync && emerge -uaNDv world > > * Running emerge --sync > >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... > * Using keys from

[gentoo-user] WKD 'if SKIP_HEADER not in values'

2020-12-28 Thread Michael
I noticed this error coming up today, on different rsync mirrors: ~ # eix-sync && emerge -uaNDv world * Running emerge --sync >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'... * Using keys from /usr/share/openpgp-keys/gentoo-release.asc * Refreshing keys via WKD

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI install noob questions

2020-12-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:43:44 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > They all need to be set up once, whether the config is 6 lines or 260 > > lines - real examples here, not made up figures. > > > > Hmm, it seems even systemd-boot's 6 lines for 2 kernels is excessive, > > I no longer use rEFInd, but it's

Re: [gentoo-user] libxml2 has 7 different versions in slot 2?

2020-12-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 21:26, n952162 wrote: > Those aren't slot collisions? It's only slot collisions if you try to install more than one of them at the same time. But that script does *not* list available versions of libxml2, it lists the stated dependencies of packages depending on libxml2,