Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 22:52:31 BST Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2024-06-24, Dale wrote: Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: >> Have you seen this before? > No, because I've never used dracut. I just had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 22:03:14 BST Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: Have you seen this before? >>> No, because I've never used dracut. >> I just had a thought. I have /usr on the root partition now. Do I even >> need a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 22:52:31 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-06-24, Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: > Have you seen this before? > >>> > >>> No, because I've never used dracut. > >> > >> I just had a thought. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 22:03:14 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: > >> Have you seen this before? > > > > No, because I've never used dracut. > > I just had a thought. I have /usr on the root partition now. Do I even > need a init thingy?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-06-24, Dale wrote: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: >>> Have you seen this before? >>> No, because I've never used dracut. >> I just had a thought.  I have /usr on the root partition now.  Do I even >> need a init thingy? 

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-06-24, Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: >> >>> Have you seen this before? >> No, because I've never used dracut. > > I just had a thought.  I have /usr on the root partition now.  Do I even > need a init thingy?  Same question as always:

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: > >> Have you seen this before? > No, because I've never used dracut. I just had a thought.  I have /usr on the root partition now.  Do I even need a init thingy?  > > >> (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # dracut --kver=$(cat >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 20:47:15 BST Dale wrote: > Have you seen this before? No, because I've never used dracut. > (chroot) livecd /usr/src/linux # dracut --kver=$(cat > include/config/kernel.release) > dracut[I]: Executing: /usr/bin/dracut --kver=6.9.4-gentoo > dracut[F]: Can't write to >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 17:54:44 BST Dale wrote: > >> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 17:54:44 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
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 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
all, or execute postinst: > * > * (x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.120:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), > Log file: > * '/var/log/portage/x11-libs:libdrm-2.4.120:20240624-140627.log' > > > The key part is that part about 8 lines or so up. If the locale is not > set,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 24 June 2024 15:29:21 BST Dale wrote: > If a person is trying to copy another install and runs into a failure in > a package to compile, skip ahead and deal with the locale section first > then come back. Yes, I've been doing that for some time now, having tripped over something as

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
nimal_abi_src_compile'  *   environment, line  634:  Called multilib-minimal_abi_src_compile  *   environment, line 2211:  Called multilib_src_compile  *   environment, line 2704:  Called meson_src_compile  *   environment, line 2090:  Called eninja  *   environment, line 1470:  Called die  *

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday, 24 June 2024 06:19:10 BST Dale wrote: >> William Kenworthy wrote: >>> ... >>> Now to ponder what comes next. Dale :-) :-) >>> Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an >>> xorg.conf for nvidia? Have you followed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 06:19:10 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > ... > > > >> Now to ponder what comes next. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an > > xorg.conf for nvidia? Have you followed the gentoo Xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 02:55:33 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:37:15 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > >> I kinda like /boot on its own partition. If /boot gets corrupted > >> somehow, I can get the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Wols Lists
On 24/06/2024 02:55, Dale wrote: Now to ponder what comes next. Stibbons? Cheers, Wol