Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 3:24 GMT+02:00 Dale : > > In my experience, once swap starts getting used, it gets slow, sometimes > to the point that a response may take several seconds or more. When I > compile without tmpfs at all, which means everything is on disk, it's > rare that I can even tell it is using that

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 10:11 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote: > >> > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be >> > non-volatile (across reboots). >> > >> > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots). >> > >> > I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 0:50 GMT+02:00 Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor : > From: freemanr...@gmail.com on behalf of Rich > Freeman > Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:38 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs > > Just adding my 2 cents EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--fail-clean" h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 0:19 GMT+02:00 Nikos Chantziaras : > On 08/02/18 23:31, gevisz wrote: >> >> I do not use ccache, and in my /var/tmp I only have /var/tmp/portage >> and /var/tmp/genkernel (I use genkernel to generate initramfs image). >> >> I never use emerge and genker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
2018-02-08 23:57 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman : > On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:52 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> However, it probably won't be sooner than >> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask >> world --exclude chromium >> fails because of

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
2018-02-08 21:17 GMT+02:00 Dale : > gevisz wrote: >> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a >> try. >> >> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. >> >> Do I correctly understood >> https://wiki.ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
2018-02-08 20:13 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman : > On 08/02/18 19:11, gevisz wrote: >> >> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a >> try. >> >> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. >> >> Do I correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
2018-02-08 19:47 GMT+02:00 Nikos Chantziaras : > On 08/02/18 19:11, gevisz wrote: >> >> I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided >> to give it a try. >> >> I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. >> >> Do I co

[gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-08 Thread gevisz
I never used tmpfs for portage TMPDIR before and now decided to give it a try. I have 8GB of RAM and 12GB of swap on a separate partition. Do I correctly understood https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage_TMPDIR_on_tmpfs that I can safely set in the fstab the size of my tmpfs to 12GB so that the chr

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating media-libs/mesa failed

2017-03-11 Thread gevisz
2017-03-11 19:59 GMT+02:00 Alan Mackenzie : > Hello, Gevisz. > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 19:31:25 +0200, gevisz wrote: >> Today, updating my system, I have got: > >> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask >> world --exclude chromium &g

[gentoo-user] Updating media-libs/mesa failed

2017-03-11 Thread gevisz
Today, updating my system, I have got: # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world --exclude chromium These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/mesa-13.0.5 [12.0.1] USE="nettle%* -gcrypt% (

Re: [gentoo-user] Why portage demands to unmask an unstable version of the package?

2017-03-04 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 16:37:13 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 4 Mar 2017 18:21:23 +0200, gevisz wrote: > > > $ eix gvim > > [I] app-editors/gvim > > Available versions: 8.0.0106 ~8.0.0386 ** {acl aqua cscope > > debug gnome gtk gtk3 lua luajit motif

[gentoo-user] Why portage demands to unmask an unstable version of the package?

2017-03-04 Thread gevisz
$ eix gvim [I] app-editors/gvim Available versions: 8.0.0106 ~8.0.0386 ** {acl aqua cscope debug gnome gtk gtk3 lua luajit motif neXt netbeans nls perl python racket ruby selinux session tcl PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 python3_5 python3_6"} Installed versions: 8.0.0106(05:36

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav: a slot conflict

2017-02-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:20:46 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 18/02/2017 17:01, Gevisz wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:02:22 +0100 Johannes Rosenberger > > wrote: > > > >> On 18.02.2017 12:21, gevisz wrote: > >>> Yet, a week ago, I updated

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav: a slot conflict

2017-02-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 23:15:33 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 17:01:52 +0200, Gevisz wrote: > > > > I think the problem is that you don't allow chromium to be rebuilt, > > > because all your blocking packages depend on the installed slot > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav: a slot conflict

2017-02-18 Thread Gevisz
On Sat, 18 Feb 2017 13:02:22 +0100 Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > On 18.02.2017 12:21, gevisz wrote: > > Yet, a week ago, I updated my system without any problem but just now, > > trying to update my system, > > I have got the following error message: > > > >

[gentoo-user] ffmpeg and libav: a slot conflict

2017-02-18 Thread gevisz
Yet, a week ago, I updated my system without any problem but just now, trying to update my system, I have got the following error message: # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world --verbose-conflicts --exclude chromium These are the packages that would be merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd good or bad?

2017-01-08 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 11:47:24 -0600 Dale wrote: > wabe wrote: > > Dominus Mundi wrote: > > > >> I read in the history feeds that the universal init system (formerly > >> known as systemd) was controversial when introduced. I would like the > >> opinions of people from your time. -- Securely sent

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-08 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 13:17:30 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/01/17 09:32, Gevisz wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 07:55:13 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > > >> On 08/01/17 07:18, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > >>> On 08/01/17 01:41, gevisz wrote: > >&

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread Gevisz
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 07:55:13 +0800 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On 08/01/17 07:18, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > On 08/01/17 01:41, gevisz wrote: > >> 2017-01-07 18:41 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : > >> > >>> > >>> Please attach the full file. Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
2017-01-07 16:53 GMT+02:00 gevisz : > 2017-01-07 16:32 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : >> On January 7, 2017 3:06:26 PM GMT+01:00, gevisz wrote: >>>2017-01-07 15:19 GMT+02:00 Alan McKinnon : >>>> On 07/01/2017 15:01, gevisz wrote: >>>>> The installed v

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
2017-01-07 16:32 GMT+02:00 J. Roeleveld : > On January 7, 2017 3:06:26 PM GMT+01:00, gevisz wrote: >>2017-01-07 15:19 GMT+02:00 Alan McKinnon : >>> On 07/01/2017 15:01, gevisz wrote: >>>> The installed version fails to launch Win7x64 >>>> with the foll

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
2017-01-07 15:14 GMT+02:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 07/01/2017 14:50, gevisz wrote: >>>>> Failed to emerge app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38, Log file: >> >>>>> '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38/temp/build.log' > > please post th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
2017-01-07 15:19 GMT+02:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 07/01/2017 15:01, gevisz wrote: >> The installed version fails to launch Win7x64 >> with the following messages: >> >> Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win7x64. >> >> The virtual machine '

[gentoo-user] Re: VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary. as well. :( Earlier, that is, before a few updates everything worked well. # /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup bash: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory $ eix dkms No matches found 2017-01-07 14

[gentoo-user] VirtualBox failed to rebuild

2017-01-07 Thread gevisz
>>> Failed to emerge app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38/temp/build.log' * Messages for package app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38: * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.38::gentoo failed (compile phase): * emake failed * * If you

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-08 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 21:46 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:25 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> What you have just said implies that I had not had a problem >> booting the system after adding a new drive had I used initramfs >> correctly. Well, I do agree that, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 16:19 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:57 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>>> >>>> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evide

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evidenced by the lack of >> an "initrd" in in grub.cfg. >> >> If it is unable to find an initramfs, it will always output >> root=/dev/sdX instead of

[gentoo-user] Re: [Solved but ...] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 11:40 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:22:59 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> After many attempts, I finally managed to boot with the new drive >> attached manually editing the above entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> 1) deleting the root=UUID=44***

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 1:03 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-09-07 0:32 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:05:32 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> >> But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :( >>> > >>> > It does not, because it has not loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 0:32 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:05:32 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> >> But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :( >> > >> > It does not, because it has not loaded the kernel yet, so it cannot do >> > anything on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 0:07 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:57 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> It seems that now I should edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg directly >> without even knowing its commands. >> > > Well, if nothing else you can certainly read it and see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:38:07 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > It sounds like you are specifying the root device by device node and >> > those have changed with the addition of a new drive. Using UUID or >> > LABEL will avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:48 GMT+03:00 Daniel Frey : > On 09/06/2016 12:39 PM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 22:08 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, gevisz wrote: >>>> >>>> I have already looked into this file but did not find wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:08 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> I have already looked into this file but did not find where to set the >> UUID of the root partion. >> > > It depends. :) > > Usually you end up with root=UU

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:45 GMT+03:00 Willie M : > On 09/06/2016 11:38 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 21:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:16:12 +0300, gevisz wrote: >>> >>>> I had one IDE hard drive for / >>>> and one SATA hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:24 GMT+03:00 Willie M : > On 09/06/2016 11:20 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 21:16 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >>> I had one IDE hard drive for / >>> and one SATA hard drive for /home >>> >>> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:16:12 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> I had one IDE hard drive for / >> and one SATA hard drive for /home >> >> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive >> the system panics and complai

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:16 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > I had one IDE hard drive for / > and one SATA hard drive for /home > > After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive > the system panics and complains that it cannot find kernel > (if I understood it correctly :). > > As it

[gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
I had one IDE hard drive for / and one SATA hard drive for /home After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive the system panics and complains that it cannot find kernel (if I understood it correctly :). As it happens after the GRUB(2) menu, I suspect GRUB(2). Just executed # grub-mkc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-05 Thread gevisz
2016-09-05 3:42 GMT+03:00 Hans : > On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: >> >> I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive >> that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files >> in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for >> example a vir

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-02 7:23 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >>> > drive with anything importa

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 22:12 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:58 PM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 14:55 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >> >>> 2. Set it up as an LVM partition. Unless you're using filesystems >>> like zfs/btrfs that have their own way of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 15:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Mol : > > On Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:09:09 PM gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >> > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are un

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 15:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:09:09 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Have you considered LVM? You get the benefits of separate filesystems >> > without the limitations of inflexible partitioning. >> >> I am afraid of LVM because o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 14:55 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:04 AM, gevisz wrote: >> >> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive >> into smaller logical ones and why? >> > > Assuming this is only used on Linux machines (you mentioned moving >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 12:01 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : >>> On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: > > [snip] > >>>> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive >>>> into sm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 12:04 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:59:55 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > You said you wanted to use this drive for backups, >> > surely doing it right is more important than doing >> > it quickly. It's not like you have to ho

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to >> > repair it), *all* of your data is lost (instead of just >> > one partition). That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:03 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. >> > And a few more to mkfs it. >> >> Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt >> that it will tak

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 10:30 GMT+03:00 Matthias Hanft : > gevisz wrote: >> >> But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big >> hard drive into smaller logical ones? > > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to > repair it), *all* of your data is lost (i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 10:23 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:13:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. >> And a few more to mkfs it. >> >> Are you sure you aren't thinking of mkfs with ext2 (which did take hours >> for a drive that size?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: >> I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive >> that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files >> in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for >> example a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-08-31 Thread gevisz
I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for example a virtual machine image file, from one computer to another. This hard drive is preformatted with NTFS. Now, I am going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker?

2016-07-14 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:52:41 +0200 Marc Joliet wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2016 08:17:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed. > > -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it > > to not remerge things that don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
2016-04-17 22:18 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:49:06 +0300 > gevisz wrote: > >> 2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >> > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > >> >> I'm pretty sure what happened was that vlc had a security issue, >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 >> gevisz wrote: >> >>> "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" >>> >>> I have tried to add the opus us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 > gevisz wrote: > >> "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" >> >> I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg >> and to add the matroska us

[gentoo-user] VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
"VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" I have tried to add the opus use flag to media-video/ffmpeg and to add the matroska use flag to media-video/vlc No results. Any suggestions? I just have read that opus is an open sourse audio format that is much better that mp3. Why it is n

Re: [gentoo-user] subtitleeditor failed to compile/update

2016-02-23 Thread gevisz
2016-02-23 10:40 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:54:57 +0200, gevisz wrote: > >> During an update of my Gentoo box yesterday, >> the subtitleeditor failed to compile. >> >> Then, I uninstalled it, updated the rest of the >> system and trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-09 Thread gevisz
2016-01-09 13:43 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Fri, 8 January 2016, at 1:13 p.m., gevisz wrote: >> >> 2016-01-08 13:50 GMT+02:00 Stroller : >>> >>>> On Fri, 8 January 2016, at 12:32 a.m., gevisz wrote: >>>> >>>> Just of curiosity c

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-08 Thread gevisz
2016-01-08 13:50 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Fri, 8 January 2016, at 12:32 a.m., gevisz wrote: >> >> Just of curiosity compiled gtypist with nls use flag. >> Now it accepts ru.typ! But it is a bug because nls flag >> is supposed to only switch on the translation

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-07 Thread gevisz
Just of curiosity compiled gtypist with nls use flag. Now it accepts ru.typ! But it a bug because nls flag supposed to only switch on the translation of the corresponding menu and help messages. So, it should accept ru.typ even if compiled without the nls use flag!

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-07 Thread gevisz
Sorry for double-posting but I again forgot to sent it to the gentoo-user list. 2016-01-07 13:28 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Wed, 6 January 2016, at 8:58 p.m., gevisz wrote: >> ... >>> If you run `sudo ebuild /usr/portage/app-misc/gtypist/gtypist-2.9.5.ebuild >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-06 Thread gevisz
As an addition to the previous messages, below is given the full output of # emerge gtypist Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-misc/gtypist-2.9.5::gentoo * gtypist-2.9.5.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-06 Thread gevisz
the list dropping my > mail? Probably, yes, as I have received only this one. > On Fri, 1 January 2016, at 4:59 p.m., gevisz wrote: >> >> Below is the additional details of the second answer: >> >>> Since you build from source on gentoo: >>> Ca

[gentoo-user] Gtypist does not accept ru.typ

2016-01-01 Thread gevisz
About a week ago, I have installed gtypist and tried to run it with ru.typ that comes with it: $ gtypist ru.typ gtypist: line 34: iconv() failed on 'B: Добро пожаловать!': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character You should probably use a UTF-8 locale for the selected lesson! : ? What can

[gentoo-user] Consequences of updating the system on December 13

2015-12-19 Thread gevisz
After a system update on December 13, 2015, I have found out that gnome-disks command does not start any more. When trying, it reports the following: $ gnome-disks (gnome-disks:4828): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (gnome-disks:4828): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
2015-12-04 14:38 GMT+02:00 Stroller : > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:10 p.m., Peter Humphrey >> wrote: >> >> On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: >> >>> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >>> ed

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
2015-12-04 14:10 GMT+02:00 Peter Humphrey : > On Friday 04 December 2015 13:55:30 gevisz wrote: > >> So, my main question is How can I ensure that the already >> edited /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file will not be overwritten >> during the next system update. > &g

[gentoo-user] preventing keyboard layout files from being overritten during system upgrades

2015-12-04 Thread gevisz
Recently, I finally created my own keyboard layout by edining /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ru file. In the nearest future, I also will edit the corresponding xml file that provides the menu for the xfce4 keyboard layout switch plugin file deleting from it all the entries about keyboard layouts for th

[gentoo-user] A direct keyboard layout switch for xfce4

2015-10-11 Thread Gevisz
I am asking this question here after discussing it at vim_use mailing list (as an slight off topic to the "vim and touch typing" thread) and after an extensive google search earlier. Below is some resumee from that discussion but for those of you how do not want to read all that I just formulate m

Re: [gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?

2015-09-24 Thread gevisz
2015-09-24 14:38 GMT+03:00 Alec Ten Harmsel : > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 02:27:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote: >> I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. >> >> Today, while updating the system, the portage >> wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in >> ghc-bin-7.

[gentoo-user] Why ghc-bin is pulled in by portage update?

2015-09-24 Thread gevisz
I have dev-lang/ghc in my world file. Today, while updating the system, the portage wanted to update it. Ok. But why it pulles in ghc-bin-7.8.4-amd64.tbz2? # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=90 --ask world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 21:12:37 + (UTC) james wrote: > Gevisz gmail.com> writes: > > > on-board video card. Just to avoid extra heating and aircraft noise > > produced by R4770. > > Fanless video cards are wonderful. I have had many over the years but thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new computer : any advice ?

2015-09-10 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:20:39 + (UTC) james wrote: > Fernando Rodriguez outlook.com> writes: > > > > albeit in it's infancy. Naturally it's going to take a while to > > > become mainstream useful; but that more like a year or 2, at most. > > > > The value I see on that technology for deskt

Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

2015-09-02 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 01:55:00 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:57:37 PM wraeth wrote: > > On 02/09/15 12:23, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 9:22:44 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:05:09PM -0600, the..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:09:01 -0500 Dale wrote: > Gevisz wrote: > > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:06:29 -0500 Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Either that, or backup your .mozilla directory before > >> starting Firefox after a update, just in case. > > Will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 13:06:29 -0500 Dale wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300 > > Gevisz wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher > >> wrote: > >> > >>> On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:23:06 -0500 »Q« wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:20:40 +0300 > Gevisz wrote: > > > On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher > > wrote: > > > > > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: > > > > I have a bad habit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them > > again next time I start it. > [...] > > I still b

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-09-01 Thread Gevisz
On Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:56:01 +0200 Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On 2015-09-01 08:33, gevisz wrote: > > I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open > > when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them > > again next time I start it. > [...] > > I still b

[gentoo-user] Lost tabs links in Firefox

2015-08-31 Thread gevisz
I have a bad habit of leaving too many tabs open when closing Firefox relying on its feature to open them again next time I start it. But yesterday, when I opened Firefox during the system update (the updated packages were sys-devel/gcc-4.8.5, sys-devel/gdb-7.9.1, net-libs/gnutls-3.3.17.1, and med

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-28 Thread gevisz
2015-08-28 7:03 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2015-08-27 20:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:33:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Fix the real error, and all that junk on the screen goes away. No reason >>> to stop updating. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread gevisz
2015-08-27 20:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:33:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Fix the real error, and all that junk on the screen goes away. No reason >> to stop updating. > > And the "fix" is to resync, it's a fixed bug > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558856

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread gevisz
2015-08-27 18:18 GMT+03:00 Alexander Kapshuk : > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 6:16 PM, gevisz wrote: >> 2015-08-27 17:43 GMT+03:00 Alexander Kapshuk : >>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:34 PM, gevisz wrote: >>>> I do not understand: >>>> 1) why portage wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread gevisz
2015-08-27 17:52 GMT+03:00 Marc Joliet : > Am Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:34:24 +0300 > schrieb gevisz : > >> I do not understand: >> 1) why portage wants to upgrade ncurses-5.9-r3 to ncurses-5.9-r101 >> (because it is marked), >> 2) why it can not, >> 3)

Re: [gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread gevisz
2015-08-27 17:43 GMT+03:00 Alexander Kapshuk : > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 5:34 PM, gevisz wrote: >> I do not understand: >> 1) why portage wants to upgrade ncurses-5.9-r3 to ncurses-5.9-r101 >> (because it is marked), >> 2) why it can not, >> 3) what to do wit

[gentoo-user] curses of ncurses :(

2015-08-27 Thread gevisz
I do not understand: 1) why portage wants to upgrade ncurses-5.9-r3 to ncurses-5.9-r101 (because it is marked), 2) why it can not, 3) what to do with this block. $ eix ncurses [I] sys-libs/ncurses Available versions: (0)5.9-r3 ~5.9-r4 ~6.0(0/6) (5)~5.9-r101(5/5)

Re: [gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

2015-08-12 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 06:47:30 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:01 AM, gevisz wrote: > > Already for the third day, emerge-webrsyc says me that > > my "current local timestamp is possibly identical to the > > * timestamp of the latest snapshot,&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

2015-08-12 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:25:09 +0300 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 12 August 2015 at 11:20, gevisz wrote: > > 2015-08-12 11:10 GMT+03:00 Alon Bar-Lev : > >> I am waiting as well... :) > >> > >> In the meantime, please do not use this script directly any mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

2015-08-12 Thread gevisz
c-type = webrsync > --- > > Then use: > > # emerge --sync > > > On 12 August 2015 at 11:01, gevisz wrote: >> Already for the third day, emerge-webrsyc says me that >> my "current local timestamp is possibly identical to the >> * timestamp of the latest snaps

[gentoo-user] Will emerge-webrsyc work in the future?

2015-08-12 Thread gevisz
Already for the third day, emerge-webrsyc says me that my "current local timestamp is possibly identical to the * timestamp of the latest snapshot," so I began to worry if this way of syncing my portage tree still works and will work in the future. # emerge-webrsync Fetching most recent snapshot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

2015-07-10 Thread Gevisz
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:16:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:36:50 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > I tried it [zsh], for exactly 10 seconds. My home/end keys didn't > > > work. This gave me the impression of an unfinished project. Why on > > > earth would anyone relea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

2015-07-09 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:07:43 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:07:40 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> I can't test it myself as a use a superior shell to > > >> Bash > > > > > > Which one? And why is it superior to bash? > > > > Don't ask such questions ;-) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?

2015-07-09 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 15:07:40 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/07/15 15:01, Gevisz wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:48:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote: > >> > >>> As a wild guess i

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash?

2015-07-09 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 12:48:24 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:38:43 +0200, Stephan Müller wrote: > > > As a wild guess into the blue, it could be related to readline. As I > > see gentoo's bash uses the standalone readline from coreutils, while > > the original bash source main

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