On 2024-06-05, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 05/06/2024 13:12, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> Which I think is fine, if people want that, but not everyone does, so
>> delaying the update altogether might be preferable to those people.
>
> Ie people like me who don't give a monkeys about python, and consider it
On 2024-06-05, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 at 20:05, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> What I found misleading (and tripped over) was the implication that
>> the three step migration process outlined in the news item had a
>> reasonable likelyhood of working for a larg
On 2024-06-05, byte.size...@simplelogin.com
wrote:
> 2) Was anything really 'broken'? Most certainly no, going by the above
> definition and the fact that the news item provided for a very clear
> pathway to maintain compatibility that was essentially a two-line solution.
I think that build
On 2024-06-05, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 6/4/24 11:04 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-06-04, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>>> If a package claimed to support python 3.12 and nonetheless failed to
>>> build with it, that's a bug in the package -- can you provide more details?
On 2024-06-04, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 6/4/24 4:58 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-06-04, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>> Note that it's not a build failure -- it is an upgrade calculation
>>> failure. It fails before upgrading any packages since it knows it c
On 2024-06-04, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Note that it's not a build failure -- it is an upgrade calculation
> failure. It fails before upgrading any packages since it knows it can't
> resolve the dependencies.
I had plenty of both.
--
Grant
On 2024-06-04, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
>
> Did nobody of ye all ever read news item 48, dated 2024-05-09? It laid
> out a three-step approach which surely caused at least some packages to
> be built twice or even three times, but it JUST WORKED (tm), at least
> here. It only required
On 2024-06-01, Wol wrote:
> I've got news for you, there are quite a few weirdos on the list,
Hey! I resemble that remark.
[Hmm. That's not as funny in print.]
On 2024-06-01, George Kettleborough wrote:
> If you only want to build a static site (ie. just HTML, CSS, JS etc; no
> server-side scripting) then you don't need to install and configure
> something like Apache to test it out. You could just open the files you're
> working on straight from the
On 2024-05-28, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-05-21, Dale wrote:
>>
>>>> Here's my udev rules file that defines my network interface names
>>>> for the machine I'm on at the moment:
>>>>
>>>>
On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> The unit showed up today and was a breeze to set up and get running
> at a basic level. The device requires an app on my phone.
That sets of an alarm for me.
> The app is available for Android and Apple but not available for the
> Amazon Fire tablet.
Good
On 2024-05-24, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD
> collection. Plex plays audio fine to TVs that have a Plex app but
> apparently sometimes doesn't work well (as of yet untested by me) to
> network streaming players.
I never got the Plex app for Roku to
On 2024-05-21, Dale wrote:
>> Here's my udev rules file that defines my network interface names
>> for the machine I'm on at the moment:
>>
>> --/etc/udev/rules.d/70-my-persistent-net.rules---
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",
On 2024-05-21, Dale wrote:
>> If you want consisent network device names (even when you change
>> hardware), you need to either
>>
>> 1. create udev rules that assign device names based on MAC addresses.
>>
>> 2. use a network configuration subsystem that assigns device names
>> and
On 2024-05-21, Dale wrote:
> So they both show up. When I try to start the network, it says:
>
> ERROR: Interface enp3s0 does not exist.
Are you sure the network interface name hasn't changed? What does
"ifconfig -a" or "ip addr" show?
After booting up, what does "dmesg | grep enp" show?
>
On 2024-05-20, Dale wrote:
A 3.0 card is supposed to work fine in a 2.0 slot.
> You, or anyone, have any idea why that card would kill my network?
> I suspect the card itself is fine. It did see the drive. I just
> need the internet to work since it may be used in a NAS rig.
Is it causing
On 2024-05-15, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 15/05/2024 11:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I think whoever named grub had delusions of grandeur. Anyway, I never let
>> it near my systems.
>
> I liked lilo. And then it disappeared :-(
>
> Grub isn't that bad - it's just that insists on trying to do
On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:37:22 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote:
>
>> > The Clipboard may be stored in RAM or cache of any applications
>> > which use this method.
>>
>> AFAICT, the clipboar
On 2024-05-15, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> But in the doc on wiki.gentoo.org, I can't find any mention of inbuilt
> graphics; all references are to graphics _cards_. Does Gentoo support
> my intended processor's graphics,
Technically, no. Gentoo doesn't. However, the Linux kernel, Xorg, and
Mesa
On 2024-05-15, Michael wrote:
> As far as I know the Primary selection is not stored anywhere -
> other than within the application's memory space where the range of
> characters have been selected. The xserver will call for this when
> you middle click to paste it on another application's
On 2024-05-15, Dale wrote:
>> Or just select some empty space in an application, to overwrite your
>> previous
>> selection.
>
> Well, since it works, something is acting as a clipboard.
It's part of the X server. Same for the two selections.
> It doesn't seem to be xclip in my case.
On 2024-05-15, Dale wrote:
> I thought that too. I highlighted some text in a Konsole and then
> looked in the KDE clipboard, what I highlighted was not there.
>
> It wasn't there after I pasted it either. It goes to a clipboard
> somewhere but it appears it only remembers one entry then
On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The partition type code for 'swap' is wrong -- it should be
>> 8200. According to the gdisk help info Linux /home is supposed to be
>> 8302, but I've always used the same generic "Linux filesystem&quo
On 2024-05-01, Dale wrote:
> OK. One last update in case someone googles and runs up on this
> thread. I'm using gdisk to display this, because I think it will do
> better in email. If I use cgdisk, it is wider and will wrap more.
> This is what the partition table looks like for GPT, old
On 2024-04-28, Grant Edwards wrote:
> With DOS disk lables, Grub uses empty space between the boot sector
> and the first partition as a location to store it's core image file.
> That empty space does not exist when using GPT disk label. When using
> a GPT disk label, Grub requires t
On 2024-04-27, Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 April 2024 17:53:25 BST Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I'm installing Gentoo on another old box. To be consistent I like
>> to use cgdisk, GPT I think it is called, to partition all my
>> drives, regardless of size.
>
> GPT is the partition table
On 2024-04-17, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> If you don't play games, then definitely get integrated graphics.
>> Even if the CPU costs a tiny bit more, it will give you a free empty
>> 16x PCIe slot at whatever speed the CPU supports (v5 in this case -
>> which is as good as you can get right
On 2024-04-17, Dale wrote:
> I still use Nvidia and use nvidia drivers. I to run into problems
> on occasion with drivers and kernels. When you switched from
> Nvidia, what did you switch too? Do you still use drivers you
> install or kernel drivers?
All in-tree kernel drivers for integrated
On 2024-04-17, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Grant,
>
> On Wednesday, 2024-04-17 14:11:21 -, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> If what you want is access to all upstream longeterm kernel versions,
>> then you should be using sys-kernel/vanilla-sources.
>
> I was not aware of this package. Excatly what
On 2024-04-17, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Grant,
>
> On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 19:26:25 -, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> That means that all gentoo-sources stable kernels are "longterm"
>> kernel versions on kernel.org. It does not mean that all "longterm"
>> kernel versions from kernel.org are
On 2024-04-17, Michael wrote:
>> > But, to get back to the beginning of this discussion: if there is a
>> > risk that my aging hardware possibly can less and less cope with
>> > newer and newer kernels, should I put something like
>> >
>> >>=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-6.7.0
>> >
>> > into
On 2024-04-16, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Arve,
>
> On Tuesday, 2024-04-16 15:53:48 +0200, you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Only LTS kernels get stabilised, so this information is readily available.
>
> I'm sure I don't understand this: According to "https://www.kernel.org/;
> kernel 6.6.27 is "longterm",
On 2024-04-16, Dale wrote:
> I've never understood what is supported long term either. I use
> gentoo-sources. I've never figured out just how to pick a kernel that
> is supposed to be stable for the larger version. In other words, only
> security and bug fixes, no new hardware. Right now,
On 2024-04-16, Arve Barsnes wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 15:29, Dr Rainer Woitok
> wrote:
>> > My understanding is the gentoo-sources kernels are aligned with the LTS
>> > upstream releases.
>>
>> Right, they use the same version numbers. But you can't see from just
>> looking at the
On 2024-03-27, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2
>> servers. Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to
>> have it synchronise in both directions.
>
> How synchronized? For
On 2024-03-26, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:21:23PM +, Michael wrote
>> On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:21:32 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>> > I assume my system is already "merged-usr". Current profile...
>> >
>> > [12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (exp) *
>> >
On 2024-03-26, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I'm AMD64 stable OpenRC. I got tired of dicking around resizing
> partitions years ago, so I have all data and binaries in one honking
> big partition. Also separate partitions for UEFI and swap. I assume
> my system is already "merged-usr". Current
On 2024-03-25, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 25 March 2024 21:48:24 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote:
>>
>>> The default OpenRC installation now assumes a merged-usr fs structure -
>>> therefore make sure you select the appropriate profile in a new
On 2024-03-23, Mickaël Bucas wrote:
> I think it's not a terminal emulator feature, but rather a shell
> feature.
>
> Some terminal programs are designed to interact with the mouse, but
> bash command line, based on readline, doesn't react to mouse clicks.
Agreed.
> I've tried Midnight
On 2024-03-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and
> amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
> with Radeon Vega Graphics.
>
> Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with
>
I upgraded gentoo-sources from 5.15.147 to 5.15.151 this morning and
amdgpu support is now borked on my system with an AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
with Radeon Vega Graphics.
Everything worked fine with 5.15.147, but when 5.15.151 (built with
same .config via "make oldconfig") boots there's always a kernel
On 2024-03-09, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote
>> I just synced my system after a long delay,
>
> That's your problem right there.
Yep, to quote Olivia Rodrigo...
Bad idea, right?
>> Is there a way to do it globally?
>
> First of all python
On 2024-03-10, Michael wrote:
> Perhaps I'm picking up on semantics, but shouldn't this sentence:
>
> "... The gap between the DOS disklabel and the first partition"
>
> read:
>
> "The gap between the MBR and the first partition"?
Yes, thanks -- MBR is more accurate, I've changed that sentence.
On 2024-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux
> distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition.
>
> [...]
>
> Is there an easier way to do this?
After some additional studying of UEFI and boot managers like
On 2024-03-06, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item...
>
>> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
>> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
>
> I tried that...
>
> [i3][root][~] grub-install
I believe you have to run
On 2024-02-26, Wol wrote:
> On 26/02/2024 20:51, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
>> that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
>>
> And then, if USB isn't the default boot media, he might as well sort out
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
> I agree, using the custom.cfg file would not work if needing to boot
> different kernels of the same OS and those kernels were being updated.
The simple answer is to quit wasting time trying to multi-boot like
that and just buy a dozen USB flash drives.
--
Grant
On 2024-02-26, eric wrote:
> On 2/26/24 04:57, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote:
>> You could also write a script that keeps all the distros up to date
>> from within whichever one you're currently booted by mounting
>> subvolumes to /mnt or wherever, chrooting in and running the update.
>
> To
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> The only other idea I had was to install to a different
> disk and then use something like Clonezilla to move it to the partition
> you want it in on your system.
>
> While I suspect you were being sarcastic I do not think any solution
> that involves a
On 2024-02-23, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 11:59 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> The simple solution is to give up on multi-booting a dozen different
>> distros on a single disk and buy a pocketful of USB 3 thumb drives.
>>
>
> Given perfo
On 2024-02-23, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 23/02/2024 00:28, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> In my experience, 's bootloader does not boot other
>> installations by calling other bootloaders. It does so by rummaging
>> through all of the other partitions looking for kernel images,
>
On 2024-02-23, Michael wrote:
> The problem starts if/when kernel images are overwritten by
> successive Linux OS distros. This is likely when derivatives of the
> same main distros e.g. Ubuntu all create a directory called
> /EFI/ubuntu/ in the ESP and drop their kernels & initrd images in
>
On 2024-02-23, Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote:
> I guess most (all) of the distro's you are talking about use GRUB (or
> at least they allow to do it).
Yes, I belive that they are all now using Grub2.
> If that's true, I'm pretty sure you can happily let them overwrite
> the GRUB in MBR as many times
On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote:
> On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any
>> better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files
>> in the ESP partiton and multiple distro's using the same name
On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote:
> On 22/02/2024 19:17, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> However, the choice to install bootloaders in partitions instead of
>> the MBR has been removed from most (all?) of the common installers.
>> This forces me to jump through hoops when installi
For many years, I've used a hard drive on which I have 8-10 Linux
distros installed -- each in a separate (single) partition.
There is also a single swap partition (used by all of the different
Linux installations).
There is also a small partition devoted only to the "master" instance
of Grub
On 2024-02-17, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Today's routine update says:
>>
>> Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!
>>
>> Is "sudo grub-install" really all I have to do? [...]
>>
>> Or do I have to run grub-install
Today's routine update says:
Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!
Is "sudo grub-install" really all I have to do? Grub knows where/how
everthing was originally installed and will do the right thing without
any options?
Or do I have to run grub-install with all the same
After a routine update this morning (last one was probably 3 days
ago), I see that 147 files in /etc need updating. When I run
etc-update, they're all ".pem" CA files (or links?). It looks like it
was all of the .pem files under /etc/ssl/certs. I did a -5, and all
seems well.
It's a bit alarming
On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> If you want to use snapshots, the filesystem will need to support it. (either
> LVM or ZFS). If you only want to create snapshots on the backupserver, I
> actually don't see much benefit over using rsync.
Upthread I've been told that ZFS snapshots
1.
On 2024-02-06, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> > On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wro
On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wrote:
>> > If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is.
>> > Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux?
>>
>> The main
On 2024-02-05, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 04/02/2024 15:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> OK I see. That's a bit different than what I'm doing. I'm backing up
>> a specific set of directory trees from a couple different
>> filesystems. There are large portions of the "source&q
On 2024-02-04, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 04/02/2024 06:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> I don't understand, are you saying that somehow your backup doesn't
>> contain a copy of every file?
>>
> YES! Let's make it clear though, we're talking about EVERY VERSION of
> ev
On 2024-02-03, Wol wrote:
> On 03/02/2024 16:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> rsnapshot is an application that uses rsync to do
>> hourly/daily/weekly/monthly (user-configurable) backups of selected
>> directory trees. It's done using rsync to create snapshots. They are
>
On 2024-02-03, Michael wrote:
>> If you'll forgive the analogy, we'll say the the functionality of
>> rsync (as used by rsnapshot) is built-in to ZFS.
>
> Broadly and rather loosely yes, by virtue of the COW and snapshot fs
> architecture and the btrfs/zfs send-receive commands.
>
>> Is there
On 2024-02-02, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 4:39 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I googled for ZFS backup applications, but didn't find anything that
>> seemed to be widespread and "supported" the way that rsnapshot is.
>
> I'm not exa
On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on
> anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits.
>
> [...]
>
> In any case, these COW filesystems, much like git, store data in a
> way that makes it very efficient to diff two
On 2024-01-31, Thelma wrote:
> On 1/31/24 08:50, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
>>> Honestly, at this point I would not run any storage I cared about on
>>> anything but zfs. There are just so many benefits.
>>
>>
On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici wrote:
>>
>> I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced
>> my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few
>> minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying
On 2024-01-31, gentoo-u...@krasauskas.dev wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-01-30 at 20:38 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>> It took me an embarassing number of tries to get the intervals and
>> crontab entries to mesh so it worked the way I wanted. It's not
>> really
>> tha
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote:
>>
>> On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals.
>>
>> If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm
>> or btrfs or something.
On 2024-01-30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I
>> look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when
>> it was running), but
On 2024-01-30, Michael wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 18:15:09 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>> I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo
>> machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of
>> them used rsnapshot in the past bu
On 2024-01-30, Thelma wrote:
> I backup, periodically:
> - corontab (user, root)
> - etc
> - hylafax
>
> daily:
> - data
>
> It all depend what you want you backup, how large is your data.
> For backup standard "rsync" over the network does the job OK
rsnapshot is a perl app that
I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo
machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of
them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove
that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reinstall or upgrade --
IIRC, it took a fair bit of
On 2024-01-29, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 29 January 2024 18:19:19 GMT Alan Grimes wrote:
>
>> It's a LaserJet Pro M453-4.
>
> You shouldn't need hplip drivers and what not, IPP Everywhere ought to allow
> driverless CUPS to allow you to print:
>
> https://www.pwg.org/printers/
Does anybody
On 2024-01-26, Thelma wrote:
> Is there a way to send a pop-up message to Windows user from Linux?
>
> The below command works but from Windows to Windows:
> msg fd /server:fd-server "Your message here"
>
> but I need it to work from Linux.
>
> I tried:
> smbclient -M fd\%5d2f0of -I 10.0.0.137
>
On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> 240117 Philip Webb wrote:
>> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
>> The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
>> I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
>
> Thanks for the many replies, which
On 2024-01-18, Philip Webb wrote:
> I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
> The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
> I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
MTP can be a bit tempermental if that's what's being used. It's been
On 2023-12-12, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> It was a virtualbox upgrade (not kernel), the notification is on
> Gentoo host system running VM.
Were you trying to run guest additions on the host?
> I might be related to "app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions"
> Unmerging this package
On 2023-12-04, Michael wrote:
>> However, the "h264enc" package has a hard dependency on mplayer.
>
> Which I believe is not needed for mpv. You can set:
The problem is not that h264enc is required by mplyaer, it's that the
h264enc package requires mplayer:
>From the h264enc ebuild
On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Do you really need both mpv and mplayer?
>
>
> Given the new one fails to build, that is a good question. Personally,
> I just want to play videos. lol This is what equery shows as needing
> mplayer.
>
&g
On 2023-12-04, Dale wrote:
> I either started a thread on this a while back or it was mentioned
> inside another thread. This has been popping up for months now. Either
> I have something set wrong or there is a problem in a ebuild or
> something. I just don't know what. This is what I get.
On 2023-11-21, Laurence Perkins wrote:
> I have a system here running an Intel N97 processor, which is idling
> at 70-80C on Gentoo with all cores 99% idle. This is 40 degrees
> hotter than it runs on Ubuntu or Windows 10.
>
> Powertop confirms that the CPU is spending nearly all of its time in
On 2023-10-19, Dale wrote:
> That config kinda reminds me of the old grub. A title line, location of
> kernel and then options. Sounds easy enough. The new grub config is
> almost impossible to config by hand. They had to make a tool to do it.
> That says a lot there. ;-)
Manually
On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>
>> The protective MBR and the BIOS boot partition are two different,
>> unrelated things. The BIOS boot partition is a real partition (usually
>> 1-2MB in size) that's present in the GPT parition table. It's used by
>> Grub as a place to store its files.
>
> Yes,
On 2023-10-18, Rich Freeman wrote:
> Oh well, I rarely reboot so it just hasn't been on the top of my
> list of things to fix.
I don't really care much on the Ubuntu servers I maintain because they
are rarely rebooted, and their network interfaces are always up.
A couple weeks ago I was
On 2023-10-18, Michael wrote:
>> Oh, and if you use GPT, you no longer need the MBR compatibility
>> partition, or whatever its called. I no longer need it so I can't
>> remember the exact name.
>
> Man pages of partitioning tools refer to it as "Protective MBR", although
> I've
> seen it
On 2023-10-17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I have 4 Ubuntu-based machines here and over the last 6 years I've
> never seen a 1 minute delay to login, much less 5 minutes.
I see it all the time. Two minutes is the most common delay that I run
into, but I've seen longer. The two-minute delay I
On 2023-10-17, Dale wrote:
> I to find Gentoo to be much better documented. There were places where
> the old BIOS and efi info got a little confusing but eventually I
> figured it out. I been trying to think of a way to color code the docs
> but I can't figure out a sensible way. You got BIOS
On 2023-10-13, Dale wrote:
> As most likely know, I'm in the process of building a new rig and
> putting a couple older systems to use. Most of my mobos support
> PCIe-x16 2.0 for video cards. I found a Nvidia NVS 510 that has four
> mini HDMI outputs. Research claims those are for multiple
On 2023-10-04, John Covici wrote:
> Hi. I just did a world update and found that my openssl-1.1.1v is
> masked. What can I do,
Use one of the stable versions.
> I don't have any version that is not masked
Huh? What architecture are you on? There are three versions of
openssl that are stable
On 2023-09-21, Jack wrote:
>
>> [...] Of course I've discovered for the Nth time in the past 10-15
>> years, that for the root= command line argument, the kernel doesn't
>> grok LABEL or UUID values -- it only understands device names and
>> PARTUUID.
>
> while my Gentoo grub.cfg has
On 2023-09-21, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 23:58, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>>> Just make sure you update /etc/fstab and bootloader config file
>>> with the new filesystem UUID or partition indices.
>>
>> I always forget one or the other
On 2023-09-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:57:00PM +0100 schrieb Victor Ivanov:
>
>> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
>> >
On 2023-09-20, Victor Ivanov wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sept 2023 at 22:29, Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> That depends on how long it takes me to decide on tar vs. rsync and
>> what the appropriate options are.
>
> I've done this a number of times for various reasons o
On 2023-09-20, Wol wrote:
> Or, assuming the people who wrote gparted have two brain cells to rub
> together, I'm pretty sure they use the same technique as memmove.
>
> "If the regions overlap, make sure you start from whichever end won't
> overwrite the source, otherwise start at whichever
On 2023-09-20, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:17 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> For example, I have a 500GB partition containing an ext4 filesystem
>> starting at sector 2048 (1MiB). I want to move that filesystem so that
>> it starts at sector 3
I've got a Gentoo install using a GPT partition table and Legacy boot
using Grub2. There is a single /root parition and a single swap
partition on the drive.
I did not create a bios-boot partition at the start of the disk, so I
had to force grub2 to install using block-lists. I'd like to fix
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