Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

On Sunday, 17 September 2023 20:19:55 BST Jack wrote: > On 9/17/23 15:06, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 17/09/2023 19:37, Michael wrote: > >> However, unlike locate, baloo is meant to index not just file names, > >> but also > >> metadata tags and relatio

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

On Sunday, 17 September 2023 18:53:33 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 10:46 AM Wols Lists > > wrote: > > It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare > > at the moment. > > > > Iirc, it's "the file indexer for KDE" - in other words it knackers your > >

Re: [gentoo-user] net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.40.5-r600 depclean wants to remove

On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 08:07 -0400, John Covici wrote: > HI. This was a package installed on my last world update, but now > depclean wants to remove the package. Isn't it pulled in by gnome or > other packages? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > The weird -r410 and -r600 versions of

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

On Thursday, 14 September 2023 10:49:35 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 16:14:09 BST Michael wrote: > > I recall this being discussed in a previous thread, but if your CPU has 24 > > threads and you've set: > > > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 13:41:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 September 2023 12:50:20 BST Wols Lists wrote: > > On 13/09/2023 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > A thought on compiling, which I hope some devs will read: I was tempted > > > to > > > push the system hard at fir

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone used openmediavault with LVM?

On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 08:07:59 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > As some know, I like LVM. The Truenas box serves a purpose with zfs but > > I am more familiar with LVM and using zfs is sort of confusing me > > because they do similar things in similar ways but are differen

Re: [gentoo-user] long compiles

On Monday, 11 September 2023 21:21:47 BST Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 10:05 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:19:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > chromium has been building since 10:14, it's now 21:16 and still going > > > so 9 hours at least on this machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:21:14 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-09-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > > sudo emerge --sync > > sudo emerage -auvND world > > > > [...] > > > > $ svn status > > svn: E200029: Couldn't perform atomic initialization > > svn: E200030: SQLite compile

Re: [gentoo-user] sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 17:09:15 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > I just did my usual update > > sudo emerge --sync > sudo emerage -auvND world > > I noticed that it was downgrading sqlite from 3.43 to 3.42. OK, we'll > assume that portage and the devs know what they're doing... > > Now thi

Re: [gentoo-user] any gentoo torrents available?

On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 16:04:33 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > These days I'm having better luck downloading through bittorrent and > seeding rather than doing direct downloads with wget. Problem with direct > downloads on large files files come down corrupted and don't verify when I > try to

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

On Wednesday, 6 September 2023 00:10:14 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I'll gladly take any of them. One more thing; in this mode, you > *MUST* use a leading minus for "-cvzf". The lazy "cvzf" will *NOT* > work, and throws a misleading error message. See a

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 23:32:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do: > > > > https://bford.info/cachedir/ > > Thank you! Thank you! Thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] tar exclude files question

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:28:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push > it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the > .ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I > understand the man p

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 16:33:43 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > And while we're at it, howsabout "emerge --sync" on one host, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > > On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the > > > > > > quick-n-dirty solution like

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 10:06:42 BST hitachi303 wrote: > Am 04.09.23 um 15:04 schrieb Michael: > > PS. Is http_replicator still available/maintained? I see the wiki > > mentions > > apt-cacher-ng for local distfiles cache. > > IIRC it died when python or perl

Re: [gentoo-user] Is distfile partial mirror with failover possible?

On Monday, 4 September 2023 11:12:51 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are > all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have > a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a > source tarball file

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-db/mysql fails to build, more than one version.

On Sun, 2023-09-03 at 09:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Anyone else having this?  Is this mysql or is something else causing > this and mysql is just a symptom?  Given two versions are failing to > build, is kinda interesting.  https://bugs.gentoo.org/912797

Re: [gentoo-user] attic

On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant > find it on google - is it still around? Perhaps have a look here at the archives? https://gitweb.gentoo.org/ > * gentoo has moved dev-embedded/reedsolomon

Re: [gentoo-user] dosbox 0.74.3 can't init SDL: No audio device on one machine

On Thursday, 31 August 2023 19:51:20 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > This is the most frustrating type of problem. On one machine I can > run dosbox fine. On a second machine... > > [waltdnes][~] /usr/bin/dosbox > DOSBox version 0.74-3 > Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. > ---

Re: [gentoo-user] he's baaaaaaack :-D

On Thursday, 31 August 2023 21:04:37 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:15 AM Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > > Hello Gentoo'ers > > > > After some years away, I'm back to Gentoo. Arch was nice and I got > > fuzzies but something was always missing. Was on Mint for a while but > eve

Re: [gentoo-user] Jekyll on Gentoo using containers

On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 14:23 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I remember replying to this, but I can't find the reply anywhere. Did it get > to > the list? I don't think so.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jekyll on Gentoo using containers

On Wed, 2023-08-30 at 11:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Can you point me to that file (privately if you prefer)? I've had a look > around > and it doesn't reveal itself. https://github.com/gentoo-ev/www.gentoo.de/blob/master/Dockerfile > > > It builds a static site so you can open the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Jekyll on Gentoo using containers

On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 15:31 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to set a container up to run jekyll to build a blog, following a > suggestion at the bottom of https://github.com/gentoo-ev/www.gentoo.de. > This is my first foray into containers. The containers don't add anyth

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging dev-php/xdebug

On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 11:21 -0400, Matt Connell wrote: > On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 15:04 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > dev-lang/php:7.4 is also masked, so I assume this is due to be  > > removed soon. > > 7.X is EOL upstream as of 9 months ago, hence the mask. > > It was acknowledged in the mask com

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find which .keep file creation is failing

On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:18:08 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > In an effort to sort out my ruby problem I'm building a new system > piecemeal, by which I mean one step at a time with dev-lang/ruby masked. > > The latest snag is in the early stages of the build process, when insta

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

Hello Alan, On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 14:00:26 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I don't understand what I just did, by deleting net.enp38s0, though it > appeared to have fixed the problem. That worries me. Could you possibly > explain to me a bit more what that removal did? Thanks! There are diff

Re: [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 10:56:52 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, gentoo. > > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious > error messages on boot up. In particular, I see this: > > * Starting DHCP Client Daemon ... > * [ ok ] * Bringing up interface enp38s0

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

On Sunday, 20 August 2023 13:58:08 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > OpenVPN is a VPN implementation using OpenSSL to encrypt the end-to-end > > network connection between client and server. There are other VPN > > implementations and client-server applications using

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

On Sunday, 20 August 2023 11:49:18 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty > > large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick > > from. I deal with torrents and

[gentoo-user] dmcrypt error during boot

This is a simple installation on 3 partitions for /boot, / and /home respectively. There is no initrd and no 3rd party boot manager. The system is booted directly by the UEFI firmware. Only the /home partition is encrypted with dm-crypt/luks. The dm-crypt key is itself encrypted with gpg and

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem loading r8169 kernel module

On Saturday, 5 August 2023 14:40:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I decided to find out why the kernel had trouble loading the r8169 module on > my Intel NUC server. I found > which seemed > to tell me all I needed to know.

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On Tuesday, 1 August 2023 10:53:15 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 31 July 2023 19:17:17 BST Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 31 July 2023 19:13:19 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:26:03 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > I thought I s

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

gt; >On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:47:53 +0100, Michael wrote: > >> I doubt I will need anything so frequent, these days my data does not > >> change often enough. Daily snapshots should do the trick and I could > >> keep more of them. > > > >Snapshots don't t

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On Monday, 31 July 2023 19:13:19 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:26:03 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I thought I should be able to specify where outgoing mail should be > > put, but I can't find it now. > > That's a setting in the mail client. Kmail Settings > Accounts > Iden

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:25:20 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 31 July 2023 17:03:49 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I already have it set up, so I hope I'd only have to deselect "Download > > all > > messages for offline use" and then drag the locally stored emails to the > > IMAP Account,

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

On Saturday, 29 July 2023 08:06:40 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > I take snapshots every 15 minutes, keeping 5. Then hourly snapshots, > keeping 25, daily snapshots keeping 8, weekly keeping 6 and monthly > snapshots that I clean manually as space requires. I doubt I will need anything so frequent, t

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

On Saturday, 29 July 2023 01:29:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic might be > a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were reliable. It > isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. I've b

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

On Friday, 28 July 2023 08:07:10 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: > > Any gotchas I should be mindful of? > > If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is > supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

On Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:30:11 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:18:14 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not > > really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used > > enoug

[gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used enough most of its features. I am now thinking of installing Gentoo on btrfs again, but this time I want to optimise the structure of btrfs subvolumes, to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Highlight certain packages being upgraded

On Monday, 10 July 2023 04:45:52 BST Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/07/2023 11:33, Dale wrote: > >> that excessively long qt package > > > > Off-topic, but just in case you mean qtwebengine, I was able to get > > rid of it by putting "-webengine" in my USE flags. After a world >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE geoclue required

On Sunday, 9 July 2023 16:30:45 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2023 11:32:54 +0100, Michael wrote: > > The following USE changes are necessary to proceed: > > (see "package.use" in the portage(5) man page for more details) > > > > # required

[gentoo-user] USE geoclue required

Is geoclue hardcoded? [ebuild N ] app-misc/geoclue-2.7.0:2.0::gentoo USE="introspection -gtk- doc -modemmanager -vala -zeroconf" 103 KiB [ebuild R] dev-qt/qtpositioning-5.15.9:5/5.15::gentoo USE="geoclue* qml -debug -test" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/kweathercore-0.7:5::gentoo U

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:23:01 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 15:05:28 BST Michael wrote: > > Did you try to reseat your graphics card and your RAM sticks, just in case > > their electrical contacts got oxidised? > > Not yet. I was hoping to

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma session saving

On Wednesday, 5 July 2023 14:07:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 17:36:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 1 July 2023 15:02:16 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > > > If this is the thing I've run into a few times over the years then the > > > only > > > way out I've found is

Re: [gentoo-user] is percona-mysql discontinued on gentoo portage?

On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 11:40:13 BST Marko Horn wrote: > Am 2023-07-04 12:13, schrieb Michael: > > On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 07:49:45 BST Marko Horn wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> anyone know if perona-mysql is discontinued on gentoo portage? > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] is percona-mysql discontinued on gentoo portage?

On Tuesday, 4 July 2023 07:49:45 BST Marko Horn wrote: > hi, > > anyone know if perona-mysql is discontinued on gentoo portage? > > thanks You can try: 'dev-db/percona-server' There are also 'dev-db/percona-toolkit' and 'dev-db/percona-xtrabackup', should you need/want them. signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

On Tuesday, 20 June 2023 06:29:52 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Trying to send email via Google SMTP and postfix but getting authentication > failed. > > white postfix/smtp[32223]: 62E5618008F: to=, > relay=smtp.gmail.com[173.194.203.109]:587, delay=2390, > delays=2390/0.01/0.29/0, dsn=4.7.8

Re: [gentoo-user] EMERGENCY: X11 KEYBOARD MAPPING STOPPED WORKING!!!!

On Sunday, 18 June 2023 02:42:18 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > having extreme trouble typing this, haven't had to type qwerty in > fifteen years, keyboard mapping I need went poof during recent update, > rebooted for kernel 6.3, > > X11 is NOT recording logs to /var/log since last year. Console seemed

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

On Thursday, 15 June 2023 03:21:29 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230614 Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: > >> My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc > >> nor using 'startx' as root with Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade portage or update/install ebuilds

On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 19:06:33 BST Laurence Perkins wrote: > >From: Mitch D. futurehyp...@gmail.com > >Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 9:36 AM > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't upgrade port

Re: [gentoo-user] can't start X as user

On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 01:21:53 BST Philip Webb wrote: > My new machine has no problem with graphics using System Rescue etc > nor using 'startx' as root with Gentoo, but it refuses to start as user. > > I've had a series of errors : > > parse_vt_settings : can't open /dev/tty0 (permission

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 01:01:43 BST Wol wrote: > On 10/06/2023 09:44, Michael wrote: > > Without sddm, you can run the startplasma-wayland stanza from a console, > > do > > your thing, logout and the console would have captured various logs - just > > as startx does. &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On Monday, 12 June 2023 17:57:47 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-12, Michael wrote: > >> It seems to be a variation on this bug which affects only AMD GPUs: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/907431 > >> > >> Clearing the GPU driver cache or using the &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: google-chrome can render pages after update

On Monday, 12 June 2023 17:05:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2023-06-12, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I did an update this morning which installed the following: > > aleph ~ # fgrep '>>> emerge ' emerge.log > > > > 1686579407: >>> emerge (1 of 11) dev-util/strace-6.3 to / > > 16865

Re: [gentoo-user] KWallet refuses to auto open at login

On Sunday, 11 June 2023 23:48:08 BST Victor Ivanov wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jun 2023 at 14:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Anything in the logs? Maybe someting to indicate whether PAM is trying to > > open the wallet and failing, or whether it is not trying at all. > > Thanks, Neil, good point. Not that

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

On Saturday, 10 June 2023 18:00:34 BST Jack wrote: > I have also had odd behavior with X and two monitors, but I always > managed to get it working without excessive effort. My most persistent > problem was if the right monitor was plugged into the primary output, > reordering the monitors in t

Re: [gentoo-user] some help with wayland

On Saturday, 10 June 2023 01:19:06 BST Jack wrote: > I've been running xorg (KDE Plasma) for years, and have been perfectly > happy, but every now and then I have tried wayland, with less or even > less success. My recent attempts give me a plasma session in the upper > 1024 x 768 of a monitor tha

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to get sd card reader to work

On Friday, 9 June 2023 13:48:56 BST John Blinka wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I'm trying to get an SD card reader to work in Gentoo, but no success > so far. Hoping that someone can point out what I'm doing wrong. > > The hardware is an old Dell Inspiron 5759 laptop featuring a RealTek > RTS5129 usb

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

On Saturday, 3 June 2023 01:17:08 BST Philip Webb wrote: > The password looks like 'M343477M' (all different characters). > It works with SR + Mint. Yes, this will work with wpa_supplicant. > Today's investigations : > > (1) I copied the BT- firmware ( 2 files) from SR > into /lib/firmware/me

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : progress

On Friday, 2 June 2023 07:16:41 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230601 Lee K wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 11:09:50PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> What is still not good is that that interface has "NO-CARRIER". > >> Also, 'rc-status' after a reboot shows wpa_supplicant as STOPPED. > >> > >> 'rc-

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine : progress

On Friday, 2 June 2023 04:09:50 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for all the help so far. > > I've solved the firmware problem. > The needed files weren't in the latest stable version of linux-firmware > nor in the masked version (after much hassle unmasking it), > but they are in both System Resc

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

On Thursday, 1 June 2023 19:54:08 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230531 Michael wrote: > > It seems you have the correct module for the mediatek driver installed, > > since lshw on gentoo shows it being used. What is not shown is the > > firmware. Now, to bottom out the firmware i

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

Hi Philip, On Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:06:19 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230531 Mark Dymek wrote: > > are you installing Gentoo or is this on a running system ? > > because the minimal installer only uses wpa_supplicant . > > i couldn’t get wi-fi to work when i was installing Gentoo. > > once i had

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

On Tuesday, 30 May 2023 11:21:21 BST Philip Webb wrote: > 230511 Michael wrote: > > On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > >> Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working > >> at this early point in the installation process ? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3.10 python 3.11

On Sunday, 28 May 2023 17:39:57 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > I have upgraded python from 3.10 to 3.11 without any issues. > I can't get rid of pyton-3.10 > > > *Mr Montier Jacques* > *30 rue de la Boulais, 35000 Rennes* > *06 74 37 69 60* You can check what packages depend on it,

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO : SOLVED

On Friday, 26 May 2023 06:30:23 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks to both respondents for their advice. > > I solved the problem by changing Fstab col 6 for '/' to '1', > which forces a boot-time Fsck. Apparently, there was some e-grunge > in the file system, which the check cleaned up. > After tha

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : root partition mounted RO

On Thursday, 25 May 2023 07:02:04 BST Philip Webb wrote: > The new machine I've built is working well in other ways, > I've gone thro' the 'change-root' steps, > compiled the kernel -- 6.1.27-gentoo-r1 -- , > configured Lilo -- which has never let me down in 20 years -- , > created Fstab & reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

On Saturday, 20 May 2023 10:54:21 BST Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2023-05-20, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: > >> I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine > >> & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] problem compiling Kernel 6.1.27-gentoo-r1

On Saturday, 20 May 2023 07:59:59 BST Philip Webb wrote: > I'm trying to install Gentoo in my new machine > & have got to the step of compiling a kernel. > I used the config file from my present machine, did 'make oldconfig' > & have then done 'make menuconfig' to include drivers etc. > > The 'mak

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On Wednesday, 17 May 2023 00:20:52 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > On 16/5/23 23:52, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 16 May 2023 01:03:31 BST Wol wrote: > >> On 15/05/2023 18:25, Michael wrote: > >>> Check the attached screenshots, relevant to this laptop. There&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On Tuesday, 16 May 2023 01:03:31 BST Wol wrote: > On 15/05/2023 18:25, Michael wrote: > > Check the attached screenshots, relevant to this laptop. There's pointer > > speed and scrolling speed for the USB mouse I have attached. I use > > libinput for years now and as

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse pain

On Monday, 15 May 2023 17:11:45 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 15/05/2023 03:51, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Checked your menu? XFCE has a "mouse and touchpad" under settings with a > > number of useful items including acceleration, double click timings etc. > > Yes. As I remember, KDE USED to have s

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

On 5/12/23 09:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday, 12 May 2023 00:08:03 BST Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 3:07 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:18:17 BST Mark Knecht wrote: The ''problem' is this can easily hit 100% of the cores you have in the machine if

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache and systemd problem

On Friday, 12 May 2023 10:41:32 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > > After you are able to start it manually, you can edit your systemd service > > file accordingly. > > GOOD NEWS ! i can start apache2ctl manually by #/usr/bin/apache2ctl > I get the warning message : > AH00558: apache2: Could not reliab

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

On 5/11/23 23:23, Eldon wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:07:04PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Once again, --load-average is being ignored. Why is it there? Surely, it must be to mitigate the worst effects of that N*K, but it isn't doing so. Take all of the following with a grain of salt and Y

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:01:51 BST Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks for both replies. 5 min after I sent my request last night, > I realised that I sb able to access Wifi thro'out installation > simply via the System Rescue connection, which finds the service easily > & needs only the password to f

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache and systemd problem

On Thursday, 11 May 2023 17:17:27 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > I don't find any "LogLevel info" in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf > /var/log/apache2/error_log is empty. > > Jacques Please take a look here to see what the httpd.conf should look like and if there is no LogLevel directive add it yourself

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache and systemd problem

On Thursday, 11 May 2023 15:07:09 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > Thank you Michael for your response. > > - no error during compilation and installation OK > - /var/log/apache2 and /etc/apache2/httpd.conf are in the right place Check ownership of files in /var/log/apache2/ Apache

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache and systemd problem

On Wednesday, 10 May 2023 19:58:50 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > To learn a little bit about systemd, I recently installed a gentoo with > systemd profile. > After some fights, the OS is working, but it was a real mess !!! > Now I am struggling for launching apache2 daemon. > When a

Re: [gentoo-user] using Wifi in a new machine

On Thursday, 11 May 2023 08:22:58 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2023 21:42:16 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Can anyone explain how I can get Wifi working at this early point > > in the installation process ? > > There's an example of using WPA from the command line at > > https://nixo

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

On Sunday, 7 May 2023 11:27:14 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 6 May 2023 19:18:25 BST Jack wrote: > > I hope I'm not preaching to the choir, and I have NOT reread the > > various man pages, but the different options you mention (and some you > > don't) apply to different parts of the pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Solution for Remote Desktop

On Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:05:40 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On Gentoo I use x2go over VPN. It works when using a remote box is running > Windows in VirtualBox. > > Though I need to connect to a stand alone Windows 11 box, either from Gentoo > box or from Windows running in VirtualBox to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium build process tries wrong LLVM

On Monday, 1 May 2023 00:34:11 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > There does not seem to be a gcc-config or eselect for LLVM / clang > > The ebuild for today's chromium requires LLVM 16 -> LLVM 16 is > installed. Fine so far... > > So therefore something selects llvm 15 to build =( > #

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On Saturday, 29 April 2023 12:45:31 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 01:20:52PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > That > > said btrfs has its less than stellar moments. I still have systems that > > use ext4 and they "seem" reliable for light duty but I make sure I have

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

On Friday, 28 April 2023 13:54:37 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 28 April 2023 10:08:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > 230428 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:23:01 BST Philip Webb wrote: > > >> I've built & tested the new machine I was planning in 2022 > > >> & am at t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 22:15 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > Hm. While that sounds useful for "full Ruby" ebuilds, I don't see how to > circumvent the impact for the particular ebuild I am trying to extend, > other than overriding S in src_compile() etc. > > The build needs to create a C shared l

Re: [gentoo-user] Manifest verification failed

On Saturday, 22 April 2023 08:48:12 BST hitachi303 wrote: > Am 22.04.23 um 08:10 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > > On 4/21/23 23:09, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> I'm trying "emerge --sync" (few times) but I get this error: > >> > >> !!! Manifest verification failed: > >> OpenPGP verificati

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

On Fri, 2023-04-21 at 09:16 +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > > I tried what you suggested. However, inheriting from ruby-ng.eclass > introduces an odd problem: For some reason unknown to me, "${S}" no > longer matches the default value of "${WORKDIR}/${P}", but only what I'd > expect in "${WORKDIR}"

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install Ruby bindings in an ebuild

On 2023-04-19 01:08:23, Ralph Seichter wrote: > I need to install Ruby bindings (something.so) during an ebuild, > specifically into the /usr/lib64/ruby/vendor_ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux > directory. Hey Ralph. I'm not an expert on the ruby eclasses, but they work more or less like the python ones, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Can some config files be automatically protected from etc-update?

On Monday, 17 April 2023 20:28:01 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 11:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved, > > > > I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain > > files? My latest emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 17:52:25 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > One thing I haven't decoded is why Windows is and Kubuntu is 0003. See below ... > I now better understand Mitch D.'s point that the pointers to which OS to > boot are not in a disk file, like the old grub configuration, but rather

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 14:31:08 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > My needs are quite simple but efibootmgr, set up by the Kubuntu install > on a separate M.2 from the Windows install the machine came with, works for > me. I always start the day in Kubuntu, then reboot to Windows if I'm working > on music

Re: [gentoo-user] updating /boot directory EFI

On Monday, 17 April 2023 00:29:49 BST Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Wol writes: > > On 16/04/2023 22:30, Mitch D. wrote: > >> Wol, can you elaborate on why you think Grub is deprecated on EFI > >> systems? > > > > Because EFI is a boot manager? > > That is not the case any more than the classic IBM P

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/php - making binary

On Sat, 2023-04-15 at 21:29 -0400, jul...@jroy.ca wrote: > > You can keep a copy of the ebuild so even if it's removed from portage > you will be able to install it. > > Even without a copy, you will be able to retrieve it from git history. This is a better idea. I'll warn you though, PHP upstr

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

On Thu, 2023-04-13 at 18:27 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- > terns) into regular expressions? > What exactly are you trying to do? This sounds like an XY problem (https://xyproblem.info/).

[gentoo-user] Firefox multiple language sources

I've noticed for some time now Firefox is downloading endless language source files, random example: * firefox-102.10.0esr-sco.xpi BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Downloading 'http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo/distfiles/34/ firefox-102.10.0esr-si.xpi'

Re: [gentoo-user] updating remote system

On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 10:27:29 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2023 08:16:05 BST Mickaël Bucas wrote: > > I don't know if it's correct, I'd proceed this way: > > 1. Update world first, because some updated packages may be involved > > in kernel building > > 2. Reboot with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openrc service crash

On Saturday, 8 April 2023 11:08:06 BST Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > On 2023-04-08 10:41, Michael wrote: > > OK, I added rc_gatling_after="net" in rc.conf, but it didn't work. > > gatling > > crashed. However, adding 'sleep 5s' in its init.d startup

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