Re: [gentoo-user] Glamor use flag disappeared?

2019-11-08 Thread Mick
ding dependencies portage should sort things out all on its own. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Mail still not recognising Gentoo KMail

2019-11-07 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 7 November 2019 17:00:59 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 7 November 2019 12:12:41 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 7 November 2019 10:47:19 GMT Антон Кулешов wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Create 'Application-specific passw

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Mail still not recognising Gentoo KMail

2019-11-07 Thread Mick
this message before I start tweaking my Google security settings and end up locking myself out of my account! LOL! PS. TBH I'm finding all this Google omniscience troublesome and their security settings tiresome. Perhaps it's time I took my email data elsewhere. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-11-06 Thread Mick
int they were none the wiser of my repeated attempts to email the information they had requested. Using KMail configured to use smtp.gmail.com Vs using Gmail's webmail generates slightly different headers and I surmised this is all there was to my message being rejected in the first two attempts. --

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread Mick
t a known good kernel and tool-chain, a.k.a. a LiveUSB/DVD, chroot into your damaged system, re-sync portage and rebuild world. Otherwise, you'll be fighting this war a battle at a time, not knowing what corrupt/missing file you'll come across next. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolekit and elogind switch questions

2019-11-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 3 November 2019 06:08:15 GMT Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 28 October 2019 08:25:06 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 02:46:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> Thanks much for the info. Maybe the switch will go well for me too.

Re: [gentoo-user] why is writing to an async-mounted USB disk so slow?

2019-11-02 Thread Mick
What am I doing wrong? Probably nothing, other than using a faulty port/cable and/or faulty drive. Have a look at dmesg and syslog for I/O errors. Have you tried a different port and different USB cable? Unless it is an eSATA, in which case you will need an eSATA port/cable. -- Regards

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:26:32 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 10/31/19 12:01 PM, Mick wrote: > >> I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. > > > > Since you're both on gmail, those messages were probably rejecte

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 31 October 2019 16:06:15 GMT Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. > > I sent for and got the help thingy and tried to get it to send me the > missed messages. So far, I've yet to get anything including a

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

2019-10-31 Thread Mick
just me? If not just > me, does someone need to file a bug so they can look into it? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) I'm getting the same. On the same message(s). On user@ only. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-python/cryptography-2.6.1 compile failure

2019-10-28 Thread Mick
6-solaris" > > RDEPEND=">=dev-libs/libffi-3.3_rc0:0/7[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]" > === If you have no back up you could probably download a LiveCD/DVD image and use that. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot [FIXED]

2019-10-28 Thread Mick
On Monday, 28 October 2019 12:52:35 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 26 October 2019 17:31:28 GMT Mick wrote: > > If your intention is to use systemd- boot as the Boot Manager of choice, I > > would try moving all kernels and associated files to your /boot/ >

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolekit and elogind switch questions

2019-10-28 Thread Mick
en, emerge --depclean -v -a consolekit emerge -uaNDv @world emerge @preserved-rebuild -v -a rc-update del consolekit rc-update add elogind boot reboot >From memory that's all there is to it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Mick
y unmark sys-apps/portage-2.3.76 as ~amd64 in your /etc. Following a resync your local tree will be brought up to date and portage will no longer require further updates, since you will have installed the latest stable version (as of this morning at least). > (Sorry, Mick, for the private msg -

Re: [gentoo-user] why can't I emerge portage-2.3.67?

2019-10-27 Thread Mick
.3.67 isn't even listed as being available. > > What does eix tell you after 'emerge --sync && eix-update'? I sync'ed this morning and sys-apps/portage-2.3.76 is the current stable version. A re-sync as Peter suggests ought to fix this problem. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot [FIXED]

2019-10-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 26 October 2019 12:36:56 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 25 October 2019 16:33:07 BST Mick wrote: > > If you intend to have a list of available OS kernels displayed for you to > > choose from at boot time, then you need a Boot Manager (eLILO, GRUB, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-26 Thread Mick
On Friday, 25 October 2019 18:01:57 BST Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > PS. In an ideal AI world, portage would know how much memory is necessary > > for a given package and would auto-adjust the number of jobs to minimise > > swapping given any amount of RAM. In an

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI boot - the saga continues

2019-10-25 Thread Mick
h time you want to boot an OS will soon wear thin, the use of a 3rd party Boot Manager with its convenient boot menu is probably a more suitable option. PS. Happy to discuss specifics off-list if you think this is less of a Gentoo issue. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

2019-10-25 Thread Mick
essary for a given package and would auto-adjust the number of jobs to minimise swapping given any amount of RAM. In an even more ideal world, it would be able to do this in real time. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 22 October 2019 21:34:53 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:35:27 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > If I trust the makefile to build the entire operating system kernel, > > > build all the modules it needs and copy all those modules to the > > > corr

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Mick
ts > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > If I trust the makefile to build the entire operating system kernel, > build all the modules it needs and copy all those modules to the correct > locations, I don't see why I can't let it copy one more file to /boot. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 22 October 2019 10:09:53 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 22 October 2019 08:58:01 BST, Mick wrote: > >With manual copying/naming of kernels I can overwrite any non-booting > >kernels > >with the latest compiled example, without moving links around. What is

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-22 Thread Mick
tion to the above problem? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread Mick
re Rosegarden will not perform OMR itself, but will import various file formats: https://www.rosegardenmusic.com/doc/en/file-other.html -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread Mick
On Monday, 21 October 2019 12:39:03 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation > > from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are >

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
r these reasons I always set up swap on my gentoo systems. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
? Are there any in portage/overlays? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
> Cheers, > Wol Quite, disks are cheap and having more swap won't break the bank. On PCs with limited RAM I often end up adding more swap space and reducing job counts to get big emerges through. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Mick
ke a > long time to fill that much swap and regaining control of your system > could well be a big red switch job. > > Cheers, > Wol Each to their own, but I tend to think this huge amount of swap is probably excessive, unless you're running some scientific applications which

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-19 Thread Mick
cessary And this for an alternative, or complimentary solution: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Zram -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor & wine ==> crash

2019-10-19 Thread Mick
e higher bitrate makes any difference in what the kernel/driver sees and can drive. If there is no improvement, then I would look into feeding a custom EDID file for the new monitor to the kernel and see if WINE performance improves. Have a look at 'xrandr --prop' to see what the new Vs the old monitor display and read this for more: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/EDID/HOWTO.txt HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with playonlinux - 4.2.12 or 4.3.4

2019-10-18 Thread Mick
by wxGtk and a rebuild of dev-python/wxpython fixed it for me. Perhaps you want to give it a try? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] For all you sudo-happy users out there!

2019-10-15 Thread Mick
I have very limited sudo commands configured, but I better resync to see what's the latest stable sudo on the tree. https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/14/linux-unix-sudo-command-security-flaw/? guccounter=1 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread Mick
portage tree of packages, rather than only the immediate dependencies. Perhaps something further down needed to be rebuild for emerge to complete successfully. If you really want to go to town with dependencies you could even try: --with-bdeps=y --complete-graph -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread Mick
Then emerged them with --oneshot and portage stopped asking me to unmask virtual/ pam thereafter. I suppose --changed-deps would also work, but I didn't try it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for qpopper

2019-10-14 Thread Mick
mlinks manually (old dog, new tricks), but there are the ever so easy gentoo commands of eselect and rc-update: eselect rc add tpop3d default Or, rc-update add tpop3d default -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Re: mounting USB devices on qemu at run time

2019-10-13 Thread Mick
v rule in the host and it now works: ATTRS{idVendor}=="091e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="28db", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev" -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] mounting USB devices on qemu at run time

2019-10-12 Thread Mick
at will in runtime? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-02 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 22:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 18:47:25 BST Mick wrote: > > > As I understand it this ID must be the ID bootctl itself reports. > > However, earlier bootctl versions do not have this set-default ID > > subc

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 16:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:32:27 BST Mick wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:18, Mick wrote: > > > When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be > > > loaded have been signed by Mi

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:18, Mick wrote: > When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be > loaded have been signed by Microsoft. The 'SHA256 verified' message > indicates the systemd-boot binary is signed using a key which is > ultimately signed by Microsoft and

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED-FIXED]

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
n't know what to make of those. When using Secure Boot the UEFI firmware check the binaries to be loaded have been signed by Microsoft. The 'SHA256 verified' message indicates the systemd-boot binary is signed using a key which is ultimately signed by Microsoft and is contained in the whitelist (MokList). If the verification failed I think it would spit something back to allow you to enrol a valid hash or key. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

2019-10-01 Thread Mick
don't know if you have misspelled the above parameter. Try setting: NOCOLOR="true" However, terminal colors are set differently - see thread mentioned by Arve. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot Minimal Installation CD (ISO loopback; not a UEFI boot)

2019-09-30 Thread Mick
the absence of external storage devices, so everything should happen > inside RAM, right? If so, then I don't get what could possibly go wrong > as long as kernel and initrd are found unless there's an issue with > Minimal Installation CD itself. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-30 Thread Mick
On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 at 13:25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Sep 2019 11:59:00 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > As I understand it, 'bootctl --update' can be used to update > > systemd-boot boot manager's menu and it is looking for bootable > > kernels by scanning

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-29 Thread Mick
On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 09:13, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 16:44:10 BST Mick wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 at 15:47, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Thursday, 26 September 2019 10:16:54 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > [Snip interesting stuff] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-27 Thread Mick
ose of plumbing I/O audio into various configurations, so tweaking it to do the recording you require should be eminently doable and using one of the various Gtk/Qt front ends makes it even easier/quicker. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-C PD delivery & Lenovo USB-C hub.

2019-09-26 Thread Mick
or the information! > > Do not bang your head too much ) This result is a good result, could > be useful to others. > > -- > Best regards, > Alex > Very interesting finding! Thanks for sharing. :-) -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

2019-09-26 Thread Mick
s well as the hard disk. I may be wrong, but I don't think this is possible (yet?). You could use a secondary bootloader, e.g. GRUB, other than the UEFI firmware to load OS kernels wherever they might be positioned on the system. > Oh yes, removable devices can be booted, but not secondary, internal hard > drives. Apparently. On this system. Today. > > -- > Regards, > Peter. [1] https://uefi.org/specifications -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-C PD delivery & Lenovo USB-C hub.

2019-09-23 Thread Mick
> > > > Sorry, meant to mention that.. its a Lenovo USb-C Hub C109. I bought it > > > from Amazon, but the manufacturer sells it under the Lenovo brand - > > > http://www.novolk.com/productinfo/54884.html> > > OK. Thanks. It's useful to know which one potentially to avoid. > > The thing is, I've tried with a fair few hubs with this laptop, and it > hasn't been very successful... same issue persists. Have you had a look at the UEFI/BIOS settings? There may be a setting you need to enable in there. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

2019-09-23 Thread Mick
he same. Regarding the message "GUID partition table header signature is wrong", this is probably indicative of an MBR partition table - but I'm not sure. Have you installed some OS on an MBR partition schema? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-C PD delivery & Lenovo USB-C hub.

2019-09-22 Thread Mick
the kernel. > > > > Any ideas? Thanks :-) I don't have such a device to advise on the specifics, but look at dmesg, lspci -knn, lsusb to see if the device is recognised, or if any errors on missing components are reported. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

2019-09-22 Thread Mick
fig -o /boot/grub/ grub.cfg' or what is appropriate for your boot filesystem. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-20 Thread Mick
; there was nothing to unload to release snd_aloop. I ended up renaming > .asoundrc, and rebooting. I suggest you give jackd a spin. It should what you want, but may I ask why you need to record off your browser whatever youtube shows? Can't you use youtube-dl to download the youtube video/audio? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 19 September 2019 03:45:59 BST Adam Carter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:58 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 09:14:44PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > > > Yes, you only have one card 0. The first device (default) is the > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:03:02 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 11:16:41AM +0100, Mick wrote > > > On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 10:10:16 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > > > ffmpeg -f alsa -ac 2 -i hw:0 -video_size 1920x1080 -framerate 25 -f > &

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [SOLVED, mostly]

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:26:25 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 18 September 2019 14:20:11 BST Mick wrote: > > I think --label can only be specified when you --create a new entry in the > > UEFI boot menu. If there is an entry already present, I think you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [SOLVED, mostly]

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
comes from the file named two lines later; it has nothing > to do with the Title of Note 2. Hmm ... I wonder what bootctl reads to populate its "title:" field. Would you care to share the output of: efibootmgr -v -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow UI for firefox 68

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
rowser is waiting for some value in memory to change or to be released from some other process before it can be used by FF ... I think. > Only problem is each try is gonna take ~5 hours on my poor machine. :-) > > We'll see! The high CPU could be indicating a graphics issue, where the brows

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ffmpeg video+audio capture question

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
th case the video capture works, and ffmpeg claims to be > capturing audio, but I don't get any audio capture at all. What am I > doing wrong? Any more USE flags to set? Did you try USE="alsa, -speex"? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-18 Thread Mick
ext time FF is launched. Perhaps something in the FF json engine changed and the old json script syntax is not liked much. Thanks again Daniel for your suggestion. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
; However I can't guarantee this works for everybody so create a backup of > your firefox profile before. Thanks Daniel, your advice worked in my case. I'll try now to sort out the rest of the PCs. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Monday, 16 September 2019 14:03:37 BST Mick wrote: > On Monday, 16 September 2019 08:47:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 1568619006132 Marionette FATAL> ^ > > JavaScript error: resource://gre/modules/AutoCompletePopup.jsm, line 113: > > NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_V

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
gt; (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIObserverService.removeObserver] > > Pro tem I've negated all the system-* flags in package.use. I've noticed a similar failure to launch on one system here. It works when launched with --safe-mode, so I assumed some of the many addons on this system are causing the failure. Other systems do not have such problems. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
the MBR tables. So with a 4K sector most of it will be left empty. Anyway, I'm no authority on the above topics, just sharing my understanding. Please point out any errors as you find them. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 15 September 2019 23:26:47 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:29:13 BST Mick wrote: > > What do you see in the / filesystem when the ESP partition is *not* > > mounted? > The ESP space is not a partition here. I think we are confusing terms

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-15 Thread Mick
mounted to see if there is any fs corruption. If there is something wrong with its filesystem, I would simply reformat the partition with 'mkfs.vfat -v /dev/ nvme0n1p2' and rsync the contents back from a back up. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrating to python3_6 ?

2019-09-06 Thread Mick
rder to use the latest stable python versions, I would remove any manually specified python targets from make.conf, then 'emerge @preserved-rebuild', then 'emerge --depclean -v -p' and for good measure 'revdep-rebuild'. When python 2.7 becomes deprecated in the future it will fall out of the portage tree and your regular emerge will unmerge it. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot open display

2019-09-01 Thread Mick
ntoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/System 2. Does 'echo $HOSTNAME' show what you have configured in your system, after you restart networkmanager, or reboot? 3. Have you added /etc/init.d/hostname to your boot runlevel? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] router vpn passthrough

2019-08-24 Thread Mick
T chain, for any connections your clients have initiated. The default OpenVPN server port (UDP or TCP) is 1194, so outgoing packets from your client would be on 1194, unless you are using some bespoke OpenVPN configuration. Can you enable temporarily your router's logs and keep an eye on dropped/ r

Re: [gentoo-user] setup x11/plasma in chroot?

2019-08-23 Thread Mick
le world is > >> watching! The whole world is watching!” > > > > You can install these things fine. Running them within the chroot can be a > > bit painful, however. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-23 Thread Mick
On Friday, 23 August 2019 09:27:55 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/08/2019 11:18, Mick wrote: > > Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple vertical and > > horizontal window split, with kio-slaves which would process or play > > anything and

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-23 Thread Mick
h can't do half of what konqueror was able to offer us. I better not mention kmail2, because I don't want anyone to think this message was written by Edgar Allan Poe. :-( -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 21 August 2019 17:19:58 BST Jarry wrote: > On 21-Aug-19 17:49, Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 19 August 2019 20:00:36 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 19/08/2019 21:36, Mick wrote: > >>> I was wondering if I can run some/any of these apps as VM guests

Re: [gentoo-user] A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-21 Thread Mick
d Java and will probably keep it Java free, but if I were to install it I will give Android SDK another go to see if it runs any faster on this PC. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-21 Thread Mick
On Monday, 19 August 2019 20:00:36 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 19/08/2019 21:36, Mick wrote: > > I was wondering if I can run some/any of these apps as VM guests > > within QEMU, on my amd64 Gentoo. > > You can, although it seems very complicated to make it work.

Re: [gentoo-user] what pgm is rotating my /var/log/syslog, etc. files?

2019-08-19 Thread Mick
n you'll have to add your own logrotate configuration, either in / etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng itself, or in additional files. Are the two systems identical in terms of the syslog-ng config and *all* the logrotate config files? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE machine -> Shutdown icons gone walkabout

2019-08-19 Thread Mick
ve to emerge something else to get the icons back? > > Thoughts greatly appreciated, > > Andrew Do you have consolekit or elogind installed and running? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] A bit O/T: Running android apps in QEMU

2019-08-19 Thread Mick
share? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: switch from gnome/systemd to xfce/openrc borked my system

2019-08-19 Thread Mick
rarily enable logging. If any openrc scripts fail and can't boot, you will able to look at the logs when you chroot back into it - using less/cat/plain text editor. ;-) I hope the above should allow you to boot, or at least arrive at some meaningful failure message to resolve.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dolphin only allowing a single instance after update

2019-08-18 Thread Mick
h again. At least I have a workaround for the time being. > > Dale > > :-) :-) I must be pressing the keyboard buttons the wrong way, it does not work here on plasma-5.15.5 & dolphin-19.04.3 :-/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] enlightenment experience

2019-08-16 Thread Mick
thanks, > > raffaele > > [1] https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened If you need particular help with developing apps or debugging you can post on the devs' mailing list and also chat with them on IRC. I have found them to be a helpful lot. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

2019-08-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 16:19:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:33:02 BST Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday, 13 August 2019 10:19:23 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I'm using my ISP's SMTP server with the same settings as usual. KMail > > > detect

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

2019-08-13 Thread Mick
SQL and PostgreSQL. I can't say I've noticed a difference, except PostgreSQL upgrades being somewhat more involved between major releases. However, this may have something to do with the way I had unnecessarily complicated its installation and configuration. -- Regards, Mick signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

2019-08-12 Thread Mick
don't know what authentication you're using on your mail server, but if related to my failure mode it may be worth trying different authentication options to get it going. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

2019-08-10 Thread Mick
U/GPUs. I don't know why hardware acceleration stopped working ... I was also considering some kernel setting as being responsible, but haven't been able to find a solution yet. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-07 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 12:48:08 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 11:58:52 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > Actually, it combines them all into one. The second link is to bin, > > > not /bin. It's a relative link from /usr/sbin so this would put > > > everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-07 Thread Mick
, it combines them all into one. The second link is to bin, not > /bin. It's a relative link from /usr/sbin so this would put everything in > /usr/bin. Yep! It sounds like an amazing idea! I vote we rename it $WINDOWS/ and see how fast someone can spin an image on Azure. :p -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-07 Thread Mick
eful Gentoo's still here, but would really prefer it did not bend itself out of shape to accommodate solutions to problems I and others do not have, or when we do we may not even use Gentoo to solve them. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No profile 17.1 for 32-bit (x86) installs?

2019-08-06 Thread Mick
ars to have been removed: $ eselect news read 10 2017-12-26-experimental-amd64-17-1-profiles !!! Warning: News item "2017-12-26-experimental-amd64-17-1-profiles" no longer exists But there is another more up to date news item titled: "2019-06-05-amd64-17-1-profiles-are-now-stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday, 5 August 2019 17:17:53 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/5/19 4:49 AM, Mick wrote: > Just because it's the same developers promoting both does not mean that > any logic / evidence they might provide in support of /usr merge is > inherently wrong. We should judge the merits of

Re: [gentoo-user] HACK: Boot without an initramfs / initrd while maintaining a separate /usr file system.

2019-08-05 Thread Mick
lations of the same binaries are installed/copied in both underlying and mounted /usr/* fs and kept in sync? By changing all affected ebuilds? It is a hack alright, to restore the previous default /usr functionality, so a useful option to consider. If I were to be asked my preference would be to revert the systemd inspired changes which caused this loss of functionality. ;-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-05 Thread Mick
On Monday, 5 August 2019 02:26:11 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/4/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote: > > I don't know more about this, but it seems we are being dragged towards > > a systemd inspired future, whether the majority of the gentoo community > > of users want it or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 4 August 2019 18:07:41 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-08-04 12:29, Mick wrote: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > > > > Essentially the historical reasons for having a lot of separate > > directories/ fs/pa

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Mick
me the move to profile 17.1 to deal with the various /lib directories was the start. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] acct-group packages ??

2019-08-03 Thread Mick
ccounts are configured/cleaned up: https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent changes to install procedure

2019-08-03 Thread Mick
gt; items, it doesn't matter where one puts it really, as long as > permissions are correct. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Unless you're building binaries to redistribute it doesn't make sense to set it globally. I vaguely recall something going sideways with openssl when I had this flag set in the past, so I've left it unset since. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd crashes when I try to mount a USB drive

2019-08-01 Thread Mick
> Next time you get the error, can you do "ps auxf" to see if you can > tell what processes called systemd-udevd? > > Jack Could it be the systemd upgrade you refer to interfered with any udev rules you had set up to deal with your external drive, or in any case changes in udev rules are no longer agreeable with your external device? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

2019-08-01 Thread Mick
e xconfig When you're done tweaking things make sure you save your changes before you make clean && make && make modules_install && make install The last bit copies over the kernel for you to /boot if you don't want to do this manually or use your own naming convention. For more details have a look here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Configuration HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: find atime vs lsof

2019-07-27 Thread Mick
ve the rest and restart the VM looking out for errors (back up the directory first). -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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