Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

2018-07-04 Thread Mick
and no way to fix it" Is there a documented manual workaround we could follow at present, irrespective of our sync'ing mechanism of choice? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] syncing via via git and signature failure

2018-07-04 Thread Mick
a mirror and then arrived at the same "no public key" error. Having waited for 15 years to arrive at a more secure method of validating the portage content, the need to sort out the infrastructure to support this shouldn't hopefully take too long. Are there any news how/when this probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib help

2018-07-04 Thread Mick
and provide howto instructions for all sorts of setups. For Portage I'd recommend you start from here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Working/Portage then delve into more areas by navigating to them from the menu list on the right titled "Working with Gentoo" and "W

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

2018-07-03 Thread Mick
You can also use openssl for the same purpose. For the odd file I use gpg -e and shred to delete securely the decrypted file from the disk after I have finished reading it (some times my tmpfs is on disk). Libreoffice can also use gpg to encrypt your files. Look for the option on the File/Save As pop up. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-03 Thread Mick
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/gentoo/gkeys/keyrings/gentoo/release/ pubring.kbx': No such file or directory :-/ -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-03 Thread Mick
ersions: ~0.2 ** {PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 > python3_4 python3_5 python3_6"} > Homepage:https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Gentoo-keys > Description: Tool for generating OpenPGP/GPG keys using a > specifications file This package update came up yesterday: app-crypt/openpgp-keys-gentoo-release-20180702 which as I understand will update the portage keys accordingly but I don't use webrsync to know if it applies the same way. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-02 Thread Mick
On Monday, 2 July 2018 19:20:29 BST Corbin Bird wrote: > On 07/01/2018 03:04 PM, Mick wrote: > > What do you mean "would not load"? From the live ISO? > > > > I had no such problem here on a bare metal install (no Windows) with > > sysrescuecd. You have to

Re: [gentoo-user] A config file for the magical combo of....

2018-07-01 Thread Mick
hoose the OS. > > Corbin I am booting without a boot loader straight from UEFI as this not a multiboot system. So, unless I interrupt it pressing F2 to get into UEFI menu, it will boot into the default OS image, which is the latest I have setup with efibootmgr. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-07-01 Thread Mick
ere a clever way of getting out of this race condition and is there a way to troubleshoot it further without going into kernel debugging at this stage? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hostile takeover of our github mirror. Don't use ebuild from there until new warning!

2018-06-28 Thread Mick
e article published at > https://www.gentoo.org/news/2018/06/28/Github-gentoo-org-hacked.html Thanks for letting us know, but how did this happen? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] avahi/mdns-nss and ipv4/ipv6 while pinging

2018-06-28 Thread Mick
for any help in advance! > Cheers > Meino ping -4 -c 3 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources : stable versions

2018-06-27 Thread Mick
t Intel microcode is not loading. I'm also waiting for 4.9.110 to be moved to stable. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] warning (different signature type) when doing ssh

2018-06-25 Thread Mick
On Monday, 25 June 2018 22:40:48 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25 2018, Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 25 June 2018 10:19:07 BST Marc Joliet wrote: > >> Am Montag, 25. Juni 2018, 03:10:57 CEST schrieb allan gottlieb: > >> > I have two laptops call them A and B

Re: [gentoo-user] warning (different signature type) when doing ssh

2018-06-25 Thread Mick
e two - i.e. when gpg-agent can't/won't use the ciphers expected by sshd. Do you get the same warning when you exclude the agent from the equation? ssh -a -i $HOME/.ssh/Your_SSH_Key user@host -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 24 June 2018 10:35:37 BST Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Sonntag, 24. Juni 2018, 11:10:48 CEST schrieb Mick: > [snip] > > > Is the default python target determined by the profile and does this > > override choices through eselect? > > > > Should 'eselect pyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-24 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 12:35:32 BST you wrote: > On Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:09:10 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > On Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:30:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > On 23 June

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 16:11:54 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-06-23, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > I see this at the top of gdb-7.12.1.build: > > PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_7,3_4,3_5} ) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 11:09:10 BST Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 10:38:35AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > On Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:30:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On 23 June 2018 10:14:31 BST, Mick wrote: > > > >I came up to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow python execution

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
misc/electrum (or in my case libreoffice-bin and gdb) ebuilds are updated for the latest stable python. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow python execution

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
5? dev-lang/python-3.6.5 is now marked as stable in portage, so you may want to update and try this python version to see if it is any better. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's firing up wireless on this laptop?

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:10:13 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Sa den 23. Jun 2018 um 10:00 schrieb Mick: > > 4735 ?Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/anacron -s > > 5867 ?SN 0:00 \_ run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > 5919 ?SN 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /e

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 23 June 2018 10:30:09 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 23 June 2018 10:14:31 BST, Mick wrote: > >I came up to this today following a portage sync: > > > ># emerge -uaNDv world > > > > > >These are the packages that would be merged, in

[gentoo-user] Recent change in python - some packages are not happy

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
[3] python3.4 (uninstalled) Then noticed python-3.6.5 has been moved to stable, but the above won't allow me to proceed without --exclude gdb. Other systems are similarly refusing to run their weekly update, but due to other packages, e.g. libreoffice-bin. Is

[gentoo-user] What's firing up wireless on this laptop?

2018-06-23 Thread Mick
in /etc/cron.* to indicate this is so. Any idea what might be causing this? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading gcc from 6.4 to 7.3

2018-06-20 Thread Mick
If my experience to date holds true and for a general purpose desktop none of the above rebuilds are necessary, other than switching your gcc to 7.3.0. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-19 Thread Mick
On Monday, 18 June 2018 15:37:00 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 06/18/2018 04:30 AM, Mick wrote: > > The above does not offer him a route into the company's LAN and he cannot > > connect to the servers *.i.company.com. > > Small nuance that routes don't deal with name

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0

2018-06-18 Thread Mick
On Monday, 18 June 2018 21:28:38 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18 2018, Mick wrote: > > Hi Allan, > > > > On Monday, 18 June 2018 18:52:31 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 17 2018, Mick wrote: > >> > On Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:04:50

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0

2018-06-18 Thread Mick
Hi Allan, On Monday, 18 June 2018 18:52:31 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17 2018, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:04:50 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > >> (I have been offline for a few months and apologize if this has been > >> covered.) > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-18 Thread Mick
Hi Grant, On Monday, 18 June 2018 03:59:32 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 06/17/2018 03:05 PM, Mick wrote: > > TBH I wouldn't select "Use only for resources on this connection", > > I thought "Use only for resources on this connection" would enable (what > I k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default CONFIG_PROTECT behavior

2018-06-18 Thread Mick
On Monday, 18 June 2018 03:35:05 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-06-17 18:12, Mick wrote: > > From the fine manual: > > z Zap (delete) the new config file and continue. > > So what do you do if the merge of this file is too hard and you want to > do it another

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0

2018-06-17 Thread Mick
d, this is how I would go about this: emerge --depclean -a -v media-libs/x264 emerge -1aDv '=media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701' emerge -1aDv media-video/ffmpeg -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-17 Thread Mick
ble to see a route which allows connections to your company's LAN subnet to be sent out via tun0 and connections to the rest of the world to be routable via your eth0. What VPN client are you using? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default CONFIG_PROTECT behavior

2018-06-17 Thread Mick
t; > find /etc/ -iname '._cfg*' > > > > Or what dispatch-conf does: > > > > find /etc -iname '._cfg_*' ! -name '.*~' ! -iname '.*.bak' -print > > Thanks for this information. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Shadow Remote Desktop to connect to Windows 10

2018-06-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 20:07:41 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 06/13/2018 11:47 AM, Mick wrote: > > On Wednesday, 13 June 2018 18:33:35 BST R0b0t1 wrote: > [snip] > > > Also note that by default the MSWindows Remote Desktop on a workstation > > will on

Re: [gentoo-user] Shadow Remote Desktop to connect to Windows 10

2018-06-13 Thread Mick
the MSWindows Remote Desktop on a workstation will only allow one user at a time to use the desktop. There is however a Remote Assistance facility which you may be able to use to connect to a desktop session without disconnecting the already logged in user. Type msra.exe in the search bar to launch it. I'm not sure if it is possible to connect from Linux with freerdp or other clients, but you should be able to connect from another Windows 10 PC. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] net-misc/openssh-7.7_p1-r4 switched off hpn use flag

2018-06-13 Thread Mick
Any idea why the latest openssh has set USE="-hpn"? PS. The multi-threaded AES-CTR is broken and disabled, which is OK, but the larger buffer used by single threaded HPN can still be useful in some cases. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Binary packages for a different amd64 flavor

2018-06-12 Thread Mick
t neater/easier to copy the guest's fs over to the faster host, then chroot into it, sync portage and emerge with --buildpkg world. There are other solutions, NFS mounts of the guest over the network, using a VM mirroring the laptop build on the host, but they are more complicated for my use case of a single guest. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-11 Thread Mick
On Monday, 11 June 2018 17:47:16 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 06/11/2018 04:55 AM, Mick wrote: > > You'll need a trusted gateway to do the unwrapping and then forwarding > > to the next hop (SSH forwarding). If you attempt TCP-tunneling > > (TCP-over-TCP) you'll soon exp

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-11 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 10 June 2018 23:51:42 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 06/10/2018 12:30 PM, Mick wrote: > > If NAT'ed between guest and host and then NAT'ed again at the home > > router, you are double NAT'ed. > > Or possibly triple NATed if your ISP is using Carrier Grade NAT. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-10 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:07:59 BST Wol's lists wrote: > On 10/06/18 17:53, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday, 10 June 2018 01:31:50 BST Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > >> Okay, with all that advice, I gave it another try. I'm also setting up > >> a VirtualBox for my WFH stuff a

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-10 Thread Mick
it's not quite as straightforward as I thought it might be. > :-) Ahh! If you're trying to set this up within a VM, this adds a whole new layer of complexity. I assume you're setting up a bridge between host and guest device(s)? Grant may be better equipped to answer here

Re: [gentoo-user] iproute2 reference

2018-06-10 Thread Mick
add default via "::$IPV4_BR_ADDR" > > Andrew To thumb through the man pages you need to extend man ip with the OBJECT. Same applies with --help pages. For example, to read the help page of 'ip address': ip address help the corresponding man page is: man ip-address -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-06-10 Thread Mick
et. Since this is arguably a manufacturing fault of the CPU, you should have some consumer rights over it. Try contacting AMD directly for RMA, as long as it is still under the *manufacturer's* warranty and you have your receipt. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] spec_store_bypass mitigation

2018-06-09 Thread Mick
gation: Enabling Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier [0.011645] Spectre V2 : Enabling Restricted Speculation for firmware calls After you updated sys-firmware/intel-microcode did you rebuild and reboot the *rebuilt* kernel on both PCs? PS. For good measure I ran make clean first, but I'm not sur

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:20:18 BST Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:34 PM Mick wrote: > > On Friday, 8 June 2018 23:21:52 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > > > On 06/08/2018 03:31 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > > > Sigh, I take it back. That causes t

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-08 Thread Mick
1.254 dev wlan0 then create an additional route for the remote subnet if it's not there: # ip route add 10.10.20.0/24 via 172.16.1.1 dev wlan0 Where 10.10.20.0/24 is your work's subnet and 172.16.1.1 is the local VPN IP address for your PC. Something along these lines ought to work. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-07 Thread Mick
ight, any games-* induced delay is now imperceptible. :-) -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 13:18:18 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:33:19 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I would rather not disable portage verification, but fix what's wrong > > with one PC. > > If you are running multiple Gentoo PCs on the same network, it would ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 6 June 2018 09:58:34 BST hitachi303 wrote: > Am 06.06.2018 um 10:23 schrieb Mick: > > Hi all, > > > > Since portage-2.3.40 I have been getting verification failure for > > games-action on one PC only, which is sync'ed against my local mirror. > >

[gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-06 Thread Mick
q: Finished 36924 entries in 0.300559 seconds * Why is this happening on one box only and how should I fix it? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Menu font size in LibreOffice

2018-06-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 01:17:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 4 June 2018 18:15:44 BST Mick wrote: > > I don't have a 'Gnome Application Style' under System Settings/Appearance. > > > > I'm guessing I may be missing a package. These are my USE flags: > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Menu font size in LibreOffice

2018-06-04 Thread Mick
-googledrive -gstreamer - gtk -gtk2 -java -jemalloc -kde -libressl -odk -postgres -test -vlc ELIBC="- FreeBSD" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="-nlpsolver -scripting-beanshell -scripting- javascript -wiki-publisher" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5 -python2_7 - python3_4 -python3_6

[gentoo-user] Menu font size in LibreOffice

2018-06-04 Thread Mick
Hi All, Any idea how I can increase the font size of Libre Office menus, on a plasma desktop? Using systemsettings5/fonts doesn't seem to work. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/vlc-3.0.2 fails during linking

2018-05-31 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 20:00:40 BST David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 31 May 2018, Mick wrote: > >Any idea what might be causing this? As it is making matroska, 'undefined > >references to `libebml::EbmlString::operator' produce an error and the > >ebuild >

[gentoo-user] media-video/vlc-3.0.2 fails during linking

2018-05-31 Thread Mick
,defs -Wl,-soname - Wl,libqt_plugin.so -Wl,-retain-symbols-file -Wl,.libs/libqt_plugin.exp -o .libs/libqt_plugin.so libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libqt_plugin.la" && ln -s "../ libqt_plugin.la" "libqt_plugin.la" ) make[4]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-3.0.2/work/ vlc-3.0.2/modules' make[3]: *** [Makefile:26134: all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-3.0.2/work/ vlc-3.0.2/modules' make[2]: *** [Makefile:11227: all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-3.0.2/work/ vlc-3.0.2/modules' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1530: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-video/vlc-3.0.2/work/ vlc-3.0.2' make: *** [Makefile:1415: all] Error 2 * ERROR: media-video/vlc-3.0.2::gentoo failed (compile phase): * emake failed -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 11:24:56 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2018 10:36:57 +0100, Mick wrote: > > Thanks guys, I just rebooted and still every submenu entry under > > 'Leave' is gone, except for 'Lock' and 'Logout'. This is weird. What > > could be causing th

Re: [gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 30 May 2018 03:08:24 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 2018-05-29, at 18:40, Mick wrote: > > > > It seems the shutdown, suspend, et al options are gone from the plasma > > desktop after an update at the end of the week. The user still has the > >

[gentoo-user] Where the Plasma shutdown menu option gone?

2018-05-29 Thread Mick
? How am I supposed to restore them? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-238 and google?

2018-05-22 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 22 May 2018 00:13:31 BST Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I noticed network related google variables being added in the compilation > > by emerge as udev was being updated to 238 today: [snip .

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-21 Thread Mick
firmware and check again. I tend to knock back the DRAM timings a bit on O/C'ed boards and this helps with stability. It goes without saying if default settings give you an unstable system, you should not try overclocking it. :-) PS. I use Corsair PSUs and always spend more on them to make sure it is not the cheapest model. A middle of the range modular unit comes with Japanese capacitors and has not caused me problems in various builds. In cheaper models I've ended up replacing the capacitors without waiting for the PSU to fail first - cheap PSUs always fail on me at the end. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Mick
come out thick and fast before they gradually slow down and then stop, probably because they have moved their devs to later and greater models. If I suspect the firmware, I always update it first before I look at other reasons. However, first I have a look at the changelog. Some updates ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound and Perl modules

2018-05-19 Thread Mick
ACLs for your user will be managed dynamically without ConsoleKit. Check the link I suggested to see if there is a workaround. Perhaps someone who's managed to get this going without alsa and ConsoleKit can chime in soon. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound and Perl modules

2018-05-19 Thread Mick
o sink. pactl list sinks and pactl list sources will show you what pulseaudio sees. > I hope, I do not bother you with all that questions coming up moving to > Gentoo... Not at all, just shoot away and users with more knowledge and experience will chime in as necessary if they know

[gentoo-user] udev-238 and google?

2018-05-19 Thread Mick
cache == I don't know/understand why meson needs the above, but is there a reason google DNS and NTP servers take precedence over my system settings? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Several packages failing to build

2018-05-14 Thread Mick
On Monday, 14 May 2018 21:07:17 BST Elijah Mark Anderson wrote: > On Monday, May 14, 2018 12:58:13 PM CDT Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 14 May 2018 18:20:01 BST Elijah Mark Anderson wrote: > > > I'm having an issue with about a dozen packages not upgrading. I'd > > > really

Re: [gentoo-user] Several packages failing to build

2018-05-14 Thread Mick
rth checking in BGO to see if your problems with ~amd64 packages are already reported and if any patches/fixes/workarounds have been posted. In this case have a look here, I think it is the same problem you have experienced: https://bugs.gentoo.org/640916 -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Descr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/nss-3.29.5 security level problem?

2018-05-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 10 May 2018 11:31:45 BST Dale wrote: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:48:06 BST Mick wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I just discovered the last nss update broke things completely on mozilla > >> apps which use nss

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/nss-3.29.5 security level problem?

2018-05-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:48:06 BST Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I just discovered the last nss update broke things completely on mozilla > apps which use nss. Firefox now refuses to connect to any site with https. > Trying to load google.com brings up thi

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/nss-3.29.5 security level problem?

2018-05-10 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 10 May 2018 10:48:06 BST Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I just discovered the last nss update broke things completely on mozilla > apps which use nss. Firefox now refuses to connect to any site with https. > Trying to load google.com brings up thi

[gentoo-user] dev-libs/nss-3.29.5 security level problem?

2018-05-10 Thread Mick
. Error code: NS_ERROR_NET_INADEQUATE_SECURITY Have you noticed the same? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] apache mod_wsgi radicale and passing in an environment variable

2018-05-08 Thread Mick
== ... SetEnv RADICALE_CONFIG /etc/radicale/config ... == should work after you reload the config. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Spectre-NG

2018-05-07 Thread Mick
Rich was right when he mentioned more related vulnerabilities are bound to show up soon: https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Exclusive-Spectre-NG-Multiple-new-Intel-CPU-flaws-revealed-several-serious-4040648.html -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 recovery

2018-05-06 Thread Mick
secondary xsession use Ctrl+Alt+F7. Alt+F8/Ctrl+Alt+F8 should take you back to your secondary xsession. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-06 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 6 May 2018 11:18:40 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 03/05/18 16:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 3 May 2018 15:58:44 BST Mick wrote: > >> Is there anything I can do with the existing laptop and its limited > >> resources to speed up chromium's emerge?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-05 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:22:01 BST Mick wrote: > I will give USE="jumbo-build" a spin later to see what improvement I may > get. I rebuilt chromium with USE="jumbo-build" with amazing results: Fri May 4 12:37:06 2018 >>> www-client/chromium-66.0.33

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Mick
downhill since. :-( I will give USE="jumbo-build" a spin later to see what improvement I may get. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:57:20 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 3 May 2018 16:41:55 BST, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On 2018-05-03, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> OK, I know my laptop is quite old, or at least Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 3 May 2018 16:41:55 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-05-03, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I know my laptop is quite old, or at least Intel thinks so, but > > emerging > > chromium is now taking *much* longer than it ever did: > A w

[gentoo-user] Mammoth emerge ...

2018-05-03 Thread Mick
resources to speed up chromium's emerge? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 28 April 2018 00:37:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:43:27 BST Mick wrote: > > I haven't used genkernel to be able to advise, but this page explains what > > you need to do: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel_microcode >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Mick
On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:21:51 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mi den 25. Apr 2018 um 18:56 schrieb Mick: > > I recall there was a perl update recently. For good measure run: > > > > perl-cleaner --reallyall > > > > and then try running your rem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Mick
On Friday, 27 April 2018 06:42:56 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 26/04/18 14:42, Mick wrote: > > Hmm ... why is my Intel system missing 'IBPB' & 'IBRS_FW' ? > > > > $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/me

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-26 Thread Mick
ltdown:Mitigation: PTI /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline Are there some kernel options I should have selected manually? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-25 Thread Mick
.3 > .) at /usr/bin/makeinfo line 109. I recall there was a perl update recently. For good measure run: perl-cleaner --reallyall and then try running your remaining updates. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-23 Thread Mick
On Monday, 23 April 2018 10:52:57 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 22 April 2018 12:13:53 BST Mick wrote: > > On Sunday, 22 April 2018 10:21:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > That first thought was prompted by the instruction to "mount -o bind > > > /lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-22 Thread Mick
t you may want to take a look at the Handbook, the chroot mounts appear to be different. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt, with USE="gpg", can't open a signed message

2018-04-20 Thread Mick
e anybody else runs into the same problem. Some of the mutt USE flags changed recently. I seem to recall some elog/ewarn message on this. Instead of USE=gpg and USE=smime, try USE=gpgme instead and then add: 'set crypt_use_gpgme=yes' in your /$HOME/.muttrc. HTH. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

2018-04-20 Thread Mick
On Friday, 20 April 2018 15:11:43 BST R0b0t1 wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:21 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Friday, 20 April 2018 12:55:13 BST Corbin Bird wrote: > >> Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses these processors ( Rhea Cluster ) and > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

2018-04-20 Thread Mick
I'd avoid anything as radical because it can go badly wrong if you remove more than the surface varnish from the chip. In the interim, opening the side panel may also help in hot weather. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] plasma-desktop-5.12.4 build process hangs

2018-04-19 Thread Mick
r linking > kcm_fontinst.so (see attachment). > > Anyone know what's going wrong? Is this just a bug in the ebuild, maybe? Your log shows no error. I had a look for bug reports, but couldn't find anything relevant. If it reports no error, have you waited long enough for the emerge to complete?

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo

2018-04-13 Thread Mick
respected > the relevent structure in the modules in a way that makes it impossible for > kmod to even make sense of. Details here: > https://github.com/coreos/bugs/issues/1054 > > -David Thanks David, I had come across an older bug somewhere, but there was no detailed explanation. -- Rega

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel module signature now shown on modinfo

2018-04-13 Thread Mick
e 4d 6f 64 75 6c 65 > 20 73 69 67 6e 61 74 |..~Module signat| 0004e940 75 72 65 20 61 70 70 65 > 6e 64 65 64 7e 0a|ure appended~.| 0004e94e > > My question is: why doesn't modinfo show me the key fingerprint? I don't know the answer, but would be interested to find out.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is udev-mount still valid?

2018-04-13 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:50:12 BST Floyd Anderson wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:11:17 +0100 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >I've noticed udev has been playing up lately. In particular, switching on > >wireless/bluetooth would cause udev to be pegge

[gentoo-user] Is udev-mount still valid?

2018-04-10 Thread Mick
thing borked in my system? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn rc script dependencies

2018-04-10 Thread Mick
g to do with the configuration of the start up script of ipsec. PS. I had commented out #rc_depend_strict="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and set rc_hotplug="*", but did not experiment further with these settings at the time. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable huge pages in Gentoo?

2018-04-09 Thread Mick
On Monday, 9 April 2018 16:35:37 BST Kruglov Sergey wrote: > Hi! Hi Sergey, > How to enable huge pages in Gentoo? Can't find any manual. Are you referring to the kernel options for huge pages? If so search for HUGETLB next time you configure a kernel. -- Regards, Mick signatu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mutt database option

2018-04-08 Thread Mick
On 08-04-2018 ,11:44:25, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Ian. > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2018 at 01:04:49 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > [ ] > > > I have tried contributing enhancements (the same ones) to both projects, > > and in the end I had to give up in the case of mutt and I maintained > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt database option

2018-04-07 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 7 April 2018 14:35:27 BST Floyd Anderson wrote: > Hi Mick, > > On Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:21:23 +0100 > > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >So far I had been using gdbm, but I now see that emerge also added lmdb. > > Same here, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What is the best open-source VPN server for Linux?

2018-04-07 Thread Mick
ption: http://www.softether.org/ https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] Mutt database option

2018-04-07 Thread Mick
( ssl !gnutls ) smime_classic? ( ssl ! gnutls ) smtp? ( ssl ) sasl? ( any-of ( imap pop smtp nntp ) ) kerberos? ( any-of ( imap pop smtp nntp ) ) So far I had been using gdbm, but I now see that emerge also added lmdb. Which one is best to use? What have you chosen? -- Regards, M

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