[gentoo-user] CUPS and printer serial numbers

2024-07-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Is it possible to get CUPS to report the serial number of a network-connected printer? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 July 2024 09:50:00 BST Michael wrote: > I recall having some trouble with bytemark in the past. Now you mention it, so do I, but I've been using it for quite a while now with no problems. I suppose servers come and go... -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 July 2024 10:54:37 BST J. Aho wrote: > The main issue is that you aren't syncing portage towards the bin > server, which makes things out of sync and those you will be building a > lot of the packages instead of fetching the binary files when they are > built. One way to come around

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 13:22:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 14/07/2024 13:04, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It doesn't do that here. It tries to fetch the binary and bombs out when > > it can't be found. Then I have to edit make.conf to update Gentoo, then > > put it back a

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 14 July 2024 07:05:04 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > As a matter of curiosity, why do you need to do any such thing at all? > > If there is no binary package available for portage yet, then portage > will automatically build it from source instead, which is exactly what > setting

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 15:49:00 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: --->8 > > I don't know what you're doing wrong, but FEATURES is an additive > > variable, so adding the ${FEATURES} in there is not necessary. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 13 July 2024 14:18:09 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jul 2024 at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a > > binary package than as source, so I can't 'get

[gentoo-user] sys-apps/portage and binary packages

2024-07-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Where I live, updates to portage itself usually take longer to appear as a binary package than as source, so I can't 'getbinpkg'. Therefore I've set: # cat /etc/portage/env/nobinpkg.conf FEATURES="${FEATURES} -getbinpkg" # cat /etc/portage/package.env sys-apps/portage nobinpkg.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 8 July 2024 10:56:44 BST Michael wrote: > The rule of thumb is to come as close as possible to the TV screen until you > start seeing different pixels. Then you back off a little bit and plonk > your armchair there. Correction: That's A rule of thumb. It's not what's recommended by TV

Re: [gentoo-user] New monitor, new problem. Everything LARGE O_O

2024-07-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 8 July 2024 13:59:27 BST Wol wrote: > On 08/07/2024 13:27, Dale wrote: > > I don't know about cell phones but if using the youtube app, I'd think > > it would know what you are using and the resolution too. > > BBC iPlayer, ITVx. Along with the other Freeview apps for Channels 4 and 5.

Re: [gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 6 July 2024 17:31:08 BST Dale wrote: > Hope those files help. Thank you Dale. In fact my problem turned out to be an invisible typo in a bash script. You know, the sort that isn't there until the umpteenth time you look, and there it is after all. :) -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] New bashrc

2024-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Would someone please either post the new bashrc file here or send me a copy, in which genfun_has_readline is defined? I seem to have lost mine altogether. I think portage may be being too clever in remembering config files that I've not allowed it to update previously, and so not

[gentoo-user] EDID file name for kernel?

2024-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, The monitor on this box is connected via a KVM switch, which may not be set to this machine at boot time. Then I get a default VT screen size which is too tall - it can't show the last three lines or so. The kernel documents show that an EDID data file can be read from

[gentoo-user] Using Gentoo binary packages

2024-07-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Can someone please tell me what the official cure is for the error "unsafe permissions on homedir '/etc/portage/gnupg' ? I even get it if I remove that directory altogether and then run 'getuto' . If getuto can't create the directory with safe permissions, what chance do I have?

Re: [gentoo-user] bash: genfun_has_readline

2024-07-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 June 2024 16:56:56 BST I wrote: > I'm seeing this every time I chroot into my rescue system: > > # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash > bash: genfun_has_readline: command not found --->8 > The same thing happened when I started a new build from stage-3, when I > chrooted into the nascent

Re: [gentoo-user] bash: genfun_has_readline

2024-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 June 2024 18:51:20 BST David M. Fellows wrote: > >Hello list, > > > >I'm seeing this every time I chroot into my rescue system: > > > ># chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash > >bash: genfun_has_readline: command not found > > > >Google results suggest that the genfun is defined in the new

[gentoo-user] bash: genfun_has_readline

2024-06-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm seeing this every time I chroot into my rescue system: # chroot /mnt/rescue /bin/bash bash: genfun_has_readline: command not found Google results suggest that the genfun is defined in the new version of bashrc, but it isn't on any of my systems, even one ~amd64. The same thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Eliminating unwanted linux-firmware blobs.

2024-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 June 2024 20:32:11 BST Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > Remove the date.so it becomes > /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware then it applies to all > of them and not the specified version. > > Hope that helps It certainly does. I wish I'd known that years ago: it

Re: [gentoo-user] bashrc and setting PS1 variable heads up.

2024-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 28 June 2024 08:32:44 BST Dale wrote: > I did a major upgrade and found out I had a lot of config files to > update. I performed those updates, while losing some of my settings. > Anyway, I figured out how to set the alias variables. Simple enough. > Create a file and list them in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get the GUI to stay up for more than a minute or so before crashing

2024-06-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 24 June 2024 15:29:21 BST Dale wrote: > If a person is trying to copy another install and runs into a failure in > a package to compile, skip ahead and deal with the locale section first > then come back. Yes, I've been doing that for some time now, having tripped over something as

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 20:06:17 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On interrupting one such hang, I found that 32 install jobs had been > > waiting to run; is this limit hard coded? I also saw "too many jobs" or > > something,

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > > > finding the system stalling because

Re: [gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm > > finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its instal

[gentoo-user] Too many simultaneous install jobs

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, While building a new KDE system (see my post a few minutes ago), I'm finding the system stalling because it can't handle all its install jobs. I have this set: $ grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=30 [...]" MAKEOPTS="-j16 -l16" The CPU has

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma 6

2024-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 08:01:54 BST jdm wrote: > I decided to uninstall, then do a sync and then install again but now > getting lots of soft blocks. Think I'll wait until it's not in testing. I had just started building a new KDE system on my Ryzen M9 box, starting with no USE flags set,

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Keep getting LC_ALL error during install.

2024-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 17 June 2024 13:39:35 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 17/06/2024 12:17, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Sadly, the FBR never made it into commercial deployment. > > Was that the one with the heavy water moderator? So a thermal runaway > was impossible because you'd have no moderator left? No,

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Keep getting LC_ALL error during install.

2024-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 16 June 2024 20:39:52 BST Wol wrote: > ... Back in the ancient days, you had a switch panel you toggled to put in > the boot code. I remember that. It was 1974. 24 key switches and lots of buttons. You set an address on the key switches and hit SET, then ditto its contents and STORE.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 16 June 2024 14:35:34 BST Dale wrote: > I mentioned I found the correct drivers for the CPU and other temps > sensors but needed to reboot. What sensors are you using now? I just rely on what gkrellm finds; where it shows more than one CPU or GPU temp I choose the highest one. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 23:00:07 BST Jack wrote: > A bit of searching found the wiki page for dispatch-conf, which > includes: > > Before running dispatch-conf for the first time, the settings in > /etc/dispatch-conf.conf should be edited, and the archive directory > specified in

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:55:17 BST Michael wrote: --->8 Thanks, but I'll stick to what I know if you don't mind. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty with updating /etc/basb/bashrc

2024-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 June 2024 18:33:57 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Are these files freely available, anywhere, perhaps? Your backup from last week? :) -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU frequency governors and temperatures

2024-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 June 2024 16:16:09 BST Michael wrote: > Liquid cooling would have made it as quiet as a church mouse. ;-) I have a machine here with liquid cooling, and over its few years it's become deafening under full load (24 simultaneous floating-point physics applications). It is quiet

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:53:06 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Here's the output of parted -l on my main NVMe disk in case it helps: > > > > Model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 250GB (nvme) > > Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 250GB > > Sector size (logical/physica

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU frequency governors and temperatures

2024-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 14 June 2024 13:55:49 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a (now quite old) MSsurface-pro4 with an I5 - it runs about > 50-60c on normal use but compiling (for example) webkit-gtk and > Libreoffice causes the temp to go way too high. I have a script checking > the cpu temps - at

[gentoo-user] Error from portage

2024-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Today I got this : * Java-utils-2 eclass must not be inherited directly That asterisk was red. I got the message for both media-libs/opencv and app- office/libreoffice. This was in a large update, triggered largely by perl going from 5.38.2 to 5.40.0. I had to change three USE

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 16:24:03 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've found it. /etc/profile.d had two suspect files: vte-2.91.csh & > vte-2.91.sh. > > I don't know where they came from - perhaps another system of mine. I'll get > rid of them and all should be well. Y

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:45:54 BST Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:40:50 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:27:03 BST Michael wrote: > > > I'm not sure the missing file in your error message is related to python > > > - >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:27:03 BST Michael wrote: > I'm not sure the missing file in your error message is related to python - > VTE is a GTK+3 widget used by some Gnome based terminal emulators and in > particular Tilix. Could this be related to your LiveUSB, instead of your > chrooted fs?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:53:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm installing a new system on an i3 NUC box, following the handbook, and > I'm having trouble. After chrooting in, every command I issue is met with > "bash: / usr/libexec/vte-urlencode-cwd: No su

[gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I'm installing a new system on an i3 NUC box, following the handbook, and I'm having trouble. After chrooting in, every command I issue is met with "bash: / usr/libexec/vte-urlencode-cwd: No such file or directory". Everything from and including the first '. /etc/profile' is

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:11:38 BST Dale wrote: > My plan, given it is a 1TB, use maybe 300GBs of it. Leave the rest > blank. Have the /boot, EFI directory, root and maybe put /var on a > separate partition. I figure for the boot stuff, 3GBs would be plenty > for all combined. Make them large

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo, CPU, memory and a m.2 thingy. This work together?

2024-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 2 June 2024 14:27:57 BST Dale wrote: > Got the manual. It says 128GB. That sounds more like what I was > expecting anyway. I kinda thought 256GB was a bit much. I bought my machine from Armari a few years ago; they supply high-performance workstations to City finance and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preparing /dev/sda1 for gentoo install x86 handbook

2024-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 2 June 2024 01:54:08 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-06-01, Wol wrote: > > I've got news for you, there are quite a few weirdos on the list, > > Hey! I resemble that remark. Hey! Are you pinching my joke? -- Regards, Peter. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-05-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:52:35 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:58:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:30:54 BST Wol wrote: > >>> Any chance you can document those steps? > >> > >>

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-05-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:58:04 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:30:54 BST Wol wrote: > > Any chance you can document those steps? > > Yes, I ought to do that. I just need to remember... ;-) I think there's only one thing for me to say: whatever web s

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU load in qtwebengine

2024-05-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:13:27 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:07:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > On this box I have this: > > > > # grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --

[gentoo-user] 100% CPU load in qtwebengine

2024-05-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, On this box I have this: # grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=4 [...] " MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4" That seems to work well, except for a 20s period at the beginning of emerging qtwebengine, during which CPU load goes to 100%, according to gkrellm.

Re: [gentoo-user] Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 15:23:47 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > So I'm looking at getting an AMD Ryzen 7 7700X processor, and using its > inbuilt graphics rather than buying a distinct graphics card. > > But in the doc on wiki.gentoo.org, I can't find any mention of inbuilt > graphics; all

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drives, password generation and management howto, guide.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 14:37:22 BST Michael wrote: > There are 3 'cliboards', known as selections, I know of: > > 1. Primary - you select some text by holding down your left mouse button (or > Shift+arrow) and you paste it with your middle button (or Shift+Insert - > depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:42:14 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate > > /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that > > a su

Re: [gentoo-user] bad $PATH

2024-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 May 2024 13:55:42 BST Jorge Almeida wrote: > I have > /var/lib/bin > in my $PATH (both as root and as normal user) > > That directory does not exist. Should it exist!? > What could be setting this? > (grep /var/lib/bin /etc/conf.d/* returns nothing) > > Anyone with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub, gpt partitions and BIOS, not uefi thing.

2024-05-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 2 May 2024 00:45:29 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > OK, so 'boot' is for the Linux /boot directory. I was just curious > > since I had never used one. When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcp error. No network. Address family not supported.

2024-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote: > Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you can just tell your firewall not to allow any IPv6 packets in or out at all. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:30:54 BST Wol wrote: > On 19/04/2024 17:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Just reporting back. > > > > I built a new system - using NetworkManager (after all I've said about > > it!) - now that it's so much quicker using binpkgs. >

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:23:31 BST I wrote: > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not > available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working, > but I've had no success so far. The wiki pages are many, confusing and > contradictory, so I'd like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:29:09 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: [Big snip] Never mind. I've solved the problem by removing sci-misc/boinc and its 40-odd dependencies. The machine was only barely capable of running it anyway. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
(Rearranged in chronological order...) On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:08:33 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 15:43 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, [Big snip] I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that they're generated using the default USE flags in the profile version (whence the need to specify it in gentoobinhost.conf). So why is portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 13:24:59 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > I'd like to understand your confusion. Where did you get 27 from? >From ref 1, viz: "The architecture and profile targets within the sync-uri value do matter and should align to the respective computer architecture (amd64 in this

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've decided to follow the instructions in [1] on one of my machines, which > runs too hot for my comfort on long emerges, but I need some advice, please: > where the wiki gives this [2], I'm

[gentoo-user] Using the new binpkgs

2024-04-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've decided to follow the instructions in [1] on one of my machines, which runs too hot for my comfort on long emerges, but I need some advice, please: where the wiki gives this [2], I'm setting 'amd64' as the and '27' as the . Then, when I try to emerge a package, I get this: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:39:12 BST Michael wrote: > On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:05:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > > > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and user > > > preferenc

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote: > For clarity: > > The iwlwifi is a kernel driver for Intel wireless chips. > > The net-wireless/iw software can be used to manage the wireless association > with an AP if the latter has been configured to offer connections with the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:56:28 BST Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote: > On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:23:31 +0100 > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not > > available, nor like to become

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:18:51 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:15:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:08:35 BST Michael wrote: > > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > --->8 > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:56:28 BST Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote: > I have never managed to get WiFi working with iwlwifi, but iwd works > great for me. Give it a try! I will - thanks! -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:08:35 BST Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > I decided to establish a firm, clean system to fall back to after messing > > about with the various wifi packages, so I built a fresh system building

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:44:05 BST Paul Sopka wrote: > On 09.04.24 15:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not > > available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working,

[gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working, but I've had no success so far. The wiki pages are many, confusing and contradictory, so I'd like the panel's advice on the way to proceed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Successfully upgraded to new profile 23.0

2024-04-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 8 April 2024 22:14:30 BST Eli Schwartz wrote: > If you're okay doing a fresh install from a stage3 tar, which is faster > at least to install the base system because it is all precompiled and > you are not building the packages yourself, then I would assume you're > also okay doing the

Re: [gentoo-user] Program shutting down - where is its status held?

2024-04-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 5 April 2024 16:21:15 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > But barring that, you could add pre- and post-stop hooks that will let you > know that the daemon is stopping. > > For example, in /etc/conf.d/boinc, you could put > > stop_pre(){ > touch /run/stopping-boinc > } >

Re: [gentoo-user] Program shutting down - where is its status held?

2024-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 5 April 2024 16:21:15 BST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Personally, I would try to figure out why boinc doesn't want to stop > when you tell it to stop. Actually, it does; all its daughter process do stop straight away. It's just that it doesn't report completion when it should. > But

Re: [gentoo-user] Program shutting down - where is its status held?

2024-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 10:12:23 BST I wrote: > Some of my machines run BOINC, which I want to stop while doing my sync & > update. For some reason, '/etc/init.d/boinc stop' often takes exactly 60s to > complete instead of its normal 6-10s. > > I'd like my update script to detect this

[gentoo-user] Program shutting down - where is its status held?

2024-04-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Some of my machines run BOINC, which I want to stop while doing my sync & update. For some reason, '/etc/init.d/boinc stop' often takes exactly 60s to complete instead of its normal 6-10s. I'd like my update script to detect this condition, but I can't see how. I've tried grepping

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:21:32 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm AMD64 stable OpenRC. I got tired of dicking around resizing > partitions years ago, so I have all data and binaries in one honking > big partition. Also separate partitions for UEFI and swap. I assume > my system is already

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage-3 and profile 23.x

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 25 March 2024 23:14:50 GMT Michael wrote: > On Monday, 25 March 2024 21:48:24 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote: > > > The default OpenRC installation now assumes a merged-usr fs structure - > > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Stage-3 and profile 23.x

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote: > The default OpenRC installation now assumes a merged-usr fs structure - > therefore make sure you select the appropriate profile in a new installation. I was wondering about that. Now that we have 23.0 in place, are we meant to change to

[gentoo-user] Stage-3 and profile 23.x

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, It would be good if a stage-3 tarball were available with profile 23.x built in. Sooner or later someone will want to build a new system with such a profile. Is this in the offing? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 25 March 2024 07:04:57 GMT Dale wrote: > Overall, the devs did a really good job with the instructions. Just > have to update first as it says. It works better. ;-) I just wonder > who went through the torture of figuring out what went in what order. O_O Indeed, they've done a

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:45:03 GMT Dale wrote: --->8 > I saw where Peter mentioned in another thread gcc failing with no error > message for him. This could be related. Nope. I was all fingers and thumbs at the time, now all straightened out. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 17:42:29 GMT Michael wrote: > I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard work and read the > instructions they have provided instead of winging it: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions Of course I was doing that,

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:08:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it > > just now on a small rescue system

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it > just now on a small rescue system and it failed on installing the first > binary package, complaining that my disk layou

[gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it just now on a small rescue system and it failed on installing the first binary package, complaining that my disk layout was split-usr. My /var is on a separate partition, for easy of file recovery, but /usr is

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.6 [was 6.3] onwards.

2024-03-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 12:20:29 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:00:37 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [ ] > > Please note the corrected subject line. This version of the soft > scrolling patch is for kernel 6.6.13, or thereabouts. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:17:27 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and > *MUST* be built with USE="-clang". Ah. I'll change my USE flag straight away. Thanks Walter. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphr > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries, are you > building that requires clang? Firefox. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

2024-03-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:49:33 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I have "-clang" in USE in make.conf and no problems resulting from it. > clang seems to be another "solution in search of a problem" along the > lines of rust and cups and systemd and hatbuzz, etc, which keep trying > to worm their way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set up drive with many Linux distros?

2024-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:12:07 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: > I have no experience beyond three operating systems on a single machine > but if you grabbed just 2 or 3 USB flash drives then I would think you > could test it pretty easily. I believe the UEFI boot procedures are > storing a unique

Re: [gentoo-user] gui-libs/egl-wayland and x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers dependency conflict.

2024-02-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 17 February 2024 17:03:09 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I posted about this once before but also included pipewire and others. > We addressed the other problems but this wasn't really fixed it would > seem. I found the old thread. This is what I get today. > > > WARNING: One or

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

2024-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 16 February 2024 12:30:48 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, February 16, 2024 6:19:25 AM CET Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:35:18 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I've been using postfix for longer than I can remember. > > > The co

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

2024-02-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:35:18 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > I've been using postfix for longer than I can remember. > The config entries I changed from default are: > > --- main.cf --- > myhostname = > mydomain = > myorigin = > mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24> That's helpful - thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

2024-02-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 13 February 2024 17:20:40 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote: > I'm not sure I quite understood where you're having problems, but I > have a machine that accepts mail from the LAN through postfix, so I'll > show some of my setup. Replace any <> with your hostnames. > On the LAN machine I don't

[gentoo-user] Help with local mail, please

2024-02-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, For years, I've been using postfix to accept mail from LAN hosts, and from the Internet via my ISP. This has never worked as I want it - it's just so complex to set up and understand. Well, it is for a bear of little brain like me. Can someone tell me how to make postfix accept all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 9 February 2024 15:48:45 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > ... And I'm not worried about a double failure - yes it could happen, > but ... > > Given that my brother's ex-employer was quite happily running a raid-6 > with maybe petabytes of data, over a double disk failure (until an > employee

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode error?

2024-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:39:56 GMT Michael wrote: > I'm not sure a microcode update has been released yet by AMD as a blob, > outside what they make available to MoBo OEMs within 'BIOS firmware' > updates. To find what's in the box use: > > dmesg | grep -i 'family:' > > Then check what CPU

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode error?

2024-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 28 January 2024 16:39:56 GMT I wrote: > Hits on the web suggest downgrading linux-firmware, which I've now done and > will await results. The latest upgrade was to version 20240115-r1, four days > ago. s/Hits/Hints/ -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] AMD microcode error?

2024-01-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, For the first time ever, I received an mce error today: [11473.528812] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 1: Machine Check: 0 Bank 14: 9090909090909090 [11473.529657] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 [11473.530146] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:a20f10 TIME 1706457141 SOCKET 0 APIC 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-kernel 6.6 -- how to install?

2024-01-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 27 January 2024 16:10:40 GMT Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Since now kernel 6.6 is stable, installation procedure seems to have > changed. > > I used to install it by > > emerge --config gentoo-kernel I don't know what that does. I run make oldconfig; make; make modules-install;

Re: [gentoo-user] Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM handling - version of the patch for kernel 6.3 onwards.

2024-01-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 10:00:37 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've adapted this patch for kernel 6.6.13. All of the parent post still > applies, with the exception of the version numbers. > > The main patch for the new kernel is 6.6.13-GPM.20240123.diff. > > Additionally I've attached a

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