Re: [gentoo-user] SNAFU

2021-09-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
sys-libs/glibc-2.33-r7:2.2::gentoo >  *  /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 >  * >  * Package 'sys-libs/libxcrypt-4.4.25' NOT merged due to file > collisions. >  * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of > the >  * above message. > > > Obviously, an

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
/efi is the ESP and all boot-related files are on the same filesystem. Like you, I have only used this with btrfs (and ext4 on LVM). I do use ZFS but that system is not EFI. -- Neil Bothwick Theory is when you know everything, but nothing works. Reality is when everything works, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
nd / (and everything else) on btrfs. I've also used the same setup with ZFS. -- Neil Bothwick If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? pgpcYZfW2Hspk.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
it. >> >> Looking at https://www.system-rescue.org/Modules/ it looks like you just >> install them after booting the live USB then run cowpacman2srm to put >> everything you installed onto a file that you add to the USB stick. See >> the section titled "Creating SRM

Re: [gentoo-user] Vanishing tab bar in Firefox

2021-08-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
od > > > behaviour, against the current dir, with the dodgy behaviour, and > > > see what's changed. That may lead to an indication of what's being > > > naughty. > > > Good idea. Thanks Andrew. > > Just a small matter of 308 files to check. :) diff -r old

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
t;Creating SRM modules out of pacman packages". -- Neil Bothwick Assassins do it from behind. pgpVlaD_Jfz5M.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
arget" to the kernel options. -- Neil Bothwick You are a completely unique individual, just like everybody else. pgpQSykKGlLIi.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
st people doing ZFS nowadays > do an EFISTUB setup with no GRUB, exactly to avoid these issues. What about those for whom EFI is not an option? -- Neil Bothwick "Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for o

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
on't actually say anything. All I could find was this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tree/grub-core/fs/zfs/zfs.c#n276 For a program with so much documentation, GRUB seems sorely lacking in this respect. It makes me glad I decided to keep /boot off my zpools. -- Neil Bothwick Is that &

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
compatible with GRUB it should still be. At least that's how I read the einfo messages zfs spits out. -- Neil Bothwick Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. pgppb6_Ps0u7T.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware updates

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
icrocode. Note that I don't compile the microcode into the kernel, I let emerge create an initramfs for it, so I don't need to recompile my kernel when there's an update, I suspect you do. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01F: Reserved for future mistakes of our developers. pgpZk_wyZRQtq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

2021-08-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
n case I get into trouble. It doesn't answer your question, other have done that, but FWIW I went from ZFS 0.8.4 to 2.0 a year ago and it went without a hitch. Just emerge the later ZFS packages first, check everything works then update your kernel. -- Neil Bothwick I have seen things you lusers would

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 without udev/eudev

2021-08-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
ss from the git history and put it in your overlay. Be prepared to repeat this process with other files. -- Neil Bothwick "I laugh in the face of danger, then I hide until it goes away" pgpCJYQwKqzj9.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emergency manual install of libffi-compat.

2021-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
t into the live USB, if it has libffi-compat installed, you can quickpkg it. Then you can untar the package into / before emerging it properly. In future, you should add buildpkg to FEATURES so that you always have binary packages of software so you can roll back with tar in an emergency. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Compile large packages as last package

2021-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
ption for emerge. Maybe a script that runs emerge @world with --exclude then again without? While I haven't tried it with a script, I do use --exclude when chromium is in the list because my laptop only has 8GB RAM, which means chromium takes ages. -- Neil Bothwick Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
-ca | tee >depclean.txt Then if the list is short you can read it in the console and just hit y or n. Otherwise, hit n and read the file. It will save calculating dependencies twice, and we all know how slow that can be. -- Neil Bothwick A pessimist is an optimist who's given it some thought. pgpYFGrG7aQwg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
running sync on a shell. It seems you only see this when running sync interactively. -- Neil Bothwick Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life pgpPOwYwOElxt.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
ys run emerge inside of a tmux and use tmux's scroll to view all > the output before making a decision, so you could also use tmux or > screen. Or you could use a different pager, most does not exhibit this behaviour. There is probably a less setting to change this too. -- Neil Bothwick Linux like wigwam. No windows, no gates, Apache inside. pgp2qrKTLH_yQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
w version of portage was available and to run emerge -1au portage before updating anything else. -- Neil Bothwick If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes. -- Murphy's Computer Laws n\xB06 pgp4EwhT3b5tL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
er, even compared with using rsync with a local mirror. And I don't have to worry abut syncing too often and upsetting infra as I'm syncing from github. -- Neil Bothwick Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. pgpeCI718v3Nf.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync keeps failing

2021-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
ually fixes it. Have you tried a different rsync mirror? > You can use 'mirrorselect -i -r' for this task. I used to see this from time to time, but then I switched to using git instead of rsync and haven't seen it again. There's the added bonus that syncing is MUCH faster too. -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
situation, portage needs a hint as to your intentions, and @world is the correct place for that. -- Neil Bothwick New sig wanted good price paid. pgp803CAvuFEl.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
hen needs to let portage know that this is not the init system he wants to use, by adding openrc to @world. In a normal situation, with only one init system installed, there is no need to do anything, because the virtual takes care of making sure it is not deleted. This is not a normal situation. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
uggested first by Rich. Add a system-init flag to daemontools, defaulting to off, and have the virtual depend on daemontools[system-init] and the problem goes away with the only cost being the unnecessary requirement to rebuild daemontools. -- Neil Bothwick The word 'Windows' is a word out of an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
incorrect information. You shouldn't give computers conflicting instructions, looked what happened when they did that with the HAL 9000 :-/ -- Neil Bothwick "I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry." pgpJJPsxBKGry.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
nably permanent solution that doesn't involve putting openrc in @world, copy the virtual to your local overlay and remove the daemontools dependency. -- Neil Bothwick Bus: (n.) a connector you plug money into, something like a slot machine. pgpy9NDOL6Ami.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
way for depclean to deal with it when you have daemontools in @world. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 41: Good grief pgp0ucdbJwt78.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
a case of Gentoo being a system for those that > > understand what they are doing with the system - with great power > > comes great responsibility and all that. > > That feels needlessly patronising, Neil. I fear the Gentoo maintainers > will take the same attitude. Not only

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
stem for those that understand what they are doing with the system - with great power comes great responsibility and all that. -- Neil Bothwick Caution, an incorrigible punster - don't incorrige. pgpjz1KCrrge_.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
t in your @world set with `emerge --select --noreplace > sys-apps/openrc`. That should prevent accidental removals. It would, but it doesn't address the issue of why portage wants to remove it. -- Neil Bothwick mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
ly for those packages where you need the extra documentation. % grep \^doc /var/portage/profiles/use.desc doc - Add extra documentation (API, Javadoc, etc). It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally -- Neil Bothwick If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. pgpfZoqeMcQAt.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] world update gone astray portage will not let me continue

2021-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
the first package in > the list and > * any other packages that may be masked or have missing > dependencies. Did you try using --skipfirst as suggested? -- Neil Bothwick Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN! pgp2hZxgcp7ky.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pango, freetype, and harfbuzz: circular dependencies?

2021-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
equery u freetype" tells me for > "harfbuzz": "WARNING: may trigger circular dependencies!" The operative word here is "may". Try setting it, you may well find that the emerge proceeds with no problems, it did on the three systems I had to do it on. No poi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

2021-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
able's contents are replaced rather than appended to, so I'd suggest a bug report against the make.conf man page. -- Neil Bothwick "Everything takes longer than expected, even when you take into account Hoffstead's Law." - Hoffstead's Law pgp41lk0MqIhP.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

2021-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
." > I am quite sure the modules were not uninstalled in my old system. It > could be that I had to set some option somewhere, but I don't remember > :-/ I've just tried letting it re-emerge virtualbox-modules here and the old modules are still there. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 678:

Re: [gentoo-user] Since when does module-rebuild delete modules for previous kernel version?

2021-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
odules got deleted from > /lib/modules/5.10.47-gentoo. > > This is bad. When did this change? How can I prevent this from > happening? Hasn't this always been the case. emerging a package removes files installed by the previous merge. I think adding /lib/modules to CONFIG_PROTECT will p

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
let the makefile copy all the other files, you may as well let it handle the final two :) -- Neil Bothwick By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends. pgpvs_sHb1ci2.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

2021-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
e make install step of kernel installation that takes care of copying the files to /boot with the correct version numbers. ISTR Dale prefers to copy the kernel files manually, which is why his System.map is not versioned. -- Neil Bothwick Suborbital Ballistic-Propulsion Engineer Not Exactly A Rocket Scientist pgpQ5dtdU3GZs.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
> to my question above, because it is easy to achieve and costs no €€€. 5) (or 3a) Add an eSATA card and expand the RAID with external drives. That way you can stick with 6TB drives. -- Neil Bothwick Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail. pgptOWsd60WUL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Python-3.9 and emerge problems

2021-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
files = /usr/src exclude-files = '' Adding that last line stopped the breakage. This sort of change should have been accompanied by an einfo message at the very least, preferable a news item. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 43: Genuine imitation pgpiq1yd0KKBM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Python-3.9 and emerge problems

2021-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:07:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I had the same a couple of days ago and had to downgrade portage from > 3.0.20 to 3.0.18, by untarring the binary package to /. However, that > needed python 3.8, so I also had to untar the binary package for that. > Then

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

2021-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
> > Do I need to do anything special with the initrd? Manually remounting > fixes it fine as far as I can tell. What are you using to build the initrd? What is in fstab? What kernel options are you using, /proc/cmdline? -- Neil Bothwick Employ teenagers - while they know everyth

Re: [gentoo-user] Python-3.9 and emerge problems

2021-06-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
8 has gone away > # eselect python list > Available Python interpreters, in order of preference: > [1] python3.9 I has the same a couple of days ago and had to downgrade portage from 3.0.20 to 3.0.18, by untarring the binary package to /. However, that needed python 3.8, so I also had to untar th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
supplied examples as a base, with a larger font. https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Fonts -- Neil Bothwick Bus: (n.) a connector you plug money into, something like a slot machine. pgpHR3bY8nLLj.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
ed the ext3 module. I suspect part of the auto-configuration setup is "load everything we might need". It's not really an issue since the memory used by the modules should be freed when GRUB exits. The bloatedness is a combination of the must run everywhere defaults and using a full bootlo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
hat 640x480 is supported on just about every monitor > out there. I want as large text as possible. My eyes are getting > old... just like me. My eyes are better than they were 40 years ago but don't ask about my hearing, or if you must, do it loudly... -- Neil Bothwick Documentation: (n.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
is that you are completely familiar with it and don't want to learn something else. But if you have to learn something, you may as well learn the 2/3 line configs of systemd-boot. Note that systemd-boot doesn't require systemd, it's just the gummiboot boot manager that was merged into systemd taken

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 09:21:36 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The default setting takes either the number of title of a kernel, so > default="experimental kernel" should do it. Forgot the obligatory RTFM reference :) https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#de

Re: [gentoo-user] Exact setting in grub to default to a kernel by name?

2021-06-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
> > This works for now. But what happens if/when I add more kernels for > whatever reason? Let me rephrase the question more generally... given a > kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-fubar" how and where do I specify it by name as > the default boot kernel? > The defaul

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminal over ssh badly scrambled

2021-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
t kernel set 1" > instead. Do you have the symlink USE flag set for gentoo-sources? -- Neil Bothwick Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons. pgp4pSBFBbge3.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
IR to a shared directory, you could use the same binaries on other systems, provided they are set up the same. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? pgpSCLfuB7iMd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

2021-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
I have Chromium set to use stable to avoid the situation of a rebuild completing just in time to start the next one :( You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine to spread the load. -- Neil Bothwick There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binar

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
all that time. That would be difficult but no evidence of any evil doing, such as installing Linux. However, I'm more concerned about an earlier failure, if it lasts six months it should last six years. -- Neil Bothwick Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. pgpZoNR

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive AHCI versus RAID setting in BIOS?

2021-06-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
somewhere safe. That way I restore the original setup in the case of a warranty claim - unless the failure is that bad that I can't boot or access the disk. -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #05: Nonexisent error. This cannot really be happening pgpCstGgendC1.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg nice-to-have

2021-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
as used. alias quickpkg='quickpkg --include-unmodified-config=y' ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. pgpI36vsnub8L.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
released that still does not have 3.9 > available, but you will automatically be rid of the 3.8 dependency on > that package whenever a version is released that can be upgraded to > 3.9. I'd also put them in a separate file in /etc/portage/package.use, that way you can

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

2021-06-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
covers this and explains how to delay the switch if you need to. -- Neil Bothwick Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery :) pgpCAxTMzsnbM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED?] Re: boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

2021-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
t already, and no one else has, post a request for it n b.g.o. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 39: Almost exactly pgpp74iZUebJM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
t.  I have found this: Try adding --tree to your options. -- Neil Bothwick Sometimes too much to drink is not enough. pgpqxRJvc3Wu2.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
I have introduced that into my build script.  But, if it's as you say, > the one is a subset of the other, it should have no effect on the > output, right? > --changed-use is a subset of --newuse. --changed-deps is separate. -- Neil Bothwick Runtime Error: Out of funny taglines! pgpvdcHgZRthR.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
of USE flags, which, of course, > has nothing to do with me, the user. As already stated, any USE flag changes would appear in the emerge output, this is most likely caused by --changed-deps. Try with --changed-use but without --changed-deps to see. -- Neil Bothwick Dance like no-one's watching.

Re: [gentoo-user] What does emerge status R mean?

2021-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
bly --changed-deps. The emerge man page explains just what the flag does. Incidentally, there is no point in using --newuse and --changed-use, the former is a superset of the latter. I'd use only --changed-use to avoid unnecessary rebuilds. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 004: Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong pgpEu6xss4nZD.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Approx monthly hard lockups

2021-05-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
d try mounting the filesystem containing /var with sync, which will at least avoid the disk writes being cached. It's possible that syslog-ng also caches write, in which case you'll also need to look for an option to prevent that. -- Neil Bothwick Math and alcohol don't mix. Don't drink and derive. p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

2021-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
sually space, to bring up the boot menu, depending on the ISO you are using. I'd be surprised to find that "Other OS" is a secure boot option, it sounds like the option to run without secure boot. -- Neil Bothwick I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! pgp7OqjJvG6WX.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

2021-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
well remove any quiet or splash options too, so you can better see what is going on. -- Neil Bothwick "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" pgpSCHojVYFpP.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling/loading problem

2021-05-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
portage Or just PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/lots/of/space" emerge -1a bigpackage -- Neil Bothwick Of course it's not your day, With 7 billion people on earth chances are slim it will ever be *your* day. pgpa5LwnndPpE.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] one machine out of many has nothing to update

2021-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
ed for metadata/Manifest.gz, but not for > a __size__ problem, but the check sums were dumped. > > Apparently, the update failed and I resynced, and the second time it > succeeded! Deleting the entire portage tree and syncing from scratch usually fixes these issues. -- Neil Bothwi

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrade to x2goserver-4.0.1.22

2021-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 5 May 2021 14:17:58 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > It seems to me entire directory content is missing after downgrade : > /usr/lib/x2go/ Run qlist x2goserver and you'll see it is now /usr/lib64/x2go. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce poun

Re: [gentoo-user] I've got a pod of dolphins after start-up

2021-05-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
;Startup and Shutdown->Desktop Session? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses pgp5ISttGdnHr.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
filled up. Not because gcc needs more than I had but because another emerge had failed and left a G or two in /tmp. You'll always have more disk space than RAM - embedded aside. -- Neil Bothwick Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons. pgpCEHAcvD2qg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
n't it? I > don't actually have a more powerful machine. ;-) A different machine, not necessarily more powerful. The point is that you are splitting the workload between the different computers. My desktop is currently emerging chromium, and is sending some of the work to my Myth

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
nv/distcc.conf FEATURES="distcc buildpkg distlocks" MAKEOPTS="-j36 -l4" CFLAGS="-march=broadwell -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" -- Neil Bothwick I'm firm. You're obstinate. He's a pigheaded fool. pgpdVd7xzgkT5.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium Catastrophy continues.

2021-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
to force-install Chromium 91, symptoms are the windows > open but all tabs are blank, no error messages anywhere, just a massive > FU Well, it is an unstable development version masked by Gentoo... Have you read what bgo has to say about chromium and glibc-2.33? -- Neil Bothwick Memory Map -

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: GIGAFOOBAR!!!

2021-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
or not. If not, then it sounds like using the ~arch version > of it is biting you in the backside. A cautionary tale about not using > the ~arch keyword for mission-critical packages unless the situation is > dire. The chromium-90.* ebuilds apply a patch to work with glibc-2.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: GIGAFOOBAR!!!

2021-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
mium-91 It seems you are unwilling to accept a more unstable (aka occasionally broken) release, so you should be using version 90. -- Neil Bothwick Why is the word abbreviation so long? pgpGVf59PrhaG.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] supreme annoyances:

2021-04-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
g as 5.11.15 works for you and has no security issues, it's presence or otherwise on the tree has no bearing on using it. -- Neil Bothwick I've got a mind like a... a... what's that thing called? pgp8HL9sseWCO.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

2021-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
as far as Dovecot is concerned. There are a few webmail clients available, I use Roundcube. -- Neil Bothwick I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you may not get it. pgpoAn8yhJRVq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
g -D and -N to reduce the number of packages being rebuilt. If that doesn't help, post the output here. -- Neil Bothwick "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." (Albert Einstein) pgpDcclDTmf95.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

2021-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
s it for me so I don't forget.  Not really. ">/dev/null" redirects stdout to null. You added 2>&1, which redirects stderr to stdout, effectively throwing away any error messages. Post your backup script and we'll be able to help more. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 815: In

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

2021-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
> filter ssh_messages { facility("AUTH") and level("INFO"); }; > filter syslog { not filter("ssh_messages") and not filter("samba"); }; Shouldn't this be an or? You are filtering out anything that is in both groups, which will be a very small set of messages

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

2021-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
te loss through file damage. There is a script to convert an mbox file to maildir, but you should also be able to just set up a new account in Seamonkey using the local server and copy all your mails across. The server will then take care of everything. -- Neil Bothwick If bankers can count, how come they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

2021-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
rrors. But a better option would be to have your script only send output when something goes wrong. -- Neil Bothwick Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN! pgpFpYIKzocva.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

2021-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
ption that means it only outputs error messages, are you using this? As John said, your cron script only calls the backup script, so you may as well put that in cron.hourly. -- Neil Bothwick ...Advert for restaurant: "Exotic foods for all occasions. Police balls a speciality." pgp3YI58o6QnE.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

2021-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
cmail. Then you mails will be sorted regardless of the client you use. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 012: Window closed - Do not look inside pgpo6L8LiJMG2.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cron and disabling emails for one script only

2021-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
out seeing your mail-backup script, it is hard to say what needs to change. The "|| true " part means this cron task will always return success, even if the script fails, which possibly is not what you want. -- Neil Bothwick The gene pool could use a little chlorine. pgpvuULBJcKJG

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
't, it prompts for every change, with the default > > preselected. > > Eh? Did you read 'oldconfig' where 'menuconfig' was written? Doh! -- Neil Bothwick IBM: I Blame Microsoft pgpNxitY2J1eL.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
gt; new. It doesn't, it prompts for every change, with the default preselected. It's more time consuming than running make olddefconfig but it does give you the chance to see what the new options are, and read the help if you need more. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 19: Passive aggression pgpG9aeUbjI7l.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
and defaults to off. > I don't follow the "0 KiB" It's the size of the files portage needs to download to install this. As you have already installed it, the source files are in your $DISTDIR so there's nothing to download. -- Neil Bothwick Feminism: the radical notion that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has 0 debugging support for binary emerges

2021-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
).  On a guess, I > touched all the files in binpkgs an hour into the future, but that > didn't help. Have you tried "emaint --check binhost" followed by "emaint --fix binhost"? -- Neil Bothwick An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
ium so typing "man dd" opens the page in mankier.com. -- Neil Bothwick Life's a cache, and then you flush... pgpXpSNRLU1Pd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-03-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
my man > page uses something different.  It's a feature of whichever pager you use, rather than man itself. Less does it, as does most, but others may differ. -- Neil Bothwick Having children will turn you into your parents. pgpBmNLFYGPYU.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
it can be mind mangling, but in the end it leds those > apps to run smoothly. I haven't tried Magisk but I did try other systemless rooting methods that were still detected by banking apps or Google Pay. -- Neil Bothwick Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot. pgp6IHzWJ7j

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
tely, my credit union app is not affected in this way. That's what I said about my bank, until an update to their app refused to run. Once rooted, it was impossible to completely unroot the phone, even with a factory reset :( -- Neil Bothwick Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transit

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
ling Lineage might void > your warranty. If going that route, then a used, warranty-less phone > from FleaBay might be a good option. Also, rooting a phone to install a different OS version can stop some apps from working, particularly any financial ones. -- Neil Bothwick "Of course, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
oid experience. > Others add all manner of bloat - stuff you'll never use but can't > remove. Oneplus phones are also close to vanilla Android, and without the Pixel price tag. -- Neil Bothwick I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o pgpRnG1I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + wifi

2021-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
lug in the authentication details at the new location and all should be well. -- Neil Bothwick Don't judge a book by its movie. pgpXdJQx89enQ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
(user > space) with in-kernel exFAT (kernel space)? I'm not saying there is a direct relationship, but the exfat-progs readme states it is for use with the new in-kernel fs while exfat-utils is from the same devs as the FUSE module. -- Neil Bothwick Processor: (n.) a device for co

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

2021-03-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
most probably due to some recommendation in the Gentoo Handbook. Can > anybody comment on the pros and cons of either package? Looking at the github readme, it wold appear that exfat-progs is for use with the new in-kernel exfat fs, while exfat-utils is a companion to the older FUSE implement

Re: [gentoo-user] root on nfs and multiple ip addresses

2021-03-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
tial boot? That would explain both the issue of two addresses and the consistency of them. -- Neil Bothwick At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last. pgpLoopnbzFIP.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Odd Chrome behavior when dragging tab to create new window

2021-03-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
er, this only seems to be happening when using the "System > titlebar and borders". If you right click on the tab area (not on the > tab itself) and untick said option the issue will disappear. At least > it does on my machine and I can move tabs about as normal. I have that option set.

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