nit
files with no issues.
Yes, I have done a daemon-reload, and even rebooted, but systemd refuses
to acknowledge the existence of the unit file. Google and bgo have so far
failed me.
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Bookmark - A means of returning to where you got lost last time.
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Descript
The following packages take what seems like F O R E V E R to emerge:
> >
> > - gcc
> > - rust
> > - Firefox
> > - Thunderbird
> >
> > Link - xkcd - Wisdom of the Ancients (a.k.a. DenverCoder9)
> > - https://xkcd.com/979/
> >
> > *Summary*
> >
> > Yes, there are probably faster and / or more efficient processes to
> > get a Gentoo system that's ~1 year behind caught up to current. But
> > I did learn some things along the way. -- I tried to outline the
> > toe stubbers so others can avoid them.
> >
> > Ultimately, I believe I have done in the last 11 days what would have
> > been done over the course of the last ~year. Even 11 days is longer
> > than necessary as I started with the while loop after getting to
> > January of this year. In hindsight, I believe I could have used the
> > while loop all along.
> >
> > I hope that I have included enough details for others to be able to
> > reproduce this process if they need to.
> >
> > Now it's time to repeat this process to bring the two companion
> > systems up to date.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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you over when
> python/kernel/gcc etc upgrade and a depclean deletes your original
> default version? Or is that now fixed so you can't mess things up that
> way?
You can't because eselect always shows a fallback option, which will be
used should you unmerge the selected version.
-
be used until you ran gcc-config. However, if you were depcleaning at each
step, that would remove the previous slot and you would stay current.
I tend to keep old copies of gcc around until I'm sure things play nicely
with the new version:
% gcc-config -l
[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-9.3.0
[2] x86
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:44:38 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 3/8/21 3:29 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > With hindsight, removing firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice and
> > replacing them with their -bin counterparts at the start of the
> > process would have saved much t
ery day of the git
history? Would a larger increment have saved time, or did you think
minimising the number of issues to deal with after each emerge was more
important?
Anyway, glad it worked for you - it's more or less how I would have
approached it but never had to, so thanks for doing th
rsion were selected.
That does seem odd, were any dependent modules also installed for 3.8.
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Documentation: (n.) a novel sold with software, designed to entertain the
operator during episodes of bugs or glitches.
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On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 23:47:26 +, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > So, I go back and eselect 3.8.
> > I then try to perform some basic maintainence which fails for
> > lack of a python module I think is installed for python 3.8.
>
> If your system has been built enti
consistent version of Python on
>the system?
Yes, make sure PYTHON_TARGETS and your chosen version of python match.
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gt; [5] python2.7 (fallback)
>
> $ python3 --version;
> Python 3.9.1
But you have chosen a different default version of Python. That leaves
you two choices:
1) use eselect to set your default python to 3.8
2) Add python_39 to PYTHON_TARGETS
3) Explicitly call python38 in th
the next day,
something is wrong with the mirror you are using.
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Top Oxymorons Number 11: Terribly pleased
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it, you may need to play with the threshold setting. The file
command reports the output file as being "1-bit grayscale".
You can also use -monochrome but that will produce a dithered image,
that's probably not what you want judging by your description.
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If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
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ster.
% cat /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf
[DEFAULT]
main-repo = gentoo
[gentoo]
priority = 20
location = /var/portage
sync-type = git
sync-uri = https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
auto-sync = yes
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Windows Error #09: Game Over. Exiting Windows.
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how
> anything depending on 2.7. I have no python targets specified in
> make.conf nor in any package use flag settings.
emerge -cpv python:2.7
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I have seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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> will show if the source files directory is in the old
> /usr/portage/distfiles, or the new default of /var/cache/distfiles, or
> some custom location the user has specified in /etc/portage/make.conf.
Or the somewhat faster
$ portageq distdir :)
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Nixon's Pr
source files are in $DISTDIR, unless you have cleaned
it. /var/db/pkg contains all the information portage needs about the
installed software.
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Where do forest rangers go to "get away from it all?"
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ect you to be able to jump straight to
the current version, although you may prefer to recompile it once you are
fully up to date on the toolchain.
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Crash: (v.) to terminate a program in the usual fashion, i.e. by locking
up the computer or setting fire to the printer
xed a few hours
later. The main issue I had with the python 3.7 switch could have been
dealt with by waiting until the next day. This is less of an issue with a
purely stable system but it can still happen.
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"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
depend
on has an ABI update. I'd try to keep anything depending on boost or icu
out of the update process.
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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rom a month to a week
after the last update, update the system, rinse and repeat.
Another benefit is that it can be a good way of heating the house at this
time of year ;-)
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PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
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files are encrypted e2e or not when using
> this.
According to Syncthing's own FAQ "Data that is sent over the network is
compressed (optionally) and encrypted (always). "
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Bagpipe for free: Stuff cat under arm. Pull legs, chew tail.
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lightweigth use. I use the image from https://hub.docker.com/u/bitwardenrs
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I am sitting on the toilet with your article before me. Soon it will be
behind me.
's what I was using, but I now run my own BitWarden server, so I get
the convenience and the security.
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If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from
folks who didn't succeed either.
Maybe, but many people haven't heard of Bitwarden and will think they
have no option but to pay.
I was never keen on the idea of giving all my passwords to someoelse,
even if they say they can't access them. I've been using Bitwarden for
about a year, I used KeePassX before then an
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:12:11 -0500, Jack wrote:
> Totally OT - if there is an arch-agnostic, is there an arch-atheistic?
> Or would that be an abacus or paper and pencil?
Or someone who only has rectangular doorways ;-)
SCNR
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"Two things are infinite: the univers
t; PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8 -pypy3 -python3_7 -python3_9"
I have vague recollections of both idna and requests causing problems
for me when 2.7 was removed, I had to re-emerge both of those, and one or
two others, in order to clean things up.
Look for anything that is currently inst
too" [installed]) (dependency
> required by "sys-devel/autoconf-2.69-r5::gentoo" [installed]) For more
> information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
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OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
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nally,
>
> What is 'it'?
>
> What was the error message?
You'd know if you had seen it. Chromium displays "Aw, snap!" in the
browser window when it barfs on a page.
The full message is the ever so helpful "Aw snap!. something went wrong
when displaying
t occasionally, usually after upgrading but not restarting
chromium. killall chrome and then restarting chromium clears it up.
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/ For security reasons, all text in this mail
is double-rot13 encrypted. /
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ets_ruby27 crud that's already there.
Same here. When this happens, I delete /etc/portage/package.use/ruby and
let portage create a fresh one.
It's still a mess, just a slightly cleaner and up to date mess.
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"Everything takes longer than expected, even when you t
l know because you'll see it in the list of packages to install when
upgrading. Additionally, there is an elog message when a new set of
kernel sources is installed, If you have
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail"
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="you@..."
in make.conf, you will be email
You
may have three sets of sources installed, but only one kernel.
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We all know what comes after 'X', said Tom, wisely.
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gt;
> >> Maybe I wasn't clear. No, I don't start any X over ssh.
> >
> > But you do, because you run it from .bash_profile whenever you login.
> > That's why I suggested an alternative command that wouldn't do that.
>
> OK, according to Gent
ing more
> >> unstable; I just need a simple system to start X, log-in over ssh and
> >> use x2go session.
> >
> > Why do you need to start X, doesn't x2go run its own X session? You
> > are trying to start X in an SSH session, which is what gives your
>
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:10:50 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 2/7/21 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 01:28:39 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >
> >> I disable "slim" login manager and try not to use any display manger
>
ofile, you need something like
[ -z "$SSH_TTY" ] && startx ...
to only start it when not using SSH.
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Mac screen message: "Like, dude, something went wrong."
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ev/sda1
>
> Why it worked on one system but not on another?
Check the groups of the user on both systems. Automounters often require
the user to be a member of the plugdev group.
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There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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e, so "pstop slashdot" will
> stop the process...
>
> /home/waltdnes/pm/palemoon/palemoon -new-instance -p slasdot
>
> Does "killall" have that ability to stop a process based on any
> parameters in the command line?
No, but you could look at usin
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 15:04:14 -0300, Raphael MD wrote:
> Said that, what could be the effort to turn my Gentoo in a NAS service,
> setting up SAMBA, Plex, quotas and ZFS?
I see Plex as the main problem, as it is no longer in portage.
One way round that would be to run it under Docker.
--
t; for m in vbox{drv,netadp,netflt}; do modprobe $m; done
Did you do this?
Presence in your world file is not relevant and you are not changing
versions so -u won't pick them up.
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"Energize!" said Picard and the pink bunny appeared...
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file a bug on bgo, then it would be assigned to infra.
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Top Oxymorons Number 14: Temporary tax increase
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On Sun, 31 Jan 2021 14:12:44 -0500, Kusoneko wrote:
> Thanks Jacques, your solution worked perfectly.
>
> Thanks for attempting to help Neil, however
> I did mention that I wished to deal with it
> asap rather than postpone it by unreading
> the news as I'll inevitably en
y make.conf is starting to look
> like a litany of verbosity enables.
I take it the is the closest anyone can expect to an apology for the
torrent of abuse in your previous email?
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I believe the technical term is "Oops!"
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and hope you remember.
The worst that is likely to happen is you forget and boot to a console
one day, at which point you will almost certainly remember :)
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Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers
believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet."
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lazy:
$ pmount sdc1
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If the cops arrest a mime, do they tell her she has the right to remain
silent?
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;s been fine.
Same here. Most problems with portage are caused by people trying to fix
supposed problems with portage :(
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I'm moving to theory. Everything works there!
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On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:37:57 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
> I know you hate my scripts but they have a 15 year track record. =|
Yes they do.
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Znqr lbh ybbx!
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d try to "log-in" back.
>
> The only thing I can do is to ssh from another terminal and "reboot"
> the PC.
You could also examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log and ~/.xsession-errors.
I think you mentioned running XFCE, so you may also have
~/.xfce4-session.log
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order of preference:
[1] python3.8
[2] python2.7
[3] python3.9 (fallback)
> What are you
>using for PYTHON_TARGETS & PYTHON_TARGETS?
Portage defaults, nothing in /etc/portage
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_8"
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_8"
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en
> everything up the point: ... mounting misc binary format filesystem
> . [OK]
This sounds like kernel modesetting kicking in, you can turn this off in
your kernel options. I think it is nomodesetting, but that's from
unreliable memory so check the docs.
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I have
tualbox-modules. The vboxpci module you have was
installed with an older version of that package, possibly a year or so
ago.
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nstallation of
virtualbox-modules, that module is no longer installed
% qlist virtualbox-modules
/lib/modules/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxnetflt.ko
/lib/modules/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxnetadp.ko
/lib/modules/5.4.80-gentoo-r1/misc/vboxdrv.ko
/etc/modprobe.d/vboxdrv.conf
/usr/lib/modules-load.d/virtualbox.conf
And the virtualbox.conf file contains
vboxdrv
vboxnetflt
vboxnetadp
No mention of vboxpci.
Does VirtualBox work?
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How do I set my laser printer to stun?
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ng
> login as user "X" gets a black screen now.
Your user directory won't be created automatically when mounting.
/home/thelma has to exist and be owned by the correct user. Permission
errors could be caused by your recreating /home/thelma as root and not
changing ownersh
-backwards-one-character.
That's why it works for me, I never use Ctrl-B to move like that.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him
to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
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t of a line.
The decision to use Ctrl-A seems insane as it is such a well used key
combination. I used to change it to Ctrl-B, but now I use tmux, which
uses Ctrl-B by default.
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Nobody's perfect and since I'm nobody...!
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becomes unusable
> to me. I will NOT be bullied into using second rate alternatives like
> X-Windows terminals.
What about screen/tmux?
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d lose a lot of EXIF stuff in the process. I know that
> recompression reduces quality, that’s why I use a very high setting
> (98…100) for the intermediate file.
PNG supports EXIF tags, or you could use lossless JPEG.
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Top Oxymorons Number 39: Almost exactly
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partition, this way all data will be there.
Or you could simply delete everything but home from /, then install to
that partition. While it is nice to have /home on a separate filesystem,
and it's generally how I do things on a desktop, moving it is a lot of
work just to reinstall.
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t shouldn't be needed.
However, it can come in handy if you have to abort a lengthy ebuild and
don't want to start over.
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rge does a lot more besides, and is a more low level command.
ebuild.sh is for use by portage, bit by users.
> Why the ebuild(1)(python script) command exists,
> is it for debugging ebuild scripts?
That is one of its main uses, it can also be used to hack the ebuild
process.
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R (I
use NFS for this). Then emerge with the --se-pkg option and if a suitable
package has already been build, it will be used, saving compiling again.
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If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
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s into
/opt. In that case, it doesn't matter how many times you reinstall it, it
will still be linked to the same library versions.
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"A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all."
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groupadd in
> /var/db/pkg/acct-group/lp-0. Where should I look?
As Jack said, it's in the eclass, $PORTDIR/eclass/acct-group.eclass
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Power corrupts - absolute power is even more fun.
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there to -1 will be harmless. In the case of CUPS, you
don't want it in world as it is a dependency of any program that wants to
be able to print.
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Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
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.7/site-packages vs.
/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages.
It is possible you have some old python_targets settings in package.use,
that's where I would check first.
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!!
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s and blank lines
WOW! I don't know how you lived with such bloat ;-)
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There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary
notation and those who don't.
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ssive, I
no longer use rEFInd, but it's config file is still in /boot and it is ONE
line per kernel!
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Frog philosophy: Time's fun when you're having flies.
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u picking the
boot manager that is hardest to configure, not to mention the most
bloated?
Referencing your sig, GRUB is the desktop environment of boot managers,
the boot loader equivalent of emacs :)
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On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 16:49:16 -0800, cal wrote:
> `parted` is only editing the partition table, not the filesystems
> applied to those partitions.
And remember the partition type should be set to EF00 in parted.
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t; still use gdisk, but as I say they now appear to be the same thing.
Indeed, GPT support has now been added to fdisk. So all versions of gdisk
handle GPT while recent versions of fdisk do it. That's why I recommend
gdisk, to be certain of using a version with GPT support.
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s simpler. It needs to be a FAT
filesystem on a partition of type EF00 to keep UEFI happy, but Linux
doesn't care but any of that as long as it's a readable filesystem.
Don't forget to build FAT filesystem support into your kernel.
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"Woody, I said TUCK the children in bed!" --Mia Farrow
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software is only used to tell it what to do, not control
the boot process itself.
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She's fine, upstanding, and wonderful laying down.
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I and you can select your kernel from the firmware's boot menu,
but that loses you the ability to edit options on the fly.
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"Press Return to Continue" - known as "The Mail Menupause".
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gt; tomorrow once I have my config files copied off. Then I'll install UEFI
> mode properly.
UEFI is dead simple, and you can use gdisk, which is the GPT variant of
fdisk. So that only leave the boot manager to learn, and if you don't
already know GRUB, I'd say start with something
n't underestimate the therapeutic value of doing nothing with the people
that are important to you.
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit
the target.
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m (EF00)? This Dell XPS
laptop boots perfectly from a UEFI system partition with no need for GRUB.
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Bumper Sticker: If you can read this, you are in phaser range.
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mptytree which is almost certainly not what you wanted to do here.
> >
> > Try --deep instead.
>
> Thank you very much, that was it. I feel stupid.
Don't, I'm sure we've all done it, I know I have. That, and laziness, is
the reason I now use only short opti
dead with the author recommending
NetworkManager, hardly ideal for old hardware. I'd probably stick with
using wpa_supplicant directly, but you could try connman.
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Oxymoron: Clearly Misunderstood.
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e since I needed to do it, but if you are
mounting by LABEL in fstab, it's just a matter of running vgrename to
give it a new name. If you are mounting by /dev/mapper nodes, you'll need
to edit fstab too.
You'll also need to change your kernel options if root is on the VG you
rename
the system has
died can be less so.
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"There are no stupid questions, just too many inquisitive idiots."
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I have to do that manually on the new system?
It should just work if you move all the PVs in the volume group. One
thing to watch out for is if the destination system is already using LVM,
the volume groups must be named differently. That's why I always use
unique VG names based on the hostnam
other, and programmers rely on those differences? Or, is this
> >> somebody's orderliness tic?/
It's also about where python modules are installed, but the main problem
here appears to be that you are depending on obsolete and deprecated
versions of python.
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What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered
plant?
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 15:19:22 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> On 12/19/20 12:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:12:21 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> >
> >>> Your output gives away that you STILL have not run depclean, so you
> >>> STILL have dev-pyt
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 12:33:10 +0100, n952162 wrote:
> I do an emerge @world, it tells me I have slot collisions and stops.
> Following Neil B.'s advice, I try to go through the collisions and see
> what the differences are. jinja was a nice example, because there was a
> coll
mber removed: 0
Which means the package is in @world, so just remove it with "emerge -cav
ipaddress".
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You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
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> Do I unmerge the official one and keep the one in local/portage?
Set the priority for your overlay to be higher than portage in
repos.conf, then just re-emerge the package.
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COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
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"tclConfig.sh"
> Should you add --with-tcl=/usr/lib64 to ./configure
> arguments?
Try EXTRA_ECONF="--with-tcl=/usr/lib64" emerge -1a ngspice
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Angular Momentum Makes The World Go 'Round
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emerge -1a portage python:2.7
Or simply
emerge -1ua @system
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put? That way I can buy
> an HDMI cable plus an adaptor, rather than a new monitor.
You can buy various adaptors from Amazon. I have one with
mini-displayport input and multiple outputs - VGS, DVI and HDMI.
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gt; Just sync'ed and on the mirror I used there is no 20201022-r2 version:
Exactly, but eix was saying there was, and no -r3, probably because you
hadn't run eix-update.
>
> $ eix linux-firmware
> [I] sys-kernel/linux-firmware
See, it's all fine now.
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each update. Although frequent updates may mean more work
overall, they break it into small chunks that are easy to manage, and can
also avoid the long lists of warning messages like you have been seeing.
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nknown-license} Installed versions: 20201022-r3^
> 20201022-r3^bst(05:30:05 PM 12/13/2020)(redistributable -initramfs
> -savedconfig -unknown-license)
This shows that you have 20201022-r3 installed but eix says the latest
available is 20201022-r2 so you have a version it thinks is not in the
t
can lead
to even more confusion.
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rough the issues and update your system, then
don't leave it so long next time.
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ave installed is no longer in the tree. You
should update to the latest.
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d
> never really thought much about it :)
You can use a minimal boot manager to be able to change kernel parameters
with UEFI.
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may need
support in the future :)
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o them. I suspected there was something in package.use, but we
need to know what. Those references should probably be removed but no one
can say for sure without seeing them.
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and I'm not sure about the the universe."
(Albert Einstein)
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file
> system.
Have you actually booted fully? This looks like the situation when
mounting root fails and the initramfs drops you to a console? Does mount
show that you partitions from fstab have mounted?
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Why is bra singular and pants plural?
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nstead of @world.
A quick glance at some of the output suggests that you still have
PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6" set somewhere. What do
grep -r python3_6 /etc/portage
emerge --info | grep -i python
tell you?
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