[gentoo-user] Gentoo presence at LinuxWorld this summer in San Francisco?

2006-05-24 Thread michael
Is there to be a Gentoo booth at LinuxWorld? I'd like to help. Whom do I contact? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
t +xv 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 0 kB How can I find out what is requiring x11-terms/xterm-207? Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
mal -mmx +nls -nocxx +opengl +pam -sdk -sse -static +truetype-fonts +type1-fonts (-uclibc) -xprint +xv 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-base/opengl-update-3.0.0 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-apps/ttmkfdir-3.0.9-r3 0 kB How can I find out what is requiring x11-terms/xterm-207? Thanks, Michae

Re: [gentoo-user] What is causing x11-terms/xterm to be dragged in?

2006-05-26 Thread michael
rbis X xml2 xmms xv" AHA! but the man page for emerge says not to edit /etc/make.profile/make.defaults. How do I get X out of there? If in fact that's the cause of my problem? Michael Everything you put in /etc/make.conf should be based on the make.defaults, or possible

[gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
not, perhaps it would be a fun project Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
) and I was blown away. It's a bit like wikiwikiweb, but it's on your local computer, not through a server/browser setup. Surely such a thing must exist for Linux, but I haven't found it yet. Anyone here know? If not, perhaps it would be a fun project Thanks, Michael -- gentoo-use

Re: [gentoo-user] voodoopad for linux?

2006-05-31 Thread michael
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:54:30 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found what I was looking for, and it's a very cool program. Do any of you have experience with this? http://www.beatniksoftware.com/tomboy/ I've been using it for a while, sin

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 17:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to m

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Tuesday 6 June 2006 18:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about sftp? You only need to have ssh running. What kind of a client do you need to talk to an sftp server? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SFTP_clients plus, of course, the sftp b

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread michael
This discussion is really off-topic. Please label it as such. The original post was regarding ftp servers. On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, DON"T let him use Frontpage. I used it once and have had to support a server with it for a class - - it creates junk, hides stuff (in

Re: [gentoo-user] Which process is using port 5060 ?

2006-06-15 Thread michael
I think fuser is what you want: EXAMPLES if fuser -s /dev/ttyS1; then :; else something; fi invokes something if no other process is using /dev/ttyS1. fuser telnet/tcp shows all processes at the (local) TELNET port. or fuser 80/tcp On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Dave S wrote: Hi all,

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-26 Thread michael
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Evan Klitzke wrote: On 6/26/06, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you are using kde: konqueror sftp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path] Incidentally you can do the same thing in nautilus :-) Ctrl-L will bring up a location dialog, and then you can use sf

Re: [gentoo-user] What is this: http://en.fon.com/

2006-07-15 Thread michael
Well it's a little spammy in that it doesn't really address the original post but it does seem like an interesting project. I'd be interesd in what others think of this. Michael On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, there are several mails replied only with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread michael
this has been a fascinating conversation. thanks boris for starting it. i've tested almost everything that has been mentioned. i often have to monitor my computers over slow text-only ssh sessions, so my focus may be a bit different from others. tcpdump (and ethereal/wireshark) of course can not

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread michael
t! I had almost forgotten all about it until Michael mentioned it. - -- gentux another 2 great advantages of etherape: 1. looks cool 2. i think our brains can better process a lot of information as visual patterns. i have to concentrate more to read all the fields in iftop or bmon, but a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] hello

2006-09-07 Thread michael
educate newcomers. I might be accused of putting too much info in my subject, but I figure it's helpful to those who wish to skip it. Good luck everyone, in finding the posts you wish, and the answers to your questions. Michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade from 3.x to 4.x, when should I run revdep-rebuild?

2006-09-07 Thread michael
I'm upgrading my gcc from 3.x to 4.x. I've done the gcc switching, and now I'm updating my system. The recommended steps are: # emerge -eav system # emerge -eav world While emerging my system I received a message suggesting I run revdep-rebuild: warning - be sure to run revdep-rebuild no

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
Good one, Jean-Marc! I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) If you can read this email, my system is still running Michael On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
What change did you have to make to CHOST? 386 to 686? or something more complicated? On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: For me, the problem was that I had to change CHOST...then I'll re-install from scratch. But I don't say Gentoo is bad, I say, I am bad at Gentoo ! On 9/8/06, Tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Why you use Gentoo

2006-09-08 Thread michael
User I was attracted to Gentoo because it was different, and I'm attracted to things like that. Coming from a background of Slackware and Redhat, I fell in love with the ease of portage But I strongly believe one of the biggest strengths of Gentoo is this list. I have learned more from reading

[gentoo-user] missing profile files: how did that happen? what do i do?

2006-09-09 Thread michael
006.1 directory in it! and, upon further inspection, my /etc/make.profile is not a link, but rather a real directory with real files in it. what's going on here, and how do i get the 2006.1 profile? thanks, michael -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 February 2020 05:07:07 GMT james wrote: > On 2/27/20 9:53 PM, Dale wrote: > > james wrote: > >> 5G + gentoo + embedded toys, is going to be FUN FUN FUN. > >> > >> > >> Then I'll be off to other states, via a hacked out Redneck > >> camper.. and too many microProcessors > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-02-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 February 2020 11:04:43 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/02/20 05:07, james wrote: > > For data storage, long term important stuff, you should employ RAID > > (1-10). We can get into that later, duplication of important data, via > > backups or extra storage is a good idea too. Backups ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 14:30:26 GMT Robert Bridge wrote: > > On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > > RAM and a churning hard dri

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

2020-03-01 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 1 March 2020 10:46:17 GMT Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 29/2/20 11:31 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 10:17 AM Daniel Frey wrote: > >>> Yes, I'm aware linux does VLANs... I set up netifrc to do this (I > >>> already have some "smart" switches set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

2020-03-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 March 2020 23:07:03 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I don't use LOo a whole lot but several months ago, I noticed a > problem. Sometimes I go to a electronic type website that has info on > circuits and how something works. Those pages usually contain text, > pics and such. I highligh

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > I have a banner that says that "your browser is being managed by your > > organization". Oh yeah? I guess that would be gentoo. How can I break > > that relationship? > > Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 08:17:27 GMT Dale wrote: > madscientistatlarge wrote: > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > > > On Monday, March 2, 2020 5:35 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:57:33 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-03 10:27, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:58:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 11:16:52PM +0100, n952162 wrote > >> > >>> I have a banner that says that

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 10:29:39 GMT n952162 wrote: > > Well, I can change it. It's just that the next time I start firefox, I > have the old values back (and Amazon is pinned, again). Hmm ... interesting ... when I go to Top Sites on a new tab and click on the top right of a site at the Open M

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > Hi, > > I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which > ones get "mounted" (as swap areas). > > Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted? > > Here are the swap lines from my fstab: > > #LABEL=swap

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 09:24:31 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-04 10:10, Michael wrote: > > On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 08:09:45 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have 3 swap devices and files. At boot, it seems indeterminate which &g

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:28:21 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I've cobbled together a script to select cpu governors and speeds. > One weird thing I've noticed is that reported cpu speed doesn't quite > match the selected speed. E.g. on my machine (yours will vary)... > > cat /sys/devices/system/

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating chroot to VM

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:54:01 GMT Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a > chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only > use SSH. What do you suggest to do? There are VMWare applications to convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:04:56 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +0000, Michael wrote > > > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no > > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to > > securit

[gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
I have lost count with the naming scheme of Intel's embedded spyware to know if this is yet another vulnerability, or something to convince me to throw away the last Intel powered box still in my possession (mind you its >10yr old): https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/5-years

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

2020-03-06 Thread Michael
On Friday, 6 March 2020 13:48:00 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 3:50 AM Michael wrote: > > I have lost count with the naming scheme of Intel's embedded spyware to > > know if this is yet another vulnerability, or something to convince me to > > throw a

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

2020-03-07 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 7 March 2020 00:57:37 GMT Colleen Beamer wrote: > On 2020-02-15 8:48 a.m., Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2020, at 15:03, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> There seems to be a problem with loading MySQL. During the boot process > >> when it comes to the loading of

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice job,

2020-03-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 01:22:40 GMT Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm just writing to congratulate the linux community for F-ing up > something as semingly simple as a terminal window as well as they did... > > Fortunately X-term is OK, you have to manually adjust the settings of > each one you pop open b

[gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ...

2020-03-08 Thread Michael
Just in case Intel felt lonely in the vulnerabilities game, some researchers (also funded by Intel) managed to reveal the illusion of secure computing is probably in the past: https://www.engadget.com/2020/03/08/amd-cpu-take-a-way-data-leak-security-flaw signature.asc Description: This is a di

Re: [gentoo-user] Now it's AMD's turn ...

2020-03-08 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:04:02 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 10:23 AM Rudi wrote: > > While I usually side with AMD for their contributions to the Open > > Sourced community, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that even > > though they're funded by Intel the fact that they'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New laptop - AMD or Intel?

2020-03-09 Thread Michael
On Monday, 9 March 2020 18:08:54 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-03-09, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Would that be the consensus of the group here? > > After decades of buying AMD, over the past 5 years or so all my > machines gradually shifted to Intel. > > So you can probably bet _that's_ not wha

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 08:17:41 GMT netfab wrote: > Le 09/03/20 à 17:03, Peter Humphrey a tapoté : > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/mnt/nfs/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage # > > script on the client > > > > Result: > > * Mounting chroot dirs under /mnt/clrn ... > > mount.nfs: mounting 192.168.1.4:/m

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS trouble

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:43:18 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 09:27:54 GMT Michael wrote: > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > > > > or > > > > mount -t nfs 192.168.1.4:/portage /mnt/clrn/usr/portage > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Nice job,

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 March 2020 17:18:42 GMT Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Sunday, March 8, 2020 2:02 PM, Michael wrote: > > > atg@tortoise ~ $ konsole > > > QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h" > &

[gentoo-user] The Intel sequel of vulnerabilities continues ...

2020-03-10 Thread Michael
What-ever I may buy in the future, I'll make sure it does not contain Intel inside ... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/10/lvi_intel_cpu_attack/ YMMV. :-) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[gentoo-user] MySQL update could break things

2020-03-11 Thread Michael
Colleen posted a message a couple of weeks ago about mysql hanging at boot. I came across the same problem on an old PC a few days ago. Symptom: === Boot hangs as mysql service is started. Cause: = MySQL upgrade from an old 5.7 version to 8.0 has a lot of material changes, which requir

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 12 March 2020 00:13:53 GMT Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.11 19:00, hitachi303 wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > so ever since using the amd64 17.1 profiles (which is not that long > > for this PC) I have one problem. After updating xorg-server X won't > > start. > > > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-HD-Quickport not recognized...

2020-03-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 March 2020 11:15:43 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a LogiLink QP0027 QuickPort. > This is a external 3.5/2.5" HDD "docking station". > > It has a power supply, a USB3.1 port, an ON/OFF switch. > > Normal doing would be: > Switch docking station off > Connect dockin

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-HD-Quickport not recognized...

2020-03-14 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 14 March 2020 14:44:55 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 03/14 02:38, Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 14 March 2020 11:15:43 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I bought a LogiLink QP0027 QuickPort. > > > This is a external 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] X won't start after xorg-server update

2020-03-15 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 15 March 2020 03:15:12 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 03:19:29PM -0500, Dale wrote > > > When doing upgrades, I agree it is always wise to look at all USE flag > > changes. Having USE flags is a Gentoo feature but if not monitored > > correctly, it can be a curse as w

Re: [gentoo-user] Pocket sneaks back

2020-03-16 Thread Michael
On Monday, 16 March 2020 21:08:10 GMT Dale wrote: > Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > After the latest stable firefox upgrade to version 68.6 I again started > > seeing DNS queries for Pocket related domains. I found this in > > prefs.js: > > > > user_pref("browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.section.highl

Re: [gentoo-user] Pocket sneaks back

2020-03-17 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 04:42:12 GMT Dale wrote: > Matt Connell wrote: > > On 2020-03-16 19:46, Dale wrote: > >> Anything that can do, I can do locally by saving a web page or > >> downloading the content. Firefox has this functionality for people who have multiple devices and are not able or

Re: [gentoo-user] SDD strategies...

2020-03-17 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 08:35:10 GMT Andrea Conti wrote: > Hello, > > > SSDs are a common replacement for HDs nowaday -- but I still trust my > > HDs more than this "flashy" things...call me retro or oldschool, but > > it my current "Bauchgefühl" (gut feeling). > > The days of shitty JMicron st

Re: [gentoo-user] apache htaccess - block IP range

2020-03-17 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 21:56:29 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Will it work: > deny from 114.119.128.0/114.119.191.255 > > Thelma It is better to use this syntax: Require all granted Require not ip XX.XXX.XX.XXX So your example address space becomes: Require not ip 114.119.1

Re: [gentoo-user] apache htaccess - block IP range

2020-03-17 Thread Michael
Please do not top-post in this mailing list. On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 22:41:26 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I have tried (doesn't work) > > > order allow,deny > allow from all > > # block spamers: > deny from huawei.com > > > I'm still getting over 800-entires from: 114.119.128.0 - 11

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly [RESOLVED]

2020-03-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 18 March 2020 19:02:56 GMT n952162 wrote: > Incidentally, in order to debug that, I set the /etc/rc.conf *rc_logger* > variable to YES: > > rc_logger="YES" > > I'm not sure why that's not the default, as it appears to be on ubuntu, > assuming that similar-seeming functionality reall

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:03:15 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-03-19 10:59, n952162 wrote: > > I changed the UUID of all the partitions of the second drive and now > > all my devices are linked to in /dev/disk/by-uuid. I still have > > no/dev/disk/by-label, though. Also, my swap file on a m

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set up a website

2020-03-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:53:53 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 19 March 2020 18:19:38 CET, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >Hello list, > > > >I want to set up a web server on a local box, and I'm following the > >Gentoo > >guide[1]. I'd like two sites: one under /var/www/localhost and the > >other unde

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:32:12 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-19 19:04, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:03:15 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> On 2020-03-19 10:59, n952162 wrote: > >>> I changed the UUID of all the partitions of the second drive an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 19 March 2020 19:08:55 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2020-03-19 19:43, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 19 March 2020 18:32:12 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> On 2020-03-19 19:04, Michael wrote: > >>> On Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:03:15 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

2020-03-20 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 March 2020 01:27:27 GMT Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-03-20 00:30, Michael wrote: > > Finally, I don't think you can use the hardware specific ID, found > > under /dev/ disk/by-id/wwn-xx-part1, which is a > > symlink to the /dev/sda1 name.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix license error during install?

2020-03-21 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 21 March 2020 02:18:47 GMT Jeffrey Walton wrote: Hi Jeff, > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 10:16 PM John Covici wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:16:10 -0400, > > > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > I'm having trouble installing Gentoo in a Virtual Box VM for testing.

Re: [gentoo-user] need know-hows to fine-tune the kernel with new hardware

2020-03-21 Thread Michael
On Friday, 20 March 2020 14:56:26 GMT WooHyung Jeon wrote: > Dear amazing mentors! > > I bought a new laptop, thinkpad E495. This laptop has Ryzen 3500U and > vega gpu. The hardware specification for this particular laptop isn't > the topic. I spent bunch of time to start X with this hardware, and

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-21 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:49:04 GMT Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > questions: > * what's going on? It looks as if your USB stick connector or its microcontroller is faulty. There is also a smaller probability the USB port on the PC is playing up. > * how to find out? Look at dmesg -w and

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-21 Thread Michael
the cable to see if the errors go away. On Saturday, 21 March 2020 15:28:44 GMT Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 21 March 2020 13:49:04 GMT Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > questions: > > * what's going on? > > It looks as if your USB stick connector or its microcontroller

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-22 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:53:18 GMT Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > "Caveman Al Toraboran" , 22.03.2020, 02:29: > > On Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:03 PM, Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > >> "Caveman Al Toraboran" toraboracave...@protonmail.com, 21.03.2020, 14:49: > >> > questions: > >> > * what's going on? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

2020-03-22 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 March 2020 03:00:51 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > On 22/3/20 2:29 am, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > Dale, > > > > On Saturday, 2020-03-21 13:01:01 -0500, you wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> Thing is, if I > >> > >> give it to someon

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

2020-03-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 22 March 2020 22:51:20 GMT Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Sunday, March 22, 2020 12:50 PM, Michael wrote: > > What Stefan said - the disk is on its way out and autorecovery of bad > > sectors is failing. You could run: >

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:59:51 GMT Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020, at 07:51, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > > current crisis) > > > > https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Lin >

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 12:38:35 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:16 PM Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > > > current crisis) > > > > > > https://suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 25 March 2020 13:41:21 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 1:19 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > Web tabs are fairly highly sandboxed in most browsers. Suffice it to > > say something running in a web tab isn't going to be spying on your > > process list/etc. > > OK, fair

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 08:46:33 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 27 March 2020 05:34:58 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > hopefully in the next daus my first SSD drive will arrive > > (corona makes everything more difficult...). > > > > To prevent an "installed and works"-experience which end

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended filesystem for an SSD drive and what mount setting to be used?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 09:48:05 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi all, > > very good infos :) Thanks a lot! > > Fstrim cares for performance and not for lifetime of the SSD, doesn't > it? > > Cheers > Meino man fstrim: [snip ...] "Running fstrim frequently, or even using mount -o discard, mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zoom?

2020-03-27 Thread Michael
On Friday, 27 March 2020 16:18:54 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:21:24 +0100, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > Someone up for an automated hex editor script to remove this shit? > > Alternatively I guess the time has come to simply hard-block > > facebook.com in DNS. This is easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop closure should not rfkill

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 09:43:56 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday, March 27, 2020 3:18:47 PM CET n952162 wrote: > > I want my wireless to continue when I close my laptop lid. Does anyone > > have a clue what I have to set to make that happen? > > > > I've followed it this far: > > /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Still questions concerning a reasonable setup of a new system: UEFI &&/|| MTBR

2020-03-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 March 2020 06:19:56 GMT tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > Since there is A LOT of stuff to read about UEFI, MTBR and hybrid > systems I want to sort out, what I need to read in advance. What is "MTBR"? Mean Time Between Repair? :-/ I'll assume you mean MBR. > The setup will be

Re: [gentoo-user] simple image annotation software

2020-04-01 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:42:48 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > What application would people recommed to add some simple annotations > to image files? For example, I'd like to add a few arrows, some text, > and maybe a box or oval or two. I sometimes do stuff like that from > the command line usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 22:25:08 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I’ve been using it for 5 years for a dual-boot system (2×64 G for Windows > and Gentoo). By the end of last year it became slower and slower when > writing. Especially eix-update became slw. My main suspicion is that it > was

[gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. Using /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox seems to parse the path correctly (when calle

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:29:06 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > currently i have two i3 tiles open on one of > my monitors: > > * one shows `journalctl -f`, which shows things > from smartd, sudo attempts, and maybe soon > also arpwatch. (btw, any other monitoring apps > that you recom

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you monitor your pc?

2020-04-02 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 14:19:45 BST antlists wrote: > On 02/04/2020 12:29, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > [question 1] i wonder how do you monitor your pc? > > While it doesn't look for problems, I always have xosview running on my > desktop. It tells me when the system is struggling, and it s

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 68.6.0-r3 local URL parsing is borked?

2020-04-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 2 April 2020 12:33:33 BST Michael wrote: > Something changed in the Gentoo /usr/bin/firefox script and parsing URLs > with spaces in the file name fails to escape the spaces and opens all sort > tabs while trying to resolve/search for each part of the URL string. > > U

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 3 April 2020 20:48:12 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > wow, didn't know sendmail's syntax was so hard it needed a compiler > > > > :D thank you very much for your help. highly appreciated. > > I think that's an inaccurate statement. > > Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
Hi Meino, On Sunday, 5 April 2020 09:17:41 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > a new morning... :) > > Being on the way to install/setup the base system (mostly getting > stage3 uptodate) I came accross kinda inconsistency -- or at least > it looks like for me. > > The system uses a 3T harddi

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:56:55 BST Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 01:52:52PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still have an > > ext? /boot. However, it generally makes sense to have the ESP and /boot > > as the same partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying root to SSD in one go...a good idea...or?

2020-04-05 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:54:25 BST tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 04/05 10:33, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 10:13 AM wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > currentlu I am preparing a new Gentoo Linux by compiling all > > > the application I had on my old system. > > > > > > Due to delivery

Re: [gentoo-user] Preparing a blank NVMe as a boot drive...

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:38:00 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 16:26:27 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > Do I really need an image on an USBstick to boot into UEFI mode > > just to setup a system to boot into UEFI mode? > > Yes. The bootloader needs access to the EFI variables to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure keyboard layout for X11 libinput?

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 15:37:34 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > I switched from evdev to libinput as recommeded by recent news, and > now my keyboard is hosed: a bunch of keys are unrecognized or send the > wrong thing. (Arrow keys don't work, right-CTRL causes screen to > flash, pgup/pgdown don't wor

Re: [gentoo-user] ...recreating exactly the same applications on a new harddisc?

2020-04-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 6 April 2020 22:15:20 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 22:02:04 +0100, antlists wrote: > > > This isn't strictly true, the ESP must be vfat, but you can still > > > have an ext? /boot. > > > > This isn't true at all - you've got the cart before the horse. The > > original (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 04:54:25 BST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > > I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > > times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should. > > Are you often on the phone at those times? May it be poor filtering? > > At m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:55:06 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:54:25 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > > > I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > > > times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I should. > > > > Are y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Internet slow at times. Can't figure out why. ISP??

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 06:56:04 BST Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 5:54:25 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> On 2020-04-06 22:14, Dale wrote: > >>> I have DSL and it isn't to fast to begin with. At > >>> times tho, I'm only getting about 20 or 30% of what I shoul

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-07 Thread Michael
This thread has been covered in depth for a while now, but I noticed something noteworthy. On Monday, 6 April 2020 19:13:06 BST Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > "Michael Orlitzky" , 06.04.2020, 19:35: > > On 4/6/20 1:32 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> The messages were

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST for Celeron J4105 processor

2020-04-08 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 06:43:44 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, > > I have an Odroid H2 with a Celeron J4105 processor which appears to > be a Gemini Lake, Goldmont Plus architecture > > Any idea what CHOST this should be? > > BillK I don't have one of those, but it is an x86_64 Quad

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Hardened profile and SELinux support active?

2020-04-08 Thread Michael
Hi Ihor, welcome to Gentoo. :-) On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 05:40:30 BST Ihor Antonov wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am very new to Gentoo and I am currently migrating from Arch. > Gentoo attracts me with a freedom of system configuration and with multiple > supported architectures. > > I was attract

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

2020-04-08 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:01:45 BST Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Friday, April 3, 2020 10:42 AM, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > nullmailer is now configured, and test with`echo "Subject: ..." | sendmail > > -v m...@dom.com` works. but, smartd's test mail is not working, with this > > error

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-03-11 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 10 March 2021 16:58:47 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/10/21 8:25 AM, Michael wrote: > > I think this is relevant to DNS resolution of/with domain controllers > > and may depend on the AD/DC topology. > > I disagree. Pure Linux in a MIT / Heimdal Kerberos envir

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-03-12 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 11 March 2021 16:50:37 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 3/11/21 6:38 AM, Michael wrote: > > I'm losing my thread in this ... thread, but what I'm trying to say > > is the AD/ DC and Kerberos way of processing the /etc/hosts entries, > > when an /etc/host

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