Re: [gentoo-user] eselect repository and adding overlay.

2024-04-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 20:17:31 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > A while back using overlays changed. Using eselect is supposed to be > the new way, and easier. Either I'm missing something or something is > missing from the docs. I tried to add voyageur to my NAS box/backup > rig. The command

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile - gentoo and binutils ...

2024-04-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:46:18 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/04/2024 13:07, Michael wrote: > > Did you emerge any packages using the new 23.0 profile, then went back to > > the old profile to run the above command? > > No ... > > Ummm ... I have had trouble emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile - gentoo and binutils ...

2024-04-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:00:49 BST Wols Lists wrote: > What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to emerge gcc, > which the instructions say "emerge AFTER binutils". > > With gcc it says "don't let it emerge glibc", should I apply the same > logic and not let binutils emerge gcc? >

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile - gentoo and binutils ...

2024-04-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:48:07 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote: > >> On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> What do I do here - "emerge binutils" (step 9) wants to

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile - gentoo and binutils ...

2024-04-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 7 April 2024 12:04:32 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 07/04/2024 11:48, Wols Lists wrote: > > On 07/04/2024 11:23, Michael wrote: > >> On Sunday, 7 April 2024 11:21:00 BST Wols Lists wrote: > >>> On 07/04/2024 11:00, Wols Lists wrote: > >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

2024-04-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 April 2024 16:12:51 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm trying to do > > # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild > > .. For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg. I may be missing something, but why

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-05 Thread Michael
On Friday, 5 April 2024 07:34:01 BST Paul Sopka wrote: > On 05.04.24 08:31, Paul Sopka wrote: > > On 05.04.24 00:55, Michael wrote: > >> Your toolchain is now correct. Can you show the output of: > >> > >> equery u media-libs/libjpeg-turbo > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Every other startup results in a black screen (possibly SDDM related?)

2024-04-04 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 4 April 2024 05:55:20 BST Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi again, > > I tried to catch the error again and while doing so I realized you guys are of course correct: sddm usually starts on tty 2. I don't know why I got it into my head that it would start on tty 8. Anyway, when I

Re: [gentoo-user] Issue with new hardened profiles 23.0

2024-03-28 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 28 March 2024 10:23:29 GMT Matthias Hanft wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Do you use the binary packages supplied by Gentoo? > > Or all local-compiled? > > All local-compiled, with the exemption of "monster-packages" which > would take hours or even days to compile (e.g. rust - here

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about emerge sync and where it all goes.

2024-03-26 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:37:31 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 25 March 2024 02:58:21 GMT Dale wrote: > >> I did this with the following command earlier. > >> > >> rsync -av --progress --delete /var/cache/portage/tree/* > >>

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

2024-03-26 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 00:54:26 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 25 March 2024 23:14:50 GMT Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 25 March 2024 21:48:24 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote: > > > > The default O

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-23 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 18:29:58 GMT ralfconn wrote: > Il 23/03/24 18:42, Michael ha scritto: > > I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard work and > > read the > > > instructions they have provided instead of winging it: > > >

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

2024-03-23 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 21:28:27 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:45:03 GMT Dale wrote: > >> I saw where Peter mentioned in another thread gcc failing with no error > >> message for him. This could be related. A solution to this m

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

2024-03-23 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:45:03 GMT Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm doing this in a chroot. This is *not* my live system. This is the > mount info, in case it matters. > > > root@fireball / # mount | grep gentoo > /proc on /backup/gentoo-build/proc type proc (rw,relatime) > sysfs on

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-26 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 10:32:05 GMT William KENWORTHY wrote: > I have a question about binaries and the new profile: I have a number of > almost identical architectures that I build binaries for and share across > the similar sytems e.g. arm, aarch64, amd64 etc. > > Is deleting the bin host

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc - parallel start - timeouts

2024-03-29 Thread Michael
On Friday, 29 March 2024 13:30:23 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi All, > > To improve the bootup time of my server, I want to enable "parallel", > however, I run into an issue where some of the services take longer than 60 > seconds to start, causing this to be classed as "not started", which then >

Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

2024-03-24 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 24 March 2024 18:31:37 GMT Björn Fischer wrote: > Hi folks, > > my current profile is default/linux/amd64/17.1, but I already migrated > to merged-usr some while ago (I know, that is not supported, really). > > Any advice how to migrate to 23.0? > > Cheers, > Björn The default

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 25 February 2024 05:52:20 GMT Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have > > any idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? > > > > All I'm trying to do is get it to remember *where* my monitors are (I > > have

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 25 February 2024 17:36:25 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > On 2/25/24 01:01, Michael wrote: > > I used to experience the same when using Xorg with AMD-Radeon graphics > > instead of Nvidia, but since I moved to Wayland the problem of losing > > screen settings has gone.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:31:30 GMT Dale wrote: > Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 2/29/24 03:27, Dale wrote: > >> To provide a little more info on how this works. This is how I did > >> it. It helps a LOT to have tab completion with this. It will fill > >> in a lot of the info and when unsure, list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microkernel update failing (trying to patch zenbleed)

2024-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 3 March 2024 19:14:23 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > Hi all, > > I've always had problems updating the microcode for my AMD processor. I > have various other Intel-based PCs and this has never been an issue. > > I have confirmed it's not updating: > > > ~ # dmesg | grep -i microcode > [

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > I got a message on my world update that said my profile which is > /var/db/repos/gentoo/profiles/default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd > / is depricated and no longer supported. So, afterr this update is > finished, which

Re: [gentoo-user] profile is not depricated -- how to switch correctly

2024-02-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:52:19 GMT John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:24:06 -0500, > > Michael wrote: > > [1 ] > > > > On Thursday, 29 February 2024 09:01:52 GMT John Covici wrote: > > > I got a message on my world update that said my p

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

2024-02-23 Thread Michael
On Friday, 23 February 2024 00:28:59 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-22, Wol wrote: > > On 22/02/2024 21:45, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I've been reading up on UEFI, and it doesn't seem to be any > >> better. People complain about distro's stomping on each other's files > >> in the ESP

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo starting with stage3

2024-05-21 Thread Michael
The line to test if a symlink exists to /run/shm/ from /dev/shm is only needed when you use non-Gentoo live media to install your system. With the Gentoo installation media, whether you use the minimal CD or the admincd, such an action is not needed. On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 17:52:01 BST Jude

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

2024-05-23 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:07:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > On this box I have this: > > # grep '\-j' /etc/portage/make.conf > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=4 [...] " > MAKEOPTS="-j4 -l4" > > That seems to work well, except for a 20s period at the beginning of >

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

2024-05-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 May 2024 11:52:55 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:13:27 BST Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:07:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > On this box I have this: > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect build failed

2024-05-24 Thread Michael
mirror it will contain the precompiled binary packages and given you are running a modern CPU, you should set /x86-64-v3 in your binrepos.conf. HTH. On Friday, 24 May 2024 13:29:46 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > Michael, > > The changes you selected worked. I got mirrorselect compiled and ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Off Topic - UPnP servers

2024-05-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 May 2024 01:32:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Please excuse my off topic question. Does anyone here use a UPnP server > for audio files that they recommend as being particularly good? > >I'm a Plex user for video and have also ripped my CD collection. Plex > plays audio

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
The command: lsblk -f will reveal the UUID of the respective partitions. This is normally used in your fstab, unless you created this manually, in which case you can use logical names or filesystem labels. The efibootmgr will display the partition UUID where the .efi executable resides.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
Hi Jude, There are few decisions you have to make before you consider how to partition your disk, which affect where /boot may be located. 1. EFI System Partition (ESP) This is a GPT partition of type ef00 and formatted as FAT32, necessary for an EFI motherboard which is not configured to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
rty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > Please use in that order." > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Mon, 27 May 2024, Michael wrote: > > The command: > > > > lsblk -f > > > > will reveal the UUID of the respective partitions. This is normally used > &

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo boot content in wrong partition

2024-05-27 Thread Michael
thinking that > /dev/sda was already gpt. > -- Jude "There are four boxes to be used in > defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that > order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > On Mon, 27 May 2024, Michael wrote: > > We have the following

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect build failed

2024-05-24 Thread Michael
On Friday, 24 May 2024 09:57:36 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote: > Hi Michael, > > -march=x86-64 and -mtune=generic will not speed up your OS installation. > These flags tell compilers to produce binaries that can run on any AMD64 > system and that aren't optimized for your

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect build failed

2024-05-24 Thread Michael
Hi Jude, If you intend to use Gentoo's precompiled binary packages, to speed up your OS installation, you should have 'generic' CFLAGS; e.g.: CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe" Please check these pages: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2023/12/29/Gentoo-binary.html

Re: [gentoo-user] verifying stage3

2024-05-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 May 2024 09:43:32 BST Jude DaShiell wrote: > I got: > sha256sum --check > stage3-amd64-desktop-openrc-20240526T163557Z.tar.xz.sha256 > stage3-amd64-desktop-openrc-20240526T163557Z.tar.xz: OK > sha256sum: WARNING: 12 lines are improperly formatted > Is the warning significant?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: PCIe version 2, 3 etc and how to know which a card is.

2024-05-29 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 28 May 2024 19:02:09 BST Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2024-05-28, Dale wrote: > >> Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> On 2024-05-21, Dale wrote: > > Here's my udev rules file that defines my network interface names > > for the machine I'm on at the moment: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about installkernel configuration

2024-05-30 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 30 May 2024 16:48:15 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello All, > > It's not an issue but a question : > I'm working with a 10 years old mobo. > I have two systemd Gentoo. > One (some years old) on ssd internal disk installed with dos partition and > grub mbr > The other one (newly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync error

2024-05-22 Thread Michael
Or, more appropriately if you do not use a desktop then please select profile No. 21: [21] default/linux/amd64/23.0 (stable) On Wednesday, 22 May 2024 16:05:09 BST Michael wrote: > Ah! OK, this probably explains it. > > The latest and now default Gentoo profile is no longer 17.1,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync error

2024-05-22 Thread Michael
zsh it uses slightly different process substitution than bash. If your shell is not bash try changing to it, to see if it makes a difference: chsh -s /bin/bash I don't know if this is the cause of your problem, but it's worth a try. On Wednesday, 22 May 2024 14:45:40 BST Michael Orlitzky

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge-webrsync error

2024-05-22 Thread Michael
Ah! OK, this probably explains it. The latest and now default Gentoo profile is no longer 17.1, but 23.0, which uses a merged /usr directory structure. Consequently, select profile 23: [23] default/linux/amd64/23.0/desktop (stable) On Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:53:11 BST Jude DaShiell wrote:

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

2024-06-06 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 6 June 2024 04:54:41 BST Dale wrote: > I was digging around Ebay. Ran up on a used combo and then had a crazy > idea. I found a ASUS B550-plus AC-HES mobo that is AM4. I took that > idea and started building a combo with new parts. CPU, Ryzen 7 5800X > and my little 4 port video

Re: [gentoo-user] What's probing /dev/sr0?

2024-06-04 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 4 June 2024 06:23:00 BST Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:30:07 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Every few minutes my motorized cupholder kicks its motor... Which means > >> **something** is kicking /dev/sr0 every few minutes checking for > >> media... I need to know

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware disk description

2024-05-28 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 29 May 2024 00:10:07 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 28/05/2024 20:51, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > My machine has protected mbr with gpt partitions on it. Are those kind of > > partitions hybrid? > > This is completely standard nowadays. I think the "protected MBR" just > points to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting started with a web server

2024-06-01 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 1 June 2024 16:01:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > It seems to be time again to see if I can set up a local web server*. I want > to build a site for myself, and one way is to work it up on my own machine, > then transfer it to a hosting service when it's "ready". > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:30:28 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > Can you share the output of your dmesg? > > The only potentially interesting stuff is attempting to load a couple > of firmware blo

Re: [gentoo-user] (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

2024-06-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 11 June 2024 18:48:56 BST Joost Roeleveld wrote: > --- Original message --- > From: n952162 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:59:25 +0200 > > > > Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 [SOLVED]

2024-06-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 11 June 2024 20:17:44 BST n952162 wrote: > On 6/11/24 17:58, n952162 wrote: > > Am I forgetting something ? > > Yes. x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel This package will be brought in as a dependency by emerge, as long as you have specified the correct VIDEO_CARDS="" drivers[1] in

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

2024-06-14 Thread Michael
On Friday, 14 June 2024 03:52:38 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > I've been doing a bunch of kernel-compiling recently and I've switched > between schedulers from compile to compile to compare. See > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.6/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html for > background info. All

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

2024-06-14 Thread Michael
On Friday, 14 June 2024 15:18:36 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday, 14 June 2024 13:55:49 BST William Kenworthy wrote: > > I have a (now quite old) MSsurface-pro4 with an I5 - it runs about > > 50-60c on normal use but compiling (for example) webkit-gtk and > > Libreoffice causes the temp to

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

2024-06-09 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 9 June 2024 23:13:46 BST Dale wrote: > P. S. I ordered a two piece cooler for the m.2 stick. It's way > overkill but it is so cute and costs about the same as much smaller > versions. It has little heat pipes and fins. O_O > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/226160453032 This looks

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

2024-06-09 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 23:41:58 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 8 June 2024 18:46:05 BST Dale wrote: > >> I got the little m.2 thing today. It's a lot smaller than I expected. > >> A whole lot smaller. It's fairly tiny actually. They look bigger i

Re: [gentoo-user] major problem with X keyborad.

2024-06-09 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 9 June 2024 20:04:04 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > The standard control keys aren't working in X anymore, mainly the arrow > keys and normal edit buttons, workaround is to use the numpad. Keys are > functional as tested from normal linux console. Problem started when I > rebooted after the

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

2024-06-10 Thread Michael
On Monday, 10 June 2024 05:26:49 BST Dale wrote: > My main rig that I'm currently typing on has this: > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX > 650] > > It has so far served me well for my monitor and TV. I think the NVS > above is more powerful than the

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 11 June 2024 05:14:10 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:54:33PM -0400, Matt Connell wrote > > > On Sun, 2024-06-09 at 06:51 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > the system suddenly froze, repeating the syllable "ake", "ake", > > > "ake", "ake", "ake", "ake", ad infinitum.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Snap working

2024-06-18 Thread Michael
On Monday, 17 June 2024 16:43:04 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > So Skype for Linux isn't updated anymore other than its Snap version. So > I tried to install that by following the instructions here: > >https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Snap > > As well as here for AppArmor: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What's probing /dev/sr0?

2024-06-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:30:07 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > Every few minutes my motorized cupholder kicks its motor... Which means > **something** is kicking /dev/sr0 every few minutes checking for > media... I need to know what it is and how to stop it... =\ Assuming you're not running some media

Re: [gentoo-user] Uefi + uki stuck while booting (/dev/gpt-auto-root)

2024-06-16 Thread Michael
I'm not the right person to comment reliably on this, because I don't use systemd and do not use LVM, but until someone else chimes in I'll give it a go ... :-) On Sunday, 16 June 2024 09:04:26 BST Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just tried to prepare my new laptop for

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

2024-06-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 June 2024 05:55:45 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 16/6/24 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> > >> > >> > I still don't understand the efi thing. I'm booted up tho. I'm > >> > >> happy. > >> > >> > Now to get temp sensors and stuff to work. I want to keep a eye

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

2024-06-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 June 2024 09:40:57 BST you wrote: > On Sunday, 16 June 2024 05:55:45 BST Dale wrote: > > William Kenworthy wrote: > > > On 16/6/24 07:07, Mark Knecht wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >> > I still don't understand the efi thing. I'm booted up tho. I'm > > >> > > >> happy. > > >> > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Clang update with musl

2024-06-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 June 2024 12:39:40 BST efeizbu...@disroot.org wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been trying to update my clang but I keep getting linking errors. > I'm on the default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/musl profile. My system > has been acting kind of weird ever since the profile updates 17 ->

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Friday, 14 June 2024 20:53:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Michael wrote > > > I would think 46-48°C is refreshingly cool, but it very much depends > > on the CPU chip, the MoBo and its BIOS/microcode settings. > > I looked

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 16:28:29 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 15 June 2024 13:01:33 BST Dale wrote: > > Could you share the boot screen again? > > New version attached... > > > I used lilo ages ago then switched to Grub. Grub is massive but it works > > well enough. > > ...as

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 18:24:27 BST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I got down to the time zone part. When I try to run emerge --config > sys-libs/timezone-data I get this output. > > > > (chroot) livecd / # emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data > > > Configuring pkg... > > Traceback (most

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 19:33:54 BST Dale wrote: > (chroot) livecd / # cat /etc/env.d/02locale > # Configuration file for eselect > # This file has been automatically generated. > LANG="en_US.UTF8" > #LC_ALL="en_US.UTF8" > (chroot) livecd / # > > I commented out the LC_ALL thinking it might

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 19:09:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 15 June 2024 18:24:27 BST Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I got down to the time zone part. When I try to run emerge --config > >> sys-libs/timezone-data I ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Arrow and edit keys?

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 19:20:26 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > A number of my softwarez requires the use of the arrow keys and can't > use the numpad in edit mode to work around it. So who do I need to kill > to get arrow keys to work in x11 again? I don't understand what is the "edit mode" you

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 18:24:04 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:39:09PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > The maximum temperature at which your CPU die with its 65W TDP starts > > throttling to keep its temperatures safe is 100°C TjMax. Look at the > &g

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 12:01:26 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > b) Using a bootloader: > > > > Mount your ESP under the /efi mountpoint. GRUB et al, will install their > > .efi image in the /efi/EFI/ directory. You can have your /boot as a > > directo

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

2024-06-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 June 2024 07:53:06 BST Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:11:38 BST Dale wrote: > >> My plan, given it is a 1TB, use maybe 300GBs of it. Leave the rest > >> blank. Have the /boot, EFI directory, root and maybe put /var on a > >> separate partition.

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-12 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 12 June 2024 06:53:29 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > The above errors are an indication something is amiss with the > > requisite firmware for your graphics. Have you specified this in > > your kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-13 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 04:11:40 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Michael wrote > > > The above errors are an indication something is amiss with the > > requisite firmware for your graphics. > > > > Have you specified this in you

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:08:59 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:53:16 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I'm installing a new system on an i3 NUC box, following the handbook, and > > I'm having trouble. After chrooting in, every command I issue is met with

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem in new installation

2024-06-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:40:50 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 8 June 2024 14:27:03 BST Michael wrote: > > I'm not sure the missing file in your error message is related to python - > > VTE is a GTK+3 widget used by some Gnome based terminal emulators and in >

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

2024-06-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 8 June 2024 18:46:05 BST Dale wrote: > I got the little m.2 thing today. It's a lot smaller than I expected. > A whole lot smaller. It's fairly tiny actually. They look bigger in > pictures or on video. This reminds me of the discussion on the number > of transistors on a chip.

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

2024-06-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 00:47:07 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > The first option in the man page explains what you did: > > > > https://linux.die.net/man/8/dracut > > > > -f, --force > > overwrite existing initramfs file. > > > > Did

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

2024-06-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 15:27:00 BST Dale wrote: > Picking here to get a fresh sub thread going. Attempt two. > > I got all the packages installed. Made sure the Nvidia video drivers > were loaded. I remembered to make sure elogind was running. It wasn't, > so I started it. Why doesn't

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

2024-06-30 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 June 2024 10:36:16 BST Dale wrote: > Here's a little update. First, Kubuntu wiped my Gentoo install from > being able to boot it. I had to boot the Gentoo USB image, mount > everything and reinstall grub/EFI stuff. I got it back and now I can > boot either one by selecting it in

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

2024-06-29 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 29 June 2024 21:30:59 BST Dale wrote: > I booted the rig up and decided to try something. Once it was booted, I > logged in from my main rig via ssh. I then typed in the command to > start DM. It started and looked OK. Then I just up arrow and changed > it to restart the DM. I

Re: [gentoo-user] how to record mp3 stream

2024-07-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 July 2024 11:39:09 BST Jacques Montier wrote: > Le lun. 1 juil. 2024 à 11:19, John Covici a écrit : > > Hi. I am interested in recording an mp3 stream in the background and > > being able to specify start/stop time, etc. > > > > I looked at Google, but just found a package called

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

2024-07-01 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 June 2024 23:56:40 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > This is good! :D > > Edit the section below by adding the PreferredMode line: > > > > Section "Monitor" > > > > Identifier "Monitor0" > > Vend

Re: [gentoo-user] world upgrade a mess, need some advise

2024-07-01 Thread Michael
On Monday, 1 July 2024 11:04:37 BST John Covici wrote: > Hi. So, trying to do a world update, I ran into two major problems -- > one is perl and the other is python 3.12. Here is what I get trying > to upgrade perl by itself: > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues.

2024-06-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 June 2024 08:16:10 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > I had updated my machine, rebooted, keyboard started working, thought > would never see the problem again... > > > Had a power failure, came back on line, keyboard broken, > power went down again, came back on line, keyboard broken. Is

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

2024-06-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 June 2024 07:54:43 BST Dale wrote: > Update. I played around a bit. I figured I didn't have a lot to lose > here. It either works, or it doesn't. After playing around a bit, I > got it to work. I have not restarted it to see if it will work again, > yet. I wanted to grab some

Re: [gentoo-user] ldconfig segfaults after updating to 23.0 profil

2024-06-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 June 2024 20:11:51 BST Dan Johansson wrote: > Hello, > > After updating my system to a 23.0 profile, > default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop/plasma (stable), ldconfig has > started segfaulting. The 23.0 profile uses merged /usr as its default. You can, however, remain with

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

2024-06-27 Thread Michael
amily > visit to the hospital drained me good. And she is still sick. I took > her some tomatoes this morning and she likes the peaches I got for her > too. Not much she can eat. > > I've tried with no xorg.conf at first. Then I tried with one that tells > it to use the nvidia d

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

2024-06-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:54:33 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > You need to have USE="elogind -systemd" in your make.conf, then add the > > elogind service to the *boot* runlevel as shown here: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind >

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

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

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

2024-06-20 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 20 June 2024 16:29:11 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:40:12 BST Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 June 2024 14:27:18 BST Jack wrote: > > > On 6/20/24 8:46 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > While building a new KDE system (see my p

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: > Top posting for consistency. > > I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it > rebooted or something while I took a little nap. The resolution is > 1080P which is what I expected the monitor to run at. When I got back > up

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 08:53:01 BST Dale wrote: > >> Top posting for consistency. > >> > >> I booted the Gentoo GUI media. I opened a window just in case it > >> re

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 02:21:11 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 22 June 2024 19:13:42 BST Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: > >>> Michael wrote: > >> root@Gentoo-1 ~ # xrandr --verbose > >> Can't open display > >> root@Gen

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

2024-06-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:37:15 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > >> That's my thinking. The only benefit to reinstalling is correcting the > >> partition boo boo. > > > > What in particular are y

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

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 02:55:33 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 June 2024 23:37:15 BST Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> On Sunday, 23 June 2024 13:19:18 BST Dale wrote: > >> I kinda like /boot on its own partition. If /boot

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

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 06:19:10 BST Dale wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > ... > > > >> Now to ponder what comes next. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > > > Hi Dale, did I see in one of your early emails you created an > > xorg.conf for nvidia? Have you followed the gentoo Xorg

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

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 17:54:44 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > For an ESP on a disk partition, it would be FAT32 (while FAT12 or FAT16 > > can be used for removable media). VFAT is an extension to FAT allowing > > long filenames. In any case it's just a symlink: >

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

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 15:29:21 BST Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > If a person is trying to copy another install and runs into a failure in > a package to compile, skip ahead and deal with the locale section first > then come back. This failure is between syncing the tree and during the >

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

2024-06-24 Thread Michael
On Monday, 24 June 2024 14:25:47 BST Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > You should at least try to launch a X11 session using a console and see > > what is printed out on the CLI after you exit (or if it crashes). > > > > ~ $ exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startpl

Re: [gentoo-user] {SOLVED} Midnight Commander now viewing images with /usr/bin/xdg-open?!?!

2024-07-02 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:30:31 BST Walter Dnes wrote: > Midnight Commander has been using geeqie for viewing images on my > system. I did a world update last night. Apparently image-viewing > responsibility has been handed over to /usr/bin/xdg-open which, on my > system, uses mupdf for

Re: [gentoo-user] ldconfig segfaults after updating to 23.0 profil

2024-07-02 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 2 July 2024 20:05:37 BST Dan Johansson wrote: > On 27.06.24 21:37, Michael wrote: > > On Thursday, 27 June 2024 20:11:51 BST Dan Johansson wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> After updating my system to a 23.0 profile, > >> default/linux/amd64/23.

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