Re: [gentoo-user] kioworker segfault error SOLVED

Dale wrote: > > OK.  Between the two posts, I did the following.  I found out that > libxcb.so.1.1.0 belongs to x11-libs/libxcb so I reemerged it.  I also > got lucky when I did a ps aux and caught a kioworker process running > which gave me the path.  I couldn't do that the other day which made me

[gentoo-user] Removing LVM from disk, or disks, and being like new drives again.

Howdy, As most likely know, I use LVM a lot.  I'm about to rework a set of drives and when done, I need to remove everything from the drives and reset them to like new.  No data, no LVM, no partitions or anything on them.  I'm not necessarily needing to use shred or dd everything to make sure data

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

Michael wrote: > On Saturday, 17 May 2025 08:17:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: >> Dale wrote: >>> SNIP >>> Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice >>> loud and hard to miss, NO!!!. There's still a lot of packages not ready >>> for python 3.13 yet. Maybe

Re: [Possible phishing attempt] Re: [gentoo-user] Benefits from full disk encryption on server?

byte.size...@simplelogin.com wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Do you have a link, or several links, on how to set that up?  I'd >> like to read it and may even play with it on one of my old rigs, then >> maybe on my main rig at some point. > > I don't think I have any step-by-step resources at hand but I ca

Re: [Possible phishing attempt] Re: [gentoo-user] Benefits from full disk encryption on server?

Dale wrote: Do you have a link, or several links, on how to set that up?  I'd like to read it and may even play with it on one of my old rigs, then maybe on my main rig at some point. I don't think I have any step-by-step resources at hand but I can outline a general "recipe" if that helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragile python update is wedged.

On Saturday, 17 May 2025 08:17:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > SNIP > > Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice > > loud and hard to miss, NO!!!. There's still a lot of packages not ready > > for python 3.13 yet. Maybe next week. If I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Benefits from full disk encryption on server?

On 5/17/2025 8:43 AM, Rahul Sandhu wrote: Hi, You may want to look into TPM2-based disk encryption; during normal operation it's basically transparent. My servers all have an encrypted root partition, and I do not need to enter a password to boot it as the decryption keys are stored in the TPM.