[gentoo-user] U.V.C. Webcam Disconnects shortly after Registration

2020-12-24 Thread Ashley Dixon
.org/uvc/#devices -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
a telephone sending ten pulses in a tenth of a second. LOL. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
ution of blacklisting vboxvideo to avoid conflicts with the kernel frame buffer? [1] $ echo 'blacklist vboxvideo' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/7632c76e306cc3ce8f615253c419f63a -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm fails to emerge

2020-10-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
fference on a relatively modern, albeit virtualised, system [2]. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide#Using_quickpkg [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1512947/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
-auth /etc/portage/package.use $ echo "sys-auth/polkit elogind" > sys-auth/polkit -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
ne Development Manual to find the meaning of obscure notations. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-auth/polkit/polkit-0.118.ebuild#n18 [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/#required_use -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Kernel build failing on new install

2020-10-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
syncconfig` on your old .config in a new kernel sources directory will ask all the same questions regarding new features. Some defaults are sensible, some are not. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] app-shells/gentoo-zsh-completions no longer working

2020-10-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
_gentoo_repos [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/zsh-completion.git/tree/src/_gentoo_repos_conf [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-shells/zsh/zsh-5.8.ebuild#n197 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:35:07PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > `pkg_pretend` issues that error only if the architecture is x86 and SSE2 is > enabled in the USE-flags: > > (use x86 && ! use cpu_flags_x86_sse2) && \ > die "Your C

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
hy `use x86` is returning true; surely `amd64` would be the appropriate flag? Strange... https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-14.4.0.ebuild#n50 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal wants USE=screencast

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
screencast` requirement, disable `wayland` on `krfb`. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
w. Currently, the closest thing menuconfig provides is detailing the location of the `CONFIG_` option, in relation to the graphical menus one must navigate. Sometimes it's just easier to edit your `.config` manually; menuconfig can be terribly slow and cumbersome when you're

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
` and `--autounmask-continue` options, which will automatically add the requested version to your `package.accept_keywords` directory/file and emerge from there. $ emerge -1 --autounmask --autounmask-continue \ =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.69 -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
order relevant? [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04-r1.ebuild#n93 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/kernel-2.eclass#n1603 [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/kernel-2.eclass#n1005 -- Ashley Di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
incompetent front-line support teams. A lack of hand-holding and presumed- ability is not a need for concern, but more of an opportunity to grow. P.S. Do you know you're sending most messages twice, one signed, and one not? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0

Re: [gentoo-user] about to install kernel source package

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
ions/pkg_config/index.html [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
nything can touch GRUB; I've had surprising successes with it on some very peculiar/arcane/archaic systems. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Default:_GRUB2 [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
ns-build-options#customizing-cmake-options [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/747163#c15 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
too/modules.dep.bin", stamp=stamp@entry=0x55570b90) at /usr/src/debug/sys-apps/kmod-27-r2/kmod-27/libkmod/libkmod-index.c :744 Cheers for pointing this out. I'm still not completely accustomed to using Linux with a _good_ package manager. ;-) [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
s://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git/tree/ls-kernel.c#n42 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod.c#n842 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod-index.c#n742 [4] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils

[gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
v/opencv/commit/75315fb297a010153d3acab8111ebb87d909cdcf -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
these files intact on your system? What happens when you run `lsmod`? [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod.c#n53 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/25644147/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA s

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-07 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:30:45AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This is just a total guess, but I can suppose that lspci uses it to convey > which kernel modules are being used by each PCI device. Clarification: kmod is used specifically with the `-k` switch of lspci: $ ash-eu

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-07 Thread Ashley Dixon
od/kmod.git/about/ [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20683 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre install failure

2020-10-06 Thread Ashley Dixon
gh you never know with "-j N". LOL. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] dev-libs/libpcre-8.44:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline recursion-limit (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
in an e-mail, as some mail clients will hide any further text, and some (such as Mutt) may show it in a different colour, causing confusion. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
# bash syntax livecd / # exit In future, if you just want to capture the output of a (possibly interactive) command, `tee` is better than `script`. It usually strips escape sequences and such. However, it does not capture standard error to the output file, so you'll want to

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
he notorious `static-libs` flag. Can anyone else replicate this error? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
t commonly used here. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
k:AMD64/Full/Installation#Timezone P.S. You can examine the contents of `/etc/localtime`, and thus the supported timezones, with the `zdump` utility from the `timezone-data` package: $ zdump /etc/locatime /etc/localtime Sun Oct 4 07:41:45 2020 BST -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there any Gentoo User webinar ?

2020-09-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
ent issues in the world would prevent any sort of meet-up anyway, although some sort of physical conference could be pleasant in a few years when the entire world has reverted to some description of normality.) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

2020-09-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
t/kdeconnect-20.08.1.ebuild#n67 [4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330536 [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ggb36/ [6] https://phabricator.kde.org/T7447 [7] https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/kde-connect-new-stuff-ii/ [8] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/kde-connect-blue

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

2020-09-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
ntoo Wiki page with `bluetoothctl` [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBject_EXchange [2] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman [3] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/Integrations#obex-file-transfer [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Device_pairing -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
xample [1]: depend() { after coldplug need dbus localmount hostname } Anyway, glad to see it fixed. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-wireless/bluez/files/bluetooth-init.d-r4 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
able suid install-setuid)" ) fi [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/554 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.20.9.ebuild#n179 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
go) of the D-Bus socket file not being recreated until rebooting. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-16 Thread Ashley Dixon
use of offence for me. My e-mail server only has 12TB of disk space, and 90% of that has been taken up by G-Mail users posting HTML and plain text versions of the same message to the list... -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk stopped working

2020-09-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:00:53AM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > $ pdftk > Done. Input errors, so no output created. Have you tried running with increased verbosity? Perhaps these "input errors" will be described in a little more detail. https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftk -

Re: [gentoo-user] exim4u

2020-09-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
without downloading all the repos. I'll have a look in a few hours when I have some free-time. [1] https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=exim4u [2] https://overlays.gentoo.org/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running emerge @module-rebuild on new kernel

2020-09-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
here [1], as it effectively fixes any permission or timestamp issues. With that said, the problem should probably be reported in a more comprehensible manner than "Do not try to update included dependency files". [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4039551.html -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running emerge @module-rebuild on new kernel

2020-09-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
erge sys-zfs/zfs-kmod it hangs on checking on whether > modules can be rebuilt. Please attach the script of emerge, from the invocation (include the command) to when it starts to hang. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
o an external service for cherry-picking, such as [2]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/print-edit-we/ [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/print-friendly-pdf/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
vmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/autotools.eclass/index.html [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/autotools.eclass#n174 [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/685832 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
g/cgit/gettext.git/plain/gettext-runtime/m4/codeset.m4?id=ba23f92889187ec33dd02fcaceed9503d1b65167 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
utoreconf --install` in the 'work' directory [1]. What does that output? [1] /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/work/gnokii-0.6.31 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
part of my Mutt configuration file (the first line forces STARTTLS, hence the omission of `s` in `smtp://`): set ssl_force_tls = yes set smtp_url = "smtp://a...@mail.suugaku.co.uk:587" set folder = "imaps://mail.suugaku.co.uk:993/" -- Ashley Dixon suu

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:15:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Ashley Dixon wrote: > > > > Especially considering most Americans do not understand the system (the > > readability of the I.R.S. tax code has been under scrutiny for a long time), > > I wouldn't want to pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
that America is the only country on Earth, but in actuality, I remain gravely dubious that managing a U.S.-bound organisation from an "English-centric" perspective would serve any advantage whatsoever. Especially considering most Americans do not understand the system (the read

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 06:02:43PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/27/20 11:55 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Nevertheless, as xkcd so brilliantly explains, TeX inspires a level of blind > > trust in the content of a document [2]. As long as you avoid proposing > > standa

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
I find your conduct to be remarkably audacious (and frankly rude) considering all the time people are spending to help you. ... And if you don't want this sort of on-line discourse, why did you post on the list at all? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
but the standard text itself should certainly not encourage such behaviour. Ashley. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic (My favourite thing about this mad notation is the words used to describe it in the original manuscript: "represent the square of squares

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:33:58PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon > wrote: > > > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of > > Margaret Thatcher? ;-) > > very true (r

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
you mean "easy" for the people implementing the protocol, or the people making use of said implementations? "Traditional" SMTP mail clients have always been pretty straight-forward for me, although the difficulty involved in _implementing_ an M.T.A. is another story. I find this po

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="-libglvnd" ignored

2020-08-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
]. Hope this helps, Ashley. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/250286 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask#n349 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/728286 [4] https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd/blob/master/README.md [5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quic

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
te (POSIX) call. At that point, it is, in theory, the kernel's choice if and when it is _actually_ written to disk, but if one of the aforementioned functions return a success code, the M.T.A. has done its bit, and can consider the message "safely stored". -- Ashl

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/systemd is blocking app-emulation/docker-19.03.12

2020-08-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
ust re-emerge systemd with USE="cgroup-hybrid" and see if that helps. Ashley. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#use-dependency-defaults -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:25:11AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > reliable method of reliably transferring Apologies for my unintended verbosity. My subconscious _really_ wanted to point out that SMTP is (generally) RELIABLE. ;-) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
, in fact. With that said, if you'd like to propose a standard and write a reference implementation, that is how most new ideas in computing arise. I don't think anyone would attempt to stop you from doing that; we're merely suggesting that your current idea of the HTTP-fo

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
ut your proposed solution doesn't really provide greater ease for you, or the people e-mailing you! -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
some of the more entertaining ones: Passwords; Hackers; Secure Internet Connections; Firewalls; SSL; Police; High Security; basement; ID; Bob; gorilla; Global ... and my personal favourite, "WANK". -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
(although I wouldn't recommend Courier; Dovecot is far superior). What do you think? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:21:06PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Do you mean that you want to monitor the host system from the guest? Can you > > not just SSH into the host from the guest? You can also infer CPU usage from >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
ome other file-sharing means. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:59:10AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I've just run it again, and it seems like the culprit is in the _show_address > function, which calls einfo [1], passing the result of _get_inet_address. > I'll > have a look at this more now, as it's som

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
look at this more now, as it's something I also would like to be resolved. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
-c` isn't removing what you would expect, try something like `emerge -cv dev-python/sphinx` to see the explicit reverse-dependencies blocking the removal. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#build-dependencies -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
o-main / # etc/init.d/net.eno1 restart <... TRIM OUTPUT ...> [super] root@ad-gentoo-main / # * Starting openvpn ... [ ok ] * WARNING: openvpn has started, but is inactive * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ] echo Hello Hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
|elogind|systemd'` to check the USE-flags with which you're asking Portage to build pambase. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-auth/pambase/pambase-20200618.ebuild#n19 [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html#eapi-5 -- Ashley Dixon su

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
r another fancy login manager), Portage should provide good, non-anti-pattern, secure defaults for _new_ users, however much of an inconvenience it may be for existing users who run X with `startx`. I generally agree with them on this point; "suid" is horribly outdated, ho

Re: [gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:22:49PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:10:17 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > > Unfortunately, as per [3], Logitech C-series cameras (among others) > > utilise a proprietary extension to the Motion-JPEG format, in which > >

Re: [gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
a=blob;f=modules/demux/mjpeg.c#l49 [2] https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/mjpeg/#Demux -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
nge_Format#JFIF_APP0_marker_segment [5] https://exiftool.org/TagNames/JPEG.html#AVI1 [6] https://code.videolan.org/libav/libav/commit/ba83c4bfb55d5c3fc6b3959edb0d3cda07a70241 [7] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/base/use.mask#n15 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
irect.db.2 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns1/redirect.db.1 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns1/redirect.db.2 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns3/redirect.db.1 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns3/redirect.db.2 [1] https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.14.12/bind-9.14.12.tar.gz --

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
future. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#build-dependencies [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.4.ebuild#n39 [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-3.1.2.ebuild#n23 -- Ashley Dixon

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:08:43AM -0400, Jack wrote: > On 7/19/20 10:57 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > [I have stripped all mention of capitalisation, as it is off-topic here. > > However, a seeming lack of competence in English will lead people to believe > > that the incompe

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
order to discover the "correct" view, > then stick to it, while still being open to look > around. but once you find the correct view, you > don't leave it for the sake of adopting a > different view. Perhaps... I'm not too sure how to respond to such a statement. If y

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
told me, "you do need to take a different look at the world". You also need to understand the meaning of "freedom of speech", as this is something about which many of the younger generations are confused: I am not a Governmental organisation, I am not trying to detain you for your views, and your right to freedom of speech does not protect you from all critique. Hope this helps, Ashley. P.S. I have not yet watched that Oxford Union video, but I will do when I get some time. Cheers for the link; those speeches are generally interesting. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
h believe in more than one higher being (e.g., many parts of India). Are they all equally likely to bring change ? > be blessed, I'm a Satanist. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
o.git). Hope this helps, Ashley. [1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/search?l=c [2] https://github.com/github/linguist#using-gitattributes [3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fa864fb2169d4c80075a7c97604a747d -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA9

Re: [gentoo-user] zip file encrypt from file manager context menu

2020-07-16 Thread Ashley Dixon
hould you want to learn more about becoming a power-user of p7zip (I am not one; I just installed it now to investigate your issue). Hope this helps, Ashley. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
kipedia.org/wiki/PeaZip#Third-party_technologies -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
s at `$(q -Ce PORTDIR)/licenses/unRAR`, for your viewing displeasure. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
ame) which are not binary-redistributable according to upstream. Hope this helps, Ashley. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
amdgpu/polaris10_vce.bin" It's tedious, but there's no reason that the kernel shouldn't find firmware in subdirectories. Perhaps you needed to add a trailing oblique ('/') to your CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR, such that the concatenated path is correct ? -- Ashle

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
lot of stuff installed/enabled, to support all (or, as much as possible) common hardware in a live environment, as this generally runs before the point at which the user can configure their own kernel. > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 05:59:37AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote > > It doesn't l

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
package ? Amend /etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware to include the appropriate entries (listing at [1]), and emerge `linux-firmware` with the `savedconfig` USE-flag. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
mware (linux-firmware.git), or directly from kernel.org ? Which kernel version are you running ? `uname -r` -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
ssage/58660319f295f643ae89946d49e0156e [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/b44d49d7a92e01ce97338e9087ec9323 [3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6ce49ea52cbb9a1452e30d4b91f7b27c [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/30b71b916288d028f0557c7c44891f82 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:39:54AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Summarised, this dependency is triggered by CONFIG_IKHEADERS, which has > been > configured too obscure to pull in cpio for everyone (hence the WONTFIX > status > for the latter bug report). My apologies f

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
https://bugs.gentoo.org/696840 Summarised, this dependency is triggered by CONFIG_IKHEADERS, which has been configured too obscure to pull in cpio for everyone (hence the WONTFIX status for the latter bug report). -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what does this equery display show me?

2020-07-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
;s USE-flags. Try running the same equery command for something with lots of optional dependencies, such as Firefox, and you'll see the same behaviour. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/multilib-build.eclass/index.html#lbAF [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tr

Re: [gentoo-user] logcheck fallback detection message

2020-07-07 Thread Ashley Dixon
et rid of it? With which PYTHON_TARGETS was `python-magic` built ? Please post the output of `emerge --info python-magic` (place it as an attachment to the e-mail, not a link to an external hosting service). -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA

Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

2020-07-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used > a proprietary extension to OpenType that allowed them to store raster > images (PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create th

Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

2020-07-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
e the fonts transparent on another layer and then use the gradient tool. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/9534902 [2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/64917 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c120 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25

Re: [gentoo-user] Kind of sample player?

2020-06-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
't fail to compile. https://www.linuxsampler.org/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
f the signal. mp3splt primarily works with mp3s, but can also support ogg, which can be a container format for flac. I've never used it myself, but it looks promising, providing you are OK with placing your flacs inside an ogg. Hope this helps. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions

Re: [gentoo-user] Hangs at "Run /init as init process"

2020-06-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
ing). It's a terribly generic error; can you provide the full boot log before it starts to hang ? Some potential solutions to try in the mean time: https://stackoverflow.com/q/10955609/ https://mtekk.us/archives/guides/fix-linux-boot-halting-on-run-init-as-init-process/ -- Ashley Dixon su

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: computer won't shut down

2020-06-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
e directly into the kernel, or as kernel modules ? Which GPU series/firmware do you have installed [3] ? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU-PRO [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU#Incorporating_firmware (see the table) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
itude less painful. [1] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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