Re: [gentoo-user] Computer system email no not working since gmail change.

rough gmail, so I’ve also eliminated a security risk. Not the answer to the question asked, so possibly not a useful one, but maybe food for thought. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 3:56 AM Wols Lists wrote: > On 06/01/2024 00:54, John Blinka wrote: > > I’ve often found that it gives one estimate when multiple packages are > > being built, then a much longer estimate for still-in-progress builds > > once some of the builds have f

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop wonky again

far not risen to worth-the-effort status. I use nearly the same build options as you, so perhaps we’re triggering the same problem. But my less-work-implies-longer-time observations suggests to me that the problem is more fundamental than details of jobs/threads/etc. John Blinka >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge load again

n. The various guides that discuss how to tune these numbers for best performance were modestly helpful in explaining what the tuning parameters mean, but experimenting and watching the resulting performance was the best teacher. Hope this helps. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync options after backup restore. Transfer speed again.

looks like a way to make them match without transferring files. Hope a little of this was useful. Good luck! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Controlling emerges

en do something unintuitive and frustrating to you. I’ve learned to respect its sequencing. This technique keeps portage happy and predictable by using its sequencing. It gives me reliable overnight unattended upgrades. John Blinka >

Re: [gentoo-user] Highlight certain packages being upgraded

to a line. Finally, execute grep -f long builds which will print the names of those long builds if they’re due for rebuilding or upgrading. HTH John Blinka >

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to get sd card reader to work

support what I want to do, provides documentation, and comes with a community that can point the way when I’ve confused myself. Best computing environment ever. Thanks to every one making it possible! John Blinka > >

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to get sd card reader to work

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 9:09 AM Michael wrote: > > Have you also enabled CONFIG_MMC_REALTEK_USB in your kernel? Not until you suggested it. Works perfectly now. Thanks! John >

[gentoo-user] trying to get sd card reader to work

RTS5129 card reader controller. I'm over my head debugging this. Haven't found much via Google and nothing very recent. If anyone has ideas about what to try or how to debug, I'd be very happy to try any and all suggestions. Thanks! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Glibc and binpackages

s a new binpkg then goes on to the remaining updates. Just offered in case there’s a useful hint from my experience - not arguing that mine is the one true way (tm). HTH, John Blinka >

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config and update

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 9:42 AM Wol wrote: > On 27/11/2022 13:21, John Blinka wrote: > > Systemd stores its *distro*supplied* config files in /usr. > > It stores its user-supplied config files in /etc. > > So when your distro updates systemd, it doesn't go anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config and update

On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 5:36 AM Wols Lists wrote: > I've just had emerge telling me it wants to trash my postfix config :-) > > I'm not sure whether my setup is actually using it, I use dovecot to > deliver my mail, but is there any way I can stop random updates trying > to trash my local changes

Re: [gentoo-user] it keeps growing

en chromium, libreoffice, WebKit-gtk, and Firefox all decide to upgrade simultaneously, but the time I personally spend is - maybe - a couple minutes. The machines do all the actual work. And those few minutes a day are well worth having had the same computing environment for more than a decade, even through substantial changes in my software focus. And it’s been cool enough here this year for the heat generated to be welcome! ;) Definitely *not* arguing against anyone else’s tastes in computing or maintenance. Just expressing my pleasure that Gentoo exists and that I get to benefit from the great work of everyone who makes it possible! John Blinka

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED?] Re: boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

So, the root of my booting problem is Linux doesn’t yet fully support my intel core i5-10400 processor’s uhd 630 graphics. I’ve been able to boot gentoo-sources-5.10.27 successfully using grub on my new Asus Tuf Gaming B560M-Plus Wifi board equipped with an intel core i5-10400 processor. If you u

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 8:03 AM Todd Goodman wrote: > This is likely not your issue with an integrated Intel GPU, but I was > building a new system recently with UEFI, ASUS ROG mobo, and nvidia GPU and > had this same issue. > > Surprisingly, this turned out to require me to set the simple frameb

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:32 PM Dale wrote: > > I had another thought. Just in case it is a bug with grub that only > affects certain hardware, maybe try a different bootloader? Maybe try > lilo or some other bootloader that works with your hardware. I seem to > recall you having EFI so I'm su

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:10 PM wrote: > > > Have you recompiled the kernel? Could be a random, erroneous write to > disk or something in the kernel compile didn't go well. I'd suggest also > rebuilding the initrd Yes. Same problems with several kernels and associated initrds, the latter pro

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

n On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd, I

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:50 AM John Blinka wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy > wrote > >> > >> Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure >> genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initram

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 3:12 AM William Kenworthy wrote > > > Try https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ... I am not sure > genkernel uses that exact name but I did need to find the initramfs boot > log to diagnose a failure in a genkernel initramfs at one time. That’s an intriguing link.

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:36 AM John Covici wrote: > > I would look in the grub.cfg and give us exactly what is in the stanza > you are using, including where it thinks the root file system is, > etc. Also, see if there is any genkernel option to get some debugging > info out of the initrd, I kn

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:12 PM Jack wrote: > Given you say the UUID is for the boot partition, then both the linux and > initrd should just have the name of the kernel and initrd files (without > leading "/boot",) which sounds like what you've got. I'd next wonder if > something is missing fr

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:10 PM Dale wrote: > > I hate these init thingys and will admit I know little about the > things. I had a thought tho, could it be that the file system needed to > read the init thingy isn't included somehow or in the kernel maybe? If > it is pointing to the right place

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 7:23 PM Jack wrote: > > I'd start by removing any "quiet" or "splash" from the kernel command > line.You should be able to see them when you hit "e". I'm not sure > if it will actually help, but it should be a start. Thanks, but neither one appears. My command line

[gentoo-user] boot hangs forever at “Loading initial ramdisk...”

Hi, Gentooers, New thread, next obstacle in booting new Asus mobo. As the subject says, the boot hangs indefinitely. Output to the screen is Booting a command list Loading Linux 5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... And there it stops forever. The kernel is the latest stabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 1:03 PM antlists wrote: > On 13/05/2021 00:51, John Blinka wrote: > > And it appears your intuition is correct. I left all the “secure boot” > > options in the bios at their defaults except one. I changed “OS Type” > > from “Windows UEFI mode” to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 5:29 PM John Blinka wrote: > > > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 1:35 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> >> I'd be surprised to find that "Other OS" is a secure boot option, it >> sounds like the option to run without secure boot. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 1:42 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 01:10:56PM -0400, John Blinka wrote > > > but how does one add nomodeset to boot options, or edit boot options? > > The default ISO USB action is to wait a few seconds and then boot the > stand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 1:35 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2021 13:10:56 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > > Not that I am fluent in this stuff > > (understatement!) but how does one add nomodeset to boot options, or > > edit boot options? > > Press e at t

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:01 AM Mike Kaliman wrote: > I think I had used the Gentoo live USB originally, although I've the > gparted live USB as well. Sysrescue ought to work but I'm wondering if > there's an issue with a missing GPU driver or something. Granted, id be > surprised that both sysre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:22 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2021 08:56:16 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > > > > I’ve tried usb sticks with both Sysrescue and Ubuntu server to boot this > > thing. It appears to attempt to boot each one, but then the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:04 AM Wols Lists wrote: > On 12/05/21 13:43, John Blinka > > > So what I guess *might* be happening is that there is a signed > boot-loader on the "other OS" on CD, but because the gentoo boot loader > is not signed, that's why it

[gentoo-user] Re: sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

Thanks for the suggestions for solving my booting problem, which admittedly is not particularly Gentoo related at this stage in the installation process. I’ve tried usb sticks with both Sysrescue and Ubuntu server to boot this thing. It appears to attempt to boot each one, but then the screen goe

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:57 PM Mike Kaliman wrote: > I have an Asus TUF Gaming X570 and have the secure boot OS type as "Other > OS". I've been using rEFInd to dual boot with Windows. > So, this suggests that “Other OS” was sufficient to allow you to boot some kind of Linux distro, which you th

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 6:49 PM wrote: > > Try to watch this clip it might help. > > > https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk039uHXT9NuDloVx1Rvp0Mw3kBzEXg:1620773038736&q=asus+board+%22b560m%22+turn+off+secure+boot&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSsfCJ2sLwAhXCpJ4KHdr6Bz4Q5t4CMAx6BAgeEA0&biw=1263&bih=660#kp

[gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

they have gone through the process of getting their secure boot keys authorized by Microsoft. Anybody have success getting Gentoo to boot from a recent Asus mobo? Thanks! John Blinka

[gentoo-user] fcrontab -e: ERROR Could not init PAM account management (9)

Hello, Gentooers, I have 3 amd64 Gentoo systems. Somewhat different hardware, but all running the same Gentoo profile, same world file, same /etc/portage. All up to date, all using the same binpkgs for all installed hardware. At least as far as I can tell. I don't have a robust mechanism for enfo

Re: [RESOLVED] [gentoo-user] zfs repair needed (due to fingers being faster than brain)

To all who replied to my distress signal, The repair turned out to be pretty painless. In two ways: First, getting quality advice from all of you sans the roasting I deserved ;), and Second, gdisk fixed the gpt header and partition table easily (details below). After that, I rebooted, zfs reco

[gentoo-user] zfs repair needed (due to fingers being faster than brain)

he way to go (the b option looks like it's made for exactly this situation)? Anybody experienced at this and willing to guide me? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: console size/display anomaly

On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 11:39 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > i > The way I read it, is to go into "Picture Wizard II" menu and > select "Aspect Ratio" option "Just scan". Hopefully this solves your > problem. Just had to go directly to “Aspect Ratio” and select “Just scan”. Worked like a charm!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: console size/display anomaly

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 1:03 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-30, John Blinka wrote: > > Some TVs don't provide a remedy. Others do, but it may be something > pretty obscure. One of my LG TVs allows you to assign a "label" to > each input. The labels are select

Re: [gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:23 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:54:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote > > > Any ideas? > > The 1940's called... they want their overscan back. Walter, Thanks so much! That explanation would account for what I’m seeing. A

[gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly

help. Any ideas? Thanks for your help! John Blinka

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

On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 1:45 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > > On Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:50 PM, John Blinka > wrote: > > > > > Hi, Everyone, > > > > hello big dawg! > >

[gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

k gray to black on white? Could that be done with a little judicious editing of color settings somewhere, or adjusting colors on an icon? I don’t know how desktop appearances are programmed, so I don’t know where on the spectrum of trivial->apocalyptic this lies. Thanks for your suggestions! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.

f cat output both.pdf Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files. hth - John Blinka

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] !!! section ‘local’ in repos.conf has name different from ...

On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:36 PM Alexey Mishustin wrote: > > Aren't /usr/local/portage and /usr/local/portage/steam-overlay really > intertwined? What if you move the 'local' overlay to, say, > /usr/local/portage/local ? (And, sure, edit the corresponding info in > the configuration files). > > --

[gentoo-user] !!! section ‘local’ in repos.conf has name different from ...

Hi, everyone, I’m trying to install steam-overlay using https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Steam I have 3 boxes on which I try to maintain gentoo setups as identical as possible. The steam install has gone smoothly on 2 boxes, but is failing on the 3rd. When I get to this steam installation step on t

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 3:46 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 10:43:36 -0500, John Blinka wrote: > > > > > Couldn't you just have a script that "emerge --update"s each > > > > package in sequence? If the package isn't due for upda

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

ch of minor kde stuff. I like this idea - seems to isolate the “hogs” so they build one at a time, and it does so without any intervention on my part. Thanks! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

There's no need to mess around adding and removing masks, just use the - - exclude option. Yep! For some reason, that option doesn’t always occur to me, but that’s clearly a simpler way to do it. Thanks for reminding me! John

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

The tools exist to do what you want to do. If you were so inclined, you might even contemplate writing a script to automate what I just described. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

> > I can't really help with the problem, but I've built the same package > recently with just 4GB of RAM. (It takes a long time.) So most likely > it's something in your portage settings that's causing this. > > - Lasse Agreed. I’ve built it recently on 16GB of RAM. My MAKEOPTS is -j13 -l5 to

[gentoo-user] mariadb confused about expire_logs_days

logs_days = 1" as just a variable name instead of name = value. Anybody else experience this? Any suggested solutions? I haven't found anything on Google or bugs.gentoo.org. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] eselect python cleanup

; > allan > > I found that each invocation of “eselect python cleanup” cleaned up only one instance of an uninstalled python interpreter. I had 2 such instances on my boxes, so 2 invocations did the trick for me. Cleanup doesn’t (apparently) clean everything up. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Any gotchas with gcc 8.2

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 8:46 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > I just did an emerge update after 6 or 7 weeks. I manually excluded > GCC 8.2.0 pending word if there are any problems. How is 8.2.0 working > for people? No issues here, including kernel rebuild. John Blinka >

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile?

o remove them explicitly by hand. Don’t know what that’s all about, but everything still works. John Blinka > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge colors and light background

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:36 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-04-19, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > >> I use light background and many colors of emerge and other tools are >> simple unreadable (like light green). > > Yep, it's awful. People have been complaining about it for years and > years. > >> I

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 10:40 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday, 18 February 2018 01:09:36 GMT allan gottlieb wrote: > > Specifically excluding the buggy (old) version of webkit-gtk, > portage wants me to merge a newish (testing) version of gnucas

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk-2.4.11-r200::gentoo failed (compile phase)

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:56 PM Floyd Anderson wrote: I had the same problem, and, after a huge amount of experimenting, found a solution that works for me. I masked =dev-libs/icu-60.2 and then did emerge -DuNv @world. On my systems, that downgrades to icu-58.2-r1, which is compatible with webk

Re: [gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > They don't. Note the slot specification at the end, there is only one > version in slot 2, the one that gives all the trouble. Thanks for pointing that out. > > Your best bet is to keyword gnucash-2.7.4, which does use the up to date > we

[gentoo-user] webkit-gtk build failure and masking confusion

And that's on a system that contains webkit-gtk-2.18.6. Can anyone explain to me why portage won't use webkit-gtk-2.18.6 to satisfy gnucash's needs? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] How to resume 'emerge -e @world' after grub fails?

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > How do I skip grub and continue? > emerge --skipfirst --resume I had to do that several times in my 17.0 upgrades. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure (solved)

he solution was simple: eliminate the 0027 umask for root, and chmod o+rx /lib/modules/X.Y.Z-gentoo. Thanks for all the suggestions. They all helped. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

> > > Is this an officially approved technique?? it is DIRTY. I imagine that it is sanctioned, otherwise why would there be a --changed-deps flag to emerge? Does seem dirty. Glad you asked the question. Would love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it happens quite oft

Re: [gentoo-user] initial compile time

ting it take its merry old time. Gentoo's gotten good enough over the years that this almost invariably works. I'm not criticizing your speedup plans - by all means, have fun - but if you're just starting out in Gentoo, be aware that these speedups aren't necessarily a slam-dunk. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:13 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:54 PM, John Covici wrote: > >> What is your umask? I had troubles like this when I had too >> aggressive umask of I think 027 rather than 022. > > It is indeed 027, and I wondered whether t

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:14 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Yes, and in fact it is in the output when emerge fails: >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1/work/spl-0.7.1/config.log > Digging into config.log aft

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Yes, and in fact it is in the output when emerge fails: > /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1/work/spl-0.7.1/config.log Ah-ha! I see it now. That['s valuable, and I'll take a closer look. Thanks! John

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:54 PM, John Covici wrote: > What is your umask? I had troubles like this when I had too > aggressive umask of I think 027 rather than 022. It is indeed 027, and I wondered whether that might have been what was behind the error, hence I tried chmod -R 777 the entire ke

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: First, I appreciate your thoughts and comments. > > I suspect your sources have gotten messed up in some way. I've run > into issues like this when I do something like build a kernel with an > odd umask so that the portage user can't read the

[gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

th that "solution": same error. I've tried strace on emerge to see if I could figure out what it's doing when it's looking for UTS_RELEASE, but no luck with that either. Nothing that I can find in Bugzilla, either, although that could be due to inexperience in using it. Any idea what could be going on, or how I could go about debugging it more effectively? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading to gcc-5 (on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)

> Is that the entire procedure needed? That's what I did a while back. Nothing broke as a result. John

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: cannot properly execute...

>> Any ideas on how to debug this? > > First of all, update all affected parties to the latest versions > (eix, portage, layman). Did that. I'm always up to date. > > Second, use divide and conqueror strategy. If this is the eix > problem, isolate it to eix only without invoking layman (or emain

[gentoo-user] layman: cannot properly execute...

nd all the other ones eix complains about). And now, out of the blue apparently, the third system has started spitting out this error message as well. Any ideas on how to debug this? John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop oddity

by fooling around with -jN or by trying to do other things on the system while emerging. New behavior for genlop, or a 32/64 bit thing? (I've recently gone 64 bit and that's where I see the discrepancy.) Glad to see that someone else has experienced the same thing, and I'm not going crazy (although some might argue this is hardly proof...) John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

Appreciate all the commentary on sysrescuecd/uefi/booting. You anticipated my needs - almost at that point in the install. I will definitely try gummiboot. John

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > SystemRescueCd has boot menu options for picking the kernel, just pick > either rescue64 or altker64. > I did try that at least once, but I think I compensated for doing the right thing at that point with making mistakes elsewhere. I'll g

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Ron Farrer wrote: > > Generally, 'uname -m' should report x86_64 for 64-bit (amd64) and i686 > for 32-bit (x86). uname -m did give x86_64, but... > ... another check can be 'file /sbin/init' which will report as something > along the lines of > "/sbin/init: EL

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > > You should use the AMD64 handbook, not the x86 handbook, if you're trying > to > install on x86_64 hardware. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 > > More importantly, you should be booted into a 64-bit environment. That > means >

[gentoo-user] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

a 64 bit kernel configuration for me via make defconfig and genkernel, both of which appear to be attempting 64 bit configurations. All of these attempts fail the same way. I've tried all of this on gentoo-sources-4.4.6 and -4.1.15-r1. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dale wrote: > Top posting since John started it. lol > Sigh... Can I blame it on gmail's interface (rather than me not paying attention...)? Sorry. John

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for prompting me to add my 2 cents. I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years. There have been a few rough patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall this has been by far the best computing environment I've eve

[gentoo-user] anybody have math extension working on mediawiki-1.18.2?

er to execute them, latex is installed (via texlive), and I even threw in the mathtex package, thinking that it sounded as if it must be useful without knowing whether it is actually used. Anybody have this working? Care to share how you did it, or suggest debugging techniques? Thanks, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, /usr and really really bad thoughts.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre On Mar 10, 2012 10:38 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 11:58:18 +0100, pk wrote: > Btw, does anyone know which version of udev requires access to /usr? I'm > running latest stable here 171-r5 and I have separate partitions for > /

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:43:54 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > You can remap the colours portage uses in /etc/portage/color.map. See man > portage and man color.map for details. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > c:>Pre

Re: [gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Bill Longman wrote: > On 03/22/2011 08:43 AM, John Blinka wrote: > > And for that matter, does anyone who uses a dark background AND uses > vimdiff as their etc-update tool run up against the same issue: vimdiff > mode and certain syntax hig

[gentoo-user] color in terminals with white background

while, but I guess I have too many years of reading black print on white pages; dark backgrounds are just "wrong" for me. And I haven't found any satisfactory answers with web searches. Is there anybody with a font color scheme they like for use on a white background? Thanks for an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

> I paid the extra to get > 16:9 @ 1920x1200. Best thing I ever did laptop-wise - I can get two webpages > side by side on the screen looking very natural. Mind telling me what you got? The 1200 part sounds attractive to me. John Blinka

[gentoo-user] OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

ficantly narrower and more portable than my 1545 (14.75", 37.5 cm wide) and with as many horizontal lines in the display as possible. Any suggestions? (And, yes, I'm open to a non-Dell solution.) Thanks for your suggestions, John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amanda run and build failure

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:35 PM, walt wrote: > On 08/08/2010 05:58 AM, John Blinka wrote: >> >> >> the end of the log file contains >> >> /usr/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created >> >> `/var/tmp/portage/app-backup/amanda-2.6.0_p2-r4/ima

[gentoo-user] amanda run and build failure

Hi, All, After a long period of flawless behavior, I have recently (since August 2) had both runtime and build failures with amanda. I do daily gentoo updates, always use revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer, always follow post installation advice in the log. I can't reinstall amanda because the build

[RESOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

itted user-name # | | client amanda amdump server amanda amdump client root amindexd amidxtaped I used the fqdn for the client and server names in the above files. John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Didn't the binary-paths change with 2.6 ? Yes. > > Check if /usr/libexec/amanda/amandad exists and adjust the xinetd-entry > if necessary. > Did that. The binaries exist and xinetd entries point correctly. (Sorry for the very lo

Re: [gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Try "amoldrecover" for a start ... > >From what I understand, amoldrecover is for recovering files on a >=2.5 client from a < 2.5 server. My server and clients are all >=2.6. Am I misunderstanding? John

[gentoo-user] how to amrecover in amanda-2.6.0

ges contains nothing enlightening. Neither does /var/amanda/my_host/log.* Thanks for any ideas on how to debug this! John Blinka

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On 5 Dec 2008, at 03:12, John Blinka wrote: > >> ... >> I've run out of patience with this and am >> now relaying my mail to smtp.gmail.com via ssmtp. That worked >> immediately w

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Håkon Alstadheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Since this thread has been going on for so long without a resolution, I > thought I'd mention that I recently switched to nullmailer from ssmtp. Im > using port 587 with STARTTLS, and I find nullmailer way easier to set u

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp & at&t woes

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi John, > > I suppose you use a wrong username. According to > http://helpme.att.net/article.php?item=287 you have to use the full mail > address. Otherwise check your password for correctness. Tried that. Didn't help. I've been k

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