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

2024-09-26 Thread Matt Connell
>On Wed, 2024-09-25 at 15:43 -0500, Dale wrote: > No one here has their system set up to use Gmail for system > emails???  I wouldn't consider gmail an option for any emails, system or otherwise. > On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 02:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > If you know a email service that isn't to expensiv

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge - Tips and Tricks

2024-09-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 18:56 -0500, Dale wrote: > FEATURES="-usersync userpriv usersandbox buildpkg sandbox > parallel-fetch parallel-install" No candy? You struck me as a candy guy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Scripting KDE?

2024-07-29 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 14:32 +0100, Michael wrote: > > loginctl terminate-session > That'll exit the desktop session. I was on the right track at least. I'm accustomed to doing it with xfce-session-logout signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] Scripting KDE?

2024-07-29 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 14:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is there a way to pass a shutdown command to KDE over SSH? Google > doesn't help > me much, though it has a good deal of stuff on scripting inside KDE. loginctl terminate-session ^ would be the first thing I would try.

Re: [gentoo-user] teams gentoo and firefox

2024-06-12 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 18:43 +0200, hitachi303 wrote: > Thanks for the answer. I think teams-for-linux is no longer in > portage. My bad, this package is actually in ::guru (and some other repositories), not ::gentoo. I always have guru enabled so I tend to forget that its there as a separate repo

Re: [gentoo-user] teams gentoo and firefox

2024-06-12 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-06-12 at 12:46 +0200, hitachi303 wrote: > is anyone successfully using MS teams? Successfully like able to use > it? I use Teams, and I rely on it, but not in a browser. I use the teams-for-linux[1] version, which is available as a flatpak[2] or via portage as net-im/teams-for-linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2024-06-11 at 00:14 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >   What is "lean"?  My system has 16 gigs ram. 16GB is what I meant by lean. IMO, for a machine that is running desktop applications and building packages while being used interactively, at the same time, 16 just doesn't cut it. It doesn't f

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird system freeze?

2024-06-10 Thread Matt Connell
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. I have a system that is a little lean and when this happens it is invariably because I ran the system out of memory and noticed too la

Re: [gentoo-user] patching an ebuild file

2024-05-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 20:17 +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Is there a way to patch an ebuild in a similar way we can patch > > sources? > > > > thanks, > > > > raffaele > > You can make an overlay and mask the pacakges from ::gentoo +1 for an overlay, because others may want to use those ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > You'll need kernel 5.18 and Mesa 22 plus recent firmware. > > That article was almost 2 years old, so I'd be surprised if all those > are not stable in Gentoo by now. Mesa 22 is not. Only version 24 is stable :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 17:34 +0100, Michael wrote: > Configure static IP addresses for all your LAN devices on your home > router.  Then set your devices to use DHCP to obtain an address from > the router when they come up.  With a large number of devices which > often change (e.g. guests in a hotel

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a > service and have it in a runlevel.  You should just need to create a symlink at /etc/init.d/net.enp3s0 that points to /etc/init.d/net.lo and then you can do the usual rc-service stuff

[gentoo-user] Profile upgrade tip, from a slow learner

2024-03-28 Thread Matt Connell
Remember to disable distcc in your make.conf FEATURES, or you're going to waste a bunch of time troubleshooting strange build failures like I did. That's all, carry on folks.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 20:54 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesys

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > synchronise in both directions. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Also, both s

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
Sorry for the double post; I got a mail-undeliverable from Google so I thought it didn't go through and retried it. Turns out it got to the mailing list (both times) but not to gmail recipients because Google doesn't like my SPF record (record says hard-fail on no match and someone somewhere is us

[gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
First time I've seen this happen! Any time I emerge anything, I get portage telling me I have the following preserved libs: --- !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r4 * - /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1

[gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
First time I've seen this happen! Any time I emerge anything, I get portage telling me I have the following preserved libs: --- !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r4 * - /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened vs -bin packages

2023-11-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 09:00 +0100, ralfconn wrote: > I suppose I'd better use the non-bin version of at least the thunderbird > and firefox ones, to take advantage of the hardened toolchain features > for these internet-connected applications. I'm not so sure of  > libreoffice (which I use seldo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 12:57 -0400, John Covici wrote: > All those are masked, I am using the ~amd64. > All of the v3 packages are masked in my repository, just updated a > couple of days ago. Something on your local machine is masking these, they are definitely unmasked for me and many others. C

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 16:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What commands show me what installed packages have ruby as a dependency? > > emerge -cav ruby emerge --depclean --pretend ruby No need to ask when you don't actually mean to depclean it... nor could you if something depended on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 19:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > OSes are like biology: apparently logical but actually messy And both developed organically!

Re: [gentoo-user] Jekyll on Gentoo using containers

2023-08-29 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 15:31 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > $ cat /var/log/docker.log | cut -d \ -f 2- [to omit date & time] > level=info msg="Starting up" > level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: no such device" > storage-driver=overlay2 > level=error msg="exec: \"fuse-overlayfs\": execut

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging dev-php/xdebug

2023-08-28 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 15:04 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > dev-lang/php:7.4 is also masked, so I assume this is due to be  > removed soon. 7.X is EOL upstream as of 9 months ago, hence the mask. It was acknowledged in the mask commit that we would lose access to some other packages because of this

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-08-19 at 22:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Many commercial VPNs claim to support linux.  Do they do this at the > OS level as an executable, or at the browser level as an extension? The real answer, that I suspect you're looking for, is no. There's no custom software required in al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 14:46 -0400, Kusoneko wrote: > Why would you want a mail client to also be a web browser when you already > have a web browser to do that job? I will never understand the mindset of > trying to include web browsers into everything. Web browsers are massive > pieces of softw

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote: > > Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire > > web > > engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who > > knows full well what the answer is. > > What is the answer? > Mutt doesn't need a web en

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 17:14 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I see it's a gnome program and has 17 new dependencies (to this box). Unfortunately one of them is webkit-gtk, which, if you don't have it already, is a compilation lift. Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 01:29 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic > might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were > reliable. It isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. To present an alternative t

Re: [gentoo-user] Kudos on prompt release of gentoo-sources w/ Zenbleed mitigation

2023-07-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 15:19 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Thanks and well done to the Gentoo Kernel Project for promptly pushing > out 5.15.122, 6.1.41, et alia. Those latest kernels add mitigation for > the "Zenbleed" vulnerability found in AMD Ryzen and Epyc processors. Not that I doubt you but

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

2023-07-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 04:25 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > that excessively long qt package > Off-topic, but just in case you mean qtwebengine, I was able to get > rid of it by putting "-webengine" in my USE flags. I got rid of it by switching to a flatpak version of the singular desktop appl

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel driver for: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection

2023-06-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-30 at 14:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Is the  switch a reliable 1Gb switch? I've owned a couple of cheap > > switches that said they were 1Gb but didn't always work. > > I'm using TRENDnet 24-Port Gigabit Switch Is the cable known good? I've had both poor quality m

Re: [gentoo-user] ip_change_notifier - empty IP address

2023-06-28 Thread Matt Connell
Not quoting anything because I'm just making a general reply, to the general problem that you're generally trying to solve. Generally. You really should be using DNS for what you're trying to do, one way or the other. Reverse DNS, when set up properly, will always return the appropriate IP addre

Re: [gentoo-user] Klayout and ruby target problem.

2023-06-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2023-06-25 at 11:19 -0500, Dale wrote: > By default, it has no ruby target it seems, although it used to.  The > on/off status changes.  Setting to match the old way made it worse, > as > mentioned above.  I can't figure out how to make this work.  > > Any ideas?  Thoughts?  > > Dale > >

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

2023-06-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 12:09 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Any better solution for me, to get a remote system new IP address. > > Telus has a tendency of changing the static IP without any warning, it > happened to me in the middle of ssh connection with the remote system. Dynamic DNS is

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-18 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 00:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction.  As it is, this might > be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is.  This works as good as > QMPlay2 and it closes at the end.  I miss gnome-player tho.  Silly > old thing > gave me a lot of years of good

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 22:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >  It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find.  > You know where they hide that thing? mpv is wholly configuration file based, fortunately or unfortunately. Not the easiest bar to reach, but the man page is extremely well detailed.

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Gnome-player is about dead.  It got removed from the tree ages ago > but > until a recent upgrade, it still worked.  I been using QMPlay2 on > videos > that doesn't have the right codec thingy for Gnome-player.  So, I'm > kinda used to QMPlay2, ex

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-09 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 22:38 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support > > HTTPS, > > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. > > Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using > ddclient years ago because my D-Link

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 16:02 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > This URL mentions three requirements: > >   - bdf2psf >   - otf2bdf >   - psftools > > from which only the first  (app-text/bdf2psf)  seems to be  available in > the Gentoo mirror :-( dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey reposit

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 10:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Bummer. Looks like he might have changed it. Unfortunately I'm no further help in that case. Visually I live and die by the slashed zero, using Terminus, which itself is a replacement for the very old-fashioned ProFont.

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > inside the zero. Is this the right one? https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 15:18 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No > idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom > is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI > freezes, needs to be cl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails with a python error

2023-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 16:24 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > RuntimeError: OpenPGP signature not found on Manifest It sounds like your sync is hitting a mirror that is currently broken. Are you using a defined mirror list or letting it auto-select?

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average revisited

2023-05-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 19:06 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > What about > >    # emerge -1u qtwebengine && emerge -u @world > > This will first update any dependencies of "qtwebengine" and only update > "qtwebengine" itself when all its dependencies are dealt with, before it > will deal with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average revisited

2023-05-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > One example I remember is Firefox having a bizarre colour scheme (the > window frame, not the page display) and missing the three upper-right > buttons. > That wasn't corrected by recompiling Firefox, so I assume the problem was > lower

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 15:54 +0200, tastytea wrote: > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed > in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never get a > corrupt file and snapshots make b

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. There's a reason for this. It can fulfill all but the most niche or intensive roles, is robustly supported, well-tested both in development and through wide use in the field, and generally

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 11:28 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Does user need to be in group:  plugdev for it to work. I'm fairly confident that you do, yes. "Udisks uses polkit to handle permissions. Make sure each user is in the plugdev group" https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udisks#Configura

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:43 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto > mounted. > > In settings: Removable Drive and Media --> > - Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked) > > Does it have something to do with dbus?

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:34 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > cfg-update is a bit crufty, but its main advantage is support for > 3-way merges, which are usually automated.  So if you change one line > in the middle of a config file you won't have to manually go through > diffs to re-apply the change ev

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 23:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > After update I get: > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating. > > What is this, don't remember seeing it before. > > cfg-update -u > doesn't give me an option to view it. > > dispatch-conf will show you what is bei

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting after kernel upgrade

2023-04-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 15:53 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is: make oldconfig  same as: make olddefconfig ? No. olddefconfig accepts the default answer for each new configuration item, non-interactively. oldconfig is interactive. I can't really give you guidance with your original probl

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

2023-04-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 10:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is it better to us emerge -U or emerge -N > > I've always done -N but it didn't go very smoothly it seems to me -U might be > better option but it takes longer. > Right now I'm doing -U and it is compiling 549-packages. > Since

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 18:44 -0400, Jack wrote: > I've recently gotten a few of my usual "Bouncing messages" messages  > from the mailing list, but when I go to the archives to see if I can  > identify the problematic messages, I don't see anything since the  > middle of March.  https://infra-sta

Re: [gentoo-user] Logic?

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > 1. My system was basically working last time I updated it several > months > ago. > > 2. Now both of my main web browsers are severely if not utterly > foobar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 20:04 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > I need the keyboard to bring it out of suspend. Forgive a naive question that I only ask because it hasn't come up yet: is the power buttonan option to wake the machine? Everyone has their own preferred workflow and I've always just di

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

2023-03-18 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 18:36 +, Michael wrote: > The kernel has IA32_EMULATION compiled in: > >  # grep IA32_EMULATION /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y Small nit-pick: Is it enabled in the kernel that is actually running?   zgrep CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION /proc/config.gz > and /l

Re: [gentoo-user] Tailing compressed build logs

2023-03-09 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 15:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Fetching a Debian compiled version and running deb2targz on it ends up with a > .so file, which where to put? app-arch/deb2targz exists. Would probably satisfy the need.

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-03 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 23:53 -0500, efeizbudak wrote: > > Doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of using pass? I mean if > > it's > > always decryptable then is it really useful to have it encrypted in > > the first place (assuming you have full disk encryption set up)? Yes and no. Yes in the se

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 15:38 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > Can you re-architect this as a (pseudo) daemon so that you unlock it > once (or at least a LOT less often) and it stores the necessary > information in memory for subsequent re-use? You just described gpg-agent, the core of what Efe (OP) i

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 09:10 -0500, efeizbudak wrote: > I let mutt-wizard set a cron job which takes my password out of pass, > logs into the email server and fetches my mail every 5 minutes. With > this I have to unlock my key as frequently as the amount in > gpg-agent.conf's default-cache-ttl sett

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-journald: user-1000.journal ... Not a XENIX named type file

2023-02-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 10:31 +0800, johnstrass wrote: > Monotonic clock jumped backwards relative last journal entry Is your system clock accurate? Is it in sync the the hardware clock, if the machine has one?

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 11:53 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Apologies to those who've already seen this or had their replies > bounce. The mail host I use was down yesterday (the big storm?) so I > haven't seen any responses to this post. All the replies are archived here: https://archives.gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-15 at 15:52 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre" I don't have advice for your specific issue, but, as requested: [ebuild R] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 readline

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby, Ragel, and Colm

2022-12-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 18:49 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: > I just wanted to "emerge ruby" on a new Gentoo server which failed > at dev-util/ragel-7.0.4 with > >   make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/libfsm.la', needed by > 'ragel'.  Stop. I also had (I mean I still have the server, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?

2022-12-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Matt Connell wrote: > On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 17:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What do you use to play .wav files? > > The same thing I use to play every other media: mpv To clarify: media-video/mpv

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?

2022-12-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 17:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > What do you use to play .wav files? The same thing I use to play every other media: mpv

Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

2022-11-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-11-17 at 21:41 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > Might it be hidden behind USE="tools"? This is correct. $ equery uses e2fsprogs ... + + tools : Build extfs tools (mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, etc.) Philip, make sure you have the 'tools' USE flag enabled for e2fsprogs and it should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repair of a seg-faulting bin-utils

2022-10-26 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 14:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Another possible issue is bad -march settings.  That usually is an > issue if you change your CPU and boot off of an existing hard drive. > If you're going to upgrade your CPU you should rebuild all of @system > (at least) with -march set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gio/pcmanfm sftp:// "operation not supported"

2022-10-26 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just > happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the > same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a > mystery. It is likely that nobo

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:15 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I *STRONGLY* /OBJECT/ to the notion that users should not edit > configuration files. Calm down. Nobody said you can't. I do. Just know what you're doing and pay attention to what portage does with package-managed configuration files. d

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 22:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >  Is this a bug? Nope, this is the way it is supposed to work. Ramon is correct, user changes should go into sudoers.d which has been the case for... some years now, I think? I don't recall. I still make changes in sudoers directly, and jus

Re: [gentoo-user] gio/pcmanfm sftp:// "operation not supported"

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs > installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get > the impression that > >     $ gio list sftp:/// > > is supposed to work, but that too says "Oper

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 11:04 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I think that being ashamed about not knowing something tends to promote > what I consider to be a negative stigmata that people should know > everything and that they should hide what they don't know. Was more just laughing at myself for h

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 17:47 +0200, tastytea wrote: > equery meta Ashamed to admit I learned of equery meta today. I'd previously been relying on eix to find, say, the website associated with a package.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge depclean after world update

2022-09-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote: > I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out > now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every > week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probably cleaned > maybe one or two packages in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

2022-08-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 16:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > Does deluge have a GUI option?  Of course, if I put it > on another machine, I may go headless for it.  That's one reason I'm > asking.  Options. Yes, deluge has a GUI by default. I just build it with USE="-gtk - libnotify -sound webinterface" and

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

2022-08-29 Thread Matt Connell
How many torrents are you seeding, for a point of comparison? I use deluge (headless) on my home server, seeding anywhere from 500- 1000 individual torrents, representing ~5TB of total data, and the process is cruising along at just over 1GB of memory used. Maybe qbittorrent just doesn't scale we

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:42 -0400, Julien Roy wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: > > Thoughts?  Ideas? > > You might be interested in borgbackup [1] > It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save > some space. It supports encryption too. > It's packaged in

Re: [gentoo-user] pulseaudio - pipewire

2022-08-03 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 18:17 +0200, hitachi303 wrote: > I care about having sound but don't care to much about how it is > working. Any suggestions which path will lead me to the goal of having > the least trouble in future? If you're using pulse now and things are working, then stick with pulse.

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Jami

2022-07-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 15:15 +0200, w...@op.pl wrote: > Does anybody know a reasonable way to install GNU Jami on Gentoo? I've had success with installing rpm/dpk and installing a package intended for another system. You might need to do some minor repairs with directories, but it is an option. M

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 11:26 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > - if I enter password for the keyring, how to change it in the future. The aforementioned seahorse will allow you to manage this. I'm certain there's a CLI way to access it. > - do I need to keep that password, will I be ask to u

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 09:34 -0400, Matt Connell wrote: > > Should not this instruction say emerge --pretend  --depclean rather > > than --unmerge ? > > Since its pretended, the result is the same, ultimately. I take this back. You're correct. depclean should show you

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
> > > By upgrading one of my system, I've just noticed this behaviour is > > > enforced (I think) by new package that was pulled by emerge: > > > [ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-42.1  USE="pam ssh-agent > > > (-selinux) -systemd -test" > > > I don't use gnome, I use XFCE but I guess one

Re: [gentoo-user] bundler-2.1.4 failing to emerge

2022-07-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 11:50 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm updating my system, but it is stopping on dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4 > > According rebuild, below it shouldn't be related to new "python" > > [ebuild R ] dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4 USE="doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby27 > -ruby26*

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey automatic email download after switch to Oauth2

2022-06-03 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Fri, 2022-06-03 at 12:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Would a practical alternative be to have all gmail messages forwarded to > another account? I did this for years before I decided to finally close that google account. Ironically I can't close this one (yet) because the gentoo mailing li

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

2022-05-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 22:24 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > a choice would be to just go with firefox-bin if not rust-bin. I went with rust-bin because lots of GTK programs (evince, gimp, deluge) as well as some other miscellaneous utilities rely on librsvg which requires rust. So, since I need

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl upgrade failure

2022-05-11 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
> emerge -av --depclean > perl-cleaner --all Nothing to depclean and perl-cleaner reports nothing to rebuild > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8680082.html None of the ideas here helped me either. Neither did changing the LANG nor MAKEOPTS. ... however, I was able to figure out what

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl upgrade failure

2022-05-10 Thread Matt Connell
I can't figure out why a perl update isn't building. This is only happening on one single machine out of the half dozen Gentoo systems I have running. I've never had issues building perl itself either. Modules sure, but never the main perl package. My search-fu is failing me as well, apparently

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:41 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > FWIW I dodge the librsvg (and therefore rust) dependency by using a > binpkg for my desktop icons. Clever. Unfortunately for me I still need gimp and evince and a few others that depend on it, otherwise I'd be tempted to try to replicat

Re: [gentoo-user] Would a Thinkpad X200 be too much trouble too run gentoo on?

2022-04-21 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Thu, 2022-04-21 at 09:09 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > dev-lang/rust There is rust-bin, though. I use rust-bin on even brand new machines and even though I try to use source builds whenever because I just can't be bothered with the compilation problems and time. > net-libs/webkit-gtk OP i

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 14:57 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I've got a Gentoo image running in Linode without any problem. > > I'm fairly certain that they offer Gentoo as an option when creating > the VPS.  It's been too long and I've messed with too many things > since then. They do. I have happi

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - ERROR: setup

2022-03-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 16:12 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > In /usr/src/linux is pointing correctly: > >    linux -> linux-5.10.61-gentoo 5.10.61 isn't offered by gentoo-sources anymore. I think you probably depcleaned it at some point since then, so there are no more sources there. Sugg

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 10:57 -0500, Chris Phillips wrote: > Although I wonder why dmd-2_096 wasn't in the list ? gtkd probably doesn't support that version of dmd just yet. Just a guess, without examining the ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 09:46 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote: > You have to manually specify, via a USE flag, which version of dmd that > you want. > > eg. "net-misc/onedrive dmd-2_095" in /etc/portage/package.use/dmd Sorry, for this, I copied my *own* use flag file with t

Re: [gentoo-user] Dlang questions, problem emerging gtkd and how to emerge gdc_11_ 2 ?

2022-03-02 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2022-03-02 at 09:27 -0500, Chris Phillips wrote: >   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: >     any-of ( dmd-2_076 dmd-2_077 dmd-2_074 dmd-2_075 dmd-2_078 dmd-2_079 > dmd-2_089 dmd-2_088 dmd-2_083 dmd-2_082 dmd-2_081 dmd-2_080 dmd-2_087 > dmd-2_086 dmd-2_085 dmd-2_08

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

2022-02-23 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 11:28 +0300, Anatoly Oreshkin wrote: > Unfortunately specifying dev-python/confluent-kafka::guru hasn't > helped. Unfortunately I don't have any better ideas. I've had more problems with the pkg.installed state than any other single thing in Salt. If you states don't need t

Re: [gentoo-user] problem installing confluent-kafka from guru

2022-02-22 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 10:02 +0300, Anatoly Oreshkin wrote: > The following package(s) were not found, and no possible matches were > found in the package db: dev-python/confluent-kafka. I've never used a gentoo system with salt stack, but I had a thought. Salt can be picky with package names some

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootless X without elogind

2022-02-16 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On Wed, 2022-02-16 at 20:05 +0100, Björn Fischer wrote: > But I did not want to bloat my system with > elogind (not to mention systemd) For the sake of the argument, elogind is a standalone package. systemd provides 'logind'. I run all my systems without systemd with lightdm as a display manager

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