Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fsck operational error

2025-04-09 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 9 April 2025 17:38:50 British Summer Time ralfconn wrote: > Il 21/09/24 18:16, ralfconn ha scritto: > > Upon boot OpenRc shows this warning: > > > > fsck: checking local filesystem > > fsck: fsck.ext4 device or resource busy while trying to open > > /dev/nvme0n1p6 > > fsck: filesyste

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-02 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 05:04:12 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > The second page, relevant to AMD CPUs, points to the particular microcode > > blob you'd need to use for your CPU: > > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMD_microcode >

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-01 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 14:03:06 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-01 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> ... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around. > >> Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that thing? I do have

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 16:05:29 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've a nasty feeling I damaged the SSD by applying too much force while > installing it. Cracked track, or something. If so, I don't feel I should > return it as faulty. > > [Slumps shoulders...] > > Can I justify star

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 13:45:09 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > The journey continues... > > I recently bought a Ugreen USB-3 external NVMe housing and a Samsung 990 Pro > 4TB SSD. They worked fine for a few weeks, including yesterday when I used > it to back up my LA

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 March 2025 01:48:01 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Finally, consider TRIM being run on a cron job, or better use something > > like the SSDcronTRIM script once a month to decide and execute fstrim if > > needed. [snip ...] > The onl

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 22 March 2025 18:50:48 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As most know from other threads, I have a couple external m.2 NVME SSD > drives thingys. As of today, I now have a Crucial 480GB and 1TB and a > Samsung 1TB drive. I also have a Samsung 1TB m.2 in my main rig for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Michael
On Monday, 17 March 2025 02:34:47 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-03-16, Michael wrote: > >> Ugh! I didn't provide a comprehensive answer - sorry. All this MBR > >> nostalgia I've been trying to forget. LOL! > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-17 Thread Michael
You could chroot from a liveUSB or better your old hdd and check you have /etc /root and /home/dale in place and the contents and access rights have been copied over correctly - rsync should do this fast enough. Before you start nuking things indiscriminately please note your /etc/fstab is now

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 11:40:14 Greenwich Mean Time you wrote: > On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > > Dale wrote: > > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy b

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 09:58:42 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Well, this got interesting. I booted the spinning rust drive again and > > redone the /boot from the old system. I rebuilt the init thingy because > > the one that was there was for the old drive. I then ran the

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub fails. I missed something.

2025-03-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 15 March 2025 07:29:32 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a Samsung SSD 500GB drive that I ended up not using in my new > build, went with the m.2 stick thingy. I decided that I would put it in > the NAS box and replace the spinning rust drive. I booted a sysrescue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : glances at gparted

2025-03-09 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 8 March 2025 22:48:29 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:40:48PM +0100 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > >> Another thing to consider: don’t put it into the safe for a year without > >> powering it up. As was explained in a previous m

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

2025-03-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025 19:54:19 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:53:51PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Greetings, > > > > After reading the recent conversation on m.2 SSDs in a USB-3 enclosure, I > > decided to give it a try. I bought a 4TB Samsun

Re: [gentoo-user] agpgart, radeon and amdgpu kernel modules

2025-03-03 Thread Michael
On Monday, 3 March 2025 12:18:34 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > Mon, 3 March 2025 in 12:45, Michael : > > Both the old AGP and the new(er) PCIe graphics cards > > use GART to manage graphics processing. > > Does it mean that the agpgart module is needed even > I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] agpgart, radeon and amdgpu kernel modules

2025-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 2 March 2025 23:08:34 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > I have AMD/ATI RV740 PRO [Radeon HD 4770] > video card connected to the PCIEX16_1 port of > my Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard > that has no integrated video card. > > My processor is AMD Phenom II X4 945, > and I believe t

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-03-03 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 2 March 2025 21:58:15 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > вс, 16 февр. 2025 г. в 18:51, Wols Lists : > > On 01/02/2025 00:13, gevisz wrote: > > > The problem is that after booting with an additional HDD, > > > one of these ZFS HDDs does not report any of its disk id: > > > nor wwn neight

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with recommended budget for hardware

2025-02-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 February 2025 19:12:38 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 11:31:48AM + schrieb Michael: > > Hmm ... AM4 socket CPUs could drive SATA x2 + PCIe x2 NVME M.2. I've read > > that with AM5 CPUs it's all PCIe. You w

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with recommended budget for hardware

2025-02-27 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 20 February 2025 19:18:52 Greenwich Mean Time whiteman...@paraboletancza.org wrote: > Hello, > > I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money > should I spend on it. Only you can make this judgment. There is usually a sweet spot between performance and price.

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 26 February 2025 21:25:09 Greenwich Mean Time Wol wrote: > On 26/02/2025 19:56, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM Wols Lists wrote: > >> All I want to do is to get mp3/mp4 files on to that USB stick without > >> having to resort to sneakernet. > > > > Great, t

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 26 February 2025 07:52:27 Greenwich Mean Time Wols Lists wrote: > What I want though, if anybody knows, is an app that will share the USB > drive on the network so I can copy my own stuff to it without faffing > about taking it off, putting it on a laptop, transferring and putting it

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-26 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 21:34:11 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:21:08PM + schrieb Michael: > > Some 'smart' TVs won't use a USB drive unless and until they've formatted > > it first. I've attached a 3

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-26 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 26 February 2025 14:43:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM Dale wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure you mentioned this once before in one of my older > >> threads. I can't find it tho. I use PCIe x1 cards to connect my SATA > >> dri

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 19:18:57 Greenwich Mean Time Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM Michael wrote: > > Unless I'm wrong there is/was a speed penalty when accessing a fs over > > FUSE. Anyway, I was configuring kernel 6.12.16-gentoo today and

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 20:19:18 Greenwich Mean Time Wol wrote: > On 25/02/2025 15:04, Rich Freeman wrote: > > That said, there is nothing "wrong" with buying M.2 drives just to use > > them exclusively USB3 enclosures. I just think you're paying a big > > premium for something that isn't rea

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 17:05:12 Greenwich Mean Time Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM Dale wrote: > > Still, is FUSE the best way to handle this or should it be done the same > > way as EXT4? I don't recall enabling FUSE so I figure it is enabled by > > default or somet

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 14:48:52 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 24 February 2025 22:48:26 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger > > wrote: > > You need a common denominator. ExFat is a good candidate, methinks, as it > > won’t give any issues with file permissions. Si

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 11:00:08 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 03:56:49 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > > > > [snip ...] > > > >> I just took the m.2 stick thingy and plugged it > >> into my

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 25 February 2025 03:56:49 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: [snip ...] > I just took the m.2 stick thingy and plugged it > into my phone. It popped up and said something about not being ready to > access and did I want to format it. Well, g, why would I want > that ROFL I cl

Re: [gentoo-user] colm installation is failing with ACCESS DENIED

2025-02-24 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-02-22 15:28:13, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Michael, > Similar behavior is seen when updating sys-devel/bison. I installed openjdk > instead of graalvm, just in case. Here's the relevant output for emerge: > > checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ supports POSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.

2025-02-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 February 2025 10:21:20 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho. > > > > It does. From the fine manual: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.

2025-02-23 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 23 February 2025 07:53:28 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > I do wish mpv had a volume control for audio tho. It does. From the fine manual: / and * Decrease/increase volume. Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter the audio volume. > One t

Re: [gentoo-user] colm installation is failing with ACCESS DENIED

2025-02-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-02-22 10:40:28, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > The problem is in the dependency dev-util/colm and not with webkit-gtk. > > The sorted env vars contains no reference to 'java'. In fact there's > neither CC nor CXX env-var: Check "emerge --info" too.

Re: [gentoo-user] colm installation is failing with ACCESS DENIED

2025-02-22 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-02-21 22:02:34, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > Not sure what does this mean and how to solve this? > > emerge net-libs/webkit-gtk > > Getting: > > checking checking if javac is able to compile programs ... ... * ACCESS > DENIED: fopen_wr: /proc/self/coredump_filter > * ACCESS DEN

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/gpac and media-video/mplayer fails to build.

2025-02-20 Thread Michael Cook
On 2/20/25 1:00 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I downloaded some really new videos the other day, .mkv ones.  Nothing I had would play them, mplayer or mpv based players.  I decided to keyword them, and a couple friends, and change some USE flags to see if they would play with newer but unstable versi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : alternatives

2025-02-20 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 19 February 2025 12:20:33 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:10:35PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > > 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > One thing I forgot to mention: AFAIK not all such enclosures support TRIM. > If you want to get one, check th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick

2025-02-20 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 19 February 2025 12:10:59 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:53:48AM + schrieb Michael: > > Once buffers are saturated write operations will settle at what the device > > can achieve. I have observed writes slow down when

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to USB sticks for reliable archiving

2025-02-19 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 19 February 2025 01:12:34 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250219 Grant Edwards wrote: > > If they start asking questions, just say: "I tried to format them on > > my PC. It ran for 10 hours, then failed". It doesn't matter what they ask > > apart from "cash refund, replaceme

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : alternatives

2025-02-18 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 21:18:03 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: > > 250218 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> I recommend an external USB case with an NVMe SSD inside. > >> This may not be as compact and not as cheap, > >> but they are much much much f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : glances at gparted

2025-02-18 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 18:54:07 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > So yes, at least 1 of the sticks is unusable & probably both. > I can take/mail them back to the store & ask them to test them with Linux > & refund my CAD if they confirm they're defective. I would refrain from stati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : f3

2025-02-18 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 18 February 2025 03:46:26 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250217 Michael wrote: > > It is worth mentioning the sys-block/f3 package (Fight Flash Fraud), > > which is in Portage and can test a USB flash disk to discover if it is > > fake. Besides the slow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick

2025-02-18 Thread Michael
On Monday 17 February 2025 23:12:59 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM + schrieb Michael: > > I just formatted a USB 2.0 8GB stick with mke2fs as a test. It took 46 > > seconds. Extrapolating for your 64GB partition it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info

2025-02-17 Thread Michael
On Monday 17 February 2025 17:16:51 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-17, Philip Webb wrote: > > The sticks were delivered, so I can't easily return them, > > & in any case we've had 50 cm snow dumped on us in the last few days. > > If a Linux file system really is unachievab

Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info

2025-02-17 Thread Michael
On Monday 17 February 2025 09:18:45 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250216 Philip Webb wrote: > > I'm currently testing a 2.0/1.1 port to write an Ext2 file system. > > it succeeded ! -- results below : > > root:668 ~> t ; mke2fs /dev/sdb1 ; t > 2025-02-16 Sun 22.21.11 > mke2

Re: [gentoo-user] problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick : more info

2025-02-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time Philip Webb wrote: > I successfully formatted one of the partitions which failed with Ext2 as > Vfat. I was able to mount it, create a file with words in it, > save it, list it via 'ls', browse it & then delete it, all using Gentoo. > This sug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick

2025-02-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday 16 February 2025 09:08:10 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote: > > 250215 Michael wrote: > >> Formatting a 256GB USB drive, especially if it is a USB 3.0 or later > >> spec, should not take hours, but minutes if not se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dependency missing for libreoffice-bin?

2025-02-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday 16 February 2025 07:10:17 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-15, Michael wrote: > > As I understand it from the contents of /var/db/repos/gentoo/app-office/ > > libreoffice-bin/libreoffice-bin-24.2.7.2.ebuild the binary 'flavor' being >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem formatting new 256 GB USB stick

2025-02-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday 15 February 2025 11:50:23 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2025-02-15, Philip Webb wrote: > > Recently, I bought 2 new Kingston Exodia 256 GB USB sticks > > from Canada Computers, the store in Toronto I've used for 25 yr . > > With many previous new USB sticks of sizes <

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dependency missing for libreoffice-bin?

2025-02-15 Thread Michael
On Saturday 15 February 2025 05:03:14 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-14, Michael wrote: > > This is my profile: > > > > ~ $ eselect profile show > > > > Current /etc/portage/make.profile symlink: > > default/linux/amd64/23.0/des

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-02-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-02-14 13:47:56, Matthias Hanft wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > > I think you are going to be stuck with revdep-rebuild issues > > otherwise. > > I succeeded in creating a file /etc/revdep-rebuild/98-firebird > with the line > > LD_LIBRARY_MASK=

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency missing for libreoffice-bin?

2025-02-14 Thread Michael
] app-crypt/pinentry-1.3.1::gentoo USE="X gtk ncurses > -caps -efl -emacs -keyring -qt5 -qt6 -verify-sig -wayland" 0 KiB ~ $ emerge -av --pretend app-crypt/pinentry These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Dependency resolution took 7

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-02-11 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-02-11 17:30:00, Matthias Hanft wrote: > > Hmmm... could be a solution indeed, but as long as it's just revdep-rebuild, > the pain threshold for an overlay and tinkering with the ebuild has not yet > been reached :-) > I think you are going to be stuck with revdep-rebuild issues otherwise

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-02-11 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 09:09:55 Greenwich Mean Time Matthias Hanft wrote: > Michael wrote: > > According to http://gpo.zugaina.org/ firebird is provided by bgo-overlay. > > I don't know if this overlay is checked by gentoo devs for the quality of > > its contents or

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-02-10 Thread Michael
On Monday 10 February 2025 19:07:07 Greenwich Mean Time Matthias Hanft wrote: > Hi, > > I have many Firebird databases on my Gentoo server. > > To compile PHP with Firebird support, I have the line > > -firebird > > in /etc/portage/profile/use.mask because the Firebird USE flag > of PHP was mas

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner --reallyall and leftover files, that I didn't touch.

2025-02-10 Thread Michael
On Monday 10 February 2025 10:53:26 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > This is the perl I have installed. > > > dev-lang/perl-5.40.0-r1:0/5.40 > > > I'm not going to list all the stuff it spit out. Just going to include > enough that you get the idea. > > > * /usr/lib64/perl5/5.40/Par

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner --reallyall and leftover files, that I didn't touch.

2025-02-10 Thread Michael
On Sunday 9 February 2025 23:46:08 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > It was mentioned a while ago in a thread that running perl-cleaner > --reallyall on occasion is a good idea. It makes sure everything is > stable. Well, not everything, but everything related to files linked against

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

2025-02-09 Thread Michael
On Sunday 9 February 2025 16:44:55 Greenwich Mean Time Jacques Montier wrote: > Le dim. 9 févr. 2025 à 15:36, Håkon Alstadheim a > > écrit : > > Den 08.02.2025 15:47, skrev Jacques Montier: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > Is it possible to stop a compilation midway in the case of a very long

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging world

2025-02-09 Thread Michael
On Saturday 8 February 2025 10:24:06 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone give me a tip or two here? > > Usually, when I encounter this, I temporarily de-emerge the package > causing the problem, and it's always worked so far. But I'm having > trouble identifying the packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

2025-02-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday 8 February 2025 23:07:38 Greenwich Mean Time Jack wrote: > On 2025.02.08 14:00, Filip Kobierski wrote: > > Hi Jacques, > > > > I think you are looking for SIGSTP or SIGSTOP but I think that's > > not exactly it. From what I know you cannot do that for emerge > > easily. For similar res

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-02-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday 8 February 2025 10:02:55 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > On Friday 7 February 2025 20:56:00 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson > > wrote: > > I don't run haveged, but I think you might be on to something regarding > > the > > entropy... Googl

Re: [gentoo-user] Update of systemd-utils failes (OpenRC)

2025-02-08 Thread Michael
On Saturday 8 February 2025 08:56:20 Greenwich Mean Time Matthias Hanft wrote: > Matthias Hanft wrote: > > After "emerge --sync" today, emerge wants to update systemd-utils > > from 254.17 to 255.15-r1 and fails with: [...] > > Ok, it was my own fault: I had another (own) "patchelf" (for legacy >

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-02-08 Thread Michael
On Friday 7 February 2025 20:56:00 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > I don't run haveged, but I think you might be on to something regarding the > entropy... Googling around shows a lot of people having similar issues. I'm > gonna try out haveged and see if it improved the situation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping dvd with k3b requires transcode?

2025-02-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 5 February 2025 12:54:01 Greenwich Mean Time Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just tried to rip an old DVD with k3b, but it says that it requires > transcode for this. I came across the same popup when I tried to Use the "Rip Video DVD" function. This is related to upst

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-02-02 Thread Michael
On Sunday 2 February 2025 11:09:09 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > This is my /var/log/sddm.log from an unsuccessful upstart: > > [11:57:20.087] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... > > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Starting... > > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Logind interface found > > [11:57

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-02 Thread Michael
On Sunday 2 February 2025 02:07:07 Greenwich Mean Time Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM Dale wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Now, if you were running btrfs or cephfs or some other exotic > > > filesystems, then it would be a whole different matter, > > > > I could see > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-31 Thread Michael
On Thursday 30 January 2025 16:55:00 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: [snip ...] > After setting up one of them as a ZFS mirror, I immediately > got the problem that if I boot my system with additional HDD > connected to my computer, one of these ZFS mirror disks > is not detected and the corresp

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-01-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 29 January 2025 21:19:50 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Thanks for the input. I do indeed have a pretty new CPU as well. > > I did try the rc.conf trick but no luck after trying it once. I'll keep it > around for a while and see if I can see an overall improvement. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Sunday 26 January 2025 20:18:57 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-26, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I had a problem with two of my Ryzen systems that exhibited this > > behaviour. One has a G processor, the other doesn't > > > > Apparently Ryzen processors have an idle bug that lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 15:28:49 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. [snip ...] > You're absolutely right. I was missing CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO, a setting > that builds in the USB sound driver. I'm not sure how I worked that out, > but probably somewhere on my Internet sea

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Sunday 26 January 2025 11:18:00 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 25 January 2025 21:41:01 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson > > wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've been running in to a problem on and off for the past year or so: when > > I boot my computer it won't always sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 08:00:12 Greenwich Mean Time k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > > > alsamixer displays just one object, label

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-21 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 21 January 2025 11:59:11 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be > > bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25? > > No, because those component numbers are specified by upstream - > i.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 16:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's v helpful, Michael. Thanks. > > Do you mind if I quote you in the bug report I send in? > Nope, go ahead.

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 11:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > In this case the init script is using a custom variable for the timeout, and setting that variable unconditionally: stop() { local stop_timeout="SIGT

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 11:28:21 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > > I run BOINC on my machines, and /etc/init.d/boinc includes far too long a > timeout on start-stop-daemon when stopping the program. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-13 Thread Michael
On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> eric wrote: > >>> On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: > >>>> Howdy, > >>>> &

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-13 Thread Michael
On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > eric wrote: > > On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I think I ran into this on my old rig too. After some upgrade, I lost > >> the option in the right click menu. I have this issue on the new rig > >> and can't

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday 12 January 2025 10:41:23 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Thank you, that gave me the hint I needed for the first step ... I use > an ssh option for nixos that's not need for gentoo: /"-o > PreferredAuthentications=password"/ You can use a user password to login over SSH or public ke

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday 12 January 2025 09:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to run xpra as a server on a gentoo box but I get the > following error on connection: > > /user@host: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive)./ > > My nixos client works well with ni

Re: [gentoo-user] 'mbsync -a' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

2025-01-06 Thread Michael
On Monday 6 January 2025 10:52:18 Greenwich Mean Time Filip Milosavljević wrote: > Greetings everyone, glad to finally be part of the club. Welcome! :-) > I've setup neomutt with Gmail successfully but iSync is giving me pains. > I've enabled all use flags : > > net-mail/isync berkdb sasl ssl

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU clock frequency crashing.

2024-12-30 Thread Michael
On Monday 30 December 2024 21:51:29 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Grimes wrote: > Hey, I'm having usability problems in applications as my CPU clock > frequency crashes down to about 530 mhz... I need it lock in a floor > frequency of 1.25 ghz... I used > cpupower frequency-set -d 1.25GHz which does li

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with Wifi

2024-12-27 Thread Michael
On Friday 27 December 2024 01:12:39 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > 241225 Michael wrote: > > I expect when you edit the SSID as suggested above > > you will be able to connect without using the GUI. > > Indeed ! -- that was the problem. > I've added the space & comm

Re: [gentoo-user] update catch-22 with Wifi

2024-12-25 Thread Michael
On Monday 23 December 2024 23:53:38 GMT Jack Ostroff wrote: > resending to the list, instead of directly (fat fingered the first time) > > On 12/23/24 6:45 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > I no longer have a landline available (even via friends) > > & rely on Wifi for I/net service, incl software downlo

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with Wifi

2024-12-25 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 25 December 2024 02:01:43 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > 241224 Michael wrote: > > Did he *only* change the SSID and password > > or did he also change the encryption and key management method ? > > Only the former : he's not skilled enough to do the latter. &

Re: [gentoo-user] strange problem with Wifi

2024-12-24 Thread Michael
Hi Philip, On Monday 23 December 2024 23:35:21 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > I've encountered a strange problem logging into my local Wifi. > There are 2 services I can use : (1) the household service, > part of my landlord's home-office system ; (2) my cell-phone's hotspot. > (2) is ok, but trying t

Re: [gentoo-user] Tree resolving details/visualization

2024-12-23 Thread Michael
Hi Alexander, On Friday 20 December 2024 10:30:22 GMT Alexander Kurakin wrote: > Good day! > > On emerge and other operations, I see the next sequence of actions: > 1. Packages state is pulled (repositories, > `/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords`, etc.). This is versions of the > packages, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of Ninja failures, 70 days since update.

2024-12-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:37 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > Hey, does Ninja have scaling problems? I'm getting MANY failures when it > tries to build on 64 threads (BG BAWX). > Ninja doesn't (yet) support the GNU Make jobserver protocol, so if you have a build system that mixes ninja with ot

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-diff output meaning

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 December 2024 20:47:57 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Thursday 19 December 2024 18:02:29 GMT Matt Connell wrote: > >> On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:57 -0600, Dale wrote: > >>> Some, llvm for example, has a "*" included. > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-diff output meaning

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 December 2024 18:02:29 GMT Matt Connell wrote: > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:57 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Some, llvm for example, has a "*" included. > > Almost certain this is because the package moved to a new category. Yes, the fine manual says so, check section "eix-diff": [*N] >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 December 2024 15:46:06 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > OK, I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the correct error message would > have been along the lines: > >File or directory not found: /dev/sda1/EFI/whatever. Yes, it would be reasonable to expect at least this much. Perhaps ef

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 21:31:42 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > Thanks for the reply. > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 15:58:14 +, Michael wrote: > > On an OpenRC system without GRUB, rEFInd is a good choice, or for a > > totally > > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 14:30:12 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I > graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow t

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-8.0.107-r1 build failed

2024-12-06 Thread Michael
On Friday 6 December 2024 13:16:58 GMT whiteman808 wrote: > Hello, > > I can't merge dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-8.0.107-r1. Build log and > environment file are in attachments. > > Hope for solving issue, > whiteman808 This thread mentions fs access rights being a problem: https://stackoverflow.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using Gentoo as server and desktop

2024-12-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday 5 December 2024 23:01:36 GMT Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-12-05, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote: > > Does exist a way... where you could emerge world, update all the > > system, finally end up by upgrading the kernel and being sure that > > the old .config you used through menuconfig (or

Re: [gentoo-user] Package "www-client/firefox"

2024-12-04 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 4 December 2024 23:25:42 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi Rainer, > > On 5/12/24 00:35, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > So which slot should I choose? Any opinions out there? > > I can't speak for Firefox, but I do maintain Chromium which is similar > enough in terms of being a browser with a

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 11:29:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > > I had (another) look at the wiki. You're right, it seems to describe > > NFSv3 > > only. I don't have NFSv3 here to comp

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2024-12-03 Thread Michael
f it at the time. > Dec 2, 2024, 09:06 by confabul...@kintzios.com: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2023 00:16:11 GMT you wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:49:10 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote: > >> > > Over the last 8-9

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 29 November 2023 00:16:11 GMT you wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:49:10 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote: > > > Over the last 8-9 months I noticed an old Lenovo G505s laptop is > > > spending > > > a > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > [New readers start here... :) ] > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a > chroot on my M9 machine. I r

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