Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start : another try + strace

2025-07-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 21 July 2025 02:12:43 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > El 21/7/25 a las 2:13, Philip Webb escribió: > > > Thanks for your + Dale's suggestions, which I'll review after brunch. > > > > Meanwhile, I tried splitting up the commands in .xinitrc : > > > > > >'dbus-launch .

Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start : some useful info

2025-07-19 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 19 July 2025 23:32:02 British Summer Time Philip Webb wrote: > 250719 Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 19 July 2025 01:20:48 British Summer Time Philip Webb wrote: > >> A few weeks ago, a weekly update resulted in KDE failing to start ; > >> as it needed t

Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start

2025-07-19 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 19 July 2025 01:20:48 British Summer Time Philip Webb wrote: > A few weeks ago, a weekly update resulted in KDE failing to start ; > as it needed to be updated anyway, I have been using Fluxbox instead. > During the past few days, I removed all the old KDE pkgs, > did an update of all

Re: [gentoo-user] amd microcode: No sha256 digest for patch ID: 0xa500012 found (solved but still perplexed)

2025-07-16 Thread Michael
On Monday, 14 July 2025 00:11:58 British Summer Time Jack wrote: > After a recent full world update, I ran needrestart, which told me: > Diagnostics: >The currently running processor microcode revision is 0x0a500011 > which is not the expected microcode revision 0x0a500012. > > dmesg included

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge of musescore 4.4.4

2025-07-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 July 2025 15:25:23 British Summer Time Levi Neuwirth wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2025, at 09:57, Hans S wrote: > > > > As I don't want to mix whole development source package tree into my > > system, I think I better just wait for the updated MuseScore to be > > moved to the stable tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge of musescore 4.4.4

2025-07-12 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 12 July 2025 10:14:18 British Summer Time Hans S wrote: > media-sound/musescore-4.4.4 failed to build. > > Seems like a problem with changes in Qt. If not reported before, I can > by request send all the information according to prescription. > > Here is output from the failure: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey encryption stopped working, uses same as Thunderbird email software I think.

2025-07-07 Thread Michael
On Monday, 7 July 2025 03:07:35 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have one friend that likes to email with encrypted emails. We have > good chats so I set up encryption ages ago. It worked for a long time. > We lost contact for a bit but recently started chatting again. I think >

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS

2025-07-07 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 6 July 2025 21:57:59 British Summer Time John Blinka wrote: > Javier and Michael, > > Sorry to have gone silent for a while. Had houseguests and didn’t want to > ignore them while burying myself in kernel configuration. > > However, your combined suggestions have bor

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS

2025-07-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 4 July 2025 15:20:52 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Friday, 4 July 2025 14:44:35 British Summer Time John Blinka wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM Michael wrote: > [snip ...] > > > > and in particular boot with Ubuntu, or whichever liveUSB

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS

2025-07-04 Thread Michael
On Friday, 4 July 2025 14:44:35 British Summer Time John Blinka wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 12:57 PM Michael wrote: [snip ...] > > and in particular boot with Ubuntu, or whichever liveUSB allows your audio > > to work and run: > > > > lsmod > > There are

[gentoo-user] Plasma 6.3.5 immutable widgets in System Tray

2025-07-04 Thread Michael
I've updated Plasma to 6.3.5 and had a 'Contact' icon appearing in the System Tray, which is apparently put there by merkuro.contact. I don't need it, or want it. I tried to remove it, by right clicking, selecting 'Edit or Manage Widgets' and deleting/deselecting it from the widgets list. So

Re: [gentoo-user] sound on Raptor Lake-P/U/H cAVS

2025-07-03 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 3 July 2025 16:34:00 British Summer Time John Blinka wrote: > Hello Gentooers, > > I could use some help getting sound to work on the above hardware. > > Googling shows that there has been widespread difficulty with this > sound card on many distros. I haven't found a consensus on ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CPU and motherboard

2025-06-29 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 29 June 2025 03:19:59 British Summer Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 10:33:24AM -0700 schrieb Jay Faulkner: > > On 6/28/2025 9:38 AM, whiteman808 wrote: > > > Is it necessary to reinstall Gentoo if I change CPU or motherboard? If > > > not, what steps should be d

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CPU and motherboard

2025-06-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 June 2025 21:10:59 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Me tho, I'd install the CPU and try booting. I'd just stick to a > console, no GUI. Run emerge -ae world and go take a nap, go to work or > whatever. Make sure to include --resume tho. If something fails, it > will keep tryin

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing CPU and motherboard

2025-06-28 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 28 June 2025 18:33:24 British Summer Time Jay Faulkner wrote: > On 6/28/2025 9:38 AM, whiteman808 wrote: > > Is it necessary to reinstall Gentoo if I change CPU or motherboard? If > > not, what steps should be done on the existing Gentoo installation? Do I > > need to do these operatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with postfix

2025-06-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2025-06-20 17:38:57, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > When it receives an email addressed to prh@, postfix insists on > forwarding it directly to , and then failing name lookup. It should > instead accept the email itself and pass it to dovecot. And as far as I know, > the DNS is working fine. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Prefix: 23.0 amd64 profiles not shown when eselect profile list

2025-06-10 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 10 June 2025 09:05:50 British Summer Time Xu Che wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm a new Gentoo user. I've installed Gentoo Prefix on a development > server where I don't have root privileges. > > After a fresh installation using the bootstrap-prefix.sh script, I > checked the news and sa

[gentoo-user] post-emerge config file update

2025-06-10 Thread Michael
I'm not sure why a particular request to update a config file following emerge, does not offer an update: * Messages for package kde-misc/kdeconnect-24.12.3-r2: * The Android .apk file is available via * https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kde.kdeconnect_tp * or via * https://

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hard drive failure

2025-06-09 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 8 June 2025 16:09:19 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > The 184 End-to-End-Error SMART attribute was developed by Hewlett Packard > > to check if corruption took place as data was transferred from/to the > > buffer of the drive. Some drives r

Re: [gentoo-user] Another hard drive failure

2025-06-07 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 7 June 2025 19:12:14 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Second drive gone bad within a few weeks, but it is a 2.5" HDD this time. > > I run a couple of smartctl tests and sector 33428384 was reported to have > > a read failure; e.g.:

[gentoo-user] Another hard drive failure

2025-06-07 Thread Michael
Second drive gone bad within a few weeks, but it is a 2.5" HDD this time. I run a couple of smartctl tests and sector 33428384 was reported to have a read failure; e.g.: ... # 5 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 1351 33428384 # 6 Extended offlineCompleted:

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering mail

2025-06-02 Thread Michael
On Monday, 2 June 2025 16:34:12 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 2 June 2025 13:03:54 British Summer Time Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > > -- Original Message -- > > From "Peter Humphrey" > > To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Date 02.06.2025 11:52:34 > > Subject [gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] cpuid2cpuflags-16 bmi or bmi1 ?

2025-05-31 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 31 May 2025 15:42:46 British Summer Time Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Michael, > > On Thu, 29 May 2025 10:05:40 +0100 you wrote: > > ... > > Should I be checking the cpuid2cpuflags every time gcc is upgraded, or are > > new CPU flags on old CPUs a relatively

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-31 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 May 2025 22:06:03 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > You can transfer some data from a tmpfs and measure the speed. If it gets > > anywhere near 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s) its a SATA 3. The delay in the kernel > > picking it up at boot may be relat

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 May 2025 14:47:49 British Summer Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Fri, May 30, 2025 at 11:56:24AM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > According to that, it is connected at udma6 which is the fastest. So > > > that is good, I guess. Since both drives is slow

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-30 Thread Michael
On Friday, 30 May 2025 02:25:03 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > Same thing just a new drive. I got a new 20TB drive in, same as last > one in this thread. This is what I get from it. > > > May 29 19:06:52 Gentoo-1 kernel: ata4: found unknown device (class 0) > May 29 19:07:02 Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] cpuid2cpuflags-16 bmi or bmi1 ?

2025-05-29 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 29 May 2025 03:10:20 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 5/28/25 8:30 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > This version of cpuid2cpuflags now reports more flags, including "bmi1". > > However, AFAICT the correct flag name (in gcc man page, and grepping > > through PORTDIR is just "bmi")

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/wxpython Command 'sip-build --no-compile' failed with exit code 1.

2025-05-24 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 24 May 2025 16:49:43 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I synced my main rig this morning. Everything compiled fine but > wxpython. I did some searches but couldn't find anything like this. > This is what it spits out. > > >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-python/wxpython-4.2.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission error when trying to rsync over nfs

2025-05-21 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 20:42:28 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 17:30:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> I had a idea. I checked permissions of things while connected to the > >> new data drive set. Then I pulled th

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission error when trying to rsync over nfs

2025-05-21 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 17:30:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 14:27:51 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Michael wrote: > >>> OK, I am confused ... :-/ > >>> > >>> If you want to update the

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-21 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 12:02:36 British Summer Time Matt Jolly wrote: > On 21/5/25 20:56, whiteman808 wrote: > > Does make sense buying new router or just repurposing this PC will be a > > better idea? > > That's up to you and what makes the most sense right now. You can always > change your mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-20 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 00:04:01 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 00:00:35 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > > On 5/19/25 6:27 PM, Michael wrote: > > > No buildpkg on this system. :-( > > > > Gentoo provides a large (45 gb) publ

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission error when trying to rsync over nfs

2025-05-20 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 14:27:51 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > OK, I am confused ... :-/ > > > > If you want to update the contents of a fs over the network, then rsync is > > your tool. Why is NFS coming into this at all? > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission error when trying to rsync over nfs

2025-05-20 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 May 2025 14:39:21 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm wanting to move a Data partition over to a new set of drives that > are encrypted. I decided the easiest way to do this is to put the new > drives on the NAS box and mount them like I do when I backup my large > Vide

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-20 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 03:12:04 British Summer Time Matt Jolly wrote: > On 20/5/25 09:55, whiteman808 wrote: > > Can you recommend some Mikrotik model? I can't recommend Mikrotik because I don't have any working experience with them. I only mentioned them as an example - other OEMs are availabl

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 20 May 2025 00:00:35 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 5/19/25 6:27 PM, Michael wrote: > > No buildpkg on this system. :-( > > Gentoo provides a large (45 gb) public buildpkg cache at > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended hardware for router

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 May 2025 23:35:02 British Summer Time Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi, > > > I want to install and configure on it GNU/Linux or OpenBSD so that this > > computer will serve as router > > > > Is it a good hardware for that purpose? > > Honestly, it's likely that even those specs are overkill

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
On Monday, 19 May 2025 14:17:49 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Just as I was celebrating the last python upgrade has been a breeze, a > > disk > > failed on one PC in the most inopportune moment. The / directory was on > > the SSD disk which faile

[gentoo-user] Filesystem with python3_12, but /var/db,cache with python3_13

2025-05-19 Thread Michael
Just as I was celebrating the last python upgrade has been a breeze, a disk failed on one PC in the most inopportune moment. The / directory was on the SSD disk which failed. The /var/db, /var/cache and /var/log are on a different (spinning) disk. I restored / from a backup which was 5 weeks

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

2025-05-18 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 17 May 2025 08:17:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > SNIP > > Oh, tried to do the last step on my main rig, emerge spit out a nice > > loud and hard to miss, NO!!!. There's still a lot of packages not ready > > for python 3.13 yet. Maybe next week. If I d

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-13 Thread Michael
On Monday, 12 May 2025 23:34:36 British Summer Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, May 07, 2025 at 09:18:16AM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 00:30:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > > > […] > > > I ran a hdparm test. I wanted to see as acc

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-12 Thread Michael
On Monday, 12 May 2025 09:11:54 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Saturday, 10 May 2025 16:53:55 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Dale wrote: > >>> I didn't know about that until now. I already shutdown my old rig. > >>> M

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

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 18:40:44 British Summer Time Wol wrote: > Found it. I will investigate, but to the best of my memory I have no > "targets" settings whatsoever. I will take a look, but at the moment I'm > running the emerge. So from what the news item says, it looks like > everything should

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 16:10:43 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > I'm not the best person to advise on LVM, I just shared what I know, but I > > haven't used LVM in anger for a few years now. Hopefully someone with > > more > > hands on exp

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 15:39:22 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 11 May 2025 14:10:48 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> root@fireball / # lvscan > >> > >> ACTIVE'/dev/home/home-lv' [<7.28 TiB] inh

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 14:10:48 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # lvscan > ACTIVE'/dev/home/home-lv' [<7.28 TiB] inherit > ACTIVE'/dev/backup/backup' [698.63 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE'/dev/OS/usr' [39.06 GiB] inherit > ACTIVE'/d

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 13:21:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Sunday, 11 May 2025 06:41:46 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I'm updating my old rig. Well, I'm trying to. I kept running out of > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and making /var larger, file system won't resize.

2025-05-11 Thread Michael
On Sunday, 11 May 2025 06:41:46 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm updating my old rig. Well, I'm trying to. I kept running out of > space while compiling rust. I need to make /var larger. There are some alternatives to this, especially for rust: 1. First of all not compile it

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-10 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 10 May 2025 16:53:55 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I didn't know about that until now. I already shutdown my old rig. > > Might try that later. It may shed some light on this mess. > > > > I did send a email to the seller tho. They sell a LOT of drives. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with re-partitioning disks

2025-05-08 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 17:39:47 British Summer Time Anna wrote: > Hi! I'm not satisfied with my partition layout, so I'm considering > changing it. It currently looks like this (/dev/sda and /dev/sdc are > SSDs, /dev/sdb is HDD): > > $ lsblk -A -o NAME,MODEL,SIZE,FSUSED,MOUNTPOINT,FSTYPE > NAME

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-07 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 00:30:34 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Michael wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:59:16 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >>> Michael wrote: > > When I put it on the NAS box, I used > > the same power ca

Re: [gentoo-user] A new init system; Simple, powerful, fast, and user-friendly. 66 it is. Anyone interested to help?

2025-05-06 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 6 May 2025 04:57:46 British Summer Time Pramod V U wrote: > `66` is a new init system using `s6` under then hood. I've already written a > mail or two long ago about it on this mailing list. I have already packaged > it, the core boot services, and many other service definition frontend

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-06 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 6 May 2025 13:59:16 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > Initially I'd be suspecting the SATA cable/port, but if you tried another > > MoBo did you also try a different SATA cable? > > > > Were the ports you connected to compatible

Re: [gentoo-user] New hard drive. Is this normal? It looks like a connect problem.

2025-05-06 Thread Michael
On Monday, 5 May 2025 22:15:52 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran up on a couple deals. I first bought a 16TB drive which worked > fine. Then I saw a deal on a 20TB drive. I first put it in a external > enclosure and connected it by eSATA cable to my new rig. I got this in > me

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I suddently need python_targets and python_signle_target?

2025-05-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 16:26 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > After a normal --sync and -auvND world, it seems I suddenly need to > specify use flags python_targets and python_single_target for various > packages. > > I've never had to set those before. > Wild guess, python-3.13 recently became defa

Re: [gentoo-user] TigerVNC

2025-04-19 Thread Michael
On Saturday, 19 April 2025 15:57:46 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > I want to set up tigervnc on my desktop machine to enable remote access. It > should run as a system service on this plasma desktop. I've followed the > wiki as best I can, but when I start the service I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is emerge --sync downloading from random hosts?

2025-04-15 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 15 April 2025 20:19:13 British Summer Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo, > > For several weeks, now, my # emerge --sync has been downloading from one > or other of the hosts: > http://www.uls.co.za/ ("Ultimate Linux Solutions") > https://reenigne.net/ > .. .za is, I

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

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