Due to changes in glib, mc.ext.ini now requires double backslashes as
per their documentation.
# Regex
# An extended regular expression
# Please note that we are using the PCRE library and thus \\| matches
# the literal | and | has a special meaning (or), and () have a special meaning
# and \\(
Some time ago, I posted that DPMS screen screen-shutoff mysteriously
stopped working, and later just as mysteriously started working again.
I've finally figured out the culprit by accident... dosbox. There are
various MS-DOS game archives on the internet with over 4 decades of very
entertaining
On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 at 01:14:17PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> My personal domain inbound email is directed to COTSE.net. I pull
> with fetchmail. After yesterday's world update, fetchmail has been
> failing with the error message in the subject. I can still access my
> i
My personal domain inbound email is directed to COTSE.net. I pull
with fetchmail. After yesterday's world update, fetchmail has been
failing with the error message in the subject. I can still access my
incoming email via webmail mode (BLEAGH!!!). I've set my gmail address
to forward directly
inspect it first before running ./cleanscript
##
#!/bin/bash
# autodepclean script v 0.04 released under GPL v3 by Walter Dnes
# 2023/02/18 Generates a file "cleanscript" in the current directory to
# remove unused ebuilds, including buildtime-only dependancies.
#
# Warnin
On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 07:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> The Gentoo install suggested using "cronie". I want to run a script
> daily as local user. The config I want is...
>
> 35 7 * * * waltdnes /home/waltdnes/pm/check4update/check4update
My email shows that the
The Gentoo install suggested using "cronie". I want to run a script
daily as local user. The config I want is...
35 7 * * * waltdnes /home/waltdnes/pm/check4update/check4update
I did some RTFM...
* There is no "man cronie" but there is a /etc/init.d/cronie
* There is a "man cron"
* There i
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 08:25:12PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
> I think the two of you are talking past each other. What did Arsen mean
> by "the vague concept of IPv6"? I suspect he meant:
>
> You are trying to solve a concrete user issue with your browsing.
Correct.
> Your idea of how to sol
On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 01:53:49PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote
> I suspect your Firefox anecdote happened due to misconfiguration
> (I think network.http.fast-fallback-to-IPv4 dictates the use of this
> algorithm in Firefox).
I do not recall ever touching it in about:config. In my current
bro
On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 09:42:23PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
> If you actually want to disable ipv6, instead of insanely rebuilding
> binaries to use untested broken segfaulting code, use the sysctl
> knob to tell the kernel "when asked to give some application a bit
> of internet traffic, don't u
On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 05:11:14PM -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote
> Do you have that little faith in the Gentoo Developers, that you
> think we'd make a USE flag change that made everyone's systems
> suddenly break?
>
> :(
I was around way back when "ipv6" became the default. I was using
Firefox b
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 07:42:05PM -0500, Dale wrote
> I still use openrc. I'll look around and see what I can find. Now I
> know what to look for. Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless
> it is on by default. o_O
The bottom half of file /etc/rc.conf is devoted to cgroups settings
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 04:06:41PM -0500, Dale wrote
>
> I think I get what your script does. When Nut sees onbatt then it
> executes your script because of the NOTIFYCMD option. The script then
> waits 60 seconds then executes what is under 'done'.
> Could one change the 60 seconds to say 300
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 07:00:52AM -0500, Dale wrote
> Walter Dnes wrote:
> > My current manual hibernation script is...
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > sync
> > sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate
> The one thing I wish I could figure out how to set up, once power
> is lost
My current manual hibernation script is...
#!/bin/bash
sync
sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate
I have a Dell desktop PC and a DPMS-enabled monitor (turns off after
10 minutes). I want a UPS that'll back them up and power down after
approximately 30 seconds or a minute without external power, i.e. send
I have a bog-standard Dell desktop with an Intel graphics chip. As
near as I can tell, mesa-24.1.3 with VIDEO_CARDS="intel" now pulls in
dev-util/intel_clc which pulls in dev-libs/libclc which pulls in a ton
of clang/llvm/spirv crap. And what's an emerge without a whole bunch of
new python appl
Midnight Commander has been using geeqie for viewing images on my
system. I did a world update last night. Apparently image-viewing
responsibility has been handed over to /usr/bin/xdg-open which, on my
system, uses mupdf for jpg+jpeg and google-chrome-stable for png+gif
images. WTF!?!?!?
/bin
On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 12:39:09PM +0100, Michael wrote
> The maximum temperature at which your CPU die with its 65W TDP starts
> throttling to keep its temperatures safe is 100°C TjMax. Look at the
> TJunction number here:
>
> https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/199271/intel-
It's been a productive day today. TIL (Today I Learned)...
1) Turning off "hyperthreads" in the BIOS, and getting a more secure
system, without noticable speed impact.
2) Turning off "TurboBoost" in the BIOS. Yes, boost will speed up short
bursts like compiling the kernel by going to a ridicu
On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 11:54:52AM +0100, Michael wrote
> I would think 46-48°C is refreshingly cool, but it very much depends
> on the CPU chip, the MoBo and its BIOS/microcode settings.
I looked up my CPU (see my reply to Dale). The max temp allowed is
71.3 C. A short kernel compile is one
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 10:49:57PM -0500, Dale wrote
> The biggest thing, find out what the exact specs are for your CPU.
> Then go from there. That's your starting point tho.
"grep model /proc/cpuinfo" returns 12 instances of...
model : 165
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-
I've been doing a bunch of kernel-compiling recently and I've switched
between schedulers from compile to compile to compare. See
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.6/admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.html for
background info. All frequencies in khz. On my machine...
* bios_limit == 2901000
* scaling_a
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 09:33:54AM +0100, Michael wrote
> For the firmware file(s) code to be built into the kernel *all*
> necessary firmware files must be present in your filesystem and the
> path for these defined. The i915 directory contains the attached
> list of files on my system.
At fi
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> The above errors are an indication something is amiss with the
> requisite firmware for your graphics.
> Have you specified this in your kernel, or in your initramfs?
OK, I've downloaded kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin now, but I'm having problem
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:45:09PM +0100, Michael wrote
> The above errors are an indication something is amiss with the
> requisite firmware for your graphics. Have you specified this in
> your kernel, or in your initramfs?
>
> See here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel
No mention of my "
On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 11:05:27AM +0100, Michael wrote
> Can you share the output of your dmesg?
The only potentially interesting stuff is attempting to load a couple
of firmware blobs that I'm not aware of...
[0.220521] Loading firmware: i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin
[0.220530] i915 :
On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 08:54:33PM -0400, Matt Connell wrote
> 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 inf
On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 01:16:32PM +, Joost Roeleveld wrote
> > I run with xorg-server set suid, and no elogind. Could that have
> > caused it?
>
> It might, but then I would expect it more often.
> Did, by any chance, the cooling fail (even temporarily) and the system
> hard-locked when th
A few minutes ago I was watching a Youtube video when my system froze.
The poster was saying the word "snake" or "break", and the system
suddenly froze, repeating the syllable "ake", "ake", "ake", "ake",
"ake", "ake", ad infinitum. Neither {CTRL}{ALT}{DEL} nor Magic SysReq
had any effect. I had
On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 02:06:59AM -0400, John Covici wrote
>
> I put the URL in firefox on Windows which uses the same dns -- it all
> goes through my linux box -- and it worked fine, so it seems
> youtube-dl is not working.
I had weird problems downloading data from a province of Ontario
we
On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 10:42:16AM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote
> Did anything change? Any tablet software upgrade? Did the MTP tool on
> the computer side change? Or perhaps the kernel, if it can influence
> this FUSE interaction somehow?
Just the usual updates to world.
> At this point I'd consi
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 03:06:50PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
>
> Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to
> do this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to
> root, create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and
> have rwx permissions, a
> Have you checked that the directory where you are attempting to do
> this is one that your account owns? I generally have to su - to root,
> create a directory at the top level, change it so that I own it and
> have rwx permissions, and then exit root. After that I can do what
> I want.
So I d
What I *CAN* do... upload/download/create/delete *FILES* on SD card
What I *CANNOT* do... create new *DIRECTORIES* on SD card
[x8940][waltdnes][~/tablet/sdcard1] mkdir data
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘data’: Input/output error
This happens with both "jmtps" and "simple-mtpfs", so I thi
Some machines (e.g. my laptop) experience problems when building the
package x11-libs/libxcb
=
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libxcb-1.16.1/work/libxcb-1.16.1/src/c_client.py",
line 3395,
Thanks for the help. I've migrated my 3 operating Gentoo machines;
main desktop, backup desktop, and an old used Lenovo Thinkpad X201. The
poor thing was thrashing away for over 18 hours with 657 packages on the
emerge --emptytree!!! And that's after using a homebrew bash script to
select the m
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 04:21:23PM +, Michael wrote
> On Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:21:32 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I assume my system is already "merged-usr". Current profile...
> >
> > [12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (exp) *
> >
> &g
On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:21:32AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> I'm AMD64 stable OpenRC. I got tired of dicking around resizing
> partitions years ago, so I have all data and binaries in one honking
> big partition. Also separate partitions for UEFI and swap. I assume
> my
I'm AMD64 stable OpenRC. I got tired of dicking around resizing
partitions years ago, so I have all data and binaries in one honking
big partition. Also separate partitions for UEFI and swap. I assume
my system is already "merged-usr". Current profile...
[12] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-m
On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 05:52:04PM +1100, Paul Colquhoun wrote
> Bash can do patern substitution in variable references.
>
> Replace accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]} ))
> with accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]/'.'/0} ))
>
> and similarly with the other lines and any array value of
On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 11:02:21PM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote
> Why not make the alteration one step before -- in the CSV? There are
> CSV abstraction tools like `q`, which gives you a SQL-like interface
> to a csv file. Or you could write a quick transformer in python,
> if you know the lan
The province of Ontario does weekly Covid data updates which I
summarize and post on the DSLReports Canchat subforum, e.g.
https://www.dslreports.com/forum/r33854514-#google_vignette Note the
data gap in the pink and brown lines on the 3rd and 4th graphs. That's
actual missing data. In the und
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 08:43:46PM +0100, ralfconn wrote
> Given the warning message reported by Peter ("Enable USE=clang unless
> you have a very good reason not to.")
That message comes from sys-libs/compiler-rt which is a dedicated
runtime lib for clang. It makes sense to use clang if you'r
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 06:43:56PM -, Grant Edwards wrote
> Just back up your user data and re-install.
Also back up /etc/ for your app configs and stuff like hosts and
resolve.conf and make.ccnf and package.use and package.mask etc. And
remember /var/lib/. /var/lib/portage/ has your sets
Sorry; that is over my head. When did you last upgrade? The error
messages talk about python 3.8. But on my machine it looks like 3.11
and 3.12 are current...
[x8940][waltdnes][~] find /usr/bin -name python3\.*
/usr/bin/python3.12
/usr/bin/python3.12-config
/usr/bin/python3.11
/usr/bin/python
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 09:16:37PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
> On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphr
> > The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries,
> are you buildin
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 07:55:13PM +0100, n952162 wrote
> Hello all,
>
> I just synced my system after a long delay,
That's your problem right there.
> Is there a way to do it globally?
First of all python targets should not need to be mentioned in
make.conf or package.use. Gentoo manages
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote
> >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-libs/compiler-rt-18.1.0
> * Building using a compiler other than clang may result in broken atomics
> * library. Enable USE=clang unless you have a very good reason not to.
According to https
On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 08:04:06AM +, Wols Lists wrote
> For anyone else who hits this sort of problem, I did an
>
> USE=-clang emerge --update @world
>
> (firefox and thunderbird were the only programs I thought this would
> touch), and it worked.
I have "-clang" in USE in make.conf and
On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:45:40AM +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote
>
> Specifically in your case, Walter, that would be --efi-directory=/boot
Thank you very much. A screen capture...
[i3][root][~] grub-install --efi-directory=/boot
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Installation finished. No error
I've got a UEFI system. According to the news item...
> Re-runing grub-install both with and without the --removable option
> should ensure a working GRUB installation.
I tried that...
[i3][root][~] grub-install
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI direct
On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 09:01:04AM +, Michael wrote
>
> Are you using a Display Port, or HDMI connection perhaps? Modern
> monitors come with their own onboard chipset which may lose sync with
> the PC. I've experience the opposite with mine when I first bought it
> and thought the PC had cr
On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 08:21:42PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> Regardless of the above, the monitor does not blank after 10 minutes
> (i.e. 600 seconds). If I run "xset dpms force off" from xterm (both as
> local user and as root), the display goes dark... for approximatel
My settings...
[x8940][waltdnes][~] xset q
Keyboard Control:
auto repeat: onkey click percent: 0LED mask: 0002
XKB indicators:
00: Caps Lock: off01: Num Lock:on 02: Scroll Lock: off
03
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 10:18:41AM +, Michael wrote
> Try > switching to [*] the following:
>
> # CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB is not set
>
> # CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM is not set
>
> # CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is not set
>
> Then hopefully you'll get a console kicking in.
It teased me. Text console pres
I got linux-6.1.57-gentoo kernel built and working, but
linux-6.6.13-gentoo still comes up with no console. Here's my latest
.config attempt for 6.6.13 attached. Any ideas?
--
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
Relative to you
config.gz
Description: application/gzip
On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 11:54:49AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> As per the subject line, I upgraded kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13. No
> console on bootup, but I can ssh in. Fortunately I make it a habit to
> keep the previous kernel around, so I can fall back to it. But I'd like
&g
As per the subject line, I upgraded kernel 5.15.69 ==> 6.6.13. No
console on bootup, but I can ssh in. Fortunately I make it a habit to
keep the previous kernel around, so I can fall back to it. But I'd like
to get the latest kernel working. This is an old BIOS-boot Lenovo.
File-attached is t
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 08:09:03PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote
> Try installing installkernel with USE=grub and reporting what happens
> when you try to config a dist-kernel.
I run grub. My flags...
[x8940][root][~] emerge -pv installkernel
[ebuild R] sys-kernel/installkernel-18::gent
https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.html
for those who haven't run across it yet. The news item mentions...
> Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel
> installation automation for users of GRUB via USE=grub.
I run grub (no dracut) under o
I'm back after several minutes backing up to two USB drives.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:41:16PM +, Michael wrote
> For SMTP server use:
>
> set smtp_url = "smtp://your_user_n...@www.cotse.net:465"
Just one change... change "smtp://" to "smtps://", otherwise mutt
won't connect...
set s
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 04:12:05PM +, Michael wrote
> You can also try to set deprecated TLS protocols in ~/.muttrc
> to see if this will allow for a successful connection:
>
> http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#ssl-use-tlsv1
Thanks. I commented out the "no" lines. TLS 1.1 failed, but TLS 1.0
s
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:36:13AM +, Michael wrote
> Since gnutls is playing up with mutt, you can try setting USE="-gnutls"
> and re-emerge mutt to see if it succeeds establishing a connection.
If I emerge mutt with USE="-gnutls" and comment out
"set ssl_starttls=no", email fails...
[202
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:08:38PM +, Michael wrote
> If your ISP *only* offers access from their own block of IPs, do
> they refuse access to their SMTP server for legitimate subscribers
> who move around and want to send messages from a different network?
I don't know the answer to that o
On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:24:44PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> > I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
> > but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (l
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote
> I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
> but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long
> story).
Let's start this over again, because I was barki
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:05:45PM +, Michael wrote
>
> Anyway, to take you forward you can:
>
> 1. Keyword the latest gnutls package in case the gnutls verification criteria
> have been loosened.
>
> 2. Copy the Root CA into the users ~/ and point muttrc to it:
>
> set certificate_file =
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 06:42:48PM +, Michael wrote
> openssl s_client -connect smtp.ebox.ca\:587 -starttls smtp -showcerts
openssl s_client -connect smtp.ebox.ca\:587 -starttls smtp -showcerts > x.txt
For output to x.txt, see file x.txt in attachment logs.tgz
Output to the terminal (st
I haven't been switched over to fibre yet due to config problems, but
I'm trying to test port 587 using your settings. I recompiled mutt
adding USE="debug gnutls". With "mutt -d 2" I get the a lot of debug
output, including the following. To further complicate things, when I
switch back to the
Thank you. In package.use I entered...
www-client/google-chrome L10N: -*
...and it did the trick. Actually, Pale Moon is my "daily driver"
browser. I use Chrome for Netflix and the occasional braindead
Chrome-reliant website.
--
Roses are red
Roses are blue
Depending on their velocity
Rela
I seem to remember that Google Chrome used to build with all L10N
locales disabled. But I just ran a pretend emerge and I got...
www-client/google-chrome-120.0.6099.199::gentoo [119.0.6045.199::gentoo]
USE="-qt5 -qt6 (-selinux)" L10N="af am ar bg bn ca cs da de el en-GB es es-419
et fa fi fil
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 02:54:06PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote
>
> IIRC we both live in/near Toronto, so no doubt Big Bad Bell is
> responsible.
I'm currently on EBOX cable. Bell bought them
https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/bell-acquires-longueuil-based-internet-provider-ebox-819104090.html
I'll soon be switching over from cable to fibre. It's the same ISP,
but I'll be needing to authenticate outbound email on port 587 (long
story). Is anybody else doing this? If so, what changes does
~/.mutt/muttrc need? I've "asked Mr. Google" but the hits are ancient,
often referring to dead
On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 08:29:51AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
d> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 23:13:36 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u201c' in
> > position 68: ordinal not in range(256)
>
>
I have a desktop PC and and a "hot backup" ready to take over on a
moment's notice. I keep the configs and settings the same. Today I
tried to update both machines. The main desktop was OK, but the hot
backup ran into a prolem with x11-libs:libxcb-1.16 Before anybody asks,
/etc/locale.gen is
On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 10:48:29AM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> IKR, it's as if the usage of this mechanism is meant to remain secret
> and a test of the patience and detective skills of the user.
I've filed a documentation bug with bug-...@gnu.org We'll see what
happens.
--
I've seen things, yo
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:36:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> Try it and see. My concern is that the man page implies that with
> --exclude-caches-under the subdirectories are excluded recursively,
> but the directory with the file called CACHEDIR.TAG is not. I'm sure
> that's wrong but the m
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 07:38:54PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> Have a look at this page which explains what you need to do:
>
> https://bford.info/cachedir/
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! That page explains that any random
CACHEDIR.TAG file won't suffice, and why my attempts were all failing.
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 04:07:16PM +0100, Michael wrote
> On Tuesday, 5 September 2023 15:58:05 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> > And while we're at it, howsabout "emerge --sync" on one host, and then
> > remote-mounting /var/db/repos/gentoo ?
>
> Take
Every so often I tar up my home directory on my main machine, and push
it over to my "hot backup" machine, and then do a tap-dance with the
.ssh directory. I notice oodles of cache files being tarred. Do I
understand the man page correctly about the CACHEDIR.TAG "magic file"?
Assume I have a .c
On Tue, Sep 05, 2023 at 08:04:19AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2023 22:54:38 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > It looks like remote-mounting /var/cache/distfiles might be the
> > quick-n-dirty solution like Alan suggested. And I never have a need to
&
On Mon, Sep 04, 2023 at 06:21:27PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
> On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:04:53 +0100, Michael wrote:
>
> The reference to a host makes me think Walter wants one machne to hold
> the distfiles for all on the network.
Correct.
> I use apt-cacher-ng for this and it does what you are
I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that local mirrors are
all-or-nothing. In the interests of saving bandwidth, I'd like to have
a client first check the host's /var/cache/distfiles directory for a
source tarball file. If not found, then fail over to another mirror as
per GENTOO_MIRR
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 08:15:00PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
>
> Going through the list archives, I see a whole bunch of familiar
> names like Dale, Helmut, Peter, Rich, Grant, Walter, William and more.
Welcome back. Gentoo has smoothed off the rough edges, and emerge
rarely dies anymore. As
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:45:54PM +0100, Nuno Silva wrote
>
> What about sdl-related packages, same flags and versions there too?
Turns out that I had libsdl and libsdl2 flagged "-alsa" in package.use
on the non-working machine (don't know why). Flipping the flags to
"alsa", and then re-emerg
On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 09:21:40PM +0100, Michael wrote
>
> Do both machines have alsa built the same way and working?
I don't know. From the looks of it, probably not.
>
> Does it work without error if you specify it on the CLI?
CLI doesn't make a difference.
>
> SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa /
This is the most frustrating type of problem. On one machine I can
run dosbox fine. On a second machine...
[waltdnes][~] /usr/bin/dosbox
DOSBox version 0.74-3
Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
Exit to error: Can't init SDL No available audio device
The regular u
On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Dale wrote
> I been using Surfshark and openvpn for over a year. They have a pretty
> large list of countries, multiple cities in some countries, to pick
> from. I deal with torrents and that is my reason for the need of a VPN,
> just in case some may be
I've been on Gentoo for years and years, but I've never used a VPN, so
consider me an absolute newbie. Canadian big news media has
successfully lobbied our government to implement a link tax. Google has
decided to avoid the tax by not linking to it in Google search. This
morning I tried to fin
On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 01:38:21PM +1000, Paul Colquhoun wrote
>
> The date in the text file shoudn't have the quotes around it.
Thank you very much. That works. The actual data file I'm working
with has quotes around the dates, so I have to insert an extra step to
strip out the quotes with s
I have a situation where something that works as a literal but
doesn't work when reading from a text file. Here's the problem,
simplified...
I have a text file ztest.txt consisting of one line...
"August 14, 2021"
...and I have a script ztest consisting of...
#!/bin/bash
xtoday=$( date -
On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 04:35:41PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> Hello list,
>
> I'm still trying to find a terminal font (not an X font) to suit my
> deteriorating sight. Every terminal font I've found includes either
> a dot in the centre of the /zero/ character or a diagonal bar across
> it. Ei
On Sat, May 06, 2023 at 12:50:08PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
> Second, the two pages contribute actively to the confusion between the emerge
> jobs submitted in parallel by portage and the concurrent tasks that may be
> launched by each of those.
>
> The test:
>
> I ran 'emerge -e @world' wi
Now that the (no)multilib problem in my latest update has been solved,
I have a somewhat minor complaint. Can I get etc-update to skip certain
files? My latest emerge world wanted to "update"...
1) /etc/hosts (1)
2) /etc/inittab (1)
3) /etc/mtab (1)
4) /etc/conf.d/consolefont (1)
5) /etc/conf.
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 09:48:09AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> The update is running. I'll check the emerge results after I get back
> from some shopping and fish-n-chips.
To answer the question in the subject... YES! emerge update ran
smoothly, including etc-update and depclean.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 06:56:35PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
>
> ***I CAN'T EVEN BUILD THE CURRENT GLIBC ON MY MACHINE***. It looks
> more and more like somewhere somehow my profile selection got changed
> after my previous glibc update.
>
> I regularly back up inc
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 01:29:46AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
> selected...
>
> [15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
>
> ...as the profile. ***THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKING FINE FOR A COUPLE O
When I installed Gentoo on my desktop PC, I could've sworn that I
selected...
[15] default/linux/amd64/17.1/no-multilib (stable)
...as the profile. ***THINGS HAVE BEEN WORKING FINE FOR A COUPLE OF
YEARS.***
While updating tonight, glibc dies with a build error...
.[31;01m*.[0m ERROR: sys
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 07:20:37PM +, Wol wrote
> what are they going to do about "eselect kernel set ..." then?
>
> It's bad enough depclean deleting the active kernel if you don't watch
> out, without something deciding to install a non-existent kernel and
> deleting the live one :-)
I
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 08:57:48PM -0500, Michael Cook wrote
> On 2/14/23 20:47, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> >Am I missing something obvious that would cause problems?
> >
> You're missing a lot of manual busy work you would have to do
> maintaining a package.p
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