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
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
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
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
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
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")
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
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
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
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
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
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?
> >
>
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
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
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
>
>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>
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:
> >>&
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
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
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
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
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
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!
> >>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
> >
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>
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 <
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
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=
] 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>
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.
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.
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