Re: [gentoo-user] yt-dlp no longer downloads from youtube

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sunday, June 2, 2024 4:06:59 P.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:19:37 -0400, > > Paul Colquhoun wrote: > > On Sunday, June 2, 2024 1:34:20 A.M. AEST John Covici wrote: > > > The great program yt-dlp no longer will download from youtube. It >

Re: [gentoo-user] yt-dlp no longer downloads from youtube

2024-06-01 Thread Paul Colquhoun
e that broke something. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. It's working for me. Can you post a full command line that isn't working? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting WiFi to work

2024-04-09 Thread Paul Sopka
On 09.04.24 15:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working, but I've had no success so far. The wiki pages are many, confusing and contradictory, so I'd like the

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-07 Thread Paul Sopka
Hey Michael Thank you for helping me. I have finally solved the issue by upgrading to kernel 6.8.4, see this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1168150.html Have a very nice week! Regards Nanderty

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 05.04.24 08:31, Paul Sopka wrote: On 05.04.24 00:55, Michael wrote: Your toolchain is now correct.  Can you show the output of: equery u media-libs/libjpeg-turbo and emerge --info media-libs/libjpeg-turbo However, it could be this is a bug, you can check here for reports: https

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 05.04.24 00:55, Michael wrote: Your toolchain is now correct. Can you show the output of: equery u media-libs/libjpeg-turbo and emerge --info media-libs/libjpeg-turbo However, it could be this is a bug, you can check here for reports: https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 04.04.24 00:44, Michael wrote: No, this is not normal. I wonder if your make.conf settings are correct. Start with some safe CFLAGS as suggested here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Safe_CFLAGS Then use the package 'app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags' to set the correct CPU flags: https://wiki.gento

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Sopka
On 04.04.24 00:44, Michael wrote: No, this is not normal. I wonder if your make.conf settings are correct. Start with some safe CFLAGS as suggested here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Safe_CFLAGS Then use the package 'app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags' to set the correct CPU flags: https://wiki.gento

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Sopka
On 03.04.24 09:40, Michael wrote: In case you haven't done it yet, if you rebuild the toolchain things should hopefully self-correct on your system: emerge --sync emerge -1av sys-devel/binutils emerge -1av --nodeps sys-devel/gcc Use 'gcc-config -l' to check you are using the correct gcc versi

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-02 Thread Paul Sopka
On 02.04.24 21:43, Paul Sopka wrote: On 02.04.24 20:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: Did you upgrade GCC recently? If yes, did you follow the gcc-upgrade guide: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC ? -- Joost Thank you for your answer Joost. As far as I know, I didn't upgrade GCC recent

Re: [gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-02 Thread Paul Sopka
On 02.04.24 20:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: Did you upgrade GCC recently? If yes, did you follow the gcc-upgrade guide: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC ? -- Joost Thank you for your answer Joost. As far as I know, I didn't upgrade GCC recently. I just rebuilt libtool to be sure, but

[gentoo-user] System crash on "Detecting C compiler ABI info"

2024-04-02 Thread Paul Sopka
Hello Gentoo, my entire system crashes reliably on "Detecting C compiler ABI info" when compiling some packages, happened on sci-libs/netcdf and media-libs/svt-av1. I am pretty sure it isn't a hardware instability since I can compile everything that doesn't run "Detecting C compiler ABI info

Re: [gentoo-user] New profile, gcc-13.2.1_p20240210 fails to build. ATTN: Peter Humphrey.

2024-03-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
oot, messing up won't matter. > > Maybe Peter will see this, update and try again. May help him as well. I had the gcc compile fail, but was successful after removing the "objc" use flag. Unfortunately, it seemd to be required by app-arch/unar during step 16, rebuild worl

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I zap a specific area of a gnumeric spreadsheet page?

2024-03-21 Thread Paul Colquhoun
( ${accum2} + ${dataarray[2]} )) > accum3=$(( ${accum3} + ${dataarray[3]} )) > accum4=$(( ${accum4} + ${dataarray[4]} )) > accum5=$(( ${accum5} + ${dataarray[5]} )) > accum6=$(( ${accum6} + ${dataarray[6]} )) > accum7=$(( ${accum7} + ${dataarray

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-03-01 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 04:23:37PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > I have two questions.  Does a upgrade change it back to defaults?  If > so, there may be a file in /etc somewhere that is more permanent.  If > not, cool.  :-)  No, it's never been overwritten, so far... > How did you get the info to matc

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-28 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 08:53:37PM -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > After cursing KDE for a while with three monitors, does anyone have any > idea why KDE is so bad at managing multiple monitors? . I ended up adding this to /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup: xrandr --output DVI-D-0 --primary --output HD

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE so bad at multiple monitors?

2024-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
immediately to the right, left, above or below the other screen. When positioning to the right or left, the top edges are aligned. When positioning above or below, the left edges are aligned. The Relative form specifies the o

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with amdgpu driver: Compositor hangs, sysfs not working

2024-02-18 Thread Paul Sopka
AMDGPU-PRO is not a driver, but a set of libraries containing opencl,vulkan and advanced media framework. It operates on top of amdgpu. Mesa is the open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, et al. graphics API specifications. If you are using proprietary AMD drivers then I understand all t

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with amdgpu driver: Compositor hangs, sysfs not working

2024-02-18 Thread Paul Sopka
Thank you for your reply. Hello everybody, I installed an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX today, switching from Nvidia. But once I enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y to have a tty once the driver is up, the following happens: 1) My Wayland compositor (Hyprland) takes very long to start. 2) re

[gentoo-user] Issues with amdgpu driver: Compositor hangs, sysfs not working

2024-02-17 Thread Paul Sopka
Hello everybody, I installed an AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX today, switching from Nvidia. But once I enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY=y to have a tty once the driver is up, the following happens: 1) My Wayland compositor (Hyprland) takes very long to start. 2) reading from sysfs (e.g. ru

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for backup scheme?

2024-02-04 Thread Paul Ezvan
Le 30/01/2024 à 19:15, Grant Edwards a écrit : I need to set up some sort of automated backup on a couple Gentoo machines (typical desktop software development and home use). One of them used rsnapshot in the past but the crontab entries that drove that have vanished :/ (presumably during a reins

Re: [gentoo-user] Open source network monitoring / intrusion detection recommendations?

2023-12-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ions. > > Cheers, > Mark I haven't used any of them, but this article lists 6 options. I'd already heard of Kali, but you might find what you are after here: https://www.comptia.org/blog/linux-distributions-for-ethical-hacking-and-pen-testing -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.

Re: [gentoo-user] Certain packages refuse to use binary from build save, the -k thing.

2023-09-15 Thread Paul Colquhoun
some updates in > another thread a while back, I unmerged those and Kicad which I think > used opencascade. It did update some video stuff the other day. I feel > some package is out of sync with some other package and hope a reinstall > will fix it. Otherwise, could be a bug in

Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me understand this emerge error message.

2023-08-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
> > Thanks for the help! In the USE flsgs you have: gnutls -openssl In the CURL_SSL flags you have: openssl -gnutls These 2 are contradicting each other. One says use gnutls instead of openssl, the other says no, use openssl instead of gnutls. Pick which option you want to use, and adjust th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Read date input from text file problem

2023-08-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Y}" +%F ) > echo ${xtoday} > > Running the script produces three lines of output... > > 2021-08-14 > "August 14, 2021" > date: invalid date ‘"August 14, 2021"’ > > What am I doing wrong? The date in the text file shoudn't have the quo

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

2023-06-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ep to allow for network > issues. # Retry if the IP address is empty retry_count=0 while [[ -z "$NEW_IP" && $retry_count -lt 3 ]]; do ((retry_count++)) sleep $retry_count NEW_IP=$(get_ip_address) done -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 13.1 and chromium

2023-04-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
nknown address type (examples > of valid types are "tcp" and on UNIX "unix") Have you tried starting it with: strace chromium to get debugging info on each system call. I might show you where the bad server address is coming from, as it will list all the files that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Another day without clues.

2023-04-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o see if it prints any usefull error messages? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED... THE HARD WAY] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-27 Thread Paul Colquhoun
s your whole current system again, to make sure everything is up to date and has the current set of Use flags. Skips all the initial installation steps, and keeps all your /etc config customisations. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical h

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

2022-12-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
/Guide > > My /etc/locale.gen has been... > > en_US ISO-8859-1 > en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > C.UTF8 UTF-8 > > ...for a long time. Are you missing a hyphen in "C.UTF8"? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS and replacing with larger drives

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
r your drives, without needing to cobble something together. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

2022-11-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
grivation. Try updateing on a regular schedule, at 1 or 2 week intervals, and see if your experience improves. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting printer working, the road of Pain.

2022-09-09 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ers can do. 2) Remind us again why you still try to run Gentoo when you obviously dislike it. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] MEGA sync problems

2021-10-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
y to add the 4nykey overlay, which contains megasync, then emerge -a megasync just like other portage programs. If you still get any crypto-related errors, have a look for the recent news item "*2021-07-23-libxcrypt-migration*" eselect news list will get you a list. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO: Freezing/unfreezing (groups of) processes

2021-02-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
n any > parameters in the command line? Someone else mentioned pgrep. It has an associated pkill command as well. Both appear to have a "-f" option to also search on the full command line. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-24 Thread Paul Ezvan
the installation process, so you'd save a lot of potential headaches by following one of the alternatives. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: meson build woes

2020-08-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
as unmet requirements. - dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.62.6::gentoo USE="" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6 python3_7 -python3_8" The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_python3_6 python_sing

[gentoo-user] meson build woes

2020-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
wrapper 'distutils-r1_run_phase' 'distutils-r1_python_compile' * environment, line 846: Called distutils-r1_run_phase 'distutils-r1_python_compile' * environment, line 1210: Called distutils-r1_python_compile * environment, line 1079: Called esetup.py '

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all these "acct-group" ebuilds recently?

2020-06-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ckages are dependencies of one of the other packages, and prefer the one highest on the ladder. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 06:33:58PM -0500, Andrew Udvare wrote: > The first machine is on a 17.1 profile, and migration was relatively > simple, and worked. I did it based on this post: > > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8373904.html?sid=5c30f451df89c01a6bbe0a8dadd77c36#8373904 I'm already

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 05:48:40PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote: > The portage ebuild has some code that automatically patches > /usr/share/portage/config/make.globals for existing installs. You can > update the setting there. Ah, I didn't look there in my search :). Cool, thanks much for the info.

[gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles vs /var/cache/distfiles

2020-01-14 Thread Paul B. Henson
I recently installed a new server, and noticed that it is using /var/cache/distfiles rather than /usr/portage/distfiles. looking at the documentation, it seems that is the new default, and it says "new installations" will use it. I have older servers which are still using /usr/portage/distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange problem with Ruby (vagrant)

2019-11-20 Thread Paul Klos
ev-ruby/rest-client-2.0.2[ruby_targets_ruby26]) > > So I've removed rest-client-2.1.0 and installed 2.0.2. And then: > > $ > > vagrant > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > > /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/2.6.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:311:in > > `to_specs': Could not find 'ruby_dep' (>= 1.3.1) among 71 total gem(s) > > (Gem::MissingSpecError) > > Checked in > > 'GEM_PATH=/home/skobkin/.gem/ruby/2.6.0:/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/2.6.0:/usr/lo > > cal/lib64/ruby/gems/2.6.0', execute `gem env` for more information > > > > So I want to ask if someone at all have working Vagrant installation on > ~amd64 or it's just broken? I've had a similar situation last week or so, although not extensive as you. I just needed to reinstall ruby_dep, which had been depcleaned for some reason. Cheers, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

2019-10-14 Thread Paul Colquhoun
's entice config file is: # cat /etc/tpop3d/tpop3d.conf listen-address: 127.0.0.1 mailbox: bsd:/var/spool/mail/$(user) auth-pam-enable: true auth-pam-mail-group: mail It runs as a service, started from systemd. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

2019-07-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t; > However, the dd command failure sounds suspicious - as I understand > > it dd should not fail unless the disk has run out of space. > > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what > I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. It would pro

[gentoo-user] Amazon Corretto JDK?

2019-06-26 Thread Paul B. Henson
Has anybody tried out (or made an ebuild for) the Amazon Corretto jdk package? https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/ This looks like an interesting alternative that is no-cost and promises long term support. It will also be used for almost all AWS java deployments, so it should be well tested

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-28 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Tuesday, May 28, 2019 5:14:42 P.M. AEST Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > Hi Paul, > > as an LVM user without deeper knowledge, stumbled upon your question without > any reply yet, and my fear was to run into the same when updating lvm2. > On 5/17/19 2:26 PM, Paul Colquhoun wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

2019-05-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
is why good RAID systems have a background task that regularly reads and checks every block of every disk, to avoid undetected errors. Hot Spares are also a good safety measure, along with monitoring software that alerts you when the spares have gone live. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC.

[gentoo-user] LVM2 problem, meta data format change?

2019-05-17 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ke the same thing to me, so I was wondering if anyone here had encountered a similar problem? The next step is to try and find how to update the on-disk lvm meta data so the later versions understand it, hopefully without having to rebuild my system from scratch. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openjdk?

2019-04-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 4/23/2019 4:31 PM, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: since JDK9+, nothing else. There is no notable difference between oracle-jdk-8, icedtea-8 or openjdk-8 other than IcedTea (being the JDK-8 LTS maintained by RedHat) also containing the (awesome) Shenandoah GC - which was also merged into the officia

[gentoo-user] openjdk?

2019-04-23 Thread Paul B. Henson
So Oracle java has a crappy license now, and I see on the dev list they're even talking about removing it from portage. However, openjdk has no stable version, and the ebuild contains: if use gentoo-vm ; then ewarn "WARNING! You have enabled the gentoo-vm USE flag, making this JDK"

Re: [gentoo-user] kworker using 100% cpu

2019-03-05 Thread Paul Colquhoun
isable > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe16 > > Yes, I had to do the same and repeat after each boot. I can't recall if I > added this in a script so I didn't have to run it manually each time. /etc/sysctl.conf is interpreted at boot as an automatic way of doing th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ng like to do the trick? > echo 198.088.062.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' > 198.88.62.1 In a word, no. echo 198.088.0.01 | sed 's/\.0/./g' 198.88..1 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
it:]] > [0-9]+ > [0-9][0-9] Not quite. A trailing '+' means "1 or more of the preceding item", while a trailing '*' means "0 or more". [0-9]+ would match any string consisting of only digits, no matter how long, but not an empty string.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to prevent portage from installing masked package

2018-10-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
Apart from the package.mask syntax error, there is also an emerge flag you might want to try: --autounmask-keep-masks y I added this when emerge kept asking me to unmask stuff I had manually masked. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

2018-06-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ight be better, as it would let you unmount the directory after emerge has finished. You may need to add that to your execution $PATH variable in .bashrc ~/bin/emerge #!/bin/bash mount /usr/portage/packages emerge $* umount /usr/portage/packages -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

2018-05-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Saturday, 12 May 2018 12:05:47 PM AEST Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Saturday, 12 May 2018 9:16:52 AM AEST Daniel Frey wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to do something relatively simple and I've had something > > working in the past, but my brain just doesn&

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Extracting year from data, but honour empty lines

2018-05-11 Thread Paul Colquhoun
didn't bother saving the > script I made. Argh! > > Dan You can add an alternate regular expression that matches the blank lines, but the '-o' switch will still stop that match from being printed as it is an 'empty' match. The trick is to modify the data on the

Re: [gentoo-user] repair FAT-fs

2018-03-02 Thread Paul Colquhoun
installed but I can not run: dosfsck - it doesn't exist. Try 'fsck.vfat' instead. There is also 'fsck.fat' or 'fsck.exfat', at least on my installation. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is --changed-deps going to be *that* useless?

2018-02-26 Thread Paul Colquhoun
o do that seems to be impossible, as everybody wants to > assume that dynamic deps work. I just tried this to see what was happening, and adding "--with-bdeps n" cut the number of recompilations right back, even when I still had "--deep" as one of the options. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] media-sound/podracer doesn't name downloaded podcasts

2018-02-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
sage/bcd7c0ae62e60a0583f10ae3daf > 7f0e4 Have you looked at the ID3 tags for the files? If they are properly tagged with the name, its an easy script to pull the ID3 tag and use it to rename the files. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing dependencies without upping version ??

2017-09-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ould love to learn why this is allowed. In my experience, it > happens quite often. Well, --changed-deps is also there for when you change USE flags on your system to activate (or deactivate) software features. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking

Re: [gentoo-user] netifrc, configure by SSID and MAC simultaneously?

2017-04-20 Thread Paul Klos
Op 20-4-2017 om 01:16 schreef Peter Humphrey: On Wednesday 19 Apr 2017 12:00:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: If you have an always on computer on your network, I would recommend trying dnsmasq. It has a DHCP server and means you can do all your network configuration in the one place, with simple text

Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-07 Thread Paul Klos
ipt to jackass.sh and let that refer to anybody who even thinks about running it I'll bet you that: 1. your updates will go smoother, and 2. you´ll find it easier to get help here if for whatever reason you still run into issues. Best regards and good luck with your update, Paul P.S

RE: [gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

2016-12-05 Thread Paul B. Henson
> From: Rich Freeman > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 12:14 PM > > The other issue is that my mythtv front-end died shortly after I got > it into the tree, and I've ended up moving off of mythtv. Bummer; out of curiosity, how are you satiating your media needs now? > limbo. However, it almos

[gentoo-user] Umasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28?

2016-11-30 Thread Paul B. Henson
Any dev thoughts on unmasking media-tv/mythtv-0.28? I don't generally have issues with keywording unstable packages for testing and deploying ahead of the curve, but I usually try to avoid things that are package masked, particularly on relatively production stuff like my daily dose of TV :). It l

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-12 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 17:54:20 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 06:17:07 Stroller wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a free dynamic IP address service. > > > > I've used DynDNS in the past, but I think they discontinued their free > > accounts. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
t; hosts in case I need to add more. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, I've been using noip.com for years with no problems. There is even an up to date version of their client in portage. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for techni

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with Xinerama after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5)

2016-09-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:54:16AM +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > Yes, you are correct, I'm running stable (5.6.5). > Then I'll have to wait for next release to "go stable" or try upgrading > to 5.7.4. As a workaround, uninstall kscreen, create a shell script (named say xrandr.sh), and put the ap

Re: [gentoo-user] xdg-open opens pdf with gimp

2016-06-07 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pens it. Try running: xdg-mime query default application/pdf to see what the default application is for that mime type. Then you can run xdg-mime default insert-your-application-here application/pdf to change the application that opens that mime type. -- Reverend Paul Col

Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

2016-04-16 Thread Paul Colquhoun
hhh! > > Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you... > Best regards, > Meino Be careful upgrading boost & boost-build. I updated to 1,60.0 a little while ago, and akonadi stopped working until I went back to version 1.58.0 This also stopped anything that depends o

Re: [gentoo-user] module-rebuild populate

2016-03-09 Thread Paul Klos
re. I think you're looking for emerge @module-rebuild Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Calligra / KRITA currently compilable

2016-03-08 Thread Paul Klos
Op zondag 6 maart 2016 13:40:11 schreef Daniel Frey: > On 03/06/2016 09:21 AM, Paul Klos wrote: > > Could you share your use flags? Calligra stopped compiling here a few > > weeks ago. I'd be interested to see if there any differences. > > I recompiled stable and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Calligra / KRITA currently compilable

2016-03-06 Thread Paul Klos
Could you share your use flags? Calligra stopped compiling here a few weeks ago. I'd be interested to see if there any differences. Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulty fixing GLSA 201512-07 (gstreamer-0.10)

2016-01-03 Thread Paul Klos
on, and decided to just leave it in place for now. So, no solution, unfortunately. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-30 Thread Paul Colquhoun
9>5 step, although I had some that would build with 4.8 but not 4.9. > > > > I have an application which I would like to compile with gcc > > > >> 5.x just to see if that's even possible. I could switch, try it, and > >> then switch back. > > > > Exactly, run gcc-config, compile/emerge the program, run gcc-config again. > > And what about ccache? Will it use the new version automatically and > detect that the compiler version has changed so that files in the cache > need to be recompiled? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 14:00:55 Paul Colquhoun wrote: > On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:40:48 walt wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500 > > > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3... > > > > > > Unfortunately, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

2015-12-25 Thread Paul Colquhoun
gcc-4.9 but I had to use the > workaround I described above. I disabled the 'jit' flag for gcc, and 5.3.0 compiled cleanly. Now to turn the flag back on and see if that works. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ys-devel/binutils: 2.25.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/gcc:4.9.3::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool:2.4.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.3::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.22-r1::gen

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge --update @world -pv' keeps trying to upgrade to a masked package

2015-10-13 Thread Paul Colquhoun
net-misc/networkmanager-1.0.6:0/0::gentoo > > > So doesn't this tell portage not to upgrade to it? Why does it still > schedule it for merge? > > > Thanks a lot, > Marat Try adding "--autounmask-keep-masks y" to your emerge command line, to stop it

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

2015-09-20 Thread Paul Colquhoun
pulled in by > > > > media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by > > > > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > ^^^ > > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not > updating some packages to the latest a

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-20 Thread Paul Klos
be pedants ;-) Since we're being pedantic, that would be "Its main use" in this case ☺ Cheers, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-22 Thread Paul Colquhoun
l sees them as entirely different. > > Why can't it print the number as it is, or at least as it is compared, > like it should? If it would, one could see at once what the problem is. Your print values are coming from the original variables. The numeric comparison does an internal con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-12 Thread Paul Tobias
On 8 August 2015 at 20:11, Jonathan Callen wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 08/08/2015 01:37 PM, James wrote: > > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > > >> there is *no we* in nix unless your or I step up. Fair enough! > >> :: > > > >> git clone --bare https://git

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM not accessible after reboot

2015-08-10 Thread Paul Tobias
> my ideas is that LVM2 is not ready at the time of mounting partitions. how can i do this? I had the same problem on a system where scsi initialization was very slow. Adding "rootdelay=30" to the kernel command line fixed it. The "30" is how many seconds should the kernel wait before it starts mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hubris?

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Tobias
On 9 Aug 2015 17:15, "Jeremi Piotrowski" wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Bruce Schultz wrote: > > On 29 July 2015 6:18:43 AM AEST, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:29:18 +1000, Bruce Schultz wrote: > >>> But I think you do if your btrfs is raid 1. The kernel can't mo

Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

2015-07-24 Thread Paul Tobias
On 23 Jul 2015 16:18, wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23 2015, Paul Tobias wrote: > > > On 23 Jul 2015 02:31, wrote: > >> > >> My new installation is running well, in particular it boots fine. > >> However the grub2-mkconfig seems odd. > >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

2015-07-23 Thread Paul Tobias
On 23 Jul 2015 02:31, wrote: > > My new installation is running well, in particular it boots fine. > However the grub2-mkconfig seems odd. > > It finds linux (all kernels) and the stub windows partition. But then I > get messages that both ext4-fs and FAT-fs have trouble with /dev/sda4, > which i

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail-2 duplicates

2015-07-06 Thread Paul Colquhoun
ir folders. Quite a few get left in the 'new' directory instead of being moved to 'cur'. I havn't checked to see it these correleate with duplicated messages at all. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Tobias
> test -e ${root}/dev/zero || mount --bind /dev/ ${root}/dev > test -e ${root}/dev/shm/dh || mount --bind /dev/shm ${root}/dev/shm > test -e ${root}/dev/pts/0 || mount --bind /dev/pts/ ${root}/dev/pts no need to separately mount shm and pts, just use --rbind, as the install doc recommends htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-08 Thread Paul Klos
Op maandag 8 juni 2015 14:40:28 schreef Andrew Lowe: > On 06/08/2015 02:23 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 06/07/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Klos wrote: > >> Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: > >>> On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > >>&

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Klos
Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: > On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > > Same here. > > > > Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag > did indeed fix it. > > Dan > Interesting, I have indeed still enabled the nepomuk USE flag on kdelibs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Klos
hecked to > make sure there wasn't something new here. > > You're not alone tho. I have the same as you. Weird. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Well, nothing substantial comes to mind, but I have a few suggestions/questions to investigate. Have you tried with another, or a new, user? Do you use a custom theme? If so, you could switch it back and see if that makes any difference/ Is your disk full? Are both directories local, or are you copying to or from a remote directory? Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

2015-06-07 Thread Paul Klos
urce and the destination, and underneath each image the type, size, width, height and the date it was last modified. Below that is an input field where an alternative name can be entered, which presumably you still have. Finally there are the buttons. As for what triggers the presence/absence of the preview, I have no idea. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] logjam vulnerability

2015-05-21 Thread Paul Tobias
ances so I can't test. Fortunately it's quite easy to apply custom patches with gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches Have a nice day, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] user config provisioning

2015-05-21 Thread Paul Tobias
don't want to give up the convenience of ssh agent forwarding then you can use ssh-ident, as described here: http://rabexc.org/posts/pitfalls-of-ssh-agents (unfortunately no gentoo package for that one, but it's just a single python file). Have a nice day, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser

2015-05-17 Thread Paul Klos
u might be interested in these settings (from about:config): browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectsAll You can configure what happens when you click in the address bar. I have no idea why the defaults on win/linux are different, though, Cheers, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-05-07 Thread Paul Tobias
On 2 May 2015 at 17:17, wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > Am 27.04.2015 um 20:37 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: > > > I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and > > > reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in > > > this list some weeks/months ago, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange new behavior from the "mount" command

2015-04-18 Thread Paul Colquhoun
the disk device (e.g. be suid root) for this to work. One can set such a label for ext2, ext3 or ext4 using the e2label(8) utility, or for XFS using xfs_admin(8), or for reiserfs using reiserfstune(8). On the other hand, using '-l' on my machine didn't appe

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-04-02 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 02:09:57PM -0400, German wrote: > Thank you, but are there anyone around who uses Mutt with gmail? I use mutt with gmail IMAP and the following flags: [ebuild R] mail-client/mutt-1.5.23-r5 USE="berkdb crypt gdbm gpg imap kerberos nls sasl smime smtp ssl -debug -doc

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