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

On 2025-03-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > You /can/ use an embedded block list to install legacy BIOS boot mode > grub using an MBR table without a BIOS Boot Partition, but don't do > it. [,,,] Oops, I meant to say "legacy BIOS boot mode grub using a GPT partition table..." > It requires manual int

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

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! > >> > >> If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk,

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

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! >> >> If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk, which is meant to boot on >> a legacy BIOS MoBo, you *must* create a BI

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

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! > > If you are installing GRUB on a GPT disk, which is meant to boot on > a legacy BIOS MoBo, you *must* create a BIOS Boot Partition (gdisk > cod

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

Am Sun, Mar 09, 2025 at 10:32:37PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > I suspect it is safer than on a USB.  I believe that the old spinning > rust is likely the most durable long term storage without powering up > during storage.  I once hooked up a bunch of old IDE drives that hadn't > had power to them in ye

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

Michael wrote: > 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 explain

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

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

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

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 mail, QLC uses sixteen >> different levels of charge inside one single f

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

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 mail, QLC uses sixteen > different levels of charge inside one single flash cell. The chance of a bit

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

On 2025-03-02, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:41AM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote: >>> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well known for the quality. >>> >>> I can definitely agree with that

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

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:41AM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> >> This is the last bit of SMART for the m.2 stick on my new rig with the >> OS on it, and my chroot where I do my updates. >> >> I been running this rig for a while. > On first read I thought that was a new stick

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

Am Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 10:01:41AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote: > > > >> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well > >> known for the quality. > > I can definitely agree with that. Over the years I've installed > > probably clo

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

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote: > >> We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well >> known for the quality. > I can definitely agree with that. Over the years I've installed > probably close to fifteen Samsung flash drives. Some SATA, some m.2, > a couple

[gentoo-user] Re: supervise-daemon fails to start openrc-user

Il 01/03/25 18:29, ralfconn ha scritto: starting from yesterday's update on one of my systems (RaspberryPi) I get the following when I ssh into it: pihole pam_openrc[some_user][4421]: starting session pihole pam_openrc[some_user][4421]: 1 sessions pihole supervise-daemon[4645]: Supervisor com

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

On 2025-02-28, Dale wrote: > We all know the Samsung m.2 sticks are really good. They are well > known for the quality. I can definitely agree with that. Over the years I've installed probably close to fifteen Samsung flash drives. Some SATA, some m.2, a couple USB 3. They're all still worki

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

On 2025-02-28, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds >> app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased >> value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the >> maintainers started thinking about using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

On 2/28/25 12:05 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz wrote: > >> Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was >> built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a >> prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of variou

[gentoo-user] Re: Libreoffice massive RDEPEND reduction

On 2025-02-28, Eli Schwartz wrote: > Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was > built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a > prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of various > things. Yep. > Since the official binhost i

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

On 2025-02-20, whiteman...@paraboletancza.org wrote: > I want to build a PC with Gentoo and I need to know how much money > should I spend on it. > > To clarify, I'll tell more for what I'm going to use PC: > * computer will be mostly used for programming in languages like C, C++, > sysadmin,

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

On 2025-02-25, Wols Lists wrote: > Champagne or Coca-Cola? > > New tech generally costs double the price for double the quantity, be it > hard drive capacity, chip speed, whatever. > > Older tech tends to be a similar price regardless of capacity, the bulk > of the cost is in the packaging and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild failure in unpack

On 25/2/25 18:23, n952162 wrote: I have a second  question that's a follow up to that. Does portage *remove* some files in /var/tmp/portage but retain others? Yes. Successful merges are purged, otherwise you'd quickly run out of disk space. This is important to me because I want to use th

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild failure in unpack

On 2025/02/25 09:05, n952162 wrote: I have a second  question that's a follow up to that. As explained, I moved /var/tmp/portage to a mounted drive and symlinked it.  When that failed, I copied that directory back to /var/tmp/portage and was able to emerge pavucontrol. But now I observe someth

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

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: > > / and * > > > > Decrease/i

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

Am Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 04:21:20AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > 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: > > > > / and * > > Decrease/increase volume. >

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

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: > > / and * > Decrease/increase volume. > > Also, on the GUI, if you scroll with your mouse up or down you alter

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

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

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

David M. Fellows wrote: >> Dale wrote: > Much snipped >> My next question.  Given mplayer is getting old and rotting on the vine >> so to speak, anyone know if one can get rid of it completely?  Right >> now, Devedeng requires it and Smplayer does to, even tho I have it set >> to use mpv now.  I f

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

>Dale wrote: Much snipped > >My next question.  Given mplayer is getting old and rotting on the vine >so to speak, anyone know if one can get rid of it completely?  Right >now, Devedeng requires it and Smplayer does to, even tho I have it set >to use mpv now.  I found a couple other packages but I

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

Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:38:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale: >>> Grant Edwards wrote: On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > […] > I enabled some USE flags

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

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:38:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote: Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: […] I enabled some USE flags and tried to recompi

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

Am Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 09:38:37AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote: > >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > >> […] > >> I enabled some USE flags and tried to recompile with those.  It > >> faile

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

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote: >> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >>> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: >> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess >> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded.

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

On 2025-02-21, Dale wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: >>> On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: > Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess > they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded. I'm getting some help

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

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >> Another thing to consider: don’t put it into the safe for a year without >> powering it up. As was explained in a previous mail, QLC uses sixteen >> different levels of charge inside one single flash cell. The chance of a bit

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

Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: >> On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded. >>> I'm getting some help off list from another Michael.  O_O

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

Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:36:47PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: > > > >> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess > >> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded. > > > > I'm getting some help off list from another Michael.  O_O  He suggested > > se

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

On 2025-02-20, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Another thing to consider: don’t put it into the safe for a year without > powering it up. As was explained in a previous mail, QLC uses sixteen > different levels of charge inside one single flash cell. The chance of a bit > flip increases the longer

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

On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: > >> Use flags for ffmpeg would give us a better idea. But I would guess >> they're either AV1 or H.265 encoded. > > I'm getting some help off list from another Michael.  O_O  He suggested > several USE flag changes. Some I never heard of. Ask ffmpeg what's in the file.

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

Am Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:18:30PM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Michael wrote: > I use external USB sticks a lot for critical backup files, world, /etc > and most important, /root where some of my so called scripts live.  > Reading this thread made me question even more the dependability of USB > sticks.

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

On 2025-02-20, Dale wrote: > Well, it plays some older .mkv files already.  These are some type > of NEW .mkv files.  I forgot to mention that point.  I have a lot of > other videos that are .mkv and they play fine, have for ages. OK, so the problem isn't with the .mkv container format. > It's

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

On 2025-02-20, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM 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. > > Convert them using handbrake. Probably saves you a bunch of disk s

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

Michael wrote: > For reliable NAND flash storage on a modern PC which can make use of the > higher speeds, I wholeheartedly agree the M.2 small form factor SSD drive > within a USB enclosure must be a consideration. Or one of the external SATA > SSDs which are physically bigger, with a USB cabl

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

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

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

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 the empty space l

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

Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:53:48AM + schrieb Michael: > > Your expectations have some vague assumptions: > > Yes, I was just trying to point loosely at the order of magnitude as an > indication of something being faulty in the USB Philip was trying to format. > > > - the stick achieves full

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

Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 02:10:35PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > 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 faster and probably longer-lasting > > than any USB stick,

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

Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 11:25:28PM + schrieb Michael: > > TLC (tri-level cells) > > > > Hey, what if we do 8 different charge levels! Now you get 4 bits per > > cell. Even harder to do, even less reliable... > > > > > > QLC (quad-level cells) > > > > [I think you see where this is going]

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

On 2/18/25 16:13, Michael wrote: For reliable NAND flash storage on a modern PC which can make use of the higher speeds, I wholeheartedly agree the M.2 small form factor SSD drive within a USB enclosure must be a consideration. Or one of the external SATA SSDs which are physically bigger, with a

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

On 2025-02-19, Philip Webb 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, replacement or credit?", that's your answer. > > No, you're both quite wrong. "Both s

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

On 2025-02-18, Michael wrote: > 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 de

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

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

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

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

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

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 faster and probably longer-lasting >> than any USB stick, because their flash controllers

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

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 faster and probably longer-lasting > than any USB stick, because their flash controllers are more sophisticated > and the parts o

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

250218 Michael wrote: -- details of using 'f3probe' snipped -- > This is good news, it confirms neither of them are counterfeit units. > However, the 2nd stick appears to be defective. It takes almost 3.5 times > as long than the first stick and from what we know for no good reason. > This indi

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

On 2025-02-18, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> It had an M$ partition when I bought it. I replaced that with 4 >> partitions because using a 2/3.2 port took > 10 h to write a 256 GB >> filesystem & fail, whereas it took only 2 h 45 m to write a 64 GB >> partition & fail. > > There is something _serious

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

On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: > 250218 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: >>> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store. >> Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb? >> You only want one filesystem, right? Why bother with a partition t

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

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 slower f3write and f3read, th

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

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 should take ~ 6 > > minu

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

Am Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 12:53:42AM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb: > 250218 Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: > >> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store. > > Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb? > > You only want one filesystem, right?

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

250218 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: >> So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store. > Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb? > You only want one filesystem, right? Why bother with a partition table > if you don't want to partition the

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

On 2025-02-18, Philip Webb wrote: > So both sticks are genuine, as I would expect from that store. > > I plan to try 'gparted' next, instead of 'fdisk' > & will send the results when I get them. Have you tried just doing mkfs.ext4 [options] /dev/sdb? You only want one filesystem, right? Why bo

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

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 slower f3write and f3read, the f3probe command > will only take a few minutes and confirm the available space. T

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

Am Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 01:41:10PM + schrieb Michael: > On Sunday 16 February 2025 09:08:10 Greenwich Mean Time Nuno Silva wrote: > > On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote: > > > 250215 Michael wrote: > > > >> Formatting a 256GB USB drive, especially if it is a USB 3.0 or later > > >> spec, should

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

On 2025-02-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On my system, the only .so file that belonging to libreoffice-bin that > links in libQt5X11Extras.so.5 is program/libvclplug_qt5lo.so > > It looks like on my system, the "gen" version of the vcl plugin is used: > > $ lsof | grep libvcl > soffice.b 8834

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

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

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

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 unachievable, Sounds to me like the USB flash drives might be fakes. They might have only a

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

On 2/16/25 7:25 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > The question I'm asking is: > > * Should the libreoffice-bin ebuild list qtx11extras as a dependency? > > If yes, then I'll file a bug report. > > My question is based on the following fact: > > * libreoffice-bin links in the qtx11extras library, but

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

On 2025-02-16, Jack wrote: > On 2025.02.16 02:18, Grant Edwards wrote: > [snip.] > >> I guess I could try removing qt11extras to see what breaks in >> libreoffice. I assumed it just wouldn't run, but if it's some sort >> of plugin that uses it, and I don't use that plugin, then maybe I'd

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

On 2025-02-16, Michael wrote: > >> Once again: NOTHING IS PULLING IT IN. That's why emerge --depclean wants >> to remove it. > > Something has already pulled it in, if depclean is now trying to > remove it and according to depclean the culprit looks like > libreoffice-bin. I assumed a USE flag w

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

On 2025-02-16, 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 suggests that the problem isn't due to defe

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

On 2025.02.16 02:18, Grant Edwards wrote: [snip.] I guess I could try removing qt11extras to see what breaks in libreoffice. I assumed it just wouldn't run, but if it's some sort of plugin that uses it, and I don't use that plugin, then maybe I'd be OK. You can try "ldd path/to/soffi

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

On 16/02/2025 13:41, Michael wrote: nor the "Attached SCSI removable disk" at the end : This is the message you get when the device is powered up, detected by the kernel and the filesystem is then being accessed. From this point on the device can be read from and written to. So (and this wa

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

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 seconds. > > > > See listing below

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

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 > > fetched and installed from th

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

On 2025-02-16, Philip Webb wrote: > 250215 Michael wrote: >> 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

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

On 2025-02-16, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 2/13/25 2:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Does this message from emerge --depclean mean that there's a >> dependency on dev-qt/qtx11extras:5 missing from the libreoffice-bin >> ebuild? >> >> Or have I managed to break something? >> >> $ sudo emerge --

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

On 2025-02-15, Michael wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2025 05:03:14 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Either that profile or something else you have in your world file >> pulls in qtx11extras as a dependency, so depclean doesn't try to >> remove it. > > Yes, my profile specifies plas

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

250215 Michael wrote: > 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 pre

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

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

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

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/desktop/plasma > > Either that profile or so

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

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 <= 128 GB > & which came with a VFat filesystem, > I simply repartitioned them using

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

On 2025-02-14, Michael wrote: > > Hmm, I have app-office/libreoffice-bin-24.2.7.2 installed on one PC, but do > not have the same USE flags as you do and I do not get the same --depclean > output complaining about dev-qt/qtx11extras:: > > ~ $ emerge -av --pretend app-crypt/pinentry > > These are

[gentoo-user] Re: Question about compilation

On 2025-02-09, Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: >> On Saturday 8 February 2025 23:07:38 Greenwich Mean Time Jack wrote: >>> On 2025.02.08 14:00, Filip Kobierski wrote: On Saturday, February 8th, 2025 at 15:47, Jacques Montier wrote: > Is it possible to stop a compilation midway in

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

The small correction: the penultimate sentence of my previous email should read: "The situation remained the same even after swapping the undetected 500GB WD HDD with the spare one." чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 18:55, gevisz : > > About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD > tapped me on the s

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

> Hi Alexander, >  > My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer.   Hi Bryan, thanks for the reply!   > That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement when I > import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I add a copyright line for myself > too once I've made significant changes.  Th

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

On 1/26/25 12:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: And that only hung user-space stuff? For me, yes - I could ping it not nothing worked at the physical console nor could I ssh in. Dan

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

On 2025-01-27, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with > Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- > always when in active use wit

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

On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable >>

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

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

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

On 2025-01-26, Daniel Frey wrote: > I had a problem with two of my Ryzen systems that exhibited this > behaviour. One has a G processor, the other doesn't > > Apparently Ryzen processors have an idle bug that locks up the > system in this way. The bugs manifests randomly when the CPU is > idle. F

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

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-25, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11

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

On 2025-01-25, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with >>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- >>> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been r

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

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with >> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- >> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable >> since assembled (about

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

On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with > Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- > always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable > since assembled (about 5 years ago). > > Ctrl-Alt-

[gentoo-user] Re: Subject: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 4066 (205256-205258)

On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 02:32:08PM +, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: Topics (messages 205256 through 205258): [gentoo-user] 'mbsync -a' terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error) 205256 - Filip Milosavljević [gentoo-user] 'mbsync -a' terminated by signal SIGSEGV

[gentoo-user] Re: Confirm unsubscribe from gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, at 18:29, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Somebody (and we hope it was you) has requested that the email address > be removed from the list. > > To confirm you want to do this, please send a message to > > whi

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

Am Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:50:01PM - schrieb Grant Edwards: > >> All I've ever done for a kernel upgrades is to go into the new kernel > >> source dir and do the following: > >> > >> # zcat /proc/zconfig >.config > >> # make oldconfig > >> # make > >> # make install > >> [..] > > > Also, don

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

On 12/6/24 12:05 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > On 04 Dec 2024 15:35:10 +0100 I myself asked: >> ... >> Gentoo provides two flavours of Firefox, one in slot "esr" (Extended >> Support Release) and one in slot "rapid" (new release every 16 weeks). >> ... >>

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

Greetings, On 04 Dec 2024 15:35:10 +0100 I myself asked: > ... > Gentoo provides two flavours of Firefox, one in slot "esr" (Extended > Support Release) and one in slot "rapid" (new release every 16 weeks). > ... > So which slot should > I

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