Eli,
On Sat, 24 May 2025 23:09:54 -0400 you wrote:
> ...
> On 5/24/25 1:32 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> > ...
> > Ok, but what am I expected to put into the bug description, now that my
> > original command sequence is producing the expected result? I can hard-
> > ly write 'Package "revdep-re
On 5/24/25 1:32 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Eli,
>
> On Fri, 23 May 2025 14:08:09 -0400 you wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Sorry for the confusion I guess, but I *fixed* it.
>> ...
>> The fix means new binary packages will build without using those
>> libraries at all. It also added a new build dep, so the
Eli,
On Fri, 23 May 2025 14:08:09 -0400 you wrote:
> ...
> Sorry for the confusion I guess, but I *fixed* it.
> ...
> The fix means new binary packages will build without using those
> libraries at all. It also added a new build dep, so the binhost
> recompiled them, hence newly running "emerge -
Le ven. 23 mai 2025 à 19:00, Dr Rainer Woitok
a écrit :
>
> On Sat, 10 May 2025 15:26:23 +0200 I myself wrote:
>
> > ...
> > yesterday evening I ran into a problem involving packages "=media-libs/
> > libraw-0.21.2" and "=media-libs/libcdr-0.1.8", "emerge", the binhost,
> > "revdep-rebuild",
On 5/23/25 1:00 PM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> After having been out of town for a while I now found the time to get
> back to this problem. I just booted my laptop and ran these first two
> commands again. But -- lo and behold! -- now "revdep-rebuild" didn't
> belch:
>
> $ sudo emerge --
On Sat, 10 May 2025 15:26:23 +0200 I myself wrote:
> ...
> yesterday evening I ran into a problem involving packages "=media-libs/
> libraw-0.21.2" and "=media-libs/libcdr-0.1.8", "emerge", the binhost,
> "revdep-rebuild", and possibly also the configuration of my rig. The
> problem is rel
yahoo wrote:
> Il 22/05/25 22:02, yahoo ha scritto:
>> Il 22/05/25 20:13, Dale ha scritto:
>>> yahoo wrote:
>>> Is this a driver we should all disable or do you have a different use
>>> case than most? I ask because mine is on as well. Given the large
>>
>> DON'T DISABLE IT!
>>
>
> Sorry, I just
Il 22/05/25 22:02, yahoo ha scritto:
Il 22/05/25 20:13, Dale ha scritto:
yahoo wrote:
Is this a driver we should all disable or do you have a different use
case than most? I ask because mine is on as well. Given the large
DON'T DISABLE IT!
Sorry, I just re-read what I wrote and the stuff
Il 22/05/25 20:13, Dale ha scritto:
yahoo wrote:
Is this a driver we should all disable or do you have a different use
case than most? I ask because mine is on as well. Given the large
DON'T DISABLE IT!
fsck must be executed on unmounted filesystem and for 'root fs' that
normally happens on
yahoo wrote:
> Il 09/04/25 18:38, ralfconn ha scritto:
>> 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: filesystem mounted or ope
Il 09/04/25 18:38, ralfconn ha scritto:
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: filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> For the past three weeks or so, I can't get a clean upgrade due to
> opencv failing to compile on my old rig. I found a bug that over the
> past week or so says it has been fixed. Even tho I waited a few days
> and then synced again, it still fails to compile. It complai
On 09/05/2025 11:10, Anna wrote:
And I'll look into my OpenSMTPd and Dovecot configuration for options.
When you configure dovecot, I missed this first time round, but the
standard configuration chains to a local config. Make sure you create
and use the local file, and don't edit the one that
Thanks for the feedback. I came up with the following "LUKS on LVM"
scheme:
NAMESIZETYPEMOUNTPOINT FSTYPE
/dev/sda111,8G disk
|-/dev/sda1 32M part/boot/efi vfat
`-/dev/sda2 111,7G part
/dev/sdb
On 2025-05-06, Eli Schwartz wrote:
How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
switching to Python 3.13.
> Install "pkgcore".
>
> Run:
>
> pquery -I \
> --has-use python_targets_python3_12 \
> --has-use python_single_target_python3_12 \
> --attr use | grep
gevisz wrote:
> пн, 5 мая 2025 г. в 17:41, Grant Edwards :
>> On 2025-05-05, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
>>> switching to Python 3.13. I'm trying to decide whether to defer the
>>> upgrad or try to "fix" individual packages. But, emerge
пн, 5 мая 2025 г. в 17:41, Grant Edwards :
>
> On 2025-05-05, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
> > switching to Python 3.13. I'm trying to decide whether to defer the
> > upgrad or try to "fix" individual packages. But, emerge will only
> > t
On 5/6/25 11:06 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2025-05-05, Adam Carter wrote:
>> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM Grant Edwards
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
>>> switching to Python 3.13.
>>>
>>
>> Just one package blocking 3.13 for me
>> # emerge -p
On 2025-05-05, Adam Carter wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>> How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
>> switching to Python 3.13.
>>
>
> Just one package blocking 3.13 for me
> # emerge -pv --emptytree world | grep PYTHON_SINGLE | grep -v '
On 2025-05-05, Adam Carter wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2025 at 12:12 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>> How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
>> switching to Python 3.13.
>
> Just one package blocking 3.13 for me
On a second machine I did
10 Run emerge -auvND world
20 A
On 5/5/25 9:41 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
I'm afraid I don't know what "::gentoo" refers to.
This is the usual way to refer to overlays/repositories in portage.
For example...
::gentoo is the official gentoo ebuild repository
::guru is the GURU project ( https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project
On 2025-05-05, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 5/5/25 11:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> Which packages is it trying to update that don't support 3.13?
>>
>> A coupled days after the May 1st switch, 'emerge -auvND world' refused
>> to run because libftdi didn't support 3.13.
>>
>> I removed libftdi,
>
On 5/5/25 11:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Which packages is it trying to update that don't support 3.13?
>
> A coupled days after the May 1st switch, 'emerge -auvND world' refused
> to run because libftdi didn't support 3.13.
>
> I removed libftdi,
It has gotten 3.13 support on Sunday but err
On 2025-05-05, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 5/5/25 10:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Isn't there any sort of check that emerge can run _before_ the switch
>> happens to find out whether the switch is going to cause problems for
>> installed packages?
>
> Yes, emerge ran that check when you did the o
On 5/5/25 10:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> What's annoying about the Python upgrade this time is that the switch
> to 3.13 apparently happened. Then an update or two later, emerge
> starts balking because it wants to update packages that don't support
> 3.13. Now to get a normal daily update to "go
On 2025-05-05, Grant Edwards wrote:
> How do I get a list of installed packages that are preventing
> switching to Python 3.13. I'm trying to decide whether to defer the
> upgrad or try to "fix" individual packages. But, emerge will only
> tell me about one package at a time. I have no idea if t
On 2025-05-02, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> It was an update. It was for the purpose of replacing python 3.12 with
> python 3.13. Thus it was a python update.
Wow. As Kelly Bundy used to say: "The mind wobbles!"
--
Grant
On 2025-05-02, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 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.
>
> TL;DR by analogy =
> - X, which like systemd, did eevrything in a giant sphagettified mess. (But
> still missed out on the sound... and used VTs)
> - wayland (library + compositor) + libinput + pipewire + wireplumber +
> whatever-else is the future.
> - We needed a desparate solution like X(sys
systemd is a convenient service manager (and much more!!).
It provides too many things, which work well... for standard windows-like use
cases.
Seeing my post title, a question you might get is "Why not just use systemd? It
just works better!..."
(Please read below, then this; It is just a TL;D
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
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: filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program?
fsck: operational error
...
This started
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
>
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
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
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
>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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 the empty space l
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
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,
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]
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
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
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
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 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
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
250218 Michael wrote:
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> 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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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