Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-15 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:36:53 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning all, > > Yesterday I found I couldn't boot this box. I use bootctl from systemd-boot > to manage my boot partition (nothing else of systemd, though), and when I > ran 'bootctl install' after compiling a new kernel, I got str

[gentoo-user] Chromium on linux, build question

2019-09-15 Thread John Covici
Hi. I want to have Chromium on linux, but I want to build the Chrome OS version, so I can have their version of the accessibility plugin which is called Chrom next. I did not see any use flags, so how can I do this on gentoo? I am using the unstable version of gentoo. It is my understanding th

[gentoo-user] firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
When I saw that the last update of firefox enabled linking with some system libraries -- sqlite and jpeg included -- I went to the window right away and checked the sky for flying pigs ;-) Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox tw

[gentoo-user] gpicview/eom/eog not displaying JPEGs

2019-09-15 Thread Dom Rodriguez
Hello, I've installed media-gfx/gpicview and its unable to view JPEG files. It errors with 'Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '. Oddly enough, `imlib2_view` and `feh` can open JPEGs fine. I think its related to either (or a combination of both) GTK+ or gdk-pixbuf. I've attached

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox twice in a row. The USE flags seem to have been around for a while. I haven't updated my desktop for a few weeks (I'll do

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox 68

2019-09-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2019-09-15 16:21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 09:08:24AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > > > Is this for real or is it a mistake to be reverted soon? I do not > > enjoy the thought of rebuilding firefox twice in a row. > > The USE flags seem to have been around for a while.

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

2019-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:29:13 BST Mick wrote: > What are/were the contents of the 24-digit hex named directory? It was empty. Actually it was 32 digits. > I don't use systemd-boot or bootctl to have first hand experience of what it > does, but I thought I does not create new hex named di