Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 15:04:01 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 04/03/2020 15:41, Dale wrote: > > [a lot of stuff] > > I know you only reboot every other decade, so I have to ask: did you reboot? When I have a major KDE upgrade, I log out afterwards and, as root, restart xdm, then log back

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-05 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-04 17:16, Dale wrote: So elogind is a pretty good suspect.  One reason I'm asking about this, I'm trying to figure out how elogind fails.  After all, if I'm stuck on a console, I can't use Seamonkey or anything to find help. You could use w3m

[gentoo-user] Firefox display oddity

2020-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, This is www-client/firefox-68.5.0. From time to time, when I switch desktops to it, FF doesn't show the tab bar. The odd thing about it is that the mouse pointer picks up displayed objects as though the tab bar were on display, so I have to aim half an inch below what I want to sele

[gentoo-user] Migrating chroot to VM

2020-03-05 Thread Alessandro Barbieri
I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only use SSH. What do you suggest to do?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-05 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > On 2020-03-04 17:16, Dale wrote: >> >> So elogind is a pretty good suspect.  One reason I'm asking about this, >> I'm trying to figure out how elogind fails.  After all, if I'm stuck on >> a console, I can't use Seamonkey or anything to find help. > > You could use w3m > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

2020-03-05 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 14:41:31 CET Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I did my usual Sunday upgrades the other day. There was a lot of >> upgrades to plasma and elogind it seems. Let's add LOo in there as well >> just for giggles. Anyway, I have a few oddities going on here.

Re: [gentoo-user] CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 00:28:21 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > I've cobbled together a script to select cpu governors and speeds. > One weird thing I've noticed is that reported cpu speed doesn't quite > match the selected speed. E.g. on my machine (yours will vary)... > > cat /sys/devices/system/

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating chroot to VM

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:54:01 GMT Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a > chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only > use SSH. What do you suggest to do? There are VMWare applications to convert

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 4 March 2020 20:59:53 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 07:12:35PM +0100, n952162 wrote > > > On 2020-03-04 17:14, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It will go away but allowing Firefox to self-update on Gentoo will get > > > you a very broken Firefox as the ebuilds have gone a

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating chroot to VM

2020-03-05 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Le jeu. 5 mars 2020 à 13:07, Michael a écrit : > > On Thursday, 5 March 2020 09:54:01 GMT Alessandro Barbieri wrote: > > I want to do a crazy thing. I want to migrate my gentoo installation from a > > chroot to a VM (both on the same host). The host is debian but I can only > > use SSH. What do yo

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/03/20 10:19, n952162 wrote: > Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in > /var/log/messages. I wonder. Is mount order deterministic at boot? Is it possible that you're trying to activate the swap files before the underlying file systems are mounted? Cheers, Wol

[gentoo-user] Re: CPU speed scaling quirk (Intel; Dell i660)

2020-03-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-03-05, madscientistatlarge wrote: > To reduce problems with emitted Radio Frequency Interference, most > processors now use a clock that varies in speed over time. This > doesn't really reduce the emitted energy, but because it is always > changing frequency interference with other devic

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-05 Thread n952162
On 2020-03-05 18:26, Wols Lists wrote: On 04/03/20 10:19, n952162 wrote: Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in /var/log/messages. I wonder. Is mount order deterministic at boot? Is it possible that you're trying to activate the swap files before the underlying f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox managed by my organization?

2020-03-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:30:51PM +, Michael wrote > I haven't yet given Palemoon a spin and consequently have no > experience of it. How does it compare to FF? I am curious as to > security and performance comparisons. It's kept updated regularly for security. See http://www.palemoon.o