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

2025-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
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

2025-02-16 Thread Nuno Silva
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

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

2025-02-16 Thread Grant Edwards
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

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

2025-02-16 Thread Michael
On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time 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 sug

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

2025-02-16 Thread Eli Schwartz
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

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

2025-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
250217 Michael wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2025 22:57:29 Greenwich Mean Time 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, a

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

2025-02-16 Thread 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 not take hours, but minutes if not seconds. > > > > See listing below

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

2025-02-16 Thread Wols Lists
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] Question about compilation

2025-02-16 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/02/2025 05:28, Dale wrote: Oops.  I didn't think about it being on tmpfs. /var/tmp should not be on tmpfs. /tmp may or may not survive a reboot, /var/tmp is exlicitly where applications are supposed to store their crash recovery stuff, and so it is explicitly defined as surviving a rebo

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

2025-02-16 Thread Jack
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

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

2025-02-16 Thread Philip Webb
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 defective hardware, but is somewhere in 'mke2fs

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

2025-02-16 Thread Michael
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

2025-02-16 Thread Nuno Silva
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

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

2025-02-16 Thread Wols Lists
On 01/02/2025 00:13, gevisz wrote: The problem is that after booting with an additional HDD, one of these ZFS HDDs does not report any of its disk id: nor wwn neighter in the form ata-WDC_WD5000*. The situation remained the same even after swapping the undetected 500GB WD HDD with the one. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

2025-02-16 Thread Dale
Wols Lists wrote: > On 09/02/2025 05:28, Dale wrote: >> Oops.  I didn't think about it being on tmpfs. > > /var/tmp should not be on tmpfs. /tmp may or may not survive a reboot, > /var/tmp is exlicitly where applications are supposed to store their > crash recovery stuff, and so it is explicitly de

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging world

2025-02-16 Thread Wol
On 09/02/2025 12:20, Michael wrote: The following packages are causing rebuilds: (dev-lang/perl-5.40.0-r1:0/5.40::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) causes rebuilds for: perl-cleaner --reallyall Yup. I've hit this. You *need* (or used to) run perl-cleaner every now and then or it woul