[gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Greetings, having freshly erm ... converted from Ubuntu to Gentoo and thus being an absolute Gentoo newbie I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of all the colour in the output produced by "emerge" but also by "qlist", "eix", "e-file" and so on. Is there a way to globally configure thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Hakon, On Tuesday, 2019-10-01 16:07:55 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I've got this in make.conf, which gets me part-way there: > > CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=OFF > NOCOLOR="true" > GCC_COLORS="" I already had the "NOCOLOR" environment variable set (there was a typo in my mail, not in my "make.conf" fil

[gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Greetings, though I currently do not find any relevant descriptions regarding this topic on the web I must formerly have found something there, because I had set my laptop up this way, and it worked until the last reboot. Either I somehow spoiled some configuration, upgraded some package, or

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Neil, On Tuesday, 2019-12-17 21:35:11 +, you wrote: > ... > This is normally handled by the desktop environment, which desktop are > you using? Xfce. Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Tuesday, 2019-12-17 23:44:19 +, you wrote: > ... > And ... usually by the sys-fs/udisks package, which performs the > automounting. > If for some reason you have uninstalled udisks, $ equery --no-color list -F '$mask2,$location $fullversion:$slot $cp' sys-fs/udisks * Sear

[gentoo-user] Re: Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Grant, On Wednesday, 2019-12-18 15:57:41 -, you wrote: > ... > I do it by manually writing udev rules that watch for specific devices > and mount them at particular paths. It used to work out of the box without writing udev rules. > handled by the "desktop" enviroment — which you don't ment

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Wednesday, 2019-12-18 18:10:07 +, you wrote: > ... > OK, are you running consolekit, or elogind? $ equery --no-color list -F '$mask2,$location $fullversion:$slot $cp' consolekit elogind * Searching for consolekit ... amd64,IP- 1.2.1:0 sys-auth/consolekit !!! No instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Thursday, 2019-12-19 18:30:47 +, you wrote: > ... > consolekit will work for this purpose - is it running? It should be in your > default runlevel. $ rc-update show|grep consolekit $ Gosh! It's missing! Maybe I just started it to see whether or not it works and then for

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 11:46:43 +, you wrote: > ... >I > don't use this desktop to be able to advise further, but generally I would > try > to run the command as a plain user while keeping an eye on the termin

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB sticks automagically.

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:38:27 +, you wrote: > ... > Whichever command the xface desktop is running when you select Suspend/ > Hibernate using the GUI. Problem is I can't select Suspend/Hibernate in the GUI. It's greyed out. And selecting Hibernate via the power button only locks

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop

Mick, On Friday, 2019-12-20 13:55:29 +, you wrote: > ... > If you can't run suspend/hibernate it may be polkit policies are not allowing > you to run these commands via dbus. However, polkit policies are > automatically installed/updated as required by the packages you have on your > syst

[gentoo-user] "equery" and "blueman"

Greetings, there seems to be some "blueman" specific data "equery" doesn't like: $ equery --no-color uses --all net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.6/equery", line 38, in equery.main(sys.argv) File "/usr/lib64/py

Re: [gentoo-user] "equery" and "blueman"

Alarig, On Friday, 2019-12-20 19:55:32 +0100, you wrote: > ... > net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 doesn’t exists in the the, but > net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1-r1 does. Glad you pointed this out. I've still version 2.1.1 installed, due to the line =net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 ~amd64 in my "packag

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Greetings and a Happy New Year to all of you :-) Way back on Tuesday, 2019-10-01 16:07:55 +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Den 01.10.2019 13:28, skrev Dr Rainer Woitok: > > ... > > I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of > > all the colo

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Robert, On Sunday, 2020-01-05 12:17:23 +, you wrote: > I had this issue many moons ago, which lead to my discovery of the > ansifilter package: > > > # emerge -pv ansifilter | ansifilter Nice find. However, this only produces a clean terminal window but does not prevent all the garbage in

[gentoo-user] Re: Suspend and Hibernation not working on XFace desktop [SOLVED]

Mick and All, On Saturday, 2019-12-21 12:22:31 +, you wrote: > ... > A Gentoo user with consolekit and xfce should kindly check their settings and > compare with yours to see if something is amiss. I'm thinking, any xfce > regression bugs ought to affect more than one user at a time, so yo

Re: [gentoo-user] The saga of the missing Logitech drivers

Andrew, On Saturday, 2020-02-01 01:42:20 +0800, you wrote: > ... > 1) Is "make oldconfig" broken? Dunno. But I'm using a slightly different approach: - Copy your old kernel config over to the new kernel directory. - Run "make olddefconfig". This will try to adapt your old configurat- ion t

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading Issue

Roger, On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 09:51:20 +1300, you wrote: > ... > rc_interactive means I can press "I" or "i" during boot and > INTERRUPT > the boot process; *otherwise* it will boot as per normal. > > Is that not the behaviour you are seeking? Speaking not for the original poster but only fo

[gentoo-user] Re: Loading Issue

Nono, On Wednesday, 2020-02-19 15:03:43 +, you wrote: > ... > If the US layout is causing too much trouble, it might be worth it to > run "loadkeys" manually. You can run this command only AFTER you've managed to BLINDLY enter your password using a keyboard layout which most probably matc

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Saturday, 2020-03-21 08:06:35 -0500, you wrote: > ... > Mind if I'm nosy for a minute.  I'd like to store files on a USB stick > that are encrypted as well.  However, I'd like it to be able to work no > matter what OS is used.  I googled but thought it was not possible.  You > seem to ha

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Saturday, 2020-03-21 13:01:01 -0500, you wrote: > ... >   Thing is, if I > give it to someone who uses windoze, can they just put in the password > and open it or does it have to be on the original system? They just have VeraCrypt to

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Sunday, 2020-03-22 04:34:54 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I wanted to post a couple things for future reference. First, it seems > this thing requires sudo to work.  Add the executable to the sudo file > thingy. I didn't do this, and it works anyway: # cat /etc/sudoers | grep crypt #

Re: [gentoo-user] executing a file on a usb thumb drive

Dale, On Monday, 2020-03-23 05:50:14 -0500, you wrote: > ... > ># cat /etc/sudoers | grep crypt > ># > > I wonder if this is a version issue.  When I was googling for this, it > was claimed this was a recent change.  That's my recollection anyway.  > I'm using version veracrypt-1.24_p2.

[gentoo-user] Unstable package "xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.14.2" segfaults

Greetings, when I installed my first Gentoo system on my laptop back in September I had to accept the "~amd64" keyword for quite a few "xfce-*/*" packages due to stable versions not being available at all for some packages, and due to several of these unstable packages requiring unstable version

Re: [gentoo-user] Difficulties to install a bootloader for the new system

Meino, On Tuesday, 2020-04-07 11:32:09 +0200, you wrote: > ... > This was created via > grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg According to the notes I took when installing Gentoo for the first time I did: # echo 'GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64"' >> /etc/p

[gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

Greetings, in a recent Heise article (in German) at https://www.heise.de/news/SystemRescue-8-00-GnuPG-Schluessel-im-Notfall-einfach-ausdrucken-5078896.html?wt_mc=nl.red.ho.ho-nl-windows.2021-03-15.link.link about "SystemRescue" the author mentions among other things that the old packet "exfa

Re: [gentoo-user] "sys-fs/exfat-utils" vs "sys-fs/exfatprogs"

Dale, On Saturday, 2021-03-20 12:45:17 -0500, you wrote: > ... > If it helps any, the newer one requires a 5.7 or higher kernel. Ok, since I'm currently only using stable kernels, I'm on 5.4, and thus I'll probably still have to wait a little before dumping "sys-fs/exfat- utils" in favour of "

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt vs Fetchmail problem

Remco, On Wednesday, 2021-03-24 08:59:58 -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote: > ... > Of late, a lot of email providers (notably gmail, MS/outlook, and I think > Yahoo > too) require OAUTH support to access mail. Since I'm a daily Fetchmail user, I was startled at first, but startpag- ing for "OAUTH" an

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

On Saturday, 2020-12-05 19:07:51 +0100, I myself wrote: ("> >" refers to Michael ) > Michael, > > On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote: > > > ... > > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector > > created > > by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

Alarig, On Monday, 2021-04-05 00:31:50 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: I'm always using "make olddefconfig" rather than "make oldconfig" and had no problems upgr

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

Dan, On Tuesday, 2021-04-06 23:11:15 -0600, you wrote: > ... > log { source(src); destination(smb_logs); filter(samba); flags(final); ); According to the documentation at https://support.oneidentity.com/technical-documents/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.30/administration-guide/56#TOPIC-159

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng misbehaving

Dan, On Wednesday, 2021-04-07 12:05:10 -0600, you wrote: > I had posted the whole file. But I can do it again easy enough. > ... > filter samba { program("samba"); }; > filter ssh_messages { facility("AUTH") and level("INFO"); }; > filter syslog { not filter("ssh_messages") and not filter("samba"

Re: [gentoo-user] No-multilib media-libs/opencv-4.5.0 fails to install

Michael, On Thursday, 2021-05-06 19:25:11 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Half way it complains about CPU optimisations: > == > RuntimeError: NumPy was built with baseline optimizations: > (SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE41 POPCNT SSE42) but your machine doesn't sup

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-terms/xterm loops error upon launch

Vitor, On Sunday, 2021-05-09 21:08:15 -0300, Vitor Hugo Nunes dos Santos wrote: > ... > After the install and configuration of Xorg, I decided to 'startx' and > open xterm in fvwm. > > Upon pressing the button to launch it, nothing came up. When closing > fvwm, I saw the following message being

[gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

Greetings, still hunting down the reasons for my laptop not producing any sound, I have meanwhile found reports on the web "no sound even though root is in group audio" or "Dbus doesn't "care" who root is -- it checks the ident- ity of the account that requested an action, and if that account i

Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

Aisha, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? > That sounds like a recipe for disaster... Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

Thelma, On Thursday, 2021-06-10 15:42:10 -0600, you wrote: > ... > In: /usr/share/sddm/sddm.conf.d/00default.conf > I change to > Numlock=on No! Directory "/usr/share/sddm/" contains the default configuration for "sddm" for reference only. You should undo this change. As Dale has alread

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - can not login

Thelma, On Thursday, 2021-06-10 18:24:34 -0600, you wrote: > ... > It seems to me lightdm defaults to "twm" which file controls it? > I want to change it to xfce4 Not quite. Either in configuration file "/etc/conf.d/xdm" (when you have package "x11-apps/xdm" installed) or "/etc/conf.d/dis

[gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Greetings, it's been quite a while that I had problems doing my routine Gentoo up- grade. This time package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" balked, and in the build log I found this: * Package:dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: aball...@gentoo.org t...@g

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Saturday, 2021-06-12 16:29:12 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > $ sudo locale > > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > > ... > I can't speak for your lua* packages, but as long as you have defined your > locale correctly in /etc/locale.gen your system should source what it needs > from there. Erm, is ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

All, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 15:39:46 +0200, I myself wrote: > ... > > > $ sudo locale > > > LANG=en_GB.utf8 > > > ... > Erm, is there a difference between "*.utf8" and "*.UTF-8"? Does case > matter? Apparently yes. At least for Perl or anything else used by Portage. Running my package up

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 16:16:37 +0100, you wrote: > ... > $ grep -i en_gb /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED > en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8 > en_GB ISO-8859-1 Same here. > ... > $ eselect locale list > Available targets for the LANG variable: > [1] C > [2] C.utf8 > [3] POSIX > [snip ... ] > [

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Michael, On Sunday, 2021-06-13 18:23:54 +0100, you wrote: > ... > Yes, this looks odd, but I have not worked out how locale is sourced in > detail. Have you added: > > LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" > > in your /etc/env.d/02locale for a system wide setting? No, this file still contains LANG="en_GB.

Re: [gentoo-user] Building package "dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2021" failed

Peter, On Tuesday, 2021-06-15 08:41:40 +0100, you wrote: > ... > ># eselect locale set 4 > ># env-update > > > >>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... > > After that you need to source /etc/profile, no? Yes, if you want to continue working in this shell. But if I start my Gentoo u

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

Dale, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 01:59:57 -0500, you wrote: > ... > > The subject line pretty much describes this.  How does one manage the > system.map file in /boot?  Is it needed?  Should it be updated with each > kernel?  I tend to keep 2 to 3 kernels installed. Same here. And whenever I co

Re: [gentoo-user] system.map file in /boot. How to manage?

Neil, On Thursday, 2021-07-01 15:28:51 +0100, you wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 13:16:29 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > > Same here. And whenever I configure a new kernel my kernel managing > > script makes sure both, the kernel I'm currenty running on and the

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not

Ramon, Dale, On Tuesday, 2021-07-06 20:40:32 +0200, Ramon Fischer wrote: > This is just a guess. Maybe you have two devices with the same UUID? > > If so, you can change it with: > > $ cryptsetup --uuid="" luksUUID "/dev/sdx1" Good idea. But to find out whether or not this is the cause

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Alan, On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote: > ... > The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said > "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it > happened I didn't ignore the warning. But some people might. > > You seem to see nothin

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

Michael and All, Long time ago, on Wednesday, 2021-03-31 12:21:27 +0100, wrote: > ... > OK, unless you made a typo and the "minutes" were meant to say seconds, this > is ridiculously slow. Yes, it really were minutes. > You could run some tests to see what is causing the delay. The veracryp

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

Greetings, On Sunday, 2021-08-01 19:19:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > ... > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Just out of curiosity: on my system "emerge" always lists the packages that would be merged "in order" rather than "in reverse order". Where can this be con

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Greetings, On Tuesday, 2021-07-27 20:02:07 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... >Heck, when I first ran --depclean, there > were something like 220 packages to be removed. It would be very easy > to have missed openrc. (Shameless plug) only my kernel patch which >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Arve, On Monday, 2021-08-02 13:54:07 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Depends what you were trying to solve when piping to less. Sorry for the confusion caused by dropping the "--ask" option (which is part of my "edepclean" alias). What I'm trying to solve is reading the output from "emerge --depcle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Alec, Neil, On Tuesday, 2021-08-03 13:44:29 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 07:45:27 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > > >$ emerge --ask --depclean | less > > > ... > > Depending what desktop environment/terminal emulator, there are a few > > options. You could use a termi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Philip, On Wednesday, 2021-08-04 07:57:06 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Why not write the output to a file ? -- eg > 'emerge --ask --depclean > '. > Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. Depending on the number of packages you've installed and depending on the spee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

Neil, On Friday, 2021-08-06 08:33:33 +0100, you wrote: > ... > ># emerge --depclean --pretend | $PAGER > ># emerge --depclean -- ask --quiet > > How about emerge -ca | tee >depclean.txt > > Then if the list is short you can read it in the console and just hit y > or n. Otherwise, hit n

[gentoo-user] Firmware updates

Greetings, off and on I'm receiving updates of packages "sys-firmware/intel-micro- code" and "sys-kernel/linux-firmware". My kernel has $ grep ^CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="intel-ucode/06-5e-03 i915/skl_dmc_ver1_27.bin regulatory.db regulatory.db.p

[gentoo-user] How to create a local overlay?

Greetings, recently I received an "*.ebuild" file for a little piece of software I need. However, trying to find instructions in the Gentoo wiki regarding the creation of a local overlay utilizing this ebuild file up to now on- ly revealed confusing and/or outdated information. Could anybody po

Re: [gentoo-user] How to create a local overlay?

Tastytea, On Sunday, 2021-09-19 16:40:18 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Looks good, thank you :-) Sincerely, Rainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using www-apps/jekyll?

Peter, On Thursday, 2021-10-28 09:53:48 +0100, you wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 14:59:13 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > One possibility occurred to me: is having two ruby versions installed at > > once the problem? I already had 3.0 installed, the current Gentoo version, > > but jekyl

[gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

Greetings, some time back it was pointed out on this list to only use "--changed- use" rather than "--newuse". So I've meanwhile removed this option (and also a few others) from my update script which I had created early after installing Gentoo. It now basically runs $ sudo emerge --ask --v

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

Wol, On Sunday, 2022-02-20 14:56:20 +, you wrote: > ... >But --deep - that's to do > with a dependency changing USE flags, and it will block a depclean if > you don't do it. Thanks for the reminder! This is in fact mentioned in every output

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

Er ... On Monday, 2022-02-21 11:13:16 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > But what > about "--changed-deps"? Can nobody on this list explain what it really > is or isn't good for, or when to use or not to use it? Apart from a repl

Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"

Thanks, Michael, On Tuesday, 2022-02-22 10:05:06 -0500, you wrote: > ... > It's really a (portage-only) workaround for developers who don't follow > the rules, thus ensuring that we'll never have another competing > package manager again. So for people like me, neither being a developer nor m

[gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

Greetings, since the output of "emerge -a" might be long, and since on a stock con- sole you cannot scroll, I had the idea of piping it into "tee", and in case I'm unsure just to say "No" to the question of whether or not I would like to merge these packages and then to inspect the "emerge"

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

Rich, On Thursday, 2022-02-24 07:10:10 -0500, you wrote: > ... > Wouldn't it be more appropriate to use -p in this case, which will > require no input? Running "emerge -p ..." followed by "emerge ..." without "-p" would run the dependency analysis twice for EVERY package update. Using a singl

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

John, On Thursday, 2022-02-24 09:59:50 -0500, you wrote: > ... > I use script for that purpose and it works great, the output is > complete and I can just say no and its all there. Nice idea. However, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, be- cause an important usecase for me is ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Piping "emerge -a" to some other command

Arve, On Friday, 2022-02-25 10:15:18 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I'm guessing any proposed solution would fail when what you want to > capture has an interactive component like this. I think "fail" is the wrong word here. My own scripts send such quest- ions to the same device they retrieve the

[gentoo-user] Root can't write to files owned by others?

Greetings, until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: $ touch /tmp/file $ ls -l /tmp/file -rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file $ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file Password: tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied x $ chmod a+w /tmp/file $ ls -l /tmp/fil

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

Greetings, On Wednesday, 2022-03-09 19:28:49 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... >$ touch /tmp/file >$ ls -l /tmp/file >-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file >$ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file >Password: >tee: /tmp/file: Permission denied >x >$ ... >$

[gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

Nikos, On Thursday, 2022-03-10 12:21:36 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Are you sure that: > > sysctl fs.protected_regular=0 > > does not help? I can reproduce it here on my system with kernel 5.15.27, > and setting that sysctl to 0 fixes it immediately. No, I'm not at all sure. Since you mentio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

Aho, On Friday, 2022-03-11 10:17:13 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I think Rainer's problem is the nosuid mount flag on his /tmp > > $ mount | grep \/tmp > tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=3212160k,inode64) > > So if he would run the command against a file not located in /tmp I

[gentoo-user] [NOTABUG] Re: Root can't write to files owned by others?

Greetings, On Wednesday, 2022-03-09 19:28:49 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > until recently my system behaves sort of strangely: > >$ touch /tmp/file >$ ls -l /tmp/file >-rw--- 1 rainer rainer 0 2022-03-09 19:06 /tmp/file >$ echo x | sudo tee /tmp/file >Password: >tee

[gentoo-user] Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"

Greetings, since quite some time, longe before "converting" to Gentoo, I've used "fetchmail" and "ssmtp" to retrieve and send mail via my Google account. Some time after I had all set up, Google started nagging about my not- so-secure access to my mail account via just userid and password.

[gentoo-user] Re: Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"

Nikos, On Thursday, 2022-03-17 19:04:04 +0200, you wrote: > ... > I don't use fetchmail (just an email client), but fetchmail 7 apparently > supports oauth2. It's masked in portage because it's still alpha > (net-mail/fetchmail-7.0.0_alpha9-r1). > > And then read: > > http://mmogilvi.users.so

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Google and "fetchmail" + "ssmtp"

Greetings, On Friday, 2022-03-18 11:50:33 +0100, I myself wrote: > Nikos, > > On Thursday, 2022-03-17 19:04:04 +0200, you wrote: > > > ... > > http://mmogilvi.users.sourceforge.net/software/oauthbearer.html > > ... > > Really interesting reading. Thanks for the pointer. And also thanks to >

[gentoo-user] Footer line with LibreOffice's Calc?

Greetings, are there any LibreOffice Calc experts on this list? I have some "*.xlsx" files which were created with Excel under Windows. These feature a "footer" line, which for instance compute the sums for various columns. If you use Excel under Windows and insert a new row before this fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Footer line with LibreOffice's Calc?

Stefan, On Saturday, 2022-04-09 18:46:00 +0200, you wrote: > ... > Excel automatically adjusts the formular to include the newly added line, > while LibreCalc does not ... by default. However, there is > a setting (Extras -> Optionen -> LibreOffice Calc -> Allgemein -> > Eingabe-Einstellungen) >

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Footer line with LibreOffice's Calc?

Dan, On Sunday, 2022-04-10 13:06:46 +0200, you wrote: > ... > In LO-Calc: > > Tools -> Options -> LibreOffice Calc -> General -> Input Settings -> "Expand > references when new columns/rows are inserted" Oops ... let me politely put it this way: apparently it was too late and I was too tired y

Re: [gentoo-user] error in /etc/portage/make.conf file

Jude, On Friday, 2022-04-15 09:58:40 -0400, you wrote: > after the LC_MESSAGES=C > line, caught signal 2 exiting gets printed in the file. Try LC_MESSAGES="C" This is most probably read by Python rather than by a Shell. Sincerely, Rainer

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to emerge "sys-apps/fwupd-1.8.1"

Arve, On Thursday, 2022-06-02 17:46:14 +0200, you wrote: > ... > According to https://bugs.gentoo.org/841767 this could possibly be fixed > for you by either activating the gusb USE flag, or de-activating the > modemmanager USE flag. Bingo! Activating the "gusb" USE flag did the trick! Many th

Re: [gentoo-user] Google pop3 authentication failure

Walter, On Monday, 2022-06-13 09:42:39 -0400, you wrote: > I started getting this today. > > fetchmail: Authorization failure on @pop.gmail.com > fetchmail: For help, see http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#R15 > fetchmail: Query status=3 (AUTHFAIL) See the thread with subject 'Googl

Re: [gentoo-user] Google pop3 authentication failure

Neil, On Monday, 2022-06-13 20:20:46 +0100, you wrote: > ... > > Anybody knowing about a replacement for "fetchmail" which provides daem- > > on mode as well as POP and OAuth support, and also allows to directly > > feed the fetched mails into "procmail"? > > net-mail/getmail Do you know for

Re: [gentoo-user] Google pop3 authentication failure

Neil, On Tuesday, 2022-06-14 15:20:36 +0100, you wrote: > ... > >https://getmail6.org/configuration.html#configuring > > Good point, it's that long since I set up getmail, I had to check if it > was using IMAP or POP, and I'm using it with IMAP. Is there a reason you > can't or won't use IMA

Re: [gentoo-user] pain, PAIN, and more pain again.

Alan, On Saturday, 2022-06-18 23:54:26 -0400, you wrote: > ... > At this point in time, if you have a problem, especially on linux, it is > almost never the problem that existed before a penguin tried to solve it > for you. Perhaps Ubuntu would be your friend? > ... > Example: > > Old way: >

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

Thelma, On Thursday, 2022-07-07 23:13:47 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > ... > By upgrading one of my system, I've just noticed this behaviour is enforced > (I think) by new package that was pulled by emerge: > [ebuild N] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-42.1 USE="pam ssh-agent (-selinux)

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

Thelma, On Friday, 2022-07-08 10:20:12 -0600, you wrote: > ... > app-crypt/libsecret-0.20.5-r3 pulled in by: > app-crypt/gcr-3.41.0 requires >=app-crypt/libsecret-0.20 > > And "app-crypt/gcr" was an upgrade. This does not happen with the stable version 3.40.0 of "app-crypt/gcr", only with

Re: [gentoo-user] GPG problem

xWK, On Sunday, 2022-07-10 10:56:18 +0200, you wrote: > ... > There are however some version differences between FreeBSD and Gentoo. > > FreeBSD: > $ gpg --version > gpg (gnuPG) 2.3.3 > libgcrypt 1.9.4 > Copyright (c) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > > Gentoo: > $ gpg --version > gp

[ME TOO] Re: [gentoo-user] --sync

Neil, On Sunday, 2022-07-31 21:43:12 +0100, you wrote: > ... > I switched to using git for syncing, from github, and haven't looked > back. It is *much* faster, several times faster syncing from github than > using rsync to sync from a local mirror, and github is always there. The replies from y

[gentoo-user] Package "app-office/libreoffice-bin"

Greetings, after it took about three hours to build "app-office/libreoffice" on my laptop, I decided to pull the plug and install "app-office/libreoffice- bin" instead. Installing this one only took some two minutes, and I was happy. But today I noticed that "app-office/libreoffice-bin" only p

Re: [gentoo-user] How to disable the modules service?

Peter, On Sunday, 2022-10-23 12:45:42 +0200, you wrote: > ... > we have a wiki article for this: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Modules#Going_completely_.22module-less.22 When I built my first Gentoo system in 2019, the Handbook instructed to build anything sound related as modules, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version

Dale, On Friday, 2022-11-11 13:18:08 -0600, you wrote: > ... > I did build a new kernel from the old config and running make > oldconfig. Perhaps you should rather use make olddefconfig It tries not to just ignore any newly introduced configuration variables but rather to provide meaningful

Re: [gentoo-user] Libsld, what gives?

Paul, On Thursday, 2022-11-17 17:52:17 +1100, you wrote: > On Wednesday, November 16, 2022 6:11:18 P.M. AEDT Alan Grimes wrote: > > ... > >Usually I should wait six months just to save myself > > the aggrivation... > > No, waiting 6 months between updates *causes* aggrivation

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDFs and/or jpegs together. Help, please!

Alan, On Friday, 2022-11-25 16:40:11 +, you wrote: > ... > I have a problem, in that I need to join several PDFs or jpegs output > from xsane (the scanner program) into a single document. For joining PDFs I use "pdftk" from "app-text/pdftk". Sincerely, Rainer

[gentoo-user] Clock font in "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" version 4.17.4

Greetings, after upgrading "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" from version 4.17.3 to 4.17.4 my digital clock uses a tiny font which I cannot change. Whatever font and font size I select in its "Property" dialog is ignored. It stubbornly stays with "Sans Regular 8 px". Searching the web did not turn up a

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Re: Clock font in "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" version 4.17.4

Greetings, On Tuesday, 2022-11-29 17:03:18 +0100, I myself wrote: > ... > after upgrading "xfce-base/xfce4-panel" from version 4.17.3 to 4.17.4 my > digital clock uses a tiny font which I cannot change. Whatever font and > font size I select in its "Property" dialog is ignored. It stubbornly

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird build failure ..

Cal, On Sunday, 2023-01-01 13:21:34 -0800, you wrote: > ... > You're right, it looks like the Thunderbird ebuild has a clang USE > turned on by default; On my rig "clang" and "llvm" used about 90 minutes each to build and af- terwards often caused rebuilds for other packages which, too, took the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bouncing messages

Grant, On Thursday, 2023-01-19 22:59:48 -0700, you wrote: > ... > I tried it a few times. > > I'd see mail log entries where the re-sent messages would fail the same > way that the original sent message failed. :-/ Me too :-( But isn't this changeable? It's a list maintained by Gentoo.Org,

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

Peter, On Tuesday, 2023-04-11 11:19:31 +0100, you wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 April 2023 06:44:03 BST the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > After update I get: > > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating. > > ... > /etc/mtab should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts, so it ought to be kept up

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

Neil, On Tuesday, 2023-04-11 08:19:10 +0100, you wrote: > ... > So now we kn ow, ChatGPT is case-insensitive, it gave you answers for -u > and -n. You aren't really flabbergasted, are you? After all Microsoft is known for having a particularly soft spot for case-insensitiveness :-) Sincerely,

[gentoo-user] Converting shell globs to regular expressions

Greetings, does anybody know about some command to convert shell globs (shell pat- terns) into regular expressions? Back in the old Unix days there was a "glob" command, but "e-files" only turns up a GNU library. I am aware of Python's "fnmatch.translate()" function, but this -- of course -

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