Re: [gentoo-user] Boot and EFI partitions

2023-12-06 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 12/6/23 10:32, Peter Humphreey wrote: Hello list, I have a new toy to play with - an Intel NUC with i5 (16 threads in all) and 1TB superfast M2 SSD. I grew tired of the noise and thirst of my Amari machine and I wanted something quiet and frugal, so now I'm building a new Gentoo system on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot mix incompatible Qt library

2024-10-13 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 10/13/24 10:22 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have somewhat broken my GenToo system. (Nearly) all applications based on qt:5 die with Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (5.15.13) with this library (5.15.14) I have re-emerged all packages in dev-qt/ in slot 5, which didn't help. I've tried

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-18 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 10/18/24 9:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Greetings, Let me try this again. Why should an NFS server wait 15 seconds before reporting "No such file or directory"? Are there any errors in the log on the server? Increasing the verbosity of the log there might be informative.

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.

2024-11-01 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 10/31/24 10:25 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 10/29/24 11:18 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, I downloaded some files.  I have a few that have some weird names.  Some have those picture type characters.  Some start with a dash, "-".  In [snip] Plenty of people have replied with good info. My 2c from

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox and clang

2024-11-01 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 11/1/24 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: Any idea why clang was disabled in www-client/firefox-128.4.0: [ebuild U ] www-client/firefox-128.4.0:esr::gentoo [128.3.1:esr::gentoo] USE="X dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel jumbo-build openh264 system-av1 system- harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libeve

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-24 Thread Jack Ostroff
[resent from my subscribed email] "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda" will create/format an ext4 partition taking up the entire device, which will then easily be automounted. "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" can work, but only if you have already created a partition table on /dev/sda and created at least one partition

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 init: Was sinit (suckless init) + daemontools-encore on Gentoo

2024-11-14 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 11/14/24 5:02 PM, Hoël Bézier wrote: Chiming in a bit late, but what you want to do would be totally feasible: I actually run gentoo with s6-linux-init (instead of sinit) and s6 (instead of daemontools-encore). As someone else said, the most troublesome part is writing service scripts for ev

[gentoo-user] Question on ebuild naming/numbering

2024-11-16 Thread Jack Ostroff
There's been an update to the gkrellm mailing list about progress on the gtk3 conversion.  It seems much of the work is being done in a specific git branch.  If I want to create an ebuild to track that branch instead of master, what would be an appropriate numbering of that ebuild?  Just using

Re: [gentoo-user] key doesn't work anymore under Xorg

2024-12-27 Thread Jack Ostroff
On 12/27/24 8:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, recently (currently xorg-server-21.1.15) the key seems to be ignored. Entering some key combination like M enters an M in my editor. Does anybody know how to fix this? Many thanks, Helmut Is it that the is being ignored, or that -M used to b

Re: [gentoo-user] update catch-22 with Wifi

2024-12-23 Thread Jack Ostroff
resending to the list, instead of directly (fat fingered the first time) On 12/23/24 6:45 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I no longer have a landline available (even via friends) & rely on Wifi for I/net service, incl software downloads. I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2003, but want to be able to u