Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of issues with wayland

2024-08-07 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 6/8/24 02:58, Wols Lists wrote: > Last I investigated, sddm had a *hard* dependency on X11. So even if you're running a Wayland system (like I am) you need X installed so that sddm will work. That's not quite correct; it's been possible to run SDDM directly as a Wayland session for q

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing Gentoo before install on new laptop

2024-08-11 Thread Matt Jolly
On 12/8/24 08:07, Michael wrote: > Nice to hear you got your system up & running. If you need/prefer to run with > Secure Boot enabled, have a look at this guide to help you setting it up. > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Secure_Boot There's some recent news in relation to Secure Boot that sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi,Cgroups are the answer. If you're on systemd you could try making a `slice` for Firefox that might look a bit like this:/etc/systemd/system/user-firefox.slice```[Unit]Description=Firefox SliceBefore=slices.target[Slice]MemoryAccounting=trueMemoryLimit=512M```Then you can run ```systemctl daemon-

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox, Seamonkey to if I can, and memory limits.

2024-08-23 Thread Matt Jolly
> Thing is, not sure I use cgroups either, unless it is on by default.   o_OCgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature, SystemD just provides a convenient interface for them if you're using it. They form the basis of containerisation iirc.Bit of info on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Matt Jolly
It should not matter; the virtual root involves bind mounting directories into a single location - that could be 4 different partitions, a bunch of subvolumes, or some directories scattered across a single partition, or some combination of those options.Cheers,MattOn 22 Oct 2024 23:36, Michael wro

Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-11-03 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 4/11/24 09:35, Wol wrote: Seeing as it's removable media I would expect most of those to have problems if you DID have a partition table. It's linux that's unusual in being happy with a partition table on removable media. That is not the case at all. Without a partition table how wo

Re: [gentoo-user] python breakage

2024-11-01 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Bill, On 2/11/24 10:51, William Kenworthy wrote: My questions (for gentoo) is this another gentoo only hack, or an upstream hard requirement and how can it be turned off. BillK This is PEP 668 in action. https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specificat

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-26 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Rainer, Doesn't that mean that best practice would be to just ditch "net-dns/ bind-tools" and solely install "net-dns/bind" instead? At least up to now the latter _also_ provides "nslookup" and "dig". That is correct. The package now even says as much (since about 12 hours ago!): > n

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-24 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Grant, On 25/10/24 04:45, Grant Edwards wrote: Portage suddenly wants to install net-dns/bind so it can update bind-tools from 9.16 to 9.18. I've always had bind-tools installed, but it has never required that I install the bind server and its dependencies (for which I have no use). Older ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-23 Thread Matt Jolly
On 24/9/24 10:52, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: I run a four-monitor system using NVIDIA's closed-source drivers. Last I heard, Wayland did not work with such a combination. Has that changed? I run several 3-monitor NVIDIA setups on Wayland with no issue. One of my 4-monitor setups has one scree

Re: [gentoo-user] Wayland! Beware of!

2024-09-24 Thread Matt Jolly
On 24/9/24 19:46, Mitchell Dorrell wrote: Do you specifically use the closed-source drivers, though? Yes. In both the 'kernel-open' and regular flavours.

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-09-24 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Alan, On 25/9/24 04:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Perhaps. As already said, I would have been much less jumpy if the explanations which have come in this thread had been in a news item. As has been mentioned here this was not news-worthy. There is no decision to make or mandatory migration. Us

Re: [gentoo-user] Bumping a version of a specific package

2024-10-02 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Tomás, Opening a Pull Request to resolve your bug is not just OK, it's encouraged. Reading up on the bug you provided, the suggestion is to depend on the '3' slot of `dev-ruby/google-protobuf` - so it would look like this: ``` ruby_add_rdepend " dev-ruby/google-protobuf:3 de

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-18 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, > LTO is pretty much the only sensible choice these days as I understand it. That's really the case, for bulk storage of any type you need to be able to tier a lot of it offsite/offline. I'm responsible for a tape library with a robot arm and about 13 drives raging from LTO7 through to LTO

Re: [gentoo-user] src_install: dobin failed while merging ebuild

2024-11-16 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 17/11/24 17:22, whiteman808 wrote: > > I need help with writing ebuild. Ebuild fails to merge. > Necessary information is located in attachments. I haven't actually built this, but if dobin is failing after this step: > cp $WORK/b001/exe/a.out goimapnotify Where is goimapnotify actually

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating existing Gentoo to binpkg

2024-11-15 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, Since I'm planning to use binary packages from x86-64-v3, I presume this should be changed to:     COMMON_FLAGS="-march=x86-64-v3 -O2 -pipe" or, perhaps:     COMMON_FLAGS="-march=x86-64-v3 -mtune=znver4 -O2 -pipe" ? You want to match the binhost flags: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/G

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-13 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Dale, My question is this. Given they cost about $20 more, from what I've found anyway, is it worth it? Is there a downside to this new set of heads being added? I'm thinking a higher failure rate, more risk to data or something like that. I think this is a fairly new thing, last couple y

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Peter, On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do something >myself, but how? I raised a bug against a document once, only to be rebuked. You can raise issues on the "Talk" page for a given article, e.g. https

Re: [gentoo-user] Package "www-client/firefox"

2024-12-04 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 5/12/24 09:04, Alarig Le Lay wrote: The ESR is officially supported by Mozilla, so you don’t rely on only one person (from Nebraska) here. Yes, there have _never_ been whole teams who have missed backporting a seemingly innocuous security fix. That has never in the history of the world

Re: [gentoo-user] Package "www-client/firefox"

2024-12-04 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Rainer, On 5/12/24 00:35, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: So which slot should I choose? Any opinions out there? I can't speak for Firefox, but I do maintain Chromium which is similar enough in terms of being a browser with a fast release cycle and several channels. I recommend keeping your brows

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about compilation

2025-02-08 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi Dale, On 9/2/25 10:20, Dale wrote: Would that survive a full reboot?  I'm asking about a regular desktop top system.  It's rare but sometimes I am doing updates and have a power failure and have to shutdown until power comes back. I've always just done a emerge --resume but that starts any

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-19 Thread Matt Jolly
You don't need to do that; you just need to launch an X11 session instead of Wayland.On 20 Dec 2024 09:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:On Thursday 19 December 2024 12:01:43 GMT I wrote: > Is any other plasma user still having trouble starting it with the previous > arrangement of desktops and program

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-20 Thread Matt Jolly
ay 20 December 2024 14:18:14 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 19 December 2024 23:40:52 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > > You don't need to do that; you just need to launch an X11 session instead > > of Wayland. > > Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs, as they s

Re: [gentoo-user] strange error using courier-imapd-ssl

2024-12-22 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, It's been a while since I dealt with IMAP, but the SSL errors that you're listing here are from the client side. On 23/12/24 07:02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dec 22 15:44:10 ccs.covici.com imapd-ssl[1981705]: ip=[:::65.49.1.74], couriertls: accept: error:0A000126:SSL routines::une

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 25/2/25 18:05, n952162 wrote: In order to make room in my root, I subsequently moved /var/tmp/portage to a mounted usb stick and symlinked it to /var/tmp. Have you tried mounting (or bind mounting) to /var/tmp/portage instead of symlinking? Regards, Matt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread Matt Jolly
On 25/2/25 18:23, n952162 wrote: I have a second  question that's a follow up to that. Does portage *remove* some files in /var/tmp/portage but retain others? Yes. Successful merges are purged, otherwise you'd quickly run out of disk space. This is important to me because I want to use th

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-03-22 Thread Matt Jolly
Hi, On 23/3/25 07:37, Michael wrote: You probably want to alter the cache path for your browser from the SSD drive to your RAM (tmpfs), especially if you have a lot of RAM. Consider the same for any configurable applications which are caching heavily. Also, if you use swap, then use zswap to r