Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:47:19 +0300 >> gevisz wrote: >> >>> "VLC could not decode the format "Opus" (Opus Audio)" >>> >>> I have tried to add the opus us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VLC could not decode the opus audio

2016-04-17 Thread gevisz
2016-04-17 22:18 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:49:06 +0300 > gevisz wrote: > >> 2016-04-17 20:45 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >> > 2016-04-17 19:12 GMT+03:00 »Q« : > >> >> I'm pretty sure what happened was that vlc had a security issue, >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker?

2016-07-14 Thread Gevisz
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:52:41 +0200 Marc Joliet wrote: > On Thursday 14 July 2016 08:17:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > -N is newuse, portage also considers packages whose USE has changed. > > -t is emptytree, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it > > to not remerge things that don't

[gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-08-31 Thread gevisz
I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for example a virtual machine image file, from one computer to another. This hard drive is preformatted with NTFS. Now, I am going to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: >> I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive >> that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files >> in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for >> example a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 10:23 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 08:13:23AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. >> And a few more to mkfs it. >> >> Are you sure you aren't thinking of mkfs with ext2 (which did take hours >> for a drive that size?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 10:30 GMT+03:00 Matthias Hanft : > gevisz wrote: >> >> But what are disadvantages of not partitioning a big >> hard drive into smaller logical ones? > > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to > repair it), *all* of your data is lost (i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:03 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. >> > And a few more to mkfs it. >> >> Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt >> that it will tak

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to >> > repair it), *all* of your data is lost (instead of just >> > one partition). That's the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 12:04 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:59:55 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > You said you wanted to use this drive for backups, >> > surely doing it right is more important than doing >> > it quickly. It's not like you have to ho

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 12:01 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 09:18, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 9:13 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : >>> On 01/09/2016 08:04, gevisz wrote: > > [snip] > >>>> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive >>>> into sm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 14:55 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:04 AM, gevisz wrote: >> >> Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive >> into smaller logical ones and why? >> > > Assuming this is only used on Linux machines (you mentioned moving >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 15:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:09:09 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Have you considered LVM? You get the benefits of separate filesystems >> > without the limitations of inflexible partitioning. >> >> I am afraid of LVM because o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 15:51 GMT+03:00 Michael Mol : > > On Thursday, September 01, 2016 12:09:09 PM gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >> > If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are un

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 22:12 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:58 PM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-01 14:55 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >> >>> 2. Set it up as an LVM partition. Unless you're using filesystems >>> like zfs/btrfs that have their own way of

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have alrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread gevisz
2016-09-02 7:23 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger : >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >>> > drive with anything importa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-05 Thread gevisz
2016-09-05 3:42 GMT+03:00 Hans : > On 01/09/16 16:04, gevisz wrote: >> >> I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive >> that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files >> in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for >> example a vir

[gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
I had one IDE hard drive for / and one SATA hard drive for /home After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive the system panics and complains that it cannot find kernel (if I understood it correctly :). As it happens after the GRUB(2) menu, I suspect GRUB(2). Just executed # grub-mkc

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:16 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > I had one IDE hard drive for / > and one SATA hard drive for /home > > After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive > the system panics and complains that it cannot find kernel > (if I understood it correctly :). > > As it

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:16:12 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> I had one IDE hard drive for / >> and one SATA hard drive for /home >> >> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive >> the system panics and complai

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:24 GMT+03:00 Willie M : > On 09/06/2016 11:20 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 21:16 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >>> I had one IDE hard drive for / >>> and one SATA hard drive for /home >>> >>> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 21:45 GMT+03:00 Willie M : > On 09/06/2016 11:38 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 21:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:16:12 +0300, gevisz wrote: >>> >>>> I had one IDE hard drive for / >>>> and one SATA hard driv

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:08 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> I have already looked into this file but did not find where to set the >> UUID of the root partion. >> > > It depends. :) > > Usually you end up with root=UU

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:48 GMT+03:00 Daniel Frey : > On 09/06/2016 12:39 PM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-06 22:08 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:01 PM, gevisz wrote: >>>> >>>> I have already looked into this file but did not find wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-06 22:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:38:07 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > It sounds like you are specifying the root device by device node and >> > those have changed with the addition of a new drive. Using UUID or >> > LABEL will avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 0:07 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:57 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> It seems that now I should edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg directly >> without even knowing its commands. >> > > Well, if nothing else you can certainly read it and see what

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 0:32 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:05:32 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> >> But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :( >> > >> > It does not, because it has not loaded the kernel yet, so it cannot do >> > anything on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 1:03 GMT+03:00 gevisz : > 2016-09-07 0:32 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 00:05:32 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> >> But it seems that GRUB does not read fstab... :( >>> > >>> > It does not, because it has not loaded

[gentoo-user] Re: [Solved but ...] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 11:40 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:22:59 +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> After many attempts, I finally managed to boot with the new drive >> attached manually editing the above entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg >> 1) deleting the root=UUID=44***

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evidenced by the lack of >> an "initrd" in in grub.cfg. >> >> If it is unable to find an initramfs, it will always output >> root=/dev/sdX instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-07 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 16:19 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:57 AM, gevisz wrote: >> 2016-09-07 12:36 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : >>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>>> >>>> grub-mkconfig is not finding an initramfs, as evide

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-08 Thread gevisz
2016-09-07 21:46 GMT+03:00 Rich Freeman : > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:25 PM, gevisz wrote: >> >> What you have just said implies that I had not had a problem >> booting the system after adding a new drive had I used initramfs >> correctly. Well, I do agree that, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-09 Thread gevisz
чт, 9 апр. 2020 г. в 10:32, Nuno Silva : > > On 2020-04-09, gevisz wrote: > > > ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 19:31, gevisz : > >> > >> ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 18:13, Michael Orlitzky : > >> > > >> > The other thing you should be aware of is that dev-l

[gentoo-user] Unable to plot in Julia REPL.

2020-04-09 Thread gevisz
After installing julia-1.3.0, I have tried to plot(rand(100)) in Julia REPL as described in a tutorial but got an error message which basicly says that julia cannot find libQtGui.so.4 shared library. I googled the error message and found it on Julia discourse forum: https://discourse.julialang.org/

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to plot in Julia REPL.

2020-04-09 Thread gevisz
чт, 9 апр. 2020 г. в 14:58, gevisz : > > After installing julia-1.3.0, I have tried to plot(rand(100)) in Julia > REPL as described in a tutorial but got an error message which basicly > says that julia cannot find libQtGui.so.4 shared library. > I googled the error message and fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sci-libs/spqr-1.2.3-r1 failed to emerge

2020-04-09 Thread gevisz
чт, 9 апр. 2020 г. в 10:32, Nuno Silva : > > On 2020-04-09, gevisz wrote: > > > ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 19:31, gevisz : > >> > >> ср, 8 апр. 2020 г. в 18:13, Michael Orlitzky : > >> > > >> > The other thing you should be aware of is that dev-l

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to plot in Julia REPL.

2020-04-09 Thread gevisz
чт, 9 апр. 2020 г. в 15:00, gevisz : > > чт, 9 апр. 2020 г. в 14:58, gevisz : > > > > After installing julia-1.3.0, I have tried to plot(rand(100)) in Julia > > REPL as described in a tutorial but got an error message which basicly > > says that julia cannot fin

Re: [gentoo-user] No keyserver available

2020-04-10 Thread gevisz
пт, 10 апр. 2020 г. в 00:55, Michael : > > On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:36:04 BST gevisz wrote: > > I have a long standing "gpg can't check signature: No public key" > > error while running # emerge-webrsync > > It appears because the webrsync-gpg feature has

[gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread gevisz
After a system update on 18.09.2020 of my Gentoo system, the xorg-server failed to start with the following (last) error message: dbus-core: error connecting to system bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound (Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory)

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread gevisz
вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 11:27, Ashley Dixon : > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 11:00:20AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > > After a system update on 18.09.2020 of my Gentoo system, the > > xorg-server failed to start with the following (last) error message: > > dbus-core: error

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread gevisz
вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 12:20, Ashley Dixon : > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 11:59:10AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > > Thank you for your reply. Yes, I tried it after a reboot. > > As to your first question, I will look into logs and report it a bit later. > > 1) Could you

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread gevisz
вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 14:09, gevisz : > > вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 12:20, Ashley Dixon : > > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 11:59:10AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > > > Thank you for your reply. Yes, I tried it after a reboot. > > > As to your first question, I wil

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread gevisz
вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 15:37, Ashley Dixon : > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 02:23:58PM +0300, gevisz wrote: > > вс, 20 сент. 2020 г. в 14:09, gevisz : > > > When installing my new Gentoo installation, I tried to make it as > > > close to the old one as it was possible

[gentoo-user] tensorflow-2.3.1 failed to compile"

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
A week ago, on October 10, 2020, tensorflow-2.3.1 gracefully failed to compile with the following ERROR: sci-libs/tensorflow-2.3.1::gentoo failed (compile phase) and a few weeks before tensorflow-2.2.0-r2 caused a dependency conflict during a regular system update, so I updated my system excluding

[gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
At different times during the last one and a half years, I tried to make sound work on my new Gentoo install on a computer with Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard and MSI ATI Radeon R4770 graphic card. Previously, I successfully solved the sound problems in Gentoo either with alsamixer or by co

Re: [gentoo-user] tensorflow-2.3.1 failed to compile"

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 15:28, Michael Orlitzky : > On 10/17/20 8:10 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > > Any thoughts on how to proceed with this obstacle other than to > > depclean tensorflow and try to reinstall it again? > > > The problem is that all versions of te

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 14:57, David Haller : > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: > >At different times during the last one and a half years, I tried to > >make sound work on my new Gentoo install on a computer with Gigabyte > >GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard and MSI ATI Rade

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 15:08, Walter Dnes : > > Here's a strategy I occasionally use... > > 1) Download a Gentoo "minimal install" and set up a USB key to boot from it. > > 2) Boot the PC from the install USB key. > > 3) Execute the command... > >lsmod | less > > 4) Manually scan the output fo

Re: [gentoo-user] tensorflow-2.3.1 failed to compile"

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 20:34, gevisz : > > сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 15:28, Michael Orlitzky : > > On 10/17/20 8:10 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > > > > Any thoughts on how to proceed with this obstacle other than to > > > depclean tensorflow and try to reinstall it

Re: [gentoo-user] tensorflow-2.3.1 failed to compile"

2020-10-17 Thread gevisz
сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 20:06, Michael Orlitzky : > > On 10/17/20 3:56 PM, gevisz wrote: > > > > Well, compilation of tensorflow-2.3.1 failed exactly with the same error. :( > > > > Can you file a bug with the full build log? Someone with a faster > computer may be a

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 02:28, Walter Dnes : > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 10:53:43PM +0300, gevisz wrote > > > Thank you for your reply. I have actually used this approach in one of > > my first attempts. > > Below is the output of lsmod on the install usb with all

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 09:09, David Haller : > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: > >??, 17 ???. 2020 ?. ? 14:57, David Haller : > [..] > >Here is the comparative table for your kernel parameters vs those of > >gentoo-kernel 5.4.64 and my last tried configuration in &

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 19:03, gevisz : > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 09:09, David Haller : > > On Sat, 17 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: > > >??, 17 ???. 2020 ?. ? 14:57, David Haller : > > [..] > > >Here is the comparative table for your kernel parameters vs those of &

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:19, David Haller : > On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, gevisz wrote: > >??, 18 ???. 2020 ?. ? 09:09, David Haller : > [..] > >> Try this in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf (or some file there): > >> > >> > >> alias char-major-116 snd >

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale : > gevisz wrote: > > > > No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently > > uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it. > > Just a thought. Are you sure that everything is unmuted? Years ago, > all the sound co

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale : > > gevisz wrote: > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale : > >> gevisz wrote: > >>> No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is currently > >>> uninstalled. So, I cannot check using it. > >> Ju

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-18 Thread gevisz
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 00:15, gevisz : > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 21:15, Dale : > > > > gevisz wrote: > > > вс, 18 окт. 2020 г. в 17:20, Dale : > > >> gevisz wrote: > > >>> No sound at least in Firefox. Tried it on youtube. Skype is curr

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-19 Thread gevisz
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 02:18, Dale : > > On the modules or in kernel, I compile all mine in the kernel. The only > modules I have is my nvidia video drivers. There's pro's and con's to > each so whatever works and you like. I actually asked a question not about the choice between "in kernel" or "a

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound. Please, help!

2020-10-20 Thread gevisz
пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 18:13, Dale : > > gevisz wrote: > > пн, 19 окт. 2020 г. в 02:18, Dale : > >> On the modules or in kernel, I compile all mine in the kernel. The only > >> modules I have is my nvidia video drivers. There's pro's and con's to > &

[gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

2020-12-16 Thread gevisz
How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Gentoo ebuild repository (by default located at /var/db/repos/gentoo) which already takes around 650

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

2020-12-16 Thread gevisz
> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 21:52, gevisz wrote: > > > > How would you comment the following quote from Gentoo Handbook > > "In most situations, /usr/ is to be kept big: not only will it contain > > the majority of applications, it typically also hosts the Ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended location of the Gentoo ebuild repository

2020-12-16 Thread gevisz
ср, 16 дек. 2020 г. в 16:55, Rich Freeman : > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 9:45 AM gevisz wrote: > > > > Nevertheless, the explanation why /var/db/repos/gentoo is better than > > /usr/portage is still welcomed. :) > > > > There is a lengthy discussion on gentoo-

[gentoo-user] XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

2020-12-18 Thread gevisz
During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting when the XWindow system appeared on one of the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7. However, after installing a new Gentoo system with gentoo-kernel, I found out that the XWindow system started to appear in the same tty, where I

[gentoo-user] Mystically disabled Ethernet connection

2020-12-18 Thread gevisz
I am currently installing a new Gentoo system on a computer that is run by a Gentoo system that has not been updated since January 2019. Initially, I did so by chrooting to a newly formatted disk partition. My intention was to build everything in the chrooted environment and only then start to wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

2020-12-18 Thread gevisz
пт, 18 дек. 2020 г. в 17:22, Grant Edwards : > > On 2020-12-18, gevisz wrote: > > > During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting > > when the XWindow system appeared on one of > > the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Mystically disabled Ethernet connection

2020-12-18 Thread gevisz
пт, 18 дек. 2020 г. в 18:26, bobwxc : > > 在 2020/12/19 上午1:29, gevisz 写道: > > I am currently installing a new Gentoo system > > on a computer that is run by a Gentoo system > > that has not been updated since January 2019. > > > > Initially, I did so by chr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XWindow appearing in a non-graphical tty. A bug or feature?

2020-12-19 Thread gevisz
сб, 19 дек. 2020 г. в 10:07, Nikos Chantziaras : > > On 18/12/2020 18:04, gevisz wrote: > > During the last 22 years, I got used to the setting > > when the XWindow system appeared on one of > > the "graphical" virtual terminals, mostly on tty6 or tty7. >

[gentoo-user] pycharm-community crashed on the first start

2020-12-23 Thread gevisz
I have just installed pycharm-community 2020.1.3 (marked stable) with its default settings (that is with +bundled-jdk use flag) on my newly installed Gentoo system and tried to start it using the following command: /opt/pycharm-community/bin/pycharm.sh Unfortunately, pycharm crashed on the start r

[gentoo-user] Voting for the best software of 2020 on LinuxQuestions.org

2021-01-08 Thread gevisz
Recently, I got an e-mail on voting for the best software of 2020 (including the preferred Linux distribution) on LinuxQuestions.org and think that it may be of interest for gentoo-users as well (and will help Gentoo to be better presented :). Moreover, the more users will vote, the more interesti

[gentoo-user] Re: pycharm-community crashed on the first start

2021-01-24 Thread gevisz
ср, 23 дек. 2020 г. в 22:33, gevisz : > > I have just installed pycharm-community 2020.1.3 (marked stable) with > its default settings (that is with +bundled-jdk use flag) on my newly > installed Gentoo system and tried to start it using the following > command: > /opt/pyc

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread gevisz
Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the following repeated messages: ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5.04: hard resetting link ata5.04: failed to resume link (SStatus 0 Scontrol 0) My first thought was that something is wrong with my old IDE (ATA)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread gevisz
atch. :( > On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, gevisz wrote: > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > following repeated messages: > > > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.04: hard resetting link > > ata5.04:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-15 Thread gevisz
do all update and emerge tasks, and it works fine. > On 2021-02-15 21:13, gevisz wrote: > > пн, 15 февр. 2021 г. в 20:59, Jude DaShiell : > >> > >> Check the date and time when you boot and if it isn't correct, you > >> probably have a dead battery on your mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > following repeated messages: > > > > ata5.04: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) > > ata5.04: hard r

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:50, gevisz : > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to boot with the > > > following repeated messages: > > > > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-17 Thread gevisz
ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:58, gevisz : > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 13:50, gevisz : > > > > ср, 17 февр. 2021 г. в 04:54, Edward : > > > > > > On 2/15/21 9:53 AM, gevisz wrote: > > > > Yesterday, my relatively new install of Gentoo failed to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system suddenly failed to boot.

2021-02-18 Thread gevisz
чт, 18 февр. 2021 г. в 01:10, Michael : > > On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 21:45:35 GMT gevisz wrote: > > > Most probably, both my SATA disks have connection problems as > > Oli Schmidt suggested from the very beginning, and because they > > both have it, it points to t

Re: [gentoo-user] What does su user flag actually mean?

2024-10-21 Thread gevisz
пн, 21 окт. 2024 г. в 14:38, Michael : > > On Monday 21 October 2024 12:07:47 BST gevisz wrote: > > I skipped updating my profile from 17 to 23 in the beginning of June 2024 > > and are now installing Gentoo anew. I have disabled pam use flag globally > > and now portag

Re: [gentoo-user] What does su user flag actually mean?

2024-10-21 Thread gevisz
пн, 21 окт. 2024 г. в 14:33, netfab : > > Le 21/10/24 à 13:07, gevisz a tapoté : > > Can somebody explain to me what it means? > > It seems that the "su" useflag is building the "su" utility, and that > this useflag is enabled by default on gentoo. &g

[gentoo-user] What does su user flag actually mean?

2024-10-21 Thread gevisz
I skipped updating my profile from 17 to 23 in the beginning of June 2024 and are now installing Gentoo anew. I have disabled pam use flag globally and now portage complains that for the package linux-utils "the following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: su? ( pam )" I have tried and

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > On 1/30/25 11:49 AM, gevisz wrote: > > I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the > > middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. > > Why did you have to install it anew? Because, as I wrote it, i

[gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD tapped me on the shoulder and said: "Hi, very soon you won't be able to read any data from me." As I have not made my backups regularly, I took this warning seriously and decided to finally realize my old idea of moving from ext4 to ZFS. So, I

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

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
The small correction: the penultimate sentence of my previous email should read: "The situation remained the same even after swapping the undetected 500GB WD HDD with the spare one." чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 18:55, gevisz : > > About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD &g

[gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. Just to remind you: during that time we all had to switch to the new Gentoo profile scheme, which made an update from my old system more difficult than a new install. During this new

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

2025-01-31 Thread gevisz
пт, 31 янв. 2025 г. в 13:26, Michael : > > On Thursday 30 January 2025 16:55:00 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > [snip ...] > > > After setting up one of them as a ZFS mirror, I immediately > > got the problem that if I boot my system with additional HDD > > co

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
Correction: My second paragraph in the last email should read: "Well, maybe you are right. I did NOT know this and so deleted the old kernel immediately after compiling the new one." пт, 31 янв. 2025 г. в 00:49, gevisz : > > чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > &

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

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
; On 1/30/25 10:55 AM, gevisz wrote: > > I should have used /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000* notations instead! > > > > Unfortunately, I have not found the way to change these notations > > other than deleting the whole zpool and re-creating it anew with > > the nota

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

2025-03-02 Thread gevisz
вс, 16 февр. 2025 г. в 18:51, 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*. > > > &g

[gentoo-user] agpgart, radeon and amdgpu kernel modules

2025-03-02 Thread gevisz
I have AMD/ATI RV740 PRO [Radeon HD 4770] video card connected to the PCIEX16_1 port of my Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard that has no integrated video card. My processor is AMD Phenom II X4 945, and I believe that it has no integrated graphics card on it as well. This my belief is based on

Re: [gentoo-user] agpgart, radeon and amdgpu kernel modules

2025-03-03 Thread gevisz
Mon, 3 March 2025 in 12:45, Michael : > > On Sunday, 2 March 2025 23:08:34 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > > I have AMD/ATI RV740 PRO [Radeon HD 4770] > > video card connected to the PCIEX16_1 port of > > my Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard > > tha

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