[gentoo-user] dhcpcd not updating interface IP

2019-10-13 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Since Augusts dhcpcd update to net-misc/dhcpcd-7.2.3 dhcpcd has often missed actually updating the interface when a change happens.  Even issuing a manual dhcpcd -n doesn't work, but restarting the interface gets everything working again.  Its the WAN interface to the ISP so can only see my side o

[gentoo-user] Replacement for qpopper

2019-10-13 Thread Hartmut Figge
Greetings, first some history. qpopper was masked a long time ago now but is still installed and working on my Gentoo. Even if it doesn't show up anymore on eix. But it does on eix-test-obsolete. I don't like this situation and would like to get rid of qpopper and replace it with another package.

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 05:04, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could > finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have > deleted source for my running kernel, version of postgresql I am using > and many other things I am currently

[gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-13 Thread John Covici
Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have deleted source for my running kernel, version of postgresql I am using and many other things I am currently using.Some of them, at least are in my world file. Some

[gentoo-user] updating system with 1 thread...

2019-10-13 Thread Alan Grimes
When I started my number theory code up back in May, I left 1 hyperthread on my CPU unused for general use, mainly youtube videos... I decided to use that thread to run updates, even though I'm 6gb into swap (on a SSD!) with 32gb physical ram I found that the thing was mostly happy if I l