Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-08 Thread William Kenworthy
Use a standard Gentoo aarch64 (arm64 ) package. Add a pi kernel, the /lib/modules directory and the /boot directory  from a raspian tarball. I did this on a pi 3B running in 64bit mode. Once I had a bootable system it was easy to modify and a fork from my first image is also running on a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 9:44 PM, cal wrote: [snip] >> >> When I'm directly in front of the PC and I have a log-in screen and type >> user ID + passwords >> I was under impression that "startxfce4" would run automatically when from >> .xinitrc >> ~/.xinitrc >> exec startxfce4 >> >> but it doesn't, when I log-in

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)

2021-02-08 Thread cal
On 2/7/21 11:38 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/7/21 12:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:10:50 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/7/21 4:09 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 01:28:39 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I disable "slim" login mana

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - keeps looping

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 7:01 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 2/8/21 6:59 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> The slim is no longer maintain, so I tried "lightdm" but when I try to >> login, it keeps looping, I'm back into login screen. >> I can post a log-file but it is long. >> >> Any suggestion. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - keeps looping

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 6:59 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > The slim is no longer maintain, so I tried "lightdm" but when I try to login, > it keeps looping, I'm back into login screen. > I can post a log-file but it is long. > > Any suggestion. I forgot to mention the error: cat .xsession-errors /etc

[gentoo-user] lightdm - keeps looping

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
The slim is no longer maintain, so I tried "lightdm" but when I try to login, it keeps looping, I'm back into login screen. I can post a log-file but it is long. Any suggestion.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-08 Thread Dan Egli
On 2/8/2021 5:01 PM, Michael wrote: On Monday, 8 February 2021 19:08:11 GMT Dan Egli wrote: On 2/8/2021 2:14 AM, Wols Lists wrote: This is typical. In my linux setup, the printer is always busy. Stuff still prints fine, though. Mine won't print. Says the printer is busy, and nothing else happe

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-08 Thread Michael
On Monday, 8 February 2021 19:08:11 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > On 2/8/2021 2:14 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > > This is typical. In my linux setup, the printer is always busy. Stuff > > still prints fine, though. > > Mine won't print. Says the printer is busy, and nothing else happens. It > just sits there.

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 10:47 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: Thelma On 2/8/21 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote: On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
Thelma On 2/8/21 2:39 PM, n952162 wrote: > On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: >> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update >> >> You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in >> the strace is a clone. >> >> Anybody else seen this problem or know of

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory s

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 1:17 PM, n952162 wrote: > VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update > > You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in > the strace is a clone. > > Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? > > VBoxClient has behaved like this befor

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 10:10 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/8/21 1:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? V

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 1:17 PM, n952162 wrote: > VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update > > You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in > the strace is a clone. > > Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? > > VBoxClient has behaved like this befor

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory s

[gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update

2021-02-08 Thread n952162
VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update You can start it without error but it just goes away.  The last thing in the strace is a clone. Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? VBoxClient has behaved like this before, if memory serves. Either I've just forgotten w

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-08 Thread Dan Egli
On 2/8/2021 2:14 AM, Wols Lists wrote: This is typical. In my linux setup, the printer is always busy. Stuff still prints fine, though. Mine won't print. Says the printer is busy, and nothing else happens. It just sits there. Let me give better names because even I can get confused. So, we

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-08 Thread Michael Jones
Help wanted https://github.com/GenPi64/Build.Dist On Mon, Feb 8, 2021, 09:36 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried > a > few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For > instance, today I tried

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance, today I tried installing a small Gentoo system into a chroot, to do the compiling there. It seemed to be going well until t

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-08 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/02/21 05:40, Dan Egli wrote: > Hey folks, I'm a bit lost on this, so I hope you can help me out. Dunno how much help I'll be ... > > I have a computer I want to act as the central print server for a > network. It would spool all jobs for all printers, and send them out to > the actual compu