Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie seamonkey build...

2024-08-14 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
All things come to an end, and human created things rarely last a century, much less 5 centuries, usually within a couple/few decades at most.   Computer hardware and software are one of the more transient things we do.  That's why I love to use servers that have started to become obsolete,  t

[gentoo-user] Zombie seamonkey build...

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Grimes
I'm still using seamonkey as my e-mail as I have been doing with it and its predecessors since 1998 I am using the symlink trick to exploit the magic of dynamic linking to get the stale build of seamonkey to run against the updated library. I would like it to be able to build again at some

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone figure out how to boot kernel 6.9+?

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 16:08:39 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > Because my system was booting reliably, the penguins decided it was time > to jack around with the bootup code. Kernel 6.9 panics on boot because > the way the root partition is configured changed utterly... Why, then, di

[gentoo-user] Anyone figure out how to boot kernel 6.9+?

2024-08-14 Thread Alan Grimes
Because my system was booting reliably, the penguins decided it was time to jack around with the bootup code. Kernel 6.9 panics on boot because the way the root partition is configured changed utterly... When I installed my new machine, the bootup changed to some crazy initramfs bs crap that I