[gentoo-user] Pre-emerge checks are pointless.

I'm trying to drag through a pass of emerge --emptytree world and I hit a block of 50 failures, the only way to get through these is to skipfirst through each one... I'm a gentoo user so therefore I'm a massochist so I just have to sacrifice a few dozen hours with uparrow -enter every few minut

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Alan Mackenzie: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 18:44:53 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... > > Please tell if you make booting with metadata 1.2 work. > > I havn't tested that. > > I've just tried it, with metadata 1.2, and it doesn't work. I got error > messages at boot up to the effect that the comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Alan Mackenzie: ... > By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem, > such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in > it? I tried for some while with rsync and various combinations of > find's and xargs's, and in the end booted up into the rescue dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Hello, Hoël. On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 21:38:42 +0100, Hoël Bézier wrote: > Am Fr, Dez 20, 2024 am 08:19:55 + schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > >By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem, > >such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in > >it? I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi Peter, > > It doesn't matter what SDDM is using - it can launch either an X11 or > Wayland Plasma session for the DE in question. > > Use the dropdown in SDDM to select a Plasma (X11) session and you > should be fine. > > Sorry for top-post - on mobile! > I'd like to add, I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Am Fr, Dez 20, 2024 am 08:19:55 + schrieb Alan Mackenzie: By the way, do you know an easy way for copying an entire filesystem, such as the root system, but without copying other systems mounted in it? I tried for some while with rsync and various combinations of find's and xargs's, and in t

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

Hi Peter,It doesn't matter what SDDM is using - it can launch either an X11 or Wayland Plasma session for the DE in question.Use the dropdown in SDDM to select a Plasma (X11) session and you should be fine.Sorry for top-post - on mobile!On 21 Dec 2024 01:50, Peter Humphrey wrote:On Friday 20 Decem

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Hello, Karl. On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 18:44:53 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 15:50:53 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > ... > > Because I didn't know about it. I found out about it this morning, and > > immediately tested it by setting up an > > "md=12

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of Ninja failures, 70 days since update.

On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:37 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote: > Hey, does Ninja have scaling problems? I'm getting MANY failures when it > tries to build on 64 threads (BG BAWX). > Ninja doesn't (yet) support the GNU Make jobserver protocol, so if you have a build system that mixes ninja with ot

[gentoo-user] Re: Confirm unsubscribe from gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

On Fri, Dec 20, 2024, at 18:29, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > > > Somebody (and we hope it was you) has requested that the email address > be removed from the list. > > To confirm you want to do this, please send a message to > > whi

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Alan Mackenzie: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 15:50:53 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... > Because I didn't know about it. I found out about it this morning, and > immediately tested it by setting up an > "md=126,/dev/nvme0n1p4,/dev/nvme1n1p4" on the kernel command line, using > the rescue disk to ma

[gentoo-user] Lots of Ninja failures, 70 days since update.

Hey, does Ninja have scaling problems? I'm getting MANY failures when it tries to build on 64 threads (BG BAWX). -- You can't out-crazy a Democrat. #EggCrisis #BlackWinter White is the new Kulak. Powers are not rights.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Hello, Karl. On Fri, Dec 20, 2024 at 15:50:53 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > The cause was me booting up the machine with a rescue disk. This > > assembled my RAID partitions /dev/md127 and /dev/md126 reversed, but > > also wrote those wrong identifiers, 126 and 127, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Alan Mackenzie: ... > The cause was me booting up the machine with a rescue disk. This > assembled my RAID partitions /dev/md127 and /dev/md126 reversed, but > also wrote those wrong identifiers, 126 and 127, into the "preferred > minor" field of the partitions' super blocks. In essence, they got

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

On Friday 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 say around here. (Don't ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

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 say around here. (Don't ask me why.) Why has it taken so long for the heart of the issue to be re

[gentoo-user] Fun with mdadm (Software RAID)

Hello, Gentoo. After having got the syslinux boot manager working well, I lost the root partition on my newer machine. I spent the entire evening yesterday trying to get it back again, with various expedients for recovering ext4 partitions from backup superblocks, and so on. It wasn't until the

[gentoo-user] Tree resolving details/visualization

Good day!   On emerge and other operations, I see the next sequence of actions: 1. Packages state is pulled (repositories, `/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords`, etc.). This is versions of the packages, the USE flags, the arch keywords, etc. 2. User demands are pulled (`@world`, `/etc/portage/pa