Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start : solved

2025-08-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 31 July 2025 14:50:36 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 30 July 2025 14:55:55 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> ... I tried using sets. All it did was create > >> more work. If I have something installed here, I u

Re: [gentoo-user] Video sometimes stuttering. Need help with ionice, maybe?

2025-07-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 30 July 2025 18:25:00 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > I rebooted the new kernel and the BFQ setting is doing a GREAT job. I've > copied several GBs of data since the change and my videos play like a > champ. I've yet to see a single stutter or pause. Have you selected either of

Re: [gentoo-user] re-installed KDE doesn't start : solved

2025-07-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 30 July 2025 14:55:55 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > ... I tried using sets. All it did was create > more work. If I have something installed here, I use it, sometimes a > LOT. Therefore, I want them all to be as up to date as is available. I > found that even when I did have

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommended CPU and cooling system

2025-07-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 24 July 2025 15:41:45 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 24 July 2025 15:36:57 British Summer Time Dale wrote: [...] > > P. S. What is LTO and should I enable something? I already need to > > reboot soon for a newly rebuilt kernel. May as well do both. > > Come on Da

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config problem

2025-07-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 23 July 2025 11:57:56 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > El 23/7/25 a las 12:41, Peter Humphrey escribió: > > > On Friday, 18 July 2025 22:13:09 British Summer Time Javier Martinez > > wrote: > > >> Can you test using the submission service?

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config problem

2025-07-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 18 July 2025 22:13:09 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > Can you test using the submission service? Remind me of the command to do that? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config problem

2025-07-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 18 July 2025 12:35:44 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > El 18/7/25 a las 12:34, Peter Humphrey escribió: > > > On Friday, 18 July 2025 07:49:13 British Summer Time Arve Barsnes wrote: > > > > --->8 > > > > > >> The mail t

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix config problem

2025-07-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 18 July 2025 07:49:13 British Summer Time Arve Barsnes wrote: --->8 > The mail thing is very confusing, but here is some main.cf settings on > my machine that receives mail from the other machines on the LAN: > > inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost > mydestination = $myhostname,

[gentoo-user] Postfix config problem

2025-07-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I've been wrestling with postfix for years, and I still can't get it to act as the final destination of all incoming mail. Mail from the Internet is fine, but mail originating on the LAN is always forwarded to the user's own machine. (Dovecot then serves IMAP on request to KMail on m

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for binpkgs

2025-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 3 July 2025 16:50:47 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 7/3/25 11:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo > > binpkg was available, and I meant to make

[gentoo-user] checking for binpkgs

2025-07-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, Some time ago a method was posted of checking whether a particular Gentoo binpkg was available, and I meant to make a note of it but forgot. I haven't found the right search phrase to find it on my mail server, either. Would someone remind me, please? Thanks. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] Strange behaviour chrooting into an existing system

2025-06-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I'm building a new system on bare silicon, and it's complete except that I've done something daft in efibootmgr and bootctl, so that I can't boot. Easy, I thought; just fire up the rescue CD, chroot in again and sort out what I've done wrong. But I can't, or not smoothly, because of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with postfix

2025-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 21 June 2025 01:30:57 British Summer Time I wrote: > On 2025-06-20 09:36 PM, "Michael Orlitzky" wrote: > > I think this is because is not in $mydestination, but the > > solution is probably to find whatever is sending mail to prh@ > > and convince it to send to an address (prh@prhne

[gentoo-user] Problem with postfix

2025-06-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I have a small LAN, on which I have a workstation, a desktop PC and a small server. The server runs fetchmail, postfix and dovecot, and the desktop runs Kmail. I had the setup right several years ago, but it isn't now. When it receives an email addressed to prh@, postfix insists on

Re: [gentoo-user] When binpkgs are not yet available

2025-06-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 14 June 2025 13:55:24 British Summer Time I wrote: > I came across this today: https://bugs.gentoo.org/924772#c27 . It shows a > way to restrict updates in which binpkgs have not yet been made available. > > Just a hint to anyone who sometimes has to cope with this condition, as I do

[gentoo-user] When binpkgs are not yet available

2025-06-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I came across this today: https://bugs.gentoo.org/924772#c27 . It shows a way to restrict updates in which binpkgs have not yet been made available. Just a hint to anyone who sometimes has to cope with this condition, as I do Hope that helps -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering mail

2025-06-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 4 June 2025 23:15:55 British Summer Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 04:34:12PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > On Monday, 2 June 2025 13:03:54 British Summer Time Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering mail

2025-06-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 4 June 2025 23:15:55 British Summer Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mon, Jun 02, 2025 at 04:34:12PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > On Monday, 2 June 2025 13:03:54 British Summer Time Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering mail

2025-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 2 June 2025 13:03:54 British Summer Time Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > -- Original Message -- > From "Peter Humphrey" > To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date 02.06.2025 11:52:34 > Subject [gentoo-user] Recovering mail > > >Greetings, > > >

[gentoo-user] Recovering mail

2025-06-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, My user's .maildir has overfilled and so I've lost some emails. However, I have a cron job running every five minutes to rsync .maildir to /mnt/mailbu. The question is: can I just copy mailbu over .maildir? The mail chain is fetchmail (POP3) > postfix > dovecot > kmail (IMAP4). --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox ads

2025-05-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 28 May 2025 16:13:35 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've had uBlock Origin installed in Firefox for several years, and I don't > remember ever seeing any ads or sponsored posts - until recently, when > sponsored posts started appearing in large number

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox ads

2025-05-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 26 May 2025 17:32:08 British Summer Time Jack wrote: > I use AdBlock Plus, and it works fine for me. > > Out of curiousity, which three have you tried? Adguard, Ghostery and uBlock Origin. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox ads

2025-05-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 26 May 2025 16:57:06 British Summer Time Khaosgrille wrote: > Ublock origin works fine for me. With Firefox and Librewolf (both bin, the > latter from some unofficial repo) I've had uBlock Origin installed in Firefox for several years, and I don't remember ever seeing any ads or sponso

[gentoo-user] [OT] Firefox ads

2025-05-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, Has anyone succeeded with an ad blocker for Firefox? I've tried the top three recommended and none of them make the slightest difference. If not Firefox, is there an equivalent browser that can block sponsored entries? The two chrome versions apparently aren't available as binpkgs, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

2025-05-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 21 May 2025 15:40:22 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 5/21/25 10:01 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > Have I missed something obvious again? > > That doesn't look like a valid package.use line. See `man 5 portage` > under "package.

[gentoo-user] Firefox and USE flags

2025-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I found a Gentoo binpkg of firefox yesterday, to use which I had only to set L10N="-en-GB*" against www-client/firefox in package.use; all other settings were all right as they were. I did that and the binpkg was fetched and installed. Today, portage wants to ignore that USE flag and r

Re: [gentoo-user] Binpkg availability

2025-05-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 7 May 2025 16:45:07 British Summer Time Eli Schwartz wrote: --->8 > By default (unless you pass an explicit --binpkg-respect-use argument), > portage will warn you when it rejects a binpkg which is incompatible > with your system, and tell you what USE flags you could change if you

[gentoo-user] Binpkg availability

2025-05-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, How can I find out whether a particular Gentoo binary package is available? I'm trying to engineer a slightly reduced KDE Plasma system in parallel, or rather interleaved, with my current system. Central to this is avoiding having to compile qtwebengine and webkit-gtk locally, and a

Re: [gentoo-user] TigerVNC

2025-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 19 April 2025 16:14:16 British Summer Time Viorel Munteanu wrote: > Create a symlink, for example tigervnc.2 -> tigervnc, and start that > instead: > > rc-service start tigervnc.2 Perfect!. I had the symlink, just forgot to specify it in the 'start' command. Yet another senior mom

[gentoo-user] TigerVNC

2025-04-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I want to set up tigervnc on my desktop machine to enable remote access. It should run as a system service on this plasma desktop. I've followed the wiki as best I can, but when I start the service I get: * Running /etc/init.d/tigervnc in compatibility mode * Please migrate to one

[gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, The journey continues... I recently bought a Ugreen USB-3 external NVMe housing and a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD. They worked fine for a few weeks, including yesterday when I used it to back up my LAN server. Today, every attempt to connect it returns a dmesg error: "Read Capacity(10) fai

Re: [gentoo-user] disable password login for ssh

2025-04-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 20 March 2025 19:03:49 Greenwich Mean Time ralfconn wrote: > maybe it is documented somewhere and I missed it, but to disable > password login on an ssh server it is not sufficient to specify > UsePAM=no (which is the default) in /etc/ssh/sshd_config because it is > enabled by the /et

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 04:33:01 British Summer Time Dale wrote: --->8 > >> I guess I'll have to keep the init thingy. Now I know. > > > > I don't see why, Dale. I don't use one and my case is similar to yours. > > When I said I used one for microcode loading, I meant that the microcode > >

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 13:56:31 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > >> Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load > >> any microcode that it needs

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 11:12:44 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > Is there somewhere I can look or some command I can run to see if I load > any microcode that it needs to access while booting but before /var is > mounted? Why isn't the microcode put in /usr or something anyway? See https://w

Re: [gentoo-user] What are common SSDs does and don'ts.

2025-04-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 01:44:18 British Summer Time Dale wrote: > ... I have /usr on the same partition as / this time around. > Do I need a init thingy still or can I ditch that thing? I do have /var > on a separate partition, if that matters. I have /var on a separate partition on some mac

[OT} Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 16:05:29 British Summer Time I wrote: > Can I justify starting again and spending yet more hundreds? I've taken the plunge and ordered new SSD and enclosure. I can't justify the cost of course, but this has been my life, ever since my first hardware maintenance course i

Re: [gentoo-user] USB NVMe connection problem

2025-03-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 March 2025 14:19:47 British Summer Time Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 30 March 2025 13:45:09 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > > sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Read Capacity(10) failed: Result: hostbyte=DID_OK > > driverbyte=DRIVER_OK sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

2025-03-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 23 March 2025 12:01:55 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 March 2025 19:54:19 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger > > wrote: > > Am Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:53:51PM +0000 schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > > Greetings, > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

2025-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 5 March 2025 19:54:19 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 03:53:51PM + schrieb Peter Humphrey: > > Greetings, > > > > After reading the recent conversation on m.2 SSDs in a USB-3 enclosure, I > > decided to gi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation and reinstallation of the same binary packages

2025-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 15 March 2025 13:53:20 Greenwich Mean Time Jacques Montier wrote: > It's a real mess. > Some day, it's ok, another day 160 sourced packages to compile and so on... > So i give up and go back to my classical mixed sources/binary Gentoo > packages. > May be it could work with Gentoo ins

Re: [gentoo-user] needrestart - exclude services

2025-03-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday, 13 March 2025 08:45:12 Greenwich Mean Time Joost Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > After upgrading my system, I always run "needrestart". > This works, mostly, fine. But sometimes I don't pay enough attention > and accidentally allow a critical service to be restarted, causing the > serv

[gentoo-user] USB and fstrim

2025-03-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, After reading the recent conversation on m.2 SSDs in a USB-3 enclosure, I decided to give it a try. I bought a 4TB Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD and a Ugreen NVMe USB-3 enclosure. I'm pleased with the performance, but when I tried running fstrim on it I got a "not supported" error. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] m.2 nvme stick not what I was expecting at all.

2025-02-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 24 February 2025 22:48:26 Greenwich Mean Time Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > You need a common denominator. ExFat is a good candidate, methinks, as it > won’t give any issues with file permissions. Since I’ve never held an iOS > device in my hands, I have no idea about what FS they support

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 23:04:49 Greenwich Mean Time Mickaël Bucas wrote: > I recently converted a fully locally *slowly* built machine to a mixed > prebuilt/local build > Of the 1857 packages on this machine, 1056 are now using prebuilt > packages and the others are local builds > USE flags a

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 17:26:29 Greenwich Mean Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 2/11/25 12:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > If I'm reading that right, anyone who has either hardware acceleration or > > en- GB localisation set has to compile it himself. I can switch off the

Re: [gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 11 February 2025 16:02:04 Greenwich Mean Time Eli Schwartz wrote: > emerge --getbinpkg is *already* a mixed prebuilt and home-grown system. > And emerge --getbinpkgonly is a modification to getbinpkg that says you > don't want a mixed system, you want exclusively prebuilt. Using the > *

[gentoo-user] Prebuilt packages

2025-02-11 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, I was delighted to see Gentoo's venture into prebuilt packages, having two small machines here. However, experience has rubbed some of the shine off. Any time I update the system, if there's no package with the right USE flags, or even no package at all, I've built from source in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 January 2025 14:24:15 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > * 'tail -f /var/lib/boinc/stdoutdae.txt' showed boinc exiting instantly, > and gkrellm showed CPU use dropping to zero. It's hard to be definite about > what /bin/top shows, as it only updates every 3s, gkrellm every 2s. That > cav

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 January 2025 02:53:06 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: --->8 > If you set `retry` in boinc.conf to, say, "SIGTERM/10/SIGKILL/20", > for a 10-second timeout in response to a SIGTERM signal and a > 20-second timeout in response to a SIGKILL signal, does that > reduce the stopping time

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 January 2025 11:59:11 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > You misunderstand. I'm saying that the version change should be > > bigger, not just from -r1 to -r2. Perhaps 7.24.2? 7.25? > > No, because those component numbers are spe

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 January 2025 13:24:20 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 15 January 2025 11:50:02 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/948143 > > That bug now has a patch, which proposes to move from > sci-misc/boinc-7.24.1-r1 to -r2

Re: [gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-01-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 January 2025 21:41:01 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Hi! > > I've been running in to a problem on and off for the past year or so: when I > boot my computer it won't always show a login screen (SDDM). The screen > will remain dark without a signal. If I swap tty wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 20 January 2025 23:40:22 Greenwich Mean Time Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > On Wednesday 15 January 2025 11:50:02 Greenwich Mean Time I > > > > wrote: > >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/948143 > > > > That bug now has a patch, whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 15 January 2025 11:50:02 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/948143 That bug now has a patch, which proposes to move from sci-misc/boinc-7.24.1-r1 to -r2. The scale of the changes proposed seems to me too big for such a minor revision bump, but more than that, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 16:53:20 Greenwich Mean Time Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 16:28 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's v helpful, Michael. Thanks. > > > > Do you mind if I quote you in the bug report I send in? > > Nope,

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 12:01:02 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > I am not familiar with the BOINC application. Is the program taking a long > time to stop because it is completing whatever calculation it was processing > and then have to store/upload the result and its current status befo

Re: [gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 14:18:51 Greenwich Mean Time Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 11:28 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > > In this case the init script is usin

[gentoo-user] Protecting init.d files from auto-update

2025-01-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? I run BOINC on my machines, and /etc/init.d/boinc includes far too long a timeout on start-stop-daemon when stopping the program. The minimum time it will wait is 60s, which is a long time when you're waiting. On this ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 28 December 2024 21:53:53 Greenwich Mean Time Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/12/2024 14:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > > > I've been u

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 December 2024 20:13:55 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday 22 December 2024 17:58:30 GMT Dale wrote: > >> Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Friday 20 December 2024 20:28:05 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > >>>> It doesn't matte

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 December 2024 17:58:30 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 20 December 2024 20:28:05 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > >> It doesn't matter what SDDM is using - it can launch either an X11 or > >> Wayland Plasma session for the DE in question

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 20 December 2024 20:28:05 GMT Matt Jolly wrote: > 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. That took a bit of spotting -

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

2024-12-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 December 2024 13:43:08 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > The trouble [is] that a kernel command line, or /etc/fstab, using lots > of these is not human readable, and hence is at the edge of > unmaintainability. This maintenance difficulty surely outweighs the > rare situation where the phy

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 December 2024 12:01:43 GMT I wrote: > Is any other plasma user still having trouble starting it with the previous > arrangement of desktops and programs? > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471977 refers. Turns out it's a known problem with wayland, which doesn't yet have suc

[gentoo-user] Plasma app preservation

2024-12-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, Is any other plasma user still having trouble starting it with the previous arrangement of desktops and programs? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471977 refers. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 15:58:14 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 14:30:12 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is the relevant parts of the kernel make script on my little i5 NUC > Not relevant to the OP, but why don't you build the µcode blob in the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow the wiki because of the resulting impenetrable thicket of unpronounceable

Re: [gentoo-user] No binary llvm-19.1.4 package

2024-12-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 8 December 2024 16:17:15 GMT Jacques Montier wrote: > I saw that the two directories /etc/portage were different, particularly > the make.conf files. So i copied the first one to replace the second, and > everything went back to normal. > > I would have difficulty detecting where the dif

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 GMT Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > [New readers start here... :) ] > > > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in try

Re: Gentoo wiki [was: Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED]

2024-12-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 5 December 2024 00:55:38 GMT Alexis wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > What does the team think can be done about it? > > I'm not a Gentoo dev, merely someone who (a) has Strong Opinions > about the need for good documentation, and (b) has contributed > sig

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:28:44 Greenwich Mean Time I wrote: > On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time Matt Jolly wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey > > > wrote: > > >Someone needs to have a

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 13:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time Matt Jolly wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On 27 November 2024 2:13:01 am AEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >Someone needs to have a look at the nfs-utils wiki page. I'd do something > >myself, but how? I raised a bug agains

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 3 December 2024 11:44:50 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > ... I think there should be clearer disambiguation with separate examples > between v3 and v4. However, isn't NFS v3 considered legacy by now? Perhaps, but that wiki page was apparently last changed on 2 August this year. -

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 2 December 2024 17:56:38 Greenwich Mean Time Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > > to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and pac

[gentoo-user] Test

2024-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello? Hello? Is anyone here? I haven't received anything from the list since Tuesday. -- Regards, Peter.

[gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-11-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings, [New readers start here... :) ] I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a chroot on my M9 machine. I read all the docs, I thought about the help that was offered here, I change

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 November 2024 16:48:56 GMT Dale wrote: > I remember seeing old drives that had I think 14" platters. They had > large motors to spin them. The controller was a separate thing too. I > think their capacity was like 30 or 40MBs or so. It usually took two > people to move one of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators.

2024-11-14 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 14 November 2024 19:55:19 GMT Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Lol, writing the above text gave me the strange feeling of having written it > before. So I looked into my archive and I have indeed: in June 2014 *and* > in December 2020. 🫣 Tiresomely repetitious, then... :) -- Regards, Pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 5 November 2024 06:58:37 GMT I wrote: > On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:56:41 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote: > > > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > Just one little f

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 6 November 2024 00:08:12 GMT Eli Schwartz wrote: > But my reply was really intended for Peter. I don't quite understand > what Peter read (when saying "the Network Manager man page says to > chattr") to overlook the fact that the manpage is fairly clear in the > only place it talks ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 5 November 2024 16:27:57 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 11/5/24 9:38 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', > > so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as > > it should. &

[gentoo-user] Getting tar to keep going

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
Greetings. The Network Manager man page says to 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf', so I did, and that one move enabled the wireless network to work as it should. Now I find it causes a problem when restoring a backup: tar fails in restoring that file, of course, and reports an error. The number of f

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:56:41 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote: > > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Just one little fly in the ointment: the status string became too long > > > to &

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 3 November 2024 23:18:37 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > the load steadies out at about > > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in m

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-11-03 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 3 November 2024 12:56:05 GMT Wols Lists wrote: > On 31/10/2024 11:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > the load steadies out at about > > 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24 l30 in make.conf. > > How many cores does your CPU have. I've found that loa

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 14:21:27 GMT Michael wrote: > On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:07:13 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've always used static addresses. The exception is the wireless network, > > on which things come and go. I'm confident in dnsmasq on the wired LA

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

2024-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote: > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just one little fly in the ointment: the status string became too long to > > show properly. Perhaps shorter phrases could be used, or numbers limited > > to

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 31 October 2024 09:52:23 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 30 October 2024 23:24:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 17 October 2024 16:00:36 GMT I wrote: > > > > --->8 > > > > Well, it looks as though I have it working, over an Ethernet

Re: [gentoo-user] nfs mounting

2024-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 17 October 2024 16:00:36 GMT I wrote: --->8 Well, it looks as though I have it working, over an Ethernet link anyway. There's now no /mnt/nfs with fsid=0, with the portage tree and the packages directory mounted below it. This is /etc/exports on the i5: /var/db/repos/gentoo wstn.prh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 26 October 2024 09:10:44 BST Eray Aslan wrote: > fwiw, net-dns/unbound is a good choice for a resolver even if you are > running in a systemd environment. Interesting. I run dnsmasq here; would unbound be better, or less good? I've had no trouble with dnsmasq - it just does the job.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 23 October 2024 12:36:23 BST Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 at 12:56, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I should have added that the remote compilation works well with the cable. > > I have found though that the linux-firmware ebuild requires the /boot > > pa

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 22:07:06 BST I wrote: > Also while bug-hunting, I found an extra-long Ethernet cable and strung the > i5 into the LAN that way. The M9 only ever sees the LAN, whereas I can now > start and stop the LAN and WLAN at will on the i5. The Fritz!Box router > sits at the juncti

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 20:29:14 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 18:01:55 BST Matt Jolly wrote: > > It should not matter; the virtual root involves bind mounting directories > > into a single location - that could be 4 different partitions, a bunch of > > subvolumes, or some dire

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 October 2024 10:14:48 BST Michael wrote: > On Tuesday 22 October 2024 02:10:45 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > > > Assuming all required directories are on the same fs, what happens if > > > you >

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 21 October 2024 09:22:37 BST Michael wrote: > Assuming all required directories are on the same fs, what happens if you > *only* export the parent directory? Something like this: > > /mnt/nfs \ > 192.168.178.7/32(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=250,an > ongid=250)

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting

2024-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 18 October 2024 15:55:19 BST Michael wrote: --->8 > exportfs -rav Ah! I knew about 'exportfs -r' but not the 'av'. When I added that I got this: exportfs: duplicated export entries: exportfs: :192.168.178.7(rw,sync,insecure,no_subtree_check,all_squash,anonuid=250,anongid=250) e

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new KDE behavior with multiple screens.

2024-10-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 20 October 2024 23:23:03 BST Dale wrote: > Some times my brain . . . . . . Welcome to the club! -- Regards, Peter.

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