Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world needs something, but I don't know what ...

2025-02-05 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 20:48, n952162 wrote: > > On 2025/02/03 15:29, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > This means that pygobject wants PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" because > that is what you have set on x11-wm/xpra, and that is because that is > the newest python that xpra-4.4.6-r2 supports. Either upgrade x

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world needs something, but I don't know what ...

2025-02-05 Thread n952162
On 2025/02/03 15:29, Arve Barsnes wrote: This means that pygobject wants PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_11" because that is what you have set on x11-wm/xpra, and that is because that is the newest python that xpra-4.4.6-r2 supports. Either upgrade xpra to the testing version (currently 6.0.1-r1), or ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping dvd with k3b requires transcode?

2025-02-05 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 5 February 2025 12:54:01 Greenwich Mean Time Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just tried to rip an old DVD with k3b, but it says that it requires > transcode for this. I came across the same popup when I tried to Use the "Rip Video DVD" function. This is related to upst

[gentoo-user] Ripping dvd with k3b requires transcode?

2025-02-05 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I just tried to rip an old DVD with k3b, but it says that it requires transcode for this. AFAIR, transcode has been removed from portage a long time ago, so how is this supposed to work now? Thanks Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world needs something, but I don't know what ...

2025-02-03 Thread n952162
thank you. On 2025/02/03 15:29, Arve Barsnes wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 15:13, n952162 wrote: Can anyone help me with this? emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-python/pygobject:3[python_targets_python3_11(-),cairo]". !!! One of the following packages is requir

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world needs something, but I don't know what ...

2025-02-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 15:13, n952162 wrote: > > Can anyone help me with this? > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "dev-python/pygobject:3[python_targets_python3_11(-),cairo]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - dev-python/p

[gentoo-user] emerge world needs something, but I don't know what ...

2025-02-03 Thread n952162
Can anyone help me with this? emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-python/pygobject:3[python_targets_python3_11(-),cairo]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-python/pygobject-3.50.0::gentoo (Change USE: +pytho

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-02 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Sunday 2 February 2025 02:07:07 Greenwich Mean Time Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM Dale wrote: >>> Rich Freeman wrote: Now, if you were running btrfs or cephfs or some other exotic filesystems, then it would be a whole different matter, >>> I co

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

2025-02-02 Thread Michael
On Sunday 2 February 2025 11:09:09 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > This is my /var/log/sddm.log from an unsuccessful upstart: > > [11:57:20.087] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... > > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Starting... > > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Logind interface found > > [11:57

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

2025-02-02 Thread Markus Gustafsson
This is my /var/log/sddm.log from an unsuccessful upstart: > [11:57:20.087] (II) DAEMON: Initializing... > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Starting... > [11:57:20.090] (II) DAEMON: Logind interface found > [11:57:20.091] (II) DAEMON: Adding new display... > [11:57:20.091] (II) DAEMON: Loaded empty the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-02 Thread Michael
On Sunday 2 February 2025 02:07:07 Greenwich Mean Time Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM Dale wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Now, if you were running btrfs or cephfs or some other exotic > > > filesystems, then it would be a whole different matter, > > > > I could see > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM Dale wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Now, if you were running btrfs or cephfs or some other exotic > > filesystems, then it would be a whole different matter, > > I could see > some RAID systems having issues but not some of the more advanced file > systems th

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM Dale wrote: >> My thinking, even if I went to 95%, it should be OK given my usage. It >> might even be OK at 99%. Thing is, I know at some point, something is >> going to happen. I just been wondering what that point is and what it >> will do

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM Dale wrote: > > My thinking, even if I went to 95%, it should be OK given my usage. It > might even be OK at 99%. Thing is, I know at some point, something is > going to happen. I just been wondering what that point is and what it > will do. Oh, I do use ext4. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM Dale wrote: >> Still, given the large >> file systems in use, where should I draw the line and remain safe data >> wise? Can I go to 90% if needed? 95%? Is that to much despite the >> large amount of space remaining? Does the percentage rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM Dale > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hard to believe no one has more up to date info on what is safe given > > drives are so large now and file system improvements.  I'd think having > > a TB or two would be plenty, reg

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM Dale wrote: > > > > Hard to believe no one has more up to date info on what is safe given > drives are so large now and file system improvements. I'd think having > a TB or two would be plenty, regardless of percentage, but not real > sure. Don't want to risk data

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 1:15 PM Dale wrote: > Still, given the large > file systems in use, where should I draw the line and remain safe data > wise? Can I go to 90% if needed? 95%? Is that to much despite the > large amount of space remaining? Does the percentage really matter? Is > it more

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-02-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As most know, I store a lot of data here.  This is the two main file > systems.  > > %USED   USED AVAILABLE  TOTAL MOUNTED ON > 87.5%   36.3T  5.2T    41.5T   /home/dale/Desktop/Data > 75.9%   35.8T 11.3T   47.1T   /home/dale/Desktop/Crypt >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-31 Thread gevisz
пт, 31 янв. 2025 г. в 13:26, Michael : > > On Thursday 30 January 2025 16:55:00 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: > [snip ...] > > > After setting up one of them as a ZFS mirror, I immediately > > got the problem that if I boot my system with additional HDD > > connected to my computer, one of thes

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] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-31 Thread Michael
On Thursday 30 January 2025 16:55:00 Greenwich Mean Time gevisz wrote: [snip ...] > After setting up one of them as a ZFS mirror, I immediately > got the problem that if I boot my system with additional HDD > connected to my computer, one of these ZFS mirror disks > is not detected and the corresp

Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-30 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:44:18 +0300 Alexander Kurakin wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer. >   > Hi Bryan, > thanks for the reply! >   > > That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement > > when I import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I

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

2025-01-30 Thread Alexis
Peter Humphrey writes: However - stopping boinc still takes 60 seconds, with the differencec that I don't now see the trail of dots to show me how much longer I have to wait. Is that period hard-coded into the start/stop mechanism of openrc? i assume that might be a result of the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 16:58, gevisz wrote: Thank you for your reply. You're welcome. I will look into the link but, as far as I understand, Feel free to ask questions, either here or directly to me if you feel it's not germane to Gentoo. it does not answer the question why one of my ZFS disks does

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 16:49, gevisz wrote: Because, as I wrote it, it was easier than to try to change a profile with the procedure described in the corresponding news. I take that as you chose to do the fresh install, not that something forced you to do the fresh install. It's perfectly fine if that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
Thank you for your reply. I will look into the link but, as far as I understand, it does not answer the question why one of my ZFS disks does not appear in /dev/disk/by-id/ directory when I boot my computer with additional disk connected to it. чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:09, Grant Taylor : > > On 1/

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
Correction: My second paragraph in the last email should read: "Well, maybe you are right. I did NOT know this and so deleted the old kernel immediately after compiling the new one." пт, 31 янв. 2025 г. в 00:49, gevisz : > > чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > > > On 1/30/25 11:49 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 23:31, Grant Taylor : > > On 1/30/25 11:49 AM, gevisz wrote: > > I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the > > middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. > > Why did you have to install it anew? Because, as I wrote it, it was easier than to try t

Re: [gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 11:49 AM, gevisz wrote: I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. Why did you have to install it anew? I've pulled Gentoo systems more than three years forward. I've talked about how to do it on this mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread Grant Taylor
On 1/30/25 10:55 AM, gevisz wrote: I should have used /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000* notations instead! Unfortunately, I have not found the way to change these notations other than deleting the whole zpool and re-creating it anew with the notations /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000*, which took qu

[gentoo-user] Zombie Linux kernel

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
I have not updated my Gentoo system since May 31, 2024, so in the middle of October 2024 I had to install it anew. Just to remind you: during that time we all had to switch to the new Gentoo profile scheme, which made an update from my old system more difficult than a new install. During this new

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
The small correction: the penultimate sentence of my previous email should read: "The situation remained the same even after swapping the undetected 500GB WD HDD with the spare one." чт, 30 янв. 2025 г. в 18:55, gevisz : > > About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD > tapped me on the s

[gentoo-user] Problem with detecting ZFS HDD

2025-01-30 Thread gevisz
About half a year ago my old 1.5TB SATA Green WD HDD tapped me on the shoulder and said: "Hi, very soon you won't be able to read any data from me." As I have not made my backups regularly, I took this warning seriously and decided to finally realize my old idea of moving from ext4 to ZFS. So, I

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 specified by upstream - > i.e.

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. The scale of the changes

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-30 Thread Alexander Kurakin
> Hi Alexander, >  > My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer.   Hi Bryan, thanks for the reply!   > That is what I do.  I preserve any existing copyright statement when I > import an ebuild from elsewhere, and I add a copyright line for myself > too once I've made significant changes.  Th

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

2025-01-30 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 29 January 2025 21:19:50 Greenwich Mean Time Markus Gustafsson wrote: > Thanks for the input. I do indeed have a pretty new CPU as well. > > I did try the rc.conf trick but no luck after trying it once. I'll keep it > around for a while and see if I can see an overall improvement. >

Re: [gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-29 Thread Bryan Gardiner
Hi Alexander, My two cents as a third-party overlay maintainer. On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 16:34:39 +0300 Alexander Kurakin wrote: > Good day! >   > In the `::gentoo` repository, the header/copyright line is fixed [1]: >   > > All ebuilds committed to the tree should have a two line header > >immediat

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

2025-01-29 Thread Markus Gustafsson
Thanks for the input. I do indeed have a pretty new CPU as well. I did try the rc.conf trick but no luck after trying it once. I'll keep it around for a while and see if I can see an overall improvement. Regards, Markus On Sun, Jan 26, 2025, at 13:33, Michael wrote: > On Sunday 26 January 2025

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 1/26/25 12:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: And that only hung user-space stuff? For me, yes - I could ping it not nothing worked at the physical console nor could I ssh in. Dan

[gentoo-user] On ebuild files owership

2025-01-28 Thread Alexander Kurakin
Good day!   In the `::gentoo` repository, the header/copyright line is fixed [1]:   > All ebuilds committed to the tree should have a two line header immediately >at the start > indicating copyright, followed by an empty line. This must be an exact copy >of the contents > of header.txt [2] in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly isolating system Python to nuke PEP 668 from orbit forever?

2025-01-27 Thread William Kenworthy
On 28/1/25 01:16, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM Matthew Brooks mailto:matthewfbro...@posteo.net>> wrote: > > Hello! > Hi. First, I cannot offer any insight into the PEP668 stuff. For me, it is what it is. > For clarity, I'm *not* looking for a workaround for my part

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze [SOLVED]

2025-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-01-27, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with > Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- > always when in active use wit

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze [SOLVED]

2025-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-01-26, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly isolating system Python to nuke PEP 668 from orbit forever?

2025-01-27 Thread Eli Schwartz
On 1/27/25 11:36 AM, Matthew Brooks wrote: > Hello! > > > Not sure where the most appropriate place to ask this is, so if some > other list or something would be more appropriate, please let me > know. > > I'm interested in trying to solve the potential system python > breakage that PEP 668 was

Re: [gentoo-user] Properly isolating system Python to nuke PEP 668 from orbit forever?

2025-01-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 9:37 AM Matthew Brooks wrote: > > Hello! > Hi. First, I cannot offer any insight into the PEP668 stuff. For me, it is what it is. > For clarity, I'm *not* looking for a workaround for my particular system. My end goal (and not an easy one, granted) is to hopefully eventu

[gentoo-user] Properly isolating system Python to nuke PEP 668 from orbit forever?

2025-01-27 Thread Matthew Brooks
Hello! Not sure where the most appropriate place to ask this is, so if some other list or something would be more appropriate, please let me know. I'm interested in trying to solve the potential system python breakage that PEP 668 was meant to address, but solving it in a way that *doesn't* ir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Sunday 26 January 2025 20:18:57 Greenwich Mean Time Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-26, Daniel Frey wrote: > > I had a problem with two of my Ryzen systems that exhibited this > > behaviour. One has a G processor, the other doesn't > > > > Apparently Ryzen processors have an idle bug that lo

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-01-26, Daniel Frey wrote: > I had a problem with two of my Ryzen systems that exhibited this > behaviour. One has a G processor, the other doesn't > > Apparently Ryzen processors have an idle bug that locks up the > system in this way. The bugs manifests randomly when the CPU is > idle. F

[gentoo-user] Hard drive and maximum data percentage.

2025-01-26 Thread Dale
Howdy, As most know, I store a lot of data here.  This is the two main file systems.  %USED   USED AVAILABLE  TOTAL MOUNTED ON 87.5%   36.3T  5.2T    41.5T   /home/dale/Desktop/Data 75.9%   35.8T 11.3T   47.1T   /home/dale/Desktop/Crypt The top one has a drive on

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-26 Thread Daniel Frey
On 1/25/25 11:13 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable since assembled (about 5 years ago). Ctrl-Alt-Back

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 15:28:49 Greenwich Mean Time Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. [snip ...] > You're absolutely right. I was missing CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO, a setting > that builds in the USB sound driver. I'm not sure how I worked that out, > but probably somewhere on my Internet sea

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

2025-01-26 Thread Michael
On Sunday 26 January 2025 11:18:00 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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 sh

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] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-25 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-25, Dale wrote: >> Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-01-25, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with >>> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- >>> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been r

[gentoo-user] Login manager occasionally fails to show

2025-01-25 Thread Markus Gustafsson
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 with ctrl+alt+F1 it will show me the boot log, with the last entry being "starting local" and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-25 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with >> Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- >> always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable >> since assembled (about

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2025-01-25, Grant Edwards wrote: > Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with > Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- > always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable > since assembled (about 5 years ago). > > Ctrl-Alt-

[gentoo-user] Troubshooting AMD Radeon Vega system freeze

2025-01-25 Thread Grant Edwards
Starting about a week ago, my AMD system (AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega Graphics) has been freezing up multiple times per day -- always when in active use with X11. Before that, it had been reliable since assembled (about 5 years ago). Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does nothing Ctrl-Alt-F1 does nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Karl. On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 09:00:12 +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > alsamixer displays just one object, labelled S/PDIF

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. > > On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 14:53:30 -0600, Dale wrote: >> Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>> Hello, Gentoo. >>> I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new >>> (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. >>> I have c

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 14:53:30 -0600, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new > > (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. > > I have connected the speakers up p

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread Michael
On Saturday 25 January 2025 08:00:12 Greenwich Mean Time k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alan Mackenzie: > ... > > > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > > > alsamixer displays just one object, label

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-25 Thread karl
Alan Mackenzie: ... > Then I attempt to use alsamixer to unmute the speakers and, hopefully get > some sound out of them. This is where my problems start. > > alsamixer displays just one object, labelled S/PDIF in the middle of the > screen. I don't have an S/PDIF connection, just an ordinary au

Re: [gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-24 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new > (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. > > I have connected the speakers up physically. I have made the necessary > settings in the kernel configurati

[gentoo-user] Help getting my new loudspeakers working, please!

2025-01-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. I've finally got around to buying a pair of new loadspeakers for my new (as of 2024-08) PC. The experience has not been relaxed and obvious. I have connected the speakers up physically. I have made the necessary settings in the kernel configuration, rebuilt and rebooted into it.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge --sync

2025-01-21 Thread Jack
On 2025.01.21 12:57, Filip Kobierski wrote: Hi, I am no portage expert but wouldn't # emerge-webrsync help here? Unfortunately no, it doesn't work because the sync type is git, not rsync or webrsync. If that does not work I would hard reset the branch to HEAD~n commits (until branches conv

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge --sync

2025-01-21 Thread Filip Kobierski
Hi, I am no portage expert but wouldn't wouldn't # emerge-webrsync help here? If that does not work I would hard reset the branch to HEAD~n commits (until branches converge) and sync again. Regards fkobi Original Message On 1/21/25 18:53, Jack wrote: > I had no problem upda

[gentoo-user] problem with emerge --sync

2025-01-21 Thread Jack
I had no problem updating my system two or three days ago, but today when I try to update, I get: Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'... Auto packing the repository for optimum performance. See "git help gc" for manual housekeeping. Enumerating objects: 175170, done. Count

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] "Spiritual Successor to DSLReports"

2025-01-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2025-01-20 at 20:50 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > For those of you suffering withdrawl symptoms from DSLReports there > is a new site, namely https://broadbandbulletin.com/ that follows in > the spirit of DSLR. The lack of an RSS feed is disappointing.

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

2025-01-21 Thread Michael
but raising points he did not understand fully and asking for help. I for one tend to avoid asking for detailed explanation and guidance in bug reports, because it could be seen as creating unnecessary noise and potentially taking up dev/maintainers' time for simpler issues for which

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

2025-01-21 Thread Alexis
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 specified by upstream - i.e. the BOINC project itself - not by Gentoo. But it's Gentoo that provides the Ope

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, which proposes to move from > > sci-misc/boinc-7.24.1

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

2025-01-20 Thread Alexis
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, 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

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] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-16 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:06:16AM -0600 schrieb Dale: >> Michael wrote: >>> On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >>> It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example, >>> the >>> archive foo.zip will be extracted in

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 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's v helpful, Michael. Thanks. > > > > Do you mind if I quote you in the bug report I send in? > > Nope, go ahead. Thanks again. https://bugs.gent

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

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 16:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > That's v helpful, Michael. Thanks. > > Do you mind if I quote you in the bug report I send in? > Nope, go ahead.

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 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > > In this case the init script is using a custom variable for the >

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-14 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 07:06:16AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> > > It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example, > > the > > archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory calle

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

2025-01-14 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2025-01-14 at 11:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? > In this case the init script is using a custom variable for the timeout, and setting that variable unconditionally: stop() { local stop_timeout="SIGT

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-14 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> > It does this by default when you select to 'Extract here'. For example, the > archive foo.zip will be extracted into a new directory called foo/ and all > compressed files in foo.zip will be extracted into f

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

2025-01-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 at 12:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Greetings, > > How can I prevent portage from auto-updating /etc/init.d/boinc? I'm not sure what order things are sourced, but you could try putting your edited stop() function in /etc/conf.d/boinc Regards, Arve

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

2025-01-14 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 14 January 2025 11:28:21 Greenwich Mean Time Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. Th

[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] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-13 Thread Michael
On Monday 13 January 2025 14:17:41 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > >> eric wrote: > >>> On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I think I ran into this on my old rig too. After some upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-13 Thread Dale
Michael wrote: > On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: >> eric wrote: >>> On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I think I ran into this on my old rig too. After some upgrade, I lost the option in the right click menu. I have this issue on the new ri

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-13 Thread Michael
On Monday 13 January 2025 04:47:39 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > eric wrote: > > On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, > >> > >> I think I ran into this on my old rig too. After some upgrade, I lost > >> the option in the right click menu. I have this issue on the new rig > >> and can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-12 Thread Dale
eric wrote: > On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I think I ran into this on my old rig too.  After some upgrade, I lost >> the option in the right click menu.  I have this issue on the new rig >> and can't find anything to install that makes it work again.  I >> sometimes download archiv

Re: [gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-12 Thread eric
On 1/12/25 20:03, Dale wrote: Howdy, I think I ran into this on my old rig too.  After some upgrade, I lost the option in the right click menu.  I have this issue on the new rig and can't find anything to install that makes it work again.  I sometimes download archives.  Right now, I have a lot

[gentoo-user] Dolphin and extracting archives, .zip at the moment.

2025-01-12 Thread Dale
Howdy, I think I ran into this on my old rig too.  After some upgrade, I lost the option in the right click menu.  I have this issue on the new rig and can't find anything to install that makes it work again.  I sometimes download archives.  Right now, I have a lot of .zip files.  I'd like to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread n952162
On 2025/01/12 13:22, Michael wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2025 10:41:23 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: Thank you, that gave me the hint I needed for the first step ... I use an ssh option for nixos that's not need for gentoo: /"-o PreferredAuthentications=password"/ You can use a user passwo

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday 12 January 2025 10:41:23 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Thank you, that gave me the hint I needed for the first step ... I use > an ssh option for nixos that's not need for gentoo: /"-o > PreferredAuthentications=password"/ You can use a user password to login over SSH or public ke

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread n952162
Thank you, that gave me the hint I needed for the first step ... I use an ssh option for nixos that's not need for gentoo: /"-o PreferredAuthentications=password"/ But now I've got a new problem (or problems) that might be gentoo-related: /Warning: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not defined  and '/ru

Re: [gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread Michael
On Sunday 12 January 2025 09:08:51 Greenwich Mean Time n952162 wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to run xpra as a server on a gentoo box but I get the > following error on connection: > > /user@host: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive)./ > > My nixos client works well with ni

[gentoo-user] xpra permissions

2025-01-12 Thread n952162
Hello all, I'm trying to run xpra as a server on a gentoo box but I get the following error on connection: /user@host: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive)./ My nixos client works well with nixos servers, just not gentoo servers.  I don't find a use flag that looks relevant, bu

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