[gentoo-user] X fails with old permissions errors

2018-10-04 Thread Adam Carter
Since around 4 days ago X wont run, and my web searches show i'm hitting the same sorts of issues that arose when X moved away from running as root. In strace, i see; $ grep Permi startx11.out 319 setpriority(PRIO_PROCESS, 320, -1) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) 320 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/tty

[gentoo-user] [Even further OT] Re : kernel delay

2018-10-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 08:34:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Unfortunately, Americans (and those others who have learned English from > Americans) don't understand the pluperfect. They've thrown out four entire > verb tenses just in my lifetime. May I ask an American to say whether Reported

[gentoo-user] Skypeforlinux does not start

2018-10-04 Thread gevisz
I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50. After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing. I even do not get "permission denied" message. # whereis skypeforlinux skypeforlinux: /usr/bin/skypeforlinux # ls -al /usr/bin/skypeforlinux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 4 /usr/bin/sky

[gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

2018-10-04 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote: > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50. > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing. > I even do not get "permission denied" message. https://bugs.gentoo.org/666396 For some reasons 8.30.x relies on elogind. Just

[gentoo-user] help

2018-10-04 Thread Jorge Ventura

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Skypeforlinux does not start

2018-10-04 Thread gevisz
чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:16, Holger Hoffstätte : > > On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:09:51 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > > I have just installed skypeforlinux-8.30.0.50. > > > > After starting from command line, it successfully does nothing. > > I even do not get "permission denied" message. > > https://bugs.gent

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2018-10-04 Thread gevisz
чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:18, Jorge Ventura : > > Hm, could you, please, describe your problem in a bit more details?

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2018-10-04 Thread Dale
gevisz wrote: > чт, 4 окт. 2018 г. в 16:18, Jorge Ventura : >> > Hm, could you, please, describe your problem in a bit more details? > > I wondered if they were trying to get list help, gentoo-user+h...@lists.gentoo.org, when I first saw it.  If so, maybe that email address will help them, if they

Re: [gentoo-user] external storage

2018-10-04 Thread thelma
I've ordered SanDisk 1TB Extreme Portable SSD. Would format it with ext4 but if I do it, it will not work with cell phone. So for now I think I'll stick with exFat (default it comes with). It might be OK for picture backup but my exFat will stripped extended attributes from my Linux files. Thelm

[gentoo-user] Re: X fails with old permissions errors

2018-10-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:28 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Since around 4 days ago X wont run, and my web searches show i'm hitting > the same sorts of issues that arose when X moved away from running as root. > FYI, this was fixed by rebuilding pam. I needed to reboot after the rebuild, as 'needrestar

[gentoo-user] Haskell hell

2018-10-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Folks, Currently I suffer from the bad haskell hell. I need the current git-annex that is only available in the haskell overlay. Unfortunately this brings me into the haskell dependency hell. For two days I am constantly adding keywords for one