Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-11-04 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 04.11.2024 09:35, Wols Lists a scris: I know linux doesn't care - has never cared, but historically you did NOT have partition tables on removable media. Floppy disks didn't have partition tables. I'm not aware of early SD cards or USB sticks having partition tables. It's only relatively rec

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird oddity

2024-09-29 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 29.09.2024 12:08, Wols Lists a scris: It's actually been like this a while - but my Thunderbird has lost its title bar. The top bars are the search bar, with the menu bar underneath it. So I have an "X" to close thunderbird with on the search bar, but that's it. The "v" and "^" to maximise a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to handle Firebird with PHP now

2025-02-14 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 10.02.2025 22:11, Michael a scris: According tohttp://gpo.zugaina.org/ firebird is provided by bgo-overlay. I don't know if this overlay is checked by gentoo devs for the quality of its contents or not, but you could take a look. Using an overlay will allow your system to know what files wer

Re: [gentoo-user] More than 256/512 glyphs on a Linux console

2025-02-11 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 11.02.2025 21:10, Alan Mackenzie a scris: Hello, Gentoo. For the past few weeks, I've been working on enhancing the Linux console to display more than 256/512 glyphs. This afternoon, I finally succeeded in loading the font gsans16.psfu (the source is available in a tar ball from the maintain

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

2025-04-01 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 01.04.2025 20:50, Alan Mackenzie a scris: My two SSDs get allocated randomly to /dev/nvme0n1 and /dev/nvme1n1. Most of the time I didn't notice this since all my partitions apart from /boot (and swap) are RAID-1 devices using the kernel's md facility. I did the same for /boot: all my hdds h

Re: [gentoo-user] TigerVNC

2025-04-20 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 20.04.2025 09:48, Artur Tamm a scris: Hi Peter, I am just wondering if with your current configuration you can still log into VNC session after logging out. I followed the wiki instructions a few weeks ago and got it working more or less, but wenever I log out of the VNC session the openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] TigerVNC

2025-04-19 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 19.04.2025 17:57, Peter Humphrey a scris: 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 i

Re: [gentoo-user] needrestart - exclude services

2025-03-13 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 13.03.2025 10:45, Joost Roeleveld a scris: 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 server to become unstable. One of this is "

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild failure in unpack

2025-02-25 Thread Viorel Munteanu
La 25.02.2025 10:05, n952162 a scris: I just successfully updated world.  In order to make room in my root, I subsequently moved /var/tmp/portage to a mounted usb stick and symlinked it to /var/tmp. You don't need to use symlinks, you can simply set PORTAGE_TMPDIR in your make.conf. Whatever