Questions tagged [gentoo]
Gentoo is a free and open source Linux and FreeBSD distribution that uses the Portage package management system.
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How do enable Alt-F2 to switch consoles?
I recently installed gentoo on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 laptop. I have it dual booting windows and gentoo.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get it to switch virtual consoles using AltF2. It seems to ...
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Gentoo installation and DHCP issues
I am trying to install Gentoo from the minimal install disc on my old 32-bit Lenovo T60 laptop. After getting past the initial install screen to the minimal install CD shell I got a DHCP error and was ...
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Gentoo: how to install binutils from binary package (because I accidentally deleted it)
I accidentally deleted my binutils and tried to install it as a binary package.
However, emerge is always complaining that there is no package by that name.
I downloaded the packages from here and ...
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How to chroot Arch from a Gentoo live cd?
I have a laptop with 2 OS partitions: 1 for Windows 10, 1 for Arch Linux. The bootloader is the Windows one, so I cannot start Arch. Now my Windows suddenly broke, so my laptop cannot startup normally ...
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MATLAB crashing system (gentoo linux)
First let me preface this by stating that I'm pretty new to MATLAB and Linux, perhaps I'm missing something obvious, if that's the case please be patient with me.
I've been asked to help with a ...
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Raspberry Pi 3 clock won't sync after reboot
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Gentoo and the clock doesn't sync with NTP after a reboot. Once the system comes up again it restores the last recorded time from swclock. I have to start the ntp-...
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How to fix what emerge is complaining about?
I have a Gentoo 13 system built from sources following the handbook. Its in the default/linux/amd64/13.0 configuration. I use the system to test other software on the platform. Software testing is the ...
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Chromium MIDI setup on Linux
I'm currently trying to work out how MIDI is supposed to work in Chromium on Linux. I'm on Gentoo. I've got Chromium 52.0.2743.60 installed. The midi access object obtained from navigator....
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Broken fonts on Gentoo
I'm running Gentoo with KDE and the infinality patchset. For the most part, the interface looks just fine.
However, in some of the applications the font for Latin characters is ugly. This is a ...
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Gnome install on gentoo: "gnome-session not found"
I am trying to install gentoo on an old desktop I have. I have not used gentoo before, and have run into some problems getting gnome to work
Following the gnome install guide on the wiki (https://...
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Cannot connect to network from inside Virtualbox (Windows Host, Gentoo Guest)
I recently got my computer upgraded from windows 8 to 10, and since then, I've been having trouble getting the internet to work. I was hoping that someone could give me some advice on how to debug ...
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Linux SystemRescueCD, eth1 works but not eth0
Got a RHEL system that I'm trying to troubleshoot. I used the Linux SystemRescueCD (Gentoo Linux). When I boot, I choose option 1 ("default boot options"). If I boot and just configure eth1, I can ...
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Linux locale - how to disable smart quotes?
On my Gentoo system, find . -regextype help outputs
find: Unknown regular expression type ‘help’; valid types are ‘findutils-default’, ‘awk’, ‘egrep’, ‘ed’, ‘emacs’, ‘gnu-awk’, ‘grep’, ‘posix-awk’, ‘...
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Installing gentoo with systemd
I'm trying to get my gentoo install to boot with systemd enabled, I've been using systemd on Arch and Fedora for a few years at this point and I followed the handbook and the systemd page on the wiki, ...
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How to install OS on a machine without a display?
I bought a new Intel NUC recently and plan to install Gentoo on it. I don't have a monitor and I only wish to use the NUC as server.
I have these on my hand,
Internet, and LAN
A Mac that runs OS X (...
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Disable RAID in custom kernel?
I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their procedures. I noticed the kernel spends a couple of seconds booting due to RAID ...
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grub2-install: error: /boot/efi doesn't look like an EFI partition on a fresh Gentoo install
I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their install procedures. I'm at
Configuring the bootloader | Installing GRUB2, and it ...
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Generate manifest for distfiles, when writing ebuilds for Portage
I tried to install leiningen from the rebel overlay, however it has a not matching manifest for lein-pkg. So I put it into a local overlay to fix it.
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How can I generate manifest for ...
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How to pass CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=n to genkernel?
I need a Gentoo 13 machine to test some software on the platform. I'm not a Gentoo regular, so I'm suffering their install procedures. I'm at Configuring the Linux kernel, and it failed with:
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Resuming from suspend does not work in Linux running on Dell Inspiron 1018
UPD: I have tried to suspend from live Linux Mint 17.3 XFCE. The symptoms were exactly the same: the system did not wake up.
I am running
$ uname -a
Linux inspiron 4.1.15-gentoo-r1 #2 SMP Thu Feb 11 ...
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How do i prevent lilo from doing a disk scan?
I have gentoo installed using root on LVM on RAID5. I made a mistake when I set up lilo but the initrd created by genkernel caught it and allowed me to type in the correct root partition. I have ...
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Why does Portage complain for lack of a `portage` Python module?
I'm currently trying to get a Gentoo Prefix set up. I grabbed the bootstrap script and ran it, and it got partway through stage three and finished installing the kernel headers before Portage broke. ...
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Is it a good idea to use git for configuration file version controlling?
I use Gentoo Linux and it has rather complex configuration. My question is it wise to use git for version controlling my config files?
I have some git repos in my home, my guess if I put /home/** to ...
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How do I get Portage to download a package, and do nothing more?
After having some trouble connecting to a TLS server and then noticing that app-misc/ca-certificates is a year and four months behind, I got curious as to what's changed since 20140927.3.17.2. I ...
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How do I mount as a read-write filesystem and not read-only?
I'm trying to install Gentoo in a virtual machine. I ran into this problem and began researching what the answer might be. The file system is read only. I can't mount it as read-write.
I'd rather ...
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How to change password for Gentoo LiveCD in 2015?
I have a LiveCD from Gentoo. Gentoo still does not offer an installation option, so I planned on working from the ISO image and saving VM state after configuring the VM.
To configure the VM, I need ...
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Cannot connect Motorola S11 Flex-HD bluetooth headset with laptop
I have laptop with usb bluetooth device, phone with built-in bluetooth and new bluetooth headset called: "Motorola S11 Flex-HD".
My Linux distribution is: "Funtoo Linux" (Gentoo Linux based).
I have ...
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VLC Not able to detect/choose default audio device output
I'm on a clean Funtoo install and after setting up ALSA i've just tried to play some movies through VLC but it doesn't seem to be able to detect/choose the default output audio device. If i go to ...
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Emerging package from overlay
I'm using gentoo, and I've been trying to emerge leksah package from haskell overlay:
root # layman -a haskell
root # layman -s haskell
root # emerge -av app-editors/leksah
However emerge keeps ...
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Correct OpenGL version on a notebook with two AMD GPUs
I'm using Gentoo on a notebook with two AMD GPUs: an integrated and a discrete card. Here's what lspci is returning:
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] ...
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Gentoo Prefix project: where is bootstrap-bash.sh?
How do I install Gentoo Prefix? I see a reference to bootstrap-bash.sh but cannot find it anywhere. Please help.
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Qlogic qla2xxx fibre channel HBA not displayed by targetcli
I'm experimenting with FC with a view to setting up a SAN but appear to be stuck at the first hurdle - I can't seem to get targetcli to give me the option of using my qla2xxx card as a target. I've ...
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How to change from passphrase to encrypted key file in debian using luks?
I have four partitions plus /boot, each one with a different passphrase.
I would like to manage unlock of all partitions with a single passphrase that decrypts the gpg.key file on the boot partition.
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What does this bash script?
In theory, this snippet from pentoo-installer finds all partitions on the selected disc, but it doesn't find my sda1 partition, so I would love to understand it and modify so it does.
findpartitions()...
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How to restore grub from a separate partition, to boot a luks partition?
My setup is:
sda1 /boot ext2
sda2 swap swap
sda3 / luks
I broke the boot partition. Now when trying to boot manually, cannot figure out how to load crypto modules needed to open the root ...
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Bluedevil wizard starts on KDE startup
Bluedevil wizard (3 copies) starts on each boot after KDE start. There are no bluetooth devices near PC or smth. Why and how to fix?
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how to install mongodb on gentoo?
Im trying to install mongodb but as soon as i do
emerge dev-db/mongodb
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[ebuild N ] dev-libs/snowball-stemmer-0.20140325::gentoo USE="- static-libs" 127 KiB
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/...
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Unable to connect to OpenVPN outside LAN
I've setup OpenVPN behind a router, and port forwarded 1194. The VPN is using the subnet 10.3.15.0/24 and has 192.168.1.14 on the LAN.
It works when I'm connecting locally, or from my home network ...
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Start a module at startup on gentoo
I use gentoo.
I have a module nammed "cgosdrv" (for instance).
I can launch it without problem with "modprobe cgosdrv" (as root)
I want to start it automatically at startup, so I add to /etc/conf.d/...
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Configuring two network interfaces in gentoo using dhcpcd
There are two network interfaces in my system. net0 and net1. Both are in the default runlevels in gentoo.
The /etc/conf.d/net file contains
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config_net0="dhcpcd -b -t 0" and
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Allow unprivileged user access to specific privileged files
I have a system running hardened Gentoo and I have installed Xorg, Fluxbox, and Conky together to create a minimal window manager desktop. Within this system I have 2 main users, root and my normal ...
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gentoo ebuild to create directory
We have some ebuilds that install things into a certain directory. As it stands, a few of the ebuilds create the directory, while others just assume its presence. To address this situation, I want to ...
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How to force software master volume control in PulseAudio?
I have a sound card lacking hardware volume control (Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 connected on USB). Yet PulseAudio seems to think it does have hardware volume control. When I adjust the ...
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Gentoo can't boot on GRUB2
Gentoo is on /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda3 is /boot,/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-3.18.7-gentoo and /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-3.18.7-gentoo both are genkernel-built,but GRUB says:could not find the root ...
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Booting Gentoo on LVM inside LUKS with gpg encrypted keyfile [closed]
I'm trying to install Gentoo on LVM logical volume inside LUKS container encrypted with key file encrypted by GPG with passphrase. Everything was going smoothly until I tried to boot. I'm building the ...
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Gentoo Blocky Fonts
So, I've fresh installed Gentoo with Gnome. Ever since then I've had super blocky fonts like this
I'd appreciate any help on this, or really just a link to anything else because googling gets me no ...
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Gentoo portage: list all variables emerge invoked with
Is there an easy way to list all variables of emerge process?
I need to list all resulting variables after /etc/portage/env/* and /etc/portage/bashrc wiil be applyed to debug this scripts.
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Mounting /dev/shm in a Gentoo chroot on Xubuntu 14.04
I'm trying to install Gentoo, and instead of using one of the bootable minimal install CDs provided by Gentoo, I'm using a chroot in Ubuntu. I'm mainly following the instructions outlined here, http://...
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Two fully functioning profiles running simultaneously
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Is it possible to open two different instances of Firefox, each running a separate profile, and have it so each time firefox -P <profile name> is run it will connect to the already ...
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Cuda installation to Gentoo
I desperate to install dev-util/nvidia-cuda-sdk to my Gentoo system (3.12.30-gentoo kernel) for programming and for rendering with blender 2.72b
I have a Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 graphic card using the ...
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