Questions tagged [gentoo]
Gentoo is a source-based Linux distribution designed to be automatically optimized and customized according to the user's need.
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Mounting anything during gentoo installation breaks everything using official live cd
It doesn't matter what I mount. Even mounting tmpfs (with mount -vt tmpfs none /mnt) doesn't work.
I'm trying to install Gentoo in a VirtualBox VM, but everything stops working after mounting the the ...
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unable to connect to wlan on gentoo
Could've worded that title better but anyways,
I recently did a gentoo install, networking worked fine during the livecd stage so my network card is probably supported.
Ethernet works with no problem.
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Gentoo - Cannot get internet to work on installation
I am trying out Gentoo for the first time on my PC. It is connected via Ethernet cable.
I downloaded the minimal ISO, I booted to the gentoo kernel, then I tried running the ping command to check for ...
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Xorg freezing during high system load
I have problem with my Gentoo system. Xorg freezes and sound loops when system is under high load. I use Xorg session. Can this problem be caused by the proprietary NVIDIA drivers? If I get rid of ...
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Gentoo invalid profile
So. Been going at the gentoo install without proper instructions until very recently. After emerge-webrsync stage of the install a message pops up saying "your current profile is invalid". ...
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Linux sandbox that shows which files have been created/modified
I use Gentoo Linux.
I need to find out what the program running under root downloads and where it puts the downloaded files.
I would also like to have a sandbox for testing programs from unreliable ...
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How do you merge files with dispatch-conf?
Sorry for such a simple question, but I can't figure this out for the life of me. Neither DISPATCH-CONF(1) nor wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Dispatch-conf provide any instructions.
When running dispatch-conf:
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Is it safe to install packages with multiple instances of emerge running at the same time?
I'm currently installing Gentoo by following the Handbook. I ran emerge -uDN @world after changing USE flags and it's taking hours, but I would like to continue with the next step. Is it fine to ...
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Build not found when using the command “make” in gentoo linux
so I've cloned this github repository https://github.com/xiangzhai/rt5370
It's a drive for my wifi adapter.
My problem is that whenever I try to use the "make" command, it returns this error
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I have a problem with sysklogd on gentoo linux
first picture
second picture
when I start the system it gives me an error with the sysklogd logs in the first image the error is found and in the second the output of / var / logs
(I use profile: ...
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Linux not resuming from s2ram (X570, Zen3)
I have a fresh install of Gentoo Linux on a MSI X570 Tomahawk, AMD 5900X machine with the latest BIOS (7C84v163).
5.10.27-gentoo-x86_64 kernel fails to resume from Suspend-to-RAM. First, s2ram ...
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I need advice on ways to improve my kernel updater script
#!/bin/bash
KERNEL_VERSION=$(echo /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources* | tr -d -c {0-9.})
cp /usr/src/linux/.config /usr/src/.config-"`date +"%d-%m-%Y"`"
cp -avL /usr/src/linux ...
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Bash script: check wan ip periodically and act if IP is changed
I'm new to Bash and I just don't understand how to write a simple script that will do the following.
The script should check what public IP I have, and if IP is changed (in case of ISP1 failure or in ...
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How can I run many emerge jobs in paralell?
When I install many packages at once, I use emerge --jobs=8 firefox vim.
This will install the packages, but it won't run everything in paralel.
For example, it will wait compile rust before compiling ...
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Compositor Warning: Your display driver does not support OpenGL, GLSL shaders
Using Enlightenment on Gentoo in Virtualbox and at startup I'm getting
Compositor Warning: Your display driver does not support OpenGL, GLSL shaders or no OpenGL engines were compiled or installed for ...
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Network is unreachable, destination host unreachable
I give up at this point. I've been at this for hours. I've installed Gentoo onto VirtualBox and somehow, I don't know how, I broke my internet connection, and as it happens to be, I don't have dhcpcd ...
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Resize /dev/root partition [duplicate]
I'm attempting to install Gentoo through VirtualBox. Well, technically I've already installed it, but I still need a WM. While trying to emerge Xorg , I ran out of space, and so I resized the /dev/...
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Replacing Windows with Gentoo on a dual boot
I have a laptop with a Windows/Ubuntu dual boot. I haven't touched Windows since I bought the computer 3 years ago and thought I'd replace it with Gentoo. My understanding from this answer is that I ...
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xfce4-terminal; change default browser
No matter what I change, my xfce4-terminal will not use chrome as the browser, and keeps opening firefox windows.
tim@MushaV3 ~ $ grep 'html' ~/.config/mimeapps.list
text/html=google-chrome.desktop;
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EFI stub kernel not booting, but black screen
I'm trying to boot a Gentoo Linux with an EFI stub kernel on a Hetzner AX41-NVME server, but it only shows a blank black screen while the server hangs up.
Partition table:
root@rescue ~ # sgdisk -p /...
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emerge cannot prevent installing as it cannot find the package name
Gentoo emerge cannot find name of package
In attempt to prevent the installation of dev-python/setuptools-53.0.0 failed
emerge: error: Invalid Atom(s) in --exclude parameter: 'dev-python/setuptools-53....
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Can I use portage (package manager from gentoo) on OpenBSD?
I really like gentoo for it's flexible package manager,
but I want something more secure.
So, would I have any issues with it ?
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Gentoo VGA arbitration boot stuck
I'm quite new to gentoo.
When booting my gentoo operating system it gets stuck on
pci 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA device added: decode=io+mem,owns=io+mem,locks=none
my first reflex was that this is a ...
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Why genkernel decides to only include 4 modules in my initramfs?
The /lib/firmware in my initramfs-5.*.img has only 4 modules:
modules/5.10.12-gentoo/kernel/
├── drivers
│ └── net
│ ├── macvlan.ko.xz
│ └── vxlan.ko.xz
└── net
├── ipv4
│ └── ...
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Do I need to update initramfs on every kernel recompilation?
Suppose that:
any kernel configuration regarding initramfs (loading external initramfs support and compression)
No RAID or lvm used
rootfs uses ext4
Is it really necessary to generate a new ...
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How can I restart a xorg server via bash script?
I would like to know how can I restart xorg server via simple bash script.
I want to learn bash and this script will help my friend with his problem.
My friend's issue: He wanted a display manager, ...
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Can I set up dual boot linux without leaving my main partition?
This might be asked already somewhere but I couldn't seem to figure out how to search exactly what I mean. I want to set up my macbook pro to dual-boot gentoo. Is it possible to set up the gentoo ...
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Pulseeffects cannot conect to system bus?
When I try to start pulseeffects, I get the following output to the command line:
(pulseeffects:2137): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 12:50:57.782: sie: rtkit: Failed to connect to system bus: Could not ...
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Is it possible to maintain user-space package-specific patches with Portage?
For example (not necessarily factual), Gentoo has an ebuild git, which has the default branch name main hardcoded in the source code.
Alice, as a user of Gentoo, would like to change it to master ...
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What is the most lightweight way to render graphics Gentoo?
Basically, I am exploring Gentoo, and I would like to be able to perform some kind of graphics rendering (open a jpg, or draw basic shapes, or even set the colors of individual pixels if I have to).
I ...
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EFI setup for multi-disk system
I want to dual boot my computer. It has an EFI, not a traditional BIOS. It has two drives. I want to install Gentoo Linux on the first NVMe SSD (according to the EFI firmware). I currently have ...
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Gentoo kvm guest integrations (vmchannel)
I'm trying to get a working VMchannel to my gentoo kvm guest.
I enabled the recommended kernel options for gentoo guests.
As the channel appears to be a character device, I also enabled Virtio console ...
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Firefox and Xorg without Window Manager
I have been trying to get firefox to work with only X server. For the most part, things have run smoothly, until right now, at the end, I face two seemingly insurmountable obstacles:
The dropdown ...
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chroot gentoo in usb
So I really tried to extract it but it gives me this error:
Command (extracted on usb):
tar xpvf stage3-amd64-nomultilib-20201021T14503Z --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
Output:
tar: ./sys/: ...
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Disable a hotkey in agetty
I use a window manager which heavily relies on the super (windows) key. Now, I've got gentoo (agetty, not X session) running in a VM. Whenever I use the super hotkey on the window manager, agetty (VM) ...
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how to install gentoo from usb to computer
Ive been recently planning starting for LFS (linux from scratch) and im now stuck installing gentoo
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Running an s6 service on start-up in Artix Linux
I have installed docker on my machine, but I cannot figure out how to make the service run on startup.
local/docker-s6 20200907-1 (s6-galaxy)
s6 service scripts for docker
On Arch Linux with ...
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Network interfaces not showing up on fresh Gentoo install
After a fresh Gentoo install, my ifconfig is showing just my loopback. ifconfig -a returns all my interfaces. My lspci -knn shows my wireless card as loaded with ath9k, both the driver and module. ...
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GRUB doesn't show all OS's
I am on Arch currently and have Gentoo in a separate partition. grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (on Arch) returns:
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux-...
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How to force a package to use a Python version in Gentoo?
I would like to use only one Python3 version for all my packages in a Gentoo system. So I looked for the installed versions and found out that three versions are installed: 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8. I would ...
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How to disable boot messages on startup?
I am running Gentoo currently. I don't want to see the boot messages it shows me. My /etc/default/grub has these lines: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash" and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="...
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Touchpad not working after kernel upgrade
I am on Gentoo currently. I decided today to give the 5.8rc-7 kernel a go. I configured and compiled it. After reboot, however, my touchpad was not working. So I configured and compiled again, this ...
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There are no ebuilds to satisfy
So, I want to install the vimb browser from a Gentoo overlay called 'booboo'. I added the overlay with layman and ran emerge vimb. This is what I get:
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">...
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How to change the position of Polybar?
So I have Polybar configured in i3 (I am using Gentoo), and I want to change its position from top to left. I have checked its GitHub page and tried looking at other places too, but couldn't find a ...
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Can't change font at all using .Xresources
So I want to change the URxvt font which currently seems to be the X.Org Misc Fixed. I have tried adding the following to .Xresources:
URxvt.font: xft:Fira Code:style=Retina:size=13,
URxvt.font: xft:...
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Configure Linux Kernel for `snapd`
I am trying to install snapd on gentoo and get the following error:
$ sudo emerge snapd
Password:
* IMPORTANT: 10 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view ...
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How do I switch GPUs with libglvnd?
I bought a laptop that has integrated Intel graphics and a discrete nVidia GPU in the "Optimus"-type setup. The integrated graphics are typically fine, but the laptop's HDMI and DisplayPort ...
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Create a background daemon to listen for incoming SSH requests
I'm just trying to see if this is possible before I start working on it. Here's the scenario, I want the server to be constantly listening for SSH requests (which I'm sure it already does, I just don'...
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Temporarily disable all kernel logging?
I know it's generally a bad idea to disable all kernel logging and in any other situation I would not be attempting to do this, but for my current applications having a period of time where the kernel ...
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Is it possible to use systemd on Gentoo with hardened/selinux profile?
Or I need to create custom profile which will combine settings from hardened/selinux and systemd profiles? Because I even can't unmask sys-apps/systemd or set USE-flag systemd on some package.
