Part because of a mistake and part for fun, I purchased an ASRock J3455-ITX.  I tried to boot a couple different OSs without much luck, I could not get CoreOS […]

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On a new Gentoo install, GDM kept failing to start: (EE) Cannot open log file “/var/lib/gdm/.local/share/xorg …log Found: The GDM install changed the ownership of /var/lib/gdm/.local/share/applications to gdm.gdm – but […]

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Another annoying journal error: avahi-daemon[301]: chroot.c: open() failed: No such file or directory avahi-daemon[285]: Failed to open /etc/resolv.conf: Invalid argument Copy avahi-daemon.service from /lib/systemd/system to /etc/systemd/system. Edit /etc/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service and add […]

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Another long time annoyance is the endless number of stack traces gjs inserts to the journal. As best as I can figure, based on reading, someone thought this was a […]

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Finally, Gnome 3.20 in the Gentoo stable tree.

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Almost a painless install.

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Suddenly popping in a USB or CD/DVD was asking for authentication!  Short story, polkit issue.  Edit org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions and change: org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media-other-seat to read: “<allow_active> yes</allow_active>” polkit — Authorization Manager

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I guess just in time for Windows 10??? emerge –unmerge -p virtualbox Same old catch if you want the BIOS compiled then Open Watcom is needed.  To be specific, I […]

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Classes are finally out for summer and it is time for catch up.  Still, I had time to cause undue stress in my life.  I decided to do what I […]

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Not something I take lightly, nor is it something I look forward to doing.  In Gentoo the emerge “-e” means rebuild all packages installed on the system that portage has […]

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