avahi-daemon chroot failed

Posted on: November 22, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, systemd
Tags: gentoo, systemd

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 […]

gjs spamming the journal with stack traces

Posted on: November 17, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, gjs, Uncategorized
Tags: gjs, logs

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 […]

evolution-calendar login errors

Posted on: November 6, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Linux, Uncategorized

Finally decided to shut this up: e_cal_recur_generate_instances_sync: assertion ‘icaltime_compare (interval_start, interval_end) < 0’ failed I found this patch: diff -up gnome-shell-3.26.2/src/calendar-server/gnome-shell-calendar-server.c.xxxx gnome-shell-3.26.2/src/calendar-server/gnome-shell-calendar-server.c — gnome-shell-3.26.2/src/calendar-server/gnome-shell-calendar-server.c.xxxx 2017-11-02 17:05:55.000000000 +0100 +++ gnome-shell-3.26.2/src/calendar-server/gnome-shell-calendar-server.c 2018-04-30 […]

Project: 2ine

Posted on: February 22, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Uncategorized

A project by Ryan Gordon called “2ine,” pronounced “twine,” which emulates OS/2 binaries in the same way that Wine emulates Windows binaries. Project: 2ine

Gnome 3.26 Unstable

Posted on: February 22, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Uncategorized

Gnome 3.24

Posted on: February 19, 2018 by Mike
Categories: Uncategorized

A new CPU and Radeon RX 580.

Gnome 3.20

Posted on: October 2, 2016 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, Gnome
Tags: gnome

Finally, Gnome 3.20 in the Gentoo stable tree.

Gnome 3.18

Posted on: December 20, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo, Gnome, Uncategorized
Tags: gnome

Almost a painless install.

Polkit and USB Mount Authentication

Posted on: November 18, 2015 by Mike
Categories: Gentoo
Tags: polkit, usb

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

OS/2: Blue Lion – Arca Noae

Posted on: November 8, 2015 by Mike
Categories: OS/2
Tags: Arca Noae, Blue Lion, os/2

According to the Arca Noae site: Blue Lion is Go! Arca Noae has become an IBM business partner and has an agreement in place that enables us to produce our own […]