drobbins

I think *I* am Funtoo's Admin staff. You seem to be under the impression that there is a large team of dedicated people who exist solely to maintain these free services for you and cater to your preferences. That is not the case. This is a volunteer project and everyone including myself has very limited time. I would like to challenge your apparent perceptions that there is an actual group of people whose job it is to make sure you are happy and satisfied with our infrastructure. It's not true and that is not the way a volunteer project works, unfortunately. (I wish this was how it was) Maybe you can try to take things a little less personally and appreciate what we do have, and engage constructively to help improve our services rather than complain about them and cast negative judgement against, in this case, me. There are plenty of other Linux distributions that don't use Discord, so if it's a deal-breaker for you, I encourage you to find another Linux distro that reflects your personal values. Discord can be run in-browser and it has full functionality, and is sandboxed by Chrome or whatever browser you use when run in this way. If Funtoo is important enough for you, maybe you will engage with our community to help us maintain our infrastructure and improve what we have to offer. The technologies like Discord are often chosen in large part because they offer a lot of features we need but do not require a lot of our time to use and maintain. If you are in a position to invest your time to offer a superior solution, then you are in a rare position indeed and we would be happy if you would use this time to help the Funtoo community. Consider the perspective change.

This doesn't help your immediate problem but the next release of ramdisk should print a useful "lsblk -f" command when it opens the rescue shell to give you the information on visible block devices automatically. I think we need to figure out what modules you need and then I need to make sure I am auto-loading these. Can you give me a bit of detail on your PC/system so I have more context on what we're trying to get booting?

Try to use the rescue shell to see if that uuid exists while you are inside the rescue shell. I also notice you are using mmc devices. Possibly, the proper kernel modules for this are not being autoloaded, and that could be the issue.

@uudruid74 on the "inform users of new changes" front, I have been working on a solution -- @invakid404 has helped with a prototype. Like any new technology, it takes free time to work on. I agree that something better is needed for this, because if no one knows about an improvement or new ebuild, often it doesn't actually benefit anyone since they don't know about it.

@uudruid74 we actually do have a newsletter. If you had read it, you would have known about the deprecation of 1.4-release. OpenSSH has been updated in next-release so it is now available for use, thanks to our volunteer contributors.

Everyone, We are officially retiring 1.4-release in 2024, which means that if you have not yet done so, now is the time to upgrade to next-release. The official way to do this is to do a REINSTALL of Funtoo. You may be able to in-place upgrade from 1.4-release to next-release but THIS IS NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED so if you can't get it to work, you can ask on Discord for help unofficially but if you can't work through the various quirks you WILL need to reinstall. Really, a reinstall should be done unless you have a very specific reason why you can't. The Funtoo community is around to help with issues you may have with an upgrade, but just be aware of the possibility of hitting something that may warrant reinstall. For new installs of next-release, the Funtoo community as well as myself are available to assist you with issues you may encounter. Reach out on Discord in the #install-help channel.

You are welcome! I will post a big announcement so that others are aware who might have missed it.

I bet you are using 1.4-release, which has not been receiving updates recently and will no longer be maintained after the end of the year. If you install next-release, you will getting (almost) daily updates. Relevant links:

@aitikin I gave you a sarcastic answer as a response to your threat of: "But, frankly, if you send me ANY ONE SINGLE YouTube as a solution, I'm gone." I'm calling out your threat. Do you think that maybe your inability to find support could be related to your immature and ranting behavior, rather than any deficiency in our project and documentation?

Did that video help?

Everyone, our summer 2023 newsletter has been published!

Funtoo Newsletter, June-August (Summer) 2023 Welcome to the current installment of the Funtoo Newsletter. This newsletter combines multiple months -- June through all of August -- so, essentially our summer newsletter, for those of you in the northern hemisphere. We're going to hit all the key technical changes in this newsletter: Funtoo Linux 1.4 Deprecation (re-announce) The End of Genkernel -- Welcome "Funtoo Ramdisk" Massive updates from Summer Harvest (harvester/2023-08) I'm planning a follow-up newsletter for community and development news, since this newsletter got too long. This follow-up newsletter will cover: The Forums -- Back from the Dead? Maybe! Dev Corner: All the Epics! (What's going on with bug tracker) Let's cover the important technical stuff now. Funtoo Linux 1.4 Deprecation Announced in our previous newsletter, but worth repeating here -- Funtoo Linux 1.4 will be "retired" by the end of 2023. See the previous newsletter for more details -- but for now, just know that you should upgrade to "next-release" if you are not running it already. The best way to upgrade is by performing a new install of Funtoo Linux some time before the new year. It is technically possible to upgrade from 1.4 to next, especially on server systems with minimal packages, but we don't recommend it. The End of Genkernel -- Welcome "Funtoo Ramdisk" For the longest time -- almost since the beginning of the project -- Funtoo has had a forked version of Gentoo's genkernel which we used to build our official kernel and initramfs. For an equally long time, I have wanted to completely rewrite genkernel from the ground up. There was always some distraction that prevented me from doing this, and we were able to keep genkernel hobbling along for around a decade -- but it was time to do something about it. What were some problems with genkernel? Several. Many people haven't really liked it because it built your kernel and your initramfs -- this made it cumbersome to use. There has been a long-held desire to separate this functionality. It has also amassed a ton of features and become very complex and its code base is difficult to refactor and improve. So we needed a better foundation going forward. After September 11, 2023, when harvester/2023-08 updated are merged into Funtoo Linux, Funtoo Linux will have a new initramfs building tool called ramdisk, which will be utilized by the new debian-sources 6.4.13_p1 ebuild to build your initramfs. genkernel is no longer used. As a quick introduction to ramdisk, I will include an excerpt of the README from its official funtoo-ramdisk pypi page (https://pypi.org/project/funtoo-ramdisk/😞 As you can see, ramdisk is an exciting and innovative project which will continue to deliver new goodness related to booting. I hope you enjoy it! 🙂 Summer Harvest With the close of summer comes the merging of our development work from the harvester/2023-08 branch. This is a branch where we can make possibly breaking changes and work out kinks before things hit end users. Thanks to all who contributed to the summer harvest this round. Here is a brief and incomplete summary of changes in harvester, plus any hotfixes added to the master branch during this time: gcc-12 added, along with updated binutils. Introduction of funtoo-ramdisk (see previous section) Linux 6.4: debian-sources-6.4.13_p1 Reworking of libreoffice-bin to remove unnecessary deps. Updated NVIDIA drivers. FL-11523: forward-port rtl89 Wi-Fi to address flakiness issue docker, docker-cli, docker-compose, docker-buildx, containerd, runc updates/fixes (thanks siris) ZFS 2.2.0_rc4 with Linux 6.4 compatibility, with 2.2.0 final soon to follow. zathura document viewer autogen (thanks to cuantar) pgplot update (thanks to cuantar) gocryptfs, jq, meilesearch, nix, lowdown, mdbook autogens (thanks to invakid404) libxcb, libcpuid hotfixes (thanks to invakid404) go-1.21.1 (thanks siris) Inkscape 1.3 and updates to boost to allow this. typeprof build failure (thanks borisp) geany reworked ebuilds (thanks grouche) firefox-117.0, thunderbird-115.1.1 (thanks borisp) Updated libbson, mongo-c-driver, cri-tools (thanks geaaru) Multiple python module fixes/maintenance (drobbins) lightdm-mini-greeter autogen (thanks izder456) ibus-skk and dependencies, remove ibus-pinyin and pyzy (thanks madman10k) Add feature to allow PEP 517 python modules autogens to be determined automatically (drobbins) Fixes of kit-fixups git pre-commit hooks. Many thanks to all who contributed. End OK, that's it for now -- stay tuned for an additional community/newsletter supplement that will cover more topics.

This looks like a bug. Can you report it to our bug tracker at bugs.funtoo.org?