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Thx for the reply.

Can someone PLEASE remove the banner on each forum page for the SUMMER 2023 newsletter!? It's unfortunately indicative how this forum is apparently regarded by Funtoo's Admin staff. Not everyone wants Discord. I strongly despise "social" media for profit mass personal data harvesting platforms. If you don't pay, YOU are the currency 🙄 TIA!

How are you trying to install Funtoo? My experience suggest; install a bare base system -> reboot choose a desktop environment and install the basic components (for Gnome, use the gnome-core package or similar) -> reboot install applications you need, one at a time Alternatively, consider switching to Devuan. (<- link!) Still systemd-free, based on Debian so properly stable, also highly customizable and it has a fraction of the install time required for source-based distro's like Funtoo, particularly on older low-core-count hardware. Admittedly I'm not currently on Funtoo, but Devuan. I like the principles of Funtoo, but emerge only tells you you've done something wrong and gives you cryptic hints on how you may or may not solve it, while apt/dpkg offers mature conflict resolution for packages straight out of the box. It saves the end user sooo much time not having to resort to endless hours of searching for answers while not really knowing what question you should ask 🙄 But that's just my tuppence 😎

Did you perform ego -sync (syntax may be off, I'm not on Next, not running Funtoo at all TBH. I'm currently on Devuan Stable)

The official upgrade policy is to reinstall from scratch. It also mentioned that should you attempt to upgrade in place, you're basically on your own.

Recently I've upgraded my backup-server system and installed OpenRC instead of SysV. During the switchover process a command is given to populate the /etc/rcX.d/ directories from init.d. I forgot to do that (actually, I couldn't, as copy/paste didn't work) so now I'm after said command. The system works fine without it, but certain services are not started. TIA!

Here's the source (i.e. download page), go from there: https://musescore.org/en/download HTH!

I'll have a look tomorrow, now it's nap time 💤 Thx anyway!

It appears the certificate for build.funtoo.org is expired, I had to use the --no-check-certificate option for wget to get a stage3 to download. HTH!

First port of call to investigate: are Midi and the sound system actually installed, and working correctly? Next, are they started in the right order? Then, can the midi and sound system files be accessed by the application (in your case, Rosegarden), i.e. does it have sufficient permissions to read/write the required files. HTH!

I installed Funtoo 1.3 on a similar spec'ed machine (Shuttle all-in-one) way back in 2015-ish. It hasn't been updated since for that very reason. It resides in its box and has been for a fair few years now, with little prospect other then perhaps installing Devuan on it. Mind, it runs from an SSD of similar age but that didn't make a difference at all in compile times, sadly 😞

AMD has their Radeon GPU line and those are fairly good supported in Linux. Other manufacturers have gone under in the past decade. Intel recently launched their new GPU line up, with cards send to reviewers like LTT et all, but I've yet to see those in the wild. Now, like nVidia, finding one, especially at MSRP, is a bit of a problem. Even used cards command prices higher then when new. Blame cryptominers for that.

@drobbinsThx for the feedback. I'll await future developments, I haven't given up on Funtoo just yet! (which is why I'm still here 😉 )

I'm not sure this is within the realms of the Funtoo dev's, but better conflict resolution for emerge would be a great start. One of the things putting me off Funtoo (and straight back to Devuan) was the issue that portage drops out the moment it encounters a conflict (like multiple packages for a slot, etc). For all its flaws, perceived or otherwise, apt has really good conflict and dependency resolution mechanisms build in. Now, I'm aware there's a different design philosophy behind emerge/portage against apt, but dropping a user back to the cli with a cryptic error message stating a conflict has occurred and masking a package may resolve it and effectively leaving a system in limbo while updating/upgrading is not a great way to experience Funtoo for less experienced users. FYI: I've been using Linux as my daily OS since 2005 and experienced the "Dependency Hell" with Red Hat 8+9 and Suse (pre-Novell days), then I found Debian (Woody) and apt was such a relief. Stuck with Debian until systemd made it impossible (really-old Stable, IIRC Jessie) then eventually switched to Funtoo (2015) before finding Devuan a few years later (2018). Tried Funtoo again earlier this year, but still got issues with emerge/portage so now running Devuan once more. Thing is, I'm not smart enough to be a coder. If I were, I'd be a Funtoo dev for years. But as it is, my contributions are (severely) restricted to signalling something went wrong and that's pretty much it. HTH!

Probably best to use the generic 64 bit stage 3 image. Don't forget to install the AMD firmware package as you install the Radeon drivers for the GPU part of that APU. I'm no longer running Funtoo on my systems (mostly AMD APU's, plural!) as I was getting unresolvable (at least by me) dependency blocks as well as pretty long build times. Currently running Devuan, but if Funtoo improves in the dependency resolving dept I'd happily switch back. (which is why I'm still lurking here)

Linux, and Funtoo, are international. His (her?) native language (very likely) may not be English. Nor is mine ? It also means (s)he may not be aware of 'social rules' that govern (online) conversation in English. And even so, discussions on the web always miss a vital component in human interaction: non-verbal communication. Body-language. Smileys, and by extension emoticons, are a way to circumvent this, but generally do a poor job, TBH. To be frank, there is a valid point in his comments: not every Funtoo user is a coder. Not every Funtoo user wants to use Discord, let alone be online on it for 24/7, just to get the latest on the project. Not every Funtoo user tracks the latest issues on bugs filed on the bug-tracker. This forum is also a communication platform for the Funtoo project, as you obviously understand, but I notice it's not really treated as such as updates are not very frequent. Now, I understand you'd prefer working on patching code to improve Funtoo over posting updates here, but too little updates here ultimately leads to the above conversation. Just me tuppence ?

I'm not on a Funtoo system (long story, don't bother) but IIRC you could do w/o the modemmanager package. emerge -aC modemmanager Note: this might break some packages, consider purging those as well, unless they're system-critical of course!

Did you install the various firmware packages? (microcode, linux-firmware, etc) You'll probably need to reboot into a chroot environment with the external media method you've used to install Funtoo in the first place.

As root, run fsck /dev/nvme0n1p1 Make sure you have the correct support package installed for the file system on that partition (probably VFAT)

One more thing to consider: not everyone wants to use Discord.

That's how I got my user to auto-login, but it didn't work, it went back to the greeter. Filling in my user and password didn't do anything, I just returned (again) to the greeter. Trying root instead made no difference (as it should, no GUI login for root!) Currently I have no graphics related packages installed (no Xorg nor Mate) and I can login from the cli w/o any problems. I wasn't aware of the init_opts option, thx for that ?

Some time ago I got new hardware for my desktop, to replace what I currently run. Asus B450 Prime mainboard, AMD Ryzen 7 1700 (non-X!) and 2x 8GB RAM from Transend. For video I used an old nVidia GT710 card, as I won't be doing anything fancy like gaming on the machine anyway. I managed to get a base Funtoo system installed, eventually, using the first gen Zen stage3. But when expanding the install to a full desktop I got all kinds of issues. Following the install guides on the Funtoo Wiki I got Xorg and Mate to install. When I rebooted, I couldn't log in, despite setting Lightdm to auto-login of my user (I'm the only one using it) Eventually I booted into a sysrescuecd again as I couldn't get a single-user boot from the Grub menu (it's not provided OOTB and any editing of the Grub menu failed to get a root shell either) and purged everything Mate and Xorg. So, that's where I am now, although I did manage to install Devuan on the same machine (different SSD) successfully, including Mate, in the mean time. One particular error I got today was a missing opencl-headers package. Syncing the tree didn't help, it's not there. Goes w/o saying that this is very frustrating, having used Funtoo in the past I really want this to work and I'm still trying to get this done for 6+ weeks now. Note, I really do appreciate all the work the dev's put in, free of charge, but (installing) Funtoo is more complicated then it should be. IMO.

This could be useful for you? https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot/#how-to-build-your-own-tinypilot HTH!

You may get satisfactory results when you emerge the mdadm package. JBOD is a "special" sort of RAID.

As a non-coder I reckon gcc, make, libc, binutils and of course the kernel, most likely in that order. Plus any dependencies, obviously.