Thanks! Most of my packages are binary and I don't have anything outdated. Are you you using X11 or Wayland? I'm on X11.

I tried the ebuild and it worked like a charm. I also tried enabling both mpv and vlc, it works and lets the user to select the backend in the kalarm configuration dialog. It ...

First, are you on stable or testing?Which version of kalarm are you using?
There are currently two in the gentoo repo, 25.12.3 (testing) and 25.12.2 (stable).
25.12.2
Open disclosure: I am using my own custom ebuild for kalarm version 25.12.2 so that I can avoid mpv. (I am using vlc as a sound ...

I have a recent problem with kalarm. It won't play sounds.

When I edit an alarm and hit "Test", nothing happens. No sound and no error messages anywhere. But when I close the dialog, kalarm hangs and I have to kill it.

The only available audio backend is mpv.

I have no issues with other sound ...

Hu wrote:This is related to [topic=1177162]Fixing a broken install[/topic], where OP reported putting the system into a bad state, but decided to create a new thread instead of continuing there.

Yes these are related but separate as @pietinger says. Sorry didn't think about a link.

This is related to this question https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1177162.html but is a separate one.

I have removed all of my package.use and package.accept_keyword, and trying to rebuild everything from a clean slate. Somehow I'm still getting a few slot conflicts


emerge -pg --emptytree ...

but without any actual information/output anyone would just be blindly guessing...

I don't think a huge list of slot conflicts or my portage info would be of any use to anyone. I am interested in a general procedure. Something like "remove all /etc/portage/package.*; remove all use flags from ...

After lots of package.accept_keywords and package.use customizations and a few careless `emerge --nodeps` I have a very broken system. Cannot emerge -avuD @world, cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild because of numerous slot conflicts. How do I untangle the mess? I'm willing to undo the customizations ...

zen_desu wrote:did you do any manual config? and switching from genkernel to dracut may require additional config, but misconfig can result in hard to diagnose failures.

I didn't do any manual config.

it's already mounted? I'm not sure how it's failing like that.
Yes it looks like it is already mounted. Not sure why either.

Was it working before or is this a new install?
This is a very old install (more than 10 years) but the current setup is genkernel based. I just decided to switch to ...

Anyone? I'm stuck...

Just tried the installkernel thing. The system won't boot with this error in rdsosreport.txt:

Failed to mount -t ext4 -o rw,relatime,ro,ro /dev/disk/by-uuid/<whatever> /sysroot

Now this list of options looks strange. I tried to mount the disk from the repair shell with just -o rw and its OK. But ...

I have gone through the usual update->depclean->preserved-rebuild route. however Portage insists that I still have a preserved set:


!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r5
* - /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
* - /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.8
* used by /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 ...

For the other 2 persons running KDE: this version of kalarm is broken. An attempt to play a sound results in

org.kde.pim.kalarm: AudioPlayer::play: Failed to play sound with VLC: <path to sound file>

and then the whole application becomes extremely slow and unresponsive. This is confirmed e.g ...

asturm wrote:You'll be then thrilled to know that >=kalarm-24.08.0 was ported away to media-video/vlc for sound playback.

I am! Thanks.

Here's the thing. libcanberra cannot play mp3 at all. It can play wav and ogg files only. It's all in the source code.

libcanberra's last change was 12 years ago. I'd say for a program that is supposed to play sound files it probably wasn't such a great idea to go with this library. It is designed ...

That version of kalarm is using media-libs/libcanberra for sound output. What are your use flag settings on that?

Hmm... alsa gtk3 pulseaudio udev -gnome -gstreamer -gtk2 -oss -sound -tdb

Edit: I added gstreamer and sound, still no dice. canberra-gtk-play also says data corrupt. Libcanberra is a ...

kde-apps/kalarm-24.05.2:6::gentoo has lost its ability to play mp3 files. It says "Unsupported audio format, or corrupt data" (and gives a warning sound, so sound by itself is working). It is not corrupt data, it's all mp3s and kde-apps/kalarm-23-whatever worked just fine with these file.

How can ...

You might also want to report this issue to the developers

Developers apparently know, I found this in the source code of phonon-backend-vlc:

#warning VFE crashes and has volume bugs ... deactivated

(VFE is VolumeFadeEffect)

VLC is the only backend available now, as gstreamer has been ...

I'm probably the only one with this problem but...

I use kalarm to wake me up. Have done that for years and years.

The handbook says:

If the Phonon audio backend currently in use supports it, you can fade the volume

And that was the case until recently. Phonon supported fade, and there was ...

sam_ wrote:OpenRC defaults to having +sysvinit. If that was off, you either turned it off explicitly, or you're using USE=-* which is unsupported.

Thanks! Yes apparently I had USE=-*. I probably added it way back when the world was new.

I always was a sysvinit user.

After today's update, emerge --depclean wanted to remove sys-apps/sysvinit. Good thing I caught it and stopped, otherwise I guess my system would become unbootable.

I noticed that sys-apps/openrc did not have either sysvinit or sysv-utils USE flags set. I added ...

This looks like net-misc/netifrc-0.7.4 calls _netns in iproute2.sh, which it can't find , which was resolved as INVALID. It links to the forum thread can't find eth0 after update. Is that thread useful to you?

Yes looks like the same error. I downgraded netifrc to 0.7.3 and everything is back to ...

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from the computer. Sorry about the style.

After an update I started to get messages like "_netns command not found".

I located the _netns function and added a source command to a relevant script. Now I'm getting "/sbin/netpligd does not exist ...

Hmm same deal with 5.0.0a-r1

I have a problem with most-5.1.0 and most-5.2.0. They do not display colors as set in my config file.

My ~/.mostrc is like that


color normal lightgray black
color status yellow blue
color underline green black
color overstrike black black


Now the funny thing is, the first two lines work and ...