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wynnmc

I rebooted and noticed that dmcrypt referred to the encrypted swap file as

/dev/mapper/swap

-- because it wasn't LUKS, it didn't occur to me that it needed the "mapper". I have now changed it in /etc/fstab and it works...

wynnmc

I can't get my encrypted swap partition to mount. The relevant lines in /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt are swap=swap
source=/dev/nvme0n1p2 and the line in /etc/fstab is /dev/nvme0n1p2 none swap sw 0 0 when that didn't work, I changed it to the suggestion in the fstab as supplied LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 ...

wynnmc

Thank you very much, fedeliallalinea, that's just what I needed!
wynnmc

wynnmc

I have installed the current version of app-office/libreoffice-bin and I am used to calling localc or lowriter in a terminal and these are no longer there, you have to call libreoffice-bin and choose them from a list. How can I get back to having /usr/bin/localc and /usr/bin/lowriter available?

wynnmc

Thank you, Banana, I'm installing Xfce from the instructions on the page you mention.
I've now looked at the elogind page and I see that there are some things to do when xfce is installed. Somehow, on this machine, elogind just seems to work -- I remember the changeover some time ago but I don't ...

wynnmc

That's it! Thank you, Neddy ... don't go away, I'm going to install Xcfe4 now ...

Thanks a lot, wynnmc

wynnmc

I have installed xorg according to the Xorg/Guide and it failed to start. I have tried to capture the output of startx but it didn't work, I have copied the (only) error message in it by hand: (EE) parse_vt_settings: cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied) . here is the Xorg.0.log: [ 16857.849]
X ...

wynnmc

Thank you very much, Hu, I had no idea it worked like that

wynnmc

Hu: yes, this machine and the new one are both Lenovo ThinkPads and the 4 keys on the bottom row starting from the left are:

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Fn Ctrl Windows Alt

. "Windows" is a key marked with a picture of 4 glass (?) panes.

wynnmc

Spiffing! Alt-Fn works ... on this machine, Gentoo installed in October 2018, just Alt-F2 is enough

Thank you all very much for your help,

wynnmc

wynnmc

I'm not sure if I have stated the problem clearly enough: I am not in a GUI, I prefer to login to (whatever it's called) and start a GUI from there if I want to.
To answer your question: pressing Alt-F2 just shows "~", pressing Alt-F3 then just adds another "~" to it.

I would expect this function ...

wynnmc

I have just installed Gentoo but I have found, after logging in as root, that I can't get to another console/workspace by Alt-F2 (for example). I have been doing this to login as a different user on this (old) machine for a long time. Has something changed and, if it has, how do I switch now?

wynnmc

I have just successfully installed Gentoo on the new machine. I made sure that dmcrypt was started at boot and home, which is encrypted, is successfully decrypted during boot with the appropriate changes to /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt.conf -- I also have encrypted swap.

I have got here with your help ...

wynnmc

Thank you, grknight, I think that could be the problem ... part of what I now see as a wider problem: I started out with the idea of installing an encrypted root but had problems and changed to another idea which, on reflection, I saw wouldn't work, and finally decided to have the same layout as on ...

wynnmc

I don't know if this should go in a new thread but I have now altered /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt to open the encrypted home partition asking for the passphrase as it does on the old machine. I have made these changes ## /home with passphrase
target=home
source='/dev/nvme0n1p4' but it doesn't ask for the ...

wynnmc

Well, in another thread, I have found out how to get wifi working and I have emerged cryptsetup again and this time

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/etc/conf.d/dmcrypt

and

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/etc/init.d/dmcrypt

are there and the dates show that they have come from this emerge and are not the ones I copied across...

wynnmc

Thanks for replying, Neddy.

Yes, I installed linux-firmware and I have checked that it is there
Yes, it is /etc/init.d/net.wlp0s20f3->net.lo
On the old system it's called wlp3s0
Yes, with /etc/init.d/net.wlp0s20f3 start it runs but ends with WARNING: net.wlp0s20f3 has started but is inactive ...

wynnmc

I think the problem has come from the fact that cryptsetup was emerged while running under the installation iso. I have booted up with that and, of course, both

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/etc/conf.d/dmcrypt

and

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/etc/init.d/dmcrypt

were there. I have copied them across.

Thank you for your help,

wynnmc

wynnmc

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qlist -e cryptsetup |grep -e init.d -e conf.d

produced no output.

wynnmc

Thank you.

Here is emerge -info: Portage 3.0.67 (python 3.13.3-final-0, default/linux/amd64/23.0, gcc-14, glibc-2.40-r8, 6.12.25-gentoo-dist x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-6.12.25-gentoo-dist-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-8365U_CPU_@_1 ...

wynnmc

As far as I can see, installing cryptsetup should install /etc/init.d/dmcrypt and /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt but on the machine I have just installed Gentoo on, it doesn't. On the other working machine with Gentoo installed it does.

Why?

wynnmc

I have installed wpa_supplicant and filled out wpa_supplicant.conf as it is working on another machine. I have linked net.wlp0s20f3 to net.lo in /etc/init.d and copied /etc/conf.d from the working machine but it doesn't show anything in the list appearing before the "login:" and dmesg doesn't show ...

wynnmc

Thank you yet again, Neddy, that's just what I wanted

Chris

wynnmc

Thanks again, Neddy, I can see I have a lot still to learn

wynnmc

Well, I went to

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https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20250504T164008Z/

and also to a German site but they were both the same ... what site were you looking at?

Chris

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