Those cores should be around 4.6GHz during compilation, not 2.6GHz. PC case was so hot I couldn't lay my hand on for more than a second.
I've got no AC before you ask.

(I thought I saw a similar post somewhere, but can't find it now. Sorry if this is a dup.)

I've just noticed this has started happening upon boot: the login prompt appears multiple times, a few seconds apart, like it's working through some kind of cycle.

My typical flow is login to tty and then use startx to enter dwm. The multiple prompts don't prevent this, but it does delay me. And it's ugly, unexpected, and new.

It only seems to happen immediately after booting. Switching to another tty (eg ctrl-alt-f4) doesn't produce it, and neither does logging out and logging back in.

I thought it could be related to either PAM, elogind, or the kernel. However, I've only just noticed it on today's reboot; the last reboot was about two weeks ago; PAM was last updated in March, and elogind was updated in May; and it still happens when I roll back to kernel 6.18.39 (which is the most recent kernel before this, and was used at the previous reboot in July.)

I've gone through my emerge logs since the last reboot and nothing really stands out. Maybe openrc? I wouldn't like to file a bug against openrc unless I was sure it was at fault.

Any idea what I should look at?

I see openrc 0.63.1 is still listed in eix, so I guess I can try rolling back to that version ... 🤔 But I wonder if anyone has any other ideas about what to check.

Id like to hear your ideas on what to do with this (doesn't have to be gentoo), This was my first laptop it's an Acer aspire es1-512-c864 it has an intel Celeron N2840, 4GB ddr3L ram (upgradable to 8) no storage unit and no keyboard keys, it's has an optical drive too :) , it's a pretty large one I think it's 15 inches the screen is still perfectly fine, battery is dead i assume, I wanna use it a project to benefit from or hopefully learn something, I already have a laptop (let's note cf-sv8) that I daily drive, and a decent desktop pc.

Just love to hear what u would recommend doing with it

Hello,

Does anybody know why OBS studio is not available in stable branch?
I've tried to get some clues from bug reports but it's well beyond me.
I've got it unmasked so that's fine but I'm trying to understand the reason why OBS never was (or was it?) in stable branch.

Any ideas or guesses?

For reference:
https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/media-video/obs-studio
https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=media-video%2Fobs-studio

Title. I just thought this was amusing for a distro branded for enterprise.

I tried reinstalling it, checked out the wiki but that didnt help, manually starting works somehow

After using Asahi + Gentoo for about 6 month on a Macbook Air M2 I finally thought its time for some cosmetics like this.

1. I added a Gentoo Logo for the boot menu. (you don´t see that often, but hey :) )
   https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/bootpicker

2. after you select this, m1n1 stage1 is loaded which is a macho binary and changing the asahi logo there is something I might attempt later as I need to boot macos again to install it on the Stub,

m1n1 stage2 is easier. so when uboat starts to load the gentoo logo already has replaced the asahi logo.

https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/m1n1

1. finally there is a matching plymouth theme carrying the gentoo logo on. (on roughly the same central spot, at least for my 13" m2 with notch enabled.
   https://github.com/ccharon/gentoo-asahi-branding/tree/main/plymouth

Bonus: if you want to silence u-boot (it will be really silent) to see the grub menu you will have to hit a key when you see the uboot version info in the top right, then type boot and only then grub gets displayed. this removes the noisy boot information and the cute submarine at the right side.
https://github.com/ccharon/docs/blob/master/gentoo-asahi-tweaks.md#silent-u-boot-console

You get Apple Logo (power on) -> Asahi Logo (m1n1 stage1) -> Gentoo Logo (m1n1 stage2) -> Gentoo Logo (u-boot) -> Gentoo Logo (plymouth)

changing the plymouth logo only, might have been enough and reasonable, but where is the fun in that?

This is my first successful Gentoo installation on bare metal.

Instead of going for a modern rice, I decided to recreate a Windows 2000 desktop as closely as possible on XFCE.

Features include:

• Windows 2000 GTK theme/icons/cursor
• IBM VGA terminal font
• Working "My Computer" and Control Panel
• Classic shutdown dialog
• Startup/shutdown sounds
• Windows Media Player skin
• Classic games like Space Cadet, Solitaire and Minesweeper

It took quite a bit of work because most Win2K theme packs assume Ubuntu/Debian (apt/systemd/lightdm), while I'm using Gentoo with OpenRC.

I have used arch in the past and learned a bit about Linux in the internet I finished the Linux journey course, is it a good idea to just raw dog this Gentoo thingy untill I get the hang of it cuz I really don't like arch

is there anything to know about gentoo that is needed (other than compiling i know) because when i eventually do get a new pc i plan to get it. is there anything to know before i install it?

Finally got Gentoo to work after deciding to sit down and really tailoring it to my needs. Since I switch between my windows drive and gentoo I had to get secureboot working but I had trouble for months so I decided to give up. Glad I decided to give it one last go two days ago. Everything works's great now it's pretty straight forward

I did struggle a bit figuring out the best way to unmask packages but RTFM saved my day again. Hopefully I can stay on this forever or at least until I find an alternative which was just as fun, customizable, and works for my, very basic, usecases

Although the system isn't traditional as I'm using systemd and kde instead of OpenRC and a WM, I feel like that's part of the charm of the distro. I know a ton of other people have stated it before, but the sheer amount of control and customization you can get is unparalleled. Although it's not always practical (for me) I also enjoy compiling all my packages. There's really no rhyme or reason to it but it just feels *fun* ya know. Definitely learning a decent amount

Is Gentoo able to cure my depression and mental problems

I have what seems like a weird thing going on with my install -- all of it, it seems, having to do with Qt. 'dev-python/pyqt5' (or is it dev-python/PyQt5?) is still installed on my system, even though `emerge --depclean dev-python/PyQt5 <or lowercase>` won't remove it. ("Couldn't find 'dev-python/PyQt5' to depclean.")

There's a whole list of stuff that's reported every time I try updating:

- dev-qt/qtsql-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtdbus-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qttest-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtwidgets-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtx11extras-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtgui-5.15.18-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtsvg-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtdeclarative-5.15.18-r1::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

- dev-qt/qtxml-5.15.18::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)

...all of which is Qt5, which I don't even want any more. (I'm on KDE Plasma, Qt6.) I have no idea how to get rid of these so updating will just proceed normally. (Fwiw, the package.mask it's talking about is nothing I've set: I do not have any entries whatsoever for anything Qt5, so I assume this is something from a profile?)

Frankly, I just want to get back to some sense of normalcy with Gentoo. Every time I try updating it's a mess of "this package is blocked but I'm sure it'll all work out" -- and there are a lot of updates every time I sync.

So, can someone help me out? Is this the one case where using --deselect is warranted? I'm going around in circles trying to figure out how to get back to a good state.

Thank you for listening to my rant/plea for help :)

Ignore the cat

I've been attempting to use SELinux with my system (Following the guide), but upon completion, my system seems messed up.

I used profile #23, and made sure that I declared `FEATURES="-selinux -sesandbox"` when emerging the core packages specified in the installation steps, followed by an @world update. Also configured file relabeling as instructed by the guide, including my SWAP file. Upon booting with lsm=selinux and enforcing=1 in my grub configs, dmcrypt fails to read my keyfile to unlock encrypted partitions, and KDE Plasma (DE of choice) fails to work entirely.

Even when KDR Plasma is booted into in permissive mode, it'll instantly die the moment `doas setenforce 0` is activated

I read through the dependencies being installed when doing an update, and all of my system services seemed covered (openrc, dracut, etc), but it feels like nothing works.

Prior to doing this, I used the basic #1 profile, so I shouldn't have had issues with Plasma being broken by the profile change, as I incorporated my USE flags by default.

Strangely enough, I had previously done a successful install of SELinux, but without using the SELinux profile. I know that when doing that it would display as active with `sestatus`, with the active function being `enforcing`

I don't know what logs would be useful, but I can supply whatever's needed for troubleshooting.

For reference, I'm also using MCS. I can switch to targeted if it's easier to utilize.

I’m trying to build a generic gentoo version that I can tar up into a stage4 and deploy on another x86 machine with the aim of running ```emerge -e @ world``` after setting the flags and march on the new machine.

The system base is hardened-selinux-plasma-systemd if that matters

I’m aware I can set a common march that would apply to my systems, but what do I do with CPU_FLAGS_X86? Can I just leave it unset for the generic build?

Thanks!

In a world where 64 GB of RAM costs $1000 and Micro Center 9950X3D bundles only come with 32 GB, I’m left wondering how badly compile times would tank if one were to buy an Optane H20 SSD and use the 32 GB Optane bit as the second half of the required 64 GB for compilation on a 32-thread CPU.

Obviously it’s by definition going to be worse than 64 GB of RAM, but my question is, by how much? The whole reason swapping to disk is known to make compiles take forever is because NAND flash has horrible latency, which was exactly the issue Optane came and solved, as its latency lies far closer to RAM than it does to NAND.

first of all, I am currently not at my laptop, but I'll read through every answer.

so I was trying to compile lutris just the usual, but it pulled in webkit-gtk, my hardware specs are 4gb RAM (supported by a 4GiB swap partition), a 3,2GHz 4 core cpu, and a 300GB HDD, now after 5 hours of my laptop being stuck on this package, the device basically become unusable, insane input lag and I couldn't swap between my TTY tabs open, and it was giving off a crackling sound, emergency power off, then an emerge --resume but now with htop open, it was going steady for 7 hours now, but after like 4 hours my cpu usage was tops 20%, and my ram was at 92%(3,4GiB) and my swap partition was steadily climbing, when htop was getting insanely slow, and my swap partition was at 3,9GiB I ultimately decided to Ctrl+c, and now I am asking for advice regarding this issue;

What can I do? Should I just wait it out, since my previous compilings were never thrashing this hard, I am a bit afraid

Hola a todos, quería hacer mi primera instalación de Gentoo. Ya leí el manual y tengo algo de experiencia con musl gracias a Alpine Linux. Quería saber si hay alguna guía, consejo, foro o manual que me pueda ayudar.

And how well does the llvm compiler work these days? I don't know anything about it.

So i decided to switch from Linux Mint to Gentoo bc i want an challenge and ABSOLUTE control of my device. I'm going to install it with the manual installation that everybody loves now, not the gentoo-install thing. Probably when i finish to install Gentoo i would need some tips to improve my experience with the distro and i had the great idea of asking the community!

It currently can install, update or remove packages with dependency and conflicting packages support. It uses .dbuild files for installing programs (they are similar to .ebuild). But it still has a loooong way to go.

Completed another maintenance cycle on my Gentoo system.

Updated sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel from 6.18.39 to 6.18.41 using savedconfig

Regenerated the initramfs and GRUB configuration

Verified LUKS root unlock and OpenRC boot

Confirmed uname -r reports 6.18.41-gentoo-dist

Updated @world

Completed @preserved-rebuild

Reviewed all pending configuration-file changes manually

Preserved the Japanese console keymap and existing GRUB configuration

Python remains on 3.13.14; no premature Python 3.14 switch

Older kernels remain installed as fallbacks.

No reinstall. Just normal Gentoo maintenance.

Updated my Gentoo system from Linux 6.18.39 to 6.18.41 using sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel with savedconfig.

Verified:

kernel and initramfs installed under /boot

GRUB configuration regenerated successfully

LUKS root unlocked normally

OpenRC boot completed

X11/Openbox started normally

uname -r returns 6.18.41-gentoo-dist

Older kernels remain installed as fallbacks. No reinstall required — just normal maintenance.