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Friday, June 12, 2026

Gentoo and nvidia: open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory

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Gentoo upgrade broke Xorg? It's probably your NVIDIA module. After a Gentoo system upgrade that includes a new kernel, Xorg can fail to...
Tuesday, June 02, 2026

Distrobox: failed to create task for container: failed to create shim task: OCI runtime create failed: cannot stat /usr/lib64/libEGL_nvidia.so.580.159.03: No such file or directory failed to start containers: fbox

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I have distrobox container, fbox, which was created using the following command: distrobox create -i quay.io/fedora/fedora:44-n fbox -H ~/...
Monday, June 01, 2026

xpra on gentoo: cuda is required

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/etc/portage/package.use/xpra: x11-wm/xpra -video_cards_nvidia
Sunday, May 24, 2026

tigervnc: vncserver@:1.service: Deactivated successfully just after start on gentoo

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Tigervnc server starts and then stops immedietly. The solution was to go to /etc/X11/Sessions, and rename Xsession file: cd /etc/X11/Ses...
Thursday, May 21, 2026

chroot: failed to run command ‘/bin/bash’: No such file or directory

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You can specify different shell, e.g.: sudo chroot /mnt/nixos /bin/sh

xpra: More responsive remote connections

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xpra start ssh://server/ --exit-with-children --start-child=terminator --encoding=jpeg --min-speed=100 --min-quality=0 --compress=1 --ban...
Monday, May 18, 2026

MATLAB on Arch Linux: java.lang.NullPointerException and MATLAB does not start

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If MATLAB stopped launching after a recent Arch Linux system update and you see a java.lang.NullPointerException with a stack trace startin...
Thursday, May 14, 2026

picom: Sample confing in gentoo with xfce4 and nouveau dirver

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Picom on Nouveau: Which Backend to Use If you're running the open-source nouveau NVIDIA driver and using the picom compositor, you'v...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

gentoo: Extra packages for xfce4

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sudo emerge -av xfce-extra/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfce-extra/xfce4-notes-plugin x11-apps/xhost app-admin/system-c...
Saturday, May 09, 2026

arch: keditfiletype missing

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yay kde-cli-tools
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