Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 15:04, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > It might also be worth checking the health of your hard disk with "smartctl -A /dev/sd". Look out for "Reallocated Event Count", "Current Pending

Re: [arch-general] Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch?

On 8 August 2018 at 02:33, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < turritopsis.dohr...@teo-en-ming.com> wrote: > Good morning from Singapore, > > > Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch like Linux from Scratch? > It's certainly possible to build all of ArchLinux's packages from source using the ABS. My

Re: [arch-general] Latest openssh - Premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol?

On 17 July 2018 at 15:48, David C. Rankin wrote: > It's like there is something between: > > 09:20:24 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. > and > 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Received disconnect from 66.76.46.195 port > 59956:11: disconnected by user > > that isn't data

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or BTRFS), I recommend you start, but in the meantime, the simplest solution when moving between systems is to dd the contents of each partition from the

Re: [arch-general] Depends on foo-bar=10.0-3

On 14 August 2017 at 13:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:03:45 +0200, mpan wrote: > >> why does a package from official repositories mentions what version > >> of a dependency is required? > >Because it may be that it is working only with that particular >

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

On 24 July 2017 at 08:54, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I've installed ArchLinux on 3 desktops so far, and I've done them > successfully, so I must have *RTFM* , I was just wondering why is it > hard to configure wifi. Since I failed to configure wifi with

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB not starting

On 27 January 2017 at 12:12, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > I've got problems with MariaDB not working. > I think you might want to read the "Installation" section on the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL#Installation In particular, I think you forgot to run

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

On 2 December 2016 at 22:29, Merlin Büge wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather modify the start-up process a tiny bit so that >> GPT inside LUKS gets parsed. I just try to strip off unnecessary >> 'overhead' / layers of my system. > If you have 8 GiB or more and not hibernating,

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

On 23 February 2016 at 08:32, Frank Schaffhaeuser wrote: > This topic again? Seriously? The last 'discussion' from Feb.8th thankfully > just died down > and apart from spamming subscriber's inboxes had no useful effect... > Please, not again Hang on, I absolutely agree

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5

On 16 February 2015 at 13:23, Antonio Rojas aro...@archlinux.org wrote: 2) I used to have some global shortcuts for launching certain apps. I don't seem able to set these up any more. After setting a shortcut on a lancher in the panel (e.g. Firefox), nothing happens when I actually hit

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5

On 16 February 2015 at 18:14, Kevin Ott supercodingmon...@gmail.com wrote: 1) I'm using SDDM now, but even with KDE4, I was unable to get SDDM to actually launch a Plasma session. After entering my details, I get a black screen and no further activity. I have to switch to another console,

Re: [arch-general] keymap corruption

On 11 January 2015 at 22:44, Michael Dahlberg olgami...@gmail.com wrote: On January 11, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM, Oliver Temlin (tem...@gmail.com) wrote: On 11 January 2015 at 21:38, Michael Dahlberg olgami...@gmail.com wrote: I recently had a hard drive failure which resulted in my system having a

Re: [arch-general] Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares.

On 9 December 2014 at 23:00, John Doe stf101...@yahoo.com wrote: Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares. How did you perform the install? Did you follow the guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide ? If so, it would be a good idea to read

Re: [arch-general] kernel compilation with ABS

On 7 November 2014 12:01, arnaud gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: Did you try deleting the file and start downloading again? Not sure what you call the file, but I already tried many times to remove core/linux then run again $ ABSROOT=. abs core/linux. I can manually download the

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 31 October 2014 15:42, Mateus Rodrigues Costa charles.cos...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-31 13:34 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com: # sudo localectl set-locale en_GB.utf8 Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data. Could this be a corrupted file? (Feasible, as we did

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 09:24, Jesse Jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe you have the lang set somewhere in your shell configfile. Have you tried with a new user? Hmm; yeah, getting somewhere now. I haven't made any modifications to my shell config for a while, but I did find this (I use

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 10:00, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com wrote: Any more ideas? Oh BTW, I've also tried bypassing my ZSH config entirely, but no difference. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 11:03, Jürgen Werner jotz@web.de wrote: Am 03.11.2014 11:03, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: On 3 November 2014 09:45, Jürgen Werner jotz@web.de wrote: You have to run # locale-gen Jürgen, note my original post: I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 13:37, AIS Information i...@andriesinfoserv.com wrote: i think you may just have a typo. shouldn't it be en_GB.UTF-8 instead of en_GB.utf8? Thanks; I've tried various combinations. Mostly, I've used en_GB.UTF-8, as that matches the entry in locale.conf, and worked fine

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 11:36, Mateus Rodrigues Costa charles.cos...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't you also have the en_US locales available? Just in case? Also, why enable the ISO locales if you can run basically with only the UTF-8 ones? I've tried enabling the en_US locales, and it doesn't help.

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 15:05, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: On 03-11-2014 14:03, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: My best bet at this stage is that I have a corrupted file somewhere, but pacman -Qqkk doesn't show up anything obvious. I'd think it was an issue with a new package version

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 15:44, Mauro Santos registo.maill...@gmail.com wrote: On 03-11-2014 15:26, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: So that explains why my locale wasn't being set correctly. However, it doesn't explain why I'm seeing broken rendering of special characters in the terminal (mainly lines

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 3 November 2014 16:24, Mateus Rodrigues Costa charles.cos...@gmail.com wrote: Em Mon Nov 03 2014 at 14:08:11, Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com escreveu: I'd forgotten about this, although I mentioned it a few posts back: # locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale

[arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

I'm stumped: I've had LANG=en_GB.UTF8 in /etc/locale.conf ever since the switch to systemd, but in the last few days since my previous reboot, something's changed (maybe systemd 216?) and now I find that, even though /etc/locale.conf still contains en_GB, I get: # echo $LANG en_US.UTF8 This is

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

On 31 October 2014 14:20, Mateus Rodrigues Costa charles.cos...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-31 12:14 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com: Is there some additional configuration I need beyond /etc/locale.conf now? I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I've

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

On 27 October 2014 09:55, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com on Thu, 2014/10/23 19:40: On 12 October 2014 14:28, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Intel released a new microcode update that disables an instruction on Haswell CPUs. However,

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

On Thursday 21 Aug 2014 13:40:48 Leonid Isaev wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:56:06AM -0500, Bigby James wrote: It seems this is just a change in the default settings, nothing more. I know, but not everyone follows systemd-devel. So, just updating systemd would lead to syslog

Re: [arch-general] Vim clipboard option

On Thursday 21 Aug 2014 16:24:22 Manolo Martínez wrote: On 08/21/14 at 11:17am, Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:39:50AM +0200, Yamakaky wrote: Hi It's good to have a real vim package, but the `clipboard` option is now disabled (see `vim --version`). Is there any

Re: [arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 18:48:46 Karthik K wrote: Trying to install ImageMagick from the Arch repos, but I am constantly getting a 404 not found error pacman -Ss imagemagick returns extra/imagemagick 6.8.9.5-1 An image viewing/manipulation program But pacman -S imagemagick throws the

Re: [arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote: Your database is probably out of date. Try: # pacman -Syy and try again. Paul No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems. It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes. Experience of

Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

On Saturday 19 Jul 2014 15:08:51 Alexander Rødseth wrote: /tmp being too small for building packages after a standard Arch Linux installation, in combination with yaourt using /tmp by default is a problem. A simple workaround is to run yaourt with --tmp /somewhere/with/enough/space. When this

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 19:42:39 Scott Lawrence wrote: Hey, Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly stuck. I

Re: [arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

On Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 10:07:31 Sander Jansen wrote: But the new problem is: Why this service automatically start? I never manually enabled mdmonitor, and I cannot find its link in /etc/systemd/system/ . Regards. It's part of the udev rule in

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

On Thursday 08 May 2014 09:53:41 Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Christos Nouskas n...@archlinux.us wrote: On 8 May 2014 09:43, Olivier Langlois oliv...@olivierlanglois.net wrote: Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this new systemd

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 23:26:48 Rodrigo Rivas wrote: Although the original problem has already been solved, I'll post my trick to debug this kind of issues with systemd: * Before doing the thing that causes the problem run as root `systemctl start debug-shell`. If the problem is in the

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 11:08:14 Mike Cloaked wrote: Just a comment about boot times. The overall boot performance will depend not only on optimising an individual setup, but also is dependent on the hardware as well as which boot manager is being used. So an older laptop with a hard drive,

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 11:46:03 Mauro Santos wrote: Check the output of journalctl and look for lines with timeout (use grep -i timeout). I've experienced this before (90 seconds timeout) and I found out that some systemd service related to the user session was not terminating, and

Re: [arch-general] Qt4 / Qt5 package naming

On Friday 18 Apr 2014 10:29:56 Jerome Leclanche wrote: Hi With Qt5 becoming more and more available throughout Qt apps (especially as KDE progresses into the switch), I think it's time to consider adopting an updated naming scheme. IMHO: - Qt4 apps should use the -qt4 suffix - Qt5 apps

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

On Thursday 27 Mar 2014 09:07:23 Nicolas Iooss wrote: c) Create a package (linux-src?) which install the kernel sources and provides an easy way to customize the config before making the packages (with pkgbuild). Currently linux-grsec AUR package provides this feature by using the MENUCONFIG

Re: [arch-general] graphical display management

On Thursday 27 Mar 2014 16:45:35 message wrote: On 2014-03-25 15:59, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:49:06 +0100 From: Jakub Klinkovsk? j@gmx.com Subject: Re:

Re: [arch-general] user management error

On Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 20:04:27 message wrote: On 2014-03-18 13:01, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: -- Message: 7 Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:30:34 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net Subject: Re: [arch-general] user management

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Thursday 20 Mar 2014 11:07:55 arnaud gaboury wrote: I decided, when writing the wiki, to setup the container network static IP (example given) INSIDE the container. This approach solves the interfaces being DOWN issue for any network profile and sounds in fact a more best-practice. TY

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

On Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 12:52:55 Gesh wrote: Dear all, I've been rereading the old arguments on the rc.conf split. Disregarding everything discussed there, one interesting point came up during that discussion.[1] Is it possible to have some configuration file, e.g.

Re: [arch-general] user management error

On Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 10:28:05 message wrote: No, the system does not start as root. After many reboots, am unable to sign-in directly as normal user 'a'. Have to sign in as 'root' (command 'su' not recognised), then change to 'a' using 'su a'. Access to /home directory 'a' (/home/a) is

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Monday 17 Mar 2014 09:55:11 arnaud gaboury wrote: I guess someone will have to ask about it, either in the mailing list or irc, I haven't done so before because systemd-{nspawn,networkd} have lots of new functionality and I'm not sure I understand them all. After I related this issue

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Monday 17 Mar 2014 12:00:10 Mauro Santos wrote: I suspect we might have been talking about 2 different things all along. What I and Arnaud have been talking about is the tap interface on the host, not the interface inside the container, which of course should be properly configured by the

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:21:23 Ary Kleinerman wrote: I'm thinking to use Arch for an Asterisk server. Nowadays I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS, but I can see all distribution changing to the new init system (systemd). I wanna change all my scripts to be compatible with systemd. Furthermore, my

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 18:03:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: OK, so you really just need basic internet connectivity; you don't have any special filtering requirements. When you boot the container, can it see the enp7s0 interface? That is, is the enp7s0 interface visible both from the host and

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:48:38 arnaud gaboury wrote: Right. I am left after I boot my machine (the host) with this : 4: vb-dahlia: BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 qdisc noop master br0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 62:a2:6b:f4:0f:87 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff I have to

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:20:01 arnaud gaboury wrote: Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate for most

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:21:05 Mauro Santos wrote: Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate for most

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 16:01:00 arnaud gaboury wrote: See my previous post : I want to learn. Then, the container will one day be a production server. So my idea is to test now everything, then take a snapshot and build a prod server with much more complicated network services and settings.

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 17:32:27 arnaud gaboury wrote: It was UP before I brought vb down. So you have your answer : yes. OK, so in that case, I'd recommend not doing anything special on the host to bring the vb- dahlia interface up. It's behaving just like a normal interface would on a real

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 18:57:38 arnaud gaboury wrote: Hi, I am setting up a network for a container. I have a bridge br0 with a eth adapter enp7s0 and a tap device tap0 *** /etc/netctl/bridge Description=Bridge connection Interface=br0 Connection=bridge

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 11:06:32 arnaud gaboury wrote: Hi Arnaud, I don't think you need the /etc/netctl/ethernet profile at all. The enp7s0 interface is being absorbed into the bridge, and so should not be considered on its own any more. Otherwise, this looks OK. Are you seeing any

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 13:06:23 arnaud gaboury wrote: systemd-networkd is still really new. If you're having difficulty with it, I recommend simply using netctl, which is a bit more mature. I do for part of the setup on host. I am trying to do zero network config on container, thus the use

Re: [arch-general] tap device

On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 15:45:19 arnaud gaboury wrote: The container is dedicated to be a test server for months before I set up a production server (not on my machine this time !). A lot of web services will be hosted on the container. The container is a way to test my settings for web apps

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

On Friday 07 Mar 2014 15:09:27 Ary Kleinerman wrote: Hi, I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My question is: what does it happen when there are big changes? e.g. changes in the

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 03:51:04 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Hi, all: I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me suggestions of what I miss something or I do something wrong, I really appreciate, if

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 14:52:23 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Hi, Thank you for giving suggestions, I have tried the one you suggest, and here is the result: #ls /mnt/sda2 boot/,grub/,home/,initramfs-fallback.img,,initramfs.img,lost+fount/,memtest8 6+/,syslinux/,vmlinuz-linux #ls /mnt/sda3

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 10:08:06 y...@marupa.net wrote: I love Arch, but not for servers. I prefer Debian on my server. Despite all the dire warnings given to keep an eye on Arch's web site about certain upgrades, its still all too frequent user intervention is necessary where nothing is stated

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:48:15 Cao, Renzhi wrote: I really appreciate Emil Lundberg, Paul Gideon Dann, Temlin Oliv?r, , Guus Snijders' great suggestion, you are right, that's my fault to use /dev/mapper/arch_root_image as the root partition, now I can login the system,it seems my system

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:40:13 John WH Smith wrote: By the way, I strongly believe you will fix things faster if you like your environment (I assume it is Arch here, of course). Being used to your system is much more important than its stability when it comes to your sysadmin speed of

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

On Monday 10 Mar 2014 16:20:25 Cao, Renzhi wrote: Thanks Paul! The reason why I copy /bin/* to /mnt/bin is my/mnt/bin is not exists. I don't know what happens, it seems this is deleted when I try to fix my problem. I will see if my system works well, if not, I will be back again :)

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 23:01:30 arnaud gaboury wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:00 PM, arnaud gaboury arnaud.gabo...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Two new virtual interfaces are create: one that is visible to the container, and one that is visible to the host. The host now has two interfaces, which

Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn/systemd-networkd/

On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 23:46:59 arnaud gaboury wrote: I finally managed to boot the container with a working network and a static IP. I only used netctl, as systemd-networkd is still a mistery to me. [...] It lacks in fact a good example, from the container creation to the network setup.

Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn/systemd-networkd/

On Friday 07 Mar 2014 12:28:56 arnaud gaboury wrote: I read a lot, especially when it comes to networking. As for me, it is the trickiest part of administrating my machine. Yeah, networking can get complex very quickly. (I'm by no means an expert either!) I found many posts asking help

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

On Friday 07 Mar 2014 08:46:02 Caorenzhi wrote: Thank you for your good suggestion! I think I can use pacman to remove the packages, however, I cannot connect to Internet after chroot, so cannot use pacman to update. Do you have any idea? Assuming you can plug your computer in with an

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

On Friday 07 Mar 2014 09:12:39 Caorenzhi wrote: Thank you Paul, I will check it in my lab later and tell you the details. I try add ip eth0 yesterday , and the system says there is no eth0. In that case, you need to do: # ip link to see a list of your network interfaces. It might not be

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

On Friday 07 Mar 2014 09:26:19 Caorenzhi wrote: Thank you! I remember when I run the command to find out the packages I should remove, it shows: lilo, grub-common, initvlinux( something like this), but I don't know how to move them to /usr/bin. I try directly mv lilo to /usr/bin, and use the

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 14:03:54 arnaud gaboury wrote: I am running a machine hortensia with a container dahlia. As the container will be a server, I want to have one IP for hortensia and another one for dahlia. On hortensia, with dhcpcd.service and systemd-networkd both disabled, I start

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

On Thursday 06 Mar 2014 16:14:19 arnaud gaboury wrote: This configuration make no sense whatsoever. 1) You create a bridge with no ports. What purpose does it serve? 2) If you want to add enp7s0 as a port, why do you have a configuration for enp7s0? If an interface is a bridge port, it

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 17:58:05 Damjan Georgievski wrote: Yeah, I think it's possible to get systemd to poll a script, or there's always cron (or a timer unit) that should allow us to manually inspect a process and restart it if necessary. But it would be cooler if there were shortcuts

[arch-general] KDE breakage with glibc 2.19-2

Is anyone else seeing breakage of KDE compositing with glibc 2.19-2? Large areas are unrendered: window contents and the plasma desktop are black, although my panel is visible. Seems OK when I turn of compositing. I've tried going back and forth, and it's definitely the glibc update

Re: [arch-general] Linux container

On Wednesday 12 Feb 2014 21:00:54 arnaud gaboury wrote: You'll have to build a custom kernel. ah... Another new step for me. fine, I learn, I learn. That's what makes ArchLinux so awesome: once you're done, your understanding will be greatly expanded. As you move from project to

[arch-general] Systemd email notifications

Hello all, Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail me when things happen (e.g. a process was restarted). Since switching to systemd, it's felt a bit

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 13:35:59 Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail me

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 14:21:36 ushi wrote: Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: Hello all, Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently use Monit for the monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 16:11:56 Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 13.02.2014 16:05, schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: Ok... I'll take the chance to practice my DBus abilities... It is a bit long, but it kind of works. Just replace the print() call with your favourite sendmail function and you'll get a

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

On Thursday 13 Feb 2014 16:05:05 Rodrigo Rivas wrote: Ok... I'll take the chance to practice my DBus abilities... It is a bit long, but it kind of works. Just replace the print() call with your favourite sendmail function and you'll get a notification every time any of the units specified in

Re: [arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors

On Thursday 30 Jan 2014 11:46:38 Nowaker wrote: A couple months ago, I started getting I/O errors (see below) whenever I tried to do journalctl You are able to read all the journald files, aren't you? You are running cp -r so it looks like so. `cp` would die with non-zero exit status if

Re: [arch-general] Deploy Arch linux to many virtual machines

On Thursday 23 Jan 2014 21:59:06 Plonky Duby wrote: You can use docker. http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/ Thank you; I was not aware of Docker. It looks *awesome*. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Is out of source building still recommended with cmake in PKGBUILD scripts

On Tuesday 14 Jan 2014 23:17:53 Maxime Gauduin wrote: It is indeed no longer required with VCS sources, and has never been with tarballs since those are extracted every time you run makepkg so files you might have changed are overwritten anyway. However I sometimes find useful to keep doing

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 17:58:59 Maxime Gauduin wrote: I only use a few ruby packages. However, you said it yourself, ruby and pacman both have different uses, my point was: do not change the content of a dir managed by pacman, do so elsewhere. I'm not saying you shouldn't ever use both. In the

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 11:03:32 Bigby James wrote: That was how I discovered the multi-version dependencies: As pacman will only allow a single version of a package to be installed on the system at a given time, I was frequently alerted to updates of dependency gems I had installed. Middleman

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 11:38:57 Alfredo Palhares wrote: I agree with you, some ruby-packages just are a royal pain in the arse to maintain. Sometimes i wish I just when with rbenv[1] and call it a day. I still have some packages that use the old naming convention. But like you said the worst

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 13:17:13 Magnus Therning wrote: On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Simon Hanna simon.ha...@jesus.de wrote: Since ruby allready comes with a package manager (mentioned earlier), I never downloaded anything from the aur, but used rubygems instead. My question is, if we

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 12:59:28 Maxime Gauduin wrote: IMHO, the reason why you would choose to use rubygem over pacman depends of how extensive a ruby user you are. I like to have gems handled by pacman, but I only use a few of them and don't need to have several versions of the same gem.

Re: [arch-general] Ruby gem packages in Arch

On Monday 13 Jan 2014 16:35:16 Maxime Gauduin wrote: For system-wide gems, I do sudo gem install gem. That works because I've restored /etc/gemrc so that it reads simply gem:, instead of gem: --user-install. I'm still not clear on why this configuration file is altered in the Arch

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

On Sunday 05 Jan 2014 23:03:23 Mark Lee wrote: This all boils down to what does Arch consider a bug. If code that cannot be compiled in parallel is a bug then Arch should make parallel building the default (since these are bugs that upstream should fix). If instead it is not a bug but is the

Re: [arch-general] USB S-ATA Adapter

On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:02:20 Silvio Siefke wrote: SDB is the HDD but i can not mount and fdisk give nothing out. Can you explain how you're trying to mount the drive, what the error message is, and give any output that appears in the kernel log (dmesg) as a result of attempting to mount?

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:33:05 Martti Kühne wrote: Because I have a strong opinion about this. Also to prevent people from running into this who are not that experienced in making things work. If someone makes more than a few packages, they will have encountered makepkg.conf, to at least set

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

On Friday 03 Jan 2014 15:49:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: If you are not experienced, you should think about your operating system choice. We are not a kindergarten, we are a distribution with a target audience of experienced and advanced users.x I reckon plenty of Arch users weren't used to

Re: [arch-general] Default value of j in makeflags of makepkg.conf

On Friday 03 Jan 2014 16:26:27 Thomas Bächler wrote: Error and inexperience can occur while learning. If you upload to the AUR, I expect you to have polished and finished material, not your first draft. There's enough places with kind people who will look at your PKGBUILD and point out your

Re: [arch-general] Git

On Monday 30 Sep 2013 05:13:57 Sebastian Schwarz wrote: On 2013-29-09, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: If we were to use git, we should have one git repository per package, and also provide one repository which includes all the packages as submodules. Why not use one branch per package

[arch-general] Intel SNA artifacts in Firefox

Since the xf86-video-intel update that enabled SNA by default, I've noticed that some areas of some web pages (mostly flat backgrounds) in Firefox suffer from heavy graphical corruption, as if those areas are being used as rendering buffers elsewhere: bits of web pages from other tabs, etc...

Re: [arch-general] OpenNTPd not correcting time on boot

On Thursday 08 Aug 2013 13:49:26 Joe Eaves wrote: OpenNTPd seems not to support that option, so it didn't work. I tried switching to NTP, which does support 'iburst', and now it all works how I want it to. NTP fails as well if I don't include the 'iburst' option, so it seems odd to me

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Tuesday 06 Aug 2013 15:18:39 Fons Adriaensen wrote: Thanks to all who suggested solutions. What difference should the ' exit' make ? The ssh will terminate anyway when poweroff returns. Problem is that by then it's too late. I think the fundamental problem is that you just can't expect

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Wednesday 07 Aug 2013 14:50:53 Mike Cloaked wrote: Would it be possible to delay the reboot command whilst connected in an ssh session by using something like: # at now + 2 minutes systemctl reboot then exit the ssh session and wait until the remote machine has rebooted? I haven't

[arch-general] CLI diffing tool other than Vim?

Hi guys, I run a couple of Arch servers, and I'm trying to teach someone how to go about maintaining it (for when I'm not around). The difficulty is that when it comes to package updates that require merging .pacnew files, I always use Vim to merge changes. That's quite a steep learning

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