Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

[Paul Marwick via arch-general]

Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:

Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you
did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to
reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and
save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is then not so
bad, because you then just install the packages again that were
uninstalled to get you into this.



Thanks - good idea. I've looked at the section of the pacman log, which 
is helpful. Most of the 32-bit stuff in the remove list was installed by 
the infinality install, so I should be able to get rid of it without too 
many problems. The annoying part is the only reason I have 32-bit 
support installed at all is because I've got a Brother laser 
printer/scanner which needs the Brother lpd drivers, which are only 
available in 32-bit.


I'll give it a try tomorrow - use Rsd and let it run, then see if I can 
get the normal freetype support back in. Hope it works...


Paul.

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

[Paul Marwick via arch-general]

Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:

Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you
did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to
reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and
save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is then not so
bad, because you then just install the packages again that were
uninstalled to get you into this.



Thanks - good idea. I've looked at the section of the pacman log, which 
is helpful. Most of the 32-bit stuff in the remove list was installed by 
the infinality install, so I should be able to get rid of it without too 
many problems. The annoying part is the only reason I have 32-bit 
support installed at all is because I've got a Brother laser 
printer/scanner which needs the Brother lpd drivers, which are only 
available in 32-bit.


I'll give it a try tomorrow - use Rsd and let it run, then see if I can 
get the normal freetype support back in. Hope it works...


Paul.

Re: [arch-general] What's with Ray Rashif?

[Ray Rashif via arch-general]

On 25 September 2016 at 21:53,  wrote:
>
> * Guillaume ALAUX  [25.09.2016 17:08]:
>>
>> Just FYI, Ray talked about being "intermittently inactive" in this
>> thread back in August [0]. It does not completely answer your question
>> but at least sheds some light.
>>
>> [0] 
>> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-August/028220.html
>
>
> Thanks for your answer! I might have seen this message, but didn't remember 
> it, maybe because I thought his last sentence
>
> "I'll disown any if I can't do them justice by the end of next week."
>
> didn't make it worth remembering, you know, "problem solving itself".
>
>
>
> I guess Ray will eventually read this mail and get shed light on this. :-)

Hello folks

That was indeed a very lousy response, now that I look back at it. I
have been "intermittently inactive" for quite some time but not
updating my favourite packages (ardour, jack et al) is a new low I
must admit!

I have just gotten access to my Arch system and will be rolling out
some updates throughout the week. Thanks to arojas and others for
taking care of rebuilds and such, and sending me nice e-mail nudges
and patches.


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Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox pxe boot fails and freeze system

[Christian Hesse]

Maykel Franco via arch-general  on Tue,
2016/09/27 15:19:
> Hi, I have a virtualbox, version 5.1.6. When boot the VM from PXE, fails
> with error unknown and my archlinux freeze...
> 
> Anybody with these problem??

I had PXE issue with 5.1.[024]. The guest had stalling connections.
Everything works just fine with 5.1.6.

What is your guest hardware configuration? I am using paravirtualized network
in bridged mode here.
-- 
main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH"
"CX:;",b;for(a/*Best regards my address:*/=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*Chriscc -ox -xc - && ./x*/b/42*2-3)*42);}


pgp3y5g6SJClT.pgp
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox pxe boot fails and freeze system

[Maykel Franco via arch-general]

Log VM boot:

00:00:07.458477 VGA Sequencer (3C5): SR index 3C4:03
00:00:07.458479  SR00:03 SR01:00 SR02:03 SR03:00 SR04:02
00:00:07.458492 !!
00:00:07.458492 !! {vgatext}
00:00:07.458493 !!
00:00:07.458497  80x25
-
00:00:07.458539 iPXE (PCI C8:00.0) starting
execution...ok
00:00:07.458585 iPXE initialising
devices...ok
00:00:07.458630

00:00:07.458676

00:00:07.458756

00:00:07.458815 iPXE 1.0.0+ -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware --
http://ipxe.org
00:00:07.458876 Features: DNS TFTP HTTP PXE PXEXT
Menu
00:00:07.458947

00:00:07.459021 net0: 08:00:27:73:b5:ee using 82540em on PCI00:03.0
(open)
00:00:07.459086   [Link:up, TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0
RXE:0]
00:00:07.459182 DHCP (net0 08:00:27:73:b5:ee)..
ok
00:00:07.459269 net0: 192.168.0.101/255.255.255.0 gw
192.168.0.1
00:00:07.459334 Next server:
192.168.0.3
00:00:07.459379 Filename:
pxelinux.0
00:00:07.459423 tftp://192.168.0.3/pxelinux.0...
ok
00:00:07.459466

00:00:07.459510 PXELINUX 6.02 6.02-pre16  Copyright (C) 1994-2013 H. Peter
Anvin et al
00:00:07.459554

00:00:07.459598

00:00:07.459642

00:00:07.459695

00:00:07.459740

00:00:07.459783

00:00:07.459827

00:00:07.459881

00:00:07.459965

00:00:07.460036
!!


2016-09-27 15:19 GMT+02:00 Maykel Franco :

> Hi, I have a virtualbox, version 5.1.6. When boot the VM from PXE, fails
> with error unknown and my archlinux freeze...
>
> Anybody with these problem??
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>

[arch-general] Virtualbox pxe boot fails and freeze system

[Maykel Franco via arch-general]

Hi, I have a virtualbox, version 5.1.6. When boot the VM from PXE, fails
with error unknown and my archlinux freeze...

Anybody with these problem??

Thanks in advanced.

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

[Martin Kühne via arch-general]

Just a thought. If you find the excerpt in the pacman logs where you
did the transaction got you into this mess, you might be able to
reverse just that without risking too much for the current install and
save you a complete reinstall. Ignoring dependencies is then not so
bad, because you then just install the packages again that were
uninstalled to get you into this.

cheers!
mar77i

Re: [arch-general] Removing infinality

[Paul Marwick via arch-general]

Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote:

Just -Rcs and look twice at the removal. It does catch the whole tree
of explicit, asdeps of the packages passed as argument, as well as
packages depeding on either, but look twice on the list of packages
you'd like to have removed.


Thanks. Tried a dummy run to see what would be removed. And got this

[fang@altair ~]$ sudo pacman -Rcs ibfonts-meta-base 
ibfonts-meta-extended-lt lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate

[sudo] password for fang:
checking dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be removed after its 
lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate dependency

warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-pango will be removed after its 
lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate dependency


Packages (75) ibfonts-meta-extended-1-20  lib32-acl-2.2.52-2 
lib32-attr-2.4.47-1  lib32-bzip2-1.0.6-2 
lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate-1.14.6-2  lib32-elfutils-0.167-1 
lib32-expat-2.2.0-1
  lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate-2.11.95-1 
lib32-gdk-pixbuf2-2.34.0-1  lib32-glib2-2.48.1-1 lib32-harfbuzz-1.3.1-1  
lib32-icu-57.1-1  lib32-libcap-2.25-1 lib32-libcroco-0.6.11-1  
lib32-libdatrie-0.2.10-1
  lib32-libdbus-1.10.10-3  lib32-libdrm-2.4.70-1 
lib32-libffi-3.2.1-1  lib32-libgcrypt-1.7.3-1 lib32-libgpg-error-1.24-1  
lib32-libidn-1.33-1 lib32-libjpeg-turbo-1.5.0-1  lib32-libpciaccess-0.13.4-1
  lib32-libpng-1.6.24-1  lib32-librsvg-2.40.16-1 
lib32-libthai-0.1.24-1  lib32-libtiff-4.0.6-2 lib32-libtxc_dxtn-1.0.1-5  
lib32-libx11-1.6.3-1 lib32-libxau-1.0.8-1  lib32-libxcb-1.12-2  
lib32-libxdamage-1.1.4-2
  lib32-libxdmcp-1.1.2-1  lib32-libxext-1.3.3-1 
lib32-libxfixes-5.0.2-1  lib32-libxft-2.3.2-1 lib32-libxml2-2.9.3-1  
lib32-libxrender-0.9.9-1 lib32-libxshmfence-1.2-1  lib32-libxxf86vm-1.1.4-1
  lib32-llvm-libs-3.8.1-1  lib32-mesa-12.0.3-1 
lib32-mesa-libgl-12.0.3-1  lib32-ncurses-6.0-2 lib32-pango-1.40.1-1  
lib32-pcre-8.39-1  lib32-pixman-0.34.0-1 lib32-readline-6.3.008-2  
lib32-systemd-231-1
  lib32-wayland-1.11.0-1  lib32-xz-5.2.2-1 
lib32-zlib-1.2.8-1  otf-oswald-ib-3.0-8 otf-quintessential-ib-1.000-6  
otf-tex-gyre-ib-2.005-8 t1-cursor-ib-1.0.4-2  ttf-caladea-ib-20140817-1 
ttf-cantoraone-ib-1.001-7
  ttf-carlito-ib-20140820-1 ttf-courier-prime-ib-1.203-7  
ttf-ddc-uchen-ib-1.000-7 ttf-gelasio-ib-1.00-7  
ttf-heuristica-ib-1.0.2-4 ttf-lohit-punjabi-ib-2.5.3-7  
ttf-merriweather-ib-1.584-1
  ttf-merriweather-sans-ib-1.006-1 
ttf-noto-fonts-cjk-ib-1.004-2  ttf-noto-fonts-ib-20150929-2 
ttf-noto-fonts-nonlatin-ib-20150929-2  ttf-opensans-ib-1.10-2 
ttf-signika-family-ib-1.0001-8  ttf-symbola-ib-8.00-2
  ibfonts-meta-base-1-7  ibfonts-meta-extended-lt-1-17 
lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate-2.6.3-3


Total Removed Size:  285.94 MiB



Anyway, there might be stuff in there you'd like to have but could
feed a different providers, so that might be a thing you'd want to
look up in the wiki on how to do. Or I would, since I'm the one not
knowing how to do it.




I guess if I try this, I'll need to start in single mode and run it as 
root - I doubt X will run with all those packages removed. I also guess 
I'd better make a list of the stuff that is being pulled so I can 
reinstall the standard package.


:) I may be reinstalling shortly - not at all sure that I can rebuild 
things after the change


Paul.