Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

[Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general]

And I also think that I read somewhere that theboot partition (EFI) must 
be the first one in the disk.



On 10/28/2016 10:59 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote:

Sorry for the html response :S

On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote:


I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading 
from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition



On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

All,

   After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new
(used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The
laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the
laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0).

   The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop
cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way
booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing
OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting
from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard
drive as /dev/sda where it should be.

   This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios
is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the
install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new
install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change

   hd0 0

to

   hd1 0

(I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which
is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb 
below)

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb  8:16   1   980M  0 disk
├─sdb2   8:18   140M  0 part
└─sdb1   8:17   1   792M  0 part
sr0 11:01  1024M  0 rom
sda  8:00 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda7   8:70   880G  0 part /home
├─sda5   8:50   500M  0 part /boot
├─sda1   8:10 1K  0 part
├─sda8   8:80 1G  0 part
└─sda6   8:6050G  0 part /

and

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa

Device Boot  StartEndSectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5  *  409610280951024000   500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6  1030144  105887743  10485760050G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7105889792 1951383551 1845493760   880G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8   1951385600 19535251672139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

grub is installed to /dev/sda with

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda  (no errors on install), and
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

   I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find
issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1.

   Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a
/boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't
seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make
a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm
happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into
the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

[Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general]

Sorry for the html response :S

On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote:


I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading 
from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition



On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

All,

   After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new
(used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The
laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the
laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0).

   The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop
cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way
booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing
OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting
from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard
drive as /dev/sda where it should be.

   This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios
is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the
install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new
install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change

   hd0 0

to

   hd1 0

(I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which
is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb 
below)

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb  8:16   1   980M  0 disk
├─sdb2   8:18   140M  0 part
└─sdb1   8:17   1   792M  0 part
sr0 11:01  1024M  0 rom
sda  8:00 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda7   8:70   880G  0 part /home
├─sda5   8:50   500M  0 part /boot
├─sda1   8:10 1K  0 part
├─sda8   8:80 1G  0 part
└─sda6   8:6050G  0 part /

and

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa

Device Boot  StartEndSectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5  *  409610280951024000   500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6  1030144  105887743  10485760050G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7105889792 1951383551 1845493760   880G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8   1951385600 19535251672139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

grub is installed to /dev/sda with

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda  (no errors on install), and
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

   I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find
issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1.

   Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a
/boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't
seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make
a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm
happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into
the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

[Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general]

I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading from 
UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition



On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

All,

   After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new
(used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The
laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the
laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0).

   The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop
cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way
booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing
OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting
from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard
drive as /dev/sda where it should be.

   This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios
is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the
install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new
install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change

   hd0 0

to

   hd1 0

(I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which
is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb 
below)

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb  8:16   1   980M  0 disk
├─sdb2   8:18   140M  0 part
└─sdb1   8:17   1   792M  0 part
sr0 11:01  1024M  0 rom
sda  8:00 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda7   8:70   880G  0 part /home
├─sda5   8:50   500M  0 part /boot
├─sda1   8:10 1K  0 part
├─sda8   8:80 1G  0 part
└─sda6   8:6050G  0 part /

and

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa

Device Boot  StartEndSectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5  *  409610280951024000   500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6  1030144  105887743  10485760050G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7105889792 1951383551 1845493760   880G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8   1951385600 19535251672139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

grub is installed to /dev/sda with

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda  (no errors on install), and
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

   I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find
issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1.

   Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a
/boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't
seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make
a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm
happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into
the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas?
Thanks.




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[arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)

[David C. Rankin]

All,

  After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new
(used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The
laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the
laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0).

  The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop
cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way
booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing
OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting
from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard
drive as /dev/sda where it should be.

  This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios
is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the
install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new
install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change

  hd0 0

to

  hd1 0

(I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which
is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb 
below)

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb  8:16   1   980M  0 disk
├─sdb2   8:18   140M  0 part
└─sdb1   8:17   1   792M  0 part
sr0 11:01  1024M  0 rom
sda  8:00 931.5G  0 disk
├─sda7   8:70   880G  0 part /home
├─sda5   8:50   500M  0 part /boot
├─sda1   8:10 1K  0 part
├─sda8   8:80 1G  0 part
└─sda6   8:6050G  0 part /

and

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa

Device Boot  StartEndSectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5  *  409610280951024000   500M 83 Linux
/dev/sda6  1030144  105887743  10485760050G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7105889792 1951383551 1845493760   880G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8   1951385600 19535251672139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris

grub is installed to /dev/sda with

grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda  (no errors on install), and
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

  I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find
issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1.

  Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a
/boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't
seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make
a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm
happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into
the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas?
Thanks.


-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[John Briggs]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 09:35:39PM +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote:
> Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general:
> > Then, lets start from the basics...
> > Run memtest.
> Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it.
> Need to figure out how.
> 
> > If you use wayland, use Xorg.
> I am using LXDE.
> 
> > What is your graphics card?
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE  > Express 
> Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA  
> controller])
> 
This is your problem. From my experience sites that have illformed javascript 
do not work well with Intel graphics controllers.

Check out the Forums and the Wiki for clues on how to overcome these problems.

Regards

John

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Zorro via arch-general]

Op 28-10-2016 om 21:41 schreef Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general:

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 21:36 Zorro via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:


Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general:

Then, lets start from the basics...
Run memtest.

Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it.
Need to figure out how.


If you use wayland, use Xorg.

I am using LXDE.


What is your graphics card?

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA
controller])


uname -a

Linux Juergen 4.8.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 20:19:42 CEST 2016
i686 GNU/Linux


Test if there is a bug on gpu driver.

How ?


Regards, Harm-Jan


Does your processor support SSE2? It's required for WebKit's JavaScript
compiler. If you're missing it, browsers will crash with SIGILL.


Yes, Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270   @ 1.60GHz does support SSE2

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Merlin Büge]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:35:39 +0200
Zorro via arch-general  wrote:

> Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general:
> > Then, lets start from the basics...
> > Run memtest.
> Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it.
> Need to figure out how.

You could also boot with the current live image and launch memtest from there.
When using memtest, best practice is to test each RAM chip alone (i.e. remove
the other ones) and let memtest run several (4-8) passes for each chip.

Regards,

mearon




-- 
Merlin Büge 

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 21:36 Zorro via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:

> Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general:
> > Then, lets start from the basics...
> > Run memtest.
> Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it.
> Need to figure out how.
>
> > If you use wayland, use Xorg.
> I am using LXDE.
>
> > What is your graphics card?
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE
> Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA
> controller])
>
> > uname -a
> Linux Juergen 4.8.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 20:19:42 CEST 2016
> i686 GNU/Linux
>
> > Test if there is a bug on gpu driver.
>
> How ?
>
>
> Regards, Harm-Jan
>

Does your processor support SSE2? It's required for WebKit's JavaScript
compiler. If you're missing it, browsers will crash with SIGILL.

>

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Zorro via arch-general]

Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general:

Then, lets start from the basics...
Run memtest.

Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it.
Need to figure out how.


If you use wayland, use Xorg.

I am using LXDE.


What is your graphics card?
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GSE 
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA 
controller])



uname -a
Linux Juergen 4.8.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 20:19:42 CEST 2016 
i686 GNU/Linux



Test if there is a bug on gpu driver.


How ?


Regards, Harm-Jan

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Guus Snijders via arch-general]

Op 28 okt. 2016 14:17 schreef "Zorro via arch-general" <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash.
>
> I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero.
>
> For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows:
>
> systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core.

Just a wild guess, but perhaps it's time for a memory test? Since this is
happening with multiple programs, I doubt it's software related.
Memtest 86 usually works great.

Mvg, Guus

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Alex Theotokatos via arch-general]

Then, lets start from the basics...
Run memtest.
If you use wayland, use Xorg.
What is your graphics card?
uname -a
Test if there is a bug on gpu driver.

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

[Germán Gutiérrez via arch-general]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf 
wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:12:54 +0300, Alex Theotokatos wrote:
> >On 10/28/2016 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit
> >> Arch Linux install?
> >>
> >> Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW
> >> threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used
> >> another old 64bit bit distro's release for lack of time to
> >> lightscribe a DVD. FWIW it works on a very old Ubuntu Quantal 12.10
> >> (kernel 3.6.5-rt14 64bit) install, official unsupported since 2½
> >> years ago.
> >>
> >If you refer to:
> >https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightscribe/
> >which is for:
> >http://www.lightscribe.com/
> >I don't see their site is working. Dead project? I don't know.
> >Wait a couple of days so their website will function again.
>
> No, I don't refer to an AUR PKGBUILD for 32bit architecture. AFAIK
> http://www.lightscribe.com/ is not just temporarily down. As already
> pointed out, I'm using 64bit architecture. While I indeed used the
> 64bit LightScribe architecture PKGBUILDs from AUR, named bin32-*, e.g.
> bin32-lightscribe, I even don't refer to those PKGBUILDs. Getting the
> software isn't the problem. The AUR package does use
> http://www.pawtec.com , but I also used http://www.yardbird.net , to
> get the software.
>
> I'm interested, if somebody gets LightScribe working on an up-to-date
> 64bit Arch Linux, not necessarily using AUR PKGBUILDs.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>


Looks like archive.org has a more recent version, dunno if it works, tho.

http://web.archive.org/web/20150802193155/http://download.lightscribe.com/ls/lightscribe-1.18.24.1-linux-2.6-intel.rpm



Saludos,
 Germán

Delivering common sense since 1969 .

The Nature is not amiable; It treats impartially to all the things. The
wise person is not amiable; He treats all people impartially.

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

[Ralf Mardorf]

The exact links to the sources I know are

http://www.yardbird.net/lightscribe/
http://www.pawtec.com/lightscribe/
http://www.lacie.com/files/lacie-content/download/drivers/LaCie%20LightScribe%20Labeler%201.0%20Linux.rpm

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Zorro via arch-general]

Op 28-10-2016 om 14:53 schreef Óscar García Amor:

2016-10-28 14:44 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:

Yes I think my system is up to date.

I do a pacman -Syu  once a week.

Though for Midori as Xombrero both crash with the same trace to the
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0 library (version 16.19).


Maybe a wayland related problem? I had to switch to Xorg because Wayland
gives me a lot of problems.


I found this (obscure) link:



Seems related though

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Zorro via arch-general]

Op 28-10-2016 om 14:49 schreef Ralf Mardorf:

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:15:44 +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote:

Do others experience this too?

Yesno, on LAU [1] somebody posted a link and when opening it with
Firefox, I need to use the reset button of my PC, since it leads to a
black screen and an unresponsive computer. I tried it two times.
Apart from this, I seldom visit obscure websites, so no, usually my
browsers run absolutely stable. Sure, some websites visited with
Firefox, IceCat and other Mozillaoids slow down and even could slow down
the complete graphical user session. This doesn't happen when using
webkit based browsers, e.g. QupZilla.

IOW it might be related to the websites you're visiting, consider to
post a few links.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] Link to the link:
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2016-October/106301.html


With Midori visiting for instance www.cnn.com shows that behaviour quite 
soon.


After accepting the cookie message I start to scroll down with my mouse 
wheel.


Midori is still in the proces of loading the complete site but displays 
already the top part of the page.


Scrolling down and then the browser crashes.

Regards,
Harm-Jan

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Óscar García Amor]

2016-10-28 14:44 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general <
arch-general@archlinux.org>:
>
> Yes I think my system is up to date.
>
> I do a pacman -Syu  once a week.
>
> Though for Midori as Xombrero both crash with the same trace to the
> libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0 library (version 16.19).
>

Maybe a wayland related problem? I had to switch to Xorg because Wayland
gives me a lot of problems.

-- 
Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 14:15:44 +0200, Zorro via arch-general wrote:
>Do others experience this too?

Yesno, on LAU [1] somebody posted a link and when opening it with
Firefox, I need to use the reset button of my PC, since it leads to a
black screen and an unresponsive computer. I tried it two times.
Apart from this, I seldom visit obscure websites, so no, usually my
browsers run absolutely stable. Sure, some websites visited with
Firefox, IceCat and other Mozillaoids slow down and even could slow down
the complete graphical user session. This doesn't happen when using
webkit based browsers, e.g. QupZilla.

IOW it might be related to the websites you're visiting, consider to
post a few links.

Regards,
Ralf

[1] Link to the link:
http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2016-October/106301.html

Re: [arch-general] LightScribe

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:12:54 +0300, Alex Theotokatos wrote:
>On 10/28/2016 02:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit
>> Arch Linux install?
>>
>> Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW
>> threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used
>> another old 64bit bit distro's release for lack of time to
>> lightscribe a DVD. FWIW it works on a very old Ubuntu Quantal 12.10
>> (kernel 3.6.5-rt14 64bit) install, official unsupported since 2½
>> years ago.
>>  
>If you refer to:
>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightscribe/
>which is for:
>http://www.lightscribe.com/
>I don't see their site is working. Dead project? I don't know.
>Wait a couple of days so their website will function again.

No, I don't refer to an AUR PKGBUILD for 32bit architecture. AFAIK
http://www.lightscribe.com/ is not just temporarily down. As already
pointed out, I'm using 64bit architecture. While I indeed used the
64bit LightScribe architecture PKGBUILDs from AUR, named bin32-*, e.g.
bin32-lightscribe, I even don't refer to those PKGBUILDs. Getting the
software isn't the problem. The AUR package does use
http://www.pawtec.com , but I also used http://www.yardbird.net , to
get the software.

I'm interested, if somebody gets LightScribe working on an up-to-date
64bit Arch Linux, not necessarily using AUR PKGBUILDs.

Regards,
Ralf

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

[David Demelier via arch-general]

2016-10-28 14:15 GMT+02:00 Zorro via arch-general :
> Hi,
>
> On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash.
>
> I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero.
>
> For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows:
>
> systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core.
>Stack trace of thread 6478:
>#0  0xb4d0be50 n/a
> (libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0)
>#1  0xa7b8e842 n/a (n/a)
>
> Midori behaves similarly.
>
> It happens on sites with many scripts and pictures when scrolling down.
>
> Firefox crashes at startup.
> It first displays its own start page, processor load goes to 100% and then
> firefox disappears leaving a core dump.
>
> Do others experience this too?

No me,

Is your system up to date?

Also if all are crashing with the same trace (javascriptcore library)
that looks like ABI incompatibility. Which usually happens when you
don't upgrade the whole system.

Regards,


-- 
Demelier David

[arch-general] Browsers crashing

[Zorro via arch-general]

Hi,

On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash.

I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero.

For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows:

systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core.
   Stack trace of thread 6478:
   #0  0xb4d0be50 n/a 
(libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0)

   #1  0xa7b8e842 n/a (n/a)

Midori behaves similarly.

It happens on sites with many scripts and pictures when scrolling down.

Firefox crashes at startup.
It first displays its own start page, processor load goes to 100% and 
then firefox disappears leaving a core dump.


Do others experience this too?

Harm-Jan Zwinderman