Re: [arch-general] recent archlinux installation

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 16 Jul 2016 13:33:26 -0400 (EDT)
Jude DaShiell :

> I have SSL_FILE in /etc/lynx.cfg pointed at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt

Why? There is no such file in any Arch Linux package.
Also, the option name is SSL_CERT_FILE.
All you should need is 'ca-certificates' and SSL_CERT_DIR pointing
at /etc/ssl/certs.

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Re: [arch-general] fail to export gpg private key

[Jens Adam]

> $ gpg --output tth_sec.gpg --armor --export-secret-key KeyID
> gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
> 
> I have the tth_sec.pgp but with size of zero.
> 
> What do I wrong?

Are you doing this via ssh? In that case gpg-agent/pinentry often cause 
problems.
Try again with:

 $ GPG_TTY=$(tty) gpg --output tth_sec.gpg --armor --export-secret-key KeyID


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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200
Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public :

> Maybe we should look into finding some people that want to help test
> stuff and give them permissions to sign off on packages?

+1
Sign me up, running [testing] for a decade now anyway, on x86_64 and
i686.

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Re: [arch-general] [Berlin]ArchLinux User Group - May

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 29 Apr 2016 21:21:15 +0200
Akendo :

> Feel free to subscribe[2] to our mailing list

FYI: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-events

;-)

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Re: [arch-general] pacman update error

[Jens Adam]

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:01:42 -0400
Francis Gerund :

> Any idea what the problem might be?

The bash-completion 2.3 package (which contains the file conflict
fixes regarding util-linux 2.28) should appear shortly in [extra] on
your mirror, just wait.

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Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

[Jens Adam]

... to get the most obvious question out of the way:

What's the exact processor type?
And do other i686-type distributions work okay?

(What's the minimum spec anyway nowadays, still CMOV? SSE?)

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Re: [arch-general] Emacs is missing the icons in toolbar since one of the last updates

[Jens Adam]

Sun, 10 Apr 2016 16:15:15 +0200
Manuel Reimer :

> is this a known bug or do only I have this issue?

You might want to watch https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48862

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 137, Issue 36

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 26 Mar 2016 15:09:09 +0100
"L. Rose" :

> What do you mean by 'Help'?

He(?) probably meant
> List-Help: 

Other probable explanations:

- "Help, what it this wall of text, how do I even."

- "Help, how do I switch from digest mode to normal reception (or at
  least MIME digests)?"

- "Help, my toaster broke."

- "Help, I'm Emiel's cat and did't get fed this morning."

etc.

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Re: [arch-general] Xinitrc wiki still references copying /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ?

[Jens Adam]

... and here's your usual reminder for cases of non-existent files:

$ pacman -Fo /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is owned by extra/xorg-xinit 1.3.4-3

or:

$ pkgfile /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
extra/xorg-xinit


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Re: [arch-general] mount shows hardcoded stripe=4 mount option for ext* /boot fs

[Jens Adam]

Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:27:39 +0100
Bastien Traverse :

> [...]

Hm, interesting indeed.

Can you show the output of 'lvdisplay -v /dev/mapper/boot-arch' and
'tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/boot-arch' ?

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Re: [arch-general] Missing Dependency virtualbox-host-dkms

[Jens Adam]

FYI: There's a recent thread on arch-dev-public:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-March/027802.html

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Re: [arch-general] Htop 2.0 fonts

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:48:22 +0100
Ralf Mardorf :

> What is the "usage graph"? Do you mean the "tree view"? If so try
> pushing F5.

F2, -> (choose a meter in one of the columns), hit SPACE (F4 in htop 1.x)

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Re: [arch-general] Newbie

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:20:40 -0600
Billy Brawner :

Hi Billy,

> Is there an Arch Web team?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Archweb


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Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

[Jens Adam]

Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:46:33 -0500
Jonathan Roemer :

> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:52:03AM -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> > Way to go on not answering the question in any way, shape, or form...
> 
> uBlock Origin [blurp]

Again, this thread is not a discussion about add-ons, but what to do
about Mozilla's new policy of enforcing signing and how it affects
seperately packaged add-ons.

I won't collect all the relevant links again.

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Re: [arch-general] linux 4.4 bad package - wont install

[Jens Adam]

Also FYI: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47753

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]

[Jens Adam]

> * linux-4.3.3-1 (i686)
> 0/1 signoffs

Can we get 4.3.x into [core] before two months are over (or before 4.4
is out)?

Consider this an user signoff; Arch [testing], default kernel (plus
tp_smapi) on a Thinkpad T60p (i686-only) with xf86-video-ati and Xfce.

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Re: [arch-general] gnupg, dirmngr and sockets

[Jens Adam]

> EDIT : why is the system gnupg directory under /etc/pacman.d ?
> Wouldn't it be better to have /etc/gnupg ?

There is no _system gnupg directory_.
pacman uses its own instance for package verification and usually
there's no need to ever fiddle with that (and in that case, use
'pacman-key').

I also never had a /root/.gnupg, no idea what you did there.

Most problems with keyserver operations are due to the fact that Arch
upgraded from GnuPG 2.0 to 2.1 at some point and many people (me
included) never got the memo about dirmngr.conf.

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Re: [arch-general] Long-term offline Arch system

[Jens Adam]

I'd do the following:

- read the homepage news
- check the bugtracker (and forums if I'm not in a hurry) for major
  kernel ("[linux] ...") issues and other still active bugs from
  that timeframe, especially those with a high priority and a large
  number of votes/comments
- run my backup script
- run pacman -Syu
- merge all *.pacnew files right away

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Re: [arch-general] jpurnalctl --setup-keys error

[Jens Adam]

Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:03:13 -0700
Dennis Anderson :

> Failed to set file attributes: Operation not supported

... corresponds to
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/src/journal/journalctl.c#L1479

I haven't checked with kernel sources, but I don't think you'll find
(m)any filesystems supporting all of those flags; seems more like a
nice-to-have wishlist.

You can check with 'lsattr' on your journal files which attributes were
applied.

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Re: [arch-general] libreoffice not work

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:29:18 +0800
mudongliang :

> $ libreoffice

Have you read the note from the last update?
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/libreoffice-fresh&id=dad0330304d72dcc0cb01b209dad0e83308bfdc0

> version not matchs here.

What?

> There are no enough error tips

The forum is full of libreoffice threads:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?action=search&keywords=libreoffice&author=&search_in=-1&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC&show_as=topics

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Re: [arch-general] glibc-2.22-4?

[Jens Adam]

Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:53 -0700
"Ian D. Scott" :

> I had a fun time fixing that by scp'ing a staically linked busybox over
> using another system, decompressing the old package with that, using
> machinectl shell to gain root access, and then running pacman with
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where I decompressed the package to restore it.  But
> then, I didn't even have to reboot!
> 
> Note to self (and others): keep a statically linked suid root copy of
> busybox handy.

Nice one! +1

I got unlucky as well but as it's just my old, not-so-important
notebook and I had the archiso USB key within arm's reach, I simply
pulled the plug.

Perfect opportunity to plug this old DynDNS host of mine:

http://allan.broke-it.net

SCNR ;-)

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Re: [arch-general] crda (more OT)

[Jens Adam]

Oh, while we're doing the OT thing anyway...

> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
> Linux voyager 3.6.2-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 12 23:58:58
>  CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Is that a joke or is that really an internet-connected computer that
hasn't seen an update for 3 years? Doesn't matter what operating system
it's running or what kind of firewall may be involved - pull the plug
and start over.

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Re: [arch-general] crda

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 3 Oct 2015 22:52:07 +0100
Peter Nikolic :

> Not sure what you have played with flow but your message is not visable
> on visable in message source 

Yeah, we know already, see Ralf's mail.
But since this wasn't the first time this has happened, perhaps one of
us Claws users should have opened a bug report about it.
And perhaps "flow" could try using UTF-8 next time, for a change.

As for the original issue:
No idea, but Google is full of similar issues for "crda" and "country
97". And I don't think this is going any further unless you tell exactly
what wifi adapter you have (from dmesg and/or lspci), what's the access
point, where you purchased both, what band (2,4/5 GHz) and channel you
have configured, and what the country setting should be (one mail you
wrote "JP", the next it was "US").
I'd strongly suggest you go over 
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration#Respecting_the_regulatory_domain
and perhaps try the part about setting the country via cfg80211 options
in modprobe.conf.

You can't suppress the logging with journald.

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Forum problem

[Jens Adam]

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:15:22 -0300
Rafael Fontenelle :

> I believe it is missing a ' in the end of the string, after letter g.

Ack, simple copy+paste fail.

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Re: [arch-general] systemd-logind: failed to get session

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:09:06 +0200
Ralf Mardorf :

> What could be the reason?

It's Xorg, run from the login manager, of course it doesn't belong to any
session. Same here with sddm.

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Re: [arch-general] Selectively enable bash completion

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 18 Sep 2015 22:05:13 +1200
Andrew Chen :

> On Sep 18, 2015 10:03 PM, "Neven Sajko"  wrote:
> >
> > Deleting the bash completion files that come with a package
> > should, I think, harmlessly disable completion for that package.
> 
> Just want to point out one problem with that method: the completion
> file will be "reinstalled" when you upgrade that package.

... which can be avoided with "NoExtract" in pacman.conf.



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Re: [arch-general] crda

[Jens Adam]

Mon, 14 Sep 2015 03:14:49 +0100 (BST)
flow :

> Why this happen?

Dunno.
Perhaps because "97" is not a country code?
See /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom.

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Re: [arch-general] Makefile possibly removed libc?

[Jens Adam]

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:13:22 +0200
Chris Sakalis :

> Hi Vattan,
> 
> You can use pacman to check what files each package is supposed to
> have. A quick google search nets me a bash script [1] to do that.
> [...]
> [1] - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34281

Yes, you can use pacman to check what files each package is supposed to
have: with pacman -Q(q)k(k), see the manpage.

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Re: [arch-general] iptutils 20150815.1b5d03a-2 and ipv4-only system

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 8 Sep 2015 14:14:31 -0600
Leonid Isaev :

> Is this a bug or a feature, and does anyone know how to make ping work
> again?

Have you tried 'ping -4'?
Yes, it's undocumented.


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Re: [arch-general] Weird glitch with X keymap

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:34:24 +0100
Mauro Santos :

> The TL;DR version is the keymap on a usb keyboard that I have connected
> to my laptop is wrong until I press any key on my laptop's keyboard.

After reading the rest of this thread (and the Xorg bug) I think I'm
affected too (PS/2 keyboard though).

I'm running KDE/Plasma with SDDM as login manager, and after bootup or
session logout the keyboard layout indicator always shows an US flag.
When I press the first key of my password it immediately switches to DE.
Always wondered why, even though I never considered it a problem.

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Re: [arch-general] ABS

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 23:18:05 +0100 (BST)
flow :

> Still can't find out yet where is avaible libreoffice-fresh 4.4.5-1

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/snapshot/packages-5cfa49f17e4149dc4d7d2d6aec2cbd11310a8b04.tar.gz

Found through exactly the same steps as described earlier.

Do you want to modify the PKGBUILD and rebuild libreoffice yourself?
Because, you know, there's also libreoffice-still 4.4.5-2 in the repos.

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Re: [arch-general] ABS

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:05:14 +0200
Jens Adam :

> Tue, 25 Aug 2015 01:44:38 +0100 (BST)
> flow :
> 
> > Where I can get old ABS content?
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Git_repositories_for_AUR3_packages
> 
> --byte

Err .. "ABS", yeah, sorry.

If you got a specific package, you could just use
<https://www.archlinux.org/packages/>:
- search your package and click on "View Changes"
- click on the commit message from the date you want
- there's a "download" link to a tar.gz containing the old PKGBUILD

Else, the whole repo history ist available at
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/

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Re: [arch-general] ABS

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 01:44:38 +0100 (BST)
flow :

> Where I can get old ABS content?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Git_repositories_for_AUR3_packages

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Re: [arch-general] motherboard change - strategies for saving current install?

[Jens Adam]

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:43:24 -0400
Aaron Laws :

> In BIOS, you can set SATA 4-5 (they're numbered base-zero) to
> "IDE" rather than "SATA". I assume this means something like the
> motherboard expects there to be a SATA->IDE adapter in there.

No, that means you're setting those ports to "IDE" / "Legacy" /
"Compatibility" mode.
There might be another option labelled "RAID", activating the
software/pseudo-RAID firmware in the motherboard's BIOS, but you'll
want to select "AHCI". It's what everybody not running the latest
PCIe/M.2 NVMe SSD cards should be using.
Also, run 'lsmod | grep ahci' on your old server; in case it's loaded
you'll have the least trouble switching mainboards because it's the
most compatible standard.

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Re: [arch-general] smartctl - 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count

[Jens Adam]

I wouldn't worry about it.

I've seen desktop HDDs with way over 5 Power_On_Hours (and
server disks running six figures) but it's depending on usage,
handling, temperatures and possibly a whole lot more. See
https://www.backblaze.com/hard-drive.html for some stats.

The things I look at first in smartctl outputs (besides "PASSED") are
self-tests and sector defects:
- run 'smartctl -t short' and 'smartctl -t long' (expect to wait 2h/TB)
- 'smartctl -A /dev/sdX | grep Sector' should show zeros

For hard disks running continously I'd recommend setting up smartd.

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Re: [arch-general] I am looking for the squid package maintainer.

[Jens Adam]

> How can I get a hold of the package maintainer?

(1): https://www.archlinux.org/
(2): "Package Search:" -> squid
(3): https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/squid/

Or:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/newtask/proj5 (Task Type: Feature Request)

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Re: [arch-general] [solved] sudo 1.8.14.p2-1 breaks gksudo

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:19:12 +0200
Ralf Mardorf :

> On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:01:54 +0200, Jens Adam wrote:
> >Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:58:18 +0200
> >Ralf Mardorf :
> >
> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45739
> >
> >Just a little bit late.
> >https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45735
> 
> Here the issue appeared with password request:
> 
> # grep -v "#" /etc/sudoers | grep [[:blank:]]
> Defaults insults
> root ALL=(ALL) ALL
> rocketmouse ALL=(ALL) ALL

I know what you're referring to, but your mails are sometimes really
hard to follow. And reading that bug (or knowing sudo) it's pretty
obvious that "nopasswd" played no role here.

> Before posting my bug report I searched for sudo and gksudo bug
> reports, but none were shown.

Some Flyspray tips: I usually check "Search in comments", "Search
details" and "All Statuses" when searching and then sort
chronologically (ID/Opened/Last Edited). Also, in this case 'gksu'
would've been the proper package name. But as that package didn't get
touched for three weeks, the most likely culprit had to be sudo anyway.

The time when I was active all day on bbs/irc/wiki giving free support
is long ago (2006-9), but I think the general consensus had always
been "bug first, talk later" ... dunno how others think about that
nowadays.

Regards,
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Re: [arch-general] sudo 1.8.14.p2-1 breaks gksudo

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 22 Jul 2015 11:58:18 +0200
Ralf Mardorf :

> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45739

Just a little bit late.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45735

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Re: [arch-general] Linux Kernel capabilities

[Jens Adam]

> > Unfortunately, it doesn't work and needed modules are not loaded
> > from container but only from host. I realized there is no #define
> > CAP_SYS_MODULE
> > in /usr/lib/modules/4.1.2-2-ARCH/build/include/linux/capability.h.

Look at /usr/include/linux/capability.h (linux-api-headers) instead.

> It was moved to include/uapi/linux/capability.h recentlyish.

Not really, more like December 2012, with kernel 3.7.

> As for your actual issue, SYS_CAP_MODULE isn't listed in the valid
> capabilities for --capability in the systemd-nspawn manpage. Are you
> perhaps confusing options?

Looking at the manpage it doesn't say "valid", it's just a list of
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Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

[Jens Adam]

> freshplayerplugin

Just to nitpick: even if it's more current (feature-wise) than
standard Adobe Linux 11.2 flashplugin, it's still Adobe Flash and
thus just as problematic regarding its security.

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Re: [arch-general] zynaddsubfx shouldn depend on jack, not jack2

[Jens Adam]

Thu, 9 Jul 2015 02:52:05 +0800
Oon-Ee Ng :

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>  wrote:
> > There might be reasons for some users to prefer zynaddsubfx over
> > yoshimi, but following several audio related Linux mailing list, I
> > got the impression that most musicians are in favour of yoshimi.
> > Btw. I'm one of them, but I guess I still didn't vote, so there
> > likely will be one addition vote for yoshimi within the next days.
> >
> > Zynaddsubfx should be replaced with yoshimi.
> >
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yoshimi/
> > https://aur4.archlinux.org/packages/yoshimi/
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> 
> That may be true, but its totally unrelated to the topic of this
> thread.

Fixed anyway:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/zynaddsubfx&id=a25e22cf300624630d5f8c3a996656c05dd52ea8

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Re: [arch-general] Chromium refuses to start

[Jens Adam]

Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:45:51 -0700
Michael Rasmussen :

> On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 10:31:18PM +0300, Octavian Florea wrote:
> > You need to remove the perl-scalar-list-utils package. Not
> > documented anywhere, but it it this package that owns that
> > particular file, and is no longer needed.
> 
> Doing that breaks cpan. (which also had the same breakage as
> Chromium) Still searching out a fix. 

Then your system has other issues. Read
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-June/039381.html
again.

The current perl 5.22 provides perl-scalar-list-utils=1.41, see
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/perl&id=8c29b8ad5325e2044fc6767067f90e30d0dffe69
and 'pacman -Qo pacman -Qo /usr/lib/perl5/*/auto/List/Util/Util.so'.

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Re: [arch-general] systemd new dependencies impede using OpenRC

[Jens Adam]

Thu, 2 Jul 2015 00:43:13 +0200
Guus Snijders :

> > Why in the world should util-linux require systemd!? Why do all
> > these packages need it when they were fine without it before?  
> 
> The first question is a relatively simple, technical question. My
> guess is that the util-linux won't currently run without system
> installed, hence the dependancy. Arch packages are usually quite
> 'clean' in that respect. It's probably possible to recompile it
> without that dependency for this specific case.

A little fiddling with 'pacman -Qql util-linux' and 'ldd' reveals that
the only tools linked to (lib)systemd are 'logger', 'lslogins' and
'uuidd'.

Aside from that: Yes, some packages do have too broad dependencies
(e.g. systemd instead of libsystemd) and it certainly didn't help
that udev became part of systemd, but in the end the train we're on
drove off long ago, so until systemd's successor arrives on the scene
it's probably best to accustom yourself to it and test it until all
the bugs and edge cases are accounted for.

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Re: [arch-general] pacman mirrorlist update

[Jens Adam]

Hi Francis,

no idea.

I tend to ignore mirrorlist updates and use the website generator
from time to time, no real schedule:
https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?country=all&protocol=https&ip_version=6&use_mirror_status=on
The single mirror I'll then pick from that list offers a good
compromise between its score and hop count/speed (not using any tools).

But just look at what has changed and decide for yourself:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pacman-mirrorlist&id=5371b0c979e5a0c3f1934e24637cf87a43145f39

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Re: [arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

[Jens Adam]

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45282

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:39:24 -0500
Francis Gerund :

> [localuser@localhost ~]$ systemctl status shadow
>shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files
>Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static;
> vendor preset: disabled)
>Active: inactive (dead)
> 
> I am having some difficulty trying to find information on this.
> Bottom line: is this a problem, that I need to fix, or is it
> something that is normal and can just be ignored?

The information is in /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.*
It's a daily OneShot service (replacing a daily cronjob from
pre-systemd-times) running 'pwck -r' and 'grpck -r', so run these
commands manually and see what they're complaining about.

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Re: [arch-general] lxde setting problems

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 6 Jun 2015 22:29:04 +
AC :

> Hello Jens,

Hi .
 
> I'm not sure whether you understood everything correctly or took
> everything I wrote personally.

I was just in the mood for some offtopic banter, sorry for that.
 
> Can you explain to us how a person that claims to have many
> professional skills and a lot of experience is unable to find
> the answers via some search engine.
> 
> Why did his website and the wayback machine links dissapeared
> approximately 1 hour after my reply ?

I can't explain that - because there were no such claims or links in
the mail text. Even if there would've been a link in a signature, who
cares to follow that, 10%?!

But just in case somebody got curious: PM me off-list if you want to
know the background of '1000'.

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Re: [arch-general] lxde setting problems

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 6 Jun 2015 17:53:06 +
AC :

> Hey archers,
> 
> I would like to note you not to answer such questions; ever.

Hey Archers,

and I would like you to ignore such bullshit. Now what?

> I will constrain myself for a while as my gutt is
> telling me that there is something fishy here and this person is
> a spy or goverment employee.

Why the f**k should anybody here (or on any other mailing list) care
about somebody's profession or anything else except the posted problem?

> As matter of fact, will exchange my email address.

I strongly advise you to unsubscribe from the internet. You know, there
are other people, and the US military even helped designing it.

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Re: [arch-general] "error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback"

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 29 May 2015 18:15:58 +0200
Ralf Mardorf :

> Do I have to run local-gen after or before I edit /etc/locale.conf?
> My understanding is that I have to run locale-gen first and then I
> need to edit /etc/locale.conf.

You only run 'locale-gen' after editing '/etc/locale.gen'.
'/etc/locale.conf' has nothing to do with that.

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Re: [arch-general] pam upgrade and systemd

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 23 May 2015 13:39:00 +0200
Alad Wenter :

> arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org schreef op 2015-05-19 14:00:
> 
> > Anyone have a system they haven't upgraded in ~24hrs to give it a
> > further test, see if logins are broken after the pam upgrade?
> > 
> > -te
> 
> I've had similar issues, except it broke systemctl --user
> functionality. systemctl daemon-reexec didn't work. For now I've
> downgraded to Pam 1.1.9.
> 
> Can you try rebuilding systemd with ABS (perhaps it only needs to be 
> linked against the new PAM version)
> 
> Alad

This isn't about downgrading or rebuilding, but rather about sub-par
information. If you're upgrading a bunch of packages (your usual -Syu)
with 'pam' being one of many and it's not echoing any hint or warning
about a soname change, well, duh. PAM is such an essential library
that I wouldn't bother with identifying which services and programs
need to be reloaded, but rather simply reboot. I overlooked it too,
until I discovered I couldn't unlock xscreensaver.

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Re: [arch-general] mono tray icons in plasma 5

[Jens Adam]

Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:45:40 -0400
Jameson :

> Any ideas?

Yes: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE#System_tray_icons

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing]

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:25:13 +0100
Alajos O'Doyle :

> Seriously though, are there other packages needed first? What's the 
> reason for holding this back so long? Maybe I don't understand the 
> procedure very well...

I went looking through  
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/?h=packages/linux
and it seems to be a very rare occasion that a (.0)-1 kernel package
would get moved to [core] - the last one was 3.12-1.

But since 3.19.1 is out now, it's probably just a few more days.

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Re: [arch-general] Arch linux doesn't recognises micro SD card

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:36:59 +0100
Csányi Pál :

> mmcblk0: error -84 transferring data, sector 7, nr 1, cmd response
> 0x900, card status 0x0
> Buffer I/O error on dev mmcblk0, logical block 0, async page read

This clearly indicates a hardware/kernel problem, so I don't know why
people are suggesting to paste random config snippets that won't solve
anything.

Simple googling will produce dozens of similar problems, most without
solution.

My guess: Your card reader (which one? lspci/lsusb/dmesg? laptop type and
age?) or its firmware is simply too old to recognize the card.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital#Compatibility

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Re: [arch-general] startx failed: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Operation not permitted

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 6 Feb 2015 12:14:28 +0100
Csányi Pál :

> I looked into kernel log with 'dmesg | less' and searched for NVIDIA.
> I found followings:
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> nvidia disagrees about version of symbol node_data
> nvidia: Unknown symbol node_data (err -22)
> 
> What can I do to solve this problem?

If a reboot didn't fix it (for unloading/blacklisting nouveau), I'd say
post a bug report so that nvidia-304xx-lts gets rebuilt.

For that's what it seems to be, looking at the last bug about "symbol
node_data" and comparing the build dates of linux-lts and the different
nvidia packages.

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Re: [arch-general] filesystem package update

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 1 Nov 2014 14:17:50 +0100
Maximilian Kaul :

> Is there anything else I have to pay attention to?

If 'testdb' and 'pacman -Qqk' don't report anything you're good.

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Re: [arch-general] qupzilla

[Jens Adam]

Easy, easy ...

First - you don't lose anything, just rename the files back and you're
good to go.

Second - it's already fixed in 1.8.2, see
https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/commit/ef6842b9d7ed5ec29a3f44ada3b609254764f10f
(that diff -> first facepalm of the day)

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Re: [arch-general] Regarding CUPS in [testing]

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:31:38 +0530
Savya :

> The CUPS package in testing changes the names of two systemd
> service/socket files from cupsd.service and cups.{socket,service,path}
> to org.cups.cupsd.{socket,service,path}. It is indeed quite frightening
> to try to print something and to find out that cups.socket does not
> exist. Can this transition be eased over through a cups.install or
> something?

Erm, there's already a cups.install message:
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/cups.install?h=packages/cups#n16

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Re: [arch-general] packages and configuration required to send e-mails from php.

[Jens Adam]

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:04:00 +1100
mick :

> I suspect that php & drupal are working but I need something in the way
> of a mail server set up for them to work through.

Don't "suspect". Especially when you have little to no experience with
server software it's paramount to check the logs. Even when at first you
don't understand what's getting logged, it's important there are logfiles
in the first place.

> The Postfix was package was installed as a dependancy of something I
> installed but the help files seem to me to require a sound
> understanding of e-mail systems and their jargon which I don't have.

Right, don't treat email as some minor dependency; a proper mailserver
setup takes its time, probably moreso than any wiki, CMS or other web
thingie.

The easiest route would probably mean to install a minimal MTA providing 
/usr/bin/sendmail, like 'msmtp-mta' or 'nullmailer', and to configure it
to forward mails through some existing mail account of yours.
You might need to tweak the envelope sender address of the generated
mails on your server or test with several different mail accounts as some
providers don't forward mails from external domains, but all that is
still way simpler than hosting your own Postfix.

But in case you also need/want to _receive_ emails ... well, then there's
no way around to learn at least the basics of Postfix/SMTP/DNS/etc.

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] lists.archlinux.org mailing list memberships reminder

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 1 Oct 2014 13:08:44 +0100
Leonidas Spyropoulos :
> 
> I noticed the message contain the password in plain text. Is this
> possible to be removed?

That's an age-old issue with Mailman and will finally be remedied with
Mailman version 3.x.

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Re: [arch-general] Dependency Hell

[Jens Adam]

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:30 -0400
Chris Tonkinson :

> It's not immediately obvious to me how to combine IgnorePkg,
> HoldPkg, and NoUpgrade to achieve the desired result.

They have nothing to do with each other, so you don't "combine" them.

'NoUpgrade' is intended for local files (that are not specified in a
'backup' array in a package) which should never be overwritten by pacman.
In 8 years with Arch I don't think I've ever used that option; it's
usually only a matter of hours/days from filing a bug and convincing the
maintainer to consider something as config/'backup' file to a new pkg.

'HoldPkg' is kind of a last resort measure to keep you from doing
something really stupid and only concerns the package removal process.

With what you're trying to achieve, 'IgnorePkg' is the only thing to
consider.

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Re: [arch-general] How do I _really_ fix the superblock?

[Jens Adam]

Sat, 07 Jun 2014 13:36:08 +0200
Ralf Mardorf :

> Could systemd be the culprit?

Yes.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40706

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Re: [arch-general] Coredumps in zsh

[Jens Adam]

Wed, 4 Jun 2014 20:02:48 +0900
Savyasachee Jha :

> Is there any particular reason why this might be happening?

Output of 'limit core' in your zsh?
And 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern'?

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