Re: [arch-general] Nvidia backlight control - acpi_video0/brightness changes - display doesn't?
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 02:00:11 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > [snip a whole bunch of maundering] xrandr does not adjust the backlight. It adjusts the brightness, which while it may have the same visible effect may have negative effects on battery life and component wear compared to proper backlight adjustment. acpi_backlight=vendor is the default, acpi_backlight=none is invalid. The option you are looking for is acpi_backlight=video, which takes the backlight control away from the vendor driver and hands it back over to the standard ACPI backlight driver. This will generally solve the issue you are having. ~Celti pgpE0tfBH1tNz.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Cannot no longer resolve local hostname with the new nsswitch.conf
On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 18:01:32 +0100 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > > $ getent -s resolve hosts $(hostname) > > this should fail since you don't have the resolved service running. nss-resolve will chainload nss-dns when systemd-resolved is not running (see `man 8 nss-resolve`). > but, when using `hosts: files mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns > myhostname` standard resolving should then go to the dns source, and > then to the myhostname source. The `resolve [!UNAVAIL=return]` entry in the new default nsswitch.conf causes NSS to /only/ continue down the list if the nss-resolve module is /not available/; i.e., in a standard Arch setup nss-resolve will always be queried, and pass the query on to systemd-resolved if it is running, or fall back to nss-dns if it is not. Nothing after the conditional will be queried — that is, in this configuration myhostname will /always/ be skipped unless nss-resolve fails to load. See `man 5 nsswitch.conf` for details on how the conditional works. There is actually a sensible reason for this: if both `resolve` and `dns` are in there without the conditional, querying a non-existent DNS record will cause the query to go out twice: once for nss-resolve and once for nss-dns, because a NOTFOUND result automatically falls back to the next item in the chain (that is, from nss-resolve to nss-dns). Sensible solution: change the hosts line as follows. hosts: files myhostname mymachines resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns Or if you you use Zeroconf (Avahi)... hosts: files myhostname mymachines mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns ~Celti pgpAotMpvEZcR.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[arch-general] ensuring integrity of sources (was: [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources)
On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:16:21 +0100 Levente Polyak wrote: > On 10/31/2016 04:03 PM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > > As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at > > least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing > > PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, > > OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to > > sign a simple list sha256sums. > > > > Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that > > contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) > > of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum > > of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? > > > > That is literally a _completely_ different topic that addresses > _completely_ different areas. > You are speaking about authenticating the build scripts itself. That > does not solve _anything_ at all what this thread/topic/todo-list is > about. It really is not. I am not speaking of authenticating the build scripts; both this thread and my proposal are talking about ensuring the integrity of downloaded source files. Specifically, I am speaking of cryptographically signing the checksums for source files downloaded by the build scripts, so that they download what the author of the build script _intended_ them to download. This is presumably the same reason for ensuring sources are downloaded via HTTPS instead of HTTP, where possible — adding a cryptographic authentication to ensure someone building a package does not get sources without being aware they are modified: only embedding signatures in the PKGBUILD is trusting the Arch devs via the pacman keyring or parallel method, instead of the (flawed) CA system. If there is another reason to switch to HTTPS, please — make me aware of it! Also the very first reply in the thread talked about adding upstream signatures instead of changing the protocol, where possible — only not every upstream offers or _wants_ to offer them, so I proposed, in response to a prompt for discussion on the subject in the mail I quoted, a way to make that feasible. > Don't get me wrong: I don't judge about it at all, I'm just saying > that both are fully independent from each other and you should please > open a new thread if you want to discuss this rather then hijack this > thread :) I really, really don't think they're independent from each other, and as I'm not authorised to post on arch-dev-public and didn't expect to draw this out into a conversation, I simply replied to the thread on arch-general. Bowing to peers, however... et voila: a new thread. ~Celti pgpQuhZs9eaZH.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources
On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:19:40 +0100 NicoHood wrote: > Using PGP signatures is another discussion, also the hash algorithm. I > think we should discuss that in another post, appart from https. From > my point of view its highly important to use a strong hash function > as its highly important for the source integrity and not only meant > as checksum for corruption detection. And as always: more secure does > not hurt nowadays Not a dev, here, but... I strongly think that source integrity should not rely on hash functions alone. makepkg already includes validation of PGP-signed sources, but it's perhaps not reasonable to expect every upstream to offer signed sources. As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to sign a simple list sha256sums. Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? ~Celti pgpp69w4ZogEY.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)
On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 05:48:29 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > On 10/29/2016 01:18 AM, Uwe via arch-general wrote: > > Hi > > > > Just to clarify: do you really boot from BIOS via MBR or do you use > > UEFI (and are therefore in need of GPT)? > 100% MBR/BIOS BOOT no UEFI used by either the Win10 OS disk I took > out, or the new Arch disk I put it. I checked in windows with: > > bcdedit /emum The laptop model you gave *does* use UEFI, but is early enough in HP's endeavours to implement it that it's buggy as hell. I suggest you fire up `msinfo32` in Windows and look for the “BIOS Mode” entry to confirm you're in ‘Legacy’ mode and not UEFI mode. > Another curious part of the drive/boot problem, is the HP "drive > test" which happily scans over the drive holding Arch, but will just > never assign it a number. For thoroughness, I tried configuring drive > access as IDE from AHCI -- no help. That is likely a matter of partitioning and filesystems; the HP drive test is a UEFI application and if you partitioned your drive as MBR and filled it with filesystems it doesn't recognise, it might ignore it. I can't confirm that, though; it's been far too long since I've ran Linux on an HP laptop of that era. > As yet another test, I reinstalled the 128G windows drive, it > continues to boot fine. Any other thoughts? I suggest you double-check the partitioning and possible presence of an EFI system partition on that Windows drive from within your Arch install. If both msinfo and the partitioning confirm it's not UEFI, then I suggest you a) make sure the firmware is up-to-date, and b) comb through the firmware settings and make sure that it's fully in Legacy/BIOS mode and not Hybrid UEFI/BIOS mode; the latter is the cause of most such problems, in my experience. ~Celti pgpSKsqmTK5xM.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] yaourt doesn't upgrade aur-packages anymore
On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:18:41 +0200 Apfelkuchen wrote: > on my systems yaourt won't upgrade packages I installed from the aur. > For instance etherpad-lite. When I do First off, questions about the AUR go to the aur-general mailing list. > > 1 aur/etherpad-lite 1.6.0-0 [installed: 1:1.5.7-3] (20) (0,17) > [...] > Do you have a glue, what's fishy with yaourt? Look closely at those version numbers, then `man PKGBUILD` and search for "epoch". ~Celti pgpontMty2jOo.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Libarchive 3.2
On Tue, 24 May 2016 00:42:32 +0200 Federico Di Pierro wrote: > Hi! > > I see that libarchive is still at 3.1.2 which is 3 years old, while > latest version is now 3.2, released circa a month ago. > I already saw it is tagged as out of date, but still it has not been > updated. > > So...is there any issue blocking its update? Or is just packager away > for some time? :) > > Thanks everyone! > Federico AFAIK the maintainer is active (he's pushed packages as recently as the 14th) — but pacman depends on libarchive for most of what it does, thus I imagine everyone is being extra-careful about making sure it works before a new version hits [core]. ~Celti pgpquqO54_lGk.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Console FB conflicts with xorg
On Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:57:55 -0300 Sebastián Pedersen wrote: > Hi, > > When I put in my grub configuration: > > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep > > and consequently get framebuffer for the console, then xorg vesa > driver not render properly, and the fbdev xorg driver stops working > the DPMS. > > But If I comment that grub line, evething works fine. > > The problem is that I use a lot a framebuffer console, and also xorg. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. Your best bet is going to be to build the sisfb module for your kernel. That's usually a bit of a pain, but you're in luck, because I wanted to figure out how to do DKMS for in-tree modules... and so I present to you the brand new AUR package linux-sisfb-dkms [1]. Now, I don't actually have a compatible card to test it with, but it modprobes okay so I think I did it right. Anyway, install that, ensure it automatically loads on boot by adding it to modules-load.d, and configure it to use the video mode you want according to the docs [2]. That'll typically be something like the following in a modprobe.d snippet: options sisfb mode=1024x768x32 Hope that all gets you working! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-sisfb-dkms/ [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/Documentation/fb/sisfb.txt ~Celti pgpLAqdpTqDfq.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files
On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:08:46 -0700 Kyle Terrien wrote: > So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to > Firefox. (Bleh!) > > [...] > > In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files > go), there were several files in the format > userapp--.desktop. > > userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop > userapp-Pale Moon-1HNY8X.desktop > userapp-SeaMonkey-YV09AY.desktop > userapp-Thunderbird-PIZCZW.desktop If I'm not mistaken, those files and their associated mimeinfo entries are created every time you set Firefox/SeaMonkey/PaleMoon as you default browser, as the mechanism of such. ~Celti pgpNeeJCAZmiu.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border
On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 09:13:28 +0100 Wolfgang Mader wrote: > [snip] > For my needs, I want to run "usual" software, specifically R, the > statistics language. Utlimately, I want to bind several physical > hosts together to appear as one host on OS level, such that e.g. htop > would show the total number of cores accross all bound boxes. What you're describing is a classic clustering environment, like a Beowulf cluster. Look into something like LinuxPMI/OpenMosix. It'll never be as smooth as "a single OS on a single logical host across multiple machines", but it's as close as you'll get. ~Celti pgpOSOFzvVcxg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal
On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 01:58:19 +0100 Ivan wrote: > Hello, I have a proposal for Arch Linux developers and by mailing > on this list I would also appreciate feedback from non-developers that > use Arch Linux. > Note: I am not here to hate on the current status, nor > to disapprove of current Arch choices. > [snip] The big question you have to answer, the one you need to start with, is: Why is it in the Arch dev's interests to maintain two init systems and that much more area for incompatibility, that many more packages and bugs to wrangle? Especially if they are happy using systemd? Nobody could answer that question a few years ago, so the original Arch initscripts were dropped in favour of a systemd-only distro. If you have a serious answer, by all means, present it — but that *is* the stumbling block here. ~Celti pgpAM4VFXloKj.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 11:53:45 -0800 Kyle Terrien wrote: > It's amazing how the pattern of removing features and changing things > arbitrarily for the "greater good" is spreading around nowadays. It > has invaded Firefox recently. Mozilla is talking about deprecating > XUL this year. Deprecating XUL (and XPCOM) actually has a good and logical reason, which is making Firefox properly threadable and removing many security holes that the present architecture has. It's not change for the sake of change (which I will admit some Firefox changes have been) — it is change for the sake of keeping up with the modern world. ~Celti pgpjV8Vbu1v0W.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] archwiki - PHP page, no longer a recommended config for php and apache?
On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 21:53:46 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: >Where the confusion lies, is there are no longer *any* suggested > configurations for plain PHP (from the traditional php package) and > Apache? Does this mean that the combination of plain php and apache > is no longer recommended/supported on Arch or has the earlier content > of wiki just been deleted for some other reason? Are the other > configurations for using the normal php package with apache still > fine, but will no longer be mentioned in the arch wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apache_HTTP_Server#PHP pgpJvLntnrtim.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] aurweb is not synchronized with AUR4
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:23:36 + Roman Rader wrote: > Noticed that when I update package via git for AUR4 information about > package is not updating on aurweb. > For example: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vagga-bin AND > https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=vagga-bin > > Version and dependencies in PKGBUILD updated, but web shows old ones. > > And 'yaourt' also shows old versions, btw. Did you update your .SRCINFO files when you updated the PKGBUILD? ~Celti pgp4ok1GcCWET.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] PHP - libphp5.so, OR php-fpm and mod_proxy_fcgi, OR php5 with apache2-mpm-worker and mod_fcgid
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:01:22 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: >What is the proper-suggested PHP configuration? Is libphp5.so > still on its way out? (there is no indication this is still the > case). I have a relatively lightly used web-server, so the use of > mod_mpm_prefork and loss of threading is not an issue with my setup. libphp5.so doesn't work out of the box anymore. It is effectively deprecated, and the fact that it's still on the wiki page is simply due to the wiki not being constantly updated. >Why would I choose either php-fpm and mod_proxy_fcgi, or php5 with > apache2-mpm-worker and mod_fcgid as an alternative to libphp5.so for > my PHP config on Arch? I use php-fpm and mod_proxy_fcgi as the simplest "just works" setup. See the Apache wiki page and use the SetHandler version of the setup. ~Celti pgpYrquWK_tsv.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Linux Kernel capabilities
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 12:20:39 +0200 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I build my own kernel with ABS. > > To allow my nspawn container to load kernel modules, I must add this > to nspawn unit file: > --capability=CAP_SYS_MODULE. > > 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. > > Is this specific to the arch kernel ? > > Thank you for hints. > It was moved to include/uapi/linux/capability.h recentlyish. 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? Regards, ~Celti pgpvSTOgRO2gB.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > On 2014-12-16 20:40, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: >> I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the >> supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let >> alone boot from them. It's still relevant. > > Interesting. Care to name-and-shame said firmware? > > (I don't necessarily think it influences the decision, even so. Surely > the Beginner's Guide should be optimized for the common case rather than > edge cases, as yours probably was?) It was a bottom-of-the-line Hewlett-Packard mini-tower — one of the very last models that still shipped with Windows 7 as an option. Given how many people are still using Windows 7 and might want to upgrade to Linux rather than (shudder) Windows 8, I don't think that's an uncommon case at all. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning
On 2014-12-16 19:58, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > So, now my question: is there anyone who has had bad experiences with > fdisk and GPT partitions, where gdisk was superior? Or any other objections > why we should keep gdisk instructions in the Beginners' guide? The only shortcoming I've run across is fdisk is less capable than gdisk with hybrid MBRs and can't do GPT->MBR conversion at all. The former is not something a Beginner's Guide user should be touching, in my opinion; the latter may be useful for those who accidentally create GPT disks when they need an MBR instead. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Jakub Klinkovský wrote: > On 16.12.14 at 20:15, Bardur Arantsson wrote: >> Speaking from complete ignorance... do significant numbers of people >> still use MBR for non-obsolete platforms/machines? > > The Beginners' guide still applies to people with "obsolete" hardware... I had to use MBR on a relatively recent machine because the supposedly-UEFI firmware refused to even recognise GPT disks, let alone boot from them. It's still relevant. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Problem with audio
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:11 AM, edson duarte wrote: > and MPD works fine but when I try to use other programs like VLC, there > is no sound but by restarting MPD's service sound works again. Are you using PulseAudio? It may be that MPD is starting PulseAudio, and because systemd --user daemons run outside the user session you can't access the running PulseAudio from within your session without restarting MPD. If this is the case, I recommend following the instructions at [1] to send the audio from MPD to your user session (ignore the fact that it's written to use different users; it will work fine without that). ~Celti [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MPD/Tips_and_Tricks#Local_.28with_separate_mpd_user.29
Re: [arch-general] stunnel 5.06-1 vs systemd
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > Work around is to add these 2 lines to /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.conf > before the ExecStart line: > > ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/mkdir /run/stunnel > ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/chown -R stunnel:stunnel /run/stunnel Shouldn't that rather be handled by a tmpfiles.d snippet, and not in the service file? Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager attribute but doesn't use ipv6
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Yamakaky wrote: >>> If I'm not mistaken on how this works (in comparison with my setup) it >>> looks like you're missing a default route. >>> >>> Try `ip -6 route add default via *:*:*:*::/64 dev wifi`. >> >> Erm, my apologies for not double-checking my post, that should have >> been "*:*:*:*::1", not /64, for the (probable) ipv6 gateway. >> > It works ! Now how can I automate this in nm ? While I'm not certain (my IPv6 routing is handled by AICCU and not NetworkManager), I believe you just need to add that *::1 address as the IPv6 gateway in your connection information. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager attribute but doesn't use ipv6
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Yamakaky wrote: >> ip -6 route >> >> *:*:*:*::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 303 mtu 1480 >> fe80::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 256 > > If I'm not mistaken on how this works (in comparison with my setup) it > looks like you're missing a default route. > > Try `ip -6 route add default via *:*:*:*::/64 dev wifi`. Erm, my apologies for not double-checking my post, that should have been "*:*:*:*::1", not /64, for the (probable) ipv6 gateway. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager attribute but doesn't use ipv6
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Yamakaky wrote: > ip -6 route > > *:*:*:*::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 303 mtu 1480 > fe80::/64 dev wifi proto kernel metric 256 If I'm not mistaken on how this works (in comparison with my setup) it looks like you're missing a default route. Try `ip -6 route add default via *:*:*:*::/64 dev wifi`. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE when adding an ECDSA key
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >> ECDSA SSH keys in gpg-agent broke with libgcrypt 1.6+. You can get >> them working again by building gnupg from git. > > I hit the same issue. Do you know what gnupg upstream commit fixes this > problem? I'm afraid I don't, sorry; I haven't had the time or inclination to go digging for it, I just know that it worked when I tested it with the git version a few weeks ago after running into the issue myself. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent: SSH_AGENT_FAILURE when adding an ECDSA key
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Magnus Therning wrote: > According to what I've found gpg-agent's ssh-agent should, as of > version 2.0.21, support ECDSA keys, but still I can't add such a key: > > Am I doing something wrong here, or should I just use ssh-agent from OpenSSH > instead (or stop using ECDSA keys)? ECDSA SSH keys in gpg-agent broke with libgcrypt 1.6+. You can get them working again by building gnupg from git. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Starting gpg-agent from systemd?
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > I have a feeling this ought to be solvable using systemd but I can't > really see how. Writing a service for gpg-agent is not that > difficult, and it creates the required environment file without > problems. But, how do I hook it in to the user login in the right > way? Who should be wanting my gpg-agent.service, and then load the > generated file using EnvironmentFile=? Rather than starting it purely with systemd, have you looked into using Envoy [1] and using its PAM module to ensure it gets propagated to the entire login session? Regards, ~Celti [1]: https://github.com/vodik/envoy
Re: [arch-general] Why is it dangerous to run makepkg as root?
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Roland Tapken wrote: > My first guess was that the PKGBUILD usually comes from an untrusted source > and > may contain code to attack my system (copy personal data or install a rootkit > or something like that). I think that the point isn't that you're not supposed to run makepkg as root to protect against *malicious* packages, but rather to protect aganst *badly written* ones. There are of course many ways that a malicious package could get around that to hose your system, but a simple badly written package that spews files directly into /usr instead of into $pkgdir is easily thwarted by not having the permissions necessary to do so. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Failure to resume on kernel >3.9.9
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:54 AM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > Hi list, > > [unnecessary babble clipped] Hi again list, Just wanted to say that this is partially fixed with 3.12.7 (or possibly a bit earlier, haven't tested) and the radeon driver: the screen stays off and nothing short of a reboot will reactivate it; and fully fixed with 3.12.7 and fglrx. Time for me to go update bug reports. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Failure to resume on kernel >3.9.9
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > Sounds like https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61781 That showed up in 3.11 and is fixed by reverting to 3.10, and also appears to be i686 only. I did find an Ubuntu bug-report for the same apparent issue last night, but with no helpful information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1238203. ~Celti
[arch-general] Failure to resume on kernel >3.9.9
Hi list, I realise this email comes with a deplorable paucity of informaton, but I haven't found *any* logs relating to this event. I also realise I've waited what may be considered overlong to ask for help, but I was hoping the bug would be fixed in a later kernel release and it wasn't. Google has failed me, so now I come to you for help. My laptop is an HP Pavilion g7. The system suspends normally, but fails to resume leaving a powered-off screen and no responsiveness to keyboard input, including the magic sysrq, but the caps lock light turns on and off. At first I suspected fglrx, but it happens with or without fglrx loaded, and with or without nomodeset on the kernel command line. Further, it happens identically inside or outside of X. I tried git-bisect on the kernel but gave up after many hours of compiling and testing — anyone know of a faster/easier way to do this? I'm currently running kernel 3.9.8, but am perfectly willing to update again and generate a failure to provide any logs someone thinks may help — I haven't found anything, but I may not be looking in the right place. Thank you, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Best way for PKGBUILD to depend on another PKGBUILD (not a package)
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Nowaker wrote: > coreutils depends on libattr and libcap. Because of the nature of static > compilation libattr.a and libcap.a files are needed during the build. My > package defines PKGBUILDs from [core] repo as source=(), performs `makepkg`, > and provides -L for coreutils make during build(). [2] Something bugs me about calling makepkg from within a PKGBUILD. I would make attr-static and libpcap-static packages that don't strip the static libs when packaging and depend on those. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] How to safe configs to another path than ~
If your apps all follow XDG specifications you could set $XDG_CONFIG_HOME to cause them to put their configuration elsewhere. Regards, ~Celti On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 03:28 -0600, Chris Moline wrote: >> > A way to get configs >> > >> to /music/production_0001, /music/production_0002 ... /music/production_ >> > is what I need. >> >> I'm wondering what apps specifically do you use? I think we can help >> you better if we know what those are. > > For example Qtractor, but I don't have a list of apps I'm using, I want > be able to handle the app that will be written tomorrow too. > > For Qtractor it's easy to find the configuration > in /home/rocketmouse/.config/rncbc.org/, so I could copy and restore it, > but I hope there's a better way, than to do it like this. > HOME=/path/foo app > might work for some apps. > >
Re: [arch-general] short hangs
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:09 AM, János Illés wrote: > Here's the symptoms: > Everything freeze. It takes 5-15 seconds and everything goes back to normal. > But, the freeze is only visual, sound/music playback works continously, I > can ssh to the machine, even the mouse moves and changes (!) accordingly if > I hover something. Only the displayed content freezes, sometimes in the > middle of an animation. I would check cpupower, laptop-mode-tools, or other power-saving tools; I have the same thing happen on my system, but only when running on battery when all the power-saving stuff is active. Regards, ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Set terminus as a system font
On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 9:55 AM, wrote: > Hello. > > I installed Terminus from a source tarball and successfully set it as > a console font (in /etc/vconsole.conf). > > How can I set it as a default system-wide monospace font? I've found > this tutorial: http://orford.org/gtk/#fonts, but it doesn't explain > how to use several fonts (is it possible?). The easiest way to install Terminus system-wide is to remove those files you added and run pacman -S terminus-font. It's in community. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> I believe the logind equivalent to ck-launch-session is having
>
> session required pam_loginuid.so
> session required pam_systemd.so
>
> in whatever pam service is being used: /etc/pam.d/{gdm,lightdm,sshd,...}.
> pam_loginuid is not strictly necessary, but recommended.
Don't forget that if you're using startx you'll need to make sure the
vt X is using is the same one you logged in on:
startx -- vt1
Alternatively, one can craft a .xserverrc to automatically pass the
right vt option to X.
~Celti
Re: [arch-general] systemd pulseaudio
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:48 AM, gt wrote: > And, I don't see any extra [arch-general] in the subject. so you forgot > to add it again :D No, the mailing list just doesn't add it again if it's already there. If it didn't you'd see steadily growing strings of "[arch-general] [arch-general]" in the subject, and nobody wants that. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Alternative to Shutter application
On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know a screenshot taking and snipping application, > similar to the Shutter (http://shutter-project.org/), but 'more suckless'. Scrot fits your list of feature requirements in 56KB. It's in extra. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Campaign against Secure Boot
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Geoffroy PLANQUART wrote: > Did anyone sign it? I've got problem once submitting, I'm redirected to > crm.fsf.org which says that I must be logged in :/ > > Am I the only one? You're definitely not the only one, I'm having the same issue. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Bash/term takes long time at first run each boot?
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote: > When I run any terminal emulator for the first time after a reboot, it takes > a long time for Bash to come up, the window is blank for 10-20 seconds. On > a quad AMD X4 with 4G RAM. Started after updates, don't know which ones. > Anyone got a suggestion, or a good way to diagnose? I don't have any such problem on a fully updated system. I'd check your profile for any commands that are taking a long time to execute. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] TK related GUI program run VERY slow, any idea?
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:31 PM, wrote: > Thanks for your kindness reply! > > I'm almost sure that it is not the swap partition's problem. > My KDE runs prefectly, but when any GUI program which use TK library starts, > the hard disk will keep busy for VERY long time, and the keyboard can not > input > into other program for a long time. When the TK related GUI program > initialization > finished, It runs ok, except the same thing occurs when it pop up any > diaglogs (for > example, aMSN automatically pop up a notice box when a new friend appear > online). > > I have not log info currently. And it needs some time to get more info about > it... This might be a long shot, but could you have an environment variable or something set that's triggering a debug state? Maybe lots of logfile writing? ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Console font not working anymore
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:34 AM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > Second issue: when I activate the framebuffer with some default > resolution (say 1024x768 vga=773), the font is set properly, but it > is not kept: a few seconds after setting the font, the screen > resolution changes and the font goes back to the default. Once the > computer has finished booting, if I log in as root, source > /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.d/functions, then call set_consolefont > manually, the console fonts are set properly and kept until I reboot. The framebuffer is reset because KMS is enabled. I would remove any 'vga' line from your config and try enabling early KMS in your initcpio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Mode_Setting#Early_KMS_start ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD "provides" not handled correctly?
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:08, Norbert Zeh wrote: > Now I'm confused: linux-lts-local provides linux-lts, and the version is > 3.0.29-1. So why does pacman complain? Any pointers are much appreciated. You need to provide a specific version of linux-lts, I believe. An unversioned provides won't match a versioned dependency. Try provides=(linux-lts=3.0.29) ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Old packages
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 00:25, Guillermo Leira wrote: > Hello! > > I've seen that I have some very old packages installed: > > [...] > > How can I find which packages are they? Try `pacman -Qi | grep -B15 -A3 "Fecha de instal.*2009"` ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 13:51, David C. Rankin wrote: > Same results. I'm back to 0.24.2-1 and scratching my head. Any other ideas? The bug report mentioned that they needed to restart the entire X server after reverting that commit. Did you do that, or just restart thunderbird after downgrading? ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Solved! Re: Help needed to find a system/graphics related bug in my Music Notation Editor. (Little time and effort for you)
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 18:11, Nils wrote: > With much help from the Archlinux Mailing List (they all have Python3) I > think I have found the problem and its solution. > Fontscaling in the graphic area for different dpi than 96x96 is now > forbidden. The fonts remain the same pixel size. > You are still very welcome to try it out after a git pull! I hope that > everybody now has the correct scaling and shifting. Scales fine here now. > Thank you all for trying! Glad I could help! ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Help needed to find a system/graphics related bug in my Music Notation Editor. (Little time and effort for you)
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:35, Nils wrote:
> You will see 5 lines and a symbol. The symbol must be perfectly alingned
> within the five lines (one pixel above can be tolerated). It should look like
> this: http://www.wargsang.de/pyqt-bug-report.jpg
> Do you see that symbol shifted up or down or is it correct?
Shifted up: http://www.celti.ie.eu.org/esoterica/laborejo.png
> Could you please answer me with the following information attached: Your
> graphic driver (type ("ati, nvidia, intel" etc. and closed or open source?)
> and desktop enviroment/window manager (Gnome, KDE, xfce, i3 etc.). If you
> want to add more information like qt version or X-Server it would be nice as
> well. Everything display related helps:
Open-source intel drivers with i3 window manager, with the absolute
latest versions of Qt and X.
~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Using the new 'extramodules' directory in linux-* packages
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 14:01, Heiko Baums wrote: > E-mail applications, particularly Google Mail, don't always follow the > common standards. So if Google Mail doesn't respect the Netiquette and > the common internet standards, you should interfere and refinish what > it does automatically or use an e-mail application which do respect > the standards. It's pretty easy. I don't see that Gmail does anything wrong. It starts you off at the top of the email, yes — this lets you select what quoted material you wish to keep, because Gmail can't possibly know what you want to respond to. Perhaps Gmail could start you off at the bottom of the email, or not quote anything by default and just present you with a blank slate, but either of these ends up requiring more effort than the default behaviour. This is a purely a matter of netiquette, and can't be blamed on the application. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida wrote: > There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process > that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed > and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab: > > c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux > > I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not > any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed? > > TIA > > Jorge Almeida There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears the screen. Try removing that. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] Down doesn't stick
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:26, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Good point. In a TTY there is no problem. It's an X thing. Maybe I > should try the openbox list. Google shows nothing. You might try `xset r 116` — that will explicitly enable autorepeat for the Down key, if it was somehow disabled. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] coreutils-8.12-2, initscripts-2011.06.3-1, net-tools-1.60-16, udev-171-2, yp-tools-2.12-2, ypbind-mt-1.33-2, iproute2-2.6.38-3
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 14:36, Marek Otahal wrote: > Hello Tom, > thanks for the pre-announcement, looks good. I have just a question.. > Since net-tools are going to be abandoned (I was wondering how i > "misuninstalled" the package), what do i use as an alternative to ifconfig? I > use wicd or manually bring LAN up, and it occurred to me network interfaces > failed due to missing ifconfig command. What is the new one? Thanks Please don't top-post. The new replacement for ifconfig is 'ip'; 'ip link show' is equivalent to the old 'ifconfig', without arguments. 'ip link set up eth0' is equivalent to 'ifconfig eth0 up'. ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] "whitebox" on bootup after KMS kicks in
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:16, C Anthony Risinger wrote: > Hmm I forgot to mention I use syslinux on all the machines ... I wonder if > that has something to do with it. Syslinux seems to turn the whole screen > gray for a sec or two/three before this happens. I have a custom color > syslinux.cfg but I've twiddled with all the settings and nothing seems to > affect it. > > C Anthony No problems here with Intel KMS and syslinux (using vesamenu). ~Celti
Re: [arch-general] pacman: downloading without "looking for inter-conflicts"?
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 00:52, Magnus Therning wrote: > Is there some way of downloading upgradable packages without running > the "looking for inter-conflicts" step? That would be the '-d' option, I believe. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] how to perform selected gnome installation with pacman?
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 20:06, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'd like to install GNOME for my freshly installed base system following > instructions provided on this page 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ > GNOME#Base'. As you can see it reads: > > "Install the base GNOME desktop" > > # pacman -S gnome > > And then: "This is a meta-package; which is a group of packages. An > option will be given to install all or some of the packages in this > group." > > When I run the command above, the list of all files in group is displayed > and the only option given to me is to answer Y/N to install the entire > list of packages, that I would like to avoid. > > I've read through man pacman carefully a couple of times and I've not > found any option allowing to filter out undesirable file/s while > installing a group. Tried to search arch wiki without any success. > > Could anybody provide me with a hint here, please? While I can't confirm this, my Arch box currently being dead, I believe you can just hit 'N' and it will walk you through the list one package at a time. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] *** Dark Ones August Party ***
Oh, hell. I totally clicked on the wrong contact. Please ignore this, people, and I'm sorry for the noise. ~celti
[arch-general] Fwd: *** Dark Ones August Party ***
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Re: [arch-general] script to recursively convert filenames to uppercase
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 03:14, F. Gr. wrote:
> Does anybody know a Perl or Bash script to do what I've written in the
> subject?
I believe this should do it:
find -depth -execdir sh -c 'mv {} $(echo {} | tr a-z A-Z)' \;
~celti
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:17, Caleb Cushing wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Caleb Cushing > wrote: >> yeah having a quad core with 6G of ram takes care of just about any >> system performance issues > > however I was using flash 10 on a much less beefy system not so long > ago... and didn't notice issues... so I'd be curious to know how low > of a system spec do you have to go to have an issue. (it was a 1.8ghz > athlon-xp that was my previous system) I will admit, it's pretty low. My previous system was a 2GHz Athlon XP, and while Flash wasn't instant on there, and occasionally lagged, it worked. That died, and I haven't the means to replace it, so I've been using an old Dell Latitude C610 (1.2GHz P3, 256MB RAM); Flash just utterly fails on here. Well, that's not quite true; if I download a lighter game, and run it in the standalone Flash player as the only X client, it works, but that's not exactly feasible for everything. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] dropping flashplugin x86_64
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 19:16, Caleb Cushing wrote: > as of right now I don't think is ready. however I'm all for > many of the other improvements coming in html5 and I wish people would > focus on rolling those out. > > [...] > > I tried html5 again on youtube, my video took several minutes to load > compared to flash which works nearly instantly.Given since I'm on > chromium 5 I don't think it was a webm video... so that may matter... > but if this is what html5 is going to be like... not sure I want it. Personally, if it wasn't for HTML5 I wouldn't be able to use YouTube. My laptop is ancient and decrepit, and cannot handle Flash on Linux, but the element works just fine, and loads as fast as I'm used to Flash video loading. Maybe there's a bit of a slowdown versus Flash if you have a cutting-edge system, but not everyone is in that situation. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] [OT] ArchLinux on uncyclopedia
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 15:37, Brendan Long wrote: > Parts of it are funny (like the pacman section), but most of it doesn't > even make sense.. Most of Uncyclopedia doesn't make sense. I think they huffed too many kittens. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] top posting
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 23:31, Juan Diego wrote: > Hello listmates, > > is there any special reason of why top-posting is a bad thing? To be clichéd... A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ~celti
Re: [arch-general] Will Firefox 3 be brought into extra ?
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 19:04, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-19 08:52, Emmanuel Benisty wrote: >> FTR, 3.0rc2 is 3.0 > > IIRC 3.0rc3 is 3.0 3.0rc3 is identical to 3.0rc2 except on OS X. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] [English] New Distro - Can't Read German
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Maik Beckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 09:58:12 schrieb waldek: > > > > > well, he did it. Polish was a bit too extreme so the peaceful fraction > > of "old timers" agreed to switch to German instead. > > More is coming... > > > > German? Boooring! > > What about one of these > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constructed_languages > > Maik > > My vote is for Ilaksh. So very compact and precise. Plus, imagine a command line with that script! - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil_language#Ilaksh:_the_revision_of_Ithkuil
Re: [arch-general] wmii dont read ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Leandro Chescotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! im new to wmii (just start using it yesterday) but it seems that my > ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc file is not being read... i quit and reload x to reload > my config, but with no change... Are you sure you're using wmiirc, and not rc.wmii? Check and see if you have plan9port installed; if you do, you're using rc.wmii, and should be using rc.wmii.local for any configuration changes instead. ~celti
Re: [arch-general] [signoff] madwifi/madwifi-utils 0.9.4
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Gerhard Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:38:20AM +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi > > small bump of madwifi drivers > > please signoff both arches > > also users can signoff, no respond from any dev > > Could give a user signoff for i686 > > > greetings > > tpowa > > -Gerhard > -- > MSCI = M$cro Soft Certificated Installer > Signoff for i686 here. ~celti
