Correction: Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager

2024-05-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 18:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The culprit is a link. > > $ /bin/ls -ld /usr/lib{,64} > drwxr-xr-x 460 root root 524288 May 1 17:37 /usr/lib > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 7 20:02 /usr/lib64 -> lib Pardon, I was confusing /lib64 with /usr/

Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager

2024-05-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, when running extra/audacity from command line it runs into issues, but doesn't provide any output and it seems not to start. When running extra/tenacity from command line it shows that there is an issue with duplicated plugins. It ignores the duplicated plugins and after a while it does

Re: PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank wrote: > https://linuxtldr.com/windows-docker-container/ Thank you. The article doesn't mention how to share data between "host" and "guest"/container. The article doesn't mention, if it's possible to migrate the license from my current Windows 11 install

Re: PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 00:43 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Good luck, and drop many breadcrumbs for those that are following behind you > ... David, I hope I can gain some time by a workaround to continue using virtualbox 7 [1]. However, I consider to migrate my Windows guests or at least the

PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: After restoring the wanted Windows 11 state from a backup, which was faster than expected, I ensured that all settings are as mentioned by the Arch Wiki: "Enable I/O APIC" was already checked "Enable EFI" was already checked "Enable PAE/NX"was already

virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, today I removed virtualbox6.1-bin 6.1.50 and installed virtualbox 7.0.16, because 6.1.50 doesn't work anymore [1] and I got rid of fixing virtualbox 6+ again and again. Doing a first short test a Windows 10 guest seems to run, but a Windows 11 guest seems to cause issues, at least a shutdown

Re: Graphical session inside systemd-nspawn container

2024-04-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:53 +0100, FirstName LastName wrote: >     /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server This isn't about systemd-nspawn, but it might help anyway: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/issues/391 This is interesting for me, as I have only ever

Re: Logon loop after upgrade

2024-04-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, maybe the keyboard layout used by the display manager's greeter doesn't fit the used keyboard. Perhaps the used greeter has got a panel that allows to change the keyboard layout at login and it might be that this can be changed by accident with the mouse wheel. Some GUI designs are tricky.

Re: Why after rebuild do I still get "warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description"?

2024-03-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi David, the "description" is probably a "description" in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/. I still had no time trying to fix the issue, hence I still get: 9 times "warning: rxvt: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description" and 9 times "warning: gtk2_prefs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 21:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi David, > > don't rename the file unless you want to recreate it every time you > upgrade. ^ tumbler ;D

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 14:43 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > or whatever creates the dbus rule $ pacman -Qo /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service is owned by tumbler 4.18.2-1

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi David, don't rename the file unless you want to recreate it every time you upgrade. If you really want to stick with dbus-broker and these messages bother you, then consider use /etc/pacman.conf . NoExtract = usr/share/dbus1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service My 2 cents, Ralf

Re: kernel from own built package won't boot

2024-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, Google offers countless threads related to "ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt". Maybe one of those threads is helpful. I can't help with this. While it might not be helpful in your case, it doesn't harm to build in a clean chroot.

Re: New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings

2024-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-03-16 at 13:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can > remove all of those packages. Maybe all those packages are useless. Hi, on my install there were 17 (countless ;) packages. Only 3 of those packages are ava

Re: New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings

2024-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, for me, it also affects countless local packages. Theoretically if something has become obsolete, backwards compatibility should still be maintained. However, David, how often do you use abs nowadays ;)? I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can remove all of those

Re: removal of yuzu from the official repos

2024-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 22:31 -0500, a...@ofdm.link wrote: > It's gone now I don't care whether it stays in the repos or disappears from them. However, it's not true that it's gone. It's probably a kind of Streisand effect that countless git clones are available around the Internet and people

Re: [Alsa-user] [External] Re: No sound on Lenovo P1 Gen 6 (00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 51ca (rev 01))

2024-02-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, if Ubuntu supports your computer, they probably offer a patch or patches. If so and you build a "vanilla" kernel by just using an Ubuntu config, then you build without any additional patch that might be (or might not be) offered by Ubuntu. IIUC a default install of Ubuntu, Redhat or SuSE

Re: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I can't blame dbus-broker alone for the already solved problem [1], but at least it interacts with something and by migrating back to dbus- daemon-units it is obviously solved. Has nobody else had similar experiences? If the problem hadn't happened to occur close to the time dbus-broker was

Re: [mc] Control-O interferes with nano

2024-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf via mc
Hi, take a look atman nano REBINDING KEYS . Disclaimer, I didn't read it, so I don't know what exactly you can do. I'm using a ~/.nanorc for a customized universal light-on-dark syntax highlighting, not to modify shortcuts. Regards, Ralf -- mc mailing list

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > remapping middle-mouse button Oops, this should read remapping mouse buttons ;) You probably don't want to remap the middle mouse button, but the left+right combination.

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 13:57 +, pete wrote: > Yes KDE plasma[...] > it pasted click left & right together that pasted it Hi, I didn't know about a "left & right together" option. Google, DDG and Co. search terms are something like right+left button simulating middle button or

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 13:16 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I use DDG to search    for kde middle click paste    the realated hit > are the Arch Linux Forums. It should read the "6th hit". Too funny, this likely was a copy and paste acci

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 10:52 +, pete wrote: > the big opps Hi Pete, 1. not every oops might be related to each other, with such a basic attitude you make an unbiased search for errors more difficult. 2. If there really was a "big oops" (however, I am sceptical about this) and you now suffer

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 11:08 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Say my first install of a package creates /etc/p.conf.  I don't edit it. > Then the package is upgraded; upstream provide an altered p.conf. > I'd expect p.conf to be changed and I think that's what happens. > > Similarly, if the package

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Have you never been bitten by an /etc/foo.d/99.conf that made other configurations null and void? The *.pacnew approach fails when a package introduces a new configuration through a drop-in file. The advantage of a drop-in file is that it can automatically add something new, but the

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 22:21 +0100, deMaio wrote: > why doesn't pacman change the permissions at package upgrade? Hi, I am not an Arch developer, just another Arch user. Custom, unusual permissions may be required for a user's system. If upstream or an Arch developer sees reasons to change the

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 10:32 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What are correct permissions for these directories and has the upgrade > corrected permissions that neede correction? Hi, the correct permissions are those, that are correct from your point of view. No, the upgrade does not change your

Re: This one i do not know

2024-01-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, "This one i do not know" is not the best subject line ;). The only tip I have is that you shouldn't trip yourself up and rely on assumptions instead of rational troubleshooting. Since an upgrade a few days ago, my selected GTK themes were suddenly replaced for the 2nd time today during a

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 16:39 -0500, Genes Lists wrote: >   Benefits of no fallback: >    * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd Hi, no doubt there are some use cases where an installation should be kept as small as possible, but on an average desktop laptop computer or

Re: Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 19:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It cannot be ruled out that one of the OP's hard drives is > close to gving up the ghost. My apologies, the OP of the original thread is David, but it's Pete suffering from unexplainable issues.

Re: Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I can confirm that one of two things usually happens before a HDD fails completely. It makes unusual noises. These noises are so unusual that you don't need to ask anyone for confirmation because you're not absolutely sure that it really sounds unusual. The other is voodoo that looks like

Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 09:34 +, pete wrote: > for the record the Drives are all ok memory tested out ok . see > what happens if it starts acting up again Hi, while I'm using only internal SSDs, no HDDs anymore, since many years, I still don't have experiences with SSD failures. My

Re: Arch Linux inside OSTree

2024-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Happy new Year :)! Maybe it's possible to split the Wiki. We have got the official Arch Linux repositories and apart from "third party repositories" we have got the Arch User Repository. I don't know if it's possible, but maybe we could have an official Arch Wiki and a Wiki that is kind of an

Re: Potential conflict with icu package?

2023-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-17 at 15:46 +, WinFan3672 wrote: > >  :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required > > by scribus Hi, this was quite obviously a race condition. "Last Updated: 2023-12-17 15:35 UTC (46 minutes ago)" -

[solved] extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2

2023-12-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-12-12 at 16:44 +0100, Christian Heusel wrote: > The leftover package is just still there because of a tooling problem > (dropping a split pkg), that is atleast how I understood it. Thank you gromit! Regards, Ralf

extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2

2023-12-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I don't know where to report this issue, since 2FA for "ralf" at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ fails with "Invalid authentication code" [1]. extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2, see https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/surge-xt-lv2/

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 13:29 +, Polarian wrote: > > 5. Currently,to evaluate whether a AUR package is eligible to move in > > Arch Linux official packages (extra repo), It only depend on votes > > and popularity and whether there is a maintainer willing to pick it > > up. However, those factors

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: FWIW • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ /bin/ls -hAl /mnt/ventoy/ total 16G -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5G Jan 13 2023 MX-21.3_fluxbox_x64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189M May 9 2023 alpine-standard-3.18.0-x86_64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810M Apr 1 2023 archlinux-2023.04.01-x86_64.iso

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 10:21 -0500, Carl Snyder wrote: > The latest Ventoy and other USB preparation software ASSUMES that your > system has EFI and does not properly boot from USB stick on BIOS only > systems. Hi, I'm not sure if this applies to Ventoy. At least it boots fine on my old Intel

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc?

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 06:45 +, James Freer wrote: > > Does your BIOS recognize the flashdrive? > > How do i check that? I've forgotten a lot of the commands having been > ill for a year. Much appreciate the reply. Hi, first of all I want to second Kaj Haulrich reply. Ventoy is terrific. You

Packages for a simple symbolic link?

2023-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I came across the following packages purely by chance. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cachy-browser-firefox-shim https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=librewolf-firefox-shim Should I submit a deletion request? IMO it's strange to build a package just

Re: when are sound servers necessary?

2023-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 08:30 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks much, this clarifies some things.  Screen reader users will have > one process running constantly and will need at least another process to > permit any other program to generate sound simultaneously. > I have pulseaudio on this

Re: when are sound servers necessary?

2023-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 14:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For desktop environment sound and home entertainment sound lovers, a > sound server such as pulseaudio (not jackd) > is certainly preferable to my approach.

Re: when are sound servers necessary?

2023-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 04:22 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When is it a good choice to install a sound server and when is installing > a sound server a waste of disk space? Hi, what is probably most relevant, I would say roughly summarised: If several programs are to be able to access a sound

Re: Pacman -Syu fails because of required keys missing from keyring

2023-11-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-11-19 at 19:35 +0100, Zerro wrote: > error: archlinux-keyring: signature from "Christian Hesse > " is unknown trust >  :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20231113-1-any.pkg.tar.zst > is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). >  Do you want to delete

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 13:45 +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > When I translate to German, I do prefer German words, when > there’s no good argument against it. Hi, that's good practise! OTOH a good arguments against a translation are "in Bangla, most people say", "not in real life". >

Re: about translating certain words

2023-11-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-11-18 at 13:34 +, zoorat wrote: > sorry, but I failed to find Debian's or genome's Bangla documentation or > things like that. Hi, in this case, it might make sense to see if there are already common translations for comparable "things" on other operating systems, Android,

Re: Bugtracker Migration to GitLab [to arch-general]

2023-11-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-11-11 at 13:41 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > One issue I've had with gitlab is even though it has correct user name and > password, it will not login and I've had to use Github credentials to login > to > the arch gitlab system. (which I do not like) Hi, it's the same for me. I

Re: Incoming changes in JDK /JRE packages

2023-10-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 15:47 +, Richard Ullger wrote: > is makepkg clever enough to reinstall the jre packages Hi, it is, it will install the makedepends. $ makepkg --help | grep missing\ dep -s, --syncdeps Install missing dependencies with pacman FWIW tuxguitar is provided by the

Re: archinstall mystery

2023-10-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 06:39 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > grub-install cannot find the uefi-directory and whenever a device prefix > is entered grub cannot find the canonical path. Hi, what device prefix do you add to what option? Maybe you use the device path -efi-directory=/dev/foo while

Re: An in my opinion dubious dependency chain

2023-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 19:49 +0300, Felix Yan wrote: > please be sure to remove the > deepin-api-proxy package if you intend to run any of Deepin software > outside of DDE. (The package itself has been removed as well.) > > You should see even less dependencies installed for >

Re: Dealing with unclear upstream licensing and legality

2023-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 04:18 +, a...@nullvoid.me wrote: > For packages that may be immoral but legal, such as a package that > changes everything to racial slurs, sexist, or vulgar language. > I think it also should stay

Re: Dealing with unclear upstream licensing and legality

2023-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 21:23 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > However, I don't think it's fine having "Minecraft-cracked" AUR package, > not because of the (not) redistributing part but because of ethically of > letting/allowing a **clearly** illegal package on the AUR. Hi, in the case of a

Re: [xubuntu-users] nm-applet has disappeared on an xubuntu 22.04 system

2023-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 07:59 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > I don't think that's how nm-applet gets onto the panel.  It doesn't > appear in the available to be added list.  It doesn't appear there > either on my own (with working nm-applet) xubuntu system. Hi, the OP needs to add the Notification

PS: An in my opinion dubious dependency chain

2023-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 11:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Packages (93) After removing those 8 Deepin related packages the update does install/update only 25 packages. 93 packages - 8 original Deepin packages - 25 other updates = 60 odd packages

An in my opinion dubious dependency chain

2023-09-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, to have a wider choice of media players I installed deepin-movie and deepin-music a long time ago, some dependencies were required, hence I had the following Deepin related packages installed: deepin-desktop-base deepin-movie deepin-music deepin-qt-dbus-factory

Re: Haupauge TV card failed on kernel 6.5.2-arch1-1

2023-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 13:22 +0200, Bjoern Franke wrote: > > Thanks yes it has changed so much from the old days of early Suse Hi, assuming you didn't build RPM packages, it's still more or less the same, especially if you use an Arch config, so that you don't need to care about the

Re: Haupauge TV card failed on kernel 6.5.2-arch1-1

2023-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-09-11 at 00:29 +0100, pete wrote: > There was a time when i would have dived straight in when you had to cook your > own Kernels but not done it for years so i will wait  . Pity because it is my > Tv as well as computer . Hi, if you haven't dealt with Arch kernel PKGBUILDs for a

Re: gdm3 stalled

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 15:13 +0200, Zener wrote: > /var/log/gdm is empty , why? > > Anyway, I use Wayland. Hi, I know, you posted the journal mentioning Wayland. On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 20:06 +0200, Zener wrote: > drwx--x--x 1 root gdm0 1 mar 2023 gdm So in March an empty gdm

Re: Brother MFC L2700DW an MX-Linux libsane-extras

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, auf Deutsch, das Paket gibt es offen sichtlich nicht mehr, die lange Antwort in englischer Sprache: Hi, On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 20:14 +0200, Norbert Nowicki wrote: > sudo apt-get install -y libsane-extras ^^The computer god has been kind to you and

Re: gdm3 stalled

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
"If GDM is failing to work properly, it is always a good idea to include debug information. To enable debugging, set the debug/Enable key to "true" in the /gdm/custom.conf file and restart GDM. Then use GDM to the point where it fails, and debug output will be sent to the system log file

Re: gdm3 stalled

2023-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, maybe "systemd-analyze blame" shows that a running unit that is expected to start within a few ms actually took several s to initialize. systemd-analyze blame | grep -v "ms " it "gives an impression of the performance of program code, but cannot accurately reflect latency introduced by

Re: Problems with AUR packager Xiota and motivewave

2023-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 23:16 +0100, Polarian wrote: >On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 12:20 -0700, Xavier Baez wrote: > > I would like to know what the rules are, today at Labor Day 3 AM the change > > requests arrive again, yesterday I had to leave church to come home and do > > more changes Test the

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
seemingly replied to your request accidentally not to the list, since you usually sent to the list and to me and I probably clicked the email without the mailing list headers. On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 07:52 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> sq wk

Re: gdm3 stalled

2023-09-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 13:38 +0200, Zener wrote: > [snip] gdm3 get stalled at each boot [snip] > Could you help me to do an useful debug in order to solve? Hi, aren't there gdm3 related log files in /var/log? For lightdm I get several log files, for lightdm itself, for its greeter and other. I

Re: Waterfox G

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 15:15 -0400, Aaron Liu wrote: > Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": > waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . Hi, you should probably add comments to the AUR instead of sending a request to a mailing list. However, there's an AUR mailing

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 07:40 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > fdisk and I can double check with du and probably lsblk. Again, my apologies, assuming the disconnected device is listed by the /dev/ directory after a reboot, what I recommended as an idea is nonsense.

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 07:38 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > espeak doesn't do screen shots. Maybe a smartphone or another recorder can be used, to record the audio signal from the speakers.

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-09-01 at 07:38 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > espeak doesn't do screen shots. I'll have to check and see if tee is > available on the arch install disk. I can probably save the interesting > material to a flash drive then post later on a working operating system > where email works.

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 18:53 +0200, mpan wrote: > in future please do not paraphrase errors: > it really makes helping harder I have no idea about the setup used by Jude. Jude, assuming that copy & paste shouldn't work that easy, can you take screenshots or record a screen reader and post links

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> /dev/sdb My apologies, I missed that the device is shown in /dev/.

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-08-31 at 20:06 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I used a flash drive earlier and removed it but now have an /dev/sdb drive > with 8 megs size on the computer that remains after power is shut off when > power is turned on again. How do you determine the size? If I connect an USB stick

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-09-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, to demonstrate how to verify the ISO I didn't use the torrent. 1. • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp/verification_demo $ wget --quiet http://ftp.agdsn.de/pub/mirrors/archlinux/iso/2023.08.01/archlinux-2023.08.01-x86_64.iso{,.sig} • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp/verification_demo $ sq wkd get

Re: the archlinux torrent

2023-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, the download page as well as the installation guide describe what to do. I didn't copy the description, the details are provided by those links. "[...] With this key the signature can be verified like this: sq [...]" - https://archlinux.org/download/ "1.2 Verify signature [...] gpg" -

Re: Unicode issues after system upgrade

2023-08-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 10:25 +0200, Jeanette C. wrote: > Hi Ralf! > Aug 26 2023, Ralf Mardorf has written: > ... > > FWIW try another update, before doing further troubleshooting, since > > > > • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ > > $ grep "linux (" /var/log/

Re: vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?

2023-08-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 19:31 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Thank you Ralf! David you are welcome! I always sweat blood each time something goes wrong with building the virtualbox 6+ packages or with dkms building the modules. However, it's always worth to take a look at the virtualbox 7+

Re: Unicode issues after system upgrade

2023-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 21:09 +0200, Jeanette C. wrote: > Hey hey, > I just upgraded my system and upon restart, now running kernel 6.4.11-arch2-1 > #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC and everything else that was available one/two days > ago. > [snip] I can't really tell, whether the improper display of

Re: vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?

2023-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-08-26 at 09:01 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2023-08-25 at 22:50 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > >    How best to do this? Seemingly it's done by the "if", resp. "if not" ;). "if RTLNX_VER_MIN(6,4,10)"

Re: vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?

2023-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-08-25 at 22:50 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: >    The problem is that LTS doesn't like the additional include. I suspect it > will take some makefile patch instead of a change of the source file so LTS > can build without the new header. > >    How best to do this? PS: Note, I

Re: vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?

2023-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, since "[2023-08-25T11:46:21+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux" I didn't run virtualbox, but the modules were build. The 019-linux-6-4-10.patch [1] is from the Arch repos' virtualbox 7+ build, when virtualbox modules already failed to build with linux 6.4.10. It seemingly works for linux 6.4.12,

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 09:17 +0100, pete wrote: > https://browse-tutorials.com/tutorial/arch-linux-move-root-partition-hdd-ssd Hi Pete, consider to change cp -a /mnt/hdd_mount/* /mnt/ssd_mount/ to cp -Tai /mnt/hdd_mount/ /mnt/ssd_mount/ Why? -T just in case a source mount point

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Jeanette, do you already run sudo pacman -Sc after each update? Doing so still keeps the installed packages in the cache, but it deletes previous installed versions of packages. Perhaps you even don't want to keep the installed packages in the cache? Where do you store and probably cache

Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, IMO the output of htop is confusing, not only because it does use a different colour theme on my machine. I'm also confused by the output of about:memory. I don't know if the output of about:processes is correct or complete, but this output does look human readable to me. FWIW I'm neither

Re: [mc] history not always history

2023-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf via mc
On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 23:48 +0200, mi via mc wrote: > supercomputing is very expensive and even in rich countries there are only a few of these machines. Even if quantum computers should meet all requirements in the near future, computing time will be many times more expensive than today's

Re: Packaging wireguard re-resolve DNS

2023-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-08-06 at 11:06 +0200, Martin Rys wrote: > On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 8:38 PM LuKaRo wrote: > > Today I set up another machine > or use a configuration management tool like Ansible Hi, to occasionally drive a nail into the wall to hang a picture, you could build and program a robot to

Re: unable to build with makepkg (No such file or directory)

2023-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 15:45 +, james smith wrote: > trying to build this https://github.com/matthewq337/auto-fdisk > https://bpa.st/H6XQ Hi, your PKGBUILD expects ...src/auto-fdisk.sh-source.r12.1712784/auto-fdisk.sh but the correct path and the filename seem to be different

Re: What laptop's do you guys like?

2023-07-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-07-23 at 19:01 +0200, Zerro wrote: > It cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. Hi, if it runs Windows 10, it likely can run Windows 11 too, by installing it with the "BypassTPMCheck" and maybe the "BypassSecureBootCheck". I installed Windows 11 as a Virtualbox guest using this guide:

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 14:14 -0400, Genes Lists wrote: > I assume a part of your comment is the security aspect. This of course > can be addressed by UKI and secure boot for example. Hi, if the cat paws at the keyboard, it doesn't need root privileges, it can execute "rm

Re: Arch linux installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 22:57 +0600, Source Code wrote: > But I use EFI and I don’t understand what I should write where … > [snip] > Arch wiki does not tell me this secret. Hi, please reply to the mailing list! I'm sorry, I don't understand your problem. I'm _not_ using legacy BIOS boot, my

Re: Arch linux installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 21:09 +0600, Source Code wrote: > If you have an Intel or AMD CPU, enable microcode updates in addition. Hi, add the microcode to your bootloader's config! Below are two examples. The first one is for grub2 and the second is for syslinux. • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep

Re: Arch linux installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 20:17 +0600, Source Code wrote: > Now I use cfdisk and I saw type of sda: Linux swap, > linux root x86-64 and Linux file system. And I wanna > know the difference between linux root x86-64 and Linux > file system. > Now I think to leave just Linux swap and Linux root x86-64.

Re: Arch linux installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 19:43 +0600, Source Code wrote: > I wanna ask you, that how many size I can choose > for Linux x86-64 root and Linux file system? IIUC 78.1G are unallocated after deleting sda6 and sda7. You might want a root partition without separating /boot or any other partition from

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 09:26 -0400, Genes Lists wrote: > On 7/18/23 09:23, Genes Lists wrote: > > > While that is/was pretty common, I believe the current recommendation is > > to  mount: > > > > To be more precise, the recommendation is to mount the efi as /boot, and > as Sergey suggested, if

Re: Installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 18:13 +0600, Source Code wrote: > I see only 465 GB of my disk. Is this the output of "sudo fdisk -l"? Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda12048616447614400 300M Windows recovery environment /dev/sda2 616448821247

Re: Installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 18:13 +0600, Source Code wrote: > How I can delete the partition where my Debian Linux is located? I see > only 465 GB of my disk. And use archinstall for graphical installing. Hi, I can't comment on "archinstall". My general advice is to edit partitions before or after

Re: [xubuntu-users] New user

2023-07-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I can't comment on Windows 10. To use drives with more than 2 TiB you need to format the drives with GPT instead of MBR. This should work when using the legacy BIOS boot option, too. IOW it shouldn't require U/EFI. Booting an USB stick containing a Linux requires either to enable the legacy

Re: Install Arch Linux

2023-07-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-07-13 at 12:08 +0100, Polarian and on Thu, 2023-07-13 at 07:21 -0400, Dmitry Yershov wrote: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot Hi, especially care for the cons link, provided by the Arch Wiki and note that it just mentions pros, but

[off-topic] Arch Linux Questions

2023-07-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2023-07-12 at 22:18 +0900, lain. wrote: > After all, Richard Stallman has been fighting for software freedom since > 1985, which is probably before most of us are even born. Ouch! Most geeks are Boomers or from Generation X, which is explained by the fact that we were able to enjoy the

Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades

2023-07-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 13:05 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > zoom Hi, I can't comment on {aur,chaotic-aur}/zoom. At the peak of the pandemic, I took part in some training courses, some of which were conducted via Zoom. I didn't do this with my Arch Linux PC, but with an iPad Pro. At first I

Re: Suggest enhancement to cp utility.

2023-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-06-27 at 15:31 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I want to know transfer statistics, i.e., max speed, min speed, avg > speed when I copy to/from a usb device to/from hdd/ssd. > Please enhance cp utility to provide this info. A cmdline switch could > request this report. Hi, the

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