Re: [arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-12 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi, > > > > Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence > somewhere? > > > > I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is > helpful to save files to it for later review. > > > > Any

[arch-general] creating an archlinux usb key with persistence

2014-03-12 Thread Don Raikes
Hi, Are there instructions for creating an archlinux usb key with persistence somewhere? I want to use my archlinux usb key as a diagnostic tool, and sometimes it is helpful to save files to it for later review. Any info would be appreciated. BTW: I am planning on using a 64gb usb ke

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Don Raikes
I am trying badblocks to see what I get, but on a 1tb drive it looks like it will take a very long time. -Original Message- From: Ary Kleinerman [mailto:akleiner...@buinet.com.ar] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 7:51 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general]

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Don Raikes
Hi Simon, I ran# smartctl -x /dev/sda Results: smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [x86_64-linux-3.6.6-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C Device Model: Hi

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Ary Kleinerman
besides you can use "badblocks" Warning because it could be data destructive. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks Regards, On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Simon Brand wrote: > Am 12.03.2014 19:38, schrieb Don Raikes: >> Hi Ary, >> >> I tried using: >> >> # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 >> >

Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Doug Newgard
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:35:03 -0400 > From: li...@sapience.com > To: arch-general@archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013 > > On 03/12/2014 05:23 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am going to push update

Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Savyasachee Jha
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Genes Lists wrote: > On 03/12/2014 05:23 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am going to push updated TeXLive packages to [extra]. >> >> > Thank you! > > I also posted this to forum: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1391778#p1391778 > > >

Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 03/12/2014 05:23 PM, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: Hello, I am going to push updated TeXLive packages to [extra]. Thank you! I also posted this to forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1391778#p1391778 I got this error on update: >>> texlive: recreating all formats... luatex: er

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Simon Brand
Am 12.03.2014 19:38, schrieb Don Raikes: > Hi Ary, > > I tried using: > > # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 > > And got the same results. > After a reboot, I tried: > # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3 > > And got a lot of messages about how there is a problem with the disk, so I am > now suspecting that my hdd

Re: [arch-general] "Partition" alignment with LVM on LUKS

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-03-2014 19:17, Mauro Santos wrote: > Either my google fu is not working or it's hard to find information on > this. It seems I was searching for the wrong terms, according to this [1] it seems I did all that was needed, which is use tools recent enough. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index

Re: [arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Scott Lawrence
I guess I'll be trying out context now! So thanks. On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: Hello, I am going to push updated TeXLive packages to [extra]. The following bugs are expected to be fixed: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34932 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28560 https://bugs.a

[arch-general] Incremental update for TeXLive 2013

2014-03-12 Thread Rémy Oudompheng
Hello, I am going to push updated TeXLive packages to [extra]. The following bugs are expected to be fixed: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34932 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28560 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28514 Regards, Rémy.

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-03-2014 18:40, arnaud gaboury wrote: > This sounds to me a potential bug in fact, as your vb-veth.network has > no reason to exist. > But as I am far from catching every part of workability of networkd, I > will keep myself from filling a bug report. > > Maybe shall you post on the devel-sys

[arch-general] "Partition" alignment with LVM on LUKS

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
I've bought a new HD to replace one that is starting to show problems intermittently. I'm planning to keep a very similar setup to what I have currently, which uses LVM on LUKS. Old HD has 512B physical sectors so alignment there was not a problem. New HD however is an advanced format drive, that

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote: >> >> If you are running systemd-networkd on >>> the host then you can do that easily with a network file. I've called >>> mine vb-veth.network and it contains: >>> >>> [Match] >>> Name=vb-* >> > Very good indeed. > /etc/systemd/network/80-co

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Don Raikes
Hi Ary, I tried using: # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 And got the same results. After a reboot, I tried: # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3 And got a lot of messages about how there is a problem with the disk, so I am now suspecting that my hdd has gone bad, so I will need to wait on installing arch until I

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Ary Kleinerman
Have you tried with other filesystem type, to see what happens? Maybe it could be a bug On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Don Raikes wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the talkingarch-20140203-dual.iso yesterday and want to install > it onto my desktop system. > > > > I booted into the talkingarchlinu

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-12 Thread Ary Kleinerman
I'm thinking to use Arch for an Asterisk server. Nowadays I'm using Ubuntu 12.04LTS, but I can see all distribution changing to the new init system (systemd). I wanna change all my scripts to be compatible with systemd. Furthermore, my services use MySQL, so I think it's a good moment to migrate th

[arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

2014-03-12 Thread Don Raikes
Hi, I downloaded the talkingarch-20140203-dual.iso yesterday and want to install it onto my desktop system. I booted into the talkingarchlinux system no problems, and used parted to create the partitions on my hard disk. When I go to format the partitions, as soon as I enter the command:

Re: [arch-general] A bug about Bumblebee

2014-03-12 Thread Bruno Widmann
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Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 17:32:27 arnaud gaboury wrote: >> It was UP before I brought vb down. So you have your answer : yes. > > OK, so in that case, I'd recommend not doing anything special on the host to > bring the vb- > dahlia interf

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 17:32:27 arnaud gaboury wrote: > It was UP before I brought vb down. So you have your answer : yes. OK, so in that case, I'd recommend not doing anything special on the host to bring the vb- dahlia interface up. It's behaving just like a normal interface would on a real

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cyclic dependencies between systemd and util-linux

2014-03-12 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:21:20 +0100 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am 12.03.2014 06:32, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: > > On 02/24/2014 03:56 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Right now, we have a problem with cyclic dependencies in core: systemd > >> requires libblkid and libuuid (systemd-udevd) and u

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> > It was UP before I brought vb down. sorry for typo : before I brought host0 down

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> > In that case, I'm curious to find out if you find that setting the host0 > interface up in > the container also brings the vb-dahlia interface up on the host? On container : gab@dahlia ➤➤ ~ % ip addr 2: host0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 56:84:f

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 16:01:00 arnaud gaboury wrote: > See my previous post : I want to learn. Then, the container will one day be > a production server. So my idea is to test now everything, then take a > snapshot and build a prod server with much more complicated network > services and setting

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> Yeah, that sounds like a sensible reason; thank you. I believe Arnaud's usecase > is a single container with no particularly special connectivity requirements (as > far as I can tell). I'm worried that he's making his setup a lot more complicated > than it needs to be. > See my previous post : I

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> > After I saw that systemd-nspawn now has more network isolation features > I just used the setup I had. > > It's possible this is overkill for what I want but it was the solution I > came up with at the time. > Same same here. I have been a long time user of libvirt for VM, and I decided to have

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:21:05 Mauro Santos wrote: > > Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? > > As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container > > to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate > > for most

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:20:01 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? > > As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container > > to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate > > for mos

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-03-2014 14:11, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:06:30 Mauro Santos wrote: >> No netctl here :) >> >> I systemd-networkd enabled on boot and 3 files in /etc/systemd/network >> >>> cat brkvm.netdev >> >> [NetDev] >> Name=brkvm >> Kind=bridge >> >>> cat brkvm.network >> >> [

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? As > far as I can > tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container to use the host's > interface. I would > have thought that would be adequate for most usecases? > > Paul My first tests with nspwan/networkd, w

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-03-2014 13:48, arnaud gaboury wrote: >> Right now on the host side I have everything being handled only by >> systemd-{networkd,nspawn}, > I don't add any physical interfaces to the >> bridge > Ah? I have two netctl profiles, one for my physical eth (enp7s0) with > no ip, one for bridge (br0)

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> > No netctl here :) > > I systemd-networkd enabled on boot and 3 files in /etc/systemd/network > >> cat brkvm.netdev > [NetDev] > Name=brkvm > Kind=bridge > >> cat brkvm.network > [Match] > Name=brkvm > > [Network] > Description=Bride for use with virtual machines and containers > Address=192.168

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:06:30 Mauro Santos wrote: > No netctl here :) > > I systemd-networkd enabled on boot and 3 files in /etc/systemd/network > > > cat brkvm.netdev > > [NetDev] > Name=brkvm > Kind=bridge > > > cat brkvm.network > > [Match] > Name=brkvm > > [Network] > Description=Brid

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:48:38 arnaud gaboury wrote: > Right. I am left after I boot my machine (the host) with this : > > 4: vb-dahlia: mtu 1500 qdisc noop master br0 > state DOWN group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 62:a2:6b:f4:0f:87 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > I have to manually > # ip l

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> > If you are running systemd-networkd on >> the host then you can do that easily with a network file. I've called >> mine vb-veth.network and it contains: >> >> [Match] >> Name=vb-* > Very good indeed. /etc/systemd/network/80-container-host0.network [Match] Name=vb-dahlia [Network] DHCP=no DNS=

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread arnaud gaboury
> I have found that you will need to bring the virtual interface up (the > one handled by systemd-nspawn). Right. I am left after I boot my machine (the host) with this : 4: vb-dahlia: mtu 1500 qdisc noop master br0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 62:a2:6b:f4:0f:87 brd ff:ff:ff

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Mauro Santos
On 12-03-2014 10:43, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 18:03:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: >>> OK, so you really just need basic internet connectivity; you don't >>> have any special filtering requirements. When you boot the >>> container, can it see the enp7s0 interface? That is, is the

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 18:03:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > OK, so you really just need basic internet connectivity; you don't > > have any special filtering requirements. When you boot the > > container, can it see the enp7s0 interface? That is, is the enp7s0 > > interface visible both from the host

[arch-general] A bug about Bumblebee

2014-03-12 Thread Liuyang
optirun firefox [ 1353.034599] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0. Please [ 1353.034658] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled. ..