l/
as well as the pacman suggestion I sent, but I get nothing on my end.
Suddenlink ISP issue?
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timeouts on a repo that is known failed at that point.
If arch.mirror.constant.com was down yesterday, I could have made the segment
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t the only ones doing similar, see for example
> https://aur.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/
Seems a diplomatic cease-and-desist letter is in order giving them the
opportunity to bring the mirror current if they choose that course and that is
acceptable to arch.
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signatu
keys, they will
be stored unencrypted in your thunderbird profile. If you have never set a
mater password for thunderbird before (I haven't), it looks like that will be
required with 78.2 hits.
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a problem.
I'll check that this works on a local box, I didn't want to risk a test on a
remote box.
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at a single prompt, not any 3 in 15 minutes.
# admin_group =
is another option -- but at this point, I'd rather just remove it from the pam
stack. Is that doable?
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On 05-09-2020 22:44, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
>On system update, I get the following related to the brltty[1] package:
>
> (2/7) Creating temporary files...
> Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key during canonicalization
> of /etc/brlapi.key.
&g
All,
I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to
a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though??
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/QEMU, but nothing noted.
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/
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ccount will be
needed?
Site where notice of the change would make sense:
bugs.archlinux.org
or
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Fix_and_report_bugs
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> journal instead of stdout. I get the same messages so I wouldn't worry
> about it.
Thank you Daan,
That is all I needed to know.
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that are explicitly
set.
Do I need to do anything about these?
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ot;
> done
> fi
> }
The fallibility of human infallibility...
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make 'em drink :)
Thank you Eli, at least we know now the distribution was 1-step ahead.
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d help. Both are best accomplished with courtesy
and civility and nothing more.
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community posts under Allan's stewardship. That
transparency and community involvement served Arch well and served as a
moderating influence on the direction of Arch. He will be missed and we wish
him well in his future endeavors.
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nerated on update? Arch is
always pretty good about warning when manual interaction is required -- and
this is a biggie.
Couldn't there also be a post install that does a reenable for each netctl
profile found in /etc/systemd/system as another option to avoid this SNAFU?
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will be released either
as a testbuild case or as a release (Oracle seems a bit undecided)
If 5.2.44 was the last release and there will be no update to support Linux
5.8 -- what do I do with the package? Do I mark it LTS only in some way, or
just have it removed?
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ay be offline until an update is provided,
but your computer still works. With graphics driver -- you are not as lucky.
I'm sure the testing could have been arranged to preserve the 390xx driver --
I would have been more than happy to do it. We will see how it goes, but I'm
not going to update to 5.8 and roll the dice yet.
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On 8/14/20 3:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Additionally, I've done a completely additional reinstall:
>
> # pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -
>
> All goes well, no errors, but the boot still hangs on tty1 and no GUI or X is
> every started though sddm says it is running.
>
On 8/14/20 1:04 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> I have no clue what this assignment outside of section is telling me. I
> haven't changed the wireless config at all. Any idea on this or the boot hang
> issue? What to check?
>
I fixed the netctl issue. It seems the netctl interface
tctl@.service
[Unit]
Description=A wpa_supplicant configuration file based wireless connection
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlo1.device
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlo1.device
I have no clue what this assignment outside of section is telling me. I
haven't changed the wir
ed trying to run the new hooks from the updated pacman?
Will we give it a go.
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m was fine and I loaded fluxbox to do the update rather than doing
it from within KDE. What do I check to try and bring the system back to a
working state? What to check?
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Devs,
Just a quick check on when 5,8 is going from testing to core? I ask because
Virtualbox still is not ready for 5.8:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644
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kages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/bind=c688d695dc4e82aad9a7ec546bc47e4b5fe5c447
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hing with it. If push came to shove either
writing a quick wrapper to pacman to xz unzip/zip or splitting it by year, or
some other sane criteria may be an option.
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and so it shall be stricken from my list of concerns :)
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the
last couple of months for most packages..
man 8 pacman doesn't provide any options for dealing with how much to keep
or to truncate.
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. Bash has been the default, and while there is nothing wrong with a
Bourne-again (or Debian Almquist) type shell, it would break more than a
decade of setups...
If you want Dash, make the change after install.
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ou can limit the lifetime for 1-week,
1-month, etc... Image uploads and language syntax highlighting is provided for
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ew
> backups)” —heftig
>
> -Syu often to avoid problems.
>
Oh So there was a private key that escaped into the wild...
That would be a big bug... Thank you for the background. I generally -Syu
daily (at most every few days) -- which is why this event immediately jumped
out as not
oing a pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring first and then the -Su worked for me.
>
>
> Simon
>
Strange,
Since 2009, and thousands up updates over 1/2 dozen boxes, this is the only
time this has happened using simply pacman -Syu
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E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
Is this normal?
(email address intentionally truncated)
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E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
Is this normal?
(email address intentionally truncated)
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o
hack the urls in the nut/html files to look for the cgi scripts in
/usr/share/nut/cgi instead of under /cgi-bin/nut
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nut)
Is this safe? Is this intended way to provide access to the cgi scripts?
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e if the intent you gleaned differed from that intended conveyed.
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e if the intent you gleaned differed from that intended conveyed.
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deleterious effect on Arch. Rainbows,
ponies, penguins, geckos, hats, all just nice decorations.
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s,
Uugh... Thank you!
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wer.nominal: 450
ups.status: OL
ups.test.result: Done and passed
ups.timer.shutdown: -60
ups.timer.start: 0
ups.vendorid: 0764
Why doesn't the new nut from community work?
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repeat each time dhcpcd or the kernel is
updated going forward?
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remember), but now nothing is shown.
Is the lack of output in the journal on USB drive plug-in due to the audit=0
parameter, and if so, is there any way to restore the journal messages on USB
plug-in without enabling audit?
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e hat for that one. I would post this
exact message to the SAMBA list sa...@lists.samba.org
Things move pretty fast in samba development, and the older standalone
fileserver setups don't get much development work compared to ActiveDirectory,
etc..
The samba list is very responsive and they will be able to
s in backoffice roles that still use it.
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add
client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1
to the global section to restore workgroups and SMB1
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ce of that AUR package, therefore, it was immediately orphaned.
>
> Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
Thank you Eli -- it clear now. From an overview I deduced as much but didn't
have the back-story.
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. From
that standpoint, is there a list of what now isn't part of gimp without
python2? That would help in knowing whether the AUR package is needed.
Seems strange the AUR package was posted and orphaned on 2020-03-18?
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On 02/14/2020 03:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> A bug (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19311) was opened with Oracle
> concerning this issue that has broken the AUR package
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin-5/
Just a follow-up advising that the AUR virtualbox-bin-
On 02/06/2020 01:17 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/05/2020 10:01 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> There must be another package that was updated that comes into play
>>> (python?).
>> How about restoring all packages to an earlier date?
kage name and go
>> on with my life?
>
> "chrono-date" could maybe work as an alternative name?
>
> I'm unsure why this is in [arch-general] and not [arch-dev-public] :)
>
And with the note that much of Howard Hinnant's date/time library is being
incorporated into t
On 02/04/2020 04:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> lAll,
>
> After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and the
> latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules build and load fine)
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/Virtua
device enp0s3 not found, udev
kernel rules fail, and the boot never complete.
All fine with the 5.4 kernel. I've posted to the vbox-users list, but if
anyone here has additional information I would appreciate it.
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e
USB bus, then a moment or two later reconnect, then disconnect again, rinse,
repeat.
Turns out the 10 year old mouse suffered a stroke and died... Plug in another
mouse and see if the problem goes away.
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[phoinix_ups]:
usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups
Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[824]: Startup successful
Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices
information server.
Any ideas what to check? This just started within the last month or two.
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een this?
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ubt it, but that would confirm)
If you have a RJ45 connection for a wired connection, that's always an option.
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On 12/02/2019 10:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 12/02/2019 07:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Heads up to anyone still running Virtualbox 5.2.34 due to issues with
>> headless clients in Virtualbox 6.x, the kernel modules for 5.2.34 will not
41520 Dec 2 19:15 error_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25049886 Dec 1 00:00 error_log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1137 Nov 24 00:00 error_log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1752 Nov 17 00:01 error_log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Nov 10 00:00 error_log.4
Yikes!
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On 12/02/2019 07:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
> Heads up to anyone still running Virtualbox 5.2.34 due to issues with
> headless clients in Virtualbox 6.x, the kernel modules for 5.2.34 will not
> build against Linux-5.4.
>
> Build failure details at:
>
>
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On 11/27/2019 06:45 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 11/24/2019 03:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Dev,
>>
>> This is a strange one. After updates on 11/23, httpd began segfaulting --
>> repeatedly:
>>
>>> l /var/log/httpd/error_log*
>> -rw-r--r--
On 11/24/2019 03:57 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Dev,
>
> This is a strange one. After updates on 11/23, httpd began segfaulting --
> repeatedly:
>
>> l /var/log/httpd/error_log*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24306171 Nov 24 14:48 /var/log/httpd/error_log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 r
implicate httpd. But after the
first graceful restart of the server after the 5 packages were updated on
11/23 cause httpd to go haywire. Just thought I would pass it along.
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On 11/21/2019 01:01 PM, Christian Hesse wrote:
> "David C. Rankin" on Thu, 2019/11/21 12:13:
>> I wonder why systemd doesn't do this by default?
>
> It's not systemd to blame. The timer unit files are shipped by the respective
> projects, like util-linux, man-db
start stacking up on boot Bad Juju...
Logrotate and man-db can be run at 4:00 am and be fine. If I update a slew
of man-pages, I'll call it directly. I see what I can do with
RandomizedDelaySec=. Thanks again.
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ent hooks as this
change plays out?
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are installed or removed on update. Am I missing something there?
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(or wisdom) of patching a project that is somewhat "on-hold" just to say we
have dracut and moving to it. SuSE has a lot of resources to direct toward the
issue. Personally I've always found the Arch KISS philosophy the better
approach.
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ything on /efi? Can do. Want a hook that will build your
> efistub and update entries? Can do. This update opens up lots of
> possibilities, while also maintaining (some) backward compatibility.
>
As long as my mdadm arrays continue to assemble and I don't end up with a dead
remote-supp
e a 'base-container' or 'base-minimal' and leave the traditional 'base'
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stall for those desiring an install to
support containers and leave the traditional base group alone. The lack
cryptsetup, device-mapper, dhcpcd, mdadm, netctl, s-nail, vi and which in base
seems to leave a 'base' install very unusable.
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k.com/community-of-licensees/
>
> J.
>
For open-source software, what possible benefit is there for distributions
like Archlinux to "sign up" to some represented patent non-aggression pact
pushed by some Virginia marketing group (atigro.com)?
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On 09/21/2019 03:24 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> I updated virtualbox-bin-5 and it builds and runs with 5.2.X & 5.3. However I
> forgot to add a patch to the git repo before pushing and now I can't figure
> out how to undo (I have since added the patch to git). The error is:
On 09/21/2019 01:03 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Thank you Ralf,
>
> I have the kernel modules building with a combination of the following
> patches:
>
> 009-include-path.patch
> 015-linux-5-3.patch
>
> The 013-Makefile patch must be specific to 6.X as on 5
is throws an
error:
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Skipping patch.
Still have testing, but it looks promising.
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On 09/20/2019 11:13 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 09/20/2019 12:48 AM, Christian Hesse wrote:
>> We had to patch VirtualBox 6.0.12 as well. Probably you need something
>> like this:
>> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/015-linux-5-3.patch?
draw from that and make things
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(mdadm). Far more flexible and a guaranteed migration path
forward. The overhead for software raid was negligible on on single-core 486
machines, it isn't even in the noise anymore.
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are probably some of the best on
the net -- use them to help you accomplish whatever you are doing on Arch.
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ings break --
things that have been working -- forever.
Whatever the fight between Cairo and Pango over FC_face locking -- that seems
like what needs to be fixed instead of simply dropping support for an entire
class of fonts.
Progress. Oh well.
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All,
With the 5.2 kernel, virtualbox no longer boots to the GRUB_GFXMODE, but
instead boots to the video-mode-hint given to virtualbox. That is a welcomed
change.
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k. The problems
experienced with some are listed in the wiki.
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thodology.
This seems to have spammed every list available, Ubuntu, ACCU-general,
Arch-general, etc.. with the same base64 encoded self-promotion. Any way to
cut down on this?
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/changes-improvements-in-mariadb-104/
Any help or comment would be appreciated.
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ecurity.archlinux.org page
the cross-reference that tells me CVE-XXX is in group, e.g. AVG-986?
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roc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_sack
or
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcpmss --mss 1:500 -j DROP
Are either needed after latest kernel, or is this resolved?
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naming conventions and the description is fine.
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and I never snapped to the fact it was AUR...
(pointy hat placed on own head and will turn and face the corner)
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now if this is just a lucky timing issue in between when
qemu-launcher will be updated, but I thought I would pass it along if this
presents a problem.
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now if this is just a lucky timing issue in between when
qemu-launcher will be updated, but I thought I would pass it along if this
presents a problem.
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urther we stay into the ...
what was the word? ... "byzantine", the further away from KISS Arch migrates.
But, somehow, those charged with the stewardship of Arch seem to always make
solid choices for the distro going forward.
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every day for 10 years and still be fine.
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y amazing compared
to platter. Have large builds (like rebuilding php or KDE). Compile times now
a fraction of what they were with platter drives.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_state_drive for TRIM or fstrim
configs/consideration.
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and Arch
with mkinitcpio -- I prefer the Arch mkinitcpio approach.
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Thank you Bruno,
That's all I needed to know. I just couldn't immediately see what that
'provides()', 'conflicts()' or 'replaces()' PKGBUILD contents would have
needed to be to prevent it. The answer of "it shouldn't" because they are not
direct upgrades makes sense now.
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