On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 14:22:24 -0400
Simon Gomizelj via arch-general wrote:
> But we do have to make it clear that we won't **officially** support
> anything installed outside of the officially sanctions instructions. I
> don't see that as unreasonable.
I have to agree. As someone who works softwa
On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:00:53 +1200
Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
> Then we are in agreement; the goal is to provide people with what they
> need and to encourage them to explore in more depth, or for edge
> cases, the official documentation.
Then I think I misinterpreted the snark as serious
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 18:16:27 +1200
Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
> Arch has from the start been clear about its goals and intentions.
> I'll quote from a section of the wiki that people seem much less
> familiar with:
>
> ”Whereas many GNU/Linux distributions attempt to be more
> user-friend
On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 04:55:19 +
Sajjad Heydari via arch-general wrote:
> It has been merged with the installation guide.
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016, 9:23 AM David C. Rankin <
> drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Archdevs,
> >
> > I went to review the Beginner's Guide and it was no
hey can blow your mind with their C and shell knowledge.
If/when these advanced users decide to learn more about distro innards
and try Arch, we should welcome them, not haze them.
--Kyle Terrien
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exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
- Frank Zappa
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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:00:33 -0400
Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 08/18/2016 08:35 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote:
> > I haven't used PowerShell much. But in briefly looking at it, the
> > commands are very verbose compared to Unix/Linux. E.g. grep is
&g
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:30:27 -0400
Hunter Connelly via arch-general wrote:
> https://github.com/powershell/powershell
>
> I was wondering what you guys thought about it.
> Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should
> be in the main repos, what this might mean for the fut
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 13:03:41 -0700
Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch
> specifically, but I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I
> can’t delete EFI variables, when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For
> anybody interested, I am wanti
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200
Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote:
> As pointed out on arch-general (not by me) this makes the whole
> signoff process useless. Maybe we should look into finding some
> people that want to help test stuff and
out is a concern, then getting the
security related fixes signed off should be prioritized. (Maybe by
putting in a flag that automatically triggers a mail to arch-dev-public)
Respectfully yours,
- --Kyle Terrien
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Javier Vasquez via arch-general wrote:
> I think Xorg now uses libinput as default as opposed to prior
> versions. I have been using libinput any ways since it was made
> available, so the transition didn't affect me, and besides I'm OK with
> the tapping offered by libinput. Actually I removed t
Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> On 06/14/2016 02:21 PM, Kyle Terrien via arch-general wrote:
>> Thanks, but I tried that weeks ago. It is not the autostart feature of
>> the desktop environment that is starting gnome-keyring. From what I can
>> figure out, it is lightdm that is s
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Take a look at
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html
> ,
> it should be your desktop environment that is auto starting.
Thanks, but I tried that weeks ago. It is not the autostart feature of
the desktop environment that is starti
Seahorse 3.20.0-2 has a new hard dependency on gnome-keyring. Should
gnome-keyring instead be an optional dependency? Seahorse can cope
without gnome-keyring (although with warnings about not being able to
talk to gnome-keyring).
And for some reason, lightdm likes to launch gnome-keyring
automatic
Florian Pelz wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 09:07 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>> Does anyone off the top of his/her head know of any good tools or guides
>> for converting gtk2 themes to gtk3 themes?
>>
>> --Kyle
>>
>
> I don't know very much, but it
Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 07:08 PM, Mauro Santos wrote:
>> I was using clearlooks-phenix but with gtk 3.20 it is quite broken and
>> it hasn't been updated in quite some time. I have no idea if the dev
>> will code a new version for gtk 3.20+.
>>
> When launching a GTK3 applicat
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> $ grep gnome-themes-standard /var/log/pacman.log | grep 2016-04
> [2016-04-10 19:57] [ALPM] upgraded gnome-themes-standard (3.18.0-1 -> 3.20-1)
> [2016-04-12 09:33] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U
> gnome-themes-standard-3.18.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
> [2016-04-12 09:33] [ALPM] dow
Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> after the last upgrade GTK2 apps running in an openbox session need more
> space, they became darker and in some windows even the fonts became
> less good readable. The reason that I dropped desktop environments was
> to get rid of chaotic designs and to keep a clear design an
Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote:
> 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
So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to
Firefox. (Bleh!)
I ended up cleaning up after xdg-open in the process of correcting my
default web browser.
In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files
go), there were several files in the format
user
Kyle Terrien wrote:
> I upgraded my desktop about 10 minutes ago, and it looks like
> virtualbox-host-dkms gained a new dependency: linux-headers.
As of virtualbox-host-dkms-5.0.16-3, linux-headers is an optional
dependency again:
$ pacman -Qi virtualbox-host-dkms
Name: virt
Eric Engestrom wrote:
> Regarding your log, it looks to me like you have both the default and
> LTS kernels installed, but only have the source for the LTS, so you're
> only building the module for LTS.
Nope. I only have the LTS kernel installed. linux-headers was pulled in
this morning as a dep
Hello,
I upgraded my desktop about 10 minutes ago, and it looks like
virtualbox-host-dkms gained a new dependency: linux-headers.
On this desktop, I have only the linux-lts kernel and its accompanying
linux-lts-headers installed, so why is linux-headers necessary? In the
pacman -Syu output, it l
Javier Vasquez wrote:
> However, inside the company, I need to setup manually under TB:
>
> SOCKS Host: <...> Port: <...>
>
> As SOCKS v5. Where the socks host is the same as the other proxy
> hosts, but its socks port must be different than the rest.
>
> I don't use any DE, but I have some
Eli Schwartz wrote:
> On 02/04/2016 12:45 AM, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>> Was the thread moved? Does anyone have the new address of the thread?
>>
>> --Kyle
>>
>> [0]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549
>>
>
> It's still there, but
Hello all,
A few days ago, there was a big stink about bricking motherboards
accidentally with an overzealous rm that descended into
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars.
It all started with one thread on the BBS titled "No POST after rm -rf
/". After reading about the issue, I went into archivist mode and
Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote:
> 2016-02-01 23:29 GMT+01:00 Leonid Isaev :
>
>> On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 01:40:54PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>>> Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
>>> * Use legacy BIOS. There is nothing wrong with it.
>> Exactly, I really don't un
Maarten de Vries wrote:
> On 1 February 2016 at 23:29, Leonid Isaev
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, how can you brick a machine by simply zeroing the harddrive?
>>
>>
> You can't (well, someone can probably think of a contrived situation where
> you could, there's always someone, but generally speaking).
Tomasz Kramkowski wrote:
> Since when does "do something dumb" and "potentially hard brick your
> motherboard" become synonymous when speaking in terms of computers?
>
> There's doing something dumb (by accident or otherwise) and then there's
> bricking your motherboard, people make accidents all
the real question is where do you draw the line when something is
un-friendly? And what do you do when the line is crossed?
--Kyle Terrien
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On 01/02/2016 02:50 PM, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:35:01 -0700
> Leonid Isaev wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 02:06:05PM -0800, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>>> Thank you! I was tempted to reopen it, but it looks like the general
>>> consens
On 01/02/2016 02:42 PM, ProgAndy wrote:
> Am 02.01.2016 um 22:52 schrieb Kyle Terrien:
>> It looks like that is only intended for release-status extensions. If I want
>> to QA test a developer's beta build, this tells me that the developer would
>> have to submit each
On 01/02/2016 01:23 PM, Doug Newgard wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 12:17:52 -0800
> Kyle Terrien wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Are there plans to package a version of Firefox 44 that lets you disable
>> extension signature checking?
> ...
>> --Kyle Terrien
ension myself and load it? That is
absurd.
--Kyle Terrien
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sable extension signing
warranted?
I am posting to this mailing list because I have not seen much
discussion about Firefox extension signing in the Arch Linux world.
Developers, what are your thoughts? Is it worth it packaging an
"unofficial" version of Firefox?
--Kyle Terrien
[0] https:
still actively maintained.
There is even an option to ignore window caption hints in GTK
applications because of the GNOME "Client Side Decoration" nonsense.
Long live no-nonsense 90s GUIs!
--Kyle Terrien
[0] https://www.palemoon.org/
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th-audio=gstreamer'?
Any insight to the root of the problem would be appreciated.
--Kyle Terrien
[0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41492
[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41740
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93544
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On 11/27/2015 11:14 PM, Luna Moonbright wrote:
> As for it just being old Ubuntu - are the newer EOL versions of Ubuntu
> (like 9 or 10) still easy to exploit (32 bit/no canaries/no NX) that
> are easier to get the display drivers to work for?
I can't remember when Ubuntu started supporting canar
On 11/27/2015 04:57 PM, Luna Moonbright wrote:
> Fantastic, I love that book and am wanting to get the rest of the way through
> it. I didn't realize it was such an issue in KVM. I think it works in virtual
> box, but it would be nice to get it installed on KVM so me and a few guys can
> set up
On 11/22/2015 09:59 PM, Luna Moonbright wrote:
> Does anyone here have experience troubleshooting
> KVM installs in arch?
>
> I am using virsh and virt-manager, the VM seems
> to successfully boot, but the virtualization window
> is only showing a black screen with a cursor in
> the top left of t
On 10/29/2015 06:06 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi Kyle, *,
>
> Am 15.10.2015 um 17:56 schrieb Kyle Terrien:
>
>> On 10/13/2015 10:55 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
>>> Am 12.10.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Kyle Terrien:
>>>> On 10/09/2015 05:54 P
On 10/13/2015 10:55 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi Kyle, *,
>
> Am 12.10.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Kyle Terrien:
>> On 10/09/2015 05:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
>>> Am 10.10.2015 um 02:23 schrieb Leonid Isaev:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 02:05:38
On 10/09/2015 05:54 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi Leonid, *,
>
> Am 10.10.2015 um 02:23 schrieb Leonid Isaev:
>> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 02:05:38AM +0200, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>
>>> since some time I cannot get thunar connect my remote servers folders via
>>> sftp.
>
On 08/24/2015 02:13 PM, Alfredo Palhares wrote:
> I enabled the usb tethering on the phone, but ip link didn't show any new
> interface:
>
>
>
> The important stuff seems to be here:
> rndis_host 1-1:1.0 enp0s20u1: renamed from usb0
> usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 41
> rndis_host 1-1:1.0
On 05/24/2015 01:52 AM, Vladimir Nikšić wrote:
> Hi guys!
>
> I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the key
> components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having with
> chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but instead
> has a basic
On 05/20/2015 11:55 AM, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a
> FTDI TTL-232RG-VREG3V3-WE
> USB to TTL Serial Cable.
>
> On my Arch linux I want to setup a connection through this cable.
>
> How can I achieve this goal?
>
> The output of the 'lsusb' command is:
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0403:6
On 01/26/2015 04:58 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> It does for me.
> Have a Writer document with a embedded table, click and drag to highlight a
> segment.
> Boom, my user interface is locked up. No to get a terminal,
> no toggle of the
> caps lock indicactor LED, no to kill X. No nothing.
On 12/16/2014 04:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> I never add one and they don't belong to a package:
> # pacman -Qo [...].pem error: No package owns [...].pem
>
> Can I delete them?
I don't think you're supposed to. They are created when the certificate
packages are installed.
From my understandin
inting System - client libraries (32-bit)
> local/libcups 2.0.0-2
> The CUPS Printing System - client libraries and headers
>
> I tried re-installing cups and libcups with no sucees (just in case)...
>
> I'm still in the dark, sorry, :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
Does /var/log/cups/error_log say anything?
I suppose you could always revert to a stock configuration (using the
.pacnews) if you have to.
--Kyle Terrien
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The note about the renamed service files is on the wiki [1].
--Kyle Terrien
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups#CUPS_daemon
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On 10/17/2014 06:39 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:
> Previously I could left-click release and the nm-applet menu would stay
> open, now I have to left-click and hold otherwise there is no menu.
> Apart from this everything seems to work correctly.
After rereading this thread, I just remembered something
On 10/17/2014 06:39 AM, Mauro Santos wrote:
> Previously I could left-click release and the nm-applet menu would stay
> open, now I have to left-click and hold otherwise there is no menu.
> Apart from this everything seems to work correctly.
This sounds like something with the recent GNOME/GTK3 up
On 09/08/2014 05:42 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> after updating yesterday java does not work anymore for me:
>
> , | [tj@arch ~]$ LC_ALL=C java --help | /usr/bin/java: line 2:
> /usr/lib/jvm/default/bin/java: Too many levels of | symbolic links
> | /usr/bin/java: line 2: exec
On 07/07/2014 01:21 AM, Daniel Petre wrote:
> Apologies but i do not know how to reinstall the 3.14 kernel, linux is
> 3.15 and linux-lts is 3.10..
> Can i get from some repo the 3.14 package?
> Thanks.
>
For the time being, I'm maintaining a custom 3.14 kernel for myself.
It's nothing fancy. It'
On 06/16/2014 03:34 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote:
> On 2014-06-15 23:49, Kyle Terrien wrote:
>> I have narrowed this down to gvim/vim-runtime 7.4.307-1 and later.
>> Earlier versions of the package do not have this issue.
>
>> I am asking here because I am unsure if the iss
Hello Archers,
Has anyone else been experiencing an issue where scrolling is reset
when changing the size of window splits in Vim?
1. Open a file in Vim that is sufficiently long enough that you need to
scroll to view the whole buffer.
2. Scroll to somewhere in the middle of the buffer.
3. Use
Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions on how to block ads at the
DNS level. I'm currently trying out Carl Schaefer's favorite hosts file
[1], but I look forward to experimenting with dnsmasq when my finals are
over.
--Kyle
[1] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/zero/
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On 05/08/2014 06:34 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote:
> Hi fellow Archers,
>
> I seem to be having trouble with ntpd.service since the 4.2.7 upgrade. I
> can't get ntpd to run as the ntp user.
Well, I feel dumb.
After adding a couple more -d flags to ntpd, I got something about
unable to
On 05/08/2014 11:00 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote:
> [2014-05-08 18:34:54 -0700] Kyle Terrien:
>> I took out the "-u ntp:ntp" parameter (so ntp runs as root), and these
>> errors disappeared. Also, ntpq -p returns the NTP servers I'm
>> synchronized with. So, I&#x
Hi fellow Archers,
I seem to be having trouble with ntpd.service since the 4.2.7 upgrade. I
can't get ntpd to run as the ntp user.
I'm using the /etc/ntp.conf provided by the package ntp. When starting
ntpd.service (systemctl start ntp.service), ntpd spikes the CPU for a
moment, and then spikes t
On 05/03/2014 10:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does somebody know where I can select the page style in Firefox 29.0?
> If a page does use grey text on black background, I want to turn off the
> page's style, to get black text on white background. I guess there's
> no way to get back the men
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Hello fellow Archers,
I received the following error while upgrading system-config-printer:
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> system-config-printer: /usr/share/system-config-printer/debug.pyc
> exists in filesystem Errors o
On 04/08/2014 04:31 AM, Maykel Franco wrote:
> Hi, I change for example dns in networkmanager, when restart
> NetworkManager , "systemctl restart NetworkManager" the network not
> works...
>
> [maykel@maykel-arch ~]$ sudo systemctl status NetworkManager
> ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
On 04/10/2014 05:04 AM, Maykel Franco wrote:
> Hi, I have installed wireshark-gtk2. But when go to Capture/Interfaces
> I get this error:
>
> There are no interfaces on which a capture can be done.
>
> I follow this steps:
>
> Setting network privileges for dumpcap
>
> 1. Ensure your linux kern
On 04/08/2014 04:31 AM, Maykel Franco wrote:
> Hi, I change for example dns in networkmanager, when restart
> NetworkManager , "systemctl restart NetworkManager" the network not
> works...
>
> ...
>
> I have reboot my computer for network on again.
>
> Is a bug networkmanager?
>
> The version i
On 03/16/2014 10:21 PM, Kyle Terrien wrote:
> Are you using PulseAudio?
D'oh! I noticed the subject line said "Pulseaudio" right after sending
my message. Sorry for the stupid question.
--Kyle
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On 03/16/2014 09:59 PM, Mark Lee wrote:
> Salutations,
>
> I recently hooked up a 5.1 surround sound receiver to my Haswell setup
> via HDMI. I used the sound manager in gnome to set the system to output
> 5.1 surround sound. However, while testing each individual speaker using
> the gnome sound s
On 02/23/2014 06:30 PM, Mark E. Lee wrote:
>
> Salutations,
>
> I downgraded and can confirm that fixes the situation. This was a pretty
> bad situation for me since I don't keep a package cache (I run on usb);
> I ended up rebuilding network manager 0.9.8.8-1 using an old PKGBUILD.
> Why was net
On 02/22/2014 08:03 PM, Thiago Barroso Perrotta wrote:
> Hey Kyle,
>
> I've always thought of creating something similar too, but I didn't do
> anything about it because of its usefulness (would people use it, since
> parted magic and other similar projects already exist?) and maintainability
> is
On 02/22/2014 04:54 PM, Hugo Rabson wrote:
> Is anyone interested in working with me to build a live USB edition and/or
> hardened ArchLinux for ARM users (specifically, users of ARM-based
> chromebooks)? It would be nontrivial but achievable. The question is, would
> anyone find the product use
On 01/12/2014 01:13 PM, Taylor Hornby wrote:
> Thank you, that makes so much more sense!
>
> So, really, the vulnerability only exists while the Arch dev (or
> package maintainer or whatever they're called) is building the
> package. Once they do, and sign it, all Arch users will verify their
> si
fully, that clears things up.
If you really want to build a firefox package yourself, you can set up
ABS. If you build a package from ABS (using makepkg), you will run the
PKGBUILD. <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Abs>
Kyle Terrien
PS: Great discussion on exploiting MD5.
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