Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

nofficial_user_repositories#jlk -- ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

Am 15.08.20 um 05:39 schrieb Kusoneko: > On August 15, 2020 3:27:50 AM UTC, karx via arch-general > wrote: >> couldn't we package thunderbird 78 in >> the AUR for people who absolutely need 78, > > Sure, go ahead and do that if you want. > There is thunderbird-bin in the AUR which repackages

Re: [arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?

Am 18.06.20 um 16:26 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: > That seems a bit confusing :/ since it appears to only be used when > migrating away from a previously configured Oxygen selection. Does > anything else actually hardcode this? This dependency IMO should have > been a post_upgrade

Re: [arch-general] arch monthly brocken

Am 05.05.20 um 19:28 schrieb Zero via arch-general: > ... > Haven't had pacman updates for at least a month. > > I usually do once a week a pacman -Syu but no updates at all for at > least a month. > ... If you use a normal mirror and not the monthly archive the original question was about, then

Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check

Am 21.02.20 um 21:52 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-general: > ... > Btw. when installing it there was an issue: > ... > 2020/02/21 21:46:45 invalid character 'I' looking for beginning of value > error: command failed to execute correctly > ... > security.archlinux.org seems to be broken at the

Re: [arch-general] What happened to Arch Wiki recent changes news feed?

Am 15.11.19 um 10:01 schrieb Štěpán Němec via arch-general: > Thanks! I figured the wiki update must be related, but I haven't seen > that particular message. In any case, even though having the Special: > page require login might have made some sense, breaking the RSS feed > still seems like a

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

Hello Amish, > I am not sure but I feel that install hook should now have higher > priority so that kernel is copied back to /boot as early as possible > instead of after most of the hooks. i.e. say after systemd hooks, may be > renamed to 40-mkinitcpio-install.hook? The order is correct. The

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile dnsmasq latest git version with `-DHAVE_LUASCRIPT' on Manjaro.

Am 09.11.19 um 08:42 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-general: ... > >>> Package lua5.2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. > ... > Regards, > Ralf > Hello, In this case the issue is a difference in packaging between debian and arch based distros. Debain provides lua5.2.pc as well as

Re: [arch-general] Copy remote command server to clipboard

Am 26.08.19 um 13:47 schrieb Maykel Franco via arch-general: ... > Many thanks Ralph, it works, but... Is possible launch the command in my > server? > ... Hello Maykel, You can run a local server that copies everything it receives to the clipboard. Then set up ssh remote port forwarding and

Re: [arch-general] rkhunter found possible rootkit

Am 20.08.19 um 10:00 schrieb Filipe Laíns via arch-general: > On Tue, 2019-08-20 at 08:33 +0200, Oliver Jaksch via arch-general wrote: >> I let rkhunter running around once a week. There were nothing since many >> months. But today it's report complains about */lib64/libkeyutils.so.1.9* >> and

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

Type based, so bitmap fonts still work). > It would seem the upstreams, GNU and X.Org, should ship those fonts > in the current and OpenType-bitmap formats That would be for the best. > > Speaking of conversion, ProgAndy mentioned an Adobe program. The Adobe program is not

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

Am 28.07.19 um 20:35 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: > On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal >> emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font >> glyphs.  This is due to deliberate

Re: [arch-general] Maria update

Am 28.06.19 um 11:49 schrieb Christian Hesse: > mick howe via arch-general on Fri, 2019/06/28 > 01:37: >> Could not create the upgrade info file '/var/lib/mysql/mysql_upgrade_info' >> in the MariaDB Servers datadir, errno: 13 > > What's the permission of /var/lib/mysql directory? I guess these

Re: [arch-general] certbot automatic renewal: why twice a day?

Am 11.06.19 um 17:46 schrieb Łukasz Michalski: > Hi, > > Looking at timer example at [1]: > > "Add a timer to check for certificate renewal twice a day and include a > randomized delay so that ." > > Why try to renew twice a day? > Hi, This interval is recommended by the EFF here:

Re: [arch-general] License for libdrm packages

Am 24.05.19 um 00:21 schrieb mar77i via arch-general: ... > > To answer my own question, of course I screwed it up already. > Okay, so license=('custom:MIT'), license=('MIT') or license=('custom')? > > manual says: put licenses from /usr/share/licenses/common into the license > array, otherwise

Re: [arch-general] Any particular reason for daily imagemagick updates?

Am 06.03.19 um 02:25 schrieb David C. Rankin: > On 03/05/2019 05:39 PM, Joel Klinghed wrote: >> Well, the changelog (https://www.imagemagick.org/script/changelog.php) >> is fairly clear about the upstream release cycle: >> >> 2019-03-05 7.0.8-32 >> 2019-03-04 7.0.8-31 >> 2019-03-03 7.0.8-30 >>

Re: [arch-general] pacman.log has no timezone information in timestamp

Am 02.03.19 um 02:43 schrieb Juha Kankare via arch-general: > On 02/03/2019 02:23, ProgAndy wrote: > >> Am 02.03.19 um 01:12 schrieb mpan: >>>> I just used the /var/log/pacman.log for the first time to give me the >>>> last date-time I did a system up

Re: [arch-general] pacman.log has no timezone information in timestamp

(worse idea, as this would bind `pacman` codebase to the > specific time formatting function). > Meanwhile you can explicitly set the timezone to UTC when calling pacman, that way the log will be consistent: $ TZ=UTC sudo pacman ... -- ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependency on eSpeak

to an espeak-ng-compat package? usr/bin/espeak usr/include/espeak/speak_lib.h -- progandy

Re: [arch-general] php-pear compromised

Am 23.01.19 um 22:08 schrieb Andy Pieters: > Any of you seen the news about php-pear? > > There's an AUR package that downloads from pear.php.net so if that was > within the last 6 months it could have been the compromised one? > > https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/php-pear-hacked.html >

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB package version

Am 27.09.18 um 15:36 schrieb Genes Lists via arch-general: > On 9/27/18 7:04 AM, leoutat...@gmx.fr wrote: > >>> If you have further news, feel free to share. :) >>> >> Mariadb 10.2 and 10.3 are available in all distro except Arch >> https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=cnrs

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

Am 19.09.18 um 13:41 schrieb Olli: > On 19.09.18 10:41, Leandro Papi via arch-general wrote: >> The fact that Java 10 replaces Java 9 is a call made by Oracle, as >> described in their roadmap >> (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html) >> [...]Java SE 9 was a non‑LTS

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

Am 18.09.18 um 00:23 schrieb Carsten Mattner via arch-general: > Hope you don't mind me hijacking the thread to ask if you've ever > extracted an adoptopenjdk tarball and were able to use it for running > a Swing GUI. The jdk10-openjdk (not bin, didn't try aur) package in arch > works, but

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

Am 17.09.18 um 18:20 schrieb Guillaume ALAUX via arch-general: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:48 PM Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: >> On 9/17/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: >> >>> So essentially what you really want is a way for pacman to remember your >>> choice. That would

Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?

Am 15.09.18 um 19:54 schrieb Olli: > LTS versions are only provided by Oracle for their JDK, not for the > OpenJDK. This graphic explains it quite well: > https://medium.com/codefx-weekly/no-free-java-lts-version-b850192745fb There won't be any free LTS releases from Oracle, but the AdoptOpenJDK

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

Am 10.09.18 um 20:06 schrieb Levente Polyak via arch-general: > Sure, and thanks for doing so! Fair enough, at least if you are > bisecting/debugging... but then you are recompiling multiple times > anyway and nobody wants to and nothing stops you from keeping > CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS off while

Re: [arch-general] AUR: Failing to install gnupod-git (no perl-date-parse)

Am 07.09.18 um 17:38 schrieb Jeanette C. via arch-general: > ... > Hm, I'll have to go through the mailinglist then, since I can't search > AUR packages through the web interface. I get no search button in the > text-based browsers. :( > ... That seems to be no problem for me with w3m. Just enter

Re: [arch-general] Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch?

Am 09.08.2018 um 09:53 schrieb Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general: On 8 August 2018 at 02:33, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < turritopsis.dohr...@teo-en-ming.com> wrote: Good morning from Singapore, Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch like Linux from Scratch? It's certainly possible to

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

Am 02.08.2018 um 10:10 schrieb Tyler: Small fonts on external screen with Qt5. xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 1x1 --mode 3840x2160 --pos 5120x0 \ --output DP1 --scale 2x2 --mode 2560x1600 --pos 0x0 --primary Small fonts on laptop using Qt5. So it seems tied to Primary switch as to which

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

Am 01.08.2018 um 04:20 schrieb Tyler: When I tried the reverse xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --output DP1 --auto --scale 2x2 --left-of eDP1 I didn't just get a flipped result, I got my browser showing over the middle https://i.imgur.com/QW0IHYw.jpg I guess --right-of/--left-of don't take the

Re: [arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI

Am 31.07.2018 um 05:17 schrieb Tyler: With the dual-monitor setup I'm struggling to understand the panning option. I have looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr and the man file and still couldn't figure that track x track y part out. It's not very easy to understand. The

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node

Am 27.07.2018 um 19:46 schrieb Foxtrot Mike via arch-general: On 07/27/2018 10:16 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Em julho 27, 2018 14:07 Foxtrot Mike via arch-general escreveu: Here are the major tasks: 1- Ask LightDM to use Windows Domain (Kerberos) authentication. I am a little confused.

Re: [arch-general] nvidia-lts version

Am 05.06.2018 um 17:28 schrieb Doug Newgard via arch-general: On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:21:18 +0200 Hering wrote: Hello, is there a reason why the current nvidia-lts version is 396.24 but when checking https://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html it says it should be 390.67? I am asking because the

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

Am 04.03.2018 um 01:08 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: Yep -- more or less this. There is no way for git to fetch "all commits since a given tag", and obviously `git describe` which is used in the standard pkgver() function cannot describe the remote repository... not to mention what

Re: [arch-general] Intel microcode - latest version not loading

Am 01.03.2018 um 00:41 schrieb Dutch Ingraham: On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 04:54:03PM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:43:26 -0600 Dutch Ingraham wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:50:09AM -0600, Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote: You're looking

Re: [arch-general] dhcpcd-7.0.1-1 seems to break SLAAC

Am 23.02.2018 um 01:45 schrieb Jukka Salmi: With dhcpcd-6.11.5-1 starting this netctl profile results in an IPv4 address being configured via DHCP and an IPv6 address being configured via SLAAC as expected. With dhcpcd-7.0.1-1 starting this netctl profile results in an IPv4 address being

Re: [arch-general] How can I post on bbs.archlinux.org?

Am 30.09.2017 um 17:33 schrieb Merlin Büge: On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 11:07:53 -0400 Pierre Thibault via arch-general wrote: So the solution would be for people to note the command on paper then to boot live (if their live version is working), run the command, note the

Re: [arch-general] makepkg - any way to recompile only newly patched files in large packages?

Am 07.08.2017 um 09:39 schrieb David C. Rankin: If it wasn't clear, I have already built the gtk2 package yesterday to --enable-debug=yes so I have all of the files in a state I could call --repackge on, except for the gtk/gtkrecentchooser.c file with the one line change. I was wondering if

Re: [arch-general] Poor performance wifi BCM4331 - MacBookPro

Am 07.07.2017 um 21:34 schrieb Maykel Franco via arch-general: [...] I will try broadcom-wl because I see in this link: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/5qlyfm/cant_get_wifi_with_broadcom_bcm4331_chip/ Too I see broadcom-wl-dkms but I have the default kernel no dkms. Somebody with

Re: [arch-general] pavucontrol depency question

Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general: pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network: $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them. Hi, You can use the

Re: [arch-general] hcidump is missing?

Am 09.03.2017 um 14:29 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: Am 09.03.2017 um 13:38 schrieb ProgAndy: Am 08.03.2017 um 16:34 schrieb Guus Snijders via arch-general: It looks like hcidump is no longer supported: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id

Re: [arch-general] hcidump is missing?

Am 08.03.2017 um 16:34 schrieb Guus Snijders via arch-general: It looks like hcidump is no longer supported: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=b1eb2c4cd057624312e0412f6c4be000f7fc3617 build: Hide deprecated tools under --enable-deprecated This marks the following

Re: [arch-general] How to "decorate" a package build?

Am 08.03.2017 um 12:20 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: Thank You! However, while one part is about Firefox, the other is about changing builds while still getting the signalling for new builds from pacman. One possibility seems to use Hooks, while I'm not yet sure how to use them correctly.

Re: [arch-general] How to "decorate" a package build?

Am 08.03.2017 um 11:45 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: Hello, is it possible to decorate a package build, i.e. set some prconditions (like exporting variables) and probably even change the build process (compile instead of copying just the binaries)? E.g., to modify the firefox package update to

Re: [arch-general] ofono install

Am 01.02.2017 um 23:06 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: Hello, I tried to install ofono from AUR, because I want HSP/HFP support for pulseaudio (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index35h3), but I get an error about a conflict between .SRCINFO and

Re: [arch-general] Weird reaction to pull request over at Arch Linux ARM

Am 27.01.2017 um 21:41 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: On 01/27/2017 01:27 PM, Christopher Reimer wrote: I also noticed a few other pull request trying exactly that, which were instantly closed by Kevin Mihelich without any reasonable explanation. That's why I expected some resistance

Re: [arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database

Am 21.10.2016 um 21:48 schrieb Eli Schwartz via arch-general: The reason pacman uses a flat file database as opposed to a relational database, is the result of a deliberate design decision by the lead pacman developers. Therefore, I really really really doubt you will be able to convince them

Re: [arch-general] Package versioning

ool. For example, comparing 1.5-1 and 1.5 will yield 0; comparing 1.5-1 and 1.5-2 will yield < 0 as expected. This is mainly for supporting versioned dependencies that do not include the pkgrel. -- ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] Kernel version in hooks

Am 17.05.2016 um 14:51 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: On 17 May 2016 at 14:50, Damjan Georgievski wrote: Can I somehow get the kernel version from a hook invoked on the kernel package update? by version I mean the "4.5.4-1-ARCH" kernel version, not the "4.5.4-1" package

Re: [arch-general] Why isn't RetroArch in the Arch repos?

/index.php/RetroArch ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

article inside another article.[2] Maybe that would help to collect the necessary information in the "Beginner's Guide" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SELTRANS [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion ProgAndy 2. Upstream first Arch

Re: [arch-general] btrfs/snapper hook for pacman 5.0?

Am 02.02.2016 um 10:40 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: https://github.com/andrewgregory/pachooks do hook files need to end in .hook ? I couldn't find it mentioned in man alpm-hooks or pacman Yes, a hook ends in .hook, that should be mentioned somewhere. I had to check the sourcecode:

Re: [arch-general] Mounting root according to fstab the first time (fstab in initrd)?

Am 20.01.2016 um 21:34 schrieb Garmine 42: First I will try to exclude root= and rootflags= parameters from the cmdline and include the fstab via mkinitcpio and see if it finds the root. Do I want to mask remount-fs in this case? That won't work. You'll have to create a hook for mkinitcpio

Re: [arch-general] Firefox without signature checking

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 build he wishes me to test to AMO. Why can't I just package the extension

Re: [arch-general] retext in aur is broken?

updated from 3.4 to 3.5 and the location for modules has changed. Rebuilding the package without changing the PKGBUILD (maybe increment the pkgrel) will fix it. ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] What is the archlinux-bootstrap-2015.08.01?

://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_from_existing_Linux#Using_the_chroot_environment -- ProgAndy

Re: [arch-general] LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.0

Am 25.02.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Pablo Lezaeta Reyes: Hi all, Version 2.0.0 of the LightDM GTK greeter was released about week ago. This release drops GTK2 support. That's ironic, Xfce recommend lightdm as DM for the gtk2 theme, and the upcomimng xfce-gtk-engine 3.1 drop gtk3 support. gtk3

Re: [arch-general] ncurses 5.9_20141101 no longer available

Am 15.11.2014 um 05:07 schrieb Savya: On Sat, Nov 15, 2014, at 01:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:32:14 +0100 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: 5.9_20141101-1 This isn't the version from the official repositories. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si ncurses

Re: [arch-general] imagemagick 6.8.9.8-1 is slower than 6.8.9.7-1

Am 18.10.2014 um 08:22 schrieb Lukas Fleischer: After a more thorough analysis by Jan, we found out that the issue is caused by a bug in the new OpenCL benchmark code. On modern CPUs, the benchmark is executed on every start of ImageMagick which leads to huge number of __memcpy_avx_unaligned()

Re: [arch-general] HD Videos

Am 09.10.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Heiko Becker: Removal of the HTML5 player fixed my problem. But just for curiosity, what plugins/ packages do I need for H.264 support? I will install the proprietary driver then soon (TM) ^^ Best, Heiko You'll need at least gst-libav and gst-plugins-good for

Re: [arch-general] java: cannot execute - too many levels of symbolic links

Am 09.09.2014 um 11:16 schrieb Thorsten Jolitz: I'm not active enough in the archlinux community to demand more efficient information politics, so I prefer leaving this to others. As a Emacs Gnus user I just think sometimes how nice it would be to subscribe to an 'archlinux.activities' group

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/1] systemd: restart services after update

Am 11.06.2014 19:23, schrieb Lukas Jirkovsky: On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: From: Christian Hesse m...@eworm.de --- [...] +for SERVICE in systemd-journald systemd-logind systemd-machined systemd-networkd systemd-resolved systemd-udevd; do + if

Re: [arch-general] My Apache Sever Compromised?

Am 09.04.2014 19:32, schrieb Jameson: On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Nowaker enwuk...@gmail.com wrote: 199.83.93.35 - - [29/Mar/2014:22:04:54 -0400] GET http://ro2.biz/pixel.png HTTP/1.0 200 151 But the most interesting part is that your apache is replying with 200, that is OK! Nice

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

Am 02.04.2014 17:56, schrieb Magnus Therning: On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:16:04AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: On a newly set up system I've added the [haskell-core] repo [1], but get stuck with the following message

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

Am 02.04.2014 19:01, schrieb Daniel Micay: On 02/04/14 01:00 PM, Daniel Micay wrote: On 02/04/14 12:47 PM, Nowaker wrote: There may be a transparent proxy in your routing chain that strips compression in order to run a virus scan. Time for SSL-securing Arch Linux repos to prevent any sort of

Re: [arch-general] Package conflicts

Am 25.03.2014 16:33, schrieb Doug Newgard: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:03:59 -0400 From: jdarn...@buddydog.org To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: [arch-general] Package conflicts I'm having a problem with the liteide vs gocode-git packages. liteide,

Re: [arch-general] Linux container

Am Mi 12 Feb 2014 18:44:11 CET schrieb arnaud gaboury: That means is that you need to make sure that the users on the host and the guest machine should have the same UID (usernumber) and GID(GroupNumber). The point is that you now have 2 computers that can access the same data. If you set

Re: [arch-general] arch rollback machine

Am Di 03 Dez 2013 10:36:16 CET schrieb archli...@jelmail.com: On 03/12/13 02:09, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2013-12-02 23:55:29 +0100] Sébastien Luttringer: Ok, you want a fake db files with all versions of the same package. No, he just wants a directory with every version of each package in it.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping bluez4

Am Mi 06 Nov 2013 21:21:37 CET schrieb Andreas Radke: Blueman is broken and for many users not even starting. -Andy Hello, I thought about creating a GUI for gnome-bluetooth since bluetooth-wizard to pair new devices and bluetooth-sendto to send files should work without gnome, only gtk3 is

Re: [arch-general] Revisit official SELinux support

Am Do 31 Okt 2013 11:29:32 CET schrieb Jelle van der Waa: On 10/31/13 at 09:36am, Allan McRae wrote: On 31/10/13 09:36, Timothée Ravier wrote: On 29/10/2013 01:21, Allan McRae wrote: I'd suggest that someone maintains an unofficial repo with all the packages required to set this up to prove