Re: [arch-general] Problem formatting/initialising new WD GameDrive USB disk

2020-10-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jeanette, > I have just got a new Western Digital USB drive, GameDrive, an 8TB medium. Being USB, is it connected directly to the PC or strung out on a hub? Can you try altering how it is connected? Is it definitely getting sufficient power? For example, is it on a powered hub, or does it hav

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Guus, > That said, it's still a good idea to restart the running services (or > the whole server when the kernel is updated), but in principle you can > just continue working while updating and reboot sometime later. IIRC, some other distros re-start a server as part of the package-upgrade pro

Re: [arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

2020-04-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Lone Wolf, > > $ perf stat -e instructions gzip > >/dev/null > > $ perf stat -e instructions lzop > >/dev/null > > Those outputs appear to be from unpacking initramfs. > I do think OP and Giancarlo were talking about creating an initramfs . Oh, sorry for the noise if I'm wrong, but

Re: [arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio

2020-04-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Giancarlo, > Of course lzop will be faster than xz, but mkinitcpio's default is gz, > which should be comparable, at least in speed, with lzop. A slap-dash test. $ perf stat -e instructions gzip /dev/null Performance counter stats for 'gzip': 19,533,249,541 instructions:

Re: [arch-general] 5.5 kernel - Latest virtualbox testcase build for 5.2.37 fails to start Arch guest on Arch host

2020-02-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > There must be another package that was updated that comes into play > (python?). How about restoring all packages to an earlier date? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_restore_all_packages_to_a_specific_date -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] Why "systemd --user" process hanging around after logout?

2020-01-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi DR, > I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env > (XFCE) there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd > --user" under my user ID (with a bunch of gvfs child processes running > under it). Me too. It's been like that for a long time. If you do ‘loginctl

Re: [arch-general] Getting 404 errors while trying to install arch on a fresh system. Any rreason why?

2020-01-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi mar77i, > You must have meant https://talkingarch.info/ I was wondering too, but I think he meant its recent fork https://tarch.org. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] systemd-zram generator

2020-01-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Chris, > I consider your response: > 1. Disrespectful to me. I agree. > Is this sort response representative of the Arch Linux community? A minority seem to think OpenBSD's, perhaps inaccurate, reputation is a target. > Relative newcomers, and first time posters, should expect this kind of

Re: [arch-general] Small Monitoring Soulution

2020-01-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Silvio, > is there a small tool which do monitoring the different server services? > Checking ping, port check and that's it. More I not need and best with > a static index.html create. I find cacti to overload and I hate php > setup. Have a look at https://mmonit.com/monit/ It has a commercia

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ralf, > Could you please provide a pointer to the start of this thread? https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-January/029795.html As Eli pointed out, it started on another list to which I can subscribe, but not post. On attempting to post, the auto-reply suggests using a

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Seblu, > Our scripts are not written POSIX compatible (i.e they rely on more > tools than the standard). Do you still know people writing POSIX > compatible scripts nowadays (students excluded)? Yes, lots of projects that target Unix systems, not just Linux, stick to POSIX for their build scri

Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage

2020-01-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Santiago, > I'm curious, though, are there any specifics about the providers on > these POSIX tools/libraries/whatnot (i.e., would it be wortwhile > discussing the alternatives?). Is sh being provided by bash(1)? A more POSIX-compliant shell may be better, one that doesn't let lots of bashism

Re: [arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts

2019-12-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi DR, > Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten > their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. As in bitmap fonts? Could it be anything to do with KDE's adjustment for the Pango change that dropped support for bitmap fonts? https://gitlab.gnome

Re: [arch-general] TP-link tl-wn823n v2.0 wifi dongle not working

2019-12-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > > > I was able to install the driver: > > > > > > $ lsmod | grep 8192 > > > 8192eu 1544192 0 > > > cfg80211 851968 1 8192eu > > > vmw_vmci 81920 0 > > > > The forum thread you reference is from 2016 and says > > > > Someth

Re: [arch-general] TP-link tl-wn823n v2.0 wifi dongle not working

2019-12-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Tim, > I'm trying to make tl-wn823n v2.0 work on arch linux. I followed the > this[1] guide. [1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218152 Have you also been following this guide in the wiki? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration/Wireless > I was able to install

Re: [arch-general] broken pipe

2019-12-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pascal, > file_info(){ > echo -n ${1:=/dev/stdin}$'\t' > ( > tee < "${1}" \ > >( file --mime-type -b -e compress -e tar -e elf - >&3 ) \ > >( md5sum >&3 ) \ > >( sha1sum >&3 ) \ > >/dev/null > ) 3>&1 | > tr '\n' '\t' >

Re: [arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740

2019-12-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Leo, > I seem not to be able to get Wifi working when booted from the Arch > installation image. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration/Wireless may have some useful information. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] journalctl

2019-12-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pascal, > exec 6<&0 > exec 0< <( while :; do read -sn1 k; echo $'\n'"# $( date +%H:%M:%S ) > ---"$'\n'; done ) > journalctl -f > exec 0<&6 6<&- > > the second instruction "exec 0< <( while..." played alone works perfectly > in my terminal, but not as a re

[arch-general] Fedora Speeds Up Python 3.

2019-11-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I thought this might be of interest. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PythonNoSemanticInterpositionSpeedup By building with -fno-semantic-interposition they remove the PLT that provides a level of indirection when calling a libpython function. libpython often calls itself and the PLT ad

Re: [arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?

2019-11-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Chris, > David C. Rankin wrote: > > 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, mlocate, shadow, > logrotate, ... systemd.timer(5) says AccuracySec= ...

Re: [arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?

2019-11-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > What is the best way to modify this scheme to prevent, e.g. > logrotate.time, man-db.timer and shadow.timer all trying to run on > boot? I'd rather set them up to run a 5:00 localtime as I would with > cronnie. But I do want to use the systemd timer, so what is the best > way to conf

Re: [arch-general] The differences among bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi.

2019-11-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hongyi, > > The UEFI boot paths look weird because FAT32 uses Windows-style > > backslash path separators. > > But I tried both of the following on *nix based distros, and it seems > both will be correct: > > -l \\EFI\\boot\bootx64.efi > > or > > -l /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi Use the source

Re: [arch-general] The differences among bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi.

2019-11-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again Hongyi, > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/About_EFI_UEFI#The_ESP has some detail. > The start of https://jdebp.eu/FGA/efi-boot-process.html may also be useful. Sorry, one more. Lots of detail in this one; I couldn't find it just now. https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-doe

Re: [arch-general] The differences among bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi.

2019-11-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hongyi, > I noticed that for many distro's install iso, there are some efi files > in the EFI/efi folder as follows: > bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi > > Say, for arch: > bootx64.efi, loader.efi > > for debian: > bootx64.efi grubx64.efi bootx64.efi is the default, others

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux fail2ban not working

2019-11-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > > > > failregex = ^\S+: Unknown User .* \(\)$ > > > > > > Thanks for your help but not working... > > > https://imgur.com/a/w0F2JSC > > > > That image shows > > > > Unknown User .* \(:.*\) > > > > but that's not what I suggested, e.g. you have a colon after the > > and as the

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile shadowsocksr-libev-git with yay.

2019-11-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hongyi, Cem wrote: > Neither AUR programs, nor AUR helpers (such as yay) are supported by Arch, > you should read the PKGBUILD and fix the issue or contact the developer with > the errors you receive See also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#Feedback -- Cheers, Ral

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux fail2ban not working

2019-11-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > > How about > > > > failregex = ^\S+: Unknown User .* \(\)$ > > Thanks for your help but not working... > https://imgur.com/a/w0F2JSC That image shows Unknown User .* \(:.*\) but that's not what I suggested, e.g. you have a colon after the and as there is no colon in ‘(109

Re: [arch-general] Archlinux fail2ban not working

2019-11-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, I don't use fail2ban, but I've just skimmed https://fail2ban.readthedocs.io/en/latest/filters.html#developing-filter-regular-expressions You may find the ‘debuggex’ reference useful. > failregex = Unknown User .* \(:.*\) ... > [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2)

[arch-general] Resetting pacman-key Still Asks to Import.

2019-10-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I have an Arch Linux laptop that hasn't been updated in a long time, mainly because it started to lock-up after a few minutes uptime, requiring a power cycle. I'm now trying to update all its packages in the hope the lock-ups have gone, and if not to have a more modern base for diagnosis. A

Re: [arch-general] grep

2019-10-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Silvio, $ grep ^ */* de/1.md:date: 2019-10-10 de/2.md:date: 2019-10-12 de/3.md:date: 2019-10-14 de/4.md:date: 2019-10-16 en/1.md:date: 2019-10-10 en/2.md:date: 2019-10-12 en/3.md:date: 2019-10-14 en/4.md:date: 2019-10-16 fr/4.md:date: 2019-10-16 ru/3.

Re: [arch-general] grep

2019-10-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Silvio, > How can I do the same in the other folders and all those that exist > with the same date are hidden and when no file is present give out the > file which is missing in other folders sort by date. The name of file > is sure other, but the date is ever the same. The requirement is uncl

Re: [arch-general] Does Arch Linux support containers, dockers and Kubernetes?

2019-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Levente, > Please do not top-post. On all Arch mailing lists we have a bottom-post > policy for replies (it also makes reading posts more natural). :-) Other bit of etiquette are listed along with that at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Mailing_lists -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ralf, > An editor is a fundamental tool Yes, but stepping back a bit... do you accept that neither a text editor, or less(1), are required on a minimal install that's just being used as a base for producing a specialised install for a particular task, as used in a container? I'm unclear if yo

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > Off the top of my head: > > vi > vim ... I was curious. Others might be interested in the result. $ expac -S '%m %n' vi vim neovim vis ed emacs acme gedit pluma xed \ >geany leafpad kate nano vscode atom | > sort -n 106496 ed 300032 vi 317440 leafpad 10

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pete, > > > Everyone should just learn ed(1). :-) > > > > ed? They should learn how to edit a text file using assembly > > Never mind Ed Vi Assemblers yes all very fancyfull My ed suggestion wasn't a joke. It's probably the smallest editor to install. It has a long pedigree, it's in POSI

Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required

2019-10-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Greg, > Maybe I'm just old ... > everyone should learn at least a few vi commands ... > I still makes me uncomfortable knowing it isn't installed by default. Not old enough! Everyone should just learn ed(1). :-) -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] New install second drive issue

2019-09-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pete, > I am stuck right now i need to be able to include the old drive to > recover data from it. When you installed on the new drive, did you attempt to reuse UUIDs, labels, etc., from the old drive? -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

2019-09-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Dan, > > Also, this page may be of help. > > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Date_Format#Configuring_the_date.2Ftime_system_settings_on_your_computer > > According to RFC 2822, the time of day in an email message is always in > 24-hour format. That's correct. > Changing your system setti

Re: [arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?

2019-09-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Matthew, > when I look at an email such as in thunderbird, the time and date are > given 24 hour format for example, 2019/14/09 11:00 rather than the u.s > format I am used to. What is the output of the locale(1) command? Also, this page may be of help. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Change_the_Dat

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_after' modification time mismatch > > (expected 2019-02-06 20:40:14) > > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_before' modification time mismatch > > (expected 2019-02-06 20:40:1

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > there are quite many files on my system that had wrong permissions or > GID's. Perhaps there's been an errant recursive chmod or chgrp in the past by root. > Is there a way to automatically correct all the permissions and GID's? Others like Eli might know an mtree-specific way,

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > warning: atop: /var/log/atop/dummy_after (Permissions mismatch) > ... > > Not every error means the file on disk must be changed, perhaps it's > > a packaging problem > > pacman -S pacutils && paccheck --file-properties Thanks. $ sudo -i paccheck --file-properties atop at

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > After searching on-line, it seemed that similar problems were reported > by other users of systemd. The fix is to set owner of / as root.root. > I tried the solution and it worked! I'm glad you fixed it. / not being root:root is strange. You may wish to sudo -i pacman -Qqk

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > :: Running post-transaction hooks... ... > (5/9) Creating temporary files... > error: command failed to execute correctly > (6/9) Reloading device manager configuration... Here's the path I trod to investigate this. $ cd /usr/share/libalpm/hooks $ grep 'Creating temporary

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

2019-08-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > ssh 192.168.0.3 > # pwd > /home/archlniux > (I like copy the command return to my clipboard archlinux desktop > client) ssh 192.168.0.3 pwd | xsel -b -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] espeakup

2019-08-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi adérito, > Please contact the talkingarch team. https://talkingarch.tk/contact.php explains how to contact them. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] Xterm and .Xresources

2019-08-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Storm, > > > I found that if I export TERM=vt220 that most keys do work > > > > If you start an xterm(1) and find TERM is `xterm' then I'd leave it > > alone. > > My TERM reports as Linux. Should I export it as xterm? xterm(1) says Terminal database (terminfo (5) or termcap (5)) entries

Re: [arch-general] Xterm and .Xresources

2019-08-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Storm, > I found that if I export TERM=vt220 that most keys do work If you start an xterm(1) and find TERM is `xterm' then I'd leave it alone. > but home and end in applications like nano and ne do not work still > and cause weird behavior. In the xterm, run `od -c' and type `Home Enter Ctrl

Re: [arch-general] Opening a document with unicode in path

2019-08-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi John, > > echo $LANG > en_CA.UTF-8 A good command to use for these situations is locale(1). Note, the double quotes in the output are significant, as the fine man page explains. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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

2019-07-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > You can convert your BDF/PCF fonts to the "X11 bitmap only sfnt > > (otb)" OpenType format[1], which harfbuzz does support[2]. > > So these aren't "my" fonts. I'm using one of the bitmapped fonts that > ships with X in xorg-fonts-misc as my terminal font. `My' bitmap fonts are also

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch

2019-07-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi adérito, > how do I install talkingarch Have you seen https://talkingarch.tk/ ? The ‘Contact Us’ page there mentions emailing supp...@talkingarch.tk There's also the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TalkingArch page -- Cheers, Ralph.

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

2019-07-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
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 dropping of support by Pango. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 I don't think xterm(1) uses Pango gi

Re: [arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ralf, > when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain > absolutely nothing on my machine or I've done something wrong ;). Rather than use Firefox, have you tried ‘mpv foo.mp4’ so you can see what it outputs about its video out, ‘VO’, choice before it starts playing? It

Re: [arch-general] How to get "b"-menu in Arch i3

2019-07-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ram, > > Can you not top-post repeatedly. > > What?.. i dont understand.. can u plz elaborate? See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Mailing_lists -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] How long do you make the passphrase for the private key?

2019-06-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Manuel, > How strong would you make this master password and where to save this > one? Are you familiar with https://xkcd.com/936/ ? > And I really think that finally someone *has* to come up with some > replacement for this password nightmare. Some kind of hardware key > maybe. Yes, they ex

Re: [arch-general] Arch on NVMe ssd

2019-05-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > In normal desktop/laptop use, you rarely write more than 1-2GB a day > on average -- so that would translate into a 190-95 year wear-life for > the drive under normal use. Even at 10GB a day, that would be a 19 > year life for the drive. The SSD drive also reports its own personal vie

Re: [arch-general] js60 update -- reveals older packages installed as deps not updated and left on system

2019-05-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > Is this normal that new versions of packages are just added without > removing the replaced package? Yes, I think so. Checking for orphans is part of the normal process. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Check_for_orphans_and_dropped_packages -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] adb backup broken named pipe

2019-05-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Pascal, > I still have a slight problem because the tar command ends with an error : > *(the same error is also present with adb, printf and tail).* .. > $ python3 adbackup.py > /tmp/mybackup.tgz > $ tar tvzf /tmp/mybackup.tgz > ... all my files are here :-) > gzip: stdin: unexpected end of fil

Re: [arch-general] Xorg Weirdness

2019-04-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Storm, > Unfortunately, on this computer, if I have X started, whatever I type > in my console affects the X session. So, as I type this message in the > console using mutt, it is also appearing in a leafpad window in X. > Also, when I press keys like alt+left arrow to go back in firefox, or >

Re: [arch-general] dbeaver and mariadb-jdbc: Creating the symlink.

2019-04-22 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Stanislav, > DBeaver is able to download adapter on first connection creation. > No need to symlink anything. Yes, it's offering to do that, but wouldn't that be for me as a user? Given the AUR exists, I'd prefer to have that installed to give the benefit for all users, and for all programs th

[arch-general] dbeaver and mariadb-jdbc: Creating the symlink.

2019-04-21 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, I've installed dbeaver 6.0.1-1, plus mariadb-jdbc 2.4.1-1 from AUR. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JDBC_and_MySQL#Installing_JDBC says to then symlink mariadb-java-client.jar so it's picked up as part of the JVM's JRE, but /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime/jre/lib/ext doesn't exist. https://

Re: [arch-general] Problems compiling big projects from AUR

2019-04-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Jeanette, > I notice that the AUR compile seems to go quicker. ... > The thing that happens is for the AUR build process to swap massive > amounts of data, grinding the system almost to a halt and finally > failing without much of a reason. Nothing typically source code or > linkage related. S

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot

2019-03-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Steve, > I need to end up with a distro that has good driver support, and very > low resource utilization and gets me to a GUI in 20 steps or less, > which are clear steps. IIRC you have 1 GiB RAM to play with so you probably need to consider what GUI you want and what you expect to be able t

Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

2019-03-16 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Dan, > > I hope your local authorities decide to give you real broadband in > > the near future, however. :-) > > My situation is similar to Darren's: My primary connection to the > internet is through my cell phone carrier and a mobile WiFi hot spot. I'm UK mainland, get about 580 KiB/s down

Re: [arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?

2019-03-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ralf, > $ sudo pacman -U > https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > > error: failed retrieving file 'lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' > from mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Resolving timed out after 1 > milliseconds I think yo

Re: [arch-general] IPC slowness

2019-03-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi again Frederick, > % time seconds usecs/call callserrors syscall > -- --- --- - - > 99.98 11.762280 22524299524285 close Ah, here we are. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55618 -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] IPC slowness

2019-03-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Frederick, > #!/bin/bash > SCREEN=/usr/bin/screen > $SCREEN -dmS x > time $SCREEN -S x -X setenv A B > $SCREEN -S x -X quit Perhaps it's closing more file descriptors now than before? $ strace -c screen -dmS x Directory '/run/screens' must have mode 777. % time

Re: [arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log

2019-03-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > > This will remove the carriage returns at the end of lines once > > script has finished. > > This not working. Not quit the end file log character "^M" > > > script -f -c '/usr/local/bin/cccam -d' mylogfile.log > > sed -i 's/\r$//' mylogfile.log It works here. $ script

Re: [arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log

2019-03-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > Now only remove ^M character from log files in buffer time but this > not working: > > script -f -c '/usr/local/bin/cccam -d' mylogfile.log | sed 's/^M//g' script(1) writes to mylogfile.log, sed sees no input. This will remove the carriage returns at the end of lines once script has

Re: [arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log

2019-03-02 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > > > > Otherwise, `LC_ALL=C strace -ff -o st /usr/local/bin/CCcam -d' > > > > will capture the write(2)s or similar and you can see what file > > > > descriptors its writing to and work backwards to see how that > > > > was obtained, e.g. by opening /dev/tty. > > > > > > Nothing happen

Re: [arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log

2019-03-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > > command &> out > > Not works... I probe all combinations: > > > file redirects stdout to file > 1> file redirects stdout to file > 2> file redirects stderr to file > &> file redirects stdout and stderr to file Can you show us one complete command with `&>' in case there's something

Re: [arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log

2019-03-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maykel, > I playing with cccam for a proyect with decoder and I like stdout > console log to specific log but not work... > > I try all: > > >> /var/log/test.log Have you seen https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Command-line_shell#Input_and_output and the links it provides? -- Cheers, R

Re: [arch-general] HTTP spam from China

2019-02-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Juha, > > It's why I keep my SSH servers on a non-standard port. I know it > > doesn't prevent someone from discovering it, but it cuts out 99.99% > > of all those attacks, being able to filter out connection attempts > > to port 22 > > Same. For easy ports to remember, I like to combine powers

Re: [arch-general] Libreoffice fresh not starting

2019-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Friedrich, If you look at /bin/libreoffice you'll see it's a shell script and provides options like `--strace' and `--backtrace' that may give better diagnostics that what you have so far. It looks like the problem happens in an area to do with user profiles. Have you tried starting it as an e

Re: [arch-general] what are you up to?

2019-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi ekardnam, > hey would love to contribute in the development of the arch linux > community! what are you up to by now? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved might be a useful starting point. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] pambase - creating needed files for apps with normal user auth - pam_unix.so?

2019-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > My question is what do I put in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd? It seems flawed that individual users, like you and me, are having to concoct /etc/pam.d files due to packages not providing them and the working default having been removed by a pambase upgrade. This is because we're not knowledgabl

Re: [arch-general] Crashes in FF 65.0.1

2019-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > Another issue I have is about atlassian: When I open a link, usually a > login page is shown. Instead, FF crashes completely. Have you tried creating a second Firefox profile that doesn't have all of your customisations and seeing if this problem still occurs? https://support.mozilla.

Re: [arch-general] Can't start mariadb and avahi anymore, cannot connect users

2019-02-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Maderios, > I can't connect users in tty. Mariadb and avahi-daemon don't start at > boot. I can't start them manually too using systemctl. ... > stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied > Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[980]: mariadb.service: Failed to connect Do you see an

Re: [arch-general] After 4.20.10 update - fsck check caused dump to maintenance shell for missing mdadm raid1 UUID?

2019-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > The timing of any change would be from today back through whatever > number of days the default fsck check schedule is. The journal may show the previous fscks on the same device and narrow the time range. `journalctl -t systemd-fsck'. https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/syste

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi WorMzy, > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1831377 is a recent > > thread on this pambase change causing problems. Apparently, I > > hijacked it so it's now closed. But I'm pleased I did because > > others that arrive there from Google, like I did, will now have the > > trail I l

Re: [arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected

2019-02-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Amish, > David C. Rankin wrote: > > if you have services that rely on pam authentication, such as > > dovecot, etc.., you will find that your applications an no longer > > authenticate using pam until you install a specific pam service in > > /etc/pam.d for that application, > > Although this c

Re: [arch-general] Lutris 0.5 - Namespace GnomeDesktop not available

2019-02-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sefa, > > It looks to me like package gnome-desktop will add the required file > > to /usr/lib/girepository-1.0. > > That worked! I guess this should then be added as a dependency of the > package. Copying the list so the resolution is known and is archived. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] Lutris 0.5 - Namespace GnomeDesktop not available

2019-02-03 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Sefa, > ValueError: Namespace GnomeDesktop not available > > I am running KDE Plasma 5.14.90 (kde-unstable) and probably don't have > some default gnome dependency. I already tried installing the packages > "gnome- python" and "gnome-python-desktop", but there are for GNOME 2 > and not for GNOM

Re: [arch-general] Customizing Console Keybindings?

2019-02-01 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Hunter, > I was wondering if the it is possible to customize the console > keybindings. In particular, I want alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to switch > the consoles instead of alt+right and left arrows. See loadkeys(1) and friends. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Loadkeys `Decr_Console' is

Re: [arch-general] How to grant Apache httpd permission to serve files from my home directory?

2019-01-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > how can I grant Apache httpd permissions to present files out of my > home directory? https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/public_html.html isn't exactly what you want, but investigating what it suggests and how it works may lead there. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [arch-general] [Xfce-terminal] Cannot remove entries from history

2019-01-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > > Does it gain new lines at the bottom as you enter commands in a > > terminal? Or only when the terminal exits? Do those lines include > > test ones that you've deleted? > > Yes, thank You, Ralph. Indeed, I forgot about that, as I'm usually not > changing that. IMHO it's nevertheles

Re: [arch-general] [Xfce-terminal] Cannot remove entries from history

2019-01-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > After removing entries from the history (using "history -d" or > "history -c"), the entries are obviously buffered. When I close the > terminal and the open another, the history is available again Do you have a .bash_history file in your home directory. Does it gain new lines at the

Re: [arch-general] systemctl daemon-reexec - anything else needed after systemd update?

2018-12-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > Most of the Arch systems I have running are servers, so it is fairly > easy just to scan the upgrade list and note which applications I need > to restart. You do better than me then. I get surprised by some of the deleted /usr/lib/* that are still loaded by running executables. --

Re: [arch-general] systemctl daemon-reexec - anything else needed after systemd update?

2018-12-19 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, Robin wrote: > > Is there anything else needed other than daemon-reexec when there is > > an update to systemd itself? > > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/systemd.install?h=packages/systemd#n80 You might be interested in what running process have deleted files

Re: [arch-general] Why is permission for /run/user/1000/gvfs denied for root?

2018-12-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > But I need it to access the filesystem of my Android phone!? > Or are there alternatives? There seem to be lots. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android#Transferring_files https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Media_Transfer_Protocol A user here just mount(8)s IIRC, using an fsta

Re: [arch-general] Why is permission for /run/user/1000/gvfs denied for root?

2018-12-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > why can't I access the directory? > > $ sudo LANG=C ls -l /run/user/1000 > ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied Because gvfs has been brain-damaged for over a decade and should be nuked from orbit. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/227724 -- C

Re: [arch-general] claws-mail suddenly seeing "invalid" certificates from gmail?

2018-12-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Mark, > Claws is claiming that pop.gmail.com is sending an invalid certificate > whenever Claws tries to connect to fetch mail. ... > New certificate: > Owner: > Name: invalid2.invalid https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/openssl-1-1-1-upgrade-breaks-fetchmail-with-g

Re: [arch-general] How to find files owned by some user or group?

2018-12-13 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, > how can I find all the files owned by some user or group (in > preparation to delete the user/group)? find(1). See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Find#Essentials sudo find /start1 /start2 \( -user foo -o -group bar \) -ls -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCo

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > Having spotted > > > > warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave > > > > during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub > > afterwards expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist. > > `pacman -Ql grub' showed grub doesn't own anything

Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > I am in the gradual process of hopefully fixing all this via rewriting > the wiki page for grub. My current progress towards this end can be > seen at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Eschwartz/Grub#Configuration Interesting. My grub.cfg is from grub-mkconfig(8) and I'd much

[arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.

2018-12-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Having spotted warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub afterwards expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist. `pacman -Ql grub' showed grub doesn't own anything in /boot. Google led me to htt

Re: [arch-general] https://lists.archlinux.org/

2018-11-10 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, > > "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact > > mail...@lists.archlinux.org." - https://lists.archlinux.org/ > > I guess a more useful /dev/null address could be put there, as we can > assume, that the default mailman@ mailing list is either deactivated > or doesn't ex

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > Dangerous is when you break your system by installing incompatible > packages via a "successful" partial update. Ah, right. I `pacman -S foo'. foo depends on libbar. libbar 1.0 is already installed because xyzzy needs it. The earlier `pacman -Syuw' updated the local database to know

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free > > bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the > > keyboard and it's a convenient time for breakage, I upgrade to > > what's already been downloaded manually and definitely don't want > > `-y'. :-)

Re: [arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly

2018-11-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi leoutation, > > This morning's `pacman -Su' had a problem building the fallback > > initcpio > > Right command is pacman -Syu Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the keyboard and it's a convenient time fo

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