Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-18 Thread Simon Brand
Also I think some people here wrote, that they used dash as /bin/sh for years without problems. I personally also prefer dash as /bin/sh, but I dont think the pacman-trigger approach described in the wiki is a clean way of doing it. I dont know the arch packaging a lot, but I think a package which

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-27 Thread Simon Brand
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:16:09 -0500 Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Here's a tip to make this easier. Look at the field: > Great hint thank you! I will do this in the future. :) pgpQ45TVlkfKi.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Simon Brand
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:57:30 -0500 Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > This, however, is not. Why do you think that Bruno is "not active > anymore"? Why do you think that asking someone else to take over his > package due to him being Missing In Action is the correct solution? Thank you for t

[arch-general] Package Jami is out of date

2020-02-26 Thread Simon Brand
Hello, the package Jami is out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/jami-gnome/ The last packager seams to be not active anymore. Can anybody please take over the package? Best, Simon

Re: [arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available (v2)

2014-07-29 Thread Simon Brand
Am 29.07.2014 um 19:46 schrieb Mauro Santos: > QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM=native Oh nice, thank you. It fixes the problem running skype in xephyr too. (Grey window) This worked before an update of lib32-qt4, so I'd guess it is a libqt problem and not a X problem.

Re: [arch-general] Is ATI more... "compatible"?

2014-05-03 Thread Simon Brand
Am 03.05.2014 22:09, schrieb Nowaker: >> I am speaking about GPU passthrough. >> Is ATi better supported by Xen or KVM passthrough than nvidia. > I do not think it makes a difference, if nvidia or amd/ati is passed through, but dont know it for sure. There is a thread in the forum: https://bbs.a

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-04-29 Thread Simon Brand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 30.04.2014 00:06, schrieb Toyam Cox: > NetworkManager.service is running for 12 seconds Can you use static ip address in your network? The dhcp client did eat a lot of time here, too. 9 sec boot here without cryptsetup and static ip. Server needs

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-04 Thread Simon Brand
Am 04.04.2014 23:24, schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: >> If you have enough time, I would try using pkgfile to recover the >> installed packages. I thing something like this should suffice: >> # update the pkgfile database >> pkgfile -u >> # find the

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

2014-03-31 Thread Simon Brand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 You can also use pacman -Qkk For example, boot from iso, mount your root device as /mnt pacman -Qkk -r /mnt Not every warning means a compromission. To find files not owned by a package, use: find /mnt/ -exec pacman -Qqo {} -r /mnt \; Maybe you

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Simon Brand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 27.03.2014 13:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Do you even know what that means? If I see this right, every time > the kernel needs to do some permission check, it needs to ask "are > we using LSM xyz?". In any case, it's more code and thus more ro

Re: [arch-general] talkingarch problems formatting partitions

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

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Brand
> On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:07, Simon Brand wrote: > >> Am 07.03.2014 07:49, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): >>> Now, for my problem, is there any way to repair that? Or you think I should >>> reinstall my arch linux system? >> >> I am not a fan of reinst

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Simon Brand
Am 07.03.2014 07:49, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): > Now, for my problem, is there any way to repair that? Or you think I should > reinstall my arch linux system? I am not a fan of reinstalling only to fix the system, but you should update more frequently ;) Chroot into your system, then loo

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 19:13, schrieb Heiko Becker: > > Short Update: > > Clean /home/ gives me: > > Running Steam on arch 64-bit > STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically > Installing breakpad exception handler for > appid(steam)/version(1393366296_client) > Installing breakpad exception handler for > a

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 18:49, schrieb Heiko Becker: > What should I look for? > > Kind regards, > Heiko > Kernel, mesa, lib-ati, lib32-ati, steam, xorg* What video card do you have? Did you try a clean /home directory?

Re: [arch-general] Open Source ati driver can't load GLX extension

2014-03-05 Thread Simon Brand
Am 05.03.2014 16:04, schrieb Felix Yan: > On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 13:18:02 Heiko Becker wrote: >> OpenGL GLX extension not supported by displayAssert( Assertion >> Failed: Fatal Error: OpenGL GLX extension not supported by >> display > > You need (lib32-)ati-dri besides xf86-video-ati, for Op

Re: [arch-general] Updating the archlinux-keyring package

2014-02-14 Thread simon . brand
Am 2014-02-14 12:00, schrieb Plonky Duby: I do agree with that, i switched on a laptop which was off since september 2013 and i had some issue with some key. I had to update key, before having a sucessfull update. A cronjob does not help you, when you're laptop is off.