Re: [arch-announce] Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-04-12 Thread Genes Lists
On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 18:12 +, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau wrote: > The [vm.max_map_count][1] paramater will be increased from the > default `65530` value to `1048576`. > > This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues > for a number of memory

Re: Proposal to increase the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-04-02 Thread Genes Lists
On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 12:29 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > On 4/2/24 11:59 AM, Robin Candau wrote: Couple of comments. * In lkml thread on same topic not everyone is on board with this [1] * Where to put this kind of thing Would it make sense to collect these kind of "system" settings,

Re: `makepkg` generates two packages

2024-03-07 Thread Genes Lists
On Thu, 2024-03-07 at 12:34 +0100, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: > hi, > > when I run `makepkg`, it generates a second package with the `-debug` > ... Right, while makepkg defaults to '!debug' at some point /etc/makepkg.conf set the default to 'debug' instead. Its actually a nice feature if/when you

Re: Upgrade failure

2024-03-03 Thread Genes Lists
On Sun, 2024-03-03 at 14:06 -0800, David Bohman wrote: > > :.. > : Replace libblockdev-utils with extra/libblockdev? [Y/n] I wonder whether its possible you answered 'no' instead of 'yes' to this? -- Gene signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: libblockdev split plugins

2024-03-02 Thread Genes Lists
On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 20:28 -0600, Doug Newgard wrote: > > ..dependencies. Probably, most of the users already noticed that.  > > See > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/udisks2/- > /issues/1 Very helpful - thanks -- Gene

Re: libblockdev split plugins

2024-03-01 Thread Genes Lists
On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 23:04 +0100, Abraham S.A.H. wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Probably a little late, but I noticed that `plugins of libblockdev` ... FYI - Similar comment came up last week - this thread:

Re: Trouble connecting with NetworkManager

2024-02-25 Thread Genes Lists
On Sun, 2024-02-25 at 12:07 +0100, SET wrote: > > > This looks like the same bug and  should be fixed with 1.46.0-2 now in testing [1] [1]  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/networkmanager/-/issues/2 -- Gene

Re: Trouble connecting with NetworkManager

2024-02-25 Thread Genes Lists
On Sun, 2024-02-25 at 08:38 +0100, SET wrote: > Hi, > > Since yesterday's upgrade, it's not possible to establish IPV4 > networking with > If your network manager backend is still wpa-supplicant it may be worth trying iwd. i.e. Edit /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf : [device]

Re: libblockdev - Split all provided plugins into separate packages (motivation?)

2024-02-24 Thread Genes Lists
On Fri, 2024-02-23 at 22:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, David, > > ... >    The trend I've seen over the past several years is to subdivide > packages, > which as long as they continue to work is fine, but at some point it > does ... Its an interesting question how best to offer a

Re: kernel module sg gone

2024-02-01 Thread Genes Lists
On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 14:16 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: Quick thought - did you reboot after the kernel update? If not - the update wiped previous kernel modules away You can make sure to keep sg loaded by creating a file:     /etc/modules-load.d/loadme.conf And add these : loop sg Loop is

Re: kernel module sg gone

2024-02-01 Thread Genes Lists
On Thu, 2024-02-01 at 14:16 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > ... > sg first.  That's gone with latest update of kernel and modules and > ... The module is in arch kernels :  $ ls /usr/lib/modules/6.7.3-arch1-1/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.ko.zst 24

Re: libjxl upgrade issue

2024-01-25 Thread Genes Lists
On Thu, 2024-01-25 at 21:27 +0100, Brian Allred wrote: ... > the same issue with libvpx after today's update. Discord, Telegram, and xfreerdp all complain about missing the shared library "libvpx.so.8". > > May or may not be the issue, but best I can tell libvpx package is not a dependency of

Re: [Postfix] Warn that databases need regeneration

2024-01-24 Thread Genes Lists
On Wed, 2024-01-24 at 17:03 +0100, Geert Hendrickx wrote: > ... > This has been reverted in postfix 3.8.5-2, so you may need to postmap > your .db files again.  (users not on [testing] won't have this issue) Geert - this should be okay as the revert takes db5 back to db6 (again) - the earlier

Re: Stepping down as Python maintainer

2024-01-23 Thread Genes Lists
On Wed, 2023-12-13 at 16:28 +0200, Felix Yan wrote: > Hello, > > ... > so I am > making room for others to try on the 3.11 and 3.12 rebuilds. As Jelle > has progressed a lot now, I feel it's approaching the right time for > me > to step down as the Python maintainer. > > .. Thank you Felix  

Re: [Postfix] Warn that databases need regeneration

2024-01-23 Thread Genes Lists
On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 15:16 +, Polarian wrote See: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/postfix/-/issues/2

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Genes Lists
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 19:30 +, Serge Korol wrote: > sizes of img files with latest mkinitcpio 37.2-1 >  * Things seem quite reasonable again with the latest release of mkinitcpio  * I stopped keeping fallback images for both dracut and mkinitcpio.  You may or may not choose to do this too.

Re: Python warnings still

2024-01-05 Thread Genes Lists
On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 23:05 +, pete wrote: > On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:13:40 -0500 > Genes Lists wrote: > ... > > " pacman -Q --check python-pyrate-limiter > python-pyrate-limiter: 59 total files, 0 missing files " > Then may be worth trying: pac

Re: Python warnings still

2024-01-05 Thread Genes Lists
On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 21:45 +, pete wrote: > Hi folks . > > > I am still getting plagued by  these Python  warnings > > warning: could not get file information for > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/... Anything interesting from :    

Re: [arch-general] pcmanfm-gtk3 no longer working on wayland?

2023-12-27 Thread Genes Lists
On Tue, 2023-12-26 at 22:02 -0600, Javier wrote: > Hi ! > > pcmanfm-gtk3 is segfaulting on wayland when trying to access any > directory.  I don't know if others are experiencing the same.  The > alternative I've been using is thunar, though I really liked pcmanfm- > gtk3. > I don't use this

Re: What is the plan for dhcpd/kea?

2023-12-20 Thread Genes Lists
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 16:17 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > > Yes, hopefully ISC made is fairly compatible and straight-forward to > transition, but holy cow, 2G for kea-docs? > The doc package includes both administrator and developer docs. The docs are quite extensive. You can see the

Re: What is the plan for dhcpd/kea?

2023-12-19 Thread Genes Lists
On Tue, 2023-12-19 at 14:19 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote > >    The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and > no > indication if Arch will start packaging Kea. Arch has been packaging kea for quite a long time

Re: Issues with new NTFS module

2023-11-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 11/18/23 07:18, Giovanni Santini wrote: ... Let's hope the problem gets solved soon. :) Hi You may have mentioned this already, but is there anything interesting in the kernel logs? I see no relevant looking ntfs3 commits in the kernel after 6.6. There were some in 6.6 [1]. Since

Re: Pacman update fail

2023-10-20 Thread Genes Lists
On 10/20/23 18:05, pete wrote: Hi Folks Well this normally runs so smooth it is crazy but today ... I don't use kde any longer - but part of your problem is likely orphaned packages. you should remove kfloppy and telepathy-kde-contact-runner for starters and any other orphans you find.

Re: solving file conflicts

2023-10-10 Thread Genes Lists
On 10/10/23 07:00, Erich Eckner wrote: Hi, ... This is (one possibility for) the second option, that I mentioned, which I was afraid might break a lot of stuff on my machines :-/ I meant put it in /usr/local/xxx/ not directly in /usr/local. Or in /opt/xxx/ I see, that the root cause (and

Re: solving file conflicts

2023-10-10 Thread Genes Lists
On 10/10/23 02:41, Erich Eckner wrote: Hi fellow-archers, Hi! I have two packages, A and B, which both provide the same file X. ... Without knowing more its a bit hard to say. For example are A and B actually the same application but different versions (git vs stable). If so, then just

Re: How to enable opencl?

2023-10-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 10/7/23 02:59, Zener wrote: Hi. [opencl_init] could not get platforms: Unknown OpenCL error [opencl_init] FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE and NOT ENABLED. I dont use this but the docs [1] have a (long) list of requirements that must be met to use it. It sounds like or more is

Re: Any though of having archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync check for iptables and recommend rule?

2023-09-24 Thread Genes Lists
On 9/24/23 07:22, Genes Lists wrote:  nft -c nftables.conf typo - should be: nft -c -f nftables.conf gene

Re: Any though of having archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync check for iptables and recommend rule?

2023-09-24 Thread Genes Lists
On 9/24/23 02:52, David C. Rankin wrote: On 9/23/23 12:51, Christian wrote: In addition to the workstation (single interface) nftables example, I have just uploaded an example of nftables firewall rules. i.e. for a router with 2 interfaces that sits between the internet and internal

Re: Any though of having archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync check for iptables and recommend rule?

2023-09-23 Thread Genes Lists
On 9/23/23 13:51, Christian wrote: ... In case of interest, the nft rules that I shared with David previously are available here [1]. This is a sample nftables ruleset for a laptop or workstation. It allows established / related packets to come back. These packets are returned after a

Re: Any though of having archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync check for iptables and recommend rule?

2023-09-20 Thread Genes Lists
On 9/20/23 04:36, David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs,   Depending on how restrictive the iptables rules, if the IP for archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync falls into a blocked range, the logs quickly fill. An idea is to have the service insert a temporary rule to either (1) allow the IP for the sync

bash 5.2 and BASH_COMPAT question

2023-09-17 Thread Genes Lists
Hi: I believe that bash 5.2 was/is held back due to incompatible Changes with 5.1 [1]. The obvious first thought would be to set BASH_COMPAT="5.1" globally and then update to the current 5.2 version. This would work for any shell which sees the BASH_COMPAT variable. User login shells,

Re: Arch Mailing List queries

2023-09-14 Thread Genes Lists
On 9/14/23 14:34, Polarian wrote: Hello, ... - DKIM signatures are broken in transit, and ... ... hi There was a discussion of DKIM and mail list back last October [1]. There was, and seems still is, an open mailman issue [2]. The Arch thread is informative, in particular around

Re: Install a package to alternative location

2023-08-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 8/17/23 16:20, Jeanette C. wrote: Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it

kernel 6.4.11 bug prevents boot on some hardware

2023-08-17 Thread Genes Lists
Sharing in case this helps others. Also posted to arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288095 There is a bug with the rtsx driver in 6.4.11 that prevented 1 machine from booting. It presented in my case as NVME failure, thus preventing machine from booting. 6.4.10 is

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 7/18/23 14:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... if the cat paws at the keyboard, it doesn't need root privileges, it can execute "rm /path/unified_kernel_image" with the cat's user privileges? I think that non-root can only do that if mounted uid=. So, as far as cat-safe filesystem, isn't it no

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 7/18/23 09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't install my kernels on a fat partition without UNIX privileges. IOW if it should be required that the efi partition is a fat partition, I wonder why this is recommended. OI assume a part of your comment is the security aspect. This of course can be

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 7/18/23 09:23, Genes Lists wrote: While that is/was pretty common, I believe the current recommendation is to  mount: To be more precise, the recommendation is to mount the efi as /boot, and as Sergey suggested, if your EFI partition is too small, then use separate efi and boot

Re: Arch Linux installing.

2023-07-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 7/18/23 06:41, Sergey Filatov wrote: mount EFI partition as /boot/efi. While that is/was pretty common, I believe the current recommendation is to mount: esp onto /efi gpt type : EF00 boot onto /boot gpt type : EA00 (type XBOOTLDR) rather than having the efi

Re: nginx http3/quic support

2023-06-29 Thread Genes Lists
On 6/29/23 07:16, Genes Lists wrote: Nginx mainline added (experimental) http3/quic support with version 1.25 Seems our nginx-mainline does have '--with-http_v3_module' together with openssl. So it should mostly work as is. Missed that as well - must need more coffee ... gene

Re: nginx http3/quic support

2023-06-29 Thread Genes Lists
On 6/29/23 08:06, Genes Lists wrote: On 6/29/23 07:16, Genes Lists wrote: Actually the cleanest and simplest way is to use libressl which is ... - I will build and test. Very simple to build with libressl - preliminary testing nginx working fine for both http/2 and http/3. Be good

Re: nginx http3/quic support

2023-06-29 Thread Genes Lists
On 6/29/23 07:16, Genes Lists wrote: Actually the cleanest and simplest way is to use libressl which is already nicely packaged in in repo. Don't know how I missed this earlier - I will build and test. gene

nginx http3/quic support

2023-06-29 Thread Genes Lists
Nginx mainline added (experimental) http3/quic support with version 1.25 in late May. Is there any interest in adding support to our nginx-mainline package? It can be optionally turned on in server config, so having it compiled in and available shouldn't have any impact until it's activated

Re: Git migration completed

2023-05-22 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/21/23 07:29, Levente Polyak wrote: We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 拾 A huge thank you for the massive detailed planning and successful execution - very, very much appreciated. Hope you all celebrate lots! best gene

Re: Git migration completed

2023-05-21 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/21/23 08:32, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 21-05-2023 14:28, Genes Lists wrote: ... Are these just - be patient, takes time to sync - or something else? Yes.. https://i.imgur.com/6M4mfGT.png Thanks :)

Re: Git migration completed

2023-05-21 Thread Genes Lists
First off - huge congrats to you all for orchestrating this obviously huge task. Thank you. Couple questions to confirm this is a mirror sync issue and not something else - since one of today's items was "test syncrepo on mirror.pkgbuild.com" I assumed this would be up to date? -

Re: Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668

2023-05-18 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/18/23 06:26, Lone_Wolf wrote: On 17-05-2023 18:31, Genes Lists wrote:  have several packages where in the install section of PKGBUILD it does something like:   pipopts="--isolated --ignore-installed --no-deps"   pip $pipopts install --root=$pkgdir dist/*.whl Thos

Re: Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668

2023-05-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/17/23 17:35, Genes Lists wrote: I'm now following how the above helps package maintainers. Quite ^^^ not The question is basically will "pip --root" continue to work as it does now if we adopt 668. If not what needs to be changed in PKGBUILD for the install phase

Re: Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668

2023-05-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/17/23 16:56, Jude DaShiell wrote: I found pipenv works well. A package jrnl wouldn't run once built with pip but does run inside pipenv. This creates a virtual environment for building and running packages so once jrnl got built doing pipenv run jrnl runs the program. I'm now following

Re: Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668

2023-05-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 5/17/23 11:47, Martin Rys wrote: Some time ago, PEP 668[1] enabled distributions to mark the python installation as externally managed by a package manager, thus preventing pip from breaking the system by either installing packages to the system or locally in the home folder. ... [1]

Re: Python 3.11 in [staging] -> [testing]

2023-04-29 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/29/23 11:19, Felix Yan wrote: On 4/29/23 14:13, David Runge wrote: ... The move is now done and everything should have been fixed. Have fun breaking something new :) So far for all the things I've tested, starting with my own code, its working really well. And noticeably faster - one

Re: Is a tool available to check the integrity of copied files?

2023-04-14 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/14/23 16:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, my google search was "does linux diff compare data using a cache". Its not "diff" doing anything weird, its simply the linux kernel buffer cache - and it works great doesn't it. And no, its not 'stale' data, blocks that have not changed are

Re: PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key

2023-04-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/12/23 07:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I don't understand it. If it should be a signing issue, then it does matter when using one mobo and doesn't matter, if the same SSD holding the Arch Linux install is connected to another mobo? It only matters when UEFI booting (with secure boot disabled),

Re: PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key

2023-04-12 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/12/23 03:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, Bit hard to say from above - clearly these need 2 different keys (right?) also you dont say what CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS_xx are set to either since you have 2 different module compressions as well as keys being different. Maybe post the actual

Re: firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?

2023-04-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/7/23 09:27, Genes Lists wrote: Closing the loop - this is now been fixed by mesa 23.0.2 in testing repo. Big thanks to heftig for sorting it out so quickly! gene

Re: firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?

2023-04-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/7/23 09:31, Petr Mánek wrote: See also: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78137 Best I can tell there are 2 (possibly related) issues - (a) firefox crashes on start and (b) firefox crashes on exit. Course to get to (b) you have to not experience (a) :) gene

Re: firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?

2023-04-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/7/23 09:22, Genes Lists wrote: Running on gnome This may have to do with updated updated wayland package (1.22.0-1) - I confirm the problem goes away if I roll wayland back to prev version (1.21.0-2) So indeed the problem package is wayland.

firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?

2023-04-07 Thread Genes Lists
Running on gnome This may have to do with updated updated wayland package (1.22.0-1) - didn't see much else that may be related. I tried rolling back firefox and makes no difference - I also tried with and without MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND - always get instant crash with:

Re: Enabling CSM fails, can somebody recommend a bootloader

2023-04-02 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/2/23 12:07, Matthew Blankenbeheler wrote: Does this method 2 mean making 3 partitions? The UEFI spec requires that the Extended Boot Loader be its own partition of type XBOOTLDR (gpt EA00) - so yes thats correct. 1 partition for (/efi), 1 for extended boot loader (/boot) and

Re: Enabling CSM fails, can somebody recommend a bootloader

2023-04-02 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/2/23 07:44, Genes Lists wrote:  [1] XBOOTLDR https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/ Oops, Forgot to provide this link as well: https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/boot_loader_specification/

Re: Enabling CSM fails, can somebody recommend a bootloader

2023-04-02 Thread Genes Lists
On 4/2/23 04:04, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Assuming I would do without the museum, then the modern kernels would have to be in the ESP, a FAT partition without file permissions. Or do I misunderstand something? Ralf Here's a brief overview. There are 2 methods available for UEFI booting

Re: gui network icon not connected

2023-03-26 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/26/23 01:02, rino mardo wrote: if i stop the iwd, my wireless connections goes away. wlan0 also Try tell network manager to use iwd - create this file: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi_backend.conf with these 2 lines [device] wifi.backend=iwd

Re: TeXLive 2023 update

2023-03-24 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/23/23 13:44, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: Hello Texlive packages have been updated to 2023 version in [testing]. ... Thank you Rémy. I don't use luaxxx. On the docs I've tested so far, pdflatex is working well. gene

Re: linux headers

2023-03-21 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/21/23 04:26, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: hi everybody, my development workstation is running 6.1.20-1-lts and I made linux-lts-ro-6.1.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and linux-lts-ro-headers-6.1.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst packages on it : if now I want to compile on this development workstation

Re: linux headers

2023-03-20 Thread Genes Lists
if I understand correctly, I can install my package linux-lts-perso-6.1.15-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst, boot on it (eg. "my" kernel) and continue to use the binaries present on my system while they have not been compiled with its (new) headers and especially for the binaries that call the

Re: linux headers

2023-03-20 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/20/23 06:44, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: Please don't top post on mailing lists. I don't understand what 'problem' you are speaking of. All you've asked is if you can install a kernel headers from a different build - the general answer is "no" - don't ever do that. I already explained if

Re: linux headers

2023-03-20 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/20/23 05:27, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: hi, - When you change the source you must also bump pkgrel as the package is now different. - If you want to build your own version of an Arch package, you should not use same package name as the official Arch package - this will only lead to

Re: Orphaning packages

2023-03-17 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/14/23 12:50, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, early spring cleanup on my adopted packages: .. - mdadm Thanks for all the work you've put into Arch Tobias - it is very much appreciated. Of the packages you listed, I sure hope mdadm will be picked up - this quite obviously is a very

Re: Wifi Networking Regression in linux-6.2.3

2023-03-13 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/13/23 05:56, Genes Lists wrote: On 3/13/23 03:00, David Bohman wrote: There is a fairly serious regression in linux-6.2.3 that kills wifi: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79d1ed5ca7db67d48e870c979f0e0f6b0947944a Hi David:  I am sure

Re: Wifi Networking Regression in linux-6.2.3

2023-03-13 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/13/23 03:00, David Bohman wrote: There is a fairly serious regression in linux-6.2.3 that kills wifi: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=79d1ed5ca7db67d48e870c979f0e0f6b0947944a Hi David: I am sure this commit is in 6.2.3 and all later stable

Re: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync returns 87 errors

2023-03-10 Thread Genes Lists
Curious - Are you able to ping the WKD webserver from failing machine? ping openpgpkey.archlinux.org

Re: archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync returns 87 errors

2023-03-10 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/10/23 05:39, Łukasz Michalski wrote: A and B. Both updated at the same time. On A service works, on B it fails. I have similar situation. On a machine that had fails running manually worked fine. What happens if you run manually? /usr/bin//archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync best gene

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-07 Thread Genes Lists
All I gave updated the code and now provide an inotify based daemon to sync alternate s - and a systemd service unit to run it. I would very much appreciate if others ran this - by using the test option it does nothing but prints what would happen. And can be run as non-root user. It is

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/7/23 03:50, Óscar García Amor wrote: El lun, 06-03-2023 a las 21:30 -0500, Jonathan Whitlock escribió: This is about having a computer that is resilient to root drive failure. This is in addition to doing backups, certainly not a replacement :) gene

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-06 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 12:56, Genes Lists wrote: I know there's lots of info available about dual boot - but not much I could find on Dual Root. What is Dual Root?    This is a machine with 2 "root" disks where the second one is a hot standby - in event of root disk failure the secon

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-06 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/6/23 02:50, Óscar García Amor wrote: Interesting, I'll take a look at it when you upload the code. I'd appreciate wider testing on the code - we all know that just because it works for me, doesn't mean it will work everywhere with certainty. It would be super helpful if others can

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-05 Thread Genes Lists
I have updated the notes which now shows the original way but also the approach suggested by Oscar (thank you) - this is a superior method but bit more painful for existing installs. This way has on each disk along with btrfs raid1 for the rest basically. I have a working example doing

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-05 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/5/23 07:11, Óscar García Amor wrote: In fact at hook level you can put one like in the example of the manual ml Yes I agree that Hooks are useful, but they do only catch things on package updates as far as I know. If you want to catch manual changes, like an edit to a loader file, then

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-05 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/5/23 07:11, Óscar García Amor wrote: Thanks Oscar - I edited my notes to show this as the preferred approach. Still needs more write up but I thought it best to get it up sooner than later. Do you know if it would work to use separate /boot partitions, as I mention above, (each

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-05 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/5/23 05:13, Óscar García Amor wrote: ... The method is simple as you simply need two partitions on the two disks. The first one on each disk is the ESP and the second one is the one you are going to use for the btrfs raid. Then you simply mount the raid1 between both partitions btrfs[1] and

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 18:22, Genes Lists wrote: But your cautionary comment is definitely something to keep an eye on. I already have these concerns noted at the bottom of the notes - since you pointed it out, It would be better for me to highlight them and move them earlier in the notes. thanks

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 18:08, Łukasz Michalski wrote: I have this setup on all servers that do not have battery backed HW raid cards and use mdadm there. I use systemd-boot as bootloader. Works well and can be done on existing system with just a single reboot. It is not easy - you have to create degraded

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 13:21, Uwe Sauter wrote: The usual Linux MD-RAID can have its metadata placed on different positions in the partition (see man (8) mdadm, option "-e, --metadata"). This is intriguing for sure but to be honest it has a bit of a brittle, hacky feel to it. My own preference is

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 13:21, Uwe Sauter wrote: The usual Linux MD-RAID can have its metadata placed on different positions in the partition (see man (8) mdadm, option "-e, --metadata"). Knowing this it is no problem to create a partition on each disk of type EF00, create a RAID1 with metadata version

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 13:05, Genes Lists wrote: Could be wrong, but I don't believe the is on RAID1 is it? Dual root is dual everything - esp, root, boot, the whole lot. You can clearly have an esp on each raid disk, so this could work as well - recovery might be little different than what I did

Re: Dual Root setup

2023-03-04 Thread Genes Lists
On 3/4/23 13:00, Uwe Sauter wrote: Hi Gene, out of curiosity: where do you see the advantages of such a setup compared to having your root filesystem on a RAID1? , Could be wrong, but I don't believe the is on RAID1 is it? Dual root is dual everything - esp, root, boot, the whole lot.

Re: What is/are the IPv4 addresses used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables

2023-02-28 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/26/23 22:23, David C. Rankin wrote: David - I emailed you an nftables script off-list - if its not in your spam folder, you may find it useful. Happy to share on list of course, but for now thought it better not to. best, gene

Re: What is/are the IPv4 addresses used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables

2023-02-26 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/26/23 17:29, David C. Rankin wrote: ... The issue is I block most of RIPE, I don't do business overseas, rarely outside Texas. I keep iptables stats on the number of intrusion attempts from RIPE,These intrusion attempts are inbound and it is indeed not uncommon to 'block' ingress SYN

Re: What is/are the IPv4 addresses used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables

2023-02-26 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/26/23 06:32, David Runge wrote: On 2023-02-26 10:22:08 (+0100), Markus Schaaf wrote: Am 26.02.23 um 04:00 schrieb David C. Rankin: Arch devs, ... iptables not to block them so my logs quit filling up with errors. I may be off base here but I'll ask anyway. Assuming you, as is

Re: One to remember linux 6.1.12.arch1-1 and linux-lts 6.1.13-1

2023-02-25 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/24/23 21:01, David C. Rankin wrote: ..   Here is to hoping 6.2 doesn't bring a lot of surprises and kernel module issues... FYI - I've been running 6.2 on several machines for a while now and they are running smooth as silk. gene

Re: pacman -Syu fails - python-augeas (existing files) needed by certbot-apache?

2023-02-24 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/24/23 19:41, David C. Rankin wrote: All, error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__init__.py exists ...   The python-augeas package is needed by certbot-apache. How to resolve the conflict? Hi Its a conflict

Re: vim 9.0 bash syntax highlight broken for large if [ cond ]; then ... else ... fi block

2023-02-21 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/21/23 14:04, Levente Polyak wrote: .. An updated version with the diff of sh.vim applied has been released as 9.0.1337-1. Very leet version number, it surely fixes mentioned issue :) Cheers, Levente Very leet :) thank you for repairing it so quickly. best gene

Re: vim 9.0 bash syntax highlight broken for large if [ cond ]; then ... else ... fi block

2023-02-21 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/21/23 05:39, Mario Moder wrote: Am Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 10:07:46PM -0600 schrieb David C. Rankin: After the vim 9.0 update the syntax highlight in my .bashrc is off for: Maybe this one: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77475 Short term fix - copy the the latest sh.vim into

Re: libmysofa-1.3.1-2 hidden and breaks pipewire - with fix

2023-02-21 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/20/23 22:21, Doug Newgard wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:32:08 -0500 Sounds like you have a bad mirror. Pick a different one. Yes Indeed - thank you - tis fine now. Sorry for noise.

libmysofa-1.3.1-2 hidden and breaks pipewire - with fix

2023-02-20 Thread Genes Lists
Problem: This package is available in community, but pacman cannot find it - which breaks pipewire-audio due to missing soname depends. pacman only finds 1.3.1-1 which is missing the needed provides. Cause: The reason appears to be that while the package is available, it was not added to

Re: I think I found a quite severe bug, what is the next step?

2023-02-16 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/16/23 18:45, Storm Dragon wrote: Howdy, Same output:   cat: /dev/vcsa1: No such device or address Same for me - in my case I see gdm as owner of vcsa1 so perhaps there is no buffer to read in this case? Sorry I know nothing about these devices and man vcs didn't enlighten me - i

Re: System Update Today Broke Lightdm - Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.??

2023-02-08 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/7/23 19:29, David C. Rankin wrote: graphics, and startx/fluxbox works fine there. Thinking it may be the AUR drivers, I rebuilt the nvidia drivers as well, e.g. David Instead of recompiling them, did you try not using them, just try with nouveau instead - there's a non-zero probabity

Re: Update to Glibc 2.37 (possibly) causes coredumps of electron (element-desktop)

2023-02-07 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/7/23 07:43, Uwe Sauter wrote: Hi folks, .. [2023-02-07T07:50:28+0100] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.36-7 -> 2.37-2) .. Timestamp: Tue 2023-02-07 13:33:29 CET (6min ago) ... I may be misreading the timestamps but seems like a very short time between the update and the coredump -

Re: Split apache package

2023-02-03 Thread Genes Lists
On 2/3/23 05:03, ogar...@moire.org wrote: I don't suppose you have a similar replacement for my other dependency on the bind package, dnssec-signzone? As a command I personally do not know of any replacement. But if you simply use `dnssec-signzone` to check the DNSSEC status of a domain you

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-28 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 22:45, mick howe wrote: Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour Good luck - let us know how things work out. gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may just work out of the box for some of the chipsets: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.ha

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