Re: [arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly
On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 17:23:06 +0200 Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: > Op ma 6 jul. 2020 13:15 schreef pete via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > > Afternoon all > > > > Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions > > related . > > > > > > Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a > > default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name > > users > > with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a > > directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it > > > [...] > > > Reinstalling probably wouldn't make a difference here, so let's try to > focus. > > When you say "everything in my user", do you mean your users home directory? > > Mortal users usually can't write outside $HOME (with exceptions like /tmp > etc), so that shouldn't be a problem. > > Can you post the output of: > $ id > $ ls -l $HOME > > (Where "$ " stands for the user prompt, not to be typed in) > > > > mvg, Guus Snijders Hi Guus right then output of id pete:~ $ id uid=1000(pete) gid=985(users) groups=985(users),3(sys),5(tty),970(boinc),987(uucp),991(lp) pete:~ $ ls -l total 50952 -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users21189 Feb 23 11:59 6njr-2cal.cal -rw--- 1 pete users27324 Nov 2 2019 about-the-club.html drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 22 Oct 21 2019 Aeonflux Pal Eu drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 44 May 5 11:15 Arduino -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 1295 Nov 10 2019 bakmeny.html -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 11816716 Jun 11 13:45 Billie Eilish - everything i wanted-EgBJmlPo8Xw.f137.mp4.part drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 19 Sep 23 2019 build drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 88 Oct 4 2019 Coil64-1.0.5-linux-portable -rw--- 1 pete users 3483 Jun 5 16:16 DEADJOE drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 4096 Jun 20 09:04 desk2 drwx-- 2 pete users 301 Jun 14 19:28 Desktop drwxrwxrwx 39 pete users 8192 Jul 6 11:37 Documents drwxr-xr-x 44 pete users12288 Jul 5 23:59 Downloads -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 22 Sep 19 2019 dpmsoff.sh drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 8192 Nov 4 2019 dudley drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 122 Dec 2 2019 dVd drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users6 Oct 13 2019 dvdrip-data drwxr-xr-x 11 pete users 178 Dec 2 2019 entertainment drwxr-xr-x 11 pete users 4096 Jul 5 16:43 G6NJR -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users13482 Jan 31 21:30 g6njr.cal lrwxrwxrwx 1 pete users 31 Nov 13 2019 gui_rpc_auth.cfg -> /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 82 Feb 7 13:18 halo.xt -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 856 Nov 2 2019 IMG-20170519-WA0015.jpg drwxr-xr-x 8 pete users 108 Jun 9 2019 Jennifer -rw--- 1 pete users 1854 Oct 17 2019 kinghts.bfproject -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 1938 Oct 10 2019 kinghts.sublime-workspace -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 2674 Jan 10 14:36 latlong.py drwxr-xr-x 12 pete users 4096 Jun 5 09:32 Live_MUF_V73 drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 106 Dec 16 2019 M6NIW drwxr-xr-x 40 pete users 4096 Nov 3 2019 Mail drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users12288 May 5 2019 media drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 288 Jun 18 12:34 Minos2 drwxr-xr-x 7 pete users 260 Sep 24 2018 Minos2-0 drwxr-xr-x 6 pete users 276 May 12 16:31 Minos2-old drwxr-xr-x 9 pete users 4096 Jun 18 13:08 minos-runtime drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 104 Feb 11 2018 modprobe.d -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 15264794 Jun 18 12:43 monos.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users88993 Sep 25 2019 mozilla.pdf drwxr-xr-x 10 pete users 170 Jun 12 10:45 mshv -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 48 Apr 16 15:02 mufon -rwxr-xr-x 1 pete users 48 Apr 16 14:49 mufon~ drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 86 Dec 6 2019 Music drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 118 Oct 26 2019 old.wine drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 54 Dec 15 2018 overlays drwxr-xr-x 8 pete users20480 Jul 5 16:49 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 119 Jun 5 23:19 preamps drwxr-xr-x 17 pete users 292 Sep 15 2019 prev.fldigi drwxr-xr-x 9 pete users 110 Oct 6 2019 qsstv drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 318 Jun 18 13:04 runtime drwxr-xr-x 4 pete users 4096 Jun 13 21:40 S10 -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users0 May 10 14:16 sp-auth.tgz drwxr-xr-x 26 pete users 4096 May 11 09:05 storage drwxr-xr-x 3 pete users 19 May 10 11:50 susdotkde4 drwxr-xr-x 6 pete users 271 Nov 25 2019 Templarsuk drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 25 Sep 14 2019 Templates -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 127 Dec 13 2019 templ-lnk.txt~ drwxr-xr-x 2 pete users 4096 Jul 8 12:22 textfls -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 24650184 Mar 7 15:35 TimeShift-20200307T153342.m2t -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users82873 Apr 28 12:56 u -rw-r--r-- 1 pete users 355 Nov 4 2019 ukacrtesluts.txt~ drwxr-xr-x 5 pete users 43 Oct 24
[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly
Afternoon all Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related . Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it I get problems such as system settings do not sticklibreofice complains about backup files some things work some play up or fail completely Kaffeine for one just bombs out i believe this is a permissions thing but cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what if you follow. A litte assistance would be very useful as i do not fancy doing a reinstall i have too much stuff to reinstall Thanks Pete
Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine failure
On Sat, 16 May 2020 08:47:54 +0300 Franz Trischberger via arch-general wrote: > On Fri May 15 23:41:49 2020, pete via arch-general > wrote: > > Ok on the mouse click settings yes i found those but it is set to single > > click so i have set it to double click saved it all closed the system down > > restarted it still double click as you would expect chang back to single > > click save no change still double click sojust to make sure rebooted the > > machine still double click most annoying > > Do you have qt5ct installed? > It's a standalone qt5 config tool, nice if you don't run any qt5-DE but > interferes badly with e.g. plasma... > > Regards > Franz Hi Franz I have checked and it would appear not so there is something else got trashed CheersPete
Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine failure
On Sat, 16 May 2020 01:06:09 +0200 Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2020 23:41:49 +0100, pete via arch-general wrote: > >Good evening Ralf > > > >right i am using > > > >KDE [snip] > > > > hopefully over the next few days my head will realign itself been a > > hard few weeks mentally and physically > > Hi Pete, > > unfortunately subscribing to > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux > seems to be more or less useless, see > https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-linux/ . I'm not a KDE user, but > I subscribed a long time ago, since I'm using a few KDE apps. > > You probably should post a request at https://forum.kde.org/ . > > Get well soon! > > Regards, > Ralf Cheers Ralf Yes i will try the kde forum thanks Had a few problems of late that came to a head mader life almost untennable but leaving the dark behind now slowly Pete .
Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine failure
On Fri, 15 May 2020 21:52:50 +0200 Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > I've no clue regarding kaffeine and DVB-T. > > Regarding the double-click and icon issue it would be helpful to know > what desktop environment or window manager, what theme and icon theme > and possible file manager/desktop thingy you are using. If you should > use Dolphin with or without KDE, then regarding an Internet research the > double click settings were walking around from one to the other KDE > settings dialog and when using Dolphin without KDE, there's no settings > dialog related to mouse click behaviour at all, so a workaround is > needed. > > However, even if an update shouldn't change the mouse click settings, > consider to take a look at those settings. Google is your friend. > Regarding the icon issue, if you shouldn't use upstream default themes > and/or icon themes for GNOMEish and KDEish apps, then for testing > purpose install themes and icon themes provided by GNOME and KDE > upstream. > > Regards, > Ralf Good evening Ralf right i am using KDE Plasma 5.18.5 KDE Framworks 5.70.0 QT 5.14.2 Kernel 5.6.12-arch-1 64 bit AMD 8 core FX-8370E cpu 16Gb Ram VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Hawaii XT / Grenada XT [Radeon R9 290X/390X] i do not use sddm i boot to text console then startx ( i prefere it that way ) Ok on the mouse click settings yes i found those but it is set to single click so i have set it to double click saved it all closed the system down restarted it still double click as you would expect chang back to single click save no change still double click sojust to make sure rebooted the machine still double click most annoying hopefully over the next few days my head will realign itself been a hard few weeks mentally and physically Cheers Pete .
[arch-general] Kaffeine failure
Afternoon all Having issues recently with a couple of things one i can sort of live with the other i cant the unimportant one mouse needs double click to open a file otr start a program PITA but i can if essential live with it the other try to start kaffeine i get kaffeine 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h" 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all" 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v" 15-05-20 16:55:34.453 [Info] kaffeine.dvb: Using built-in dvb device manager 15-05-20 16:55:34.660 [Info] kaffeine.dev: Found dvb device P14f1880200709002: Conexant CX22702 DVB-T KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kaffeine path = /usr/bin pid = 5892 KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/kaffeine KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/drkonqi 15-05-20 16:55:34.794 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 13 and type 'Read', disabling... 15-05-20 16:55:34.795 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 28 and type 'Read', disabling... 15-05-20 16:55:34.795 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 29 and type 'Read', disabling... qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 5 (BadAtom), sequence: 491, resource id: 0, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0 I also have an icon issue all was fine up until a few days agorestarted the computer after a few days in hospital with a cancer problem ran "pacman -Syu" since then it has been a pain i ould like it working correctly again as it seems i will be spending more time not doing too much i have tried backing out all i can find that was updated to no avail Thanks Pete
Re: [arch-general] USB not assining port number
On Tue, 5 May 2020 13:13:52 +0200 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: > > but no USB port given > > > > lsusb gives > > Bus 002 Device 011: ID 1781:0c9f Multiple Vendors USBtiny > > what is this "usb port" that you expect? > > USBtiny is a HID device as far as I can remember. > Well i was expecting something like /dev/ttyusb2 or some other such device for the programmer to pick up this is the sort of thing i was expecting [ 9290.292465] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 9290.292469] usb 7-1: Product: CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller [ 9290.292471] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs [ 9290.292474] usb 7-1: SerialNumber: 0001 [ 9290.348975] usbcore: registered new interface driver cp210x [ 9290.349003] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for cp210x [ 9290.349090] cp210x 7-1:1.0: cp210x converter detected [ 9290.359683] usb 7-1: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB1 ^ an actual usb list to tell the programmes to connet to the device on Pete .
[arch-general] USB not assining port number
Morning all . Having a problem with a usb device it is an Adafruit Trinket on plugging the device in i get 3761.650687] usb 7-1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci [ 3761.839453] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1781, idProduct=0c9f, bcdDevice= 1.05 [ 3761.839469] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 3761.839473] usb 7-1: Product: Trinket [ 3761.839476] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Adafruit but no USB port given lsusb gives Bus 002 Device 011: ID 1781:0c9f Multiple Vendors USBtiny Is there usb support for this device as i need to get this working as an update to an Antenna rotator that has a defunct no longer available display for direction ThanksPete ( G6NJR)
[arch-general] More Nouveau woes
Since it seems the messing around with the base package i ma now getting this [ 245.303334] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 209 at drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/vmm.c:68 nvif_vmm_put.cold+0xc/0x13 [nouveau] [ 245.303336] Modules linked in: fuse cfg80211 rfkill 8021q garp mrp stp llc ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 dvb_pll cx22702 cx88_dvb cx88_vp3054_i2c videobuf2_dvb dvb_core videobuf2_vmalloc ir_rc5_decoder rc_hauppauge nouveau snd_hda_codec_hdmi mxm_wmi cx8800 cx8802 cx88xx wmi ttm tveeprom videobuf2_dma_sg videobuf2_memops edac_mce_amd videobuf2_v4l2 v4l2_common videobuf2_common kvm_amd ccp videodev snd_hda_codec_realtek drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec_generic rng_core ledtrig_audio drm agpgart i2c_algo_bit kvm snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio syscopyarea sysfillrect rc_core sysimgblt snd_hda_codec mousedev fb_sys_fops r8169 snd_usbmidi_lib pl2303 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device mc snd_hda_core joydev input_leds snd_hwdep snd_pcm irqbypass realtek snd_timer libphy snd sp5100_tco soundcore evdev i2c_piix4 mac_hid k10temp pcspkr acpi_cpufreq sg crypto_user ip_tables x_tables xfs libcrc32c crc32c_generic hid_generic usbhid hid sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ohci_pci ata_generic pata_acpi ahci libahci pata_atiixp libata [ 245.303401] ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod ohci_hcd [ 245.303410] CPU: 0 PID: 209 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 5.3.5-arch1-1-ARCH #1 [ 245.303411] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./A74ML-K, BIOS 080014 04/14/2011 [ 245.303472] Workqueue: events nouveau_cli_work [nouveau] [ 245.303528] RIP: 0010:nvif_vmm_put.cold+0xc/0x13 [nouveau] [ 245.303531] Code: 45 31 e4 e9 a5 1a f1 ff 48 c7 c7 70 cd af c0 e8 73 9a 6c d6 0f 0b 45 31 e4 e9 8f 1a f1 ff 48 c7 c7 c0 cd af c0 e8 5d 9a 6c d6 <0f> 0b e9 1c 1f f1 ff 48 c7 c7 c0 cd af c0 e8 4a 9a 6c d6 0f 0b b8 [ 245.303532] RSP: 0018:b2af40327dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 245.303534] RAX: 0024 RBX: b2af40327df0 RCX: [ 245.303535] RDX: RSI: 8d95f3a17708 RDI: [ 245.303536] RBP: b2af40327e20 R08: 0366 R09: 0004 [ 245.303536] R10: R11: 0001 R12: 8d9555d6be00 [ 245.303537] R13: dead0122 R14: dead0100 R15: 8d9555ec66c0 [ 245.303539] FS: () GS:8d95f3a0() knlGS: [ 245.303540] CS: 0010 DS: ES: CR0: 80050033 [ 245.303541] CR2: 5583b3d2b830 CR3: 9a2a8000 CR4: 06f0 [ 245.303542] Call Trace: [ 245.303603] nouveau_vma_del+0x81/0xc0 [nouveau] [ 245.303657] nouveau_gem_object_delete_work+0x36/0x60 [nouveau] [ 245.303711] nouveau_cli_work+0xbd/0x100 [nouveau] [ 245.303720] process_one_work+0x1d1/0x3a0 [ 245.303723] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0 [ 245.303725] kthread+0xfb/0x130 [ 245.303728] ? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0 [ 245.303729] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 245.303734] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 [ 245.303738] ---[ end trace f9440c5b9c6a6d44 ]--- on EVERY boot now a good 70 to 75% of software i use just causes the machine to lock solid instantly no logs nothing only full power off gets it going again . What is going on Pete .
Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:44:08 +0100 Andy Pieters wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 at 10:41, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > > > 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). :-) > > > > ed? They should learn how to edit a text file using assembly Never mind Ed Vi Assemblers yes all very fancyfull hows about you just include joe far easier wordstar commands no mess just worksthe very first thing i ever do install joe best editor of the lot . Pete .
Re: [arch-general] New install second drive issue
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:11:48 +0200 Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: > Op ma 16 sep. 2019 10:45 schreef pete via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > > Morning folks > > > > I have just done a complete new install on a new drive , That is all > > working now fine . > > > > My problem comes when trying to include another drive on the system > > , it just refuses to boot fully , I get a message unable to mount > > sda2 now sda2 mounts , > > /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > > > > Hmm, sda2 should be on disk1, but xfs uses UUID's also (I think). > Could it be an UUID conflict? > > Can you attach that 2nd drive another way, like in an USB enclosure > or even another PC? > > > Mvg, Guus Hi Folks Well just to fill in a few bit .. I use syslinux to boot the machine no Windows no UEFI the system is too old for that . BUT any how i have solved the problem and its the one i did not want to find 3 of the 4 sata ports on the mother board are shot 1 works fine port 4 port 3 throws up errors ports 2 and 1 just cause the boot problem so i will be need to replace the mother board shame because the CPU is fin AMD Phenom II quad core so need a replacement board to suit . Thanks for all the help anyways folks Pete . now not an appy bunny ho humm
Re: [arch-general] New install second drive issue
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:18:59 +0200 Khorne via arch-general wrote: > On September 16, 2019 10:45:18 AM GMT+02:00, pete via arch-general > wrote: > >Morning folks > > > >I have just done a complete new install on a new drive , That is all > >working now fine . > > > >My problem comes when trying to include another drive on the system , > >it just refuses to boot fully , I get a message unable to mount sda2 > >now sda2 mounts , > >/dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) > > > >when just the one drive is in the system but as soon as i connect it > >refuses to to boot fully and drops out to an emergency shell that is > >locked up solid i. > > > >I have set the working drive in the bios this is an older motherboard > >with an AMD Phenome quad core CPU . > > > > $ lsblk > >NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > >sda 8:00 1.8T 0 disk > >├─sda1 8:10 300M 0 part /boot > >├─sda2 8:20 40G 0 part / > >├─sda3 8:304G 0 part [SWAP] > >└─sda4 8:40 1.8T 0 part /home > >sr0 11:01 1024M 0 rom > > > >the drive order in the bios is set correctly not that it makes much > >difference these days . > > > >I am stuck right now i need to be able to include the old drive to > >recover data from it . > > > >Any ideas folks .. > > > >Pete . > > Hi Pete, > > Can you add your fstab? > I would hazard a guess and claim that if you use device names in > fstab (sdXY) that your newly plugged in drive takes that name and > isn't a valid rootfs. > > Preferably, you would use UUIDs in fstab. > > Regards, > Khorne hi Fstab .. # /dev/sda2 UUID=318fa89a-22b9-4bdd-92a1-1e9b3f070cb3 / xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 1 # /dev/sda1 UUID=78aca2f9-6dbd-4e21-9f4d-dae59b8c1a4f /boot ext2 rw,relatime 0 2 # /dev/sda4 UUID=b17ea3f0-c632-46b1-9c78-4f1aeb8773c7 /home xfs rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota 0 2 # /dev/sda3 UUID=a755fa7c-93ff-4ccb-bcd6-47560bd54cee noneswap defaults0 0 Hope that helps . Thanks Pete .
Re: [arch-general] Haupage TV Card PCI
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 01:21:00 +0200 Lone_Wolf wrote: > > On 30-04-2019 00:04, pete via arch-general wrote: > > evening all .. > > just done an update to my system and the PCI TV card has stopped > > working all mention of it has gone from Kaffeine i notice now all > > the dvb related modules seem to be USB based things ? strange > > decission is it now that you have stopped supporting PCI tv cards > > such as the Haupahge cards if so what kernel do i have to regress > > to to get it to function again i have way way way too much USB > > junk plugged in already USB is becoming like BMW's a pain in the > > posteriour > > > > . > > > > Pete . > > > Your jumping to incorrect conclusions as a simple search would have > shown there's a problem between kaffeine and latest v4l-utils . > > See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=245836 and > > https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62402 > > LW Bang on thanks for that i will have to make sure i ban the newer v4l untill it is fixed .. Pete ..
[arch-general] Haupage TV Card PCI
evening all .. just done an update to my system and the PCI TV card has stopped working all mention of it has gone from Kaffeine i notice now all the dvb related modules seem to be USB based things ? strange decission is it now that you have stopped supporting PCI tv cards such as the Haupahge cards if so what kernel do i have to regress to to get it to function again i have way way way too much USB junk plugged in already USB is becoming like BMW's a pain in the posteriour . Pete .
Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:38:15 -0700 Adam Fontenot via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > It's now been about half a year since support for zstd landed in our > packaging tools. I've been quietly using it for all my locally built > packages since then with no issues. I think it would be worthwhile to > have a discussion about whether to use zstd for officially built > packages. Here is a brief summary of negatives and positives: > > Negatives: > * Changing things takes time and might break someone's workflow. > * Zstd -19 results in slightly larger files than xz -6 (default). > > Positives: > * Change would be invisible to most users. > * Would keep Arch Linux on top of the latest in packaging tech. > * Updating would be much faster for most users. > > To expand on that last point: for reasonably fast connections, the > additional time required to decompress xz compressed packages means > that updating can actually take more time than it would for packages > that are not compressed at all! Because zstd is designed to have very > fast decompression, for a wide range of modern broadband connections > zstd -19 is the fastest algorithm to download and decompress. For > example, check out this compression test (with the Mozilla dataset): > https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/ > > Or look at my local test with the most recent Firefox package: > > Tool Compression time Size Time to DL (100 Mbps) + decompress > xz -6 5m 53s49 MB 0m 21s > zstd -19 6m 0s 53 MB 0m 6s > > So while xz and zstd compress in about the same amount of time and > result in files of similar size, from the user's standpoint zstd > results in much faster updates. Multiply this by a few hundred > packages and you have a pretty substantial effect. > > I look forward to discussing this with you all. > > Cheers, > Adam What would be the Reason for the change to a slower less efficient method apart from it may be someones pet toy .. I say Stick with what we have it works is more efficient and quicker . Pete .
[arch-general] adding to capacity to /
Hi folks . i have a problem when i built this system i thought i had allowed enough space for the / partition but it seems now i was wrong . I do not really want to start again and rebuild the system . I have several spare drives lurking is it possible to add space to the partition by adding another drive mounting it as / .. Thanks Pete .
[arch-general] Not Enough Bandwidth
Hello folks . one of my rare visits to the mailing list I am having a small problem with my machine I recently Purchased an USB3 PCEe card with 2 usb3 ports on it 03:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04) when i first installed this card it worked just fine then 2 days ago the Kernel was updated and i started getting [ 85.536166] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.536177] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.536179] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) [ 85.536957] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.536972] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.536975] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) [ 85.537628] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.537640] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.537643] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) i am using the new usb ports on 2 external usb sound cards Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I have found that if i unplug the sound card plugged into Bus 008 Device 002 prior to starting KDE/Plasma i do not get the error if i switch the cards around it is still on the same port the machine is up to date updated every evening with "pacman -Syu" Linux ### 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 20 22:06:45 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux it does not seem to effect the machine performance but just the sheer number of lines of it is alarming Ideas help please . Thanks Pete .
Re: [arch-general] Hardware portal
On Sat, 03 Nov 2018 20:47:17 +0300 Andrey Ponomarenko via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Good news for everyone interested in Linux-compatibility and > reliability of hardware! > > The Linux-Hardware.org database has been divided into a set of > databases, one per each Linux distro. You can now select your > favorite distro on the front page: > > https://linux-hardware.org/?d=Arch > > In this mode you'll not see data collected from other Linux distros. > > One can submit computer hardware info to the database automatically > by AppImage, Snap, Flatpak, Docker or native package: > https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#install > > Enjoy! Far Far far superior as a full searchable list this is to put it very mildly pants .. Pete .
[arch-general] Help with wav files
Hi . A little off subject but hope someone can help . I have some cd copies of albums ( i do actually own the albums) the cds are just 2 tracks one per side i have no way to play vynl albums right now i need to split these 2 tracks into their seperate tracks as per the LP's i have tried Audacity with out much luck is there a command line utility that i can give the start and finish positions and it wil do the cutting and saving for me as i hope this will be simpler and quicker Thanks for any suggestions ( i will be away for a week from sunday ) so if i dont reply to suggestions it because i have no net access where i wil be . Pete .
