Re: [arch-general] Gufw broken by large update.

I did: sudo cp /usr/bin/gufw-pkexec /usr/bin/gufw-pkexec.old Then sudo nano /usr/bin/gufw-pkexec and edited it from: . . . "/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gufw/gufw.py" "/usr/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/gufw/gufw.py" . . . to: . . . "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gufw/gufw.py"

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Nicolas F. <archl...@fratti.ch> wrote: > On 28.09.2016 17:24, Francis Gerund via arch-general wrote: > > > > > > > > That was my reaction when I saw you post a long debunked FUD story to > this list. The problem lies

Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

ktops. Used are losing further control of > their own devices. > > Ugh. > > On 28 Sep 2016 11:27, "D C via arch-general" <arch-general@archlinux.org> > wrote: > > Wow, is MS desperate or something? > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Francis Gerund via ar

[arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/21/1516230/microsoft-signature-pc- requirements-now-blocks-linux-installation-reports?sbsrc=md It was nice while it lasted.

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Mauro Santos via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 23-09-2016 01:06, Francis Gerund via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Maurio, > > > > Thank you for your opinion. In regard to your postulate, if my freedom >

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 8:09 PM, aur basica wrote: > * Talks about distros that aren't Arch on a Arch mailing list > * Starts calling it Arch GNU/Linux (from here on out I will personally > call it Ubuntu /sarcasm) > * Compares the CoC to slavery (unfortunately missed the

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Hi Maurio, Thank you for your opinion. In regard to your postulate, if my freedom ends where the others starts, then it would seem that the reverse is also true, that the freedom of others ends where my freedom starts. With warmest regards, y'r obd't srvt., F.G.

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 22.09.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Francis Gerund via arch-general: > > Chris, > > Thank you for your interest. Perhaps you may find this helpful: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-g

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:56 PM, D C via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > When I frist meet people I give them the utmost respect, then I basically > treat them the way they treat me. I urge everyone to do the same, that goes > for staff and the rest of the Arch community. >

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Hi D C, Freedom of speech means being able to say whatever you want to say, without interference from sel-appointed sidewalk supervisors or other members of the Peanut Gallery. HTH.

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

There have been some pretty specious comparisons in this thread, but having the gall to mention slavery in the context of an online community for a computer operating system would have to rank as one of the most offensive and moronic, not just for this thread, or this ML but for the community.

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Rather than telling us how our community *should* work, why don't you > make some effort to learn how it actually *does* work? > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Arch_ > Linux_distribution_support_ONLY > > /J > > -- > > http://jasonwryan.com/ > GPG: 7817 E3FF 578E EEE1 9F64

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Simon Gomizelj wrote: > Its not a dig at GNU, the official name is either "Arch Linux" or > "Arch". We're a GNU/Linux distro (though we don't meet the FSF > foundation's definition, but you always have Parabola then). > >

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bul...@zoho.com> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:39:29 +0200, Chris Warrick via arch-general > wrote: > >On 22 September 2016 at 17:31, Francis Gerund via arch-general > ><arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: &g

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Chris, Thank you for your interest. Perhaps you may find this helpful: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Chris Warrick via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 22 September 2016 at 17:31, Francis Gerund via arch-genera

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Tinu, The phrase "You are welcome" is actually meant to be indicative of the attitude with which I hope that new users would be greeted. Thank you for allowing me to clarify that point. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Sean Greenslade wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

Note that all of these are regarded as separate distros and will NOT be > supported by Arch in the forums, mailing lists, or IRC. > While Antergos is indeed a separate distribution (but very close to raw Arch), the Archtect Arch Installer and Arch-Anywhere are not distributions, they are just

[arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

For beginners and new users, here is how to install Arch GNU/Linux, without the agony: 1) http://sourceforge.net/projects/architect-linux 2) http://arch-anywhere.org And here is a "user-centric" alternative to Arch GNU/Linux: http://antergos.com You are welcome.

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

Jason, Thank you for the link to the Beginner's Guide!

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

Where have the the most recent versions of the "real" Beginner's Guide been saved? And how can they be retrieved (maybe using git, for example)?

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

[EDIT: in the previous post, the phrase "snip hunt" should of course been "snipe hunt".] On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where have the the most recent versions of the "real" Beginner's Guide > been saved?

Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?

Where have the the most recent versions of the "real" Beginner's Guide been saved? And how can they be retrieved (maybe using git, for example)? IMHO, for new users, the "Installation Guide" is not, never has been, and may never be a substitute for the Beginner's Guide. The Installation Guide

Re: [arch-general] Error when starting Opera

Thanks guys. Fortunately, I was able to remember the old password for the "Login" keyring. So I was able to change it from within Seahorse (the "Passwords and Keys" application program in Gnome). So that problem is solved. But . . . while in Seahorse, I realized that in the "Certificates"

[arch-general] Error when starting Opera

Hi. Just installed Opera 40.0.2308.54-1. Upon starting Opera, a dialog box pops up saying: --- "Enter password to unlock you login keyring The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring."

Re: [arch-general] GNU Privacy Assistant window sizing problem?

tions and buttons. I don't > use gnome, but I believe the default shortcuts are holding down the > Meta/Super/Windows/Apple key, then click and drag with > left/right/middle? mouse button to resize/move the window. > > Chris > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Francis Gerund

[arch-general] GNU Privacy Assistant window sizing problem?

Hello. Running Arch x86-64, Gnome 3, Linux 4.7.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 15 15:24:29 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Screeen is 15" 1366 x 768, 60 Hz. In GNU Privacy Assistant, when I open the "backend preferences" window, it opens with the "basic" options selected, correctly sized. But when

Re: [arch-general] Possible reflector https problem?

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:10 PM, Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Okay, thanks for the information guys. I appreciate it. > > I didn't think to check the forums, as I don't normally think of forums as > a source of up to the minute information. > > Learn

Re: [arch-general] Possible reflector https problem?

wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:37:29 -0400 > Francis Gerund via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I just did: > > > > sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p https --sort > > rate --save /etc/pacman.d

[arch-general] Possible reflector https problem?

Hi. I just did: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist The result, only one source (has been 5 or 6 sources before): rating https://arch.localmsp.org/arch/ Server Rate Time

Re: [arch-general] adjusting Gnome 3 window placement settings

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bul...@zoho.com> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:09:02 -0400, Francis Gerund wrote: > >Could someone please tell me if there are any user accessible settings > >to control placement of appication program windows > >

[arch-general] How to remove secondary display shown in Gnome 3 settings

Hello. While trying to fix what I thought was an application program window placement problem, it turns out that the problem was that Gnome 3 seems to be detecting a display which does not seem to exist. Clicking the Gnome "Settings" icon, then the "Displays" icon seems to show both a primary

Re: [arch-general] Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks") problem

Okay, I solved the problem. Analysis: Gnome 3 sucks. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. > Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks"

[arch-general] Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks") problem

Hello. I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks" program) was working fine. The Gnome-disk-utility is currently 3.20.1-1, apparently updated 2016-04-12. Today, when I start it using either the icon on the favorites

[arch-general] pacman update error

Hi. On Arch 64-bit, up to date (as of about 12 hours ago), I just did: sudo pacmatic -Syyuv Here's the result: Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Hook Dirs : /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ Lock File :

Re: [arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Doug Newgard <scim...@archlinux.info> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:08:58 -0500 >> Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrot

Re: [arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bul...@zoho.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:23:14 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >After checking the mailing list archives, I found a similar problem was > >with the "courage" package, which was solved by (

[arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

Hello. I am running Arch x86_64. sudo pacmatic -Syyuv gnucash results in: Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets :

Re: [arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Doug Newgard <scim...@archlinux.info> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:57:05 -0500 > Francis Gerund <ranr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Should this be reported as a bug (or 2-3 bugs)? > > No, it's not a bug. Info about this ha

Re: [arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:54 PM, kendell clark <coffeekin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 1/28/2016 6:49 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Doug Newgard <scim...@archlinux.info> >> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 18:5

Re: [arch-general] ssd trim using fstrim.service and fstrim.timer

Okay, thanks for the replies. Now, if backing up wasn't such a chore . . . On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 28-12-2015 19:51, Anthony Mapes wrote: > > > > It's worth noting that most hard drive life estimates are very > conservative. > > >

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

Wow. It seems that desktop environments and window managers are like "standards" - "the good thing is that there are so many of them". :-) Well, then: which DEs and WMs are MOST likely to be still around (and have major usage and development) in 5 years? In 10 years? And which are LEAST

Re: [arch-general] Cinnamon main menu bug?

ard...@rocketmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 19:04:07 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >I am running Arch 64-bit, with the Cinnamon desktop environment. > > > >When I install an application program, it does not show up in the > >Cinnamon main menu until I restart Cinnamon. Then,

[arch-general] Cinnamon main menu bug?

Hello. I am running Arch 64-bit, with the Cinnamon desktop environment. When I install an application program, it does not show up in the Cinnamon main menu until I restart Cinnamon. Then, there it is. Is this a known bug, or is it a "feature"? And is there a way to fix it so that added

[arch-general] ssd trim using fstrim.service and fstrim.timer

hello. Per the Arch wiki SSD page, I just enabled sysctl fstrim.timer, and then rebooted. I did not "enable" fstab.service. Now fstrim.timer is loaded, and active (but "waiting") and fstrim.service is loaded, but inactive. And the time stamp file the wiki mentions has a "0" size. So, do I

[arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

Just a call for opinions: if you use Arch, and you wanted to choose and stay with a desktop environment long-term, what would you choose - and why?

Re: [arch-general] ssd trim using fstrim.service and fstrim.timer

, Leonid Isaev < leonid.is...@jila.colorado.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 09:45:27PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > > Per the Arch wiki SSD page, I just enabled sysctl fstrim.timer, and then > > rebooted. I did not "enable" fstab.service. Now fstrim.

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

Just noticed in Firefox 39.0-1 preferences an entry Flash video. In the drop down menu next to it, Use mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9 (in Firefox) is selected. Gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9-1, Build Date: Tue 27 May 2014 is installed. I could uninstall gecko-mediaplayer, but quite a

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

(default) - Use other . . . On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:01:09 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: Just noticed in Firefox 39.0-1 preferences an entry Flash video. Where exactly is this entry? I heard that H.264 from Cisco

[arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

Hello! Run: - Arch linux 64-bit - 4.0.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 30 07:50:21 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux - Firefox 39.0-1 - flashplugin 11.2.202.481-1 (Install Date : Wed 08 Jul 2015) What is best practice about the current flash vulnerabilites? Just uninstall flashplugin? Can live

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

Okay. Just uninstalled flashplugin (really should never have installed anyway). can always try gnash later, but I'll try without to see how it goes. Thanks. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Jens Adam j...@byte.cx wrote: freshplayerplugin Just to nitpick: even if it's more current

[arch-general] pacman mirrorlist update

Hello. Just installed update pacman-mirrorlist -20150618-1, installed by pacman as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew, and there is nothing exotic about my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. I just normally update my mirrorlist by doing: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http

Re: [arch-general] pacman mirrorlist update

wrong - just a thought. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Guus Snijders gsnijd...@gmail.com wrote: Op 18 jun. 2015 17:34 schreef Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com: Hello. Just installed update pacman-mirrorlist -20150618-1, installed by pacman as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew

Re: [arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

Okay, thanks for the information. System working okay now. : ) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Chris Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I actuallly did see that, but that seems to talk about

Re: [arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:39 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files I noticed it a long time ago and ignored it, however, when searching the web with startpage for failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com: [localuser@localhost ~]$ systemctl status shadow shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) I am having some

[arch-general] (no subject)

Hello! I was investigating this boot up error message : failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files It turned out to be due (apparently) to a faulty (re)installation of mariadb, which I seem to have fixed. Fine. But in the process, I came across this in my system:

Re: [arch-general] Firefox display problem

Hi. I am running Firefox 38.0.5-1 from the arch Extra repository. As up to date as I can get - I am obsessive about updating. This display problem started as soon as I installed the system. Of course, I almost immediately installed firefox-noscript upon install also. I have not used any other

Re: [arch-general] Firefox display problem

(and reported)for years, and has been reported in Arch as late as 2015-06-02. The rest is over my head. (See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672671, etc.) On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:08:17 -0500, Francis

[arch-general] Firefox display problem

Using Firefox to access http://cnn.com, photos show up, but often have a superimposed small, hollow rectangle in the center of each. The rectangles contain the characters FI above the characters 33. Is this a sign of some missing component from Firefox, or just an error at the cnn.com website?

Re: [arch-general] Firefox display problem

. Remeber when the websites said to visitors, what can we do for you?, not what can we do you for? . . . On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Christian Demsar vixsom...@fastmail.com wrote: On June 7, 2015 3:31:26 PM EDT, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Using Firefox to access http://cnn.com

Re: [arch-general] RAID-0 kernel bug

Thanks for the replies. I have been out of touch for a few days. Sorry for the delay in acknowledgement. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Temlin Olivér tem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 04:16:59AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: UUgh, dumb question, but... I have not

[arch-general] RAID-0 kernel bug

Hello. RE: Data corruption on software RAID 0 when discard is used 2015-05-22 Recent Linux kernels (4.0.2+, LTS 3.14.41+), pushed to the [core] repository in the past couple of weeks, were affected by a bug that can cause data corruption on file systems mounted with the discard option and

[arch-general] Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 flagged out-of date.

Hi. Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 is flagged out-of date, just hours after release. But pacmatic keeps offering it as an update (along with other packages), with no warning message. I am using Linux kernel 4.0.1-1-ARCH (X-64). Should I go ahead and update, or wait for Linux kernel 4.0.3-1?

Re: [arch-general] Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 flagged out-of date.

...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 is flagged out-of date, just hours after release. But pacmatic keeps offering it as an update (along with other packages), with no warning message. I am using Linux kernel

Re: [arch-general] Linux kernel 4.0.2-1 flagged out-of date.

Okay, thanks. Just wanted to be sure, and didn't seem to find the question answered on the arch website. On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Eli Schwartz eschwart...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: So, if a package (even a kernel

Re: [arch-general] Why irrelevant updates?

also am only using ext4 (and a swap partition). On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Oliver Temlin tem...@gmail.com wrote: On May 13, 2015 12:45:58 AM CEST, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes pacman presents updates that just don't seem to apply to my system. Just one example

[arch-general] Why irrelevant updates?

Sometimes pacman presents updates that just don't seem to apply to my system. Just one example: sudo pacman -Syyuv presents btrfs-progs, even though: 1) I do not, and have not, used the Btrfs file system with my Arch setup. 2) It is Required by: None 3) It is Optional for: None But I hate

Re: [arch-general] Conky autostart problem

://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Conky#Integrate_with_Gnome_3, although I did need to add double_buffer yes to the ~/.conkrc file. Thanks again. On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2015 21:36:30 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: So, do I need to create

[arch-general] Conky autostart problem

Hello! Using Arch with Gnome, I can start and run Conky manually. But I can't get it to autostart. As stated in the Arch wiki Gnome article, Tweak tool will add autostarts, but there is no entry for Conky in the list of application programs accessed by using the + button. It also says to

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

Thanks, guys. I appreciate the support! : ) On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:35 AM, Aaron Caffrey wifiexten...@bitmessage.ch wrote: On 21/04/15 at 09:10am, Francis Gerund wrote: But reading is not always the most efficient or even the most effective learning modality. Often, just asking

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

Okay . . . Thank you for the input. May I just state that I can (and do) use all of the information resources aforementioned. Oh, if you only knew the may hours I have spent reading, reading, reading. Yes, I have learned much from reading. But reading is not always the most efficient or even

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

Eli, I did not mean to imply that the way you showed is wrong. I am totally new to Arch and pacman, so I really don't know how this all works. I am just trying to learn. On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Eli Schwartz eschwart...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Francis

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

19, 2015 01:58:52 PM Eli Schwartz wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: I did re-generate the mirrorlist using rankmirrors, as shown on the arch wiki mirrors page: Back up the existing /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: # cp /etc/pacman.d

Re: [arch-general] update error(?)

...@bitmessage.ch wrote: On 16/04/15 at 05:26pm, Francis Gerund wrote: Just recently did: sudo pacmatic -Syuv and got: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection timed out after 1 milliseconds core is up to date error: failed

[arch-general] update error(?)

Just recently did: sudo pacmatic -Syuv and got: :: Synchronizing package databases... error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection timed out after 1 milliseconds core is up to date error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from arch.localmsp.org : Connection

[arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?

Hello! How do I get ufw to start automatically upon Arch system startup? The Arch wiki Uncomplicated Firewall pages says: Start ufw as systemd service to have it running and enable it to make it available after boot. How do I do that? Then it shows an example configuration (can't I just keep

Re: [arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?

Hsuan On 16 April 2015 at 10:39, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! How do I get ufw to start automatically upon Arch system startup? The Arch wiki Uncomplicated Firewall pages says: Start ufw as systemd service to have it running and enable it to make it available after

Re: [arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?

-0500, Francis Gerund wrote: Okay, so do I do 1) sudo systemctl enable ufw or, 2) sudo systemctl enable ufw.service or, both? On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:50 PM, Chi Hsuan Yen yan12...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Francis, Just simply run the following command as root

Re: [arch-general] arch linux install iso problem

Forgot to say, I tried again, using a different 64-bit computer. Same exact results! On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I downloaded the most recent arch linux dual-boot install iso (from 2015-04-01). - checked it with md5 and sha1 against

[arch-general] arch linux install iso problem

Hello. I downloaded the most recent arch linux dual-boot install iso (from 2015-04-01). - checked it with md5 and sha1 against checksums from the website. Also did gpg verify. All okay. - burned to cd using Brasero. Verified cd from within Brasero. Okay. - verified by loop mounting, per

Re: [arch-general] arch linux install iso problem

When I do: file /run/media/default/USBHD005/New_stuff/Archlinux/archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso I get: archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso: # ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'ARCH_201504 ' (bootable) On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [arch-general] arch linux install iso problem

Francis Gerund wrote: When I do: file /run/media/default/USBHD005/New_stuff/Archlinux/ archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.is o I get: archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso: # ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'ARCH_201504 ' (bootable) On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:04 PM