Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 15:04, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > It might also be worth checking the health of your hard disk with "smartctl -A /dev/sd". Look out for "Reallocated Event Count", "Current Pending

Re: [arch-general] Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch?

2018-08-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 8 August 2018 at 02:33, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < turritopsis.dohr...@teo-en-ming.com> wrote: > Good morning from Singapore, > > > Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch like Linux from Scratch? > It's certainly possible to build all of ArchLinux's packages from source using the ABS. My

Re: [arch-general] Latest openssh - Premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol?

2018-07-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 17 July 2018 at 15:48, David C. Rankin wrote: > It's like there is something between: > > 09:20:24 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. > and > 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Received disconnect from 66.76.46.195 port > 59956:11: disconnected by user > > that isn't data

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or BTRFS), I recommend you start, but in the meantime, the simplest solution when moving between systems is to dd the contents of each partition from the

Re: [arch-general] Depends on foo-bar=10.0-3

2017-08-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 14 August 2017 at 13:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:03:45 +0200, mpan wrote: > >> why does a package from official repositories mentions what version > >> of a dependency is required? > >Because it may be that it is working only with that particular >

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2017-07-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 24 July 2017 at 08:54, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I've installed ArchLinux on 3 desktops so far, and I've done them > successfully, so I must have *RTFM* , I was just wondering why is it > hard to configure wifi. Since I failed to configure wifi with

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB not starting

2017-01-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 27 January 2017 at 12:12, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > I've got problems with MariaDB not working. > I think you might want to read the "Installation" section on the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL#Installation In particular, I think you forgot to run

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

2016-12-05 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 2 December 2016 at 22:29, Merlin Büge wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather modify the start-up process a tiny bit so that >> GPT inside LUKS gets parsed. I just try to strip off unnecessary >> 'overhead' / layers of my system. > If you have 8 GiB or more and not hibernating,