Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 04:56:29AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: On 11 September 2011 00:27, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: Since my (unknown) neighbour finally got smart enough to lock me out of his wireless access point (still unencrypted, probably filters on MAC address now), I

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:02:12PM +0200, Manolo Martínez wrote: On 09/10/11 at 04:27pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Since my (unknown) neighbour finally got smart enough to lock me out of his wireless access point (still unencrypted, probably filters on MAC address now)- Or maybe he

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 05:31:44AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: wvdial needs to start pppd to connect. Without pppd, wvdial is useless. ??? wvdial only starts pppd *after* having made the connection. It certainly doesn't need pppd to make the connection. The ppp0 is the proper device

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:56:08AM +0300, cantabile wrote: This thread is relevant: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-June/014388.html Yes and no. Early ADSL modems (such as the green Alcatel flat fish shaped one, I still have it) required you to set up a ppp connection

Re: [arch-general] wvdial and ppp configuration

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 06:17:01AM +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: On 11 September 2011 06:12, Fons Adriaensen f...@linuxaudio.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 12:56:08AM +0300, cantabile wrote: This thread is relevant: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2010-June/014388.html

Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:12:29PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Something remotely related for

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 08:55:30PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Philipp Überbacher hollun...@lavabit.com wrote: meanwhile and provides a CLI interface it still requires polkit. Polkit requires consolekit and both mean configuration and maintenance trouble.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 06:14:24PM -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sep 28, 2011 3:53 PM, Tom Gundersen t...@jklm.no wrote: The way it works is that both the frontend (the unprivileged process, e.g. the GUI for setting your timezone) and the backend (the privileged process, e.g. the

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51:53AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: What you are seeing is udisks [0]. The policy that is implemented, if I understand correctly, is that udisks allows a user who is physically at the machine to mount the usb drive, but not remote users. This makes sense for two

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:55:25PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: This makes no sense.  I don't mind if they use their own sticks on their own laptop. I do if they use it one this particular machine. This is surely a very uncommon scenario. It is easily solved by tweaking the PK policies

Re: [arch-general] netcfg wlan connection renewal

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:54:51PM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote: As a somewhat hackish workaround there's the gconf-no-polkit package in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41983 Works well enough for me. I also need gconf for a single package only. Good tip, thanks. But I'd

Re: [arch-general] coping with damaging updates

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 07:14:36PM +0200, Martti Kühne wrote: Personally I'm not using neither gui file browser nor consolekit session and make use of the group based permission because I know how to handle things, and I can look up eventual barriers in my way quickly and reliably enough. I

Re: [arch-general] Vim with X

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:09:57PM +, John K Pate wrote: ctrl-ins, shift-ins, middle-click should all still work. At least they do for me, and I don't have gvim installed. Or do I have something else installed that makes them work? Same here. -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die

Re: [arch-general] Linking issue, glibc weirdness?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Philipp wrote: g++ -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,--hash-style=gnu -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o jmeters jmeters.o styles.o mainwin.o jclient.o mkimage.o meterwin.o -lsndfile -lclxclient -lclthreads -ljack -lpng -lXft -lX11 -lrt /usr/bin/ld:

Re: [arch-general] Linking issue, glibc weirdness?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:23:53PM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Can you try it using the PKGBUILD? (Download tarball, extract, cd to the directory, type makepkg) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25711 == Starting build()... /home/fons/build/jmeters/PKGBUILD: line 19: DSO.patch:

Re: [arch-general] Linking issue, glibc weirdness?

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 11:55:18PM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote: Looked in the wrong place, fixed. The problem is that it's necessary to specify -lpthread now and in future. It will likely hit you too once the mirror you use syncs and you update. Not sure which package is responsible, I

Re: [arch-general] .bashrc not executed on login

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 05:26:33PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: usually someone forgot to do chmod 755 ./.bashrc enter. On Sat, 10 Dec 2011, G. Schlisio wrote: Why should a ~/.bashrc need group/world permissions ? -- FA Vor uns liegt ein weites Tal, die Sonne scheint - ein Glitzerstrahl.

Re: [arch-general] Pacman-key keyring and my own GPG key

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:38:31PM -0600, Leonid Isaev wrote: Pacman keyring is for package verification. It is located in GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ and contains packagers' public keys. Your sec. key is for your user ONLY. If you make your own packages, sign them and want them to be

Re: [arch-general] change in mount behaviour?

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:50:09AM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 12:35 AM, G. Schlisio g.schli...@gmx.de wrote: Am 28.01.2012 00:26, schrieb G. Schlisio: Hi all, i used to keep a folder in /media to serve as mountpoint if some manual mountis was needed. since

Re: [arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 01:15:29AM +0300, MSal wrote: Hello. I asked about this in the forum. But it looks like this is a better place to discuss systemd-related issues. If I login to user1 or user2 then try to play audio which requires access to /dev/snd/* , proper access to the logged

Re: [arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 02:48:14PM +0100, Joakim Hernberg wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:33:23 +0300 MSal m...@tormail.org wrote: 70-uaccess.rules is not a backup file and AFAIK any modifications will be overwritten in the next update. I have no /etc/udev/rules.d/70-uaccess.rules on my

[arch-general] python+pango

Hello all, Is there a python3 module for pango (as there is one for cairo) ? pacman -Ss pango gives me: extra/libtiger 0.3.4-3 A rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo extra/pango 1.32.3-1 [installed: 1.30.1-1] A library for layout and rendering of text

[arch-general] Install problem

Hello, today I did a fresh install using the december release of the install media. Everything done 'to the book' (the install guide wiki page). Bootloader is syslinux. When booting the freshly installed system, I get the syslinux menu, select Archlinux or fallback, things seem to be normal for

Re: [arch-general] Install problem

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:38:15AM +0100, Rodrigo Rivas wrote: Do you see the partitions from the emergency shell, doing a `ls /dev/sd*`? There are no /dev/sd* Meanwhile I've noticed something new. Once in the about ten times I tried booting, it actually worked (and systemd seems to be

Re: [arch-general] Install problem

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:07:56AM -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: Assuming this is native SATA and not setup in compat mode, your image needs to contain the modules 'ahci', 'sd_mod', and 'ext4' (ignoring dependencies which I assume mkinitcpio found, added). Make sure the kernel version for the

Re: [arch-general] Install problem

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 01:22:24AM +0100, Dario wrote: [FA] [ ] IP [f81f1240] pacpi_set_dmamode+0x50/0xa0 [pata_acpi] I've blacklisted pata_acpi because of random boot failures. Maybe it's your case. It was. Blacklisted pata_acpi, mkinitcpio, and the system boots. So now I have

Re: [arch-general] Winter Cleanup of [community]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 05:54:51PM +0100, Alexander Rødseth wrote: The list of unneeded orphans can be viewed at this page: https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ This seems to require a dev login... -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's

[arch-general] Strange X11 problem with fresh install

Hello all, I'm experiencing an odd problem with a new system installed yesterday. Video HW is NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE], driver nouveau, login xdm-archlinux, windom manager is Windowmaker (but the same problem occurs with e.g. FVWM). Every _second_ login the following happens: * Input typed into

Re: [arch-general] Linux-3.7.3-1-i686 blank screen

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 09:55:17PM +, Whiskers wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 16:33:52 -0800 Federico Cinelli cinelli.feder...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried the xf86-video-nv driver from [extra]. Not yet; if necessary I'll even try the proprietary nVidia driver. Is nv still supported

[arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

Hello all, In one installation I manage I have a script that (among other actions) remotely shuts down a number of headless machines. Until recently these machines used the traditional init scripts, and the commands in the script were ssh -t remote1 sudo /sbin/init 0 ssh -t remote2 sudo

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:31:20PM +0530, phanisvara wrote: On Monday 05 Aug 2013 18:39:22 Fons Adriaensen wrote: ssh -t remote1 sudo /sbin/init 0 ssh -t remote2 sudo /sbin/init 0 etc. This has worked well for years. Recently the machines were upgraded and mow use systemd. I

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 01:56:09PM +0100, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: ssh -t remote1 sudo systemctl poweroff exit Technically I guess it's a race condition, but the command should terminate and close the SSH session before OpenSSH is shut down, so you shouldn't get the hang.

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:15:28PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: It is correct that systemtl poweroff is synchronous, but using telinit or --no-block will avoid that. Are you sure about telinit ? It was the first thing I tried, assuming it would asynchronous. But the man page says nothing about

Re: [arch-general] remote poweroff with systemd

On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 04:34:41PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: If you use /bin/init (which is a symlink to systemctl) it is synchronous, but if you change runlevel via the compatibility /dev/initctl it is asynchronous. I couldn't find that we ship the telinit binary in Arch, so don't know

Re: [arch-general] Audio distro

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:35:09AM -0600, Jason Harrer wrote: Being a musician and recording using Linux audio, I can concur that Arch Ian't the best distro to start with. It's great to use when you know what you're doing, though. I'm runnning around a dozen machines. Half of those are part

Re: [arch-general] How to reboot remotely without hanging ssh session?

On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:01:09PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote: Am 05.02.2014 20:19, schrieb David C. Rankin: However with systemd, using systemctl reboot the ssh session hangs until the remote host reboot or a timeout occurs. you probably want to follow the following discussion(s):

Re: [arch-general] xbacklight broken in 3.13

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 01:24:10PM +, Frazer Jamieson wrote: Please remove me from this mailing list - I have tried many many requests through the usual channels. What 'usual channels' ? Nobody can remove you, you have to do that yourself at the same place you subscribed. (the URL is in

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 12:22:30PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > What is the current policy for having wiki-contributions re-written? I have > been a wiki-contributor for years, I've more than 28 years Unix/Linux > experience, I am an attorney, a registered professional engineer, and I have >

Re: [arch-general] Ardour 5 - Was: What's with Ray Rashif?

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:39:10PM +0600, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: > Thanks guys for all the info you have been sharing, I got sloppy again > and went into full panic mode in preparation for my master's thesis > and subsequent defense (19th). Good luck, break a leg, etc. ! -- FA A world of

[arch-general] LUKS on LVM example in wiki

I've been reading the section 'LUKS on LVM' in the wiki page and there's something I fail to understand. Under 'Preparing the logical volumes', there is: # lvcreate -L 500M -n tmp MyVol (which isn't shown in the ascii

[arch-general] xdm killed after 90 seconds

Hello all, I've got a strange problem on a newly installed system. About 90 seconds after it is started, xdm (or xdm-archlinux) and any login session is killed. Apparently by systemd, because of a timeout. What's happening here ? TIA, -- FA

Re: [arch-general] xdm killed after 90 seconds

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:48:50PM -0400, mar77i via arch-general wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On June 13, 2018 9:50 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've got a strange problem on a newly installed system. > > About 90 seconds af

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:33:25PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "local" not necessarily means it was build from AUR, perhaps it was > moved from the official repositories to AUR, or somebody build her own > package. Things in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib are NOT from AUR packages. The

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

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 05:25:36PM -0400, Trey Sizemore via arch-general wrote: > pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt > > and then on the new install, I can use the pkglist.txt generated > previously to: > > pacman -S - < pkglist.txt > > In addition, by backing up and migrating much of my /home

Re: [arch-general] USB not assining port number

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 01:31:48PM +0100, pete via arch-general wrote: > 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

[arch-general] locked out

Hello all, After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-( The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen. But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for root. I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions under /mnt as during installation, and do an

Re: [arch-general] locked out

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 07:02:53PM +0100, Jens John wrote: > Just boot into the faulty environment, try the log in a couple of > times (perhaps even on a TTY), reboot into recovery, inspect the > journald and/or syslog records of the events, if any. Excellent advice ! Seems

Re: [arch-general] locked out

On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 08:56:13PM +0100, eye wrote: > Are you sure it has nothing to do with this: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=258492 Indeed. Seems I ignored system-login.pacnew, and pam_tally*.so is no longer needed. Ciao, -- FA

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