Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

David Rosenstrauch on Sun, 2020/08/16 14:59: > On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be > > included in systemd-sysvcompat > > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but > > seems like it

Re: [arch-general] R: Eduroam madness with iwd

Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general on Thu, 2020/01/23 08:37: > I'm going to have another chance at testing this on Monday. What else could > I try? Possibly missing something like this? EAP-Identity=anonym...@unipmn.it -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: [arch-general] Eduroam madness with iwd

Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general on Wed, 2020/01/22 11:45: > And the following error in the system journal: > failed to load /home/random/.cat_installer/ca.pem The certificate can not be loaded as iwd.service has ProtectHome=yes set. Move it to a location where iwd can read it. --

Re: [arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?

"David C. Rankin" on Thu, 2019/11/21 12:13: > I wonder why systemd doesn't do this by default? It's not systemd to blame. The timer unit files are shipped by the respective projects, like util-linux, man-db, mlocate, shadow, logrotate, ... -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: [arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?

"David C. Rankin" on Thu, 2019/11/21 04:08: > [...] > > What is the best way to modify this scheme to prevent, e.g. > logrotate.time, man-db.timer and shadow.timer all trying to run on boot? > I'd rather set them up to run a 5:00 localtime as I would with cronnie. But > I do want to use the

Re: [arch-general] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks? What does this mean to the average user?

"David C. Rankin" on Mon, 2019/11/11 04:50: > The only changes I see in the mkinitcpio.pacnew file > is that all double-quotes have been replaced by parenthesis, e.g. That is a change back from March 2017 and appeared in mkinitcpio v24:

Re: [arch-general] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks

Ondřej Hruška on Mon, 2019/11/11 09:18: > Hi, > I have a question regarding the kernel changes. > > It sounds like it might break my dm-crypt/luks setup with un-encrypted > /boot partition, if the kernel is not in /boot anymore? Are there > migration steps needed? I set it up exactly following

Re: [arch-general] Silent boot with systemd and sd-encrypt initcpio hooks

Sefa Eyeoglu on Mon, 2019/10/28 10:06: > On Montag, 28. Oktober 2019 09:46:57 CET Christian Hesse wrote: > > Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general on Sun, > > 2019/10/27 > > 15:37: > > > [...] > > > As you can see, I have an encrypted root partition. Before

Re: [arch-general] Silent boot with systemd and sd-encrypt initcpio hooks

Sefa Eyeoglu via arch-general on Sun, 2019/10/27 15:37: > [...] > As you can see, I have an encrypted root partition. Before switching to > systemd hooks, after typing the decryption password on boot there was no > additional output. Now there is always the full systemd log where it says >

Re: [arch-general] Resetting pacman-key Still Asks to Import.

#] > 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key > 2048R/02FD1C7A934E614545849F19A6234074498E9CEE, "Christian Hesse (Arch > Linux Package Sig

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.3 - Virtualbox 5.2.32 modules fail to build - upstream bug opened

"David C. Rankin" on Thu, 2019/09/19 20:12: > All, > > Note to anyone is still using Virtualbox 5.2.32 (that can't move to Ver. 6 > due to headless behavior with Windows guests), on update to Linux 5.3, > virtualbox models fail to build using dkms. > > Upstream bug filed:

Re: [arch-general] Acceso remoto consola (simil Teamviewer)

[ snipped a lot of Spanish (?) text ] If I get this right you are searching for something that works like Teamviewer, but for a terminal/console connection. I'd suggest to have a look at "tmate". It's a fork of tmux and handles the remote part via ssh. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: [arch-general] Mariadb Tables Still Compatible with Backup Server Running Earlier Version?

"David C. Rankin" on Thu, 2019/06/27 21:29: > This is more a general question following the mariadb feature update to > 10.4.6-1. Do the tables remain compatible with servers running earlier > versions of mariadb? You should not expect the binary format to be compatible. > What happens if a

Re: [arch-general] Maria update

mick howe via arch-general on Fri, 2019/06/28 01:37: > Could not create the upgrade info file '/var/lib/mysql/mysql_upgrade_info' > in the MariaDB Servers datadir, errno: 13 What's the permission of /var/lib/mysql directory? I guess these were borked before without being noticed. My systems have

Re: [arch-general] mariadb package outdate for over a month

Florijan Hamzic via arch-general on Tue, 2018/12/18 21:00: > a working 10.3 exist in AUR and so far it workes very well in my environment > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mariadb-10.3 The remaining issue is that zerofill support in libmariadb is broken. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB package version

Genes Lists via arch-general on Thu, 2018/09/27 09:36: > On 9/27/18 7:04 AM, leoutat...@gmx.fr wrote: > > >> If you have further news, feel free to share. :) > >> > > Mariadb 10.2 and 10.3 are available in all distro except Arch > >

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] removed mariadb 10.1.27 from [testing]

Genes Lists via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> on Wed, 2017/09/27 09:31: > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 23:06 +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > ... > > We tried to upgrade to MariaDB 10.2.6, which ended in a disaster. The > > client > > library has

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] removed mariadb 10.1.27 from [testing]

Genes Lists via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> on Tue, 2017/09/26 16:41: > On Tue, 2017-09-26 at 21:28 +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > after the release of 10.1.27 upstream was made aware of a regression, > > so >

Re: [arch-general] systemd on bios computer

Jude DaShiell on Tue, 2017/07/04 14:52: > When doing a systemd upgrade I get: > (3/7) Upgrading systemd-boot... > Couldn't find EFI system partition. It is recommended to mount it to > /boot. Alternatively, use --path= to specify path to mount point. > error: command failed

Re: [arch-general] Virtualbox pxe boot fails and freeze system

Maykel Franco via arch-general on Tue, 2016/09/27 15:19: > Hi, I have a virtualbox, version 5.1.6. When boot the VM from PXE, fails > with error unknown and my archlinux freeze... > > Anybody with these problem?? I had PXE issue with 5.1.[024]. The guest had stalling

Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?

Hunter Connelly via arch-general on Thu, 2016/08/18 21:28: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 09:00:33PM -0400, Eli Schwartz via arch-general > wrote: > > Why would anyone want to use an overly-verbose scripting language like > > PowerShell as an interactive shell, **unless it

Re: [arch-general] Package are signed... but pacman doesn't like them...?

Giovanni 'ItachiSan' Santini <itachi.sama.amater...@gmail.com> on Mon, 2016/07/04 11:58: > Il 03/07/2016 23:50, Christian Hesse ha scritto: > > > > The db file is just a simple tar archive, compressed with gzip. Unzip it > > and you will find a directory for eve

Re: [arch-general] Package are signed... but pacman doesn't like them...?

Giovanni 'ItachiSan' Santini via arch-general on Sun, 2016/07/03 10:09: > Good morning, > some days ago I found a nice service called "Open Build Service", which > allows all kind of packagers, including also Arch ones, to have > different repos of their packages,

Re: [arch-general] Problem with pacman hooks, alphabetic order.

LoneVVolf on Thu, 2016/05/19 17:24: > On 14-05-16 01:15, Carsten Feuls wrote: > > Hello Everybody, > > > > I have some trouble with pacman hooks. > > Arch is going to use pacman hooks in every package. > > etckeeper was one of the first package that use pacman hooks, without

Re: [arch-general] Problem with pacman hooks, alphabetic order.

Carsten Feuls on Sat, 2016/05/14 01:15: > Hello Everybody, > > I have some trouble with pacman hooks. > Arch is going to use pacman hooks in every package. > etckeeper was one of the first package that use pacman hooks, without any > trouble. > But now it becomes more

Re: [arch-general] terminal

Sebastiaan Lokhorst on Wed, 2016/03/16 15:24: > This is a known bug in Linux 4.4.[1] > It should be fixed in 4.5, which is in [testing] now, so you can try it out. > > [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93483 This bug you referenced is marked as

Re: [arch-general] Htop 2.0 fonts

Garmine 42 on Tue, 2016/02/16 18:33: > Hi! > > Since the update to 2.0 the usage graphs use nonexisting fonts - both > TTY and uxterm show the "empty box" unicode character instead of the > fonts shown on htop 2.0 screenshots. > > I did not find any missing dependency for

Re: [arch-general] suckless-terminal (st) in community - is there an issue with st-255color terminfo and tmux?

Oon-Ee Ng on Thu, 2015/11/26 11:37: > I'm really glad st is now in community, though I find it slightly odd > its orphaned even though it's just been moved. Probably Sergej forgot to adopt... Nothing to worry about. > Anyway, on the upgrade my terminal would not start,

Re: [arch-general] grub

flow on Sun, 2015/11/08 16:34: > Is it possible to boot archlinux-2015.11.01-dual.iso (and install then) > with grub? For me the boot entry looks like this: menuentry "Arch Linux ISO image" --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class tool { insmod

Re: [arch-general] Kernel NULL pointer and crash - raid bug in 4.1.6 - and fix

Tobias Powalowski on Thu, 2015/09/03 17:08: > Am 03.09.2015 um 15:03 schrieb Genes Lists: > > I (and others) have enocuntered a pretty nasty raid bug that crashes > > the machine running current 4.1.x stable. It seems a commit is > > available but not yet in

Re: [arch-general] Cannot install bacula-client error unknown public key

Maykel Franco maykeldeb...@gmail.com on Thu, 2015/08/06 13:01: Hi, I try install bacula-client in my archlinux but I get this error: - Found bacula-fd.service == Validating source files with sha256sums... bacula-7.0.5.tar.gz ... Passed bacula-7.0.5.tar.gz.sig ... Skipped

Re: [arch-general] at times when booting system-logind fails and system hangs

Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com on Wed, 2015/04/29 15:40: I haven't identified under which circumstances, when booting the system hangs, and the only thing that can be related to that is the message: Failed to start Login Service Of course the recommendation to see the output of:

Re: [arch-general] git bug? (2.3.4-1)

Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org on Wed, 2015/03/25 13:47: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 12:47:30PM +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org on Wed, 2015/03/25 12:36: I thought I'd ask here before raising a ticket. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour with git

Re: [arch-general] git bug? (2.3.4-1)

Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org on Wed, 2015/03/25 12:36: I thought I'd ask here before raising a ticket. Is anyone else seeing this behaviour with git 2.3.4-1: ~~~ [I] % git fetch ssh: Could not resolve hostname build01:: Name or service not known fatal: Could not read from remote

Re: [arch-general] postfix 3.0.0-3 in testing wont start

Genes Lists li...@sapience.com on Fri, 2015/03/20 10:13: On 03/19/2015 07:51 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: [2015-03-19 19:36:35 -0400] Genes Lists: fatal: /usr/lib/postfix/postfix-script: No such file o $ /usr/lib/postfix/bin/postfix-script This script must be run by the postfix command.

Re: [arch-general] gpg source validation for kernel.org style signatures

Daniel Micay danielmi...@gmail.com on Mon, 2015/01/05 04:01: On 04/01/15 05:03 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 22:05:21 +0100 Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Hello everybody, pacman 4.2.0 gained support for verifying source tarballs with kernel.org style signature

[arch-general] gpg source validation for kernel.org style signatures

Hello everybody, pacman 4.2.0 gained support for verifying source tarballs with kernel.org style signature. Some (even essential) packages could benefit from that, linux and git come to mind. How to handle this? Report a bug for every package? Provide a list here? -- main(a){char*c=/*

Re: [arch-general] gpg source validation for kernel.org style signatures

Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info on Sun, 2015/01/04 16:03: On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 22:05:21 +0100 Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Hello everybody, pacman 4.2.0 gained support for verifying source tarballs with kernel.org style signature. Some (even essential) packages could

[arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

is Christian Hesse (aka eworm), I was born in 1982 and I live in Germany. I work for an educational institution, with FOM (Fachhochschule für Ökonomie und Management) being the most prominent part. My work includes networking and Linux stuff. Most Linux servers are Debian based, some machines even run Arch

Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

Marcel Korpel marcel.kor...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 11:57: * Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100): this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed as

Re: [arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!

Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:42: Mohammad_AlSaleh ce.mohammad.alsa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 14:36: Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat

[arch-general] expac in [extra]

Hello everybody, pacman 4.2.0-5 moved to [core] this morning. Can anybody please move expac 4-3 to [extra] as well? Thanks! -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */B?IJj;MEH CX:;,b;for(a/*Chris get my mail address:*/=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/*

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com on Mon, 2014/12/22 04:08: On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Mark Lee m...@markelee.com wrote: Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was wondering if package building and installing would, by default, utilize multiple

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

Jan Alexander Steffens jan.steff...@gmail.com on Mon, 2014/12/22 08:07: On Dec 22, 2014 8:00 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: For Arch packages there is nothing that requires repeatable output. Yes, there is. Package signatures are made using the compressed package. Delta packages

Re: [arch-general] gnupg 2.1 not stable

Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org on Wed, 2014/12/17 09:03: From gnupg.org: 2.0.26 is the stable version suggested for most users, 2.1.1 is the brand-new modern version with support for ECC and many other new features, and 1.4.18 is the classic portable version. Marking version 2.1 stable would

[arch-general] mkinitcpio hook systemd 217-2

Hello everybdoy, just installed systemd 217-2, building a systemd-enabled initramfs I get: - Running build hook: [systemd] == ERROR: file not found: `/init' Let's see whether or not this breaks boot. :D -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */B?IJj;MEH

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio hook systemd 217-2

Jonathan Hudson jh+a...@daria.co.uk on Fri, 2014/10/31 17:30: On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:34:18 +0100, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybdoy, just installed systemd 217-2, building a systemd-enabled initramfs I get: - Running build hook: [systemd] == ERROR: file not found: `/init

Re: [arch-general] stunnel 5.06-1 vs systemd

Genes Lists li...@sapience.com on Thu, 2014/10/30 08:23: 2) There is a tmpfiles snippet: # cat /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/stunnel.conf d /var/run/stunnel 0770 stunnel stunnel - 3) So the question now is why was /run/stunnel not created at boot? journal only has this reference to

Re: [arch-general] stunnel 5.06-1 vs systemd

Genes Lists li...@sapience.com on Thu, 2014/10/30 08:52: On 10/30/2014 08:27 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: Possibly /var/run is no longer linked to ../run? You should change the path in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/stunnel.conf from /var/run/stunnel to /run/stunnel. I did check that and /var

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

Damjan Georgievski gdam...@gmail.com on Thu, 2014/10/23 19:40: On 12 October 2014 14:28, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Intel released a new microcode update that disables an instruction on Haswell CPUs. However, Linux doesn't handle this very well and in combination with our

Re: [arch-general] Issues when updating mysql-connector-c++

Marcel Korpel marcel.li...@gmail.com on Thu, 2014/09/18 05:49: [ 47%] Building CXX object test/framework/CMakeFiles/test_framework.dir/start_options.cpp.o Linking CXX executable driver_test ../driver/libmysqlcppconn.so.7.1.1.4: undefined reference to `mysql_options4' collect2: error: ld

Re: [arch-general] Issues when updating mysql-connector-c++

Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Thu, 2014/09/18 10:01: Marcel Korpel marcel.li...@gmail.com on Thu, 2014/09/18 05:49: [ 47%] Building CXX object test/framework/CMakeFiles/test_framework.dir/start_options.cpp.o Linking CXX executable driver_test ../driver/libmysqlcppconn.so.7.1.1.4

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key issue

Frank Zimmermann frank.zimmermann.ber...@freenet.de on Tue, 2014/09/09 22:39: Am Di, 9. Sep, 2014 um 10:37 schrieb Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr: At a last resort, you can remove /etc/pacman.d/gnupg, then run `pacman-key --init` and `pacman-key --populate archlinux`. Did that, how

Re: [arch-general] [PATCH 1/1] systemd: restart services after update

Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu on Wed, 2014/06/11 12:13: Hi, On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:15:18 +0200 From: Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de To: arch-general arch-general@archlinux.org Cc: Christian Hesse m...@eworm.de

[arch-general] Restart systemd related services on update

Hello everybody, on systemd package update systemd.install is run, which calls 'systemctl --system daemon-reexec'. This replaces pid 1 with a new process of updated systemd. However systemd comes with a lot of helper daemons (systemd-udevd, systemd-journald, systemd-logind, ...). These are not

[arch-general] [PATCH 1/1] systemd: restart services after update

From: Christian Hesse m...@eworm.de --- systemd.install | 6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/systemd.install b/systemd.install index 5c370f7..11e97bc 100644 --- a/systemd.install +++ b/systemd.install @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ maybe_reexec() { if sd_booted; then systemctl

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio systemd hook

Yamakaky yamak...@yamaworld.fr on Wed, 2014/06/04 09:29: Hi For the 207 systemd release, the mkinitcpio's hook for systemd is broken when used with the lvm2 one. It was nearly a year ago, any improvement ? Package lvm2 provides hook sd-lvm2. You should use that when using systemd enabled

[arch-general] static libraries in packages

Hello everybody, I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with static libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more... # ll /usr/lib/*.a | wc -l 210 Any reason packages start shipping static libraries again? Or is there any build system with wrong

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info on Wed, 2014/05/14 03:38: On 2014-05-14 03:23, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with static libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more... # ll /usr/lib

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

Antonio Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com on Wed, 2014/05/14 11:51: Christian Hesse wrote: I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, mysql/mariadb and some others should go away. There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so all remaining ones

[arch-general] linux 3.14.2-1 and toolchain

Hello everybody, linux 3.14.2-1 has been compiled with new toolchain, gcc 4.9.0 explicitly. Now that it is in [core] compiling modules breaks... The new toolchain should be moved as soon as possible. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */B?IJj;MEH CX:;,b;for(a/*

Re: [arch-general] libpng 1.6.7 broken?

Simon Perry a...@sanxion.net on Tue, 2013/12/03 21:23: Hi all, This following is an example of a thumbnail generated on a forum I help run. This image: http://i.imgur.com/XxaSVKa.png - Works in Firefox 25.0.1 on Windows 7 - Works in Chrome 31.0.1650.57 m on Windows 7 - Works in IE 10

Re: [arch-general] libpng 1.6.7 broken?

Simon Perry a...@sanxion.net on Tue, 2013/12/03 21:56: On 03/12/13, Christian Hesse wrote: | I think libpng is right, and the image is broken. You can use pngfix (which | is part of libpng package) to fix the image: Why does everything else that I listed display it properly though? As you

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping LXDM

Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org on Tue, 2013/09/10 21:21: [2013-09-11 08:56:42 +0200] Bartłomiej Piotrowski: On 2013-09-11 00:53, Allan McRae wrote: Also thanks to its developers and recent changes in package and during 2 years since last release make zero sense taken together.

Re: [arch-general] Integrating Virus Scanning for Packages Handled by Pacman

Denis A. Altoé Falqueto denisfalqu...@gmail.com on Wed, 2013/04/24 17:18: I would say that the best way to assure you're using the correct file, as intended by the original developers, is to use digital signatures to check the sources. Not all projects sign their releases, but for those who

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] pacman-4.1

Leonidas Spyropoulos artafi...@gmail.com on Fri, 2013/04/05 08:23: On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:25 PM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: On 05/04/13 07:42, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org wrote: Hi, Pacman-4.1.0 is released

[arch-general] mysqld (MySQL and MariaDB) polling

Hello everybody, based on the thread [RFC] Migration to MariaDB in arch-dev-public by Bartłomiej Piotrowski I started playing with MySQL and MariaDB. I noticed both were polling every second: ... futex resumed ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) futex(0x1d48050, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1)

Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com on Wed, 2013/01/16 10:18: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57: [...] If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute this, I

Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update

Mike Cloaked mike.cloa...@gmail.com on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57: [...] If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute this, I would really appreciate it. I do have the same drive and I updated the firmware booting the image off grub. All just need is a working grub (2.0

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Big changes to LVM2 in testing

Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Fri, 2012/11/02 11:31: Am 02.11.2012 10:59, schrieb Christian Hesse: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Thu, 2012/11/01 15:34: Am 01.11.2012 15:22, schrieb Christian Hesse: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Thu, 2012/11/01 02:05: I

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Big changes to LVM2 in testing

Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Thu, 2012/11/01 15:34: Am 01.11.2012 15:22, schrieb Christian Hesse: Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Thu, 2012/11/01 02:05: I discovered some new awesomeness in LVM2 (okay, not THAT new, but still, so far unknown to me). Just to be sure

[arch-general] [linux] ext4 data corruption bug

Hello everybody, a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption bug in latest stable kernels. [0] Looks like the root cause is not really clear so far. Reverting the commit in question should fix the problem though. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/690 --

Re: [arch-general] [linux] ext4 data corruption bug

Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com on Wed, 2012/10/24 08:23: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:00:01PM +0200, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption bug in latest stable kernels. [0] Looks like the root cause

[arch-general] lib - usr/lib move, glibc and curl

Hello everybody, I just updated an old system and had to go through the lib - usr/lib move. I did an pacman -Syud --ignore glibc and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols. Luckily I had an old

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib move, glibc and curl

Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org on Tue, 2012/08/21 10:43: Am 21.08.2012 10:25, schrieb Christian Hesse: pacman -Syud --ignore glibc and ended in a broken package manager. pacman is linked against libcurl, which is compiled against glibc 2.16.0 and includes versioned symbols

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib move, glibc and curl

Paul Gideon Dann pdgid...@gmail.com on Tue, 2012/08/21 11:01: On Tuesday 21 Aug 2012 11:05:07 Christian Hesse wrote: Oh, the commands in the wiki exclude curl now. Did not notice that. I am fine with the situation, I can deal with these things. Hopefully others will read the wiki. :D

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com on Fri, 2012/07/27 11:33: Thanks to Morris and Christian (karol too, but rather not have an additional package). Can't seem to find a reference to this specific behaviour on the pacman manpage, unfortunately, but it'll simplify my script. Looks like there's

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.comwrote: Why will /opt have to go? Well, then: /opt - /usr/opt And everyone will be happy :) BTW, will there be the move from /bin to

Re: [arch-general] How do you extract version from pacman?

Morris lor...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/26 11:24: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: With the new virtualbox update I had to obtain virtualbox version in a script (and of course, virtualbox binary doesn't have a sane --version parameter...).

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.comwrote: Why will /opt have to go? Well, then: /opt - /usr/opt

Re: [arch-general] lib - usr/lib

Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Thu, 2012/07/26 12:46: Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:27: Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/26 10:18: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Jayesh Badwaik jayesh.badwai...@gmail.comwrote: Why will /opt have

Re: [arch-general] Upcoming changes to virtualbox

Sébastien Luttringer se...@seblu.net on Mon, 2012/07/23 02:01: Some changes will be introduced in the next package release of virtualbox. This is when virtualbox 4.1.20 is released? Have not seen anything in the testing repos yet. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse

Re: [arch-general] python needs /usr/include/?

Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com on Sat, 2012/07/21 00:36: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Rodrigo Rivas rodrigorivasco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Hello everybody, I am creating live media and want to reduce

[arch-general] python needs /usr/include/?

Hello everybody, I am creating live media and want to reduce size. After removing /usr/include/ wicd fails to start because of a missing header file. Is this expected behavior? I thought /usr/include/ is only needed for compilation and not as runtime dependency. -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene

Re: [arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman

Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44: [...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...] Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git? That would be really great! -- main(a){char*c=/*Schoene Gruesse */B?IJj;MEH CX:;,b;for(a/*

Re: [arch-general] Updating AUR package with pacman

Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 09:53: On 07/19/2012 09:52 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: Thorsten Jolitz tjol...@googlemail.com on Thu, 2012/07/19 18:44: [...] So this would render my git-clone of the AUR repo superfluous, [...] Oh, wait! Is AUR accessible via git

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 and /lib problem : the answer ;)

DR drdarkra...@gmail.com on Sun, 2012/07/08 23:37: On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Jonathan Hudson jh+a...@daria.co.uk on Sat, 2012/07/07 17:00: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:35:56 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 07/07/2012 05:27 PM, fredbezies wrote

Re: [arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 and /lib problem : the answer ;)

Jonathan Hudson jh+a...@daria.co.uk on Sat, 2012/07/07 17:00: On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:35:56 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: On 07/07/2012 05:27 PM, fredbezies wrote: Well, Tom gave the answer. Boot on rescue-CD / rescue USB-key. Remove /lib. And create a symlink : ln -sf /usr/lib lib I

[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. Though

Re: [arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14: On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user privileges) and a lot

Re: [arch-general] secure package signing related websites

Leonid Isaev lis...@umail.iu.edu on Sun, 4 Mar 2012 10:32:45 -0600: On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 14:56:43 +0100 Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de wrote: Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:57:53 +0200: On 03/04/2012 12:22 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: I think it makes sense

[arch-general] Package signing: database signatures?

Hello everybody, afaik, database files in official repositories are not signed yet. Are they? This forces one to set SigLevel to 'Optional' instead of 'Required'. Now if anybody wants to provide an infected package he/she only needs to provide no signature at all and the package is happily

Re: [arch-general] Package signing: database signatures?

Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at on Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:42:15 +0100: On 05.03.2012 10:39, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, afaik, database files in official repositories are not signed yet. Are they? This forces one to set SigLevel to 'Optional' instead of 'Required'. Now

[arch-general] secure package signing related websites (was: Re: Keyring package for real)

Hello everybody, (As I am not allowed to post to arch-dev-public resending it here.) ok, not really related to the keyring package, but it came to my mind when installing it and while signing the key: I think it makes sense to not allow pages related to package signing being delivered via http.

Re: [arch-general] secure package signing related websites

Ionut Biru ib...@archlinux.org on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:57:53 +0200: On 03/04/2012 12:22 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: I think it makes sense to not allow pages related to package signing being delivered via http. Instead automatically redirect to https to avoid man in the middle attacks. First

Re: [arch-general] systemd's journal and syslog-ng

Tobias Frilling tob...@frilling-online.de on Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:35:56 +0100: On 02/09/2012 03:29 PM, Dave Reisner wrote: - With the journal enabled (and it is enabled by default), you no longer need to run a syslog daemon (i.e. syslog-ng or rsyslog). The journal, by default, writes to

Re: [arch-general] security problem in X with screen saver

Florian Pritz bluew...@xinu.at on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:44:18 +0100: On 01/19/2012 09:45 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: 2012/1/19 Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 08:58, Divan Santana di...@s-tainment.co.za wrote: Hi All, As per

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.2-1

Tobias Powalowski tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com on Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:19:03 +0100: Hi guys, please signoff 3.2 series for both arches. Works fine on: Samsung NF210 NF310 Lenovo Thinkpad T410s so... Signoff x86_64 -- Schoene Gruesse Chris

[arch-general] provide with version

Hello everybody, I would like to replace xz 5.0.3-1 with xz-git 20111203-1. I added provides([...] 'xz') to the PKGBUILD, but the dependencies for libarchive (requires xz=5.0.0) are not met. Any chance I can fix that? -- Best regards, Chris

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