Re: [arch-general] CPU spikes when lid closed

2020-12-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/3/20 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I've been having an odd problem. My laptop works like a charm on its own.  However, when it's connected to a USB-C dock and screen, suddenly apps that were working great start eating up lots of CPU.  (Such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Zoom

[arch-general] CPU spikes when lid closed

2020-12-03 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I've been having an odd problem. My laptop works like a charm on its own. However, when it's connected to a USB-C dock and screen, suddenly apps that were working great start eating up lots of CPU. (Such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Zoom.) After a bit of debugging, I realized that the

Re: [arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?

2020-11-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/28/20 3:01 PM, SET via arch-general wrote: Hello, I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of course. I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for it to

Re: [arch-general] Firefox slowness

2020-11-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/12/20 3:27 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote: On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though. I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend checking

Re: [arch-general] Firefox slowness

2020-11-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote: On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm guessing this must be something having to do with Firefox 82 though. I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend checking with a clean profile :) Thanks for the feedback

Re: [arch-general] Firefox slowness

2020-11-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/12/20 12:36 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade

[arch-general] Firefox slowness

2020-11-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?) Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Applet to change audio output device

2020-10-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/17/20 7:33 AM, Jörg Jellissen wrote: Hello, is for the gnome desktop an applet available for quick change my audio output device? is there a solution for alsa or pulse? Maybe the pulseaudio-plugin for the status bar/panel? I don't use gnome, but I use that plugin under XFCE and

Re: [arch-general] access jnlp file with icedtea-web

2020-10-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/15/20 5:15 PM, Jörg Jellissen wrote: Hello, i'd like to access a jnlp file with icedtea-web on my arch system. I need this for locale access via ipmi to my server system at home. When i start the file with icedtea-web on a terminal i become the message No DBus connection available

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 8/17/20 12:19 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: Em agosto 17, 2020 13:08 David Rosenstrauch escreveu: ???  I always shut down all running daemons when I'm about to update my system - seems like standard operating procedure to me:  1) I'd expect that it would be completely

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 8/17/20 12:01 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: systemctl rescue Thanks! But this begs the question, why are you doing this before running pacman? ??? I always shut down all running daemons when I'm about to update my system - seems like standard operating procedure

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Thanks much for the detailed explanation. Response below. On 8/16/20 10:38 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: The sysvcompat symlinks still installed are: - halt - reboot - poweroff - shutdown - init These programs are generically useful on fully systemd systems, and systemd documents

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2020-08-16 3:37 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 8/16/20 3:24 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: Reread the Arch commit. It wasn't removed. Arch used to move the symlink from the "systemd" package to the "sys

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 8/16/20 2:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: 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

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2020-08-16 3:06 pm, Andreas Bosch wrote: Am 16.08.20 um 20:59 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: 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 [...] I looked into this a bit more, an

Re: [arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
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 recently got removed. Was it removed upstream?

[arch-general] Telinit?

2020-08-15 Thread David Rosenstrauch
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 recently got removed. Was it removed upstream? (And if so, anyone know why?) Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote: Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I get into trouble. This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could dash be made the default shell in Arch? Couldn't you just set it as the default

[arch-general] Pulseaudio disabling auto-mute mode

2020-03-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm not sure how/why (or when it started) but pulseaudio is disabling auto-mute mode on my laptop. Normally when you plug in headphones, speakers get muted. However, every time PA starts up, it disables that auto-mute feature. (I then have to go into alsamixer and manually re-enable it.)

Re: [arch-general] Brightness keys not working on laptop

2020-03-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2020-03-04 5:39 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm fairly certain these hotkeys are controlled by the kernel hp_wmi module, and I do see some error message lines in dmesg about that: [5.683232] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5 [5.697112] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5

[arch-general] Brightness keys not working on laptop

2020-03-04 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I can't seem to get the screen brightness up and down keys working on my laptop. (A new HP EliteBook x360 1030 G4.) Controlling the screen brightness programmatically does work. I.e., I'm able to set up mappings in my DE (XFCE) for specific key combos to call out to the "light" application

Re: [arch-general] Why "systemd --user" process hanging around after logout?

2020-01-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2020-01-25 11:28 am, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 20:50, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env (XFCE) there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd --user" under

[arch-general] Why "systemd --user" process hanging around after logout?

2020-01-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env (XFCE) there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd --user" under my user ID (with a bunch of gvfs child processes running under it). I wouldn't normally care about this, but if I then try to power down the

Re: [arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts

2020-01-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/24/19 10:54 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 12/24/19 9:04 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi DR, Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up.  I usually use non-antialiased fonts. As in bitmap fonts?  Could it be anything to do

Re: [arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts

2019-12-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/24/19 9:04 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi DR, Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. As in bitmap fonts? Could it be anything to do with KDE's adjustment for the Pango change that dropped

Re: [arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts

2019-12-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/23/19 11:28 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up.  I usually use non-antialiased fonts.  But it looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using anti-aliased fonts.  I have them

[arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts

2019-12-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. But it looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using anti-aliased fonts. I have them set to disabled in the kde control center, but

Re: [arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web

2019-12-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 12/9/19 6:48 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: You should not upgrade the firefox package while it's open. That's a lesson I've learned when I've also lost a profile. Everytime you see firefox in the upgrade packages list, I suggest you close it and then upgrade. IMHO,

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 7/28/19 3:52 PM, ProgAndy wrote: Am 28.07.19 um 20:35 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font glyphs

Re: [arch-general] pango 1:1.44-1 Renders Bitmap Fonts as Boxes.

2019-07-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 7/28/19 7:49 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, To save others' time, on upgrading to pango 1:1.44-1 today my terminal emulator and other programs displayed empty boxes instead of bitmap-font glyphs. This is due to deliberate dropping of support by Pango.

Re: [arch-general] VirtualBox 6 on 4.20 - Anybody seeing guests become unresponsive after several hours?

2019-01-03 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 1/3/19 1:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All, I have a number of virtualbox guests I run from my Arch host and have for a number of years. Since update to Virtualbox 6.0 (using the following AUR packages) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/

Re: [arch-general] Starting 9/15 new error - stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed

2018-09-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 9/21/18 1:37 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: Archdevs, Is this a new bug or config issue? Beginning 9/15, I receive a new cron error: error: stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed: No such file or directory But the file is there: $ l /var/log/clamav/clamd.log -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav

Re: [arch-general] Firefox crashes randomly

2018-09-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 9/20/18 12:21 PM, Hubert Hauser via arch-general wrote: Hello! I have problem with randomly crashing Firefox 62.0 or single tabs in this browser on 64-bit Arch Linux system. Running Firefox in safe mode doesn't help. Resetting browser or removing folder ~/.mozilla still doesn't help. Any

[arch-general] Lxde taskbar freezing

2018-09-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch
It seems like some recent package installation or upgrade has been breaking my Lxde desktop. The taskbar at the bottom of the screen keeps freezing up periodically - doesn't repaint (except for non-lxde icons like network manager applet), doesn't respond to mouse clicks, etc. Then after a few

Re: [arch-general] ipv6 only half working

2018-08-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/02/2018 10:01 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: Em agosto 2, 2018 22:53 David Rosenstrauch escreveu: Any idea what I might look for / where I might look from here to figure out what's causing the issue?  My server is running (an up to date) Arch installation

Re: [arch-general] ipv6 only half working

2018-08-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2018-07-23 12:42 pm, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: Em julho 23, 2018 12:46 David Rosenstrauch escreveu: I'm really stumped as to how ipv6 could partially fail like this only on specific apps. Seems like it should either completely work or completely fail. Anyone have any

[arch-general] ipv6 only half working

2018-07-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm having some weird problems with ipv6 on my box. My ISP is set up for ipv6, my router and server both seem to have valid ipv6 addresses, and ipv6 connectivity seems to (nominally) be working: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ ping ipv6.google.com PING ipv6.google.com(lga25s63-in-x0e.1e100.net

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/13/2018 03:34 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: On 3/13/18, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net> wrote >> I have an old PCI card in the machine that's powers an old parallel port printer I used to use with it. Perhaps that's failing. I don't need the card a

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/12/2018 09:56 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: Any BIOS updates or kernel updates recently (4.15.8)? Try with 3.16 or 4.9 or another old lts kernel from archive.archlinux.org just for testing (not production). It's more likely that the kernel regressed rather than IRQ issues

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/12/2018 05:13 AM, Jiachen Yang via arch-general wrote: On 2018年03月12日 11:19, David Rosenstrauch wrote: My server's been exhibiting some very strange behavior lately.  Every couple of days I run into a situation where one core (core #0) on the quad core CPU starts continuously using

[arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
My server's been exhibiting some very strange behavior lately. Every couple of days I run into a situation where one core (core #0) on the quad core CPU starts continuously using around 34% of CPU, but I'm not able to see (using htop) any process that's responsible for using all that CPU.

[arch-general] linux kernel 4.15.4-1 un-bootable

2018-02-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Ran into a weird issue today. I upgraded a bunch of packages, including the kernel to v4.15.4-1 (from 4.15.3-1). But for some reason the system was un-bootable. The boot process would get part-way through, then the booting screen would suddenly start showing its text on a green background

[arch-general] netctl multiple dns servers

2017-12-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm using netctl to initialize my server's network stack, using a tweak of the "ethernet-static" example profile. I'm specifying a list of DNS servers, but only one of them is winding up in the resolv.conf file. I'm wondering why/how to fix. In my netctl profile: DNS=('127.0.0.1'

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-12-22 1:14 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 12/20/2017 09:45 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: More of a workaround than a solution, but I stopped using grub altogether once they upgraded to grub2.  (The complexity of the grub2 config file as compared to the simplicity

[arch-general] No ipv6 address - but only on one machine

2017-12-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Having a weird situation going on with IPv6. Every machine on my network can successfully get an ipv6 address except for one. (My main server.) What's even weirder is that ipv6 was working on that machine up until probably about a week ago. Not sure what the problem is, and hoping someone

Re: [arch-general] Install Archlinux on HP Elitebook

2017-12-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-12-20 3:00 am, David C. Rankin wrote: On 12/18/2017 08:36 AM, n...@contrepoison.ch wrote: Hi everyone, I'm struggeling with my laptop : I can't manage to boot into any Linux distribution. My laptop is an HP Elitebook x360 G2 ; BIOS P80 01.09 Rev.A (up to date). By turning off every

Re: [arch-general] Server Management Tools

2017-10-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-10-12 11:48 am, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, Is there a way to automatically administer multiple arch Linux servers? It's annoying to provide 20 servers daily with the same commands. Are there possibilities to manage the daily tasks centrally and to set them off automatically? I

Re: [arch-general] Firefox can't use CUPS Printer

2017-10-02 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-10-02 10:13 am, Nirjhor wrote: Hello, I have a CUPS printer (HP) enabled and all good. My firefox is not from repo. I am using a localized version of firefox downloaded from firefox website. Right now I can print to a pdf and from that PDF I can print the text. Can I locate the printer

Re: [arch-general] qt5ct color scheme -> looking for a lxqt dark theme

2017-09-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 2017-09-24 11:27 pm, Javier via arch-general wrote: Hi, I've been looking for getting a dark appearance to lxqt, and so far the closest is through qt5ct color schemes specified through *.conf little files under qt5ct, somehow documented here: Is there a way to get such color scheme files

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/26/2017 04:58 PM, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: Op 26 jun. 2017 22:32 schreef "David Rosenstrauch" <dar...@darose.net>: On 06/26/2017 03:56 PM, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: [...] In short: they use dbus permissions for blacklisting. [...] A deny po

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/26/2017 03:56 PM, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: Op 26 jun. 2017 20:19 schreef "David Rosenstrauch" <dar...@darose.net>: On 06/26/2017 01:32 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: On 06/26/2017 06:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Any idea how to resolve the conflict

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/26/2017 01:32 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: On 06/26/2017 06:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Any idea how to resolve the conflict between these 2 notification services? (Without being forced to remove half of KDE?) For example, dbus seems to be selecting the kde plasma notification

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/26/2017 12:22 PM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: On 06/26/2017 04:32 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: My guess is because I have many KDE packages installed, even though I'm not running KDE. (My DE is XFCE.) I did that grep, but didn't see anything suspicious: [darose@darosedm services]$ find

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/23/2017 04:58 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: FYI, I just tested under sddm and I still see the same issue. For whatever reason, xfce4-notifyd does not get started in response to attempts to launch service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications': Jun 23 16:55:27 darosedm dbus-daemon[723

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/23/2017 04:58 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: FYI, I just tested under sddm and I still see the same issue. For whatever reason, xfce4-notifyd does not get started in response to attempts to launch service 'org.freedesktop.Notifications': Jun 23 16:55:27 darosedm dbus-daemon[723

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/25/2017 09:03 AM, Paul Franke wrote: 1) Any idea what's responsible? 2) From what I can see the issue isn't just startup. If you see my previous email, it looks like the notifyd is crashing for some reason. Maybe, xfce4-notifyd crashes on startup due to not set DISPLAY environment

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/24/2017 02:30 AM, Jérôme M. Berger wrote: On 06/23/2017 10:58 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Jun 23 16:55:27 darosedm dbus-daemon[723]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.Notifications' Jun 23 16:56:27 darosedm plasma_waitforname[1988]: org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/23/2017 09:27 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 06/23/2017 03:53 AM, Vladimir Lomov via arch-general wrote: ** David Rosenstrauch [2017-06-22 21:52:28 -0400]: Useful data point - thanks. I am using a login manager (lightdm), which launches startxfce4. Perhaps there's something got

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/23/2017 03:53 AM, Vladimir Lomov via arch-general wrote: ** David Rosenstrauch [2017-06-22 21:52:28 -0400]: Useful data point - thanks. I am using a login manager (lightdm), which launches startxfce4. Perhaps there's something got messed up with that combination. Try sddm. Perhaps

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/21/2017 05:41 PM, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote: It's working fine here. I don't use a login manager, I login from a tty and I haven't changed any configuration in a long while. I also don't do anything special to launch xfce or anything else. my .xinitrc has: if [ -d

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/21/2017 08:17 AM, David Barri via arch-general wrote: Broke for me recently too. I had to add this to my .xinitrc: systemctl --user start xfce4-notifyd.service 1) Any idea what's responsible? 2) From what I can see the issue isn't just startup. If you see my previous email, it looks

Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/20/2017 10:10 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Seems like some recent package update has either caused xfce4-notifyd to not autostart or to crash after starting. Anyone else seeing this, and/or have any idea what might be the cause? Not sure if it's having autostart issues

[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues

2017-06-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Seems like some recent package update has either caused xfce4-notifyd to not autostart or to crash after starting. Anyone else seeing this, and/or have any idea what might be the cause? Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Mirror down?

2017-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/21/2017 12:31 PM, Peter Baldridge via arch-general wrote: There's a list for mirror operators at arch-mirr...@archlinux.org they may find this info useful as they can bug the mirror owner or remove it from the rotation. Very helpful - thanks! Is that an open list? (I.e., can

Re: [arch-general] Mirror down?

2017-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/21/2017 11:42 AM, Martin Kühne via arch-general wrote: Did you know, DNS has this great feature called `whois` [0]. cheers! mar77i [0] https://www.whois.com/whois/nyu.edu DNS doesn't tell you who specifically is responsible for maintaining an Arch mirror that is operating somewhere

[arch-general] Mirror down?

2017-04-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch
It looks like the mirror at nyu.edu has been down for the last couple of days: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/es.its.nyu.edu/643/ Anyone know who to contact about that? Best, DR

Re: [arch-general] syslinux.cfg

2017-02-15 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/15/2017 09:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi, is the no way to get a menu Arch kernel 1 Arch Kernel 2 Foo Kernel 1 Foo Kernel 2 when using syslinux? Or even while booting another Linux requires chainloading, there's a feature to chose between all available kernels of another Linux by

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-12-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I was able to pin this down to an issue with xfce4-power-manager: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12857 DR On 12/22/2016 09:51 AM, yaky83--- via arch-general wrote: Le 19 Sep, 2016, David Rosenstrauch a écrit: On 09/16/2016 12:14 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I've noticed that my

Re: [arch-general] sporadic strange PC speaker sounds

2016-10-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/18/2016 01:45 PM, J. C. wrote: Hey hey, occasionally I hear a short "tune" on my pc speaker. It's too unexpected and too short to try lsof to see which process is using the pc speaker. Maybe it's a video clip running in the browser? DR

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/16/2016 12:14 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I've noticed that my screen lock / screensaver has stopped engaging as of a couple of days ago. I check the settings (which I haven't changed recently), but they seem to be set correctly. Anyone have an idea what package upgrade might have

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/18/2016 10:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:23:41 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm running XFCE desktop btw. On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-18 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm running XFCE desktop btw. On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock / screensaver you are using. xflock4/xscreensaver

[arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

2016-09-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I've noticed that my screen lock / screensaver has stopped engaging as of a couple of days ago. I check the settings (which I haven't changed recently), but they seem to be set correctly. Anyone have an idea what package upgrade might have caused this and/or which bugs I should watch for a

Re: [arch-general] KDE apps using incorrect colors after recent upgrade

2016-06-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 06/27/2016 12:24 PM, sL1pKn07 SpinFlo via arch-general wrote: 2016-06-27 18:21 GMT+02:00 David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>: I haven't yet been able to pin down the root cause, but some recent upgrade (my best guess is qt5) seems to be messing with my KDE apps' ability to p

Re: [arch-general] no screen grabber

2015-05-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 05/22/2015 03:05 PM, Neven Sajko wrote: On 22 May 2015 at 17:26, LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote: How do I search for a binary screen grabber package? You should read the General recommendations wiki page to learn about the Archlinux ecosystem and pacman, but incidentally I have my own

Re: [arch-general] Why are CA certifcates writable for every user?

2015-02-05 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Symlinks often (always?) show as 777 permissions. If you look at the actual file that it links to, you'll see the permissions are fine: [darose@daroseneo ~]$ ls -l /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/cadir/Verisign_Class_1_Public_Primary_Certification_Authority_-_G3.pem -r--r--r-- 1 root root

Re: [arch-general] nm-applet and ethernet

2014-10-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/18/2014 11:47 AM, Kyle Terrien wrote: On 10/17/2014 06:39 AM, Mauro Santos wrote: Previously I could left-click release and the nm-applet menu would stay open, now I have to left-click and hold otherwise there is no menu. Apart from this everything seems to work correctly. This sounds

Re: [arch-general] nm-applet and ethernet

2014-10-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/20/2014 10:18 AM, Bjoern Franke wrote: Am Montag, den 20.10.2014, 10:01 -0400 schrieb David Rosenstrauch: Anyone know if there's an open bug report for this? I'm also seeing this problem. (Also on XFCE.) Which theme do you use? No issues here with greybird and XFCE. regards bjo

Re: [arch-general] Netflix in Arch?

2014-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 10/11/2014 04:19 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: Just because there still seems to be some confusion: Plugin-free Netflix requires Embedded Media Extensions (EME).[1] This is supported by all major closed-source browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome. This includes Chrome on Arch

[arch-general] Netflix in Arch?

2014-10-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I noticed the announcement today that Ubuntu now supports Netflix streaming, due to new features recently added to the Chrome browser. https://insights.ubuntu.com/2014/10/10/watch-netflix-in-ubuntu-today/ Does this work on Arch's version of Chrome as well? Are additional package

[arch-general] Hanging on log out

2014-04-30 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Been having a problem in recent weeks that I'm unable to fix or even diagnose. When I log out of my desktop, the machine just hangs with a blank X windows screen. (I.e., black screen with mouse cursor pointer.) I'm able switch to a console and successfully issue the sudo poweroff command

Re: [arch-general] Automatic upgrade

2014-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/11/2014 07:17 AM, Ismael Bouya wrote: That's not an option. The network on which the machine is is willingly inaccessible from outside: The sysadmin there has the principle that a machine that works shouldn't be upgraded, because then it can break Then your sysadmin is incompetent, since

Re: [arch-general] Is there a burning tool able to replace K3b?

2014-01-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/24/2014 09:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: On 01/21/2014 04:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I'm experimenting with getting rid of Xfce and I'm testing Jwm at the moment, but generating the menu is PITA and to find good replacements for editors, file browsers etc. isn't easy. fluxbox is my

[arch-general] Thunderbird unread message count

2013-09-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Having one small issue with the new Thunderbird (v24.0) upgrade. On one of the IMAP accounts I use, all the mailboxes are set up as children of Inbox. Apparently in the new version of Thunderbird, when I'm looking at Unread Folders in that account, the unread message count displayed is the

[arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I picked up some Gnome package upgrades last night during a pacman update, and I haven't been able to log into XFCE ever since. It gets most of the way through the login process, then craps out and falls back to the session manager (LXDM). I'm not even able to see any debug information about

Re: [arch-general] XFCE broken with Gnome 3.8?

2013-04-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 04/22/2013 02:42 PM, Narve wrote: I'm running Xfce with LXDM and it works smoothly even with the new gnome version - tho the only packages from the gnome-group I have installed are those: narve ~ % pacman -Qg gnome [20:38:45 on 13-04-22] gnome gnome-icon-theme

Re: [arch-general] Installing by remote control

2013-03-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/19/2013 06:13 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote: On 19.03.2013 23:04, David Benfell wrote: It sounds like heartburn to me. I don't have a lot of experience installing Arch Linux (Linode *does* offer it as an option and I installed via Bridge Linux on my desktops). I'm hoping this isn't as weird

Re: [arch-general] Weird issue with Google Talk/Hangout plugin

2013-03-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch
an impact on video? Thanks, DR On 03/06/2013 02:23 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: I'm having a weird issue with the Google Talk plugin (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-talkplugin/) distorting all my video images - both the ones of me coming in from my camera, and the ones coming in from

[arch-general] Weird issue with Google Talk/Hangout plugin

2013-03-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm having a weird issue with the Google Talk plugin (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-talkplugin/) distorting all my video images - both the ones of me coming in from my camera, and the ones coming in from others across the Net. See http://www.darose.net/GoogleHangWeirdness.png for

Re: [arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode

2013-02-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/12/2012 10:33 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.11.2012 16:28, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: Like the subject says, when I boot directly into single user mode, system doesn't load my LVM volumes. So the only way I can realistically use single user mode (since many of my key files are on LVM

Re: [arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode

2013-02-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/12/2013 10:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.02.2013 15:38, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: I just upgraded to the latest version (2.02.98-3) of lvm2. But I'm still having the same issue: when I boot into single user mode, my lvm volumes aren't seen and so any mounts time out. Any idea

Re: [arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode

2013-02-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/12/2013 10:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.02.2013 16:22, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: On 02/12/2013 10:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.02.2013 15:38, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: I just upgraded to the latest version (2.02.98-3) of lvm2. But I'm still having the same issue: when

Re: [arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode

2013-02-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 02/12/2013 10:29 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.02.2013 16:22, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: On 02/12/2013 10:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 12.02.2013 15:38, schrieb David Rosenstrauch: I just upgraded to the latest version (2.02.98-3) of lvm2. But I'm still having the same issue: when

[arch-general] vboxnetflt module broken in virtualbox-host-modules-lts?

2013-01-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I'm running the LTS kernel, and VirtualBox has been working fine under it until recently. However sometime in the last few days (after a recent upgrade, I'm guessing), I can no longer launch VM's. Apparently vboxnetflt is never getting loaded. And when I try to load it manually, I get the

Re: [arch-general] newbie: looking for docs

2013-01-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/16/2013 12:09 PM, Don Raikes wrote: Hello, I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to find any documentation on how to create new archlinux packages, and how to setup a local repository for my packages prior to contributing them to the AUR. I have

Re: [arch-general] newbie: looking for docs

2013-01-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 01/16/2013 12:50 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 01/16/2013 12:09 PM, Don Raikes wrote: Hello, I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to find any documentation on how to create new archlinux packages, and how to setup a local repository for my packages

[arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode

2012-11-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Like the subject says, when I boot directly into single user mode, system doesn't load my LVM volumes. So the only way I can realistically use single user mode (since many of my key files are on LVM volumes) is to boot the system to multi-user mode, and the telinit s to drop back down to

Re: [arch-general] Qingy on systemd

2012-11-08 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/08/2012 01:13 PM, Curtis Shimamoto wrote: On 11/08/12 at 11:42am, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Just curious (if you know): what should the service file look like for it to work properly when you issue the systemctl enable command? Should it be: Alias=getty.target.wants/qingy@%I.service

[arch-general] Qingy on systemd

2012-11-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
I recently switched over to systemd, and am trying to get my system set up the way I like under there. I'm trying to set up qingy on systemd right now, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qingy#Systemd ... and

[arch-general] Invalid signatures

2012-11-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Saw these errors from pacman today, which are preventing me from upgrading some packages: error: directfb: signature from Eric Belanger e...@archlinux.org is invalid error: xmms2: signature from Sergej Pupykin a...@sergej.pp.ru is invalid error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or

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