Re: [arch-general] Issue building Electron 1.8

2019-04-16 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
gt; ha scritto: > On 11/04/2019 13:08, Giovanni Santini via arch-general wrote: > > I am trying to build Electron 1.8.X for an AUR package which requires it. > > Given the last commit to the 1.8.x branch was in November 2018 [1] I > suspect it probably doesn't support LLVM 8. > &

[arch-general] Issue building Electron 1.8

2019-04-11 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Hi everyone, I am trying to build Electron 1.8.X for an AUR package which requires it. In order to build it, I checked out the `electron` package, switched to the commit of the latest 1.8 and built the package. Everything goes quite well, except for the final linking step, which gives an error

Re: [arch-general] Tips for a stable GNOME Shell?

2018-02-11 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Hello again, Thanks to your suggestions, I decided to 1. Replace GDM with LightDM 2. Install LXDE as lightweight DE The installation was easy and I am really glad of the RAM performance obtained (I suppose GDM was the real resource hog). These is only one small desire that is still unexpressed

Re: [arch-general] Tips for a stable GNOME Shell?

2018-02-08 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 08/02/2018 00:36, strupo ha scritto: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 21:28:26 +0100 > Giovanni Santini via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Thanks for the suggestion regarding the Plasma DE, I never heard of it >> before. > > You may know it bett

Re: [arch-general] Tips for a stable GNOME Shell?

2018-02-07 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good evening, Thank you so much for your input; it is really appreciated. For you information, I am using a (kinda old) Acer E1-570G, which has 4GB of RAM and a i5 3337 CPU. Thanks for the suggestion regarding the Plasma DE, I never heard of it before; I will try to give it a shot, considering

[arch-general] Tips for a stable GNOME Shell?

2018-02-06 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good evening, I am writing here since I do believe people here might have found solutions already to my problems. Sadly, I am the problem, as I love GNOME Shell (ops). Jokes aside, I love its interface and behaviour; although, it is really hard to use it on a real-context basis for me. What it

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird doesn't show e-mails

2017-10-30 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 29/10/2017 16:10, Ryan Petris via arch-general ha scritto: > On 10/29/2017 09:34 AM, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote: >> >> Just a wild guess, but you probably have a display filter active in >> Thunderbird... >> >> My first thought was about the protocol (pop3 vs imap), but since the

[arch-general] Thunderbird doesn't show e-mails

2017-10-29 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Hello everyone, I have a weird issue. My uni e-mail uses Office 365 as e-mail provider; I've added it in Thunderbird, but I can see only unread e-mails. All the read one are not appearing in my inbox. However, if I `cat` the INBOX file, I can see the e-mails and if I mark them as unread from

Re: [arch-general] Detect broken DHCP setup

2017-09-06 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 06/09/2017 01:09, Leonid Isaev via arch-general ha scritto: > > What does it mean a valid DHCP setup? By reconnection you mean that your > client > re-request a lease from the server? Also, dbus has nothing to do with dhcp > settings... I know DBus has nothing to do with DHCP; what I meant

[arch-general] Detect broken DHCP setup

2017-09-05 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good morning, tl;dr: I was wondering what could be the best way to check a DHCP setup. Briefly: our landlord provides us Wifi through a telephonic company service. However, the routers placed in the building after some time lose the DHCP settings. While I can fix it on my computer with a

Re: [arch-general] git undetectable tag replacement? (Was: Sébastien Luttringer and Tobias Powalowski)

2017-07-03 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 03/07/2017 04:14, Eli Schwartz via arch-general ha scritto: > > So I was under the impression that git tags encode the tagname in the > actual blob, and I didn't see how that attack (rooted in the basic > nature of a branch as a lightweight, mutable, *pushable* pointer to a > commit) was

Re: [arch-general] Broken devtools?

2017-06-26 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 22/06/2017 23:15, Bruno Pagani ha scritto: > > devtools scripts use the first mirror from your system mirror list. Can > you be more specific about the issue you’re encountering? It’s likely > that your first mirror does not work for instance, in which case > devtools fails. > > Bruno > Not

[arch-general] Broken devtools?

2017-06-22 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good afternoon, I was trying to build a package with `devtools` *extra-x86_64-build*, but is doesn't use any mirror. I've noticed also that adding a mirror to the root chroot mirrorlist has no effect and gets removed at the first build attempt. -- Giovanni Santini My blog:

Re: [arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless

2017-06-09 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 05/06/2017 23:11, Mike Cloaked via arch-general ha scritto: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:12 PM, ITwrx.org wrote: >> i just installed minidlna and got it working from vlc over wireless. it >> didn't work at first. "systemctl status minindlna" showed that it wasn't >> able to

Re: [arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless

2017-06-05 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 04/06/2017 18:08, ITwrx.org ha scritto: > this computer is the one you successfully accessed the minidlna web page > from? or a different computer connected via ethernet? i'm just trying to > verify that you have successfully accessed the webpage for minidlna from > a wireless device/computer.

Re: [arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless

2017-06-04 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 04/06/2017 17:24, ihad ha scritto: > Hi, > > ... > > Just a wild guess: is your wireless network a separate subnet? If so, > there's your problem. AFAIK MiniDLNA uses SSDP[1] to announce itself, > using a site-local multicast-IP that isn't routed. You need to bridge > your wireless network

Re: [arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless

2017-06-04 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 04/06/2017 16:10, ITwrx.org ha scritto: > The status page is properly accessible from where? A x86 computer that's > on your wired network? or from a device connected to network via wireless? MiniDLNA publishes automatically a web page on port 8200 for checking its status. My computer is an

[arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless

2017-06-04 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good afternoon, as said in the subject I am having some issues running MiniDLNA on my home server. The service fires up properly (the status web page is properly accessible), however the server is not visible when I scan for it in my DLNA-enanched applications, on all the platforms (my Android

Re: [arch-general] Where do you host your personal repository?

2017-05-17 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 15/05/2017 20:56, Jelle van der Waa ha scritto: > > I use a private server, OBS has some major issues (it's crammed, doesn't > have all the packages due to licensing). > Luckily, now Arch:Community is present and works pretty well. Had only to add ffmpeg to my repo. > > What kind of

[arch-general] Where do you host your personal repository?

2017-05-15 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good morning, It has been a few time since I am hosting packages on OpenSUSE OBS (Open Build Service). I find myself kinda good, but I have to tackle some problems it makes that I don't really like. So I wanted to ask to you where do you host your packages, if you have a private server or you take

Re: [arch-general] Best practices for creating an Arch Docker image

2017-04-30 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 28/04/2017 07:23, nfnty via arch-general ha scritto: > I've been maintaining minimal and hardened Arch images and container > configurations for several years now that are updated regularly [1]. > > All my images are based on the image `nfnty/arch-mini` [2] which has > been made to be as

[arch-general] Best practices for creating an Arch Docker image

2017-04-27 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good evening to everybody, I got interested in Docker lately and I've decided to create an ArchLinux image for it. There's one suggested from the ArchWiki (*base/archlinux*) but I wanted to learn from scratch. So, I've then some questions: 1. As the root filesystem, I've made a repacked version

[arch-general] Bash broken: no PATH and completion

2017-01-11 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good morning, I want to share one of my recent issues with bash. Everything was working nicely up to some time ago, but recently I'm having some issues. The major two things I've noticed are the following: 1. bash doesn't load */etc/profile*, thus not loading all the scripts in */etc/profile.d/*

[arch-general] Fwd: Re: GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-12-23 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 07/12/2016 17:25, Giovanni Santini ha scritto: > Il 29/11/2016 10:49, David Phillips ha scritto: >> >> I'm not familiar with GRUB anymore, but it sounds like perhaps the file >> bootmgfw.efi has not been signed with a key that is trusted by your board's >> SecureBoot feature. Hence, booting

Re: [arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-12-07 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 29/11/2016 10:49, David Phillips ha scritto: > > I'm not familiar with GRUB anymore, but it sounds like perhaps the file > bootmgfw.efi has not been signed with a key that is trusted by your board's > SecureBoot feature. Hence, booting with SB enabled causes a load failure > while booting

Re: [arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-11-30 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Il 29/11/2016 10:49, David Phillips ha scritto: > > I'm not familiar with GRUB anymore, but it sounds like perhaps the file > bootmgfw.efi has not been signed with a key that is trusted by your board's > SecureBoot feature. Hence, booting with SB enabled causes a load failure > while booting

[arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot

2016-11-28 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
Good afternoon, I have been using GRUB for a long time, but I'm having a strange issue. My setup consists of ArchLinux as main OS and Windows 10 and Ubuntu 12.04 as secondary OSes. Turning up Secure Boot in my firmware options results in such an error when chainloading Windows: /EndEntire file

Re: [arch-general] RetroArch refuses to go back into windowed mode after fullscreen

2016-06-09 Thread Giovanni Santini via arch-general
You should check if there is some difference between the two kconfig. (Sorry for top post, GMail from Android doesn't allow me an easy reply if not top posting) --- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://github.com/ItachiSan My code, again: