Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-31 Thread Andy Pieters
On Sat, 31 Aug 2024 at 11:32, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2024-08-31 at 10:12 +0200, Zerro wrote: > > Is your display manager still active when that happens ? > > I have that too sometimes with LightDM though with kernel > > 6.10.6.arch1-1. > > Hi, > > the problem seems to occur completely rand

Re: Password security (was: Changed password on Arch, now ssh cannot connect - "Connection refused")

2024-08-29 Thread Andy Pieters
On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 11:09, Edward Toroshchyn wrote: > > Instead, the modern recommendation is to use two-factor authentication and > to implement password blacklists. > > Of course, this is primarily important for managing multiple user > environments, and if you feel like you should change yo

Re: /usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)

2024-08-12 Thread Andy Pieters
I would like to share my perspective. The practice of programming by combining and building upon code that others have written is fundamental to the ethos of open source and collaboration in general, whether in public or private projects. It is not a mark against anyone that they haven’t written e

Re: this happens with pacman too

2024-07-30 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 19:09, Jude DaShiell wrote: > :: Synchronizing package databases... > snip > ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so is empty, not checked. > snip Apologies for the obvious, but is there enough room in the partition where /usr/lib resides?

Re: Plasma upgrade from 5 to 6

2024-07-25 Thread Andy Pieters
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 at 09:27, Paul Dann wrote: Glad you got your system back up and running :) It may be worth instead adding this to your initramfs for early loading. This is mentioned on the wiki[1], but not really in reference to your problem, so it's not surprising if you missed it. [1]

Plasma upgrade from 5 to 6

2024-07-19 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi all I have finally gotten round to updating my rolling release installation after a long delay. One of the final cycles in this catch-up [1] pulled in an upgrade from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 Some things stopped working for me after that and I want to share with you what and how I solved them. 1

Re: ipset v7.21 update - package stop / start exits with failure - but ipset is still running?

2024-05-16 Thread Andy Pieters
On Thu, 16 May 2024 at 21:45, David C. Rankin wrote: > Devs, > >ipset was updated after a recent minor bug with save was fixed. The > updated > package was installed today. Restarting fails with an error code due to: > > May 16 14:14:31 valkyrie ipset[62200]: ipset v7.21: Set cannot be > dest

Re: pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo password

2024-04-12 Thread Andy Pieters
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 at 13:53, Martin Rys wrote: > > It's common practice to not give an attacker more info than needed > > Which does not necessitate LYING to the user. > > I think we're a bit over-reacting here. I've fallen foul of this myself also, trying to log into my X not realising that my

Re: Package java-environment-common-3-5 installs incorrect symlinks

2024-04-09 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 21:13, Wouffy The Dog wrote: > Hello, I was cleaning my machine, trying to find broken symlinks. I > scanned my `/bin` directory with `find -L /bin/ -type l -ls`, and it found > broken links installed by `java-environment-common` (`pacman -Qqo > /bin/javah` for example). Is

Re: No graphical interface

2024-02-20 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 at 16:43, pete wrote: > > Right this is going to be done the hard way typed by hand > > if both computers are on your LAN, I think it may be more beneficial to you to set up / use SSH On both machines, check / install SSH: pacman -Q openssh || pacman -S openssh on the machi

Re: Python warnings still

2024-01-05 Thread Andy Pieters
> On Fri, 2024-01-05 at 21:45 +, pete wrote: > > Hi folks . > > > I am still getting plagued by these Python warnings > > warning: could not get file information for > usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr > ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/... > > > > Can I ask also if: * you

Re: Plasma application dump

2023-12-20 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 02:14, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Where can I report the crashes/back trace/core dump to help those > projects? Should it be arch bug tracker or upstream? > > For these coredumps to be useful one typically has got to have the debugging versions installed. You can g

Fwd: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2

2023-08-15 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 13:22, pete wrote: > Makes me wonder what desktops asre being used KDE /Plasma here KDE for > years > from the early days mian problems i had were when i had a look at Gnome > the FF > started being unruley runnin 116.0.2 on Arch here fully updated no > issues > > try u

Re: systemd 254 - How will we disable soft-reboot?

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Pieters
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 at 12:38, Simon Perry wrote: > On 2023-08-03 08:24 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > > I have no need for a soft-reboot that will cause issues with > > dual-booting and kernel updates. > > > > Anybody know if, and how we will be able to do it? > > even if there is no such switch,

Re: Arch linux installing process

2023-07-18 Thread Andy Pieters
On Tue, 18 Jul 2023 at 14:43, Source Code wrote: I wanna ask you, that how many size I can choose for Linux x86-64 root and Linux file system? Respectfully can I point you to the installation guides [1] [2]? [1] https://itsfoss.com/install-arch-linux/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/instal

Re: Scanner does not work in Arch Linux but works in Ubuntu VM

2023-06-15 Thread Andy Pieters
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 16:29, Björn Försterling wrote: > Thank you, I found out that there is a hplip package in the extra > repository. > > sudo pacman -S hplip > > And it works. > > Hi Björn Perhaps you can add a few words about your success to the wiki page: [1] Thank you [1] https://wiki

Reiserfs weirdness

2023-06-03 Thread Andy Pieters
Hello everyone I just wanted to share some weirdness with you. I have done a full system update (it has been a while FYI, maybe 2 months) My filesystems: / ext4 /var reiserfs /home ext4 /mnt/test btrfs /mtn/old jfs After the upgrade, I reboot my system. It falls on its face a

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-24 Thread Andy Pieters
On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < spen...@spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six weeks > after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it started > locking up randomly. I can't see anything obvious

Re: Help debugging random lockups

2023-05-24 Thread Andy Pieters
> > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < > spen...@spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six >> weeks after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it >> started locking up randomly. I can't see any

Re: What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest on Arch Linux in Virtualbox?

2023-05-04 Thread Andy Pieters
> On Thu, 4 May 2023 at 08:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7. I do not like to say the solution to the problem with program x is to use program y, but if you can at all, I would suggest running an esxi server and running it unde

Re: Is a tool available to check the integrity of copied files?

2023-04-15 Thread Andy Pieters
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 at 21:17, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2023-04-15 at 12:47 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > Could it have a store of power, e.g. capacitor, which takes a while to > > discharge. :-) > > No! An electrolytic capacitor that holds enough charge, is way larger > than an USB stick

Re: linux headers

2023-03-20 Thread Andy Pieters
On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 11:00, Genes Lists wrote: > On 3/20/23 06:44, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: > > Please don't top post on mailing lists. > > > Honestly, my best advice to you is stop trying to build kernels. > > Hmm the saying to give a person a fish feeds them for a day, teach them how to fish a

Re: Driver for Nvidia Geforce GTX 760

2023-03-18 Thread Andy Pieters
On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 at 15:39, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:27:49 + > Andy Pieters wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I'm trying to upgrade my 5.18.10 system and the DKMS build is failing for > > my NVIDIA driver. > > They have already provide

Driver for Nvidia Geforce GTX 760

2023-03-18 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi I'm trying to upgrade my 5.18.10 system and the DKMS build is failing for my NVIDIA driver. To debug it I have tried to compile the driver separately out of DKMS, but the issue that keeps coming up with the new kernel (6.2.6) is [1] Sadly, though, my card cannot run a more recent version of t

Re: Microphone is not working with Microsoft Teams

2023-03-13 Thread Andy Pieters
Hi Don't want to just add noise saying "it works for me", but ... I use pulseaudio and teams-1.5.00 Sometimes the microphone doesn't work, but what I do then is: * restart the application * go in the settings of teams and choose Devices then Make a test call Rince repeat until it works.

Re: About the wiki's CAPTCHA system

2023-01-21 Thread Andy Pieters
On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 15:17, m...@foxt.dev wrote: > The current CAPTCHA system fails every one of those requirements, I'd > suggest either using a more common captcha type (such as Google > reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha or a generic maths challenge), switching to more > human friendly, easily Googleable,

Re: Keyboard layout does not persist in /etc/vconsole.conf

2023-01-06 Thread Andy Pieters
> > On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 10:52 +0100, Uwe Sauter wrote: > > Did you recreate the initrd? > > > > mkinitcpio -p linux > > I do not remember that being a requirement. When was this introduced and is it documented? (apologise for my indolence)

Re: [arch-general] Fixed (hopefully)

2022-08-19 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022 at 14:28, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Can highly recommend 2FA/MFA. > As long as you remember, it is meant to complement security, not make unsafe passwords safer. This is not a rant towards any particular person, just a re

Re: [arch-general] In pacman view, -debug package doesn't depends on its non -debug package

2022-05-25 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 17:26, u34--- via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Am I right the new -debug packages do not depend, pacman wise, on their > binary, non -debug packages? By that I mean pacman --upgrade somepkg-debug > will sucsseed even when somepkg is not installed

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-01-24 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 at 15:50, Genes Lists via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > It's hard to know for sure exactly what's happening, as the server is > > headless. It does have a KVM-over-IP hooked up to it, though. But when > > Perhaps you can login after server is b

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD - clamav 0.103.4 - source .tar.gz downloads fine, .tar.gz.sig is 403? (same with Arch package)

2021-11-20 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 16:25, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ curl --user-agent archlinux -L " > https://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz"; > --output 1_Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz > % Tota

Re: [arch-general] popa3d service file

2021-11-20 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 16:08, Paul M. Foster via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Folks: > > I've installed the popa3d POP server for my LAN from the AUR. i can > launch it as a daemon from the command line, but it would be better if I > could have systemd do it. Unfortuna

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD - clamav 0.103.4 - source .tar.gz downloads fine, .tar.gz.sig is 403? (same with Arch package)

2021-11-20 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 13:22, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 13:11:41 +0100, Andreas Bosch via arch-general > wrote: > >Am 20.11.21 um 12:10 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-general: > >> The "http://search.cpan.org/"; issue still isn't

Re: [arch-general] About tty

2021-11-08 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 16:21, Philippe Delavalade via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with > error code. > See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xeu > mariadb.service" for details. > nov.

Re: [arch-general] google-chrome/chromium and youtube "app"?

2021-07-16 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 21:57, René Neumann wrote: > Hi Andy, > > not a solution, but a hint to gather further infos: > > - use `xprop` to find infos about the window in question. Among other > things, this gives you a PID > > I figured it out. I Still don't know why it didn't show in any of the

Re: [arch-general] Xorg segfault when using electron application and second monitor

2021-07-12 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Mon, 12 Jul 2021 at 17:34, LuKaRo via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > $ rocketchat-desktop > > This won't solve your electron problem, but rocketchat is available without electron in Aur as rocketchat-client-bin[1] [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=rock

[arch-general] google-chrome/chromium and youtube "app"?

2021-07-12 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
Hi all Every so often, when a notification pops up from youtube and I click on it in the plasma's notification area, a separate youtube player window opens. This separate window looks like a chrome app. However, I cannot find this app in my list of chrome apps. No youtube extension or youtube a

Re: [arch-general] when keys are not updated

2021-06-23 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 16:33, Jude DaShiell via arch-general < arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Is pacman -S archlinux-keyring one of the first post-installation notes > for archlinux? If not, that could maybe help those new to archlinux. > > > I don't think that's even necessary anymor

[arch-general] graylog

2021-04-27 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
Hi Apologies for off-topic discussion, but does anyone have any hints as to where I would ask for help to convert a single node graylog server into a 3-node graylog cluster without causing downtime or losing data. Many thanks Andy

[arch-general] Resume from sleep doesn't work any more

2021-03-08 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
Hi all As per the subject, Arch goes nicely to sleep, but waking up goes wrong. I see the entries in the dmesg logs: [32990.466213] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.466250] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32

Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux OVH end of support

2021-02-08 Thread Andy Pieters via arch-general
> Seems that Arch Linux will be unsupported in OVH [1] maybe a big > warning should be added on the wiki [2], especially considering that > the contract with OVH is usually signed for one year. > > > They refer to their bring your own image guide [1] So Arch can still be used on new machines it se