component and there may be people who use this
to surf the internet, in my opinion new versions should be packaged with the
same priority as Firefox packages. The only alternative would be to drop the
package at all.
Yours
Manuel Reimer
Paul Marwick wrote:
If you're concerned, you could do what I do - download the build information
from the ABS and build it yourself. A bit of minor editing of the PKGBUILD is
required, and the build takes a while (around and hour twenty minutes on my
CoreDuo laptop), but that is it...
Sorry,
Hello,
I have a reproducible problem with virtualbox on my system. To find out which
version was the first one that causes those problems for me, I want to build
virtualbox on my own and step back until the problem no longer exists.
I've checked out the community PKGBUILD's using git.
If I
Hello,
with the last update of the Archlinux keyring package, I got a few errors like
the following one:
usr/bin/pacman-key: line 615: printf: write error: Broken pipe
Is this a known bug or can this be ignored?
Yours
Manuel Reimer
Hello,
if I access one of my systems via ssh and try to use vi there, then
it immediately returns with exit status 1.
System is an up-to-date 32bit ArchLinux system.
I've attached the strace output of my try to run vi to this mail.
Can someone see there what could have happened?
Hello,
I already flagged the packages out of date, but maybe other people are
interested, too, that there is a known security hole in udisks/udisks2,
which has been fixed upstream with new releases:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2014-March/001568.html
Greetings,
Manuel
Jelle van der Waa jelle at vdwaa.nl writes:
FYI: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-
March/025952.html
Thank you for this information.
Am I allowed to ask gmane.org to add this list to their archive? This
would really help me to get access to this list.
Greetings,
Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org writes:
I quickly went over to gmane and requested subscription of arch-security
to gmane, so there is nothing left but to wait.
I hope you didn't request readonly as, if I'm registered to the list with
the mail address, I use from the gmane webinterface,
Hello,
I use gummiboot to boot my Notebook. So far all kernel updates worked
well and I never got any problems, but for some reason the update to
3.14.5 now causes my system to no longer boot up.
Can someone help me to find the reason for the problem and to get my
Notebook to boot up again?
On 06/03/2014 05:16 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
To recover your machine:
1) Boot from Arch ISO. I always have an USB pan with Arch image and
found it useful for emergency cases.
2) Find your system partitions. Use 'lsblk' for this
3) mount your system partition, e.g. 'mkdir system; mount /dev/sda1
On 06/03/2014 05:11 PM, André Vitor wrote:
Try booting in legacy/bios mode. Inside system, try just recompiling kernel
from official pkgbuild.
In my HP laptop, some kernels just refuses to boot in UEFI mode, hanging in
kernel loading (directly or from any bootloader, as refind). Recompiling
Hello,
can someone reproduce the following on an Intel GPU with Firefox 33 and
Flash?
If I open a website with Flash media, then the plugin loads (the
context menu is the one that gets created by Adobe Flash) but I can't
see anything. The area, where the animation should be is just white.
On 10/18/2014 05:19 PM, A Rojas wrote:
Manuel Reimer wrote:
Hello,
can someone reproduce the following on an Intel GPU with Firefox 33 and
Flash?
If I open a website with Flash media, then the plugin loads (the
context menu is the one that gets created by Adobe Flash) but I can't
see anything
Hello,
today, pacman asked me to import a new signature key. So far this was
done automatically using a keys-package, which, itself, was signed
with a trusted key.
How is the new mechanism secured? Is the new way, to bring keys to
users, prone to MITM attacks?
Thanks in advance.
Manuel
On 02/12/2015 03:46 AM, Genes Lists wrote:
Just FYI in case anyone else gets flaky behaviour. Be interesting to
know for those that said 'n' to the import - if they got asked a second
time or not.
Yes, you get asked a second time.
Manuel
Hello,
since the last systemd update I have to systemctl restart dhcpcd@...
every time I boot my system.
What do I have to do to get sure that dhcpcd updates /etc/resolv.conf on
the first time?
Thanks in advance
Manuel
Hello,
today, I tried to update my laptop to KDE 5.5.
The first problem, I've found, is, that it seems to be impossible to
configure SDDM. The option is there in "System Settings", but nothing opens.
Then, I connected my TV screen to the HDMI port of my laptop and tried
dual-screen setup.
I've been searching a little more and found it:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47995
On 02/02/2016 06:41 PM, Manuel Reimer wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently developing a usermode input driver using uinput.
While doing this, I've found some "ugly" behaviour.
If I do getfacl from my re
Hello,
I'm currently developing a usermode input driver using uinput.
While doing this, I've found some "ugly" behaviour.
If I do getfacl from my regular user, I get:
$ getfacl /dev/uinput
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: dev/uinput
# owner: root
# group: root
Hello,
is this a known bug or do only I have this issue?
Since the last system update, I no longer have any icons in emacs. The
toolbar is just empty.
Thanks in advance.
Manuel
On 04/10/2016 04:24 PM, Ondřej Kučera wrote:
it's already been reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48862. The
same happens to me but I have the toolbar disabled in my configuration
anyway, so I don't really care much.
Thanks for verifying. I'll try to downgrade a few things that could
Hello,
I hope someone can reproduce this one and can point me to some bug report.
I'm using the closed source Nvidia driver and a default Gnome installation.
Since the last update, the following happens:
Usually Gnome runs two X servers. One on ":0" and one on ":1". The last
one is the one,
Hello,
I've freshly downloaded the ISO from the Arch Linux homepage and burned
with:
# cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -dao PATH_TO_ISO
Booting from this hangs with waiting for some /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH...
device. After waiting for this I get to some kind of "recovery console"
missing most
On 11/13/2016 06:10 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Most likely nothing requires geoclue...
$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/geoclue.devhelp2
$ pacman -Qi geoclue geoclue2 | grep "Required By"
if so remove it
# pacman -R geoclue
This solved my problem.
Thank you to everyone for the
Hello,
I am currently trying to update my system, but this fails with the
following messages:
geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/geoclue.devhelp2 exists in
filesystem
geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/home.png exists in filesystem
geoclue2:
On 08/11/2017 12:20 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Much likely nvidia and nvidia-dkms, however perhaps other packages.
Interesting to see that there actually is a DKMS package for that.
So everything, I would have to do, is to somehow get the DKMS package
for the 381 driver and install it?
Hello,
I never did this before, but on one of my systems, I'm affected by:
https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/1020399/
Can someone please give me some hints about what steps I have to do to
downgrade the driver without touching the kernel version?
Which packages need downgrading?
Hello,
I want to autobuild a set of packages. For this process, it is not
acceptable to use "sudo" as I don't want to enter some passwords and my
autobuild program also has to do some other stuff with root privileges.
The help page of "makechrootpkg" suggests, that there is an option for me:
On 12/22/2017 02:16 PM, Óscar García Amor wrote:
# su - user -c "command"
In this case:
# su - user -c "makechrootpkg -c -r /var/cache/PATH_TO_MY_CHROOT"
Yes, of course, but then "makechrootpkg" at some point wants to call
"pacman" which will fail or will cause some unwanted sudo prompt to
On 12/22/2017 02:26 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
AFAIK this should work fine, for its intended goal. Though I don't think
it gets a lot of testing.
Question is: What is the intended goal. I guess it is not what I want to do?
makechrootpkg elevates to root if needed, using sudo.
On 12/22/2017 03:17 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote:
Well, so far you said you want to autobuild some packages and that it
MUST run
as root, with no good reason why.
I have a set of PKGBUILD's (around 40) and a self-made "build system":
http://repo-make.tuxfamily.org/
The
On 16.06.19 17:57, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
As a matter of fact, if you use clean chroot builds
then you possibly don't want to copy your private key to the chroot, and
anyway there have IIRC been bugs with signing in a chroot, so the
devtools scripts do not do signing in the chroot
On 24.06.19 18:00, mpan wrote:
If you’re using a password manager, you should not care about the
password being “too long”. After all it’s not you who type it. Go for 16
or 20 random chars.
If the key is too complicated to remember or to type in manually, then I
have to use a password
On 17.06.19 18:18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
That being said, it's possible to configure sudo to run makechrootpkg,
but only makechrootpkg, as root. Or run SUDO_USER=... SUDO_UID=...
makechrootpkg.
I've tried several times to just launch makechrootpkg with root
privileges directly.
Hello,
I want to publish a package repository with some packages that I need
and only want to build once for all my systems.
I want to make the packages available for general use. I have server
space for that so I only have to rsync my final repo to my server after
compiling my packages.
On 21.09.19 12:51, Jesse Jaara via arch-general wrote:
I've updated my laptop now, too. Again nothing at all when dropping
application icons onto some other application icon...
Am I doing it wrong???
Manuel
You did restart gnome after updating, did you?
Several times.
Hello,
I've updated Gnome just now.
3.34 should have the new "app folders" feature by just dragging
application icons onto each other.
This doesn't work for me.
Is there some build error on Arch? Why is this feature missing?
Thanks in advance
Manuel
Hello,
I run a repository locally that I would like to share to the public.
The build is mostly automated. That's why I don't want to sign each
individual package. The private key is not stored on the build machine
and I want to sign the resulting stuff externally.
The easiest way would be
On 20.09.19 14:34, Rafael Fontenelle wrote:
Hello,
It works here. Please check whether you have gnome-shell
1:3.34.0+94+g3d86e6e79-1 installed. Also, notice that the created app
folder might move somewhere else in the list of apps: I have 8 pages
of apps and the folder went to another page to
On 21.08.20 22:23, Manuel Reimer wrote:
A diff between the actuall file and its ".pacnew":
$ diff -U 8 -p 00-dns.sh 00-dns.sh.pacnew
--- 00-dns.sh 2013-05-30 19:35:30.0 +0200
+++ 00-dns.sh.pacnew 2020-02-20 22:37:04.0 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
On 21.08.20 22:09, Morten Linderud via arch-general wrote:
There are more ".pacnew" in my /etc. All for files that I never touched
myself.
That is concerning, but it is simply something touching those files you are
unaware of. It's however you system and it's expected that you are aware of
.
Manuel
On 19.08.20 21:07, Josef Miegl wrote:
This can only happen if you or another program modified the original file.
Josef Miegl
On August 19, 2020 9:02:12 PM GMT+02:00, Manuel Reimer
wrote:
Hello,
I know that Arch is not for the "average user" and some background
knowl
Hello,
I know that Arch is not for the "average user" and some background
knowledge is expected, but this was the first time I needed a boot stick
since I think at least one year.
Some minutes ago I did a regular system update and after that decided to
reboot. After reboot I was unable to
Hello,
I want to occasionally run Linux on a system which was set up with
Windows 10 with Bitlocker enabled.
Disabling secure boot for Linux and reenabling it when booting into
Windows starts to get annoying.
So my idea was to just use "preloader" and add it to the chain of EFI
binaries
On 09.11.20 17:27, Jens John wrote:
Just don't bother with Arch's release cycle and use Mozilla's build, either
directly (with auto updates) or through
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thunderbird-bin/.
That's what I did not. I uninstalled the thunderbird package completely
and used
On 08.11.20 07:18, Archange via arch-general wrote:
anthraxx did update the PKGBUILD and we are testing the build but currently for
instance I’m unable to decrypt messages using the external GnuPG feature
(reported upstream), and there is also a build issue with system bzip2 (I used
the
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