Hi,
After a `pacman -Su', I run this ~/bin/oldpkg script
#! /bin/sh
sudo lsof -n +c0 |
sed -n '1{p;d}; /DEL/{p;d}; / (deleted)$/{p;d}' |
g -v '
/(SYSV|dev/shm/org\.chromium\...|memfd:pulseaudio|tmp/#[0-9]{5,7})\>'
|
sed '1{h; d}; 2{x; G}'
to show open files tha
Hi Eli,
> Maybe you could ask the coreutils developers whatever happened to
> implementing Keccak checksumming tools.
SHA-3? Have you see
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2017/05/31/skipsha3.html
I've also seen suggestions that the Keccak team push Kangaroo Twelve
these days over SHA-3 due to SHA-
Hi Jeanette,
> is there a tool in the Arch repositories, including AUR, that can
> access a thesaurus like mythes from the commandline?
Package dictd offers dict(1) that can talk to a set of online
dictionaries that include a thesaurus using the RFC'd DICT protocol, but
not MyThes.
dict -d m
Hi Bill,
> I just updated one of my computer to 4.16.9. After update, the following
> nft commands will not work:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nftables/ says
Flagged out-of-date on 2018-05-11
Version 1:0.8.5-1 in testing
so perhaps that new version would help?
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Chee
Hi Maykel,
> $ source /etc/environment
> ip="$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f
> 1)"
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Environment_variables#Globally says
/etc/environment doesn't take code, just simple assignments.
Also see pam_env(8) and the rest of t
Hi Maykel,
> Put file /etc/profile.d/ip.sh with the content:
>
> ip="$(ifconfig | grep -A 1 'eth0' | tail -1 | cut -d ':' -f 2 | cut -d ' ' -f
> 1)"
To debug this kind of thing, e.g. to see if it even runs, intersperse
tee(1)s to files that can be inspected afterwards.
ip="$(ifconfig | tee
Hi Maykel,
> I need define variable called ip with current ip address machine...
> And when reboot machine, the variable ip always has ip address.
Yes, I think we all figured that bit out. :-)
But why; what's going to be using that IP-address environment variable,
and when?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi David,
> This is new, after the latest pacman update along with 4.6.13, when
> running
> $ pacman -Qi somepackage
> for the first time it takes 15 seconds for any response.
I've always found it sluggish if its data isn't cached in RAM.
`vmstat 1' shows one core is pegged out waiting for I/
Hi David,
Leonid wrote:
> > kate open the files via the sftp kioslave (or whatever it is called
> > now)
> >
> > For some reason, now when I open remote projects on the server, the
> > first 15 or so files open without issue. Anything over that fails
> > with a connection error
>
> MaxSessions an
Hi,
This morning's `pacman -Su' encountered
(10/13) upgrading mlocate [##] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/lib/mlocate/ filesystem: 750
package: 755
(11/13) upgrading xkeyboard-config [##] 100%
when upgrading fro
Hi Tinu,
> > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/mlocate#n58
> > seems to take care that /var/lib/locate is 750 on line 58, but
> > that's `locate', not `mlocate', so perhaps `mlocate' needs a similar
> > set up?
>
> I don't quite see the relation between
Hi Giovanni,
> I have set up properly the default browser within LXDE
How did you do this? What is the default browser?
> Error: $HOME/$URL: Not existing file or directory
> Where $HOME is my home path and $URL is the target URL.
A specific example would be useful. Does opening https://google
Hi David,
> The left-mouse click seems to be taken as an escape closing the menu
> without actually selecting anything. It is as if the left-mouse (and
> cursor position in general) isn't seen at all (there is no highlight
> in the menu when the mouse moves over an item)
xev(1) from package xorg-
Good afternoon Franz,
> ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
> Nothing to scan!!
>
> The device looks to me recognised and initialised but don't get w_scan
> a channel list.
Get connected to a better antenna, or move the current one to a better
location? I presume you
Hi Bjoern,
> > I'm trying to create a systemd timer for a user to run duply daily.
> > For one user the enabled worked fine, but another one:
> >
> > systemctl --user enable backup.timer
> > Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
Are you truly logged in as this second user fo
Hi Bjoern,
> > Are you truly logged in as this second user for whom it does not
> > work, or just su(1)'d, etc?
>
> Erm, just used "sudo -u user2 -s" to login as user2. I assumed
> spawning an own zsh as user2 would do the right thing.
It doesn't here. As UID 1000 logged into an XFCE desktop via
Hi David,
> After the latest update to openssh 7.7p1-2
What version didn't have the problem? For example, /var/log/pacman.log
should help determine you were running 7.6p1-2 for a while without the
issue.
> (it's a pilot thing, every time
> I'm watching something with an interest in the time is
Hi Peter,
> As a user, I'm not familiar with Arch Linux bug tracker - where do I
> find it?
At the top of Google's results for `Arch Linux bug tracker'. :-)
https://bugs.archlinux.org/
You should also read
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reporting_bug_guidelines
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Cheers, Ralph.
https:
Hi Peter,
> I cannot find the error message from the service again, sorry, so I
> cannot tell You, it had to do with some security parameter not set.
It might be in journalctl(1)'s output.
> According to the description of kernel downgrading in the wiki, I
> should have downgraded linux-headers,
Hi Peter,
> BTW, I'm usually not working with tar.xz files and the list option
> doesn't work as expected
It works as we expect. You need to show precisely what you did.
Search for `list' in tar(1) and you'll find `--list'. Most users do
`tar tvf foo.tar.xz' for a verbose listing.
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Cheers,
> Hi Peter,
> > > I cannot find the error message from the service again, sorry, so
> > > I cannot tell You, it had to do with some security parameter not
> > > set.
> >
> > It might be in journalctl(1)'s output.
>
> Sorry, cannot find that. :-/
You have no `journalctl' command, or using it does
Hi Peter,
> Jul 22 09:41:48 tuchola systemd-modules-load[330]: Failed to lookup
> alias 'crypto_user': Function not implemented
What's in /usr/lib/modules-load.d ?
Is there something pulling in `crypto_user'?
What package owns that file? `pacman -Qo foo'.
> Nope. Only "[PACMAN] Running 'pacman
Hi Peter,
> > > alias 'crypto_user': Function not implemented
> >
> > What's in /usr/lib/modules-load.d ?
>
> Only bluez.conf
OK, and...
> > Is there something pulling in `crypto_user'?
...what's in the file? And...
> > What package owns that file? `pacman -Qo foo'.
I think therein lies you
Hi Peter,
> Checked .config in linux-headers-4.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz (latest
> version I could find in the archive)
Search more carefully.
$ seq 9 10 | sort
10
9
$
$ curl -sSg https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/l/linux/ |
> egrep -o '\ sort -V | uniq -c |
> pr -t3
Hi David,
> I'm having some weird problems with ipv6 on my box.
It'll never catch on. :-)
> but w3m via ipv6 doesn't:
> [darose@darsys12 ~]$ w3m -6 -dump ipv6.google.com
> ... hangs forever ...
I suspect the difference between how well your network/ISP is copying
with TCP and UDP; HTTP connect
Hi Ralf,
Eli wrote:
> > It's a hint that not every user likes 'auto-key-retrieve', but
> > instead only manually retrieve keys, if it makes sense to the user
> > to retrieve a key.
Thanks, I found it on topic, given Peter explicitly mentioned the
option, and very helpful. I've added a note to th
Hi Ralf,
> I didn't read all related Wiki pages, but seemingly non, including
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/makepkg mention Eli's hint, to
> use
>
> echo 'GNUPGHOME="$HOME"/.gnupg-makepkg' >> "$HOME"/.config/pacman/makepkg.conf
>
> Fortunately the manpage does.
>
> $ man makepkg | grep GN
Hi Mike,
cyelae wrote:
> I'm not sure about the auth part given my little experience with it,
> but if you're going to log into a server via RDP, can't you simply
> have your lightweight machine automatically open a default session
> [1], connect to the windows server, and authenticate users there
Hi David,
> Foxtrot Mike wrote:
> > I want to use the Arch system as a Remote Desktop node. The Arch
> > system would use a login manager (such as lightdm) to authenticate
> > users from Windows Domain. Once the user has been authenticated, the
> > system is supposed to automatically open a RDP co
Hi Mike,
> How can I automatically detect that FreeRDP session has been closed so
> that I can run a small Zenity script?
Well, a script is probably being run, just like a .xinitrc might be,
and instead of its normal
xclock &
xbiff &
xterm &
exec twm
to start a bunch of X client
Hi Eli,
> > > Fortunately the manpage does.
> > >
> > > $ man makepkg | grep GNUPGHOME
> > >GNUPGHOME="/path/to/directory"
> >
> > It mentions that environment variable, defined by gpg(1), but
> > makepkg.conf(5) says
> >
> > Configuration options for makepkg are stored in makepkg.co
Hi Eli,
> Yes, clearly jumping down the throat of anyone who dares mention they
> use such an option is super useful, because "it's fair game, they
> mentioned the option".
Peter mentioned auto-key-retrieve and in return got
Note, auto-key-retrieve means that any software automatically will
Hi Eli,
> I'll ignore zsh on the grounds that no one *actually* writes programs
> in zsh...
No, true. But tcl(1) has `source filename'. :-)
> Patches welcome!
...
> (and, coincidentally, a sneaky way to trick people into becoming
> contributors :D).
Quite right, I need to get better organised
Hi Tyler,
> With the dual-monitor setup I'm struggling to understand the panning
> option. I have looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr
> and the man file and still couldn't figure that track x track y part
> out. It's not very easy to understand.
Have a look at the RRSetPanning
Hi Tyler,
> $ export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP1=2;DP1=1
> $ env |grep QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR
> QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=eDP1=2
>
> seems DP1=1 lost it's setting.
Others have pointed out the flaw, but to investigate next time,
`set -x' is useful.
$ set -x
$ export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS
Hi David,
> (I'm definitely not an expert in networking)
/me too.
> it looks like I'm having some packets dropped -
> but again I have no idea why (or where)?
You have some `Len=1220', and the others are multiples.
This suggests your network card is merging packets together before
they're passe
Hi,
I've an Asus C200M Chromebook with coreboot and TianoCore UEFI newly
flashed. Today was spent working through the wiki to have it EFISTUB
boot a kernel in ESP. The disk has a ESP partition, and a root
partition that's LUKS dmcrypt'd. (All this is new to me.)
I used efibootmgr(8) to add a b
Hi David,
> > Cron run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> >
> > run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly: Exec format
> > error
> > run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly exited with return code 1
> >
> > The cron job is:
> >
> > /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly
> >
> > # runs
Hi Eli,
> I would think that emulating the well-known behavior of "for actual
> shell scripts which do not have shebangs, try using /bin/sh if no
> interpreter is detected" would be a reasonable thing to do.
It would be nice if that died out, just as the `first char is ':'
v. '#'' test in the day
Hi David,
> Eli wrote:
> > Is there some wonderful shebang in the "avantfax_hourly" file which
> > says "execute this script as a cron executable"?
>
> Yes, of course it does,
>
> $ head -n 2 /srv/http/avantfax/includes/phb.php
`avantfax_hourly' != `phb.php'.
> At this point the issue is moot.
Hi Ralf,
> > check out palemoon.org
>
> Chances are good, that on a system were Firefox fails, that Pale Moon
> fails, too. I dislike to recommend a replacement browser for another
> browser, however...
I'm a long-time Firefox user that upgrades packages most days and
haven't had any problems wit
Hi David,
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 0 Aug 30 2015 /var/log/clamav/clamd.log
...
> and the only permissions needed to stat a file is read permission.
The permissions of clamd.log are ignored when stat(2)ing it. One can
stat a `chmod 0' file. What matters is execute permission on the four
Hi,
Ismael wrote:
> > Find changed configurations:
> >
> > sudo find /etc -type f -regextype egrep -regex '.*(pacnew|pacsave)'
> >
> > Diff them (individually):
> >
> > sudo vimdiff /path/to/original /path/to/original.pacnew
>
> Note that pacdiff (from pacman-contrib package) does that in a
Hi,
This morning's `pacman -Su' had a problem building the fallback initcpio
image for 4.14.79-1-lts. Yesterday's /var/log/pacman.log shows
[2018-11-06 10:45] [ALPM] upgraded linux-lts (4.14.78-1 -> 4.14.79-1)
[2018-11-06 10:45] [ALPM] running '60-linux-lts.hook'...
[2018-11-06 10:45
Hi Eli,
> $ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/initcpio/
> /usr/lib/initcpio/ is owned by archiso 39-1
...
Thanks, it hadn't occurred to me to use -Qo on a directory before.
> Well, the log only contains a copy of the output from the hook which
> you can look up after the fact, so it definitely won't have *mor
Hi leoutation,
> > This morning's `pacman -Su' had a problem building the fallback
> > initcpio
>
> Right command is pacman -Syu
Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free
bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the keyboard
and it's a convenient time fo
Hi Eli,
> > Not in my case as I've previously done a `pacman -Syuw' during `free
> > bandwidth' hours, thanks to cron. Later on, when I'm at the
> > keyboard and it's a convenient time for breakage, I upgrade to
> > what's already been downloaded manually and definitely don't want
> > `-y'. :-)
Hi Eli,
> Dangerous is when you break your system by installing incompatible
> packages via a "successful" partial update.
Ah, right. I `pacman -S foo'. foo depends on libbar. libbar 1.0 is
already installed because xyzzy needs it. The earlier `pacman -Syuw'
updated the local database to know
Hi David,
> > "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact
> > mail...@lists.archlinux.org." - https://lists.archlinux.org/
>
> I guess a more useful /dev/null address could be put there, as we can
> assume, that the default mailman@ mailing list is either deactivated
> or doesn't ex
Hi,
Having spotted
warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave
during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub afterwards
expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist. `pacman -Ql grub'
showed grub doesn't own anything in /boot. Google led me to
htt
Hi Eli,
> I am in the gradual process of hopefully fixing all this via rewriting
> the wiki page for grub. My current progress towards this end can be
> seen at
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Eschwartz/Grub#Configuration
Interesting. My grub.cfg is from grub-mkconfig(8) and I'd much
Hi Eli,
> > Having spotted
> >
> > warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave
> >
> > during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub
> > afterwards expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist.
> > `pacman -Ql grub' showed grub doesn't own anything
Hi Peter,
> how can I find all the files owned by some user or group (in
> preparation to delete the user/group)?
find(1).
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Find#Essentials
sudo find /start1 /start2 \( -user foo -o -group bar \) -ls
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Cheers, Ralph.
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Hi Mark,
> Claws is claiming that pop.gmail.com is sending an invalid certificate
> whenever Claws tries to connect to fetch mail.
...
> New certificate:
> Owner:
> Name: invalid2.invalid
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/openssl-1-1-1-upgrade-breaks-fetchmail-with-g
Hi Peter,
> why can't I access the directory?
>
> $ sudo LANG=C ls -l /run/user/1000
> ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied
Because gvfs has been brain-damaged for over a decade and should be
nuked from orbit.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/227724
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C
Hi Peter,
> But I need it to access the filesystem of my Android phone!?
> Or are there alternatives?
There seem to be lots.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android#Transferring_files
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Media_Transfer_Protocol
A user here just mount(8)s IIRC, using an fsta
Hi David,
Robin wrote:
> > Is there anything else needed other than daemon-reexec when there is
> > an update to systemd itself?
>
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/systemd.install?h=packages/systemd#n80
You might be interested in what running process have deleted files
Hi David,
> Most of the Arch systems I have running are servers, so it is fairly
> easy just to scan the upgrade list and note which applications I need
> to restart.
You do better than me then. I get surprised by some of the deleted
/usr/lib/* that are still loaded by running executables.
--
Hi Peter,
> After removing entries from the history (using "history -d" or
> "history -c"), the entries are obviously buffered. When I close the
> terminal and the open another, the history is available again
Do you have a .bash_history file in your home directory. Does it gain
new lines at the
Hi Peter,
> > Does it gain new lines at the bottom as you enter commands in a
> > terminal? Or only when the terminal exits? Do those lines include
> > test ones that you've deleted?
>
> Yes, thank You, Ralph. Indeed, I forgot about that, as I'm usually not
> changing that. IMHO it's nevertheles
Hi Peter,
> how can I grant Apache httpd permissions to present files out of my
> home directory?
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/public_html.html isn't exactly
what you want, but investigating what it suggests and how it works may
lead there.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Hunter,
> I was wondering if the it is possible to customize the console
> keybindings. In particular, I want alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to switch
> the consoles instead of alt+right and left arrows.
See loadkeys(1) and friends. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Loadkeys
`Decr_Console' is
Hi Sefa,
> ValueError: Namespace GnomeDesktop not available
>
> I am running KDE Plasma 5.14.90 (kde-unstable) and probably don't have
> some default gnome dependency. I already tried installing the packages
> "gnome- python" and "gnome-python-desktop", but there are for GNOME 2
> and not for GNOM
Hi Sefa,
> > It looks to me like package gnome-desktop will add the required file
> > to /usr/lib/girepository-1.0.
>
> That worked! I guess this should then be added as a dependency of the
> package.
Copying the list so the resolution is known and is archived.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Amish,
> David C. Rankin wrote:
> > if you have services that rely on pam authentication, such as
> > dovecot, etc.., you will find that your applications an no longer
> > authenticate using pam until you install a specific pam service in
> > /etc/pam.d for that application,
>
> Although this c
Hi WorMzy,
> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1831377 is a recent
> > thread on this pambase change causing problems. Apparently, I
> > hijacked it so it's now closed. But I'm pleased I did because
> > others that arrive there from Google, like I did, will now have the
> > trail I l
Hi David,
> The timing of any change would be from today back through whatever
> number of days the default fsck check schedule is.
The journal may show the previous fscks on the same device and narrow
the time range. `journalctl -t systemd-fsck'.
https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/syste
Hi Maderios,
> I can't connect users in tty. Mariadb and avahi-daemon don't start at
> boot. I can't start them manually too using systemctl.
...
> stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied
> Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[980]: mariadb.service: Failed to connect
Do you see an
Hi Peter,
> Another issue I have is about atlassian: When I open a link, usually a
> login page is shown. Instead, FF crashes completely.
Have you tried creating a second Firefox profile that doesn't have all
of your customisations and seeing if this problem still occurs?
https://support.mozilla.
Hi David,
> My question is what do I put in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd?
It seems flawed that individual users, like you and me, are having to
concoct /etc/pam.d files due to packages not providing them and the
working default having been removed by a pambase upgrade. This is
because we're not knowledgabl
Hi ekardnam,
> hey would love to contribute in the development of the arch linux
> community! what are you up to by now?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved might be a useful
starting point.
--
Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Friedrich,
If you look at /bin/libreoffice you'll see it's a shell script and
provides options like `--strace' and `--backtrace' that may give better
diagnostics that what you have so far.
It looks like the problem happens in an area to do with user profiles.
Have you tried starting it as an e
Hi Juha,
> > It's why I keep my SSH servers on a non-standard port. I know it
> > doesn't prevent someone from discovering it, but it cuts out 99.99%
> > of all those attacks, being able to filter out connection attempts
> > to port 22
>
> Same. For easy ports to remember, I like to combine powers
Hi Maykel,
> I playing with cccam for a proyect with decoder and I like stdout
> console log to specific log but not work...
>
> I try all:
>
> >> /var/log/test.log
Have you seen
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Command-line_shell#Input_and_output
and the links it provides?
--
Cheers, R
Hi Maykel,
> > command &> out
>
> Not works... I probe all combinations:
>
> > file redirects stdout to file
> 1> file redirects stdout to file
> 2> file redirects stderr to file
> &> file redirects stdout and stderr to file
Can you show us one complete command with `&>' in case there's something
Hi Maykel,
> > > > Otherwise, `LC_ALL=C strace -ff -o st /usr/local/bin/CCcam -d'
> > > > will capture the write(2)s or similar and you can see what file
> > > > descriptors its writing to and work backwards to see how that
> > > > was obtained, e.g. by opening /dev/tty.
> > >
> > > Nothing happen
Hi Maykel,
> Now only remove ^M character from log files in buffer time but this
> not working:
>
> script -f -c '/usr/local/bin/cccam -d' mylogfile.log | sed 's/^M//g'
script(1) writes to mylogfile.log, sed sees no input.
This will remove the carriage returns at the end of lines once script
has
Hi Maykel,
> > This will remove the carriage returns at the end of lines once
> > script has finished.
>
> This not working. Not quit the end file log character "^M"
>
> > script -f -c '/usr/local/bin/cccam -d' mylogfile.log
> > sed -i 's/\r$//' mylogfile.log
It works here.
$ script
Hi Frederick,
> #!/bin/bash
> SCREEN=/usr/bin/screen
> $SCREEN -dmS x
> time $SCREEN -S x -X setenv A B
> $SCREEN -S x -X quit
Perhaps it's closing more file descriptors now than before?
$ strace -c screen -dmS x
Directory '/run/screens' must have mode 777.
% time
Hi again Frederick,
> % time seconds usecs/call callserrors syscall
> -- --- --- - -
> 99.98 11.762280 22524299524285 close
Ah, here we are. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55618
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Ralf,
> $ sudo pacman -U
> https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
>
> error: failed retrieving file 'lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'
> from mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Resolving timed out after 1
> milliseconds
I think yo
Hi Dan,
> > I hope your local authorities decide to give you real broadband in
> > the near future, however. :-)
>
> My situation is similar to Darren's: My primary connection to the
> internet is through my cell phone carrier and a mobile WiFi hot spot.
I'm UK mainland, get about 580 KiB/s down
Hi Steve,
> I need to end up with a distro that has good driver support, and very
> low resource utilization and gets me to a GUI in 20 steps or less,
> which are clear steps.
IIRC you have 1 GiB RAM to play with so you probably need to consider
what GUI you want and what you expect to be able t
Hi Jeanette,
> I notice that the AUR compile seems to go quicker.
...
> The thing that happens is for the AUR build process to swap massive
> amounts of data, grinding the system almost to a halt and finally
> failing without much of a reason. Nothing typically source code or
> linkage related.
S
Hi,
I've installed dbeaver 6.0.1-1, plus mariadb-jdbc 2.4.1-1 from AUR.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JDBC_and_MySQL#Installing_JDBC says
to then symlink mariadb-java-client.jar so it's picked up as part of the
JVM's JRE, but /usr/lib/jvm/default-runtime/jre/lib/ext doesn't exist.
https://
Hi Stanislav,
> DBeaver is able to download adapter on first connection creation.
> No need to symlink anything.
Yes, it's offering to do that, but wouldn't that be for me as a user?
Given the AUR exists, I'd prefer to have that installed to give the
benefit for all users, and for all programs th
Hi Storm,
> Unfortunately, on this computer, if I have X started, whatever I type
> in my console affects the X session. So, as I type this message in the
> console using mutt, it is also appearing in a leafpad window in X.
> Also, when I press keys like alt+left arrow to go back in firefox, or
>
Hi Pascal,
> I still have a slight problem because the tar command ends with an error :
> *(the same error is also present with adb, printf and tail).*
..
> $ python3 adbackup.py > /tmp/mybackup.tgz
> $ tar tvzf /tmp/mybackup.tgz
> ... all my files are here :-)
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of fil
Hi David,
> Is this normal that new versions of packages are just added without
> removing the replaced package?
Yes, I think so. Checking for orphans is part of the normal process.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Check_for_orphans_and_dropped_packages
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi David,
> In normal desktop/laptop use, you rarely write more than 1-2GB a day
> on average -- so that would translate into a 190-95 year wear-life for
> the drive under normal use. Even at 10GB a day, that would be a 19
> year life for the drive.
The SSD drive also reports its own personal vie
Hi Manuel,
> How strong would you make this master password and where to save this
> one?
Are you familiar with https://xkcd.com/936/ ?
> And I really think that finally someone *has* to come up with some
> replacement for this password nightmare. Some kind of hardware key
> maybe.
Yes, they ex
Hi Ram,
> > Can you not top-post repeatedly.
>
> What?.. i dont understand.. can u plz elaborate?
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Mailing_lists
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Ralf,
> when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain
> absolutely nothing on my machine or I've done something wrong ;).
Rather than use Firefox, have you tried ‘mpv foo.mp4’ so you can see
what it outputs about its video out, ‘VO’, choice before it starts
playing?
It
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.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386
I don't think xterm(1) uses Pango gi
Hi adérito,
> how do I install talkingarch
Have you seen https://talkingarch.tk/ ?
The ‘Contact Us’ page there mentions emailing supp...@talkingarch.tk
There's also the https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TalkingArch page
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi David,
> > You can convert your BDF/PCF fonts to the "X11 bitmap only sfnt
> > (otb)" OpenType format[1], which harfbuzz does support[2].
>
> So these aren't "my" fonts. I'm using one of the bitmapped fonts that
> ships with X in xorg-fonts-misc as my terminal font.
`My' bitmap fonts are also
Hi John,
> > echo $LANG
> en_CA.UTF-8
A good command to use for these situations is locale(1).
Note, the double quotes in the output are significant, as the fine man
page explains.
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Storm,
> I found that if I export TERM=vt220 that most keys do work
If you start an xterm(1) and find TERM is `xterm' then I'd leave it
alone.
> but home and end in applications like nano and ne do not work still
> and cause weird behavior.
In the xterm, run `od -c' and type `Home Enter Ctrl
Hi Storm,
> > > I found that if I export TERM=vt220 that most keys do work
> >
> > If you start an xterm(1) and find TERM is `xterm' then I'd leave it
> > alone.
>
> My TERM reports as Linux. Should I export it as xterm?
xterm(1) says
Terminal database (terminfo (5) or termcap (5)) entries
Hi adérito,
> Please contact the talkingarch team.
https://talkingarch.tk/contact.php explains how to contact them.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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