Re: [arch-general] Why doesn't svntogit/{community, packages} describe cloning (or download) of individual packages?

2017-08-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.08.2017 um 07:15 schrieb David C. Rankin: > All, > > After abs demise, I ran into needed to rebuild gtk2 with --enable-debug=yes > for a gtk.org bug report. Finding the packages from the normal package search > is simple, but when you are on svntogit -- the only helpful discussions are to

Re: [arch-general] Mount point of MTP devices?

2017-04-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.04.2017 um 07:06 schrieb Rijul Gulati via arch-general: > Hello, > I have recently installed Arch on my desktop machine (KDE). > I want to access android device (MTP) from terminal. The device is > accessible from file manager (Dolphin). This means it has to be mounted > somewhere (right?).

Re: [arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

2016-09-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.09.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Francis Gerund via arch-general: > Chris, > Thank you for your interest. Perhaps you may find this helpful: > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html No, we don't find this helpful at all. The FSF has no right to forcefully rename what we call our OS. We ca

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2016 um 20:35 schrieb Tomasz Kramkowski: > The newbies this change is aimed for are exactly the sorts of people who > might unwittingly rm -rf /. Arch Linux is not aimed at newbies. There's been lots of panic over this issue, yet it took several years of UEFI being in the field for someo

Re: [arch-general] Please update to OpenVPN 2.3.8

2015-09-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 12.09.2015 um 10:25 schrieb Florent M: > Hi everyone, > > There are some reasons that openvpn in core is 2.3.6 ? > > Please update openvpn package to 2.3.8 asap. > > Just update PKGBUILD to 2.3.8, it works It does NOT work. It fails to launch when using a passphrase-protected private key. T

Re: [arch-general] SSH security

2015-01-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.01.2015 um 14:29 schrieb Ido Rosen: > Just wondering, how do Arch devs feel about implementing these > recommendations by default in Arch's openssh package? Or would this be > something worthy of an AUR package? > > https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html > > Especia

Re: [arch-general] fdisk vs. gdisk for GPT partitioning

2014-12-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.12.2014 um 22:48 schrieb Leonid Isaev: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 09:49:42PM +0100, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: >> Thanks everyone for your responses! It seems that gdisk is still favorable >> for advanced tasks, but fdisk is can be used for basic tasks, as are >> usually required by beginners.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.10.2014 um 11:50 schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > On 27 October 2014 09:55, Christian Hesse wrote: > >> Damjan Georgievski on Thu, 2014/10/23 19:40: >>> On 12 October 2014 14:28, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>>> Intel released a new microcode update that disables an

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.10.2014 um 21:58 schrieb Mike Cloaked: > Oct 23 15:41:56 localhost kernel: CPU0 microcode updated early to revision > 0x1b, date = 2014-05-29 > > Does this mean that the quoted early update has used the wrong file from an > earlier date than current, or does this journal log line confirm cor

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.10.2014 um 11:36 schrieb Mike Cloaked: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Bächler > wrote: > >> >> These changes have been done precisely to avoid these problems, the >> first link and its responses summarize the situation pretty well. >> >> &

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.10.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Mike Cloaked: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > >> >> For info - I have tried to get it working in refind and failed. I added a >> second initrd line in the boot stanza in refind.conf. But the firmware was >> not updated. >> >> I added to refi

Re: [arch-general] systemd timers: switch default target to timers.target?

2014-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2014 um 20:28 schrieb Damien Robert: > Thomas Bächler wrote in message <543579d1.4010...@archlinux.org>: >> I don't care what upstream recommends, there is no reason for this >> target to exist and there is no reason to use it. Things get even worse, >>

Re: [arch-general] systemd timers: switch default target to timers.target?

2014-10-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.10.2014 um 02:51 schrieb Sébastien Luttringer: > On 06/10/2014 23:45, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 04.10.2014 um 13:44 schrieb Neitsab: >> Why? >> >> Most of these timers should only be available when running a fully >> booted system. timers.target is pulled

Re: [arch-general] systemd timers: switch default target to timers.target?

2014-10-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 04.10.2014 um 13:44 schrieb Neitsab: > Hi everybody, > > It seems like systemd now provides a target that is intended to gather > all timers supposed to be activated after boot. This target that systemd "now" provides has always been available. > Currently, three timers are statically enabled

Re: [arch-general] rp-pppoe: requires ppp=2.4.6

2014-09-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.09.2014 um 09:09 schrieb Thorsten Jolitz: > > Hi List, > > this morning I got the following error when trying to update (pacman > -Syu): > > , > | [tj@arch ~]$ LC_ALL=C syu > | :: Synchronizing package databases... > | core is up to date > | extra is up to date > | community is up t

Re: [arch-general] bugs.archlinux.org - enable comments on closed issues

2014-08-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.08.2014 um 05:07 schrieb Nowaker: > But closing the issue shouldn't end > the discussion - the reporter may want to add something. It should do exactly that. The bugtracker is not a discussion board, it's a bug tracker. Fixed bugs are not tracked. If you need a discussion, there's plenty of

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.08.2014 um 19:40 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: >>> anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? >>> all the mainstream distros hae it enabled now Fedora, RHEL/CentOS 7, >>> Ubuntu and Debian (at least on the backported kernel) >> >> I'd think about it, if the feature wasn't entirely usele

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux 3.16 in [testing]

2014-08-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.08.2014 um 17:29 schrieb Damjan Georgievski: > On 13 August 2014 17:26, Damjan Georgievski wrote: >> yey >> thanks for CONFIG_USER_NS=y > > ahh no, I'm stupid. > Checked it on another machine and got excited before hand > :/ > > anyway. is there a reason this is not enabled now? > all the

Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

2014-05-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.05.2014 15:05, schrieb Maciej Puzio: > I have been testing the issue for a week. Daily timers are fired > between 0:00 and 0:01 without exception - all timers at the same time, > all machines at the same time, every day at the same time. The largest > variation I have seen was 30 seconds. So

Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

2014-04-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.04.2014 17:20, schrieb Maciej Puzio: > I am sorry to say that the decision to replace cron.daily tasks with > systemd timers is causing problems. After a routine update I noticed > that my machines now perform daily maintenance tasks exactly at > midnight. Not only is this time not optimal (t

Re: [arch-general] On-boot delay due to timer units

2014-04-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.04.2014 18:56, schrieb Leonid Isaev: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:31:07 +0200 > AFAIU, there are 2 real issues here: > 1. We hook to the boot process a bunch of disk-intensive operations which did > not belong there in the 1st place. > 2. Even if a boot delay for timers is implemented or the beha

Re: [arch-general] On-boot delay due to timer units

2014-04-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 17.04.2014 20:56, schrieb Leonid Isaev: > Hi, > > Since anacron jobs were replaced with timers, I am seeing a noticeable delay > before agetty prompt appears on machines which were unused for some time (due > to update/man-db timers starting up simultaneously). > > TLDR: Anacron inserts a rand

Re: [arch-general] svntogit stuck

2014-04-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.04.2014 06:23, schrieb Kevin Mihelich: > Both packages.git and community.git appear to be stuck again, with no > updates for the past day. > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Joel Teichroeb wrote: > >> packages.git looks fine to me now, but community.git is still stuck. >> I killed th

[arch-general] Linux 3.14-4 to [core]

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Bächler
I am currently uploading Linux 3.14-4 to [testing]. Once signoffs are done, I am planning to move this version to [core]. I'll also move util-linux and coreutils with it. There were no major new bugs I can remember that we didn't fix, so things should be pretty smooth. signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [arch-general] error: GPGME error: Invalid crypto engine

2014-04-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 04.04.2014 11:40, schrieb Carsten Mattner: > Same problem if I try to downgrade readline and bash > > :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/readline-6.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is > corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). > Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n > error: bash: missing required

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.04.2014 11:28, schrieb Martti Kühne: > Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for presence. > > # pacman -Qk | grep -v '0 missing files' LOL. Where do you think that information is stored? I'll give you a subtle hint: It's /var. OP is basically screwed. There is n

Re: [arch-general] Using timers instead of cron jobs

2014-04-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.04.2014 19:57, schrieb Leonid Isaev: > Hi, > > On a current [testing] installation, there are several timer symlinks > in /usr/lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants (shipped with logrotate, > man-db, etc.). What is the reason for choosing multi-user.target instead of > timers.targ

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Linux 3.14 in [testing]

2014-04-02 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 02.04.2014 02:51, schrieb Genes Lists: > On 04/01/2014 06:44 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Okay, pushed everything to [testing] and [community-testing]. > > This may just be a mirror sync issue but I am seeing this: > pacman -Syu > ... > looking for inter-conf

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.03.2014 17:11, schrieb Martti Kühne: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Bigby James wrote: >> So you think it's justifiable to expect someone you don't know to spend more >> time than necessary performing a tedious and monotonous task, because maybe, >> someday, it might make your life sligh

Re: [arch-general] svntogit stuck

2014-03-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.03.2014 14:29, schrieb Armin K.: > In case some of the people responsible for it are reading this: > > svn2git is stuck for 2 days without any changes although the packages > are being upgraded. I can't even examine changes for packages through > al.o/packages anymore. It seems the script p

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.03.2014 20:33, schrieb Nicolas Iooss: > TL;DR: this is a technical answer which can be seen as slightly > off-topic as it focus only on SELinux and not much about kernel config > trimming. Very interesting, thanks for looking into it deeper. I'll leave most of this uncommented. > This does

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.03.2014 15:24, schrieb Simon Brand: > Am 27.03.2014 13:46, schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> Do you even know what that means? If I see this right, every time >> the kernel needs to do some permission check, it needs to ask "are >> we using LSM xyz?". In any case, it

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.03.2014 09:07, schrieb Nicolas Iooss: >>> I agree regarding SELinux/Apparmor (it's not only userspace tools, but also >> sane application policies that are missing). > > I strongly disagree with removing LSM from the packaged kernel. I'm > currently using SELinux with AUR packages [1] (which

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.03.2014 13:26, schrieb Gesh: > But what if bar.unit Wants=foo.unit and I add a custom foo.unit to > bar.unit.wants/ ? Will both be run? Will the custom foo.unit replace the > built-in? I don't know what happens if you try, but there can only be one unit of the same name. signature.asc

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.03.2014 09:41, schrieb Gesh: > Basically, if I understood what happens correctly, the units under > /etc/systemd/system/*.wants/ - or their targets, if they're symlinks - > replace their corresponding units in the dependency graph. Not exactly. When you place a unit in foo.wants, then foo

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.03.2014 23:13, schrieb Gesh: > Thanks for the pointers. > If I understand what's going on correctly, units specify in their [Install] > section whether, when they're enabled, they should be pulled in by other > units. > Those symlinks usually populate the appropriate directory under > /etc

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

2014-03-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 19.03.2014 20:16, schrieb Ary Kleinerman: >> There's not really much magic going on. Are you aware of: >> >> /etc/systemd/system >> >> This contains symlinks that do already pretty much what you describe, and >> this >> is systemd's native configuration. >> > Paul, > Don't forget > /run/systemd

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.03.2014 21:31, schrieb Leonid Isaev: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:00:15 +0100 > Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Am 26.03.2014 20:18, schrieb Leonid Isaev: >>> However, I don't think that Yama requires any userspace components, does >>> it? Currently, I bo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 26.03.2014 20:18, schrieb Leonid Isaev: > However, I don't think that Yama requires any userspace components, does it? > Currently, I boot with "security=yama" and completely disabled non-admin > ptrace (kernel.yama.ptrace_scope=2). Perhaps -ARCH kernels should keep Yama > available albeit disab

[arch-general] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-03-26 Thread Thomas Bächler
Hello all, it won't be too long until 3.14 is out and I want to address a topic that has been bugging me for a while. Our kernel includes everything and the kitchensink. I have no problem with delivering drivers that can be built modular, but there are other things that have an unknown impact on e

Re: [arch-general] Error when I try update pacman -Syu

2014-03-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 24.03.2014 17:18, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: > jre7 is in the AUR so pacman won't update it, but jre7-openjdk is in > the repos and provides the same 'item' as jre7: java-runtime=7 > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jr/jre7/PKGBUILD > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/jre7-openjdk/

Re: [arch-general] Connect android with kdeconnect in archlinux

2014-03-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.03.2014 13:20, schrieb Maykel Franco: > root@arch-maykel /home/maykel/ # qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadModule > kdeconnect I hate to repeat myself, but WHY? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Connect android with kdeconnect in archlinux

2014-03-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 20.03.2014 13:11, schrieb Maykel Franco: > I have installed kdeconnect by pacman. When I exec: > > maykel@arch-maykel ~/ $ sudo qdbus org.kde.kded /kded loadModule kdeconnect > qdbus: could not exec '/usr/lib/qt/bin/qdbus': No such file or directory > > Can I help me please? 1) Either use qdb

Re: [arch-general] problem booting and using the installation media

2014-03-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.03.2014 20:52, schrieb LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT: > I am trying to boot the installation media on a small embedded system already > running linux. Everything boots fine until udev starts loading modules. > Approximately when the install media reach the bash prompt, the display gets > garbl

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 12:02, schrieb Manuel Reimer: > Thomas Bächler 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

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 11:55, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Am 11.03.2014 11:52, schrieb Manuel Reimer: >> Jelle van der Waa vdwaa.nl> writes: >>> FYI: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014- >> March/025952.html >> >> Thank you for this information

Re: [arch-general] Security vulnerability (CVE-2014-0004) in udisks/udisks2

2014-03-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.03.2014 11:52, schrieb Manuel Reimer: > Jelle van der Waa 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 rea

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.03.2014 16:09, schrieb Caorenzhi: > Do I also need to remove files in /usr/bin as you said? Or you mean > /usr/sbin, /sbin, /bin? You are right, only files in /bin, /sbin and /usr/sbin should be gone. Everything should be in /usr/bin after the update. > Since that is what I see the error f

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.03.2014 15:51, schrieb Caorenzhi: > Yes, I try pacman -Su, and they said the /usr/sbin is exists. I am thinking > that is ok, so I reboot the system. The instructions explicitly stated that this is NOT okay. > I have a cd to load the system, and I have another computer to download > packa

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 07.03.2014 07:06, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): > After this, I use the following command to update the system: > pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash > pacman -S bash > > and then reboot, get the following information: And why didn't you complete the instructions by running 'pacman -Su' b

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2014 16:19, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: >> If I understand correctly, in fact I took the set up upside down. I >> tried br0 ---> enp7s0 when in fact the scheme is >> >> |-> dev 1 >> >> enp7s0 > bridge br0 | >> >>

Re: [arch-general] bridge with netctl

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.03.2014 14:03, schrieb arnaud gaboury: > Dear list, > > I am running a machine "hortensia" with a container "dahlia". As the > container will be a server, I want to have one IP for hortensia and > another one for dahlia. > > On hortensia, with dhcpcd.service and systemd-networkd both disabl

Re: [arch-general] A bug report when installing bbswith, depmod:ERROR

2014-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2014 16:07, schrieb Felix Yan: >> It's funny how people get the idea that this bug report has anything to >> do with bbswitch not working. Yet, there is no bug report open regarding >> any problems with bbswitch. > > Hmm, sorry for not reading the original mail in full. I pasted the link

Re: [arch-general] A bug report when installing bbswith, depmod:ERROR

2014-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2014 12:39, schrieb Felix Yan: > On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 19:36:28 Liuyang wrote: >> depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major >> and minor information. Ignoring >> >> I got the message above after I update my system to the newest released >> version. Then

Re: [arch-general] Network-Issues after last updates

2014-03-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.03.2014 12:26, schrieb Ruben Kelevra: > I still using netcfg to staticly configure my cards, the only hw-card > was eth0 and now named ens3, which was the first problem on that > upgrade ... changing eth0 to ens3 in configuration still wont fix the > problem... Old installations still had in

Re: [arch-general] NetworkManager 0.9.8.8-2 does not work with systemd 208

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
FWIW, Jan already fixed the problem. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.02.2014 12:53, schrieb Arthur Țițeică: > I've seen these issues but I didn't have enough time to come to a sane > conclusion in order to report it. > > IIRC rp-pppoe in core has the same problem. > > pppd[27117]: Plugin /usr/lib/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe.so is for pppd version 2.4.5, > this is 2.

Re: [arch-general] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.02.2014 11:07, schrieb Savyasachee Jha: > Thank you very much. > > -- > Savyasachee Jha > > Sent from my Nexus 5 > On Feb 23, 2014 7:06 PM, "Thomas Bächler" wrote: > >> Am 23.02.2014 11:05, schrieb Savyasachee Jha: >>> I downgraded

Re: [arch-general] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.02.2014 11:05, schrieb Savyasachee Jha: > I downgraded for the moment, though thanks. Will the affected packages be > recompiled in testing This will be done shortly. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager

2014-02-23 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 23.02.2014 08:42, schrieb Savyasachee Jha: > Whenever I try connecting to my university's VPN, the authentication fails. > Running systemctl status NetworkManager gives me the message: > > Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: Starting VPN service > 'pptp'... > Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire N

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 209 in [testing]

2014-02-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.02.2014 17:16, schrieb Genes Lists: > My /etc/systemd/logind.conf has this: > > HandleLidSwitch=ignore > LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no This would require your desktop (KDE for example) to react on the LID closing. > which USED to be required - I now wonder if this should be changed to: > >

[arch-general] Linux 3.13 status

2014-02-20 Thread Thomas Bächler
Okay, it's been way too long. I don't really have the time to spend much time on the kernel right now, and neither does Tobias, so it's been sitting in [testing] for way too long. I am currently building 3.13.3-2 with a critical NFS fix and I intend to move that kernel to [core] very soon. Due to

Re: [arch-general] Updating the archlinux-keyring package

2014-02-14 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.02.2014 12:43, schrieb Don deJuan: >>> wouldn't is make more sense to have a systemd timer/cron job to frequently >>> refresh pacman keyring? > > pacman-key --refresh-keys ?? If you are paranoid enough that a former Arch developer or TU will be able to inject a broken package into a mirror,

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2014 16:05, schrieb Rodrigo Rivas: > Ok... I'll take the chance to practice my DBus abilities... > It is a bit long, but it kind of works. Just replace the print() call > with your favourite sendmail function and you'll get a notification > every time any of the units specified in the comm

Re: [arch-general] Systemd email notifications

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.02.2014 13:04, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > Does anyone know of any standard system for receiving > notifications from systemd for unit state changes? I currently > use Monit for the monitoring of many processes, and it'll e-mail > me when things happen (e.g. a process was restarted). Sin

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 10.02.2014 15:42, schrieb Feliz Xett: > On the bottom of the registration page > there was a very clever "captcha". The question was: > > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'"? > > I might even have found this funny if I wasn't ON A NON-LINUX LAPTOP. By reading m

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 10:06, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > >> Again, the most convenient method of doing this is not included in the >> wiki. Add the line >> >> session optionalpam_xauth.so >>

Re: [arch-general] Permanently allow root access

2014-02-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.02.2014 04:55, schrieb piruthiviraj natarajan: > I want to run root X application in a terminal. > > [root@archbox ~]# smplayer > smplayer: cannot connect to X server > [root@archbox ~]# > > > I followed the wiki > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_X_apps_as_root Again, the mos

Re: [arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors

2014-01-30 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 30.01.2014 11:46, schrieb Nowaker: > If it's possible to read the file, > journalctl should not segfault IMO, so it should be OK to file an issue. No program should ever segfault. Unexpected input or errors must be handled properly. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 3.13

2014-01-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.01.2014 09:07, schrieb David C. Rankin: > Yes, and I am still unclear what is required to insure that an appropriate > module is loaded for a normal laptop/desktop. Nothing. The keyboard should simply. > I already include 'keyboard' in HOOKS This is only required if you want to use the key

Re: [arch-general] Howto setup i686 archroot on x86_64 box? (not linux32 chroot)

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 25.01.2014 07:25, schrieb David C. Rankin: > I use the "Classic Way" of handling the build specified in > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot. If you use devtools anyway (which you definitely should when building a packages for more than one computer)

Re: [arch-general] Mirrors out of date

2014-01-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.01.2014 17:15, schrieb Simon Gomizelj: >> The check script runs on a regular basis and polls for the lastsync file > in the root of our repository layout. This file is regularly updated on the > central repository, so checking the value within allows one to see if the > mirror has synced rece

Re: [arch-general] systemd claims /run out of space

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 14.01.2014 00:35, schrieb Jameson: > Thanks, man. You nailed it. Do you think I should file a bug report > somewhere to see if I can have the devs work out a better error > message? Is it a kernel bug, a bug with the strerror library, or a > systemd issue? It is in the function service_watch_pi

Re: [arch-general] libgcrypt.so.20 missing

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2014 22:48, schrieb Mark Lee: > Salutations, > > All right then; if it works for you guys. Will an announcement be made > on the arch website to ensure the upgrade doesn't break more systems or > will we continue the wait game and hope that all the mirrors sync and > the issue just goes a

Re: [arch-general] libgcrypt.so.20 missing

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2014 20:34, schrieb Mark Lee: > On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 14:19 -0500, Mark Lee wrote: >> The reason why packages couldn't upgrade was because of gnupg which is >> needed for package signature verification from pacman. An updated gnupg >> points to libgcrypt.so.20 while the old one points to l

Re: [arch-general] systemd claims /run out of space

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2014 17:54, schrieb Jameson: > For some reason on my home server, systemd is often telling me I'm out > of space, but I can't find a problem. Just now, I stopped httpd, and > when I try to start it, again, systemd says I'm out of space, the > status reports: systemd[1]: Failed to set a wa

Re: [arch-general] libgcrypt.so.20 missing

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2014 19:33, schrieb Mark E. Lee: > However, I suggest an announcement on the website regarding this > problem. No. > I had three issues when trying to solve this problem: > 1) the mirror I was using wasn't up to date (still had > libgcrypt-1.5.3-1) You see, that is impossible. The packa

Re: [arch-general] LUKS emergency self-destruct

2014-01-13 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 13.01.2014 11:57, schrieb Paladin: > Patch is for 1.6.1 but it cannot be that difficult to port it to > 1.6.3 which we have. This feature has already been rejected by the cryptsetup authors as far as I can see. So no, we will not keep maintaining our own cryptsetup modification. signature.a

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2014 16:11, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: >> If it were my choice, we would enforce high quality standards for the >> AUR (which would likely force us to delete 90% of PKGBUILDs from it). > > Sounds like a barrel of laughs! When I look at the AUR sometimes, I don't laugh - I cry. The current

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2014 15:33, schrieb Martti Kühne: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 03.01.2014 15:21, schrieb Martti Kühne: >>> You can't expect every upstream to fix their autohell to conform to >>> our expectations here. >&

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2014 15:21, schrieb Martti Kühne: > You can't expect every upstream to fix their autohell to conform to > our expectations here. So, we keep repeating ourselves. There is the !makeflags option for PKGBUILDs to work around this problem (which you would know if you read the thread). If a p

Re: [arch-general] USB S-ATA Adapter

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2014 15:02, schrieb Silvio Siefke: > Hello, > > my Notebook is broken and so i buy a Adapter that i can take my Data > from the Harddisk. > > siefke ~ $ lsusb > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0402:9665 ALi Corp. Gateway Webcam > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 174c:5106 ASMedia Technology Inc. Transce

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.01.2014 15:03, schrieb Øyvind Heggstad: >> You are suggesting not changing to a sane default because some >> packages (especially in the AUR) have crappy maintainers. That's >> hardly a reason for anything. >> >> > > Your defenition of sane default might not match someone elses. > > Many pe

Re: [arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

2013-12-31 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 31.12.2013 07:51, schrieb Sébastien Leblanc: > I would advise against doing that, considering that there are at least a > handful of packages (can't name them) that have broken or otherwise > malfunctioning Makefiles when run in parallel. The package maintainers > _should_ be aware of those issu

Re: [arch-general] libpng 1.6.7 broken?

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.12.2013 12:19, schrieb Simon Perry: > | I think you have three possibilities: > | > | * The image is not generated dynamically but stored in a database. Simply > | update the image with the fixed one. > > Why? Because 1.6.7 can't handle older files? IIRC, newer libpng versions refuse to

Re: [arch-general] Initramfs fallback render

2013-11-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.11.2013 15:55, schrieb Anatol Pomozov: > The "correct" way to disable root completely is to make it expired > "usermod --expiredate DATE_IN_PAST root". I tried it on my machine and > found that pacman is broken. I believe it uses "su" before running > install scripts. Nothing about disabling

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

2013-10-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.10.2013 05:46, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 02:55:20PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: >> Am 21.10.2013 03:34, schrieb Sean Greenslade: >>> And now, after another system update, the problem has vanished. >>> There was a kernel update, so I'

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

2013-10-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 21.10.2013 03:34, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > And now, after another system update, the problem has vanished. > There was a kernel update, so I'm willing to believe that it was > just some strange transient interaction between LVM, mdadm and the >

Re: [arch-general] LVM + mdadm no longer works on boot

2013-10-16 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.10.2013 21:37, schrieb Sean Greenslade: > Hi, all. I'm running a small fileserver that has three SATA drives set > up in RAID5 via mdadm. That RAID holds one LVM pv which is split up into > several logical volumes. This setup has worked fine in the past, but > with the lastest system update m

Re: [arch-general] Fwd: Proposal for the static library problem in Arch

2013-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 28.09.2013 16:26, schrieb Delcypher: > I really don't think that completely removing static libraries from > the repositories is the correct approach because it I believe the > choice of whether or not to have static libraries on your system > should be down to the user and not the distro This

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.18-5 question

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.09.2013 16:10, schrieb Chris Down: >> That FAQ seems to be about >> some bitterness about glibc and its code, which has nothing to do with >> static and dynamic linking. > > Not really. The releated references to glibc are more about refuting the > "size" argument when linking against it (as

Re: [arch-general] glibc 2.18-5 question

2013-09-27 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 27.09.2013 14:56, schrieb Chris Down: > Well, static libraries are not a waste of space if it was intentional. > Static linking should be preferred for a number of reasons[0], they > should be preferred in any sane Linux distribution (of which, > unfortunately I can't name any at the moment unti

Re: [arch-general] 64 bit kernel with 32 bit userspace

2013-08-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 21.08.2013 06:22, schrieb Magnus Therning: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:56:50PM +0100, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> Hi, >> >> based on the following forum entry, I would like to open this topic up for >> a wide discussion. >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1314594 > > Slightly unrelate

Re: [arch-general] mkarchiso operates poorly with new glibc-2.18 built without pt_chown

2013-08-17 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.08.2013 18:00, schrieb Vadim Ushakov: > mkarchiso init executes command mount -t devpts devpts > ${work_dir}/root-image/dev/pts > Executing that command seems to drop mount options of /dev/pts, now we > have both devpts mount points have the same options: > vadim@aquila:~$ mount -t devpts Fi

Re: [arch-general] OpenNTPd not correcting time on boot

2013-08-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.07.2013 09:36, schrieb Maxime GAUDUIN: > I did not test this, but you may want to make it "want" > network-online.target instead of network.target. I don't think we have any services by default that make network-online.target function. The actual problem is that openntpd does not work prope

Re: [arch-general] Upstream urls and package descriptions

2013-08-01 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 01.08.2013 18:02, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: > Upstream urls: > I found that dozens of packages in the repos have an upstream url that > prints 'Page Not Found' in one way or another. Should I open bug > reports for these packages or does nobody care about it? I could also > check if the source is

Re: [arch-general] linux-3.10.2-1 in [testing], still broken community modules

2013-07-22 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 22.07.2013 16:47, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Hi, > I built the kernel, now there are issues with following > - community binary modules: > cdfs > ndiswrapper > open-vm-tools-modules > > Please find patches and fix those, 3.10 will move to [core] when signoff > procedure is done. This w

Re: [arch-general] Apache 2.4 revisited

2013-07-11 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 11.07.2013 15:45, schrieb Armin K.: >> As a side note, apache24 uses event_mpm by default, but you might need >> to change to prefork one to use PHP module. Also, with apache 2.4 you >> can use php-fpm via mod_proxy as described at [3] >> >> As for the perl module, I had to use svn checkout of t

Re: [arch-general] syslinux 6.01-1 issues

2013-07-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.07.2013 20:46, schrieb Jonathan Hudson: > And if you have a custom syslinux.cfg, you need to restore than from > syslinux.cfg.pacsave. > > So many ways to break your boot That has already been fixed. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] syslinux 6.01-1 issues

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 05.07.2013 21:22, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: > Should I open a bug report? > If you don't plan on fixing it immediately, please post a message on > arch-dev-public, because not everyone is reading arch-general even > though this seems to be only an annoyance, not a system-breaking bug. This shoul

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