October 2017 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Ansible integration for nosh service management
by Thomas Caravia 22 Oct '17

22 Oct '17

Hello, Integration for nosh service management has been added to the "system" modules of Ansible's development branch[1]. The nosh module can set running and enabled state for user or system-wide services[2], in a similar fashion to other service management modules. Testing feedback and suggestions are welcome. Archlinux users may find the nosh toolset packaged in the Archnosh repository[3]. Debian, FreeBSD and OpenBSD users should look to the packages provided by the author of nosh[4]. Regards, [1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/lib/ansible/modules/system/no… [2] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/nosh_module.html [3] https://framagit.org/taca/archnosh [4] https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/debian-binary-packages.html https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/freebsd-binary-packages.html https://jdebp.eu/Softwares/nosh/openbsd-binary-packages.html

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[arch-general] mouse freezes when switching between X sessions
by Robert Arkiletian 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

If I have two X sessions running on different accounts and I switch between them (ctrl-alt-f1 ctrl-alt-f2) a few times. I usually get a frozen mouse in one of the two X sessions. I then must shutdown that X session and run it again (startx) to get my mouse working again in that account. Any ideas how to diagnose the issue, much appreciated. Thanks

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[arch-general] Can we please have a co-maintainer ...
by Rob Til Freedmen 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

... for these long outdated packages? https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&q=&maintainer=schiv&f… https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&q=&maintainer=speps&f…

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[arch-general] Server Management Tools
by siefke_listen＠web.de 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello, Is there a way to automatically administer multiple arch Linux servers? It's annoying to provide 20 servers daily with the same commands. Are there possibilities to manage the daily tasks centrally and to set them off automatically? I know there are tools like puppets but they're too cluttered. Thank you for help. Silvio

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[arch-general] Is there anything keeping the refind version back?
by mike lojkovic 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

refind-efi, in the repo, is at 10.8-1. The package has been flagged out of date for 2 months now. The current release is 0.11.1.

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[arch-general] Thank you for keeping 32 bit alive
by theodore.preuninger＠lycos.com 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

The current issue of Distro Watch Weekly has some topics including if 32-bit prematurely obsoleted or not. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20171009 Since I can not offer any money or time to assist you at this time, thank you for keeping 32 bit alive.

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Re: [arch-general] Server Management Tools
by Guus Snijders 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Op 12 okt. 2017 20:05 schreef "siefke_listen(a)web.de" <siefke_listen(a)web.de>: On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:00:18 -0400 David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> wrote: > cron + pssh? Sounds good okay cron I not need but pssh sounds great. But at end I become only siefke@sisibox ~ $ pssh -h .config/pssh-hosts -P yaourt -Suy [1] 20:03:54 [FAILURE] host1 Exited with error code 255 [...] Good case, wrong solution, IMHO. With remote execution, you want to use tested commands which only error if there really is something wrong. It's the cattle vs pets approach (check Google, little time to type right now). Yaourt is a "pet" problem. A better approach would be to have a custom repro, where you place the pkg's that were compiled (and tested!) on a workstation/dev server. When the actions become more complex, write a script and use pssh (or other execution tool) to execute that script. The script should be able to handle the small exceptions one can expect; ). At least, that is my preferred modus operandi. Just my two cents. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] Spice issue with Arch (KDE) in QEMU/KVM
by Nick Gilmour 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Hi all, I've just installed the latest Arch with KDE as a VM with QEMU/KVM in Virtual Media Manager. Everything seems to be working fine except spice, so the resolution and copy/paste do not work. The spice-vdagent and xf86-video-qxl are installed. There is not something wrong with my host configuration since I have already two other 2 VMs which work fine with spice. One with Fedora 26, which worked out of the box and one with Ubuntu 16.04.3 for which I had only to install spice-vdagent and now it also works fine. Any ideas what is going on? Regards, Nick

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[arch-general] gnucash [aur]->[community]?
by Ido Rosen 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Gnucash has 44 votes on AUR. It's useful (and very old, stable) accounting/bookkeeping software. Would any TUs be willing to migrate it from AUR to [community]? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gnucash/

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[arch-general] firejail and network
by Shridhar Daithankar 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Hello, For some time, chromium, firefox and qupzilla are unable to reach network/ internet/dns, if started from firejail. When started normally, all of these can reach the network as expected. So the internet link is not the problem. Has anybody experienced this? Any pointers to debug? Thanks. -- Regards Shridhar

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