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

[arch-general] Dual boot issue, windows doesn't show up on grub
by Junayeed Ahnaf 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Hello , I installed arch on my laptop which has 2 hard drives , one is ssd (linux is installed there, also grub), one is HDD(with windows). So, at boot time , I can select either hard disk or ssd and can get either windows or arch. Is there a way for grub to see both Linux and Windows? I tried sudo update-grub and sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg but they don't recognize windows. My windows is not uefi if that's any issue. My linux is on /dev/sdb2 and windows on /dev/sda2 if that's any concern. Thanks J

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[arch-general] PXE-image creation
by g 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

Hi all, I've digged around to find some wiki how to create an custom arch-image for PXE-boot. Can anybody give me a hint where to look? Regards Goran

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[arch-general] Good gif recorder
by Junayeed Ahnaf 22 Jul '17

22 Jul '17

Hello, I've been trying peek and it's absolutely horrible on my machine (8 GB RAM, Integrated Video card, AMD FX - 6100) . Is there any good screen recorder that can do full HD gif recording ? Thanks Sent from Nylas Mail<https://n1.nylas.com/link/d370e38f9b6085d8ca0d311b78c36265cb45947689d5d8367…>, the best free email app for work

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[arch-general] Automatic login
by Junayeed Ahnaf 19 Jul '17

19 Jul '17

Hello, How to enable automatic login in arch (using sddm and KDE) . I tried enabling it in /etc/sddm.conf but it didn't work. Also I saw something like getty but I didn't understand what it does or how to make it work. In all other linux there is an option called "user" in settings but that is absent in Arch. Thanks in advance. Nirjhor

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[arch-general] New - systemd 234 - luks partition fails to ask for password
by Genes Lists 17 Jul '17

17 Jul '17

This has been working for years - starting on recent reboots systemd is failing to ask for password for luks encrypted /home partition and boot halts. Fully updated from testing repos - when I reboot now, systemd no longer asks for password to unlock luks partition. There is no hesitation at all and no password prompt at all. The boot runs through and gives an error that crypt set up failed. Root is not encrypted just /home. I'm then prompted to press Ctl D or give root password and drop to single user mode - doing that then I can manually do: cryptsetup open /dev/sdxx home which prompts for password and succeeds After I do above, then the error goes away evidenced by: systemctl status systemd-cryptsetup(a)home.service shows all is normal - exiting from single user 'repair' mode - then boot continues and completes normally. And /home gets mounted via /dev/mapper as normal The issue is with latest systemd that I no longer get prompted for a password for the luks encrypted partition. Thoughts: systemd password agents: running systemd-ask-password by hand does indeed ask for password in the console. /run/systemd/ask-password is empty directory. the journal contains this: systemd-cryptsetup[316]: Failed to query password: Timer expired systemd[1]: Failed to start Cryptography Setup for home. (Its possible that the bug is in systemd-cryptsetup in latest release?) Versions: # pacman -Q linux systemd linux 4.12.1-2 systemd 234.0-2 cryptsetup 1.7.5-1 I googled but was no able to find any relevant bugs - checked systemd github issues but found nothing similar. thanks. -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] No extract menu on Dolphin
by Junayeed Ahnaf 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Hello, I can't see any "extract here > autodetect subfolder" menu on dolphin . After googling I found out it is a common problem in Ubuntu and the fix is sudo ln -s /usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/konqpopupmenuplugin.desktop /usr/share/kservicetypes5/ but it doesn't work on arch. Any idea how can I fix this in arch ? Thanks Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Twitter @ Nirjhor<http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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[arch-general] Can not run kdesu kate
by Junayeed Ahnaf 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Hello, Freshly installed arch with KDE and I can not run kdesu kate filename . When I enter this command it asks for a password and after that it does absolutely nothing. What can I do ? Thanks Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor Twitter @ Nirjhor<http://twitter.com/nirjhor>

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[arch-general] manually configure network
by mick howe 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

I've just changed ISP and I can't get the changed configuration to stick. I'm using 'static IP address - manual assignment' from Network configuration wiki page. I need to change my address from 192.168.1.0/24 to 192.168.20.1/24. using iproute2 tools as per wiki I can get everything working UNTIL I reboot, at which time some of the settings show the old values and others the new. I've been manually configuring these settings without problems since I started using linux in 1994.

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[arch-general] nginx package compiled on testing?
by Damjan Georgievski 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

At this moment packages in core/extra are: nginx 1.12.1-1 pacman 5.0.2-1 nginx -V has --with-cc-opt='-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -fno-plt -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' but the pacman 5.0.2-1 version of /etc/makepkg.conf doesn't have the -fno-plt argument. I'd assume nginx 1.12.1-1 was compiled on a system with pacman 5.0.2-2 from testing? https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/diff/trunk/makepkg.conf?h=p… Is this allowed? I suspect this is one of the reasons I can't compile a dynamic module for nginx -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] Changing compilation flags
by Jordan Glover 13 Jul '17

13 Jul '17

I testes some rebuilded binaries and BINDNOW isn't always enabled: checksec -f /usr/bin/unrar RELRO Partial RELRO checksec -f /usr/bin/qml (qt5-declarative) RELRO Partial RELRO I don't know if -fno-plt was correctly passed but it's possible that build process doesn't work as intended. Maybe we need to patch binutils to enable z,now by default as Daniel advised? On Wed Jul 5 16:51:55 UTC 2017, Daniel Micay wrote: >There"s no loss of compatibility from only some code using it. The only >issue with it is that immediate binding *must* be used to support it, so >if CFLAGS is respected then LDFLAGS *must* be respected, or immediate >binding needs to be set as the default in the linker(s). On Wed Jul 5 19:04:51 UTC 2017 , Daniel Micay wrote: >So I think it would be a good idea to flip the default to -z,now in the linker >if we're going to use -fno-plt. I think they'd take a patch for that upstream. >Clang issue could be avoided with a 1 line patch adding another no-op flag >and they'd take that upstream. It's harmless to use the slower lazy linking >calling convention when -fno-plt is passed. -fno-plt code is fully compatible >with non -fno-plt code, the only requirement is that -fno-plt code is linked >with -Wl,-z,now which works fine for non -fno-plt code too and is desirable >for security either way.

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