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[arch-general] Link against system libs
by Wolfgang Mader 07 Apr '17

07 Apr '17

Hi all, I have a general question about linking in C++ with which you can probably clarify for me. Arch ships with a lot of libraries of which .a and .so are stored in /usr/lib and beyond. These libraries are compiled by some compiler, the compiler by which the entire arch linux distribution packages are compiled with. By the way, which one is this and where can I find that information. If this compiler is a c++ one, it does its specific name mangling. Thus, linking against these libs should only be possible for binaries compiled with the same c++ compiler. However, arch ships gcc6, gcc5, and clang. Does it also ship libraries for all these compilers or how is it possible for binaries complied by these different compilers to link successfully? Best, Wolfgang

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[arch-general] Mount point of MTP devices?
by Rijul Gulati 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

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?). It's not mounted in '/run/user/1000/gvfs' directory I have following packages installed: gvfs-mtp 1.30.3-1 libmtp 1.1.12-1 mtpfs 1.1-2 Where are mtp devices mounted?

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[arch-general] Suppressing specific pacman warnings
by João Miguel 05 Apr '17

05 Apr '17

Hello, I have some unofficial repos added in pacman.conf, and at times use ABS and the AUR, so I often get messages like this: # LANG=C pacman -Syu ... :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: udevil: local (0.4.4-2) is newer than community (0.4.4-1) ...(10 messages from unofficial repos)... First of all, why is this a warning? What is the problem of me having a newer version of a package than the repository? --quiet does not help. I could do # pacman -Syu 2>/dev/null but this supresses *all* warnings. Also if I need to hold ignore a few packages, I get this (which actually makes more sense as a warning): warning: haskell-src-exts: ignoring package upgrade (1.17.1-8 => 1.18.2-4) which I know already, since I'm the one who put it IgnorePkg. I looked in the manpage for pacman.conf and also found nothing to quiet specific warnings like this. Could they at least be less verbose? Say, in one line: warning: ignoring (42) package updates (for nvidia, nvidia-dkms, haskell-src-exts, ...) I found this old bug report (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31594) regarding this, but there's no decision about it. I'd like there to be an option to quiet these, possibly in pacman.conf: QuietWarning = NewerThanRepo | IgnoredUpdate | ... What do you think? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. João Miguel

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Re: [arch-general] Suppressing specific pacman warnings
by Guus Snijders 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Op 1 apr. 2017 17:14 schreef "João Miguel via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: Hello, I have some unofficial repos added in pacman.conf, and at times use ABS and the AUR, so I often get messages like this: # LANG=C pacman -Syu ... :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: udevil: local (0.4.4-2) is newer than community (0.4.4-1) ...(10 messages from unofficial repos)... You could use basic shell redirection; pacman -Syu 2>&1 | egrep -v "is newer than" The example uses egrep because that is easy with multiple patterns (seperated with pipe symbols). For real ease, test a few cases, then make a function of it. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] problems on installing grub on a new system
by Steve Downes 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Can someone point me at what I've missed please:- I'm doing a new installation of archlinux & got as far as installing grub apparently without problem. Installing grub gives:- Failed to get canonical path of `airootfs' This means nothing to me & I can't find anything. Could use some guidance before I start again, or even better instead of starting again. Steve

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[arch-general] Removing gitolite package doesn't remove gitolite user
by Ricardo Band 02 Apr '17

02 Apr '17

Ahoi, I was removing gitolite because I fucked my setup up. When I reinstalled it to start from scratch, I ran into a problem. The /var/lib/gitolite folder wasn't created when I reinstalled the package. I found out that the gitolite user also still existed. I removed it and reinstalled gitolite. Now the directory was created like it should. I think this is a bug. When gitolite is uninstalled it should also remove the gitolite user. If the user is for some reason still needed after uninstall, another solution would be to correctly recreate the /var/lib/gitolite directory when installing the package and the gitolite user is detected. -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band

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[arch-general] install Arch on Btrfs - dual boot w10/arch - can't find vmlinuz on boot menu
by arnaud gaboury 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

I followed the arch install wiki to install arch alongside w10 and dual boot. (w10 was already installed). Here is a summarize of the output of fdisk: ---------------------------------------------- # fdisk -l Disk /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1p1........ 260M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p3......... 186G Microsoft basic data /dev/nvme0n1p6......... 264.7G Linux filesystem -------------------------------------------------------- I formatted the Linux partition with Btrfs. In short: # mkdir /mnt/btrfs # cd /mnt/btrfs # btrfs subvolume create /mnt/home I created this way 5 subvol: ROOT, home, etc, .snapshots, development --------------------------------------------------------------------- Then generated fstab. Here I have a first doubt about how it has been done. The first line is : ------------------------------------------ #/dev/nvme0n1p6 LABEL=daffodil-root UUID=xxxyyyyy / btrfs rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,subvolid=261,subvol=/ROOT,subvol=ROOT 0 0 ---------------------------------------------- ---> Question 1: why twice subvol ? Is it normal or shall I delete one? Then, still on install, I followed systemd-boot wiki. Once arch installed and chrooted, I did the following (*here I have doubts about my method*). I 1- mounted the EFI partition (/dev/nvme0n1p1) on /boot 2- bootctl --path=/boot install 3- copied the linux stuff (initramfs, vmlinuz...) on /boot. I finished with a /boot folder populated as described in systemd-boot articles. ---> Question 2 Then I wrote an enter in fstab for the vfat boot partition. I AM NOT SURE AT ALL I have to do this. Once installed finished, I rebooted. The systemd-boot menu appeared as expected, but didn't work as it was unable to find vmlinuz neither w10. ~~~~ Back to the install script, I try to fix things now. I first mounted the Linux partition in /mnt. I can see all the created btrfs subvol when running btrfs subvolume list ---------------------------- # btrfs subvolume list -p /mnt ID 261 gen 179 parent 5 top level 5 path ROOT ..... ID 267 gen 35 parent 261 top level 261 path ROOT/var/lib/machines --------------------------------------- A few questions: ------> Question 3 : why this line about systemd machines? Is it expected? ------> Question 4 : according to arch btrfs wiki, "Changing subvolume layouts is made simpler by not using the toplevel subvolume (ID=5) as /".It is not my case. How can I change this to avoid using the toplevel as / ? Thank you for your help and hints on: - why dual boot can't find OS - is my btrfs install clean

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[arch-general] [mpd+ncmpcpp] mpd hangs when manually moving forward on track, or to nex track
by Javier Vasquez 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Hi all, If someone is familiar with mpd (user, non root) + ncmpcpp on Arch, perhaps can help me out... Whenever I move forward/backward on the same playing track (f/b), mpd just hangs, usually so hard, that mpd needs to be restarted to do anything. A workaround is to pause the track, and then move forward/backward, and then play again, most of the time that works... When playing a track, and then moving to next/prior track (>/<), then mpd hangs. To get it back alive, it's enough to stop mpd (s), and start any track (enter). The pause work around for moving forward/backward on the same track doesn't work, mpd keeps hanging, but stopping mpd (s), and starting any track (enter) works. Stopping mpd (s), to move to the next track as a work around doesn't work, given there's no current track playing, therefore mpd can find the next... So it's sort of weird that moving around where to play mpd, kinds of makes it hang... BTW, I have 2 mpd outputs, the pulse output but also a visual fifo, however by keeping only the pulse audio doesn't help, so It's not related to the visual fifo... Any hint would be appreciated... Thanks a lot, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Trouble with QEMU GPU Passthrough via OVMF
by Maxence Sartiaux 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

Hello, I'm currently working to setup a windows virtual machine with gpu passthrough on my archlinux host. So at first i created a basic VM with a custom qemu command and it work great. qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 8192 -cpu host,kvm=off,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time,hv_vendor_id=whatever\ -smp cores=4,threads=2\ -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,x-vga=on\ -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.1\ -vga none\ -soundhw hda\ -drive file=/dev/sdb,id=diska,format=raw\ -drive file=/dev/sdd,id=diskb,format=raw\ -cdrom /dev/sr0\ -usb -usbdevice host:1b1c:1b13\ -usbdevice host:1b1c:1b12\ -usbdevice host:1b1c:1c08\ -usbdevice host:046d:0a1f\ -usbdevice host:28de:1142 Today i would to go use virt-manager to manage my virtual machine but if i create a basic virtual machine with only the gpu added the gpu is never used. I can see the GPU in the peripheral manager but it's in error 43. The -cpu argument have the same settings as my old setup ( -cpu host,kvm=off,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time,hv_vendor_id=whatever) Before on my old setup if i didn't add those options, the gpu was working i had an image on my screen. Here, the screen remain in sleep mode, i have to use a spice screen to see what's going on the vm. FYI, guest graphic card is a gtx670 02:00.0 & 02:00.1 [ 10de:1189 & 10de:0e0a ] So here's the qemu command line started by virtmanager /usr/sbin/qemu-system-x86_64 -name guest=Windows_10,debug-threads=on -S\ -object secret,id=masterKey0,format=raw,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-24-Windows_10/master-key.aes\ -machine pc-i440fx-2.8,accel=kvm,usb=off,vmport=off,dump-guest-core=off\ -cpu host,hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vendor_id=whatever,kvm=off\ -drive file=/usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_x64.bin,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly=on\ -drive file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Windows_10_VARS.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1\ -m 16386 -realtime mlock=off -smp 8,sockets=8,cores=1,threads=1 -uuid fc05f50e-8a97-4c51-a8c5-627824d8075c\ -display none -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-24-Windows_10/monitor.sock,server,nowait\ -mon chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=localtime -no-shutdown -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s3=1\ -global PIIX4_PM.disable_s4=1 -boot strict=on\ -device nec-usb-xhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5\ -drive file=/home/makz/virtio-win-0.1.134.iso,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,readonly=on\ -device ide-cd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0\ -drive file=/dev/sdb,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,cache=writeback\ -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x8,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1\ -drive file=/dev/sdd,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk1,cache=writeback\ -device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=off,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9,drive=drive-virtio-disk1,id=virtio-disk1\ -netdev tap,fd=25,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=27\ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=52:54:00:88:db:2f,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3\ -device intel-hda,id=sound0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4\ -device hda-duplex,id=sound0-codec0,bus=sound0.0,cad=0\ -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0xa,rombar=0\ -device vfio-pci,host=02:00.1,id=hostdev1,bus=pci.0,addr=0xb,rombar=0\ -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x7\ -msg timestamp=on Here's my xml. <domain type='kvm'> <name>Windows_10</name> <uuid>fc05f50e-8a97-4c51-a8c5-627824d8075c</uuid> <memory unit='KiB'>16779264</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>16779264</currentMemory> <vcpu placement='static'>8</vcpu> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-2.8'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/ovmf/x64/ovmf_x64.bin</loader> <nvram>/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/Windows_10_VARS.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> <hyperv> <relaxed state='on'/> <vapic state='on'/> <spinlocks state='on' retries='8191'/> <vendor_id state='on' value='whatever'/> </hyperv> <kvm> <hidden state='on'/> </kvm> <vmport state='off'/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'> <topology sockets='8' cores='1' threads='1'/> </cpu> <clock offset='localtime'> <timer name='hypervclock' present='yes'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>destroy</on_crash> <pm> <suspend-to-mem enabled='no'/> <suspend-to-disk enabled='no'/> </pm> <devices> <emulator>/usr/sbin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/home/makz/virtio-win-0.1.134.iso'/> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/> <readonly/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/sdb'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x08' function='0x0'/> </disk> <disk type='block' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source dev='/dev/sdd'/> <target dev='vdb' bus='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x09' function='0x0'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='nec-xhci'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/> <controller type='ide' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0a' function='0x0'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:88:db:2f'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='virtio'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/> </interface> <channel type='spicevmc'> <target type='virtio' name='com.redhat.spice.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'> <listen type='address'/> <gl enable='no'/> </graphics> <sound model='ich6'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/> </sound> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x0b' function='0x0'/> </video> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'> <source> <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x1'/> </source> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/> </hostdev> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> </domain> I hope someone will help me :) Have a good day !

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[arch-general] [RFC] Make Archlinux websites mobile friendly
by Alif M. A. 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

I think it would be nice to have Arch websites mobile friendly, so that it can be viewed comfortably on any devices with different screen size. For starting point, let's make the wiki, which is the main source of information, mobile friendly. It's just a matter of adding meta viewport tag and another CSS file(s) for smaller screen sizes.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Deprecate ABS?
by Eli Schwartz 27 Mar '17

27 Mar '17

On 03/25/2017 07:24 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > Hi all, > > Allan complained yesterday that ABS is apparently broken. Turns out that > most likely it is broken at least since 2016-07-07. > > The script received no changes since 2012-09-07 and the main advantage > it brings is an easy way to pull all PKGBUILDs. But we also provide > public Subversion and Git repositories. Initial svn checkout for > community and packages takes less than 3 minutes on my rather slow > connection (for European standards); obviously subsequent updates are > faster. Full git clone is slow, but shallow one takes ca. 10 seconds > (for both). > > If someone needs to checkout just one package, svn has sparse checkouts > and for git, Dave wrote asp[1]. This brings the question, what is the > point of keeping it running? > > Bartłomiej > > [1] https://github.com/falconindy/asp If we are deprecating ABS (which is yay!) then can we get a stable release of asp in [extra] to replace it? Also would be nice to have an official stance on whether full svn checkouts are okay, since https://www.archlinux.org/svn/ strongly warns people against doing so... and comparing all PKGBUILDs at once is somewhat awkward when using separate branches in git (though git-grep does take multiple trees at least). -- Eli Schwartz

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] OpenSSL 1.1.0
by Genes Lists 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

May want to warn anyone running dovecot that sslv2 is no longer supported in openssl 1.1. And so if conf.d/10-ssl.conf has this line: ssl_protocols = !SSLv2 !SSLv3 this will lead to error and mail not working - change to: ssl_protocols = !SSLv3 -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] What's the best way of packaging golang packages?
by Iru Cai 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hi, I'm not familiar with go, but I'm trying to use some go programs, caddy for example. I read the PKGBUILD of it. It first use `go get' to get the dependencies and then do the `go build'. However, I don't think it a good practice. I'm used to the way of installing the dependency packages first, then install the target package. Python packages are packaged this way. On the other hand, go packages has its features. Go programs are compiled to a single binary that do not link to other go libraries, so they doesn't depend on other go packages. I also read the Debian Go Packaging document ( https://pkg-go.alioth.debian.org/packaging.html) but I still don't know when and why we need to make a go package. I'm also confused when I see node.js packages. I see many of the packages are built using just an `npm install' so the packaging process will pull a lot of code, but I think it's better than that in go because the node.js packages are installed in the user home so that it won't be installed again when another node.js package needs the same dependency. Thanks, Iru -- Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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[arch-general] RFC: Cross compilers using newlib
by Christer Solskogen 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi! Instead of having a separate binutils, gcc and newlib package for every architecture it is possible to combine them into one. You can even build them all in one swoop if you want. For instance, in something like this: _target=m68k-elf _binutilsver=2.28 _gccver=6.3.0 _islver=0.18 _newlibver=2.5.0.20170228 pkgname=${_target}-devkit pkgver=20170320 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A combined binutils/gcc/newlib kit for ${_target}" arch=('x86_64') options=('!strip') depends=('gmp' 'mpfr' 'libmpc') url="http://dummy.no" license=('GPL' 'LGPL' 'BSD') source=(binutils-${_binutilsver}.tar.gz gcc-${_gccver}.tar.gz isl-${_islver}.tar.gz newlib-${_newlibver}.tar.gz) md5sums=('d5d270fd0b698ed59ca5ade8e1b5059c' '6e5ea04789678f1250c1b30c4d9ec417' '076c69f81067f2f5b908c099f445a338' '6b7b45ed2280de9196df62511094fc58') prepare() { cd ${srcdir}/gcc-${_gccver} ln -s ../isl-${_islver} isl # Do not run fixincludes sed -i 's@\./fixinc\.sh@-c true@' gcc/Makefile.in # Create a combined source tree for i in bfd binutils gas ld opcodes do ln -s ${srcdir}/binutils-${_binutilsver}/$i done ln -s ${srcdir}/newlib-${_newlibver}/newlib mkdir ${srcdir}/build } build() { #binutils does not compile with the CPPFLAGS in makepkg.conf unset CPPFLAGS cd ${srcdir}/build ${srcdir}/gcc-${_gccver}/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --target=${_target} --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-libstdcxx-pch --with-newlib make } package() { cd ${srcdir}/build make install-strip DESTDIR=${pkgdir} rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share rm ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/libcc1* } Is this something that should be done? Or are there good reasons to keep them separate? -- chs

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[arch-general] pavucontrol depency question
by Friedrich Strohmaier 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, some time ago xfce sorted out xfce4-mixer in favour of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. - agreed removing xfce4-mixer - Installed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - no sound mixing available at all - Installed optional dependency pavucontrol - no sound mixing available - no connection to pulseaudio server - Installed optional dependency pulsaudio - yay! sound mixing up an running. I don't understand much about dependency quirks but I wonder about the reason both dependencies beeing made optional. xfce4-pulsaudio-plugin is out of any functionality without working pavucontrol pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server. So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] URXVT background color
by arnaud gaboury 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

I run many urxvt windows on my screen. Some are for the host system and some are for my container (managed by systemd-nspawn). I am looking for a way to change color background according to hostname in order to quickly see which terminal I am on. My idea was to test $HOST variable in my ~/.xinitrc and give a specific .Xressource accordingly, but it doesn't work as .xinitrc is obviously not invoked when I fire a new terminal window. How can I manage what I am looking for (if I can)? Thank you for hints.

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Re: [arch-general] Archlinux.org down
by Robert Wong 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Terrified. I thought it has been blocked by the gov... 😂 RW

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[arch-general] Archlinux.org down
by Jimmie Staedele 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Is it just me or is the website really offline?

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[arch-general] Virtualbox guest additions build on Arch guest fails - get_user_pages_remote
by David C. Rankin 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

All, Attempting to update virtualbox (aur virtualbox-bin) fails to install guest additions on an Archlinux guest with linux-4.10. The guest addition build fails. The error in the log is: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1067:18: error: too few arguments to function ‘get_user_pages_remote’ rc = get_user_pages_remote( ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:98:0, from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31: ./include/linux/mm.h:1267:6: note: declared here long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:294: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o: warning: objtool: .fixup: unexpected end of section if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o"; fi; fi; make[1]: *** [Makefile:1490: _module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2 make: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.footer:84: vboxguest] Error 2 Has anyone else experienced this? I've opened a ticket at: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16576 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Is arch-announce mailig list dead?
by someone＠dividebyzero.it 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi, I noticed that the last couple of announces that have been published on the archlinux' home page have not also been sent on the arch-announce mailing list. Is it supposed to be this way, or is there maybe some problem with the list? Thank you.

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[arch-general] gpg-agent asks for passphrase after suspend?
by Karol Babioch 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi, since a while my GPG agent is asking for a passphrase, once my laptop has been suspended. This hasn't been the case beforehand. I'm pretty sure this is happening since the last update of the gpg package a few days ago, but I'm no entirely sure, since I've updated a whole bunch of packages in this timeframe. My gpg-agent.conf contains the following: > default-cache-ttl 86400 > max-cache-ttl 2592000 > default-cache-ttl-ssh 86400 > max-cache-ttl-ssh 2592000 This worked before, and in makes much more sense in my environment than to flush the cache with every suspend. I couldn't find anything in GnuPG's changelog, so maybe it is also some new GNOME, systemd, etc. feature. Has anyone of you also noticed this and maybe even figured it out already? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Cannot reach repositories
by Peter Nabbefeld 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hello, getting connection errors when trying to access update repositories, e.g.: Fehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von mirror.vfn-nrw.de übertragen : Failed to connect to mirror.vfn-nrw.de port 80: Keine Route zum Zielrechner (Error: Could not transfer 'core.db' from mirror.vfn-nrw.de : Failed to connect to mirror.vfn-nrw.de port 80: No route to host) Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] makepkg bind-9 FAILED (unknown public key F1B11BF05CF02E57)
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

All, I pulled ABS updates and got the patch mentioned in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53240. However, attempting to build bind/bind tools 9.11.0-P3 fails due to an unknown upstream public key: makepkg -s <snip> ... ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... bind-9.11.0-P3.tar.gz ... FAILED (unknown public key F1B11BF05CF02E57) How does one handle this issue? Is that one of the keys one would expect to be in AUR/upstream keys? There are ISC keys listed in the PKGBUILD, e.g. validpgpkeys=('2B48A38AE1CF9886435F89EE45AC7857189CDBC5' 'ADBE9446286C794905F1E0756FA6EBC9911A4C02' #ISC, Inc) 'BE0E9748B718253A28BB89FFF1B11BF05CF02E57' #Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. and the shasum for bind-9.11.0-P3.tar.gz matches the sum listed for the package. Is there something I need to do to fix the public key issue. Strange that the shasum would match, but the public key would fail. What do the arch-devs suggest? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Cannot post to Forums - Bad HTTP_REFERER??
by David C. Rankin 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

All, Attempting to post details to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224028 from FF 45.8esr, I get: Bad HTTP_REFERER. You were referred to this page from an unauthorized source. If the problem persists please make sure that 'Base URL' is correctly set in Admin/Options and that you are visiting the forum by navigating to that URL. More information regarding the referrer check can be found in the FluxBB documentation. I've never had problems before, but haven't posted in months, what to try? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Kaffeine video problem
by pete nikolic 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Futher to the reported kaffeine problem it seems no video playback is working sound ok no video with the same reports help needed please . Pete .

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[arch-general] Update to Linux 4.10.1-1 Broke Bind9 /etc/named.conf never reached on startup
by David C. Rankin 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

All, After update to Linux 4.10.1-1, Bind9 cannot connect to 127.0.0.1#953. This server has been flawless with Bind for 4 years. Now, for example attempting to sync zones: # rndc -V sync --clean create memory context create socket manager create task manager create task create logging context setting log tag creating log channel enabling log channel create parser get key decode base64 secret allocate data buffer sync post event using server 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1#953) create socket bind socket connect rndc: connect failed: 127.0.0.1#953: connection refused This began with the March 10 update. Now attempting to stop named results in a timeout: Mar 12 08:45:18 phoinix systemd[1]: Stopped Internet domain name server. Mar 12 08:45:18 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Unit entered failed state. Mar 12 08:45:18 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. Attempting to start named, named never loads the zone files and never processes the libseccomp sandboxing active command during startup. Now, the total startup for named in the journal is: Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: starting BIND 9.11.0-P3 <id:4801fbc> Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: running on Linux x86_64 4.10.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 21:08:53 UTC 2017 Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: built with '<snip stuff>' Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: running as: named -f -u named Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: ---------------------------------------------------- Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: BIND 9 is maintained by Internet Systems Consortium, Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: Inc. (ISC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) public-benefit Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: corporation. Support and training for BIND 9 are Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: available at https://www.isc.org/support Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: ---------------------------------------------------- Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: adjusted limit on open files from 4096 to 1048576 Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: found 4 CPUs, using 4 worker threads Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: using 3 UDP listeners per interface Mar 10 18:43:53 phoinix named[452]: using up to 4096 sockets Where normally, the startup should continue with, e.g.: Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: libseccomp sandboxing active Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: reading built-in trusted keys from file '/etc/bind.keys' Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: initializing GeoIP Country (IPv4) (type 1) DB Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GEO-106FREE 20170207 Build 1 Copy Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: initializing GeoIP Country (IPv6) (type 12) DB Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GEO-106FREE 20170207 Build 1 C Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP City (IPv4) (type 2) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP City (IPv4) (type 6) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP City (IPv6) (type 30) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP City (IPv6) (type 31) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP Region (type 3) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP Region (type 7) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP ISP (type 4) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP Org (type 5) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP AS (type 9) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP Domain (type 11) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: GeoIP NetSpeed (type 10) DB not available Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [32768, 60999] Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [32768, 60999] Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53 Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: listening on IPv4 interface enp0s10, 192.168.7.16#53 Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: generating session key for dynamic DNS Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: sizing zone task pool based on 5 zones Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: 'max-cache-size 90%' - setting to 7189MB (out of 7988MB) Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: set up managed keys zone for view _default, file 'managed-keys.bind' Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: automatic empty zone: 10.IN-ADDR.ARPA Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: automatic empty zone: 16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: automatic empty zone: 17.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: automatic empty zone: 18.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA Feb 21 14:15:38 phoinix named[442]: automatic empty zone: 19.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA For some reason the 'libseccomp sandboxing active' command never issues and /etc/named.conf is never processed. I have not touched the configuration here in a "long long time..." Is this a kernel bug, a libseccomp bug, what? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Nim package
by Peter Munch-Ellingsen 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

Hi, the Nim package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nim/ was marked out of date on 2016-10-24 but it's still not edited to reflect the new version of 0.16.2. Would anyone be so kind to adopt this package? If not could the package be dropped to AUR? Peter

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[arch-general] hcidump is missing?
by Алексей Трофимов 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

I try to dump bluetooth traffic to find audio codecs my wireless headphones support -- http://askubuntu.com/questions/425333/how-to-make-aptx-capable-bluetooth-eq… But it looks like I have no hcidump installed. command-not-found says: hcidump may be found in the following packages: extra/bluez-utils 5.42-1 /usr/bin/hcidump I have `bluez-utils` installed. Checking https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bluez-utils/ I see that it provides `bluez-hcidump`, but no bluez-utils is file list? Was it renamed? Deprecated? What should I use then?

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[arch-general] Firefox user data autofill doesn't work as before
by Peter Nabbefeld 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hello, before latest update, firefox filled my login credentials automatically into the appropriate fields. Now I've first to select the user in a dropdown list - how can I revert this behaviour? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] How to "decorate" a package build?
by Peter Nabbefeld 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hello, is it possible to decorate a package build, i.e. set some prconditions (like exporting variables) and probably even change the build process (compile instead of copying just the binaries)? E.g., to modify the firefox package update to first compile with "--enable-alsa". Of course, I would have to create my own package in a private repository. The new PKGBUILD file would need to refer the original one, to get e.g. the package version number. However, the private package would always have the same version, so the official package change needs to be hooked to the generic private package: Official Package Changed --«Signal»--> Private Package Update --«Inherits»--> Official Package Update Kind regards P.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)
by Mauro Santos 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

On 05-03-2017 13:35, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > Hi, > > I was recently contacted by a Polish researcher asking for a list of AUR > account names. I did not expect this to be controversial but a couple of > Trusted Users raised concerns on IRC, so I decided to move this to the > public mailing list and discuss the whole topic in generality. I would > like to head more opinions but please read the whole email and give it a > second thought before simply bringing up the usual privacy arguments > mentioned below. > > My original questions was: Are we fine with sharing the list of AUR > accounts names (only user names, no real names or email addresses) with > a researcher that seems trustworthy and agrees to not share the data in > any form other than the resulting anonymized statistics? > > In this particular case, we are talking about Dorota Celinska [1] from > the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Economic Sciences [2], see [3] for > a list of her publications and [4] for a summary of her research project > funded recently by the Polish National Science Centre. She needs the > list of user names to perform a segmentation analysis, including users > which were active on the older AUR releases both do not show any > activity on AUR 4. She would also like to use the user names as > identifiers to establish connections with other platforms, such as > GitHub. > > The next question is: Would it make sense to even make this data > publicly available? Would it make sense to extend our RPC interface such > that one can search for users names? GitHub, for example, already > provides such an interface [5]. Let me quickly summarize some arguments > for this idea which came up on IRC: > > * User names are mostly identifiers. It is questionable whether they > can/should be considered personal/private information. Maybe this can > only be answered by a lawyer, though. > > * The user names of all accounts with any kind of public activity, like > uploading a package, filing a request, writing a comment, are public > already. > > * After logging into the aurweb interface, you can already check whether > an account with a given user name exists because the account details > page URIs have the form https://aur.archlinux.org/account/$username. > This means that for any platform providing a list of user names (such > as GitHub), you can "establish connections" with the AUR already. > > Now the arguments against: > > * Principle of data economy: We should not share any kind of information > we do not need to share. > > * Sharing user names lowers the threshold for sharing other information > which is considered more confidential. > > * Users can (and should) already use crawlers to fetch the user names. > For example, the user names of all package maintainers and comment > authors appear on the package details pages. The names of all users > filing package requests appear in the mailing list archives etc. > > * We do not have ToS so we better not share anything. > > I, personally, find the second last argument a very weak one. Telling > users to build crawlers scraping an brute-forcing our HTML pages makes > life difficult for both them and us. What do you think? > > On the other side of the coin, the last argument is a very good one and > it brings me to my last point. Independently of the outcome of this > discussion, I think we should add some ToS that users need to agree upon > when registering. It should contain information on liability and on > privacy. Is anybody willing to write a draft? Do we need the support of > a lawyer here? > > Thank you for your time and have a nice Sunday! > > Regards, > Lukas > > [1] http://coin.wne.uw.edu.pl/dcelinska/en/ > [2] https://www.wne.uw.edu.pl/index.php/en/ > [3] http://coin.wne.uw.edu.pl/dcelinska/en/pages/publications.html > [4] https://ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/listy-rankingowe/2016-03-15/streszcz… > [5] https://developer.github.com/v3/users/ > I'd say err on the caution side and don't share, even though the usernames are public and easy to find by scraping them from the website/mailing list/etc, handing the whole database of usernames in a silver platter is a whole different story, which is what is being asked. Is there any community/website that provides a full list of registered usernames on request? There is also the question of how useful that data would be, without any other data such as email the username list is useless, you have no guarantee that user foo on github is the same person as user foo on the AUR/Wiki/Forum or user foo somewhere else. In this case I'd also have to agree that sharing usernames lowers the threshold for sharing other information. It also doesn't fit with their stated research goals, only github and projects associated with scraping data from github are mentioned, why would they want to throw the AUR usernames in the mix? -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Linux LTS 4.4 continued or 4.9 coming soon?
by Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes 08 Mar '17

08 Mar '17

>>I'm going to move to 4.9-lts branch pretty soon... Dont forget to take care of FS#51455 since for this is why I cant go beyond LTS for now, and if you go to 4.9 I could get lock out or word, I cant update the kernel in a rolling release distro. -- *Pablo Lezaeta*

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[arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken
by jjgaris 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Since the update to firefox 52 the audio support has been broken. This seems to be because pulse audio is now a dependency by default in firefox. However firefox can still be build with ALSA support. Without getting into any dicussion about issues about pulseaudio itself, I believe it should be possible to use firefox on arch without being forces to use pulse audio. I am certainly not the only one to have banned this package from my boxes. And having more choices is certainly a good thing. Not sure this is the right place but I would like to ask to change back to the old defaults (ALSA). With the old defaults, the user can choose to use pulse audio (or JACK) or stay with plain ALSA support.

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)
by fnodeuser 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)
by fnodeuser 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Bartłomiej Piotrowski, it is the same email address that i have been using since the beginning. what opinions? i never talk with opinions. i always talk with facts.

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS (aka making AUR user names public)
by fnodeuser 07 Mar '17

07 Mar '17

Eli Schwartz, no one is paranoid here. we do not want security and privacy issues. YANG Ling, sharing the requested data will not benefit us in any way. Lukas Fleischer, why are you talking on her behalf? why did she send a message to you instead of one to the ML? why is she not answering any questions in this ML?

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[arch-general] sending emails with gmail WAS: [arch-dev-public] AUR ToS
by Martin Kühne 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Henrik Danielsson via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > [...] the quote in Mauro's > mail did not render as a quote normally does in Gmail, hence I was not > sure it would render correctly if I messed up the copying it (HTML > entities and all). Just turn it off. GMail's web interface does plain text email really well to my tastes, and you can actively enable it from the dropdown menu on the right of the bottom toolbar. All html is then stripped by default and apart of newlines, you can have isprint()-only conversations from then on. You might want to subscribe to arch-dev-public. The conversation started there and was taken to arch-general at some point. cheers! mar77i

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[arch-general] Strange update of libvirt
by Peter Nabbefeld 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Hello, I got the following message when updating: Warnung: /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml installed as /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml.pacnew As I wanted to know what to copy from the pacnew file, I did: sudo diff /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml.pacnew The result was: 1,7d0 <  < 10,14c3,6 < <uuid>cc98c916-edd7-4e5f-8fbc-60839e8fa692</uuid> < <forward mode='nat'/> < <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/> < <mac address='52:54:00:3a:62:50'/> < <ip address='192.168.122.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'> --- > <uuid>73618f96-1a85-47a8-a809-7edd8ad7899a</uuid> > <bridge name="virbr0"/> > <forward/> > <ip address="192.168.122.1" netmask="255.255.255.0"> 16c8 < <range start='192.168.122.2' end='192.168.122.254'/> --- > <range start="192.168.122.2" end="192.168.122.254"/> First, I noticed the removal of the warning - obviously this file hasn't been used for manual configurations (instead auto-configured) - what has changed in configuration handling? Second, the uuid has changed - why? So, do I have to change my original file or better ignor the pacnew file? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Creating a Radius Ethernet Profile with netctl
by Hunter Jozwiak 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Hi, I have a 802.11X connection here at my campus, and I don't know how to set this up with the netctl utility on the Arch Linux ISO. Are there guides on accomplishing this? Also, when I connect normally, there is a web site that comes up asking for my log on reedentials. How do I bypass this with netctl if possible, and if not, how do I authenticate? Hunter

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[arch-general] Intermittent problem accessing samba shares
by Paul Marwick 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Fully updated Arch install, running Xfce. I don't use Samba very much, but need it for access at various times, so I have gvfs, gvfs-smb and smbclient installed. Normally no problem accessing Samba shares from Thunar. However.... Recently I spent some time trying to work out why a client was unable to access Samba shares from an Xubuntu desktop machine (shares are on an Ubuntu 16.04 server). While I was testing, I did something (wish I knew what...) and ended up with Thunar suddenly being unable to access any Samba share, even though I could use mount.cifs to mount the same share. When I got back to my home network, I found similar problems, even though I'd never had any problems in that area with this install of Arch. At the same time, another Arch install on the same laptop had no problems accessing the shares, and my desktop machine was also still able to access the shares without any problems. The problem is strange and very variable. Sometimes it fails as soon as I click "browse network" - the system sits and then comes back with 'unable to access "/" timeout was reached'. Sometimes I get a display of the Windows network icon, then it fails to open the Windows network display. Other times, I am able to see and mount a share on the network. This is on the same network, with no changes made to the network (one Slackware-based server, one Ubuntu 16.04 server). And a network which other Arch installs have no problems accessing the shares. I've checked messages using journalctl and dmesg and see nothing when the access fails. The part I find really puzzling is that sometimes it works with any problems, other times it fails as soon as I start. I'm confident that the prolbem is not Thunar itself. I installed pcmanfm to see if a different file manager would behave differently, but it shows exactly the same problem - sometimes it works, other times it fails. I'm at a loss as to how I track this error. I'd really like to fix it, so I'm hoping someone can suggest what might cause the problem, and how to fix it? I've seen problems like this in the past (mainly on Debian based distros, though a few years ago on an Arch install). One of a very small number of problems I've never been able to predictably fix. Paul.

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[arch-general] Why isn't SELinux officially supported?
by Robert Wong 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Having been using Arch Linux with Gsecurity-patched Kernel (Though installed a LTS Kernel for emergency fallback.) for half a year, I got a question. I found all the SELinux-concerned packages at the AUR, as well as the detailed RW

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[arch-general] Kaffeine video problem
by pete nikolic 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hi .. Got a problem with kaffeine right now . this is kaffeine 2.0.6 running on a fully updated KDE/Plasma system . When i run kaffeine then try to view the TV i get audio but no video when run from a terminal i get [00007fc300001268] vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: a catch-all error , used when no other code applies . digging futher it seems the nouveau_drv_video.so cant be found i cant find it on the system either . this system is updated daily using "pacman -Syu" the tv was working fine a week ago came to use it 2 days ago not display and the errors Pete .

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[arch-general] Linux LTS 4.4 continued or 4.9 coming soon?
by Phil Wyett 27 Feb '17

27 Feb '17

Hi, Is the project sticking with Linux 4.4 for the foreseeable future, or is the switch to 4.9 coming soon? Regards Phil -- Play the game, for the games sake. OS of choice: GNU / Linux Distribution of choice: Arch / Antergos GitHub: https://github.com/philwyettreb Intsant Messaging (XMPP): philwyettreb(a)chatme.im

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[arch-general] Thunderbird/Lightning doesn't work since last update
by Peter Nabbefeld 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Hello, since the last thunderbird update I cannot create valid new meeting dates in the integrated calendar (lightning), i.e. I cannot edit the time of the meeting. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] ABI Navigator — a project to search for binary symbols
by Andrey Ponomarenko 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Hello, I'd like to present a new project called "ABI Navigator" to search for binary symbols (functions, methods, global data, etc.) in open-source libraries: https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator The project allows to find out in which versions of libraries some symbol is defined, added, removed or changed. The data is reused from the ABI Tracker project (238 libraries and 0.9 million symbols currently): https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/ Example for symbol gst_stream_new from libgstreamer.so (GStreamer): https://abi-laboratory.pro/index.php?view=navigator&symbol=gst_stream_new The project aims to help Linux developers and maintainers to resolve issues with missed symbols and navigate through the reports in the ABI Tracker. Have you ever encountered the "undefined reference" error or want to know whether the symbol is _stable_ enough to import by your code? Try to find it in the ABI Navigator! Enjoy!

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[arch-general] Got segmentation fault after upgrade
by piequiex 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

X.Org X Server 1.19.1 Release Date: 2017-01-11 [ 150.768] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 150.770] Build Operating System: Linux 4.8.14-1-ARCH x86_64 [ 150.772] Current Operating System: Linux localhost 4.9.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 19 13:45:52 UTC 2017 x86_64 [ 150.780] Build Date: 14 February 2017 03:36:07AM [ 151.110] (II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized i965 [ 151.110] (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 1 [ 151.111] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called. [ 151.111] (EE) [ 151.111] (EE) Backtrace: [ 151.111] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (OsLookupColor+0x139) [0x59bdb9] [ 151.112] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (__restore_rt+0x0) [0x7f3e6849807f] [ 151.113] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (xf86RandR12CreateScreenResources+0x534) [0x4b7fd4] [ 151.113] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (InitExtensions+0x5d0) [0x4ab4d0] [ 151.113] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (InitFonts+0x2c5) [0x43a775] [ 151.114] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xf1) [0x7f3e68109291] [ 151.114] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (_start+0x2a) [0x42457a] [ 151.115] (EE) 7: ? (?+0x2a) [0x2a] [ 151.115] (EE) [ 151.115] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0 [ 151.115] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 151.115] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [ 151.115] (EE) [ 151.115] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 151.115] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 151.115] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVLeaveVT is called. [ 151.115] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 151.127] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-libinput xf86-video-nouveau xorg-server xorg-server-common xorg-server-devel' [ALPM] transaction started [ALPM] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.10.4-1 -> 2.10.5-1) [ALPM] upgraded xf86-input-libinput (0.22.0-1 -> 0.24.0-1) [ALPM] upgraded xf86-video-nouveau (1.0.13-1 -> 1.0.13-2) [ALPM] installed libxfont2 (2.0.1-1) [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.18.4-1 -> 1.19.1-5) [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.18.4-1 -> 1.19.1-5) [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.18.4-1 -> 1.19.1-5) [ALPM] transaction completed -- Have a nice day!

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[arch-general] abcde not working?
by Jeanette C. 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi there, just wanting to start abcde I notice that it produces in error concerning the Perl module MusicBrainz::DiscID, suggesting to install that module. I tried through cpan, but no change. The system is up-to-date. I just updated yesterday and once more today, to make sure I didn't miss anything. Can anyone reproduce this error? Otherwise I suspect a misconfiguration here. Thanks and best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Announcing pacpak
by pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

Hello, A specter is haunting the GNU/Linux ecosystem: the specter of per-user containerization. Software like Flatpak and Snappy promise fully sandboxed GNU/Linux application bundles (instead of merely launching an application with fewer privileges but without hiding the operating system, like Bubblewrap or Firejail do). Bundles ship with the version of their dependencies which they need. Dependencies are not force-upgraded with the operating system, but easily upgradable by the bundle creator. The same files in different bundles and versions are deduplicated to save space. Applications can be containerized once for all modern GNU/Linux operating systems. Unlike Docker, Flatpak works without root privileges. Flatpak allows you to run, say, a sandboxed and containerized copy of LibreOffice where opening an infected file can only cause harm to what the sandbox has access to, but not compromise the integrity of the system as a whole. Untrustworthy games can be isolated and run without fear of a system compromise. More generally, most GUI applications should probably be installed to and run from a Flatpak sandbox. This has major implications for traditional package managers. Pacman would be demoted to providing the base system on top of which Flatpak bundles downloaded from elsewhere are run (e.g. from gnome.org or from reallytheofficialwebsiteoflibreofficeipromise.com) However, I would prefer having a unified pacman-like interface for installing containerized and non-containerized applications. I believe a PKGBUILD is a good way to specify how to build an application for Flatpak as well. I do not want to lose the many packages from Arch and derivative distributions. tl;dr: Therefore I started writing a tool called pacpak which uses pacman to populate Flatpak application bundles. Its interface is meant to be similar to pacman’s. For example, in order to install gedit into a Flatpak application using a bundle of the gnome packages as a runtime, you install pacpak from the AUR and use: $ pacpak -S Base xterm You can run the resulting application like this: $ flatpak run $(hostname).app.xterm pacpak is still in its early alpha stages. I do not currently have the time to devote more than a day per week to its development. However, I’d like some feedback on the basic idea. I am also looking for a home for the project in the longer term, since I do not currently like to administer a bug tracker on my own rented server and dislike centralizing all free software development on GitHub or Sourceforge (I’d rather administer my own then). This will only be helpful once all the basic features are implemented of course. I would be glad if pacpak or a similar tool eventually becomes an official Arch project. Let me conclude by thanking those who develop Flatpak, those who package and maintain Flatpak for Arch and all the other Arch and free software developers we rely on. Regards, Florian Pelz

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[arch-general] Inquiry about research paper
by Jaewon Choi 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Dear Arch Linux community, Hello, my name is Irvin Choi I am student from Dwight School Seoul, and I am writing a extended essay within IB (ibo.org) curriculum research paper about systemd, service manager for Linux/GNU operating system. There are few questions that I would like to ask to broaden my understanding regarding systemd, and I would like to kindly ask you to answer them to best of your ability. It is very important for my research paper, as the research paper plays huge role in my high school curriculum and possibly my future. I would like to mention that, I may use your questions on the research paper for credibility purposes. Here are the questions (please consider explaining your answers and avoid short answers): 1) Who are you and what do you do for the community? 2) What do you think of the systemd as a service manager? Do you have an opinion about its pros and cons? 3) What do you think users of the distribution thinks about the systemd? Do you think they favor systemd? If not, why so? 4) Through my research, I was able to see that there are existing service managers such as upstart, sysvinit, and others. Why did systemd become the standard over the others in most of the distributions? Was it worth the replacement of existing service manager that is seen to be reliable? 5) What changes that do you think systemd should make to improve itself? For instance, ‘typing systemctl everytime is bothersome. Systemd should shorten it to sctl instead.) 6) There are lots of Linux/GNU users across the world. To what users are systemd intended for? Do you think systemd is useful for the servers administrators, desktop users, laptop users, or others? 7) I’ve heard that there are lots of debate about systemd and it really got heated at one point, involving personal opinions, politics, and others. What was the cause and how did it get resolved (if at all)? 8) Is there anything else you would like to tell me about systemd? Thank you very much time.. It means a lot for me, as I am really interested in Linux/GNU system, and this became the opportunity to broaden my understanding. Have a great day.

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[arch-general] Intel graphics issue
by Ralf Mardorf 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi, this is my first Intel graphics and the first time I can't get rid of an issue. I never experienced such an issue with NVIDIA or ATI graphics. In the upper left corner of the screen, there's a flashing line, whenever I use lower resolutions than 1152x864 at 60 Hz. With my Arch Linux I'm using 1152x864 at 90 Hz and there's no noticeable flashing line, but for the syslinux menu or e.g. a live media I need to use different resolutions at 60 Hz. If I switch from 1152x864 at 90 Hz to 1024x768 at 60 Hz, something I seldom, but sometimes need to do, a flashing line is visible when running Arch Linux, too. I posted this to an Intel forum: "Hi, in the upper left corner of the screen, there's a flashing line visible at the syslinux bootloader menu, as well as when running a Linux window manager, e.g. openbox on Arch Linux or a Linux desktop environment, e.g. Ubuntu Mate 16.10. CPU: INTEL CELERON G1840 BX80646G1840 Mobo: GIGABYTE GA-B85M-D3H CRT: LIFETEC/MEDION MD1998JB Type J91B This doesn't happen, when using the same monitor with an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI mobo and an AMD Athlon BE-2350 CPU. How can I get rid of this annoying flashing line. Regards, Ralf" - https://communities.intel.com/message/455301#455301 This is the currently used xorg.conf: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep -v "#" /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "dri2" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "GLcore" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Plug 'n' Play" ModelName "Plug 'n' Play" DisplaySize 305 230 HorizSync 29-98 VertRefresh 50-120 modeline "1152x864" 128.42 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868 910 Gamma 1.0 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "BlankTime" "0" Option "StandbyTime" "0" Option "SuspendTime" "0" Option "OffTime" "0" EndSection Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Archlinux i3wm i3-scrot copy clipboard
by Maykel Franco 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi, I love with muy installation. Archlinux + i3wm but I like take screenshots with tool i3 called i3-scrot but I don't see option to copy clipboard, only save screenshots in folder...

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[arch-general] Cannot start Jack
by Peter Nabbefeld 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello, I've installed jack2-dbus, but cannot start jack: $ jack_control start --- start DBus exception: org.jackaudio.Error.Generic: Failed to open server I'm in the audio group, dmesg doesn't show anything (I've cleared it before issuing the command, just to make sure I don't miss any line). Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] sparkleshare 1.5-3 core dump
by ber532k 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Here’s the paste at github: https://gist.github.com/ber532k/194699fd4eaccbd3b3f8f5dcf57a8878. I am using the precompiled version from community, which is package version 1.5-3.

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[arch-general] sparkleshare 1.5-3 core dump
by ber532k 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi, I am eperiencing core dumps when running sparkleshare, and I’m not sure how to resolve this. Does anyone have experience with mono? The error messages can be found at http://pastebin.com/VhA8n5jJ. Any help appreciated.

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[arch-general] pavucontrol doesn't find pulseaudio
by Peter Nabbefeld 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello, I've tried to use Cadence to set up Pulseaudio with Jack, but it left my sound configuration even more corrupted. Now, after starting pulseaudio, even pavucontrol cannot find it. This is how I've started pulseaudio: $ pulseaudio --start -vv D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: /etc/pulse/client.conf.d does not exist, ignoring. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup successful. So I'd expect everything should be okay - can someone tell me what to check? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff
by Oon-Ee Ng 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53003 After more investigation I realized the kactivites was being provided by kactivities4 (which no longer exists). Further investigation showed that I had a bunch of old kde4 packages (some still in repos, some not) installed. I think this is the list:- kdebase-runtime (16.12.2-1) libkscreen4 (1.0.5-2) qjson (0.9.0-1) libkexiv2_4 (15.08.3-2) kdelibs (4.14.29-1) qca-qt4 (2.1.3-1) polkit-qt4 (0.112.0+git20160226-1) phonon-qt4 (4.9.1-1) phonon-qt4-vlc (0.9.0-1) libqzeitgeist (0.8.0-6) libdbusmenu-qt4 (0.9.3+16.04.20160218-1) attica-qt4 (0.4.2-3) Only libkscreen4 and libkexiv2_4 were no longer in repos, and uninstalling both removed the rest. Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages disappearance and uninstalled them? Or should I be keeping an eye on pacman -Qm (I have 137 packages there at this point)?

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[arch-general] What's with Ray Rashif?
by sekret＠posteo.se 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hey guys! I'm not writing this mail to complain, I'm just wondering! I use ardour quite a lot and of course I wanted the update to version 5 as soon as possible. The first release 5.0 didn't build here, so I thought ok, maybe the maintainer of this package is struggling with it too. The current version is 5.3 which compiles and runs just fine. So now I wonder why we don't get an update. So I looked at the other packages of the maintainer, see this link https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?packager=schiv and well, I see a lot of red there! So I must wonder: Is Ray still active? Best sekret

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[arch-general] syslinux.cfg
by Ralf Mardorf 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi, is the no way to get a menu Arch kernel 1 Arch Kernel 2 Foo Kernel 1 Foo Kernel 2 when using syslinux? Or even while booting another Linux requires chainloading, there's a feature to chose between all available kernels of another Linux by the "main" menu? IIUC chainloading only could provide Arch kernel 1 Arch Kernel 2 Foo and just when selecting Foo I can chose between Foo Kernel 1 Foo Kernel 2 and perhaps Arch so assuming I then decide to go back to the Arch menu, I need to chainload Arch from the chainloaded other Foo Linux? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Hibernation not working
by Peter Nabbefeld 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hello, since some time, hibernation does not work, dmesg contains following messages: [ 738.404244] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160422/nsarguments-95) [ 738.404353] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM [ 738.404356] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160422/nsarguments-95) Some time ago, when I closed my laptop, Linux automatically hibernated, now it does not. As my laptop becomes really warm and I don't want to stress my display, I'm using this rarely, so I cannot tell, since when hibernation doesn't work :-/ Kind regartds Peter

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[arch-general] Revisiting the SELinux/audit question: Disabling audit on the kernel command line
by Tobias Markus 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi, As some of you might know, the question of enabling SELinux support in the official Arch Linux kernel package has been brought up a number of times. The main issue that has been pointed out the previous time was that enabling SELinux depends on CONFIG_AUDIT which is considered unnecessary or even harmful for most desktop users since it generates a flood of kernel log messages. Citing Thomas Bächler's previous post (in 2014) on the matter [1]: > And here is my problem: Audit is enabled by default and must be > explicitly disabled by the admin. This is a showstopper for me! There > is no kernel option to configure audit to be disabled by default (as > far as I am aware) so that it can be enabled with 'audit=1' on the > command line. Actually, I think there is a perfectly valid and simple way to disable audit by default: By using the built-in kernel command line. This makes it possible to specify a number of kernel parameters at build time that the kernel prepends to the usual command line it gets from the bootloader. By specifying CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="audit=0" in the configuration [2], the audit subsystem is disabled by default, but users intending to use it can do so by manually setting audit=1 on the bootloader's command line. That in turn would override the audit=0 specified on the built-in command line. I would be glad if Arch Linux's official kernel could support SELinux again this way! Thanks for your comments, Tobias [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-March/03567 9.html [2] For menuconfig, look at the very end under "Processor type and features"

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[arch-general] Bash broken: no PATH and completion
by Giovanni Santini 10 Feb '17

10 Feb '17

Good morning, I want to share one of my recent issues with bash. Everything was working nicely up to some time ago, but recently I'm having some issues. The major two things I've noticed are the following: 1. bash doesn't load */etc/profile*, thus not loading all the scripts in */etc/profile.d/* 2. bash-completion does not load properly all completion; for example, the completion for *optirun* is present but it is not loaded. Does anybody else have issues with it lately? I didn't notice info about bash config changes. -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] user namespaces
by sivmu 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Summary: Arch Linux is one of the few, if not the only distribution that still disables or restricts the use of unprivileged user namespaces, a feature that is used by many applications and containers to provide secure sandboxing. There have been request to turn this feature on since Linux 3.13 (in 2013) but they are still being denied. While there may have been some reason for doing so a few year ago, leading to many distributions like Debian and Red Hat to restrict its use to privileged users via a kernel patch (they never disabled it completely), today arch seems to be the only distribution to block this feature. Even conservative distros like Debian 8 and 9 have this feature fully enabled. I would like to suggest that arch stops to disable this feature in future kernel versions. Resoning: The original reason to block user namespaces were a number of security issues that allowed unprivileged users to access features they should not have access to. Due to the nature of user namespaces to provide isolated user environments with access to privileged features like other namespaces (inside that isolated namespace only), it should be obvious that this feature had to be designed carefully in order not to harm the security outside the namespace. Even though there have been issues, this feature is now considered stable enough for distros like debian and red hat to allow its use even for unprivileged users. Moreover there are many applications that use this feature to provide or enhance security Among them are: lxc, systemd-nspawn, docker, flatpak, bubblewrap, firejail, firefox, chromium After working with sandboxing applications for several month, it seems clear to me that disabling user namespaces decreases the security of the system significantly. Some of these applications can not provide core features due to user namespaces missing. Others have significant security features disabled for this reasons. But the worst part is how some of these projects dealt with the missing feature: Many are using suid bits to execute the application as root to get access to the features they would have inside a user namespace. And for those who have worked with suid applications and their security it will not be surprising that they have failed to do this securely, leading to not just a few local root exploits. Taking firejail just as an example: (CVE-2017-5207) (CVE-2017-5206) (CVE-2017-5180) (CVE-2016-10122) (CVE-2016-10118) (CVE-2016-9016) And that is just from the last release... non of these issues would have been possible if user namespaces could be used, which is btw. what bubblewrap does if the feature is available, but since it isn’t on arch they have to use suid too (but bubblewrap is designed with security in mind for a change, so no known issues so far) Chromium is another case that has to use suid to use its sandbox and while I consider the developers very skilled in regards to security (they build a very nice broker architecture sandbox on windows too) there have been local root exploits in the linux version of chromium because of this. Even while looking at the surface of this problem it becomes clear this causes way more problems then it solves. Considering arch will be or already is the only linux distribution to disable this feature, developers of future applications will have to chose between dropping support for arch or to keep using features like suid that pose a real security threat opposite to user namespaces. Therefore I urge the people responsible to reconsider their choice an enable user namespaces in future kernel versions of arch linux. Bug reports regarding user namespaces: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36969 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49337

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[arch-general] OpenJFX package out-of-date
by Kyle Laker 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

Hello, The extra/java-openjfx package has been flagged out-of-date since 2016-09-13 and is stuck at verison 8u76-b03. This can result in runtime warnings for some JavaFX applications whose FXML was created specifying a newer API version, potentially causing confusion for users because `java -version` would return the newest version (1.8.0_121). The following patch (created using `svn diff`) of the PKGBUILD should bring it up to match the latest version of extra/jdk8-openjdk. No changes should be necessary for the gradle.properties file. Regards, Kyle Patch: Index: PKGBUILD =================================================================== --- PKGBUILD (revision 287772) +++ PKGBUILD (working copy) @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ pkgbase=java-${_libname} pkgname=('java-openjfx' 'java-openjfx-doc' 'java-openjfx-src') _java_ver=8 -_jdk_update=76 -_jdk_build=03 +_jdk_update=121 +_jdk_build=13 _hgtag=${_java_ver}u${_jdk_update}-b${_jdk_build} pkgver=${_java_ver}.u${_jdk_update} -pkgrel=2 +pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='Java OpenJFX 8 client application platform (open-source implementation of JavaFX)' arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url='https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/OpenJFX/Main'

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[arch-general] Generating gdb debug logs for devs
by Pekka Järvinen 03 Feb '17

03 Feb '17

Hi, I have segfaulting lxrandr and I was referred to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Debug_-_Getting_Traces after filing bug report. I've installed ABS, modified PKGBUILD and made my own /etc/makepkg-dev.conf makepkg -sf --config /etc/makepkg-dev.conf generates the executable. Still gdb gives very little info after running cd lxrandr/pkg/lxrandr/usr/bin gdb -ex "set logging file debug.log" -ex "set logging overwrite on" -ex "thread apply all bt full" -ex "set logging on" -ex "run" -ex "backtrace" -ex "frame 0" -ex "kill" -ex "quit" ./lxrandr I'm guessing because I need to add debugging to libraries which lxrandr is using too. In the wiki there's --- snip --- Note: It is insufficient to simply install the newly compiled debug package, because the debugger will check that the file containing the debug symbols is from the same build as the associated library and executable. You must install both of the recompiled packages. In Arch, the debug symbols files are installed under /usr/lib/debug. See the GDB documentation for more information about debug packages. --- snip --- But as a non c/c++ dev this doesn't say anything. What do I need to install/run and where? So could the wiki page be enhanced by adding concrete example(s)? Original bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51480 -- Pekka Järvinen

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Re: [arch-general] Ping: 100% package loss
by Guus Snijders 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Op 2 feb. 2017 20:58 schreef "Thorsten Jolitz via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: Robin via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> writes: >> - IPv6 is tried , but takes forever and has 100% package loss >> (frecuent). >> - pinging IPv6 addresses works (very rare) [...] that explains it very well. ping can be forced to use a certain protocol, but my webbrowser doing google searches (e.g. textbased W3M) seems to always try v6 if its available. Which just leaves the question: do you want to use IPv6 or do you prefer IPv4? In the first case, perhaps a tunnel provider can help as your current setup appears flaky at best. In the second case, it's probably better to find out how to disable IPv6 on your machine. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] Ping: 100% package loss
by Thorsten Jolitz 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello List, sometime age my msmtp imap connections just stopped working. Investigating the cause, I checked quite a lot of things, and came across the ping "100% package loss" problem: With /etc/resolv.conf ,---- | # Generated by resolvconf | domain Speedport_W_xxxxxx | | nameserver 192.168.2.1 | nameserver fe80::1%ens34 `---- this works ,---- | $ drill @192.168.2.1. www.google.com | ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 36946 | ;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 | ;; QUESTION SECTION: | ;; www.google.com. IN A | | ;; ANSWER SECTION: | www.google.com. 39 IN A 216.58.210.196 | | ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: | | ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: | | ;; Query time: 4 msec | ;; SERVER: 192.168.2.1 | ;; WHEN: Sun Jan 22 15:53:08 2017 | ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48 `---- but this not ,---- | $ ping -c 3 www.google.com | PING www.google.com(mrs04s09-in-x04.1e100.net | (2a00:1450:4006:803::2004)) 56 data bytes | | --- www.google.com ping statistics --- | 3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2014ms `---- Network connectivity is obviously given ,---- | [tj@arch ~]$ ping -c 3 216.58.210.196 | PING 216.58.210.196 (216.58.210.196) 56(84) bytes of data. | 64 bytes from 216.58.210.196: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=51.4 ms | 64 bytes from 216.58.210.196: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=49.8 ms | 64 bytes from 216.58.210.196: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=50.7 ms | | --- 216.58.210.196 ping statistics --- | 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms | rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 49.855/50.685/51.408/0.689 ms `---- and I can ping the nameserver ip too. Even when I put Googles DNS Servers in my /etc/resolv.conf, it would not work. So what could be the problem here? TIA -- cheers, Thorsten

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Re: [arch-general] user namespaces
by Francisco Barbee 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

So what's your alternatives/setup usable on Arch (not android, not ChromeOS)? We heave disabled SElinux, disabled Apparmor, disabled user namespaces, PIE not enabled by default and only partial relro. What's left then? Swimming naked?

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[arch-general] ofono install
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, I tried to install ofono from AUR, because I want HSP/HFP support for pulseaudio (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Mod…) but I get an error about a conflict between .SRCINFO and PKGBUILD - how can I resolve this problem? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] How to run ofono as backend for a headset?
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, due to https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Mod… I should get HSP/HFP support using ofono as a backend and setting headset="ofono", but it doesn't work. I've already started ofono using "systemctl restart ofono" and started/stopped pulseaudio, but it displays "HSP/HFP unavailable". Is there any documentation about how to connect a bluetooth headset using ofono? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] systemd latest upgrade
by Jude DaShiell 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

For the last several systemd upgrades an error complaining about a missing uefi directory has come out when those upgrades were being installed. Today that happened too. However any package install now finishes with the message: Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate .... This system is an old x86-64 system with bios on it not uefi so I'm curious to know if there is anything I can do or anything I really ought to do about this message. --

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[arch-general] HSP/HFP profile on Bluetooth Headset causing problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Hello, I want to use HSP/HFP profile on a Bluetooth Headset, because its microphone doesn't work with A2DP. When I activate the headset with HSP/HFP profile, it works until I stop speaking. Headset input is turned off then, and isn't turned on even when speaking again. Using jack2-dbus and pulseaudio, latest update this morning. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Basic questions about Linux's sound system
by Peter Nabbefeld 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Hello, semms I'm missing some basic parts of the sound system. I've been told, ALSA is for the hardware, pulseaudio is for the infrastructure, and bluez provides for virtual bluetooth devices, so I understand it should look like this (ASCII graphics, please use monospaced font for viewing): +------------+ +-----------+ | Rosegarden | | Totem | +------------+ +-----------+ +-----------------+ | Jack | | GStreamer | | Appl. using PA | +------------+---+-----------+---+-----------------+ | Pulseaudio (PA) | +--------------------+---+-------------------------+ | ALSA | | Bluez | +--------------------+ +-------------------------+ This would imply, that ALSA cannot "see" Bluetooth devices, but that seems not to be the fact, so there's probably a misconfiguration on my laptop. There's a bridge (bluez-alsa-git) in the AUR, but I haven't installed it, so why can ALSA see my headset? I'm asking this because of problems with HSP/HDP profile with my headset - if I've "coupled" the modules the wrong way, they'll probably block each other's functionality - especially, if ALSA and pulseaudio try to use the Bluez device at the same time ... Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] ownCloud vs. nextcloud
by David Runge 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Helloes! I wonder what Arch's/Sergej Pupykin's position towards nextcloud is. It seems that ownCloud lost most of its developers to the schism introduced last year. This led to many apps not being (mainly) developed by them anymore and moving into the hands of nextcloud and/or being more actively developed by nextcloud now (bookmarks, news, calendar, etc.) There definitely also has been a problem transitioning from php 7.0.x to 7.1 as the current version of ownCloud now has a "hotfix" applied that just suppresses the error message (which would render owncloud useless, as owncloud < 9.2 suppossedly doesn't work with php 7.1). The bookmark app is currently unusable (unable to add new bookmarks due to an old version of guzzlehttp dependency) and I wonder how much more of that we'll have incoming. Wouldn't it be better to switch to nextcloud in the community repository at this point? Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Mirror load distribution
by Eli Schwartz 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

On 01/30/2017 02:39 PM, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > I've just received a report from a mirror admin about some very heavy > traffic. After some investigation it appears that the traffic towards > his mirror started to rise around the beginning of the new year when we > disabled the mirror checker on gerolde. Since we now only have a mirror > checker running in Germany and his server is actually in the same data > centre as ours, the mirror checks completed very quickly. > > Archweb uses this data to calculate a "mirror score" which can be seen > here[1]. This score can also be used to sort the mirror list that can be > generate by archweb list this[2]. > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/ > [2] > https://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/?use_mirror_status=on&protocol=https > > Apparently there is a script in AUR[3] which uses [2] to fetch a > mirrorlist. That script runs once a day. > > [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/update-pacman-mirrorlist/ It seems to me that this AUR package is *generally* in bad taste, although granted, depending on people to do smart things is probably not a good idea either. No one needs to update their mirrors daily, but either way, rather than using horrendously inaccurate metrics I would suggest using rankmirrors or even reflector's "--fastest" option. From looking at the package, it seems to be its own source as well, which is actually against the rules. > I'm thinking about removing the mirror score from archweb's output and > more importantly, not sorting mirrors based on this score but rather > randomizing the list returned in [2]. It could still take the score into > account by limiting the returned set to mirror that are not totally out > of date, but I'd remove the sorting. The score doesn't really have a lot > a meaning anyways since it's just from our point of view. > > Does anyone have hard feeling about this? If not I'll prepare a patch in > the next few days. Sounds like it fits the intended use-case anyway. -- Eli Schwartz

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Re: [arch-general] mysql_secure_installation
by Jude DaShiell 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

I now have mariadb installed and working. Another internet site gave an example /root/.my.cnf file of about 3 lines that has to be read-only and I was able to do it with that file. The thing is when you hit enter and the error 1045 (28000) error comes up, hit enter again and you go right past that error successfully and can then do the rest of the script. I don't know if the /root/.my.cnf file helped or not but I keyed in the password that was in that file and had it all come up working. --

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[arch-general] GUFW start problem
by Alonzo Gomez 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Hello. Using Arch X86-64 up to date. Gnome 3, with GDM. UFW works fine. Logging in (GDM) gives 3 choices: - Gnome - Gnome classic - Gnome with xorg If I log in as using the option "Gnome with xorg" at GDM, GUFW works fine. But, if I log in choosing either "Gnome" or "Gnome classic", GUFW will not start. Instead, whether I click the gui icon, or do "gufw" or "sudo gufw" in a terminal, the authentication dialog box appears asking for the password. After entering the password, the dialog box disappears, and nothing further happens. This is regardless of whether I use Linux, Linux-lts, or Linux-grsec. Fwiw, I do have net-tools and python-gobject both installed. Python-gi does not seem to be in the repos. If necessary, I can reboot into either Gnome or Gnome classic, try GUFW again, and post whatever error messages would be helpful. BTW, no other application program exhibit this behavior.

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[arch-general] I just want to say THANK YOU!
by Alexander Bustamante 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

Hi, I've been using Linux since 1996. My first distro was slackware. Have tried pretty much all of the most common distros, debian, redhat(centos,fedora), gentoo, ubuntu, etc etc, also been running FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, long list of OSs. Now im on ARCH since 2012, still rollin' (haha), and i must say, compared to everything else i've tried (including C64, VIC20, Spectrum, Amiga, OS/2, mac os,solaris,Windows,VMS, Ultrix,IRIX, etc etc) this is by far the most complete distribution/OS that i've ever tried. Fantastic documentation, fantastic community, fantastic *. It really pushes people into learning stuff the right way. By teaching the basics of the OS platform and providing the tools to build on. Arch linux is SOLID. All the way. Teaching how to fish instead of giving away fish. Thank you and i wish you all i fantastic 2017. Cheers! -- Alexander Bustamante

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[arch-general] Weird reaction to pull request over at Arch Linux ARM
by Christopher Reimer 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hello list, I'd like to get some feedback on this pull request discussion over at Arch Linux ARM: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs/pull/1444 (Backup: http://pastebin.com/x8H0mNiE) Short summary: I wanted to contribute a simple patch to enable support for Banana Pi hardware. I tried that a few years back and got besides some other concerns the answer that it cannot be added, because at this time there were no upstream support and I accepted that. This is no longer the case, so I thought it must be possible to add support now. I also noticed a few other pull request trying exactly that, which were instantly closed by Kevin Mihelich without any reasonable explanation. That's why I expected some resistance and prepared myself to counterargument a few of his concerns. And I think I did quite good. Good enough to make him ignore me. Why am I writing this to the Arch Linux mailing list? Well, for quite some time I thought Arch Linux ARM is Arch Linux. And I think there are a lot more out there who think so. Therefore I think behavior like this could hurt the overall reputation of Arch Linux. Especially if a future goal of Arch Linux might be ARM support and Kevin Mihelich somehow joins the team. Did I miss something? Do I expect too much? I don't know. Thanks Christopher Reimer

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[arch-general] MariaDB not starting
by Peter Nabbefeld 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Hello, I've got problems with MariaDB not working. 1) "systemctl status mariadb.service": ● mariadb.service - MariaDB database server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-01-27 13:04:10 CET; 13s ago Process: 4574 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 4519 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= || VAR=`/usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ] && systemctl set-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION=$VAR Process: 4517 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 4574 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Starting crash recovery... Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Crash recovery finished. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454332160 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gtid_slave_pos: 1146: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. 2) "journalctl -xe": -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit mariadb.service has begun starting up. Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld (mysqld 10.1.21-MariaDB) starting as process 4574 ... Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Using mutexes to ref count buffer pool pages Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use GCC atomic builtins Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: GCC builtin __atomic_thread_fence() is used for memory barrier Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11 Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Using Linux native AIO Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE crc32 instructions Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Highest supported file format is Barracuda. Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: The log sequence numbers 0 and 0 in ibdata files do not match the log sequence number 1600749 in the Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Database was not shutdown normally! Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Starting crash recovery. Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files... Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: from the doublewrite buffer... Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: 128 rollback segment(s) are active. Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start Jan 27 13:04:09 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:09 140214454369792 [Note] InnoDB: Percona XtraDB (http://www.percona.com) 5.6.34-79.1 started; log sequence number 1600749 Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140213863028480 [Note] InnoDB: Dumping buffer pool(s) not yet started Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [ERROR] Could not open mysql.plugin table. Some plugins may be not loaded Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Recovering after a crash using mysql-bin Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Starting crash recovery... Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Crash recovery finished. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454332160 [Warning] Failed to load slave replication state from table mysql.gtid_slave_pos: 1146: Table 'mysql.gtid_slave_pos' Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola mysqld[4574]: 2017-01-27 13:04:10 140214454369792 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.user' doesn't exist Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB database server. -- Subject: Unit mariadb.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- -- Unit mariadb.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jan 27 13:04:10 tuchola sudo[4514]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root Sorry, but those messages are not very expressive to me. I also tried to re-install mariadb, removing /var/lib/mysql (no important data had been in there until now ...) It seems to me, database data hadn't been re-created, but how can I get mariadb working now? BTW, is there a possibility to do a clean-up after package uninstall? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] command line spreadsheet
by Jude DaShiell 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

neoleo is now in the aur and it builds and works as near as I can tell. That can be used on command line with the -x option starting it as well as in graphical user environments. It may be an improvement over libreoffice calc under orca I'm going to find out about that later. In the neoleo changelog a pointer to oleo documentation on the web on the official gnu site is provided but documentation doesn't yet come packaged with this spreadsheet. --

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[arch-general] community/centerim findings
by Jude DaShiell 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

1) the key needed to get to the accounts screen after configuration is super-d or windows-d for those that don't know what super key is in Linux. That is the equivalent of the done button. It may be necessary to hit super-c to change the default configuration and actually write a configuration file to your home directory too before hitting super-d. I'm still researching that one. The man page doesn't describe what files centerim creates to support operation but I'll find that one out too. --

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[arch-general] SSH access to Arch machines for testing
by Jeffrey Walton 26 Jan '17

26 Jan '17

Hi Everyone, Does Arch make machines available for testing software? (I'm interested in something like the GCC compile farm) If so, how do we sign up? Thanks in advance. Jeff

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[arch-general] Pacman: Remove unneded dependencies
by L. Rose 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Hi, I know, this is probably a very common question, but I couldn't find any information on the pacman wiki article about that, so I have to ask. How can I uninstall all packages on my system, which have been installed as a dependency, and aren't needed any longer? (Because I've uninstalled the dependent package or because the dependent package no longer depends on that dependency) I've read about pacman -Qe, but this lists packages I've explicitly installed and don't want to remove. And please, don't just point to the wiki article, I've checked that already. Thanks in advance, Lukas

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Re: [arch-general] Hibernation not working
by ber532k 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

I had the same issue with my laptop some days ago. At the moment it seems to be working most times though, no idea why. I only made some seemingly unrelated changes in BIOS settings (fan speed, battery charging). The screen went blank, came back a second (as it usually does when about to hibernate) and went blank again. After that the laptop would still not turn off until the battery was fully drained. If I turned it off manually after the screen went blank the second time, however, it would later still resume all right. I guess it's something about triggering the correct acpi-event for poweroff or something.

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Re: [arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors
by niya levi 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:02:52 +0100 > From: Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors > Message-ID: <f592f45e-07fd-bd32-06af-4ccdf549d5ca(a)babioch.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > Am 13.01.2017 um 03:22 schrieb niya levi via arch-general: >> how do i go about diagnosing and fixing the problem, >> any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated. >> shadrock > Check all cables and re-plug them. To narrow down the problem you can > also swap arond disks, so you know whether it is the disk itself or the > controller and/or cabling. But problems like these are a sometimes a > PITA to fix. > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch hi Karol i have replaced one sata cable which seem to have reduced the error warnings, i still get the odd failed cmd periodically , i am getting some more sata cables before further test. thanks shadrock

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[arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors
by niya levi 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

hi everyone i have a fileserver with 6 1tb disks i get the following errors repeated constantly ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ata17.00 exception Emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen failed command: READ DMA cmd c8/00:30: tag 14 dma 65536 in res 40/00:ff:00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) status {DRDY} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- after some googling it's been suggested that it's either a hard drive, the sata controller or the sata cables. how do i go about diagnosing and fixing the problem, any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated. shadrock

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[arch-general] Package signing on soyuz
by Jerome Leclanche 19 Jan '17

19 Jan '17

What is the current intended way to sign packages on the pkgbuild.com server? I spent the past day setting up agent forwarding (https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding) for it. Had a lot of trouble setting it up due to systemd being seemingly overzealous about the gpg-agent socket. I have it working now, for myself, but wondering if anyone else is using it or if everybody is just signing locally. J. Leclanche

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[arch-general] arch-security: CVE and ASA wiki logging
by G. Schlisio 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hi all, I appreciate the service of our valued Arch CVE Monitoring Team a lot. Since new year there are no more CVEs and ASAs logged on the respective Wiki pages [0] and [1], although ASAs are (thankfully!) still issued to arch-security. Is there a reason for discontinuing logging to the well-known wiki pages e.g. did logging move to another location, or is the security team in need of help keeping up with the work? Please let us know! Thankyou in advance Georg [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security_Advisories

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[arch-general] uwsgi-2.0.14-15 segfaults with php plugin
by David Runge 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Hey all, ran into the issue, that after updating from uwsgi 2.0.14-1 to uwsgi 2.0.14-5 (php plugin of the same version), all php based webapps make uwsgi segfault (tested with wordpress and stikked)! Something like the below will happen (including after reboot): Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec systemd[1]: Starting uWSGI service unit... Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: [uWSGI] getting INI configuration from /etc/uwsgi/wordpress.ini Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: *** Starting uWSGI 2.0.14 (64bit) on [Tue Jan 17 16:24:20 2017] *** Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: compiled with version: 6.3.1 20170109 on 10 January 2017 00:34:54 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: os: Linux-4.8.13-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 9 07:24:34 CET 2016 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: nodename: frqrec Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: machine: x86_64 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: clock source: unix Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: pcre jit disabled Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: detected number of CPU cores: 2 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: current working directory: / Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: detected binary path: /usr/bin/uwsgi Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: setgid() to 33 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: setuid() to 33 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: your processes number limit is 15780 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: your memory page size is 4096 bytes Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: detected max file descriptor number: 1024 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: lock engine: pthread robust mutexes Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: thunder lock: disabled (you can enable it with --thunder-lock) Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: *** Cache "wordpress" initialized: 64MB (key: 2136 bytes, keys: 2136000 bytes, data: 65536000 bytes, bitmap: 0 bytes) preallocated *** Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: - SystemD socket activation detected - Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: uwsgi socket 1 attached to UNIX address /run/uwsgi/wordpress.sock fd 3 Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: !!! uWSGI process 2370 got Segmentation Fault !!! Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: *** backtrace of 2370 *** Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: /usr/bin/uwsgi(uwsgi_backtrace+0x2c) [0x466eec] Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: /usr/bin/uwsgi(uwsgi_segfault+0x21) [0x4672b1] Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x330b0) [0x7f9a019ea0b0] Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: /usr/lib/uwsgi/php_plugin.so(+0x53ca) [0x7f9a001fa3ca] Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec uwsgi[2370]: *** end of backtrace *** Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec systemd[1]: uwsgi-private(a)wordpress.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec systemd[1]: Failed to start uWSGI service unit. Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec systemd[1]: uwsgi-private(a)wordpress.service: Unit entered failed state. Jan 17 16:24:20 frqrec systemd[1]: uwsgi-private(a)wordpress.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Reverting back to uwsgi 2.0.14-1 fixes the problem (after restarting the socket, that activates the webapp). As a sidenote: I'm using the hardening and socket activation options as explained here, which shouldn't have much of an effect on the uwsgi itself though): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UWSGI#Socket_activation https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UWSGI#Hardening_uWSGI Has anyone had the same issue? I can't seem to find out, what has changed between revision 1 and 5 or if it needs another rebuild. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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Re: [arch-general] Old wine and intel graphics problem
by eerozeteen . 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 14:35:42 +0100 From: LoneVVolf >>No one has tested LI2 interlude with a version past 1.5.0, but that doesn't mean it will fail with later versions . >> Just try running it with latest wine, there's a big chance it will work. No one has tested, because game fail to start without any output in terminal. Of course winedebug += all shows wall of text, but i didnt see any hook to move forward. I wrote on server forum, that people play on ubuntu (with 1.5.0) as well. But i dont know what kind of graphics card they are using. So this is a reason, that im trying run game on 1.5.0. I know that problem can be in libgcrypt or something like that. There is a lot workarounds to steam with this error. Can downgrade libgcrypt help with it? How far you should go back? But i know that isnt safe. Regards eerozeteen

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[arch-general] is pam setup for samba
by niya levi 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

hi everyone i have installed and configured samba on my laptop, i see samba has installed a file in pam.d, do i need to do any further configuration to authenticate domain users using pam ? shadrock

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[arch-general] Old wine and intel graphics problem
by eerozeteen . 15 Jan '17

15 Jan '17

Hello, Im trying to run Lineage2 Interlude on my laptop (processor Intel Core i5-560M with integrated intel graphics) via Wine [1]. 1.5.0 is the last wine version where people can run Lineage2 Interlude. Im used playonlinux to create prefix with 1.5.0 and try to run a game. Unfortunately playonlinux debug utility shows problem with libGL: libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast I googling a lot, but every solution has a reference to Steam problem and dont works on my problem. Where can be problem? Drivers? Incompatibility old wine with system or graphics? Im tried run this same on different laptop (older then my, and with intel graphics too), and have same problem. Maybe is any workaround to make it work? [1] - https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9115 Regards eerozeteen

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Re: [arch-general] linux driver bcm4311 failure
by message 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

On 2017-01-02 20:04, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 02-01-17 15:33, message wrote: >> On 2016-12-30 19:46, message wrote: >>> On 2016-09-17 08:11, message wrote: >>>> On 2016-09-09 07:57, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >>>>> >>>>> The device is claimed by b43-pci-bridge so I would suggest: >>>>> >>>>> blacklist b43-pci-bridge >>>>> >> >> The wifi card indicator now appears to start after computer switch on >> (twice in a row now!) >> >> Neither networkmanager or wicd are accepting the password. >> >> Even: >> >> wicd-cli --wireless -c [wifihotspotname] >> done! >> >> is false and internet access not found. >> >> wpa_supplicant continues to report 'conn_failed' error. >> >> Connection to same network is successful using debian on chromebook >> (crouton) > > I am confused by all your messages. In the previous one you did a > 'modprobe b43'. So what driver do you intend to use here. b43 is not a > driver maintained by broadcom. You should ask for help on the b43 > mailing list [1] if you want to use that driver. > > Regards, > Arend > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/b43-dev After system upgrade, wifi card fails to be recognised. For the benefit of other users: save your time and avoid broadcom products; they are terrible.

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Re: [arch-general] btrfs raid 10 fileserver with ata errors
by niya levi 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

> after some googling it's been suggested that it's either a hard drive, > the sata controller or the sata cables. > how do i go about diagnosing and fixing the problem, > any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated. > shadrock > I've had this problem before. IIRC, you can match up the ata17.00 with what drive it's talking about by looking at your kernel boot messages. The first thing I would do is switch out the SATA cable and see if the problem persists. If that doesn't work, run a scan of the drive using the manufacturers scan program. > hi everyone these are the following tests i've tried and the results journalctl -f | grep ata Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:00:00:24:7d/00:07:1a:00:00/e0 tag 13 dma 917504 in Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:37:13 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:37:45 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:37:45 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:37:45 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:00:00:d9:7d/00:07:1a:00:00/e0 tag 25 dma 917504 in Jan 13 12:37:45 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:37:45 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:37:46 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:37:46 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:37:46 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:38:19 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:38:19 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:38:19 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:00:80:d6:81/00:06:1a:00:00/e0 tag 1 dma 786432 in Jan 13 12:38:19 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:38:19 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:38:20 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:38:20 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:38:20 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:80:80:d1:82/00:05:1a:00:00/e0 tag 28 dma 720896 in Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:38:52 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:39:24 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:39:24 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:39:24 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:00:00:9d:84/00:05:1a:00:00/e0 tag 1 dma 655360 in Jan 13 12:39:24 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:39:24 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:39:25 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:39:25 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:39:25 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:00:80:b8:85/00:05:1a:00:00/e0 tag 6 dma 655360 in Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:39:57 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:40:29 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:40:29 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:40:29 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:80:80:cd:85/00:05:1a:00:00/e0 tag 16 dma 720896 in Jan 13 12:40:29 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:40:29 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:40:30 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:40:30 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:40:30 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17.00: cmd 25/00:80:80:f2:85/00:05:1a:00:00/e0 tag 16 dma 720896 in Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17.00: status: { DRDY } Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17: hard resetting link Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17.00: configured for UDMA/33 Jan 13 12:41:02 maybel kernel: ata17: EH complete ^C ======================================================================================================= [alarm@maybel ~]$ ls -l /sys/block/ | grep sd. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:21 sda -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sdb -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/0000:02:00.0/ata13/host12/target12:0:0/12:0:0:0/block/sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sdc -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/0000:02:00.0/ata14/host13/target13:0:0/13:0:0:0/block/sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sdd -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/0000:02:00.0/ata15/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:0/block/sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sde -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0c.0/0000:02:00.0/ata16/host15/target15:0:0/15:0:0:0/block/sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sdf -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/0000:03:00.0/ata17/host16/target16:0:0/16:0:0:0/block/sdf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 9 14:26 sdg -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/0000:03:00.0/ata18/host17/target17:0:0/17:0:0:0/block/sdg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 10 02:43 sdh -> ../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.1/usb1/1-6/1-6:1.0/host20/target20:0:0/20:0:0:0/block/sdh ======================================================================================================= sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdf smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.8.13-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: HITACHI HUA722010ALA330 Serial Number: N136GXML LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 39ced38c2 Firmware Version: JP4ONA00 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 1.5 Gb/s Local Time is: Fri Jan 13 12:59:51 2017 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ======================================================================================================= sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sdf smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.8.13-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 1 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Fri Jan 13 13:31:48 2017 Use smartctl -X to abort test. ======================================================================================================= sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdf smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.8.13-1-ARCH] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: HITACHI HUA722010ALA330 Serial Number: N136GXML LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 39ced38c2 Firmware Version: JP4ONA00 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 1.5 Gb/s Local Time is: Fri Jan 13 13:34:00 2017 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x85) Offline data collection activity was aborted by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 41) The self-test routine was interrupted by the host with a hard or soft reset. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 9929) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 166) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 137 137 054 Pre-fail Offline - 91 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 130 130 024 Pre-fail Always - 278 (Average 305) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 69 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 138 138 020 Pre-fail Offline - 31 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 10782 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 68 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 123 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 123 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 193 193 000 Old_age Always - 31 (Min/Max 12/46) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 0 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10782 - # 2 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10776 - # 3 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10752 - # 4 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10728 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10703 - # 6 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10656 - # 7 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10632 - # 8 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10628 - # 9 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10608 - #10 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10584 - #11 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10560 - #12 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10537 - #13 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10513 - #14 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10489 - #15 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10465 - #16 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10461 - #17 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10441 - #18 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10417 - #19 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10393 - #20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10368 - #21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10344 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. lspci | grep SATA 00:05.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 00:05.1 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 00:05.2 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 02:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 9215 (rev 11) 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 03) 03:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 03) 04:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 03) 04:00.1 IDE interface: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller (rev 03) ======================================================================================================= sudo lshw -c storage *-usb description: Mass storage device product: AS2105 vendor: ASMedia physical id: 6 bus info: usb@1:6 version: 0.01 serial: WD-WCC4N5AHPU2D capabilities: usb-2.10 scsi configuration: driver=usb-storage speed=480Mbit/s *-ide:0 description: IDE interface product: MCP55 IDE vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 7 bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0 version: a1 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 resources: irq:0 ioport:1f0(size=8) ioport:3f6 ioport:170(size=8) ioport:376 ioport:f000(size=16) *-ide:1 description: IDE interface product: MCP55 SATA Controller vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 5 bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0 version: a3 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 resources: irq:21 ioport:9f0(size=8) ioport:bf0(size=4) ioport:970(size=8) ioport:b70(size=4) ioport:dc00(size=16) memory:fe02d000-fe02dfff *-ide:2 description: IDE interface product: MCP55 SATA Controller vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 5.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:05.1 version: a3 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 resources: irq:20 ioport:9e0(size=8) ioport:be0(size=4) ioport:960(size=8) ioport:b60(size=4) ioport:c800(size=16) memory:fe02c000-fe02cfff *-ide:3 description: IDE interface product: MCP55 SATA Controller vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 5.2 bus info: pci@0000:00:05.2 version: a3 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 resources: irq:23 ioport:c400(size=8) ioport:c000(size=4) ioport:bc00(size=8) ioport:b800(size=4) ioport:b400(size=16) memory:fe02b000-fe02bfff *-storage description: SATA controller product: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 11 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: storage pm msi pciexpress ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=ahci latency=0 resources: irq:27 ioport:9c00(size=8) ioport:9800(size=4) ioport:9400(size=8) ioport:9000(size=4) ioport:8c00(size=32) memory:fdeff000-fdeff7ff memory:fdee0000-fdeeffff *-storage description: SATA controller product: JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller vendor: JMicron Technology Corp. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: storage pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=ahci latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:fddfe000-fddfffff memory:fdde0000-fddeffff *-ide description: IDE interface product: JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller vendor: JMicron Technology Corp. physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pata_jmicron latency=0 resources: irq:16 ioport:7c00(size=8) ioport:7800(size=4) ioport:7400(size=8) ioport:7000(size=4) ioport:6c00(size=16) *-storage description: SATA controller product: JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller vendor: JMicron Technology Corp. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: storage pm pciexpress ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=ahci latency=0 resources: irq:16 memory:fdcfe000-fdcfffff memory:fdce0000-fdceffff *-ide description: IDE interface product: JMB363 SATA/IDE Controller vendor: JMicron Technology Corp. physical id: 0.1 bus info: pci@0000:04:00.1 version: 03 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pata_jmicron latency=0 resources: irq:16 ioport:5c00(size=8) ioport:5800(size=4) ioport:5400(size=8) ioport:5000(size=4) ioport:4c00(size=16) *-scsi physical id: 1 bus info: scsi@20 logical name: scsi20 capabilities: scsi-host configuration: driver=usb-storage ======================================================================================================= /dev/sdf is connected to ata17 on the 03.00 controller has the problems /dev/sdg connected to ata18 on the same controller is fine /dev/sdf exibits a long delay when getting the report from smartctl -a and frequent interurpted smart tests i will try a new cable later and report back. thanks shadrock

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[arch-general] Font packages dependencies
by Marcos Mello 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Font packages are being updated removing install scripts now that fontconfig and xorg-mkfontdir have hooks to run fc-cache/mkfontscale/mkfontdir. But their dependencies are not uniform. These are already updated packages, no install scripts: adobe-source-serif-pro-fonts, cantarell-fonts, gnu-free-fonts: none ttf-croscore, noto-fonts: fontconfig ttf-droid: fontconfig, xorg-font-utils, xorg-fonts-encodings ttf-ubuntu-font-family, ttf-hanazono: fontconfig, xorg-font-utils Forum related thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=221735 Should font packages depend only on fontconfig (and perhaps xorg-mkfontdir)? Or not depend on anything? Please CC me.

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[arch-general] Linux 4.9 and AMDGPU for GCN 1.1
by Britt Yazel 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

With the upcoming Linux kernel 4.9 release in the arch repos, the flag was set to enable building AMDGPU support in Southern Islands (SI - GCN 1.0) by default. The weird thing though is that Sea Islands (CIK - GCN 1.1) support is still not enabled, even though the upstream support for CIK has existed since 4.6 and SI has only just been marked as experimental in 4.9. Why did we flip the flag for SI and still keep it disabled for CIK? Hopefully it was just an oversight, as I would love to see support for building the AMDGPU kernel module support for both of these architectures by default. It seems weird to push a kernel that has AMDGPU support for GCN 1.0 and 1.2, while leaving GCN 1.1 still in the dark. Lastly, some may argue that as long as it is still considered experimental by upstream, it makes good sense to keep from building support by default. However, since the Radeon kernel driver takes precedence over AMDGPU for both SI and CIK architectures, in order to use the AMDGPU kernel driver the user would have to explicitely blacklist the Radeon kernel module. Thus, there should not really be a scenary where a user is running an experimental driver without their informed consent. The only thing garnered by keeping the CIK module disabled at build time is that anyone with a 2012-2015 AMD graphics card needs to build their own kernel to test out the arguable "better" driver, thus gaining TONS of benefits, least of which is Vulkan support. Thanks for reading! -Britt

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[arch-general] notmuch built with xapian-core from testing?
by David Runge 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Hey folks, I'm getting a notmuch: error while loading shared libraries: libxapian.so.30: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when trying to run the current notmuch. xapian-core is currently at 1:1.2.24-1 in extra and 1:1.4.2-1 in testing. I'm a bit confused by which version should be used for notmuch to run properly or if a rebuild is needed. Cheerios, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...
by fredbezies 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Sorry to reply to Phil Wyet this way. I enabled digest mode for arch-general. You won't see soon linux 4.9.x in core because it is kinda rotten with some Intel CPUs. You cannot get it to boot on some intel CPUs like an old T4200 or younger ones. See these bugs reports : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52246 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52271 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52243 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52238 Two bugs - and maybe more - are opened on kernel bug tracker : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192111 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191801 Looks like linux 4.9 won't be a LTS version at all... I own three computers. Because of intel CPU regression in 4.9.xx, both my asus eeePC and my Toshiba Laptop are booting on linux 4.4.xx LTS. Only my main desktop computer which is using an Athlon X2-215 is booting on linux 4.9.x. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Does ArchHaskell still have purpose?
by Magnus Therning 10 Jan '17

10 Jan '17

Hi all, Well, the subject line says it all really. Does ArchHaskell still have a role in the Arch world? These are the reasons for asking this at this point: - the Haskell packages in [community] now number more than 400 and there is considerable overlap with ArchHaskell (unfortunately it's not a superset, not yet anyway) - the Haskell packages in [community] also seem to be well maintained and to receive timely updates, - the build-tool and development-tool situation for Haskell has improved considerably over the last few years, between `stack` and `cabal` coupled with improvements to `ghci` and introduction of `ghc-mod`, `intero` and `hsdev` I feel that Haskell development now should be carried out without system-wide installation of libs. In particular the last point means that I personally haven't had `ghc` installed via a package for the last couple of months. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. — Anonymous

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[arch-general] NILFS: A filesystem designed to minimize the likelyhood of data loss
by Alexander Rath 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Hello! I'd like to share a link to this description/tutorial about NILFS2: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/nilfs-a-filesystem-designed-to-minimize-the-lik… Did anybody try to install Arch on a NILFS2-formatted partition? Best regards, Alexander

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-haskell] Does ArchHaskell still have purpose?
by Magnus Therning 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

Johan Holmquist <holmisen(a)gmail.com> writes: > I'd say that binary packages are really valuable for installing a > global haskell dev environment for quick hacks and scripts for which > it would not be practical to setup a project and download and build a > lot of deps. At least ghc and base should be installed globally so one > can just fire up the REPL to try things interactively. I've been using `stack ghci` for that, and for more involved stuff I've used `stack exec zsh -- --login` to get a shell with access to ghc :) For scripts it's possible to create a she-bang line with `stack` that will pull down the required ghc and dependencies. So, a *realy* long startup the first time, but subsequent invocations are quick :) I'm mostly mentioning this to point out that options exist, and that maybe, just maybe, binary packages for anything but tools (stack, hlint, pandoc, ...) aren't really that useful at all any longer. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Unix is the answer, but only if you phrase the question very carefully. — Unknown

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[arch-general] Arch install broken by invalid signatures (anthraxx) using 201610 iso
by David C. Rankin 09 Jan '17

09 Jan '17

All, Attempting an arch install tonight, and I get the following at pacstrap /mnt :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages... krb5-1.13.7-1-x86_64 1100.1 KiB 1405K/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% libpsl-0.16.1-1-x86_64 49.8 KiB 3.74M/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% (155/155) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% (155/155) checking package integrity [######################################] 100% error: krb5: signature from "Levente Polyak (anthraxx) <levente(a)leventepolyak.net>" is unknown trust :: File /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/krb5-1.13.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: libpsl: signature from "Levente Polyak (anthraxx) <levente(a)leventepolyak.net>" is unknown trust :: File /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/libpsl-0.16.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root What was this caused by? I had to boot from the 10/2016 iso. Is it a change in signatures since then? I'll download a new iso and try, but I'd be surprised if an iso less than 5 months old no longer works? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Stable 4.8 series and 4.9
by Phil Wyett 08 Jan '17

08 Jan '17

Hi, Could someone guide me to any doc on kernel update / version change policy for arch? I see we have a 4.8.16 released but not built for arch and 4.9.1 (in testing) that is, but still early in its release cycle. Regards Phil -- Play the game, for the games sake. OS of choice: Arch / Antergos GitHub: https://github.com/philwyettreb

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[arch-general] Gufw broken by large update.
by Alonzo Gomez 07 Jan '17

07 Jan '17

Hi. Gufw was working (xorg only, not under Wayland) until today. Today, I did a large update of multiple packages - about 240 Mb worth. After that Gufw no longer starts. Symptoms: When gufw icon is clicked, the authentication window pops up as usual, requesting the user password. When entered incorrectly, the window just says incorrect, try again. When entered correctly, the authentication window disappears, and nothing further happens. Same behavior using Linux, Linux-lts, and Linux-grsec kernels. Note: Gufw always started correctly under xorg (chosen at GDM login). Gufw has never worked, just displayed the symptoms stated above, under Wayland (chosen at GDM login). Since the update today involved many packages, I don't know which one(s) are the culprit(s). The updated packages seemed to be mainly about GTK and Python. All dependencies seem okay, and I did remove and reinstall Gufw. Same results. (Python-gobject is intalled and up to date). I searched online, in the wiki, in the forums, and in the Arch bug reports, all to no avail. I did come across some old reports of similar problems, possibly where GTK was responsible. Ufw is and has been working fine, enabled and autostarted under systemd. I can't see anything suspect in dmesg or journalctl, but might not recognize it if I did. Setup: Arch x86-64 Gnome 3 Grub2 machine is UEFI-capable, but using bios (MBR). 1 root partition (EXT4) 1 swap partition Contents of /var/log/gufw.log: [12/29/2016 10:47:41 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 1 [12/29/2016 10:47:32 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw --force delete 2 [12/29/2016 10:46:15 PM] /usr/sbin/ufw deny in proto tcp from any to any port 23 [10/31/2016 09:41:17 PM] Confirm Delete Dialog: Enabled I don't have 6 months to learn to use ufw without a gui. Any magic solution? If not - I'm so disgusted with ufw on Arch - can I just remove gufw, ufw, and ufw from systemctl, and then install firewalld. If so, will the existing iptables configuration be overwritten automatically, or would it have to be somehow purged manually? Note: I have not filed a bug report yet. I wanted to see if it was really a bug, or a PEBKAC error.

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Re: [arch-general] New kernel repo
by Simon Gomizelj 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Check out https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/unofficial_user_repositories You may find a repository for the kernel you're looking for. Just be wary its obviously unofficial and thus unsupported.

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[arch-general] New kernel repo
by Mthw Mthw 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

After using Archlinux for a while I started to miss the ability to use latest kernels easily as it is on Mint or Ubuntu. I think the ubuntu kernel ppa is a good way to distribute kernel packages to users who dont want to build kernels from source every time new version is available. I wanted to ask you if you could, in the future, create a webpage that would provide precompiled packages for linux-mainline and/or linux-rc. Looking forward to your answer, Your Happy Arch User

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[arch-general] group install
by Tim Ye 06 Jan '17

06 Jan '17

Hi, I read a Arch Linux wiki page says one can "install a group": "Install the xfce4 group." how can I do that? Thanks, - Tim

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[arch-general] Acount banned in the wiki and also #archlinux-wiki
by Diego Viola 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Because I noticed the #bitcoin community about a troll disrupting the following article/discussion and spreading lies/FUD about bitcoin. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Bitcoin This kind of operator abuse is getting ridiculous in the Arch Linux community. Thanks, alad. Diego

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[arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.
by fredbezies 03 Jan '17

03 Jan '17

Hello. I'm facing an annoying bug with linux 4.9-1 kernel on my 6 or 7 years old Toshiba Laptop. When I try to make it boot on with linux 4.9-1 kernel, it freeze right after loading initramfs. 4.8.xx kernel was working flawlessly. My eeePC (nearly 9 years old) and my desktop computer (which is AMD based) are both starting with linux 4.9. I opened a bug : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52246 Here is my lspci. If someone can help me finding what is happening, I'll be very happy : 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) Thanks! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Re: [arch-general] linux driver bcm4311 failure
by message 02 Jan '17

02 Jan '17

On 2016-09-17 08:11, message wrote: > On 2016-09-09 07:57, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >> >> The device is claimed by b43-pci-bridge so I would suggest: >> >> blacklist b43-pci-bridge >> > > This instruction was added as the last line of the configuration file. > After reboot, the computer wifi card continues to be inactive (wifi > indicator fails to switch on, wifi connection not possible). Since then, the system has been updated. Wifi led on keyboard (dell inspiron 1520) does not light up unless root command is entered: modprobe b43 Then: wpa_supplicant -D nl80211,wext -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "[mobile phone wifi hotspot name]" "[mobile phone wifi hotspot password]" ... Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant ... Trying to authenticate ... auth_failures=1 duration=10 reason conn_failed ... Connection is successful to same wifi hotspot using debian system. Various versions of broadcom-wl have been tried and failed, from linux310 to linux49. Suggestions please? Dell wireless 1390 wlan mini card broadcom bcm4311 802.11b/g wlan 14e4:4311 kernel drive b43-pci-bridge kernel modules: ssb, wl

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[arch-general] change in hooks recently?
by Javier Vasquez 01 Jan '17

01 Jan '17

Hi, I have this pacman hook: ++++ % cat /etc/pacman.d/hooks/systemd_mkinitcpio_regenerate.hook [Trigger] Operation = Install Operation = Upgrade Type = Package Target = systemd [Action] When = PostTransaction Exec = /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -p linux ++++ It used to trigger only when upgrading the "systemd" package, for a post transaction. However now it's triggering on every system upgrade, which is not what I was expecting... Thanks, -- Javier

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[arch-general] Christmas gift?
by piequiex 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

http://sprunge.us/PIRG -- Have a nice day!

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[arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)
by David C. Rankin 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

All, After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new (used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0). The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard drive as /dev/sda where it should be. This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change hd0 0 to hd1 0 (I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb below) $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb 8:16 1 980M 0 disk ├─sdb2 8:18 1 40M 0 part └─sdb1 8:17 1 792M 0 part sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─sda7 8:7 0 880G 0 part /home ├─sda5 8:5 0 500M 0 part /boot ├─sda1 8:1 0 1K 0 part ├─sda8 8:8 0 1G 0 part └─sda6 8:6 0 50G 0 part / and $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 * 4096 1028095 1024000 500M 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1030144 105887743 104857600 50G 83 Linux /dev/sda7 105889792 1951383551 1845493760 880G 83 Linux /dev/sda8 1951385600 1953525167 2139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris grub is installed to /dev/sda with grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda (no errors on install), and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1. Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a /boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas? Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Getting Started with Arch Linux Package Building
by fsckd 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

New Class, "Getting Started with Arch Linux Package Building" The class will be held on Sunday, Dec 11th at 19:00 UTC in #archlinux-classroom on irc.freenode.net. It is taught by meskarune and halosghost. This class will give you the understanding and resources to read, edit and write your own PKGBUILDs from scratch. The class will be covering basic PKGBUILDs as well as version control systems and GPG signed software. You will also learn how to check PKGBUILDs for errors and security issues to look out for. Everyone is welcome to join. The rules posted in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct will be enforced. Prerequisites: * Have a basic understanding of filesystems and filesystem permissions * Know basic shell commands * Know how to extract archives (e.g., `bsdtar -xf filename`) * Ability to use a text editor (e.g., nano, vim, emacs, etc.) * Have base and base-devel installed (Arch Linux specific) along with pacman/makepkg and namcap Teachers: halosghost, resident panda of the Arch Linux community, enjoys programming, bagels and banning * on irc. meskarune is an artist, programmer and sysadmin. She has contributed to FOSS for 16 years and been an Arch user for 9 years.

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[arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs
by fnodeuser 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-November/028492.… i have a few things to add to this. the message digests at the download page for the .iso file, must change to sha256 and sha512 ones, or to a sha512 one. if an upstream does not sign the files, does not have https enabled, and/or refuses to take security and privacy seriously, sha512 must be used in the PKGBUILD files. in the cases of upstreams that use md5 and/or sha1 message digests, those will be added in a second ALGOsums= line under the sha512sums= line. if they use md5 and sha1, then sha1sums must be used for the second ALGOsums= line.

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[arch-general] STM32 compilation on ArchLinuxARM
by Foxtrot Mike 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

TL;DR; I need a way to install arm-none-eabi-gcc on Raspberry Pi (Arch Linux ARM) using pacman or from source. Hi guys, First of all, I know that this mailing list entertains questions and information related to Arch Linux, not Arch Linux ARM. Since I have received valuable suggestions on this list before, I am going to ask my question here in the hope that someone would be able and willing to help. I couldn't find the required info on the internet. I am running Arch on my main desktop. I installed arm-none-eabi-gcc package using pacman so I can compile code for my STM32F103 board. I switched from Raspbian to ArchLinuxARM on Raspberry pi yesterday*. I have found most of the my daily usage packages in ARchLinuxARM repo, but can't find arm-none-eabi-gcc package. There's a post on ArchLinuxARM forums [1] requesting the same info, but the post didn't get any reply. Every google search tells ways to develop for Raspberry Pi on x86 computers using arm-none-eabi-gcc. I couldn't find any meaningful info about developing for ARM Cortex-Mx on Raspberry pi. Any suggestions would be apreciated. Regards, Fulcrum [1] https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10060 * Hoping to use Raspberry pi as my daily computer so I could run Windows on my main desktop for gaming

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[arch-general] Whatever happened to speps?
by David Runge 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Helloes, I was wondering, if anyone knows anything regarding the current status of speps. I tried to ping him about some long-outdated packages (supercollider, pd), but haven't gotten a reply in a week. With supercollider we're currently already at 3.7.2 and with pd at 0.47. The latter will also require some fixes, because unpatched/unmodified it's unusuable in its current state (in a JACK setup). Not to be annoying, it's just that an outdating of more than 6 months is very unusual (in the case of supercollider) and I'm using them regularely. I'd be happy to help get the packages back on track. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] Postfix delivery problem
by G. Schlisio 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Dear list, We have a mail server with postfix and dovecot where we have mail addresses with local unix accounts (authenticated by pam) and without unix accounts (dovecot passwd-file authentication). The problem only affects those non-unix account mail addresses. (There are also completely virtual email addresses with different domains, also managed by dovecot, but still working fine, for simplicity ignored here; sorry the config is really complicated). All non-unix-account addresses are listed in a postfix table, configured in main.cf by: mailbox_transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/mailbox_transport_maps looking like this: user1 dovecot user2 dovecot All this was working fine, before yesterdays (rather big) system-upgrade. Now we get the following error in the mail logs: <user(a)dukun.de>: delivery via local: user lookup error postfix/local in verbose mode complains: postfix/local[27333]: deliver_switch[2]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias[3]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias: hash:/etc/aliases(0,lock|no_regsub|no_proxy|no_unauth|fold_fix|utf8_request): user not found dukun postfix/local[27333]: dict_pcre_lookup: /etc/postfix/aliases_regex: user dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias: pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases_regex(0,lock|no_regsub|no_proxy|no_unauth|fold_fix|utf8_request): user not found Dez 23 01:56:03 dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_dotforward[3]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from postfix/local[27333]: warning: error looking up passwd info for user: Invalid argument It seems like postfix/local is ignoring the mailbox_transport_maps option and trying to deliver itself instead of passing to dovecot, thus finding no entry in the system passwd. After full upgrade config files were merged (no changes in mail config) and a reboot was done. The list of upgraded packages is shown at http://termbin.com/k5ql . As downgrading postfix, dovecot and icu (linking) did not resolve this issue, we are very confused. As this is critical infrastructure for some people, any help is warmly appreciated. regards georg

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot
by Giovanni Santini 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Il 07/12/2016 17:25, Giovanni Santini ha scritto: > Il 29/11/2016 10:49, David Phillips ha scritto: >> >> I'm not familiar with GRUB anymore, but it sounds like perhaps the file >> bootmgfw.efi has not been signed with a key that is trusted by your board's >> SecureBoot feature. Hence, booting with SB enabled causes a load failure >> while booting without SB fixes the problem. >> > Good afternoon, as here I had no major suggestion about what to do, I decided to ask help in the official mailing list as you can see in [1]. After some tests, we found a small bug in grub that prevented the chainload of EFI executables. This fixes my problem. However, it is not present in the official package yet; I suppose that opening a bug report online should be enough. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2016-12/msg00001.html [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=ce95549cc54b5d6f494608… -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] UID/GID of a systemd container
by arnaud gaboury 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

% systemctl --version systemd 232 +PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN % uname -r 4.8.13-1-hortensia (username space is set to YES) ------------------------------------------------ My setup: Archlinux host managing through systemd-nspawn a Fedora container on Btrfs. I don't know what upgrade (kernel, Fedora 24 --> 25, systemd....) trigered this change, but UID/GID of my container are no more shown as before. list container directory from host: # ls -al /var/lib/machines/poppy dr-xr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 198 Dec 16 17:32 ./ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Dec 15 17:08 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 0 Feb 3 2016 boot/ drwxrwxr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 62 Aug 26 19:59 db/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 8 Apr 27 2015 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 4.2K Feb 3 2016 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 86 Feb 3 2016 home/ Before it was like this: # ls -al /var/lib/machines/poppy/ dr-xr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 198 Oct 4 15:54 ./ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Oct 1 15:53 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 0 Feb 3 2016 boot/ drwxrwxr-x 1 363397120 363397120 62 Aug 26 19:59 db/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 8 Apr 27 2015 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 4.1K Feb 3 2016 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 76 Feb 3 2016 home/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for any hint, link to documentation about this new way to show UID/GID of a container.

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[arch-general] Screen lock stopped working
by David Rosenstrauch 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

I've noticed that my screen lock / screensaver has stopped engaging as of a couple of days ago. I check the settings (which I haven't changed recently), but they seem to be set correctly. Anyone have an idea what package upgrade might have caused this and/or which bugs I should watch for a resolution? I'm running XFCE desktop btw. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] [OT] Settings problem: Why is Thunderbird so silly?
by Peter Nabbefeld 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hi all, I want to select an application for opening an attachment with an alternative editor (a PDF file with LibreOffice Draw in this case). When I want to select the application, I get the list of last opened files (i.e. text files, which obviously are not able to run ...). Trying to search for "sdraw" presents me with a waiting cursor ... waiting endlessly. I'd guess I have to set some options somewhere, but I don't know which - or do I even have to edit some XUL file? I doubt, that Thunderbird is really so "silly" just not being able to find some application. BTW, my desktop is XFCE, latest firefox (latest system update today). Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] [OT] Settings problem: Why is Thunderbird so silly?
by ber532k 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hi, what worked for me was navigating to /usr/bin or even /bin within the "Choose Helper Application" dialogue and then selecting an executable (in this case libreoffice). The "Choose Helper Application" dialogue will even remember it was in /usr/bin when you invoke it again. Reminds me of the way to do stuff in Windows Vista - back when I was young and ignorant ;) - where you'd "Open with" something like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft Office\WINWORD.EXE". Not quite an elegant way of managing programms, but it works most of the time. Regards

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[arch-general] Google Summer of Code 2017
by Jonas Verschueren 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Hi everyone, I am currently thinking about applying for the 2017 run of Google Summer of Code. Because I am an avid Arch user and general Linux enthusiast I thought it would be nice to work on Arch and make my contribution back to the community. This discussion seems to come up most years and I don’t know what the outcome of this was previously but I thought I’d ask anyway. I am a PhD student in theoretical and computational materials science based in London. I am an experienced c++ and python user but I am getting more and more interested in the inner workings of the linux kernel and the way various distributions are built on top of it, which also explains my interest in doing this. Anyone know whether someone of the Arch developers could be interested in (or gently persuaded into) mentoring a Summer of code project? Best wishes, Jonas

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[arch-general] Why was wpa_supplicant.conf renamed wpa_supplicant.conf.pacsav??
by David C. Rankin 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Arch devs, I'm left wondering what purpose was served by not providing a pre-update note or post-install restoration of any existing .pacsave found? The new sample wpa_supplicant.conf is in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. If this was simply due to a pacman default action where /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf was removed upstream, could a one-off 'post-install' script check for the original .pacsave and restore it? I know this is small-potatoes stuff, but I just wonder if in these instances, it may not be better to either provide pre-update notice or do a post-install script rather than relying on a post update action by the user? At least in the cases where you know up-front that existing functionality will be disabled by the upgrade. (which was apparent from the comment) Food for thought for the packagers. In these cases, I would think we would either want some type of pre-update note on archlinux.org (like for ttf-dejavu) or some post install restoration of the original config. I'll reiterate, at least for the cases where the packager 'knows' a broken config will result. Here, anyone relying on remote access via wpa_supplicant is left dead in the water unless they catch the comment as it scrolls by before rebooting. (yes they should review the comments, but with human nature what it is...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Regular service freezes the system
by Guus Snijders 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Op 16 dec. 2016 10:24 schreef "Jeanette C." <julien(a)mail.upb.de>: Hi List, I have encountered this issue several times now. I can't be sure, which job actually freezes the system, a good runner up is updatedb, [...] Sounds like your system has either too little memory for your workload or has a problem with (heavy) IO. By freezing; do you mean that the system feels slow, or does it hang completely? In either case, you might want to check dmesg for errors. If everything is working but just slow, check your memory usage and/or try to reschedule both tasks (updatedb and mandb) to a more convenient time. I think the cgroups can also help here, but that's a bit of longshot for me. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs
by fnodeuser 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

hello eli, you have misread and misunderstood a few things. reread carefully all the messages about the subject, and check the links in my second email. i will write only about things that are not covered by the previous messages. >Sure they're the same. It is the same underlying technology you have some studying to do about checksums and message digests. >Um, what? `pacman -Syu` does, in fact, check that every package is >signed by a Developer or Trusted User whose key is in archlinux-keyring. what i said is that the users must check the integrity of the sources too. it is not something that only the package maintainers must do. the users must check the PKGBUILD files to compare message digests and key fingerprints. >sha256sums is plenty secure enough. So I assume the Firefox maintainer >uses that mega-file to validate the download, then uses updpkgsums to >update the current sha256sums rather than using copypasta on Firefox's >SHA512SUMS file. no. you will never use less secure than upstream. the best must be used to future-proof also. copypasta? no one said to copy-paste anything without verifying first. >Arch Linux doesn't even have a gnupg1 package, if you want to blame >someone for the absolute inability to validate that key on Arch Linux >(independent of makepkg) blame the GnuPG developers for dropping support >of insecure and tremendously outdated keys. it does not matter. he will download it on his own to verify it, and then he will add the sha512 message digest in the PKGBUILD file to future-proof it. >Assuming they care about being securely identified on IRC. Maybe they do >connect securely when they care about proving their identity for a >specific conversation where it matters. > >I will grant you that for common sense alone you might as well connect >securely whenever possible as it doesn't cost anything. But equally, it >doesn't cost anything to *not* do so. "With great power comes great responsibility." -Uncle Ben AL team members must be responsible with their power. they must follow best security practices.

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[arch-general] Regular service freezes the system
by Jeanette C. 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Hi List, I have encountered this issue several times now. I can't be sure, which job actually freezes the system, a good runner up is updatedb, though I have a feeling that somethi9ng ran after that one. updatedb (mlocate) definitely eats a lot of system resources, eventhough it only concentrates on my internal sata disk with ext3/ext4 only filesystems. The last entries in the journal are related to the update of the mandb. The issue in question doesn't arise every day, thus it may be a service run weekly - or even more infrequently - or some other interaction of my own causes these freezes. I don't always work on my computer around midnight. Can anyone help or guide me in further research, please? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] GTK3 theming issues in i3wm
by Giovanni Santini 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

Good evening, I started having fun with i3wm. I find myself pretty well with it and my setup is working well... I tried to set up the settings.ini file in the appropriate GTK3 folder, in order to have the same configuration I've in my GNOME Shell setup. But, setting up the GTK style file, makes Firefox totally not working, making the theme to not be used and removing all text from tabs and elsewhere, except the rendered pages. Thunderbird, on the other hand, works perfectly with the same file... And Nautilus doesn't accept the file. An option could be to use the i3-gnome session, but it was pretty broken for me (I wasn't able to exit i3) while normal i3 worked flawlessly. Not sure how can I debug stuff, I will provide here everything needed. Thanks in advance! -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] excerpt from typescript file
by Jude DaShiell 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

I did software update and in post-install got the following message about systemd. I have an x86-64 machine running bios since it was built in 1994 before efi was a Microsoft dream. (5/8) Upgrading systemd-boot... Couldn't find EFI system partition. It is recommended to mount it to /boot. Alternatively, use --path= to specify path to mount point. [1;31merror: [0mcommand failed to execute correctly --

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[arch-general] virtualbox-bin x-server connection refused
by David C. Rankin 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

All, I'm a bit confused with a connection refused from the X-server attempting to start fluxbox within an Arch guest. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if I have a module problem after the last kernel update. (dkms says everything was rebuilt) I have the following installed: virtualbox-bin 5.1.8-1 virtualbox-ext-oracle 5.1.8-1 on 4.8.12-3-ARCH I start virtualbox headless $ VBoxManage startvm "arch_1_64" --type headless and then connect to the vm with rdesktop, e.g. $ rdesktop fenrir -u david -g 1280x800 -x l & The connection to the guest is fine, it pops up with the 1152x864 framebuffer resolution I set. If I start it without 'headless', the console starts over ssh and mouse-pointer integration is automatic, just as it should be. But either way, if I attempt to start x, via 'startx' as I do normally with my `.xinitrc` set to launch fluxbox, I get: xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused. The host modules loaded are: 10:58 fenrir:~/cnf/vbox> lsmod | grep box vboxnetflt 28672 0 vboxnetadp 28672 0 vboxpci 24576 0 vboxdrv 385024 4 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt,vboxpci which I don't see a vboxvideo or vboxsfs, etc.., but that is where my confusion comes in. Since this is 5.1.8 (well after 5.0.8 as mentioned in the wiki) are those modules even used anymore? and if not, do I have all the modules I need? Checking the Xorg.0.log on the guest it complains it can't find 'vboxvideo', 'fbdev' or 'vesa' modules, e.g. 'no screens found(EE)'. Do I need to do something more in the guest after upgrading the kernel there? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Apple Super Drive and Arch Linux?
by L. Rose 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi, has anyone used the Apple Super Drive external DVD writer with Arch Linux yet? You need to send some magic byte sequence to enable it. The method [0] has worked for me on all debian-based distributions I've used so far, but as I tried it on my Arch Linux today, it didn't work. 1. Super Drive is not visible as /dev/sr0 after being plugged in, only as /dev/bus/usb/001/0xx 2. "sudo sg_raw /dev/bus/usb/001/010 EA 00 00 00 00 00 01" fails with error message "do_scsi_pt: Inappropriate ioctl for device" lsusb lists "Bus 001 Device 010: ID 05ac:1500 Apple, Inc. SuperDrive [A1379]" and dmesg says "usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd". I installed sg3_utils from extra. I suspect Arch Linux being the problem, since it worked on debian before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Lukas [0]: https://christianmoser.me/use-apples-usb-superdrive-with-linux/

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[arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs
by fnodeuser 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

checksums and message digests are not the same thing.[1] checksums are not suitable for integrity verification, and the best (meaning, at the time of writing and for the foreseeable future, most secure), currently supported cryptographic hash function algorithm (that is sha512 in AL's case), must be used to compute the message digests of the files. message digests are one of the things that we can and must use for security. not all upstreams have https enabled and not all of them sign their files with gpg. it was because of me that the 'Use gpg signatures and https sources' task was added to the todo list.[2][3][4] these things must be checked by the users also, not only by the package maintainers. i check everything, most of you check nothing. you just do 'pacman -Syu'. let us start with firefox's PKGBUILD file for the first example. you are using sha256mds instead of sha512mds. you can see at https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/50.0.2/, that there are 3 files, KEY, SHA512SUMS, and SHA512SUMS.asc. that is one example where you are using a smaller digest size than upstream, that cannot be verified with the signature. another example is nmap's PKGBUILD file. you continued to use sha1mds instead of sha512mds.[5] in Gentoo they use 3 mds and in Debian they use 2 mds (for all packages, regardless of what upstreams do or do not do (in Debian's case they sign the files containing the mds)).[6][7] there are a few package maintainers who insist on using and/or are still using only a part of the commit or tag hash. the whole commit or tag hash must be used, always. the refusal to future-proof.[8] i talked with the lsof upstream. he told me that he has retired, that he is old, and that he might stop maintaining it. it is unlikely that he will create a new keypair any time soon and he might never do that. another bad thing that many AL team members do, is connecting to irc servers without using tls and certificate verification. that is all for now. _ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51579 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-October/028416.h… [4] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?opened=23845&status[]=, https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?opened=23412&status[]=, and https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?opened=23101&status[]= [5] https://nmap.org/dist/sigs/nmap-7.31.tar.bz2.digest.txt [6] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/firefox/Manifest [7] https://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/pool/main/f/firefox/firefox_50.0.2-1.dsc [8] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50482

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[arch-general] Systemd services start by default
by sivmu 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Today I noticed there were network services running on my system. I DON'T have have permanently running network services. WTF happened? Systemd happened! Or rather systemd-resolved and the systemd time sync daemon. It seems that a recent update set those services to start by default. I thought I would let you know and maybe this is worth an announcement because I won't be the only one not happy about systemd enableing services an my system that I don't need/want.

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[arch-general] gnupg failing strangely
by Magnus Therning 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

The last few days I've noticed issues with GnuPG. I'm using `gpg-agent` as my `ssh-agent` and that's were I noticed strangeness first. I can't add keys: ~~~ $ ssh-add /home/lmagnus/.ssh/id_ecdsa_github Enter passphrase for /home/lmagnus/.ssh/id_ecdsa_github: Could not add identity "/home/lmagnus/.ssh/id_ecdsa_github": agent refused operation ~~~ and now I found that I can't encrypt files: ~~~ $ gpg -c TODO gpg: cancelled by user gpg: error creating passphrase: Operation cancelled gpg: symmetric encryption of 'TODO' failed: Operation cancelled ~~~ Anyone else seeing similar behaviour? I'm seeing this behaviour on both the latest package, 2.1.16, and the previous, 2.1.15 (both -1 and -2). I've not dared go back further than that since 2.14 complains "libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file". /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. — J.R.R Tolkien

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[arch-general] GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot
by Giovanni Santini 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Good afternoon, I have been using GRUB for a long time, but I'm having a strange issue. My setup consists of ArchLinux as main OS and Windows 10 and Ubuntu 12.04 as secondary OSes. Turning up Secure Boot in my firmware options results in such an error when chainloading Windows: /EndEntire file path: /ACPI(yadda)/PCI(yadda)/Sata(0,0,0)/HD(yaddayadda)/File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot)/File(bootmgfw.efi)/EndEntire error: cannot load image. The strange thing is that disabling Secure Boot make it works. Not really sure what I'm missing here. -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] PHP 7.1.0 not compatible with latest stable ownCloud in [community]
by Chi-Hsuan Yen 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hi Arch enthusiasts, I've just upgraded to testing/php 7.1.0-2. Now my ownCloud installation only displays a short notice on its index.php: This version of ownCloud is not compatible with PHP 7.1. You are currently running 7.1.0. Please use at least ownCloud 9.2.0. However, seems ownCloud 9.2 is still far away to go: https://github.com/owncloud/core/milestone/76, and php 7.1 is not yet fully supported: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/26764. I guess I need to leave a loud message to Arch developers and prevent php 7.1.0 from entering [extra]. What's the best way? Open a bug on Flyspray? Thanks for any input! Best, Yen, Chi-Hsuan

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Getting Started with Arch Linux Package Building
by MARLIN LUKE 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

The class will be held on Sunday, Dec 11th at 19:00 UTC in #archlinux-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

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[arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way
by Merlin Büge 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hey everybody! I'm currently installing Arch on my laptop (Thinkpad T400), and have decided for a rather unusual partition scheme: A single LUKS container directly on the disk (SSD) with a GPT partition table and two partitions inside it: one for SWAP, the other one for the system and everyting else, formatted with Btrfs. The laptop runs libreboot, so I have GRUB2 as a payload inside the flash chip which I use to decrypt the LUKS container and load a GRUB configfile located at /boot/grub/grub.cfg (generated by grub-mkconfig). This works fine. While experimenting with GPT inside LUKS before the installation I've noticed two issues, with at least one of them being present also after installation: First, after unlocking the LUKS containter the two GPT partitions don't become visible to the kernel automatically. I have to manually do partprobe /dev/mapper/<dmname> to inform the kernel about the two new partitions. partprobe is part of parted. My idea was to create a custom hook just after the 'encrypt' hook, which would simply run the above command. I tested this and it seems to work. Question: Is there an even simpler solution to that problem? For example an alternative to partprobe which is already in 'base'? The second issue was that I could not (after unmounting the Btrfs partition and deactivating the swap partition of course) directly close the LUKS mapping via cryptsetup luksClose <dmname> It gave me: device-mapper: remove ioctl on <dmname> failed: Device or resource busy [...] device-mapper: remove ioctl on <dmname> failed: Device or resource busy Device <dmname> is still in use. Instead, I had to remove the partition mappings first via dmsetup remove <dmname>1 <dmname>2 This was getting me rid of the aforementioned error messages. As expected, I get these error messages also during system shutdown -- but only whith the shutdown hook in initramfs. Without it, I presume the system does not even try to close the LUKS container (which would make sense, since there is no initramfs created by default for shutdown afaik), therefore also resulting in no error messages being shown. What could I do about this? I'd like to have my system closing the LUKS container correctly -- therefore I need to remove the partition mappings before that. I've read a lot in the last days and weeks about Btrfs, SSDs, coreboot, etc. to make sure I don't run into many issues. Though these two don't come unexpected, I don't know how to solve the latter one, because systemd shutdown and shutdown initramfs are still a little miracle to me... I'd really appreciate any help! This is all on an up-to-date vanilla 4.8.10-1-ARCH. I attached two shutdown logs with debugging enabled: one with and one without the shutdown hook applied. They look very similar though. (I made sure to reboot twice after building the initramfs before taking the shutdown log.) My HOOKS array is: HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard keymap encrypt pp \ filesystems fsck shutdown" (pp being the hook which runs partprobe against the mapped LUKS container) Best Regards, Merlin -- Merlin Büge <toni(a)bluenox07.de>

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[arch-general] minidlna problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hello, I've installed minidlna (community/minidlna 1.1.6-1), but cannot access any files. When I access it on port 8200, statistics count some audio files, but those are videos (mp4). I also cannot see a list of the files (well, I even don't know, if this would be expected behaviour). If I try to connect via UPnP using VLC, I cannot even see any file. Portscan detected port 8200 listening, but neither 80 nor 1900. So, I do have some questions: - Why are my mp4 files recognized as audio files? - Is minidlna expected t oshow a list of files in its DB somewhere? - How can I detect minidlna working correctly? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] After upgrade
by piequiex 04 Dec '16

04 Dec '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 upgraded linux (4.8.10-1 -> 4.8.11-1) 4.8.11-1-ARCH [ 65.955101] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff81e00000 [ 65.956510] IP: [<ffffffff8130b914>] __memmove+0x24/0x1a0 [ 65.957874] PGD 1a09067 PUD 1a0a063 PMD 0 [ 65.959198] Oops: 0000 [#17] PREEMPT SMP [ 65.960489] Modules linked in: nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_tcpudp xt_pkttype nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_owner xt_conntrack nf_conntrack iptable_filter bnep sha256_mb mcryptd sha256_ssse3 sha256_generic dm_crypt joydev dm_mod hid_rmi dell_wmi sparse_keymap mxm_wmi btusb mousedev btrtl uvcvideo btbcm btintel bluetooth videobuf2_vmalloc rtsx_usb_ms videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_core videodev media memstick intel_rapl dell_led iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp dell_laptop dell_smbios dcdbas snd_soc_rt5640 elan_i2c snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic snd_soc_rl6231 snd_soc_core snd_compress kvm irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul [ 65.972470] glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd r8169 intel_cstate intel_rapl_perf pcspkr input_leds snd_pcm_dmaengine mac_hid i2c_hid snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 i2c_smbus ac97_bus snd_hda_codec i2c_designware_platform i2c_designware_core mei_me snd_soc_sst_acpi mii thermal battery ac spi_pxa2xx_platform snd_soc_sst_match 8250_dw i915 wmi snd_hda_core video drm_kms_helper snd_hwdep intel_gtt syscopyarea sysfillrect dell_rbtn tpm_tis sysimgblt button fb_sys_fops tpm_tis_core i2c_algo_bit tpm mei shpchp lpc_ich fjes sch_fq_codel sg ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache rtsx_usb_sdmmc rtsx_usb hid_generic usbhid hid sr_mod cdrom sd_mod serio_raw atkbd libps2 dell_smm_hwmon ahci libahci libata scsi_mod xhci_pci ehci_pci ehci_hcd xhci_hcd usbcore usb_common i8042 serio sdhci_acpi sdhci led_class [ 65.988729] mmc_core evdev speedstep_lib snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd soundcore wl(PO) cfg80211 rfkill nvidia(PO) drm [ 65.993921] CPU: 2 PID: 892 Comm: loadkeys Tainted: P D O 4.8.11-1-ARCH #1 [ 65.999240] task: ffff8801144a0e40 task.stack: ffff880114510000 [ 66.001963] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8130b914>] [<ffffffff8130b914>] __memmove+0x24/0x1a0 [ 66.004774] RSP: 0018:ffff880114513cf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 66.007584] RAX: ffffffff81aa2742 RBX: 0000000000000017 RCX: ffff8801a5516e9f [ 66.010453] RDX: ffff8801a587475d RSI: ffffffff81e00000 RDI: ffffffff81e00000 [ 66.013328] RBP: ffff880114513d48 R08: ffff8801198fec00 R09: ffffffff813f8fda [ 66.016231] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 66.019184] R13: ffff880127316e7d R14: ffffffff81aa2742 R15: ffff8801198fec00 [ 66.022165] FS: 00007f900658e480(0000) GS:ffff88012fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 66.025209] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 66.028204] CR2: ffffffff81e00000 CR3: 000000011444d000 CR4: 00000000001406e0 [ 66.031219] Stack: [ 66.034191] ffffffff813f92dc ffff88010000009f ffff8801198fec01 0000000000000016 [ 66.037305] 000000001f326800 ffff880127316e9f ffff88011f326800 ffff88011f326800 [ 66.040367] 0000000000004b49 ffff88012b010800 0000000000000000 ffff880114513dc8 [ 66.043353] Call Trace: [ 66.046208] [<ffffffff813f92dc>] ? vt_do_kdgkb_ioctl+0x34c/0x450 [ 66.049051] [<ffffffff813f3fef>] vt_ioctl+0x8df/0x12a0 [ 66.051806] [<ffffffff81226663>] ? touch_atime+0x33/0xd0 [ 66.054481] [<ffffffff8117a6bb>] ? generic_file_read_iter+0x65b/0x840 [ 66.057111] [<ffffffff813e8735>] tty_ioctl+0x365/0xc70 [ 66.059639] [<ffffffff8118ad36>] ? lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable+0x36/0xb0 [ 66.062150] [<ffffffff812088a1>] ? __vfs_read+0xe1/0x130 [ 66.064583] [<ffffffff8121c483>] do_vfs_ioctl+0xa3/0x5f0 [ 66.066914] [<ffffffff812095a6>] ? vfs_read+0x96/0x130 [ 66.069176] [<ffffffff8121ca49>] SyS_ioctl+0x79/0x90 [ 66.071345] [<ffffffff815f7ff2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa4 [ 66.073473] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 48 89 f8 48 83 fa 20 0f 82 03 01 00 00 48 39 fe 7d 0f 49 89 f0 49 01 d0 49 39 f8 0f 8f 9f 00 00 00 48 89 d1 <f3> a4 c3 48 81 fa a8 02 00 00 72 05 40 38 fe 74 3b 48 83 ea 20 [ 66.078059] RIP [<ffffffff8130b914>] __memmove+0x24/0x1a0 [ 66.080161] RSP <ffff880114513cf0> [ 66.082193] CR2: ffffffff81e00000 [ 66.084178] ---[ end trace 7fe3870b4855ddc6 ]--- - -- Have a nice day! ~~~ This PGP signature only certifies the sender and date of the message. It implies no approval from the administrators of nym.mixmin.net. Date: Fri Dec 2 05:47:40 2016 GMT From: piequiex(a)nym.mixmin.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlhBCv0ACgkQViYZwngkfDtAEgCdHlQyjVfhnqG63kc6J8BK1x1e wEQAn1WYCOIAHtkO1GV212PAJIq56Lzo =TcPW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] abs & sourceforge.net
by piequiex 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is what I got from sourceforge while trying to build some packet. *.tar.xz: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines *.tar.xz.asc: HTML document, UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines REFRESH(5 sec): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/*.tar.xz? r=*&ts=*&use_mirror=* SourceForge ____________________ Browse Enterprise Blog Deals Help Create Log In or Join - -- Have a nice day! ~~~ This PGP signature only certifies the sender and date of the message. It implies no approval from the administrators of nym.mixmin.net. Date: Wed Nov 23 21:01:11 2016 GMT From: piequiex(a)nym.mixmin.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlg2A5cACgkQViYZwngkfDuwAgCfRBbgl2WhZdjdcHOYwwNgLF7R xn8AmgMin8Im1MuAvzGAyTxm7hCZHIIl =lpcA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Xorg Thunderbolt3-HDMI RGB problem
by Prutheus 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Hello! I am on i3 with my Dell XPS 13 9360. I have a THunderbolt3-to-HDMI Adapter from pluggable and a monitor and a cube mini projector. My Problem is, that when I connect the cube mini projector to my adapter and enable it via xrandr, I get projected my screen with rgb-errors, like I can see my screen, but everything is destroyed with rgb- errors, I mean the whole screen is broken with these colors, I really can't see much on it. The funny thing is, when I connect the projector to my docking station, it works fine, so this must be a problem with the thunderbolt3-hdmi adapter. Additionally, to fix this issue, I need to unplug the projector from the adapter, plugin my monitor, plug out my monitor and plugin again the projector, now the rgb-errors are away. STRANGE!!! image: http://i.imgur.com/lu6tnrV.jpg I would be very happy if you can tell me where I can find information, e.g. which log files could be useful to you? Also, if you know a solution, please don't be restrained to tell me. Thanks, your Prutheus

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[arch-general] xterm segfaults selecting true-type and unreadable - OK with fixed
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

All, I was cleaning up the default xterm look and feel with tweaks to ~/.Xresources. The primary goal was to get a good looking terminal to use in i3, etc.. as I'm having difficulty stomaching what kde has become -- meaning I'll have to do without my go-to konsole. I have xterm to my liking with a very simple Xresources: xterm*termName: xterm-256color Xterm*saveLines: 4096 XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*VT100.geometry: 111x63 xterm*faceName: DejaVu Mono:size=8:antialias=false xterm*font: 7x13 XTerm*colorBDMode: true xterm*background: #131518 xterm*foreground: #eff0f1 XTerm*scrollBar: true XTerm*rightScrollBar: true The only problem is selecting 'unreadable' from the font menu results in a segfault. If I switch back to the 'fixed' bitmap font (e.g. turn true-type off), 'unreadable' works fine. I've tried setting 'XTerm*font1: fixed' and 'XTerm*font1: DejaVu Mono', etc. which prevents the segfault, but also makes 'unreadable' stay the same size as 'default'. Does anybody know how to make 'unreadable' work with a true-type selection? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] On containers. WAS: Re: snapcraft.io ...
by Martin Kühne 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

This whole sandboxing and containerisation idiocy is such a pain. Oh look, the apps are not secure, the apps sometimes crash. But you know what, let's take a high level approach, because we're such great managers. Let's NOT make better apps and a better stack by actually writing better multimedia libraries. No, let's instead just lock the stuff in which we use anyway, so they can't do more harm than absolutely unavoidable. Let's face it: those wheels are BROKEN, and what we actually need is an effort to reinvent them a few more times so some of them might hold further scrutiny. Slightly off topic, I know, I'll be back at planning my own world domination myself. cheers! mar77i

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes
by Mauro Santos 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

On 29-11-2016 17:00, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em novembro 29, 2016 14:38 Christian Hesse escreveu: >> >> We need root privileges at initialization phase, no? Privileges are >> dropped >> to nobody/nobody when initialization sequence completed. >> >> If we can make things work with non-root system user... Let me know >> how to do >> that. :D >> > > We just need root for creating the tun devices and destroying them. > I managed to make an entire unprivileged deployment. > > Basically all I need is this: > > [Service] > User=openvpn > Group=openvpn > PermissionsStartOnly=true > ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/openvpn --rmtun --dev tun0 > ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/openvpn --mktun --dev tun0 --dev-type tun --user > openvpn --group openvpn > ExecStart= > ExecStart=/usr/bin/openvpn --cd /etc/openvpn --config %i.conf --daemon > openvpn@%i --writepid /run/openvpn/openvpn(a)%i.pid --status-version 2 > PIDFile=/run/openvpn/openvpn(a)%i.pid > I see a problem with this, the configuration file is not hard coded (good) but the tun device is hardcoded (bad). What happens if one wants more than one server or client instances? What if the user wants to use tap instead of tun devices? It will also not respect the naming configured in the configuration file, or at least it will have to match tun0. Trying to ship more secure unit files/configuration is good but it seems this would probably be best described in the wiki and let the user implement it if desired. > The config file doesn't need any actual user/group configuration, because > it is already started with the right user/group. It needs to use a > different > iproute binary (which in my case is a script) that has sudo permissions > for the openvpn user to run the ip command as root. > >> >> The new systemd units create this automatically. (Well, >> actually /run/openvpn-client and /run/openvpn-server.) > > Nice to hear this. > >> >> Just followed the link from our wiki [2]. Probably you can make this >> work, >> but I am not convinced this can be packaged to work smoothly. >> Dynamic device naming, up/route-up/... scripts, ... There is lot of stuff >> that can and will break. >> >> Still, if you have some clues on how to package this... >> > > I never meant for you (us) to package such setup. I was > just making the case for a dedicated openvpn system user > and it's run directories. At least one of those is already > taken care of. If we can deploy such unprivileged systemd > units, alongside upstream official ones, it's another matter. > > Personally I'm okay with all of this and I'll accommodate my > setup, no matter how openvpn gets packaged. I had to compile > openvpn for at least two release cycles because of a bug on it[0]. > I think you'll probably remember that one. > > Cheers, > Giancarlo Razzolini > > [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50090 -- Mauro Santos

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Preparing OpenVPN 2.4.x - possible incompatible changes
by Damjan Georgievski 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

>> I do not oppose using whatever upstream is deploying, if it's >> rationale. I just think that we could create a system user for >> openvpn, even if most users will deploy it using root. > > We need root privileges at initialization phase, no? Privileges are dropped > to nobody/nobody when initialization sequence completed. > > If we can make things work with non-root system user... Let me know how to do > that. :D You can have systemd-networkd create the tun (or tap) interface and change its ownership to a specific user, that way openvpn doesn't need privileges for that. That's my setup with a bridged tap interface https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/6b988389afe36e4bb769 for tap interfaces, networkd can also do the ip setup, for tun interfaces, openvpn would need to use ... sudo? -- damjan

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[arch-general] Analysis of ABI changes in the Linux kernel
by Ponomarenko Andrey 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Hello, This is a tracker of ABI changes in the new upstream releases of the Linux kernel (defconfig, x86_64): https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/timeline/linux/ The tracker performs backward binary compatibility analysis of all public exported symbols and data types (declared in the ".ksymtab" and ".ksymtab_gpl" sections of the vmlinux binary + system calls) and lists all added/removed symbols. The source code of the tool is published on github: https://github.com/lvc/kernel-abi-tracker The tool can be used to compare ABIs of downstream kernels as well. See README of the project. Enjoy!

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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install SOLVED
by niya levi 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

> On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:55 PM, niya levi via arch-general > <arch-general at archlinux.org > <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote: > >/is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in />//etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? />/shadrock / > If you change things in /etc/default/grub, you have to # grub-mkconfig > -o /boot/grub/grub.chf to make the changes available to grub, whose > config is read at a time when no other file systems are visible... > > cheers! > mar77i thanks everyone for all the advice, i ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg and it boots up fine now. shadrock

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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install
by niya levi 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

> Just to check, does "locale -c charmap" return UTF-8? If yes, then it seems > there is an issue with your default console font (I assume you didn't put > anything like this on the kernel command line). So, try changing the console > font either by the kernel cmdline or at runtime in a tty console: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts . > > Also, what is your graphics card, and how do you load the graphics driver > (automatically, early in ramdisk via MODULES= in mkinitcpio.conf, etc.)? Try > booting with nomodeset at the kernel cmdline to disable KMS and see if your > fonts get back to normal... > > Cheers, > -- > Leonid Isaev locale -c charmap" returns lc_ctype UTF-8 my graphics card is a cirrus logic cl-gd5436 pci 1mb vga card it's loaded automatically, have tried adding nomodeset by pressing e at the boot screen with brings me to grub startup file i added nomodeset to the end of the 'linux /boot/vmlinux' line but no change. i got further by pressing e at boot and changing the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX to GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text and the console screen displayed correctly, to make it permenant i edited /etc/default/grub and also changed the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX line there but upon reboot i was back to the previous block characters. so i can get a correct display if i press e and edit from there on each bootup, is there another entry i should have comment , uncommented or added in /etc/default/grub to make it permenant ? shadrock

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[arch-general] Arch pkg user and group IDs?
by Hauke Fath 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Hi, what are Arch's conventions for the numeric ranges of system (package) user and grop IDs? And can the range be limited? I am working up to switching a few dozen Debian clients to Arch. They have user homes on NFS, and authenticate through NIS. So far, nis distributes user and group IDs > 500, making anything lower a local / system ID. After installing Arch, I see % awk -F: '{ if ( $3 > 500 ) print }' < /etc/passwd systemd-journal-remote:x:999:999:systemd Journal Remote:/:/sbin/nologin systemd-journal-upload:x:998:998:systemd Journal Upload:/:/sbin/nologin systemd-coredump:x:997:997:systemd Core Dumper:/:/sbin/nologin % awk -F: '{ if ( $3 > 500 ) print }' < /etc/group systemd-journal-remote:x:999: systemd-journal-upload:x:998: systemd-coredump:x:997: lightdm:x:620: % which collide with NIS users.[1] My question: Do Arch packages come with hardcoded numerical user/group IDs? If not, is there a way to limit the numeric range of system IDs? I guess I would still have to reinstall the distribution. The alternative - a flag day to change NIS user and group IDs as well as on 4 TB file storage and local storage on 50 client machines - wouldn't be pretty. And I don't really have the time, either. Cheerio, hauke [1] lightdm appears to be a pathological case: It hardcodes both name and ID of its user and group, and installation plows on witjout flagging an error even after failing to register the user ID. -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install
by niya levi 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

> hi everyone > after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting > the login screen shows unreadable characters, > the char displays as rectangular and square blocks, > locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk > i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but > no joy after rebooting, > the installation screen was fine. > any ideas ? > ---- On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf<silver.bullet at zoho.com > <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote ---- > > Which login screen? > > > > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager settings might solve the issue. > > Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font. > > > > > Or tty? > > sorry i mean the login at the console, it a file server without xorg, display manger etc. shadrock

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving arduino into [community] important notes
by Oon-Ee Ng 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Antonio Rojas <arojas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > I thought AUR packages were unsupported. Sure, it is nice to give them a > higher version number when they are moved to the official repos to allow > for a smooth upgrade, but that shouldn't be an enforced rule IMO. And > removing epoch is a reasonable enough reason not to do it. There's a difference between unsupported and (un?)intentionally leaving all users' packages frozen at an old (eventually broken) version because epoch was removed, for some indeterminate period of time. Of course, the question about whether epoch should have been used in the AUR is a separate one (I think it's done mainly to help AUR helpers work). But once that's been done I don't see any good reason to remove it.

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Re: [arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install
by niya levi 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

> On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 10:36:10AM +0000, niya levi via arch-general wrote: > >/> hi everyone />/> after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting />/> the login screen shows unreadable characters, />/> the char displays as rectangular and square blocks, />/> locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 />/> vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk />/> i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the > but />/> no joy after rebooting, />/> the installation screen was fine. />/> any ideas ? />//>/> ---- On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 17:08:06 +0100 Ralf Mardorf<silver.bullet > at zoho.com />/> <https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote ---- />/> > Which login screen? />/> > />/> > A display manager's greeter? If so, xorg.conf or display manager > settings might solve the issue. />/> />/> Oops, I was confusing keyboard with fonts. Not xorg.conf, but much > likely the display manager configuration provides to chose a font. />/> />/> > />/> > Or tty? />/> > />/sorry i mean the login at the console, />//>/it a file server without xorg, display manger etc. />//>/shadrock / > Did you customize /etc/locale.gen and ran locale-gen? > > Cheers, > -- > Leonid Isaev yes in locale.gen i uncommented the following and ran locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 en_GB.UTF-8 locale.conf has lang=en_GB.UTF-8 vconsole.conf has KEYMAP=uk when booting it gets past the grub stage it print booting linux then loading ramdisk then the whatever follows displays unreadable block character. shadrock

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[arch-general] unreadable characters login screen after install
by niya levi 26 Nov '16

26 Nov '16

hi everyone after an install following the wiki installation guide and rebooting the login screen shows unreadable characters, the char displays as rectangular and square blocks, locale.conf is set to LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 vconsole.conf is set to KEYMAP=uk i also tried adding a FONT= line to vconsole.conf while chrooted the but no joy after rebooting, the installation screen was fine. any ideas ?

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[arch-general] valgrind - memory exclusion files on the fritz?
by David C. Rankin 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

All, valgrind is reporting an additional allocation and free along with and additional 1M of memory used. Below, 11 bytes should be allocated and freed. Instead valgrind reports 1035 bytes. (it's worse if you use strdup). For example: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> enum { MAXC = 16 }; int main (void) { char buf[] = "0123456789"; size_t len = strlen (buf); char *s = NULL; s = malloc (len + 1); snprintf (s, len + 1, "%s", buf); printf (" s : %s\n", s); free (s); return 0; } The report from valgrind: valgrind ./bin/valgrindchk ==3917== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==3917== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==3917== Using Valgrind-3.12.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==3917== Command: ./bin/valgrindchk ==3917== s : 0123456789 ==3917== ==3917== HEAP SUMMARY: ==3917== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==3917== total heap usage: 2 allocs, 2 frees, 1,035 bytes allocated ==3917== ==3917== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible ==3917== ==3917== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==3917== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) Anybody else experience this problem? Anybody got a fix? I don't find anything valgrind related with a cursory search, did a patch get missed with the latest build? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Permanent job in Tokyo, Japan
by James Tobin 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Hello, I’m working with an employer that is looking to hire someone to fulfil a permanent DevOps-type position at their office in Tokyo. Japanese language is not required; only English. Consequently I had hoped that some members of this mailing list may like to discuss further; off-list. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James

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[arch-general] snapcraft.io IMO gets across the message that snaps are appropriate for Arch Linux
by Ralf Mardorf 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Hi, after taking a brief look into building a yaml and following Ubuntu's Snapcraft mailing list, I don't have a good opinion of it. It at least is nothing I would recommend for usage with Arch Linux on i686 and x86_64 servers and desktop computers, not only because it requires an Ubuntu kernel patch [1], but because it IMO is completely against the rolling release approach and beyond that IMO broken in many ways. The first sentence on http://snapcraft.io/ is "Package any app for every Linux desktop, server, cloud or device, and deliver updates directly" and the first logo beside the Ubuntu logo is Arch Linux. My opinion is, that it would be better, if the Arch Linux logo would be removed from http://snapcraft.io/ , because I guess it gets across a wrong message. Regards, Ralf [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd#Installation Disclaimer I only want to inform about it, in case Arch Linux developers aren't aware of it. I will not argue against, if Arch developers don't care and/or disagree with my opinion. IOW I will not discuss it, the intention is only to inform of it. ;) -- Death of ROXTerm https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/

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[arch-general] Nvidia backlight control - acpi_video0/brightness changes - display doesn't?
by David C. Rankin 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

All, Laptop: HP 8760w, Quadro 3000M, nvidia-340xx packages. The driver works perfectly (no errors in Xorg.0.log), but I have no way to control the screen brightness. I've followed the suggestions in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks but I still have no backlight control. Using the laptop function keys, the values in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness are properly set, e.g. $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness 8 (now tap the [func][F9], brightness lower, twice) $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness 6 (actual_brightness value tracks brightness) $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness 20 This works with OR without /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" Does anyone have any suggestions on anything else to try before I start loading the aur nvidia-bl or nvidiabl packages? I don't mind adding more software, but if there are a few more tweaks to try before going that route, I would like to try them first. Anybody get backlight working with a similar model laptop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Does LTS package really not fit to Rolling Release model and Arch Philosophy?
by Ken OKABE 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Arch-wiki suggests: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Install_the_linux-l… >Tips and tricks The following tips are generally not required, but certain users may find them useful. >Install the linux-lts package The linux-lts package is an alternative Arch kernel package, and is available in the core repository. This particular kernel version has long-term support (LTS) from upstream, including security fixes and some feature backports. It is useful if you prefer the stability of less-frequent kernel updates or if you want a fallback kernel in case a new kernel version causes problems. and some guy told me >The LTS kernel is strictly speaking not in line with the "Arch philosophy" (if you use that term to describe the rolling release nature of Arch) - but it is also not a "typical" piece of software, for two reasons: >It is the kernel, i.e. the core building block of what makes this operating system work. It is crucial to make sure it works correctly, so in case of an issue, having the possibility to go back to an LTS release (or forward to a non-LTS release) is in the interest of many users. >It is mostly not affected by dependency issues arising from version mismatches (like soname bumps) - you can plug in any kernel you want without any major issues (except maybe hardware support). >The second point also allows it to be packed in a rolling release distribution like Arch without causing trouble for maintainers. Maintaining an old user-space tool (i.e. backporting fixes, ensuring library version compatibility, ... well, see Debian) is incompatible with Arch Linux. How hard or problematic to maintain a LTS package, for instance, KDE Plasma LTS edition package on Arch rolling-release-model? https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php >Tuesday, 4 October 2016. Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. What kind of scenario in the real world to be problematic to maintain KDE Plasma LTS line as separated packages from non-LTS?

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[arch-general] 'invalid radix64 character 2D skipped' with pacman-key --refresh-keys
by Christian Rebischke 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hello everybody, Does some of you encount problems with `pacman-key --refresh-keys` like me? I can't refresh my keyring due to some strange error messages: gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=11) gpg: read_block: read error: Invalid packet gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2064 bits) The full output is here: https://paste.archlinux.de/DY6FC/ Any idea how to solve this issue? I would guess it's something with gpg and it has nothing todo with the keyring or with pacman-key. Best regards Chris

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[arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up to date.
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hi all. I am wondering about a couple of things. I have been using orca for some time now, but wondering if espeak NG will be coming to arch community any time soon.. In the mean time, does any know if it is in the aur? Secondly I have yaourt installed and there are a few packages from the aur installed. What is the eaasyes way to keep the packages up to date. Is there a command through yaourt like sudo yaourt -Syu for example. I was reading about this in the arch wiki but did not find anything about how to do this offisiontly. If anyone knows how to do this, it would really be appriseated. Thanks. Matthew Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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[arch-general] ISO broken? Unable to boot from ISO burned to DVD.
by Manuel Reimer 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

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 tools. /dev/disk/by-label doesn't exist at all in this minimalistic shell. Is it possible that booting from a device "by-label" just doesn't work for a DVD drive at all? Any way to fix this? Thanks in advance Manuel

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[arch-general] Please fastly update packages not using the generic readline *.so
by Sebastian Lau 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi, cinnamon (and maybe other desktops/packages) seem to use libreadline.so.6 which was updated today to a new SONAME. There should be a fast update to load the SONAME=7 or the generic shared object with the next release to prevent failures like this: nullptr ~ % cinnamon & [1] 1111 cinnamon: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1] + 1111 exit 127 cinnamon nullptr ~ % ls /usr/lib/libreadline.so completing files libreadline.so@ libreadline.so.7@ libreadline.so.7.0* nullptr ~ % LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libreadline.so cinnamon & The last command works. It would be nice to have a fast update for cinnamon and all other packages that don't use the generic libreadline.so Thank you! Sebastian

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[arch-general] Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) is Looking for Information Technology-related Job Opportunities World Wide
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

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[arch-general] Problem with "geoclue2" update
by Manuel Reimer 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

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: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/index.html exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/left.png exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/right.png exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/style.css exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/up.png exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Did something change in the "geoclue2" package, which causes this error? There is no announcement on the homepage... Thanks in advance Manuel

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Re: [arch-general] systemd-boot ignores loader.conf
by Tung Anh Vu 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

I managed to make the boot menu screen not appear by holding the minus key down to 0 second timeout in the boot menu itself. Thanks everyone, especially David Thurstenson. PS: I still have no idea, why does systemd-boot ignore the timeout setting from loader.conf, but obeys the rest. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Tung Anh Vu <cuttycz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using systemd-boot on my laptop. My /boot/loader/loader.conf contains > only the line: > > default arch > > but when booting, the boot menu still appears. What could be the cause of > this issue? Thanks in advance. >

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Re: [arch-general] howto remove old package version
by niya levi 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

hi everyone > https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/mesa/log > > Looks like AL Arm mesa versions went like this: > > 12.0.3-3 > 13.0.0rc2-2 > 12.0.3-3.1 > 13.0.0-1 > > Is your mirror uptodate ? after pacman -Syu mesa in now pacman -Si mesa{,-libgl} | grep Ve Version : 13.0.0-1 Version : 13.0.0-1 thanks shadrock

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[arch-general] systemd-boot ignores loader.conf
by Tung Anh Vu 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hello all, I'm using systemd-boot on my laptop. My /boot/loader/loader.conf contains only the line: default arch but when booting, the boot menu still appears. What could be the cause of this issue? Thanks in advance. - Tung Anh

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[arch-general] howto remove old package version
by niya levi 13 Nov '16

13 Nov '16

hi everyone pacman -Syu :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: mesa: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1) warning: mesa-libgl: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1) how do i remove old version and install new with pacman, have tried pacman -R but had dependency problems. shadrock

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[arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux
by Maykel Franco 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Hi, what the best desktop envieronment for archlinux? Only is the question. I like very much kde plasma but he used a lot of ram and sometimes it is very heavy. Do you think?

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[arch-general] Xen GPU Passthrough
by Jay Seth 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Hello, I need help & I would appreciate any help to get my setup working. When I try to start a domU on Arch/Xen, I am getting the following error: xl create w7.cfg Parsing config from w7.cfg libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:1235:libxl__device_pci_add: PCI device 0:1:0.0 is not assignable libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1566:domcreate_attach_pci: libxl_device_pci_add failed: -3 libxl: error: libxl.c:1583:libxl__destroy_domid: non-existant domain 2 libxl: error: libxl.c:1542:domain_destroy_callback: unable to destroy guest with domid 2 libxl: error: libxl.c:1471:domain_destroy_cb: destruction of domain 2 failed Checking the GPU with lspci, I get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M] [10de:0df5] (rev a1) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0446] Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau Background... I am relatively new to Arch and Xen (coming from Fedora and KVM) but I decided to see if Xen on Arch would support GPU passthrough for my Dell XPS 15z. It has Nvidia GeForce GT 525M. On Fedora/KVM, GPU passthrough works but there is the nasty error code 43. So that proved that the GPU can be passed through. I am trying Xen to see if the HVM will hide whatever it is that Nvidia uses to identify a VM platform and then disable drivers, giving error code 43. I have successfully installed xen and created a test VM. The config is as follows: name = 'w7' builder = 'hvm' vcpus = '2' memory = '2048' boot = 'd' on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'destroy' device_model_version = 'qemu-xen-traditional' disk = [ '/home/tim/Downloads/w7.iso,,hdc,cdrom', '/home/tim/vms/w7/w7.img,raw,hda,rw' ] vif = ['mac=00:16:3e:54:86:18,bridge=xenbr0'] acpi = '1' apic = '1' serial = 'pty' localtime = 1 # Keyboard and mouse passthrough usb = '1' usbdevice = ['tablet'] # VGA and sound passthrough viridian = '1' xen_platform_pci = '1' gfx_passthru = '1' pci_permissive = '1' pci = ['01:00.0,rdm_policy=relaxed'] # Remote vnc access vnc = '1' # vnclisten = 'x.x.x.x' The BDF of the GPU is 01:00.0 and it is what I have set for the pci parameter. I have also set intel_iommu=on in my /etc/default/grub file. I am booting the Xen kernel. I have also set the vfio-pci id for the GPU in /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf as: options vfio--pci ids=10de:0df5 After that, I set the vfio modules to load first in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as follows: MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd i915 nouveau" HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck" After that, I did: mkinitcpio -p linux grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grb/grub.cfg reboot After reboot, I ran the following checks: dmesg | grep vfio [ 3.856580] vfio-pci: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22 [ 3.856584] vfio_pci: add [10de:0df5[ffff:ffff]] class 0x000000/00000000 [ 18.960859] xen_pciback xen_netback xenfs xen_privcmd xen_blkback xen_gntalloc xen_gntdev xen_evtchn ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache sd_mod serio_raw atkbd libps2 ahci libahci xhci_pci xhci_hcd libata ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common i8042 serio nouveau mxm_wmi wmi ttm i915 video button intel_gtt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm vfio_pci irqbypass vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio dmesg | egrep -i iommu [ 0.000000] Command line: /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d8ee1f55-14c6-4401-bc22-24b78eaf8863 rw intel_iommu=on quiet console=tty0 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d8ee1f55-14c6-4401-bc22-24b78eaf8863 rw intel_iommu=on quiet console=tty0 [ 0.000000] DMAR: IOMMU enabled [ 18.960859] xen_pciback xen_netback xenfs xen_privcmd xen_blkback xen_gntalloc xen_gntdev xen_evtchn ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache sd_mod serio_raw atkbd libps2 ahci libahci xhci_pci xhci_hcd libata ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common i8042 serio nouveau mxm_wmi wmi ttm i915 video button intel_gtt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm vfio_pci irqbypass vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio Is it possible that the root of the problem might the vfio-pci error -22 at boot? Thanks

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[arch-general] lockscreen doesn't work anymore
by Apfelkuchen 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hey, I use cinnamon as my desktop environment. Today I upgraded the packages to the newest version: > cinnamon 3.2.1-1 > cinnamon-control-center 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-desktop 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-menus 3.0.2-1 > cinnamon-screensaver 3.0.1-2 > cinnamon-session 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-settings-daemon 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-translations 3.2.0-1 After this upgrade, I can't lock my screen anymore. I get this output from $ cinnamon-screensaver --debug > [gs_debug_init] gs-debug.c:109 (01:11:31): Debugging enabled > [main] cinnamon-screensaver.c:86 (01:11:31): initializing cinnamon-screensaver 3.0.1 > > (cinnamon-screensaver:15994): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.cinnamon.desktop.screensaver' does not contain a key named 'logout-enabled' > Trace/Breakpoint ausgelöst (Speicherabzug geschrieben) Can anyone help me? Thanks and greetings, pete

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[arch-general] WLAN
by Silvio Siefke 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Hello, i've installed Arch Linux today on Desktop (HP Elitebook 2540p) but wifi work not. I become message "Wireless networks disabled by hardware switch" Have someone an idea what can do? Thank you Silvio [siefke@sisibox ~]$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no [siefke@sisibox ~]$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. enp0s25 no wireless extensions. wlo1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep phy0 [ 3.097608] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep wlo1 [ 3.306866] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 [ 3.775157] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.078492] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.385304] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.720437] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep iwl [ 3.051266] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control [ 3.051662] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode failed with error -2 [ 3.051681] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode failed with error -2 [ 3.056639] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1 build 25532 op_mode iwldvm [ 3.075301] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled [ 3.075305] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled [ 3.075307] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 3.075309] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6200 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 3.075413] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.097608] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [ 3.306866] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 [ 3.775329] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.781845] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.781936] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 3.993451] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.999968] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.000061] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 4.080224] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.086756] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.086859] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 4.300192] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.306715] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.306816] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 6.993231] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. [ 6.994137] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL [siefke@sisibox ~]$ lspci | grep Network 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05) 43:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)

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[arch-general] Cannot no longer resolve local hostname with the new nsswitch.conf
by Chi-Hsuan Yen 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Hi Arch enthuasiasts, With testing/filesystem 2016.11-2, I can no longer use my local hostname to acess services on the local machine. For example: $ hostname PC12574 $ ping PC12574 ping: PC12574: Name or service not known Seems changes in nsswitch.conf [1] does the effect. If I change the hosts: line in nsswitch.conf back to the old configuration "files resolve mymachines myhostname", or remove the [!UNAVAIL=return] part from this line, ping works fine: $ ping PC12574 PING PC12574(PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.025 ms 64 bytes from PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms Is it a bug? Or such a usage is just a non-standard coincidence? Thanks for any help. Yen Chi Hsuan [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/fil…

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[arch-general] readline 7.0 rebuild for self-maintained packages
by Bastian Beischer 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Dear all, I will need to rebuild some of my packages which I maintain myself for readline 7.0. Is there a reliable way to find out which packages need a rebuild? How was the rebuild list for the official repos made? Thanks Bastian -- Bastian Beischer RWTH Aachen University of Technology @RWTH Aachen Office: 28 C 203 Phone: +49-241-80-27205 E-mail: beischer(a)physik.rwth-aachen.de Address: I. Physikalisches Institut B, Sommerfeldstr. 14, D-52074 Aachen @CERN Office: Bdg 32-4-B12 Phone: +41-22-76-75750 E-mail: bastian.beischer(a)cern.ch Address: CERN, CH-1211 Geneve 23

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[arch-general] new /etc/nsswitch.conf
by Damjan Georgievski 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

there's a new /etc/nsswitch.conf file in filesystem-2016.11 Maybe someone would care to explain the changes? maybe even a news post? https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/fil… -- damjan

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[arch-general] kernel linux-4.8.6-1-x86_64 not able to load modules
by Anast Gramm 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hey list, After, as suggested in arch-annoucne, I force-upgrated ttf-dejavu I made a full system upgrade with pacman -Syu. This installed the latest linux kernel. (the one in the subject line) The initram was completed successfully and I procceded to reboot. Then Xserver would complain about my intel module (i915) After a while I figured that nothin was loaded. I had no internet connection (ip link would only show loopback), when I plugged a USB drive the kernel woudln't detect it, and so on... I downgraded to linux-4.8.4 using arch live with arch-chroot. Everything works but when I upgrade to the latest kernel the same thing happens. Since I am prety new to the linux power user world, I have no idea what to do next. Should I file a bug? Ad if yes how do I do that? Also about the kernel upgrade, should I just skip 4.8.6 and get the next one? Since I didn't see anything in the list about linux-4.8.6 I guess it must have something to do with my setup. Any suggestions will be really helpful!

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[arch-general] Almost system crash, users getting logged out
by J. C. 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hi list, I had an "almost crash" last night. When I got up in the morning, the session on the first six TTYs were closed, but the sessions on TTY 8-10 were still open. Having taken a look at the journal, I found a lot of activity around 4AM. That may have been preceeded by something around midnight, when my music player suddenly quit, the system informing me, that there was not enough memory. A restart of the music player was successful though. I don't have any remote login services active and this sort of thing hasn't happened before, not on Arch since my installation a few weeks ago nor on the previous system. My kernel version is 4.8.2, not having rebooted since the last upgrade. The journal excerpt with the potential problem is here: https://freeshell.de/~silvain/journal.log I'd be grateful for any help and of course eagre to supply any further info to solve this issue. Thank you and best wishes Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Getting Groove to Work Properly Under Arch?
by Hunter Jozwiak 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hi, I am not sure if anyone has been having a similar issue, so here goes. I recently signed up for Groove Music so that i can have a cross- platform means of accessing my collection (primarily from my Arch box and the Xbox). I have discovered that there is a Groove web client so this should, in theory work. But practice, at the current moment, is not equal to theory; I am getting an error about how Groove can't play a particular song. Before, I was getting an error about how Flash is required, so I've installed the flashpluggin package. This is where I stand now. Does anyone have any pointers to a resolution? -- Regards, Hunter Jozwiak

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[arch-general] Iptables block https traffic apache
by Maykel Franco 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Hi, I have configured apache + php + mysql in my house. I like block the specific url traffic over https... I found this: iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -m string --string "anything" --algo kmp -j REJECT But not works... With http works very well... Any ideas?? Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] ttf-dejavu putting files in the wrong place
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi The fontconfig for the package should go in /etc/fonts/conf.avail since I was advised to create symbolic links to /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to enable specific features. If this is not the case, the wiki needs to be updated. Thanks guys! Regards Jagan

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[arch-general] Cannot start 0ad (libboost problems)
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hello, when I want to start "0ad", I'm getting the following error message: /usr/bin/pyrogenesis: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've already tried to re-install boost and boost-libs. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Updates blocked by ttf-dejavu
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hello, cannot update packages, as ttf-dejavu has conflicts. ----------- Output ----------- Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang nicht durchführen (In Konflikt stehende Dateien) ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-serif.conf existiert im Dateisystem Fehler sind aufgetreten, keine Pakete wurden aktualisiert. ----------- Translation for output ----------- Error: Could not proceed (files in conflict) ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf exists in file system ... Errors occured, no packages updated ----------- Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] ensuring integrity of sources (was: [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources)
by Patrick Burroughs (Celti) 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:16:21 +0100 Levente Polyak <anthraxx(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 10/31/2016 04:03 PM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > > As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at > > least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing > > PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, > > OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to > > sign a simple list sha256sums. > > > > Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that > > contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) > > of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum > > of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? > > > > That is literally a _completely_ different topic that addresses > _completely_ different areas. > You are speaking about authenticating the build scripts itself. That > does not solve _anything_ at all what this thread/topic/todo-list is > about. It really is not. I am not speaking of authenticating the build scripts; both this thread and my proposal are talking about ensuring the integrity of downloaded source files. Specifically, I am speaking of cryptographically signing the checksums for source files downloaded by the build scripts, so that they download what the author of the build script _intended_ them to download. This is presumably the same reason for ensuring sources are downloaded via HTTPS instead of HTTP, where possible — adding a cryptographic authentication to ensure someone building a package does not get sources without being aware they are modified: only embedding signatures in the PKGBUILD is trusting the Arch devs via the pacman keyring or parallel method, instead of the (flawed) CA system. If there is another reason to switch to HTTPS, please — make me aware of it! Also the very first reply in the thread talked about adding upstream signatures instead of changing the protocol, where possible — only not every upstream offers or _wants_ to offer them, so I proposed, in response to a prompt for discussion on the subject in the mail I quoted, a way to make that feasible. > Don't get me wrong: I don't judge about it at all, I'm just saying > that both are fully independent from each other and you should please > open a new thread if you want to discuss this rather then hijack this > thread :) I really, really don't think they're independent from each other, and as I'm not authorised to post on arch-dev-public and didn't expect to draw this out into a conversation, I simply replied to the thread on arch-general. Bowing to peers, however... et voila: a new thread. ~Celti

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[arch-general] kde --> xfce how to remove all packages kde
by Maykel Franco 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hi, I have migrate my archlinux system desktop kde to xfce. How to remove all kde packages and dependecy? Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources
by Patrick Burroughs (Celti) 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:19:40 +0100 NicoHood <arch-dev(a)nicohood.de> wrote: > Using PGP signatures is another discussion, also the hash algorithm. I > think we should discuss that in another post, appart from https. From > my point of view its highly important to use a strong hash function > as its highly important for the source integrity and not only meant > as checksum for corruption detection. And as always: more secure does > not hurt nowadays Not a dev, here, but... I strongly think that source integrity should not rely on hash functions alone. makepkg already includes validation of PGP-signed sources, but it's perhaps not reasonable to expect every upstream to offer signed sources. As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to sign a simple list sha256sums. Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? ~Celti

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[arch-general] Browsers crashing
by Zorro 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

Hi, On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 6478: #0 0x00000000b4d0be50 n/a (libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0) #1 0x00000000a7b8e842 n/a (n/a) Midori behaves similarly. It happens on sites with many scripts and pictures when scrolling down. Firefox crashes at startup. It first displays its own start page, processor load goes to 100% and then firefox disappears leaving a core dump. Do others experience this too? Harm-Jan Zwinderman

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Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)
by jeff.rollin 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

AFAIK it needn't be the first one on the disk - if memory serves, my Linux laptop came with Windows installed and the UEFI boot partition on the second partition, and the first first few Linux-only installed kept that layout - but it must be VFAT and it must be flagged bootable. Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2 -------- Original message --------From: Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Date: 29/10/2016 05:03 (GMT+00:00) To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Cc: Juan Carlos Villegas Botero <juankvillegas(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??) And I also think that I read somewhere that theboot partition (EFI) must be the first one in the disk. On 10/28/2016 10:59 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: > Sorry for the html response :S > > On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: >> >> I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading >> from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition >> >> >> On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new >>> (used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The >>> laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the >>> laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0). >>> >>> The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop >>> cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way >>> booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing >>> OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting >>> from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard >>> drive as /dev/sda where it should be. >>> >>> This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios >>> is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the >>> install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new >>> install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change >>> >>> hd0 0 >>> >>> to >>> >>> hd1 0 >>> >>> (I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which >>> is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb below) >>> >>> $ lsblk >>> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT >>> sdb 8:16 1 980M 0 disk >>> ├─sdb2 8:18 1 40M 0 part >>> └─sdb1 8:17 1 792M 0 part >>> sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom >>> sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk >>> ├─sda7 8:7 0 880G 0 part /home >>> ├─sda5 8:5 0 500M 0 part /boot >>> ├─sda1 8:1 0 1K 0 part >>> ├─sda8 8:8 0 1G 0 part >>> └─sda6 8:6 0 50G 0 part / >>> >>> and >>> >>> $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda >>> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >>> Disklabel type: dos >>> Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa >>> >>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >>> /dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 5 Extended >>> /dev/sda5 * 4096 1028095 1024000 500M 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda6 1030144 105887743 104857600 50G 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda7 105889792 1951383551 1845493760 880G 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda8 1951385600 1953525167 2139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris >>> >>> grub is installed to /dev/sda with >>> >>> grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda (no errors on install), and >>> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >>> >>> I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find >>> issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like >>> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1. >>> >>> Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a >>> /boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't >>> seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make >>> a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm >>> happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into >>> the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>

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[arch-general] LightScribe
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hi, has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit Arch Linux install? Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used another old 64bit bit distro's release for lack of time to lightscribe a DVD. FWIW it works on a very old Ubuntu Quantal 12.10 (kernel 3.6.5-rt14 64bit) install, official unsupported since 2½ years ago. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Sata-pmp
by pete nikolic 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi . This may seem a little strange but here goes . I am running older hardware and am getting . ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) ata2: softreset failed (device not ready) I have read that sata-pmp is the culprit is it possible to disable this from the boot cmdline or is it a kernel rebuild the motherboard has an AMD chipset 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) 00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode] kernel 4.8.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 19:53:59 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux 3 Sata drives no SSD devices . Thanks pete .

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[arch-general] Problem with powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 package
by Roel de Wildt 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hello, After a upgrade from powerdns-recursor-3.7.3-3 to powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 it does not return any dns queries anymore. In the daemon.log is logged: Oct 23 10:50:18 gateway001 pdns_recursor[3008]: Oct 23 10:50:18 Sending SERVFAIL to 10.3.3.134 during resolve of 'google.nl' because: more than 50 (max-qperq) queries sent while resolving ns1.google.com Oct 23 10:50:19 gateway001 pdns_recursor[3008]: Oct 23 10:50:19 Sending SERVFAIL to 10.3.3.134 during resolve of 'google.nl' because: more than 50 (max-qperq) queries sent while resolving ns2.google.com After a downgrade of powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 to 3.7.3-3 it is working again, without making changes to /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf. The customized configuration options in /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf: [root@gateway001 powerdns]# grep -v -e "#.*" recursor.conf | grep -e "..*" allow-from=127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, ::1/64, 2001:470:1f15:a09::/64, 2001:470:7b9a::/48 auth-zones=.=/etc/powerdns/root.zone forward-zones=domain.lan=10.3.0.1,home.lan=10.3.0.21 hint-file=/etc/powerdns/named.root local-address=127.0.0.1,10.3.0.253:53,[::1],[2001:470:7b9a:0a03::fd]:53 local-port=5353 log-common-errors=yes loglevel=9 pdns-distributes-queries=yes query-local-address6=:: Do I need something to change to make it working against 4.0.x? I've searched at powerdns.com to options that have changed in the configuration but nothing helped. Kind regards, Roel de Wildt

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[arch-general] Issue with Vim 8.0 and linebreak
by J. C. 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hey hey list, when I use the set linebreak command, Vim actually splits the lines, inserting CRLF or similar. The help says that it shouldn't do that, nor has it on Vim 7.x, which I ran on another Linux system. When just viewing a text, Vim displays it as expected with proper linebreaks and there are no inserts of CRLFs. Does anyone else have a similar issue or is there something else to take into account? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] cp from USB to interal sata uses up all CPU
by J. C. 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi list, I just noticed this today. I rebooted the system once, since the proper installation last week. Now cp from a USB drive to the internal sata drive eats up all CPU. The cp command is run as root - currently no alternative possible. The USB drive is mounted during system startup. A copy operation on the internal disk in question doesn't suffer from overuse of CPU resources. Copying from the USB disk to the USB disk isn't perfect, but uses only between 20-40% of CPU resources. The CPU frequency governor is set to ondemand. Can anybody suggest a remedy, please? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database
by Alive 4ever 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

I was curious why does 'pacman -Q' operations took longer than 'apt' counterparts. It seems that the local pacman databases are just subdirectories with text files (desc, files) and gzipped text (mtree). No wonder why local pacman databases tend to slow down over time and need to be optimized periodically. For long term pacman development road map, it would be better to use single sql based database for tracking locally installed packages instead of keeping directories of every installed packages. This would provide faster access for local database as sql databases are optimized for fast access.

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Re: [arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database
by Guus Snijders 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

Op 21 okt. 2016 21:49 schreef "Eli Schwartz via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: > > On 10/21/2016 01:20 PM, Alive 4ever wrote: > [...] road map, it would be better to use > > single sql based database for tracking locally installed packages > > The reason pacman uses a flat file database as opposed to a relational > database, is the result of a deliberate design decision by the lead > pacman developers. One really big advantage of this approach is that you don't have to worry about corrupted databases. It's been a while since I used an RPM based distro, but it always surprised me how quickly the db would fall over and needed to be rebuilt. The beauty of the Arch approach is it's robust simplicity. And yes, there are/were wrappers that use a SQL DB for specific operations. If such a db gets problems, there is nothing to worry about: pacman just keeps working anyway. Just my two (belated) $0.02 Mvg, Guus

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[arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation
by Francis Gerund 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/21/1516230/microsoft-signature-pc- requirements-now-blocks-linux-installation-reports?sbsrc=md It was nice while it lasted. <sigh>

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[arch-general] KVM - *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO?
by David C. Rankin 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Arch devs, I'm receiving an error with KVM (arch guest). The guest installed fine from the 20161001 install media, but between every command, I receive the following error: [TTM] Byffer eviction failed qxl 0000:00:02:0: object_init failed for (402650032, 0x00000001) [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl1] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO The guest has 8G of storage gcow2 (default virt-manager settings, except scale on resize of window), 2-cores, 4G of RAM and the partitioning is all on a single / partition. I'm new to KVM and not sure whether this is something I should chase though my hardware (BIOS settings, etc.) or whether this is a KVM issue, the hardware is: AMD FX-8350 Black Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz/32G of RAM/Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 I've followed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libvirt https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU Where do I start in chasing this down? Did I miss a module? The reports by lspcu and zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz are: $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 21 Model: 2 Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Stepping: 0 CPU MHz: 1400.000 CPU max MHz: 4000.0000 CPU min MHz: 1400.0000 BogoMIPS: 8038.54 Virtualization: AMD-V $ zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y # CONFIG_KVM_DEBUG_FS is not set CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT=y CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m CONFIG_KVM_MMU_AUDIT=y CONFIG_KVM_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT=y Modules loaded: $ lsmod | grep -i "virt\|kvm" virtio_net 32768 0 virtio_ring 20480 1 virtio_net virtio 16384 1 virtio_net kvm_amd 69632 0 kvm 516096 1 kvm_amd irqbypass 16384 1 kvm -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Package updates for Long out of Date packages - comment
by Mike Cloaked 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Not being able to post to arch dev public, and gaving seen that there was a list posted by Florian Pritz today with sets of packages that have been long out of date, I thought I would post a comment here about two particular packages that appear in that list. Having done some work privately recently on building refind-efi and gnu-efi-libs, I wanted to note that refind-efi was recently updated in the past few days, and is already at the latest version 0.10.4. I guess that Florian will already be aware of that? Gnu-efi-libs is also on the list but there is a very good reason that it has not been updated from version 3.0.3 to 3.0.4, which is that the newest version does not build for i686, at least when I tried to do that in an x86_64 machine using abs, even though it builds for x86_64, and that package is needed when building refind-efi so that would probably need an upstream fix before it can be brought up to date for both i686 as well as x86_64. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Unlocking the screen through fprintd
by Bennett Piater 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hi all, I have been trying to get fprint working properly with screen lockers for months and have yet to find a working solution. I am using i3wm without DM. Login on the TTY and sudo work properly: They ask me to swipe the finger and then ask for my password if that didn't work. However, every screen locker I have tried that supports PAM at all (i3lock, xlockmore, xscreensaver, kscreenlocker) all ask for my fingerprint AFTER I typed in my password. Is there no way to make them check for my fingerprint first, and then for my password? Does anyone here do something similar? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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