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[arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.
by Ralph Corderoy 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Hi, Having spotted warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub afterwards expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist. `pacman -Ql grub' showed grub doesn't own anything in /boot. Google led me to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=242285 where Salkay had earlier started along the same path. The warning has wasted our time, and the forum's conclusion is `ignore the warning'. Encouraging warnings to be ignored is a bad idea; I don't suppose some here are too happy when a user turns up with a problem and the answer was under their nose but they `ignored the warning'. Can a better solution to this be engineered? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.
by back bowser 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

To throw my hat in the ring in this argument. I feel the way we currently have grub talked about in the wiki is that grub-mkconfig is a magic tool. This isn’t the proper way for multiple reasons. 1) It encourages me not to know how grub works other than it just works. 2) If grub breaks I have to go down all kinds of rabbit holes to even figure out what to edit in grub.cfg since it’s so confusing when auto generated. I do think the Grub page needs a rewrite I’m not sure if Eli’s page is in its final stages. Maybe he should go back and try and clarify things a bit more. Last I checked though it’s still a work in progress rewrite.

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[arch-general] List of Files Created by makepkg
by Jayesh Badwaik 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hi, I am trying to write an automated script which takes in packages and package files created by makepkg and uploads it somewhere. For this, I would need the list of files created by the `makepkg` command. Is there a way to get that? -- Best Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io

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[arch-general] bind/named dying after 24-48 hrs. "assertion failure"?
by David C. Rankin 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

All, Has anyone else encountered a bind 9.13.4-1/named daemon dying with "assertion failure" in the past week. I have encountered the problem twice. When named dies, status reports: ● named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Thu 2018-12-06 10:35:51 CST; 15h ago Process: 23007 ExecStart=/usr/bin/named -f -u named (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Main PID: 23007 (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #1 0x7f078ea0fcaa in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #2 0x7f078ebc295b in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #3 0x7f078ebc806e in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #4 0x7f078ebcbaba in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #5 0x7f078ea2f349 in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #6 0x7f078df1ea9d in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #7 0x7f078de4eb23 in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: exiting (due to assertion failure) Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Failed with result 'signal'. This hasn't happened before. A simple restart makes it happy again -- but for how long? # systemctl start named ● named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-12-07 02:04:03 CST; 4s ago Main PID: 26487 (named) Tasks: 10 (limit: 4915) Memory: 15.5M CGroup: /system.slice/named.service └─26487 /usr/bin/named -f -u named Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: loaded serial 129 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone rlfpllc.com/IN: loaded serial 2017000017 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone 7.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2017000011 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: all zones loaded Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: running Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: Key 19036 for zone . is now trusted (acceptance timer com> Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: Key 20326 for zone . is now trusted (acceptance timer com> Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: resolver priming query complete I don't know if this is somehow related to the timers and keys that may be timing out after some period of time. If no one else has seen this, I'll keep watching, but if anybody has any ideas, I'd welcome your thoughts. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Dovecot problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Hello, I've got serious problems with dovecot, resulting in e.g. not beeing able to read messages on this list, only way is to read the archives. After upgrading my arch installation yesterday, the first problem was about stats-writer permission, which I resolved by changing the oowner. Now it seems there's a problem with my file-based userdb, but this time I'm stuck. Any idea? Kind regards Peter PS: Sending this from my mobile phone. -- .

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[arch-general] Missing auth.log
by Maxe 17 Nov '18

17 Nov '18

Hi, One of our systems, running ARCH Linux, was compromised (a non-privileged account, fortunately). But, we could not find /var/log/auth.log or similar for investigation. Does the journal keep track of login attempts? It seems that ARCH does not run [r]syslogd. Best regards, Maxe kaasen(a)nuts-edu.no

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[arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2
by Leandro Papi 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hello, I'm not sure if this has to be brought up here, please advise. I have had many problems with netbeans package from community, it "upgraded" my old version of the package (was version 8.2), but it is not an adequate replacement. I'm aware of the bugs open in the tracker, and I thank everyone that provided workarounds to get the IDE working at first, then finally installing plugins correctly. However, the "new" version isn't complete yet, it lacks many of the "core" plugins that were available for 8.2, for example PHP (postponed to netbeans 10), JavaScript and C++ language support. I'm wondering what the correct procedure is in this case, if it were a commercial product,it would have reverted to 8.2 until it was ready. I don't have issues using it, I'm keeping it downgraded to 8.2, ignored in pacman.conf, I'm only asking if this is the correct approach for a repository package, since this is not AUR. Thanks, Leandro -- L'ignoranza è un male curabile, è sufficiente la volontà. Please don't print this e-mail if you don't need to!

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[arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos
by Frank Zimmermann 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Good evening, I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201. KR Frank

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[arch-general] GnuCash out-of-date since 1 and half month
by Amish 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Hello, GnuCash has been flagged out of date since 1 Oct 2018. (new version 3.3) Bug report page says to report such issues to mailing list. So just wanted to report the same. Hope maintainers do look at it. I have built it for myself. It gave build error with current PKGBUILD. But I managed to build it with the following changes to PKGBUILD. - CXXFLAGS+=' -Wno-error' + CFLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CXXFLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CMAKE_C_FLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' I am not sure which line actually worked but one of these worked. Please upgrade the package to the latest version. Link: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gnucash/ Thank you Amish.

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[arch-general] https://lists.archlinux.org/
by Ralf Mardorf 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hi, mails to mailman(a)lists.archlinux.org [1] are rejected. I try to get in contact with the owner of one list, but don't get a reply. Regards, Ralf [1] "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mailman(a)lists.archlinux.org." - https://lists.archlinux.org/

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