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[arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?
by Bjoern Franke 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Hi, I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. 6.04 is somehow a "testing" version, thought it has been out for 2 years, so I marked 6.03 as "out of date". I'm wondering a bit why we stick on 6.03, even Debian stable[1] has 6.04. BR Bjoern [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803938

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[arch-general] systemctl daemon-reexec - anything else needed after systemd update?
by David C. Rankin 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Archdevs, After todays update to systemd-239.370-1, there was nothing that would have prompted a reboot (like a kernel update), so I simply wanted to restart the daemon. From the systemctl man page, the daemon-reexec option seems like the logical way, "...This command is of little use except for debugging and package upgrades. Sometimes, it might be helpful as a heavy-weight daemon-reload." Is there anything else needed other than daemon-reexec when there is an update to systemd itself? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mariadb package outdate for over a month
by Sefa Eyeoglu 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Hey fellow Arch users, the extra/mariadb package is flagged as out of date since 2018-11-09. I was wondering, why it still was not updated. There is already an AUR package, which provides a newer version. Is there any information on why the package is still out of date? Kind regards, Sefa Eyeoglu https://scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...
by Peter Nabbefeld 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Hello, since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow in some cases. Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should wait for tasks to be executed, instead. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] claws-mail suddenly seeing "invalid" certificates from gmail?
by Mark Raynsford 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hello! Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask, but it's not clear what exactly is at fault here so I thought I'd at least start on this list. I updated my system yesterday with pacman -Syu, and now Claws is claiming that pop.gmail.com is sending an invalid certificate whenever Claws tries to connect to fetch mail. I've not accepted the invalid certificate. This is the text of the dialog box that pops up: --8<-- Certificate for pop.gmail.com has changed. Certificate is for invalid2.invalid, but connection is to pop.gmail.com. You may be connecting to a remote server. Do you want to accept it? Signature status: Self-signed certificate. View certificates: Known certificate: Owner: Name: pop.gmail.com Org: Google LLC Location: Mountain View, US Signer: Name: Google Internet Authority G3 Org: Google Trust Services Location: US Status: Fingerprint: MD5: 83:C3:05:91:BA:31:19:5D:0B:AF:97:53:CB:4D:87:8B SHA1: B7:47:47:56:62:D4:D6:F4:BA:FA:F1:E7:A9:6B:C3:60:01:EC:E0:CB Signature status: Correct Expires on: 2019-02-19 14:02:00 +0000 New certificate: Owner: Name: invalid2.invalid Org: <not in certificate> Location: <not in certificate> Signer: Name: invalid2.invalid Org: <not in certificate> Location: <not in certificate> Status: Fingerprint: MD5: 90:4A:C8:D5:44:5A:D0:6A:10:FF:CD:8B:11:BE:16 SHA1: 42:59:51:7C:D4:E4:8A:28:9D:33:2A:B3:F0:AB:52:A3:66:32:28:24 Signature status: Self-signed certificate Expires on: 2030-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 --8<-- This is all I see on stderr: ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:22.955: size differ 896 1156 ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:23.920: can't initialize SSL/TLS. ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:23.920: [09:40:23] SSL/TLS handshake failed Other non-Gmail accounts work correctly. Anyone got any ideas? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] Why is permission for /run/user/1000/gvfs denied for root?
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hi, why can't I access the directory? $ sudo LANG=C ls -l /run/user/1000 ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied total 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 peter users 0 Dec 12 07:00 bus drwx------ 3 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:12 dbus-1 drwx------ 2 peter users 60 Dec 13 07:50 dconf drwx------ 2 peter users 140 Dec 12 07:00 gnupg d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs drwx------ 2 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:13 keyring drwxr-xr-x 2 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:00 p11-kit drwx------ 2 peter users 100 Dec 12 07:12 pulse drwxr-xr-x 2 peter users 80 Dec 12 07:00 systemd First assumed this is just some mount point, and I cannot access it because I've not attached any device. But nothing changes, if I attach one. So, why are there all those question marks? Should it be possible to have some "unknown users/groups" accessing parts of my system? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] How to find files owned by some user or group?
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hi, how can I find all the files owned by some user or group (in preparation to delete the user/group)? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Problems with shadow service
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hello, because of a performance problem I've checked services and noticed this line: ● shadow.service loaded failed failed Verify integrity of password and group files So I checked this service and got this output: $ systemctl status shadow ● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-12-12 06:59:27 CET; 14h ago Process: 561 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/pwck -r || r=1; /usr/bin/grpck -r && exit $r (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 561 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Dez 12 06:59:24 tuchola systemd[1]: Started Verify integrity of password and group files. Dez 12 06:59:26 tuchola sh[561]: Benutzer »ceph«: Verzeichnis »/run/ceph« existiert nicht. Dez 12 06:59:26 tuchola sh[561]: pwck: Keine Änderungen Dez 12 06:59:27 tuchola systemd[1]: shadow.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Dez 12 06:59:27 tuchola systemd[1]: shadow.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. As system seems to run without problems (other than performance), I've got two questions: 1. Do I need the shadow service? Why? 2. Why does it fail? User "ceph" is defined, but /run/ceph does not exist as its home directory - why? Seems there's a problem in the installation of ceph-libs or any or its dependants (like libvirt). Probably the user is created only if whole ceph is installed, too? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Keyboard unresponsive after wakeup from suspend
by Andy Pieters 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Hi people So as I said in the subject, after resuming from suspend for about 30 times or so since my last reboot, my keyboard did not seem to work. It is a USB keyboard and I tried unplugging it and reconnecting it. I have a second keyboard permanently connected which is a PS/2. That one also didn't seem to work even after unplugging and reconnecting. All the rest of the system seemed to work fine. My USB mouse works, my WIFI USB dongle works. I can browse the internet etc, just not type. Pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 didn't seem to register either. So I clicked through the GUI and rebooted and lo everything is working again. I found several instances of Arch Linux people having non-responsive keyboards after resuming but none seem to apply here as their threads are several years old and their solution was to install a newer kernel. I'm running 4.19.4, last updated 4 December. Any hints on how to debug this?

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[arch-general] Interesting Error When Trying to Connect to WiFi
by Hunter Jozwiak 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Greetings, I have been having problems connecting to my WiFi network as of this morning. From the dmesg output, I gather that something might be confused (aside from me) as to ho to connect, but I can't put my finger on it. [34035.102459] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [34040.072164] RTL871X: rtw_set_802_11_connect(wlan0) fw_state=0x00000008 [34040.274732] RTL871X: start auth [34040.278558] RTL871X: auth success, start assoc [34040.284330] RTL871X: rtw_cfg80211_indicate_connect(wlan0) BSS not found !! [34040.289885] RTL871X: assoc success [34042.291674] RTL871X: send eapol packet [34070.261110] audit: type=1130 audit(1544407361.444:64): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=netctl@mason\x2dsecure comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Does anybody understand what might be going on that I am not missing? I have never seen this before, and I am totally confused. Nothing about the network has changed, and my other Arch box is connecting o it just fine. Thanks, Hunter

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