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[arch-general] If you have a SuperMicro board....
by David C. Rankin 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Worth passing along: We can now add motherboard stealth chips to the list of security concerns https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-u… The upside is the article reads better than any modern day spy novel. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.30 - Suspend acts as suspend-then-hibernate
by Reto Haeberli 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hello arch-general, I don’t know where to address this properly, so I try here: Obviously the behaviour for suspend has been changed in gnome 3.30 from suspend to "suspend then hibernate". Personally I have only discovered this after a while - suddenly experiencing random crashes after entering suspend mode. The whole implementation does not check reliably if hibernate is fully established (this was not the case on my pc cause I don’t need it) and then causes crashes that could potentially result in a data loss when trying to hibernate from suspend state. There is also a discussion in the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1810621#p1810621 I’m new to arch but I’d assume it would be beneficial to issue a warning to users or change the default behaviour back to the old one where suspend is “suspend" and not "suspend then hibernate"? Thoughts? Best regards

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[arch-general] MariaDB package version
by Kevin Dodd 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

I recently noticed Arch Linux's mariadb package is still on the 10.1 release series, even though upstream has considered the 10.2 and 10.3 release series to be "stable" for at least 4 months. Arch is usually so good about keeping everything up-to-date, so I am curious what the reason for this is. Something to do with compatibility? Thanks, ~ Kevin Dodd

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[arch-general] AppArmor support
by Gus 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

I know such request was rejected here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59733 recently, but still AppArmor doesn't need linking with libraries and doesn't require as much userland support as SELinux, so it will not hurt to have one option enabled in kernel, right?

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[arch-general] Owncloud client compatibility with Nextcloud server
by Óscar García Amor 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

Hi people! Today I updated my owncloud-client package to latest version (2.5.0.10650-1) and now I have the following message: "The server version 14.0.0-Nexcloud is unsupported! Proceed at your own risk." Seems that the owncloud-client only will have support to owncloud-server. Since in Archlinux the owncloud-server was replaced by nextcloud-server, maybe is time to drop owncloud-client and replace with nextcloud-client? What do you think? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] sendfax: 460 Failed to submit job 110: Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address.
by David C. Rankin 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

All, After recent updates, hylafax/sendfax fails with the error: sendfax: 460 Failed to submit job 110: Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address. it had been working find up until the last week or two. Reverting to the LTS kernel resolves the issue. There are no obvious errors in the journal. Does anyone know why sendfax would begin failing with "Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address." with the current kernel, but work fine on LTS? (I have confirmed this behavior on two separate Arch servers) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] rtlwifi
by Frank Zimmermann 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Good afternoon, my log is flooded with these messages: Sep 26 09:09:45 defiant kernel: rtl8192se: switch case 0x5e not processed Sep 26 09:09:54 defiant kernel: rtlwifi: AP off, try to reconnect now Approx everey 10 sec there's a new entry. My wifi connection is quite buggy even when close to the router, so am not sure if that might be a reason. My favourite search engine came up with some links suggesting that these module options will help: options rtl8192se fwlps=0 ips=0 swlps=0 swenc=1 However, I do not see any difference with them. any ideas how to get around this? THX Frank

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[arch-general] [News] DigitalOcean "supporting" Arch Linux
by Eduardo Machado 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Hi folks, Firstly, i am not a digitalocean affiliated, but i use their services. A long time ago, Arch Linux was one the supported OSes, latter they dropped this support. Now, although it is not officially supported again they just launched the ability to upload Custom Images into DigitalOcean. You can now import the OS of your choice directly into DigitalOcean and start a Droplet. [1] [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/ --- Eduardo M. Machado

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[arch-general] vsftpd only works without seccomp
by L. Rose 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

Hi, I've been using vsftpd successfully with implicit SSL several months ago. Now I wanted to use it again (same config file), but it didn't work, clients reported SSL errors. Adding `seccomp_sandbox=NO` to my /etc/vsftpd.conf fixes the error. But I don't want to disable seccomp sandboxing. Any ideas? Regards, L. Rose

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[arch-general] Starting 9/15 new error - stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

Archdevs, Is this a new bug or config issue? Beginning 9/15, I receive a new cron error: error: stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed: No such file or directory But the file is there: $ l /var/log/clamav/clamd.log -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 0 Aug 30 2015 /var/log/clamav/clamd.log The wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ClamAV doesn't mention the issue, so is this a bug? If so, upstream or here? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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