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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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