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[arch-general] Where to put info about Install Problem w/Partitioning due to Prior VMFS_volume & Hardware RAID?
by David C. Rankin 05 Jun '16

05 Jun '16

Archdevs, I wanted to drop a note in the wiki about how to deal with reuse of drives that have either prior VMFS_Volume filesystem (GPT table) or hardware RAID information on the disk. I was converting the drives to mdraid and ran into a number of failures converting to MBR. They were two separate but related issues that caused mdadm to be unable to use the drives. e.g. root@archiso ~ # blkid /dev/sr0: UUID="2016-03-01-15-50-36-00" LABEL="ARCH_201603" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="2237702c" PTTYPE="dos" /dev/sda: UUID="LSI ^P" TYPE="ddf_raid_member" /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" /dev/sdb: UUID="LSI ^P" TYPE="ddf_raid_member" /dev/md126: PTUUID="b6fbd994" PTTYPE="dos" (the VMFS_Volume info was shown in cfdisk) The VMFS information and LSI Megaraid infor was removed by overwriting the first 8M of the first partition with dd, e.g.: root@archiso ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 8388608 bytes (8.4 MB, 8.0 MiB) copied, 0.01363 s, 615 MB/s Zapping the GPT partition (with gdisk) was required to remove all parts of the GPT partition before the disks could be used by mdadm (I didn't know GPT wrote partition information to both the beginning and end of the disk and couldn't simply be removed with tools like fdisk or cfdisk, but required a tool that could zap all GPT info. root@archiso ~ # gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT This info didn't seem right as a not on the beginner's page, it didn't fit nicely on the RAID wiki either (even though that seemed like the appropriate spot) and didn't fit on the Partitioning wiki either (that page had nothing related to disk reuse) It seems like this is worth noting for anyone else attempting to reuse disks from a prior VMWare or hardware raid config. What say the devs? Is there a proper place for it? Or should we just leave everyone to search the web for this info? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Missing gpg key?
by Sławomir Szczyrba 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hello. I try to recompile lib32-libgcrypt - because of this annoying error: libGL: dlopen /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so failed (/usr/lib32/libgcrypt.so.20: symbol gpgrt_lock_lock, version GPG_ERROR_1.0 not defined in file libgpg-error.so.0 with link time reference) and makepkg says : [steev]/tmp/lib32-libgcrypt > LC_ALL=C LANG=en makepkg ==> Making package: lib32-libgcrypt 1.7.0-1 (Fri Jun 3 20:47:43 CEST 2016) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 -> Found libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2.sig ==> Validating source files with sha1sums... libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 ... Passed libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2.sig ... Skipped ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 2071B08A33BD3F06) ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified! All keys refreshed: gpg: refreshing 85 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net [...] gpg: Total number processed: 84 gpg: unchanged: 84 Missing key, or sth went really wrong? Regards Sławek

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[arch-general] ocaml package out of date
by phimosis haver 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

"The most recent version of OCaml is 4.03.0. It was released on 2016-05-25." https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ocaml/ is a super old version.

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[arch-general] Arch Linux website down
by Florian Pritz 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Hi, We are currently experiencing some technical problems with the webserver for archlinux.org, bugs.archlinux.org, patchwork.archlinux.org. We are working on it, but resolving this problem could take a while. The mailinglists, AUR, wiki and forums are hosted on a different machine and are still available. If you want to download an Arch Linux ISO, you can still do that via our mirrors. If you don't know any mirror URL, you can use this one: https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/ We are sorry for the inconvenience. Florian

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[arch-general] Enable translations in transmission-qt
by Alexey Rochev 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hi, I posted fixed PKGBUILD in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20982 a week ago, but it seems that no one noticed. Here is the patch: http://pastebin.com/b483Rqjp

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[arch-general] Builds for influxdata
by Óscar García Amor 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hello all, I make some builds for influx suite that could be added to community. https://git.connectical.com/aur/influxdb https://git.connectical.com/aur/telegraf https://git.connectical.com/aur/grafana I have to make chronograf too, but not have free license. https://git.connectical.com/aur/chronograf I think that this could help. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] systemctl problems with enable,disable,start,stop
by Maykel Franco 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi, I have installed archlinux from zero. And when I enable anything service the command is slow and i get this error: [root@arch-kodi-nas maykel]# systemctl enable network(a)enp2s0.service Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-er ror-quark, 24) Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/network(a)enp2s0.service to /etc/systemd/system/network@.service. [root@arch-kodi-nas maykel]# systemctl enable sshd Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-er ror-quark, 24) Is the bug in systemctl? I have installed archlinux un my notebook from 4 years ago and no problems. Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] libxcb 1.12
by Bruno Pagani 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi, libxcb 1.12 has been pushed into [extra], but depends on xcb-proto >= 1.12 which is still in [testing]. Is that a sync issue or a mistake? Thanks, Bruno

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Re: [arch-general] question from a new member
by norman 28 May '16

28 May '16

Hello all. The question was slightly misunderstood. I'm the friend that rosanna mentioned was helping her. The actual situation is that we were trying to install talking arch and the installer will not talk. I have vmware workstation player on her computer and set up a vm for it. However, when connecting the cd and booting the vm there is no audio. The distro used was downloaded from here. https://talkingarch.tk/download.php Any thoughts? > Subject: Re: [arch-general] question from a new member > Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 17:52:58 -0700 > From: Zachary Kline <zkline(a)speedpost.net> > Reply-To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > > > > Hi, > > Did your friend actually go through the process of installing Talking Arch? If so, espeakup should have been installed as one of the manual steps involved. If not, you need to do this yourself. It isn’t difficult, but you won’t have speech feedback obviously. > Log in as root, and then run “pacman -S espeakup alsa-utils,” hit y, and then, “systemctl enable espeakup.service.” > If all this was already done, obviously disregard this advice, but the system is pretty simple to get going in a VM. > > Best, > Zack. > > On May 25, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Rosanna Hostetler<rhostetler(a)consolidated.net> wrote: > > > > a question on talking arch Hi all, I am new to the list and don't remember how to start fresh, so I just had a friend help me get VMware on which I put or he helped me put talking arch linux on it. The question I have, is how do I get talking arch to talk when I run the program? Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > On 5/23/2016 7:41 PM, Noah Schoem wrote: > >> See the Arch wiki beginner's guide > >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_guide>for installation > >> instructions. If you're looking to remove microsoft from your laptop, I > >> would recommend deleting all of the partitions on the hard drive. > >> Details on how to do that, and more information on the disk utility that > >> comes on the Arch iso, are available at the wiki's page on parted > >><https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Parted>. > >> > >> Signed, > >> Noah Schoem > >> > >> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 5:03 PM, message<letter(a)openmailbox.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Readers, > >>> > >>> Can someone please suggest a suitable wiki web page to help, for removal > >>> of m$ (e.g. lenovo ideapad 100s) and installation of archlinux? > >>> > > >

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[arch-general] replace m$ for exclusive archlinux
by message 26 May '16

26 May '16

Readers, Can someone please suggest a suitable wiki web page to help, for removal of m$ (e.g. lenovo ideapad 100s) and installation of archlinux?

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