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[arch-general] things specific to Arch?
by bill . 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

Hello everyone, New member here and new Arch user having come over from arch-based Manjaro. I admit i installed with Architect and am thankful for it as i don't know that i would have been able to do so without it. So far my experience has been a good one, but i know i have much to learn. One thing that puzzles me is with every other linux i've used i formatted a usb flash drive with the command sudo mkdosfs -n xxxx -I /dev/sdx where x's are specific to file names and disk drives. This does not work in my Arch (the development version and lxqt. Is there a different way specific to Arch, or something i need to download to get this function? Also, usually when i first install a linux there are updates, sometimes tons of them. When i use pacman -Syu it says there is nothing to update. Is this common/ correct? I appreciate Arch for its up to date repository, among many other things. There are just a few things i need to know in order to use it better. Good to be a part of the real deal. Many thanks for your time! peace -bill

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[arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)
by Serge Hooge 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

I apologize for crossposting from the forum, but I am not getting any replies there so far. I recently became an owner of a Thinkpad 770, which rather ancient by modern standards and decided to give it a spark of fresh life by installing Arch on it. The CD boots okay, but when I try to actually boot x86 Arch, it Kernel Panics with the subject title. It tries /bin/init, /sbin/init and /bin/sh, failing with the same message for all of them. Some searching shows that ERRNO 26 is for a busy file, but I've no clue what may be accessing all the init files at the time of the boot. I tried passing init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd, but it fails with error -2. Is systemd not on the CD? I have read about successful installations of Arch on this machine previously, but they mentioned no problems of the sort, presumably that was pre-systemd Arch. Is there anything else I could try to get it working? I am using a late 2015 ISO for the CD. -- Serge Hooge () ascii ribbon campaign - against HTML e-mail /\ - against proprietary attachments

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Re: [arch-general] Unsubscribe and list help - Was: Mailing list etiquette
by jamesalloc 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

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[arch-general] Unsubscribe and list help - Was: Mailing list etiquette
by Ralf Mardorf 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

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Re: [arch-general] btrfs/snapper hook for pacman 5.0?
by Wes Barnett 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Someone mentioned last month about using pacman hooks for btrfs snapper snapshots like YaST does with openSUSE (cf. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermai l/arch-general/2016-February/040589.html). Here's a little package I put together to do this: https://aur.archlinux.org/pac kages/snap-pac/ Just install the package and use pacman as normal. Snapper pre/post snapshots will automatically be taken before and after install/upgrade/removal. More details are here: https://github.com/wesbarnett/snap-pac -- Wes Barnett

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Re: [arch-general] wireless driver broadcom b43 random success or failure
by message 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

From the wiki page: "Each configuration file is named in the style of /etc/modules-load.d/<program>.conf. Configuration files simply contain a list of kernel modules names to load, separated by newlines." Why was the file 'b43.conf' containing only: b43 incorrect? Is not 'b43' the name of the kernel module?

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[arch-general] wireless driver broadcom b43 random success or failure
by message 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Readers, Can anyone explain if the following 'dmesg' outputs are useful to understand why after start of X session, the wireless driver fails sometimes? The wireless driver does not start automatically and is always started manually with the command (as root): modprobe b43 Below is the dmesg output when the command above, starts successfully the wireless driver: b44: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver version 2.0 b44 ssb1:0 eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver ... IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10) b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8 b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2050, Revision 2, Version 0 Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready wlan0: authenticate with ... wlan0: send auth to ... (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with ... (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from ... (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Below when the 'modprobe b43' fails to start the wireless driver: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10) b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8 b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED RADIO (Manuf 0xFFF, ID 0xFFFF, Revision 15, Version 0) b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95 Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] The only solution seems to be to switch the computer and start again, sometimes 3 or 4 times repeated failure occurs.

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[arch-general] wireless driver broadcom b43 random success or failure
by message 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Readers, Can anyone explain if the following 'dmesg' outputs are useful to understand why after start of X session, the wireless driver fails sometimes? The wireless driver does not start automatically and is always started manually with the command (as root): modprobe b43 Below is the dmesg output when the command above, starts successfully the wireless driver: b44: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver version 2.0 b44 ssb1:0 eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100 PCI ethernet driver ... IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10) b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8 b43-phy0: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, ID 0x2050, Revision 2, Version 0 Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht' IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready wlan0: authenticate with ... wlan0: send auth to ... (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with ... (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from ... (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Below when the 'modprobe b43' fails to start the wireless driver: b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10) b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 4, Type 2 (G), Revision 8 b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED RADIO (Manuf 0xFFF, ID 0xFFFF, Revision 15, Version 0) b43: probe of ssb0:0 failed with error -95 Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNLS ] The only solution seems to be to switch off the computer and start again, sometimes 3 or 4 times repeated failure occurs.

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[arch-general] SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird)
by Elmar Stellnberger 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

While being connected via an insecure VPN I had once more left my email client open by accident (Thunderbird). Though access to imap.gmail.com shall be secured by SSL/TLS my gmail password was malversated within a few seconds; i.e. I got a login attempt from HongKong and had to change the password after disconnecting. Is anyone here who can explain the insecurity of SSL/TLS in its current state? Does Thunderbird support certificate pinning? Or do you think that there are still errors in the implementation of the protocol? What about libressl for Linux?

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[arch-general] Emacs is missing the icons in toolbar since one of the last updates
by Manuel Reimer 10 Apr '16

10 Apr '16

Hello, is this a known bug or do only I have this issue? Since the last system update, I no longer have any icons in emacs. The toolbar is just empty. Thanks in advance. Manuel

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