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[arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide
by Jayesh Badwaik 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi, I have read the dangers of mounting efivars as writable recently, and I think there should be an entry in the archlinux installation guide and beginner's guide which should say exactly what is said in the warning in [1], and then link to [1] for further instructions. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface#Mount_efivarfs

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[arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons
by Francis Gerund 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi. Firefox 44.0 does not seem to allow installing the firefox-adblock-plus addon package from the Arch community repository. Instead, Firefox states that it only allows addons "signed" by Mozilla to be installed. That seems to exclude the package mentioned. I could install the adblock-plus addon version available from Mozilla, directly through Firefox. But is this okay, or a bad idea, or is there a better idea? Any opinions?

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[arch-general] Chromium Favorites Bar Partially Inoperative
by Dutch Ingraham 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hello all: I just installed Chromium, v. 48.0.2564.97, two days ago. I imported my bookmarks from Firefox and enabled the bookmarks bar. I added a few new bookmarks to the bar, but not in my existing folders. Today, I tried to drag-and-drop the bookmarks into the folders on my bookmarks bar, but nothing happened - the bookmarks just remained on the bar. In addition, it seems impossible to move anything on the bar, i.e., adjusting the order of folders or bookmarks. Everything just stays where it was originally placed. For those who don't use Chromium, this is not normal behavior - one should be able to drag-and-drop into folders, subfolders, and slide things around at will. In fact, even in the bookmark manager it is not possible to drag-and-drop; the only way I've found to move a bookmark into a folder is to copy and paste it there, then delete the original. I've tried disabling my two extensions without luck, and I see no recent activity on the boards or on Chromium's bug tracker. Anyone else seeing this? Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] FireFox 44 turning the bookmark toolbar+ extensions area + current tab into light gray (like selected) [gist image]
by Javier Vasquez 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi, Just updated Arch, and got FF 44, but there's a new color behavior on the bookmark toolbar, the extensions area, and current tab. It looks like if everything was somehow selected, light grayed. This is new, but I don't know if it's the new 44+ expected behavior, or something that got broken, and perhaps there's a way to work it around. The gist linked image provides a snapshot of the new weird behavior: https://gist.github.com/je-vv/7a00601e9217cd9d3447 Thanks, -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation
by Elmar Stellnberger 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Am 2016-01-30 um 20:37 schrieb Emil Lundberg: > > Getting posts about imminent and potential security risks from many > different sides is f.i. something I still estimate about the Debian > security list very much. > > > I think the word you're looking for instead of "estimate" is > "appreciate". I suspect these two words translate to the same word in > your native language (German?), as they do in mine (Swedish). :) > > /Emil Actually, yes; that is to say. Elmar

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[arch-general] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation
by Levente Polyak 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Dear arch-security subscribers, Dear arch-general subscribers, the policy of the arch-security mailinglist is currently changed to a restricted advisory announcements only list due to certain reason roughly explained on the arch-devops [0] and arch-dev-public [1] lists. As there was no announcement and discussion about this change yet, we want to invite you to discuss the restriction of the arch-security mailinglist on the CC-ed arch-general list. After making sure you are subscribed to arch-general [2], you can simply reply to this announcement by posting directly to the arch-general mailinglist. Our main goal behind this change is to separate relevant official announcements and advisories from possibly long and frequent discussions. The security teams idea is that each announcement to the arch-security list should be considered as an urgent alert and reviewed as soon as possible, without the need to filter them from general conversations and exchange of "unverified" information. sincerely, Levente (anthraxx) [0] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-devops/2016-January/000007.html [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2015-December/027581.… [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general

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[arch-general] Gnucash 2.6.10-1 download error
by Francis Gerund 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

Hello. I am running Arch x86_64. sudo pacmatic -Syyuv gnucash results in: Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : gnucash :: Synchronizing package databases... core 122.4 KiB 408K/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100% extra 1764.7 KiB 1812K/s 00:01 [#########################################] 100% community 3.3 MiB 1832K/s 00:02 [#########################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (18) aqbanking-5.5.1-2 goffice0.8-0.8.17-3 guile1.8-1.8.8-4 gwenhywfar-4.13.1-3 ktoblzcheck-1.48-3 libart-lgpl-2.3.21-3 libdbi-0.9.0-2 libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2 libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-3 libgsf-1.14.34-1 libmariadbclient-10.1.10-1 libofx-0.9.10-1 libxml++-2.40.1-1 opensp-1.5.2-5 postgresql-libs-9.4.5-1 python-3.5.1-1 slib-3b5-1 gnucash-2.6.10-1 Total Download Size: 0.66 MiB Total Installed Size: 221.06 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages ... libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64 642.2 KiB 1212K/s 00:01 [#########################################] 100% libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2-x86_64 35.4 KiB 1771K/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100% (18/18) checking keys in keyring [#########################################] 100% (18/18) checking package integrity [#########################################] 100% error: libdbi: signature from "Thorsten Töpper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: libdbi-drivers: signature from "Thorsten Töpper < atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. No pacnew files to update. Also, sudo pacmatic -S libdbi [sudo] password for default: Recent ML chatter: resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) libdbi-0.9.0-2 Total Download Size: 0.63 MiB Total Installed Size: 1.92 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages ... libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64 642.2 KiB 1387K/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100% (1/1) checking keys in keyring [#########################################] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [#########################################] 100% error: libdbi: signature from "Thorsten Töpper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. No pacnew files to update. And, sudo pacmatic -S libdbi-drivers Recent ML chatter: resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (2) libdbi-0.9.0-2 libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2 Total Download Size: 0.66 MiB Total Installed Size: 2.08 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages ... libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64 642.2 KiB 698K/s 00:01 [#########################################] 100% libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2-x86_64 35.4 KiB 4.94M/s 00:00 [#########################################] 100% (2/2) checking keys in keyring [#########################################] 100% (2/2) checking package integrity [#########################################] 100% error: libdbi: signature from "Thorsten Töpper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdbi-0.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: libdbi-drivers: signature from "Thorsten Töpper < atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libdbi-drivers-0.9.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. No pacnew files to update. (Note: other packages download fine, and I see no apparent problems with pacman. ) Should this be reported as a bug (or 2-3 bugs)? Or just I just patiently wait for Gnucash 2.6.11-1 (gnucash-latest) to move to the "extra" repository? And if so, any idea when it might be ready?

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[arch-general] systemd user unit files from custom directory
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

hello, thought i'd ask here first, in case it's a distro problem. was wondering if we can use systemd to start and stop a daemon for testing purposes during development. meaning, i would like to not have to "install" my daemon nor its systemd service file, and instead run all from the working directory. from systemd.unit man page i got the impression that this example would work: ❱ tree $PWD /data/projects/hmm └── systemd └── user └── foobar.service ❱ cat systemd/user/foobar.service [Unit] Description=Foo Bar [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/sleep 42 ❱ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$PWD systemctl --user start foobar Failed to start foobar.service: Unit foobar.service failed to load: No such file or directory. am i doing it wrong, or? Cheers Andre Schmidt

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[arch-general] systemctl --user problems
by edsonduarte1990＠riseup.net 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

hi! this last week systemctl --user stopped working saying: > Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory first thing I tried was downgrading systemd but it didn't work. so after reading several pages, I still haven't figured out what's happening but it helped me find several other weird things that I don't know if are related... 1. user(a)1000.service fails with timeout, is there a way to find what's making the service hang? 2. after restarting user@, polkitd.service says: > Started Authorization Manager. > Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2622:23390 (system bus > name :1.20 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 4 --fallback], object path > /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) > Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2622:23390 (system > bus name :1.20, object path > /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) > (disconnected from bus) without registering again which I am not sure if is the correct behaviour but can be due to manually starting user@... 3. and also I've found that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and XDG_SESSION_ID are not set (neither before or after restarting user@) as should be the case from [1] and [2]. thanks for the help. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_Base_Directory_support#User_dir ectories [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/General_troubleshooting#Session_per missions -- edson duarte

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Re: [arch-general] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation
by AIS Information 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

As a consumer of the list, i would actually prefer that it was closed. I want emails only when they are official security announcements from arch security team. Thanks for asking. Keep up the good work! ps. IMHO, the mailing lists rules, etiquette, best practices, how to report a security issue through proper channels, etc would be nice to have on the wiki or on lists.archlinux.org. The description for arch-security will probably need to be updated there too. Otherwise, people may get chatised for things that aren't documented in the expected places.

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