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[arch-general] Arch PXE setup with existing dhcp server/apache/vsftpd
by David C. Rankin 03 Mar '16

03 Mar '16

All, I was interested in setting up a boot server to provide Arch install, as well as several other boot/setup options. I have existing Arch servers with ISC dhcpd, apache, vsftpd, and I've installed tftp. I have looked at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PXE https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system Both seem to have different pieces of the puzzle. The PXE page provides examples for use of dnsmasq, darktable, and tftp. However running dnsmasq would conflict with the existing ISC dhcp service and how would xinetd know how to differential between an ftp request that should invoke tftp or vsftp? The Diskless_system page, uses existing dhcp config, but then pulls files from NFS or NBD. I've looked at dozens of ubuntu and centos pages (which is primarily what you get when you search for PXE boot setup howtos), but most are of such poor quality, it is hard to tell what the salient parts of the setup are. My confusion comes in seeing how I can continue to serve the rest of my dhcp clients and also PXE boot requests (from what I can tell, it shouldn't matter, everybody still gets an address, and those non-PXE clients should ignore the additions to dhcpd.conf -- hopefully) Additionally, all other howtos show mounting the .iso loop and then copying the files to the tftpboot location. Why bother with the copy, why not just mount the .iso loop at the proper tftpboot location? If anyone know the answer to whether the PXE config additions to dhcpd.conf will conflict with normal dhcp clients? or whether having both tftp and vsftp served by xinetd is an issue? I would appreciate your answer. I think I can take if from there. If you have any other pointers about setting up a PXE boot server with this configuration I'd appreciate that as well. I'll add whatever working solution is arrived at to the wiki. Thanks -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] AUR Packages no longer visible from Archlinux
by Jayesh Badwaik 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

Hi, I am no longer to view any AUR packages using either packer or yaourt. Is anybody else facing the same problems? $ yaourt -Ss visit community/visitors 0.7-4 A very fast web log analyzer $ -- Jayesh Badwaik

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[arch-general] Boot SuperMicro H8QM8-2 w/4 Opteron 8360 - hangs on boot of install media
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

All, This may be a stupid question. If so I apologize. Do I have to do anything different to boot the arch install media on a board with 4 Opteron 8360 processors (16 core total), or should the kernel just handle however many cores there are? The reason I ask is it always hangs after it says Booting Kernel (immediately after decompress). When I memtest the memory, (I have two sets and I've gone stick by stick with a minimum memory config, and I still get errors at the exact same percentage of every test.) I have rotated each stick in/out with a replacement, and replaced the whole set, but same issue. So I either have to do something different to boot with 16 core which will in turn also address the memory issue, or I have lots of bad ram or a bad mem controller in one of the processors. Hardware Info shows all cores and memory, it's just using it that is the problem :) What say the experts? Do I need to pass a kernel flag, or something similar for the 4 Opteron boot, or does it just smell like multiple failed sticks in each set? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux
by Christian Rebischke 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Hello everyone, Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact number. Does somebody has some statistics? best regards Chris

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[arch-general] Mutt - no authenticators available
by Fulcrum 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hi I have been trying for hours but cant get mutt working. I used configuration from different forums. They all made sense but neither work. Also, the mutt package availabe in official arch repo has no debugging support so I couldn't figure out what was going wrong. After some internet research and keen eyes on mutt's on-screen logs, I found that mutt was trying to authenticate plainly. Then I learnt about authenticators. I enabled these authenticators: set imap_authenticators=”digest-md5:gssapi:cram-md5:login” set smtp_authenticators=”digest-md5:gssapi:cram-md5:login” And now I am exhausted and , quite frankly, frustrated. The only logs generated by journalctl are: Feb 25 10:44:15 ARCH mutt[31322]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:44:37 ARCH mutt[31322]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:04 ARCH mutt[31328]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:45:06 ARCH mutt[31328]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:10 ARCH mutt[31329]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:45:12 ARCH mutt[31329]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:40 ARCH mutt[31332]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:48:29 ARCH mutt[31404]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:48:45 ARCH mutt[31406]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:49:18 ARCH mutt[31406]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:50:18 ARCH mutt[31421]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:53:46 ARCH mutt[31530]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:53:49 ARCH mutt[31530]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free FYI I have 'cyrus-sasl' and 'cyrus-sasl-gssapi' packages installed. My .muttrc: set imap_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login” set smtp_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login” set imap_user = “myemail(a)hotmail.xn--com-9o0a set imap_pass = “mypassword" set smtp_url = smtp://smtp-mail.outlook.com:465 // Earlier, I tried port 587 set smtp_pass = “mypassword” set from = “myemail(a)hotmail.xn--com-9o0a set realname = “Fulcrum” set ssl_force_tls = yes set ssl_starttls = yes set folder = imaps://imap-mail.outlook.com:993 set spoolfile = imaps://imap-mail.outlook.com/INBOX set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates set move = no I tried using a gmail account; didnt work. I hope someone here could help me. Regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] Wget in Extra is out-of-date for more than two months
by Harrison Wells 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hello Archers, Is there any particular reason as to why Wget in the Extra repository has been out of date for more than two months now (It was flagged out of date on 15th of November, 2015)? The current version available in the repository is 1.16.3-1. The latest version upstream is 1.17.1. Best Regards, Harrison Wells

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[arch-general] Alternative init system proposal
by Eric Vidal 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hello everyone, I'm the creator of Obarun I use runit for PID1 and managing service. Repo is available for all package builded without systemd support. All this package have the name xxx-systemd to avoid trouble with original package. Package are maintained every week (one time per week). all this package doesn't have service declaration to allow other distro to use it like manjaro, alphaos etecetera... A github with all the pkgbuild used is available here https://github.com/Obarun + some personnal scripts A complete site is available too with forum and a little wiki here www.obarun.org Proposal an alternative to systemd on arch system isn't impossible even for complex desktop environment. KF5, XFCE4 work on it.(using consolekit for the moment) dev is managed by gentoo eudev (working with jcnelson vdev is in progress, but not working for the moment). I use my system from almost one year now and share it from july 2015. This system is not perfect (i'm not a good dev) and i'm alone to make all the stuff (site, maintaining, new features and so one) but i'm the proof that can be possible and without so much efford. Isn't the work to arch to propose an alternative. Pacman, makepkg, pkgbuild are beautiful tools which allow user to make every his want. So use it and don't ask anything to arch dev :) -- Eric Vidal <eric(a)obarun.org>

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[arch-general] systemctl --user broken
by juan tascon 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Gday everyone, Since the last systemd update (229) I haven't been able to run my systemd user instance. I'm getting this error when I try to run "systemctl --user status": Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory Running strace reveals that it tries to connect to kdbus which isn't available on the current kernel: open("/sys/fs/kdbus/1000-user/bus", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I've tried disabling kdbus adding "kdbus=0" as kernel parameter but that didn't work. Any help here will be greatly appreciated.

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[arch-general] can't balance full btrfs raid6 filesystem
by Jameson Pugh 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

I have a raid6 btrfs filesystem which I filled up, and added a disk to: > sudo btrfs fi show /dev/sdb Label: 'raid' uuid: 96c75e11-ab60-44b6-a450-4cd2831f86f0 Total devices 5 FS bytes used 917.77GiB devid 1 size 465.76GiB used 465.76GiB path /dev/sdb devid 2 size 465.76GiB used 465.76GiB path /dev/sdc devid 3 size 465.76GiB used 465.76GiB path /dev/sdd devid 4 size 931.51GiB used 465.76GiB path /dev/sde devid 5 size 1.82TiB used 0.00B path /dev/sdf Despite having removed files, and added the new device, I still can't balance the filesystem: > sudo btrfs balance start /mnt/raid ERROR: error during balancing '/mnt/raid': No space left on device There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail Adding -dusage doesn't help: > sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=4 /mnt/raid Done, had to relocate 0 out of 471 chunks > sudo btrfs balance start -dusage=5 /mnt/raid ERROR: error during balancing '/mnt/raid': No space left on device There may be more info in syslog - try dmesg | tail Neither dmesg nor journalctl have anything useful. Am I doomed to rebuild the filesystem? I'm actually at the point, now, where I'm considering ZFS to avoid the issues btrfs has with running out of space, free space reporting, and cache disks. I really don't want to move to something that isn't GPL compatible, but this is getting quite frustrating. Thanks, Jameson

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[arch-general] mksh-52.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)?
by David C. Rankin 21 Feb '16

21 Feb '16

Attempting update today, I received: error: mksh: signature from "Thorsten Töpper <........(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/mksh-52.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Is this a know issue? How to work around (correctly)? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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