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Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal
by Maxwell Anselm 14 Feb '16

14 Feb '16

> Though I don't see how a repository officially trusted by > Manjaro is less trusted than the AUR. They are completely different. An unofficial repository of non-AUR packages is for installing binary packages that have no affiliation with Arch Linux. I think it's pretty obvious why that would not be an appropriate recommendation on the Arch Linux wiki. The AUR lets users view the PKGBUILD before installing and also to comment and vote in order to establish trust. This is why wiki articles cannot recommend AUR helpers, since they bypass these mechanisms. Max

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[arch-general] Newbie
by Billy Brawner 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

Hey everyone! I'm new to Arch, just joined up on the forums and IRC channel, figured I'd introduce myself here as well. I use the name Branau around those spaces. Anyway, I'd love to contribute to Arch but I'm afraid my coding knowledge is limited to web languages, since I work as a web developer. Is there an Arch Web team? Are they looking for contributors? Cheers, Billy

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[arch-general] X keeps crashing
by Joshua Branson 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

My Arch linux box keeps crashing on me. I'm using the awesome wm, and at least once every other day I have to forcibly shut down my machine. This usually happens when I am using emacs, chromium, and filezilla. What happens is my screen locks up. I can't move my mouse. None of the awesome shortcuts work. I'm unable to switch to another virtual console. What can I do in situations like this? Does Arch support a Ctl-Alt-Delete? I found this article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_shortcuts And I put " kernel.sysrq = 1" into /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf I've rebooted, and I still can't get it to work. I'm using an apple macbook 7,1, which is a fairly old laptop (it has 4 gigs of ram), and I can't get any of the *R*eboot *E*ven *I*f *S*ystem *U*tterly *B*roken to work. I've read the article on wikipedia about the Magic SysRq key, but I can't get any of it to work. I'm using the dvorak keyboard layout as well, but I'm not sure if that changes anything. Also I've swapped alt and control with this in my .~/xinitrc setxkbmap dvorak setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:swapcaps' Thanks, Joshua

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[arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border
by Wolfgang Mader 09 Feb '16

09 Feb '16

Dear list, if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, you can install an OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and scale CPU, RAM, etc. freely up and down just as you need it. While I can to this using e.g. KVM+qemu on a single machine, I want to be able to bind together a bunch of machines such that they appear as a single big machine. Is there a way to do this? I my question clear enought to be answered? Thanks, Wolfgang

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-mirrors] pacman verify database
by Florian Pritz 08 Feb '16

08 Feb '16

Am 2016-02-05 22:42, schrieb Dennis Börm: > i've setup a mirror this week. one sync today synced an incomplete > state > from a tier1 mirror. is there a tool/script to determine if a/my mirror > is in a consistent state? I am not aware of any such tool. I'm forwarding this to arch-general in the hope that someone either knows or wants to create one. Florian

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[arch-general] recent upgrade has messed up x
by Scott Weisman 07 Feb '16

07 Feb '16

Until last week, my X setup worked fine. No special configuration needed. I have a 3rd generation Core i7 notebook with a dual monitor setup. After a recent update, everything works differently, and not for the better. Before, with a VGA monitor plugged in (with or without a second HDMI monitor), the system would boot and output the console display to both the VGA and LCD. Default X startup was to display at full screen resolution and also output to VGA and LCD. Now, no matter what, it only outputs to LCD. The xrandr command to go to dual monitor used to switch within a few seconds at most. Now, it FAILS the first time. All screens are blank. I then do a second xrandr to output only to external VGA, which succeeds. I see this output from the previous command: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request: 21 (RRSetCrtcConfig) Serial number of failed request: 39 Current serial number in output stream: 39 A third xrandr command to once again go to dual then works. However, the transition takes MUCH longer. And there are further problems. I have seen the HDMI screen occasionally blank (the VGA screen is unaffected) for many seconds, then just go back on. When the screens blank from lack of activity, the time to turn on is also much longer than the previous 1 or 2 seconds. The HDMI screen has a great deal of "flicker" (it's not actual flicker, it's horizontal lines flashing) that just doesn't stop. No X packages were updated recently. But there was a kernel update from 4.3 to 4.4. I had zero problems before. Can anyone suggest some fixes? Would be much appreciated.

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[arch-general] update-ca-trust. how to create Equifax_Secure_CA.pem and thawte_Primary_Root_CA.pem bundle
by niya levi 06 Feb '16

06 Feb '16

hi how do i create a ca certificate bundle with update-ca-trust extract or trust extract-compat which includes my root and intermediate certificates plus Equifax_Secure_CA.pem and thawte_Primary_Root_CA.pem, i need this for postfix to relay through gmail, on a previous instalation of postfix i simply used :- cat myCA.crt /etc/ssl/certs/Equifax_Secure_CA.pem /etc/ssl/certs/thawte_Primary_Root_CA.pem | tee /etc/postfix/ca.crt with the new dynamic configuration feature method of adding CA certificates i use :- cp myCA.crt /etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors update-ca-trust extract my root and intermediate ca certificates are created in /etc/ssl/certs and /etc/ssl/cert.pem has the root and intermediate ca certificate bundle so how do i add the other two ca certificates to the /etc/ssl/cert.pem bundle ? thanx shadrock

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[arch-general] building cwm or twrp on arch
by Javier Vasquez 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hi, As I was not able to fing a CWM (clock work mode) recovery image, neither a TWRP (TeamWin Recovery Project) recovery image for Huawei SnapTo, I'm planning on building CWM for that phone on Arch. I was looking at [1], so to have an idea of what packages I needed to install, but [1] doesn't focus on building CWM/TWRP, besides I couldn't notice how the sdk and others under [2] were sourced, or included into PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc. So I have already installed: android-tools android-sdk android-sdk-platform-tools android-sdk-build-tools android-platform And several other android build requirements, except for ncurses5-compat-libs and lib32-ncurses5-compat-libs (not planning to install them unless strictly necessary). However searching I found [3], which in turns indicate one should do: export PATH="/opt/android-build:/opt/jdk1.6.0_45/bin:$PATH" But then it also indicates: . build/envsetup.sh lunch cyanogen_cooperve-eng make clean Which I'd guess those are the initial cyanogen build steps, and depend on the cynogenmod sources being downloaded there. However I'm still missing how to build CWM/TWRP recovery images for that particular phone model. If anyone has pointers to where one can read how to build such images for any phone model (being able to specify the one for which it's to be built), or huawei snapto in particular, then that'd be great. Or if anyone can include instructions on how to build such images, then that'd be also great. Thanks a lot, -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/android [2] /opt/android-sdk [3] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259929

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[arch-general] Network configuration
by Wolfgang Mader 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Dear list, I have a router which automatically identifies the devices connected to it by their host name (its a FritzBox if that matters). However, this does not work for all my arch-boxes. Thus, I get the feeling, I am missing something in my network configuration. Usually, I edit /etc/hostname by putting just the hostname in there. There is also the tool hostnamectl set-hostname myhostname which does the same. The arch wiki says, that the file also may contain the domain, if any. How do I set a hostname with domain? Is it just hostnamectl set-hostname myhostname.domain Then, the arch wiki says, that it is a good idea to add the hostname as alias for localhost in /etc/hosts. Do you do that? And last, which piece of information determines the computers name in the network. Is it the hostname in /etc/hostname, or more likely the aliases in /etc/hosts? Is there anything more I should configure? Thank, Wolfgang

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[arch-general] Link to the original efivars BBS thread
by Kyle Terrien 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Hello all, A few days ago, there was a big stink about bricking motherboards accidentally with an overzealous rm that descended into /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. It all started with one thread on the BBS titled "No POST after rm -rf /". After reading about the issue, I went into archivist mode and made a small writeup for myself detailing how to remount efivars as ro. I saved the link to the original thread [0], but now when I navigate to it, I get the error message, "Bad request. The link you followed is incorrect or outdated." Was the thread moved? Does anyone have the new address of the thread? --Kyle [0]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=207549

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