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Shadowing the boot disk on Arch system
by Spencer Collyer 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Hi, This is sort-of a follow-on to my earlier message regarding how to best set up a new desktop to match the existing one I have running Arch. I'm intending that my new computer will have an M2 drive as the boot disk. As well as the OS it will also hold my /home partition. Because of a bad experience I had with a Windows laptop with an SSD drive installed, where the SSD got completely wiped back to its factory setting, my intention is to have a hard disk that acts as a 'shadow' of the boot disk. The idea is it will also be a bootable drive with exactly the same setup as the M2 drive. That way if the M2 drive dies, I can still boot using this backup drive and the system will look the same. My intention is to have a cron job that periodically (at least daily) synchronises the backup drive so it looks exactly the same as the main drive. Does that sound like a feasible plan? If it is, my question is what is the best way to initially set up the shadow drive? Should I do a full install on it, so almost treating it like I'm setting up a new computer, but making sure I have all the same packages and setup as the main drive. Or should i just use 'dd' to copy the whole main drive over to the backup drive? I'll make sure the two drives are the same size (or rather that the backup is at least as large as the main drive). Or is there another, better, way I haven't thought of or found while trawling the web? Thanks for your attention, Regards, Spencer

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Moving root partition to another drive
by pete 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Hi . Got a bit of a problem i need to move the root partition to another drive my own fault i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a complete rebuild of the system i have several 1Tb drives lurking but how do i switch things to a new drive . I remember doing that many many years ago but cant remember how now any help out there would be greatfull Thanks Pete

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Proposal: Do not remove a package from the AUR until it is available in a stable repository
by Óscar García Amor 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

Hi all! Recently with the GNOME 43 update I have seen that certain packages are being removed from the AUR to go into the official testing repositories. The problem, in my opinion, is that packages are being removed from the AUR before they go into an official stable repository, which makes the packages "disappear" for a while. Not everyone has the testing repository enabled. In fact using AUR packages is not a condition for having testing, so what a user sees is that suddenly the package he/she was using disappears and he/she can't install it neither with his AUR helper nor with pacman. IMHO, I think it would be better to leave the packages in the AUR until they reach the stable repositories to avoid possible confusion. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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Create ps1 games with Brasero or other programs
by ilpiko2 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Brasero i've always used it for music cds and some PS2 game backups. What I have never tried is using it for PS1 game backups. Searching the web i found some posts but they were old. Is it possible to burn them? is better k3b? Thank you. Marco P.S. sorry for my english.

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Pacman returns error 404
by Zero 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Hi all, Trying to install nodejs with pacman I do experience errors: pacman --sync nodejs Packages (1) nodejs-19.0.0-1 ... :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y :: Retrieving packages... nodejs-19.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to downloaderror: failed retrieving file 'nodejs-19.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 When accessing https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/archlinux with a browser I can download the files nodejs-19.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and nodejs-19.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig. But when accessing https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux with a browser it gives a http error 503 or after a long wait the packages show up. Is there a problem with the pacman mirrors ? ~Zero

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gnome 43 / testing - gnome-shell core dumps
by Genes Lists 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Sharing in case helps others avoid having trouble. Update worked fine - once update completed fresh reboot - gdm starts fine - can login - but after that get a blank desktop - nothing at all works. Will go over logs more carefully but looks like gnome-shell is crashing: Process 1181 (gnome-shell) of user xxxx dumped core. The logs are tricky, as gnome spits a slew of error messages at the best of times (this is not new to 43, for me anyway). All 3 machines are intel i915 based; 2 NUCs and an older laptop. I've downgraded to 42 and all works well again. FYI :) gene

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Re: Moving root partition to another drive
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 16:06 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote: [snip] Maarten, you did not reply to the mailing list ;). > On 27/10/2022 16:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 5. Verify the copy by running > > > > # diff -r --no-dereference /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/ PS: I'm not sure, if diff might warn about missing sockets or similar. If "cp -a" returned exit status 0, the copy is most likely ok, running diff isn't necessarily needed. If tar --xattrs... returns exit status 0, you can't trust it. After doing a backup by tar always (try to) open the archive. However, making a backup using tar first and then restoring from the archive doesn't make sense at all.

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new wireguard admin tool - aur
by Genes Lists 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Firstly, thank you to everyone that contributes to Arch - it is very, very much appreciated. In that same spirit of sharing I've added my second package to the AUR. The first being mkpkg, a package building tool which rebuilds when specific trigger conditions are met. e.g. openssl>minor would trigger a rebuild when openssl major.minor is greater than when package was last built [1] wg-tool source is on github [2] where there's pretty detailed readme . Quick Summary: - simplifies wireguard administration. ( server and users ) - guarantees server and user configs remain synchronized. - handles key creation when needed - users can have multiple profiles (bob:laptop bob:phone etc) - users and/or profiles can be marked active/inactive - takes output of 'wg show' and shows connections by user/profile name. (This one solves a minor annoyance for me) - can import existing user/profiles Anyway, if you run wireguard, this might be something useful. regards, gene [1] https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mkpkg [2] https://github.com/gene-git/wg_tool https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wg_tool

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Update gajim and python-nbxmpp
by klee 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Hello. Will the gajim and python-nbxmpp packages in the community repository be updated? python-nbxmpp has been flagged out-of-date since 2022-09-14. gajim has been flagged out-of-date since 2022-09-19.

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404 from https://security.archlinux.org/cveId
by Adi Matalon 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi, Currently we are getting 404 from this url https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-8343, it happens for all cve ids. Are you aware of this? -- Best Regards, <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mend.io&source=gmail-imap&ust=1654…> *Adi Matalon* Software Developer *https://www.mend.io <https://www.mend.io>* Ariel Sharon 4, HaShahar Tower 32 Floor Givatayim, Israel 5320047 *Mend <https://www.mend.io/>** empowers businesses to develop better software * *by harnessing the power of open source* <https://www.facebook.com/whitesource/> <https://twitter.com/WhiteSourceSoft> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/2440656/>

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