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[arch-general] pacman -Syu FAILS - hwinfo: /sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem)
by David C. Rankin 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

All, There is a package problem with hwinfo. Attempting a system update results in: :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages... perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any is up to date(0/3) checking keys in keyring [--(3/3) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% (3/3) checking package integrity [######################################] 100% (3/3) loading package files [######################################] 100% (3/3) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) hwinfo: /sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Ansible Testing
by Silvio Siefke 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hello, I have read about ansible and some stuff I managed with it. The idea with roles I find interesting special with VPN / NFTABLES jobs. It make it easier to stay in view :) But I ask me is there a way to test the role system before deploy it real? Thank you for advice Silvio

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 204, Issue 3
by Daniel Venturini 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hi, Pete One day I did something similar to it. I had four partition: */boot/efi* */ # /dev/sda2* */home # /dev/sda3* */tmp # /dev/sda4* and my goal was to completely move my partition */home* after */tmp* and increase */* partition with the new /home's free space. I did it in a simple way: I moved the contents of / and /home to other partitions, then I joined old / and /home and I moved all contents of old / to this new partition. Let's go: I booted my laptop within a live usb and I created two new partitions (sda5, sda6), mounted them and moved all contents*:* # mounting things (you can create sda5 and sda6 either with fdisk, cfdisk or even with gparted) mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/root mount /dev/sda3 /tmp/home mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/root-tmp # partition that I created now mount /dev/sda6 /tmp/home-tmp # partition that I created now # moving contents mv /tmp/root /tmp/root-tmp mv /tmp/home /tmp/home-tmp # I highly recommend you to format both partitions that are going to be joined mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3 # joining / and /home # to do it, use *fdisk* to delete both (/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3) and create a new one # or use *cfdisk* to increase /dev/sda2. Suppose you're going to use fdisk (it was what I used): *umount /dev/sda2* *umount /dev/sda3* *fdisk /dev/sda* *> d # delete partition* *> 2 # partition /dev/sda2* *> d* *> 3 # partition /dev/sda3* *> n # new partition (fdisk will join free space on old /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3)* *> 2 # probably 2 due to /dev/sda2* *> Enter 2x* *> p # print new partition scheme to verify* *> w # write change; JUST DO IT WHEN YOU'RE SURE ABOUT YOUR CHANGES.* # now, mount your new partition and move all content: mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/root mv /tmp/root-tmp /tmp/root # move home files too: mv /tmp/home-tmp /tmp/root-tmp # root-tmp is your new home partition on /dev/sda5 # finally, just update the partitions UUID on /tmp/root/*etc/fstab*: blkid | grep sda2 # looking for your new / partition UUID blkid | grep sda5 # looking for your new /home partition UUID # get both UUID and update them on your fstab file on /tmp/root/etc/fstab # I don't remember exactly, but maybe you need to update your grub: grub-mkconfig Once done, I restarted and all things were working well. If you really want to try it, *I highly recommend you to test it before* on a VM or something like that, unless you know what you are doing. I hope it can fit your problem :). Daniel Venturini DevOps | CyberSecurity enthusiastic | GNU/Linux btw, I use Arch Em ter., 12 de out. de 2021 às 09:00, < arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org> escreveu: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. System manipulation (pete) > 2. Re: System manipulation (Josephine Pfeiffer) > 3. Re: System manipulation (Ben Mezger) > 4. Re: System manipulation (David Rosenstrauch) > 5. Re: System manipulation (Tasnad Kernetzky) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:51:52 +0100 > From: pete <pg.nikolic1(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <20211011145152.0823c123(a)ds9.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi Folks > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the > job > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to get > working . > > Any help please > > > Pete . > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:53:32 +0200 > From: Josephine Pfeiffer <pfeifferj(a)archlinux.ch> > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <462dbff5-fb37-c5eb-cbca-cbcbe6c7c98c(a)archlinux.ch> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > I think you can use gparted to move the partition to another drive. > > Best, > Josie > > On 10/11/21 15:51, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:58:22 -0300 > From: Ben Mezger <me(a)benmezger.nl> > To: pete via arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org>, General > Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <m2h7dnzmrl.fsf(a)benmezger.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Can't you do something like: > > $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/drive1/backuproot.img > $ dd if=/media/drive1/backuproot.img of=/dev/sdb # write back to disk > > -- > Ben Mezger > > https://seds.nl > https://github.com/benmezger > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:28:50 -0400 > From: David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> > To: pete via arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <e08d2ffd-1755-93d4-8d5d-23400112c5ed(a)darose.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > > On 10/11/21 9:51 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > One strategy that you might want to consider that I've used before and > has helped many times, is to not move the entire root filesystem, but > rather, just pieces of it. For example, on my system, /home, /var, and > /usr/local/share all reside on different volumes. That frees up a lot > of space on the root partition. > > Couple of other suggestions: > > 1) If you do decide to take my suggestion above, best way to do it (IMO) > is to drop to system rescue mode (best to not copy /home while you're > logged in) tar up the sub-dir, un-tar it onto the other device, then > delete it off of the root fs. (Best to make sure the data all got > copied over correctly before you delete it.) Then, after you've > verified all looks good, change your fstab to mount the new device. > > 2) You might want to consider using LVM > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM) going forward. If you have > /home, /var, etc. on other devices, then those dirs are the only ones > likely to need significant more space going forward, while your root fs > isn't likely to grow much. If you use LVM, you can just throw some > additional disk space from the VG to /home whenever you need more space > there. (Or even add new disks.) > > HTH, > > DR > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:39:27 +0200 > From: Tasnad Kernetzky <tasnadk(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <29ee0483-4b38-f895-7bad-f43ea8eb6fbf(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi, > > If you are planning to move to another drive anyways soon, did you try > to free up space? > > My usual suspects are > > * pacman -Sc or -Scc > > * journalctl --vacuum-size=50M > > * logs and other stuff on /var > > * nfs cache > > > Also, ncdu can be of great help to find huge files and folders you might > not need any more. > > > Best, > > Tasnad > > > On 11.10.21 15:51, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > >

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[arch-general] System manipulation
by pete 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have looked but cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i have so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to get working . Any help please Pete .

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[arch-general] Error setting up a HP all in one device
by sysadmin＠bsd.com.mx 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a MFP 125a (all in one HP device), and usually just installing CUPS + HPLIP detects and configure this kind of devices, however in this case I am able to use the printer but not the scanner. The printer it is detected correctly and works fine, but keep getting an I/O error whenever I try to use the scanner. The device is recognized by lsusb like: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 03F0:222a HP, Inc LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw And scanimage -L and sane-find-scanner recognize it like: device `hpaio:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M125a?serial=CNB6F0568K' is a Hewlett-Packard HP_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M125a all-in-one found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x222a [HP LaserJet Pro MFP M125a]) at libusb:001:005 Doing a little research got here: https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/how-to-install-and-configure-hp-p… where indicates that uncommenting the #hpaio line in the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf would help, but it doesnt have that line :( Does anyone have seen something like this? any good tips or links for settiing this AIO device? uname -a: Linux archlinux 5.10.69-1-lts #1 SMP Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:30:37 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Best Regards Adriel C.

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[arch-general] archlinux-java script in java-common package
by 山田ハヤオ 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

The archlinux-java script in the java-common package has a lot of code that is inappropriate as a Bash script. (ShellCheck prints a lot of errors.) I have created a patch that fixes these errors with minimal changes. I put the patch on GitHub Gists because it collapses for some reason when I send the patch by email. all.patch is a patch that contains all the changes, and the other files split the changes by function. This is my first time sending a patch to a mailing list, so there may be something wrong with the way it is sent. Patch https://gist.github.com/Hayao0819/bacccc3eebeab73159001f60c9d35a43

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[arch-general] fluxbox update loses wallpaper setting
by David C. Rankin 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

All, Really strange. Update to fluxbox 1.3.7+205 out earlier today cased fluxbox to not find the current wallpaper. It appeared to have reverted to an ancient wallpaper no longer on the system. What changed. I've updated fluxbox dozens of times and never seen this before? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] bug on systemd-cryptenroll
by David Cohen 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hi, systemd-cryptenroll has a known issue where it may fail if used with fido2. This issue was fixed on upstream, but it was not ported to systemd-stable. Hence we currently have this bug on arch: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20664 What is the proper way to propose a patch to fix that issue on Arch's systemd? FWIW I tested the patch below on current systemd v249.4 and it fixes the bug. diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD index e4c867f..351ac12 100644 --- a/trunk/PKGBUILD +++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgname=('systemd' 'systemd-libs' 'systemd-resolvconf' 'systemd-sysvcompat') _tag='91ea8d825553fc1ecfc19448be24a4da56b13d00' # git rev-parse v${_tag_name} _tag_name=249.4 pkgver="${_tag_name/-/}" -pkgrel=1 +pkgrel=2 arch=('x86_64') url='https://www.github.com/systemd/systemd' makedepends=('acl' 'cryptsetup' 'docbook-xsl' 'gperf' 'lz4' 'xz' 'pam' 'libelf' @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ sha512sums=('SKIP' '825b9dd0167c072ba62cabe0677e7cd20f2b4b850328022540f122689d8b25315005fa98ce867cf6e7460b2b26df16b88bb3b5c9ebf721746dce4e2271af7b97') _backports=( + # fix systemd-cryptenroll using fido2 + 'b6aa89b0a399992c8ea762e6ec4f30cff90618f2' ) _reverts=( Regards, David

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[arch-general] ndiswrapper-dkms: v1.63 with patches and notes
by David Wang 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Greetings, I apologise in advance if this email was sent in the wrong area as I am not familiar with where this should be directed to. ndiswrapper-dkms has been flagged out of date for quite awhile, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ndiswrapper-dkms/ and there has been no updates/news with regards to it. So I decided to tackle the issue. The upstream source indicates v1.63 has been released, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/stable/ however it does not compile against kernel 5.8 or later (as of writing, Arch Linux is up to 5.14.2-arch1-2); https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/bugs/272/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/discussion/323168/thread/17c9cdb567/?… Initially, I have located a patch from a repository for another Linux distribution, Fedora, https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/list/rpmfusion-commits@lists.rpmfusion… Though getting this to work via dkms has been rather tricky, and in my case I have found that the only way to get it compiled was to fully disable NX bit (both 64bit and 32bit), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit Thereafter, I have noticed another patch, https://github.com/pgiri/ndiswrapper/issues/6#issuecomment-784579834 This patch does not appear to require disabling of NX bit during kernel module compile time, but it probably does require NX bit disabled when loading the compiled kernel module. I do not have any 64bit windows driver that I could use to test against the network hardware that I have. Other than that, it does compile with v1.63 and with kernel 5.14.2-arch1-2. Attached below includes an updated but hackish PKGBUILD, the initial patch, as well as relevant logs. The latter patch can be easily obtained, therefore it is not included. Best regards, David

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[arch-general] dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) now old directories left under /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/?
by David C. Rankin 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

All, After upgrade of dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1), it failed to erase the old directory entries each time a new module was built. In my case with virtualbox, I ended up with: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 3 16:00 6.1.24_non_OSE drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 10 10:42 6.1.26_non_OSE drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 02:29 6.1.27_non_OSE The old entries would cause dkms status to fail with: Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.24_non_OSE/source/dkms.conf does not exist. I had to manually remove the 6.1.24_non_OSE and 6.1.26_non_OSE. What happened and what should I check to fix this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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