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[arch-general] arch health
by ITwrx.org 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

i'm a little concerned about arch's overall health and i was wondering if there's anything we can do about it. why am i concerned? Many users tested to demonstrate that PIE would not cause an undue performance burden but it has still not been implemented due to dev's lack of time. Now said dev is also resigning from packaging due to it becoming a chore. Is PIE on the menu of the adopter of those packages? There are also many official packages that have been out of date for a while. At least one of the devs seems to have too many packages to maintain. Probably because packages were orphaned and someone had to pick up the slack. There are probably many packages in aur that should be moved to official if there were devs who had time to deal with them. There are probably some bugs that need to be fixed too. Maybe we can use some % of donations to pay a dev/devs? Can we modernize the donations system? I sent a message to SPI's web dev email asking about improvements to project's pages but i haven't heard back. IMHO, a general donate method doesn't cut it. Crowd funding should demonstrate clearly that people will donate much more when they have input and can see goals, progress, etc. Donors and devs should be able to designate goals (devs could have approval/veto power) and/or donors should be able to donate towards approved goals. It would be nice if we could fund developers or maybe just a rewards pool where devs get some appreciation money each month. Crypto currency could be an option. Devs could choose what they want to receive. If nothing else, maybe we could crypto tip individually or to an Arch address. Some way to make arch development more practical for people. I know in the past arch devs have said roughly that "he who does the dev makes the decisions" but maybe us users can buy our way in just enough to influence the speed or goals of the distro's dev? It doesn't seem like the current state of things can keep up with threats, new features, etc. I think i am not alone in being willing to pitch in money, when i can, to make it easier or more worthwhile for devs, new or current. At least we could see what the current funding levels for goals were so we would know if more needs to be done. Some other distros have large corps that can foot the bill to get things done. I'm sure Arch could use some help too, even if we already have donation funds for infrastructure needs. thanks -- Information Technology Works https://ITwrx.org @ITwrxorg

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[arch-general] Mirror down?
by David Rosenstrauch 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

It looks like the mirror at nyu.edu has been down for the last couple of days: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/es.its.nyu.edu/643/ Anyone know who to contact about that? Best, DR

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Re: [arch-general] arch health
by Dragon ryu 21 Apr '17

21 Apr '17

2017/04/21 午前11:08 "Eli Schwartz via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: On 04/20/2017 09:23 PM, Ivy Foster via arch-general wrote: > Francisco Barbee via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > >> On 20 April 2017 at 10:32:32, Jelle van der Waa wrote: >>> PIE is blocked by upstream because of this bug iirc. [1] >>> [1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21090 > >> Plus nobody ever explained why minor bug in testsuite should be >> a blocker here. > > Because binutils is a vital system component that it is very, very > important to have working. It's one of those programs whose tests you > absolutely do not want failing, since you're subsequently using it to > link, well, *everything*. Excuse me, are we or are we not a distro which prides itself on the fact that we live on the bleeding (straight) edge??? Just ask phrik: 10:05:03 PM - eschwartz: archlinux 10:05:05 PM - phrik: Livin' life on the hemorrhaging edge! I've changed my mind -- we should immediately enable PIE. :p :p -- Eli Schwartz lol Yeah Bug tester and edge-liver is in need.

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[arch-general] initi issue
by Frank 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Good evening, I'm having troubles booting my laptop. I do get the following error: Failed to execute /init (error -2) Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. TRy passing init= option to kernel CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.2-1-ARCH #1 Call trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x83 ? csum_partial_copy_generic+0x170/0x170 panic+0xe/0x22d ? putname+0x54/0x60 ? rest_init+0x90/0x90 kernel_init+0xeb/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40 Kernel Offset: disabled I've booted from archiso and chrooted in the system, tried to reinstall kernel, did an upgrade, made ne initrd and reinstalled grub without any success. THX Frank

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Re: [arch-general] archlinux ext4 recovery file versioning
by Maykel Franco 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

El 17 abr. 2017 10:09 p. m., "Alex Theotokatos via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org> escribió: On 04/17/2017 09:31 PM, Maykel Franco via arch-general wrote: > Hi, I have a server in archlinux with samba. I have windows client in my > house with mapped folder but a Trojan has entered and encrypted all files > included server archlinux... > > Archlinux has formated with ext4. > > Would it be possible to recover unencrypted files? > Maybe testdisk with photorec might help. Good luck... With testisk os posible recovery original files without encrypt?

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[arch-general] python-txaio
by Storm Dragon 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

Howdy, I noticed that python-txaio was marked out of date last month. The older version is now causing another package, python-autobahn, to not function. I was able to fix this for myself just by installing from abs. I worry though, that newbies may not know how to fix this issue for themselves. So, if someone has time, can you please update to version 2.7.0? Thanks Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a lightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJ "And the blood drains down like devil's rain, We'll bathe tonight." The Misfits - Skulls

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[arch-general] archlinux ext4 recovery file versioning
by Maykel Franco 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Hi, I have a server in archlinux with samba. I have windows client in my house with mapped folder but a Trojan has entered and encrypted all files included server archlinux... Archlinux has formated with ext4. Would it be possible to recover unencrypted files?

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Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent asks for passphrase after suspend?
by Guus Snijders 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Op 17 apr. 2017 04:35 schreef "Om Prakash Singh via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: I am facing the same issue.. once i upgraded my arch system. On 16-Mar-2017 1:31 PM, "Karol Babioch" <karol(a)babioch.de> wrote: Hi, since a while my GPG agent is asking for a passphrase, once my laptop has been suspended. Sounds like reasonable behaviour to me, but I guess it's not what you want. The simple answer would be: try to find out what happens during suspend/wakeup. There's probably something that informs gpg-agent to "forget" the password. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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[arch-general] Is screen safe when it has setsuid?
by Iru Cai 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

Hello, I saw that the permission of screen is -rwsr-xr-x, which means when screen is run, it's run as root at the beginning. I don't know if it can be a security issue. I also checked the screen program in Debian. It uses setguid as a non-root group. -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp ... /usr/bin/screen Iru -- Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent asks for passphrase after suspend?
by Om Prakash Singh 17 Apr '17

17 Apr '17

I am facing the same issue.. once i upgraded my arch system. On 16-Mar-2017 1:31 PM, "Karol Babioch" <karol(a)babioch.de> wrote: Hi, since a while my GPG agent is asking for a passphrase, once my laptop has been suspended. This hasn't been the case beforehand. I'm pretty sure this is happening since the last update of the gpg package a few days ago, but I'm no entirely sure, since I've updated a whole bunch of packages in this timeframe. My gpg-agent.conf contains the following: > default-cache-ttl 86400 > max-cache-ttl 2592000 > default-cache-ttl-ssh 86400 > max-cache-ttl-ssh 2592000 This worked before, and in makes much more sense in my environment than to flush the cache with every suspend. I couldn't find anything in GnuPG's changelog, so maybe it is also some new GNOME, systemd, etc. feature. Has anyone of you also noticed this and maybe even figured it out already? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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