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[arch-general] Whatever happened to speps?
by David Runge 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Helloes, I was wondering, if anyone knows anything regarding the current status of speps. I tried to ping him about some long-outdated packages (supercollider, pd), but haven't gotten a reply in a week. With supercollider we're currently already at 3.7.2 and with pd at 0.47. The latter will also require some fixes, because unpatched/unmodified it's unusuable in its current state (in a JACK setup). Not to be annoying, it's just that an outdating of more than 6 months is very unusual (in the case of supercollider) and I'm using them regularely. I'd be happy to help get the packages back on track. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] Postfix delivery problem
by G. Schlisio 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Dear list, We have a mail server with postfix and dovecot where we have mail addresses with local unix accounts (authenticated by pam) and without unix accounts (dovecot passwd-file authentication). The problem only affects those non-unix account mail addresses. (There are also completely virtual email addresses with different domains, also managed by dovecot, but still working fine, for simplicity ignored here; sorry the config is really complicated). All non-unix-account addresses are listed in a postfix table, configured in main.cf by: mailbox_transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/mailbox_transport_maps looking like this: user1 dovecot user2 dovecot All this was working fine, before yesterdays (rather big) system-upgrade. Now we get the following error in the mail logs: <user(a)dukun.de>: delivery via local: user lookup error postfix/local in verbose mode complains: postfix/local[27333]: deliver_switch[2]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias[3]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias: hash:/etc/aliases(0,lock|no_regsub|no_proxy|no_unauth|fold_fix|utf8_request): user not found dukun postfix/local[27333]: dict_pcre_lookup: /etc/postfix/aliases_regex: user dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_alias: pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases_regex(0,lock|no_regsub|no_proxy|no_unauth|fold_fix|utf8_request): user not found Dez 23 01:56:03 dukun postfix/local[27333]: deliver_dotforward[3]: local user recip user(a)dukun.de exten deliver user(a)dukun.de exp_from postfix/local[27333]: warning: error looking up passwd info for user: Invalid argument It seems like postfix/local is ignoring the mailbox_transport_maps option and trying to deliver itself instead of passing to dovecot, thus finding no entry in the system passwd. After full upgrade config files were merged (no changes in mail config) and a reboot was done. The list of upgraded packages is shown at http://termbin.com/k5ql . As downgrading postfix, dovecot and icu (linking) did not resolve this issue, we are very confused. As this is critical infrastructure for some people, any help is warmly appreciated. regards georg

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[arch-general] Fwd: Re: GRUB doesn't boot Windows behind Secure Boot
by Giovanni Santini 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Il 07/12/2016 17:25, Giovanni Santini ha scritto: > Il 29/11/2016 10:49, David Phillips ha scritto: >> >> I'm not familiar with GRUB anymore, but it sounds like perhaps the file >> bootmgfw.efi has not been signed with a key that is trusted by your board's >> SecureBoot feature. Hence, booting with SB enabled causes a load failure >> while booting without SB fixes the problem. >> > Good afternoon, as here I had no major suggestion about what to do, I decided to ask help in the official mailing list as you can see in [1]. After some tests, we found a small bug in grub that prevented the chainload of EFI executables. This fixes my problem. However, it is not present in the official package yet; I suppose that opening a bug report online should be enough. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-grub/2016-12/msg00001.html [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=ce95549cc54b5d6f494608… -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] UID/GID of a systemd container
by arnaud gaboury 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

% systemctl --version systemd 232 +PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN % uname -r 4.8.13-1-hortensia (username space is set to YES) ------------------------------------------------ My setup: Archlinux host managing through systemd-nspawn a Fedora container on Btrfs. I don't know what upgrade (kernel, Fedora 24 --> 25, systemd....) trigered this change, but UID/GID of my container are no more shown as before. list container directory from host: # ls -al /var/lib/machines/poppy dr-xr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 198 Dec 16 17:32 ./ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Dec 15 17:08 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 0 Feb 3 2016 boot/ drwxrwxr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 62 Aug 26 19:59 db/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 8 Apr 27 2015 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 4.2K Feb 3 2016 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 1 vu-poppy-0 vg-poppy-0 86 Feb 3 2016 home/ Before it was like this: # ls -al /var/lib/machines/poppy/ dr-xr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 198 Oct 4 15:54 ./ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Oct 1 15:53 ../ dr-xr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 0 Feb 3 2016 boot/ drwxrwxr-x 1 363397120 363397120 62 Aug 26 19:59 db/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 8 Apr 27 2015 dev/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 4.1K Feb 3 2016 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 1 363397120 363397120 76 Feb 3 2016 home/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for any hint, link to documentation about this new way to show UID/GID of a container.

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[arch-general] Screen lock stopped working
by David Rosenstrauch 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

I've noticed that my screen lock / screensaver has stopped engaging as of a couple of days ago. I check the settings (which I haven't changed recently), but they seem to be set correctly. Anyone have an idea what package upgrade might have caused this and/or which bugs I should watch for a resolution? I'm running XFCE desktop btw. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] [OT] Settings problem: Why is Thunderbird so silly?
by Peter Nabbefeld 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hi all, I want to select an application for opening an attachment with an alternative editor (a PDF file with LibreOffice Draw in this case). When I want to select the application, I get the list of last opened files (i.e. text files, which obviously are not able to run ...). Trying to search for "sdraw" presents me with a waiting cursor ... waiting endlessly. I'd guess I have to set some options somewhere, but I don't know which - or do I even have to edit some XUL file? I doubt, that Thunderbird is really so "silly" just not being able to find some application. BTW, my desktop is XFCE, latest firefox (latest system update today). Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] [OT] Settings problem: Why is Thunderbird so silly?
by ber532k 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hi, what worked for me was navigating to /usr/bin or even /bin within the "Choose Helper Application" dialogue and then selecting an executable (in this case libreoffice). The "Choose Helper Application" dialogue will even remember it was in /usr/bin when you invoke it again. Reminds me of the way to do stuff in Windows Vista - back when I was young and ignorant ;) - where you'd "Open with" something like "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft Office\WINWORD.EXE". Not quite an elegant way of managing programms, but it works most of the time. Regards

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[arch-general] Google Summer of Code 2017
by Jonas Verschueren 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Hi everyone, I am currently thinking about applying for the 2017 run of Google Summer of Code. Because I am an avid Arch user and general Linux enthusiast I thought it would be nice to work on Arch and make my contribution back to the community. This discussion seems to come up most years and I don’t know what the outcome of this was previously but I thought I’d ask anyway. I am a PhD student in theoretical and computational materials science based in London. I am an experienced c++ and python user but I am getting more and more interested in the inner workings of the linux kernel and the way various distributions are built on top of it, which also explains my interest in doing this. Anyone know whether someone of the Arch developers could be interested in (or gently persuaded into) mentoring a Summer of code project? Best wishes, Jonas

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[arch-general] Why was wpa_supplicant.conf renamed wpa_supplicant.conf.pacsav??
by David C. Rankin 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Arch devs, I'm left wondering what purpose was served by not providing a pre-update note or post-install restoration of any existing .pacsave found? The new sample wpa_supplicant.conf is in /usr/share/doc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. If this was simply due to a pacman default action where /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf was removed upstream, could a one-off 'post-install' script check for the original .pacsave and restore it? I know this is small-potatoes stuff, but I just wonder if in these instances, it may not be better to either provide pre-update notice or do a post-install script rather than relying on a post update action by the user? At least in the cases where you know up-front that existing functionality will be disabled by the upgrade. (which was apparent from the comment) Food for thought for the packagers. In these cases, I would think we would either want some type of pre-update note on archlinux.org (like for ttf-dejavu) or some post install restoration of the original config. I'll reiterate, at least for the cases where the packager 'knows' a broken config will result. Here, anyone relying on remote access via wpa_supplicant is left dead in the water unless they catch the comment as it scrolls by before rebooting. (yes they should review the comments, but with human nature what it is...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Regular service freezes the system
by Guus Snijders 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Op 16 dec. 2016 10:24 schreef "Jeanette C." <julien(a)mail.upb.de>: Hi List, I have encountered this issue several times now. I can't be sure, which job actually freezes the system, a good runner up is updatedb, [...] Sounds like your system has either too little memory for your workload or has a problem with (heavy) IO. By freezing; do you mean that the system feels slow, or does it hang completely? In either case, you might want to check dmesg for errors. If everything is working but just slow, check your memory usage and/or try to reschedule both tasks (updatedb and mandb) to a more convenient time. I think the cgroups can also help here, but that's a bit of longshot for me. Mvg, Guus Snijders

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