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[arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation
by Francis Gerund 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/21/1516230/microsoft-signature-pc- requirements-now-blocks-linux-installation-reports?sbsrc=md It was nice while it lasted. <sigh>

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[arch-general] KVM - *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO?
by David C. Rankin 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Arch devs, I'm receiving an error with KVM (arch guest). The guest installed fine from the 20161001 install media, but between every command, I receive the following error: [TTM] Byffer eviction failed qxl 0000:00:02:0: object_init failed for (402650032, 0x00000001) [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl1] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO The guest has 8G of storage gcow2 (default virt-manager settings, except scale on resize of window), 2-cores, 4G of RAM and the partitioning is all on a single / partition. I'm new to KVM and not sure whether this is something I should chase though my hardware (BIOS settings, etc.) or whether this is a KVM issue, the hardware is: AMD FX-8350 Black Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz/32G of RAM/Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 I've followed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libvirt https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU Where do I start in chasing this down? Did I miss a module? The reports by lspcu and zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz are: $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 21 Model: 2 Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Stepping: 0 CPU MHz: 1400.000 CPU max MHz: 4000.0000 CPU min MHz: 1400.0000 BogoMIPS: 8038.54 Virtualization: AMD-V $ zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y # CONFIG_KVM_DEBUG_FS is not set CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT=y CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m CONFIG_KVM_MMU_AUDIT=y CONFIG_KVM_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT=y Modules loaded: $ lsmod | grep -i "virt\|kvm" virtio_net 32768 0 virtio_ring 20480 1 virtio_net virtio 16384 1 virtio_net kvm_amd 69632 0 kvm 516096 1 kvm_amd irqbypass 16384 1 kvm -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Package updates for Long out of Date packages - comment
by Mike Cloaked 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Not being able to post to arch dev public, and gaving seen that there was a list posted by Florian Pritz today with sets of packages that have been long out of date, I thought I would post a comment here about two particular packages that appear in that list. Having done some work privately recently on building refind-efi and gnu-efi-libs, I wanted to note that refind-efi was recently updated in the past few days, and is already at the latest version 0.10.4. I guess that Florian will already be aware of that? Gnu-efi-libs is also on the list but there is a very good reason that it has not been updated from version 3.0.3 to 3.0.4, which is that the newest version does not build for i686, at least when I tried to do that in an x86_64 machine using abs, even though it builds for x86_64, and that package is needed when building refind-efi so that would probably need an upstream fix before it can be brought up to date for both i686 as well as x86_64. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Unlocking the screen through fprintd
by Bennett Piater 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hi all, I have been trying to get fprint working properly with screen lockers for months and have yet to find a working solution. I am using i3wm without DM. Login on the TTY and sudo work properly: They ask me to swipe the finger and then ask for my password if that didn't work. However, every screen locker I have tried that supports PAM at all (i3lock, xlockmore, xscreensaver, kscreenlocker) all ask for my fingerprint AFTER I typed in my password. Is there no way to make them check for my fingerprint first, and then for my password? Does anyone here do something similar? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[arch-general] German manpage for bash
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hi, perhaps I'm "mad", but I wish to get a German manpage for bash and at least an English manpage how to write bash completions. Does anybody know a source for exotic manpages? [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep mad .bashrc alias mad='LANG=de_DE.utf8 man' [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql man-pages | grep bash [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql man-pages-de | grep bash [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash-completion | grep share/man [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash | grep share/man bash /usr/share/man/ bash /usr/share/man/man1/ bash /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz bash /usr/share/man/man1/bashbug.1.gz The repositories seem not to provide the desired manpages. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] system crashes when starting network connection
by sivmu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello, recently I have come across a weird problem regarding full system crashes under certain conditions. It seems somewhat random but the trigger always includes starting a network connection after sometime with no network connectivity. The only applications that have triggered the issue until now are firefox (after starting normaly) which triggers the second I click on a bookmark to open a website (no network conenction until that second). The other application was mutt, which triggered the moment when I fetched mails and the status bar said "looking up mbox" or something of the like. The result of the trigger is a full system crash, showing the current screen. Using Ctrl+Alt+F1/7 does not work. There is no trace in the logs, neither in the journal nor did I find anything with dmseg. The only way to get out of this is by hard reset. I have tried to replicate the bug but so far I was not succesful. I have no idea how to analyse the issue further. Do you have any hints on how to produce continious detailed logfiles or something of that sort to find what is wrong? Thanks

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[arch-general] fluxbox/xscreensaver xterm unresponsive upon screensaver cancel?
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

All, I'm not sure where to start searching on this problem. I have a server with fluxbox and xscreensaver enabled. If I'm running xterm when the screensaver activates, if I return after a couple of hours, the xterm is unresponsive. (instead of a normal solid black-box cursor, it is a white block cursor with a thin black outline) At this point, the xterm in non-responsive and I must kill the window with the [X] window control (top-right) and restart a new session. I note that if another application is left running, like firefox, then the xterm doesn't seem to hang or disconnect (or whatever it is doing). I don't know whether to chase this as an xterm issue, an xscreensaver issue or a DPMS issue. Has anyone encountered this before? If so, any solutions, or did you narrow it down to one of (xterm, xscreensaver, DPMS)? Thanks for any suggestions. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] sporadic strange PC speaker sounds
by J. C. 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hey hey, occasionally I hear a short "tune" on my pc speaker. It's too unexpected and too short to try lsof to see which process is using the pc speaker. The sound is reminiscent of old console games. It's several short notes, all in a blues pentatonic. this has been an issue right from the installation. The only special daemon running is brltty, which at least didn't use to make such sounds in the past. Can anyone suggest a process or a method of finding it? It only happens a couple of times a day, but this could be a problem when recording with the microphone. On the other hand, I can't turn off the pc speaker, since I rely on BRLTTY and other signals in non recording contexts. Thank you and best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Can't change tty size
by J. C. 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hey hey everyone, I'm new to Arch Linux, but not to Linux as such. I tried to set my terminal to 800x600 (80chars by 30 lines or there abouts), but without success. lspci reports my graphics card as: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) It's onboard on my asrock n68 s3 ucc . I've tried the following approaches: 1. fbset on the commandline. The following error is reported: $ fbset 800x600-60 ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument The same happens for -70, -72 and -100 and all other modes including 640x480-* modes. 2. On the kernel commandline using vga= option with vga=0x0303 3. With KMS as suggested on other forums and in the Arch Wiki, using: video=VGA-1:800x600@60 This also included inserting the nouveau module into initramfs using mkinitcpio.conf, followed the the appropriate mkinitcpio command. 4. Using GRUB's gfxmode setting and the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep option. fbset has always reported the resolution/mode as 1024x768 My system doesn't have any GUI installed (yet), if that is of any consequence. Can anyone suggest another route or possible pitfalls with my four ways, please? Thank you. Best wishes, Jeanette -------- Cinderella's got to go <3

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Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync
by niya levi 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

> Today's Topics: > 1. Full system backup with rsync (niya levi) > 2. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 3. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 4. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 5. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 6. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 7. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 8. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 9. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017211123.2ead397e@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdx > # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > you could simply > > sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ > > from the existing install and run the commands required for your > bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID > based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) does > contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you > remove the old drive. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > > -- Death of ROXTerm > https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/ > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 > 21:18:37 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> To: > arch-general(a)archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: <20161017211837.565c38ca@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 > 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> you could simply >> >> sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ >> > >from the existing install and run the commands required for your >> bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID >> based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) >> does contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you >> remove the old drive. > PPS: > > Oops again, > > this would add entries for the new and old drive's , so after > removing the old drive, you need to run the grub auto-thingy again, to > get rid of the entries related to the old drive. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:28:17 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: Arch general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017212817.2e3f0db9@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> you could simply >> >> sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ >> > >from the existing install and run the commands required for your >> bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID >> based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) >> does contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you >> remove the old drive. > Did I misunderstand something? > > Sure, if not both drives should be connected, you need a live media to > install grub. > > My apologies. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:42:03 +0200 > From: Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017214203.d327b9224e06fa29ea6d1276(a)bluenox07.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:20:53 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> wrote: > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:12:51 +0200 >> From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com> >> To: Arch general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync >> >> >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I would simply sudo cp -r everything. >> Oops, sudo cp -pr > I would definitely go for rsync, because it's easier to resume if the process > gets interrupted, for whatever reason. > > Also cp -pr does not preserve links or xattrs for example. Maybe cp -ar would > be more appropriate. > > rsync -a is a good start, you might also want to check if you need > -xattrs > -hard-links > -acls > --numeric-ids (if doing edits from a live system) > --sparse > --relative > > And yes, you sould review your fstab. If you use UUIDs in it, then they have > to be adapted of course. > > If you are willing to spend some time reading, here is a good article which > mentions some pitfalls regarding backups. > > Regarding the bootloader: Yes, you would have to install it on the new drive > ofc. Your commands seem okay to me, not sure if you need something more. > > If you have a swap file, create it first, so that it gets not scattered on the > new drive. > > Regards, > > mearon > > > -- Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> ------------------------------ > Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:44:40 +0200 From: Merlin B?ge > <toni(a)bluenox07.de> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: > <20161017214440.8841a03a766414e2342903e9(a)bluenox07.de> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Typo fix: >> -xattrs >> -hard-links >> -acls > Should be of course: > > --xattrs > --hard-links > --acls > > > Regards, > > mearon > > -- Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> ------------------------------ > Message: 8 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:51:20 +0200 From: Merlin B?ge > <toni(a)bluenox07.de> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: > <20161017215120.227223166f93ea4f85163577(a)bluenox07.de> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sorry for the spam. >> If you are willing to spend some time reading, here is a good article which >> mentions some pitfalls regarding backups. > Here is it: http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix > > Should go to bed now... > > > Regards, > > mearon > > > Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:24:39 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017222439.0bb24a0b@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:42:03 +0200, Merlin B?ge wrote: >> Also cp -pr does not preserve links or xattrs for example. Maybe cp >> -ar would be more appropriate. > Ok, actually I regularly backup to a tar archive and at least links are > preserved. I seemingly missed to use the --xattrs switch, fortunately > this never caused an issue for me, but I consider to add it to my > scripts soon. > > Thank you for the pointer and my apologies for the false advice. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > > ------------------------------ > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15 > ********************************************* hi everyone thanks Ralf and Merlin for the pointers i found the backing-up-unix article very informative. the method i choose was with a live disk and arch-chroot, i need to read up on systemd-nspawn more before i use it. the laptop booted up with the swapped drive without any problems apart from a few warnings that some file times was in the future. thanks again shadrock

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