Re: [arch-general] any IEEE 802.11ax wifi 6 USB devices supported by gnu+linux (even external dkms)?

2022-04-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 4/14/22 8:54 AM, Javier via arch-general wrote: I’m looking for upgrading to wifi 6 (802.11ax), but I’m not able to find gnu+linux supported usb devices. wifi 6 is already supported. From my laptop: [3.411497] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz, REV=0x351

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Search on Package Names Only?

2022-03-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
How about: pacman -Sl | grep On 3/25/22 7:58 AM, Dan Sommers via arch-general wrote: Greetings, Is there a way to limit Pacman to search package names only, rather than package names and descriptions?

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-16 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 2/11/22 11:44 AM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 2/11/22 9:21 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: Also it may be worthwhile running memcheck to be sure your memory is not faulty. Yeah that thought occurred to me as well.  I ran a quick memtest86+ when I first built

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
Thanks much for following up! Responses inline. On 2/11/22 4:15 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: I suppose it could also be southbridge being annoying It's a very new machine (Rocket Lake and PCIE4) so doesn't technically use the traditional northbridge/southbridge model. But point

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 2/11/22 9:56 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: Another thought - if you can try a different network hardware that might be useful as well. And to be clear, this kernel is running on physical hardware not a VM right? If you're running on VM please share which host and VM is used.

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 2/11/22 9:21 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: On 2/10/22 18:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: ... ... "rcu_preempt detected stalls on cpus/tasks".  But searching on that Since the CPU is stalled and unable to make further progress something is inhibiti

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
vious you already illuminated it but some buffer not clearing old data? On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 09:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: Following up on this crash issue I keep having with my Arch server. Basically server just completely freezes up - doesn't respond to pings, o

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-10 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
Following up on this crash issue I keep having with my Arch server. Basically server just completely freezes up - doesn't respond to pings, or keyboard/mouse input, and eventually has to just be rebooted. Good news is: a) after upgrading everything (including the router firmware) it no longer

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-01-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 1/24/22 2:47 AM, Uwe Sauter via arch-general wrote: Does your server support IPMI and thus SOL (serial over LAN)? Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this is just a home/desktop server, so I don't think its mobo supports IPMI. Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-01-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 1/21/22 5:08 PM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: When it crashes, instead of reconnecting router connect any laptop with arch booted from usb. If link comes up then use tcpdump to see what is happening on the wire. That's a good suggestion - thanks. (No better way to see if the

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-01-23 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
Tnx much for the reply! Responses inline below. On 1/21/22 2:29 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: When you say server crashes - I assume kernel crashed and is not functioning (as opposed to kernel is up and running but network is not doing what I want)? Does server respond to any k

Re: [arch-general] Can't mount vfat filesystem

2022-01-22 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 1/22/22 5:30 AM, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: Hey hey, I just updated my system yesterday and now I can't mount a VFAT filesystem. Installed packages: linux 5.16.2.arch1-1 util-linux 2.37.2-5 There is no mount.vfat or mount.fat program/script and apparently no kernel module install

[arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-01-21 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
Been experiencing a weird issue several times recently that's got me stumped. A couple of weeks ago, my entire home network went dead right in the middle of a zoom call. Same problem happened again late last night. The problem is intermittent/occasional: everything runs without issue for se

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

2021-12-20 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/20/21 3:51 AM, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: At least I'm getting xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fff) also on 5.15.x Kind Regards Bjoern That's a different message. That means that your filesystem is *

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

2021-12-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/14/21 11:32 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: So why am i still seeing this then as i say i update the system virtually every day it makes no sense You are seeing this message in your dmesg / journalctl? "EXPERIMENTAL big timestamp feature in use. Use at your own risk!" Are you usi

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

2021-12-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/14/21 8:27 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:00:28 -0500 David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 12/13/21 2:30 PM, pete via arch-general wrote: I still gt the experimental warning every now and then have to try forced update of all XFS related progs

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

2021-12-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/13/21 2:30 PM, pete via arch-general wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:16:50 -0500 David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 12/13/21 12:27 AM, brettm via arch-general wrote: The part about the timestamps is a normal warning with XFS (there is an option to format with 64 bit

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

2021-12-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/13/21 12:27 AM, brettm via arch-general wrote: The part about the timestamps is a normal warning with XFS (there is an option to format with 64 bit timestamps but I seem to recall it being flakey somehow) The XFS bigtime features isn't at all flakey. (I've been using it for months w

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia, fuck you again

2021-12-06 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 12/6/21 10:54 AM, Iyán Méndez Veiga via arch-general wrote: I have a GTX 1070 which is (in theory) fully supported by nvidia, and I don't expect them to drop the support for a few more years. I mean, even the GeForce 700 Series are still supported (~8 years old) in the latest 495.44. So,

Re: [arch-general] fetchmail/exim line length messages

2021-11-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 11/26/21 2:06 PM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote: I'm not sure what, if anything, has changed recently to start causing this. Have they something in common, e.g. all being bounced to sendgrid.meetup.com which indicates it's a problem with what the remote side is feeding fetchmail?

[arch-general] fetchmail/exim line length messages

2021-11-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
My email processing system has suddenly started throwing error messages on line lengths recently: fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, got 1047 fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@ bounced to bounces+11930396-d424-darose=darose@sendgrid.meetup.com fetchmail

Re: [arch-general] linux 5.15.2.arch1-1, xorg and nouveau - flickering

2021-11-19 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 11/19/21 10:22 AM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: Hi, All xorg apps that use hardware acceleration (i.e. chrome, skype) filcker on current kernel 5.15.2. lspci lists my graphic card as : NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1) I am using stock nouveau driver.

Re: [arch-general] DST-related log messages?

2021-11-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 11/7/21 6:02 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: Anyone know what (if anything) gets written to the logs that would show this change? NM, I think I found it: Nov 7 01:46:31 systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully. Nov 7 01:01:43 FAHClient

[arch-general] DST-related log messages?

2021-11-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
We switched from Daylight Savings back to Standard time in my locale last night. (EDT -> EST) My system did seem to update, as it has the correct time. However, I was looking through the logs to see if it wrote any messages regarding the time changing, but didn't see any. I also don't see a

Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

2021-10-11 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
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

Re: [arch-general] Rescue mode stopped working

2021-07-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 7/26/21 7:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: I'm not sure what changed, but for some reason I'm no longer able to drop into rescue mode on my laptop (i.e. using "systemctl rescue") - or to boot directly into single user mode. This behavior has def

[arch-general] Rescue mode stopped working

2021-07-26 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
I'm not sure what changed, but for some reason I'm no longer able to drop into rescue mode on my laptop (i.e. using "systemctl rescue") - or to boot directly into single user mode. When I try either of these, the kernel loads, and then looks like it's entering single user mode, prompting me to

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

2021-06-07 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 6/7/21 3:49 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I'll just live with it until I have time to dig into the pacman source and find out what this supposed "new feature" is that screws up old terminals. Or you could just switch to a modern terminal app! :-) DR

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

2021-06-03 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 6/3/21 4:59 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: On 6/3/21 1:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the terminal is VT100 compatible. It

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

2021-06-03 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the terminal is VT100 compatible. It really looked like there was a bad ANSI escape somewhere. It was night/day different than the last time I updated and I've proba

Re: [arch-general] Unstable/Unusably slow Wi-Fi connection with systemd-networkd/wpa_supplicant

2021-03-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 3/23/21 9:09 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: Hi, I was using Wicd until a couple of weeks without problems, but because it's been out of repos for a while and generally not maintained/developed anymore I decided to make the switch and start using systemd-networkd. I followed the

Re: [arch-general] Mirror not synchronized since January

2021-03-09 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 3/9/21 11:58 AM, Henry-Joseph Audéoud via arch-general wrote: Hi all, Today, I discover two machines not having same version of one package. Both are up-to-date (just did a `pacman -Suy`).  But they do not use the same mirror.  Indeed: I understand there may be a little time gap betwee

Re: [arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

2021-02-24 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 2/23/21 8:48 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I understood why it was done, I follow the kernel announcements, etc, but was a bit bewildered by Arch moving LTS to 5.10 before Linux moved to 5.11. Even today, we have: linux 5.10.16.arch1-1 and linux-lts 5.10.17-1 So the

Re: [arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

2021-02-17 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 2/17/21 3:48 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Archdevs, You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros). See: https

Re: [arch-general] CVE-2021-3156 (Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo)

2021-01-29 Thread David Rosenstrauch via arch-general
On 1/29/21 12:20 PM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: Hi, Just checked my servers and all were vulnerable: Updating to the latest version (sudo-1.9.5.p2-1) closed this vulnerability. Maybe this should be posted as arch news message? It was already sent to the arch-security mailin