Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: Another road

2024-12-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-12-07 at 23:21 +, Liam Proven wrote: > My preferred editor is missing as is a lot of other stuff. Hi, my favorite editors are xed and nano. In an emergency, pluma will do instead of xed. Xed seems to be only available by Alpine's testing repo. Usually I'm using a combination of

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: Another road

2024-12-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Liam, here is my last attempt to convince you that it is not a good idea to suggest Alpine Linux as an alternative to major distros like Xubuntu or Debian, as there is little difference. The Alpine user manual mentions that "doas is not installed by default" I would add to that, "not to mentio

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: Another road

2024-12-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-12-05 at 13:44 +, Liam Proven wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 15:51, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > > I completely disagree about the "same functionality". At the latest, > > when someone starts xfce4-terminal everything is completely > >

Re: [xubuntu-users] Fwd: Another road

2024-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2024-12-04 at 12:02 +, Liam Proven wrote: > Alpine takes 1GB of disk and 100MB of RAM running the same desktop to > deliver the same functionality. Hi Liam, I completely disagree about the "same functionality". At the latest, when someone starts xfce4-terminal everything is completely

Re: [xubuntu-users] Another road

2024-12-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-12-02 at 20:11 +0100, Wiebe van der Worp wrote: > On 12/2/24 17:26, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > In my experiences VirtualBox is the best solution, when using the > > Oracle run script. VirtualBox and QEMU/KVM from packages every now > > and then break, especial

Re: [xubuntu-users] Another road

2024-12-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-12-02 at 12:13 +, Liam Proven wrote: > > I have to migrate VirtualBox to KVM in time > > Host or guest? Hi, I got rid of all issues with VirtualBox Windows 10 and Windows 11 guests by migrating from the Oracle branded non-OSE as well as from the OSE versions via packages, even s

Re: [Alsa-user] Basic information on alsa needed

2024-10-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-10-27 at 18:29 -0500, Seamus de Mora via Alsa-user wrote: > What role does 'alsa' play on my systems? Hi, in simple terms, it can be said that ALSA is responsible for the hardware level and provides the kernel modules/drivers. Pipewire is a soundserver that works on top of ALSA. I ca

Re: [lubuntu-users] "Read more" link to Lubuntu Discourse now not broken???

2024-10-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Works here, too. -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users

Re: [lubuntu-users] "Read more" link to Lubuntu Discourse still broken???

2024-10-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 05:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > ISP: Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG > The router shows a connection to the Internet by an IPv4 address, it > doesn't show an iPv6 address. But of what kind my IP address is > probably shouldn't matter. OTOH I c

Re: [lubuntu-users] "Read more" link to Lubuntu Discourse still broken???

2024-10-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 20:44 -0500, Aaron Rainbolt wrote: > Try Ctrl+Shift+R, then if that fails try the VPN trick and see what > happens. Hi, reloading (Ctrl+R) doesn't help. Reloading by ignoring the cache (Ctrl+Shift+R) is seemingly not supported by at least Waterfox (Linux), Firefox (Linux) o

Re: [lubuntu-users] "Read more" link to Lubuntu Discourse still broken???

2024-10-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-10-24 at 11:55 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > Is Discourse for Lubuntu still down as of today??  For me in FF still > loading the four dots. Hi, with Waterfox I get five (four + one) animated dots. °°oO° Regards, Ⅎ ⅂ Ɐ ᴚ -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [lubuntu-users] "Read more" link to Lubuntu Discourse still broken???

2024-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 11:49 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote: > But the "use a VPN, unless you already are, then don't use it" seems a > bit . . . unfocused??? Hi, FWIW I've tried without Tor Browser and without VPN on Linux and with Tor Browser on Linux. RiseupVPN on Linux doesn't work [1], so I tried

Re: About AUR accreditation policy

2024-10-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-10-22 at 12:02 +0800, Ling Yang(杨令) wrote: > However, with his AUR repository being disabled, there is no way for > people to learn about his work, and it seems as though his > contributions to the Arch community have never existed. Hi, far too much importance is attached to this poi

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 211, Issue 5

2024-10-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 13:05 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: >On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 at 14:32, Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> I saw the same message after installing Ubuntu 24.10. After a reboot >> it went away. > We have no idea what "the same message" means because you gave us no > context. Topics of the Dige

Re: Strange config /etc/profile.d/utf8.sh added on recent upgrade

2024-10-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-10-13 at 23:02 +0200, Tadeas Uhlir wrote: > Please disregard my previous email. Just found out that this file > isn't related to arch upgrade, it was created by a rogue make script. > My apologies. > On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:48 PM Tadeas Uhlir wrote: > > [snip] 2. Once I find the cul

Re: [xubuntu-users] system won't reboot ...

2024-10-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
off-topic Hi, I'm using Ventoy. Consider to take a look at "persistence", see this reply from me: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2024-August/312895.html FWIW on my old machine I used to use Ventoy with ext4 to hold the Linux ISOs, but it doesn't work anymore on my new machine, s

Re: Periodic aged package report

2024-10-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 11:55 -0400, Genes Lists wrote: > perhaps someone else might be willing to tackle the aur. Hi, it might be a bit difficult to determine whether AUR packages with the suffix -git can still be built or whether something essential has changed, e.g. a new dependency is required.

Re: Sound system not working on Macbook Pro (2017)

2024-10-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 09:09 +0200, Sadeep Madurange wrote: > In alsamixer, Card shows as PulseAudio and the master volume is 100%. > If I press F6 (to select sound card), the first entry is "- > (default)". The second is "default:0 HDA Intel PCH". If I choose the > second one, I see S/PDIF, S/PDIF

Re: Estimate for Linux 6.11 to move from testing to core?

2024-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-09-29 at 11:02 -0400, Genes Lists wrote: > On Sun, 2024-09-29 at 11:58 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > ... > > etc., just Evolution hanged one time and required a restart, which > > was probably not related to the kernel. > > Right - not the kernel. Thank you for the information :)

Re: Estimate for Linux 6.11 to move from testing to core?

2024-09-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
FWIW • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep "6.10.10.arch1-1 -> 6.11.arch1-1" /var/log/pacman.log [2024-09-21T08:26:10+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux (6.10.10.arch1-1 -> 6.11.arch1-1) [2024-09-21T08:26:12+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux-docs (6.10.10.arch1-1 -> 6.11.arch1-1) [2024-09-21T08:26:13+0200] [ALPM

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso

2024-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: This is how your request is shown by the mailing list archive, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2024-September/012091.html . Keep in mind that a lot of mailing list users don't take a look at HTML parts of emails. Not that long ago I also was one of those subscribers. Consider t

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-23.10-desktop-amd64.iso

2024-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, the known reason: "[snip] The currently supported releases are listed below. [snip] Xubuntu 24.04 is an LTS release [snip] Xubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) [snip]" - https://xubuntu.org/releases/ It's seemingly removed for all Ubuntu flavours, see https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ . Ubuntu 23.10 M

Re: strange Adwaita tray icon difficulties

2024-09-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 03:02 +0200, Abraham S.A.H. wrote: > And worst is, that any complaint anywhere usually results in > aggressive or hostile responses. Hi, this does not apply to GNOME as a whole, there are GNOME developers listening, not to mention projects that use GTK and have nothing to do

Re: spam on the forum

2024-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I have received two more forum notifications about replies from darkmage3088, but the posts have already been deleted. Obviously a moderator has already taken action :).

Re: spam on the forum

2024-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
You can use the "Report" button of the forum. However, I've already done this earlier today for the "Off-Topic » How did you end up here?" thread. It's not necessarily a hostile "user", but maybe a hacked user account.

[solved] Guest issue after virtualbox upgrade from 7.0.20-1 to 7.1.0-1

2024-09-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, the shortened story first. Migrating from Arch repos to https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.1.0/VirtualBox-7.1.0-164728-Linux_amd64.run (most likely) solved the issues. At least a Windows 10 (64-bit) guest as well as a Windows 11 (64-bit) guest are able to start, to download Windows

Guest issue after virtualbox upgrade from 7.0.20-1 to 7.1.0-1

2024-09-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, the execution of a Windows 11 (64-bit) guest works, with the exception that the shutdown does not end, but this was already a problem under 7.0.20-1, which you can live with. Under 7.0.20-1, a Windows 10 (64-bit) guest, including the shutdown, worked perfectly smoothly. Unfortunately, the Win

Re: Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers

2024-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
My apologies for the PPPS. On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 20:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > write a pacman warper script Even a wrapper scrip not necessarily does the job. In the worst case, the PKGBUILD or the yay source code requires editing. Just rebuilding yay might fail.

Re: Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers

2024-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 19:32 +0200, Moabeat wrote: > core-testing PPS: Huh?! If you rely on a testing repository and use an AUR helper, you shouldn't even just send a request ;).

Re: Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers

2024-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 20:08 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 19:32 +0200, Moabeat wrote: > > I am wondering if there is any way how to make such an update > > smoother, so that yay would be rebuilt in the same step after pacman > > was updated and avoid the n

Re: Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers

2024-09-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 19:32 +0200, Moabeat wrote: > I am wondering if there is any way how to make such an update > smoother, so that yay would be rebuilt in the same step after pacman > was updated and avoid the necessity for a manual rebuild? Hi, I do not use yay. However, yay is provided by ch

Re: extra/realtime-privileges

2024-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: "Contrary to a lot of misinformation on the web, there is no reason to include a line here that provides enhanced “niceness” control, which is completely irrelevant for realtime scheduling and low latency audio applications." - https://jackaudio.org/faq/linux_rt_config.html *?*

extra/realtime-privileges

2024-09-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I am not up to date, is there meanwhile a reason for • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep nice /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf @realtime - nice -11 ? I the past a nice value for real-time was null and void. Regards, Ralf

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 18:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Often snippets are sufficient, so that a pasting service is not > necessary. But if one should become necessary, it would be > unfavourable in my opinion if you had to copy one and the same thing > from one pasting service to

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 17:42 +0200, Rein Fernhout (Levitating) wrote: > [snip] So I do a agree with Polarian that we should first consider "do > we want a pasting service" [snip] Hi, how often is a pasting service really required, when reporting an issue that might or might not be a packaging issu

Re: Arch Linux public upload server

2024-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-09-05 at 10:11 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > I'm aware you said you intend no offense (and I'm not doubting that) > but, frankly, implying that Orhun acted with its personal interest in > mind when proposing to offer an instance of his paste service to users > under the Arch infra/dom

Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-08-31 at 12:03 +0100, Andy Pieters wrote: > When you say "it doesn't work" what do you mean exactly? If I switch to tty2 by Ctrl+Alt+F2 and do not log in, then I can switch back to the graphical X session by Ctrl+Alt+F7. If I log in as root or as user I neither can switch back direct

Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-08-31 at 10:12 +0200, Zerro wrote: > Is your display manager still active when that happens ? > I have that too sometimes with LightDM though with kernel > 6.10.6.arch1-1. Hi, the problem seems to occur completely randomly. I'm using lightdm, but I don't know if it was running when t

Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/issues/75 "Can't go back from tty to a graphic session by Ctrl+Alt+Fn Hi, since updating the kernel from 6.10.6.arch1-1 to 6.10.7.arch1-1 followed by a restart, I'm unable to get back from Ctrl+Alt+F2 tty2 to the graphic session w

Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 17:23 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 8/30/24 12:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I cannot report the issue against the bug tracker, maybe somebody is > > willing to care about the issue here. > > > > Consider to stop this 2f[...] auth [...]!

Re: Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-08-30 at 23:04 +, Doug Newgard wrote: > There's no issue to create, ctl-alt-f7 isn't supposed to just > magically do anything specific, and you haven't actually shown an > issue at all. Hi, since updating the kernel from 6.10.6.arch1-1 to 6.10.7.arch1-1 followed by a restart, I'm

Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!

2024-08-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, Ctl+Alt+F7 fails! I need to restart the machine. $ pacman -Q linux linux 6.10.7.arch1-1 2fucktor auth fails as well ;), hence I cannot provide a bug report. I was able to log in https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ a few hours ago. I've had enough by now! I cannot report the issue against the bu

Re: win7 BSOD after qemu+libvirt+virt-manager upgrade

2024-08-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
FWIW I'm using Virtual Machine Manager, QEMU/KVM for Linux guests, but VirtualBox for Windows guests. Since IIRC around a year ago my Windows 7 (64-bit) guest doesn't work anymore. I tried to restore it from a backup, not just from a snapshot several times, without success. I can't comment on my Wi

Re: Is it allowed to use pkgrel for the upstream version?

2024-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 11:48 -0700, Ryan Petris wrote: > The librewolf and librewolf-bin packages do this as well which is > quite annoying. Hi, consider to add a comment with the reference to firedragon on librewolf and librewolf-bin. The PKGBUILD for the firedragons is fixed. https://aur.archl

Is it allowed to use pkgrel for the upstream version?

2024-08-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I wonder if it's allowed to use pkgrel for the upstream version? If so, then there is no correct information related to the pkgrel available, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firedragon https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firedragon-bin My comment, including a correction ;) at the botto

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 11:49 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > > But powertop --auto-tune worked wonders, and very quickly. > > Others should be careful as this can stop things working, e.g. the USB > mouse and keyboard can auto-suspend and not resume. A re-plug fixes. Off-topic Hi, FWIW in my lim

Re: Laptop Running Hot

2024-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-07-27 at 08:41 +0300, İsmail Arılık wrote: > Did you check which service were using how much resource? My understanding is, that the machine is idle, quasi no resources are used at all. FWIW I'm on an tower PC with an Intel Model 6.191.5 "13th Gen Intel Core i3-13100". Nowadays you c

Re: How to start mplayer with radio (.pls) url over ssh and have it play?

2024-07-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-07-01 at 22:37 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > $ mplayer -ao alsa:device=hw=0 -loop 0 -playlist > http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/KDAQHD2.pls > >    Though I'm quite curious why since this is card 0, it wasn't selected by > default the first time I tried? > >    This m

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

2024-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2024-06-26 at 09:51 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The xubuntu-core package is provided by the "Universe" repository. This should read The xubuntu-core package is provided by the "Universe" repository component. -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubu

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

2024-06-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 21:50 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 12:45 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > do you need additional information, to the information available via the > > Internet? > > > > That's what I've found: >

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

2024-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: You might als want to read about the "Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE)" and about the way the release model distro Ubuntu does handle the "Release components - debs, snaps, images, containers". https://www.google.com/ -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settin

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

2024-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2024-06-25 at 09:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It might be interesting for how long kernel.org does support the kernels > https://www.kernel.org/ and for how long the Civil Infrastructure > Platform (CIP) provides support > https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastruc

Re: [xubuntu-users] Xubuntu Support and Extended Support Inquiry

2024-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 18:24 +0530, Ashish Upara wrote: > I am inquiring about the support dates for Xubuntu 20.04 and Xubuntu 22.04 as > we have developed a product that relies on these operating systems. > Specifically,  > > Could you please provide information on: > > 1) The standard support

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

2024-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-06-15 at 17:45 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > remove the 'quiet' option from the kernel parameter Oops, this will not solve "the monitor showed no display found" issue. Unlikely adding 'nomodeset' will help either, but it doesn't harm to test this

Re: [xubuntu-users] No display on boot-up

2024-06-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, remove the 'quiet' option from the kernel parameter and then manually update with that GRUB auto-thingy again. Too funny, that a user still needs to run the auto-thingy manually. Btw. if you remove all that GRUB auto-crap you can edit a clean and lean grub.cfg manually, an example is attached

Re: PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-06-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Frank, On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 13:59 +0200, Frank wrote: > Have you been able to further advance, either witht he docker setup or > your Virtualbox? I haven't tested docker. > One issue I have is that there's no sound output, does this work with > Virtualbox? I don't need audio output, but yes

Re: [xubuntu-users] xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 207, Issue 6

2024-05-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2024-05-29 at 08:31 -0400, Carl Snyder wrote: > I originally allocated 256M for the EFI partition, but the present > requirements for the same multi-boot Linux machine is over 1G > allocated on my 1.5T HDD. Hi, the esp partition of my Linux multi-boot machine does use 20.24 MiB, 13 MiB fo

Correction: Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager

2024-05-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 18:02 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The culprit is a link. > > $ /bin/ls -ld /usr/lib{,64} > drwxr-xr-x 460 root root 524288 May 1 17:37 /usr/lib > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 7 20:02 /usr/lib64 -> lib Pardon, I was confusing /lib64 with /usr/lib

Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager

2024-05-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, when running extra/audacity from command line it runs into issues, but doesn't provide any output and it seems not to start. When running extra/tenacity from command line it shows that there is an issue with duplicated plugins. It ignores the duplicated plugins and after a while it does start

Re: PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 16:47 +0200, Frank wrote: > https://linuxtldr.com/windows-docker-container/ Thank you. The article doesn't mention how to share data between "host" and "guest"/container. The article doesn't mention, if it's possible to migrate the license from my current Windows 11 install t

Re: PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 00:43 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Good luck, and drop many breadcrumbs for those that are following behind you > ... David, I hope I can gain some time by a workaround to continue using virtualbox 7 [1]. However, I consider to migrate my Windows guests or at least the Wi

PS: virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: After restoring the wanted Windows 11 state from a backup, which was faster than expected, I ensured that all settings are as mentioned by the Arch Wiki: "Enable I/O APIC" was already checked "Enable EFI" was already checked "Enable PAE/NX"was already check

virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest

2024-04-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, today I removed virtualbox6.1-bin 6.1.50 and installed virtualbox 7.0.16, because 6.1.50 doesn't work anymore [1] and I got rid of fixing virtualbox 6+ again and again. Doing a first short test a Windows 10 guest seems to run, but a Windows 11 guest seems to cause issues, at least a shutdown

Re: Graphical session inside systemd-nspawn container

2024-04-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-04-08 at 19:53 +0100, FirstName LastName wrote: >     /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server This isn't about systemd-nspawn, but it might help anyway: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker/issues/391 This is interesting for me, as I have only ever use

Re: Logon loop after upgrade

2024-04-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, maybe the keyboard layout used by the display manager's greeter doesn't fit the used keyboard. Perhaps the used greeter has got a panel that allows to change the keyboard layout at login and it might be that this can be changed by accident with the mouse wheel. Some GUI designs are tricky. Ve

Re: Why after rebuild do I still get "warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description"?

2024-03-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi David, the "description" is probably a "description" in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/. I still had no time trying to fix the issue, hence I still get: 9 times "warning: rxvt: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description" and 9 times "warning: gtk2_prefs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package desc

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 21:13 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi David, > > don't rename the file unless you want to recreate it every time you > upgrade. ^ tumbler ;D

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2024-03-24 at 14:43 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > or whatever creates the dbus rule $ pacman -Qo /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service is owned by tumbler 4.18.2-1

Re: Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?

2024-03-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi David, don't rename the file unless you want to recreate it every time you upgrade. If you really want to stick with dbus-broker and these messages bother you, then consider use /etc/pacman.conf . NoExtract = usr/share/dbus1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service My 2 cents, Ralf

Re: kernel from own built package won't boot

2024-03-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, Google offers countless threads related to "ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt". Maybe one of those threads is helpful. I can't help with this. While it might not be helpful in your case, it doesn't harm to build in a clean chroot. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_c

Re: New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings

2024-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2024-03-16 at 13:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can > remove all of those packages. Maybe all those packages are useless. Hi, on my install there were 17 (countless ;) packages. Only 3 of those packages are available

Re: New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings

2024-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, for me, it also affects countless local packages. Theoretically if something has become obsolete, backwards compatibility should still be maintained. However, David, how often do you use abs nowadays ;)? I had no time to check the affected packages yet, but maybe we can remove all of those pa

Re: removal of yuzu from the official repos

2024-03-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 22:31 -0500, a...@ofdm.link wrote: > It's gone now I don't care whether it stays in the repos or disappears from them. However, it's not true that it's gone. It's probably a kind of Streisand effect that countless git clones are available around the Internet and people like

Re: [Alsa-user] [External] Re: No sound on Lenovo P1 Gen 6 (00:1f.3 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation Device 51ca (rev 01))

2024-02-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, if Ubuntu supports your computer, they probably offer a patch or patches. If so and you build a "vanilla" kernel by just using an Ubuntu config, then you build without any additional patch that might be (or might not be) offered by Ubuntu. IIUC a default install of Ubuntu, Redhat or SuSE migh

Re: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I can't blame dbus-broker alone for the already solved problem [1], but at least it interacts with something and by migrating back to dbus- daemon-units it is obviously solved. Has nobody else had similar experiences? If the problem hadn't happened to occur close to the time dbus-broker was

Re: [mc] Control-O interferes with nano

2024-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf via mc
Hi, take a look atman nano REBINDING KEYS . Disclaimer, I didn't read it, so I don't know what exactly you can do. I'm using a ~/.nanorc for a customized universal light-on-dark syntax highlighting, not to modify shortcuts. Regards, Ralf -- mc mailing list mc@lists.midnight-commander.org

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 15:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > remapping middle-mouse button Oops, this should read remapping mouse buttons ;) You probably don't want to remap the middle mouse button, but the left+right combination.

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 13:57 +, pete wrote: > Yes KDE plasma[...] > it pasted click left & right together that pasted it Hi, I didn't know about a "left & right together" option. Google, DDG and Co. search terms are something like right+left button simulating middle button or emula

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 13:16 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > If I use DDG to search    for kde middle click paste    the realated hit > are the Arch Linux Forums. It should read the "6th hit". Too funny, this likely was a copy and paste acci

Re: Mouse C & P

2024-01-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-22 at 10:52 +, pete wrote: > the big opps Hi Pete, 1. not every oops might be related to each other, with such a basic attitude you make an unbiased search for errors more difficult. 2. If there really was a "big oops" (however, I am sceptical about this) and you now suffer f

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2024-01-19 at 11:08 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Say my first install of a package creates /etc/p.conf.  I don't edit it. > Then the package is upgraded; upstream provide an altered p.conf. > I'd expect p.conf to be changed and I think that's what happens. > > Similarly, if the package m

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Have you never been bitten by an /etc/foo.d/99.conf that made other configurations null and void? The *.pacnew approach fails when a package introduces a new configuration through a drop-in file. The advantage of a drop-in file is that it can automatically add something new, but the disadvan

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 22:21 +0100, deMaio wrote: > why doesn't pacman change the permissions at package upgrade? Hi, I am not an Arch developer, just another Arch user. Custom, unusual permissions may be required for a user's system. If upstream or an Arch developer sees reasons to change the p

Re: polkit upgrade warning

2024-01-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 10:32 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > What are correct permissions for these directories and has the upgrade > corrected permissions that neede correction? Hi, the correct permissions are those, that are correct from your point of view. No, the upgrade does not change your ind

Re: This one i do not know

2024-01-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, "This one i do not know" is not the best subject line ;). The only tip I have is that you shouldn't trip yourself up and rely on assumptions instead of rational troubleshooting. Since an upgrade a few days ago, my selected GTK themes were suddenly replaced for the 2nd time today during a ses

Re: boot partition expansion

2024-01-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 16:39 -0500, Genes Lists wrote: >   Benefits of no fallback: >    * smaller space usage and much faster regeneration of initrd Hi, no doubt there are some use cases where an installation should be kept as small as possible, but on an average desktop laptop computer or server

Re: Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 19:49 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > It cannot be ruled out that one of the OP's hard drives is > close to gving up the ghost. My apologies, the OP of the original thread is David, but it's Pete suffering from unexplainable issues.

Re: Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I can confirm that one of two things usually happens before a HDD fails completely. It makes unusual noises. These noises are so unusual that you don't need to ask anyone for confirmation because you're not absolutely sure that it really sounds unusual. The other is voodoo that looks like many

Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?

2024-01-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 09:34 +, pete wrote: > for the record the Drives are all ok memory tested out ok . see > what happens if it starts acting up again Hi, while I'm using only internal SSDs, no HDDs anymore, since many years, I still don't have experiences with SSD failures. My deskt

Re: Arch Linux inside OSTree

2024-01-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Happy new Year :)! Maybe it's possible to split the Wiki. We have got the official Arch Linux repositories and apart from "third party repositories" we have got the Arch User Repository. I don't know if it's possible, but maybe we could have an official Arch Wiki and a Wiki that is kind of an "Ar

Re: Potential conflict with icu package?

2023-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-17 at 15:46 +, WinFan3672 wrote: > >  :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required > > by scribus Hi, this was quite obviously a race condition. "Last Updated: 2023-12-17 15:35 UTC (46 minutes ago)" - https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/i

[solved] extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2

2023-12-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-12-12 at 16:44 +0100, Christian Heusel wrote: > The leftover package is just still there because of a tooling problem > (dropping a split pkg), that is atleast how I understood it. Thank you gromit! Regards, Ralf

extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2

2023-12-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I don't know where to report this issue, since 2FA for "ralf" at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ fails with "Invalid authentication code" [1]. extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2, see https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/surge-xt-lv2/ https://archlinux.org/pa

Re: Proposal about AUR affairs

2023-12-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 13:29 +, Polarian wrote: > > 5. Currently,to evaluate whether a AUR package is eligible to move in > > Arch Linux official packages (extra repo), It only depend on votes > > and popularity and whether there is a maintainer willing to pick it > > up. However, those factors

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: FWIW • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ /bin/ls -hAl /mnt/ventoy/ total 16G -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5G Jan 13 2023 MX-21.3_fluxbox_x64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189M May 9 2023 alpine-standard-3.18.0-x86_64.iso -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 810M Apr 1 2023 archlinux-2023.04.01-x86_64.iso drwxr-xr-x

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc? - Was: xubuntu-users Digest, Vol 203, Issue 1

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 10:21 -0500, Carl Snyder wrote: > The latest Ventoy and other USB preparation software ASSUMES that your > system has EFI and does not properly boot from USB stick on BIOS only > systems. Hi, I'm not sure if this applies to Ventoy. At least it boots fine on my old Intel UEFI

Re: [xubuntu-users] USB boot disc?

2023-12-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-12-10 at 06:45 +, James Freer wrote: > > Does your BIOS recognize the flashdrive? > > How do i check that? I've forgotten a lot of the commands having been > ill for a year. Much appreciate the reply. Hi, first of all I want to second Kaj Haulrich reply. Ventoy is terrific. You

Packages for a simple symbolic link?

2023-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I came across the following packages purely by chance. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cachy-browser-firefox-shim https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=librewolf-firefox-shim Should I submit a deletion request? IMO it's strange to build a package just

Re: when are sound servers necessary?

2023-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 08:30 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Thanks much, this clarifies some things.  Screen reader users will have > one process running constantly and will need at least another process to > permit any other program to generate sound simultaneously. > I have pulseaudio on this syste

Re: when are sound servers necessary?

2023-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 14:01 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For desktop environment sound and home entertainment sound lovers, a > sound server such as pulseaudio (not jackd) > is certainly preferable to my approach.

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