On 12/3/20 4:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I've been having an odd problem.
My laptop works like a charm on its own. However, when it's connected
to a USB-C dock and screen, suddenly apps that were working great start
eating up lots of CPU. (Such as Firefox, Thunderbird
I've been having an odd problem.
My laptop works like a charm on its own. However, when it's connected
to a USB-C dock and screen, suddenly apps that were working great start
eating up lots of CPU. (Such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Zoom.)
After a bit of debugging, I realized that the issue
On 11/28/20 3:01 PM, SET via arch-general wrote:
Hello,
I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother board,
having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of course.
I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for it to
work.
On 11/12/20 3:27 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote:
On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm guessing this must be something having to do
with Firefox 82 though.
I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really
rec
On 11/12/20 12:50 PM, LuKaRo wrote:
On 12.11.20 18:46, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm guessing this must be something having to do
with Firefox 82 though.
I'm also on 82.0.3 already, without noticing problems. So I'd really recommend
checking with a clean profile :)
Thanks f
On 11/12/20 12:36 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote:
On 11/12/20, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow
/ hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know
what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to
Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow
/ hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know
what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?)
Thanks,
DR
and usually you can select which should be used.
Syslinux will only be used if the hardware does not provide UEFI.
Best,
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On 10/17/20 7:33 AM, Jörg Jellissen wrote:
Hello,
is for the gnome desktop an applet available for quick change my audio
output device?
is there a solution for alsa or pulse?
Maybe the pulseaudio-plugin for the status bar/panel? I don't use
gnome, but I use that plugin under XFCE and i
On 10/15/20 5:15 PM, Jörg Jellissen wrote:
Hello,
i'd like to access a jnlp file with icedtea-web on my arch system.
I need this for locale access via ipmi to my server system at home.
When i start the file with icedtea-web on a terminal i become the
message
No DBus connection available
is
l/
as well as the pacman suggestion I sent, but I get nothing on my end.
Suddenlink ISP issue?
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more timeouts on a repo that is known failed at that point.
If arch.mirror.constant.com was down yesterday, I could have made the segment
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ver, they're not the only ones doing similar, see for example
> https://aur.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/
Seems a diplomatic cease-and-desist letter is in order giving them the
opportunity to bring the mirror current if they choose that course and that is
acceptable to arch.
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keys, they will
be stored unencrypted in your thunderbird profile. If you have never set a
mater password for thunderbird before (I haven't), it looks like that will be
required with 78.2 hits.
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would be a problem.
I'll check that this works on a local box, I didn't want to risk a test on a
remote box.
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ogins at a single prompt, not any 3 in 15 minutes.
# admin_group =
is another option -- but at this point, I'd rather just remove it from the pam
stack. Is that doable?
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On 05-09-2020 22:44, David C. Rankin wrote:
> All,
>
>On system update, I get the following related to the brltty[1] package:
>
> (2/7) Creating temporary files...
> Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key during canonicalization
> of /etc/brlapi.key.
&g
All,
I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to
a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though??
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/QEMU, but nothing noted.
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/
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/QEMU, but nothing noted.
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/
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unt will be
needed?
Site where notice of the change would make sense:
bugs.archlinux.org
or
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Fix_and_report_bugs
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the
> journal instead of stdout. I get the same messages so I wouldn't worry
> about it.
Thank you Daan,
That is all I needed to know.
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ut choices that are explicitly
set.
Do I need to do anything about these?
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"$profile")"
> done
> fi
> }
The fallibility of human infallibility...
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make 'em drink :)
Thank you Eli, at least we know now the distribution was 1-step ahead.
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or (2) you need help. Both are best accomplished with courtesy
and civility and nothing more.
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s open to community posts under Allan's stewardship. That
transparency and community involvement served Arch well and served as a
moderating influence on the direction of Arch. He will be missed and we wish
him well in his future endeavors.
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ge generated on update? Arch is
always pretty good about warning when manual interaction is required -- and
this is a biggie.
Couldn't there also be a post install that does a reenable for each netctl
profile found in /etc/systemd/system as another option to avoid this SNAFU?
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On 8/17/20 12:19 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote:
Em agosto 17, 2020 13:08 David Rosenstrauch escreveu:
??? I always shut down all running daemons when I'm about to update
my system - seems like standard operating procedure to me: 1) I'd
expect that it would be
On 8/17/20 12:01 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote:
systemctl rescue
Thanks!
But this begs the question, why are you doing this before running pacman?
??? I always shut down all running daemons when I'm about to update my
system - seems like standard operating procedure t
Thanks much for the detailed explanation. Response below.
On 8/16/20 10:38 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
The sysvcompat symlinks still installed are:
- halt
- reboot
- poweroff
- shutdown
- init
These programs are generically useful on fully systemd systems, and
systemd documents t
released either
as a testbuild case or as a release (Oracle seems a bit undecided)
If 5.2.44 was the last release and there will be no update to support Linux
5.8 -- what do I do with the package? Do I mark it LTS only in some way, or
just have it removed?
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On 2020-08-16 3:37 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
On 8/16/20 3:24 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
Reread the Arch commit. It wasn't removed.
Arch used to move the symlink from the "systemd" package to the
&quo
On 2020-08-16 3:20 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
On 8/16/20 2:59 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be
included in systemd-sysvcompat
(https://wiki.archlinux.org
On 2020-08-16 3:06 pm, Andreas Bosch wrote:
Am 16.08.20 um 20:59 schrieb David Rosenstrauch:
On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be
included in systemd-sysvcompat
[...]
I looked into this a bit more, an
On 2020-08-15 2:53 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be
included in systemd-sysvcompat
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but
seems like it recently got removed. Was it removed upstream?
Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be
included in systemd-sysvcompat
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but
seems like it recently got removed. Was it removed upstream? (And if
so, anyone know why?)
Thanks,
DR
est may be offline until an update is provided,
but your computer still works. With graphics driver -- you are not as lucky.
I'm sure the testing could have been arranged to preserve the 390xx driver --
I would have been more than happy to do it. We will see how it goes, but I'm
not going to update to 5.8 and roll the dice yet.
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On 8/14/20 3:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Additionally, I've done a completely additional reinstall:
>
> # pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -
>
> All goes well, no errors, but the boot still hangs on tty1 and no GUI or X is
> every started though sddm says it is running.
>
On 8/14/20 1:04 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> I have no clue what this assignment outside of section is telling me. I
> haven't changed the wireless config at all. Any idea on this or the boot hang
> issue? What to check?
>
I fixed the netctl issue. It seems the netctl inter
ib/systemd/system/netctl@.service
[Unit]
Description=A wpa_supplicant configuration file based wireless connection
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlo1.device
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-wlo1.device
I have no clue what this assignment outside of section is telling me. I
hav
o old, it croaked trying to run the new hooks from the updated pacman?
Will we give it a go.
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t to kill to try and fix it. Before the
update sddm was fine and I loaded fluxbox to do the update rather than doing
it from within KDE. What do I check to try and bring the system back to a
working state? What to check?
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Devs,
Just a quick check on when 5,8 is going from testing to core? I ask because
Virtualbox still is not ready for 5.8:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644
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ntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/bind&id=c688d695dc4e82aad9a7ec546bc47e4b5fe5c447
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So for know -- we will just do nothing with it. If push came to shove either
writing a quick wrapper to pacman to xz unzip/zip or splitting it by year, or
some other sane criteria may be an option.
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- and so it shall be stricken from my list of concerns :)
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ouldn't be more than the
last couple of months for most packages..
man 8 pacman doesn't provide any options for dealing with how much to keep
or to truncate.
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sh has been the default, and while there is nothing wrong with a
Bourne-again (or Debian Almquist) type shell, it would break more than a
decade of setups...
If you want Dash, make the change after install.
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On 6/17/20 2:18 PM, Piscium via arch-general wrote:
Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I
get into trouble.
This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could
dash be made the default shell in Arch?
Couldn't you just set it as the default f
ou can limit the lifetime for 1-week,
1-month, etc... Image uploads and language syntax highlighting is provided for
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on a few
> backups)” —heftig
>
> -Syu often to avoid problems.
>
Oh So there was a private key that escaped into the wild...
That would be a big bug... Thank you for the background. I generally -Syu
daily (at most every few days) -- which is why this event immediately jumped
o
On 06/12/2020 01:23 PM, Simon Wilper wrote:
> Hello David,
>
>> On update today (yesterday's updates went fine), I am prompted to approve
>> import of the following key a number of times:
>
> doesn't this happen when the package archlinux-keyring got updated?
94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
Is this normal?
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94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
:: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
"? [Y/n]
Is this normal?
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change is on the 2020.06 image and others have reported this to work for
them.
If you can, attach a debug shell (add `systemd.debug-shell=1` to your
kernel cmdline parameters by editing the boot entry) and get some more
info on what is going wrong.
Best,
David
[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org
On 06/05/2020 04:04 AM, Maxime Gauduin via arch-general wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> I haven't used apache in years so please take this with a grain of
> salt. On nginx I'm using the alias directive, restricting access to
> the upsset.cgi to my local network
nut)
Is this safe? Is this intended way to provide access to the cgi scripts?
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comment)
So I apologize if the intent you gleaned differed from that intended conveyed.
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comment)
So I apologize if the intent you gleaned differed from that intended conveyed.
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n't have a deleterious effect on Arch. Rainbows,
ponies, penguins, geckos, hats, all just nice decorations.
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On 05/29/2020 05:29 AM, Maxime Gauduin via arch-general wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> The configuration for nut is now in `/etc/nut` as it should be, instead
> of `/etc/ups`. You will need to migrate your previous configuration.
> Modified the wiki to reflect that.
>
> Cheer
tid: 0501
ups.realpower.nominal: 450
ups.status: OL
ups.test.result: Done and passed
ups.timer.shutdown: -60
ups.timer.start: 0
ups.vendorid: 0764
Why doesn't the new nut from community work?
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es if the user is logged out?
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ff change
with the new package that won't repeat each time dhcpcd or the kernel is
updated going forward?
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just don't remember), but now nothing is shown.
Is the lack of output in the journal on USB drive plug-in due to the audit=0
parameter, and if so, is there any way to restore the journal messages on USB
plug-in without enabling audit?
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ns or package bug reports that you might have.
Enjoy the new mailman ecosystem!
Best,
David
[1]
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-February/029854.html
[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hyperkitty
[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman
[4] https://wik
nd as an aur alternative has been up for awhile.
Hi Mike,
I've added refind to [testing] (replacing refind-efi). Feel free to
check it out.
Best,
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On 03/31/2020 04:49 PM, fredbezies via arch-general wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Before all, thanks to David C. Radkin for the tweak related to SMB1
> activation.
>
> After installing Samba 4.12.x, I added only this in [global] section of
> /etc/samba/smb.conf to get access to on
s in backoffice roles that still use it.
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add
client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1
to the global section to restore workgroups and SMB1
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at AUR package, therefore, it was immediately orphaned.
>
> Seems pretty clear-cut to me.
Thank you Eli -- it clear now. From an overview I deduced as much but didn't
have the back-story.
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. From
that standpoint, is there a list of what now isn't part of gimp without
python2? That would help in knowing whether the AUR package is needed.
Seems strange the AUR package was posted and orphaned on 2020-03-18?
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I'm not sure how/why (or when it started) but pulseaudio is disabling
auto-mute mode on my laptop. Normally when you plug in headphones,
speakers get muted. However, every time PA starts up, it disables that
auto-mute feature. (I then have to go into alsamixer and manually
re-enable it.) No
On 02/14/2020 03:00 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> A bug (https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19311) was opened with Oracle
> concerning this issue that has broken the AUR package
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin-5/
Just a follow-up advising that the AUR virtualbox-bin-
On 2020-03-04 5:39 pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
I'm fairly certain these hotkeys are controlled by the kernel hp_wmi
module, and I do see some error message lines in dmesg about that:
[5.683232] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5
[5.697112] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned erro
I can't seem to get the screen brightness up and down keys working on my
laptop. (A new HP EliteBook x360 1030 G4.)
Controlling the screen brightness programmatically does work. I.e., I'm
able to set up mappings in my DE (XFCE) for specific key combos to call
out to the "light" application a
On 02/06/2020 01:17 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/05/2020 10:01 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> There must be another package that was updated that comes into play
>>> (python?).
>> How about restoring all packages to an earlier date?
" package name and go
>> on with my life?
>
> "chrono-date" could maybe work as an alternative name?
>
> I'm unsure why this is in [arch-general] and not [arch-dev-public] :)
>
And with the note that much of Howard Hinnant's date/time library is being
would like
to discuss AUR packages, please do that on aur-general [1], as those
packages are not of concern to Arch Linux as a distribution.
Best,
David
[1] https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general
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On 02/05/2020 10:01 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> There must be another package that was updated that comes into play
>> (python?).
> How about restoring all packages to an earlier date?
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/inde
downgrade
back to 5.2. (but at this point, it's worth giving it another shot)
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On 02/04/2020 12:42 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/04/2020 04:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> lAll,
>>
>> After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and
>> the
>> latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules
On 02/04/2020 04:18 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> lAll,
>
> After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and the
> latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules build and load fine)
>
> https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/Virtua
device enp0s3 not found, udev
kernel rules fail, and the boot never complete.
All fine with the 5.4 kernel. I've posted to the vbox-users list, but if
anyone here has additional information I would appreciate it.
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On 2020-01-25 11:28 am, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 20:50, David Rosenstrauch
wrote:
I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env
(XFCE)
there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd --user"
under my
I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env (XFCE)
there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd --user"
under my user ID (with a bunch of gvfs child processes running under
it). I wouldn't normally care about this, but if I then try to power
down the machi
bus, then a moment or two later reconnect, then disconnect again, rinse,
repeat.
Turns out the 10 year old mouse suffered a stroke and died... Plug in another
mouse and see if the problem goes away.
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3]: Connected to UPS [phoinix_ups]:
usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups
Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[824]: Startup successful
Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices
information server.
Any ideas what to check? This just started within the last month or two.
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On 12/24/19 10:54 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
On 12/24/19 9:04 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi DR,
Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten
their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts.
As in bitmap fonts? Could it be anything to do with
On 12/24/19 9:04 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi DR,
Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten
their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts.
As in bitmap fonts? Could it be anything to do with KDE's adjustment
for the Pango change that dropped su
On 12/23/19 11:28 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten
their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. But it
looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using
anti-aliased fonts. I have them
Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten
their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. But it
looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using
anti-aliased fonts. I have them set to disabled in the kde control
center, but t
gt;>
>
> sometimes checking "too simple" things could fix issues. The issue was caused
> by a loose connection of the HDMI cable. But somehow strange IMHO that it
> still worked with amdgpu.dc=0 and on Win10.
>
> Best regards
> Bjoern
Confirmed - Bjoern is 'human' and not a 'bot'...
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On 12/13/2019 01:27 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> warning: /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf installed as
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.pacnew
> Detected compiled rules, running sa-compile...
Disregard,
While sa-compile was run by the update script, sa-update was not. Fixed, al
s anyone else seen this?
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On 12/9/19 6:48 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote:
You should not upgrade the firefox package while it's open. That's a
lesson I've
learned when I've also lost a profile. Everytime you see firefox in the
upgrade
packages list, I suggest you close it and then upgrade.
IMHO, you
ot; IN {
// type hint;
// file "root.hint";
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hipset used (doubt it, but that would confirm)
If you have a RJ45 connection for a wired connection, that's always an option.
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On 12/02/2019 10:49 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 12/02/2019 07:36 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Heads up to anyone still running Virtualbox 5.2.34 due to issues with
>> headless clients in Virtualbox 6.x, the kernel modules for 5.2.34 will not
t 73141520 Dec 2 19:15 error_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25049886 Dec 1 00:00 error_log.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1137 Nov 24 00:00 error_log.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1752 Nov 17 00:01 error_log.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Nov 10 00:00 error_log.4
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