[arch-general] possible root cause using Firefox

2016-04-27 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
hat I had noticed screen distortions before Firefox started to hang; consequently this could well be an issue related to GL/nouveau as well. Thanks for Your Attention, Elmar Stellnberger P.S.: here comes the backtrace; (Unfortunately I did not gather a core dump or anything else:) #0 0x7f67

Re: [arch-general] Thinkpad 770 - Init exists but couldn't execute it (error -26)

2016-04-10 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-04-10 um 21:29 schrieb Serge Hooge: The CD boots okay, but when I try to actually boot x86 Arch, it Kernel Panics with the subject title. It tries /bin/init, /sbin/init and /bin/sh, failing with the same message for all of them. Some searching shows that ERRNO 26 is for a busy file, but I

[arch-general] SSL/TLS still seems to be screwed up (retrieving Mail with Thunderbird)

2016-04-10 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
While being connected via an insecure VPN I had once more left my email client open by accident (Thunderbird). Though access to imap.gmail.com shall be secured by SSL/TLS my gmail password was malversated within a few seconds; i.e. I got a login attempt from HongKong and had to change the pas

Re: [arch-general] btrfs/snapper hook for pacman 5.0?

2016-02-02 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-02-02 um 14:53 schrieb Karol Babioch: Hi, Am 02.02.2016 um 14:15 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: However you may implement this feature please make sure that it takes care of the availabel disk space! Most people do only have limited space on their root partition and by making numerous

Re: [arch-general] btrfs/snapper hook for pacman 5.0?

2016-02-02 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
However you may implement this feature please make sure that it takes care of the availabel disk space! Most people do only have limited space on their root partition and by making numerous snapshots your hard drive will be clobbered soon. Besides this the feature should stop automatically or

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-01-31 um 18:07 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 17:58:57 +0100, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: Besides this I would suggest some improvements in the default settings Defaults that differ from Upstream, such as removing everything Google related from about:config or what kind of

Re: [arch-general] opinion request about Firefox add-ons

2016-01-31 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-01-31 um 17:45 schrieb Francis Gerund: Hi. Firefox 44.0 does not seem to allow installing the firefox-adblock-plus addon package from the Arch community repository. Instead, Firefox states that it only allows addons "signed" by Mozilla to be installed. That seems to exclude the package

Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation

2016-01-30 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
Am 2016-01-30 um 20:37 schrieb Emil Lundberg: Getting posts about imminent and potential security risks from many different sides is f.i. something I still estimate about the Debian security list very much. I think the word you're looking for instead of "estimate" is "appreciate".

Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation

2016-01-30 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
29 schrieb Levente Polyak: > On 01/28/2016 04:29 PM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote: >> >P.S. Slightly off-topic: my sincerest gratitude to everyone behind the >> >security announcements! You're doing a great job, and this is not just >> >empty words. >> > > Tha

Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation

2016-01-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
iate. Cheers, Luchesar P.S. Slightly off-topic: my sincerest gratitude to everyone behind the security announcements! You're doing a great job, and this is not just empty words. Am 2016-01-28 um 13:06 schrieb Elmar Stellnberger: I see that there is certain interest in separating mess

Re: [arch-general] [arch-security] [Announcement] Discussion about restricting arch-security for public participation

2016-01-28 Thread Elmar Stellnberger
I see that there is certain interest in separating messages about security updates in given packages from general security discussions and announcements. Nonetheless if the arch-security list becomes closed down for public participation then we are in need of a new list for the latter two purpo