Re: [arch-general] pam_faillock -- can we just remove it from /etc/pam.d/login?

2020-09-11 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 5:41 AM David C. Rankin wrote: > > Following the [arch-dev-public] Pam lockout thread, > > Can we just remove the faillock entries from /etc/pam.d/login without > breaking anything if we don't need it at all (like for home computers, etc..) > > The any 3 attempts in 15

Re: [arch-general] ArchLinux in Open Invention Network

2019-09-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 10:43 PM David C. Rankin < drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > > For open-source software, what possible benefit is there for distributions > like Archlinux to "sign up" to some represented patent non-aggression pact > pushed by some Virginia marketing group (atigro.co

Re: [arch-general] Hardware video acceleration

2019-07-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:01 PM Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > > Hi, > > when playing youtube videos hardware video acceleration seems to gain > absolutely nothing on my machine or I've done something wrong ;). > > Am I missing something? Neither Chrome nor Firefox support accelerated vid

Re: [arch-general] gnupg: systemd enable in post_install

2017-06-09 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 12:13 PM Damjan Georgievski via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > what's the rationale to enable the gnupg sockets in post_install of the > package? > > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/install?h=packages/gnupg#n21 > > I don't disa

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Test repository with gcc7

2017-05-23 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:42 PM Eli Schwartz via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 05/15/2017 07:33 AM, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > > I will push new gcc to [testing] this week. > > Terrible things happened to my firefox and thunderbird-gtk2 builds when > I used what turned

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Test repository with gcc7

2017-05-15 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:30 PM Hao Zhang via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Thank you very much! I also tried building retroarch and have no problem > building it with GCC 7. Now we found the reason why MariaDB fails to build, > there are two ways of fixing it and I have veri

Re: [arch-general] Package signing on soyuz

2017-01-18 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 8:21 PM Lukas Jirkovsky via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I use only the ssh agent forwarding ("ForwardAgent yes" in > .ssh/config). On pkgbuild.com I build packages using the *-*-build as > always. When a package is built, I use a script [1] that down

Re: [arch-general] Cannot no longer resolve local hostname with the new nsswitch.conf

2016-11-08 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:37 PM Chi-Hsuan Yen via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi Arch enthuasiasts, > > With testing/filesystem 2016.11-2, I can no longer use my local hostname to > acess services on the local machine. For example: > > $ hostname > PC12574 > > $ ping PC12574

Re: [arch-general] Almost system crash, users getting logged out

2016-11-05 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, 10:45 J. C. wrote: > Hi list, > I had an "almost crash" last night. When I got up in the morning, the > session > on the first six TTYs were closed, but the sessions on TTY 8-10 were still > open. Having taken a look at the journal, I found a lot of activity around > 4AM. Tha

Re: [arch-general] Browsers crashing

2016-10-28 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens via arch-general
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016, 21:36 Zorro via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Op 28-10-2016 om 18:17 schreef Alex Theotokatos via arch-general: > > Then, lets start from the basics... > > Run memtest. > Just installed it but if I understand it well I need to boot with it. > Need to fig

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

2016-03-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 6:22 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > When I first began using Arch in '09, the pages were written such that you > could fully-complete whatever task the page addressed without bouncing around > from page-to-page hunting for all the pieces of the puzzle. That is no longer > t

Re: [arch-general] Vulkan packages

2016-02-14 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Feb 15, 2016 4:46 AM, "Eric Engeström" > I was thinking of splitting it into 4 packages: > - `vulkan-loader` with everything you need to run an app compiled against > Vulkan (/usr/lib/libvulkan.so*). This is what Vulkan-apps packages would > `depend` on. > - `vulkan-headers` with everything you

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-07 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:56 AM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > That's why I still use Debian 5 stable in a container as a print server... > Cups > 2.0+ is a real piece of crap. And yes, these org.xxx.xxx names _are_ stupid > especially for filenames. But after using modern Fedoras, I think that systemd >

Re: [arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

2016-01-01 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 11:48 PM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 11:53:45 -0800 > Kyle Terrien wrote: >> It's amazing how the pattern of removing features and changing things >> arbitrarily for the "greater good" is spreading around nowadays. It >> has invaded Firefox recen

Re: [arch-general] systemd new dependencies impede using OpenRC

2015-07-01 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:52 PM, wrote: > However, in the latest update it seems an awful lot of packages I use > suddenly require systemd. First, I have a conflict between libgudev and > eudev-systemdcompat, so the installation stops right there. I don't even > remember a libgudev package when I

Re: [arch-general] PyChess Audio

2015-05-08 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Grady Martin wrote: > Hello, all. Does anyone play chess? PyChess is great and seems mostly free > of bugs now. There is one, glaring exception, but it could be specific to > Arch. > > Sound effects do not play, and the sound files the pychess package installs

Re: [arch-general] LightDM GTK+ Greeter 2.0.0

2015-02-26 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Armin K. wrote: >> gtk3 already dropped support for theme engines, so fixing the xfce gtk3 >> engine would be wasted effort. > > No, they did not, that would be a feature for GTK+4. They just discourage > people > from using it and they keep telling them to just

Re: [arch-general] warning: foobar: local (1.0.0-2) is newer than community (1.0.0-1)

2015-01-17 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Regarding to my AUR cache [1], it seems to be common practise, that > packages that moved from AUR to community get a lower "pkgrel="-value. > IMO that is very annoying and doesn't make sense. I don't want to > reinstall software that does wo

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Dec 22, 2014 8:00 AM, "Christian Hesse" wrote: > For Arch packages there is nothing that requires repeatable output. Yes, there is. Package signatures are made using the compressed package. Delta packages work by patching the uncompressed package and then recompressing it. If the compressor wo

Re: [arch-general] Multithreaded XZ

2014-12-21 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was > wondering if package building and installing would, by default, > utilize multiple threads. It won't, since the output of XZ in multi-threaded mode is different from single-t

Re: [arch-general] multiarch support like debian, pro and cons?

2014-09-25 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
The big difference is that we need to maintain a completely separate second set of packages for multilib, while on Debian you use the exact same packages whether i386 is your main architecture or a secondary architecture. For us, the native i686 and x86_64 packages almost always contain the same fi

Re: [arch-general] Errors regarding the ssl certificates

2014-09-23 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mailing Lists wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> Please downgrade again: >> >> pacman -S core/ca-certificates{,-cacert} >> extra/{nss,ca-certificates-{ >> mozilla,java},p11-kit} >> &g

Re: [arch-general] testing/ca-certificates-utils problem installing

2014-09-23 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > This got rushed, poorly, and the updates were removed. I'm very sorry. > Please downgrade again: > > pacman -S core/ca-certificates{,-cacert} > extra/{nss,ca-certificates-{mozilla,java},p11-kit} > >

Re: [arch-general] testing/ca-certificates-utils problem installing

2014-09-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:34 AM, Genes Lists wrote: > Packahe testing/ca-certificates-utils seems to have a packaging problem: > > ... > :: Starting full system upgrade... > :: Replace ca-certificates-java with testing/ca-certificates-utils? [Y/n] > ... > (7/7) loading package files [#

Re: [arch-general] Errors regarding the ssl certificates

2014-09-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Mailing Lists wrote: > Curl needs to be recompiled with the new locations of the certificates. > A quick glance at the PKGBUILD shows me that the compile flag > --with-ca-bundle is set to /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, while as > of the last update (20140923-2

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Aug 27, 2014 4:57 PM, "toerb" wrote: > > > > >Are you saying that is wrong and the only thing being taken up is just > >a tiny bundle of data? > > Exactly. It does consume a PID, which can, depending on the environment, be a very limited resource.

Re: [arch-general] Zombie Processes

2014-08-26 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > I was wondering regarding the killing of a zombie process. As far as I > know, a zombied process is inherited by root when it's parent is > killed. The kernel periodically calls wait() which reaps the zombie > process and frees its memory. I was w

Re: [arch-general] Rethinking our CA certificate setup

2014-08-26 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm currently at FrOSCon with Pierre and an expert from CAcert.org and > we're thinking of changes to our certificate setup. > > > The current issues are: > - Mozilla NSS uses its own

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Rethinking our CA certificate setup

2014-08-24 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2014-08-24 11:47:56 +0200] Jan Alexander Steffens: >> - Ship the update-ca-certificates script in a ca-certificates-utils >> package, which the certificate packages depend on >> - ca-certificates becomes a metapac

[arch-general] Rethinking our CA certificate setup

2014-08-24 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
Hi guys, I'm currently at FrOSCon with Pierre and an expert from CAcert.org and we're thinking of changes to our certificate setup. The current issues are: - Mozilla NSS uses its own root store and not /etc/ssl/certs - ca-certificates ships outdated Mozilla roots - Shipping additional roots outs

Re: [arch-general] [draft] xorg-server 1.16 is now available

2014-07-25 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Forcing X to run as root via Xwrapper.config does help, but neither this file > nor /etc/X11/X11 are part of the package. Is it possible to at least have the > latter directory in xorg-server? /etc/X11/X11/Xwrapper.config seems wrong. Laurent

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-04-29 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Toyam Cox wrote: > Hello, > > I want to have a sub-30 second boot time, so as to make it possible for me > to power down my computer and power back up at a moment's notice. Right > now, I have a (according to my watch) ~35 second boot time. I used > systemd-analyz

Re: [arch-general] On-boot delay due to timer units

2014-04-17 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > I don't think it is a problem that the timers run on boot, but rather > that they delay Type=idle units, like agetty. From what the > documentation says, there should not be any delay: > > "Behavior of idle is very similar to simple; however

Re: [arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service

2014-04-09 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Maykel Franco wrote: > OK, but I uninstall dhcpcd? I have to do something to use dhclient > networkmanager? No, just reboot or restart NetworkManager (cleaning up dhcpcd if needed).

Re: [arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service

2014-04-09 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Maykel Franco wrote: > All ok and it works but...Why in Debian, Ubuntu, Opensuse, for > example, when restart the networkma nager, I do not need to kill the > process networkmanager. Smooth network is well restart. > > Thanks for all. Please try installing dhclien

Re: [arch-general] Forum registration requires INSANE captcha.

2014-02-10 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Vinicius Rezende wrote: > ...or Cygwin > > http://www.viniciusrezende.com.br/pub/cygcaptcha.png (did it right now @ > work) Except you need to replace "$(uname)" with "Linux", otherwise you won't get the right hash.

Re: [arch-general] How to reboot remotely without hanging ssh session?

2014-02-07 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 1:47 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Thanks for everyone's response. > > All good points, there isn't any need for an immediate reboot, and my point > wasn't to complain about the behavior. As I try and make friends with > systemd, I > like to learn why things do what they d

Re: [arch-general] difference between arch-nspawn and mkarchroot?

2014-01-16 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:55 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Devs, > > DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot notes that updating the chroot is > now > done by: > > arch-nspawn $CHROOT/root pacman -Syu > > instead of > > mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root > > Checking the help for both files I no

Re: [arch-general] Patching in PKGBUILDS

2013-12-31 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:17 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 23:02 -0500, Mark Lee wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 04:58 +0100, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Mark Lee wrote: >> > > My patch command was given in the b

Re: [arch-general] Patching in PKGBUILDS

2013-12-31 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > My patch command was given in the build() section of the PKGBUILD: > > build() { > cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"; > patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/i965_rendering.patch" > ./configure --prefix=/usr > make > } > > While debugging libva-intel-

Re: [arch-general] Patching in PKGBUILDS

2013-12-31 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Mark Lee wrote: > Salutations, > > While debugging a libva-intel-driver issue, I found that makepkg was not > reporting failures to patch source files. Is there a reason behind this > behavior? > > Regards, > Mark > > P.S. Happy New Year! > > -- > Mark Lee makepkg

Re: [arch-general] Replacing journal completely with syslog-ng

2013-10-27 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Dimitris Zervas wrote: > I have to say that I really hate journalctl. > But apart from that, I need syslog. > Journalctl requires too much resources (I have a 512MB KVM) and some times > it kicks the server out of memory. > Also, there is nearly no way to parse its

Re: [arch-general] Wayland Support in Gnome 3.10

2013-09-25 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:08 PM, kristof wrote: > I'm not entirely savvy with all the details but from my understanding, > GNOME 3.10 will be featuring a Wayland tech preview, meaning that it can > (optionally?) use the wayland protocol to manage graphics and windows > and all that fun stuff. > >

Re: [arch-general] Question about repository updates and atomicity

2013-08-18 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote: > What happens if that occurs during an rsync? Or is that prevented from > happening? > > Similarly, what if a client updates from a mirror while the database file is > being replaced by rsync? You can't get a partially updated database, as

Re: [arch-general] Question about repository updates and atomicity

2013-08-17 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Johannes Ernst wrote: > That's what I was hoping, but I'd love to know how that is implemented? Server-side, the developer stages several packages and then triggers a db-update. A new database is built and the old database file is replaced.

Re: [arch-general] does using kms mean that you're stick to a framebuffer with specific resolution that you can't change?

2013-07-12 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Xeslaro wrote: > the maximum resolution of my laptop is 1366x768, that's also the > framebuffer size with kms enabled. the problem is when i attach a > monitor with resolution 1920x1080 to it, the video output is at the > top-left corner of the monitor. and i fou

Re: [arch-general] Another 'gotta be something idiotic': trying to create bootable USB thumb drive

2013-04-11 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:41 AM, David Benfell wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I can't believe I'm having trouble with this. I'm trying to follow the > directions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media > > Specifically: > > dd bs=4M

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD weirdness

2013-04-11 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Robbie Smith wrote: > On 11/04/13 22:20, Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Robbie Smith wrote: >>> >>> I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it to >>&g

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD weirdness

2013-04-11 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Robbie Smith wrote: > I’ve been working on my own fork of luakit, building and installing it to > test changes, and I’ve come across some weirdness in the PKGBUILD. The > original luakit-git PKGBUILD[1] has a set of options to pass to make to (for > example) enable

Re: [arch-general] mkinitcpio: fsck - Does it actually make sense?

2013-04-08 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether it makes actually sense to include the fsck hook > into the initial ramdisk. With the "current" switch to systemd > filesystems get fsck'ed by default anyway, so it seems to be sort of > redundant. > > Is there s

Re: [arch-general] svntogit 500/missing branches

2013-03-31 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Chris Down wrote: > Is it just me, or is svntogit returning 500 frequently? When it does return > a real page from cgit (which seems to be about 50% of the time), it is > missing lots of branches and generally just displays nothing if you're > looking at, say, the

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade finish in a "Kernel Panic - not syncing : no init found"

2013-03-22 Thread Jan Alexander Steffens
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Dany De Bontridder wrote: > Hi, > > > I reinstalled 2 weeks ago arch linux, because a pacman -Syu broke everything. > > Today, everything works fine and I decide to keep my PC up-to-date, > so I run pacman -Syu and I get a message when trying to boot > > *** Ker