Re: [arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

2018-11-14 Thread LoneVVolf
On 14/11/2018 19.54, Bardur Arantsson wrote: On 14/11/2018 17.54, Frank Zimmermann wrote: Good evening, I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This

Re: [arch-general] ClamAV Flagging systemd package

2018-07-14 Thread LoneVVolf
On 14-07-18 16:52, David Murray via arch-general wrote: Greetings, My nightly full-system ClamAV scan kicked out this last night: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/systemd-238.133-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND Is this something I should be concerned about? TIA, Dave https://www

Re: [arch-general] scsi_mod.use_blk_mq (revisited)

2018-05-11 Thread LoneVVolf
On 11-05-18 06:57, Randy DuCharme via arch-general wrote: Greetings again, I've been continuing to fool with this. I'm hoping someone smarter than I can shed a little more light on it. Here's what I've discovered since my last post. It seems that on my system, it takes more than the allow

Re: [arch-general] Interesting Dual Boot Problems

2018-04-11 Thread LoneVVolf
On 11-04-18 18:32, David C. Rankin wrote: Those are the only stray thoughts I have on the issue. If a cold-boot is occurring when switching between OSs, then neither can have any effect on the other (at least with a MBR setup). Manufacturer windows driver can turn off network card using proprie

Re: [arch-general] archlinux install bottleneck

2018-02-19 Thread LoneVVolf
On 18-02-18 13:27, Jude DaShiell wrote: After having run arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash one of the things I do is to run alsactl store. alsactl store returns error 125 /var/lib/alsa/asound.state no such file or directory.  Certainly there's no such file since when alsa was run before arch-chroo

Re: [arch-general] AL gnustep-core implementation misses gnustep-back

2018-01-11 Thread LoneVVolf
On 11-01-18 15:48, Bartłomiej Piotrowski via arch-general wrote: On 2018-01-09 13:32, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: I'd like to keep maintaining oolite if it's not too much work but I'm definitely not going to touch GNUstep stuff. So if no one is going to maintain GNUstep in official repos, we shoul

[arch-general] AL gnustep-core implementation misses gnustep-back

2018-01-09 Thread LoneVVolf
In the recent repo clean up operation gnustep-back was dropped to AUR. I have maintained the oolite package when it was still in AUR and remember plenty of problems with running oolite against faulty / incomplete gnustep-core implementations . The gnustep upstream website [1] lists gnustep-ba

Re: [arch-general] Build configuration settings for samba

2017-12-03 Thread LoneVVolf
On 03-12-17 09:25, Newbugreport via arch-general wrote: My Arch server hit https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10541 in a bad way, blocking all SMB writes from my Ubuntu 17.10 client. Since the bug is unfixed, I'd like to make a custom build of smbd to get things working. My test builds

Re: [arch-general] gscan2pdf - could it be included in the official arch repositories?

2017-09-26 Thread LoneVVolf
On 25-09-17 17:15, Stephan Fuchs via arch-general wrote: Hello! I would like to ask if the program gscan2pdf could be included in the official arch repositories. There are currently no alternatives. best regards Stephan Fuchs Hi, [community] repo has 3 programs that could be an alternati

Re: [arch-general] Recent updates cause ssh sessions to disconnect/reauth repeatedly for ~20 seconds?

2017-08-13 Thread LoneVVolf
On 13-08-17 01:09, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After updates in the past day or two, I see new behavior for my idle ssh connections that authorize as normal, but then are systematically disconnected forcing a reauth at regular intervals of one-per second, for about 20 seconds. Aug 12 17:46:1

Re: [arch-general] makepkg - any way to recompile only newly patched files in large packages?

2017-08-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-08-17 09:39, David C. Rankin wrote: I was wondering if there was a way to avoid the full 15 minute rebuild of all of gtk2 and just compile gtkrecentchooserdefault.c to object and then --repackage? I don't know a way to do that, but do you have ccache installed ? On my system it's set to

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changing compilation flags

2017-07-08 Thread LoneVVolf
On 08-07-17 04:31, Evangelos Foutras via arch-general wrote: There are multiple ways the compiler can be selected; two of them are: 1) exporting CC/CXX in the PKGBUILD and 2) the project's configure script picking one of the available compilers. makepkg can't realistically know which compiler is

Re: [arch-general] Xorg configuration on a dual graphic card system

2017-06-06 Thread LoneVVolf
On 06-06-17 08:55, KangJing Huang via arch-general wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to setup my xorg configuration on my dual graphic card desktop system. The system has two cards, one iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530, another is a dGPU Nvidia GTX 1070 on PCIe. I plugged one monitor to the iGPU port and an

Re: [arch-general] Video output failure still

2017-04-23 Thread LoneVVolf
Pete, do you have AUR nouveau-fw installed ? [1] Please post the output of vdpauinfo . LW [1] https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/#firmware

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

2017-03-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-03-17 21:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:00:18 +0100, Carlchristian Eckert wrote: As a workaround, have you tried using apulse? It is a pulseaudio emulation for ALSA. Some time ago, I used it successfully to run Skype (which also depends on pulseaudio) without having pulseaud

Re: [arch-general] Firefox 52 Audio broken

2017-03-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-03-17 10:00, Allan McRae wrote: Upstream changed to pulseaudio by default. Arch follows upstream You can compile firefox yourself to set it being alsa only. A Allan, if we really want to follow firefox upstream, we should : - stop replacing the libraries upstream bundles with syste

Re: [arch-general] systemd latest upgrade

2017-02-01 Thread LoneVVolf
On 01-02-17 10:12, Jelle van der Waa wrote: On 01/31/17 at 04:18pm, Jude DaShiell wrote: However any package install now finishes with the message: Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate That's just a pacman hook to touch /var, for the recent CVE issue in systemd [1] [2] [1] https://git.archlinux

Re: [arch-general] Old wine and intel graphics problem

2017-01-15 Thread LoneVVolf
On 15-01-17 13:59, eerozeteen . via arch-general wrote: Hello, Im trying to run Lineage2 Interlude on my laptop (processor Intel Core i5-560M with integrated intel graphics) via Wine [1]. 1.5.0 is the last wine version where people can run Lineage2 Interlude. It looks like you misunderstand wh

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-12-16 11:44, Bennett Piater wrote: On 12/07/2016 11:17 AM, Gregory Mullen wrote: If the argument left is, I don't want (better checksum) because it's shouldn't be thought of as a security check, and I want a security check. Why can't the requirement be PGP sig's are now required, and we d

Re: [arch-general] howto remove old package version

2016-11-13 Thread LoneVVolf
On 13-11-16 11:16, niya levi via arch-general wrote: On 13/11/16 00:48, niya levi wrote: On 12/11/16 19:59, Damjan Georgievski wrote: pacman -Syu :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: mesa: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1) warning: mesa-libgl: local (13.0.0rc2-2) i

Re: [arch-general] Supermicro cd/dvd inst error: ARCH_201603 device did not show up after 30 seconds

2016-10-10 Thread LoneVVolf
On 10-10-16 20:30, David C. Rankin wrote: This particular box is an older SuperMicro H8DME-2 board with a pair of quad-core Opterons. I just realised I have a similar motherboard (Supermicro H8DAE-2 ) with the same chipset and also a pair of quadcore opterons on it. Check these 2 options in

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

2016-09-17 Thread LoneVVolf
On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad > experiences with computers, I find it hard to believe anyone has that > old PC that happens

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-10 Thread LoneVVolf
IF flatpak is to become supported on AL, i'd prefer pacman to handle it instead of a separate application. My personal preference though is for AL community to treat flatpak similar as derivative distros. something like : flatpak is unsupported on Arch linux, ask the flatpak creator(s) for h

Re: [arch-general] Problem with pacman hooks, alphabetic order.

2016-05-19 Thread LoneVVolf
On 14-05-16 01:15, Carsten Feuls wrote: Hello Everybody, I have some trouble with pacman hooks. Arch is going to use pacman hooks in every package. etckeeper was one of the first package that use pacman hooks, without any trouble. But now it becomes more tricky to run. My Problem is that the pac

Re: [arch-general] Problem with pacman hooks, alphabetic order.

2016-05-14 Thread LoneVVolf
On 14-05-16 01:15, Carsten Feuls wrote: Hello Everybody, I have some trouble with pacman hooks. Arch is going to use pacman hooks in every package. etckeeper was one of the first package that use pacman hooks, without any trouble. But now it becomes more tricky to run. My Problem is that the pac

Re: [arch-general] startx on arch vm running on ESXI (when accessed via ssh - do I need a DM?)

2016-03-18 Thread LoneVVolf
On 18-03-16 20:21, David C. Rankin wrote: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server You can get allow other users to run an xserver by creating /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config . from man xorg.wrap : allowed_users = rootonly|console|anybody

Re: [arch-general] JasPer vulnerabilities

2016-03-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-03-16 10:55, Harrison Wells wrote: Is the package JasPer in extra repo vulnerable to CVE-2016-1577, CVE-2016-2089 and CVE-2016-2116? I noticed that the version number of JasPer is same in Debian, Ubuntu and Arch, i.e. 1.900.1. Debian and Ubuntu seem to have updated/patched it, is Arch not v

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-15 Thread LoneVVolf
On 15-02-16 16:54, João Miguel wrote: A 2016-02-14T23:13:44 +0100, LoneVVolf escreveu: On 14-02-16 17:17, João Miguel wrote: Then I shall contact Artoo and add the packages back to the AUR as Nous suggested. Though I don't see how a repository officially trusted by Manjaro is less trusted

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-14 Thread LoneVVolf
On 14-02-16 17:17, João Miguel wrote: Then I shall contact Artoo and add the packages back to the AUR as Nous suggested. Though I don't see how a repository officially trusted by Manjaro is less trusted than the AUR. Nevertheless, I do like the AUR, and packages being there might help. Have a g

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-12 Thread LoneVVolf
On 11-02-16 17:12, João Miguel wrote: now there are no AUR packages for OpenRC. You are wrong, please be more specific. This is current situation: - run AL without using systemd as PID1 / init system : Aur and AL wiki have everything you need for that. You will still have systemd installed a

Re: [arch-general] DHCP server package orphaned

2015-09-10 Thread LoneVVolf
On 10-09-15 08:22, Mike Cloaked wrote: Having seen that the dhcp server package has been orphaned yesterday, hopefully this will be picked up and maintained as it is a pretty important standard package for a server. If you mean the dhcp package, the orphaning must have been temporarily . Felix

Re: [arch-general] Komodo Edit

2015-08-23 Thread LoneVVolf
On 22-08-15 17:13, James wrote: I installed Komodo Edit and I want to put a quick launch button on my task bar but it doesn't show up in the list of "installed applications". That is weird because it shows up in the "Menu" in the "Programming" section. I use lxde. Komodo-Edit probably needs t

Re: [arch-general] LTS Kernels

2015-08-22 Thread LoneVVolf
On 22-08-15 10:30, bildermej...@gmail.com wrote: But I wonder if I can install an LTS kernel in an already existing installation as a fallback? Yes, that's not very hard and a good idea. The wiki sounds fairly straight forward, but I get lost where it says "install kernel" without saying ho

Re: [arch-general] SOLVED Re: Realtek 8111/8168/8411 Blues - cannot get dhcpcd address (link UP)

2015-08-21 Thread LoneVVolf
On 21-08-15 04:58, David C. Rankin wrote: On 08/20/2015 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: $#%#@%#$%... You have to enable IOMMU in the BIOS before the NIC will work! I stumbled across this obscure little tidbit on the fedora forum: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=295616 It t

Re: [arch-general] Tuxguitar: documentation and SWT/GTK

2015-07-19 Thread LoneVVolf
On 19-07-15 20:06, Alan E. Davis wrote: Tux guitar works well, so far; however, when trying to access Documentation through "Help>Documentation" Tuxguitar hangs. I've spent some hours researching this problem, and have gotten nowhere. Every google search I make leads one to mention of SWT, and

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

2015-07-03 Thread LoneVVolf
Some general comments : - Openrc is a replacement for sysv init, not an addition. - openrc has it's own equivalent of .service files, they are simpler then systemd servicefiles - my personal opinion about openrc is that it's not mature enough yet for majority of linux users to replace system

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

2015-07-01 Thread LoneVVolf
On 01-07-15 21:12, David Kaylor wrote: I rest my case. Again, any reply is welcome. You are wasting your keystrokes and your time. Arch devs have long since decided to make systemd an integral part of Arch Linux. And I didn't like it any more than you do, at first. Actually there are 2 activel

Re: [arch-general] no screen grabber

2015-05-22 Thread LoneVVolf
On 22-05-15 16:26, Aaron Caffrey wrote: On 22/05/15 at 08:42am, James wrote: $ sudo pacman --sync screengrab error: target not found: screengrab https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screengrab/ Are the official packages binary packages and the AUR is compiling from source? That's what it seems

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-28 Thread LoneVVolf
On 28-04-15 16:35, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: I'll reserve my opinions on including wpa_supplicant in base, but I feel that it at least deserves a mention in the Arch Installation Guide. It's strange to me that the installer has better networking support than the base system. I've installed Arch on 5

Re: [arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'

2015-04-27 Thread LoneVVolf
On 27-04-15 08:32, William Hatch wrote: I second the motion for a network group. I've been bitten by a lack of wpa_supplicant on a laptop install more than once. Given that dhcpcd & iproute2 are already in the base group, wired networking is already supported by installing base. For basic wl

Re: [arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?

2015-04-16 Thread LoneVVolf
On 16-04-15 06:25, Francis Gerund wrote: Strange that the ufw install routine didn't do that automatically. Nope, that's standard practice for arch pacakges. Deciding what is or isn't started at boot is up to the user to decide. LVV

Re: [arch-general] /etc/bash.bashrc not sourcing/setting HISTXXX environment

2015-04-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-04-15 03:41, David C. Rankin wrote: All, I generally create a system-wide /etc/bash.bashrc.local file to contain history defaults. E.g.: $ cat /etc/bash.bashrc.local HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth:erasedups HISTIGNORE='[ ]*:&:?' (HISTSIZE & HISTFILESIZE are exported on a per-user basis in

Re: [arch-general] Install qgis

2015-02-28 Thread LoneVVolf
On 28-02-15 13:33, Viktor Garske wrote: Hello, when I try to install "qgis" I get resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "qwtpolar>=1.1.0", a dependency of "qgis" warning: cannot resolve "spatialindex>=1.8.0", a dependency of "qgis" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to

Re: [arch-general] anyone interested in a multilib qt-at-spi package?

2015-02-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-02-15 04:34, kendell clark wrote: hi all I'm not sure how to begin this, but here goes. In order for screen readers, like orca, to be able to access applications written in qt4 (qt5 handles all of this built in}, it needs a package called qt-at-spi. This is a bridge of sorts which links t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [extra] Dropping ocaml packages

2015-02-03 Thread LoneVVolf
On 03-02-15 11:47, Mike Cloaked wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Powalowski < tobias.powalow...@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi guys, I don't use it on any of my machines anymore, anyone who wants to step up? Else those are candidates for AUR/community. ocaml greetings tpowa I notice

Re: [arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics

2014-11-26 Thread LoneVVolf
On 26-11-14 12:00, Robbie Smith wrote: I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never again buy a laptop containing components from either manufacturer. More often than not when I boot, when the kern

Re: [arch-general] mce after linux-3.11.5-1 on NP900X3C

2014-11-15 Thread LoneVVolf
On 15-11-14 06:57, Rasmus Liland wrote: On 2014-11-15 06:10, Mark Lee wrote: On 11/14/2014 10:29 PM, Rasmus Liland wrote: On 2014-11-15 04:01, Mark Lee wrote: Are you booting with the new intel u-code? You mean installing the intel-ucode package and enabling it in the bootloader as per instru

Re: [arch-general] vnstat's pacnew

2014-09-02 Thread LoneVVolf
On 02-09-14 02:55, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Unlikely that on Arch Linux eth0 is more often used, than enp3s0. Does it makes any sense to place a log file into a directory? Regards, Ralf From vnstat homepage : vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of ne

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing

2014-08-22 Thread LoneVVolf
On 22-08-14 11:07, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: If I remember correctly, when the switch to systemd was first made, the migration guide on the wiki did in fact talk the user through forwarding the journal to syslog-ng by modifying some config files. Paul I'm 99% sure that those changes had to be m

Re: [arch-general] Can't SSH into Arch VM until login screen is viewed

2014-07-07 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-07-14 18:59, Ben Booth wrote: I have a weird issue I’m trying to figure out with Arch and SystemD, and I wonder if anyone here has run into this issue: I’m running ArchLinux as a Xen VM. Every time I reboot the system, I can no longer ping it or access it via SSH. However, if I go into t

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

2014-06-02 Thread LoneVVolf
On 01-06-14 14:03, Yamakaky wrote: Hi I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross platform compilation isn't used by m

Re: [arch-general] KDE Issue

2014-05-08 Thread LoneVVolf
On 07-05-14 22:23, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 08:01:01AM -0400, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. I tried to install KDE for testing accessibility with Orca. However, a friend of mine told me that the only icon that shows up is a hard drive, and it sits at this icon forever and

Re: [arch-general] Comment on: Use systemd timers instead of /etc/cron.{hourly, daily, weekly, monthly}?

2014-05-05 Thread LoneVVolf
On 05-05-14 15:05, Maciej Puzio wrote: Perhaps a larger audience would have allowed a consideration of alternative solutions. An example of such a solution would be hourly/daily/monthly/weekly timers that execute scripts from relevant /etc/cron.* directories. That would allow for removal of croni

Re: [arch-general] PPPoE broken on upload

2014-04-22 Thread LoneVVolf
On 22-04-14 02:49, Wayne S wrote: No answers on previous post so starting new topic. Recent updates have caused problems with my PPPoE FIOS link. The upload speed has been reduced to near zero. I "was" using arch linux box as a firewall router. I have a verizon fios connection that still uses

Re: [arch-general] Error when I try update pacman -Syu

2014-03-25 Thread LoneVVolf
On 25-03-14 16:09, Maykel Franco wrote: 2014-03-24 18:58 GMT+01:00 Karol Blazewicz : On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 24.03.2014 17:18, schrieb Karol Blazewicz: jre7 is in the AUR so pacman won't update it, but jre7-openjdk is in the repos and provides the same 'item'

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD any way to create pkg-A & pkg-A-test that install w/o conflict

2014-03-08 Thread LoneVVolf
On 08-03-14 06:18, David C. Rankin wrote: All, Is it possible to create multiple packages that have different package names but are the same package (with different patches) and have them install without conflict? (for testing) Currently I'm testing systemd patches for pkg 'tde-tdebase'. I b