Re: [arch-general] efibootmgr doesn't change boot order!

2020-12-28 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
particular section 3.5.1.1 on "Removable Media Boot Behavior" of the "UEFI Specification Version 2.8": https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Spec%202.8B%20May%202020.pdf Regards, -- Maarten thanks, On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, 15:45 Maarten de Vries, <mailto:ma

Re: [arch-general] efibootmgr doesn't change boot order!

2020-12-28 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 28-12-2020 10:42, Peter K Haokip via arch-general wrote: I read an forum entry from nearly 6 years ago about am efibootmgr bug that Doesn't let you change the boot order on a multi OS system if you have arch linux as the default OS. Had some users report this as well in other forums. Now i am

Re: [arch-general] Bug with CIFS mount

2020-12-16 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 16-12-2020 14:09, Tasnad Kernetzky via arch-general wrote: Hi All, Hi, I suppose I hit this bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68963 and it seems it is not fully resolved. I didn't request to reopen the bug, because I'm not 100% sure it is really the same thing. The bug you're link

Re: [arch-general] "npm" package issues

2020-11-04 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 15:17, Nick Shvelidze via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I think running `pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/node_modules/*'` is > safe. > I have no idea how those files would end up there without using `sudo > npm install -g` > It would be good to also e

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-10-28 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 23:26, Bjoern Franke via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 27.10.20 um 23:12 schrieb Javier via arch-general: > > I really hope not, I prefer to wait than having to build TB on every > release. Besides, current version works just fine... > > > > There a

Re: [arch-general] Can anyone share experience with "preloader" on Arch (UEFI secure boot)?

2020-09-26 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 14:18, Manuel Reimer wrote: > Hello, > > I want to occasionally run Linux on a system which was set up with > Windows 10 with Bitlocker enabled. > > Disabling secure boot for Linux and reenabling it when booting into > Windows starts to get annoying. > > So my idea was to j

Re: [arch-general] dash as default shell?

2020-06-17 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 20:37, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > 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 b

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2020-03-25 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 23:51, Robin Martijn wrote: > Update: Thanks everyone for helping me think! Finally, I discovered that > all three of my USB devices were broken. A fourth one finally connected. > I should've known when dmesg did not see anything at all, that they were > broken. > > What ar

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2020-03-24 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 22:57, Andy Pieters wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 21:38, mick howe via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > > you have rebooted since update? Every time updates generate a new > startup? > > > > > I concur: in many cases you need to reboot after doing a

Re: [arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?

2019-11-21 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 21:02, NTS wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 18:13, David C. Rankin > wrote: > > > > On 11/21/2019 05:53 AM, Christian Hesse wrote: > > > I've created systemd configuration overlay snippets for this, for > example > > > /etc/systemd/system/man-db.timer.d/RandomizedDelaySec.c

Re: [arch-general] Unmaintained project with active community fork - what to do with the package?

2019-07-01 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 01-07-2019 21:20, Danila Kiver via arch-general wrote: Hi all, please help me in handling the following situation. The  bash-bats package ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/bash-bats ) uses the upstream repository ( https://github.com/sstephenson/bats ), which is no long

Re: [arch-general] steam-native can't find libpcre.so.3, breaks embedded browser

2019-04-04 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 15:40, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: > > Em abril 4, 2019 0:25 Alexandre Oliveira via arch-general escreveu: > > It seems like the steam-native package is broken as of March 21, > > according to this bug report[1]. > > > > Installing libselinux and pcre seems to

Re: [arch-general] Issue linking 32-bit GAS assembly

2018-10-17 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
Why not let gcc take care of what compiler/assembler and linker to invoke with which precise flags: $ gcc -m32 -o foo filename.s $ ./foo # great success! It will probably link to libc without you even asking for it. And if that works and you really want to know what linker flags you need, you

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 14 February 2018 at 21:32, Kyle wrote: > Maarten de Vries ALIANDIKA: > # ​pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt​) > > Unfortunately this will break my system. It's trying to remove git for one > thing, which is definitely something I need. Not to mention that I > installed gi

Re: [arch-general] libxfont: removing fontsproto breaks dependency 'fontsproto>=2.1.3'

2018-02-14 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 14 February 2018 at 19:35, Eduardo Machado via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > 2018-02-10 1:55 GMT-02:00 Doug Newgard via arch-general < > arch-general@archlinux.org>: > > > Not gremlins, just an old package that never got cleaned out. Pacman > > doesn't do > > this automati

Re: [arch-general] pavucontrol depency question

2017-03-20 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 20 Mar 2017 10:41 a.m., "ProgAndy" wrote: Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general: > pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another > machine's pulseaudio instance over the network: > > $ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol > > Not sure about xf

Re: [arch-general] URXVT background color

2017-03-18 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 18 March 2017 at 11:51, arnaud gaboury via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I run many urxvt windows on my screen. Some are for the host system and > some are for my container (managed by systemd-nspawn). > I am looking for a way to change color background according to hostna

Re: [arch-general] Why was wpa_supplicant.conf renamed wpa_supplicant.conf.pacsav??

2016-12-18 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 18 December 2016 at 21:32, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 02:25:00PM -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: > > I know this is small-potatoes stuff, but I just wonder if in these > > instances, it may not be better to either provide pre-update notice or > do a > > post-install script r

Re: [arch-general] On containers. WAS: Re: snapcraft.io ...

2016-11-26 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 26 November 2016 at 15:08, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > > Another very useful case would be using containers as a chroot replacement > for having clean (only what's in the recipe), reproducable build > environments > for building arch packages. It woul

Re: [arch-general] Is ncurses in Arch Linux out-dated?

2016-08-21 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
ssible. So the best thing you can do is flag the package as out-of-date. If you don't want to wait for the packagers, you can use ABS [1] to download the PKGBUILD and modify it to to your need in the mean time. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System Hope this helps, Maarten de Vries

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Hooks

2016-08-21 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
dering if there is such a documentation or not? > > ​You probably want to check out the manpage for alpm-hooks. Kind regards, Maarten de Vries​

Re: [arch-general] SLiM DM

2016-06-12 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 13 June 2016 at 01:31, Levente Polyak wrote: > On 06/13/2016 12:59 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: > > [...] prevent whip-sawing all arch users who following the > > recommendation in configuring their desktop from finding out their > config is > > broken on the first reboot after update following

Re: [arch-general] ML is being sent to Spam by Gmail

2016-06-08 Thread Maarten de Vries via arch-general
On 8 June 2016 at 10:55, Florian Pritz via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > On 08.06.2016 06:26, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > > dkim header remarks indicate either failed or missing dkim sigs for > > those messages. > > That's weird. For me the signatures very just fin

Re: [arch-general] things specific to Arch?

2016-04-16 Thread Maarten de Vries
Hey, On 16 April 2016 at 22:22, bill . wrote: > Hello everyone, > > New member here and new Arch user having come over from arch-based > Manjaro. I admit i installed with Architect and am thankful for it as i > don't know that i would have been able to do so without it. So far my > experience ha

Re: [arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade

2016-04-11 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 11 April 2016 at 21:05, D C wrote: > I'm with gurnaik on this one... Up until a few days ago, I had done weekly > updates on my arch system for the past 3 years without breakage. If doing > an update renders your system unusable, that's kind of an issue.. Luckily I > have a notebook backup. >

Re: [arch-general] [pacman-dev] Please make the colourised output exactly like that of "pacman-color"

2016-03-25 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 25 March 2016 at 13:32, Genes Lists wrote: > On 03/24/2016 09:06 PM, Xavion wrote: > >> Hi Allan, >> >> I have become old and grumpy since then! >> >>> >>> .. > > > Quick comment on color - it might be helpful to have a toggle to switch > from dark to light terminals. ls uses an environment va

Re: [arch-general] Instructions to mount efivars as readonly should be linked to in Beginner's Guide

2016-02-01 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 1 February 2016 at 23:29, Leonid Isaev wrote: > > Also, how can you brick a machine by simply zeroing the harddrive? > > ​You can't (well, someone can probably think of a contrived situation where you could, there's always someone, but generally speaking). The problem​ is with removing certain

Re: [arch-general] Conflict after 3 week upgrade pause

2016-01-16 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 16 January 2016 at 11:58, Patrick Hofmann wrote: > Thanks, I tried that and it seems like xf86-input-libinput was not > installed. > Explains why I cant remove it, but I'm still confused why there would be a > conflict. > > ​Maybe it's a new dependency of a package that would be updated?​ --

Re: [arch-general] x86 hardware suggestion for home movie theater setup (kodi)

2016-01-10 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 10 January 2016 at 15:11, Dirk wrote: > > Be carefull, not all Intel Atom chips are supported by the open source > drivers, some use a PowerVR graphics engine. > > I have an Intel NUC running Arch & Kodi. Very compact and still powerfull. > Mine even has an IR port which I can use to power it

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

2015-12-30 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 30 December 2015 at 14:47, Leonid 'Beef Marsala' Isaev < leonid.is...@jila.colorado.edu> wrote: > > Sorry, I meant stacking as well. And it's not about the looks (a good WM is > anyway customizable), but the internals. For example, what do you mean by > lightweigth? If it is something that uses

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

2015-12-30 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 30 December 2015 at 10:19, Magnus Therning wrote: > More generally, what do you mean by "work-flow", and how have DEs like > KDE and Gnome broken "the work-flow" in the past? ​For a good rant on some things that are wrong with Gnome 3 ​ (and GTK 3): https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05

Re: [arch-general] pulseaudio, systemd --user and session problems

2015-10-21 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 21 October 2015 at 14:57, Karsten Rode wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem I think is related to the startup of a systemd user > session. I noticed lately that pulseaudio does not automatically start, > although I can start it form the command line later with > > $ pulseaudio --start > > After

Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent

2015-09-11 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 11 September 2015 at 17:35, edson duarte wrote: > > i understand it was deprecated but what about the ~/.bash_profile? > which lines should be kept or removed? > > thanks, > - -- > edson duarte > https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org > > ​Since gpg 2.1 the gpg-agent is started automatically when ne

Re: [arch-general] Failed kernel update

2015-08-24 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 24 August 2015 at 15:14, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:46:33 +0200 > Maarten de Vries wrote: > > > ​Would that work correct with the post install/upgrade hooks running > > mkinitcpio?​ > > > Yes, it would work fine. > > Doug > ​Ah, so p

Re: [arch-general] Failed kernel update

2015-08-24 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 23 August 2015 at 23:49, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:12:07 +0200 > Maarten de Vries wrote: > > > > I would try to arch-chroot​ into the broken system and reinstall the > kernel > > package with pacman. I'd think that should fix it. > &g

Re: [arch-general] Failed kernel update

2015-08-23 Thread Maarten de Vries
​ ​Hey, On 23 August 2015 at 23:02, Peter Nikolic wrote: > > Had a kernel update fail yesterday core dumped part way thru the > install of the new Kernel this has left the system unbootable . > > I am fairly sure i can fix the problem booting from the latest Arch cd > but cant quite find the r

Re: [arch-general] Conky autostart problem

2015-05-03 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 2 May 2015 at 21:13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:35:03 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >I had no idea a that a config file for XFCE could be used with Gnome. > > The *.desktop files in ~/.config/autostart/ are a freedesktop.org > specification. Xfce and GNOME follow this specifi

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD inheritance

2015-05-01 Thread Maarten de Vries
​ On 1 May 2015 at 14:13, Roman Rader wrote: > Well yes, basically what I want to do is to download the PKGBUILD in the > prepare function and do makepkg inside my build function. I can then unpack > content of resulting package and put it to destination directory to pack it > again, but it's ha

Re: [arch-general] PKGBUILD inheritance

2015-05-01 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 29 April 2015 at 22:48, Roman Rader wrote: > Hi > > I want to make PKGBUILD for kernel in AUR with enabled options that I need. > I did > #ABSROOT=. abs core/linux > fixed config and I'm good, but to keep it updated with core/linux I need to > do it all the time (load latest core/linux, fix th

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

2015-04-25 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 25 April 2015 at 20:18, Sam Stuewe wrote: > On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 08:10:57PM +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote: > > I would say an editor is part of the bare minimum for any system. You > > can't do much on a system without an editor (of course you can still edit > &

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

2015-04-25 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 25 April 2015 at 19:59, Sam Stuewe wrote: > This may just be my personal opinion, but I have always thought that > `base` was supposed to be the absolute bare minimum to have a bootable > installation. From that view, it makes sense that a few very small > editors made sense in `base` back whe

Re: [arch-general] Intel CPUs and glibc-2.21.3

2015-04-24 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 24 April 2015 at 16:46, Fabien Dubosson wrote: > Hi, > > On reddit [3] there was other people having the same issue but with > different software: at least VLC for the the original poster. > > ​Good idea​. I encountered the same problem one or two days ago. For me, vlc, vim and dot (graphviz)

[arch-general] Re: Unzip archive in which are multiple sub zip archiers?

2015-04-17 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 04/17/2015 10:57 PM, Christian Demsar wrote: I'll try to use the globbing. That's new to me. Is there anything else you saw that was odd? This is the first non-trivial script I've written (recursion in bash!), so I'm not sure about the placement of the functions, etc. At a second look, t

[arch-general] Re: Unzip archive in which are multiple sub zip archiers?

2015-04-17 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 04/17/2015 10:34 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote: On 04/17/2015 10:19 PM, Christian Demsar wrote: http://pastebin.com/YJFvUt13 It works on my (single) test case so far. I don't have any more time to work in this right now, but I'll test edge cases and add more comments later (fe

[arch-general] Re: Unzip archive in which are multiple sub zip archiers?

2015-04-17 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 04/17/2015 10:19 PM, Christian Demsar wrote: http://pastebin.com/YJFvUt13 It works on my (single) test case so far. I don't have any more time to work in this right now, but I'll test edge cases and add more comments later (feedback is welcome). If you use this, please, please, please ba

Re: [arch-general] Unzip archive in which are multiple sub zip archiers?

2015-04-17 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 17 April 2015 at 18:08, Csányi Pál wrote: > Hi, > > I just get a ZIP archive and want to unzip it. > > I'm using unzip to unpack this archive. > > But when I did first unzip command, I get more ZIP archives, which > have again in it more ZIP archives. > > Is there a command or application whic

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-26 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 26 September 2014 18:16, Leonid Isaev wrote: > --- > > So, yes ArchLinux core tools use and will continue to use 'bashisms' > because > they are convenient. The bugs which started this discussion are not a big > deal > anyway. They will only affect scripts that don't properly sanitize the > in

Re: [arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?

2014-09-26 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 26 September 2014 16:25, Doug Newgard wrote: > On 2014-09-26 09:15, lolilolicon wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Doug Newgard >> wrote: >> >>> The problem is on many systems /bin/sh is linked to bash -- which is why this bug is so widespread / severe. /bin/sh is "the single b

Re: [arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

2014-06-02 Thread Maarten de Vries
On 2 June 2014 14:56, Yamakaky wrote: > > PKGBUILDs and packages from repositories have to be portable, but it's > not a requirement for self-build AUR packages. Who shares binary > packages from AUR ? I do, in fact. I have a couple of machines, and not all of them have the same processing powe