Re: [arch-general] nftables partially broken after kernel update to 4.16.9

2018-05-29 Thread Bill Sun via arch-general
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 10:43:36AM +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nftables/ says > Flagged out-of-date on 2018-05-11 > Version 1:0.8.5-1 in testing > so perhaps that new version would help? I'm happy to report that after updating to the latest

Re: [arch-general] nftables partially broken after kernel update to 4.16.9

2018-05-22 Thread Bill Sun via arch-general
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 08:58:47AM +0200, David Runge wrote: > Does only the nft command fail, or does it work, when it's in a > configuration file? Only the nft command fails, it seems. I guess I'll wait for the latest in the test repo and see what happens. Regards.

[arch-general] nftables partially broken after kernel update to 4.16.9

2018-05-21 Thread Bill Sun via arch-general
Hi all, I just updated one of my computer to 4.16.9. After update, the following nft commands will not work: nft add table ip nat <--- this one works without error nft add chain ip nat prerouting { type nat hook prerouting priority 0 \; } ^ This will give me the following erro

Re: [arch-general] Editing grub for dual boot?

2016-04-23 Thread bill .
same result. I have checked the syntax several times. Does this error have to do with my placement within the file (near the end before memtest) or another error? Many thanks! peace -bill > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:04:36 +0200 > From: silver.bul...@zoho.com > To: arch-general@archlinux.

[arch-general] Editing grub for dual boot?

2016-04-18 Thread bill
sd at all.Apparently i need to edit grub so as to point it to the second os.   Does anyone have advice how to do so, or references to a wiki, etc? Any thanks!peace-bill

[arch-general] things specific to Arch?

2016-04-16 Thread bill .
mong many other things. There are just a few things i need to know in order to use it better. Good to be a part of the real deal. Many thanks for your time! peace -bill

Re: [arch-general] installing

2015-10-05 Thread Bill Cunningham
Yes. The tarball that is called "bootstrap" It may be more or less complicated than an ISO. Since I have a linux distro I thought it would be easier. IDK though. Bill - Original Message - From: Jonathan Villatoro To: arch-general@archlinux.org Sent: Sunday, Octobe

[arch-general] installing

2015-10-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
Looks like a nice OS. I am running fedora. I have the tarball and I'm having a little trouble. A directory called "root.x86_64" is created. Do I want an ISO for a first time install? Or is the tarball complete and OK? Bill

Re: [arch-general] Meetup in Paris

2014-08-29 Thread Bill O'Dwyer
Would definitely be up for a London meetup! On 29 August 2014 16:52, James Bulmer wrote: > When a meetup in London? > > On 08/29/2014 04:44 PM, tlux wrote: > > On 29/08, Yamakaky wrote: > >> Too bad, I'm not in Paris... > > Same here, when a meet up in Switzerland? >

Re: [arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

2014-06-23 Thread Bill Sun
> But the new problem is: Why this service automatically start? I never > manually enabled mdmonitor, and I cannot find its link in > /etc/systemd/system/ . OK, it seems that the unit is somehow a dependence for some other units: $ systemctl is-enabled mdmonitor static And I just masked th

Re: [arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

2014-06-23 Thread Bill Sun
Ah, I found the problem: I never configured an email address in /etc/mdadm.conf But the new problem is: Why this service automatically start? I never manually enabled mdmonitor, and I cannot find its link in /etc/systemd/system/ . Regards.

Re: [arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

2014-06-23 Thread Bill Sun
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:57:46AM -0500, Sander Jansen wrote: > I don't think the service failed to start, The ExecStartPre starts with an > -, so it's allowed to fail to start that script, but unit isn't considered > failed: > > mdmonitor.service - MD array monitor >Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/

[arch-general] mdmonitor.service failed to start

2014-06-21 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, I noticed that my mdmonitor.service failed to start with the following error message: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh: No such file or directory My mdadm package version is 3.3.1-2. Should I create such a script on my own? Regards.

[arch-general] [BUG]terminus-font

2013-12-02 Thread Bill kolokithas
The .install file for the package is wrong, making the font unusable by applications that look on X fontpath. A bug has been opened since 26 May 2013 with more info and a proposed fix. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35479 I also sent an email to the maintainer and last packager on November 9th, b

Re: [arch-general] systemd start a daemon after the Internet connection is established

2013-09-16 Thread Bill Sun
On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 07:27:34PM +0200, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 8 September 2013 18:37, Bill Sun wrote: > > When the server is connected to the Internet, this service file can > > launch the proxy successfully, but it doesn't work on system startup, > > suppos

[arch-general] systemd start a daemon after the Internet connection is established

2013-09-08 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, I have a web proxy that can only initiate itself online, otherwise it would exit with an error. To daemonize that proxy, I wrote the following systemd service file: [Unit] Description=A Proxy Server After=network.target [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=/srv/proxy/aprox

[arch-general] BAT1: Unable to dock after suspend to RAM

2013-04-16 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, I noticed there's alway an 'Unable to dock' error message after suspend to RAM: PM: Saving platform NVS memory Disabling non-boot CPUs ... smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline Extended CMOS year: 2000 ACPI: Low-le

Re: [arch-general] Forward all PPTP VPN packets to another proxy?

2013-03-26 Thread Bill Sun
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 08:30:10PM +0800, Hexchain Tong wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Bill Sun wrote: > > > > I'm thinking about running a http server that handles all the > > authentication for Server 2 (such as dante?), then forward all packets > > t

[arch-general] Forward all PPTP VPN packets to another proxy?

2013-03-23 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, Currently I have a arch linux server running PPTP VPN (for iOS devices only), and I forward all PPTP VPN packets to local eth0: iptables -A POSTROUTING -s -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE Now I got a external proxy, and I want all the traffic currently through the PPTP VPN then through that extenal

Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot

2013-01-14 Thread Bill Sun
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:33:56PM -0200, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: > > Em 14-01-2013 18:39, Dave Reisner escreveu: > > Oh the irony... Please subscribe to arch-dev-public if you're going to > > continue to use the testing repository: > > > > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-17 Thread Bill Sun
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 09:19:43PM +0800, Bill Sun wrote: > Problem solved. Thanks. I probably should put a more comprehensive solution here. I consulted the 'Xen' [1] entry in archwiki, and add: MODULES="xen-blkfront xen-fbfront xenfs xen-netfront xen-kbdfront" to 

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-17 Thread Bill Sun
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 04:29:44PM -0700, Kevin Arthur wrote: > Looks like your initramfs got borked when you updated the kernel. Make > sure to read the recent news article [1] about systemd-tools replacing > udev (and maybe the last question in the troubleshooting section of the > pacman wiki pa

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-13 Thread Bill Sun
I got the error message: ERROR: device '/dev/xvda1' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/xvda1'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off Regards

Re: [arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-12 Thread Bill Sun
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:43:52PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > Did you follow the instructions in the news item? > > One thing to try would be "pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem", reboot Can't do that. Because 'kernel26-lts' needed to be replaced by 'linux- lts', if I don't update 'filesystem', the

[arch-general] VPS can't access after update filesystem?

2012-06-12 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, I rent a VPS from a not-so-famous provider, and they use XEN. After I updated my system on Jun 10 (I update my system every Sundays), My VPS seems dead. I can't ssh to it, I can't ping to it, I can't do anything to it. I don't get any error message from the SolusVM control panel---it says: 'on

Re: [arch-general] Is fcitx must executed under a chinese locale?

2012-05-17 Thread Bill Sun
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:22:41PM -0400, adrian sun wrote: > Yaaa, thanks i solved this problem. Just specified xim for english locale > under gtk module file. Hmm...Maybe you don't have to manually edit /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules, specifying xim for english locale. You just need to install fcitx-

Re: [arch-general] Is fcitx must executed under a chinese locale?

2012-05-15 Thread Bill Sun
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:36:42AM -0400, adrian sun wrote: > Oh. Thanks! > I also check some wikis, I don't know why only firefox and chromium cannot > use fcitx. All other applications works well with fcitx. > Install 'fcitx-gtk2' and/or 'fcitx-gtk3'. Cheers.

Re: [arch-general] Google Voice through iptables?

2012-04-27 Thread Bill Sun
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:28:00AM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:56:47 +0800 > Bill Sun wrote: > > So... does your GV work now? Yes! (Oops, I forgot to mention that...) Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Google Voice through iptables?

2012-04-25 Thread Bill Sun
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:35:46PM -0500, Leonid Isaev wrote: > Assuming you are running a desktop machine, why would you want to DROP by > default all outgoing traffic? AFAICT google voice app makes you browser > establish some UDP connecyions + https. So here are few observations regarding > your

[arch-general] Google Voice through iptables?

2012-04-25 Thread Bill Sun
answer.py?hl=en&answer=27930 [2]: http://juberti.blogspot.com/2010/08/google-voice-and-video-enterprise.html (see attachment for my iptables.rules) Regards, Bill *filter -P INPUT DROP -P OUTPUT DROP -P FORWARD DROP -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp --icm

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-25 Thread Bill Sun
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:02:37AM -0500, Calvin Morrison wrote: > > This whole thing is strange. I am running ubuntu/arch/win7 with grub2 and > everything works perfectly. I am running an X220 as well with the intel > sandy bridge. Is there a spot where this is set in my grub.cfg? If i could > pi

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-21 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, According your posts, should I file a bug report directly to lenovo? Regards, Bill

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-21 Thread Bill Sun
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 05:51:29AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Did you check by running "sudo hwinfo --framebuffer" too? It shouldn't > differ, but perhaps there's something fishy with vbeinfo. I just checked `sudo hwinfo --framebuffer`, the attachment below is the resu

Re: [arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Sun
console by default (without further configuration). That's why I am thinking about insert some modules into grub2 and it may give me a proper console resolution. Regards, Bill

[arch-general] How to set grub2 resolution to 1366x768

2012-02-20 Thread Bill Sun
Hi, I want to have a 1366x768 resolution for grub2. Unfortunately, `vbeinfo` shows that my computer doesn't support that resolution (up to 960x640/1024x768). So, can I load some additional modules for grub2 so that it can support 1366x786 resolution in my computer? I tried to do the following ste

[arch-general] Why are financial contributions not accepted?

2011-04-30 Thread Bill Day
ms to me to be reasonable to ask why those of us who can't code can't try to provide a little relief and support for Arch's hard-working volunteers in other ways. -- Bill Day williamson@gmail.com

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-06 Thread Bill Day
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: > On 04/06/2011 12:14 AM, Bill Day wrote: > >> >> My installation of gnome shell in Arch throws an error saying that >>> >> gnome-shell can't find libgnome-bluetooth-applet. The bug is documented >> e

Re: [arch-general] Gnome 3 and gcc 4.6 in Fedora 15

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Day
thing is getting released is check arch-dev-public. > > > -- > Jelle van der Waa > > My installation of gnome shell in Arch throws an error saying that gnome-shell can't find libgnome-bluetooth-applet. The bug is documented elsewhere, but no one seems to have suggested a fix