[arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Marek Otahal
Hello, I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat boots up (to recovery mode). What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I see are pacman list of installed packages? Any other notes on what important things could be missing? Thank you ver

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Jerome Leclanche
In a slim install, you're unlikely to have lost much due to the nature of /var (only variable data, aka no "installed files"). If you had a database on disk you did lose that, eg postgres. Also firewall rules and all logs. Try pacman -Ql | grep /var to see what owns stuff in there. J. Leclanche

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Martti Kühne
Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for presence. # pacman -Qk | grep -v '0 missing files' cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones
It might actually be easier to reinstall than to go through "pacmanning" everything that's been lost, individually. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Apr 2014, at 10:28, Martti Kühne wrote: > > Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for presence. > > # pacman -Qk | grep -v

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 03.04.2014 11:28, schrieb Martti Kühne: > Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for presence. > > # pacman -Qk | grep -v '0 missing files' LOL. Where do you think that information is stored? I'll give you a subtle hint: It's /var. OP is basically screwed. There is n

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones wrote: > It might actually be easier to reinstall than to go through "pacmanning" > everything that's been lost, individually. > Do you mean `pacman -S $(pacman -Qq)`? cheers! mar77i

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Martti Kühne
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 03.04.2014 11:28, schrieb Martti Kühne: >> Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for >> presence. >> >> # pacman -Qk | grep -v '0 missing files' > > LOL. Where do you think that information is stored? I'll give

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

2014-04-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM, ProgAndy wrote: > There may be a transparent proxy in your routing chain that strips > compression in order to run a virus scan. > The server sends these headers for haskell-core.db > ( curl -I http://xsounds.org/~haskell/core/x86_64/haskell-core.db ) > > Conten

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Linux 3.14 in [testing]

2014-04-03 Thread Genes Lists
On 04/03/2014 04:10 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 03.04.2014 05:24, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: ... Has anyone else experienced hangs in Firefox with the latest kernel? None that I can remember. I use firefox only lightly - however I too have not noticed any problems with 3.14 from rc1 thro

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Daniel Micay
On 03/04/14 05:22 AM, Marek Otahal wrote: > Hello, > > I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat > boots up (to recovery mode). > What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I > see are pacman list of installed packages? Any other notes on

Re: [arch-general] Apache 2.4 - Pierre was right, a post on the front page is needed

2014-04-03 Thread Eduardo Machado
2014-04-02 17:10 GMT-03:00 David C. Rankin : > > Thanks for the hard work, and so far, the sky hasn't fallen since the > apache > 2.4 update. Just don't get rid of mod_php, mod_fastcgi + php-fpm isn't a > drop in > replacement in all cases. > I am planning to publish a mod_php (php-zts) compati

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Nowaker
The pacman database was in /var so there's little point in trying to reinstall the same packages What about software updates, security fixes, etc? ;-) What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I see are pacman list of installed packages? Although you don't kno

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Daniel Micay
On 03/04/14 01:36 PM, Nowaker wrote: >> The pacman database was in /var so there's little point in trying to >> reinstall the same packages > > What about software updates, security fixes, etc? ;-) Which is why I'm suggesting a reinstall with pacstrap. >> What is the less pain method to get it a

Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Lukas Jirkovsky
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Marek Otahal wrote: > Hello, > > I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat > boots up (to recovery mode). > What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I > see are pacman list of installed packages? Any othe

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

2014-04-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:25:19PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:09 PM, ProgAndy wrote: > > There may be a transparent proxy in your routing chain that strips > > compression in order to run a virus scan. > > The server sends these headers for haskell-core.db > > ( curl

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key complaining, but what to do about it?

2014-04-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:00:00PM -0400, Daniel Micay wrote: > On 02/04/14 12:47 PM, Nowaker wrote: > >> There may be a transparent proxy in your routing chain that strips > >> compression in order to run a virus scan. > > > > Time for SSL-securing Arch Linux repos to prevent any sort of > > man-

Re: [arch-general] Apache 2.4 - Pierre was right, a post on the front page is needed

2014-04-03 Thread Kiotoze
On 04/02/2014 11:10 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: Having a few moments today to bring a production server up to date, I checked www.archlinux.org for any current warnings about breakage or that user interaction would be required for update. Finding none, I updated, and on reboot Apache 2.4 was d

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-04-03 Thread Arthur Țițeică
În ziua de Mie 02 Apr 2014, la 18:50:14, Daniel Micay a scris: > Until then, you can use any sane LSM module without recompiling the > kernel by building just the module you plan on using and loading it. I'm no kernel hacker by any means but AFAIK the LSM framework is still there with CONFIG_SECU

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Trimming down our default kernel configuration

2014-04-03 Thread Daniel Micay
On 03/04/14 06:41 PM, Arthur Țițeică wrote: > În ziua de Mie 02 Apr 2014, la 18:50:14, Daniel Micay a scris: >> Until then, you can use any sane LSM module without recompiling the >> kernel by building just the module you plan on using and loading it. > > I'm no kernel hacker by any means but AFAI