[arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
Hi, I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. Was this dropped? I've been trying to install arch only (single boot) on a EFI-32 mac. Due to not being able to convinve (bless) rEFIt without having OS X installed to not come up

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I could swear that some time back some version of archboot media >> gave me the choice to select grub2-efi-32-bit. >> >> Was t

Re: [arch-general] grub2 efi image files

2012-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Keshav P R wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 22:24, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Keshav P R >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:10, Carsten Mattner >>> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>

[arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-25 Thread Carsten Mattner
Is there still a way to statically link libraries where the recent change to remove the .a files has been completed?

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-10-25 10:10:55 +0200] Carsten Mattner: >> Is there still a way to statically link libraries where >> the recent change to remove the .a files has been >> completed? > > To build something statically you wi

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-10-26 09:39:21 +0200] Carsten Mattner: >> So that means Arch Linux has always been unique in that regard >> and it has been by lucky accidence static linking of libs installed >> by pacman worked? > > Yes. &

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-28 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: > On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated >> clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article. > > Please edit/update the pages

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-29 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier wrote: >>> On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote: >>>> Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this sh

[arch-general] error: GPGME error: Invalid crypto engine

2014-04-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
Does someone else have problems upgrading with testing enabled since yesterday? Checked the mailing list and there's not warning that testing is broken. :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date communit

Re: [arch-general] error: GPGME error: Invalid crypto engine

2014-04-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 04.04.2014 11:40, schrieb Carsten Mattner: >> Same problem if I try to downgrade readline and bash >> >> :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/readline-6.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is >> corrupted (invalid or corrupted pack

[arch-general] systemd 220 crypt swap

2015-05-25 Thread Carsten Mattner
I had to downgrade to systemd 219 because 220 fails to stop or enable luks crypt swap partition. There was an unlogged error on shutdown after upgrade and an infinite loop/wait on startup. I had to use a rescue linux to mount and disable crypttab and fstab entries before downgrading. /etc/cryptt

Re: [arch-general] systemd 220 crypt swap

2015-05-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > On 05/25/2015 11:37 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> >> I had to downgrade to systemd 219 because 220 fails to stop or enable >> luks crypt swap partition. >> > ... >> >> >> /etc/crypttab: >

Re: [arch-general] systemd 220 crypt swap

2015-05-27 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Genes Lists wrote: > On 05/26/2015 05:08 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > >> >> That's not really the same thing, is it? Is the key random (one-time)? >> > > Nope it's not the same thing. That's what I meant by 'for c

Re: [arch-general] :D

2015-06-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
Do I have to understand this? On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > This adds Pacman to the progression thingy > ([##]): > > $ cat /etc/pacman.conf > [snip] > # Misc options > [snip] > Color > ILoveCandy > [snip] > > Get insulted if you mistype:

Re: [arch-general] XMMS2 error in latest version with equalizer build

2015-07-01 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Storm Dragon wrote: > Hi, > when I upgraded XMMS2 today the preamp stopped working. I use it for a soft > volume affect. So I went into the #xmms2 channel on freenode, and after a > bit it was discovered that one of the plugins didn't build right. Here's the > bit o

Re: [arch-general] Is Linux 4.3 stable?

2016-01-08 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Bruno Pagani wrote: > No problem here, with HD4600 on one and 945GM on another one. ;) If you check Xorg's bugtracker you'll find at least three serious regressions for 945GM since 4.3. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92655 https://bugs.freedesktop.

Re: [arch-general] Error message with full disk encryption

2016-02-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:49 AM, PeLo L wrote: > > Hi, > > > I've followed the arch wiki and deployed a full disk encrypted install. > Everything works fine and am able to boot properly into the install. > While trying to shutdown my system, systemd displays an error > which says "systemd: stoppe

Re: [arch-general] Error message with full disk encryption

2016-02-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 13:47 +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:49 AM, PeLo L wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > >> > I've followed the arch wiki and deployed a f

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-13 Thread Carsten Mattner
Just throwing this out there: Given nosh's support for importing systemd units, that one might be another viable option.

Re: [arch-general] Error message with full disk encryption

2016-02-14 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:23 PM, PeLo L wrote: > > adding 'shutdown' hook doesn't seem to work. Modifying '/etc/fstab' > and replacing the UUID with '/dev/mapper/crypt-boot' did the trick. I've never used UUID volume id and still see the bug.

Re: [arch-general] SourceForge now supports TLS, update source URLs

2016-02-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Nicolas F. wrote: > Hi all, > > quick reminder that SourceForge was recently acquired and since then > has enabled HTTPS on all of the site. Since some PKGBUILDs fetch their > sources from SourceForge, it might be a good idea to switch them from > using plain http:

Re: [arch-general] Error message with full disk encryption

2016-02-16 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:49:59PM +0100, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:23 PM, PeLo L wrote: >> > >> > adding 'shutdown' hook doesn't seem to work. Mod

Re: [arch-general] Wget in Extra is out-of-date for more than two months

2016-02-25 Thread Carsten Mattner
They may "not" take action. Sorry for the typo. On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Bruno Pagani > wrote: >> Le 25/02/2016 16:57, Harrison Wells a écrit : >>> Still not clear what's the hold up. Wi

Re: [arch-general] Wget in Extra is out-of-date for more than two months

2016-02-25 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Bruno Pagani wrote: > Le 25/02/2016 16:57, Harrison Wells a écrit : >> Still not clear what's the hold up. Will try to poke the maintainer on irc. > > Well, I didn’t wanted to say so at the time of the previous ask, but I > think the maintainer IS the hold up. He h

Re: [arch-general] terminal

2016-03-19 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Christian Hesse wrote: > Sebastiaan Lokhorst on Wed, 2016/03/16 15:24: >> This is a known bug in Linux 4.4.[1] >> It should be fixed in 4.5, which is in [testing] now, so you can try it out. >> >> [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93483 > > This bug

Re: [arch-general] System like glue, High IO Wait.

2016-04-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:11 PM, Carsten Feuls wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I have some trouble with my ArchLinux Installations. > The Systems are very unresponsive (long waiting on gui interaction). > In Htop I can see a high CPU wait time,and a high cpu load, but in iftop no IO > load is on the

Re: [arch-general] Mailing list etiquette

2016-04-14 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Some mailing lists allow small attachments. But it's also common > practise to use http://pastebin.com/, http://picpaste.com/ and smlar > sites and then just to post links. If the data is of intermittent use and interest, that might be a go

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

2016-04-14 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Andrew Ridgway wrote: > There have been a few bugs reported about the gtk 3.20 theming issues[1] > > and in those bugs it mentions that there is a fix upstream that we > just have to wait until it trickles down[2] > > It seems that 3.20 requires themes to update so

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

2016-04-15 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:52:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 16:37:13 +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote: >>>gtk3 since 3.18 or so got much slower as well and for each >>>and every window that is d

[arch-general] x220 external mic

2016-05-03 Thread Carsten Mattner
This is a question for those who have or still are using a Thinkpad x220. I've been trying to get an external 3.5mm headphone+mic combo to work in a way that the mic is picked up, but so far nothing fixed it and I cannot find anything relevant on the internet. I've tried enable/disabling the mic

Re: [arch-general] x220 external mic

2016-05-04 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: > I don't recall this being an issue, I don't have the splitter on me but I > can try for you when I get home later today. In the meanwhile, have you > considered that maybe your combo headset (or whatever it is that you're > using) is inc

Re: [arch-general] Why did kernel packaging become slow?

2016-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Abderrahman Najjar wrote: > The kernel package (linux) is constantly out of date, both in Testing & > Core. > > Whenever a version is pushed in kernel.org, the previous stable will be > still in testing. And then the (old) stable version gets pushed to core, > and t

Re: [arch-general] truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month

2016-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Antonio Rojas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Wulf Richartz wrote: > >> Hello devs and list, >> >> truecrypt 1:7.1a-3 is broken now for five month since the gcc ABI change >> and recompilation of truecrypt. Corresponding bug report: >

Re: [arch-general] x220 external mic

2016-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner
Solved. The BIOS mic setting disables/enables both internal/external microphone but most importantly you have to turn off the machine after enabling for the changes to take effect. A reboot doesn't suffice.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH 1/1] move initramfs generation from install script to pacman hook

2016-05-19 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 19-05-2016 00:20, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >> Could we use a prefix convention to order our hooks? It's usefull to build >> modules before building initramfs and eventually run grub update at the end. > > Not sure triggering grub update

Re: [arch-general] ocaml package out of date

2016-06-01 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:25 AM, phimosis haver via arch-general wrote: > "The most recent version of OCaml is 4.03.0. It was released on 2016-05-25." > > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ocaml/ is a super old > version. I believe most people use opam to install different OCaml vers

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-19 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
This is a nice and useful project, but I think we could be served better in the short term by having supported firejail profiles for things like Firefox and LibreOffice that are easy to use.

Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak

2016-07-20 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:37 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On 07/19/2016 07:03 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> This is a nice and useful project, but I think we could be served >> better in the short term by having supported firejail profiles >> fo

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources

2016-10-31 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
When it comes to security of online update mechanisms and that of an index, TUF has a well designed scheme to be safe regardless of http and plan for eventual leak/theft of signing keys. I'd suggest anyone interest to have a look.

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

2016-11-26 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:01 PM, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Containers are an attempt to solve multiple issues. One is being a > replacement for bundles. When people sell and distribute a proprietary > app/game, they presumably want it to run on as many systems as possible > with as littl

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

2016-11-26 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote: > > > On 26 November 2016 at 15:08, Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: >> >> >> Another very useful case would be using containers as a chroot replacement >> for having clean (only what&

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

2016-11-26 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Bennett Piater 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 would also allow installing makedeps only in >> th

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

2016-11-26 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Maarten de Vries > To my knowledge, makechrootpkg uses systemd-nspawn, which means it is > already using a container. Reproducible builds will need quite a bit more > work than simply using containers though. I only meant reproducible environment but failed to ma

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2016-12-03 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 6:27 AM, fnodeuser wrote: > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-November/028492.html I would suggest considering TUF - The Update Framework or stealing their signing scheme which withstands all kinds of attack scenarios.

Re: [arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.

2016-12-23 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, fredbezies via arch-general wrote: > Hello. > > I'm facing an annoying bug with linux 4.9-1 kernel on my 6 or 7 years > old Toshiba Laptop. When I try to make it boot on with linux 4.9-1 > kernel, it freeze right after loading initramfs. > > 4.8.xx kernel was worki

Re: [arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.

2016-12-24 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote: > On 23-12-2016 13:58, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, fredbezies via arch-general >> wrote: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I'm facing an annoying

Re: [arch-general] Getting freeze on early start with linux 4.9-1 kernel.

2016-12-24 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 24-12-2016 14:14, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Mauro Santos via arch-general >> wrote: >>> On 23-12-2016 13:58, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >>>> On Fri, Dec

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
FYI, 4.8 has been EOL'd, leaving 4.4-lts, 4.1-lts as options for arch "default" kernel until 4.10 is released if we assume that there's a critical fix in the stable patch queue. My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not

Re: [arch-general] About linux 4.8 and 4.9...

2017-01-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 01/10/2017 08:53 AM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> My criticism of the stable patch queue is that they mix fixes >> with actual feature patches, making it more risky and not >> upholding a

Re: [arch-general] arch health

2017-04-20 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
If I may suggest a pain point: arch needs good support for revoking packages and replacing with the previous version if regressions are encountered. Case in point ffmpeg 3.3. 3.2.4 was fine and 2.8.11 is also fine but 3.3's muxer corrupts files. It's not the first instance where I wished for offici

Re: [arch-general] arch health

2017-04-20 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Mauro Santos via arch-general wrote: > On 20-04-2017 20:21, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> Have you reported the bug? If yes and the dev decides that it should be >>> reverted to a previous version there is a way to do it, see: >>> man pacman | grep -A1 epoch >> >> For th

Re: [arch-general] arch health

2017-04-21 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Guus Snijders wrote: > > If I may suggest a pain point: arch needs good support for > revoking packages and replacing with the previous version > if regressions are encountered. > > > From a user POV, that is something where Arch really stands out (for me, > anywa

Re: [arch-general] End of official PaX and grsecurity support in Arch Linux

2017-04-27 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
This is an undesirable situation for users, but I want to offer a positive outlook on this. Ever since KSPP started, some of the dynamics started to shift and I wager that closing off grsec will motivate more users and developers to consider supporting efforts that are in mainline linux. Short-term

Re: [arch-general] End of official PaX and grsecurity support in Arch Linux

2017-04-27 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Is CopperheadOS using grsec or something derived from it?

Re: [arch-general] End of official PaX and grsecurity support in Arch Linux

2017-04-27 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: > Is CopperheadOS using grsec or something derived from it? Found the technical details, it seems to be select grsec features ported to AOSP but not a full port of grsec, which together with the other hardening looks reasonable since it&

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:40 PM, fnodeuser wrote: > Tobias Powalowski, > > you continue to place pkgs in the testing repo that do not require > any further testing. > > for what reasons, exactly, do the linux 4.10.13 and hwids 20170328 > pkgs need to be in testing for 4+ days? > > also, you did n

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: > > > > The constant churn of refactorings and whatnot makes it impossible > > for all the hardware that say i915 supports to actually work &g

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Eric, does it also fail in XFCE or GNOME3? Like I wrote, I've found Plasma's compositor to be buggier.

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> Eric, does it also fail in XFCE or GNOME3? Like I wrote, I've found >> Plasma's compositor to be buggier. > > I use i3 with compton as a composit

Re: [arch-general] Tobias Powalowski and his nonsensical maintenance decisions

2017-04-28 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 6:43 PM, Eric Blau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 2:19 PM, Carsten Mattner > wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Eric Blau wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general >>> wrote: >>> >

[arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Since the libx264 package does not include /usr/include and it's in x264 now, and because x264 depends on ffmpeg, I cannot use libx264 without also installing ffmpeg. For various reasons like missing features and wrong version I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own package, an

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> For various reasons like missing features and wrong version >> I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own >>

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Lin DasSarma <_...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Carsten, > > What about a custom ffmpeg PKGBUILD instead? That's what I've been doing which got complicated now that x264.h is not in libx264 but x264 and x264 depends on ffmpeg for presumably muxing. We have more than two x264

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 16:36:43 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 +0000 >> > Carsten Mattner via arch-gener

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 18:05:16 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> > So what? None of that should cause a problem if your custom >> >

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-08 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 05/07/2017 02:28 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >>> And again, the cycle doesn't matter at all if your ffmpeg package is set up

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-08 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 05/08/2017 01:45 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> Is the idea that I create a machine local repo that has highest prio >> and overrides arch extra/testing? Otherwise, I don't know how to unbreak >

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

2017-05-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Hao Zhang via arch-general wrote: > On 2017-05-10 20:19, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: >> I found some time today to make a test build of the latest GCC. I tested >> some "simple" projects like nginx and libtorrent-rasterbar and they do >> build, while MariaDB fails

Re: [arch-general] mouse freezes when switching between X sessions

2017-10-18 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Does it also happen if you run one X session and a Wayland session? On 10/18/17, Robert Arkiletian via arch-general wrote: > If I have two X sessions running on different accounts and I switch > between them (ctrl-alt-f1 ctrl-alt-f2) a few times. I usually get a > frozen mouse in one of the two

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-04 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
At least for GitHub remotes, don't they still support checking out with SVN? If they do, this would be faster and use less space, too, when we just need a certain revision and no history at all. Other than that, I'm "pretty sure" that a git depth of 10 commits will work for most repositories when

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-04 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/4/18, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 03/04/2018 10:58 AM, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> At least for GitHub remotes, don't they still support checking out >> with SVN? If they do, this would be faster and use less space, too, >> when we just need a certain revision and no h

Re: [arch-general] Why no git --depth=1 option for makepkg?

2018-03-04 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/4/18, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 03/04/2018 03:27 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> Interesting. What does PKGBUILD do with history of more than 10 >> revisions? >> If we checkout a tag or specific commit (e.g. xf86-video-intel), what >> does PKGBUILD need prior rev

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/11/18, David C. Rankin wrote: > This was a nightmare. It's not a CD problem, it's a problem with the system > seeing the CD Label and/or creating the /dev/disk/by-label directory in > time for the link to be created. Hi David, so in the end you were able to boot off usb, right? Also, the

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Or I actually did post it to the list by accident. Please don't flame me for mention ZFS boot environments as a technique available for FOSS servers. On 3/12/18, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On 3/11/18, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> This was a nightmare. It's not a CD proble

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/12/18, Celti Burroughs via arch-general wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 01:04:14 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> Or I actually did post it to the list by accident. >> >> Please don't flame me for mention ZFS boot environments as a techniq

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/12/18, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > My server's been exhibiting some very strange behavior lately. Every > couple of days I run into a situation where one core (core #0) on the > quad core CPU starts continuously using around 34% of CPU, but I'm not > able to see (using htop) any process that

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/12/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 03/11/2018 10:00 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> I'm happy to hear that. My rationale is based on past observations >> of needlessly heated arguments and ZFS, due to its license splitting >> t

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/12/18, Leonid Isaev via arch-general wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:24:37PM +0000, Carsten Mattner via arch-general > wrote: >> On 3/12/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general >> wrote: >> > On 03/11/2018 10:00 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >&

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
It almost looks like filesystem development doesn't fit Linux kernel development style of iterating constantly and evolving with time. btrfs has had the same time as zfs had in-house at Oracle before it was declared publicly stable, and there are still buggy/unfinished corners. If you look at past

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-12 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Sorry for letting gmail butcher wrapping/breaks. Someone at Google needs to be demoted for that anti-feature. I should remember to never edit in gmail's text box but use my normal editor as usual.

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-12 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/13/18, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > So if this issue is irq-based, I guess that means some piece of hardware > is faulty or failing. Any idea how I might go about pinning down which > one? Would there be info in the kernel log about this? Or something > that I can look at in /proc? Any BI

Re: [arch-general] High CPU on one core, but unable to find process responsible

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/13/18, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > > On 03/12/2018 09:56 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> Any BIOS updates or kernel updates recently (4.15.8)? >> >> Try with 3.16 or 4.9 or another old lts kernel from archive.archlinux.org >> just for tes

Re: [arch-general] gcc broken - Arch specific, applying optimization incorrectly - may explain unexplained problems

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/13/18, PkmX via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK this is the exact case of gcc bugzilla #84607: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84607 > > As this is an upstream bug this should affect all distributions, maybe > the commenter on Debian is using 7.3.1 so he can't reproduce t

Re: [arch-general] Update to 4.15.8 on dual quad-core box locked on ( 3/16) Install DKMS modules, need help resurecting

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/13/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Like I said, this can be done from any system which has pacman and > mkinitcpio available. That means: > > 1) Arch Linux > 2) Gentoo, which has a pacman package and IIRC also provides mkinitcpio >as an option alongside dracut. > 3) Any Linux

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard issue with kernel 4.15.5 (possible Arch issue?)

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/13/18, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: > Hey hey, > I updated yesterday, from some;thing like a 4.13 or 4.14 kernel to version > 4.15.5 and couldn't use my PS/2 keyboard. I saw the LEDs flashing when the > system started, but couldn't get any response from the keyboard upon login. > > I'v

Re: [arch-general] Keyboard issue with kernel 4.15.5 (possible Arch issue?)

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/14/18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > As a real-time audio user, too, be sure, I'm as well using a PS/2 > keyboard. A PS/2 keyboard should work. However, from time to time it I'm so glad to hear there are other PS/2 keyboard proponents. USB kinda, sorta works but the bus nature of it, and having mor

Re: [arch-general] Xorg crashes

2018-03-13 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/14/18, Thomas Dreher wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. März 2018, 01:50:51 CET schrieb Jagannathan Tiruvallur > Eachambadi via arch-general: >> On Tuesday 13 March 2018 12:53:10 PM CET Thomas Dreher wrote: >> > Libinput is broken. Downgrading to 1.10.1-1 works. >> >> Can you link any bug report regar

Re: [arch-general] gcc broken - Arch specific, applying optimization incorrectly - may explain unexplained problems

2018-03-15 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/15/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Good news, I guess, is that we will almost certainly switch to bugzilla > as soon as Harmony brings stable psgi support (Soon™). Harmony? PSGI? I like Bugzilla's features, and I don't use arch's tracker enough to have a voice, or maintain it to

Re: [arch-general] gcc broken - Arch specific, applying optimization incorrectly - may explain unexplained problems

2018-03-16 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
I should note that Jira takes the position of being the slowest bugtracker. Nobody would use git if it was slow like Jira or Bugzilla.

Re: [arch-general] bz [was gcc broken]

2018-03-16 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/16/18, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > On 03/15/18 at 09:29pm, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> On 3/15/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general >> wrote: >> >> > Good news, I guess, is that we will almost certainly switch to bugzilla >> > as soon as Ha

Re: [arch-general] Re-install of Arch on a larger drive

2018-03-19 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 3/19/18, Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general wrote: > I've moved or cloned my general-use Arch system between disks more times > than I can count. This is what LVM is for. If you're not using LVM (or > BTRFS), I recommend you start Which aspect is easier/improved with LVM?

Re: [arch-general] procps-ng 3.3.13 and its new topdefaultrc

2018-04-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
I haven't seen the modern top ui, but it sounds useful and I'd be in favor of it if it doesn't break things. But I have to note that terminal emulators and coloring curses applications is very hard to do in a way that works across everyone's favorite color scheme. It's bound to result in invisible

Re: [arch-general] procps-ng 3.3.13 and its new topdefaultrc

2018-04-11 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
FWIW and thankfully, we're not all wired the same, and I can say with certainty that I find htop irritating and confusing, having used FreeBSD and procps top for decades. There is a learning curve, I guess, or we're using/missing different features. But to return to the important point, does anyon

Re: [arch-general] KDE plasma, baloo and UI/video playback freezes

2018-05-08 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 5/8/18, Francesco Porro via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > My problem is: when I'm watching a video, running Konversation in the > background with logging on disk enabled, the playback of video slows > down, freezes for a while. > > Running iotop and ksysguard I found that baloo_file_extractor i

Re: [arch-general] KDE plasma, baloo and UI/video playback freezes

2018-05-08 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 5/8/18, Francesco Porro wrote: > In data martedì 8 maggio 2018 21:08:35 CEST, Carsten Mattner ha scritto: >> Linux block layer's writeback system was supposed to fix this, >> but I've also noticed that the mechanism isn't perfect and >> you can still have a

Re: [arch-general] Stronger Hashes for PKGBUILDs

2018-05-10 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
The single most beneficial change would be adoption of The Update Framework, since it is resilient against all known issues with remote package management, regardless of pkg signers coming/going and whether HTTPS is used or not. It also has a nice protocol for handling key revocation.

Re: [arch-general] KDE plasma, baloo and UI/video playback freezes

2018-05-27 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 5/27/18, Francesco Porro via arch-general wrote: > You mailed me privately. Better replying to mailing list since this could be > > useful to others && please do not top quote. Agreed, but I only replied to your direct mail to me. Apologies if I missed the CC somehow.

Re: [arch-general] KDE plasma, baloo and UI/video playback freezes

2018-05-29 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 5/29/18, Francesco Porro via arch-general wrote: > You don't need to add my address since I'm subscribed to the mailing > list :) > > (it you do, and I hit reply, Kmail replys only to your email by > default). I think there's some confusion. I checked the mail you sent me, and the only recipi

Re: [arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops

2018-06-19 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Is there a guide to migrate from synaptics to libinput? I tried and failed to configure Wayland's libinput to behave like my xf86-input-synaptics config, and that has been enough experience to not try xf86-input-libinput, at least for the moment.

Re: [arch-general] AppArmor support

2018-09-09 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On 9/9/18, Gus wrote: > Linux-hardened doesn't support hibernation and i think it's overkill to > use it on desktop. Not arguing in anyway for or against AppArmor, just another data point regarding linux-hardened 4.17 and 4.18: I tried linux-hardened on two Intel machines, and it was less stable

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