Re: [arch-general] systemd-nspawn/systemd-networkd/

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 12:28:56 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I read a lot, especially when it comes to networking. As for me, it is > the trickiest part of administrating my machine. Yeah, networking can get complex very quickly. (I'm by no means an expert either!) > I found many posts > asking help a

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 08:46:02 Caorenzhi wrote: > Thank you for your good suggestion! I think I can use pacman to remove the > packages, however, I cannot connect to Internet after chroot, so cannot use > pacman to update. Do you have any idea? Assuming you can plug your computer in with an ethe

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 09:12:39 Caorenzhi wrote: > Thank you Paul, I will check it in my lab later and tell you the details. I > try add ip eth0 yesterday , and the system says there is no eth0. In that case, you need to do: # ip link to see a list of your network interfaces. It might not be cal

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 09:26:19 Caorenzhi wrote: > Thank you! I remember when I run the command to find out the packages I > should remove, it shows: lilo, grub-common, initvlinux( something like > this), but I don't know how to move them to /usr/bin. I try directly mv > lilo to /usr/bin, and use th

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 07 Mar 2014 15:09:27 Ary Kleinerman wrote: > Hi, > I'm a new Archer and I'm planning to install arch linux in a production > server environment, but I have doubts because Arch is a rolling release. My > question is: what does it happen when there are big changes? e.g. changes > in the fil

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 03:51:04 Cao, Renzhi wrote: > Hi, all: > > I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I > summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me > suggestions of what I miss something or I do something wrong, I really > appreciate,

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 14:52:23 Cao, Renzhi wrote: > Hi, > Thank you for giving suggestions, I have tried the one you suggest, and > here is the result: #ls /mnt/sda2 > boot/,grub/,home/,initramfs-fallback.img,,initramfs.img,lost+fount/,memtest8 > 6+/,syslinux/,vmlinuz-linux #ls /mnt/sda3 > /bo

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 10:08:06 y...@marupa.net wrote: > I love Arch, but not for servers. I prefer Debian on my server. Despite all > the dire warnings given to keep an eye on Arch's web site about certain > upgrades, its still all too frequent user intervention is necessary where > nothing is stat

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:48:15 Cao, Renzhi wrote: > I really appreciate Emil Lundberg, Paul Gideon Dann, Temlin Oliv?r, , > Guus Snijders' great suggestion, you are right, that's my fault to use > /dev/mapper/arch_root_image as the root partition, now I can login the &

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 15:40:13 John WH Smith wrote: > By the way, I > strongly believe you will fix things faster if you like your environment > (I assume it is Arch here, of course). Being used to your system is much > more important than its stability when it comes to your sysadmin speed > of

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 16:20:25 Cao, Renzhi wrote: > Thanks Paul! >The reason why I copy /bin/* to /mnt/bin is my/mnt/bin is not exists. > I don't know what happens, it seems this is deleted when I try to fix my > problem. I will see if my system works well, if not, I will be back again > :)

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 10 Mar 2014 18:57:38 arnaud gaboury wrote: > Hi, > > I am setting up a network for a container. > > I have a bridge br0 with a eth adapter "enp7s0" and a tap device "tap0" > > > *** > /etc/netctl/bridge > Description="Bridge connection" > Interface=br0 > Co

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 11:06:32 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > Hi Arnaud, I don't think you need the /etc/netctl/ethernet profile at all. > > The enp7s0 interface is being absorbed into the bridge, and so should not > > be considered on its own any more. Otherwise, this looks OK. Are you > > seeing any

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 13:06:23 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > systemd-networkd is still really new. If you're having difficulty with it, > > I recommend simply using netctl, which is a bit more mature. > > I do for part of the setup on host. I am trying to do zero network > config on container, thus t

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 15:45:19 arnaud gaboury wrote: > The container is dedicated to be a test server for months before I set > up a production server (not on my machine this time !). A lot of web > services will be hosted on the container. > The container is a way to test my settings for web a

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 11 Mar 2014 18:03:20 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > OK, so you really just need basic internet connectivity; you don't > > have any special filtering requirements. When you boot the > > container, can it see the enp7s0 interface? That is, is the enp7s0 > > interface visible both from the host

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:48:38 arnaud gaboury wrote: > Right. I am left after I boot my machine (the host) with this : > > 4: vb-dahlia: mtu 1500 qdisc noop master br0 > state DOWN group default qlen 1000 > link/ether 62:a2:6b:f4:0f:87 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > I have to manually > # ip l

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:06:30 Mauro Santos wrote: > No netctl here :) > > I systemd-networkd enabled on boot and 3 files in /etc/systemd/network > > > cat brkvm.netdev > > [NetDev] > Name=brkvm > Kind=bridge > > > cat brkvm.network > > [Match] > Name=brkvm > > [Network] > Description=Brid

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:20:01 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? > > As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container > > to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate > > for mos

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 14:21:05 Mauro Santos wrote: > > Can I ask you both why you chose this route of creating a private network? > > As far as I can tell, by default systemd-spawn will allow the container > > to use the host's interface. I would have thought that would be adequate > > for most

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 16:01:00 arnaud gaboury wrote: > See my previous post : I want to learn. Then, the container will one day be > a production server. So my idea is to test now everything, then take a > snapshot and build a prod server with much more complicated network > services and setting

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 17:32:27 arnaud gaboury wrote: > It was UP before I brought vb down. So you have your answer : yes. OK, so in that case, I'd recommend not doing anything special on the host to bring the vb- dahlia interface up. It's behaving just like a normal interface would on a real

Re: [arch-general] doubts about rolling release

2014-03-13 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 12 Mar 2014 15:21:23 Ary Kleinerman wrote: > I'm thinking to use Arch for an Asterisk server. Nowadays I'm using > Ubuntu 12.04LTS, but I can see all distribution changing to the new > init system (systemd). I wanna change all my scripts to be compatible > with systemd. Furthermore, my

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 17 Mar 2014 09:55:11 arnaud gaboury wrote: > > I guess someone will have to ask about it, either in the mailing list or > > irc, I haven't done so before because systemd-{nspawn,networkd} have > > lots of new functionality and I'm not sure I understand them all. > > After I related this

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Monday 17 Mar 2014 12:00:10 Mauro Santos wrote: > I suspect we might have been talking about 2 different things all along. > What I and Arnaud have been talking about is the tap interface on the > host, not the interface inside the container, which of course should be > properly configured by th

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 18 Mar 2014 10:28:05 message wrote: > No, the system does not start as root. > > After many reboots, am unable to sign-in directly as normal user 'a'. > Have to sign in as 'root' (command 'su' not recognised), then change to > 'a' using 'su a'. Access to /home directory 'a' (/home/a) is

Re: [arch-general] Configuring enabled services

2014-03-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 12:52:55 Gesh wrote: > Dear all, > I've been rereading the old arguments on the rc.conf split. > Disregarding everything discussed there, one interesting > point came up during that discussion.[1] > Is it possible to have some configuration file, e.g. > /etc/systems/service

Re: [arch-general] user management error

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2014 20:04:27 message wrote: > On 2014-03-18 13:01, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > > -- > > > > Message: 7 > > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:30:34 +0100 > > From: Ralf Mardorf > > Subject: Re: [arch-general] user management error > > > > Y

Re: [arch-general] tap device

2014-03-20 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 20 Mar 2014 11:07:55 arnaud gaboury wrote: > I decided, when writing the wiki, to setup the container network > static IP (example given) INSIDE the container. > This approach solves the interfaces being DOWN issue for any network > profile and sounds in fact a more best-practice. > T

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

2014-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 27 Mar 2014 09:07:23 Nicolas Iooss wrote: > c) Create a package ("linux-src"?) which install the kernel sources > and provides an easy way to customize the config before making the packages > (with pkgbuild). Currently linux-grsec AUR package provides this feature by > using the MENUCON

Re: [arch-general] graphical display management

2014-03-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 27 Mar 2014 16:45:35 message wrote: > On 2014-03-25 15:59, arch-general-requ...@archlinux.org wrote: > > -- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:49:06 +0100 > > From: Jakub Klinkovsk? > > Subject: Re: [ar

Re: [arch-general] Qt4 / Qt5 package naming

2014-04-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Friday 18 Apr 2014 10:29:56 Jerome Leclanche wrote: > Hi > > With Qt5 becoming more and more available throughout Qt apps > (especially as KDE progresses into the switch), I think it's time to > consider adopting an updated naming scheme. > > IMHO: > - Qt4 apps should use the -qt4 suffix > - Q

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 11:08:14 Mike Cloaked wrote: > Just a comment about boot times. The overall boot performance will depend > not only on optimising an individual setup, but also is dependent on the > hardware as well as which boot manager is being used. So an older laptop > with a hard driv

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-04-30 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 11:46:03 Mauro Santos wrote: > Check the output of journalctl and look for lines with timeout (use grep > -i timeout). > > I've experienced this before (90 seconds timeout) and I found out that > some systemd service related to the user session was not terminating, > and s

Re: [arch-general] Optimizing boot

2014-05-01 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Wednesday 30 Apr 2014 23:26:48 Rodrigo Rivas wrote: > Although the original problem has already been solved, I'll post my > trick to debug this kind of issues with systemd: > > * Before doing the thing that causes the problem run as root > `systemctl start debug-shell`. If the problem is in the

Re: [arch-general] How to disable systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer

2014-05-08 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 08 May 2014 09:53:41 Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Christos Nouskas wrote: > > On 8 May 2014 09:43, Olivier Langlois wrote: > >> Since a recent update (I have first noticed a couple of weeks ago this > >> new systemd enhancement), systemd started to automati

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

2014-06-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Tuesday 24 Jun 2014 10:07:31 Sander Jansen wrote: > > 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. > > It's part of the udev rule in /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/63-md-ra

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 22:10:28 droe6 wrote: > Not even that. You can have functioning 32bit programs running on a 64bit > system. The only reason I can see to change is if you somehow installed a > 64bit system on a 32 bit architecture system. The OP already explained that he wants to make thi

Re: [arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit

2014-07-11 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 10 Jul 2014 19:42:39 Scott Lawrence wrote: > Hey, > > Never tried that particular piece of reckless foolery :). However, I'd guess > that once the libraries were replaced with incompatible versions, the > installation scripts would start to fail, and then you'd be pretty badly > stuck.

Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

2014-07-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Saturday 19 Jul 2014 15:08:51 Alexander Rødseth wrote: > /tmp being too small for building packages after a "standard" Arch > Linux installation, in combination with yaourt using /tmp by default > is a problem. A simple workaround is to run yaourt with --tmp > /somewhere/with/enough/space. When

Re: [arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

2014-07-31 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 18:48:46 Karthik K wrote: > Trying to install ImageMagick from the Arch repos, but I am constantly > getting a 404 not found error > > "pacman -Ss imagemagick" returns > extra/imagemagick 6.8.9.5-1 > An image viewing/manipulation program > > But "pacman -S imagemagick"

Re: [arch-general] ImageMagick package missing from repos

2014-07-31 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 31 Jul 2014 09:07:00 Doug Newgard wrote: > > Your database is probably out of date. Try: > > > > # pacman -Syy > > > > and try again. > > > > Paul > > No, do not do -Syy, do -Syu or -Syyu. -Syy just leads to problems. It *just* leads to problems? Mmm; it *may* lead to problems, yes

Re: [arch-general] Vim clipboard option

2014-08-21 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 21 Aug 2014 16:24:22 Manolo Martínez wrote: > On 08/21/14 at 11:17am, Magnus Therning wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 07:39:50AM +0200, Yamakaky wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > It's good to have a real vim package, but the `clipboard` option is now > > > disabled (see `vim --version`).

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

2014-08-22 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On Thursday 21 Aug 2014 13:40:48 Leonid Isaev wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 11:56:06AM -0500, Bigby James wrote: > > > > It seems this is just a change in the default settings, nothing more. > > > > > > I know, but not everyone follows systemd-devel. So, just updating > > > systemd would lead t

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to microcode updates

2014-10-28 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 27 October 2014 09:55, Christian Hesse wrote: > Damjan Georgievski on Thu, 2014/10/23 19:40: > > On 12 October 2014 14:28, Thomas Bächler wrote: > > > Intel released a new microcode update that disables an instruction on > > > Haswell CPUs. However, Linux doesn't handle this very well and in

[arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
I'm stumped: I've had LANG=en_GB.UTF8 in /etc/locale.conf ever since the switch to systemd, but in the last few days since my previous reboot, something's changed (maybe systemd 216?) and now I find that, even though /etc/locale.conf still contains en_GB, I get: # echo $LANG en_US.UTF8 This is al

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 31 October 2014 14:20, Mateus Rodrigues Costa wrote: > 2014-10-31 12:14 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann : > > > Is there some additional configuration I need beyond /etc/locale.conf > now? > > I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 31 October 2014 15:42, Mateus Rodrigues Costa wrote: > 2014-10-31 13:34 GMT-02:00 Paul Gideon Dann : > > > > # sudo localectl set-locale en_GB.utf8 > > Failed to issue method call: Invalid Locale data. > > > > Could this be a corrupted file? (Feasible, as we d

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 09:24, Jesse Jaara wrote: > Maybe you have the lang set somewhere in your shell configfile. Have you > tried with a new user? > Hmm; yeah, getting somewhere now. I haven't made any modifications to my shell config for a while, but I did find this (I use zprezto): if [[ -z "LA

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 09:45, Jürgen Werner wrote: > You have to run > > # locale-gen > Jürgen, note my original post: > I've checked locale.gen and rerun locale-gen without any effect. I've also tried rerunning mkinitpio for good measure. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 10:00, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > Any more ideas? > Oh BTW, I've also tried bypassing my ZSH config entirely, but no difference. Paul

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 11:03, Jürgen Werner wrote: > Am 03.11.2014 11:03, schrieb Paul Gideon Dann: > > On 3 November 2014 09:45, Jürgen Werner wrote: >> >> You have to run >>> >>> # locale-gen >>> >>> Jürgen, note my original post: >&g

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 13:37, AIS Information wrote: > > i think you may just have a typo. shouldn't it be "en_GB.UTF-8" instead > of "en_GB.utf8"? > Thanks; I've tried various combinations. Mostly, I've used en_GB.UTF-8, as that matches the entry in locale.conf, and worked fine previously. Your or

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 11:36, Mateus Rodrigues Costa wrote: > Shouldn't you also have the en_US locales available? Just in case? > Also, why enable the ISO locales if you can run basically with only the > UTF-8 ones? > I've tried enabling the en_US locales, and it doesn't help. I suspect the issues

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 15:05, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 03-11-2014 14:03, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > My best bet at this stage is that I have a corrupted file somewhere, but > > pacman -Qqkk doesn't show up anything obvious. I'd think it was an issue > > with a new

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 15:44, Mauro Santos wrote: > On 03-11-2014 15:26, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > So that explains why my locale wasn't being set correctly. However, it > > doesn't explain why I'm seeing broken rendering of special characters in > > the termi

Re: [arch-general] Where's my locale gone?

2014-11-03 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 3 November 2014 16:24, Mateus Rodrigues Costa wrote: > Em Mon Nov 03 2014 at 14:08:11, Paul Gideon Dann > escreveu: > > > > I'd forgotten about this, although I mentioned it a few posts back: > > > > # locale > > locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to

Re: [arch-general] kernel compilation with ABS

2014-11-07 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 7 November 2014 12:01, arnaud gaboury wrote: > > > > Did you try deleting the file and start downloading again? > > Not sure what you call "the file", but I already tried many times to > remove core/linux then run again $ ABSROOT=. abs core/linux. > > I can manually download the kernel and pac

Re: [arch-general] Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares.

2014-12-10 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 9 December 2014 at 23:00, John Doe wrote: > Please help, after i686 install screen is unreadable blocky white squares. > > How did you perform the install? Did you follow the guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide ? If so, it would be a good idea to read back through eac

Re: [arch-general] keymap corruption

2015-01-12 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 11 January 2015 at 22:44, Michael Dahlberg wrote: > On January 11, 2015 at 5:36:35 PM, Oliver Temlin (tem...@gmail.com) wrote: > On 11 January 2015 at 21:38, Michael Dahlberg wrote: > > I recently had a hard drive failure which resulted in my system having a > corrupted /var. I removed /var a

[arch-general] Plasma 5

2015-02-16 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
After switching to Plasma 5 from KDE SC 4, I have a couple of small issue, and I wonder if anyone else already has a solution? 1) I'm using SDDM now, but even with KDE4, I was unable to get SDDM to actually launch a Plasma session. After entering my details, I get a black screen and no further act

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5

2015-02-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 16 February 2015 at 13:23, Antonio Rojas wrote: > > 2) I used to have some global shortcuts for launching certain apps. I > > don't seem able to set these up any more. After setting a shortcut on a > > lancher in the panel (e.g. Firefox), nothing happens when I actually hit > > the shortcut co

Re: [arch-general] Plasma 5

2015-02-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 16 February 2015 at 18:14, Kevin Ott wrote: > > 1) I'm using SDDM now, but even with KDE4, I was unable to get SDDM to > > actually launch a Plasma session. After entering my details, I get a > black > > screen and no further activity. I have to switch to another console, log > > in, and invok

Re: [arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux

2016-02-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
The nature of ArchLinux as a rolling-release distro means that ISO downloads are not a good measure of the number of users at all. (Most users downloaded an ISO once, a long time ago, and not for each release as for other distros.) Add to that the fact that there are torrent links for the ISO as we

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

2016-02-23 Thread Paul Gideon Dann
On 23 February 2016 at 08:32, Frank Schaffhaeuser wrote: > This topic again? Seriously? The last 'discussion' from Feb.8th thankfully > just died down > and apart from spamming subscriber's inboxes had no useful effect... > Please, not again Hang on, I absolutely agree with you that I'm sick of

Re: [arch-general] Installation: How to get HDD > LUKS > GPT working in a clean way

2016-12-05 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 2 December 2016 at 22:29, Merlin Büge wrote: >> Personally, I'd rather modify the start-up process a tiny bit so that >> GPT inside LUKS gets parsed. I just try to strip off unnecessary >> 'overhead' / layers of my system. > If you have 8 GiB or more and not hibernating, don't bother with swa

Re: [arch-general] MariaDB not starting

2017-01-27 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 27 January 2017 at 12:12, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > I've got problems with MariaDB not working. > I think you might want to read the "Installation" section on the Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MySQL#Installation In particular, I think you forgot to run mysql_install_db. Cheers,

Re: [arch-general] Why there is no NetworkManager in ArchISO

2017-07-24 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 24 July 2017 at 08:54, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > I've installed ArchLinux on 3 desktops so far, and I've done them > successfully, so I must have *RTFM* , I was just wondering why is it > hard to configure wifi. Since I failed to configure wifi with

Re: [arch-general] Depends on foo-bar=10.0-3

2017-08-15 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 14 August 2017 at 13:48, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 14:03:45 +0200, mpan wrote: > >> why does a package from official repositories mentions what version > >> of a dependency is required? > >Because it may be that it is working only with that particular > >version. > > That doesn

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

2018-03-19 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
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, but in the meantime, the simplest solution when moving between systems is to dd the contents of each partition from the sour

Re: [arch-general] Latest openssh - Premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol?

2018-07-17 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 17 July 2018 at 15:48, David C. Rankin wrote: > It's like there is something between: > > 09:20:24 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. > and > 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Received disconnect from 66.76.46.195 port > 59956:11: disconnected by user > > that isn't data trans

Re: [arch-general] Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch?

2018-08-09 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On 8 August 2018 at 02:33, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < turritopsis.dohr...@teo-en-ming.com> wrote: > Good morning from Singapore, > > > Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch like Linux from Scratch? > It's certainly possible to build all of ArchLinux's packages from source using the ABS. My a

Re: [arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...

2018-12-18 Thread Paul Gideon Dann via arch-general
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 15:04, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > > since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow > in some cases. > > It might also be worth checking the health of your hard disk with "smartctl -A /dev/sd". Look out for "Reallocated Event Count", "Current Pending

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