Re: Recommended setup for synced password manager

On 9/24/24 3:07 AM, lacsaP Patatetom wrote: hi, what do you think of https://github.com/lesspass/lesspass ? the principle seems interesting : it consists in reconstructing the password from a piece of information (which can be synchronized easily/simpl

Re: Arch Linux release 2023.12.01 comes with Linux Kernel 6.6.3

On 12/8/23 10:06 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: Is the Linux Kernel 6.6.5 package available in the repository? https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/

Re: pacman errors running hook Updating the MIME type database...

On 11/20/23 3:22 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:   This was a bit strange and the first time in almost 15 years I've seen pacman do this, e.g. :: Running post-transaction hooks... ( 1/10) Reloading system manager configuration... ( 2/10) Reloading device manager configuration... ( 3/10) Arming

Re: btrfs advice needed

On 11/11/23 12:55 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: Is ext4 the most stable available? I don't know how one would define "the most stable". But I've been using XFS for many years, and ext4 for a few years as well, and I've never suffered a corruption with either one. DR

Re: archinstall mystery

On 10/5/23 8:29 AM, pete wrote: For boot for the longest time now i have used syslinux for boot gave up on grub it became stupid Same here. I only use either syslinux or refind. DR

Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades

On 7/8/23 6:11 PM, Luis O. wrote: In-Reply-To: <750a8f2c-6a5f-ade3-6d81-4f109e840...@darose.net> Hi, I have this issue too, so I reported it on the kernel bugzilla. I think it affects systems with intel TGL socs/cpus and kernel 6.4+ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217647 It's po

Audio distortion after latest upgrades

I did a system upgrade a few days ago, that I had been delaying for a few weeks. Probably nearly 300 packages got upgraded, including the kernel, pipewire, etc. Since then, I keep having a recurrent problem with audio distortion, which I haven't been able to pin down a cause for. To start ou

Re: Python 3.11 timeline?

BTW, a big thanks to everyone involved with getting Python 3.11 out the door. Clearly it was a big lift. Many thanks to everyone who put in the hard work on it. DR On 12/13/22 9:47 AM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: On 12/13/22 3:43 AM, David Runge wrote: On 2022-11-08 11:18:57 (-0500

Re: 6.2 Module Build - all good except for nvidia-390xx

On 2/27/23 9:13 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: All,   Follow-up from a recent thread on 6.2 kernel module builds. All Arch package modules built fine, as did 6.1 branch of virtualbox. However the nvidia-390xx driver fails to build with: Looks like there's a patch for kernel 6.2 for that nvid

Re: System Update Today Broke Lightdm - Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.??

On 2/7/23 10:26 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:   It appears I'm not the only one. Soon after posting to the AUR project for the nvidia-390xx drivers, another confirmed x broke for him as well. See latest comments at: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidia-390xx-utils   So it has to be some

Re: System Update Today Broke Lightdm - Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.??

On 2/7/23 3:11 AM, David C. Rankin wrote: All,  Lightdm has been working fine up until pacman update today. After the update, lightdm fails with a garbled screen. The journal shows: Feb 07 00:58:57 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Feb 07 00:59:00 valkyrie systemd[1]:

Re: Weird Firefox & Thunderbird Context Menu/Right Click Bug

On 1/17/23 9:33 AM, NicoHood wrote: In the last 1-2 Weeks (I dont update that often) I noticed that after some time (have not found a reproducible reason) right clicks, or context menus in genral in Firefox stop working at all. The menu pops up for a few milliseconds and then disappear. For a

Re: Python 3.11 timeline?

On 12/13/22 3:43 AM, David Runge wrote: On 2022-11-08 11:18:57 (-0500), David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? Hi David, we are on and off working on it, but not in the past weeks. There are quite a few

Re: Python 3.11 timeline?

3 AM, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 11:18:57AM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? I know this is a big upgrade, and lots of dependent packages are involved, so this might requ

Re: Lock screen?

On 11/16/22 6:20 AM, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: On 2022-11-16 at 12:10:50 +0100, ilpiko2 wrote: It's a stupid question, i think, but: are there any developments for a lock screen for Arch, in differents DE? i used to use before Gnome, on Ubuntu and had it. Also KDE had it. No

Re: DKIM fail messages

On 11/13/22 7:43 AM, Kristian Klausen wrote: On 31.10.2022 15.11, Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, Thanks for investigating and reporting the issue! Me and foutrelis[1]has been doing some debugging and after upgrading mailman3 from 3.3.5-6 -> 3.3.7-1, we are unable to reproduce the issue. Lookin

Python 3.11 timeline?

Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? I emailed the maintainer about this directly recently, but didn't hear anything back. I know this is a big upgrade, and lots of dependent packages are involved, so this might require some time. I just was

Re: DKIM fail messages

On 10/30/22 6:48 PM, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote: On Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 23:45 (+0100), Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote: Perhaps something about the content transfer encoding is causing the problem? After a quick google, this appears to be a known and old problem: https://stbuehler.de/blog/articl

Re: DKIM fail messages

On 10/30/22 6:27 PM, Genes Lists wrote: Hi David / Jaron One thought - typically dmarc gets dkim validation from a separate milter  dmarc. And many folks still run opendkim which is unmaintained. Versions prior to 2.11.0.Beta2 (which arch kindly offers) are definitely broken. I don't even t

Re: DKIM fail messages

On 10/30/22 6:13 PM, Jaron Kent-Dobias wrote: On Sunday, 30 October 2022 at 17:58 (-0400), David Rosenstrauch wrote: Anyone know why these fail messages might be happening? FWIW, my OpenDKIM with default settings flagged your earlier email with a DKIM fail, but passed this one. The failure

DKIM fail messages

After posting a message to this list earlier today, I immediately received nearly a dozen DKIM fail messages, all being sent by the "OpenDMARC Filter" at various domains, and all saying that the DKIM fail reason was "signature verification failed". I raised this issue with support at my hostin

Re: Setting up new computer to be identical to old one

On 10/30/22 7:42 AM, Spencer Collyer wrote: I am looking to replace my current desktop PC, which is getting on for 8 years old now, with a more up-to-date one. Ideally I want the new one to be set up the same as my current one, which has been running on Arch since I first got it. What is the

Re: [arch-general] any IEEE 802.11ax wifi 6 USB devices supported by gnu+linux (even external dkms)?

On 4/14/22 8:54 AM, Javier via arch-general wrote: I’m looking for upgrading to wifi 6 (802.11ax), but I’m not able to find gnu+linux supported usb devices. wifi 6 is already supported. From my laptop: [3.411497] iwlwifi :00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz, REV=0x351

Re: [arch-general] Pacman Search on Package Names Only?

How about: pacman -Sl | grep On 3/25/22 7:58 AM, Dan Sommers via arch-general wrote: Greetings, Is there a way to limit Pacman to search package names only, rather than package names and descriptions?

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

On 2/11/22 11:44 AM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 2/11/22 9:21 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: Also it may be worthwhile running memcheck to be sure your memory is not faulty. Yeah that thought occurred to me as well.  I ran a quick memtest86+ when I first built

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

Thanks much for following up! Responses inline. On 2/11/22 4:15 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: I suppose it could also be southbridge being annoying It's a very new machine (Rocket Lake and PCIE4) so doesn't technically use the traditional northbridge/southbridge model. But point

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

On 2/11/22 9:56 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: Another thought - if you can try a different network hardware that might be useful as well. And to be clear, this kernel is running on physical hardware not a VM right? If you're running on VM please share which host and VM is used.

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

On 2/11/22 9:21 AM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: On 2/10/22 18:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: ... ... "rcu_preempt detected stalls on cpus/tasks".  But searching on that Since the CPU is stalled and unable to make further progress something is inhibiti

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

vious you already illuminated it but some buffer not clearing old data? On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 09:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: Following up on this crash issue I keep having with my Arch server. Basically server just completely freezes up - doesn't respond to pings, o

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

m that message got obscured in the garbled video output. Any thoughts/suggestions as to what might be happening here / how to debug welcome! Thanks, DR On 1/21/22 12:54 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Been experiencing a weird issue several times recently that's got me stumped. A

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

On 1/24/22 2:47 AM, Uwe Sauter via arch-general wrote: Does your server support IPMI and thus SOL (serial over LAN)? Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately this is just a home/desktop server, so I don't think its mobo supports IPMI. Thanks, DR

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

On 1/21/22 5:08 PM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: When it crashes, instead of reconnecting router connect any laptop with arch booted from usb. If link comes up then use tcpdump to see what is happening on the wire. That's a good suggestion - thanks. (No better way to see if the

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

Tnx much for the reply! Responses inline below. On 1/21/22 2:29 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: When you say server crashes - I assume kernel crashed and is not functioning (as opposed to kernel is up and running but network is not doing what I want)? Does server respond to any k

Re: [arch-general] Can't mount vfat filesystem

On 1/22/22 5:30 AM, Jeanette C. via arch-general wrote: Hey hey, I just updated my system yesterday and now I can't mount a VFAT filesystem. Installed packages: linux 5.16.2.arch1-1 util-linux 2.37.2-5 There is no mount.vfat or mount.fat program/script and apparently no kernel module install

[arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

Been experiencing a weird issue several times recently that's got me stumped. A couple of weeks ago, my entire home network went dead right in the middle of a zoom call. Same problem happened again late last night. The problem is intermittent/occasional: everything runs without issue for se

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

On 12/20/21 3:51 AM, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: At least I'm getting xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fff) also on 5.15.x Kind Regards Bjoern That's a different message. That means that your filesystem is *

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

On 12/14/21 11:32 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: So why am i still seeing this then as i say i update the system virtually every day it makes no sense You are seeing this message in your dmesg / journalctl? "EXPERIMENTAL big timestamp feature in use. Use at your own risk!" Are you usi

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

On 12/14/21 8:27 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:00:28 -0500 David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 12/13/21 2:30 PM, pete via arch-general wrote: I still gt the experimental warning every now and then have to try forced update of all XFS related progs

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

On 12/13/21 2:30 PM, pete via arch-general wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:16:50 -0500 David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 12/13/21 12:27 AM, brettm via arch-general wrote: The part about the timestamps is a normal warning with XFS (there is an option to format with 64 bit

Re: [arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues

On 12/13/21 12:27 AM, brettm via arch-general wrote: The part about the timestamps is a normal warning with XFS (there is an option to format with 64 bit timestamps but I seem to recall it being flakey somehow) The XFS bigtime features isn't at all flakey. (I've been using it for months w

Re: [arch-general] Nvidia, fuck you again

On 12/6/21 10:54 AM, Iyán Méndez Veiga via arch-general wrote: I have a GTX 1070 which is (in theory) fully supported by nvidia, and I don't expect them to drop the support for a few more years. I mean, even the GeForce 700 Series are still supported (~8 years old) in the latest 495.44. So,

Re: [arch-general] fetchmail/exim line length messages

On 11/26/21 2:06 PM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote: I'm not sure what, if anything, has changed recently to start causing this. Have they something in common, e.g. all being bounced to sendgrid.meetup.com which indicates it's a problem with what the remote side is feeding fetchmail?

[arch-general] fetchmail/exim line length messages

My email processing system has suddenly started throwing error messages on line lengths recently: fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, got 1047 fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@ bounced to bounces+11930396-d424-darose=darose@sendgrid.meetup.com fetchmail

Re: [arch-general] linux 5.15.2.arch1-1, xorg and nouveau - flickering

On 11/19/21 10:22 AM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: Hi, All xorg apps that use hardware acceleration (i.e. chrome, skype) filcker on current kernel 5.15.2. lspci lists my graphic card as : NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1) I am using stock nouveau driver.

Re: [arch-general] DST-related log messages?

On 11/7/21 6:02 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: Anyone know what (if anything) gets written to the logs that would show this change? NM, I think I found it: Nov 7 01:46:31 systemd[1]: NetworkManager-dispatcher.service: Deactivated successfully. Nov 7 01:01:43 FAHClient

[arch-general] DST-related log messages?

We switched from Daylight Savings back to Standard time in my locale last night. (EDT -> EST) My system did seem to update, as it has the correct time. However, I was looking through the logs to see if it wrote any messages regarding the time changing, but didn't see any. I also don't see a

Re: [arch-general] System manipulation

On 10/11/21 9:51 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have looked but

Re: [arch-general] Rescue mode stopped working

On 7/26/21 7:35 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: I'm not sure what changed, but for some reason I'm no longer able to drop into rescue mode on my laptop (i.e. using "systemctl rescue") - or to boot directly into single user mode. This behavior has def

[arch-general] Rescue mode stopped working

I'm not sure what changed, but for some reason I'm no longer able to drop into rescue mode on my laptop (i.e. using "systemctl rescue") - or to boot directly into single user mode. When I try either of these, the kernel loads, and then looks like it's entering single user mode, prompting me to

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

On 6/7/21 3:49 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I'll just live with it until I have time to dig into the pacman source and find out what this supposed "new feature" is that screws up old terminals. Or you could just switch to a modern terminal app! :-) DR

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

On 6/3/21 4:59 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: On 6/3/21 1:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the terminal is VT100 compatible. It

Re: [arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019

On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the terminal is VT100 compatible. It really looked like there was a bad ANSI escape somewhere. It was night/day different than the last time I updated and I've proba

Re: [arch-general] Unstable/Unusably slow Wi-Fi connection with systemd-networkd/wpa_supplicant

On 3/23/21 9:09 PM, riveravaldez via arch-general wrote: Hi, I was using Wicd until a couple of weeks without problems, but because it's been out of repos for a while and generally not maintained/developed anymore I decided to make the switch and start using systemd-networkd. I followed the

Re: [arch-general] Mirror not synchronized since January

On 3/9/21 11:58 AM, Henry-Joseph Audéoud via arch-general wrote: Hi all, Today, I discover two machines not having same version of one package. Both are up-to-date (just did a `pacman -Suy`).  But they do not use the same mirror.  Indeed: I understand there may be a little time gap betwee

Re: [arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

On 2/23/21 8:48 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: I understood why it was done, I follow the kernel announcements, etc, but was a bit bewildered by Arch moving LTS to 5.10 before Linux moved to 5.11. Even today, we have: linux 5.10.16.arch1-1 and linux-lts 5.10.17-1 So the

Re: [arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

On 2/17/21 3:48 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: Archdevs, You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros). See: https

Re: [arch-general] CVE-2021-3156 (Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo)

On 1/29/21 12:20 PM, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: Hi, Just checked my servers and all were vulnerable: Updating to the latest version (sudo-1.9.5.p2-1) closed this vulnerability. Maybe this should be posted as arch news message? It was already sent to the arch-security mailin