Re: [arch-general] ZFS in repos?

2022-07-25 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 16:27, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > Adding the pre-compiled module isn't possible because of the license > incompatibility. Adding zfs-dkms might be an option, but someone would > have to maintain it in the repo. That is what Debian does, it provides dkms,

[arch-general] ZFS in repos?

2022-07-23 Thread Piscium via arch-general
ZFS is in AUR. I wonder what is the reason why it is not moved to the Arch repos? The zfs-linux package has 250 votes, the zfs-dkms has 137, and the zfs-linux-lts has 70. I am aware about the possible license incompatibility between the kernel which uses GPL2 and ZFS which uses CDDL, however even D

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.18.8 - VirtualBox dkms - /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found

2022-07-04 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 12:14, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote: > > On 03/07/2022 08:53, Piscium via arch-general wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 at 07:34, David C. Rankin via arch-general > > > What about the symlink discussed in the bbs topic? > > > >

Re: [arch-general] Linux 5.18.8 - VirtualBox dkms - /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found

2022-07-03 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Sun, 3 Jul 2022 at 07:34, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: > > This was rather strange on VirtualBox module rebuild, I received: > > ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.34_non_OSE -k 5.15.51-1-lts > /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found > /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha

Re: [arch-general] pacman Segfault on full system update

2022-06-25 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 14:34, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote: > > You mentioned a couple of errors, like segfaults and decompression errors. > > Especially that last one sounds like a corruption somewhere There are several recent threads in the forums about segfaults and corruption i

[arch-general] Why is clock_gettime called when the mouse moves?

2022-05-03 Thread Piscium via arch-general
I don't know what is the best place to ask the following question, if here, in the Arch forums (which ?) or in the X.org mailing list. I will ask here first. I am open to suggestions. I have two Arch desktops. Desktop #1: MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics with proprietary driver, Xfce on top of o

Re: [arch-general] snapcraft

2021-03-19 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 09:36, Zero via arch-general wrote: > Has anybody here experience with snapcraft (https://snapcraft.io). > > It seems to be an alternative installing packages on a (Arch) Linux system. > > That is an alternative, addition to pacman. > > Of course I don't want to compromise

Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio

2021-02-19 Thread Piscium via arch-general
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 13:37, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-announce wrote: > > As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch Linux > now support zstd compressed > initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by > d

[arch-general] error wiping partition with cryptsetup - device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed:

2021-01-13 Thread Piscium via arch-general
Hi all, I am using Arch. In the middle of last year I successfully wiped two partitions on my laptop following the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Drive_preparation#dm-crypt_wipe_on_an_empty_disk_or_partition This year I decided to wipe the remaining partition on