Hi Paul,
> Can anyone provide assistance in finding and fixing what's calling this
> program?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Session_lock might be useful in lieu of
replies from others.
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Ralf,
> You are a bunch of arrogant, self-absorbed jack asseses.
...
> Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB)
> Powered entirely by Open Source software.
My guess is this isn't the real Randall DuCharme, visible on LinkedIn
and in previous years on Arch's mailing lists. CC-ing ‘Randy DuCharme
’ is al
Hi Paul,
Mikau wrote:
> For specifics about how to write systemd service files, read
> systemd.service(5)
And the Arch Linux wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd#Writing_unit_files
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Piscium,
Second attempt, the first went to the old list address.
> What I posted before was just a short snippet. In
> the link below there is a trace for leafpad, available for 7 days.
> https://we.tl/t-BAbO60lnGN
>
> > I suggest using the simplest X client you can which shows the issue,
> >
Hi Piscium,
> I have two Arch desktops.
>
> Desktop #1: MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics with proprietary driver,
> Xfce on top of openbox.
> Desktop #2: Dell, Intel graphics, Xfce on top of openbox.
>
> If I run
> strace
> where could be for example Mousepad or Emacs, and move the
Hi Mark,
> > Also, compare the output of fc-list(1) on each machine?
>
> It looks like this might be the culprit. I aggressively went through
> the working machine and removed any font that wasn't present on the
> non-working machine. Now, neither machine works!
Progress! How did you remove th
Hi,
> What about the list of installed packages? Are there any notable
> differences? Maybe make a diff on the output of pacman -Q :)
Also, compare the output of fc-list(1) on each machine?
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Neven,
I disagree with some of what's been said on this thread and think it
could mislead others, so I'm piping up...
> Greg Minshall wrote:
> > fwiw, for people writing code: a friend suggested something like
> > this: first try user's configured locale (environment variables).
> > if that fa
Hi David,
Looking at your http://darose.net/ServerCrash20220209.png, are you aware
of https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt which has
detail on what it means? Though it looks to me like at least one line
of output has been trampled.
Also, one Google'd suggestion was a real-t
Hi,
> Liberapay uses Stripe or PayPal under the hood, so you are using the
> same but adding another actor in the middle.
Perhaps the day will come when https://btcpayserver.org is run, a
Lightning invoice can be generated, and Arch Linux holds its treasury
outside of the fiat system. ;-)
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C
Hi David,
> /* Moves console cursor `lines` up */
> void console_cursor_move_up(unsigned int lines)
> {
> printf("\x1B[%dF", lines);
> }
It's a shame the code isn't using terminfo(5) so it's portable to
different terminals, including older ones, and less misleading in its
choice of function
Hi Rivera,
> Superficial symptoms are a general slowness. I'm using just IceWM and
> `startx` to initialize the GUI, and even logging into my account
> previous to that takes almost a minute to get done.
Once logged in, run ‘LC_ALL=C dstat -tap’ and leave it to settle down
with nothing happening.
Hi DR,
> I realize that emails that have lines larger than that are violating
> spec, but there's no real harm in allowing them in - since I'm already
> using good spam filtering, and especially if I know that I'm losing
> legit emails because of this.
You're encouraging their spread.
Take a stan
Hi DR,
> fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 maximum allowed line length is 998 octets,
> got 1047
That's a very long-standing rule on SMTP.
> bounces+11930396-d424-darose=darose@sendgrid.meetup.com
...
> I'm not sure what, if anything, has changed recently to start causing
> this.
Have they somethi
Hi Ralf,
> $ curl -sSvg -L
> https://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz
> >foo.tar.gz
> * Trying 46.43.35.68:443...
That's a different IP address than what I get.
$ dig +short @8.8.8.8 search.cpan.org.
cdn-fastly-sni.cpan.org.
dualstack.j.sni.gl
Hi Ralf,
> That's what I did. I replaced a PKGBUILD's
> http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz
> by
> https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/Y/YE/YEWENBIN/Goo-Canvas-0.06.tar.gz
> so I removed the search and migrated from http to https.
>
> However, using the sea
Hi Philippe,
> I didn't find info in the wiki ; I pretty sure my method to search is
> bad but...
Doesn't
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tty#Add_additional_virtual_consoles
cover what you're trying to do?
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Antonio,
> I'll just point out that this number is completely meaningless, for
> the simple reason that it counts *pkgnames* and not *pkgbases*.
> So, for instance, firefox-developer-edition contributes almost 100
> packages to the total count.
Would an accurate count of how many pkgbases are
Hi Billy,
> I don't mean to be rude.
...
> LET US (community) HELP YOU!
Please stop SHOUTING, for that's how it reads. For emphasis, either
work on the choice of words to better convey your meaning or apply
*stress* indicators.
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Christopher,
> Politics is also a factor and some people are afraid to "step on
> others' toes" by updating their packages for them.
How it worked in Dept. 1271 at Bell Labs, i.e. where Unix was born and
raised, was the last one to touch a program ‘owned it’. So, add an
option to grep(1) and
Hi Paul,
> Has anyone been able to figure out how to disable the Ctrl-W shortcut
> in Firefox?
Not me, but Ctrl-Shift-T immediately afterwards to re-open the
just-closed tab often restores the text too. When it fails to do so
tends to coincide with a high resulting loss. :-(
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Cheers, Ralph.
Hi Javier,
> I'm wondering if there's a way to repopulate all of it (and more, like
> composer information) with MusicBrainz gathered metadata instead.
It may be listed at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Audio_tag_editors
but I've no suggestion as to which, sorry.
Hi David,
> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use
> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the
> face of the Arch KISS philosophy.
As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and
using the escape sequence presented there if
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