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I am trying to use my repos that is located on an NTFS formatted drive. I am dual-booting Windows 8.1 and Arch Linux. I am running subversion 1.8.5 and apache 2.2.26 with SSL. The problem seems to be related to httpd not being able to open the files where the repos are located. This is what is ad...

Braiam

@slm Y U NTFS?

btw, he said that ext4 was just fine...

slm

5:04 AM

@Braiam - I have no idea what the hell this guy is doing, just trying to help.

Braiam

wow, I saw terdon ranting about a migration vote D:

does the kernel has a parameter to disable all networking at boot?

note that I'm with Alvar

slm

5:23 AM

@Braiam - I answered it

Braiam

I'm about to create the adb, someone against?

slm

what is it?

Braiam

android debug bridge

something to mess up your android device really bad if you are not cautious

slm

k

strugee

5:55 AM

@Braiam hah. this is the difference between Arch and Debian

Braiam

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A: As a highly experienced professional software developer, I have difficulty getting good answers to questions

Can you provide specific examples? It is difficult to talk about generalities and abstract terms, I find it is helpful to anchor these discussions on real, concrete examples so everyone is clear. http://stackoverflow.com/users/1105562/david-pfx?tab=questions These questions look mostly answered...

is HE back?

strugee

in Debian you get everything by default when you install "gnome", and you have to install "gnome-core" to get only what you need. in Arch, you get the bare minimum with "gnome" and everything else you get when you install "gnome-extra"

@slm what do you mean?

what's available?

@Braiam or add epic things to it, if you're awesome. \o/

although actually now I'm realizing that's really more fastboot

derobert

6:18 AM

@strugee if the GNOME install on Arch doesn't make you wonder, "wtf, is this Windows?" then I'd argue you're not getting the true GNOME experience.

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And I have no idea what you mean by Debian installing a bunch of stuff by default. There are checkboxes in d-i to install a desktop environment if you want... but if you don't want it, don't check them.

Maybe it's installed if you run the installer in "don't ask me questions!" mode

strugee

@derobert yeah, that's true. I forgot about that haha

that must have been it actually. oops

but the thing with xul-ext-adblock-plus bugged the crap out of me. and the patches, oh god the patches

I mean I want to be clear the fact that you're a Debian user is awesome, I'm a huge fan of Debian as a project, I just have a personal distaste for it on the desktop

@derobert I plugged in an encrypted flash drive and it prompted me for the passphrase and I was really surprised because it took me a minute to realize that that was something that would need to happen automatically for the incompetent user

slm

6:36 AM

@strugee - yeah what does arch use?

strugee

@slm I don't understand the question

do you mean, what's enabled by default (i.e. comes preinstalled)? what's available in the repos? what's recommended? which

slm

is there something else that arch uses by default instead of selinux?

strugee

Arch doesn't use SELinux by default

it's not turned on unless you explicitly do so

if that's what you're asking

pretty much nothing is in Arch by default

no service is turned on unless it is absolutely essential (and I mean essential - think the login daemon), ports are all closed by default, and it comes with basically nothing (not even sudo).

that's the beauty of Arch. nothing is decided for you, ever. you create the system yourself.

slm

Check out this awesome diagram I found

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A: Diagram of Linux kernel vs. performance tool?

I came across this diagram which shows exactly this. In the above you can see where tools such as strace, netstat, etc. interact with the Linux kernel's subsystems. Source: Linux PerfTools References Linux Performance

strugee

self-answered. nice.

slm

6:51 AM

@strugee So then SElinux being enabled wouldn't be that guys prob. then

Braiam

anyone knows how to check what building flags had dbus?

derobert

7:24 AM

@strugee Not just the incompetent user, but the lazy one too :-/

Though I don't have automount on... too much of a security risk.

(Well, I take that back, I have it on some machines. Depends on how secure each one has to be. E.g., less worried on the media PC at home. But no autorun!)

derobert

7:39 AM

Watt:~# rpcinfo -d status 1
rpcinfo: Could not delete registration for prog status version 1

ugh, wtf

I'd just restart rpcbind, but it preserves state. I'd just delete it from the state file, but its #*!@*(# binary

Whatever. Delete the state files, restart rpcbind, restart everything NFS related.

Should probably file a bug report :-(

Except I already deleted all the relevant data.

Now that rpcinfo -d works... must have been some corruption.

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