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Trying to create a VM using virt-install (1.4.1-2.hyperbola2)

virt-install --connect qemu:///system \
--name debian \
--ram 1024 \
--disk path=/home/test/debian.img,size=50 \
--vcpus 2 \
--os-type linux \
--os-variant generic \
--network bridge=virbr0 \
--graphics none \
--console pty,target_type=serial \
--location 'http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-amd64/' \
--extra-args 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 serial'

This error shows up :
ERROR : ‘_OsVariant’ object has no attribute ‘urldistro’

I can’t create the VM.

PS : Error is not present on Debian Stretch with virt-install 1.4.0-5

Thanks for your help.

Current torsocks version is broken.
It returns the following error when attempting to torify application :

which: no getcap

I probably should’ve mentioned this before, but if it is set to suspend when lid is closed, it should automatically lock. if the security option: lock screen with system is set to sleep is tweaked on it doesn’t lock always.

This is word for word what I wrote in the forums, but yeah... it is a problem say if someone wants to use your laptop without your permission and can do so.

But it is also a problem if you set it to lock instead because it is more prone to overheating when your not using it, and it doesn’t suspend quickly enough.

I have tried this many times and the same story can be told, again and again.

I think this issue should be considered high or critical merely because of the privacy risk if someone gets their hands on your laptop while its on. Even if you have been away... :/

I wonder if anyone else has this issue... well you guys will tell me I am sure. if critical doesn’t match what you think I am sure you will change it. ;)

The version I desire is this: 1.16.4.6

I was using GNU Emacs, and tried to export LaTeX file or make a PDF. It seems that texlive package is broken, some fonts are missing.

The group named texlive-most cannot be properly installed.

admin→ pacsearch texlive

extra/texlive-bibtexextra 2016.43765-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Additional BibTeX styles and bibliography databases
extra/texlive-bin 2016.41290-12.hyperbola1 [installed]
    TeX Live binaries (Hyperbola rebranded)
extra/texlive-core 2016.43757-1.hyperbola2 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live core distribution, without nonfree add-on packages (Hyperbola rebranded)
extra/texlive-fontsextra 2016.43763-1.hyperbola2 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - all sorts of extra fonts, without nonfree add-on packages
extra/texlive-formatsextra 2016.41438-3 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - collection of extra TeX 'formats'
extra/texlive-games 2016.43415-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Setups for typesetting various board games, including chess
extra/texlive-genericextra 2016.43605-1 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - mixed bag of generic macro packages and fonts
extra/texlive-htmlxml 2016.43769-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Packages to convert LaTeX to XML/HTML, and typeset XML/SGML
extra/texlive-humanities 2016.43711-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - LaTeX packages for law, linguistics, social sciences, and humanities
extra/texlive-langchinese 2016.43669-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Fonts and macro packages to typeset Chinese texts
extra/texlive-langcjk 2014.0-1
    TeX Live - CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) metapackage
extra/texlive-langcyrillic 2016.43417-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Fonts and macro packages to typeset Cyrillic texts
extra/texlive-langextra 2016.43739-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Bundle of all extra language support
extra/texlive-langgreek 2016.43222-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Fonts and support for typesetting Greek
extra/texlive-langjapanese 2016.43741-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Fonts and macro packages to typeset Japanese texts
extra/texlive-langkorean 2016.43130-1 (texlive-lang)
    TeX Live - Fonts and macro packages to typeset Korean texts
extra/texlive-latexextra 2016.43768-1.hyperbola2 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - Large collection of add-on packages for LaTeX, without nonfree add-on packages
extra/texlive-music 2016.43375-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Music typesetting packages
extra/texlive-pictures 2016.43767-1 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - Packages for drawings graphics
extra/texlive-plainextra 2016.43137-1 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - A collection of add-on packages and macros for plain TeX
extra/texlive-pstricks 2016.43710-1 (texlive-most) [installed]
    TeX Live - Additional PSTricks packages
extra/texlive-publishers 2016.43764-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - LaTeX classes and packages for specific publishers
extra/texlive-science 2016.43747-1 (texlive-most)
    TeX Live - Typesetting for mathematics, natural and computer sciences

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admin→ sudo pacman -S texlive-most

:: There are 15 members in group texlive-most:
:: Repository extra
   1) texlive-bibtexextra  2) texlive-core  3) texlive-fontsextra  4) texlive-formatsextra  5) texlive-games  6) texlive-genericextra
   7) texlive-htmlxml  8) texlive-humanities  9) texlive-latexextra  10) texlive-music  11) texlive-pictures  12) texlive-plainextra
   13) texlive-pstricks  14) texlive-publishers  15) texlive-science

Enter a selection (default=all):
warning: texlive-core-2016.43757-1.hyperbola2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-fontsextra-2016.43763-1.hyperbola2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-formatsextra-2016.41438-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-genericextra-2016.43605-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-latexextra-2016.43768-1.hyperbola2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-pictures-2016.43767-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-plainextra-2016.43137-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: texlive-pstricks-2016.43710-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (15) texlive-bibtexextra-2016.43765-1  texlive-core-2016.43757-1.hyperbola2  texlive-fontsextra-2016.43763-1.hyperbola2
              texlive-formatsextra-2016.41438-3  texlive-games-2016.43415-1  texlive-genericextra-2016.43605-1
              texlive-htmlxml-2016.43769-1  texlive-humanities-2016.43711-1  texlive-latexextra-2016.43768-1.hyperbola2
              texlive-music-2016.43375-1  texlive-pictures-2016.43767-1  texlive-plainextra-2016.43137-1  texlive-pstricks-2016.43710-1
              texlive-publishers-2016.43764-1  texlive-science-2016.43747-1

Total Download Size:     27.66 MiB
Total Installed Size:  1300.90 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       110.88 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages...
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>>> fmtutil custom entries should go into /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil-local.cnf
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Optional dependencies for texlive-science
    python2-pygments: for pygmentex
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Updating TeXLive filename database...
(2/3) Updating TeXLive format files...

kpathsea: Running mktextfm csr10
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Hyperbola) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf csr10

! I can't find file `csr10'.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: csr10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10' failed to make csr10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Hyperbola) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000

! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Hyperbola) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000

! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm csr10
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Hyperbola) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf csr10

! I can't find file `csr10'.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: csr10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10' failed to make csr10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

kpathsea: Running mktextfm csr10
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10
This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182818 (TeX Live 2016/Hyperbola) (preloaded base=mf)

kpathsea: Running mktexmf csr10

! I can't find file `csr10'.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...e:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: csr10.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input csr10' failed to make csr10.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=utf8mex -progname=utf8mex -enc *utf8mex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdfmex.ini for pdfmex/pdftex not found.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=csplain -progname=csplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex *pdfjadetex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex *jadetex.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile mex.ini for mex/pdftex not found.
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `xetex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain -progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain -progname=pdfcsplain -etex -enc csplain-utf8.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luatex -ini   -jobname=pdfcsplain -progname=pdfcsplain -etex csplain.ini </dev/null' return status 1
fmtutil [ERROR]: return error due to options --strict
error: command failed to execute correctly
(3/3) Updating TeXLive font maps...
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Remove “cinepaint” package since it’s unmaintained and unsupportable. Also, it doesn’t contains any file format support in the latest version (previous version supported multiple file formats).

I suggest use Krita (or Gimp 2.10) to edit 16bit and 32bit file formats or convert with imagemagick/graphicsmagick.

$ pacman -Si cinepaint
Repository      : community
Name            : cinepaint
Version         : 1:1.0.4-5
Description     : Sophisticated graphics manipulation programm supporting > 8bit pictures
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.cinepaint.org
Licenses        : LGPL  GPL  MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk2  openexr  lcms  libxpm  fltk  ftgl  libxxf86vm
Optional Deps   : python2: for python plug-ins
                  gutenprint: for print plug-ins
                  ghostscript: for pdf plug-ins
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 3.75 MiB
Installed Size  : 13.91 MiB
Packager        : Christian Hesse <arch@eworm.de>
Build Date      : Thu 28 Apr 2016 05:17:05 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

I do not know how to solve this. Some of packages is causing this problem. I do not know which one.

Description:

(4/4) Updating the MIME type database...
Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-alchemy’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cache’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cactvs-ascii’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cactvs-binary’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cactvs-table’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cdx’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cdxml’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-chem3d’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cif’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-cml’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-daylight-smiles’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-dmol’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-gamess-input’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-gamess-output’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-gaussian-input’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-gaussian-log’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-genbank’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-gulp’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-hin’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-inchi’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-inchi-xml’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-jcamp-dx’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-macromodel-input’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mdl-molfile’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mdl-rdfile’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mdl-rxnfile’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mdl-sdfile’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mdl-tgf’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mmcif’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mol2’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mopac-graph’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mopac-input’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-mopac-out’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-msi-car’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-msi-hessian’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-msi-mdf’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-msi-msi’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-ncbi-asn1’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-binary’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-ncbi-asn1-xml’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-pdb’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-shelx’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-vmd’ Unknown media type in type ‘chemical/x-xyz’ Unknown media type in type ‘all/all’ Unknown media type in type ‘all/allfiles’

Add Hyperbola branding to HyperTask such as HyperWiki and HyperForum for prolixity reasons.

Develop HyperBK (Hyper Berkeley Kernel), a BSD descendant kernel with GPL-compatible licenses preserved, non-compatible ones removed, and new code written under GPL-3 for HyperbolaBSD.

TODO:

• Download OpenBSD kernel source code from OpenBSD site → DONE

• Download LibertyBSD scripts to deblob and rebrand kernel from their scripts. → DONE

• Create a new project in Hyperbola Git called hyperbk. → DONE

• Push source to HyperBK’s project. → DONE

• Rebrand OpenBSD kernel to HyperbolaBSD with LibertyBSD scripts. → DONE

• Rebrand entire code (functions, variable, pointers, etc) under HyperbolaBSD → DONE

• Remove files under non GPL-compatible licenses → DONE

• Import code from another BSD systems under GPL-compatible licenses → IN PROGRESS

• Remove remaining nonfree files don't found from LibertyBSD scripts → IN PROGRESS

• Write new code under GPL-3 → IN PROGRESS

• Package HyperBK for HyperbolaBSD.

PATCHING NOTE

When the check concerns kernel, we obviously want to match with HyperbolaBSD.

Example of triplet check:	hyperbolabsd)
Example of uname -s check:	HyperbolaBSD)
Example of uname -r check:	0.1)
Example of C macro check:	defined(__HyperbolaBSD__)

Description:

• The Arch version of Sage-notebook from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required. OpenRC init script replacement isn’t possible here because Sage-notebook is using a systemd unit file adapted for users instead of system users.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : sage-notebook
Version         : 0.13-4
Description     : Browser-based notebook interface for SageMath
Architecture    : any
URL             : http://www.sagemath.org
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : sagemath  python2-twisted  python2-flask-oldsessions  python2-flask-openid  python2-flask-autoindex  python2-flask-babel  mathjax
Optional Deps   : python2-pyopenssl: to use the notebook in secure mode
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 1625.00 KiB
Installed Size  : 9154.00 KiB
Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 04 May 2017 06:12:28 PM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/user/sage.service is owned by sage-notebook 0.13-4

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Avahi is a zero-configuration networking implementation that contains critical security issues because mDNS operates under a different trust model than unicast DNS trusting the entire network rather than a designated DNS server, it is vulnerable to spoofing attacks by any system within the multicast IP range. Like SNMP and many other network management protocols, it can also be used by attackers to quickly gain detailed knowledge of the network and its machines. [0]

Since it violates the Hyperbola Social Contract , Avahi should be blacklisted.

Description:

• replace deprecated GNU Bazaar to Brezy for Canis Major

Additional info:

• bzr 2.7.0-2
• GNU Bazaar will be unmaintained (for now, there are only bug fixes)
• GNU Bazaar only supports Python 2.
• Python 2.7 is the end of the Python 2 line of development. [0]
• There never will be an official Python 2.8 release.
• Or use Tauthon (fork of Python 2.7) as dependency.

Note: It needs a provide: bazaar and brezy

Steps to reproduce:

• broken package

Description:

• replace deprecated Python 2 to Tauthon for Canis Major

Additional info:

• python 2.7.14-2.hyperbola1
• Python 2.7 is the end of the Python 2 line of development. [0]
• There never will be an official Python 2.8 release.

Steps to reproduce:

• Broken python2 packages.

The unfortunate reality is that x86 computers come encumbered with built-in low-level backdoors like the Intel Management Engine , as well as nonfree boot firmware. This means that users can’t gain full control over their computers, even if they install a free operating system such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hyperbola is working hard to fix these issues and getting closer every day, but for the time being, this is why many current Respects Your Freedom (RYF) offerings are refurbished older devices.

For the future of free computing, we need support architectures that do not come with such malware pre-installed, and the Power9-based Talos II promises to be a great architecture example for workstations and servers environments where Hyperbola is focused since is a fully free long-term support distribution.

Devices like this are the future of computing that Respects Your Freedom and for that reason it’s a high priority for Hyperbola port all packages for the POWER architecture (power64le).

NOTE: POWER porting is focused only for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

The unfortunate reality is that x86 computers come encumbered with built-in low-level backdoors like the Intel Management Engine , as well as nonfree boot firmware. This means that users can’t gain full control over their computers, even if they install a free operating system such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hyperbola is working hard to fix these issues and getting closer every day, but for the time being, this is why many current Respects Your Freedom (RYF) offerings are refurbished older devices.

For the future of free computing, we need support architectures that do not come with such malware pre-installed, and ARM A7/A53 promises to be a great architecture example for low-power computers, laptops and embedded systems.

NOTE: ARM porting is focused only for HyperbolaBSD .

The unfortunate reality is that x86 computers come encumbered with built-in low-level backdoors like the Intel Management Engine , as well as nonfree boot firmware. This means that users can’t gain full control over their computers, even if they install a free operating system such as Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hyperbola is working hard to fix these issues and getting closer every day, but for the time being, this is why many current Respects Your Freedom (RYF) offerings are refurbished older devices.

For the future of free computing, we need support architectures that do not come with such malware pre-installed, and RISC-V promises to be a great architecture example for low-power computers, laptops and embedded systems, also as ARM architecture replacement.

Devices like this are the future of computing that Respects Your Freedom and for that reason it’s a high priority for Hyperbola port all packages for the RISC-V architecture (riscv64) with multilib support.

NOTE: RISC-V porting is focused only for Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre .

Hello,

I’m unable to print some pdfs on my Hyperbola 3.0 system.
Some background :

cups is installed, service enabled and working
system-config-printer is installed and my printer has been correctly added.

I can print most pdfs and text files but recently with a pdf, it fails to print it.* And system-config-printer returned the following error (see capture) :

Printer "EPSON XP-620-Series" requires the '/usr/lib/cups/filters/epson-escpr-wrapper' but it is not currently installed.

Currently, “epson-escpr-wrapper” is installed but it is in :

/usr/libexec/cups/filters/epson-escpr-wrapper

Looking at source code of system-config-printer, it expects that wrapper to be installed in “/usr/lib/” so I tried to symlink that “epson-escpr-wrapper” to “/usr/lib/cups/filters” but it doesn’t work..

*With a Debian system and the exact same configuration, the “problematic” pdf prints just fine so it is not an issue with the pdf.

About that distro, Elementary OS is semi-libre/free, Ubuntu based, long term support, but does not comply with the GNU Free System Distributibution Guidelines (FSDG). To either rebrand or remove existing non-FSDG compliant distro icon files.

The following affected files are present in this list:

• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/16/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/24/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/32/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/48/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/64/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/128/distributor-logo.svg
• /usr/share/icons/elementary/places/symbolic/distributor-logo-symbolic.svg

I’m writing here about the package Conky. It is the useful widget of system monitor into your desktop, but there are some serious issues:

Config variables

• distribution outputs the string “Arch Linux” instead of “Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre”.
• eve requires users to use API for non-libre/free video game EVE Online, and should be removed.
• All Beep Media Player (BMPx) related variables (including bmpx_album, bmpx_artist, bmpx_bitrate, bmpx_title, bmpx_track and bmpx_uri) are obselete and useless, and should be removed because the package BMPx isn’t present on Arch and Hyperbola official repositories but Arch User Repository (AUR).
• [For Milky Way version 0.4.x only] All PulseAudio related variables (including if_pa_sink_muted, pa_sink_volume, pa_sink_volumebar, pa_sink_description, pa_card_name and pa_card_active_profile) are no longer used, and should be removed due replaced the default audio server with sndio.

Manual

• Contains non-FDSG compliant distros.
• Contains vague terminology.
• Requires users to use API for non-libre/free weather network service(s) (including The Weather Channel).

osdbattery is (probably) useless and broken so Conky did compete because It is still unmaintained and unsupported over 14 years ago (last released version 1.4 on August 23, 2005), and should be removed per anti-abandonware rule at the packaging guidelines.

Also, the default config file contains non-libre/free Microsoft font Verdana as X11 font format property in font variable.

I know that upgrading Qt is not a trivial task, but would it be possible to do this anyway? Qt 5.8 has issues that other versions do not have. See for example the discussion here about Projecteur, a very useful tool. Hyperbola seems to be the only Linux distribution unable to run it, just because of Qt 5.8:

https://github.com/jahnf/Projecteur/issues/26

In generate_jsimd_ycc_rgb_convert_neon of jsimd_arm64_neon.S, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to remote code execution in an unprivileged process with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-2201

Patch: https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues/388

The current version of BleachBit needs to be adapted so it can clean the new .cache/hyperbola/ directory.

https://ostif.org/our-audit-of-unbound-dns-by-x41-d-sec-full-results/

[Critical] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18934

smartmontools 6.5-1.hyperbola1

Error while trying to update smart-drivedb :

anon@test[~] update-smart-drivedb

External Link/usr/bin/update-smart-drivedb: download from branches/RELEASE_6_5_DRIVEDB failed (curl: exit 23) /usr/bin/update-smart-drivedb: download from trunk failed (curl: exit 23)

These two options could be enabled :

Kernel hacking → [*] Filter access to /dev/mem
[*] Filter I/O access to /dev/mem

Security options → [*] Restrict unprivileged access to the kernel syslog

Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0×50800) with this library (version 0×50904)
Aborted

./Nextcloud-2.3.3-x86_64.AppImage: /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5: version `Qt_5.9’ not found (required by /tmp/.mount_NextclpprMnG/usr/bin/../lib/libqt5keychain.so.1

These two packages are directly affected by an older qt5...

Could you update all the qt packages to the LTS version available?

The Knock patches for linux-libre maintained by you at https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/kernels/knock.git/ have support up to linux-libre 4.13 only (and I think it didn’t work for it when I tried it, compilation failed) but from all of those supported versions, the newest maintained generation by the upstream is 4.9.x

However, since newer kernel generations might require reprogramming the patch, I want to request it only for the latest LTS generation which is 4.14. As you know, LTS software are supported for a long time, so it’s worth to make it for linux-libre 4.14.x

This might not be really important for Hyperbola in the short term, but you are the maintainers of the TCP Stealth implementation for Linux-libre and I and maybe other people would like to use it in their projects for newer versions.

Plus, it would be great since while 4.9 kernels can use the GRSec+Knock combination like linux-libre-lts-unofficial-grsec-knock, with support for 4.14 anyone would be able to use a combination of newer patches such as Linux-hardened+Knock (Linux-hardened supports 4.14 and 4.15 as of now) which is what I’d like to do.
https://github.com/copperhead/linux-hardened/releases

Description:

I have tried all combinations, but despite “noauto” specified in /etc/fstab all devices get mounted at boot.

Who can help me, not to mount a device during boot?

Description:

glom cannot run without libgda, so it should depend on libgda package

Description:

• The Arch version of Erlang (headless version) from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : erlang-nox
Version         : 19.3-3
Description     : General-purpose concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson (headless version)
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.erlang.org/
Licenses        : Apache
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : ncurses  openssl
Optional Deps   : erlang-unixodbc: database support
                  java-environment: for Java support
                  lksctp-tools: for SCTP support
Conflicts With  : erlang
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 39.01 MiB
Installed Size  : 106.73 MiB
Packager        : Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Fri 28 Apr 2017 08:44:33 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/epmd.service is owned by erlang-nox 19.3-3
/usr/lib/systemd/system/epmd.socket is owned by erlang-nox 19.3-3

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Description:

• The Arch version of Motion from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : motion
Version         : 4.0.1-2
Description     : A software motion detector which grabs images from video4linux devices and/or from webcams
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libjpeg  v4l-utils  ffmpeg
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 235.61 KiB
Installed Size  : 923.00 KiB
Packager        : Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s+arch@gmail.com>
Build Date      : Mon 14 Nov 2016 02:17:55 PM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/motion.service is owned by motion 4.0.1-2

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

Description:

• The Arch version of tinc from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repository      : community
Name            : tinc
Version         : 1.0.31-2
Description     : VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://www.tinc-vpn.org/
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : lzo  openssl  zlib
Optional Deps   : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 107.42 KiB
Installed Size  : 194.00 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date      : Mon 13 Mar 2017 01:06:11 AM -03
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinc.service is owned by tinc 1.0.31-2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinc@.service is owned by tinc 1.0.31-2

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package.

/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts has 0 entries, resulting in ssl handshake errors in java applications.

Package versions:
* ca-certificates 20170307-1
* ca-certificates-utils 20170307-1

The wiki pages look really too narrow and not readable on even half a screen of the laptop.

Description:

The Arch version of tinc from the snapshot used by Hyperbola comes with systemd support. Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign , systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.

Repositorio               : community
Nombre                    : netdata
Versión                   : 1.6.0-3
Descripción               : Real-time performance monitoring, in the greatest possible detail, over the web.
Arquitectura              : x86_64
URL                       : https://github.com/firehol/netdata/wiki
Licencias                 : GPL
Grupos                    : Nada
Provee                    : Nada
Depende de                : libmnl  libnetfilter_acct  zlib
Dependencias opcionales   : nodejs: Webbox plugin
                            lm_sensors: sensors module
En conflicto con          : Nada
Remplaza a                : Nada
Tamaño de la descarga     : 1778,98 KiB
Tamaño de la instalación  : 6515,00 KiB
Encargado                 : Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@lutzhaase.com>
Fecha de creación         : dom 23 abr 2017 16:24:38 -05
Validado por              : Suma MD5  Suma SHA-256  Firma

community/netdata	/usr/lib/systemd/
community/netdata	/usr/lib/systemd/system/
community/netdata	/usr/lib/systemd/system/netdata.service

Steps to reproduce:

• Install package

Description:

Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign, systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

community/backuppc 4.1.2-1 [installed]

   Enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, Windows and MacOS PCs

* config and/or log files etc.

Additional info:

Steps to reproduce: install it

Since Hyperbola follows the Init Freedom Campaign, systemd unit files removal is required or add OpenRC init scripts to replace it.

Additional info:
* package version(s)

extra/gpsd 3.16-3 [installed]

   GPS daemon and library to support USB/serial GPS devices

* config and/or log files etc.

Additional info:

Steps to reproduce: install it

There appears to be a bug with the current version of ufw, 0.35-2

Dunno if updating it would fix it, but it is kind of annoying and possibly security issue.

it says ufw is inactive when I reboot despite it being installed in the runlevel.

Description:

https://proj4.org/index.html

This package have valuable geodetic applications, and I intend to present Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre soon in universities and schools in East Africa.

The coordinate system there is not WGS84 and this package only in new version is providing the conversion from East African geographic coordinates to WGS84, and will be very usable in many industrial and private applications.

Description:

Hiawatha contains only systemd files.

It shall be removed and openrc shall be provided

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd files

Additional info:

• dovecot 2.2.29.1-1

dovecot /usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.service
dovecot /usr/lib/systemd/system/dovecot.socket
dovecot /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/dovecot.conf

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script

Additional info:

• onioncat 0.2.2.r578-1

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd file

Additional info:

• umurmur 0.2.16_a-6

umurmur /usr/lib/systemd/system/umurmur.service

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd files

Additional info:

• prosody 1:0.10.r7198+.2fd20f372cb1+-2

prosody /usr/lib/systemd/system/prosody.service
prosody /usr/lib/sysusers.d/prosody.conf
prosody /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/prosody.conf

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd files

Additional info:

• unrealircd 4.0.11-2

unrealircd /usr/lib/systemd/system/unrealircd.service
unrealircd /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/unrealircd.conf

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script and contains systemd file

Additional info:

• mcelog 1:148-1

mcelog /usr/lib/systemd/system/mcelog.service

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init script (bzr serve), like [git] (git-daemon) and [subversion] (svnserve)

Additional info:

• bzr 2.7.0-2

Note: needs a provide: bazaar

Steps to reproduce:

• none

Description:

• needs OpenRC init scripts (hg serve and chg server), like [git] (git-daemon) and [subversion] (svnserve)

Additional info:

• mercurial 4.2-1

Note: needs a provide: hg

Steps to reproduce:

• none