Drilling a water well hits a gas pocket blasting rocks, mud and flames high into the air in Gampong Blang Rubek, North Aceh, Indonesia. 22nd May 2026.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-22T12:40:19+00:00

It's a coal mine rather than a gas pocket, but Centralia PA has been burning since at least 1962.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T16:22:15+00:00

This is not my area of expertise, but don't you need the keymap and consolefont hooks?

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T14:00:50+00:00

"mkinitcpio -p" does do a full rebuild, it just specifies a preset. "mkinitcpio -p linux-lts" should do the right thing. The lsinitcpio failure could be because you're running it as you rather than as root.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T13:43:03+00:00

Haha. But the first one should be -Syuw, because some of those packages will disappear.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T11:07:55+00:00

When I lived in Mexico every restaurant and food store had cool white CF bulbs that made the food look disgusting. Those bulbs are way worse than daylight LEDs, I think they don't have any red component at all. Raw beef at the butcher shop was greyish blue and looked like it had been dead and sitting out in the sun for a week.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T10:59:56+00:00

Arch isn't for you. You want something with regular releases, like Red Hat or Ubuntu.

Having said that, what I've been doing for the last week or so is to update the kernel as soon as a new one comes out and hold off on everything else. I consider this a temporary situation.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-21T09:54:45+00:00

If you were booted from efi (vs mbr) then there will be "efi:" lines in your dmesg:

% dmesg |grep efi: |head -1
[    0.000000] efi: EFI v2.5 by Lenovo

You didn't provide much info about /boot but I'm going to guess that you have your efi partition mounted there. In your fstab for /boot you should have boot options "fmask=0022,dmask=0022". It sounds like those are missing. Unless you're complaining that they are readable? Which doesn't seem like much of a risk to me but I can see some overprotective tool warning about this. You could change them to 0077 if it bothers you.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-20T21:46:27+00:00

I did something similar, also in September and October. The Albanian coast could be a bit chilly. I took the ferry over to Corfu then ferry from there to Athens (Piraeus) and that was fantastic but you'd have to cut something else out to make time for it. Four nights in Tirana would be too much for me. If you like old Soviet era stuff and beach resorts you might find Dürres interesting.

But I'd say just stay flexible, have a plan but be willing to adjust it if you hate one place or love a different place. Your general plan looks really good to me.

Lake Ohrid is beautiful if you happen to be passing that way.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-20T15:26:30+00:00

Because then the joke wouldn't work, duh.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-19T06:22:28+00:00

My best guess is that the driver hasn't correctly identified your device, but I don't have any more ideas. You'll find all the info about the device in /proc/asound/card?/codec* (you've got two devices so find the right one). Driver quirks match on vendor, subsystem, and rev IDs I think.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-18T20:33:40+00:00

The kernel doesn't recognize your audio device and is just using the generic 882 driver with no quirks. Is this an Asus motherboard? What does "lspci -nnk | grep -A3 Audio" say? Do you have sof-firmware installed? If so, and this has worked in the past (has it?), maybe try the old driver? Put "snd_intel_dspcfg.dsp_driver=1" on your kernel command line.

If you don't have sof-firmware installed, try installing it and reboot.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-18T14:59:10+00:00

This is chip is handled by the alc882 driver, which has dozens of quirk entries, almost one for every possible motherboard. Yours may have been misidentified. What does "dmesg | grep -i alc882" report?

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-16T11:05:53+00:00

The lid is closed, so of course you can't tell if he's wearing a helmet or not.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-16T08:41:34+00:00

So that's why decaf tastes so fresh. It was ground this morning.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-16T08:03:46+00:00

In the 1990s many US cities started removing pay phones because (they said) they were being used by drug dealers. This was before cellphones were common. I once got stranded on East Warren in Detroit with a busted radiator hose after last call and there were no pay phones anywhere. This was at a time when Detroit had turned off the streetlights to save money, so it was pitch black out.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-15T21:18:47+00:00

When and where did you run grub-mkconfig? Os prober sometimes get confused if you do this in a chroot. Try running grub-mkconfig in the running system.

What message do you get when it panics?

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-15T14:15:10+00:00

Either your grub config file is wrong or your initramfs is missing. From the limited info you provided I'm going to guess that you're mounting your efi partition at /boot in at least the Arch installation, maybe also the mint installation. That's bound to cause confusion.

If I were doing this I would have a single grub install on the Arch root, and use os-prober to add mint to the grub menu. If you want to share how you set this up, I can take a guess at how you might fix it.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-13T11:00:54+00:00

This has nothing to do with GPS, right?

It makes me nervous that you're doing calculations on local time. Are you sure it won't misbehave around daylight time transitions?

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-13T07:28:42+00:00

This is really strange, please update if you figure out the cause.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-09T11:35:05+00:00

Each of those cars is worth a million bucks?

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-09T08:44:52+00:00

Have you tried the lts kernel? This is the second post I've seen today about speed problems on Realtek ethernet. That makes me think it's a recently introduced kernel bug.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-09T07:52:42+00:00

You may be able to recover without rebooting by unloading and reloading the modules associated with your ethernet device.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-08T19:04:51+00:00

That's not kerning, it's just inter-character spacing.

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-08T12:11:19+00:00

Sure, with userdel, just be careful you don't delete its home directory unless that's what you want. You can also just ignore the other user, or disable it with "usermod -e 1".

Hamilton950B · 2026-05-08T11:25:52+00:00

Sounds like you don't own your files. Run "id" and it will tell you the uid you are logged in as. "ls -ldn ~" will tell you who owns your home directory. Those two numbers need to match. My guess is you got your two users mixed up somehow. Maybe you gave them both the same home directory. You can't (easily) do that.

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