Well, wasn't expecting this...

I rebooted my laptop, and it keeps booting to the grub shell.

I was going to arch-chroot into it and update grub, and rebuild intarimfs, however, I guess I don't know how to with BTRFS subvolumes that are LUKS encrypted.

I would appreciate any help, and am willing to learn.

I could even jump on a call of some kind if anyone has time to help...

Arch

BTRFS encrypted with LUKS (No LVM)

GRUB

I live booted into the live usb

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 arch
mount /dev/mapper/arch /mnt
arch-chroot /mnt

Output:

mount: /mnt/proc: mount point does not exist
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
=> ERROR: failed to setup chroot /mnt

So I browsed /mnt and it lists subvolumes. However, I am not sure how to go about arch-chrooting into this.

Hello everyone,

Back again with more questions maybe you all could help with.

So currently I am running Arch with BTRFS, and for a few specific programs that aren't all that graphically intensive (Specifically Line 6 applications for my Helix and PowerAmp) and the Windows VM I am running through QEMU is using qcow2 for the disk. I do have another Gen 4 NVME that is unused in my system I could use for the VM itself.

How much of a performance gain would I notice using a separate NVME for my Windows VM over qcow2?

So not sure where else to ask, maybe someone here knows?

I am using Heroic Launcher to play Control which I own through GOG.

There are a few mods I wanted to add to the game:

• Loose Files Loader
• No Intro Screen
• Better Physx
• Better Character Illumination

The first mod is a requirement for the next 3.

So the first mod for Windows I would need to add the DLL to where the game is installed. This is where I run into issues. I did that, put the DLL in the games install directory, however it is not loading the DLL.

I investigated using Winetricks GUI from Heroic Launcher to see if there was a way to add a DLL and register it. However, it doesn't give me an option to install a custom DLL.

All of my searching has not lead me to see how I could register the DLL for my Control Prefix.

I could be going about this all wrong, so if anyone has any tips or suggestions I would very much appreciate it.

Thank you!

So I switched to Arch full time last month, and that got me thinking: How do I update the firmware of my devices?

I know about fwupd, however from my understanding not all vendors support linux.

In this case, I have an Asus motherboard, and after brief searching I seemed to come across results that would point that Asus isn't one of the manufacturers who support firmware updates from linux.

That being said, how do you all update your firmware if you know the vendor doesn't support linux?

I can't imagine that I could update the firmware from QEMU, and nor do I want to try. I don't want to have windows installed on my system at all. So then I thought, can I go about this via Windows to Go? And that is the solution I am going to investigate trying...

Hello Selfhosted peeps!

So I just got Traefik v3 setup inside my docker environment, and successfully got SSL certs for my services hosted within docker. However, I have an external device hosting PiHole and Wireguard-UI. I am looking to use the docker instance of Traefik v3 to obtain SSL certs for the internal use only for PiHole and Wireguard-UI.

I am still new to Traefik, and have no idea if this is possible, or how I would go about doing this.

Any tips, suggestions, links to documentation; I am all ears.

Video

Notes for above video

These 2 resources I utilized to help further my understanding.

Thank you

Hi all!

So I want to get back into self hosting, but every time I have stopped is because I have lack of documentation to fix things that break. So I pose a question, how do you all go about keeping your setup documented? What programs do you use?

I have leaning towards open source software, so things like OneNote, or anything Microsoft are out of the question.

Edit: I didn't want to add another post and annoy people, but had another inquiry:

What ReverseProxy do you use? I plan to run a bunch of services from docker, and would like to be able to reserve an IP:Port to something like service.mylocaldomain.lan

I already have Unbound setup on my PiHole, so I have the ability to set DNS records internally.

Bonus points if whatever ReverseProxy setup can accomplish SSL cert automation.

                 -`                     hellmo@archie
                 .o+`                    -------------
                `ooo/                    OS: Arch Linux x86_64
               `+oooo:                   Host: INTEL
              `+oooooo:                  Kernel: Linux 6.9.7-zen1-1-zen
              -+oooooo+:                 Uptime: 7 mins
            `/:-:++oooo+:                Packages: 1169 (pacman)
           `/++++/+++++++:               Shell: bash 5.2.26
          `/++++++++++++++:              Display (ASUS PB278): 2560x1440 @ 60Hz
         `/+++ooooooooooooo/`            Display (ASUS VG32V): 2560x1440 @ 144Hz
        ./ooosssso++osssssso+`           DE: KDE Plasma 6.1.1
       .oossssso-````/ossssss+`          WM: KWin (Wayland)
      -osssssso.      :ssssssso.         WM Theme: Breeze
     :osssssss/        osssso+++.        Theme: Breeze (Dark) [QT], Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3]
    /ossssssss/        +ssssooo/-        Icons: candy-icons [QT], candy-icons [GTK2/3/4]
  `/ossssso+/:-        -:/+osssso+-      Font: Noto Sans (10pt) [QT], Noto Sans (10pt) [GTK2/3/4]
 `+sso+:-`                 `.-/+oso:     Cursor: breeze (24px)
`++:.                           `-/+/    Terminal: yakuake 24.05.1
.`                                 `/    CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz
                                         GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete]
                                         Memory: 3.43 GiB / 62.60 GiB (5%)
                                         Swap: 0 B / 4.00 GiB (0%)
                                         Disk (/): 151.91 GiB / 1.82 TiB (8%) - btrfs
                                         Local IP (enp7s0): x.x.x.x/x *
                                         Locale: en_US.UTF-8

I am having some issues with my Arch install:

  UNIT                LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION              
● grub-btrfsd.service loaded failed failed Regenerate grub-btrfs.cfg

Legend: LOAD   → Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
        ACTIVE → The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
        SUB    → The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.

1 loaded units listed.

I have already tried:

sudo systemctl restart grub-btrfsd.service

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Does anyone have any suggestions? I am failing to understand how to resolve this issue... Any help would be wonderful...

Not a stranger to using linux, but never bothered with keeping things synchronized between devices.

I have a laptop, and a desktop both running Arch (I use Arch BTW) and wanted to investigate the best way to synchronize things from device to device. Just to outline some details, both are running KDE on Wayland, both BTRFS, as well as a number of other similarities such as username.

I want to be able to synchronize certain config files, Documents and Files, and was going to go the Syncthing route.

What are you doing, or what would you recommend to setup in order to have parity between two devices?

So, I finally ditched Windows... All except for my need for a VM to use some hardware that aren't supported in Windows.

I setup a Virtual Machine with Virt-Manager for a Windows VM but the network traffic is being blocked by UFW. If I disable UFW the Windows VM can pull an IP, which is static as is, and even after turning UFW back on, the network traffic is still allowed.

I am in need of some help with networking for the VM.

<interface type="network">
  <mac address="52:54:00:d7:8f:48"/>
  <source network="default" portid="d7ff3b1f-2c9b-4a62-b9e0-180855f14de7" bridge="virbr0"/>
  <target dev="vnet2"/>
  <model type="e1000e"/>
  <link state="up"/>
  <alias name="net0"/>
  <address type="pci" domain="0x0000" bus="0x01" slot="0x00" function="0x0"/>
</interface>

This is the networking setup within Virt-Manager.

Any advice for getting network access on the VM?

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35034629

I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay.

Upon opening Goverlay it gives a black box and has issues closing without forcing it shutdown.

https://ibb.co/pnzKZdd

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] Memory: 4.09 GiB / 62.60 GiB (7%)

I have tried uninstalling both Goverlay and Mangohud

I have also removed .conf files from: ~/.config/MangoHud /usr/share/doc/mangohud

Is there more that I need to do to clean uninstall and reinstall?

Any help would be appreciated

I am having issues with Mangohud and Goverlay.

Upon opening Goverlay it gives a black box and has issues closing without forcing it shutdown.

https://ibb.co/pnzKZdd

OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5 WM: KWin (Wayland) CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete] Memory: 4.09 GiB / 62.60 GiB (7%)

I have tried uninstalling both Goverlay and Mangohud

I have also removed .conf files from: ~/.config/MangoHud /usr/share/doc/mangohud

Is there more that I need to do to clean uninstall and reinstall?

Any help would be appreciated

Having issues with the display when waking up resolution and position is reverting on one of the monitors.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.9.5-zen1-1-zen

DE: KDE Plasma 6.0.5

WM: KWin (Wayland)

CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12700KF (20) @ 5.00 GHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 [Discrete]

Unsure of how to go about this. I am using Display Port (unsure of what version but it supports sound too.) Not sure where to look for logs, or what exactly could be the culprit.

Any suggestions?