I am continuing to set up my home server on FreeBSD 14.3, which is intended to serve as a NAS. In the previous post, FreeBSD: introduction to Packet Filter (PF) firewall, we got acquainted with firewalls; the next step is to configure a VPN for access. The main idea is to (finally!) connect my “office”… Read More »
In the previous part – Arch Linux: installation in 2025 – disks, encryption, system installation – we installed the system itself, now we’ve gotten around to the working environment. Let’s go through the general settings of Arch Linux (more precisely, any Linux), then talk about the choice of Desktop Environments, and actually install and configure… Read More »
Even though the changes were announced in emails from Arch Linux, for some reason, many people have had problems with the latest update: in the Arch Linux subreddits on Reddit, people are complaining like “Everything is broken, what should I do now?” Let’s see how to complete the upgrade and what exactly has changed. The… Read More »
Every time I start installing Arch Linux, it’s like a new journey: it seems like nothing much has changed over the years, but every time something new happens. I’ve written about this a lot, and it’s time to write about it again because I bought a new laptop. At first, I was too lazy to… Read More »
It’s not often, but sometimes I need to boot the system from a USB and rebuild initramfs-linux.img. This post is more of a quick note to myself on how, what, and where to mount on my laptop to run mkinitcpio, as I have LVM partitions, separate disk partitions for /boot, and swap. iwctl and WiFi… Read More »
After the latest Arch Linux upgrade, Yay reported the following error: yay: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory First, let’s check if we have the libalpm library file, and which version: $ sudo find / -type f -name “*.so*” | grep libalpm /usr/lib/libalpm.so.14.0.0 So, we… Read More »
I updated my Arch Linux yesterday, and for the first time in 9 years of using this system, I encountered an error when after a reboot the system could not mount a disk: ERROR: device UUID not found. mount: /new_root: can’t find UUID. ERROR: Failed to mount UUID on real root. You are now being… Read More »
During system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I got internet disruption, and on the next upgrade I got the error from pacman. It sounds like “HTTP server doesn’t seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume“: [simterm] … ==> Retrieving sources… -> Downloading clightd-5.6.tar.gz… ** Resuming transfer from byte position 12288 % Total % Received % Xferd… Read More »
I have Slack desktop running on Arch Linux. It was installed from AUR and usually works fine. But today after rebooting my laptop Slack won’t start again sying it has the ‘appTeams’ property error: [simterm] $ slack Initializing local storage instance at path: /home/setevoy/.config/Slack/local-settings.json Failed to get path for key, this may be expected: /home/setevoy/.config/autostart… Read More »
A really nice Android phone and a Linux OS integration. Besides the KDE Connect, you can use gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect if you’d prefer the Gnome project. In this post, we will set up KDE COnnect between an Android HTC phone and Arch Linux. On Android install the KDE Connect from the Play Market. On Linux, install from… Read More »