[SOLVED] git error while trying to clone during post-installation | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:22 PM

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git clone https://github.com/MentalOutlaw/dwm

cloning into dwm ...
remote: Enumerating objects: 65, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (23/23), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
error: unable to get random bytes for temporary file: No such file or directory
error: unable to get random bytes for temporary file: No such file or directory
error: unable to create temporary files: No such file or direcotry
fatal: failed to write object
fatal: unpack-objects failed

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:40 PM

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did you try the suggestion I provided?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:42 PM

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oh no, i just literally booted back here ill let you know if it helped:

git with TMPDIR="/tmp/" git <args>

what do you want me to put in args?

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:42 PM

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clone the same repo you tried to clone

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:42 PM

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git TMPDIR="/tmp/" git clone https://github.com/MentalOutlaw/dwm

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?

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:42 PM

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yes

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if that fixes it, you need to edit your bash profile with an exported tmpdir

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did you migrate your home folder from an existing linux install?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:43 PM

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no no

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it is completely fresh new

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:44 PM

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weird, shouldn't happen with a fresh install at all

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are you trying to use git on a livecd?

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err, usb I guess these days 😆

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:44 PM

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no i im past the usb/dvd point

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got xorg-server and xorg-xinit

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:44 PM

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you are booted into the system though, right?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:45 PM

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yeah

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i mean im still in tty1

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via grub

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 8:45 PM

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then I have no idea why git doesn't have a functional tmpdir

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just try that command

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 8:45 PM

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k

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git: 'TMPDIR=/tmp/' is not a git command.

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Replaced git with env even same output

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@sick tulip no effect

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Tried cloning my repo:
Fatal: could not read Username for 'https://github.com': No such file or directory

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:05 PM

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brittle hazel git: 'TMPDIR=/tmp/' is not a git command.

just run:

export TMPDIR="/tmp/"

before running the git command

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to make sure it's not that

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otherwise I will assume it is a configuration issue

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:06 PM

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Same thing

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Im in chroot if this makes a difference

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Maybe I should recreate the temp file

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Or dir

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:07 PM

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file?

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no

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don't touch it

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it needs certain permissions

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what is the output of cat ~/.gitconfig

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:08 PM

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Protocol
version=1
User
Name=jirafey
Email=(myemail)

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:09 PM

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version=1?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:09 PM

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I added that after the issue

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:09 PM

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wait, is that the literal syntax?

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it should be [user] with key/value assignments afterwards

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:10 PM

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[protocol]
version = 1
[user]
name = jirafey
email = myemail@xxx.com

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I can delete the protoocl part but it wont fix the problem

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:11 PM

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you should get rid of it regardless

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I don't know why you have that

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:12 PM

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sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:13 PM

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oh, it is the chroot then

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:13 PM

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Idk I didnt see anyone in tutorials with the same issue

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Yeah chroot

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:13 PM

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yeah no it just dawned on me, the error message is just really badly written

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written as "unable to get random bytes for temporary file: %s" where %s is strerror 😆

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makes it look like the error relates to the temporary file creation, but it's actually access to the random block devices!

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:15 PM

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Oh...

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:15 PM

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and inside of the chroot the random block devices do not work

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:16 PM

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What does it mean tho

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Can I still fix it

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:16 PM

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git needs access to random numbers for some tasks, probably cryptography related. You can bind the host's random block device with chroot, but I don't think the arch-chroot script exposes that option.

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:17 PM

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Bind? You mean like /proc ? /sys ?

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:17 PM

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programs in linux obtain "true" random numbers via a block device file, like /dev/random

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:17 PM

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Oh

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:18 PM

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I assume in the chroot, those block devices do not exist

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since /dev is populated by the kernel

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:19 PM

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I can mount them /mnt/dev and bind it or idk

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Ibhave no idea what this is about

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:19 PM

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well to change the way binds work you need to edit arch-chroot.

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why are you in a chroot anyways?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:20 PM

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Isnt it where I should do the changes so they are present in the installed system?

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sudo chroot /mnt

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:20 PM

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yes, arch-chroot is what you use from the live installation medium to sort of "act" as the host system

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:21 PM

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Arch-chroot vs chroot?

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:21 PM

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but given you are trying to clone a window manager, I presume you already have a bootloader installed. Once you've booted into the system you don't need chroot anymore.

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:21 PM

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Omg

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:21 PM

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brittle hazel Arch-chroot vs chroot?

arch-chroot is just a script that uses chroot, it sets up a bunch of useful stuff for you

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:21 PM

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So I don't need to use chroot now then?

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HishironWhat

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:22 PM

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if you aren't booting from a live arch medium, yes

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:22 PM

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Im booting from bootloader

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Selecting arch linux

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:22 PM

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ugh

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do you have the usb plugged in when you do that

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:22 PM

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No

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:22 PM

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then that is literally already installed

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:23 PM

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Yeah ok thx for claryfing

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:23 PM

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what are you even chrooting into anyways 😆

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because to "chroot" into something you need some sort of other filesystem to chroot into

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were you chrooting into /? like that does nothing

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:24 PM

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Into /mnt

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So this may be the sole issue of git

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:24 PM

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okay leave the chroot for a second

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just get out of all containers

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and then show me the output of ls /mnt

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because if there is a filesystem mounted to /mnt then what even is that filesystem? Did you mount the same drive you booted from? Because in that case, it's effectively a hardlink to / 😆

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in which case the whole chroot process was pointless

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that being said, you did actually uncover a pretty interesting oddity from arch-chroot, I would actually expect it to set up most block devices correctly, but it only really bothers with /dev/shm... might be worth reporting as an issue for cases other than this

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:28 PM

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Sec

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

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for instance, I can actually mount the partition I literally booted from again to /mnt/storage as an example:

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

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I may have double chrooted

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:30 PM

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well if you're booted from the system you don't need to chroot at all

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you don't need to mount anything at all

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/ is the root filesystem of the drive you installed arch onto

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:31 PM

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sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:31 PM

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my brother in christ you just mounted the drive you booted from

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:31 PM

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GG

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:32 PM

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you didn't lose anything, so don't worry, it was just a completely pointless process. It all went to the same place.

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:32 PM

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XD

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Ok

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:33 PM

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if I boot from /dev/sda1 for example, my / is the contents of sda1, which is already mounted because you literally booted from it. But linux is flexible, and will allow you to run sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt to mount the device again, which means /mnt is what is called a "hardlink" to /.

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:33 PM

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It worked

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:34 PM

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of course it did

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but just so you know

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:34 PM

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Omg now I know why fstab was duplicatrd

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:34 PM

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the whole process of chrooting during the install was because the live installation filesystem was distinct from the actual install filesystem.

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but when you actually boot into arch, that is no longer the case

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:36 PM

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I understand what you mean

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But I cant understand how did I achieve that

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:36 PM

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because you are allowed the mount the drive you boot from in linux multiple times. And you can chroot multiple times.

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:37 PM

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Also this is unrelated in tty1 via grub there is a very loud beep sound when I use the arrow keys where there is no text

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:37 PM

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LOL

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:37 PM

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May be BIOS related

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:37 PM

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YOU HAVE THE BEEP SPEAKER

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:37 PM

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Its so annoying

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I cant do arch stuff because its too late

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:38 PM

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I didn't even know machines were made with it anymore

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:38 PM

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Ideapad gaming 3

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KEKW

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No idea how to turn it off

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Searched everywhere

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All is outdated

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:39 PM

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are you talking about the grub menu beeping, or the linux tty beeping?

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:39 PM

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Tty

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Thought it may be related but its not

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:40 PM

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if grub is beeping, it's a grub configuration issue. Various things in linux can also use the BIOS speaker, but very little software actually does since everyone kind of universally considers it annoying

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if you want to completely stop the BIOS speaker from working after you have booted into linux, you want to blacklist pcspkr

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:41 PM

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How

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I remember I tried something with pcspkr and it didnt resolve this

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festivepepe

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:42 PM

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add it to a new file in /etc/modprobe.d/, call it "blacklist-annoying-beep-thing.conf" and put blacklist pcspkr inside of that file

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that exact filename is not mandatory but it's nice to be descriptive with configuration so you know what it does when you come across it later

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also, it won't work until you reboot, but you can run sudo rmmod pcspkr to make it stop working immediately too

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it will not stop grub from using it, but the linux kernel will not, and any program in linux will not access it either

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also, if you find any software using that speaker, then you should feel morally obligated to complain at upstream developers for including such an annoying feature

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:46 PM

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I love you so much

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My ears and my eyes thank you

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🎉 peepojuice

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:47 PM

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it is also a bit of a nuclear approach to stopping it from working, since you're removing the driver for it completely

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but the pc speaker deserves it

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:48 PM

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But the sound will work when I finish the whole installation?

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:49 PM

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if you edited that file like I said, no

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it will reboot without the module loaded

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:49 PM

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I added a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_annoying_beep.conf

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blacklist pcspkr

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Inside

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:50 PM

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looks good to me

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 9:50 PM

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BlobhajHeart150

sick tulip Aug 1, 2023, 9:50 PM

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btw, you can use this to blacklist any kernel module you don't want

brittle hazel Aug 1, 2023, 10:20 PM

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[SOLVED] git error while trying to clone during post-installation

brittle hazel Aug 6, 2023, 8:27 PM

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Thanks @sick tulip

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#[SOLVED] git error while trying to clone during post-installation