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Can not register in bbs.archlinux.org, and the forum tell me my answer was wrong.
Run command:
$ date -u +%W$(uname)|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
and get
b7093e2653b5c2355b6d0bd6c08337c82c3a8f2e10be73ff62b19d7d1f7c0e63
but the above code can not be used as the register answer. Any idea to fix this?
Last edited by yuanzhi (2013-01-02 06:30:52)
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Your system clock is wrong...
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Your system clock is wrong...
I run
# ntpd -qg
to synchronize the time.
I tried
$ date -u +%W$(uname)
and get
00Linux
.
Is it something wrong with this?
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No. That is what I get.
There was a report yesterday of someone having dfficulties registering: look in the Forum & Wiki subforum.
You have already registered on the boards; why are you trying to register again?
Moving to that board...
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Problem solved.
I try
$ date -u +%V$(name)
instead of
$ date -u +%W$(name)
and it works.
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No. That is what I get.
There was a report yesterday of someone having dfficulties registering: look in the Forum & Wiki subforum.
You have already registered on the boards; why are you trying to register again?
Moving to that board...
I am sorry if it bothers you, but I just want to use another username by registering again.
Thanks for your reply.
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I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that...
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I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that...
I am sorry for not noticing that issue. Thanks for your reminder. I will have a carefully reading about the Forum Etiquette.
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Your system clock is wrong...
I had the same issue and my system clock is working fine, I just didn't want to set up UTC in my pc (I'll probably end up using it but it seemed easier at the time I was installing Arch). I also tried running that command on different remote linux shell accounts and they produced the same result.
To register I had to learn what the "date" command was supposed to output and replace it with an echo '..'. I really think you should warn new users about the UTC issue or else you'll keep getting bug reports and posts here.
BTW i'm new to Arch and I really love it, installing and configuring it is kind of addictive
Last edited by gugah (2013-01-03 05:21:29)
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I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that...
Isn't that ewaller's line?
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jasonwryan wrote:I'm sorry, Dave. I can't let you do that...
Isn't that ewaller's line?
It was an homage
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I had the same issue. My clock is set to the right time sync'd with ntp however I don't use UTC. I was able to create a wiki account using the %V instead of %W.
ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 22 2012 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles
Last edited by evolutiongap (2013-01-03 06:23:19)
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Same issue here. My clock seems right, but I don't use UTC either. Using %V instead of %W worked fine though.
$ cmp /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Belgrade
$
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That is weird, %V is ISO week and starts with 01, %W starts with 00. The only reason I can see this happeneing is if %V is used for the check or if the server has the wrong time (which I'm fairly sure it doesn't).
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It is a trick, Arch won't let people who refuse to google solutions by themselves register by placing this intentional bug in forum registration
It broken wiki registration as well.
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It is a know first week of the year issue:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32649
And now it will be ignored again until next year...
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It's probably only a tiny chance that what I'm about to say will be useful to anyone, but... For those out there who tried to get "the answer" using Cygwin - like I did because I've yet to install any kind of browser on my new Arch system - you'll need to use something like this:
$ date -u +%V"Linux"|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
Cygwin gives a different value for $(uname). On my machine:
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64
Which breaks things most mischievously.
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It is a trick, Arch won't let people who refuse to google solutions by themselves register by placing this intentional bug in forum registration
It broken wiki registration as well.
That's the only logical explaination for this.
Last edited by loki99 (2014-01-07 18:49:37)
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It's probably only a tiny chance that what I'm about to say will be useful to anyone, but... For those out there who tried to get "the answer" using Cygwin - like I did because I've yet to install any kind of browser on my new Arch system - you'll need to use something like this:
There are some online services which can execute shellscripts, e.g.
http://www.compileonline.com/execute_bash_online.php
http://simpleshell.com/
or even a fullblown virtual machine in javascript: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ (Help)
Last edited by progandy (2014-01-07 22:07:17)
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It worked for me
date -u +%V"Linux"|sha256sum|sed 's/\W//g'
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arungupta2008: the fact that it worked is pretty much evident from your posting. Welcome to the boards and please read our Forum Etiquette, especially the section on
empty posts...
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Or you just move this thread to try this and everybody reports in on how it once worked for him.
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