December 2019 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts
by David Rosenstrauch 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. But it looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using anti-aliased fonts. I have them set to disabled in the kde control center, but that seems to be getting ignored. I noticed some recent qt5 packages got upgraded, and am assuming that might be the culprit, though it looks like there were also some kde packages upgraded recently as well. Anyone know what might have broken / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] DHCPv6 fails after upgrading to dhcpcd-8.1.4
by Jukka Salmi 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello Since upgrading dhcpcd from 8.1.2-1 to 8.1.4-1 my netctl profiles which configure IPv6 using dhcpcd fail to start. One of these profiles as an example: Interface=enp0s25.100 Connection=vlan BindsToInterfaces=enp0s25 VLANID=100 DHCPReleaseOnStop=yes IP=dhcp IP6=dhcp DHCP6Client=dhcpcd These profiles worked fine before, but now I get: $ journalctl -r [...] Dec 28 00:45:35 foo network[18634]: DHCP IPv6 lease attempt failed on interface 'enp0s25.100' Dec 28 00:45:35 foo dhcpcd[18791]: dhcpcd exited Dec 28 00:45:35 foo dhcpcd[18791]: timed out Dec 28 00:45:35 foo network[18791]: timed out Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: pid -1887792279 deleted default route via fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: pid -759929144 deleted route to v:u:t::/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding default route via fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding route to v:u:t::/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding address v:u:t:s:r:q:p:o/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: Router Advertisement from fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: soliciting an IPv6 router [...] Downgrading dhcpcd makes this work again. Any hints? Is anybody seeing the same issue? TIA & cheers, Jukka -- This email fills a much-needed gap in the archives.

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[arch-general] Firewire : resume from suspend may fail
by SET 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Hello, Resume from suspend to RAM in KDE fails if no video cam has been used. The camcorder is connected to a firewire card in a PCIE-1 expansion slot. If the camcorder has been used and is connected, the machine resumes rightly to the desktop. When it does not resume, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor, no mouse, no keyboard. Network was available once only to login through SSH. This leaves no choice but a hard reboot. Fortunately, the disk partitions are always clean. After the hard reboot, there's no single error message in /var/ log/{errors,kernel}.log, not even a single resume message from kernel. I've tried, on their own, pcie_hp=nomsi, firewire_ohci.quirks={0x10,0x40} to no avail. Using : kernel 5.3.x and 5.4.x. FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) I'm about to remove the card once I've downloaded the recordings. I wish of course no being obliged to do that. Does anyone have some advice to fix that ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] TP-link tl-wn823n v2.0 wifi dongle not working
by Tim Ye 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make tl-wn823n v2.0 work on arch linux. I followed the this[1] guide. I was able to install the driver: $ lsmod | grep 8192 8192eu 1544192 0 cfg80211 851968 1 8192eu vmw_vmci 81920 0 $ dmesg | grep 8192 [ 290.144747] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192eu $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:608c Lenovo Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:a192 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 18f8:1485 [Maxxter] USB OPTICAL MOUSE Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub but I still can see my adapter in "ip addr". Any ideas? Thanks in advance. - Tim [1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218152

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[arch-general] broken pipe
by Pascal 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

hello, to avoid having to read twice the entire large file, I use the tee tool in this way to calculate two checksums "simultaneously" : file_info(){ echo -n ${1:=/dev/stdin}$'\t' ( tee < "${1}" \ >( md5sum >&3 ) \ >( sha1sum >&3 ) \ >/dev/null ) 3>&1 | tr '\n' '\t' echo } it works perfectly because both tools used, md5sum and sha1sum, consume all the data. on the other hand, the function returns wrong fingerprints if I insert a tool like file : file_info(){ echo -n ${1:=/dev/stdin}$'\t' ( tee < "${1}" \ >( file --mime-type -b -e compress -e tar -e elf - >&3 ) \ >( md5sum >&3 ) \ >( sha1sum >&3 ) \ >/dev/null ) 3>&1 | tr '\n' '\t' echo } it no longer works because the data flow is quickly interrupted by tee which does not consume all the data. do you know a way to get the file type in parallel with the fingerprint ? getting its type is just an example : the idea is to open the file only once... regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] Got a problem with networking.
by mick howe 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Systems: Arch / xfce on my main system ( I5, 32gb, 2 + 1tb) I3 laptop 12gb, 1TB lenovo B50-70 dual booting, originally win8.1 & arch, when I upgraded to win10 I broke my arch installation and replaced it with kubuntu because I couldn't face over a week of recreating the arch system. (Ever since I started using Linux Red Hat 5.2 I have only ever been able restore the directories and file names, but not the contents. win7 desktop 4gb, 320GB Before upgrading to to win10 networking broke with each update to networking on either arch or windoze usually one system or the other or both were unable to see each other. I was able to fix it, usually it seemed all had to do was touch the samba config file. After I added the win7 box I was able to see all system from each box and sometimes copy files. From the win7 box I could copy files from any box to any box. Since I "updated" win7 to win10 I can see but NOT connect between any of the boxes and have had to resort to sneekernet for file transfers. I have tried numerous times to find the cause and fix it but I'm just going round and round in circles, getting nowhere. Is there anyone out in the ether land who could guide me through this issue?

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[arch-general] Removal of libdmx breaks dependency of x11vnc
by Sefa Eyeoglu 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Hey there, I just upgraded and noticed that libdmx was removed. After also uninstalling the package I noticed, that x11vnc was depending on it. Which now means, that you can't install x11vnc now. The removal of this package was discussed in a thread three days ago ("remove obsolete Xorg components ?"). Kind regards, Sefa Eyeoglu Free Software Developer scrumplex.net[1] -------- [1] https://scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] remove obsolete Xorg components ?
by Lone_Wolf 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi, On xorg-devel mailing list[1] I noticed several components were mentioned that were no longer used and checked if archlinux still packaged them. If desired I can create bug reports for them, but since this concerns multiple packages I felt it was better to post here first . List of obsolete components mentioned in [1] and whether archlinux has them - xf86miscproto yes, in xorgproto package - libxxf86misc yes - libxevie nope - xf86dgaproto yes, in xorgproto package - libxxf86dga yes - libxkbui yes - libdmx [1] mentions that it can be useful if you built xorg-server with dmx support archlinux does that, but are there real users of DmX ? Lone_Wolf [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-devel@lists.x.org/msg57422.html

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[arch-general] amdgpu: blank screen on Radeon RX 460
by Bjoern Franke 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi, since some updates in the last days - I have not found out yet which one caused it - my Radeon RX 460[1] only shows a blank screen after starting lightdm and also switching to terminal is not possible. As a workaround booting with "amdgpu.dc=0" helps - but then audio via HDMI is broken. The issue appeared once some months ago, but after wondering why audio is broken I removed "amdgpu.dc=0" and everything went smooth - until now. I've searched through the BBS and amdgpu bugreports, tested some kernel commandline parameters like amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1, switching to DRI "2", but no solution yet. Does somebody else have a similar gpu and experiences a similar issue? Best regards Bjoern [1] 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X] (rev cf)

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[arch-general] rclone and dropbox
by Jude DaShiell 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

did anyone ever manage to link their computer to a dropbox account using rclone? The package returns a bogus url to open that's supposed to finish the linking but that url always returns error 404. --

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