May 2021 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Unstable/Unusably slow Wi-Fi connection with systemd-networkd/wpa_supplicant
by riveravaldez 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hi, I was using Wicd until a couple of weeks without problems, but because it's been out of repos for a while and generally not maintained/developed anymore I decided to make the switch and start using systemd-networkd. The machine is a laptop Dell XPS 15 L502X (Sandy Bridge) with: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34) I followed the Arch Wiki without problems and wired connection seems to be working flawlessly. But Wi-Fi is unstable and slow at the point of unusability. I posted on the forums[0] for help but didn't get any until now, so I'm letting the link here just in case someone can give me any hint. In the forum's post I informed the output of terminal, networkctl and wpa_cli status, dmesg, journalctl, etc. Please let me know if I should put the details here (didn't did it just to not make mail extremely long, hope I'm not doing wrong) or add anything else. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards. [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=264608

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[arch-general] i3wm dual monitor freeze containers primary
by Maykel Franco 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hi, I'm probing archlinux with i3wm tiling window manager. I love it! I come archlinux + kde desktop. I have a dell xps 13' model 9370. I have a problem when work with two monitors. The primary monitor (laptop) freeze any open container (terminal, program...) randomly in workspace. This only occur in laptop screen. Something like this: # Screenshot https://imgur.com/a/LvOsKIe # Video https://imgur.com/a/veuSM33 My xrandr config is: xrandr --output eDP1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 3440x360 --rotate normal --output DP1 --mode 3440x1440 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP2 --off --output HDMI1 --off --output HDMI2 --off --output VIRTUAL1 --off I try all, debug i3wm with i3-dump-log, and search in google but I can't find the problem. The workspace freeze and cannot kill containers. The only things is restart lightdm ... My i3config is very basic.

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[arch-general] System Freeze on sleep
by Prateek Sadhukhan 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Hello All, After upgrading to the new kernel I see that my system freezes when I try to resume from sleep. This happens intermittently but frequent enough to be irritating. I have to reboot the system to recover. I am running kernel 5.12.7-arch1-1 The issue was not seen with kernel 5.11. I am running arch on btrfs and I suspect it is a btrfs issue somehow. When I check dmesg (journactl --dmesg --boot -1) I see that it always ends with the following two lines when the issue is seen. May 29 07:12:40 matrix kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep) May 29 07:12:40 matrix kernel: Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds I wanted to know how do I attempt to debug this issue? Regards, Prateek

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[arch-general] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda
by Morten Bo Johansen 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi Arch is occasionally - only occasionally - very slow to start up. After examining the dmesg log, I see errors like 100.740566] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 119400712 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 3 prio class 0 [ 100.740584] ata1: EH complete [ 101.100769] audit: type=1130 audit(1622446429.249:86): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=upower comm="systemd" ex e="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 101.180724] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x40 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 101.180730] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 101.180733] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 101.180735] ata1.00: cmd 60/70:30:f8:37:1e/00:00:07:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq dma 57344 in res 41/84:70:fc:37:1e/00:00:07:00:00/00 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F> [ 101.180742] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 101.180743] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [ 101.180747] ata1: hard resetting link [ 101.488857] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 101.594776] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 [ 101.594806] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s [ 101.594811] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [ 101.594816] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 Add. Sense: Scsi parity error [ 101.594819] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 07 1e 37 f8 00 00 70 00 [ 101.594821] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 119420920 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 10 prio class 0 [ 101.594844] ata1: EH complete [ 101.870769] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3c SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 101.870775] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 101.870778] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 101.870780] ata1.00: cmd 60/b8:18:c0:62:89/00:00:07:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq dma 94208 in res 41/84:b8:48:63:89/00:00:07:00:00/00 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F> [ 101.870787] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 101.870789] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } This suggests a hard drive that should be replaced, but badblocks reports that there are absolutely zero bad sectors or other errors on the hard drive. And the fact that the problem is intermittent also suggests that it may perhaps be a kernel issue rather than a hard drive issue? It is not a very critical machine and I have backups. Do you have some suggestions as to how I should go about dealing with this? Other commands to test the hard drive? Kernel parameters? Anything? ~/ % uname -a Linux gatsby 5.12.7-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Wed, 26 May 2021 22:03:55 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks, Morten

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[arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?
by Neven Sajko 30 May '21

30 May '21

Hi On my up-to-date Archlinux system, the only package that depends on Polkit is Colord, which, in turn, is only depended on by GTK3. Forcefully removing the Polkit package (with pacman -R --assume-installed polkit polkit), works fine: after doing it, I rebooted and printed a page from Chromium (which uses GTK3 for this) on my black-and-white printer over USB. It would be very nice to give Arch and GTK3 users like me the opportunity to avoid Polkit without hassle. The only idea I got is to move polkit from depends to optdepends in the colord package, and add post_install and post_upgrade messages saying something like: > WARNING: install polkit if you plan on actually using colord! Do others agree that this would be more good than bad? In any case, I'm not a Pacman expert, so I'm hoping somebody can come up with an even better solution? Tangentially, what are the chances of convincing upstream to relax the Colord dependency on Polkit? Could such a patch get accepted? BTW, does somebody know what happened to the packages for building GTK3 without Colord, building Colord without Polkit, and similar? I think those were available on AUR previosuly. Regards, Neven

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GCC 11 and new toolchain on [testing]
by Genes Lists 17 May '21

17 May '21

On 5/13/21 9:29 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi, > ... > > Also, if you guys notice any issues, let me know. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini Hi FYI, I've come across one issue which was triggered after updating to gcc 11. Building kea (from git) worked fine using gcc 10, I am now seeing fail : checking thread support... no configure: WARNING: unsupported C++11 feature configure: retrying by adding --std=c++1x to g++ --std=c++0x checking --std=c++1x support... no configure: error: thread (a C++11 feature) is not supported gene

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[arch-general] How to say Arch
by Hritik Vijay 15 May '21

15 May '21

Hello I stumbled upon this really funny video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY) that goes to sing how to pronounce SUSE. Now, as Arch faces the same issue (being Ark Linux vs Arch linux), I was wondering if we could get some momentum towards building such content. :) Hrtk

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[arch-general] Why Fortify Sources are Disabled with the glibc Libraries?
by Sijie Bu 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hello, I was reading the PKGBUILD of `glibc` the other day, and noticed that only the `glibc` programs are build with fortify sources, and the library itself is not. Is there a specific reason to do so? Sincerely P.S. My context for this question is that I'm bootstrapping Arch for MIPS r6 and is under way, I'm rebuilding glibc today and this came to my mind (I have built the entire `glibc` with fortify enabled and it seemed to work just fine, so would like to know the reason behind disabling fortify for the libraries).

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[arch-general] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 11 May '21

11 May '21

Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021 Good day from Singapore, I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-p… Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rp… Do you think it is a good match? I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display. However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand vertically. Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is there a good 4K video editing software for Linux? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 9th May 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Targeted Individual Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] One maintainer, 100+ outdated packages
by Christopher W. 08 May '21

08 May '21

Over a hundred packages with anthraxx listed as the maintainer have been flagged out of date: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=anthraxx&flagged=Flagged Many open bug reports are assigned to him too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?dev=17958 (In the past, bug reports with the [security] tag were automatically co-assigned to him, even if he wasn't the maintainer. Nevertheless many of these are specifically assigned to him and valid, including currently missing security updates.) Everyone's a volunteer and people have lives. Got it. Now what can we do to fix this situation? Can there be a group effort to take over some of the packages and get them in shape again? Regular users like me can't commit to the repo, TUs can only work in the [community] repo, and developers are all busy doing their own maintainer work.

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