August 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] Bluetooth no more working after update
by Peter Nabbefeld 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hello, after updating my arch installation, bluetooth stopped working. "systemctl status bluetooth" shows the service is active, but when I try to power on or list my bluetooth device using bluetoothctl, no device is found. Head lines of dmesg output: [ 2951.799457] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 2953.533019] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, device number 75 [ 2953.811506] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c03 tx timeout [ 2956.823879] audit: type=1131 audit(1629640847.196:664): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 2961.918096] Bluetooth: hci0: sending initial HCI reset command failed (-110) [ 2961.926281] audit: type=1130 audit(1629640852.299:665): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 2962.174751] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 76 using xhci_hcd [ 2962.298118] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 2962.528098] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 2962.761408] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 77 using xhci_hcd [peter@tuchola ~]$ sudo dmesg | head -n 20 [ 2999.934381] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 88 using xhci_hcd [ 3000.057683] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.287770] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.517708] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 89 using xhci_hcd [ 3000.641059] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.871018] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.977743] usb usb3-port4: attempt power cycle [ 3001.381075] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 90 using xhci_hcd [ 3001.381293] usb 3-4: Device not responding to setup address. [ 3001.587720] usb 3-4: Device not responding to setup address. [ 3001.794365] usb 3-4: device not accepting address 90, error -71 [ 3002.124364] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 91 using xhci_hcd [ 3002.142567] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=07dc, bcdDevice= 0.01 [ 3002.142573] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 3003.876301] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, device number 91 [ 3004.157679] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c03 tx timeout [ 3007.165585] audit: type=1131 audit(1629640897.539:672): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 3012.264321] Bluetooth: hci0: sending initial HCI reset command failed (-110) [ 3012.273674] audit: type=1130 audit(1629640902.646:673): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 3012.520945] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 92 using xhci_hcd My bluetooth device: Bus 003 Device 103: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface "lsusb -v" shows lots of details, e.g. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 224 Wireless bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x8087 Intel Corp. idProduct 0x07dc Bluetooth wireless interface bcdDevice 0.01 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 ... but ends with the following lines: can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable cannot read device status, No such device (19) I guess there's sth. broken with the driver (or now driver assigned at all). When looking into /usr/lib/firmware, I see many if not all updates of August, 18th, and especially many files with pattern "iwlwifi-*.ucode", which might related to my problem. I already searched the internet, but couldn't find anything useful :-/ However, I found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1591167 While it seems not to be the same, it led me to looking for ibt-*.* and especially to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git… I found those files locally in /usr/lib/firmware/intel, same date for latest update as for "iwlwifi-*.ucode", so everything should usually be fine. How can I check, if the firmware has been installed/loaded properly? How can I find out, which is the correct firmware? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Fluidsynth Plugin for VLC media player
by 山田ハヤオ 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Add --enable-fluidsynth to PKGBUILD in the vlc package in the official repository. Consider adding the FluidSynth plugin to support Midi playback in the official repository. If you can't do that, please tell me why.

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[arch-general] PyJWT 2.0+
by Marcus Hoffmann 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

Hi, I wanted to ask if anyone knows what's up with updating https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=python-pyjwt to v2.0+. v2.0 has been released last December, and there's been a bunch of minor versions since. I realize this has a bunch of dependent packages, is there anything in particular blocking this? Mostly asking because I adopted python-social-auth-core in the AUR which depends on pyjwt 2.0+ since January this year. (others say it works fine for them with the older version, but I'm hesitant to ignore upstreams version range suggestion.) Best, Marcus

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[arch-general] File conflict between official packages
by 山田ハヤオ 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

I tried to install cups-filters and pantheon-default-settings. As a result, Pacman reported a "/usr/share/cups/data/default-testpage.pdf" conflict. This issue should be fixed. PS Since I used the mailing list for the first time, I apologize for sending it to some wrong places.

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[arch-general] about pipewire
by Javier 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello ! I do understand pipewire is required on wayland to be able to share the desktop. Is its audio component required as well for desktop sharing on wayland? I'm talking future wise, and mainly about some applications which allows audio and video conferencing as well as desktop sharing, like zoom, slack and perhaps webrtc. If its audio component is not required, is it possible at all to let pipewire without its audio components? Would it be enough to avoid installing its alsa and pulse plugins? Any additional configuration required? I have avoided using pulse, and I really don't want to use pipewire audio component either. I might have to use pipewire if moving to wayland in the future for whatever reason. I have hybrid used cases for audio. On the desktop of course, but also headless, since I also left boxes playing music without anyone logged in (I log in, make mpd play a list, and log out), and I times go back and forth from being logged in and logged out, and not necessarily I log to the desktop, just console or ssh connections might be enough to start playing music on mpd. Plain alsa does great for these hybrid use model. There are as well other non common gnu+linux midi frameworks which do well, like sndio, but pulse-audio and pipewire don't. Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] Why does cx_freeze console create a core dump?
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello, am I doing sth. wrong, when calling "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cx_Freeze/bases/Console-cp39-linux-x86_64"? The console seems to be some standard piece of software, so in general it shouldn't create a core dump without some missing or corrupt installation dependency - any idea? Well, I've heard I'm not the only one having problems with this, and I'm not used to work with core dumps (not a C programmer, sorry), so I would be very lucky if someone else could fix that. Kind regards, Peter

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