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[arch-general] System terribly slow
by riveravaldez 27 Oct '25

27 Oct '25

Hi, I'm looking for some advice trying to pinpoint why or where my system has becoming almost unusable slow. Searching the web I've found some hints but nothing precise enough. Maybe it's a failing HDD, but I'm first posting what I have until now in the hope someone can give some advice. Superficial symptoms are a general slowness. I'm using just IceWM and `startx` to initialize the GUI, and even logging into my account previous to that takes almost a minute to get done. Then any application I launch takes minutes to just start (from IceWM to firefox, from qtox to pcmanfm or geany, etc.). Even navigate the folders tree with pcmanfm takes 10 or more seconds just to show any folder content... Hope some of this helps: $ sudo journalctl -b -exp3 -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 19:50:29 -03. -- dic 03 00:48:43 arch kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed dic 03 00:48:43 arch kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through dic 03 00:50:39 arch libvirtd[592]: cannot open directory '/home/dell/Software/VMs/TrisquelMini8': No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:50:39 arch libvirtd[592]: error interno: Falló al iniciar automáticamente el grupo de almacenamiento 'TrisquelMini8': cannot open directory '/home/dell/Softwar> dic 03 00:50:41 arch libvirtd[592]: No se encontró 'dmidecode' en ruta: No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:50:57 arch libvirtd[592]: No se encontró 'dmidecode' en ruta: No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:56:40 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Disk Manager. Subject: A start job for unit udisks2.service has failed Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel A start job for unit udisks2.service has finished with a failure. The job identifier is 1072 and the job result is failed. $ systemctl --state=failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION 0 loaded units listed. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 11.038s (kernel) + 1min 31.352s (userspace) = 1min 42.391s graphical.target reached after 1min 31.352s in userspace $ systemd-analyze blame 37.946s polkit.service 29.248s dev-sda1.device 28.827s systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service 24.692s udisks2.service 15.936s systemd-journal-flush.service 14.228s systemd-hwdb-update.service 13.930s ldconfig.service 13.502s upower.service 12.881s ufw.service 8.830s user(a)1000.service 7.556s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service 7.280s avahi-daemon.service 7.275s bluetooth.service 7.262s iwd.service 6.067s systemd-logind.service 6.058s systemd-machined.service 5.825s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service 5.123s systemd-sysusers.service 4.569s systemd-udevd.service 4.511s systemd-resolved.service 4.281s systemd-networkd.service 3.724s systemd-journal-catalog-update.service 3.415s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1d72b82c\x2d9c58\x2d4f57\x2d97a3\x2de29ff35a5632.service 2.959s systemd-modules-load.service 2.557s lm_sensors.service 2.503s systemd-random-seed.service 2.389s systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service 1.983s dev-disk-by\x2duuid-84c91978\x2da09c\x2d4087\x2db60d\x2d86730d142f63.swap 1.967s systemd-backlight@leds:dell::kbd_backlight.service 1.563s systemd-timesyncd.service 1.457s systemd-update-utmp.service 1.287s systemd-udev-trigger.service 1.278s systemd-rfkill.service 1.219s alsa-restore.service 1.164s systemd-sysctl.service (...) $ systemctl status polkit.service ● polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:50:28 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 613 (polkitd) Tasks: 12 (limit: 6993) Memory: 18.9M CPU: 1.032s CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service └─613 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug dic 03 00:49:50 arch systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager... dic 03 00:50:05 arch polkitd[613]: Started polkitd version 0.120 dic 03 00:50:26 arch polkitd[613]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d dic 03 00:50:26 arch polkitd[613]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d dic 03 00:50:28 arch polkitd[613]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 6 rules dic 03 00:50:28 arch systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager. dic 03 00:50:28 arch polkitd[613]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus $ systemctl status dev-sda1.device ● dev-sda1.device - Hitachi_HTS545025B9A300 ROOT Follows: unit currently follows state of sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda1.device Loaded: loaded Active: active (plugged) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:49:12 -03; 19h ago Device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete. $ systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service ○ systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2021-12-03 01:03:52 -03; 19h ago TriggeredBy: ● systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5) man:systemd-tmpfiles(8) Process: 1473 ExecStart=systemd-tmpfiles --clean (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1473 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 185ms dic 03 01:03:23 arch systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories... dic 03 01:03:52 arch systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: Deactivated successfully. dic 03 01:03:52 arch systemd[1]: Finished Cleanup of Temporary Directories. $ systemctl status udisks2.service ● udisks2.service - Disk Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks2.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:59:51 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:udisks(8) Main PID: 1129 (udisksd) Tasks: 5 (limit: 6993) Memory: 3.2M CPU: 23.045s CGroup: /system.slice/udisks2.service └─1129 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd dic 03 00:59:26 arch systemd[1]: Starting Disk Manager... dic 03 00:59:26 arch udisksd[1129]: udisks daemon version 2.9.4 starting dic 03 00:59:51 arch systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager. dic 03 00:59:54 arch udisksd[1129]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus $ systemctl status systemd-journal-flush.service ● systemd-journal-flush.service - Flush Journal to Persistent Storage Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journal-flush.service; static) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:48:59 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:systemd-journald.service(8) man:journald.conf(5) Process: 283 ExecStart=journalctl --flush (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 283 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 15ms dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage... dic 03 00:48:59 arch systemd[1]: Finished Flush Journal to Persistent Storage. $ systemctl status systemd-hwdb-update.service ● systemd-hwdb-update.service - Rebuild Hardware Database Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-hwdb-update.service; static) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:48:57 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:hwdb(7) man:systemd-hwdb(8) Process: 279 ExecStart=systemd-hwdb update (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 279 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 1.746s dic 03 00:48:57 arch systemd[1]: Finished Rebuild Hardware Database. $ journalctl -b -u systemd-journald.service -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 20:49:18 -03. -- dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd-journald[271]: Journal started dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd-journald[271]: Runtime Journal (/run/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c) is 8.0M, max 292.4M, 284.4M free. dic 03 00:48:44 arch systemd-journald[271]: Time spent on flushing to /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c is 7.561088s for 798 entries. dic 03 00:48:44 arch systemd-journald[271]: System Journal (/var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c) is 16.0M, max 2.4G, 2.4G free. $ journalctl -b -u systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\\x2duuid-1d72b82c\\x2d9c58\\x2d4f57\\x2d97a3\\x2de29ff35a5632.service -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 20:52:36 -03. -- dic 03 00:49:18 arch systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1d72b82c-9c58-4f57-97a3-e29ff35a5632... dic 03 00:49:21 arch systemd-fsck[485]: HOME: limpio, 208781/13107200 ficheros, 37165716/52398592 bloques dic 03 00:49:21 arch systemd[1]: Finished File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1d72b82c-9c58-4f57-97a3-e29ff35a5632. $ journalctl --verify PASS: /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/user-1000.journal 3b84d8: Data object's entry array not sorted File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/system.journal:915878 (of 16777216 bytes, 56%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/system.journal (Mensaje erróneo) $ journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active journals take up 24.0M in the file system. Maybe it's pertinent to mention that I've just cleaned up /var/log/journal to rule out storage issues. Any help will be most welcome. Thanks a lot in advance.

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[arch-general] not able to execute commands on tty
by Frank 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi, I'm having an issue with tty. When loogin on I get the following error messages: -bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied -bash: PATH: Command not found ... This is my bashrc: # # ~/.bashrc # # If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- != *i* ]] && return #fix VTE issue for tilix if [ $TILIX_ID ] || [ $VTE_VERSION ]; then source /etc/profile.d/vte.sh fi alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -l' alias la='ls -a' alias diff='diff --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias mpv='mpv --vo=gpu' #command not found #source /usr/share/doc/find-the-command/ftc.bash powerline-daemon -q POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1 POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1 . /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh and here's my .profile: #set vim as default editor export EDITOR=vim #prevent logging identical commands and commands starting with a space export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth #append to history on exit shopt -s histappend #store multiline commands in one entry shopt -s cmdhist #line wrap on windowresize shopt -s checkwinsize ##tell apps to use Wayland #Firefox export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 #prevent accessibility tools export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 #add Perl and Perl modules to file path export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/core_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/vendor_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/site_perl/" [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc I'm not able to execute any commands, getting the command not found, and have no idea what wnet wrong here. All is fine when on wayland using a treminal emulator. THX Frank

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[arch-general] any IEEE 802.11ax wifi 6 USB devices supported by gnu+linux (even external dkms)?
by Javier 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

I’m looking for upgrading to wifi 6 (802.11ax), but I’m not able to find gnu+linux supported usb devices. WPA3 seems a winner, and the fact devices don’t interfere with each others (at least not as much as wifi 5 and lesser), plus better signal spectrum, and perhaps getting where it was harder before, then I’m willing to upgrade, however, it seems only ms-windows and maybe some mac supported, usb devices can be found. Could it be it’ll take even further to get them into gnu+linux? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] [grub] how to make grub use the integrated intel gpu, rather than the discrete nvidia one?
by Javier 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello ! On a laptop with dual GPU, I'm able to disable nvdia, following instructions under [1], though I'm thinking that was not necessary, since I'm using early kms with intel [2]: > % grep i915 /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > MODULES=(i915) And I don't use the xf86-video-* Xorg drivers, since I prefer the glamor Xorg ones: > [ 94.997] (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) Now, I noticed grub is actually using the nvdia gpu, because it doesn't support specifying GRUB_GFXMODE to "auto", neither "1920x1080x32", well, it doesn't complain, but the resolution I get for any is terrible, and when I disable the framebuffer [3]: > # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal > #GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console I do get the right resolution, though I totally lose my background image, which is sad. But it's not only aesthetics, it seems, at times, when loading the initrd image on boot, the system freezes, and there's no alternative than a hard boot, which might be related. If you're wondering, this is a HP zbook 15 g6. Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/hybrid_graphics [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_mode_setting#Early_KMS_start [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Disable_framebuffer

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[arch-general] Fwd: [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)
by Javier 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

On 9/11/20 12:18, Javier wrote: > On 9/11/20 9:01 AM, Jens John wrote: >> If this is a limitation, it's a limitation of Akonadi that it doesn't monitor remote single files for changes. A workaround could be to use the local file source, let korganizer monitor it for changes, and sync the local file using wget/curl and a systemd --user timer. This should work flawlessly and be solid. >> >> Personally, I'd suggest to think differently and get the ICS subscription into your DAV calendaring system first. CalDAV software or hosting worth its money should support some kind of calendar subscription. This is exactly what I'm doing; I have CalDAV as the single source of truth, and subscriptions of external calendars flow into the DAV calendars. At the endpoint device, I just need to connect to CalDAV to get everything from one source. This is also the setup I'm using with KOrganizer. >> > > BTW, I do have the external ICS web calendars subscribed into my DAV provider, which has of course its own personal calendar and a birthday calendar extracted from the contacts information. > > On Thunderbird, when you include the caldav calendar, Thunderbird automatically includes the ICS calendars as separate read only calendars that are periodically sync, and one can change the syncing period, besides the personal and birthday caldav calendars. > > On Android, I do have both, davdroid and icsdroid (now renamed to davx5 and icsx5), and when including the caldav calendar to davdroid, besides including the personal and birthday caldav calendar to davdroid, it automatically populates icsdroid (the partner app) with the ICS calendars, which are sync periodically with a configurable period, but common for all ICS calendars. > > On Korganizer though (having installed Kontact, Kaddressbook, Kmail and all other SW), when including the caldav calendar, only the personal and birthday event are included, that I remember, and I honestly don't recall if separate as individual calendars as on the case of Thunderbird and davdroid+icsdroid, or as just one combined calendar. But as I never saw the ICS calendars events, I just had to include them manually, and as ICS files was the only way I found to include them... > > I don't know if it was a matter of time to see all calendars reflected in Korganizer (I waited like half an hour, and then connected again the next day, and saw nothing). > > Perhaps I need to try it again... I wanted to follow this suggestion, but I haven't been able to. I do have an /e/ account with caldav+cardav+mail service, and I have the external ics/ical web calendars subscribed in there, however, as mentioned, when korganizer does the sync with the caldav service, it doesn't bring any of the subscribed ics/ical calendars into the /e/ caldav service. Is there another way to do this? Perhaps I need a local service which doesn't expose through the network, and just serves caldav locally, and then somehow subscribe to it, the ics/ical remote calendars, and set the sync period per calendar (I need some ones every 15 minutes, other every hour, other every half a day), and then make the calcav client, in this case, korganizer sync with this local service? Does it exist? What to use? Hopefully something I can start when launching the desktop, since in the end kde-pim only makes sense on the desktop. I can deal with user cron jobs as well I'd guess... And if such tool exists, which exposes ics/ical remote calendars, periodically sync, as caldav ones, locally, can it just do all, like syncing caldav and cardav as well, and then the clients sync with such tool? Tha last is not required, but it would be interesting, it'd be like on aosp mobiles, where you get the davdroid+icsdroid doing all the sync of calendars and contacts, and then other clients, like k9 mail, etar calendar, and lineageos contacts, just read from them and write to them. That would be cool, though such ecosystem is not available on the desktop, and actually kontact (kde-pim) with kmail+korganizer+kcontact+kleopatra+... is what comes closer... I'm still looking for this. Suggestions and guidance are really appreciated. Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: Forbid dummy packages from AUR
by Óscar García Amor 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

El jue, 24 mar 2022 a las 8:14, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public (<arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org>) escribió: > > On 24/3/22 11:07, Brett Cornwall via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Summary: Reject AUR packages that fulfill package dependencies without > > providing the files/binaries of the package in question. But why? I don't quite understand why this should be banned. IMHO I think it is something very interesting and also, as described in the RFC, has a clear and justified use. It would be different if there was a way to tell Pacman by configuration to assume that these dependencies are covered, but as far as I know it is not possible. And while it is true that you can pass the `--assume-installed` option to it, but that must always be done at run time and if you have a high number of dummy dependencies it can be messy. Greetings -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] Odd unicode glyph rendering issues
by Mark Raynsford 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hello! I have two systems here that are running the same version of Arch. They are using different window managers; system A is running awesomewm, whilst system B is running fvwm. Both have the same fonts installed, and both have very similar outputs for "env": System A: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/184135848/bus DISPLAY=:0 EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/rm/bin:/opt/bin PWD=/home/rm SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=2 SSH_AGENT_PID=806 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXNocNEG/agent.782 SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=673 TASKRC=/home/rm/git/com.github/io7m/dotfiles.taskwarrior/taskrc TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm VTE_VERSION=6602 WINDOWID=12195960 WINDOWPATH=1 XAUTHORITY=/home/rm/.Xauthority XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/184135848 XDG_SEAT=seat0 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty XDG_VTNR=1 _=/usr/bin/env System B: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/128542918/bus EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm-work LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm-work MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm-work MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/home/rm-work/bin:/home/rm-work/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PWD=/home/rm-work PYENV_ROOT=/home/rm-work/.pyenv PYENV_VIRTUALENV_INIT=1 SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=0 TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm-work XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm-work/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm-work/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm-work/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/128542918 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=16 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty _=/usr/sbin/env With both systems, I can open a text file containing the following string: ひらがな ... in both a browser (Firefox, Chromium), in mousepad, and in vim in an xfce4-terminal instance. System A will consistently render the string using the correct glyphs. System B will consistently render the string as a set of missing glyphs. Given that all of my software, fonts, and locale settings are apparently the same... What other variables could cause font rendering to consistently fail on one system and not the other? -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] No arch-security emails for 3 months
by kiasoc5＠tutanota.com 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

The arch-security mailing list has not sent anything since December 2021. How come? Have there been 0 security fixes in packages? Is the security team busy? Something else? Just curious, thanks.

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[arch-general] Voice support for gajim and pidgin
by Storm Dragon 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Howdy, I have tried both pidgin and gajim for making audio calls using my xmpp server. Both of them say they are missing packages. Here's a sample from gajim: Requires: gir1.2-farstream-0.2, gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-libav, and gstreamer1.0-gtk3 I even tried upgrading to jagim-git, and got the same thing. Here is how the dependency list looks after installation completes: (1/1) installing gajim-git [############################################################] 100%Optional dependencies for gajim-git python-dbus: for gajim-remote and zeroconf support [installed] farstream: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-good: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-bad: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-ugly: for video/voice support [installed] gst-libav: for video/voice support [installed] gst-python: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugin-gtk: for video support gsound: for notification sounds [installed] gspell: for spell checking support [installed] libxss: for idle time checking on X11 [installed] libappindicator-gtk3: to get a tray icon on some desktop environments notification-daemon: for desktop notifications [installed] gnome-keyring: store passwords encrypted in GNOME Keyring kded: store passwords encrypted in KSecretService python-crypto: support for E2E encryption python-docutils: for RST generator support gupnp-igd: for UPnP-IGD support [installed] geoclue2: for sharing your location :: Running post-transaction hooks... the output from pidgin looks very similar. So I'm curious, am I missing something here or is audio support just broken in both of these? I have audio support using conversations in Android, but why use that when there's a perfectly good computer running Arch right at my fingertips lol. Also, I was wondering if there's a CLI based xmpp client that supports audio? I have searched and there seem to be quite a few, but none that I have found that specifically mentions audio with the jingle protocol, or audio at all for that matter. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] Vim errors: Can't allocate color Orange, Can't allocate color SlateBlue, etc...
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

All, A recent change to how vim is being packages has resulted in errors when opening files with C syntax highlight on my system. The error I receive is, e.g.: Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc[38]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syntax.vim[19]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/synload.vim[21]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syncolor.vim: line 53: E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue I get the same error with different colors depending on what different highlight elements are present in any file. Was the vim package changed to put this stuff in another package? Odd error -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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