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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] About merge for revolt into revolt-desktop
by Óscar García Amor 28 May '22

28 May '22

Hi folks, A few days ago a request was made to merge revolt into revolt-desktop in AUR. At that time I already explained[1] that these were different packages and that the merger did not make sense. Three days ago Morten Linderud finally approved the merger of the packages despite the two being different. I have tried to contact him explaining why these packages should not be merged but I have not received a response. This is a copy of the email I sent him. --- BEGIN --- MAIL --- COPY --- Hi Morten, Recently you accept merge the package revolt into revolt-desktop: > Request #34104 has been Accepted by Foxboron [1]: > > [Autogenerated] Accepted merge for revolt into revolt-desktop. But these are completely different packages: Revolt[1] is an application written in Python (using PyGObject with GTK and WebKit) which wraps Element[2] in a fancy desktop environment integration. Revolt not is new, has been under development for several years and the first commit dates back to 2016[3]. revolt-desktop[4] (it's the first time I've heard of it, to be honest) is what appears to be a client of your own service revolt-chat[5]. It is something quite recent, its first commit dates back to 2021[6]. As you can see, we are really talking about two different applications that, although they are both instant messaging clients, have nothing to do with each other. On the other hand, in case of a name conflict, this would be caused by revolt-chat, being a much more recent application than revolt. Therefore I ask you to please consider this merger and revert the changes so that we can continue working with the revolt package in AUR. Thank you very much in advance. [1]: https://github.com/aperezdc/revolt [2]: https://element.io/ [3]: https://github.com/aperezdc/revolt/commit/455c7f25ae476be26cb1839368da68f58… [4]: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop [5]: https://revolt.chat/ [6]: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop/commit/309a8cea3307ed4707b26068d810c4… --- END --- MAIL --- COPY --- I understand that, as people working on Arch Linux there is a lot of work to be done, but that is no excuse, IMHO, for doing things wrong. Could the merger of these packages be reversed? Thanks for your time. [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2022-April/070272.html -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] In pacman view, -debug package doesn't depends on its non -debug package
by u34＠net9.ga 25 May '22

25 May '22

Am I right the new -debug packages do not depend, pacman wise, on their binary, non -debug packages? By that I mean pacman --upgrade somepkg-debug will sucsseed even when somepkg is not installed. Such dependency looks to me obvoius. Why was it decided not to have it? -- u34

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[arch-general] A tiny linux 5.17.7-arch1 compilation issue with a custom config
by u34＠net9.ga 16 May '22

16 May '22

This is most probably not an arch specific issue. And does not concern arch official linux, as arch official linux does not have CONFIG_WERROR=y. Hopefully, the linux kerenl people can better fix the following. It could be it is already fixed. I managed to sweep it under the rug with 29c29 < CONFIG_WERROR=y --- > # CONFIG_WERROR is not set My point is I used to have CONFIG_WERROR=y in the linux .config file for some time. It could be that until the gcc 11.2.0-4 -> 12.1.0-1 upgrade, the following was partially, or fully, over looked by the compilation process. But it could also be that the source was somewhat changed lately. Or that there are other issues involved, which I am not aware of. The following is with 5.17.7-arch1 source, and CONFIG_WERROR=y. CC drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.o drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c: In function 'acpi_ut_init_stack_ptr_trace': drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:40:38: error: storing the address of local variable 'current_sp' in 'acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer' [-Werror=dangling-pointer=] 40 | acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer = &current_sp; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:38:19: note: 'current_sp' declared here 38 | acpi_size current_sp; | ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ./include/acpi/acpi.h:31, from drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:12: drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h:196:26: note: 'acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer' declared here 196 | ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_size *, acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/acpi/acpixf.h:45:21: note: in definition of macro 'ACPI_GLOBAL' 45 | extern type name | ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/acpi/acpica] Error 2 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/acpi] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:1831: drivers] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Without CONFIG_WERROR=y, compilation continues, since the lines beginning at cc1: all warnings being treated as errors are avoided. Which is expected. -- u34

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[arch-general] intel-ucode 20220510-1 killed my wifi
by Simeon Felis 15 May '22

15 May '22

Apparently I have a Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x230t. I hope that this is a ucode issue and not a rotting hardware. Here is what happens with intel-ucode 20220510-1 [ 18.138516] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1 build 25532 6000-4.ucode op_mode iwldvm [ 18.246943] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.246948] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.246950] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.246952] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 18.302418] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 18.302422] Timeout waiting for hardware access (CSR_GP_CNTRL 0xffffffff) [ 18.302442] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 576 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c:2117 __iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x1ec/0x220 [iwlwifi] [ 18.302467] Modules linked in: iwldvm(+) kvm_intel(+) snd_intel_dspcfg mac80211 kvm libarc4 snd_intel_sdw_acpi iTCO_wdt snd_hda_codec joydev intel_pmc_bxt iwlwifi nls_iso8859_1 at24 think_lmi(+) vfat mousedev irqbypass firmware_attributes_class wmi_bmof mei_hdcp mei_pxp mei_wdt iTCO_vendor_support rapl intel_cstate fat iwlmei intel_ uncore i2c_i801 snd_hda_core pcspkr thinkpad_acpi i2c_smbus cfg80211 snd_hwdep psmouse ledtrig_audio i915 platform_profile snd_pcm wmi rfkill snd_timer tpm_tis ttm e1000e snd mei_me video tpm_tis_core lpc_ich intel_gtt mei soundcore mac_hid vboxnetflt(OE) vboxnetadp(OE) vboxdrv(OE) dm_multipath ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sg crypto_us er fuse bpf_preload ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 dm_crypt cbc encrypted_keys dm_mod trusted asn1_encoder tee tpm rng_core serio_raw crct10dif_pclmul atkbd libps2 crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci i8042 xhci_pci usbhid mmc_core [ 18.302532] xhci_pci_renesas serio [ 18.302535] CPU: 1 PID: 576 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G OE 5.17.6-arch1-1 #1 6a465b5cdd6c23594925dd1c6b33fddeebe18127 [ 18.302538] Hardware name: LENOVO 3435CTO/3435CTO, BIOS GCETB5WW (2.75 ) 09/25/2019 [ 18.302539] RIP: 0010:__iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x1ec/0x220 [iwlwifi] [ 18.302558] Code: 48 89 df e8 b6 af fe ff 4c 89 f7 e8 2e 3a 36 c9 e9 e6 fe ff ff 89 c6 48 c7 c7 28 ae a3 c0 c6 05 89 7c 04 00 01 e8 14 b4 2f c9 <0f> 0b e9 01 ff ff ff 48 8b 7b 40 48 c7 c2 90 ae a3 c0 31 f6 e8 4b [ 18.302560] RSP: 0018:ffffb9b98090fb30 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 18.302562] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff97e086a2c028 RCX: 0000000000000027 [ 18.302563] RDX: ffff97e38e6616e8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff97e38e6616e0 [ 18.302564] RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb9b98090f948 [ 18.302565] R10: ffffb9b98090f940 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 18.302567] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97e086a2e944 R15: 0000000000000011 [ 18.302568] FS: 00007f713f50f740(0000) GS:ffff97e38e640000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 18.302570] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 18.302571] CR2: 00007fc7d5006000 CR3: 000000010e484006 CR4: 00000000001706e0 [ 18.302573] Call Trace: [ 18.302575] <TASK> [ 18.302578] iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x16/0x40 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302595] iwl_write_prph_delay+0x23/0x70 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302610] iwl_pcie_apm_init+0x131/0x1c0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302625] iwl_trans_pcie_start_hw+0x96/0x2b0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302641] iwl_op_mode_dvm_start+0x298/0xcd0 [iwldvm c4082a7f19be48965d2a2c00f53b750277e654b3] [ 18.302655] _iwl_op_mode_start+0x98/0xc0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302670] iwl_opmode_register+0x68/0xd0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302685] ? 0xffffffffc0b96000 [ 18.302687] iwl_init+0x34/0x1000 [iwldvm c4082a7f19be48965d2a2c00f53b750277e654b3] [ 18.302698] ? 0xffffffffc0b96000 [ 18.302699] do_one_initcall+0x56/0x220 [ 18.302704] do_init_module+0x4a/0x240 [ 18.302707] __do_sys_init_module+0x138/0x1b0 [ 18.302711] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 18.302717] ? vfs_read+0xf4/0x190 [ 18.302720] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x23/0x50 [ 18.302722] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 18.302725] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x23/0x50 [ 18.302726] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 18.302729] ? exc_page_fault+0x71/0x170 [ 18.302731] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 18.302735] RIP: 0033:0x7f713f62a3ee [ 18.302736] Code: 48 8b 0d ad 59 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 af 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 7a 59 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [ 18.302738] RSP: 002b:00007ffc37bd5b78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000af [ 18.302740] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564030699ee0 RCX: 00007f713f62a3ee [ 18.302742] RDX: 000056403022fa2a RSI: 00000000000a82d0 RDI: 00005640307b0d30 [ 18.302743] RBP: 00005640307b0d30 R08: 00000000000a82d0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 18.302744] R10: 000000000010f7c1 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000056403022fa2a [ 18.302745] R13: 000056403069a010 R14: 0000564030699ee0 R15: 000056403069a8e0 [ 18.302747] </TASK> [ 18.302748] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 18.302752] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi transaction failed, dumping registers [ 18.303524] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi device config registers: [ 18.304397] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.305186] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.305985] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000040: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.306736] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000060: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.307472] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000080: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.308196] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000a0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.308922] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000c0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.309654] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000e0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.310358] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000100: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.311043] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000120: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.311731] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000140: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.312440] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi device memory mapped registers: [ 18.313162] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.313863] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.315155] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi parent port (0000:00:1c.1) config registers: [ 18.315997] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000000: 1e128086 00100007 060400c4 00810010 00000000 00000000 00030300 200000f0 [ 18.316671] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000020: f1c0f1c0 0001fff1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00020207 [ 18.317378] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000040: 01428010 00008000 00100000 02123c12 50110042 000cb200 01480000 00000000 [ 18.318075] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000060: 00000000 00000016 00000000 00000000 00010002 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.318782] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000080: 00009005 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000a00d 220317aa 00000000 00000000 [ 18.319464] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000a0: c8020001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.320276] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 00000b02 81118000 00000000 [ 18.321114] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000e0: 00000300 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 08040f87 00000000 [ 18.321910] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000100: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00060011 00000000 00002000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.322573] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000120: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.323203] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000140: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.323812] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000160: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.324408] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000180: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.325007] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001a0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.325606] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.326168] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001e0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.326718] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000200: 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.370403] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: bad EEPROM/OTP signature, type=OTP, EEPROM_GP=0x00000007 [ 18.371598] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: EEPROM not found, EEPROM_GP=0xffffffff [ 18.372418] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Unable to init EEPROM [ 18.373179] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: retry init count 0 [ 18.373951] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.373954] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.373956] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.373958] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 18.418123] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915]) [ 18.448746] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: bad EEPROM/OTP signature, type=OTP, EEPROM_GP=0x00000007 [ 18.449514] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: EEPROM not found, EEPROM_GP=0xffffffff [ 18.450309] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Unable to init EEPROM [ 18.451079] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: retry init count 1 [ 18.451872] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.451875] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.451877] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.451879] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 Linux pandora 5.17.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 10 May 2022 23:00:39 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Downgraded with pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/intel-ucode-20220419-1-any.pkg.tar.zst I would probably need more reboots and re-installs to confirm and rule out hardware issues. If I don't post on this any more it was probably a hardware issue.

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[arch-general] Qemu 7 can not be upgraded on my machine.
by Matthew Dyer 14 May '22

14 May '22

Hi all, I have 2 machines 1 of wich is x86 and the other is arm based. On On the arm machine I am using stormux which is based on arch arm. Here is the issue. On my stormux/arm pi400 machine which btw I I am writing this message on, I am unabble to upgrade or for thart mater remove qemu. Upgrading qemu or installing qemu-desktop tells me that there are broken dependencys. I for the time being, have added the following packages to be ignored in my pacman.conf. qemu-headless and qemu-img. I am not sure if this should be posted on the list, but could not find a way to resaulved this and would to get this problem. Is there a flag such as allow or force of sore sort which can be used in some cases? On my main x86 machine this upgrade went without a problem. If there is a way to remove qemu since I don't really use it that would be wonderfull as well since I don't use it. Matthew

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[arch-general] Rollback to specific date works fine -- but really slow download
by David C. Rankin 13 May '22

13 May '22

Arch folks, Had the need to do a first rollback to 3/15/22 for a samba bug report on 4.16 failure to discover [homes] (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062) The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be done to help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there were 368 packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took forever. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] sound problem with chromium
by Pascal 11 May '22

11 May '22

hi, I have an ArchLinux installed on a usb disk (eg. "mobile"). ~ # uname -r 5.15.37-1-lts ~ # pacman -Q | egrep 'alsa|chromium|firefox|mplayer' alsa-lib 1.2.6.1-1 alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-1 alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.6.3-1 alsa-utils 1.2.6-1 chromium 101.0.4951.54-1 firefox 100.0-1 mplayer 38359-1 when it runs on my Dell Latitude E5250, Chromium works without any difficulty to play a YouTube video for example : the sound is ok (same for Firefox or Mplayer). on the other hand, when it runs on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Chromium has problems with the sound (which is not the case for Firefox or Mplayer which both produce sound). it happens from time to time in this (hardware) environment that Chromium produces sound and the next moment (simple stop/restart of the browser) it fails (without anything being done in between) ! another surprising thing is that if I access a video (zunRcH4nUPI) this way "chromium https://www.youtube.com/" (and then click on the desired video) I often don't get any sound while if I access it this way "chromium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunRcH4nUPI" the sound works ! I spent a lot of time trying to understand the problem and looking for a solution/track on the internet but, having found nothing, I throw a bottle in the water... regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] pacsave for nouveau blacklist in nvidia-utils
by The Puzzlemaker 08 May '22

08 May '22

I've found that when I need to keep nvidia-utils installed whilst still using nouveau (even while using the suggested method in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/nouveau#Keep_NVIDIA_driver_installed) it gets overridden upon update of nvidia-utils. I believe the way to solve this would be to add a backup section in the PKGBUILD (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#backup)? But I'm not entirely sure. This would be helpful, in my opinion, though, as it would prevent the blacklist from getting invisibly uncommented, and causing problems which may be hard to debug.

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[arch-general] Status of llvm / clang
by Spencer Collyer 08 May '22

08 May '22

Hope this is the right mailing list to send this too. If not, apologies and please direct me to the right one. I'm wondering when the llvm and clang packages are going to be updated. Version 14 of both have been out since late March but doing a package search for them still shows version 13. I did see a thread that said compilers sometimes take longer to be updated because they need testing to make sure they don't break any existing packages that use them, but it also said they normally got put into Testing to do that and I don't see llvm or clang in the Testing area. Not really a biggie, but there are some things in Clang14 that I'd like to start using and I'd prefer to use official Arch packages than building my own version. Thanks for your attention, Regards, Spencer S

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