November 2023 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

makepkg
by Jude DaShiell 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

I failed to install edbrowse-git and in doing so one of the failure messages was some warnings being treated as errors. man makepkg didn't show me any switch to prevent warnings being treated as errors unless maybe force does that. Even with force the package didn't install. Did anyone manage to get that to install correctly who could share some ideas what I'm doing wrong? Usually when I run makepkg I do: makepkg --needed -cimrs and very often that actually works. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Issues with new NTFS module
by Giovanni Santini 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Hi everyone, I am currently having an issue with the new NTFS module. I am able to mount, browse the partition and create files; however, when writing content into a file, that does not happen. It seems the content is written only at partition unmount. I tried mounting my partition with both *mount* and *udisksctl* with the *ntfs3* module and it didn't work. The old *ntfs-3g* module works perfectly. Any clues on what it is happening? I can provide any logs you wish. Giovanni Santini

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AUR notification emails lack List-* fields.
by Ralph Corderoy 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Hi, An email from notify(a)aur.archlinux.org arrived recently. The first in ages. The body was a simple The package jitsi-meet-electron [1] was adopted by xiota [2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/jitsi-meet-electron/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/xiota/ I went to add it to my mail filtering but noticed the email lacks any List-* fields in the header. I can obviously filter on other fields but wanted to suggest adding List-Unsubscribe and List-ID. It might also be worth adding how to unsubscribe as a ‘-- \n’ separated signature. Hopefully, raising it here is sufficient. Following https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues/new?issuable_templat… from ‘Report issues here’ on the AUR site takes me to https://gitlab.archlinux.org/users/sign_in but I don't think I'm a registered user. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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Pacman -Syu fails because of required keys missing from keyring
by Zerro 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hello I tried to run pacman -Syu to update my Arch Linux system. Downloading the (39) packages goes well. But when installing I do get messages like: :: Import PGP key 9B7A287D9A2EC608, "David Runge <dvzrv(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] error: key "9B7A287D9A2EC608" could not be imported :: Import PGP key 94657AB20F2A092B, "Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] error: key "94657AB20F2A092B" could not be imported 12 keys could not be imported and pacman thereafter stops the update. I do have another Arch Linux system which doesn't show these errors. Looks like there is an issue with this system. Is there a way to have these keys imported so that I can update my Arch Linux system ? ~Zerro

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re: btrfs needs what repair?
by Jude DaShiell 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

results of that btrfs scrub start / command run on a new system install were a whole bunch of uncorrectable errors. Fortunately this computer has more than one nvme drive so I'll wipe this out and try the other drive. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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about translating certain words
by zoorat 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

hi, I was planning to translate AURweb and archwiki into Bangla. but got into a problem. sorry if I missed this info in the wiki. while reading badly translated https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_(%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%… I got confused about how to translate the word "update". because, in Bangla, most people say the word "update" as is but the direct translation would be "হালনাগাদ"(Hālanāgād). I only ever saw people using the word halnagad inside some schoolbooks, not in real life... there are a lot of words like this where we use the English word more than the Bangla word. as it's rare to find documentation in Bangla, I don't know how other people do those. and most Bangla machine translation is just bad. so, my question is do I translate it to casual Bangla (how people normally talk even in formal situations), or hardcore pure Bangla translation ?? in my opinion, it's better to keep it how people normally talk. have a nice day. p.s. sorry, at first i accidentally send it to aur general -- yours zoorat, PGP: 00000586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat

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Re: about translating certain words
by zoorat 19 Nov '23

19 Nov '23

hi, thanks for the mail. On 11/19/23 21:10, ag-sig99 wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I am happy to see someone having an idea to translate > Archwiki into Bangla. > > I would suggest it to be translated into casual Bangla since chaste > Bangla is something that most won't even understand and some common > terminology might not be even properly translated to convey the required > information. I believe that using DeepL or any machine translator would > be a bad idea since it doesn't work well with Indic languages. > > Have a nice day! (: > > Thanking you all, > > ag. > > On 11/18/23 17:29, zoorat wrote: >> hi, >> >> I was planning to translate AURweb and archwiki into Bangla. this is exactly why I initially sent this email. after exchanging all those emails, I have concluded that I will prioritize the use of formal Bangla, but for technical terms, I will adopt the commonly used words. the Bangla Academy's handling of technical terms is ineffective and, at best, confusing. they just straight up explain the words in the dictionary most of the time rather than giving a single word. and most probably, I will not be using any tools. maybe some google translate because it at least somewhat works... have a nice day. -- yours zoorat, PGP: 00000586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat

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re: incomplete alsa installation
by Jude DaShiell 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Please disregard message. It turns out after I added my user to the audio group I forgot to reboot the system. Now the system has been rebooted, alsa works as expected. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Question regarding the inclusion of plasma 6 alpha in kde-unstable
by Yifan Zhu 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, Recently I noticed that the kde-unstable official repository started to include some packages from plasma 6 alpha (https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=KDE-Unstable&q=&maintainer=&flag…) However, currently the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#kde-unstable) states that > This repository contains the latest /beta/ or /Release Candidate/ of KDE <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE> Plasma and Applications. So this inclusion of alpha packages might be a bit unexpected to users. Should the wiki be modified to reflect the fact that it might also include alpha versions of packages? I do not want to make that change before making sure that I am not misrepresenting the ``official'' policy, or the agreed upon policy by the community. Thanks for all the hard work! Best, Yifan

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incomplete alsa installation
by Jude DaShiell 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

If I run mpv --really-quiet followed by a file name I get an error: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:2180:(_snd_pcm_direct_new) unable to create IPC semaphore This happens with jack2 or jack-pipewire installed. The user is in the audio group but beyond this, I don't know how to solve this problem. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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