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

Boot Archiso files using systemd-boot or GRUB
by Óscar García Amor 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hello folks, I am doing a little crazy, I would like to boot the content of Archiso but with the extracted files not the ISO image itself. It is clear to me that to boot I need: - amd-ucode.img - intel-ucode.img - initramfs-linux.img - vmlinuz-linux - airootfs.sfs And that the linux and initrd lines are: linux /archiso/vmlinuz-linux initrd /archiso/intel-ucode.img /archiso/amd-ucode.img /archiso/initramfs-linux.img But I'm missing the options to pass to the kernel to find the airootfs.sfs. I know that using the img_dev and img_loop parameters I can tell it where the ISO file is located and boot with it, but I'm more interested in booting directly with the extracted airootfs.sfs and without the ISO. Any ideas? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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ezarch script errors
by Jude DaShiell 15 May '23

15 May '23

In broad software selections, neither general works nor multimedia. These two error out and install nothing hardinfo for general isn't found and easyscreencapture in multimedia is not found either. That may explain why orca never came up talking after I installed a mate desktop and I had no option to run without a desktop either. That's the situation with the iso I have. Either verizon throttling or a hardware error prevents isos from verifying once downloaded so I use what isos I have here until these problems can be fixed. I ran ./install to run that script too on the iso. -- 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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php-legacy migration leaves startup warnings for php on migrated modules - ignore?
by David C. Rankin 13 May '23

13 May '23

All, For nextcloud, etc. the install recommends php-legacy (8.1) and provides a brief synopsis for migration to php-legacy. That works, but then any app calling php instead of php-legacy will receive startup warnings for modules moved to php-legacy. (I still have some apps as well as test code that users php on the command line) I could always just disable the startup warnings completely for php -- but is there a better way? For example: $ php-legacy <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Version => 8.1.18 (all good) $ php <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_pgsql ... PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql (/usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql ... PHP Version => 8.2.6 (versions of modules migrated to php-legacy) Is there no way to leave both installed and not confuse nextcloud? If not, then disabling the php modules is fine and only having the php-legacy versions installed will just necessitate disabling the migrated modules and not having the ability to work with both. Can I leave both versions of pdo_pgsql and pgsql installed without causing myself grief? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest on Arch Linux in Virtualbox?
by Ralf Mardorf 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi, to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7. My current installed virtualbox was build against python 3.10.10-1. Today building against python 3.11.3-1 failed with "Checking for Python support: ** Python not found!". I can still start a Windows 11 guest with virtualbox build against python 3.10.10-1 on the machine that is updated to python 3.11.3-1. However, the situation threatens to become more serious. • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q python python 3.11.3-1 • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep SUPPYTHONLIBS= chroot/rocketmouse/build/virtualbox/src/VirtualBox-6.1.40/configure SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2 python3.3 python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m python3.9 python3.9m python3.10 python3.10m" • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep " python (" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1 [2023-05-04T01:05:49+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.10-1 -> 3.11.3-1) • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.1 I want to build virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.2 against latest version of python. Maybe I don't need to do this, but soon or later I at least need to build against another dependency and then python is involved, too. Perhaps just adding python3.11 to configure's SUPPYTHONLIBS already does the job to build virtualbox, without fixing something else. If so, the end of building virtualbox < version 7 to run Windows 11 guests is still close. What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest? Regards, Ralf

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Python 3.11 timeline?
by David Rosenstrauch 04 May '23

04 May '23

Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? I emailed the maintainer about this directly recently, but didn't hear anything back. I know this is a big upgrade, and lots of dependent packages are involved, so this might require some time. I just was wondering if there was any roadmap/timeline for how long that might be. Thanks, DR

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Fwd: dropping retired X.Org Packages
by David C. Rankin 04 May '23

04 May '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: dropping retired X.Org Packages Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 23:51:11 +0200 From: Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> Organization: ArchLinux To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Following this reminder post[1]+[2] I'm going to remove the following packages soon from the repos: xf86-input-elographics xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-input-void Any objections? -Andy Andy, I still use the synaptics package on laptops -- handy to have. Will it go to AUR. It would be a shame to lose it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ttf-nerd-fonts conflict
by Ralf Mardorf 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi, there's a ttf-nerd-fonts conflict, one package removes the other package. One of the packages is flagged out-of-date, so I guess I shouldn't report a bug. However, it's a little bit annoying that I need to add ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em to IgnorePkg. "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List. REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!" - https://bugs.archlinux.org/ $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [removal] [snip] $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 [removal] ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [snip] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols/ Last Updated: 2023-05-01 02:12 UTC https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em/ Flagged out-of-date on 2023-04-30 Regards, Ralf

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