May 2025 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Bring ARM into the fold?
by Christer Solskogen 20 Apr '26

20 Apr '26

Is it time to bring Arch Linux ARM into the fold of Arch Linux? The GNU toolchain of ALARM is now very behind, and the developers are dead silent about why. There little to no response on pull requests on the github page, and while it seems like there is activity on their PKGBUILDs repo, it almost seems to me that it is some kind of automatic jobs being run. Their forum is broken and has been broken for quite some time as well. -- chs

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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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cp from internal SSD via USB 3 to external HDD is very slow
by Ralf Mardorf 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Hi, I am copying from an internal SATA SSD via USB 3 to an external SATA WD Blue, a 3.5" CMR HDD. The first part “cp -ai /mnt/winos7/” (see [*1]) took about 70 minutes for 188 GiB, almost all files are quite small. The second part “cp -ai /mnt/winos10/” (see [*1]) should copy about 100 GiB small files + about 740 GiB for a single vbox vdi file. The about 100 GiB small files were copied and about 310 GiB of the vdi file were also already copied, at 03:30, so for about 410 GiB it took about 9 hours. I think this is taking far too long. Does anyone have an idea? FWIW ^Z was an oversight. I meant to press Ctrl+Alt+T to open a terminal tab, and apparently pressed Ctrl+Z (German QWERTY keyboard). CPU Model: 6.191.5 "13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-13100" Memory Size: 32 GB For top see [*2]. • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ uname -r; cat /proc/cmdline 6.14.2-arch1-1 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/m1.archlinux ro ibt=off ipv6.disable=1 kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0 Regards, Ralf [*1] • root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse # date; cp -ai /mnt/winos7/{*txt,o10_share,winOS_2} /mnt/ua.fantec/w7_ipad_archive-winos7_not_included-2025-apr-14/winos7/; echo $?; date; cp -ai /mnt/winos10/ /mnt/ua.fantec/w10ipad_archive+winos10_is_included-2025-apr-14/; echo $?; date Mon 14 Apr 17:02:20 CEST 2025 0 Mon 14 Apr 18:13:45 CEST 2025 ^Z [1]+ Stopped cp -ai /mnt/winos10/ /mnt/ua.fantec/w10ipad_archive+winos10_is_included-2025-apr-14/ 148 Tue 15 Apr 02:56:03 CEST 2025 • root@archlinux /home/rocketmouse # fg 1 cp -ai /mnt/winos10/ /mnt/ua.fantec/w10ipad_archive+winos10_is_included-2025-apr-14/ [*2] top - 03:38:10 up 2 days, 17:21, 1 user, load average: 1.30, 1.26, 1.30 Tasks: 284 total, 1 running, 281 sleep, 2 d-sleep, 0 stopped, 0 zombie %Cpu(s): 1.8 us, 0.8 sy, 0.0 ni, 84.3 id, 12.9 wa, 0.1 hi, 0.1 si, 0.0 st MiB Mem : 31862.0 total, 316.4 free, 3401.6 used, 29130.6 buff/cache MiB Swap: 16383.0 total, 16382.5 free, 0.5 used. 28460.4 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 82310 rocketm+ 20 0 557740 60108 48756 S 10.3 0.2 0:18.00 roxterm 663 root 20 0 819996 107492 66704 S 7.0 0.3 17:40.51 Xorg 100095 rocketm+ 20 0 2587672 172912 117660 S 1.3 0.5 0:08.42 Isolated Web Co 87583 root 20 0 7440 6136 5516 D 1.0 0.0 14:05.38 cp 2078 rocketm+ 20 0 167504 41148 33812 S 0.3 0.1 4:47.97 parcellite 2697 rocketm+ 20 0 73.9g 806944 168776 S 0.3 2.5 11:00.17 evolution 96948 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:12.97 kworker/u32:4-events_unbound 100138 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:00.99 kworker/1:2-events 100195 rocketm+ 20 0 70.5g 163948 142808 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.67 WebKitWebProces 100326 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.3 0.0 0:01.75 kworker/u32:1-flush-8:80 100948 rocketm+ 20 0 12372 9836 7660 R 0.3 0.0 0:00.07 top 1 root 20 0 24012 15008 9320 S 0.0 0.0 0:26.64 systemd 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pool_workqu

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Arch General - is there a problem with posts
by Mike Cloaked 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

There have been no posts coming from the arch general mailing list for several months. Is there a problem with the server? -- mike c

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Pacman lite?
by Pocket 14 Jun '25

14 Jun '25

Is it possible to build a neutered version of pacman? A pacman lite if you will.... I need to cut down on the dependencies pacman requires. Without key signing and package signing. I would like to only have package building and package management and pull from an http respository. This is for a custom built OS that I would like to use pacman on an ARM SBC. it currently uses rpm as a package manager. I would also like to build them using makepkg. -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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stable-repos Newsfeed Never Showed linux 6.14.7.arch2-1 x86_64 after it left core-testing?
by David C Rankin 25 May '25

25 May '25

Arch Admins, I use the newsfeeds extensively to keep track of what packages are coming for server updates. This past cycle with linux 6.14.7.arch2-1, it appeared in core-testing (https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/x86_64/core-testing/) on 5/22, but I never show it reaching: https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/all/stable-repos/ This is really just to pass this along in case there is a problem with the feeds. However, if anyone knows why this occurred, I'm curious about that fact as well. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[ANNOUNCE] Proposed fix for dnssec-anchors package (outdated trust anchors + unused makedepends)
by meowmeowbeanz 24 May '25

24 May '25

Hi arch-dev-public, I'm announcing a proposed moderate change to the dnssec-anchors package per the developer manual guidelines. ## Summary Fix for 5+ year old DNSSEC trust anchors and unused makedepends in the dnssec- anchors package. ## Issues Addressed - GitLab Issue: #2 (outdated trust anchors) - Existing Bug: #77100 (unused makedepends, assigned to jelly) ## Proposed Changes - Restore dynamic trust anchor generation in build() function - Filter for KSK records (flag 257) to eliminate DNSSEC warnings - Update package version to 20250523-1 - Remove dependency on static 2019 files ## Testing - Verified DNSSEC validation works correctly - Eliminated knot-resolver warnings - Confirmed proper ad flag behavior with drill/kdig ## Merge Request Available at: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ dnssec-anchors/-/merge_requests/1 The change preserves the established purpose (providing DNSSEC trust anchors) while updating to current practices and fixing confirmed bugs. Comments and feedback welcome. Thanks, meowmeowbeanz

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openSUSE removes Deepin from official distro on security grounds - Arch have similar concerns?
by David C Rankin 14 May '25

14 May '25

Devs, The Register posted an article about openSUSE removing the Deepin desktop based on dbus abuse and other security and packaging violations. The issues are documented and linked in the article: https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/684a187f/7019d634/4gJn Has Arch done a similar analysis or have similar concerns? openSUSE have removed it from the distro, but left the package available in the community packager's repoo (similar to AUR setup). Not sure whether that is something to consider here. The concern being that by providing official packages openSUSE gave Deepin the aura of being up to the distros security standards where apparently that isn't something that was warranted. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Bash [[ foo =~ regex ]] behavior changed with last update, gentoo patches?
by David C Rankin 09 May '25

09 May '25

Arch devs, I have a script that parses IP and CIDR notation using the following to capture IPs: [[ $1 =~ ^([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})$ ]] # validate 5 elements in BASH_REMATCH array if [ "${#BASH_REMATCH[@]}" -eq 5 ]; then ... (yes, I can improve it -- but that's not the point here) Then to capture CIDR: [[ $1 =~ ^([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})/(.*)$ ]] # validate 6 elements in BASH_REMATCH array if [ "${#BASH_REMATCH[@]}" -eq 6 ]; then ... This script was used to automatically update ipset lists and save /etc/ipset.conf. It has worked for years. Today after update to bash-5.2.037-3-x86_64 I get: $ ipsa 38.0.0.0/8 /home/david/scr/adm/ipset_add.sh: line 6: [: 0/8: integer expression expected /home/david/scr/adm/ipset_add.sh: line 6: [: 0/8: integer expression expected valid IP: 38.0.0.0/8 ipset v7.23: Hash is full, cannot add more elements The problem being for the first time ever, the regex in: [[ $1 =~ ^([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})[.]([^.]{1,3})$ ]] parsed the IP as 38 0 0 0/8 (with the "/8") instead of 38 0 0 0 filling the ipset blocklist completely with sequential 38.x.x.x IPs. Technically this regex matching is correct as the final character list [^.] doesn't preclude inclusion of '/', but this is a definite change from all prior bash versions. Is this the intended result of the gentoo patches change to the package? I've since fixed the regex with [^./] as the final list. Are there any other known changes to regex parsing with the changes to the bash PKGBUILD and patches? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Package building and signing
by Pocket 06 May '25

06 May '25

I am building packages using makepkg for the raspberry pi 4 platform I changed the CFLAGS adding -march=armv8-a -mtune=cortex-a72 (makepkg.conf). I started to build all the packages that make up the "Building in a clean chroot" following the building in a claen chroot on the wiki. All when well. I will then build all the "base" package followed by all the packages I use on a "desktop" system. I would now like to make a custom repository for those packages and then have pacman install from there, eventually to remove the core extra etc repositories. I know how to create the custom repository (from the various wiki docs) using repo-add. I have a nginx web server on a remote raspberry pi and it will serve those packages from /etc/pacman.conf [custom] SigLevel = Optional TrustAll Server = http://www.home.arpa/Repository So my questions are as follows 1. How to get pacman to pull the packages from the custom repository first 2. I would like to sign the packages in the custom repository. I have looked at some of the information regarding signing packages(maybe missing some of them). It was totally confusing. I need guidance in the form of Step 1, step 2 etc. Is there such docs in existance? -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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