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

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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Pacman/icu conflict: error while loading shared object
by Jeanette C. 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Hey hey, I just updated icu, which broke pacman. I then used pacman-static to install the latest pacman version, using pacman-static, but no change. icu version: 76.1-1 pacman version: 7.0.0.r6.gc685ae6-6 Error message: pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Can anyone suggest a workaround? Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Just hang around and you'll see, There's nowhere I'd rather be <3 (Britney Spears)

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Issues with Viewers for "special" images
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Hi, yesterday after the latest updates I tried to view some "special" images. I tried to view a JPEG 2000 with extra/geeqie and with extra/krita and I tried to view some FITS {,demo} images with extra/stellarsolver and extra/kstars. I don't know if this worked before, it was the first time I tried to view those kinds of images by my Arch Linux install. It was impossible to view the JPEG 2000 and more or less impossible to view FITS images. Just extra/stellarsolver was able to view a FITS demo image, but failed most of the times, too. I was able to view the JPEG 2000 image on an iPad Pro. I don't want to troubleshoot those issues, I'm just interested if somebody was ever able to view JPEG 2000 and/or FITS images with applications from the official repos. Regards, Ralf

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Akonadi / KMail broken imap resource
by Bennett Piater 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Hi, My IMAP resources broke in Kontact/KMail this week. My first idea was to try akonadictl restart, followed by fsck and vacuum. The restart triggered a mariadb migration, which was successful (shouldn't that have happened automatically before...?). However, it didn't change much. The logs were full of errors like these - the imap resource crashes, with no clear cause: org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/ akonadi_imap_resource" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" ) org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource' crashed! 0 restarts left. org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: New notification connection (registered as Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7fe4b02b4f00) ) org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber Akonadi::Server::NotificationSubscriber(0x7fe4b02b4f00) identified as "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93936498547840" org.kde.pim.akonadiserver: Subscriber "AgentBaseChangeRecorder - 93936498547840" disconnected org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: ProcessControl: Application "/usr/bin/ akonadi_imap_resource" stopped unexpectedly ( "Process crashed" ) org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: Application '/usr/bin/akonadi_imap_resource' crashed too often. Giving up! I then tried deleting the mariadb and having akonadi re-create it, which helped me once in the past (should be fine since it's only an indexed cache). Finally, I tried deleting and re-adding the account in kontact. None of the above worked. Any ideas how to proceed? Is there more that I could try to reset? Are there more detailed logs somewhere? I'm hoping arojas has an idea - you're a heroic maintainer, thank you in any case! Cheers, Bennett

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Signstar design concepts - questions
by cen 04 Jun '25

04 Jun '25

Hi, reading through https://signstar.archlinux.page/architecture/design.html can someone explain how the SSS shares are distributed among holders? Do they physically meet for a beer and each takes out a print out from initial console setup? Could you perhaps pre-bake share holder's SSH keys into the image and do a one share per key as the do first login? This way they could retrieve it remotely. My second question is if confidential compute was considered instead of a dedicated physical hardware and OS? Could you replace the setup with a confidential VM that runs signstar as verifiable service?

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