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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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Btrfs and nspawn
by Pocket 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

I have a system that uses btrfs for the root filesystem. I created a subvolume root which becomes the root filesystem on boot up, ie it bootds to the root subvolume. I now want to add some "containers" to that machine, for example DNS. When set up with bind and started with machinectl provides DNS for the network. Is it possible to use a snapshot for the root subvolume for nspawn containers? I have seen that one can use the --template option but it appears to be a newly created container every time. Thsat won't work as I would lose the bind setup. I need something that is not volatile in which I can install bind an configure it without having to do that every time the container is shutdown and the restarted. Also if I can use the root subvolume as a template will the subsequent containers be updated when I use pacman -Syu to update the root subvolume? -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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Btrfs and nspawn
by Pocket 28 Sep '25

28 Sep '25

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Btrfs and nspawn Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2025 05:48:04 -0400 From: Pocket <pocket(a)columbus.rr.com> To: Moabeat <moabeat(a)berlin.de> On 9/28/25 2:45 AM, Moabeat wrote: > Let me check if I understood this correctly: > > 1. You want to set up a container for prividing DNS services. > 2. You want this setup of DNS to persist between container restarts. > 3. You want the container to keep up with the system updates of your > host system. Yes that is correct. > > Maybe it dind't get the point of what you try to achieve, but for me > this raises the question why you want to use a container at all? IMHO > the best option would be, to just install the packages for the DNS > services right away in your host, configure them and ditch the > container. The whole point of a container is, that it can be run and > updated independently of the host. Or is there anything I missed? I am doing this already on a host that uses ext4 for the filesystem and I wish to change that to btrfs. By using a container (systemd-nspawn) it allows me to keep the service separate from the host system. I then can copy that to move the container to another host without trouble. I am doing this on a single host that has containers for DNS, Nginx and dovecot/opensmtpd. I want to snapshot the "root" subvolume as the starting point for the container. If I understand the process the I won't have to "install" the "rootsystem" in each container and they will share those files. The only differences will be whatever changes need to be made for each container saving a bunch of SDD space. When setting up the "subvolumes/containers" for each service if I use the --template option it appears to do that but it is voltile as it will setup a new subvolume each time that will a "copy" of the the root subvolume, without bind and settings. I originally though I could do this by snapshotting the "root" subvolume and then use that for the systemd-nspawn container starting it with machinectl upon system boot. I have not tried that. I am asking if anyone here has done something like this. Looking for pointers information. > > On Sun Sep 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM CEST, Pocket wrote: > >> I have a system that uses btrfs for the root filesystem. >> >> I created a subvolume root which becomes the root filesystem on boot >> up, ie it bootds to the root subvolume. >> >> I now want to add some "containers" to that machine, for example DNS. >> >> When set up with bind and started with machinectl provides DNS for the >> network. >> >> Is it possible to use a snapshot for the root subvolume for nspawn >> containers? >> >> I have seen that one can use the --template option but it appears to >> be a newly created container every time. >> >> Thsat won't work as I would lose the bind setup. >> >> I need something that is not volatile in which I can install bind an >> configure it without having to do that every time the container is >> shutdown and the restarted. >> >> Also if I can use the root subvolume as a template will the subsequent >> containers be updated when I use pacman -Syu to update the root >> subvolume? > -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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/boot full
by Brian Keck 26 Sep '25

26 Sep '25

Last time (24 Aug) I updated arch on my laptop, /boot filled up. [1] There was a message saying that the build of /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img failed [1] [2] seems to say to adjust /etc/mkinitcpio.conf by dropping kms from HOOKS & adding i915 to MODULES. But this makes me nervous, so I'm asking here. Laptop has only Intel graphics [3], & lsmod shows both i915 & xe. I'm using both X11 & Wayland. Is the above advice good? Should I add xe to MODULES as well? TIA, Brian Keck ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1] Laptop is Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 14" /boot partition is 256 MB /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img size is 179 MB [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293333 [3] lspci -v 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Meteor Lake-P [Intel Arc Graphics] (rev 08) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem:Lenovo Device 231e Flags:bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 166, IOMMU group 0 Memoryat 4058000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] Memoryat 4000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] ExpansionROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities:<access denied> Kerneldriver in use: i915 Kernelmodules: i915, xe

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Sway Crashes After Recent Updates
by Radosław Kintzi 24 Sep '25

24 Sep '25

Not sure if this is the righ forum to report this kind of problems, but after this morning's `pacman -Syu`, I began to observe that Sway crashes each time DPMS is forced off, for example after `swaymsg "output * dpms off"`. Downgrading wlroots0.19 (0.19.1-2 => 0.19.0-5) and libdisplay-info (0.3.0-1 => 0.2.0-2) (and mpv) "fixes" the problem. Small excerpt from the system journal: wrz 24 10:07:01 ganges sway[1030]: sway: backend/drm/drm.c:1453: realloc_crtcs: Assertion `conn->crtc != NULL' failed. wrz 24 10:07:01 ganges systemd-coredump[1262]: Process 1030 (sway) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 6/ABRT, proc> wrz 24 10:07:01 ganges systemd[1]: Created slice Slice /system/systemd-coredump. wrz 24 10:07:01 ganges systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 1262/UID 0). wrz 24 10:07:01 ganges systemd-coredump[1263]: [🡕] Process 1030 (sway) of user 1000 dumped core. Best, R

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failing to preform offline installation
by daggs 20 Sep '25

20 Sep '25

Greetings, I have a server that serves as router via vm, I'm attempting to install arch offline. here is what I did, I've created a json config to load using archinstall to preform the actual install. after selecting all the pkgs needed, I've extracted them from the json file and ran this: pacman -Syw --cachedir /mnt/repos/cache --dbpath /mnt/repos/db ..... now I have all the pkgs I need, next I've entered /mnt/repos/cache and ran this: repo-add ./custom.db.tar.zst ./*[^sig] according to the docs, I have local repo if I understand correctly. next I've booted the system in question and updated /etc/pacman.conf and added this: [custom] SigLevel = PackageRequired Server = file:///mnt/repos/cache I ran archinstall, got this: Fetching Arch Linux package database... Failed to sync Arch Linux package database. Most likely due to a missing network connection or DNS issue. Run archinstall --debug and check /var/log/archinstall/install.log for details. how can I instruct archinstall to use my local repo? Thanks.

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How to stop email notifications from gitlab.archlinux.org
by Uģis Ģērmanis 19 Sep '25

19 Sep '25

Hello, There was a time I wanted all gitlab activity sent to my email, so i set Preferences => Notifications => Global notification level => Custom (to the activities I was interested) Now times have changed and I no longer have to the time to catch up with thousands of emails a week. So i tried setting the activity level to "Participate" which should only notify about things I'm involved in somehow, like issues I've commented on or things I've explicitly set to be notified about. But I still receive emails about issues created mostly by Bumpbuddy (and some others). Like hundred emails a day. Also ticking and unticking "Receive notifications about your own activity' doesn't seem to change anything either. I also tried to set the global notification level to "Disabled" which should kill all emails as it says but even that has no effect either. If I do a search on issues " Subscribed = Explicitly subscribed", I only get 1 closed issue. So I believe something is broken, because I haven't explicitly subscribed to anything that much, so the global setting shouldn't be bypassed. ugjka

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Unable to access Arch Wiki
by KevinCrrl 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Hello everyone, Since yesterday, I've been having trouble accessing the Arch Wiki from my network. My browser tells me the site is taking too long to respond. I've already tried things like changing DNS and restarting my router (which still gave me the same IP address I had). I know there were recent DDoS attacks against other Arch sites like the AUR. However, I've checked the Wiki status [1] and everything seems normal. I've also tried using tools to change the IP address, and I can access it. I've confirmed there are recent edits, which tells me it's not a global issue. My concern is that they've blocked me—not my username, but my IP address. I tend to be active reading and editing on the Wiki. Could someone confirm whether IP-based blocks are currently in place, and if so, how can I request to be unblocked? Thanks to anyone who can help. Kevin [1] https://status.archlinux.org

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Trouble registering with Arch ARM forum
by kelson+arch＠kvibber.com 05 Sep '25

05 Sep '25

I've been trying to register for the Arch Linux ARM forums off and on for a few weeks. Before the DDOS attacks, I was able to get through the registration form, but never received any confirmation emails (yes, I looked in junk mail). When I tried again this week, figuring I'd try using an address from a more well-known provider, I found the captcha no longer loads, so I can't even get through the form. The JS console reports `ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID` on trying to load `cap.js` from the third-party keycaptcha domain, which seems a likely culprit. Is there anyone here connected with the ARM forum who could look into fixing the captcha or the missing emails? I didn't get any response on IRC, or from the one email address listed on the Arch ARM website (which isn't for the forums, I know, but I figured it was worth a shot), and the main Arch forum admins told me to ask the ARM forum admins, despite the fact that the forum doesn't list any admin contact info if you aren't logged in. Which I can't be, because the problem is that I can't get through the registration form. -- Kelson Vibber KVibber.com

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