February 2026 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

Marginal trusted pacman developer
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Hi, I know that pacman-static is not an official repository, but it's about the signature of a staff member, https://archlinux.org/people/support-staff/ . Is it an accident or on purpose? I temporarily commented out pacman-static in pacman.conf and uninstalled the pacman-static package. Regards, Ralf PS: $ sudo pacman -Syu error: pacman-static: signature from "Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date multilib is up to date proaudio is up to date chaotic-aur is up to date pacman-static 544.0 B 7.70 KiB/s 00:00 [...] 100% error: pacman-static: signature from "Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) [2026-02-06T18:27:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded archlinux-keyring (20260202-1 -> 20260206-1) [2026-02-06T18:27:58+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg... [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Disabling revoked keys in keyring... [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Disabled 1 key. [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Updating trust database... [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 10 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 1 valid: 10 signed: 85 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 9m, 0f, 0u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 2 valid: 72 signed: 26 trust: 72-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: next trustdb check due at 2026-03-13

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Arch Wiki SSL Error
by starquake 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Hello, It seems the Arch Wiki is down. https://wiki.archlinux.org/ in Firefox gives me a SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT. Thought it would be a good idea to report. Have a nice day! starquake

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make pacman-pkg: where to ask for help about cross-compiling
by SET 08 Feb '26

08 Feb '26

Hello, The actual problem may concern - this forum - the archlinuxarm forum - the kernel help channels. It is about building kernel packages with 'make pacman-pkg' using a cross- compiler on an x86_64 host. All packages are generated for aarch64. For arm, only the 'linux-upstream' package is created successfully. The next package generation fails, linux-upstream-headers. Using these environment variables: export ARCH=arm export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- If help can be expected here, I'll further post the stderr messages, so as to shorten this post. Thank you for any input.

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KDE plasma login stalls with Wayland
by SET 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Hello, KDE plasma login stalled after today's upgrade: [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded coreutils (9.9-1 -> 9.10-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded ddcutil (2.2.3-1 -> 2.2.5-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded discount (3.0.0.d-1 -> 3.0.1.2-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded geoip-database (20250129-1 -> 20260204-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded graphviz (14.1.1-2 -> 14.1.2-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded less (1:691-1 -> 1:691-2) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libmediainfo (25.10-1 -> 26.01-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libraqm (0.10.3-1 -> 0.10.4-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded mediainfo (25.10-1 -> 26.01-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded unrar (1:7.2.3-1 -> 1:7.2.4-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded yt-dlp (2026.01.31-1 -> 2026.02.04-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded zlib-ng (2.3.2-1 -> 2.3.3-1) Only the wallpaper is shown, with no mouse and keyboard input, although a shutdown with magic keys remains possible. This is with plasma Wayland, while a usable desktop is obtained with plasma-x11 (with a few troubles regarding the touchpad). After reverting to the older versions of all these packages, a usable Wayland desktop is obtained. It's hard to tell which one(s) is(are) responsible. Maintainers will have a better idea. Thank you for considering.

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"setxkbmap -option kpdl:comma" doesn't work
by Ralf Mardorf 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

Hi, for my German keyboard, I was able to change the num pad's "," to a "." by running $ setxkbmap -option kpdl:dot but I cannot change the "." back to "," by running $ setxkbmap -option kpdl:comma The man page: $ man xkeyboard-config [...] Numeric keypad Delete behavior ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────[...] │ Option Description │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────[...] │ kpdl:dot Legacy key with dot │ │ kpdl:comma Legacy key with comma [...] What am I missing? Regards, Ralf

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