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Radicale is unmaintained upstream, but no other good alternative in official repos
by D. Debnath 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

Last commit is on April 22, 2023: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/commits/master/ Last release on July 15, 2022: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/releases Among the list of CalDAV/CardDAV servers mentioned in the wiki <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Other#CalDAV/CardDAV_…>, Baikal seems to be a good alternative that is also maintained. Last commit 10 hours ago: https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal/commits/master/ Last release on November 16, 2023: https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal/releases While there is an AUR package of Baikal <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/baikal>, I try to avoid installing AUR packages as much as possible. How do I request arch packagers to package Baikal in the official repos?

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kernel module sg gone
by Jude DaShiell 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

When I wanted to read iso files on dvd or cd I used to need to do modprobe sg first. That's gone with latest update of kernel and modules and I'd like to know what replaced it. -- 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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[arch-general][OT] vagrant + ubuntu 20.04 based docker image
by Javier 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hello ! At work I need to use an ubuntu 20.04 based docker image built by our org, and we use vagrant to easy the way to load and start the image. I'm not able to do "vagrant up", since it seems the host can't connect to the container (guest): > INFO global: Vagrant version: 2.4.1 > INFO global: Ruby version: 3.0.6 > INFO global: RubyGems version: 3.3.25 > INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_EMBEDDED_DIR="/opt/vagrant/embedded" > INFO global: VAGRANT_EXECUTABLE="/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-2.4.1/bin/vagrant" > INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_ENV="1" > INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_VERSION="2" > INFO global: VAGRANT_LOG="debug" > ... > DEBUG ssh: Checking key permissions: /home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.ed25519 > DEBUG ssh: Checking key permissions: /home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.rsa > INFO ssh: Attempting SSH connection... > INFO ssh: Attempting to connect to SSH... > INFO ssh: - Host: 127.0.0.1 > INFO ssh: - Port: 2222 > INFO ssh: - Username: a2sdk > INFO ssh: - Password? false > INFO ssh: - Key Path: ["/home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.ed25519", "/home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.rsa"] > DEBUG ssh: - connect_opts: {:auth_methods=>["none", "hostbased", "publickey"], :config=>false, :forward_agent=>true, :send_env=>false, :keys_only=>true, :verify_host_key=>:never, :password=>nil, :port=>"2222", :timeout=>15, :user_known_hosts_file=>[], :verbose=>:debug, :logger=>#<Logger:0x000070e2913f9dc0 @level=0, @progname=nil, @default_formatter=#<Logger::Formatter:0x000070e2913f9d20 @datetime_format=nil>, @formatter=nil, @logdev=#<Logger::LogDevice:0x000070e2913f9c80 @shift_period_suffix=nil, @shift_size=nil, @shift_age=nil, @filename=nil, @dev=#<StringIO:0x000070e2913f9e38>, @binmode=false, @mon_data=#<Monitor:0x000070e2913f9c30>, @mon_data_owner_object_id=14600>>, :keys=>["/home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.ed25519", "/home/vasqueja/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_keys/vagrant.key.rsa"], :remote_user=>"a2sdk", :keepalive=>true, :keepalive_interval=>5} > DEBUG ssh: == Net-SSH connection debug-level log START == > DEBUG ssh: D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.799621 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.session[391c]: establishing connection to 127.0.0.1:2222 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.799907 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.session[391c]: connection established > I, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.799980 #24466] INFO -- net.ssh.transport.server_version[3930]: negotiating protocol version > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.800002 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.server_version[3930]: local is `SSH-2.0-Ruby/Net::SSH_7.2.1 x86_64-linux' > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.810429 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.server_version[3930]: remote is `SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.2p1 Ubuntu-4ubuntu0.9' > I, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.810692 #24466] INFO -- net.ssh.transport.algorithms[3944]: sending KEXINIT > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.810886 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 0 type 20 len 852 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.810953 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 856 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811421 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 1056 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811496 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 0 type 20 len 1052 > I, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811532 #24466] INFO -- net.ssh.transport.algorithms[3944]: got KEXINIT from server > I, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811623 #24466] INFO -- net.ssh.transport.algorithms[3944]: negotiating algorithms > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811712 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.algorithms[3944]: negotiated: >... > * kex: ecdh-sha2-nistp521 > * host_key: ssh-ed25519 > * encryption_server: aes256-ctr > * encryption_client: aes256-ctr > * hmac_client: hmac-sha2-512-etm(a)openssh.com > * hmac_server: hmac-sha2-512-etm(a)openssh.com > * compression_client: none > * compression_server: none > * language_client: > * language_server: > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.811733 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.transport.algorithms[3944]: exchanging keys > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.812318 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 1 type 30 len 148 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.812375 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 152 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.816223 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 312 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.816293 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 1 type 31 len 292 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.818291 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 2 type 21 len 20 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.818346 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 24 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.818401 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 2 type 21 len 12 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.818751 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: beginning authentication of `a2sdk' > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.818817 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: using encrypt-then-mac > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.820166 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 3 type 5 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.820205 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.859904 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.860311 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 3 type 6 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.860522 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: trying none > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.860731 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: using encrypt-then-mac > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.860969 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 4 type 50 len 48 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.861076 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 116 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.866706 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.867057 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 4 type 51 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.867183 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: allowed methods: publickey,password > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.867282 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.methods.none[3980]: none failed > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.867369 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: trying publickey > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.868848 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.agent[3994]: connecting to ssh-agent > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.869065 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.agent[3994]: sending agent request 1 len 44 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.869366 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.agent[3994]: received agent packet 5 len 1 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.869434 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.agent[3994]: sending agent request 11 len 0 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.869678 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.agent[3994]: received agent packet 12 len 498 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.870704 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.methods.publickey[39bc]: trying publickey (dd:3b:b8:2e:85:04:06:e9:ab:ff:a8:0a:c0:04:6e:d6) alg rsa-sha2-256 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.870908 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: using encrypt-then-mac > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.871129 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 5 type 50 len 352 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.871241 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 420 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.876890 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877237 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 5 type 51 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877359 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: allowed methods: publickey,password > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877425 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.methods.publickey[39bc]: trying publickey (dd:3b:b8:2e:85:04:06:e9:ab:ff:a8:0a:c0:04:6e:d6) alg ssh-rsa > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877582 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: using encrypt-then-mac > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877778 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 6 type 50 len 352 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.877885 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 420 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.883542 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.883942 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 6 type 51 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.884065 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: allowed methods: publickey,password > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.884282 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.methods.publickey[39bc]: trying publickey (c8:ac:1c:f8:c5:f9:7f:fc:86:97:a4:96:a3:a1:2e:d8) alg ssh-ed25519 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.884463 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: using encrypt-then-mac > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.884677 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: queueing packet nr 7 type 50 len 128 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.884800 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: sent 196 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.890441 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: read 100 bytes > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.890795 #24466] DEBUG -- socket[3958]: received packet nr 7 type 51 len 32 > D, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.890918 #24466] DEBUG -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: allowed methods: publickey,password > E, [2024-01-26T23:11:19.891081 #24466] ERROR -- net.ssh.authentication.session[396c]: all authorization methods failed (tried none, publickey) > > DEBUG ssh: == Net-SSH connection debug-level log END == > INFO ssh: SSH not up: #<Vagrant::Errors::SSHAuthenticationFailed: SSH authentication failed! This is typically caused by the public/private > keypair for the SSH user not being properly set on the guest VM. Please > verify that the guest VM is setup with the proper public key, and that > the private key path for Vagrant is setup properly as well.> > ERROR warden: Error occurred: Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not > ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug > should be reported. > INFO warden: Beginning recovery process... > INFO warden: Recovery complete. > INFO warden: Beginning recovery process... > INFO warden: Recovery complete. > INFO warden: Beginning recovery process... > INFO warden: Recovery complete. > ERROR warden: Error occurred: Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not > ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug > should be reported. > INFO warden: Beginning recovery process... > INFO warden: Recovery complete. > ERROR warden: Error occurred: Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not > ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug > should be reported. > ... > INFO interface: error: Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not > ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug > should be reported. > Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not > ready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug > should be reported. > INFO interface: Machine: error-exit ["Vagrant::Errors::MachineGuestNotReady", "Guest-specific operations were attempted on a machine that is not\nready for guest communication. This should not happen and a bug\nshould be reported."] After the SSH authentication error, apparently because none of the attempted key authentication methods worked. Weird thing, on ubuntu 22.04 there's no problem. On arch is that I see the error. BTW, I tried "config.ssh.disable_deprecated_algorithms" [1] set to true on the Vagrantfile, and it doesn't help. I see nothing particularly curious on the Vagrantfile. For SSH: > # SSH options > sdk.ssh.username = "<container_username>" > sdk.ssh.forward_agent = true > sdk.ssh.pty = true > sdk.ssh.forward_x11 = true > sdk.ssh.insert_key = false Disabling deprecated algorithms since Arch has obviously a newer openssh, but again, that didn't help. It's weird that on arch the SSH authentication fails... I've created other docker containers based on ubuntu, pretty similar on this SSH Vagrantfile config, and no issues. On the other hand, I've also used other docker containers. Actually there are 2 from the org I work, that I would like to use on my arch box, but I just cant, currently relying on remote VMs... Thanks for any hints... -- Javier [1] https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant/docs/vagrantfile/ssh_settings

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Nextcloud 28.0.2 removes Rescan option if integrity check disabled
by David C. Rankin 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Arch devs, After the 'sodium' issue with the original 28 update, there was a request that we make known Nextcloud issues so if they are packaging related they can be fixed. In today's 28.0.2 update, the "Rescan" option is no longer presented in Admin Settings -> Overview if you have disabled integrity checks in config.php which is routinely needed on update so that the .htaccess file can be rescanned and hash updated if you have installed to a directory under your document root and needed to adjust the caldav/carddav paths in .htaccess. Without the "Rescan" option available, this way of updating the .htaccess hash to remove the warning no longer exists (it still works, you just have to save the Rescan URL before disabling integrity checks and then manually run it even though the Rescan option isn't provided) If this is a packaging issue, it needs to be fixed so the hash update can function without saving/manually running the rescan. It was there and worked fine in 28.0.1, but is gone in 28.0.2. I've also asked for help on the nextcloud forum in case this isn't a packaging issue. Further details in that post: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextclout-28-0-2-removes-rescan-option-when-in… -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Fwd: dropping opera
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

For what it is worth, it would be nice to see opera picked and continued to be packaged. It is a solid browser that's not brave, vivaldi, etc.... -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: dropping opera Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:01:02 +0100 From: Ike Devolder <ike.devolder(a)gmail.com> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Hi, Since I have not really used opera for years, I'm finally going to drop it from the repo's. If someone wants it, feel free to adopt it. Else I will drop it to AUR in 2 weeks. --Ike -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?
by David C. Rankin 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Archdevs, Just got the announcement about the replacement of dbus-daemon with dbus-broker. The RFC link is rather terse on any problems users may encounter when upgrading. Will all existing rules be accepted by dbus-broker or should we expect custom rules to break? (like custom access to embedded devices as character devices) What has been the experience of the devs in making the change? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Postorius configuration help
by Georg 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Hi list, I'm looking for a good description for postorius configuration. The Arch wiki is unclear to me, and the mailman documentation points to postorius.org configuration, who then points to another mailman doc providing little info on the actual configuration. Long story short, I'm failing to set up postorius so I can create users and let them log in. It would be highly appreciated if someone proficient in this topic is willing to walk me throuh. I'd then amend the wiki for more clarity. Thanks in advance Georg

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libjxl upgrade issue
by Brian Allred 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Hey all, After this morning's upgrade, libjxl was upgraded from 0.8.2-2 to 0.9.1-1. This upgrade broke several apps I use regularly, including Telegram and Discord. Downgrading back to 0.8.2-2 solved the problem, but I figured I'd send a heads-up to anyone else scratching their heads like I did for a bit. Brian

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Postfix db, cdb, lmdb -- general question
by David C. Rankin 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Devs, The "[Postfix] Warn that databases need regeneration" thread touched on a proposed change from BDB to another, either cdb or lmdb. This loosely mentions "licensing" issues. What licensing issue is the problem? The Oracle open-source license is OSI-certified and permits use of Berkeley DB in open source projects ... https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb/berkeleydb-… Is there a question whether Arch or Postfix are open-source? Seems like they certainly qualify. The larger issue is what of other packages using a db backend, like Apache basic auth and the htdbm or dbmmanage tools? This begins to impact a number of server operations if db is dropped and other packages are impacted. This may be a non-issue, but not knowing what all db is integrated with, the prospect of db just going away is a bit concerning. So is this proposed change just for postfix, or could it impact other packages? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[Postfix] Warn that databases need regeneration
by Polarian 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

Hello, I realised overnight I was not receiving emails after the latest version of postfix [1]. This is currently in testing, however I thought it would be best to discuss in the general mailing list instead of #archlinux-testing as it is a larger topic. I searched for a "updating" or "upgrading" documentation from postfix, and read their announcement and no mention was made of this. [2][3] Background behind this, I thought it was weird I didn't receive any emails for 24 hours (spam emails are pretty common, and mailing list emails so this is unheard of), so I checked the logs and found the following after updating: Jan 23 14:43:46 email postfix/trivial-rewrite[1043]: warning: virtual_alias_domains lookup failure Jan 23 14:43:46 email postfix/trivial-rewrite[1043]: warning: virtual_alias_domains: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual: table lookup problem Jan 23 14:43:46 email postfix/trivial-rewrite[1043]: warning: hash:/etc/postfix/virtual is unavailable. open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: Invalid argument Jan 23 14:43:46 email postfix/trivial-rewrite[1043]: error: open database /etc/postfix/virtual.db: Invalid argument (Note these are in REVERSE order) So I found this pretty weird and checked my config, and checked to see virtual.db existed, which it did, so I decided to just regenerate it (postmap virtual). And it fixed the issue. I then restarted and found this: Jan 23 14:46:55 email postfix/local[1094]: warning: hash:/etc/postfix/aliases: lookup of 'polarian' failed Jan 23 14:46:55 email postfix/local[1094]: warning: hash:/etc/postfix/aliases is unavailable. open database /etc/postfix/aliases.db: Invalid argument And I did the same thing, regenerated aliases.db (postmap aliases). This fixed the issue and I am back to recieving emails, but there was NO warning of the requirement to regenerate the databases, unless it is deeply nested into the documentation somewhere? I have had my email server for years, and I have never had issues with updating, so I do find it a little strange that this update required regeneration of the databases, and there was no warning in the accouncement about it. So I have a few suggestions: - Adding a upgrading note to the ArchWiki article. [4] - Add a echo to warn the user to regenerate the virtual and aliases database in post_upgrade(). [5] And also a few questions: - Does anyone know if there is any source I am missing which warned about the requirement to regenerate the aliases and virtual databases on upgrade? - Did anyone else encounter this issue? (you would need to have testing repository enabled) Take care, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/postfix/-/commit/… [2] https://www.postfix.org/smtp-smuggling.html [3] https://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-3.8.5.html [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Postfix [5] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/postfix/-/blob/ma…

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Mouse C & P
by pete 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Hi all i can not get Cut & Paste to work with the mouse any longer it worked fine before the big opps but now humm I used to be able to C&P from xterm to gui term to term with the mouse now it does not work at all What am i mising Cheers Pete

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Re: Stepping down as Python maintainer
by Genes Lists 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wed, 2023-12-13 at 16:28 +0200, Felix Yan wrote: > Hello, > > ... > so I am > making room for others to try on the 3.11 and 3.12 rebuilds. As Jelle > has progressed a lot now, I feel it's approaching the right time for > me > to step down as the Python maintainer. > > .. Thank you Felix for all the work you've done over the years helping to make Arch into what it is today. I wonder if you could share any updates on the maintainer transition and any thoughts around the rather large 3.12 project? I also notice that while many python modules have continued to be updated some have not. Is the thinking perhaps to hold on some, especially perhaps the more complicated ones like pandas, until 3.12 is out? gene

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Can't find KiCad symbols
by Sadeep Madurange 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

Hi everyone, I installed kicad and kicad-library (7.0.10-1) using pacman. After I launch KiCad and create a new project, I can't find any symbols in the symbol browser. Appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to get this set up. -- Sadeep Madurange PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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polkit upgrade warning
by Jude DaShiell 20 Jan '24

20 Jan '24

warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 (5/6) upgrading polkit [########################################################################] 100%warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/ filesystem: 750 package: 755 What are correct permissions for these directories and has the upgrade corrected permissions that neede correction? -- 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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Re: Now the last one RTL-SDR Blog V4
by Rein Fernhout (Levitating) 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

The terminal output does suggest your gqrx was compiled with rtlsdr support. Try compiling gqrx-git from the AUR, preferably with rtl-sdr-git installed. Or follow the upstream build instructions. If that doesn't work, I think it's best to submit an issue upstream.[1] [1]: https://github.com/gqrx-sdr/gqrx/issues/new On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 13:18, pete <petegn(a)mail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 05:19:55 +0100 > "Rein Fernhout (Levitating)" <me(a)levitati.ng> wrote: > > > Do you have rtl-sdr (or rtl-sdr-git) installed? Did you try running > > rtl_test? [1] > > > > > > [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/RTL-SDR > > > > On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 03:38, pete <petegn(a)mail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi again > > > > > > once again previoius to the big ooppsss > > > > > > gqrx worked fine with my RTL-SDR Blog V4 > > > > > > no way can i get it to work now > > > it shows up in lsusb as > > > Bus 008 Device 004: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T > > > > > > in the previous setup it did not show the DVB-T i believe that may be the > > > issue but try as i might i can not stop the darn DVB-T > > > > > > in "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-rtl-sdr.rules" as per recomended > > > > > > RTL2832U OEM vid/pid, e.g. ezcap EzTV668 (E4000), Newsky TV28T (E4000/R820T) > > > etc. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2838", > > > MODE:="0666" > > > > > > This is already supplied > > > > > > > > > Pete > > Yes and yes > > rtl_test > Found 1 device(s): > 0: RTLSDRBlog, Blog V4, SN: 00000001 > > Using device 0: Generic RTL2832U OEM > Found Rafael Micro R828D tuner > RTL-SDR Blog V4 Detected > Supported gain values (29): 0.0 0.9 1.4 2.7 3.7 7.7 8.7 12.5 14.4 15.7 16.6 > 19.7 20.7 22.9 25.4 28.0 29.7 32.8 33.8 36.4 37.2 38.6 40.2 42.1 43.4 43.9 44.5 > 48.0 49.6 Sampling at 2048000 S/s. > > Info: This tool will continuously read from the device, and report if > samples get lost. If you observe no further output, everything is fine. > > Reading samples in async mode... > > > Running " gqrx" from a terminal > > gives > " gqrx > gr-osmosdr 0.2.0.0 (0.2.0) gnuradio 3.10.8.0 > built-in source types: file rtl rtl_tcp uhd hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy soapy > redpitaya rx_nb_cc :info: set_min_output_buffer on block 12 to 32768 > Resampling audio 96000 -> 48000 > BandPlanFile is /home/pete/.config/gqrx/bandplan.csv > BookmarksFile is /home/pete/.config/gqrx/bookmarks.csv > [INFO] [UHD] linux; GNU C++ version 13.2.1 20230801; Boost_108300; > UHD_4.6.0.0-0-unknown " > > > Pete > > > > >

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nvme disk and system shutdown problem
by Łukasz Michalski 19 Jan '24

19 Jan '24

Hi, After installing Lexar 710 my system freezes after "Reached target Power Down". Suspend and reboot works ok. I do not use this disk in Arch, it is used for win10/win11. Power down from windows works without problems. I tried to blacklist nvme module - it did not help. I booted arch iso from pendrive and from there "poweroff -f" does not work either, so it looks it is related to kernel? My current kernel is: Linux archdevel 6.6.9-arch1-1, UEFI system (AMD b650m and Ryzen 7800x3d) I would be very grateful for any hints. Łukasz

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boot partition expansion
by pete 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Hi folks Well all is well after the previous mess apart from one thing that i must admit i forgot to tackle on the reinstall a few days ago my "/boot" partition is too small 300mb ran into a problem last night pacman installing kernel 6.7.0 The main kernel built installed fine but the fall back errored out with no room on . I have a spare empty partition sda2 of 40Gb sat doing nothing can i grow the boot partition to take some of that spare space without risking another reinstall Sorry to be a pain right now but i got enough medical issues right now and this is just bugging me beyond sanity Any help would be greatfully received Thanks Pete .

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Now the last one RTL-SDR Blog V4
by pete 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Hi again once again previoius to the big ooppsss gqrx worked fine with my RTL-SDR Blog V4 no way can i get it to work now it shows up in lsusb as Bus 008 Device 004: ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T in the previous setup it did not show the DVB-T i believe that may be the issue but try as i might i can not stop the darn DVB-T in "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-rtl-sdr.rules" as per recomended RTL2832U OEM vid/pid, e.g. ezcap EzTV668 (E4000), Newsky TV28T (E4000/R820T) etc. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bda", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2838", MODE:="0666" This is already supplied Pete

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This one i do not know
by pete 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Hi folks first off thanks for all the assistance recently Now this one is one from memory i may have had before using Firefox to access You tube go to post comments on video's ant the text entry is very very slow i am not a quick typist by any stretch of the imagination but if i type a line of text i can almost make a cup of tea before it finishes printing on the screen I had thought it was FF but i have tried several previous versions that were all working perfectly on the previous install any ideas at all i firmly believe it is system based as i have gone back 5 releases of FF that were fine on the previous system . The installed version is also perfectly ok on the LapTop that is at the same level as this machine both updated at the same time ideas please Thanks Pete

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Nextcloud 28 Upgrade - Works but Admin Overview fails to see 'sodium' module?
by David C. Rankin 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

All, Nextcloud server was updated to 28. The upgrade went well, but with a slight nit in the Admin -> Overview check. It lists: <quote> This instance is missing some recommended PHP modules. For improved performance and better compatibility it is highly recommended to install them: sodium. For more details see the documentation ↗. </quote> It is complaining that php-legacy-sodium wasn't installed, so we installed in and enabled the module in /etc/webapps/nextcloud/php.ini, (with a "systemctl reload httpd" in between each test) still not seen by nextcloud, so we enabled in it /etc/php-legacy/php-fpm.ini, still not seen by nextcloud, so we enabled it in the main /etc/php-legacy/php.ini -- still not seen by nextcloud -- but it is happily enabled: # php-legacy -m | grep -i sodium sodium No errors in /var/log/httpd/error.log No new errors in /var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log, just the nagging warning that has been there forever: "message":"Module \"apcu\" is already loaded at Unknown#0" Anybody know why nextcloud 28 Admin->Overview tells you it wants sodium, but then doesn't see it once it is installed. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Hardware tests and SSDs - Was: When I upgrade to dbus-broker should I expect anything to break?
by Ralf Mardorf 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

On Thu, 2024-01-11 at 09:34 +0000, pete wrote: > for the record the Drives are all ok memory tested out ok . see > what happens if it starts acting up again Hi, while I'm using only internal SSDs, no HDDs anymore, since many years, I still don't have experiences with SSD failures. My desktop PC is quasi 24/7/365 up, with just short interruptions. Is your Arch install on a SSD? If so, there's probably an issue related to the "flash retention time". If an SSD is not supplied with power, it loses data relatively quickly even in the best condition. You can sometimes read that six months could already be too long. I believe that when SSDs become old, the period of time in which they can safely retain data without a power supply is shortened. Reading about this just happens to be on my to-do list, just like booting up my old desktop PC that hasn't been connected to the mains for months, maybe even longer than half a year. As it's on my todo list, I don't have any knowledge yet. It's just a guess that an old or somehow damaged SSD might look good, pass write and read tests, but the margin in which it can hold data without power might be very, very short at some point. Regards, Ralf

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How to enable RNDIS USB ethernet device?
by David C. Rankin 10 Jan '24

10 Jan '24

All, I have a milkV-duo (Pi Pico look-alike running Risc chip) that runs Linux (busybox) and provides an RNDIS network interface to the host. For some reason when I connect the device to Arch, it is properly identified and the network device is created, but the interface is always brought up DOWN. Providing an address with ip link (it runs on 192.168.42.1) seems to enable the interface, but when you ssh to that IP it just logs into the Arch host instead of the milkV-duo. On connect the rndis host interface is created: Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: device descriptor read/64, error -71 Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: New USB device found, idVendor=3346, idProduct=1009, bcdDevice= 5.10 Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: Product: RNDIS Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: Manufacturer: Cvitek Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: usb 2-8: SerialNumber: 0123456789 Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: rndis_host 2-8:1.0 usb0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-8, RNDIS device, 22:39:53:06:09:42 Jan 05 00:30:34 2pi kernel: rndis_host 2-8:1.0 enp0s29f7u8: renamed from usb0 But then for some reason the dnsmasq-dhcpd running on the chip doesn't get an address to automatically enable the interface. Checking Arch you have: # ip addr 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:23:ae:89:58:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.6.111/24 brd 192.168.6.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp2s0 valid_lft 4986sec preferred_lft 4086sec inet6 fe80::b133:3c77:ce09:5b19/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 5: enp0s29f7u8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether 22:39:53:06:09:42 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Simply assigning an IP allows you to ping it and get a ssh prompt: # ip addr add 192.168.42.1 broadcast + dev enp0s29f7u8 # ping 192.168.42.1 PING 192.168.42.1 (192.168.42.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.42.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.020 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.42.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.018 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.42.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms ^C --- 192.168.42.1 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2015ms # ssh david(a)192.168.42.1 david(a)192.168.42.1's password: You have new mail. Last login: Fri Jan 5 00:30:05 2024 from 192.168.6.114 00:33 2pi:~> l total 920 drwx------ 41 david david 4096 Jan 5 00:30 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 30 23:11 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Jul 10 2022 .FreeCAD <snip...> However, that has just logged into the host and not the milkV-duo board. So it almost looks like it is considering enp0s29f7u8 as alias for loopback. I must be missing something easy and fundamental, but I can't figure out what. Of course, plugging it into Win10 and using PuTTY, the address is already there and ssh connects directly to the board and not the host. There is no route added: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface default _gateway 0.0.0.0 UG 1002 0 0 enp2s0 192.168.6.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1002 0 0 enp2s0 Adding the address with ip link enables avahi-daemon for the interface and mdns: Jan 05 00:54:38 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv4 with address 192.168.42.1. Jan 05 00:54:38 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: New relevant interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv4 for mDNS. Jan 05 00:54:38 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: Registering new address record for 192.168.42.1 on enp0s29f7u8.IPv4. Jan 05 00:54:39 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv6 with address fe80::2039:53ff:fe06:942. Jan 05 00:54:39 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: New relevant interface enp0s29f7u8.IPv6 for mDNS. Jan 05 00:54:39 2pi avahi-daemon[328]: Registering new address record for fe80::2039:53ff:fe06:942 on enp0s29f7u8.*. Anybody else mess with one of these boards or a similar RNDIS device and know how to successfully bring the interface up so you can connect with the milkV board and not the host? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Arch Linux inside OSTree
by Michael Zimmermann 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

Hi, I've put some work into making it easy to install Arch Linux inside OSTree. I have started creating a guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_inside_OSTree with the intention of that being just another installation method like LUKS or LVM. Unfortunately, the page was moved to my personal space with the reason: "personal install guide for the author's os-tree wrapper, does not belong in the official namespace". This sounds like the Arch Linux project doesn't want to support this installation method. Is that correct? If yes, why? Thanks Michael

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Migration from LXD to Incus
by Bernd Rinn 07 Jan '24

07 Jan '24

Hi, I'm using LXD on Archlinux and want to migrate to Incus (https://linuxcontainers.org/incus) According to the Incus docs this is as simple as installing Incus alongside LXD and then calling the migration program lxd-to-incus, see https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/docs/main/howto/server_migrate_lxd. However, when executing 'pacman -S incus', I get the message 'incus and lxd are in conflict. Remove lxd?'. So it looks like the migration program lxd-to-incus will not work under Archlinux because one cannot install both packages in parallel. What the proper way of migrating from LXD to Incus under Archlinux? All the best, Bernd

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Python warnings still
by pete 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

Hi folks . I am still getting plagued by these Python warnings warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/ ??????? warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/LICENSE ????????? warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/METADATA ????????? warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/RECORD ????????? warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pyr???????????????????? ate_limiter-3.1.0.dist-info/WHEEL it seems every time there is something Python related i get around 150 lines of these warnings any help anyone before i loose it and rebuild the system that is a nightmare thought Pete

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milkv-duo duo-buildroot-sdk builds FINE of Arch! genext2fs is only AUR pkg required
by David C. Rankin 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

Arch is Good! For those considering tinkering with the milkV-duo boards, the documentation says it can only be built on Ubuntu and only on version 22.04 to avoid build issues. Nonsense, Archlinux is just fine. For those interested, the only AUR package needed is genext2fs. Other than that the normal Arch build tools are all that is needed. If you built for 2+ hours and then had packaging crash, don't worry, just build and install genext2fs, open the build.sh file, comment the 'get_toolchain' and 'milkv_build' lines and run it again - it will complete without issue (essentially makepkg -R). Experience is a good teacher. <snip couple of hours of build output> ... INFO: hdimage(milkv-duo.img): adding partition 'rootfs' (in MBR) from 'rootfs.ext4' ... INFO: hdimage(milkv-duo.img): adding partition 'empty' (in MBR) ... INFO: hdimage(milkv-duo.img): writing MBR gnimage for milkv-duo success! /home/data/milk-v-duo/build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk/build /home/data/milk-v-duo/build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk /home/data/milk-v-duo/build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk/out /home/data/milk-v-duo/build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk /home/data/milk-v-duo/build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk Gen image successful: out/milkv-duo-20240105-0309.img 03:09 valkyrie:.../build/try1/duo-buildroot-sdk> l out total 163620 drwxr-xr-x 2 david david 4096 Jan 5 03:09 . drwxr-xr-x 17 david david 4096 Jan 5 03:09 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 david david 939524608 Jan 5 03:09 milkv-duo-20240105-0309.img Good job devs, and a happy 2024! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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how to correctly create dbus-broker service and allow bus system service to start correctly
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

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Archlinux man pages, CSS format for <pre> blocks causing lines to wrap?
by David C. Rankin 30 Dec '23

30 Dec '23

Archdevs, Not sure where this should go, but the CSS for <pre> in https://man.archlinux.org/man/tmpfiles.d.5.en is causing the information to wrap. Changing zoom or browser window size doesn't change the width of the <pre> blocks and the text wraps in an awkward fashion, e.g. <pre>#Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument f /file/to/create mode user group - content f+ /file/to/create-or-truncate mode user group - content ... It literally looks as shown in this e-mail with fixed font: <pre>#Type Path Mode User Group Age Argument f /file/to/create mode user group - content Not a big deal, but I'm used to seeing the Arch pages well laid-out and not subject to css hiccups. Tried in both Firefox and Brave browsers, same result. Anybody else see this? Just passing the info along so it can be passed to the right person if tweaking is warranted. To all a good 2024! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] pcmanfm-gtk3 no longer working on wayland?
by Javier 30 Dec '23

30 Dec '23

Hi ! pcmanfm-gtk3 is segfaulting on wayland when trying to access any directory. I don't know if others are experiencing the same. The alternative I've been using is thunar, though I really liked pcmanfm-gtk3. Is there a work around? Although I don't like it, I also tried "GDK_BACKEND=x11 pcmanfm" and it also segfaults... Have others experience the same? Greetings ! -- Javier

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[arch-general][waybar] simple quick launch buttons
by Javier 30 Dec '23

30 Dec '23

Happy holidays ! AFAIK waybar doesn't offer quick launch buttons, but it does offer custom modules, which one can use to mimic such buttons. I'm using custom modules in a pretty simple way, for example for librewolf (I didn't find an awesome icon font for it, so using the FF one): > "custom/librewolf": { > "format": "", > "interval": "once", > "on-click": "librewolf", > }, I have some other ones for other applications. I do use keybindings as well, and I can use wofi to search for the applications, but none of them are really alternatives for other users. It does work ! However I was looking for a very simple way to add what official modules, like a "tooltip-format" which is part of the official modules. Not sure why on earth it's not part of the custom modules. So for example, I'd look for something similar to: > "custom/librewolf": { > "format": "", > "tooltip-format" "Firefox Browser" > "interval": "once", > "on-click": "librewolf", > }, So that if someone doesn't recognize the awesome font icon, one could just find out by the tip shown when getting the mouse on top of the button. As this is not supported. Is there any simple way to do that? Hopefully not requiring to add several scripts just for this. Something that might be part os such snippet, and pretty simple would be great, :) Please let me know of suggestions. Thanks ! -- Javier

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Problem with python 3.11
by pete 24 Dec '23

24 Dec '23

Hi Folks strange one here had an update fail a few weeks ago cleared all the fails apart from this lot could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/libsvn/_ra.so could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/ warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-311.opt-1.pyc warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-311.pyc warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/_apply_pyprojecttoml.cpython-311.opt-1.pyc warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/_apply_pyprojecttoml.cpython-311.pyc warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/expand.cpython-311.opt-1.pyc warning: could not get file information for usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/set uptools/config/__pycache__/expand.cpython-311.pyc plus more all the packages that are complained about are present and seem to be complete . I am at a loss as to where to go next any help appreciated Happy Christmas to all hope 2024 is vastly better than 2023 has been Cheers Pete .

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[Part 1] These are the guides I have followed to install Arch Linux with Linux Kernel 6.6.7 and GNOME on my refurbished Aftershock gaming laptop
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 23 Dec '23

23 Dec '23

Subject: [Part 1] These are the guides I have followed to install Arch Linux with Linux Kernel 6.6.7 and GNOME on my refurbished Aftershock gaming laptop Good day from Singapore, I have <<<successfully>>> installed Arch Linux with Linux Kernel 6.6.7 and GNOME Desktop Environment on 19 Dec 2023 Tuesday late night (crossing midnight) using the following guides. These guides should be followed in sequence. [1] Installation guide Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide [2] Pacman Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman [3] Network configuration Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration [4] GRUB Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Generate_the_main_configuration_file [5] General recommendations Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations [6] [Solved] Bring eth interface up automatically Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=251669 [7] How To Add Route on Linux Link: https://devconnected.com/how-to-add-route-on-linux/ [8] How to Install GNOME in Arch Linux Link: https://phoenixnap.com/kb/arch-linux-gnome [9] How to Use the Arch Linux Network Manager Link: https://linuxhint.com/arch_linux_network_manager/ [10] mp4 support Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88036 [11] Users and groups Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/users_and_groups Over the next few days or the next few weeks, I will be installing Google Chrome web browser in Arch Linux and additionally configuring the sudoers file. I have also taken 92 screenshots with my vivo V25 Pro 5G mobile phone so far. Arch Linux is very very tedious and time consuming to install. It can only be installed using the Command Line. Fortunately I am very familiar with the Linux Command Line. After installing Arch Linux successfully, it gives you a sense of satisfaction. Thank you. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore Blogs: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com GIMP also stands for Government-Induced Medical Problems. 20 Dec 2023 Wednesday 12.59 AM morning Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

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Plasma application dump
by Shridhar Daithankar 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

Hello, I run KDE plasma under wayland. On several occasions, the applications crash. The front runners are akregator,kontact etc. Usually, I find a core dump associated with the crash with coredumpctl. Where can I report the crashes/back trace/core dump to help those projects? Should it be arch bug tracker or upstream? -- Thanks and Regards Shridhar

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What is the plan for dhcpd/kea?
by David C. Rankin 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Devs, With ISC dhcpd now mature and frozen (end of life, but ISC will continue to make available on gitlab and if necessary provide bug fixes), the new ISC offering is Kea that is its successor to dhcpd. The wiki notes the successor in the first paragraph https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpd but there is no Kea page and no indication if Arch will start packaging Kea. For those of us with long standing ISC bind/dhcpd setups what does the future look like on Arch? Will there be a Kea at some point? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Potential conflict with icu package?
by WinFan3672 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Dear all, I was recently performing my system's scheduled maintenance and went to upgrade my packages, as you do. When I attempted to do so, this happened: |$ sudo pacman -Syu [sudo] password for winfan3672: :: Synchronizing package databases... ... :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: unable to satisfy dependency 'libicuuc.so =73-64' required by freerdp :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by brltty :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by gspell :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by harfbuzz-icu :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by libphonenumber :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=73-64' required by libphonenumber :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by raptor :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by scribus :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicui18n.so=73-64' required by thunderbird :: installing icu (74.2-1) breaks dependency 'libicuuc.so=73-64' required by thunderbird| This piqued my interest as it appears to be a package conflict outside of my control. I performed the upgrade excluding the |icu| package, and (almost) everything is fine now. However, I would like to know: * Is this an issue with the |icu| package? o In this case, this is an issue that needs attention and the relevant maintainer should probably look into it. * Is it an issue with me? o If so, what do I do, aside from ignoring it? I look forward to hearing your response(s). Yours truly, -- WinFan3672.

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re: ddgr broken
by Jude DaShiell 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Correction, both ddgr and ddgr-git throw error 202 when run. What is error code 202? I've never encountered that error code in connection with html yet. -- 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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[Secure Boot] sbctl and MOK
by Giovanni Santini 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Hi everyone, I have my laptop set up using Grub [1] and Shim with hashes [2]. I use sbctl [3] for my key management. I would like to know if any other user is running the same setup and, if so, if they managed to enroll sbctl keys in shim. I am genuinely confused if I should enroll any file from sbctl, since it does not generate a MOK. Bests, Giovanni [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Shim-lock [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secu… [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secu…

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extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2
by Ralf Mardorf 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hi, I don't know where to report this issue, since 2FA for "ralf" at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ fails with "Invalid authentication code" [1]. extra/surge-xt-common 1.3.0-1 breaks extra/surge-xt-lv2 1.2.3-2, see https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/surge-xt-lv2/ https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/surge-xt-common/ Regards, Ralf -- [1] yes, already reported to accountsupport(a)archlinux.org ;)

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Proposal about AUR affairs
by Evan Greenup 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Hello, AUR is a unique feature for Arch Linux (include derived distros). It significantly expand the Arch ecosystem. However, for the current infrastructure and workflow for AUR, there are some drawbacks. 1. Difficult to feedback and difficult to contribute (to already existed package). If have any ideas or report, user need to send email to maintainer via email personally. This is not convenient for both maintainers and users. 2. Lack of Peer review, audience supervise. Some packages even if updated frequently by its maintainer, but it doesn't following good practice and not built from source (Not Java, native program), It retrieve from Debian or Ubuntu or Fedora packages, and extract or repackage it in Arch Linux package. And some packages may failed to build, or some of its dependencies are forgotten added by maintainer. 3. The entry with a specific name in AUR is always occupied by the Maintainer who firstly register the package. If there is another maintainer who has better practice than the previous one, This maintainer has to rename his/her package as `xxx-bin` or some sophisticated name else. This is unfair. It lack of refreshing mechanism. 4. upstream software author is difficult to directly contribute to the AUR packaging contribution. For a great number of upstream software author, they are willing to participate in downstream redistribution process. Especially for those young software. But the current AUR workflow block their way to contribute on downstream stuff. 5. Currently,to evaluate whether a AUR package is eligible to move in Arch Linux official packages (extra repo), It only depend on votes and popularity and whether there is a maintainer willing to pick it up. However, those factors is too lack of details. To evaluate the robustness of the eco-position of a package, It should evaulate the discussion, issue report, contribution, and ... And it should be evaluated case by case. I have some ideas to resolve or mitigate the problems above. 1. Create a git repo on gitlab.archlinux.org named aur-meta (Or whatever names which maker users understand easily). This git repo keep a list (table of content) which point to the git repo URI of the AUR packages. 2. For the AUR package, it can be placed on anywhere (github.com, gitlab.com, gitlab.archlinux.org, gitlab.gnome.org ...), the only things needed are these URIs are public accessible (can be git cloned by anyone who know this URI). And it need to keep its PKGBUILD on the top level of git repo. 3. The issue and affairs related to which upstream software is included and which PKGBUILD git repo is selected, goes to issues section of aur-meta. For packaging specific problems, it goes to the AUR package git repo. 4. If a package is orphaned or too broken/bad practice, the contributor who has access to aur-meta can simply change the pointer to a alternative PKGBUILD git repo which is better in practice and liveliness. 5. If user find there is package which need to be improved, it can firstly report it to PKGBUILD maintainer via the issue section of git repo. If the maintainer long time not response or insist to keep bad practice. The user can write a proposal in aur-meta to change the pointer to another alternative. This is what a community driven packaging method should be. 6. The name of entry in aur-meta is the package name, not the name of PKGBUILD git repo. (git repo can have different name). Many upstream software author would create a separate git repo along with their software repo which is dedicated for PKGBUILD. The design above, is just for demonstrate ideas, improvements can be made further. Evan

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Re: Arch Linux release 2023.12.01 comes with Linux Kernel 6.6.3
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

On Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 10:58 PM, Doug Newgard <dnewgard(a)outlook.com> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:51:37 +0000 > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming teo.en.ming(a)protonmail.com wrote: > > > I am confused. > > > > On the Arch Linux download page https://archlinux.org/download/ , it clearly > > says Current Release 2023.12.01 with Linux Kernel 6.6.3. > > > Yes, that is the release of the ISO, not of Arch Linux. And it doesn't actually > matter what ISO you use. You could use the ISO from 2-3 months ago and the > installed system will be the same, because as I said, it always downloads the > latest packages to install. There are no packages on the ISO. Noted with thanks. I think I understand already. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore

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Arch Linux release 2023.12.01 comes with Linux Kernel 6.6.3
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

Subject: Arch Linux release 2023.12.01 comes with Linux Kernel 6.6.3 Good day from Singapore, After I have downloaded and installed Arch Linux release 2023.12.01, can I upgrade the Linux Kernel from 6.6.3 to 6.6.5 easily? Is the Linux Kernel 6.6.5 package available in the repository? Thank you. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore Blogs: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com GIMP also stands for Government-Induced Medical Problems. Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

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Re: Arch Linux release 2023.12.01 comes with Linux Kernel 6.6.3
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

On Saturday, December 9th, 2023 at 3:46 AM, Rafael Fontenelle <rffontenelle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It is available in core-testing: > https://archlinux.org/packages/core-testing/x86_64/linux/ Thanks for the link! I saw linux 6.6.5.arch1-1 already. The latest Linux Kernel. I am going to install Arch Linux on my refurbished/2nd hand Aftershock gaming laptop these few days. Thank you! Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore

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ddgr package broken
by Jude DaShiell 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

Originally this package worked. Now it's throwing error 202 on all searches. I suspect duckduckgo changed something or google changed something to break this package. Remote possibility some package on archlinux set the breakage off but I figure that to be highly unlikely. -- 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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Why are all wiki edits undone?
by David C. Rankin 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Arch Devs, This has been a growing problem over the years. We no longer have a community wiki, we have a wiki that reverts user contribution and continues to deteriorate as a result. Attempting to contribute today to the postgresql page and all additions were undone again by user:Erus Iluvatar. Instead of providing concise information on how to initialize postgresql the wiki instead of providing the example of using the heretofore recommended sudo -iu postgres to reach the postgres prompt instead refers wiki readers to a non-specific web page for them to figure it out for themselves. ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Security#Privilege_el…) This is unhelpful. The simple example contributed: (example: sudo -iu postgres) was summarily removed. If Arch no longer wants community contributions to the wiki just make that a policy so we don't waste time anymore attempting to contribute. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Why does fail2ban-client show no jails?
by David C. Rankin 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

All, I've configured fail2ban following the wiki, it is running, and I've enabled jails in /etc/fail2ban/jails.local, but fail2ban-client status shows no jails. The jails.local is: [DEFAULT] destemail = david(a)domain.tld sender = david(a)domain.tld # to ban & send an e-mail with whois report to the destemail. #action = %(action_mw)s # same as action_mw but also send relevant log lines action = %(action_mwl)s [DEFAULT] bantime = 2d [sshd] enable = true port = ssh,6661 [dovecot] enable = true [postfix] enable = true [smtpd] enable = true Running fail2ban-client status shows: # fail2ban-client status Status |- Number of jail: 0 `- Jail list: Reading other fail2ban configuration howtos, suggest I should be seeing the enabled jails. Is there something else I need to do on Arch? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: makepkg
by Lone_Wolf 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

On 23-11-2023 17:44, Jude DaShiell wrote: > cc main.o buffers.o sendmail.o fetchmail.o html.o html-tags.o format.o > stringfile.o ebrc.o msg-strings.o http.o isup.o css.o startwindow.o > dbops.o dbodbc.o jseng-quick.o ../../quickjs/libquickjs.a -ldl -latomic > -s -lcurl -lodbc -lpcre2-8 -lreadline -lssl -lcrypto -lpthread -lm > -lssl -lcrypto -o edbrowse > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find ../../quickjs/libquickjs.a: No such file or > directory Two more changes are needed: A. edbrowse relies on *.a files (static librairies) to use quickjs . makepkg by default removes them since a few years ago. edit the quickjs PKGBUILD, increase pkgrel and change the options= line in it so it reads options=(!strip staticlibs) rebuild & reinstall quickjs B. the environment vars used by edbrowse make have been changed by upstream. replace QUICKJS_DIR="/usr/lib/quickjs/" make with QUICKJS_INCLUDE="/usr/include/quickjs" QUICKJS_LIB="/usr/lib/quickjs/" make The package builds for me that way, but I haven't ran the software. Lone_Wolf

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WiFi regulatory domain changes between reboots
by Sadeep Madurange 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

Greetings all, Recently I had an issue with connecting a 5GHz AP, and as Jaron correctly pointed out, the issue was with the regdomain. The problem I'm having now is the regdomain spontaneously changes between reboots. I'm in Singapore and I bought the laptop in Singapore. I am certain that my hardware/firmware supports 5GHz networks. Following Arch Wiki [1], I installed the wireless-regdb package and uncommented WIRELESS_REGDOM="SG" line in the /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom file. Things were working fine for a couple days after I made the changes. But then, sometimes, when I reboot, I see the regdomain changes to ID (I guess for Indonesia). I checked that ID is commented out in /etc/conf.d/wireless-regdom. I recorded the output of "iw reg get" both when it is working and when it is not. When it's working, the output is: global country 00: DFS-UNSET (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A) (2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A) phy#0 (self-managed) country SG: DFS-UNSET (2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (2447 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (5170 - 5190 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5190 - 5210 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5210 - 5230 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5230 - 5250 @ 160), (6, 22), (N/A), NO-OUTDOOR, AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5250 - 5270 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5270 - 5290 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5290 - 5310 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5310 - 5330 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5490 - 5510 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5510 - 5530 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5530 - 5550 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5550 - 5570 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5570 - 5590 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5590 - 5610 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5610 - 5630 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5630 - 5650 @ 160), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5650 - 5670 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5670 - 5690 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5690 - 5710 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5710 - 5730 @ 80), (6, 22), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN (5735 - 5755 @ 80), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ (5755 - 5775 @ 80), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ (5775 - 5795 @ 80), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ (5795 - 5815 @ 80), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ (5815 - 5835 @ 20), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, IR-CONCURRENT, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ, PASSIVE-SCAN When it's not working, the output is global country 00: DFS-UNSET (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (6, 20), (N/A) (2457 - 2482 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (2474 - 2494 @ 20), (6, 20), (N/A), NO-OFDM, PASSIVE-SCAN (5170 - 5250 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (5250 - 5330 @ 80), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, AUTO-BW, PASSIVE-SCAN (5490 - 5730 @ 160), (6, 20), (0 ms), DFS, PASSIVE-SCAN (5735 - 5835 @ 80), (6, 20), (N/A), PASSIVE-SCAN (57240 - 63720 @ 2160), (N/A, 0), (N/A) phy#0 (self-managed) country ID: DFS-UNSET (2402 - 2437 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (2422 - 2462 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (2447 - 2482 @ 40), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ (5735 - 5815 @ 20), (6, 22), (N/A), AUTO-BW, NO-HT40MINUS, NO-HT40PLUS, NO-80MHZ, NO-160MHZ, NO-320MHZ I have been using this machine for more than 2 years, and have been connecting to 5GHz band fine in the past. This behavior is almost certainly new. I first ran into this, I think, on November 14, 2023. Appreciate any help! -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Respecting_…

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when are sound servers necessary?
by Jude DaShiell 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

When is it a good choice to install a sound server and when is installing a sound server a waste of disk space? -- 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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re: vlc-nox
by Jude DaShiell 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

Once ffmpeg got deleted vlc-nox installed here with no problems. So that comment from what I can figure is mostly correct except may ought to be changed to will. -- 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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vlc for command line users
by Jude DaShiell 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

The package installs and is not functional. Why it's not functional is the package is missing .config/vlc/vlcrc so vlc has no clue how to do anything on a linux system. If a way exists for command line users of vlc to cause vlc to make a vlcrc file even if basic that would be a good addition to the vlc documentation on the archwiki. For whatever reason I couldn't get vlc-nox to install on this system error exit 4 manual intervention is needed. Was this manual intervention documented on arch-announce? I'll check the saved messages from that list to find out later. I have a vlcrc file I got from a contact on another list and found the vlcrc file I have enables vlc to work correctly to the extent I've used vlc so far. The vlcrc file I have is 83k in size so I can understand why videolan either omitted the documentation on how to build one of these ourselves when vlc is missing a vlcrc file or I didn't do a good enough web search with ddgr to find the documentation. -- 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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multimedia broken by updates
by Jude DaShiell 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

pipewire and wireplumber were on this system before the updates happened and I had mpv and vlc playing files. I cleaned the pipewire packages from the system and put pulseaudio on the system and that hasn't improved anything either. mpv generates error output when I try playing a file with it and vlc is silent. mpv.err [E] pw.loop [loop.c:67 pw_loop_new()] 0x55a96c0d3be0: can't make support.system handle: No such file or directory -- 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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gitlab ban cf tld and bugtracker migration to gitlab
by u34＠net9.cf 25 Nov '23

25 Nov '23

Hello, I tried register gitlab by the same email address I am using for this list. Their online form replied that Email is not allowed for sign-up. Please use your regular email address. Check with your administrator. (https://imgur.com/a/fszgDHA) The email address is a sub domain in the .cf tld. Gitlab support response was Emails from the `cf` domain are restricted from registering due to their frequent use for abusive practices. Please use an email from another domain if you wish to register. One can also register gitlab by using his account at google, github, bitbucket or salesforce. My only motive to register is arch bugtracker. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/groups/flyspray-migration/packaging/packages/-… . Though, if I am registered, I might use my account for other purposes. As of now, I am reluctant to become a gitlab user. Not a lost for archlinux, or to gitlab. Still, for your information. -- u34

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pacman errors running hook Updating the MIME type database...
by David C. Rankin 25 Nov '23

25 Nov '23

Devs, This was a bit strange and the first time in almost 15 years I've seen pacman do this, e.g. <snip> Packages (22) appstream-1.0.0-4 btrfs-progs-6.6.2-1 c-ares-1.22.0-1 freecad-0.21.1-6 gnutls-3.8.2-1 inkscape-1.3.1-1 libadwaita-1:1.4.0-2 libdrm-2.4.117-2 libgcrypt-1.10.3-1 libp11-kit-0.25.3-1 libxml2-2.12.0-1 libxslt-1.1.39-1 m17n-db-1.8.4-1 opencascade-1:7.7.2-4 p11-kit-0.25.3-1 perl-image-exiftool-12.70-1 python-scipy-1.11.4-1 python-trove-classifiers-2023.11.13-1 rust-1:1.74.0-1 shaderc-2023.5-1 texinfo-7.1-2 vtk-9.3.0-3 <snip> :: Running post-transaction hooks... ( 1/10) Reloading system manager configuration... ( 2/10) Reloading device manager configuration... ( 3/10) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... ( 4/10) Updating the MIME type database... Error in type 'application/x-core' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. Error in type 'image/jp2' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. Error in type 'image/jpx' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. Error in type 'image/jpm' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. Error in type 'video/mj2' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. Error in type 'image/vnd.adobe.photoshop' (in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml): Error in <match> element: Mask is longer than value. ( 5/10) Updating linux initcpios... <snip> What are the mime database errors and should I be concerned? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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makepkg
by Jude DaShiell 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

I failed to install edbrowse-git and in doing so one of the failure messages was some warnings being treated as errors. man makepkg didn't show me any switch to prevent warnings being treated as errors unless maybe force does that. Even with force the package didn't install. Did anyone manage to get that to install correctly who could share some ideas what I'm doing wrong? Usually when I run makepkg I do: makepkg --needed -cimrs and very often that actually works. -- 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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Issues with new NTFS module
by Giovanni Santini 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Hi everyone, I am currently having an issue with the new NTFS module. I am able to mount, browse the partition and create files; however, when writing content into a file, that does not happen. It seems the content is written only at partition unmount. I tried mounting my partition with both *mount* and *udisksctl* with the *ntfs3* module and it didn't work. The old *ntfs-3g* module works perfectly. Any clues on what it is happening? I can provide any logs you wish. Giovanni Santini

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AUR notification emails lack List-* fields.
by Ralph Corderoy 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

Hi, An email from notify(a)aur.archlinux.org arrived recently. The first in ages. The body was a simple The package jitsi-meet-electron [1] was adopted by xiota [2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/jitsi-meet-electron/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/xiota/ I went to add it to my mail filtering but noticed the email lacks any List-* fields in the header. I can obviously filter on other fields but wanted to suggest adding List-Unsubscribe and List-ID. It might also be worth adding how to unsubscribe as a ‘-- \n’ separated signature. Hopefully, raising it here is sufficient. Following https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues/new?issuable_templat… from ‘Report issues here’ on the AUR site takes me to https://gitlab.archlinux.org/users/sign_in but I don't think I'm a registered user. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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Pacman -Syu fails because of required keys missing from keyring
by Zerro 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hello I tried to run pacman -Syu to update my Arch Linux system. Downloading the (39) packages goes well. But when installing I do get messages like: :: Import PGP key 9B7A287D9A2EC608, "David Runge <dvzrv(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] error: key "9B7A287D9A2EC608" could not be imported :: Import PGP key 94657AB20F2A092B, "Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] error: key "94657AB20F2A092B" could not be imported 12 keys could not be imported and pacman thereafter stops the update. I do have another Arch Linux system which doesn't show these errors. Looks like there is an issue with this system. Is there a way to have these keys imported so that I can update my Arch Linux system ? ~Zerro

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re: btrfs needs what repair?
by Jude DaShiell 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

results of that btrfs scrub start / command run on a new system install were a whole bunch of uncorrectable errors. Fortunately this computer has more than one nvme drive so I'll wipe this out and try the other drive. -- 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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about translating certain words
by zoorat 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

hi, I was planning to translate AURweb and archwiki into Bangla. but got into a problem. sorry if I missed this info in the wiki. while reading badly translated https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_(%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%… I got confused about how to translate the word "update". because, in Bangla, most people say the word "update" as is but the direct translation would be "হালনাগাদ"(Hālanāgād). I only ever saw people using the word halnagad inside some schoolbooks, not in real life... there are a lot of words like this where we use the English word more than the Bangla word. as it's rare to find documentation in Bangla, I don't know how other people do those. and most Bangla machine translation is just bad. so, my question is do I translate it to casual Bangla (how people normally talk even in formal situations), or hardcore pure Bangla translation ?? in my opinion, it's better to keep it how people normally talk. have a nice day. p.s. sorry, at first i accidentally send it to aur general -- yours zoorat, PGP: 00000586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat

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Re: about translating certain words
by zoorat 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

hi, thanks for the mail. On 11/19/23 21:10, ag-sig99 wrote: > Hi, > > First of all, I am happy to see someone having an idea to translate > Archwiki into Bangla. > > I would suggest it to be translated into casual Bangla since chaste > Bangla is something that most won't even understand and some common > terminology might not be even properly translated to convey the required > information. I believe that using DeepL or any machine translator would > be a bad idea since it doesn't work well with Indic languages. > > Have a nice day! (: > > Thanking you all, > > ag. > > On 11/18/23 17:29, zoorat wrote: >> hi, >> >> I was planning to translate AURweb and archwiki into Bangla. this is exactly why I initially sent this email. after exchanging all those emails, I have concluded that I will prioritize the use of formal Bangla, but for technical terms, I will adopt the commonly used words. the Bangla Academy's handling of technical terms is ineffective and, at best, confusing. they just straight up explain the words in the dictionary most of the time rather than giving a single word. and most probably, I will not be using any tools. maybe some google translate because it at least somewhat works... have a nice day. -- yours zoorat, PGP: 00000586360F8791A5492251129802DDA8074345 GITHUB: https://github.com/z00rat

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re: incomplete alsa installation
by Jude DaShiell 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Please disregard message. It turns out after I added my user to the audio group I forgot to reboot the system. Now the system has been rebooted, alsa works as expected. -- 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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Question regarding the inclusion of plasma 6 alpha in kde-unstable
by Yifan Zhu 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi, Recently I noticed that the kde-unstable official repository started to include some packages from plasma 6 alpha (https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=KDE-Unstable&q=&maintainer=&flag…) However, currently the wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#kde-unstable) states that > This repository contains the latest /beta/ or /Release Candidate/ of KDE <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE> Plasma and Applications. So this inclusion of alpha packages might be a bit unexpected to users. Should the wiki be modified to reflect the fact that it might also include alpha versions of packages? I do not want to make that change before making sure that I am not misrepresenting the ``official'' policy, or the agreed upon policy by the community. Thanks for all the hard work! Best, Yifan

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incomplete alsa installation
by Jude DaShiell 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

If I run mpv --really-quiet followed by a file name I get an error: ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:2180:(_snd_pcm_direct_new) unable to create IPC semaphore This happens with jack2 or jack-pipewire installed. The user is in the audio group but beyond this, I don't know how to solve this problem. -- 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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Change username on the forum
by Giovanni Santini 17 Nov '23

17 Nov '23

Hi everyone, I would like to unify my username on all the Arch related components. I have "ItachiSan" in all of the places, except the forum. How can I request an username change? -- Giovanni Santini

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Can't connect to a 5GHz WiFi network
by Sadeep Madurange 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Greeting everyone, Since this Tuesday, my Arch machine, a ThinkPad T490, can't connect to a specific 5GHz WiFi network called gcat. The network is working fine because my work laptop, a ThinkPad X1 also running Arch, and my Android phone both connect to gcat just fine. Also, I can connect to a 2.4GHz network from the same access point. I don't think this is a problem with 5GHz networks. When I create a 5GHz hotspot with my mobile phone, this machine connects to it successfully. Initially, I couldn't see gcat in wifi-menu. So, I deleted the netctl profile for gcat and restarted the machine, after which I saw gcat again in wifi-menu. When I enter the password, wifi-menu tells me that it failed to connect to gcat. The netctl profile: Description='Automatically generated profile by wifi-menu' Interface=wlp0s20f3 Connection=wireless Security=wpa ESSID=gcat IP=dhcp Key=*** Following is the output of dmesg | grep iwlwifi: [ 9.081448] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) [ 9.090125] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected crf-id 0x3617, cnv-id 0x20000302 wfpm id 0x80000000 [ 9.090148] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: PCI dev 02f0/0074, rev=0x351, rfid=0x10a100 [ 9.104916] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver [ 9.104934] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37 [ 9.105939] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: loaded firmware version 77.bd067429.0 QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode op_mode iwlmvm [ 9.754739] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz, REV=0x351 [ 9.877459] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100 [ 9.943639] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: base HW address: d8:3b:bf:b5:ea:b9 [ 9.965714] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3 wlp0s20f3: renamed from wlan0 [ 51.059576] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Registered PHC clock: iwlwifi-PTP, with index: 1 Following is the result of journalctl | grep gcat: Nov 16 09:21:28 asciimx network[544]: Profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat' does not exist or is not readable Nov 16 09:21:28 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 09:21:28 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 09:22:09 asciimx network[809]: Starting network profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat'... Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx network[809]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat' Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Consumed 1.510s CPU time. Nov 16 10:46:58 asciimx network[538]: Profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat' does not exist or is not readable Nov 16 10:46:58 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 10:46:58 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 14:49:34 asciimx network[512]: Profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat' does not exist or is not readable Nov 16 14:49:34 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 14:49:34 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 14:50:45 asciimx network[809]: Starting network profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat'... Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx network[809]: Failed to bring the network up for profile 'wlp0s20f3-gcat' Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl(a)wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Consumed 1.016s CPU time. Following is the output of iw list: Wiphy phy0 wiphy index: 0 max # scan SSIDs: 20 max scan IEs length: 365 bytes max # sched scan SSIDs: 20 max # match sets: 8 Retry short limit: 7 Retry long limit: 4 Coverage class: 0 (up to 0m) Device supports RSN-IBSS. Device supports AP-side u-APSD. Device supports T-DLS. Supported Ciphers: * WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1) * WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5) * TKIP (00-0f-ac:2) * CCMP-128 (00-0f-ac:4) * GCMP-128 (00-0f-ac:8) * GCMP-256 (00-0f-ac:9) * CMAC (00-0f-ac:6) * GMAC-128 (00-0f-ac:11) * GMAC-256 (00-0f-ac:12) Available Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3 Configured Antennas: TX 0x3 RX 0x3 Supported interface modes: * IBSS * managed * AP * AP/VLAN * monitor * P2P-client * P2P-GO * P2P-device Band 1: Capabilities: 0x19ef RX LDPC HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled RX HT20 SGI RX HT40 SGI TX STBC RX STBC 1-stream Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes DSSS/CCK HT40 Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003) Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 4 usec (0x05) HT Max RX data rate: 300 Mbps HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-15 HE Iftypes: managed HE MAC Capabilities (0x78019a30abc0): +HTC HE Supported Trigger Frame MAC Padding Duration: 2 Multi-TID Aggregation Support: 7 Broadcast TWT 32-bit BA Bitmap OM Control Maximum A-MPDU Length Exponent: 3 RX Control Frame to MultiBSS A-MSDU in A-MPDU Multi-TID Aggregation TX: 7 UL 2x996-Tone RU HE PHY Capabilities: (0x023f0e09fd098c160ff001): HE40/2.4GHz Punctured Preamble RX: 15 Device Class: 1 LDPC Coding in Payload NDP with 4x HE-LTF and 3.2us GI STBC Tx <= 80MHz STBC Rx <= 80MHz DCM Max Constellation: 1 DCM Max Constellation Rx: 1 SU Beamformee Beamformee STS <= 80Mhz: 7 Beamformee STS > 80Mhz: 7 Sounding Dimensions <= 80Mhz: 1 Sounding Dimensions > 80Mhz: 1 Triggered SU Beamforming Feedback Triggered MU Beamforming Feedback PPE Threshold Present Power Boost Factor ar HE SU PPDU & HE PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI Max NC: 2 HE ER SU PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI 20MHz in 40MHz HE PPDU 2.4GHz 20MHz in 160/80+80MHz HE PPDU 80MHz in 160/80+80MHz HE PPDU RX Full BW SU Using HE MU PPDU with Compression SIGB RX Full BW SU Using HE MU PPDU with Non-Compression SIGB HE RX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported PPE Threshold 0x61 0x1c 0xc7 0x71 EHT Iftypes: managed EHT MAC Capabilities (0x0000): EHT PHY Capabilities: (0x0000000000000000): EHT MCS/NSS: (0x): EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 0-7: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 HE Iftypes: AP HE MAC Capabilities (0x78011a100000): +HTC HE Supported Trigger Frame MAC Padding Duration: 2 Multi-TID Aggregation Support: 7 Broadcast TWT OM Control Maximum A-MPDU Length Exponent: 3 HE PHY Capabilities: (0x02200e090009800401c000): HE40/2.4GHz LDPC Coding in Payload NDP with 4x HE-LTF and 3.2us GI STBC Tx <= 80MHz STBC Rx <= 80MHz DCM Max Constellation: 1 DCM Max Constellation Rx: 1 Sounding Dimensions <= 80Mhz: 1 Sounding Dimensions > 80Mhz: 1 PPE Threshold Present HE SU PPDU & HE PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI HE ER SU PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI HE RX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported PPE Threshold 0x61 0x1c 0xc7 0x71 EHT Iftypes: AP EHT MAC Capabilities (0x0000): EHT PHY Capabilities: (0x0000000000000000): EHT MCS/NSS: (0x): EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 0-7: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=20 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 Bitrates (non-HT): * 1.0 Mbps * 2.0 Mbps (short preamble supported) * 5.5 Mbps (short preamble supported) * 11.0 Mbps (short preamble supported) * 6.0 Mbps * 9.0 Mbps * 12.0 Mbps * 18.0 Mbps * 24.0 Mbps * 36.0 Mbps * 48.0 Mbps * 54.0 Mbps Frequencies: * 2412 MHz [1] (22.0 dBm) * 2417 MHz [2] (22.0 dBm) * 2422 MHz [3] (22.0 dBm) * 2427 MHz [4] (22.0 dBm) * 2432 MHz [5] (22.0 dBm) * 2437 MHz [6] (22.0 dBm) * 2442 MHz [7] (22.0 dBm) * 2447 MHz [8] (22.0 dBm) * 2452 MHz [9] (22.0 dBm) * 2457 MHz [10] (22.0 dBm) * 2462 MHz [11] (22.0 dBm) * 2467 MHz [12] (22.0 dBm) * 2472 MHz [13] (22.0 dBm) * 2484 MHz [14] (disabled) Band 2: Capabilities: 0x19ef RX LDPC HT20/HT40 SM Power Save disabled RX HT20 SGI RX HT40 SGI TX STBC RX STBC 1-stream Max AMSDU length: 7935 bytes DSSS/CCK HT40 Maximum RX AMPDU length 65535 bytes (exponent: 0x003) Minimum RX AMPDU time spacing: 4 usec (0x05) HT Max RX data rate: 300 Mbps HT TX/RX MCS rate indexes supported: 0-15 VHT Capabilities (0x039071f6): Max MPDU length: 11454 Supported Channel Width: 160 MHz RX LDPC short GI (80 MHz) short GI (160/80+80 MHz) TX STBC SU Beamformee MU Beamformee VHT RX MCS set: 1 streams: MCS 0-9 2 streams: MCS 0-9 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported VHT RX highest supported: 0 Mbps VHT TX MCS set: 1 streams: MCS 0-9 2 streams: MCS 0-9 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported VHT TX highest supported: 0 Mbps VHT extended NSS: supported HE Iftypes: managed HE MAC Capabilities (0x78018a30abc0): +HTC HE Supported Trigger Frame MAC Padding Duration: 2 Multi-TID Aggregation Support: 7 Broadcast TWT 32-bit BA Bitmap OM Control Maximum A-MPDU Length Exponent: 1 RX Control Frame to MultiBSS A-MSDU in A-MPDU Multi-TID Aggregation TX: 7 UL 2x996-Tone RU HE PHY Capabilities: (0x0c3f0e09fd098c160ff001): HE40/HE80/5GHz HE160/5GHz Punctured Preamble RX: 15 Device Class: 1 LDPC Coding in Payload NDP with 4x HE-LTF and 3.2us GI STBC Tx <= 80MHz STBC Rx <= 80MHz DCM Max Constellation: 1 DCM Max Constellation Rx: 1 SU Beamformee Beamformee STS <= 80Mhz: 7 Beamformee STS > 80Mhz: 7 Sounding Dimensions <= 80Mhz: 1 Sounding Dimensions > 80Mhz: 1 Triggered SU Beamforming Feedback Triggered MU Beamforming Feedback PPE Threshold Present Power Boost Factor ar HE SU PPDU & HE PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI Max NC: 2 HE ER SU PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI 20MHz in 40MHz HE PPDU 2.4GHz 20MHz in 160/80+80MHz HE PPDU 80MHz in 160/80+80MHz HE PPDU RX Full BW SU Using HE MU PPDU with Compression SIGB RX Full BW SU Using HE MU PPDU with Non-Compression SIGB HE RX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE RX MCS and NSS set 160 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set 160 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported PPE Threshold 0x61 0x1c 0xc7 0x71 EHT Iftypes: managed EHT MAC Capabilities (0x0000): EHT PHY Capabilities: (0x0000000000000000): EHT MCS/NSS: (0x): EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 HE Iftypes: AP HE MAC Capabilities (0x78010a100000): +HTC HE Supported Trigger Frame MAC Padding Duration: 2 Multi-TID Aggregation Support: 7 Broadcast TWT OM Control Maximum A-MPDU Length Exponent: 1 HE PHY Capabilities: (0x0c200e090009800401c000): HE40/HE80/5GHz HE160/5GHz LDPC Coding in Payload NDP with 4x HE-LTF and 3.2us GI STBC Tx <= 80MHz STBC Rx <= 80MHz DCM Max Constellation: 1 DCM Max Constellation Rx: 1 Sounding Dimensions <= 80Mhz: 1 Sounding Dimensions > 80Mhz: 1 PPE Threshold Present HE SU PPDU & HE PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI HE ER SU PPDU 4x HE-LTF 0.8us GI HE RX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set <= 80 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE RX MCS and NSS set 160 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported HE TX MCS and NSS set 160 MHz 1 streams: MCS 0-11 2 streams: MCS 0-11 3 streams: not supported 4 streams: not supported 5 streams: not supported 6 streams: not supported 7 streams: not supported 8 streams: not supported PPE Threshold 0x61 0x1c 0xc7 0x71 EHT Iftypes: AP EHT MAC Capabilities (0x0000): EHT PHY Capabilities: (0x0000000000000000): EHT MCS/NSS: (0x): EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw <= 80 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 8-9: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 10-11: Rx=0, Tx=0 EHT bw=160 MHz, max NSS for MCS 12-13: Rx=0, Tx=0 Bitrates (non-HT): * 6.0 Mbps * 9.0 Mbps * 12.0 Mbps * 18.0 Mbps * 24.0 Mbps * 36.0 Mbps * 48.0 Mbps * 54.0 Mbps Frequencies: * 5180 MHz [36] (disabled) * 5200 MHz [40] (disabled) * 5220 MHz [44] (disabled) * 5240 MHz [48] (disabled) * 5260 MHz [52] (disabled) * 5280 MHz [56] (disabled) * 5300 MHz [60] (disabled) * 5320 MHz [64] (disabled) * 5340 MHz [68] (disabled) * 5360 MHz [72] (disabled) * 5380 MHz [76] (disabled) * 5400 MHz [80] (disabled) * 5420 MHz [84] (disabled) * 5440 MHz [88] (disabled) * 5460 MHz [92] (disabled) * 5480 MHz [96] (disabled) * 5500 MHz [100] (disabled) * 5520 MHz [104] (disabled) * 5540 MHz [108] (disabled) * 5560 MHz [112] (disabled) * 5580 MHz [116] (disabled) * 5600 MHz [120] (disabled) * 5620 MHz [124] (disabled) * 5640 MHz [128] (disabled) * 5660 MHz [132] (disabled) * 5680 MHz [136] (disabled) * 5700 MHz [140] (disabled) * 5720 MHz [144] (disabled) * 5745 MHz [149] (22.0 dBm) * 5765 MHz [153] (22.0 dBm) * 5785 MHz [157] (22.0 dBm) * 5805 MHz [161] (22.0 dBm) * 5825 MHz [165] (disabled) * 5845 MHz [169] (disabled) * 5865 MHz [173] (disabled) * 5885 MHz [177] (disabled) * 5905 MHz [181] (disabled) Supported commands: * new_interface * set_interface * new_key * start_ap * new_station * new_mpath * set_mesh_config * set_bss * authenticate * associate * deauthenticate * disassociate * join_ibss * join_mesh * remain_on_channel * set_tx_bitrate_mask * frame * frame_wait_cancel * set_wiphy_netns * set_channel * tdls_mgmt * tdls_oper * start_sched_scan * probe_client * set_noack_map * register_beacons * start_p2p_device * set_mcast_rate * connect * disconnect * channel_switch * set_qos_map * add_tx_ts * set_multicast_to_unicast WoWLAN support: * wake up on disconnect * wake up on magic packet * wake up on pattern match, up to 20 patterns of 16-128 bytes, maximum packet offset 0 bytes * can do GTK rekeying * wake up on GTK rekey failure * wake up on EAP identity request * wake up on 4-way handshake * wake up on rfkill release * wake up on network detection, up to 8 match sets software interface modes (can always be added): * AP/VLAN * monitor valid interface combinations: * #{ managed } <= 1, #{ AP, P2P-client, P2P-GO } <= 1, #{ P2P-device } <= 1, total <= 3, #channels <= 2 HT Capability overrides: * MCS: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff * maximum A-MSDU length * supported channel width * short GI for 40 MHz * max A-MPDU length exponent * min MPDU start spacing Device supports TX status socket option. Device supports HT-IBSS. Device supports SAE with AUTHENTICATE command Device supports low priority scan. Device supports scan flush. Device supports per-vif TX power setting P2P GO supports CT window setting P2P GO supports opportunistic powersave setting Driver supports full state transitions for AP/GO clients Driver supports a userspace MPM Driver/device bandwidth changes during BSS lifetime (AP/GO mode) Device adds DS IE to probe requests Device can update TPC Report IE Device supports static SMPS Device supports dynamic SMPS Device supports WMM-AC admission (TSPECs) Device supports configuring vdev MAC-addr on create. Device supports randomizing MAC-addr in scans. Device supports randomizing MAC-addr in sched scans. Device supports randomizing MAC-addr in net-detect scans. max # scan plans: 2 max scan plan interval: 65535 max scan plan iterations: 254 Supported TX frame types: * IBSS: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * managed: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * AP: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * AP/VLAN: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * mesh point: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * P2P-client: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * P2P-GO: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 * P2P-device: 0x00 0x10 0x20 0x30 0x40 0x50 0x60 0x70 0x80 0x90 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 0xe0 0xf0 Supported RX frame types: * IBSS: 0x40 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * managed: 0x40 0xb0 0xd0 * AP: 0x00 0x20 0x40 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * AP/VLAN: 0x00 0x20 0x40 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * mesh point: 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * P2P-client: 0x40 0xd0 * P2P-GO: 0x00 0x20 0x40 0xa0 0xb0 0xc0 0xd0 * P2P-device: 0x40 0xd0 Supported extended features: * [ VHT_IBSS ]: VHT-IBSS * [ RRM ]: RRM * [ MU_MIMO_AIR_SNIFFER ]: MU-MIMO sniffer * [ SCAN_START_TIME ]: scan start timestamp * [ BSS_PARENT_TSF ]: BSS last beacon/probe TSF * [ BEACON_RATE_LEGACY ]: legacy beacon rate setting * [ FILS_STA ]: STA FILS (Fast Initial Link Setup) * [ FILS_MAX_CHANNEL_TIME ]: FILS max channel attribute override with dwell time * [ ACCEPT_BCAST_PROBE_RESP ]: accepts broadcast probe response * [ OCE_PROBE_REQ_HIGH_TX_RATE ]: probe request TX at high rate (at least 5.5Mbps) * [ CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211 ]: control port over nl80211 * [ TXQS ]: FQ-CoDel-enabled intermediate TXQs * [ SCAN_MIN_PREQ_CONTENT ]: use probe request with only rate IEs in scans * [ ENABLE_FTM_RESPONDER ]: enable FTM (Fine Time Measurement) responder * [ CONTROL_PORT_NO_PREAUTH ]: disable pre-auth over nl80211 control port support * [ PROTECTED_TWT ]: protected Target Wake Time (TWT) support * [ DEL_IBSS_STA ]: deletion of IBSS station support * [ SCAN_FREQ_KHZ ]: scan on kHz frequency support * [ CONTROL_PORT_OVER_NL80211_TX_STATUS ]: tx status for nl80211 control port support Appreciate any help! -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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"xrefactory" AUR-package submission request to "extra" repository
by Sergei Litvin 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

Good afternoon, I propose to add the following AUR-package, which I currently maintain, to the “extra” repository: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xrefactory It is a code browser tool, similar to the following tools, but more precise because it works on grammar level: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cscope/ https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ctags/ https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/global/ The "upstream" is no longer maintained, but I have learned the internals and have already made about 30 patches. So, I can fix possible bugs, including parsing C, YACC and Java grammar. This tool could be useful for Linux kernel developers (personally I use it along with cscope). And perhaps if it was in the "extra" repository, it could increase user interest in it. Best regards, Sergei Litvin Tel: +49 176 85283820

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pacman via pacstrap
by lacsaP Patatetom 14 Nov '23

14 Nov '23

hi, I use `pacstrap -U` to install locally forged packages in a dedicated folder. this dedicated folder already contains some files and some of these files are causing problems for `pacstrap -U` (eg. `pacman -U`). i'd like to be able to use `--overwrite` option and pass it from `pacstrap`. is it possible to pass options to `pacman` via `pacstrap` ? regards, lacsaP.

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Re: Bugtracker Migration to GitLab [to arch-general]
by David C. Rankin 14 Nov '23

14 Nov '23

On 11/9/23 17:08, Levente Polyak wrote: > ## Scope > > Our primary goal is to migrate bugs.archlinux.org to GitLab, focusing on > packaging bugs and our internal projects. In this email, we'll outline the > workflow for packaging bugs and seek your assistance in testing the migration > and the bug bot in the [test migration > group](https://gitlab.archlinux.org/groups/flyspray-migration/packaging/pac…. > > Please pay attention to the relevant paragraphs and everyone is strongly > encouraged to conduct testing as outlined in the testing section. One issue I've had with gitlab is even though it has correct user name and password, it will not login and I've had to use Github credentials to login to the arch gitlab system. (which I do not like) This is after going through successfully adding new SSH key to my account, successfully changing the password for my account, e.g. <quote - updated 9/17/23> Hello, David C. Rankin! The password for your GitLab account on https://gitlab.archlinux.org has successfully been changed. </quote> But it does not work. Every time login fails at: https://accounts.archlinux.org/realms/archlinux/login-actions/authenticate Neither the username 'drankinatty' or the e-mail works. So as Bugtracker is migrated, there may need to be a fix or two for the gitlab logins to work. I still can't login. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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btrfs advice needed
by Jude DaShiell 13 Nov '23

13 Nov '23

I've got a corrupted btrfs partition. Does the archlinux install disk have btrfsck on it? If yes, I'll probably need to run btrfs --repair /dev/sda2 on the system. If repair goes badly, I'll have to reinstall the system. I would like to know how to prevent btrfs corruption in the first place. -- 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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Re: Anticipation - Any idea when linux 6.6 will emerge from core-testing? (fwd)
by Erich Eckner 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

Hi David, not answering your question, but: What speaks against testing with the linux package in core-testing? IIRC, the linux package was one of the packages, that could be up- and down-graded quite independently of all the other packages. regards, Erich On Tue, 7 Nov 2023, David C. Rankin wrote: > Devs, > > I've kept an eye on linux-6.6 that hit the core-testing repo on 10/31, but > has not yet hit core. Any estimate when that may happen. The only reason for > the anxiety is the untested patch for the AUR nvidia-390xx driver and I'd > like to have a better idea of when I may need to set triage-time aside for > the update. > > Anybody's crystal-ball working a bit more clearly than mine? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. >

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Anticipation - Any idea when linux 6.6 will emerge from core-testing?
by David C. Rankin 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Devs, I've kept an eye on linux-6.6 that hit the core-testing repo on 10/31, but has not yet hit core. Any estimate when that may happen. The only reason for the anxiety is the untested patch for the AUR nvidia-390xx driver and I'd like to have a better idea of when I may need to set triage-time aside for the update. Anybody's crystal-ball working a bit more clearly than mine? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Netbeans Package update to version 19 (PKGBUILD)
by mattyr＠mailbox.org 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

Hi all, I've made some updates to the Netbeans package and would like to open a merge request in order to bring it up to version 19. My fork is here:https://gitlab.archlinux.org/matty_r/netbeans - main branch. I've attempted to contact some of the package owners but haven't heard anything. Any assistance would be appreciated. Regards, Matty_r

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accessibility install fail
by Jude DaShiell 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

You boot up and hit downarrow then enter when the hdmi card gets selected for video and no hdmi video is available so no sound. does a quick way to disable hdmi on the system exist that can be used ahead of an actual install? -- 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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Re: (No Subject)
by Aaron Liu 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

No, I'm just on the mailing list. On 2023/10/31 13:01, Novak Simic wrote: > Are you administrator? > > > Sent from Proton Mail mobile > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > On 29. окт 2023. 16:47, Aaron Liu < aaronliu0130(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you wish to unsubscribe, go to > https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/arch-general.lists.archlinux.org/ > On 2023/10/29 6:29, Novak Simic wrote: > Uscribe > > > Sent from > Proton Mail mobile > > >

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(No Subject)
by Novak Simic 29 Oct '23

29 Oct '23

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How to handle .htaccess Invalid Hash on each Nextcloud Upgrade?
by David C. Rankin 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

Devs, David, All, I've now gone though 3 Nextcloud updates since a fresh install 27.0.2* and having resolved all config notices/warnings in the "Administrator settings" "Overview" check. Every update there are a few changes to the /etc/webapps/nextcloud/.htaccess file that are provided in the .htaccess.pacnew file. Each time to remain current you incorporate anything new in the .htaccess.pacnew file with the config changes necessary for the Arch install detailed in the wiki. Additional changes are needed if you server your nextcloud install from a /nextcloud subdirectory. The problem is each time you modify /etc/webapps/nextcloud/.htaccess, nextcloud will flag the file with an Invalid Hash due to the changes. There is no simple occ command to tell nextcloud "Yes, I changed the .htaccess file it's fine". Instead, you have to go through an elaborate process to have nextcloud update the stored hash with: 1. upgrade as normal with pacman, 2. check and update /etc/webapps/nexcloud/.htaccess with additions in .htaccess.pacnew 3. occ upgrade 4. login and go to "Administrator settings". The "Overview" check will fail complaining about an Invalid Hash for the .htaccess file. 5. Edit /etc/webapps/nexcloud/config/config.php and add "'integrity.check.disabled' => true,", invoke the "Overview" check again, let it fail, choose the "Rescan" link. That will rescan the files updating the integrity hash for the .htaccess. 6. Log out/in and remove the "'integrity.check.disabled' => true," additiong to config.php (I haven't confirmed whether log in/out before removing the "'integrity.check.disabled' => true," is necessary. Rescan with the line set and then removing should be sufficient) Where should this config issue be handled, or is this just the routine you have to go through each there is a nextcloud update? It's not a nextcloud issue, the additions to the .htaccess that prevent using the .htaccess supplied are Arch specific. It's not a one-size-fits-all Arch issue either because the server can either be installed in the document root (as your only served app) or served out of the /nextcloud subdirectory existing alongside your other web offerings. But, the changes to .htaccess and the resulting [Invalid Hash] issue on upgrade are specifically Arch unique. Is this something that Arch could patch the "occ upgrade" script to handle? Or is this a "just the way it is" issue? Other than this one little nit, the nextcloud server upgrades are flawless. Thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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USBasp programmer not listed in /dev
by Sadeep Madurange 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

Greetings all, I am trying to connect an AVR programmer to Arch machine. I can't see it appearing under /dev. I found the vendor and product ids using lsusb. I think the device is 16c0:05dc: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d3:56bc IMC Networks [unknown] Bus 001 Device 005: ID 06cb:00bd Synaptics, Inc. Prometheus MIS Touch Fingerprint Reader Bus 001 Device 006: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth Bus 001 Device 009: ID 16c0:05dc Van Ooijen Technische Informatica shared ID for use with libusb Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub I added the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-avrprogrammer.rules and restarted the machine: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16c0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="05dc", GROUP="uucp", MODE=="0666" I see the following in my dmesg when I insert the programmer: [ 1526.700607] usb 1-4: new low-speed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd [ 1526.849141] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=16c0, idProduct=05dc, bcdDevice= 1.04 [ 1526.849152] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 1526.849156] usb 1-4: Product: USBasp [ 1526.849159] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: www.fischl.de I'm checking the device by doing something like ls /dev > before_plugging_in_programmer ls /dev > after_plugging_in_programmer vimdiff before_plugging_in_programmer after_plugging_in_programmer -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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Pacman update fail
by pete 21 Oct '23

21 Oct '23

Hi Folks Well this normally runs so smooth it is crazy but today pacman -Syyu :: Synchronising package databases... core 129.1 KiB 1076 KiB/s 00:00 [#################################################] 100% extra 8.3 MiB 4.37 MiB/s 00:02 [#################################################] 100% community 45.0 B 2.75 KiB/s 00:00 [#################################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing kholidays5 (1:5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kholidays' required by kalarmcal :: installing kxmlgui5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kxmlgui' required by kfloppy :: installing kcompletion5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kcompletion' required by kfloppy :: installing kio5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kio' required by kipi-plugins :: installing ki18n5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'ki18n' required by kjsembed :: installing kparts5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kparts' required by kmediaplayer :: installing kio5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kio' required by kxmlrpcclient :: installing kxmlgui5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kxmlgui' required by libkipi :: installing kservice5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kservice' required by libkipi :: installing knotifications5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'knotifications' required by telepathy-kde-approver :: installing kservice5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kservice' required by telepathy-kde-approver :: installing knotifyconfig5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'knotifyconfig' required by telepathy-kde-common-internals :: installing ktexteditor5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'ktexteditor' required by telepathy-kde-common-internals :: installing kpeople5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kpeople' required by telepathy-kde-common-internals :: installing krunner5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'krunner' required by telepathy-kde-contact-runner :: installing kidletime5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kidletime' required by telepathy-kde-integration-module :: installing kactivities5 (5.111.0-1) breaks dependency 'kactivities' required by telepathy-kde-integration-module So rare i get any issues Ideas where to look please folks Thanks Pete .

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Installation_guide page
by Jude DaShiell 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

The systemd boot instruction just after bootctl install could probably use an addition. When I tried this yesterdy it was successful but the random seed generated by bootctl install was flagged as a security problem since permissions on that file I think were world writeable. One or more chmod commands in those instructions to get permissions set correctly I think will help. -- 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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Wiki - dark-mode not working in Firefox and the 2022 templates, switching to 2010 template it is fine
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

All, Just a note on the wiki. Attempting to change to dark-mode failed with the new 2022 templates. Going to my preference and changing the Appearance to use to prior (old) 2010 templates, then dark-mode immediately started working fine. Not sure what else to check. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Dependencies of Kate and Sonnet5
by Shalok Shalom 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

Kate (the editor) has the option to spellcheck, and uses one of the Sonnet backend for that. It is not mentioned in the deps, not even in optdeps. Then, Sonnet itself also misses a lot of the possible backends, namely nuspell and enchant, two of the most advanced. Kate itself does also miss threadweaver, but this is not used yet by any other KDE application, so I guess we just dont use that yet. It is already used by other distrubutions, though.Thanks ------- Forwarded Message ------- Von: Shalok Shalom <shalokshalom(a)protonmail.ch> Datum: Am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2023 um 6:55 vorm. Betreff: Dependencies of Kate and Sonnet5 An: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Kate (the editor) has the option to spellcheck, and uses one of the Sonnet backend for that. > It is not mentioned in the deps, not even in optdeps. > > Then, Sonnet itself also misses a lot of the possible backends, namely nuspell and enchant, two of the most advanced. > Kate itself does also miss threadweaver, but this is not used yet by any other KDE application, so I guess we just dont use that yet. > > It is already used by other distrubutions, though. > Thanks

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php-legacy--8.1.23-2 unable to load apcu.so
by Uwe Sauter 16 Oct '23

16 Oct '23

Hi, after upgrading php-legacy, php-legacy-fpm, php-legacy-gd, php-legacy-pgsql and php-legacy-sqlite (8.1.23-1 -> 8.1.23-2) I get the following error in the log file: php-fpm-legacy[24175]: [14-Oct-2023 17:15:49] NOTICE: PHP message: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'apcu.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php-legacy/modules/apcu.so (/usr/lib/php-legacy/modules/apcu.so: undefined symbol: php_strlcpy), /usr/lib/php-legacy/modules/apcu.so.so (/usr/lib/php-legacy/modules/apcu.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 Downgrading to 8.1.23-1 helped getting my server back online. Is there an upgrade to php-legacy-apcu (currently 5.1.22-6) in the pipeline that has not yet landed on the mirror I use? Does this package need to be rebuilt? Thanks, Uwe

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Re: Incoming changes in JDK /JRE packages
by Richard Ullger 13 Oct '23

13 Oct '23

Hi Leonidas, Replying here as my reply to arch-dev-public was rejected. I currently have jre packages installed. When I build a package such as tuxguitar, that contains a make dependency for the jdk packages, makepkg installs the jdk packages and then removes them following the build, having been asked to do so. Going forward, I expect makepkg will install the jdk packages and uninstall the conflicting jre packages. Following the build when makepkg uninstalls the build packages, is makepkg clever enough to reinstall the jre packages, or should I just keep the jdk packages installed instead? Regards, Richard

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ttf-font
by mail.sh＠tuta.io 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

Hi! When installing many packages, we are offered 8 font options, among which there is no ttf-ubuntu-font-family. This font is the best font for browsers in my opinion. Add the option to choose ttf-ubuntu-font-family too. Please... -- With respect and best regards, Mailsh.

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Remove a package together with a user and a group
by mail.sh＠tuta.io 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

Greetings! Users and groups created when installing some packages (avahi, usbmuxd) are not deleted along with its removal. Is it related to https://archlinux.org/todo/pacman-hooks-systemd-sysuserstmpfiles/ and requires some changes? Or should I always delete them manually? -- With respect and best regards, Mailsh.

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Installation image (services)
by mail.sh＠tuta.io 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

Hello... To improve the user experience, I suggest making the following changes to the installation image of the system. 1. Disable 'systemd-timesyncd.service' (the system time may not be set correctly on different machines; booting the main system after booting Arch Linux installation media and mounting hard disk may result in an error 'superblock last mount time is in the future'). 2. Enable 'gpm.service' and 'nftables.service'. Please... -- With respect and best regards, Mailsh.

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solving file conflicts
by Erich Eckner 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Hi fellow-archers, I have two packages, A and B, which both provide the same file X. Is there a way to tell pacman to ignore file X in package B, so it is installed (and updated) solely with A? My current ideas are: * repackage B (the official package), so it does not include X anymore -> tedious, feels unnecessary * change packaging of A (unofficial package), so X is now called Y -> this will break a lot of configs, because X is hooked up in many places -> I'd like to avoid this option * tell pacman to ignore X in package B (something like NoExtract - but except, that it is package specific and that it works as I need it ;-p) regards, Erich

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A possible patch to apply to gnome-shell-extensions in extra-testing?
by fredbezies 08 Oct '23

08 Oct '23

Hello. I'm currently using Gnome 45 grabbed from extra-testing repository and the only bug I'm facing is that removable-drive-menu icon is not loaded. This bug is known and fixed in git. Could the patch - https://gitlab.gnome.org/fmuellner/gnome-shell-extensions/-/commit/092b2688… - be added to gnome-shell-extensions in extra-testing until a new release of this software is available? Thanks for your answers. Have a nice day. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Issues with Electron Apps
by Christian 08 Oct '23

08 Oct '23

When I start electron apps I run into an error with a shared library from dav1d. Does anyone else run into this issue? ❯ electron /usr/lib/electron25/electron: error while loading shared libraries: libdav1d.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I get the error when starting an electron app itself (e.g. obsidian) or the electron command. Electron seems to link to an old version of the library: ❯ pacman -F libdav1d.so.6 ❯ pacman -F libdav1d.so.7 extra/dav1d 1.3.0-1 [installed] usr/lib/libdav1d.so.7 I tried reinstalling obsidian, electron(25), and dav1d. So my suspicion is that electron was not rebuilt for the new dav1d version. Possibly causing a problem for all election versions. Is there another package I should try reinstalling? Christian

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How to enable opencl?
by Zener 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

Hi. Follow at the end debug about opencl on darktable software. Why opencl is NOT AVAILABLE and NOT ENABLED? How can I add it? I've got a Lenovo Yoga7i. Thanks. $ darktable -d opencl 0,0922 [dt_get_sysresource_level] switched to 1 as `default' 0,0923 total mem: 15719MB 0,0923 mipmap cache: 1964MB 0,0923 available mem: 7859MB 0,0923 singlebuff: 122MB 0,0923 OpenCL tune mem: OFF 0,0923 OpenCL pinned: OFF [opencl_init] opencl related configuration options: [opencl_init] opencl: ON [opencl_init] opencl_scheduling_profile: 'default' [opencl_init] opencl_library: 'default path' [opencl_init] opencl_device_priority: '*/!0,*/*/*/!0,*' [opencl_init] opencl_mandatory_timeout: 400 [opencl_init] opencl library 'libOpenCL' found on your system and loaded [opencl_init] could not get platforms: Unknown OpenCL error [opencl_init] FINALLY: opencl is NOT AVAILABLE and NOT ENABLED.

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Nextcloud 27.1.2 Update - /etc/webapps/nextcloud/.htaccess.pacnew - triggers new Admin Overview Warning
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

All, The new update for Nextcloud 27.1.2 causes a new Admin Warning when the new .htaccess files is incorporated. After the update and after 'occ maintenance:update:htaccess' the following warning is triggered in the Administrative Settings Overview check that runs: There are some warnings regarding your setup. Your web server is not properly set up to resolve "/nextcloud/ocm-provider/". This is most likely related to a web server configuration that was not updated to deliver this folder directly. Please compare your configuration against the shipped rewrite rules in ".htaccess" for Apache or the provided one in the documentation for Nginx at it's documentation page ↗. On Nginx those are typically the lines starting with "location ~" that need an update. The problem seems to surround the line: RewriteRule ^ocm-provider/?$ /index.php [QSA,L] which is present in the .htaccess.pacnew, but not present in the original .htaccess. Restoring the original .htaccess fixes the issue immediately resulting in "All checks passed" Since the line "RewriteRule ^ocm-provider/?$ /index.php [QSA,L]" is above the comment stating: #### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE #### Is this an issue with the update package that needs to be fixed? I generally try to incorporate all .pacnew configs (at least go through them and migrate any changes). There are a number of changes in the new .htaccess.pacnew file above the comment line, so that leaves me questioning whether my current .htaccess is optimal even though the overview checks show "All checks passed". -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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archinstall mystery
by Jude DaShiell 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

I used it earlier since I couldn't make sense of the efi and uefi encyclopedias in the Installation-guide. I now have a disk with two partitions on it first one being fat32 esp. The machine is uefi 64 capable. For that reason I can't figure out how to run grub-install on the latest update of grub. Does archinstall install for bios by default? If so, I think I can have grub-install ignore platform and install in /boot/grub with a couple options. I used the archinstall that was on the latest arch release and managed to get a working system by putting enough packages on the essential packages line. -- 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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Locked out of my account...
by barfin 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Hi i wanted to reset my password but i don't have the email alias that i used for my account anymore, how can i fix this?

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An in my opinion dubious dependency chain
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

Hi, to have a wider choice of media players I installed deepin-movie and deepin-music a long time ago, some dependencies were required, hence I had the following Deepin related packages installed: deepin-desktop-base deepin-movie deepin-music deepin-qt-dbus-factory deepin-qt5integration deepin-qt5platform-plugins dtkgui dtkwidget An obsolete package I already removed earlier was originally also installed: deepin-wayland IMO this is a reasonable amount of dependencies. When I tried to upgrade my Arch install today, by running sudo pacman -Syu this happens: :: There are 2 providers available for DEEPIN-ANYTHING-MODULE: :: Repository extra 1) deepin-anything-arch 2) deepin-anything-dkms Media players require a kernel module? So I'm going to pretend that I'm okay with that. This is what happens [1]. Those two media player that were installed a long time ago together with the required dependencies now pull in a complete desktop environment including a file-manager, wallpapers etc.. It seems a bit dubious to me, hence I removed the Deepin stuff from my machine. Am I being overly suspicious? I'm interested in opinions. Regards, Ralf [1] [snip] Packages (93) archlinux-keyring-20230918-1 avfs-1.1.5-1 bamf-0.5.6- 1 blur-effect-1.1.3-2 cowsay-3.04-4 cryfs-0.11.4-4 ddcutil-1.4.1- 1 deepin-account-faces-1.0.15-1 deepin-anything-5.0.18-1 deepin-anything-dkms-5.0.18-1 deepin-api-6.0.7-1 deepin-api-proxy-1.0.8-1 deepin-app-services- 1.0.22-1 deepin-appearance-1.1.6-1 deepin-application-manager-1.0.19-2 deepin-control- center-6.0.24-1 deepin-daemon-6.0.21-1 deepin-desktop-base- 2:2023.09.04-1 deepin-desktop-schemas-6.0.5-2 deepin-desktop-theme-1.0.8-1 deepin-dock-6.0.21-1 deepin-file-manager-1:6.0.29-1 deepin-gtk-theme-2020.06.10-1 deepin-icon-theme-2023.04.03-1 deepin-kwin-5.25.11-1 deepin-launcher-6.0.15-1 deepin-menu-5.0.1-12 deepin- music-6.2.31-1 deepin-network-core-2.0.15-1 deepin-pdfium-1.0.2-1 deepin-polkit-agent-6.0.5-1 deepin-polkit-agent-ext-gnomekeyring-5.0.1-1 deepin- pw-check-6.0.2-1 deepin-qt-dbus-factory-6.0.0-4 deepin- qt5integration-5.6.16-1 deepin-qt5platform-plugins-5.6.16-1 deepin-session-1.1.9-4 deepin-session-shell-6.0.9-1 deepin-session-ui-6.0.10-1 deepin-sound-theme-15.10.6-1 deepin- util-dfm-1.2.15-1 deepin-wallpapers-1:1.7.7-2 deepin-widgets-6.0.14-1 deepin-wloutput-daemon-2.0.3-1 disomaster-5.0.8-1 docparser-1.0.3-1 dtkcommon-5.6.16-1 dtkcore- 1:5.6.16-1 dtkgui-1:5.6.16-1 dtkwidget-5.6.16-1 dwayland-5.24.3.deepin.1.4-3 ffmpeg-2:6.0-11 gdk- pixbuf-xlib-2.40.2-2 geoip-database-extra-20230901-1 gio-qt-0.0.12- 1 haskell-aeson-2.1.2.1-9 haskell-assoc-1.0.2-190 haskell-bifunctors-5.6-1 haskell-foldable1-classes- compat-0.1-1 haskell-indexed-traversable-instances-0.1.1.2-6 haskell-regex-tdfa-1.3.2.2-5 haskell-semialign-1.2.0.1-122 haskell-semigroupoids-5.3.7-104 haskell-strict- 0.4.0.1-164 haskell-these-1.1.1.1-191 haskell-witherable-0.4.2-63 i2c-tools-4.3-4 imagemagick-7.1.1.17-1 imwheel-1.0.0pre12-6 kscreenlocker-5.27.8-1 layer- shell-qt-5.27.8-1 libchardet-1.0.6-1 libdovi-3.2.0-2 libkscreen- 5.27.8-1 liblightdm-qt5-1:1.32.0-4 libplacebo-5.264.1-4 libqaccessibilityclient-0.4.1-2 linux-lts-6.1.54-1 linux-lts-docs-6.1.54-1 linux-lts-headers-6.1.54-1 lucene++-3.0.8-7 lzlib-1.13-3 microsoft-edge-beta-bin-117.0.2045.31-1 networkmanager-qt-5.110.0-1 onevpl-2023.3.1-1 procps-ng-4.0.4-2 shellcheck-0.9.0-49 socat-1.7.4.4-1 spdlog-1.12.0-1 startdde-6.0.10-3 xcur2png-0.7.1-7 xfce4-notifyd- 0.9.1-1 xorg-xwayland-23.2.0-1

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Fwd: Does anyone have Fresh Nextcloud Install on PHP-legacy with cache working?
by Paul Dann 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

On Fri, 15 Sept 2023, 01:38 David C. Rankin, <drankinatty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If I duplicate the complete LAMP setup in > docker as well as running my other apps, that will likely make a 4G > Celeron > roll over a croak? On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 19:33, Dee Moore <dee42moore(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's really close, actually. The cost is mostly in storage, a little in > RAM due to the libraries not being shared by other processes. In my real > life experience with redis, it adds about 1-2% CPU overhead. Well worth it. > Sorry, I missed the original question. Yes, I agree with Dee - even with a second webserver as a frontend proxy (I recommend nginx), it's not like doing twice the work - the heavy lifting will be done in the container. There are some small overheads in CPU, a bit more in RAM, and then maybe storage is the most noticeable, but probably nothing compared to what NextCloud is using anyway. Paul

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Any though of having archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync check for iptables and recommend rule?
by David C. Rankin 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

Archdevs, Depending on how restrictive the iptables rules, if the IP for archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync falls into a blocked range, the logs quickly fill. An idea is to have the service insert a temporary rule to either (1) allow the IP for the sync check, or (2) allow established, related connections while the service runs. It may also be worth updating the wiki to provide model rules for iptables/nftables to allow archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync to run successfully. Just food for thought. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Webkit2gtk 2.42.0-1 upgrade breaks claws mail fancy plugin html rendering
by Richard Ullger 23 Sep '23

23 Sep '23

Hi, As the subject states. The preview pane for html emails is blank. Downgrading webkit2gtk to 2.40.5-2 fixes the issue. Regards, Richard

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New spurious journal entry begins 9/11 - DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '23

22 Sep '23

All, There a number of reports from different distributions over time of spurious log messages of "XXXXX DIGEST-MD5 common mech free" that have been encountered with everything from mail packages to web servers. Starting September 11, this started on Arch with php-legacy installed. On this box I have 32 journals going back to April, 2023, After saving the entries from the journal, it's clear this error started on September 11 and that roughly corresponds to my setup of nextcloud on this box. The journal entries get quite chatty, e.g. Sep 22 06:55:25 2pi httpd[35305]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 06:58:34 2pi systemd[1]: Started Nextcloud; run cron.php. Sep 22 06:58:36 2pi php-legacy[35340]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 06:58:36 2pi systemd[1]: nextcloud-cron.service: Deactivated successfully. Sep 22 06:59:58 2pi httpd[35307]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:03:35 2pi systemd[1]: Started Nextcloud; run cron.php. Sep 22 07:03:36 2pi php-legacy[35405]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:03:36 2pi systemd[1]: nextcloud-cron.service: Deactivated successfully. Sep 22 07:08:27 2pi sudo[35454]: david : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl --no-pager --full -f Sep 22 07:08:27 2pi sudo[35454]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by david(uid=1000) Sep 22 07:08:35 2pi systemd[1]: Started Nextcloud; run cron.php. Sep 22 07:08:36 2pi php-legacy[35457]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:36 2pi systemd[1]: nextcloud-cron.service: Deactivated successfully. Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi systemd[1]: Reloading Apache Web Server... Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35289]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35294]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35308]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi systemd[1]: Reloaded Apache Web Server. Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35310]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35293]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35295]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35296]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35303]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35304]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:47 2pi httpd[35309]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:08:50 2pi httpd[35292]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:09:16 2pi httpd[35473]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:09:23 2pi php-fpm-legacy[35063]: pool nextcloud[35063]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:09:30 2pi php-fpm-legacy[35207]: pool nextcloud[35207]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:09:35 2pi httpd[35470]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 22 07:13:35 2pi systemd[1]: Started Nextcloud; run cron.php. Sep 22 07:13:36 2pi php-legacy[35525]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free There are a dozen or so on server startup and then when nextcloud runs it's cron job. Dumping the journal entries, it's clear when it started and it looks like most entries are due to php-legacy, but there are httpd and php-fpm-legacy in there as well e,g, $ jcnl | grep 'DIGEST-MD5 common mech free' > tmp/DIGEST-MD5commonMechFree.txt $ head tmp/DIGEST-MD5commonMechFree.txt Sep 11 02:44:53 2pi php-legacy[12486]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 02:49:53 2pi php-legacy[12526]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 02:54:53 2pi php-legacy[12558]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:00:03 2pi php-legacy[12589]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:05:03 2pi php-legacy[12727]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:10:03 2pi php-legacy[12763]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:15:03 2pi php-legacy[12798]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:20:13 2pi php-legacy[12895]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:25:13 2pi php-legacy[25576]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Sep 11 03:30:13 2pi php-legacy[25691]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Is this something of concern or just something that is chatty but does no harm? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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bash 5.2 and BASH_COMPAT question
by Genes Lists 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

Hi: I believe that bash 5.2 was/is held back due to incompatible Changes with 5.1 [1]. The obvious first thought would be to set BASH_COMPAT="5.1" globally and then update to the current 5.2 version. This would work for any shell which sees the BASH_COMPAT variable. User login shells, users running things which in turn invoke bash would get the variable passed down. Users who want to use the 5.2 features would have the ability to unset the variable - but recognizing the caveat below. I do see one caveat (may be others): When bash is invoked from a non-login shell without the BASH_COMPAT variable or from a tool which cleans it's env before invoking bash, those would need adjusting to set their own BASH_COMPAT variable should they depend on the 5.1 behavior or be changed to support 5.2 Which leads to: - do we have a list of tools that invoke bash but clean env variables before doing so? (pacman perhaps) - is their a task list of what needs to be done (either fix the incompatibilities or push the BASH_COMPAT variable down). - what else needs to be done to allow us to update to 5.2 Thoughts? thanks gene [1] https://github.com/bminor/bash/blob/master/COMPAT

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gdm3 stalled
by Zener 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

After an upgrade several months ago, gdm3 get stalled at each boot and gnome can't run properly. So, I've disabled gdm.service and gnome start properly without gdm. All the upgrade system in these months have not been able to solve. Could you help me to do an useful debug in order to solve? Thanks.

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keyboard shortcut became really slow after update.
by Zener 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

After an update in june/july keyboard shortcut became really slow (and gdm doesn’t work any more). I use wayland on Arch. Could you help me to solve please? tnks.

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Does anyone have Fresh Nextcloud Install on PHP-legacy with cache working?
by David C. Rankin 18 Sep '23

18 Sep '23

All, I've spent a few days trying to get either APCu or Redis (or both) caching working with a fresh install of nextcloud on php-legacy. Nextcloud works fine and I can enable both caches per the wiki but adding anything to /etc/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php as shown in the wiki immediately results in an "Internal server error" crash of nextcloud. A full explanation of all steps tried is in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288622 Does anyone have nextcloud 27.0.2 running on php-legacy with APCu or Redis (or both) enabled and working? Something is really wrong here. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Archlinux Con
by Hritik Vijay 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

Hello I attended debconf23 yesterday and it got me wondering about Arch Cons. According to what I've seen, we mostly had online cons (if any). Can we plan for an offline con for archlinux ? Is there enough interest around it ? Are there enough sponsors for us (｡◕‿‿◕｡) ? Hritik

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Arch Mailing List queries
by Polarian 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

Hello, So I have two things I would like to address which I have realised: Firstly is the fact that Arch Linux almost always picks IPv4 over IPv6 when delivery the mail. I am aware this is not a big issue because I still receive the email but Arch Linux has full support for IPv6, and I would like to have it used (especially for the hope in the future we can all use single stack IPv6 and get rid of legacy IPv4). I believe this is not an issue with Arch Linux, but the mailing list software used (which I believe is mailman). I have discussed the same issue with the Gajim developers on XMPP. I believe GNU mailman uses Happy Eyeballs (like which Gajim uses) (more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs) which when I test it on my network for about 200-300 attempts, IPv6 is picked 299/300 of the times, so I should be seeing almost always IPv6, but I get the opposite. I assume GNU mailman uses the GNU python network library (forgot what it is called) which contains a Happy Eyeballs implementation (the same one Gajim uses). So there is a strong likelihood that it is an issue with the library being biased towards picking IPv4 over IPv6, because I do not have this issue with any other software. So this is not something which Arch is responsible for, but if anyone has more information about this, I would be grateful to be given it :) I did think for a while I had setup IPv6 incorrectly, but when I see Microsoft delivering emails solely over IPv6 (not a single use of IPv4), I do not believe it is an issue on my end, but correct me if I am wrong :D The second issue I want to bring up is the issue of gmail (and also sometimes outlook emails) spamming my emails. I have a few thoughts on this: - Google employs IP whitelisting, my email server is small and thus is suspicious, other small email servers know the going trend of "it being impossible to stay out of gmail spam folders", even legitimate emails from big companies sometimes end up in gmail spam, so for those who keep complaining about my emails being put into your spam, it is not an issue on my end, I have checked numerous times. - DKIM signatures are broken in transit, and depending on how the spam filter classifies something as spam, it could be picked up as a incorrect DKIM signature and thus spammed instantly, I will use David Rankin's email from this morning as a reference for this (https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-general@lists.archlinux.org/…) Here are the relevant headers: Received: from mail.polarian.dev by email with LMTP id +Pw5ALfTAmV1LwAAotfoXQ (envelope-from <arch-general-bounces(a)lists.archlinux.org>) for <polarian@localhost>; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:34:47 +0000 Received: from lists.archlinux.org (lists.archlinux.org [IPv6:2a01:4f9:c010:9eb4::1]) by mail.polarian.dev (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B5AB10A0772 for <polarian(a)polarian.dev>; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.polarian.dev; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=(a)gmail.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=20221208 header.b=S2HFsXca Received: from lists.archlinux.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.archlinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD29AF4E9A0; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:34:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-oo1-xc35.google.com (mail-oo1-xc35.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::c35]) by lists.archlinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3AC84F4E993 for <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org>; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 09:34:20 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: lists.archlinux.org; dkim=pass header.d=gmail.com header.s=20221208 header.b=S2HFsXca; spf=pass (lists.archlinux.org: domain of drankinatty(a)gmail.com designates 2607:f8b0:4864:20::c35 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=drankinatty(a)gmail.com; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gmail.com Received: by mail-oo1-xc35.google.com with SMTP id 006d021491bc7-57355a16941so450114eaf.2 for <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org>; Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:34:20 -0700 (PDT) Sorry for the bad formatting, and apologies to David Rankin for using your email headers as a reference, but I assume its fine because it was posted to a public mailing list which we can already see, its public information, but if you do mind, I am sorry. The bottom hop is just google hopping the email between their servers, but once it hits lists.archlinux.org you can see that the authentication results is that it passes both spf and dkim, also I would like to draw attention to the fact that it was delivered to the mailing list via IPv6, which does show that IPv6 is definitely functioning on Arch's end. It is then hopped to my mail server, this was the only email which I have so far which was hopped to me via IPv6, so I was amazed when I saw it, so it definitely seems to be a issue with Happy Eyeballs. Anyways back to the topic, the signature then fails dkim validation (Yes I do not currently check spf, ip address spoofing is trivial compared to cryptographic signing and thus I was lazy and haven't yet bothered (its been over a year since my current mail server was configured :P). I assume that Google with their strict (and pointless) spam filter, sees that their mail server has failed to validate dkim and spams said email. I know I am not the only person being spammed too, I have seen other people being informed "hey your email was spammed for me", and 9 times out of 10 its those who self host, and thus are less known. Welcome to Googles dictatorship on email. I believe people running rspamd picks up that further down the hop chain it was valid, and thus takes that into account possibly, because I haven't heard people struggling to pass rspamd filtering. The reason for me bringing this up is getting an email every time I post to a mailing list from 3 different people complaining how google spammed my emails is a pain, and heres the kicker, half the time DKIM is valid and half the time it is broken when hopping through lists.archlinux.org, so wrap your ahead around that one! If you are getting legitimate emails spammed, then you either need to relax your email spam filter, or simply get used to checking your spam often to pull legitimate emails out. Personally I do not employ a spam filter, because just the likelihood of a legitimate email being spammed or bounced is a bad idea in my mind. As people complain about my email length, I will give a TL;DR: - Arch Linux (or GNU mailman) seems to have issues when it comes to picking between IPv4 and IPv6. - DKIM signatures are randomly broken when passing through lists.archlinux.org - If emails from the mailing list are being spammed, it might be wise to relax your spam settings, as even fully verified emails can be spammed from companies like google simply because their AI doesn't like the content of said email, or their IP whitelist doesn't include the sender. Maybe I should start putting a TL;DR at the top of every email? and then below that is the usual email with all the context and explanation. If someone thinks this is a good idea let me know (any way for me to annoy people less is a good thing :P) Any advice on how to improve (or hopefully fix) the two above issues would be highly appreciated. Take care, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)icebound.dev

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I am unable to upgrade my system today
by Łukasz Michalski 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Hi, I tried to pacman -Suy today and it failed: (42/42) checking keys in keyring [##############################################################################################] 100% warning: Public keyring not found; have you run 'pacman-key --init'? downloading required keys... error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: keyring is not writable error: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Then I checked database with pacman-key: [root@archdevel ~]# pacman-key --list-sigs ==> ERROR: You do not have sufficient permissions to read the pacman keyring. ==> Use 'pacman-key --init' to correct the keyring permissions. [root@archdevel ~]# pacman-key --init ==> Generating pacman master key. This may take some time. gpg: Generating pacman keyring master key... gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/A99B568F9C124056C01DEBFAE33864D7C9C3D4FB.rev' gpg: Done ==> Updating trust database... gpg: public key of ultimately trusted key 489992F0B03F986A not found gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp gpg: depth: 0 valid: 2 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 2u ==> ERROR: Trust database could not be updated. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is this a root of my problem? [root@archdevel ~]# gpg --homedir /etc/pacman.d/gnupg --list-keys gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg' /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/pubring.kbx ------------------------------- pub rsa4096 2014-11-04 [SC] 5C81C9D6C8D7475DF65A0C884FE7F4FEAC8EBE67 uid [ unknown] Justin Kromlinger <hashworks(a)archlinux.org [a lot of entries....] Then I tried again: [root@archdevel ~]# pacman -Suy -v Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Hook Dirs : /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : None :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (41) btrfs-progs-6.5.1-1 chromium-117.0.5938.62-1 cmake-3.27.5-1 code-1.82.0-2 containerd-1.7.6-1 curl-8.3.0-1 dotnet-host-7.0.11.sdk111-1 dotnet-runtime-7.0.11.sdk111-1 dotnet-sdk-7.0.11.sdk111-1 dotnet-targeting-pack-7.0.11.sdk111-1 ffmpeg-2:6.0-10 filelight-23.08.1-1 firefox-117.0.1-1 ghostscript-10.02.0-1 glib2-2.78.0-2 graphviz-9.0.0-1 kompare-23.08.1-1 lib32-curl-8.3.0-1 lib32-glib2-2.78.0-2 lib32-libtiff-4.6.0-1 libarchive-3.7.2-1 libimagequant-4.2.1-1 libkomparediff2-23.08.1-1 liblouis-3.27.0-1 libportal-0.7-1 libportal-gtk3-0.7-1 libreoffice-fresh-7.6.1-1 librsvg-2:2.57.0-1 libtiff-4.6.0-1 libwebp-1.3.2-1 linux-6.5.3.arch1-1 linux-headers-6.5.3.arch1-1 linux-lts-6.1.53-1 linux-lts-headers-6.1.53-1 netstandard-targeting-pack-7.0.11.sdk111-1 nvidia-535.104.05-6 python-gobject-3.46.0-1 python-sphinx-7.2.6-1 qt5-script-5.15.15-1 qt5-webengine-5.15.15-1 sqlite-3.43.1-1 Total Installed Size: 2583.28 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -0.07 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y (41/41) checking keys in keyring [##############################################################################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 771DF6627EDF681F, "Tobias Powalowski <tpowa(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 6D42BDD116E0068F, "Christian Hesse <eworm(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 94657AB20F2A092B, "Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 51E8B148A9999C34, "Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key 7A4E76095D8A52E4, "Antonio Rojas <arojas(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y :: Import PGP key EA4F7B321A906AD9, "Daniel M. Capella <polyzen(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] y y( 9/41) checking package integrity [###########-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 12(41/41) checking package integrity [##############################################################################################] 100% error: btrfs-progs: signature from "Tobias Powalowski <tpowa(a)archlinux.org>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/btrfs-progs-6.5.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n Following wiki I tried to repopulate database: [root@archdevel ~]# pacman-key --populate ==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg... gpg: public key of ultimately trusted key 489992F0B03F986A not found ==> Locally signing trusted keys in keyring... ==> ERROR: 2AC0A42EFB0B5CBC7A0402ED4DC95B6D7BE9892E could not be locally signed. ==> ERROR: 69E6471E3AE065297529832E6BA0F5A2037F4F41 could not be locally signed. ==> ERROR: D8AFDDA07A5B6EDFA7D8CCDAD6D055F927843F1C could not be locally signed. ==> ERROR: 91FFE0700E80619CEB73235CA88E23E377514E00 could not be locally signed. [root@archdevel ~]# pacman-key --refresh-keys gpg: key 4FE7F4FEAC8EBE67: "Justin Kromlinger <justin(a)kromlinger.eu>" not changed gpg: key 4FE7F4FEAC8EBE67: "Justin Kromlinger <justin(a)kromlinger.eu>" not changed gpg: Total number processed: 2 gpg: unchanged: 2 [lot of entries, some errors like this: ==> ERROR: Could not update key: BBE43771487328A9 gpg: error retrieving 'ibiru(a)archlinux.org' via WKD: No data gpg: error reading key: No data gpg: refreshing 1 key from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No name ==> ERROR: Could not update key: E8F18BA1615137BC gpg: error retrieving 'jonno.conder(a)gmail.com' via WKD: No data gpg: error reading key: No data gpg: refreshing 1 key from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: keyserver refresh failed: No name ==> ERROR: Could not update key: AF7EF7873CFD4BB6 ...] Now I am not even able to reinstall archlinux-keyring: [root@archdevel ~]# pacman -S archlinux-keyring warning: archlinux-keyring-20230821-2 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) archlinux-keyring-20230821-2 Total Installed Size: 1.62 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y (1/1) checking keys in keyring [##############################################################################################] 100% (1/1) checking package integrity [##############################################################################################] 100% error: archlinux-keyring: signature from "Christian Hesse <eworm(a)archlinux.org>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20230821-2-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] n What could I do to fix this problem? Do I understand it right that ths is a problem with pacman-key --init ? Regards, Łukasz

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Open Source Summit Europe
by Jedisocialist 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Im wondering if any one else is attending or will be in Bilbao, Spain the week of September 18-22 for the Open Source Summit. If so, I could arrange a social meet-up for all interested. Cheers! Kellen Smith Sent from ProtonMail mobile

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Haupauge TV card failed on kernel 6.5.2-arch1-1
by pete 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Hi folks Just run my normal daily "pacman -Syu" update rebooted to see the below message flash past the tv card was perfect less than 3 minuets earlier i had been watching it . failing symbol_get of non-GPLONLY symbol cx22702_attach. [ 20.746259] DVB: Unable to find symbol cx22702_attach() [ 20.746300] cx88_dvb: frontend initialization failed [ 20.746333] cx88_dvb: dvb_register failed (err = -22) system is as follows Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.2-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: HAWAII Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. if you need more let me know i would like to get this TV card back i use it a lot it is my TV . Thanks Pete

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archinstall log file
by Jude DaShiell 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '23

archinstall failed and when I ran archinstall I ran: archinstall 2>&1 | tee archinstall.log. Since the file is about 10,000 lines long I think what I ought to do is make another shorter file using grep containing only the bugs before posting that smaller file. I used the Installation_guide script after having made lynx screen reader accessible and got up to installing grub but couldn't figure out what to do after that to finish the system installation. The iso file verified with sq verify --signer-cert release-key.pgp --detached archlinux-2023-09.01-x86_64.iso.sig archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso As important, the installer came up talking. -- 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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swaywm, closing and opening of laptop lid connects to wrong wifi station
by Morten Bo Johansen 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Hi, I have a wifi router and an extender/repeater. I connect to the extender's station to get the best signal, but when I close the lid on my laptop and then open it again, wifi resumes with a connection to my router's station, thereby losing about 30% signal strength so I need to manually disconnect from it and connect to the extender. I can't figure out where this happens. It is not in my sway config file and it doesn't seem to be in /etc/logind.conf either. Does anybody know how to configure this properly? Thanks, Morten

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Disregard - nextcloud - fresh install on php-legacy, wiki followed - "Log in to Nextcloud" fails?
by David C. Rankin 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

Uugh, Never fails, the default is 'admin' and the password is the admin password (duh) not the database password.. Works fine! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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nextcloud - fresh install on php-legacy, wiki followed - "Log in to Nextcloud" fails?
by David C. Rankin 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

All, I have a new nextcloud installed, I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nextcloud. Everything is configured per the wiki aside from cache. Nextcloud is accessed in its own directory /nextcloud. Pointing a browser to https://localhost/nextcloud bring up the nextcloud login just fine. However, I expected the set admin dialog like is shown in the nextcloud documentation under quickstart. The install is long and I may have missed something -- but when nextcloud is asking for the "Account name or email" and "Password" -- whose credentials is it wanting?? The only credentials provided so far are for MariaDB - which appears to be working fine. With the setup per the wiki, do I need to further configure something to be prompted with the first-login box to set an admin user and password, or is this something I should have read further about configuring users with occ? The log tells me: {"reqId":"<snipped>","level":2,"time":"2023-09-06T20:14:23+00:00","remoteAddr":"127.0.0.1","user":"--","app":"no app in context","method":"POST","url":"/nextcloud/login","message":"Login failed: admin (Remote IP: 127.0.0.1)","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0","version":"27.0.2.1","data":[]} Which just looks like nextcloud has no clue who 'admin' and trying my user name resulted in the same log message for me. What did I miss? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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got verified archlinux iso
by Jude DaShiell 03 Sep '23

03 Sep '23

The website may need a little correction: sq verify --signer-file probably should read: sq verify --signer-cert release-key.pgp --detached archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso.sig archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso I had to upgrade debian to bookworm for all of these sq commands to work. wkd isn't available in bullseye. -- 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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Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . My guess is as follows: This arose from Waterfox changing their versions from "current" to "G", short for "generation". hawkeye116477, the maintainer for the former package and former maintainer for the latter package, decided to create a new package, waterfox-g-bin, for later releases and keep waterfox-current-bin frozen at the last release with "current". However, MarsSeed orphaned waterfox-current-bin through [PRQ#42365] in June and Leo Izen claimed it and updated it to the latest Waterfox G. The current situation is that Waterfox refers to "Waterfox G" as simply "Waterfox" and both bin packages have the wrong name. What should be done? Also, is it necessary to have both gtk3 and gtk2 as dependencies? Looking at the PKGBUILDs the only difference between the packages is waterfox-g-bin disables automatic updates + update notifications and has the extra profile manager desktop action while waterfox-current-bin has none of these and has the extra dependency "nss" (is this necessary?) P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do.

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Re: the archlinux torrent
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Hi, first off all, please reply to the mailing-list only, don't reply to me, too. I'm subscribed to the list and receiving two mails, one with mailing-list headers and another without the headers, is asking for trouble. FWIW I'm not an experienced sq user, I'm used to gpg. In the first place I seemingly replied to your request accidentally not to the list, since you usually sent to the list and to me and I probably clicked the email without the mailing list headers. On Sat, 2023-09-02 at 07:52 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -<file>.gpg >> >> Did you run >> >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -release-key.pgp >> >> instead of >> >> sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o release-key.pgp >> >> ? > Yes and that's what got sq not liking wkd much was happening yesterday and > at the time I wrote that message I substituted a variable for the > release-key. Ok, you likely wanted to say "no", IOW you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY since "yes" would mean you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -$KEY what happened when you run sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY ? Did stdout or stderr return "error: sq doesn't like wkd" ? It does work on my machine • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ KEY=release-key.pgp • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ sq wkd get pierre(a)archlinux.org -o $KEY • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ echo $? 0 • rocketmouse@archlinux /tmp $ /bin/ls -l $KEY -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 18971 Sep 2 14:03 release-key.pgp Without the error message we (or at least I) cannot help. Regards, Ralf

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Re: Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Waterfox G Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:18:07 -0400 From: Aaron Liu <aaronliu0130(a)gmail.com> To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org, aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org Oops, I've sent this to the arch-general mailing list instead! I meant to send this to aur-general, sorry. I guess forwarding it should be fine. On 9/1/23 15:15, Aaron Liu wrote: > Currently, there are 2 packages for the latest Waterfox "current": > waterfox-g-bin and waterfox-current-bin . > > My guess is as follows: This arose from Waterfox changing their > versions from "current" to "G", short for "generation". hawkeye116477, > the maintainer for the former package and former maintainer for the > latter package, decided to create a new package, waterfox-g-bin, for > later releases and keep waterfox-current-bin frozen at the last > release with "current". However, MarsSeed orphaned > waterfox-current-bin through [PRQ#42365] in June and Leo Izen claimed > it and updated it to the latest Waterfox G. > > The current situation is that Waterfox refers to "Waterfox G" as > simply "Waterfox" and both bin packages have the wrong name. What > should be done? > > Also, is it necessary to have both gtk3 and gtk2 as > dependencies? Looking at the PKGBUILDs the only difference between the > packages is waterfox-g-bin disables automatic updates + update > notifications and has the extra profile manager desktop action while > waterfox-current-bin has none of these and has the extra dependency > "nss" (is this necessary?) > > P.S.: I've Bcc'd everybody I've named in this email. I'm new to the > AUR, so tell me if that's not the right thing to do. >

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Re: the archlinux torrent
by Jude DaShiell 29 Aug '23

29 Aug '23

Thanks. I'll download that on another system and try doing this correctly next time. -- 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. On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Thibault de Villèle wrote: > It seems to be sequoia-sq : > > $ sudo pacman --files --refresh # long version of 'pacman -Fy' > $ pacman --files --regex '.*bin/sq' # long version of 'pacman -Fx' > [...snip...] > /usr/bin/sq is owned by extra/sequoia-sq 0.31.0-1 > [...snip...] > > Le mar. 29 août 2023 à 10:00, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(a)panix.com> a écrit : > > > What package has sq in it? > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > the download page as well as the installation guide describe what to do. > > > I didn't copy the description, the details are provided by those links. > > > > > > "[...] With this key the signature can be verified like this: > > > > > > sq [...]" - https://archlinux.org/download/ > > > > > > > > > "1.2 Verify signature > > > [...] gpg" - > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Verify_signature > > > > > > Regards, > > > Ralf > > > > > > > > >

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vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?
by David C. Rankin 28 Aug '23

28 Aug '23

All, Doug, A header include is requires for 6.4.12, but not for LTS. How do I modify the PKGBUILD to apply the change only when building the module for linux and not linux-lts. I chose a simple sed -i to include the needed header: # fix 6.4.11 include requirement sed -i 's|#include <linux/inetdevice.h>|&\n#include <net/gso.h>|' "${_extractdir}/src/vboxhost/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c" The problem is that LTS doesn't like the additional include. I suspect it will take some makefile patch instead of a change of the source file so LTS can build without the new header. How best to do this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Unicode issues after system upgrade
by Jeanette C. 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

Hey hey, I just upgraded my system and upon restart, now running kernel 6.4.11-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC and everything else that was available one/two days ago. When I rebooted my computer today, I ran into UTF-8 issues. I use a braille display, running brltty, which apparnelty has also been updated to the next version. So I can't really tell, whether the improper display of characters is related to TTY settings or BRLTTY. I looked at /etc/local.conf, which is set to a UTF charset. Also the command locale displays that charset/locale. I looked at brltty to make sure that the Linux terminal parameter Unicode is set to yes. The locale is also present (locale-gen). Any ideas what this could be? Some change in the terminal settings? Any hints and tips are appreciated! 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 Make all the clouds disappear Put all your fears to rest <3 (Britney Spears)

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Linux 6.4.12 Breaks Virtualbox 6.1.46 DKMS Build
by David C. Rankin 26 Aug '23

26 Aug '23

All, This shouldn't happen, but the linux-6.4.11 to linux-6.4.12 broke the dkms build of virtualbox 6.1.46 modules. Specifically from the log: DKMS make.log for vboxhost-6.1.46_non_OSE for kernel 6.4.12-arch1-1 (x86_64) Fri Aug 25 05:35:45 PM CDT 2023 CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c: In function ‘vboxNetFltLinuxForwardToIntNetInner’: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c:1561:40: error: implicit declaration of function ‘skb_gso_segment’; did you mean ‘skb_gso_reset’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] 1561 | struct sk_buff *pSegment = skb_gso_segment(pBuf, 0 /*supported features*/); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | skb_gso_reset /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.c:1561:40: warning: initialization of ‘struct sk_buff *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:252: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt/linux/VBoxNetFlt-linux.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:497: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxnetflt] Error 2 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrvGip.o In file included from ./include/linux/string.h:254, from /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/include/iprt/string.h:39, from /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrvInternal.h:46, from /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.c:33: In function ‘fortify_memcpy_chk’, inlined from ‘supdrvIOCtlInnerUnrestricted’ at /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.c:1746:13, inlined from ‘supdrvIOCtl’ at /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.46_non_OSE/build/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.c:2698:14: ./include/linux/fortify-string.h:520:25: warning: call to ‘__write_overflow_field’ declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Wattribute-warning] 520 | __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Should I open a bug with Arch? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Install a package to alternative location
by Jeanette C. 21 Aug '23

21 Aug '23

Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it is bad planning. 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 You know I'm one of a kind, There'll never be another me <3 (Britney Spears)

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kernel 6.4.11 bug prevents boot on some hardware
by Genes Lists 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

Sharing in case this helps others. Also posted to arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288095 There is a bug with the rtsx driver in 6.4.11 that prevented 1 machine from booting. It presented in my case as NVME failure, thus preventing machine from booting. 6.4.10 is fine. The hardware that triggers this is in my case is: 03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) Solution: A work around is simply to blacklist the driver (its only a card reader). i.e. Add blacklist rtsx_pci blacklist rtsx_pci_sdmmc to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_rtsx.conf rebuild the initramfs so that the blacklist gets put into it. More details on this are available on lkml: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/8/16/1183 regards gene

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Access to unix socket files
by Hauke Fath 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

Hi, while scripting around ssh-agent(8), I noticed that on Arch a non-privileged user is not able to get any information on active unix domain sockets - not even her own. I tried fuser(1), lsof(8) and sockstat(1). While the lsof(8) man page hints at requiring 'setuid root' on some OSes, that doesn't make a difference, nor does it for the other two tools. You appear to only get information on domain sockets as root. Is this behaviour intended? It is certainly not documented. A Debian 11 machine I tried behaves differently, as do NetBSD, FreeBSD and OmniOS. What is the rationale for this default? And how can I change it? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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Failed to boot after latest pacman -Syu
by David N Murray 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

Hi all, I ran a `pacman -Syu` yesterday and when I boot, I'm greeted with: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats. The relevant portion of journalctl: Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats... Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Update Boot Loader Random Seed was skipped because no trigger condition checks were met. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories... Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Got automount request for /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, triggered by 429 (systemd-binfmt) Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found ordering cycle on systemd-vconsole-setup.service/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Unable to break cycle starting with sysinit.target/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Requested transaction contains an unfixable cyclic ordering dependency: Transaction order is cyclic. See system logs for details. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Failed to queue mount startup job: Transaction order is cyclic. See system logs for details. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Failed with result 'resources'. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd-binfmt[429]: Failed to check if /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is mounted: Host is down Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats. I tried `systemd-analyze verify sysinit.target proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount systemd-vconsole-setup.service` and it reported the same messages. systemd-vconsole-setup.service is the culprit. Since vconsole-setup isn't run, I can't login. Removing vconsole.conf had no effect. vconsole-setup is invoked by udevd, so I can't disable it (not that I want to). No other services appear to start after this failure (like lightdm). I'm stumped. Any thoughts on how to fix this? TIA, Dave

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Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Ruiyang Peng 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs. I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of it could take such memory)! I rebooted, but the problem is still there. It was okay at the beginning , but when I was trying to switch the tabs, the monitor showed that the memory suddenly grew from 269MB to 1.8GB. (versions: Mozilla Firefox 116.0.2, Latest Arch Linux 6.4.10 on x86-64 laptop) Omg, while I was writing this post I didn't close Firefox and now it takes 7.4GB of memory, and STILL GROWING!! Now 11.1GB Of course there's a memory leak. -- Ruiyang Peng

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What laptop's do you guys like?
by Polarian 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

Hello, Although this is a little off topic because this is hardware relating to Arch Linux and not Arch Linux itself, I am curious to see what others use. ArchWiki has laptop pages, but that doesn't show what people prefer to use with Arch Linux. So I have a few questions: - What Laptop do you use currently for Arch Linux? - What do you use the Laptop for? - If you could buy any Laptop for Arch Linux right now, what would you buy? I got a feeling there will be a range of responses, some standing behind old Lenovo Thinkpads, and some vouching for modern laptops. One final question, is there any Laptop company you feel will be a good asset to the Linux community as a whole? Or better, Arch Linux directly :P If you respond, thank you for your time :) Have a good night, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Fwd: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Andy Pieters 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 13:22, pete <petegn(a)mail.com> wrote: > Makes me wonder what desktops asre being used KDE /Plasma here KDE for > years > from the early days mian problems i had were when i had a look at Gnome > the FF > started being unruley runnin 116.0.2 on Arch here fully updated no > issues > > try using KDE .. > > As far as I'm concerned, I haven't used gnome since RHEL4 circa 2004. Qt/KDE/Plasma all the way baby

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Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Andy Pieters 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:01:58 +0100 > Polarian <polarian(a)polarian.dev> wrote: > As a quick note, since the UX update, Firefox has become one of the > heaviest browsers, overtaking chromium/google chrome. This doesn't help [you] and I apologise, but this is literally the reason why I stepped away from Firefox years ago. That and the memory leaks it was constantly suffering from drove me away to Chrome. If Firefox can behave I'd welcome it back in a heartbeat... On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 19:10, Andy Pieters <Andy(a)andypieters.me.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 18:27, <mirto(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:01:58 +0100 >> Polarian <polarian(a)polarian.dev> wrote: >> As a quick note, since the UX update, Firefox has become one of the > > heaviest browsers, overtaking chromium/google chrome. > > > This doesn't help and I apologise, but this is literally the reason why I > stepped away from firefox years ago. > That and the memory leaks it was constantly suffering from drove me away > to Chrome. > > If firefox can behave I'd welcome it back in a heartbeat... > >

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Xorg 3D acceleration question (Alder lake)
by Polarian 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

Hello, So the ArchWiki can be very confusing about this all, and I am sure a lot of people will just install every package and will just hope that it does something, but I would like to actually understand it, so sorry for the ML noise, I would like some clarifications from those who are knowledgeable about this topic. So reason I got a new Laptop with alder lake, and I am trying my best to optimise it, I dropped 70% battery in just 2 hours when its a 73wh battery, that is absurd, so I checked the two following which is recommended to improve performance and battery life: 1. 3D acceleration is in use 2. Hardware video acceleration is in use As for 1, it was by default, however the ArchWiki on the xorg page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Driver_installation) lists the following driver to be installed for xorg: xf86-video-intel Now running glxinfo before the installing of said package, direct rendering is enabled (DRI), which would indicate that 3D acceleration is working as needed. So I am a little confused on why it works without having the xorg driver installed? I have the xorg metapackage installed (I am lazy, and the xorg utilities are useful). is xf86-video-intel used to enable DRI3? Is DRI2 possible without said driver? The wiki is really not clear about this, and I know a lot of people probably wonder why it matters if 3D acceleration is already enabled, but I would like to know what is going on :) Also, saying "Just use wayland" is not a valid answer, already had this happen before so just putting it out there. I would appreciate a detailed explanation on what is going on to clear the confusion. Now back to point 2, this was not enabled, VAAPI is the Intel API for hardware video acceleration and after installing the required driver (intel-media-driver) vainfo (from libva-utils) successfully shows support for Hardware video acceleration. If anyone else has any suggestions or experience with optimising alder lake mobile chips on Arch Linux, I would also appreciate the pointers. As a small note, I used AMD (ryzen 5 5500U) with my old laptop, I can not remember if I could be bothered to setup hardware video acceleration or going through optimising the integrated graphics, I ran that Arch Install for 2 years and typical me doesn't document any of my configuration or dotfiles, so I am trying to piece distant memories back together, lucky the ArchWiki is a good refresher :P Thank you for your time, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Is it necessary for CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS to be enabled by default in Arch Linux 2023.08.01?
by sunying＠isrc.iscas.ac.cn 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hello, I recently noticed that in Arch Linux 2023.08.01, CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS=y. As we know, this option incurs additional CPU and memory cost. In addition to enabling this option, these statistics are only available if the driver using the page pool supports exporting this data. Does enabling this configuration by default have any performance impact? Is it necessary to enable it by default? Thank you for your time. ------------------------------ Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Intelligent Software Research Center Mail:sunying@isrc.iscas.ac.cn Web: https://isrc.iscas.ac.cn/

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Packaging wireguard re-resolve DNS
by LuKaRo 06 Aug '23

06 Aug '23

Hi everyone, wireguard users need to manually re-resolve the DNS when using endpoints with changing IPs. The wiki page lists an example solution using a systemd timer[0]. I like that solution a lot and use it heavily on multiple machines, and as I prefer to have system files managed by pacman instead of manually creating them, I created an AUR package for that. Today I set up another machine using that package, and I thought, why not push the package to the public, so others can use it as well. Of course, you can as well just copy-paste the example on the wiki page, but I guess there are more people out there who prefer having system files managed by pacman instead of manually creating them. Its easier, after all. However, less than an hour after pushing my package to the AUR and mentioning it in the wiki, the change was reverted and a deletion request was filed with the comment > useless package which literally just copy-pastes the units from the wiki Yes, that's right, it doesn't need to do more than that, because the example on the wiki works great, no need to change that. However, I still think it adheres to the AUR submission guidelines, as I can imagine I'm not the only one who prefers installing an AUR package over copying file contents from the wiki. What do you think? Is this really a useless package? Then go ahead, delete it. But I'm not sure if that's the prevalent opinion, or if there are others like me that like seeing things like that on the AUR, that make your life easier. So at least I wanted to raise the discussion. Would love to hear your input, lukaro [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/WireGuard#Endpoint_with_changing_IP

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systemd 254 - How will we disable soft-reboot?
by David C. Rankin 04 Aug '23

04 Aug '23

Arch devs, I read that systemd 254 will enable a soft-reboot similar to how windows does fast-boot does it. (The Register: https://go.reg.cx/tdml/dfd67/64f3cc7f/8aaa3ef6/49jh) Mentioned in the article is this soft-reboot will prevent a full reboot - preventing kernel updates in that mode. But the article is silent, and indeed hints at the open question of if or how this will be disabled to allow kernel updates, dual-booting, etc.. Personally, just like on windows, I want to permanently disable it. I don't know if that has been settled yet on Arch, but wanted to know whether we will have the ability to just disable the systemd soft-boot. I have a 12 second cold-start to full desktop -- I have no need for a soft-reboot that will cause issues with dual-booting and kernel updates. Anybody know if, and how we will be able to do it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Boot secure
by Source Code 26 Jul '23

26 Jul '23

Hi everyone! I just wanna say some questions: 1. I can not find anywhere about why Arch Linux developers do not make secure for Arch Linux. Why? And will secure be in Arch Linux in the future? 2. I read the https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secu… and now I don’t see information about ship. Why?

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Re: What laptop's do you guys like?
by Susanne Schneider 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

hi, I'm one of those guys sticking to old Thinkpads, I have 2 of them, a W520 and a T520, both quadcore with 16Gb ram, one is established as musicmachine (I'm a hobbymusician), the other is my all-day-machine, which already has done VERY heavy video encoding for many many hours now, and still running flawlessly... I love those machines mainly for two reasons: firstly I'm able to open them, mainly for cleaning purposes, fan, replacing heat transfer paste, furthermore it's easy to replace the battery, and secondly: they provide firewire access! I have two Focusrite Saffire 10 Pro soundcards, also working like a charm, and I would be very upset losing the possibility to use them. Both are equipped with Nvidia Optimus technology, thanks to lovely people providing the necessary software on AUR both are running without any constraints, just like entire Archlinux does, best -s Am 23.07.23 um 00:30 schrieb arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org: > Send Arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Arch-general digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: SSH Error in libcrypto (Wesley Kerfoot) > 2. What laptop's do you guys like? (Polarian) > 3. Re: What laptop's do you guys like? (Eric Waller) > 4. Re: What laptop's do you guys like? (Polarian) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:26:51 -0400 > From: Wesley Kerfoot <wjak56(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: SSH Error in libcrypto > To: Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen(a)web.de> > Cc: Martin Rys <spleefer90(a)gmail.com>, > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Message-ID: > <CAM=4j-7XppSbsTsT8QPPL0Y5Hf1EFSM8hEORn_A5OUt5FBe7JQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="000000000000a5aeed0601142c11" > > You should check that your hard drive isn't failing before reinstalling > everything. That sounds like a symptom of a bad disk if multiple files are > empty that shouldn't be. > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 9:41 AM Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen(a)web.de> wrote: > >> >> Am 22.07.23 um 15:23 schrieb Martin Rys: >>> What's the output of `file ~/.ssh/siefke_key; ls -lah ~/.ssh/siefke_key`? >>> >> All 0 byte files. Much 0 byte files. I not understand what happen here >> but I think I need to reinstall Arch Linux. >> >> Silvio >> >

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Can I "vote" for updating an outdated package?
by Carl Lei 24 Jul '23

24 Jul '23

Hi there, My actual problem is that strongswan 5.9.10 has a bug [1] that affects interoperability with Apple iOS client. Upstream has a fix [2] for it which should be available in 5.9.11, but our package is flagged out-of-date on 12 June, over a month ago; well this is not a terribly long time, but since such cases do not qualify as bugs, I don't know if things are going well. Is there some kind of "voting" system that I can click to inform our TUs, to help prioritize updating packages in such cases? [1] https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/discussions/1613 [2] https://github.com/strongswan/strongswan/commit/3d0d3f5d028a0c630f89cb4fec5…

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Fw: ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR
by Matthew Sexton 23 Jul '23

23 Jul '23

Forwarded to list because my client did a dumb. ________________________________ From: Matthew Sexton <matthew(a)asylumtech.com> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2023 7:45 PM To: René Neumann <lists(a)necoro.eu> Subject: Re: ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR Hello! I actually found this quite nifty and appreciate you creating it. I have no idea how often I'll actually use it, but your aur package has my vote. I can't seem to finish any of my pet projects. Go you! ________________________________ From: René Neumann <lists(a)necoro.eu> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2023 2:49 PM To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> Subject: Re: ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR Ah, I forgot the fourth point: I had fun writing it. Don't forget that the "I had an idea for a fun toy project" is what starts/drives most of our OSS ecosystem, including the start of Linux itself :) - René Am 16.07.23 um 20:41 schrieb René Neumann: > Am 16.07.23 um 18:14 schrieb Polarian: >> You can simply use git clone to clone the repository from the dumb >> http frontend, and then use git log to show the logs, I do not see why >> this needs to be wrapped with a script as it is already a simple >> process to do. > > First: I'd need the repo URL for cloning (mind that this is different > between AUR repos and Arch repos). So I'd need a script to automate it¹ > > Second: I don't want to have all the repos lying around, when all I need > is to see the log. > > Third: Nobody is forcing you to use the tool. I needed it for myself and > wanted to share it, in case anyone else fancies it. > > - René > > ¹ NB: I have such a script already, for when I actually intend to clone > a repo.

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SSH Error in libcrypto
by Silvio Siefke 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

Hello, I try to connect remote maschines over SSH but with all servers I become message: Load key ".ssh/siefke_key": error in libcrypto siefke(a)192.168.2.250: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). With -vvv OpenSSH_9.3p2, OpenSSL 3.1.1 30 May 2023 debug2: resolve_canonicalize: hostname 192.168.2.250 is address debug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts' -> '/home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts' debug3: expanded UserKnownHostsFile '~/.ssh/known_hosts2' -> '/home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts2' debug3: ssh_connect_direct: entering debug1: Connecting to 192.168.2.250 [192.168.2.250] port 12500. debug3: set_sock_tos: set socket 3 IP_TOS 0x48 debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file .ssh/siefke_key type -1 debug1: identity file .ssh/siefke_key-cert type -1 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.3 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1 debug1: compat_banner: match: OpenSSH_8.4p1 Debian-5+deb11u1 pat OpenSSH* compat 0x04000000 debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: Authenticating to 192.168.2.250:12500 as 'siefke' debug3: put_host_port: [192.168.2.250]:12500 debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ED25519 in file /home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug3: load_hostkeys_file: loaded 1 keys from [192.168.2.250]:12500 debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory debug3: order_hostkeyalgs: have matching best-preference key type ssh-ed25519-cert-v01(a)openssh.com, using HostkeyAlgorithms verbatim debug3: send packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug3: receive packet: type 20 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug2: local client KEXINIT proposal debug2: KEX algorithms: sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com,curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256,ext-info-c debug2: host key algorithms: ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384-cert-v01@openssh.com,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521-cert-v01@openssh.com,sk-ssh-ed25519-cert-v01@openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512-cert-v01@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-256-cert-v01@openssh.com,ssh-ed25519,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com,rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256 debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: compression ctos: none,zlib(a)openssh.com,zlib debug2: compression stoc: none,zlib(a)openssh.com,zlib debug2: languages ctos: debug2: languages stoc: debug2: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: reserved 0 debug2: peer server KEXINIT proposal debug2: KEX algorithms: curve25519-sha256,curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group16-sha512,diffie-hellman-group18-sha512,diffie-hellman-group14-sha256 debug2: host key algorithms: rsa-sha2-512,rsa-sha2-256,ssh-rsa,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ssh-ed25519 debug2: ciphers ctos: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com debug2: ciphers stoc: chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com debug2: MACs ctos: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: MACs stoc: umac-64-etm@openssh.com,umac-128-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-512-etm@openssh.com,hmac-sha1-etm@openssh.com,umac-64@openssh.com,umac-128@openssh.com,hmac-sha2-256,hmac-sha2-512,hmac-sha1 debug2: compression ctos: none debug2: compression stoc: none debug2: languages ctos: debug2: languages stoc: debug2: first_kex_follows 0 debug2: reserved 0 debug1: kex: algorithm: curve25519-sha256 debug1: kex: host key algorithm: ssh-ed25519 debug1: kex: server->client cipher: chacha20-poly1305(a)openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug1: kex: client->server cipher: chacha20-poly1305(a)openssh.com MAC: <implicit> compression: none debug3: send packet: type 30 debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY debug3: receive packet: type 31 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY received debug1: Server host key: ssh-ed25519 SHA256:2L6kf42fJXVTes8cWAEHSSXeXVG/bvO1FjBO6kNOUPg debug3: put_host_port: [192.168.2.250]:12500 debug3: put_host_port: [192.168.2.250]:12500 debug3: record_hostkey: found key type ED25519 in file /home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug3: load_hostkeys_file: loaded 1 keys from [192.168.2.250]:12500 debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts2: No such file or directory debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts: No such file or directory debug1: load_hostkeys: fopen /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts2: No such file or directory debug1: Host '[192.168.2.250]:12500' is known and matches the ED25519 host key. debug1: Found key in /home/siefke/.ssh/known_hosts:1 debug3: send packet: type 21 debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 1 debug1: rekey out after 134217728 blocks debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug3: receive packet: type 21 debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug2: ssh_set_newkeys: mode 0 debug1: rekey in after 134217728 blocks debug3: ssh_get_authentication_socket_path: path '/run/user/1500/keyring/ssh' debug1: get_agent_identities: bound agent to hostkey debug1: get_agent_identities: ssh_fetch_identitylist: agent contains no identities debug1: Will attempt key: .ssh/siefke_key explicit debug2: pubkey_prepare: done debug3: send packet: type 5 debug3: receive packet: type 7 debug1: SSH2_MSG_EXT_INFO received debug1: kex_input_ext_info: server-sig-algs=<ssh-ed25519,sk-ssh-ed25519@openssh.com,ssh-rsa,rsa-sha2-256,rsa-sha2-512,ssh-dss,ecdsa-sha2-nistp256,ecdsa-sha2-nistp384,ecdsa-sha2-nistp521,sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com,webauthn-sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com> debug3: receive packet: type 6 debug2: service_accept: ssh-userauth debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug3: send packet: type 50 debug3: receive packet: type 51 debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic debug3: start over, passed a different list publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic debug3: preferred publickey,keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_lookup publickey debug3: remaining preferred: keyboard-interactive,password debug3: authmethod_is_enabled publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: .ssh/siefke_key Load key ".ssh/siefke_key": error in libcrypto debug2: we did not send a packet, disable method debug1: No more authentication methods to try. siefke(a)192.168.2.250: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic). With mac it works, with pi in other way it works. I not understand what happen here. Thank you for help Silvio

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Arch Linux installing.
by Source Code 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Sorry, but I just wanna ask something, it looks like stupid question but I need to get an answer. Here, I have to point the sda2 with EFI, right? Not sd7, which will be empty for the new Arch LInux? I just wanna not make mistakes:) *Device Start End Sectors Size Type* /dev/sda1 2048 616447 614400 300M Windows recovery environment /dev/sda2 616448 821247 204800 100M EFI System /dev/sda3 821248 1083391 262144 128M Microsoft reserved /dev/sda4 1083392 362373119 361289728 172,3G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda5 362373120 812933119 450560000 214,8G Microsoft basic data /dev/sda6 812933120 836370431 23437312 11,2G Linux swap /dev/sda7 836370432 976771071 140400640 66,9G Linux filesystem

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Re: Arch linux installing process
by Ralf Mardorf 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 22:57 +0600, Source Code wrote: > But I use EFI and I don’t understand what I should write where … > [snip] > Arch wiki does not tell me this secret. Hi, please reply to the mailing list! I'm sorry, I don't understand your problem. I'm _not_ using legacy BIOS boot, my Intel's GPU doesn't allow this. Grub2 handles all the EFI things for me. I only added the path to the installed microcode to grub.cfg's initrd line. initrd /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-linux.img I can't comment on secure boot, since this is disabled on my machine. You cannot use one of the ways described by https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/microcode#Loading_microcode ? "1Loading microcode 1.1Microcode built in the initramfs 1.2Early loading 1.2.1Unified kernel images 1.2.2Initrd images 1.2.2.1Enabling early microcode loading in custom kernels 1.2.2.2GRUB 1.2.2.3systemd-boot 1.2.2.4EFISTUB 1.2.2.5rEFInd 1.2.2.5.1Manual boot stanzas 1.2.2.6Syslinux 1.2.2.7LILO 1.2.2.8Limine" Have you tested anything from this? Regards, Ralf

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Re: Arch linux installing process
by Ralf Mardorf 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

On Tue, 2023-07-18 at 20:17 +0600, Source Code wrote: > Now I use cfdisk and I saw type of sda: Linux swap, > linux root x86-64 and Linux file system. And I wanna > know the difference between linux root x86-64 and Linux > file system. > Now I think to leave just Linux swap and Linux root x86-64. Hi, please reply to the mailing list. This is again quasi the same I already wrote before: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/partitioning#UEFI/GPT_layout_example You need a "/boot or /efi" partition. You should use a "Linux swap" and you need a "Linux x86-64 root (/)". This root directory can use different file systems, such as ext4, but maybe you want a copy on write file system. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/file_systems I'm sorry, but I don't know how to use cfdisk. If you don't want to use command line, I recommend to use a live media providing GParted. This isn't what I'm using: https://gparted.org/liveusb.php I'm using an USB stick with https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html . If I need GParted on a live media, I just run e.g. a persistent Xubuntu or any other ISO copied to the Ventoy USB stick. Regards, Ralf

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Arch linux installing process
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

I wanna ask you, that how many size I can choose for Linux x86-64 root and Linux file system?

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Installing process
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

I have started to install Arch Linux and I reached to step partitions. How I can delete the partition where my Debian Linux is located? I see only 465 GB of my disk. And use archinstall for graphical installing. And there is the point of boot loader. There I can choose GRUB as a boot loader instead systemd-boot. If I choose GRUB it will be more be easily to do shim 3.2.2? For example, I can not to rename of my boot loader or not?

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Secure_Boot
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

Hello! I wanted to ask: 1. The Arch Linux Wiki has a section 3.2 Using a signed boot loader. Can I skip the previous sections and skip subsection 3.2.1 PreLoader and go straight to section 3.2.2 Shim? 2. If I change the boot loader to grubx64.efi and then if I don't finish section 3.2.2, will everything fail? Nothing will load? And if I leave the boot loader (aka boot.efi, right?) and grubx64.efi, will it crash? 3. Section 3.2.2.1.2 shim with key has: $ openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -keyout MOK.key -new -x509 -sha256 -days 3650 -subj "/CN=my Machine Owner Key/" -out MOK.crt $ openssl x509 -outform DER -in MOK.crt -out MOK.cer Should I write "/CN=my Machine Owner Key/" like this? Or do you need to write some sequence of characters? Tell me what to write? P.S. If I make a mistake with any item, then everything will fly for me and it will not be possible to recover?

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ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR
by René Neumann 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

Hey everyone, I noted that, from time to time, I want to determine the latest upstream changes in a PKGBUILD, especially when only the pkgrel has changed (i.e. not just a version bump). As it involved remembering the web interfaces and hunt down the package in question, I got tired of it and wrote a small tool to accomplish this: arch-log. I post this here, so whoever finds this interesting/noteworthy can have a look. Git: https://github.com/Necoro/arch-log AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arch-log Best, René

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Install Arch Linux
by Source Code 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

Hi everyone! I am very closer than ever to install arch Linux and I have small doubts. Can you share with your experience to install arch Linux? I have read Arch wiki. And I saw a few decisions. What did you choose? As I understand disable the security boot is more simple. P.S. As I understand right you have signed your core for a long time, but now not? If it so, why?

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Install Arch Linux
by Source Code 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

I have installed Arch Linux ISO on USB. And In BIOS I did not disable security boot, because I thought it is not good idea. I have started to find decisions to my problem, and most popular answer was disable security boot. If I disable my security boot, it will be safe for my PC? Maybe do you have any other decisions? And why my PC require it for Arch Linux but for Debian not?

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Installing
by Source Code 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

I was trying to install Arch Linux from USB and got an error: image failed to verify with security violation. Why?

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Arch Linux Questions
by Source Code 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

Hello, I wanted to clarify something else: 1. I understand Arch Linux is absolutely free? And all the proprietary programs that are related to Arch Linux are also free, and I don't have to pay for them, right? 2. Proprietary programs are associated with programming or anything else that I can download, they may already differ in license (be paid or free), right?

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Plasma 6 packages / kde-unstable repo?
by Michael Bromilow 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Hi, My apologies if this is not the right list to ask this, but are there any plans to build Plasma 6 packages for kde-unstable now that it's being shipped in unstable KDE Neon releases and the nightly/testing repos of a few other distros? On the same topic, is the kde-unstable repo still an official repo? It's listed in the Wiki, still shows up as a repository on archlinux.org/packages, and still syncs through Pacman, but it has no packages (I'm not sure for how long) and I noticed that it's also missing from the Gitlab instance containing packages for the other repositories. Kind regards, Michael

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pacman - Grub note should use root prompt instead of user
by David C. Rankin 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

All, The pacman note on grub users the $ user-prompt designation instead of #, e.g. :: To use the new features provided in this GRUB update, it is recommended to install it to the MBR or UEFI. Due to potential configuration incompatibilities, it is advised to run both, installation and generation of configuration: $ grub-install ... $ grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg It's a "nit", but is there any reason it doesn't read: # grub-install ... # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Chuckling .. if this is the only thing to bring up in the last 6 months - Arch is doing really, really good! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Arch Linux General Questions
by Source Code 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Hello dear Arch Linux team! I would like to ask you a series of questions: 1. Is Arch Linux completely free? If I use Arch linux, create various programs on it, do anything in general, both commercial and non-commercial, do I have to pay anyone? 2. What does it mean that Arch Linux has proprietary software? Does this mean I have to pay someone something? 3. How do I know if I'm using a free program or a proprietary one? 4. Do I have to contribute to Arch Linux or is it optional? P.S. I really liked the idea of Arch Linux. So I would like to get to know her better :)

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Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades
by Luis O. 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

In-Reply-To: <750a8f2c-6a5f-ade3-6d81-4f109e840a4f(a)darose.net> Hi, I have this issue too, so I reported it on the kernel bugzilla. I think it affects systems with intel TGL socs/cpus and kernel 6.4+ https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217647 Sent with Proton Mail secure email.

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Re: Arch-general Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1
by Cédric Rouzeaud 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Le ven. 7 juil. 2023 à 10:00, <arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org> a écrit : > Send Arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Arch-general digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Audio distortion after latest upgrades (David Rosenstrauch) > 2. Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades (Ralf Mardorf) > 3. Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades (Giancarlo Razzolini) > 4. Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades (Ariadna Vigo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 13:05:42 -0400 > From: David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> > Subject: Audio distortion after latest upgrades > To: arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Message-ID: <750a8f2c-6a5f-ade3-6d81-4f109e840a4f(a)darose.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > I did a system upgrade a few days ago, that I had been delaying for a > few weeks. Probably nearly 300 packages got upgraded, including the > kernel, pipewire, etc. Since then, I keep having a recurrent problem > with audio distortion, which I haven't been able to pin down a cause for. > > To start out, the audio is fine, using my ear bug headphones with my > laptop's audio jack. Then, after a few minutes, suddenly audio > distortion kicks in. It happens when using both streaming music > (audacious) as well as voice (zoom). I seem to be able to "clear it > out" by temporarily turning off my current audio profile in the > pavucontrol app, and then re-enabling it. But the distortion just > returns again after a few minutes. I've tried different headphones, > switching to laptop speakers, etc., but I still get the distortion. > > I haven't been able to figure out which component or configuration > setting is causing it, and haven't seen any currently open bug reports > or any mentions in the Arch forums or here on the mailing list that > describe anything similar. Has anyone else been experiencing anything > like this and/or know what the cause or solution might be? > > My laptop configuration is: > * linux 6.4.1.arch2-1 > * pipewire 1:0.3.72-1 (with pipewire-alsa, pipewire-audio, and > pipewire-pulse also installed) > * wireplumber 0.4.14-1 > * audio hardware: "Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio > Controller Speaker + Headphones" > * selected audio profile: "Play HiFi quality music" > > Thanks, > > DR > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 20:05:08 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf(a)riseup.net> > Subject: Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Message-ID: > <3682224c7af2d3c633e690c125095483551395d2.camel(a)riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Thu, 2023-07-06 at 13:05 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > > zoom > > Hi, > > I can't comment on {aur,chaotic-aur}/zoom. At the peak of the pandemic, > I took part in some training courses, some of which were conducted via > Zoom. I didn't do this with my Arch Linux PC, but with an iPad Pro. At > first I refused to install the app and tried Zoom from different web > browsers. This was a total disaster when it came to audio. I ended up > using the app and although it worked better, it was still no fun in > terms of audio. It wasn't ok with the iPad's internal audio thingy, let > alone a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 2nd generation. This was without > streaming music at the same time. It made my hair stand on end when I > read Zoom related to audio issues. > > If you use Zoom by a web browser, try whatever is provided by the AUR or > the chaotic-aur repository. > > Regards, > Ralf > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:09:54 -0300 > From: Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades > To: arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org>, David > Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> > Message-ID: <1688670426.d0nk8am8vj.astroid(a)arch.razzolini.com.br.none> > Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; > micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="=-BEsA352LeTo8ylstKsDd" > > Excerpts from David Rosenstrauch's message of julho 6, 2023 2:05 pm: > > I did a system upgrade a few days ago, that I had been delaying for a > > few weeks. Probably nearly 300 packages got upgraded, including the > > kernel, pipewire, etc. Since then, I keep having a recurrent problem > > with audio distortion, which I haven't been able to pin down a cause for. > > > > You can try to use the Arch Linux Archive to pinpoint around when this > started > happening, which might help you narrow it down. > > > To start out, the audio is fine, using my ear bug headphones with my > > laptop's audio jack. Then, after a few minutes, suddenly audio > > distortion kicks in. It happens when using both streaming music > > (audacious) as well as voice (zoom). I seem to be able to "clear it > > out" by temporarily turning off my current audio profile in the > > pavucontrol app, and then re-enabling it. But the distortion just > > returns again after a few minutes. I've tried different headphones, > > switching to laptop speakers, etc., but I still get the distortion. > > > > By turning off I assume you use pavucontrol to set it to off. > > > I haven't been able to figure out which component or configuration > > setting is causing it, and haven't seen any currently open bug reports > > or any mentions in the Arch forums or here on the mailing list that > > describe anything similar. Has anyone else been experiencing anything > > like this and/or know what the cause or solution might be? > > > > My laptop configuration is: > > * linux 6.4.1.arch2-1 > > * pipewire 1:0.3.72-1 (with pipewire-alsa, pipewire-audio, and > > pipewire-pulse also installed) > > * wireplumber 0.4.14-1 > > * audio hardware: "Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio > > Controller Speaker + Headphones" > > * selected audio profile: "Play HiFi quality music" > > > > Try using the pro audio profile. Also, make sure you don't have any > pipewire/wireplumber configuration that could be causing issues. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini >

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Audio distortion after latest upgrades
by David Rosenstrauch 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

I did a system upgrade a few days ago, that I had been delaying for a few weeks. Probably nearly 300 packages got upgraded, including the kernel, pipewire, etc. Since then, I keep having a recurrent problem with audio distortion, which I haven't been able to pin down a cause for. To start out, the audio is fine, using my ear bug headphones with my laptop's audio jack. Then, after a few minutes, suddenly audio distortion kicks in. It happens when using both streaming music (audacious) as well as voice (zoom). I seem to be able to "clear it out" by temporarily turning off my current audio profile in the pavucontrol app, and then re-enabling it. But the distortion just returns again after a few minutes. I've tried different headphones, switching to laptop speakers, etc., but I still get the distortion. I haven't been able to figure out which component or configuration setting is causing it, and haven't seen any currently open bug reports or any mentions in the Arch forums or here on the mailing list that describe anything similar. Has anyone else been experiencing anything like this and/or know what the cause or solution might be? My laptop configuration is: * linux 6.4.1.arch2-1 * pipewire 1:0.3.72-1 (with pipewire-alsa, pipewire-audio, and pipewire-pulse also installed) * wireplumber 0.4.14-1 * audio hardware: "Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones" * selected audio profile: "Play HiFi quality music" Thanks, DR

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Weird Bluetooth Problem
by Storm Dragon 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

Howdy All, My PS4 controller does this weird thing when trying to connect it: [bluetooth]# connect 98:B6:E9:D6:B3:26 Attempting to connect to 98:B6:E9:D6:B3:26 [CHG] Device 98:B6:E9:D6:B3:26 Connected: yes Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-create-socket [CHG] Device 98:B6:E9:D6:B3:26 Connected: no It is an off brand controller, but it gets detected fine. I have also successfully used my Braille Orbit via bluetooth. Another odd behavior is, sometimes it will connect but then after 5 or 10 minutes it will disconnect and when I try to reconnect it does the same thing as above. I looked at the troubleshooting section of the wiki on bluetooth, but there doesn't seem to be anything there that is applicable to my problem, unless I missed something of course. Thanks, Storm -- ⛈🐲 Follow me on Pleroma: https://social.wolfe.casa/storm Get my public PGP key: gpg --recv-key 43DDC193

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nginx http3/quic support
by Genes Lists 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

Nginx mainline added (experimental) http3/quic support with version 1.25 in late May. Is there any interest in adding support to our nginx-mainline package? It can be optionally turned on in server config, so having it compiled in and available shouldn't have any impact until it's activated by changing the web server configs. I confirmed this with my web servers. I've been running this for a while now (even before the quic branch was merged into mainline) and it has been working well both with and without http3. Since quic uses udp, I did need to change the firewall to allow udp in addition to tcp for the web servers on port 443. In case of interest, here's what I did to build and get it running. Since openssl doesn't support quic, nginx provides for some alternatives; quictls, boringssl or libressl. I chose to use quictls. Since quictls is openssl plus quic support, I want to be sure it did not interfere in any way with the default Arch openssl libraries or binaries. So, I made a quictls package which installed into it's own tree not in /usr or /usr/local. I chose to use /usr/local/quictls/. This keeps the binaries in and libraries away from all normal paths while making the libraries readily available for nginx. I imagine there are other approaches to dealing with this. Once quictls was built and installed it is quite simple to use it to add quic support to the nginx-mainline package. As always, thanks to those keeping Arch vibrant and at the leading edge. gene

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Monitor control issues after update
by Vasile Vilvoiu 27 Jun '23

27 Jun '23

Hello, So far I've relied on ddcutil to switch between two sources connected to my monitor (desktop PC over HDMI and laptop over USB-C). Unfortunately after today's update of the HDMI connected PC I can no longer do so on it as it returns the following error: $ sudo ddcutil setvcp 60 0x1b Display not found I tired building various versions of ddcutil, going back to 1.3.0, and each of them yields the same error, which makes me believe something changed in the way i2c communication is handled. Unfortunately I know nothing about i2c in Linux. These are the currently detected i2c devices: i2c-0 i2c NVIDIA GPU I2C adapter I2C adapter i2c-1 smbus SMBus I801 adapter at efa0 SMBus adapter i2c-2 i2c NVIDIA i2c adapter 1 at 1:00.0 I2C adapter i2c-3 i2c NVIDIA i2c adapter 2 at 1:00.0 I2C adapter i2c-4 i2c NVIDIA i2c adapter 3 at 1:00.0 I2C adapter i2c-5 i2c NVIDIA i2c adapter 5 at 1:00.0 I2C adapter i2c-6 i2c NVIDIA i2c adapter 6 at 1:00.0 I2C adapter I'd appreciate any help or hints that would point me in the right direction. Where should I be looking? What should I be looking for? -- Best regards, Vasile Vilvoiu

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Scanner does not work in Arch Linux but works in Ubuntu VM
by Björn Försterling 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

Hello, I have a question about my "HP Deskjet F2280" printer/scanner. I could not get it working in Arch Linux with "sane" or "simple-scan". It is visible in a "lsusb" command and found by a "sudo sane-find-scanner" as a possible usb scanner. But it is not found in a "sudo scanimage -L" command. And "simple-scanner" or "xsane" cant find the sanner either. But when I fire up my Ubuntu 22.04 qemu VM and use the sanner through "usb-host-device" the sanner works out of the box just by installing "simple-scan". What is the key difference here? The checkbox "proprietary drivers for devices" is enabled in Ubuntu. Is the reason the custom kernel, that Ubuntu uses or kernel modules that could be also added to Arch Linux? Regards Björn

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blas update
by Fons Adriaensen 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 08:27:28PM -0000, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Felix Yan wrote: > The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn't ship optimized > LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This > decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different > default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas > installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, > ATLAS, etc. This must be the most confusing advice I ever got :-) As suggested, I tried: pacman -Syu blas-openblas which resulted in: :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: blas-openblas and cblas are in conflict. Remove cblas? [y/N] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: blas-openblas and cblas are in conflict So what should I do if I want to keep cblas, lapack, numpy, scipy etc.. working ? Which blas is now 'the default one' ? TNX -- FA

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"Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line"
by Ralf Mardorf 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Hi, I don't have a preferred default BLAS implementation. IIUC BLAS is the original implementation, the standard. OpenBLAS does more or less the same as BLAS, while on one hand it was or is missing some compatibility, on the other hand depending on the used CPU, it chose different routines optimized to the CPU's instruction sets, hence OpenBLAS is faster. IIUC the problem with competing implementations is fixing bugs. IIUC... IOW my understanding is, that I don't understand anything at all related to this topic. Out of feeling and because OpenBLAS was already installed in the old version, I decided to run $ sudo pacman -Syu blas-openblas [snip] :: blas-openblas and cblas are in conflict. Remove cblas? [y/N] y :: blas-openblas and lapack are in conflict. Remove lapack? [y/N] y Packages (6) cblas-3.11.0-2 [removal] duktape-2.7.0-6 glslang- 12.2.0-1 lapack-3.11.0-2 [removal] openblas-0.3.23-3 blas- openblas-0.3.23-3 [snip] I don't like having options as long as I have no idea if my choice will make a difference or not and how that decision might affect usage. Is it possible to explain the pros and cons of the two implementations in simple terms? Regards, Ralf

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Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668
by Martin Rys 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

Some time ago, PEP 668[1] enabled distributions to mark the python installation as externally managed by a package manager, thus preventing pip from breaking the system by either installing packages to the system or locally in the home folder. Debian has already adopted this[2]. >From my understanding, setting the flag EXTERNALLY-MANAGED only allows using pip inside of a virtualenv and bans using it anywhere else, unless the user uses the very self-explanatory flag --break-system-packages. Currently on Arch, users can run either `sudo pip`, which will install packages as system and break pacman altogether, or `pip` which automatically uses the --user flag nowadays, which will still break things if done outside of virtual env. Quoting arojas[3], "There are hundreds of bug reports around caused by user installed pip packages overriding system ones" it seems like using the new EXTERNALLY-MANAGED mechanism would greatly reduce wasted time for both users and people managing the bug tracker. Is Arch going to be adopting this behavior too? I could not find a discussion anywhere else about this. Martin (C0rn3j) [1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ [2] https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-pip/-/blob/master/debi… [3] https://t.me/archlinuxgroup/662555

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Help debugging random lockups
by Spencer Collyer 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi, I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six weeks after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it started locking up randomly. I can't see anything obvious that is causing it to lock up. Sometimes it does it while I am actively working, and other times it locks up overnight (I tend to leave it running continuously). The lockups don't all look the same. For instance, sometimes the mouse cursor is still active and can be moved around the screen, and at other times it disappears completely. I've got kernel.sysrq = 1 set in my sysctl config, but sometimes it doesn't respond to the Magic SysRq key despite that. Obviously I'd like to work out what is causing the crash, so I'm looking for some pointers as to where I should be looking and what tools I could use to investigate. Thanks in advance for any info. Regards, Spencer

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Resource management questions
by Hauke Fath 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi, I am currently exploring two options for resource managing, and wondering whether I am looking in the right spot... (1) User access We have a compute server that only some groups of users have access to, since the others' boss didn't chip in. I attempted to disable logins for users without a HOME on the machine by setting DEFAULT_HOME no in /etc/login.defs, but find that HOMEless people can still ssh in. What is the equivalent of the above option for sshd on Arch? (2) Resource control On said server, I would like students' jobs to run at a lower priority. In a /etc/security/limits.d/nt-limits.conf file, I set priority limits for the respective groups @students - priority 10 but they still login with default priority value. The system log has nothing relevant. Is this supposed to work, and what does it take to make it? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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dhcpcd going away quietly after half a day
by Hauke Fath 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Hi, since a 2023-05-30 update to my coworkers' Arch desktop machines, machines have started to go off the network after 12 - 24 hrs. When I check such a machine, dhcpcd is gone without a trace, nothing in the logs. Manually restarting dhcpcd will bring the machine back online, but only for the above timespan. I downgraded dhcpcd from the current 10.0.1 package to 9.4.1, but that doesn't make a difference. Before rolling back two dozen machines to the previous 2023-04-26 installation: Does this ring a bell for anyone? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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Indexing of official and unofficial pages on ArchWiki
by Polarian 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

Hello, So I was editing the ArchWiki today and I found the following: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#Packages_sear… It seems we are recommending the use of pkgs.org which has indexed a few of the unofficial repositories along with the official. It is however flagged for factual accuracy (although I have not validated the flag, therefore it might have been fixed by pkgs.org) and we are relying on a third party tool. I was not too sure where to send this email, because sending it to aur-general would imply it is aur exclusive which it is not, therefore I choose arch-general as a more well rounded generally discussion. I have a single question, and I am fully aware this will not be "officially supported", however due to the disorganisation of this page, and also the flag on the current package search, is a global package search for all official and unofficial repositories something desired by the arch community? Follow up question is has the former already been attempted but failed? I have a few reasons below on why I feel it would be useful: - Currently on ArchWiki pages we attempt to list unofficial repositories which include AUR package builds for easier installation, but now with the size of the unofficial repository list, and the chance that the packages may overlap one another (ie: two or more repositories could build the same package from the AUR) it would be useful to have a tool, or database which we can link to, or we just ignore unofficial repositories completely. Currently, and I am one of the people guilty of this, only ArchWiki editors document their repositories on pages, having a tool to do it for us would be useful I feel. - There is a lot of unofficial repositories, there is no way to go through each one manually and find the package you are looking for, so no offense to all those who have put their time into unofficial repositories, but... majority of the time its "AUR builds" or with chaotic AUR everything they want to build within the AUR, with their own personal biases. I have seen projects such as bioarchlinux use the source code of the arch package search to create their own repository index, I assume this is due to the shear size of the repository. The concept would be simple: - Mirror (of official) and unofficial (repository or mirror of said repository) opt-in to being indexed. - Each database is downloaded, and the packages within it indexed against the repository name, similar to how pkgs.org does it, we should flag it as official or unofficial. - API access should be free to the entire of the arch, and the wider arch community using arch-based distributions, without any cost, and also without profit. - All source code should be open source, but saying this is a little obvious within the arch community, seen as 9/10 people stand very strongly against proprietary software. Now the reasons against it: - Centralised and unofficial, trusting centralised authority is already difficult enough, the entire reason we (hopefully) trust the arch staff is due to the representation of different viewpoints, and the voting system. This idea being unofficial and ungoverned means its subject to abuse, which is a good reason why I think nobody has suggested this, and if they have I am sure the arch staff would be uneasy about it, however on the other hand, its just indexing of publicly available information, so its not really a sensitive project. - Could be subject to abuse, just like how arch staff do not validate that unofficial repositories are not distributing anything malicious (hence the "use at your own risk" and numerous other warnings throughout the wiki about it), indexing said databases makes the project potentially liable for said problems. - I am not even sure it will work well... concepts always seem amazing when you think about it, but in practise they tend to be a whole lot worse, but it would be massively helpful for fixing and maintaining the "Installation" sections of numerous software pages on the ArchWiki. The reason I am not just going off and doing it myself, and emailing here is I have the following questions: For everyone: - Is this a terrible idea? - Who would develop and maintain the source code? - Who would be responsible to hosting it, its unofficial thus someone has to? - Would you feel comfortable using a tool which is not officially supported? For arch staff (which I hope will critisise the idea massively): - Would this breach any rules? - Would you be happy with official packages being indexed alongside their unofficial counterparts? - Would this cause conflict within the community, or with staff members? I would like to highlight this was an idea to improve what pkgs.org has already done in the way of archlinux indexing, and secondly, draw it into the arch community to follow the ideals and rules, for example pkgs.org profits off their API use, while arch believes in non-profit etc etc. I am in two minds about whether I should suggest this or should forget about it, it could go really well where users would be interested in it, or it could go badly and I might start an argument, which would be a breach of CoC on my part. I ask that people be critical of the idea, but please bare in mind this was an idea, and I am not actively trying to cause problems, it seems stupid me highlighting this but due to previous posts over the past 1-2 months which have had heavy amounts of hate towards them, I must highlight this is meant as a harmless suggestion of an idea to help ArchWiki and the general community use the unofficial repositories. If there is already a project (or many projects) which are developing something like this, please let me know, as far as I am aware I can not see any wide effort, although i am aware one or two repositories have their own indexing efforts. Anyways please let me know your opinions on this, and I hope that this doesn't turn sour like the last mailing list thread I started. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Changing volume step for function keys
by Polarian 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

Hello, Does anyone know how to change the volume step for the volume up and down functions. By default it increases/decreases by 10% and I would like to half that to 5% because 10% can go from too quiet you can't hear it to blowing your ear drums out. Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Issues with nerd-fonts after updating to 3.0.0
by Michael Manley 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Has anyone else noticed missing glyphs when updating to the latest version? Here is 2.3.3 [image: 2.3.3.png] Here is 3.0.0 [image: 3.0.0.png] Now Here is my prompt in 2.3.3 [image: 2.3.3_prompt.png] and in 3.0.0 [image: 3.0.0_prompt.png] See how the Home folder icon is missing. What changed?

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Reiserfs weirdness
by Andy Pieters 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Hello everyone I just wanted to share some weirdness with you. I have done a full system update (it has been a while FYI, maybe 2 months) My filesystems: / ext4 /var reiserfs /home ext4 /mnt/test btrfs /mtn/old jfs After the upgrade, I reboot my system. It falls on its face and I end up in emergency mode. After a brief investigation, I note that the /var system hasn't mounted. reiserfs is a kernel module and its presence is confirmed by fgrep reiser /proc/filesystems reiserfs So why does it not mount? Let's check dmesg super-6502 reiserfs_getopt unknown mount option "" I have no idea why a Super Commodore 64 or Apple II has got anything to do with reiserfs and an unknown mount option blank. I tried to mount the partition "manually": mount /dev/sdb2 /var -treiserfs -orw The same mount failure I have tried a combination of all of the mount options for reiserfs in man 8 mount Now for some more weirdness fsck.reiserfs --check fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-b fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree All report that the filesystem is fine, that the superblock does not need rebuilding, and that the tree is fine too. OK I have got a choice to make now - throw away the filesystem and create a blank one? - I would lose my pacman database - I would lose some website files I haven't backed up anywhere else - I would lose /var/lib - And var/spool/cups which has got a copy of everything I printed since March 2017 - I could abandon it, for now, and resize another partition to make room - This would at least temporarily have all of the drawbacks of the previous choice - But... I would be able to come back to it later - I see that there is a Reiserfs fuse driver but it's been abandoned on GitHub 12 years ago!!!!!!! - Keep searching for a solution What do I do? Well, there's no way around it, I have to keep working on somehow fixing it. There is 30G of files in /var that I really need (yes you are allowed to shout that I should have a backup, fair point, but it isn't helping me right now) I keep thinking that somehow the fsck.reiserfs tool CAN look at my filesystem and determine that it is healthy. So at least there are some userspace programs that CAN at least in principle read a raw reiserfs filesystem. I look in the Internet tubes. I search for "convert reiserfs" The top hit is a manpage from Ubuntu: "convert from ext2/3/4 or *reiserfs* to *btrfs* *in-place"* "The btrfs-convert tool can be used to convert existing source... to btrfs ... in-place" OK, and I see that this program is present on my borked machine. Another page on the internet gives more instructions "If the partition is mounted, unmount it" I like this! It doesn't even need to be mounted, which is the thing that is not working anyway Ok let's go! It takes about an hour I have chosen to copy the uuid The program finishes without any errors. Soo exciting!!! Ok I have edited the fstab to change reiserfs to btrfs mount -a SUCCESS!!!! Conclusions: 1. IDK what the root cause is of the reiserfs filesystem not mounting 2. Apparently, you do not need to mount a reiserfs to be able to convert it 3. My /var filesystem is now working perfectly as a btrfs filesystem As a point of interest, if anybody does figure out #1 I will be *very* interested in learning this. Thank you and apologies for this long rambling boring monologue Andy "Aethalides" Pieters

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Firefox/Gnome
by Frank 31 May '23

31 May '23

Good afternoon, since the upgrade to Gnome Shell 44.1 I have to start Firefox twice. The first time I only get a black window but can close it from the top menue. After that it starts normal. When starting from a terminal I get the following message which appears at 2nd successfull attempt as well: ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. Anyone else experiencingthis and an idea how to get an error message? Thanks Frank

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Is there "depth" control for pkgctl-repo-clone like "asp export" to get only the latest commit?
by David C. Rankin 25 May '23

25 May '23

All, Reading about the changes on archlinux.org and asp will stop working with svn2git going away. pkgctl-repo-clone is the replamement. It has only 3 options: -m, --maintainer NAME --universe -h, --help Does pkgctl-repo-clone simply fetch the latest commit, or does it fetch the history as well? 'asp export' provided only the latest commit without the prior versions history, etc. Can pkgctl-repo-clone do that? https://man.archlinux.org/man/pkgctl-repo-clone.1.en (4/23/2023) is silent on that aspect. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/blob/master/src/lib/repo.… for pkgctl-repo is also silent on whether clone is the latest commit or full-clone with full git history, e.g. COMMANDS clone Clone a package repository https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/blob/master/src/lib/repo/… is just the 3 options we started with. I would think it would work like 'asp export' but I'd like to confirm with those that know better than I. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Pacman can't pull lib32-ncurses
by Polarian 25 May '23

25 May '23

Hello, When attempting to pull lib32-ncurses during pacman -Syu I get the following error: warning: cannot resolve "ncurses=6.4_20230520", a dependency of "lib32-ncurses" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: lib32-ncurses Anyone else able to reproduce this issue? Note: I have removed [community] Note: I have got [testing] and [extra-testing] enabled, I am unsure if this is the problem, and if it is, I guess I should be reporting this to #archlinux-testing Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Re: Help debugging random lockups
by Andy Pieters 25 May '23

25 May '23

> > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < > spencer(a)spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six >> weeks after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it >> started locking up randomly. I can't see anything obvious that is causing >> it to lock up. Sometimes it does it while I am actively working, and other >> times it locks up overnight (I tend to leave it running continuously). >> > >> Without more, I have seen this with faulty hardware, such as faulty ram > modules, or PCI cards malfunctioning. > > The standard way for debugging things is to take out hardware until the > problem stops. > > Side note: have you any idea of temps when this is happening? > >

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Re: Git migration completed
by Genes Lists 24 May '23

24 May '23

On 5/21/23 07:29, Levente Polyak wrote: > We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳 A huge thank you for the massive detailed planning and successful execution - very, very much appreciated. Hope you all celebrate lots! best gene

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Re: Git migration completed
by Genes Lists 21 May '23

21 May '23

First off - huge congrats to you all for orchestrating this obviously huge task. Thank you. Couple questions to confirm this is a mirror sync issue and not something else - since one of today's items was "test syncrepo on mirror.pkgbuild.com" I assumed this would be up to date? - pacman 6.0.2-7 - while waiting for my main mirror to sync I checked mirror.pkgbuild.com would you expect it to be there as of now: https://mirror.pkgbuild.com/pool/packages/ The link to new version is in core just not (yet) in pool. - core.db.sig Also not found on mirror.pkgbuild.com (or other mirrors I checked) none of the repos have <repo>.db.sig file pacman 6.0.2-6 shows error about core.db.sig etc being not found. Are these just - be patient, takes time to sync - or something else? Thanks, gene

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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 06 May '23

06 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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Re: Python 3.11 in [staging] -> [testing]
by Genes Lists 30 Apr '23

30 Apr '23

On 4/29/23 11:19, Felix Yan wrote: > On 4/29/23 14:13, David Runge wrote: >> ... > The move is now done and everything should have been fixed. Have fun > breaking something new :) > So far for all the things I've tested, starting with my own code, its working really well. And noticeably faster - one tool runs in half the time! It has brought to my attention that there's still 'things' which have not yet upgraded to use the standard 'pyproject.toml' approach for packaging. Have not found anything (yet!) which is not working. thank you all for the enormous effort - very much appreciated. gene

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How to use package from community-testing
by Łukasz Michalski 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi, I am running arch-linux with cyrus-imapd as mail server for several years and now cyrus-imapd appeared in community-testing. I am planning upgrade and switch from cyrus-imapd aur package to version from community-testing. What is a recommended way to test only this package? If I enable community-testing in pacman.conf, then doing pacman -Su will still pull official packages from community until I explicitly request a version from testing? Regards, Łukasz

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Re: Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks
by Jordan Glover 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 at 4:31 PM, Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently we have a lot of our mkinitcpio hooks in several packages which has > never been consolidated. This makes it confusing where stuff belong and what is > provided where, and I really want to consolidate everything. > > It would help keeping up the development of the hooks, patch everything and > ultimately write a test suite for mkinitcpio. > > I also have long term plans on moving the default hooks from busybox to systemd, > but this will happen at a later point. > > Initially I really want to move the hooks from `cryptsetup` and `systemd`: > > * encrypt and sd-encrypt from core/cryptsetup > * systemd and udev from core/systemd What if new cryptsetup release will need some changes in the hook? How would you ensure mkinitcpio hook and cryptsetup (or any other package requiring a hook) are kept in sync? What are the pros of consolidation? Jordan

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As gcc 13 approaches, if you have C++ projects, time to check the changes
by David C. Rankin 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

all, There are changes in gcc 13 that primarily impact C++ regarding the headers automatically included, overload resolution and excess floating-point precision that can cause existing projects to not compile (or break). See: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-13/porting_to.html -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Recommended way to use software that depend on python2
by Sadeep Madurange 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

I am trying to setup ESP8266 toolchain [1] on Arch. The problem is that their SDK depends on python2. The aur package for python2 is marked as unmaintained. What is the recommended way to work with python2 on Arch? [1]: https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp8266-rtos-sdk/en/latest/get-started/… -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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What can be done to prevent messages from cluttering up log files?
by Ralf Mardorf 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Hi, assuming you can't get rid of the cause of messages flooding the log file, could you prevent writing with a filter? After all, only filtering when reading would not prevent the unnecessary growth of log files. I stumbled across the following which the solutions posted on the forums managed to fix. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=275022 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=280638 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep threadirqs\ i /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/m1.archlinux ro threadirqs ibt=off ipv6.disable=1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/buttons event=button/(up|down|left|right|kpenter) action=<drop> But what could you do if there were no such workarounds? Regards, Ralf

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How can I troubleshoot virtualbox issues?
by Ralf Mardorf 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Hi, a self-build virtualbox 6.1.40 on old Intel Celeron hardware with a self-build 4.19-rt kernel worked even with a Windows 11 guest, while on a new Intel i3 13. gen hardware even linux 6.2.11-arch1-1 and virtualbox 7.0.8-1 from repos don't work with a Windows 10 guest. If I run "$ VirtualBox" and then try to start a Windows 10 (not 11) guest (guest additions are still 6.1.40) a small Window "Start" with a progress bar opens and nothing more happens, it stays at 20%. I need to pkill virtualbox processes to get rid of the windows, but before I can try to start it again, I need to shutdown the machine, a log out and log in doesn't work. Shutdown hangs with "A stop job is running ..." only pushing the reset button can finish shutdown, Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Alt+Del don't help. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 6.2.11-arch1-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox-ext-oracle virtualbox-guest-iso virtualbox-host-modules-arch virtualbox 7.0.8-1 virtualbox-ext-oracle 7.0.8-1 virtualbox-guest-iso 7.0.8-1 virtualbox-host-modules-arch 7.0.8-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /mnt/winos10/winos10/Logs/VBox.log 00:00:00.520280 VirtualBox VM 7.0.8 r156879 linux.amd64 (Apr 18 2023 21:36:31) release log 00:00:00.520282 Log opened 2023-04-21T03:44:25.091405000Z 00:00:00.520282 Build Type: release 00:00:00.520283 OS Product: Linux 00:00:00.520283 OS Release: 6.2.11-arch1-1 00:00:00.520284 OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:59:24 +0000 00:00:00.520296 DMI Product Name: B760M DS3H DDR4 00:00:00.520300 DMI Product Version: Default string 00:00:00.520302 Firmware type: UEFI 00:00:00.520456 Secure Boot: Disabled 00:00:00.520477 Host RAM: 31875MB (31.1GB) total, 31164MB (30.4GB) available 00:00:00.520478 Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBoxVM 00:00:00.520479 Process ID: 1934 00:00:00.520479 Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE) 00:00:00.523861 Installed Extension Packs: 00:00:00.523864 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack (Version: 7.0.8 r156879; VRDE Module: VBoxVRDP; Crypto Module: VBoxPuelCrypto) 00:00:00.524255 Console: Machine state changed to 'Starting' 00:00:00.524357 Qt version: 5.15.9 00:00:00.524365 X11 Window Manager code: 0 00:00:00.531648 SUP: seg #0: R 0x00000000 LB 0x00061000 00:00:00.531663 SUP: seg #1: R X 0x00061000 LB 0x001a1000 00:00:00.531665 SUP: seg #2: R 0x00202000 LB 0x0006e000 00:00:00.531666 SUP: seg #3: RW 0x00270000 LB 0x0002eae8 00:00:00.537845 GUI: UIMediumEnumerator: Medium-enumeration finished! 00:00:00.538050 X Server details: vendor: The X.Org Foundation, release: 12101008, protocol version: 11.0, display string: :0 00:00:00.538054 Using XKB for keycode to scan code conversion 00:00:00.547774 GUI: UIDesktopWidgetWatchdog::sltHandleHostScreenAvailableGeometryCalculated: Screen 0 work area is actually resized to: 0x32 x 1920x1048 Taking a look at journalctl I don't notice anything special, other than "watchdog did not stop". [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ journalctl -b1 | tail Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd[1]: Using hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version 0, device /dev/watchdog0 Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd[1]: Watchdog running with a timeout of 10min. Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop! Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-shutdown[1]: Using hardware watchdog 'iTCO_wdt', version 0, device /dev/watchdog0 Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-shutdown[1]: Watchdog running with a timeout of 10min. Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-shutdown[1]: Syncing filesystems and block devices. Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-shutdown[1]: Sending SIGTERM to remaining processes... Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-journald[227]: Received SIGTERM from PID 1 (systemd-shutdow). Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux dnsmasq[604]: exiting on receipt of SIGTERM Apr 11 12:26:48 archlinux systemd-journald[227]: Journal stopped [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep \ Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf Driver "modesetting" [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep -e EE -e WW /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 7.814] Current Operating System: Linux archlinux 6.2.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:59:24 +0000 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 7.822] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi" does not exist. [ 7.822] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi" does not exist. [ 8.270] (II) Initializing extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hwinfo --cpu | grep Model | sort -u Model: 6.191.5 "13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-13100" Random googling returned something that is probably not related to the issue I experience. Slow performance is still better than no performance at all: https://superuser.com/questions/1747857/does-the-hybrid-cpu-architecture-po… "Processor Cores (P-cores + E-cores) Intel® Core i3 Processors 4 (4P+0E)" - https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/13th-… Perhaps I'm missing something, but in my case https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualBox#Troubleshooting seems to be no help. Regards, Ralf

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PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key
by Ralf Mardorf 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hi, some kernels that do boot on my old UEFI computer with legacy boot enabled, don't boot on my new UEFI computer were the Intel processor graphics doesn't allow to enable legacy boot, but at least _secure boot_ is _disabled_. What can I do to get rid of the error? The kernel parameter "module.sig_enforce=1" is _never_ used. A kernel that fails to boot with "PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key": [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hl /lib/modules/4.19.271-rt120-0.300-cornflower/updates/dkms/ .rw-r--r-- root root 65 KB Sun Apr 2 15:42:39 2023  r8125.ko.xz .rw-r--r-- root root 142 KB Wed Mar 1 20:17:25 2023  vboxdrv.ko.xz .rw-r--r-- root root 4.6 KB Wed Mar 1 20:17:25 2023  vboxnetadp.ko.xz .rw-r--r-- root root 14 KB Wed Mar 1 20:17:25 2023  vboxnetflt.ko.xz [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep MODULE_SIG /lib/modules/4.19.271-rt120-0.300-cornflower/build/.config CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA256 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA384 is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512=y CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH="sha512" CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY="certs/signing_key.pem" A kernel that doesn't fail: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hl /lib/modules/6.2.10-arch1-1/updates/dkms/ .rw-r--r-- root root 116 KB Sun Apr 9 13:32:10 2023  r8125.ko.zst .rw-r--r-- root root 221 KB Sun Apr 9 13:31:59 2023  vboxdrv.ko.zst .rw-r--r-- root root 27 KB Sun Apr 9 13:31:59 2023  vboxnetadp.ko.zst .rw-r--r-- root root 47 KB Sun Apr 9 13:31:59 2023  vboxnetflt.ko.zst [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep MODULE_SIG /lib/modules/6.2.10-arch1-1/build/.config CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORMAT=y CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ALL=y # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA1 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA224 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA256 is not set # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA384 is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_SHA512=y CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_HASH="sha512" CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY="certs/signing_key.pem" # CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_RSA is not set CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY_TYPE_ECDSA=y Regards, Ralf

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Is a tool available to check the integrity of copied files?
by Ralf Mardorf 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

Hi, my google search was "does linux diff compare data using a cache". I'm trying to figure out what's going on. The first diff of 10 GiB of data copied from a SATA3 SSD to an USB 2 stick connected to an USB 3 port took around a minute, right after the copy finished. A second diff needed 3 seconds. Both returned exit status 0. It's impossible to read 10 GiB of data in 3 seconds from an USB 2 stick. Does diff use cached data instead of comparing the "real" files line by line? Google returned "diff isn't doing any caching. The OS is. If you are using Linux, you can flush the disk buffers and cache". I expected that diff ensures to compare the "real" files line by line, but seemingly diff isn't aimed to check integrity of data. Does a command exist that compares "real" files, not just cached files by default? I experience weird things with Raptor Lake hardware, especially if USB is involved and I want to check the integrity of USB transferred, saved files by using a tool, without manually clearing cached data manually. Regards, Ralf

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System is randomly freezing, would like troubleshooting help
by Luna Celeste 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

I have a System76 Thelio machine running Arch (fully up to date as of a few hours ago today). For quite a while now (at least a few months), it's been randomly hanging. I've configured the system to provide a crash dump per the Kdump wiki page, but whenever I reboot it after one of these hangs (or use the sysrq crash key), there is no /proc/vmcore file, and there's nothing in the logs. As you can understand, this makes troubleshooting difficult. In addition to this, I've not been able to identify many common factors of the hangs. The only thing that seems to be consistent is that most of the hangs occur when the system puts the display to sleep. But even this isn't consistent; today's hang occurred while the display was active (though I turned off the monitor). I've changed hardware and operating systems a few times. I originally ran PopOS on this machine, and experienced hangs there with an NVIDIA graphics card, but I moved to AMD when installing Manjaro. Again, to be clear, the machine does have a very up to date Arch install presently. The hangs occur with both X11 and Wayland. Sometimes it happens a few hours after I boot the machine, sometimes (like today's) it took a week or two. About the only unusual thing about the system is that I'm running ZFS. The root filesystem for this installation runs on ZFS, but this wasn't the case when it ran PopOS. I still had a ZFS pool on the PopOS machine. I have another ZFS pool with my home directory and my libvirt VMs on it. That said, neither of the pools have any errors, and I scrub them regularly. As I said at the start of this message, I've been struggling to figure out the problem for a few months and I'm not sure how to make progress troubleshooting it. I don't see anything in dmesg about overheating, or hardware failures, or anything like that. The machine works great... until it very suddenly doesn't. So how do I go about figuring out what's going on? I'd love to be able to -- Cheers, Luna Celeste

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patches, command line long options support for arch-nspawn from devtools
by u34＠net9.ga 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

Hello, offload-build.in, https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/blob/master/src/offload-b… , has long options support for some time. Perhaps a long time. The following add long options support for arch-nspawn.in. The way long options is implemented for arch-nsapwn neccesitate changing the way it is called. There fore, archbuild.in, makechrootpkg.in and mkarchroot.in, were modfied accordingly. https://gitlab.com/ZjYwMj/devtools/-/commit/37c4602efb7642012c35a75b70a2943… (arch-nspawn.in) https://gitlab.com/ZjYwMj/devtools/-/commit/701c306d231e8faa2adc5d16b480165… (archbuild.in) https://gitlab.com/ZjYwMj/devtools/-/commit/64a434af60a1cadec37a9665318f0de… (makechrootpkg.in) https://gitlab.com/ZjYwMj/devtools/-/commit/6cc49ba9c8eed250c2cfe7bd05c6784… (mkarchroot.in) I can see the follwoing 12 scripts also call arch-nspawn: 1. /usr/bin/extra-x86_64-build 2. /usr/bin/extra-x86_64_v3-build 3. /usr/bin/gnome-unstable-x86_64-build 4. /usr/bin/kde-unstable-x86_64-build 5. /usr/bin/makerepropkg 6. /usr/bin/multilib-build 7. /usr/bin/multilib-staging-build 8. /usr/bin/multilib-testing-build 9. /usr/bin/staging-x86_64-build 10. /usr/bin/staging-x86_64_v3-build 11. /usr/bin/testing-x86_64-build 12. /usr/bin/testing-x86_64_v3-build I could not see where their source files are. In addition, manual pages, and other documentation, were not updated. Hardly tested. Please comment. -- u34

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grub.cfg
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

Hi, this is an old syslinux menu entry I try to convert to a grub.cfg menu entry. $ grep "X .Moon" /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg -B1 -A3 LABEL Moonstudio MENU LABEL Ubuntu X ^Moon Studio lowlatency LINUX /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency APPEND root=LABEL=moonstudio ro INITRD /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency I don't understand a few things provided by https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#Boot_menu_entry_examples . The syslinux bootloader, syslinux.cfg and the path /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/ are on a MBR partition with the label "s3.archlinux", the directories of the other Linux install's root directory are on a partition with the label "moonstudio". The new grub2 and grub.cfg are on a GPT partition with the label "m1.xubu20.04", but this shouldn't matter. IIUC the grub.cfg entry should read menuentry "Ubuntu X Moon Studio lowlatency" { search --no-floppy --set=root --label s3.archlinux linux /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency root=LABEL=moonstudio ro initrd /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/initrd.img-lowlatency } OTOH I've got some doubts, should it be vice versa search --no-floppy --set=root --label moonstudio linux /.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot/vmlinuz-lowlatency root=LABEL=s3.archlinux ro should it read root=LABEL or root=label or else? The fstab of the "Ubuntu X Moon Studio lowlatency" install contains a line to bind mount boot: /mnt/archlinux/.boot/ubuntu_moonstudio/boot /boot none bind 0 0 Regards, Ralf

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X11 Input Settings Reset During Kernel Upgrade
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

Greetings, Call me old fashioned, but I run startx manually and I have an .xinitrc file. In that file, I run setxkbmap, xset, and xinput to set up my keyboard and my trackpad. This has been working for years, across three consecutive laptops, with minor adjustments to the parameters and input device names. A few weeks or a month ago, some system upgrades (i.e., pacman -S ...) reset those settings. The symptoms are an extremely slow trackpad and the default keyboard layout (dead keys and all). If I re-run the configuration commands from my .xinitrc file, all is well. It's hard to tell exactly which part of the process resets my settings, but I'm pretty sure it's during the post-transaction hooks, possibly around step 5/7 Updating module dependencies, or near the beginning of step 6/7 updating linux initcpios. It only happens when pacman rebuilds my kernel; at first, I thought it was tied to systemd upgrades, but it happened this morning, and there is no systemd upgrade. I run a stock kernel with liitle no customization. So far, none of the upgrades have failed, and I've not had problems rebooting with the new kernels. I do see entries in Xorg.0.log related to input devices from around that time, but I can't correlate those entries with the output from pacman. I hope the relevant section is below. Any thoughts? What other information can I provide? What experiments can I run? Thank you, Dan [759472.487] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event8) [759472.487] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.487] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.487] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Headphone (/dev/input/event17) [759472.487] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.487] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.488] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 (/dev/input/event20) [759472.488] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.488] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.488] (II) config/udev: removing device ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad [759472.488] (**) Option "fd" "88" [759472.488] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: device removed [759472.488] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" [759472.488] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:79 [759472.530] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad (/dev/input/event15) [759472.530] (**) ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: Applying InputClass "libinput touchpad catchall" [759472.530] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad' [759472.531] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event15 13:79 fd 86 paused 0 [759472.531] (**) ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: always reports core events [759472.531] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event15" [759472.532] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: is tagged by udev as: Touchpad [759472.532] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: device is a touchpad [759472.532] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: device removed [759472.533] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:15.0/i2c_designware.0/i2c-15/i2c-ELAN0412:01/0018:04F3:316F.0001/input/input21/event15" [759472.533] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 13) [759472.533] (**) Option "AccelerationScheme" "none" [759472.533] (**) ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: (accel) selected scheme none/0 [759472.533] (**) ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [759472.533] (**) ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [759472.534] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: is tagged by udev as: Touchpad [759472.535] (II) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: device is a touchpad [759472.535] (II) config/udev: removing device ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad [759472.535] (**) Option "fd" "75" [759472.535] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: device removed [759472.535] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" [759472.535] (II) systemd-logind: releasing fd for 13:86 [759472.580] (II) config/udev: Adding input device ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad (/dev/input/event22) [759472.580] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: Applying InputClass "libinput touchpad catchall" [759472.580] (II) Using input driver 'libinput' for 'ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad' [759472.581] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/input/event22 13:86 fd 75 paused 0 [759472.581] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: always reports core events [759472.581] (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event22" [759472.581] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: is tagged by udev as: Touchpad [759472.582] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: device is a touchpad [759472.582] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: device removed [759472.582] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input10/event22" [759472.582] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" (type: TOUCHPAD, id 16) [759472.583] (**) Option "AccelerationScheme" "none" [759472.583] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) selected scheme none/0 [759472.583] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000 [759472.583] (**) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4 [759472.583] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: is tagged by udev as: Touchpad [759472.584] (II) event22 - ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad: device is a touchpad [759472.584] (EE) event15 - ELAN0412:01 04F3:316F Touchpad: client bug: event processing lagging behind by 46ms, your system is too slow [759472.585] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=9 (/dev/input/event21) [759472.585] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.585] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.585] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 (/dev/input/event10) [759472.585] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.585] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.585] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA Intel PCH Mic (/dev/input/event16) [759472.585] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.585] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. [759472.585] (II) config/udev: Adding input device HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 (/dev/input/event13) [759472.585] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device. [759472.585] (II) This device may have been added with another device file. -- I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan

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firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?
by Genes Lists 08 Apr '23

08 Apr '23

Running on gnome This may have to do with updated updated wayland package (1.22.0-1) - didn't see much else that may be related. I tried rolling back firefox and makes no difference - I also tried with and without MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND - always get instant crash with: ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 5628 ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal... Anyone else seeing similar and any suggestions for fix? thanks gene

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moving /boot
by Fons Adriaensen 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

Hello all, I'm having a problem with updating a laptop: the /boot partition is too small for the new ramfs images. The system uses GPT partioning and BIOS boot using syslinux. /dev/sda1 1M Type = BIOS Boot /dev/sda2 /boot 95M Attributes: LegacyBIOSBootable /dev/sda3 / 93G (others for /home, /data and SWAP) One solution would be to move the /boot directory to / instead of giving it its own partition. The syslinux wiki page tells me that the absolute sector address of /boot/syslinux/ldlinux.sys plays a role in the boot sequence, so I suspect that just moving the boot directory and removing /dev/sda2 from /etc/fstab won't be enough. Would re-installing syslinux after that do the trick (and also take care of the LegacyBIOSBootable attribute) ? If not, what would be the correct and safe way to do this ? TIA, -- FA

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Re: gui network icon not connected
by Rino Mardo 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

upon running nmcli, it shows disconnected but the wlan0 have an ip address. i remembered when i finished the installation i only have CLI. also no network connectivity. somehow i managed to have network connectivity by installing the package iwd. after that, i have connection via my wireless and i proceeded to install kde (including plasma-nm). since recalling i'm using iwd package, when i stop that service the GUI network icon still shows all 5 bars but no AP listed. when i restart iwd, i get a list of AP in my area and i also get network connectivity in terminal. so i guess the network icon is the problem then? On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 1:55 AM "accounts(a)lrose.de [via Relay]" <noreply(a)relay.firefox.com> wrote: > > Forwarded from wna8xt5uv(a)mozmail.com by Firefox Relay ⁨0⁩ email trackers removed Upgrade for more protection > > On 25. Mar 2023, at 15:18, Doug Newgard <dnewgard(a)outlook.com> wrote: > > What did you enable? What did you configure? YOU did all of this, right? You > should be able to tell us what you did, not the other way around. > > Only because a user installed their system, doesn't mean they completely understand it. It's a continuous learning process, and we should support everyone who's willing to learn. > > In this case, it seems like you're actually using NetworkManager, plasma-nm is a frontend for it. However, it is possible that you have a second network manager or static configuration configured, so network manager backs out. You can check that by typing nmcli in the terminal, it should show you the status of network manager on your system. If it shows connected, then the display applet in your Toolbar is the issue. If it shows disconnected, then you should check what other network manager you have installed, and uninstall it. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration Shows a list of possible options. You should check if any of those besides NetworkManager are installed. > Your dashboard -- "This message was typed on my mobile phone. Please excuse any brevity or hilarious auto correct mistakes." http://about.me/RinoMardo

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Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?
by u34＠net9.ga 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Hello, I haven't tried all the 6.2.*. Only some of the earliest, and some of the latest. v6.2.9, at this time. I could build the earliest v6.1.*. And also v6.1.12. Which is arch latest v6.1.*, doesn't it? I got what looks to me a similar issue with v6.1.7, if I remember correctly. As of v6.2.7 and v6.2.9, I get: $ cat -n linux-6.2.9.arch1-1-x86_64-build.log | tail 19288 AR arch/x86/video/built-in.a 19289 AR built-in.a 19290 AR vmlinux.a 19291 LD vmlinux.o 19292 vmlinux.o: warning: objtool: hyperv_init+0x42f: unreachable instruction 19293 make[1]: *** Deleting file 'vmlinux.o' 19294 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_o:61: vmlinux.o] Interrupt 19295 make: *** [Makefile:1245: vmlinux_o] Interrupt 19296 19297 ==> ERROR: Aborted by user! Exiting... After it stalled for a long time at line #19291, or at line #19292, I interrupted it, ^c, manually. I forgot to look at the resource usage before interrupting v6.2.9 build. For some of the prevoius versions it happend, I saw the LD proccess consumed almost all of the machine free memory. And also a lot of swap. Which happend right at the LD operation, not before. It is only a desktop, Only 4G RAM. I am also confused about the unreachable warning. I think I saw it earlier only once. Possibly at some later v6.2.* version. But I can't find it at any log file. Perhaps I have deleted the file. I am using a local version for PKGBUILD. Does the follwoign diff maters? 63c63 < make all # htmldocs --- > make htmldocs all 195,196c195 < # pkgname=("$pkgbase" "$pkgbase-headers" "$pkgbase-docs") < pkgname=("$pkgbase" "$pkgbase-headers") --- > pkgname=("$pkgbase" "$pkgbase-headers" "$pkgbase-docs") There is also ccache enabled for makepkg. -- u34

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Movement/navigation issue with brltty 6.5 since today's upgrade
by Jeanette C. 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hey hey, I just updated my system today and haven't been able to use certain braille display functions. Since the installation date is given as a day in February it could depend on something else. BRLTTY allows to use a braille display to manipulate the terminal, move the cursor or paste text. These functions don't work anymore. Text can be copied into BRLTTY's buffer, but not pasted, neither can the cursor be summoned to a valid position on the screen. Does anyone have a reasonable idea what may have caused this? I have tried this with both the standard Archlinux 6.2.9 kernel and the 6.2.0 realtime kernel. Could there be a permission issue that forbids BRLTTY to write to the console or permission for USB devices...? Any hints would be much appreciated! 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 you made me realize..not to compromise the fact that you and i should meet... <3 (Britney Spears)

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Enabling CSM fails, can somebody recommend a bootloader
by Ralf Mardorf 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Hi, I am currently building a new PC. Migrating the drives from an Intel Celeron with integrated GPU, mobo Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H to an Intel Core i3 13th Gen, mobo Gigabyte B760M DS3H DDR4 does cause some issues. The PC is a Linux multi-boot machine. The old SATA SSDs are all MBR drives, a new NVMe SSD is a GPT drive. The old PC's bootloader is syslinux. The Arch install's root directory holds all kernels, the Arch kernels, but also the kernels from the other Linux installs (an ancient Suse, Ubuntu etc.). Disabling Intel platform trust technology and secure boot works, but enabling CSM (legacy boot) fails. I read that on modern Intel machines CSM cannot be enabled, when using the internal GPU. I wonder if this is correct?! I also read, if I need to stay with EFI boot, that continuing using syslinux for a multi-boot Linux machine without chainloading, by keeping all kernels in one partition, could become a PITA or even impossible. Does anybody know, if it's possible to enable CSM? Maybe I forgot to disable or enable something else, before enabling CSM can work. As a temporarily workaround, to continue building the new PC, I installed Xubuntu, from a pendrive that was at hand. It installed GRUB2, so I can boot Arch Linux from the old MBR drive. If I should need to stay with CSM disabled and if syslinux should not work to boot all Linux installs, is there another alternative bootloader available that is similar to syslinux? If possible I will not stay with GRUB2. FWIW aur/r8125-dkms (chaotic-aur/r8125-dkms) works without issues [1]. Thank you aravance! Regards, Ralf [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/r8125-dkms

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CPU frequency scaling uncertainty
by Ralf Mardorf 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Hi, I wonder what to do with the scaling_max_freq, base_frequency and scaling_min_freq. $ grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u model name : 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-13100 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/*driver intel_pstate Those are the specifications as provided by Intel [1]: Max Turbo Frequency [GHz] Up to 4.5 Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency [GHz] Up to 4.5 Performance-core Base Frequency [GHz] Up to 3.4 This are the defaults provided by /sys/devices/... : $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq 5800000 5800000 5800000 5800000 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/base_frequency 4400000 4400000 4400000 4400000 $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq 800000 800000 800000 800000 Is it safe to keep those values or should I set the max to 4500000 and base to 3400000? Is the min value 800000 good or bad? I will stay with powersave, excepted when doing real-time audio work, than I'll select performance. Years ago I read that real-time audio users disabled hyper-threading. I wonder if it's still necessary to select the performance governor and to disable hyper-threading for audio work. Regards, Ralf [1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/core/13th-…

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