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Network Issues After Pacman Upgrade
by Björn Försterling 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Hello, I just ran a "pacman -Syu" and am having issues with the internet connection. I have around 10 seconds with a working connection to the internet followed by 10 seconds without being able to establish a connection. For 10 seconds I am able to curl google.com or telnet its port 443, and then I get blocked for 10 seconds. There was an update to "networkmanager": [2024-10-13T15:39:41+0200] [ALPM] upgraded networkmanager (1.48.10-1 -> 1.50.0-1) Could this be the cause? Does anyone else experience similar problems? I had the same problem a few weeks ago. Regards Björn

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Strange config /etc/profile.d/utf8.sh added on recent upgrade
by Tadeas Uhlir 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

Hey all, Today, I noticed that my alias for "ls" is not working as usual. I alias "ll" to "LC_COLLATE=C ls -alF" to have a long listing with hidden dirs at the top. However, I noticed that the sorting doesn't work all of a sudden. After some digging around I found out that this is due to "LC_ALL" being set to "en_US.utf8". This variable is being set from a file at "/etc/profile.d/utf8.sh". Two notes about this: 1. For the life of me I cannot figure out which package upgrade/install created this file. Just going by a pacman log the file creation time corresponds to when "pacman --noconfirm -S autoconf libtool m4 automake" ran. But those packages don't seem to have much to do with locale. And googling the path of this file doesn't seem to yield much, clearly it's not a very common config file across linux distros. 2. Once I find the culprit, I would love to know what is the rationale behind explicitly setting "LC_ALL". Even the archwiki mentions that this should only be done during tests: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Locale#LC_ALL:_troubleshooting . And, indeed, seems like a bad idea given that it overrides all LC_ vars. -- Best Regards, Tadeáš Uhlíř

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Periodic aged package report
by Genes Lists 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Periodic check of Arch out of date packages. This considered are purely my opinion of those that are sufficiently 'relevant'. Apologies to any others. The really good news is that there really aren't many ! Big congrats for the hard work keeping Arch awesome and up to date. Note that, some are excluded when they are work in progress and/or involve a significant amount of work (provided they are not "too" old, which none are). Arch is doing an amazing job keeping our core/key packages like compiler tools, python, systemd, kernel and other vital packages very up to date. What remains are a few that are relevant enough (imho) to make the list. I am using 3 metrics of age: - Num-B The number of releases we are behind Some packages have frequent updates some do not. - Age The number of days between the arch version and the latest - New: How recent was the latest released (days ago from today) Package Arch Curr Date num-b Age New ------------------ ---------- ------ -------- ------ ------ ---- apparmor 3.1.7-5 4.0.3 08/15/24 4 195 55 biber 1:2.19-4 2.20 03/21/24 1 321 202 dkms 3.0.12-1 3.1.0 10/01/24 2 373 8 python-cryptography 42.0.8-1 43.0.1 09/03/24 2 91 36 python-setuptools 1:69.5.1-1 75.1.0 09/13/24 22 153 26 yubioath-desktop 5.1.0-3 7.1.0 09/25/24 12 1234 14 (1) (1) Now called yubico-authenticator -- Gene

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Valgrind problem
by Frank 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Good evening, I'm trying to debug an issue with Evolution and the Gnome guys asked me to use valgrind. However, when running this command I get an error I'm stuck with: valgrind --num-callers=30 --leak-check=no --track-origins=yes /usr/lib/evolution-calendar-factory -w ==4915== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==4915== Copyright (C) 2002-2024, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==4915== Using Valgrind-3.23.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==4915== Command: /usr/lib/evolution-calendar-factory -w ==4915== valgrind: Fatal error at startup: a function redirection valgrind: which is mandatory for this platform-tool combination valgrind: cannot be set up. Details of the redirection are: valgrind: valgrind: A must-be-redirected function valgrind: whose name matches the pattern: strcmp valgrind: in an object with soname matching: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 valgrind: was not found whilst processing valgrind: symbols from the object with soname: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 valgrind: valgrind: Possible fixes: (1, short term): install glibc's debuginfo valgrind: package on this machine. (2, longer term): ask the packagers valgrind: for your Linux distribution to please in future ship a non- valgrind: stripped ld.so (or whatever the dynamic linker .so is called) valgrind: that exports the above-named function using the standard valgrind: calling conventions for this platform. The package you need valgrind: to install for fix (1) is called valgrind: valgrind: On Debian, Ubuntu: libc6-dbg valgrind: On SuSE, openSuSE, Fedora, RHEL: glibc-debuginfo valgrind: valgrind: Note that if you are debugging a 32 bit process on a valgrind: 64 bit system, you will need a corresponding 32 bit debuginfo valgrind: package (e.g. libc6-dbg:i386). valgrind: valgrind: Cannot continue -- exiting now. Sorry. THX Frank

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Delayed responsiveness on resume after upgrade
by SET 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Hello, I just upgraded a host and noticed a waiting of about 90s before the desktop (KDE) becomes responsive (typing to unlock the screen, the mouse cursor can be moved). This was not the case before the upgrade. This box has 3 remote shares attached via sshfs. The delay to responsiveness is near immediate if it is suspended while the remote shares are not connected. With remote shares connected on suspend: [Sat Oct 5 12:05:03 2024] OOM killer enabled. [Sat Oct 5 12:05:03 2024] Restarting tasks ... done. [Sat Oct 5 12:05:03 2024] random: crng reseeded on system resumption [Sat Oct 5 12:05:03 2024] PM: suspend exit [Sat Oct 5 12:05:03 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/ Full - flow control off [Sat Oct 5 12:06:35 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Down [Sat Oct 5 12:06:35 2024] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-600:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-600:00, irq=MAC) [Sat Oct 5 12:06:35 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Down [Sat Oct 5 12:06:39 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/ Full - flow control off With remote shares disconnected on suspend: [Sat Oct 5 12:10:55 2024] OOM killer enabled. [Sat Oct 5 12:10:55 2024] Restarting tasks ... done. [Sat Oct 5 12:10:55 2024] random: crng reseeded on system resumption [Sat Oct 5 12:10:55 2024] PM: suspend exit [Sat Oct 5 12:10:55 2024] Generic FE-GE Realtek PHY r8169-0-600:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-600:00, irq=MAC) [Sat Oct 5 12:10:56 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Down [Sat Oct 5 12:10:58 2024] r8169 0000:06:00.0 eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/ Full - flow control off It seems that the network link remains 'up' when the remote shares are connected, then has to go down and that's where the delay lies. Afterwards, it quickly returns to the up state. 'modinfo r8169' does not expose any option at all. I wish to know if there's a simple known solution to quickly resume the host. The root cause could also lie deep in the kernel and may perhaps disappear on a future upgrade. I can live with it, it's just annoying. Thanks for any input.

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Re: Future of salt in our repositories
by Genes Lists 05 Oct '24

05 Oct '24

On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 17:36 +0200, Morten Linderud wrote: > Yo, > > `salt` is a framework for server provisioning, change management and > ... > `salt` as of version `3007` does not support Python 3.12, and the > release `3008` > seems far away, ... > salt is going for the vendor > approach they call `onedir` and instead bundle *everyting*, including > their own > Python runtime, into a directory. This is going to be a mess to > properly support > ... ... > As long as there are not any major issues I intend to drop this > package ahead of > our Python 3.13 release and prep work. Replying via general. This does indeed make a lot of sense. 'onedir' sounds pretty horrible. It might worthwhile noting that salt was acquired by VMware which in turn was acquired by broadcom a couple years ago. I have no views if this is significant for its future trajectory or not. I wonder if some people might be considering migrating to Ansible or another alternative? thanks for staying on top of things and keeping us informed. gene -- Gene

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Estimate for Linux 6.11 to move from testing to core?
by David C. Rankin 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

All, Devs, I've been watching https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/linux/-/issues to try and get a handle on when to expect the 6.11 kernel. I can't read the tea-leaves very well. Does anyone involved in the process have an estimate of when we should look for the new kernel to be released? I ask because I have one production box to update and want to set aside time in case I have to troubleshoot. Though thankfully, the 6.10 -> 6.11 update looks benign from a server standpoint. Are we just waiting on the i915 shadow frame-buffer issue or one of the other audio issues? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Wayland performance issues after upgrading linux and nvidia
by Edward Toroshchyn 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

All, Just wanted to drop a short FYI here, in case you've also encountered issues running Wayland after updating linux (6.10.10.arch1-1 -> 6.11.1.arch1-1) and nvidia (560.35.03-6 -> 560.35.03-9). For me, downgrading helped: # cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/; pacman -U nvidia-560.35.03-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst linux-6.10.8.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst I've reported the issue here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/nvidia/-/issues/9 Worm regards, -- Edward

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Recommended setup for synced password manager
by Georg 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

Dear list crowd, I'm looking for a synced password manager solution that connects my Arch PC with my android phone, and a Windows PC. I'd like to use my arch server as the nexus, and want to avoid commercial services by all means. One option I heard is using one or more keepass databases and keeping them in sync via syncthing. Another option seems to be bitwarden. Are there more good options? What do people use, that works well and painfree? What other options for automatic syncing of the keepass database would there be? I'd prefer short and on point answers without too much detail, but just a conceptual sketch. Thanks in advance, and maybe this benefits someone else as well. Georg

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Re: Kernel with IMA and "better" secure boot / MOK support
by Johan Dahlberg 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

On 2024-09-26 16:52, simon-b(a)murena.io wrote: > Hi, > Hi, thanks for replying! Just to avoid any confusion, the setup I'm using already works the way I want, I'm just hoping to find a way to avoid custom kernels. > you can add public keys to the kernel keyring which are stored in a > hardware store (e.g. the UEFI key database). [0] This is mostly what I've been doing, using mokutil to store the mok cert in an efivar with shim. shim then pulls them in to the MokListRT efivar, which the kernel then validates against (if I understood it all correctly). But that is only as long as IMA is enabled in the kernel.. without IMA the .machine keyring never gets populated. The MOK keys will however end up in the .platform keyring even without IMA, but it will not trust them since they're not part of the chain the kernel trusts (.builtin_trusted_keys, or .secondary_trusted_keys). One would need to add one's own CA cert in the kernel build (and sign the modules with the same CA to make this work, I think. Documentation has left me a bit confused on this. > > You can also sign the modules with a MOK. [1] > I've also tried to do this, adding my MOK cert next to the Database cert from the UEFI secure boot setup, and then signing the the modules with the corresponding key. But the kernel still didn't want to trust this cert. Again I assume because the kernels chain of trust requires the MOK cert to come from the same CA as one of the .builtin_trusted_keys. Arch uses auto-generated keys on their kernel builds, so this can't work as far as I understand. And even they signed with their own keys, I'd need to sign my modules with the same key as them, which obviously wouldn't be possible. Perhaps there are facilities in the kernel I'm unaware of here but it seems to me the only way for a user to validate out-of-tree module signatures are with MOKs. Which is why I started thinking maybe there needs to be another official kernel that supports this. > Since I don't use external modules, I have not tested any of these > methods. Any modules that comes with the kernel will always pass validation and load since they share the same auto-generated key/cert. > > I am not sure how you use the IMA (e.g. wether you verify the PCR10 > from a TPM2), but an alternative could be > > a dm-verity signed root-fs, e.g. created with verity-squash-root [2]. > I believe the more advanced features of IMA are not needed in this scenario. In the case of being able to validate out-of-tree modules against MOK signatures all that is needed is CONFIG_IMA_SECURE_AND_OR_TRUSTED_BOOT (as far as I can tell at least). > Best, > > Simon > > [0] > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.11/admin-guide/module-signing.html > > [1] > > https://gist.github.com/lijikun/22be09ec9b178e745758a29c7a147cc9 > > [2] > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/verity-squash-root > Regards, Johan > September 26, 2024 at 12:09 PM, "Johan Dahlberg" <joda(a)nejomi.net> > wrote: > >> For the last couple of years I've been rolling my own kernels on a >> couple of machines in order to have better support for secure boot >> and especially mok keys. This has been necessary for being able to >> boot with lockdown=confidentiality/integrity and still be able to >> load any signed out-of-tree (dkms) modules. The official kernels in >> arch is built without IMA support as it would break the ability to >> kexec to another kernel when secure boot is on (since the kernels >> are built with auto-generated keys, they would fail validation). >> There are some bug reports on the subject, see [1] and [2]. >> >> How I'm validating signed out-of-tree modules goes as following: >> >> - uefi to setup mode >> >> - create my own EFI keys, and enroll them >> >> - roll my own uki kernel (built with IMA) and sign it and it's >> modules and any out-of-tree modules >> >> - set uefi to boot shim.efi, which then calls grubx64.efi (which is >> just a renamed systemd-boot in my case) >> >> - shim passes on mok keys >> >> - systemd-boot boots the kernel with lockdown=confidentiality >> >> - kernel adds the keys passed from shim to the (.machine) keyring >> and successfully loads any modules signed with a key listed in mok >> >> It's been a while since I set it up so I might have misremembered >> some step there. >> >> Anyway to my question, since the situation with kexec and IMA is >> probably not going to change, and since there probably (?) are more >> people out there who would like to use the whole secure boot chain >> with MOKs and all, perhaps it would be possible to discuss providing >> another official kernel which is built to support the above >> scenario? I'm not too deep into the arch dev system and tools, but >> considering what I'm doing - just pulling the PKGBUILD and doing >> some minimal changes to the config and then building it, it seems it >> would not add too much of a maintenance overhead. >> >> Perhaps there are other ways of achieving the same results that I'm >> not aware of.. if so I'm curious to hear about it. Mostly I'm just >> trying to get out of having to use custom kernels. :-) >> >> Thanks for reading, >> >> Johan >> >> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75102 >> >> [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75041

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Re: strange Adwaita tray icon difficulties
by Abraham S.A.H. 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

Sep 26, 2024, 07:26 by daniel.ranc(a)telecom-sudparis.eu: > > Abraham, > > Thank you for this rant which i would have been too shy to write > myself on the list, but i am completely with you on that issue. I > would even add that major applications such as Thunderbird are, > at times, subject to very strange bugs and behaviors related to > "new features to make it slick", slickness in which i am not > interested at all, so that i always install Seamonkey as plan B. > > I relate these problems to project governance issues rather than > budget problems (which they are constantly invoking). Sad. > > Copy to my friend Tarus, who's involved in Open Source matters. > > Cheers > Daniel > > ps. i confess between us that the dinosaur that i am uses FVWM :-) > > > On 26/09/2024 03:02, Abraham S.A.H. wrote: > >> I have bitten by that too, on three systems that I maintain. Even on >> the one which uses Xfce desktop. This random breaking changes to GTK >> and Gnome related stuff is disrespectful to users. And the usuall >> answer is that “If you don’t like it, use something else!”; but they >> are damn everywhere. Gtk used to be the goto universal toolkit on >> GNU/Linux platform that everyone would use to make his/her app; now >> they are maintaining and developing it only for Gnome and Adwaita >> adhering apps. Anything based on GTK keeps not fitting in any other >> DE or any machine that Gnome project doesn’t like or care to support. >> >> And worst is, that any complaint anywhere usually results in aggressive >> or hostile responses. >> >> >> -- >> Best Regards, >> Abraham >> Sent with Tutanota; >> https://tuta.com >> Well, as far as I know, Gnome is one of the most sponsored Free Software projects. And The most sponsored open source desktop environment. And developers are mainly employees of the sponsers (mostly by Red Hat). It's often claimed that Gnome is a community project. Compare it with Emacs, which has about 19 mailing lists; one of them being the development mailing list (emacs-devel) that all development discussions happen openly there. And one can submit his/her patch or code to be included in Emacs! — and unlike Gnome, they even don't scream being a community software project. Actually, many of Emacs features are from the free volunteers that donated their code; just through this mailing list. In contrast, in Gnome, even major bug reports get closed as not planned or not supported, or that it’s not a bug in Gnome software, because you installed that package from your distro rather than Flatpak, or you installed that extension from AUR instead of web interface. And basically, there is no easy way for user-developers to change GTK or Gnome DE out of what Gnome project foresees. If a feature is not planned you are not allowed to implement it, even with two or three developers. — Well, seems fair, since you just implement it, but they have to maintain it. All that aside, Gnome project has its board and its developers and sponsors, and they have the right to decide about the direction. All okay. Problem arises when you have to pull in gtk4 and gtk3 packages only for installing ‘ibus’! Now, that one is ridiculous. And that is my whole point; gtk is everywhere because it was there from when none of these were an issue. -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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Kernel with IMA and "better" secure boot / MOK support
by Johan Dahlberg 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

For the last couple of years I've been rolling my own kernels on a couple of machines in order to have better support for secure boot and especially mok keys. This has been necessary for being able to boot with lockdown=confidentiality/integrity and still be able to load any signed out-of-tree (dkms) modules. The official kernels in arch is built without IMA support as it would break the ability to kexec to another kernel when secure boot is on (since the kernels are built with auto-generated keys, they would fail validation). There are some bug reports on the subject, see [1] and [2]. How I'm validating signed out-of-tree modules goes as following: - uefi to setup mode - create my own EFI keys, and enroll them - roll my own uki kernel (built with IMA) and sign it and it's modules and any out-of-tree modules - set uefi to boot shim.efi, which then calls grubx64.efi (which is just a renamed systemd-boot in my case) - shim passes on mok keys - systemd-boot boots the kernel with lockdown=confidentiality - kernel adds the keys passed from shim to the (.machine) keyring and successfully loads any modules signed with a key listed in mok It's been a while since I set it up so I might have misremembered some step there. Anyway to my question, since the situation with kexec and IMA is probably not going to change, and since there probably (?) are more people out there who would like to use the whole secure boot chain with MOKs and all, perhaps it would be possible to discuss providing another official kernel which is built to support the above scenario? I'm not too deep into the arch dev system and tools, but considering what I'm doing - just pulling the PKGBUILD and doing some minimal changes to the config and then building it, it seems it would not add too much of a maintenance overhead. Perhaps there are other ways of achieving the same results that I'm not aware of.. if so I'm curious to hear about it. Mostly I'm just trying to get out of having to use custom kernels. :-) Thanks for reading, Johan [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75102 [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75041

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strange Adwaita tray icon difficulties
by Daniel Ranc 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

Dear all, I am experiencing some strangeness with the Adwaita tray icons of VLC and volumeicon. They disappeared from the tray around this summer (unfortunately no precise data here) and I needed to revert to the latest working package adwaita-icon-theme-41.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst for those icons to work again. My environment is using stalonetray and a very simple window manager (no Gnome, no KDE whatsoever). Are others impacted as well ? Any clue how to get back on track ? Interestingly last week some apps suddenly showed completely black windows: simple-scan and pavucontrol, and i had to revert to older packages to make them work again. Are those phenomena related? Thanks for any help. Daniel

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lightdm login loop with systemd-homed
by Abraham S.A.H. 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

It seems that from systemd 256 onwards, lightdm cannot properly log into homed user accounts. At least in X sessions. It keeps in a loop of "getting password --> (trying to) logging in --> black journaled screen --> getting back to the first step asking for password again" It can't read ~/.Xauthority, tries to find it at /.Xauthority instead. lightdm unit logs says: ~~~ Error writing X authority: Failed to open X authority /.Xauthority: Permission denied ~~~ It doesn't seem to be related to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LightDM#Infinite_login_loop Also, there's an open issue related to this in lightdm's github repository Is there anyone who is experiencing the same issue? -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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mkarchroot fails with "Permission denied" error during pacman sync (maybe alpm download user related?)
by Henning 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

Hi, I hope this is (one) of the correct places to request some help. I followd this Wiki article (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot) and failed on the classical way and I have no clue why :-) I add some example output on the buttom. Maybe related. The "arch machine" with this error is a VM, running via incus on an arch host. The VM use ext4, the host btrfs. On the arch host itself, the command work as expected. Only inside the VM it fails. If I comment out "DownloadUser = alpm" in /etc/pacman.conf, it works. But this is also enabled on the (working) host, without any problems. (same default pacman.conf) Thanks Henning ################################################################### [henning@archlinux ~]$ sudo rm -rf test/ [henning@archlinux ~]$ mkdir test [henning@archlinux ~]$ mkarchroot test/root base-devel ==> Creating install root at /home/henning/test/root ==> Installing packages to /home/henning/test/root :: Synchronizing package databases... error: could not open file /home/henning/test/root/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-AIUAX3/core.db.part: Permission denied error: failed to setup a download payload for core.db error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files) ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root ==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages

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dbus-broker-units provides dbus-units
by u34＠net9.cf 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

$ pacman -Qi dbus-broker-units | grep Provides Provides : dbus-units Seeing that, I assumed it is enough to have the dbus-broker-units package, without having the dbus-units package. That assumption turns to be wrong. While trying to build a chroot environment, if the dbus-units package can not be obtained, the process fails. :: Retrieving packages... dbus-units-36-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to download error: failed retrieving file 'dbus-units-36-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from the_repo : The requested URL returned error: 404 warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (failed to retrieve some files) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root ==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages One reason for the explicit search for dbus-units is that systemd explicitly depends on dbus-units. $ pacman -Qi systemd | grep dbus-units Depends On : ... dbus dbus-units ... Am I confused? Why the chroot must have a dbus-units package? -- u34

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mkarchroot and Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
by u34＠net9.cf 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

$ pacman -Qo mkarchroot /usr/bin/mkarchroot is owned by devtools 1:1.2.1-1 Referring to https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-local-rep… and to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot#S… with a modified pacman.conf: error: could not open file /home/user/chroot/root/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-o6cp5z/core.db.part: Permission denied error: failed to setup a download payload for core.db error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files) ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root ==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages The modified pacman.conf is using links created with ln -s /var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ I have also tried the naive approach of --- a/usr/bin/mkarchroot 2024-06-23 21:00:54.158267054 +0000 +++ b/usr/bin/mkarchroot 2024-09-22 19:31:52.984269364 +0000 @@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ [[ -e $working_dir ]] && die "Working directory '%s' already exists" "$working_dir" mkdir -p "$working_dir" +chown :alpm "$working_dir" lock 9 "${working_dir}.lock" "Locking chroot" In addition, the most basic suggestion of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot#S… , namely # mkarchroot /home/user/chroot/root base-devel also fails. Though it could be due to a usually working XferCommand in pacman.conf. Does mkarchroot broken? -- u34

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spam on the forum
by funny0facer 22 Sep '24

22 Sep '24

Could someone please ban https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=162864 on the forum? This person is posting pictures, I really do not want to see. Thanks

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pacman 7 - why is #ParallelDownloads = 5 commented by default now?
by David C. Rankin 21 Sep '24

21 Sep '24

Devs, As I merged .pacnew changes for pacman.conf, I notice the parallel download option is now commented by default. I left it that way. But why is that now the default after having parallel transfer come in as a new feature a year or two ago? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Rein Fernhout (Levitating) 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

I sent this message yesterday but I accidentally forgot to add the mailing list as a recipient. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Arch Linux public upload server Date: 2024-09-04 14:28 From: "Rein Fernhout (Levitating)" <me(a)levitati.ng> To: Robin Candau <antiz(a)archlinux.org> On 2024-09-04 09:56, Robin Candau wrote: > On 9/4/24 1:04 AM, Polarian wrote: >> Hello, >> > > Hello, > Hello, >> >> So to spur such a discussion, why should it be rustypaste? >> What makes it better than the competition? >> > > I think you're taking Orhun's mail/proposition the wrong way. > > First of all, Arch Linux and rustypaste are not corporate so there's no > "corporate buddies"/shareholders in that context. I personally have not > been bothered by any potential "conflict of interest" in their > suggestion. > > Secondly, Orhun's demand is not "Should Arch Linux host a public > pastebin/upload server (and, if so, could it be rustypaste)?" but > "rustypaste is looking for a public instance [2], could Arch Linux host > it?" > > Here again, I feel like this an important nuance to understand why the > discussion is specifically about rustypaste (and not about any other > similar services). > > > [1] > https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-general@lists.archlinux.org/… > [2] https://github.com/orhun/rustypaste/issues/326 Though I do think that if we were to have a pasting service, I would like to use a battle-proven tool with proper moderation capabilities like 0x0. But in generally I think we just shouldn't start. The amount of abuse pasting services see is absolutely staggering. The only way I think we could manage is, like mentioned before, by protecting it with our SSO account authentication. But rustypaste doesn't rely on a frontend, it works similarly to 0x0. So what does it add to our community? The IRC already recommends use of 0x0 or termbin.com. Both of which rely on open source software that can be selfhosted by users with ease. I would maybe see added value if our pastebin service was graphical, as this would make it more accessible. Authenticated users could submit pastes and anyone could view them. But rustypaste isn't graphical. So I do a agree with Polarian that we should first consider "do we want a pasting service" and then "do we want rustypaste". Even if that was not Orhun's original question.

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[arch-general] Is wine-mono now integrated into wine (9.17)?
by Javier 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Hello ! I'm guessing wine-gecko is now integrated into wine, since it recently got dropped from the repos but it didn't even make it to AUR. Is that the case? Thanks ! -- Javier

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Arch Websites vs Dark Mode
by Genes Lists 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

I see that the wiki and gitlab both have dark modes but I didn't see how to activate dark mode for any other part of the website. Did I miss where to turn this on or if it's not yet available are there any plans to add it? Not sure how others feel, but might be nice to offer it. thanks! -- Gene

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Guest issue after virtualbox upgrade from 7.0.20-1 to 7.1.0-1
by Ralf Mardorf 15 Sep '24

15 Sep '24

Hi, the execution of a Windows 11 (64-bit) guest works, with the exception that the shutdown does not end, but this was already a problem under 7.0.20-1, which you can live with. Under 7.0.20-1, a Windows 10 (64-bit) guest, including the shutdown, worked perfectly smoothly. Unfortunately, the Windows 10 startup freezes under 7.1.0-1. Its log ends with "00:01:40.881013 EHCI: USB Suspended". By the manager settings I changed a few settings, to use mainly the same settings for the Windows 10 guest, that are used by the Windows 11 guest. In addition I migrated from USB 2.0 to USB 1.1 for the Windows 10 guest. Now USB is operational and I couldn't see any useful information by the log file. I'm in a hurry as I have to go to work and will read the logs again later at my leisure. Has anyone had similar experiences? FWIW pacman.log mentions an issue: [2024-09-13T05:02:52+0200] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox (7.0.20-1 -> 7.1.0-1) [2024-09-13T05:02:52+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the VirtualBox object! [2024-09-13T05:02:52+0200] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] VBoxManage: error: Most likely, the VirtualBox COM server is not running or failed to start. After restarting the host trying to start the VirtualBox manager GUI for the first time also failed with the object error, but after that it always started without an issue. extra/virtualbox 7.1.0-1 extra/virtualbox-guest-iso 7.1.0-1 extra/virtualbox-host-dkms 7.1.0-1 chaotic-aur/virtualbox-ext-oracle 7.1.0-1 $ uname -r; cat /proc/cmdline 6.10.9-arch1-2 BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/m1.archlinux ro threadirqs ibt=off Regards, Ralf

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libreoffice - new versioning download frequency - multiple updates per-week?
by David C. Rankin 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Devs, With the advent of the new version scheme for libreoffice, there is a dramatic increase in the frequency of package updates lately, sometimes a new version is packaged daily or every other day, e.g. [2024-08-26T19:24:24-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-1 -> 24.2.5-2) [2024-09-02T23:01:03-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-2 -> 24.2.5-3) [2024-09-07T01:54:56-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.5-3 -> 24.2.6-1) [2024-09-09T16:53:22-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-1 -> 24.2.6-2) [2024-09-10T18:48:31-0500] [ALPM] upgraded libreoffice-still (24.2.6-2 -> 24.2.6-3) Granted with gcc changes, etc.. many rebuilds may be needed as those changes are incorporated, and it may just be temporary, but libreoffice is a 150M+ package. I can imagine that adds up from a bandwidth standpoint for Arch and it's mirrors. Is the libreoffice new package frequency just a temporary thing, or is this here to stay? More a curiosity than anything else. I can look back nearly a decade in the pacman.log and it wasn't uncommon to have months when there was no libreoffice update, and rarely 3 or more a month. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Update to pacman 7.0.0 and AUR Helpers
by Moabeat 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

Hi all, today the update to pacman 7.0.0-r3 was installed on my machine through the core-testing repository. I am usually using the AUR helper yay for any kind of updates. After the update, yay didn't start anymore, as the library version of libalpm increased to 15 and yay was still looking for 14. A manual rebuild of yay easily fixed this. However, I am wondering if there is any way how to make such an update smoother, so that yay would be rebuilt in the same step after pacman was updated and avoid the necessity for a manual rebuild? Kind regards, Moabeat

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Fwd: Replacing mlocate with plocate
by David C. Rankin 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

User-feedback on plocate replacment: Works like a champ! Thank you Morten! # pacman -Syu <snip> # systemctl enable plocate-updatedb.timer # updatedb done! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Replacing mlocate with plocate Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:04:54 +0200 From: Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've pushed 1.1.22-2 of plocate which includes a replaces directive. It should replace mlocate from now on. Also included the patch that enables the updatedb timer by default. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] - Expected?
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Devs, Update today resulted in removal of qemu-system-nios2 presenting the error: qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] There was no note in the "Latest News" about user interaction needed. Just a dependency change or features moving between packages? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Óscar García Amor 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

El dom, 01-09-2024 a las 12:41 +0200, Jelle van der Waa escribió: > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives, for staff we can > use md.archlinux.org to share notes, pastes. Regarding abuse, see for > example what 0x0.st does against detecting awful nsfw content > > https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0 I couldn't agree more. Personally I have experience in maintaining a public instance of "pastes" with my own development called lesma[1] (source code[2]). If you want some advice, don't do it. 99% of the "pastes" are straight up junk, spam, links to websites selling “dubious products” and other crap. If you want to have it operational, authentication is required and only for internal use. Something public is a pain because unfortunately there are many people who do not respect. Greetings. [1]: https://lesma.eu [2]: https://gitlab.com/ogarcia/lesma -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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extra/realtime-privileges
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Hi, I am not up to date, is there meanwhile a reason for • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep nice /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf @realtime - nice -11 ? I the past a nice value for real-time was null and void. Regards, Ralf

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Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

All, Devs, I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds closely checking for version changes I may have to deal with on a production box. In doing so I learn about many packages I've never heard of before. That posed the question of how frequently all packages are installed by Arch users. Package use, popularity, whatever you want to call it can provide a reasonable metric when comparing between two packages that provide the same feature in determining which to investigate first or install. It would also give a metric of the impact of a developer retiring or orphaning packages. Does any install frequency data such as that exist for packages in extra and core? Or could it be garnered by whatever data is captured from the mirror system? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Lucie Scarlet 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

On 9/3/2024 8:31 PM, Orhun Parmaksiz wrote: > > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives Honestly, my biggest issue with the alternatives is how most other services are either too complicated, don't make it easy to just use the keyboard or end up like Hastebin and getting bought up and honestly getting a lot worse. > > it's important to specify how the moderation capabilities are. > My initial idea was to use a configuration like this (with some parts stripped): I 100% support having our own paste service that's on a trustworthy domain like archlinux.org, though I do have some concerns about being able to upload more than just text. I haven't used Rustypaste before, so I can't comment much on that, but reading your email does seem like that would be possible. > > I agree, too. If it should be only for Arch Linux users, we can add a validation question like the one in the forum's log in page. > That's a good/fun idea 🙂 Seconded :D I do hope you're able to put up a service like this. /Lucie

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Network issues on laptop, issue with iwd?
by Lucie Scarlet 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi, I've got my HP laptop set up with Arch, and it's been working absolutely wonderful. That is, until recently when it seems like it is having major network issues. I've got it set up with iwd and connected to my home wifi, but it's having a bunch of issues. It keeps dropping the connection, and when it doesn't do that, it really struggles with resolving addresses. I also tested going to 1.1.1.1 and even that had issues, so it's not just DNS. I haven't had any issues with my other devices on the wifi, so I'm not sure if it's that. I tried restarting it as well, which didn't help. Could it be an issue with iwd? Hoping for something that can lead me in the right direction, this is getting quite frustrating. Best, Lucie

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knotes missing after upgrade
by SET 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hello, After today's upgrade, package knotes is not in the repositories. 'pacman -Q knotes' gives 'knotes 24.05.2-1', the previously installed package that fails to load. Other KDE packages like kontact have version '24.08.0-1'. 'pacman -S knotes' gives nothing. Is it dropped upstream or in Arch (both doubtful)? Has it been renamed? Thank you for any input.

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Two Arch Systems - Identical, loginctl shows TTY for one, not the other?
by David C. Rankin 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Devs, All, Recently across several distros there have been issues with loginctl not showing a TTY associated with a login. This has caused various issues with processes that rely on the user TTY for one thing or another. So I decided to test Arch on two backup servers, both current though today, both boot to multi-user target. On one box TTY=pts/0 is associated with my user login, on the other there is no TTY associated, e.g. 02:41 fenrir:~> loginctl show-session auto Id=1 User=1000 Name=david Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:37:24 CDT TimestampMonotonic=164549181 VTNr=0 TTY=pts/0 ^^^^^^^^^ Remote=yes RemoteHost=192.168.6.104 Service=sshd Scope=session-1.scope Leader=776 Audit=1 Type=tty Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=1725090076000000 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=395959270 LockedHint=no The other: 02:40 valhalla:~> loginctl show-session auto Id=1 User=1000 Name=david Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:26:09 CDT TimestampMonotonic=32411169 VTNr=0 Remote=yes RemoteHost=192.168.6.104 Service=sshd Scope=session-1.scope Leader=712 Audit=1 Type=tty Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 LockedHint=no How is that possible and what to check? Seems freedesktop.org and provided another mystery. Ideas? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!
by Ralf Mardorf 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Hi, Ctl+Alt+F7 fails! I need to restart the machine. $ pacman -Q linux linux 6.10.7.arch1-1 2fucktor auth fails as well ;), hence I cannot provide a bug report. I was able to log in https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ a few hours ago. I've had enough by now! I cannot report the issue against the bug tracker, maybe somebody is willing to care about the issue here. Consider to stop this 2fucktor auth crap! Regards, Ralf

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fail2ban with action = %(action_mwl)s not including log lines
by David C. Rankin 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

All, I've posted to the forum, but haven't received any suggestions https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2190182#p2190182 The title says it all. When fail2ban is configured to include log lines in the e-mail it sends when a ban it triggered, no log lines are included. The whois info is included, but not the log lines. Does anybody have this working? Does this need a bug report to have something tweaked to work with the journal on Arch? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Auto Chmod inside directory
by Silvio Siefke 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

Hello, I use Nextcloud to keep important files synchronised between my computers. This works without any problems, but the folder on the desktop is treated as 777 after every file change. It affects all folders that are below Public/fr4, which is strange, it is kept in sync with a second machine and there (Public/he) this does not happen. How can I find out why this is happening? Are there any possibilities here? It is not the future to use find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; Thank you. Silvio

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gitlab with relative url - ssh push error
by Łukasz Michalski 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi, Anyone has a working gitlab installation that uses relative url (https://host/gitlab) ? I am new to gitlab and tried to install and configure it using wiki instructions[1] Then I followed gitlab instruction how to setup subpath[2] Web interface works. I created empty project and tried to push my local repo there and get: [zork@serenity]$ git push gitlab --all Enumerating objects: 33558, done. Counting objects: 100% (33558/33558), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (8908/8908), done. Writing objects: 100% (33558/33558), 509.84 MiB | 46.73 MiB/s, done. Total 33558 (delta 26528), reused 30840 (delta 24311), pack-reused 0 (from 0) remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (26528/26528), done. remote: GitLab: Internal API error (404) To host.pl:repogroup/backend.git ! [remote rejected] case_8546 -> case_8546 (pre-receive hook declined) ! [remote rejected] devel -> devel (pre-receive hook declined) ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined) ! [remote rejected] prices_roles -> prices_roles (pre-receive hook declined) No idea from where this "Internal API error (404)" comes from. I already disabled global branch protection and do not have any branch rules in project repo. There are no errors in /var/log/gitlab-shell.json, last lines are: time="2024-08-29T12:54:08Z" level=info msg="Finished HTTP request" content_length_bytes=690 correlation_id=01J6F36KG65FG3DN7NX3JEFX9H duration_ms=100ns method=POST status=200 url="http://unix/gitlab/api/v4/internal/allowed" time="2024-08-29T12:54:08Z" level=info msg="executing git command" command=git-receive-pack correlation_id=01J6F36KG65FG3DN7NX3JEFX9H git_protocol= gl_key_id=1 gl_key_type=key gl_project_path=repogroup/backend gl_repository=project-1 remote_ip=10.21.42.199 user_id=user-2 username=mcl Any idea what can I debug next? Regards, Łukasz [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GitLab [2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/relative_url.html

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Changed password on Arch, now ssh cannot connect - "Connection refused"
by David C. Rankin 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

All, I changed my password for my username on my Arch server (as you should do every so often). Now everything has gone to hell. I changed the password accordingly in Thunderbird, but it cannot get mail. I've restarted sshd, and I still cannot even connect: debug3: ssh_connect_direct: entering debug1: Connecting to valkyrie [192.168.6.14] port 6661. debug3: set_sock_tos: set socket 3 IP_TOS 0x10 debug1: connect to address 192.168.6.14 port 6661: Connection refused Is there some other magic you must do now other than passwd? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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win7 BSOD after qemu+libvirt+virt-manager upgrade
by Łukasz Michalski 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi, After yesterday host upgrade: linux (6.4.11.arch2-1 -> 6.10.6.arch1-1) qemu-system-x86 (8.0.4-2 -> 9.0.2-1) libvirt (1:9.6.0-1 -> 1:10.6.0-1) I am not able to start win7 guest anymore. My all other vm (win2008srv, arch, win10pro) runs without problems. I filled a bug here with a detailed description: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/662. Regards, Łukasz

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mirror problems 503 reply?
by David C. Rankin 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

All, I don't know if this is a know problem or if I'm just lucky, but checking the mirror status from the archlinux.org main page show more than 50% of the mirrors without any sync status. Trying an update, I just got a 503 reply for an http mirror. Changed to one showing it was syncing -- no issue. Do we have mirror problems? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Display manager cannot login to any desktop
by vivid.map8768＠fastmail.com 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Hello all, I am having trouble diagnose display manager problem. I can login to a shell via Ly, and execute Hyprland. However, ly failed to login to Hyprland (and gnome) directly. Here are some relevant configurations: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/hyprland.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Hyprland Comment=An intelligent dynamic tiling Wayland compositor Exec=Hyprland Type=Application systemctl and journalctl look OK to me. Any idea what could go wrong? Thanks!

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How to handle reopening old closed bugs
by Friedrich Strohmaier 20 Aug '24

20 Aug '24

Hi @ll, I've one old closed bug [0] in the pipeline, which is still alive and should be fixed one day ;-) [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46398 If I want to revive it, how to do this in the intended way? As far as I see, old closed bugs are not migrated to the shiny new gitlab. Is that true? If so, how to bring the old wisdom in the new system? I could not find it in gitlab and it does not have any hint about a place there as migrated bugs (closed because of migration) do have. So finally the question: How to revive old closed bugs from flyspray in gitlab? -- Friedrich

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Status of dovecot
by Bjoern Franke 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

Hi, Dovecot got a CVE patch release to 2.3.21.1. - CVE-2024-23184: A large number of address headers in email resulted in excessive CPU usage. - CVE-2024-23185: Abnormally large email headers are now truncated or discarded, with a limit of 10MB on a single header and 50MB for all the headers of all the parts of an email. So I wanted to mark it out of date - and now I'm wondering why it's already out of date for 11 months. Regards Bjoern

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Fwd: News draft: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
by David C. Rankin 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

> Hi everyone, > > As you might have heard by now redis got a new license and *some* forks were created [1]. > Valkey as one of them is developed by the Linux Foundation, and adopted by Fedora already [2]. > So we think it's a good step to follow that path and replace redis by valkey. > > > # Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository Please make sure Valkey works with the Arch package Nextcloud before redis goes away. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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/usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Devs, I was surprised trying to install a python-tqdm package to get the error: (2/2) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-tqdm: /usr/bin/tqdm exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. The package is there: $ l /usr/bin/tqdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206 Jul 8 2021 /usr/bin/tqdm I check with pacman to find the owning package -- and there is none: $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/tqdm error: No package owns /usr/bin/tqdm How can I check how it got there and what may depend on it? I don't install stray packages, and especially not to /usr/bin, so this is a surprise. I don't want to just willy-nilly remove it either and have something unknown break. Best course of action? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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jenux for me for the future
by Jude DaShiell 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Reason I haven't got the real archlinux on this computer is because I'm in a low grade wi-fi network and iwctl does a couple things that make it impossible to install archlinux. The first is minor but the second is a show stopper. The device list command constantly scrolls the screen with the same information coming up on it. Same thing happens with the station wlan0 connect command scrolling available networks constantly. The second thing iwctl does which is a show stopper is to get the correct network name entered which has a couple spaces in it and get the correct password and then fail to connect throwing an error. I'm using Jenux since somehow Jenux gets around both of these problems. I think iwctl either needs to be cleaned up and improved or I think iwctl needs to be replaced with something that works for wi-fi networks better than iwctl can do it. I don't know how to set up debugging for iwctl and capture useful error information otherwise you'd have that useful error information in this message. We're on penteledata.net so internet quality is also low and was no better on verizon-fios when I used that. These problems are not unique to me either. I was helping a friend for a couple weeks until he finally managed to connect to wi-fi in a remote location with iwctl on archlinux. He is sighted and also had a problem with the scrolling. We were finally able to get his connection up and running and it is just as well it happened this way since I had just learned to use iwctl before Lawrence needed to learn to use 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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Re: this happens with pacman too
by Doug Newgard 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(a)panix.com> > > Time to reinstall system. A quick scan through, I don't notice that many problems, certainly nothing that indicates the system needs reinstalled. Backup files being altered is normal, and permissions mismatches are not uncommon and don't necessarily indicate a problem. The mtree file issues are definitely a problem.

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Laptop Running Hot
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

Greetings, Lately (the past week or two?), my laptop has been running much hotter than usual, as experienced by my lap and reported by conky and sensors, even after a reboot and before I start X11, and when just idling. Previously, it had been running around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius. Now, it's more like 55 to 60. If I shut the lid and walk away for 10 or 15 minutes, it cools down. But when I open the lid and don't do anything else, the temperature rises again in a few minutes. This happens even when top reports 100% idle, and uptime shows the load average at 0.1±. After multiple lockups attributed to the nvidia 550 drivers a few months ago, I use nvidia-535xx-dkms. I run pacman -Syu daily. Sometimes, problems like this go away with the next kernel or driver(s) update, but that hasn't happened. I would include logs and version numbers, but I'm not sure where to start. :-) I checked the BBS, but I didn't immediately't see anything related. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan

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this happens with pacman too
by Jude DaShiell 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

:: Synchronizing package databases... core downloading... jenux downloading... extra downloading... multilib downloading... :: [1mSearching AUR for updates...[0m :: [1mSearching databases for updates...[0m :: 1 package to upgrade/install. 1 extra/bind 9.18.28-1 -> 9.20.0-1 ==> Packages to exclude: (eg: "1 2 3", "1-3", "^4" or repo name) -> Excluding packages may cause partial upgrades and break systems ==> Sync Explicit (1): bind-9.20.0-1 :: Synchronizing package databases... core downloading... jenux downloading... extra downloading... multilib downloading... :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) bind-9.20.0-1 Total Download Size: 2.02 MiB Total Installed Size: 6.86 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.19 MiB :: Retrieving packages... bind-9.20.0-1-x86_64 downloading... checking keyring... checking package integrity... loading package files... checking for file conflicts... checking available disk space... :: Processing package changes... upgrading bind... ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so.0.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1.0.3 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so.2.2.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so.1.0.4 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6.4.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so.2.0.7 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1.4.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so.1.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so.2.0.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so.2.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so.0.0.6 is empty, not checked. :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/4) Creating system user accounts... (2/4) Reloading system manager configuration... (3/4) Creating temporary files... (4/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... What I cannot figure out is why all of the ldconfig errors on empty files. Is something broken and if so what should be done to fix 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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Plasma upgrade from 5 to 6
by Andy Pieters 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Hi all I have finally gotten round to updating my rolling release installation after a long delay. One of the final cycles in this catch-up [1] pulled in an upgrade from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 Some things stopped working for me after that and I want to share with you what and how I solved them. 1. Graphical environment doesn't start because video driver is not loaded (dkms) I have a GTX 750 and even though dkms does a successful compilation and installation, this driver no longer automatically loads during startup. There may be other, better solutions, but what I did is [I'm using sddm] is: systemctl edit --full sddm in the section [Service] add an entry ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/modprobe nvidia-drm save and quit then reboot 2. no RDP in krcd -> install freerdp2 3. Fish works in kwrite and kate, etc, but not in develop -> install kio5_extras [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_restore_all_pack…

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Re: Package RSS feed problems?
by David C. Rankin 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

> Arch Admins, > > The last package update notification I received was xdg-desktop-portal-kde > 6.1.3-1 x86_64 sent Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:11:46 +0000 and arriving Fri, 19 Jul > 2024 05:16:15 -0500. > > Is there an issue with the RSS servers or did they change IP addresses > then? (which may have them blocked at the firewall) Disregard, Sorry for the noise. They started updating automagically again in Tbird? Go figure. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: libassuan 3.0.1-1 pulled from testing after crashing pacman
by Genes Lists 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 09:29 +0200, David Runge wrote: > Hi all, > ... > have to use an installation media or static pacman to get back to > 3.0.0-1. > ... > David > Hey David - no worries these kind of things happen on occasion and it was only in testing, where users of which should mostly know how to recover from an occasional issue cropping up. It does bring up a question and am interested how you think about it. While pretty rare, there certainly can be occasions where an official static pacman could be pretty helpful to have. Its fairly non-trivial to build a static pacman since we don't have archive libs readily available for the 38 packages it depends on (at least that I can see). I wonder given the build tooling if : a) providing static pacman package would be a possibility? or b) provding 'archive' lib packages might be doable e.g. glibc-archive, openssl-archive, gpgme-archive ... Both seem painful: - (a) means either do (b) first or build archive versions of all 38 shared libs as part of pacman build. The latter approach is one taken by the AUR package. - (b) means changing the PKGBUILD of quite a lot of packages - and if we go this route then should it be done for other lib packages as well? Pro: While it's rarely needed it could be very useful. i.e. Protect against a Low frequency but high impact risk. Con: - A lot of work - is it worthwhile doing? - Can always boot install media for non-remote systems or use AUR package - its a lot of work for very small gain. thank you for all the work you and other devs/package managers do to keep Arch "-The-" stellar distro! -- Gene

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Package RSS feed problems?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jul '24

21 Jul '24

Arch Admins, The last package update notification I received was xdg-desktop-portal-kde 6.1.3-1 x86_64 sent Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:11:46 +0000 and arriving Fri, 19 Jul 2024 05:16:15 -0500. Is there an issue with the RSS servers or did they change IP addresses then? (which may have them blocked at the firewall) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Steam Accessibility
by Storm Dragon 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Howdy, In Arch, Steam is completely inaccessible with Orca, nothing reads at all. It was fixed briefly last year, but broke again after about two weeks. I figured this was the company's doing, but I recently found out that it works on Void Linux. I have a couple of friends who run Void, and they can access it just fine with the --bigpicture flag. The weird thing is, as far as I know, it only works in Void, not any other distro. I know it's not working in Debian, Ubuntu, Slint, and Fedora. My question is, does anyone know what Void is doing different from literally everyone else to get this working, and is it something I can replicate in Arch? Just for the sake of completeness, I do have all the accessibility variables I know about enabled: # Accessibility variables export ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 I also have lib32-at-spi: multilib/lib32-at-spi2-core 2.52.0-1 (170.5 KiB 648.7 KiB) (Installed) Thanks, Storm -- ⛈🐲

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Fwd: Resignation
by David C. Rankin 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Florian, A sincere Thank You for your efforts. Arch is the better for it. Just checked and you beat me by 5 months. Original install date 2009-03-08.... Sad to see you go, but life does call. Good luck with what the future holds. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Resignation Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:14:27 +0200 From: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Hi, Sadly I have no longer had the time necessary to properly handle master key holder and packager duties for a while now. I don't feel like it's fair to you guys and our users to keep this up any longer so I'm officially resigning now. Most pressing topics that come to mind for someone wanting to take over: * I hold a master key, so you'll need to find a new holder for that * perl 5.40 update * various bug reports on Gitlab for my packages * a few flagged packages Thanks for all the nice memories since "[2008-10-19 14:38] installed filesystem (2008.03-2)". While I will no longer be involved in Arch development, I'll still continue to use it and this nice, old install will also continue to live on. Hope to see you guys around :) Florian -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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the archlinux torrent
by Jude DaShiell 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

Having downloaded the torrent and burned the iso to a dvd I verified the torrent using sha256sum but apparently that wasn't enough since the installation broke part of the way through which means I ought to have used the gpg verification that is available online. What is done with those asc files to verify a download? I used lftp with no options on the command line and maybe that was also a mistake on my part. -- 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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How to start mplayer with radio (.pls) url over ssh and have it play?
by David C. Rankin 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

All, I know little about audio, but I'm trying to help my kids configure a radio stream. I normally use this media box via X desktop, but wanted to just play the stream via mplayer starting it over ssh -- that didn't work no matter what -ao I specify. However, if I open an x-term on the box from the desktop and enter the same url there - presto, the sound plays, and everything works. Since I normally use this box headless, how do I start mplayer over ssh and have the sound play on the remote box? Entering the following through the x-term from the desktop works just fine: mplayer -loop 0 -playlist http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/KDAQHD2.pls (it's classical) Is there a config somewhere where I can tell it to start mplayer the same from ssh as it does when started from the desktop? Following troubleshooting from the Sound Wiki, running 'pactl list sinks' over ssh while the desktop is playing the audio stream, I get: $ pactl list sinks Sink #1 State: RUNNING Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 19 Mute: no Volume: front-left: 41944 / 64% / -11.63 dB, front-right: 41944 / 64% / -11.63 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor Latency: 29816 usec, configured 31247 usec Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" <snip> Can I use this information when starting mplayer over ssh to have it play sound through that boxes (the remotes) speakers? I've tried '-ao alsa' when starting over ssh, but still no sound. If I missed something in the wiki -- I missed it. Any help appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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openssh 9.8p1-1
by Genes Lists 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

The new openssh works just fine and this is just a little note to those of us with remote machines. After updating both client and remote machine(s) its important to restart sshd. If you don't restart sshd, and then attempt to ssh into the remote, it may fail with: kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer -- Gene

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JDK/JRE and older Java versions
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Hello, as a Java developer, I sometimes need to do compatibility checking using older versions, often using JRE, while I need a JDK for development. When I tried to update arch linux now, I found I cannot start any update because the update is blocked by setting JRE and JDK as conflicting packages. I tried to only install JDK 21, but the update is still being blocked because of my older versions of the JRE. Why do You block any software installation? I don't like the idea to enforce me to use any specific software, or to remove any specific one. Is there any possibility to remove the lock-in? Kind regards, Peter

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git server changes - how to allow https AND ssh now that /srv/git/xxx.git must be owned by http?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

All, After recent git update, read only repos hosted on a local Apache server could no longer pull over https. (gitweb remained fine) Repositories closed read/write over ssh were fine. On the server the repositories under /srv/git were owned david:david (me). However, after the git change, git refused to serve over https unless the directories under /srv/git were owned by http. Fine, change made - but now repos cloned read/write over ssh fail because the directory under /srv/git is no longer owned by me. How do you make git repositories hosted on my local server allow clone/pull over https AND allow me to still close read/write over ssh? Catch 22, unless /srv/git/xxx.git is http:http, https fails unless /srv/git/xxx.git is david:http, ssh fails Anybody else caught be this? The server is configured per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Git_server and the scm-git.com links. The "Note: Make sure that Apache can read and write to your repositories." seems incomplete. It's not just "read and write" it is "must own" for https and "can't own" for ssh? How to solve? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Request to cherry-pick commit fixing RMB issue for Non-Removable Media in Linux Kernel 6.10-rc4
by J. Gerhards 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hi all, as of linux v6.9.*, a regression has been introduced where the removable media bit (RMB) was set for all devices that are hot-pluggable. The bit does not accurately indicate that a device is removable. Therefore, this issue has been addressed and fixed in commit `a6a75e`[0] which was merged under the tag 6.10-rc4[1]. Is it possible to cherry-pick `a6a75e` and release an update prior to the full 6.10 release? Thank you for your consideration. Best regards J. Gerhards [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?… [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/171856227442.1143.13572753599648338171.pr-track…

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can't generate key pair
by Jude DaShiell 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

gpg2 --full-gen-key breaks shortly after pass key is entered twice generating a Timeout error. I tried this with complex and simple keys and gpg2 times out in both cases. Would a configuration change help here? -- 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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linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?
by David C. Rankin 15 Jun '24

15 Jun '24

Devs, Tonight's update to linux-6.9.4 and the firmware seems to have broken the monitor type/size detection on Arch. I have a older Dell box I use for a media center connected to a Samsung 59" TV. Arch has always properly detected it and configured itself for full HD resolution. After update tonight, it no longer does that. Instead both the console (I use startx) and fluxbox (or any other desktop) boots and starts at 800x600 or so -- which is quite unusable. Has something changed in the kernel image generation or in the new firmware that has caused this? I'm not sure what the dmesg output was before, it always just worked, but now I get: [ 1.574525] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console [ 1.600709] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3324.978 MHz [ 1.600721] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2fed77ea564, max_idle_ns: 440795278175 ns [ 1.600739] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc [ 1.608956] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 1.608963] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 1.609861] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Initialized overlay support. [ 1.610256] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20230929 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1 [ 1.630543] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 1.630545] fbcon: Deferring console take-over [ 1.630547] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device This box is grub2/MBR, so if something changed there, that may also be the issue. Anybody have an idea what changed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Nextclount 29.0.2 update - /etc/webapps/nextcloud/.htaccess.pacnew missing Arch webapp config?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Devs, Nextcloud 29.0.2 update was released today and the /etc/webapps/.htaccess.pacnew config file is missing the entire config for the Archlinux webapp install. Applying the .htaccess.pacnew results in not being able to access the server with a forbidden error: [Thu Jun 06 20:58:10.130910 2024] [autoindex:error] [pid 17794] [client 192.168.6.104:52498] AH01276: Cannot serve directory /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/apps/dashboard/: No matching DirectoryIndex (index.php,index.html) found, and server-generated directory index forbidden by Options directive The upper part is the same, but the lines from the bottom are removed: --- .htaccess.20240523 2024-06-06 20:55:04.132401657 -0500 +++ .htaccess.20240606 2024-06-06 08:57:25.000000000 -0500 @@ -108,29 +108,3 @@ AddDefaultCharset utf-8 Options -Indexes -#### DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOVE THIS LINE #### - -ErrorDocument 403 /nextcloud/index.php/error/403 -ErrorDocument 404 /nextcloud/index.php/error/404 -<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> - Options -MultiViews - RewriteRule ^core/js/oc.js$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1] - RewriteRule ^core/preview.png$ index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1] - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(css|js|mjs|svg|gif|png|html|ttf|woff2?|ico|jpg|jpeg|map|webm|mp4|mp3|ogg|wav|flac|wasm|tflite)$ - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/ajax/update\.php - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/core/img/(favicon\.ico|manifest\.json)$ - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(cron|public|remote|status)\.php - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/ocs/v(1|2)\.php - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/robots\.txt - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/(ocs-provider|updater)/ - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/(acme-challenge|pki-validation)/.* - RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/richdocumentscode(_arm64)?/proxy.php$ - RewriteRule . index.php [PT,E=PATH_INFO:$1] - RewriteBase /nextcloud - <IfModule mod_env.c> - SetEnv front_controller_active true - <IfModule mod_dir.c> - DirectorySlash off - </IfModule> - </IfModule> -</IfModule> Restoring the .htaccess from the 5/23 update to 29.0.1 fixes the issue. Is this intended and are we supposed to reconfigure for this point release in some other way? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nextcloud is silent and there was no install notice during the pacman update? If I'm supposed to reconfigure something and put the webapp config for Arch somewhere else, just let me know where. The nextcould forum isn't useful for the webapp install approach. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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virtualbox 7.0.16 and Windows 11 guest
by Ralf Mardorf 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Hi, today I removed virtualbox6.1-bin 6.1.50 and installed virtualbox 7.0.16, because 6.1.50 doesn't work anymore [1] and I got rid of fixing virtualbox 6+ again and again. Doing a first short test a Windows 10 guest seems to run, but a Windows 11 guest seems to cause issues, at least a shutdown of the Windows 11 guest with _not_ updated guest additions didn't finish and locked the host or rather it was possible to push Ctrl+Alt+F2 and to run pkill VirtualBoxVM to get back a responding Arch Linux host. For other reasons I'm restoring another backup of Windows 11, which will take more than an hour, since the the vdi's size is > 700 GiB, so in the meantime I want to gather information. I will take a look at the settings mentioned by the Arch Wiki [2], [3]. Are there more settings I can check? It's an Intel CPU wit integrated GPU. • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ hwinfo --cpu | sort -u | grep Model Model: 6.191.5 "13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-13100" • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ hwinfo --memory | grep Size Memory Size: 32 GB Regards, Ralf [1] "Could you still start Windows guests with virtualbox6.1-bin 6.1.50-1 or do you also experience guru meditations? I'm currently trying extra/virtualbox 7.0.16-1, which gets rid of the gurus, but so far a Windows 11 guest is not doing well." - https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/virtualbox6.1-bin#comment-968033 [2] "4.11.1 Creating the virtual machine A VirtualBox virtual machine must be manually created. As of now do not add any storage device any disk to the virtual machine, it will be done manually later. Configure the virtual machine with the following settings (settings panel can be opened by clicking the "Settings" button in the main toolbar): View: System: Tab: Motherboard: mark Enable I/O APIC; mark Enable EFI; mark Hardware Clock in UTC Time if is your case. Tab: Processor: mark Enable PAE/NX; mark Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V; Tab: Acceleration: Choose the paravirtualization interface Hyper-V from the drop down menu; mark Enable Nested Paging. Optionally you can enable also the following settings: View: Display Tab: Screen mark Enable 3D Acceleration. Note that it could cause glitches. Note: The Hyper-V setting is not required in order for the system to operate correctly, but it may help avoid licensing issues." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualBox#Creating_the_virtual_machine [3] "5.22 Random freezing in guests with Intel GPU With Intel CPU and graphics, allocating more processors for the guest can lower render performance, thus cause random freezing. Allocating less processors can help." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VirtualBox#Random_freezing_in_guests_with_…

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qemu, aarch64, binfmt: can the execution speed be improved?
by SET 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Hello, I followed the instructions at https://nerdstuff.org/posts/ 2020/2020-003_simplest_way_to_create_an_arm_chroot/ and successfully chroot'ed in the generic aarch64 image available at https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/generic on a host running x86_64 arch. I installed qemu-user-static and qemu-user-static-binfmt, restarted systemd- binfmt as advised and the chroot worked using arch-chroot. The slow execution speed has been surprising, I would say roughly 10 times slower than on native x86_64 (building a library, 53 mins instead of < 5). I understand that there's an overhead translation instructions for another architecture. qemu is always advertised as a *fast* emulator, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something. I wish to know if there's some way to speed up execution time in the chroot, some magic configuration to apply. That's my first attempt in this direction. Thank you for any input.

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gitlab OTP - Invalid authenticator code. (is something wrong?)
by David C. Rankin 31 May '24

31 May '24

Devs, Today my gitlab.archlinux.org login (after providing username and password) prompts for the OTP code and always responds "Invalid authenticator code." I've not had any problems for months. Has there be a change or am I just lucky? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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jellyfin-server and jellyfin-web packages seem unmaintained
by Florian Wetzel 27 May '24

27 May '24

Hi there, I am not sure how to handle this problem, but I know that I am not the only person that has this problem. Currently, the packages /jellyfin-server/ and /jellyfin-web /are one stable release (10.8.13 -> 10.9.0) and multiple bugfix versions (latest version is 10.9.3) behind. While 10.9.0 was released "just" two weeks ago, this still brings some new features that might be required by other packages. What would be the appropriate action if the current maintainer does not release a update soon? Regards, Florian

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Nextcloud 29 update, web server cannot resolve /.well-known/webfinger
by David C. Rankin 20 May '24

20 May '24

The following new error/warning is received in the Admin settings after upgrade: Your web server is not properly set up to resolve `.well-known` URLs, failed on: `/.well-known/webfinger` For more details see the documentation ↗. The documentation suggests adding rewrite rules, e.g. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^\.well-known/carddav /nextcloud/remote.php/dav [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^\.well-known/caldav /nextcloud/remote.php/dav [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^\.well-known/webfinger /nextcloud/index.php/.well-known/webfinger [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^\.well-known/nodeinfo /nextcloud/index.php/.well-known/nodeinfo [R=301,L] </IfModule> https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/29/admin_manual/issues/general_troublesho… However, adding the settings to httpd-local.conf and reloading makes no difference. Note: caldav and carddav are handled in /etc/webapps/nextcloud/.htaccess Why isn't webfinger handled there? This has to be set by the package as modifying the file manually triggers a hash violation on the modified file. (that can be worked around, but it's a hack) Is this something that needs to be raised as a bug? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ipset v7.21 update - package stop / start exits with failure - but ipset is still running?
by David C. Rankin 20 May '24

20 May '24

Devs, ipset was updated after a recent minor bug with save was fixed. The updated package was installed today. Restarting fails with an error code due to: May 16 14:14:31 valkyrie ipset[62200]: ipset v7.21: Set cannot be destroyed: it is in use by a kernel component May 16 14:14:31 valkyrie systemd[1]: ipset.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE The start process then fails: May 16 14:14:31 valkyrie ipset[62203]: ipset v7.21: Error in line 1: Set cannot be created: set with the same name already exists May 16 14:14:31 valkyrie systemd[1]: ipset.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE The result is fail2ban is left shutdown after the attempted stop of ipset and its failure to start. Is this a new bug, or is something else wrong? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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1) No documentation for pacman --ask option 2) pacman gitlab page refers to a 404
by u34＠net9.cf 07 May '24

07 May '24

1) Any point opening a bug about pacman --ask option not documented? [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35901](https://bbs.archlinux.org… is from 2007. 2) Quoting https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman Please also check open issues in our [historical bug tracker](https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=3) before opening a new issue here. Shouldn't the url point to the new archive? -- u34

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hibernation stopped working
by Frank 04 May '24

04 May '24

Good evening, I have an up-to-date (daily updates) Arch system running Hyprland and since yesterday or the day before yesterday hibernation stopped working. Kernel version is 6.8.8-arch1-1 I have the following line in my hypridle.conf: listener { timeout = 1800 # 30min on-timeout = systemctl suspend-then-hibernate # suspend pc } This used to work flawlessly. When system is hibernating now it's crashing. This is the journal output: 9:27:11 systemd: Stopped target Bluetooth Support. 09:27:11 kernel: PM: hibernation: hibernation entry 09:27:11 systemd-sleep: Performing sleep operation 'hibernate'... 09:27:11 bluetoothd: Battery Provider Manager destroyed 09:27:11 systemd-sleep: System returned from sleep operation 'suspend- then-hibernate'. 09:27:11 bluetoothd: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.41 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink/aptx_hd 09:27:11 dbus-broker: A security policy denied :1.5 to send method call /midi/profile:org.blue z.GattProfile1.Release to :1.42. 09:27:11 bluetoothd: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.41 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource/ldac 09:27:11 kernel: PM: suspend exit 09:27:11 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware Version: 132-3.24 09:27:11 kernel: done. 09:27:11 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Bootloader revision 0.3 build 0 week 24 2017 09:27:11 kernel: Restarting tasks ... 09:27:11 kernel: OOM killer enabled. 09:27:11 kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: ring jpeg_dec uses VM inv eng 6 on hub 8 09:27:11 kernel: [drm] JPEG decode initialized successfully. 09:27:11 kernel: amdgpu 0000:04:00.0: amdgpu: SMU is resumed successfully! 09:27:11 kernel: [drm] reserve 0x400000 from 0xf41f800000 for PSP TMR 09:27:11 kernel: usb 1-4.4: reset full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd 09:27:11 kernel: ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) 09:27:11 kernel: ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) 09:27:11 kernel: nvme nvme0: 12/0/0 default/read/poll queues 09:27:11 kernel: [drm] PSP is resuming... 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: EC: event unblocked 09:27:11 kernel: CPU15 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 15 APIC 0xf 09:27:11 kernel: CPU14 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 14 APIC 0xe 09:27:11 kernel: CPU13 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 13 APIC 0xd 09:27:11 kernel: CPU12 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 12 APIC 0xc 09:27:11 kernel: CPU11 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 11 APIC 0xb 09:27:11 kernel: CPU10 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 10 APIC 0xa 09:27:11 kernel: CPU9 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 9 APIC 0x9 9:27:11 kernel: CPU9 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 9 APIC 0x9 09:27:11 kernel: CPU8 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 8 APIC 0x8 09:27:11 kernel: CPU7 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 7 APIC 0x7 09:27:11 kernel: CPU6 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 6 APIC 0x6 09:27:11 kernel: CPU5 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 5 APIC 0x5 09:27:11 kernel: CPU4 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 4 APIC 0x4 09:27:11 kernel: CPU3 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 3 APIC 0x3 09:27:11 kernel: CPU2 is up 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 2 APIC 0x2 09:27:11 kernel: CPU1 is up 09:27:11 kernel: Spectre V2 : Update user space SMT mitigation: STIBP always-on 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: FW issue: working around C-state latencies out of order 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1 09:27:11 kernel: Enabling non-boot CPUs ... 09:27:11 kernel: LVT offset 0 assigned for vector 0x400 09:27:11 kernel: AMD-Vi: Virtual APIC enabled 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: PM: Restoring platform NVS memory 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: CPU 15 is now offline 09:27:11 kernel: Spectre V2 : Update user space SMT mitigation: STIBP off 09:27:11 kernel: smpboot: CPU 14 is now offline 09:27:11 kernel: Disabling non-boot CPUs ... 09:27:11 kernel: ACPI: PM: Saving platform NVS memory 09:27:11 kernel: [drm] psp gfx command UNLOAD_TA(0x2) failed and response status is (0x117) 09:27:11 kernel: printk: Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug) 09:27:11 kernel: Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.000 seconds) 09:27:11 kernel: OOM killer disabled. 09:27:11 kernel: Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds) 08:57:09 kernel: Filesystems sync: 0.006 seconds 08:57:09 kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep) 08:57:09 systemd-sleep: Performing sleep operation 'suspend'... 08:57:09 systemd: Starting System Suspend then Hibernate... Any idea what's going wrong here? THX Frank

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Why is apt in the Repo?
by Chime Hart 03 May '24

03 May '24

Hi All: I was sure surprised to be able to install apt, however, in /etc/apt/sources.list is empty. The man-page only seems to make references to Debian versions. So, inquiring minds wanna know. Right this second I don't remember which I used, pacman or yay? Thanks so much in advance Chime

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re/fwd: Archlinux Newsfeeds Broken -- Or am I just lucky?
by David C. Rankin 02 May '24

02 May '24

> All, > > The Arch newsfeeds for Arch Linux Recent news and Arch Linux Recent > packages (e.g. https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/) are no longer > delivering to me. Is there are problem with the news feeds or is there > something that would just stop Thunderbird from getting them? > > I haven't changed anything and clicking on the "Validate" in the account > config in tbird brings up the page showing they are valid, but I am not > getting anything anymore? > > Is it just me? I check the archlinux.org site, but found no notices? Feed is working fine. It looks like it was just me. My feed was out from 4/29/24 at 14:42 (last message from feed) until 5/1/24 at 1:34. (which missed the 6.8.8 kernel going into core I was waiting on) I'll chock this up to a CSOK issue. I've got no other explanation. ** CSOK (cat stepping on keyboard...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager
by Ralf Mardorf 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hi, when running extra/audacity from command line it runs into issues, but doesn't provide any output and it seems not to start. When running extra/tenacity from command line it shows that there is an issue with duplicated plugins. It ignores the duplicated plugins and after a while it does start. The culprit is a link. $ /bin/ls -ld /usr/lib{,64} drwxr-xr-x 460 root root 524288 May 1 17:37 /usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 7 20:02 /usr/lib64 -> lib "1.5 Does Arch follow the Linux Foundation's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)? Arch Linux follows the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager. See file-hierarchy(7) for an explanation of each directory along with their designations. In particular, /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin are symbolic links to /usr/bin, and /lib and /lib64 are symbolic links to /usr/lib." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions#Does_Arch_follo…'s_Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard_(FHS)? What should I do? Report a bug against a package or something else? Regards, Ralf

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Archlinux Newsfeeds Broken -- Or am I just lucky?
by David C. Rankin 01 May '24

01 May '24

All, The Arch newsfeeds for Arch Linux Recent news and Arch Linux Recent packages (e.g. https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/) are no longer delivering to me. Is there are problem with the news feeds or is there something that would just stop Thunderbird from getting them? I haven't changed anything and clicking on the "Validate" in the account config in tbird brings up the page showing they are valid, but I am not getting anything anymore? Is it just me? I check the archlinux.org site, but found no notices? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What's with the kernels that seem to stay stuck in core-testing longer than they used to?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '24

27 Apr '24

Devs, I've noticed kernels stay stuck in core-testing longer than they used to. In the past (unless there was some minor version change), they usually stayed in testing a day or less. The past couple have lingered nearly a week and linux 6.8.7.arch1-2 x86_64 has been there a few days? That's great to ensure there are no issue with other packages that depend on building drivers from the kernel, but does raise the question for the curios -- "What's up?" I ask for scheduling purposes. I monitor the newsfeeds from the package repos and when I see a new kernel coming, I try and set aside a convenient time for the update/reboot. Past few kernels, I've done that only to find - they are still in testing. Not a complaint, just a curiosity. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Building Rust kernel modules - target.json missing
by L. Rose 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build the example Rust kernel modules from kernel source [1] on Arch Linux. I use a simple Makefile to build them out of tree: obj-m += rust_minimal.o all: make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules However, the build can't find some Rust metadata: make -C /lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build M=/home/lukas/Downloads/linux-6.8.7-arch1/samples/rust modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' RUSTC [M] /home/lukas/Downloads/linux-6.8.7-arch1/samples/rust/rust_minimal.o error: target file "./scripts/target.json" does not exist Indeed, there is no target.json in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/scripts/, so I thought, maybe I need to use a special kernel with Rust support. But building linux-rust from the AUR fails with the same error message: Installing Rust files... install: cannot stat 'scripts/target.json': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package_linux-rust-headers(). Aborting... And even the default kernel is passing the Linux kernel Rust support check script as suggested in the kernel docs [2]: lukas@Lukas-AMD:rust$ make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build rustavailable make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' Rust is available! make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' So what am I doing wrong? Is the Arch Linux kernel currently missing Rust metadata required for Rust support, like target.json? Or am I missing some important prerequisites here? Any suggestions welcome! Thanks, lukaro [1] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust-next/samples/rust [2] https://docs.kernel.org/6.8/rust/quick-start.html

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PKGBUILD: nodejs
by Pocket 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

I am trying to build nodejs in a chroot using pkgctl repo clone --protocol=https nodejs pushd nodejs makechrootpkg -c -u -r "$CHROOT" -- --skippgpcheck popd It fails at this point ==> Entering fakeroot environment... chmod: cannot access '/startdir/pkg': No such file or directory I don't have startdir defined in the makepkg.conf file nor have I defined it anywhere Why is this failing? -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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building plasma-wayland-protocols
by Pocket 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Trying to build plasma-wayland-protocols This is the error I am getting What executable is it looking for? I have built the entire qt5/qt6 stack except for qt5-ukui-platformtheme plasma-wayland-protocols is a dependency of qt5-ukui-platformtheme So I am stuck here Can anyone shed light on this issue? ==> Starting build()... -- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0 -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped -- Detecting C compile features -- Detecting C compile features - done -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped -- Detecting CXX compile features -- Detecting CXX compile features - done -- -- No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PREFIX -- Installing in the same prefix as Qt, adopting their path scheme. -- No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PREFIX CMake Error at /usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQueryQt.cmake:84 (message): No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS as required Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs5.cmake:255 (ecm_query_qt) /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake:15 (include) CMakeLists.txt:17 (include) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo password
by Frederic Bezies 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hello. I noticed that pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo. Every time I tried to enter my password with a sudo command, it tells me my password is incorrect. Of course, it is not. The "fix" was to downgrade to pam 1.6.1-1. Hope it helps! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com Blog: https://fredericbezies-ep.fr/blog/

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Re: [arch-announce] Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
by Genes Lists 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 18:12 +0000, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau wrote: > The [vm.max_map_count][1] paramater will be increased from the > default `65530` value to `1048576`. > > This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues > for a number of memory intensive applications, Performance improvement is unlikely but could allow something to run that otherwise would not. The lkml comment [1] is worth a read and includes : "To be clear, what you are doing here is akin to adding more memory to your system when there is a memory leak. This is not the solution you should be pushing. Ironically, this is using more memory and performing worse than it should. At best, the limit increase is a workaround for buggy programs." As Robin said, setting the max higher is probably benign - and only impacts a system running the problematic software (games). Nonetheless, it is very simple to change it to whatever value you want with your own prefs dropped into /etc/sysctl.d/xxx.conf gene [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/566168554.272637693.1710968734203.Jav aMail.root@zimbra54- e10.priv.proxad.net/T/#m1905a48f415bc6e8069a8fe53dec44bc311571f2 -- Gene

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PAM 1.6 breaks limits.conf parsing
by Simone Baratta 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

Howdy, Arch community! Today Ardour warned me that I had a ulimit enforced for locked memory, and indeed I was surprised to find that `ulimit -l` reported 8192 for my user (which I configured to `unlimited` a long time ago). After a bit of investigation, it turned out that this is a bug introduced by PAM 1.6, which fails to read my limits.conf file due to the extra whitespace separating entries: ``` @audio - memlock unlimited ``` This makes pam_limits.so fail with the following: ``` pam_limits(login:session): wrong limit value ' unlimited' for limit type '-' ``` Looks like this issue was introduced with [1], and indeed I can confirm that it's fixed by [2] which references the first commit. Is there any chance we can get a 1.6.0-5 update with this patch in? This version is already in core, and it's a very subtle issue which is likely to be unnoticed by many but come with a lot of (possibly security-relevant) side effects. [1] https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/eec4358a49dc0d6d699532965f453… [2] https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/9228077d762fc94ebc8d9fb4edfe9… Thanks! -- Simone

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Building qt-5 packages from PKGBUILD
by Pocket 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

I have a project where I am building arch packages for raspberry pi's 4/5. Building the base and devtools with all there dependencies I have 2477 completed with some packages being complete failures. In the qt5-* PKGBUILD most fail due to the wrong directory For example in qt5-tools: Build function qmake ../${_pkgfqn} CONFIG+=fat-static-lto should be qmake ../kde-${_pkgfqn} CONFIG+=fat-static-lto ^^^^ and in the package function cd ../${_pkgfqn} should be cd ../kde-${_pkgfqn} ^^^^ It appears that many of these packages that have this issue and I have not found the all as I am just being to build these. -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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An Intro from A Debian User
by Chime Hart 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Well, 2nd try, as I must have posted to the subscription address instead. I am still running Debian SID on my main machine with a screen-reader, Speakup, as I am totally blind. Meanwhile, I wanted to try a newer screen-reader, called Fenrir on a laptop. So, we switched over to Arch. While at times I find the 2 package managers confusing, I like an aspect of a much newer kernel. An issue, I cannot find a smaller font which will provide many more lines. So far only 67, but when I was in Debian with this same laptop, I had 135. Can any1 please suggest a font which will do the trick? Storm, who maintains Fenrir says I would need a font which supports utf8, so Fenrir will read. I am having glowing support from Storm as well as Didier, an author of Slint, another accessable distro. Thanks so much in advance Chime

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ipset enabled fails to restore /etc/ipset.conf
by David C. Rankin 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

All, I've setup a blocklist (hash:net) a whitelist (hash:ip) and a whitelistnet (hash:net) with ipset. It works quite well added to the stateful firewall. However ipset restore fails: 18:02 valkyrie:~> scs ipset × ipset.service - Loading IP Sets Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ipset.service; enabled; preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2024-04-10 17:06:05 CDT; 56min ago Process: 1399 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ipset -f /etc/ipset.conf restore (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 1399 (code=exited, status=2) CPU: 3ms Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting Loading IP Sets... Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie ipset[1399]: ipset v7.20: No command specified: unknown argument Name: Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie ipset[1399]: Try `ipset help' for more information. Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie systemd[1]: ipset.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie systemd[1]: ipset.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Apr 10 17:06:05 valkyrie systemd[1]: Failed to start Loading IP Sets. The sets cannot manually be restored with ipset restore (or ipset restore -file ipset.conf). It results in the same error: # ipset restore <ipset.conf ipset v7.20: No command specified: unknown argument Name: Try `ipset help' for more information. As does: # ipset restore -f ipset.conf ipset v7.20: No command specified: unknown argument Name: Try `ipset help' for more information. The content of the ipset save > ipset.conf file is the same as ipset list, and looks fine, e.g. # cat /etc/ipset.conf Name: blocklist Type: hash:net Revision: 7 Header: family inet hashsize 1024 maxelem 65536 bucketsize 12 initval 0xf3661058 Size in memory: 8856 References: 0 Number of entries: 194 Members: 167.94.138.0/24 199.45.154.0/23 43.130.0.0/18 43.129.192.0/18 43.157.32.0/24 <snip> Name: whitelist Type: hash:ip Revision: 6 Header: family inet hashsize 1024 maxelem 65536 bucketsize 12 initval 0xfa0e1f24 Size in memory: 1816 References: 0 Number of entries: 42 Members: 212.187.231.66 93.93.130.214 151.101.129.91 91.193.113.65 87.238.57.227 93.93.130.133 <snip> Name: whitelistnet Type: hash:net Revision: 7 Header: family inet hashsize 1024 maxelem 65536 bucketsize 12 initval 0xc9e0aa3d Size in memory: 504 References: 0 Number of entries: 1 Members: 151.101.129.0/24 The bug mentioned in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ipset was not hit. Even though ipset failed to load the sets, iptables started normally. After manually re-creating the tables and restoring the iptables rules, iptables is again using the sets: # iptables -nvL --line-numbers Chain INPUT (policy DROP 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 0 0 ACCEPT 0 -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set whitelistnet src 2 0 0 ACCEPT 0 -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set whitelist src 3 0 0 DROP 0 -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 match-set blocklist src 4 0 0 f2b-dovecot 6 -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 multiport dports 110,995,143,993,587,465,4190 <snip> I've followed the wiki and the man-page (and help) command to restore the files manually, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas what is going on? I'm brand new to ipset, so I don't have much experience to draw from. Anybody else seeing this or see a reason ipset isn't being restored on startup by ipset.service? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Changing of archive packages to git tags
by Aaron Liu 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Ey, Recently, a bunch of packages such as cowsay have switched to pulling from a git tag away from downloading from the /archive/ path of GitHub. Since downloading GitHub's archives are guaranteed to have the exact same contents as pulling from the tags, with the added benefit of not pulling the .git folder, is there any benefit to this? To my knowledge, the problematic xz tarballs were under the /release/ path as uploaded artifacts, while the /archive/ download remained clean. Aaron

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Graphical session inside systemd-nspawn container
by FirstName LastName 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Hello, I am trying to run X from within a systemd-nspawn container - this is something I had set up and was running successfully about three years ago, but something seems to have changed in the meantime and I am not able to recreate this. I created the container and installed X related packages following the wiki article, and was able to boot into my container and create an unprivileged user. The script I am using to boot is (modified from my container of three years ago): xhost +local: sudo systemd-nspawn -b -D /mnt/extra/nspawn-containers/test \ --bind-ro=/tmp/.X11-unix \ --bind=/dev/dri \ --bind=/dev/shm \ --bind=/dev/nvidia0 \ --bind=/dev/nvidiactl \ --bind=/dev/nvidia-modeset \ --setenv=DISPLAY=:0.0 \ xhost - When I try to `startx` from within the container, however, I get this: /usr/lib/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console. I am not entirely sure where to go from here. Is there something incomplete in my configuration? Looking up the Xorg.wrap error message, I only find that X will not run on pseudo terminals, but I do not know what to do about this or if this is even the problem. Best regards, e

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Package java-environment-common-3-5 installs incorrect symlinks
by Wouffy The Dog 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Hello, I was cleaning my machine, trying to find broken symlinks. I scanned my `/bin` directory with `find -L /bin/ -type l -ls`, and it found broken links installed by `java-environment-common` (`pacman -Qqo /bin/javah` for example). Is it the case for some of you?

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Re: Arch Linux Rust packaging licensing problem
by Maarten de Vries 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

On 07-04-2024 13:10, Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) wrote: > Hi Arvid, > > Thanks for bringing this issue to my attention and your detailed email > about it. I'm CCïng our public development mailing list in this > response so our other maintainers get informed, too. > > I agree that Arch needs a solution for this eventually. Unlike Fedora > we do not package Rust libraries so I think we need some help from > Cargo for this. Preferably from upstream, but a third-party tool would > work as well. > > Ideally, I think there we would create a SPDX license expression from > the entire crate tree and then simplify it, e.g. to turn `(MIT) AND > (MPL-2.0 OR MIT) AND (MIT AND BSD-2-Clause) AND (MPL-2.0 OR > BSD-3-Clause)` into `MIT AND BSD-2-Clause AND (MPL-2.0 OR > BSD-3-Clause)`. Or perhaps even simpler if the tool had knowledge > about which licenses are covered by others. > > We could call such a tool in the `package()` function to set the > `license` for the package. > > I'm not sure how feasible this would be. Are crates required to use > SPDX expressions? > > Greetings, > Jan > > Hey, Replying on the general mailing list since the dev list is staff only. The license field of the pacman package is actually only secondary concern. Many libraries have a license that requires shipping the copyright information along with binary distributions (such as MIT and BSD licenses). This is more than just the name or SPDX identifier of the license. Usually, it is included at the top of a license file and it would look like this: > Copyright (c) 2024, Maarten de Vries There are tools to help with this: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-bundle-licenses https://crates.io/crates/cargo-lichking Personally I think having incomplete SPDX identifier in the pacman package is not in itself a license violation as long as the individual license files are shipped with the package. Although it would certainly be nice for tooling if the package information is complete too. Kind regards, Maarten de Vries

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pacman link
by james smith 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

the link[1] in the bugs part links to the old bugs it should link to the new one[2] [1]https://archlinux.org/pacman/ [2]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman

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postfix 3.9.0-1 - Worthy of "Latest News" note?? This will catch some people
by David C. Rankin 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Arch devs, The update to postfix 3.9.0-1 appears worthy of a note in "Latest News" on archlinux.org as it will require manual user intervention. The upgrade note in pacman with the upgrade is much appreciated, but removal of hash: database types and replacement by lmdb will require regeneration of all user databases. This is something I'd expect a "Latest News" note on for those managing servers running arch. Just a suggestion. If you think the note on update is sufficient, that's fine too. The only reason I bring it up is this isn't a normal manual intervention that is required (like mariadb update or postgres collation version updates) where people are on the lookout for manual steps. Other than needing to rebuild the databases and skim through and blend the .pacnew changes to main.cf, all goes fine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Proposal to increase the default vm.max_map_count value
by Genes Lists 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 12:29 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > On 4/2/24 11:59 AM, Robin Candau wrote: Couple of comments. * In lkml thread on same topic not everyone is on board with this [1] * Where to put this kind of thing Would it make sense to collect these kind of "system" settings, that dont clearly belong to a specific application, into a separate package (arch-system-settings or whatever). Admittedly at moment this would be very small package 🙂 [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/4/2/404 -- Gene

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Re: [arch-announce] The xz package has been backdoored
by Genes Lists 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

On Fri, 2024-03-29 at 18:55 +0000, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: David Runge wrote: > TL;DR: Upgrade your systems and container images **now**! > > Thanks for sharing. Truly an astounding revelation. This is a very, very sophisticated tool-chain attack along the lines of Ken Thompson's famous compiler trust example [1] Arch has been a strong advocate for reproducible builds [2] which can be part of a defense strategy [2]. I note that our xz package is marked as good in this regard [3]. I wonder what more we can reasonably do in the near term. Since git gives us decent tools to check what changed etc., I would imagine that can provide a stronger base on which to check things than working with tarballs or tarballs alone. This may have gone largely un-noticed for so long as people are probably more likely to check the source than the tarball itself. In this case, it seems, it was a primary developer doing the naughty - but they chose to leave the git repo alone and only infect the tarball. Question: -------- Would it make sense, therefore, to switch builds, where possible, away from tar files and instead pull directly from git source (signed tags where possible as usual etc)? Of course a git repo can also carry infections - perhaps taht's a little less likely. Or is this not worth the trouble? Gene [1] https://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack [2] https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:ReproducibleBuilds https://bootstrappable.org/ [3] https://reproducible.archlinux.org/ -- Gene

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Which Emacs package?
by Abraham S.A.H. 31 Mar '24

31 Mar '24

Hey fellows; There are many Emacs packages available across Arch repositories and AUR. I list some of them here, in no specific order: From Extra repository: * emacs * emacs-wayland * emacs-nativecomp * emacs-nox From AUR and some third party repositories: * emacs-lucid-nativecomp * emacs-git * chaotic-aur/emacs-pgtk-native-comp-git I do not explain any of them for details. My audience is the one who already tried them, so can give me some advice. I already have tried all of them and also read archwiki's Emacs article. The Lucid one seems like the most stable with the least bugs, but with an archaic UI and without dnd support, but I do not use those scroll/menu/toolbars. Please, if you have any experience, share it with me. -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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man.archlinux.org/man/xzmore.1.uk is not in English
by u34＠net9.cf 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

https://man.archlinux.org/man/xzmore.1.uk manual page is not in English. Visually, I would say my local copy, man -l /usr/share/man/uk/man1/xzmore.1.gz , and xzmore.1.uk at man.archlinux.org have the same text. I also have many warnings, for a lot of packages, from pacman -Qkk. One of these warnings is about /usr/share/man/uk/man1/xzmore.1.gz. The warning is despite the fact the actaul data for /usr/share/man/uk/man1/xzmore.1.gz seems to agree with zgreping /var/lib/pacman/local/xz-5.6.1-2/mtree for that file. Local pacman version is 6.0.2-9. -- u34

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Mensaje de ꪗꪮ𝘳ᦔꪖꪀ𝓽ꫀ
by ꪗꪮ𝘳ᦔꪖꪀ𝓽ꫀ 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

hello

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Why after rebuild do I still get "warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description"?
by David C. Rankin 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

All, In whatever changed a week or so ago, pacman gave "... unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description" for a slew of old packages left on my system from a decade of use. I've since gone back and removed all the packages and rebuilt the ones I need, but I still get a handful of errors for the 'normalize' package I've just built. What am I doing wrong? On cleaning the cache I get: 20:11 valkyrie:~> pms -c Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: normalize: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] removing unused sync repositories... The normalize package is the one I just built and updated from AUR, e.g 20:12 valkyrie:~> pmqi normalize Name : normalize Version : 0.7.7-7 Description : A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level Architecture : x86_64 URL : http://normalize.nongnu.org Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : audiofile libmad vorbis-tools lame flac mpg123 Optional Deps : None Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 118.49 KiB Packager : Unknown Packager Build Date : Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:07:32 PM CDT Install Date : Tue 19 Mar 2024 08:08:26 PM CDT Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : None The PKGBUILD is: 20:13 valkyrie:~> cat arch/pkg/bld/normalize/PKGBUILD # $Id: PKGBUILD 266875 2017-11-15 14:29:11Z foutrelis $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Tom Newsom <Jeepster(a)gmx.co.uk> pkgname=normalize pkgver=0.7.7 pkgrel=7 pkgdesc="A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level" arch=('x86_64') url="http://normalize.nongnu.org" license=('GPL') depends=('audiofile' 'libmad' 'vorbis-tools' 'lame' 'flac' 'mpg123') makedepends=('pkg-config' 'intltool') source=("http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.t…" 'normalize-0.7.7-audiofile-pkgconfig.patch' 'normalize-0.7.7-m4.patch') md5sums=('1749b16fc7a08aa5d0cf9f76eeaa8436' '77d565e29bef11837e80347adfd42b58' '0b4bca7bf183275b9f939576ebad4233') prepare() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/normalize-0.7.7-audiofile-pkgconfig.patch" patch -Np0 -i "${srcdir}/normalize-0.7.7-m4.patch" touch AUTHORS NEWS ChangeLog #libtoolize --force --copy #aclocal -I m4 autoreconf -vi #automake --add-missing } build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --with-audiofile \ --with-mad make } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install } Nowhere can I figure out where there is a "key 'makepkgopt' in package description". The package description is pkgdesc="A tool for adjusting the volume of WAV files to a standard level" Where is the "... key 'makepkgopt' ..." coming from? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Proposal to increase the default vm.max_map_count value
by Rein Fernhout (Levitating) 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Seeing as other distributions have already adopted this change and gaming is a popular usecase for ArchLinux I do think this is a good thing to have. The default value will only be more of a bottleneck in the future. There's a balance in sticking to defaults. It'd be a shame if users need to alter multiple kernel parameters just to play modern games or run other applications with a high memory footprint. As I understand it there's no real downside to increasing this. Could someone with more knowledge of the kernel shed some light on any possible adverse effects that might come from increasing the default? I am also curious how the upstream discussed will go but I do not expect them to change it. Cheers, Levitating On 2024-03-25 09:10, Robin Candau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm writing this mail as proposal to increase the default > `vm.max_map_count` [1] value in Arch Linux. > > The default `vm.max_map_count` 65530 value is making some Windows games > crash (or even prevent them to start at all) while being played through > Wine or Steam Play (Proton). > Examples are (but not limited to) Star Citizen, THE FINALS, Hogwarts > Legacy, DayZ or Counter-Strike 2 (see [2] for a list of bug reported to > Valve for these games on that matter). > > In that regard, SteamOS is shipping an increased `vm.max_map_count` > default value to address the above issue and numerous distributions > have since then decided to implement that change on their side as well, > such as Fedora [3], NixOS [4] and, more recently, Ubuntu [5]. > > While I'm aware that Arch is a user centric/DIY distro and everyone can > set their own `vm.max_map_count` value fairly easily, shipping an > increased value on our side would be a beneficial change to make in my > opinion as it would result in a smoother gaming experience out of the > box for our users without representing any downside/side effect (as far > as I'm aware). > > In terms of implementation, the change basically consists of shipping > the following sysctl file: > > ``` > # Increase the number of virtual memory areas that one process may > request > vm.max_map_count=1048576 > ``` > > For reference, Fedora added it to their systemd package [6], while > Ubuntu handled it at the procps level [7]. > I personally don't have a strong opinion on the implementation > way/place. > > To sum up, I think this would be a reasonable and positive change to > make to our distro. > I'd be happy to read your thoughts (or eventual objection)! 😊 > > [1] https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.html#max-map-count > [2] > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2057792/comments/5 > [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/IncreaseVmMaxMapCount > [4] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/238459 > [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2057792 > [6] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemd/blob/f39/f/10-map-count.conf > [7] > https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/procps/commit/?h=applied/2%254.0.4…

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Do we need to fix dbus-broker-launch journal warnings -- or just ignore?
by David C. Rankin 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Are we supposed to do anything to fix these dbus-broker-launch journal warnings? Mar 24 02:15:31 valkyrie dbus-broker-launch[1130]: Service file '/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Thumbnailer1.service' is not named after the D-Bus name 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1'. Mar 24 02:15:31 valkyrie dbus-broker-launch[1130]: Noticed file-system modification, trigger reload. Mar 24 02:15:31 valkyrie dbus-broker-launch[1130]: Service file '/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Thunar.FileManager1.service' is not named after the D-Bus name 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1'. Mar 24 02:15:31 valkyrie dbus-broker-launch[1130]: Service file '/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.xfce.Tumbler.Cache1.service' is not named after the D-Bus name 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Cache1'. I don't have XFCE installed, but do have thunar installed stand-alone for fluxbox. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Where to find old png2ico PKGBUILD it was dropped to AUR?
by David C. Rankin 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

All, Cleaning up old packages, I still need the png2ico utility. It is no longer in AUR replaced by elphicon which uses that abomination electron. I need to know if the old PKGbUILD for Arch png2ico still exists in some historical form somewhere. It would save writing another. What say the historians, does such a thing exist? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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CLI access to dropbox
by Jeanette C. 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Hey hey, I need CLI access to my dropboox account. I'm still running dropbox-cli, which is marked as out-of-date and I couldn't update to the latest version. Using trizen, I get this error message: [...] -> Found dropboxd-fallback.patch ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... dropbox-cli-2023.09.06.py ... FAILED dropboxd-fallback.patch ... Passed ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check! :: Unable to build dropbox-cli - makepkg exited with code: 1 There is dbxcli a commandline interface written in Go, which also fails to build with this: no required module provides package github.com/dropbox/dbxcli: go.mod file not found in current directory or any parent directory; see 'go help modules' ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... :: Unable to build dbxcli - makepkg exited with code: 4 Has any one else perhaps encountered these errors and found a fix or can suggest another commandline app that will give easy access to an existing dropbox account. Best wishes and thanks, 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 But tell me what happens when it stops? <3 (Britney Spears)

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Re: Revising Go packaging guidelines (2024)
by Daniel Martí 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hello, I'm a long time user and only an occasional contributor, but I do have experience on the Go side, so perhaps my input is helpful. I keep forgetting that I can't reply to arch-dev-public, so I'm replying to the poster and arch-general. Overall I agree with simplifying and modernizing the Go guidelines. Practically every Go project uses modules now, not using Go's own linker will come as a surprise to most Arch users, and I've always found all those env vars and flags on top of "go build" to be a surprising setup. Your suggestion of just three flags in GOFLAGS seems far better. That said, I think your suggestion to just use "go build" everywhere is unfortunately not realistic, at least not yet given my experience out in the wild. That's because runtime/debug.ReadBuildInfo isn't actually quite enough. It does embed a module semver version when building via GOPROXY, e.g. "go install cuelang.org/go/cmd/cue@latest", and it also embeds VCS information when doing a local build inside a git clone, e.g. "git checkout master && go install ./cmd/cue". Crucially, however, in the latter case the main module lacks a module semver version, and the stamped VCS information is just a commit hash and a timestamp, without any notion about what the current or last semver tag was. This is a known limitation, and tracked at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50603. Until this is fixed, some projects still support the ldflags hack, or hard-code a version string to manually change at every release, or simply live with "devel" or "commit X" versions when built locally. Upstream accepted the proposal, but it may be another couple of years before it's shipped and widespread enough that the ldflags hack is gone for good. I also see that you suggest adding -buildvcs=false to GOFLAGS; I'm not sure if that is the right choice or not for Arch, but consider the limitation of the BuildInfo version string I explain above. In the Go programs that I write, I make the "version" command or flag show the VCS information, precisely because otherwise there's no way to tell what the real version might actually be: > $ git rev-parse HEAD # in https://github.com/cue-lang/cue > b648cf45d5adc6592633206cc126670906881729 > $ git describe --tags # note how I'm a few commits after the > v0.9.0-0.dev tag > v0.9.0-0.dev-4-gb648cf45$ go install ./cmd/cue > $ cue version # the version at the top is a hard-coded string named > "fallbackVersion" > cue version v0.9.0-0.dev > > go version devel go1.23-0a6f05e30f 2024-03-17 15:57:54 +0000 > -buildmode exe > -compiler gc > DefaultGODEBUG > asynctimerchan=1,httplaxcontentlength=1,httpmuxgo121=1,tls10server=1,tlsrsakex=1,tlsunsafeekm=1,winreadlinkvolume=0,winsymlink=0 > CGO_ENABLED 1 > GOARCH amd64 > GOOS linux > GOAMD64 v3 > vcs git > vcs.revision b648cf45d5adc6592633206cc126670906881729 > vcs.time 2024-03-18T07:55:11Z > vcs.modified false TL;DR: sounds good to me, just don't assume that every project can simply "go build" now, and consider not disabling -buildvcs, at least for the time being. Cheers. On 18/03/2024 23.17, kpcyrd wrote: > hello, > > the Arch Linux Go packaging guidelines[0] currently suggest this for > building software written in Go: > > > export CGO_CPPFLAGS="${CPPFLAGS}" > > export CGO_CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" > > export CGO_CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS}" > > export CGO_LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}" > > export GOFLAGS="-buildmode=pie -trimpath -ldflags=-linkmode=external > -mod=readonly -modcacherw" > > > > # or alternatively you can define some of these flags from the CLI > options > > go build \ > > -trimpath \ > > -buildmode=pie \ > > -mod=readonly \ > > -modcacherw \ > > -ldflags "-linkmode external -extldflags \"${LDFLAGS}\"" \ > > . > > [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Go_package_guidelines > > There's also section "2.2.2 Supporting debug packages" which > contradicts the previous section. > > ## Suggestion > > I'd like to propose changing this to something like: > > > prepare() { > > cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver} > > go mod download > > } > > > > build() { > > cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver} > > go build . > > } > > > > package() { > > cd ${pkgname}-${pkgver} > > install -Dm0755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/" "${pkgname}" > > } > > Plus any extra flags (for example for debug packages to work, if any > are needed at all - there's a note about this towards the end of this > essay). Instead of suggesting two (three) different approaches, the > packaging guidelines should endorse argv over environment variables > (how to set them with environment variables can still be documented in > a later section of the guideline). The reason I'm suggesting this: > > ## Passing flags over argv > > Setting these options through environment variables is for cases when > `go` isn't executed directly by our PKGBUILD, but instead by some > indirection like a Makefile. Makefiles are more popular in Go projects > than they are in e.g. Rust projects, but presumably because for many > years (10+) there was no analogous to `env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION")` to > embed a version string into the binary for --version output. > > Since almost exactly two years ago, in Go 1.18 released March 2022, > there's now `runtime/debug.ReadBuildInfo` which gives you a reference > to an embedded struct that contains a version string[1]. > > [1]: https://pkg.go.dev/runtime/debug#ReadBuildInfo > > Hopefully more Go projects are going to favor this in the future over > custom build scripts and passing `-X main.Version=...` with output > from `git describe --tags`. If this catches on, people might think of > `go build` more like they currently think of `cargo build` and I think > the Go package guideline should encourage this. > > Not just for Go but for software in general, using `git describe` > should be considered an anti-pattern. In the way the Arch Linux build > system currently works, only the checked out files are authenticated > and pinned by sha256sums= and friends, but `git describe` explicitly > works on unauthenticated git objects in `.git/`. I've published a > writeup on how to take advantage of this on the reproducible builds > list in September 2023[2]. > > [2]: > https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2023-September/0… > > ## Using the Go native Linker > > Binaries built by the Go compiler have been reproducible for a long > time, however Go binaries built by Arch Linux usually aren't. This has > led to some confusion, with bug reports to upstreams of Go software > because it wasn't obvious that the package not being reproducible in > this case isn't a problem in upstream's source code, but the way Arch > Linux compiles it. > > Arch Linux generally prefers binaries with hardening flags enabled[3] > and therefore explicitly opts into a non-default linker (Cgo), but it > seems to be the unpopular choice. Cgo seems to have less support than > normal Go on Linux (evidently, since Cgo has been known to have > reproducible build issues for years now). Other Linux distributions > seem to stick to normal Go too, Nix has Cgo off by default[4] and > searching through nixpkgs for "buildGoModule" yields about 2k results, > searching for "CGO_ENABLED" has 105 results, with more than half being > "CGO_ENABLED=0" though. Alpine Linux only sets GOFLAGS globally[5] > (which Arch Linux currently doesn't), searching for `rg -l --multiline > '\tgo.*build'` in aports matches 356 files, `rg -l CGO_ENABLED=0` > matches 23 files and `rg -l CGO_ENABLED=1` matches 18 files. > > [3]: https://github.com/jvoisin/compiler-flags-distro > [4]: > https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/b081342f1c16e4cbe4f40f139bbdda1475ea3… > [5]: https://git.alpinelinux.org/abuild/tree/default.conf?h=3.12.0#n5 > > The global GOFLAGS as specified in Alpine Linux are: > > > export GOFLAGS="-buildmode=pie -modcacherw -trimpath -buildvcs=false" > > Which we could consider setting globally too, like we do with RUSTFLAGS. > > Figuring out what Debian does was somewhat challenging, their > integration with the go build system is called dh-golang[6], they seem > to set CGO_ENABLED=1 only when cross-compiling, with go >= 1.13 > (released 2019) they seem to build with `go install -trimpath ...` and > no further GOFLAGS environment variable. > > [6]: > https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/dh-golang/-/blob/debian/sid/lib/D… > > I understand the concern of Go possibly being more prone to ROP-style > exploits when 1) built with the native linker and 2) used with e.g. a > vulnerable version of libgit2, however, as of 2024, there have been > barely any memory-corruption based exploits for Go software. > > ## Motivation > > - Most of our Go software is currently not reproducible due to Cgo, > including core/libcap, which is the last unreproducible package in > docker.io/library/archlinux > - The barrier for packaging Go in Arch Linux is currently somewhat > high (compared to e.g. packaging Rust), the guideline requires too > much interpretation and could be improved > - Quirks that are only needed for old Go projects (like 2.1.1) should > be listed towards the end instead of being the first code block in the > guideline > > --- > > cheers, > kpcyrd

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kernel from own built package won't boot
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Hi, I have made a thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=293601 But I did not get much help. I don't know if it is appropriate to post here. I have dug a bit into my issue, and when I build an official PKGBUILD for a kernel, be it linux or linux-zen (pkctl repo clone linux); makepkg --skippgpcheck; sudo pacman-U linux-...), the kernel is not booting with an error. At first, I was thinking it was related to either Secure Boot or shim, or the UKI, but later tests in VMs using BIOS revealed the problem was still there. And I got an error message from the kernel: "ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt" (when booting with limine in BIOS) I found that very string in ./lib/decompress_unzstd.c. in the kernel source. I even rebuilt the kernel inside the VM to rule out host issue (?). I later used an initramfs with no compression (COMPRESSION="cat") and using uncompressed modules in it (MODULES_DECOMPRESS="yes"). But the problem remained. I tried to boot the kernel with the same package on another machine. Still the same. How could this happen? Is it my installation of archlinux? The compilation of the kernel ? Is it something else? What? mkinitcpio? but why does it work with the official package, then? Could you reproduce it? Thanks

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New pacman -Sc floods screen with warnings
by David C. Rankin 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

Just updated and went to clear old cache packages with 'pacman -Sc' and... 05:35 2pi:~> pms -c Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: png2ico: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description warning: abs: unknown key 'makepkgopt' in package description ..... <snip 50-70 more What's up with this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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openfin alternative (consultant needed)
by James Tobin 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hi, I'm working with a fintech company that is looking to hire a consultant that can help them explore alternatives to having to stay reliant on OpenFin. Consequently, I had hoped that you might like to discuss Consequently I had hoped some members of this list may like to discuss further All the best, James

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Small question about mkinitcpio and linux.preset
by Óscar García Amor 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Hello folks, With the latest update of mkinitcpio when running `mkinitcpio -P` you get the following warning: ``` WARNING: Deprecated option 'ALL_microcode' found. Update '/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset' to use the 'microcode' hook instead. ``` It is clear to me that this is because that option must be removed from the `/etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset` file, but what surprises me is the following: ``` % pacman -Qo /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset error: No package owns /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset ``` Who generated the `linux.preset`? It is supposed to have been the `linux` package but right now I can't find how this file was generated. If someone could explain to me how this file is generated at the time of installation I would be very grateful. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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`makepkg` generates two packages
by lacsaP Patatetom 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

hi, when I run `makepkg`, it generates a second package with the `-debug` "extension" (eg. `mypackage-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst` and `mypackage-debug-w.x.y-z-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst`). I couldn't find anything about this on the wiki : is this a new feature and/or is there a parameter to pass to `makepkg` to avoid building it ? regards, lacsaP.

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Incus exprience
by Abraham S.A.H. 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Hello everyone, I was using LXC — unprivileged — containers for my only two containers. I don't know how much but about a year, perhaps. Meanwhile, reading announcements of Incus following their GitHub release notifications. I was just interested. With v0.5 release, I jumped in, gave it a try and yeah!! it was simpler than LXC itself. Exactly opposite to my guessing. So far, everything was going well. Two little problems that I reported, one has to be documented in archwiki and the other will be fixed in 0.7. Since I dodged LXD directly from LXC to Incus. I want to know what's the difference between their _interfaces_. Am I missing anything from LXD in Incus? -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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Future of libdepends and libprovides
by Marius Kittler 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Hi, I've just seen the mail https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux… on the "staff only" list. Since this probably affects AUR packages and other places where the whole community is involved such as the Wiki and unofficial repos I think it should be discussed here as well. Am Montag, 4. März 2024, 14:43:54 CET schrieb Balló György: > In short term, we should revert this commit [3] at distribution level > to avoid breakages. That would be much appreciated, also from my point of view as AUR package maintainer and maintainer of an unofficial repository. (If official packages need to be updated then I assume the same also applies to AUR packages. This will probably take even longer as every maintainer will have to take care of their packages individually.) > In long term, we have to decide via RFC what to do with libdepends and > libprovides. We could probably make a slow, manual transition to the > new 'autodeps' feature in pacman, but it still does not support > optional autodeps, [4] which means that would be impossible to mark any > binary deps as optional. That's of course problematic for plugins or binaries only required for optional features. I think we need a solution for that before enabling this new 'autodeps' feature globally by default. I also hope that the 'autodeps' feature will not run into problems with special libraries, e.g. ones that are only intended for cross-compilation purposes like https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-x86-64-zlib. It would be very annoying if one had to exclude those libraries manually. Having to add `options=('!autodeps')` would probably be ok although it means updating tons of AUR packages maintained by different people and of course also updating the relevant Wiki pages. Speaking of the Wiki: It still mentions library dependencies, e.g. in the last paragraph of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#depends. This section should be updated and the alternative be documented instead if you decide to actually remove the support. It would also make sense to announce that change on https://archlinux.org so people actually know that they should stop using libdepends/libprovides. Note that I think moving forward with 'autodeps' is generally useful. For maintaining my own repository I even introduced a feature in my build service to keep track of all the dependencies on soname-level so I know when I'll have to rebuild packages. So this is the right approach - we just need to be careful no break existing packages/workflows without a transition period and clear announcements. Best Reagards Marius

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removal of yuzu from the official repos
by james smith 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

as most of you have heard the yuzu has been shutdown by nintendo[1] and the github page removed[2] therefore the package needs to be considered for removal from the official repos as there will be no more updates and the package links to the github will be broken in a matter of time [1] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.56980/gov.uscourts… [2]https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu

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Upgrade failure
by David Bohman 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

% sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libblockdev-utils with extra/libblockdev? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: libblockdev and libblockdev-utils are in conflict % It looks like both packages provide libbd_utils.so=3-64.

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Fwd: [to Arch General] Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks
by David C. Rankin 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

I've followed the mkinitcpio v38 thread and efforts to not break systems. This has me concerned. I have 3 Arch servers with many mdadm RAID arrays. What changes will I have to make regarding mdadm_udev to ensure my system doesn't break? Will simply updating once all the packages hit the mirrors be all that is required?: * mkinitcpio 38-1 * systemd xxxx * lvm2 xxxx * mdadm xxxx * cryptsetup xxxx Or will manual intervention be needed? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 14:07:14 +0100 From: Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Yo, mkinitcpio v38 has been released and I made a personal test setup with the changes and everything seems to work fine on my end. To make sure we are limiting breakage I propose the following news item to go along with the update. Please note I'll insert the relevant versions when the packages hit the testing repositories sometime tomorrow if there are no objections to the current plan. Draft here: https://md.archlinux.org/ixPJWhJXTj6Arlyq3wb9jA # News Item Subject: mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode With the release of mkinitcpio v38 several hooks provided from Arch packages has moved to the mkinitcpio upstream. The moved hooks are systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev. To ensure we are not breaking the boot of users we have introduced temporary conflicts into the respective packages to prevent you from installing packages that are no longer compatible. The following packages needs to be installed together: * mkinitcpio 38-1 * systemd xxxx * lvm2 xxxx * mdadm xxxx * cryptsetup xxxx Please note the `mkinitcpio` flag `--microcode` has been deprecated in favour of a new `microcode` hook. This also allows you to drop the mircocode `initrd` lines from your boot configuration as they are now included in your initramfs. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Upgrade failure
by Abraham S.A.H. 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

> These should be an option at old.reddit.com/prefs <http://old.reddit.com/prefs> to not use new Reddit, and thus always get the old version at www. Should minimize the headaches you get with old and dusty Reddit links. Thanks, @Aaron -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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Upgrade failure
by arch＠howorth.org.uk 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 14:07:47 +0100 (CET) "Abraham S.A.H." <arash.sah(a)tuta.io> wrote: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1b67kih/libblockdevutils_and_up… > > Can't open. First answer: pacman -S libblockdev-utils; pacman -Syu Possibly a packaging mistake. Another reply: I had the same issue yesterday. I reran the update this morning and it worked. It was either that my mirror was not up to date or a packaging issue. If you’re not in a hurry to update give it a few hours and your mirror should update. And a third reply: I had the same problem as well, what i did was uninstall libblockdev-utils using pacman -Rdd and then i just installed the new version.

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boot parameter to stop hdmi
by Jude DaShiell 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Is nohdmi valid to disable hdmi on an installer boot? A contact may need this but I'm not sure since I'm not familiar with his hardware. -- 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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Trouble connecting with NetworkManager
by SET 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

Hi, Since yesterday's upgrade, it's not possible to establish IPV4 networking with networkmanager 1.46.0-1 and networkmanager-qt5 5.115.0-1 on ethernet and Wi- Fi. It happens with both static and dynamic address assignment. A usable IPV6 address is obtained with DHCP on Wi-Fi. An IPV6 address is assigned on ethernet, but it is not usable to be online. # LC_ALL=C LANG=C journalctl -u NetworkManager -r |less Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6577] policy: set 'ETH0' (eth0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6566] device (eth0): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6556] device (eth0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6551] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTING Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6546] device (eth0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Feb 25 08:24:59 asus0.nmset.info NetworkManager[4136]: <info> [1708845899.6531] device (eth0): Activation: starting connection 'ETH0' (ea1d83f9-2dd7-4769-bbe9-ecd6aa48ff3b) Activating and deactivating NetworkManager-wait-online and NetworkManager- dispatcher do not help. Reverting to networkmanager-1.44.2-3 and networkmanager-qt5-5.112.0-1 is a working temporary solution. Devices: - Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15); Kernel driver in use: r8169 - Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78); Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi I'm reporting in the hope of a fix on the next upgrade. Regards.

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libblockdev split plugins
by Abraham S.A.H. 02 Mar '24

02 Mar '24

Hello everyone, Probably a little late, but I noticed that `plugins of libblockdev` package has been split out to a few individual, smaller packages, as optional dependencies. Probably, most of the users already noticed that. However, when I did check, I found that all split plugin packages — `libblockdev-*` — take significant size compared to `libblockdev` package itself. `libblockdev` is less than 220 KiB. So splitting it really reduces the size of the package and helps dependency resolution, specially for `udisks2`. Nevertheless, `udisks2` already depends on 8 of those 14 split packages… And many users may need some of them explicitly as well.So at the end of the day, most of them are installed anyway! Interestingly, as far as I know, `libblockdev` is not required by any other package than `udisks2`!! So the benefit of splitting it will not go for any other package. My question is, was such dividing really beneficial? Considering that, it probably brings more work to the maintainer and doesn't do any significant change to the ending of the story? -- Best Regards, Abraham Sent with Tutanota; https://tuta.com

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libblockdev - Split all provided plugins into separate packages (motivation?)
by David C. Rankin 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

All, David, Just did the system upgrade with the split of libblockdev packages, all went fine, though it did suggest install of the LVM plugin. I'm curious as to the motivation for the change? Easier to maintain? Smaller packages? Less overhead? etc... The trend I've seen over the past several years is to subdivide packages, which as long as they continue to work is fine, but at some point it does begin making it harder for the user to keep track of what all subpackages are required for package-X -- unless they are intimately familiar with they package and their use needs. So why was libblockdev put on the chopping-block? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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No graphical interface
by pete 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Hi Folks having problems here i have lost access to kde plasma on the main box i have installed a new drive and reinstalled i believe it is on my /home drive where thr issue lies is anyone else having issues . i know this is scant information but i have no mail access on the machine that is having the issue wish there was someone local to me Thanks folks Pete

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broken man page
by james smith 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

grub-btrfs [1] has a broken man page [1] https://man.archlinux.org/listing/extra/grub-btrfs/

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Suggestion: use static linking instead of dynamic linking just as how rust and golang do.
by Evan Greenup 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Suggestion Build executable program written in Haskell statically. (For the convenient of package maintainer, remove Haskell library packages). Reason The advantage of dynamic linking is letting multiple executable sharing same part of code. The only benefit is to reduce storage consumption. But in nowadays, storage is getting cheaper and cheaper. It is no longer be a issue now. And Haskell packages are all relatively small. However, here are a lot of drawbacks for dynamic linking of Haskell ecosystem. - Firstly is dependency version conflict. If two package depend on a same package with exclusive permitted version range, it will be a big trouble. - One dependency version update requires Arch Linux package maintainer update a series of packages which depend on this package. (Unlike Python, Haskell is compiled language with low ABI compatibility across different version). - lack of link time optimization. - Long time of upgrading via pacman. Updating many small package is really much slower than updating one big package. And registering Haskell module take a long time. Why program written in C/C++ can be distributed in dynamical linking form? C/C++ has very poor dependency resolver and package manager. C/C++ project need developer take care of dependency manually. And C/C++ compiler provide relatively stable ABI. None of those condition applies to Haskell. Details of Action Only providing: - ghc exclusive to ghcup - ghcup provide ghc, stack, cabal-install. This is similar to rustup package. - haskell-language-server like other Haskell executables, statically linked. When user install ghcup via pacman , the need to manually set default toolchain to install ghc and other tools. All non-executable Haskell library become unnecessary. Since no Haskell developer will use haskell package provided by the Linux distro. Expected Benefit - package maintainer will save a lot of time on maintaining Haskell software. - update will be much quicker. - All Haskell program packages can easily up-to-date. I believe the gain of this suggestion is significantly greater than the loss. Evan

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Re: Migration from LXD to Incus
by Bernd Rinn 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello, The issue with using the lxd-to-incus migration program is that it requires the lxd server to run in order to work. If I install incus via pacman and then try to migrate, I get: # lxd-to-incus => Looking for source server ==> Detected: manual installation => Looking for target server Error: No target server could be found This message is expected, because the target server (lxd) was uninstalled by pacman during the installation of incus. In comparison, on a Debian box, 'apt-get install incus' installs Incus in parallel to lxd and the subsequent migration program works fine. Best, > Hello, > > I am yet to migrate to incus, however the lxd-to-incus tool is provided > by the incus package [1], and thus should still work as it seems to > migrate itself (lxd is just a frontend after all). > > Let incus replace lxd, run the tool, and it should work just fine. If > not, post the error and the log here so that you can be helped further. > > > What the proper way of migrating from LXD to Incus under Archlinux? > > Seen as incus is relatively new, there is no wiki article on it, and > thus, there is no "proper" way currently, but in general if the > solution provided by upstream works, why change it? > > It goes without saying but you might want to backup before you attempt > this. > > Take care,

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Odd login issue
by pete 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hi all I strange one here i boot to a text prompt then login but When i enter my username hit enter it sites there not asking for password then the login prompt will return this time enter my username hit enter it then goes correctly to password and logs in perfectly Now i do not think this is related but one of the cats knocked a cup of tea into a keyboard scrapped it totally alarmingly fast a Logitec K270 wireless thing so went and purchased a replacement exactly the same make and model changed it over new usb receiver mouse keyboard . It is strange that i only nmoticed it after that Cheers Pete

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warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/auth_pam_tool_dir/
by David C. Rankin 11 Feb '24

11 Feb '24

All, When these crop up from time to time on update, do we just fix them and move on, or it is worth digging into further to find out when and why the permissions changed? E.g. warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/auth_pam_tool_dir/ filesystem: 700 package: 755 God knows I haven't touched that package directory permissions, so something changed over the years. In the past, I have simply changed the permissions to match the package (as long as it meets a commons sense test) and been done with it. When these appear, does anybody want further info, or just fix and forget? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Join the Arch Testing Team - Call for participation
by Robin Candau 10 Feb '24

10 Feb '24

Hi, We hope y'all had a good start in the new year of 2024 --- With the new year usually come new resolutions. If you don't have any so far, we have one for you: What if you decided to give Arch a bit of help with testing package updates this year? 😃 Arch uses testing repositories [1] as a buffer for core/critical package updates (or any other package updates that would benefit from being tested first) before entering the stable repositories. Testing these package updates helps us to catch more bugs upfront and ensures flawless updates for the stable repos, and that is where you can help! By joining the official Arch Linux Testing Team [2], you'll get the ability to "sign off" packages in testing after vouching for their correctness (or reporting a bug [3] otherwise). This helps Arch Package Maintainers catching eventual bugs upfront and helps to move packages out of the testing repositories faster and more efficiently. We are not necessarily looking for in depth testing. Verifying that a program launches correctly and that you're able to perform your usual routine with it is already a good test on its own. You can also check the general testing guidelines [4]. This is a very effective and rather easy way to contribute to Arch Linux. The more testers we have, the more reliable packages updates will be. We hope to see some of you there! 😉 [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Official_repositories#Testing_repositories [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Testing_Team [3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bug_reporting_guidelines [4]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Testing_Team#Guidelines -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz

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laptop microphone not working properly
by Frank 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Good evening, my build in mic stopped working. It produces only random noise, while i was on a Zoom call. I checked with gnome-recorder and confirm it's not the Zoom app. My wife's bluetooth headset works fine. My setup: UXEDO Pulse 14 Gen1 AMD Ryzen™ 7 4800H Arch Linux (obvioulsy) with current kernel and packages pipewire Tested on Hyperland and Gnome (both wayland and X). I checked settings in pavucontrol but looks all fine. Is there something else for me to check if it's a config/driver error and rule out hardware issue. Thanks Frank

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Radicale is unmaintained upstream, but no other good alternative in official repos
by D. Debnath 05 Feb '24

05 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 02 Feb '24

02 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 24 Jan '24

24 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 23 Jan '24

23 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 23 Jan '24

23 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 19 Jan '24

19 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) 18 Jan '24

18 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 18 Jan '24

18 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 17 Jan '24

17 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 16 Jan '24

16 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@192.168.42.1 david@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 06 Jan '24

06 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 06 Jan '24

06 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 04 Jan '24

04 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 17 Dec '23

17 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 12 Dec '23

12 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 11 Dec '23

11 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 08 Dec '23

08 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 25 Nov '23

25 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 24 Nov '23

24 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 24 Nov '23

24 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 23 Nov '23

23 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 19 Nov '23

19 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 19 Nov '23

19 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 16 Nov '23

16 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 16 Nov '23

16 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@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 09:21:28 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@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@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 09:22:25 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@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@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 10:46:58 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@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@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 14:49:34 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@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@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@wlp0s20f3\x2dgcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Nov 16 14:51:01 asciimx systemd[1]: netctl@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 12 Nov '23

12 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 08 Nov '23

08 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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