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

04 Nov '23

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

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accessibility install fail
by Jude DaShiell 04 Nov '23

04 Nov '23

You boot up and hit downarrow then enter when the hdmi card gets selected for video and no hdmi video is available so no sound. does a quick way to disable hdmi on the system exist that can be used ahead of an actual install? -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Re: (No Subject)
by Aaron Liu 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

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

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(No Subject)
by Novak Simic 29 Oct '23

29 Oct '23

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How to handle .htaccess Invalid Hash on each Nextcloud Upgrade?
by David C. Rankin 27 Oct '23

27 Oct '23

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

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

27 Oct '23

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

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Pacman update fail
by pete 21 Oct '23

21 Oct '23

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

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Installation_guide page
by Jude DaShiell 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

The systemd boot instruction just after bootctl install could probably use an addition. When I tried this yesterdy it was successful but the random seed generated by bootctl install was flagged as a security problem since permissions on that file I think were world writeable. One or more chmod commands in those instructions to get permissions set correctly I think will help. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Wiki - dark-mode not working in Firefox and the 2022 templates, switching to 2010 template it is fine
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

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

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

17 Oct '23

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

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

16 Oct '23

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

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Re: Incoming changes in JDK /JRE packages
by Richard Ullger 12 Oct '23

12 Oct '23

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

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

11 Oct '23

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

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

11 Oct '23

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

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Installation image (services)
by mail.sh＠tuta.io 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

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

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solving file conflicts
by Erich Eckner 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

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

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

08 Oct '23

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

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Issues with Electron Apps
by Christian 08 Oct '23

08 Oct '23

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

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How to enable opencl?
by Zener 07 Oct '23

07 Oct '23

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

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

07 Oct '23

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

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archinstall mystery
by Jude DaShiell 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

I used it earlier since I couldn't make sense of the efi and uefi encyclopedias in the Installation-guide. I now have a disk with two partitions on it first one being fat32 esp. The machine is uefi 64 capable. For that reason I can't figure out how to run grub-install on the latest update of grub. Does archinstall install for bios by default? If so, I think I can have grub-install ignore platform and install in /boot/grub with a couple options. I used the archinstall that was on the latest arch release and managed to get a working system by putting enough packages on the essential packages line. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Locked out of my account...
by barfin 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

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

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

27 Sep '23

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

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

27 Sep '23

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

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

24 Sep '23

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

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

23 Sep '23

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

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

22 Sep '23

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

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

19 Sep '23

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

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gdm3 stalled
by Zener 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

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

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

19 Sep '23

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

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

18 Sep '23

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

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Archlinux Con
by Hritik Vijay 17 Sep '23

17 Sep '23

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

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Arch Mailing List queries
by Polarian 16 Sep '23

16 Sep '23

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

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

15 Sep '23

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

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Open Source Summit Europe
by Jedisocialist 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

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

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Haupauge TV card failed on kernel 6.5.2-arch1-1
by pete 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

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

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archinstall log file
by Jude DaShiell 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '23

archinstall failed and when I ran archinstall I ran: archinstall 2>&1 | tee archinstall.log. Since the file is about 10,000 lines long I think what I ought to do is make another shorter file using grep containing only the bugs before posting that smaller file. I used the Installation_guide script after having made lynx screen reader accessible and got up to installing grub but couldn't figure out what to do after that to finish the system installation. The iso file verified with sq verify --signer-cert release-key.pgp --detached archlinux-2023-09.01-x86_64.iso.sig archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso As important, the installer came up talking. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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swaywm, closing and opening of laptop lid connects to wrong wifi station
by Morten Bo Johansen 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

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

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Disregard - nextcloud - fresh install on php-legacy, wiki followed - "Log in to Nextcloud" fails?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

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

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nextcloud - fresh install on php-legacy, wiki followed - "Log in to Nextcloud" fails?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

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

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got verified archlinux iso
by Jude DaShiell 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

The website may need a little correction: sq verify --signer-file probably should read: sq verify --signer-cert release-key.pgp --detached archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso.sig archlinux-2023.09.01-x86_64.iso I had to upgrade debian to bookworm for all of these sq commands to work. wkd isn't available in bullseye. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

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

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

02 Sep '23

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

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Re: Waterfox G
by Aaron Liu 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

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

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

29 Aug '23

Thanks. I'll download that on another system and try doing this correctly next time. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Thibault de Villèle wrote: > It seems to be sequoia-sq : > > $ sudo pacman --files --refresh # long version of 'pacman -Fy' > $ pacman --files --regex '.*bin/sq' # long version of 'pacman -Fx' > [...snip...] > /usr/bin/sq is owned by extra/sequoia-sq 0.31.0-1 > [...snip...] > > Le mar. 29 août 2023 à 10:00, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(a)panix.com> a écrit : > > > What package has sq in it? > > > > -- > > Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. > > Please use in that order." > > Ed Howdershelt 1940. > > > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > the download page as well as the installation guide describe what to do. > > > I didn't copy the description, the details are provided by those links. > > > > > > "[...] With this key the signature can be verified like this: > > > > > > sq [...]" - https://archlinux.org/download/ > > > > > > > > > "1.2 Verify signature > > > [...] gpg" - > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide#Verify_signature > > > > > > Regards, > > > Ralf > > > > > > > > >

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vbox dkms fix - How to include fix for linux, but not linux-lts?
by David C. Rankin 27 Aug '23

27 Aug '23

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

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

27 Aug '23

Hey hey, I just upgraded my system and upon restart, now running kernel 6.4.11-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC and everything else that was available one/two days ago. When I rebooted my computer today, I ran into UTF-8 issues. I use a braille display, running brltty, which apparnelty has also been updated to the next version. So I can't really tell, whether the improper display of characters is related to TTY settings or BRLTTY. I looked at /etc/local.conf, which is set to a UTF charset. Also the command locale displays that charset/locale. I looked at brltty to make sure that the Linux terminal parameter Unicode is set to yes. The locale is also present (locale-gen). Any ideas what this could be? Some change in the terminal settings? Any hints and tips are appreciated! Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Make all the clouds disappear Put all your fears to rest <3 (Britney Spears)

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

26 Aug '23

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

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

21 Aug '23

Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it is bad planning. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c You know I'm one of a kind, There'll never be another me <3 (Britney Spears)

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

17 Aug '23

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

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Access to unix socket files
by Hauke Fath 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

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

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

16 Aug '23

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

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Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Ruiyang Peng 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

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

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

15 Aug '23

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

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

15 Aug '23

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

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

15 Aug '23

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

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

11 Aug '23

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

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

10 Aug '23

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

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

06 Aug '23

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

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

04 Aug '23

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

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Boot secure
by Source Code 25 Jul '23

25 Jul '23

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

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

25 Jul '23

hi, I'm one of those guys sticking to old Thinkpads, I have 2 of them, a W520 and a T520, both quadcore with 16Gb ram, one is established as musicmachine (I'm a hobbymusician), the other is my all-day-machine, which already has done VERY heavy video encoding for many many hours now, and still running flawlessly... I love those machines mainly for two reasons: firstly I'm able to open them, mainly for cleaning purposes, fan, replacing heat transfer paste, furthermore it's easy to replace the battery, and secondly: they provide firewire access! I have two Focusrite Saffire 10 Pro soundcards, also working like a charm, and I would be very upset losing the possibility to use them. Both are equipped with Nvidia Optimus technology, thanks to lovely people providing the necessary software on AUR both are running without any constraints, just like entire Archlinux does, best -s Am 23.07.23 um 00:30 schrieb arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org: > Send Arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Arch-general digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: SSH Error in libcrypto (Wesley Kerfoot) > 2. What laptop's do you guys like? (Polarian) > 3. Re: What laptop's do you guys like? (Eric Waller) > 4. Re: What laptop's do you guys like? (Polarian) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:26:51 -0400 > From: Wesley Kerfoot <wjak56(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: SSH Error in libcrypto > To: Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen(a)web.de> > Cc: Martin Rys <spleefer90(a)gmail.com>, > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Message-ID: > <CAM%3D4j-7XppSbsTsT8QPPL0Y5Hf1EFSM8hEORn_A5OUt5FBe7JQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="000000000000a5aeed0601142c11" > > You should check that your hard drive isn't failing before reinstalling > everything. That sounds like a symptom of a bad disk if multiple files are > empty that shouldn't be. > > On Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 9:41 AM Silvio Siefke <siefke_listen(a)web.de> wrote: > >> >> Am 22.07.23 um 15:23 schrieb Martin Rys: >>> What's the output of `file ~/.ssh/siefke_key; ls -lah ~/.ssh/siefke_key`? >>> >> All 0 byte files. Much 0 byte files. I not understand what happen here >> but I think I need to reinstall Arch Linux. >> >> Silvio >> >

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

24 Jul '23

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

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Fw: ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR
by Matthew Sexton 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

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

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SSH Error in libcrypto
by Silvio Siefke 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

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

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Arch Linux installing.
by Source Code 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

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

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Re: Arch linux installing process
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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

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Re: Arch linux installing process
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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

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Arch linux installing process
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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

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Installing process
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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

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Secure_Boot
by Source Code 18 Jul '23

18 Jul '23

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

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ANN: arch-log: a tool for quickly checking package commit logs for Arch & AUR
by René Neumann 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

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

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Install Arch Linux
by Source Code 14 Jul '23

14 Jul '23

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

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Install Arch Linux
by Source Code 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

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

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Installing
by Source Code 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

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

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Arch Linux Questions
by Source Code 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

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

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

12 Jul '23

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

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

12 Jul '23

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

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Arch Linux General Questions
by Source Code 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

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

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Re: Audio distortion after latest upgrades
by Luis O. 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

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

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

07 Jul '23

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

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Audio distortion after latest upgrades
by David Rosenstrauch 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

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

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Weird Bluetooth Problem
by Storm Dragon 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

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

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nginx http3/quic support
by Genes Lists 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

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

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

27 Jun '23

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

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

18 Jun '23

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

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blas update
by Fons Adriaensen 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

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

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

15 Jun '23

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

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Prevent pip from breaking the system by adopting PEP 668
by Martin Rys 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

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

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Help debugging random lockups
by Spencer Collyer 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

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

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Resource management questions
by Hauke Fath 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

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

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

13 Jun '23

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

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

07 Jun '23

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

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

05 Jun '23

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

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

04 Jun '23

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

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Reiserfs weirdness
by Andy Pieters 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

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

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Firefox/Gnome
by Frank 30 May '23

30 May '23

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

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

25 May '23

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

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

25 May '23

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

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Re: Help debugging random lockups
by Andy Pieters 24 May '23

24 May '23

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

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

23 May '23

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

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

21 May '23

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

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Boot Archiso files using systemd-boot or GRUB
by Óscar García Amor 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hello folks, I am doing a little crazy, I would like to boot the content of Archiso but with the extracted files not the ISO image itself. It is clear to me that to boot I need: - amd-ucode.img - intel-ucode.img - initramfs-linux.img - vmlinuz-linux - airootfs.sfs And that the linux and initrd lines are: linux /archiso/vmlinuz-linux initrd /archiso/intel-ucode.img /archiso/amd-ucode.img /archiso/initramfs-linux.img But I'm missing the options to pass to the kernel to find the airootfs.sfs. I know that using the img_dev and img_loop parameters I can tell it where the ISO file is located and boot with it, but I'm more interested in booting directly with the extracted airootfs.sfs and without the ISO. Any ideas? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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ezarch script errors
by Jude DaShiell 15 May '23

15 May '23

In broad software selections, neither general works nor multimedia. These two error out and install nothing hardinfo for general isn't found and easyscreencapture in multimedia is not found either. That may explain why orca never came up talking after I installed a mate desktop and I had no option to run without a desktop either. That's the situation with the iso I have. Either verizon throttling or a hardware error prevents isos from verifying once downloaded so I use what isos I have here until these problems can be fixed. I ran ./install to run that script too on the iso. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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php-legacy migration leaves startup warnings for php on migrated modules - ignore?
by David C. Rankin 13 May '23

13 May '23

All, For nextcloud, etc. the install recommends php-legacy (8.1) and provides a brief synopsis for migration to php-legacy. That works, but then any app calling php instead of php-legacy will receive startup warnings for modules moved to php-legacy. (I still have some apps as well as test code that users php on the command line) I could always just disable the startup warnings completely for php -- but is there a better way? For example: $ php-legacy <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Version => 8.1.18 (all good) $ php <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_pgsql ... PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql (/usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql ... PHP Version => 8.2.6 (versions of modules migrated to php-legacy) Is there no way to leave both installed and not confuse nextcloud? If not, then disabling the php modules is fine and only having the php-legacy versions installed will just necessitate disabling the migrated modules and not having the ability to work with both. Can I leave both versions of pdo_pgsql and pgsql installed without causing myself grief? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest on Arch Linux in Virtualbox?
by Ralf Mardorf 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi, to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7. My current installed virtualbox was build against python 3.10.10-1. Today building against python 3.11.3-1 failed with "Checking for Python support: ** Python not found!". I can still start a Windows 11 guest with virtualbox build against python 3.10.10-1 on the machine that is updated to python 3.11.3-1. However, the situation threatens to become more serious. • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q python python 3.11.3-1 • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep SUPPYTHONLIBS= chroot/rocketmouse/build/virtualbox/src/VirtualBox-6.1.40/configure SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2 python3.3 python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m python3.9 python3.9m python3.10 python3.10m" • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep " python (" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1 [2023-05-04T01:05:49+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.10-1 -> 3.11.3-1) • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.1 I want to build virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.2 against latest version of python. Maybe I don't need to do this, but soon or later I at least need to build against another dependency and then python is involved, too. Perhaps just adding python3.11 to configure's SUPPYTHONLIBS already does the job to build virtualbox, without fixing something else. If so, the end of building virtualbox < version 7 to run Windows 11 guests is still close. What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest? Regards, Ralf

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Python 3.11 timeline?
by David Rosenstrauch 04 May '23

04 May '23

Anyone know if there's any timeline on when we'll see python 3.11 get released to Arch? I emailed the maintainer about this directly recently, but didn't hear anything back. I know this is a big upgrade, and lots of dependent packages are involved, so this might require some time. I just was wondering if there was any roadmap/timeline for how long that might be. Thanks, DR

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Fwd: dropping retired X.Org Packages
by David C. Rankin 04 May '23

04 May '23

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: dropping retired X.Org Packages Date: Wed, 3 May 2023 23:51:11 +0200 From: Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> Organization: ArchLinux To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Following this reminder post[1]+[2] I'm going to remove the following packages soon from the repos: xf86-input-elographics xf86-input-synaptics xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-input-void Any objections? -Andy Andy, I still use the synaptics package on laptops -- handy to have. Will it go to AUR. It would be a shame to lose it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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ttf-nerd-fonts conflict
by Ralf Mardorf 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi, there's a ttf-nerd-fonts conflict, one package removes the other package. One of the packages is flagged out-of-date, so I guess I shouldn't report a bug. However, it's a little bit annoying that I need to add ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em to IgnorePkg. "Do NOT report bugs when a package is just outdated, or it is in the AUR. Use the 'flag out of date' link on the package page, or the Mailing List. REPEAT: Do NOT report bugs for outdated packages!" - https://bugs.archlinux.org/ $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [removal] [snip] $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Replace ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols with community/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em? [Y/n] Y [snip] Packages (2) ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-3.0.0-2 [removal] ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em-2.3.3-1 [snip] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols/ Last Updated: 2023-05-01 02:12 UTC https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-2048-em/ Flagged out-of-date on 2023-04-30 Regards, Ralf

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Re: Python 3.11 in [staging] -> [testing]
by Genes Lists 29 Apr '23

29 Apr '23

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

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

28 Apr '23

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

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

28 Apr '23

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

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

28 Apr '23

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

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

27 Apr '23

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

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

24 Apr '23

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

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

21 Apr '23

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

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PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key
by Ralf Mardorf 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

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

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

16 Apr '23

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

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

16 Apr '23

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

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patches, command line long options support for arch-nspawn from devtools
by u34＠net9.ga 15 Apr '23

15 Apr '23

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

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grub.cfg
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

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

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X11 Input Settings Reset During Kernel Upgrade
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

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

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firefox no longer starts - could it be wayland package?
by Genes Lists 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

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

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moving /boot
by Fons Adriaensen 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

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

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

07 Apr '23

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

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Can not build arch v6.2.* linux. Does that much swap space required?
by u34＠net9.ga 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

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

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

05 Apr '23

Hey hey, I just updated my system today and haven't been able to use certain braille display functions. Since the installation date is given as a day in February it could depend on something else. BRLTTY allows to use a braille display to manipulate the terminal, move the cursor or paste text. These functions don't work anymore. Text can be copied into BRLTTY's buffer, but not pasted, neither can the cursor be summoned to a valid position on the screen. Does anyone have a reasonable idea what may have caused this? I have tried this with both the standard Archlinux 6.2.9 kernel and the 6.2.0 realtime kernel. Could there be a permission issue that forbids BRLTTY to write to the console or permission for USB devices...? Any hints would be much appreciated! Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c you made me realize..not to compromise the fact that you and i should meet... <3 (Britney Spears)

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Enabling CSM fails, can somebody recommend a bootloader
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

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

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CPU frequency scaling uncertainty
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

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

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pcspkr loaded, but no bell
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Hi, if I turn on the computer, the PC buzzer does beep one time, so it does work for the POST, but the terminal (ROXTerm, with audible bell enabled) is silent, it doesn't beep anymore after using the Arch install from my old PC with my new PC. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ lsmod | grep pcspkr pcspkr 16384 0 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ printf "\abeep! \n" beep! The module is loaded, but nothing, no audible bell. I'm out of ideas. Maybe I'm unable to see the forest for the trees, I still suffer from the after-effects of a COVID infection I had a few days back. Is this a known issue with some new mobos? Am I missing something? Regards, Ralf

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Qwt is currently built with Qt5 - should I mark the package as out-of-date?
by Peyton Murray 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

Hi all, Sorry if this is a naive question, but qwt <https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qwt/> is currently being built with Qt5, which is nearing end-of-life <https://endoflife.date/qt>, while Qt6 has been out for a while. I'd like for qwt to be built with Qt6, but I'm not sure if this means the package is out-of-date strictly speaking, so I figured I'd ask here before marking the package as such. What's the right way to deal with this? Best, - Peyton

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Pacman: There are N providers available for X
by Spencer Collyer 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hi, I'm installing a new system, and using the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks sections 2.5 and 2.6 to get the list of packages to install from my current system. When I run the `pacman -S --needed - < pkglist.txt` part, I get a few cases where pacman says "There are N providers available for X`. What I did for those cases is look up the providers in the `Package Search` page on the archlinux.org and chose the most recent one. Is that a reasonable strategy to use? Is there a better way to make the decision? Searching the web for that string didn't really provide any useful answers unfortunately. Regards Spencer

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netctl problem
by Fons Adriaensen 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hello all, Yesterday I assisted (via a text chat) a linux noob to install Archlinux on a laptop. We got so far that the system can boot on its own, and we can login as root. The netctl package is installed. Also the ethernet-dhcp example is copied to /etc/netctl/dhcp and edited for the correct interface (enp0s25). netctl start dhcp runs without reporting any errors, but then ping 8.8.8.8 says 'network unreachable', and ip link shows that enp0s25 is not UP. The network was OK with the ISO of course. I could probably find out what is wrong if I had my hands on the keyboard, but doing it remotely seems more difficult... So what *could* be the problem or missing ? TIA, -- FA

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colored prompt in early userspace
by lacsaP Patatetom 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

hi, when you add the `break` parameter to the list of parameters passed when the system boots, you find yourself in an interactive shell that allows you to issue commands, perform tests, and so on... the shell is apparently provided by `ash`. how to have a colored prompt (which visually helps to detach the prompt from the rest) ? the `~/.profile` file mentioned here and there does not seem to be read/used. `/.profile` and `/etc/profile` don't do much better. `ashrc` also tested without success. if the prompt offered at this level can be colored, I think it would not be a luxury to implement it directly in mkinitcpio ;-) regards, lacsaP.

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Re: nginx TLS 1.3 doesn't seem to work
by Polarian 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

> So you know how to quote, but choose to never give even the tiniest bit of context when you reply because you think we all keep an entire archive of arch-general locally and never delete anything, just so we can follow your blank replies to threads? When something is a straight forward reply to the previous email, there is no need to quote, because you are replying directly to the email. And yes, I expect you store the email for longer than 2 seconds after reading it, this is not 1980s, you have a few kb of storage spare! > I've been on this list for years, and while I don't participate much, I do read everything. But I don't keep it all, as I expect most people don't. I never said keep it all, I said keep the recent conversations so you know what is going on. > Your attitude sucks. Subjective! Now can we please go back on topic, I would rather my nginx instance supports tlsv1.3, than arguing about when and when not to quote, and also how long we should store emails for! Thank you! -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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nginx TLS 1.3 doesn't seem to work
by Polarian 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Hello, I was browsing https://onedev.polarian.dev while diagnosing the other SSL issue I was having, and I ave realised that it only supports TLS 1.2, even though I have 1.3 enabled and loaded (confirmed with nginx -t) When I use curl: ~ on ☁ took 2s ❯ curl -vI https://onedev.polarian.dev * Trying 81.187.86.85:443... * Connected to onedev.polarian.dev (81.187.86.85) port 443 (#0) * ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1 * TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1): * CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt * CApath: none * TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server key exchange (12): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Server finished (14): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client key exchange (16): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1): * TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20): * SSL connection using TLSv1.2 / ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 * ALPN: server accepted http/1.1 * Server certificate: * subject: CN=onedev.polarian.dev * start date: Mar 14 07:49:09 2023 GMT * expire date: Jun 12 07:49:08 2023 GMT * subjectAltName: host "onedev.polarian.dev" matched cert's "onedev.polarian.dev" * issuer: C=US; O=Let's Encrypt; CN=R3 * SSL certificate verify ok. * using HTTP/1.1 > HEAD / HTTP/1.1 > Host: onedev.polarian.dev > User-Agent: curl/8.0.1 > Accept: */* > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx/1.22.1 Server: nginx/1.22.1 < Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:03:18 GMT Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:03:18 GMT < Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 < Connection: keep-alive Connection: keep-alive < X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN < Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=node0ksf08v71egm01j4p388blz4e012.node0; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=node0ksf08v71egm01j4p388blz4e012.node0; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax < Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT < Pragma: no-cache Pragma: no-cache < Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store < * Connection #0 to host onedev.polarian.dev left intact I can see that TLS 1.3 is supported, but for some reason during the handshake it settles on TLS 1.2, why? Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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IPv6 packet loss issue
by Polarian 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Hello, So I am running Arch Linux on a server and on my laptop, both of which use network manager. Now when I ping, or send a http request to polarian.dev (my website) the first time it works just fine: ~ on ☁ ❯ ping -6 polarian.dev PING polarian.dev(2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.506 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=0.646 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=0.512 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=4 ttl=63 time=0.357 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=5 ttl=63 time=0.509 ms ^C --- polarian.dev ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4007ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.357/0.506/0.646/0.091 ms If I then stop it (as you can see ^C) and then start it again, I get the following: ~ on ☁ took 7s ❯ ping -6 polarian.dev PING polarian.dev(2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=27 ttl=63 time=0.399 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=28 ttl=63 time=0.550 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=29 ttl=63 time=0.357 ms 64 bytes from 2.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa (2001:8b0:57a:2385::2): icmp_seq=30 ttl=63 time=0.749 ms ^C --- polarian.dev ping statistics --- 30 packets transmitted, 4 received, 86.6667% packet loss, time 29345ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.357/0.513/0.749/0.153 ms The first 20-30 packets keep getting lost. When I tcpdump imcp6 during this issue, I get the following: 10:13:21.921967 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 320 10:13:23.958945 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 1, length 64 10:13:23.959028 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 1, length 64 10:13:24.978500 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 2, length 64 10:13:24.978569 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 2, length 64 10:13:25.991827 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 3, length 64 10:13:25.991917 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 3, length 64 10:13:27.005178 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 4, length 64 10:13:27.005270 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 4, length 64 10:13:28.018506 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 5, length 64 10:13:28.018596 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 5, length 64 10:13:29.031841 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 6, length 64 10:13:29.031929 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 6, length 64 10:13:30.045276 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 7, length 64 10:13:30.045408 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 7, length 64 10:13:31.058486 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 8, length 64 10:13:31.058577 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 8, length 64 10:13:32.071837 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 9, length 64 10:13:32.071923 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 9, length 64 10:13:33.085189 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 10, length 64 10:13:33.085258 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 10, length 64 10:13:34.098506 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 11, length 64 10:13:34.098598 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 11, length 64 10:13:35.111589 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 12, length 64 10:13:35.111684 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 12, length 64 10:13:36.124916 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 13, length 64 10:13:36.125009 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 13, length 64 10:13:37.138248 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 14, length 64 10:13:37.138332 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 14, length 64 10:13:38.151827 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 15, length 64 10:13:38.151918 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 15, length 64 10:13:39.165174 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 16, length 64 10:13:39.165270 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 16, length 64 10:13:40.178242 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 17, length 64 10:13:40.178313 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 17, length 64 10:13:41.191585 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 18, length 64 10:13:41.191719 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 18, length 64 10:13:42.205174 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 19, length 64 10:13:42.205266 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 19, length 64 10:13:43.218487 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 20, length 64 10:13:43.218576 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 20, length 64 10:13:44.231826 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 21, length 64 10:13:44.231912 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 21, length 64 10:13:45.245143 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 22, length 64 10:13:45.245253 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 22, length 64 10:13:46.258470 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 23, length 64 10:13:46.258560 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 23, length 64 10:13:47.271944 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 24, length 64 10:13:47.272033 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 24, length 64 10:13:47.272129 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 160 10:13:48.273793 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 25, length 64 10:13:48.273867 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 25, length 64 10:13:48.273969 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 160 10:13:49.275216 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 26, length 64 10:13:49.275288 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 26, length 64 10:13:49.275382 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 160 10:13:50.194693 IP6 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has PolarianServer, length 32 10:13:50.194833 IP6 PolarianServer > 0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is PolarianServer, length 24 10:13:50.277192 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 27, length 64 10:13:50.277256 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 27, length 64 10:13:50.277347 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 160 10:13:51.279181 IP6 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa > PolarianServer: ICMP6, echo request, id 4, seq 28, length 64 10:13:51.279255 IP6 PolarianServer > 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa: ICMP6, echo reply, id 4, seq 28, length 64 10:13:51.279352 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 160 10:13:51.419764 IP6 PolarianServer > _gateway: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has _gateway, length 32 10:13:51.419892 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is _gateway, length 24 10:13:53.898667 IP6 _gateway > PolarianServer: ICMP6, redirect, 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa to 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.5.8.3.2.a.7.5.0.0.b.8.0.1.0.0.2.ip6.arpa, length 136 The ICMP packets are definitely getting to my server, but for whatever reason my server does not respond, until about the 20-30th packet and then it finally responds back to my laptop. Does anybody have any clue why is is occurring? (This is done internally, feel free to ping polarian.dev externally to see if you can reproduce the issue). Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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gui network icon not connected
by alistair cookie 25 Mar '23

25 Mar '23

hello. from CLI, if i do "ip addr show" and "ping google.com" it definitely shows me i'm connected to my network and the Internet. but looking at my network icon on the system tray it says i'm not connected to any AP. a bug?

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TeXLive 2023 update
by Rémy Oudompheng 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

Hello Texlive packages have been updated to 2023 version in [testing]. Important caveat: these packages do not include the luametatex program. The 'context' command remains mapped to the standard luatex, meaning that (as far as I understand, Context LMTX will not be usable, but Context MkII and MkIV should be fine). luametatex sources are not included in TeXLive sources (there is an AUR package if you want to try it). Regards, Rémy.

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Keep getting SSL certificate failures
by Polarian 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

Hello, I did not notice this issue at first, but reflecting back on it now there seems to be a serious issue with my SSL on my laptop. When I was speaking to Erus about a "rotted link" within the AUR, I could not access the website as it kept throwing TLS errors, he could. I assumed it was just because of more strict firefox settings. I have now realised that this plays more of an issue, I am constantly getting errors such as: SSL_ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED_ALERT on firefox, and ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR on chromium. This happens to multiple sites, but only to some, there seems to be no link between them. For example: https://web.archive.org/web/20130824024508/http://www.baycom.org/~tom/ham/s… is one such website I am not able to visit on any browser on my laptop. I assume this is an issue with the certificate verification on my laptop or maybe even openssl? I guess you could consider this karma for using packages within testing :P (but hey at least I am testing) If anyone has any ideas on how to diagnose the issue, on what the issue here is, or links to sources I can look into, please let me know. Have a good night, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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X application preferences
by lacsaP Patatetom 24 Mar '23

24 Mar '23

hi, I would like the `lxtask` application (LXDE task manager) to open systematically in "always on top" mode : is it possible to do this in the `~/.Xresources` file ? otherwise, where can it be configured ? regards, lacsaP.

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Fwd: Spring cleanup '23
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Just a note, I would be nice if the members of the general list could see which packages are orphaned. Currently a developer sign-in is needed. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Spring cleanup '23 Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 19:08:40 +0100 From: Antonio Rojas <arojas(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Hello, It is that time of the year again: time for our yearly orphans cleanup. Please head to https://archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ and adopt packages that you'd like to keep in the repos. This is also a good opportunity to disown any packages you no longer want to maintain, so others can adopt them or they can be properly maintained in AUR if nobody is interested. If any non-dev TU wants to maintain some orphan in [extra], reply here and I'll move it to [community]. I will start dropping the leftovers to AUR on April 1st. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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/dev/stderr in early userspace
by lacsaP Patatetom 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

hi, I recently noticed that `/dev/stderr` was not present at the very beginning of the boot, in early userspace. if I add `break` parameter to have control during this step and do a `ls` test, this is what I get: ``` [rootfs ]# ls -l /dev/std* ls: /dev/std*: No such file or directory ``` Is there anything special to add/do to get these special devices ? nothing special in my `mkinitcpio.conf`, `base` and `udev` hooks installed/used. just note that the image is made from a chroot with `arch-chroot` with no error/warning. regards, lacsaP.

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linux headers
by lacsaP Patatetom 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

hi, I have some questions about the compilation process which I am not familiar with. #1 using ArchLinux PKGBUILD, I recompiled the LTS kernel with a slight change introduced in the block/blk-core.c file and two files were generated : linux-lts-6.1.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and linux-lts-headers-6.1.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst. on the other hand, I had previously compiled packages that used linux-lts-headers-6.1.15-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst : do I have to recompile them after the change ? #2 my host kernel has been upgraded to 6.1.19-1-lts : how do I compile to 6.1.15-1-lts from 6.1.19-1-lts? regards, lacsaP.

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Microphone is not working with Microsoft Teams
by Sadeep Madurange 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

This is my office workstation, so I have to use Microsoft Teams... My sound system is setup using ALSA and pipewire-alsa. I use Teams on Chromium web browser. The problem is, the other end can't hear anything I say. When I try to use Slack on the same browser, microphone is working fine. What is odd is that with Slack on Chromium, under microphones, I can see two options: "Default" and "sof-hda-dsp, -Default Audio Device". On Teams I can only see the latter. "Default" is the one working for Slack. The `wpctl status` yields the following output: PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.66, sadeep@quix, cookie:3671373507] └─ Clients: 33. WirePlumber [0.3.66, sadeep@quix, pid:2279] 34. WirePlumber [export] [0.3.66, sadeep@quix, pid:2279] 84. wpctl [0.3.66, sadeep@quix, pid:19873] 98. PipeWire ALSA [chromium] [0.3.66, sadeep@quix, pid:9213] Audio ├─ Devices: │ 46. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [alsa] │ ├─ Sinks: │ 55. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 3 Output [vol: 1.00] │ 56. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 2 Output [vol: 1.00] │ 57. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller HDMI / DisplayPort 1 Output [vol: 1.00] │ * 58. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Speaker + Headphones [vol: 0.50] │ ├─ Sink endpoints: │ ├─ Sources: │ 59. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Headphones Stereo Microphone [vol: 1.00] │ * 60. Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller Digital Microphone [vol: 0.61] │ ├─ Source endpoints: │ └─ Streams: 96. PipeWire ALSA [chromium] 31. output_FL > Speaker + Headphones:playback_FL [active] 105. output_FR > Speaker + Headphones:playback_FR [active] Video ├─ Devices: │ 40. Integrated Camera [v4l2] │ 41. Integrated Camera [v4l2] │ 42. Integrated Camera [v4l2] │ 43. Integrated Camera [v4l2] │ 44. Integrated Camera: Integrated C [libcamera] │ 45. Integrated Camera: Integrated I [libcamera] │ ├─ Sinks: │ ├─ Sink endpoints: │ ├─ Sources: │ * 47. Integrated Camera (V4L2) │ 49. Integrated Camera (V4L2) │ 51. Built-in Front Camera │ 53. Built-in Front Camera │ ├─ Source endpoints: │ └─ Streams: Settings └─ Default Configured Node Names: -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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Python-nbxmpp needs updating -> Gajim broken without it
by Polarian 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

Hello, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/python-nbxmpp/ Needs to be updated, otherwise the gajim version which was released into the testing repository will constantly throw errors. Just a heads up for the testers out there :P -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Fwd: bio_check_ro @ blk-core.c
by Pascal 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

hi, I come to you for lack of feedback (I think the Linux kernel developers have other cats to whip :-)) would one of you have the answer or a track to follow concerning the question below ? the encountered compilation error is behind the forwarded email. regards, lacsaP. ---------- Forwarded message --------- De : Pascal <patatetom(a)gmail.com> Date: mer. 8 mars 2023 à 14:09 Subject: bio_check_ro @ blk-core.c hi, I'm addressing you because you intervened (commit <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/blo…>) in the function bio_check_ro @ blk-core.c @ Linux-LTS-6.1.15. the last time I intervened on this file (@ Linux-LTS-5.10.19 for personal use), it was to replace "return false;" by "return true;", which theoretically should prevent the possible writing on a device locked in read-only mode (see here <https://github.com/vitaly-kamluk/Linux-write-blocker/tree/master/kernel> or here <https://github.com/msuhanov/Linux-write-blocker>). with @ Linux-LTS-6.1.15, if I insert "return true;", I now have a compilation error. in your opinion, is there still a need to "fix" blk-core.c to prevent writing to a read-only locked device and if so, can you help me implement this fix? regards, lacsaP. ---------- End forwarded message --------- SYNC include/config/auto.conf CC arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.s CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh DESCEND objtool DESCEND bpf/resolve_btfids CC block/bdev.o CC block/fops.o CC block/bio.o CC block/elevator.o CC block/blk-core.o block/blk-core.c: In function 'bio_check_ro': block/blk-core.c:496:24: error: 'return' with a value, in function returning void [-Werror=return-type] 496 | return true; | ^~~~ block/blk-core.c:488:20: note: declared here 488 | static inline void bio_check_ro(struct bio *bio) | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: some warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:250: block/blk-core.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:500: block] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:2005: .] Error 2

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Driver for Nvidia Geforce GTX 760
by Andy Pieters 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

Hi I'm trying to upgrade my 5.18.10 system and the DKMS build is failing for my NVIDIA driver. To debug it I have tried to compile the driver separately out of DKMS, but the issue that keeps coming up with the new kernel (6.2.6) is [1] Sadly, though, my card cannot run a more recent version of the driver. When I compile e.g. the 5xx driver I get a message: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 GPU installed in this system is NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 470.xx Legacy drivers. Please NVRM: visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more So it seems that I am stuck on having to use the 470x drivers, the latest one available from Nvidia is 470.161.03, which fails to compile on Kernel >=6 So what can I do? Stay on Kernel 5.18.10 or is it likely that NVidia or the community will provide a fix for the issue in [1]? Many thanks [1] CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-p2p.o /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-acpi.c:84:19: error: initialization of ‘void (*)(struct acpi_device *)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int (*)(struct acpi_device *, int)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] 84 | .remove = nv_acpi_remove_two_args, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-acpi.c:84:19: note: (near initialization for ‘nv_acpi_driver_template.ops.remove’) /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-dma.c:963: warning: "IMPORT_SGT_STUBS_NEEDED" redefined 963 | #define IMPORT_SGT_STUBS_NEEDED 0 | /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-dma.c:957: note: this is the location of the previous definition 957 | #define IMPORT_SGT_STUBS_NEEDED 1 | /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-mmap.c: In function ‘nv_encode_caching’: /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-mmap.c:348:16: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] 348 | if (NV_ALLOW_CACHING(memory_type)) | ^ /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-mmap.c:351:9: note: here 351 | default: | ^~~~~~~ CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-pat.o CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-procfs.o CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-procfs-utils.o CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-usermap.o CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-vm.o cc1: some warnings being treated as errors CC [M] /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-vtophys.o make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:252: /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build/nvidia/nv-acpi.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [Makefile:2021: /some/where/sources/nvidia/trunk/src/nvidia/470.161.03/build] Error

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5.19 archinstall script
by Jude DaShiell 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

I tried using that script and couldn't get off the language line. The arrow keys didn't work and espeak didn't indicate what keys to use to move down the list of configuration options. Has archinstall been improved since then? 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 (Author, 1940) .

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zenity notifications not available in latest PKGBUILD 3.44.0-2
by Piscium 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

As a result of the change below zenity notifications are not available anymore. I am using them in a script. This change was just in the PKGBUILD which is still using the same upstream source. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commit/9b3aff4f5b8c189f2b0dd… The commit message points to this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77607 If webkit is not desired, can't notifications be built some other way? yad has notifications too though they are of a different type, for my use case I preferred the zenity ones.

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Re: Orphaning packages
by Genes Lists 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

On 3/14/23 12:50, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > early spring cleanup on my adopted packages: .. > - mdadm Thanks for all the work you've put into Arch Tobias - it is very much appreciated. Of the packages you listed, I sure hope mdadm will be picked up - this quite obviously is a very important one. I'm sure many of us use RAID in various forms. I use MD for RAID-5/6. Be good if someone were to pick this up and keep it in the official repos and not let it drop to AUR. thank you to all those contributing to Arch. regards, gene

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Systems unbootable
by nihilistzsche 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Since I updated a few days ago with kernels 6.2.6 and lts 6.1.19 all of my systems (a pc acting as a headless server with normal kernel, a server with lts kernel, and a laptop with normal kernel) refuse to boot. While trying to diagnose the server, it gets stuck on “Attempting to mount root”, which is a btrfs partition on an lvm volume. If I boot into a rescue usb, all of my partitions mount successfully. I’ve tried downgrading the kernel inside the rescue environment with no change, so I don’t believe it to be a kernel problem. Journalctl holds no answers. I can’t boot into rescuemode without usb either as it gets stuck trying to mount the root. Any clue what could possibly be causing this? It’s not a problem with impatience I left the server running for thirteen hours a day or so ago with it being unable to mount root. Sent from my iPhone

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[ibus][st] ibus 28 to 26 downgrade tip on st
by Rasmus Liland 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Hello! To arch people using suckless st with ibus and vim like myself: I found that upgrading to ibus 1.5.28 causes _something_ to break when using st, which can be solved by downgrading to e.g. 1.4.26 [1]. I find it hard to debug/provide insight on what is different now ... ibus worked in firefox but not in st, similar to what Vofan described back in 2021 [2]. I thought this might be caused by (1) upgrading from st-0.8.5 to st-0.9.0, (2) st-font2-20190416-ba72400.diff failing on st-0.9.0 ... A separate problem showing up at the same time: chinese characters does not display, for which the ttf-arphic-ukai package has been sufficent before. Solution: install noto-fonts-cjk ... I'm not satisfied with this solution, and I'm not sure this is why it worked, because my *font2 looks like, i.e. I define the ttf-arphic-ukai font from ukai.ttc ... Also, I added the -R flag in the .xinitrc exports [5], and somehow after reading some other thread than [2] decided to export the same to zsh in .zshrc.local [4] ... Also github does not work in suckless surf anymore ... and surf-2.0 works better than the new surf-2.1, which makes me feel dumb. Why can't I get the patches working right ... This might seem like mulitiple issues occurring at the same time, or a mix of separate issues ... I'm happy the old downgrading mentality still works somehow on these many random upgrade problems since I've used arch since way over ten years. Best, Rasmus 👍🏻 [1] doas pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-m17n-1.4.18-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-sunpinyin-3.0.0rc1+32+gf39c195-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ibus-1.5.26-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libibus-1.5.26-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=263381 [3] static char *font2[] = { "Liberation Mono:style=Bold:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "AR PL UKai CN:style=Book:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "JoyPixels:style=Regular:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true", "NotoEmoji Nerd Font Mono:style=Book:pixelsize=18:antialias=true:autohint=true" }; [5] ibus-daemon -rxR & export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus export XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -rxR" [4] export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus QT_IM_MODULE=ibus XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus XIM_PROGRAM="/usr/bin/ibus-daemon -rxR"

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NVIDIA issues with laptops and external monitors
by Giovanni Santini 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hi all, I've decided to fix my Xorg issue today and I solved as per my message here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2090064#p2090064 Meanwhile, I did some web searching and found all of these: - https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/error-gpu-idling-display-engine-timed… - https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.bugs.dist/c/NmUU4ck8k1E - https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/419 I am curious where we can "open a bug" towards NVIDIA, if anyone did that already. Also, should I link it to an Arch bug report so that maintainers can track it? Bests, Giovanni

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Wifi Networking Regression in linux-6.2.3
by David Bohman 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

There is a fairly serious regression in linux-6.2.3 that kills wifi: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?…

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Re: Microphone is not working with Microsoft Teams
by Sadeep Madurange 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

On 2023-03-13 12:38:56, L. Rose wrote: > > > On 13. Mar 2023, at 08:04, Sadeep Madurange <sadeep(a)asciimx.com> wrote: > > > > I tried replacing pipewire-alsa with pipewire-pulse (based on Arch > > wiki), and installing them side-by-side as you recommended. Both these > > make the sound system stop working altogether. > > That's weird, because I'm using pipewire-alsa, pipewire-pulse and > pipewire-jack in parallel with the default configuration on multiple > machines. Any custom configuration or special packages on your side? I don't think I have any special config. Audio has been a bit of trouble from the beginning on this workstation. It's a ThinkPad X1. Perhaps it might help to give a bit of a background on what triggered the issue. Initially, the mic was working fine. What I had installed was ALSA, pipewire and pavucontrol. Recently, I got a bluetooth earphones. So, I installed the bluez-util pkg to connect to the earphones. Then, I removed pavucontrol, installed pipewire-alsa. My bluetooth earphone audio was working fine, and on the same day, the mic on teams (on Vivaldi web browser) worked as well. By the next day, it had stopped working (probably because of rebooting). Even for Slack web app mic was not working. Then, I removed Vivaldi, all the chromium config, and installed chromium browser. Then, mic started working for Slack, but not for teams. When I try to use teams on Firefox, mic works. But, my audio no longer works. All I hear when someone speaks is static. What a mess this app is... -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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how to configure networking
by Rino Mardo 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

as a test, i installed in qemu archlinux to make sure i won't be left with an installation that have no network configured. during install, the nic was configured and am able to update the repo online. after install, my archlinux vm have no configured networking! why is that? how do i make sure that networking works after an installation?

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archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync returns 87 errors
by Łukasz Michalski 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Hi, After last week update archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync service is failing after update with 87 errors like this: Refreshing key 3E80CA1A8B89F69CBA57D98A76A5EF9054449A5C with UID pierre(a)archlinux.org... gpg: error retrieving 'pierre(a)archlinux.org' via WKD: Server indicated a failure gpg: error reading key: Server indicated a failure It seems it cannot refresh anything. Anyone has similar problems? Network on my side works fine... Regards, Łukasz

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Libssl error with dotnet sdk
by Sadeep Madurange 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

I apologize in advance for the noise as this may well be an issue with dotnet. I'm trying to build a project that uses SDK version 3.1. When I ran the build command, I got the error "No usable version of libssl was found". Installing libssl-1.1 let me get past this error. But now I'm getting the following error making me wonder if I need to do anything more than just installing libssl-1.1: Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 16.7.2+b60ddb6f4 for .NET Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Determining projects to restore... Terminating plugin 'CredentialProvider.Microsoft' due to an unrecoverable fault: NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.ProtocolException: A plugin protocol exception occurred. ---> NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.ProtocolException: The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception. at NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.OutboundRequestContext`1.HandleFault(Message fault) at NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.MessageDispatcher.OnMessageReceived(Object sender, MessageEventArgs e) at NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.Connection.OnMessageReceived(Object sender, MessageEventArgs e) at NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.Receiver.FireMessageReceivedEvent(Message message) at NuGet.Protocol.Plugins.StandardOutputReceiver.OnLineRead(Object sender, LineReadEventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- -- Regards, Sadeep PGP: 103BF9E3E750BF7E

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Dual Root setup
by Genes Lists 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

I know there's lots of info available about dual boot - but not much I could find on Dual Root. What is Dual Root? This is a machine with 2 "root" disks where the second one is a hot standby - in event of root disk failure the second disk can be booted very quickly. This makes recovering very fast and thereafter replacing the bad drive and rebuilding very straightforward. And no new install needed! I have now set this up on a few machines and its working well - so I wrote up some notes and am sharing them in case others who may be interested in doing something similar might find them useful. My notes explaining how to do this are available here: https://github.com/gene-git/blog best gene

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Dino Arch Package
by Polarian 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hello, I notice you have not been updating the Dino arch linux package, and it is now been a few months. Is there any reason for this package being delayed. I have onlisted this and sent this directly to the maintainer, so if any others know the reasons they can respond too. If the package is not going to be maintained, could it be moved into the AUR so I can adopt it and show it some love :) Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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amdgpu issue: where to report?
by Giovanni Santini 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hi everyone, I am currently having multiple issues with my latpop, which has an integrated AMD C+GPU and an NVIDIA discrete card. The main problem I have is that the GPU freaks out of nowhere and start blanking. I noticed this happens mostly in Wayland, in X11 instead I have a missing monitor in my multi-monitor setup. I got the system logs from journalctl and I am wondering whether I should open an issue against ArchLinux "linux" package, the "amdgpu" one or shoul I contact upstream directly. I think one of the first two is best, I wanted to double check. Bests, Giovanni

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[arch-general] thunar reporting no gvs on wayland/wayfire
by Javier 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hi ! For those using thunar or nemo under wayland, but not through gnome neither kde, do you know how to make them work with gvfs. On thunar, at least on advanced preferences I can see a big note on yellow warning about the lack of gvfs. On Xorg, with LXQt, thunar doesn't complain at all, and show the trash, and the FS correctly, of course no warnings about gvfs on the advanced preferences. I have gvfs and a bunch of its plugins already installed. An alternative is using nautilus, but it's not respecting $GDK_DPI_SCALE env var, and the gsettings for gnome do not work, so I can't really read the tiny letters. But it does show the trash, so I guess no problems with it. Any one using a gui file manager, hopefully gtk, with gvfs, under wayland/wayfire, and working fine? Thanks ! -- Javier

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What is/are the IPv4 addresses used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Arch devs, What is/are the IPv4 address(es) used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables not to block them so my logs quit filling up with errors. I cloned the source (pyhon...) and looked, but my feeble python skills were unable to find where the addresses or domains were listed (other than the @..... e-mail address domains for verification purposes) They may change? That is one challenge the use of varying cloud or service provider may pose. Failing there being any fixed set, I guess I could tcpdump the traffic, but if there is a list of IPs that the keyring sync uses, that would be the easiest way to go. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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6.2 Module Build - all good except for nvidia-390xx
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

All, Follow-up from a recent thread on 6.2 kernel module builds. All Arch package modules built fine, as did 6.1 branch of virtualbox. However the nvidia-390xx driver fails to build with: nv-gpu-numa.c:232:47: warning: cast between incompatible function types from XXX to YYY (long type salad omitted) 232 | nv_dir_context_t ats_ctx = { .ctx.actor = (filldir_t)filldir_get_memblock_id }; nv-acpi.c:77:19: error: initialization of ‘void (*)(struct acpi_device *)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int (*)(struct acpi_device *, int)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] 77 | .remove = nv_acpi_remove_two_args, The upside is it is a -Werror trip of a warning into an error so there may be a path to work around from a compiler option standpoint, but I've yet to look into that or an actual patch yet. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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One to remember linux 6.1.12.arch1-1 and linux-lts 6.1.13-1
by David C. Rankin 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

All, This is the first time I can remember since 2009 that LTS is ahead of the regular kernel: linux 6.1.12.arch1-1 linux-lts 6.1.13-1 Here is to hoping 6.2 doesn't bring a lot of surprises and kernel module issues... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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pacman -Syu fails - python-augeas (existing files) needed by certbot-apache?
by David C. Rankin 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

All, Update of a server failed today with: (35/35) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__init__.py exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. The python-augeas package is needed by certbot-apache. How to resolve the conflict? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Alacritty crashes on start
by Paul Schaefer 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hey, a few days ago, I updated my old system. Since this update Alacritty refuses to start on Sway. When started, it crashes with the following message: [wayland-client error] Attempted to dispatch unknown opcode 0 for wl_shm, aborting. [1] 723599 IOT instruction (core dumped) alacritty If I start Alacritty on X(-Wayland) by setting WAYLAND_DISPLAY= , everything works fine. On my second machine (using the same software combination) Alacritty just works. Can you help me debugging this issue? Thank you!

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Status of paraview package
by Åsmund Ervik 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hi, The paraview package is at version 5.10 and has been flagged as out-of-date since October. Are there any blockers for updating the package to 5.11? Regards, Åsmund

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vim 9.0 bash syntax highlight broken for large if [ cond ]; then ... else ... fi block
by David C. Rankin 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

All, After the vim 9.0 update the syntax highlight in my .bashrc is off for: if [ "$EUID" -eq 0 ]; then ## suff else ## sudo stuff fi (generic blocks used in both user/root .bashrc) Where about a dozen alias set for various combinations of systemctl and pacman commands are set. Before this past time looking at the .bashrc, highlight had been fine (don't know if that was 1, 2, 3 months ago), but now it is hosed. Image of the wonky highlight: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/89a2016e0483 (good 24 hours) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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libmysofa-1.3.1-2 hidden and breaks pipewire - with fix
by Genes Lists 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Problem: This package is available in community, but pacman cannot find it - which breaks pipewire-audio due to missing soname depends. pacman only finds 1.3.1-1 which is missing the needed provides. Cause: The reason appears to be that while the package is available, it was not added to the repo database - effectively hiding the package. I've heard of quite a few folks who've been bitten by this. Fix: add this to the repo Anyway fix should be quick and easy :) thanks. gene

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I think I found a quite severe bug, what is the next step?
by Storm Dragon 19 Feb '23

19 Feb '23

Howdy, I started this new topic, because I think we have gone from weird quirk to serious bug. Fenrir, in the console, uses /dev/vcsa and /dev/vcsu. Here is the output of ls -l for each of them: [storm@mjollnir dev] $ ls -1l vcsa* crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 128 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 129 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa1 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 130 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa2 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 131 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa3 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 132 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa4 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 133 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa5 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 134 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa6 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 135 Feb 15 18:30 vcsa7 [storm@mjollnir dev] $ ls -1l vcsu* crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 64 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 65 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu1 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 66 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu2 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 67 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu3 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 68 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu4 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 69 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu5 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 70 Feb 15 18:30 vcsu6 crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 71 Feb 15 18:30 mcsu7 And now, things get interesting: [storm@mjollnir dev] $ sudo \cat /dev/vcsa cat: /dev/vcsa1: No such device or address Same for /dev/vcsu also including 1-7 for each of them. Other tests I tried. Importing them with python results the same for vcsa and vcsu: [root@mjollnir ~]# python Python 3.10.9 (main, Dec 19 2022, 17:35:49) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> useVCSA = os.access('/dev/vcsa', os.R_OK) >>> print(useVCSA) True >>> vcsa= open("/dev/vcsa",'rb') >>> d = vcsa.read() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OSError: [Errno 6] No such device or address >>> I hope I have provided enough information. I'm kind of stuck at this point. What should I do next? This happened yesterday after updates. I can add the pacman logs from yesterday if those are needed. Thanks, Storm

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Re: Miracast help?
by Giovanni Santini 19 Feb '23

19 Feb '23

Hi Petr, Re-adding the mailing list to the conversation :) Didn't quote your previous email as I may have a more fundamental issue. So, I have checked my WiFi card via the command here: https://github.com/albfan/miraclecast/blob/master/res/miracle-utils.sh#L112 it seems to not support P2P mode nor commands. Are those required for connecting to a Miracast device? I believed that as long as the card understand the packages it should work and the card seems to have support for RX / TX of P2P-client, P2P-go and P2P-device frames. It mentions also the command "start_p2p_device" as supported. Bests, / Giovanni

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TTY behaving strangely after yesterday update
by Storm Dragon 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Howdy, I use the fenrir screen reader, and after updating yesterday, it will no longer work in the console. I have tested it in a PTY, and it works fine there, so it's not a change in the screen reader itself. Also, it is the same version that was being used before the update. Also, interestingly, screen gives an error when I launch it now. It did not used to do this, but it flashes up an error that I can't review because it's gone as quickly as it appears. I probably wouldn't have noticed it at all if it wasn't for speakup reading the error. So I'm probably not spelling this exactly, but it sounds like it is saying: /home/storm/.screenrc expected character, x, or ioctl 38 The interesting part from the Fenrir log is, there are quite a few of these errors: ERROR 2023-02-16 06:55:48.420559: VCSA:updateWatchdog:[Errno 6] No such device or address I have checked and all the /dev/vcs stuff is there. It even seems to have the correct permissions and ownership. Here is a sample: crw-rw---- 1 root tty 7, 1 Feb 15 18:30 /dev/vcs1 Does anyone have any idea what may be going on with this? Oh, and I'm using Linux-lts: linux-lts 5.15.94-1 Thanks, Storm

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cannot resolve "libxml"
by Ralf Mardorf 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Hi, isn't the issue shown below worth a comment on "Latest News" and on arch-announce? [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "libxml", a dependency of "yoshimi" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: yoshimi :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] [snip] "libxml (virtual)" - https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/yoshimi/ Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-announce] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention
by Greg Minshall 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

hi. after doing this `pacman -Syu base-devel` (and re-booting), a number of executables can't find some (out dated?) dynamic libraries. below are two lists: - one shows the affected binaries; - the other, just the list of un-found dynamic libraries. any thoughts? (sorry for e-mail formatting; my editor/e-mail program of choice is among the victims! :) (and, sorry for spurious sending to announce list; presumably that was squashed.) cheers, Greg bash archlinux (master): {49544} find /bin/ -type f -perm /a+x -print -exec ldd {} \; 2>&1 | awk 'NF == 1 { bin=$1; next } {print bin " ", $0}' | grep "not found" /bin/bggen libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/bggen libjasper.so.6 => not found /bin/hb-view libchafa.so.0 => not found /bin/tiffdiff libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/links libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/xv libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/xv libjasper.so.6 => not found /bin/dec265 libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found /bin/emacs-28.1.91 libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/r libopenblas.so.3 => not found /bin/tifficc libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/makemhr libmysofa.so.1 => not found /bin/system76-firmware-cli libssl.so.1.1 => not found /bin/system76-firmware-cli libcrypto.so.1.1 => not found /bin/sensord librrd.so.8 => not found /bin/xcmap libtiff.so.5 => not found /bin/xcmap libjasper.so.6 => not found /bin/mpeg2dec libSDL-1.2.so.0 => not found bash archlinux (master): {49545} find /bin/ -type f -perm /a+x -print -exec ldd {} \; 2>&1 | awk 'NF == 1 { bin=$1; next } {print bin " ", $0}' | grep "not found" | awk '{print $2}' | sort -ulibSDL-1.2.so.0 libchafa.so.0 libcrypto.so.1.1 libjasper.so.6 libmysofa.so.1 libopenblas.so.3 librrd.so.8 libssl.so.1.1 libtiff.so.5

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Miracast help?
by Giovanni Santini 12 Feb '23

12 Feb '23

Hi everyone, I am currently figuring out whether I can use WiFi Display / Miracast using my installation. I am able to use the Windows "Connect" option on both my Philips TV and Samsung tablet with no issue. I tried getting the Gnome Network Display app but have no success finding the devices. Is there anything I am missing? Bests, Giovanni

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Update to Glibc 2.37 (possibly) causes coredumps of electron (element-desktop)
by Uwe Sauter 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

Hi folks, I suspect that today's update of glibc causes electron (dependency of element-desktop) to crash. Updated packages this morning: [2023-02-07T07:50:28+0100] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.36-7 -> 2.37-2) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded gcc-libs (12.2.1-1 -> 12.2.1-2) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libelf (0.188-2 -> 0.188-3) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded binutils (2.40-2 -> 2.40-4) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libsysprof-capture (3.46.0-3 -> 3.46.0-4) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded cairo (1.17.6-2 -> 1.17.8-1) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded debuginfod (0.188-2 -> 0.188-3) [2023-02-07T07:50:31+0100] [ALPM] upgraded mpfr (4.2.0-2 -> 4.2.0-3) [2023-02-07T07:50:32+0100] [ALPM] upgraded gcc (12.2.1-1 -> 12.2.1-2) [2023-02-07T07:50:32+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libtool (2.4.7+4+g1ec8fa28-1 -> 2.4.7+4+g1ec8fa28-2) [2023-02-07T07:50:32+0100] [ALPM] upgraded python-cairo (1.23.0-2 -> 1.23.0-3) [2023-02-07T07:50:32+0100] [ALPM] upgraded tmux (3.3_a-2 -> 3.3_a-3) [2023-02-07T07:50:32+0100] [ALPM] upgraded valgrind (3.19.0-6 -> 3.19.0-7) Below is one of the many coredumps that were captured since the update. Does anyone see the same? Can anyone confirm my suspicion? Regards, Uwe $ coredumpctl dump electron PID: 9433 (electron) UID: 1000 (uwe) GID: 1000 (uwe) Signal: 5 (TRAP) Timestamp: Tue 2023-02-07 13:33:29 CET (6min ago) Command Line: $'/usr/lib/electron/electron --disable-dev-mode --profile=private /usr/lib/element/app.asar' Executable: /usr/lib/electron/electron Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-2.scope Unit: session-2.scope Slice: user-1000.slice Session: 2 Owner UID: 1000 (uwe) Boot ID: 9014867f51cc4701ac5cb502c8bb944e Machine ID: fbf3b39530714781a43e127ea27ed859 Hostname: mybox Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.electron.1000.9014867f51cc4701ac5cb502c8bb944e.9433.1675773209000000.zst (present) Size on Disk: 9.1M Message: Process 9433 (electron) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 9433: #0 0x00005607408f49de n/a (electron + 0x52849de) #1 0x00005607408fa56e n/a (electron + 0x528a56e) #2 0x00005607408f476c n/a (electron + 0x528476c) #3 0x0000560740804fae n/a (electron + 0x5194fae) #4 0x0000560740798c4b n/a (electron + 0x5128c4b) #5 0x00005607407b5269 n/a (electron + 0x5145269) #6 0x00005607407b5ad2 n/a (electron + 0x5145ad2) #7 0x000056074076038f n/a (electron + 0x50f038f) #8 0x00007f21c57f282b g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x5582b) #9 0x00007f21c5849cc9 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xaccc9) #10 0x00007f21c57f10e2 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x540e2) #11 0x000056074076002c n/a (electron + 0x50f002c) #12 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #13 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #14 0x000056073f7529ce n/a (electron + 0x40e29ce) #15 0x000056073f754b63 n/a (electron + 0x40e4b63) #16 0x000056073f74fdee n/a (electron + 0x40dfdee) #17 0x000056073d807973 n/a (electron + 0x2197973) #18 0x000056073d808e3a n/a (electron + 0x2198e3a) #19 0x000056073d808bea n/a (electron + 0x2198bea) #20 0x000056073d8058a2 n/a (electron + 0x21958a2) #21 0x000056073d805ff5 n/a (electron + 0x2195ff5) #22 0x000056073d52d983 n/a (electron + 0x1ebd983) #23 0x00007f21c0efd790 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x23790) #24 0x00007f21c0efd84a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2384a) #25 0x000056073d2ce025 _start (electron + 0x1c5e025) Stack trace of thread 9504: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x00005607407f4204 n/a (electron + 0x5184204) #3 0x00005607407f4a40 n/a (electron + 0x5184a40) #4 0x000056074075fad8 n/a (electron + 0x50efad8) #5 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #6 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #7 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #8 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #9 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #10 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #11 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9448: #0 0x00007f21c0fd49df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df) #1 0x000056073fdc644c n/a (electron + 0x475644c) #2 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #3 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #4 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9502: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x0000560740944587 n/a (electron + 0x52d4587) #2 0x0000560740942085 n/a (electron + 0x52d2085) #3 0x00005607408079d7 n/a (electron + 0x51979d7) #4 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #5 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #6 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #7 0x000056073f755ba2 n/a (electron + 0x40e5ba2) #8 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #9 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #10 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #11 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9500: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x0000560740944587 n/a (electron + 0x52d4587) #2 0x0000560740942085 n/a (electron + 0x52d2085) #3 0x00005607408079d7 n/a (electron + 0x51979d7) #4 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #5 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #6 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #7 0x00005607407bf4bb n/a (electron + 0x514f4bb) #8 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #9 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #10 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #11 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9503: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9509: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x00005607443ffaa7 n/a (electron + 0x8d8faa7) #4 0x00005607443fd08a n/a (electron + 0x8d8d08a) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9510: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x00005607443ffaa7 n/a (electron + 0x8d8faa7) #4 0x00005607443fd08a n/a (electron + 0x8d8d08a) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9582: #0 0x00007f21c0fd49df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df) #1 0x00007f21c5849c2f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xacc2f) #2 0x00007f21c57f1d8f g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x54d8f) #3 0x00007f21c510aaec n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0 + 0x10aaec) #4 0x00007f21c581fdb5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x82db5) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9499: #0 0x00007f21c0fab747 wait4 (libc.so.6 + 0xd1747) #1 0x00005607407f290a n/a (electron + 0x518290a) #2 0x00005607407efa24 n/a (electron + 0x517fa24) #3 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9508: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x000056073d52ad8d n/a (electron + 0x1ebad8d) #2 0x000056073d51b914 uv_run (electron + 0x1eab914) #3 0x00005607443ff893 n/a (electron + 0x8d8f893) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9505: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9581: #0 0x00007f21c0fd49df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df) #1 0x00007f21c5849c2f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xacc2f) #2 0x00007f21c57f10e2 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x540e2) #3 0x00007f21c57f1132 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x54132) #4 0x00007f21c581fdb5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x82db5) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9511: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x00005607443ffaa7 n/a (electron + 0x8d8faa7) #4 0x00005607443fd08a n/a (electron + 0x8d8d08a) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9501: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9605: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x0000560740944587 n/a (electron + 0x52d4587) #2 0x0000560740942085 n/a (electron + 0x52d2085) #3 0x00005607408079d7 n/a (electron + 0x51979d7) #4 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #5 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #6 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #7 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9513: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f67930 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8d930) #2 0x000056073d527bf8 uv_sem_wait (electron + 0x1eb7bf8) #3 0x00005607444874b7 n/a (electron + 0x8e174b7) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9609: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9612: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x00005607407f4204 n/a (electron + 0x5184204) #3 0x000056074158c6b5 n/a (electron + 0x5f1c6b5) #4 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9788: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b51a0cd n/a (index.node + 0x4590cd) #2 0x00007f216b517152 n/a (index.node + 0x456152) #3 0x00007f216b5199a4 n/a (index.node + 0x4589a4) #4 0x00007f216b518478 n/a (index.node + 0x457478) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9608: #0 0x00007f21c0fd49df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df) #1 0x00007f21c5849c2f n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xacc2f) #2 0x00007f21c57f10e2 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x540e2) #3 0x00007f216b047fde n/a (libdconfsettings.so + 0x5fde) #4 0x00007f21c581fdb5 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x82db5) #5 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #6 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9617: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x000056073d517f7b n/a (electron + 0x1ea7f7b) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9936: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b159a84 n/a (index.node + 0x98a84) #2 0x00007f216b41f1cd n/a (index.node + 0x35e1cd) #3 0x00007f216b41de64 n/a (index.node + 0x35ce64) #4 0x00007f216b4205f8 n/a (index.node + 0x35f5f8) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9611: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x00005607407f4204 n/a (electron + 0x5184204) #3 0x00005607407f4dc2 n/a (electron + 0x5184dc2) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd33a n/a (electron + 0x515d33a) #7 0x00005607407cd146 n/a (electron + 0x515d146) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9613: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x00005607407f4204 n/a (electron + 0x5184204) #3 0x00005607407f4a40 n/a (electron + 0x5184a40) #4 0x000056074075fad8 n/a (electron + 0x50efad8) #5 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #6 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #7 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #8 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #9 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #10 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #11 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9591: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x00005607407f4204 n/a (electron + 0x5184204) #3 0x00005607407f4dc2 n/a (electron + 0x5184dc2) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd2ea n/a (electron + 0x515d2ea) #7 0x00005607407cd13c n/a (electron + 0x515d13c) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9789: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b51a0cd n/a (index.node + 0x4590cd) #2 0x00007f216b517152 n/a (index.node + 0x456152) #3 0x00007f216b5199a4 n/a (index.node + 0x4589a4) #4 0x00007f216b518478 n/a (index.node + 0x457478) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9610: #0 0x00007f21c0fd49df __poll (libc.so.6 + 0xfa9df) #1 0x00005607407fb96c n/a (electron + 0x518b96c) #2 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #3 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #4 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9618: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x000056073d517f7b n/a (electron + 0x1ea7f7b) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9614: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x000056073d6dddb8 n/a (electron + 0x206ddb8) #2 0x000056073d6a858f n/a (electron + 0x203858f) #3 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #4 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9787: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b51a0cd n/a (index.node + 0x4590cd) #2 0x00007f216b517152 n/a (index.node + 0x456152) #3 0x00007f216b5199a4 n/a (index.node + 0x4589a4) #4 0x00007f216b518478 n/a (index.node + 0x457478) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9619: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x000056073d517f7b n/a (electron + 0x1ea7f7b) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9622: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407cca68 n/a (electron + 0x515ca68) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd2ea n/a (electron + 0x515d2ea) #7 0x00005607407cd13c n/a (electron + 0x515d13c) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9607: #0 0x00007f21c0fd096c read (libc.so.6 + 0xf696c) #1 0x000056073d6d1109 n/a (electron + 0x2061109) #2 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #3 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #4 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9629: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x0000560740944587 n/a (electron + 0x52d4587) #2 0x0000560740942085 n/a (electron + 0x52d2085) #3 0x00005607408079d7 n/a (electron + 0x51979d7) #4 0x00005607407b625e n/a (electron + 0x514625e) #5 0x000056074077d4ba n/a (electron + 0x510d4ba) #6 0x00005607407d38b7 n/a (electron + 0x51638b7) #7 0x00005607407d3a6a n/a (electron + 0x5163a6a) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9723: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9620: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5ef90 pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x84f90) #2 0x000056073d527dea uv_cond_wait (electron + 0x1eb7dea) #3 0x000056073d517f7b n/a (electron + 0x1ea7f7b) #4 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #5 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9930: #0 0x00007f21c0fe21b6 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x1081b6) #1 0x00007f216b404353 n/a (index.node + 0x343353) #2 0x00007f216b403d3c n/a (index.node + 0x342d3c) #3 0x00007f216b3df879 n/a (index.node + 0x31e879) #4 0x00007f216b3f3916 n/a (index.node + 0x332916) #5 0x00007f216b3e984e n/a (index.node + 0x32884e) #6 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #7 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #8 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9725: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9931: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b5350e4 n/a (index.node + 0x4740e4) #2 0x00007f216b53aa2f n/a (index.node + 0x479a2f) #3 0x00007f216b2acc5f n/a (index.node + 0x1ebc5f) #4 0x00007f216b2d29ed n/a (index.node + 0x2119ed) #5 0x00007f216b2abe1b n/a (index.node + 0x1eae1b) #6 0x00007f216b2f74cb n/a (index.node + 0x2364cb) #7 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #8 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #9 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9932: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b5350e4 n/a (index.node + 0x4740e4) #2 0x00007f216b53aa2f n/a (index.node + 0x479a2f) #3 0x00007f216b42216c n/a (index.node + 0x36116c) #4 0x00007f216b424169 n/a (index.node + 0x363169) #5 0x00007f216b41f21f n/a (index.node + 0x35e21f) #6 0x00007f216b41de64 n/a (index.node + 0x35ce64) #7 0x00007f216b4205f8 n/a (index.node + 0x35f5f8) #8 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9933: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b5350e4 n/a (index.node + 0x4740e4) #2 0x00007f216b53aa2f n/a (index.node + 0x479a2f) #3 0x00007f216b426c1c n/a (index.node + 0x365c1c) #4 0x00007f216b4241c2 n/a (index.node + 0x3631c2) #5 0x00007f216b41f21f n/a (index.node + 0x35e21f) #6 0x00007f216b41de64 n/a (index.node + 0x35ce64) #7 0x00007f216b4205f8 n/a (index.node + 0x35f5f8) #8 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9934: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b159a84 n/a (index.node + 0x98a84) #2 0x00007f216b41f1cd n/a (index.node + 0x35e1cd) #3 0x00007f216b41de64 n/a (index.node + 0x35ce64) #4 0x00007f216b4205f8 n/a (index.node + 0x35f5f8) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9935: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b159a84 n/a (index.node + 0x98a84) #2 0x00007f216b41f1cd n/a (index.node + 0x35e1cd) #3 0x00007f216b41de64 n/a (index.node + 0x35ce64) #4 0x00007f216b4205f8 n/a (index.node + 0x35f5f8) #5 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #6 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #7 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9938: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b5350e4 n/a (index.node + 0x4740e4) #2 0x00007f216b53aa2f n/a (index.node + 0x479a2f) #3 0x00007f216b2368e6 n/a (index.node + 0x1758e6) #4 0x00007f216b214841 n/a (index.node + 0x153841) #5 0x00007f216b2183ee n/a (index.node + 0x1573ee) #6 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #7 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #8 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9946: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9948: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd487 n/a (electron + 0x515d487) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 9947: #0 0x00007f21c0f5c766 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x82766) #1 0x00007f21c0f5f294 pthread_cond_timedwait (libc.so.6 + 0x85294) #2 0x00005607407f434b n/a (electron + 0x518434b) #3 0x00005607407f4dd4 n/a (electron + 0x5184dd4) #4 0x00005607407ccac8 n/a (electron + 0x515cac8) #5 0x00005607407cd6ac n/a (electron + 0x515d6ac) #6 0x00005607407cd29a n/a (electron + 0x515d29a) #7 0x00005607407cd132 n/a (electron + 0x515d132) #8 0x00005607407f7fae n/a (electron + 0x5187fae) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) Stack trace of thread 10479: #0 0x00007f21c0fda0dd syscall (libc.so.6 + 0x1000dd) #1 0x00007f216b5350e4 n/a (index.node + 0x4740e4) #2 0x00007f216b29a04e n/a (index.node + 0x1d904e) #3 0x00007f216b29a462 n/a (index.node + 0x1d9462) #4 0x00007f216b29abba n/a (index.node + 0x1d9bba) #5 0x00007f216b2f56aa n/a (index.node + 0x2346aa) #6 0x00007f216b2ac441 n/a (index.node + 0x1eb441) #7 0x00007f216b2f6f04 n/a (index.node + 0x235f04) #8 0x00007f216b540023 n/a (index.node + 0x47f023) #9 0x00007f21c0f5fbb5 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x85bb5) #10 0x00007f21c0fe1d90 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x107d90) ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

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glibc update breaks xorg on nvidia 390 (was: System Update Today Broke Lightdm )
by Lone_Wolf 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

On 09-02-2023 06:56, "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 2/8/23 15:20, arch(a)howorth.org.uk wrote: >> Can't you just install the required version of glibc [1] to build the >> drivers, or does that lead to other incompatibilities >> >> [1] As discussed e.g at >> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/847179/multiple-glibc-libraries-on-a-si… >> > > Damn good idea. > > I'll investigate. In the past, mixing glibc versions was never a > good idea, but so long as you can segregate the build environments, > that may be a solution. > > But then we may run into a kernel-module/kernel glibc complaint? > Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into it. > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. There may be a much better solution, see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283327 Lone_Wolf

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System Update Today Broke Lightdm - Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.??
by David C. Rankin 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

All, Lightdm has been working fine up until pacman update today. After the update, lightdm fails with a garbled screen. The journal shows: Feb 07 00:58:57 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting Light Display Manager... Feb 07 00:59:00 valkyrie systemd[1]: Started Light Display Manager. Feb 07 00:59:00 valkyrie lightdm[782]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Consumed 1.177s CPU time. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 1. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager. Feb 07 00:59:07 valkyrie systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Consumed 1.177s CPU time. Lightdm.log shows the same: [+0.01s] WARNING: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files What changed and what must be done to fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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mpd software group
by Polarian 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Hello, I am not sure if this already exists, but there should be a group of mpd compliant server software, which can be depended on when installing mpd clients. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Split apache package
by Polarian 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

Hello, I would like to make a suggestion for the apache package, I was not too sure which mailing list to put this in, so I picked the general mailing list for the avoidance of doubt :P So the apache package: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/apache/ Currently contains tools which are used by nginx users, and the issue is that is that you can only run one webserver as once, they both are going to try to bind to port 80 and 443 so you got to choose. htpaswd utility is used by nginx users too, and the issue is they have to install the entire apache web server in order to be able to use the single utility. I suggest splitting the package into apache-utils and apache, or, if the maintainer(s) are willing to maintain it, split the utilities into their own separate pacakge and use apache-utils as a group of all the subpackages (htpasswd, htdigest etc). I feel this would be a good change so that nginx users do not need to install the entire apache web server just to use the apache utilities which nginx suggests to use within their documentation (see https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/security-controls/configuring-http…) As you can see in the guide, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS and Oracle Linux already have seen this issue within their own repositories and split the packages up, why can't arch linux? Thanks for reading this suggestion, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Detected unsafe path transition when creating chroot
by Polarian 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hello, So recently I wrongly diagnosed a package as being broken based on this issue until I realised it was my chroot. Due to the doas issue I have with dev tools, I use a manual chroot using the following steps, I will use (# to denote root and $ to denote unpriviliged) 1. Make the directory $ mkdir chroot I made this in the home directory of my user, polarian 2. Install the base system # pacstrap chroot base base-devel This will install the base system and also the base-devel tools used for building packages. but when doing this recently I have been getting the following issues: Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib/dbus. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/dbus. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /etc (owned by root) during canonicalization of /etc. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/lock. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/sudo. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd/netif. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib/systemd. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/cache. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/lib/tpm2-tss/system. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /run (owned by root) during canonicalization of /run/tpm2-tss. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /var (owned by root) during canonicalization of /var/log/journal/remote. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/snd/seq. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/snd/timer. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/loop-control. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/net/tun. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/fuse. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/kvm. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/vhost-net. Detected unsafe path transition / (owned by 1000) → /dev (owned by root) during canonicalization of /dev/vhost-vsock. During the pacstrap install... this happens when installing built packages inside my chroot, which resulted in me going mental yesterday and breaking a package... badly... (I should have taken a break). Anyways does any have any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you, Polarian -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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glibc 2.37 release
by Frederik Schwan 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Glibc 2.37 is about to be released to [testing]. Please be aware that any package that links against the 2.37 libc has to stay in testing for as long as glibc stays there. Otherwise breakage will be imminent. Best regards, Frederik

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TU contact emails?
by Polarian 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hello, So I have noticed every TU gets given their own @archlinux.org email address, but I am unsure what are the conventions when it comes to contacting TU members. Some TUs still use their personal emails a lot (especially within the mailing lists), so how am I meant to know which email to email, either the @archlinux.org email or their personal email when it comes to contacting them about arch-related issues? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Why does new php conflict with older php-intl packages? Workaround?
by David C. Rankin 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

All, I have a requirement for an older version of php for a groupware package that isn't yet updated. The last system update to php8.2 created a new conflict with php-intl. Why? and how best to work around the new conflict? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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State of Netbeans package
by Jens Pelzetter 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Hello everyone, I'm using NetBeans as IDE for Java development. In the past, the NetBeans package in Arch Linux was updated soon after the NetBeans project published a new release. But now the NetBeans package is flagged as out-of-date since September. But there are no bugs in the bug tracker that show that there are technical issues which prevent an update. Is there of lack of resources on the side of the maintainer, or what is the reason that the package hasn't been updated yet? Because if the package will not be updated in the near future, I may either switch to the AUR package, or to download NetBeans directly from Apache. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience yet with creating packages for Arch Linux. If I had already some experience with building packages for Arch Linux, I may would be interested in supporting the maintainers of the NetBeans package, or even taking over the maintainer role for the package if the package is looking for a new maintainer. But I'm also not sure if I have the time resources for maintaining such a package. Best, Jens

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Network Bridge - Do not pass back to router
by Polarian 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Hello, So my current setup on my server is a network bridge (br0) with a physical interface as a slave to the bridge. I deploy lxc containers using the bridge, it is not a NAT bridge, and thus DHCP is used to lease an address from the physical router in which the server is connected to. My issue is, each LXC container can communicate with one another over the bridge, this means as I have an Arch mirror in a container, I can pull packages close to the SATA limit (just under 6gbps). However when the host wants to pull from the Arch mirror, it passes back to the router and then back to the server then to the bridge to the LXC container. I am not very experienced with virtual interfaces, but I would like the server to stop wasting router resources passing packets back to the router just to be passed back into itself. Any advice would be useful. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Meshroom: Strange rendering problem in save dialog
by Peter Nabbefeld 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hello, when I want to save sth. in meshroom, there's a strange rendering problem: I can see changes only after switching to another workspace and back again, effectively causing re-rendering of the screen. As I don't have this behaviour with other file dialogs, I'd guess there's some problem with meshroom or one of the Python libraries? Kind regards, Peter

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Starting meshroom
by Peter Nabbefeld 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hello, after installing community/meshroom, I'm looking for how to start it. Following https://meshroom-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/first-steps/install/index.… I looked for some Meshroom command, but couldn't find it. What am I doing wrong? Kind regards, Peter

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Unofficial arch ports within the ArchWiki?
by Polarian 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hello, I was looking at Arch Linux Arm's (ALARM) website and I realised, a lot of their support just points right back to the ArchWiki. I thought the ArchWiki was only designed for the official distribution (Arch Linux) and not any other ports for other architectures? Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle
by mick howe 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to connect my two desktops and random Raspberry Pi and Arduinos to the 'modem' & the internet. That raises two problems: I don't know anything about wifi except for my Acer Nitro 5 just asked for a password then worked. The only brand of wifi hardware sold by any of the local shops is TP-Link brand. I have one of their Archer T3U AC1300 dongles that is listed as might work. I tried to build it on the laptop with aur but the package errors with 'ERROR: Missing xxx kernel headers for module rtl88x2bu/5.13.1r179.a2ac3b2' where xxx is one of a list including sys, srv, boot, home, etc, bin, rootfs-pkgs.txt, desktopfs-pkgs.txt, run, usr, lib, dev, lost+found, lib64, tmp, opt, proc, mnt, sbin, var, root I tried to build the driver on the desktop but makepkg immediately crashed because I have no internet connection. The laptop is 6 months more up-to-date than the desktops that have been in storage. What I'm looking for is 1. a way to build the driver for the Archer T3U and/or 2. the make/model of a dongle that will work and/or 3. other options? I have tried Ether of Power setup but the basement my daughter has relegated me to is on a different circuit to the rest of the house. please help mick in the dungeon

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Where can I get last source pkg for hylafax before it was dropped in 2021?
by David C. Rankin 28 Jan '23

28 Jan '23

Archdevs, Where can I get the last sourcepkg used to pkg hylafax for Arch before hylafax was dropped from Arch? This was hylafax 6.0.7-4, e.g. with full info: Name : hylafax Version : 6.0.7-4 Description : Fax Server Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://www.hylafax.org/ Licenses : custom Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : libtiff pam ghostscript Optional Deps : None Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 3.84 MiB Packager : Antonio Rojas <arojas(a)archlinux.org> Build Date : Fri 23 Apr 2021 02:00:05 AM CDT Install Date : Fri 23 Apr 2021 03:45:09 AM CDT Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : Yes Validated By : Signature The issue being that libtiff 4.5 completely broke hylafax. There are two packages bandaiding this, AUR hylafaxplus and the custom patched version for libtiff at: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/504#note_1229203232 with an upcoming new release for hylafax+ on sourceforge that resolves the issue with the exports removed from libtiff. My issue is I need the setup for the last hylafax packaged by Arch to prevent configuration issues. How can I get a copy of the last source package for hylafax? The forum post from 2009, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164759 is out of date after the move to gitlab. The wiki page on downgrading https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Downgrading_packages still refers to ABS. How to do it today? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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setting time
by Fons Adriaensen 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Hello all, A friend (who is by no means a Linux expert and lives at the other end of the world) is using an Archlinux system that has its date and time completely wrong - the year is 2019. Is using timedatectl set-time a safe way to fix this ? In other words, would a system time jump cause problems ? In the hwclock manpage there is a warning that -s (which also causes the system time to jump) should not be used on a running system, this is why I ask. The alternative would be to set the HW clock in the BIOS. If I understand things correctly, the new system time will then be set when booting. TNX, -- FA

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English language differences
by Polarian 24 Jan '23

24 Jan '23

Hello, So today I have been working on a new ArchWiki page and I have realised that I have never considered the differences in English language when writing the pages. I assume I am meant to stick to US English, but being a Brit we spell things slightly differently, and as it is habit I am not sure what I am meant to do. What is the conventions when it comes to the spellings you use within the ArchWiki pages, and if I accidentally spelt something "non-US English", would it matter too much? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Linux kernel: delay before power-off
by Markus Schaaf 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

Hi all, for a long time now, I'm seeing unclean shutdowns of SATA drives on different machines running Arch. There is a nice write-up about the problem here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170410232118.GA4816@khazad-dum.debian.net/ If you are willing to google with the right keywords, you will find a lot of similar reports all over the interwebs. I can remember a configuration setting for the Linux kernel, which existed in ancient times, to delay the final step of powering off the machine for some time. Is there anything like that in the distributed kernels right now? Any knob I could turn? BR

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new AUR tool - DNSSEC made easy!
by Genes Lists 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

I just uploaded my dns_tools to the AUR [1] and source to github [2]. DNSSEC can be a little tricky to manage but it adds a nice layer of protection for the dns zones for your domain(s). The tool creates and updates keys, signs zonefiles and makes key rolling as automated and simple as possible. There's a reasonably complete README file on github for those who may be interested. Thanks to all the folks contributing and keeping Arch rolling!! regards, gene [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dns_tools [2] https://github.com/gene-git/dns_tools

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About the wiki's CAPTCHA system
by me＠foxt.dev 22 Jan '23

22 Jan '23

Hi all, (apologies if this is not the correct place to post this -- i didn't see anywhere more appropriate) I recently tried to sign up to the Arch wiki, but I was met by the following CAPTCHA. What is the output of: pacman -V|base32|head -1 and I had some issues with this that I'd like to share, while I get the reasons this captcha system was put in place (to prevent spam & to ensure the user is currently using an Arch system), however I don't believe the current captcha is a good solution. First of all, my problem is with the requirement to verify the user is currently using Arch, as the Arch Wiki is a very popular resource in the greater Linux community as a lot of resources apply to software that is commonly seen on other distributions, for example, I wanted to make a change (which I encountered configuring an Arch system) that was useful to everyone who used systemd, anyone, be it an Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, etc user may have found on the Arch wiki. While I think (I'm not sure, anyone is welcome to prove me wrong), the little number of users trying to post good faith, however, off topic, non-Arch related content, should be stopped by having their changes undone, and people who are Arch Linux users may still fail the challenge (i.e. using a non-arch system at the time, using an Arch system with an different version of Pacman.) However, my second larger problem is that it doesn't seem that it'd be a very good spam prevention mechanism. The CAPTCHA seems to be the same for all users, and changes very infrequently. (pacman version 6.0.1 (according to https://archlinux.org/pacman/#_releases, released in September 2021) and 6.0.2 (according to https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/pacman/, released in November 2022) were released over a year apart, so any spammer could define the captcha challenge for the Arch Wiki and post spam for many months. Determined spammers could even write a system to run the command inside a Arch Linux container and cache it until the challenge does not work. Ideally, CAPTCHA systems should be - hard for computers - easy for humans - accessible - unique for every request. The current CAPTCHA system fails every one of those requirements, I'd suggest either using a more common captcha type (such as Google reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha or a generic maths challenge), switching to more human friendly, easily Googleable, but still domain specific questions (i.e. "in which year was the Arch Linux project founded"), less ideal, but you could use commands that always produce the same output (i.e. "uname | base64" should always produce "TGludXgK" on Linux) Thank you.

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Re: RFC: Increase _FORTIFY_SOURCE level to 3
by Genes Lists 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Follow up to my previous note It looks fairly straightforward to identify which applications need to remain on level 2 by checking binaries for those using the malloc_usable_size() call. e.g. $ nm -uD /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-networkd |grep malloc_usable U malloc_usable_size@GLIBC_2.2.5 gene

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Fwd: RFC: Increase _FORTIFY_SOURCE level to 3
by Genes Lists 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

On 1/18/23 19:31, Levente Polyak wrote: > A new RFC (request for comment) has been opened here: > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests/17 > > Please visit the above link for discussion. > > Summary: > > Adjust packaging CFLAGS from -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 to -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 > for better fortification coverage Hi Levente - I'm not permissioned on arch-dev list or gitlab so replying direct + arch-general - hope that's okay. You are likely already aware, but sharing as saw no mention about this in the rfc discussion. There aare these comments from Fedora / Redhat regarding level 3 and systemd not working with it which looks relevant [1] [2] "There are packages (e.g. systemd) that do not interact well with _FORTIFY_SOURCE and will also need a workaround to downgrade fortification to level 2. " and in detail: "_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 revealed another pattern. Applications such as systemd used malloc_usable_size to determine available space in objects and then used the residual space. The glibc manual discourages this type of usage, dictating that malloc_usable_size is for diagnostic purposes only. But applications use the function as a hack to avoid reallocating buffers when there is space in the underlying malloc chunk. The implementation of malloc_usable_size needs to be fixed to return the allocated object size instead of the chunk size in non-diagnostic use. Alternatively, another solution is to deprecate the function. But that is a topic for discussion by the glibc community." regards gene [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Add_FORTIFY_SOURCE%3D3_to_distributi… [2] https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/09/17/gccs-new-fortification-le…

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