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Obfuscation of emails
by Polarian 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Hello, This point is highly controversial within the Arch community, I have seen a lot of people argue either side, but I want to share my opinion on this. Personally I think obfuscation of emails is a complete waste of time, and I am going to explain why. So lets take my email as an example, polarian(a)polarian.dev, people often always obfuscate in the same way: <polarian at polarian dot dev> now what stops a bot from substituting "at" with "@" and "dot" with ".", it is not hard to do, and quite frankly it is a pain to deobfuscate peoples emails within PKGBUILD files when you need to email them to report issues, or get into contact. I have read a lot of pages on the ArchWiki and they all promote obfuscation of emails, have seen discussions on discussing the pros and cons, and not saying obfuscation has no downsides, but none of the discussions amounted to anything. Can we please stop advertising obfuscation of emails, it is counter-productive, we have anti-spam measures, and bots can easily bypass the obfuscation unless you make it more sophisticated, but at that point people won't be able to understand the email and you will be uncontactable. All obfuscation does in my experience, is make it 100x harder for people to report issues, its counter productive in a lot of cases but yet Arch community still advertises. It is up to you personally if you want to obfuscate your email address in PKGBUILDs and other files, but PLEASE can we stop advertising it as a perfect solution to spam, because in many cases, it doesn't even protect you from spam, just is a hindrance for people who genuinely want to contact you. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Re: ROCm in [community]
by Sefa Eyeoglu 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

Hi Torsten, thanks a lot for your work! I am here to ask if it's planned to create a group for these packages. That would make it a lot easier to install all of the (currently available) toolchain at once. Best, Sefa On Fri, 2022-12-23 at 16:20 +0100, Torsten Keßler wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm excited to announce that basic ROCm support was added to > [community-testing] yesterday! > > What is ROCm? > ROCm is AMD's open source framework for GPU programming. It comprises > an > OpenCL implementation, HIP (AMD's CUDA) and OpenMP offloading. > > Which GPUs are supported? > Official support is limited, see [1]. > > Which parts were added to [community-testing]? > The low level components (rocminfo, rocm-smi-lib), the OpenCL runtime > (rocm-opencl-runtime) and the HIP runtime / compiler (hip-runtime- > amd). > > How can I use it? > Install (hip-runtime-amd rocm-smi-lib rocm-opencl-runtime) to use all > currently available packages. First check if the amdgpu kernel module > is > loaded and add your login user to the video and render groups. Run > /opt/rocm/bin/rocminfo to validate that the HSA runtime correctly > detects your hardware. You can also check the output of clinfo for > OpenCL support. > > Use case: blender > First, install hip-runtime-amd and add /opt/rocm/bin to PATH. Open > blender, go to Edit -> Preferences and select "HIP" in "System / > Cycles > Render Devices". Open your favorite scene and select "GPU compute" in > "Render Properties". You can monitor the GPU load with > > watch -n.1 rocm-smi > > if you've installed rocm-smi-lib. > > What's next? > Add the ROCm math libraries (rocblas, rocsparse, rocfft, ..) that are > needed for Machine Learning and many other applications. > > Best! > Torsten > > [1] > https://docs.amd.com/bundle/Hardware_and_Software_Reference_Guide/page/Hard…

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Mailing list to discuss ArchWiki?
by Polarian 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

Hello, I have realised a lot of the ArchWiki discussions are very empty, and have not been used for years for some of the pages. At first I thought this was because the pages were just not edited very often, but now I have realised that even the most popular pages do not have many discussions. Is there a mailing list for the ArchWiki, or do ArchWiki memebers use an alternative form of discussion to discuss wiki related subjects? Thank you, Polarian

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Storage size of the ArchWiki
by Polarian 08 Jan '23

08 Jan '23

Hello, This is a bit of a random question, does anyone have an approximation or the actual size of the entire of the ArchWiki. This is not useful in the slightest, but I am genuinely curious to see how huge it would be, probably because of autism and weird obsession with numbers, but it would be cool to know. Thanks, Polarian

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kernel 6.1 : suspend/resume problem - s2idle interference
by SET 07 Jan '23

07 Jan '23

Hi, I am requesting help for a suspend/resume problem on a laptop since kernel 6.1. The laptop randomly goes in s2idle mode instead of deep. Resuming from s2idle is the problem, it would most often result in a black screen, magic keys don't work and there's no choice than a hard reboot. The cycles below are grepped from everything.log (using syslog-ng). Jan 2 09:04:02 asus0 kernel: [ 272.442844] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) Jan 2 09:07:24 asus0 kernel: [ 81.496530] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) Jan 2 09:07:36 asus0 kernel: [ 94.219950] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:13:43 asus0 kernel: [ 74.020096] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:13:53 asus0 kernel: [ 78.968818] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:27:03 asus0 kernel: [ 831.165661] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:27:12 asus0 kernel: [ 835.967426] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:29:54 asus0 kernel: [ 103.750713] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:30:12 asus0 kernel: [ 122.122386] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:30:12 asus0 kernel: [ 122.122473] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) Jan 2 09:35:27 asus0 kernel: [ 66.427487] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:35:35 asus0 kernel: [ 71.262239] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:49:10 asus0 kernel: [ 101.216846] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:49:32 asus0 kernel: [ 122.833061] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 09:49:32 asus0 kernel: [ 122.833242] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) Jan 2 09:52:30 asus0 kernel: [ 96.227978] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 09:54:33 asus0 kernel: [ 101.035466] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 10:00:29 asus0 kernel: [ 456.496279] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 10:00:50 asus0 kernel: [ 476.827893] PM: suspend exit Jan 2 10:00:50 asus0 kernel: [ 476.828015] PM: suspend entry (s2idle) Jan 2 10:06:29 asus0 kernel: [ 149.561486] PM: suspend entry (deep) Jan 2 11:46:21 asus0 kernel: [ 155.932575] PM: suspend exit Using 'mem_sleep_default=deep' in '/etc/default/grub' (and grub-mkconfig afterwards) does not alter this behaviour. After removing the above parameter, i.e., the default, /sys/power/mem_sleep contains 's2idle [deep]'. I grant that 'deep' is the default suspend mode, though it does randomly go in 's2idle' on its own. /sys/power/state contains 'freeze mem disk'. After reverting to kernel 6.0.12-arch1, suspend/resume works normally, as it always did. I'm out of ideas for a fix, and would appreciate any clues. Some hardware specs : AMD Ryzen 5 2500U with Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c4) Thank you.

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Keyboard layout does not persist in /etc/vconsole.conf
by Björn Försterling 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

Hello, After finishing the Arch Linux installation (without desktop environment or X11) I can't make the keyboard layout persistent. (I am using the 01/2023 ISO as installation medium) I have set the keyboard layout to de-latin1 in /etc/vconsole.conf. This is the content of /etc/vconsole.conf: KEYMAP=de-latin1 Usually this works and the keyboard layout is permanent. But somehow systemd does not read it and after every reboot I am back to US layout. I tried to set the keyboard layout through a kernel parameter like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet vconsole.keymap=de-latin1" But it did not solve the issue. According to pstree systemd should be the init system. Does someone have an idea what could've gone wrong in the installation process? Regards Björn

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Arch Keyring Up To Date but Errors in journal?
by David C. Rankin 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

All, I saw a handful of Archlinux gpg errors in the journal and thought my arch keyring must need updating, so I issued the command to update the keyring -- and it was up to date: # pacman -Sy --needed archlinux-keyring :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date cingg is up to date warning: archlinux-keyring-20221220-1 is up to date -- skipping there is nothing to do Why do I still see key Arch gpg errors in the journal, e.g.: Dec 30 22:47:56 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90563]: gpg: error retrieving 'alucryd(a)archlinux.org' via WKD: Connection timed out Dec 30 22:47:56 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90563]: gpg: error reading key: Connection timed out Dec 30 22:47:56 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90310]: Skipping key 42DFAFB7C03B2E4E7BBDBA69930B82BFC2BDA011 with UID muflone(a)vbsimple.net... Dec 30 22:47:56 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90310]: Refreshing key 42DFAFB7C03B2E4E7BBDBA69930B82BFC2BDA011 with UID muflone(a)archlinux.org... Dec 30 22:48:11 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90566]: gpg: error retrieving 'muflone(a)archlinux.org' via WKD: Connection timed out Dec 30 22:48:11 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90566]: gpg: error reading key: Connection timed out Dec 30 22:48:11 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90310]: Skipping key 42DFAFB7C03B2E4E7BBDBA69930B82BFC2BDA011 with UID muflone(a)muflone.com... Dec 30 22:48:11 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90310]: Skipping key 75BD80E4D834509F6E740257B1B73B02CC52A02A with UID diabonas(a)master-key.archlinux.org... Dec 30 22:48:11 valkyrie archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync[90310]: Refreshing key 8A9BC5819C54FEB3DC2A9B48C32217F6F13FF192 with UID xyproto(a)archlinux.org... And the real question -- do I need to fix part of the keyring, or is this just temporary noise? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Pacman in a panel?
by ilpiko2 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

Hi, in a video i watched it's possible allocate pacman (from terminal) in panel recallable with a click. This in Wayland. It's possible in Xfce? Ty Marco

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Arch device not showing up when attempting to install
by Polarian 04 Jan '23

04 Jan '23

Hello, So my friend is trying to install Arch Linux, and he has ran into an issue I can not find a solution to, the Arch Threads on this issue has the typical "Fixed" one word solution, which doesn't ever explain HOW they fixed it. Does anyone know what causes this following error: /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202212 device did not show up after 30 seconds. This is after booting to the USB stick and then the grub bootloader, but when attempting to boot to the Arch Installation media the error above occurs. I have tried it with the latest archiso 202301 and it had the same issue, so that is why I tried to use the last version (which I used to install Arch Linux on one of my personal devices, thus I know the iso works) but yet the same issue still occurs. I got a feeling its the flashing tool which is the issue, I always use dd on linux, but my friend uses windows and he has tried both rufus and balena etcher, both of which have the same exact issue. He has cleaned the USB stick using diskpart (wipe partitions) to ensure that the USB is completely clean before flashing to see if that was an issue, same issue still occurs. If anyone knows what could be causing this, it would be very helpful :) Polarian

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Re: python-packaging 22.0 removed from [testing]
by Genes Lists 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

On 1/3/23 14:51, Felix Yan wrote: > Hi all, > > python-packaging 22.0 was removed from [testing] due to incompatibility > with setuptools [1]. > > [1] https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/discussions/3722 > Felix - Thanks for letting us know and reverting. I did see problems ( version rather than legacy_version as per above issue) - but perhaps same underlying problem ) But you had reverted and fixed it so fast I didn't pursue. Thank you gene This is the last couple lines I see of first exception: ... import setuptools File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 36, in <module> __version__ = setuptools.version.__version__ AttributeError: partially initialized module 'setuptools' has no attribute 'version' (most likely due to a circular import)

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DMARC report generator now in AUR - (was dmarc failures)
by Genes Lists 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Continuing the spirit of giving back to the community, I have uploaded my "dmarc_report" tool to github [1] and the aur [2]. Code is written in python and source is on github. It generates a human readable dmarc report from 1 or more of the standard dmarc xml email reports (plain or zip/gzip compressed). Way I use it is: in thunderbird I select all the email reports and bulk save them to a directory. I then use a ripMIME to pull the xml reports out of the saved email files. With all the compressed xml files in one directory I just run report tool in same directory. Then just run: dmarc-rpt Hope others find it useful too. best gene [1] https://github.com/gene-git/dmarc_report [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dmarc_report

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Dmarc failures
by Polarian 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hello, So I have very strict DMARC settings on my domain, so I am aware I am going to get a lot of warnings. I have used "include" in my spf record for polarian.dev to allow lists.archlinux.org to redirect emails (because of mailing list), however DMARC still fails. In most cases DKIM remains untouched, therefore passes, but in a select few cases the DKIM signature was tampered with according to the reports I have gotten back, which is very strange, I assume this is not lists.archlinux.org fault but some people on the list use email proxies which are probably not configured well. DKIM is not the issue though, SPF is. lists.archlinux.org is included, but yet spf still fails, upon further inspection it seems lists.archlinux.org uses 2 different IPv4 addresses, but only one is named in the SPF record, thus failing. Does anyone else have these issues with the arch linux mailing list? Thanks, Polarian

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Documentation on pacman / libalpm package repositories
by Paul Stemmet 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

Hi General, I'm looking for the reference documentation to a pacman / Archlinux http(s) package repository. Specifically, I'm investigating how to host a public repo for the binary artifacts from ceph builds. I'm hoping for a page similar to Debian's on hosting+format [1][2], but any pointers would be much appreciated. Kind regards, and happy new years! Paul Stemmet [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Setup [2]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianRepository/Format -- ~Paul Stemmet email: archlinux.lists at luxolus.com

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custom USB device - Was: Mailing list to discuss ArchWiki?
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

On Wed, 2022-12-28 at 12:58 -0600, mike lojkovic wrote: > There were some helpful posts for creating a multi-OS install disc > that was taken down a few years back. Mainly how to build a custom USB > device that allows one to install Windows, as well as other Linux > OSes. It was not Arch centric; but, it greatly simplified system > administration, and Arch bloat for maintaining such a disc. Hi, I'm using Ventoy [ https://www.ventoy.net/en/isolist.html ] to hold a persistent Xubuntu on a thumb drive. However, it's possible to just copy additional installs to this thumb drive, too. Since my thumb drive is ext formatted, in my case Windows won't work, but ext isn't the default. Maybe this is something similar to what you mentioned. Ok, whatever "Arch bloat" is for, Ventoy doesn't help with maintaining an Arch install, so probably this is not similar to what you mentioned. Ventoy is available either by aur/ventoy-bin https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ventoy-bin or chaotic-aur/ventoy-bin https://aur.chaotic.cx/ The Ventoy developer is subscribed to the Arch forums, https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=133208 . Related to Ventoy the Arch Wiki isn't much of a help, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ventoy . Regards, Ralf

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Re: Arch-general Digest, Vol 4, Issue 13
by Frank LoPinto 25 Dec '22

25 Dec '22

Hello Dave, You can get past this by typing pacman-key --recv-keys 76A5EF9054449A5C This will refresh Pierre Schmitz's key. You can check the key id at https://pierre-schmitz.com/about/gpg-keys/pierre-packager-key/ Merry Christmas! Frank On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 12:03 AM <arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > 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. pacstrap complaining about corrupt package (David N Murray) > 2. Re: pacstrap complaining about corrupt package (Mike Yuan) > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David N Murray <dmurray(a)jsbsystems.com> > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:12:32 -0500 > Subject: pacstrap complaining about corrupt package > > Hi all, > > Trying to install Arch on a new birthday/Christmas present. I'm manually copying this (abbreviated) because I can't figure out how to get the text off the new box: > > # pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware base btrfs-progs intel-ucode nano iw > [snipped the package list and stuff] > :: Retrieving packages... > openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64 ... > (126/126) checking keys in keyring > (126/126) checking package integrity > error: openssl: signature from "Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.org> <pierre(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust > :: File /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). > [failure messages] > > Things I've tried/checked: > * clock on the new box has correct time > * pacman -Syu from another machine. That pulled down a new archlinux-keyring and openssl-3.0.7-4 and it ran fine > * new machine has same mirrorlist that worked with the pacman -Syu > * commented out mirrorlist entries one-at-a-time to see if it was one mirror problem. 5 servers all give the same results. > > The other 125 packages that were downloaded all passed the integrity check (I think). > > Any suggestions? > > TIA, > Dave Murray > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mike Yuan <me(a)yhndnzj.com> > To: David N Murray <dmurray(a)jsbsystems.com> > Cc: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Bcc: > Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:17:14 +0800 > Subject: Re: pacstrap complaining about corrupt package > The keyring shipped in the 2022.12.01 ISO is outdated. You’ll need to > update it using `pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring` first before pacstrap-ping :) > > Hi all, >> >> Trying to install Arch on a new birthday/Christmas present. I'm manually copying this (abbreviated) because I can't figure out how to get the text off the new box: >> >> # pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware base btrfs-progs intel-ucode nano iw >> [snipped the package list and stuff] >> :: Retrieving packages... >> openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64 ... >> (126/126) checking keys in keyring >> (126/126) checking package integrity >> error: openssl: signature from "Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.org> <pierre(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust >> :: File /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). >> [failure messages] >> >> Things I've tried/checked: >> * clock on the new box has correct time >> * pacman -Syu from another machine. That pulled down a new archlinux-keyring and openssl-3.0.7-4 and it ran fine >> * new machine has same mirrorlist that worked with the pacman -Syu >> * commented out mirrorlist entries one-at-a-time to see if it was one mirror problem. 5 servers all give the same results. >> >> The other 125 packages that were downloaded all passed the integrity check (I think). >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> TIA, >> Dave Murray >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > Arch-general mailing list -- arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > To unsubscribe send an email to arch-general-leave(a)lists.archlinux.org >

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pacstrap complaining about corrupt package
by David N Murray 25 Dec '22

25 Dec '22

Hi all, Trying to install Arch on a new birthday/Christmas present. I'm manually copying this (abbreviated) because I can't figure out how to get the text off the new box: # pacstrap /mnt linux linux-firmware base btrfs-progs intel-ucode nano iw [snipped the package list and stuff] :: Retrieving packages... openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64 ... (126/126) checking keys in keyring (126/126) checking package integrity error: openssl: signature from "Pierre Schmitz<pierre(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust :: File /mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssl-3.0.7-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). [failure messages] Things I've tried/checked: * clock on the new box has correct time * pacman -Syu from another machine. That pulled down a new archlinux-keyring and openssl-3.0.7-4 and it ran fine * new machine has same mirrorlist that worked with the pacman -Syu * commented out mirrorlist entries one-at-a-time to see if it was one mirror problem. 5 servers all give the same results. The other 125 packages that were downloaded all passed the integrity check (I think). Any suggestions? TIA, Dave Murray

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Re: RFC - thoughts about Arch and init freedom? (proposal for comments on arch-general)
by David C. Rankin 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

On 12/16/22 15:46, Andreas Radke wrote: > I suggest to fix this lack of init choice/alternative. I'd like to > implement it into the official Arch Linux repos allowing to choose > some different init replacement. We can either just add a 2nd init > system in the most simple way or allow real init-freedom[3] offering > full choice and leave it up to be further filled by the community. I remember the discussions well. Most of which took place on the arch-general list at the time. It may be helpful to take feedback from the arch-general list, at least to get feedback on the current community thoughts on the matter. For me, I think it is a great idea Andreas. While for desktop use systemd has captured a majority of the distros -- and no complaints, the take-it-or-leave-it if you want Arch seems a bit restrictive. While the change from init-scripts to systemd was uncomfortable at the time, the transition was done well. That said, the point made about providing an alternative init to help with implementation on new architectures is well-taken. While systemd does provide a great deal of functionality, it also fairly heavy. Keeping systemd as a default while providing an alternative init for those that would benefit from -- or just like to use -- an alternative init sounds like a solid way to go. Essentially giving Arch the best of both worlds. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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xflock4 doesn't work anymore
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Dec '22

20 Dec '22

Hi, usually I lock the screen of my openbox sessions (no DE) on demand by running xflock4 . Today I locked the screen using dm-tool lock , since xflock4 fails. I don't know when it exactly stopped working. The time frame is between the beginning of last week, until today. pacman.log shows [2022-12-16T13:56:41+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xfce4-session (4.16.0-2 -> 4.18.0-1) I wonder if it's a bug or if some changes require to re/start something etc.. Regards, Ralf

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XMPP support for Arch Linux
by Polarian 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

Hello, So currently there is two methods (which I know of) with communicating with the Arch Community, those are email (mailing list) and IRC (I believe on libera.chat?!?!?). Is there any plans to support XMPP? Thanks, Polarian

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Re: XMPP support for Arch Linux
by Óscar García Amor 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

El vie, 16 dic 2022 a las 10:42, progandy (<admin(a)progandy.de>) escribió: > You seem to have misunderstood xiretza. The channel already exists [1] > and is mentioned in the wiki [2]. Right. I was completely unaware of this. As it does not appear on the main website under the community section, the truth is that I did not even know it existed. In this case maybe what should be done is simply that this information appears where I have commented (IMHO). Greetings [1]: https://matrix.to/#/#archlinux:archlinux.org [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Matrix -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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Should git be contained in base-devel group?
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, I do not know which mailing list to send this in but I have a question to bring up. After being brought up in the aur mailing list, I was wondering why is git not in the base-devel group, which contains all the tools needed for building PKGBUILDs, but cloning from the AUR (and a lot of PKGBUILDs) all use git, therefore wouldn't it make sense for this to be include in base-devel? Thanks, Polarian

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update warnings
by Fons Adriaensen 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, A full update gives me a number of warnings about dependency cycles. Can this be safely ignored, or is some special handling required ? TNX, -- FA

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Suggest to use more long options arguments at /etc/makepkg.conf
by u34＠net9.ga 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

I think long command line options are more readable compared to short one. There fore, I suggest: --- a/makepkg.conf 2022-12-12 17:00:57.773722168 +0000 +++ b/makepkg.conf 2022-12-12 18:00:46.612320662 +0000 @@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ # #-- The download utilities that makepkg should use to acquire sources # Format: 'protocol::agent' -DLAGENTS=('file::/usr/bin/curl -qgC - -o %o %u' - 'ftp::/usr/bin/curl -qgfC - --ftp-pasv --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'http::/usr/bin/curl -qgb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'https::/usr/bin/curl -qgb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' - 'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync --no-motd -z %u %o' +DLAGENTS=('file::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --continue-at - --output %o %u' + 'ftp::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --fail --continue-at - --ftp-pasv --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'http::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --cookie "" --fail --location --continue-at - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'https::/usr/bin/curl --disable --globoff --cookie "" --fail --location --continue-at - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 --output %o %u' + 'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync --no-motd --compress %u %o' 'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o') # Other common tools: @@ -134,15 +134,15 @@ # COMPRESSION DEFAULTS ######################################################################### # -COMPRESSGZ=(gzip -c -f -n) -COMPRESSBZ2=(bzip2 -c -f) -COMPRESSXZ=(xz -c -z -) -COMPRESSZST=(zstd -c -z -q -) -COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip -q) -COMPRESSLZO=(lzop -q) +COMPRESSGZ=(gzip --to-stdout --force --no-name) +COMPRESSBZ2=(bzip2 --stdout --force) +COMPRESSXZ=(xz --to-stdout --compress -) +COMPRESSZST=(zstd --stdout --compress --quiet -) +COMPRESSLRZ=(lrzip --quiet) +COMPRESSLZO=(lzop --quiet) COMPRESSZ=(compress -c -f) -COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 -q) -COMPRESSLZ=(lzip -c -f) +COMPRESSLZ4=(lz4 --quiet) +COMPRESSLZ=(lzip --stdout --force) ######################################################################### # EXTENSION DEFAULTS -- u34

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With a XferCommand, pacman -Sw doesn't download packages sig files
by u34＠net9.ga 03 Dec '22

03 Dec '22

With a XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --socks5-hostname localhost:9451 --silent --show-error --continue-at - --fail-early --fail --output %o %u in pacman.conf, pacman -sync --downloadonly doesn't download packages sig files. Is it because I have not set up a proxy variable? Something else? The pkg.tar.zst is downloaded. Just the detached sig file does not. And there isn't any message to warn about it. Commenting out XferCommand makes the sig files downloaded as well. Manual download also succeed. -- u34

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Documentation for Order of HOOKS array in mkinitcpio.conf?
by David C. Rankin 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

All, The wiki doesn't have ordering information for the HOOKS scripts, but the comments in mkinitcpio.conf says Ordering in important and cautions against changing from the default order. But, that doesn't account for additional script added that are not in the default HOOKS example. I updated HOOKS from a much earlier version of mkinitcpio.conf to match the new .pacnew file. There keyboard moved from after filesystems to just after blocks. Is there a reference that explains where each script should be placed aside for the note or two in the Common hooks section of the wiki? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Using long options at example #XferCommand in /etc/pacman.conf
by u34＠net9.ga 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

As long options are more readable, I suggest to --- a/etc/pacman.conf 2022-11-27 12:31:42.955317302 +0000 +++ b/etc/pacman.conf 2022-11-27 12:43:57.878284493 +0000 @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ #GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ #HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ HoldPkg = pacman glibc -#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u -#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u +#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl --location --continue-at - --fail --output %o %u +#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp --continue --output-document %o %u #CleanMethod = KeepInstalled Architecture = auto I also suggest to add, or change, pacman.conf %o and %u to make it more descriptive. -- u34

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[arch-general] Any package providing "ast" firmware?
by Javier 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Hello ! Just as the "subject" indicates, any package providing "ast" firmware? On [1], I don't see it referenced, and "ast" is way too common for a quick search on the repos and AUR, :) Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio#Possibly_missing_firmware_for_m…

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poetry package broke - please help
by Genes Lists 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

After the last update of python-poetry-core to 1.4.0,and python-cleo to 2.0.0-1 : poetry is broken in 2 ways. These are triggered by running the command: poetry version xxx 1) missing dependency on python-rapidfuzz which leads to this error: File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cleo/_utils.py", line 8, in <module> from rapidfuzz.distance import Levenshtein ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'rapidfuzz' 2) After installing rapidfuzz, get this error which I haven't found a fix for from cleo.exceptions import CleoException ImportError: cannot import name 'CleoException' from 'cleo.exceptions' (/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cleo/exceptions/__init__.py) Thanks gene

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Lock screen?
by ilpiko2 16 Nov '22

16 Nov '22

Hi! It's a stupid question, i think, but: are there any developments for a lock screen for Arch, in differents DE? i used to use before Gnome, on Ubuntu and had it. Also KDE had it. Now use xfce and missing it. Is there any news or how long will we have to wait? Marco

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linux 6.0.8: an openssl 1.1 -> openssl 3.0 issue?
by u34＠net9.ga 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

I have the follwoing while trying to make a custom 6.0.8-arch1 linux kernel: Installing modules... INSTALL kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko STRIP kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko SIGN kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko scripts/sign-file: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modinst:83: kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko] Error 127 make[1]: *** Deleting file 'kernel/arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel.ko' make: *** [Makefile:1777: modules_install] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package_linux-custom(). Aborting... Indeed libcrypto.so.1.1 is from openssl 1.1, and there was a switch to openssl 3.0 at the beginning of November 2022. Also could be releveant: $ grep -C3 3.0 scripts/sign-file.c #include <openssl/engine.h> /* * OpenSSL 3.0 deprecates the OpenSSL's ENGINE API. * * Remove this if/when that API is no longer used */ -- u34

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Change BTRFS filesystem from R/O back to R/W
by Spencer Collyer 15 Nov '22

15 Nov '22

Hi, I've hit a problem with a BTRFS filesystem I have on my main machine. It's gone into read-only mode, I suspect because it ran out of disk space when doing a rebalance (it's got v little space left). Looking at the logs I see the following for BTRFS: Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -28) Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS: error (device dm-1: state A) in btrfs_finish_ordered_io:3315: errno=-28 No space left Nov 15 09:09:35 selket kernel: BTRFS info (device dm-1: state EA): forced readonly Ironically I was going to shift a large chunk of data off this filesystem onto an external backup disk but hadn't gotten around to doing it. Digging around on the web I've seen suggestions involving unmounting the filesystem, remounting it R/W, removing any unwanted data, then continuing the rebalance. They generally seem to want to add another disk temporarily as well. I don't really want to go to the trouble of temporarily adding a secondary disk only to then remove it again. As I was already planning on moving a bunch of old data off to external backup, I'm wondering if the following would be safe to do: 1) Unmount the filesystem. 2) Remount it as R/W 3) Move data to the external disk 4) Resume the rebalance operation (is this required?) Does that look reasonable? Is there likely to be any problem with moving files off the filesystem when the rebalance operation failed? Thanks for you attention, Spencer

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DKIM fail messages
by David Rosenstrauch 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

After posting a message to this list earlier today, I immediately received nearly a dozen DKIM fail messages, all being sent by the "OpenDMARC Filter" at various domains, and all saying that the DKIM fail reason was "signature verification failed". I raised this issue with support at my hosting company, who pointed out that a) my domain's DKIM records are set up correctly, and b) one of the headers on my email that got sent to the list indicated that Arch's mailman actually did successfully verify my domain's DKIM record when it received my email, before forwarding it on. Anyone know why these fail messages might be happening? Is this being caused by a misconfiguration in Arch's mailman installation? Or is this a misconfiguration of the individual OpenDMARC software installations at each of those domains? Thanks, DR

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community/virtualbox 7.0.2-2 Windows 11 guest is unresponsive
by Ralf Mardorf 13 Nov '22

13 Nov '22

Hi, on my machine a Windows 11 guest still worked with [2022-11-01T17:48:40+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-host-dkms (6.1.40-1 -> 7.0.2-1) [2022-11-01T17:48:40+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox (6.1.40-1 -> 7.0.2-1) [2022-11-01T17:48:40+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-ext-oracle (6.1.40-1 -> 7.0.2-1) [2022-11-01T17:48:41+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-guest-iso (6.1.40-1 -> 7.0.2-1) and a self build, rt patched linux 4.19.246_rt110-0.1000. A few settings are: 3D acceleration disable USB 3.0 enabled Network adapter attached to NAT The next time I run it (today) and it always does freeze, with [2022-11-05T11:36:20+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox-host-dkms (7.0.2-1 -> 7.0.2-2) [2022-11-05T11:36:20+0100] [ALPM] upgraded virtualbox (7.0.2-1 -> 7.0.2-2) and a self build, rt patched linux 1:4.19.255_rt113-0.1000 as well as with core/linux 6.0.8.arch1-1 threadirqs (not tested without threadirqs). FWIW I changed USB 3.0 enabled to USB 2.0 enabled, to no avail. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep unresponsive /mnt/winos11/winos11/Logs/VBox.log 00:03:22.279545 VMMDev: vmmDevHeartbeatFlatlinedTimer: Guest seems to be unresponsive. Last heartbeat received 4 seconds ago [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep -i error /mnt/winos11/winos11/Logs/VBox.log 00:00:01.506420 TM: GIP - CPU: iCpuSet=0x0 idCpu=0x0 idApic=0x0 iGipCpu=0x1 i64TSCDelta=0 enmState=3 u64CpuHz=2793529547(*) cErrors=0 00:00:01.506423 TM: GIP - CPU: iCpuSet=0x1 idCpu=0x1 idApic=0x2 iGipCpu=0x0 i64TSCDelta=0 enmState=3 u64CpuHz=2793529898(*) cErrors=0 00:00:01.722439 HM: VM-entry Xcpt error-code optional = false 00:04:32.452728 /Devices/vga/VMSVGA/FifoErrors 0 times 00:04:32.452860 /Devices/vga/VMSVGA/Reg/GmrDescriptorWrite/Errors 0 times 00:04:32.454436 /PGM/PhysHandlerTree/ErrorsAllocatorR3 0 times 00:04:32.454438 /PGM/PhysHandlerTree/ErrorsTree 0 times 00:04:32.454712 /SELM/LoadHidSel/GstReadErrors 0 times The only differences are seemingly the same version of virtualbox build against another version of openssl and different kernels are used, while one of the tested kernels is an update of the 4.19 longterm kernel used when everything still was ok. I asked at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2067415#p2067415 too and will report back to the mailing list, if it should be solved by the forum or to the forum, if it should be solved by the mailing list. Regards, Ralf

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Python 2.7 depends on openssl-1.1
by Friedrich Romstedt 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Hi, Today I encountered an error response in my browser when attempting to use my locally-installed Trac projects. Notice that Trac, as it is installed on my system, uses Python 2.x. Inspecting /var/log/httpd/error_log I tracked the error down to the hashlib-Module in Python 2.7.18-5. Attempting to import that module in Python2 reproduced the error logged by apache precisely. So I tried to install python2-2.7.18-8 from the AUR. This required gdb and xorg-server-xvfb. After having them installed, another dependency on openssl-1.1 was reported by makepkg. Notice that the package itself is called openssl-1.1, the -1.1 is *not* the Arch Package version, which is at the moment 1.1.1.s-2. While googling to resolve the issue, before attempting to make the AUR python2 package, in some way I spotted openssl as a probable reason for the issue. It got updated from 1.1.1.q-1 to 3.0.7-2 quite recently on my system (pacman.log). As a result of this guess, I tried to downgrade from 3.0.7-2 back to 1.1.1.q-1, which failed because it would break some dependencies. Now, I installed the openssl-1.1 package (which resolves to openssl-1.1-1.1.1.s-2), as it was required to build the AUR python2-2.7.18-8 package. After having installed openssl-1.1, 'import hashlib' worked in Python2 from Arch upstream (i.e., python2-2.7.18-5), and after a machine restart my Trac projects are now up and running again as well. So there was no need to build the AUR package in the end. I am proposing to add 'openssl-1.1' to the list of requirements for the 'python2' package. 'openssl-1.1' can peacefully coexist with the 'openssl' package, AFAICT from my system. At the moment, 'python2' depends on 'openssl'. I do not know if *both* openssl (3.0.7-2) *as well as* openssl-1.1 (1.1.1.s-2) are required, or if the openssl-dependency can be dropped. For all I know, keeping them both would not harm. Best, Friedrich

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pacman gpg trust db corrupted by temporary failure in name-resolution
by David C. Rankin 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

All, Disregard the "how do I fix?" part of the prior thread on the pacman trust db getting corrupted. (I got it fixed) Backtracking, the problem occurred after an attempted update when there was a temporary failure in name-resolution due to the DNS server undergoing a reboot when the pacman update was attempted. Corruption of the trust store should not occur due to name resolution failure. Is this a "feature" of the latest pacman release? Does it need further investigation? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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/var/cache/pacman/pkg/archlinux-keyring-20221110-1-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted
by David C. Rankin 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Full system update completed find earlier, but then attempting to install lightdm, the following error was received: :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages... libxklavier-5.4-3-x86_64 72.5 KiB 145 KiB/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% lightdm-1:1.32.0-4-x86_64 239.1 KiB 357 KiB/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% Total (2/2) 311.6 KiB 351 KiB/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% (2/2) 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: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Huh? Attempting to update archlinux-keyring results in: :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (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-20221110-1-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Attempting lightdm again results in Allan's key not found and of unknown trust: :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (2/2) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key F99FFE0FEAE999BD, "Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 0F65C7D881506130, "Maxime Gauduin <alucryd(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] (2/2) checking package integrity [######################################] 100% error: libxklavier: signature from "Allan McRae (Developer) <allan(a)archlinux.org>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libxklavier-5.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: lightdm: signature from "Maxime Gauduin <alucryd(a)archlinux.org>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/lightdm-1:1.32.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Is this a temporary issue or did something get fsck'ed up on my system? (and how to attempt to fix?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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random junk appended to kernel command line
by Geert Hendrickx 10 Nov '22

10 Nov '22

Hi I'm UEFI-booting Arch Linux from a unified kernel image (UKI) generated by mkinitcpio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_kernel_image Recently, I'm seeing random junk being appended to the kernel commandline: $ cat /proc/cmdline "_VGA] +WQmapper/ssdvg-root rw quiet loglevel=3 udev.log_priority=3 ]GM?|-dQ2�H~A3y $ hexdump -C /proc/cmdline 00000000 72 6f 6f 74 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f 6d 61 70 70 65 72 |root=/dev/mapper| 00000010 2f 73 73 64 76 67 2d 72 6f 6f 74 20 72 77 20 71 |/ssdvg-root rw q| 00000020 75 69 65 74 20 6c 6f 67 6c 65 76 65 6c 3d 33 20 |uiet loglevel=3 | 00000030 75 64 65 76 2e 6c 6f 67 5f 70 72 69 6f 72 69 74 |udev.log_priorit| 00000040 79 3d 33 20 17 5d 47 4d 05 3f 7c 2d 64 51 32 1a |y=3 .]GM.?|-dQ2.| 00000050 1f 48 15 7e 41 33 79 0d 22 5f 56 47 41 5d 20 2b |.H.~A3y."_VGA] +| 00000060 57 51 0a |WQ.| 00000063 (the junk is only at the end, but with "cat" it garbles the terminal and overwrites the beginning of the line. hexdump shows it's exclusively at the end though.) Unrecognized junk is then passed on to init: $ journalctl -k -o cat | grep -a command\ line "_VGA] +WQmand line: root=/dev/mapper/ssdvg-root rw quiet loglevel=3 udev.log_priority=3 ]GM?|-dQ2�H~A3y Unknown kernel command line parameters "]GM?|-dQ2�H~A3y _VGA] +WQ", will be passed to user space. $ ps -ef | grep init root 1 0 1 20:30 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init ?]GM??|-dQ2??H?~A3y _VGA] +WQ (journalctl without -o cat doesn't even print those lines.) The input file /etc/kernel/cmdline (used by mkinitcpio to generate the UKI) is clean though: $ cat /etc/kernel/cmdline root=/dev/mapper/ssdvg-root rw quiet loglevel=3 udev.log_priority=3 And the UKI itself doesn't seem to contain this random junk either: $ hexdump -C /boot/archlinux-linux.efi | grep -A5 root= 0000e200 72 6f 6f 74 3d 2f 64 65 76 2f 6d 61 70 70 65 72 |root=/dev/mapper| 0000e210 2f 73 73 64 76 67 2d 72 6f 6f 74 20 72 77 20 71 |/ssdvg-root rw q| 0000e220 75 69 65 74 20 6c 6f 67 6c 65 76 65 6c 3d 33 20 |uiet loglevel=3 | 0000e230 75 64 65 76 2e 6c 6f 67 5f 70 72 69 6f 72 69 74 |udev.log_priorit| 0000e240 79 3d 33 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |y=3 ............| 0000e250 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| However when booting the kernel directly (not the UKI) from the UEFI shell, the same kernel command line is passed clean. No idea what is causing this, but it's a recent issue. I have regenerated the UKI several times, and also tried downgrading mkinitcpio back to v31, and the kernel to 5.19, but keep getting the same result. I'm not suspecting the hardware, since I'm seeing the same issue on two different machines. Any ideas? Geert

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(Arch)Linux source routing help
by Pascal 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

*(sorry, the previous message is gone a bit fast)* hi, where can I get help for this ? my problem is : I'm on a corporate network that is filtered (proxy) and I need to run some tests on a virtual machine that needs to have direct access to the Internet. I set up this configuration and try to route everything that comes out of tap0 to wlan0 and then to Internet. - - \ / \ / \ / +--------\-------+ +-------/-------+ |free GW | |corporate GW | |192.168.144.254 | |10.10.10.254/24| <http://10.10.10.254/24%7C> +--------|-------+ +-------|-------+ \ / +---------------|-----------------|------+ |HOST |wlan0 | |eth0 | | |192.168.144.1/24| <http://192.168.144.1/24%7C> |10.10.10.1/24| <http://10.10.10.1/24%7C> | +----------------+ +-------------| | | | +-----------------+ | | |tap0 | | | |192.168.11.254/24| <http://192.168.11.254/24%7C> | | +--------|--------+ | | | | | +-------------|--------+ | | |VM |eth0 | | | | |192.168.11.1/24 | | | | +-----------------| | | +----------------------+ | +----------------------------------------+ here are the commands used: # ip tuntap add tap0 mode tap user me # ip addr add 192.168.11.254/24 dev tap0 # ip link set tap0 down # echo 11 tap0 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # ip rule add from 192.168.11.254 lookup tap0 # ip route add default via 192.168.144.254 dev wlan0 proto dhcp src 192.168.144.1 # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wlan0 -j MASQUERADE I can ping 8.8.8.8 from my virtual machine but all traffic (host/corporate) now seems to flow through wlan0 (tshark -i wlan0)... regards, lacsaP.

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(Arch)Linux source routing help
by Pascal 09 Nov '22

09 Nov '22

hi, where can I get help with this ? my problem is this: I'm on a corporate network that is filtered (proxy) and I need to run some tests on a virtual machine that needs to have direct access to the Internet. I set up this configuration and try to route everything that comes out of tap0 to wlan0 and then to Internet. - - \ / \ / \ / +--------\-------+ +-------/-------+ |free GW | |corporate GW | |192.168.144.254 | |10.10.10.254/24| +--------|-------+ +-------|-------+ \ / +---------------|-----------------|------+ |HOST |wlan0 | |eth0 | | |192.168.144.1/24| |10.10.10.1/24| | +----------------+ +-------------| | | | +-----------------+ | | |tap0 | | | |192.168.11.254/24| | | +--------|--------+ | | | | | +-------------|--------+ | | |VM |eth0 | | | | |192.168.11.1/24 | | | | +-----------------| | | +----------------------+ | +----------------------------------------+

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installing archlinux, get lynx accessible first
by Jude DaShiell 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

I had a read through the Installation_guide script and discovered it uses lynx to bring the guide up on the screen. I'm a screen reader user so whenever I use lynx and certain other console browsers I set certain options then save me a .lynxrc file before using lynx further. Two really critical options are show cursor on so my screen reader can track where I am on the screen and links and form fields are numbered so I can find links to run. Others are there too but for me these are most critical. Once the .lynxrc file is saved reading through the installation_guide for me is much better. elinks and links can show numbered links but their configuration is a bit different. So for screen reader users who find numbered links in lynx the cat useful, before running Installation_guide get lynx configured so it runs well for you. I did this on a flash drive so my .lynxrc got saved for future use. 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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Keeping desktop PC and laptop in sync
by Joel 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

Hi, as we have a discussion ongoing about setting up a new PC, I thought I could jump in with my current issue : I have retired my laptop and bought a desktop PC. Gone through the fresh installation process (once every 12 years is OK to declutter a bit), and rsync'ed my home directory (parts of it, mostlyskipped ~/.local and~/.config where I found some 10-20 years old files from programs I used once but never since). Now I still want to use my laptop when I'm on the road, which happens rather seldomly (once every 2 weeks), i.e. have my files, my bookmarks etc available on my laptop. Also not only have to sync my /home/$USER but also /root and some more mountpoints (source code, website stuff, audio, video, pictures), totaling around 1.5TB of data I've been playing around with rsync and adding many many exclude rules to a) limit the amount of files being transferred (eg exclude ~/.cache, browser's cache, thunderbird's imap cache etc) so I can keep an overview if something is getting overwritten that I don't want b) keep certain files (especially XFCE config etc) distinct as eg I have 2 monitors on my PC vs only 1 on the laptop -> different menus, window settings etc Now this is pretty tedious, initial rsync's dry-run showed ~700k files that would be sync'ed, which I brought down to 1k after several iterations and adjustment of exclude settings, and this is so far my first run - currently using my laptop and will sync back when I'm home again... let's see how many files will differ then ! So I'm looking for more easy-to-use alternatives. Most important thing : I want dry-run functionality to prevent unwanted data loss, which means automatic sync tools are not the way to go ! I think synthing is such a candidate, unless I missed the dry-run option somewhere. Have used unison many many years ago, but I think it was also not perfect and had issues handling thousands/millions of files. Heard of some new systemd homesync (?), but didn't have a look at it now, sounds also like it automatically syncs. Any thoughts / recommendations / advices ? Many thanks Joel

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Re: [arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0
by Genes Lists 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

Just a note to thank you all for pushing this over the line. Obviously a huge effort and very big thanks!! Everything I've tested so far works just fine : dovecot, postfix, ldns, rust/cargo, nginx-mainline, cyrus-sasl, nsd, unbound, cryptsetup, stunnel and kernel signed modules. Looking forward to testing python 3.11 as well!! Thank you for all the work you do keeping things running so well. gene

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kea_config tool available
by Genes Lists 05 Nov '22

05 Nov '22

In the spirit of continuing to give back to the community, I'm happy to share my kea configuration tool. kea_config is available in the AUR [1] with source on github [2] kea is the current ISC dhcp server software taht offers a nice feature set, including a hot standby to pick up should the primary be unavailable. Its power also lurks behind a somewhat complicated configuration suite that, at least for me, isn't the most human friendly and creates a burden to keep things appropriately consistent. kea_config provides a nice and clean way to generate the required config files from a simple, single config. It generates the set of configs for each of primary, backup and standby servers which are then copied to each server; each can then use a link to primary or standby or backup config as appropriate. If you only run primary, that's fine too :) For host reservations it uses hostnames and looks up the IP - thus further helping reduce risk of human error. Hope others find it helpful. regards, gene [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kea_config [2] https://github.com/gene-git/kea_config

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Setting up new computer to be identical to old one
by Spencer Collyer 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

I am looking to replace my current desktop PC, which is getting on for 8 years old now, with a more up-to-date one. Ideally I want the new one to be set up the same as my current one, which has been running on Arch since I first got it. I keep my Arch up-to-date by running a full update roughly every four weeks. What is the best way to set up the new one to mirror the existing one? I'd like to have all the same packages installed, with basically the same setup, except for obvious points like the new PC having a different IP address and name on my network. My initial idea was something like the following: 1) Install a basic Arch system on the new computer 2) Get the list of installed packages from the old computer (I think there is a way to do this using Pacman?) 3) Somehow get Pacman to install the same list of packages on the new computer. 4) Tidy up any config files that need changing - e.g. for the aforementioned IP address / computer name stuff. 5) Copy over my /home directory 6) Copy over various data directories/partitions I have -e.g. I have a whole bunch of images stored in a separate partition that I'll want to copy over. The stuff in here is all self-contained so should be easy enough to copy over. I found thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=171726 which had some ideas as well - the above is sort-of based on stuff I found on there along with my own thoughts. Does that look like a reasonable plan? Anything I might be missing? Thanks for your attention. Regards, Spencer

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libgda 6.x PKGBUILD suggestion
by Rafael Fontenelle 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Hello 'community' package maintainers, libgda 5.2.10 is in the 'community' repository, and the latest version is 6.0.0. Its build system was changed to Meson along with some new features added and other deprecated disabled, besides being a soname bump. So, I understand how demotivational it is for the package maintainer. Personally, I'm a GNOME's Gtranslator user and it can not be updated to its 42.0 release without libgda6. I tried patching gtranslator's source to use libgda5 but then I faced a libsoup2-libsoup3 conflict due to its dependencies ("libsoup3 symbols detected. Using libsoup2 and libsoup3 in the same process is not supported."). Because of that, libgda6 is the way to go. So this email is to suggest a 'libgda6' PKGBUILD that was prepared and made available in the unofficial repository FCGU — notice the different pkgname to avoid replacing libgda which could cause dependency breaks. libgda6 PKGBUILD: https://codeberg.org/fabiscafe/fcgu/src/commit/ec5c32aab695886a5d373631ec01… Please kindly consider making this release available. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Rafael

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Re: info: a few out of date packages
by Genes Lists 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

On 11/1/22 08:33, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > `gnupg` 2.3 is the unstable version. 2.4 would be the stable version. > (FYI - you may want to use reply-to-list as mailman now preserves headers for DKIM) Hi and Nope that's not correct [1] : Three different series of GnuPG are actively maintained: - Version 2.3 is the current stable version with a lot of new features compared to 2.2. This announcement is about the latest release of this series. - Version 2.2 is our LTS (long term support) version and guaranteed to be maintained at least until the end of 2024. Only a small subset of features from 2.3 has been back-ported to this series. See https://gnupg.org/download/index.html#end-of-life - Version 1.4 is only maintained to allow decryption of very old data which is, for security reasons, not anymore possible with other GnuPG versions. [1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q4/000476.html

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info: a few out of date packages
by Genes Lists 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

As always I am enormously thankful for all the efforts and time spent by the entire arch team keeping arch active and live and the best dang distro available (imho). That said, and to be helpful, periodically I create a little list of out of date packages, some more than others and many didn't make the cut, and it's entirely my view of priorities :) Thank you again. gene Repo Current Vers Latest Package Vers Date Vers Date Age Age python-pynacl 1.4.0 200525 1.5.0 220107 592 298 wget 1.21.3 220226 2.0.1 220501 64 184 dracut 56 220218 57 220619 121 135 [0] llvm 14.06 220622 15.0.3 220818 57 75 procps-ng 3.3.17 210201 4.0.1 220821 566 72 [1] ghc 9.0.2 211221 9.4.2 220822 244 71 [2] shadow 4.11.1 220102 4.12.3 220822 232 71 doxygen 1.9.3 211231 1.9.5 220826 238 67 nmap 7.92 220807 7.93 220901 25 61 bash 5.1.016 220104 5.2 220926 265 36 linux-firmware 20220913 220913 221012 221012 29 20 dkms 3.0.7 220927 3.0.8 221025 28 7 linux-api-headers 5.18.15 220729 6.0.6 221029 92 3 [3] make 4.3 220119 4.4 221031 285 1 systemd 251.7 221024 252 221031 7 1 [4] [0] Asked for signed tag - seems currently ignored upstream https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/issues/1850 [1] dates approx [2] there are lots of haskell packages using this [3] should this be removed? [4] always very,very up to date, here only as it's so important. Version Age = days between arch version and latest version Latest Age = days from the latest version through today Special mention * gnupg 2.3.8 we're up to date on legacy version (2.2.40) but over a year out of date vs current 2.3. Believe we are still awaiting an update of some arch (dev) keys - Any news on this yet? * openssl 3.0.x great to see that builds are underway!! * python 3.11 was only released last week and already builds are underway - that's pretty awesome thank you.

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Shadowing the boot disk on Arch system
by Spencer Collyer 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Hi, This is sort-of a follow-on to my earlier message regarding how to best set up a new desktop to match the existing one I have running Arch. I'm intending that my new computer will have an M2 drive as the boot disk. As well as the OS it will also hold my /home partition. Because of a bad experience I had with a Windows laptop with an SSD drive installed, where the SSD got completely wiped back to its factory setting, my intention is to have a hard disk that acts as a 'shadow' of the boot disk. The idea is it will also be a bootable drive with exactly the same setup as the M2 drive. That way if the M2 drive dies, I can still boot using this backup drive and the system will look the same. My intention is to have a cron job that periodically (at least daily) synchronises the backup drive so it looks exactly the same as the main drive. Does that sound like a feasible plan? If it is, my question is what is the best way to initially set up the shadow drive? Should I do a full install on it, so almost treating it like I'm setting up a new computer, but making sure I have all the same packages and setup as the main drive. Or should i just use 'dd' to copy the whole main drive over to the backup drive? I'll make sure the two drives are the same size (or rather that the backup is at least as large as the main drive). Or is there another, better, way I haven't thought of or found while trawling the web? Thanks for your attention, Regards, Spencer

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Moving root partition to another drive
by pete 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Hi . Got a bit of a problem i need to move the root partition to another drive my own fault i did not make it big enough to start with but i cant face a complete rebuild of the system i have several 1Tb drives lurking but how do i switch things to a new drive . I remember doing that many many years ago but cant remember how now any help out there would be greatfull Thanks Pete

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Proposal: Do not remove a package from the AUR until it is available in a stable repository
by Óscar García Amor 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

Hi all! Recently with the GNOME 43 update I have seen that certain packages are being removed from the AUR to go into the official testing repositories. The problem, in my opinion, is that packages are being removed from the AUR before they go into an official stable repository, which makes the packages "disappear" for a while. Not everyone has the testing repository enabled. In fact using AUR packages is not a condition for having testing, so what a user sees is that suddenly the package he/she was using disappears and he/she can't install it neither with his AUR helper nor with pacman. IMHO, I think it would be better to leave the packages in the AUR until they reach the stable repositories to avoid possible confusion. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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Create ps1 games with Brasero or other programs
by ilpiko2 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Brasero i've always used it for music cds and some PS2 game backups. What I have never tried is using it for PS1 game backups. Searching the web i found some posts but they were old. Is it possible to burn them? is better k3b? Thank you. Marco P.S. sorry for my english.

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Pacman returns error 404
by Zero 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Hi all, Trying to install nodejs with pacman I do experience errors: pacman --sync nodejs Packages (1) nodejs-19.0.0-1 ... :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y :: Retrieving packages... nodejs-19.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst failed to downloaderror: failed retrieving file 'nodejs-19.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' from geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 When accessing https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/archlinux with a browser I can download the files nodejs-19.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst and nodejs-19.0.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig. But when accessing https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux with a browser it gives a http error 503 or after a long wait the packages show up. Is there a problem with the pacman mirrors ? ~Zero

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gnome 43 / testing - gnome-shell core dumps
by Genes Lists 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Sharing in case helps others avoid having trouble. Update worked fine - once update completed fresh reboot - gdm starts fine - can login - but after that get a blank desktop - nothing at all works. Will go over logs more carefully but looks like gnome-shell is crashing: Process 1181 (gnome-shell) of user xxxx dumped core. The logs are tricky, as gnome spits a slew of error messages at the best of times (this is not new to 43, for me anyway). All 3 machines are intel i915 based; 2 NUCs and an older laptop. I've downgraded to 42 and all works well again. FYI :) gene

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Re: Moving root partition to another drive
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 16:06 +0200, Maarten de Vries wrote: [snip] Maarten, you did not reply to the mailing list ;). > On 27/10/2022 16:02, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 5. Verify the copy by running > > > > # diff -r --no-dereference /mnt/old/ /mnt/new/ PS: I'm not sure, if diff might warn about missing sockets or similar. If "cp -a" returned exit status 0, the copy is most likely ok, running diff isn't necessarily needed. If tar --xattrs... returns exit status 0, you can't trust it. After doing a backup by tar always (try to) open the archive. However, making a backup using tar first and then restoring from the archive doesn't make sense at all.

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new wireguard admin tool - aur
by Genes Lists 27 Oct '22

27 Oct '22

Firstly, thank you to everyone that contributes to Arch - it is very, very much appreciated. In that same spirit of sharing I've added my second package to the AUR. The first being mkpkg, a package building tool which rebuilds when specific trigger conditions are met. e.g. openssl>minor would trigger a rebuild when openssl major.minor is greater than when package was last built [1] wg-tool source is on github [2] where there's pretty detailed readme . Quick Summary: - simplifies wireguard administration. ( server and users ) - guarantees server and user configs remain synchronized. - handles key creation when needed - users can have multiple profiles (bob:laptop bob:phone etc) - users and/or profiles can be marked active/inactive - takes output of 'wg show' and shows connections by user/profile name. (This one solves a minor annoyance for me) - can import existing user/profiles Anyway, if you run wireguard, this might be something useful. regards, gene [1] https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mkpkg [2] https://github.com/gene-git/wg_tool https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wg_tool

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Update gajim and python-nbxmpp
by klee 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Hello. Will the gajim and python-nbxmpp packages in the community repository be updated? python-nbxmpp has been flagged out-of-date since 2022-09-14. gajim has been flagged out-of-date since 2022-09-19.

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404 from https://security.archlinux.org/cveId
by Adi Matalon 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi, Currently we are getting 404 from this url https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2019-8343, it happens for all cve ids. Are you aware of this? -- Best Regards, <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.mend.io&source=gmail-imap&ust=1654…> *Adi Matalon* Software Developer *https://www.mend.io <https://www.mend.io>* Ariel Sharon 4, HaShahar Tower 32 Floor Givatayim, Israel 5320047 *Mend <https://www.mend.io/>** empowers businesses to develop better software * *by harnessing the power of open source* <https://www.facebook.com/whitesource/> <https://twitter.com/WhiteSourceSoft> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/2440656/>

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Race condition ? Issue with community/rtirq and probably core/systemd
by Ralf Mardorf 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi, the machine was up for 19 days, hence in the meantime systemd was updated. Today I build 5.15.73.52.realtime1-1-rt-lts from AUR as provided by David, IOW without any changes done by me, but I didn't build in a clean chroot. Bevor that I run my own package of linux-rt 4.19.246_rt110-0.1000 without doing anything special to it, just CONFIG_AUDIT was disabled. Since last startup rtirq was updated, too, but the only changes were migrations from egrep to grep -E. In the past it happened very, very, very ... very seldom that after startup the PCI or PCIe card didn't get a high priority, which always was fixed by a single reboot. Today, when booting 5.15.73.52.realtime1-1-rt-lts 4 times, the first time snd_ice1 didn't get a high priority and the other times snd_ice1 as well as snd_hdsp didn't get a high priority. I doubt that it's related to the kernel. I suspect a systemd related race condition, but I might be completely mistaken. Any pointers are welcome. Regards, Ralf [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep RTIRQ_NAME_LIST..u /etc/rtirq.conf RTIRQ_NAME_LIST="usb snd_hdsp snd_ice1" [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 124 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/16-ehci_hcd 184 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/31-xhci_hcd 128 FF 89 - 129 0.0 S irq/23-ehci_hcd 88 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 102 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/29-ahci[000 116 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/30-ahci[000 130 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 183 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 324 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/5-parport0 403 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/32-mei_me 506 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-i801_smb 572 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/16-snd_hdsp 604 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/34-i915 641 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/35-snd_hda_ 644 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/16-snd_ice1 16 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/0 30 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -rm 5.15.73.52.realtime1-1-rt-lts x86_64 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q linux-rt linux-rt 4.19.246_rt110-0.1000 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q rtirq rtirq 20220923-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q systemd systemd 251.6-1 [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# rtirq stop Setting IRQ priorities: stop [ehci.hcd] irq=16 pid=124 pid=124 prio=50: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: stop [ehci.hcd] irq=23 pid=128 pid=128 prio=50: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: stop [xhci.hcd] irq=31 pid=184 pid=184 prio=50: OK. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# rtirq start Setting IRQ priorities: start [ehci.hcd] irq=16 pid=124 prio=90: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: start [ehci.hcd] irq=23 pid=128 prio=89: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: start [xhci.hcd] irq=31 pid=184 prio=90: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: start [snd_hdsp] irq=16 pid=572 prio=85: OK. Setting IRQ priorities: start [snd_ice1] irq=16 pid=644 prio=80: OK. [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 124 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/16-ehci_hcd 184 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/31-xhci_hcd 128 FF 89 - 129 0.0 S irq/23-ehci_hcd 572 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/16-snd_hdsp 644 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/16-snd_ice1 88 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 102 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/29-ahci[000 116 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/30-ahci[000 130 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 183 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 324 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/5-parport0 403 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/32-mei_me 506 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-i801_smb 604 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/34-i915 641 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/35-snd_hda_ 16 TS - 0 19 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 30 TS - 0 19 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1

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mkpkg - helping automate package rebuilds
by Genes Lists 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Perhaps others might find this useful too. I'd like to give back a little to the arch community by sharing my mkpkg tool available on aur [1] and source is housed on github [2] where there is a detailed readme file. This tool helps to automate rebuilds when they're needed for reasons other than the package itself has updated. Rebuild triggers are defined as a list in the PKGBUILD. When a trigger is tripped then a rebuild is done. This helps when the actual package is unchanged but something the package uses changes in a way that makes a rebuild desirable or necessary: There are 3 kinds of triggers: 1 for files and 2 for packages. - a package has been installed since the last build - a package version has passed a specific threshold - a file is newer than the last build Some examples of build triggers. - 'python>minor' -> rebuild if major.minor vers > than at last build - 'xxx.service' -> rebuild if file has been updated since last build - 'gcc>major' -> rebuild if gcc major version newer than last build - 'some-lib' -> rebuild if more recent than last build - 'foo>last' -> rebuild if version greater than at last build - 'foo>=3.10' -> rebuild if version is >= 3.10 regards gene [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mkpkg [2] https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg

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Screen resolution while booting and on CLI
by bf 08 Oct '22

08 Oct '22

Hello, I have a problem with the screen resolution while booting the PC and afterwards. Part of the font is cut up at the left hand and upper side of the screen before booting into Arch Linux. And in Arch Linux itself (when the log in screen appears) the screen resolution is way too high, everything is located at the upper left corner of the screen. I don't use a graphical user interface so I can't use randr or anything else, I am on a Linux terminal. Is there a way to adjust screen resolution in BIOS? And is there a way to adjust screen resolution in a Linux terminal without xorg? I tried putting "vga=ask" into "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT", but that didn't do anything. Regards Björn

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[PATCH] broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271: Add a patch for Linux 6.0
by Masato TOYOSHIMA 05 Oct '22

05 Oct '22

[PATCH] broadcom-wl-dkms 6.30.223.271: Add a patch for Linux 6.0 https://gist.github.com/phoepsilonix/2edaf54aea36237e616b81b34b442a70

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nvme drives
by Jude DaShiell 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

I have these on my new computer. I can partition the nvme scsi drive with parted but parted can't handle the other drive on the machine. Has archlinux got a separate tool to take control of nvme drives the way parted does? 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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re: gave up on archinstall
by Jude DaShiell 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

It turns out archinstall works on highlighting the cursor so for espeak users who turn on highlighting inside of archinstall, their use of the keyboard puts them in the places they need to be to use archinstall. Highlighting isn't often needed but when it is needed it does work. 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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gave up on archinstall
by Jude DaShiell 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

I use a screen reader and found archinstall locks the cursor on the top line of text on the display and scrolls the text on the screen whenever an action gets taken except for abort when it helpfully clears out of the way. I couldn't choose an audio server as a result even though choices got shown of pulseaudio and pipewire the cursor never made it into the options. All of this happened with latest release of archlinux. I think the network configuration was the only other one missing and I'm on ethernet so using dhcp usually allbeit managed by a network manager of some form. 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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Enforced egrep warning by an if/then check
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

Hi, I'm uncertain, if it makes sense to file a bug report against the xfce4-dev-tools or not. Actually upstream has got a reason to do this ;), but on Arch Linux it results in unwanted and annoying warnings :(. $ grep egrep /usr/bin/xdt-autogen -A3 if type egrep >/dev/null 2>&1; then EGREP=egrep else EGREP="grep -E" fi One time I reported an egrep related warning issue against the rtirq community package and upstream, but I didn't report it against e.g. AUR's ventoy-bin. However, the above if/then issue is something very special, since a workaround does cause the warnings in this particular case. The grep package does also provide a workaround. IOW two workarounds collide with each other :D. Regards, Ralf

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Is the follwoing an arch packaging bug in the remmina package?
by u34＠net9.ga 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

$ ldd /usr/sbin/remmina | grep libsoup libsoup-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1 (0x00007fae45bde000) $ pacman -Qi remmina | grep libsoup $ I searched bugs.archlinux.org. Remmina has no bugs there. Is it an archlinux packaging bug? -- u34

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Boot messages font issue
by u34＠net9.ga 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

There is a large, about 2M in size, screen shot at https://img.net9.ga/d9eYOM6/xbV+yBu/BootFontsIssue.jpg . Each text line is duplicated in a shifted manner because the picture was taken by a camera. The dupliacation of the lines is not the problem. It does not occour in reality. The problem are the rectangles enclosed in the red ellipse at the bottom of the picture. Have you encountred such a font issue? Any comments? This message is a partial duplication of the no replies Possibly only with UEFI or LVM, rectangles instead of letters at boot post at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=279827 . -- u34

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Simple Scan asking for root password
by Frank 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Good morning, I have set up a new machine with Gnome Shell and a network printer/scanner. When executing simple-scan it searches for scanner and then asks me to enter my password to gain admoin rights. I never encountered this behavior before and wonder if there's a way to stop it asking for the pw? THX Frank

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Mailing list quirks
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Dear mailing list admin, while I still received emails from the mailing list, I couldn't log in. After (re-)subscribing I can log in again. Please add "[arch-general] " to the subject. Some mailing lists don't use such an identifier in the subject, but a lot of mailing lists for good reasons do. It's apparently possible to prepend the list name and to keep the DKIM signature intact or they break it, but it doesn't matter. I don't know. Why is this identifier useful? For example, if you have got a virtual search folder with a filter, that searches the email bodies for "x11" in folders for different mailing lists, it can be very helpful, if the subject lines mention "[arch- general] ", "[Alsa-user] ", "[Evolution] ", "[lubuntu-users] " etc. to get a first overview. For several reasons such an identifier can be useful. For each of those reasons somebody probably has got an objection, how to do things different, so that the identifier is unneeded. Yes, it's not needed, but it's useful/helpful for some people, in some cases, while there's unlikely a good reason to be annoyed by "[arch-general] ". Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-announce] Arch Linux mailing list changes
by Genes Lists 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Mail List Admins: Following up to my prev post (arch-general) about DMARC rejections from arch-general from domain zoho.com ( I checked it too has 'p=reject') My own messages to the list are also being rejected by our border mailer with same dmarc rejection - so indeed, I suspect something is not quite right with the list configs. Can you all please check that incoming mail to lists from domains with 'p=reject' DMARC policy work ok. Seems not to be working from what I see. thanks.

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All certificates missing after update
by James Crake-Merani 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Hello, After my last update, I noticed a strange issue: I could not do anything that required HTTPS. I could not use curl, update the system etc. I eventually traced the problem back to ca-certificates. I noticed that /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem , which although still existed on the system, was just a completely empty file while on my laptop it was filled with certificates. What I had to do was copy over the missing certificates from my laptop, and then it was working. But what I noticed is that previously I had downgraded some ca-certificates packages (specifically the utils, and mozilla one I think),and when I upgraded the system the certificates were all once again missing, and I had to replace them for a second time. I am not educated at all on the ca-certificates package. I assume it has something to do with SSL but I know little beyond that. I therefore can't deduce whether this issue is the fault of a bug, or if I have done something wrong. I'd like to know if anyone has experienced this problem as well, or if someone has knowledge that might be of use. Thanks. James Crake-Merani

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[arch-general] egrep error after update
by pete 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Hi folks I did my normal nightly update last night no issues but now every time i open an terminal i get the following egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E system as follows Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Kernel Version: 5.19.7-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD HAWAII Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Thanks Pete .

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[arch-general] dev-public: Future build infrastructure for Arch Linux
by David C. Rankin 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

What does: Future build infrastructure for Arch Linux "We decided on supporting the x86_64-v3 microarchitecture" Does that mean Arch will break on anything older than Haswell for Intel will no longer be supported on Arch? Or am I missing something? SUSE going to ALP is doing the v3 baseline for it's "containerized" Micro Leap, but what does this mean for Arch. With SUSE, it means just that, if you have an i7 Sandy Lake or older -- your just not invited to the party. That seems completely counter to what Arch should do for a main distro. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Openbox screen locker
by paulf＠quillandmouse.com 04 Sep '22

04 Sep '22

Folks: Was running i3wm, just installed Openbox. As with i3, after a certain period of time, the screen goes black. So far so good. However, when I move the mouse or hit a key, now I get some sort of xfce screen locker. It has a banner at the top with my system name, the date, and a lock symbol in the far right corner. In the center middle is XFCE's mouse icon. And it insists I enter my password. I don't like or want this program running, but I don't know what's spawning it. There is nothing which calls an XFCE program in my Openbox config files, or the global ones in /etc. According to htop, this program is apparently a child of systemd --user. This isn't helpful. Can anyone provide assistance in finding and fixing what's calling this program? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

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[arch-general] mkpkg : A new tool to auto rebuild packages when makedepends have updated
by Genes Lists 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

When building packages (makepkg + PKGBUILD), It would be useful if there was a way to easily rebuild the package whenever a make dependency is updated. One can do this manually of course, by bumping the pkgrel and rebuilding. To make it easier I built a tool to do that for me. For example: When a tool chain used to build a package is updated, it's good practice to rebuild those which use that tool chain. For example, when gcc, cargo, binutils et al are updated packages using those tools should also be updated. While static linked libraries surely don't demand a rebuild to function, because the prior, older library is part of the binary itself, it's still a good idea to rebuild it. This will pick up fixes, including security related ones, as well as improvements. Of course, it's always sensible to confirm that the application properly builds and works with the newer tool or library. I've made the code available should it be useful to others. https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg best gene

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[arch-general] QEMU Networking
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

Greetings, I think my question is: now that I have a new laptop and a slightly different networking setup, how do I get QEMU to work with systemd-resolved, but if I had all the answers, then I wouldn't be asking for help. :-) My symtoms are that QEMU guests (various live Linux CDs) can ping IP addresses, but not resolve names: $ ping -c1 archlinux.org ping: archlinux.org: Name or service not known $ resolvectl query archlinux.org archlinux.org: resolve call failed: Lookup failed due to system error: Network is unreachable $ ping -c1 95.217.163.246 PING 95.217.163.246 (95.217.163.246) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 95.217.163.246: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=414 ms [statistics elided to conserve bandwidth] On my old laptop, I used NetworkManager resolvconf, but on the new one, I'm using iwctl/iwd and systemd-resolved, so I'm assuming that that's the culprit. In any case, I'm using the following command to start QEMU (various live CDs boot and run with various options, but they all exhibit the same networking symptoms; vm.qcow2 is newly created): qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8G -enable-kvm -drive file=vm.qcow2 -cdrom /path/to/iso-image I have no access to a wired network. I do have access to two WiFi networks. One is from my cell phone provider. The other goes through a captive portal over which I have no control. I get the same symptoms in my guests either way. When using the network connection from my cell phone provider (some output removed to remove obviously irrelevant data and/or formatting meant for humans): $ ping -c1 archlinux.org PING archlinux.org (95.217.163.246) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from archlinux.org (95.217.163.246): icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=210 ms $ pacman -Q qemu qemu-desktop 7.0.0-1 $ ip a 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether b0:3c:dc:82:f1:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.0.131/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::b23c:dcff:fe82:f1ea/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever $ resolvectl Global Protocols: +LLMNR +mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported resolv.conf mode: foreign Link 4 (wlan0) Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR/IPv4 LLMNR/IPv6 Protocols: +DefaultRoute +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported Current DNS Server: 208.67.222.222 DNS Servers: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 $ iwctl device list Name Address Powered Adapter Mode wlan0 b0:3c:dc:82:f1:ea on phy0 station $ iwctl adapter list Name Powered Vendor Model phy0 on Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi [Then I found <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=253005>.] $ drill archlinux.org Error: error sending query: No (valid) nameservers defined in the resolver $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Resolver configuration file. # See resolv.conf(5) for details. What am I missing? Do I care that drill doesn't work on my host? Thanks, Dan -- I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan

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[arch-general] ruby 3.0.4-10 issue
by Genes Lists 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

FYI - Causes this at end of every call ti pacman -Syu therafter: (6/8) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require': cannot load such file -- timeout (LoadError) from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:107:in `initialize' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:85:in `new' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:85:in `instance' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:38:in `run' from /usr/bin/gem:13:in `<main>'

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[arch-general] Python nightmare
by admin＠linuxsrv.org 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Hi guys, Recently tried to install Spyder IDE but i got a ton of errors, so after trying different approaches I found that probably doing it through Anaconda would be better. And try first with AUR, but never could, so I download Anacondas installer and after a huge amount of time it got installed. So there it was Anaconda + Spyder etc.... however I started to get a ton of Python related warnings and error every time I updated (pacman -Syu), so i ended up removing Anconda and everything else. But now i still getting errors like... advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/btrfsutil.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__pycache__/override.cpython-310.pyc advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jaraco.text-3.8.1.dist-info/ for instance this packages are indeed installed, but I keep gettin the warning, and like that I get for a ton of files ls -l /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jaraco.text-3.9.0.dist-info/ total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050 ago 15 10:38 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3916 ago 15 10:38 METADATA -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1102 ago 15 10:38 RECORD -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 ago 15 10:38 top_level.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 ago 15 10:38 WHEEL And even worse, whenever i tried to run certain apps (like gnome-tweaks, bpython, ipyhton) now i get errors when they work before without a problem.. this is the outrput. $ gnome-tweaks Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweaks", line 13, in <module> import gi ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi' $ ipython Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ipython", line 5, in <module> from IPython import start_ipython File "/home/acgx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 55, in <module> from .core.application import Application File "/home/acgx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/core/application.py", line 23, in <module> from traitlets.config.application import Application, catch_config_error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'traitlets' $ bpython Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bpython", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('bpython==0.22.1', 'console_scripts', 'bpython')()) File "/usr/bin/bpython", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 957, in distribution return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 548, in from_name raise PackageNotFoundError(name) importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for bpython Checking out my python binaries i get.. $ ls -l /usr/bin/python* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python -> python3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14168 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1681 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2.7-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 dic 13 2021 /usr/bin/python2-pyuic4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14280 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3299 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3.10-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3-config -> python3.10-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python-config -> python3-config So, does anybody has seen or been in something like this? any hints how can I "purge" "remove" or deinstall properly the buggy libraries and reinstall everything properly? Hope someone have a good pointer. Thanks in advance. Regards Adriel CG

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[arch-general] Fixed (hopefully)
by Randy DuCharme 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

No idea what's going on with my Google email account these days but - it is what it is.... -- Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered entirely by Open Source software.

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[arch-general] libvirt-storage-rbd removed from repos
by Ricardo Band 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Ahoi, Does anyone know why libvirt-storage-rbd was removed from the repos? I use ceph rbd volumes in my libvirt VMs. Did this functionality end up in another package? -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band

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[arch-general] hdf5 Conflict on pacman update
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Archdevs, Don't know if this is worth a note on the page for manual intervention, but on update earlier today we received: :: Synchronizing package databases... core 158.6 KiB 109 KiB/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% extra 1711.3 KiB 6.43 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% community 6.7 MiB 16.3 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace med with community/med-openmpi? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: hdf5-openmpi and hdf5 are in conflict. Remove hdf5? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: hdf5-openmpi and hdf5 are in conflict (of course you can just say 'y' to remove hdf5, but conflict was not expecteed) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] boot magically mounted on startup; reliable?
by Vasile Vilvoiu 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hello! On my latest install I forgot to mount the boot partition during the installation process, which prompted me to come back on a few of the steps after setting up the root filesystem. Everything works great (with systemd-boot) but I just remembered one thing I missed was adding an entry in fstab for /boot. However, it does seem that systemd does mount _something_ automatically: $ mount | grep boot systemd-1 on /boot type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=50,pgrp=1,timeout=120,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10794) and that _something_ seems to be the same as the boot partition: $ sudo ls -al /boot total 58408 drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux $ sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt $ sudo ls -al /mnt total 58408 drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux I have trouble finding the documentation of this behavior and I'd like to know if it can be relied upon or I should add an entry manually. -- Best regards, Vasile Vilvoiu

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[arch-general] ZFS in repos?
by Piscium 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

ZFS is in AUR. I wonder what is the reason why it is not moved to the Arch repos? The zfs-linux package has 250 votes, the zfs-dkms has 137, and the zfs-linux-lts has 70. I am aware about the possible license incompatibility between the kernel which uses GPL2 and ZFS which uses CDDL, however even Debian which is strict about several things such as what is 'free software', has ZFS in its main repos.

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[arch-general] System-wide PAM alternative auths methods with different users
by Max Gautier 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 05:00:10PM +0200, Max Gautier wrote: Hi everyone. I recently setup pam authenication using some Yubikeys and was wondering how to integrate to all pam-based applications (screenlocker, polkit, sudo, login, etc) without forcing its use for all user. The wiki describe how to setup yubikey or fprintd with sufficient, but not a general way. After reading `man pam.d`, this is what I would go for: in /etc/pam.d/system-auth: #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_faillock.so preauth # Optionally use requisite above if you do not want to prompt for the password # on locked accounts. auth [success=4 default=ignore] pam_fprintd.so cue # addition auth [success=3 default=ignore] pam_u2f.so # addition -auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_systemd_home.so auth [success=1 default=bad] pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok auth [default=die] pam_faillock.so authfail auth optional pam_permit.so auth required pam_env.so auth required pam_faillock.so authsucc # If you drop the above call to pam_faillock.so the lock will be done also # on non-consecutive authentication failures. ... (skipped rest of the file) If I understand correctly, the success=n make PAM skip the n following modules, so this would allow a user not having any enrolled fingerprint or configured yubikeys to authenticate normally with their password. And user with those will be able to use them to authenticate. Is this the correct approach ? Thanks ! -- Max Gautier

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[arch-general] Virtualbox - rdesktop access only shows 1024x768 active in window of 1440x864?
by David C. Rankin 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

All, Accessing virtualbox guests on Arch server with rdesktop will only show 1024 x 768 active (meaning background, taskbar, mouse movement, etc.) in window of 1440 x 864. This started around linux 5.17.6 and continues through the current kernel. What changed and what do I need to do to be able to see the entire window? (it's there, I can move windows to from the black area, I just can't see it) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] 5.18 reboot halts on "kvm: exiting virtual machine", requires hard reset
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

All, My server will no longer reboot with kernels from about 5.18.5 or so on. The reboot stops after everything is shut down and reboot is called, but the next line on the error output on the screen says something like: kvm: exiting virtual machine At this point the box is hardlocked and I have to use the hardware reset button to finish the reboot (not good on remote admin'ed machines) I have two boxes that have developed this issue and both have older AMD video cards, so I wonder if this failure to reboot is related to: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/74346 Could the amdgpu null-pointer bug on boot be what is causing the reboot to hang? How would you test/verify? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 mic not working
by Sadeep Madurange 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Hello everyone, I installed arch 5.18.9-arch1-1 on a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11. Initially my speakers weren't working. Following the arch wiki, I installed sof-firmware and added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/audiofix.conf: options snd-hda-intel dmic_detect=0 options snd-hda-intel model=laptop-amic enable=yes After that speakers started to work. However, my mic is still not working. I'm using plain alsa, and amixer command to control audio. I have already increased the volume of the mic using `amixer set Capture '100%'` for which I see the following output. Simple mixer control 'Capture',0 Capabilities: cvolume cswitch Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Capture 0 - 63 Front Left: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Front Right: Capture 63 [100%] [30.00dB] [on] Result of `arecord -l` is: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC287 Analog [ALC287 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 Following the Arch wiki, I tried adding the following to /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf: options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1 When I tried to run the following command, I got the "Not permitted error": # rmmod snd-hda-intel && modprobe snd-hda-intel Help please. -- Executive ability is prominent in your make-up.

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[arch-general] Linux 5.18.8 - VirtualBox dkms - /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found
by David C. Rankin 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

This was rather strange on VirtualBox module rebuild, I received: ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.34_non_OSE -k 5.15.51-1-lts /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.34_non_OSE -k 5.18.8-arch1-1 /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found /usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found Looks just like: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=277700 Some type regression? What about the symlink discussed in the bbs topic? Necessary? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installing aur/perl-event fails: Unable to find a built tarball
by Jeanette C. 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Hey hey, this is a strange error. I tried installing perl-event, an AUR package with trizen: trizen -Sy perl-event The package downloads, comiles and tests, as far as I can see and finally fails with: :: Unable to find a built tarball for perl-event (below is the full output of the command) Does anyone have an idea how to fix this? Is this an issue that might occasionally arise? Best wishes and tahnks, Jeanette *** Output of trizen -Sy perl-event :: Pacman command: /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/pacman -Sy :: Synchronising package databases... core downloading... extra downloading... community downloading... multilib downloading... realtime downloading... :: Pulling AUR changes: perl-event -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- :: Content of /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/PKGBUILD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Maintainer: Brian Bidulock <bidulock(a)Openss7.org> # Contributor: John D Jones III <jnbek1972 -_AT_- g m a i l -_Dot_- com> # Generator : CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch 1.29 pkgname=perl-event pkgver=1.28 pkgrel=1.1 pkgdesc="Event loop processing" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('PerlArtistic' 'GPL') options=('!emptydirs') makedepends=() url='http://search.mcpan.org/dist/Event' source=("http://search.mcpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/E/ET/ETJ/Event-${pkgver}.tar.gz") sha512sums=('8c7e676c3f659f85ae53ff3b60142943c72881f101f2c66dfd1a7e47babfade0171b78a2062476b6e061f12370b279b73abbe3ab01b07d7088145fa9508e7d0c') _distdir="Event-${pkgver}" build() { ( export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 PERL5LIB="" \ PERL_AUTOINSTALL=--skipdeps \ PERL_MM_OPT="INSTALLDIRS=vendor DESTDIR='$pkgdir'" \ PERL_MB_OPT="--installdirs vendor --destdir '$pkgdir'" \ MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null cd "$srcdir/$_distdir" /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL make ) } check() { cd "$srcdir/$_distdir" ( export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 PERL5LIB="" make test ) } _perl_depends() { # template start; name=perl-binary-module-dependency; version=1; if [[ $(find "$pkgdir/usr/lib/perl5/" -name "*.so") ]]; then _perlver_min=$(perl -e '$v = $^V->{version}; print $v->[0].".".($v->[1]);') _perlver_max=$(perl -e '$v = $^V->{version}; print $v->[0].".".($v->[1]+1);') depends+=("perl>=$_perlver_min" "perl<$_perlver_max") fi # template end; } package() { cd "$srcdir/$_distdir" make install find "$pkgdir" $ -name .packlist -o -name perllocal.pod $ -delete _perl_depends } # Local Variables: # mode: shell-script # sh-basic-offset: 2 # End: # vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et: Repository : AUR Name : perl-event Version : 1.28-1.1 Maintainer : bidulock URL : http://search.mcpan.org/dist/Event AUR URL : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-event License : PerlArtistic GPL Votes : 7 Popularity : 0% Installed : No Out Of Date : No Depends On : None Make Deps : None Check Deps : None Optional Deps : None Provides : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Package Base : perl-event Last Update : Thu Jun 2 03:58:45 2022 Description : Event loop processing ==> Making package: perl-event 1.28-1.1 (Fri 01 Jul 2022 22:50:05 CEST) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found Event-1.28.tar.gz ==> Validating source files with sha512sums... Event-1.28.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting Event-1.28.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Starting build()... Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Generating a Unix-style Makefile Writing Makefile for Event Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json cp lib/Event/generic.pod blib/lib/Event/generic.pod cp lib/Event/Watcher.pm blib/lib/Event/Watcher.pm cp lib/Event/type.pm blib/lib/Event/type.pm cp lib/Event/io.pm blib/lib/Event/io.pm cp lib/Event/MakeMaker.pm blib/lib/Event/MakeMaker.pm cp lib/Event/idle.pm blib/lib/Event/idle.pm cp lib/Event/typemap blib/lib/Event/typemap cp lib/Event/signal.pm blib/lib/Event/signal.pm cp lib/Event/timer.pm blib/lib/Event/timer.pm cp lib/Event.pm blib/lib/Event.pm cp lib/Event/EventAPI.h blib/lib/Event/EventAPI.h cp lib/Event.pod blib/lib/Event.pod cp lib/Event/group.pm blib/lib/Event/group.pm cp lib/Event/generic.pm blib/lib/Event/generic.pm cp lib/Event/var.pm blib/lib/Event/var.pm Running Mkbootstrap for Event () chmod 644 "Event.bs" "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Event.bs blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.bs 644 "/usr/bin/perl" "/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/ExtUtils/xsubpp" -typemap '/usr/share/perl5/core_perl/ExtUtils/typemap' -typemap '/tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/src/Event-1.28/lib/Event/typemap' Event.xs > Event.xsc mv Event.xsc Event.c cc -c -Ic -Ilib/Event -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector-strong -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto -DVERSION=\"1.28\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.28\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/core_perl/CORE" Event.c In file included from Event.xs:269: c/var.c: In function 'pe_var_start': c/var.c:82:20: warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers] 82 | mg->mg_virtual = &PL_vtbl_uvar; | ^ rm -f blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.so cc -shared -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -flto -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector-strong Event.o -o blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.so \ \ chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.so Manifying 3 pod documents ==> Starting check()... "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Event.bs blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.bs 644 PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/attach_to.t ..... ok t/bored.t ......... ok t/callback.t ...... ok t/data.t .......... ok t/delete.t ........ ok t/eval.t .......... ok t/fifo.t .......... ok t/generic.t ....... ok t/group.t ......... ok t/hook.t .......... ok t/hup.t ........... ok t/idle.t .......... ok t/Inline.t ........ ok t/io.t ............ ok t/leak.t .......... ok t/leak2.t ......... ok t/loop.t .......... ok t/now.t ........... ok t/reenter.t ....... ok t/signal.t ........ ok t/timeout_cb.t .... ok t/timer.t ......... ok t/unconfigured.t .. ok t/var.t ........... ok All tests successful. Files=24, Tests=124, 11 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr 0.03 sys + 2.34 cusr 0.66 csys = 3.08 CPU) Result: PASS ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... "/usr/bin/perl" -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Event.bs blib/arch/auto/Event/Event.bs 644 Manifying 3 pod documents Files found in blib/arch: installing files in blib/lib into architecture dependent library tree Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/auto/Event/Event.so Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event.pod Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/var.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/generic.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/group.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/EventAPI.h Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/timer.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/signal.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/typemap Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/idle.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/MakeMaker.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/io.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/type.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/Watcher.pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/vendor_perl/Event/generic.pod Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/share/man/man3/Event::generic.3pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/share/man/man3/Event::MakeMaker.3pm Installing /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/share/man/man3/Event.3pm Appending installation info to /tmp/trizen-jeanette/perl-event/pkg/perl-event/usr/lib/perl5/5.36/core_perl/perllocal.pod ==> Tidying install... -> Removing empty directories... -> Removing libtool files... -> Purging unwanted files... -> Removing static library files... -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries... -> Compressing man and info pages... ==> Checking for packaging issues... ==> Creating package "perl-event"... -> Generating .PKGINFO file... -> Generating .BUILDINFO file... -> Generating .MTREE file... -> Compressing package... ==> Leaving fakeroot environment. ==> Finished making: perl-event 1.28-1.1 (Fri 01 Jul 2022 22:50:21 CEST) ==> Cleaning up... :: Unable to find a built tarball for perl-event *** End of trizen -Sy perl-event -- * 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 Here I go, on my own now <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] openssl 3 -- status?
by Genes Lists 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

Be terrific if someone could provide an update on where things stand for arch migration to Openssl 3? We're coming up on the 1 year anniversary of openssl 3 with 3.0.4 released last week. As I recall there was some work happening to ensure things continue to work properly. My loose understanding is that openssl 3 has ABI changes but the API changes seem to be quite limited. The arch tracker site [1] shows 26 core packages as incomplete - though it's bit unclear from the site what the actual problems are. It also shows many many other packages similarly "incomplete" Fedora 36, which was released May 10 this year is, I believe, built against openssl 3. This at least strongly suggests that most "normal" packages work fine with rebuild of recent versions. We always have recent versions :) Taking a couple of examples from the tracker page [1]: 1) openssh shows the current version as incomplete. The openssh docs suggest openssl 3 support was made available in version 8.1p1 while it was still in dev. 2) cryptsetup - seems to be compatible as of 2.4.0. current version is 2.4.3). Only reference I found was redhat [2] 3) kmod - was unable to find any known issues. fedora 36 kmod is built against openssl 3 and it presumably is ok. 4) systemd - best I can tell there were some issues but they have been resolved (including license issues) 1 example is [3] Be great to get an update from those who, unlike me, really know :) thanks gene [1] https://archlinux.org/todo/openssl-30/ [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975799 [3] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/21666

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[arch-general] packaging mingw-w64-gtksourceview5 and mingw-w64-libadwaita
by Sim Tov 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Hello, I would like to help Gnome Text Editor developers to cross-compile it for Windows within their CI: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-text-editor/-/issues/149 This might help attract Windows users to Gnome/Linux... I was looking for a Linux distro that has a solid Mingw-w64 library collection to use as docker image in CI. Fedora doesn't have mingw-w64-gtk4 while Arch does, so I decided to use the latter. Dear Arch package maintainers, may I ask you to, please, package the most recent version of mingw-w64-gtksourceview5 and mingw-w64-libadwaita so I can go ahead? I saw this MSYS2 package (they use pacman) that might help you with compilation flags, etc.: https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-gtksourceview5 https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-libadwaita Thank you! ST

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[arch-general] pacman Segfault on full system update
by David C. Rankin 25 Jun '22

25 Jun '22

I have an Arch guest in VirtualBox running on an Arch server. I installed virtualbox-bin 1-34-2 from AUR with 5.18 patch and the install on the host went fine. I access the guest headless using rdesktop over the LAN. (have done so for years). Doing a full system update from 5.17.7 to 5.18.6 (about 25 days of updates) on guest. Pacman segfaulted leaving post transaction hooks unrun. I reinstalled the kernel and systemd to force the initrd to be made so the guest is bootable. However, I'm not sure what additional hooks were missed. The guest window when X is started is 1440 x 864 but the only portion of the desktop shown is 1024 x 768 (rest is black and not shown, taskbar unable to be seen, etc.) After the pacman segfault, now the console is also missing the last 7-8 lines. I have to hit clear and start over at the top to see what I'm typing. How can I recover this system? I was able to rsync the last 1000 lines of pacman.log from the guest to the host, but the shared folders no longer work. The pacman.log summary of how the issue occurred is: [2022-06-24T02:06:26-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Sy --needed archlinux-keyring' [2022-06-24T02:06:26-0500] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2022-06-24T02:07:03-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Su' [2022-06-24T02:07:03-0500] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2022-06-24T02:07:30-0500] [ALPM] running '60-mkinitcpio-remove.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:07:30-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:07:30-0500] [ALPM] upgraded iana-etc (20220427-1 -> 20220603-1) [2022-06-24T02:07:30-0500] [ALPM] warning: /etc/locale.gen installed as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew [2022-06-24T02:07:31-0500] [ALPM] upgraded glibc (2.35-5 -> 2.35-6) [2022-06-24T02:07:31-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generating locales... [2022-06-24T02:07:32-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] en_US.UTF-8... done [2022-06-24T02:07:32-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] Generation complete. <snipped lots of packages installed> ... [2022-06-24T02:09:04-0500] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware-whence (20220509.b19cbdc-1 -> 20220610.7b71b75-1) Segfault Remove db.lock and continue: [2022-06-24T02:12:57-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2022-06-24T02:12:57-0500] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2022-06-24T02:12:59-0500] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2022-06-24T02:13:16-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:13:17-0500] [ALPM] error: could not extract /usr/share/licenses/linux-firmware/LICENCE.nvidia (Zstd decompression failed: Restored data doesn't match checksum) [2022-06-24T02:13:17-0500] [ALPM] error: problem occurred while upgrading linux-firmware [2022-06-24T02:13:17-0500] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20220509.b19cbdc-1 -> 20220610.7b71b75-1) [2022-06-24T02:13:17-0500] [ALPM] transaction failed So I delete the firmware file from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and run the upgrade again. To my surprise, it doesn't download the firmware package again, it just considers it installed and proceeds to other packages, e.g. [2022-06-24T02:15:49-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2022-06-24T02:15:49-0500] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2022-06-24T02:15:51-0500] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2022-06-24T02:16:03-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:16:03-0500] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.4-1 -> 3.10.5-1) [2022-06-24T02:16:09-0500] [ALPM] upgraded linux-headers (5.17.7.arch1-1 -> 5.18.6.arch1-1) [2022-06-24T02:16:11-0500] [ALPM] error: could not extract /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/client_ed25519.so (Zstd decompression failed: Restored data doesn't match checksum) [2022-06-24T02:16:11-0500] [ALPM] error: problem occurred while upgrading mariadb-libs [2022-06-24T02:16:11-0500] [ALPM] upgraded mariadb-libs (10.7.3-1 -> 10.8.3-1) [2022-06-24T02:16:11-0500] [ALPM] transaction failed Crash again and delete mariadb-libs from /var/cache... and try again: [2022-06-24T02:19:16-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2022-06-24T02:19:16-0500] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2022-06-24T02:19:17-0500] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2022-06-24T02:19:26-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:19:26-0500] [ALPM] upgraded mariadb-clients (10.7.3-1 -> 10.8.3-1) [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM] warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/lib/mysql/plugin/auth_pam_tool_dir/ filesystem: 700 package: 755 [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM] upgraded mariadb (10.7.3-1 -> 10.8.3-1) [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] :: MariaDB was updated to a new feature release. To update the data run: [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] systemctl restart mariadb.service && mariadb-upgrade -u root -p [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew [2022-06-24T02:19:27-0500] [ALPM] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20220501-1 -> 20220605-1) <snip lots more packages installed> ... [2022-06-24T02:19:34-0500] [ALPM] upgraded tmux (3.2_a-1 -> 3.3_a-2) [2022-06-24T02:19:35-0500] [ALPM] error: could not extract /usr/share/doc/valgrind/valgrind_manual.ps (Zstd decompression failed: Restored data doesn't match checksum) [2022-06-24T02:19:35-0500] [ALPM] error: problem occurred while upgrading valgrind [2022-06-24T02:19:35-0500] [ALPM] upgraded valgrind (3.19.0-3 -> 3.19.0-4) [2022-06-24T02:19:35-0500] [ALPM] transaction failed Crash again. Rinse, repeat and try again: [2022-06-24T02:20:14-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2022-06-24T02:20:14-0500] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2022-06-24T02:20:15-0500] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2022-06-24T02:20:20-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded vim-runtime (8.2.4827-1 -> 8.2.5046-2) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded vim (8.2.4827-1 -> 8.2.5046-2) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xbitmaps (1.1.2-2 -> 1.1.2-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xcb-util-cursor (0.1.3-3 -> 0.1.3-4) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xcursor-themes (1.0.6-2 -> 1.0.6-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-bdftopcf (1.1-2 -> 1.1-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-font-util (1.3.2-2 -> 1.3.2-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (21.1.3-6 -> 21.1.3-7) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (21.1.3-6 -> 21.1.3-7) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xcursorgen (1.0.7-2 -> 1.0.7-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xmessage (1.0.5-2 -> 1.0.5-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xmodmap (1.0.10-2 -> 1.0.10-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-xsetroot (1.1.2-2 -> 1.1.2-3) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded xterm (372-1 -> 372-2) [2022-06-24T02:20:21-0500] [ALPM] upgraded zsh (5.8.1-2 -> 5.9-1) [2022-06-24T02:20:24-0500] [ALPM] transaction completed [2022-06-24T02:20:24-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:20:24-0500] [ALPM] running 'fontconfig.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:20:25-0500] [ALPM] running 'gtk-update-icon-cache.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:20:25-0500] [ALPM] running 'update-desktop-database.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:20:26-0500] [ALPM] running 'xorg-mkfontscale.hook'... Now system has many hooks not run, at this point if upgrade the kernel to force an image to be created and it succeeds: [2022-06-24T02:24:31-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-5.18.6.arch1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' [2022-06-24T02:24:37-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:24:38-0500] [ALPM] reinstalled linux (5.18.6.arch1-1) [2022-06-24T02:24:40-0500] [ALPM] transaction completed [2022-06-24T02:24:41-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:24:41-0500] [ALPM] running '60-depmod.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:24:46-0500] [ALPM] running '90-mkinitcpio-install.hook'... <snip -- succeeds without issue> [2022-06-24T02:25:05-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fall back.img [2022-06-24T02:25:06-0500] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful Reinstall systemd to force it to run its hooks and vim to see if I can't fix "can't allocate for color Orange", etc... [2022-06-24T02:46:41-0500] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -S systemd systemd-libs vim vim-runtime' [2022-06-24T02:46:53-0500] [ALPM] transaction started [2022-06-24T02:46:53-0500] [ALPM] reinstalled systemd-libs (251.2-1) [2022-06-24T02:46:54-0500] [ALPM] reinstalled systemd (251.2-1) [2022-06-24T02:46:55-0500] [ALPM] reinstalled vim-runtime (8.2.5046-2) [2022-06-24T02:46:55-0500] [ALPM] reinstalled vim (8.2.5046-2) [2022-06-24T02:46:56-0500] [ALPM] transaction completed [2022-06-24T02:46:56-0500] [ALPM] running '20-systemd-sysusers.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:56-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-catalog.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:56-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-daemon-reload.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:56-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-hwdb.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:57-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-sysctl.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:57-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-tmpfiles.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:57-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-udev-reload.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:57-0500] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2022-06-24T02:46:57-0500] [ALPM] running '90-mkinitcpio-install.hook'... So after all of this manual running, I can start the VM and log in as user or root, but I'm not sure what got missed? Is there any way to know what hooks remain unrun or what packages the system thinks were installed but that were not actually installed? Why does X and the console only show 1024 x 768 of the guest even though the window (which is normally filled with the VM) is 1440 x 864? What do I need to look at/test to determine what shape my install is in? Sorry for the long post, but without the logs, it would have been impossible to explain what happened or where it happened in the upgrade process. Let me know if there is anything else I can post that will help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Popa3d and systemd
by paulf＠quillandmouse.com 14 Jun '22

14 Jun '22

Folks: I'm attempting to use popa3d to handle POP3 on my box for my home network. The authors assume you will be running an init.d system, but obviously, I'm running systemd. Does anyone know how to set this up with systemd so it will run without simply terminating. I've set up a system user called "popa3d" to satisfy a getpwnam() error generated by systemd, and I have a service file as follows: [Unit] Description=POP3 Daemon [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/popa3d -D User=root [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Any help would be appreciated. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

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[arch-general] Samba - Can fix for https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062 be cherry picked too?
by David C. Rankin 11 Jun '22

11 Jun '22

Got the latest samba 4.16.1-4 and had part way expected the fix for: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062 To be included. I guess samba will wait for the next minor version number release to include it. However, I noticed the packager had cherry picked a gnome print fix and wondered if you could cherry pick the [homes] fix also. This bug prevents the normal [homes] share from appearing as a share making $HOME unavailable. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] konsole updated to handle the ANSI d & f escapes used by pacman current/total lines
by David C. Rankin 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Just a follow up note, The konsole code was updated to handle the new line escapes that gave me issues when the new escapes were added to pacman. All displays fine, but it would still be nice to have a switch to turn the additional display off. I don't use the total info, just doesn't provide anything that meaningful to use while an update is being applied. Something like --nototal would do. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] konsole updated to handle the ANSI d & f escapes used by pacman current/total lines
by David C. Rankin 07 Jun '22

07 Jun '22

Just a follow up note, The konsole code was updated to handle the new line escapes that gave me issues when the new escapes were added to pacman. All displays fine, but it would still be nice to have a switch to turn the additional display off. I don't use the total info, just doesn't provide anything that meaningful to use while an update is being applied. Something like --nototal would do. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] About merge for revolt into revolt-desktop
by Óscar García Amor 28 May '22

28 May '22

Hi folks, A few days ago a request was made to merge revolt into revolt-desktop in AUR. At that time I already explained[1] that these were different packages and that the merger did not make sense. Three days ago Morten Linderud finally approved the merger of the packages despite the two being different. I have tried to contact him explaining why these packages should not be merged but I have not received a response. This is a copy of the email I sent him. --- BEGIN --- MAIL --- COPY --- Hi Morten, Recently you accept merge the package revolt into revolt-desktop: > Request #34104 has been Accepted by Foxboron [1]: > > [Autogenerated] Accepted merge for revolt into revolt-desktop. But these are completely different packages: Revolt[1] is an application written in Python (using PyGObject with GTK and WebKit) which wraps Element[2] in a fancy desktop environment integration. Revolt not is new, has been under development for several years and the first commit dates back to 2016[3]. revolt-desktop[4] (it's the first time I've heard of it, to be honest) is what appears to be a client of your own service revolt-chat[5]. It is something quite recent, its first commit dates back to 2021[6]. As you can see, we are really talking about two different applications that, although they are both instant messaging clients, have nothing to do with each other. On the other hand, in case of a name conflict, this would be caused by revolt-chat, being a much more recent application than revolt. Therefore I ask you to please consider this merger and revert the changes so that we can continue working with the revolt package in AUR. Thank you very much in advance. [1]: https://github.com/aperezdc/revolt [2]: https://element.io/ [3]: https://github.com/aperezdc/revolt/commit/455c7f25ae476be26cb1839368da68f58… [4]: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop [5]: https://revolt.chat/ [6]: https://github.com/revoltchat/desktop/commit/309a8cea3307ed4707b26068d810c4… --- END --- MAIL --- COPY --- I understand that, as people working on Arch Linux there is a lot of work to be done, but that is no excuse, IMHO, for doing things wrong. Could the merger of these packages be reversed? Thanks for your time. [1]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2022-April/070272.html -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] In pacman view, -debug package doesn't depends on its non -debug package
by u34＠net9.ga 25 May '22

25 May '22

Am I right the new -debug packages do not depend, pacman wise, on their binary, non -debug packages? By that I mean pacman --upgrade somepkg-debug will sucsseed even when somepkg is not installed. Such dependency looks to me obvoius. Why was it decided not to have it? -- u34

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[arch-general] A tiny linux 5.17.7-arch1 compilation issue with a custom config
by u34＠net9.ga 16 May '22

16 May '22

This is most probably not an arch specific issue. And does not concern arch official linux, as arch official linux does not have CONFIG_WERROR=y. Hopefully, the linux kerenl people can better fix the following. It could be it is already fixed. I managed to sweep it under the rug with 29c29 < CONFIG_WERROR=y --- > # CONFIG_WERROR is not set My point is I used to have CONFIG_WERROR=y in the linux .config file for some time. It could be that until the gcc 11.2.0-4 -> 12.1.0-1 upgrade, the following was partially, or fully, over looked by the compilation process. But it could also be that the source was somewhat changed lately. Or that there are other issues involved, which I am not aware of. The following is with 5.17.7-arch1 source, and CONFIG_WERROR=y. CC drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.o drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c: In function 'acpi_ut_init_stack_ptr_trace': drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:40:38: error: storing the address of local variable 'current_sp' in 'acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer' [-Werror=dangling-pointer=] 40 | acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer = &current_sp; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:38:19: note: 'current_sp' declared here 38 | acpi_size current_sp; | ^~~~~~~~~~ In file included from ./include/acpi/acpi.h:31, from drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.c:12: drivers/acpi/acpica/acglobal.h:196:26: note: 'acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer' declared here 196 | ACPI_GLOBAL(acpi_size *, acpi_gbl_entry_stack_pointer); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ./include/acpi/acpixf.h:45:21: note: in definition of macro 'ACPI_GLOBAL' 45 | extern type name | ^~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:288: drivers/acpi/acpica/utdebug.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/acpi/acpica] Error 2 make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:550: drivers/acpi] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:1831: drivers] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Without CONFIG_WERROR=y, compilation continues, since the lines beginning at cc1: all warnings being treated as errors are avoided. Which is expected. -- u34

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[arch-general] intel-ucode 20220510-1 killed my wifi
by Simeon Felis 15 May '22

15 May '22

Apparently I have a Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 on a Lenovo Thinkpad x230t. I hope that this is a ucode issue and not a rotting hardware. Here is what happens with intel-ucode 20220510-1 [ 18.138516] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1 build 25532 6000-4.ucode op_mode iwldvm [ 18.246943] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.246948] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.246950] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.246952] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 18.302418] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 18.302422] Timeout waiting for hardware access (CSR_GP_CNTRL 0xffffffff) [ 18.302442] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 576 at drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.c:2117 __iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x1ec/0x220 [iwlwifi] [ 18.302467] Modules linked in: iwldvm(+) kvm_intel(+) snd_intel_dspcfg mac80211 kvm libarc4 snd_intel_sdw_acpi iTCO_wdt snd_hda_codec joydev intel_pmc_bxt iwlwifi nls_iso8859_1 at24 think_lmi(+) vfat mousedev irqbypass firmware_attributes_class wmi_bmof mei_hdcp mei_pxp mei_wdt iTCO_vendor_support rapl intel_cstate fat iwlmei intel_ uncore i2c_i801 snd_hda_core pcspkr thinkpad_acpi i2c_smbus cfg80211 snd_hwdep psmouse ledtrig_audio i915 platform_profile snd_pcm wmi rfkill snd_timer tpm_tis ttm e1000e snd mei_me video tpm_tis_core lpc_ich intel_gtt mei soundcore mac_hid vboxnetflt(OE) vboxnetadp(OE) vboxdrv(OE) dm_multipath ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sg crypto_us er fuse bpf_preload ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic crc16 mbcache jbd2 dm_crypt cbc encrypted_keys dm_mod trusted asn1_encoder tee tpm rng_core serio_raw crct10dif_pclmul atkbd libps2 crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd sdhci_pci cqhci sdhci i8042 xhci_pci usbhid mmc_core [ 18.302532] xhci_pci_renesas serio [ 18.302535] CPU: 1 PID: 576 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G OE 5.17.6-arch1-1 #1 6a465b5cdd6c23594925dd1c6b33fddeebe18127 [ 18.302538] Hardware name: LENOVO 3435CTO/3435CTO, BIOS GCETB5WW (2.75 ) 09/25/2019 [ 18.302539] RIP: 0010:__iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x1ec/0x220 [iwlwifi] [ 18.302558] Code: 48 89 df e8 b6 af fe ff 4c 89 f7 e8 2e 3a 36 c9 e9 e6 fe ff ff 89 c6 48 c7 c7 28 ae a3 c0 c6 05 89 7c 04 00 01 e8 14 b4 2f c9 <0f> 0b e9 01 ff ff ff 48 8b 7b 40 48 c7 c2 90 ae a3 c0 31 f6 e8 4b [ 18.302560] RSP: 0018:ffffb9b98090fb30 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 18.302562] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff97e086a2c028 RCX: 0000000000000027 [ 18.302563] RDX: ffff97e38e6616e8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff97e38e6616e0 [ 18.302564] RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb9b98090f948 [ 18.302565] R10: ffffb9b98090f940 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: 0000000000000001 [ 18.302567] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97e086a2e944 R15: 0000000000000011 [ 18.302568] FS: 00007f713f50f740(0000) GS:ffff97e38e640000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 18.302570] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 18.302571] CR2: 00007fc7d5006000 CR3: 000000010e484006 CR4: 00000000001706e0 [ 18.302573] Call Trace: [ 18.302575] <TASK> [ 18.302578] iwl_trans_pcie_grab_nic_access+0x16/0x40 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302595] iwl_write_prph_delay+0x23/0x70 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302610] iwl_pcie_apm_init+0x131/0x1c0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302625] iwl_trans_pcie_start_hw+0x96/0x2b0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302641] iwl_op_mode_dvm_start+0x298/0xcd0 [iwldvm c4082a7f19be48965d2a2c00f53b750277e654b3] [ 18.302655] _iwl_op_mode_start+0x98/0xc0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302670] iwl_opmode_register+0x68/0xd0 [iwlwifi 9bf797cd3fa1dfe7d95f58c5bd0c22cc3010b7df] [ 18.302685] ? 0xffffffffc0b96000 [ 18.302687] iwl_init+0x34/0x1000 [iwldvm c4082a7f19be48965d2a2c00f53b750277e654b3] [ 18.302698] ? 0xffffffffc0b96000 [ 18.302699] do_one_initcall+0x56/0x220 [ 18.302704] do_init_module+0x4a/0x240 [ 18.302707] __do_sys_init_module+0x138/0x1b0 [ 18.302711] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80 [ 18.302717] ? vfs_read+0xf4/0x190 [ 18.302720] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x23/0x50 [ 18.302722] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 18.302725] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x23/0x50 [ 18.302726] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80 [ 18.302729] ? exc_page_fault+0x71/0x170 [ 18.302731] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 18.302735] RIP: 0033:0x7f713f62a3ee [ 18.302736] Code: 48 8b 0d ad 59 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 49 89 ca b8 af 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 7a 59 0e 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [ 18.302738] RSP: 002b:00007ffc37bd5b78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000af [ 18.302740] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000564030699ee0 RCX: 00007f713f62a3ee [ 18.302742] RDX: 000056403022fa2a RSI: 00000000000a82d0 RDI: 00005640307b0d30 [ 18.302743] RBP: 00005640307b0d30 R08: 00000000000a82d0 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 18.302744] R10: 000000000010f7c1 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000056403022fa2a [ 18.302745] R13: 000056403069a010 R14: 0000564030699ee0 R15: 000056403069a8e0 [ 18.302747] </TASK> [ 18.302748] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 18.302752] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi transaction failed, dumping registers [ 18.303524] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi device config registers: [ 18.304397] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.305186] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.305985] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000040: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.306736] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000060: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.307472] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000080: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.308196] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000a0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.308922] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000c0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.309654] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 000000e0: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.310358] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000100: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.311043] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000120: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.311731] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000140: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.312440] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi device memory mapped registers: [ 18.313162] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.313863] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: 00000020: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff [ 18.315155] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwlwifi parent port (0000:00:1c.1) config registers: [ 18.315997] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000000: 1e128086 00100007 060400c4 00810010 00000000 00000000 00030300 200000f0 [ 18.316671] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000020: f1c0f1c0 0001fff1 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00020207 [ 18.317378] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000040: 01428010 00008000 00100000 02123c12 50110042 000cb200 01480000 00000000 [ 18.318075] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000060: 00000000 00000016 00000000 00000000 00010002 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.318782] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000080: 00009005 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000a00d 220317aa 00000000 00000000 [ 18.319464] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000a0: c8020001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.320276] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 01000000 00000b02 81118000 00000000 [ 18.321114] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000000e0: 00000300 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 08040f87 00000000 [ 18.321910] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000100: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00060011 00000000 00002000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.322573] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000120: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.323203] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000140: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.323812] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000160: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.324408] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000180: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.325007] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001a0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.325606] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.326168] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 000001e0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.326718] iwlwifi 0000:00:1c.1: 00000200: 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 18.370403] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: bad EEPROM/OTP signature, type=OTP, EEPROM_GP=0x00000007 [ 18.371598] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: EEPROM not found, EEPROM_GP=0xffffffff [ 18.372418] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Unable to init EEPROM [ 18.373179] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: retry init count 0 [ 18.373951] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.373954] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.373956] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.373958] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 18.418123] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: bound 0000:00:02.0 (ops i915_audio_component_bind_ops [i915]) [ 18.448746] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: bad EEPROM/OTP signature, type=OTP, EEPROM_GP=0x00000007 [ 18.449514] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: EEPROM not found, EEPROM_GP=0xffffffff [ 18.450309] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Unable to init EEPROM [ 18.451079] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: retry init count 1 [ 18.451872] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG enabled [ 18.451875] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled [ 18.451877] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 18.451879] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Ultimate-N 6300 AGN, REV=0x74 Linux pandora 5.17.6-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 10 May 2022 23:00:39 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Downgraded with pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/intel-ucode-20220419-1-any.pkg.tar.zst I would probably need more reboots and re-installs to confirm and rule out hardware issues. If I don't post on this any more it was probably a hardware issue.

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[arch-general] Qemu 7 can not be upgraded on my machine.
by Matthew Dyer 14 May '22

14 May '22

Hi all, I have 2 machines 1 of wich is x86 and the other is arm based. On On the arm machine I am using stormux which is based on arch arm. Here is the issue. On my stormux/arm pi400 machine which btw I I am writing this message on, I am unabble to upgrade or for thart mater remove qemu. Upgrading qemu or installing qemu-desktop tells me that there are broken dependencys. I for the time being, have added the following packages to be ignored in my pacman.conf. qemu-headless and qemu-img. I am not sure if this should be posted on the list, but could not find a way to resaulved this and would to get this problem. Is there a flag such as allow or force of sore sort which can be used in some cases? On my main x86 machine this upgrade went without a problem. If there is a way to remove qemu since I don't really use it that would be wonderfull as well since I don't use it. Matthew

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[arch-general] Rollback to specific date works fine -- but really slow download
by David C. Rankin 13 May '22

13 May '22

Arch folks, Had the need to do a first rollback to 3/15/22 for a samba bug report on 4.16 failure to discover [homes] (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062) The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be done to help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there were 368 packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took forever. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] sound problem with chromium
by Pascal 11 May '22

11 May '22

hi, I have an ArchLinux installed on a usb disk (eg. "mobile"). ~ # uname -r 5.15.37-1-lts ~ # pacman -Q | egrep 'alsa|chromium|firefox|mplayer' alsa-lib 1.2.6.1-1 alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-1 alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.6.3-1 alsa-utils 1.2.6-1 chromium 101.0.4951.54-1 firefox 100.0-1 mplayer 38359-1 when it runs on my Dell Latitude E5250, Chromium works without any difficulty to play a YouTube video for example : the sound is ok (same for Firefox or Mplayer). on the other hand, when it runs on my Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, Chromium has problems with the sound (which is not the case for Firefox or Mplayer which both produce sound). it happens from time to time in this (hardware) environment that Chromium produces sound and the next moment (simple stop/restart of the browser) it fails (without anything being done in between) ! another surprising thing is that if I access a video (zunRcH4nUPI) this way "chromium https://www.youtube.com/" (and then click on the desired video) I often don't get any sound while if I access it this way "chromium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunRcH4nUPI" the sound works ! I spent a lot of time trying to understand the problem and looking for a solution/track on the internet but, having found nothing, I throw a bottle in the water... regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] pacsave for nouveau blacklist in nvidia-utils
by The Puzzlemaker 08 May '22

08 May '22

I've found that when I need to keep nvidia-utils installed whilst still using nouveau (even while using the suggested method in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/nouveau#Keep_NVIDIA_driver_installed) it gets overridden upon update of nvidia-utils. I believe the way to solve this would be to add a backup section in the PKGBUILD (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#backup)? But I'm not entirely sure. This would be helpful, in my opinion, though, as it would prevent the blacklist from getting invisibly uncommented, and causing problems which may be hard to debug.

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[arch-general] Status of llvm / clang
by Spencer Collyer 08 May '22

08 May '22

Hope this is the right mailing list to send this too. If not, apologies and please direct me to the right one. I'm wondering when the llvm and clang packages are going to be updated. Version 14 of both have been out since late March but doing a package search for them still shows version 13. I did see a thread that said compilers sometimes take longer to be updated because they need testing to make sure they don't break any existing packages that use them, but it also said they normally got put into Testing to do that and I don't see llvm or clang in the Testing area. Not really a biggie, but there are some things in Clang14 that I'd like to start using and I'd prefer to use official Arch packages than building my own version. Thanks for your attention, Regards, Spencer S

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Re: [arch-general] Why is clock_gettime called when the mouse moves?
by Ralph Corderoy 07 May '22

07 May '22

Hi Piscium, Second attempt, the first went to the old list address. > What I posted before was just a short snippet. In > the link below there is a trace for leafpad, available for 7 days. > https://we.tl/t-BAbO60lnGN > > > I suggest using the simplest X client you can which shows the issue, > > e.g. xev(1). ... > Good suggestion. I tried xev and I cannot reproduce the issue. The > simplest app that I tried that shows the issue is leafpad. > > > The second, if you read the two other emails in the thread, fixes the > > problem by changing the kernel's clock source which may differ between > > your two test machines? > > I am not sure what you are referring to, maybe a link for the second > page is missing? Sorry. https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1823248.h… > There are tons of GUI apps. I have tested just a handful of them. > Have the clock_gettime issue: leafpad, mousepad, emacs, audacious, konsole. > Don't have the issue: xev, xterm. > > I tried to figure out if there is a common library used by all apps > that have the problem but so far have not found it. A way to figure > this out might be using gdb and putting a breakpoint on clock_gettime, > but i am reluctant to do this as it would take a lot of time It may be perf_events would help you analyse the frequency of difference clock_gettime() callers, say by maintaining frequency counts of the previous three functions in the call stack, but I don't know enough to suggest how. https://www.brendangregg.com/perf.html -- Cheers, Ralph.

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[arch-general] sequoia-octopus-librnp 1.3.0-1 not working with new thunderbir 91.8.1-1
by Javier 06 May '22

06 May '22

Today's thunderbird upgrade broke sequoia-octopus-librnp (universe), it might be octopus just requires a new build with up to date sys libraries, or that a new octopus librnp version is required. For now, keeping thunderbird on 91.8.1-1, not allowing it to upgrade is a workaround. -- Javier

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[arch-general] Why is clock_gettime called when the mouse moves?
by Piscium 05 May '22

05 May '22

I don't know what is the best place to ask the following question, if here, in the Arch forums (which ?) or in the X.org mailing list. I will ask here first. I am open to suggestions. I have two Arch desktops. Desktop #1: MSI motherboard, Nvidia graphics with proprietary driver, Xfce on top of openbox. Desktop #2: Dell, Intel graphics, Xfce on top of openbox. If I run strace <GUI app> where <GUI app> could be for example Mousepad or Emacs, and move the mouse I get lots of stuff in the trace in both desktops. In desktop #1 however most of trace consists of calls to clock_gettime. This seems weird to me. In the excerpt below which shows both seconds and nano seconds, in the same second there are lots of messages. Why? As far as I know there is nothing wrong with the clock, and there is no special X configuration, so why does one desktop shows calls to clock_gettime and the other not? Any ideas? clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338313354}) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338370693}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338397792}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338425239}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338452337}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338479505}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338506324}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338532794}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338559683}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338586432}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338617162}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338651035}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338686654}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338721993}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338762990}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338799447}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338836812}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338872989}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338909307}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338942411}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=338971326}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339001287}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339030900}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339061700}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339090335}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339122531}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339152283}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339181826}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339212696}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339243915}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339273527}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339305864}) = 0 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=8, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}], 3, 0) = 0 (Timeout) clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339372701}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339404270}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339436117}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339467196}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339498276}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339530402}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339562878}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339604015}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339639424}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339670364}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339701722}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339732871}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339764649}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339803620}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339835398}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339866337}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339897975}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339929683}) = 0 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=36619, tv_nsec=339959715}) = 0

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[arch-general] Package ld-lsb
by Ralf Mardorf 04 May '22

04 May '22

Hi, what is the purpose of the package ld-lsb or else the reason for "Faking a Linux Standard Base runtime"? "Required By (0)" - https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ld-lsb/ $ pacman -Ql ld-lsb ld-lsb /usr/ ld-lsb /usr/lib/ ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.2 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.2 ld-lsb /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.3 $ /bin/ls -l /usr/lib/ld-lsb* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.2 -> ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 May 13 2021 /usr/lib/ld-lsb.so.3 -> ld-linux.so.2 "The standard stopped being updated in 2015 and current Linux distributions do not adhere to or offer it" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base Let alone that it always has been a standard in name only. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] nvidia-utils=510.68.02
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 02 May '22

02 May '22

Greetings, I got an error message from pacman this morning: -> Could not find all required packages: nvidia-utils=510.68.02 (Wanted by: nvidia-lts) According to <https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=nvidia-utils>, that version of nvidia-utils is still in Testing. I can't tell whether nvidia-lts=510.68.02 or nvidia-utils=510.68.02 is in the wrong place, but they're a pair, right? Can someone look into this? Thanks, Dan -- I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan

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[arch-general] not able to execute commands on tty
by Frank 26 Apr '22

26 Apr '22

Hi, I'm having an issue with tty. When loogin on I get the following error messages: -bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied -bash: PATH: Command not found ... This is my bashrc: # # ~/.bashrc # # If not running interactively, don't do anything [[ $- != *i* ]] && return #fix VTE issue for tilix if [ $TILIX_ID ] || [ $VTE_VERSION ]; then source /etc/profile.d/vte.sh fi alias ls='ls --color=auto' alias ll='ls -l' alias la='ls -a' alias diff='diff --color=auto' alias grep='grep --color=auto' alias mpv='mpv --vo=gpu' #command not found #source /usr/share/doc/find-the-command/ftc.bash powerline-daemon -q POWERLINE_BASH_CONTINUATION=1 POWERLINE_BASH_SELECT=1 . /usr/share/powerline/bindings/bash/powerline.sh and here's my .profile: #set vim as default editor export EDITOR=vim #prevent logging identical commands and commands starting with a space export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth #append to history on exit shopt -s histappend #store multiline commands in one entry shopt -s cmdhist #line wrap on windowresize shopt -s checkwinsize ##tell apps to use Wayland #Firefox export MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 #prevent accessibility tools export NO_AT_BRIDGE=1 #add Perl and Perl modules to file path export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/core_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/vendor_perl/" export PATH="$(PATH):/usr/bin/site_perl/" [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc I'm not able to execute any commands, getting the command not found, and have no idea what wnet wrong here. All is fine when on wayland using a treminal emulator. THX Frank

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[arch-general] any IEEE 802.11ax wifi 6 USB devices supported by gnu+linux (even external dkms)?
by Javier 15 Apr '22

15 Apr '22

I’m looking for upgrading to wifi 6 (802.11ax), but I’m not able to find gnu+linux supported usb devices. WPA3 seems a winner, and the fact devices don’t interfere with each others (at least not as much as wifi 5 and lesser), plus better signal spectrum, and perhaps getting where it was harder before, then I’m willing to upgrade, however, it seems only ms-windows and maybe some mac supported, usb devices can be found. Could it be it’ll take even further to get them into gnu+linux? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] [grub] how to make grub use the integrated intel gpu, rather than the discrete nvidia one?
by Javier 12 Apr '22

12 Apr '22

Hello ! On a laptop with dual GPU, I'm able to disable nvdia, following instructions under [1], though I'm thinking that was not necessary, since I'm using early kms with intel [2]: > % grep i915 /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > MODULES=(i915) And I don't use the xf86-video-* Xorg drivers, since I prefer the glamor Xorg ones: > [ 94.997] (II) modeset(0): glamor X acceleration enabled on Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) Now, I noticed grub is actually using the nvdia gpu, because it doesn't support specifying GRUB_GFXMODE to "auto", neither "1920x1080x32", well, it doesn't complain, but the resolution I get for any is terrible, and when I disable the framebuffer [3]: > # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal > #GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console I do get the right resolution, though I totally lose my background image, which is sad. But it's not only aesthetics, it seems, at times, when loading the initrd image on boot, the system freezes, and there's no alternative than a hard boot, which might be related. If you're wondering, this is a HP zbook 15 g6. Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/hybrid_graphics [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_mode_setting#Early_KMS_start [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Disable_framebuffer

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[arch-general] Fwd: [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)
by Javier 09 Apr '22

09 Apr '22

On 9/11/20 12:18, Javier wrote: > On 9/11/20 9:01 AM, Jens John wrote: >> If this is a limitation, it's a limitation of Akonadi that it doesn't monitor remote single files for changes. A workaround could be to use the local file source, let korganizer monitor it for changes, and sync the local file using wget/curl and a systemd --user timer. This should work flawlessly and be solid. >> >> Personally, I'd suggest to think differently and get the ICS subscription into your DAV calendaring system first. CalDAV software or hosting worth its money should support some kind of calendar subscription. This is exactly what I'm doing; I have CalDAV as the single source of truth, and subscriptions of external calendars flow into the DAV calendars. At the endpoint device, I just need to connect to CalDAV to get everything from one source. This is also the setup I'm using with KOrganizer. >> > > BTW, I do have the external ICS web calendars subscribed into my DAV provider, which has of course its own personal calendar and a birthday calendar extracted from the contacts information. > > On Thunderbird, when you include the caldav calendar, Thunderbird automatically includes the ICS calendars as separate read only calendars that are periodically sync, and one can change the syncing period, besides the personal and birthday caldav calendars. > > On Android, I do have both, davdroid and icsdroid (now renamed to davx5 and icsx5), and when including the caldav calendar to davdroid, besides including the personal and birthday caldav calendar to davdroid, it automatically populates icsdroid (the partner app) with the ICS calendars, which are sync periodically with a configurable period, but common for all ICS calendars. > > On Korganizer though (having installed Kontact, Kaddressbook, Kmail and all other SW), when including the caldav calendar, only the personal and birthday event are included, that I remember, and I honestly don't recall if separate as individual calendars as on the case of Thunderbird and davdroid+icsdroid, or as just one combined calendar. But as I never saw the ICS calendars events, I just had to include them manually, and as ICS files was the only way I found to include them... > > I don't know if it was a matter of time to see all calendars reflected in Korganizer (I waited like half an hour, and then connected again the next day, and saw nothing). > > Perhaps I need to try it again... I wanted to follow this suggestion, but I haven't been able to. I do have an /e/ account with caldav+cardav+mail service, and I have the external ics/ical web calendars subscribed in there, however, as mentioned, when korganizer does the sync with the caldav service, it doesn't bring any of the subscribed ics/ical calendars into the /e/ caldav service. Is there another way to do this? Perhaps I need a local service which doesn't expose through the network, and just serves caldav locally, and then somehow subscribe to it, the ics/ical remote calendars, and set the sync period per calendar (I need some ones every 15 minutes, other every hour, other every half a day), and then make the calcav client, in this case, korganizer sync with this local service? Does it exist? What to use? Hopefully something I can start when launching the desktop, since in the end kde-pim only makes sense on the desktop. I can deal with user cron jobs as well I'd guess... And if such tool exists, which exposes ics/ical remote calendars, periodically sync, as caldav ones, locally, can it just do all, like syncing caldav and cardav as well, and then the clients sync with such tool? Tha last is not required, but it would be interesting, it'd be like on aosp mobiles, where you get the davdroid+icsdroid doing all the sync of calendars and contacts, and then other clients, like k9 mail, etar calendar, and lineageos contacts, just read from them and write to them. That would be cool, though such ecosystem is not available on the desktop, and actually kontact (kde-pim) with kmail+korganizer+kcontact+kleopatra+... is what comes closer... I'm still looking for this. Suggestions and guidance are really appreciated. Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: Forbid dummy packages from AUR
by Óscar García Amor 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

El jue, 24 mar 2022 a las 8:14, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public (<arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org>) escribió: > > On 24/3/22 11:07, Brett Cornwall via arch-dev-public wrote: > > Summary: Reject AUR packages that fulfill package dependencies without > > providing the files/binaries of the package in question. But why? I don't quite understand why this should be banned. IMHO I think it is something very interesting and also, as described in the RFC, has a clear and justified use. It would be different if there was a way to tell Pacman by configuration to assume that these dependencies are covered, but as far as I know it is not possible. And while it is true that you can pass the `--assume-installed` option to it, but that must always be done at run time and if you have a high number of dummy dependencies it can be messy. Greetings -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] Odd unicode glyph rendering issues
by Mark Raynsford 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hello! I have two systems here that are running the same version of Arch. They are using different window managers; system A is running awesomewm, whilst system B is running fvwm. Both have the same fonts installed, and both have very similar outputs for "env": System A: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/184135848/bus DISPLAY=:0 EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/home/rm/bin:/opt/bin PWD=/home/rm SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=2 SSH_AGENT_PID=806 SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-XXXXXXNocNEG/agent.782 SYSTEMD_EXEC_PID=673 TASKRC=/home/rm/git/com.github/io7m/dotfiles.taskwarrior/taskrc TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm VTE_VERSION=6602 WINDOWID=12195960 WINDOWPATH=1 XAUTHORITY=/home/rm/.Xauthority XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/184135848 XDG_SEAT=seat0 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=1 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty XDG_VTNR=1 _=/usr/bin/env System B: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/128542918/bus EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 HOME=/home/rm-work LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C LOGNAME=rm-work MAIL=/var/spool/mail/rm-work MOTD_SHOWN=pam PATH=/home/rm-work/bin:/home/rm-work/.pyenv/shims:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin PWD=/home/rm-work PYENV_ROOT=/home/rm-work/.pyenv PYENV_VIRTUALENV_INIT=1 SHELL=/bin/bash SHLVL=0 TERM=xterm-256color USER=rm-work XDG_CACHE_HOME=/home/rm-work/var/cache XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/home/rm-work/etc XDG_DATA_HOME=/home/rm-work/local XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/128542918 XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user XDG_SESSION_ID=16 XDG_SESSION_TYPE=tty _=/usr/sbin/env With both systems, I can open a text file containing the following string: ひらがな ... in both a browser (Firefox, Chromium), in mousepad, and in vim in an xfce4-terminal instance. System A will consistently render the string using the correct glyphs. System B will consistently render the string as a set of missing glyphs. Given that all of my software, fonts, and locale settings are apparently the same... What other variables could cause font rendering to consistently fail on one system and not the other? -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] No arch-security emails for 3 months
by kiasoc5＠tutanota.com 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

The arch-security mailing list has not sent anything since December 2021. How come? Have there been 0 security fixes in packages? Is the security team busy? Something else? Just curious, thanks.

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[arch-general] Voice support for gajim and pidgin
by Storm Dragon 02 Apr '22

02 Apr '22

Howdy, I have tried both pidgin and gajim for making audio calls using my xmpp server. Both of them say they are missing packages. Here's a sample from gajim: Requires: gir1.2-farstream-0.2, gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly, gstreamer1.0-libav, and gstreamer1.0-gtk3 I even tried upgrading to jagim-git, and got the same thing. Here is how the dependency list looks after installation completes: (1/1) installing gajim-git [############################################################] 100%Optional dependencies for gajim-git python-dbus: for gajim-remote and zeroconf support [installed] farstream: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-good: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-bad: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugins-ugly: for video/voice support [installed] gst-libav: for video/voice support [installed] gst-python: for video/voice support [installed] gst-plugin-gtk: for video support gsound: for notification sounds [installed] gspell: for spell checking support [installed] libxss: for idle time checking on X11 [installed] libappindicator-gtk3: to get a tray icon on some desktop environments notification-daemon: for desktop notifications [installed] gnome-keyring: store passwords encrypted in GNOME Keyring kded: store passwords encrypted in KSecretService python-crypto: support for E2E encryption python-docutils: for RST generator support gupnp-igd: for UPnP-IGD support [installed] geoclue2: for sharing your location :: Running post-transaction hooks... the output from pidgin looks very similar. So I'm curious, am I missing something here or is audio support just broken in both of these? I have audio support using conversations in Android, but why use that when there's a perfectly good computer running Arch right at my fingertips lol. Also, I was wondering if there's a CLI based xmpp client that supports audio? I have searched and there seem to be quite a few, but none that I have found that specifically mentions audio with the jingle protocol, or audio at all for that matter. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] Vim errors: Can't allocate color Orange, Can't allocate color SlateBlue, etc...
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

All, A recent change to how vim is being packages has resulted in errors when opening files with C syntax highlight on my system. The error I receive is, e.g.: Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc[38]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syntax.vim[19]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/synload.vim[21]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syncolor.vim: line 53: E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue E254: Cannot allocate color SlateBlue I get the same error with different colors depending on what different highlight elements are present in any file. Was the vim package changed to put this stuff in another package? Odd error -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Status of gnupg - time to update
by Genes Lists 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Current Arch version is LTS 2.2.32 [1]. As per the announcement [2] 2.3.4 is considered the current stable version: "Version 2.3 is the current stable version with a lot of new features compared to 2.2." I have hazy recollections from some time back that there was a reason for delaying updating to current version - don't recall what exactly. It's been a while now, and there are some nice features in 2.3.4 [3] Also, our libgcrypt is up to date ( ignoring today's release of 1.10.1) Any remaining reason not to update gnupg to current version? thanks gene [1] Aside - LTS 2.3.34 was released recently in early Feb of this year. [2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q1/000470.html [3] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2021q2/000458.html

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[arch-general] Pacman Search on Package Names Only?
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Greetings, Is there a way to limit Pacman to search package names only, rather than package names and descriptions? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Querying_package_databases says that you can do that by tweaking the search term, but that doesn't really work. As a [horrible] workaround, I could write my own script atop pacman -Qq, but, well, yuck. :-) Thanks, Dan

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[arch-general] Output of make -s kernelrelease has a "" suffix
by u34＠net9.ga 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

With 5.17.arch1, the output of make -s kernelrelease ends with "". That is, having a double \" character at the end of the string. It was not like that in prevoius versions. Is that expected? -- u34

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[arch-general] Atheros AR9462 - kernel upgrade warning
by Danila Kiver 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

A little heads up for Atheros AR9462 owners. It seems that the latest kernel renders AR9462 (and maybe some other cards using ath9k module) WiFi close to unusable due to network connection being dropped continuously. The problem seems to be not Arch-specific; there is an upstream report for this: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215698 Upgrade with caution; keep old kernel package cached. Rolling back to linux-5.16.3 worked well for me. Regards, Danila Kiver.

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[arch-general] FS#73728 - Installing mandoc uninstalls certain doc-only packages (dependency issue)
by Kelvin M. Klann 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

Greetings. Some packages are currently affected by Arch bug FS#73728[1]. It seems that not all of the relevant package maintainers were added to the bug report, so I figured that I'd send the bug status to a mailing list and copy whoever is missing. I'm not sure if this is relevant to arch-dev-public, so I'm sending it to arch-general. Apologies if it's not the correct list. Here's a partial quoting of the issue[1]: > Both man-db and mandoc provide "man" and also conflict with each other. > > And there are documentation-only packages which depend on "man-db" rather > than on just "man". > > This prevents installing both mandoc (instead of man-db) and these > documentation-only packages at the same time. > > Note: "man-db" provides only man(1) and related tools; the "default" man > pages themselves are provided by "man-pages". Suggested fix: Change all of the following packages to depend on "man" rather than on "man-db": * man-pages-zh_cn * man-pages-zh_tw * man2html * xorg-docs Note: The following packages were already fixed[2][3]: * bat-extras * man-pages-cs * man-pages-da * man-pages-de * man-pages-es * man-pages-fr * man-pages-hu * man-pages-it * man-pages-mk * man-pages-nl * man-pages-pl * man-pages-pt_br * man-pages-ro Note2: In the case of man2html, it does not call man(1); you have to call it yourself and pass the output to man2html. From man2html(1): > Typical Usage: > > man2html[-options] < infile > outfile > > man topic | man2html [-options] > outfile I have tested it with both man-db and mandoc: $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd man-db >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandb.1.html $ yes | sudo pacman -Sdd mandoc >/dev/null 2>&1 $ man /usr/share/man/man1/tr.1.gz | man2html >tr_mandoc.1.html The main difference that I noticed was that with man-db, everything is put inside a pre tag, while with mandoc it uses h2, b and pre tags for each section. So the output looks different, but at least the main content is present on both. Package versions: * coreutils 9.0-2 * man-db 2.10.1-1 * mandoc 1.14.6-1 Cheers, Kelvin [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73728 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c4d5698c9f031547039a… [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/c79b07ccfa1389d58bb6…

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[arch-general] Use Grub with Preloader
by Giovanni Santini 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hi all, I was reinstalling Arch after an unlucky SDD wipe due to warranty. I reinstalled Arch and then proceeded to use Secure Boot via Preloader. I followed the steps at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secu… But I got an error from Grub saying: *error: verification requested but nobody cares* I decided to re-create the Grub binary with the TPM module via *grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=ESP_DIR --modules="tpm" --bootloader-id=BOOTLOADER* But that didn't do the trick. Do I have to do something peculiar in order to make Grub to work? Bests, -- Giovanni Santini Telegram: @ItachiSan Github: https://github.com/ItachiSan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovanni-santini/ Facebook: https://fb.me/giovanni.santini

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[arch-general] Whom to report a possible bug with Flyspray, powering bugs.archlinux.org?
by u34＠net9.ga 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

I have a problem with bugs.archlinux.org. I think there is a bug with the software powering the site. I tried to search how to report, and failed. It is tricky to choose the right search expression. Should I report to bugs.flyspary.org? I am not related to bugs.archlinux.org adminstrators. I couldn't find contact information of the administrators. Should I email webmaster@archlinux.org? What should I do? I don't mind posting a description of the problem here. -- u34

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[arch-general] Updating a (local) repository based on dependency changes
by Knut Ahlers 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hey there, Through the latest update in glibc an issue / question emerged for me and maybe someone on this list has some input for me how to solve this: We do have a repository with custom built packages (for example a custom version of ffmpeg we need for internal purposes)… These packages obviously do have dependencies on libraries and break when there is a change in a library. In this case: "version `GLIBC_2.34' not found". Is there anyone who solved this already? How is it solved in the Archlinux core / community repo? What is your trigger to rebuild packages and prevent running into some command not finding its dependencies? So how do you know when to rebuild [some binary package depending on glibc] without manually keeping track of the glibc version you've built the package against and then triggering the re-build when any of the underlying library changes its version? How does the Archlinux community/core/extra build system keep track of this and knows when to rebuild ffmpeg because glibc changed? Thanks in advance for any input! Cheers, Knut -- Knut Ahlers Software & Infrastructure Developer Web & Blog: https://ahlers.me/ GPG-Key: 0xD215AD7D

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[arch-general] Including compiled C.UTF-8 locale by default in glibc package? Inbox
by Daan De Meyer 22 Feb '22

22 Feb '22

Hi, Now that glibc 2.35 is available, could we enable and ship the compiled form of the new C.UTF-8 locale in glibc by default in Arch Linux? >From the glibc 2.35 release notes (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-February/136040.html) > * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale > supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A > limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires > a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are > supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is > only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for > Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping > in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into > glibc, and must be installed. Being able to rely on the existence of a UTF-8 english locale simplifies many use cases. A good example of issues introduced due to a lack of a built-in UTF-8 locale is https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/8340 which is a workaround added in 2018 that still exists today. Having the C.UTF-8 locale available by default in Arch would enable removing such workarounds. Any thoughts? Cheers, Daan De Meyer

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[arch-general] Backlight Brightness Indicator in LXDE
by naicam|ne 20 Feb '22

20 Feb '22

I just got my brightness keys working and I'm looking for a pretty minimal "brightness indicator" to show me a rough percentage. I am explicitly trying to avoid any Gnome or KDE dependencies, and would prefer not to use the AUR, if there's a good one in the main repos. I'm thinking it might have to come with some power management package, but I'm not really sure. -- __ _ ____ _ ____ ____ _ _ _ __ _ ____ | \| |--| | |___ |--| |\/| | | \| |===

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[arch-general] Link libutil.so not in glibc 2.35-2.
by SET 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Hi, I ran into an issue building an application that complained libutil.so was not found. It's not in /usr/lib indeed with glibc 2.35-2, while it was a link to libutil.so.1 -> libutil-2.32.so in glibc 2.32. Just creating the link fixed the build issue. I'm wondering if it's a new library deployment scheme, or it the link was missed during packaging. Regards.

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[arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working
by David Rosenstrauch 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

Been experiencing a weird issue several times recently that's got me stumped. A couple of weeks ago, my entire home network went dead right in the middle of a zoom call. Same problem happened again late last night. The problem is intermittent/occasional: everything runs without issue for several days, then suddenly crashes. I figured the issue was a problem with my wifi router, but after much debugging I don't think that's the case. I have a new (Arch) linux server I built a few weeks ago. What seems to be happening is that my server crashes for some reason - and then looks like it's causing the ethernet LAN switch inside my router to stop working. (I verified that when I unplug the server's network cable the router starts working again, and when I plug it back in the router stops.) My best guess as to what's happening is that when the server crashes it's somehow either flooding the network, or sending out invalid network packets, and so making the router inoperable. I have no idea what could cause this, though, or how to fix it. (Or even if this is definitely the issue.) I also have no way to know if this is an issue with my server hardware vs. say an issue in a recent kernel upgrade, since the server is so new. Server is running Arch, and is kept very up to date. It's using the on-board LAN chip on the mobo - Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE (network module r8169, RTL8125B chip/firmware). Router is a Netgear R8000, running dd-wrt (r47097). Any suggestions welcome! Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Anonymous donation
by uick_ciller＠24mail.xyz 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Hi! Arch Linux has become my favourite pastime and passion and I'd like to donate to the project. I have looked at the options (card payment or PayPal) and haven't found the possibility to hide my real name as I am really not that keen on sharing my name on the public list of donors: https://archlinux.org/donate/ Unfortunately, I am not a James Smith or Caron Lewis, but have a uniquely identifiable combination of first and last name, that means anyone could look me up on Google, because surely there exists no other name like this in the world. This is actually what I tried: I picked some uniquely looking names from the donors page, put them into Google and of course archlinux.org shows up. You may call me fussy, but I don't like the idea of my real name being linked to any of my actual hobbies/interests online. It should be nobody's business to know what my hobbies are (employers, ex-partners, I-am-gonna-say-it-yes-the-government)! I get it that archlinux.org wants to show appreciation by publicly sharing the list of donors, but I do not want it! Please, I beg you, do enable donors to opt out of being on the public list! Thanks! Goldmund

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[arch-general] Power Management on Thinkpad 5W30
by naicam|ne 13 Feb '22

13 Feb '22

I can't get power management working on my laptop. I have tlp-stat installed and it's showing a 1.9% capacity, but I don't think that's an accurate figure. This is a fairly new install. It worked fine under windows. I've been trying a lot of things, but at this point it feels more like I'm just going to do more damage trying things than actually making any progress on my own. One thing I don't know about is if this model supports the thinkpad_ec kernel module, because I cant get it to load. I'm also running the hardened kernel, and don't know if that's supported either. I'm not sure at this point that thats even the right direction to be going in. But this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo#W_series says that power management is supported, and this https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#W_series seems to indicate that tp_smapi -doesn't- work with this model, but that's a little unclear to me, especially since that page was last updated in 2016. But simply setting the thresholds manually hasn't given me very good results at all. -- __ _ ____ _ ____ ____ _ _ _ __ _ ____ | \| |--| | |___ |--| |\/| | | \| |===

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[arch-general] git-annex-10.20220127-16: `GLIBC_2.34' not found
by Jesús Ruiz 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

When I run any git-annex command using git-annex-10.20220127-16 I get: /usr/bin/git-annex: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /usr/bin/git-annex) The glibc version I have installed is 2.33-5, which is current according to https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=glibc&maintainer=&flagged= . The previous version git-annex-10.20220127-15 works fine.

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[arch-general] Donation options
by Frédéric Tobias Christ 11 Feb '22

11 Feb '22

Hi all, I want to donate to Arch Linux. However, the existing options both take high fees (SPI: Transaction fees via PayPal, Click&Pledge: 2.75% platform + 2,5 % credit card fee ) and I don't want to finance PayPal. What about adding Liberapay [1] <https://liberapay.com/> as a non-profit donations platform? They don't take any monthly fees <https://liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded> [2], just pass on the payment process fees. For instance, Europeans can use SEPA transactions (without any fees). What do you think about it? PS: I also posted this [3] in the forum, but noticed shortly after that another thread about donation remains unnoticed by the people in charge. [1] https://liberapay.com/ [2] https://liberapay.com/about/faq#how-funded [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2021543#p2021543 -- Beste Grüße Frédéric Christ

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[arch-general] pkg rfc should be updated?
by Yi Zheng 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

Hi, 2021-06-25 , I asked to update it, and the it is done several days later. and now ?

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Re: [arch-general] Scope of arch-projects mailing list [was on arch-dev-public]
by David C. Rankin 07 Feb '22

07 Feb '22

On 2/3/22 5:53 AM, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote: > Rationale: > We lack a mailing list that revolves around our internal projects and > which can also be used by non "elevated users" (such as Trusted Users > and Developers) for more general discussion. > Given the very low traffic on the arch-projects mailing list I see no > issue with it becoming a per-project discussion list as well (as in our > case mailing lists seem to be mainly used for discussion and not so much > for development anymore these days). > > Best, > David (food for thought, not a critique) Devs, There is always a desire to fragment mailing lists into ever smaller and smaller topics to reduce traffic to just what a handful of folks want to see. That can be useful, but list slicing also has a dramatic effect on the community. There are always questions that don't fit in one list or the other. The problem with separating lists is it tends to reduce the number of knowledgeable devs participating in general list QA. Which in turn transforms the general list from a place where knowledge of all topics is present to one where questions linger without an answer. This isn't an Arch problem yet, but I've watched over the last decade how creation of sublists and fragmentation of the openSUSE list has all but put a nail-in-the-coffin of the openSUSE community. Traffic did fall dramatically -- but so did users of the distro. Worth keeping in mind when discussing whether current or additional sublists are needed. Just my $.02 from watching the changes, and cause and effect, distros have gone through for the past 20+ years. There is nothing wrong with specialized developer lists -- so long as it doesn't result in brain-drain from the general list that impacts the general list usefulness. Like I said, not at Arch problem yet -- and let's hope it never is. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Wiki - Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary... I did comply with 3 fundamental rules
by David C. Rankin 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

All, The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. After experiencing an error transferring to my Arch samba shares and finding the solution on Apple.Stackexchange.com I was adding that short section to the end of the troubleshooting entires. However, despite providing an edit summary and complying with the remaining 2 fundamental rules, I cannot save the edit. I get the Error: Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary, which is an enormous help for other users who want to review your changes, see ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules. Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user contributions. I hope this is a temporary bug. In the past the community made our Archwiki the best Linux distro wiki going by keeping it current and providing solutions to current problems. The Archwikin was a one-stop-shop. If the community can no longer contribute, it will cease to be so. The entry I was adding is: === IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5=== Beginning with IOS 14.5 attempting to transfer from a device running IOS using the "Files" app to a samba share on Archlinux will result in the error: The operation couldn't be completed Operation canceled To correct this problem, add add the following to the global section of your {{ic|smb.conf}} and restart samba (e.g. {{ic|sudo systemctl restart smb}}). Comment optional: ## addition for IOS Files transfer-to server vfs object = fruit streams_xattr See [https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/424681 Apple.Stackexchange.com - "The operation couldn't be completed"/"Operation canceled" error message when saving to a Samba share via Files app] The edit summary was: /* Added Section - IOS Files can no longer copy-to Samba share on Archlinux beginning with IOS 14.5 */ I will have to leave it to one of the Archdevs to add. No matter what I do, I'm returned to the same error: Error: Warning: You have not provided an edit summary, which is an enormous help for other users who want to review your changes, see ArchWiki:Contributing#The 3 fundamental rules. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] cups hangs while adding a new printer
by Bjoern Franke 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi, on a Thinkpad X270 I'm trying to add a Epson XP 245 using epson-inkjet-printer-escpr2. Unfortunately cups just hangs with "Unable to get list of printer drivers", "lpinfo -m" just hangs and after some time outputs "Success". Searching around showed people already had this issue with foomatic, but neither foomatic nor gutenprint are installed. So the explanation of "generating the ppd list takes too long" should not fit here. And for adding more confusion, on another system where even gutenprint is installed, it works fine - so it's not a general issue. Any ideas? Best Regards Bjoern

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[arch-general] Bazel, reproducible builds and the out-of-date packages fcitx5-mozc & fcitx-mozc
by Alexander Michalopoulos 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hello, This is a request concerning two out-of-date packages in [community] called fcitx5-mozc and fcitx-mozc. I’m not sure if this is the proper channel to address such things, if it isn’t then I apologize. Fcitx/Fcitx5 is an input engine like IBus, and Mozc is a Japanese IME. There used to be more Mozc packages in [community] (e.g. ibus-mozc) but they were demoted to the AUR since a good while back, the reason being that upstream Mozc has opted to adopt Bazel as its build system, which among other things is a pain to make compatible with Arch’s reproducibility goals. It’s the same thing that has also happened with other packages like e.g. the one for Anki, which was also recently demoted to the AUR for the exact same reason. The result of all this though is that, while these other Mozc packages have in the meantime been adopted and kept up-to-date in the AUR by several people, the fcitx5-mozc and fcitx-mozc packages have been kept outdated in [community] since May 2021, in their last known working GYP version (GYP was the build system used before Bazel but was deprecated in favor of the latter). I understand that Bazel is… not a great piece of software, to put it mildly, and that upstream’s choice to use it is less than optimal; but keeping a package in an almost year-old outdated version is even less optimal in my opinion. Not to mention that even though for most people this kind of package (an input engine add-on for a non-Latin writing system) is obscure at best, for some of us it’s part of our everyday life and may even be crucial (for work or education purposes, etc) and thus keeping it up-to-date with upstream is a very desired goal. My request is, since the maintainer of fcitx5-mozc and fcitx-mozc is probably not interested in updating these two packages to their current upstream versions, that they be demoted to AUR packages so they can be adopted and updated by other interested parties (that would be me). Or, if for whatever reason this isn’t an option, that either an effort is made to update them in situ to their current upstream versions (if such an effort is not already underway) or at least that they are renamed to something different (e.g. fcitx5-mozc-legacy and fcitx-mozc-legacy) so their current names can be adopted and used by new and up-to-date packages in the AUR. Thanks for reading.

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[arch-general] headless box audio with pipewire
by Javier 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hello ! I have a box, where I can login through SSH, start ncmpcpp to play something with mpd, and then logout, leaving the box playing music, but with no user logged in. At times, I also want to start Xorg (eventually Wayland), and use pipewire for sound and even using bluetooth audio devices (easy with pipewire/pulse). While logged in, I can use pipewire even in console. But once logged out, sound is gone. So pipewire doesn't really work headless by default, is there a way to make it work headless (no one logged in, and still having audio enabled and playing music for example), how so? With alsa, no pipewire, no pulse, all this is pretty simple, since it executes as root, headless audio (no one logged in), audio on console (no Xorg, no Wayland), audio on graphical environmet (Xorg or Wayland). Complex thing with alsa, like using bluetooth devices, or selecting devices is complex. An alternative would be having an easy way to use bluetooth devices with plain alsa (no need for command line for example, since not all users will be able to do that). I think bluez-alsa-git on AUR can help using bluetooth audio devices with plain alsa, but it's somehow complex for non CLI users. Perhaps it's easier to get a box, which when headless, somehow allows alsa to work, and when logged in, pipewire/pulse takes over. But things don't work that way when pipewire/pulse is present, audio is gone when not logged in. Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] AppArmor
by Frank Zimmermann 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Oh der I made a mess. Wanted to setup Apparmor and Firefox and Evolution aren't working anymore. The programs are starting but without an UI. Even when I undo things this behaviour retains. I don't see anything in the journal and now don't know where to look for what's going wrong. Frank

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[arch-general] VLAN config works only partially
by Rainer Dorsch 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hi, I configured my network with multiple VLANs. I started with the description at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VLAN#systemd-networkd My current configuration: [n3150 ~]# cat /etc/systemd/network/enp2s0.network [Match] Name=enp2s0 [Link] ActivationPolicy=Manual [Network] Description=The unconfigured physical ethernet device # In case of 'tagged only' setups, you probably don't need any IP # configuration on the link without VLAN (or: default VLAN). # For that just omit an [Address] section and disable all the # autoconfiguration magic like this: LinkLocalAddressing=no LLDP=no EmitLLDP=no IPv6AcceptRA=no IPv6SendRA=no ;these are arbitrary names, but must match the *.netdev and *.network files VLAN=enp2s0.1 VLAN=enp2s0.2 VLAN=enp2s0.7 [DHCPv4] UseDNS=false [n3150 ~]# The VLAN config is simple, e.g. n3150% cat /etc/systemd/network/enp2s0.2.netdev [NetDev] Name=enp2s0.2 Kind=vlan [VLAN] Id=2% n3150% cat /etc/systemd/network/enp2s0.2.network [Match] Name=enp2s0.2 [Network] DHCP=yes Hostname=n3150-wlan n3150% The resulting routes: n3150% ip route default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0.1 proto dhcp src 192.168.0.206 metric 1024 default via 192.168.2.1 dev enp2s0.2 proto dhcp src 192.168.2.206 metric 1024 default via 192.168.7.1 dev enp2s0.7 proto dhcp src 192.168.7.206 metric 1024 default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0 proto dhcp metric 20100 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.206 metric 100 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp2s0.1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.206 metric 1024 192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0.1 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.0.206 metric 1024 192.168.2.0/24 dev enp2s0.2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.206 metric 1024 192.168.2.1 dev enp2s0.2 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.2.206 metric 1024 192.168.7.0/24 dev enp2s0.7 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.7.206 metric 1024 192.168.7.1 dev enp2s0.7 proto dhcp scope link src 192.168.7.206 metric 1024 n3150% Unfortunately, the 192.168.0.* network is not reachable without explicitly deleting the routes for enp2s0: [n3150 ~]# ping 192.168.0.30 PING 192.168.0.30 (192.168.0.30) 56(84) Bytes an Daten. ^C --- 192.168.0.30 ping-Statistik --- 2 Pakete übertragen, 0 empfangen, 100% packet loss, time 1016ms [n3150 ~]# ip route del default via 192.168.0.1 dev enp2s0 proto dhcp metric 20100 [n3150 ~]# ip route del 192.168.0.0/24 dev enp2s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.206 metric 100 [n3150 ~]# ping 192.168.0.30 PING 192.168.0.30 (192.168.0.30) 56(84) Bytes an Daten. 64 Bytes von 192.168.0.30: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 Zeit=0.699 ms 64 Bytes von 192.168.0.30: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 Zeit=0.287 ms ^C --- 192.168.0.30 ping-Statistik --- 2 Pakete übertragen, 2 empfangen, 0% packet loss, time 1010ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.287/0.493/0.699/0.206 ms [n3150 ~]# Can anybody tell how I can avoid the routes for enp2s0 get configured? Thanks Rainer

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[arch-general] Env variable of user unit of ssh-agent not set
by Rainer Dorsch 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hi, I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSH_keys#Start_ssh-agent_with_systemd_user It seems that SSH_AUTH_SOCK does not get set although it is in the user unit file. $ systemctl --user status ssh-agent.service ● ssh-agent.service - SSH key agent Loaded: loaded (/home/rd/.config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2022-01-21 21:14:16 CET; 7min ago Main PID: 574 (ssh-agent) Tasks: 1 (limit: 9331) Memory: 920.0K CPU: 9ms CGroup: /user.slice/user-2809.slice/user@2809.service/app.slice/ssh- agent.service └─574 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a /run/user/2809/ssh-agent.socket Jan 21 21:14:16 n3150 ssh-agent[574]: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/2809/ssh- agent.socket; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK; Jan 21 21:14:16 n3150 ssh-agent[574]: echo Agent pid 574; Jan 21 21:14:16 n3150 systemd[564]: Started SSH key agent. $ cat .config/systemd/user/ssh-agent.service [Unit] Description=SSH key agent [Service] Type=simple Environment=SSH_AUTH_SOCK=%t/ssh-agent.socket # DISPLAY required for ssh-askpass to work Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh-agent -D -a $SSH_AUTH_SOCK [Install] WantedBy=default.target $ ssh-add Could not open a connection to your authentication agent. $ echo $SSH_AUTH_SOCK $ Can anybody tell what I am missing? Any hint or advice is welcome. Thanks Rainer

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[arch-general] Can't mount vfat filesystem
by Jeanette C. 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hey hey, I just updated my system yesterday and now I can't mount a VFAT filesystem. Installed packages: linux 5.16.2.arch1-1 util-linux 2.37.2-5 There is no mount.vfat or mount.fat program/script and apparently no kernel module installed that contains "fat" in its name. Is there a change in the way to mount such filesystems? Best wishes and thanks for any hints, 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 Baby, there's something about you Show me, that nothing can hold you down <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] Grub installiert issue
by Frank Zimmermann 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

I'm doing my first Arch install on an UEFI system and have troubles with GRUB. Following the instruction on the Wiki grub-mkconfig complained about a missing /boot/grub/grub.cfg.new. So I manually created a grub.cfg file but when rebooting Grub says error: unknown file system. In rescue mode I type set root=(hd0,gpt1) set prefix=(0,1)/boot/grub insmod normal error: disk '0,1' not found set prefix=(hd0,gpt1)/boot/grub insmod normal error: unknown filesystem set prefix=(0,gpt1)/boot/grub insmod normal error: disk 0,gpt1 not found My efi partition is the first partition on the first ssd. I think I did all I found on the Wiki and search on the web but am lost now with generating the grub.cfg Any hints please? Frank

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[arch-general] pacman caches packages with u=rw,g=,o= permissions
by u34＠net9.ga 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Lately, possibly starting at mid December, files in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ are kept with mode u=rw,g=,o= . Am I the only one having it? -- jadon

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[arch-general] A correction for my response about permissions of pacman packages cache
by u34＠net9.ga 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

At Tue Jan 18 23:44:56 UTC 2022, at the bottom of https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2022-January/049521.html , I wrote that my understanding is that checkupdates -d is equivalent to pacman -Sywu && pacman -Su . I haven't read checkupdates manual page. It could be that other then a safe upgrade it does additional work. I still haven't read checkupdates manual page. Rereading mpan, who is the author of the message I responded to, message, I should have wrote that my understanding is that checkupdates -d is equivalent to pacman -Sywu . Not to pacman -Sywu && pacman -Su . -- jadon

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[arch-general] minor, DeveloperWiki, I have no permissions. A fix, 3 broken links.
by u34＠net9.ga 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Referring to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Package_signing#Source_packa… : I seem to have no permission to edit. A fix for 3 broken URLs is: 1. http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_2.0.4.orig.tar.gz -> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100422T161418Z/pool/main/a/acp… 2. http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_2.0.4-1.diff.gz -> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100422T161418Z/pool/main/a/acp… 3. http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/acpid/acpid_2.0.4-1.dsc -> https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100422T161418Z/pool/main/a/acp… Please apply. As an aside, according to https://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100412, http://snapshot.debian.org/ , contain almost all packages from the main and security archives since March 2005 and more. -- jadon

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[arch-general] User-Submitted Package Updates (how it could possibly work)
by Philip Evens 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Interesting discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/s5id1m/usersubmitted_package_up… https://archive.is/9wwNm Quoting: -------- A lot of packages are flagged out of date, some even for security issues. Some have no maintainer. Many have inactive maintainers and have been left to rot. Active developer resources are limited. I'd like to describe how the situation could be improved with the help of the community in a way that may not have been brought up before. Arch packages are built from very easy-to-read PKGBUILD files, similar to Makefiles. In short, users would be able to submit diffs to PKGBUILDs in the repo for updates, but not actually upload binary packages, similar to how the AUR works (and for the same reason): A diff to the PKGBUILD can be audited for errors or malice in a matter of seconds, while a (currently unreproduced) user-submitted binary shouldn't be trusted at all. The only difference in this scenario is that a trusted committer (who may or may not be the package maintainer) would have to look at the diff and commit the update to the repo, rather than users committing them. On to the first issue: that text I put in bold. Several Arch devs have mentioned (in public and private) that the culture of not "stepping on anyone's toes" prevents them from updating packages that are maintained by someone else. Conversely, there was a talk at the last Arch Conf where Lavente said he wanted more packages to be co-maintained by multiple people in case one wasn't available to actually maintain it. I don't have a technical solution to this people problem -- devs would simply have to live with the fact that users need fixes and sometimes another dev will update your package for you. Don't take it personally. The other issue: Arch has a legacy separation of core, extra, and community repos. Only "developers" can commit to core and extra, while "trusted users" are restricted to the community repo. I'm 100% sure everyone reading this has all three repos enabled, thus destroying any notion of community being "less trusted" than the other two. Having the core repo require an extra sign-off and some testing is a good idea, but otherwise I think this artificial separation should be done away with. One problem with the current situation is that "trusted users" may be available and willing to help, but can't actually update anything in the core or extra repos. Onboarding more of them doesn't help either because it takes months or years for them to be promoted to "developers," if it happens at all. So back on topic: How would users actually submit the updates to the PKGBUILDs? Eventually, when the Arch gitlab allows registration, they could be very simply sent as pull requests. Right now they would have to be sent through the existing bug tracker (the same one that specifically disallows what I'm suggesting). After being reviewed and committed, a package could be built by the developer who chose to take it... or there could be bigger infrastructure changes to save them time and effort in the long run. Here I'm talking about a large number of project devs committing the PKGBUILD changes, but only one build server (or farm) doing the compilation and (optionally through another special server) signing of the results. This is basically how it works in BSD for their package repos. The server(s) could automatically build any committed update every hour, or devs could issue a "queue this package" type of command on it, or some other way. That kind of setup would have the side benefit of only requiring users to trust one signing key, rather than a keyring of dozens of people around the world with varying degrees of personal security, and trusting the binaries sometimes just built on their daily laptops. It would also allow the package database to be signed more easily, which has been a big problem for a long time. (This is probably better for a separate discussion.) tl;dr: Users submit PKGBUILD diffs, anyone with commit access builds and pushes them. What do you think?

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[arch-general] Patch for qt5-wayland to fix extreme lag on wayland
by Severus 16 Jan '22

16 Jan '22

Hi folks, I use wayland on plasma and it's extremely laggy. I googled and see this patch https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtwayland/+/373473. I rebuild qt5-wayland and it worked very well. But the patch leads to race condition. I wonder that maintainer of qt5-wayland should include to PKGBUILD or not. Best regards, Severus -- Dẫu thế gian có tồn tại hàng vạn điều kì lạ vô thường, tôi vẫn muốn em biết rằng em là người con gái đặc biệt nhất tôi từng thương...

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[arch-general] Why is README stripped from gawk package?
by David C. Rankin 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

All, Just a question of why the README is stripped from the gawk package. It seems that should be placed in /usr/share/doc/gawk, but that directory doesn't even exist. It holds the developer information and instead of having that information as part of the package, I ended up stumbling around gnu.org to find it (which sent me to the savannah.git... source for it) Seems like a basic README should be in ../doc/pkgname for all packages. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Are the packages provided by mesa-dri1 still relevant ?
by Vladimir LAVALLADE 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

These packages depend on a kernel feature which has not been enabled in the default config since 4.19.arch1-1 (CONFIG_DRM_LEGACY) and the support for DRI1 was removed from mesa in 21.0.0. Am I missing something ? Regards,

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[arch-general] Is the following a minor bug of systemd, mkinitcpio or zstd?
by u34＠net9.ga 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

When running mkinitcpio lately, I get: -> Running build hook: [fsck] Decompress: 1/35 files. Current: ...el/cdrom.ko.zst : 0 B... ==> Generating module dependencies I think the Decomress message is new. It didn't appear before 30-dec-2021, or so. It is aligned with the start of the line, which is not the way most of the mkinitcpio output is indented. It is probably the output of line 876 of /usr/lib/initcpio/functions: (( ${#zst_comp[*]} )) && zstd -d --rm -q "${zst_comp[@]}" Note the -q, --quiet, could be the source of confusion, since it does not override the Decompress line. Perhaps this is a zstd issue, or that the line should have had a -q specified twice. Is it a bug? Who should address it? -- u34

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[arch-general] ffado-mixer error after latest "pacman -Syu"
by Susanne Schneider 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

hi, when trying to start ffado-mixer I receive the following message: > ... $ ffado-mixer Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/panelmanager.py", line 460, in updatePanels self.addPanel(idx) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/panelmanager.py", line 339, in addPanel mixerwidget.initValues() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", line 102, in initValues self.selectCorrectMode() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", line 61, in selectCorrectMode self.large.initValues() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffire_base.py", line 137, in initValues self.updateValues() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", line 347, in updateValues SaffireMixerBase.updateValues(self) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffire_base.py", line 105, in updateValues ctrl.setValue(vol) TypeError: setValue(self, int): argument 1 has unexpected type 'dbus.Double' Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben) .... $ < any hit will be appreciated, either, if I can do something on my own or where to direct a bug report etc... thanks for reading, -suse (Thinkpad T520, Focusrite Saffire Pro10)

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Re: [arch-general] ffado-mixer error after latest "pacman -Syu" (Zero)
by Susanne Schneider 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

> On 12/31/21 13:26, Susanne Schneider via arch-general wrote: >> hi, >> when trying to start ffado-mixer I receive the following message: >> >> ?? ...?? $ ffado-mixer >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> ? File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/panelmanager.py", line >> 460, in updatePanels >> ??? self.addPanel(idx) >> ? File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/panelmanager.py", line >> 339, in addPanel >> ??? mixerwidget.initValues() >> ? File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", >> line 102, in initValues >> ??? self.selectCorrectMode() >> ? File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", >> line 61, in selectCorrectMode >> ??? self.large.initValues() >> ? File >> "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffire_base.py", line >> 137, in initValues >> ??? self.updateValues() >> ? File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffirepro.py", >> line 347, in updateValues >> ??? SaffireMixerBase.updateValues(self) >> ? File >> "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffire_base.py", line >> 105, in updateValues >> ??? ctrl.setValue(vol) >> TypeError: setValue(self, int): argument 1 has unexpected type >> 'dbus.Double' >> Abgebrochen (Speicherabzug geschrieben) >> ....? $ >> < >> >> any hit will be appreciated, either, if I can do something on my own >> or where to direct a bug report etc... >> >> thanks for reading, > > You could try to change that line 105 > > File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ffado/mixer/saffire_base.py", > line 105, in updateValues > ??? ctrl.setValue(vol) > > into ctrl.setValue(int(vol)) > > Maybe open a bug report at Arch libffado and/or ffado.org > > ~Z > thanks a lot, that did the trick, regarding a proper bugreporting I hesitate because to my feeling the break was introduced by python 3.10, but I'm not sure... best -s

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[arch-general] ntfs3 kenel module: permissions not consistent with dmask=0027 from /etc/fstab
by u34＠net9.ga 25 Dec '21

25 Dec '21

Hello, With the ntfs3 linux module, some, but not all, directories of the ntfs partition do not have permissions that are consistent with dmask 027. dmask=0027 is from /etc/fstab. Based on a small set, the files permissions are consistent with the fmask setting. As an aside, as of 5.15.10-arch1-1, I believe arch didn't apply https://lore.kernel.org/ntfs3/20211127135105.27795-1-ales.astone@gmail.com/… , or some other solution. Which is why I think it is expected to have the 37777600 prefix issue with the ntfs3 linux module. -- u34

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[arch-general] Strange and annoying causing issues
by pete 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Hi folks Most the time the system is spot ion thanks Arch Linux but every now and then i get something that is causing consternation one of those times is now i am getting this filling dmesg 23.113873] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.114081] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/tor supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.125584] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/tor supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.127583] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.719265] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.719777] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/tor supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.730310] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/tor supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 23.732198] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)[ 26.246319] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/private/systemd/journal-upload supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 26.253998] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/private/systemd/journal-upload supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 26.254017] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 26.272915] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/private/systemd/journal-upload supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 26.273523] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 79.301218] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/upower supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 79.301364] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 79.318565] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/lib/upower supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) [ 79.319569] xfs filesystem being remounted at /run/systemd/unit-root/var/tmp supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff) it is causing issues as far as i can make out on the USB Camera i get a pile of the above scroll up and the camera dies the camera is Bus 002 Device 002: ID 23c5:1478 Xiongmai web camera it works very well good clear video untill this lot started now it dies all the time in the middle of streaming (Discord) Thanks . Pete Pete

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[arch-general] Difficulty installing UEFI
by Paul M. Foster 20 Dec '21

20 Dec '21

Folks: I have a 2017 Lenovo ThinkCentre M800 that I'm using to try to install Arch on a hard drive. I've formatted the drive (under Arch, using fdisk, with gpt partition, etc.), gone through the installation up to the point where I run grub-install with this command: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --bootloader-id=grub_uefi --recheck The error(s): EFI variables are not supported on this system. grub-install: errors efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: No such file or directory. This particular machine originally had an MBR disk in it, and I'm not sure if the BIOS supports UEFI. Should I give up on using this machine to install a UEFI Arch disk, or is there some workaround? Paul

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[arch-general] Pipewire Problem
by Paul Schaefer 19 Dec '21

19 Dec '21

Hello folks! on 12-16 I upgraded my system and installed a pipewire upgrade: [2021-12-16T15:44:27+0100] [ALPM] upgraded pipewire (1:0.3.40-1 -> 1:0.3.42-1) After a reboot, my USB microphone/speaker device (Jabra Speak 410) did not work anymore (see pipewire's log below). I use wireplumber as session manager but the problem persisted even after switching back to pipewire-media-session. Is this a problem I should report on the bugtracker, or can somebody help me figuring out how to solve this problem? Thank you! $ journalctl --user -b -1 -u pipewire Dec 19 22:15:07 archbook systemd[1829]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service. Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: spa.alsa: 0x55945ef5fdd8: card already opened at rate:48000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: pw.node: (alsa_input.usb- 0b0e_Jabra_SPEAK_410_USB_50C2ED128945x011200-00.mono-fallbac> Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: spa.audioadapter: params Spa:Enum:ParamId:EnumFormat: 0:0 (convert format) Success Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Object: size 160, type Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format (262147), id Spa:Enum:ParamId:En> Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:mediaType (1), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 1 (Spa:Enum:MediaType:audio) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:mediaSubtype (2), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 1 (Spa:Enum:MediaSubtype:raw) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:format (65537), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 259 (Spa:Enum:AudioFormat:S16LE) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:rate (65539), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Int 16000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:channels (65540), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Int 1 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:position (65541), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Array: child.size 4, child.type Spa:Id Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 2 (Spa:Enum:AudioChannel:MONO) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Object: size 216, type Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format (262147), id Spa:Enum:ParamId:En> Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:mediaType (1), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 1 (Spa:Enum:MediaType:audio) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:mediaSubtype (2), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 1 (Spa:Enum:MediaSubtype:raw) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:format (65537), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Choice: type Spa:Enum:Choice:None, flags 00000000 24 4 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 259 (Spa:Enum:AudioFormat:S16LE) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Id 259 (Spa:Enum:AudioFormat:S16LE) Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:rate (65539), flags 00000000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Choice: type Spa:Enum:Choice:Range, flags 00000000 28 4 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Int 16000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Int 48000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Int 16000 Dec 19 22:15:20 archbook pipewire[1837]: Prop: key Spa:Pod:Object:Param:Format:Audio:channels (65540), flags 00000000

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[arch-general] RFC: declarative reference to installed kernel(s) and its modules and vmlinuz image
by Damjan Georgievski 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

Currently it's quite complicated to make the reference from an installed kernel package(s) to it's files (the kernel image and modules), except by either invoking `pacman -Qlq linux | grep vmlinuz$` or some heuristics like what mkinitcpio does. So the proposal is that every kernel package should also include a symlink in /var/lib/kernel/<pkgname> to the path in /usr/lib/modules/<kver>/. for ex. currently that would be: /var/lib/kernel/linux -> /usr/lib/modules/5.15.7-arch1-1/ /var/lib/kernel/linux-lts -> /usr/lib/modules/5.10.85-1-lts/ Benefits of this approach would be for tools like mkinitcpio, or sbctl, which can declaratively refer to the kernel modules and the vmlinuz image, by just knowing the package name. -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] Python 3.10: LooseVersion, distutils slated for removal at 3.12
by u34＠net9.ga 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > Python 3.10 is now in the stable repos! > > (Some issues are to be expected but hopefully nothing too bad.) I assume you are aware to. For the record: /usr/bin/unoconv:19: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives from distutils.version import LooseVersion Line breaks added by me for clarity. -- u34

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[arch-general] pacman 6 current/total not displayed on TDE - what does old konsole lack?
by David C. Rankin 12 Dec '21

12 Dec '21

All, As mentioned in an earlier thread, the new pacman current/total update scheme causes the old KDE3/TDE konsole output to look jittery instead of updating the multi-line progress bar. I'm trying to track down why so we can patch TDE konsole to fix the problem, but I'm having a difficult time chasing down just exactly what is being written that is causing the problem. I've chased through callback.c: static void dload_progress_event(const char *filename, alpm_download_event_progress_t *data) Where the update is done, https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/src/pacman/callbac… Either with console_cursor_goto_bar(index) for the current file or console_cursor_move_end() for the total and those are simple ANSI escapes from util.c: /* Moves console cursor `lines` up */ void console_cursor_move_up(unsigned int lines) { printf("\x1B[%dF", lines); } /* Moves console cursor `lines` down */ void console_cursor_move_down(unsigned int lines) { printf("\x1B[%dE", lines); } /* Erases line from the current cursor position till the end of the line */ void console_erase_line(void) { printf("\x1B[K"); } What is it that the new pacman is doing with the multi-line progress bar TDE/konsole lacks? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Nvidia, fuck you again
by KSP Atlas 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

With the new kernel, Nvidia drivers will not work no matter what. nvidia does not load during boot, causing the nouveau driver to be loaded instead (nouveau, try not to break for 5 seconds) and nvidia-beta doesn't start the X server and you can't switch ttys, basically breaking your system unless you uninstall them via ssh or single user mode. I would get an AMD if miners cared about people other than themselves.

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[arch-general] outdated mediainfo and libmediainfo packages
by TG Servers 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hello, is there any particular reason why these 2 packages are outdated since several months, or were they just not maintained? I am asking because I would need some of the newer functionality and would compile them from source otherwise. But only if there are no known problems with them. The compiles from upstream 21.09 work without any issues and I can't see of any problems, but always better to just confirm Thanks

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[arch-general] Mesa is splitting off legacy drivers from main
by Lone_Wolf 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi, Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] . This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c . The plan is to support those older drivers through a new mesa LTS version that can be installed alongside normal mesa. Archlinux team will have to decide whether to add a mesa-lts package to keep supporting that hardware or just drop official support for them and hope some users will support them through aur. Atm it looks like mesa 22.0 will be the first stable version without support for this hardware, so there is still time to prepare for this. Lone_Wolf [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/10153

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[arch-general] Replicating a package set on a new machine
by Paul M. Foster 05 Dec '21

05 Dec '21

Folks: Assume I've installed a bunch of packages manually on machine A. Now I want to install those same packages-- not manually-- on machine B. I can have pacman tell me what packages are installed on machine A. Now, can I take the package list from machine A and, in an automated way, have pacman then install those packages on machine B? If so, how? Paul

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[arch-general] Comment on dovecot 2.3.17 in testing
by Genes Lists 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Just sharing my experience with this update. I'm aware that there have been quite a few folks with troubles as reported on the dovecot mailing list. My own experience was a) dovecot itself worked with no problems at all. b) I did however have pigeonhole failing which was perplexing - however restarting dovecot a second time got the sieve working and over the last half day or so everything is working well. I have noticed for users with no sieve script there remained some fails running the default sieve script. I am recompiling that script (sievec) manually to see if that helps. gene

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[arch-general] fetchmail/exim line length messages
by David Rosenstrauch 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

My email processing system has suddenly started throwing error messages on line lengths recently: fetchmail: SMTP error: 550 maximum allowed line length is 998 octets, got 1047 fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@<my email server> bounced to bounces%2B11930396-d424-darose%3Ddarose.net(a)sendgrid.meetup.com fetchmail: SMTP listener refused delivery The messages seem to be generated by exim. (I have fetchmail configured to pull my emails in from my ISP's mail drop, and deliver them to my exim daemon.) I've received a number of these in recent days. The first one occurred on Nov. 20 at about 9.30am (EST). I'm not sure what, if anything, has changed recently to start causing this. Anyone else run into this recently, or know what the issue might be? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Arch Linux accessibility install: audio doesn't work!
by John Berden 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

Hello! So! When I was able to install Arch Linux on a virtual machine with ArchInstall script, I decided to install it on my real pc. I use Acer Nitra 5 laptop with the following parameters: Six-core Intel i5-11400H System board chipset Intel Tiger Point HM570, Intel Tiger Lake-H DIMM1: Samsung M471A1K43EB1-CWE DIMM3: Samsung M471A1K43EB1-CWE Integrated video Intel(R) UHD Graphics Discrete video NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU I'm blind, for this reason, I should use Espeak during installation. So. I downloaded Arch Linux on my USB device. Chose the USB in boot menu, pressed the down arrow and ENTER, and the sound doesn't work! On the virtual machine I did the same. It should be added that with other Linux distributions and operating systems on this USB device everything works. As I understand it, the console opens, since the reboot command works. I tried to use USB headset, it doesn't work too. What can I try to do? Thanks in advance!

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD - clamav 0.103.4 - source .tar.gz downloads fine, .tar.gz.sig is 403? (same with Arch package)
by David C. Rankin 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

I'm toying with a clamav-lts for the extended support of 0.104 and I have a strange problem downloading the signature file that results in a 403 permission issue from curl, but downloading directly from the clamav directory (with the same link) works? Short version: pkgname=clamav-lts pkgver=0.103.4 ... source=(https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/${pkgname%-lts}-${pkgve… ... taken directly from the 0.103.3 PKGBUILD. >From the command line both curl and wget fail with the same issue. The official Arch clamav for 0.104.1 retrieved tonight with asp export shows the same behavior when trying to build the package. Am I missing a key or signature. I thought that any user should be able to asp export clamav and then 'makepkg -g' and retrieve the source files? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Kernel regression? [ata1.00: Read log page 0x08 failed, Emask 0x1]
by riveravaldez 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Hi, I got this: $ sudo journalctl -b -exp3 (...) nov 19 02:06:41 arch kernel: ata1.00: Read log page 0x08 failed, Emask 0x1 nov 19 02:06:41 arch kernel: ata1.00: Read log page 0x08 failed, Emask 0x1 (...) And seeing [1]/[2] I guess this is some kind of regression maybe? > On 2021/11/14 3:19, Nikolay wrote: >> 1. While booting system, the following message appears in dmesg twice: >> ata6.00: Read log page 0x08 failed, Emask 0x1 >> 2. Error comes from libata-core.c:ata_read_log_page() >> if called with page = ATA_LOG_SATA_SETTINGS (0x08), >> i.e. from functions ata_dev_config_ncq_prio() or ata_dev_config_devslp() > > This error is not fatal. It simply means that the drive does not support the > INDENTIFY DEVICE log page. Nothing to worry about. > > Attempting to read this log should be avoided in this case though. I will send a > patch to fix that. However, the files you attached show that you are using > kernel 5.12. That is not an LTS kernel (it is EOL), so this kernel will not get > the fix. My case: $ uname -a Linux arch 5.15.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:22:10 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Not sure where to mention this (if should, anyway). Thanks a lot, kind regards. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/11/14/317 [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2111.1/06833.html

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[arch-general] Arch Linux accessibility install
by John Berden 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

Hello! I'm blind. I decided to try Arch Linux. Installed on a virtual machine with an accessibility installation. But after running, the synthesizer doesn't work! How can I turn it on? Also using OCR, I can not log in using my root password. Please help me! Thanks in advance!

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[arch-general] Arch Linux accessibility
by John Berden 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Hello! Please tell me, where can I ask about Arch Linux accessibility? Thanks in advance!

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[arch-general] popa3d service file
by Paul M. Foster 20 Nov '21

20 Nov '21

Folks: I've installed the popa3d POP server for my LAN from the AUR. i can launch it as a daemon from the command line, but it would be better if I could have systemd do it. Unfortunately, I have no experience with systemd service files. Does anyone have one for this package? Paul

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[arch-general] linux 5.15.2.arch1-1, xorg and nouveau - flickering
by Łukasz Michalski 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Hi, All xorg apps that use hardware acceleration (i.e. chrome, skype) filcker on current kernel 5.15.2. lspci lists my graphic card as : NVIDIA Corporation GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] (rev a1) I am using stock nouveau driver. Reverting to linux-lts fixes this problem. Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] Fwd: glibc flagged out-of-date
by Fabiano Furtado Pessoa Coelho 19 Nov '21

19 Nov '21

Hi.... Why is Arch Linux core repository still using glibc version 2.33? Why not upgrade the core repository to version 2.34, since it was flagged out-of-date on 2021-08-02? Thanks.

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[arch-general] matrix-synapse "enhanced" security
by Uwe Sauter 18 Nov '21

18 Nov '21

Dear all, beginning with matrix-synapse 1.44.0-1 in early October a Systemd override file (see below for reference) was included to the package that aims to enhance the security of Synapse. Amongst other things it tells Systemd to restrict access to certain directories that are seen as defaults. Unfortunately this enhancement broke my setup by neglecting that there are various paths inside Synapse's configuration that can be customized, e.g. media_store_path and uploads_path. The error I see in my logs is: 2021-11-18 19:54:30,772 - synapse.rest.media.v1.preview_url_resource - 559 - WARNING - expire_url_cache_data-1281 - Failed to remove media directory: '/srv/matrix/media_store/url_cache/2021-10-08': [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/srv/matrix/media_store/url_cache/2021-10-08' 2021-11-18 19:54:30,774 - synapse.rest.media.v1.preview_url_resource - 617 - WARNING - expire_url_cache_data-1281 - Failed to remove media: '2021-10-08_cgWYZUYMTRBdzskW': [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '800-450-image-jpeg-scale' It is also impossible to insert pictures into the chat. The client just tells "unable to send message" but no log entry is created on the server. Did I miss any notification about this change? Can anyone help me with customizing the Systemd override file so that Synapse regains access to media_store_path and uploads_path? Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Uwe ### /usr/lib/systemd/system/synapse.service.d/override-hardened.conf ### [Service] # The following directives give the synapse service R/W access to: # - /run/synapse # - /var/lib/synapse # - /var/log/synapse RuntimeDirectory=synapse StateDirectory=synapse LogsDirectory=synapse ###################### ## Security Sandbox ## ###################### # Make sure that the service has its own unshared tmpfs at /tmp and that it # cannot see or change any real devices PrivateTmp=true PrivateDevices=true # We give no capabilities to a service by default CapabilityBoundingSet= AmbientCapabilities= # Protect the following from modification: # - The entire filesystem # - sysctl settings and loaded kernel modules # - No modifications allowed to Control Groups # - Hostname # - System Clock ProtectSystem=strict ProtectKernelTunables=true ProtectKernelModules=true ProtectControlGroups=true ProtectClock=true ProtectHostname=true # Prevent access to the following: # - /home directory # - Kernel logs ProtectHome=tmpfs ProtectKernelLogs=true # Make sure that the process can only see PIDs and process details of itself, # and the second option disables seeing details of things like system load and # I/O etc ProtectProc=invisible ProcSubset=pid # While not needed, we set these options explicitly # - This process has been given access to the host network # - It can also communicate with any IP Address PrivateNetwork=false RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX IPAddressAllow=any # Restrict system calls to a sane bunch SystemCallArchitectures=native SystemCallFilter=@system-service SystemCallFilter=~@privileged @resources @obsolete # Misc restrictions # - Since the process is a python process it needs to be able to write and # execute memory regions, so we set MemoryDenyWriteExecute to false RestrictSUIDSGID=true RemoveIPC=true NoNewPrivileges=true RestrictRealtime=true RestrictNamespaces=true LockPersonality=true PrivateUsers=true MemoryDenyWriteExecute=false ### EOF ###

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[arch-general] Brothers, did you see Edward Snowden mentioned our wiki? Huzzah
by Yosef Goldstein 18 Nov '21

18 Nov '21

https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/1460666075033575425

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[arch-general] Why no option to stay with clamav 103 since as a LTS release it will be supported longer then 104?
by David C. Rankin 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

All, Just curious why Arch doesn't also provide the option to track clamav_LTS which will stay with 103 and will be supported much longer than 104? I know, I know, Arch matches upstream, but when upstream provides both current and LTS, wouldn't it make sense to also package and provide LTS like with the kernel? (the packaging would be trivial and the same between the current and LTS aside from the source package for all purposes) Just a thought as there is real advantage to being able to track the clamav LTS release here, without hacking pacman.conf. There are few packages that actually provide a LTS branch so it wouldn't open the flood gates to a bevy of new packages. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] IOMMU spam with kernel 5.15.2.arch1-1 when starting VM
by jk 14 Nov '21

14 Nov '21

Hello, after the recent linux kernel update I started to get a lot of errors on dmesg when starting a virtual machine, I'm passing through a gpu to it. The gist of the error spam is this [ +0.000001] DMAR: ERROR: DMA PTE for vPFN 0x813ee8 already set (to 105eff003 not 105eff003) [ +0.000002] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ +0.000001] WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1960 at drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c:2381 __domain_mapping.cold+0x32/0x39 [ +0.000001] Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap tun wireguard curve25519_x86_64 libchacha20poly1305 chacha_x86_64 poly1305_x86_64 libblake2s blake2s_x86_64 libcurve25519_generic libchacha libblake2s_generic ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel bridge stp llc nft_masq nft_chain_nat nf_nat nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_counter nft_limit nft_ct nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 nf_tables nfnetlink nct6775 hwmon_vid snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic intel_rapl_msr iTCO_wdt intel_pmc_bxt mei_hdcp ee1004 iTCO_vendor_support wmi_bmof snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl snd_sof_intel_hda_common soundwire_intel soundwire_generic_allocation soundwire_cadence snd_sof_intel_hda intel_rapl_common mousedev snd_sof_pci snd_usb_audio snd_sof_xtensa_dsp snd_sof snd_usbmidi_lib x86_pkg_temp_thermal joydev snd_soc_hdac_hda intel_powerclamp snd_rawmidi coretemp snd_hda_ext_core snd_soc_acpi_intel_match snd_seq_device mc snd_soc_acpi kvm_intel soundwire_bus [ +0.000017] ledtrig_audio kvm snd_soc_core intel_cstate snd_compress intel_spi_pci amdgpu intel_spi intel_uncore pcspkr ac97_bus snd_hda_codec_hdmi spi_nor snd_pcm_dmaengine mtd snd_hda_intel i2c_i801 snd_intel_dspcfg i2c_smbus r8169 snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_hda_codec realtek mei_me mdio_devres snd_hda_core gpu_sched libphy mei nouveau snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore mxm_wmi vfat drm_ttm_helper wmi fat mac_hid acpi_pad acpi_tad kvmfr(OE) fuse ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 usbhid dm_thin_pool dm_persistent_data libcrc32c crc32c_generic dm_bio_prison dm_bufio dm_crypt cbc encrypted_keys trusted asn1_encoder tee i915 crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul dm_mod crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd tpm_crb cryptd intel_gtt xhci_pci ttm xhci_pci_renesas tpm_tis tpm_tis_core tpm rng_core video vfio_pci vfio_pci_core irqbypass vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio [ +0.000020] CPU: 8 PID: 1960 Comm: CPU 6/KVM Tainted: G U W OE 5.15.2-arch1-1 #1 e3bfbeb633edc604ba956e06f24d5659e31c294f [ +0.000001] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./Z590 Steel Legend, BIOS P1.80 07/22/2021 [ +0.000000] RIP: 0010:__domain_mapping.cold+0x32/0x39 [ +0.000001] Code: f6 48 c7 c7 80 0f af a0 4c 89 54 24 08 e8 e8 aa fd ff 8b 05 49 b1 1d 01 4c 8b 54 24 08 85 c0 74 09 83 e8 01 89 05 37 b1 1d 01 <0f> 0b e9 2f a5 b8 ff 4c 89 c9 44 89 da 48 c7 c6 30 32 74 a0 48 c7 [ +0.000000] RSP: 0018:ffffb32ac27dfbf0 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ +0.000001] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff972a598b5740 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ +0.000000] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ +0.000001] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ +0.000000] R10: ffff972a02213700 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff972a02213700 [ +0.000001] R13: 0000000000105eff R14: 0000000000813ee8 R15: 0000000105eff003 [ +0.000000] FS: 00007f1f699ff640(0000) GS:ffff97313fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ +0.000001] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ +0.000001] CR2: 00007f1f51bab000 CR3: 000000018a69a002 CR4: 0000000000772ee0 [ +0.000000] PKRU: 55555554 [ +0.000000] Call Trace: [ +0.000001] intel_iommu_map_pages+0xb0/0x100 [ +0.000002] __iommu_map+0xde/0x2c0 [ +0.000001] iommu_map+0x41/0x80 [ +0.000001] vfio_iommu_type1_ioctl+0x85f/0x1670 [vfio_iommu_type1 1ddc5c5dceb1dace15f0dee1b2f809fe6662c7c4] [ +0.000003] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8b/0xd0 [ +0.000001] do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90 [ +0.000002] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x20b/0x6b0 [ +0.000002] ? exc_page_fault+0x72/0x180 [ +0.000000] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ +0.000002] RIP: 0033:0x7f218b9d559b [ +0.000000] Code: ff ff ff 85 c0 79 9b 49 c7 c4 ff ff ff ff 5b 5d 4c 89 e0 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d a5 a8 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 [ +0.000001] RSP: 002b:00007f1f699fdfa8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [ +0.000000] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055d7a02181d0 RCX: 00007f218b9d559b [ +0.000001] RDX: 00007f1f699fdfb0 RSI: 0000000000003b71 RDI: 000000000000002b [ +0.000000] RBP: 0000000812000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000006000000 [ +0.000001] R10: 0000000812000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000002000000 [ +0.000000] R13: 0000000812000000 R14: 00007f1f699fdfb0 R15: 0000000000000000 Here's the full dmesg log, too big for pasting sites: https://cloud.vin.ovh/s/3TpSgCgYs9oq9jY I started to look around for this error messages and found the following mailing list. https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4097048.html First it proposed a patch to silence those error messages as they aren't lethal but after some research another patch was proposed which actually solved the issue I think. https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2021-October/059955.html It is quite small and it seems that it didn't get the required attention. I added the patch to the linux PKGBUILD and the errors no longer appear. Is there a possibility to add that patch to the linux package? Don't really want to build the kernel every time it is updated.

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[arch-general] Should PacBSD (Arch with BSD kernel) be revived?
by KSP Atlas 13 Nov '21

13 Nov '21

PacBSD is a GNU/BSD distribution of Arch Linux but with the BSD kernel instead. Do you think it should be revived, as it seems to be dead with the website down and everything?

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[arch-general] New LXQt (1.0.0) with big text size, affecting other Qt apps
by Javier 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

Hello ! I've been using LXQt for some time now (years), and with Today's Arch upgrade, which included a LXQt upgrade 0.17.0-1 -> 1.0.0-1, everything was showing app really big, from LXQt own text (menus, icons, widgets, etc) to other apps. The only work around I found was to reduce the font size on LXQt's preferences, and also on Qterminal, I had to change it from like 18 to 10 on Qterminal, and from 16 to 10 on LXQt itself. I still see other apps bigger than what they used to be, and in particular the apps' toolbar became wider, and the border surrounding Qt apps became wider (to the point it's annoying). It's not about manipulating QT_SCALE_FACTOR + QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR, and the like, because that's to make things bigger when they look way to small and unreadable. Actually by setting QT_SCALE_FACTOR to 1, its the same behavior as not setting any variable, and lower than 0 values don't really work on Qt (I tried, and the results are really weird, non functional to say the least). Have other lxqt users experienced the same on Arch? Would it be an Arch building and packaging issue? Or this is totally an upstream thing? Thanks ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] gpg-agent Failed to lookup
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hi Keith, It worked for me too, although I have no idea of the possible implications either. Thank you very much. On 11/9/21 12:19, Keith Scheiwiller wrote: > Hi José, > > I just ran into what I assume is the same issue yesterday. > > After digging around I found [this][1] seemingly similar bug report. > I found that the binary provided in the package does indeed have > additional capabilities set. > ``` > $ getcap /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon cap_ipc_lock=ep > ``` > > As I was in a bit of a rush I did a quick > `$ sudo setcap -r /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon` > and found that it began working as expected. > Of course I would not recommend doing so as I do not know the > implications of removing that, but hopefully someone more > knowledgeable can chime in with more info. I see others on the > forum possibly having the same issues. > > [1]: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2518> > > Regards, > Keith > > > On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 8:49 AM José Vilmar Estácio de Souza via > arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hi all. > > > After recent updates to arch I started having problems with some > programs that make use of the gnome-keyring-daemon. > > When I run for example the command 'pass -c git-azure', the command > takes about 15 seconds to ask for the password and the following > messages appear in the log: > > > Nov 09 11:13:26 jveii gpg-agent[124433]: Failed to lookup password > for > key n/1128A1F67CEF113D23CE021A5502F13DEE17610C with secret service: > Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.secrets: Timeout > was reached > Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii gnome-keyring-d[124438]: Couldn't connect to > session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus when setuid > Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii gnome-keyring-daemon[124438]: Couldn't > connect to > session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus when setuid > Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[124438]: > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/sshNov 09 11:13:01 jveii > gnome-keyring-daemon[783]: couldn't connect to dbus session bus: > Cannot > spawn a message bus when setuid > Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[795]: dbus-daemon[795]: > [session uid=1000 pid=795] Activating service > name='org.freedesktop.secrets' requested by ':1.1451' (uid=1000 > pid=124433 comm="/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 --display :0 ") > > > I'm also having issues with other applications like vpn > connections and > chromium is taking a while to display the first page once it > starts up. > > > Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? > > Thank you very much in advance. >

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[arch-general] Introduction
by Yosef Goldstein 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hi everyone I am Yosef from Israel. I am excited to be part of the Arch community.

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[arch-general] gpg-agent Failed to lookup
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Hi all. After recent updates to arch I started having problems with some programs that make use of the gnome-keyring-daemon. When I run for example the command 'pass -c git-azure', the command takes about 15 seconds to ask for the password and the following messages appear in the log: Nov 09 11:13:26 jveii gpg-agent[124433]: Failed to lookup password for key n/1128A1F67CEF113D23CE021A5502F13DEE17610C with secret service: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.secrets: Timeout was reached Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii gnome-keyring-d[124438]: Couldn't connect to session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus when setuid Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii gnome-keyring-daemon[124438]: Couldn't connect to session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus when setuid Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[124438]: SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/1000/keyring/sshNov 09 11:13:01 jveii gnome-keyring-daemon[783]: couldn't connect to dbus session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus when setuid Nov 09 11:13:01 jveii /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[795]: dbus-daemon[795]: [session uid=1000 pid=795] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.secrets' requested by ':1.1451' (uid=1000 pid=124433 comm="/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2 --display :0 ") I'm also having issues with other applications like vpn connections and chromium is taking a while to display the first page once it starts up. Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance.

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[arch-general] Really about tty !
by Philippe Delavalade 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Hi. By default, six ttys are defined but I would have more ; in distros with sysv there was an /etc/inttab file defining consoles and it was simple to define more. I didn't find info in the wiki ; I pretty sure my method to search is bad but... Regards. -- Philippe

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[arch-general] Users in mariadb
by Philippe Delavalade 09 Nov '21

09 Nov '21

Hello dear list. I had a look to the mysql.user table and found four users at localhost ; two of them seem odd to me : 1 mariadb.sys with no password 2 mysql with the password 'invalid'. I guess I can delete user 'mysql'@'localhost' but what about 'mariadb.sys'@'localhost' ? In the slackware box, those users don't exist. Thanks for advise. Regards. -- Philippe

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[arch-general] About tty
by Philippe Delavalade 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

Hi list. I'm new with archlinux and especially systemd. I'm using linux since around twenty years, so i'm not realy newbie but... I have many questions but I'll ask one by one. I read wiki about systemctl and I'm not sure to have understood everything :-( For instance, to have a daemon at boottime, I have tried : systemctl enable --now ... It seems to be OK with ntp, fcron and NetworkManager. But with mariadb I obtain a failure. Job for mariadb.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status mariadb.service" and "journalctl -xeu mariadb.service" for details. I tried systemctl status mariadb and obtained × mariadb.service - MariaDB 10.6.4 database server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2021-11-08 18:03:16 CET; 1min 47s ago Docs: man:mariadbd(8) https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/systemd/ Process: 515 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c systemctl unset-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 516 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ ! -e /usr/bin/galera_recovery ] && VAR= || VAR=`cd /usr/bin/..; /usr/bin/galera_recovery`; [ $? -eq 0 ] && systemctl set-environment _WSREP_START_POSITION=$VAR || exit 1 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 524 ExecStart=/usr/bin/mariadbd $MYSQLD_OPTS $_WSREP_NEW_CLUSTER $_WSREP_START_POSITION (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 524 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Status: "MariaDB server is down" CPU: 95ms nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [Note] InnoDB: Buffer pool(s) load completed at 211108 18:03:15 nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [ERROR] Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.servers' doesn't exist nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '0.0.0.0'. nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [Note] Server socket created on IP: '::'. nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.db' doesn't exist nov. 08 18:03:15 messier31 mariadbd[524]: 2021-11-08 18:03:15 0 [ERROR] Aborting nov. 08 18:03:16 messier31 mariadbd[524]: Warning: Memory not freed: 280 nov. 08 18:03:16 messier31 systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE nov. 08 18:03:16 messier31 systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. nov. 08 18:03:16 messier31 systemd[1]: Failed to start MariaDB 10.6.4 database server. Those messages don't help me. Can someone tell me more ? Regards. -- Philippe

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[arch-general] Apologies
by Philippe Delavalade 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

I'm sorry for my preceeding subject ; it should have been « about mariadb » ; tty is for the next question :-) -- Philippe

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[arch-general] DST-related log messages?
by David Rosenstrauch 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

We switched from Daylight Savings back to Standard time in my locale last night. (EDT -> EST) My system did seem to update, as it has the correct time. However, I was looking through the logs to see if it wrote any messages regarding the time changing, but didn't see any. I also don't see any record of where the time got rolled back. (i.e., 03.00 -> 02.00) Anyone know what (if anything) gets written to the logs that would show this change? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] [arch-gen] Qt wayland DEs?
by Javier 08 Nov '21

08 Nov '21

I'm currently using LXQt + KWin. LXQt is not landing in Wayland any time soon. There's no hurry, but I would like to know about other non plasma Qt DEs working on Wayland. I'm aware on Liri, however I don't know how light it is compared to LXQt + K Win, or Plasma itself, and also how usable/stable it is. One concern is performance, responsiveness, and resources usage, given it's not exactly based on Qt, but rather QML instead. I read about another Qt DE working on Wayland, paperDE, however it uses Wayfire instead of KWin, and I'd prefer using KWin and compositor, but there's currently no DE offering such combination, except by Plasma, or so it seems... Again, I'd like to know how usable/stable it is, how light it is, and how does it compare to LXQt (Xorg it'll be, given its lack of Wayland support), and how it compares in terms of performance, responsiveness and resources. Liri, by being the 1st Qt DE, has the most amount of time dealing with Wayland, it should be quiet usable/stable, compared to the newcomers, but that might only be a bad supposition. Is there any other DE I might be missing, hopefully using KWin and oriented toward being as light as it could be? BTW, just in case that counts, I only planning to be able to use pipewire for screen/desktop sharing, and not for audio at all, since I prefer plain alsa, so I don't want a strict requirement for pipewire audio support. Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] [arch-gen][flake8] flake8.main.git module no longer available on flake8 v. 1:4.0.1-1, breaking pre-commit flake8 hooks
by Javier 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

Today I upgraded the system, and got a new flake8 version: > [2021-11-03T02:29:18-0600] [ALPM] upgraded flake8 (1:3.9.2-2 -> 1:4.0.1-1) However that version no longer provides the flake8.main.git module, therefore now I get a failure when trying to commit something (using the flake8 pre-commit hook the work project uses): > % git ci --amend > INFO | Running hook pre-commit.d/02-check_flake8... > ERROR | Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/home/vasqueja/scm/hpe/git/provision-sdk/.git/hooks/pre-commit.d/02-check_flake8", line 25, in <module> > from flake8.main.git import (config_for, update_excludes, > ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'flake8.main.git' > ERROR | Hook pre-commit.d/02-check_flake8 failed. Aborting... Is there a way to overcome this? Is there sort of a new packet covering for that functionality? I don't see any new optional dependency which might have covered for the missing module: > Depends On : python-pyflakes python-mccabe python-pycodestyle python-entrypoints > Optional Deps : None > Required By : python-flake8-polyfill Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] NEW RECORD! 769 packages out of date
by Billy Morgan 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=flag_date&flagged=Flagged

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Re: [arch-general] Fwd: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
by mar77i 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/845963002482323312/1450A49B560D3… Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

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Re: [arch-general] Fwd: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
by Jonas Witschel 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

On 2021-11-04 00:01, Sam Mulvey wrote: > Instead, I have a counter-offer. If what I'm saying has any merit whatever, > why doesn't someone from the Arch team contact me? I literally know no one > in the community, and my abortive attempts to interface have been a > failure. Why not show me the ropes and prove to me that I'm actually quite > wrong about this? I would argue that all these emails have been trying to contact you, including one I sent to you in private. Given the tone of your last emails as well as the fact that you have completely ignored both my last public and private email, I am afraid to say that you do not seem to be interested in a productive discussion to me. Best, Jonas -- Jonas Witschel Arch Linux Developer, Trusted User and security team member PGP key: FE2E6249201CA54A4FB90D066E80CA1446879D04

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[arch-general] A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
by Billy Morgan 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: arch-security(a)lists.archlinux.org Having far outdated packages is a security issue so I will include security as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: anthraxx(a)archlinux.org, aaron(a)archlinux.org, jvinet(a)zeroflux.org Today a post was made on the subreddit about a massive amount of packages being flagged outdated a very long time ago. It was nuked almost immediately and linked to an older thread with a non-answer. This cannot be brushed under the rug. It is not just random packages that are far out of date but even core ones. https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-libs/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-go/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dhcpcd/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/binutils/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> Even gnome-shell and others are far out of date. Why are there still maintainers/Trusted Users that haven't been signed in for 5 months holding packages hostage? Please communicate with your userbase. We care and want to help. See this thread. I was forced to move that persons post to 4chan because it got nuked on the subreddit. https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/84101500 Thank you

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[arch-general] "Arch Linux GUI" legit project?
by Fabian Bornschein 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hello, I just found the "Arch Linux GUI (ALG)" project * <https://sourceforge.net/projects/arch-linux-gui/> * <https://archlinuxgui.in/> That claims to install Arch Linux. Since the project gains more track now I wonder, is it allowed to use the Arch Linux trademarks in word and logo form?

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[arch-general] Can someone step in and fix this?
by Simon Perry 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71587 The maintainer hasn't responded in ages and it seems like a simple dep addition. Cheers. -- Simon Perry

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[arch-general] Unstable/Unusably slow Wi-Fi connection with systemd-networkd/wpa_supplicant
by riveravaldez 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hi, I was using Wicd until a couple of weeks without problems, but because it's been out of repos for a while and generally not maintained/developed anymore I decided to make the switch and start using systemd-networkd. The machine is a laptop Dell XPS 15 L502X (Sandy Bridge) with: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34) I followed the Arch Wiki without problems and wired connection seems to be working flawlessly. But Wi-Fi is unstable and slow at the point of unusability. I posted on the forums[0] for help but didn't get any until now, so I'm letting the link here just in case someone can give me any hint. In the forum's post I informed the output of terminal, networkctl and wpa_cli status, dmesg, journalctl, etc. Please let me know if I should put the details here (didn't did it just to not make mail extremely long, hope I'm not doing wrong) or add anything else. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards. [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=264608

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