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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 17 Feb '22

17 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(a)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] System terribly slow
by riveravaldez 17 Dec '21

17 Dec '21

Hi, I'm looking for some advice trying to pinpoint why or where my system has becoming almost unusable slow. Searching the web I've found some hints but nothing precise enough. Maybe it's a failing HDD, but I'm first posting what I have until now in the hope someone can give some advice. Superficial symptoms are a general slowness. I'm using just IceWM and `startx` to initialize the GUI, and even logging into my account previous to that takes almost a minute to get done. Then any application I launch takes minutes to just start (from IceWM to firefox, from qtox to pcmanfm or geany, etc.). Even navigate the folders tree with pcmanfm takes 10 or more seconds just to show any folder content... Hope some of this helps: $ sudo journalctl -b -exp3 -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 19:50:29 -03. -- dic 03 00:48:43 arch kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Asking for cache data failed dic 03 00:48:43 arch kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through dic 03 00:50:39 arch libvirtd[592]: cannot open directory '/home/dell/Software/VMs/TrisquelMini8': No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:50:39 arch libvirtd[592]: error interno: Falló al iniciar automáticamente el grupo de almacenamiento 'TrisquelMini8': cannot open directory '/home/dell/Softwar> dic 03 00:50:41 arch libvirtd[592]: No se encontró 'dmidecode' en ruta: No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:50:57 arch libvirtd[592]: No se encontró 'dmidecode' en ruta: No existe el fichero o el directorio dic 03 00:56:40 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Disk Manager. Subject: A start job for unit udisks2.service has failed Defined-By: systemd Support: https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel A start job for unit udisks2.service has finished with a failure. The job identifier is 1072 and the job result is failed. $ systemctl --state=failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION 0 loaded units listed. $ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 11.038s (kernel) + 1min 31.352s (userspace) = 1min 42.391s graphical.target reached after 1min 31.352s in userspace $ systemd-analyze blame 37.946s polkit.service 29.248s dev-sda1.device 28.827s systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service 24.692s udisks2.service 15.936s systemd-journal-flush.service 14.228s systemd-hwdb-update.service 13.930s ldconfig.service 13.502s upower.service 12.881s ufw.service 8.830s user(a)1000.service 7.556s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service 7.280s avahi-daemon.service 7.275s bluetooth.service 7.262s iwd.service 6.067s systemd-logind.service 6.058s systemd-machined.service 5.825s systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service 5.123s systemd-sysusers.service 4.569s systemd-udevd.service 4.511s systemd-resolved.service 4.281s systemd-networkd.service 3.724s systemd-journal-catalog-update.service 3.415s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-1d72b82c\x2d9c58\x2d4f57\x2d97a3\x2de29ff35a5632.service 2.959s systemd-modules-load.service 2.557s lm_sensors.service 2.503s systemd-random-seed.service 2.389s systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service 1.983s dev-disk-by\x2duuid-84c91978\x2da09c\x2d4087\x2db60d\x2d86730d142f63.swap 1.967s systemd-backlight@leds:dell::kbd_backlight.service 1.563s systemd-timesyncd.service 1.457s systemd-update-utmp.service 1.287s systemd-udev-trigger.service 1.278s systemd-rfkill.service 1.219s alsa-restore.service 1.164s systemd-sysctl.service (...) $ systemctl status polkit.service ● polkit.service - Authorization Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:50:28 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:polkit(8) Main PID: 613 (polkitd) Tasks: 12 (limit: 6993) Memory: 18.9M CPU: 1.032s CGroup: /system.slice/polkit.service └─613 /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug dic 03 00:49:50 arch systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager... dic 03 00:50:05 arch polkitd[613]: Started polkitd version 0.120 dic 03 00:50:26 arch polkitd[613]: Loading rules from directory /etc/polkit-1/rules.d dic 03 00:50:26 arch polkitd[613]: Loading rules from directory /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d dic 03 00:50:28 arch polkitd[613]: Finished loading, compiling and executing 6 rules dic 03 00:50:28 arch systemd[1]: Started Authorization Manager. dic 03 00:50:28 arch polkitd[613]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 on the system bus $ systemctl status dev-sda1.device ● dev-sda1.device - Hitachi_HTS545025B9A300 ROOT Follows: unit currently follows state of sys-devices-pci0000:00-0000:00:1f.2-ata1-host0-target0:0:0-0:0:0:0-block-sda-sda1.device Loaded: loaded Active: active (plugged) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:49:12 -03; 19h ago Device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata1/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1 Notice: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete. $ systemctl status systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service ○ systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service - Cleanup of Temporary Directories Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2021-12-03 01:03:52 -03; 19h ago TriggeredBy: ● systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer Docs: man:tmpfiles.d(5) man:systemd-tmpfiles(8) Process: 1473 ExecStart=systemd-tmpfiles --clean (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1473 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 185ms dic 03 01:03:23 arch systemd[1]: Starting Cleanup of Temporary Directories... dic 03 01:03:52 arch systemd[1]: systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service: Deactivated successfully. dic 03 01:03:52 arch systemd[1]: Finished Cleanup of Temporary Directories. $ systemctl status udisks2.service ● udisks2.service - Disk Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/udisks2.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:59:51 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:udisks(8) Main PID: 1129 (udisksd) Tasks: 5 (limit: 6993) Memory: 3.2M CPU: 23.045s CGroup: /system.slice/udisks2.service └─1129 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd dic 03 00:59:26 arch systemd[1]: Starting Disk Manager... dic 03 00:59:26 arch udisksd[1129]: udisks daemon version 2.9.4 starting dic 03 00:59:51 arch systemd[1]: Started Disk Manager. dic 03 00:59:54 arch udisksd[1129]: Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus $ systemctl status systemd-journal-flush.service ● systemd-journal-flush.service - Flush Journal to Persistent Storage Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journal-flush.service; static) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:48:59 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:systemd-journald.service(8) man:journald.conf(5) Process: 283 ExecStart=journalctl --flush (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 283 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 15ms dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd[1]: Starting Flush Journal to Persistent Storage... dic 03 00:48:59 arch systemd[1]: Finished Flush Journal to Persistent Storage. $ systemctl status systemd-hwdb-update.service ● systemd-hwdb-update.service - Rebuild Hardware Database Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-hwdb-update.service; static) Active: active (exited) since Fri 2021-12-03 00:48:57 -03; 19h ago Docs: man:hwdb(7) man:systemd-hwdb(8) Process: 279 ExecStart=systemd-hwdb update (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 279 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CPU: 1.746s dic 03 00:48:57 arch systemd[1]: Finished Rebuild Hardware Database. $ journalctl -b -u systemd-journald.service -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 20:49:18 -03. -- dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd-journald[271]: Journal started dic 03 00:48:43 arch systemd-journald[271]: Runtime Journal (/run/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c) is 8.0M, max 292.4M, 284.4M free. dic 03 00:48:44 arch systemd-journald[271]: Time spent on flushing to /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c is 7.561088s for 798 entries. dic 03 00:48:44 arch systemd-journald[271]: System Journal (/var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c) is 16.0M, max 2.4G, 2.4G free. $ journalctl -b -u systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\\x2duuid-1d72b82c\\x2d9c58\\x2d4f57\\x2d97a3\\x2de29ff35a5632.service -- Journal begins at Thu 2021-12-02 23:59:31 -03, ends at Fri 2021-12-03 20:52:36 -03. -- dic 03 00:49:18 arch systemd[1]: Starting File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1d72b82c-9c58-4f57-97a3-e29ff35a5632... dic 03 00:49:21 arch systemd-fsck[485]: HOME: limpio, 208781/13107200 ficheros, 37165716/52398592 bloques dic 03 00:49:21 arch systemd[1]: Finished File System Check on /dev/disk/by-uuid/1d72b82c-9c58-4f57-97a3-e29ff35a5632. $ journalctl --verify PASS: /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/user-1000.journal 3b84d8: Data object's entry array not sorted File corruption detected at /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/system.journal:915878 (of 16777216 bytes, 56%). FAIL: /var/log/journal/431f639f382e4bad8a43628868f2fc6c/system.journal (Mensaje erróneo) $ journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active journals take up 24.0M in the file system. Maybe it's pertinent to mention that I've just cleaned up /var/log/journal to rule out storage issues. Any help will be most welcome. Thanks a lot in advance.

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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+11930396-d424-darose=darose.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 19 Nov '21

19 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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[arch-general] GDB C++ pretty printer issues
by Vasi Vilvoiu 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hi y'all! With the latest September update to gdb[1] the builtin pretty printers for (at least) unique_ptr no longer work. (gdb) p x $2 = std::unique_ptr<foo> = {get() = {<No data fields>}} Downgrading to gdb 10.2 seems to fix the issue, but I can't figure out what the underlying cause is. It's either because (a) our gcc[2] and gcc-libs packages are out of date since July[3] _and_ GDB does not support pretty printers for the older stdc++ version or (b) there's a bug in gdb 11.1 Testing out the first hypothesis would mean compiling gcc 11.2 from source, which is something I'm not looking forward. Does anyone else have any knowledge that may be relevant to this issue? -- Best regards, Vasi Vilvoiu [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gdb/ [2] https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/ [3] https://gcc.gnu.org//gcc-11/

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[arch-general] Firefox Ctrl-W
by Paul Dann 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Has anyone been able to figure out how to disable the Ctrl-W shortcut in Firefox? As a Vim user I'm constantly accidentally closing tabs when I want to delete the last word in a text field. It seems to be _very_ difficult to find a reliable method to do this short of recompiling Firefox. I use Plasma Desktop. If there's some way to filter events going to the browser window, that's a viable solution too, but I haven't found any way so far. Many thanks, Paul

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[arch-general] hostapd + ap_isolate
by Erich Eckner 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi fellow-archers, I'm running a software accesspoint with hostapd for several years now. Since some weeks, clients cannot talk to each other directly anymore, also IPv6 broke (the latter might be related, but I'm currently trying to solve the former issue). Unfortunately, I cannot assure, that both happened at the same time. Also, I cannot correlate it to any updates or config changes. The tech stack is: + hostapd (spans two wifi: a normal and a guest net) + dhcpd (for ipv4) + radvd (for ipv6) + iptables (for routing) /etc/hostapd.conf: - ---8<---8<---8<--- bssid=bd:fe:0d:7e:80:37 driver=nl80211 logger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=2 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=2 ctrl_interface=/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 ssid=VzEbpU-wwrtw8f country_code=DE hw_mode=g channel=6 beacon_int=100 dtim_period=2 macaddr_acl=1 accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd/accept auth_algs=3 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=2 wpa_psk=619f85f482f85d30ac69022edaabce188b4edb82910c1e40f40837e4e6599437 wpa_pairwise=CCMP bss=wlp0s12_0 ssid=RmH bssid=29:9a:f9:b2:d9:02 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=K6VHcvEy wpa_pairwise=CCMP macaddr_acl=0 - --->8--->8--->8--- ipv4 works fine in the following directions: + from access point to any client and vice versa + from any client to any permitted target beyond the access point but it fails between wifi clients directly. The only config change, which I did within the last 6 months, is adding the second wifi on wlp0s12_0. However, I'm pretty sure, that at least IPv6 was not immediately broken. Ipv4-routes and -addresses on the clients look fine, tcpdump shows no packages when trying to ping other wifi clients (is it normal to not see outgoing packages in case of failure? - seems strange, but was the same, when pinging some bogus address from the access point). Originally, I added "ap_isolate=1" to the config of wlp0s12_0 to isolate guest wifi clients from each other - and I'm pretty sure, I did test it, and it did work (and did not break connectivity between wlp0s12 clients). However, during testing now, I even removed that directive without success. Does anyone have an idea, where else I could look? regards, Erich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE3p92iMrPBP64GmxZCu7JB1Xae1oFAmFzIM0ACgkQCu7JB1Xa e1ozRhAAoXDEs1qUVCDQvP7o5XZlpGRi59imJH7ZhLABxiuKFZ2YhUoTHTX061lX lgbRSZMVAFEjD6x8Hz/uu0NvB+dYf/+W+cF6r2bRN8JXQ7UOb5qzN3CG9pt2H4gg reYYdwS7VH4U7WrdLZvshqRselcZ+x6c0vrpIiX8ni1c3w+hzEgsZ/1m9QMoy7DR 58xeAtkw879AxltjMyJyhYJT3CSjXzZ330sTpukpS7l9v8shs8JQteGckv0WH4q0 KAXW+H0MtXfDIJIwYDVxWV+5CzMeLLLZ5HTYz+U8mC4HZ6iNQ8FRKqJ6GZGZ/t7W MTNMt9V0qx2ewkAPll+u0JJKoVOOiMqqLPeuGwSTS4Vo5oc9tI7zmYC4GOi9Slsp 6WPoF1OT109KDvoWZS8dEadpMb9Pmv3HlWEo/0k5lydqTW3Ef/+8Etcf0YEoI5sf 1HCkntkeqLIUf6EAH0zqm+reebXXuOt5saWbmRUxGRvQijQOm6M5Q9QvoEqOMeQw fpVVH+2IAzN/m0DPvkiA/kUev2Gho2WRWCe0DvyZ15t4VzngXmvPIjO40Dh8w/Z1 N5sgRVDFATC+ciIestfKGe8anC9X3NO7xrQ+AhLIg2PXcZSkuYbpOJKWvMfCtJ91 2+gyoPqgh/6CXhR1tLa5Ttun9FbCSRVitVDmHg5JHUbhe4Zmz+4= =UNVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] unable to login to win7 and win2008srv after samba DC update to 4.15
by Łukasz Michalski 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi, I had to revert my samba DC after upgrade to 4.15. win7 and win2008srv R2 have problems login, win10 and linux clients seems to works fine. There are more reports about this problem on samba mailing list [1]. Consider locking samba to latest 4.14 if doing upgrade of DC. Regards, Łukasz [1] https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2021-October/237566.html

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[arch-general] NFS /srv/nfs subdirectories are not reflected properly
by Mark Persky 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hi everyone, When mounting /srv/nfs directory the subdirectories are listed but have no content. Any help would be appreciated, Mark P.

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[arch-general] NFS won't start
by Mark Persky 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hi everyone, I am unable to launch nfs server. It misses the scripts as mentioned in log: .... systemd[166856]: nfs-idmapd.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd: No such file or directory .... systemd[166857]: nfs-mountd.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd: No such file or directory .... systemd[166858]: nfsdcld.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/nfsdcld: No such file or directory .... systemd[166859]: rpc-statd.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/rpc.statd: No such file or directory .... I guess some packages are missing or not properly installed/configured. Any help would be appreciated, Mark P.

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[arch-general] pacman -Syu FAILS - hwinfo: /sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem)
by David C. Rankin 16 Oct '21

16 Oct '21

All, There is a package problem with hwinfo. Attempting a system update results in: :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages... perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any is up to date(0/3) checking keys in keyring [--(3/3) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% (3/3) checking package integrity [######################################] 100% (3/3) loading package files [######################################] 100% (3/3) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) hwinfo: /sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Ansible Testing
by Silvio Siefke 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hello, I have read about ansible and some stuff I managed with it. The idea with roles I find interesting special with VPN / NFTABLES jobs. It make it easier to stay in view :) But I ask me is there a way to test the role system before deploy it real? Thank you for advice Silvio

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 204, Issue 3
by Daniel Venturini 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Hi, Pete One day I did something similar to it. I had four partition: */boot/efi* */ # /dev/sda2* */home # /dev/sda3* */tmp # /dev/sda4* and my goal was to completely move my partition */home* after */tmp* and increase */* partition with the new /home's free space. I did it in a simple way: I moved the contents of / and /home to other partitions, then I joined old / and /home and I moved all contents of old / to this new partition. Let's go: I booted my laptop within a live usb and I created two new partitions (sda5, sda6), mounted them and moved all contents*:* # mounting things (you can create sda5 and sda6 either with fdisk, cfdisk or even with gparted) mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/root mount /dev/sda3 /tmp/home mount /dev/sda5 /tmp/root-tmp # partition that I created now mount /dev/sda6 /tmp/home-tmp # partition that I created now # moving contents mv /tmp/root /tmp/root-tmp mv /tmp/home /tmp/home-tmp # I highly recommend you to format both partitions that are going to be joined mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3 # joining / and /home # to do it, use *fdisk* to delete both (/dev/sda2 /dev/sda3) and create a new one # or use *cfdisk* to increase /dev/sda2. Suppose you're going to use fdisk (it was what I used): *umount /dev/sda2* *umount /dev/sda3* *fdisk /dev/sda* *> d # delete partition* *> 2 # partition /dev/sda2* *> d* *> 3 # partition /dev/sda3* *> n # new partition (fdisk will join free space on old /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3)* *> 2 # probably 2 due to /dev/sda2* *> Enter 2x* *> p # print new partition scheme to verify* *> w # write change; JUST DO IT WHEN YOU'RE SURE ABOUT YOUR CHANGES.* # now, mount your new partition and move all content: mount /dev/sda2 /tmp/root mv /tmp/root-tmp /tmp/root # move home files too: mv /tmp/home-tmp /tmp/root-tmp # root-tmp is your new home partition on /dev/sda5 # finally, just update the partitions UUID on /tmp/root/*etc/fstab*: blkid | grep sda2 # looking for your new / partition UUID blkid | grep sda5 # looking for your new /home partition UUID # get both UUID and update them on your fstab file on /tmp/root/etc/fstab # I don't remember exactly, but maybe you need to update your grub: grub-mkconfig Once done, I restarted and all things were working well. If you really want to try it, *I highly recommend you to test it before* on a VM or something like that, unless you know what you are doing. I hope it can fit your problem :). Daniel Venturini DevOps | CyberSecurity enthusiastic | GNU/Linux btw, I use Arch Em ter., 12 de out. de 2021 às 09:00, < arch-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org> escreveu: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > or, 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. System manipulation (pete) > 2. Re: System manipulation (Josephine Pfeiffer) > 3. Re: System manipulation (Ben Mezger) > 4. Re: System manipulation (David Rosenstrauch) > 5. Re: System manipulation (Tasnad Kernetzky) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:51:52 +0100 > From: pete <pg.nikolic1(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <20211011145152.0823c123(a)ds9.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Hi Folks > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the > job > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to get > working . > > Any help please > > > Pete . > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 17:53:32 +0200 > From: Josephine Pfeiffer <pfeifferj(a)archlinux.ch> > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <462dbff5-fb37-c5eb-cbca-cbcbe6c7c98c(a)archlinux.ch> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > I think you can use gparted to move the partition to another drive. > > Best, > Josie > > On 10/11/21 15:51, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:58:22 -0300 > From: Ben Mezger <me(a)benmezger.nl> > To: pete via arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org>, General > Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <m2h7dnzmrl.fsf(a)benmezger.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Can't you do something like: > > $ dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/drive1/backuproot.img > $ dd if=/media/drive1/backuproot.img of=/dev/sdb # write back to disk > > -- > Ben Mezger > > https://seds.nl > https://github.com/benmezger > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:28:50 -0400 > From: David Rosenstrauch <darose(a)darose.net> > To: pete via arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <e08d2ffd-1755-93d4-8d5d-23400112c5ed(a)darose.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > > > On 10/11/21 9:51 AM, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > One strategy that you might want to consider that I've used before and > has helped many times, is to not move the entire root filesystem, but > rather, just pieces of it. For example, on my system, /home, /var, and > /usr/local/share all reside on different volumes. That frees up a lot > of space on the root partition. > > Couple of other suggestions: > > 1) If you do decide to take my suggestion above, best way to do it (IMO) > is to drop to system rescue mode (best to not copy /home while you're > logged in) tar up the sub-dir, un-tar it onto the other device, then > delete it off of the root fs. (Best to make sure the data all got > copied over correctly before you delete it.) Then, after you've > verified all looks good, change your fstab to mount the new device. > > 2) You might want to consider using LVM > (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM) going forward. If you have > /home, /var, etc. on other devices, then those dirs are the only ones > likely to need significant more space going forward, while your root fs > isn't likely to grow much. If you use LVM, you can just throw some > additional disk space from the VG to /home whenever you need more space > there. (Or even add new disks.) > > HTH, > > DR > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:39:27 +0200 > From: Tasnad Kernetzky <tasnadk(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] System manipulation > Message-ID: <29ee0483-4b38-f895-7bad-f43ea8eb6fbf(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi, > > If you are planning to move to another drive anyways soon, did you try > to free up space? > > My usual suspects are > > * pacman -Sc or -Scc > > * journalctl --vacuum-size=50M > > * logs and other stuff on /var > > * nfs cache > > > Also, ncdu can be of great help to find huge files and folders you might > not need any more. > > > Best, > > Tasnad > > > On 11.10.21 15:51, pete via arch-general wrote: > > Hi Folks > > > > Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got > 5% > > free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at > the job > > my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have > looked but > > cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i > have > > so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to > get > > working . > > > > Any help please > > > > > > Pete . > > >

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[arch-general] System manipulation
by pete 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

Hi Folks Found myself with a rather awkward situation my / partition has only got 5% free i need to enlarge it somewhat i have another drive i can throw at the job my question is how do i go about moving "/" to another drive i have looked but cant find an answer i do not really want to do a complete reinstall as i have so much extra software installed some of which has been a real pain to get working . Any help please Pete .

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[arch-general] Error setting up a HP all in one device
by sysadmin＠bsd.com.mx 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hi everyone, I am trying to set up a MFP 125a (all in one HP device), and usually just installing CUPS + HPLIP detects and configure this kind of devices, however in this case I am able to use the printer but not the scanner. The printer it is detected correctly and works fine, but keep getting an I/O error whenever I try to use the scanner. The device is recognized by lsusb like: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 03F0:222a HP, Inc LaserJet Pro MFP M125nw And scanimage -L and sane-find-scanner recognize it like: device `hpaio:/usb/HP_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M125a?serial=CNB6F0568K' is a Hewlett-Packard HP_LaserJet_Pro_MFP_M125a all-in-one found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x222a [HP LaserJet Pro MFP M125a]) at libusb:001:005 Doing a little research got here: https://evilshit.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/how-to-install-and-configure-hp-p… where indicates that uncommenting the #hpaio line in the /etc/sane.d/dll.conf would help, but it doesnt have that line :( Does anyone have seen something like this? any good tips or links for settiing this AIO device? uname -a: Linux archlinux 5.10.69-1-lts #1 SMP Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:30:37 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Best Regards Adriel C.

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[arch-general] archlinux-java script in java-common package
by 山田ハヤオ 30 Sep '21

30 Sep '21

The archlinux-java script in the java-common package has a lot of code that is inappropriate as a Bash script. (ShellCheck prints a lot of errors.) I have created a patch that fixes these errors with minimal changes. I put the patch on GitHub Gists because it collapses for some reason when I send the patch by email. all.patch is a patch that contains all the changes, and the other files split the changes by function. This is my first time sending a patch to a mailing list, so there may be something wrong with the way it is sent. Patch https://gist.github.com/Hayao0819/bacccc3eebeab73159001f60c9d35a43

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[arch-general] fluxbox update loses wallpaper setting
by David C. Rankin 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

All, Really strange. Update to fluxbox 1.3.7+205 out earlier today cased fluxbox to not find the current wallpaper. It appeared to have reverted to an ancient wallpaper no longer on the system. What changed. I've updated fluxbox dozens of times and never seen this before? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] bug on systemd-cryptenroll
by David Cohen 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hi, systemd-cryptenroll has a known issue where it may fail if used with fido2. This issue was fixed on upstream, but it was not ported to systemd-stable. Hence we currently have this bug on arch: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/20664 What is the proper way to propose a patch to fix that issue on Arch's systemd? FWIW I tested the patch below on current systemd v249.4 and it fixes the bug. diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD index e4c867f..351ac12 100644 --- a/trunk/PKGBUILD +++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ pkgname=('systemd' 'systemd-libs' 'systemd-resolvconf' 'systemd-sysvcompat') _tag='91ea8d825553fc1ecfc19448be24a4da56b13d00' # git rev-parse v${_tag_name} _tag_name=249.4 pkgver="${_tag_name/-/}" -pkgrel=1 +pkgrel=2 arch=('x86_64') url='https://www.github.com/systemd/systemd' makedepends=('acl' 'cryptsetup' 'docbook-xsl' 'gperf' 'lz4' 'xz' 'pam' 'libelf' @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ sha512sums=('SKIP' '825b9dd0167c072ba62cabe0677e7cd20f2b4b850328022540f122689d8b25315005fa98ce867cf6e7460b2b26df16b88bb3b5c9ebf721746dce4e2271af7b97') _backports=( + # fix systemd-cryptenroll using fido2 + 'b6aa89b0a399992c8ea762e6ec4f30cff90618f2' ) _reverts=( Regards, David

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[arch-general] ndiswrapper-dkms: v1.63 with patches and notes
by David Wang 14 Sep '21

14 Sep '21

Greetings, I apologise in advance if this email was sent in the wrong area as I am not familiar with where this should be directed to. ndiswrapper-dkms has been flagged out of date for quite awhile, https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ndiswrapper-dkms/ and there has been no updates/news with regards to it. So I decided to tackle the issue. The upstream source indicates v1.63 has been released, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/stable/ however it does not compile against kernel 5.8 or later (as of writing, Arch Linux is up to 5.14.2-arch1-2); https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/bugs/272/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/ndiswrapper/discussion/323168/thread/17c9cdb567/?… Initially, I have located a patch from a repository for another Linux distribution, Fedora, https://lists.rpmfusion.org/archives/list/rpmfusion-commits@lists.rpmfusion… Though getting this to work via dkms has been rather tricky, and in my case I have found that the only way to get it compiled was to fully disable NX bit (both 64bit and 32bit), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bit Thereafter, I have noticed another patch, https://github.com/pgiri/ndiswrapper/issues/6#issuecomment-784579834 This patch does not appear to require disabling of NX bit during kernel module compile time, but it probably does require NX bit disabled when loading the compiled kernel module. I do not have any 64bit windows driver that I could use to test against the network hardware that I have. Other than that, it does compile with v1.63 and with kernel 5.14.2-arch1-2. Attached below includes an updated but hackish PKGBUILD, the initial patch, as well as relevant logs. The latter patch can be easily obtained, therefore it is not included. Best regards, David

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[arch-general] dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) now old directories left under /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/?
by David C. Rankin 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

All, After upgrade of dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1), it failed to erase the old directory entries each time a new module was built. In my case with virtualbox, I ended up with: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 3 16:00 6.1.24_non_OSE drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 10 10:42 6.1.26_non_OSE drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 11 02:29 6.1.27_non_OSE The old entries would cause dkms status to fail with: Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file. File: /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/6.1.24_non_OSE/source/dkms.conf does not exist. I had to manually remove the 6.1.24_non_OSE and 6.1.26_non_OSE. What happened and what should I check to fix this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Wine MinGW system libraries
by Zebediah Figura 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Hello all, I'm a contributor to the Wine project. To summarize the following mail, Wine needs special versions of some of its normal dependencies, such as libfreetype and libgnutls, built using the MinGW cross-compiler, and I'm sending out a mail to major distributions in order to get some feedback from our packagers on how these should be built and packaged. For a long time Wine has built all of its Win32 libraries (DLLs and EXEs) as ELF binaries. For various reasons related to application compatibility, we have started building our binaries as PE instead, using the MinGW cross-compiler. It is our intent to expand this to some of our dependencies as well. The list of dependencies that we intend to build using MinGW is not quite fixed yet, but we expect it to include and be mostly limited to the following: * libvkd3d * libFAudio * libgnutls * zlib (currently included via manual source import) * libmpg123 * libgsm * libpng * libjpeg-turbo * libtiff * libfreetype * liblcms2 * jxrlib and dependencies of the above packages (not including CRT dependencies, which Wine provides). There is currently some internal discussion about how these dependencies should be built and linked. There are essentially three questions I see that need to be resolved, and while these resolutions have a significant impact on the Wine building and development process, they also have an impact on distributions, and accordingly I'd like to get input from our packagers to ensure that their considerations are accurately taken into account. (1) Should we build via source import, or link statically, or dynamically? Note however that if they are linked dynamically, we need to make sure that we load our packages instead of MinGW builds of open-source libraries with applications ship with. There's some internal discussion about whether this is possible while using "stock" builds of MinGW libraries, but, due to the way the Win32 loader works, we may need to compile each library, and its dependencies, with a separate, wine-specific name, e.g. "libwinefreetype-6.dll" and "libwineharfbuzz.dll". For a detailed explantion see footnote [3]. Note that all we actually need to change is the name; we don't need to patch the source. (2) If we use dynamic libraries, should dependencies be included in the main wine package, or packaged separately? This is mostly a question for packagers, although it also relates to (3). (3) If dependencies are packaged separately, should Wine build them as part of its build tree (e.g. using submodules), or find and link (statically or dynamically) to existing binaries? Linking to existing binaries is generally preferable: it avoids duplication on disk; it reduces compile times when compiling a single package from source (especially the first time). However, we aren't going to benefit from on-disk duplication. And, most importantly, unlike with ELF dependencies, there is no standardized way to locate MinGW libraries—especially if it comes to Wine-specific libraries. There is a MinGW version of pkg-config shipped by many distributions, which lets us find libraries, but there's no standardized way to find them at runtime. (Arch does not ship this, although it's available in the AUR [2].) For what it's worth, the current proposed solution (which has the support of the Wine maintainer) involves source imports and submodules. There's probably room for changing our approach even after things are committed, but I'd still like to get early feedback from distributions, and make sure that their interests are accurately represented, before we commit. ἔρρωσθε, Zebediah [1] The basic problem is that applications can and often do ship with PE builds of cross-platform libraries. These libraries can be ahead of Wine's system libraries, behind them, or even built with custom patches. Accordingly we really don't want to load "our" freetype in place of "their" freetype, or "theirs" in place of "ours". But because of the way the Win32 loader works, you can generally only have one DLL of a given name loaded in a process, and further attempts to dlopen() [as it were] "libfreetype-6.dll" will return the handle to the already loaded library, potentially breaking either Wine or the application. There *may* be ways we can hack around this internally, but it's not clear that it's feasible yet, and so it's probably best to assume that we'll need special builds of dynamic libraries. [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mingw-w64-pkg-config/

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[arch-general] Possible to rebuild a standard package?
by Peter Nabbefeld 05 Sep '21

05 Sep '21

Hello, I'd like to re-build (not just re-install) pyside2 and python-shiboken2 locally. As PKGBUILD (at least for shiboken2) contains cmake instructions, I'd guess this should be easy, but I cannot figure out, how. Kind regards, Peter

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[arch-general] Is it possible to download only one single update from community-testing?
by Peter Nabbefeld 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

Hello, I noticed an update on community-testing which is not (yet) available in community repository. Is it possible to download this single package, without downloading full repository index and probably even updating everything to community-update? I looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions#Package_managem…, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks, but it seems I missed sth. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] pacman: dvzrv.db 404 error (fwd)
by Jeanette C. 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hey hey, trying to update/install packages, I encountered this error. I definitely noticed it yesterday night, I can't say when I installed the last package successfully though. pacman -Syyu [...] multilib 149.4 KiB 1572 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% error: failed retrieving file 'dvzrv.db' from pkgbuild.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed to update dvzrv (failed to retrieve some files) error: failed to synchronize all databases I found similar issues online, but they related to bad mirrors, which pkgbuild.com should not be. Or should it? Anyway, I just updated my mirrorlist, possibly the first time since changing to the 64bit architecture and I did include two pkkgbuild.com mirrors. Does anyone have a suggestion, please? Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Can't make you love me I'm just a girl with a crush on you <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] Does Blender really (optionally) depends on CUDA?
by Ali Emre Gülcü 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello dear Arch community, Blender <https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/blender/> package in official repositories lists CUDA <https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cuda/> as BOTH optional and make dependency, the optional one described as "cycles renderer cuda support". However, Cycles CUDA support is already present even without explicitly installing CUDA package, as long as you have the proprietary NVIDIA <https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/nvidia/> drivers installed (don't know the situation with nouveau). As far as I know, CUDA package is only needed while building Blender yourself from the source, hence the make dependency. So my question is, does Blender really depend on CUDA for any additional feature? Or is it simply a legacy dependency or a mistake on packagers' end? Does it serve a purpose that I'm missing? Thanks, Ali Emre Gülcü

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[arch-general] Bluetooth no more working after update
by Peter Nabbefeld 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hello, after updating my arch installation, bluetooth stopped working. "systemctl status bluetooth" shows the service is active, but when I try to power on or list my bluetooth device using bluetoothctl, no device is found. Head lines of dmesg output: [ 2951.799457] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 2953.533019] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, device number 75 [ 2953.811506] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c03 tx timeout [ 2956.823879] audit: type=1131 audit(1629640847.196:664): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 2961.918096] Bluetooth: hci0: sending initial HCI reset command failed (-110) [ 2961.926281] audit: type=1130 audit(1629640852.299:665): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 2962.174751] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 76 using xhci_hcd [ 2962.298118] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 2962.528098] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 2962.761408] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 77 using xhci_hcd [peter@tuchola ~]$ sudo dmesg | head -n 20 [ 2999.934381] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 88 using xhci_hcd [ 3000.057683] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.287770] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.517708] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 89 using xhci_hcd [ 3000.641059] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.871018] usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -71 [ 3000.977743] usb usb3-port4: attempt power cycle [ 3001.381075] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 90 using xhci_hcd [ 3001.381293] usb 3-4: Device not responding to setup address. [ 3001.587720] usb 3-4: Device not responding to setup address. [ 3001.794365] usb 3-4: device not accepting address 90, error -71 [ 3002.124364] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 91 using xhci_hcd [ 3002.142567] usb 3-4: New USB device found, idVendor=8087, idProduct=07dc, bcdDevice= 0.01 [ 3002.142573] usb 3-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0 [ 3003.876301] usb 3-4: USB disconnect, device number 91 [ 3004.157679] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x0c03 tx timeout [ 3007.165585] audit: type=1131 audit(1629640897.539:672): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 3012.264321] Bluetooth: hci0: sending initial HCI reset command failed (-110) [ 3012.273674] audit: type=1130 audit(1629640902.646:673): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-rfkill comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 3012.520945] usb 3-4: new full-speed USB device number 92 using xhci_hcd My bluetooth device: Bus 003 Device 103: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp. Bluetooth wireless interface "lsusb -v" shows lots of details, e.g. Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 224 Wireless bDeviceSubClass 1 Radio Frequency bDeviceProtocol 1 Bluetooth bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x8087 Intel Corp. idProduct 0x07dc Bluetooth wireless interface bcdDevice 0.01 iManufacturer 0 iProduct 0 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 ... but ends with the following lines: can't get device qualifier: Resource temporarily unavailable can't get debug descriptor: Resource temporarily unavailable cannot read device status, No such device (19) I guess there's sth. broken with the driver (or now driver assigned at all). When looking into /usr/lib/firmware, I see many if not all updates of August, 18th, and especially many files with pattern "iwlwifi-*.ucode", which might related to my problem. I already searched the internet, but couldn't find anything useful :-/ However, I found this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1591167 While it seems not to be the same, it led me to looking for ibt-*.* and especially to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git… I found those files locally in /usr/lib/firmware/intel, same date for latest update as for "iwlwifi-*.ucode", so everything should usually be fine. How can I check, if the firmware has been installed/loaded properly? How can I find out, which is the correct firmware? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Fluidsynth Plugin for VLC media player
by 山田ハヤオ 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Add --enable-fluidsynth to PKGBUILD in the vlc package in the official repository. Consider adding the FluidSynth plugin to support Midi playback in the official repository. If you can't do that, please tell me why.

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[arch-general] PyJWT 2.0+
by Marcus Hoffmann 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

Hi, I wanted to ask if anyone knows what's up with updating https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=python-pyjwt to v2.0+. v2.0 has been released last December, and there's been a bunch of minor versions since. I realize this has a bunch of dependent packages, is there anything in particular blocking this? Mostly asking because I adopted python-social-auth-core in the AUR which depends on pyjwt 2.0+ since January this year. (others say it works fine for them with the older version, but I'm hesitant to ignore upstreams version range suggestion.) Best, Marcus

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[arch-general] File conflict between official packages
by 山田ハヤオ 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

I tried to install cups-filters and pantheon-default-settings. As a result, Pacman reported a "/usr/share/cups/data/default-testpage.pdf" conflict. This issue should be fixed. PS Since I used the mailing list for the first time, I apologize for sending it to some wrong places.

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[arch-general] about pipewire
by Javier 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello ! I do understand pipewire is required on wayland to be able to share the desktop. Is its audio component required as well for desktop sharing on wayland? I'm talking future wise, and mainly about some applications which allows audio and video conferencing as well as desktop sharing, like zoom, slack and perhaps webrtc. If its audio component is not required, is it possible at all to let pipewire without its audio components? Would it be enough to avoid installing its alsa and pulse plugins? Any additional configuration required? I have avoided using pulse, and I really don't want to use pipewire audio component either. I might have to use pipewire if moving to wayland in the future for whatever reason. I have hybrid used cases for audio. On the desktop of course, but also headless, since I also left boxes playing music without anyone logged in (I log in, make mpd play a list, and log out), and I times go back and forth from being logged in and logged out, and not necessarily I log to the desktop, just console or ssh connections might be enough to start playing music on mpd. Plain alsa does great for these hybrid use model. There are as well other non common gnu+linux midi frameworks which do well, like sndio, but pulse-audio and pipewire don't. Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] Why does cx_freeze console create a core dump?
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello, am I doing sth. wrong, when calling "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cx_Freeze/bases/Console-cp39-linux-x86_64"? The console seems to be some standard piece of software, so in general it shouldn't create a core dump without some missing or corrupt installation dependency - any idea? Well, I've heard I'm not the only one having problems with this, and I'm not used to work with core dumps (not a C programmer, sorry), so I would be very lucky if someone else could fix that. Kind regards, Peter

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[arch-general] [aur] cctag build error
by Peter Nabbefeld 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hello, when I try to build "cctag" as a new dependency of alice-vision-git, I get "~/.cache/pikaur/build/cctag/src" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt". I could find it in ~/.cache/pikaur/build/cctag/src/CCTag-1.0.0/src, so the repository snapshot is probably handled incorrectly. I'm not sure if cctag should reside in it's own project, as it seems to be part of and only used by alice-vision. However, even when I modify PKGBUILD to point to ~/.cache/pikaur/build/cctag/src/CCTag-1.0.0/src, CMakeLists.txt isn't found, with the same incorrect path shown in the error message; it seems, the -S option is ignored. :-O After insertion of "cd" I could start the build, but now the following error message is provided: CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:172 (CUDA_ADD_LIBRARY): Unknown CMake command "CUDA_ADD_LIBRARY". How can I fix this? Kind regards P.

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[arch-general] udev complaint and USB malfunction
by set＠nmset.info 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

This message appears in /var/log/errors.log (using syslog-ng) (don't know since when): systemd-udevd[424]: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-indi_auxiliary.rules:5 Invalid value "/bin/sh -c 'test -f /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb && test $(cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb) -lt 256 && echo 256 > /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb'" for RUN (char 76: invalid substitution type), ignoring, but please fix it. I don't have a clue about an appropriate fix, apart from deleting 99- indi_auxiliary.rules, and don't know how valid it would be to delete this file. I'm having this strange USB behaviour on 2 machines : Plugging a USB stick may not trigger the 'New device' popup in KDE, while lsblk does list the USB stick. The latter may be connected directly to the machine, or via extension cable or a USB hub. It works half of the time as expected. An this one on one recent host : A USB 3 hub (tried 2 hubs) may not always list its devices, with these errors on resume from a *long* suspend, or on reboot : Jul 31 12:24:22 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device descriptor read/ 64, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:22 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device descriptor read/ 64, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:22 localhost.localdomain systemd-udevd[408]: /usr/lib/udev/ rules.d/99-indi_auxiliary.rules:5 Invalid value "/bin/sh -c 'test -f /sys/ module/usbcore/parameters/usbfs_memory_mb && test $(cat /sys/module/usbcore/ parameters/usbfs_memory_mb) -lt 256 && echo 256 > /sys/module/usbcore/ parameters/usbfs_memory_mb'" for RUN (char 76: invalid substitution type), ignoring. Jul 31 12:24:22 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device descriptor read/ 64, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:22 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device descriptor read/ 64, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:23 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device not accepting address 5, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb 5-3: device not accepting address 6, error -71 Jul 31 12:24:24 localhost.localdomain kernel: usb usb5-port3: unable to enumerate USB device I can't know if all these are related. I am requesting help in search of an easy fix. Thanks and regards.

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[arch-general] pacman error
by Jude DaShiell 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Installation path was archinstall along with some post-install configuration needed to enable accessibility among other things. Successful boot with speech coming up. Then as root pacman -Syu I get back an error saying pacman cannot lock data bases and pacman fails. pacman-key --populate ran before the pacman command and finished with no problems. What did I do wrong?

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[arch-general] Rescue mode stopped working
by David Rosenstrauch 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

I'm not sure what changed, but for some reason I'm no longer able to drop into rescue mode on my laptop (i.e. using "systemctl rescue") - or to boot directly into single user mode. When I try either of these, the kernel loads, and then looks like it's entering single user mode, prompting me to enter my root password to proceed (as it should). But when I do enter the root password at the prompt - or even just press enter - the system quickly displays "Reloading system manager configuration", followed by something about switching to default target, and then switches into full interactive mode complete with graphical login prompt. I tried downgrading down to several earlier versions of systemd (back to 248), as well as trying to boot using the LTS kernel in single user mode, but I still get the issue. This behavior has definitely changed very recently (i.e., within a few days to a week) as I use single user mode often, and only just noticed this today. I'd file a bug about this but I have no idea what package might be at fault. Any pointers appreciated! Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Angband package flagged out-of-date since months
by Tim Schumacher 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Hello there, I just wanted to ask if anyone knows where the holdup on updating the angband package [1] comes from. The newest version, 4.2.2, has been released on the 7th of March [2], and the package was subsequently flagged out-of-date, but there hasn't been any activity since then. Thanks, Tim [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/angband/ [2] https://angband.github.io/angband/release/4.2.2

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[arch-general] Community git repository
by LuKaRo 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hi everyone, is GitHub the only source for the Community git repository at the moment, or am I missing something? I prefer to avoid GitHub, and therefore used git.archlinux.org instead. However, this seems to be defunct now, redirecting to gitlab.archlinux.org. However, I can't find any community-related project there. Thanks a lot in advance, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] systemd not mounting some filesystems on boot?
by CJ Kucera 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

Hello all! tl;dr version: I've got some local filesystems, all within the same LVM LV, some of which will fail to mount on boot, requiring me to do so by hand instead. Which filesystems don't mount can vary from boot to boot (and sometimes they all work), and the ones that *don't* mount aren't even mentioned anywhere by systemctl/journalctl -- I would expect that if the mount was *attempted* but failed, I'd see some logs. Anyone have a clue about this? Many details follow: So I've got some admittedly-improperly-placed filesystems that I mount into /usr/local, specifically: /usr/local/dv, /usr/local/winex, and /usr/local/vmware (in addition to /usr/local itself being its own filesystem). I've got them all in /etc/fstab basically identical to each other: > # grep /usr/local /etc/fstab > /dev/mapper/arrakis-local /usr/local ext4 noatime 1 2 > /dev/mapper/arrakis-winex /usr/local/winex ext4 noatime 1 2 > /dev/mapper/arrakis-vmware /usr/local/vmware ext4 noatime 1 2 > /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv /usr/local/dv ext4 noatime 1 2 Those all exist inside the same LVM LV, as you might guess from the device paths. I've noticed that on initial boot, I don't always get all of them properly mounted, and I've got to manually mount them myself. For instance, after a reboot just now, /usr/local/dv did not get mounted: > # mount | grep /usr/local > /dev/mapper/arrakis-local on /usr/local type ext4 (rw,noatime) > /dev/mapper/arrakis-vmware on /usr/local/vmware type ext4 (rw,noatime) > /dev/mapper/arrakis-winex on /usr/local/winex type ext4 (rw,noatime,stripe=27879) Or, looking at it via systemctl: > # systemctl list-units --all | grep usr-local > usr-local-dv.mount loaded inactive dead /usr/local/dv > usr-local-vmware.mount loaded active mounted /usr/local/vmware > usr-local-winex.mount loaded active mounted /usr/local/winex > usr-local.mount loaded active mounted /usr/local Querying the usr-local-dv unit directly, I don't see anything particularly telling: > # systemctl status usr-local-dv.mount > ○ usr-local-dv.mount - /usr/local/dv > Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated) > Active: inactive (dead) > Where: /usr/local/dv > What: /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv > Docs: man:fstab(5) > man:systemd-fstab-generator(8) And there's no mention of the "dv" mount in journalctl either: > # journalctl -b 0 | grep -E '(usr-local|/usr/local)' > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: usr-local.mount: Directory /usr/local to mount over is not empty, mounting anyway. > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounting /usr/local... > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounted /usr/local. > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounting /usr/local/vmware... > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounting /usr/local/winex... > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounted /usr/local/vmware. > Jul 19 14:03:13 arrakis systemd[1]: Mounted /usr/local/winex. (Obvs. I've got some data in /usr/local on the root filesystem which gets mounted over, but that doesn't interfere with the /usr/local mount at all.) I even checked the device creation times, to see if maybe /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv was created too "late" or something, but it seems as though it was actually the first of that bunch: > # ls -lrt --full-time /dev/mapper/arrakis-{local,dv,vmware,winex} > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-07-19 14:03:12.406271238 -0500 /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv -> ../dm-4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-07-19 14:03:13.649604518 -0500 /dev/mapper/arrakis-winex -> ../dm-5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-07-19 14:03:13.696271181 -0500 /dev/mapper/arrakis-local -> ../dm-0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2021-07-19 14:03:13.809604509 -0500 /dev/mapper/arrakis-vmware -> ../dm-3 As I mentioned above, I can mount it just fine manually, either with `mount` or `systemctl`. Here's me mounting it w/ `mount`, and confirming its status w/ `systemctl`: > # mount /usr/local/dv > # mount | grep /usr/local/dv > /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv on /usr/local/dv type ext4 (rw,noatime) > # systemctl status usr-local-dv.mount > ● usr-local-dv.mount - /usr/local/dv > Loaded: loaded (/etc/fstab; generated) > Active: active (mounted) since Mon 2021-07-19 14:31:22 CDT; 10s ago > Where: /usr/local/dv > What: /dev/mapper/arrakis-dv > Docs: man:fstab(5) > man:systemd-fstab-generator(8) The specific filesystem that fails to mount changes from boot to boot, and sometimes I do get all of them mounted as I'd expect. I've got a few other non-/usr/local filesystems as well, and sometimes *those* fail to mount too. (For instance, on this particular boot, I just noticed that /games, a root-level filesystem, had failed to mount.) Anyway, I'm at a loss. If systemd were *trying* to mount the filesystem but failing, I'd expect to see some log entries somewhere to that effect. Instead, it's just like they don't even exist at boot time. This has actually been happening for quite awhile now; I've gotten in the habit of just doing a `mount -a` after booting, to get everything mounted properly. It'd be nice to not have to do that, though. If anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears! Thx, CJ

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[arch-general] lvm2-monitor and packagekit seem to give long boot times
by Mike Cloaked 18 Jul '21

18 Jul '21

On a laptop which was previously booting acceptably fast, in recent days it has been booting very slowly. I ran the boot analysis: $ sudo systemd-analyze blame 6.216s packagekit.service 5.664s lvm2-monitor.service 4.532s initrd-switch-root.service 3.694s cups.service 3.016s ldconfig.service 2.744s systemd-logind.service 2.507s systemd-hwdb-update.service Has anyone else seen packagekit and lvm2-monitor services causing slow boot times? There were threads from a couple of years ago where people had problems with lvm2-monitor, and if lvm was not being used, masking that service helped boot times improve (and shutdown times too. So I masked the lvm2-monitor service and the boot time is significantly improved: $ sudo systemd-analyze blame 1.722s cups.service 941ms initrd-switch-root.service 586ms systemd-journal-flush.service 529ms systemd-udevd.service 364ms packagekit.service I also found past threads that suggested that pacman 6 possibly causes some issues with packagekit, so I followed a suggestion to do: $ sudo rm -fr /var/lib/PackageKit/alpm $ sudo systemctl restart packagekit The shutdown time was taking over a minute prior to this, but seems to be improved after cleaning up the packagekit alpm directory. If anyone else has found similar issues and has any workaround to clean things up it would be useful to know about how it was done. These issues have occurred on two old laptops, but not on a relatively new laptop, so possibly some old files from previous versions of packages may have been underlying these issues. Are there any other cleanup suggestions that are needed to completely resolve this slow boot and shutdown issues that anyone is aware of? -- mike c

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[arch-general] google-chrome/chromium and youtube "app"?
by Andy Pieters 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hi all Every so often, when a notification pops up from youtube and I click on it in the plasma's notification area, a separate youtube player window opens. This separate window looks like a chrome app. However, I cannot find this app in my list of chrome apps. No youtube extension or youtube app or similarly named stuff to be found. I find it difficult to get information about in search because of the generic keywords. Anybody know any thing of this and how to disable it? Many thanks Andy "Aethalides" Pieters

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[arch-general] Xorg segfault when using electron application and second monitor
by LuKaRo 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Hi everyone, since yesterday's update, my Xorg crashes with a segmentation fault as soon as I start an electron application and have a second monitor activated. This is reproducible, a minimum working example looks like this: $ rocketchat-desktop $ xrandr --output DP-1-1 --auto --above eDP-1 --rotate normal $ rocketchat-desktop --disable-gpu $ rocketchat-desktop Starting rocketchat-desktop before activating the external screen works without error, as does starting rocketchat-desktop without GPU acceleration after activating the external screen. However, as soon as I start rocketchat-desktop normally (e.g. with GPU acceleration) Xorg immediately crashes, tty1 appears for a moment, and then my lightdm-gtk-greeter returns, allowing me to log in again. The same thing happens for example with signal-desktop or element-desktop. An example Xorg.log ends like this: [ 16805.080] (II) modeset(0): Allocate new frame buffer 1920x2160 stride [ 16805.230] (II) NVIDIA(G0): Setting mode "DP-1-1: nvidia-auto-select @1920x1080 +0+0 {AllowGSYNC=Off, ViewPortIn=1920x1080, ViewPortOut=1920x1080+0+0}" [ 16808.392] (EE) [ 16808.392] (EE) Backtrace: [ 16808.392] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x5b) [0x55c4bab6457b] [ 16808.392] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x55c4baa1e000+0x1511d5) [0x55c4bab6f1d5] [ 16808.392] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f8962b82000+0x3cda0) [0x7f8962bbeda0] [ 16808.392] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x55c4baa1e000+0xd81f2) [0x55c4baaf61f2] [ 16808.392] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x55c4baa1e000+0xd9d1c) [0x55c4baaf7d1c] [ 16808.392] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x55c4baa1e000+0xd8dc6) [0x55c4baaf6dc6] [ 16808.392] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x55c4baa1e000+0x398ac) [0x55c4baa578ac] [ 16808.392] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xd5) [0x7f8962ba9b25] [ 16808.392] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/Xorg (_start+0x2e) [0x55c4baa57cee] [ 16808.392] (EE) [ 16808.392] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x68 [ 16808.393] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 16808.393] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [ 16808.393] (EE) [ 16808.393] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 16808.393] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 16808.393] (EE) [ 16808.393] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 16808.450] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. Hardware is a Lenovo ThinkPad P53 notebook with dual graphics: $ lspci|grep -i vga 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117GLM [Quadro T1000 Mobile] (rev a1) Kernel is the latest Linux: $ uname -a Linux 5.12.15-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 07 Jul 2021 23:35:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux And I'm using the NVIDIA driver: $ pacman -Qe|grep nvidia nvidia 465.31-14 nvidia-lts 1:465.31-12 nvidia-prime 1.0-4 nvidia-settings 465.31-1 I also downgraded to the earliest kernel and nvidia versions I had available from late May: [2021-07-12T18:25:56+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux-lts (5.10.42-1 -> 5.10.39-1) [2021-07-12T18:25:59+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux-lts-headers (5.10.42-1 -> 5.10.39-1) [2021-07-12T18:26:00+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux (5.12.9.arch1-1 -> 5.12.6.arch1-1) [2021-07-12T18:26:02+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux-headers (5.12.9.arch1-1 -> 5.12.6.arch1-1) [2021-07-12T18:26:03+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux-hardened (5.12.14.hardened1-1 -> 5.11.22.hardened1-1) [2021-07-12T18:26:06+0200] [ALPM] downgraded linux-hardened-headers (5.12.14.hardened1-1 -> 5.11.22.hardened1-1) [2021-07-12T18:26:06+0200] [ALPM] downgraded nvidia-lts (1:465.31-7 -> 1:465.31-3) [2021-07-12T18:26:06+0200] [ALPM] downgraded nvidia (465.31-7 -> 465.31-4) However, the issue still persits. Any ideas on how to further diagnose this issue? I can provide more information, if needed. I'll try switching Also, is anyone having a similar issue? Kind regards, Lukas

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[arch-general] Meshroom/OpenEXR: Missing lmath library
by Peter Nabbefeld 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

Hello, I want to install "meshroom-git" from the AUR, which fails. After some investigations, I found out, openEXR 3.x is missing the lmath library, which was bundled in versions 2.x (see https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/master/README.md#…) What will be my best option to get the meshroom build working? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] chromium, or libva, or something, makes xorg dump core
by u34＠net9.ga 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

I am only seeing this with chromium. Perhaps becuase, in general, I am only using a small set of applications. Chromium was started by $chromium |& > chromiumFailure AT some point after the chromium window is initially seen, X is getting killed, core is dumped. The machine is a desktop. linux is 5.12.14-arch1-1 xorg server is 1.20.11-1 libva is 2.12.0-1 chromium is 91.0.4472.114-1 $ cat chromiumFailure libva error: /usr/lib/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed [1258:1258:0707/174743.038477:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(374)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process. [1231:1317:0707/174748.760088:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files [1231:1317:0707/174748.760254:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.GetDisplayDevice: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files [1231:1317:0707/174748.760386:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.UPower.EnumerateDevices: object_path= /org/freedesktop/UPower: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.UPower was not provided by any .service files [1258:1258:0707/174750.638751:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(73)] Skia shader compilation error ------------------------ Errors: [1258:1289:0707/174752.204699:ERROR:connection.cc(66)] X connection error received. [1258:1258:0707/174752.204698:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(259)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times! Related lines in xorg log are: [ 517.923] (EE) [ 517.923] (EE) Backtrace: [ 517.941] (EE) 0: /usr/lib/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x53) [0x5608f4bbefd3] [ 517.941] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0x151df5) [0x5608f4bc9df5] [ 517.941] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f4b16874000+0x3cda0) [0x7f4b168b0da0] [ 517.942] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0xc1fde) [0x5608f4b39fde] [ 517.942] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0x1b9611) [0x5608f4c31611] [ 517.942] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0xd2a72) [0x5608f4b4aa72] [ 517.942] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0xd9241) [0x5608f4b51241] [ 517.942] (EE) 7: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0xdabac) [0x5608f4b52bac] [ 517.942] (EE) 8: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0xd72ec) [0x5608f4b4f2ec] [ 517.942] (EE) 9: /usr/lib/Xorg (0x5608f4a78000+0x3a195) [0x5608f4ab2195] [ 517.942] (EE) 10: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xd5) [0x7f4b1689bb25] [ 517.942] (EE) 11: /usr/lib/Xorg (_start+0x2e) [0x5608f4ab25de] [ 517.942] (EE) [ 517.942] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x20 [ 517.942] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 517.942] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting [ 517.942] (EE) [ 517.942] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 517.942] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/u34/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 517.942] (EE) [ 517.942] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch [ 517.987] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. -- u34

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[arch-general] IPv6 fast address rotation with systemd-networkd 249rc2-1 in [testing]
by Geert Hendrickx 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

Hi I'm having an issue with IPv6 connectivity since systemd-networkd 249rc2-1 from [testing]. I noticed SSH sessions (all IPv6) locking up every few minutes, and after some digging it turns out to be due to very fast IPv6 temporary address rotation, making any long-lived SSH session impossible. I'm using systemd-network for network configuration, and downgrading systemd to 248 and rebooting fixed the issue. After upgrading again, but not rebooting, just restarting systemd-networkd introduces the issue again. So it's clearly a systemd-networkd introduced issue. Anyone else seeing this? Geert

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[arch-general] wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135
by turret 07 Jul '21

07 Jul '21

hey so im trying to use wine-6.12 on 5.12.14 (kernel version not wine) and wine is complaining to me that it cannot load kernel32.dll (exact error code in SUBJECT) wine's output from a clean wineprefix https://pastebin.com/zEyRBZMB ls -lAR ~/.wine https://pastebin.com/HwrHNa1J anyone able to help me out? thanks in advance, ~turret.

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[arch-general] rubbish files in krb5
by Yi Zheng 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

pkgfile shows: core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz core/krb5 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz I'm sure that they are rubbish due to the small size...... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42 Mar 21 21:16 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5identity.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39 Mar 21 21:16 /usr/share/man/man5/.k5login.5.gz best wishes. Thanks!

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[arch-general] new "Total" line at bottom of =pacman -Syu=?
by Greg Minshall 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

hi. is this new "Total" line, when downloading for =pacman -Syu=, new? ---- Total ( 58/390) 223.8 MiB 1414 KiB/s 20:59 [#######--------------------------------------------------------------] 11% ---- if so -- i find it very nice, and thanks to whoever implemented it! (and, even if not so. :) cheers, Greg

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[arch-general] Fwd: clamav unit file "syslog" reference still needed?
by David C. Rankin 06 Jul '21

06 Jul '21

Caught by ML change -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: clamav unit file "syslog" reference still needed? Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 17:30:32 -0500 From: David C. Rankin <drankinatty(a)gmail.com> To: Archlinux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> All, After update, checking the status of the clamav-freshclam service I receive: Jul 02 17:27:48 2pi systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/clamav-freshclam.service:13: Standard output type syslog is obsolete, automatically updating to journal. Please update your unit file, and consider removing the setting altogether. The offending line is: 13 StandardOutput=syslog Is that still needed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] i3wm dual monitor freeze containers primary
by Maykel Franco 05 Jul '21

05 Jul '21

Hi, I'm probing archlinux with i3wm tiling window manager. I love it! I come archlinux + kde desktop. I have a dell xps 13' model 9370. I have a problem when work with two monitors. The primary monitor (laptop) freeze any open container (terminal, program...) randomly in workspace. This only occur in laptop screen. Something like this: # Screenshot https://imgur.com/a/LvOsKIe # Video https://imgur.com/a/veuSM33 My xrandr config is: xrandr --output eDP1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 3440x360 --rotate normal --output DP1 --mode 3440x1440 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output DP2 --off --output HDMI1 --off --output HDMI2 --off --output VIRTUAL1 --off I try all, debug i3wm with i3-dump-log, and search in google but I can't find the problem. The workspace freeze and cannot kill containers. The only things is restart lightdm ... My i3config is very basic.

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[arch-general] liboping removed ?
by Yi Zheng 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

In 2021-05-08 09:15 +0000, Arojas removed it. I have not found any discuss about it in the mail list or BBS. Any info, please?

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[arch-general] pkg rfc need to be updated?
by Yi Zheng 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Hi, all a& Yan the pkg 'rfc' is a great thing. But it has not update since Wed Jul 8 00:57:57 2020. I had checked the build script and found that there is a script 'mirror-to-arch.sh' to download the data and the index from https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc, that site is updated. Do you think the archlinux should be update with the original info source ? thanks!

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[arch-general] AMDGPU does not show consider external DisplayPort monitors on PRIME laptop
by Giovanni Santini 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Hi all, I thought it would be easier to ask here first; if I should open a bug report on the Arch or any other tracker, I can definetely do so. I have an ASUS laptop with a Ryzen 4800H and a Geforce RTX 2060 Mobile. All is good, except the support of external monitors via DisplayPort. While previously I used HDMI via a single monitor, I finally took from my workplace my working monitors and connected them in daisy chain and connected the laptop to them via USB-C to USB-C. The whole setup works on Windows, but on Linux I cannot make it work when using the AMDGPU driver. I tried disabling it and using the NVIDIA one via `optimus-manager` and the latter can easily detect and handle all the monitors. The weird fact is that DisplayPort partially works with AMDGPU, as I am able to use my mouse and headset connected to the monitor but I cannot detect any monitor to display images. I honestly have no clue why this problem sussists. I need and would like some tips for investigating the issue and reporting where necessary. Thanks in advance. Bests, Giovanni

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Re: [arch-general] when keys are not updated
by Jude DaShiell 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

It turns out installing archlinux-keyring fixed this problem. I wasn't aware that package was missing from this system.

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[arch-general] Anki (community) is likely abandoned
by AlexApps 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

I emailed both maintainers 10 days ago, reminding them the package has been out of date for 184 days, is 9 versions out of date, and has an outdated upstream URL. I got no response. This lack of response, combined with the mentioned lack of updates, indicates the package is abandoned. Sorry if this is the wrong mailing list, I made a bug report, and I was then told to use the mailing list. https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/anki/

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[arch-general] when keys aren't updated
by Jude DaShiell 23 Jun '21

23 Jun '21

Pacman could do with a feature to bypass authors packages and keys so those don't disrupt updates.

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[arch-general] No menu icons on XFCE4 desktop
by Peter Nabbefeld 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Hello, since I've not updated my system since some weeks, I thought it would be a good time to do so - with two results: 1. My desktop theme changed. 2. The menu icons have gone. Well, while the first is not a real problem (I should be able to find an appropriate icon theme, but I'll look for that later), I don't know why the menu icons have gone, so I don't know where to start searching for a solution. I even didn't find something related when search the internet. :-/ However, I found two sub-folders in /usr/share/icons/Adwaita for gtk-2.0 and gtk-3.0, but only the first one contains any assets - maybe that's the problem? Any idea? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] does latest grub 2:2.06-1 support luks2 encrypted boot partition?
by Javier 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hi ! I'm wondering if latest grub 2:2.06-1 now supports luks2 encrypted boot partitions. I looked at the archwiki, but it still mentions official repos grub only supports luks1, but perhaps it's way too early for the wiki to be up to date... Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] [OT] changing ripped music metadata from freeDB to MusicBrainz
by Javier 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hi ! I have several ripped music CDs, and I just realized part of the metadata (I haven't looked at all of it) has the wrong track titles. I think the issue came from using freeDB for getting the metadata information, and I'm wondering if there's a way to repopulate all of it (and more, like composer information) with MusicBrainz gathered metadata instead. Is there a tool which would allow me to do the conversion? I ripped the CDs into ogg vorbis, in case that helps identify the right tool... Of course hopefully tools found on Arch, and it'd be better if they are command line ones, though a GUI one might do it as well if there's no other option... Of course doing things recursively is a must, going ogg by ogg would take like forever, :) Re-ripping would take way too long BTW, hopefully that's not the only option. I'm sorry for the "off thread" question, but I really have no clue, neither have an idea where to ask... Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] udev rules 2 times exec script
by Maykel Franco 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Hi, I try configure the rule in udev for when I connect specific usb device, launch script backup. I have this rule: /etc/udev/rules.d/10.autobackup.rules SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="058f", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6387", SYMLINK+="external%n", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/autobackup.sh" This works well, buth exec 2 times the script... Jun 12 13:53:09 archlaptop autobackup.sh: BEGIN SCRIPT Jun 12 13:53:13 archlaptop autobackup.sh: BEGIN SCRIPT I googled and I see this: The issue was resolved by adding ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device" in a rule. If add ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device" and change the SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device" , when plug usb, udev does nothing ... I don't understand why udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/sda1) https://pastebin.com/Zcz769BQ

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[arch-general] Firefox dropping support for OTB fonts as well?
by Javier 10 Jun '21

10 Jun '21

Hello ! After pango moved to use Harfbuzz, the Terminus bitmap fonts no longer were shown as a font on could select on firefox, so Terminus bitmap fonts were actually dropped. Then later kept showing up on Firefox as they used to, like xos4 Terminus, but I don't know if they kept working as before... At that time though, Terminus OTB (openTypeBitmap) were still showing up as an option on Firefox, as just Terminus, and were working fine. Even until versions 88+. With Firefox 89, the Terminus OTB and the Terminus bitmap fonts can be selected still, but they don't really work anymore. When one zooms out or zooms in a web site, the mono space fonts using whether Terminus or xos4 Terminus do NOT zoom at all, they remain the same pretty small size. And manually changing the monospace (which are the ones I set with terminus fonts) size through preferences don't make the fonts change size at all. So it seems neither bitmap, nor OTP, Terminus fonts are working on Firefox any more. On AUR there's a terminus-font-ttf, meant for Java applications it seems, which are apparently working on Firefox. I tried them before on virtual terminals like rxvt-unicode and qterminal, and they look pretty bad (blurry actually), so I wouldn't dare using those fonts on any virtual terminal. However they seem to work on Firefox. Has Firefox finally dropped support for non TTF fonts? Are the TTF Terminus fonts, the definite work around? If someone knows, please provide some light, :) Thanks a lot ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] USB Access of Nikon D3500 DSLR
by das 09 Jun '21

09 Jun '21

Dear Friends When I am connecting my machine to the camera with an USB-micro-USB cable, system is showing it all right with 'lsusb': ... Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b0:0445 Nikon Corp. NIKON DSC D3500 ... The relevant part from 'usb-devices' too I am quoting here: ... T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=07 Cnt=04 Dev#= 5 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=04b0 ProdID=0445 Rev=01.00 S: Manufacturer=NIKON S: Product=NIKON DSC D3500 S: SerialNumber=0000005508485 C: #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=2mA I: If#=0x0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none) ... Can you please help me? The filesystem is not showing anything, like it does with a thumb-drive or music-player. Do I to install some packages? Thank you in advance. dipankar das Kolkata, India

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[arch-general] archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html from Aug-2019
by u34＠net9.ga 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

The time stamp at the bottom of https://archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html is Aug-2019. The way I understand pacman v6 conf, there are some changes. Such as retiring TotalDownload. I haven't checked if there are differences with other files at the site. Is updating pacman.conf.5.html already scheduled? -- u34

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[arch-general] Problems updating wine 6.9-1 -> 6.10-1
by Uwe Sauter 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Hi all, I'm hitting update problems with wine. Seems like uninstalling 6.9-1 and installing 6.10-1 or advanced usage of "pacman -Su --overwrite <glob>" is needed. Pacman shows 4253 conflicting files in a lot of directories. Regards, Uwe :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (26) alsa-lib-1.2.5-2 alsa-plugins-1:1.2.5-2 alsa-topology-conf-1.2.5-1 alsa-ucm-conf-1.2.5-1 alsa-utils-1.2.5-2 at-spi2-core-2.40.2-1 colord-1.4.5-4 gnome-desktop-1:40.1-2 gupnp-1.2.7-1 lib32-libogg-1.3.5-1 libcanberra-0.30+2+gc0620e4-4 libcanberra-pulse-0.30+2+gc0620e4-3 [removal] libcolord-1.4.5-4 libnice-0.1.18-2 libogg-1.3.5-1 libqmi-1.28.6-1 netctl-1.25-1 osinfo-db-20210531-1 pulseaudio-alsa-1:1.2.5-2 python-idna-3.2-1 python-wxpython-1:4.0.7.2-1 vte-common-0.64.2-2 vte3-0.64.2-2 zfs-linux-git-2021.06.04.r6925.ge5e76bd64_5.12.9.arch1.1-1 zfs-utils-git-2021.06.04.r6925.ge5e76bd64-1 wine-6.10-1 Total Installed Size: 616.35 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 430.96 MiB checking keyring... checking package integrity... loading package files... checking for file conflicts... wine: /usr/bin/function_grep.pl exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/msidb exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/msiexec exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/notepad exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/regedit exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/regsvr32 exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/widl exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wine exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wine-preloader exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wine64 exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wine64-preloader exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wineboot exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winebuild exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winecfg exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wineconsole exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winecpp exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winedbg exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winedump exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winefile exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wineg++ exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winegcc exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winemaker exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winemine exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/winepath exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wineserver exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wmc exists in filesystem wine: /usr/bin/wrc exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/debug.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/exception.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/itss.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/itss.idl exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/assert.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/complex.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/conio.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/corecrt.h exists in filesystem wine: /usr/include/wine/msvcrt/corecrt_io.h exists in filesystem […] wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/c_950.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/l_intl.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/normidna.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/normnfc.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/normnfd.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/normnfkc.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/normnfkd.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/nls/sortdefault.nls exists in filesystem wine: /usr/share/wine/wine.inf exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

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[arch-general] System Freeze on sleep
by Prateek Sadhukhan 01 Jun '21

01 Jun '21

Hello All, After upgrading to the new kernel I see that my system freezes when I try to resume from sleep. This happens intermittently but frequent enough to be irritating. I have to reboot the system to recover. I am running kernel 5.12.7-arch1-1 The issue was not seen with kernel 5.11. I am running arch on btrfs and I suspect it is a btrfs issue somehow. When I check dmesg (journactl --dmesg --boot -1) I see that it always ends with the following two lines when the issue is seen. May 29 07:12:40 matrix kernel: PM: suspend entry (deep) May 29 07:12:40 matrix kernel: Filesystems sync: 0.025 seconds I wanted to know how do I attempt to debug this issue? Regards, Prateek

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[arch-general] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda
by Morten Bo Johansen 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi Arch is occasionally - only occasionally - very slow to start up. After examining the dmesg log, I see errors like 100.740566] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 119400712 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 3 prio class 0 [ 100.740584] ata1: EH complete [ 101.100769] audit: type=1130 audit(1622446429.249:86): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=upower comm="systemd" ex e="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' [ 101.180724] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x40 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 101.180730] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 101.180733] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 101.180735] ata1.00: cmd 60/70:30:f8:37:1e/00:00:07:00:00/40 tag 6 ncq dma 57344 in res 41/84:70:fc:37:1e/00:00:07:00:00/00 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F> [ 101.180742] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 101.180743] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [ 101.180747] ata1: hard resetting link [ 101.488857] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) [ 101.594776] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 [ 101.594806] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=0s [ 101.594811] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 Sense Key : Aborted Command [current] [ 101.594816] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 Add. Sense: Scsi parity error [ 101.594819] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#6 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 07 1e 37 f8 00 00 70 00 [ 101.594821] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 119420920 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 10 prio class 0 [ 101.594844] ata1: EH complete [ 101.870769] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3c SErr 0x0 action 0x6 [ 101.870775] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008 [ 101.870778] ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [ 101.870780] ata1.00: cmd 60/b8:18:c0:62:89/00:00:07:00:00/40 tag 3 ncq dma 94208 in res 41/84:b8:48:63:89/00:00:07:00:00/00 Emask 0x410 (ATA bus error) <F> [ 101.870787] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 101.870789] ata1.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } This suggests a hard drive that should be replaced, but badblocks reports that there are absolutely zero bad sectors or other errors on the hard drive. And the fact that the problem is intermittent also suggests that it may perhaps be a kernel issue rather than a hard drive issue? It is not a very critical machine and I have backups. Do you have some suggestions as to how I should go about dealing with this? Other commands to test the hard drive? Kernel parameters? Anything? ~/ % uname -a Linux gatsby 5.12.7-zen1-1-zen #1 ZEN SMP PREEMPT Wed, 26 May 2021 22:03:55 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks, Morten

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[arch-general] How to enable Archlinux users to easily avoid Polkit?
by Neven Sajko 31 May '21

31 May '21

Hi On my up-to-date Archlinux system, the only package that depends on Polkit is Colord, which, in turn, is only depended on by GTK3. Forcefully removing the Polkit package (with pacman -R --assume-installed polkit polkit), works fine: after doing it, I rebooted and printed a page from Chromium (which uses GTK3 for this) on my black-and-white printer over USB. It would be very nice to give Arch and GTK3 users like me the opportunity to avoid Polkit without hassle. The only idea I got is to move polkit from depends to optdepends in the colord package, and add post_install and post_upgrade messages saying something like: > WARNING: install polkit if you plan on actually using colord! Do others agree that this would be more good than bad? In any case, I'm not a Pacman expert, so I'm hoping somebody can come up with an even better solution? Tangentially, what are the chances of convincing upstream to relax the Colord dependency on Polkit? Could such a patch get accepted? BTW, does somebody know what happened to the packages for building GTK3 without Colord, building Colord without Polkit, and similar? I think those were available on AUR previosuly. Regards, Neven

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GCC 11 and new toolchain on [testing]
by Genes Lists 17 May '21

17 May '21

On 5/13/21 9:29 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi, > ... > > Also, if you guys notice any issues, let me know. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini Hi FYI, I've come across one issue which was triggered after updating to gcc 11. Building kea (from git) worked fine using gcc 10, I am now seeing fail : checking thread support... no configure: WARNING: unsupported C++11 feature configure: retrying by adding --std=c++1x to g++ --std=c++0x checking --std=c++1x support... no configure: error: thread (a C++11 feature) is not supported gene

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[arch-general] How to say Arch
by Hritik Vijay 15 May '21

15 May '21

Hello I stumbled upon this really funny video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdexZlVkAY) that goes to sing how to pronounce SUSE. Now, as Arch faces the same issue (being Ark Linux vs Arch linux), I was wondering if we could get some momentum towards building such content. :) Hrtk

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[arch-general] Why Fortify Sources are Disabled with the glibc Libraries?
by Sijie Bu 12 May '21

12 May '21

Hello, I was reading the PKGBUILD of `glibc` the other day, and noticed that only the `glibc` programs are build with fortify sources, and the library itself is not. Is there a specific reason to do so? Sincerely P.S. My context for this question is that I'm bootstrapping Arch for MIPS r6 and is under way, I'm rebuilding glibc today and this came to my mind (I have built the entire `glibc` with fortify enabled and it seemed to work just fine, so would like to know the reason behind disabling fortify for the libraries).

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[arch-general] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 12 May '21

12 May '21

Subject: I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021 Good day from Singapore, I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - 8GB (Latest) - Price SGD$120 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-main-board/c-raspberry-p… Raspberry Pi 7 Inch Touch Screen Display With SmartiPi Case - Price SGD$147 https://sg.cytron.io/c-raspberry-pi/c-raspberry-pi-display/c-display-for-rp… Do you think it is a good match? I want to use my Raspberry Pi like a regular laptop or desktop computer. Would a 7 inch touch screen display be too small for my use case? I don't want to strain my eyes looking at a small display. However, if I get a 10 inch touch screen display, I can't find one with a supporting base. I can't find a 10 inch touch screen display with a supporting base which could allow the screen to stand vertically. Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is there a good 4K video editing software for Linux? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you very much. Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 43 years old as of 9th May 2021, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He is an IT enthusiast. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Targeted Individual Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] One maintainer, 100+ outdated packages
by Christopher W. 09 May '21

09 May '21

Over a hundred packages with anthraxx listed as the maintainer have been flagged out of date: https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=&maintainer=anthraxx&flagged=Flagged Many open bug reports are assigned to him too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?dev=17958 (In the past, bug reports with the [security] tag were automatically co-assigned to him, even if he wasn't the maintainer. Nevertheless many of these are specifically assigned to him and valid, including currently missing security updates.) Everyone's a volunteer and people have lives. Got it. Now what can we do to fix this situation? Can there be a group effort to take over some of the packages and get them in shape again? Regular users like me can't commit to the repo, TUs can only work in the [community] repo, and developers are all busy doing their own maintainer work.

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[arch-general] Clock one hour ahead
by Kiran Ostrolenk 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi all, I'm finding that both my system and hardware clock are an hour ahead of what they should be (I checked this using the 'timedate' and 'hwclock' commands). Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Kiran

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Re: [arch-general] debian conversion tool
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

One of the debian sources I'm trying to convert is at: git clone http://www.github.com/dosemu2/install-freedos

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[arch-general] debian conversion tool?
by Jude DaShiell 03 May '21

03 May '21

install-dosemu-master.zip can be built with debian. When it is, those using dosemu2.deb can install many snearly standard dos utilities that work inside of dosemu2. Unfortunately the source code inside that package is debian only and I will be copying installed dosemu utilities from my debian disk onto my archlinux system. Lots of entries for debian in archlinux repositories and I'm curious if anything can port debian source code to something archlinux can build. Maybe Chris Severance doesn't know about this extra file for dosemu2 or maybe this kind of conversion is too much trouble.

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[arch-general] Orca reading date/time stamps different then the time zone set on my system.
by matthew dyer 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Good morning all, I am using the latest thunderbird under arch linux and have an announce I would like to get resolved. In the message list, orca speaks the time and date header as if my time zone were 4 hours hours ahead. My time zone is set to America/New_York. Everything else shows up and works fine but orca reads time stamps differently Is there a way to fix this. This is very strange and have not seen this before. All of my locales are set to en_US.UTF-8. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] graylog
by Andy Pieters 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi Apologies for off-topic discussion, but does anyone have any hints as to where I would ask for help to convert a single node graylog server into a 3-node graylog cluster without causing downtime or losing data. Many thanks Andy

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[arch-general] Bulk Disown
by Phillip Smith 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi all, I am bulk disowning all my packages on the AUR. Due to real estate limitations preventing my access to my main Arch box, and a lack of time with a new job, I'm no longer able to properly maintain them. If anyone wants to pick up any of these packages, please be my guest. Regards, ~p apache-mod_bw apache-mod_form apache-mod_geoip2 apache-mod_macro authpgsql backupchecker cryptkeeper dalbum daloradius dump etraxis fina freshwall fwlogwatch gnomebaker husk husk-git iptrafvol jwhois katarina latencytop massh nsca perl-geo-google perl-iptables-rule perl-mac-itunes-library perl-net-rabbitmq perl-proc-queue pgdbf pgsql-backup publishr-gimp quickrdp sgwi sqlgrey sshfp sshmenu tcptraceroute tile-world umit yasat

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[arch-general] Advice on bootstrapping Arch onto a new architecture?
by Sijie Bu 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Hello, Not sure if I am posting it to the right place, but this seems to be the mailing list to ask. I tried to send it to arch-dev-public list but was redirected by the system to this list. I am about to start working as an intern at CIP United, a company focusing on MIPS chips, and I will be bootstrapping Arch Linux onto the MIPS64r6 architecture, in a fashion similar to Arch Linux ARM. I have checked the Arch Linux MIPS project, but it seems to be inactive for years now. I have checked ArchWiki's DeveloperWiki section, but it seems to lack guidelines or suggestions on bootstrapping Arch onto a new architecture. Therefore I have a few questions: - Intuitively, I think I should cross-compile the packages of the "core" section (sans a few x64-specific packages) and build a bootable rootfs, but I was having some trouble finding how should I set makepkg to cross-compile. Do I just set up an Arch developer environment as usual, but substitute the toolchain with the cross ones? - Does adding a new architecture require modifications to the pacman source code? Or pacman itself should support new architectures? I have also tried looking at pacman source code, and it seems to not have hard-coded list of architectures, but I am not 100% sure about this (if I'll have to modify the source code of pacman, I will be emailing the pacman-dev mailing list regarding their policies on patches etc.). Thank you for your time and have a nice day. Sincerely

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[arch-general] How to cross-pacstrap for other architecture
by Uwe Sauter 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

Hi folks, I was wondering if it is possible to cross-pacstrap an Arch installation for a different architecture. In my case I wanted to prepare a boot medium for a Raspberry Pi 4 on my x86_64 machine. Why cross-pacstrap? The Arch Linux Arm homepage unfortunately does not provide any information about the software packages that the prepared installation archives contain and I'd like to install my Raspi from scratch. But a real cross-build is needless as the packages are all available in the various repos. I've tried running 'pacstrap -C pacman.aarch64.conf /mnt base' where pacman.aarch64.conf is extracted from the Arch Linux Arm installation archive but after the packages are extracted, pacman tries to run something inside the installation environment which fails due to the mismatch in architectures. Any ideas regarding how to cross-pacstrap? Thanks, Uwe

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[arch-general] Autocorrect Problem in Arch_Linux Versions of Libreoffice
by das 24 Apr '21

24 Apr '21

Dear Friends I am an Arch_Linux user. I am having problems with autocorrect not working on both the fresh and still versions of Libreoffice available from Arch_Linux repositories. I tried it on both libreoffice-fresh-7.1.2-3 and libreoffice-still-7.0.5-3from the Arch_Linux repositories. Then, as a trial I installed the snap version of Libreoffice libreoffice 7.1.2.2 from Canonical. Here, autocorrect is working fine. And this was the experience with the earlier versions from Arch_Linux repositories too. I reported it earlier on Libreoffice Mailing List. That time too the snap version solved my problem. This time I am posting it to both arch-general and global libreoffice mailing list. Can any of you help me about why the same problem is repeating in consecutive Arch_Linux versions, while the snap version was working correctly? Is there some setting that I have to customize in Arch_Linux? With Regards dipankar das

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[arch-general] makepkg nosuchoption succeeds. No complains, package gets built
by u34＠net9.ga 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

I was expecting for makepkg nosuchoption to fail. And complain. Instead, it succeeds. The package seem to get built. The package involved is brscan4, from the AUR. All required files were already ownloaded, and in place. LC_ALL=C makepkg nosuchoption PKGBUILD looks to me short and rather simple. $ cat PKGBUILD # Maintainer: Harvey <harv(a)gmx.de> license=('GPL' 'custom:Brother') arch=('i686' 'x86_64') pkgname=brscan4 pkgver=0.4.10_1 pkgrel=5 pkgdesc="SANE drivers from Brother for brscan4 compatible models" depends=('sane' 'libusb-compat') url="http://support.brother.com" install=brscan4.install [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && pkg="dlf006648/${pkgname}-${pkgver/_/-}.x86_64.rpm" || pkg="dlf006647/${pkgname}-${pkgver/_/-}.i386.rpm" [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && pkg_md5sum="f4c4d1f214d4c42a6d40f5451fc40312" || pkg_md5sum="365f1b82ac3b7de73950be76a621bb93" source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/$pkg" "agree.html" mk-udev-hwdb) md5sums=($pkg_md5sum 'ccffb9a6f6d436b21be25b0241068981' '8966d38375d535028a63a6ef5f6104eb') build() { cd "$srcdir" ./mk-udev-hwdb opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/{Brsane4.ini,models4/*.ini} > hwdb } package() { cp -r $srcdir/etc $pkgdir cp -r $srcdir/opt $pkgdir cp -r $srcdir/usr $pkgdir [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ] && mv $pkgdir/usr/lib64 $pkgdir/usr/lib install -D -m644 $srcdir/agree.html $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.html install -D -m644 $srcdir/hwdb $pkgdir/usr/lib/udev/hwdb.d/20-$pkgname.hwdb # move the links to the right direction cd $pkgdir/usr/lib/sane ln -sf libsane-brother4.so.1.0.7 $pkgdir/usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother4.so.1 ln -sf libsane-brother4.so.1 $pkgdir/usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother4.so } -- u34

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[arch-general] Problematic boot on 202104 iso
by SET 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Hello, While installing a new machine, the 202104 iso failed to complete the boot process, stalling with a blinking cursor at 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 1.55 No irg handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 2.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 3.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 4.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 5.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 6.55 No irqg handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 7.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 8.55 No irqg handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 9.55 No irq handler for vector 0.003625 __common_interrupt: 10.55 No irq handler for vector :: running early hook [udev | Starting version 247 .4-2-arch :: running early hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]l :: rumning hook [udevl :: Triggering uevents... It's a desktop PC having UEFI firmware, with CSM disabled, secure boot disabled and fast boot off. The same result is obtained while booting from an internal DVD drive and from a USB stick. Noise and lights from the devices suggest that the booting process is completing without updating the display; that's just a guess however. I could boot from 202011 on DVD, and from 201907 from a USB stick. It may be host dependent; reporting FYI, if it could ever be reproduced and eventually fixed. Regards.

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[arch-general] appstream-glib in makedepends
by Rafael Fontenelle 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

Hello, I see that many packages from official repositories have "appstream-glib" (or the provided "appdata-tools") in the makedepends array, instead of checkdepends. In my experience, this package is needed for "/usr/bin/appstream-util" binary to validate appstream files, which only happens when testing in the check() function. Is there a valid reason for not moving 'appstream-glib' or 'appdata-tools' to the checkdepends array? https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/appstream-glib/ Best regards, Rafael Fontenelle

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[arch-general] package validation failed
by Jude DaShiell 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

When you have this situation, what can be done to remove the build files from your machine that failed to build? This happened here with the yabasic tonight.

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[arch-general] surfraw package
by Jude DaShiell 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

do the elvi's need rewriting? I installed the package according to wiki directions the way I usually install it and am getting on the duckduckgo elvi line 488 file not found error when I give duckduckgo a search term.

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[arch-general] drill -S . : is core dumping arch specific?
by u34＠net9.ga 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

$ drill -S . ;; Number of trusted keys: 2 ;; Chasing: . A drill: ./rdata.c:33: ldns_rdf_get_type: Assertion `rd != NULL' failed. zsh: abort (core dumped) drill -S . Is core dumping arch specific? The above is with ldns 1.7.1-2. To the best of my knowledge, the same command just aborts, without a core dump, with the old Debian ldnsutils 1.7.0-4. -- u34

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[arch-general] 21 MATE packages out of date
by Bjoern Franke 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

Hi, may somebody of the TUs or so take a look into [1] and do some bumps? 21 MATE packages are out of date, some of them only since 2 weeks, but others since 6-7 months. I contacted Brad some days ago regarding the updates, but got no reply yet. Best Regards Bjoern [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=mate&maintainer=&flagged=Flagged

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[arch-general] Can't login to flyspray
by Markus Schaaf 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

My account exists and I've even reset my password, just in case. But still can't login. Could someone please have a look at it? E-mail is the same I'm posting from and username is the local part.

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[arch-general] custom localization
by Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hello archers . I want do a custom localization I am using cli on some applications . like neomutt for emails . my localization on /etc/locale.conf is LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 the time is 12 hour format When I compose email on neomutt it showing the 12hour format and the πμ (am ) and μμ (pm) I tried to add LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 on /etc/locale.conf . but the Greek characters on neomutt wasn't showing and instead greek characters showing with questionmarks . Is there any way to make the time fomart to be 24 hour and how I will do that and in neomutt showing the greek characters ? Thank you for your help -- Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras jemadux(a)cryptolab.net

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[arch-general] aom upgrade brakes funktionality of several video applications
by Friedrich Strohmaier 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Hi archers, after one of the last upgrades aom was upgraded to version 3.0.0 several applications stopped working (properly). I'm not able to play videos in my firefox browser (ok. this one ist from mozilla). chromium and jami not starting at all, gnome-mplayer stops playing videos, handbrake is complains not finding gstreamer plugin for h264 and so forth. Downgrading to version 2.0.2 makes everything running as expected. Anyone else seeing alike? I filed a bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=70411 which was closed immediately. Reason: Not a bug Additional comments about closing: Use the forums or mailing lists for support How to proceed? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] libesmtp 1.0.6-7 does not link to openssl
by SET 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hello, I am having a weird issue with libesmtp : it does not use TLS, confirmed by wireshark sniffing. The ASP repo was pulled, and here is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr : ************************* *** libESMTP features *** ************************* --with-auth-plugin-dir: /usr/lib/esmtp-plugins --with-lwres: no --with-openssl: no --enable-pthreads: yes --enable-etrn: no --enable-ntlm: no --enable-chunking: yes --enable-xusr: yes --enable-nsauth: yes --enable-debug: no After examining config.log, the conftest.c program, generated by configure, failed to compile : #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" #endif char SSL_library_init (); int main () { return SSL_library_init (); ; return 0; } By including <openssl/ssl.h> before int main(), conftest.c does compile. Talking to an SMTP server without TLS is obviously not an option. How can this be fixed ? A patch by the package maintainer ? Reporting to upstream ? (Seems to be fedora here) Regards.

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[arch-general] Heads-Up: gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks signal-desktop
by LuKaRo 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi everyone, just a quick heads-up to anyone who is using signal-desktop: Apparently upgrading to gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks its dependency on sqlcipher, causing signal-desktop to read its database unencrypted instead of through sqlcipher. This will fail, causing a "NOTADB" error message in a popup, asking the user to quit or overwrite the database. However, in some cases, the database seemingly still gets overwritten even if the user chooses not to. Therefore, be aware of this bug the next time you start signal-desktop after upgrading gtk3 if you do not want to loose your message history or store messages in plain text. Refer to the corresponding GitHub issues #4513 <https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513> and #5097 <https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5097> as well as FS#69980 <https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=69980> in the Arch Linux bug tracker. In hope no one else looses their message history, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] MAKEFLAGS and dragon.archlinux.org
by u34＠net9.ga 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

I think there are no real machines with 5 cores, or 5 cpus. If dragon.archlinux.org actually has 5 cpus then do skip this message. Refering to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:PKGBUILD.com : It states it describes the build server at dragon.archlinux.org. At https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:PKGBUILD.com#Packager_&&… it suggests to use MAKEFLAGS=-j5 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Parallel_compilation suggets to use the number of cores here. I don't know what the implications of using a wrong number in MAKEFLAGS. Or even if there are any implications at all. Still, why not state the correct number, or use $(nproc)? -- u34

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Re: [arch-general] Heads-Up: gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks signal-desktop
by Amin Vakil 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

> On 3/15/21 6:37 PM, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> >>> Can't we add this to the signal package then? >>> >> >> heftig reverted the change now, so there is no need. >> >> Regards >> Bjoern >> > > So what is the current state of this? Can I safely upgrade my system? I > havent upgraded it since some time, but I do not want to break my signal > of course. > > It got fixed in two days (https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commits/packages/gtk3/trunk) safe to upgrade.

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[arch-general] KDE - QjackCtl crashes after latest updates
by Susanne Schneider 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

yesterday I ran into some trouble after updating my Archlinux (doing this at least 2 times a week): I startet the jackserver via QjackCtl, changed to the neighbour-workspace to start Ardour, and when I went back to QjackCtl it had crashed, I needed to kill both processes jack and qjackctl from commandline. Hours of investigation later (lol) I noticed, that with fresh installation of Qjackctl the package "qt6-wayland" is pointed out as "optional dependency" in installation log. On my system this package turned out to be mandatory, because after having installed this package my QjackCtl went back to regular behaviour. Now I ask myself: am I the only one running into this trap and wouldn't it be a good idea to make qt6-wayland mandatory for QjackCtl? best suse

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[arch-general] Laptop's webcam gets blocked randomly
by riveravaldez 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Hi, I'm having kind of a random webcam unavailability on a Dell XPS L502X (Sandy Bridge) with webcam: ``` $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:2fb1 Quanta Computer, Inc. Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM ``` I already checked [1] but couldn't find no hint in how to diagnose this. Sometimes webcam works fine. There's sort of a permanent static-noise with MJPG format in qv4l2 no matter which frame size I use (sometimes it even crash), and with guvcview using MJPG makes the image unstable if I activate the 'mirror' filter; rest of the time I get a lot of: ``` V4L2_CORE: Error - Couldn't decode frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) error while decoding frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) error while decoding frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) Ignoring empty buffer ``` But using YUYV in guvcview, thou slower, the video seems OK (in qv4l2 it starts with a green screen and then the proper image appears). In the other hand, when the webcam doesn't responds, YUYV in qv4l2 only shows the green screen. The hardware lights indicate that webcam is being activated, but I have no image. When not working, qv4l2 only says: `Hue error: connection time expired`, I don't see any other console output. With xawtv I get: ``` $ xawtv This is xawtv-3.107, running on Linux/x86_64 (5.11.2-arch1-1) xinerama 0: 1366x768+0+0 vid-open-auto: using grabber/webcam device /dev/video0 v4l2: oops: select timeout ``` And with guvcview (YUYV) I have: ``` $ guvcview GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.6 V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: The file or directory does not exist ... ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ... connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=The file or directory does not exist) attempt to connect to server failed ... ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port ... ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card ... V4L2_CORE: Could not grab image (select timeout): Resource temporarily unavailable ... ``` The only related message I found on `sudo dmesg` says: ``` [33511.458233] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 6 on unit 2: -110 (exp. 2). ``` `sudo journalctl -ex` doesn't seems to show nothing about. System is updated. Any idea on how to pinpoint/diagnose the source of this issue? Thanks a lot in advance! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_setup

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[arch-general] snapcraft
by Zero 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hello All, Has anybody here experience with snapcraft (https://snapcraft.io) It seems to be an alternative installing packages on a (Arch) Linux system. That is an alternative, addition to pacman. Of course I don't want to compromise my Arch Linux system and therefore I am curious if anybody has experience with it ? ~Z

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[arch-general] cgroups_v2 and rootless podman
by samirnassar＠posteo.de 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Hello, I am trying to make rootless podman work based off of: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Podman#Rootless_Podman and I am wondering if I am missing something or if there might be old information in the wiki pages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Podman and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cgroups https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Podman#Rootless_Podman says: Rootless Podman requires using cgroups v2. See cgroups on how to check whether v1 (default) or v2 is used and how to switch to cgroups v2. So I use the instructions at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cgroups#Switching_to_cgroups_v2 So here is what I did: from /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="consoleblank=0 nomodeseti systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1" $ ls -al /sys/fs/cgroup total 0 dr-xr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Mar 19 10:56 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Mar 19 10:56 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:56 cgroup.controllers -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cgroup.max.depth -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cgroup.max.descendants -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:56 cgroup.procs -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cgroup.stat -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:56 cgroup.subtree_control -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cgroup.threads -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cpu.pressure -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cpuset.cpus.effective -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 19 10:57 cpuset.mems.effective ... I also set up /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid : $ cat /etc/subuid administrator:100000:65536 $ cat /etc/subgid administrator:100000:65536 Trying to get podman to work : $ podman info Error: cannot setup namespace using newuidmap: exit status 1 $ podman system migrate Error: cannot setup namespace using newuidmap: exit status 1 When I remove /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid , I get: $ podman info --debug ERRO[0000] cannot find UID/GID for user administrator: open /etc/subuid: no such file or directory - check rootless mode in man pages. WARN[0000] using rootless single mapping into the namespace. This might break some images. Check /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid for adding sub*ids ... Then I created empty /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid , and I got: $ podman info --debug host: arch: amd64 buildahVersion: 1.19.4 cgroupManager: systemd cgroupVersion: v2 conmon: package: /usr/bin/conmon is owned by conmon 1:2.0.27-1 path: /usr/bin/conmon version: 'conmon version 2.0.27, commit: 65fad4bfcb250df0435ea668017e643e7f462155' cpus: 1 distribution: distribution: arch version: unknown eventLogger: journald hostname: archlinux-minimal idMappings: gidmap: - container_id: 0 host_id: 60338 size: 1 uidmap: - container_id: 0 host_id: 60338 size: 1 kernel: 5.11.7-arch1-1 linkmode: dynamic memFree: 1745731584 memTotal: 2026967040 ociRuntime: name: crun package: /usr/bin/crun is owned by crun 0.18-1 path: /usr/bin/crun version: |- crun version 0.18 commit: 808420efe3dc2b44d6db9f1a3fac8361dde42a95 spec: 1.0.0 +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +YAJL os: linux remoteSocket: path: /run/user/60338/podman/podman.sock security: apparmorEnabled: false capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT rootless: true seccompEnabled: true selinuxEnabled: false slirp4netns: executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns package: /usr/bin/slirp4netns is owned by slirp4netns 1.1.9-1 version: |- slirp4netns version 1.1.9 commit: 4e37ea557562e0d7a64dc636eff156f64927335e libslirp: 4.4.0 SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 3 libseccomp: 2.5.1 swapFree: 0 swapTotal: 0 uptime: 37m 10.76s registries: {} store: configFile: /home/administrator/.config/containers/storage.conf containerStore: number: 5 paused: 0 running: 0 stopped: 5 graphDriverName: overlay graphOptions: overlay.mount_program: Executable: /usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs Package: /usr/bin/fuse-overlayfs is owned by fuse-overlayfs 1.4.0-1 Version: |- fusermount3 version: 3.10.2 fuse-overlayfs: version 1.4 FUSE library version 3.10.2 using FUSE kernel interface version 7.31 graphRoot: /home/administrator/.local/share/containers/storage graphStatus: Backing Filesystem: btrfs Native Overlay Diff: "false" Supports d_type: "true" Using metacopy: "false" imageStore: number: 1 runRoot: /run/user/60338/containers volumePath: /home/administrator/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes version: APIVersion: 3.0.0 Built: 1613921386 BuiltTime: Sun Feb 21 16:29:46 2021 GitCommit: c640670e85c4aaaff92741691d6a854a90229d8d GoVersion: go1.16 OsArch: linux/amd64 Version: 3.0.1 $ pacman -Qs podman local/podman 3.0.1-2 Tool and library for running OCI-based containers in pods $ pacman -Qs crun local/crun 0.18-1 A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers $ uname -a Linux archlinux-minimal 5.11.7-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:59:58 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux If you have any insights or ideas I would be happy if you shared them. Regards, Samir Nassar

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[arch-general] vmware-view config help
by Rasmus Liland 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Dear arch-general list subscribers, would someone here please be willing to help me a bit on configuring vmware-view (vmware-horizon-client in AUR)? In Windows I have a prefs.txt config like this: <?xml version="1.0"?> <Root> <RecentServer serverName="vmware.example.com" mruRSAUsername="rasmus" hasValidCert="true" lastLogInAsCurrentUser="false" localIMEEnable="false" serverGuid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012" serverCacheDir="C:\Users\rasmus\AppData\Local\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\App Cache\12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012\"> <RecentDesktop desktopID="cn=theofficeoverthere-01,ou=applications,dc=vmware,dc=vmware,dc=int" connectUSBOnStartup="false" connectUSBOnInsert="false" resolutionWidth="0" resolutionHeight="0" remoteSystemDPI="0"> <LastMonitor monitorIndex="0"/> </RecentDesktop> <FileRedirection/> <ShortCuts/> <ShadowSettings FitToViewer="true"/> </RecentServer> <SecurityMode/> <LastLoginAsCurrentUser/> <BrokerJumpList> <BrokerJump BrokerName="vmware.example.com" BrokerArguments="vmware-view://vmware.example.com/?"/> </BrokerJumpList> <DesktopJumpList> <DesktopJump DesktopName="RemoteDesktop" DesktopArguments="vmware-view://@vmware.example.com/cn=theofficeoverthere-01,ou=applications,dc=vmware,dc=vmware,dc=int?&domainName=&desktopProtocol=BLAST&desktopLayout=multimonitor"/> </DesktopJumpList> <sharingList showPromptDlg="true" shareHomeDirectory="false" allowAccessRemovable="false"/> <GeolocationSharingSettings/> <BlastSettings/> </Root> When I try to connect like this vmware-view \ -q \ -s wmware.example.com \ -u rasmus \ -t rasmus \ -n "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012" I get the SMS and almost connect, but fail. I'm so close, yet so far away :-\ The same happens if I change -n "12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012" to -n "cn=theofficeoverthere-01,ou=applications,dc=vmware,dc=vmware,dc=int" I have looked at the logs, and have a hunch I might also need to grab a certificate pair also from somewhere to somewhere, or perhaps this hunch is unfounded as I get to step to with the SMS there ... Perhaps someone here is familiar with this ... Rasmus

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[arch-general] nvidia causing audio glitches
by Paul Dann 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

I've had this problem ever since I got this laptop[1]: I get audio glitches with both pulseaudio and pipewire, through *all* audio sinks (built-in, USB soundcard, bluetooth). It seems to become more severe after a suspend/resume cycle. I've discovered that the symptoms go away completely if I set the discrete NVIDIA graphics card PowerMizer setting to "Preferred Mode: Prefer Maximum Performance". So it seems there's something about the hardware's low-power behaviour that causes this. Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a clearer understanding of the cause? Is this something we can take to NVIDIA with any realistic hope of a fix? Paul [1] Dell Inspiron 7590, Intel Core i5-9300H, GTX 1650

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[arch-general] Arch intallation using usb-modem
by Morten Bo Johansen 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Hi I would like to install Arch Linux, but I only have a mobile broadband connection with a usb-modem. Arch installation does not set up that connection automatically, but rather it has to be configured manually from the command prompt. I tried with wvdial but had no luck. What other alternatives do I have? Thanks, Morten

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[arch-general] definition of "orphan"
by Matthias Bodenbinder 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Hi, in the arch world I see two different definition of an "orphan". The pacman manpage says: orphans - packages that were installed as dependencies but are no longer required by any installed package. For the AUR the definition of an "orphan" is If all maintainers of an AUR package disown it, it will become an "orphaned" package. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines#Maintaining_… ) This is confusing. Would it make sense to change the wording so that it is not ambiguous anymore. Matthias

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[arch-general] Gajim doesn't start
by SET 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Gajim fails to start with this backtrace, since upgrade 2 days ago, and there's no newer version available. * Traceback (most recent call last): * File "/bin/gajim", line 33, in <module> * sys.exit(load_entry_point('gajim==1.2.2', 'gui_scripts', 'gajim')()) * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/gajim.py", line 154, in main * _init_gui('GTK') * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/gajim.py", line 90, in _init_gui * _init_gtk() * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/gajim.py", line 105, in _init_gtk * from gajim.gtk import exception * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/gtk/exception.py", line 37, in <module> * from gajim.common import configpaths * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/common/configpaths.py", line 233, in <module> * _paths = ConfigPaths() * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gajim/common/configpaths.py", line 124, in __init__ * import pkg_resources * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3243, in <module> * def _initialize_master_working_set(): * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3226, in _call_aside * f(*args, **kwargs) * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 3255, in _initialize_master_working_set * working_set = WorkingSet._build_master() * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 568, in _build_master * ws.require(__requires__) * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 886, in require * needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements)) * File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 772, in resolve * raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) Should it be reported to the package maintainer, or to bugs.archlinux, or to Gajim's developpers ? Or do I miss a package ? Regards.

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[arch-general] With /etc/systemd/homed.conf change of default filesystem ext4 -> btrfs, Do we set ext4?
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Archdevs, With the change in /etc/systemd/homed.conf from: < #DefaultFileSystemType=ext4 --- > #DefaultFileSystemType=btrfs If we are running ext4, do we now need to set: DefaultFileSystemType=ext4 explicitly? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Killing python2 v3...v4...v5
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

On 15/03/2021 19.10, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > Yo! > > As people know python2 has been unsupported for a year and we current have ~170 > python2 packages in our repositories. Currently the removal has been fairly slow > and done a bit ad-hoc. There has been a todo list but the follow up to that has > not really been great and I think it's reasonable for us to try and fix the > remaining packages to the best of our abilities. > > Thus I'm proposing a game plan! > > 1) Todo list for removal of all python2 checkdepends in packages > 2) Remove free python2 packages > 3) Remove packages with python3 equivalents > 4) Remove unported and unsupported packages depending on python2 > > Clearly this is ambitious and there are going to be exceptions, but it would be > great to have most of this work done within the next couple of months. > > The exceptions are largely going to be anything still using python2 for their > build system dependencies. This is a fine compromise as this should leave us > with a minimal set of packages to take care of. > > Rest of the problematic packages can be found on a handy list with what fedora > is working on: https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/ > > If there are no objections I'll start preparing the needed todo lists and figure > out the uneeded python2 packages. Should probably update the long-standing > python2 removal todo as well. > > https://archlinux.org/todo/conversion-of-programs-that-use-python-2-to-pyth… > > > Cheers! > Shouldn't this proposal go through the recently established RFC process? Cheers, Bart

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Re: [arch-general] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture
by Mateusz Jończyk 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Hello, I am going to benchmark the performance difference between the various x86 uarch levels. I will be using Phoronix Test Suite, which has some support for performing compiler and compile flag benchmarks. I am opposed to dropping support for older CPUs, but I will perform this test fairly. That's why I'm posting this advance notice before performing actual benchmarks. I am an Ubuntu user and I am concerned that Ubuntu may require x86_64-2 in the not so distant future. I will be performing this test on Ubuntu 20.04.2 with GCC 9.3.0 [1]. I am going to use selected tests from this Phoronix article [2], but I will exclude benchmarks that do return much performance difference when using the "-O1" and "-O3" compiler flags, as: - their build scripts may ignore the CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS variables, - they may use some assembly code or C asm intrinsics, - they may have separate SSE4/AVX code paths, - the compiler is unable to optimize the code much, due to its nature. These are the benchmarks that probably would benefit the most from compiling for different uarch levels, which should be taken into account when interpreting the results. My rough comparision between "-O1" and "-O3" are at [3]. So, I will use the following tests: pts/scimark2 (all tests) pts/john-the-ripper (all tests) pts/graphics-magick ("swirl", "resizing", "HWB Color space") pts/coremark pts/himeno pts/encode-flac pts/c-ray Greetings, Mateusz Jończyk [1] GCC 9.3 does not support -march=x86_64-v2 and so. I will use switches like -march=nehalem instead. [2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc-10900k-compiler [3] https://openbenchmarking.org/result/2103131-HA-DRAFTUARC92 ---------------------- Benchmark selection details: Page 2 from the Phoronix article: cryptopp - is compiling some code with the flag "-msse4.2", so skipping it. smhasher - same fftw - has some kernels that explicitly use AVX / AVX2, point in benchmarking it, scimark - OK, I will also run some other tests from this benchmark - where the difference between "-O1" and "-O3" is nice, Page 3: TSCP - no real difference between "-O1" and "-O3" performance data, John The Ripper - small difference between "-O1" and "-O3", but leave it now GraphichMagick - OK, I'll choose tests with the biggest difference between "-O1" and "-O3": "swirl", "resizing", "HWB Color space", Page 4: AOM AV1 - no performance difference between "-O1" and "-O3", so skipping, x265 - patent encumbered format, skipping, Coremark - OK, "CoreMark Size 666 - Iterations Per Second" Himeno - OK, Stockfish - enables SSSE3 and SSE4.1 by default, leave it, FLAC Audio Encoding - OK, but probably the difference won't be big, Minion - tries to install many package dependencies, just leave it now, LevelDB - benchmark suite ignores the "-O1" flag, highly susceptible to non-quiet systems (so the results were bogus), GROMACS - same as Minion, additionally has long runtime IIRC, Darmstadt Automotive Parallel Heterogeneous Suite (daphne) - requires huge amounts of disk space, seems it will be IO-bound pgbench - I have still spinning HDDs, the benchmark was IO-bound NGiNX - it looks like it is testing both kernel and userspace, so leave it out, Additional benchmarks: n-queens - no difference between "-O1" and "-O3", build scripts seem to ignore CFLAGS, OpenSSL - no real difference between "-O1" and "-O3" c-ray - OK, let's include it

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[arch-general] Wiki contributions summarily deleted
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Archdevs, This is getting ridiculous. Every wiki contribution is now summarily deleted, e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Security&diff=next&oldid=654296 Editor's summary: Unsubstantiated claim and poor note. What? Toshiba has stored BIOS password outside of the BIOS for a decade. (not to mention anyone familiar with BIOS security should have encountered this years ago) And yet zero effort is made validate or invalidate the information without even the courtesy to ask to clarification. I have noted this before. Help with Arch's wiki has changed to the point it is literally a waste of time. In the past Arch was welcoming of help with the wiki, it benefits the community and us all, but that is apparently no longer the case. The guidelines are substantially the same as they have always been, but contributions are just deleted summarily. Why the change? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Default dtags in Arch
by Nicola Mori 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

I'm tracking down an inconsistent behavior of my application when compiled under different distributions. It seems that under Arch the -Wl,-rpath, linker flag will set an RPATH into the library, while under Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04 the same flag results in a RUNPATH being set. So it seems to me that the linker have different defaults on the two distributions, maybe set at linker compilation time; is this reasonable/correct? Also, since RUNPATH seems to be the modern and more secure way (see e.g. here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines/Security#RPATH…) I am wondering if there is a specific reason why RPATH is still the default on Arch and if there are plans to move to RUNPATH. To further elaborate on this, if I'm correct the trend on Linux is towards RUNPATH, i.e. giving precedence to library folders specified by an environment variable (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) over those hard-coded in the binaries. Then on macOS it seems to be the opposite, namely deprecating DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in favor of DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH to give precedence to rpath. Both approaches are motivated by the potential security issues with the other approach, and all seems to depend on which security hole (a malicious environment variable or write access to library folders encoded in rpaths) is perceived as more important... Thanks in advance for any clarification, Nicola

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[arch-general] Orphaned community package
by Simon Perry 11 Mar '21

11 Mar '21

Hi gang, I was wondering what the best avenue would be to request an update to a community package which no longer has a maintainer? The package in question is: https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libsidplayfp/ Cheers. -- Simon Perry

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[arch-general] Mirror not synchronized since January
by Henry-Joseph Audéoud 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hi all, Today, I discover two machines not having same version of one package. Both are up-to-date (just did a `pacman -Suy`). But they do not use the same mirror. Indeed: $ curl -s -I 'http://archlinux.de-labrusse.fr/core/os/x86_64/core.db' | grep -i Last-Modified: Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 22:22:50 GMT $ curl -s -I 'https://mirror.wormhole.eu/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/core.db' | grep -i Last-Modified: last-modified: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:58:07 GMT I understand there may be a little time gap between mirror synchronize themselves. But 19 January seems far from today. Is this expected? P.S.: I did not checked other mirrors. -- Henry-Joseph Audéoud

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[arch-general] Resume from sleep doesn't work any more
by Andy Pieters 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hi all As per the subject, Arch goes nicely to sleep, but waking up goes wrong. I see the entries in the dmesg logs: [32990.466213] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.466250] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.466256] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failure reading maximum pixel clock value for display device DVI-I-1. [32990.466785] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.466791] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failure reading maximum pixel clock value for display device HDMI-0. [32990.467214] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices [32990.467219] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failure reading maximum pixel clock value for display device HDMI-1. [32990.467678] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Failed detecting connected display devices Which are mentioned in the Arch Linux NVIDIA troubleshooting: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#System_does_not… I have applied the fix: sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT | grep -i 'windows ' | sort | tail -1 Windows 2015 cat /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf title Arch Linux linux /vmlinuz-linux initrd /intel-ucode.img initrd /initramfs-linux.img options root=UUID=0d9c3207-a30f-4273-95fa-80e0cf5624ba rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1 resume=PARTUUID=82a0cf4c-5d39-7647-94e3-be1a46741847 acpi_osi=! \"acpi_osi=Windows 2015\" Which is how I boot: cat /proc/cmdline initrd=\intel-ucode.img initrd=\initramfs-linux.img root=UUID=0d9c3207-a30f-4273-95fa-80e0cf5624ba rw nvidia-drm.modeset=1 resume=PARTUUID=82a0cf4c-5d39-7647-94e3-be1a46741847 acpi_osi=! \"acpi_osi=Windows 2015\" I've tried any combination of with and without quotes But resuming from spend still doesn't work. I don't recall exactly when this started happening but things used to work for years... This system has got a built-in Intel GPU and I can switch between setting the intel as IGD in the cmos. but using this setting has no bearing...

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[arch-general] pkgstats and detailed hardware information
by u34＠net9.ga 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

Am I right that pkgstats does not collect detailed information about the hardware used? Is it a good idea that it will asks permission for doing that? -- u34

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] RFC: Use x86_64-v2 architecture
by mpan 06 Mar '21

06 Mar '21

If a separate arch/repo is going to be set up, perhaps it would be wiser to go straight for v3? May yield even better results and eliminates the need to bump the version after a few years. Since people have a choice, there is no risk of leaving v1 and v2 users behind. If there is going to be a “hard bump” in requirements, giving no option to use older hardware, I would like to point out that there are a few issues. • Somewhere in the thread it was mentioned that we’re talking about CPUs older than 15 years. Mine (E5300) is Q4 2008 and it is v1, with the highest point in sales occurring even later: I bought it around 2010 and it was by no means considered “old” at the time. That means machines not older than 10 years are being eliminated. • I see surprisingly many people claim they do not support v2. It’s hardly reliable data, but it suggests that such a change is closer to kicking out 1/4 of the user base than “unimportant” 1%. • So far no hard data to support the change, in particular one that would outweigh the downsides. It’s undeniable that tuning for newer CPUs increases performance in *some* software. But not only users of such programs, if they care about speed, compile them themselves; but — more importantly — that type of software does not represent the typical user experience. To argue such a change makes sense, one has to either provide data showing improvement, that is both statistically significant and noticeable, or the gain would have to be so huge that no further testing is needed (e.g. 50% increase in speed). For a typical user, not some selected pieces of software or synthetic tests. So far the only arguments I hear are “because it’s newer” and, in this thread, that someone believes the battery life got extended (though by unknown factor and that only applies to laptops). Wasn’t the latest mkinitcpio move to zstd enough of a warning? • The change forces throwing away perfectly good hardware. Sure, abandoning 686 did the same, but then it was a question of maintaining a separate architecture, the arguments were very strong and in the end 686 users would be left behind anyway with or without Arch’s move to x86_64 only. In here we’re talking only about unquantified performance and battery life improvement. I believe that a separate arch/repo would be a better idea.

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[arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?
by David C. Rankin 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Archdevs, You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros). See: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055 With linux on 5.10 and lts on 5.4 it was workable to have lts guests. Now you have linux and linux-lts as the same kernel. How does that make sense? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] PAM 1.3.1 -> 1.5.1 did pam_tally get removed?
by Anton Hvornum 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Hi. This might be suited for the newbie corner, but I'm testing my luck with the mailing list for the first time. I can't remember if I've added the following to /etc/pam.d/system-login or not: auth required pam_tally2.so onerr=succeed file=/var/log/tallylog The reason why I'm asking is because after a system upgrade, that line has now disappeared. And I did not see anything on the archlinux bulletin board about a pam change. The tally logs still appear to update however, just not through the system-login config. Best wishes: Anton Hvornum

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[arch-general] Relicencing Wiki Content under Creative Commons
by alpabrz＠protonmail.com 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Greeting Archers, I would like to reuse and expand a Template from the ArchWiki for another Wiki. For that it would be ideal to relicence the content from GFDL 1.3 to CC BY-SA 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike). This page [1] states that GDFL v1.3 was explicitly designed to make interoperation with Creative Commons possible, but only when the content was created before November 1, 2008. And you can not use this permission after August 1, 2009, which would mean my re-licencing would be illegal. Is this correct or am I missing something here? No-one probably cares but I figured I'd ask here nonetheless. Thanks and salutations, alpabrz [1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-faq.en.html

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
by Piscium 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 13:37, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-announce <arch-announce(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed > initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default with version 30, > which is currently on [testing]. > > If, for any reason, you are using a kernel version prior to 5.9, make sure to change mkinitcpio.conf > COMPRESSION to use one of the compressors supported, like gzip, otherwise you **will not** be able to > boot images generated by mkinitcpio. I am not sure I understand this. If someone has the default mkinitcpio.conf it won't boot? In my case I set it to lz4 over a year ago for speed.

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[arch-general] About package guidelines
by Óscar García Amor 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

Hi, When a user submit a package to AUR must follow package guidelines. There is an interesting point that says that in the top of PKGBUILD you must respect the previous contributors [1] and credit them (if any). I'm surprised that this is not respected by the trusted users when they pick an arbitrary package that is maintained in AUR and upload it to the community repository without crediting anyone of past maintainers. I saw this course of acting in several packages and don't like to me. It seems to me a total lack of respect towards the person or people who have been keeping the package so far. If users of the AUR are required to have a minimum of netiquette, more should be required of TUs. Greetings. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] fail2ban archlinux
by Maykel Franco 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

Hi, I've configured fail2ban with action, filter for my php application. My app output log like this: unknown user foo (192.x.x.x) My jail conf: [php-app-login] enabled = true port = 80 protocol = tcp filter = php-app-login logpath = /var/www/php-app-login/var/logs/dev.log findtime = 3600 bantime = 86400 maxretry = 3 ignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 My filter definition: [Definition] failregex = unknown user .* $<HOST>$ ignoreregex = It works well, but I like fail2ban add comment in iptables rule when add ban IP. For example: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m comment --comment "Ban foo" -j DROP iptables -L -n -v Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 94 packets, 23457 bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 0 0 DROP tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80 /* Ban foo */ I've googled and I think something needs to be changed in action but I can't find how to pass the user variable to that action.

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[arch-general] [RFC] Potentially deprecating primus, bumblebee, virtualGL and primus_vk
by Emil Velikov 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

Hello all, As some of you may know, I have been an Arch user for over 5 years and a Linux graphics developer working on the whole stack from the kernel DRM all the way up-to Mesa and X. I would like to propose, partially deprecating and potentially removing some of the said packages in light of the development that has been happening over the last few years. tl;dr: these solutions have been partially or completely obsolete, for a while now ## OpenGL/GLX/etc # Background As you know, in the early days we would have both Mesa and vendors provide their own libGL.so.1 and in some cases libglx.so (xorg module). Alongside that drivers lacked dynPM, allowing you to powering off the GPU, when it's not used. To address those primus and bumblebee came about. Note: dynPM is mentioned for completeness, it won't be covered any more. # Since then Nvidia and open source drivers support client - Mesa drivers - since v17.2.0 (at least), packaged 7 Sep 2017 - Nvidia drivers - since v390.25 (at least), packaged 29 Jan 2018 ... and server-side glvnd: - xorg-xserver - since v1.20.6, packaged 23 Nov 2019 - Nvidia drivers - since v435.21, packaged 30 Aug 2019 ## Vulkan # Background On the Vulkan side the drivers are clearly separated from the start - libvulkan_$vendor.so. Yet very few applications would bother selecting the GPU, plus server-side (when using WSI_X11) wasn't complete. GL Vulkan interop was also tricky, with libGL.so.1 being provided by vendors. This resulted in primus_vk. # Since then - Mesa drivers - since 20.1.0, packaged 28 May 2020 Driver selection layer was added, falling back to DRI_PRIME [1] - Nvidia drivers - since v390.25 (at least), packaged 29 Jan 2018 Vulkan implicit layer was added - see [2] ## My proposal: Cleanup the packages, as outlined below and update the wiki. Please check out the Extra notes below. I will be more than happy to tackle this although maintainers will have to push/rebuild the packages for obvious reasons. - primus: replace with a simple compat script primusrun, which a) finds the ID_PATH_TAG for the Nvidia GPU and sets DRI_PRIME=$tag $@ - bumblebee: optirun - replace with script calling primusrun xorg config - should not be needed, double-check and drop bumblebeed - (optionally) remove no longer applicable code, config etc bumblebee - remove no longer applicable group - virtual GL: move to AUR, since it has no more users - primus_vk: replace with a simple compat script pvkrun akin to primusrun, making use of [1] and [2] ## Extra notes: - primus/bumblebee - seemingly been abandoned upstream for 4+ years. Arch maintainers having to carry fixes locally. - primus/virtualgl/primus_vk performance is worse than natively - compat primusrun/optirun/pvkrun are to minimise breakage - some legacy Nvidia drivers may lack support - those drivers live in the AUR, thus a solution for them should also be packaged there. ## Feedback I would love to hear the input from the respective maintainers and the overall Arch developer base as a whole. Is there a particular use-case that I've missed? How would you like this handled - as mentioned above, I'm happy to submit patches be that via Flyspray, email, MR or otherwise. Looking forward to your input -Emil [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/1766 [2] http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/435.17/README/primerenderof…

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[arch-general] knotes crashes on start
by SET 14 Feb '21

14 Feb '21

Hello, Just upgraded and found knotes crashing with this backtrace : (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/knotes [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [New Thread 0x7ffff0108640 (LWP 1547)] [New Thread 0x7fffef4d5640 (LWP 1548)] Thread 1 "knotes" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff7bdd6e3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5DNSSD.so.5 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff7bdd6e3 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5DNSSD.so.5 #1 0x00007ffff7be7057 in KDNSSD::PublicService::PublicService(QString const&, QString const&, unsigned int, QString const&, QSt ringList const&) () from /usr/lib/libKF5DNSSD.so.5 #2 0x000055555556f869 in ?? () #3 0x0000555555576953 in ?? () #4 0x000055555556ec79 in ?? () #5 0x00007ffff7f02a3b in KontactInterface::PimUniqueApplication::start(QStringList const&) () from /usr/lib/libKF5KontactInterface.so.5 #6 0x000055555556b4f6 in ?? () #7 0x00007ffff5db1b25 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x000055555556b6fe in ?? () Using : KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 This happens launching knotes standalone or embedded in kontact. Don't know if I should report on the KDE forum or if the package maintainer can fix. Thanks for any feedback.

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[arch-general] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit obsolete?
by Erich Eckner 13 Feb '21

13 Feb '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I was surprised to find git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/ and git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/ being no longer updated since a few days. I know, there was a github mirror of the repositories set up some time ago - did I miss some deprecation notice for the old locations or is this some oversight on the arch end? regards, Erich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE3p92iMrPBP64GmxZCu7JB1Xae1oFAl/ffMIACgkQCu7JB1Xa e1qskg//T0HkTdj33ygNCpDNwvDf2H6V1zOBkjadlHrXph4/WkQIyYa7QJxmWXfV d0CWioelIJM4qkBpXrwTa4xMvowW7HLgvpUnCfnXSSaiCODEbJDXC/b0OokHSS9c K+9rGdMgVwfmsMevc/k919ifzmNIUkmX3tOd4lRc1CO6A2EHxFELndY3MbBhpz12 gP599BPvopC+AlYg0MEu1l0/1wAq5p0zSJvneyh2R8LIo8RW/8N7JWnmt0CJf8sM iNiBHvj7byk1Y8uXghibaN9LqLAtRTodhb++Fm5NKdHmlVAnGxrdA3aKlYJYYXsL Q/OYBSTwuhNvxXJnewLtErWjcVu7IL29gPX2Hh7Yhyf+XHScond/Z6WWza3dBYMx rEC9sknS9aSQeuvJqAyfq0mCDQJxbDFAs2p2zh0LG65pbY04yZstmDo/Al+xZV5D wwqedpiTAUVI23m9IePMfxEUnWuRaF5GYeJIa/EFmYn5OXPWMuUO/Y5p2G54QLvX Zwbxu08NDzf+jznhVw2CiP/V7SDMtdLa0hMblvD63z+ywZql0KGIjhiyA9EtXMZm NGQexY5yHyb2R5gKx8e4a7o8ZRJP/n/85laRj3dBYA1ulr5Sp7FCNdYFOLs9xz64 IygVzAJG6Og4kDD7trPl++OwLzaKZ//Qodm3w/+egG3HY75/KvM= =vYL+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] strip command of binutils 2.36 changes ownership in fakeroot 1.25.3
by Genes Lists 11 Feb '21

11 Feb '21

On 2/10/21 4:35 PM, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi all, > Thanks for the update Levente. Separately, I also note that you briefly put 2.36.1 in testing but then pulled it. AM curious what your thinking was around that version as well (seems to be different issues [1]) thanks. gene [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-February/115240.html

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[arch-general] Mounted ext4 filesystem without journal
by Alexander Kapshuk 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Most probably due to a buggy custom kernel, fsck on /dev/sda2, i.e the root partition, failed with a rootfs prompt and an invitation to run fsck on /dev/sda2 presented. On having done that and rebooted, when performing fsck on /dev/sda2, the system reported that: /dev/sda2 had not been cleanly unmounted 0.4% non-contiguous blocks mounting /dev/sda2 on real root EXT4-fs (sda2) mounted filesystem without journal Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist. The wiki article on fsck troubleshooting, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fsck#Troubleshooting, suggests using tune2fs to write a new journal to /dev/sda2. But it doesn't seem to be available when in rootfs. Booting into the Arch Linux installation CD and mounting /dev/sda2 over /mnt reveals lost+found as the sole contents of the directory. As an experiment, mounting /dev/sda1 over /mnt confirms the presence of all the files there are on my boot partition. Any pointers on how to proceed with this would be much appreciated.

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[arch-general] Arch Linux OVH end of support
by Óscar García Amor 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hi, Seems that Arch Linux will be unsupported in OVH [1] maybe a big warning should be added on the wiki [2], especially considering that the contract with OVH is usually signed for one year. Greetings. [1]: https://services.ovhcloud.com/optiext/optiextension.dll?ID=JbaJfV6QoXt4c_Kt… [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_on_a_VPS -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] Change how cross compilers are packaged
by Christer Solskogen 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

I've been using the aarch64 cross compiler packages for some time, lately I've also taken a look at how that PKGBUILD looks and how it relates to Cross-compiling tools package guidelines. The situation now is that aarch64-linux-gnu-glibc installs into a sysroot in /usr/aarch64-linux-gnu. Where also aarch64-linux-gnu-binutils installs some files into. This is bad because the sysroot is a directory thats supposed to be reserved for the target system. This is fine on bare-metal systems, but not for linux/mingw targets. What do you think of having /usr/sysroot/$target as sysroots instead for targets that are supposed to be configured that way? Only a small hand full of packages needs to be rewritten (aarch64, mingw-w64 and riscv64) - and I can fix that I (the package maintainers still need to review my changes, as I don't have git access) One other option would be to follow gcc's defaults, which is $prefix/$target/sys-root But before I do that, I'd like some comments if you think this is needed. I don't want to waste time :-) At the same time, I would remove some of the old/deprecated options for binutils, glibc and gcc that are present in the current PKGBUILDs. -- chs

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[arch-general] nsd 4.3.5 broken
by Genes Lists 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

Good morning nsd package (4.3.5-1) in testing doesn't start for me. 4.3.4 works but 4.3.5 fails - lacks permission in the working directory. This is what log says: service: Changing to the requested working directory failed: Not a directory service: Failed at step CHDIR spawning /bin/kill: Not a directory service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR The new service start file has: WorkingDirectory=~ I tried: WorkingDirectory=/etc/nsd but this still fails Thanks.

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[arch-general] DKMS problem with the latest linux-ck kernel
by Randy DuCharme 06 Feb '21

06 Feb '21

Greetings, Seems the latest linux-ck kernel and DKMS don't play well together. The post-install goes something like this: :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... (2/4) Updating module dependencies... (3/4) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod -m openrazer-driver -v 2.9.0 -k 5.10.13-3-ck Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.13-3-ck (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/openrazer-driver/2.9.0/build/make.log for more information. ==> Warning, `dkms install --no-depmod -m openrazer-driver -v 2.9.0 -k 5.10.13-3-ck' returned 10 ==> dkms install --no-depmod -m nvidia -v 390.138 -k 5.10.13-3-ck Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.13-3-ck (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/make.log for more information. ==> Warning, `dkms install --no-depmod -m nvidia -v 390.138 -k 5.10.13-3-ck' returned 10 ==> depmod 5.10.13-3-ck (4/4) Updating linux initcpios... ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-ck.preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-ck -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-ck.img ==> Starting build: 5.10.13-3-ck -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [udev] -> Running build hook: [autodetect] -> Running build hook: [modconf] -> Running build hook: [block] -> Running build hook: [filesystems] -> Running build hook: [keyboard] -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> ERROR: module not found: `nvidia' ==> ERROR: module not found: `nvidia_modeset' ==> ERROR: module not found: `nvidia_uvm' ==> ERROR: module not found: `nvidia_drm' . . . The pertinent lines in the DKMS logs complain about my GLIBC - mine's at 2.35. CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-cray.o CC [M] /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-dma.o scripts/basic/fixdep: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by scripts/basic/fixdep) make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-cray.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Deleting file '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-cray.o' make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... scripts/basic/fixdep: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.33' not found (required by scripts/basic/fixdep) make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:279: /var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-instance.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Deleting file '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia/390.138/build/nvidia/nv-instance.o' . . . I spent some time scratching around looking for where/how this is configured but so far I haven't figured it out. Can someone point the way? Where is this set? I looked into the kernel fixdep code a little and tried tweaking it some just to see if I could coax it into installing but haven't yet been able to spend a bunch of time on it. Thanks in advance! -- Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered entirely by Open Source software.

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[arch-general] Gcc 10.2.0-5 cannot create executable error on Archlinux testing.
by fredbezies 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Hello. I had a bad surprise this morning when I tried to build dosbox-x-sdl2-git on my freshly updated Archlinux; checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/home/fred/dosbox-x-sdl2-git/src/dosbox-x': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables I tried midnight commander, same error: ==> Starting build()... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... no configure: error: in `/home/fred/mc/src/mc-4.8.25': configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables See `config.log' for more details I noticed binutils, gcc/gcc-libs and glibc were updated this morning. Downgrading these ones and rebooting gave me a working C compiler back. Bug opened: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69530 Thread opened on archlinux forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1953864 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] makepkg default flags
by Christopher W. 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

A few months back there was a proposal to edit the default makepkg build flags for improved security: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-July/030031.html As far as I can tell, this was never committed. The show-stopper at the time was Clang 11 not being released yet. Now that it's been in the repos for a while, could we revisit this improvement and possibly get a mass rebuild with it applied?

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[arch-general] CVE-2021-3156 (Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo)
by Łukasz Michalski 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hi, Just checked my servers and all were vulnerable: [zork@archdevel ~]$ sudoedit -s '\' `perl -e 'print "A" x 65536'` malloc(): corrupted top size Aborted (core dumped) Updating to the latest version (sudo-1.9.5.p2-1) closed this vulnerability. Maybe this should be posted as arch news message? Regards, Łukasz

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