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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 It's either because (a) our gcc[2] and gcc-libs packages are out of date since July[3] _and_ GDB does not support pretty printers for the older stdc++ version or (b) there's a bug in gdb 11.1 Testing out the first hypothesis would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 06 Sep '21

06 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 30 May '21

30 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 11 May '21

11 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. 08 May '21

08 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 18 Apr '21

18 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 16 Mar '21

16 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

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Re: [arch-general] strip command of binutils 2.36 changes ownership in fakeroot 1.25.3
by Genes Lists 10 Feb '21

10 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 06 Feb '21

06 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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[arch-general] dracut roll-out plan?
by David C. Rankin 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Archdevs, I see dracut is creeping into the system. Which I see as fine, SuSE has used dracut for a couple of years and it has proven to be quite robust. But I do have a question on roll-out and what will be required on the user's part. I have begun seeing, e.g.: New optional dependencies for brltty dracut: for dracut based initramfs support I currently have 3 Arch servers, with one remote administered, so if this will require some type of manual on-site intervention, it would be good to know before hand. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Chromium losing Sync support on March 15
by Geo Kozey 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

> ---------------------------------------- > From: Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Sent: Tue Jan 26 22:18:21 CET 2021 > To: <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> > Cc: Levente Polyak <anthraxx(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Chromium losing Sync support on March 15 > > > On 1/26/21 9:53 PM, Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public wrote: > > > > It's dissapointing frankly. > > > > Disappointing doesn't really catch it tho. If it would be just about the > sync functionality: so be it. But crippling the API usage on a level > that rips out especially things like the safe browsing functionality as > well places chromium knowingly and forcefully into a position that > doesn't make it viable to be distributed to users. Didn't google already make it clear it's only about sync api and the rest including safe browsing is perfectly fine to use with current keys if you don't remove them[1]? I think some people here overdramatize this situation. Users who depend on sync would have to switch to chrome but for majority nothing will change unless you indeed drop the package which hardly helps to limit damage. [1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-packagers/c/SG6jnsP4pWM… Yours sincerely G. K.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Chromium losing Sync support on March 15
by Ondřej Kučera 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi, On 26. 01. 21 20:20, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 10:05, Evangelos Foutras <evangelos(a)foutrelis.com> wrote: >> > Building Chromium without API keys results in a browser that is > unsuitable for production use. Removing the OAuth 2.0 credentials (or > when the Chrome team limits them) mainly breaks Chrome data sync > (e.g.: passwords, bookmarks, open tabs). Additionally removing the > main API key disables functionality like Safe Browsing and > Geolocation. I don't consider a browser with downgraded functionality > and security suitable for end users. [2] I'd like to ask the devs, if they read this, to reconsider. I myself am a Firefox user. However, there are sites/web applications that just don't work in Firefox and probably never will. Some of them I have to use on a daily basis. For example, Microsoft Teams works perfectly fine in Chromium (audio, video, desktop sharing); it doesn't, to my knowledge, in Firefox. Skype works for chatting (unfortunatelly not for audio/video) in Chromium; while this is not perfect, chatting is in 95 % of times what I need. I remember even not being able to finish an order in an e-shop in Firefox once (I can't remember which shop it was) and I suspect this will happen more and more often. Frankly, since Chromium is only my browser for when stuff doesn't work in Firefox, I've never used Sync or geolocation or safe browsing. But it's still very useful to me having Chromium available as a second-choice browser in the repositories. -- Regards, Ondřej Kučera

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[arch-general] pacman's NoUpgrade option does not ignore read-only files
by Marcel Menzel 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hello list, I can't get pacman to ignore read-only files via the the NoUpgrade and/or the NoExtract config options. I have several Arch Linux LXC (managed via LXD) containers, with several read-only files mapped into those containers for convenience. For example, to have a single resolv.conf for all containers, I configured the following in LXD: devices: resolv_conf: path: /etc/resolv.conf readonly: "true" source: /root/containerfiles/resolv.conf type: disk Now the problem is, when I want to run upgrades in containers, the pacman check for disk space fails with: error: Partition /etc/resolv.conf is mounted read only According to man pacman.conf, setting "etc/resolv.conf" in NoUpgrade should *in theory* get around this problem for my understandings, but it somehow doesn't. Also setting both does not work: NoUpgrade = etc/resolv.conf NoExtract = etc/resolv.conf Am I missing something out here? Is there any way to accomplish what I want or do I really have to work with a pacman hook here which copies the read only mounted file to the original place after a package upgrade? Thanks & kind regards, Marcel Menzel

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[arch-general] Can pam_systemd_home.so functionality be split into a separate package to prevent cluttering the logs?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Archdevs, Just as postfix is being split to separate non-default backends into separate packages, can pam_systemd_home.so functionality be split out into a separate package. The problems caused by this disabled part of pambase is discussed here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1952091 Even though the service is disabled, it fill the journal with entries every time sudo is invoked. For example, every time sudo is used with journalctl, you get 5-long lines of nonsense: Jan 26 03:17:42 phoinix dbus-daemon[363]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.home1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service' requested by ':1.19' (uid=0 pid=5293 comm="sudo journalctl --no-pager --full -f ") Jan 26 03:17:42 phoinix dbus-daemon[363]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found. Jan 26 03:17:42 phoinix sudo[5293]: pam_systemd_home(sudo:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found. Jan 26 03:17:42 phoinix sudo[5293]: david : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/journalctl --no-pager --full -f Jan 26 03:17:42 phoinix sudo[5293]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by david(uid=1000) Why not let the very few that will ever want pam_systemd_home install that package and enable the service rather than allowing a disabled server to clutter the logs every time sudo is used and forcing folks that don't want the noise from a disable package to set: NoExtract=usr/lib/security/pam_systemd_home.so just to get rid of the unnecessary messages. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65819 is referenced in the discussion. If nothing else, have NoExtract set by default and add a wiki entry about removing NoExtract and reinstalling systemd for the few that want it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15
by u34＠net9.ga 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

There is a heads-up discussion at https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-January/030260.h… . 1. Is it worth asking help from some free software org, since the problem is shared by other distributions? Perhaps google will agree to work with that org, as a representative of the distributions. Or,that a single distribtion will represent the other? 2. I hardly use chromium. Yet, few gov sites here mandate using it. At rare circumstancess, I have to deal with these gov sites. In short, I hardly knows, and don't care, about its Sync feature. 2.1 Can the package built, and run, without whatever is required for the Sync feature? 2.2 In case you will stop maintaining it and no one adopts it, can you upload it to the AUR, and disown it? -- u34

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[arch-general] Why has all Fake-RAID documentation been removed from the RAID wiki?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Arch, In the past https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID had a fantastic section on Fake RAID. I just had a person I refered to the page only to be told there isn't any relevant info there other than use lspci to look for a conroller?? Why has all the relevant information for Fake RAID been removed from the wiki? It is still relevant documentation. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] WINE Networking Issues
by John Briggs 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:26:26PM +0100, Łukasz Michalski via arch-general wrote: > On 1/25/21 11:13 AM, John Briggs via arch-general wrote: > > After a system update on 16th Dec 2020 I discovered I had networking > > problems when I was using WINE. > > I have determined the issue is NOT WINE but something else in the system. > > When I do a system downgrade using the Arch Linux Archives for 13th Dec 2020 > > the networking problems with WINE disappear. > > System upgrade to 14th Dec 2020 WINE networking problems appear. > > > > The only new packages that are upgraded on my system are: > > > > egl-wayland-1.1.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 14-Dec-2020 11:02 24K > > gtkmm3-3.24.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 14-Dec-2020 00:28 1M > > python-importlib-metadata-3.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.z..> 14-Dec-2020 02:46 566 > > xorg-xwayland-1.20.0.r797.g5d73a8b59-1-x86_64.p..> 14-Dec-2020 12:16 898K > > > > The egl-wayland and xorg-xwayland packages do not appear to be causing the > > problem. The gtkmm3 should not raise this type of issue. Close inspection of > > the python-importlib-metadata should not cause any issues either. > > > > The only possible solution I can possible consider is creating a new partition > > and installing the Dec 2020 Arch iso then doing a system upgrade to 13th Dec > > to get a problem free system. > > > > I decided to try the list to see if anyone else may have a solution. > > It would be helpful if you describe what kind of networking problems do you > have. > I usually run the Kindle app. It requires an Internet connection to run correctly. I have ran ping in a WINE console: it resolves the internet address correctly but there is no return from the pings because the dns is working it appears as if I am not receiving the packets. > Is it related to any app run under wine or to specific one? > What are the symptoms? e.g. no connection from app to the Internet, dns not > working... > > Regards, > Łukasz

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[arch-general] WINE Networking Issues
by John Briggs 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

After a system update on 16th Dec 2020 I discovered I had networking problems when I was using WINE. I have determined the issue is NOT WINE but something else in the system. When I do a system downgrade using the Arch Linux Archives for 13th Dec 2020 the networking problems with WINE disappear. System upgrade to 14th Dec 2020 WINE networking problems appear. The only new packages that are upgraded on my system are: egl-wayland-1.1.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 14-Dec-2020 11:02 24K gtkmm3-3.24.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst 14-Dec-2020 00:28 1M python-importlib-metadata-3.3.0-1-any.pkg.tar.z..> 14-Dec-2020 02:46 566 xorg-xwayland-1.20.0.r797.g5d73a8b59-1-x86_64.p..> 14-Dec-2020 12:16 898K The egl-wayland and xorg-xwayland packages do not appear to be causing the problem. The gtkmm3 should not raise this type of issue. Close inspection of the python-importlib-metadata should not cause any issues either. The only possible solution I can possible consider is creating a new partition and installing the Dec 2020 Arch iso then doing a system upgrade to 13th Dec to get a problem free system. I decided to try the list to see if anyone else may have a solution. Regards John

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[arch-general] Fwd: [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 (WHY?)
by David C. Rankin 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Archdevs, Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only 1.5M total. Why would we want to fragment postfix backend capability into separate packages? With 1T+ average drive size the additional fragmentation doesn't make any space savings sense. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [arch-dev-public] [signoff] [extra] postfix 3.5.9-1 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 21:27:43 +0100 From: David Runge via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> Reply-To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> To: Arch Linux Development (public) <arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org> CC: David Runge <dave(a)sleepmap.de> Hi! I have just upgraded postfix to 3.5.9. The package has been split to allow specific installations based on requirements while not pulling in all of the backends at once: postfix postfix-cdb postfix-ldap postfix-lmdb postfix-mysql postfix-pcre postfix-pgsql postfix-sqlite Please do test the integration of the split-out optional dependencies with postfix to see whether everything still works as expected. Best, David -- https://sleepmap.de -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] efibootmgr doesn't change boot order!
by Peter K Haokip 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

I read an forum entry from nearly 6 years ago about am efibootmgr bug that Doesn't let you change the boot order on a multi OS system if you have arch linux as the default OS. Had some users report this as well in other forums. Now i am facing the that problem in my system with arch ubuntu and windows. when i change the boot order , it shows the change 'temporarily' but when i restart it boots the default (Arch linux Grub ) and the change disappears. I faced this issue last month and gave up on it since I couldn't find any detailed resource on this on the net. This list may be my last hope. If anybody could give some direction , would be much appreciated. regards, khaithang39

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Re: [arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync support on March 15
by Yuuta Liang 21 Jan '21

21 Jan '21

This looks great for replacing Google sync. Are there any self-hosted open source sync servers users can directly replace with (Not an extension or so)? This would be great for users who still need native sync when the Chromium APIs were disabled. This is my first time replying to Arch mailing list, so correct me if there's anything wrong. Thanks. On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:13:17PM -0600, Don Harper via arch-general wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:41:53PM -0600, Don Harper wrote to To General Discussion about Arch Linux: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:12:24PM +0000, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote to To General Discussion about Arch Linux: > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:15 PM Javier via arch-general < > > > arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> wrote: > > > > > On 1/20/21 10:02 AM, Geo Kozey via arch-general wrote: > > > > >> ---------------------------------------- > > > > >> From: Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > > > > >> Sent: Wed Jan 20 02:09:17 CET 2021 > > > > >> To: <arch-general(a)lists.archlinux.org> > > > > >> Cc: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz(a)archlinux.org> > > > > >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] On arch-dev-public: Chromium losing Sync > > > > support on March 15 > > > > > >> The current maintainer of chromium no longer wishes to be the maintainer > > > > >> -- without this feature, he does not consider Chromium to be a > > > > >> competitive, useful software. Fair enough -- no one is ever by any means > > > > >> forced to maintain anything they don't want to. > > > > > > It would be easier to understand if maintainer explain this themselves. > > > > This is second time he stated plans about dropping chromium because > > > > upstream removed some api from public use. At first time those plans were > > > > aborted after users feedback which showed that removed api isn't crucial > > > > for using the app for them and this time it looks similar. > > > > > > It's ok to stop packaging something that maintainer doesn't like anymore > > > > even without waiting for excuse but stopping it only because lost feature > > > > that most users can deal without just fine is weird unless maintainer > > > > himself relied on it. > > > > > If a chromium user, after the loss of the sync api, would like to > > > transition their setup from one computer to another, such as when a new > > > arch install has been done on a new computer, is there a mechanism to > > > transfer the bookmarks and passwords from one machine to the other if sync > > > is not available? Even now if you rsync the config directory then the > > > browser does work as it did on the original machine - and getting passwords > > > into the new browser on a different machine does not seem to be something > > > that is easy unless a clean profile is started, and the old and new browser > > > synced by logging in to the same account. Can someone say how that would be > > > achieved when sync to the cloud is no longer available? > > One can always use a non-google sync solution. One I have been using for a bit is https://github.com/marcelklehr/floccus which is cross-browser and self-hosted. > > > > > > Yours sincerely > > > > > > G. K. > > > > > Totally agree with Eli, in that the devs are the ones deciding chromium > > > > fate in Arch. > > > > > BTW, another dev has already mentioned he would adopt it, if dropped by > > > > its current maintainer, and keep it without sync if required. So, I guess > > > > it's a matter of time now, to see what'll happen. > > > > > > -- > Don Harper

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[arch-general] Dual monitor issue
by pete 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Evening Archers O am trying to find where KDE Plasma stores the settings for multiple monitors but can not find it yet . I have 2 identical monitors both were working fine now i have lost the panel on the one monitor and can not restore it i have tried all the suggestions i can find so last resort i want to look at the configs for the monitors so which file are the configs stored in please . Thanks Pete

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[arch-general] Configure default bluetooth profile in PulseAudio?
by Uwe Sauter 18 Jan '21

18 Jan '21

Dear all, is it possible to define the default BT profile used when a headset connects to my system? Currently I have to switch from A2DP to HSP/HFP every time I turn the headset on. As I'm mostly using the headset as headset (for webconfs), not headphones, I'd like to change that behavior. I found this article [1] but that seems to automatically switch BT profiles based on the requirements. I don't want that behavior as I prefer static configurations (I want my music to always come from the speaker boxes regardless of whether headphones are available.) Although I will try this out later-on. Any hints? Thanks, Uwe [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1248886/how-to-set-default-profile-for-blue…

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[arch-general] Is ntfs module deprecated ?
by SET 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

Hi, After today's upgrade : * modprobe ntfs * modprobe: FATAL: Module ntfs not found in directory /lib/modules/5.10.7-arch1-1 * * find /usr/lib/modules/5.10.7-arch1-1 -type f -name "*ntfs*" * <empty result> Should another module be used ? Is ntfs missing ? Deprecated ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] firefox crashed, no web access after attempted fix
by Shadrock Uhuru 16 Jan '21

16 Jan '21

hi everyone i'm running 6.8 current, my problem started when firefox which had been working perfectly suddenly started crashing on startup, i don't know if it was because i shutdown the laptop with to many tab open in firefox, after many google searches i tried creating a new profile and copying overi file from a previous profile the suggested files and directories which gave me a startable firefox, my bookmark sidebar lists my bookmarks, and my addons are displayed on the toolbar, the problem is nothing happens if i type in an address, type something in the search bar or click a bookmark in the sidebar, the rotating arrow doesn't change to a cross , or if i click an addon icon either nothing happens or an empty menu is opened, the next thing i did was to backup my mozilla/firefox folder then removed the original, i sysupgraded, pkg_add -Uu, had to repeat it a couple of time thinking the repositories were not in sync after doing pkg_add -u instead the packages upgraded, i threw in a pkg_clean to tidy things up, then i pkg_delete then pkg_add firefox, i'm still unable to surf the web before or after restoring my backup mozilla/firefox directory, could i have missing libraries of software that firefox needs ? pkg_add firefox installs without a problem, i have pastebined a copy of the directory structure and a copy of the log output when i start firefox with the -p option. fox_directory http://sprunge.us/79hyB7 fox_log_output http://sprunge.us/umVBxr i am currently using netsurf as my browser but i would like firefox up and running again asap any help would be welcomed shadrock

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[arch-general] error wiping partition with cryptsetup - device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed:
by Piscium 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hi all, I am using Arch. In the middle of last year I successfully wiped two partitions on my laptop following the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Drive_preparation#dm-crypt_wi… This year I decided to wipe the remaining partition on the same laptop using the same command command but it fails as below. Any ideas? ~/ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT nvme0n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk ├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 1G 0 part /boot ├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 50G 0 part │ └─arch-root 254:0 0 50G 0 crypt / ├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 700G 0 part ├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 176.5G 0 part │ └─arch-home 254:2 0 176.5G 0 crypt /home └─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 4G 0 part └─swap 254:1 0 4G 0 crypt [SWAP] █▓▒░root@thinkpad-p43s█▓▒░ Wed 13/Jan/2021 08:26:53.073 ~/ cryptsetup open --type plain -d /dev/urandom /dev/nvme0n1p3 to_be_wiped device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed: No such file or directory ~/

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[arch-general] intel gpu hang
by Muhamad Moghadam 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

Hi Everybody,I have a pc with intel gpu and run it on fedora, but intel gpu will be hang with fedora kernel. if i will install arch, will my problem be solved? -- مجله کامیون <http://www.truckdriver.ir/> سلطان جاده Persian Trucking <http://www.truckdriver.ir/> Mag

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[arch-general] 5.10.5 - network card r8169 not activated on cold start?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jan '21

13 Jan '21

All, Sorry for the lapse in posts, but when Arch changed list delivery to the cloud service, my ISP bounced all mails from the new IP. New issue, after an extended power-outage caused by a rare snow storm in north-east Texas, I had to boot from cold start after the power being out for 2 days. On boot, the network device enp5s0 did not get started. Viewing the logs, the r8169 device was never started. The cold boot log is: Jan 12 07:51:38 valkyrie systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device /sys/subsystem/net/devices/enp5s0. Jan 12 07:51:38 valkyrie systemd[1]: Dependency failed for dhcpcd on enp5s0. Jan 12 07:51:38 valkyrie systemd[1]: dhcpcd(a)enp5s0.service: Job dhcpcd@enp5s0.service/start failed with result 'dep endency'. Jan 12 07:51:38 valkyrie systemd[1]: sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp5s0.device: Job sys-subsystem-net-devices-enp5s0. device/start failed with result 'timeout'. I have been using this same Arch server for 5-6 years now and I haven't ever had an issue with the device not coming up. Granted for a majority of the last 5 years the box has only been rebooted, save an except for a drive replacement, etc... Since the device was not activated by the kernel, there was no chance of using ip link to start the device. Then on reboot, the device is found and configured without a problem: Jan 12 08:38:16 valkyrie kernel: r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: renamed from eth0 Jan 12 08:38:19 valkyrie systemd[1]: Starting dhcpcd on enp5s0... Jan 12 08:38:20 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: waiting for carrier Jan 12 08:38:20 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: carrier acquired Jan 12 08:38:20 valkyrie kernel: r8169 0000:05:00.0 enp5s0: Link is Down Jan 12 08:38:20 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: IAID 14:9e:33:19 <snip IPv6 chatter> Jan 12 08:38:24 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: soliciting a DHCP lease Jan 12 08:38:25 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: offered 192.168.6.135 from 192.168.6.17 Jan 12 08:38:25 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: probing address 192.168.6.135/24 Jan 12 08:38:30 valkyrie dhcpcd[535]: enp5s0: leased 192.168.6.135 for 28800 seconds Having never had this problem since the 2015-08-21 install on this box, my question is "is anyone else seeing this, or anything similar, now?" I did not have any issue with the other 4 Arch boxes I brought up after power returned, so, as far as I have seen, this has been limited to the r8169 card. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] python-dnspython flagged as outdated since 2020-11-19
by Fun Ilrys 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hello World, Is there a plan to update the python-dnspython package ? It happened to be flagged as out of date since 2020-11-19. The actual version in the PyPI is 2.1.0. Does someone know how to contact the maintainers of those packages ? Thank you for your time! Happy New Year. My best wishes to you and your beloved one. Stay safe and healthy. Nissar

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[arch-general] Darktable: libavif: undefined symbol: I422ToRGBAMatrix
by LuKaRo 08 Jan '21

08 Jan '21

Hi folks, on my up-to-date Arch Linux system, I can't start darktable anymore. The error message is: /usr/bin/darktable: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libavif.so.9: undefined symbol: I422ToRGBAMatrix However, both darktable (darktable-2:3.4.0-2) and libavif (libavif-0.8.4-1) are up-to-date, as well as my entire system. /usr/lib/libavif.so.9 exists and points to libavif.so.9.0.0, which is a regular file. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] LIB glew-wayland is broken
by Nathan Dacunha 05 Jan '21

05 Jan '21

glew-wayland does not provide "glew" and we cannot install glew-wayland because all the dependencies on it get uninstalled! please add this "Provides : [glfw=3.3.2]" on the package glew-wayland thank

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[arch-general] User authentication problems at OpenVPN on ArchLinux
by Jordan Borgner 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

Good day everyone. I'm facing a weird problem with my vpn. It fails to authenticate users despite the entered password is correct (copied and pasted). OpenVPN (version 2.5.0 on ArchLinux) itself is serviced with systemd and runs fine. I'm using OpenVPN's auth-pam plugin to authenticate users. You find the configuration- and logfiles below. When trying to log in, I get "User authentication failed" at my client and the following logging. The user was created with useradd and is able to login with ssh as well. There is no pam config for openvpn in /etc/pam.d. But it worked before without it. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this or how to debug pam properly? journalctl -r|grep username =========================== Dec 26 13:42:41 hostname kernel: audit: type=1100 audit(1608986561.263:1183): pid=678 uid=973 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=? acct="username" exe="/usr/bin/openvpn" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Dec 26 13:42:41 hostname audit[678]: USER_AUTH pid=678 uid=973 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=PAM:authentication grantors=? acct="username" exe="/usr/bin/openvpn" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Dec 26 13:42:41 hostname openvpn[678]: pam_unix(login:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=973 euid=973 tty= ruser= rhost= user=username Dec 26 13:42:41 hostname unix_chkpwd[4160]: password check failed for user (username) /var/log/openvpn.log ==================== ip-addr [username] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET6]ip-addr:52991 ip-addr PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST' ip-addr Delayed exit in 5 seconds ip-addr SENT CONTROL [username]: 'AUTH_FAILED' (status=1) ip-addr SIGTERM[soft,delayed-exit] received, client-instance exiting server.conf =========== plugin /usr/lib64/openvpn/plugins/openvpn-plugin-auth-pam.so login port 1194 persist-key persist-tun proto udp proto udp6 dev tun ca /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/ca.crt cert /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/issued/manmtr.crt key /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/private/manmtr.key dh /etc/openvpn/easy-rsa/pki/dh.pem data-ciphers AES-256-GCM ;cipher AES-256-CBC auth SHA512 reneg-sec 36000 inactive 0 server 192.168.200.0 255.255.255.0 push "route 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0" keepalive 10 36000 status openvpn-status.log log /var/log/openvpn.log verb 4 -- Jordan Borgner

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[arch-general] darktable libavif libyuv update and undefined symbol
by Genes Lists 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

Todays update[1] of darktable along with libavif / libavif led to this message: (5/7) Probing GDK-Pixbuf loader modules... g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-avif.so: /usr/lib/libyuv.so: undefined symbol: jpeg_read_raw_data I have libjpeg-turbo installed and confirme that the function is available in the library: % objdump -T /usr/lib/libjpeg.so |egrep read_raw_data 0000000000017950 g DF .text 00000000000000df LIBJPEG_8.0 jpeg_read_raw_data Anyone have ideas how to resolve this? Is it benig, or a problem on my end? thanks. [1] Updated to: darktable 2:3.2.1-3 libavif-0.8.3-1 libyuv-r2212+dfaf7534-1

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[arch-general] Segmentation fault when trying to install a self-created package
by Peter Nabbefeld 20 Dec '20

20 Dec '20

Hello, as the meshroom builds (from AUR) don't work for me, I tried to create my own package by modifying the PKGBUILD file of the meshroom-git package. This results in two issues: 1. While creating the package using makepkg, the whole git repository is downloaded - that's okay, of course. But all built artifacts seem to be contained in the resulting package file. As a git build shouldn't be "static": How can I create a build file for automatic downloading and building from current repository? 2. When installing the created package (pacman -U) and trying to start Meshroom, I get: "Segmentation fault (core dumped)". It seems, there's a problem with Meshroom's private shiboken2 installation: PID: 135087 (Meshroom) UID: 1000 (peter) GID: 100 (users) Signal: 11 (SEGV) Timestamp: Sun 2020-12-20 11:04:25 CET (24min ago) Command Line: Meshroom Executable: /usr/lib/Meshroom-2020.1.1/Meshroom Control Group: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-9.scope Unit: session-9.scope Slice: user-1000.slice Session: 9 Owner UID: 1000 (peter) Boot ID: 4e5fb788a5324cd1b31363dee2d7b62e Machine ID: b1efa5af7b174c44adc4ec7990c10ad7 Hostname: tuchola Storage: /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.Meshroom.1000.4e5fb788a5324cd1b31363dee2d7b62e.135087.1608458665000000.zst Message: Process 135087 (Meshroom) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 135087: #0 0x00007ff37636becb SbkObject_TypeF (libshiboken2.abi3.so.5.15 + 0xeecb) #1 0x00007ff37636d80d _ZN8Shiboken4initEv (libshiboken2.abi3.so.5.15 + 0x1080d) #2 0x00007ff37637fa79 _ZN8Shiboken6Module6createEPKcPv (libshiboken2.abi3.so.5.15 + 0x22a79) #3 0x00007ff3765b13e7 PyInit_shiboken2 (shiboken2.abi3.so + 0x23e7) #4 0x000055d17af0edfd n/a (Meshroom + 0x21adfd) #5 0x000055d17ae323c1 n/a (Meshroom + 0x13e3c1) #6 0x000055d17ae263b2 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1323b2) #7 0x000055d17ae1f605 n/a (Meshroom + 0x12b605) #8 0x000055d17ae31b6e _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13db6e) #9 0x000055d17ae251ae _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1311ae) #10 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #11 0x000055d17ae20dcf _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cdcf) #12 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #13 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #14 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #15 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #16 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #17 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #18 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #19 0x000055d17ae311b5 n/a (Meshroom + 0x13d1b5) #20 0x000055d17ae4587c _PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs (Meshroom + 0x15187c) #21 0x000055d17ae44dfd PyImport_ImportModuleLevelObject (Meshroom + 0x150dfd) #22 0x000055d17ae2393a _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12f93a) #23 0x000055d17ae1f605 n/a (Meshroom + 0x12b605) #24 0x000055d17ae1efd1 _PyEval_EvalCodeWithName (Meshroom + 0x12afd1) #25 0x000055d17aee0a13 PyEval_EvalCode (Meshroom + 0x1eca13) #26 0x000055d17aee8023 n/a (Meshroom + 0x1f4023) #27 0x000055d17ae323c1 n/a (Meshroom + 0x13e3c1) #28 0x000055d17ae263b2 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1323b2) #29 0x000055d17ae1f605 n/a (Meshroom + 0x12b605) #30 0x000055d17ae31b6e _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13db6e) #31 0x000055d17ae251ae _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1311ae) #32 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #33 0x000055d17ae20dcf _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cdcf) #34 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #35 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #36 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #37 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #38 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #39 0x000055d17ae311b5 n/a (Meshroom + 0x13d1b5) #40 0x000055d17ae4587c _PyObject_CallMethodIdObjArgs (Meshroom + 0x15187c) #41 0x000055d17ae44dfd PyImport_ImportModuleLevelObject (Meshroom + 0x150dfd) #42 0x000055d17ae2393a _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12f93a) #43 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #44 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #45 0x000055d17ae1f605 n/a (Meshroom + 0x12b605) #46 0x000055d17ae1efd1 _PyEval_EvalCodeWithName (Meshroom + 0x12afd1) #47 0x000055d17aee0a13 PyEval_EvalCode (Meshroom + 0x1eca13) #48 0x000055d17aee8023 n/a (Meshroom + 0x1f4023) #49 0x000055d17ae323c1 n/a (Meshroom + 0x13e3c1) #50 0x000055d17ae263b2 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1323b2) #51 0x000055d17ae1f605 n/a (Meshroom + 0x12b605) #52 0x000055d17ae31b6e _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13db6e) #53 0x000055d17ae251ae _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x1311ae) #54 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #55 0x000055d17ae20dcf _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cdcf) #56 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #57 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #58 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13d9ca) #59 0x000055d17ae20b97 _PyEval_EvalFrameDefault (Meshroom + 0x12cb97) #60 0x000055d17ae319ca _PyFunction_Vectorcall (Meshroom + 0x13 Does somebody have an idea, what I could change? Kind regards, peter

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[arch-general] Bug with CIFS mount
by Tasnad Kernetzky 17 Dec '20

17 Dec '20

Hi All, I suppose I hit this bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68963 and it seems it is not fully resolved. I didn't request to reopen the bug, because I'm not 100% sure it is really the same thing. I have a setup with kerberos/sssd/pam/autofs, authenticating with an active directory, and cifs mounts stopped working. Login and nfs with kerberos work fine, to the issue is quite likely with cifs. Mounting the cifs share works with libcap-ng-0.8-1, but not with libcap-ng-0.8.2-1. I have cifs-utils 6.11-2, sssd 2.4.0-2 and krb5 1.18.2-1. Did I miss something or am I hitting something special due to the setup? Does anybody have a clue what could be the issue? I include lots of details about the config and logs, but tl;dr: "mount -t cifs -o domain=DOM,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 //nas.example.com/theUser /nas/home/theUser" fails with "cifs.upcall[532824]: drop_all_capabilities: Unable to apply capability set: Success" Best, Tasnad Substituted values ================== * myMachine: the client's hostname (not fqdn) * theUser: the nonroot user trying to mount via autofs * 1234567: uid of theUser (from Active directory) * DOM: the AD domain * DOM.EXAMPLE.COM: domain, fqdn /etc/krb5.conf ============== [libdefaults] default_realm = DOM.EXAMPLE.COM udp_preference_limit = 0 default_ccache_name = FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_%{uid} dns_lookup_realm = true dns_lookup_kdc = true rdns = false ticket_lifetime = 10h renew_lifetime = 7d forwardable = true sssd.conf ========= [sssd] config_file_version = 2 domains = DOM.EXAMPLE.COM services = nss, pam [nss] default_shell = /bin/bash shell_fallback = /bin/bash filter_groups = root filter_users = root [domain/DOM.EXAMPLE.COM] id_provider = ad auth_provider = ad access_provider = simple ldap_schema = ad sudo_provider = none cache_credentials = false krb5_store_password_if_offline = false dyndns_update = false ldap_id_mapping = false use_fully_qualified_names = false enumerate = false ignore_group_members = true case_sensitive = preserving ad_enable_gc = false ad_hostname = myMachine ldap_search_base = [...] ldap_user_search_base = [...] ldap_user_search_scope = [...] ldap_group_search_base = [...] ldap_group_search_scope = [...] nsswitch.conf ============= passwd: files sss group: files sss shadow: files sss gshadow: files sss publickey: files hosts: files mymachines myhostname resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns networks: files protocols: files services: files sss ethers: files rpc: files netgroup: files sss automount: sss homes.autofs ============ /nas/home /etc/autofs/auto.master.d/home.map -domain=DOM,fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl home.map ======== * -username=$USER,cruid=$UID,vers=3.0 ://nas.example.com/& cifs idmap plugin ============ /etc/cifs_utils/idmap-plugin -> /usr/lib/cifs-utils/cifs_idmap_sss.so klist ===== Ticket cache: FILE:/tmp/krb5cc_<uid> Default principal: theUser(a)DOM.EXAMPLE.COM Valid starting Expires Service principal 12/16/2020 11:31:48 12/16/2020 21:25:18 krbtgt%2FDOM.EXAMPLE.COM(a)DOM.EXAMPLE.COM renew until 12/23/2020 11:25:18 automount -fd ============= handle_packet: type = 3 handle_packet_missing_indirect: token 727, name theUser, request pid 532818 attempting to mount entry /nas/home/theUser lookup_mount: lookup(file): looking up theUser lookup_mount: lookup(file): theUser -> -username=$USER,cruid=$UID,vers=3.0 ://nas.example.com/& parse_mount: parse(sun): expanded entry: -username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 ://nas.example.com/theUser parse_mount: parse(sun): gathered options: domain=DOM,fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 parse_mount: parse(sun): dequote("://nas.example.com/theUser") -> ://nas.example.com/theUser parse_mount: parse(sun): core of entry: options=domain=DOM,fstype=cifs,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0, loc=://nas.example.com/theUser sun_mount: parse(sun): mounting root /nas/home, mountpoint theUser, what //nas.example.com/theUser, fstype cifs, options domain=DOM,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 do_mount: //nas.example.com/theUser /nas/home/theUser type cifs options domain=DOM,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 using module generic mount_mount: mount(generic): calling mkdir_path /nas/home/theUser mount(generic): calling mount -t cifs -o domain=DOM,sec=krb5,soft,noserverino,cifsacl,username=theUser,cruid=1234567,vers=3.0 //nas.example.com/theUser /nas/home/theUser >> mount error(126): Required key not available >> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and kernel log messages (dmesg) mount(generic): failed to mount //nas.example.com/theUser (type cifs) on /nas/home/theUser dev_ioctl_send_fail: token = 727 failed to mount /nas/home/theUser journalctl ============== kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: Devname: //nas.example.com/theUser flags: 0 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Domain name set kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Username: theUser kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: file mode: 0755 dir mode: 0755 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: in mount_get_conns as Xid: 684 with uid: 0 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: UNC: \\nas.example.com\theUser kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Socket created kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: sndbuf 16384 rcvbuf 131072 rcvtimeo 0x834 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Demultiplex PID: 532823 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/fscache.c: cifs_fscache_get_client_cookie: (0x000[...]8/0x0000[...]d) kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: in cifs_get_smb_ses as Xid: 685 with uid: 0 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing smb sess not found kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Negotiate protocol kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/transport.c: Sending smb: smb_len=106 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: RFC1002 header 0xfa kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2misc.c: SMB2 data length 122 offset 128 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2misc.c: SMB2 len 250 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/transport.c: cifs_sync_mid_result: cmd=0 mid=0 state=4 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/misc.c: Null buffer passed to cifs_small_buf_release kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: mode 0x1 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: negotiated smb3.0 dialect kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/asn1.c: OID len = 7 oid = 0x1 0x2 0x348 0xbb92 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/asn1.c: OID len = 7 oid = 0x1 0x2 0x348 0x1bb92 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/asn1.c: OID len = 10 oid = 0x1 0x3 0x6 0x1 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Security Mode: 0x1 Capabilities: 0x300057 TimeAdjust: 0 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Session Setup kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: sess setup type 5 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/cifs_spnego.c: key description = ver=0x2;host=nas.example.com;ip4=10.0.0.1;sec=krb5;uid=0x0;creduid=0x12D687;user=theUser;pid=0x82155 cifs.upcall[532824]: key description: cifs.spnego;0;0;39010000;ver=0x2;host=nas.example.com;ip4=10.0.0.1;sec=krb5;uid=0x0;creduid=0x12D687;user=theUser;pid=0x82155 cifs.upcall[532824]: ver=2 cifs.upcall[532824]: host=nas.example.com cifs.upcall[532824]: ip=10.0.0.1 cifs.upcall[532824]: sec=1 cifs.upcall[532824]: uid=0 cifs.upcall[532824]: creduid=1234567 cifs.upcall[532824]: user=theUser cifs.upcall[532824]: pid=532821 cifs.upcall[532824]: get_cachename_from_process_env: pathname=/proc/532821/environ cifs.upcall[532824]: drop_all_capabilities: Unable to apply capability set: Success cifs.upcall[532824]: Exit status 1 kernel: CIFS: VFS: Verify user has a krb5 ticket and keyutils is installed kernel: CIFS: VFS: \\nas.example.com Send error in SessSetup = -126 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: leaving cifs_get_smb_ses (xid = 685) rc = -126 kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c: __dfs_cache_find: search path: \nas.example.com\theUser kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/dfs_cache.c: get_dfs_referral: get an DFS referral for \nas.example.com\theUser kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/fscache.c: cifs_fscache_release_client_cookie: (0x0000[...]8/0x00000[...]d) kernel: CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: leaving mount_put_conns (xid = 684) rc = 0 kernel: CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -126

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[arch-general] [aur] Could anybody help with Meshroom installation?
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

Hello, I tried to install alice-vision-git together with meshroom, but it seems sth. isn't found: Meshroom-2020.1.1]$ Meshroom WARNING:root:== The following "submitters" plugins could not be loaded == * simpleFarmSubmitter: No module named 'simpleFarm' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cx_Freeze/initscripts/__startup__.py", line 40, in run module.run() File "/home/peter/.cache/pacaur/meshroom/src/meshroom/setupInitScriptUnix.py", line 39, in run File "meshroom/ui/__main__.py", line 10, in <module> File "/home/peter/.cache/pacaur/meshroom/src/meshroom/meshroom/ui/app.py", line 18, in <module> File "shibokensupport/__feature__.py", line 142, in _import File "/home/peter/.cache/pacaur/meshroom/src/meshroom/meshroom/ui/reconstruction.py", line 169, in <module> File "/home/peter/.cache/pacaur/meshroom/src/meshroom/meshroom/ui/reconstruction.py", line 253, in ViewpointWrapper TypeError: A constant property cannot have a WRITE method or a NOTIFY signal. The strange point for me here is that Meshroom tries to find sth. using my cache - I don't think that's the way Meshroom (or any other application) should work ... Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] ArchLinux Installation with full encryption and uefi but without lvm
by joerg.jellissen＠t-online.de 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

Hello, i have one question. Is it possible to install ArchLinux on an UEFI System with full encryption BUT without lvm? I found no tutorial to do this. I also like to do this without grub. But i don’t understand the differences between systemd / systemd-boot and bootctl. ☹ My english is good, but not so good. ☹ I am sorry for this. Thanks for helping me Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jörg Jellissen Friesenstraße 3 47445 Moers M: 0157 35344218 http://www.joerg-jellissen.de joerg.jellissen(a)t-online.de <mailto:joerg.jellissen@t-online.de>

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[arch-general] pacman trust DB issue
by Frank 13 Dec '20

13 Dec '20

Good afternoon, I'm having an issue with pacman. When running pacman to e.g. do an upgrade I get the following error message: error: cifs-utils: signature from "Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>" is unknown trust :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/cifs-utils-6.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] I checked system time which should be fine, so I did a pacman-key --init pacman-key --populate archlinux this ends with the following error: ==> ERROR: Trust database could not be updated. What is it I'm missing? THX Frank -- Frank Zimmermann Jami: rhoihesse Matrix: @zimbi:matrix.org

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[arch-general] PA over JACK: excessive work?
by riveravaldez 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Hi, I'm using PulseAudio over JACK and noticed in htop that while not doing nothing PA works much more than when idle alone, is this normal/right? This is what I do: Close everything that uses audio. Start JACK through qjackctl. $ pulseaudio --kill $ pulseaudio --start (So, PA now works as some kind of bridge redirecting audio through JACK.) $ pactl load-module module-jack-sink $ pactl load-module module-jack-source (So I have general sink/source ports to make connections.) But then I check htop and PA is working all the time. Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks a lot in advance.

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[arch-general] FreeCAD and KiCAD depend on different opencascade versions
by Ricardo Band 11 Dec '20

11 Dec '20

Ohai, I'd like to use FreeCAD and KiCAD on the same system but I can't install them both from the official repos because kicad depends on opencascade und freecad depends on opencascade74. I can't install both because these two opencascades don't like to be installed together. Is their a solution in sight? Can we recompile freecad against the newer opencascade? At the moment I'm using the AppImage version of freecad and the repo version of kicad. -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band

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[arch-general] CPU spikes when lid closed
by David Rosenstrauch 04 Dec '20

04 Dec '20

I've been having an odd problem. My laptop works like a charm on its own. However, when it's connected to a USB-C dock and screen, suddenly apps that were working great start eating up lots of CPU. (Such as Firefox, Thunderbird, and Zoom.) After a bit of debugging, I realized that the issue isn't even whether I'm connected to the dock, but rather whether the laptop lid is open or closed: close the lid and all those apps eat up CPU; open the lid and CPU drops and everything is groovy. I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing this, and my searching hasn't been able to turn up a clear cause or solution. Would anyone happen to have experienced the same issue, or be able to point me in the right direction as to the cause? I'm running XFCE, with the display settings set to "mirror displays" (i.e., the internal laptop screen and the external HDMI monitor). Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Softphone
by Jörg Jellissen 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Hello, i am currently searching for another software solution for a SIP Softphone on Gnome in ArchLinux. I didn't found a good solution. In AUR there is linphone available but i think this is terrible for me. Thanks for help Regards

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[arch-general] General protections faults / kernel panics with the Apple Magic Trackpad 2
by Merlin Büge 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

Hi all. I think I need some help with debugging an issue I have. I recently bought an "Apple Magic Trackpad 2" for reducing strain on my hand (since I have some RSI[0] issues currently), which is supported in Linux since version 4.20[1]. After connecting it to my laptop it worked instantly at first, but "sometimes" un- and replugging the trackpad crashes my system. Often it works fine, but every now and then it triggers `general protection faults` (often while opening big applications like Firefox), causes my status bar to hang up, and usually ends in a freeze. Sometimes, just before the freeze I get thrown back to the console and see a kernel panic at the end of the log. The laptop is a Thinkpad X200 running stock BIOS, Arch Linux and sway, with microcode updates enabled. I could also reproduce the issue with Gnome on Wayland. On Xfce I could not reproduce the issue, and also not on Fedora (which I installed on the same laptop to the same SSD, for testing). I'm using the trackpad only via the USB cable, not via bluetooth. Attached is a snippet from the dmesg output with debug logging enabled (appended `debug` on the kernel cmdline) showing some of the protection faults. I uploaded the full dmesg output here [2]. In this specific dmesg output, most of the protection faults happened concurrently while I was opening Firefox (several times to provoke the crash). A photo of the kernel panic can be found here [3]. This kernel bug report[4] and related arch report[5] seem related to the issue, maybe it's even the same issue? However, the kernel bug report mentions that the issue only affects linux >=5.8.7. In my case, I could reproduce the issue with the following linux versions (installed from the Arch Linux archive): 4.20.0 4.20.1 4.20.3 4.20.7 5.0.0 5.0.13 5.4.74 5.2.0 5.8.6 5.8.7 5.8.8 5.9.2, 5.9.4 5.10rc-2 The USB ID of the trackpad is 05ac:0265. Because I'm very inexperienced with kernel debugging I would appreciate any help/pointers to what would be wise to test next. If this is likely to be an issue with the Linux kernel and not arch-related (unsure, since I could not reproduce it on other distros), please tell me so and I will post to the kernel bug tracker instead. Thanks! Merlin Büge [0]: https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~cscott/rsi.html [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git/commit/?h=for… [2]: https://0x0.st/idkH.json [3]: https://0x0.st/idkz.jpg [4]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209239 [5]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/67860 -- Merlin Büge

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[arch-general] gnupg version
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 01 Dec '20

01 Dec '20

hello. GnuPG 2.2.25 has been released it fixes bug which affects me. but arch only has Version 2.2.24-1 in testing. my question is why it haven't been updated? if the maintainer simply does not have time yet, then I understand, but maybe there is another reason? -- Sincerely, Alexander.

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[arch-general] Translation not fully working with gnome and gdm
by Jörg Jellissen 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

Hello everyone, i have a problem with my arch linux system running with gnome and gdm. In some applications, or on the right click menue all entries are not translatet. So, normaly i have configured my system in german. In most of applications and menues there still working fine. But some cases i have no translation yet :-( What is the problem? Is there a problem with any dependencies? Thanks for help

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[arch-general] Systemd boot
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

I2'm trying to fully make sense of the boot process with systemd. I've read various pages from the manual, including bootup(7). There are two points I don't fully understand. * Filesystem mounts during initrd The man page, under the initrd section, says: "systemd detects that it is run within an initrd [...]. The bootup process begins identical to the system manager bootup (see above) until it reaches basic.target. [...] Before any file systems are mounted, it must be determined whether the system will resume from hibernation or proceed with normal boot." In my mind, that part self-contradicts when both saying that 1) the bootup proceeds identical to the system manager bootup and 2) a determination on whether to mount file systems is made /after/ basic.target. This is because some file systems (including, in most cases, the root file systems) would have been mounted before local-fs.target, which is ordered before basic.target. So either the process is not really identical until basic.target, or I'm getting something wrong. * Instances I gather that the systemd which runs inside the initrd is a completely separate instance from the one which then runs in the booted system. Which implies - as discussed above - that the system initialization sequence from beginning to basic.target actually happens twice. Does this means than any initialization units which could potentially be run twice - once in the initrd and once in the booted system - should be instrumented to avoid running their logic twice (in the cases where that's not needed or even harmful)? Let's consider for example an hypothetical service with "WantedBy=cryptsetup-pre.target", which decrypts a keyfile using an hardware token. This keyfile is then consumed by systemd-cryptsetup-generator with keyfile-erase=on. What happens if the service is run twice, but the key is consumed only the first time? A decrypted keyfile remains in the system. What's the correct approach to avoid such a scenario? Riccardo

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[arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?
by SET 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Hello, I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of course. I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for it to work. Some pages hint that the r8169 driver should work too. Almost all of these sources are many years old. I wish some forum members could share their experience with this NIC on current kernel. Does it just work? Is the r8168 package mandatory? Can complex tweak be avoided? Thank you. -- Envoyé de mon appareil Android avec Courriel K-9 Mail. Veuillez excuser ma brièveté.

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[arch-general] Thunderbird 78
by Xorg 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

Hi, Thunderbird 78 is available since 1 month (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/releasenotes) Is there any reason the package is stuck to version 68? Can someone update this package? Thank in advance.

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[arch-general] pacman reset procedure
by Jude DaShiell 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

The pacman data bases I have apparently got broken and will not update. Connection to the internet is good. What is the procedure to have pacman reset itself and clear out any broken parts so it becomes able to update? -- United States has 633 Billionaires with only 10 doing any annual significant giving.

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[arch-general] Wine package broken
by Jeremy Brown 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi archfolks, So I did a `pacman -Syu` yesterday, after which point wine no longer seems to work (any command I run, including just stock "winecfg" after installing hangs forever). I posted about it on the ArchLinux Reddit, and also saw a post on the Arch forums about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/k0b5kr/wine_no_longer_working/ https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261004 I was able to build my own version of wine from source and that worked. Then I built the wine PKGBUILD and that worked. So I think the binary package for wine may have been built wrong in some way, e.g. outdated headers in a dependent package or something. Should I file a bug, email the maintainer of the package, email the latest package uploader, etc.? What's the quickest way to get this resolved? Cheers, Jeremy

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[arch-general] gn package, could you please add the emacs gn-mode.el ?
by Yi Zheng 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi, Evangelos in the source tree of 'gn' package, the emacs mode scripts has been added in misc/emacs/gn-mode.el Could you please add that mode into the gn release package in ArchLinux ?

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Re: [arch-general] busted system after update
by u34＠net9.ga 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Referring to my post from Tue Nov 17 02:14:29 UTC 2020, I am not sure I am not confusing things here. -- u34

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[arch-general] busted system after update
by winstonsmith＠vfemail.net 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

hi folks i could use a little push in the right direction. i run arch on a 2013 macbook air. i am running an LVM on LUKS system. after updating my system via "sudo pacman -Syu" i am locked out of my machine. on a subsequent boot i get the message: "ERROR: device '/dev/mapper/vgcrypt-root' not found, skipping fsck." "mount: /new_root: no filesystem type specified." "You are now being dropped into an emergency shell." and so i am. i was able to use a debian live usb to drop into debian's rescue mode and execute a shell in my decrypted root. i see that mkinitcpio.conf is missing several hooks, like encrypt and lvm2! what the what?! i pacman.log i notice that mkinitcpio was updated to version 29-1 when i did my previous pacman update. is it possible that the update to mkinitcpio just silently hosed my previous configuration?! my plan is to add the required hooks to mkinitcpio.conf and then rebuild. does that seem like the right plan? and will mkinitcpio build an initramfs successfully from the debian chroot into my disk? thanks for the time ------------------------------------------------- This free account was provided by VFEmail.net - report spam to abuse(a)vfemail.net ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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[arch-general] root login @ console
by Jack Frost 14 Nov '20

14 Nov '20

So I foo-bared my /home partition, no big deal, done it before, and I keep good backups. I boot to single mode and get to a prompt. My regular user is gone so I try to just login at the console (no X) as root. It doesn't work. I know I set the root password. What setting is preventing root from being able to authenticate. I noticed when I went to cups on localhost:631 and tried to do an admin task and needed to authenticate. Root couldn't login. How do I allow root logins under Arch/Arco linux at a console???

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[arch-general] postgres 12
by ente 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Hi, since the upgrade of postgress from 11.9 to 12.5 I am having issues starting up using the systemd service file. When I do: > su postgres > postgress -D data it works great. When I do > systemctl start postgresql I get: An old version of the database format was found. Checking the database version shows it is on 12. So obviously the systemd unit file seems to point postgres to an unexpected location. My system file is pointing to a non-standard location according to the arch wiki: [Service] Environment=PGROOT=/pathto/pgroot PIDFile=/pathto/pgroot/data/postmaster.pid Anyone else facing the same issue? Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] Firefox slowness
by David Rosenstrauch 13 Nov '20

13 Nov '20

Perhaps this is just me, but it feels like Firefox has gotten super slow / hogging lots of CPU recently. Anyone else seeing this? And/or know what might be causing it? (Some recent upgrade to the package perhaps?) Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Thunderbird package version
by Steven Guikal 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

Hi, I'm looking at the thunderbird package, and the reported version is 68.12.0-1 which is rather outdated. Trying to install the package also installs the outdated version. However, looking at the PKGBUILD it's 78.4.1. Why is this the case?

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[arch-general] PSA: OpenVPN no longer runs scripts as root
by Ben Oliver 10 Nov '20

10 Nov '20

OpenVPN now runs scripts as the user `openvpn`, not as root. This tripped me up recently, because I use the `update-systemd-resolved` script, but it can't do its thing without root. Just thought I'd put this out there in case anyone else was having issues.

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[arch-general] Thunderbird 78
by Peter 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hello, > Thunderbird allows you to use GnuPG for private key operations if you > can’t/don’t want to import your private key into Thunderbird. This is > a feature lot of us need, because if you use a smartcard-like hardware > solution (Yubikey, Nitrokey, any PGP smartcard…) that’s the only > solution (since you cannot import your private key into Thunderbird). > Thunderbird calls this the “external GnuPG feature”: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards Thank you for the information. Alright! Thunderbird does have a fallback for GnuPG. Please correct me if I'm wrong: currently everybody that uses Thunderbird, whether they have a need for GnuPG or not, is stuck with an out-of-date version 68.12.0. I'm using Archlinux for many years and normally Archlinux updates packages as they are released. If some people cannot use the latest version for whatever reason, they are free to add the package to IgnorePkg in their /etc/pacman.conf. Now, I understand that it must be sour if the package maintainer himself/herself has to do that, but it does not seem right what is happening now. To avoid that the discussion goes about whether there are "a lot" or "a few" or how many there are that have a need for GnuPG, please consider whether it is worth to avoid shipping (security) updates. Peter.

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[arch-general] Thunderbird 78
by Peter 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hello, > anthraxx did update the PKGBUILD and we are testing the build but > currently for instance I’m unable to decrypt messages using the > external GnuPG feature (reported upstream), and there is also a build > issue with system bzip2 (I used the vendored one instead, but that’s > not what we want for the final build). > > So for now this remain WIP. I couldn't find the ticket in Bugzilla. Can you please post the ticket number of the bug that was reported upstream? GnuPG was replaced by OpenPGP. What are you referring to when you say "decrypt messages using the external GnuPG feature"? Peter.

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Re: [arch-general] locked out
by flipee 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

6 de nov. de 2020 14:43 por fons(a)linuxaudio.org: > Hello all, > > After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-( > > The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen. > But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for > root. > > I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions > under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt > > I reset my password and the root password in that environment, > but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out. > > Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated ! > > -- > FA > It looks like a PAM lockout [1]. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Security#Lock_out_user_after_three_fai… -- Regards, flipee

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[arch-general] locked out
by Fons Adriaensen 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Hello all, After a full upgrade it seems I'm locked out :-( The system boots normally, and shows the xdm login screen. But my password is not accepted. Same in a tty, also for root. I can boot using an installation stick, mount all partitions under /mnt as during installation, and do an arch-chroot /mnt I reset my password and the root password in that environment, but that didn't help. After a normal boot I'm still locked out. Any hints to solve this will be much appreciated ! -- FA

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[arch-general] Dual Boot with Windows 10 20H2
by joerg.jellissen＠t-online.de 06 Nov '20

06 Nov '20

Hello, i have a problem. I would like to go back to ArchLInux, but i must use windows for most software like a DocumentScanner (Fujitsu Siemens ScanSnap IX500) with OCR Software, ABBY Fine Reader and so on, i have a LabelPrinter (Brother QL800) My Hobby is Photography with my CANON EOS 80D. I use Luminar 4 to edit my pictures. I found another solution called darktable. But only for this. I have a PC created by myself in 2015 with specs CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.60 GHz RAM: 18 GB SSD: Samsung 250GB 840 Pro Series for my OS HDD: WD 2TB as my primary data drive Is it a good choice to install two OS on my system? I like Linux, so i began to learn with Debian 5, with Linux Mint, a little bit Manjaro and for few months ArchLinux. I like ArchLInux. Is it a good choice to do this or is there another option to use both OS. A Windows VM with VirtualBox and Boxes doesn’t work fine ☹ i don’t know why So this is not an option Please can you help me by my brain storming. Many thanks

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[arch-general] ibus has been out-of-date for over a month
by Alex Henrie 05 Nov '20

05 Nov '20

Dear Arch maintainers, ibus 1.5.23 was released at the end of last month,[1] but Arch is still on 1.5.22.[2] Could you please update the package? The new version supports compose rules that output multiple codepoints,[3] which I need to type certain Greek characters such as "ᾱ̈́". -Alex [1] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ibus/ [3] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/b59f7f823b7b2051e4ca31834f9299a72f01b339

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[arch-general] "npm" package issues
by Greg Minshall 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

hi. [hope all are well, etc.] i use the npm package (for managing javascript packages). today i tried "pacman -Syu", and i got a number of errors about files under /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules that "exists in filesystem": ---- (182/182) checking for file conflicts error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) npm: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/meant/.github/workflows/ci.yml exists in filesystem npm: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/minimist/.travis.yml exists in filesystem ... (about minimist) ---- these are files that are not owned by the npm package. the relevant find command : find /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/ -exec pacman -Qo {} \; | : grep -v 'is owned by npm 6.14.8-1' shows two files in some sort of ./.bin/ directory ---- error: No package owns /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/node-gyp error: No package owns /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/.bin/semver ---- and then a number in a small number of npm packages, namely in - meant (the .github subdirectory) - minimist (the whole directory, i think) - node-gyp (the whole directory) - semver (the whole directory) that are also in the "No package owns" state. note that [pacman -Syu] only complains about meant and minimist, not node-gyp or semver. first off, i wonder if anyone has ideas of how i ended up in this situation? i know that occasionally npm will exclaim, with enthusiasm, that a new, updated version, is available, and offer me a chance to update it. normally i don't run as root. but, if i had, in the past, sudo'd npm, and let it update itself, might *that* have produced this? then, second, i'm ignorant enough to not be sure what to do and am looking for advice. i can do [pacman --overwrite]. i could, i suppose (at what consequence?:) [pacman -R npm], then re-install. (though i assume i'd have the same problem, as pacman would presumably leave untouched the files not owned by npm.) i could just delete the offending files pacman complains about (meant/.github/..., and minimist/...). okay, thanks in advance for any thoughts. cheers, Greg

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[arch-general] USB flash installation medium in BIOS machines
by Juergen Werner 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi, I started working on my old Laptop again, which is a pre-EFI model and needed a live USB medium to do some repartitioning. I copied the current installation ISO to a USB flash. When I try to boot with it, I see the boot menu (which looks like systemd-boot menu) with only options for UEFI boot and EFI shell option. In the wiki it is mentioned, that BIOS boots are available throug syslinux: > Tip: The installation image uses systemd-boot for booting in UEFI mode and syslinux for booting in BIOS mode. [...] I tried 2 different USB drives and different USB ports. Am I missing something? Cheers, jotz

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[arch-general] Fail2Ban is not adding iptables rules
by Maykel Franco 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi, I have this script for iptables for my archlinux desktop: https://pastebin.com/SafhsKFt And when received external request access SSH error, fail2ban add rule but the rule not working. I think it has to do with the iptables script, but the fail2ban blocking rules add fine but don't ban. That could be happening?

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Support for Station P1, Station M1?
by Morne Ross 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Hi Firefly is looking for some developers to add Linux OS support for their devices and can give some free samples. They have the Station P1 RK3399 and Station M1 RK3328 and plan to also release a RK3568 device in a couple of weeks. http://stationpc.com/portal.php?mod=topic&topicid=2 http://stationpc.com/portal.php?mod=topic&topicid=7 Will it be possible for someone to build Arch Linux for it perhaps? The source code is also available for the devices and they already have Linux booting with 5.9 kernels. For further cooperation or help you can contact T-Chip, manufacturer of the Firefly devices. sgs(a)t-chip.com.cn You can send me the contact and shipping details then I can forward it to them for where the samples can be shipped too. If more than one person needs samples than I can also ask them. Regards Morne

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[arch-general] Makepkg: Incremental builds
by LuKaRo 02 Nov '20

02 Nov '20

Hi everyone, I'm currently building ungoogled-chromium from AUR, which is running for 6 hrs now on my 6-core i7-9750H laptop and almost done. However, I'm thinking about what happens when the next version will be released. From my understanding, when running git pull to fetch the latest version from AUR and afterwards makepkg -sri, the old binaries will be deleted prior to starting the build, which will probably require to build everything from scratch. Am I right? However, I'm sure that only parts of the source change between versions. Therefore, only parts of the binary files would need to be built again, which would dramatically decrease build time. Correct? How can I make use of incremental builds using makepkg? I'm aware of the -e switch, but that would skip the prepare function, which might be required as e.g. new patch files from AUR would need to be applied. Furthermore, the timestamps of the source files all seem to be set to the archival date. This would probably also require a full build, even if only parts of the source changed. Correct? If yes, is there a way to fix that? Having to spend 6-7 hrs of build time on each new release would make frequent updating impractical. Thanks in advance! LuKaRo

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[arch-general] suspend to RAM with home on NFS
by hw 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

Hi, how do you get suspend to RAM to work with home directories on NFS? Since I have /home mounted over NFS, suspending just freezes and I can only hold down the power button to turn the computer off.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archlinux/base docker image will no longer be updated
by Óscar García Amor 01 Nov '20

01 Nov '20

I take this opportunity to comment that I maintain a clean Arch Linux image[1] (base and base-devel) builded[2] 1 and 15 of every month. It has some ideas of several repos (including the Official) to make it standard and tiny. Is published in GitHub[3] and any comment is welcomed. Greetings. [1]: https://hub.docker.com/r/ogarcia/archlinux [2]: https://circleci.com/gh/ogarcia/docker-archlinux [3]: https://github.com/ogarcia/docker-archlinux El dom., 1 nov. 2020 a las 8:34, Pierre Schmitz (<pierre(a)archlinux.de>) escribió: > > Hi all, > > as the archlinux/base image has been replaced by > https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/archlinux/archlinux I'll no > longer manually build this image alongside the ISO image release. I > guess it would be best to remove the repository so people will not > silently keep using an outdated image. > > Greetings, > > Pierre -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] archiso v49 with new features
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 31 Oct '20

31 Oct '20

ok. i write on arch general because i can't write to arch dev publick. 30.10.2020 20:36, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public пишет: > Em outubro 30, 2020 14:14 David Runge escreveu: >> >> If this mail reads like a changelog, then well, it is because I don't >> have a >> changelog in the project yet! ;-) >> Apart from that I thought it might be worthwhile to write a news item >> about it after the next ISO has been released and share the above two >> changes on the website. What do you think? >> > > I think accessibility is a huge milestone that, on its down, deserve a > news entry. yes. i think that too. i am preparing wiki documentation for accessible installation procedure. will try to finish the draft by the end of the week. > I have assisted a blind person to install Arch some time ago and it > was very difficult. > In the end, I wrote a small script to help with the installation. And > this is not because > the person wasn't technically able, but our iso didn't made it easy. hmm. talking-arch is available for long time. but i am sure that now such task will become much easier. > > Nice work! > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini -- Sincerely, Alexander.

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[arch-general] clamdscan started to ignore MaxFileSize
by Łukasz Michalski 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

Hi, I am using clamdscan to scan smb file server directories: /usr/bin/clamdscan --multiscan --fdpass /srv/samba/files I upgraded my over a year old arch yesterday and clamdscan started to fail with messages: /srv/samba/files/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1804.iso: Can't allocate memory ERROR I have default setting for MaxFileSize in /etc/clamav/clamd.conf. I also tried to set it explicitly to 30M but it seems that clamd started to ignore this setting after upgrade. Is it only me or anyone has this problem? Tried to google for solutions without any success so far. Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] sysstat man-page wrong
by Yi Zheng 30 Oct '20

30 Oct '20

/usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.xz.gz is compressed twice. man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/pidstat.1.xz.gz: ignoring bogus filename No manual entry for pidstat Could you please fixup that defect?

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[arch-general] Problem formatting/initialising new WD GameDrive USB disk
by Jeanette C. 29 Oct '20

29 Oct '20

Hey hey, I have just got a new Western Digital USB drive, GameDrive, an 8TB medium. I can't however format it or even create a new partition table. I am running a fairly up-to-date system: Kernel: 5.6.19-rt12-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT The device is recognised upon connection, also lsblk shows it. blkid however doesn't show it. Fdisk can't open it, reporting: fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error parted will start with it and show its identifier and size, but not even create a partition table, complaining about an input/output error. Here is a snippet from dmesg: [1206985.479621] usb 1-4.1: new high-speed USB device number 95 using ehci-pci [1206985.623255] usb 1-4.1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=2631, bcdDevice=50.06 [1206985.623261] usb 1-4.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [1206985.623264] usb 1-4.1: Product: Game Drive [1206985.623266] usb 1-4.1: Manufacturer: Western Digital [1206985.623268] usb 1-4.1: SerialNumber: 3030303030303030303030303030303030303030 [1206985.624147] usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [1206985.630644] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-4.1:1.0 [1206986.679886] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD Game Drive 5006 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [1206986.680412] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [1206986.684981] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16). [1206986.685480] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15628052480 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.28 TiB) [1206986.685484] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks [1206986.686601] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [1206986.686604] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08 [1206986.690364] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [1206986.690369] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [1206986.701963] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.701969] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.701977] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read [1206986.702009] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.702011] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.702017] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read [1206986.702061] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed. [1206986.702080] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 device offline or changed [1206986.702081] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [1206986.702087] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read ... I know that the Western Digital USB drives are prone to have issues upon setup, but I'm stuck with it. Can anyone help, suggest further action? I'd very much prefer to stay on the commandline. TIA and 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 Ain't no way I'll be lonely <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] usbguard package neglected
by arch user 27 Oct '20

27 Oct '20

Hello, the package usbguard was flagged out of date in november. Three new versions came out since then. A package update or any info on this would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards

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[arch-general] pacman -Rnus inetutils
by Neven Sajko 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

Today pacman surprised me after updating my system: turns out nothing on my installation depended on inetutils any more, so I removed it, even though it was there forever. The following reboot proceeded fine. I'm curious if somebody knows which packages dropped it as a dependency lately. Regards, Neven

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[arch-general] Packages "jami-gnome" and "libjamiclient" out of date
by Friedrich Strohmaier 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Hi archers, Packages "jami-gnome" and "libjamiclient" are flagged out of date since 2019-11-16 / 2019-11-20. There are two new releases in place. I tried to contact the maintainer twice but nothing happened. I retrieved the maintainers (Bruno Pagani) mail adress from this mailinglist. I suspect the mails didn't ever get there. Any hints how to proceed? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] Problems with upgrading arch system do to file conflicts.
by matthew dyer 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Evening all, When trying to update my arch system, I get a message about files in conflict with speech-dispatcher. Speech-dispatcher is not even listed as an update. I have tried paceman overwrite with no luck. I looked at the arch new updates and saw nothing to the effect of this. Is there something wrong, or a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed? I have not been able to fine anything on this one. I am scratching my head. Any help would be greatly appriseated. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] cd/dvd burning software
by mick howe 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

I'm chasing a simple program to burn CD/DVD and print a simple, plain text file list prefer to fit the disc case mick in glen innes 2370

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[arch-general] Nvidia issue not in Latest News section
by u34＠net9.ga 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Nvidia issue from the announce list was not published on the site home page. Do the right people aware of that, and I am just craeting noise? -- u34

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