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

11 Mar '21

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

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

11 Mar '21

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

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

09 Mar '21

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

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

08 Mar '21

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

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

06 Mar '21

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

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

06 Mar '21

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

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

24 Feb '21

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

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

24 Feb '21

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

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

22 Feb '21

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

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

22 Feb '21

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

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

21 Feb '21

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

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

18 Feb '21

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

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

16 Feb '21

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

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

14 Feb '21

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

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

13 Feb '21

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

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Re: [arch-general] strip command of binutils 2.36 changes ownership in fakeroot 1.25.3
by Genes Lists 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(a)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? 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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/DOM.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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[arch-general] package pages link to github (which is partly broken)
by Marcus Hoffmann 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Hi, I just noticed the package pages linking to github, instead of https://git.archlinux.org/. So far, trying to view the commit history for any community package just resulted in a page with the message: > Sorry, this commit history is taking too long to generate See, i.e. here: https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commits/master/element.io/t… I can find the package I'm interested in manually in https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/ but is there a better solution for this planned somehow? Marcus

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[arch-general] Applet to change audio output device
by Jörg Jellissen 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Hello, is for the gnome desktop an applet available for quick change my audio output device? Currently i must change it all the time on "Settings" and "Audio". But this is not optimal for me. I search for a faster variant is there a solution for alsa or pulse? Thanks for help Best Regards and sorry for my english. Iam from Germany and my english is not so good.

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Re: [arch-general] access jnlp file with icedtea-web
by Amin Vakil 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

> From: J?rg Jellissen <joerg.jellissen(a)t-online.de> > > Hello, > > i'd like to access a jnlp file with icedtea-web on my arch system. > I need this for locale access via ipmi to my server system at home. > > When i start the file with icedtea-web on a terminal i become the > message > No DBus connection available > > > is there another option to access the jnlp file without icedtea-web? > I tried a lot make it work with icedtea-web a while ago, but at last I installed jre8 from aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/jre8) Then I use this command to access iLO of HP servers, I hope this helps you. /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-jre/jre/bin/javaws iLO-jirc.jnlp

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[arch-general] access jnlp file with icedtea-web
by Jörg Jellissen 16 Oct '20

16 Oct '20

Hello, i'd like to access a jnlp file with icedtea-web on my arch system. I need this for locale access via ipmi to my server system at home. When i start the file with icedtea-web on a terminal i become the message No DBus connection available is there another option to access the jnlp file without icedtea-web? Thanks for helpers Regards

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[arch-general] Any arch-general changes since 9/24 -- I get no messages (but I see my messages in the archive)?
by David C. Rankin 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Archdevs, Were there any mailing list changes since 9/24 that would explain why I no longer get any arch related messages delivered to my inbox? The last message I received was "Abuse of arch wiki" on 9/24. I see other messages in https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/ as well as the pacman suggestion I sent, but I get nothing on my end. Suddenlink ISP issue? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Copy/Paste in KeepassXC Package
by Jörg Jellissen 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hello, i use the Password Manager KeePassXC with my YubiKey Nano 5 NFC Hardware Key. I would like to create in many entrys some notice with copy/paste. But i can't do this? Have anyone an idea why? Is there an issue in the package? Thanks for your help

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[arch-general] Problem with GPG Access Rules
by Jörg Jellissen 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Hello, i have a problem with my access rules on my ~/.gnupg folder. The reason is that i can't sign any e-mails . the warning message was that the access rules to the folder are too open but which rights are correct? i have looked in the folder and my rights looks like this drwxr-xr-x 3 joerg users 4,0K 12. Okt 12:57 . drwx------ 29 joerg users 4,0K 11. Okt 18:48 .. drwx------ 2 joerg users 4,0K 9. Okt 21:13 private-keys-v1.d -rw-r--r-- 1 joerg users 2,5K 9. Okt 21:13 pubring.kbx -rw------- 1 joerg users 32 9. Okt 21:13 pubring.kbx~ -rw-r--r-- 1 joerg users 7 10. Okt 19:41 reader_0.status -rw------- 1 joerg users 1,3K 9. Okt 21:13 trustdb.gpg is this correct for gpg / Kleopatra? the translated output was Detailed error message: Output from gpg2: gpg: WARNING: Insecure access rights of the home directory `/home/joerg/.gnupg ' gpg: write after '-' gpg: pinentry launched (5745 curses 1.1.0 - -: 0) gpg: Authentication failed: Inappropriate IOCTL (I / O control) for the device gpg: signing failed: Unsuitable IOCTL (I / O control) for the device Many thanks for helpers

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[arch-general] Belated Arch-Conf pacman improvement suggestion
by David C. Rankin 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Allan, While the pacman part of the conference is over, I just ran into an issue that would fit the pacman improvement segment. When updating, if on the first repo, the first mirror selected times-out, then mark that repo failed for the remaining repo checks so you don't sit through two more timeouts on a repo that is known failed at that point. If arch.mirror.constant.com was down yesterday, I could have made the segment :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] CUPS HP OfficeJet 8620 Pro
by Jörg Jellissen 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Hello, my printer is a HP OfficeJet 8620 Pro. But i still can't find any drivers for arch. Normally it is enough to install hplip package from the repos but it don't work. Can anyone help me to fix this problem? Thank you

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[arch-general] problem upgrading old installation
by Łukasz Michalski 09 Oct '20

09 Oct '20

Hi, Any idea how can I overcome this problem: [root@nettest zork]# pacman -S -q --noconfirm archlinux-keyring downloading required keys... error: key "6D42BDD116E0068F" could not be looked up remotely error: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. root@nettest zork]# pacman-key --refresh-keys gpg: refreshing 113 keys from hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error ==> ERROR: A specified local key could not be updated from a keyserver. I also tried: # pacman-key --init # pacman-key --populate archlinux # pacman-key --refresh-keys Still the same error. I have this problem on two servers with last upate 1,5 year ago. Thanks, Łukasz

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[arch-general] Problems with ethminer
by Jörg Jellissen 08 Oct '20

08 Oct '20

Hello, i have many problems with arch linux and the package ethminer i'm not sure if it is the correct mailinglist for this problem. But i try it When i start ethminer in a terminal with or without sudo, the right opencl device and so on... i became a message like this <code> clBuildProgram SIGSEGV encountered ... stack trace: backtrace() returned 7 addresses ethminer(+0xa2102) [0x5590fe6bf102] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3d6a0) [0x7f3568ffd6a0] ethminer(+0x36f0b1) [0x5590fe98c0b1] ethminer(+0x145f66) [0x5590fe762f66] ethminer(+0x41caa4) [0x5590fea39aa4] /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x93e9) [0x7f35693013e9] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x43) [0x7f35690c0293] SIGSEGV encountered ... stack trace: backtrace() returned 8 addresses ethminer(+0xa2102) [0x5590fe6bf102] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x3d6a0) [0x7f3568ffd6a0] ethminer(+0x99018) [0x5590fe6b6018] ethminer(+0x996a8) [0x5590fe6b66a8] ethminer(+0xb1e05) [0x5590fe6cee05] ethminer(+0x41caa4) [0x5590fea39aa4] /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0(+0x93e9) [0x7f35693013e9] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(clone+0x43) [0x7f35690c0293] </code> Can anyone help me by this issues? Thanks for all

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[arch-general] Update to Boost Libraries
by Jayesh Badwaik 07 Oct '20

07 Oct '20

Is there a reason why boost libraries are stuck to version 1.72 when 1.74 are already available? I cannot find anything on the bug tracker. Thank you. -- Best Jayesh Badwaik

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[arch-general] Missing sys_siglist declaration
by Hauke Fath 02 Oct '20

02 Oct '20

Hi, on an arch machine updated yesterday, my XEmacs does not build because the 'sys_siglist' declaration is gone from <string.h>, where the strsignal(3) man page says it should be. Searching the usual suspects didn't bring up anything. What did I miss? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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[arch-general] [Pencil2D] package update (and attached PKGBUILD)
by Popolon 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hi all. The package Pencil2D is flagged out of date since few weeks, the PKGBUILD update is relatively simple. I didn't know where to propose updated PKGBUILD version. I tried forum first, a moderator said me to report a bug, then I open a bug, and a moderator closed the bug saying to never report a bug but to flag the package as outdated (I said the package was already flagged), and he send me to this mailing list, I hope this is the good place? The new version of Pencil2D is a 1 year update with lot of new features, that could be useful for Arch user that want to make 2D animation (there are also at least OpenToonz, Krita, Blender Grease Pencil and Synfig) and bug corrections. So the patch in the current PKGBUILD is no more needed. So there is only to update version number to 0.6.5, to update the source tarball sha25sum to 31903c54c8f0a79385cc5f519b380d26524219984e619204820b946c96fc2482 and to remove the patch and associated prepare() function. I added the working version of the PKGBUILD for this version to this mail. I used it for several weeks, it works very nicely. Don't need to credit me, just hope it will be updated for other Arch users. Regards, Popolon.

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[arch-general] GNU Guix
by Cuckoo's Calling 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hello All, I came across an amazing project called GNU Guix. So, I made an animation to introduce the novel concepts of this project. Here is the link for the video, https://gnuguix-drive.mycozy.cloud/public?sharecode=YvERPGX14g5S Please leave me a feedback on your experience. Cheers, Cuckoo's Calling.

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[arch-general] /dev/stdin /dev/stdout /dev/stderr in initrd/initramfs
by Pascal 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

hi list members, I don't have /dev/std* (eg. links to /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2}) that were present until a short time ago. is there any change on this side ? udev ? is it necessary to incorporate a particular kernel module in initrd/initramfs to find them again ? regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] [LibrePlanet]: New Presentation
by Goo Goo Knox 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Hi All, I am planning to apply for a session in upcoming LibrePlanet conference, to present a topic on this project. Here is the self-shot version of the presentation, https://fs333.gounlimited.to/tea5ur5c2h2qzxfffn4yv5jg53piwzbdni5tp7o7twot3l… Please leave me a feedback. :-) Cheers, Goo-Goo-Knox.

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[arch-general] extundelete depricated?
by Javier 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

I noticed extundelete utility to recover deleted files for et3/ext4 was removed from the repos. It wasn't added to AUR either. So it sounds it won't be maintained anymore... Is it because it's considered depricated, or superseded by perhaps ext4magic, or just that no maintainer likes it? Just wondering. I see ext4magic available, so it provides similar functionality, and can be picked as an option... Thanks ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] Can anyone share experience with "preloader" on Arch (UEFI secure boot)?
by Maarten de Vries 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 at 14:18, Manuel Reimer <mail+archgeneral(a)m-reimer.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to occasionally run Linux on a system which was set up with > Windows 10 with Bitlocker enabled. > > Disabling secure boot for Linux and reenabling it when booting into > Windows starts to get annoying. > > So my idea was to just use "preloader" and add it to the chain of EFI > binaries to execute. But as Arch gets kernel updates pretty often I am a > bit worried about getting my MokList corrupted at some time as described > here: > > > http://blog.rootserverexperiment.de/2013/06/02/moklist-gesemmelt-boot-unmog… > > Has anyone ever noticed this problem? How are the hashes stored? If I > update the kernel, will preloader *replace* the hash in MokList or add a > new one? How is this MokList stored? Is this flash memory with limited > write cycles? > Depending on how much you actually value the security of secure boot, you could just add your own DB key (so not a MOK) and sign grub with that key directly rather than using shim. Grub will then happily load any unsigned linux kernel. This is a bug in the shim_lock grub module, but even when it is fixed, you can get grub to ignore secure boot as long as you don't use the shim_lock module. If you actually want to prevent unsigned code from running, you should use shim with a MOK. You only need a single key that you can use to sign your bootloader and kernel images. By using a key for signing, you don't have to add any hashes to the MOK database. So there also shouldn't be much risk of corrupting your MOK database. -- Maarten >

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[arch-general] Abuse of arch wiki?
by LuKaRo 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Hi, I was searching for information on firejail, when the fourth hit on my search engine was: https://www.linuxsecrets.com/archlinux-wiki/wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi…. This looks like an exact copy of our archlinux wiki (including the header bar) but hosted on Google's servers with no administrative contact given. They also seem to run additional obfuscated JavaScript on "their" copy of arch wiki. Their main page's "about us" page gives just a 404 error, and there is no further imprint given. However, on their main page it says "Copyright Linuxsecrets.com. All Rights Reserved". It looks like they at least tried to copy ArchLinux Forums, Ubuntu Forums and Linux Mint Forums as well. I know that GNU FDL allows redistribution of content, but I do think that copying the entire wiki with no attribution or information at all violates at least ethical principles. They also copy the wiki login page, which is also interesting from a security point of view. An unknowing user is misleaded by this content, and considering that this site was the fourth hit on a common search term in my search engine I'm worried by the impact. At least I wanted to make you aware of that our arch wiki contents are copied without any notice. Regards, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] Can anyone share experience with "preloader" on Arch (UEFI secure boot)?
by Manuel Reimer 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

Hello, I want to occasionally run Linux on a system which was set up with Windows 10 with Bitlocker enabled. Disabling secure boot for Linux and reenabling it when booting into Windows starts to get annoying. So my idea was to just use "preloader" and add it to the chain of EFI binaries to execute. But as Arch gets kernel updates pretty often I am a bit worried about getting my MokList corrupted at some time as described here: http://blog.rootserverexperiment.de/2013/06/02/moklist-gesemmelt-boot-unmog… Has anyone ever noticed this problem? How are the hashes stored? If I update the kernel, will preloader *replace* the hash in MokList or add a new one? How is this MokList stored? Is this flash memory with limited write cycles? Thanks Manuel

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[arch-general] cockpit-docker no longer in [community]
by karx 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Hey all, Today I noticed that the Docker section was gone from my cockpit[1] dashboard on my server. I then tried uninstalling and reinstalling cockpit-docker, and realized I cannot install it anymore. Some google searching tells me that the cockpit-docker package has been removed from [community], and it is not in the AUR. Is there a reason it was removed? I am okay with installing an old version and putting it in IgnorePkg. Thanks, Yash [1]: https://cockpit-project.org/

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[arch-general] Tbird 78.2 enable Master Password of GPG keys stored in profile unencrypted
by David C. Rankin 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

All, Just a heads up. SuSE has been doing work with Thunderbird 78.2 trying to prepare for a move to it with the openPGP replacement for Enigmail. One issue that has come from that is the realization that unless you enable a Master Password for thunderbird passwords, once you import your GPG keys, they will be stored unencrypted in your thunderbird profile. If you have never set a mater password for thunderbird before (I haven't), it looks like that will be required with 78.2 hits. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [off-topic] Alternative to Thunderbird, with GPG support, caldav + cardav support, and ics remote webcal support and syncing
by Javier 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Hi ! I'm looking for a mail client integrated with a calendar system and a contacts system, that works on both GNU+Linux and Windows, hopefully not Thunderbird, Kontact (Kmail + Korganizer + Kaddressbook), neither Evolution. I'm looking for a client which supports and uses GPG and its keyring and agent, for signing and recognizing signatures, encrypting and decrypting, and that supports autocrypt (autocrypt is pretty important to me). I'm also looking for integration with calendar, being able to receive invitations and events via email, and adding them to the calendar if wanted. The calendar must be able to add and keep in sync caldav remote calendars as well as ics remote web calendars (syncing them periodically, being able to set the period up, and the ics included calendars can be read only, but not the caldav ones). I'm also looking for integration with contacts, and the contact must be able to add and keep in sync cardav remote contancts. Until Thunderbird v68, it was the option through the enigmail, lightning and the cardbook extensions, but I really don't want to keep using Thunderbird v78 and beyond any more. I don't like several design decisions made by the Thunderbird team, regarding how they'll handle PGP, like not using the GPG keyring, not using the GPG agent, not integrating with GPG in general, and neither supporting autocrypt initially (which should be a must to release, or so I think, even K9 for android supports it). I understand Kontact is close, it even works on Windows, but besides the fact I don't like the bunch of dependencies brought to the system by it, neither its Akonadi sort of DB, I never got it syncing ics remote web calendars and I really don't know if one can't set autocrypt for it. I really never liked Evolution either, so that really is less of an option for me, but besides it doesn't work on windows that I know of. I'd prefer Qt applications, but that's just a preference, not a requirement. I was investigating about Trojitá, to see if it would integrate with other applications it doesn't provide, but I found it can decrypt, but not encrypt, and it doesn't support carddav contacts, and even less keeping them in sync, so it was not worth investigating about calendars being able to extend the Trojitá functionality... Kube looked promising, but it's only for GNU+Linux and Mac (perhaps, though not officially supported BSDs). Are there any options for such client, or set of clients working together? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] pam_faillock -- can we just remove it from /etc/pam.d/login?
by David C. Rankin 12 Sep '20

12 Sep '20

Following the [arch-dev-public] Pam lockout thread, Can we just remove the faillock entries from /etc/pam.d/login without breaking anything if we don't need it at all (like for home computers, etc..) The any 3 attempts in 15 minutes which is the default under faillock.conf: # The default is 900 (15 minutes). # fail_interval = 900 means that if I mistype a password on login, then 10 minutes later mess up with sudo, and then 14 minutes later have another slip with sudo, I'm locked out by faillock. That seems like overkill for home users. It should be limited to 3 failed logins at a single prompt, not any 3 in 15 minutes. # admin_group = <admin_group_name> is another option -- but at this point, I'd rather just remove it from the pam stack. Is that doable? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [off-topic] Korganizer: get ics webcals periodically sync (can be read only)
by Javier 11 Sep '20

11 Sep '20

Hi ! Sorry for being a bit off-topic, however there might be Kontact Arch users that can help me out answering a question about Korganizer, from the Kontact suite. See when I tried using Korganizer, I could add caldav calendars, and I also could add ics online web calendars, however it seems the only way to add such calendar is treating them as static calendars, meaning they get added, but can't be periodically sync, which is what I'm looking for, since I access as read only my office calendar from office365, which requires pretty frequent syncs, and I also access astronomy events calendars and holidays calendars, which all evolve over time. Examples (excluding the office one): https://cantonbecker.com/astronomy-calendar-files/astrocal.ics https://www.officeholidays.com/ics/ics_country_code.php?iso=US https://www.officeholidays.com/ics/ics_country_code.php?iso=CR When adding those ics calendar as ical files (the only way I found to add them), I got sad warnings: > Select the file whose contents should be represented by this resource. If the file does not exist, it will be created. A URL of a remote file can also be specified, but note that monitoring for file changes will not work in this case. I'm assuming no monitoring means no syncing at all, :( Isn't there a way to add such calendars, but keeping them doing periodic syncs, hopefully with individual periods each (more frequent for the office one, and less frequent for the other ones). Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?
by Javier 10 Sep '20

10 Sep '20

Hi ! On Today's upgrade: % pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... ... Packages (9) ... tigervnc-1.11.0-1 ... ... tigervnc-1.11.0-1-x86_64 131.3 MiB 3.51 MiB/s 00:37 [########################################################] 100% (9/9) checking keys in keyring [########################################################] 100% (9/9) checking package integrity [########################################################] 100% (9/9) loading package files [########################################################] 100% (9/9) checking for file conflicts [########################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) tigervnc: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Usually that get fixed by using "--overwrite /usr/sbin". But I find it wrong for tigervnc to own "/usr/sbin", so I think in this case tigervnc is not right. Would this be the case, or it's OK for tigervnc to be the owner and then to overwrite? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] What companion SW to use with Trojitá to get integration and syncing of calendar (caldav) and contacts (carddav)
by Javier 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

I've been thinking on trying Trojitá as e-mail client, specially because it's GNUPG integration and support. However I understand it doesn't integrate neither synchronize with a calendar, neither it recognizes calendar invitations to integrate with a calendar, and I believe it doesn't support neither synchronize with remote contacts. I do depend on syncing with a remote caldav calendar, as well as with remote ics calendars for events like holidays, or astronomy calendars. And I also depend on syncing with a remote cardav contacts addressbook. I'm wondering if there is SW that can interact with Trojitá to get the needed functionality. Has anyone gotten such functionality using Trojitá? Which sw/applications? How? Thanks ! -- Javier

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[arch-general] permission problems with brasero (cdrecord)
by Łukasz Michalski 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

Hi, Today I discovered that I cannot burn CD from iso image with brasero - it says I do not have requires permissions. My user is in "optical group". I finally resolved this problem by setting sticky bit on /bin/cdrecord and /bin/cdrdao. Is there a better solution? Here is interesting part of log from brasero run with --brasero-media-debug --brasero-burn-debug --brasero-utils-debug: BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:142) BraseroCDRecord got varg: BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) cdrecord BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) -v BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) dev=/dev/sr0 BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) gracetime=0 BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) speed=24 BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) driveropts=burnfree BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) fs=16m BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) -data BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) -nopad BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:145) /home/zork/Downloads/cd140201.iso BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:624) BraseroCDRecord Launching command BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1309) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_fd_out BraseroBurn: (at burn-task.c:439) entering loop BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stdout: BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1190) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_fd_in BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: No write mode specified. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stdout: BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1309) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_fd_out BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Assuming -sao mode. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Warning: Cannot raise RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limits. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2). BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority(). BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'file read' privileges. You will not be able to open all needed devices. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'file write' privileges. You will not be able to open all needed devices. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'device' privileges. You may not be able to send all needed SCSI commands, this my cause various unexplainable problems. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'memlock' privileges. You may get buffer underruns. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'priocntl' privileges. You may get buffer underruns. BraseroBurn: (at burn-job.c:1374) BraseroCDRecord called brasero_job_get_flags BraseroBurn: (at burn-process.c:415) BraseroCDRecord stderr: cdrecord: Insufficient 'network' privileges. You will not be able to do remote SCSI. Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] brltty - Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key Howto Fix?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

All, On system update, I get the following related to the brltty[1] package: (2/7) Creating temporary files... Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key during canonicalization of /etc/brlapi.key. error: command failed to execute correctly Apparently this package was installed as a dependency of qemu. I generally do not want to ignore errors on update, so how do I fix this problem? The package was updated August 29, but the issue continues. Should I just delete the key and let qemu start over with a new one in a new location? Checked https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU, but nothing noted. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] arch-general list down?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

All, I have no posts from arch-general since 8/30. I have tried to post related to a pacman update issue, but the posts are not getting though?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] brltty - Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key Howto Fix?
by David C. Rankin 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

All, On system update, I get the following related to the brltty[1] package: (2/7) Creating temporary files... Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key during canonicalization of /etc/brlapi.key. error: command failed to execute correctly Apparently this package was installed as a dependency of qemu. I generally do not want to ignore errors on update, so how do I fix this problem? The package was updated August 29, but the issue continues. Should I just delete the key and let qemu start over with a new one in a new location? Checked https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU, but nothing noted. [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/ -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] arch-dev-public Re: Bug tracker migration
by David C. Rankin 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

On 8/29/20 6:02 PM, Frederik Schwan via arch-dev-public wrote: <snip> > Please make sure you all have a working account at our Gitlab instance. > If this change is 2-weeks away, shouldn't there be a note at least at the following existing sites informing folks that a new gitlab account will be needed? Site where notice of the change would make sense: bugs.archlinux.org or https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Getting_involved#Fix_and_report_bugs -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] drop dependencies on legacy inetutils for `hostname`
by Geert Hendrickx 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Hi A number of packages depend on inetutils merely for the `hostname` command. Common packages include xorg-xinit and mariadb, which makes that inetutils is still installed on a large number of Arch systems, although its other components like rcp, rsh, talk, telnet ... and their server counterparts, are really old, deprecated, and totally insecure. Plus the implementation seems to be largely abandoned by upstream (see FS#61041). Needless to say, I don't want any of these installed on my systems. Since `hostname` is still somewhat common though, there are probably more implicit dependencies on it, for example FS#66603. So I would like to eliminate dependencies on inetutils just for hostname, in one of the following ways: 1/ Split the inetutils package and provide hostname as a sub-package (but then still need to maintain inetutils) 2/ Package the Debian implementation, also used by Fedora and others (but this includes other legacy shit like `nisdomainname` and `ypdomainname`) See https://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hostname.html 3/ Use the implementation provided by gettext (/usr/lib/gettext/hostname), which is already part of base, and thus eliminates the need for explicit dependencies. Although this implementation can only *get* the hostname, not *set* it, that's all the dependent packages need, and setting the hostname is nowadays handled by systemd's `hostnamectl` anyway. My preference would be 3/, for simplicity. I already run my systems with /usr/bin/hostname symlinked to /usr/lib/gettext/hostname (after forcibly removing inetutils), and noticed no issues. This can be done in two steps: i. make the gettext package install (or symlink) /usr/bin/hostname, drop it from inetutils, and introduce mutual conflicts on older versions of each. ii. drop the dependency on inetutils from other packages (or replace it with a dependency on hostname if options 1/ or 2/ are preferred). Fans of `telnet` can continue to install inetutils manually, of course. ;-) WDYT ? Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] Xorg Segfault on Console Switch
by Yaro Kasear 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

I seem to be having an odd issue with Xorg since updating to 1.20.9. I tend to be logged onto Xorg across more than one user based on what kind of task I need, and switch between them via CTRL+ALT+F1/F2/F3. Since the update this morning it seems to have started causing segfaults on Xorg the longer I'm switched away from the console containing the Xorg instance that crashes. I am not even sure how to begin troubleshooting this problem. I can usually figure this out on my own. Process 8780 (Xorg) of user 1003 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 8780: #0 0x00007ff15b192615 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3d615) #1 0x00007ff15b17b862 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x26862) #2 0x00005617387ee35a OsAbort (Xorg + 0x14a35a) #3 0x00005617387efe21 FatalError (Xorg + 0x14be21) #4 0x00005617387f5a79 n/a (Xorg + 0x151a79) #5 0x00007ff15b1926a0 __restore_rt (libc.so.6 + 0x3d6a0) #6 0x0000561738722f03 n/a (Xorg + 0x7ef03) #7 0x00005617387a8ed5 n/a (Xorg + 0x104ed5) #8 0x00005617387d67fc n/a (Xorg + 0x1327fc) #9 0x00005617386edbb3 mieqProcessDeviceEvent (Xorg + 0x49bb3) #10 0x00005617386edcfc mieqProcessInputEvents (Xorg + 0x49cfc) #11 0x00005617388045b9 ProcessInputEvents (Xorg + 0x1605b9) #12 0x00005617386dd8c8 n/a (Xorg + 0x398c8) #13 0x00007ff15b17d152 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x28152) #14 0x00005617386de5ae _start (Xorg + 0x3a5ae) Yaro

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[arch-general] Fwd: cscope fixup for emacs 27.1
by Yi Zheng 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

Hi, cscope released with contrib emacs plugin xcscope.el It uses emacs-lisp function process-kill-without-query, which is removed in emacs-27.1 I cloned the git repo of cscope(git://git.code.sf.net/p/cscope/cscope), and add an fixup. but it seems that the upstream is long not been updated. do u think we should add that patch into our archlinux pkg ? I do have tested that fixup, and it works(as in the old times) the patch is attached.

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[arch-general] Telinit?
by David Rosenstrauch 23 Aug '20

23 Aug '20

Anyone know what happened to the "telinit" shortcut? It used to be included in systemd-sysvcompat (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#systemd-sysvcompat) but seems like it recently got removed. Was it removed upstream? (And if so, anyone know why?) Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] pacman -Syu -- Applying kernel sysctl settings... Not setting ... Worry?
by David C. Rankin 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Arch devs, For the past several updates, I have noticed the kernel sysctl settings messages saying: ( 5/17) Applying kernel sysctl settings... Not setting net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter (explicit setting exists). Not setting net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter (explicit setting exists). Not setting net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route (explicit setting exists). Not setting net/ipv4/conf/default/accept_source_route (explicit setting exists). Not setting net/ipv4/conf/all/promote_secondaries (explicit setting exists). Not setting net/ipv4/conf/default/promote_secondaries (explicit setting exists). After the recent netctl message issue, I want to nail down what set these in /proc and whether it is something I need to do something about. I didn't set any of these specifically, so I presume they are either explicit settings made during the kernel build or they were set somewhere long ago by some previous Arch default. In either case, if there were no issues, I wouldn't expect pacman to go out of its way to tell me about them if nothing needs to be done. Though I can also see the messages just being some default behavior of whatever the kernel sysctl hook is warning about choices that are explicitly set. Do I need to do anything about these? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] No login after update
by Manuel Reimer 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Hello, I know that Arch is not for the "average user" and some background knowledge is expected, but this was the first time I needed a boot stick since I think at least one year. Some minutes ago I did a regular system update and after that decided to reboot. After reboot I was unable to log into my system. After fiddling a bit I rebooted to an Arch boot stick to find the following message in pacman.log: [2020-08-19T20:42:55+0200] [ALPM] warning: /etc/pam.d/system-login installed as /etc/pam.d/system-login.pacnew As this seemed to be a candidate that may cause login problems, I deleted "system-login" and moved the ".pacnew" into place. After reboot I'm now able to log in again... IMHO something like this should not happen... Maybe it's worth a note on the Arch homepage that it is important to move this pacnew into place before reboot? Manuel

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Re: [arch-general] HP Laserjet plus 1020 Problem
by das 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 7:04 PM Rafael Fontenelle <rafaelff(a)gnome.org> wrote: > Have you tried installing the "hplip" package, which provides PPD for > your printer? > > Installing removing reinstalling hplip -- nothing worked. Ok, as you suggest I will now explore the ArchWiki links you have provided. -- দাস das http://ddts.randomink.org/ -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

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[arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?
by David C. Rankin 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Archdevs, I have two computers using netctl, one for a static and one for a dhcp address. After the last update on May, 3, netctl (1.22-1 -> 1.23-1) all remained fine and old profiles generated as subservices in /etc/systemd/system, such as: netctl\(a)rlf_network\\x2dstatic.service continued to bring the network up. However within the past week there was a change, likely to systemd 246, that no longer respects the subservices originally created by netctl. Now attempting at reboot causes the network to fail completely. Not good for remotely adminned boxes. What is required is a "reenable" of the netctl profile. Doing so will remove the old subservice and symlinks and replace then with a directory in /etc/systemd/system of same name as the old subservice, but with a ".d" appended that now contains a "profile.conf", e.g. netctl(a)rlf_network\x2dstatic.service.d/ └── profile.conf However, there is no note or warning during update that any manual intervention will be needed. That will leave anyone adminning a remote arch install with netctl with a box that is unreachable and has no network. Shouldn't there be a warning about this change generated on update? Arch is always pretty good about warning when manual interaction is required -- and this is a biggie. Couldn't there also be a post install that does a reenable for each netctl profile found in /etc/systemd/system as another option to avoid this SNAFU? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Gaetan Bisson Resignation
by Amin Vakil 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Hello, I'm not an Arch Linux Developer myself, so I'm not allowed to reply to this email on arch-dev-public. But just out of curiosity and to learn something, would you care to share with us what majority's views is in conflict with your views? Best Regards, Amin Vakil On 8/20/20 3:13 AM, Gaetan Bisson via arch-dev-public wrote: > Dear all, > > I've joined the Arch team in 2010 and spent a decade as a developer; > it's been a great privilege to be a part of such an awesome community > and also a lot of fun. However I felt the ten-year mark was a good > opportunity for me to move on since I recognize the majority's views on > the future of the distro have of late steadily been diverging from mine. > > And thus I hereby resign my position of Arch Linux Developer. > > All the best in your future endeavors! >

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[arch-general] Does PAM 1.4.0 require rebuilding all application / modules using libpam?
by Amish 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Hello, I have few packages (eg. pam_geoip, pam_abl) in custom repo which use libpam. Can someone clarify if PAM upgrade to 1.4.0 would require those packages to be rebuilt? I have few systems using those PAM modules and if those modules break after updating and rebooting then I will lose access to the system. And I do not want to end up in that situation. Since I haven't seen mass-rebuilt of other modules (like pam-krb5, pam_mount etc.), I think rebuild is not required. But would still like if some developer can confirm before I upgrade. Thank you, Amish.

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[arch-general] pam-1.3.1-2 -> 1.4.0-3 breaking change
by Damjan Georgievski 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

it seems the 1.4.0-3 removed the tally/tally2 modules and (for some reason) I had `auth required pam_tally2.so` in /etc/pam.d/system-login. Of course that broke the login and I had to rescue the installation from a bootable USB. I wonder if there can be some pam-lint tool that checks your /etc/pam.d/ after upgrades. -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] HP Laserjet plus 1020 Problem
by das 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear friend Karx asked me to try to print something and then give the differences in the three files in /var/log/cups. I tried to print one page from Libreoffice Writer and here is the result of running diff for the old and new versions of the three files for the three files. For access_log the difference is: 186,195d185 < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:02 +0530] "POST /printers/HP-LaserJet-1020 HTTP/1.1" 200 215 Create-Job successful-ok < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:02 +0530] "POST /printers/HP-LaserJet-1020 HTTP/1.1" 200 29704 Send-Document successful-ok < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found < localhost - - [19/Aug/2020:20:10:24 +0530] "POST /jobs/ HTTP/1.1" 200 151 Cancel-Job client-error-not-found ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- error_log -- no difference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ page_log -- no difference

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[arch-general] HP Laserjet plus 1020 Problem
by das 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear Friends My new printer HP Laserjet plus 1020 is not working on Arch Linux, while it is working fine on the second boot Debian system. I have tried all the ways that came to my mind or all the suggestions from the Net. It is not working. Can any of you suggest anything? With Regards Dipankar Das -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

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[arch-general] AUR - Best Practices when Package no longer Supported for Linux upstream but LTS fine?
by David C. Rankin 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

Arch devs, Quick AUR question. The virtualbox 5.2 branch is unsupported as of July 2020. Oracle continues to put out testbuilds for 5.2, but currently it does not build with 5.8 (LTS is fine). I am still awaiting answers on the vbox-end-users list as to whether anything compatible will be released either as a testbuild case or as a release (Oracle seems a bit undecided) If 5.2.44 was the last release and there will be no update to support Linux 5.8 -- what do I do with the package? Do I mark it LTS only in some way, or just have it removed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?
by David C. Rankin 15 Aug '20

15 Aug '20

All, I was updating an arch install on a platter drive for my laptop that had not been updated since June 2019. The update was uneventful, only dependency issue was lib86xxdga a dependency for mplayer that was installed as a dependency of ogmrip. So, before update I uninstalled ogmrip, mplayer and dependencies that removed the issue. Update of 1568 packages proceeded normally, until the post-install hooks started to run. A /usr/share/libalpm/hooks path problem occurred. The following is the output from pacman: ... (1568/1568) upgrading zsh [########################################] 100% error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-tmpfiles.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/20-systemd-sysusers.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/70-dkms-install.hook line 4: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/glib-compile-schemas.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/gtk-update-icon-cache.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/update-desktop-database.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/dconf-update.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-catalog.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-update.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/detect-old-perl-modules.hook line 4: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/texinfo-remove.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-udev-reload.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/update-appstream-cache.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/dbus-reload.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/update-vlc-plugin-cache.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-sysctl.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/70-dkms-upgrade.hook line 3: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/fontconfig.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-binfmt.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/gio-querymodules.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/vimdoc.hook line 5: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/xorg-mkfontscale.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/texinfo-install.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-daemon-reload.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/gtk-query-immodules-2.0.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/40-update-ca-trust.hook line 5: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/30-systemd-hwdb.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/update-mime-database.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/gtk-query-immodules-3.0.hook line 2: invalid value Path error: hook /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/71-dkms-remove.hook line 3: invalid value Path :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/3) Updating module dependencies... (2/3) Restarting cronie for libc upgrade... (3/3) Updating linux initcpios... Now when I attempt to boot, it shows systemd 246.1 and then "root clean ..." and then tty1 appears to hang, no network is started and for all practical purposes it just appears to be hung. "Alt + ->" switches to tty2 and the normal login prompt is displayed and I can login just fine, su to root, and the system appears to be working (but without any network and attempting to restart the netctl service for wireless fails) The journal shows /boot and /home mounted fine and systemd started and targets Multi-User and Graphical reached and sddm start and Startup finishes: Aug 10 17:11:28 seidr systemd[1]: Reached target Multi-User System. Aug 10 17:11:28 seidr dbus-daemon[481]: [system] Activating via systemd: service ... Aug 10 17:11:28 seidr systemd[1]: Reached target Graphical Interface. ... Aug 10 17:11:29 seidr sddm[486]: Initializing... Aug 10 17:11:29 seidr sddm[486]: Starting... Aug 10 17:11:29 seidr sddm[486]: Logind interface found ... Aug 10 17:11:29 seidr systemd[1]: Startup finished in 6.449s (kernel) + 13.784s (userspace) = 20.233s. There seem to be problems with kde .desktop files, but the system tries to proceed: Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kgpg.desktop:8: Unknown key name 'MimeType' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: /etc/xdg/autostart/kmix_autostart.desktop:6: Unknown key name 'MimeType' in section 'Desktop Entry', ignoring. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: Configuration file /etc/xdg/autostart/klipper.desktop is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-at\x2dspi\x2ddbus\x2dbus-autostart.service, startup phases are not supported. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-kaccess-autostart.service, only Type=Application is supported. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-pulseaudio-autostart.service, startup phases are not supported. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: Not generating service for XDG autostart app-powerdevil-autostart.service, only Type=Application is supported. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[500]: kde-systemd-start-condition not found: No such file or directory Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Queued start job for default target Main User Target. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Paths. Aug 10 17:13:20 seidr systemd[495]: Reached target Timers. But tty1 is still hung -- no display manager is loaded and I'm stuck on tty2. I'm not sure what is stuck or what to kill to try and fix it. Before the update sddm was fine and I loaded fluxbox to do the update rather than doing it from within KDE. What do I check to try and bring the system back to a working state? What to check? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] R: openvpn-client@ takes long time to start
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

Da: Giancarlo Razzolini Inviato: Venerdì, 14 Agosto, 2020 13:29 A: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti Oggetto: Re: [arch-general] openvpn-client@ takes long time to start Em agosto 14, 2020 3:58 Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general escreveu: >> After a reboot, the first openvpn-client@ instance I try to start takes almost exactly two minutes to start. The instances before that one start just fine in a few seconds. >> > Guess you meant: "The instances *after* ..." Yes I did. :) >> When that happens, I can see from journalctl that the client actually starts in the first few seconds after the systemctl command. But then, the command doesn't terminate for two more minutes (with no further journal entries). >> > Openvpn has quite good logging capabilities that you can put to use here. The output from OpenVPN indicates that the client is started within the first few seconds from when I give the `systemctl start openvpn-client@whatever` command (see previous email). The tun interface is created, opened, the routes are received and added to the routing table. All the usual stuff. Of course, I can also reach remote hosts through the VPN after that. The exact same thing (& output) happens if I try to start OpenVPN manually from the command line. Minus, of course, the two-minutes wait before the command returns. >> Has anyone seen this before? What could it be? >> > Without knowing more, my first guess is that you still don't have connectivity when that first openvpn client starts. > 2 minutes matches exactly the 120 seconds default ping-restart parameter. So, > what happens is, the client starts, you have > no connectivity then, after two minutes, ping-restart kicks in, and your connection gets through. > So, get a network manager that can properly trigger network-online.target. Or, if your network manager is triggering it, then > it means your network is not quite ready when it does. See above. I also forgot to specify it also happens when the system has been up for hours. It really can't be that the network is not ready. I don't think there's anything much that could be disturbing it. I'm using systemd-networkd for everything + iwd for wireless. Riccardo > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-general] openvpn-client@ takes long time to start
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

After a reboot, the first openvpn-client@ instance I try to start takes almost exactly two minutes to start. The instances before that one start just fine in a few seconds. When that happens, I can see from journalctl that the client actually starts in the first few seconds after the systemctl command. But then, the command doesn't terminate for two more minutes (with no further journal entries). Has anyone seen this before? What could it be? Riccardo

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[arch-general] old archlinux instance repositories progress
by Jude DaShiell 13 Aug '20

13 Aug '20

I found and downloaded a current mirrorslist file and selected servers to use. pacman cannot update though and I suspect this is because the necessary ssh keys have to be imported. How is this done using pacman facilities in such a situation? --

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[arch-general] Pros/Cons of Python zipapp packaging
by Daan De Meyer 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Hi, We've been discussing the distribution mechanism for mkosi ( https://github.com/systemd/mkosi) and one of the ideas is using Python zipapp (https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html) to allow us to split mkosi up into multiple files for easier development without complicating the packaging process. zipapp takes all source files in a directory and bundles them up into a single executable python zip archive so after building the zip you can simply call ./mkosi to run mkosi and can put it anywhere in the PATH to simply run mkosi wherever you want. Are there any issues with this approach from a distro packaging perspective? Zipapp doesn't bundle a specific python version (uses system python and system python stdlib) and we don't intend on bundling any dependencies in the zipapp. I don't think I've ever seen a python application packaged this way which is why I'm asking. Cheers, Daan

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[arch-general] old archlinux cannot now update
by Jude DaShiell 11 Aug '20

11 Aug '20

Is a link in the archwiki on the process to point archlinux at all of the new repositories and import all of the ssh keys? I hadn't been able to access my computers while this move happened so wasn't able to do the necessary steps to change where archlinux finds all of its updates. --

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[arch-general] Estimate on when 5.8 will hit core? - (Virtualbox Still Won't Build)
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '20

08 Aug '20

Devs, Just a quick check on when 5,8 is going from testing to core? I ask because Virtualbox still is not ready for 5.8: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/19644 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] systemd package: include additional Arch-based boot splash (.bmp) image?
by Anderyos Zaya 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

It seems that we have splash-arch.bmp included with Arch Linux systemd package. The included .bmp image is the two-color standard version (arch word in black text). It would be useful to also include the two-color inverted version (for dark backgrounds, also Arch main logo). The .bmp images are useful, for example for setting up boot splash image for people booting with dracut initramfs. Who is the best person to report/talk to regarding this request?

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[arch-general] Anyone having problems refreshing PGP keys lately?
by matthew dyer 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

Good morning all, I am wondering if anyone is having problems refreshing PGP keys from the default server? I can force it to use the ipv4 server, but using mate-terminal with orca I am unable to edit the /etc/pacman.d/gnu/pgp.conf file to change the server. Orca will not read it and plume will not open it with sudo rites. Any ideas on this one? This is an older arch vm which will not update till the PGP keys have been updated and imported. I do not have speech in a conc so that would not work. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio hook for custom root decryption with systemd boot
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I have root encryption set up on my system and I currently boot with the sd-encrypt and sd-lvm hooks. I would like to change my current crypto setup in a way that would require more step to unlock the root than just typing in a passphares. For this reason, sd-encrypt clearly cannot serve my use case. For this reason, I would like to write a custom hook to mount the root volume. Now, systemd boot doesn't have a concept of runtime hooks. Thus, I need to make a systemd unit that gets pulled in by cryptsetup.target in the place of systemd-cryptsetup@.service. (Basically, I need to replace the whole systemd-cryptsetup-generator and systemd-cryptsetup logic.) However, I really have no idea on how to achieve this. Should I write a custom mkinitcpio hook which completely bypasses sd-crypt/cryptsetup.target and instead starts a different unit with my own decryption logic? Or is there a way to hook into cryptsetup.target and instruct it to pull in my logic instead of systemd-cryptsetup*? Of course, the other possibility is to just stop using a systemd boot and instead setting up a busybox early userspace. Then it's just a matter of writing a shell script. However, since I'm already using systemd for everything - from the bootloader to userspace - I don't think it makes much sense to do that. Any help/guidance/suggestion/criticism is highly appreciated. Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] adding Polybar to offical Repos
by Ram Kumar 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Dear all, i am using i3 wm with Polybar as my status bar. i created the currently installed packages list using pacman's hook command. when i try to do fresh installation, i can get only the packages that are present in official Repos that doesnot include Polybar. Then after installing Yay i can get Polybar from AUR. it is quite inconvenience, and i dont know why Polybar is not added to official packages, Polybar is quite popular as well as it has quite good features. is is possible to include Polybar to the official packages under extra or community? if not could u plz explain? Thanks in advance regards Ramkumar

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[arch-general] Question about packaging a library (AUR)
by Dominik Schrempf 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Hello, I am the maintainer of the 'transcribe' AUR package. Recently, I have received a request (cc) about also packaging and providing a proprietary library that comes along with 'transcribe'. I quote: * videosection, a special plugin provided by us as part of the download, can be found in the file libgstvideosection.so and it needs to be alongside the transcribe executable.* I tried to provide the videosection library in /usr/lib, but that doesn't work. I don't feel comfortable providing the library in /usr/bin. Do you know an appropriate way to deal with such cases? Is it preferable to install the executable in a separate folder alongside the library? For example, /opt/transcribe? Thanks in advance, Dominik

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[arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?
by Óscar García Amor 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

I can understand that packagers want to make things easy, but not in this case. I cannot have a full service installed with a new user created, only host, dig and nslookup commands. The splitted package bind and bind-tools had this option, but now I must install a service that I do not need which is annoying. There is any way to reconsider this? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] My font rendering has changed
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Since a few days ago, font rendering inside my desktop environment (SwayWM) seems to have changed. E.g. title bars are now rendered using a generic monospaced font instead of the usual one, and Termite does not seem to be able to load the Fira Code font and falls back to its default font. bemenu is also rendering differently and with a different font. I cannot find anything obvious in /var/log/pacman.log. I.e. I have done a full system upgrade lately but it doesn't seem to include anything that could have obviously caused this. Has anyone had anything similar? Where could I look to debug the issue? Best regards, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] OpenVPN systemd unit not prompting for password
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

I have a private key with a password. When I start OpenVPN with the openvpn command, all works fine. When I start it with the systemd unit (e.g. systemctl start openvpn-client@conf_file), a systemd-ask-password process is spawned from the unit but the prompt is not shown. Interestingly, the prompt is shown the I stop the unit. Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] Package signature error after updated GPG key
by NicoHood 11 Jul '20

11 Jul '20

Hey guys, i have recently received the attached email from a user. He cannot install a package from me due to a GPG error. I have recently updated my key and it should have been added to the new keyring. I don't know a better solution, who can help us? Cheers, Nico On 7/8/20 12:10 AM, cock.li wrote: > Hi, sorry to bother you, I think that the signature on the snap-pac > packet is expired or something similar, I'm getting this pacman error: > > error: snap-pac: signature from "NicoHood <pgp(a)nicohood.de>" is unknown > trust > :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/snap-pac-2.3.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is > corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). > > since, the keys are updated (I've tried updating them with a healthy > "sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys", but nothing) i think that the key with > wich the packet was signed expired and was changed in the meantime, > especially since it's more than a year that there are no updates on the > packet (since there are no commits on the source) > > > I do need the packet for snap-pac-grub, please let me now as soon as you > can > > > regards > > AmanuenseDelDiavolo >

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[arch-general] cuda and nvidia package conflict
by Junhee Lee 09 Jul '20

09 Jul '20

Dear the maintainers. First of all, I sincerely appreciate your effort to maintain this distribution. I would like to report an incident related to the two packages: cuda and nvidia. It seems that the cuda package is recently updated to 11.0.2-1 in [community-testing]. However, the most recent nvidia package is 440.100-3 in [extra]. Therefore, when I attempt to run an application utilizing CUDA, it instantly hangs with an error related to version mismatch. This problem is resolved when I install nvidia-beta package in AUR. Should I keep using the cuda package in [community]? Or, is there any progress related to this issue? Thank you very much for your attention. -Best regards, jvl.

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[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly
by pete 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Afternoon all Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related . Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it I get problems such as system settings do not stick libreofice complains about backup files some things work some play up or fail completely Kaffeine for one just bombs out i believe this is a permissions thing but cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what if you follow . A litte assistance would be very useful as i do not fancy doing a reinstall i have too much stuff to reinstall Thanks Pete

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Re: [arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems
by Jude DaShiell 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

If I run clinfo -l what returns is: Platform #0: Clover Platform #1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Going deeper with clinfo there's lots of devices not found. --

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[arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems
by Jude DaShiell 05 Jul '20

05 Jul '20

One of these would be unique, the package is complaining my video drivers aren't up to date. I don't even know what video drivers should be on this machine and haven't got local linux support to clue me in on this one and me being totally blind I don't usually touch or have any interest in video drivers. If the video driver is wrong, will the work done by the computer be rjected by the foldingathome server? The second problem may be effecting all users of the foldingathome package. How good is this package about cleaning up disk space it no longer needs once a completed job gets sent to the server? I have a 120GB drive that's run out of space. This computer runs solid state so the 3tb sata drive wouldn't work in it otherwise this wouldn't be a problem. --

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[arch-general] Dual graphics not working in Lenovo P53
by LuKaRo 29 Jun '20

29 Jun '20

Hi all, My new Lenovo P53 has an Intel UHD Graphics 630 and a NVIDIA Quadro T1000 built in. The HDMI port seems to be wired to the NVIDIA graphics. However, dual graphics is not working. When using the nvidia driver and the nvidia-prime package, I can run games on the NVIDIA card using prime-run. But xrandr only shows "eDP1" (internal screen) and "VIRTUAL0", no external ports are recognized. When using xf86-video-nouveau, xrandr shows several DP and eDP-ports and the HDMI port. However, the ports are always shown as "disconnected", even when a HDMI cable is connected (works on another Arch Linux machine). Furthermore, DRI_PRIME=1 glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" always shows the UHD 630. Any ideas how to debug or fix this issue? Thanks a lot, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] Access for ordinary users to USB FTDI devices
by Friedrich Romstedt 27 Jun '20

27 Jun '20

Hi, Since end of 2019 I am using the PyFtdi Python package by Emmanuel Blot to talk to an FTDI chip on some controller board. Documentation of PyFtdi is hosted on http://eblot.github.io/pyftdi/. FTDI (Future Technology Devices International) chips (and similar chips by other vendors) implement an Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) via USB. This can then be used to send messages to the device and receive replies. According to http://eblot.github.io/pyftdi/installation.html, it is at least on Debian and Ubuntu Linux necessary to write an `udev` rules file in order to permit ordinary users access to such an USB device. I attempted to use PyFtdi on my Arch Linux box (patched daily) as an ordinary user, and successfully talked to the device without any additional `udev` rule. We (Emmanual and me) would like to find out why and how Arch is configured to permit this. As I observed this behaviour, I opened Issue #161 on https://github.com/eblot/pyftdi: https://github.com/eblot/pyftdi/issues/161. There were some posts by Emmanuel and by me, but we didn't achieve anything substantial so far. Furthermore, the question arises if there are more places other than PyFtdi where this result might be relevant. Finally it might apply also to other Linux distributions different from Arch Linux aside Debian and Ubuntu; the documentation of pyftdi maybe could be updated to reflect this. Any pointer is welcome. Best wishes, Friedrich

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[arch-general] Locale packages
by Daan De Meyer 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Hi, While working on locale-gen support for systemd-firstboot ( https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15994) I started wondering if it wouldn't be simpler to delegate the installation of locales to pacman instead. I haven't been following the mailing lists for very long so I don't know if this has ever been discussed. I'd imagine Arch could provide a package for each locale supported by glibc and users would install the ones they need. The PKGBUILD would use localedef to generate separate folders of compiled locale files for each locale that would be stored in /usr/lib/locale. This approach is already implemented by distros such as Fedora (and co) and Ubuntu. The main advantage of this approach is that there's no need to set up an entire chroot to run locale-gen when pacstrapping a new Arch system image. This might seem easy but becomes trickier when the image uses a different architecture than the host system since emulation of that architecture has to be set up first. Even if locale-gen had a --root option so using the host's locale-gen would be an option, I'm not sure if there's any guarantee that compiled locale definitions generated by the host system's locale-gen would work with the glibc version used by the image (less of a problem with Arch but the glibc on the host could still potentially be out-of-date compared to the one installed in the image). Being able to install locales with pacman would solve all these problems. Any interest in something like this from the Arch developers? I'd be willing to try my hand at a PKGBUILD for this but I'm not a TU so I'd need some support to get this implemented (if there is any interest at all). (This also doesn't imply that locale-gen wouldn't work anymore, locale-gen stores everything in /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive which would be independent from the files installed by the locale packages, so both approaches should work side-by-side) Cheers, Daan De Meyer

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[arch-general] What do you do with pacman.log? Periodically archive? Delete?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

This is more of what is the recommended practice ... for handling pacman.log? Strange question, yes, but pacman.log is one of those that never gets rotated, etc.. The information in it isn't useful after a few upgrade cycles. So what is the general practice for dealing with it? o Periodically delete it? o Split it by year with awk and compress it for?? Historical reasons? o Keep the last year? It not one of those things I've ever thought about before, but grepping (after cleaning up the wide-character right-arrow from 2017/18 timeframe), I checked and I have 5M of log dating back to 2013. It's not hurting anything, but that got me thinking? What do others do with it, and is there any recommended manner for dealing with it? I don't see any reason for keeping much of it beyond what you may be asked to post as part of a bug-report, etc.. which usually wouldn't be more than the last couple of months for most packages.. man 8 pacman doesn't provide any options for dealing with how much to keep or to truncate. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] wierdest kernel crashes when playing movies via plex
by Ricardo Band 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I have a server that crashes in a few seconds when I start playing movies with plex and transcode them. Kernel, BIOS and Firmware updates and even changes most of the hardware didn't change anything. I thought maybe on this list are a few poeple that still have some ideas. I wrote the whole problem in much more detail down in the bbs: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1911198#p1911198 Do you have any ideas? I'm completely out of them. If you have questions ask me here or there. Thx for your help! - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl7tLRMACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg5mfw//bgrXheM5Zz+dGGTqqXvrgoM03sQOLaAgRrozQVtYzRaSoMpimw7XERXg HaVVG/CeuhriNGgDyXDUklLltPHOpUhLAZhQf/oB+Uh4lqLqXJIETS6NcmsKQeYN 8sgPI/ayc0zZjcfXz8gRsafKu0Vw1iYTPkwqZbqQar96STTBLQKjwFEeklq9m958 8T/nxyI4ri9yMkM75+59vELmIMEgeJA9qGovrJOf/BlQQC/63HYiRNCkJtzl9FYe Vz3QcqnNy1Y8k5U2oZQ1qti0cudtd8C1Sd/KfGDWHSDd/qInXqK/dBtSffrc2XqZ MnB5BxNZCEkNsFvqBsOcHJ+9IEYJgnWg3KVgL1bcfW2v/wbp/1rjvtOAyL1wuEKs tTAym55G1s3P6idJBM/VpE989Lg3CenVUrAReDBqNfwl7YC4SDlDKZheMbaGKKph zWMDt3veLxcmXqfsuoJc4IFJEGnNy5mI/SypScArXBad7+68TGPoHnZTo/sqiIJ3 DucVVbSVSYlT3Xi5bdveFNE3DJEakoAN8b7uNg/ara2SCf+zRqcfBft+zyF4VP8Y Hez6YuDNX9s1h9X+n5oluYf7DkJp5WhwfqbHoNAU/G9z4vG8QbvREWKyx+192iNE /GSysRMSeDlmiok+yHhKaq++ibNTAtZITxRShm4aCjxrlxJyOXQ= =UOfm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] need to run previous kernel
by Jude DaShiell 19 Jun '20

19 Jun '20

With grub what should be done when grub boots to run the kernel used before the current default kernel? On the older amd machine I have I tried installing linux-amd and the git site timed out on me twice. I think that was during that last ddos attack though. The newer machine has linux-amd installed and running on it. The current kernel on the older machine that got updated yesterday has a serious speech impediment. This speech impediment effects espeakup and if I can I'm going to find out if it also effects fenrir. --

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[arch-general] Issue certificate
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 19 Jun '20

19 Jun '20

Hi all, I've been trying to debug an issue with a personal certificate. At first I thought it was a Kmail/Kleopatra bug because after some updates of KDE Applications back in January I stopped being able to sign emails with it. But lately, after trying in KDE Neon and also in a fresh installation of archlinux in a VM, it seems to work there but not in my old installation. I have carefully checked old configurations (I don't have any .pacnew) and still not working. I have already wrote a detailed explanation in the forum so I will not copy paste here. Here is the link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256654 Shortly, this is what I can do in both installations and the result is different although both are Archlinux and up-to-date. rm -r .gnupg gpgsm --import my_certificate.p12 * Open Kleopatra -> Asks to trust root certificate -> Say yes and verify fingerprint of Root CA *Trust level in Kleopatra says "full" in VM and "invalid" in my desktop. *Kmail can sign emails in VM and it fails with the following error in my desktop. "Sending message failed. Could not compose message: Address family not supported by protocol." Any ideas what other packages can interfere with my certificate? In the comments it was mentioned gnutl, p11-kit and ca-certificates* but I have same pacakges installed in both systems (except lib32-* packages in the VM). Thanks, Iyán

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[arch-general] dash as default shell?
by Piscium 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

Today I set dash as my default shell [1] on two PCs. We will see if I get into trouble. This question was asked years ago but maybe good to ask again. Could dash be made the default shell in Arch? I did some simple benchmarks and dash is much faster than bash, moreover being far smaller there is less chance of bugs. A possible issue is bashisms, however Ubuntu has been using dash as default for 14 years and Debian also for several years so hopefully most scripts have had bashisms removed by upstreams. What do you think? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash#Use_DASH_as_/bin/sh

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[arch-general] pacman --assume-installed in a config file?
by Damjan Georgievski 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

I often find myself using the `assume-installed`[1] option of pacman when doing upgrades, since I want to avoid some (for me) nonsensical dependencies to be installed. Is it possible to configure this in some config file, so I don't have to remember to type it all the time? [1] sudo pacman -Syu --assume-installed noto-fonts noto-fonts is pulled as a dependency of plasma-integration, but I don't want it installed since it takes over the default fonts (ships an aggressive fontconfig configuration) for many websites, and looks quite bad *for me* (on a 14" FHD display). It's also a 90MB package I don't need. -- damjan

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[arch-general] Keyboard Problem in Mate Arch Linux for the Last Few Days
by das 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

Hello Friends in Arch-General Mailing List I am using Arch Linux for the last six months or so. Before that I was using Redhat and Fedora for 15 years or so. I am a Mate user and I use my keyboard to write both English and Bangla. For the last few days when I am booting into Mate, a problem window is coming up -- I have attached the file kbd-text-s.png. The output of the commands in kbd-text.png is here: << dd@ru-al ~]$ xprop -root | grep XKB _XKB_RULES_NAMES_BACKUP(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "" _XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "grp:lctrl_rctrl_switch" [dd@ru-al ~]$ gsettings list-keys org.mate.peripherals-keyboard-xkb.kbd layouts options model >> And usually I change the layout from one to the other (English and Bangla) whenever I need them -- from System--Preferences--Hardware--Keyboard, as shown in kbd-layout-s.png attached with this mail. But now the keyboard is always English, I cannot change it to Bangla India Probhat. I have never filed a bug in Arch Linux and so I am first reporting here. Any help is welcome. Thanking you. -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

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[arch-general] Archlinux kde lag nvidia
by Maykel Franco 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

Hi, I have lag with kde + nvidia 2080ti. I searched google but the solutions exposed not work for me. Anybody with the same problem? No tearing issues, only lag with windows maximized, change workspace effect, all windows effects... With gnome or cinnamon no issues. The effects works very well and speed. I try change compositor options with no results.

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[arch-general] pacman system update - Why am I prompted to import a specific key?
by David C. Rankin 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

All, On update today (yesterday's updates went fine), I am prompted to approve import of the following key a number of times: (108/108) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)archlinux.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Is this normal? (email address intentionally truncated) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] pacman system update - Why am I prompted to import a specific key?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

All, On update today (yesterday's updates went fine), I am prompted to approve import of the following key a number of times: (108/108) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Y :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] :: Import PGP key 3B94A80E50A477C7, "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig(a)a.org>"? [Y/n] Is this normal? (email address intentionally truncated) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Wesnoth probably has wrong dependency
by Peter Nabbefeld 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Hello, as Python2 has been sunset since the beginning of this year (https://www.python.org/doc/sunset-python-2/) I'm looking forward to removing it. One of the packages still depending on python2 is wesnoth, though due to https://wiki.wesnoth.org/Maintenance_tools it should work with Python3 already. Of course, this should work, since Python3 is installed already besides Python2, but it seems to be an unnecessary dependency. Instead, the dependency should be updated to python. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Archiso doesn't show prompt
by Ricardo Band 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I have a Supermicro server and since last month archiso doesn't work anymore. The 2020.04 iso did boot fine but the 2020.05 and 2020.06 boots up but doesn't show the prompt. I just get a cursor that blinks and nothing more. When I switch to other ttys there is also just the blinking cursor. I don't know what I can do to further debug this. My hardware is a Supermicro X11SSH-LN4F with a Xeon E3-1275v6. - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl7gBT0ACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg7UixAAi75mXsmXOb9ZvDdwCTBJj3f4bIajcfp7jBt1KP+TTNOGA7w6oPA6ofqx dMxS/WWV0hoR8M1x7XQPvnDugohmTYBbQSeSqRyEDIGUd+DeIaVd1KcSaweqG4PZ WP01lqXursj0zCVNZ2iQXdGx1gd/9KDp3MQH4cO2Us5XDlI1FzOph2YRFmbfWenR NA1ZqrMg/YjJKx5VTrlZzO/YqdphAtl1gLGrjEbJ5+EMkSC6Hefb6jSEdTE6CEiB DBrpW6ckRXMO+CWIhF1/7kfFeCLNQvyTG9+brytsJe/pJDtqp48ACxU+xqcIKhhs EU98iyDO+xBpYtMUh5YY+4Hg2N598FLmLMsiFQQH4XnBKv+hkp38m+NZBt3SpwjB MyQT3mWNrfhbGXEqhMus1FSNO+AtNJZKG4vJTy8oOxQmEu9cQ6J7xykb1wntyq5M lL40kS9zPXyGD0Dsk2cArsJ9f1g/xntpxe/GRlOm3xDLsNQA0vU12VHZRxp7si+l E1XoaNsOu9xsLa2VcyzUXQhu5hYT4fFMO6vzQm5tixZvmozH0UYWI4rTxboGC8XY g508kO8wVxr1x1t//AZgnuUnMP46C28AFXNrMn3tOpnohWk5yX85eFAeCUc5AP+F 0ERy8AGsqRMZWejLGzyf/5xHLd1rw3XRqzodHWGAecwQ500gGHU= =uT9M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?
by Jude DaShiell 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Solved. Turns out either alsa oand/or vlc get very upset when pulseaudio isn't installed and running. I installed pulseaudio-alsa then ran pulseaudio --start in user account and errors disappeared. --

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[arch-general] what's wrong with my alsa configuration?
by Jude DaShiell 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

I'm using vlc to play a stream and got the same error when trying to play an mp3 file earlier. The stream and the file play eventually. I searched for this one using duckduckgo and got one result in german which I do not speak and certainly do not do technical german which is why I'm asking here. ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to create IPC semaphore --

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[arch-general] community/cascadia-code-ttf out of date
by Tom Alexander 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

We're behind by 4 releases for the cascadia code font: https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code/releases This particularly interests me because they've added a non-ligature build of the font which they named Cascadia Mono. I took a stab at updating the PKGBUILD in the subversion repository and ended up with the attached patch which installs both Cascadia Code and Cascadia Mono. It's worth noting that the patch is only for one of the PKGBUILDs in tff-cascadia-code so the change probably has to be applied to both (I'm not familiar with the build system for the community repo). -- Tom Alexander

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Re: [arch-general] Keyboard Problem in Mate Arch Linux for the Last Few Days
by das 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Got on the Net some reports, though quite old -- but identical in its bug suggestion, and reinstalled both xorg-xkbcomp and libxklavier -- but nothing changed. Any help anyone? -- দাশ das http://ddts.randomink.org/

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[arch-general] oops, 'sudo: pacman: command not found'
by Greg Minshall 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

hi. a month ago i ran out of room on my root file system, so relocated /var/cache/pacman to /home, and left behind a symlink. today, after a while, i did a 'pacman -Syu', which downloaded lots, and ran through a lot new keys, upgrading, etc., then failed (see below), and (the symbolic link at) /var/cache/pacman seems to have disappeared. any suggestions on how i might recover? (and, should i, possibly, rather than using a symlink, have modified, e.g., /etc/pacman.conf?) i have all the files still in /home/pacman/pkg, etc. (and have put back the symlink). cheers, and thanks in advance, Greg ---- (210/487) upgrading pacman-mirrorlist [#########... truncated ... #################] 100% warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.1-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: No such file or directory error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. bash apollo2 (master): {1185} sudo pacman -Syu [sudo] password for minshall: sudo: pacman: command not found bash apollo2 (master): {1186} ls /var/cache/ atop.d/ fontconfig/ ldconfig/ lightdm/ man/ pkgfile/ private/

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[arch-general] Network manager package naming
by LuKaRo 07 Jun '20

07 Jun '20

Hi, there are several packages for network manager and related software in the official repositories. Unfortunately, they follow different naming schemes. Most packages have "networkmanager" written as one word: * networkmanager * networkmanager-openconnect * networkmanager-pptp * networkmanager-vpnc * networkmanager-strongswan * networkmanager-openvpn * ... However, some packages have "network-manager" written with a hyphen: * network-manager-applet * network-manager-sstp And then there is * nm-connection-editor * nm-cloud-setup which follows it's own naming scheme of having "networkmanager" redacted to "nm". Unfortunately, that makes it hard to remember how each package is called. Therefore there's always some guessing or searching involved when installing a network manager related feature. Of course, this is not the biggest issue of all time, but I think it's more complicated than it should be. Can we simplify the naming conventions of those packages to use one common scheme that's easy to remember instead of having multiple coexisting ones? Thanks a lot in advance, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] community/NUT access cgi in /usr/share/nut/cgi without FollowSymLinks?
by David C. Rankin 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

All / Maxime, With the nut build option setting: --with-cgipath=/usr/share/nut/cgi \ when using apache with the default /srv/http/cgi-bin location, how are you supposed to access the cgi files in /usr/share/nut/cgi "Safely"? I have the entire /usr/share/nut/html directory protected by a dbm database file manipulated with dbmmanage, so to reach the <Directory> you must authenticate. That said, the only way I can make the cgi scripts work is by setting Options FollowSymLinks in the <Directory> for "/srv/http/cgi-bin" after symlinking (e.g. ln -s /usr/share/nut/cgi /srv/http/cgi-bin/nut) Is this safe? Is this intended way to provide access to the cgi scripts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Arch should be apolitical
by Amir Fletcher 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Arch Linux is a fantastic distribution. It should remain exactly that: a computer operating system for technical users. Politics should not be part of the project. Recently, the Arch reddit logo was changed to a rainbow. This is for "pride month". It is forcing a political view on all of the users who did not ask for this. Many of us don't care about the views of the developers or moderators as long as we continue to enjoy Arch. When this was brought up, the moderator silenced the criticism and deleted the thread. https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/gutcxb/is_arch_gay/ https://archive.is/Y9Ni1 This is where the problem begins. If we cannot even discuss disagreement with views being forced on us, what's left? Please moderators and developers, reconsider forcing your views on us and not even allowing discussion about it. We do not all share your views, but we can get along if everyone is left to their own devices. This kind of topic should not even need to be brought up. It's very disheartening to see whoever moderates that reddit doing this. We just want to use Arch. In many cultures outside of Europe or the US, this is not welcome at all. Even in those countries, not everyone wants an agenda shoved into their face.

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[arch-general] community/NUT replacing Network-UPS-Tools -- won't start.
by David C. Rankin 29 May '20

29 May '20

On upgrade I agreed to: :: Replace network-ups-tools with community/nut? [Y/n] network-ups-tools-2.7.4-5 [removal] nut-2.7.4-1 (both same version of package) However, after install, the nut-server.service would not start. Here are the logs for the last start before update and then the failure after the update: -- Reboot -- May 23 03:00:55 2pi systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: fopen /var/state/ups/upsd.pid: No such file or directory May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: listening on ::1 port 3493 May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: listening on ::1 port 3493 May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: Connected to UPS [stp_ups]: usbhid-ups-stp_ups May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[474]: Connected to UPS [stp_ups]: usbhid-ups-stp_ups May 23 03:00:56 2pi upsd[475]: Startup successful May 23 03:00:56 2pi systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. May 29 03:55:42 2pi upsd[475]: mainloop: Interrupted system call May 29 03:55:42 2pi upsd[475]: Signal 15: exiting May 29 03:55:42 2pi systemd[1]: Stopping Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... May 29 03:55:42 2pi systemd[1]: nut-server.service: Succeeded. May 29 03:55:42 2pi systemd[1]: Stopped Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. -- Reboot -- May 29 03:58:08 2pi systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: fopen /run/nut/upsd.pid: No such file or directory May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: /etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: /etc/nut/upsd.conf is world readable May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: listening on ::1 port 3493 May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: listening on ::1 port 3493 May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: Warning: no UPS definitions in ups.conf May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: Fatal error: at least one UPS must be defined in ups.conf May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: Network UPS Tools upsd 2.7.4 May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: Warning: no UPS definitions in ups.conf May 29 03:58:08 2pi upsd[480]: Fatal error: at least one UPS must be defined in ups.conf May 29 03:58:08 2pi systemd[1]: nut-server.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE May 29 03:58:08 2pi systemd[1]: nut-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 29 03:58:08 2pi systemd[1]: Failed to start Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. May 29 04:09:14 2pi systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... May 29 04:09:14 2pi systemd[1]: nut-server.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE May 29 04:09:14 2pi systemd[1]: nut-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. May 29 04:09:14 2pi systemd[1]: Failed to start Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. There is the very same definition of the ups in ups.conf, e,g, [stp_ups] driver = usbhid-ups port = auto desc = "stp CP825 UPS" Removing the community package and reinstalling the old package works fine, e,g, 04:16 2pi:~/.../pkg/x86_64/nut> sc restart nut-server 04:17 2pi:~/.../pkg/x86_64/nut> upsc stp_ups battery.charge: 100 battery.charge.low: 10 battery.charge.warning: 20 battery.mfr.date: CPS battery.runtime: 3180 battery.runtime.low: 300 battery.type: PbAcid battery.voltage: 13.4 battery.voltage.nominal: 12 device.mfr: CPS device.model: UPS CP825 device.type: ups driver.name: usbhid-ups driver.parameter.pollfreq: 30 driver.parameter.pollinterval: 2 driver.parameter.port: auto driver.parameter.synchronous: no driver.version: 2.7.4 driver.version.data: CyberPower HID 0.4 driver.version.internal: 0.41 input.transfer.high: 140 input.transfer.low: 100 input.voltage: 122.0 input.voltage.nominal: 120 output.voltage: 122.0 ups.beeper.status: enabled ups.delay.shutdown: 20 ups.delay.start: 30 ups.load: 15 ups.mfr: CPS ups.model: UPS CP825 ups.productid: 0501 ups.realpower.nominal: 450 ups.status: OL ups.test.result: Done and passed ups.timer.shutdown: -60 ups.timer.start: 0 ups.vendorid: 0764 Why doesn't the new nut from community work? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Viability of Go libraries in the repositories
by George Rawlinson 18 May '20

18 May '20

Hi all, It was good to read the changes to Go packaging in the arch-dev-public mailing list. I'd like to bring up the viability of having Golang libraries in the official repositories. Considering the fact that multiple[0][1] versions of the same Go libraries can co-exist in the same Go codebase ... is there really a need for the libraries to exist in the official repositories? There may well be a situation in the future where some Go binary requires multiple versions of the same library, but only the latest version exists in the repositories. [0]:https://blog.golang.org/v2-go-modules [1]:https://research.swtch.com/vgo-import

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[arch-general] Kaffeine failure
by pete 17 May '20

17 May '20

Afternoon all Having issues recently with a couple of things one i can sort of live with the other i cant the unimportant one mouse needs double click to open a file otr start a program PITA but i can if essential live with it the other try to start kaffeine i get kaffeine 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "h" 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "help-all" 15-05-20 16:55:33.535 [Warning ] QCommandLineParser: already having an option named "v" 15-05-20 16:55:34.453 [Info ] kaffeine.dvb: Using built-in dvb device manager 15-05-20 16:55:34.660 [Info ] kaffeine.dev: Found dvb device P14f1880200709002: Conexant CX22702 DVB-T KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kaffeine path = /usr/bin pid = 5892 KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/kaffeine KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/drkonqi 15-05-20 16:55:34.794 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 13 and type 'Read', disabling... 15-05-20 16:55:34.795 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 28 and type 'Read', disabling... 15-05-20 16:55:34.795 [Warning ] QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket 29 and type 'Read', disabling... qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 5 (BadAtom), sequence: 491, resource id: 0, major code: 20 (GetProperty), minor code: 0 I also have an icon issue all was fine up until a few days ago restarted the computer after a few days in hospital with a cancer problem ran "pacman -Syu" since then it has been a pain i ould like it working correctly again as it seems i will be spending more time not doing too much i have tried backing out all i can find that was updated to no avail Thanks Pete

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[arch-general] usbguard
by Frank 16 May '20

16 May '20

Good evening, I'm trying to make usbgard work. I created the initial rules set with usbguard generate-policy > /etc/usbguard/rules.conf and started the usbguard.service. Now I testing it with a USB flash drive but am failing to make it work. The drive is plugged and usbguard list-devices gives the following output: 19: block id 058f:6387 serial "50624E36" name "Mass Storage" hash "icy/i6K1xnkICYPmiNNwJ18cmu5GqfsHSjCGuC5WIXg=" parent-hash "oDU77vx1EsfYlDoXkU7iWjsvmBNCDNTcCHp/V0hIFXc=" via-port "2-1.2" with-interface 08:06:50 with-connect-type "hotplug" However usbguard allow-device 058f:6387 throws the following error message: IPC ERROR: request id=1: Device lookup: device id: id doesn't exist lsbusb shows the device with the same id: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive So what am I doing wrong here? Thanks Frank

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[arch-general] PAM CAllback
by Andy Pieters 15 May '20

15 May '20

Hi I am looking to have PAM call a script after a successful 2F authentication. My impression is that it is not going to be possible. I even have got a question open on StackExchange about it [1] Any ideas? [1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/586243/callback-when-logged-on-via…

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[arch-general] Irritating bug in outdated version of gnome-flashback
by Roope Salmi 14 May '20

14 May '20

The current version of gnome-flashback in the repositories has a bug with taking screenshots to the clipboard using the keyboard shortcut. After using it a couple times, pasting the resulting image no longer works and crashes some targets. At the same time gnome-flashback locks up. More details in the upstream bug report: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-flashback/-/issues/50 It was fixed in 3.37.1. This is a feature I use daily, and I can imagine many others do too. gnome-flasback has been flagged outdated for a while now, and it seems the maintainer, Balló György has been inactive for some time. Can we get an update for this package? - Roope Salmi

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Re: [arch-general] foldingathome-beta setup
by Jude DaShiell 14 May '20

14 May '20

I gave up on foldingathome-beta and installed the foldingathome package. A little more information was in that package for setup. The client was able to find an nvidia GEFORCe gpu on the machine so I enabled the foldingathome-nvidia service and afterwards ran systemctl status foldingathome and no errors this time and the system was given 500,000 steps and had completed 25,000 of them by the end of the status information. If this doesn't break I may be able to put it on a second computer and double my meeger contribution to this effort. --

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[arch-general] foldingathome-beta setup
by Jude DaShiell 14 May '20

14 May '20

Is foldingathome-beta looking for the gpu on the motherboard or video card in my computer? When I searched this machine I got an intel with a 9 series number after it along with nvidia nouveau and radeon graphics if memory serves. The radeon graphics would have come up since the video monitor is a radeon 3 series if memory serves. If I can figure out which one to use my guess is delete all other incorrect lines in /opt/fah/GPUs.txt and maybe I get past this gpu error. I'm running foldingathome-beta on command line and was running foldingathome-noroot earlier until that package got replaced by this beta package. --

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[arch-general] r8169: transmit queue 0 timed out - dying hardware?
by Bjoern Franke 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hi, a box running Arch on AsRock QC5000-ITXPH has some issues with it's ethernet chipset since several days: https://dpaste.org/hVfk Network is stuck then and it somehow resumes after 1 hour or so. I stumbled upon https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199549, but changing the powermanagement did not help. The issue appears with 5.6.x and also 5.4.x LTS, now even the DHCP request failed after rebooting with 5.6.11. As it appears with both kernel branches, I hardly believe it's a kernel issue. But dying ethernet chipsets on a board? Regards Bjoern

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[arch-general] cgal package out of date
by 王少东 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hello, cgal 5.0 has been released for a while https://www.cgal.org/releases.html But the cgal package is still 4.14.2 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cgal/ It's flagged out-of-date on 2019-12-05, please update the package. Thanks.

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[arch-general] How will Arch handle systemd 245 and homed?
by David C. Rankin 08 May '20

08 May '20

All, I just read the article about the major change coming to systemd 245 at: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-home-directory-management-is-abo… What is terrifying is the SSH Problem. 9/10 hosts I interact with I do via ssh. And do we really need LUKS encrypted volumes for every user's $HOME directory? Sure for enterprise setups, etc.. but will there be a way to simply keep a normal unencrypted /home. How would scripts be able to backup certain work locations from user directories if the user is logged out? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Graceful shutdown Arch Linux
by Ram Kumar 07 May '20

07 May '20

Dear Arch users, I am Ramkumar from India, i use Archlinux with i3 and no login manager. When i try to shutdown the machine, it throws lot of warnings about ethernet port and etc.. and when turning on the machine and open an application, say firefox, it shows like it has been crashed as if it was a forceful shutdown. But i checked it whether firefox is closed before shutting down and it was closed. I am worried whether i am doing some nasty things while shutting the machine down. Could you please help me with some graceful shutdown options for Arch linux? Thanks in advance -Ramkumar

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[arch-general] texlive-core is missing dependencies
by John Shena 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hello, I was wondering when the maintainer of the texlive-core package add the dependencies required by latexindent which is included in the package. The bug report (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60210) has been open for over a year and is the most voted bug on the bug tracker. I would be very grateful if the maintainer of this package is willing to fix this simple bug, which have bothered me and others a lot. Thanks, John

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[arch-general] Inkscape 1.0 toolbar icon size, padding, margin fix?
by David C. Rankin 06 May '20

06 May '20

All, With the update to inkscape 1.0, the toolbars no longer fit on the screen and ellipsize reducing the number of toolbar icons by 1/3 (from 24 to 17 visible on laptop display). Is there any way to reduce the space between the icons or the space between the toolbars to be similar to 0.92.5? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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