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Re: [arch-general] NFS "updates"?
by Amin Vakil 06 May '20

06 May '20

> >> But to tell the users to discuss this upstream is bad advice. This is a >> situation where a distribution should take corrective action by >> reverting this configuration. This would add value and remove some >> useless code from the kernel. > No. If you want a distribution whose maintainers think it is a good > think to "correct" upstream decisions, you should use not Arch. > So there isn't a single package in Arch Linux which trusted users have changed them in order to fix an issue which they thought it's better this way? If there is/was a package what is/was it and why?

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[arch-general] arch monthly brocken
by C Schu 05 May '20

05 May '20

Hi ! I use mothly update repo: Server=https://archive.archlinux.org/repos/month/$repo/os/$arch For years it works without problem but now it doesnt work ?! Please help ! kind regards kristoferus

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[arch-general] USB not assining port number
by pete 05 May '20

05 May '20

Morning all . Having a problem with a usb device it is an Adafruit Trinket on plugging the device in i get 3761.650687] usb 7-1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using ohci-pci [ 3761.839453] usb 7-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1781, idProduct=0c9f, bcdDevice= 1.05 [ 3761.839469] usb 7-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [ 3761.839473] usb 7-1: Product: Trinket [ 3761.839476] usb 7-1: Manufacturer: Adafruit but no USB port given lsusb gives Bus 002 Device 011: ID 1781:0c9f Multiple Vendors USBtiny Is there usb support for this device as i need to get this working as an update to an Antenna rotator that has a defunct no longer available display for direction Thanks Pete ( G6NJR)

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[arch-general] inotify and rsync as user
by siefke_listen＠web.de 02 May '20

02 May '20

Hello, I have question to the combination of inotify and rsync. I want that my documents folder sync with other maschine if the host is up. So I find this soulution in net. The problem is, I write a script take it in /usr/local/bin cat /usr/local/bin/sync_docs.sh #!/usr/bin/env bash if ping -c 1 192.168.2.160 &> /dev/null; then while true; do inotifywait -r -e modify,attrib,close_write,move,create,delete /home/siefke/Dokumente rsync -avuq /home/siefke/Dokumente/ samsung:/home/siefke/Dokumente/ done fi and a systend service file. So but when the script run I become ever error siefke(a)192.168.2.160: Permission denied (publickey,password). So I place the script in home folder, place systemd service file in home and run it with systemd --user. The result is same. When run ssh samsung it works, when I run sync_docs.sh in shell it works. Why with systemd make it trouble? Thank you Silvio

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[arch-general] Heads up: After system update, LUKS fails with certain BIOS versions
by LuKaRo 01 May '20

01 May '20

Hello everyone, My desktop machine didn't shut down cleanly yesterday after I did system upgrades, hanging at closing my dmcrypt devices. I power-cycled after 10 minutes, and today it wouldn't boot, again hanging at the [encrypt]-hook. I tried cryptsetup open, luksOpen, luksDump and isLuks from a fresh 2020-05-01 archiso, all with --debug, with multiple encrypted internal drives, all hanging after printing the header checksum. So I couldn't access any of my drives anymore. dd if=/dev/sdxy of=/dev/null worked fine for all of them, though. I already thought my header got corrupted somehow and my data was lost, until I remembered I had some output in dmesg for several months now: `rdrand gives funky smelling output`. I gave it a shot and updated my BIOS, and hooray, my system booted up just fine. Back in my system, I noticed cryptsetup 2.3.1-1 -> 2.3.1-3 and linux 5.6.7 -> 5.6.8 in yesterday's update. So probably something has changed in that update that causes an issue connected with the old BIOS version. This was definitely not the solution I expected, and therefore I want to share it, as others might be affected as well. My Mainboard is an Asus Prime X470-Pro, CPU is AMD Ryzen 7-3900x. Updating to BIOS v5406 fixed the issue. So if you get similar issues, don't worry, your data might not be lost :) Kind regards, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] [Re: arch-general] Re: [arch-dev-public] RFC: go-pie removal in favour of GOFLAGS
by Lone_Wolf 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

On 30-04-2020 09:56, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi Morten > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 3:32 PM Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public > <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Yo! >> >> After being lazy for a few weeks, I got around to writing the new guidelines for >> Go packages. Currently it's a draft and I'd love if people read through it and >> ack/nacked >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Foxboron/Go_packaging_guidelines > Thank you for coming up with this document. > > Go is a fantastic language and I would love to see more people using > it. Having things documented will help our users to get more > comfortable with the golang packaging. > >> The current changes is dropping anything pre-1.11 completely. I don't see the >> need to detail the GOPATH hacks as new packages should be using go modules, and >> existing packages is moving to go modules. > +1. The current "go modules" implementation is so much more superior > to what Golang had before. "go modules" is the default option > nowadays. > >> The other changes is explicitly listing up the needed CGO_* variables needed. >> Levente pointed out CGO_CFLAGS is still needed for FORTIFY_SOURCE, so for the >> sake of completeness it's all listed. >> >> I have also removed `-mod=vendor` from the default listing in `prepare()` as >> Anatol wasn't fond of the idea. I'm still unsure if we really want this as we >> would be willynilly downloading sources in `build()` and `check()` during >> packaging. > My concern was related to use of vendorized sources. "-vendor" was not > created for the cache management. If one wants to warmup the gomodules > download cache then "go mod download" should be used. See more info > about this tool here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26610 > > And if we plan to encourage adding the cache warmup to all golang > PKGBUILD (that's gonna be thousands of packages) then this extra > complexity need be justified. Anyone who wants to follow our advise > needs to have clear answers to following questions: Is this feature > solely to avoid the download during the build() step or there is > something else? Why downloading in build() is bad, does it hurt the > users? What use-cases does show an advantage of the cache warmup.. > etc.. Answering on arch-general as only devs can post on arch-dev-public. (hope I haven't broken the mail thread) TL;DR : yes, downloading in build hurts users. downloads during build() using gomodules are - unpredictable as packager has no control over what is downloaded - break reproducible builds because of their unpredictable nature. Some other comments - arch-meson disables downloads by default. - most (all ?) packagers that use meson directly use --nowrap to prevent downloads. - in the past VCS sources were downloaded in build() . pacman devs invested lots of time and effort to allow controlling them through source array. - git submodules work in a similar way . The VCS packaging guidelines wiki page describes how to download the submoduile sources through source array and add them manually in prepare(). This allows packagers to follow upstream intent but stay in control. - gomodules are source files. If they need to be downloaded that should happen in prepare() , not build() . Lone_Wolf

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[arch-general] NFS "updates"?
by Hauke Fath 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

All, we have a group of Arch desktop clients that mount their user homes and group shares through nfsv3 over udp from an OmniOS server. After today's update (the last one was on 9 Mar) the machine will not nfs-mount, complaining about illegal udp, grpid, int mount options, and the kernel spits out a NFSV4: Unsupported transport protocol udp although nothing on this installation anywhere ever has used nfsv4 until now, and /etc/default/autofs explicitly specifies nfsv3. Editing /etc/nfsmount.conf (which was in default state until now) accordingly did not make a difference. I couldn't find any nfs related Arch news items. 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] foldingathome-beta almost working
by Jude DaShiell 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

The beta runs and complains it can't find opencl driver running on slot 1. Entirely reasonable since the computer foldingathome uses is running on slot 2. Does a way exist to redirect opencl to run on slot 2 where foldingathome can use it and return a status report with no failures and no errors in it? Me using a screen reader I don't have much occasion to do things with video drivers. The monitor I use is compatible with opencl-mesa not nvidia if that helps. --

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[arch-general] Hibernation Failure
by Paul Dann 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

I'm having trouble getting hibernation to work on my new Dell Inspiron 7590. It seems that the image is stored correctly (onto LUKS+LVM thin-lv), but resume fails, with the following left in the kernel logs: --- PM: Image signature found, resuming PM: resume from hibernation Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.001 seconds) done. OOM killer disabled. PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x00000000-0x00000fff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x0009e000-0x0009efff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000fffff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x40000000-0x403fffff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x66797000-0x66798fff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x761f7000-0x791fefff] PM: Marking nosave pages: [mem 0x79200000-0xffffffff] PM: Basic memory bitmaps created PM: Using 3 thread(s) for decompression PM: Loading and decompressing image data (1343374 pages)... PM: Image loading progress: 0% PM: Image loading progress: 10% PM: Image loading progress: 20% PM: Image loading progress: 30% PM: Image loading progress: 40% PM: Image loading progress: 50% PM: Image loading progress: 60% PM: Image loading progress: 70% PM: Image loading progress: 80% PM: Image loading progress: 90% PM: Invalid LZO compressed length PM: Read 5373496 kbytes in 6.35 seconds (846.21 MB/s) PM: Error -1 resuming PM: Failed to load hibernation image, recovering. PM: Basic memory bitmaps freed OOM killer enabled. Restarting tasks ... done. PM: resume from hibernation failed (-1) --- And then the system boots fresh. An internet search revealed absolutely nothing about the "Invalid LZO compressed length", and I've no idea why the image would be corrupt. I'd appreciate any ideas. Paul

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[arch-general] Dynamic IPs change after reboot when dhcpcd-9.0.1-2 installed?
by David C. Rankin 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

I have noticed an issue that update of dhcpcd in the past day or two causes the server running dhcpd to hand out a different IP. The resolv.conf is unchanged - unlike the bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66313?project=1&string=dhcpcd&order=dateope… The fact that the IP changes isn't itself a problem, the fact that it has not behaved like this before is. The side-effect impacts updating Arch boxes across a LAN. You may find yourself unable to connect after a kernel update and reboot when the box comes back up with a different IP. The problem being any local IP caching on the machine being used to do remote updates won't see the change until the lease expires. (or the local nameresolution cache is flushed/restarted -- depends on box and distro used to access the remote Arch box). Has anybody else seen this? Also, if you know, is this just a one-off change with the new package that won't repeat each time dhcpcd or the kernel is updated going forward? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] foldingathome-beta fails
by Jude DaShiell 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

The packagebuild does not download and install all dependencies for foldingathome-client so cannot operate on systems that have used foldingathome predecessor software like foldingathome-noroot. I figured it might work since I had configured foldingathome-client earlier and had a valid configuration but no such luck. So I will be cleaning this package and all predecessor packages and associated data from this system. --

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[arch-general] hostapd and systemd-networkd ordering cycle
by Joan Aymà 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Hi, I have a bridge configured through systemd-networkd and a wifi AP with hostpad. The wifi AP interface is attached to the bridge by systemd-networkd. There is a ordering cycle that is: network.target -> systemd-networkd.service -> hostapd.service -> network.target (btw I used https://github.com/jantman/misc-scripts/blob/master/dot_find_cycles.py to helpful debug it.) The unit file of the hostapd has (only pasted relevant info): [Unit] *After=network.target* [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target That's it. Bu if I create a /etc/systemd/system/hostapd.service.d/after.conf with: [Unit] After= *After=network-pre.target* It never overrides the cycle (it's read but the After is not overridden). If I create a /etc/systemd/system/hostapd.conf with the difference above the it works fine and no ordering cycle. Should I open a PR to fix the /lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service? How? Thanks, Joan.

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[arch-general] Warning: both linux 5.6.5 and linux 5.4.33 LTS are broken for AMD users.
by fredbezies 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Hello. If you're using an AMD GPU, you won't be able to shutdown or reboot correctly your computer. This is a known issue on kernel bug tracker : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 And I reported it on Archlinux bug tracker too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66305 I tested proposed patch, and it works. So let's hope for a fixed kernel either from kernel hackers or Archlinux maintainers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] How to show USB insertion in journal without audit enabled?
by David C. Rankin 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

All, I'm not sure when this changed, but in the past when I plugged in a USB flash drive, I could just watch a tail of the journal to see the connection and device details. I tried that again today and nothing appeared in the journal, though the device was seen and assigned /dev/sde (and /dev/sde1) which I got from cat /proc/partitions. I have also added the kernel parameter audit=0 per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Audit_framework to disable the audit messages in the journal. I don't recall the USB messages being audit messages before (they could have been, I just don't remember), but now nothing is shown. Is the lack of output in the journal on USB drive plug-in due to the audit=0 parameter, and if so, is there any way to restore the journal messages on USB plug-in without enabling audit? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] changing nickname on arch infrastructure
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

hello list, i need to change my nick on arch bug-tracker, forum and wiki. where and to whom do I need to write? -- Sincerely, Alexander.

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[arch-general] Hyperkitty, Mailman, Postorius
by David Runge 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

Hi all, As a followup to my mail on arch-dev-public [1] I've just moved hyperkitty [2], mailman3 [3] and postorius [4] from [community-testing] to [community]. If you're running your own mailman instance, you have probably already read up on what the python3 based mailman-core aka. mailman3 has to offer in comparison to the current python2 based mailman. TL;DR: The mailman3 package will replace mailman [5] at some point (latest when we drop python2 from the repositories). Eventually mailman3 will be renamed to mailman. Currently mailman3 and mailman conflict. Mailman3 is modular: For archiving you need to use hyperkitty, for web-based management and signup you need to use postorius. **DO BACKUPS BEFORE TESTING!!!** While in theory all of these "should just work", they haven't been tested thoroughly by many Arch users yet (AFAIK). This is where you come in! Please **backup your existing mailman archives and data** before attempting to switch and take mailman3 for a test drive! Mailman3 and mailman(2) can not be installed side-by-side, as they make use of the same directories and the same system user. Neither mailman3, nor hyperkitty or postorius provide setuid [6] binaries (the current mailman does) while each provides a separate user. This means that managing those applications sudo or su has to be used. Hyperkitty (archiving) and postorius (user management) are both Django [7] applications, that are being installed system wide. This implies getting to know how to setup and use these applications. On the upside: This means archiving and configuration of mailman3 can be done on separate hosts (if the need arises)! When testing, upgrading and migrating I would like to invite you to extend the existing wiki pages for mailman3's setup [8], postorius' hosting [9] and hyperkitty's hosting [10] sections, wherever you use something that is not covered by the wiki yet. The more diverse the setup documentation is, the better for all of us! Closing, I'm of course also interested in any package improvement suggestions or package bug reports that you might have. Enjoy the new mailman ecosystem! Best, David [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-February/029854.… [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hyperkitty [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postorius [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman_2 [6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities [7] https://www.djangoproject.com/ [8] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman#Setup [9] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postorius#Hosting [10] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hyperkitty#Hosting -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] rEFInd package being neglected by maintainer.
by mike lojkovic 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

rEFInd has had multiple versions came out, and the mainter has been neglecting to update it for nearly two years. Is there an eta or talk of changing the maintainer for that package? Pretty sure, it builds find as an aur alternative has been up for awhile.

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[arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'
by riveravaldez 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi, if this queries must go to some other specific places (forums, AUR, etc.) please let me know so I move them there. 1. According to the instructions in [1] «it is necessary to exclude /dev/snd/ from Firefox' sandboxing by adding it to the comma-separated list in about:config → security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist», but right now I'm using '$ apulse firefox' without that exclusion and seems to work fine. Maybe that's outdated? (My system is updated.) 2. According to [2] «to allow ALSA programs to play while JACK is running edit (or create) /etc/asound.conf» with this: # convert alsa API over jack API # use it with # % aplay foo.wav # use this as default pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "jack" hint.description "Jack Audio" } Now, when I installed apulse, I got this instruction: «For using PulseAudio emulation create a proper .asoundrc: $ cp /usr/share/apulse/asoundrc.sample ~/.asoundrc». Is there any relation or conflict between those two files? BTW, I simply forgot to follow that apulse indication, but it seems to work fine anyway. Maybe it's not necessary? Thanks a lot. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Multimedia_playback [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit#Playing_nice…

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Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved
by Jude DaShiell 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

It's all good, man page has it listed as teapot but actual program is run as teapot-planner and it runs too. --

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[arch-general] teapot package could be improved
by Jude DaShiell 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

which package has the version of rpc.h teapot needs to build? Whichever package that is, the dependency is missing from the build script. --

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[arch-general] Time stamps are in 24 hour format how can you change this.
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi all, I am using Jenux which is a basic installer for arch Linux, but any I have notest that for some reason when using thunderbird with orca, Time and day are spoken in 24 hour format with year, month day followed by the time in 24 hour format. My time zone is set correctly. For example 2020/2020/jfirstjf 15:jj. Any one know how to switch to udds format? It's driving me crazy. If I use orca to get the time it is spoken correctly. Thanks all. Matthew PS, I have checked the arch wiki, but came up empty. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio
by Amin Vakil 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

So every update of linux kernels and modules which need mkinitpcio to be executed, takes too much unnecessary time (maybe 2 min) which could be handled if it executes on multi threads of CPU. Actually this 2 minutes bothers me this much that I'm emailing Arch General Mailing List is because I'm afraid my Arch would be broken if my laptop shuts down in this process and I have to rescue it by live USB. I have read the mkinitpcio wiki page and I can't find anything regarding this matter: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio I've checked and my cpu usage and it shows me that it uses maximum power of a core when mkinitpcio is running, so I assumed it could be helped if it runs on multi threads. So my question is why it doesn't execute over all threads or at least have the option to do that? Does it help if it gets executed over multi threads or the bottleneck is somewhere else?

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[arch-general] Problem with packaging pyxdg and xdg from PyPI
by Ricardo Band 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I maintain a tool called virtualfish [1] on the AUR. It is writte in python and one dependency of it is called xdg [2]. It is not packaged in archlinux so I would just do that on the AUR. Problem is there already is a package in archlinux extra which is called python-xdg [3]. That package includes a python library called pyxdg [4] which does nearly the same as xdg but is still a different library. In my opinion the arch packages python-xdg and python2-xdg have an incorrect name. They should be called python-pyxdg so the xdg module could be packaged under python-xdg. The naming schema with the python-py prefix looks odd but isn't new. It is already used in the pyserial [5] package. How do we solve this problem? [1]: https://pypi.org/project/virtualfish/ [2]: https://pypi.org/project/xdg/ [3]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-xdg/ [4]: https://pypi.org/project/pyxdg/ [5]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/python-pyserial/ - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl6JGRgACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg76dQ/8D+4Fo3AiKoPw+CFcQsATGs7Ry+W5l8awSHzEUjrI7lcMJCFEXS2CjzxO +LBzSpmP1p36LI/Ec/TAAc60nl3i3tmY8SZY4lPhQJDWHSo8F3az3aMCsy4TfBCa YQRIZPzx3iMRKYEiJx8GVHiSW/GebebT4ilp4ssQjgkIrq28HT5G0rK7N7O6/Yp0 gZHo4TlgqpOVZ8HgXfX2lVoO4O1/7isyIKtL5YMCMwbGxsFBaYxkwbahcd1FTd7A AIC6XP3wGNZbpPEtZQGDGFd1soJ0abh1bxUsvwlgPswoEkho/HKq9L3WhbsqFS4x wLt07/7ucpRXZ+16ajmDoLyjjhvLjUfSlO4sXi5sAwrIUYS/rbnB4L7qoUfGkyRs KJ6e07iW+T7ZQRfNpodTs+N/RBDxUzNk5Pj5F5e7VgCWGEsUmePMG4TO5+06skIH OH9EXrATYLUjL31077rO1WzxSKShcoZ17Z0lW8IKYut4RDG1EgUMuIH/hyydKhWj 2VOVMjDY5PxdUtlvphSXHpdpbzGD+9n7TsAEFE3opQigayMbjBnprsUmk/ubX0Og pHXwAs45K5g3Kqa1qY7tow8Rw5a528Tsc3+FZGAEvNj7tRlynrAS370oFnKys9Wc gING0Q/UB2siV1LJRuExBNXLP63yezCqVqdp7LvkvodRdwL06Zg= =4gAQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio
by Amin Vakil 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

> > As it's true for pretty much all update process for pretty much every OS > in the world, things can break if the update is interrupted. > I meant as other linux distros keep multiple kernel versions, if something happens during kernel update you can always boot to another kernel which I've done on CentOS servers before when update has broken during kernel update. > > For my particular setup, running `mkinitcpio -P` yields those times: > ------------------------ > real 1m8.320s > user 0m24.742s > sys 0m12.806s > ------------------------ > Half of the time mkinitcpio was waiting for disk I/O. Most likely > `find`, but that?s only mu guess. > As my Arch is on SSD I suppose hard drive is not a bottleneck. > > Even while it's unlikely that only mkinitcpio suffers from a damaged > HDD and even while smartctl not necessarily does show issues of a > already damaged aged HDD, I would run smartctl and take a look, if it > shows something fishy. > Good point, I've checked and my SSD is OK. > > change the COMPRESSION variable to lz4 ou lzop in your /etc/mkinitcpio.conf > : it will considerably reduce the compression time. > Great suggestion, I've compared with gzip and it's really considerably faster. (Four images are built, linux (default, fallback), linux-hardened (default, fallback)) gzip: real 1m42.140s user 1m22.717s sys 0m23.493s lz4: real 1m1.120s user 0m44.310s sys 0m21.785s cat (without compression): real 0m59.477s user 0m43.050s sys 0m21.946s To sum it up I will enable lz4 compression to benefit from both reduced time and saving space. Also I'm planning to read wiki on how to safely disable fallback. I'm using LVM on LUKS method and I suppose fallback image cannot boot my Arch, so it doesn't help in case of an accident. Thank you all

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[arch-general] Problems with files creation / copy with Samba 4.12.x and SMB1 only device.
by fredbezies 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Hello. Before all, thanks to David C. Radkin for the tweak related to SMB1 activation. After installing Samba 4.12.x, I added only this in [global] section of /etc/samba/smb.conf to get access to one of my old SMB1 only network based HDD: server min protocol = CORE client min protocol = CORE After a reboot, I got access to my share, but every single time I want to copy / create a new file, a folder is created! Of course, I cannot delete this folder. Here is an error log I had in /var/log/everything.log: Mar 31 23:28:40 fredo-arch-mate gvfsd[1096]: Kerberos auth with 'fred@WORKGROUP' (WORKGROUP\fred) to access '192.168.1.254' not possible Any idea? Thanks! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] TexLive 2020 packages
by Rémy Oudompheng 02 Apr '20

02 Apr '20

Hello, TexLive 2020 is frozen upstream and will be officially released in the coming days. Packages have been uploaded to [testing] and [community-testing] (for biber). Please let me know if you encounter issues with these. Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] nvidia-dkms pkgrel increase after every linux upgrade
by Amin Vakil 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

I have recently installed nvidia-dkms as I use linux-hardened, although I have installed linux package as well, but I always boot to linux-hardened. Anyway I've noticed that nvidia-dkms increases pkgrel everytime linux package gets upgraded, why is that so? Taken from NVIDIA wiki: Custom kernel If you are using a custom kernel, compilation of the Nvidia kernel modules can be automated with DKMS. Install the nvidia-dkms package (or a specific branch). The Nvidia module will be rebuilt after every Nvidia or kernel update thanks to the DKMS pacman hook. Correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't mean that nvidia module will be rebuilt after kernel update thanks to the DKMS pacman hook? So why should nvidia-dkms upgrades?

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[arch-general] Apache Virtual Host Connection Refused Error
by Matt Schwartz 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Hello list, I have a vexing problem with an Apache Virtual Host setup. In a nutshell, I have verified that apache is listening on port 80 and I have double checked my virtual host setup. Indeed, I can reach by IP address and the connection is logged under the virtual host. However, when I try to use the domain name, I get a connection refused error. The httpd.conf file is pretty much stock with the exception of uncommenting the userdir stuff and the vhosts line at the bottom. I pretty much followed the article on the wiki. I am leaning towards a DNS issue but my domain properly resolves to the correct IP address. The IP address is 149.28.50.65. What could I have missed? # /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster(a)goblackcat.com.com DocumentRoot "/home/user/public_html" ServerName "goblackcat.com" ServerAlias "www.goblackcat.com" ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/goblackcat.com-error_log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/goblackcat.com-access_log" common <Directory "/home/user/public_html"> Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> #/etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost Thanks! Matt

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Re: [arch-general] Samba is broken on stable repositories since March 28th, 2020.
by fredbezies 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

>On 03/29/2020 11:39 AM, fredbezies via arch-general wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Last update of samba, pushed on extra - instead of testing - is breaking >> share access. >> >> Commit: >> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2020-March/727612.html >> >> See this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254083 >> >> Only fix for now? Downgrading samba. >> >This is one of those rare occurrences when an update breaks critical server >functionality for some older environments. Samba 4.11 disables SMB1 by >default for the first time. I have old clients in backoffice roles that still use it. I don't know if my shares are using SMB1 protocol, but I got python errors like in this bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64537 Only real fix is to upgrade to samba 4.12.x. > >Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add > >client min protocol = NT1 >server min protocol = NT1 > >to the global section to restore workgroups and SMB1 No luck here: $ ls /etc/samba/ 14:03:08 private There is no /etc/smb.conf file. Archlinux needs to push Samba 4.12.x. Nothing less, nothing more. Pushing a 4 months old development version is weird. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Brightness keys not working on laptop
by David Rosenstrauch 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

I can't seem to get the screen brightness up and down keys working on my laptop. (A new HP EliteBook x360 1030 G4.) Controlling the screen brightness programmatically does work. I.e., I'm able to set up mappings in my DE (XFCE) for specific key combos to call out to the "light" application and increase/decrease brightness that way. But the built-in brightness function keys (F3 and F4, without pressing fn) don't work at all. xev doesn't register any keypress when I hit those keys, and evtest always reports an unknown/wrong scan and key code: Event: time 1583360957.168127, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------ Event: time 1583360959.602902, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 81 Event: time 1583360959.602902, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 465 (KEY_FN_ESC), value 1 I've been trying to debug this for several weeks now, but without success. I'm also pretty sure that I saw these keys working about 2 weeks ago. But although I've tried rolling back to versions of some key packages (e.g., kernel, libinput, and systemd) from that date range, I've not been able to get them working again. I've searched for bugs and forum posts on the issue, but haven't found anything that fixes it. I've also tried mucking with some of the suggestions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes but no joy there either. I'd file a bug on this, but I have no idea which package is causing the issue. I'm fairly certain these hotkeys are controlled by the kernel hp_wmi module, and I do see some error message lines in dmesg about that: [ 5.683232] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5 [ 5.697112] hp_wmi: query 0x4 returned error 0x5 [ 5.704773] hp_wmi: query 0xd returned error 0x5 [ 5.730490] hp_wmi: query 0x1b returned error 0x5 But I'm not certain that those error messages are actually related to my issue, and googling on them didn't turn up anything of much relevance. Anyone have any suggestions/pointers on what might be broken here and/or how to fix? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Samba is broken on stable repositories since March 28th, 2020.
by fredbezies 29 Mar '20

29 Mar '20

Hello. Last update of samba, pushed on extra - instead of testing - is breaking share access. Commit: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2020-March/727612.html See this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254083 Only fix for now? Downgrading samba. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] latest kernel update surprise
by Jude DaShiell 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

5.59-10 on the machine I use. I'm using a different version of linux on another disk to write this message. Strangely, both speaker-test and espeakup no longer work. The speaker-test failure would of course cover espeakup since espeakup uses sound card resources to do screen reading. Was anything done to the kernel to cause these failures? --

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[arch-general] Pacman Database Signatures
by Christopher W. 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Hi. The wiki states that database signatures for pacman are currently a work in progress. It's been that way for a long time, so I assume there is no "progress" happening. What is currently in the way of this much-needed security feature to be fully implemented? Right now, pacman is taking untrusted input from the internet as root. That's very bad. Most of the comments I've seen say that an attacker could hold back vulnerable packages, but this is assuming the attacker does not have bigger plans. The pacman tool is not immune to bugs in the way it parses the database files. It has no privilege separation in the download/parsing code as far as I can see (apt and others have had this for a long time) so it's really an even more dire situation. Pacman should not perform any operations as root until it has verified the signature of all files being used to install/upgrade the packages, but it currently does everything (downloading, verifying, etc) as root. I'd like to get a discussion going about how and when these two issues could be resolved so that all Arch users can be safer. Thanks.

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Robin Martijn 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Currently, I am using linux 5.5.11.arch1-1. Since this version, I am unable to use my USB storage drives. Nothing shows up in dmesg when inserting the storage drive and also lsblk does not detect the drive. lsusb also does not detect the drive. I have rebooted my system after the kernel update, more than once actually, so I am sure that that is not the problem. Would anybody know what could potentially be the problem? Thanks in advance!

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[arch-general] Python2-gimp - what functionality was lost?
by David C. Rankin 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

All, I updated gimp tonight and received: ( 6/19) upgrading gimp [######################################] 100% > The python2 plugin support is disabled, you will need to install this > separately if you need it, e.g. the python2-gimp package in the AUR. Looking at several bugs about python2 and gimp and it seem that gimp is not removing python2 during gimp 2.10: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737933 Do we know what functionality was lost when we removed python2 support for it? I don't use it that often, but do use it fairly thoroughly when I do. From that standpoint, is there a list of what now isn't part of gimp without python2? That would help in knowing whether the AUR package is needed. Seems strange the AUR package was posted and orphaned on 2020-03-18? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio disabling auto-mute mode
by David Rosenstrauch 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

I'm not sure how/why (or when it started) but pulseaudio is disabling auto-mute mode on my laptop. Normally when you plug in headphones, speakers get muted. However, every time PA starts up, it disables that auto-mute feature. (I then have to go into alsamixer and manually re-enable it.) Not a huge issue, but definitely a nuisance. It's definitely PA that's responsible: if I enable auto-mute, then do "pulseaudio --kill", the setting immediately gets disabled. I've followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Auto-Mute_M… and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Disa… - i.e., change the setting to enabled, and then alsactl store. However, that's obviously having no impact, since pulseaudio later *overrides* the alsa setting when it starts up. Anyone else having similar issue? Or have any idea what the issue is / how to fix? (Or link to an open bug report?) Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Subject: Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic Good day from Singapore to all Linux users, Recently, on 12 March 2020, I have successfully created my own custom Linux distribution which I affectionately call it Teo En Ming Linux. My custom Linux distribution is based on the most basic Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd book and Linux kernel 5.5.7. I am able to boot it successfully on my Toshiba 1 TB 3.5 inch SATA internal harddisk /dev/sdb2. After the initial success, I wanted to make a bootable Live CD/DVD of my Linux From Scratch system. I followed Jimmy Anderson's guide (which was written more than 7 years ago on 20 Jan 2013) and modified his guide in trying to make it work with LFS 20200302-systemd book. You may refer to the following guides on how I created a bootable Live CD/DVD of my Linux From Scratch system. Blog post #1: "How to create a Bootable Live CD/DVD from your Linux From Scratch (LFS) build" Link: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-create-bootable-live-cddvd-f… Blog post #2: "Patching Linux Kernel 5.5.7 to Add Support for AUFS Filesystem" Link: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com/2020/03/patching-linux-kernel-557-to-add.ht… When I booted up my bootable Live CD/DVD, I got a kernel panic. Looking at the following screenshot, it seems that my 64-bit Live CD booted in 32-bit mode. Screenshot: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P_EcnlhuDIQ/XnDso3sjNZI/AAAAAAAAAqw/qa5EZoHQQa8W… Notice the "trampoline_32bit" and "booted via startup_32()" lines on the above screenshot. The following screenshot illustrates the kernel panic. Screenshot: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSNEk19fG7s/XnDtZf-80_I/AAAAAAAAAq4/Q-GAHKnWe_IS… My guess is that my 64-bit Live CD booted up in 32-bit mode, and when it tried to execute /sbin/init (symlink to systemd binary) after mounting the squashfs root file system, which is 64-bit, it resulted in a kernel panic. What I am trying to say is that the 64-bit Linux kernel on the Live CD boots up in 32-bit mode (my guess), and then tried to execute purely 64-bit binaries, which results in a kernel panic. Please advise me on how I can resolve this issue and produce a working Live CD of my LFS system without kernel panic. Thank you very much. -- -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Can't change tty, any ideas?
by Jeanette C. 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Hey hey, I'm running on a 5.4.24-rt15-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT kernel and since I've been back - after a day - and rebooted my machine, Ican't change ttys anymore. I checked the keyboard with showkey, both alt and the f-keys come through. No job is overtaxing the CPU. It's almost down to 0-2% CPU usage. The keyboard is connected via USB, I had PS/2 keyboard issues a long time ago so switched. The HUB is working, other devices - including my braille display - work flawlessly. I'm currently typing this mail on my system. I know, this probably isn't strictly a matter for this list, but it is a good pool of knowledgeable and helpful people. So, can anyone suggest probable causes, methods to hunt the bug? TIA and best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Cinderella's got to go <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] Problem with reflector
by karx 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

Hi all, I'm trying to install reflector to manage pacman mirrors. Upon install, everything seems to be working, but actually running the reflector command says that the python file. The PKGBUILD installs the file to the system python, but the python binary that is higher in the path is the one installed by asdf-vm, which uses pyenv in the background. Because this has its own directory, the file is not installed to this location, so when the reflector command invokes python, it invokes the one installed by asdf-vm, which obviously cannot find the file Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks, Yash Karandikar

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[arch-general] How did spyder/python-spyder-kernels downgrade version?
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

I've got spyder-4.0.1-2 and python-spyder-kernels-1.8.1-1 installed. They're not self-compiled, they just came in as regular repo updates (on 22nd February 2020). However the current repo version of both is 3.3.6-2 and 0.5.2-4. Looks like a rollback of spyder related packages took place? Shouldn't epoch be updated in that case? I have [testing] enabled but I don't know how to check if the current installed version is from community-testing.

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[arch-general] 5.5 kernel - Latest virtualbox testcase build for 5.2.37 fails to start Arch guest on Arch host
by David C. Rankin 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

lAll, After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and the latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules build and load fine) https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.2.37-135942-Linux… Arch guests fail to run on Arch host. network device enp0s3 not found, udev kernel rules fail, and the boot never complete. All fine with the 5.4 kernel. I've posted to the vbox-users list, but if anyone here has additional information I would appreciate it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] kernel full compilation ?
by Pascal 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

hello, I need to introduce a small modification in linux-5.4.23/block/blk-core.o : do I need to recompile completely (~4 hours) or is there a way to shorten the compilation time ? I followed Kernel/Arch_Build_System <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel/Arch_Build_System>. regards, lacsaP.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Potential removal of Chromium in ~2 months
by Geo Kozey 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

On Saturday, February 22, 2020 5:50 AM, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Just a quick heads up that I am considering dropping Chromium from > [extra] a week or two before the Chromium 82 stable release (~April 28). > The reason for this is that our API keys no longer work for geolocation > requests and there is no clear upstream guidance on how to resolve this > issue. [1] > > When I created these API keys back in 2013, there was a semi-official > effort by the Chrome Team to support distro builds of Chromium in regard > to accessing Google APIs; a few minor hiccups along the way were quickly > resolved. I feel this arrangement is starting to fall apart (in spite of > some upstream Chrome developers' best efforts). > > To make a long story short, I consider broken geolocation sufficient > reason for removal. I don't mind it being broken for my own use, but > shipping a package with broken functionality due to lack of upstream > support does not sit well with me. > > To protect against systems with outdated Chromium (following the stable > release of version 82), at the beginning of April I intend to post a > news item about the need to switch to another browser. That is assuming > no solution is found and nobody objects to the removal or wishes to > continue maintenance of the package with reduced functionality. > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-packagers/Z… Hi, First of all let me thank you for high quality maintainership of chromium package in Arch. This post was really surprising for me and sad but also quite confusing because I don't understand how lack of some minor feature can involve nuclear option of removing dominant and most tech-advanced browser on the market from Arch repos. I bet most users won't even notice lack of it and some may even welcome removal of so called "spyware". Those who treat geolocation as critical feature may choose different browser but forcing everyone out of they beloved one for this particular reason seems like overreaction to me. Yours sincerely G. K.

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[arch-general] Package Jami is out of date
by Simon Brand 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hello, the package Jami is out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/jami-gnome/ The last packager seams to be not active anymore. Can anybody please take over the package? Best, Simon

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[arch-general] animate.sty in texlive-latexextra needs update
by Marco 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Dear list, I run into the problem of outdated package "animate" contained in texlive-latexextra. With the current version of the package, xelatex is not able to embed animations at least when using png frames. At the contrary, pdflatex works fine. Replacing the /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/animate/animate.sty with the version "2019/12/03" available upstream, that is, from CTAN [1], fixes the issue. I am now confused as what it's the best way to proceed, since I am not familiar with Arch's release cycle of texlive. Should I flag texlive-latexextra as out-of-date? Or is it better to file a bugreport? Suggestions welcomed. Cheers, Domanov [1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate

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[arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?
by Mark Raynsford 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hello! It seems that a recent update (unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly which) broke my ability to run Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container. Specifically, the symptom is that the Chromium window opens, but remains blank and evidently doesn't respond to keyboard/mouse input. Firefox in the same container runs without issue. Is there something I can do to debug this issue? I'm using the standard trick to allow containers to access X: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-nspawn#Use_an_X_environment The only possibly relevant error message I see on Chromium's stderr is: 67:67:0221/100217.520256:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(459)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization. I've tried the --disable-gpu flag, but that makes no difference. Any ideas? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] Mate 1.24.0 status?
by fredbezies 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hello. I noticed that all mate packages are flagged as outdated for nearly two weeks now. I built Mate 1.24.0 using official PKGBUILDs and it ran great besides a rebuild of mate applets related to new cpupower version. Any ETA for Mate 1.24? Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] post-install dependencies check
by Jude DaShiell 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Can pacman be used to find which packages are missing which optional dependencies after an install? --

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Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check
by Ralf Mardorf 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:10:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> You should report it here: https://github.com/steffenfritz/pacaudit ^^^^^^^^ My bad I read "_pac_utils" instead of "_pac_audit". My apologies! However, there seems to be a server issue, so before reporting an issue, it's probably better to wait a few hours.

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[arch-general] compile shortwave for ARM 64 issue
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

My way is not very easy. Sure. If I would simply buy some ARM64 compatible stand alone board which would allow Me to simply install arch Lnux for ARM64 Bit platform, I could run gnome-builder and I could compile The app myself. But so comple x app would never run on Android 8.0. Because this version contain some process access restrictions. Even flatpak command line tool can not work for Me. It require to have The system BUS access. I have followed The following instructions. git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave.git cd Shortwave meson --prefix=/usr build ninja -C build sudo ninja -C build install You need following dependencies to build Shortwave: . Rust 1.39 or later . GTK 3.24 or later . Gstreamer 1.12 or later . Sqlite3 . OpenSSL . libhandy . Meson Buildsystem Unfortunately for Me, I have received The following error when using ninja -C build [janusz@localhost Shortwave]$ ninja -C build ninja: Entering directory `build' [0/1] Generating cargo-build with a custom command. ** RUST VERSION ** rustc 1.41.0 ** DEBUG MODE ** error: failed to load source for a dependency on `libhandy` Caused by: Unable to update https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Rust/libhandy-rs.git#8eb37f65 Caused by: the given reference name 'refs/heads/.l2s.master.lock0001' is not valid; class =Reference (4) FAILED: src/shortwave /home/wa/Shortwave/build-aux/cargo.sh /home/wa/Shortwave/build /home/wa/Shortwav e src/shortwave /usr/share/locale beta It is very interesting error. What could I do to solve this please?

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[arch-general] who would help me to compile Dbus-x11 for ARM64 Bit platform
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Because Dbus-x11 is currently not available for ARM64 Bit platform, I would like to kindly ask you for direct link which should I use to download dbus-x11 source code which will work for newest stable Arch Linux. I will use AUR repository and list of dependencies so I will try to compile dbus-x11 for ARM64 myself. I only need to know The git clone path to grab The right source code. Any advice will be very welcomed. I have allready scompiled several apps successfully. I have used dependencies list from AUR WEB interface and I could create ARM64 Bit code on my device.

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[arch-general] Dbus and archlinux chroot question
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Dear specialists, Ihave tried to use Arch Linux on Android device thanks to Proot, Termux and thanks to The Arch Linux script by Mr Rausty, which is available on Github. Unfortunately, I have found out, that there is very complex problem with Dbus. Many apps, which require inter process communication work only, when I type. dbus-launch app name But even when I start Dbus and some app by this way, some more complex applications not work. There are more rreasons. Firstly in strictly userspace oriented Linux environment, Arch Linux do not support to run services. So Dbus can not be started as A service. Is there some technique, which can allow me to use Dbus by more efficiently? Or in such non ssstandard environment, there is no way how to setup The system so Dbus would be used more efficiently. What can I allready use? Orca screen reader and many GTK apps including Gradio. But again, some apps start dbus-launch with some command line option and system refuses to start Dbus so app can not commit the changes to Gconf database for example. Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you for yours patience and for yours advices. With kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel

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[arch-general] python-tqdm updates
by Chris Billington 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

[community]/python-tqdm has updated 13 times in the last week, though the upstream has not been releasing that rapidly - the new Arch packages correspond to the last few months of releases. This process hasn't quite gotten it up to date yet, so I expect one more update is on the way! Is there a reason for not just skipping right to the latest version, if several intermediate versions were missed? If this is for testing (incremental updates are usually easier to test), presumably it should occur in [testing]. Or perhaps this is the behaviour of some automated tooling that is detecting when a package is out of date, and a human hasn't noticed? This isn't important, I'm just curious. -Chris

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[arch-general] btrfs kernel incompatibility?
by Simeon Felis 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

I have a btrfs raid1 on raspbian (kernel 4.19.75) which overheated. To fix the btrfs filesystem I attached the raid1 to my workstation with Arch Linux (kernel 5.5.1). I run scrub to identify broken files and fixed them. Furthermore I run --full-balance and defrag -r. All fine so far. Now I can't mount the btrfs on raspbian any more (bad superblock). I checked with a blank raspbian and different boards, same result. On my Arch Linux workstation there are no problems. The btrfs changelog [1] only mentions more checksums (xxhash, sha256...) as possible incompatible features between 4.19 and 5.5. However the raid1 is still crc32c (see below). I'm afraid balance/scrub/defrag operations of my Arch Linux made the btrfs raid1 incompatible to older kernels. Is that plausible? How could I convert it back? 4.19.75 dmesg: [ 17.707873] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the di sk. [ 17.707889] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.707895] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk. [ 17.707902] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.707907] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors. [ 17.707977] sdb: sdb1 [ 17.709682] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk. [ 17.709697] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.709703] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk. [ 17.709710] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.709715] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors. [ 17.709787] sda: sda1 [ 17.710776] sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 17.721324] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 18.301910] raid6: int32x1 gen() 203 MB/s [ 18.471765] raid6: int32x1 xor() 178 MB/s [ 18.641705] raid6: int32x2 gen() 278 MB/s [ 18.811703] raid6: int32x2 xor() 207 MB/s [ 18.981816] raid6: int32x4 gen() 307 MB/s [ 19.151686] raid6: int32x4 xor() 228 MB/s [ 19.321816] raid6: int32x8 gen() 315 MB/s [ 19.491762] raid6: int32x8 xor() 219 MB/s [ 19.661699] raid6: neonx1 gen() 711 MB/s [ 19.831664] raid6: neonx1 xor() 811 MB/s [ 20.001711] raid6: neonx2 gen() 1175 MB/s [ 20.171661] raid6: neonx2 xor() 1187 MB/s [ 20.341685] raid6: neonx4 gen() 1550 MB/s [ 20.511663] raid6: neonx4 xor() 1344 MB/s [ 20.681678] raid6: neonx8 gen() 1371 MB/s [ 20.851667] raid6: neonx8 xor() 1125 MB/s [ 20.851673] raid6: using algorithm neonx4 gen() 1550 MB/s [ 20.851676] raid6: .... xor() 1344 MB/s, rmw enabled [ 20.851680] raid6: using neon recovery algorithm [ 20.881255] xor: measuring software checksum speed [ 20.971664] arm4regs : 2020.800 MB/sec [ 21.071659] 8regs : 1357.600 MB/sec [ 21.171657] 32regs : 1262.800 MB/sec [ 21.271658] neon : 2156.800 MB/sec [ 21.271664] xor: using function: neon (2156.800 MB/sec) [ 21.417002] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-generic [ 21.418650] BTRFS: device label URAID devid 8 transid 1254272 /dev/sdb1 [ 21.423593] BTRFS: device label URAID devid 7 transid 1254272 /dev/sda1 [ 313.823521] BTRFS info (device sda1): disk space caching is enabled [ 313.823537] BTRFS info (device sda1): has skinny extents [ 313.826597] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.839009] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.851766] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.864676] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.878039] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.891649] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.905782] BTRFS error (device sda1): failed to read chunk root [ 313.942529] BTRFS error (device sda1): open_ctree failed btrfs inspect-internal dump-super /dev/disk/by-label/URAID superblock: bytenr=65536, device=/dev/disk/by-label/URAID --------------------------------------------------------- csum_type 0 (crc32c) csum_size 4 csum 0x33567328 [match] bytenr 65536 flags 0x1 ( WRITTEN ) magic _BHRfS_M [match] fsid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 metadata_uuid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 label URAID generation 1254278 root 14868497367040 sys_array_size 129 chunk_root_generation 1254275 root_level 1 chunk_root 21338870824960 chunk_root_level 1 log_root 0 log_root_transid 0 log_root_level 0 total_bytes 8001571065856 bytes_used 2903387471872 sectorsize 4096 nodesize 16384 leafsize (deprecated) 16384 stripesize 4096 root_dir 6 num_devices 2 compat_flags 0x0 compat_ro_flags 0x0 incompat_flags 0x161 ( MIXED_BACKREF | BIG_METADATA | EXTENDED_IREF | SKINNY_METADATA ) cache_generation 1254278 uuid_tree_generation 1254278 dev_item.uuid fd1a07a5-4cdc-41eb-9776-d4519f2d086b dev_item.fsid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 [match] dev_item.type 0 dev_item.total_bytes 4000785104896 dev_item.bytes_used 2931348733952 dev_item.io_align 4096 dev_item.io_width 4096 dev_item.sector_size 4096 dev_item.devid 8 dev_item.dev_group 0 dev_item.seek_speed 0 dev_item.bandwidth 0 dev_item.generation 0 [1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#By_feature

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[arch-general] A few out of date packages
by Genes Lists 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Hi Thank you again for all the great work managing and keeping packages up to date. It is a significant amount of work and continues to make Arch a really standout distro. That said, periodically I check the repos for out of date packages. I've selected a few to highlight based on age and my own view of importance (no claim its a good view). So, here's a few that might benefit from an update: Cal Pkg Name Vers Updt Flag CVers Date Age Age Pkger ----------- -------- ------ ------ ------- ------ ---- --- ----- thunderbird 68.4.2 200126 200211 68.5.0 200210 16 15 LP bash 5.0.011 191118 200208 5.0.016 200207 85 81 EF fail2ban 0.10.5 200112 200112 0.11.1 200111 30 -1 FY ipset 7.4 191202 200109 7.5 200109 71 38 SL samba 4.10.10 191114 191101 4.11.6 200128 89 75 TP smbclient 4.10.10 191114 191101 4.11.6 200128 89 75 TP ebtables 2.0.10_4 181113 191203 2.0.11 190212 455 384 EF biber 1:2.13 191101 191202 2.14 191201 102 30 RO diffstat 1.62 190106 191130 1.63 191129 401 327 AW libelf 0.177 191118 191128 0.178 191126 85 8 EF elfutils 0.177 191118 191128 0.178 191126 85 8 EF refind-efi 0.11.3 180723 181119 0.11.4 191112 568 112 TP [1] [1] 0.11.5 looks to be coming out soon Cal Age = days since last update Pkg Age = days between current and arch release Cvers = Current version Packagers EF Evangelos Foutras FY Felix Yan SL Sébastien Luttringer TP Tobias Powalowski AW Alad Wenter RO Rémy Oudompheng LP Levente Polyak The packages that really standout to me are refind-efi and samba. Hopefully this is useful. Thanks and happy updating! gene

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[arch-general] openVDB
by John Briggs 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

Just recently rebuilt my system and after rebuild I noticed "doc" directory directly under /usr directory. Further investigation reveals it belongs to the OpenVDB package. Should not this directory be /usr/share/doc/OpenVDB? Regards John

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[arch-general] Question about switching to 12 hour time
by matthew dyer 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Hi all, As an orca user, I am confused about something. My arch machine is set to use local time which means that if I am using orca and quarry the time orca gives me the time correctly in 12 hour time but in looking at emails in thunderbird, the time and date are spoken in 24 hour time for example, Its about 6:33 p.m here in the eastern u.s which orca would speak correctly but if I were to use orca I would here the message info with the date format spoken as 2020/13/02 followed by 18:33. Is there something in a configuration file somewhere or something in orca that I need to change? Just wondering as this is confusing me. BTW, my locale is set to en_US.UTF-8. Thanks. Will continue to do some digging but thought I would ask here just incase I am missing something obvious. Matthew

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[arch-general] Iptables
by siefke_listen＠web.de 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Hi, I am writing to a script to generate iptables rules. I did this with the documentation in the Arch Linux wiki and would be happy if a few professionals would take a look over the script. Suggestions for improvement, comments would be very helpful. https://github.com/sisihagen/iptables Thank you & Regards Silvio

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[arch-general] "date" C++ library packaging
by Brett Cornwall 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Waybar [1] just had an update where it pulled in a project called "date" [2]. I'm hesitant to package this under the name "date" since GNU coreutils shares a binary with that name. But this isn't a totally obscure library. Should I persuade upstream to change the name? Should I package it under another name? Or should I lay claim to the unused "date" package name and go on with my life? [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/waybar/ [2] https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date

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[arch-general] Status of WPA3
by Bjoern Franke 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi, recently AVM provided a beta-Firmware for Fritzboxes which support WPA3. Unfortunately, our wpa_supplicant seems not be capable of WPA3: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57413 When setting explicitly WPA3 in NetworkManager, my laptop is unable to connect to my WPA2/WPA3-wifi. I assume it is caused by the missing SAE support, or do I miss something? The assumption is caused by https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/issues/9 Best Regards Bjoern

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[arch-general] Pacman update: new package breaks many dependencies, how to cope
by Jeanette C. 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Hey hey, I just tried to update my system. Admittedly, I probably left it a little too long. Now xorgproto apparently breas a lot of dependencies. This includes dmxproto and xproto, which in turn are required by other packages like libgmx or libxfont. It there an "automated" method of dealing with this kind of dependency breakage? I dare not try this by hand. I don't know how many other packages would be affected by this. Best wishes and many thanks, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c ... About some useless information, Supposed to fire my imagination <3 (Britney Spears)

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Re: [arch-general] omega won't build
by Jude DaShiell 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Correction, it was the ncurses-5-compat package with the missing gpg key not ncurses-6. I found that out by ignoring all gpg checks and the other thing with pikaur is it didn't keep the gpg key that was unknown on the screen long enough for me to check with gpg2 and possibly import it. --

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[arch-general] omega won't build
by Jude DaShiell 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

the reason omega won't build will effect every package that has ncurses 6 as a dependency since the ncurses 6 public gpg key is unknown. I could ignore the key for now, but this isn't the best security practice on my part so I aborted the build for now. --

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[arch-general] sway package systemd service
by Stefan Tatschner 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hey, the sway package repo includes a systemd service: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/sway.service?h=… This file is not included in the package though. Is this systemd service ready to use or just an obsolete artifact? Thanks! Stefan

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[arch-general] FS#65265 - community/dolphin-emu 1:5.0.r11530.ea9b96370d-1 conflicts with discord-rpc-api (I don't agree with Scimmia decision)
by Krzysztof Krakowiak 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Hi, I'm Krzysztof Krakowiak (pix3l in archlinux) and I'm new there https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65265 I'm very dissapointed by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) bug resolution, who simply closed my bug report with excuse "AUR packages are not supported", but the problem is not in the package from 'aur', but from 'community': I've made request to re-open the the bug-report, by he simply ignored that request The problem lies in fact that dolphin-emu package contains files: discord-rpc-api: /usr/include/discord_register.h exists in filesystem (owned by dolphin-emu) discord-rpc-api: /usr/include/discord_rpc.h exists in filesystem (owned by dolphin-emu) They should belong to 'discord-rpc-api' (currently in aur), and there are many packages dependant on it. Even if 'dolphin-emu' maintainer decides that dolphin-emu wil be built using internal copy of 'discord-rpc-api', there's no reason to export/package those header files, because it's for internal use only(compilation time). I don't get reasoning that if something is fucked up in upstream, then it should be fucked up in distro package (because of upstream...) I was active PLD distro developer (evil_core) and we always had high standards and main excuse for pour existence was to fix upstream brakage/incompetence. best regards, Krzysztof Krakowiak (pix3l)

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[arch-general] ssh askpass problem after todays updates to qt 5.14.1
by Genes Lists 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

After the recent updates to qt 5.14.1, both ksshaskpass as well as qt4-ssh-askpass (provided by openssh-askpass) programs dump core. Perhaps these need to be recompiled against the newer qt libraries? Wonder if the latter really is qt4 or just needs to be renamed. thanks. gene

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[arch-general] Why "systemd --user" process hanging around after logout?
by David Rosenstrauch 25 Jan '20

25 Jan '20

I've noticed recently that even after I log out of my desktop env (XFCE) there is a process tree left hanging around running "systemd --user" under my user ID (with a bunch of gvfs child processes running under it). I wouldn't normally care about this, but if I then try to power down the machine, that running process seems to block syslog from successfully shutting down, and so the shutdown process waits for an extra minute and a half until it finally kills the process and powers off. If I manually kill the "systemd --user" process tree, I have no such issues and the machine can power down instantly. Anyone have an idea why this is happening / how to fix? Either by forcing "systemd --user" to terminate on logout, or by forcing syslog and/or the shutdown process to not be blocked by systemd? I did some digging on this, and saw some indication that setting "KillUserProcesses=yes" in /etc/systemd/logind.conf would force the systemd process to get shut down. But I tried changing that setting and it didn't make a difference. I also tried setting a script to run at logout in lightdm, but that didn't seem to work either: it did kill the original systemd process tree running gvfs, but then it looks like another one gets spun up to replace it, and I wind up with the same issue. Anyone have any suggestions how to work around this? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Why are Archlinux packages stripped of (debugging) symbols?
by Neven Sajko 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hello, Why is it that makepkg strips symbols by default, and many packagers even make extra effort to get packages stripped; instead of building with "-g"? Even Go software, which by Go's design makes use of debugging symbols at run time had been stripped as far as I remember (although it seems that has changed, thankfully). It is quite nice to have debugging symbols in executables for learning and entertainment purposes (seriously, try Ghidra or radare2 once), and they are, of course, indispensable when bad luck strikes and one actually has to debug. And there do not seem to be any significant downsides to extra symbols, it just means more permanent storage and bandwidth used. Especially in view of Arch's existing packaging practice patterns, like no "-dev" or "-doc" split packages. I know some developers have some degree of desire for split packages with stripped symbols in separate files, but that would indeed be inconsistent with the lack of "-dev" or "-doc" packages. More importantly, splitting symbols from executable files is most of the time a harmful complication: it makes packaging more complicated, it makes using the separated symbols by humans more complicated, and it makes using the debugging symbols from the program they belong to harder (ref. Ian Lance Taylor's libbacktrace, which does not work with symbols in a separate file, very possibly for reasons fundamental to libbacktrace's purpose). To conclude: besides arguing for debugging symbols to be installed as part of executable files, I am honestly asking what are the reasons for the apparent aversion towards them in Arch's (and wider) culture (because I am curious about that). Regards, Neven Sajko

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[arch-general] R: R: Eduroam madness with iwd
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Christian, That was it! Thank you for your help. - Riccardo ________________________________ Da: Christian Hesse Inviato: Giovedì, 23 Gennaio, 2020 13:22 A: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general Cc: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti Oggetto: Re: [arch-general] R: Eduroam madness with iwd Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> on Thu, 2020/01/23 08:37: > I'm going to have another chance at testing this on Monday. What else could > I try? Possibly missing something like this? EAP-Identity=anonymous(a)unipmn.it -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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[arch-general] R: Eduroam madness with iwd
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Hi Christian, Thank you for your response! That's probably it for the systemd error. However, The connection issue persists even when starting iwd manually, with the different error message. I'm going to have another chance at testing this on Monday. What else could I try? -Riccardo ________________________________ Da: Christian Hesse Inviato: Mercoledì, 22 Gennaio, 2020 13:12 A: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general Cc: Riccardo Paolo Bestetti Oggetto: Re: [arch-general] Eduroam madness with iwd Riccardo Paolo Bestetti via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> on Wed, 2020/01/22 11:45: > And the following error in the system journal: > failed to load /home/random/.cat_installer/ca.pem The certificate can not be loaded as iwd.service has ProtectHome=yes set. Move it to a location where iwd can read it. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Best regards my address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* Chris cc -ox -xc - && ./x */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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[arch-general] Eduroam madness with iwd
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Hi! I'm trying to configure iwd to connect to Eduroam. My home istitution requires EAP-TTLS authentication with PAP Phase 2. I have the following configuration file: [Security] EAP-Method=TTLS EAP-TTLS-CACert=/home/random/.cat_installer/ca.pem EAP-TTLS-ServerDomainMask=*.unipmn.it EAP-TTLS-Phase2-Method=Tunneled-PAP EAP-TTLS-Phase2-Identity=theUser EAP-TTLS-Phase2-Password=thePassword [Settings] AutoConnect=true When I try to connect with iwd started as a systemd unit, I get the following error in iwctl: Not configured. And the following error in the system journal: failed to load /home/random/.cat_installer/ca.pem (the certificate is valid and is in the required PEM format - I checked it with the openssl command and it also works with different network daemons) When I try to connect with iwd started manually with /usr/lib/iwd/iwd -d, I get the following error instead: Operation failed. And idw outputs: 4-Way handshake failed for ifindex: 3, reason: 23. I ran out of debugging ideas! Can anyone help? - Riccardo

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[arch-general] pacman error when installing
by Maykel Franco 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

Before, with -f options or --force, it resolved it. And now, invalid option. error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libmad: /usr/include/mad.h exists in filesystem libmad: /usr/lib/libmad.so exists in filesystem libmad: /usr/lib/libmad.so.0 exists in filesystem libmad: /usr/lib/libmad.so.0.2.1 exists in filesystem libmad: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/mad.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/bin/pprof exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/heap-checker.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/heap-profiler.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/malloc_extension.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/malloc_extension_c.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/malloc_hook.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/malloc_hook_c.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/profiler.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/stacktrace.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/google/tcmalloc.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/heap-checker.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/heap-profiler.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/malloc_extension.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/malloc_extension_c.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/malloc_hook.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/malloc_hook_c.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/nallocx.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/profiler.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/stacktrace.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/include/gperftools/tcmalloc.h exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libprofiler.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libprofiler.so.0 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libprofiler.so.0.4.18 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc.so.4 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc.so.4.5.3 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_and_profiler.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_and_profiler.so.4 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_and_profiler.so.4.5.3 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_debug.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_debug.so.4 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_debug.so.4.5.3 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal.so.4.5.3 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.so exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.so.4 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.so.4.5.3 exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libprofiler.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libtcmalloc.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libtcmalloc_debug.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libtcmalloc_minimal.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libtcmalloc_minimal_debug.pc exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/AUTHORS exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/COPYING exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/ChangeLog exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/ChangeLog.old exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/INSTALL exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/NEWS exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/README exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/README_windows.txt exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/TODO exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/cpuprofile-fileformat.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/cpuprofile.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/designstyle.css exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/heap-example1.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/heap_checker.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/heapprofile.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/index.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/overview.dot exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/overview.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pageheap.dot exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pageheap.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pprof-test-big.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pprof-test.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pprof-vsnprintf-big.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pprof-vsnprintf.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/pprof_remote_servers.html exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/spanmap.dot exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/spanmap.gif exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/t-test1.times.txt exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.1024.bytes.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.128.bytes.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.131072.bytes.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.16384.bytes.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.2048.bytes.png exists in filesystem gperftools: /usr/share/doc/gperftools/tcmalloc-opspercpusec.vs.threads.256.bytes.png exists 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in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/include/qt5keychain/qkeychain_export.h exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/cmake/Qt5Keychain/Qt5KeychainConfig.cmake exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/cmake/Qt5Keychain/Qt5KeychainConfigVersion.cmake exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/cmake/Qt5Keychain/Qt5KeychainLibraryDepends-noconfig.cmake exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/cmake/Qt5Keychain/Qt5KeychainLibraryDepends.cmake exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/libqt5keychain.so exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/libqt5keychain.so.1 exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/lib/qt/mkspecs/modules/qt_Qt5Keychain.pri exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/share/licenses/qtkeychain/LICENSE exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/share/qt/translations/qtkeychain_de.qm exists in filesystem qtkeychain: /usr/share/qt/translations/qtkeychain_ro.qm exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded If delete these files, works well but... is not productive Any ideas?

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[arch-general] Getting 404 errors while trying to install arch on a fresh system. Any rreason why?
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Hi all, Using the tarch iso from www.tarch.info <http://www.tarch.info> , I am unable to install to a fresh system. During the download of packages, I get unable to retreave packages the requested URL returned error code 404. I eventually I am given the message "Envalide or corrupted package." Any ideas on why this is happens? I tried the latest tarch image from October, but the image gives me no internet connection. My internection is fine. I have updated the gpg keys, but the same thing hppens. I am guessing that I am getting partial downloads of some packages. Any one seeing this with the standered arch iso? I am a blind user of linux so can not use the standard iso to test. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreaseated. I did some searching but came up empty. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] [mkinitpcio] running as non-root creates non-root files in the cpio
by Damjan Georgievski 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

I've already opened a bug issue, and supplied a patch at https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/65006 but except from the first comment by dreisner, there's not much activity. Is it ok if I escalate here? :) Alternatively, is there a better place for reporting mkinitpcio issues, and sending patches? -- damjan

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Re: [arch-general] do i need to configure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array ?
by Shadrock Uhuru 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

thanks for the clarification. shadrock

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[arch-general] Mouse freezes
by siefke_listen＠web.de 20 Jan '20

20 Jan '20

Hello, since yesterday I become mouse freezes for short moments, I must often klick or move then it work. Everytime is so, it looks at the mouse slept when not need. Is there something in update since yesterday what make this trouble? [2020-01-18T07:53:39+0100] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2020-01-18T07:53:55+0100] [ALPM] upgraded linux (5.4.11.arch1-1 -> 5.4.12.arch1-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:55+0100] [ALPM] upgraded acpi_call (1.1.0-275 -> 1.1.0-276) [2020-01-18T07:53:55+0100] [ALPM] upgraded snappy (1.1.7-1 -> 1.1.8-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:56+0100] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (79.0.3945.117-1 -> 79.0.3945.130-2) [2020-01-18T07:53:56+0100] [ALPM] upgraded imagescan (3.61.0-2 -> 3.62.0-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:56+0100] [ALPM] upgraded inkscape (0.92.4-10 -> 0.92.4-11) [2020-01-18T07:53:56+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libde265 (1.0.4-1 -> 1.0.5-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded qt5-base (5.14.0-1 -> 5.14.0-2) [2020-01-18T07:53:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded tracker (2.3.0-2 -> 2.3.1+6+g4d3073954-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded tracker-miners (2.3.0-2 -> 2.3.1+23+g139553959-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded wireguard-arch (0.0.20200105-3 -> 0.0.20200105-4) [2020-01-18T07:53:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded wireguard-tools (1.0.20200102-1 -> 1.0.20200102-2) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded wireshark-cli (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.1-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded wireshark-qt (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.1-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xapps (1.6.8-1 -> 1.6.10-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.20.6-3 -> 1.20.7-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.20.6-3 -> 1.20.7-1) [2020-01-18T07:53:58+0100] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-xephyr (1.20.6-3 -> 1.20.7-1) [2020-01-18T08:24:46+0100] [ALPM] upgraded yay-bin (9.4.3-1 -> 9.4.4-1) Maybe someone have same problem and found the solution. The battery I have changes 3 times and nothing change. Thank you Silvio

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Re: [arch-general] do i need to configure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array ?
by Shadrock Uhuru 19 Jan '20

19 Jan '20

On 16.01.2020 15:36, Josef Miegl wrote: >On January 16, 2020 2:44:44 PM GMT+01:00, Shadrock Uhuru via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >>do i need to reconfigure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array >>so that the array is assembled and started at boot > >Depends on when you want to assemble your array. If you want/need the array to be assembled in early user space, then use the mdadm_udev hook as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio#Using_RAID. This is typically needed when booting a system on software RAID. However, if you don't need the array assembled in early user space, just use mdadm later on in the boot process. > >Josef Miegl hi i've rebooted the server and the raid is automatically assembled and mount without any issues or input on my part, i have not altered mkinitcpio.conf or regenerated mkinitcpio, I'm assuming that mdadm.conf is being read on startup or should i still go through the editing of mkinitcpio.conf and regeneration to make sure mdadm.conf is being read at boot, bearing in mind i will not be booting arch of the raid. shadrock

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Re: [arch-general] do i need to configure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array ?
by Shadrock Uhuru 18 Jan '20

18 Jan '20

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[arch-general] systemd-zram generator
by Chris Murphy 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hi, swap-create@.service generator for zram devices https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator zram: Compressed RAM based block devices https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/zram.txt The gist is, if a configuration file exists, a /dev/zram0 device is created during early boot and marks it for use by swap.target; so all the existing systemd stuff to mkswap and swapon gets used. The nice thing is, very low overhead. RAM is not reserved for the device, it's only consumed as needed. The generator could be installed by default, but without a configuration file. In that case, it doesn't create a swap on zram device, unless the user creates a configuration file. And at some point, the distribution can decide to include a configuration file by default. I'm thinking a useful yet conservative default would be to create a device up to 1:1 with RAM, capping out around 2G-4G. That way small RAM devices, like Pi's, get a pretty big zram device. And large RAM devices just have a smallish swap for incidental usage. One issue (reported upstream in github) is getting priority supported. I don't know whether it needs to be configurable, from the config file. But it seems sane to have the generator set a high priority, so that the zram device is used first, spilling over to a conventional swap if the user creates ones. This is a project in rust. And I think once some of the issues get worked out, it would be great if distributions can converge on this implementation. Thanks, -- Chris Murphy

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[arch-general] do i need to configure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array ?
by Shadrock Uhuru 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hi i have just configured my 4 disk raid 10 array with mdadm the filesystem is ext4 unencrypted and arch is installed on a separate disk do i need to reconfigure mkinitcpio.conf for my md array so that the array is assembled and started at boot, all the examples i've seen have arch installed on the raid array including the example in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID i have not reboot the new array yet so i would like to make sure everything necessary is configure before i do that. shadrock

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[arch-general] Network UPS Tools (AUR) using usbhid
by David C. Rankin 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Archdevs, Have there been any changes to startup that would impact the Network UPS Tools startup using the usbhid device? I ask because the nut-server.service that has worked for years, is now failing to come up in the normal boot process. $ upsc phoinix_ups Error: Driver not connected However restarting the service after the system is up and running everything works fine. So it's like there is a new depends for the usbhid driver startup that means it has to wait until something else is now started before it can initialize properly. Any idea what could be causing that or what nut-server.service needs to wait on before it tries to start? After kernel update, the failed log messages are: -- Reboot -- Jan 13 11:06:31 phoinix systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: fopen /var/state/ups/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: /etc/ups/upsd.conf is world readable Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: /etc/ups/upsd.conf is world readable Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: Can't connect to UPS [phoinix_ups] (usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups): No such file or directory Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[541]: Can't connect to UPS [phoinix_ups] (usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups): No such file or directory Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix upsd[561]: Startup successful Jan 13 11:06:32 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. Jan 13 11:11:32 phoinix upsd[561]: Can't connect to UPS [phoinix_ups] (usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups): No such file or directory Then the restart works fine: Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix systemd[1]: Stopped Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix systemd[1]: Starting Network UPS Tools - power devices information server... Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: fopen /var/state/ups/upsd.pid: No such file or directory Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: /etc/ups/upsd.conf is world readable Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: /etc/ups/upsd.conf is world readable Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: listening on 127.0.0.1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: listening on ::1 port 3493 Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: Connected to UPS [phoinix_ups]: usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[823]: Connected to UPS [phoinix_ups]: usbhid-ups-phoinix_ups Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix upsd[824]: Startup successful Jan 13 11:19:20 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Network UPS Tools - power devices information server. Any ideas what to check? This just started within the last month or two. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Small Monitoring Soulution
by siefke_listen＠web.de 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Hello, is there a small tool which do monitoring the different server services? Checking ping, port check and that's it. More I not need and best with a static index.html create. I find cacti to overload and I hate php setup. Thank you for help Silvio

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[arch-general] how to upgrade 2017 server ?
by Shadrock Uhuru 11 Jan '20

11 Jan '20

i have a server that has not been booted since 2017, i tried upgrading with pacman -Syu, i have post the screen output at http://paste.openstack.org/show/788264/ i thought adding Eli Schwartz' personal repository to pacman.conf would have allowed the upgrade with his Binary builds of pacman-static. is my problem still to do with the xz to zstd change or something different ? shadrock

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[arch-general] Sha256sum unexpected behaviour
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hello, I got a weird issue with sha256sum behaviour. When creating the package with makepkg --geninteg I get a hash and when trying to build it with makepkg the hash fails. The interesting bit is --ptintsrcinfo comes up with a different hash. Anyone got some idea why this might happen? See below some debugging info ~/linux-gc$ makepkg --geninteg ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found linux-v5.4.10-arch1.tar.gz -> Found config -> Found 0001_bmq_v5.4-r1.patch -> Found 0002_enable_additional_cpu_optimizations-20190822.tar.gz ==> Generating checksums for source files... sha256sums=('bd51016d038277d2edd4e6d6def53b0ba24e0b238662d404a07a7d706ad2b5d3' 'aa77f7e3b611787f734c7e7d7503d3debf9af86ac999e8bccf533c5a854ec15b' '0b770209a72171dfd46401d67d13204a767eb1749ef522df7ea7292b83046537' '8c11086809864b5cef7d079f930bd40da8d0869c091965fa62e95de9a0fe13b5') ~/linux-gc$ makepkg --printsrcinfo pkgbase = linux-gc pkgdesc = Linux pkgver = 5.4.10 pkgrel = 1 url = https://cchalpha.blogspot.co.uk/ arch = x86_64 license = GPL2 makedepends = bc makedepends = kmod makedepends = libelf makedepends = xmlto makedepends = python-sphinx makedepends = python-sphinx_rtd_theme makedepends = graphviz makedepends = imagemagick makedepends = git options = !strip source = linux-v5.4.10-arch1.tar.gz::https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/snapshot/li… source = config source = 0001_bmq_v5.4-r1.patch::https://gitlab.com/alfredchen/bmq/raw/master/5.4/bm… source = 0002_enable_additional_cpu_optimizations-20190822.tar.gz::https://github.co… validpgpkeys = ABAF11C65A2970B130ABE3C479BE3E4300411886 validpgpkeys = 647F28654894E3BD457199BE38DBBDC86092693E validpgpkeys = 8218F88849AAC522E94CF470A5E9288C4FA415FA sha256sums = 1fda6369ec7038c9ca1fe7aa6206977c5b8983c77e9d74e4ba458a4d042d1d31 sha256sums = aa77f7e3b611787f734c7e7d7503d3debf9af86ac999e8bccf533c5a854ec15b sha256sums = 0b770209a72171dfd46401d67d13204a767eb1749ef522df7ea7292b83046537 sha256sums = 8c11086809864b5cef7d079f930bd40da8d0869c091965fa62e95de9a0fe13b5 pkgname = linux-gc pkgdesc = The Linux kernel and modules with the BMQ CPU scheduler depends = coreutils depends = kmod depends = initramfs optdepends = crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country optdepends = linux-firmware: firmware images needed for some devices provides = linux-gc=5.4.10 pkgname = linux-gc-headers pkgdesc = Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel depends = linux-gc provides = linux-gc-headers=5.4.10 provides = linux-headers=5.4.10 Thanks, -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[arch-general] tzdata, about dir /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps
by Yi Zheng 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hi, all I found that there is a 'new' dir /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps It includes files almost the same ones in /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/ I checked the md5 of every files under those two dir. And found that they are the same ones. The only exception is /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific-New, which has no counterpart under zoneinfo-leaps. ls cmd told me that Pacific-New is a hard link to Pacific, Los_Angeles. [linux-repo@~ 16:47:09]$ ll -i /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific-New /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Los_Angeles /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps/America/Los_Angeles 6064711 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3376 Nov 14 00:24 /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps/America/Los_Angeles 924194 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 3376 Nov 14 00:24 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Los_Angeles 924194 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 3376 Nov 14 00:24 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific 924194 -rw-r--r-- 3 root root 3376 Nov 14 00:24 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific-New [linux-repo@~ 16:48:53]$ md5sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific-New /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Los_Angeles /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps/America/Los_Angeles 638a2cacbc89f9423e07ac7500901db5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific-New 638a2cacbc89f9423e07ac7500901db5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Pacific 638a2cacbc89f9423e07ac7500901db5 /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America/Los_Angeles 638a2cacbc89f9423e07ac7500901db5 /usr/share/zoneinfo-leaps/America/Los_Angeles any comments on those duplicated files?

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[arch-general] can't 'pacman -Syu' to xorgproto 2019.2-2
by Greg Minshall 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

hi. today i can't do a "pacman -Syu", and i'm still too much of a newbie to know how to approach this. i'll be grateful for any advice. the following message was mentioned recently, and maybe relates? ---- https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64892 ---- cheers, Greg ---- {812} % sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing xorgproto (2019.2-2) breaks dependency 'xf86miscproto' required by libxxf86misc

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[arch-general] QT5 upgrades broke (non-antialiased) fonts
by David Rosenstrauch 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Recently, a couple of KDE apps I use - most notably kalarm - have gotten their fonts screwed up. I usually use non-antialiased fonts. But it looks like now kalarm (as well as the kde control center) is now using anti-aliased fonts. I have them set to disabled in the kde control center, but that seems to be getting ignored. I noticed some recent qt5 packages got upgraded, and am assuming that might be the culprit, though it looks like there were also some kde packages upgraded recently as well. Anyone know what might have broken / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] DHCPv6 fails after upgrading to dhcpcd-8.1.4
by Jukka Salmi 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hello Since upgrading dhcpcd from 8.1.2-1 to 8.1.4-1 my netctl profiles which configure IPv6 using dhcpcd fail to start. One of these profiles as an example: Interface=enp0s25.100 Connection=vlan BindsToInterfaces=enp0s25 VLANID=100 DHCPReleaseOnStop=yes IP=dhcp IP6=dhcp DHCP6Client=dhcpcd These profiles worked fine before, but now I get: $ journalctl -r [...] Dec 28 00:45:35 foo network[18634]: DHCP IPv6 lease attempt failed on interface 'enp0s25.100' Dec 28 00:45:35 foo dhcpcd[18791]: dhcpcd exited Dec 28 00:45:35 foo dhcpcd[18791]: timed out Dec 28 00:45:35 foo network[18791]: timed out Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: pid -1887792279 deleted default route via fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: pid -759929144 deleted route to v:u:t::/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding default route via fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding route to v:u:t::/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: adding address v:u:t:s:r:q:p:o/64 Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: Router Advertisement from fe80::z:y:x:w Dec 28 00:45:05 foo dhcpcd[18791]: enp0s25.100: soliciting an IPv6 router [...] Downgrading dhcpcd makes this work again. Any hints? Is anybody seeing the same issue? TIA & cheers, Jukka -- This email fills a much-needed gap in the archives.

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Re: [arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical archlinux install
by Jude DaShiell 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

I commented some lines out in /etc/pulse/client.conf and /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. Next thing to try is install speech-dispatcher and festival and voices for festival and see if I can get spd-say talking. If so, that will mean the edits on those pulse files were adequate and then gnome and orca theoretically will install and work correctly using alsa. I read about a nopulse package on the arch bbs site in messages but couldn't find that on aur so decided to do some edits on the pulse configuration files. If I ever get this working, I'll probably get myself an arch account and write something for the wiki so others won't have to guess the way I have if they want to install gnome on archlinux and have orca talking. --

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[arch-general] Zstandard for local user build packages - Was: [arch-announce] Now using Zstandard instead of xz for package compression
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

On Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:35:55 -0000, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Broda wrote: >our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to >[zstd(.pkg.tar.zst)] Hi, what needs to be done to build local .pkg.tar.zst packages? If I build local packages, they are still .pkg.tar.xz. Regarding "meld /etc/makepkg.conf{,.pacnew}" the makepkg.conf on my machine isn't obsolete. Do we manually change the "EXTENSION DEFAULTS" and/or something else? Kernels build in December 2019 are .pkg.tar.xz, while pacman >= 5.2 and libarchive >= 3.3.3-1 were already installed. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep -e pacman\ \( -e libarchive /var/log/pacman.log | grep upgrade | tail -5 [2019-06-18 11:07] [ALPM] upgraded libarchive (3.3.3-1 -> 3.4.0-2) [2019-10-26 02:13] [ALPM] upgraded pacman (5.1.3-1 -> 5.2.0-2) [2019-11-02T10:48:37+0100] [ALPM] upgraded pacman (5.2.0-2 -> 5.2.1-1) [2019-11-19T07:43:09+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libarchive (3.4.0-2 -> 3.4.0-3) [2020-01-02T09:56:48+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libarchive (3.4.0-3 -> 3.4.1-1) [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -l /var/cache/aur/current/linux-rt-* | grep -v -e headers -e docs -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 68555824 Dec 25 22:33 /var/cache/aur/current/linux-rt-5.4.5_rt3-0-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 68753952 Dec 6 10:15 /var/cache/aur/current/linux-rt-cornflower-5.2.21_rt14-0-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 68745364 Dec 25 17:01 /var/cache/aur/current/linux-rt-pussytoes-5.2.21_rt15-0-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 70263924 Dec 25 13:46 /var/cache/aur/current/linux-rt-securityink-4.19.90_rt35-0-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Finding virtual dependencies
by Lone_Wolf 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Hi, Often when packages are removed from repos they become virtual provides. While those are great for a transition period , they are not meant to be used forever. Unfortunately they do stay around for a very long time. example : Around mesa 10.3.0-1 from august 2014[1] ati-dri, intel-dri, nouveau-dri and svga-dri were replaced by mesa-dri . In mesa 10.4.0-1 from december 2014 mesa-dri was integrated in mesa. we're now 5 years further and mesa still provides & conflicts ati-dri, intel-dri, nouveau-dri, svga-dri and mesa-dri. I have wanted to file a bug to get them removed for some time, but don't know if there are packages that still use them that would break if they are removed. > $ pacman -Ss ati-dri > extra/mesa 19.3.1-1 > An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification > multilib/lib32-mesa 19.3.1-1 > An open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification (32-bit) > $ Is that output proof enough that ati-dri is not used by anything else then mesa & lib32-mesa or is there a better way to determine which packages depend on a specific virtual package ? Lone_Wolf [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mes… [2] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mes…

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[arch-general] too many brick walls for graphical accessible environment on archlinux
by Jude DaShiell 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Without pulseaudio installed, I was able to choose festival for speech output and alsa for output device when running spd-conf inside speech-dispatcher on archlinux. This is necessary to have speech from orca in any graphical user interface. Since espeak-ng and espeak conflict I loose speech in the console installing espeak-ng since documentation and probably systemd service files for espeak-ng appear missing. So I install gnome which has orca in it. The pulseaudio package installs along with all of its core gnome dependencies and I try two things after that in order. First in console run spd-conf again and pick festival as speech device and pulseaudio as output device and spd-say is silenced. So I try spd-conf again and pick festival for speech device and alsa as output device. Again silence from spd-say. Next I run startx and get into gnome and try running orca. All of the sudden none of the voice files festival was provisioned with can be found anymore and orca dies with an error. The last thing I'm going to try with archlinux is a jenux install and go for the graphical environment on the install and see if that works. Slint actually uses espeak-ng and I have that running on another drive to keep me in the game when failures like this happen. All of this has been an interesting adventure. --

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Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage
by Ralph Corderoy 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Hi Seblu, > Our scripts are not written POSIX compatible (i.e they rely on more > tools than the standard). Do you still know people writing POSIX > compatible scripts nowadays (students excluded)? Yes, lots of projects that target Unix systems, not just Linux, stick to POSIX for their build scripts, particularly tests. GNU groff and nmh are two I regularly see up close. > I'm not able to tell you something in Arch that rely on POSIX.2 (Shell > and Utilities). What make you think people care about this standard? Arch users may be producing code for non-Arch, non-Linux, systems. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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[arch-general] FOSDEM: Arch Linux hackathon, Jan 30 - 31
by Jerome Leclanche 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Hi list, The Arch Linux team is organizing two full-day hackathons on January 30th and 31st in Brussels, the two days before FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2020/) Lunch and drinks will be provided, and other activities such as board games are on the menu for the later hours / evenings. If you are interested in contributing to Arch Linux and wish to join the hackathon, please email me *directly* at this email address with the following details: - Name and phone number / preferred method of contact - Rough availabilities on 30th and 31st of January (You do not have to attend both days) Slots are limited, and FOSDEM is coming up soon, please contact me as soon as possible if you wish to register :) Thanks! J. Leclanche PS: If you're attending FOSDEM and looking for help finding accomodations / things to do in Brussels, feel free to shoot me an email as well.

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[arch-general] libx11/xorgproto dependency
by Piscium 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Hi, I use a customised version of xf86-input-evdev (I tweaked the source code to better support my trackball). This package is now broken as xorgproto used to provide resourceproto and scrnsaverproto but the current version does not provide it anymore. I suppose somebody will fix this broken package at some stage, but in the meantime, what is the advice on this? Should I use xorgproto from AUR instead of the "official" xorgproto if I need to rebuild the package? (It is working fine, I want to know just in case.) ----- $ makepkg -s ==> Making package: xf86-input-evdev 2.10.6-1 (Sat 04 Jan 2020 20:30:46 GMT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Installing missing dependencies... error: target not found: resourceproto error: target not found: scrnsaverproto ==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. ==> Missing dependencies: -> resourceproto -> scrnsaverproto ==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

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[arch-general] AUR IProblem
by heis snow 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Hello, im having an issue with aur.archlinux.org, i cant access, i cant even ping (time out) with the router. I called my ISP and theres nothing they can do, users in the IRC channel #archlinux told me that sounds like an issue on arch's end, i dont know who to report this or what to do thanks

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[arch-general] community/espeak-ng
by Jude DaShiell 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Does this package need some systemd additions like service files? If not, how can espeak-ng be configured so it starts up whenever a computer is booted? It's got no page in the archwiki and if I can get a replacement of espeak done speech-dispatcher will work with it and if speech-dispatcher works then I can get gnome and orca running too. --

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Re: [arch-general] Adding a "posix" metapackage
by Ralph Corderoy 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Hi Santiago, > I'm curious, though, are there any specifics about the providers on > these POSIX tools/libraries/whatnot (i.e., would it be wortwhile > discussing the alternatives?). Is sh being provided by bash(1)? A more POSIX-compliant shell may be better, one that doesn't let lots of bashisms pass without complaint. dash(1)? And dash doesn't have time as a built-in, so we get to pull in an executable for that too. As for SCCS, it's a handy file format. Better in design that RCS's. And used by other tools over the years, e.g. Bitkeeper, so they do linger on. Plus it's a historical file format, just as ncompress was sought to be more POSIX compliant. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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[arch-general] Automated check log and block postfix
by siefke_listen＠web.de 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

Hello, happy new year first :) I have questions about postfix and the logfile. I have often player which try using submission which come in log like: Jan 1 11:39:19 ru-mail postfix/submission/smtpd[7463]: connect from unknown[45.143.222.192] Jan 1 11:39:19 ru-mail postfix/submission/smtpd[7463]: disconnect from unknown[45.143.222.192] ehlo=1 auth=0/1 rset=0/1 quit=1 commands=2/4 >From this ip for example cat /var/log/mail.log | grep 45.143.222.192 | wc -l 1471 I have fail2ban installed but there is nothing happen with. Okay is connect and disconnect. No error message. I not understand why is so but is ok. Is there a way to cat this mess and write it automated to iptables? Is there other way to catch it with a tool? Would be great have someone an idea here. Thank you Silvio

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[arch-general] Firewire : resume from suspend may fail
by SET 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Hello, Resume from suspend to RAM in KDE fails if no video cam has been used. The camcorder is connected to a firewire card in a PCIE-1 expansion slot. If the camcorder has been used and is connected, the machine resumes rightly to the desktop. When it does not resume, I get a black screen with a blinking cursor, no mouse, no keyboard. Network was available once only to login through SSH. This leaves no choice but a hard reboot. Fortunately, the disk partitions are always clean. After the hard reboot, there's no single error message in /var/ log/{errors,kernel}.log, not even a single resume message from kernel. I've tried, on their own, pcie_hp=nomsi, firewire_ohci.quirks={0x10,0x40} to no avail. Using : kernel 5.3.x and 5.4.x. FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) I'm about to remove the card once I've downloaded the recordings. I wish of course no being obliged to do that. Does anyone have some advice to fix that ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] TP-link tl-wn823n v2.0 wifi dongle not working
by Tim Ye 24 Dec '19

24 Dec '19

Hi everyone, I'm trying to make tl-wn823n v2.0 work on arch linux. I followed the this[1] guide. I was able to install the driver: $ lsmod | grep 8192 8192eu 1544192 0 cfg80211 851968 1 8192eu vmw_vmci 81920 0 $ dmesg | grep 8192 [ 290.144747] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192eu $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 17ef:608c Lenovo Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:a192 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 18f8:1485 [Maxxter] USB OPTICAL MOUSE Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub but I still can see my adapter in "ip addr". Any ideas? Thanks in advance. - Tim [1]https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218152

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[arch-general] broken pipe
by Pascal 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

hello, to avoid having to read twice the entire large file, I use the tee tool in this way to calculate two checksums "simultaneously" : file_info(){ echo -n ${1:=/dev/stdin}$'\t' ( tee < "${1}" \ >( md5sum >&3 ) \ >( sha1sum >&3 ) \ >/dev/null ) 3>&1 | tr '\n' '\t' echo } it works perfectly because both tools used, md5sum and sha1sum, consume all the data. on the other hand, the function returns wrong fingerprints if I insert a tool like file : file_info(){ echo -n ${1:=/dev/stdin}$'\t' ( tee < "${1}" \ >( file --mime-type -b -e compress -e tar -e elf - >&3 ) \ >( md5sum >&3 ) \ >( sha1sum >&3 ) \ >/dev/null ) 3>&1 | tr '\n' '\t' echo } it no longer works because the data flow is quickly interrupted by tee which does not consume all the data. do you know a way to get the file type in parallel with the fingerprint ? getting its type is just an example : the idea is to open the file only once... regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] Got a problem with networking.
by mick howe 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Systems: Arch / xfce on my main system ( I5, 32gb, 2 + 1tb) I3 laptop 12gb, 1TB lenovo B50-70 dual booting, originally win8.1 & arch, when I upgraded to win10 I broke my arch installation and replaced it with kubuntu because I couldn't face over a week of recreating the arch system. (Ever since I started using Linux Red Hat 5.2 I have only ever been able restore the directories and file names, but not the contents. win7 desktop 4gb, 320GB Before upgrading to to win10 networking broke with each update to networking on either arch or windoze usually one system or the other or both were unable to see each other. I was able to fix it, usually it seemed all had to do was touch the samba config file. After I added the win7 box I was able to see all system from each box and sometimes copy files. From the win7 box I could copy files from any box to any box. Since I "updated" win7 to win10 I can see but NOT connect between any of the boxes and have had to resort to sneekernet for file transfers. I have tried numerous times to find the cause and fix it but I'm just going round and round in circles, getting nowhere. Is there anyone out in the ether land who could guide me through this issue?

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[arch-general] Removal of libdmx breaks dependency of x11vnc
by Sefa Eyeoglu 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Hey there, I just upgraded and noticed that libdmx was removed. After also uninstalling the package I noticed, that x11vnc was depending on it. Which now means, that you can't install x11vnc now. The removal of this package was discussed in a thread three days ago ("remove obsolete Xorg components ?"). Kind regards, Sefa Eyeoglu Free Software Developer scrumplex.net[1] -------- [1] https://scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] remove obsolete Xorg components ?
by Lone_Wolf 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi, On xorg-devel mailing list[1] I noticed several components were mentioned that were no longer used and checked if archlinux still packaged them. If desired I can create bug reports for them, but since this concerns multiple packages I felt it was better to post here first . List of obsolete components mentioned in [1] and whether archlinux has them - xf86miscproto yes, in xorgproto package - libxxf86misc yes - libxevie nope - xf86dgaproto yes, in xorgproto package - libxxf86dga yes - libxkbui yes - libdmx [1] mentions that it can be useful if you built xorg-server with dmx support archlinux does that, but are there real users of DmX ? Lone_Wolf [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/xorg-devel@lists.x.org/msg57422.html

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[arch-general] amdgpu: blank screen on Radeon RX 460
by Bjoern Franke 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

Hi, since some updates in the last days - I have not found out yet which one caused it - my Radeon RX 460[1] only shows a blank screen after starting lightdm and also switching to terminal is not possible. As a workaround booting with "amdgpu.dc=0" helps - but then audio via HDMI is broken. The issue appeared once some months ago, but after wondering why audio is broken I removed "amdgpu.dc=0" and everything went smooth - until now. I've searched through the BBS and amdgpu bugreports, tested some kernel commandline parameters like amdgpu.gpu_recovery=1, switching to DRI "2", but no solution yet. Does somebody else have a similar gpu and experiences a similar issue? Best regards Bjoern [1] 07:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Baffin [Radeon RX 460/560D / Pro 450/455/460/555/555X/560/560X] (rev cf)

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[arch-general] rclone and dropbox
by Jude DaShiell 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

did anyone ever manage to link their computer to a dropbox account using rclone? The package returns a bogus url to open that's supposed to finish the linking but that url always returns error 404. --

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[arch-general] Tenda Nova MW6
by Frank 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Good morning, i realise this is not an Arch specific topic but hope you can help me here. I just acquired a Tenda Nova MW6 Mesh Wifi system and having troubles with the 2.4 GHz band. It was fine after initial setup, but after about an hour the printer is no longer able to connect (HP OfficeJet Pro 8620). My laptop (Thinkpad X201) connects but has issues with DNS. The Tenda system connects via LAN to my ISPs router and spans its own network with new subnet mask. I can ping my router and access it's management site with the IP address from a browser but not by it's web address (speedport.ip). My ISP router is a Speedport W 724V from Deutsche Telekom. Any ideas where I need to look at? Thanks Frank

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[arch-general] Failed to start Spamassassin daemon -- after update to spamassassin-3.4.3-1?
by David C. Rankin 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

warning: /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf installed as /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf.pacnew Detected compiled rules, running sa-compile... Checking a diff on local.cf and local.cf.pacnew, the only non-comment changes was that the razor config isn't present in the new config (which would be expected) Spamassassin was running fine prior to update: sc status spamassassin ● spamassassin.service - Spamassassin daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Thu 2019-12-12 11:30:58 CST; 13h ago Main PID: 695 (spamd) Tasks: 3 (limit: 38474) Memory: 95.0M CGroup: /system.slice/spamassassin.service ├─695 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamd -x -u spamd -g spamd ├─833 spamd child └─834 spamd child Dec 12 11:30:58 valkyrie systemd[1]: Started Spamassassin daemon. Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: spamd: server started on IO::Socket::IP [::1]:783, IO::Socket::IP [127.0.0.1]> Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: spamd: server pid: 695 Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 833 Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 834 Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: prefork: child states: IS Dec 12 11:31:05 valkyrie spamd[695]: prefork: child states: II Following update and systemctl daemon-reload, and restart of spamassassin, spamassassin fails to start: sc status spamassassin ● spamassassin.service - Spamassassin daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/spamassassin.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-12-13 01:18:23 CST; 1s ago Process: 6849 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vendor_perl/spamd -x -u spamd -g spamd (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION) Main PID: 6849 (code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION) Dec 13 01:18:23 valkyrie systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Dec 13 01:18:23 valkyrie systemd[1]: Stopped Spamassassin daemon. Dec 13 01:18:23 valkyrie systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Dec 13 01:18:23 valkyrie systemd[1]: spamassassin.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Dec 13 01:18:23 valkyrie systemd[1]: Failed to start Spamassassin daemon. Has anyone else seen this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Firefox "stalling" behaviour
by Paul Hart 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hi, I'd really like to use the Firefox browser (currently using Iridium), but I'm seeing a strange behavior where it "stalls" intermittently. The rendering engine seems to randomly pause activity (i.e. not responsive to scrolling input), and these pauses can last for several seconds. It also appears to affect video playback. I haven't knowingly done anything with my user settings that would cause this to happen; I have a few add-ons, but they should all be well-behaved (1PasswordX, Facebook Container, Multi-account Container, uBlock Origin). Has anyone seen this and figured out a solution? Thanks, Paul

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[arch-general] Firefox-71.0-1 breaks WhatsApp Web
by Oon-Ee Ng 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

After the update I can't seem to load WhatsApp Web. If I already logged in (using the QR code) it just doesn't load and eventually displays the 'connecting to WhatsApp' message which typically happens when the phone is offline. If I haven't logged in it will try to load the QR code for authentication and wait for that forever. The console shows the following:- Content Security Policy: Directive ‘child-src’ has been deprecated. Please use directive ‘worker-src’ to control workers, or directive ‘frame-src’ to control frames respectively. Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss:// web.whatsapp.com/ws. app.fff9477f997fa1246faf.js:2:783554 Chromium on the same machine has no such issues.

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[arch-general] pacman has nothing to do last 5 days
by mick howe 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

For the last five days or so it reports nothing to do:- [mick@cave ~]$ pacman -Syyuu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 135.1 KiB 938 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra 1647.8 KiB 2.68 MiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100% community 4.7 MiB 2.66 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100% multilib 164.2 KiB 2.97 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do [mick@cave ~]$ This is the first time in around 10 years of running Arch this has happened, has some thing changed in pacman that I missed?

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[arch-general] Note: Latest bind-9 update removes root.hints - fails to start with old configs
by David C. Rankin 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

All, Just a note to anyone running bind-9 for name resolution, the old configs containing root.hints now results in named failing to start with: Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: could not configure root hints from 'root.hint': file not found Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: loading configuration: file not found Dec 06 14:53:02 phoinix named[455]: exiting (due to fatal error) The solution is just to comment out the old dummy zone relying on root.hints (I'm sure I recall a note about this some time about, but now it is official). Quickfix: // zone "." IN { // type hint; // file "root.hint"; // }; -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Wifi challenge with new Lenovo Yoga C740
by Leo Noordhuizen 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

(nb - I did post this question also on Reddit) So I decided to replace my aging ASUS laptop with a shiny new one. After long considerations and lurking in various places I decided to go for this - not very cheap - one. One of the reasons is that I this time intend not to remove Windows and keep the possibility to occasionally boot into Windows, My long experience (> 40 years with various kinds of ***x such as Unix, Ultrix and Linux) doesnt prevent me from encountering a challenge now and then. Maybe I am getting too old ? :) Anyway - the challenge: I seem not to be able to get Wifi working when booted from the Arch installation image. Wifi works fine with Windows, but also with the live image of Ubuntu 19.10. Also Manjoro doesnt see wifi when starting 'wifi-menu'. However, just as in Ubuntu, the driver 'iwlwifi' has been loaded... (The wifi in this laptop is Intel) I would love to get some pointers what to change to get this working, otherwise Ill return the laptop and look for a more cooperating one. Thanks a lot in advance. Leo Noordhuizen - Eindhoven - The Netherlands

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[arch-general] Virtualbox Models for 5.2.34 (supported) Fail to Build against Linux 5.4
by David C. Rankin 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

All, Heads up to anyone still running Virtualbox 5.2.34 due to issues with headless clients in Virtualbox 6.x, the kernel modules for 5.2.34 will not build against Linux-5.4. Build failure details at: https://sourceforge.net/p/vbox-users/mailman/vbox-users-community/?viewmont… -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] 11/23 update caused httpd to coredump?
by David C. Rankin 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Dev, This is a strange one. After updates on 11/23, httpd began segfaulting -- repeatedly: > l /var/log/httpd/error_log* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24306171 Nov 24 14:48 /var/log/httpd/error_log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 625 Nov 24 00:00 /var/log/httpd/error_log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1742 Nov 21 13:19 /var/log/httpd/error_log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Nov 10 00:00 /var/log/httpd/error_log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 Nov 3 00:00 /var/log/httpd/error_log.4 I have a second server that confirms this exact same behavior: > l /var/log/httpd/error_log* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25049142 Nov 24 14:48 /var/log/httpd/error_log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1137 Nov 24 00:00 /var/log/httpd/error_log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1752 Nov 17 00:01 /var/log/httpd/error_log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 504 Nov 10 00:00 /var/log/httpd/error_log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 Nov 3 00:01 /var/log/httpd/error_log.4 The log file size jumped from 625 bytes to 24306171 bytes (1137->25049142 on the other server) in just a matter of hours. The old log contains, in its entirety: > cat error_log.1 [Thu Nov 21 13:39:09.090480 2019] [suexec:notice] [pid 898] AH01232: suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/bin/suexec) [Thu Nov 21 13:39:09.146764 2019] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 898] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor [Thu Nov 21 13:39:09.378344 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 898] AH00163: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1d PHP/5.6.40 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Nov 21 13:39:09.378406 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/bin/httpd -D FOREGROUND' [Sun Nov 24 00:00:27.074145 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 898] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart The new log began with: > head error_log [Sun Nov 24 00:00:27.104644 2019] [lbmethod_heartbeat:notice] [pid 898] AH02282: No slotmem from mod_heartmonitor [Sun Nov 24 00:00:27.115890 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 898] AH00163: Apache/2.4.41 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1d PHP/5.6.40 configured -- resuming normal operations [Sun Nov 24 00:00:27.115901 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/bin/httpd -D FOREGROUND' [Sun Nov 24 00:00:28.120350 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11154 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd [Sun Nov 24 00:00:28.120576 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11156 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd [Sun Nov 24 00:00:28.120728 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11158 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd [Sun Nov 24 00:00:28.120871 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11160 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd [Sun Nov 24 00:00:28.121060 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11162 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd [Sun Nov 24 00:00:30.126762 2019] [core:notice] [pid 898] AH00051: child pid 11253 exit signal Segmentation fault (11), possible coredump in /etc/httpd Updating again today (which is when I caught the problem), and restarting httpd has solved whatever problem there was and httpd is now happily running fine again. The only updates that occurred on the 23rd and 24th are as follows and nothing jumps out as being a problem: [2019-11-23T03:35:07-0600] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2019-11-23T03:36:09-0600] [ALPM] transaction started [2019-11-23T03:36:09-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libusbmuxd (1.0.10+29+g9db5747-1 -> 2.0.0-2) [2019-11-23T03:36:09-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libimobiledevice (1.2.0+87+g92c5462-5 -> 1.2.0+87+g92c5462-6) [2019-11-23T03:36:10-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nodejs (13.1.0-2 -> 13.2.0-1) [2019-11-23T03:36:16-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python2-typing (3.6.6-1 -> 3.7.4.1-1) [2019-11-23T03:36:16-0600] [ALPM] upgraded qpdf (9.0.2-1 -> 9.1.0-1) [2019-11-23T03:36:17-0600] [ALPM] transaction completed [2019-11-23T03:36:17-0600] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2019-11-24T14:39:58-0600] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2019-11-24T14:39:58-0600] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2019-11-24T14:40:00-0600] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2019-11-24T14:40:31-0600] [ALPM] transaction started [2019-11-24T14:40:31-0600] [ALPM] upgraded blas (3.8.0-2 -> 3.9.0-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:31-0600] [ALPM] upgraded cblas (3.8.0-2 -> 3.9.0-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:33-0600] [ALPM] upgraded mesa (19.2.4-1 -> 19.2.6-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:33-0600] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-common (1.20.5-4 -> 1.20.6-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:33-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libutil-linux (2.34-6 -> 2.34-8) [2019-11-24T14:40:33-0600] [ALPM] upgraded util-linux (2.34-6 -> 2.34-8) [2019-11-24T14:40:33-0600] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server (1.20.5-4 -> 1.20.6-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-utils (440.31-1 -> 440.36-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] If you run into trouble with CUDA not being available, run nvidia-modprobe first. [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM] upgraded eglexternalplatform (1.0+3+g7c8f8e2-1 -> 1.1-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM] upgraded egl-wayland (1.1.4-1 -> 1.1.4-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM] upgraded faad2 (2.9.1-1 -> 2.9.1-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:39-0600] [ALPM] upgraded graphviz (2.42.2-6 -> 2.42.3-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:40-0600] [ALPM] upgraded lapack (3.8.0-2 -> 3.9.0-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:41-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libmagick6 (6.9.10.71-1 -> 6.9.10.74-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:41-0600] [ALPM] upgraded libwpe (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.0.1-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:41-0600] [ALPM] upgraded man-pages (5.03-2 -> 5.04-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:41-0600] [ALPM] upgraded perl-libwww (6.41-1 -> 6.42-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:41-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-pyasn1 (0.4.7-3 -> 0.4.8-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python-setuptools (1:41.4.0-1 -> 1:41.6.0-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python2-pyasn1 (0.4.7-3 -> 0.4.8-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded python2-setuptools (1:41.4.0-1 -> 1:41.6.0-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded qhull (2019.1-1 -> 2019.1-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded tcl (8.6.9-2 -> 8.6.10-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded tk (8.6.9.1-2 -> 8.6.10-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded vte-common (0.58.2-1 -> 0.58.3-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded vte3 (0.58.2-1 -> 0.58.3-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded wpebackend-fdo (1.4.0-1 -> 1.4.0-2) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded xorg-server-devel (1.20.5-4 -> 1.20.6-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:42-0600] [ALPM] upgraded yelp-xsl (3.34.0-1 -> 3.34.2-1) [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] transaction completed [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] running '20-systemd-sysusers.hook'... [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-daemon-reload.hook'... [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-udev-reload.hook'... [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] running '30-systemd-update.hook'... [2019-11-24T14:40:43-0600] [ALPM] running 'detect-old-perl-modules.hook'... Nothing really looks like it should directly implicate httpd. But after the first graceful restart of the server after the 5 packages were updated on 11/23 cause httpd to go haywire. Just thought I would pass it along. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Failed to compile python 2.7.9 with pyenv on arch.
by Hongyi Zhao 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Hi, I try to compile python 2.7.9 with pyenv on arch linx with the following command: =========== $ pyenv install 2.7.9 Installing Python-2.7.9... patching file ./Lib/site.py patching file ./Lib/ssl.py ERROR: The Python ssl extension was not compiled. Missing the OpenSSL lib? Please consult to the Wiki page to fix the problem. https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv/wiki/Common-build-problems BUILD FAILED (Arch Linux using python-build 1.2.15-2-g22c0202) Inspect or clean up the working tree at /tmp/python-build.20191202134159.88051 Results logged to /tmp/python-build.20191202134159.88051.log Last 10 log lines: rm -f /home/werner/.pyenv/versions/2.7.9/share/man/man1/python.1 (cd /home/werner/.pyenv/versions/2.7.9/share/man/man1; ln -s python2.1 python.1) if test "xno" != "xno" ; then \ case no in \ upgrade) ensurepip="--upgrade" ;; \ install|*) ensurepip="" ;; \ esac; \ ./python -E -m ensurepip \ $ensurepip --root=/ ; \ fi ================== Any hints for this issue? Regards -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] journalctl
by Pascal 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

hello, when I use journalctl to track system events, I introduce line breaks for better readability. like multitail, I would like to introduce more verbose line breaks... I wrote these few lines but it doesn't work as expected : exec 6<&0 exec 0< <( while :; do read -sn1 k; echo $'\n'"# $( date +%H:%M:%S ) -------------------------------------------"$'\n'; done ) journalctl -f exec 0<&6 6<&- the second instruction "exec 0< <( while..." played alone works perfectly in my terminal, but not as a redirection for journalctl. any leads ? regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] Must restart the sddm for login into kde.
by Hongyi Zhao 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Hi, I installed the kde on my archlinux. And I use a customized home directory for normal use. When I try to login to the Kde desktop, I find it freeze after inputting the passwd on the login screen. But, if I return to the tty and run: sudo systemctl restart ssdm.service And then I will succeed in login to the kde desktop. Any hints for this issue? Regards -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] python-cmake?
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Hi, First of all, sorry if this is a really stupid question, but I've been trying to search for a while and I couldn't find an answer. Is the python module 'cmake' provided in some package in Arch? I mean, I know that there is the cmake package in [extra] but there is no python-cmake, and when I try 'import cmake' of course the module is not found. This works if I install cmake with pip: $ python -m env test $ source test/bin/activate $ (test) pip install cmake $ (test) python $>>> import cmake Thanks, Iyán

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[arch-general] about ecryptfs-utils, openssl supporting should be added ?
by Yi Zheng 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

why not add '--enable-openssl' into the configure options? Does it support OpenSSL now?

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[arch-general] Fedora Speeds Up Python 3.
by Ralph Corderoy 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi, I thought this might be of interest. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PythonNoSemanticInterpositionSpeedup By building with -fno-semantic-interposition they remove the PLT that provides a level of indirection when calling a libpython function. libpython often calls itself and the PLT adds L1-cache pressure plus prevents inlining. Gives gains of 25% on some workloads. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] [PRQ#16805] Deletion Request for the-darkmod-tweaked
by Jerome Leclanche 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 3:28 PM Alberto Salvia Novella via aur-general < aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > … I've had quite enough of these emails. Eli's actions are nearly unanimously supported by the other TUs. You've consistently behaved inappropriately in mailing lists, on the forums and you've several times tried shipping dangerous code to users. You've tested everyone's patience and you're now out of time. I'm honestly surprised you're not banned from the ML (yet?). Move on. J. Leclanche

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[arch-general] calibre is now available in python3
by Eli Schwartz 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

After about 15 months of gradual work by me and a few other people, https://calibre-ebook.com/ is running pretty stably on python3, so I've uploaded a split package to [community]: calibre (the default python2 build), calibre-python3 (a python3 build, naturally), and calibre-common with some common files. Hopefully this will get rid of one of our major python2 consumers soon. Upstream doesn't officially support this yet, so treat it like the pre-beta it is. You'll also be unable to use thirdparty plugins, since none of those are ported yet, so you may want to have both 'calibre-python3' and 'calibre' installed -- since pacman still doesn't have support for an "alternatives" feature, I've written a dumb shell script to do the work of switching between the two, see `calibre-alternatives help` for details (it is in the calibre-common package). General information about the port and its status can be found here: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870 At some point soon upstream will finish making cross-platform betas and plugins will start to be ported by their developers, so watch this space (and the mobileread.com forums) for more info... Bug reports for python3 regressions will be greatly appreciated, as there are probably a lot of fun edge cases and I'd like to see this finished sooner rather than later. ;) -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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[arch-general] Many timers now running at boot. How to make them run later?
by David C. Rankin 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

After not booting an Arch box for several days, the first few minutes seem quite MS like lately with a flurry of processes running to the point after I enter my username at the console, it may be 10-20 sec before the password prompt is displayed. Since it's all timers now and not cron running things quietly at 4:00 am, this loads sever processes right at boot that cause the problem. For example, boot just now was crawling and checking systemctl timers shows: (leading columns snipped) LAST PASSED UNIT ACTIVATES n/a n/a systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-t> Thu 2019-11-21 03:33:43 CST 11min ago logrotate.timer logrotate> Thu 2019-11-21 03:33:43 CST 11min ago man-db.timer man-db.se> Thu 2019-11-21 03:33:43 CST 11min ago shadow.timer shadow.se> 4 timers listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too. This impacts being able to get thins from a computer in a hurry and reminds me of the unpleasant waits waiting for windows to run all of its on-boot checks. What is the best way to modify this scheme to prevent, e.g. logrotate.time, man-db.timer and shadow.timer all trying to run on boot? I'd rather set them up to run a 5:00 localtime as I would with cronnie. But I do want to use the systemd timer, so what is the best way to configure the systemd timer to schedule these things to run at a convenient time instead of all firing on boot? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Disable pam_securetty.so
by Daan De Meyer 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Hi, I don't want to come across as impatient but I was wondering how I can accelerate handling of this particular issue: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45903?project=1&string=pam I've listed examples in the issue that pam_securetty has been disabled on other major distros. The main issue is that it prevents root login on systemd-nspawn containers. It should be easy to remove and there's a precedence in other distros. Any tips on how to proceed to get this fixed? Regards, Daan

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[arch-general] issue with i915
by Enrique Pérez Arnaud 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi, I am experiencing some issue with the i915 driver. The symptom is hangups of the graphic environment every few minutes, lasting for a couple of seconds. When they happen, journalctl shows a log entry like: Nov 14 12:39:46 eperez-ws kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: Resetting rcs0 for hang on rcs0 This seems to be reported [1] but I don't see any solution there. Does anyone know of some solution for this? Thanks in advance, and have a nice day :) 1.- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/issues/1837 -- Enrique Pérez Arnaud enriquepablo(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] The differences among bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi.
by Hongyi Zhao 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

I noticed that for many distro's install iso, there are some efi files in the EFI/efi folder as follows: bootx64.efi, loader.efi and grubx64.efi Say, for arch: bootx64.efi, loader.efi for debian: bootx64.efi grubx64.efi I just cannot figure out the differences among them. Could you please give me some hints on this? Thanks in advance. -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] Extreme Minimalist Challenge
by Lonnie Cumberland 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Hi All, I am new to Arch Linux and am hoping that this might be the direction that I need to look for a demo project that I am eagerly seeking to build and I really hope that someone can help me towards the right direction. The project is basically to have the absolutely smallest possible Linux distro (x86_64 based) that would be a type of LiveCD RAM-Based bootable system that has an Xserver and VirtualBox 6.0 but no real desktop running. I want it to boot directly into the VirtualBox 6.0 GUI. The other catch is that I need a system that has an extremely small footprint image and am hoping that the ISO could be between 150 MB - 200 MB in size, but of course even smaller is better. Its an ambitious project and I am seeking help on if Arch Linux may be a good starting point for the basic OS and Xorg server as well as any suggestions or advice that the mailing list might like to provide. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Lonnie

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[arch-general] What happened to Arch Wiki recent changes news feed?
by Štěpán Němec 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Hello, I noticed some time ago the feed stopped working. I used to follow it using the gwene.org gateway, but even following the link from https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/ to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss sends me to a "Login Required" page. So apparently either the feed is gone for good intentionally (I hope not) and shouldn't be listed, or is broken and should be fixed? -- Štěpán

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Amish 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

On 11/11/19 3:11 am, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > All our official kernels: linux, linux-lts, linux-zen and linux-hardened, do not install the actual kernel to /boot anymore. I would like to report an issue I faced due to this. Not an issue for everyone but can be an issue in a certain special cases. I have a custom package (in my custom repo) which modifies grub UI / menus (cosmetic change only) by putting some files in /etc/grub.d/ and regenerates /boot/grub/grub.cfg (by calling grub-mkconfig in package's post install script). This has been working fine from 2 years or so. Recently I released an update to that custom package but at the same time, upgrades to linux as well as linux-lts packages were also available in arch repository. And after upgrade, grub.cfg lost linux and linux-lts menu entries completely. What happened is: 1. mkinitcpio hook first removed vmlinuz-linux, vmlinuz-linux-lts and initrd files from /boot 2. My package got updated along with new versions of linux and linux-lts 3. My package's post install script ran grub-mkconfig but new vmlinuz files did not exist yet in /boot. So grub entries were not created for them. 4. mkinitcpio-install post transaction hook runs and copies kernel to /boot (but its too late for my post install scripts) So effectively this created an un-bootable system requiring manual booting. This is going to happen every time my package plus linux / linux-lts package get upgraded in the same pacman run. (i.e. this will not happen always but only in certain conditions) I know my issue is not common and I will also change my script to post transaction hook. But this is to warn anyone who has a custom package with post install script which looks for / expects kernel files in /boot. (like grub-mkconfig). Those scripts are going to break with the recent changes to kernel package and it would be advisable to put them in post transaction hook and that too after mkinitcpio-install scripts run. Regards, Amish

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[arch-general] electron upgrade (7.1.1-1 -> 7.1.1-2) sort of broke functionality on several electron apps
by Javier 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

The 1st thing I noticed was that after the upgrade, the lectron apps no longer show up under the legacy tray, but instead on the more modern notification area (under LXQT). The 2nd thing, was the tray icons not doing any action. The 3rd thing, was that in order to use the electron apps, I had to call them with starting on tray, since the tray icons don't respond. And finally I can't try to iconify on tray, given the tray icons don't respond... Any one else experiencing the same? Other than just reverting to the prior electron, is there known workarounds for these issues? Has anyone faced them already, and dealt with them? Just in case a few electron apps experiencing the same: signal-desktop-bin whatsapp-nativefier slack-desktop Thanks ! -- Javier

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Damjan Georgievski 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

> This has been discussed a bit on the dracut thread, as well on some other threads over time. > I *personally* don't like the complexity of kernel-install that much. I've now read this twice on Arch mail lists, so I have to ask, without any presumptions on my side, what are the arguments against kernel-install? I must say, I don't see much complexity in it. It's only a 184 line bash script[1]. And as added feature, it decouples the kernel install from the kernel package install (and pacman), also defines couple of easy-to-use config locations like /etc/kernel/cmdline But I guess I might be missing something. [1] especially compared to dracut (not that they do the same thing), which seems much more complex, and that complexity did introduce bugs - for which I've sent a PR -- damjan

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[arch-general] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks? What does this mean to the average user?
by David C. Rankin 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

All, I have read the latest note from 11-10-19 at archlinux.org, e.g. New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks https://www.archlinux.org/news/new-kernel-packages-and-mkinitcpio-hooks/ However, I'm still left confused exactly "What this means to the average user?" When I read: <quote> All our official kernels: linux, linux-lts, linux-zen and linux-hardened, do not install the actual kernel to /boot anymore. The installation is done by mkinitcpio hooks and scripts, as well as removals. There is no need for any manual intervention. ... </quote> That tells me that I am not going to have to change the way I update kernels and that I won't have to do anything special to ensure all current hooks are run (mdadm_udev, etc...). The only changes I see in the mkinitcpio.pacnew file is that all double-quotes have been replaced by parenthesis, e.g. HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block mdadm_udev filesystems keyboard fsck" to HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block mdadm_udev filesystems keyboard fsck) Which appears to effectively turn HOOKS into a bash array instead of a simple list/string. But beyond that I don't see anything that will have an impact on how kernels are installed or removed on update. Am I missing something there? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Ondřej Hruška 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Hi, I have a question regarding the kernel changes. It sounds like it might break my dm-crypt/luks setup with un-encrypted /boot partition, if the kernel is not in /boot anymore? Are there migration steps needed? I set it up exactly following the wiki. It is my understanding that it is the kernel who handles the password prompt and decryption. Or am I misunderstanding how it works? Ondrej Hruska

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Kusoneko 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

On November 10, 2019 9:41:24 PM UTC, "Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Giancarlo Razzolini" <arch-announce(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >All our official kernels: linux, linux-lts, linux-zen and >linux-hardened, do not install the actual kernel to /boot anymore. > >The installation is done by mkinitcpio hooks and scripts, as well as >removals. There is no need for any manual intervention. > >The intention is to make the kernel packages more self-contained, as >well as making the boot process more flexible, while also keeping it >backwards compatible. > >As of now, only mkinitcpio has hooks for handling kernels installations >and removals. We do not ship any for dracut yet, but it will have >similar hooks in the near feature. > >URL: >https://www.archlinux.org/news/new-kernel-packages-and-mkinitcpio-hooks/ >_______________________________________________ >arch-announce mailing list >arch-announce(a)archlinux.org >https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce Hello, in the short time I've been subscribed to a bunch of these archlinux mailing lists, I've seen a few threads about mkinitcpio and dracut. What exactly are they for and what is the differences between the 2? Should one prefer to use dracut when equivalent support for it is implemented?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] New kernel packages and mkinitcpio hooks
by Amish 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

On 11/11/19 3:11 am, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi All, > > As most of you have noticed already, the kernel packages had some > recent changes > where they do not install the kernel to /boot, as well as they do not > have any kmod [0] > nor mkinitcpio hooks anymore. Neither they do install mkinitcpio > presets [1]. > > ... > > Also, kernel removals are handled by mkinitcpio as well. We want to > make the boot process more > flexible, while also keeping it backwards compatible by default. There > are a few changes I have > planned for the next mkinitcpio release [4] that will help even > further to achieve this. > > Thank you for the detailed explanation. However I have a question related to this change. Due to e1000e related bug in kernel 5.3, few of systems that I manage are still on kernel 5.2.5. # pacman -Q kmod mkinitcpio linux linux-lts kmod 26-2 mkinitcpio 25-2 linux 5.2.5.arch1-1 linux-lts 4.19.61-1 I am planning to do full system upgrade except linux package. i.e. pacman -Syu --ignore linux --ignore linux-lts Would the change in mkinitcpio and /boot create a broken system for me? You have written it is backward compatible. So do you mean it is backward compatible with older linux / linux-lts? In short, can I upgrade the system while still keeping older linux packages (till the e1000e bug is not resolved)? Thank you Amish.

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[arch-general] Archlinux fail2ban not working
by Maykel Franco 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hi, I have this rule: jail.conf: [app-user] enabled = true port = 443 filter = user-app logpath = /var/log/user-app.log findtime = 1200 bantime = 480 maxretry = 3 ------------------------------- filter.d: user-app.conf [Definition] failregex = Unknown User .* $<HOST>:.*$ ignoreregex = ------------------------------- The content is logfile test /var/log/user-app.log: [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) ------------------------------- And when test it, not working: fail2ban-regex /var/log/user-app.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/user-app.conf Running tests ============= Use failregex filter file : user-app, basedir: /etc/fail2ban Use log file : user-app.conf Use encoding : UTF-8 Results ======= Failregex: 0 total Ignoreregex: 0 total Date template hits: |- [# of hits] date format | [6] {^LN-BEG}24hour:Minute:Second `- Lines: 6 lines, 0 ignored, 0 matched, 6 missed [processed in 0.02 sec] |- Missed line(s): | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) | [12:48:35.315] Server1: Unknown User 'test' (109.103.148.2) Whats wrong? Maybe the left timestamp? Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] Failed to compile shadowsocksr-libev-git with yay.
by Hongyi Zhao 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

See the following: $ yay -S shadowsocksr-libev-git [...] acl.c: In function 'init_block_list': acl.c:74:90: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 50 and 176 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 74 | "ip6tables -N %s; ip6tables -F %s; ip6tables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s"; | ^~ ...... 158 | sprintf(cli, ip6tables_init_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 81 and 270 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:67:87: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 53 and 179 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 67 | "iptables -N %s; iptables -F %s; iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s"; | ^~ ...... 160 | sprintf(cli, iptables_init_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 78 and 267 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:92:5: error: '; firewall-cmd --direct...' directive writing 88 bytes into a region of size between 33 and 159 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 92 | "firewall-cmd --direct --add-chain ipv6 filter %s; \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 93 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv6 -F %s; \ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 94 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv6 -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s"; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 186 and 375 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:81:5: error: '; firewall-cmd --direct...' directive writing 88 bytes into a region of size between 33 and 159 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 81 | "firewall-cmd --direct --add-chain ipv4 filter %s; \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 82 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv4 -F %s; \ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 83 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv4 -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s"; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 186 and 375 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c: In function 'free_block_list': acl.c:96:5: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 61 and 124 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 96 | "firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv6 -D OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s; \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 97 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv6 -F %s; \ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 98 | firewall-cmd --direct --remove-chain ipv6 filter %s"; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...... 184 | sprintf(cli, firewalld6_remove_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 189 and 378 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:85:5: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 61 and 124 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 85 | "firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv4 -D OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s; \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 86 | firewall-cmd --direct --passthrough ipv4 -F %s; \ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 87 | firewall-cmd --direct --remove-chain ipv4 filter %s"; | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...... 186 | sprintf(cli, firewalld_remove_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 189 and 378 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:76:90: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 50 and 176 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 76 | "ip6tables -D OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s; ip6tables -F %s; ip6tables -X %s"; | ^~ ...... 179 | sprintf(cli, ip6tables_remove_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 81 and 270 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ acl.c:69:87: error: '%s' directive writing up to 63 bytes into a region of size between 53 and 179 [-Werror=format-overflow=] 69 | "iptables -D OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags RST RST -j %s; iptables -F %s; iptables -X %s"; | ^~ ...... 181 | sprintf(cli, iptables_remove_chain, chain_name, chain_name, chain_name); | ~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:867, from ../libipset/include/ipset/ipset.h:14, from acl.c:23: /usr/include/bits/stdio2.h:36:10: note: '__builtin___sprintf_chk' output between 78 and 267 bytes into a destination of size 256 36 | return __builtin___sprintf_chk (__s, __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL - 1, | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 37 | __bos (__s), __fmt, __va_arg_pack ()); | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cc1: all warnings being treated as errors make[2]: *** [Makefile:778: libshadowsocks_libev_la-acl.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/werner/.cache/yay/shadowsocksr-libev-git/src/shadowsocksr-libev/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:478: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/werner/.cache/yay/shadowsocksr-libev-git/src/shadowsocksr-libev' make: *** [Makefile:387: all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Error making: shadowsocksr-libev-git -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] Failed to compile dnsmasq latest git version with `-DHAVE_LUASCRIPT' on Manjaro.
by Hongyi Zhao 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Hi, See the following: $ uname -a Linux Manjaro 5.3.7-2-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 22 18:56:05 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ yay -S lua52 $ make COPTS="-DHAVE_DBUS -DHAVE_IDN -DHAVE_LUASCRIPT -DHAVE_CONNTRACK -DHAVE_DNSSEC" -j24 Package lua5.2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `lua5.2.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'lua5.2', required by 'virtual:world', not found Package lua5.2 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `lua5.2.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'lua5.2', required by 'virtual:world', not found make[1]: Entering directory '/home/data/software/anti-gfw/dns/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.git/src' cc -o dnsmasq cache.o rfc1035.o util.o option.o forward.o network.o dnsmasq.o dhcp.o lease.o rfc2131.o netlink.o dbus.o bpf.o helper.o tftp.o log.o conntrack.o dhcp6.o rfc3315.o dhcp-common.o outpacket.o radv.o slaac.o auth.o ipset.o domain.o dnssec.o blockdata.o tables.o loop.o inotify.o poll.o rrfilter.o edns0.o arp.o crypto.o dump.o ubus.o metrics.o -ldbus-1 -lidn -lnetfilter_conntrack -lnfnetlink -lnettle -lhogweed -lgmp /usr/bin/ld: helper.o: in function `grab_extradata_lua.part.0': helper.c:(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x52): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.o: in function `create_helper': helper.c:(.text+0x308): undefined reference to `luaL_newstate' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x317): undefined reference to `luaL_openlibs' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x333): undefined reference to `luaL_loadfilex' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x352): undefined reference to `lua_pcallk' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x36d): undefined reference to `lua_tolstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x3b1): undefined reference to `lua_settop' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x3c4): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x3d5): undefined reference to `lua_type' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x3ef): undefined reference to `lua_settop' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x6e3): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x6f4): undefined reference to `lua_type' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x70e): undefined reference to `lua_settop' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xbb0): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xbc1): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xbd1): undefined reference to `lua_createtable' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc0a): undefined reference to `lua_pushnumber' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc22): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc3b): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc53): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc6c): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xc84): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xe7c): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xe94): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xebd): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xed5): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xeef): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xf07): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xf1f): undefined reference to `lua_callk' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xf92): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xfa3): undefined reference to `lua_type' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xfbd): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xfcd): undefined reference to `lua_createtable' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xfe7): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0xfff): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1010): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1028): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x104a): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x127d): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x128e): undefined reference to `lua_type' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x12ac): undefined reference to `lua_callk' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x13d0): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x13e0): undefined reference to `lua_createtable' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x13fa): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1412): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x142c): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x15bd): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x15d5): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x15fb): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1613): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x162d): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1645): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x165f): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1677): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x16ea): undefined reference to `lua_getglobal' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x16fb): undefined reference to `lua_type' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1750): undefined reference to `lua_pushnumber' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1768): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x178d): undefined reference to `lua_callk' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x1844): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x185c): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x188f): undefined reference to `lua_pushstring' /usr/bin/ld: helper.c:(.text+0x18a7): undefined reference to `lua_setfield' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [/home/data/software/dnsmasq.git/Makefile:164: dnsmasq] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/data/software/dnsmasq.git/src' make: *** [Makefile:86: all] Error 2 How to solve this issue? -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] How to install archlinux using a specific parition of usb instead of the whole usb?
by Hongyi Zhao 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Hi, I try to use a specific partition of usb to install archlinux, the following is the step: Suppose the /dev/sdc is my usb: $ sudo ddrescue -f archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso /dev/sdc2 Then I reboot my computer with the grub standalone bootloader and from within the command line of grub, I do the following: Suppose the (hd2,2) is the partition which corresponding to the /dev/sdc2, then I run the following commands: grub> set root=hd2,2 grub> chainloader /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi grub> boot But, the above step failed to boot, with the error similar to this in my ming: Failed to find the loader.efi OTOH, if I dd'ed the arch iso onto the whole usb disk like the following: $ sudo ddrescue -f archlinux-2019.11.01-x86_64.iso /dev/sdc Then, it will be successfully booted into the installation menu of archlinux. So I want to know whether is is possible for me to use a specific partition of usb instead of the whole usb disk for installation archlinux? Regards -- Hongsheng Zhao <hongyi.zhao(a)gmail.com> Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493

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[arch-general] Cannot create account on bugs.archlinux.org
by Daan De Meyer 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Hi, When trying to create an account on bugs.archlinux.org, I get the following error message: Completely unexpected exception: Connection could not be established with > host 127.0.0.1:10027 [Connection refused #111] > This should never happend, please inform Flyspray Developers > Have I missed a downtime announcement somewhere or is something wrong with Flyspray? Best regards, Daan De Meyer

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[arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod
by Damjan Georgievski 04 Nov '19

04 Nov '19

Can someone explain in better detail the changes in * kmod 26-3 * mkinitcpio 27-1 * linux 5.3.8.1-1 around packaging and pacman hooks? I can see there's some reorganization of the hooks and scripts, and the kernel package no longer installing directly to /boot (which is a welcome change, the kernel is now only in /usr/lib/modules/5.3.8-arch1-1/vmlinuz) but it's not easy for me to reverse-understand what the bash scripts do exactly. I'm asking because I also use pacman hooks on the kernel and some other files in order to create my combined kernel+initramfs+cmdline UEFI executable signed for secure-boot, and it seems I'll have to adopt to a newer setup. -- damjan

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[arch-general] bugs.archlinux.org need help with lost password retrieval
by Kai Korla 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Hello, i lost my password for bugs.archlinux.org and tried to reset it via the "Lost password retrieval" option, but i got no mail. Maybe something is wrong with the account...possible the email address. Could someone get in touch with me to solve this problem? Thank you very much! regards Kai

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[arch-general] sudo: setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE): Operation not permitted
by Cem Keylan 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Hello list, I have a script for bootstrapping Arch and I test it on the archlinux/base docker container everytime before I make a release in order to make sure everything runs fine. Yesterday, I have run the script on the container, and it started throwing an error everytime my script called "sudo". It doesn't break the functionality of sudo, so it runs the called function with root priviliges. The error is, "sudo: setrlimit(RLIMIT_CORE): Operation not permitted" The problem is not related to the script as it gives the same error on the container when I run sudo myself. I searched the wiki, the forum, and the internet but couldn't find a conclusive answer. My laptop is running the latest version of Arch and I have no issues with sudo. I have similarly updated the container to the latest version before running the script.

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[arch-general] Wiki edition
by Tomas Schertel 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Hi guys. I have a Brazilian Lenovo Ideapad 330S-14IKB laptop and would like to add it to Wiki. I know there is a Lenovo 330S page, but it shows a different version. How can I proceed to create a new page or change the current one? Sorry to ask this, but I don't have much experience on Wikis. Thanks for your help. *Beste Grüße* *Tomás Schertel*

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[arch-general] Silent boot with systemd and sd-encrypt initcpio hooks
by Sefa Eyeoglu 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

Hey there, I recently switched my mkinitcpio configs over to use systemd hooks instead of the default ones. Currently my hooks like like the following: HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect modconf block keyboard sd-vconsole sd-encrypt filesystems fsck) As you can see, I have an encrypted root partition. Before switching to systemd hooks, after typing the decryption password on boot there was no additional output. Now there is always the full systemd log where it says "Starting [unit]..." and so on. Kernel parameters: rd.luks.name=[long uuid]=cryptroot rd.luks.options=timeout=20 root=/dev/ mapper/cryptroot rw quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false rd.udev.log_priority=3 i915.fastboot=1 I tried rearranging the parameters like putting "quiet loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false rd.udev.log_priority=3" before anything else and even tried putting it before AND after the rd.luks.* parameters with no success. Is this a bug with the systemd hooks or am I doing something wrong here... Thanks for looking into this issue! :D Kind regards -- Sefa Eyeoglu Free Software Developer scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] I can't access bluetooth devices
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hi all, I can't access bluetooth devices using a Lenovo G480 with arch linux installed and updated. The rfkill list command shows me the following: 0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no I execute the command bluetoothctl, in the prompt I type devices Aand I receive the following message: No default controller available Does anyone have any tips or suggestions to fix this problem? Thanks in advance for your help.

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[arch-general] Blank screen after an interval; maybe related to laptop power supply?
by Dartme 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

I turn on my laptop, sign in (Linux getty), and use the laptop for a couple minutes (no graphical applications), then the screen goes black and the machine does not appear to respond to any user input (CTRL+ALT+F2, etc.). The only recovery I have found is to hold the power button and restart. The logs show nothing. When I use the computer without the power supply plugged in, the problem doesn't manifest. I'm using a Dell Precision M 4700. Any suggestions? What should I be looking at to begin diagnosing the problem?

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[arch-general] Resetting pacman-key Still Asks to Import.
by Ralph Corderoy 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

Hi, I have an Arch Linux laptop that hasn't been updated in a long time, mainly because it started to lock-up after a few minutes uptime, requiring a power cycle. I'm now trying to update all its packages in the hope the lock-ups have gone, and if not to have a more modern base for diagnosis. A ‘pacman -Syuw’ took a few goes but signature checking had problems, as did trying to update signatures. I resorted to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Package_signing#Resetting_all_t… that appeared to succeed. The next attempt at ‘pacman -Syuw’ gets to Total Download Size: 0.00 MiB :: Proceed with download? [Y/n] (250/250) checking keys in keyring [#############################################################################] 100% downloading required keys... :: Import PGP key 2048R/02FD1C7A934E614545849F19A6234074498E9CEE, "Christian Hesse (Arch Linux Package Signing) <arch(a)eworm.de>", created: 2011-08-12? [Y/n] (250/250) checking package integrity [#############################################################################] 100% error: dav1d: signature from "Levente Polyak (anthraxx) <levente(a)leventepolyak.net>" is invalid :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/dav1d-0.4.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] y error: libpulse: signature from "Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com>" is invalid :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/libpulse-13.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz is corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] This looks very similar to where I've been before. The next attempt to download those, now deleted, packages does no better. I'm going to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Package_signing#Disabling_signa… but would still like to understand what I should attempt instead. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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[arch-general] grep
by siefke_listen＠web.de 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

Hello, I have a question about grep, okay yes is not direct Arch but I not find a information and here on list sure some profis with grep. The folder structure: content/de/blog/*.md content/fr/blog/*.md content/en/blog/*.md content/ru/blog/*.md To know which articles I have translate I grep through dates: grep -e "2019-10-1" content/blog/de (for the dates between 10 and 19) I become: grep -e "2019-10-1" content/de/blog/* content/de/blog/file1.md:date: 2019-10-10 content/de/blog/file2.md:date: 2019-10-12 content/de/blog/file3.md:date: 2019-10-14 content/de/blog/file4.md:date: 2019-10-16 Now is my question, How can I do the same in the other folders and all those that exist with the same date are hidden and when no file is present give out the file which is missing in other folders sort by date. The name of file is sure other, but the date is ever the same. grep -e "2019-10-1" content/en/blog/* No output > all files translated grep -e "2019-10-1" content/fr/blog/* content/de/blog/file4.md:date: 2019-10-16 > file is missed grep -e "2019-10-1" content/ru/blog/* content/de/blog/file3.md:date: 2019-10-14 > file is missed content/de/blog/file4.md:date: 2019-10-16 > file is missed Grep to the first folder (de) as a comparison to the others (en,fr,ru). I had try it with diff but it want not work. Would be great there is a idea. Thank you for help. Silvio

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[arch-general] 4K Video Rendering Speeds with AMD Ryzen 3 3200G CPU and MSI GeForce GTX1650 4 GB GDDR5 GPU
by Turritopsis1 Dohrnii1 Teo1 En1 Ming1 27 Oct '19

27 Oct '19

Subject: 4K Video Rendering Speeds with AMD Ryzen 3 3200G CPU and MSI GeForce GTX1650 4 GB GDDR5 GPU Good day from Singapore, Technical specifications of my home supercomputer: [1] AMD Ryzen 3 3200G processor with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics [2] Gigabyte B450M DS3H SOC Socket AM4 Motherboard [3] 8 GB Transcend DDR4-2666 Memory [4] MSI GeForce GTX1650 4 GB GDDR5 GPU Early this morning in Singapore (27 Oct 2019 Sunday), a 1 hour 49 mins 4K Ultra HD video took 2 hours 47 mins to render. Well not too bad for an extremely budget AMD Ryzen 3 processor. It is still under 3 hours and definitely not more than 10 hours of the past (4K video rendering speeds). As a NUS university graduate, I live in extreme poverty in Singapore because I am a Targeted Individual. It looks like I will not need to fork out more money to buy a better supercomputer for myself in the future. I SIMPLY LOVE TO FLAUNT MY POVERTY! -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017) and in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] talkingarch
by Storm Dragon 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

Howdy adérito, Accessibility based projects like Tarch and F123Light are not official Arch Linux releases. Bug reports, feature requests, etc for those projects do not belong on this list. If you are familiar, for example with Vinux, you can not ask support questions about it on the Ubuntu list. I can help you with the appropriate channels for getting support if you are interested. If you need help with those, please contact me off list. I will do what I can. Thanks, Storm On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 01:09:16PM +0100, adérito wrote: >Hello, you have the tharch then the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June on another server? that in www.tarch.org is INTAL Monthly Newsletter INTAL Monthly Newsletter October but October is not working very well did not detect the Internet connection on virtualbox you can report the developer who do not have the email dezenvolvedor the tharch. because the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June connect to internet. and the script F123 light was included in INTAL Monthly Newsletter of October tharch. but the script does not detect the wired network virtualbox. > >Enviado do Correio para Windows 10 > -- ⛈🐲 Accessible low cost computers for everyone! Get your slice of the Pi: https://asliceofthepi.com My youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdaTl5vl404OaRxAJPvb8Ew get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 How to load Windows on your machine in 2 minutes or less: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbf9tOGwno "Mighty Elric, Mightier Sword. Sorcerer and Swordsman, slayer of kin, Lord of a dying race. King of ruin, dragon master, Champion of Doom." Domine - Chronicles of the Black Sword

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Re: [arch-general] talkingarch
by Fabian Piribauer 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

Hi Adèrito, whatever kind of formatting/autocorrecting/translation tools you are using they seem to have butchered your e-mail quite a bit. It is pretty hard to read as it lacks formatting, punctuation, etc. On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 01:09:16PM +0100, adérito wrote: > Hello, you have the tharch then the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June on another server? tarch is a fork of archlinux it is not maintained by the archlinux team but by 3rd party developers. I doubt that anyone here has the tarch ISO from July. You should probably contact them directly or check their IRC out at irc.freenode.net #tarch. > that in www.tarch.org is INTAL Monthly Newsletter INTAL Monthly Newsletter October but October is not working very well did not detect the Internet connection on virtualbox you can report the developer who do not have the email dezenvolvedor the tharch. because the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June connect to internet. I'm not sure what you want to tell us with this paragraph but I think you want on of these: * help you fix your networking problems * file a bug report for the October release * get the e-mail address of the tarch developers Again, this is the archlinux mailing list. > and the script F123 light was included in INTAL Monthly Newsletter of October tharch. but the script does not detect the wired network virtualbox. AFAICT installing F123Light is completely optional. Best Regards, Fabian

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[arch-general] Please update the dotnet packages
by Marc Ranolfi 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

The 'dotnet-sdk' and 'dotnet-runtime' packages have been marked as out-of-date on 2019-08-02. I would like to encourage the maintainer to update them as soon as possible. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/dotnet-sdk/ Thanks. Marc

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[arch-general] 'base' package install with non-updated linux-kernel
by riveravaldez 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

Hi, because of this problem [1] (apparently a kernel/driver/hardware issue?) I'm forced to stay on linux-5.2.14-arch2-1 right now. My question is: should/can I anyway install the 'base' package anyway as explained in [2]? Thanks a lot [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249330 [2] https://www.archlinux.org/news/base-group-replaced-by-mandatory-base-packag…

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Re: [arch-general] talkingarch
by William Bevans 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

I think it's trying to communicate with us. On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 7:09 AM adérito <aderito.carvalho(a)sapo.pt> wrote: > Hello, you have the tharch then the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June on > another server? that in www.tarch.org is INTAL Monthly Newsletter INTAL > Monthly Newsletter October but October is not working very well did not > detect the Internet connection on virtualbox you can report the developer > who do not have the email dezenvolvedor the tharch. because the INTAL > Monthly Newsletter June connect to internet. and the script F123 light was > included in INTAL Monthly Newsletter of October tharch. but the script does > not detect the wired network virtualbox. > > Enviado do Correio para Windows 10 > >

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[arch-general] talkingarch
by adérito 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

Hello, you have the tharch then the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June on another server? that in www.tarch.org is INTAL Monthly Newsletter INTAL Monthly Newsletter October but October is not working very well did not detect the Internet connection on virtualbox you can report the developer who do not have the email dezenvolvedor the tharch. because the INTAL Monthly Newsletter June connect to internet. and the script F123 light was included in INTAL Monthly Newsletter of October tharch. but the script does not detect the wired network virtualbox. Enviado do Correio para Windows 10

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Re: [arch-general] �� ?
by Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba 25 Oct '19

25 Oct '19

Upon checking the message headers, I found the following: ... >Reply-To: prodawez(a)teleworm.us, ... On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:39:12PM +0100, arch-announce(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Вас интересуют базы данных? > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > arch-announce(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce I believe it's safe to say this is a spam message. AFAIK, teleworm.us is a service that provides anonymous temporary email addresses. HTH. Best, Jonathan

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[arch-general] Issue with 'eject -T'
by Ralf Mardorf 19 Oct '19

19 Oct '19

Hi, 'eject -T' doesn't work anymore on my machine, resp. opening the DVD drive doesn't work anymore, when using the traytoggle option. Opening still works without an option and closing with the traytoggle option also still works. $ eject -V eject from util-linux 2.34 $ eject -T eject: CD-ROM eject command failed: Device or resource busy $ grep util-linux /var/log/pacman.log | tail -6 [2019-06-21 08:19] [ALPM] upgraded libutil-linux (2.33.2-1 -> 2.34-2) [2019-06-21 08:19] [ALPM] upgraded util-linux (2.33.2-1 -> 2.34-2) [2019-06-21 08:19] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-util-linux (2.33.2-1 -> 2.34-1) [2019-06-29 11:40] [ALPM] upgraded libutil-linux (2.34-2 -> 2.34-3) [2019-06-29 11:40] [ALPM] upgraded util-linux (2.34-2 -> 2.34-3) [2019-10-06 12:37] [ALPM] reinstalled util-linux (2.34-3) I don't know when the issue started, but I'm quite sure it still worked last month. I'm usually using 'eject -T' to open or close the DVD drive by a keyboard shortcut. I accidentally reinstalled util-linux a few days back, IOW that it was reinstalled is meaningless, it might be that it even still worked this time. Could somebody with an up to date Arch Linux install please run 'eject -T' from command line? I want to know if it's an issue on my side or if it's a regression of a dependency or something else unrelated to my machine. TIA, Ralf -- $ uname -r 5.2.21-rt13-0-pussytoes

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Re: [arch-general] Feature Request: Adding Alternate Base Package
by Mohamad Mounir Safadieh 17 Oct '19

17 Oct '19

The idea of a "base-extras" package containing the old base packages has already been discussed on arch-dev-public. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2019-October/029693.h… This implies that it's very likely to happen. :-) On Oct 17, 2019, 8:02 AM -0400, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org, wrote: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Feature Request: Adding Alternate Base Package Groups to > Installation Media (Ben Pont) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 16:40:22 -0500 > From: Ben Pont <benpont(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] Feature Request: Adding Alternate Base Package > Groups to Installation Media > Message-ID: > <CALJ1B=s3APKAFDtUTHSGtehUhSqAAY2EsrcYZ=1oVtDJFWOONA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > With the recent transition from the base package group to the base meta > package, I was wondering whether or not it would be useful to include a > 'base-typical' or 'base-standard' package group to the installation media. > The menu choices during an installation could possible be even more > expansive in its package group options, similar to how RHEL does it via > their 'environment' package groups (e.g. Minimal Install, Compute Node, > Infrastructure Server, GNOME Desktop, etc.). > > For example, each alternative package group could *include* the base meta > package, then add in the additional packages necessary for a particular use > case, (not least of which would be a kernel). The advantage would be that, > after installing the system, users would have the option to cherry pick > *out* unnecessary/unwanted packages from their chosen installation package > group, instead of having to cherry pick packages *into* their system as > would likely be necessary using only the base meta package. It seems like > many new and inexperienced users might become confused when they install a > new system using only the current base meta package and then realizing they > don't have the necessary tools they would normally assume comprises a base > installation (i.e. a kernel, editor, etc.). > > Additionally, 'pkgstats' could (at least temporarily) be included as a > dependency for both the base meta package and any optional base package > groups to get stats on how many users are solely installing the base meta > package versus the optional base package group alternatives. I'm guessing > only a minority of users would choose the base meta package as their sole > installation option, but it would probably be useful to know either way. > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > > > ------------------------------ > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 180, Issue 12 > ********************************************* >

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[arch-general] Feature Request: Adding Alternate Base Package Groups to Installation Media
by Ben Pont 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

With the recent transition from the base package group to the base meta package, I was wondering whether or not it would be useful to include a 'base-typical' or 'base-standard' package group to the installation media. The menu choices during an installation could possible be even more expansive in its package group options, similar to how RHEL does it via their 'environment' package groups (e.g. Minimal Install, Compute Node, Infrastructure Server, GNOME Desktop, etc.). For example, each alternative package group could *include* the base meta package, then add in the additional packages necessary for a particular use case, (not least of which would be a kernel). The advantage would be that, after installing the system, users would have the option to cherry pick *out* unnecessary/unwanted packages from their chosen installation package group, instead of having to cherry pick packages *into* their system as would likely be necessary using only the base meta package. It seems like many new and inexperienced users might become confused when they install a new system using only the current base meta package and then realizing they don't have the necessary tools they would normally assume comprises a base installation (i.e. a kernel, editor, etc.). Additionally, 'pkgstats' could (at least temporarily) be included as a dependency for both the base meta package and any optional base package groups to get stats on how many users are solely installing the base meta package versus the optional base package group alternatives. I'm guessing only a minority of users would choose the base meta package as their sole installation option, but it would probably be useful to know either way.

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[arch-general] Package guidelines 📦
by Alberto Salvia Novella 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

I want to suggest including all or some of these in the package guidelines <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines>, or the appropriate documentation: *New items:* - Write your PKGBUILD in a way that will work by itself as long as possible, for example by automatically generating the list of archives instead of hard coding them. - As far as practicable don't work around bugs on the package, but fix them as upstream as possible. - In package() "mv" locally built files, and "cp" or "install" the rest. - In pkgdesc don't describe what the package is, but rather what it does. Using a natural wording that any person will understand. For example don't say "GTK UVC video viewer", but "Captures image from a webcam". - If the license is a Creative Commons one, write it like "CCPL:by-sa". *Modifications:* - Start new variables and functions names with a capital letter, to avoid clashes with those in makepkg itself. - In pkgver(), any printf() line shall finish with the new line char (\n). *Useful functions:* In package(), you can set permissions recursively with: find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx {} \; find "${pkgdir}" -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o=r {} \; chmod +x "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${Name}" In pkgver(), you can get the version from a web-site with something like this: curl --silent "${url}" | grep "${string}" | cut --delimiter='"' --fields=1 (Reply to this email including me on the recipients list, or I won't receive it)

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[arch-general] Kernel 5.3.5 and Kernel 5.3.6 perl warnings
by Jude DaShiell 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

If you start getting warnings that perl failed to set locale that didn't happen on earlier versions of the kernel I know how to fix that. First you have to have everything correct in /etc/locale.conf. If that's the case, add to your ~/.bash_profile file source /etc/locale.conf then save the edit and do source ~/.bash_profile then run your perl application like maybe cpanplus or irssi and if everything works on your system like it does on my system you won't get those warnings again. --

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[arch-general] interesting /etc/locale.conf situation
by Jude DaShiell 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Kernel in use is 5.3.5 with I think all of the current systemd stuff installed last night. when I run cpanp I get warnings from perl stating setting locale failed and listing variables that are unset. However if I run source /etc/locale.conf then run cpanp, no warnings appear. What did I do wrong with this installation? grep -inv "^#" /etc/locale.gen shows only line 176 as being uncommented. localectl list-locales also shows that same value and no more than that value. --

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Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required
by Marc Ranolfi 13 Oct '19

13 Oct '19

> The `base` group has been replaced by a metapackage of the same name, we advise users to install this package (`pacman -Syu base`), as it is effectively mandatory from now on. Please, was this discussed somewhere? I want to know the details, and gather what is needed to update the 'Installation guide' article in the wiki. In particular, I want to understand why essential packages for new installations, such as the kernel and a text editor, are not included (actually I see the kernel is an optional dependency). Thanks, Marc

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[arch-general] Does Arch Linux support containers, dockers and Kubernetes?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

Good evening from Singapore, Does Arch Linux support containers, dockers and Kubernetes? Looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017) and in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] More Nouveau woes
by pete 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

Since it seems the messing around with the base package i ma now getting this [ 245.303334] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 209 at drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvif/vmm.c:68 nvif_vmm_put.cold+0xc/0x13 [nouveau] [ 245.303336] Modules linked in: fuse cfg80211 rfkill 8021q garp mrp stp llc ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 dvb_pll cx22702 cx88_dvb cx88_vp3054_i2c videobuf2_dvb dvb_core videobuf2_vmalloc ir_rc5_decoder rc_hauppauge nouveau snd_hda_codec_hdmi mxm_wmi cx8800 cx8802 cx88xx wmi ttm tveeprom videobuf2_dma_sg videobuf2_memops edac_mce_amd videobuf2_v4l2 v4l2_common videobuf2_common kvm_amd ccp videodev snd_hda_codec_realtek drm_kms_helper snd_hda_codec_generic rng_core ledtrig_audio drm agpgart i2c_algo_bit kvm snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio syscopyarea sysfillrect rc_core sysimgblt snd_hda_codec mousedev fb_sys_fops r8169 snd_usbmidi_lib pl2303 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device mc snd_hda_core joydev input_leds snd_hwdep snd_pcm irqbypass realtek snd_timer libphy snd sp5100_tco soundcore evdev i2c_piix4 mac_hid k10temp pcspkr acpi_cpufreq sg crypto_user ip_tables x_tables xfs libcrc32c crc32c_generic hid_generic usbhid hid sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ohci_pci ata_generic pata_acpi ahci libahci pata_atiixp libata [ 245.303401] ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod ohci_hcd [ 245.303410] CPU: 0 PID: 209 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 5.3.5-arch1-1-ARCH #1 [ 245.303411] Hardware name: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./A74ML-K, BIOS 080014 04/14/2011 [ 245.303472] Workqueue: events nouveau_cli_work [nouveau] [ 245.303528] RIP: 0010:nvif_vmm_put.cold+0xc/0x13 [nouveau] [ 245.303531] Code: 45 31 e4 e9 a5 1a f1 ff 48 c7 c7 70 cd af c0 e8 73 9a 6c d6 0f 0b 45 31 e4 e9 8f 1a f1 ff 48 c7 c7 c0 cd af c0 e8 5d 9a 6c d6 <0f> 0b e9 1c 1f f1 ff 48 c7 c7 c0 cd af c0 e8 4a 9a 6c d6 0f 0b b8 [ 245.303532] RSP: 0018:ffffb2af40327dc8 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 245.303534] RAX: 0000000000000024 RBX: ffffb2af40327df0 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 245.303535] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8d95f3a17708 RDI: 00000000ffffffff [ 245.303536] RBP: ffffb2af40327e20 R08: 0000000000000366 R09: 0000000000000004 [ 245.303536] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8d9555d6be00 [ 245.303537] R13: dead000000000122 R14: dead000000000100 R15: ffff8d9555ec66c0 [ 245.303539] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8d95f3a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 245.303540] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 245.303541] CR2: 00005583b3d2b830 CR3: 000000009a2a8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 245.303542] Call Trace: [ 245.303603] nouveau_vma_del+0x81/0xc0 [nouveau] [ 245.303657] nouveau_gem_object_delete_work+0x36/0x60 [nouveau] [ 245.303711] nouveau_cli_work+0xbd/0x100 [nouveau] [ 245.303720] process_one_work+0x1d1/0x3a0 [ 245.303723] worker_thread+0x4a/0x3d0 [ 245.303725] kthread+0xfb/0x130 [ 245.303728] ? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0 [ 245.303729] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 245.303734] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 [ 245.303738] ---[ end trace f9440c5b9c6a6d44 ]--- on EVERY boot now a good 70 to 75% of software i use just causes the machine to lock solid instantly no logs nothing only full power off gets it going again . What is going on Pete .

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[arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base`, package - manual intervention required
by John Crist 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

I've submitted `base-extras` to the AUR at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/base-extras/ that contains the missing packages from `base` if someone REALLY wants it.

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[arch-general] SIgned Kernel Modules - new wiki page
by Genes Lists 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Since the kernel now separates verification of signed modules from the enforcement policy whether to allow unverified modules to be loaded or now I thought it's time to explore. The enforcement policy can be compiled in or turned on at run time via boot option to kernel. I now have it working to sign all the in tree modules as well as the out of tree modules. In my case I'm signing virtualbox and wireguard. In case it's helpful I created a wiki page outlining what I did to get this working. Hope it's useful. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Signed_kernel_modules gene

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Re: [arch-general] `base` group replaced by mandatory `base` package - manual intervention required
by John Crist 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

> Sounds good to me - do you have a suggested list of packages for > base-extras or at least the list of what was pulled from the old base. Here's a diff of what was in the `base` group vs what is now in the `base` metapackage: $ comm -23 <(pacman -Sgq base | sort) <(expac -S "%D" base | tr -s " " "\n" | sort) cryptsetup device-mapper dhcpcd diffutils e2fsprogs inetutils jfsutils less linux linux-firmware logrotate lvm2 man-db man-pages mdadm nano netctl perl reiserfsprogs s-nail sysfsutils texinfo usbutils vi which xfsprogs

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[arch-general] trouble upgrading knewstuff
by Wilhelm Boltz 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hello, after upgrading my system yesterday plasma didn't work properly, the dektop didn't show wallpapers but remained black, dolphin and kontact didn't start, due to undefinded symbol in libKF5NewStuffCore.so.5.62.0. I temporarily solved the problem by downgrading the package to version 5.20.0. Maybe someone can fix the problem in version 5.62.0? Kind regards Will

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[arch-general] Broken dependency in extra - java-openjfx
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Oct '19

09 Oct '19

Hi, to update my install I needed to remove java-openjfx. Probably an unneeded package, however, it's still provided by extra. Should I open a bug report or is fixing it already in the pipeline? There's an outdated package in testing since 2019-08-20, too. $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing jre-openjdk (13.u33-1) breaks dependency 'java-runtime-openjdk=12' required by java-openjfx $ pactree -r java-openjfx java-openjfx "Required By (0)" - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=java-openjfx Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] pacman -Syu - Running post-transaction hooks... error: command failed to execute correctly
by David C. Rankin 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

All, Not sure if this is important or not, but I thought I would pass it along. During update tonight, when the post-transaction hooks ran, I received the following related to creating temporary files: :: Running post-transaction hooks... ( 1/16) Creating system user accounts... ( 2/16) Reloading system manager configuration... ( 3/16) Creating temporary files... error: command failed to execute correctly ( 4/16) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... ( 5/16) Updating linux-lts module dependencies... <snip> There is nothing in /var/log/pacman.log related to this error. Is it important? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] FOSDEM Hackathon
by Jerome Leclanche 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

Hi folks FOSDEM 2020 will be on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd of February, 2020. https://fosdem.org/2020/ At Arch Conf, we discussed having a hackathon either before or after FOSDEM. I'd like to get some general opinion about preferences on dates for that hackathon. Note there's often other events surrounding FOSDEM. Here are last year's for example: https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/fringe/ If you're coming and interested in the hackathon, could you vote here and let me know what dates you prefer (or just reply if you have a strong preference)? https://fast-poll.com/poll/29087516 If people need Brussels-related assistance for FOSDEM, feel free to email me. I live there and I'm happy to help out. Cheers J. Leclanche

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[arch-general] Gnome-keyring + Seahorse 3.34.0 are breaking Mate logout / shutdown.
by fredbezies 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

Hello. I noticed today that gnome-keyring with seahorse 3.34.0 broke Mate-desktop logout / shutdown process. When I wanted to shutdown my computer, I got a dialog box telling me that "at-spi-bus-launcher" was not answering, asking me if I wanted to wait or to kill the process. I had to switch to another tty and reboot by hand using a sudo reboot command :( I tried downgraded recently upgraded package and the one that reverts the bug was gnome-keyring going back to 3.31.91 version :( I opened a bug on archlinux bugtracker: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63995 Do you have this bug too? Bug reported here: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues/222 I saw this bad behaviour within a virtual machine too. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] ArchLinux in Open Invention Network
by Jackie Harper 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Hello, Open Invention Network (OIN) is a patent non-aggression community that supports freedom of action in Linux as a key element of open source software. I've seen that the OIN includes several different distributions (Gentoo, Ubuntu derivatives etc). Would ArchLinux benefit from inclusion in this set? It looks like joining is as simple as filling out a form, no money needed and royalty-free. The full list of members is at: https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/community-of-licensees/ J.

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[arch-general] FYI : zxing-cpp may crash kmail
by SET 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

kmail crashes when selecting an mail item containing an attachment. It seems to happen specially when it's a PDF attachment, I have not tested all types of attached files. gdb backtraces up to libZXingCore.so. Downgrading zxing-cpp from 1.0.7 to 1.0.6 resolves the issue. For information. Regards. terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range' what(): vector::_M_range_check: __n (which is 1218) >= this->size() (which is 1044) Thread 1 "kmail" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007ffff65b8755 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff65b8755 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff65a3851 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x00007ffff67d681f in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at /build/ gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:95 #3 0x00007ffff67e330a in __cxxabiv1::__terminate (handler=<optimized out>) at / build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:47 #4 0x00007ffff67e3367 in std::terminate () at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/ libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:57 #5 0x00007ffff67e35bd in __cxxabiv1::__cxa_throw (obj=obj@entry=0x55555b581b40, tinfo=0x7ffff691b488 <typeinfo for std::out_of_range>, dest=0x7ffff67f97a0 <std::out_of_range::~out_of_range()>) at /build/gcc/src/ gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:95 #6 0x00007ffff67d9431 in std::__throw_out_of_range_fmt (__fmt=<optimized out>) at /build/gcc/src/gcc/libstdc++-v3/src/c++11/functexcept.cc:82 #7 0x00007fff0e45a8c3 in ZXing::QRCode::FinderPatternFinder::Find(ZXing::BitMatrix const&, bool) () from /usr/lib/libZXingCore.so.1 #8 0x00007fff0e45767e in ZXing::QRCode::Detector::Detect(ZXing::BitMatrix const&, bool) () from /usr/lib/libZXingCore.so.1 #9 0x00007fff0e45bc94 in ZXing::QRCode::Reader::decode(ZXing::BinaryBitmap const&) const () from /usr/lib/libZXingCore.so.1 #10 0x00007fff0e3f80ff in ZXing::MultiFormatReader::read(ZXing::BinaryBitmap const&) const () from /usr/lib/libZXingCore.so.1 #11 0x00007fff3c127a31 in KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::decodeZxing(QImage const&, QFlags<KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::BarcodeType>, KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::Result&) const () from /usr/lib/ libKPimItinerary.so.5 #12 0x00007fff3c12802e in KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::decodeIfNeeded(QImage const&, QFlags<KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::BarcodeType>, KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::Result&) const () from /usr/lib/ libKPimItinerary.so.5 #13 0x00007fff3c12832d in KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::decodeBinary(QImage const&, QFlags<KItinerary::BarcodeDecoder::BarcodeType>) const () from /usr/lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #14 0x00007fff3c148d40 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #15 0x00007fff3c14911f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #16 0x00007fff3c135a94 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #17 0x00007fff3c135ee6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #18 0x00007fff3c136225 in KItinerary::ExtractorEngine::extract() () from /usr/ lib/libKPimItinerary.so.5 #19 0x00007fff3c2ad59a in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/plugins/messageviewer/ bodypartformatter/messageviewer_bodypartformatter_semantic.so #20 0x00007ffff535bcaa in MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser::processType(KMime::Content*, MimeTreeParser::ProcessResult&, QByteArray const&) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #21 0x00007ffff535c3d1 in MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser::parseObjectTreeInternal(KMime::Content*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #22 0x00007ffff536153f in MimeTreeParser::MessagePart::parseInternal(KMime::Content*, bool) () from / usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #23 0x00007ffff53616c0 in MimeTreeParser::MimeMessagePart::MimeMessagePart(MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser*, KMime::Content*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #24 0x00007fff3c28b015 in ?? () from /usr/lib/qt/plugins/messageviewer/bodypartformatter/ messageviewer_bodypartformatter_application_gnupgwks.so #25 0x00007ffff535bcaa in MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser::processType(KMime::Content*, MimeTreeParser::ProcessResult&, QByteArray const&) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #26 0x00007ffff535c3d1 in MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser::parseObjectTreeInternal(KMime::Content*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #27 0x00007ffff535c7f0 in MimeTreeParser::ObjectTreeParser::parseObjectTree(KMime::Content*, bool) () from /usr/lib/libKF5MimeTreeParser.so.5 #28 0x00007ffff593fe05 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5MessageViewer.so.5 #29 0x00007ffff5940514 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5MessageViewer.so.5 #30 0x00007ffff594105f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libKF5MessageViewer.so.5 #31 0x00007ffff6be5b70 in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, int, int, void**) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #32 0x00007ffff6bf2b78 in QTimer::timeout(QTimer::QPrivateSignal) () from /usr/ lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #33 0x00007ffff6be63e5 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/ libQt5Core.so.5 --Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging-- #34 0x00007ffff75734f5 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #35 0x00007ffff757ce11 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/ lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #36 0x00007ffff6bb99c2 in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #37 0x00007ffff6c10d9d in QTimerInfoList::activateTimers() () from /usr/lib/ libQt5Core.so.5 #38 0x00007ffff6c1166a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #39 0x00007ffff33923ae in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/ libglib-2.0.so.0 #40 0x00007ffff33941c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #41 0x00007ffff3394201 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/ libglib-2.0.so.0 #42 0x00007ffff6c11a03 in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #43 0x00007ffff6bb84ec in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/ libQt5Core.so.5 #44 0x00007ffff6bc0326 in QCoreApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/ libQt5Core.so.5 #45 0x000055555555806a in ?? () #46 0x00007ffff65a4ee3 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #47 0x000055555555821e in ?? () (gdb)

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[arch-general] 2x 1440p displays not working on thunderbold dock anymore
by Ricardo Band 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Ahoi, I use Arch on a Thinkpad T480 with the Lenovo Thunderbold 3 dock. I've attached 2 1440p monitors to it and I was using them for a while now. For a few days or so I can't get them to work anymore. Usually I disable my Notebooks internal screen and enable the 2 1440p displays like this: ``` xrandr --output DP1-1 --mode 2560x1440 --refresh 144 xrandr --output eDP --off xrandr --output DP1-2 --mode 2560x1440 --refresh 144 --right-of DP1-1 ``` This used to work quite nicely. No idea if the refresh rate actually worked. I have no way to test that but the resolution sure did. Now when I do this I get this error: ``` xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed ``` I can only drive both displays at 1920x1080. When I increase the resolution to 2560x1440 I get this error and the higher resolution can't be set. I don't know why this doesn't work anymore. Could it be a driver issue? I've got a nvidia GPU with the proprietary driver and the integrated intel with the open source driver and it wouldn't be the first time intel or nvidia fucked their drivers up. - -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band xmpp://jabber@ricardo.band -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIyBAEBCgAdFiEEhyzgFNiV8yZuI1T5Gp1lfQa1gg4FAl189YYACgkQGp1lfQa1 gg6BaQ/2MbyhaCtK5uP7GC1Zads8KZ93pXSzrm5udreO/+z2ODW7jQe6Fy+0sSNY rkT8rcvQkylNwPyXyol3CbjXNDzxN17E2u9dJrrScIuXs/LcnfxtIAvlPToKsui1 H4JJbJKnLjZaUs0shrll82PJA4PXSe3t/t0hzflGK+Np+G1rm6Nc8y3Ev+cYkBt4 clW1sjEidHJN7lIfVsOcN72oeIhPJ0hO1JSV8E3lkLZ+78LYMKTf5ZKXO1E/2S5D fd2GOXYuvEJUZ9HBl0yqQTy0B/VGO7w0ui5z0DpvwtBLY9leAbD2pTmzAi3UkZeD MIcO7ZImt9N7rufgEkuUaM1/Qx6YZTh16+dWcKbFMUjASuCbz35Z5yvIprO7h/sW 8dRB4aCuq3M37Z4X8R1w65jkHV8EfrLuhyOFRZ/2FKGBzmwDa4V4fFbMH3fAtahJ uPjdszWVblzFRCnFTvwWXIRAK1dAEIgWMRbSoBMDcnuQxcG1LNaB9QnG5J0YkJAJ os+04Tsf6nRcA+/58SJdpd7BfTarQNEFsAY+5VHxGHgFJh1MnzXXbuVs13JlzYkI QmHTCa3OJ2TexlJzhBDyye7zGKbD4PxxKFiu3DKcUs+R3Ye30SdMzEki7s3VXejB vIbPfrqftWJwmUJIqyzgNFdf0/IfC465ikWtaUMxC4NeqZK+Pg== =xHOd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] High lag in graphical applications
by LuKaRo 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Hello everyone, I've got some serious lag in using graphical applications since Sunday. I was able to narrow it down quite a bit, but I can't find a solution. I'm using a ThinkPad P50s with Intel HD 520 and NVIDIA Quadro M500M graphics (but, AFAIK, only the Intel Graphics are used) with X11 and i3. Since Sunday, when using applications like thunar, xfce-terminal, firefox, thunderbird, ... every interaction (starting, clicking a menu, a menu item, sometimes even hovering) caused the whole GUI to freeze from ~5 secs to up to 30 secs (thunar seemed to be the worst, with folders opening in no less than 30 secs). However, scrolling lists, webpages, typing text, using terminal applications... worked with no lag. I ran multiple system updates every day, ensuring that my system was up-to-date, nothing helped. I tried switching to KDE then, noticing that while the old applications still caused the same lag, all KDE-Applications (KDE file manager etc.) worked with no lag. When switching from X11 to Wayland with KDE (or replacing i3 with sway), even the old applications (thunar, xfce-terminal, firefox, thunderbird, ...) work with nearly no lag. However, sometimes GUI interactions in thunderbird or firefox still cause high lag. When using XFCE, though, I couldn't find any noticeable lag. I tried downgrading the following packages (in that order): * mesa-vdpau (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1), lib32-mesa (19.1.6-1 -> 19.1.5-1), libva-mesa-driver (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1) * gtk3 (1:3.24.11-1 -> 1:3.24.10-1) * qt5-base (5.13.1-2 -> 5.13.0-7), qt5-declarative (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-graphicaleffects (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-imageformats (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-location (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-multimedia (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-quickcontrols2 (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-quickcontrols (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-script (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-sensors (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-speech (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-svg (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-tools (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webchannel (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webengine (5.13.1-2 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-webkit (5.212.0alpha3-4 -> 5.212.0alpha3-3), qt5-x11extras (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1), qt5-xmlpatterns (5.13.1-1 -> 5.13.0-1) * nvidia-utils (435.21-1 -> 430.40-2), nvidia (435.21-4 -> 430.40-5) * linux-headers (5.2.14.arch2-1 -> 5.2.4.arch1-1), linux-hardened-headers (5.2.14.a-1 -> 5.2.8.a-1), linux-firmware (20190815.07b925b-1 -> 20190717.bf13a71-1), linux-hardened (5.2.14.a-1 -> 5.2.8.a-1), linux (5.2.14.arch2-1 -> 5.2.4.arch1-1) * linux-firmware (20190717.bf13a71-1 -> 20190628.70e4394-1), linux (5.2.4.arch1-1 -> 5.1.16.arch1-1), linux-hardened (5.2.8.a-1 -> 5.1.16.a-1), linux-hardened-headers (5.2.8.a-1 -> 5.1.16.a-1), linux-headers (5.2.4.arch1-1 -> 5.1.16.arch1-1) * mesa (19.1.6-2 -> 19.1.5-1) And did a reboot after each step. However, none of them changed anything. Any ideas? Why does switching from i3 to KDE or even XFCE resolve the issue (partially)? Why does switching from X11 to Wayland do so as well? I'd like to continue using i3 without lag. Thanks in advance, Lukas

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[arch-general] The font and themes used in terminal and editor
by CSO＠riseup.net 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Hello, Does anyone know what kind of font and color themes used in this terminal and editor setting, https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1e2F0A123h331c1G0L0R/SadBart.gif, ? Thanks Mark

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[arch-general] How to get the app folders in Gnome?
by Manuel Reimer 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Hello, I've updated Gnome just now. 3.34 should have the new "app folders" feature by just dragging application icons onto each other. This doesn't work for me. Is there some build error on Arch? Why is this feature missing? Thanks in advance Manuel

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[arch-general] Linux 5.3 - Virtualbox 5.2.32 modules fail to build - upstream bug opened
by David C. Rankin 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

All, Note to anyone is still using Virtualbox 5.2.32 (that can't move to Ver. 6 due to headless behavior with Windows guests), on update to Linux 5.3, virtualbox models fail to build using dkms. Upstream bug filed: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/18949 (make.log attached to bug report) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?
by Amish 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Hello, Recently logwatch package was updated. The cron file (from cron.daily) was removed and replaced with systemd.timer. But logwatch.timer is not activated automatically, which means the users who use logwatch will stop getting daily "auditing" emails and may not realize this for some days that emails from logwatch have stopped coming. This requires manual intervention to activate logwatch.timer. Since keeping an eye on logs is very important thing to do, this should be put as NEWS item. (in my opinion). Additionally, current logwatch.service calls "/usr/sbin/logwatch" alone. Which means by default it sends output to systemd journal. (whereas cron based timer used to send an email to root which could be an alias to real email address) To preserve the existing behaviour, the ExecStart line should be changed to ExecStart=/usr/bin/logwatch --output mail" Even if this is not made a news item, this email is also sent to alert those users who use logwatch that they need to take following actions: 1) pacman -Syu 2) cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/logwatch.service.d/local.conf [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/usr/bin/logwatch --output mail 3) systemctl daemon-reload 4) systemctl --now enable logwatch.timer Regards, Amish.

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[arch-general] Fwd: High lag in graphical applications
by Yurii Kolesnykov 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

For some GPU stress-tests you may use furmark, it's provided by `gputest` in AUR. чт, 19 вер. 2019, 19:23 користувач L. Rose <lists(a)lrose.de> пише: > > > On 19 September 2019 17:29:05 CEST, hw <hw(a)adminart.net> wrote: > > > >At least NVIDIA graphics cards can go bad in that they can cause > >temporary > >hangs, accompanied by log messages, indicating that the GPU is damaged. > > Where would I find such logs? I couldn't find anything in dmesg so far. > > >So perhaps if you were to stress-test the graphics card, or if you were > >to use > >the other card instead, you might be able to see some interesting > >results. > > What kind of stress test comes to your mind? >

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[arch-general] New install second drive issue
by pete 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Morning folks I have just done a complete new install on a new drive , That is all working now fine . My problem comes when trying to include another drive on the system , it just refuses to boot fully , I get a message unable to mount sda2 now sda2 mounts , /dev/sda2 on / type xfs (rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota) when just the one drive is in the system but as soon as i connect it refuses to to boot fully and drops out to an emergency shell that is locked up solid i. I have set the working drive in the bios this is an older motherboard with an AMD Phenome quad core CPU . $ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 1.8T 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot ├─sda2 8:2 0 40G 0 part / ├─sda3 8:3 0 4G 0 part [SWAP] └─sda4 8:4 0 1.8T 0 part /home sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom the drive order in the bios is set correctly not that it makes much difference these days . I am stuck right now i need to be able to include the old drive to recover data from it . Any ideas folks .. Pete .

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[arch-general] Time and date in 24 hour time can this be fixed?
by matthew dyer 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hi all, I am using arch linux with orca and mate desktop and have a strange problem or bug or something and was wondering if there was a way to fix it or work around it. I am using the America/New_York time zone so my time shows correctly at least according to orca. Orca gives me the time in 12 Hour format which is what I want, but when I look at an email such as in thunderbird, the time and date are given 24 hour format for example, 2019/14/09 11:00 rather than the u.s format I am used to. I read through the arch wiki and could not find anything on how to change the time format on the clock. Any ideas on how to change this? HW clock is set to UTC if that has anything to do with it. I tried to set it to locale time, but that messed up the system clock so had to switch it back. Thanks all. BTW, if this is sooted better for the orca list please let me know/. Thanks again all. Matthew

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[arch-general] NFS server question
by Genes Lists 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

All: For client tracking and recovery on reboots NFS provides some mechanisms. My understanding is that nfsdcld is considered replaced by nfsdcltrack. However, while there is a system service unit for nfsdcld there is nothing for nfsdcltrack. The binary for both is available. Only the systemd service file is missing. Further nfs-server service file hardcodes nfsdcld with no option to use nfsdcltrack instead. What is the modern preferred way for the server to do client tracking? Thanks, gene

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[arch-general] Copy remote command server to clipboard
by Maykel Franco 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Hi, I like copy command return server in my clipboard with xclip. Is possible? For example: ssh 192.168.0.3 # pwd /home/archlniux (I like copy the command return to my clipboard archlinux desktop client) Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] Tool monitoring activity users Openvpn in Archlinux
by Maykel Franco 11 Sep '19

11 Sep '19

Hi guys, is there any way to detect the activity of users connected by the VPN with openvpn in archlinux? the idea is to know if they are working or not from at home in vpn? Any ideas?

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[arch-general] Input, Uinput, and udev problems with user access
by Storm Dragon 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Howdy, Up until yesterday evening, the following setup would allow the Fenrir screen reader to access the tools it needs to read without root access in terminal emulators like Xterm: groupadd --system input groupadd --system uinput echo 'KERNEL==\"event*\", NAME=\"input/%k\", MODE=\"660\", GROUP=\"input\"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input.rules echo 'KERNEL==\"uinput\", SUBSYSTEM==\"misc\", OPTIONS+=\"static_node=uinput\", TAG+=\"uaccess\", GROUP=\"uinput\"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-fenrirscreenreader.rules Now, however, while it can still read the screen, the keyboard does nothing. Has something changed, and if so, what do I need to do differently to get it working again? Thanks, Storm --

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[arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly
by Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

Dear list, When I upgrade the packages, from time to time I receive this error information: __Creating temporary files...,__ __error: command failed to execute correctly__ I checked on-line and it seems that I shall look for more error information in the log files. But I don't know where to start. Could you point me to the log files that I shall look into? Thank you. Yours sincerely, Xianwen PS: Below is the entire message from pacman / yaourt. :: Processing package changes... ( 1/20) installing python-html2text [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 2/20) upgrading bookworm [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 3/20) upgrading qpdf [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 4/20) upgrading cups-filters [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 5/20) upgrading foomatic-db [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 6/20) upgrading foomatic-db-nonfree [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 7/20) upgrading fvwm [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 8/20) upgrading gap [########################################################################################################################] 100% ( 9/20) upgrading libkdegames [########################################################################################################################] 100% (10/20) upgrading kbreakout [########################################################################################################################] 100% (11/20) upgrading libnm [########################################################################################################################] 100% (12/20) upgrading libraw [########################################################################################################################] 100% (13/20) upgrading libreoffice-fresh [########################################################################################################################] 100% (14/20) upgrading libreoffice-fresh-en-gb [########################################################################################################################] 100% (15/20) upgrading libreoffice-fresh-nb [########################################################################################################################] 100% (16/20) upgrading libreoffice-fresh-nn [########################################################################################################################] 100% (17/20) upgrading libwbclient [########################################################################################################################] 100% (18/20) upgrading networkmanager [########################################################################################################################] 100% (19/20) upgrading smbclient [########################################################################################################################] 100% (20/20) upgrading samba [########################################################################################################################] 100% :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/9) Reloading system bus configuration... (2/9) Compiling GSettings XML schema files... (3/9) Updating icon theme caches... (4/9) Reloading system manager configuration... (5/9) Creating temporary files... error: command failed to execute correctly (6/9) Reloading device manager configuration... (7/9) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... (8/9) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (9/9) Updating the MIME type database... No database errors have been found!

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[arch-general] Recommend new package : Postfix and MTA-STS (RFC8461)
by Genes Lists 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Topic: Email Suggest: New package for officia repo [2] MTA-STS is taking off and the major email providers are supporting it. Details are described in RFC8461 [1] from Sep 2018. As of now it has support by Google (gmail), yahoo, comcast, hotmail and others. MTA-STS is a new standard that aims to improve the security of SMTP by enabling domain names to opt into strict transport layer security mode that requires authentication (with valid public certificates) and encryption (TLS). There are 2 components to this (a) Sending: Making email server advertise mta-sts (b) Receivng: Postfix needs policy daemon (a) is pretty straightforward to set up, (b) requires a daemon to support the policy for incoming mail. It would be pretty awesome if someone would think about an offocial postfix-mta-sts-resolve package [2]. Postfix can use this daemon - see some discussion on this here [5] where Wietse got involved as well. There is an AUR package but it is quite out of date and I think this would actually be better to be in the official repos if someone was interested in taking it on. Probably as an optional package for postfix This is important for any business use and of course for anyone running their own mail server on Arch. Over time it is likely that any server which does not turn this on at least for sending may find their email being disadvantaged. There are several places where this is discussed in more detail - here's a couple for convenience [3]. Thanks, gene [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8461 [2] https://github.com/Snawoot/postfix-mta-sts-resolver [3] https://weekly-geekly.github.io/articles/424961/index.html https://www.hardenize.com/blog/mta-sts https://www.uriports.com/blog/mta-sts-explained/ https://starttls-everywhere.org/ [5] http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/MTA-STS-when-td95086.html

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[arch-general] Nvidia HDMI Audio as Kernel Parameter
by Ali Emre Gülcü 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, I am using plain linux kernel 5.2.13 with proprietary nvidia driver 435.21 on my Nvidia Optimus (UHD 630 + 1050 Ti) notebook. Nothing fancy here and everything is up to date but in order to utilize HDMI audio over Nvidia card, I have to use this fix: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#No_audio_over_H… This fix works. However either I need to manually execute those commands every time I boot (this causes X to restart) or I need to make a systemd service out of them and enable it to work on every boot (I got the idea from Nvidia forums). But systemd service sometimes makes X fail to start. So I was wondering if there is any kernel parameter with the same effect which I can apply BEFORE or DURING loading nvidia modules by simply adding it to boot options. Thanks in advance -- Ali Emre Gülcü

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[arch-general] Bios Raid (Fake Raid) and Virtual Raid (Software Raid)
by Kelly Rogers 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, Can you tell me what is capable to do Arch Linux: Bios Raid (Fake Raid) and Virtual Raid (Software Raid)? Thank you!

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[arch-general] Print Woes
by Storm Dragon 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Howdy, A few updates ago, cups stopped working with my printer. It said the ppd file was corrupted, but I litterally printed something right before the update then it broke right after. I added cups and hplip to a new computer with a fresh install of Arch, and have gone through localhost:631, system-config-printer, and hp-setup -i <printerIP>, and none of these work with differing levels of error messages. They all boil down to the same thing though. The process goes just fine, it detects the printer on each method I have tried, but when I hit the final add button, it says it was unable to copy the ppd file. Out of curiosity, I copied the ppd file from /usr/share/... myself but that did no good either. About the closest I have gotten is, with the cups web interface, after hitting add printer, it does show up briefly, but it will not actually print anything. As soon as I close the web interface, it goes away. Also, the web interface just reloads the final add page with all the boxes filled in, but never actually says it was successfully added, and clicking on the printers links shows no printers found. It's an HP Deskjet 2600 series. I hope I have given enough information. Printers are not something I am very good with, but hopefully this is enough to be able to trouble shoot it.. Thanks for any help, :) Storm --

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Re: [arch-general] sudo
by Adrián Benítez Merino 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sudo#Using_visudo El dom., 1 sept. 2019 16:47, adérito <aderito.carvalho(a)sapo.pt> escribió: > Hello judje how do i edit sudoers with visudo in nano? > > Enviado do Correio para Windows 10 > >

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[arch-general] sudo
by adérito 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

Hello judje how do i edit sudoers with visudo in nano? Enviado do Correio para Windows 10

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[arch-general] Arch Linux meetup at CCCamp19 22nd of August
by Morten Linderud 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Yo! Chaos Communication Camp is happening the upcoming week and as with any CCC event we have Arch team members attending. Jelle, shibumi, coderobe, alad, david and me hanging around different assemblies. I have registered a meetup, similar to the one we did at 35C3, on Thursday 22nd of August 19:00. The plan is to have 2-3 short talks. So far we have planned one where Jelle talks about contributing to Arch, and I'll have one talking about Arch Linux and reproducible builds. If you have a suggestion feel free to email me. After this we will try have a Q&A/Community discussion session like during congress. It worked well and people seemed to enjoy it the last time. Link to the event: https://events.ccc.de/camp/2019/wiki/Session:Arch_Linux_Meetup I also packaged Arch Linux stickers. A lot of them, so come find me :) -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[arch-general] Orphaning some packages
by NicoHood 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

Hey guys! I maintain a few packages that I do not use anymore myself. I would like to orphan those, as I currently do not have time to test them, especially on major version upgrades. I want to keep the quality of our packages and hope that somebody else can take over the following packages. Otherwise I will move them to the AUR. * python-gitdb * python-gitpython * python-gnupg * python-pyusb * python-smmap * python-utils * python-progressbar Cheers Nico

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