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[arch-general] aws-sdk-cpp-git: cmake issues compiling proograms for it
by Jeanette C. 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Hey hey, I have already posted a comment on AUR for the package in question, and so apparently had someone else in October of last year. Is, by any chance, someone using this API/SDK? Is there maybe a simple fix/workaround for the CMake issue? The issue is that, with the simplest setup and code - CMakeLists.txt taken from amazon's examples on GitHub, the following error is returned: *** cmake output *** ... CMake Error at /lib64/cmake/AWSSDK/AWSSDKConfig.cmake:122 (message): AWS SDK for C++ headers found, but we were unable to locate the binaries. Have you deleted or moved it? Please make sure header files and binaries are located in INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/INCLUDE_DIR/ and INSTALL_ROOT_DIR/LIB_DIR/[PLATFORM_PREFIX]/[Debug|Config|OtherConfigs] ... *** End of cmake output *** This suggests that files are looked for in something like: /usr/lib/x86_64/library.a whereas files are installed as: /usr/lib/library.a Since this looks rather sensible annd the package has been around for a while, I think that I might be the bug here. :) So if someone can help, I'd appreciate it very much. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s You know I'm one of a kind, There'll never be another me <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] Problems compiling big projects from AUR
by Jeanette C. 13 Apr '19

13 Apr '19

Hey hey, even after my recent hardware upgrade I still notice issues compiling big AUR packages from github, like aws-sdk-cpp-git or mysql. This does not happen when cloning the git repository without AUR and compile using the package's build system. I notice that the AUR compile seems to go quicker. I know that I had the make option -j 4 turned on a while ago, but switched it off again. The thing that happens is for the AUR build process to swap massive amounts of data, grinding the system almost to a halt and finally failing without much of a reason. Nothing typically source code or linkage related. My system has 4GB of RAM and 4GB of swap, with a swapiness of 10. Any ideas? Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s E-mail my heart and say our love will never die... <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] problems configuring moinmoin wikifarm
by shadrock uhuru 12 Apr '19

12 Apr '19

hi everyone i am trying to install moinmoin as a wiki farm using nginx as the webserver, the nginx is configured and i can acces the welcome page with https, i mainly followed the arch wiki page for moinmoin' as arch wiki only gives configuration for a single wiki instance i have also use information from other sources i would like to access the wiki farm at http://cleopatra.mydomain/moin/, e.g. http://cleopatra.mydomain/moin/wiki1 http://cleopatra.mydomain/moin/wiki2 when i go to the page it returns Not Found <p>No wiki configuration matching the URL found!</p> as the error logs show the server is trying to access file from /srv/nginx/html instead of from /srv/nginx/moin could someone look over everything i've done and point out where my errors are, i've included the config files i've changed and the bash script i used to configure the wiki, i would also welcome suggestions if the script could do with improving. thanks shadrock =========== /var/log/nginx/error.log 2019/04/11 11:16:39 [error] 3020#3020: *1 open() "/srv/nginx/html/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.2.1.228, server: cleopatra.mydomain, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0", host: "cleopatra.mydomain" 2019/04/11 12:04:29 [error] 3020#3020: *3 open() "/srv/nginx/html/favicon.ico" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.2.1.228, server: cleopatra.mydomain, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/2.0", host: "cleopatra" =========== =========== /etc/nginx/nginx.conf http { # Logging Settings access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; index index.php index.html index.htm; # include sites-enabled/*; # See Server blocks ssl_ciphers "EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH"; ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Redirect to HTTPS server { listen 80; server_name cleopatra.mydomain; return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } # HTTPS server server { #listen 80; # Uncomment to also listen for HTTP requests listen 443 ssl http2; # HTTP/2 is only possible when using SSL listen [::]:443 ssl http2; server_name cleopatra.mydomain; # root /srv/nginx/html; ssl_certificate ssl/server.crt; ssl_certificate_key ssl/server.key; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m; ssl_session_timeout 5m; #error_page 404 /404.html; # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html # error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /srv/nginx/html; } location / { root /srv/nginx/html; } location /moin/ { uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/moin.sock; include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params; } location ~ /moin/moin_static[0-9]+/(.*) { alias /srv/nginx/moin/static/htdocs/$1; } location /moin/favicon.ico { alias /srv/nginx/moin/static/htdocs/favicon.ico; } } } =========== =========== moin.wsgi ## included only changed parameters # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- import sys, os sys.path.insert(0, '/srv/nginx/moin') from MoinMoin.web.serving import make_application application = make_application(shared='/srv/nginx/moin/static/htdocs') =========== =========== moinmoin_install.sh #!/bin/bash ## ./moinmoin.sh 2>&1 | tee moinmoin.debug . ../../conf/functions.sh INSTALLBASE=`pwd` SERVERBASE=/srv/nginx ## if restarting scripts disable active services for MYSERVICE in nginx moinmoin do if systemctl status $MYSERVICE | grep --quiet 'active (running)'; then echo echo stopping $MYSERVICE service systemctl stop $MYSERVICE && systemctl disable $MYSERVICE fi done pacman -S --needed nginx-mainline python2 ## alarm is a non privileged user /bin/su -c "aurman -S --needed moinmoin uwsgi-plugin-python2 perl-html-wikiconverter-moinmoin" - alarm # nginx ## from function.sh -- backup if no backup file found or restore backup file if found backup_restore_file "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" systemctl enable nginx systemctl start nginx systemctl status nginx echo echo creating ssl keys echo mkdir -p /etc/nginx/ssl cd /etc/nginx/ssl openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:4096 -keyout server.key -out server.crt chmod 400 server.key chmod 444 server.crt cd $INSTALLBASE ## use /srv/nginx as the server base cp -r /usr/share/nginx /srv/ chown -R http:http $SERVERBASE ## my nginx.conf cp ../nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf echo echo checking nginx config file echo nginx -t WIKIFARM=$SERVERBASE/moin mkdir -p $WIKIFARM # Wikifarm creation mkdir -p $WIKIFARM/master # master wiki instance folder, to be cloned later mkdir -p $WIKIFARM/users # where all the users data will be mkdir -p $WIKIFARM/cache # where all the cache and sessions data will be cp /usr/share/moin/config/wikifarm/farmconfig.py $WIKIFARM/ cp /usr/share/moin/config/wikifarm/mywiki.py $WIKIFARM/master.py cp -R /usr/share/moin/data $WIKIFARM/master cp -R /usr/share/moin/underlay $WIKIFARM/master # static stuff like logos and themes will be placed here cp -Rp /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/web/static $WIKIFARM # create wiki instance folder and configuration from the master one ## include following section in farmconfig.py cat << EOF > /tmp/pat ##lab_public## ("public", r"^http://cleopatra\.mydomain/moin/public/.*$"), ##lab_public!! ##lab_reserved## ("reserved", r"^https?://cleopatra\.mydomain/moin/reserved/.*$"), ##lab_reserved!! EOF awk '/^wikis = /{print;f=1;next;}/^\]/{print;f=0;next;}f!=1{print}' $WIKIFARM/farmconfig.py | sed '/wikis = \[/r /tmp/pat' > /tmp/newfile mv /tmp/newfile $WIKIFARM/farmconfig.py rm /tmp/pat sed -i "s;#url_prefix_static = .*$;url_prefix_static = '$WIKIFARM/static/htdocs';" $WIKIFARM/farmconfig.py echo 'tz_offset = 1.0' >> $WIKIFARM/farmconfig.py cp -Rp $WIKIFARM/master/* $WIKIFARM/public # cp $WIKIFARM/master.py $WIKIFARM/public.py cp -Rp $WIKIFARM/master/* $WIKIFARM/reserved # cp $WIKIFARM/master.py $WIKIFARM/reserved.py for WIK in public reserved do cat << EOF > $WIKIFARM/${WIK}.py # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- from farmconfig import FarmConfig class Config(FarmConfig): sitename = u'${WIK}' # [Unicode] interwikiname = u'${WIK}' # [Unicode] page_front_page = u"${WIK}_Start_Page" data_dir = '$WIKIFARM/${WIK}/data/' data_underlay_dir = '$WIKIFARM/${WIK}/underlay' EOF done #Uwsgi cp /usr/share/moin/server/moin.wsgi $WIKIFARM #sed -i 's/$^.*SGIScriptAlias$.*$/#\1/' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi #sed -i "/^#.*WSGIScriptAlias/ a\WSGIScriptAlias /reserved $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi" $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi #sed -i "/^#.*WSGIScriptAlias/ a\WSGIScriptAlias /public $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi" $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi #sed -i 's/daemonname/moin/' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi #sed -i 's/user=someuser/user=http/' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi #sed -i 's/group=somegroup/group=http/' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi sed -i '/\/path\/to\/farmconfigdir/s/^#//' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi sed -i "s-/path/to/farmconfigdir-$WIKIFARM-" $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi sed -i 's/application = make_application/s/shared=True/shared=False/' $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi cat << EOF > $WIKIFARM/uwsgi.ini [uwsgi] socket = /run/uwsgi/moin.sock chmod-socket = 660 plugin = python2 chdir = $WIKIFARM/ wsgi-file = $WIKIFARM/moin.wsgi master workers = 3 max-requests = 200 harakiri = 60 die-on-term EOF # fix security on folders chown -R http:http $WIKIFARM chmod -R ug+rwX $WIKIFARM chmod -R o-rwx $WIKIFARM # service file for MoinMoin with uwsgi cat << EOF > /etc/systemd/system/moinmoin.service [Unit] Description=Start uwsgi for moinmoin wiki After=network.target [Service] Type=simple User=http ExecStart=/usr/bin/uwsgi --ini $WIKIFARM/uwsgi.ini [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target EOF echo echo restarting services echo systemctl enable moinmoin systemctl start moinmoin systemctl restart nginx systemctl status nginx moinmoin echo echo creating wiki create/delete scripts echo cat << EOF > /usr/local/bin/create_wiki #!/bin/bash WIKIFARM=/srv/nginx/moin CONFIGFILE=/srv/nginx/moin/farmconfig.py CREATE='' echo echo the following wikis will be created echo "\$@" echo for NEWWIKI in "\$@" do if grep -q \$NEWWIKI \$CONFIGFILE; then echo \$NEWWIKI exists in \$CONFIGFILE!! skipping creation else cp -Rp \$WIKIFARM/master/* \$WIKIFARM/\$NEWWIKI # cp \$WIKIFARM/master.py \$WIKIFARM/\${NEWWIKI}.py cat << INNEREOF > \$WIKIFARM/\${NEWWIKI}.py # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*- from farmconfig import FarmConfig class Config(FarmConfig): sitename = u'\${NEWWIKI}' # [Unicode] interwikiname = u'\${NEWWIKI}' # [Unicode] page_front_page = u"\${NEWWIKI}_Start_Page" data_dir = '\$WIKIFARM/\${NEWWIKI}/data/' data_underlay_dir = '\$WIKIFARM/\${NEWWIKI}/underlay' INNEREOF INTRO_BLOCK=" ##lab_\${NEWWIKI}## ("\$NEWWIKI", r"^http://cleopatra\.mydomain/\$NEWWIKI/.*\$"), ##lab_\${NEWWIKI}!! " # gawk -i inplace -v x="\$INTRO_BLOCK" '{print} /wikis = \[/{print x}' \$CONFIGFILE cat \$CONFIGFILE | awk -v x="\$INTRO_BLOCK" '{print} /wikis = \[/{print x}' > nefil && mv newfil \$CONFIGFILE CREATE='y' fi done if "[\$CREATE" == 'y']; then chown -R http:http \$WIKIFARM chmod -R ug+rwX \$WIKIFARM chmod -R o-rwx \$WIKIFARM systemctl restart nginx moinmoin fi EOF chmod 744 /usr/local/bin/create_wiki cat << EOF > /usr/local/bin/delete_wiki #!/bin/bash WIKIFARM=/srv/nginx/moin CONFIGFILE=/srv/nginx/moin/farmconfig.py DELETE='' echo echo the following wikis will be deleted echo "\$@" echo read -r -p "Are you sure? [y/N] " ANS if [[ "\$ANS" =~ ^(yes|y)\$ ]] then for WIKINAME in "\$@" do echo checking if \$WIKINAME wiki exist if [ -d \$WIKIFARM/\$WIKINAME ]; then DELETE=Y echo deleting $WIKINAME rm -r \$WIKIFARM/$WIKINAME else echo \$WIKIFARM/\$WIKINAME does not exist!! skipping fi if [ -e \$WIKIFARM/\${WIKINAME}.py ]; then DELETE=Y rm \$WIKIFARM/\${WIKINAME}.py else echo \$WIKIFARM/\${WIKINAME}.py does not exist!! skipping fi if grep -q \$WIKINAME \$CONFIGFILE; then sed -i '/^##lab_'"\$WIKINAME"'##/,/^##lab_'"\$WIKINAME"'!!/d' \$CONFIGFILE DELETE='Y' else echo \$WIKINAME not found in \$CONFIGFILE!! skipping fi done fi if ["\$DELETE" == 'Y']; then systemctl restart nginx moinmoin fi EOF chmod 744 /usr/local/bin/delete_wiki echo echo moinmoin wiki installed echo ===========

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[arch-general] boot from install medium - mounting additional partition refused
by Friedrich Strohmaier 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hi archers, today i was booting from the install medium dd'ed on an usb drive. As there is space left on the medium I created one more partition to load or save stuff from the system booted. Surprisingly I cannot boot: root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb3 already mounted or mount point busy. I could not find an obvious reason for that: /dev/sdb is the usb device. root@archiso ~ # lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT loop0 7:0 0 489.4M 1 loop /run/archiso/sfs/airootfs sda 8:0 0 186.3G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part └─sda2 8:2 0 10G 0 part sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk /run/archiso/bootmnt ├─sdb1 8:17 1 1.1G 0 part ├─sdb2 8:18 1 64M 0 part └─sdb3 8:19 1 792M 0 part root@archiso ~ # findmnt /dev/sdb3 1 root@archiso ~ # root@archiso ~ # findmnt /mnt 1 root@archiso ~ # Does anybody know how to nail down this one? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] steam-native can't find libpcre.so.3, breaks embedded browser
by Alexandre Oliveira 08 Apr '19

08 Apr '19

It seems like the steam-native package is broken as of March 21, according to this bug report[1]. Installing libselinux and pcre seems to fix the issue. I don't know if it's a good idea to write about it here, but I'd like to get this patch mainstreamed, instead of having to install another package to workaround this bug. [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62095?project=5&string=steam-native-runtime

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[arch-general] PAM complains about "expired account"
by Farid A 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi, I set up two-key authentication for SSH on my desktop through pam_oauth.so It used to work perfectly when connecting from my laptop, until recently it suddenly stopped. The logs indiacte the following error: |mars 21 14:11:22 arch sshd[26209]: error: PAM: User account has expired for username from 192.168.0.254| Wherearch is the hostname, and username is my username. My account is not expired, here is the output of chage -l: |Last password change : mars 21, 2019 Password expires : never Password inactive : never Account expires : never Minimum number of days between password change : 0 Maximum number of days between password change : 99999 Number of days of warning before password expires : 7 | |I have no idea what this could be, is there a PAM-internal expiration concept? Reddit could not offer any help... Thanks in advance for any help! | || ||

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[arch-general] Dbeaver is ready to leave community-testing
by Farid A 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hi, I was told this mailing list was the best to discuss community-testing packages. I've downloaded dbeaver-6.0.0.1 from the repo, and can confirm the package is entirely function (I tried most drivers and functionalities). Moreover, the version currently available on community is rather outdated. Thanks for your time, Farid

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[arch-general] KDEPim failures after today's upgrade
by SET 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hello, 1. knotes 18.12.3-1 does not start at all knotes: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libknotesprivate.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN7Akonadi10Collection21markAttributesChangedEv 2. kontact 18.12.3-1 often crashes after a few seconds. When it does not, there is no knotes tab. No better result after reboot. Thanks for looking into that.

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[arch-general] Update some pkg sources to use https:// when available
by Justin Capella 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

https://www.archlinux.org/todo/use-https-in-the-url-field/ https://gist.github.com/b1tninja/9a1184a9713a16e77c7ae65d1829d589 git clone --depth=1 --no-checkout "https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git" pkgs; pushd pkgs; git reset --hard HEAD; git checkout HEAD -- */trunk/PKGBUILD; doms=($(grep -PRho '(?s)(?<=source=$).*?(?=$\s*$)' | grep -Po '(?:((?:(?:git|svn|cvs)+)?http://)(.*?)(?=/|$))' | cut -d "/" -f 3- | sort -u)) for dom in ${doms[@]}; do (echo "" | openssl s_client -verify_return_error -verify 2 -verify_hostname $dom -servername $dom -showcerts -connect $dom:443 > $dom.crt) && echo $dom; done | tee https.txt sed -ri 's/http:\/\/('$(sed -r 's/\|$//' <(tr "\n" "|" < https.txt))')/https:\/\/\1/g' $(find -name PKGBUILD) No I don't think its super elegant-- it works often, and afaik doesn't introduce errors--- parsing bash scripts is a pita.

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[arch-general] kernel compilation
by Pascal 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

hello members, I'm not used to compiling and therefore even less to compiling the kernel.... I followed the instructions given by this page <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel/Arch_Build_System>. after compilation, if I modify/patch file src/linux-4.19/block/blk-core.c, do I have to replace the kernel ? the kernel and all its modules ? or just the module concerned by the change (if it concerns a module) ? regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] Mutt with Icloud
by siefke_listen＠web.de 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hello, have someone mutt with Icloud at work and can share the config? I use google and try and try. The login is no problem, but I can not write an email. my config: set from = "Silvio Siefke <>" yes email set folder = imaps://imap.mail.me.com:993 set spoolfile = +INBOX set postponed = +Drafts set record = +"Sent Messages" set imap_user = "my email" set imap_pass = "my password" set smtp_url = "smtp://$imap_user@smtp.mail.me.com:587" set smtp_pass = "my password" set ssl_force_tls = yes set ssl_starttls = yes set ssl_use_sslv3 = no set ssl_use_tlsv1 = no set ssl_use_tlsv1_1 = no set ssl_use_tlsv1_2 = yes set ssl_verify_dates = yes set ssl_verify_host = yes set imap_pipeline_depth = 0 set smtp_authenticators = 'gssapi:login' It would be great. Thank you. Silvio

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[arch-general] mutagen
by frederik＠ofb.net 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Hello Arch, Does anyone know why all the executables in "mutagen" suddenly developed a numeral "2" at the end of their names? I would have preferred the names to stay the same for the sake of backwards compatibility. I checked with "asp checkout python2-mutagen", as I learned to do recently, and I saw that the renaming seems to be due to the following lines in the PKGBUILD for script in {mid3{cp,iconv,v2},moggsplit,mutagen-{inspect,pony}}; do sed -e "s/${script}/${script}2/g" -i setup.py sed -e 's/python/&2/' -i "tools/${script}" mv -v "tools/${script}"{,2} mv -v "man/${script}"{,2}.1 done but there is no comment in the PKGBUILD, and I could not find any note in the Git log explaining the addition of those lines... Thanks, Frederick

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[arch-general] Arch Linux USB stick won't boot
by steve＠vwebr.net 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

Hello everyone, I tried installing archlinux-2019.03.01-x86_64.iso onto my Intel Compute Stick STCK1A8LFC, but got this at the very beginning when I tried booting a USB stick created by Rufus. https://imgur.com/a/nEjA248 <-- See picture at this link I did not experience the lack of booting the USB stick with any other distros I tried (about 6-7 others). They all booted fine and were created in Rufus the same way. BIOS setting is the same as others as well...UEFI shell disabled (that is a must), USB boot enabled, and Secure Boot disabled. There is no Legacy Boot/CSM option. Stuck on UEFI. See picture attached for what happens when I try to boot from the USB stick I created. Particulars... Hardware: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/86613/intel-compute-st… Screenshot of creation of Rufus USB stick (exact same method as others I did which all booted fine): https://imgur.com/a/AB11PSP <-- See picture at this link Thanks for any help you can provide. Steve Sybesma Brighton, CO USA

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[arch-general] Why has all reference to RAID setup been removed from Install page?
by David C. Rankin 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Over the past few years the Beginner's Guide has been removed and our Install wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide) has been whittled down to a mere outline. After the thread "Arch Linux USB stick won't boot", I decided to check the Install page to see if there were any relevant links that should have helped with that problem. Surprisingly there was nothing. There is no "Troubleshooting" section at all. Looking closer, now all links to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID#Installing_Arch_Linux_on_RAID are also removed which must be done between partitioning and formatting to install Arch to RAID. Shouldn't there be a note/link at the end of the the "Partition the disks" section "For installing Arch Linux on RAID"? It seems a quite a bit of "good" is gone from the Install guide. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Linux-api-headers out of date (4.17 vs 5.0)
by Jason Koch 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

Hi all It seems that allan@ has pushed some updates to bring the kernel up to 4.20, but they haven't yet showed up as a package. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pac… Is this an expected / known issue? Is there anything I can do to help? It seems like they are lagging the rest of the kernel packages. In any case, here is a patch which brings my headers up to date with my currently installed kernel version. ------------------------------------------------------ diff --git a/linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD b/linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD index 3d0fb90..4713905 100644 --- a/linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD +++ b/linux-api-headers/trunk/PKGBUILD @@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ # toolchain build order: linux-api-headers->glibc->binutils->gcc->binutils->glibc pkgname=linux-api-headers -pkgver=4.20.12 +pkgver=5.0.2 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace' arch=(any) url='http://www.gnu.org/software/libc' license=(GPL2) -source=( https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-${pkgver}.tar.{xz,sign}) -md5sums=('edd3015435d60598b99cf6aaf223710e' +source=( https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-${pkgver}.tar.{xz,sign}) +md5sums=('911065be61e90bc9afefd2c0ffa944c1' 'SKIP') validpgpkeys=('ABAF11C65A2970B130ABE3C479BE3E4300411886' # Linus Torvalds '647F28654894E3BD457199BE38DBBDC86092693E') # Greg Kroah-Hartman ------------------------------------------------------ I searched the forums and wiki, the only relevant piece of info I could find was - do not raise a bug for an out of date package. If I'm in the wrong place please let me know. Thanks Jason

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[arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz
by Adam Fontenot 17 Mar '19

17 Mar '19

Hi, It's now been about half a year since support for zstd landed in our packaging tools. I've been quietly using it for all my locally built packages since then with no issues. I think it would be worthwhile to have a discussion about whether to use zstd for officially built packages. Here is a brief summary of negatives and positives: Negatives: * Changing things takes time and might break someone's workflow. * Zstd -19 results in slightly larger files than xz -6 (default). Positives: * Change would be invisible to most users. * Would keep Arch Linux on top of the latest in packaging tech. * Updating would be much faster for most users. To expand on that last point: for reasonably fast connections, the additional time required to decompress xz compressed packages means that updating can actually take more time than it would for packages that are not compressed at all! Because zstd is designed to have very fast decompression, for a wide range of modern broadband connections zstd -19 is the fastest algorithm to download and decompress. For example, check out this compression test (with the Mozilla dataset): https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/unstable/ Or look at my local test with the most recent Firefox package: Tool Compression time Size Time to DL (100 Mbps) + decompress xz -6 5m 53s 49 MB 0m 21s zstd -19 6m 0s 53 MB 0m 6s So while xz and zstd compress in about the same amount of time and result in files of similar size, from the user's standpoint zstd results in much faster updates. Multiply this by a few hundred packages and you have a pretty substantial effect. I look forward to discussing this with you all. Cheers, Adam

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[arch-general] Window Decoration Budgi
by siefke_listen＠web.de 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Hello, I have installed new Arch Linux and now the Budgie Desktop imaging not the Widgets to close, minimize and maximize. I miss the complete window decoration. Have here someone a idea. Silvio

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[arch-general] What is a pacman "download library error"?
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Mar '19

10 Mar '19

Hi, installing a package with "pacman -U URL" fails. Downloading with "wget -q URL" and installing the file with "pacman -U" works. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ sudo pacman -U https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-… error: failed retrieving file 'lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds warning: failed to download https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-… error: 'https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-…': download library error [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ wget -q https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-… [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ sudo pacman -U lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... warning: lxpanel-0.10.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) lxpanel-0.10.0-1 [snip] The issue doesn't happen for another package, from another server. [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ sudo pacman -U http://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/community/os/x86_64/antiword-0.37-7-x86_6… loading packages... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) antiword-0.37-7 Total Installed Size: 0.52 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ sudo pacman -U https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-… error: failed retrieving file 'lxpanel-0.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com : Resolving timed out after 10000 milliseconds warning: failed to download https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-… error: 'https://mex.mirror.pkgbuild.com/community-testing/os/x86_64/lxpanel-0.10.0-…': download library error Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-cornflower,,-securityink,-pussytoes}}|cut -d\ -f2 5.0.arch1-1 4.19.25_rt16-0 4.19.23_rt13-0.1 4.19.15_rt12-0 4.18.16_rt9-1

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[arch-general] adding to capacity to /
by pete 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

Hi folks . i have a problem when i built this system i thought i had allowed enough space for the / partition but it seems now i was wrong . I do not really want to start again and rebuild the system . I have several spare drives lurking is it possible to add space to the partition by adding another drive mounting it as / .. Thanks Pete .

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[arch-general] IPC slowness
by frederik＠ofb.net 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Dear Arch, I've noticed a 20x slowdown on a simple IPC task on a couple of recently updated Arch systems. Here is a script to exhibit the problem: #!/bin/bash SCREEN=/usr/bin/screen $SCREEN -dmS x time $SCREEN -S x -X setenv A B $SCREEN -S x -X quit On my laptop, which is a slower Arch system, it takes about 0.4 seconds, with 0.2s for user and 0.2s for system. On a faster Arch system, it's 0.11s, 0.03s user and 0.09s system. On a *really* slow Arch system that hasn't been updated since August, it takes 0.015s (0.01s user and 0.00s system). On a Raspbian system it is 0.014s, and on a Debian-based virtual server it is 0.006s. In summary, the recent Arch systems are about 20x slower than the Debian systems for this command, but the August 2018 Arch laptop is just as fast. Any ideas what might be causing this? I tried to debug with 'strace -r -p' and it looks like most of the time is getting spent in a 'select' call. 0.000171 geteuid() = 1000 0.000075 getegid() = 1000 0.000080 select(1024, [3 4 5 6], [], NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [3]) 0.399534 fcntl(3, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY) = 0 0.000171 read(3, "\0gsm\4\0\0\0/dev/pts/33\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 12336) = 12336 0.000169 close(3) = 0 Thanks, Frederick

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[arch-general] The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source | WIRED
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

Good evening from Singapore, I am sharing some information technology news on open source cybersecurity tools developed by the NSA. Article: The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source Author: Lily Hay Newman News Media: WIRED.com Date Published: 5 Mar 2019 Time Published: 9:54 PM Link: https://www.wired.com/story/nsa-ghidra-open-source-tool/ ===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 [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] Any particular reason for daily imagemagick updates?
by David C. Rankin 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

All, More an observation than a problem, but is there any security reason for the flood of imagemagick updates, or are we basically getting nightlies every time a commit is pushed? Example: 5 hours Update to 7.0.8.32 arojas 27 hours Update to 7.0.8.31 arojas 2 days Update to 7.0.8.30 arojas 5 days Update to 7.0.8.29 arojas That's 4 in the past 5 days alone and two within 24 hours. It's small enough that updates are no issue, it just seems odd that the upstream release cycle is really that frequent. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Any objections to asking vim to fix PKGBUILD syntax highlighting?
by james harvey 06 Mar '19

06 Mar '19

I'd like to post the following issue at: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/new Wanted to see if there were any objections from staff, like if even though the error highlighting is technically wrong, if it's desired to be left as-is to discourage 'pkgname' being a single element array or 'SKIP' usage when inappropriate, etc. (Below is in github markup.) Subject: Incorrect error highlighting in syntax/PKGBUILD.vim `vimfiles/syntax/PKGBUILD.vim` highlights two things as errors that it should not. As an example: the [valid official PKGBUILD file for gdb](https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/PKGBUILD?h… pkgname=(gdb gdb-common) ... sha1sums=(... 'SKIP') Specifically, it highlights in: `pkgname` the `(`, ` `, and `)`; and `sha1sums` the `SKIP`. `pkgname` is usually not an array, but in the case of split packages, it can be an array. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgname `sha1sums` is quite often a sha, but it can be `SKIP`, especially when given a `.sig` file or a git repo. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#Integrity `SKIP` is valid in: `md5sums`, `sha1sums`, `sha224sums`, `sha256sums`, `sha384sums`, and `sha512sums`.

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[arch-general] pacman.log has no timezone information in timestamp
by Florian Wehner 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

Hi! I just used the /var/log/pacman.log for the first time to give me the last date-time I did a system upgrade ('starting full system upgrade' in the log). There is no time-zone info in the time-stamp. It's also not UTC. Does anyone know if this is by design or a bug? Example Output: [2019-03-01 16:59] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade Expected Output: [2019-03-01 16:59-05:00] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade It's confusing when you travel a lot or use 'datediff'. --Florian

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[arch-general] Impossible redirect console buffer to log
by Maykel Franco 03 Mar '19

03 Mar '19

HI, I playing with cccam for a proyect with decoder and I like stdout console log to specific log but not work... I try all: >> /var/log/test.log tee -a /var/log/test.log strace -p pid The command is: /usr/local/bin/CCcam -d 18:43:15.717 CCcam: ====================================================================== 18:43:15.717 CCcam: starting CCcam ====================================================================== 18:43:15.717 CCcam: online using nodeId 91dd747775a31f66 18:43:15.735 CCcam: create 1 cam device(s) 18:43:15.739 CCcam: readKeyfile: cannot open /var/keys/SoftCam.Key or not found 18:43:15.739 CCcam: readKeyfile: cannot open /var/keys/AutoRoll.Key or not found 18:43:15.739 CCcam: static cw not found or bad 18:43:15.746 CCcam: parsed 11522 entries from /var/etc/CCcam.prio 18:43:15.747 CCcam: added 1005 provider names from /var/etc/CCcam.providers 18:43:15.798 CCcam: added 11097 channel names from /var/etc/CCcam.channelinfo 18:43:15.798 CCcam: server started on port 47015 The binary program is: /usr/local/bin/CCcam: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=6ab44025c0a35a3 83d63f30e96e489f29df424b5, stripped I've tried everything, I do not know what to do to have that output write it to log. I've tried inclusy with tty, pts but it's impossible. Does somebody knows why it could be? with any other command / program works well with the only thing that I have managed to write to log is add: | stdbuf -oL but the program closes

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[arch-general] Problem with x11 keymap options
by Juha Kankare 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hey, I've been trying to get my locale to work correctly, adn everythign else seems to be roughly correct (if I set grp:alt_shift_toggle with setxkbmap I can switch between my keyboards), but the option grp:alt_shift_toggle doesn't work unless I run the command manually. I've checked ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc /etc/profile and /etc/bash.bashrc (I think that's what it's called). No setxkbmaps or localectls anywhere. Jounrals and logs seemto be of little help, showing that everything is loading fine. Can anyone help me find out what's wrong? -- Regards, Juha Kankare

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[arch-general] gpg - actions on keyserver fail
by Friedrich Strohmaier 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

Hi all, I've setup a new arch install on a VM where almost everything runs as expected. Only gpg talking to key servers fails. Trying a key search results in: ~]$ gpg --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net --search-keys Alltag gpg: error searching keyserver: Server indicated a failure gpg: keyserver search failed: Server indicated a failure pacman-key --refresh-keys shows similar error. ~]$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.13 libgcrypt 1.8.4 .. I made sure - pool.sks-keyservers.net is resolved - pool.sks-keyservers.net answers at port 11371 and 80 - gpg succeds key server interaction (--search-keys) from a neighbour VM (centOS gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22, libgcrypt 1.5.3) - gpg succeds key server interaction (--search-keys) from the host (debian, gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.18) - gpg succeds key server interaction (--search-keys) from my home box,(archlinux gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.13, libgcrypt 1.8.4) any further ideas how to nail down this? -- Friedrich

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Re: [arch-general] pacman.log has no timezone information in timestamp
by Juha Kankare 02 Mar '19

02 Mar '19

On 02/03/2019 02:23, ProgAndy wrote: > Am 02.03.19 um 01:12 schrieb mpan: >>> I just used the /var/log/pacman.log for the first time to give me the >>> last date-time I did a system upgrade ('starting full system upgrade' in >>> the log). There is no time-zone info in the time-stamp. It's also not >>> UTC. Does anyone know if this is by design or a bug? >> `pacman` uses local time of your system. Indeed it seems like an >> ommision. >> >> You may consider opening a feature request, so pacman.conf would allow >> either an option to include TZ in the logs (good idea) or setting custom >> time format (worse idea, as this would bind `pacman` codebase to the >> specific time formatting function). >> > > Meanwhile you can explicitly set the timezone to UTC when calling > pacman, that way the log will be consistent: > > $ TZ=UTC sudo pacman ... > > -- > ProgAndy For some reason, ' $ TZ=UTC sudo pacman' and '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman' both work, but '$ alias pacman="TZ=UTC pacman"' and then '$ sudo pacman' doesn't, even though (from what I know) it should be practically equal to '$ sudo TZ=UTC pacman'. Not sure why, but it was worth a shot. Any other way to automate this TZ=UTC for pacman so you don't have to type it every time. Maybe a wrapper script aliased to "upacman" or something? -- Regards, Juha Kankare

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[arch-general] HTTP spam from China
by Juha Kankare 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

I'm getting a lot of connections from China it seems. Whenever I check my journalctl, it's an andless wall of nginx complaints about a single ip spamming requests fro different php files. This happens with hundreds of ip's, and tens of times daily. Has anyone else been hit by this. I already made a shellscript to block all connections from China, but I'm curious as to why this happens, and if anyone else has had the same problem.

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[arch-general] /var/run vs /run in systemd unit files
by Genes Lists 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

I've noticed warnings from systemd about changing systemd files to reference /run instead of /var/run. I'm not sure if this is upstream or arch or both? I see it for things like: rpc-statd (from nfs-utils) dovecot saslauthd chronyd There may well be more. gene

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[arch-general] HDMI audio input - HDMI microphone
by Neven Sajko 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hi, I am designing a digital microphone that should send PCM (LPCM) data to a PC, and I am new to electronics. My first thought for the connection type to interface with the PC was of course USB, but then I figured that HDMI is an alternative more suited to digital audio data, and maybe simpler to work with. But how to get at audio data through HDMI on a Linux system, if it is even possible? I do not mind writing a kernel module if it would not be too complicated. My CPU is i5-8300H with Intel® UHD Graphics 630. Regards, Nsajko

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[arch-general] Crashes in FF 65.0.1
by Peter Nabbefeld 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hello, my Firefox windows randomly crash - is it because of Xorg, Xfce or Firefox? Does somebody else have noticed this behaviour? When I don't do anything at my laptop (and it seems to happen only if I don't do anything at it), after a while when I want to do sth. in the browser again, it doesn't work properly any more. It seems, as if the JavaScript engine would have crashed for the tab or window: As soon as I enter sth., the GUI is corrupted, i.e. layers are shown at the wrong place in an order I cannot do any editing any more etc. If I try to close the tab, the GUI stays unchanged or just the layers of the closed tab are somehow changed, but it seems as if the tab were still active. Re-opening the tab from history results in a blank window (though the correct is shown in the address bar). As I said, it seems to be because of the JavaScript engine, but I'm not sure, yet. Another issue I have is about atlassian: When I open a link, usually a login page is shown. Instead, FF crashes completely. Any idea? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] What update left mandb scrambled?
by David C. Rankin 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

This was odd, $ apropos memcmp memcmp: nothing appropriate. In fact, no man pages were available (checked 2 arch installs). I ended up having to rebuild the database with 'mandb' and now all is well. My question is -- what did this? It must have occurred in the last couple of days. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Libreoffice fresh not starting
by Friedrich Strohmaier 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

Hi community, Since Libreoffice 6.2.0 libreoffice-fresh refuses to start. No Problems with libreoffice-still. As I could not find other reports I assume this beeing a local problem. Message: Fatal exception: Signal 11 Stack: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3b804)[0x7f4125a5b804] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3ba25)[0x7f4125a5ba25] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(+0x37e00)[0x7f412578ae00] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3(+0x141e6)[0x7f4124ec41e6] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3(uno_type_any_assign+0x98)[0x7f4124ec3838] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0x6a9c1)[0x7f41228049c1] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0x6b735)[0x7f4122805735] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(_ZN3utl10ConfigItemC2ERKN3rtl8OUStringE14ConfigItemMode+0x7e)[0x7f41227f5c6e] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(+0xc640a)[0x7f412286040a] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libutllo.so(_ZN19SvtSysLocaleOptionsC1Ev+0x128)[0x7f41228619f8] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvcllo.so(_Z7InitVCLv+0x1a8)[0x7f4122483b68] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvcllo.so(_Z10ImplSVMainv+0x126)[0x7f4122485266] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so(soffice_main+0x99)[0x7f41259b63a9] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x102d)[0x55fd4308a02d] /usr/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf3)[0x7f4125777223] /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x106e)[0x55fd4308a06e] Bugreport: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/61701?project=1&string=libreoffice-fresh Any ideas on this? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] pambase update now requires explicit service files in /etc/pam.d/ - dovecot affected
by David C. Rankin 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

All, With the latest change to pambase, e.g. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pam… if you have services that rely on pam authentication, such as dovecot, etc.., you will find that your applications an no longer authenticate using pam until you install a specific pam service in /etc/pam.d for that application, e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dovecot#PAM_Authentication I recall seeing something about this change coming earlier, but this was the first update where something stopped working as a result. So add whatever additional files you require to /etc/pam.d/ Thankfully the journal messages are good in pointing out the problem. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] pambase in testing breaks email
by Genes Lists 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

pambase 20190105.1-1 caused bad failure for email. The error I saw immediately was from postfix failing to authenticate users via saslauthd which in turn blames pam. Downgrading back to 20171006-1 restores email funtioning ok. Logs say: saslauthd[22214]: pam_warn(smtp:auth): function=[pam_sm_authenticate] flags=0x8000 service=[smtp] terminal=[<unknown>] user=[lists] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[<unknown>] saslauthd[22214]: DEBUG: auth_pam: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication failure saslauthd[22214]: do_auth : auth failure: [user=lists] [service=smtp] [realm=] [mech=pam] [reason=PAM auth error]

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[arch-general] pambase - creating needed files for apps with normal user auth - pam_unix.so?
by David C. Rankin 24 Feb '19

24 Feb '19

All, After the pambased defaults change, I thought I had gotten everything fixed, today scanning to server via vsftpd issued: Feb 19 12:19:49 phoinix vsftpd[8652]: pam_warn(ftp:auth): function=[pam_sm_authenticate] flags=0 service=[ftp] terminal=[ftp] user=[sharp] ruser=[sharp] rhost=[192.168.7.20] My question is what do I put in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd? Looking at some of the other entries, it seems I can do something with pam_unix.so like screen: $ cat screen auth required pam_unix.so or $ cat dovecot auth required pam_unix.so nullok account required pam_unix.so Since my user (the copier) has a normal Unix account and password, is there any benefit to using the dovecot style with both "auth required" and "account required" or is the "auth required" sufficient like screen uses? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] what are you up to?
by ekardnam 23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

hey would love to contribute in the development of the arch linux community! what are you up to by now?

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[arch-general] Can't start mariadb and avahi anymore, cannot connect users
by leoutation＠gmx.fr 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Hi Yesterday, it seems i broke something in my system: Arch is updated. Linux-lts kernel. I can't connect users in tty. Mariadb and avahi-daemon don't start at boot. I can't start them manually too using systemctl. But I can connect as root. Other services are started normally: ntpd, connmand, bumblebeed, syslog-ng or metalog, sshd. I don't use any login manager like gdm. I don't use X, i use only tty, wayland and enlightenment-git. I remember i killed by hand yesterday in the evening ssh-agent processes. Problem came after that but may be a coincidence... It's a permission issue. I don't find any solution to debug it. I have good symlinks in /var ls /var -1 -p cache/ db/ empty/ games/ lib/ local/ lock -> /run/lock log/ mail -> spool/mail net-snmp/ opt/ run -> /run spool/ tmp/ Syslog message Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[965]: mariadb.service: Failed to connect stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[966]: mariadb.service: Failed to connect stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[980]: mariadb.service: Failed to connect stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=200/CHDIR Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik systemd[1]: mariadb.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 19 14:54:27 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584467.632:72): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=mariadb comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd " hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik avahi-daemon[989]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 84) and group 'avahi' (GID 84). Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik avahi-daemon[989]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=255/EXCEPTION Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Feb 19 14:54:51 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584491.312:73): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=avahi-daemon comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/sy stemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Created slice User Slice of UID 1000. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Starting User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000... Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1006 audit(1550584520.233:74): pid=642 uid=0 old-auid=4294967295 auid=1000 tty=tty1 old-ses=4294967295 ses=8 res=1 Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Started User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Starting User Manager for UID 1000... Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[996]: user(a)1000.service: Failed to connect stdout to the journal socket, ignoring: Permission denied Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584520.243:75): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=user-runtime-dir@1000 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/s ystemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1006 audit(1550584520.253:76): pid=996 uid=0 old-auid=4294967295 auid=1000 tty=(none) old-ses=4294967295 ses=9 res=1 Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584520.263:77): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=user@1000 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syste md" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1550584520.273:78): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=getty@tty1 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syst emd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584520.273:79): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=getty@tty1 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syst emd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1550584520.273:80): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=getty@tty1 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syst emd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1550584520.283:81): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=getty@tty1 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/syst emd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1550584520.333:82): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=user-runtime-dir@1000 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/s ystemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success' Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: user(a)1000.service: Failed with result 'protocol'. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Started Session 8 of user fre. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: getty(a)tty1.service: Succeeded. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: getty(a)tty1.service: Service has no hold-off time (RestartSec=0), scheduling restart. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: getty(a)tty1.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 2. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Stopped Getty on tty1. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Started Getty on tty1. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: session-8.scope: Succeeded. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Stopping User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000... Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[475]: run-user-1000.mount: Succeeded. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: run-user-1000.mount: Succeeded. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: user-runtime-dir(a)1000.service: Succeeded. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Stopped User Runtime Directory /run/user/1000. Feb 19 14:55:20 nalik systemd[1]: Removed slice User Slice of UID 1000. -- Maderios

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[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.
by Aniket Pradhan 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Hello Govind, and Everyone! Thanks for your feedback. Your arguments are on point, and I agree with you on the fact that the ideas do not apply to Arch. If we can think of some better ideas (which apply to Arch, like the reproducible builds or the CLI tool as you discussed) we would need people to step up and mentor these ideas out of their free time. Moreover, if Arch is willing to include some community tools (who decides which tools should be included), we might get some more cool ideas, but in the end, we would also need someone to mentor the idea. In the end, it all boils down to the availability of mentors. and ideas. I also had this cool idea, where developers (who will act as mentors) can pitch in their ideas for community packages and select students through GSoC. This will provide them with the necessary help in developing the tool. However, then it would not be a "community-driven" package, would it? There can be several flaws to this suggestion, but as Govind said, it would be amazing if others can share their opinion on this topic. -- Thanks Regards Aniket Pradhan Byld | Cyborg Member ECE Undergrad | IIIT Delhi http://home.iiitd.edu.in/~aniket17133/

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[arch-general] dovecot - Generate DH parameters (wiki vs. journal output mismatch)
by David C. Rankin 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

All, The wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dovecot#Generate_DH_parameters shows: Generate DH parameters To generate a new DH parameters file (this will take very long): # openssl dhparam -out /etc/dovecot/dh.pem 4096 The journal message shows: dd if=/var/lib/dovecot/ssl-parameters.dat bs=1 skip=88 | openssl dhparam -inform der > /etc/dovecot/dh.pem (which takes a fraction of a second) Why the difference? It doesn't seem to matter. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] After 4.20.10 update - fsck check caused dump to maintenance shell for missing mdadm raid1 UUID?
by David C. Rankin 18 Feb '19

18 Feb '19

Archdevs, I don't know if there were any recent changes to how the fsck check is done, but this is the first time I've had a fsck check cause a machine to dump to the maintenance shell due to a missing md1 (root fs) UUID. There is no issue with the array or disk. If there have been recent changes to either the systemd startup order or it's management of the fsck check, it may be worth a look to ensure that all mdadm arrays are assembled and ready before the fsck check fires. Just a guess, but it looked to me like the fsck check was attempting to run on the array UUID before the array was ready. The timing of any change would be from today back through whatever number of days the default fsck check schedule is. So this may have absolutely nothing to do with the 4.20.10 update and more to do with some change that could have happened to the fsck check scheduling or mdadm array assembly scheduling (or some combination of the two) I put it out here as I'm not really sure what to check in this regard, there are no drive or array errors in the journal. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependency on eSpeak
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 16 Feb '19

16 Feb '19

Hi, Yes discovered this the other day. I think it is time to make espeak deprecated imo and have espeak-ng the default particularly in the talking arch which someone is taking over development of. Thanks. Matthew -----Original Message----- From: arch-general <arch-general-bounces(a)archlinux.org> On Behalf Of Storm Dragon via arch-general Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:16 PM To: Arch Linux General <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Cc: Storm Dragon <stormdragon2976(a)gmail.com> Subject: [arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak Hi, I'm having some issues with installing brltty. The problem is, it depends on espeak but I'm using the espeak-ng from community and it is giving me the unresolvable conflicts problem for that reason. I don't think that brltty actually needs espeak at all, and it could probably be listed as an optional dependancy along with espeak-ng. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] Keyboard shortcuts which change based on current app
by Oon-Ee Ng 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Before I try to hack together a solution, are there any existing apps/frameworks which allow for the same key/button to do something different based on the currently focused app (in X)? My intended use-case is to use the additional buttons on my drawing tablet to do various functions, but depending on the current app. So in Gimp they would do one thing, in Libreoffice another, in Inkscape another.

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[arch-general] BrlTTY Hard Dependancy on eSpeak
by Storm Dragon 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

Hi, I'm having some issues with installing brltty. The problem is, it depends on espeak but I'm using the espeak-ng from community and it is giving me the unresolvable conflicts problem for that reason. I don't think that brltty actually needs espeak at all, and it could probably be listed as an optional dependancy along with espeak-ng. Thanks, Storm

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[arch-general] xflock4 and pambase
by Ralf Mardorf 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi, I'm uncertain, if I should file a bug report or if it's up to the user. After running xflock4 I can't unlock the screen anymore. I suspect that this is related to the pambase update. I noticed that e.g. cinnamon-screensaver provides a pam.d file, but the package xfce4-session, which provides xflock4 doesn't. $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/xflock4 /usr/bin/xflock4 is owned by xfce4-session 4.12.1-11 $ pacman -Ql xfce4-session | grep pam.d $ pacman -Ql cinnamon-screensaver | grep pam.d cinnamon-screensaver /etc/pam.d/ cinnamon-screensaver /etc/pam.d/cinnamon-screensaver Should I fix it myself or is a bug report within reason? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] accessibility support in official arch iso.
by Alexandr Epaneshnikov 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

hello. i am a blind arch user. currently to independently install arch i am using the TalkingArch <https://talkingarch.info> it is simple respin of archiso with speakup and brltty packages included. it wood be nice if official arch live iso comes with accessability support. especialy then Debian, fedora and even gentoo provides such option and it doesn't required much maintenance when implemented. if someone from arch Community interested to implement with my guidance of course. a possible approach : 1 include alsa, brltty and espeakup packages. 2 create a special boot option to boot archiso live session with speech enabled. brltty can be enabled in standard session because it not interfere with workload for sited people. 3 make a11y documentation on arch wiki. if someone is interested. lets discuss. p.s. i hope that I chose the right list. Sincerely, Alexander

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Re: [arch-general] Lutris 0.5 - Namespace GnomeDesktop not available
by Ralph Corderoy 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

Hi Sefa, > > It looks to me like package gnome-desktop will add the required file > > to /usr/lib/girepository-1.0. > > That worked! I guess this should then be added as a dependency of the > package. Copying the list so the resolution is known and is archived. -- Cheers, Ralph.

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[arch-general] Lutris 0.5 - Namespace GnomeDesktop not available
by Sefa Eyeoglu 03 Feb '19

03 Feb '19

Hello fellow Arch users, I just updated my system and received the new Lutris update (0.5.0-1). After running lutris from the terminal it showed the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/lutris", line 31, in <module> from lutris.gui.application import Application File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/lutris/gui/application.py", line 30, in <module> gi.require_version("GnomeDesktop", "3.0") File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace) ValueError: Namespace GnomeDesktop not available I am running KDE Plasma 5.14.90 (kde-unstable) and probably don't have some default gnome dependency. I already tried installing the packages "gnome- python" and "gnome-python-desktop", but there are for GNOME 2 and not for GNOME 3. I hope someone may be able to help. Kind regards -- Sefa Eyeoglu Free Software Developer scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] Participation of Arch in Google Summer of Code.
by Aniket Pradhan 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hello Everyone! I am Aniket Pradhan, a student. Please refer to this <https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/al0v84/participation_of_arch_li…> Reddit thread I had raised earlier and was recommended to ask here. I was wondering if the Arch organization is willing to take part in this year's GSoC and if there are any developers who would like to participate and mentor students through the GSoC program? As discussed by FoxBoron (in the Reddit thread), the mentorship is not reimbursed and will be time-consuming (a bummer). However, we can have some really cool projects related to Arch for the GSoC. Like something related to Pacman, or anything else related to Arch (I don't really know where to draw the line between community-driven tools/software and official Arch software). The GSoC will provide exposure to the students and will also help the organization in the final run. The students will also get to learn more about Arch and how it works. There are other numerous benefits which I am missing. I am really interested in Arch, and really want to contribute to it. I am currently maintaining a few packages on the AUR, and would like to do more. -- Thanks Regards Aniket Pradhan Byld | Cyborg Member ECE Undergrad | IIIT Delhi http://home.iiitd.edu.in/~aniket17133/

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[arch-general] Customizing Console Keybindings?
by hunter.t.joz＠gmail.com 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Hello, I was wondering if the it is possible to customize the console keybindings. In particular, I want alt+tab and alt+shift+tab to switch the consoles instead of alt+right and left arrows. Furthermore, is it possible to turn alt+f<n> for switching terminals and force it to use ctrl+alt+f<n>? I had done some digging on this, and I have come to conclude that this is either baked deep in to the system or it might take me rewriting the keymap. Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] Test Message for DMARC Checking (Please Ignore)
by Jayesh Badwaik 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Test Message -- Best Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io

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[arch-general] [Xfce] Notification area tooltips gone
by Murari 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Hi all, For some months now, the icons in my notification area haven't been showing me tooltips. I don't quite know when this started, but I do remember that this was working before. I get tooltips for all my launchers in the panel, but neither the Power Manager system tray icon nor the NetworkManager applet show any tooltips on mouseover. FWIW, ~/.gtkrc-2.0 has 'gtk-enable-tooltips=1'. Is there a setting somewhere that has changed, or is this a bug I should file with XFCE? Best, Murari

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[arch-general] Request to remove an invalid header from the python-pillow package
by Antony Lee 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Hi all, I have reported in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57492 (nearly a year ago) that python-pillow installs an invalid header in /usr/include/python3.7m/raqm.h, which 1) upstream clearly did not intend to be packaged, and 2) prevents the building of Python extensions modules that actually want to use libraqm (because /usr/include/python3.7m/raqm.h shadows /usr/include/raqm.h). Unfortunately, the report has seen no activity since last April, even though I proposed a (simple) fix for it (add `rm "$pkgdir/usr/include/python$_py3basever/raqm.h"` to package_python-pillow()). Is there anything I can do to get it fixed? Thanks, Antony

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[arch-general] How to grant Apache httpd permission to serve files from my home directory?
by Peter Nabbefeld 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Hello, how can I grant Apache httpd permissions to present files out of my home directory? Especially, I don't want to only serve files from my home folder, and I don't want to give it full root access. To be more specific, I want to serve a small tutorial project in Python via uWSGI. I guess, first httpd needs the rights to delegate, then uWSGI needs rights to access the scripts. Both are currently running as http:http. This is not being thought as a permanent solution, just only for "quick & dirty" deployment, as always thinking about copying etc. during learning phase is rather inconvenient. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] [OT] Problems with uwsgi/Python and httpd
by Peter Nabbefeld 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Hello, I've tried to get Python working with Apache httpd and mod_proxy_uwsgi, but access to it results in an Error 503. In httpd.conf I activated the module. In vhosts configuration, I made the following related entries: DocumentRoot "/srv/http/my.host.name/" <Directory "/srv/http/"> Options -Indexes </Directory> <Location "/bud/"> ProxyPass uwsgi://127.0.0.1:3031/ </Location> In location /srv/http/my.host.name/bud/ there's a script named buddy.py: def application(env, start_response): start_response('200 OK', [('Content-Type','text/html')]) return [b"Hello World"] The URL I'm using is: http://my.host.name/bud/buddy In /etc/uwsgi/vassals there's a configuration "example.ini": [uwsgi] chdir = /srv/http/my.host.name/bud module = buddy plugins = python I've started uwsgi in emperor mode, starting "emperor.uwsgi.service".|| What am I doing wrong? Kind regards Peter PS: I've tried to find the necessary information in Arch Wiki or in the uwsgi docs (e,.g. copied the Python example there ;-) ), but it seems I'm missing some "glue" ....

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[arch-general] php-pear compromised
by Andy Pieters 24 Jan '19

24 Jan '19

Any of you seen the news about php-pear? There's an AUR package that downloads from pear.php.net so if that was within the last 6 months it could have been the compromised one? https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/php-pear-hacked.html

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[arch-general] Where does /usr/bin/uwsgi come from?
by Peter Nabbefeld 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

Hello all, I've got sth. strange: I wanted to install the "uwsgi" package, but the binray is already installed. "pacman -Qo uwsgi" results in "No package owns /usr/bin/uwsgi" (German: "Kein Paket besitzt /usr/bin/uwsgi"). So, why is it on my laptop? I'd guess it's probably been installed at some time with apache httpd but has been removed later, but don't know. Anybody knows about such an issue? Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Proposal: minimal base system
by Damjan Georgievski 22 Jan '19

22 Jan '19

(posting to general, since I can't on dev-public) On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 23:03, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > # Proposal > > There is no strict definition of what a minimal Arch Linux system > installation must contain. However in reality we mostly don’t add any > packages that are in the base group as a dependency to other packages, > which basically makes it a hard requirement. > > The current way of defining a minimal system via a group is non-optimal > for the following reasons: One of the issues that might need to be fixed is this: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/54887 (FS#54887 - [openssl] remove perl from dependency of the openssl package) -- damjan

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[arch-general] modprobe, Exec format error
by siefke_listen＠web.de 16 Jan '19

16 Jan '19

Hello, againt want try to work little with wireguard and now something with the module happen. # modprobe wireguard modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'wireguard': Exec format error # uname -a Linux fr-rb-1 4.20.2-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 13 17:49:00 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux # pacman -Ss linux | grep installed testing/linux 4.20.2.arch1-1 (base) [installed] testing/linux-headers 4.20.2.arch1-1 [installed] core/linux 4.20.1.arch1-1 (base) [installed: 4.20.2.arch1-1] core/linux-api-headers 4.17.11-1 [installed] core/linux-firmware 20181218.0f22c85-1 (base) [installed] core/linux-headers 4.20.1.arch1-1 [installed: 4.20.2.arch1-1] So normal is all installed what needed. # pacman -Ss wireguard | grep installed community/wireguard-arch 0.0.20181218-2 [installed] community/wireguard-tools 0.0.20181218-2 [installed] Have someone a idea? Silvio

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[arch-general] VirtualBox 6.0.0 coredumps when accessed via SSH and --headless Win clients crawl. New 5.2.24 is OK
by David C. Rankin 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

All, After my thread of 1/3/19 "[arch-general] VirtualBox 6 on 4.20 - Anybody seeing guests become unresponsive after several hours?", I have been working the issue on the vbox-users list. The problem effects VirtualBox when accessed over ssh, and Windows guests run --headless. The Virtualbox 6.0.0 console coredumps when accessed via ssh, while windows guest run --headless throws select/read error (under strace) bringing the guest to a crawl. With the release of 5.2.24 today by oracle, I built and downgraded both virtualbox-bin and virtualbox-ext-oracle and the problems are completely gone. Further, the release notes state the 5.2 branch will remain supported through 2020 as 6.0 matures. If anyone experiences similar problems with virtualbox when accessed over your LAN, then the 5.2.24 release is an option I have confirmed works (as well as all modules building under Linux 4.20.1, Bash 5 and Readline 8, etc..) I have not tried the now 6.0.2 yet, but as nothing addressed these issues in the changelog, I suspect they remain. Will check this weekend and if fixed will report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Kpartx should be in the repos and archiso for enabling encrypted GPT install
by nsajko＠gmail.com 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

To mount a root GPT partition which resides on an encrypted disk, one needs the kpartx tool to make the mapping for the partition (the kernel does not independently make those for partitions on device mapper maps, which is what a dm-crypt decrypted device is). Thus kpartx needs to be on the Archlinux installation ISO to enable that kind of setup. It would of course first be necessary for an Archlinux Developer or Trusted User to adopt kpartx, so I hope there is somebody willing to do this ...? Note that kpartx is a common utility and in its own package across a lot of distributions; like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, ... Note: it may be possible to use losetup instead of kpartx so as to make a loop device instead of a device map, but that would come with an overhead? Another alternative setup, perhaps more widely used, is having encrypted LVM. While this does not require kpartx, LVM may be undesireable because of its complexity and requiring multiple userspace daemons beside Udev. Appended is an example PKGBUILD which only installs the kpartx executable and manual page: pkgname=(kpartx) pkgver=0.7.9 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='Create device mapper maps for partitions in devices or files' arch=(x86_64) url='http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr' license=(LGPL GPL GPL2) depends=(device-mapper) makedepends=(gzip) source=('mpt.tar.gz::https://git.opensvc.com/?p=multipath-tools/.git;a=snapshot;h=5c…') md5sums=() sha512sums=('d4abc9580b6a3e457c99bee96d5aaab29a984ae77f91cbbe52e1b4af16809319a9100c45ce5600242fa52819dd44a9cb77e13305bc4f9651c532906243f2d544') build() { cd multipath-tools-5c67a8b/kpartx gcc -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DLIBDM_API_COOKIE -l devmapper -o kpartx $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS $LDFLAGS *.c gzip kpartx.8 } package() { cd multipath-tools-5c67a8b/kpartx install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin" install -m 755 kpartx "$pkgdir/usr/bin" install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man8" install -m 644 kpartx.8.gz "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man8" }

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[arch-general] [Xfce-terminal] Cannot remove entries from history
by Peter Nabbefeld 11 Jan '19

11 Jan '19

Hello, I've got the following rather suspicious problem with xfce-terminal: After removing entries from the history (using "history -d" or "history -c"), the entries are obviously buffered. When I close the terminal and the open another, the history is available again - for some reasons I do see this as a security risk. Can I remove the buffered entries somehow? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] X logs me out from tty on close
by Ali Emre Gülcü 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Hello everyone, I had a rather interesting problem recently. I dont have any display manager and I open desktop environment from tty when needed. Previously when I logged out from Xfce or closed down X server, it would put me back on my tty session. Now when I do the same, it also logs me out from tty and I must login again. Is this the expected behaviour after some xorg or kernel update? Or did I mess up something? I tried with both `startx` and `startxfce4`. And to be sure that this is not an driver related problem, I also tried with `nvidia-xrun`, same results. Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] Ruby 2.6 is in [testing]
by Anatol Pomozov 10 Jan '19

10 Jan '19

Happy New Year folks. Just a quick headsup. ruby 2.6 rebuild just entered [testing] repository. If you see any issues with the ruby packages please report either to Arch or upstream developers. Happy testing folks.

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[arch-general] Gnome Shell suspend-then-hibernate
by Frank Zimmermann 09 Jan '19

09 Jan '19

Good evening, inspired by a previous thread when Gnome 3.30 introduced suspend-then- hibernate I did setup hibernation on my laptop. By the time I did this Gnome reverted to the standard suspend, probably by the critics received. So I added the following line to my logind.conf IdleAction=suspend-then-hibernate This worked fine until recently the system won't no longer suspend then hibernate when Gnome Shell is running. A manual systemctl suspend-then- hibernate works as expected. I've checked in dconf editor and there's no option to choose suspend-then-hibernate. I for my self find this function quite neat since the laptop is quite often sitting long periods without being in use. Any ideas if there's possibility to gain this function with gnome back? Thanks Frank

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[arch-general] New SidPlay for the repositories Community
by Rm Beer 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

This is SidPlay's new official repository, which I am now in charge of maintaining: https://bitbucket.org/rmbeer/sidplay/src/master/ This is a fork of SidPlay2, it has been patched and corrected for the latest Archlinux update. Is this the right place to notify the Archlinux community?

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[arch-general] python 3.5 with or without python 3.7
by Pascal 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

hello members (and happy new year), my system is up to date and works with python 3.7. for a specific need, I want to install python 3.5 but cannot go down because its installation breaks an dependency: :: installing python (3.5.2-1) breaks dependency 'python>=3.7' required by libreoffice-still. what do you think is the easiest way to achieve my goals ? regards, lacsaP.

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[arch-general] circular self-dependency removing evolution-data-server
by Genes Lists 07 Jan '19

07 Jan '19

What am I doing wrong? # pacman -R evolution-data-server checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: evolution: removing evolution-data-server breaks dependency 'evolution-data-server' :: folks: removing evolution-data-server breaks dependency 'evolution-data-server' # pacman -Q pacman evolution-data-server pacman 5.1.2-2 evolution-data-server 3.30.4-1

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[arch-general] Video: Linux and license revocation, in American.
by alicevisionsthereof＠cocaine.ninja 06 Jan '19

06 Jan '19

We have noticed that many of you have rejected the very idea of waddling through long written soliloquies on the subject. So, the information in a format that is more accessible to you has been prepared. Video: openload.co/f/mT_AH3xmIUM/TruthAboutLinuxandGPLv2__.mp4 Audio: ufile.io/sdhpl Enjoy.

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[arch-general] VirtualBox 6 on 4.20 - Anybody seeing guests become unresponsive after several hours?
by David C. Rankin 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

All, I have a number of virtualbox guests I run from my Arch host and have for a number of years. Since update to Virtualbox 6.0 (using the following AUR packages) https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-ext-oracle/ after the guests have been running for several hours, they become totally unresponsive (both Linux and Windows guests). To the point that typing 'ls' results in nothing but echoing back the path where the command lives. $ ls /usr/bin/ls .... Shutting down the desktop and moving back to the normal terminal where login: is display, attempting to login by entering a username and pressing enter does nothing but timeout and spit the uname information back to the screen and redisplay the login prompt. Regardless of guest type, a hard poweroff is required to shutdown, as the guest is otherwise unresponsive. VBoxManage controlvm "name" poweroff is required to actually terminate the guest. Restarting appears to go just fine. Looking at the virtualbox logs, there really isn't anything telling. There are a couple of VBVA and VRDP messages about display size and color depth, but nothing that stands out as an error. Nothing in the journal of the host that points to anything wrong. Has anyone else seen this with VB 6 (either the Arch or AUR packages)? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Update Groff version to 1.22.4
by Stephen Gregoratto 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

This patch updates groff to version 1.22.4, which was released yesterday. I had to change the PGP key from Werner to Bertrand, and I also removed some lingering whitespace. OK? -- Stephen Gregoratto PGP Fingerprint: 3FC6 3D0E 2801 C348 1C44 2D34 A80C 0F8E 8BAB EC8B Need my key? Get it with: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 8BABEC8B or off my server at https://www.sgregoratto.me/pubkey.txt

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[arch-general] Wireguard
by siefke_listen＠web.de 01 Jan '19

01 Jan '19

Hello, had someone run wireguard?`I have read today about it and try to run it through the Tutorial https://emanuelduss.ch/2018/09/wireguard-vpn-road-warrior-setup/ So all is connected, all looks as it work. But someone is wrong cause the ping work not correct. >From client PING 10.23.5.1 (10.23.5.1) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 10.23.5.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Der notwendige Schlüssel ist nicht verfügbar* >From 10.23.5.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Der notwendige Schlüssel ist nicht verfügbar >From 10.23.5.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Der notwendige Schlüssel ist nicht verfügbar >From 10.23.5.2 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Der notwendige Schlüssel ist nicht verfügbar *The necessary key is not available >From Server ping 10.23.5.2 PING 10.23.5.2 (10.23.5.2) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 10.23.5.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Destination address required >From 10.23.5.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Destination address required >From 10.23.5.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Destination address required >From 10.23.5.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Destination address required >From 10.23.5.1 icmp_seq=5 Destination Host Unreachable ping: sendmsg: Destination address required So all commands which be in the tutorial are present. ip a l wg0, wg show okay wg show give not more information self when clients are connected. Have here someone idea? Is there a way to become more log information? Maybe a tutorial which is more for Arch? Thank you for help & Nice new year Silvio

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[arch-general] python2: Where is imp.py?
by Peter Nabbefeld 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

Hello, I need to use the inspect module with python 2.7, but the imported imp module seems to be missing - how can I get that, as there's no python2-imp package? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] syslinux: out of date - or not?
by Bjoern Franke 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Hi, I recently wanted to switch from grub to syslinux, but it could not boot my /boot-partition, because it uses XFS. Unfortunately only syslinux 6.04 supports XFS, while we stick on 6.03. 6.04 is somehow a "testing" version, thought it has been out for 2 years, so I marked 6.03 as "out of date". I'm wondering a bit why we stick on 6.03, even Debian stable[1] has 6.04. BR Bjoern [1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=803938

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[arch-general] systemctl daemon-reexec - anything else needed after systemd update?
by David C. Rankin 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Archdevs, After todays update to systemd-239.370-1, there was nothing that would have prompted a reboot (like a kernel update), so I simply wanted to restart the daemon. From the systemctl man page, the daemon-reexec option seems like the logical way, "...This command is of little use except for debugging and package upgrades. Sometimes, it might be helpful as a heavy-weight daemon-reload." Is there anything else needed other than daemon-reexec when there is an update to systemd itself? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mariadb package outdate for over a month
by Sefa Eyeoglu 19 Dec '18

19 Dec '18

Hey fellow Arch users, the extra/mariadb package is flagged as out of date since 2018-11-09. I was wondering, why it still was not updated. There is already an AUR package, which provides a newer version. Is there any information on why the package is still out of date? Kind regards, Sefa Eyeoglu https://scrumplex.net

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[arch-general] Suspicious activity and slowness ...
by Peter Nabbefeld 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

Hello, since some days, I'm noticing HD is too busy, and my laptop is very slow in some cases. Are there any invisible background threads running? How can I find out about those? Running top, cpu use should be only about 30%, so it should wait for tasks to be executed, instead. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] claws-mail suddenly seeing "invalid" certificates from gmail?
by Mark Raynsford 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hello! Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask, but it's not clear what exactly is at fault here so I thought I'd at least start on this list. I updated my system yesterday with pacman -Syu, and now Claws is claiming that pop.gmail.com is sending an invalid certificate whenever Claws tries to connect to fetch mail. I've not accepted the invalid certificate. This is the text of the dialog box that pops up: --8<-- Certificate for pop.gmail.com has changed. Certificate is for invalid2.invalid, but connection is to pop.gmail.com. You may be connecting to a remote server. Do you want to accept it? Signature status: Self-signed certificate. View certificates: Known certificate: Owner: Name: pop.gmail.com Org: Google LLC Location: Mountain View, US Signer: Name: Google Internet Authority G3 Org: Google Trust Services Location: US Status: Fingerprint: MD5: 83:C3:05:91:BA:31:19:5D:0B:AF:97:53:CB:4D:87:8B SHA1: B7:47:47:56:62:D4:D6:F4:BA:FA:F1:E7:A9:6B:C3:60:01:EC:E0:CB Signature status: Correct Expires on: 2019-02-19 14:02:00 +0000 New certificate: Owner: Name: invalid2.invalid Org: <not in certificate> Location: <not in certificate> Signer: Name: invalid2.invalid Org: <not in certificate> Location: <not in certificate> Status: Fingerprint: MD5: 90:4A:C8:D5:44:5A:D0:6A:10:FF:CD:8B:11:BE:16 SHA1: 42:59:51:7C:D4:E4:8A:28:9D:33:2A:B3:F0:AB:52:A3:66:32:28:24 Signature status: Self-signed certificate Expires on: 2030-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 --8<-- This is all I see on stderr: ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:22.955: size differ 896 1156 ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:23.920: can't initialize SSL/TLS. ** (claws-mail:5539): WARNING **: 09:40:23.920: [09:40:23] SSL/TLS handshake failed Other non-Gmail accounts work correctly. Anyone got any ideas? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] Why is permission for /run/user/1000/gvfs denied for root?
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hi, why can't I access the directory? $ sudo LANG=C ls -l /run/user/1000 ls: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied total 0 srw-rw-rw- 1 peter users 0 Dec 12 07:00 bus drwx------ 3 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:12 dbus-1 drwx------ 2 peter users 60 Dec 13 07:50 dconf drwx------ 2 peter users 140 Dec 12 07:00 gnupg d????????? ? ? ? ? ? gvfs drwx------ 2 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:13 keyring drwxr-xr-x 2 peter users 60 Dec 12 07:00 p11-kit drwx------ 2 peter users 100 Dec 12 07:12 pulse drwxr-xr-x 2 peter users 80 Dec 12 07:00 systemd First assumed this is just some mount point, and I cannot access it because I've not attached any device. But nothing changes, if I attach one. So, why are there all those question marks? Should it be possible to have some "unknown users/groups" accessing parts of my system? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] How to find files owned by some user or group?
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hi, how can I find all the files owned by some user or group (in preparation to delete the user/group)? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Problems with shadow service
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Dec '18

13 Dec '18

Hello, because of a performance problem I've checked services and noticed this line: ● shadow.service loaded failed failed Verify integrity of password and group files So I checked this service and got this output: $ systemctl status shadow ● shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-12-12 06:59:27 CET; 14h ago Process: 561 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c /usr/bin/pwck -r || r=1; /usr/bin/grpck -r && exit $r (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 561 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Dez 12 06:59:24 tuchola systemd[1]: Started Verify integrity of password and group files. Dez 12 06:59:26 tuchola sh[561]: Benutzer »ceph«: Verzeichnis »/run/ceph« existiert nicht. Dez 12 06:59:26 tuchola sh[561]: pwck: Keine Änderungen Dez 12 06:59:27 tuchola systemd[1]: shadow.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Dez 12 06:59:27 tuchola systemd[1]: shadow.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. As system seems to run without problems (other than performance), I've got two questions: 1. Do I need the shadow service? Why? 2. Why does it fail? User "ceph" is defined, but /run/ceph does not exist as its home directory - why? Seems there's a problem in the installation of ceph-libs or any or its dependants (like libvirt). Probably the user is created only if whole ceph is installed, too? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Keyboard unresponsive after wakeup from suspend
by Andy Pieters 11 Dec '18

11 Dec '18

Hi people So as I said in the subject, after resuming from suspend for about 30 times or so since my last reboot, my keyboard did not seem to work. It is a USB keyboard and I tried unplugging it and reconnecting it. I have a second keyboard permanently connected which is a PS/2. That one also didn't seem to work even after unplugging and reconnecting. All the rest of the system seemed to work fine. My USB mouse works, my WIFI USB dongle works. I can browse the internet etc, just not type. Pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 didn't seem to register either. So I clicked through the GUI and rebooted and lo everything is working again. I found several instances of Arch Linux people having non-responsive keyboards after resuming but none seem to apply here as their threads are several years old and their solution was to install a newer kernel. I'm running 4.19.4, last updated 4 December. Any hints on how to debug this?

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[arch-general] Interesting Error When Trying to Connect to WiFi
by Hunter Jozwiak 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Greetings, I have been having problems connecting to my WiFi network as of this morning. From the dmesg output, I gather that something might be confused (aside from me) as to ho to connect, but I can't put my finger on it. [34035.102459] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [34040.072164] RTL871X: rtw_set_802_11_connect(wlan0) fw_state=0x00000008 [34040.274732] RTL871X: start auth [34040.278558] RTL871X: auth success, start assoc [34040.284330] RTL871X: rtw_cfg80211_indicate_connect(wlan0) BSS not found !! [34040.289885] RTL871X: assoc success [34042.291674] RTL871X: send eapol packet [34070.261110] audit: type=1130 audit(1544407361.444:64): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=netctl@mason\x2dsecure comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed' Does anybody understand what might be going on that I am not missing? I have never seen this before, and I am totally confused. Nothing about the network has changed, and my other Arch box is connecting o it just fine. Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] Could someone help with maintenance of bgyorgy's packages?
by Nikolay Korotkiy 10 Dec '18

10 Dec '18

Hi all, Balló György (bgyorgy) was inactive for more than 2 months, I emailed to him without success. Could someone help with maintenance of his packages? In particular, gpxsee-5.18 package has been flagged out-of-date since 2018-09-23. New gpxsee 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0 have released since then. -- Best regards, Nikolay

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[arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.
by Ralph Corderoy 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Hi, Having spotted warning: /boot/grub/grub.cfg saved as /boot/grub/grub.cfg.pacsave during today's large package upgrade, I went to /boot/grub afterwards expecting work to do. grub.cfg.pacsave didn't exist. `pacman -Ql grub' showed grub doesn't own anything in /boot. Google led me to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=242285 where Salkay had earlier started along the same path. The warning has wasted our time, and the forum's conclusion is `ignore the warning'. Encouraging warnings to be ignored is a bad idea; I don't suppose some here are too happy when a user turns up with a problem and the answer was under their nose but they `ignored the warning'. Can a better solution to this be engineered? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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Re: [arch-general] Package grub Encourages Warnings to be Ignored.
by back bowser 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

To throw my hat in the ring in this argument. I feel the way we currently have grub talked about in the wiki is that grub-mkconfig is a magic tool. This isn’t the proper way for multiple reasons. 1) It encourages me not to know how grub works other than it just works. 2) If grub breaks I have to go down all kinds of rabbit holes to even figure out what to edit in grub.cfg since it’s so confusing when auto generated. I do think the Grub page needs a rewrite I’m not sure if Eli’s page is in its final stages. Maybe he should go back and try and clarify things a bit more. Last I checked though it’s still a work in progress rewrite.

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[arch-general] List of Files Created by makepkg
by Jayesh Badwaik 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

Hi, I am trying to write an automated script which takes in packages and package files created by makepkg and uploads it somewhere. For this, I would need the list of files created by the `makepkg` command. Is there a way to get that? -- Best Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io

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[arch-general] bind/named dying after 24-48 hrs. "assertion failure"?
by David C. Rankin 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

All, Has anyone else encountered a bind 9.13.4-1/named daemon dying with "assertion failure" in the past week. I have encountered the problem twice. When named dies, status reports: ● named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Thu 2018-12-06 10:35:51 CST; 15h ago Process: 23007 ExecStart=/usr/bin/named -f -u named (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Main PID: 23007 (code=killed, signal=ABRT) Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #1 0x7f078ea0fcaa in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #2 0x7f078ebc295b in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #3 0x7f078ebc806e in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #4 0x7f078ebcbaba in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #5 0x7f078ea2f349 in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #6 0x7f078df1ea9d in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: #7 0x7f078de4eb23 in ?? Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix named[23007]: exiting (due to assertion failure) Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT Dec 06 10:35:51 phoinix systemd[1]: named.service: Failed with result 'signal'. This hasn't happened before. A simple restart makes it happy again -- but for how long? # systemctl start named ● named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Fri 2018-12-07 02:04:03 CST; 4s ago Main PID: 26487 (named) Tasks: 10 (limit: 4915) Memory: 15.5M CGroup: /system.slice/named.service └─26487 /usr/bin/named -f -u named Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: loaded serial 129 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone rlfpllc.com/IN: loaded serial 2017000017 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: zone 7.168.192.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2017000011 Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: all zones loaded Dec 07 02:04:03 phoinix named[26487]: running Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: Key 19036 for zone . is now trusted (acceptance timer com> Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: managed-keys-zone: Key 20326 for zone . is now trusted (acceptance timer com> Dec 07 02:04:04 phoinix named[26487]: resolver priming query complete I don't know if this is somehow related to the timers and keys that may be timing out after some period of time. If no one else has seen this, I'll keep watching, but if anybody has any ideas, I'd welcome your thoughts. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Dovecot problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

Hello, I've got serious problems with dovecot, resulting in e.g. not beeing able to read messages on this list, only way is to read the archives. After upgrading my arch installation yesterday, the first problem was about stats-writer permission, which I resolved by changing the oowner. Now it seems there's a problem with my file-based userdb, but this time I'm stuck. Any idea? Kind regards Peter PS: Sending this from my mobile phone. -- .

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[arch-general] Missing auth.log
by Maxe 17 Nov '18

17 Nov '18

Hi, One of our systems, running ARCH Linux, was compromised (a non-privileged account, fortunately). But, we could not find /var/log/auth.log or similar for investigation. Does the journal keep track of login attempts? It seems that ARCH does not run [r]syslogd. Best regards, Maxe kaasen(a)nuts-edu.no

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[arch-general] NetBeans 9.0 not a drop-in replacement of 8.2
by Leandro Papi 15 Nov '18

15 Nov '18

Hello, I'm not sure if this has to be brought up here, please advise. I have had many problems with netbeans package from community, it "upgraded" my old version of the package (was version 8.2), but it is not an adequate replacement. I'm aware of the bugs open in the tracker, and I thank everyone that provided workarounds to get the IDE working at first, then finally installing plugins correctly. However, the "new" version isn't complete yet, it lacks many of the "core" plugins that were available for 8.2, for example PHP (postponed to netbeans 10), JavaScript and C++ language support. I'm wondering what the correct procedure is in this case, if it were a commercial product,it would have reverted to 8.2 until it was ready. I don't have issues using it, I'm keeping it downgraded to 8.2, ignored in pacman.conf, I'm only asking if this is the correct approach for a repository package, since this is not AUR. Thanks, Leandro -- L'ignoranza è un male curabile, è sufficiente la volontà. Please don't print this e-mail if you don't need to!

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[arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos
by Frank Zimmermann 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Good evening, I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play. It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine. I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201. KR Frank

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[arch-general] GnuCash out-of-date since 1 and half month
by Amish 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Hello, GnuCash has been flagged out of date since 1 Oct 2018. (new version 3.3) Bug report page says to report such issues to mailing list. So just wanted to report the same. Hope maintainers do look at it. I have built it for myself. It gave build error with current PKGBUILD. But I managed to build it with the following changes to PKGBUILD. - CXXFLAGS+=' -Wno-error' + CFLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CXXFLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CMAKE_C_FLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' + CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS+=' -Wno-error -Wno-error=stringop-truncation' I am not sure which line actually worked but one of these worked. Please upgrade the package to the latest version. Link: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gnucash/ Thank you Amish.

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[arch-general] https://lists.archlinux.org/
by Ralf Mardorf 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

Hi, mails to mailman(a)lists.archlinux.org [1] are rejected. I try to get in contact with the owner of one list, but don't get a reply. Regards, Ralf [1] "If you are having trouble using the lists, please contact mailman(a)lists.archlinux.org." - https://lists.archlinux.org/

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Re: [arch-general] https://lists.archlinux.org/
by vsec 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Reply to Ralf Mardorf via arch-general > Hi, > > mails to mailman(a)lists.archlinux.org [1] are rejected. The same problem. > I try to get in contact with the owner of one list, but don't get a > reply. > > Regards, > Ralf

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[arch-general] Not Enough Bandwidth
by pete 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hello folks . one of my rare visits to the mailing list I am having a small problem with my machine I recently Purchased an USB3 PCEe card with 2 usb3 ports on it 03:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 04) when i first installed this card it worked just fine then 2 days ago the Kernel was updated and i started getting [ 85.536166] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.536177] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.536179] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) [ 85.536957] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.536972] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.536975] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) [ 85.537628] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for new device state. [ 85.537640] usb 8-2: Not enough bandwidth for altsetting 1 [ 85.537643] usb 8-2: 1:1: usb_set_interface failed (-28) i am using the new usb ports on 2 external usb sound cards Bus 008 Device 003: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0102 C-Media Electronics, Inc. CM106 Like Sound Device Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub I have found that if i unplug the sound card plugged into Bus 008 Device 002 prior to starting KDE/Plasma i do not get the error if i switch the cards around it is still on the same port the machine is up to date updated every evening with "pacman -Syu" Linux ### 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 20 22:06:45 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux it does not seem to effect the machine performance but just the sheer number of lines of it is alarming Ideas help please . Thanks Pete .

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[arch-general] Updating linux-lts initcpios... error: command failed to execute correctly
by Ralph Corderoy 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi, This morning's `pacman -Su' had a problem building the fallback initcpio image for 4.14.79-1-lts. Yesterday's /var/log/pacman.log shows [2018-11-06 10:45] [ALPM] upgraded linux-lts (4.14.78-1 -> 4.14.79-1) [2018-11-06 10:45] [ALPM] running '60-linux-lts.hook'... [2018-11-06 10:45] [ALPM] running '90-linux-lts.hook'... that all went well. Today, package `linux-lts' wasn't upgraded but 90-linux-lts.hook was triggered. 60-linux-lts.hook wasn't. pacman's TTY output complained `error: command failed to execute correctly' and the list of `Running' build hooks didn't complete. The same steps for package `linux' immediately after didn't have the same problem. :: Running post-transaction hooks... ( 1/12) Updating linux-lts initcpios... ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img ==> Starting build: 4.14.79-1-lts -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [udev] -> Running build hook: [autodetect] -> Running build hook: [modconf] -> Running build hook: [block] -> Running build hook: [filesystems] -> Running build hook: [keyboard] -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> Generating module dependencies ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img ==> Image generation successful ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'fallback' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect ==> Starting build: 4.14.79-1-lts -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [udev] -> Running build hook: [modconf] -> Running build hook: [block] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx → error: command failed to execute correctly ( 2/12) Updating linux initcpios... ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img ==> Starting build: 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [udev] -> Running build hook: [autodetect] -> Running build hook: [modconf] -> Running build hook: [block] -> Running build hook: [filesystems] -> Running build hook: [keyboard] -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> Generating module dependencies ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img ==> Image generation successful ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback' -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect ==> Starting build: 4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH -> Running build hook: [base] -> Running build hook: [udev] -> Running build hook: [modconf] -> Running build hook: [block] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx -> Running build hook: [filesystems] -> Running build hook: [keyboard] -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> Generating module dependencies ==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img ==> Image generation successful ( 3/12) Updating icon theme caches... I was hoping pacman.log might have more detail, but it doesn't even record that there was an error. I think that's a bug. [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux-lts.preset: 'fallback' [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 4.14.79-1-lts [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [base] [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [udev] [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [modconf] [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Running build hook: [block] [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x [2018-11-07 11:18] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx [2018-11-07 11:19] [ALPM] running '90-linux.hook'... [2018-11-07 11:19] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default' Where should I look for clues why the command failed? And after that, is attempting another build of the image as simple as `/usr/bin/mkinitcpio -p linux-lts' as root? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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[arch-general] Removal of ssmtp
by David Runge 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hey all, I have just removed ssmtp from [community]. Apart from it being unmaintained upstream, it has known security issues (e.g. [1]). I highly recommend _not_ using and removing it, in the case you have been using it. As replacements have a look at `pacman -Ss smtp-forwarder`. Best, David [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60502 -- https://sleepmap.de

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Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common
by John Ramsden 04 Nov '18

04 Nov '18

It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added? -- John Ramsden On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > > I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed > > that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not > > available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly > > popular license that is copied by a number of packages (many of them > > Rust based: find /usr/share/licenses -name "*MIT*"), I think it would be > > beneficial if there could be a copy of the MIT license in the licenses > > package. > > > > I've attached a diff of my edits to licenses trunk. Note that I copied > > the licence file from rust/LICENCE-MIT and ran updpkgsums. Also, it > > seems the PHP-3.0 licence has changed, and its checksum has updated as > > well. > > Please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#license > > Especially the first bullet point. > > Regards, > Bruno > > > Email had 1 attachment: > + signature.asc > 1k (application/pgp-signature)

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[arch-general] Hardware portal
by Andrey Ponomarenko 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hi, Good news for everyone interested in Linux-compatibility and reliability of hardware! The Linux-Hardware.org database has been divided into a set of databases, one per each Linux distro. You can now select your favorite distro on the front page: https://linux-hardware.org/?d=Arch In this mode you'll not see data collected from other Linux distros. One can submit computer hardware info to the database automatically by AppImage, Snap, Flatpak, Docker or native package: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#install Enjoy!

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[arch-general] Problems Building Nuvolaplayer-git
by Hunter Jozwiak 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hello, I am having the following problem in building the nuvolaplayer-git package. :: Checking for conflicts... :: Checking for inner conflicts... [Aur: 1] nuvolaplayer-git-r1020.78b0333-1 1 nuvolaplayer-git (Build Files Exist) ==> Packages to cleanBuild? ==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4) ==> :: PKGBUILD up to date, Skipping (1/1): nuvolaplayer-git 1 nuvolaplayer-git (Build Files Exist) ==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3, 1-3, ^4) ==> Diffs to show? ==> :: Parsing SRCINFO (1/1): nuvolaplayer-git ==> The following packages are not compatible with your architecture: nuvolaplayer-git ==> Try to build them anyway? [Y/n] ==> Making package: nuvolaplayer-git r1020.78b0333-1 (Sat 03 Nov 2018 01:45:41 PM EDT) ==> Retrieving sources... -> Updating nuvolaplayer-git git repo... Fetching origin ==> Validating source files with md5sums... nuvolaplayer-git ... Skipped ==> Cleaning up... ==> Making package: nuvolaplayer-git r1020.78b0333-1 (Sat 03 Nov 2018 01:45:43 PM EDT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Updating nuvolaplayer-git git repo... Fetching origin ==> Validating source files with md5sums... nuvolaplayer-git ... Skipped ==> Removing existing $srcdir/ directory... ==> Extracting sources... -> Creating working copy of nuvolaplayer-git git repo... Cloning into 'nuvolaplayer-git'... done. ==> Starting pkgver()... ==> Updated version: nuvolaplayer-git r1755.fbb4b9f-1 ==> Sources are ready. ==> Making package: nuvolaplayer-git r1755.fbb4b9f-1 (Sat 03 Nov 2018 01:45:47 PM EDT) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree ==> Starting pkgver()... ==> Starting build()... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Node.py", line 342, in ant_iter raise StopIteration StopIteration The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Scripting.py", line 118, in waf_entry_point run_commands() File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Scripting.py", line 174, in run_commands parse_options() File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Scripting.py", line 157, in parse_options ctx.execute() File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Options.py", line 198, in execute super(OptionsContext,self).execute() File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Context.py", line 84, in execute self.recurse([os.path.dirname(g_module.root_path)]) File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Context.py", line 125, in recurse user_function(self) File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/wscript", line 292, in options ctx.load('compiler_c vala') File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Context.py", line 82, in load fun(self) File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Tools/compiler_c.py", line 40, in options opt.load_special_tools('c_*.py',ban=['c_dumbpreproc.py']) File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Context.py", line 326, in load_special_tools lst=self.root.find_node(waf_dir).find_node('waflib/extras').ant_glob(var) File "/home/sektor/.cache/yay/nuvolaplayer-git/src/nuvolaplayer-git/.waf3-2.0.6-593191f496fe8c66231dfd5df26167ae/waflib/Node.py", line 358, in ant_glob return list(it) RuntimeError: generator raised StopIteration ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... Error making: nuvolaplayer-git Does anyone who has had experience with Nuvola know of the solution to this problem? Is there a package missing that didn't get added to the dependencies? Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] Static Lib Build for SDL2
by Jayesh Badwaik 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hi, As I currently notice here (line 32) https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD? h=packages/sdl2#n31 The SDL2 library is not build with a static component. This is useful for a lot of development and hence, it would be nice if it is build with static component. Also, it would be also good if the line 50 of the package was not done, since that causes problem with using CMake files portably across other systems. If instead such a thing is needed, I would suggest that a symlink `libSDL2.a` be created to point to `SDL2main.a`. Cheers -- Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io

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[arch-general] Problem install shrew vpn client
by Maykel Franco 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Hi, I received this error when compile the program shrew vpn client: yaourt -S shrew-vpn-client /tmp/yaourt-tmp-maykel/aur-shrew-vpn-client/src/ike/source/libike/manager.file.cpp: In member function 'bool _CONFIG_MANAGER::file_pcf_load(CONFIG&, const char*, bool&)': /tmp/yaourt-tmp-maykel/aur-shrew-vpn-client/src/ike/source/libike/manager.file.cpp:682:19: error: aggregate 'EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx_cipher' has incomplete type and cannot be defined EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx_cipher; ^~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [source/libike/CMakeFiles/ss_ike.dir/build.make:102: source/libike/CMakeFiles/ss_ike.dir/manager.file.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... [ 24%] Linking CXX shared library libss_ip.so [ 25%] Linking CXX shared library libss_pfk.so [ 25%] Built target ss_ip [ 25%] Built target ss_pfk make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:244: source/libike/CMakeFiles/ss_ike.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build shrew-vpn-client. Someone happened to him the same? Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common
by Stephen Gregoratto 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly popular license that is copied by a number of packages (many of them Rust based: find /usr/share/licenses -name "*MIT*"), I think it would be beneficial if there could be a copy of the MIT license in the licenses package. I've attached a diff of my edits to licenses trunk. Note that I copied the licence file from rust/LICENCE-MIT and ran updpkgsums. Also, it seems the PHP-3.0 licence has changed, and its checksum has updated as well. -- Stephen Gregoratto

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[arch-general] Unbound
by siefke_listen＠web.de 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Hello, when I start unbound Nameserver via shell then all work fine. But since few weeks it start not with systemd anymore. When I start with systemd in netstat -tulpe saw only the SSH Service. >From shell the name service also see in netstat -tulpe. Have someone idea what I do wrong? Nice Day & Thanks Silvio Log Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] notice: init module 0: subnet Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] notice: init module 1: validator Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] notice: init module 2: iterator Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 0 queries, 0 answers from cache, 0 recursions, 0 prefetch, 0 rejected by ip rate> Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1020]: [1020:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 0 avg 0 exceeded 0 jostled 0 Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 3. Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 systemd[1]: Stopped Unbound DNS Resolver. Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 systemd[1]: Started Unbound DNS Resolver. Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] notice: init module 0: subnet Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] notice: init module 1: validator Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] notice: init module 2: iterator Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 0 queries, 0 answers from cache, 0 recursions, 0 prefetch, 0 rejected by ip rate> Oct 31 21:28:59 rb2 unbound[1023]: [1023:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 0 avg 0 exceeded 0 jostled 0 Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: Stopped Unbound DNS Resolver. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: Started Unbound DNS Resolver. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] notice: init module 0: subnet Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] notice: init module 1: validator Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] notice: init module 2: iterator Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.8.1). Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 0 queries, 0 answers from cache, 0 recursions, 0 prefetch, 0 rejected by ip rate> Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 unbound[1025]: [1025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 0 avg 0 exceeded 0 jostled 0 Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: Stopped Unbound DNS Resolver. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Start request repeated too quickly. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: unbound.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'. Oct 31 21:29:00 rb2 systemd[1]: Failed to start Unbound DNS Resolver.

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[arch-general] Out-of-date package "code"
by Jens Hausdorf 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Hey folks, as this is my first post on any of the Arch Linux mailing lists, please correct me if I'm putting this on the wrong list. The code package in the community repository[1] is flagged out-of-date since 2018-10-08 and after contacting the Maintainer personally via e-mail on 2018-10-21, I didn't get any response until now(10 days later). I wonder whether Filipe is alright or maybe on vacation? Regards, Jens 1 - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/code/

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[arch-general] atlas-lapack-base vs openblas issue requires manual intervention to allow an update
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

Hi, depending on what we have installed, there's the need to replace 'atlas-lapack-base' by 'cblas', 'lapack' and 'openblas'. My install's dependency chain needs it for packages such as 'blender' and 'gimp' (all from official repositories), resp. without having 'sagemath' installed 'openblas' seemingly could be replaced by 'blas' [1], too. However, there's seemingly the need to install 'cblas', 'lapack' and 'openblas' or 'blas' first. Perhaps this should be mentioned by the news at https://www.archlinux.org/ and by https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-announce. Regards, Ralf [1] $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] looking for conflicting packages... :: openblas and atlas-lapack-base are in conflict (blas). Remove atlas-lapack-base? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: unable to satisfy dependency 'lapack' required by r [snip] $ sudo pacman -S openblas cblas lapack [snip] Packages (4) atlas-lapack-base-3.10.3-1 [removal] cblas-3.8.0-2 lapack-3.8.0-2 openblas-0.3.3-1 [snip] :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n $ sudo pacman -S blas cblas lapack [snip] Packages (4) atlas-lapack-base-3.10.3-1 [removal] blas-3.8.0-2 cblas-3.8.0-2 lapack-3.8.0-2 [snip] :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y $ sudo pacman -Syu [snip] :: openblas and blas are in conflict. Remove blas? [y/N] y Packages (149) [snip] :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y $ pactree -r openblas openblas ├─cblas │ [snip] ├─lapack │ [snip] ├─r └─sagemath $ sudo pacman -S blas [snip] :: blas and openblas are in conflict. Remove openblas? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: removing openblas breaks dependency 'openblas' required by sagemath [snip]

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[arch-general] Reboot-less Computers
by Jayesh Badwaik 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Hi, I am looking at possibilities to have a setup which does not need to be restarted at all and can be live patched. I have seen this old post: http://allanmcrae.com/2015/03/updating-arch-kernel-on-digital-ocean/ And I am reading information about kpatch. But there does not need to be much information. Is there a reliable way to do this currently? If yes, I would like to know some information about it. Ideally, a tried and tested set of steps will be welcome. But things are never so easy I guess. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.github.io

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[arch-general] Issue linking 32-bit GAS assembly
by Dutch Ingraham 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Hi all: I'm having a problem linking 32-bit GAS assembly code that references external C libraries on an up-to-date 64-bit Arch installation. I have enabled the 32-bit repositories and installed the multilib-devel group and lib32-glibc. I have updated the library cache with ldconfig and rebooted. The command to assemble is: <as --32 -o filename.o filename.s>. Assembly succeeds. However, when linking using the command <ld -melf_i386 --dynamic-linker /lib32/ld-linux.so.2 -lc -o filename filename.o> the command fails with: ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.a when searching for -lc ld: cannot find -lc Note this linker command (or a hierarchy-appropriate one) seems standard, and succeeds on a 64-bit Debian OS. There is a fairly recent Forum question (but pre-dating the discontinuance of i686 support) regarding the same issue at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=229235 which indicates the command should be: <ld -melf_i386 -shared -L /usr/lib32 -dynamic-linker /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -o \ filename filename.o -lc> This command succeeds, insofar as the linker returns an exit code of 0. However, running the program (and all other similar programs) fails with "Illegal instruction (core dumped)." Assembling with debugging symbols and running a backtrace didn't enlighten me. Note that changing /lib/ld-linux to /usr/lib32/ld-linux in the command immediately above produces the same result, as confirmed by the output of <ldconfig -p> Anyone see something I've missed of have any suggestions? Thanks. ----------- Here is some simple code to test with: # paramtest2.s - Listing system environment variables .section .data output: .asciz "%s\n" .section .text .globl _start _start: movl %esp, %ebp addl $12, %ebp loop1: cmpl $0, (%ebp) je endit pushl (%ebp) pushl $output call printf addl $12, %esp addl $4, %ebp loop loop1 endit: pushl $0 call exit

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[arch-general] How to delete user from bugs.archlinux.org
by scootergrisen 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

How do i delete my user/account from https://bugs.archlinux.org/ ?

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[arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?
by Tobias Hunger 14 Oct '18

14 Oct '18

Hi Arch Community, I have scripts that will install a set of arch linux machines for me with all the tweaks I want. These scripts run pacman a lot to install bits and pieces. Usually the script will running pacman to install one package and then configure that package and then proceed to install the next (set of) packages. This works great, but a noticeable part of the run time is spent on running pacman hooks (e.g. to update the man-db and similar things). So I am wondering: Is it possible to stop pacman from running hooks during package installation? I do know when it is "safe" to not run hooks (when the system is not complete yet) and when I need to run all of them (right after the system has all packages installed that it will have). So far I run pacman with a --hookdir that contains symlinks to /dev/null named like some of the more expensive hooks that tend to take long to complete. But a --no-hooks option to pacman would be great for my use case. Is it possible to run pacman without it triggering hooks? Best Regards, Tobias

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[arch-general] If you have a SuperMicro board....
by David C. Rankin 06 Oct '18

06 Oct '18

Worth passing along: We can now add motherboard stealth chips to the list of security concerns https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-u… The upside is the article reads better than any modern day spy novel. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.30 - Suspend acts as suspend-then-hibernate
by Reto Haeberli 01 Oct '18

01 Oct '18

Hello arch-general, I don’t know where to address this properly, so I try here: Obviously the behaviour for suspend has been changed in gnome 3.30 from suspend to "suspend then hibernate". Personally I have only discovered this after a while - suddenly experiencing random crashes after entering suspend mode. The whole implementation does not check reliably if hibernate is fully established (this was not the case on my pc cause I don’t need it) and then causes crashes that could potentially result in a data loss when trying to hibernate from suspend state. There is also a discussion in the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1810621#p1810621 I’m new to arch but I’d assume it would be beneficial to issue a warning to users or change the default behaviour back to the old one where suspend is “suspend" and not "suspend then hibernate"? Thoughts? Best regards

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[arch-general] MariaDB package version
by Kevin Dodd 30 Sep '18

30 Sep '18

I recently noticed Arch Linux's mariadb package is still on the 10.1 release series, even though upstream has considered the 10.2 and 10.3 release series to be "stable" for at least 4 months. Arch is usually so good about keeping everything up-to-date, so I am curious what the reason for this is. Something to do with compatibility? Thanks, ~ Kevin Dodd

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[arch-general] AppArmor support
by Gus 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

I know such request was rejected here https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59733 recently, but still AppArmor doesn't need linking with libraries and doesn't require as much userland support as SELinux, so it will not hurt to have one option enabled in kernel, right?

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[arch-general] Owncloud client compatibility with Nextcloud server
by Óscar García Amor 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

Hi people! Today I updated my owncloud-client package to latest version (2.5.0.10650-1) and now I have the following message: "The server version 14.0.0-Nexcloud is unsupported! Proceed at your own risk." Seems that the owncloud-client only will have support to owncloud-server. Since in Archlinux the owncloud-server was replaced by nextcloud-server, maybe is time to drop owncloud-client and replace with nextcloud-client? What do you think? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] sendfax: 460 Failed to submit job 110: Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address.
by David C. Rankin 27 Sep '18

27 Sep '18

All, After recent updates, hylafax/sendfax fails with the error: sendfax: 460 Failed to submit job 110: Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address. it had been working find up until the last week or two. Reverting to the LTS kernel resolves the issue. There are no obvious errors in the journal. Does anyone know why sendfax would begin failing with "Unable to open scheduler FIFO: No such device or address." with the current kernel, but work fine on LTS? (I have confirmed this behavior on two separate Arch servers) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] rtlwifi
by Frank Zimmermann 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Good afternoon, my log is flooded with these messages: Sep 26 09:09:45 defiant kernel: rtl8192se: switch case 0x5e not processed Sep 26 09:09:54 defiant kernel: rtlwifi: AP off, try to reconnect now Approx everey 10 sec there's a new entry. My wifi connection is quite buggy even when close to the router, so am not sure if that might be a reason. My favourite search engine came up with some links suggesting that these module options will help: options rtl8192se fwlps=0 ips=0 swlps=0 swenc=1 However, I do not see any difference with them. any ideas how to get around this? THX Frank

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[arch-general] [News] DigitalOcean "supporting" Arch Linux
by Eduardo Machado 26 Sep '18

26 Sep '18

Hi folks, Firstly, i am not a digitalocean affiliated, but i use their services. A long time ago, Arch Linux was one the supported OSes, latter they dropped this support. Now, although it is not officially supported again they just launched the ability to upload Custom Images into DigitalOcean. You can now import the OS of your choice directly into DigitalOcean and start a Droplet. [1] [1] https://blog.digitalocean.com/custom-images/ --- Eduardo M. Machado

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[arch-general] vsftpd only works without seccomp
by L. Rose 23 Sep '18

23 Sep '18

Hi, I've been using vsftpd successfully with implicit SSL several months ago. Now I wanted to use it again (same config file), but it didn't work, clients reported SSL errors. Adding `seccomp_sandbox=NO` to my /etc/vsftpd.conf fixes the error. But I don't want to disable seccomp sandboxing. Any ideas? Regards, L. Rose

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[arch-general] Starting 9/15 new error - stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed
by David C. Rankin 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

Archdevs, Is this a new bug or config issue? Beginning 9/15, I receive a new cron error: error: stat of /var/log/clamav/clamd.log failed: No such file or directory But the file is there: $ l /var/log/clamav/clamd.log -rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 0 Aug 30 2015 /var/log/clamav/clamd.log The wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ClamAV doesn't mention the issue, so is this a bug? If so, upstream or here? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Firefox crashes randomly
by Hubert Hauser 21 Sep '18

21 Sep '18

Hello! I have problem with randomly crashing Firefox 62.0 or single tabs in this browser on 64-bit Arch Linux system. Running Firefox in safe mode doesn't help. Resetting browser or removing folder ~/.mozilla still doesn't help. Any ideas how to fix this issue? -- Cheers, Hubert Hauser.

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Re: [arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?
by Olli 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

On 17.09.18 09:31, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: > There has ever been an EOL for older JDKs. But sometimes You're bound > to a specific JDK version in Your working environment, so IMO always > replacing is a bad strategy. The problem is, in larger companies it > sometimes takes some weeks or even months until some software is > allowed to be upgraded. And I'd at least want to check which features > are available in which JDK - or which bugs are present. Well, tell the OpenJDK/Oracle people, they are the ones who came up with this release cycle. It has nothing to do with Arch Linux.

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[arch-general] BIND, systemd-resolved, and nscd
by frederik＠ofb.net 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Hello Arch General, I hope this is the right mailing list; I'm a new subscriber. After a recent upgrade I found that DNS broke in two different ways on my computer, 1. BIND enabled DNSSEC by default, causing hostname resolution to stop working (for some reason my home wireless router broke the "trust chain", which I know nothing about) https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01636/81/BIND-9.13.2-Release-Notes.html The default setting for dnssec-validation is now auto, which activates DNSSEC validation using the IANA root key. I had to add "dnssec-validation yes;" to /etc/named.conf. I have a forwarding BIND configuration so that Spamassassin's DNSBL queries can be handled specially. 2. There is a bug relating to systemd-resolved and nscd. It is also related to a decision made by systemd-resolved maintainers to never use DNS to resolve single-label hostnames: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2514 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23546 This was very confusing to me because I had assumed that my computers were still using DNS to find each other via my router, as I had not changed anything related to that configuration. While trying to debug these problems, I remember checking the "Arch Linux - News" page (https://www.archlinux.org/news/) but I didn't find anything relevant there. I wonder it makes sense to expect that changes which break hostname resolution on home networks, or which may require reconfiguration on common setups to maintain existing functionality, should be announced on this page. I would be in favor of that but I don't know how I would phrase the announcement. For what it's worth, I was not able to find help with these problems on #archlinux or the BBS or superuser.com. Any thoughts? Best wishes, Frederick

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[arch-general] Lxde taskbar freezing
by David Rosenstrauch 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

It seems like some recent package installation or upgrade has been breaking my Lxde desktop. The taskbar at the bottom of the screen keeps freezing up periodically - doesn't repaint (except for non-lxde icons like network manager applet), doesn't respond to mouse clicks, etc. Then after a few minutes it suddenly starts responding again - only to freeze up again a few minutes later. The issue seems to be restricted to the Lxde desktop - the Xfce taskbar doesn't seem to freeze up in the same way. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Again, I believe it's a recent upgrade, as all was working for me during the work day on Friday. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?
by Peter Nabbefeld 15 Sep '18

15 Sep '18

Hello, up to JDK 9 I didn't have problems upgrading, but since JDK 10 it always wants to replace JDK 9, and I guess it will become worse with JDK 11 etc. I've set "IgnorePkg = jdk9-openjdk jre9-openjdk jre9-openjdk-headless openjdk9-doc openjdk9-src" in pacman.conf, so now I'm getting warnings all the time, but I'm not sure what will happen with future updates. As a Java developer, I need to be able to have multiple JDKs for compatibility checkings. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] automake at 1.15
by Jonathon Fernyhough 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi all. TL;DR: why is automake still at 1.15? I'm trying to work out if there's a reason for automake [1] being held at 1.15 (1.16 is needed for building cups-filters-driverless [2] due to patching Makefile.am; yes, I know, this cause is not strictly an Arch issue but it may impact on other software). Looking at the release announcements for automake 1.16 [3] and 1.16.1 [4] I can't immediately see any incompatible changes, and a web search on "automake site:lists.archlinux.org" doesn't show me anything interesting (or anything at all) from the past year or so (1.16 was released in Feb 2018). I don't want to email the package maintainer before doing due-diligence (I know what it's like getting stupid questions via direct email). Any pointers etc. gratefully received. Best, Jonathon [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/automake/ [2] https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-is-the-automake-package-at-version-1-15/581… [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-02/msg00012.html [4] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-03/msg00019.html

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[arch-general] Icons issues with LXPanel
by Giovanni Santini (ItachiSan) 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hey everyone, I am an user of LXDE and I pretty happy with it, but I just have some weird issue with lxpanel: My terminal (GNOME Terminal) has no icon in the panel, but after resizing the bar it does appear Some Electron-based apps (Mailspring and Franz) do not show their icons in the panel and have instead a generic icon I am not sure this can be considered as a bug or not, so I reported it here first. Any opinions on this? Would be better if I can fix it. Thanks everyone in advance!

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[arch-general] AUR: Failing to install gnupod-git (no perl-date-parse)
by Jeanette C. 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Hey hey, I just tried to install gnupod-git from AUR and there is one unmet dependency not found by either pacman or through AUR: perl-date-parse . Short of building an AUR myself, is there something I could do? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s But now I'm stronger than yesterday <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] users memlock value
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

Hi, I wonder if it's reasonable, that a package sets an '@users - memlock' value, since it overrides needed memlock values of other groups. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf @users - memlock 1024 # vim:set ft=limits: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qo /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf is owned by gcr 3.28.0-4 Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] update today causes avantfax_hourly cron: Exec format error?
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

All, After the linux-firmware update I have started receiving strange cron messages: Cron <root@phoinix> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly: Exec format error run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly exited with return code 1 The cron job is: /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly # runs once an hour to update the phone book 0 * * * * /srv/http/avantfax/includes/phb.php Testing manually works fine: # ./phb.php # echo $? This started after the linux-firmware update: [2018-08-25 22:40] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2018-08-25 22:40] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2018-08-25 22:41] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] transaction started [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20180815.f1b95fe-1 -> 20180821.1d17c18-3) [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] transaction completed [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] running 'systemd-tmpfiles.hook'... [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] running 'systemd-update.hook'... (I am 5 hours ahead of UTC - which corresponds to the time just before the cron messages started) I am scratching my head as how this can be related? Anybody else having this type issue after updates in the past 24 hours? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Services with DefaultDependencies=no
by Leonid Isaev 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Hi, While going over .service files on my system, I noticed that quite a few of them, not belonging to systemd package, contain DefaultDependencies=no (DD=no). This is understandable (perhaps) for programs like systemd-journald, but what about normal daemons, like rpcbind, haveged and rpc-nfsd? I thought that setting DD=no is kind of a hack needed only for special services (e.g. called from fstab via x-systemd.requires=). Or am I missing something? Thanks, L. -- Leonid Isaev

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[arch-general] Include paths for python 3
by Jayesh Badwaik 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

I've noticed that the include paths for python 3 are updated according to the version of python being installed. This removes some stability for custom programs which build against python (example boost.python). It would be nice if there was a symlink version of python include paths to a stable location like `/usr/include/python3`. Thank you. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.gitlab.io

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[arch-general] Antergoes problem.
by Matthew Dyer 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi all, Just installed antergoes which is an arch diribitive distro. Any how I have yaourt Enabled to install packages from the AUR. When I attempted to install or update packages with yaourt I get command not found. For example, when I type yaourt -S espeak-ng-git I get the responce, "bash command not found." any ideas on this. has something changed that I am unare of. I never had this problem with this before. Thanks all. Matthew

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[arch-general] Arch branded ODP slide for presentation
by Steve Ovens 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Good day mailing list, I am giving an all day work shop at Ohio Linux Fest ( https://ohiolinux.org/olfi-training-2018/automation-with-bash-shell/) I want to give a vendor agnostic presentation and am hunting around for some decent Arch branded ODP template slides to include. My question is: 1) Is there someone I need to seek permission from to use Arch branding? 2) Does anyone have any good slide templates they can share? I appreciate your time. Regards -- Steve Ovens Consultant, RHCA DevOps Red Hat Canada Cell: 519-709-5775

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[arch-general] Changes to jack/jack2 and realtime privileges
by David Runge 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Hi all, as announced before [1], recent changes to the jack and jack2{,-dbus} packages (now in [extra] and [community] respectively) have made the previously shipped configurations obsolete and decoupled the audio group from acquiring realtime privileges by default when installing jack. The package realtime-privileges [2] has been created to serve as the new way of achieving this by the means of a dedicated 'realtime' group, to which users, that need the settings, must be added. It is now an optional dependency to jack and jack2{,-dbus} and can of course also be dependend upon from other packages if needed. In theory, this change shouldn't mean much of a difference to users, that need realtime (just install realtime-priviliges and add your user to the realtime group: `gpasswd -a <user> realtime`), while it doesn't have any consequences for users that have no use for it to begin with. Best, David [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-proaudio/2018-July/000163.html [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/realtime-privileges/ -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] blueman authentication problem
by Frank Zimmermann 21 Aug '18

21 Aug '18

Good evening, for approx the last 2 days I noticed that the blueman applet and rfkill state request me to enter my password when logging in Gnome Shell. The following messages in my log might be of relevance: Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_wwan_sw: radio is unblocked Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8607] rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill 2) (driver rtl8192se) Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8611] rfkill1: found WWAN radio killswitch (at /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill1) (platform driver thinkpad_acpi) Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8616] manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WiFi hardware radio set enabled Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877403.8650] manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WWAN hardware radio set enabled Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877405.2145] manager: rfkill: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]: <info> [1534877405.2148] manager: rfkill: WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Aug 21 20:50:44 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus- org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.87' (uid=1000 pid=1227 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ") Aug 21 20:50:47 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled Aug 21 20:53:39 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus-name::1.186 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank) Aug 21 21:05:10 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler enabled Aug 21 21:05:22 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus- org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.675' (uid=1000 pid=4766 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ") Aug 21 21:05:23 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled Aug 21 21:05:34 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:5 successfully authenticated as unix-user:frank to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus- name::1.735 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank) Any ideas how to change this strange behavior? Thanks Frank

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[arch-general] How to upgrade a postgresql database?
by Peter Nabbefeld 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

Hello, I'm trying to upgrade a postgresql database, but it doesn't work. I've also found this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PostgreSQL#Upgrading_PostgreSQL This doesn't work for me, because there isn't any folder /opt/pgsql-9.6/bin anymore - all the binaries are in /usr/bin. This implies, there're no two versions of the binaries available, nor any oldir or newdir (for -b / -B parameters). It seems, I have to downgrade postgresql first, dump the database, and restore it after upgrading again. Is there any easier method available (i.e. some script which could do this automatically)? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Thoughts
by Yury Grebenkin 17 Aug '18

17 Aug '18

On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:06:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:26:44 -0500, Simone Baratta via arch-general > wrote: >> On 15 August 2018 16:44:20 GMT-05:00, Robin Broda via arch-general >> <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >>> On 8/15/18 5:18 PM, Yury Grebenkin via arch-general wrote: >>>> please let me know and I will send you a copy as a plain text file >>> >>> Instead of turning this into a single-way "me too" thread, >>> just share whatever you have upfront. >>> >>> kthx >> >> +1 > > Yury, please post a link. My email address can be seen. I send the book personally. Best regards, Yury Grebenkin

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[arch-general] Thoughts
by Yury Grebenkin 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

I wrote a book. It has several lines on Arch Linux. People interested, please let me know and I will send you a copy as a plain text file attachment. Yury Grebenkin

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[arch-general] i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb
by David C. Rankin 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

Archdevs, There seems to be a funny depends (or missing depends) issue for *some* systems without wireless that have i3status installed. This appears to be because i3stats depends on wireless_tools, which during boot triggers an attempt to load /var/lib/regulatory.db -- which fails because the file doesn't exist with the following: [ 11.924427] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 11.928144] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 11.928215] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2 [ 11.928219] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db This issue was touched on from a different angle in: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234568 The /var/lib/regulatory.db file is provided by wireless-regdb (a dependency of crda), but neither are a dependency wireless_tools. I don't know exactly what hardware triggers the attempt to load on systems without wireless. I have 2 SuperMicro boards that do throw the error, but similar setups on MSI and Gigabyte that don't. The error appears harmless, so I don't know if it is something that should even be addressed, but I thought I'd pass it along and let you devs make the call. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] Thoughts
by John Ramsden 16 Aug '18

16 Aug '18

I wouldn't mind taking a look as well. -- John Ramsden On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Robin Broda via arch-general wrote: > On 8/15/18 5:18 PM, Yury Grebenkin via arch-general wrote: > > please let me know and I will send you a copy as a plain text file > > Instead of turning this into a single-way "me too" thread, > just share whatever you have upfront. > > kthx > > -- > Rob (coderobe) > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[arch-general] Booting EFISTUB Kernel: Tianocore Wants *.efi.
by Ralph Corderoy 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Hi, I've an Asus C200M Chromebook with coreboot and TianoCore UEFI newly flashed. Today was spent working through the wiki to have it EFISTUB boot a kernel in ESP. The disk has a ESP partition, and a root partition that's LUKS dmcrypt'd. (All this is new to me.) I used efibootmgr(8) to add a boot menu item, and I changed the order so it was second after USB. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB#Using_UEFI_directly On finishing the installation and rebooting, I ended up EFI shell without any visible errors. Poking about, I could see ESP had `\vmlinuz-linux', in EFI terms, and the two initrds. Explicitly running the kernel, e.g. `fs0:\vmlinuz-linux' either did nothing, or said it wasn't the right kind of thing. I forget. On a hunch I used EFI's `cp' to copy it to `\vmlinuz-linux.efi'. `ls' then shows it in a different colour to its source and it booted with `\vmlinuz-linux.efi'. Where along the line do I arrange for the kernel to end with `.efi'? -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy

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[arch-general] valgrind error -- the 'impossible' happened?? (fully updated Arch system)
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

After update to current (as of now linux 4.17.14, and I just tested with 4.17.13 and the error is there too), valgrind fails with an 'impossible' error: ===== error start $ valgrind ./bin/opendir_readdir_dyn_char_basic ==1196== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==1196== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==1196== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==1196== Command: ./bin/opendir_readdir_dyn_char_basic ==1196== valgrind: the 'impossible' happened: Unsupported arch_prctl option host stacktrace: ==1196== at 0x580441BA: show_sched_status_wrk (m_libcassert.c:355) ==1196== by 0x580442D4: report_and_quit (m_libcassert.c:426) ==1196== by 0x58044517: panic (m_libcassert.c:502) ==1196== by 0x58044517: vgPlain_core_panic_at (m_libcassert.c:507) ==1196== by 0x5804454A: vgPlain_core_panic (m_libcassert.c:512) ==1196== by 0x580DAE22: vgSysWrap_amd64_linux_sys_arch_prctl_before (syswrap-amd64-linux.c:286) ==1196== by 0x580A0C23: vgPlain_client_syscall (syswrap-main.c:1857) ==1196== by 0x5809D48A: handle_syscall (scheduler.c:1126) ==1196== by 0x5809EBB6: vgPlain_scheduler (scheduler.c:1443) ==1196== by 0x580AED50: thread_wrapper (syswrap-linux.c:103) ==1196== by 0x580AED50: run_a_thread_NORETURN (syswrap-linux.c:156) sched status: running_tid=1 Thread 1: status = VgTs_Runnable (lwpid 1196) ==1196== at 0x401A1C5: ??? (in /usr/lib/ld-2.28.so) ==1196== by 0x178BFBFE: ??? Note: see also the FAQ in the source distribution. It contains workarounds to several common problems. In particular, if Valgrind aborted or crashed after identifying problems in your program, there's a good chance that fixing those problems will prevent Valgrind aborting or crashing, especially if it happened in m_mallocfree.c. If that doesn't help, please report this bug to: www.valgrind.org In the bug report, send all the above text, the valgrind version, and what OS and version you are using. Thanks. ===== error end My question is does this look like an arch issue or is it just a kde upstream issue? I was answering a question on SO with a simple opendir/readdir of names into a dynamically allocated pointer-to-pointer-to-char and was showing how to test with valgrind. To my surprise valgrind croaked on Arch, but ran fine on SuSE and an old Arch box, so there is something wrong in the current valgrind on Arch. test source file at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51804567/c-writing-readdir-to-char-arra… (it just reads the contents of the directory given as the first argument ('.' default) and qsorts and outputs the stored names before freeing the names and pointers. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Reliability test for hard drives and SSD
by Andrey Ponomarenko 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Hi there! Good news for all interested in hardware compatibility and reliability. I've started a new project to estimate reliability of hard drives and SSD in real-life conditions based on the SMART data reports collected by Linux users in the Linux-Hardware.org database since 2014. The initial data (SMART reports), analysis methods and results are publicly shared in a new github repository: https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART. Everyone can contribute to the report by uploading probes of their computers by the hw-probe tool! The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power on hours" and minimal number of errors. The following formula is used to measure reliability: Power_On_Hours / (1 + Number_Of_Errors), i.e. time to the first error/between errors. Please be careful when reading the results table. Pay attention not only to the rating, but also to the number of checked model samples. If rating is low, then look at the number of power-on days and number of errors occurred. New drive models will appear at the end of the rating table and will move to the top in the case of long error-free operation. Thanks to ROSA, Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Gentoo users and others who had made this work possible by contribution to the database!

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[arch-general] Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 09 Aug '18

09 Aug '18

Good morning from Singapore, Can I build Arch Linux from Scratch like Linux from Scratch? Please advise. Thank you. ===BEGIN SIGNATURE=== Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 30 Oct 2017 [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ <https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/>[2] http://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ <http://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/>[3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming <https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming>===END SIGNATURE===

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Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change
by Geo Kozey 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

On August 8, 2018 4:54 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Em agosto 7, 2018 23:31 W B via arch-general escreveu: > > > It isn't an order. > > > > > Can you tell us why this change was required, please? > > Have you read the original post to the list? Specially this [0]? > The author of original post was only speculating about possible reasons for the recent changes. He also asked few questions which weren't answered. > Those tar files you just linked are not signed by Linus anymore, they are signed > instead by Greg Kroah-Hartman. You would have known this if you bothered to actually > download them and check the signature. > Greg Kroah-Hartman PGP key was already included as validpkgkey inside PKGBUILD so there is no real argument here. > Another reason for this move is to apply our patches as commits. You can use any other > kernel if you want. > There is no tradition in Arch to self-host package sources as Debian does unless upstream has completely broken release process. This can impose security risks on Arch as we now have to trust their github infra rather than kernel.org (we all know what happened to gentoo recently). I'm aware that Barthalion made an effort to hardenize Arch github infra but still this is a new risk which didn't exist before. Is it general Arch move to self-host sources and applying patches as commits or will linux kernel package stay as outlier? > [0] https://www.kernel.org/minor-changes-to-tarball-release-format.html > > Cheers, > Giancarlo Razzolini Yours sincerely G. K.

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[arch-general] Kernel source URL change
by Andrey Vihrov 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Hi, Recently the way kernel sources are retrieved was changed in the linux package [1]. Now the sources are fetched from https://github.com/archlinux/linux. I see a few problems with this: - Previously the list of applied patches was very transparent. You could immediately see that the kernel and kernel patch tarballs come from kernel.org, and view individual extra patches. Now the code comes from a non-kernel source, and cannot be verified as easily. - Previously, if a new kernel version is released and is not yet in the repos, you could more or less take the official linux PKGBUILD, change one number and build it yourself. With the new layout it is not clear how to achieve this. - An often cited Arch policy is to use software as released by upstream with minimal patching. What becomes of this policy if one of the core packages builds from a technical fork instead of upstream? If the patches from kernel.org will no longer be signed, as announced in [2], then an alternative would be git tags from [3] and [4]. It's understandable if it may make development harder, nonetheless it would allow for better transparency and follow upstream closer — just one user's opinion. [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/lin… [2] https://www.kernel.org/minor-changes-to-tarball-release-format.html [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/ [4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git -- Regards, Andrey

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Re: [arch-general] Kernel source URL change
by Giancarlo Razzolini 08 Aug '18

08 Aug '18

Em agosto 7, 2018 23:31 W B via arch-general escreveu: > It isn't an order. > > Can you tell us why this change was required, please? > Have you read the original post to the list? Specially this [0]? Those tar files you just linked are not signed by Linus anymore, they are signed instead by Greg Kroah-Hartman. You would have known this if you bothered to actually download them and check the signature. Another reason for this move is to apply our patches as commits. You can use any other kernel if you want. [0] https://www.kernel.org/minor-changes-to-tarball-release-format.html Cheers, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-general] Grub-efi install issue
by Matthew Dyer 07 Aug '18

07 Aug '18

Hi all, I am trying to install arch to a efi system and got as far as the configure the packages but grub install is whare I am stuck. First off, in the wiki it says to mount the efi partition, but it doesn't say whare to mount it to. Secondly, I run the following to install grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/dev/sda1 --bootloader-id=GRUB and get the following error. something about unable to get the udev. What am I missing? Would something rong? The wiki artical s a bit confusing. Thanks.

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[arch-general] ipv6 only half working
by David Rosenstrauch 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

I'm having some weird problems with ipv6 on my box. My ISP is set up for ipv6, my router and server both seem to have valid ipv6 addresses, and ipv6 connectivity seems to (nominally) be working: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ ping ipv6.google.com PING ipv6.google.com(lga25s63-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4006:81b::200e)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from lga25s63-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4006:81b::200e): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=13.1 ms 64 bytes from lga25s63-in-x0e.1e100.net (2607:f8b0:4006:81b::200e): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=11.0 ms ^C [darose@darsys12 ~]$ curl -I ipv6.google.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:35:06 GMT Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See g.co/p3phelp for more info." Server: gws X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Set-Cookie: 1P_JAR=2018-07-23-15; expires=Wed, 22-Aug-2018 15:35:06 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com Set-Cookie: NID=135=SV0kZxYO7fTnUYm0ZJFnRx-d17kNOyTyHgPzv-xKmj_Q-LXYz_LuiBsAGHesREIbtwbKZAKYeqU8fh0saXfnylDGsBbAwCQDAKeG9iT9PwmBc0IBntqO0xkklns-YThY; expires=Tue, 22-Jan-2019 15:35:06 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com; HttpOnly Transfer-Encoding: chunked Accept-Ranges: none Vary: Accept-Encoding However, certain server utilities - most notably freshclam (clamav) and the w3m command line web browser - are having problems successfully making connections using ipv6. For example: w3m via ipv4 works: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ w3m -4 -dump google.com | grep -i google Google [Google Search][I'm Feeling Lucky] tools Advertising ProgramsBusiness Solutions+GoogleAbout Google but w3m via ipv6 doesn't: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ w3m -6 -dump ipv6.google.com ... hangs forever ... Even weirder: this works: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ w3m -4 -dump_head google.com HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:21:52 GMT Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Encoding: gzip Server: gws Content-Length: 4675 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Set-Cookie: 1P_JAR=2018-07-23-15; expires=Wed, 22-Aug-2018 15:21:52 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com ... but this doesn't: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ w3m -6 -dump_head ipv6.google.com ... hangs ... until I hit control C ... then succeeds after the control-c (wtf?!?!?) ^CHTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:39:44 GMT Expires: -1 Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Encoding: gzip Server: gws Content-Length: 4680 X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN Set-Cookie: 1P_JAR=2018-07-23-15; expires=Wed, 22-Aug-2018 15:39:44 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com And freshclam fails as well: [darose@darsys12 ~]$ sudo freshclam ClamAV update process started at Mon Jul 23 11:41:13 2018 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.100.0 Recommended version: 0.100.1 DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs) WARNING: getfile: Download interrupted: Operation now in progress (IP: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:bb8a) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24740.cdiff from database.clamav.net Trying host database.clamav.net (2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:b98a)... nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs) WARNING: getfile: Download interrupted: Operation now in progress (IP: 2400:cb00:2048:1::6810:b98a) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-24740.cdiff from database.clamav.net Downloading daily-24740.cdiff [100%] ... I'm really stumped as to how ipv6 could partially fail like this only on specific apps. Seems like it should either completely work or completely fail. Anyone have any idea what might be happening here and/or how to fix? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] libssh: 0.7.5 from AUR seems to have config reading issues
by Artyom Poptsov 06 Aug '18

06 Aug '18

Hello, it seems that AUR provides libssh version 0.7.5 that has some issues with SSH config reading (it fails to read options from a provided configuration file.) Back in June 2017 I prepared a patch to fix the problem: https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=5333be5988c3789e70115… but the patch was integrated to libssh _after_ 0.7.5 release (it was released in April 2017.) Could the libssh library be upgraded in AUR to integrate the aforementioned patch? I'm not an avid Arch GNU/Linux user so if I'm wrong about something please don't hesistate to point me out to it. FWIW, I'm the main developer of Guile-SSH library [1] that uses libssh. Thanks! - Artyom [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/guile-ssh/ -- Artyom V. Poptsov <poptsov.artyom(a)gmail.com> Home page: http://poptsov-artyom.narod.ru/ CADR Hackerspace co-founder: https://cadrspace.ru/ GPG: D0C2 EAC1 3310 822D 98DE B57C E9C5 A2D9 0898 A02F

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[arch-general] libjson-c.so.3 problem
by niya 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

hi everyone i have downloaded and installed bind and bind-tools version 9.11.2, named.conf is configured, when i enable and start named i get the following error ----- /usr/bin/named: error while loading shared libraries: libjson-c.so.3: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory. ----- pacman -Ss json-c core/json-c 0.13.1-1 installed how do i fix this ? shadrock

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[arch-general] do i need to match bind and bind-tools versions ?
by niya 05 Aug '18

05 Aug '18

hi everyone i need to install bind version 9.11 for a samba dc, do i have to match bind-tools to the same version or can i install the latest version of bind-tools version 9.13. shadrock

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[arch-general] Kernel source URL change
by W B 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

This looks like a solution in search of a problem. heftig, please tell us why the change was required.

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[arch-general] How to make aura more verbose?
by Peter Nabbefeld 03 Aug '18

03 Aug '18

Hello, trying to use aura instead of pacaur. Yesterday I started to install jitsi - it's still running (?). Well, it's also the first time I'm installing this package, so I don't know how much effort is needed for building. However, I'd like to see all the messages like with pacaur, but aura keeps to be silent, even with the -v option. :-/ How can I switch the messages on? And are there any build logs I can watch? I'd prefer not to stop a build which is running several hours before making sure it really hangs. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] xrandr with XPS 13" (3840x2160) HiDPI and 30" (2560x1600) LowDPI
by Tyler 02 Aug '18

02 Aug '18

Hi, I am using ArchLinux with i3 on my Dell XPS 13" 9370 @ 3840x2160) HiDPI and everything works great with: .Xresources: ! xft fonts !---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xft.dpi: 220 Xft.autohint: 0 Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.rgba: rgb ! urxvt !--------------------------------------------------------------------- URxvt*font: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:size=12: \ minspace=False:antialias=true, \ xft:Segoe UI Emoji:size=12:minspace=False:antialias=true URxvt*boldFont: xft:DejaVu Sans Mono for Powerline:size=12: \ minspace=False:antialias=true, \ xft:Segoe UI Emoji:size=12:minspace=False:antialias=true URxvt.letterSpace: -1 and in /etc/profile.d/hidpi.sh export GDK_SCALE=2 export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 export QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2 export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct However recently I bought a Dell DA300 Mobile Adapter and decided I wanted to use my external Dell 30" 3000WFP (2560x1600) over DisplayPort. I found this blog article https://blog.summercat.com/configuring-mixed-dpi-monitors-with-xrandr.html which explains exactly what I am trying to do. The only difference is the placement of the external screen (mine is on the left of the laptop) and the screen size and resolution. In that article he uses his HiDPI on both screens and then scales down on the external screen, which is why he doubles the resolution of the external display. The reason he does that is so he doesn't have to touch .Xresources or fiddle with toolkit scaling options. Using this command I was able to get it working great with a single external monitor ie the Dell 30" 3000WFP @ (2560x1600) xrandr --dpi 220 --fb 5120x3200 \ --output eDP1 --off \ --output DP1 --scale 2x2 --panning 5120x3200 With the dual-monitor setup I'm struggling to understand the panning option. I have looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xrandr and the man file and still couldn't figure that track x track y part out. It's not very easy to understand. So far for the external monitor I have this: xrandr --dpi 220 --fb 8960x5360 \ --output eDP1 --mode 3840x2160 \ --output DP1 --scale 2x2 --pos -2560x0 --panning 5120x3200+2560+0 What I want is to be able to access the whole area of both screens. In his example he has a laptop at 3200x1800 and an external monitor at 1920x1080 > Dual monitors > > When I want to use both monitors, this is the command I run: > > xrandr --dpi 276 --fb 7040x3960 \ > --output eDP-1 --mode 3200x1800 \ > --output DP-1-2 --scale 2x2 --pos 3200x0 --panning 3840x2160+3200+0 > > Here's an explanation of the options: > > Global options: > --dpi 276 sets the DPI to 276. > --fb 7040x3960 creates one screen with resolution 7040x3960. This is the combined resolution of the two monitors. The high DPI monitor has 3200x1800 resolution. The lower DPI monitor has 1920x1080 resolution, but I double it as I scale it by 2 (see below). Combine these like so: 3200+1920*2 x 1800+1080*2 = 7040x3960. Both monitors share this screen. > High DPI monitor options (--output eDP-1): > --mode 3200x1800 says to use resolution 3200x1800. This is the default, but specifying it is necessary if the monitor is disabled (as it is when using the external monitor by itself) as it enables the monitor. > Lower DPI monitor options (--output DP-1-2): > --scale 2x2 is similar to zooming out. This is necessary as we set the DPI globally to that of the high DPI monitor. > --pos positions it to the right of the laptop monitor. > --panning allows our pointer to access the whole area. Any help or tips would be much appreciated! -- Tyler

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[arch-general] systemd --user enable: Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
by Bjoern Franke 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Hi, I'm trying to create a systemd timer for a user to run duply daily. For one user the enabled worked fine, but another one: systemctl --user enable backup.timer Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory I have no clue why this happens, systemctl daemon-reload (also with --user) did not fix it. I found a similar issue in the forums, but the solution was to "ln -s" the timer and than rebooting. But I don't think this would be the "correct" solution because "systemctl --user enable" should also work. Any hints? TIA Bjoern

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Re: [arch-general] Kernel modules not loaded after Linux update
by Shawn Rainey 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Am 22.07.2018 um 11:27 schrieb Peter Nabbefeld: > > Hello, > > I've updated my installation yesterday, also doing an update of the > Linux kernel to 4.17.8. When starting this morning, kernel modules > rejected to load, so I even couldn't access the internet. > > I've downgraded Linux now to 4.17.2, but still have some problems > (probably because I only downgraded the kernel itself). > > I cannot find the error message from the service again, sorry, so I > cannot tell You, it had to do with some security parameter not set. > > According to the description of kernel downgrading in the wiki, I > should have downgraded linux-headers, too, but these are not in my > package cache - are they included in the kernel package now? > > How can I find out, which other kernel modules need to be downgraded? > > Kind regards > > Peter This happened to me on 2 installations so far (the only 2 I've done) on updating the kernel to 4.17.10-1. It looks like the problem is that the /boot partition was not mounted, as it usually is, during the update process. This caused the previously installed kernel to load, and the modules to fail to load due to version mismatch. I fixed it by booting to live media, mounting the /boot and / partitions appropriately and doing arch-chroot to / to install the cached 4.17.10 image with pacman -U For now I've also put the /boot partition in my fstab, even though iirc the wiki recommends against this. Good luck, -Shawn

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[arch-general] Why does pulseaudio start after kill?
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Aug '18

01 Aug '18

Hello, I've got some pulseaudio problems which I'd like to solve. Unfortunately, if I kill pulseaudio, it is sonn started again, so I cannot give it a log level. :-/ Where do I find the "automatic restart", i.e. how can I stop it? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node
by Foxtrot Mike 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Hi all, Currently we have around 10 employees who develop software using Visual Studio. The idea is to install the development tools on the Windows Server system, and to have all the developers connect to the server over RDP using low-end low-power computers. The server is pretty beefy though. The low end client PCs will save up-front cost as well as power bills. The network backend will not have any issue with the increased RDP traffic. I have been using Arch Linux for some years now, so I undertook this as a research project. I want to use the Arch system as a Remote Desktop node. The Arch system would use a login manager (such as lightdm) to authenticate users from Windows Domain. Once the user has been authenticated, the system is supposed to automatically open a RDP connection (using freerdp) to the Windows Server (if possible, using the credentials provided to lightdm so the user doesn't have to enter his password twice). As soon as the user quits the RDP session, his X-session should also be closed automatically. Here are the major tasks: 1- Ask LightDM to use Windows Domain (Kerberos) authentication. I am a little confused. There are supposedly many different ways with little changes to do this. [1] is one solution. LDAP is also a possibility. I need advice from someone who knows this field better than me :p 2- How to ask i3-wm (my default wm) to run freerdp at login? I guess [2] will get this done. 3- How to ask freerdp to authenticate using the ticket received from TGT during LightDM Domain authentication? If I could somehow configure freerdp to use Kerberos Tickets then the user won't have to enter his Domain password again. 4- How to ask i3-wm to close the X-session when freeRDP quits? I read something a while ago about .xsession files to achieve this functionality, but can't find it now. Any help would be appreciated! Regards. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Integration#Join_the_… [2] https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_automatically_starting_applications_o…

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[arch-general] Unresponsive maintainer
by данила кивер 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi all! There is a maintainer, who has lots of out-of-date packages in the Extra repo: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?packager=guillaume Some of these packages were flagged out-of-date in 2017 (!). I've e-mailed the maintainer (to his address from PKGBUILD file), but there is no response for two weeks. I want one of his packages ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/visualvm ) to be updated because an important bug was fixed in the upstream (I've already built this package, installed and tested locally with the newest upstream software version). What is the correct way to handle this situation? Redargs, Danila Kiver.

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[arch-general] aur/solr: Unknown PGP key
by Peter Nabbefeld 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hello, when trying to install the solr package from aur, installation fails because of an unknown PGP key ("051A0FAF76BC6507", according to comment should be "Adrien Grand (CODE SIGNING KEY) <jpountz(a)apache.org>"). Was this key removed from database for any reason, or did it just change? Or does the package have security issues, and I shouldn't install it? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Question about using an efi partition
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Hi all, Last night I was reading in the arch wiki about creating an efi partition for arch Linux and I had a question. Is this esp partition the same as say a boot partition that is used in bios? Meening do I need to have an extra partition for a boot partition or is this efi partition used as the boot partition. I did not see anything regarding this in the wiki so thought I would ask here. Matthew

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] proposal to add "aurpublish" to community
by WorMzy Tykashi 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

On 20 July 2018 at 08:38, Jelle van der Waa <jelle(a)vdwaa.nl> wrote: > On 07/20/18 at 09:05am, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > On 07/19/18 at 07:23pm, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > > > On Wed 18.07.18 - 15:28, Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public wrote: > > > > I would like to add this to [community], but I'm unsure what people > > > > think about this; specifically, whether this might come too close to > > > > "supporting the AUR via [community] packages". Note that this is > *not* > > > > an AUR helper and is strictly a tool for package *maintainers* to use > > > > during the process of uploading. > > > > > > Uploaders are fine by me and I think we had one in previously. > > > > From what I can recall, we had one in, some discussion and it was gone > > again. I'll try to find the post in the archives. > > > > Gotcha, it was cower. [1] > > [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010- > December/012763.html > > -- > Jelle van der Waa > (apologies for crosslist posting) For uploaders, there was 'burp' in [extra] which which was added without any serious opposition, and remained in the repos until shortly after AUR4 was launched (which made it redundant). See https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-April/022787.html and https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/46210 Cheers, WorMzy

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node
by Giancarlo Razzolini 29 Jul '18

29 Jul '18

Em julho 27, 2018 14:46 Foxtrot Mike via arch-general escreveu: > > The issue with x2go and ltsp is that I'll have to separately manage > username and passwords for local Linux login. The solution that I'd > rather prefer would use Active directory authentication so the current > system administrator won't have to do anything extra. The group policies > are already there. Once the Arch system is properly configured, I'd > disable local logins so there will be very limited chance for a user to > corrupt/modify Arch system. And ideally, the user would have no way to > interact with the local system. Thats why I want to limit the user to > freeRDP. Anything else, and the X-session expires. You have more than one option to authenticate to windows AD servers [0] . You have PAM Ldap, winbind, making a samba server the secondary controller, etc. You will probably need a local home dir for storing session data, but this can be created/destroyed on demand. > > Plus, I am very much into embedded linux systems (routers, SBCs, etc). I > think putting the various pieces together would be give me a lot more to > learn as compared to using a third party specialized software such as a > kiosk script. > Why reinvent the wheel here? I understand the need for learning, but I wouldn't do this on something that is intended as a production system. Again, don't use plain X protocol over the network, it's very wasteful. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Integration

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux PC as a Remote Desktop Node
by Giancarlo Razzolini 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

Em julho 27, 2018 14:07 Foxtrot Mike via arch-general escreveu: > > Here are the major tasks: > > 1- Ask LightDM to use Windows Domain (Kerberos) authentication. I am a > little confused. There are supposedly many different ways with little > changes to do this. [1] is one solution. LDAP is also a possibility. I > need advice from someone who knows this field better than me :p > > 2- How to ask i3-wm (my default wm) to run freerdp at login? I guess [2] > will get this done. > > 3- How to ask freerdp to authenticate using the ticket received from TGT > during LightDM Domain authentication? If I could somehow configure > freerdp to use Kerberos Tickets then the user won't have to enter his > Domain password again. > > 4- How to ask i3-wm to close the X-session when freeRDP quits? I read > something a while ago about .xsession files to achieve this > functionality, but can't find it now. > Hi Mike, You have some options here. I suggest you look into x2go and ltsp for starters. I don't suggest you use plain X over the network. With those 2 options you can have this kiosk mode you want, for the users to only be able to access windows. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[arch-general] Possible to "inherit" from a package?
by Peter Nabbefeld 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hello, it seems, Dovecot is built without Solr support. Just to add a build option, I wonder if there's a concept of "inheriting" from a package build, so I'd only add the config option? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Password managers implementing org.freedesktop.secrets?
by Peter Nabbefeld 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hello, the only password managers I found documented to implement org.freedesktop.secrets are kwallet and gnome-keyring. Does somebody know any others, probably GTK-based? I'm using XFCE4, so I'd like to install an alternative application, if possible. Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick
by Wolfgang Thiel 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

I think you received the new stick with the Sony CXD2837: Only one frontend was found. A kernel patch is needed: seeAuzeuner DVB-T2 (Astrometa 2018) driver update #567 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/567/commits/24ab0be682b16911efcbac27… I have one of those running since yesterday with good results with DVB-T2.

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[arch-general] WIN+anything key not working at startup
by Andy Pieters 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi Every time I start my computer, plasma does not properly detect/respond to global hotkeys, in particular, WIN+anything combination. After I open a terminal from inside plasma, kill the kglobalaccel5 program and launch it again, all the WIN+ hotkeys work again. During the time that it is not working and whilst the cursor is stood in a shell window, pressing the hotkey WIN+r generates the keypresses sr Has anyone seen this behaviour before and know of a durable fix short of scripting plasma startup with a delayed kill+restart of kglobalaccel5? Thank you Andy

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[arch-general] How can I delete my flyspray account?
by Peter Nabbefeld 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

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[arch-general] Kernel modules not loaded after Linux update
by Peter Nabbefeld 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hello, I've updated my installation yesterday, also doing an update of the Linux kernel to 4.17.8. When starting this morning, kernel modules rejected to load, so I even couldn't access the internet. I've downgraded Linux now to 4.17.2, but still have some problems (probably because I only downgraded the kernel itself). I cannot find the error message from the service again, sorry, so I cannot tell You, it had to do with some security parameter not set. According to the description of kernel downgrading in the wiki, I should have downgraded linux-headers, too, but these are not in my package cache - are they included in the kernel package now? How can I find out, which other kernel modules need to be downgraded? Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] Kernel modules not loaded after Linux update (Peter Nabbefeld)
by saderror256 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

Hey peter Have you tried to boot into an arch iso, enable internet, and install the required kernel software? When you are in the live iso connect to internet like normal and chroot into your system, then install the kernel firmware required. This will also let you do some other work that cannot be done in your system currently :-) Hope this helped you a little!

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[arch-general] Latest openssh - Premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol?
by David C. Rankin 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

All, I have several scripts that perform backup work between six or so machines, all Arch. The script uses rsync to make approximately 6 connections to each server and transfer 100 directories from various parts of the filesystem. After the latest update to openssh 7.7p1-2, the time to connect feels like it has quadrupled. For example, in the past, when the script ran, a connection, check if files are newer and logout took less than a second. (it's a pilot thing, every time I'm watching something with an interest in the time is 1-1000, 2-1000, 3-1000, etc..) Now that 1-sec negotiation, check and logout has ballooned to 4-seconds, e.g. Jul 17 09:20:24 phoinix sshd[2652]: Accepted publickey for david from 66.76.46.195 port 59956 ssh2: ECDSA SHA256:97TPKWvaGks+sjneobeoY9RpK1Hznnh8xJCjbcAWrkQ Jul 17 09:20:24 phoinix sshd[2652]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user david by (uid=0) Jul 17 09:20:24 phoinix systemd-logind[408]: New session c18 of user david. Jul 17 09:20:24 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. Jul 17 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Received disconnect from 66.76.46.195 port 59956:11: disconnected by user Jul 17 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Disconnected from user david 66.76.46.195 port 59956 Jul 17 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2652]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user david Jul 17 09:20:28 phoinix systemd-logind[408]: Session c18 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit. Jul 17 09:20:28 phoinix systemd-logind[408]: Removed session c18. Did the last update add some type of timer to intentionally slow the connection time to discourage or combat DOS type attacks? It's like there is something between: 09:20:24 phoinix systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. and 09:20:28 phoinix sshd[2654]: Received disconnect from 66.76.46.195 port 59956:11: disconnected by user that isn't data transfer and isn't rsyc checking if files need updating. Also interestingly, the 5 boxes on my lan that are in the backup list do not show this type of delay. For example same connection and same box, but on lang and not internet: Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie sshd[1324]: Accepted publickey for david from 192.168.6.104 port 52414 ssh2: ECDSA SHA256:97TPKWvaGks+sjneobeoY9RpK1Hznnh8xJCjbcAWrkQ Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie sshd[1324]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user david by (uid=0) Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie systemd-logind[585]: New session c18 of user david. Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie systemd[1]: Started Session c18 of user david. Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie sshd[1327]: Received disconnect from 192.168.6.104 port 52414:11: disconnected by user Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie sshd[1327]: Disconnected from user david 192.168.6.104 port 52414 Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie sshd[1324]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user david Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie systemd-logind[585]: Session c18 logged out. Waiting for processes to exit. Jul 17 09:18:50 valkyrie systemd-logind[585]: Removed session c18. it didn't even take 1-sec for the same transaction. So I'm stumped and wanting to know if anyone else has seen this type of behavior where LAN connections via ssh connect normally, while WAN connection seem to have additional delay built into the connection. (these boxes are all Arch, and all current on packages) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] ClamAV Flagging systemd package
by David Murray 15 Jul '18

15 Jul '18

Greetings, My nightly full-system ClamAV scan kicked out this last night: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/systemd-238.133-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unix.Trojan.Vali-6606621-0 FOUND Is this something I should be concerned about? TIA, Dave

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [core] / [extra] cleanup
by Leonid Isaev 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 05:06:11PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > *Move to [extra]* > > - ifenslave - Don't see why it is required in core, also orphan > - libgssglue/librpcsecgss - move to extra, nothing in [core] deps on it. > (archboot and nfs-utils used to dep on it) > - b43-fwcutter - Is this still required for more recent broadcom cards? What about logrotate? AFAIU, there are no loggers in [core]... Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev

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[arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick
by Frank Zimmermann 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

good afternoon, I'm trying to get my new DVBT2 stick to work following instructions from Arch Wiki and Linuxtv.org. Here's the output from demsg [ 77.140080] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci [ 77.248832] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=15f4, idProduct=0131, bcdDevice= 1.00 [ 77.248839] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 77.248842] usb 1-1.1: Product: dvbt2 [ 77.248846] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: astrometadvbt2 [ 77.248849] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 0 [ 77.256329] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in warm state [ 77.334054] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2 transport stream to the software demuxer [ 77.334075] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2) [ 77.337494] i2c i2c-8: Added multiplexed i2c bus 9 [ 77.337499] rtl2832 8-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached [ 77.337524] usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))... [ 77.337627] r820t 9-003a: creating new instance [ 77.344862] r820t 9-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified [ 77.347059] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: Registered as swradio0 [ 77.347062] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: Realtek RTL2832 SDR attached [ 77.347065] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: SDR API is still slightly experimental and functionality changes may follow [ 77.359357] Registered IR keymap rc-empty [ 77.359430] rc rc0: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0 [ 77.359492] input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input18 [ 77.359617] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu registered at minor = 0 [ 77.359708] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to 200 msecs [ 77.368417] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully initialized and connected [ 411.247267] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) and w_scan -ft -c DE -L w_scan version 20170107 (compiled for DVB API 5.11) using settings for GERMANY DVB aerial DVB-T Europe scan type TERRESTRIAL, channellist 4 output format vlc xspf playlist output charset 'ISO-8859-1' Info: using DVB adapter auto detection. /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)": good :-) Using TERRESTRIAL frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0) -_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ Using DVB API 5.11 frontend 'Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)' supports INVERSION_AUTO QAM_AUTO TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO HIERARCHY_AUTO FEC_AUTO BANDWIDTH_AUTO not supported, trying 6/7/8 MHz. FREQ (174.00MHz ... 862.00MHz) -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Scanning DVB-T... Scanning 8MHz frequencies... ... ... ... ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder Nothing to scan!! The device looks to me recognised and initialised but don't get w_scan a channel list. So what am I missing? Thanks Frank

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Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick
by vsec 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Reply to Frank Zimmermann > Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2018, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Frank Zimmermann: > > > > I've extracted the most current Windows diver but to be honest don't > > know what to look for since I don't know how the FW is called there. > > > > I'm sending it back and have ordered a Hauppage WinTV which hopefully > > better supported. At least there's reports of success on the local > > LUG > > list. > > > > KR Frank > > I can confirm that the Hauppage WinTV solo works well with the > openelec-dvb-firmware package from AUR and VLC. > > KR Frank Subj works here as radio scanner.

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[arch-general] Which MTA to use to store mails?
by Peter Nabbefeld 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Hello, topic is probably not so precise. What I want is the following: - I've got some Email/IMAP account. - My mail is hosted on a server by GMX. - I've got too many Emails on the host. - I don't want to loose any of the emails. - So I will have to install my own mail server, fetching all my emails from the host. - The mail server will then have to interact with my providers server like a client, working as a server for me. I'm sure there're some good servers, but I don't know which one - works as expected, - and is easy to configure. Any help appreciated. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] XFCE removable storage unmount notification gone
by Paul Marwick 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

I'm running three copies of Arch with XFCE as DE. Recently I've noticed that the normal desktop notification when a removable storage device is unmount has gone. As a test, I turned on auto-mount. When a USB drive is plugged in, I'm still getting mount notifications, but nothing when the device is unmounted. The only indication I see that the device has unmounted is a change to the desktop icon. One of my Arch installs isn't used all that often, so hasn't been updated recently. Its still showing both mount and unmount notifications. Trouble is, I can go for fairly long periods without using removable media, so I've no real idea what update caused the change. No idea how to hunt for it either. Anyone else seeing this behaviour? Any ideas how to fix it? Paul.

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[arch-general] Where is paccache
by Zorro 25 Jun '18

25 Jun '18

Hello, Last Saturday 23/6 I did a pacman -Syu and I found out that afterwards paccache had disappeared. I do every now and then a cleanup of the pacman cache but with paccache disappeared I cannot do that anymore. Is it deprecated ? If so is there an alternative for paccache ? Regards, Harm-Jan Zwinderman

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[arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops
by David C. Rankin 22 Jun '18

22 Jun '18

All, This is a strange one, confirmed on two separate Archlinux Guests running in VirtualBox on Archlinux Hosts. I access the running VMs with rdesktop over the LAN. After update to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8, VirtualBox-5.2.12 starts the Archlinux guests fine, X starts fine in the guests (running fluxbox), and pressing the right-mouse brings up the fluxbox-menu fine, but there is no way to select an item with the left-mouse. The left-mouse click seems to be taken as an escape closing the menu without actually selecting anything. It is as if the left-mouse (and cursor position in general) isn't seen at all (there is no highlight in the menu when the mouse moves over an item) Thankfully, the fluxbox designers made the menu respond to keyboard inputs, so after bringing the fluxbox-menu up, I can up-arrow/down-arrow to an xterm entry and open an xterm by pressing return. When the xterm is open, there is no way to grab the title-bar and move the xterm around, again, as if the left-mouse input isn't seen. An moving the cursor over the bottom of the window will not bring up the taskbar. This effects Linux guest, but not windows guests. I can start Win7 in a VM and opening in remote-desktop works just fine. (all mouse buttons work fine and the cursor position tracks properly bringing up the auto-hidden taskbar on mouseover) Can someone with a similar VirtualBox setup confirm this behavior? I suspect it would effect any Linux Guest that runs X and a desktop and is accessed with rdesktop. For all practical purposes this update prevent accessing Linux guest with rdesktop. I start my virtual machines from a simple bash script using: exec VBoxManage startvm arch_1_64 --type headless (I doubt that makes a difference, but for completeness) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Issue with browser opening in LXDE
by Giovanni Santini (ItachiSan) 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Hi everyone, I am having an issue which is bothering me recently; I have set up properly the default browser within LXDE but the links are not handled properly. What it happens is that I click on a link and a windows opens returning Error: $HOME/$URL: Not existing file or directory Where $HOME is my home path and $URL is the target URL. I have no clue regarding what configuration makes it so. Any suggestions? Giovanni SantiniComputer scientist and geek giovannisantini93(a)yahoo.it (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/1529103998.local-60a99208-1387-v1.2.2-9…) http://giovannisantini.tk (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/1529103998.local-60a99208-1387-v1.2.2-9…)

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[arch-general] List of devices with poor Linux compatibility
by Andrey Ponomarenko 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

Hello, A new open project has been created to collect the list of computer hardware devices with poor Linux compatibility based on the Linux-Hardware.org data: https://github.com/linuxhw/HWInfo There are about 29 thousands of depersonalized hwinfo reports (https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo) in the repository from Linux-powered computers in various configurations. The device is included into the list of poorly supported devices if there is at least one user probe in which the driver for this device was not found. The column 'Missed' indicates the percentage of such probes. If the number is small, it means that the driver was added in newer versions of the kernel. In this case we show minimal version of the Linux kernel in which the driver was present. Devices are divided into categories. For each category we calculate the ratio of poorly supported devices to the total number of devices tested in this category. Everyone can contribute to this repository by uploading probes of their computers by the hw-probe tool: https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe Thanks to all for attention and new computer probes!

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Re: [arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops
by Radu 21 Jun '18

21 Jun '18

I've raised a ticket on this issue: FS#59091 - X intermittent input event handling (mostly mouse) after xorg-server and libinput upgrade and here's the link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/59091 I hope it's good - it's my first. Maybe it helps if you guys vote it? Thanks!

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Re: [arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops
by Radu 20 Jun '18

20 Jun '18

I'm running Arch in VBox under Windows and I'm getting similar behavior since I've upgraded xorg-server, xorg-server-common, libinput. I had updated the kernel in a previous step and I don't remember seeing this behavior after upgrading just the kernel (and not xorg-server). I've logged lipinput generated events and they seem ok (all mouse activity is captured by the kernel/libinput driver). However, testing the xorg events (xev) seems consistent with X behavior: no events comming to X from libinp. Another thing: my keyboard input also got stuck for a couple of times. Therefore, maybe we should log a xorg-server bug? P.S.: One partial workaround (making the left-click work): find a region/window where the right-click works and right-click. After that you have a chance of getting the left-click working for a limited (single?) left-click event.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 164, Issue 26
by Patrick Young 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

After upgraded to 4.17.2, With DDE, I cannot use multi-display with 1920*1080 for all monitors. I can just use one main monitor with 1920*1080 and another one with 1024*768 or less. I tried to modify the settings in DDE, but useless. Also, there's lots of `[Firmware bug]` in `dmesg`, with `register_kretprobes failed, returned -22` . My machine is Lenovo Ideapad 320S-14IKB. Finally I rollback my apps back, here's the **upgrade log**, I just roll them back to the original version: ``` [2018-06-18 15:55] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20180518.2a9b2cf-1 -> 20180606.d114732-1) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.16.13-2 -> 4.17.2-1) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded acpi_call (1.1.0-133 -> 1.1.0-137) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-390xx-utils (390.59-2 -> 390.67-2) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils (390.59-1 -> 390.67-1) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded lib32-opencl-nvidia-390xx (390.59-1 -> 390.67-1) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded linux-headers (4.16.13-2 -> 4.17.2-1) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded nvidia-390xx (390.59-5 -> 390.67-3) [2018-06-18 15:56] [ALPM] upgraded opencl-nvidia-390xx (390.59-2 -> 390.67-2) ``` There may be a lot of bugs, upgrade carefully.

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[arch-general] Best way to customize PS1
by Matthias Bodenbinder 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Hi, with the last update of bash I realized that it overwrites /etc/bash.bashrc without .pacsave or .pacnew. Since I had customizations in /etc/bash.bashrc I am wondering now where to put those customizations instead. I understand that /etc/profile and /etc/profile.d/* is a good place to customize environment variables. But it is not good for setting PS1 (and aliases by the way). PS1 is also set to a default value in /etc/bash.bashrc. And since /etc/bash.bashrc is sourced after all the /etc/profile* stuff it overwrites the customization. So what is the best place to customize PS1? /etc/skel/ is no solution since it only takes effect when a new user is created. /etc/environment is no good solution since it does not support if/then conditions. And, by the way, why is the bash package not making use of.pacsave/.pacnew. A simple "backup etc/bash.bashrc" in .PKGINFO would help a lot. There is also an old issue in the tracker talking about the "/etc/bash.bashrc overwrite" topic: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21540 But without solution. Matthias

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 164, Issue 25
by fredbezies 19 Jun '18

19 Jun '18

Le mar. 19 juin 2018 à 09:02, <arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org> a écrit : [...] > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:02:05 +0100 > From: Gurnaik V <gurnaikv(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Upgrade to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server > 1.20.0-8 breaks left-mouse in remote Linux desktops > Message-ID: <0abd5667-4a47-c902-8fc5-afa2e9537e88(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 19/06/18 07:31, Lukas Winkler via arch-general wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 at 00:43, David C. Rankin > > <drankinatty(a)suddenlinkmail.com> wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> This is a strange one, confirmed on two separate Archlinux Guests running in > >> VirtualBox on Archlinux Hosts. I access the running VMs with rdesktop over the > >> LAN. After update to Linux 4.17.2 & xorg-server 1.20.0-8, VirtualBox-5.2.12 > >> starts the Archlinux guests fine, X starts fine in the guests (running > >> fluxbox), and pressing the right-mouse brings up the fluxbox-menu fine, but > >> there is no way to select an item with the left-mouse. > >> > >> When the xterm is open, there is no way to grab the title-bar and move the > >> xterm around, again, as if the left-mouse input isn't seen. An moving the > >> cursor over the bottom of the window will not bring up the taskbar. > >> > >> This effects Linux guest, but not windows guests. I can start Win7 in a VM > >> and opening in remote-desktop works just fine. (all mouse buttons work fine > >> and the cursor position tracks properly bringing up the auto-hidden taskbar on > >> mouseover) > >> > >> Can someone with a similar VirtualBox setup confirm this behavior? I suspect > >> it would effect any Linux Guest that runs X and a desktop and is accessed with > >> rdesktop. For all practical purposes this update prevent accessing Linux guest > >> with rdesktop. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. > > Hi David + List > > > > Same behaviour for me. I resolved it by installing the synaptics input > > driver in the guest for now as I did not have time to debug. > > > > BR > I have the same behaviour on my Arch Linux guest, but for me both right- > and left-click do not work. I have had to downgrade the kernel and the > VirtualBox guest modules. > > Regards, > Gurnaik > Seeing the same here. If you have both linux 4.17.x and Xorg 1.20.x in a guest with VirtualBox 5.2.12 managing it, mouse focus is lost. I found a "dirty" workaround. Blacklisting vboxguest. I opened a bug upstream : https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17827 At least, I got my mouse focus back! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Re: [arch-general] Audio output problem after a reboot (about earphone) (Ralf Mardorf)
by Patrick Young 17 Jun '18

17 Jun '18

Thanks for your suggestions. I've already edited this question. Cuz I'm not familiar with Linux's audio, I use the lastet version of all related pkgs and keep them default settings. I use ALSA with PulseAudio and latest systemd.

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[arch-general] Help with wav files
by pete 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hi . A little off subject but hope someone can help . I have some cd copies of albums ( i do actually own the albums) the cds are just 2 tracks one per side i have no way to play vynl albums right now i need to split these 2 tracks into their seperate tracks as per the LP's i have tried Audacity with out much luck is there a command line utility that i can give the start and finish positions and it wil do the cutting and saving for me as i hope this will be simpler and quicker Thanks for any suggestions ( i will be away for a week from sunday ) so if i dont reply to suggestions it because i have no net access where i wil be . Pete .

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[arch-general] Audio output problem after a reboot (about earphone)
by Patrick Young 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

More details, see the link below. I use arch linux now, version 238. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/450156/debian-arch-audio-output-no…

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[arch-general] TexLive 2018 move in [extra] today
by Rémy Oudompheng 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Hello, I will move Texlive 2018 packages to [extra] today, along with zathura and qpdfview which were rebuilt for libsynctex. Rémy.

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[arch-general] Is sftp_kio broken in latest Plasma updates?
by David C. Rankin 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Can someone confirm whether the sftp_kio (used, e.g. in the file-open or file-save dialog in kate/kwrite to open/save files to a remote server) is working as of the latest Plasma updates? When I attempt to connect to my local server (tried both LAN and WAN connections), I get the error dialog: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The host key for this server was not found, but another type of key exists. An attacker might change the default server key to confuse your client into thinking the key does not exist. Please contact your system administrator. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have tried saving via the hosts in my QuickList (on the left side of the file-save dialog) and by manually entering sftp://host/path/to/file and the error is the same each time. I can ssh and sftp from konsole to all the host without any problem. If this is confirmed, should this bug be filed with arch or upstream? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] plasma-vault hard depends on networkmanager
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 15 Jun '18

15 Jun '18

Hey plasma-vault seems to be using networkmanager to detect connectivity for a feature in plasma-vault that disables internet upon opening certain vaults. Although this feature can be useful, not everyone uses networkmanager and it already caused an issue when I rebooted after installing updates. networkmanager seems to be enabled by default and conflicted with my current setup. I tried to build plasma-vault without networkmanager-qt but it failed. For now I am removing plasma-vault but can this be considered a bug since plasma-workspace by itself doesn't need networkmanager but it is only a optional dependency. -- Regards Jagan

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[arch-general] xdm killed after 90 seconds
by Fons Adriaensen 14 Jun '18

14 Jun '18

Hello all, I've got a strange problem on a newly installed system. About 90 seconds after it is started, xdm (or xdm-archlinux) and any login session is killed. Apparently by systemd, because of a timeout. What's happening here ? TIA, -- FA

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Python for Beginners - Part 1
by fsckd 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Hello, The class Python for Beginners - Part 1 will be held on Wednesday, October 04, 2017 at 16:00 UTC in the channel #archlinux-classroom on the freenode network. The class is expected to run for about 2 hours. This class will introduce you to programming with Python and how to use IPython with an editor/IDE. Commonly used built-in functions and libraries will be explained. Other topics will explored based on participant interests. The class will be screen-shared live (via YouTube), and later archived with subtitles. Questions and some discussion on IRC is expected, however the main part will be video and audio. In preparation for the class, install the Jupyter notebook. ``pacman -S jupyter`` or, in a Python 3 virtualenv, ``pip3 install jupyter``. Also check out the python-beginners git repository on Arch Classroom's GitHub[1] where you will find IPython notebooks and links to useful resources on learning Python: https://github.com/archclassroom/python-beginners pulec is an Arch Linux user since 2012, gamer and gardener. He makes a living using Linux and Python since 2013 and recently joined Red Hat. He hopes to spread IT knowledge and open source ideas to the general populace. Some code - https://github.com/Pulecz

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[arch-general] Alternating colors in thunar?
by Peter Nabbefeld 12 Jun '18

12 Jun '18

Hello, I was used to see every second line in Thunar having a grey background - after updating, this has gone, every line now has white background. BTW, after some searching, it seems to be a GTK problem, probably not specific to Thunar. I'd guess, I haven't found the correct config, yet. How can I get the alternating background colors back? Kind regards Peter

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