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

23 Dec '19

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

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

20 Dec '19

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

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

17 Dec '19

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

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

17 Dec '19

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

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

13 Dec '19

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

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

13 Dec '19

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

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

13 Dec '19

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

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

10 Dec '19

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

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

09 Dec '19

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

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

08 Dec '19

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

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