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

10 Jun '20

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

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

10 Jun '20

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

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

09 Jun '20

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

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

09 Jun '20

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

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

09 Jun '20

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

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

09 Jun '20

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

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

08 Jun '20

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

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

07 Jun '20

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

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

06 Jun '20

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

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

02 Jun '20

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

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