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[arch-general] procps-ng 3.3.13 and its new topdefaultrc
by Jonathon Fernyhough 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Much as I'm wary about raising this after last time... here goes. Really just putting this out there as a thing to consider if it's not already known about. With 3.3.13, upstream introduced support for a system-wide default toprc, /etc/topdefaultrc [1]. This is their "recommended" way of setting sensible/usable/accessible defaults rather than the "all or nothing" --disable-modern-top. I don't know what the specific implementation differences are between the two (e.g. whether topdefaultrc is compatible with/overrides --disable-modern-top) but it should provide an approach more "aligned to upstream". Coming up with a "sensible default", on the other hand, is likely to be more complicated... (I've gone for an htop-like scheme with a nice green 'column heads', idle tasks off (i), Zero-Suppress on (0), for Manjaro [2].) [1] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/commit/55a42ae040eaa19fd3089f56d98ccbde… [2] https://github.com/manjaro/packages-core/blob/master/procps-ng/topdefaultrc

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[arch-general] Interesting Dual Boot Problems
by Hunter Jozwiak 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Hello, I installed Windows 10 recently, and now I am having wifi issues. On the Windows side, the campus wifi will connect, but it will show that there is no internet connection. Booting in to Linux causes pings to fail with temporary failure in host resolution, and ip link shows that the wifi device is down. Doing sudo ip link set dev wlp3s0 up has no effect; from what I can tell, it is stuck in a permenant down state. dmesg reports that the "link is not ready". I've tried restarting the netctl profile for the campus network, restarting dhcp, resetting the pci device, but alas, things seem to be very broken. I am using a Killer n1525 network card. Has anyone else had a similar issue, and if so, how did you resolve it? Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] Xorg/Firefox problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 11 Apr '18

11 Apr '18

Hello, since some time I've got problems with Xorg, it seems, sometimes the sessionmanager isn't initialised correctly: The application bar (menues, workspaces etc.) isn't shown, I have to shutdown Xorg right-clicking on the desktop for the menu and restart it. This isn't such a big problem, so I didn't ask for that before. Since Firefox changed to Quantum, I've got another problem with browser windows, which might be related: Browser windows don't open correctly, content often isn't shown. This _is_ a problem for me, as I don't want to look for everything again. Did anybody else have the same problems? How can I solve these? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] valgrind 3.13.0-6 exclusions broken again
by David C. Rankin 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Devs, valgrind is reporting more memory allocated than actual. This occurred a couple of months back as well, was resolved, and is now apparently back again? I don't know if this is a regression, but for each allocation, an additional allocation is reported and up to 2^10 additional bytes are reported. Here is a short example where 1 allocation of 10-bytes is made: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define NVAL 10 int main (void) { char *a = calloc (NVAL, sizeof *a); if (!a) { perror ("calloc - a"); return 1; } /* fill with [a-i] and output */ for (int i = 0; i < NVAL - 1; i++) a[i] = 'a' + i; printf ("a: '%s' (1 alloc - %lu bytes)\n", a, sizeof *a * NVAL); free (a); } However, valgrind reports 2 allocations and 1034-bytes (10 + 2^10), e.g. $ valgrind ./bin/valgrindchk ==1134== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==1134== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==1134== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==1134== Command: ./bin/valgrindchk ==1134== a: 'abcdefghi' (1 alloc - 10 bytes) ==1134== ==1134== HEAP SUMMARY: ==1134== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==1134== total heap usage: 2 allocs, 2 frees, 1,034 bytes allocated ==1134== ==1134== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible ==1134== ==1134== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==1134== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0) I'm not even using the --atavistic option... If someone can confirm, and let me know if a bug is warranted and I'll happily file one. If I recall correctly, this would be an upstream issue, I don't think Arch messes with the exclusions in any way. Let me know what you think. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] kernel panic, failed to execute /init error 2
by Aren Jared 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Hi everyone, My system won't boot. The forum thread is: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=236017 What I tried so far: - Reinstall boot partition - Reinstall mkinitcpio, systemd, kernels pacman log: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/ypzDhhnc8P/ initramfs file is accessible: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/grC4Qq2xxN/ Ideas?

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[arch-general] libsecret dependency error
by Trey Sizemore 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

I've recently been getting the following errors for the libsecret package, and I'm not sure how to best resolve: Making package: lib32-libsecret 0.18.6-1 (Fri Apr 6 13:15:40 EDT 2018) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Missing dependencies: -> libsecret=0.18.6 Or this variation with pacman: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: lib32-libsecret: installing libsecret (0.18.6-1) breaks dependency 'libsecret=0.18.5+14+g9980655' Any help is greatly appreciated! -- Cheers, Trey ---- In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. --Edward P. Tryon Linux antergos 4.15.14-1-ARCH x86_64 14:10:50 up 22:17, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.34, 0.29

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[arch-general] Why do we have scapy and scapy3k and which do we keep?
by David C. Rankin 06 Apr '18

06 Apr '18

Archdevs, Attempting a system update tonight, I was hit with: # pacman -Syu ... looking for conflicting packages... error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: scapy3k and scapy are in conflict They both seem to be similar, but which one do we keep? There was never a conflict before. I removed scapy3k, then curiously on one machine, it then proceeded to reinstall, along with scapy. I don't know how either were originally installed, I'd never heard of the package before the conflict popped up. Which should be keep? Or was this a packaging hiccup? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] systemd-suspend hangs from time to time
by Bjoern Franke 02 Apr '18

02 Apr '18

Hi, from time to time, systemd-suspend hangs on my Thinkpad X140e. After starting a suspend (through e.g. closing the lid), the following happens: Mär 21 22:32:56 ostrea systemd[1]: Started Suspend. Mär 21 23:26:07 ostrea systemd[1]: Starting Suspend... Mär 21 23:26:07 ostrea systemd-sleep[11437]: Suspending system... dmesg shows: [40655.526324] PM: suspend entry (deep) [40655.526331] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. But nothing further happens: JOB UNIT TYPE STATE 68633 systemd-suspend.service start running 68632 suspend.target start waiting After "sudo systemctl restart systemd-suspend" the laptop suspends, but I have no clue why it fails in the first place. I've searched around and found something regarding asynchronous pm, but that did not help. Kind regards Bjoern

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[arch-general] mesa-18.0.0 (currently in [testing]) graphics corruption?
by Oon-Ee Ng 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Any other [testing] users getting severe graphics corruption on mesa-18.0.0? I'm on Intel graphics. Bug report already made https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58012 but I'm worried this is something unique to my system (unlikely maintainer of mesa would NOT have noticed the symptoms I'm getting...)

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[arch-general] Wireless hardware inconsistent behaviour
by ashwin＠flatty.co 28 Mar '18

28 Mar '18

Hey everyone, I am running Manjaro Linux on a Dell Inspiron 5370. I always have low wifi signal strength and connecting to new networks is almost always a pain. The network manager applet is forever frozen and nmtui keeps dropping network connects. Is there a way I can debug this or look at solving the problem for good? I tried all options in the networking page on the archlinux wiki but none of them seem to properly solve the problem for me. Warm Regards, Ashwin.

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