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Fwd: Replacing mlocate with plocate
by David C. Rankin 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

User-feedback on plocate replacment: Works like a champ! Thank you Morten! # pacman -Syu <snip> # systemctl enable plocate-updatedb.timer # updatedb done! -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: Replacing mlocate with plocate Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:04:54 +0200 From: Morten Linderud <foxboron(a)archlinux.org> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Thanks for the feedback everyone. I've pushed 1.1.22-2 of plocate which includes a replaces directive. It should replace mlocate from now on. Also included the patch that enables the updatedb timer by default. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] - Expected?
by David C. Rankin 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Devs, Update today resulted in removal of qemu-system-nios2 presenting the error: qemu-common-9.1.0-2 and qemu-system-nios2-9.0.2-1 are in conflict. Remove qemu-system-nios2? [y/N] There was no note in the "Latest News" about user interaction needed. Just a dependency change or features moving between packages? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Óscar García Amor 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

El dom, 01-09-2024 a las 12:41 +0200, Jelle van der Waa escribió: > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives, for staff we can > use md.archlinux.org to share notes, pastes. Regarding abuse, see for > example what 0x0.st does against detecting awful nsfw content > > https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0 I couldn't agree more. Personally I have experience in maintaining a public instance of "pastes" with my own development called lesma[1] (source code[2]). If you want some advice, don't do it. 99% of the "pastes" are straight up junk, spam, links to websites selling “dubious products” and other crap. If you want to have it operational, authentication is required and only for internal use. Something public is a pain because unfortunately there are many people who do not respect. Greetings. [1]: https://lesma.eu [2]: https://gitlab.com/ogarcia/lesma -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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extra/realtime-privileges
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Hi, I am not up to date, is there meanwhile a reason for • rocketmouse@archlinux ~ $ grep nice /etc/security/limits.d/99-realtime-privileges.conf @realtime - nice -11 ? I the past a nice value for real-time was null and void. Regards, Ralf

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Any way to query the Arch package list to get %-installed by package?
by David C. Rankin 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

All, Devs, I was curious about the frequency that packages in extra and core are installed by Arch users. Is that metadata captured anywhere and is there any way a user can query it? What sparked this curiosity is that I follow the package feeds closely checking for version changes I may have to deal with on a production box. In doing so I learn about many packages I've never heard of before. That posed the question of how frequently all packages are installed by Arch users. Package use, popularity, whatever you want to call it can provide a reasonable metric when comparing between two packages that provide the same feature in determining which to investigate first or install. It would also give a metric of the impact of a developer retiring or orphaning packages. Does any install frequency data such as that exist for packages in extra and core? Or could it be garnered by whatever data is captured from the mirror system? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Arch Linux public upload server
by Lucie Scarlet 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

On 9/3/2024 8:31 PM, Orhun Parmaksiz wrote: > > For users there are plenty of pastebin alternatives Honestly, my biggest issue with the alternatives is how most other services are either too complicated, don't make it easy to just use the keyboard or end up like Hastebin and getting bought up and honestly getting a lot worse. > > it's important to specify how the moderation capabilities are. > My initial idea was to use a configuration like this (with some parts stripped): I 100% support having our own paste service that's on a trustworthy domain like archlinux.org, though I do have some concerns about being able to upload more than just text. I haven't used Rustypaste before, so I can't comment much on that, but reading your email does seem like that would be possible. > > I agree, too. If it should be only for Arch Linux users, we can add a validation question like the one in the forum's log in page. > That's a good/fun idea 🙂 Seconded :D I do hope you're able to put up a service like this. /Lucie

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Network issues on laptop, issue with iwd?
by Lucie Scarlet 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hi, I've got my HP laptop set up with Arch, and it's been working absolutely wonderful. That is, until recently when it seems like it is having major network issues. I've got it set up with iwd and connected to my home wifi, but it's having a bunch of issues. It keeps dropping the connection, and when it doesn't do that, it really struggles with resolving addresses. I also tested going to 1.1.1.1 and even that had issues, so it's not just DNS. I haven't had any issues with my other devices on the wifi, so I'm not sure if it's that. I tried restarting it as well, which didn't help. Could it be an issue with iwd? Hoping for something that can lead me in the right direction, this is getting quite frustrating. Best, Lucie

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knotes missing after upgrade
by SET 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hello, After today's upgrade, package knotes is not in the repositories. 'pacman -Q knotes' gives 'knotes 24.05.2-1', the previously installed package that fails to load. Other KDE packages like kontact have version '24.08.0-1'. 'pacman -S knotes' gives nothing. Is it dropped upstream or in Arch (both doubtful)? Has it been renamed? Thank you for any input.

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Two Arch Systems - Identical, loginctl shows TTY for one, not the other?
by David C. Rankin 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Devs, All, Recently across several distros there have been issues with loginctl not showing a TTY associated with a login. This has caused various issues with processes that rely on the user TTY for one thing or another. So I decided to test Arch on two backup servers, both current though today, both boot to multi-user target. On one box TTY=pts/0 is associated with my user login, on the other there is no TTY associated, e.g. 02:41 fenrir:~> loginctl show-session auto Id=1 User=1000 Name=david Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:37:24 CDT TimestampMonotonic=164549181 VTNr=0 TTY=pts/0 ^^^^^^^^^ Remote=yes RemoteHost=192.168.6.104 Service=sshd Scope=session-1.scope Leader=776 Audit=1 Type=tty Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=1725090076000000 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=395959270 LockedHint=no The other: 02:40 valhalla:~> loginctl show-session auto Id=1 User=1000 Name=david Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:26:09 CDT TimestampMonotonic=32411169 VTNr=0 Remote=yes RemoteHost=192.168.6.104 Service=sshd Scope=session-1.scope Leader=712 Audit=1 Type=tty Class=user Active=yes State=active IdleHint=no IdleSinceHint=0 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0 LockedHint=no How is that possible and what to check? Seems freedesktop.org and provided another mystery. Ideas? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Ctl+Alt+F7 fails!
by Ralf Mardorf 31 Aug '24

31 Aug '24

Hi, Ctl+Alt+F7 fails! I need to restart the machine. $ pacman -Q linux linux 6.10.7.arch1-1 2fucktor auth fails as well ;), hence I cannot provide a bug report. I was able to log in https://gitlab.archlinux.org/ a few hours ago. I've had enough by now! I cannot report the issue against the bug tracker, maybe somebody is willing to care about the issue here. Consider to stop this 2fucktor auth crap! Regards, Ralf

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