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[arch-general] Official repos package removal policies/best practices
by Štěpán Němec 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Hello, I noticed the package st has been removed from the community repo and added to AUR. I was wondering why, but all I could find is this commit: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2017-November/434780.html I was also unable to find any information relating to the topic (cf. mail subject) on the Arch Wiki or general web, so I'd like to ask: 1. What is the best way to find rationale about package removal or old package logs in general? E.g. pacolog doesn't work on st any more (I guess the logs are removed together with the package?) and even looking for the message linked above felt like there should be a better way. 2. If the commit message above is the only resource to be had, is there some kind of best practices concerning similar commit messages? I would have appreciated at least a short rationale for the removal being included. 3. What was the rationale in this particular case? The st-git¹ AUR package seems quite popular, so I was surprised to see its non-vcs version removed from community (I would expect the opposite to happen for popular packages). ¹ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/st-git/ Thank you, Štěpán

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[arch-general] LUKS on LVM example in wiki
by Fons Adriaensen 19 Nov '17

19 Nov '17

I've been reading the section 'LUKS on LVM' in the wiki page <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system> and there's something I fail to understand. Under 'Preparing the logical volumes', there is: # lvcreate -L 500M -n tmp MyVol (which isn't shown in the ascii picture just above). Later, under 'Configuring fstab and crypttab' a tmpfs is created on the encrypted /tmp partition: dev/mapper/tmp /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 Question: as far as I've understood, a tmpfs resides in RAM, with overflow to /swap. So why is there a logical volume for /tmp ? Or put otherwise, if /tmp is to reside on disk, why use a tmpfs ? TIA, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

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[arch-general] Archlinux + Retroarch + Vulkan + Mednafen PSX HW
by Maykel Franco 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

Hi, I have install archlinux,retroarch, mednafen psx hw (yaourt), ok. I have install vulkan-icd-loader, nvidia and nvidia-utils. I like use the emulator Mednafen HW with vulkan Driver. I try launch retroarch with vulkan video_driver but not works... [ERROR] [Vulkan]: Failed to set video mode. [ERROR] [Video]: Cannot open video driver ... Exiting ... [ERROR] Fatal error received in: "init_video()" .... [WARN] Couldn't find any previous driver (current one: "vulkan"). .... I searching google and I think my graphic card is incompatible... My graphic card is NVIDIA 560GTX Ti https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver Did I miss something?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Switching the bugtracker to Bugzilla
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

- Replying on arch-general as don't have access on dev-public - I might have missed something or proposed something which is not feasible due to the fact I'm not vary familiar with Archlinux infrastructure. On 14/11/17, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > [..] > # Migration > > There are several options for migrating the bug history to Bugzilla and a few options are under > debate. (input welcome) > > * No migration at all > * Migrate open bugs > * Migrate open bugs and auto-closing them > * Migrate all bugs > * Migrate all bugs and auto-closing them > No migration & keep flyspray as read-only. People can still reference flyspray bus and copy attachments around. It would be a good clean up for open bugs which are not-reproducable or irrelevant now. > # User migration > > User migration should be possible as well, except migrating the password, a mass password reset > would be wise. Since I'm not sure what kind of old hashing method / salt flyspray uses. > Yes, although this might complicate a bit if/when LDAP auth comes in place (since it will mean another migration - not sure). > # Migration Projects > > Bugzilla has a concept of products with components, so for all our packages we can create a > component counterpart. It should be possible to auto-assign bugs with the pkgname <-> maintainer > information from archweb. > > Possible products would be. > > # Products > > * Arch packages (core/extra or split this up) > * Community packages (community) > * Pacman > * AURWeb > * Keyring > * Archweb (new) > * Arch VM / Docker images (new) > * Release engineering > Bugzilla products / components: * Core packages * <one compoment per package> * Extra packages * same as above * Community packages * same as above * One product per "Arch Linux Projects" repo in projects.archlinux.org * AURWeb * Archweb * bbs * wiki (did I miss something here?) * Infrastructure * Arch VM * Docker * <server purpose> admin/maintenance * Release engineering Thanks -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[arch-general] Perl Help?
by Hunter Jozwiak 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi gang, I got bit by Perl this morning after I did an update. I got an error about having a handshake error with ListUtil.c, and I don't know how to resolve this error. I can't open cpan, launch Chromium, and I'm not sure what all else is broken at this point. Can someone help me towards a solution? Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] Cannot delete chroot directory
by Simon Doppler 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Hi all, I wanted to create a new build chroot directory with mkarchroot yesterday, and mistakenly created it in the wrong place. I then interrupted the process but after it had already created some files but was not finished. (I wanted to created in ~/chroot/multlib, but wrote ~/multilib). When I tried to delete the directory (with rm -rf) but I could only delete all the files it contained. It did not work either after a reboot. This is my terminal output when I try to delete the directory [root@tollana dopsi]# LANG=en rm -rf /home/dopsi/multilib rm: cannot remove '/home/dopsi/multilib': Operation not permitted [root@tollana dopsi]# lsattr | grep multilib ------------------- ./multilib I noticed in [1] (the lock function is defined in [2]) that the directory is locked using flock, but that lock should not survive a reboot (or am I mistaken ?). Thanks for your help [1] https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/tree/mkarchroot.in#n66 [2] https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/tree/lib/common.sh#n75 -- Simon Doppler E: dopsi(a)dopsi.ch PGP: 5C3A 7347 AE06 D520 68A6 D292 9A08 963D B82F 5A19

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[arch-general] Problem wifi connect disconnect
by Maykel Franco 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi, I have this network wifi card: 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a) I have xiaomi mi air 13 laptop. The network wifi card works successfull until a few days ago update archlinux: I see this errors: https://pastebin.com/vfM21dA2 I have other devices connect to my router and works fine. How can I fix? Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] bluetooth interface
by vsec 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Hi. I have two bluetooth interfaces. Both use btusb driver. How to disable one of them or rename (for example, from hci1 to hci0)? Bus 001 Device 004: Broadcom Corp. Bus 002 Device 004: Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

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[arch-general] Thunderbird doesn't show e-mails
by Giovanni Santini 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Hello everyone, I have a weird issue. My uni e-mail uses Office 365 as e-mail provider; I've added it in Thunderbird, but I can see only unread e-mails. All the read one are not appearing in my inbox. However, if I `cat` the INBOX file, I can see the e-mails and if I mark them as unread from somewhere else I can see them. Also, adding the e-mail address on Thunderbird on Windows doesn't have the same problem. Any idea to further investgation? -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] Weird artifacts after every pacman transaction
by Chorom Potro 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hello, Couple of days ago my power was cut in the middle of an update (pacman was updating purpose and atk), after the failed update my system would not run any app because libpurpose and libatk was corrupted. So I did a force reinstallation of both. Now everything is working but after each transaction I am seeing a bunch of texts like these: ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.57 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavformat.so.57 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswscale.so.4 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.57.107.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswresample.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswresample.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswscale.so.4.8.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpostproc.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavutil.so.55.78.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.54 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavformat.so.57.83.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavutil.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.57 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavresample.so.3 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavfilter.so.6.107.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcodec.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavutil.so.55 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswscale.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libswresample.so.2.9.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavformat.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavfilter.so.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavresample.so.3.7.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavdevice.so.57.10.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.54.7.100 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavdevice.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavfilter.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavresample.so is empty, not checked. Is there a way to get these removed? Cheers Nirjhor (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/local-89a477ef-0ef5@nirjhor-arch/0?redi…) Sent from Mailspring (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/local-89a477ef-0ef5@nirjhor-arch/1?redi…) the best free email app for work

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