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Lost OTP authenticator
by whiteman808＠paraboletancza.org 27 Nov '25

27 Nov '25

I lost OTP authenticator and I'm no longer be able to log in to gitlab.archlinux.org. I tried to send mail to accountsupport(a)archlinux.org but I didn't get answer.

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thunderbid error in SmtpServer.sys.mjs when sending messages
by Łukasz Michalski 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Hi, My Thunderbird instances suddenly started to choke on sending emails to smpt.office365.com (not sure for others). Both my 139.0.2-1 and 143.0.1-2 instances have the same problem: 1. I click 'send' and TH is stuck on "Sending message" dialog box. 2. devtools shows error in console: 08:57:41.360 NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND: Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.fileSize] SmtpServer.sys.mjs:598 3. When I click 'Cancel' in dialog box from (1) then, 'Send' again the problem repeats. 4. When I wait for TH to give up and click 'Send' again message is sent successfully. Anyone sees similar behavior? Regards, Łukasz

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Cannot always resume from hibernate on linux 6.17.*
by gesh 25 Nov '25

25 Nov '25

Hi, For an unclear reason, sometimes when resuming from hibernate on a system running linux and xorg, the screen turns black and unresponsive to even sysrq. Hibernation from a non-xorg vty works well, but this is insufficient for my uses. Moreover, sometimes even when resuming from hibernation does work, within a couple minutes of the resume, the screen flashes with a blue QR code for maybe half a second (which, if this is meant to give me an opportunity to scan it, is woefully inadequate), then turns black and unresponsive. In contrast, with linux-lts, I'm so far not having any similar problems. In particular, from initial searches I was under the impression that the problem was in one of the graphics drivers, and tried switching from nvidia to nouveau and finally disabling both, but that didn't influence the results. This situation has been plaguing me for about two months now -- the difficulty diagnosing the issue has prevented me from dedicating the time to investigate. Does anybody know at least of where I can look to try to get a better picture of what's going on? Thanks, Gesh The software versions for the relevant parts of the stack (haven't tested linux-lts+nvidia yet, but the version listed is the one that broke with linux) linux 6.17.8.arch1-1 linux-lts 6.12.59-1 mesa 1:25.2.7-1 xorg-server 21.1.20-1 i3-wm 4.24-1

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AUR - connection issues 11/17 at 0600 zulu - hopefully just maintenance?
by David C Rankin 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

All, Last night around 0600 GMT, I had difficulties reaching AUR. I would get "nginx gateway 502" errors and "Command Not Found" rendered in the browser at other times. When connections were successful, they would take 10 - 20 seconds to actually return content. Then clicking links on a package page, like "View PKGBUILD" would fail (as described above) Hopefully this was just maintenance and not another surge of bots. I thought I would drop a message about it -- though I have every confidence the web wizards at Arch already know. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Fwd: How do I advise users to install the arch package for Cpdf?
by Andy Pieters 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 at 15:56, Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > Hi John, > > Max wrote: > > "cpdf can be installed from the AUR > > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf) using the normal methods" > > He's right, an ArchLinux user will know about the AUR, but you can refer > them to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository as > a starting point if you wish to make sure. > > I think it's important to keep the disconnect and do point people to the wiki like Max says rather than just say "install helper", *and* to highlight that AUR is *user* content, not subject to the normal QA and vetting from the main repository, and not endorsed by Arch

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How do I advise users to install the arch package for Cpdf?
by John Whitington 17 Nov '25

17 Nov '25

Hello, Someone has kindly provided an Arch package for a piece of software I wrote: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpdf I had thought it could be installed with pacman -S cpdf, and not being an arch user, that's what I'd put in the documentation. In fact, this is not true, because it's in the AUR. I installed Arch, and yay, and ran: yay -S cpdf which completed successfully. But running 'cpdf' at the command line cannot find the command. And yet, from the comments, other people are using it successfully. Any advice on what I can tell my users? Or a better venue to ask this question? Thanks, John -- John Whitington Director, Coherent Graphics Ltd https://www.coherentpdf.com/

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Connection timeout when accessing Arch GitLab
by DodoGTA GT 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

Hello I've been having issues accessing the Arch Linux GitLab (gitlab.archlinux.org) for more than a week now Every time I try to access that domain, the connection keeps timing out (and `ping` command shows a 100% packet loss) Here's what `tracepath` command outputs for reference: ❯ tracepath gitlab.archlinux.org 1?: [LOCALHOST] pmtu 1500 1: _gateway 0.818ms 1: _gateway 0.674ms 2: <ISP address> 9.205ms 3: decix2-gw.hetzner.com 30.104ms 4: core21.fsn1.hetzner.com 34.806ms 5: ex9k2.dc13.fsn1.hetzner.com 34.676ms 6: no reply What's strange is that I can access every other Arch Linux service fine (including the AUR which has been unstable in the past few weeks) Also I've already set up DNS-over-HTTPS (so DNS shouldn't be an issue) and I've had an Arch DevOps person check my IP to confirm it isn't blocked (so it might be some further upstream issue like Hetzner?) And finally, accessing the website via Tor/Tor Browser works and I was even able to do a `git push` (so that's a workaround I could use for now) Hopefully a resolution can happen in the near future (because I'm a bit annoyed by this issue at this point) Thanks

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Re: Possible to script pacman -U to automate swap between dovecot 2.3/2.4, or 2.4/2.3?
by Pocket 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

On 11/7/25 3:20 PM, David C Rankin wrote: > On 11/6/25 5:01 PM, Pocket wrote: >> I use the btrfs filesystem, I create a subvolume for version 1 and >> install the base packages and the "old version" It is configured and >> boots and "runs" using systemd-nspawn. >> >> I then create a subvolume for version 2, install the base packages and >> the "old version" It is configured and boots and "runs" using >> systemd- nspawn. >> >> I then can use machinectl to run/start a "version" and then I can shut >> it down and run the other, ie >> machinectl start "version 1" >> machine login "version 1" >> >> when I am finished then >> >> machinectl start "version 2" >> machine login "version 2" >> >> systemd containers are your friend > > Thanks! > > That's something I've not looked into yet. I've avoided btrfs and > stayed on ext4 --- I also run opensuse and lived through the development > years when btrfs would regularly exhaust drive space leaving users > without a usable system. > > It's matured, but there are also distros now dropping it, so that has > been another ding against my trying it. The systemd container aspect > does as a huge capability to its arsenal. I'll have to read up. > ls /var/lib/machines/ DNS PiHole machinectl list MACHINE CLASS SERVICE OS VERSION ADDRESSES DNS container systemd-nspawn archarm - - PiHole container systemd-nspawn archarm - - - base packages are installed to DNS and PiHole. bind is installed into the DNS subvolume and pihole is installed into the PiHole subvolume. They are started at boot. They are separate from the "Root" subvolume that the system boots to. This keeps all the "services" separate from the boot system and I don't have the bind and pihole packages installed/mixed into the "root system". I am currently creating a subvolume for nginx to provide web service to the local network. btrfs subvolume list /mnt ID 256 gen 9111 top level 5 path Root ID 257 gen 9099 top level 5 path Home ID 258 gen 8452 top level 5 path Pkgs ID 259 gen 263 top level 256 path Root/var/lib/portables ID 260 gen 9100 top level 256 path Root/var/lib/machines ID 261 gen 9111 top level 5 path PiHole ID 262 gen 263 top level 261 path PiHole/var/lib/portables ID 263 gen 1005 top level 261 path PiHole/var/lib/machines ID 264 gen 9110 top level 5 path DNS ID 265 gen 1005 top level 264 path DNS/var/lib/portables ID 266 gen 1005 top level 264 path DNS/var/lib/machines Overall: Device size: 27.31GiB Device allocated: 4.57GiB Device unallocated: 22.74GiB Device missing: 0.00B Device slack: 0.00B Used: 2.35GiB Free (estimated): 24.65GiB (min: 13.28GiB) Free (statfs, df): 24.65GiB Data ratio: 1.00 Metadata ratio: 2.00 Global reserve: 7.53MiB (used: 0.00B) Multiple profiles: no Data,single: Size:4.01GiB, Used:2.10GiB (52.32%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 4.01GiB Metadata,DUP: Size:256.00MiB, Used:129.83MiB (50.71%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 512.00MiB System,DUP: Size:32.00MiB, Used:16.00KiB (0.05%) /dev/mmcblk0p2 64.00MiB Unallocated: /dev/mmcblk0p2 22.74GiB I have compress=lzo turned on all volumes -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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Possible to script pacman -U to automate swap between dovecot 2.3/2.4, or 2.4/2.3?
by David C Rankin 06 Nov '25

06 Nov '25

Arch pacman gurus, I'd thought I would automate the swap between dovecot versions for testing between dovecot23 and dovecot with pacman -U --noconfirm, but since pacman considers dovecot23 and dovecot to be in conflict, the upgrade fails with: :: dovecot-2.4.2-3 and dovecot23-2.3.21.1-3 are in conflict. Remove dovecot23? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: dovecot-2.4.2-3 and dovecot23-2.3.21.1-3 are in conflict Job for dovecot.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status dovecot.service" and "journalctl -xeu dovecot.service" for details. Manually swapping is easy enough, it just takes a little more time to do the service stop, pacman upgrade, copy the changed configs and restart the service. Is there any way to script around the dovecot23/dovecot conflict issue? Moreover, since dovecot23 and dovecot are single packages, why the conflict? Seems a warning about config breakage would be appropriate, but the user should be able to swap between them without triggering a conflict. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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dovecot 2.4
by Friedrich Strohmaier 04 Nov '25

04 Nov '25

Hi @all, does anybody know, why dovecot 2.4 didn't make it into extra until now? Couldn't find any info about it. best Friedrich

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