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Firefox/Gnome
by Frank 30 May '23

30 May '23

Good afternoon, since the upgrade to Gnome Shell 44.1 I have to start Firefox twice. The first time I only get a black window but can close it from the top menue. After that it starts normal. When starting from a terminal I get the following message which appears at 2nd successfull attempt as well: ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment. Anyone else experiencingthis and an idea how to get an error message? Thanks Frank

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Is there "depth" control for pkgctl-repo-clone like "asp export" to get only the latest commit?
by David C. Rankin 25 May '23

25 May '23

All, Reading about the changes on archlinux.org and asp will stop working with svn2git going away. pkgctl-repo-clone is the replamement. It has only 3 options: -m, --maintainer NAME --universe -h, --help Does pkgctl-repo-clone simply fetch the latest commit, or does it fetch the history as well? 'asp export' provided only the latest commit without the prior versions history, etc. Can pkgctl-repo-clone do that? https://man.archlinux.org/man/pkgctl-repo-clone.1.en (4/23/2023) is silent on that aspect. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/blob/master/src/lib/repo.… for pkgctl-repo is also silent on whether clone is the latest commit or full-clone with full git history, e.g. COMMANDS clone Clone a package repository https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/blob/master/src/lib/repo/… is just the 3 options we started with. I would think it would work like 'asp export' but I'd like to confirm with those that know better than I. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Pacman can't pull lib32-ncurses
by Polarian 25 May '23

25 May '23

Hello, When attempting to pull lib32-ncurses during pacman -Syu I get the following error: warning: cannot resolve "ncurses=6.4_20230520", a dependency of "lib32-ncurses" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: lib32-ncurses Anyone else able to reproduce this issue? Note: I have removed [community] Note: I have got [testing] and [extra-testing] enabled, I am unsure if this is the problem, and if it is, I guess I should be reporting this to #archlinux-testing Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Re: Help debugging random lockups
by Andy Pieters 24 May '23

24 May '23

> > > On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 17:17, Spencer Collyer < > spencer(a)spencercollyer.plus.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a reasonably new PC which ran with no problems for around six >> weeks after initial install of Arch, but then about two weeks ago it >> started locking up randomly. I can't see anything obvious that is causing >> it to lock up. Sometimes it does it while I am actively working, and other >> times it locks up overnight (I tend to leave it running continuously). >> > >> Without more, I have seen this with faulty hardware, such as faulty ram > modules, or PCI cards malfunctioning. > > The standard way for debugging things is to take out hardware until the > problem stops. > > Side note: have you any idea of temps when this is happening? > >

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Re: Git migration completed
by Genes Lists 23 May '23

23 May '23

On 5/21/23 07:29, Levente Polyak wrote: > We are proud to announce that the migration to Git packaging succeeded! 🥳 A huge thank you for the massive detailed planning and successful execution - very, very much appreciated. Hope you all celebrate lots! best gene

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Re: Git migration completed
by Genes Lists 21 May '23

21 May '23

First off - huge congrats to you all for orchestrating this obviously huge task. Thank you. Couple questions to confirm this is a mirror sync issue and not something else - since one of today's items was "test syncrepo on mirror.pkgbuild.com" I assumed this would be up to date? - pacman 6.0.2-7 - while waiting for my main mirror to sync I checked mirror.pkgbuild.com would you expect it to be there as of now: https://mirror.pkgbuild.com/pool/packages/ The link to new version is in core just not (yet) in pool. - core.db.sig Also not found on mirror.pkgbuild.com (or other mirrors I checked) none of the repos have <repo>.db.sig file pacman 6.0.2-6 shows error about core.db.sig etc being not found. Are these just - be patient, takes time to sync - or something else? Thanks, gene

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Boot Archiso files using systemd-boot or GRUB
by Óscar García Amor 16 May '23

16 May '23

Hello folks, I am doing a little crazy, I would like to boot the content of Archiso but with the extracted files not the ISO image itself. It is clear to me that to boot I need: - amd-ucode.img - intel-ucode.img - initramfs-linux.img - vmlinuz-linux - airootfs.sfs And that the linux and initrd lines are: linux /archiso/vmlinuz-linux initrd /archiso/intel-ucode.img /archiso/amd-ucode.img /archiso/initramfs-linux.img But I'm missing the options to pass to the kernel to find the airootfs.sfs. I know that using the img_dev and img_loop parameters I can tell it where the ISO file is located and boot with it, but I'm more interested in booting directly with the extracted airootfs.sfs and without the ISO. Any ideas? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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ezarch script errors
by Jude DaShiell 15 May '23

15 May '23

In broad software selections, neither general works nor multimedia. These two error out and install nothing hardinfo for general isn't found and easyscreencapture in multimedia is not found either. That may explain why orca never came up talking after I installed a mate desktop and I had no option to run without a desktop either. That's the situation with the iso I have. Either verizon throttling or a hardware error prevents isos from verifying once downloaded so I use what isos I have here until these problems can be fixed. I ran ./install to run that script too on the iso. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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php-legacy migration leaves startup warnings for php on migrated modules - ignore?
by David C. Rankin 13 May '23

13 May '23

All, For nextcloud, etc. the install recommends php-legacy (8.1) and provides a brief synopsis for migration to php-legacy. That works, but then any app calling php instead of php-legacy will receive startup warnings for modules moved to php-legacy. (I still have some apps as well as test code that users php on the command line) I could always just disable the startup warnings completely for php -- but is there a better way? For example: $ php-legacy <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Version => 8.1.18 (all good) $ php <<< "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sed -n '2p' PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pdo_pgsql ... PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pgsql' (tried: /usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql (/usr/lib/php/modules/pgsql ... PHP Version => 8.2.6 (versions of modules migrated to php-legacy) Is there no way to leave both installed and not confuse nextcloud? If not, then disabling the php modules is fine and only having the php-legacy versions installed will just necessitate disabling the migrated modules and not having the ability to work with both. Can I leave both versions of pdo_pgsql and pgsql installed without causing myself grief? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest on Arch Linux in Virtualbox?
by Ralf Mardorf 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi, to run Windows 11 as Virtualbox guest I build Virtualbox < version 7. My current installed virtualbox was build against python 3.10.10-1. Today building against python 3.11.3-1 failed with "Checking for Python support: ** Python not found!". I can still start a Windows 11 guest with virtualbox build against python 3.10.10-1 on the machine that is updated to python 3.11.3-1. However, the situation threatens to become more serious. • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q python python 3.11.3-1 • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep SUPPYTHONLIBS= chroot/rocketmouse/build/virtualbox/src/VirtualBox-6.1.40/configure SUPPYTHONLIBS="python2.7 python2.6 python3.1 python3.2 python3.3 python3.4 python3.4m python3.5 python3.5m python3.6 python3.6m python3.7 python3.7m python3.8 python3.8m python3.9 python3.9m python3.10 python3.10m" • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ grep " python (" /var/log/pacman.log | tail -1 [2023-05-04T01:05:49+0200] [ALPM] upgraded python (3.10.10-1 -> 3.11.3-1) • rocketmouse@archlinux /.tmp/virtualbox-epoch1-6.1.40 $ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.1 I want to build virtualbox 1:6.1.40-708.2 against latest version of python. Maybe I don't need to do this, but soon or later I at least need to build against another dependency and then python is involved, too. Perhaps just adding python3.11 to configure's SUPPYTHONLIBS already does the job to build virtualbox, without fixing something else. If so, the end of building virtualbox < version 7 to run Windows 11 guests is still close. What are you doing to run a Windows 11 guest? Regards, Ralf

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