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[arch-general] A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers
by Billy Morgan 04 Nov '21

04 Nov '21

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: arch-security(a)lists.archlinux.org Having far outdated packages is a security issue so I will include security as well. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Billy Morgan* <2021bmorgan(a)gmail.com> Date: Monday, 1 November 2021 Subject: A plea for communication from Arch devs & maintainers To: anthraxx(a)archlinux.org, aaron(a)archlinux.org, jvinet(a)zeroflux.org Today a post was made on the subreddit about a massive amount of packages being flagged outdated a very long time ago. It was nuked almost immediately and linked to an older thread with a non-answer. This cannot be brushed under the rug. It is not just random packages that are far out of date but even core ones. https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-libs/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc-go/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/glibc/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/dhcpcd/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/binutils/ <https://sys.4channel.org/derefer?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchlinux.org%2Fpackages…> Even gnome-shell and others are far out of date. Why are there still maintainers/Trusted Users that haven't been signed in for 5 months holding packages hostage? Please communicate with your userbase. We care and want to help. See this thread. I was forced to move that persons post to 4chan because it got nuked on the subreddit. https://boards.4channel.org/g/thread/84101500 Thank you

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[arch-general] "Arch Linux GUI" legit project?
by Fabian Bornschein 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hello, I just found the "Arch Linux GUI (ALG)" project * <https://sourceforge.net/projects/arch-linux-gui/> * <https://archlinuxgui.in/> That claims to install Arch Linux. Since the project gains more track now I wonder, is it allowed to use the Arch Linux trademarks in word and logo form?

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[arch-general] Can someone step in and fix this?
by Simon Perry 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71587 The maintainer hasn't responded in ages and it seems like a simple dep addition. Cheers. -- Simon Perry

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[arch-general] Unstable/Unusably slow Wi-Fi connection with systemd-networkd/wpa_supplicant
by riveravaldez 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hi, I was using Wicd until a couple of weeks without problems, but because it's been out of repos for a while and generally not maintained/developed anymore I decided to make the switch and start using systemd-networkd. The machine is a laptop Dell XPS 15 L502X (Sandy Bridge) with: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1030 [Rainbow Peak] (rev 34) I followed the Arch Wiki without problems and wired connection seems to be working flawlessly. But Wi-Fi is unstable and slow at the point of unusability. I posted on the forums[0] for help but didn't get any until now, so I'm letting the link here just in case someone can give me any hint. In the forum's post I informed the output of terminal, networkctl and wpa_cli status, dmesg, journalctl, etc. Please let me know if I should put the details here (didn't did it just to not make mail extremely long, hope I'm not doing wrong) or add anything else. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards. [0] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=264608

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[arch-general] GDB C++ pretty printer issues
by Vasi Vilvoiu 30 Oct '21

30 Oct '21

Hi y'all! With the latest September update to gdb[1] the builtin pretty printers for (at least) unique_ptr no longer work. (gdb) p x $2 = std::unique_ptr<foo> = {get() = {<No data fields>}} Downgrading to gdb 10.2 seems to fix the issue, but I can't figure out what the underlying cause is. It's either because (a) our gcc[2] and gcc-libs packages are out of date since July[3] _and_ GDB does not support pretty printers for the older stdc++ version or (b) there's a bug in gdb 11.1 Testing out the first hypothesis would mean compiling gcc 11.2 from source, which is something I'm not looking forward. Does anyone else have any knowledge that may be relevant to this issue? -- Best regards, Vasi Vilvoiu [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/gdb/ [2] https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/ [3] https://gcc.gnu.org//gcc-11/

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[arch-general] Firefox Ctrl-W
by Paul Dann 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Has anyone been able to figure out how to disable the Ctrl-W shortcut in Firefox? As a Vim user I'm constantly accidentally closing tabs when I want to delete the last word in a text field. It seems to be _very_ difficult to find a reliable method to do this short of recompiling Firefox. I use Plasma Desktop. If there's some way to filter events going to the browser window, that's a viable solution too, but I haven't found any way so far. Many thanks, Paul

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[arch-general] hostapd + ap_isolate
by Erich Eckner 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi fellow-archers, I'm running a software accesspoint with hostapd for several years now. Since some weeks, clients cannot talk to each other directly anymore, also IPv6 broke (the latter might be related, but I'm currently trying to solve the former issue). Unfortunately, I cannot assure, that both happened at the same time. Also, I cannot correlate it to any updates or config changes. The tech stack is: + hostapd (spans two wifi: a normal and a guest net) + dhcpd (for ipv4) + radvd (for ipv6) + iptables (for routing) /etc/hostapd.conf: - ---8<---8<---8<--- bssid=bd:fe:0d:7e:80:37 driver=nl80211 logger_syslog=-1 logger_syslog_level=2 logger_stdout=-1 logger_stdout_level=2 ctrl_interface=/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 ssid=VzEbpU-wwrtw8f country_code=DE hw_mode=g channel=6 beacon_int=100 dtim_period=2 macaddr_acl=1 accept_mac_file=/etc/hostapd/accept auth_algs=3 ignore_broadcast_ssid=0 wpa=2 wpa_psk=619f85f482f85d30ac69022edaabce188b4edb82910c1e40f40837e4e6599437 wpa_pairwise=CCMP bss=wlp0s12_0 ssid=RmH bssid=29:9a:f9:b2:d9:02 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=K6VHcvEy wpa_pairwise=CCMP macaddr_acl=0 - --->8--->8--->8--- ipv4 works fine in the following directions: + from access point to any client and vice versa + from any client to any permitted target beyond the access point but it fails between wifi clients directly. The only config change, which I did within the last 6 months, is adding the second wifi on wlp0s12_0. However, I'm pretty sure, that at least IPv6 was not immediately broken. Ipv4-routes and -addresses on the clients look fine, tcpdump shows no packages when trying to ping other wifi clients (is it normal to not see outgoing packages in case of failure? - seems strange, but was the same, when pinging some bogus address from the access point). Originally, I added "ap_isolate=1" to the config of wlp0s12_0 to isolate guest wifi clients from each other - and I'm pretty sure, I did test it, and it did work (and did not break connectivity between wlp0s12 clients). However, during testing now, I even removed that directive without success. Does anyone have an idea, where else I could look? regards, Erich -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE3p92iMrPBP64GmxZCu7JB1Xae1oFAmFzIM0ACgkQCu7JB1Xa e1ozRhAAoXDEs1qUVCDQvP7o5XZlpGRi59imJH7ZhLABxiuKFZ2YhUoTHTX061lX lgbRSZMVAFEjD6x8Hz/uu0NvB+dYf/+W+cF6r2bRN8JXQ7UOb5qzN3CG9pt2H4gg reYYdwS7VH4U7WrdLZvshqRselcZ+x6c0vrpIiX8ni1c3w+hzEgsZ/1m9QMoy7DR 58xeAtkw879AxltjMyJyhYJT3CSjXzZ330sTpukpS7l9v8shs8JQteGckv0WH4q0 KAXW+H0MtXfDIJIwYDVxWV+5CzMeLLLZ5HTYz+U8mC4HZ6iNQ8FRKqJ6GZGZ/t7W MTNMt9V0qx2ewkAPll+u0JJKoVOOiMqqLPeuGwSTS4Vo5oc9tI7zmYC4GOi9Slsp 6WPoF1OT109KDvoWZS8dEadpMb9Pmv3HlWEo/0k5lydqTW3Ef/+8Etcf0YEoI5sf 1HCkntkeqLIUf6EAH0zqm+reebXXuOt5saWbmRUxGRvQijQOm6M5Q9QvoEqOMeQw fpVVH+2IAzN/m0DPvkiA/kUev2Gho2WRWCe0DvyZ15t4VzngXmvPIjO40Dh8w/Z1 N5sgRVDFATC+ciIestfKGe8anC9X3NO7xrQ+AhLIg2PXcZSkuYbpOJKWvMfCtJ91 2+gyoPqgh/6CXhR1tLa5Ttun9FbCSRVitVDmHg5JHUbhe4Zmz+4= =UNVM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] unable to login to win7 and win2008srv after samba DC update to 4.15
by Łukasz Michalski 20 Oct '21

20 Oct '21

Hi, I had to revert my samba DC after upgrade to 4.15. win7 and win2008srv R2 have problems login, win10 and linux clients seems to works fine. There are more reports about this problem on samba mailing list [1]. Consider locking samba to latest 4.14 if doing upgrade of DC. Regards, Łukasz [1] https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2021-October/237566.html

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[arch-general] NFS /srv/nfs subdirectories are not reflected properly
by Mark Persky 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hi everyone, When mounting /srv/nfs directory the subdirectories are listed but have no content. Any help would be appreciated, Mark P.

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[arch-general] NFS won't start
by Mark Persky 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Hi everyone, I am unable to launch nfs server. It misses the scripts as mentioned in log: .... systemd[166856]: nfs-idmapd.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd: No such file or directory .... systemd[166857]: nfs-mountd.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd: No such file or directory .... systemd[166858]: nfsdcld.service: Failed to locate executable /usr/sbin/nfsdcld: No such file or directory .... systemd[166859]: rpc-statd.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/sbin/rpc.statd: No such file or directory .... I guess some packages are missing or not properly installed/configured. Any help would be appreciated, Mark P.

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