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[arch-general] dev-public: Future build infrastructure for Arch Linux
by David C. Rankin 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

What does: Future build infrastructure for Arch Linux "We decided on supporting the x86_64-v3 microarchitecture" Does that mean Arch will break on anything older than Haswell for Intel will no longer be supported on Arch? Or am I missing something? SUSE going to ALP is doing the v3 baseline for it's "containerized" Micro Leap, but what does this mean for Arch. With SUSE, it means just that, if you have an i7 Sandy Lake or older -- your just not invited to the party. That seems completely counter to what Arch should do for a main distro. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Openbox screen locker
by paulf＠quillandmouse.com 04 Sep '22

04 Sep '22

Folks: Was running i3wm, just installed Openbox. As with i3, after a certain period of time, the screen goes black. So far so good. However, when I move the mouse or hit a key, now I get some sort of xfce screen locker. It has a banner at the top with my system name, the date, and a lock symbol in the far right corner. In the center middle is XFCE's mouse icon. And it insists I enter my password. I don't like or want this program running, but I don't know what's spawning it. There is nothing which calls an XFCE program in my Openbox config files, or the global ones in /etc. According to htop, this program is apparently a child of systemd --user. This isn't helpful. Can anyone provide assistance in finding and fixing what's calling this program? Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster

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[arch-general] mkpkg : A new tool to auto rebuild packages when makedepends have updated
by Genes Lists 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

When building packages (makepkg + PKGBUILD), It would be useful if there was a way to easily rebuild the package whenever a make dependency is updated. One can do this manually of course, by bumping the pkgrel and rebuilding. To make it easier I built a tool to do that for me. For example: When a tool chain used to build a package is updated, it's good practice to rebuild those which use that tool chain. For example, when gcc, cargo, binutils et al are updated packages using those tools should also be updated. While static linked libraries surely don't demand a rebuild to function, because the prior, older library is part of the binary itself, it's still a good idea to rebuild it. This will pick up fixes, including security related ones, as well as improvements. Of course, it's always sensible to confirm that the application properly builds and works with the newer tool or library. I've made the code available should it be useful to others. https://github.com/gene-git/Arch-mkpkg best gene

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[arch-general] QEMU Networking
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

Greetings, I think my question is: now that I have a new laptop and a slightly different networking setup, how do I get QEMU to work with systemd-resolved, but if I had all the answers, then I wouldn't be asking for help. :-) My symtoms are that QEMU guests (various live Linux CDs) can ping IP addresses, but not resolve names: $ ping -c1 archlinux.org ping: archlinux.org: Name or service not known $ resolvectl query archlinux.org archlinux.org: resolve call failed: Lookup failed due to system error: Network is unreachable $ ping -c1 95.217.163.246 PING 95.217.163.246 (95.217.163.246) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 95.217.163.246: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=414 ms [statistics elided to conserve bandwidth] On my old laptop, I used NetworkManager resolvconf, but on the new one, I'm using iwctl/iwd and systemd-resolved, so I'm assuming that that's the culprit. In any case, I'm using the following command to start QEMU (various live CDs boot and run with various options, but they all exhibit the same networking symptoms; vm.qcow2 is newly created): qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8G -enable-kvm -drive file=vm.qcow2 -cdrom /path/to/iso-image I have no access to a wired network. I do have access to two WiFi networks. One is from my cell phone provider. The other goes through a captive portal over which I have no control. I get the same symptoms in my guests either way. When using the network connection from my cell phone provider (some output removed to remove obviously irrelevant data and/or formatting meant for humans): $ ping -c1 archlinux.org PING archlinux.org (95.217.163.246) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from archlinux.org (95.217.163.246): icmp_seq=1 ttl=41 time=210 ms $ pacman -Q qemu qemu-desktop 7.0.0-1 $ ip a 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether b0:3c:dc:82:f1:ea brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.0.131/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::b23c:dcff:fe82:f1ea/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever $ resolvectl Global Protocols: +LLMNR +mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported resolv.conf mode: foreign Link 4 (wlan0) Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR/IPv4 LLMNR/IPv6 Protocols: +DefaultRoute +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported Current DNS Server: 208.67.222.222 DNS Servers: 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 $ iwctl device list Name Address Powered Adapter Mode wlan0 b0:3c:dc:82:f1:ea on phy0 station $ iwctl adapter list Name Powered Vendor Model phy0 on Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi [Then I found <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=253005>.] $ drill archlinux.org Error: error sending query: No (valid) nameservers defined in the resolver $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Resolver configuration file. # See resolv.conf(5) for details. What am I missing? Do I care that drill doesn't work on my host? Thanks, Dan -- I can eat glass, it does not hurt me. Dan Sommers, http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan

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[arch-general] ruby 3.0.4-10 issue
by Genes Lists 31 Aug '22

31 Aug '22

FYI - Causes this at end of every call ti pacman -Syu therafter: (6/8) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require': cannot load such file -- timeout (LoadError) from <internal:/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:107:in `initialize' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:85:in `new' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/command_manager.rb:85:in `instance' from /usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:38:in `run' from /usr/bin/gem:13:in `<main>'

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[arch-general] Python nightmare
by admin＠linuxsrv.org 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Hi guys, Recently tried to install Spyder IDE but i got a ton of errors, so after trying different approaches I found that probably doing it through Anaconda would be better. And try first with AUR, but never could, so I download Anacondas installer and after a huge amount of time it got installed. So there it was Anaconda + Spyder etc.... however I started to get a ton of Python related warnings and error every time I updated (pacman -Syu), so i ended up removing Anconda and everything else. But now i still getting errors like... advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/btrfsutil.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__pycache__/override.cpython-310.pyc advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jaraco.text-3.8.1.dist-info/ for instance this packages are indeed installed, but I keep gettin the warning, and like that I get for a ton of files ls -l /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jaraco.text-3.9.0.dist-info/ total 20 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1050 ago 15 10:38 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3916 ago 15 10:38 METADATA -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1102 ago 15 10:38 RECORD -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7 ago 15 10:38 top_level.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92 ago 15 10:38 WHEEL And even worse, whenever i tried to run certain apps (like gnome-tweaks, bpython, ipyhton) now i get errors when they work before without a problem.. this is the outrput. $ gnome-tweaks Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gnome-tweaks", line 13, in <module> import gi ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi' $ ipython Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ipython", line 5, in <module> from IPython import start_ipython File "/home/acgx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 55, in <module> from .core.application import Application File "/home/acgx/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/IPython/core/application.py", line 23, in <module> from traitlets.config.application import Application, catch_config_error ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'traitlets' $ bpython Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/bpython", line 33, in <module> sys.exit(load_entry_point('bpython==0.22.1', 'console_scripts', 'bpython')()) File "/usr/bin/bpython", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 957, in distribution return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 548, in from_name raise PackageNotFoundError(name) importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for bpython Checking out my python binaries i get.. $ ls -l /usr/bin/python* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python -> python3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2 -> python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14168 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2.7 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1681 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2.7-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 oct 10 2021 /usr/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 94 dic 13 2021 /usr/bin/python2-pyuic4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14280 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3.10 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3299 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3.10-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python3-config -> python3.10-config lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 ago 3 12:39 /usr/bin/python-config -> python3-config So, does anybody has seen or been in something like this? any hints how can I "purge" "remove" or deinstall properly the buggy libraries and reinstall everything properly? Hope someone have a good pointer. Thanks in advance. Regards Adriel CG

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[arch-general] Fixed (hopefully)
by Randy DuCharme 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

No idea what's going on with my Google email account these days but - it is what it is.... -- Randall DuCharme (Radio AD5GB) Powered entirely by Open Source software.

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[arch-general] libvirt-storage-rbd removed from repos
by Ricardo Band 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Ahoi, Does anyone know why libvirt-storage-rbd was removed from the repos? I use ceph rbd volumes in my libvirt VMs. Did this functionality end up in another package? -- Greetings Ricardo Band https:// www.ricardo.band mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band

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[arch-general] hdf5 Conflict on pacman update
by David C. Rankin 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Archdevs, Don't know if this is worth a note on the page for manual intervention, but on update earlier today we received: :: Synchronizing package databases... core 158.6 KiB 109 KiB/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% extra 1711.3 KiB 6.43 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% community 6.7 MiB 16.3 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace med with community/med-openmpi? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: hdf5-openmpi and hdf5 are in conflict. Remove hdf5? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: hdf5-openmpi and hdf5 are in conflict (of course you can just say 'y' to remove hdf5, but conflict was not expecteed) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] boot magically mounted on startup; reliable?
by Vasile Vilvoiu 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

Hello! On my latest install I forgot to mount the boot partition during the installation process, which prompted me to come back on a few of the steps after setting up the root filesystem. Everything works great (with systemd-boot) but I just remembered one thing I missed was adding an entry in fstab for /boot. However, it does seem that systemd does mount _something_ automatically: $ mount | grep boot systemd-1 on /boot type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=50,pgrp=1,timeout=120,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=10794) and that _something_ seems to be the same as the boot partition: $ sudo ls -al /boot total 58408 drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux $ sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt $ sudo ls -al /mnt total 58408 drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 9 11:02 .. drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:54 EFI drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 21:55 'System Volume Information' -rwx------ 1 root root 34938914 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux-fallback.img -rwx------ 1 root root 9030240 Jul 19 18:14 initramfs-linux.img -rwx------ 1 root root 5174272 May 10 21:27 intel-ucode.img drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 26 08:47 loader -rwx------ 1 root root 10636800 Jul 19 18:14 vmlinuz-linux I have trouble finding the documentation of this behavior and I'd like to know if it can be relied upon or I should add an entry manually. -- Best regards, Vasile Vilvoiu

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