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Enforced egrep warning by an if/then check
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

Hi, I'm uncertain, if it makes sense to file a bug report against the xfce4-dev-tools or not. Actually upstream has got a reason to do this ;), but on Arch Linux it results in unwanted and annoying warnings :(. $ grep egrep /usr/bin/xdt-autogen -A3 if type egrep >/dev/null 2>&1; then EGREP=egrep else EGREP="grep -E" fi One time I reported an egrep related warning issue against the rtirq community package and upstream, but I didn't report it against e.g. AUR's ventoy-bin. However, the above if/then issue is something very special, since a workaround does cause the warnings in this particular case. The grep package does also provide a workaround. IOW two workarounds collide with each other :D. Regards, Ralf

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Is the follwoing an arch packaging bug in the remmina package?
by u34＠net9.ga 02 Oct '22

02 Oct '22

$ ldd /usr/sbin/remmina | grep libsoup libsoup-2.4.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsoup-2.4.so.1 (0x00007fae45bde000) $ pacman -Qi remmina | grep libsoup $ I searched bugs.archlinux.org. Remmina has no bugs there. Is it an archlinux packaging bug? -- u34

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Boot messages font issue
by u34＠net9.ga 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

There is a large, about 2M in size, screen shot at https://img.net9.ga/d9eYOM6/xbV+yBu/BootFontsIssue.jpg . Each text line is duplicated in a shifted manner because the picture was taken by a camera. The dupliacation of the lines is not the problem. It does not occour in reality. The problem are the rectangles enclosed in the red ellipse at the bottom of the picture. Have you encountred such a font issue? Any comments? This message is a partial duplication of the no replies Possibly only with UEFI or LVM, rectangles instead of letters at boot post at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=279827 . -- u34

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Simple Scan asking for root password
by Frank 21 Sep '22

21 Sep '22

Good morning, I have set up a new machine with Gnome Shell and a network printer/scanner. When executing simple-scan it searches for scanner and then asks me to enter my password to gain admoin rights. I never encountered this behavior before and wonder if there's a way to stop it asking for the pw? THX Frank

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Mailing list quirks
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Sep '22

20 Sep '22

Dear mailing list admin, while I still received emails from the mailing list, I couldn't log in. After (re-)subscribing I can log in again. Please add "[arch-general] " to the subject. Some mailing lists don't use such an identifier in the subject, but a lot of mailing lists for good reasons do. It's apparently possible to prepend the list name and to keep the DKIM signature intact or they break it, but it doesn't matter. I don't know. Why is this identifier useful? For example, if you have got a virtual search folder with a filter, that searches the email bodies for "x11" in folders for different mailing lists, it can be very helpful, if the subject lines mention "[arch- general] ", "[Alsa-user] ", "[Evolution] ", "[lubuntu-users] " etc. to get a first overview. For several reasons such an identifier can be useful. For each of those reasons somebody probably has got an objection, how to do things different, so that the identifier is unneeded. Yes, it's not needed, but it's useful/helpful for some people, in some cases, while there's unlikely a good reason to be annoyed by "[arch-general] ". Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-announce] Arch Linux mailing list changes
by Genes Lists 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Mail List Admins: Following up to my prev post (arch-general) about DMARC rejections from arch-general from domain zoho.com ( I checked it too has 'p=reject') My own messages to the list are also being rejected by our border mailer with same dmarc rejection - so indeed, I suspect something is not quite right with the list configs. Can you all please check that incoming mail to lists from domains with 'p=reject' DMARC policy work ok. Seems not to be working from what I see. thanks.

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All certificates missing after update
by James Crake-Merani 18 Sep '22

18 Sep '22

Hello, After my last update, I noticed a strange issue: I could not do anything that required HTTPS. I could not use curl, update the system etc. I eventually traced the problem back to ca-certificates. I noticed that /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem , which although still existed on the system, was just a completely empty file while on my laptop it was filled with certificates. What I had to do was copy over the missing certificates from my laptop, and then it was working. But what I noticed is that previously I had downgraded some ca-certificates packages (specifically the utils, and mozilla one I think),and when I upgraded the system the certificates were all once again missing, and I had to replace them for a second time. I am not educated at all on the ca-certificates package. I assume it has something to do with SSL but I know little beyond that. I therefore can't deduce whether this issue is the fault of a bug, or if I have done something wrong. I'd like to know if anyone has experienced this problem as well, or if someone has knowledge that might be of use. Thanks. James Crake-Merani

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[arch-general] egrep error after update
by pete 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Hi folks I did my normal nightly update last night no issues but now every time i open an terminal i get the following egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E system as follows Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.25.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.97.0 Qt Version: 5.15.6 Kernel Version: 5.19.7-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × AMD FX-8370E Eight-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD HAWAII Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Thanks Pete .

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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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