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[arch-general] mkinitcpio hook for custom root decryption with systemd boot
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

I have root encryption set up on my system and I currently boot with the sd-encrypt and sd-lvm hooks. I would like to change my current crypto setup in a way that would require more step to unlock the root than just typing in a passphares. For this reason, sd-encrypt clearly cannot serve my use case. For this reason, I would like to write a custom hook to mount the root volume. Now, systemd boot doesn't have a concept of runtime hooks. Thus, I need to make a systemd unit that gets pulled in by cryptsetup.target in the place of systemd-cryptsetup@.service. (Basically, I need to replace the whole systemd-cryptsetup-generator and systemd-cryptsetup logic.) However, I really have no idea on how to achieve this. Should I write a custom mkinitcpio hook which completely bypasses sd-crypt/cryptsetup.target and instead starts a different unit with my own decryption logic? Or is there a way to hook into cryptsetup.target and instruct it to pull in my logic instead of systemd-cryptsetup*? Of course, the other possibility is to just stop using a systemd boot and instead setting up a busybox early userspace. Then it's just a matter of writing a shell script. However, since I'm already using systemd for everything - from the bootloader to userspace - I don't think it makes much sense to do that. Any help/guidance/suggestion/criticism is highly appreciated. Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] adding Polybar to offical Repos
by Ram Kumar 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Dear all, i am using i3 wm with Polybar as my status bar. i created the currently installed packages list using pacman's hook command. when i try to do fresh installation, i can get only the packages that are present in official Repos that doesnot include Polybar. Then after installing Yay i can get Polybar from AUR. it is quite inconvenience, and i dont know why Polybar is not added to official packages, Polybar is quite popular as well as it has quite good features. is is possible to include Polybar to the official packages under extra or community? if not could u plz explain? Thanks in advance regards Ramkumar

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[arch-general] Question about packaging a library (AUR)
by Dominik Schrempf 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Hello, I am the maintainer of the 'transcribe' AUR package. Recently, I have received a request (cc) about also packaging and providing a proprietary library that comes along with 'transcribe'. I quote: * videosection, a special plugin provided by us as part of the download, can be found in the file libgstvideosection.so and it needs to be alongside the transcribe executable.* I tried to provide the videosection library in /usr/lib, but that doesn't work. I don't feel comfortable providing the library in /usr/bin. Do you know an appropriate way to deal with such cases? Is it preferable to install the executable in a separate folder alongside the library? For example, /opt/transcribe? Thanks in advance, Dominik

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[arch-general] Why bind-tools was merged into bind package?
by Óscar García Amor 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

I can understand that packagers want to make things easy, but not in this case. I cannot have a full service installed with a new user created, only host, dig and nslookup commands. The splitted package bind and bind-tools had this option, but now I must install a service that I do not need which is annoying. There is any way to reconsider this? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] My font rendering has changed
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Since a few days ago, font rendering inside my desktop environment (SwayWM) seems to have changed. E.g. title bars are now rendered using a generic monospaced font instead of the usual one, and Termite does not seem to be able to load the Fira Code font and falls back to its default font. bemenu is also rendering differently and with a different font. I cannot find anything obvious in /var/log/pacman.log. I.e. I have done a full system upgrade lately but it doesn't seem to include anything that could have obviously caused this. Has anyone had anything similar? Where could I look to debug the issue? Best regards, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] OpenVPN systemd unit not prompting for password
by Riccardo Paolo Bestetti 17 Jul '20

17 Jul '20

I have a private key with a password. When I start OpenVPN with the openvpn command, all works fine. When I start it with the systemd unit (e.g. systemctl start openvpn-client@conf_file), a systemd-ask-password process is spawned from the unit but the prompt is not shown. Interestingly, the prompt is shown the I stop the unit. Riccardo Paolo Bestetti

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[arch-general] Package signature error after updated GPG key
by NicoHood 11 Jul '20

11 Jul '20

Hey guys, i have recently received the attached email from a user. He cannot install a package from me due to a GPG error. I have recently updated my key and it should have been added to the new keyring. I don't know a better solution, who can help us? Cheers, Nico On 7/8/20 12:10 AM, cock.li wrote: > Hi, sorry to bother you, I think that the signature on the snap-pac > packet is expired or something similar, I'm getting this pacman error: > > error: snap-pac: signature from "NicoHood <pgp(a)nicohood.de>" is unknown > trust > :: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/snap-pac-2.3.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz is > corrupted (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)). > > since, the keys are updated (I've tried updating them with a healthy > "sudo pacman-key --refresh-keys", but nothing) i think that the key with > wich the packet was signed expired and was changed in the meantime, > especially since it's more than a year that there are no updates on the > packet (since there are no commits on the source) > > > I do need the packet for snap-pac-grub, please let me now as soon as you > can > > > regards > > AmanuenseDelDiavolo >

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[arch-general] cuda and nvidia package conflict
by Junhee Lee 09 Jul '20

09 Jul '20

Dear the maintainers. First of all, I sincerely appreciate your effort to maintain this distribution. I would like to report an incident related to the two packages: cuda and nvidia. It seems that the cuda package is recently updated to 11.0.2-1 in [community-testing]. However, the most recent nvidia package is 440.100-3 in [extra]. Therefore, when I attempt to run an application utilizing CUDA, it instantly hangs with an error related to version mismatch. This problem is resolved when I install nvidia-beta package in AUR. Should I keep using the cuda package in [community]? Or, is there any progress related to this issue? Thank you very much for your attention. -Best regards, jvl.

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[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly
by pete 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Afternoon all Having a whole hoard of issues that seem like they MAY be permissions related . Is there a hard and fast set of permission attributes that can be set as a default for a user at them moment everything in my user is set name users with the bulk of the permissions set -rw-r--r-- or drwxr-xr-x for a directory i know a lot of you use the numeric system i am not sure of it I get problems such as system settings do not stick libreofice complains about backup files some things work some play up or fail completely Kaffeine for one just bombs out i believe this is a permissions thing but cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what if you follow . A litte assistance would be very useful as i do not fancy doing a reinstall i have too much stuff to reinstall Thanks Pete

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Re: [arch-general] a couple foldingathome problems
by Jude DaShiell 06 Jul '20

06 Jul '20

If I run clinfo -l what returns is: Platform #0: Clover Platform #1: AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing Going deeper with clinfo there's lots of devices not found. --

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