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[arch-general] Warning: both linux 5.6.5 and linux 5.4.33 LTS are broken for AMD users.
by fredbezies 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Hello. If you're using an AMD GPU, you won't be able to shutdown or reboot correctly your computer. This is a known issue on kernel bug tracker : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207331 And I reported it on Archlinux bug tracker too: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/66305 I tested proposed patch, and it works. So let's hope for a fixed kernel either from kernel hackers or Archlinux maintainers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] How to show USB insertion in journal without audit enabled?
by David C. Rankin 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

All, I'm not sure when this changed, but in the past when I plugged in a USB flash drive, I could just watch a tail of the journal to see the connection and device details. I tried that again today and nothing appeared in the journal, though the device was seen and assigned /dev/sde (and /dev/sde1) which I got from cat /proc/partitions. I have also added the kernel parameter audit=0 per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Audit_framework to disable the audit messages in the journal. I don't recall the USB messages being audit messages before (they could have been, I just don't remember), but now nothing is shown. Is the lack of output in the journal on USB drive plug-in due to the audit=0 parameter, and if so, is there any way to restore the journal messages on USB plug-in without enabling audit? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] changing nickname on arch infrastructure
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

hello list, i need to change my nick on arch bug-tracker, forum and wiki. where and to whom do I need to write? -- Sincerely, Alexander.

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[arch-general] Hyperkitty, Mailman, Postorius
by David Runge 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

Hi all, As a followup to my mail on arch-dev-public [1] I've just moved hyperkitty [2], mailman3 [3] and postorius [4] from [community-testing] to [community]. If you're running your own mailman instance, you have probably already read up on what the python3 based mailman-core aka. mailman3 has to offer in comparison to the current python2 based mailman. TL;DR: The mailman3 package will replace mailman [5] at some point (latest when we drop python2 from the repositories). Eventually mailman3 will be renamed to mailman. Currently mailman3 and mailman conflict. Mailman3 is modular: For archiving you need to use hyperkitty, for web-based management and signup you need to use postorius. **DO BACKUPS BEFORE TESTING!!!** While in theory all of these "should just work", they haven't been tested thoroughly by many Arch users yet (AFAIK). This is where you come in! Please **backup your existing mailman archives and data** before attempting to switch and take mailman3 for a test drive! Mailman3 and mailman(2) can not be installed side-by-side, as they make use of the same directories and the same system user. Neither mailman3, nor hyperkitty or postorius provide setuid [6] binaries (the current mailman does) while each provides a separate user. This means that managing those applications sudo or su has to be used. Hyperkitty (archiving) and postorius (user management) are both Django [7] applications, that are being installed system wide. This implies getting to know how to setup and use these applications. On the upside: This means archiving and configuration of mailman3 can be done on separate hosts (if the need arises)! When testing, upgrading and migrating I would like to invite you to extend the existing wiki pages for mailman3's setup [8], postorius' hosting [9] and hyperkitty's hosting [10] sections, wherever you use something that is not covered by the wiki yet. The more diverse the setup documentation is, the better for all of us! Closing, I'm of course also interested in any package improvement suggestions or package bug reports that you might have. Enjoy the new mailman ecosystem! Best, David [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-February/029854.… [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hyperkitty [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman [4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postorius [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman_2 [6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Capabilities [7] https://www.djangoproject.com/ [8] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mailman#Setup [9] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postorius#Hosting [10] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hyperkitty#Hosting -- https://sleepmap.de

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[arch-general] rEFInd package being neglected by maintainer.
by mike lojkovic 12 Apr '20

12 Apr '20

rEFInd has had multiple versions came out, and the mainter has been neglecting to update it for nearly two years. Is there an eta or talk of changing the maintainer for that package? Pretty sure, it builds find as an aur alternative has been up for awhile.

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[arch-general] Doubts with 'apulse'
by riveravaldez 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

Hi, if this queries must go to some other specific places (forums, AUR, etc.) please let me know so I move them there. 1. According to the instructions in [1] «it is necessary to exclude /dev/snd/ from Firefox' sandboxing by adding it to the comma-separated list in about:config → security.sandbox.content.write_path_whitelist», but right now I'm using '$ apulse firefox' without that exclusion and seems to work fine. Maybe that's outdated? (My system is updated.) 2. According to [2] «to allow ALSA programs to play while JACK is running edit (or create) /etc/asound.conf» with this: # convert alsa API over jack API # use it with # % aplay foo.wav # use this as default pcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm "jack" hint.description "Jack Audio" } Now, when I installed apulse, I got this instruction: «For using PulseAudio emulation create a proper .asoundrc: $ cp /usr/share/apulse/asoundrc.sample ~/.asoundrc». Is there any relation or conflict between those two files? BTW, I simply forgot to follow that apulse indication, but it seems to work fine anyway. Maybe it's not necessary? Thanks a lot. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Multimedia_playback [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/JACK_Audio_Connection_Kit#Playing_nice…

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Re: [arch-general] teapot package could be improved
by Jude DaShiell 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

It's all good, man page has it listed as teapot but actual program is run as teapot-planner and it runs too. --

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[arch-general] teapot package could be improved
by Jude DaShiell 09 Apr '20

09 Apr '20

which package has the version of rpc.h teapot needs to build? Whichever package that is, the dependency is missing from the build script. --

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[arch-general] Time stamps are in 24 hour format how can you change this.
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi all, I am using Jenux which is a basic installer for arch Linux, but any I have notest that for some reason when using thunderbird with orca, Time and day are spoken in 24 hour format with year, month day followed by the time in 24 hour format. My time zone is set correctly. For example 2020/2020/jfirstjf 15:jj. Any one know how to switch to udds format? It's driving me crazy. If I use orca to get the time it is spoken correctly. Thanks all. Matthew PS, I have checked the arch wiki, but came up empty. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Multi-threaded mkinitpcio
by Amin Vakil 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

So every update of linux kernels and modules which need mkinitpcio to be executed, takes too much unnecessary time (maybe 2 min) which could be handled if it executes on multi threads of CPU. Actually this 2 minutes bothers me this much that I'm emailing Arch General Mailing List is because I'm afraid my Arch would be broken if my laptop shuts down in this process and I have to rescue it by live USB. I have read the mkinitpcio wiki page and I can't find anything regarding this matter: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio I've checked and my cpu usage and it shows me that it uses maximum power of a core when mkinitpcio is running, so I assumed it could be helped if it runs on multi threads. So my question is why it doesn't execute over all threads or at least have the option to do that? Does it help if it gets executed over multi threads or the bottleneck is somewhere else?

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