On 8/12/18 2:54 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:

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Archdevs,

There seems to be a funny depends (or missing depends) issue for *some* systems without wireless that have i3status installed.

This appears to be because i3stats depends on wireless_tools, which during boot triggers an attempt I don't see anything in the wireless_tools package that would trigger on boot.

On 12 August 2018 at 01:48, David C. Rankin wrote: there are no udev rules or systemd services.

Out of curiosity I checked my journalctl boot logs and this is what I see:  kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db  kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2  kernel: cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'  kernel: cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database

From: Dave M. via arch-general Sent: Sun Aug 12 20:37:03 CEST 2018 To: Cc: Dave M. Subject: Re: [arch-general] i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb

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On 8/12/18 2:54 PM, Damjan Georgievski via arch-general wrote:

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Archdevs,

   There seems to be a funny depends (or missing depends) issue for *some* systems without wireless that have i3status installed.

   This appears to be because i3stats depends on wireless_tools, which during boot triggers an attempt I don't see anything in the wireless_tools package that would trigger on boot.

On 12 August 2018 at 01:48, David C. Rankin wrote: there are no udev rules or systemd services.

Out of curiosity I checked my journalctl boot logs and this is what I see:

 kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db  kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2  kernel: cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'  kernel: cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database

It's been generating these entries since July 20th for me.

Install https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/wireless-regdb/ It's only for limiting wifi power, safely to ignore. Yours sincerely G. K.

From: David C. Rankin Sent: Thu Aug 16 02:16:40 CEST 2018 To: Geo Kozey via arch-general Subject: Re: [arch-general] i3stats depends on wireless_tools, causing "firmware load for regulatory.db failed" w/o wireless-regdb

On 08/12/2018 04:38 PM, Geo Kozey via arch-general wrote:

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Out of curiosity I checked my journalctl boot logs and this is what I see:

 kernel: cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db  kernel: platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2  kernel: cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'  kernel: cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database It's been generating these entries since July 20th for me. Install https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/wireless-regdb/

It's only for limiting wifi power, safely to ignore.

Thank you,

That is what I did, but what curious why it would be needed on a server with no wifi? I guess this all boils down to i3status having the wifi widget in the status bar that triggers non-wifi systems to begin looking for them. It's almost like i3status status should conditionally include the wifi widget, if, and only if, the system has wifi to begin with.

Kernel is checking for regulatory.db file on each boot. If it's not found then warning is printed. It doesn't matter what your hardware is and what is installed on your system. It's really safe to ignore this. Yours sincerely G. K.