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/var/log files empty
by David Rosenstrauch 23 Dec '25

23 Dec '25

I have 2 Arch machines, both of which had been set up to forward messages from journald to syslog, and so eventually to the log files in /var/log. I noticed the other day that on both machines, the /var/log log files are now all empty, which I'm guessing means that journald is no longer forwarding messages to syslog. I'm certain that I had this configuration working in the past. But something seems to have changed at some point that's broken it. I'm not sure what changed, or when it happened. I've tried to fix, but with no luck. I have syslog-ng installed, and the syslog-ng@default service enabled and running. I also have "ForwardToSyslog=yes" set in my /etc/systemd/journald.conf file, and the systemd-journald service is enabled and running. Yet somehow they're (I'm guessing) not talking to each other and forwarding the log messages. According to this forum post there might a socket /run/systemd/journal/syslog that needs to be created in order for this setup to work. This socket file doesn't exist on my system. That socket file seems to get created by the systemd unit script /usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.socket, which seems to be triggered by /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service. However, that syslog.socket unit either doesn't seem to be getting triggered or is failing. And when I try to start the syslog.socket unit script manually, it fails. (And with very little in the way of explanatory messages.): [darose@titan log]$ sudo systemctl start syslog.socket Job failed. See "journalctl -xe" for details. [darose@titan log]$ systemctl status syslog.socket ○ syslog.socket - Syslog Socket Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/syslog.socket; static) Active: inactive (dead) Triggers: ● syslog.service Docs: man:systemd.special(7) https://systemd.io/SYSLOG Listen: /run/systemd/journal/syslog (Datagram) Dec 20 19:52:01 titan systemd[1]: syslog.socket: Socket service syslog.service not loaded, refusing. Dec 20 19:52:01 titan systemd[1]: Failed to listen on Syslog Socket. Anyone have any idea what might be broken here / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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Misspelled description for package "toml-bombadil"
by Keon Cachia 20 Dec '25

20 Dec '25

Sven-Hendrik Haase, you misspelled the description for "toml-bomdadil", the current description is "Adotfile manager with templating" when it should be "A dotfile manager with templating". Thank you for all your time and effort maintaining packages for Arch Linux. I am unsure if I should send this directly to Sven's email, so I'm putting this in the general mailing list. -- Keon Cachia

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pacman - errors with expac already existing, then errors on clean cache??
by David C Rankin 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

All, devs, During a system update minutes ago, I was hit with two separate pacman errors. The first, /usr/bin/expac and the man1 page already existed in the filesystem prevented update. I removed expac -dd, did the system update, then went to reinstall expac (devtools dependency) and I could not install it for the same errors - the same files continued to exist in the filesystem. So I rm'ed /usr/bin/expac and the man1 man-page and then installed it without issue. What's up with expac?? Second on -Sc to clear the cache I was again hit by errors: 18:04 ragnarok:~> sudo pacman -Sc Packages to keep: All locally installed packages Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] removing old packages from cache... error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-2YRxYx: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-wLBLSA: Error reading fd 7 error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-8iPKGh: Error reading fd 7 Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] removing unused sync repositories... 18:07 ragnarok:~> su 18:08 ragnarok:/home/david # l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-* /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-2YRxYx: total 240 drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 18 18:00 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 237568 Dec 18 18:07 .. /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-8iPKGh: total 240 drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 18 17:57 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 237568 Dec 18 18:07 .. /var/cache/pacman/pkg/download-wLBLSA: total 240 drwx------ 2 alpm alpm 4096 Dec 18 17:52 . drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 237568 Dec 18 18:07 .. What is the cause of the empty directories throwing errors on cache cleaning? Do I just need to manually delete the directories? Last update was just about two weeks ago and there were no errors on either issue at that time. Really strange. Not too many times in the past 16+ years that pacman has hiccuped. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Anyone Else Having Errors with python-autobahn
by Storm Dragon 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Howdy All, I first noticed this when using magic-wormhole, but it showed up in a couple other commands too before I found the problem. I rebuilt and installed python-autobahn and problems went away. Problems included wormhole segfaulting and some other key related errors. I thought I had all this stuff written down, but either forgot what I named the file or didn't save it, so sorry I don't have pastes of actual output. -- ⛈🐲

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Lost OTP authenticator
by whiteman808＠paraboletancza.org 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

I lost OTP authenticator and I'm no longer be able to log in to gitlab.archlinux.org. I tried to send mail to accountsupport(a)archlinux.org but I didn't get answer.

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Re: Nextcloud - Call to undefined function OC\\Security\\idn_to_utf8()? (RemoteHostValidator.php line 38)
by Andy Pieters 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

"Call to undefined function OC\\Security\\idn_to_utf8() in file > '/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/lib/private/Security/RemoteHostValidator.php' > line 38" > > Hah I should have read your question properly. idn_to_utf8 function *IS* part of intl, yes, but look at the namespace it's moaning about. This means, either, the function is overridden in that namespace and the file it resides in isn't loaded, OR, the "real" function was imported into that namespace, but again in a file that isn't loaded. To me this looks more like a bug in the nextcloud rather than PHP I did see a ticket being opened on nextcloud talking about this same thing, presume this was yourself? > >

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Bluetooth issues
by moxie.arch＠posteo.net 16 Dec '25

16 Dec '25

So, I have this problem with Nothing Ear bluetooth earbuds. They work on my laptops which run Fedora42 and Fedora43. On my main Arch desktop I tested Jaybird Tarah Pro and Sennheiser HD 450BT, both work just fine. I've tried pairing nothing ears again and all things I could think of, trying to figure out what's so different between my arch install and the fedoras. I am using wireplumber, pipewire, pipewire-pulse, bluez and some additional thigns that come with it, should have the needed codecs and so on. bluetoothctl gives ``` Attempting to connect to [MAC_ADDRESS] [CHG] Device [MAC_ADDRESS] Connected: yes [NEW] Endpoint /org/bluez/hci0/dev_[MAC_ADDRESS]/sep1 [NEW] Endpoint /org/bluez/hci0/dev_[MAC_ADDRESS]/sep2 Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-create-socket [DEL] Endpoint /org/bluez/hci0/dev_[MAC_ADDRESS]/sep1 [DEL] Endpoint /org/bluez/hci0/dev_[MAC_ADDRESS]/sep2 [CHG] Device [MAC_ADDRESS] AddressType: public [SIGNAL] BREDR.Disconnected - org.bluez.Reason.Remote, Connection terminated by remote user [SIGNAL] Disconnected - org.bluez.Reason.Remote, Connection terminated by remote user [CHG] Device [MAC_ADDRESS] Connected: no ``` journalctl shows ``` profiles/audio/a2dp.c:a2dp_select_capabilities() Unable to select SEP ``` Does anyone have any ideas what it could be, or what I could check?

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I'm still not registered at gitlab.archlinux.org
by Jérémy Bézairie 15 Dec '25

15 Dec '25

Hi I'm jebez in https://bbs.archlinux.org . These links are in a Topic Going Nowhere, so login needed. See https://bbs.archegisteredlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2277712#p2277712 <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2277712#p2277712> . As https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2276005#p2276005 I sent you this email. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2277729#p2277729 : "He probably didn't mean "in this thread", but to file a new request." I did, 1 day later noting... I wanna be registered at gitlab.archlinux.org . Thanks.

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Fwd: Virtualbox VMM corruption with 6.18
by David C Rankin 13 Dec '25

13 Dec '25

Arch devs, Not real sure where to send this, but there were issues discovered with Virtualbox and the 6.18 kernel by the openSUSE virtualbox maintainer (Jan Engelhardt). I thought I would pass this along while 6.18 remains in testing with Arch to confirm the issue. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Virtualbox VMM corruption with 6.18 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:59:20 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt <ej(a)inai.de> To: factory(a)lists.opensuse.org This is just an informational mail from your virtualbox package maintainer. I have observed that VirtualBox 7.2.4, which has basically been rolled out in August 2025 and worked just fine, to start showing guest memory corruption in December. Compilers would randomly fail in both OpenBSD and Solaris. Likewise, package installation when running the Leap 15.6 installer ISO would randomly fail. The only thing that changed in that timeframe was the host kernel in Tumbleweed, namely from 6.17 to 6.18. I have already tried applying a vbox patch (e7db388f) from their Git which mentioned corruption, but without positive remedy. So for now, please take note you cannot realistically use VB 7.2.4 with a host kernel version >=6.18. The workaround, for me anyway, is using an older host kernel like 6.17.11. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What are yalls opinions on Void Linux?
by Khalifa Alahmedi 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

To be honest, its a good distro, but the xbps pkg manager and no systemd kinda makes it a bit hard for me. It's also a hassle to install Hyprland (my preferred DE). I want to know your opinions on it!! :3

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