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make pacman-pkg: where to ask for help about cross-compiling
by SET 08 Feb '26

08 Feb '26

Hello, The actual problem may concern - this forum - the archlinuxarm forum - the kernel help channels. It is about building kernel packages with 'make pacman-pkg' using a cross- compiler on an x86_64 host. All packages are generated for aarch64. For arm, only the 'linux-upstream' package is created successfully. The next package generation fails, linux-upstream-headers. Using these environment variables: export ARCH=arm export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-eabi- If help can be expected here, I'll further post the stderr messages, so as to shorten this post. Thank you for any input.

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Marginal trusted pacman developer
by Ralf Mardorf 06 Feb '26

06 Feb '26

Hi, I know that pacman-static is not an official repository, but it's about the signature of a staff member, https://archlinux.org/people/support-staff/ . Is it an accident or on purpose? I temporarily commented out pacman-static in pacman.conf and uninstalled the pacman-static package. Regards, Ralf PS: $ sudo pacman -Syu error: pacman-static: signature from "Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date multilib is up to date proaudio is up to date chaotic-aur is up to date pacman-static 544.0 B 7.70 KiB/s 00:00 [...] 100% error: pacman-static: signature from "Morgan Adamiec <morganamilo(a)archlinux.org>" is marginal trust error: failed to synchronize all databases (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature)) [2026-02-06T18:27:57+0100] [ALPM] upgraded archlinux-keyring (20260202-1 -> 20260206-1) [2026-02-06T18:27:58+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg... [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Disabling revoked keys in keyring... [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] -> Disabled 1 key. [2026-02-06T18:27:59+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Updating trust database... [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: marginals needed: 3 completes needed: 1 trust model: pgp [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 10 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 1 valid: 10 signed: 85 trust: 1-, 0q, 0n, 9m, 0f, 0u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: depth: 2 valid: 72 signed: 26 trust: 72-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u [2026-02-06T18:28:00+0100] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] gpg: next trustdb check due at 2026-03-13

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Re: KDE plasma login stalls with Wayland
by SET 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Le jeudi 5 février 2026 20:00:28 heure normale d’Europe centrale sprungles.me a écrit : > If you are needing to get the maintainer, I figured out the culprit is the ddcutil package. It is reported here also: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ddcutil/-/issues? show=eyJpaWQiOiI1IiwiZnVsbF9wYXRoIjoiYXJjaGxpbnV4L3BhY2thZ2luZy9wYWNrYWdlcy9kZGN1dGlsIiwiaWQiOjIyMzQ2NX0%3D Thank you for your reply.

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KDE plasma login stalls with Wayland
by SET 05 Feb '26

05 Feb '26

Hello, KDE plasma login stalled after today's upgrade: [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded coreutils (9.9-1 -> 9.10-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded ddcutil (2.2.3-1 -> 2.2.5-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded discount (3.0.0.d-1 -> 3.0.1.2-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded geoip-database (20250129-1 -> 20260204-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded graphviz (14.1.1-2 -> 14.1.2-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded less (1:691-1 -> 1:691-2) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libmediainfo (25.10-1 -> 26.01-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libraqm (0.10.3-1 -> 0.10.4-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded mediainfo (25.10-1 -> 26.01-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded unrar (1:7.2.3-1 -> 1:7.2.4-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded yt-dlp (2026.01.31-1 -> 2026.02.04-1) [2026-02-05T12:47:59+0100] [ALPM] upgraded zlib-ng (2.3.2-1 -> 2.3.3-1) Only the wallpaper is shown, with no mouse and keyboard input, although a shutdown with magic keys remains possible. This is with plasma Wayland, while a usable desktop is obtained with plasma-x11 (with a few troubles regarding the touchpad). After reverting to the older versions of all these packages, a usable Wayland desktop is obtained. It's hard to tell which one(s) is(are) responsible. Maintainers will have a better idea. Thank you for considering.

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"setxkbmap -option kpdl:comma" doesn't work
by Ralf Mardorf 01 Feb '26

01 Feb '26

Hi, for my German keyboard, I was able to change the num pad's "," to a "." by running $ setxkbmap -option kpdl:dot but I cannot change the "." back to "," by running $ setxkbmap -option kpdl:comma The man page: $ man xkeyboard-config [...] Numeric keypad Delete behavior ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────[...] │ Option Description │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────────[...] │ kpdl:dot Legacy key with dot │ │ kpdl:comma Legacy key with comma [...] What am I missing? Regards, Ralf

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Arch Linux Wiki responds 429 based on macOS User-Agent
by Joseph Chris 28 Jan '26

28 Jan '26

Hi, While browsing the Arch Linux Wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org) from macOS, I noticed that the server consistently responds with HTTP 429 (Too Many Requests). After some testing, it appears this behavior is triggered by the User-Agent, and is not related to IP address, request rate, or cookies. The following User-Agent from my browser can reproduce the behavior reliably: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 More specifically, the substring "Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7" is sufficient to trigger the block. $curl -vLo /dev/null https://wiki.archlinux.org/ -H "user-agent: Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7" * IPv6: 2604:cac0:a104:d::4 * IPv4: 209.126.35.81 < HTTP/2429 < server: nginx < date: Wed, 28Jan 202606:28:43GMT < content-type: text/html < content-length: 162 < strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload Does anyone have any idea about this? Best regards, Joseph C.

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ex-vi-compat: neovim
by Edmund Lodewijks 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Greetings! Recently the package `ex-vi-compat` was introduced, which conflicts with, and replaces `vi`. This PKGBUILD installs `vim` onto the system, and symlinks a bunch of commands to `vim`. However, I use `neovim`, and it seems a bit superfluous to me to install `vim`, when `neovim` can do all that `vim` can do in this regard. Is there any way to perhaps check if either `vim` or `neovim` is already installed on the system, and then use either one of them in the symlink? Something like: ```sh package() { local cmd local vimcmd # Determine which editor to use if command -v nvim &>/dev/null; then vimcmd="nvim" elif command -v vim &>/dev/null; then vimcmd="vim" else error "Neither neovim nor vim found" return 1 fi install -vDm 755 vi.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/vi" for cmd in {edit,ex,vedit,view} ; do ln -sv "$vimcmd" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$cmd" done ``` Alternatively, perhaps a few changes in `vi.sh` about which editor to invoke? Kind regards, - Edmund -- Edmund Lodewijks <edmund(a)proteamail.com> TZ: UCT+2 / GMT+2

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lxpanel weather plugin icons are missing
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Hi, for several hours now, the weather icons have been missing from the extra/lxpanel 0.11.1-4 weather plugin on my computer. The temperature is displayed as usual. Is anyone else affected besides me? I believe the icons are transferred together with the data from OpenWeather, but I may be mistaken. Regards, Ralf

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Welsh / Cymraeg maintenance offer
by fin-w＠tutanota.com 27 Jan '26

27 Jan '26

Hello, I work with the organisation (Bangor University) responsible for creating the Welsh (Cymraeg) Hunspell data (.dic and .aff files). I am happy to package it and maintain it such that a `hunspell-cy` package exists for spellchecking. I've taken a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Package_Maintainers#How_do_I_become_a_Pack… and it looks like I would need to first maintain an AUR package to achieve this, as well as find two current package maintainers willing to sponsor me? I can see a user-contributed package exists here already https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hunspell-cy-git though it hasn't been maintained recently. I'm happy to provide an alternate package, or take over maintenance, or skip AUR completely and provide an official package: whatever is Arch's process here. I've never packaged software for Linux distros, but I am fairly active with KDE https://invent.kde.org/finw and have been providing the Hunspell data for LibreOffice https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/27374 / https://github.com/fin-w/LibreOffice-Geiriadur-Cymraeg-Welsh-Dictionary, so I'm certain I can maintain the `hunspell-cy` package long-term. Can somebody help me get started? Many thanks, Finley

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Name resolution failure
by Frank 14 Jan '26

14 Jan '26

I'm having troubles connecting my laptop with the internet. I can ping my router and can connect to the web interface. Connection with my phone works well (mobile data turned off) so internet connection is not an issue. Got to be something with my machine. I updated last night. I'm using NetworkManager with default setting to manage my connections. Really not sure what to look for. THX Frank

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