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re/fwd: Archlinux Newsfeeds Broken -- Or am I just lucky?
by David C. Rankin 02 May '24

02 May '24

> All, > > The Arch newsfeeds for Arch Linux Recent news and Arch Linux Recent > packages (e.g. https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/) are no longer > delivering to me. Is there are problem with the news feeds or is there > something that would just stop Thunderbird from getting them? > > I haven't changed anything and clicking on the "Validate" in the account > config in tbird brings up the page showing they are valid, but I am not > getting anything anymore? > > Is it just me? I check the archlinux.org site, but found no notices? Feed is working fine. It looks like it was just me. My feed was out from 4/29/24 at 14:42 (last message from feed) until 5/1/24 at 1:34. (which missed the 6.8.8 kernel going into core I was waiting on) I'll chock this up to a CSOK issue. I've got no other explanation. ** CSOK (cat stepping on keyboard...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Issue related to the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager
by Ralf Mardorf 01 May '24

01 May '24

Hi, when running extra/audacity from command line it runs into issues, but doesn't provide any output and it seems not to start. When running extra/tenacity from command line it shows that there is an issue with duplicated plugins. It ignores the duplicated plugins and after a while it does start. The culprit is a link. $ /bin/ls -ld /usr/lib{,64} drwxr-xr-x 460 root root 524288 May 1 17:37 /usr/lib lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 7 20:02 /usr/lib64 -> lib "1.5 Does Arch follow the Linux Foundation's Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)? Arch Linux follows the file system hierarchy for operating systems using the systemd service manager. See file-hierarchy(7) for an explanation of each directory along with their designations. In particular, /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin are symbolic links to /usr/bin, and /lib and /lib64 are symbolic links to /usr/lib." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Frequently_asked_questions#Does_Arch_follo…'s_Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard_(FHS)? What should I do? Report a bug against a package or something else? Regards, Ralf

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Archlinux Newsfeeds Broken -- Or am I just lucky?
by David C. Rankin 01 May '24

01 May '24

All, The Arch newsfeeds for Arch Linux Recent news and Arch Linux Recent packages (e.g. https://archlinux.org/feeds/packages/) are no longer delivering to me. Is there are problem with the news feeds or is there something that would just stop Thunderbird from getting them? I haven't changed anything and clicking on the "Validate" in the account config in tbird brings up the page showing they are valid, but I am not getting anything anymore? Is it just me? I check the archlinux.org site, but found no notices? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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What's with the kernels that seem to stay stuck in core-testing longer than they used to?
by David C. Rankin 27 Apr '24

27 Apr '24

Devs, I've noticed kernels stay stuck in core-testing longer than they used to. In the past (unless there was some minor version change), they usually stayed in testing a day or less. The past couple have lingered nearly a week and linux 6.8.7.arch1-2 x86_64 has been there a few days? That's great to ensure there are no issue with other packages that depend on building drivers from the kernel, but does raise the question for the curios -- "What's up?" I ask for scheduling purposes. I monitor the newsfeeds from the package repos and when I see a new kernel coming, I try and set aside a convenient time for the update/reboot. Past few kernels, I've done that only to find - they are still in testing. Not a complaint, just a curiosity. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Building Rust kernel modules - target.json missing
by L. Rose 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build the example Rust kernel modules from kernel source [1] on Arch Linux. I use a simple Makefile to build them out of tree: obj-m += rust_minimal.o all: make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build M=$(PWD) modules However, the build can't find some Rust metadata: make -C /lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build M=/home/lukas/Downloads/linux-6.8.7-arch1/samples/rust modules make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' RUSTC [M] /home/lukas/Downloads/linux-6.8.7-arch1/samples/rust/rust_minimal.o error: target file "./scripts/target.json" does not exist Indeed, there is no target.json in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/scripts/, so I thought, maybe I need to use a special kernel with Rust support. But building linux-rust from the AUR fails with the same error message: Installing Rust files... install: cannot stat 'scripts/target.json': No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package_linux-rust-headers(). Aborting... And even the default kernel is passing the Linux kernel Rust support check script as suggested in the kernel docs [2]: lukas@Lukas-AMD:rust$ make -C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build rustavailable make: Entering directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' Rust is available! make: Leaving directory '/usr/lib/modules/6.8.7-arch1-1/build' So what am I doing wrong? Is the Arch Linux kernel currently missing Rust metadata required for Rust support, like target.json? Or am I missing some important prerequisites here? Any suggestions welcome! Thanks, lukaro [1] https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/tree/rust-next/samples/rust [2] https://docs.kernel.org/6.8/rust/quick-start.html

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PKGBUILD: nodejs
by Pocket 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

I am trying to build nodejs in a chroot using pkgctl repo clone --protocol=https nodejs pushd nodejs makechrootpkg -c -u -r "$CHROOT" -- --skippgpcheck popd It fails at this point ==> Entering fakeroot environment... chmod: cannot access '/startdir/pkg': No such file or directory I don't have startdir defined in the makepkg.conf file nor have I defined it anywhere Why is this failing? -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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building plasma-wayland-protocols
by Pocket 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Trying to build plasma-wayland-protocols This is the error I am getting What executable is it looking for? I have built the entire qt5/qt6 stack except for qt5-ukui-platformtheme plasma-wayland-protocols is a dependency of qt5-ukui-platformtheme So I am stuck here Can anyone shed light on this issue? ==> Starting build()... -- The C compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0 -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 12.1.0 -- Detecting C compiler ABI info -- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc - skipped -- Detecting C compile features -- Detecting C compile features - done -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ - skipped -- Detecting CXX compile features -- Detecting CXX compile features - done -- -- No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PREFIX -- Installing in the same prefix as Qt, adopting their path scheme. -- No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PREFIX CMake Error at /usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQueryQt.cmake:84 (message): No executable found. Can't check QT_INSTALL_PLUGINS as required Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs5.cmake:255 (ecm_query_qt) /usr/share/ECM/kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake:15 (include) CMakeLists.txt:17 (include) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). -- Hindi madali ang maging ako

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pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo password
by Frederic Bezies 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hello. I noticed that pam 1.6.1-2 breaks sudo. Every time I tried to enter my password with a sudo command, it tells me my password is incorrect. Of course, it is not. The "fix" was to downgrade to pam 1.6.1-1. Hope it helps! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com Blog: https://fredericbezies-ep.fr/blog/

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Re: [arch-announce] Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
by Genes Lists 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

On Sun, 2024-04-07 at 18:12 +0000, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau wrote: > The [vm.max_map_count][1] paramater will be increased from the > default `65530` value to `1048576`. > > This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues > for a number of memory intensive applications, Performance improvement is unlikely but could allow something to run that otherwise would not. The lkml comment [1] is worth a read and includes : "To be clear, what you are doing here is akin to adding more memory to your system when there is a memory leak. This is not the solution you should be pushing. Ironically, this is using more memory and performing worse than it should. At best, the limit increase is a workaround for buggy programs." As Robin said, setting the max higher is probably benign - and only impacts a system running the problematic software (games). Nonetheless, it is very simple to change it to whatever value you want with your own prefs dropped into /etc/sysctl.d/xxx.conf gene [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/566168554.272637693.1710968734203.Jav aMail.root@zimbra54- e10.priv.proxad.net/T/#m1905a48f415bc6e8069a8fe53dec44bc311571f2 -- Gene

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PAM 1.6 breaks limits.conf parsing
by Simone Baratta 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

Howdy, Arch community! Today Ardour warned me that I had a ulimit enforced for locked memory, and indeed I was surprised to find that `ulimit -l` reported 8192 for my user (which I configured to `unlimited` a long time ago). After a bit of investigation, it turned out that this is a bug introduced by PAM 1.6, which fails to read my limits.conf file due to the extra whitespace separating entries: ``` @audio - memlock unlimited ``` This makes pam_limits.so fail with the following: ``` pam_limits(login:session): wrong limit value ' unlimited' for limit type '-' ``` Looks like this issue was introduced with [1], and indeed I can confirm that it's fixed by [2] which references the first commit. Is there any chance we can get a 1.6.0-5 update with this patch in? This version is already in core, and it's a very subtle issue which is likely to be unnoticed by many but come with a lot of (possibly security-relevant) side effects. [1] https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/eec4358a49dc0d6d699532965f453… [2] https://github.com/linux-pam/linux-pam/commit/9228077d762fc94ebc8d9fb4edfe9… Thanks! -- Simone

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