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[arch-general] Python2-gimp - what functionality was lost?
by David C. Rankin 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

All, I updated gimp tonight and received: ( 6/19) upgrading gimp [######################################] 100% > The python2 plugin support is disabled, you will need to install this > separately if you need it, e.g. the python2-gimp package in the AUR. Looking at several bugs about python2 and gimp and it seem that gimp is not removing python2 during gimp 2.10: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737933 Do we know what functionality was lost when we removed python2 support for it? I don't use it that often, but do use it fairly thoroughly when I do. From that standpoint, is there a list of what now isn't part of gimp without python2? That would help in knowing whether the AUR package is needed. Seems strange the AUR package was posted and orphaned on 2020-03-18? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Pulseaudio disabling auto-mute mode
by David Rosenstrauch 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

I'm not sure how/why (or when it started) but pulseaudio is disabling auto-mute mode on my laptop. Normally when you plug in headphones, speakers get muted. However, every time PA starts up, it disables that auto-mute feature. (I then have to go into alsamixer and manually re-enable it.) Not a huge issue, but definitely a nuisance. It's definitely PA that's responsible: if I enable auto-mute, then do "pulseaudio --kill", the setting immediately gets disabled. I've followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Auto-Mute_M… and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#Disa… - i.e., change the setting to enabled, and then alsactl store. However, that's obviously having no impact, since pulseaudio later *overrides* the alsa setting when it starts up. Anyone else having similar issue? Or have any idea what the issue is / how to fix? (Or link to an open bug report?) Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Subject: Teo En Ming's Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd Bootable Live CD/DVD Kernel Panic Good day from Singapore to all Linux users, Recently, on 12 March 2020, I have successfully created my own custom Linux distribution which I affectionately call it Teo En Ming Linux. My custom Linux distribution is based on the most basic Linux From Scratch (LFS) 20200302-systemd book and Linux kernel 5.5.7. I am able to boot it successfully on my Toshiba 1 TB 3.5 inch SATA internal harddisk /dev/sdb2. After the initial success, I wanted to make a bootable Live CD/DVD of my Linux From Scratch system. I followed Jimmy Anderson's guide (which was written more than 7 years ago on 20 Jan 2013) and modified his guide in trying to make it work with LFS 20200302-systemd book. You may refer to the following guides on how I created a bootable Live CD/DVD of my Linux From Scratch system. Blog post #1: "How to create a Bootable Live CD/DVD from your Linux From Scratch (LFS) build" Link: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com/2020/03/how-to-create-bootable-live-cddvd-f… Blog post #2: "Patching Linux Kernel 5.5.7 to Add Support for AUFS Filesystem" Link: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com/2020/03/patching-linux-kernel-557-to-add.ht… When I booted up my bootable Live CD/DVD, I got a kernel panic. Looking at the following screenshot, it seems that my 64-bit Live CD booted in 32-bit mode. Screenshot: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P_EcnlhuDIQ/XnDso3sjNZI/AAAAAAAAAqw/qa5EZoHQQa8W… Notice the "trampoline_32bit" and "booted via startup_32()" lines on the above screenshot. The following screenshot illustrates the kernel panic. Screenshot: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSNEk19fG7s/XnDtZf-80_I/AAAAAAAAAq4/Q-GAHKnWe_IS… My guess is that my 64-bit Live CD booted up in 32-bit mode, and when it tried to execute /sbin/init (symlink to systemd binary) after mounting the squashfs root file system, which is 64-bit, it resulted in a kernel panic. What I am trying to say is that the 64-bit Linux kernel on the Live CD boots up in 32-bit mode (my guess), and then tried to execute purely 64-bit binaries, which results in a kernel panic. Please advise me on how I can resolve this issue and produce a working Live CD of my LFS system without kernel panic. Thank you very much. -- -----BEGIN EMAIL SIGNATURE----- The Gospel for all Targeted Individuals (TIs): [The New York Times] Microwave Weapons Are Prime Suspect in Ills of U.S. Embassy Workers Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/01/science/sonic-attack-cuba-microwave.html ******************************************************************************************** Singaporean Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming's Academic Qualifications as at 14 Feb 2019 and refugee seeking attempts at the United Nations Refugee Agency Bangkok (21 Mar 2017), in Taiwan (5 Aug 2019) and Australia (25 Dec 2019 to 9 Jan 2020): [1] https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/ [2] https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.sg/ [3] https://www.scribd.com/user/270125049/Teo-En-Ming -----END EMAIL SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Can't change tty, any ideas?
by Jeanette C. 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Hey hey, I'm running on a 5.4.24-rt15-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT kernel and since I've been back - after a day - and rebooted my machine, Ican't change ttys anymore. I checked the keyboard with showkey, both alt and the f-keys come through. No job is overtaxing the CPU. It's almost down to 0-2% CPU usage. The keyboard is connected via USB, I had PS/2 keyboard issues a long time ago so switched. The HUB is working, other devices - including my braille display - work flawlessly. I'm currently typing this mail on my system. I know, this probably isn't strictly a matter for this list, but it is a good pool of knowledgeable and helpful people. So, can anyone suggest probable causes, methods to hunt the bug? TIA and best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c Cinderella's got to go <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] Problem with reflector
by karx 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

Hi all, I'm trying to install reflector to manage pacman mirrors. Upon install, everything seems to be working, but actually running the reflector command says that the python file. The PKGBUILD installs the file to the system python, but the python binary that is higher in the path is the one installed by asdf-vm, which uses pyenv in the background. Because this has its own directory, the file is not installed to this location, so when the reflector command invokes python, it invokes the one installed by asdf-vm, which obviously cannot find the file Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks, Yash Karandikar

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[arch-general] How did spyder/python-spyder-kernels downgrade version?
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

I've got spyder-4.0.1-2 and python-spyder-kernels-1.8.1-1 installed. They're not self-compiled, they just came in as regular repo updates (on 22nd February 2020). However the current repo version of both is 3.3.6-2 and 0.5.2-4. Looks like a rollback of spyder related packages took place? Shouldn't epoch be updated in that case? I have [testing] enabled but I don't know how to check if the current installed version is from community-testing.

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[arch-general] 5.5 kernel - Latest virtualbox testcase build for 5.2.37 fails to start Arch guest on Arch host
by David C. Rankin 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

lAll, After update to 5.5 kernel and rebuild of virtualbox from the 5.2.36 and the latest testcase build for 5.2.37 (all kernel modules build and load fine) https://www.virtualbox.org/download/testcase/VirtualBox-5.2.37-135942-Linux… Arch guests fail to run on Arch host. network device enp0s3 not found, udev kernel rules fail, and the boot never complete. All fine with the 5.4 kernel. I've posted to the vbox-users list, but if anyone here has additional information I would appreciate it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] kernel full compilation ?
by Pascal 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

hello, I need to introduce a small modification in linux-5.4.23/block/blk-core.o : do I need to recompile completely (~4 hours) or is there a way to shorten the compilation time ? I followed Kernel/Arch_Build_System <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel/Arch_Build_System>. regards, lacsaP.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Potential removal of Chromium in ~2 months
by Geo Kozey 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

On Saturday, February 22, 2020 5:50 AM, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Just a quick heads up that I am considering dropping Chromium from > [extra] a week or two before the Chromium 82 stable release (~April 28). > The reason for this is that our API keys no longer work for geolocation > requests and there is no clear upstream guidance on how to resolve this > issue. [1] > > When I created these API keys back in 2013, there was a semi-official > effort by the Chrome Team to support distro builds of Chromium in regard > to accessing Google APIs; a few minor hiccups along the way were quickly > resolved. I feel this arrangement is starting to fall apart (in spite of > some upstream Chrome developers' best efforts). > > To make a long story short, I consider broken geolocation sufficient > reason for removal. I don't mind it being broken for my own use, but > shipping a package with broken functionality due to lack of upstream > support does not sit well with me. > > To protect against systems with outdated Chromium (following the stable > release of version 82), at the beginning of April I intend to post a > news item about the need to switch to another browser. That is assuming > no solution is found and nobody objects to the removal or wishes to > continue maintenance of the package with reduced functionality. > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-packagers/Z… Hi, First of all let me thank you for high quality maintainership of chromium package in Arch. This post was really surprising for me and sad but also quite confusing because I don't understand how lack of some minor feature can involve nuclear option of removing dominant and most tech-advanced browser on the market from Arch repos. I bet most users won't even notice lack of it and some may even welcome removal of so called "spyware". Those who treat geolocation as critical feature may choose different browser but forcing everyone out of they beloved one for this particular reason seems like overreaction to me. Yours sincerely G. K.

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[arch-general] Package Jami is out of date
by Simon Brand 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hello, the package Jami is out of date: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/jami-gnome/ The last packager seams to be not active anymore. Can anybody please take over the package? Best, Simon

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