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[arch-general] animate.sty in texlive-latexextra needs update
by Marco 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Dear list, I run into the problem of outdated package "animate" contained in texlive-latexextra. With the current version of the package, xelatex is not able to embed animations at least when using png frames. At the contrary, pdflatex works fine. Replacing the /usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/animate/animate.sty with the version "2019/12/03" available upstream, that is, from CTAN [1], fixes the issue. I am now confused as what it's the best way to proceed, since I am not familiar with Arch's release cycle of texlive. Should I flag texlive-latexextra as out-of-date? Or is it better to file a bugreport? Suggestions welcomed. Cheers, Domanov [1] https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate

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[arch-general] Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container?
by Mark Raynsford 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hello! It seems that a recent update (unfortunately, I'm not sure exactly which) broke my ability to run Chromium in a systemd-nspawn container. Specifically, the symptom is that the Chromium window opens, but remains blank and evidently doesn't respond to keyboard/mouse input. Firefox in the same container runs without issue. Is there something I can do to debug this issue? I'm using the standard trick to allow containers to access X: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-nspawn#Use_an_X_environment The only possibly relevant error message I see on Chromium's stderr is: 67:67:0221/100217.520256:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(459)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization. I've tried the --disable-gpu flag, but that makes no difference. Any ideas? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com

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[arch-general] Mate 1.24.0 status?
by fredbezies 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Hello. I noticed that all mate packages are flagged as outdated for nearly two weeks now. I built Mate 1.24.0 using official PKGBUILDs and it ran great besides a rebuild of mate applets related to new cpupower version. Any ETA for Mate 1.24? Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] post-install dependencies check
by Jude DaShiell 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Can pacman be used to find which packages are missing which optional dependencies after an install? --

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Re: [arch-general] post-install dependencies check
by Ralf Mardorf 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 23:10:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> You should report it here: https://github.com/steffenfritz/pacaudit ^^^^^^^^ My bad I read "_pac_utils" instead of "_pac_audit". My apologies! However, there seems to be a server issue, so before reporting an issue, it's probably better to wait a few hours.

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[arch-general] compile shortwave for ARM 64 issue
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

My way is not very easy. Sure. If I would simply buy some ARM64 compatible stand alone board which would allow Me to simply install arch Lnux for ARM64 Bit platform, I could run gnome-builder and I could compile The app myself. But so comple x app would never run on Android 8.0. Because this version contain some process access restrictions. Even flatpak command line tool can not work for Me. It require to have The system BUS access. I have followed The following instructions. git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Shortwave.git cd Shortwave meson --prefix=/usr build ninja -C build sudo ninja -C build install You need following dependencies to build Shortwave: . Rust 1.39 or later . GTK 3.24 or later . Gstreamer 1.12 or later . Sqlite3 . OpenSSL . libhandy . Meson Buildsystem Unfortunately for Me, I have received The following error when using ninja -C build [janusz@localhost Shortwave]$ ninja -C build ninja: Entering directory `build' [0/1] Generating cargo-build with a custom command. ** RUST VERSION ** rustc 1.41.0 ** DEBUG MODE ** error: failed to load source for a dependency on `libhandy` Caused by: Unable to update https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Rust/libhandy-rs.git#8eb37f65 Caused by: the given reference name 'refs/heads/.l2s.master.lock0001' is not valid; class =Reference (4) FAILED: src/shortwave /home/wa/Shortwave/build-aux/cargo.sh /home/wa/Shortwave/build /home/wa/Shortwav e src/shortwave /usr/share/locale beta It is very interesting error. What could I do to solve this please?

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[arch-general] who would help me to compile Dbus-x11 for ARM64 Bit platform
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Because Dbus-x11 is currently not available for ARM64 Bit platform, I would like to kindly ask you for direct link which should I use to download dbus-x11 source code which will work for newest stable Arch Linux. I will use AUR repository and list of dependencies so I will try to compile dbus-x11 for ARM64 myself. I only need to know The git clone path to grab The right source code. Any advice will be very welcomed. I have allready scompiled several apps successfully. I have used dependencies list from AUR WEB interface and I could create ARM64 Bit code on my device.

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[arch-general] Dbus and archlinux chroot question
by Mgr. Janusz Chmiel 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Dear specialists, Ihave tried to use Arch Linux on Android device thanks to Proot, Termux and thanks to The Arch Linux script by Mr Rausty, which is available on Github. Unfortunately, I have found out, that there is very complex problem with Dbus. Many apps, which require inter process communication work only, when I type. dbus-launch app name But even when I start Dbus and some app by this way, some more complex applications not work. There are more rreasons. Firstly in strictly userspace oriented Linux environment, Arch Linux do not support to run services. So Dbus can not be started as A service. Is there some technique, which can allow me to use Dbus by more efficiently? Or in such non ssstandard environment, there is no way how to setup The system so Dbus would be used more efficiently. What can I allready use? Orca screen reader and many GTK apps including Gradio. But again, some apps start dbus-launch with some command line option and system refuses to start Dbus so app can not commit the changes to Gconf database for example. Any help will be very appreciated. Thank you for yours patience and for yours advices. With kindness regards. Janusz Chmiel

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[arch-general] python-tqdm updates
by Chris Billington 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

[community]/python-tqdm has updated 13 times in the last week, though the upstream has not been releasing that rapidly - the new Arch packages correspond to the last few months of releases. This process hasn't quite gotten it up to date yet, so I expect one more update is on the way! Is there a reason for not just skipping right to the latest version, if several intermediate versions were missed? If this is for testing (incremental updates are usually easier to test), presumably it should occur in [testing]. Or perhaps this is the behaviour of some automated tooling that is detecting when a package is out of date, and a human hasn't noticed? This isn't important, I'm just curious. -Chris

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[arch-general] btrfs kernel incompatibility?
by Simeon Felis 16 Feb '20

16 Feb '20

I have a btrfs raid1 on raspbian (kernel 4.19.75) which overheated. To fix the btrfs filesystem I attached the raid1 to my workstation with Arch Linux (kernel 5.5.1). I run scrub to identify broken files and fixed them. Furthermore I run --full-balance and defrag -r. All fine so far. Now I can't mount the btrfs on raspbian any more (bad superblock). I checked with a blank raspbian and different boards, same result. On my Arch Linux workstation there are no problems. The btrfs changelog [1] only mentions more checksums (xxhash, sha256...) as possible incompatible features between 4.19 and 5.5. However the raid1 is still crc32c (see below). I'm afraid balance/scrub/defrag operations of my Arch Linux made the btrfs raid1 incompatible to older kernels. Is that plausible? How could I convert it back? 4.19.75 dmesg: [ 17.707873] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the di sk. [ 17.707889] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.707895] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk. [ 17.707902] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.707907] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors. [ 17.707977] sdb: sdb1 [ 17.709682] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk. [ 17.709697] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.709703] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk. [ 17.709710] GPT:7814037167 != 253879390758629 [ 17.709715] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors. [ 17.709787] sda: sda1 [ 17.710776] sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 17.721324] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 18.301910] raid6: int32x1 gen() 203 MB/s [ 18.471765] raid6: int32x1 xor() 178 MB/s [ 18.641705] raid6: int32x2 gen() 278 MB/s [ 18.811703] raid6: int32x2 xor() 207 MB/s [ 18.981816] raid6: int32x4 gen() 307 MB/s [ 19.151686] raid6: int32x4 xor() 228 MB/s [ 19.321816] raid6: int32x8 gen() 315 MB/s [ 19.491762] raid6: int32x8 xor() 219 MB/s [ 19.661699] raid6: neonx1 gen() 711 MB/s [ 19.831664] raid6: neonx1 xor() 811 MB/s [ 20.001711] raid6: neonx2 gen() 1175 MB/s [ 20.171661] raid6: neonx2 xor() 1187 MB/s [ 20.341685] raid6: neonx4 gen() 1550 MB/s [ 20.511663] raid6: neonx4 xor() 1344 MB/s [ 20.681678] raid6: neonx8 gen() 1371 MB/s [ 20.851667] raid6: neonx8 xor() 1125 MB/s [ 20.851673] raid6: using algorithm neonx4 gen() 1550 MB/s [ 20.851676] raid6: .... xor() 1344 MB/s, rmw enabled [ 20.851680] raid6: using neon recovery algorithm [ 20.881255] xor: measuring software checksum speed [ 20.971664] arm4regs : 2020.800 MB/sec [ 21.071659] 8regs : 1357.600 MB/sec [ 21.171657] 32regs : 1262.800 MB/sec [ 21.271658] neon : 2156.800 MB/sec [ 21.271664] xor: using function: neon (2156.800 MB/sec) [ 21.417002] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-generic [ 21.418650] BTRFS: device label URAID devid 8 transid 1254272 /dev/sdb1 [ 21.423593] BTRFS: device label URAID devid 7 transid 1254272 /dev/sda1 [ 313.823521] BTRFS info (device sda1): disk space caching is enabled [ 313.823537] BTRFS info (device sda1): has skinny extents [ 313.826597] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.839009] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.851766] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.864676] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.878039] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.891649] BTRFS critical (device sda1): unable to find logical 3746684731392 length 4096 [ 313.905782] BTRFS error (device sda1): failed to read chunk root [ 313.942529] BTRFS error (device sda1): open_ctree failed btrfs inspect-internal dump-super /dev/disk/by-label/URAID superblock: bytenr=65536, device=/dev/disk/by-label/URAID --------------------------------------------------------- csum_type 0 (crc32c) csum_size 4 csum 0x33567328 [match] bytenr 65536 flags 0x1 ( WRITTEN ) magic _BHRfS_M [match] fsid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 metadata_uuid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 label URAID generation 1254278 root 14868497367040 sys_array_size 129 chunk_root_generation 1254275 root_level 1 chunk_root 21338870824960 chunk_root_level 1 log_root 0 log_root_transid 0 log_root_level 0 total_bytes 8001571065856 bytes_used 2903387471872 sectorsize 4096 nodesize 16384 leafsize (deprecated) 16384 stripesize 4096 root_dir 6 num_devices 2 compat_flags 0x0 compat_ro_flags 0x0 incompat_flags 0x161 ( MIXED_BACKREF | BIG_METADATA | EXTENDED_IREF | SKINNY_METADATA ) cache_generation 1254278 uuid_tree_generation 1254278 dev_item.uuid fd1a07a5-4cdc-41eb-9776-d4519f2d086b dev_item.fsid da28e00e-6ae7-4a28-9bf4-6826157c7e43 [match] dev_item.type 0 dev_item.total_bytes 4000785104896 dev_item.bytes_used 2931348733952 dev_item.io_align 4096 dev_item.io_width 4096 dev_item.sector_size 4096 dev_item.devid 8 dev_item.dev_group 0 dev_item.seek_speed 0 dev_item.bandwidth 0 dev_item.generation 0 [1] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#By_feature

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