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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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[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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