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Install a package to alternative location
by Jeanette C. 21 Aug '23

21 Aug '23

Hey hey, my system partition is as good as full, so I wonder if there is a safe method to install packages to alternative locations. The packages in question are android-studio-system and android-ndk. Extending the system partition is unfeasible. Yes, it is bad planning. Best wishes, Jeanette -- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * Audiobombs: https://www.audiobombs.com/users/jeanette_c * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c You know I'm one of a kind, There'll never be another me <3 (Britney Spears)

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kernel 6.4.11 bug prevents boot on some hardware
by Genes Lists 17 Aug '23

17 Aug '23

Sharing in case this helps others. Also posted to arch forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288095 There is a bug with the rtsx driver in 6.4.11 that prevented 1 machine from booting. It presented in my case as NVME failure, thus preventing machine from booting. 6.4.10 is fine. The hardware that triggers this is in my case is: 03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader (rev 01) Solution: A work around is simply to blacklist the driver (its only a card reader). i.e. Add blacklist rtsx_pci blacklist rtsx_pci_sdmmc to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist_rtsx.conf rebuild the initramfs so that the blacklist gets put into it. More details on this are available on lkml: https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/8/16/1183 regards gene

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Access to unix socket files
by Hauke Fath 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

Hi, while scripting around ssh-agent(8), I noticed that on Arch a non-privileged user is not able to get any information on active unix domain sockets - not even her own. I tried fuser(1), lsof(8) and sockstat(1). While the lsof(8) man page hints at requiring 'setuid root' on some OSes, that doesn't make a difference, nor does it for the other two tools. You appear to only get information on domain sockets as root. Is this behaviour intended? It is certainly not documented. A Debian 11 machine I tried behaves differently, as do NetBSD, FreeBSD and OmniOS. What is the rationale for this default? And how can I change it? Cheerio, Hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Hauke Fath () No HTML/RTF in email Institut für Nachrichtentechnik /\ No Word docs in email TU Darmstadt Respect for open standards Ruf +49-6151-16-21344

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Failed to boot after latest pacman -Syu
by David N Murray 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

Hi all, I ran a `pacman -Syu` yesterday and when I boot, I'm greeted with: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats. The relevant portion of journalctl: Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Set Up Additional Binary Formats... Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Update Boot Loader Random Seed was skipped because no trigger condition checks were met. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Starting Create Volatile Files and Directories... Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Got automount request for /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc, triggered by 429 (systemd-binfmt) Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found ordering cycle on systemd-vconsole-setup.service/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: sysinit.target: Unable to break cycle starting with sysinit.target/start Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Requested transaction contains an unfixable cyclic ordering dependency: Transaction order is cyclic. See system logs for details. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Failed to queue mount startup job: Transaction order is cyclic. See system logs for details. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount: Failed with result 'resources'. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd-binfmt[429]: Failed to check if /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is mounted: Host is down Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Aug 14 21:43:53 beorn systemd[1]: Failed to start Set Up Additional Binary Formats. I tried `systemd-analyze verify sysinit.target proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount systemd-vconsole-setup.service` and it reported the same messages. systemd-vconsole-setup.service is the culprit. Since vconsole-setup isn't run, I can't login. Removing vconsole.conf had no effect. vconsole-setup is invoked by udevd, so I can't disable it (not that I want to). No other services appear to start after this failure (like lightdm). I'm stumped. Any thoughts on how to fix this? TIA, Dave

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Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Ruiyang Peng 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

I was using Firefox and suddenly there was something wrong with it: I can't switch the tabs. I found that Firefox has taken over 2GB of memory, while I've just opened three tabs (A circuit simulator, a local file, and a music website and none of it could take such memory)! I rebooted, but the problem is still there. It was okay at the beginning , but when I was trying to switch the tabs, the monitor showed that the memory suddenly grew from 269MB to 1.8GB. (versions: Mozilla Firefox 116.0.2, Latest Arch Linux 6.4.10 on x86-64 laptop) Omg, while I was writing this post I didn't close Firefox and now it takes 7.4GB of memory, and STILL GROWING!! Now 11.1GB Of course there's a memory leak. -- Ruiyang Peng

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What laptop's do you guys like?
by Polarian 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

Hello, Although this is a little off topic because this is hardware relating to Arch Linux and not Arch Linux itself, I am curious to see what others use. ArchWiki has laptop pages, but that doesn't show what people prefer to use with Arch Linux. So I have a few questions: - What Laptop do you use currently for Arch Linux? - What do you use the Laptop for? - If you could buy any Laptop for Arch Linux right now, what would you buy? I got a feeling there will be a range of responses, some standing behind old Lenovo Thinkpads, and some vouching for modern laptops. One final question, is there any Laptop company you feel will be a good asset to the Linux community as a whole? Or better, Arch Linux directly :P If you respond, thank you for your time :) Have a good night, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Fwd: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Andy Pieters 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 13:22, pete <petegn(a)mail.com> wrote: > Makes me wonder what desktops asre being used KDE /Plasma here KDE for > years > from the early days mian problems i had were when i had a look at Gnome > the FF > started being unruley runnin 116.0.2 on Arch here fully updated no > issues > > try using KDE .. > > As far as I'm concerned, I haven't used gnome since RHEL4 circa 2004. Qt/KDE/Plasma all the way baby

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Re: Something going wrong with Firefox 116.0.2
by Andy Pieters 15 Aug '23

15 Aug '23

On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:01:58 +0100 > Polarian <polarian(a)polarian.dev> wrote: > As a quick note, since the UX update, Firefox has become one of the > heaviest browsers, overtaking chromium/google chrome. This doesn't help [you] and I apologise, but this is literally the reason why I stepped away from Firefox years ago. That and the memory leaks it was constantly suffering from drove me away to Chrome. If Firefox can behave I'd welcome it back in a heartbeat... On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 19:10, Andy Pieters <Andy(a)andypieters.me.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 at 18:27, <mirto(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:01:58 +0100 >> Polarian <polarian(a)polarian.dev> wrote: >> As a quick note, since the UX update, Firefox has become one of the > > heaviest browsers, overtaking chromium/google chrome. > > > This doesn't help and I apologise, but this is literally the reason why I > stepped away from firefox years ago. > That and the memory leaks it was constantly suffering from drove me away > to Chrome. > > If firefox can behave I'd welcome it back in a heartbeat... > >

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Xorg 3D acceleration question (Alder lake)
by Polarian 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

Hello, So the ArchWiki can be very confusing about this all, and I am sure a lot of people will just install every package and will just hope that it does something, but I would like to actually understand it, so sorry for the ML noise, I would like some clarifications from those who are knowledgeable about this topic. So reason I got a new Laptop with alder lake, and I am trying my best to optimise it, I dropped 70% battery in just 2 hours when its a 73wh battery, that is absurd, so I checked the two following which is recommended to improve performance and battery life: 1. 3D acceleration is in use 2. Hardware video acceleration is in use As for 1, it was by default, however the ArchWiki on the xorg page (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Driver_installation) lists the following driver to be installed for xorg: xf86-video-intel Now running glxinfo before the installing of said package, direct rendering is enabled (DRI), which would indicate that 3D acceleration is working as needed. So I am a little confused on why it works without having the xorg driver installed? I have the xorg metapackage installed (I am lazy, and the xorg utilities are useful). is xf86-video-intel used to enable DRI3? Is DRI2 possible without said driver? The wiki is really not clear about this, and I know a lot of people probably wonder why it matters if 3D acceleration is already enabled, but I would like to know what is going on :) Also, saying "Just use wayland" is not a valid answer, already had this happen before so just putting it out there. I would appreciate a detailed explanation on what is going on to clear the confusion. Now back to point 2, this was not enabled, VAAPI is the Intel API for hardware video acceleration and after installing the required driver (intel-media-driver) vainfo (from libva-utils) successfully shows support for Hardware video acceleration. If anyone else has any suggestions or experience with optimising alder lake mobile chips on Arch Linux, I would also appreciate the pointers. As a small note, I used AMD (ryzen 5 5500U) with my old laptop, I can not remember if I could be bothered to setup hardware video acceleration or going through optimising the integrated graphics, I ran that Arch Install for 2 years and typical me doesn't document any of my configuration or dotfiles, so I am trying to piece distant memories back together, lucky the ArchWiki is a good refresher :P Thank you for your time, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Is it necessary for CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS to be enabled by default in Arch Linux 2023.08.01?
by sunying＠isrc.iscas.ac.cn 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Hello, I recently noticed that in Arch Linux 2023.08.01, CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS=y. As we know, this option incurs additional CPU and memory cost. In addition to enabling this option, these statistics are only available if the driver using the page pool supports exporting this data. Does enabling this configuration by default have any performance impact? Is it necessary to enable it by default? Thank you for your time. ------------------------------ Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences Intelligent Software Research Center Mail:sunying@isrc.iscas.ac.cn Web: https://isrc.iscas.ac.cn/

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