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Dual Root setup
by Genes Lists 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

I know there's lots of info available about dual boot - but not much I could find on Dual Root. What is Dual Root? This is a machine with 2 "root" disks where the second one is a hot standby - in event of root disk failure the second disk can be booted very quickly. This makes recovering very fast and thereafter replacing the bad drive and rebuilding very straightforward. And no new install needed! I have now set this up on a few machines and its working well - so I wrote up some notes and am sharing them in case others who may be interested in doing something similar might find them useful. My notes explaining how to do this are available here: https://github.com/gene-git/blog best gene

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Dino Arch Package
by Polarian 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Hello, I notice you have not been updating the Dino arch linux package, and it is now been a few months. Is there any reason for this package being delayed. I have onlisted this and sent this directly to the maintainer, so if any others know the reasons they can respond too. If the package is not going to be maintained, could it be moved into the AUR so I can adopt it and show it some love :) Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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amdgpu issue: where to report?
by Giovanni Santini 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hi everyone, I am currently having multiple issues with my latpop, which has an integrated AMD C+GPU and an NVIDIA discrete card. The main problem I have is that the GPU freaks out of nowhere and start blanking. I noticed this happens mostly in Wayland, in X11 instead I have a missing monitor in my multi-monitor setup. I got the system logs from journalctl and I am wondering whether I should open an issue against ArchLinux "linux" package, the "amdgpu" one or shoul I contact upstream directly. I think one of the first two is best, I wanted to double check. Bests, Giovanni

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[arch-general] thunar reporting no gvs on wayland/wayfire
by Javier 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

Hi ! For those using thunar or nemo under wayland, but not through gnome neither kde, do you know how to make them work with gvfs. On thunar, at least on advanced preferences I can see a big note on yellow warning about the lack of gvfs. On Xorg, with LXQt, thunar doesn't complain at all, and show the trash, and the FS correctly, of course no warnings about gvfs on the advanced preferences. I have gvfs and a bunch of its plugins already installed. An alternative is using nautilus, but it's not respecting $GDK_DPI_SCALE env var, and the gsettings for gnome do not work, so I can't really read the tiny letters. But it does show the trash, so I guess no problems with it. Any one using a gui file manager, hopefully gtk, with gvfs, under wayland/wayfire, and working fine? Thanks ! -- Javier

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What is/are the IPv4 addresses used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

Arch devs, What is/are the IPv4 address(es) used by archlinux-keyring-wkd-sync? I need to tell iptables not to block them so my logs quit filling up with errors. I cloned the source (pyhon...) and looked, but my feeble python skills were unable to find where the addresses or domains were listed (other than the @..... e-mail address domains for verification purposes) They may change? That is one challenge the use of varying cloud or service provider may pose. Failing there being any fixed set, I guess I could tcpdump the traffic, but if there is a list of IPs that the keyring sync uses, that would be the easiest way to go. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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6.2 Module Build - all good except for nvidia-390xx
by David C. Rankin 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

All, Follow-up from a recent thread on 6.2 kernel module builds. All Arch package modules built fine, as did 6.1 branch of virtualbox. However the nvidia-390xx driver fails to build with: nv-gpu-numa.c:232:47: warning: cast between incompatible function types from XXX to YYY (long type salad omitted) 232 | nv_dir_context_t ats_ctx = { .ctx.actor = (filldir_t)filldir_get_memblock_id }; nv-acpi.c:77:19: error: initialization of ‘void (*)(struct acpi_device *)’ from incompatible pointer type ‘int (*)(struct acpi_device *, int)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] 77 | .remove = nv_acpi_remove_two_args, The upside is it is a -Werror trip of a warning into an error so there may be a path to work around from a compiler option standpoint, but I've yet to look into that or an actual patch yet. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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One to remember linux 6.1.12.arch1-1 and linux-lts 6.1.13-1
by David C. Rankin 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

All, This is the first time I can remember since 2009 that LTS is ahead of the regular kernel: linux 6.1.12.arch1-1 linux-lts 6.1.13-1 Here is to hoping 6.2 doesn't bring a lot of surprises and kernel module issues... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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pacman -Syu fails - python-augeas (existing files) needed by certbot-apache?
by David C. Rankin 25 Feb '23

25 Feb '23

All, Update of a server failed today with: (35/35) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__init__.py exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) python-scapy: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/test/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc exists in filesystem (owned by python-augeas) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. The python-augeas package is needed by certbot-apache. How to resolve the conflict? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Alacritty crashes on start
by Paul Schaefer 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hey, a few days ago, I updated my old system. Since this update Alacritty refuses to start on Sway. When started, it crashes with the following message: [wayland-client error] Attempted to dispatch unknown opcode 0 for wl_shm, aborting. [1] 723599 IOT instruction (core dumped) alacritty If I start Alacritty on X(-Wayland) by setting WAYLAND_DISPLAY= , everything works fine. On my second machine (using the same software combination) Alacritty just works. Can you help me debugging this issue? Thank you!

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Status of paraview package
by Åsmund Ervik 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Hi, The paraview package is at version 5.10 and has been flagged as out-of-date since October. Are there any blockers for updating the package to 5.11? Regards, Åsmund

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