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Fwd: News draft: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
by David C. Rankin 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

> Hi everyone, > > As you might have heard by now redis got a new license and *some* forks were created [1]. > Valkey as one of them is developed by the Linux Foundation, and adopted by Fedora already [2]. > So we think it's a good step to follow that path and replace redis by valkey. > > > # Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository Please make sure Valkey works with the Arch package Nextcloud before redis goes away. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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/usr/bin/tqdm in filesystem NOT owned by any package? (python tqdm)
by David C. Rankin 12 Aug '24

12 Aug '24

Devs, I was surprised trying to install a python-tqdm package to get the error: (2/2) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) python-tqdm: /usr/bin/tqdm exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. The package is there: $ l /usr/bin/tqdm -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206 Jul 8 2021 /usr/bin/tqdm I check with pacman to find the owning package -- and there is none: $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/tqdm error: No package owns /usr/bin/tqdm How can I check how it got there and what may depend on it? I don't install stray packages, and especially not to /usr/bin, so this is a surprise. I don't want to just willy-nilly remove it either and have something unknown break. Best course of action? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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jenux for me for the future
by Jude DaShiell 07 Aug '24

07 Aug '24

Reason I haven't got the real archlinux on this computer is because I'm in a low grade wi-fi network and iwctl does a couple things that make it impossible to install archlinux. The first is minor but the second is a show stopper. The device list command constantly scrolls the screen with the same information coming up on it. Same thing happens with the station wlan0 connect command scrolling available networks constantly. The second thing iwctl does which is a show stopper is to get the correct network name entered which has a couple spaces in it and get the correct password and then fail to connect throwing an error. I'm using Jenux since somehow Jenux gets around both of these problems. I think iwctl either needs to be cleaned up and improved or I think iwctl needs to be replaced with something that works for wi-fi networks better than iwctl can do it. I don't know how to set up debugging for iwctl and capture useful error information otherwise you'd have that useful error information in this message. We're on penteledata.net so internet quality is also low and was no better on verizon-fios when I used that. These problems are not unique to me either. I was helping a friend for a couple weeks until he finally managed to connect to wi-fi in a remote location with iwctl on archlinux. He is sighted and also had a problem with the scrolling. We were finally able to get his connection up and running and it is just as well it happened this way since I had just learned to use iwctl before Lawrence needed to learn to use it. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Re: this happens with pacman too
by Doug Newgard 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel(a)panix.com> > > Time to reinstall system. A quick scan through, I don't notice that many problems, certainly nothing that indicates the system needs reinstalled. Backup files being altered is normal, and permissions mismatches are not uncommon and don't necessarily indicate a problem. The mtree file issues are definitely a problem.

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Laptop Running Hot
by 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE＠potatochowder.com 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

Greetings, Lately (the past week or two?), my laptop has been running much hotter than usual, as experienced by my lap and reported by conky and sensors, even after a reboot and before I start X11, and when just idling. Previously, it had been running around 35 to 40 degrees Celsius. Now, it's more like 55 to 60. If I shut the lid and walk away for 10 or 15 minutes, it cools down. But when I open the lid and don't do anything else, the temperature rises again in a few minutes. This happens even when top reports 100% idle, and uptime shows the load average at 0.1±. After multiple lockups attributed to the nvidia 550 drivers a few months ago, I use nvidia-535xx-dkms. I run pacman -Syu daily. Sometimes, problems like this go away with the next kernel or driver(s) update, but that hasn't happened. I would include logs and version numbers, but I'm not sure where to start. :-) I checked the BBS, but I didn't immediately't see anything related. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan

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this happens with pacman too
by Jude DaShiell 31 Jul '24

31 Jul '24

:: Synchronizing package databases... core downloading... jenux downloading... extra downloading... multilib downloading... :: [1mSearching AUR for updates...[0m :: [1mSearching databases for updates...[0m :: 1 package to upgrade/install. 1 extra/bind 9.18.28-1 -> 9.20.0-1 ==> Packages to exclude: (eg: "1 2 3", "1-3", "^4" or repo name) -> Excluding packages may cause partial upgrades and break systems ==> Sync Explicit (1): bind-9.20.0-1 :: Synchronizing package databases... core downloading... jenux downloading... extra downloading... multilib downloading... :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (1) bind-9.20.0-1 Total Download Size: 2.02 MiB Total Installed Size: 6.86 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.19 MiB :: Retrieving packages... bind-9.20.0-1-x86_64 downloading... checking keyring... checking package integrity... loading package files... checking for file conflicts... checking available disk space... :: Processing package changes... upgrading bind... ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so.0.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1.0.3 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so.2.2.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtrampoline.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so.1.0.4 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6.4.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.11 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so.2.0.7 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1.4.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so.13 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipfseeko-0.so.10 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpaper.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libavcall.so.1.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipwrap-0.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so.5.3.6 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzip-0.so.13.0.77 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsigsegv.so.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsynctex.so.2.0.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexlua53.so.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libtexluajit.so.2.1.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libffcall.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcallback.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libzzipmmapped-0.so.12 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpotrace.so.0.0.6 is empty, not checked. :: Running post-transaction hooks... (1/4) Creating system user accounts... (2/4) Reloading system manager configuration... (3/4) Creating temporary files... (4/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate... What I cannot figure out is why all of the ldconfig errors on empty files. Is something broken and if so what should be done to fix it? -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Plasma upgrade from 5 to 6
by Andy Pieters 25 Jul '24

25 Jul '24

Hi all I have finally gotten round to updating my rolling release installation after a long delay. One of the final cycles in this catch-up [1] pulled in an upgrade from Plasma 5 to Plasma 6 Some things stopped working for me after that and I want to share with you what and how I solved them. 1. Graphical environment doesn't start because video driver is not loaded (dkms) I have a GTX 750 and even though dkms does a successful compilation and installation, this driver no longer automatically loads during startup. There may be other, better solutions, but what I did is [I'm using sddm] is: systemctl edit --full sddm in the section [Service] add an entry ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/modprobe nvidia-drm save and quit then reboot 2. no RDP in krcd -> install freerdp2 3. Fish works in kwrite and kate, etc, but not in develop -> install kio5_extras [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive#How_to_restore_all_pack…

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Re: Package RSS feed problems?
by David C. Rankin 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

> Arch Admins, > > The last package update notification I received was xdg-desktop-portal-kde > 6.1.3-1 x86_64 sent Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:11:46 +0000 and arriving Fri, 19 Jul > 2024 05:16:15 -0500. > > Is there an issue with the RSS servers or did they change IP addresses > then? (which may have them blocked at the firewall) Disregard, Sorry for the noise. They started updating automagically again in Tbird? Go figure. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: libassuan 3.0.1-1 pulled from testing after crashing pacman
by Genes Lists 22 Jul '24

22 Jul '24

On Mon, 2024-07-22 at 09:29 +0200, David Runge wrote: > Hi all, > ... > have to use an installation media or static pacman to get back to > 3.0.0-1. > ... > David > Hey David - no worries these kind of things happen on occasion and it was only in testing, where users of which should mostly know how to recover from an occasional issue cropping up. It does bring up a question and am interested how you think about it. While pretty rare, there certainly can be occasions where an official static pacman could be pretty helpful to have. Its fairly non-trivial to build a static pacman since we don't have archive libs readily available for the 38 packages it depends on (at least that I can see). I wonder given the build tooling if : a) providing static pacman package would be a possibility? or b) provding 'archive' lib packages might be doable e.g. glibc-archive, openssl-archive, gpgme-archive ... Both seem painful: - (a) means either do (b) first or build archive versions of all 38 shared libs as part of pacman build. The latter approach is one taken by the AUR package. - (b) means changing the PKGBUILD of quite a lot of packages - and if we go this route then should it be done for other lib packages as well? Pro: While it's rarely needed it could be very useful. i.e. Protect against a Low frequency but high impact risk. Con: - A lot of work - is it worthwhile doing? - Can always boot install media for non-remote systems or use AUR package - its a lot of work for very small gain. thank you for all the work you and other devs/package managers do to keep Arch "-The-" stellar distro! -- Gene

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Package RSS feed problems?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jul '24

21 Jul '24

Arch Admins, The last package update notification I received was xdg-desktop-portal-kde 6.1.3-1 x86_64 sent Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:11:46 +0000 and arriving Fri, 19 Jul 2024 05:16:15 -0500. Is there an issue with the RSS servers or did they change IP addresses then? (which may have them blocked at the firewall) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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