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Steam Accessibility
by Storm Dragon 16 Jul '24

16 Jul '24

Howdy, In Arch, Steam is completely inaccessible with Orca, nothing reads at all. It was fixed briefly last year, but broke again after about two weeks. I figured this was the company's doing, but I recently found out that it works on Void Linux. I have a couple of friends who run Void, and they can access it just fine with the --bigpicture flag. The weird thing is, as far as I know, it only works in Void, not any other distro. I know it's not working in Debian, Ubuntu, Slint, and Fedora. My question is, does anyone know what Void is doing different from literally everyone else to get this working, and is it something I can replicate in Arch? Just for the sake of completeness, I do have all the accessibility variables I know about enabled: # Accessibility variables export ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1 export GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge export GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_ACCESSIBILITY=1 export QT_LINUX_ACCESSIBILITY_ALWAYS_ON=1 export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3 I also have lib32-at-spi: multilib/lib32-at-spi2-core 2.52.0-1 (170.5 KiB 648.7 KiB) (Installed) Thanks, Storm -- ⛈🐲

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Fwd: Resignation
by David C. Rankin 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Florian, A sincere Thank You for your efforts. Arch is the better for it. Just checked and you beat me by 5 months. Original install date 2009-03-08.... Sad to see you go, but life does call. Good luck with what the future holds. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Resignation Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 21:14:27 +0200 From: Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)xinu.at> To: arch-dev-public(a)lists.archlinux.org Hi, Sadly I have no longer had the time necessary to properly handle master key holder and packager duties for a while now. I don't feel like it's fair to you guys and our users to keep this up any longer so I'm officially resigning now. Most pressing topics that come to mind for someone wanting to take over: * I hold a master key, so you'll need to find a new holder for that * perl 5.40 update * various bug reports on Gitlab for my packages * a few flagged packages Thanks for all the nice memories since "[2008-10-19 14:38] installed filesystem (2008.03-2)". While I will no longer be involved in Arch development, I'll still continue to use it and this nice, old install will also continue to live on. Hope to see you guys around :) Florian -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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the archlinux torrent
by Jude DaShiell 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

Having downloaded the torrent and burned the iso to a dvd I verified the torrent using sha256sum but apparently that wasn't enough since the installation broke part of the way through which means I ought to have used the gpg verification that is available online. What is done with those asc files to verify a download? I used lftp with no options on the command line and maybe that was also a mistake on my part. -- 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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How to start mplayer with radio (.pls) url over ssh and have it play?
by David C. Rankin 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

All, I know little about audio, but I'm trying to help my kids configure a radio stream. I normally use this media box via X desktop, but wanted to just play the stream via mplayer starting it over ssh -- that didn't work no matter what -ao I specify. However, if I open an x-term on the box from the desktop and enter the same url there - presto, the sound plays, and everything works. Since I normally use this box headless, how do I start mplayer over ssh and have the sound play on the remote box? Entering the following through the x-term from the desktop works just fine: mplayer -loop 0 -playlist http://playerservices.streamtheworld.com/pls/KDAQHD2.pls (it's classical) Is there a config somewhere where I can tell it to start mplayer the same from ssh as it does when started from the desktop? Following troubleshooting from the Sound Wiki, running 'pactl list sinks' over ssh while the desktop is playing the audio stream, I get: $ pactl list sinks Sink #1 State: RUNNING Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo Description: Built-in Audio Analog Stereo Driver: module-alsa-card.c Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz Channel Map: front-left,front-right Owner Module: 19 Mute: no Volume: front-left: 41944 / 64% / -11.63 dB, front-right: 41944 / 64% / -11.63 dB balance 0.00 Base Volume: 65536 / 100% / 0.00 dB Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor Latency: 29816 usec, configured 31247 usec Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY Properties: alsa.resolution_bits = "16" <snip> Can I use this information when starting mplayer over ssh to have it play sound through that boxes (the remotes) speakers? I've tried '-ao alsa' when starting over ssh, but still no sound. If I missed something in the wiki -- I missed it. Any help appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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openssh 9.8p1-1
by Genes Lists 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

The new openssh works just fine and this is just a little note to those of us with remote machines. After updating both client and remote machine(s) its important to restart sshd. If you don't restart sshd, and then attempt to ssh into the remote, it may fail with: kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer -- Gene

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JDK/JRE and older Java versions
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

Hello, as a Java developer, I sometimes need to do compatibility checking using older versions, often using JRE, while I need a JDK for development. When I tried to update arch linux now, I found I cannot start any update because the update is blocked by setting JRE and JDK as conflicting packages. I tried to only install JDK 21, but the update is still being blocked because of my older versions of the JRE. Why do You block any software installation? I don't like the idea to enforce me to use any specific software, or to remove any specific one. Is there any possibility to remove the lock-in? Kind regards, Peter

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git server changes - how to allow https AND ssh now that /srv/git/xxx.git must be owned by http?
by David C. Rankin 21 Jun '24

21 Jun '24

All, After recent git update, read only repos hosted on a local Apache server could no longer pull over https. (gitweb remained fine) Repositories closed read/write over ssh were fine. On the server the repositories under /srv/git were owned david:david (me). However, after the git change, git refused to serve over https unless the directories under /srv/git were owned by http. Fine, change made - but now repos cloned read/write over ssh fail because the directory under /srv/git is no longer owned by me. How do you make git repositories hosted on my local server allow clone/pull over https AND allow me to still close read/write over ssh? Catch 22, unless /srv/git/xxx.git is http:http, https fails unless /srv/git/xxx.git is david:http, ssh fails Anybody else caught be this? The server is configured per https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Git_server and the scm-git.com links. The "Note: Make sure that Apache can read and write to your repositories." seems incomplete. It's not just "read and write" it is "must own" for https and "can't own" for ssh? How to solve? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Request to cherry-pick commit fixing RMB issue for Non-Removable Media in Linux Kernel 6.10-rc4
by J. Gerhards 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hi all, as of linux v6.9.*, a regression has been introduced where the removable media bit (RMB) was set for all devices that are hot-pluggable. The bit does not accurately indicate that a device is removable. Therefore, this issue has been addressed and fixed in commit `a6a75e`[0] which was merged under the tag 6.10-rc4[1]. Is it possible to cherry-pick `a6a75e` and release an update prior to the full 6.10 release? Thank you for your consideration. Best regards J. Gerhards [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?… [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/171856227442.1143.13572753599648338171.pr-track…

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can't generate key pair
by Jude DaShiell 18 Jun '24

18 Jun '24

gpg2 --full-gen-key breaks shortly after pass key is entered twice generating a Timeout error. I tried this with complex and simple keys and gpg2 times out in both cases. Would a configuration change help here? -- 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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linux-6.9.4 or firmware broke monitor type/size detection for Dell box?
by David C. Rankin 15 Jun '24

15 Jun '24

Devs, Tonight's update to linux-6.9.4 and the firmware seems to have broken the monitor type/size detection on Arch. I have a older Dell box I use for a media center connected to a Samsung 59" TV. Arch has always properly detected it and configured itself for full HD resolution. After update tonight, it no longer does that. Instead both the console (I use startx) and fluxbox (or any other desktop) boots and starts at 800x600 or so -- which is quite unusable. Has something changed in the kernel image generation or in the new firmware that has caused this? I'm not sure what the dmesg output was before, it always just worked, but now I get: [ 1.574525] i915 0000:00:02.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console [ 1.600709] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3324.978 MHz [ 1.600721] clocksource: tsc: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x2fed77ea564, max_idle_ns: 440795278175 ns [ 1.600739] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc [ 1.608956] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 1.608963] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 1.609861] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] Initialized overlay support. [ 1.610256] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20230929 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 1 [ 1.630543] fbcon: i915drmfb (fb0) is primary device [ 1.630545] fbcon: Deferring console take-over [ 1.630547] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] fb0: i915drmfb frame buffer device This box is grub2/MBR, so if something changed there, that may also be the issue. Anybody have an idea what changed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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