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[arch-general] 21 MATE packages out of date
by Bjoern Franke 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

Hi, may somebody of the TUs or so take a look into [1] and do some bumps? 21 MATE packages are out of date, some of them only since 2 weeks, but others since 6-7 months. I contacted Brad some days ago regarding the updates, but got no reply yet. Best Regards Bjoern [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=mate&maintainer=&flagged=Flagged

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[arch-general] Can't login to flyspray
by Markus Schaaf 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

My account exists and I've even reset my password, just in case. But still can't login. Could someone please have a look at it? E-mail is the same I'm posting from and username is the local part.

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[arch-general] custom localization
by Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hello archers . I want do a custom localization I am using cli on some applications . like neomutt for emails . my localization on /etc/locale.conf is LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 the time is 12 hour format When I compose email on neomutt it showing the 12hour format and the πμ (am ) and μμ (pm) I tried to add LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8 on /etc/locale.conf . but the Greek characters on neomutt wasn't showing and instead greek characters showing with questionmarks . Is there any way to make the time fomart to be 24 hour and how I will do that and in neomutt showing the greek characters ? Thank you for your help -- Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras jemadux(a)cryptolab.net

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[arch-general] aom upgrade brakes funktionality of several video applications
by Friedrich Strohmaier 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Hi archers, after one of the last upgrades aom was upgraded to version 3.0.0 several applications stopped working (properly). I'm not able to play videos in my firefox browser (ok. this one ist from mozilla). chromium and jami not starting at all, gnome-mplayer stops playing videos, handbrake is complains not finding gstreamer plugin for h264 and so forth. Downgrading to version 2.0.2 makes everything running as expected. Anyone else seeing alike? I filed a bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=70411 which was closed immediately. Reason: Not a bug Additional comments about closing: Use the forums or mailing lists for support How to proceed? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] libesmtp 1.0.6-7 does not link to openssl
by SET 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hello, I am having a weird issue with libesmtp : it does not use TLS, confirmed by wireshark sniffing. The ASP repo was pulled, and here is the result of ./configure --prefix=/usr : ************************* *** libESMTP features *** ************************* --with-auth-plugin-dir: /usr/lib/esmtp-plugins --with-lwres: no --with-openssl: no --enable-pthreads: yes --enable-etrn: no --enable-ntlm: no --enable-chunking: yes --enable-xusr: yes --enable-nsauth: yes --enable-debug: no After examining config.log, the conftest.c program, generated by configure, failed to compile : #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" #endif char SSL_library_init (); int main () { return SSL_library_init (); ; return 0; } By including <openssl/ssl.h> before int main(), conftest.c does compile. Talking to an SMTP server without TLS is obviously not an option. How can this be fixed ? A patch by the package maintainer ? Reporting to upstream ? (Seems to be fedora here) Regards.

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[arch-general] Heads-Up: gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks signal-desktop
by LuKaRo 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi everyone, just a quick heads-up to anyone who is using signal-desktop: Apparently upgrading to gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks its dependency on sqlcipher, causing signal-desktop to read its database unencrypted instead of through sqlcipher. This will fail, causing a "NOTADB" error message in a popup, asking the user to quit or overwrite the database. However, in some cases, the database seemingly still gets overwritten even if the user chooses not to. Therefore, be aware of this bug the next time you start signal-desktop after upgrading gtk3 if you do not want to loose your message history or store messages in plain text. Refer to the corresponding GitHub issues #4513 <https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4513> and #5097 <https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5097> as well as FS#69980 <https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=69980> in the Arch Linux bug tracker. In hope no one else looses their message history, LuKaRo

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[arch-general] MAKEFLAGS and dragon.archlinux.org
by u34＠net9.ga 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

I think there are no real machines with 5 cores, or 5 cpus. If dragon.archlinux.org actually has 5 cpus then do skip this message. Refering to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:PKGBUILD.com : It states it describes the build server at dragon.archlinux.org. At https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:PKGBUILD.com#Packager_&&… it suggests to use MAKEFLAGS=-j5 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Makepkg#Parallel_compilation suggets to use the number of cores here. I don't know what the implications of using a wrong number in MAKEFLAGS. Or even if there are any implications at all. Still, why not state the correct number, or use $(nproc)? -- u34

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Re: [arch-general] Heads-Up: gtk3-1:3.24.27-3 breaks signal-desktop
by Amin Vakil 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

> On 3/15/21 6:37 PM, Bjoern Franke via arch-general wrote: >> Hi, >> >>> >>> Can't we add this to the signal package then? >>> >> >> heftig reverted the change now, so there is no need. >> >> Regards >> Bjoern >> > > So what is the current state of this? Can I safely upgrade my system? I > havent upgraded it since some time, but I do not want to break my signal > of course. > > It got fixed in two days (https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/commits/packages/gtk3/trunk) safe to upgrade.

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[arch-general] KDE - QjackCtl crashes after latest updates
by Susanne Schneider 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

yesterday I ran into some trouble after updating my Archlinux (doing this at least 2 times a week): I startet the jackserver via QjackCtl, changed to the neighbour-workspace to start Ardour, and when I went back to QjackCtl it had crashed, I needed to kill both processes jack and qjackctl from commandline. Hours of investigation later (lol) I noticed, that with fresh installation of Qjackctl the package "qt6-wayland" is pointed out as "optional dependency" in installation log. On my system this package turned out to be mandatory, because after having installed this package my QjackCtl went back to regular behaviour. Now I ask myself: am I the only one running into this trap and wouldn't it be a good idea to make qt6-wayland mandatory for QjackCtl? best suse

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[arch-general] Laptop's webcam gets blocked randomly
by riveravaldez 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Hi, I'm having kind of a random webcam unavailability on a Dell XPS L502X (Sandy Bridge) with webcam: ``` $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0408:2fb1 Quanta Computer, Inc. Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM ``` I already checked [1] but couldn't find no hint in how to diagnose this. Sometimes webcam works fine. There's sort of a permanent static-noise with MJPG format in qv4l2 no matter which frame size I use (sometimes it even crash), and with guvcview using MJPG makes the image unstable if I activate the 'mirror' filter; rest of the time I get a lot of: ``` V4L2_CORE: Error - Couldn't decode frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) error while decoding frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) error while decoding frame V4L2_CORE: (jpeg decoder) Ignoring empty buffer ``` But using YUYV in guvcview, thou slower, the video seems OK (in qv4l2 it starts with a green screen and then the proper image appears). In the other hand, when the webcam doesn't responds, YUYV in qv4l2 only shows the green screen. The hardware lights indicate that webcam is being activated, but I have no image. When not working, qv4l2 only says: `Hue error: connection time expired`, I don't see any other console output. With xawtv I get: ``` $ xawtv This is xawtv-3.107, running on Linux/x86_64 (5.11.2-arch1-1) xinerama 0: 1366x768+0+0 vid-open-auto: using grabber/webcam device /dev/video0 v4l2: oops: select timeout ``` And with guvcview (YUYV) I have: ``` $ guvcview GUVCVIEW: version 2.0.6 V4L2_CORE: (UVCIOC_CTRL_MAP) Error: The file or directory does not exist ... ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.rear ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.center_lfe ALSA lib pcm.c:2660:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM cards.pcm.side ALSA lib pcm_route.c:877:(find_matching_chmap) Found no matching channel map ... connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=The file or directory does not exist) attempt to connect to server failed ... ALSA lib pcm_oss.c:377:(_snd_pcm_oss_open) Unknown field port ... ALSA lib pcm_usb_stream.c:486:(_snd_pcm_usb_stream_open) Invalid type for card ... V4L2_CORE: Could not grab image (select timeout): Resource temporarily unavailable ... ``` The only related message I found on `sudo dmesg` says: ``` [33511.458233] uvcvideo: Failed to query (GET_CUR) UVC control 6 on unit 2: -110 (exp. 2). ``` `sudo journalctl -ex` doesn't seems to show nothing about. System is updated. Any idea on how to pinpoint/diagnose the source of this issue? Thanks a lot in advance! [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Webcam_setup

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