On 9/5/22 04:39, Morten Linderud via arch-general wrote:
Please see the RFC which should have all the details.
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/blob/master/rfcs/0002-march.rst
Thank you,
As long as it's a 2nd port -- that's fine, but I have a lot of v2 hardware,
i7 Sandy Brid
What does:
Future build infrastructure for Arch Linux
"We decided on supporting the x86_64-v3 microarchitecture"
Does that mean Arch will break on anything older than Haswell for Intel will
no longer be supported on Arch? Or am I missing something? SUSE going to ALP
is doing the v3 baseline f
On 8/19/22 02:06, Randy DuCharme via arch-general wrote:
I'm sorry for y'all's rotten ass attitudes. I'm sorry that you all are too
arrogant to accept help. I'm sorry for asking/offering to be of help. I'm
sorry for Arch. It will free up a RAID 50 array to be free of it,
Sorry you feel th
Archdevs,
Don't know if this is worth a note on the page for manual intervention, but
on update earlier today we received:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 158.6 KiB 109 KiB/s 00:01
[##] 100%
extra
All,
Accessing virtualbox guests on Arch server with rdesktop will only show
1024 x 768 active (meaning background, taskbar, mouse movement, etc.) in
window of 1440 x 864. This started around linux 5.17.6 and continues through
the current kernel.
What changed and what do I need to do to
All,
My server will no longer reboot with kernels from about 5.18.5 or so on.
The reboot stops after everything is shut down and reboot is called, but the
next line on the error output on the screen says something like:
kvm: exiting virtual machine
At this point the box is hardloc
This was rather strange on VirtualBox module rebuild, I received:
==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.34_non_OSE -k 5.15.51-1-lts
/usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found
/usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found
/usr/bin/dkms: line 1033: sha512: command not found
==> d
On 6/27/22 16:09, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 8:59 PM Genes Lists via arch-general <
arch-general@lists.archlinux.org> wrote:
Be terrific if someone could provide an update on where things
stand for arch migration to Openssl 3?
Be great to get an update from
On 6/24/22 04:11, Guus Snijders via arch-general wrote:
Perhaps you already did so, but did you check the health of the host
(filesystem & RAM)?
Host filesystem and RAM are 100% good. RAID arrays are scrubbed and
mismatch_cnt is zero. Filesystem checks fine. No RAM or any type MCE on the host
I have an Arch guest in VirtualBox running on an Arch server. I installed
virtualbox-bin 1-34-2 from AUR with 5.18 patch and the install on the host
went fine.
I access the guest headless using rdesktop over the LAN. (have done so for
years). Doing a full system update from 5.17.7 to 5.18.6 (a
Got the latest samba 4.16.1-4 and had part way expected the fix for:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062
To be included. I guess samba will wait for the next minor version number
release to include it. However, I noticed the packager had cherry picked a
gnome print fix and wondere
Just a follow up note,
The konsole code was updated to handle the new line escapes that gave me
issues when the new escapes were added to pacman. All displays fine, but it
would still be nice to have a switch to turn the additional display off. I
don't use the total info, just doesn't provid
Just a follow up note,
The konsole code was updated to handle the new line escapes that gave me
issues when the new escapes were added to pacman. All displays fine, but it
would still be nice to have a switch to turn the additional display off. I
don't use the total info, just doesn't provid
On 5/13/22 8:15 AM, Mikau via arch-general wrote:
>> The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be
>> done to help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there
>> were 368 packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took
>> forever.
>
> Have you tried using
On 5/13/22 3:24 AM, mpan via arch-general wrote:
>> The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be done to
>> help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 update, there were 368
>> packages in 1.3GiB to download. At 300->500KiB it took forever.
> Did you use ArchLinux Arc
Arch folks,
Had the need to do a first rollback to 3/15/22 for a samba bug report on
4.16 failure to discover [homes]
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15062).
The rollback worked flawlessly, but is there anything that can be done to
help the download rate? Due to the ICU 7.0->7.1 u
All,
A recent change to how vim is being packages has resulted in errors when
opening files with C syntax highlight on my system. The error I receive is,
e.g.:
Error detected while processing
/etc/vimrc[38]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/syntax.vim[19]../usr/share/vim/vim82/syntax/synload.vim[21
On 2/3/22 5:53 AM, David Runge via arch-dev-public wrote:
> Rationale:
> We lack a mailing list that revolves around our internal projects and
> which can also be used by non "elevated users" (such as Trusted Users
> and Developers) for more general discussion.
> Given the very low traffic on the a
On 2/5/22 8:33 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
>> And yes, this is frustrating. What is the magic-trick here that was not a
>> magic-trick before?
>>
> The “magic-trick” is to append the summary after the section name, so
> that it makes sense in the history and in people's inboxes. See my e
On 2/5/22 3:06 PM, Jason Ryan via arch-general wrote:
> On 05/02/22 at 02:35pm, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
>>
>> The wiki has become almost impossible to help with.
>> …
>> Over the past 11 years the wiki has increasing become hostile to user
>>
All,
The wiki has become almost impossible to help with. After experiencing an
error transferring to my Arch samba shares and finding the solution on
Apple.Stackexchange.com I was adding that short section to the end of the
troubleshooting entires. However, despite providing an edit summary and
All,
Just a question of why the README is stripped from the gawk package. It
seems that should be placed in /usr/share/doc/gawk, but that directory doesn't
even exist. It holds the developer information and instead of having that
information as part of the package, I ended up stumbling around gn
All,
As mentioned in an earlier thread, the new pacman current/total update
scheme causes the old KDE3/TDE konsole output to look jittery instead of
updating the multi-line progress bar.
I'm trying to track down why so we can patch TDE konsole to fix the problem,
but I'm having a difficult ti
On 12/5/21 8:09 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
> On 06/12/2021 01:54, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
>> Dropping hardware support is a bad idea.
>
> Just to present the opposite side of the argument: there has to be some limit,
> though, for example i68
On 12/5/21 6:43 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Mesa main has started dropping support for classic drivers[1] .
>
> This will affect users of Amd cards using r100 & r200 chipsets, (old) Nvidia
> cards using nouveau-vieux and Intel i915c & i965c .
>
> The plan is to support tho
On 11/20/21 2:54 AM, Andreas Bosch via arch-general wrote:
> For some reason clamav blocks the curl user agent for .sig files ...
> This could be worked around by using a custom user agent for curl like
>
> curl -A makepkg -L
> "https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-0.103.4.tar.g
On 11/20/21 2:54 AM, Andreas Bosch via arch-general wrote:
> For some reason clamav blocks the curl user agent for .sig files ...
> This could be worked around by using a custom user agent for curl like
>
> curl -A makepkg -L
> "https://www.clamav.net/downloads/production/clamav-0.103.4.tar.g
On 11/20/21 1:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
> 2.
>
> If I copy the clamav signature link from a Firefox download, then wget works:
>
> [rocketmouse@archlinux test]$ wget
> "https://clamav-site.s3.amazonaws.com/production/release_files/files/000/000/698/original/clamav-0.103.4.
I'm toying with a clamav-lts for the extended support of 0.104 and I have a
strange problem downloading the signature file that results in a 403
permission issue from curl, but downloading directly from the clamav directory
(with the same link) works?
Short version:
pkgname=clamav-lts
pkgver=0.10
On 11/17/21 1:43 AM, Fabian Bornschein via arch-general wrote:
> I think this comes down to a few questions:
>
> 1. What are the benefits of it?
5 years stable update to the 103 LTS branch. I will get 3 more years of update
than the new 104 release
> 2. Who's going to package,test,maintain it?
All,
Just curious why Arch doesn't also provide the option to track clamav_LTS
which will stay with 103 and will be supported much longer than 104?
I know, I know, Arch matches upstream, but when upstream provides both
current and LTS, wouldn't it make sense to also package and provide LTS li
On 10/16/21 2:05 PM, Archange wrote:
> https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/commit/abc27a8a9b7a5ffb1f57d16b9b94093bd3ff7c50
> indeed.
Working like a champ now!
(unlike latest dovecot w/TLSv1.3 and older iPhone SNAFU ...
ssl_min_protocol = TLSv1.1 in 10-ssl.conf is your friend ...
:)
All,
There is a package problem with hwinfo. Attempting a system update results in:
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any
perl-xml-writer-0.625-7-any is up to date(0/3) checking keys in keyring
[--(3/3) che
All,
Really strange. Update to fluxbox 1.3.7+205 out earlier today cased fluxbox
to not find the current wallpaper. It appeared to have reverted to an ancient
wallpaper no longer on the system. What changed. I've updated fluxbox dozens
of times and never seen this before?
--
David C. Rankin, J
All,
After upgrade of dkms (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1), it failed to erase the old
directory entries each time a new module was built. In my case with
virtualbox, I ended up with:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 3 16:00 6.1.24_non_OSE
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 10 10:42 6.1.26_non_OSE
drwxr-xr-x
On 7/4/21 10:49 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> See the release notes for pacman 6 at:
> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/raw/master/NEWS
>
> - an additional progress bar is added to track total download progress.
> This replaces the previous TotalDownload option.
>
> It'
Caught by ML change
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Subject: clamav unit file "syslog" reference still needed?
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 17:30:32 -0500
From: David C. Rankin
To: Archlinux
All,
After update, checking the status of the clamav-freshclam service I receive:
Jul 02 17:27:48 2pi
On 6/7/21 6:48 AM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> ... Ok, so if it works then that means your output is happy now, right?
> Does it even *matter* if your output is happy, but you're retrieving 2
> things in parallel? Your objective here was to get uncorrupted output...
> *right*?
No,
No
On 6/7/21 4:50 PM, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote:
> It works fine in konsole
Well... this is KDE3 konsole :)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 6/7/21 4:13 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote:
> Or you could just switch to a modern terminal app! :-)
>
> DR
Blasphemy! When they pry my cold dead fingers off my konsole :)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 6/7/21 4:46 AM, Xiretza via arch-general wrote:
> From pacman.conf(5):
>
>> ParallelDownloads
>> Specifies number of concurrent download streams. The value needs to be a
>> positive integer. If this config option is not set then only one download
>> stream is used (i.e. downloads happen sequent
On 6/7/21 3:56 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
> Maybe you could test with a console terminal like getty / agetty instead of a
> terminal emulator ?
>
>
> Try setting ParallelDownloads = 0 in pacman.conf .
>
> LW
ParallelDownloads = 1
works (and hopefully that means 1 at-a-time and not
On 6/7/21 3:56 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
> Maybe you could test with a console terminal like getty / agetty instead of a
> terminal emulator ?
>
>
> Try setting ParallelDownloads = 0 in pacman.conf .
>
> LW
Good thought, but ...
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 38: value
On 6/6/21 2:56 AM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote:
> Hi David,
>
>> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use
>> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the
>> face of the Arch KISS philosophy.
>
> As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to chec
On 6/3/21 4:21 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
> Does adding
>
> ILoveCandy
>
Sounds like a slogan for a lollipop store rather than something that should be
part of a Linux package manager. I'll try anything, but this seems like a
largely self-imposed wound. Why the informative text out
On 6/3/21 4:07 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote:
> Actually, I think that might be the issue. (Or at least part of it.) I don't
> have these issues using xfce4-terminal.
g-darnit, now I have to patch that too! Use xterm and there was still a bit of
wonkiness like it was trying to do
On 6/3/21 1:00 PM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote:
>
>
> On 6/3/21 1:09 PM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
>> I did all 3 updates from different tabs in the same konsole (KDE), so the
>> terminal is VT100 compatible. It really looked like there was
On 6/3/21 4:17 AM, Lone_Wolf via arch-general wrote:
> The new progressbar requires specific escape codes (part of VT100 terminal
> definition I think) to be supported.
>
> Atleast one terminal emulator (qterminal ) has already been found not to
> support those , see https://bbs.archlinux.org/view
On 6/3/21 4:05 AM, Anton Hvornum via arch-general wrote:
> Just to make sure, you're not using archinstall when that "jumping around"
> happens right? Because if that's the case, then it's my fault and not
> pacman :)
>
Right, this is plain old 'pacman -Syu' on 3 boxes that have been running sinc
On 6/1/21 6:57 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
> On 01/06/2021 23:15, Yash Karandikar via arch-general wrote:
>> My guess is that they'll update that once pacman 6 hits stable.
>
> pacman=6.0.0-2 is already in stable. ;)
>
Follow up on my earlier report of jittery output on pacma
On 6/1/21 6:57 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough via arch-general wrote:
> On 01/06/2021 23:15, Yash Karandikar via arch-general wrote:
>> My guess is that they'll update that once pacman 6 hits stable.
>
> pacman=6.0.0-2 is already in stable. ;)
>
and it has terminal output issues bigtime. Whatever is ca
Archdevs,
With the change in /etc/systemd/homed.conf from:
< #DefaultFileSystemType=ext4
---
> #DefaultFileSystemType=btrfs
If we are running ext4, do we now need to set:
DefaultFileSystemType=ext4
explicitly?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Archdevs,
This is getting ridiculous. Every wiki contribution is now summarily
deleted, e.g.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Security&diff=next&oldid=654296
Editor's summary: Unsubstantiated claim and poor note.
What? Toshiba has stored BIOS password outside of the BIOS for a dec
On 2/22/21 6:58 AM, Anton Hvornum via arch-general wrote:
> I added 2FA way back when to /etc/pam.d/system-login and that meant
> that pacman placed a .pacnew file alongside the modified system-login
> (as expected) on upgrade.
> But the notification about this got lost in the sea of packages which
On 2/17/21 9:50 AM, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote:
> On 2/17/21 3:48 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
>> Archdevs,
>>
>> You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering.
>> That
>> eliminates all fallback c
Archdevs,
You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That
eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch
guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros).
See: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055
With linux on 5.10 and lts
Archdevs,
Just as postfix is being split to separate non-default backends into
separate packages, can pam_systemd_home.so functionality be split out into a
separate package. The problems caused by this disabled part of pambase is
discussed here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=19520
On 1/25/21 6:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf via arch-general wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:57:13 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>> Why has all the relevant information for Fake RAID been removed from
>> the wiki?
>
> Doesn't the Wiki's revision history and/or talk page inform about the
> reason for the remo
On 1/25/21 6:12 PM, Felix Yan wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:57:13 -0600
> "David C. Rankin via arch-general"
> wrote:
>
>> Arch,
>>
>> In the past https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID had a
>> fantastic section on Fake RAID. I just had a p
Arch,
In the past https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RAID had a fantastic section
on Fake RAID. I just had a person I refered to the page only to be told there
isn't any relevant info there other than use lspci to look for a conroller??
Why has all the relevant information for Fake RAID been
On 1/23/21 5:43 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote:
> To get an idea, I ran `pacman -S postfix` in a clean chroot, and the result is
> 41.36 MB of extra disk usage (ignoring the package cache), 36.26 MB of which
> is for different backends (pcre and sqlite were already pulled in by the base
> package). Whe
Archdevs,
Why are we splitting postfix by backend? Currently the package is only 1.5M
total. Why would we want to fragment postfix backend capability into separate
packages? With 1T+ average drive size the additional fragmentation doesn't
make any space savings sense.
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Archdevs,
I see dracut is creeping into the system. Which I see as fine, SuSE has used
dracut for a couple of years and it has proven to be quite robust. But I do
have a question on roll-out and what will be required on the user's part. I
have begun seeing, e.g.:
New optional dependencies for b
All,
Sorry for the lapse in posts, but when Arch changed list delivery to the
cloud service, my ISP bounced all mails from the new IP.
New issue, after an extended power-outage caused by a rare snow storm in
north-east Texas, I had to boot from cold start after the power being out for
2 days.
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