Arch Linux

I tried both Mullvad and Mozilla VPN and when I do a dns test, both are still using my ISP's DNS instead of the VPN's. This only happens on my Arch systems, works fine on my phone.

EDIT: Turns out these VPN clients depend on systemd-resolved in order to change your DNS. Enabling the service makes it work properly. A bit scary that they don't give you a warning that you're leaking DNS if you don't have systemd-resolved enabled.

i have charged to rofi over dmenu and added polybar to my I3 config and even after a reboot it wont update my changes i have been editing /etc/i3/config and i have done use I3 on other pc and never had it do this

I am running the latest version of Cinnamon on my Arch desktop with the latest version of Firefox. However, I am not receiving notifications from websites that I have expressly enabled notifications on. For example, my Mastodon instance doesn't give me notifications when something has been favorited or boosted. For that matter neither does my Lemmy instance. I have given these instances the proper permissions to allow notifications and still nothing. This happens with some other websites but it is hit and miss.

As I am not so familiar with the innards of Cinnamon, would somebody be so kind as to point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to get notified, when an #ArchLinux package is updated?

Sometimes I'm eagerly awaiting an upgrade to a specific package. Is there a way to get a notification of some sort, once the update is available?

In this case I'm waiting for thunderbird and wine-nine.

@archlinux@lemmy.ml @archlinux@lemmy.world @archlinux@discuss.tchncs.de @archlinux@kbin.social @archlinux@a.gup.pe

I am in the process of making a DIY NAS box and I am debating between mdadm + BTRFS and ZFS. What are your experiences with using ZFS on Arch? Have you run into any major issues? Does ZFS being an external kernel module cause any annoyances with the frequent Arch kernel updates?

Give me the dirty details! Any recommendations or pitfalls I should avoid?

Thanks!

See Steam failing to launch since systemd 253.5-2 update also github issue. After updating the system steam stops working with a core dump error of "Assertion 'device' failed at src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c:103, function device_get_tags_generation(). Aborting.".

For me doing a sudo pacman -S lib32-libnm fixed the issue.

i wanted to create an issue in the Archwiki for some outdated information, but the capsha is too complex for me and my fedora

idk why, but whenever I need an Arch ISO, I rather build it myself with Archiso than download it from the website. Am I alone with this?

I have been upgrading after a few weeks of being too busy too. I constantly now run out of space on my 50GB root partition even when running -Sc after every update and reboot to make sure everything works...

It really is crazy that there is no option to put all the programs on another partition than root unless you make a separate partition for /usr that will somehow foresee what you will install in the future.

My /usr with all of my programs installed is 29GB and /var takes up 10 GB. That leaves just 10GB for everything else.

I have just followed the partitioning advice since my first 2016 install, but in the past few years, everything has just ballooned in size it seems and is now always a problem every few years no matter how big you make your root partition.

Is there a better solution for this? Can we place /usr files managed through managers in /home? I think that is against the pacman/yay way of working.

2023.07.01 is listed at being 813.3 MB in size. This may just be me, but it feels like only a couple years ago it hit 600 MB, when it could still fit on a CD. It makes me wonder when we'll see it cross a gigabyte in size, and also which modern 64 bit distros can still fit on an actual disc.

Edit: The release information still states "The image can be burned to a CD", in fact it's the very first sentence.

Edit 2: As of 2020.08.01 the ISO size is over the CD-ROM Mode-1 limit.

If anyone is aware of a public forum where WIKI editors tend to hang out, this could be brought up for editing. Too busy to research or submit myself.

Not specifically Archlinux, but I am using Archlinux on my laptop, so I thought I'll ask here.

I am planing to replace my 1 TB M.2 SSD in my laptop with a 2 TB M.2 SSD, and I am wondering how to clone the whole 1 TB SSD and restore it onto the 2 TB M.2 SSD.

I have read about people using $dd for that, but I never did that. Can anybody confirm that this is possible?

I am running two partitions, one boot and the other one is a crypt device with btrfs + subvolumes inside.

Is there anything I have to consider, before doing this?

Thank you for your time.

Is KDE particularly sensitive to updates in the background? It frequently happens to me that the session crashes during or after a pacman -Syu update. This never happened while I was using cinnamon

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1114285

For quite some time now, KDE has intermittently been unable to go to sleep. It will either go to a black screen with the cursor still showing, and the computer running, or it will show a half frozen sddm looking screen with the computer still running. The computer, in both cases, will be wholly unresponsive, and the only way to get out of it is to forcefully shutdown the PC by, for example, holding the power button.

Has anyone else been having this issue?

• OS: Arch Linux (kernel v6.4.1-arch2-1)
• DE: KDE Plasma v5.27.6, Wayland
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX-6600

Hey everyone. I'm thinking of maintaining an iso for my setup once I have that the way I like it. I wouldn't publish it so it would just be for me.

How easy would that be to do? Would it just be a case of rebuilding the iso every week/month to get the updated packages in it, or is there more to it?

Thanks!

Journalctl isn't showing anything suspicious, and with the 6.4 kernel update I'm getting the occasional blinking caps-lock.

So far I'm not able to reproduce the panic, it only happens occasionally at the GDM login prompt.

When installing the GRUB version above, I got symbol grub_is_shim_lock_enabled not found and can't boot, so I downgraded back to grub-2:2.06.r566.g857af0e17-1-x86_64. I tried --disable-shim-lock but it didn't help. I don't secure boot and don't use TPM.

Package was pushed just 5 hours ago, anyone by chance ran into the same problem?

EDIT: Tried again today, worked. Problem was likely caused because I installed GRUB into the "arch" NVRAM entry (esp/EFI/arch) instead of the Fallback which my board only supports (esp/EFI/BOOT). To do this add --removable to grub-install. The full procedure is:

# grub-install --removable /dev/sdX ## or /dev/nvme0nX
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Hey everyone. So I need to make a custom iso because I don't have access to the router from my apartment and my wifi antenna uses the rtl8192eu driver, which is not included by default. Hence, I decided a custom iso was the way to go. I don't want however to bloat it up, and since I'm making it on my laptop which is running Endeavour OS I can't trust the packages.x86_64 file in the releng directory to be the default plain arch install package list (following the archiso instructions on the wiki).

So what I am actually asking for: Before building my iso, what are the packages that the actual maintainers of Arch Linux would put in the packages.x86_64 file, which we would have access to from the live environment, that I should also include (plus the 5 packages I want to make sure I have, which is the custom part of this iso)?

How I understand it reading the install guide as well as a couple forum posts, the only truly necessary packages for an arch installation are base, linux, and linux-firmware. Correct me if I'm wrong please. After installing archiso on my endeavour os laptop I had around 130 packages in my packages.x86_64 file. Many seemed unnecessary.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Some screenshots which will hopefully help

I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

The only way for now to keep bluetooth audio running is downgrade to 5.66 or install git version of bluez from AUR.

Version 5.68 already cut, waiting for appearance in repositories.

Currently, the Arch Linux Forums uses FluxBB which, while it does work, is rather dated, and could use a fresh coat of paint. The hot forum software of the day seems to be Discourse. Does Arch Linux have any interest in switching to that?

I'm back to GNOME after years away. What extensions do you use that's compatible with the version of GNOME that's in the Arch repo?

Hey there. I updated my local weechat to version 4.0 a few days back. since then I am not able to get it to run at all. At first it screwed my terminal settings and said, several spelling libraries were missing. After I installed them, the terminal prompt just resets. weechat -v says I'm on 4.0. Don't see a way to debug this, as dmesg and journalctl are clean. Do you have any idea, what I could try to do to solve this?

On Arch Linux on Dell Latitude 7480 (Intel i5 7th Gen) the suspension features works when i close the computer, and it wakes up when i reopen it.

While on Ubuntu LTS / Debian Stable everything worked as normal, but on Arch when the computer is suspended the display's backlight is on and there's a probability that the CPU isn't in an idle mode beacuse the fans remain pretty loud. This obvioulsy drains the battery, making imossible to really suspend the computer.

Any help?

When I try to install mariadb via yay:

errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'mariadb-clients-10.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' da archlinux.mirror.server24.net : The requested URL returned error: 404 errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'mariadb-10.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' da archlinux.mirror.server24.net : The requested URL returned error: 404 errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'mariadb-libs-10.11.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' da archlinux.mirror.server24.net : The requested URL returned error: 404 attenzione: troppi errori da archlinux.mirror.server24.net, ignoro il resto dell'operazione errore: impossibile scaricare il pacchetto 'liburing-2.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst' da archlinux.mirror.server24.net : The requested URL returned error: 404 attenzione: impossibile scaricare alcuni file errore: impossibile eseguire l'operazione richiesta (impossibile scaricare alcuni file) Si sono verificati degli errori, nessun pacchetto è stato aggiornato. -> error installing repo packages

This is in Italian, but basicily requesting the packages from archlinux.mirror.server24.net returns 404.