Arch Linux

When using sudo yay it recommends not using sudo. It seems I had two different outcomes from using sudo and then from not using it. Having used it, what effect does this have?

Who thought it was a good idea to use pascal case naming convention for network manager NetworkManager.service while all remaining services in existence uses kebab case? It should be network-manager.service.

Since nvidia 535.x and new Steam GUI windows might not spawn and you have trouble using it. Here are ways to solve this:

$ steam -vgui launches Steam with partly old UI. Should work, but can't use friends network and if opening game properties webview will crash and reset.

$ steam --reset redownloads the steam runtime. Need to relogin. At least some Preferences are lost (compatibility / Proton for games, Settings like GPU acceleration). The new UI might launch though, at least until you restart your PC or restart steam. (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/Troubleshooting#Steam_window_does_not_show_on_Nvidia_GPUs_after_the_June_14,_2023_update)

(Edit: This worked just once)

$ __GL_THREADED_OPTIMIZATIONS=0 steam There should be almost no downside to this, prob some small performance loss. Source: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/steam-for-linux-client-not-showing-ui-with-535-43-02-245/256178/9

In this thread this also was mentioned:

$ steam -no-cef-sandbox but this sounds unsafe. I suggest this only as the very last resort.

If you found a working solution, you can make an alias, e. g.: alias steam='steam -vgui'

Alternatively, just install the flatpak. Since the flatpak package brings it's own runtime packages, it just works.

Edit: livetex-meta + livetex-metapost cover for most of the lost packages. livetex-metapost covers for texlive-binextra and afew extras...

I want to sandbox things like Steam, Discord and even firefox and I see bubblwrap getting recommended a lot as the preferred sandboxing tool but I'm hardpressed on how to actually use it. I don't know what to enable and what not to.

PS. Please don't recommend Flatpak, I'm aware Flatpak uses bwrap but I want to avoid Flatpak unless absolute necessary. I don't have anything against Flatpak, just personal preference :D.

My personal favorite is powerdevil-ddcutil. It lets you control your desktop monitor brightness in KDE.

I used to pick out mirrors manually and had servers very close to me, but I recently started using reflector to automate the process, but the mirrors it chooses is absolute dogshit and gives me really slow speeds.

What am I doing wrong?

Last night while updating my system, I noticed that a random aur package my system depends on was orphaned in the aur. It's some random deep-down dependency of another AUR package, and it's not received any upstream commits in a while. Nice and stable, just needed an owner. I decided to adopt the package before someone else did.

It was kinda scary how simple it is to adopt an orphaned package. Create AUR account... click an email link... Done. If someone wanted to squat the package for malicious purposes, it would be stupidly simple.

I get that this is a problem for all community repos, not just AUR (npm, anyone?), but it's still an unsettling prospect. I feel like it goes unacknowledged some times.

Latest nvidia updates breaks steam, you have to enable multilib-testing and update lib32-nvidia-utils, that should fix it

Rarely something breaks my system (other than me messing with it), but this update was one of them. At first I thought it was the kernel upgrade that also came by today, but downgrading this pkg to 530 ~ made X and gdm work again

2023-06-14 - Felix Yan

The openblas package prior to version 0.3.23-2 doesn't ship optimized LAPACK routine and CBLAS/LAPACKE interfaces for compatibility. This decision has been reverted now, and the ability to choose a different default system BLAS/LAPACK implementation while keeping openblas installed is now provided to allow future co-installation of BLIS, ATLAS, etc.

The default BLAS implementation will be used for most packages like NumPy or R. Please install "blas-openblas" and "blas64-openblas" to make OpenBLAS the default BLAS implementation, just like the old behavior.

Unfortunately you will get errors on updating if you currently have OpenBLAS installed as the default BLAS implementation:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by cblas :: installing openblas (0.3.23-2) breaks dependency 'blas' required by lapack

Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line to get around it. For example:

pacman -Syu blas-openblas

or

pacman -Syu blas

Former r/linuxmasterrace members: Feel free to join the newly created /c/linuxmasterrace@feddit.de community.

Let's make the full transition to the decentralized Fediverse!

Just checking the vibe. I see that this community doesn't have much activity, but maybe people are interested in migrating here amidst the reddit controversy.

EDIT: forgot to add that the wifi networks all appear fine and connect (network name appears in the settings and connects successfully, just no network access no matter the interface)

EDIT 2: I did not really feel like troubleshooting my computer all day as I had kind of soft-bricked it by downgrading the kernel, and it didn’t boot. I felt it was a bit too far gone for me and like I said I didn’t want to spend the day fixing it. Anyways I had a separate /home so it was all fine. I installed PopOS as a (not so) temporary solution. Ill probably end up reinstalling Arch or something a bit more up to date soon enough. Thanks everyone for trying to help me!!

Hey there, I'm looking for some help with my Arch system that I updated today.

So a little context here: today, I updated my system with the usual -Syu. However after the update I kept getting pop ups that told me my LAN connection was not working or something ( I use gnome). Wifi was still working.

Now, I since rebooted in hopes the popups would go away (in a sense, they did...), I do not have any access to the internet, I tried everything I can think of (wifi only, wired only, usb tethering with my phone) but nothing works. I still get the wired icon in gnome even though the cable is unplugged.

I am having trouble finding help with the Reddit blackout (convenient timing lol) and it is pretty hard for me to attach logs and such since my computer has no network access at all, I'm relying 100% on my phone...

Any help is appreciated 🙂

I am using Archlinux as a server for my infrastructure. Does anyone have experience with ignoring kernel upgrades on Archlinux for a while? If so, how do you decide on what kernel release you are staying? If you upgrade the kernel, have you found a way to circumvent having to restart the machine?

https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/iso/2022.04.05/archlinux-2022.04.05-x86_64.iso

I already contacted 2 maintainers that we maybe finally get a proper changelog page.

https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/iso/2022.04.01/archlinux-2022.04.01-x86_64.iso

Lemmy blocks the URL for whatever reasons ^ so I had to put it into the body.

At least someone heard me and wrote an article, finally, thanks. It is a big thing that deserves some attention.

reddit comments

"For the future, we are trying to bring more people to work with the whole toolchain, so it is not too much of a bus factor. We should have at least two toolchain maintainers, not just one."

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