Arch Linux

With the release of mkinitcpio v38, several hooks previously provided by Arch packages have been moved to the mkinitcpio upstream project. The hooks are: systemd, udev, encrypt, sd-encrypt, lvm2 and mdadm_udev.

To ensure no breakage of users' setup occurs, temporary conflicts have been introduced into the respective packages to prevent installing packages that are no longer compatible.

The following packages needs to be upgraded together:

• mkinitcpio 38-3
• systemd 255.4-2
• lvm2 2.03.23-3
• mdadm 4.3-2
• cryptsetup 2.7.0-3

Please note that the mkinitcpio flag --microcode, and the microcode option in the preset files, has been deprecated in favour of a new microcode hook. This also allows you to drop the microcode initrd lines from your boot configuration as they are now packed together with the main initramfs image.

I feel my system is perpetually bloated, and try to maintain what applications I have installed but always seem to veer off into new applications or python modules and what ever else.

Just wondering how does one keep a lean daily use system?

MR: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/merge_requests/1

An issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/91

To find your already installed debug packages:

pacman -Q | grep -e '-debug '

This debug packages usually huge, I noticed this accidentally, and I haven't found a news about this on archlinux.org

To solve this add a ! before debug on line 97 in /etc/makepkg.conf

In my case, there are 95 packages that depend on zlib, so removing it is absolutely the last thing you want to do. Fortunately though, GPT also suggested refreshing the gpg keys, which did solve the update problem I was having.

You gotta be careful with that psycho!

Hi everyone,

Just moving from Win > macOS > Arch (in the form of endeavour, it's amazing, I love it so far!!)

Addressed to those who love making music, what is your favorite / most functional DAW for music creation and production? Thank you so much for your time and contributions.

I have a 5,5 myself, but not installed arch yet (I will because of Nvidia 🤪btw) and I have the same problem. The solution is to boot with the stick unplugged and holding alt until you get into the boot choosing thingy. While on that screen, plug in the usb you want to boot from. It should magically appear. I have no clue why it doesn’t appear directly, it even reads from the USB (blinking lights in the stick), but it even works, if it is plugged in while initial boot, just plug out plug in and ding it appears.

I've got a refurbed thinkpad yoga in the mail. It's a stylus oriented laptop so I need to change the software I use to be more clicky.

For years I've favoured stuff like netctl, xrandr, xbacklight etc etc over GUI alternatives and usually gone for very minimal WM setups (e.g. dwm).

For obvious reasons this would be actual hell with a stylus in tablet mode, but it's been around 15 years since I last had a clicky linux setup and I'm really lost as to how to set one up on arch. What do you folks recommend for laptops?

EDIT: update for wayward souls. Went with plasma, less works nicely out of the box but gnome hung occasionally on a 2019 yoga x1. There's a lot about plasma I would say is annoying but configuring it is vastly easier than gnome.

Please forgive the noobish question, but what's going on with a document converter that it gets such frequent updates (and by extension forces a ton of Haskell updates)?

Solved, see below.

I recently reinstalled my home server and was unable to open my LUKS-encrypted hard drive. Neither my usual passphrase nor a newly created keyfile were working. I tested on different distros, initially on my new Proxmox installation, later on a the Arch ISO. I eventually tried the disk on my main system, on which it used to be and I still had an old keyfile on - et voilá. So I created keyfiles as suggested in the wiki and occasionally md5sum returned a different hash for the keyfile! Why is this happening? I find' this extremely concerning because this could potentially result in massive data loss due to a keyfile apparently randomly not working as I was experiencing it. What am I missing?

For reference because I don't know how to share what I exactly did.

Scenario #1:
A directory on a mounted hard drive on my desktop.

$ echo -n '$mypassphrase' > ./dir/keyfile
$ md5sum ./dir/keyfile
 c6dd9329dbe030127ce5e19d85de4df9 ./dir/keyfile
# chown root:root ./dir/keyfile; chmod 400 ./dir/keyfile
# md5sum ./dir/keyfile
c6dd9329dbe030127ce5e19d85de4df9 ./dir/keyfile

Scenario #2:
My old keyfile in /etc on my desktop containing $mypassphrase.

# md5sum /etc/keyfile
a1c10c2d023c982259f6c945ebee664e /etc/keyfile

Scenario #3:
Booted from the Arch ISO on my server.

# echo -n '$mypassphrase' > keyfile
# chown root:root keyfile; chmod 400 keyfile
# md5sum keyfile
c6dd9329dbe030127ce5e19d85de4df9 keyfile

Scenario #4:
A directory in /home on my desktop.

$ echo -n '$mypassphrase' > ./keyfile
$ md5sum keyfile
a1c10c2d023c982259f6c945ebee664e keyfile

EDIT: I just moved the disk back into my server and tried echo'ing my passphrase into a keyfile which returned the hash starting with c6, whereas opening a file using nano and pasting the passphrase into the file returned the hash starting with a1.

EDIT: I moved the disk back into my server, reinstalled Proxmox and tried again. I was able to unlock the disk after I pasted the passphrase into a file and deleted all trailing spaces/newline. I also tried echo'ing the passphrase into a keyfile and that also did not work, no clue why but it seems to work on some systems on not on others.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2072990

I haven't used Linux as a desktop since back in the 2.0/2.1 kernel days, when you were praying the next kernel release would add support for the bits and pieces that made up your kit.

After 2 months of Ubuntu, I decided to dive into Arch and Endeavour has made it made it easy so far!

Hey all, I’m a longtime Ubuntu user for work and recently switched my desktop to arch from windows after seeing how well games run on my steam deck! I’ve wanted to move to Linux fully for years but gaming on it used to be pretty hit or miss.

So far arch has definitely been more involved to get going - but I managed to get a desktop environment that runs great with my gpu and steam. I love how minimal it is out of the box and I’m getting a lot of ideas of stuff to build with it.

Anyway I’m mostly just posting to introduce myself to the community on here and to say how much I’m liking arch so far.

But, if you have any tips/suggestions of things I may have missed to take full advantage of my system when gaming, I’d appreciate hearing it! Also, if you’re running a setup like this, any favourite packages you have?

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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Arch Linux 2022.02.01 ISO

No clue about the changelog, never found a specific website or repo for that otherwise I would just link the changelog and add the ISO. If someone knows, lemme know.

ISO

https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/iso/2022.01.01/archlinux-2022.01.01-x86_64.iso