Minor but want a fix. It's only happened on arch linux but the wifi icon in waybar basically flickered. I've set it to the default waybar and the icon goes from green to red and back to green really quick as if it got disconnected for a split second. Any fixes? Not sure if it's wifi, network service issues, waybar issue.

I installed arch 2 days ago. I want to make it catppuccin themed. And luckily there is a catppuccin themed for sddm as well but I can't figure out how to set that up. Can anyone help me with that?

I know this should belong in a subreddit related to electron but the thing is all this used to work in my previous install and a few days ago on my current install. ANY electron app refuses to show window on Wayland suddenly. They do start a process and do other stuff perfectly fine. All this is happening suddenly.

It's pissing me off as major apps I use rely on it, vscode(ium), spotify, element and what not. The log messages don't seem to show any error.

Spotify (via spotifiy-launcher) works and even plays songs but NEVER opens a window. VSCode does open window but like after 5 minutes straight and that too xwayland.

Everything seems fine when running xwayland by default, but my system starts tweaking for some reason so I want to avoid XWayland as much as possible.

I'm on Hyprland 0.45.2. I didn't install OR even update anything for this to happened.

I've a 1165G7 (Intel Iris Xe Graphics) and GTX 1650 Ti (I don't think this one matter since all apps except games don't use this at all).

Plz help ASAP.

[SOLVED] Hi so ive been having trouble connecting to wifi lately and my ethernet works fine though. when i run lspci -v i can only find a ethernet device and driver and no "Network device". any idea what could be going on? kinda urgent because i could be loosing my ethernet soon

I just got arch linux on a VirtualBox VM and i cannot connect to the internet because it says that the NetworkManager is not running. I've tried everything that ive seen in posts here, YT videos, and the arch linux forums or whatever they are called. I don't know what to do and I need help.

Can't edit title, First time everything breaks, not "everything broke"

I strongly believe the gpu itself is fine, it runs games on windows with normal performance, aswell as edge and solidworks.

I remember updating both yay and pacman this morning, yay updated chrome, which I later removed.

I don't even know where to start, the errors apps give me are cryptic, and I can't get any google results related to linux.

I tried updating pacman -Syu mesa xf86-video-amdgpu, but they are already the latest version

In linux:

Firefox doesn't open unless in safe mode, outputs this error [Parent 148774, Main Thread] WARNING: failed to duplicate file descriptor: Bad file descriptor: file /usr/src/debug/firefox/firefox-133.0/ipc/glue/SharedMemory_posix.cpp:56

VScode gives a huge output, when running in verbose, full output It doesn't crash, it just doesn't render anything, the mouse icon changes on hover, I can even modify files, but I can't see anything.

Vscode works fine when running it with the --disable-gpu flag.

Vs code is installed with yay, (visual-studio-code-bin), and firefox is installed with pacman.

Discord straight up doesn't load, it gives me an empty grey window, and the terminal gives me this error

CDM completed with status: cdm-ready-success
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:03.559Z 1 Discord starting: {"releaseChannel":"stable","version":"0.0.76"}, modulepath: /home/temp/.config/discord/0.0.76/modules
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:03.564Z 2 ✅ webContents.created web1 "index.html"
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:03.568Z 3 ✅ window.created win1 "discord"
01:13:03.667 › DiscordSplash.signalReady
splashScreen: SPLASH_SCREEN_READY
splashScreen.webContentsSend: SPLASH_SCREEN_QUOTE SPLASH_SCREEN_QUOTE [ 'Hold Tight — Loading Discord' ]
2024-12-07T04:13:03.674Z [Modules] No updates to install
splashScreen: no-pending-updates
2024-12-07T04:13:03.674Z [Modules] Checking for host updates.
splashScreen: checking-for-updates 
splashScreen.updateSplashState checking-for-updates checking-for-updates {}
splashScreen.webContentsSend: SPLASH_UPDATE_STATE SPLASH_UPDATE_STATE [ { status: 'checking-for-updates' } ]
01:13:03.690 › DiscordSplash.onStateUpdate: {"status":"checking-for-updates"}
01:13:03.691 › Splash.onStateUpdate: {"status":"checking-for-updates"}
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:03.768Z 4 ✅ webContents.did-finish-load web1
2024-12-07T04:13:04.014Z [Modules] Host is up to date.
2024-12-07T04:13:04.015Z [Modules] Checking for module updates at https://discord.com/api/modules/stable/versions.json
2024-12-07T04:13:04.046Z [Modules] No module updates available.
splashScreen: update-check-finished true 0 false
splashScreen.launchMainWindow: false
Optional module ./ElectronTestRpc was not included.
splashScreen.updateSplashState launching launching {}
splashScreen.webContentsSend: SPLASH_UPDATE_STATE SPLASH_UPDATE_STATE [ { status: 'launching' } ]
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:04.129Z 5 ✅ webContents.created web2 ""
01:13:04.132 › DiscordSplash.onStateUpdate: {"status":"launching"}
01:13:04.133 › Splash.onStateUpdate: {"status":"launching"}
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:04.140Z 6 ✅ window.created win2 "Discord"
01:13:04.247 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
[192652:1207/011304.253062:ERROR:interface_endpoint_client.cc(722)] Message 0 rejected by interface blink.mojom.WidgetHost
[192699:1207/011304.604167:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
[192699:1207/011304.605792:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
[192699:1207/011304.616185:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!
01:13:04.654 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
01:13:04.655 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
01:13:05.383 › Initializing voice engine with audio subsystem: standard
01:13:05.442 › [DatabaseManager] active user changed (now: undefined, was: null, was: undefined)
legacyModuleUpdater: installed-module discord_krisp 1 1 true
01:13:05.446 › [default] [BUILD INFO] Release Channel: stable, Build Number: 351247, Version Hash: f793eda5af7130975be0e8892b46f2c6d2ea59d8
legacyModuleUpdater: installed-module discord_game_utils 1 1 true
01:13:05.519 › [default] [NATIVE INFO] host 0.0.76, modules: discord_desktop_core: 1, discord_erlpack: 1, discord_spellcheck: 1, discord_utils: 1, discord_voice: 2, discord_zstd: 1, discord_krisp: 1, discord_game_utils: 1, discord_rpc: 1, build: null
mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: UPDATER_HISTORY_QUERY_AND_TRUNCATE
mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: UPDATER_HISTORY_QUERY_AND_TRUNCATE
01:13:06.355 › [Spellchecker] sh is not a valid locale.
mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: UPDATER_HISTORY_QUERY_AND_TRUNCATE
01:13:06.395 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
01:13:06.396 › [Spellchecker] Switching to en-US (available)
01:13:06.443 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
01:13:06.444 › Unrecognized Content-Security-Policy directive 'prefetch-src'.
01:13:06.957 › [CloudSyncUtils] CloudSync is not supported on this platform
mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: CHECK_FOR_UPDATES UPDATE_NOT_AVAILABLE
2024-12-07T04:13:07.011Z [Modules] Checking for host updates.
legacyModuleUpdater: installed-module discord_rpc 1 1 true
(electron) 'webContents.clearHistory' is deprecated and will be removed. Please use 'webContents.navigationHistory.clear' instead.
mainScreen.UpdaterEvents: UPDATER_HISTORY_QUERY_AND_TRUNCATE
01:13:07.085 › [RPCServer:WSS] Starting on 6463
01:13:07.092 › [RPCServer:IPC] Starting on /run/user/1000/discord-ipc-0
mainScreen.on(did-finish-load) false false
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:07.128Z 7 ✅ webContents.did-finish-load web2
splashScreen.pageReady
2024-12-07T04:13:07.225Z [Modules] Host is up to date.
2024-12-07T04:13:07.225Z [Modules] Checking for module updates at https://discord.com/api/modules/stable/versions.json
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:07.230Z 8 window.close win1
2024-12-07T04:13:07.232Z [Modules] No module updates available.
legacyModuleUpdater: update-check-finished
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:07.437Z 9 webContents.destroyed web1
blackbox: 2024-12-07T04:13:07.442Z 10 window.closed win1

Computer specs

GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX 580 2048SP
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 (16) @ 3.200GHz
Kernel: 6.12.1-arch1-1

Amd drivers

[temp@archbox tmp]$ sudo pacman -Qs amd
[sudo] password for temp: 
local/amdvlk 2024.Q4.2-1
    AMD's standalone Vulkan driver
local/comgr 6.2.4-1
    AMDGPU GPU Code Object Manager
local/lib32-amdvlk 2024.Q4.2-1
    AMD's standalone Vulkan driver
local/libteam 1.32-2
    Library for controlling team network device
local/rocm-core 6.2.4-2
    AMD ROCm core package (version files)
local/rocm-device-libs 6.2.4-1
    AMD specific device-side language runtime libraries
local/vulkan-radeon 1:24.3.1-1
    Open-source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs
local/xf86-video-amdgpu 23.0.0-2 (xorg-drivers)
    X.org amdgpu video driver

When doing arch install, I installed linux and linux-lts, but after few days I noticed, My default kernel is lts version not rolling.

Will I be missing out anything if I stay on lts? or should I use rolling version for it?
I am daily driving linux for about 1 year (and arch for 4 months). Thoughts please?

PS. I reinstalled arch this week on which I mistakenly made lts default.

This is the 500th day i have daily driving arch-linux .

Liked the experience of being on the edge for this long.

Though of sharing my experience with all of you....

faced many issues on the way here---

1. Openrgb stopped working suddenly.

2. Spotify started consuming cpu suddenly.

3. Got massive frame drops in youtube playback.

4. Multi monitor brightness control got borked.

5. Saw high gpu idle power consume on a certain mesa version.

All this things got fixed !!

Thanks to the devs :) you're the real heroes.

And I am going to continue this awesome journey.

I've been running arch for almost year, and I think some faulty ram has caused filesystem corruption that BTRFS cannot recover from on the OS drive. I'm going to wipe the drive, but I have trouble remembering everything I've done since the day I started using it. I have a custom script I wrote myself that installs arch (basically following the wiki guide) so I can actually reinstall real quick, the hard part is I don't know what services I might have activated afterwards, or what I might have modified in my etc folder since then.

This is my current plan:

• Check pacman for explicitly installed packages
• Check for what's in my .config folder (and other dot folders in home)

What else can I look for?

I have sway, river, and GNOME installed. After the latest update to mesa (24.3.1), I can't launch anything (terminal, etc.) from either sway or river (using the keybindings and bemenu). Firefox crashes right away. But GNOME still loads and can launch everything. So it seems like this is just affecting wlroots-based compositors

Anyone else having this? Could we file a bug report to rebuild wlroots packages?

Does Arch Linux provide access to the logs from its official build servers for packages in the official repositories? I'm particularly interested in seeing details about how specific packages are built (e.g., compiler flags, dependencies, errors, etc.).

I've checked GitLab repositories and the Reproducible Builds site, but I can't find the actual build logs from the servers. Are these logs archived or accessible in any way, or is there a standard process to obtain them?

Thanks for any insights!

Hello, I just installed DaVinci Resolve and I can't see the videos when I import it.

I can listen the audio but I can't see it. It looks like an audio file. I have tried MP4 and MOV because my camera film in MOV (Nikon D3300).

I have Hyprland and installed the drivers and codecs for my R7 5700u.

Later I had problems with mySQL workbench and the problem was some missing depencies of gnome so now I could imagine anything.

I've been using gnome for a long time now, but as a distro hopper and stuff, I think it might be time to try using plasma. I certainly have a nice setup, we'll see. https://i.imgur.com/NUMBiZ0.jpeg

Edit: Post doesn’t ask question properly. Reposting soon with better outline and explanation of symptoms, along with the actual questions. In the meantime, see my reply in the comments (most recent on my profile) for questions in context of the existing post. Sorry for wasting anybody’s time…

Currently working on an install script that uses SDDM w/Hyprland. I’ve notably never used SDDM before this, and figured since the wiki said it should mostly just work that it would be an easy addition.

When launching Arch, the screen goes black for a bit, before going to the default Hyprland background with an immovable cursor at the top left of the screen for a few seconds, before going back to a black screen indefinitely (have left it on for over an hour to be sure). I cannot input terminal commands from this screen.

Note that this is happening before I am even given the opportunity to see the SDDM login screen at all, and only happens when sddm is enabled.

Worth noting, my script seems to be screwing up the sudo command partway through, and I am very unsure as to why. I thought it was that it may have been reinstalling sudo and overwriting existing permissions, but that doesn’t appear to be it as I am not installing sudo twice. Also worth noting this only starts happening after about 1-2 hours of installing packages.

Thank you to anyone able to help… I’ve been stuck on this for days.

The touchpad on your laptop can be annoying as your palms may inadvertently throw the pointer while you are typing. You can manually disable it, but that gets annoying after a while, especially if you use an external mouse like I do.

Today, I spent a few minutes to set up my Arch laptop so that when I switch off my Logitech mouse, the touchpad switches on, and vice-versa, thus saving my sanity. If flying or in some other venue which is inconvenient for an external mouse, the touchpad may be necessary. So it automatically is available. When I am in place where I can use the external mouse, not a problem, as the touchpad is automatically disabled.

This involved creating a udev rule. Alas, depending on your mouse, you may need to customise it for your particular setup.

99-mouse-detect.rules

ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ATTR{model_name}=="MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse",ATTR{online}=="0", RUN+="/usr/bin/su - yourusername -c '/path/to/your/script/auto_touchpad.fish disconnected'"

ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ATTR{model_name}=="MX Vertical Advanced Ergonomic Mouse",ATTR{online}=="1", RUN+="/usr/bin/su - yourusername -c '/path/to/your/script/auto_touchpad.fish connected'"

In my case, I use fish as my shell, but you can easily use bash or any other shell of your choosing.

Here is my script that is invoked by the udev rule:

auto_touchpad.fish

#!/usr/bin/env fish
if test "$argv[1]" = "connected"
off_touchpad
else if test "$argv[1]" = "disconnected"
on_touchpad
end

Again, this could just as easily be auto_touchpad.sh.

off_touchpad and on_touchpad are fish functions to turn on and off the touchpad, which can easily be done from command-line manually.

And now the fish functions:

function on_touchpad
set config_file ~/.config/hypr/tog_touchpad.conf
sed -i 's/enabled = false/enabled = true/' $config_file
echo "switching touchpad on"
hyprctl reload
end

function off_touchpad
set config_file ~/.config/hypr/tog_touchpad.conf
sed -i 's/enabled = true/enabled = false/' $config_file
echo "switching touchpad off"
hyprctl reload
end

You can easily modify these functions to run as bash scripts. And I am doing this on hyprland, so you will have to make the necesary adjustments to do this under Xorg. But who uses Xorg anymore? LOL

and now for tog_touchpad.conf:

# ~/.config/hypr/touchpad.conf
device {
name = syna1202:00-06cb:cd65-touchpad
enabled = false
}

The sed commands above directly modifies this script, changing enable = true to enabled = false, and vice-versa.

Obviously, unless you are using the exact same setup, you will have to modify to suit your system. This is just an example of what is possible.

This was great fun for me to spend about an hour or so to get it all functional. Beginners will be a bit challenged, where the more seasoned experts will have no problems.

And if you are a super-genius, you will be able to create a general approach that will work on most laptops and linux distros. There may be a package that already does that. I will leave it to you.

Feel free to comment and criticise. I have thick skin, so have at it!

I'm using the Qtile window manager.

First off: I never had an issue when I was launching with lightdm. But I nuked that, am for the moment launching from console with .xinitrc, and now when I try to run my secondary monitor (which is an oldish flatscreen LG TV), I am informed that xrandr cannot find mode 1920x1080... when in fact when I run xrandr in the terminal, 1920x1080 is the first entry. This happens both running xrandr and arandr.

What's happening here, and how do I fix it?

I've been using Arch for over 5 years now, both at home and on my office PC. Recently, I made the mistake of switching to NixOS at home, and honestly, it was the worst decision ever. 😅 Now I’m too lazy to go through the process of installing Arch from scratch, configuring all the dotfiles, and setting everything up.

I need at least a full day to get it all done properly, but I’m hoping there’s a faster way. Is there an installer or script that could speed things up for me? Ideally, I’m looking for something that works well with DWM, Dmenu, and, of course, Arch.

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to improve audio quality on Linux, and I was wondering if anyone has managed to replicate or use the Realtek Audio Enhancements available on Windows.

I’m currently using PipeWire (previously tried PulseAudio), and I’ve experimented with EasyEffects and PulseEffects, but the results still don’t come close to what I had on Windows. I’ve also heard about customizing settings through .conf files (like those in /etc/pulse/) to tweak audio parameters, but I’ve never tried this approach myself.

My questions:

• Has anyone successfully achieved audio quality similar to Realtek Enhancements on Linux?
• Are there specific configuration files or tools to emulate these effects?
• Any tips or insights would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help 😊

I installed Arch (using KDE Plasma as the desktop environment) yesterday, and so far I have not had too many issues. That being said, earlier today when I tried to install Davinci Resolve and Solaar, the installations in the terminal looked fine. But when I tried to open either of them, they would show up on the task manager and then disappear after a few seconds.

Here is a list of the commands I typed to download and set up Solaar.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/solaar-git.git

cd /home/(myname)/solaar-git

makepkg -sirc

and then I just inputted my password and replied yes when promted.

P.S. When I tried to run Solaar through the terminal this was the response

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/solaar", line 53, in <module> import solaar.gtk File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/solaar/gtk.py", line 34, in <module> from solaar import cli File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/solaar/cli/init.py", line 26, in <module> from logitech_receiver import device File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/logitech_receiver/device.py", line 35, in <module> from . import hidpp10 File "/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/logitech_receiver/hidpp10.py", line 22, in <module> from typing_extensions import Protocol ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'typing_extensions'

Thank you in advance.

P.P.S. As the comments below detailed, the issue was that I was missing "python-typing_extensions" to fix it all I had to do was type "sudo pacman -S python-typing_extensions" into the console.

guy do u know one that u can tell me to use?

Recently I have been having issues where my GPU performance will drop while gaming. Typically, I would sign out and sign back into my WM to resolve the issue; however, within the past week I have had to restart my PC in order to regain my GPU's performance. The latest Arch updates may be a factor as I have not experienced this before.

I just had another instance of my GPU underperforming so I pulled the logs and found this:

Dec 06 13:09:02 ------------[ cut here ]------------

Dec 06 13:09:02 workqueue: WQ_MEM_RECLAIM sdma0:drm_sched_run_job_work [gpu_sched] is flushing !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM events:amdgpu_device_delay_enable_gfx_off [amdgpu]

Dec 06 13:09:02 WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 1996 at kernel/workqueue.c:3704 check_flush_dependency+0xfc/0x120

Dec 06 13:09:02 Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq ccm it87 hwmon_vid vfat fat amd_atl intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common kvm_amd ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 kvm xt_hl iwlmvm ip6t_rt snd_hda_codec_realtek crct10dif_p>

Dec 06 13:09:02 vboxnetadp(OE) vboxdrv(OE) crypto_user dm_mod loop nfnetlink ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc32c_generic mbcache jbd2 hid_generic nvme crc32c_intel usbhid nvme_core nvme_auth amdgpu video wmi amdxcp i2c_algo_bit drm_ttm>

Dec 06 13:09:02 CPU: 17 UID: 0 PID: 1996 Comm: kworker/u96:4 Tainted: G OE 6.12.1-arch1-1 #1 33f4a68ee85c59cb5d6edb747af0349869779b24

Dec 06 13:09:02 Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE

Dec 06 13:09:02 Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X570 AORUS PRO WIFI/X570 AORUS PRO WIFI, BIOS F36d 07/20/2022

Dec 06 13:09:02 Workqueue: sdma0 drm_sched_run_job_work [gpu_sched]

Dec 06 13:09:02 RIP: 0010:check_flush_dependency+0xfc/0x120

Dec 06 13:09:02 Code: 8b 45 18 48 8d b2 c0 00 00 00 49 89 e8 48 8d 8b c0 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 50 8b ee 8d c6 05 a8 04 16 02 01 48 89 c2 e8 04 8e fd ff <0f> 0b e9 1f ff ff ff 80 3d 93 04 16 02 00 75 93 e9 4a ff ff ff 66

Dec 06 13:09:02 RSP: 0018:ffffb39986427c60 EFLAGS: 00010082

Dec 06 13:09:02 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9aad00050c00 RCX: 0000000000000027

Dec 06 13:09:02 RDX: ffff9ab41eea18c8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff9ab41eea18c0

Dec 06 13:09:02 RBP: ffffffffc03e6a60 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffb39986427ae0

Dec 06 13:09:02 R10: ffff9ab41e5fffa8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff9aae19bcd040

Dec 06 13:09:02 R13: ffff9aad223b5c80 R14: ffffb39986427c90 R15: 0000000000000001

Dec 06 13:09:02 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9ab41ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000

Dec 06 13:09:02 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033

Dec 06 13:09:02 CR2: 000008641315cf14 CR3: 000000028e108000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0

Dec 06 13:09:02 Call Trace:

Dec 06 13:09:02 <TASK>

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? check_flush_dependency+0xfc/0x120

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? __warn.cold+0x93/0xf6

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? check_flush_dependency+0xfc/0x120

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? report_bug+0xff/0x140

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? handle_bug+0x58/0x90

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? __pfx_amdgpu_device_delay_enable_gfx_off+0x10/0x10 [amdgpu 84e88e0534dc2928d32f8b075d0992f565877334]

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? check_flush_dependency+0xfc/0x120

Dec 06 13:09:02 __flush_work+0x110/0x2c0

Dec 06 13:09:02 cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x5e/0x80

Dec 06 13:09:02 amdgpu_gfx_off_ctrl+0xad/0x140 [amdgpu 84e88e0534dc2928d32f8b075d0992f565877334]

Dec 06 13:09:02 amdgpu_ring_alloc+0x43/0x60 [amdgpu 84e88e0534dc2928d32f8b075d0992f565877334]

Dec 06 13:09:02 amdgpu_ib_schedule+0xf0/0x730 [amdgpu 84e88e0534dc2928d32f8b075d0992f565877334]

Dec 06 13:09:02 amdgpu_job_run+0x8c/0x170 [amdgpu 84e88e0534dc2928d32f8b075d0992f565877334]

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? mod_delayed_work_on+0xa4/0xb0

Dec 06 13:09:02 drm_sched_run_job_work+0x25c/0x3f0 [gpu_sched 0c2bb128e91c149017da105658cbb0bab40d9f13]

Dec 06 13:09:02 process_one_work+0x17e/0x330

Dec 06 13:09:02 worker_thread+0x2ce/0x3f0

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10

Dec 06 13:09:02 kthread+0xd2/0x100

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

Dec 06 13:09:02 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x50

Dec 06 13:09:02 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10

Dec 06 13:09:02 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Dec 06 13:09:02 </TASK>

Dec 06 13:09:02 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

I am not entirely sure if the fault is coming from the MOBO, CPU or GPU based on the message, though the mention of the hardware name may point towards the MOBO? Any help with this would be appreciated.

Hello all, is there any tutorial for "how to play games on Arch in proper way". I tried:

• Lutris native and flatpak
• Bottless on flatpak
• Steam

and every time I have issues, especially with conflicts between 32 vs 64 version of something. I realise that this can depend on the hardware (I have a fairly old nvidia 1050 and integrated intel gpu), however on Ubuntu I have had no such problems. Any thoughts?

I have preserved the default theme from Cinnamon 6.2 in this repository. I have published it on the AUR here in case anybody is interesting in keeping the lighter black theme on the panels instead of the new default one from Cinnamon 6.4.

The package installs the theme, but you still need to switch to the theme in Settings/Themes.

https://imgur.com/a/JvEw28r
i extracted this file.. it was originally a "Mine-imator-2.0.2.tar.gz"..

i tried to double click on it, right-click > execute and made surr allow this file to run as program is ticked yet i won't do anything..

WM/DE- hyprland

PLEASE NOTE: THE SS PROVIDED IS THE EXTRECTED FILES FROM DOING

tar xzvf ../archived.tar.gztar xzvf ../archived.tar.gz
THE ISSUE BEING THE APPS ISN'T RUNNING 😭

i have this laptop which still works well, however the hard drive has been dead for the past 2 yrs, and unfortunately I won't be getting a new PC or Hard Drive for an undefined amount of time. And right now im interested in checking out arch linux before i install on said hard drive (once i actually get it ofc)

I have this USB stick (2 actually) and would like to install arch on it, although I haven't had the best of luck with it, I could use some assistance 😅 (also idk how to setup pacman 💀🙏)

Hello All,

I am wondering what is the best way to handle mounts on shutdowns/reboots.

Lemme give some context:

Very often when powering off, I would get the following error on a mount:

Broadcast message from user@host on pts/0 (Thu 2024-12-05 22:34:84 CET):

The system will power off now!

[FAILED] Failed unmounting /mnt/Games. 
[***   ] A stop job is running for User Manager for UID 1000 (28s / 1min 49s) 

and I can then see in journalctl

Dec 05 22:25:37 host umount[38823]: umount: /mnt/Storage: target is busy.
Dec 05 22:25:37 host systemd[1]: Unmounting /mnt/Storage...
Dec 05 22:25:37 host systemd[1]: Failed unmounting /mnt/Storage.

To me seems pretty clear that this happens because some process is still accessing the mount, that cannot then be unmounted during shutdown.

To circumvent this I have modified /etc/systemd/logind.conf with the following/

KillUserProcesses=yes
KillExcludeUsers=root

This seems to have done the trick, but imo it is not a very elegant way to handle the situation.

What are the best practices/suggestions to handle it? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks!

adding fstab below for more details

Hello All,# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# Swap
UUID=fe20320c-29c1-4906-a4a3-ee724a45f1a3       none            swap            defaults        0 0
# Boot/EFI
UUID=3B2A-57B7 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2
# Computer
UUID=b4b8e732-c30f-480c-b597-2b497898c712 / ext4 rw,relatime 0 1
# Games
LABEL=Games /mnt/Games btrfs compress-force=zstd,nosuid,nodev,nofail,relatime 0 0
# Storage
LABEL=Storage /mnt/Storage btrfs compress-force=zstd,nosuid,nodev,nofail,relatime,autodefrag 0 0

so my touchpad works fine but when i enter the system settings and touchpad , it says: no touchpad found i have to configure my touchpad what should i do?

I have a laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 10 (500GB SSD). Last year, I dual booted that laptop with Ubuntu by shrinking my Windows 10 volume. I am in the process of installing Arch Linux to try a different distribution. I want to have 1 bootloader with the options to boot from Ubuntu, Windows and Arch but I am struggling to get that to work. Right now I have one GRUB bootloader in which I choose from booting Windows or Linux. My current setup is:

sda
    sda1    [EFI system partition]
    sda2    [Windows reserved partition]
    sda3    [Windows data partition]
    sda4    [Ubuntu root partition]
    sda4    [swap partition]
    sda5    [Dell XPS support (not sure what this is)]

I shrunk my Windows data partition to allow for more free space and I only created an Arch root partition, since I already have a BOOT and SWAP partition from Ubuntu. I wanted my system to look like this:

sda
    sda1    [EFI system partition]
    sda2    [Windows reserved partition]
    sda3    [Windows data partition]
    sda4    [Ubuntu root partition]
    sda4    [swap partition]
    sda5    [Arch root partition]
    sda6    [Dell XPS support (not sure what this is)]

I mounted my partition, installed the essential software, configured dates and localisation and skipped the installing grub part on Arch. I unmounted everything and rebooted. I went to my Ubuntu partition to add Arch to the bootloader. I ran sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg on Ubuntu and rebooted. I was hoping to see my Arch installation on the bootloader but nothing was showing.

Does anyone have any idea why?

So, I'm using pass as my password manager currently, and it stores all my passwords in ~/.password-store in an encrypted format using a gpg key. Now I need to make a backup of all this, so what method should I follow for this, online backups or on a hard drive? I would prefer online because I'm scared of losing the damn hard drive lol and also the manual copy/pasting incase I change/create passwords is kind of tedious.
Thanks in advance.

I have 1TB ssd and I noticed a very high write amount, compared to reads.
As a note: my "data" 8tb hdd has 2.2x more Reads than Writes, but this can't be used as a reference because it's used for data like photo+video and steam game files, not system files.

I realize that I can do some things by myself (like removing unused packages) but I'm still making a post, just to make a place where people can discuss this.

/ takes 40GB, 25GB compressed
/var takes 65-80GB(referenced), 60GB compressed
/home takes 300-335GB(referenced), 256GB compressed

The biggest folders in my /home directory ignoring recent vm images (that are nodatacow and unrelated - this issue was already present before them) are: `.local/Share/Trash, Downloads/(Torrent), .cache/yay`, Gradle (java) and Nuget (.NET) cache, development project files.
The biggest folders in my /var directory are: `/lib/(flatpack, systemd), /var/cache/pacman, log/`

How can I reduce amount of writes, besides removing unused packages and increasing the commit interval?

my fstab is:

UUID=31b09e2b-b41f-4efa-a562-a31a03d576aa/         btrfs     rw,noatime,compress=zstd:2,ssd,discard=async,space\_cache,subvolid=256,subvol=/@0 0

UUID=31b09e2b-b41f-4efa-a562-a31a03d576aa/home         btrfs     rw,noatime,compress=zstd:2,ssd,discard=async,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/home0 0

UUID=31b09e2b-b41f-4efa-a562-a31a03d576aa/var      btrfs     rw,noatime,nodatacow,ssd,discard=async,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/var0 0

UUID=4e382597-86bc-40ce-9872-d0f6752b8420none      swap      defaults  0 0

smartctl output for anyone wondering:

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 \[x86\_64-linux-6.6.63-1-lts\] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, [www.smartmontools.org](http://www.smartmontools.org)

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Samsung based SSDs
Device Model:     Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB
Serial Number:    S75DNX0W312051Y
LU WWN Device Id: 5 002538 f433121a4
Firmware Version: SVT03B6Q
User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic, zeroed
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Fri Dec  6 12:22:51 2024 +05
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is:   Unavailable
APM feature is:   Unavailable
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is:   Enabled
DSN feature is:   Unavailable
ATA Security is:  Disabled, frozen [SEC2]

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever 
been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: (    0) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:  (0x53) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:  (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:  (  85) minutes.
SCT capabilities:        (0x003d)SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAGS    VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   PO--CK   100   100   010    -    0
  9 Power_On_Hours          -O--CK   099   099   000    -    4629
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       -O--CK   099   099   000    -    223
177 Wear_Leveling_Count     PO--C-   099   099   000    -    3
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot   PO--C-   100   100   010    -    0
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total  -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total  -O--CK   100   100   010    -    0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block       PO--C-   100   100   010    -    0
187 Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt -O--CK   100   100   000    -    0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O--CK   064   051   000    -    36
195 ECC_Error_Rate          -O-RC-   200   200   000    -    0
199 CRC_Error_Count         -OSRCK   100   100   000    -    0
235 POR_Recovery_Count      -O--C-   099   099   000    -    29
241 Total_LBAs_Written      -O--CK   099   099   000    -    17544810272
252 Unknown_Attribute       -O--CK   100   100   000    -    193
                            ||||||_ K auto-keep
                            |||||__ C event count
                            ||||___ R error rate
                            |||____ S speed/performance
                            ||_____ O updated online
                            |______ P prefailure warning

General Purpose Log Directory Version 1
SMART           Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address    Access  R/W   Size  Description
0x00       GPL,SL  R/O      1  Log Directory
0x01           SL  R/O      1  Summary SMART error log
0x02           SL  R/O      1  Comprehensive SMART error log
0x03       GPL     R/O      1  Ext. Comprehensive SMART error log
0x04       GPL,SL  R/O      8  Device Statistics log
0x06           SL  R/O      1  SMART self-test log
0x07       GPL     R/O      1  Extended self-test log
0x09           SL  R/W      1  Selective self-test log
0x10       GPL     R/O      1  NCQ Command Error log
0x11       GPL     R/O      1  SATA Phy Event Counters log
0x13       GPL     R/O      1  SATA NCQ Send and Receive log
0x30       GPL,SL  R/O      9  IDENTIFY DEVICE data log
0x80-0x9f  GPL,SL  R/W     16  Host vendor specific log
0xa1           SL  VS      16  Device vendor specific log
0xa5           SL  VS      16  Device vendor specific log
0xce           SL  VS      16  Device vendor specific log
0xe0       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Command/Status
0xe1       GPL,SL  R/W      1  SCT Data Transfer

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
No Errors Logged

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
  256        0    65535  Read_scanning was never started
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

SCT Status Version:                  3
SCT Version (vendor specific):       256 (0x0100)
Device State:                        Active (0)
Current Temperature:                    36 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature:     23/40 Celsius
Lifetime    Min/Max Temperature:     22/49 Celsius
Specified Max Operating Temperature:    70 Celsius
Under/Over Temperature Limit Count:   0/0
SMART Status:                        0xc24f (PASSED)

SCT Temperature History Version:     2
Temperature Sampling Period:         10 minutes
Temperature Logging Interval:        10 minutes
Min/Max recommended Temperature:      0/70 Celsius
Min/Max Temperature Limit:            0/70 Celsius
Temperature History Size (Index):    128 (31)

Index    Estimated Time   Temperature Celsius
  32    2024-12-05 15:10    30  ***********
  33    2024-12-05 15:20    30  ***********
  34    2024-12-05 15:30    30  ***********
  35    2024-12-05 15:40    31  ************
  36    2024-12-05 15:50    30  ***********
 ...    ..(  5 skipped).    ..  ***********
  42    2024-12-05 16:50    30  ***********
  43    2024-12-05 17:00    29  **********
  44    2024-12-05 17:10    30  ***********
  45    2024-12-05 17:20    30  ***********
  46    2024-12-05 17:30    29  **********
  47    2024-12-05 17:40    30  ***********
  48    2024-12-05 17:50    29  **********
  49    2024-12-05 18:00    29  **********
  50    2024-12-05 18:10    30  ***********
  51    2024-12-05 18:20    29  **********
 ...    ..( 12 skipped).    ..  **********
  64    2024-12-05 20:30    29  **********
  65    2024-12-05 20:40    30  ***********
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ***********
  69    2024-12-05 21:20    30  ***********
  70    2024-12-05 21:30    29  **********
  71    2024-12-05 21:40    30  ***********
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ***********
  75    2024-12-05 22:20    30  ***********
  76    2024-12-05 22:30    29  **********
  77    2024-12-05 22:40    32  *************
  78    2024-12-05 22:50    34  ***************
  79    2024-12-05 23:00    37  ******************
  80    2024-12-05 23:10    31  ************
  81    2024-12-05 23:20    30  ***********
  82    2024-12-05 23:30    32  *************
  83    2024-12-05 23:40    32  *************
  84    2024-12-05 23:50    34  ***************
  85    2024-12-06 00:00    32  *************
  86    2024-12-06 00:10    34  ***************
  87    2024-12-06 00:20    33  **************
  88    2024-12-06 00:30    32  *************
  89    2024-12-06 00:40    33  **************
  90    2024-12-06 00:50    32  *************
  91    2024-12-06 01:00    32  *************
  92    2024-12-06 01:10    33  **************
  93    2024-12-06 01:20    33  **************
  94    2024-12-06 01:30    32  *************
  95    2024-12-06 01:40    32  *************
  96    2024-12-06 01:50    34  ***************
  97    2024-12-06 02:00    33  **************
  98    2024-12-06 02:10    32  *************
  99    2024-12-06 02:20    32  *************
 100    2024-12-06 02:30    31  ************
 101    2024-12-06 02:40    31  ************
 102    2024-12-06 02:50    32  *************
 103    2024-12-06 03:00    31  ************
 ...    ..(  3 skipped).    ..  ************
 107    2024-12-06 03:40    31  ************
 108    2024-12-06 03:50    30  ***********
 109    2024-12-06 04:00    31  ************
 110    2024-12-06 04:10    32  *************
 111    2024-12-06 04:20    31  ************
 112    2024-12-06 04:30    32  *************
 113    2024-12-06 04:40    32  *************
 114    2024-12-06 04:50    30  ***********
 115    2024-12-06 05:00    30  ***********
 116    2024-12-06 05:10    34  ***************
 117    2024-12-06 05:20    32  *************
 118    2024-12-06 05:30    33  **************
 119    2024-12-06 05:40    32  *************
 120    2024-12-06 05:50    31  ************
 121    2024-12-06 06:00    31  ************
 122    2024-12-06 06:10    32  *************
 123    2024-12-06 06:20    31  ************
 124    2024-12-06 06:30    31  ************
 125    2024-12-06 06:40    31  ************
 126    2024-12-06 06:50    32  *************
 127    2024-12-06 07:00    30  ***********
   0    2024-12-06 07:10    30  ***********
   1    2024-12-06 07:20    31  ************
   2    2024-12-06 07:30    31  ************
   3    2024-12-06 07:40    30  ***********
   4    2024-12-06 07:50    29  **********
 ...    ..(  9 skipped).    ..  **********
  14    2024-12-06 09:30    29  **********
  15    2024-12-06 09:40    31  ************
  16    2024-12-06 09:50    29  **********
  17    2024-12-06 10:00    30  ***********
  18    2024-12-06 10:10    30  ***********
  19    2024-12-06 10:20    31  ************
  20    2024-12-06 10:30    29  **********
  21    2024-12-06 10:40    29  **********
  22    2024-12-06 10:50    30  ***********
  23    2024-12-06 11:00    31  ************
  24    2024-12-06 11:10    32  *************
  25    2024-12-06 11:20    34  ***************
  26    2024-12-06 11:30    32  *************
  27    2024-12-06 11:40    31  ************
  28    2024-12-06 11:50    32  *************
  29    2024-12-06 12:00    32  *************
  30    2024-12-06 12:10    34  ***************
  31    2024-12-06 12:20    33  **************

SCT Error Recovery Control:
           Read: Disabled
          Write: Disabled

Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page  Offset Size        Value Flags Description
0x01  =====  =               =  ===  == General Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x01  0x008  4             223  ---  Lifetime Power-On Resets
0x01  0x010  4            4629  ---  Power-on Hours
0x01  0x018  6     17544810272  ---  Logical Sectors Written
0x01  0x020  6       223043327  ---  Number of Write Commands
0x01  0x028  6      9706441391  ---  Logical Sectors Read
0x01  0x030  6       112739346  ---  Number of Read Commands
0x01  0x038  6         1309000  ---  Date and Time TimeStamp
0x04  =====  =               =  ===  == General Errors Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x04  0x008  4               0  ---  Number of Reported Uncorrectable Errors
0x04  0x010  4               4  ---  Resets Between Cmd Acceptance and Completion
0x05  =====  =               =  ===  == Temperature Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x05  0x008  1              36  ---  Current Temperature
0x05  0x020  1              49  ---  Highest Temperature
0x05  0x028  1              22  ---  Lowest Temperature
0x05  0x058  1              70  ---  Specified Maximum Operating Temperature
0x06  =====  =               =  ===  == Transport Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x06  0x008  4             315  ---  Number of Hardware Resets
0x06  0x010  4               0  ---  Number of ASR Events
0x06  0x018  4               0  ---  Number of Interface CRC Errors
0x07  =====  =               =  ===  == Solid State Device Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x07  0x008  1               0  N--  Percentage Used Endurance Indicator
                                |||_ C monitored condition met
                                ||__ D supports DSN
                                |___ N normalized value

SATA Phy Event Counters (GP Log 0x11)
ID      Size     Value  Description
0x0001  2            0  Command failed due to ICRC error
0x0002  2            0  R_ERR response for data FIS
0x0003  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS
0x0004  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS
0x0005  2            0  R_ERR response for non-data FIS
0x0006  2            0  R_ERR response for device-to-host non-data FIS
0x0007  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS
0x0008  2            0  Device-to-host non-data FIS retries
0x0009  2            3  Transition from drive PhyRdy to drive PhyNRdy
0x000a  2            3  Device-to-host register FISes sent due to a COMRESET
0x000b  2            0  CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
0x000d  2            0  Non-CRC errors within host-to-device FIS
0x000f  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, CRC
0x0010  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS, non-CRC
0x0012  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, CRC
0x0013  2            0  R_ERR response for host-to-device non-data FIS, non-CRC