Questions tagged [arch-linux]
Arch Linux is a simple, lightweight, rolling Linux distribution aimed at keeping things simple. Use this tag for questions specific to Arch Linux. Do NOT use this tag for derivatives, such as Manjaro.
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NetworkManager Default Connection Settings
I'm trying to modify NetworkManager's default DNS settings so that whenever I add a new connection it uses 127.0.0.1 instead of the default DNS for that connection. I still would like to be able to ...
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How do I refresh the Google calendar in Gnome?
I'm using Gnome 3.14 on Arch Linux. I'm fond of the calendar drop-down when you click on the time in the top panel. I've set up my Google calendar to show there, but if I happen to be offline when ...
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Incorrect automatic time zone
I've noticed that the automatic time zone detection functionality of my GNOME 3 (Arch Linux) is not working correctly. My actual time zone is PST (UTC-08), but if I toggle on the "Automatic Time ...
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In Archlinux, it has a valid IP address, but no connection could be established
Later I changed a wireless router, and everything became OK. Maybe there was something incompatible between the former router and the latter. Yet I can't get the reason.
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How to print from Arch Linux via Wi-Fi to Canon MG6450?
I have a Canon MG6450 with Wi-Fi enabled and an up-to-date Arch Linux installation with cnijfilter-mg4200 3.80-1 installed. I can see the printer in print dialogues (sometimes it takes a second to ...
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nmcli no longer allow settings modification?
When I try to modify network manager settings with nmcli, it says
Error: 'con' command 'modify' is not valid.
So if nmcli con modify XXX command is no longer supported, what is the substitute?
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"Only root can mount" error - but I am root
Yesterday I was able to mount my smb share with the following command:
sudo mount -t cifs //XXXX/share /media/share -o user=Ben,password=XXX,workgroup=WORKGROUP,ip=XXX.XX.XX,uid=ben,gid=ben,rw
I don'...
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Second monitor doesn't wake after going to standby (without annoying workaround)
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I've had this issue in one way or another for a long time now (years), and in multiple configurations. I've updated the driver & kernel on multiple occasions, and at this point I'm ...
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Arch Linux installation - no internet connection and can't ping gateway
I'm doing a clean install of 32-bit Arch Linux from a CD on a very old Panasonic CF-29 Toughbook. Trying to connect to the Internet from the terminal on the installation ISO is not working. I'm using ...
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Virtualization (KVM) and excessive cached RAM
I've set up a virtual machine through KVM-libvirt (virt-manager) with Windows 10 on it and I'm getting an odd behavior on the host side.
I'm running a 64bit Arch host with 24GB of RAM, 12 of which are ...
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X11 controlling root window or setting a window to be the background window (wallpaper)
I would like an animated background image. Or better, to make an application be the background, with no interactivity, so I don't accidentally click on it.
I've seen many discussions about setting ...
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KDE Plasma: GTK fonts too large after update
I've just updated Arch Linux with KDE to Plasma 5.12.5 (I forgot to check which version I had before, but the last update I did was about a month ago) and I noticed the fonts in GTK applications are ...
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Can't setup monitor after reconnecting ThinkPad T570 to USB-C dock
I've got two monitors connected via DisplayPort to the dock. xrandr displays the external monitors as DP1-1 and DP1-2 and the laptop as eDP1.
I set up my monitors with the following in ~/.xprofile:
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How to fix broken VDPAU?
The symptoms:
When fullscreening VLC (cvlc) it reports
vdpau_display vout display error: output surface creation failure: VDP_STATUS_INVALID_SIZE
repeatedly and the screen goes black.
When ...
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How to use Dvorak keyboard layout in GRUB2 LUKS passphrase prompt?
I've tried to piece together how to do this from various sources. First approach, based on 1 and 2:
$ grep ^HOOKS /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 keyboard keymap ...
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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse in Arch Linux--how can I enable multi-touch with it and get it recognized as a touch screen?
I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 11" convertible laptop, and it has a touch screen that xinput tells me is:
> xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
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Convert pacman package to deb or rpm?
Given a pacman package (.pkg.tar.xz), is there a tool to convert it to a deb or rpm package?
In other words, I'm looking for an equivalent to alien. So far, I got the impression that such a tool does ...
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Slow root / mounting time
By running dmesg -t -d on my Raspbian/Debian Jessie, I see that this is a bottleneck in my booting process:
[< 4.777880>] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with
ordered data mode. ...
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How to globally set all electron apps to have --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland options?
I switched to wayland on arch linux and it introduced a lot of bugs. Many are related to electron apps. I have find out that I can solve them by starting apps with this options:
--enable-features=...
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No /dev/video* in Arch Linux on Dell XPS 13 Plus (9320)
I finally got the new Dell XPS Plus, I've installed Arch Linux (with Xfce4) but it seems like that are no recognizable webcams or video devices, even though the laptop has a built-in one + IR camera.
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How to connect to a second monitor without restarting X?
Every time I have to connect to an external monitor, it remains "disconnected" according to xrandr and the second screen remains black.
To solve this problem, I always have to close all my ...
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How to update an Arch Linux PKGBUILD file for new version (printer driver)?
I want to install the CUPS driver for the Brother QL-1060N label printer on Arch Linux. Fortunately, there is an AUR package available. (Arch is amazing.)
However, the AUR package is a bit out of ...
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Arch Linux 64 bit - Will not wake from pm-suspend
Alright, I've been messing with this off and on for the past few months. pm-suspend used to work fine; I recently upgraded most of my hardware, and even then it worked fine. At some point there must ...
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Black screen after booting in UEFI installation of Arch Linux
My laptop is Asus K53SV, you can find its specification here. I tried to install Arch Linux with UEFI boot method, and I stuck at a black screen after press Arch Linux archiso x86_64 UEFI CD.
Firstly, ...
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Maintain ip link settings across reboot
Every time I turn on my computer, I have to manually set # ip link set wlp5s0 up in order to use my wireless card. Is there a way to maintain this setting across reboots? So if I set the interface up ...
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Why is my system freezing when I try to unbind GPU from radeon?
Right now I'm trying to accomplish this: http://arseniyshestakov.com/2016/03/31/how-to-pass-gpu-to-vm-and-back-without-x-restart/
I've gotten everything on the host to work. DRI_PRIME is working ...
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How can I remap mouse buttons to modifier keys?
I have a fairly standard Logitech M510 wireless mouse with the three regular buttons, forward and back buttons, and scrolling and sidescrolling. The forward and back buttons are worse than useless ...
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Failed unmounting /home during shutdown arch linux
I've installed arch on my system multiple times and everything has worked fine, but since last installation I've been seeing messages : Failed unmounting /home. and Failed unmounting /run/user/1000. ...
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No sound on detected headphones (arch)
alsamixer and pavucontrol shows everything is detected and unmuted. The speaker on my Laptop are working, only the headphones are detected and on mute or unmute I hear a short crack and nothing ...
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Terminal does not open under dwm -- is there an error log file?
I am running DWM under Arch Linux in combination with the urxvt terminal. I have a urxvt daemon running but when I press the key combination for opening a terminal window, nothing happens.
Is there ...
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Unable to change bitrate on wifi adapter
I'm having issues with my Belkin N-300 USB wifi adapter. I can connect fine, but about a week ago the connection started getting very slow and regularly drops. Bringing the interface down and back up ...
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Netboot error: Invalid kernel argument
I'm trying to install Arch using the Netboot Live System following these steps:
Install Syslinux on a SD card according to its wiki.
Copy the iPXE kernel image to the SD card.
Create an syslinux.cfg ...
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Why nautilus in background takes so much IO and CPU when login, and how to resolve that, or is that a bug?
I'm using Arch Linux for some time.
I find nautilus will be running automatically when I login because it's used for handling desktop's behavior. If I kill it, then trash icon and all other file's ...
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Is there an easy way to switch playback soundcards?
I recently purchased the roccat kulo headset which comes with a nice USB soundcard, completely functional under linux :). Howsoever I now struggle to easily siwtch between my laptops integrated ...
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root device not found. Skipping fsck
I dual-boot windows and arch on my work laptop on a single disk with lvm and a XBOOTLDR partition. I use systemd-boot as a bootloader. It worked fine for like 3 months and then suddenly, after ...
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Strange battery behavior: how to diagnose power supply monitor?
I have a problem that I can not determine with the battery of my computer. In case it was of use, I use Arch Linux with dwm, although I don't think it's relevant to the case.
I get the battery with ...
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Virt-Manager internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor
Arch Linux
I created a qcow2 on the other drive using Virtual Manager.
I'm trying to use another drive for my VMs,
but when I try to create a new VM from an ISO, I get:
Traceback (most recent call ...
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Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=“xyz” --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
I've been getting this error on multiple occasions. When I enter sudo mousepad I get the following output.
[privileged@arched ~]$ sudo mousepad
(mousepad:981): Mousepad-CRITICAL **: 14:12:48.549: ...
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Xorg taking huge amounts of memory
Lately, there is a lot of memory leak on my (Arch) Linux laptop. A command named Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 --keeptty -auth /tmp/serverauth.mWgFYYiRdF is continually taking 27.2 % of my 8GB RAM (also ...
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Trying to run linux kernel using QEMU, having trouble with boot process
For a project, I need to be able to run an uncompressed linux kernel. It was recommended to me to try emulating this using QEMU, since that's less involved than booting it straight on the machine. ...
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How to set `XDG_DATA_DIRS` for first `/usr/bin/gnome-shell` process?
I want to add a path to XDG_DATA_DIRS as seen by gnome-shell. Here's what I tried so far.
I run htop, filter by gnome-shell and then pick the top most /usr/bin/gnome-shell with the smallest process ID ...
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Thunderbolt - Displayport Monitors not detected on reboot. XPS 13 Arch Linux (endeavourOS)
I am running EndeavourOS (Arch) on a 2017 Dell XPS 13. Kernel 5.7.2-arch1-1
[Hardware name: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9360/02PG84, BIOS 2.13.0 11/14/2019]
I have a multi-monitor setup at my desk, that, when ...
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systemd unit indirect status
I wonder how can I check which unit activates another with status indirect?
I run Arch with Gnome and a Debian server. On my Debian machine I can see that output for systemctl list-unit-files --type=...
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Links try and fail to open in firefox, then open in chromium after killall firefox
Whenever I click a link in some GUI applications, such as signal or slack, either nothing happens, or I just see the screen flash (the screen also flashes when I start firefox normally). This happens ...
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mpc: access denied when adding mp3 file in a folder under music_directory
mpc rescan mpc update give same result.
mpd.conf, mpd service running under user.
music_directory "~/.cache/music"
playlist_directory "~/.config/mpd/playlists"
db_file "~/....
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systemd Failed to start Store a System Token in an EFI Variable
A few weeks ago I started seeing this error in the journal after each boot. I believe it is related to a recent systemd update.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Store a System Token in an EFI Variable.
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Changing mouse scroll speed
I'm trying to change the mouse scroll speed. Currently it's way too slow. I'm using GNOME 3.32 and there are no obvious settings to adapt that. Ideally I would like to change it at the system level, ...
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After recent update of Arch linux, GDM login screen is missing text
This is an Arch install with Cinnamon DE and GDM. I am still able to login at the screen but the text on the screen is mostly missing. What I mean is that there are two buttons that appear and the ...
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Second monitor not working under Gnome (using Wayland)
I installed Arch Linux 4.15.9-1-ARCH on a Dell Inspiron 15 7000 (7577) laptop that comes with and (1) an integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 (Kaby Lake GT2) GPU and (2) a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 ...
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Audio Port: ASoC: no backend DAIs enabled for Audio Port
I have installed Arch Linux (x86-64) on a tabled, which is Chuwi Hi12. I have downloaded this sound codec specific for this tabled here:
https://github.com/kernins/linux-chwhi12/tree/master/sound/soc/...