[Unstable Update] 2023-05-21 - Repository changes

[Yochanan]

Thanks for letting me know. I never would have found out unless you told me.

[Yochanan]

[Call for Testers] GNOME Layout Switcher: New Tiling Layout

Good news, everyone! There is a new tiling layout, but the old one is gone! After much deliberation, we have concluded that Material Shell and Pop Shell are no longer viable. The Material Shell developer has been having trouble keeping up with recent Mutter and GNOME Shell changes for awhile now. System76 is only maintaining Pop Shell for Pop!_OS 22.04 which uses GNOME 42. They are currently focused on their upcoming Cosmic Desktop Environment completely written from scratch in Rust. In both …

[Yochanan]

TeX Live package reorganization

2023-06-18 - Antonio Rojas

Starting from version 2023.66594-9, TeX Live packages have been reorganized to mirror upstream collections. Even though the new texlive-basic replaces the old texlive-core, many of the texlive-core contents (including language specific files) are now split between different packages. To find out which Arch package contains a specific CTAN package, you can use the tlmgr utility, eg.

$ tlmgr info euler | grep collection
collection:  collection-latexrecommended

which means the euler CTAN package is contained in texlive-latexrecommended. You may also use pacman -F to query for specific files.

A new metapackage texlive-meta is available to install all subpackages (except for language specific ones), and the new texlive-doc package provides the full documentation for offline use.

[mithrial]

This broke latexmk:

$ pamac search --files /usr/bin/latexmk
/usr/bin/latexmk is owned by texlive-bin

$ pamac info texlive-bin
Name                  : texlive-bin
Version               : 2023.66984-7
[...]
Build Date            : Sa 17 Jun 2023 01:29:09 CEST
Install Date          : Mo 19 Jun 2023 09:57:19 CEST

$ which latexmk
latexmk not found

Edit: You have to install texlive-binextra to actually install latexmk.

The file that texlive-bin provides is a broken symlink to /usr//share/texmf-dist/scripts/latexmk/latexmk.pl which can only be resolved by installing the binextra package.

[Yochanan]

It’s fixed with 2023.66594-13.

[freggel.doe]

systemd in it’s current state has a regression which leads to (some) problems with libvirtd and other services:

libvirtd socket activation not working since 253.5

It seems to be resolved now by reverting the offending commit:

poettering

Arch has already released a fixed systemd package with this single cherry-pick:

upgpkg: 253.5-2: cherry-pick a revert (997fc66a) · Commits · Arch Linux /...

As we do not inherit systemd from arch, I’m hoping for an updated package…

edit: Thanks to @Yochanan the patch has landed:

[pkg-upd] 253.5-2 (2034ba75) · Commits · Packages / Core / systemd · GitLab

[Yochanan]

The pamac-gtk Gtk 4 port is finally finished!

Make sure you’re fully up to date first:

sudo pacman -Syu

Then choose which version you prefer:

Install Gtk 4 version:

sudo pacman -S pamac-gtk

Install Gtk 3 version:

sudo pacman -S pamac-gtk3

[Zesko]

@Yochanan

The pamac-gtk Gtk 4 port is finally finished!

I get a lot of GTK critical messages when clicking on Pamac menu in the GUI in KDE Plasma, this is pamac-gtk. but pamac-gtk3 has no issue. I can reproduce the issue on my system and VM without custom config.

(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.950: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_x: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.950: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_y: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.964: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_x: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.964: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_y: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.964: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_x: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.964: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_y: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.993: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_x: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
(pamac-manager:3193): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 21:52:34.993: _gtk_css_corner_value_get_y: assertion 'corner->class == &GTK_CSS_VALUE_CORNER' failed
...

I reported the issue.

Many GTK Critical messages after switching from pamac-gtk3 to pamac-gtk...

[Locutus]

How will the gtk4 version affect the Flatpak and Snap plugins?

[Yochanan]

They’re not related as they’re part of libpamac.

[freggel.doe]

pamac-gtk and pamac-gtk3 should properly conflict reach other.

edit: Ah, the current pamac-gtk3 package conflicts with pamac-gtk but the current pamac-gtk doesn’t conflict with pamac-gtk3.

[Locutus]

@Yochanan

They’re not related as they’re part of libpamac.

It still has to interact with them.

[jrichard326]

The description of pamac-gtk (gtk4 version) still notes gtk3 in the description. I have installed the gtk4 version and it seems to function well for my use case. Nice work and thank you.

[Zesko]

Changing some Pamac preferences can not be saved when using pamac-gtk (gtk4)

How to reproduce the issue:

1. Open pamac-manager
2. Click Pamac meu → Click “Preferences”
3. Change number of “Parallel downloads”
   or change “mirrors”
   or change “Number of versions of each package to keep”
4. Close and reopen “Preferences”.
   As a result, it does not change.

[dmt]

@Locutus

@Yochanan

They’re not related as they’re part of libpamac.

It still has to interact with them.

Presumably through libpamac.

[cscs]

This could be my fault somehow … but

after powerdevil upgrade … the services no longer seem to work.

I’ve tried downgrading to no avail. Ive tried refreshing/reloading the services and dbus …

There shows it failed - battery icon missing.
In systemctl --user status powerdevil It shows:
org.kde.powerdevil: KDE Power Management System init failed!
Similar to journalctl:

systemd[949]: plasma-powerdevil.service: start operation timed out. Terminating.
systemd[949]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
systemd[949]: plasma-powerdevil.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 199.
org_kde_powerdevil[6025]: org.kde.powerdevil: KDE Power Management System init failed!

Manually doing

killall org_kde_powerdevil
kstart5 /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil

and restarting the user service … seems to ~work … as in the logs become clean … but the rest of the desktop (system settings, icon) still acts as if powerdevil is not functioning (no progress if plasma is restarted either).
A reboot returns to the same problematic state … new test user exhibits the same.

Note - the battery itself is somewhat old/damaged at 60% life … but this displays fine in other utilities, and a clean ISO acts as expected.

EDIT.

Found it
Theres just about no documentation to go off of … and the package certainly doesnt have any dependencies that point this way … but …
ddcutil - without that installed powerdevil will fail. After install everything is s

…and it looks like someone noticed at Arch:

FS#78884 : powerdevil 5.27.6-2 requires ddutil added as a package dependency

…and its maybe being fixed:

Commits · main · Arch Linux / Packaging / Packages / powerdevil · GitLab

[koshikas]

with the new sddm got a slightly different form of PAM configuration file for sddm. suggested generic configuration file (/etc/pam.d/sddm);

auth        include     system-login
-auth       optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so
-auth       optional    pam_kwallet5.so

account     include     system-login

password    include     system-login
-password   optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so    use_authtok

session     optional    pam_keyinit.so          force revoke
session     include     system-login
-session    optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so    auto_start
-session    optional    pam_kwallet5.so         auto_start

so for someone running KDE on sddm i guess omitting lines with pam_gnome_keyring.so is fine;

auth        include     system-login
-auth       optional    pam_kwallet5.so

account     include     system-login

password    include     system-login

session     optional    pam_keyinit.so          force revoke
session     include     system-login
-session    optional    pam_kwallet5.so         auto_start

likewise for someone running Gnome DE on GDM omitting pam_kwallet5.so lines is fine. please advice if additional configuration is required.

also, is this really necessary;

session     optional    pam_keyinit.so          force revoke

[Zesko]

@koshikas

so for someone running KDE on sddm i guess omitting lines with pam_gnome_keyring.so is fine;

Reinstalling or updating sddm would reset this configuration including pam_gnome_keyring.so.

I think you don’t need to remove the line pam_gnome_keyring.so again after update sddm.

[stasadev]

@koshikas

please advice if additional configuration is required.

@koshikas

-auth       optional    pam_gnome_keyring.so
-auth       optional    pam_kwallet5.so

From pam.conf:

If the type value from the list above is prepended with a - character the PAM library will not log to the system log if it is not possible to load the module because it is missing in the system. This can be useful especially for modules which are not always installed on the system and are not required for correct authentication and authorization of the login session.

It’s fine to leave everything as it is, the only available configuration will be loaded.