Arch Linux on Reddit

Do these need to be started or can i stop them from running? submitted by /u/wahnsinnwanscene [link] [comments]

hey im already using arch linux and i want to install windows 10 alongside it without a usb or dvd i couldnt really find any tutorials for this cause nobody does it but im hoping to find a way here thank you submitted by /u/StraightClothes4730 [link] [comments]

Recently reinstalled arch and threw a bunch of different people's dots together to get to what I'm looking at now (running on hyprland), but I now have this issue where every time I get a notification I also get an error message as a notification. Not quite a noob but still don't really know my way around all of this. Seems to be nothing relevant in the journal, and I don't know how to receive more information about this error. Can't include screenshots but the error message reads: "Failed to run script: notifi... Output:" Tried checking if i have conflicting notification daemons or something but that doesn't seem to be the case either. I'm only assuming that this is some random custom script that was included in one of the dotfile installers I used? Any clues on what it may be if not, and how to fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated :) submitted by /u/IsonVoid [link] [comments]

I've been Googling for a bit here and finding people with similar problems, and I've tried most things I've been able to find. I am trying to dual boot Arch and Windows. I have gone through the installation and successfully configured and installed Grub to my EFI partition and made sure that the files are actually on the partition. Note that I have two separate ones, I know that's a little janky but shouldn't cause issues. The partition itself is confirmed to be an EFI System partition by fdisk -l. Secure and fast boot are off, along with TPM. The SSD is formatted as GPT. Whenever I install Grub, it will show up in efibootmgr. However when I reboot, I do not have the option to boot into Grub and furthermore the option does not appear in efibootmgr if I choose to boot back into my install USB. It will re-appear if I install Grub again, but once again disappears at shutdown. I have tried using the --removable flag on the grub-install command. As a potentially related note, whenever I reboot out of the Arch USB all of my bootable options disappear except the USB, and I need to reboot to get them back- not sure what's up with that, but maybe it has to do with the problem at hand. I am using a Gigabyte BIOS and the board is a B450M-DS3H. Any other info I can provide I will and thank you in advance. submitted by /u/masterkitty2006 [link] [comments]

I am not your typical computer user. I have well over 100 VMms in my homelab on Proxmox as well as KVM/QEMU and VMware workstation on various desktops or laptops. Including Raspberry Pis I have over 20 physical computers. I enjoy tinkering with them. I enjoy installing configuring, updating and breaking operating systems whether its Windows, macOS Linux or something else. I have been using Linux for over 25 years since 1998. I would consider myself an average Linux user. I am comfortable working on a system from the command line or over ssh. Just about all of my Arch based systems have the testing repos configured. I like living on the edge. Today as just about everyday, I start updating systems. There was a KDE update to 6.3.4 and I wanted to see if that rolled out today. I updated one of my VMs that is on my Proxmox host. I always review the list of packages that are going to be updated. ALWAYS. Its set to auto login. After a reboot, I was greeted by a black screen. No Nvidia drivers are involved here, its a VM. So I go to a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-F3 and start to do some troubleshooting. I have a function/alias in my .bashrc that shows me a list of applications that have been installed in reverse chronological order and the date/time of install. I review it and the mesa package immediately jumps out at me. There is a package in their AUR called downgrade. It does what the name implies. You run it like this "sudo downgrade package-name" and it shows a list of package versions that are available online or in your cache. I select the prior version 25.02 and it reinstalls it. Then it asks if you would like to add that package to the exclude list in the pacman.conf file. So I do. The system reboots and I am greeted by the desktop. Good guess that it was the mesa package. So I go through this on 7 other Arch VMs testing to see if they have the same issue or not. They do. The take away from this should be this, if you want to run Arch Linux you should feel comfortable at the command line. One day something will break and you will have no GUI to help you out. Know what packages are installed. Review them when you update. If you run KDE then you have a ton of packages that start with K. Same thing for Gnome, lots of gnome packages. XFCE lots of xfce4 packages. Know the kernels, bootloader, and login manager you use. It could be sddm, gdm or lightdm or something else. Have the arch iso on a thumb drive. Know how your file system was installed and know how to chroot in to fix something. Unless something is totally screwed up, reinstalling should be your last resort. You built your system. You should be familiar with it. Unless you used archinstall. Then you should get familiar with it. As for the mesa situation, I will be filing a bug report to the developers. As /u/archover says... good day and from me thanks for reading. submitted by /u/onefish2 [link] [comments]

What do arch users wear? Do we have some similar patterns? p.s. just for fun submitted by /u/peace_lover_k [link] [comments]

The problem is that I don't see any addresses that have swap memory enabled in sudo nano /etc/fstab I know it can be disabled with: sudo swapoff /rute or -a, but what I'm looking for is to disable it forever. https://imgur.com/a/YKbeGn6 https://imgur.com/a/naqmiDF submitted by /u/TheFranck__ [link] [comments]

It's only got 12GB of soldered in LDDR5.. so I can't upgrade the ram in it. Arch is running great but wondering if I should be using zram because afaik that basically means instead of 12GB ram I then have like 16GB ram? The cpu isn't that strong it's a N97 so not sure if the overhead of having zram is good or not tho. submitted by /u/cypherpunk00001 [link] [comments]

I was setting up fstab to auto-mount an internal hard drive but I messed up, I booted inside of the emergency shell and then I nano'd the fstab file and removed the auto-mount, when I typed in sudo reboot I saw some messages show up before rebooting, checking journalctl it says that my nvme drive (where Arch Linux is installed) might have a corruption and that I should run fsck, the thing is is that fsck runs automatically on startup, running it manually says that I will do filesystem corruption. So should I run fsck on a live media on my nvme drive? So far I haven't seen any issues. submitted by /u/SussyBob420 [link] [comments]

Hello, i want build the app hardinfo2 only with gtk libraries, its possible? I tried to comment lines QT5 in hardinfo/tools/PKGBUILD and i build correctly but the app seems does in QT. I see in the website github hardinfo2 the section "Dependencies" talking about disable qt but i dont undestand to much because the procedure in my system is only with "makepkg -cis --noextract" I use arch. Thanks so much!! https://ibb.co/Y7yfsDrb submitted by /u/xisnamh [link] [comments]

The postgresql.service is enabled but when I start the computer I see in journalctl that Starting PostgreSQL database server... doesn't show until more than 2 minutes after and there's no errors. This started happening the last few months with v16 and same when I upgraded to 17. Before it would start within a second. Do you have a clue why this is happening? Is there something in systemd that is telling it to delay? No other services have this delay. submitted by /u/Beautiful-Log5632 [link] [comments]

I've been using pure Arch Linux for 2 years now and have quite a bit of experience configuring all sorts of things, from WM setups to custom kernels. But along the way, I’ve also realized that too much freedom can be a double-edged sword—one "dumb" config mistake and boom, my system is bricked. 😭 So now I’m looking for an Arch-based distro that: Has all the features I need for development and daily work. Is stable enough, so I don’t have to worry about random breakages. Still keeps the Arch spirit, but with a bit of a safety net to prevent total disaster. Anyone with experience using Manjaro, EndeavourOS, CachyOS, or other similar distros? Or is there an even better choice out there? I’d love to hear your thoughts! 🙏 submitted by /u/ElainawithGun [link] [comments]

I'm on a Dell G15 5155 laptop, and I have an Arch Linux install on there with KDE Plasma. I ran an update with pacman, and found that Spectacle doesn't work anymore. Tried to run the updater again, accepting all the changes, and it still didn't work. Then I trying to update Spectacle by itself, and that didn't work either. So I thought I'd try to reboot the laptop, but it wasn't responding to the restart or shutdown commands. So I did a hard shutdown by holding the power button for a few seconds. But when I boot back into the login screen, no matter how many times I enter my password, it goes to a black screen, and then back to the login prompt. submitted by /u/clocksmasher [link] [comments]

i know something like a display menager such as SSDM is needed to boot into a DE but is there anyway to disable SSDM and go directly to plasmas loggin screen? idk linux newbie probably a stupid question. submitted by /u/Recent_Crew_3059 [link] [comments]

I was changing the login screen for kde plasma and after I restarted all i see is an unblinking text cursor at the top left of the screen. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this without a reinstall? submitted by /u/Anderboss125 [link] [comments]

I have installed arch a few weeks ago and did not have much issues but recently I got a lot of issue like Pulseaudio getting turned off after 5 sec because it is default Once,my wifi was not connecting to anything and got fixed after a reboot And today I closed my laptop without shutdown and my laptop could not get on and I had to charge it (it had a 100% battery after 10 mins of charging btw) and the problem got fix. I would like to ask,is there any thing,youtube video,reddit post,article or something that can help me get a setup where it can do the basic stuff that windows does like going to sleep if closing the laptop without shutdown,sleep. Also I use KDE btw Also there was a time when I tried opening a folder containing html files and screenshot of the output of the html files.I couldn't look at the screen because all the files are opening one by one.It was like a continuous flashing Can someone help? submitted by /u/Intelligent_Hat_5914 [link] [comments]

So, i put arch on my ThinkPad, got everything working, except the little piece of shit that is bluetooth. I've no idea why, everything is enabled, hell, hci0 is RIGHT THERE > ls /sys/class/bluetooth/ hci0 it's just that bluez probably doesn't see it, and i don't know why. I don't have access to a bluetooth adapter over USB, so i can't test that. I'm just stuck with this. Bluetooth which *should* work, but doesn't anyway. Any help would be appreciated! It has the intel wifi/bluetooth thingy if i'm correct. SOLUTION: oh for fucks sake of course the problem was bluez. Just downgrade to a version from, like, a few months ago, doesn't matter as long as it ain't one that breaks, and it should work. Did in my case. submitted by /u/Averagehomebrewer [link] [comments]

[SOLVED] We were all looking at the wrong things. The issue was extremely simple: the bootloader entry was missing its initrd line: initrd /initramfs-linux.img ~~~ I'm planning to switch to Arch full-time, but I figured it would be wise to try the setup and config on a VMware machine first (UEFI mode, drive is SATA). I want to use LUKS over LVM, because I think this will give me the best flexibility for the multi-disk setup my machine runs on. I also opted to use systemd-boot as my bootloader. I've been following the Installation Guide, LUKS-on-LVM guide, and (to a lesser extend and mostly for the explanations provided) Fernando Ceja's guide. Now, when I go for reboot after installation, I just end up in kernel panic. This is the log (section): 1 /dev/root: Can't open blockdev 2 fbcon: Taking over console 3 VFS: Cannot open root device "/dev/mapper/root" or unknown-block(0,0): error -6 4 Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 5 0800 67108864 sda 6 driver: sd 7 0801 524288 sda1 4dff6d8d-e1f0-44b5-8f7b-0b396d4a77c6 8 0802 66581504 sda2 d973a353-ee33-4a96-bc0a-43d23978fa05 However, when booted into the install shell and checking `lsblk -f` after opening the LUKS volume, this is my output: loop 0 squashfs 4.0 sda |_ sda1 vfat FAT32 6E06-2DC1 |_ sda2 LVM2_member LVM2 001 oIYGV8-K335-Okwu-SGC6-3FSC-EnUZ-AjgCap |___ main-swap |___ main-root crypto_LUKS 2 cbaccb88-c30a-41ac-9f77-1a5826397ca9 |_____ root ext4 1.0 6b6534ce-4c4e-416f-a691-7ed5efc2d05c As you can see, the "available partitions" printed from kernel panic are not even in here... Boot loader entry: title Arch Linux linux /vmlinuz-linux options rd.luks.name=cbaccb88-c30a-41ac-9f77-1a5826397ca9=root root=/dev/mapper/root rw mkinitcpio hooks: HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole block sd-encrypt lvm2 filesystems fsck) crypttab: swap /dev/main/swap /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,sector-size=4096 fstab: /dev/mapper/root / ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=6E06-2DC1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2 /dev/mapper/swap none swap defaults 0 0 --- I know that the panic message basically means "dude, I have no idea, what block device you are talking about" and since the kernel seems to see totally different UUIDs than I do, it kind of makes sense. However, I'm completely stumped about what I did wrong; I have quintuple-checked the guide about disk encryption and I see no difference in setup... submitted by /u/traxx2012 [link] [comments]

Linux noob here. Been tinkering around on a virtual machine before I decide if I want to install Arch on my host PC. I'm kind of confused as per what the difference is between apps installed through pacman and using flatpaks? I had installed KDE Plasma and the Discover app store needed me to install the flatpak package before it would do anything (why isn't that just a dependency?). I'm just kind of confused because when I went to get Yakuake, the website seems to push you towards installing the flatpak, but it also says that you can install it using pacman and I'm just curious if one version has an advantage over the other. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Nathan5541 [link] [comments]

I’ve always had an issue with echo, even on Windows. I used to think it was because my headphones were too loud and my microphone was picking up the sound. However, I recently realized that the echo wasn’t caused by that. While adjusting some audio settings, I noticed that my microphone input was almost identical to my Spotify audio—just with lower amplitude. The funny thing is… my microphone wasn’t even on! I also saw that the output monitor is being detected as an input. Is it supposed to be like that? If not, that’s probably the issue. How can I fix it? submitted by /u/_Argollo_ [link] [comments]

I have a Lenovo Legion Y540 with i5-9300H and GTX1650. I have been constantly reading the wiki and trying to figure out the issue but for some reason, I just don't know what to do? When I use the switchable graphics mode from BIOS, and installing all the video drivers necessary for my iGPU and dGPU, its seems to work fine. The system goes to sleep and wakes up perfectly fine, but when i run my display on dGPU mode, the system suspends and when i wakeup my laptop from suspend all i can see is a cursor and a black screen, i checked the kernel logs but i dont understand it because i dont find any error messages. I want to completely switch to Arch but because of issues like these i am not able to, Someone please help!! submitted by /u/rsxbrw [link] [comments]

Hi, Wireguard stopped working for me after updating my kernel to 6.13.8. Does anyone know anything about this? $ sudo wg-quick up wg0 [#] ip link add wg0 type wireguard Error: Unknown device type. Unable to access interface: Protocol not supported [#] ip link delete dev wg0 Cannot find device "wg0" $ uname -r 6.13.6-arch1-1 $ sudo modprobe wireguard modprobe: FATAL: Module wireguard not found in directory /lib/modules/6.13.6-arch1-1 $ lsmod | grep wireguard $ wg --version wireguard-tools v1.0.20210914 - https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools/ submitted by /u/pipewire [link] [comments]

So I don't know how to explain this as it's my first post and new to arch linux. I recently installed arch on my laptop (Lenovo legion pro 7i from 2024. I'm also dual booting windows on another SSD just for games until I have an stable Linux environment) and everything seemed great, I was planning on how to configure hyprland and other stuff until I noticed I didn't have any audio. At first I thought it was a problem with Firefox, but recently I noticed hyprland has some noises that I also can't hear, so I know it's like all audio. I installed pipewire and pipewire-pulse with wireplumber, but when I run either pipewire or pipewire-pulse I get this error Apr 02 01:56:22 archie pipewire[3292]: mod.protocol-native: server 0x64e753402650: unable to lock lockfile '/run/user/1000/pipewire-0.lock': Resource tem porarily unavailable (maybe another daemon is running) Apr 02 01:56:22 archie pipewire[3292]: pw.conf: 0x64e7533bf600: could not load mandatory module "libpipewire-module-protocol-native": Resource temporaril y unavailable Apr 02 01:56:22 archie pipewire[3292]: default: failed to create context: Resource temporarily unavailable (Idk if it looks bad, idk how to format it, I'll try to edit it if I learn how) I tried installing firmware, restarting services, a script from a GitHub repository called linux-on-lenovo-legion (and I thought that would work cause pavucontrol recognizes audio should be playing but it just doesn't, same with pacto info and list sinks) If you need more data (and you probably do) ask me and I'll try my best to share it. Thanks Edit: Solved. It was just changing the profile on pavucontrol, I'll check if it's a permanent solution for me, but it seems like it Edit 2: it was just for a few minutes submitted by /u/JimmyEoya [link] [comments]

I am new to arch linux and I wanna use react native for app developement. I chose waydroid as the emulator for android but I am having issues with it. Does any one have proper guide on this ? I am new to reddit as well and I dont even know if I should be posting like this here . haha anyways need help guyzz thank you submitted by /u/Broad-Lychee5803 [link] [comments]

I made an SSH client for the 3DS called budgieSSH (on github) but I had to use mbedTLS as a crypto backend since I couldn't cross-compile any other crypto library like openssl. I have been trying for WEEKS to get rsa key authentication to work so I don't just need to use passwords. Since after so much work I still have not found the solution, I'm now making a thread. My host is arch linux which is why I'm on this sub (there's no big sub for specifically ssh but if you guys have better ideas where to post then tell me) Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe this then means that openSSH keys will not work with the client. I've tried and tried and it keeps saying the file is the wrong type. Error output is not available because the client is on the 3ds, but if you need more client side debug information then ask me. So since I continued under the assumption that keys made with ssh-key-gen do not work with the client (which I still think is true), I tried making a key pair with mbedTLS. That was also very hard because the way to make a normal key pair with mbedTLS was very unclear. Eventually, (I think) I figured out how to do it. First you run "mbedtls_gen_key filename=privkey" which *only* generates a private key (not a key pair, so no pubkey file). Then you run "mbedtls_key_app_writer mode=private filename=privkey output_mode=public outputfile=privkey.pub" which then appears to make its corresponding pubkey. Looking at both files with cat, it seems to be in order. Priv key says --BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-- then ends with --END PRIVATE KEY--, pub key says --BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-- and ends with --END PUBLIC KEY--. They are both in pem format. But the problem happens when I did ssh-copy-id -i ./privkey localhost which appears to work. However running "ssh -i ./privkey localhost" says permission denied. Now, when running my client, using the keys generated by mbedTLS gave promising output. Instead of closing with exit code 17 (invalid file) like it did with OpenSSH keys, it gave me error code 19, which means ERROR_PUBLICKEY_UNVERIFIED. I assume this means the host didn't accept the pub key, even though the pub key has been added to the host with ssh-copy-id whose output claimed to have successfully added the keys to the host (localhost). So again, I'm still assuming that the crypto backend difference is the issue here. Now, my question is, how the actual hell do I get pubkey authentication to work with an mbedTLS client? Does the openSSH server package need to be built with mbedTLS like how I built libssh2 with 3ds-mbedTLS? Or something else??? Please help me out here. I tried to include everything important in this post without making it too long; if more data is needed like error outputs or system configurations etc are desired, please just tell me and I will provide. submitted by /u/MaxxBrick [link] [comments]

First read the Arch Linux FAQ from the wiki Code of conduct How do I ask a proper question? Smart Questions XYProblem Please follow the standard list when giving a problem report. What AUR helper should I use? There are no recommended AUR helpers. Please read over the wiki entry on AUR helpers. If you have a question, please search the subreddit for previous questions. If your AUR helper breaks know how to use makepkg manually. I need help with $derivativeDistribution Use the appropriate support channel for your distribution. Arch is DIY distribution and we expect you to guide us through your system when providing support. Using an installer defeats this expectation. Why was the beginners guide removed? It carried a lot of maintenance on the wiki admin as it duplicated a lot of information, and everyone wanted their addition included. It was scrapped for a compact model that largely referenced the main wiki pages. Why Arch Linux? Arch compared to other distributions Follow the wiki. Random videos are unsupported. <plug>Consider getting involved in Arch Linux!</plug> submitted by /u/Foxboron [link] [comments]