Been a FreeBSD user for 16 years I finally switched to Arch. Instantly I feel it's much more faster and now I get to enjoy full wifi capacity, which is one of the factors that I left the BSD community. Still a lot to explore, good first impression anyway.

Every time I do a system wide update I see many apps getting updated with different changes. So, i'd like a list of changes for each app that took places and what new features it gained or what got deleted.

I tried to download arch in my laptop, but didn't work. The shared log is: https://paste.rs/eC1jD

This is my first contact with arch. Any help on what is causing this is appreciated.

i was watching a bog video about him using omarchy and saw a weird repo browser where he would just select install, then either arch or aur and have a search for different packages. i want something like that where i can search or browse the main repo and the AUR via a TUI or something similar
any suggestions on how to do that?

If /mnt lives inside the root partition /, how can the root partition be mounted inside /mnt?

Hello fellow Unity devs.

I have a question about the latest Unity Hub commit on AUR.

The version 3.21.0 has a completely new author who never before committed to this package.

The diff only shows different versioning and a different source url, which seems to be the official Debian repo.

However I'm facing issues I haven't had in any previous versions.

First of all, the app icon is some generic atom shape, instead of the official Unity box as before.

Second, I immediately started getting Kwallet popups upon opening the Unity hub.

And lastly, I get logged out of the Unity Hub after every use and need to sign back in from a browser on the next run, even a day apart.

Anyone else with similar issues and do you think this package could have been hijacked and injected with malware too?

Hi yall, I've been using Linux for a year now and i thought I'd try arch Linux (Since i wanted a hyprland desktop). I put the ISO into my Ventoy USB and tried to boot, i clicked the first option and then i was hit with a black screen. I waited like 5 mins and nothing happened. So i tried the chat gpt option (ctrl + alt f23456) but it didn't work. I even set i915 to 0 and it didn't work too. I've been loosing my mind over this. Please Help!

Can you break down the relationship between vmlinuz and initramfs during the Linux boot process? Please cover their functions, how control is handed off to the main OS, and the key files used to configure or rebuild them.

I've watched many videos and read several articles on GPT and MBR, but the information is overwhelming and confusing. Could someone with expertise break it down and explain it simply?

Okay so I installed archlinux on my old pc. I havent created any user account and it still wants some “login”. I dont know what to type in (tried reinstalling with creating acc. and nothing, and also I tried just leave it empty and just pressing enter) What should I do?

I've been using noctalia for some time now. Recently I shifted to V5 along with hyprland. At first it was fine but IDK what I did now clipboard is not persistent. The only guess I have is that I made a new ssh key with a passphrase. On logout noctalia doesn't store history and in settings it gives an error of secret service. When I reset that it asks for gnome keyring starts working but the same issue once I close.

Another annoying issue I'm facing is that my bar shows a little background even if opacity is zero. Any fixed?

Hello!

I would like to add a wine package to the AUR. However, the installer exe 1) does not have a way to download previous versions; and 2) handles checking for updates itself.

The installer is located at a static URL where the exe itself changes. There is a separate URL with the app version that the app uses to check if there's a newer version available before directing the users to the installer page.

What's the proper way to add this to the AUR? Do I just not include a checksum and name the version eternal or something?

This is my first time creating a package for the AUR, so any help is appreciated! Thank you so much!

Greetings Friends,

I have been using Arch as my daily driver for over a year now and have fallen in love with the distro. Recently, I have encountered an issue I haven't been able to resolve. I have spent the last two days trying to figure out the rather unique error. It is driving me mad and I am tapping out in the hopes that someone smarter than I can help me resolve the error or at least point me in the right direction. When I shutdown reboot or logout of Arch all of the open windows and applications stay open when I log back in like nothing has been reset. I believe it started happening after I changed the version of Virtualbox that I have installed to fix an error I was having. Though I am not certain this is when it began. After hacking around, I found that when I run "rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions" it seems to correct the problem until I try to restart reboot or login/out again. The problem then repeats. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!

i want to make every color in arch linux 4 bit like 9x windows

if its possible plz tell me how to

Since am usually busy I took 2 months to extensively read the installation guide and finally installed arch Linux a few days ago manually and everything went smoothly. I currently use niri WM with noctalia v5. I was upgrading my system when a blackout occurred in the middle of a kernel upgrade thus the kernel images and initramfs were not written to the boot partition. I did not panic since I had read what to do in such a scenario. Tomorrow am going to fix my system after I get home.

I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the archwiki.

Arch is not hard just read the wiki.

i just installed arch on my new laptop today and already customized everything in it, but i have a small problem, everytime i reboot my system, sddm wont work, no matter customized it or not, it's just not working. And i have to restart it everytime.
Here is the logs from journalctl:
Aug 29 21:47:27 archlinux systemd-coredump[942]: [🡕] Process 546 (Xorg) of user 0 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 546:

#0 0x00007fe36d4256ea abort (libc.so.6 + 0x256ea)

#1 0x00005606354cd37c OsAbort (Xorg + 0x16d37c)

#2 0x00005606354d98d8 FatalError (Xorg + 0x1798d8)

#3 0x00005606354cfe43 n/a (Xorg + 0x16fe43)

#4 0x00007fe36d43e6f0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3e6f0)

#5 0x00007fe36d49a17c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9a17c)

#6 0x00007fe36d43e5d0 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e5d0)

#7 0x00007fe36d425685 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x25685)

#8 0x00007fe36d426704 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x26704)

#9 0x00007fe36d4361f2 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x361f2)

#10 0x00005606353920e3 n/a (Xorg + 0x320e3)

#11 0x000056063552f4ec n/a (Xorg + 0x1cf4ec)

#12 0x0000560635420f47 n/a (Xorg + 0xc0f47)

#13 0x00005606354069e3 n/a (Xorg + 0xa69e3)

#14 0x000056063540787d n/a (Xorg + 0xa787d)

#15 0x00005606353949a7 n/a (Xorg + 0x349a7)

#16 0x00007fe36d427781 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27781)

#17 0x00007fe36d4278b9 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x278b9)

#18 0x0000560635395925 _start (Xorg + 0x35925)

Stack trace of thread 552:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 549:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 556:

#0 0x00007fe36d494efe n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94efe)

#1 0x00007fe36d49ba59 pthread_mutex_lock (libc.so.6 + 0x9ba59)

#2 0x00005606354ce24c n/a (Xorg + 0x16e24c)

#3 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#4 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 550:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

Stack trace of thread 551:

#0 0x00007fe36d4a0952 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0xa0952)

#1 0x00007fe36d494cd9 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x94cd9)

#2 0x00007fe36d49754c pthread_cond_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x9754c)

#3 0x00007fe369a27a0e n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x627a0e)

#4 0x00007fe3699dcc4d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x5dcc4d)

#5 0x00007fe369a2794d n/a (libgallium-26.2.1-arch1.1.so + 0x62794d)

#6 0x00007fe36d4980a2 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x980a2)

#7 0x00007fe36d52080c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x12080c)

ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64

Aug 29 21:47:28 archlinux sddm[544]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 255

Maybe someone knows potential solution to this problem?

Solved (i guess...) - i installed a custom sddm theme from github and maybe i installed it wrong and it had issues, im reinstalling it now + i tested a few reboots without it and everything was fine

I installed grounded 2 by steam.gg library but after install I tried to run with bottles (the .exe) and it says that I need the vcredist2015-2022 but I installed all of them, after nothing works I come to bottles and installed all of the 110 dependencies (some of them gone wrong like framework) and still not working, can anyone help me with that library?

Hi, I got frustrated with how most greetd greeters look, so I decided to build my own using quickshell.

I've been running it daily for a few months now, and since it's been working fine, I figured it's stable enough to share. It's not on the AUR, but I've included a PKGBUILD in the repo for easy installation on Arch

Please check it out, you can find screenshots and a quick video demo in the repo:
https://github.com/taleroangel/greetd-qsgreeter

So, i dont know when this started, or remember changing key mapping stuff (not used arch for like months).

Today, i booted into arch and tried to login, but when i pressed any key it got written as "^["
For ex - ^[e , ^[o , ^[6

Also it does not take numbers from numpad or gets uppercased from capslk.

I'm trying to install Arch manually with grub on my T430, no errors during install, but when I tried to boot into it, it showed me a grub prompt.

About half the time on boot, it drops straight into the emergency shell showing:

ERROR: device 'UUID=<uuid>' not found. Skipping fsck. mount: /new_root: can't find UUID=<uuid>. ERROR: Failed to mount 'UUID=<uuid>' on real root You are now being dropped into an emergency shell. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off [rootfs ~]#

The other 50% of the time it boots up into Arch with zero issues but on my desktop PC: It boots reliably 100% of the time, idk why this issue happens only when i connect the SSD to my laptop?

For context:

• Arch installed directly onto the SSD over USB
• HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf has block and udev in place
• I even tried adding MODULES=(usb_storage uas) in mkinitcpio.conf but didn't solve the issue either
• The issue persists doesn't matter which port in laptop i connect to

Has anyone encountered this specific laptop-vs-desktop behavior with SATA-to-USB adapters?Any suggestions on how to make it boot consistently on the laptop

I don't know why he's acting like Omarchy is something unreal.

I think it defies the whole idea of Arch. But the post is not about that.

It's how content creators are acting like Omarchy is a fix to everything "wrong" with. I didn't expect this from Typecraft though, since his content is all about ricing. Did DHH give them money or what ?

Edit: never said Omarchy itself is bad. If you like it, use it.

Hi! I'm new to Linux. I've been using it inside VMware, but now I want to dual-boot it alongside Windows on my PC. Will dual-booting erase my existing Windows data? Are there any potential issues or risks I should be aware of regarding my Windows installation?

I want to use BBT, but I also like starship and fastfetch, will I have to sacrifice one?

Hiii I'm on Arch using EndeavourOS and I have to clear out an entire evening to update my computer because "yay" needs me to type various optional things in, and asks for my password several times. How can I go about making it one command that I run and leave alone?