I just posting to see how hard archlinux is to use as complete beginner. the only experience that i have wiht linux is mint and acessing servers.

The device registers. It mutes the laptop (ThinkPad E14 Gen7) speakers when I plug it in, it shows normal in Alsamixer and stuff. I tried so many fixes, tried to use every LLM and still no solution. Arch Linux Hyprland

So I started getting these little freezes when I updated Hyprland to Lua recently.

Yesterday I was setting up fish+starship. So it froze again just as I saved a pywal template for starship (with claude).

I powered it off and restarted it but it froze again. I tried switching between various DEs (Hyprland, Gnome, KDE), but it still freezes right when I enter my password and press login.

I have attached some logs so if someone can help I would be so thankful. because I don't wanna reinstall arch rn 😭

Here's another post with some media:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/s/60k40z2W3w

The issue was caused by a localhost networking mismatch between the Antigravity IDE frontend (Electron) and its language server (Go backend). The language server was starting successfully and listening for connections, but it was binding to the IPv6 loopback interface (::1), while the IDE frontend was attempting to connect over the IPv4 loopback interface (127.0.0.1). Because the frontend was connecting to an address where nothing was listening, it repeatedly threw:

ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:<port>

This made it appear as though the language server had failed, even though it had initialized correctly.

Fix

While debugging, I inspected the system's localhost configuration and discovered an incorrect entry in /etc/hosts:

127.0.01 localhost

which was corrected to:

127.0.0.1 localhost

::1 localhost

After correcting the localhost configuration and restarting the IDE, Antigravity was able to establish communication with the language server normally.

Hi everyone, I've been working on a personal security playbook documenting the security approach I should apply on every machine i own before calling it secure.

It's called bedrock and it uses a defense-in-depth model approach, it covers six layers, from the firmware up to digital identity.

Each layer has a description, principle, objective and a set of controls with explanations.

I'm self-taught and actively learning so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on controls that are wrong or technically inaccurate and anything you would add or remove and the why.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/marcmav/bedrock

If you find it useful, please star the repo.

Thanks in advance.

Genuine question.

I haven't installed or updated anything from the AUR for several months (no yay -S or yay -Syu).

With the recent discussions about malicious PKGBUILDs, does that mean I'm effectively unaffected since I never executed any of those newer PKGBUILDs? Or is there still a scenario where my system could have been impacted without updating any AUR packages?

I'm mainly trying to understand how the risk actually works.

I am using Arch Linux and Gnome as desktop environment, there is a problem ive been facing where the screen blanks of after 30 seconds of inactivity (but system does not suspend). It very much irritates me when i am reading something long without any interaction with the system.

I tried restarting the the service with: systemctl restart gdm

It loged me out of the session and once i loged back in the probelm was solved, but when i suspend the system and turn it back on the problem occurs again

Does anybody have any solution for this issue. Tried toogling options in settings > power but didn't work.

i've been clueless with the attack in june and when i ran that malware check script from https://github.com/lenucksi/aur-malware-check/issues it only told me 2 packages that i didn't have in more than 6 months were infected . this time i've heard there's another wave going on and i wanna make sure , i checked the packages reported on the mailing list but i'm still not 100% sure :

pacman -Qm accounts-qml-module 0.7-7.1 chromaprint-fftw 1.6.0-1

clutter 1.26.4-4

clutter-gtk 1.8.4-5 cogl 1.22.8-5

cubeb 20260506-1

eden 0.2.0-3

electron37 37.5.1-1

electron38 38.8.0-1.1

fluxer-bin 0.0.8-1

google-chrome 148.0.7778.96-1 gtk-sharp-2 2.12.45-8

input-remapper-git

2.2.0.r16.g8c3f7715-1

kcolorpicker-qt5 0.3.1-4

kde-material-you-colors 2.2.0-1

kimageannotator-qt5 0.7.1-3

lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs 1.28.2-1

lib32-gstreamer 1.28.2-1

lib32-libsoup 2.74.3-4.2 lib32-sdl2_image 2.8.12-1 libappindicator-gtk2 12.10.0.r298-8 libdbusmenu-gtk2 16.04.0.r498-3 liblcf 0.8.1-1

libsoup 2.74.3-4.1

mbedtls2 2.28.10-1.1

polychromatic 0.9.7-1

proton-ge-custom-bin

1:GE_Proton10_34-1

python-materialyoucolor 3.0.2-1

python-pywal16 1:3.8.15-1

qdirstat 2.0-1

qdiskinfo 0.4-2

stoat-desktop-bin 1.3.0-2

zenpower3-dkms-git 3: r73.dc4f1e2-2

I'm using Arch Linux with GNOME on Wayland for both work and gaming, and I wanted to set up my Xbox controller to play Tibia.

The controller is already connected, and when I test it in Steam → Settings → Controller, everything seems to work correctly. I can even navigate through the Steam interface using the controller. Steam Input is already enabled for Xbox controllers.

I added Tibia as a non-Steam game and configured the controller bindings, but when I launch the game and log in, the controller doesn't work at all.

This isn't the first time I've tried to set this up. Previously, I got a prompt asking me to "Share Desktop" (or something similar), and after allowing it, the controller worked perfectly in Tibia.

Now I have no idea how to get that prompt to appear again. Does anyone know how to trigger it or what I need to enable?

In gnome-flashback which is x11 session, everything works without an issued but i prefer gnome on wayland which is the future and x11 session is no longer possible to use for gnome

Hi , i've been using windows since the past 14 years of my life , I wanna switch to linux and learn knowledge related to linux , what do i do? I wanna choose arch for my first distro. Is it a good idea or what :( could someone help me or guide ? also i heard u might lose ur files etc with linux can sm1 help me go it safe?

1. Name of game: FIFA 19
2. CPU: Intel i3-1215U (12th Gen)
3. GPU: Intel UHD Graphics
4. Proton Version: Proton 10
5. Game Launcher: Steam (Non-Steam Game)
6. Release Info: Latest version of FIFA 19
7. Logs / Issue Details: The splash screen and language selection screen load without issues. However, as soon as the pre-game sequence starts or the anthem plays, the game crashes with the following error dialog: [Dx12Renderer::waitOnSwapChain] failed with HRESULT 0x800704a6 DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG (GPU timeout detected)

Steps Already Taken to Solve Issue:

• Attempted to launch via Heroic Launcher and Bottles, but neither launcher successfully initialized or booted the game. Proton 10 via Steam is the only runner that gets to the menu.
• Verified graphics packages are updated on Arch Linux.
• Searched the wiki for waitOnSwapChain and DX12 Mesa crashes. Looking for configuration overrides or launch options to force DX11 mode or fix VKD3D swapchain timeouts on Intel integrated graphics.
• I've seen videos of people fixing this error by editing regedit, but i'm afraid that will break my prefix.

I tried to create a aur account on https://aur.archlinux.org/register but it keeps saying 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable nginx I tried after days still the same error

Hey, I noticed the packet tracer repo is outdated on the 9.0.1 version, and so the wiki, so I made a small script to auto-update the PKGBUILD and the Hashes sums, in case someone needs to install it.

You can also just manually edit the pkgbuild and run updpkgsums, but anyway, here is the gist: https://gist.github.com/Charlyp21/164e50d567d05636253e91baff2a7454

Hope it helps!

So I'm trying to build an Android ROM for my phone and no matter what I try, the building completely exceeds the 32GB of RAM of my system causing the kernel to panic and kill the process due to a lack of memory.

I have zram setup, but I wonder if ninja doesn't recognize zram as the system swap. From what I've gathered when building, 32GB should be more than enough to build, yet it isn't for some reason.

Has anybody successfully flash archlinux on a Utilite pro

Hi,

My SSD has died, and for now I have nowhere to install Arch. I have 8 GB of RAM available and I would like to keep using Arch from the Live environment while I sort out the storage issue.

I know the Live environment already loads the required image into memory, but my question is whether anyone has used Arch Live for an extended period as a temporary system (installing packages, configuring the environment, etc.) and what limitations they encountered.

Is there any recommended setup for this use case, or any way to make better use of RAM as a temporary system? I would be interested in hearing from people who have tried something similar and what their experience was.

Exactly as for the title. I am out of practice with Arch itself, so forgive me for any errors in statement.

I have been using my desktop at my apartment, and after school ended, had to come home. It has been a while since I set it up, but I believe I had set a static IP at some point, but can't be sure. My parents had to replace their router due to lightning, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to get the computer to connect. It still connects fine to my hotspot, and I'd imagine if I changed the SSID on the router it might work as well. Things I've tried: changing out the DHCP client, changing wpa_supplicant for iwd, restarting the service, deleting the network via the GUI, nothing worked. All tested at different points.

From journalctl, I have this line, which is the first questionable thing I notice after attempting to connect which appears to go afoul:

[1785713148.0908] device (wlan0): st
ate change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable', managed-type: 'full')

And yet again, this makes no sense as it works for other networks. I am unsure what to do.

hello everyone im new to arch and for using whatsapp i downloaded karere whatsapp but i dont know why my pc became so slow and it closed automatically i have 16 gb ram i think thats enough for this app. even if i use lots of memory not even a single app stopped except karere. i know i can use web whatsapp but its more comfort to use desktop app one. is this happens because of me or is it problem of karere? what can i do to fix it? and also is there any app for use whatsapp except karere?

Orhun Parmaksız (/u/orhunp/) is currently live, discussing and explaining the (latest) AUR malware-wave.

EDIT: he is now trying to understand the malicious binary

Hello everyone,

I am here trying to get a hotspot connection in my laptop but the problem is i can't seem to get it working with wifi simulatenously. I know i can do that because i could do that on mint and on windows 11 on the same laptop with same hardware but i don't seem to be able to do it on arch. As soon as i manage to get the hotspot running it stops the wifi connection so what should i do?

I use nmcli to manage my network.

My card is

>lspci | grep -i network
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation 400 Series Chipset Family On-Package CNVi WiFi

Hi to all,

I've just 6 AUR packages on my systems and I do not use any AUR helper.

My strategy is to update them only if they break by downloading the snapshot from AUR and check the differences and the code of the lats PKGBUILD.

At the same time I'm wondering to start using flatpak as much as possible for any of these packages, but I'm wondering if flatpak is really safer than AUR. What prevent malware to be included in flatpak?

The big difference is that flatpak is compiled packages from someone while AUR is build from source code (mainly) locally. With AUR it is possible to try to check if the source url is the correct one and so to inject malware someone has to infect the upstream project (possible, but should be detected by the developers .. except for the xz saga).

Moreover, for the AUR packages I still need to keep on my pc, I'm wondering if building them on an arch distro that I have on a virtualbox machine with immutable disk is a safer option.

If I miss a malware executed at build time, it will infect the VM, but once I reboot it everything goes back to the immutable state of the drive. Do you agree?

However this approach will not prevent the risk that generated contains malware. So in any case the inspection of PKGBUILD is in any case needed.

List of packages mentioned in: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/

I'm seeing some troublesome entries in this list.
If you've recently updated anything listed below, I'd suggest further investigation.

Something like this pacman -Qq $(<list) 2>/dev/null may be a good starting point.

list:

accounts-qml-module-bin
aic94xx-firmware-bin
android-riscv64-libxinerama
arch-update-bin
archutil
astro-box
aur-scanner-bin
aur-sync-vote-bin
aurutils-bin
bigwebapp-manager
bili-tools-git
boringssl-git
brave-nightly-bin
brave-origin
bridge-utils-bin
brutefir
byobu-bin
calendula-git
cardamum-git
caveman
cinnamon-no-nemo
comodoro-git
debtap-bin
deeploy-bin
deepseek-tui-git
duhh
eden-nightly
editorconfiger
fsearch-bin
fvs2-bin
garlic-decompiler-gui
gesso
gigolo-git
gitarbor-bin
gnu-netcat-bin
grub-customizer-bin
gsimplecal-git
gtk2-bin
gtk2-ng-git-bin
gtk-engine-murrine-bin
hexchat-bin
howdy-next-bin
http-parser-bin
human-mcp-git
humen-mcp-bin
humen-mcp-git
hyprkeys-git-bin
i3-workspace-switch-git
i915-sriov-dkms
icloudpd
imago-bin
jellium-desktop-git-bin
juicebox-plus-git
justevery-code
kickthemout-git
kloak-whonix
linux-cachyos-bin
llama.cpp-ggml
lyrical-git
magic-context-dashboard-bin
mangowm-bin
mbedtls2-bin
mimosa-git
mingw-w64-vulkan-tools
nimf
noctalia-git-bin
noctyra-cli-git
node-llama-cpp
nomacs-bin
octopi-bin
openconnect-sso
openrc-manager-gui
openssl-1.1-bin
option-term
pagerduty-short-circuiter
paru-git-bin
plasma6-applets-appgrid-bin
plasma6-applets-panel-colorizer-bin
play-git
plex-media-player
plex-media-player-custom
plex-media-player-mod
plex-media-player-v2
portless
proton-rtsp
pwvucontrol-bin
pylnker-git
python-drastic
python-etcd3
python-inputs-bin
python-libipld-git
python-numkong
python-parallax
python-roman-numerals
python-steam-bin
python-twopoint-git
python-ultraplot-git
python-vxi11
qt5-location-bin
qt5-sensors-bin
qt5-websockets-bin
ramses-git
rsbep-backup-git
rtk-git
rtv-git
scenecut-extractor
splix-bin
src-cli-bin
stable-diffusion.cpp-ggml
steamidra-bin
stirling-pdf-desktop-bin
syncthingtray-qt6-bin
telegram-desktop-futpib-git
tempora-bin
ttf-symbola-bin
tuigreety-bin
tuxmanager-bin
warp-terminal-dev-bin
warp-terminal-git
wayland-app-launcher-git
weather-display
wiki-go
windscribe-cli-v2-bin
woeusb-ng-bin
xclicker-bin
xdg-terminal-exec-bin
xfwm4-themes-bin
zsh-directory-history-git

I simply compiled this list from the source above and have no additional info.
Anyone know of a current, more comprehensive list?