Sync Updates for Week 39, 2024

Dudel

I got an error in the VM install ...

[✓] Applying udev rules success
System error. Program terminated.
(-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0061 PANIC: Invalid argument')
Please use 'eopkg help' for general help.
Use --debug to see a traceback.
Error in atexit._run_exitfuncs:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/atexit.py", line 24, in _run_exitfuncs
func(targs, **kargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/init.py", line 75, in _cleanup
filesdb.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pisi/db/filesdb.py", line 94, in close
self.filesdb.close()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shelve.py", line 146, in close
self.sync()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shelve.py", line 173, in sync
self.dict.sync()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/bsddb/init.py", line 347, in sync
return DeadlockWrap(self.db.sync)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/bsddb/dbutils.py", line 68, in DeadlockWrap
return function(args, **_kwargs)
DBRunRecoveryError: (-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery')
Error in sys.exitfunc:
No handlers could be found for logger "pisi"
System error. Program terminated.
(-30973, 'BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery -- BDB0060 PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery')
Please use 'eopkg help' for general help.
Use --debug to see a traceback.

Harvey

Dudel
sudo eopkg rdb

brent

all went well. appreciate the updates and your write-ups. really digging them actually.

Two observations:

1) at the end of sync I noticed for the first time updating hwdb. db is probably database but never seen that one before.

2) sudo reboot is back, don't know why. Its very rare you need the sudo so just a heads up.

Harvey

brent 1) at the end of sync I noticed for the first time updating hwdb. db is probably database but never seen that one before.

It is systemd. Yes this is normal.

brent 2) sudo reboot is back, don't know why. Its very rare you need the sudo so just a heads up.

What? reboot does not require sudo I checked.

banger

All good once I got back in after my Wayland treacle problems (reported to KDE).

brent

Harvey
1) thanks, never noticed

2) mine did require sudo. after 'reboot' I got a bunch of red terminal output I don't remember (syncing, making dinner, pouring drink) but too distracted to read it. It forced me to sudo. I was just guessing it was a temporary state that would change on reboot. It always does. or maybe I have something broke? either way smooth update and running fine.

Harvey

brent ' I got a bunch of red terminal output I don't remember

Without knowing what that was, I have no way of being sure what happened.

JTCPingas

🐸

brent

Harvey Without knowing what that was, I have no way of being sure what happened.

I think experience has taught me the rare rare rare times I have had to sudo reboot it always fixed itself within a day. That's why I glossed over/did not consider it important.
In fact if I try right now I kinda feel I will get no error. Lemme see and edit when back.

edit: my absence of concern was valid. It just rebooted fine.

Harvey

Some interesting new additions to the repository this week:

deckmaster An application to control your Elgato Stream Deck on Linux (Thanks to @ianmjones)
tetrs Play Tetris in a terminal. (Thanks to @androidnisse )
- Note this requires a terminal like alacritty or kitty for a smooth experience.

Justin

Harvey tetrs Play Tetris in a terminal. (Thanks to androidnisse)

Konsole seems to be quite smooth as well.

nazar

EbonJaeger The other stems from our default PAM configuration, in which the root user was set as a passwordless account, enabling people with physical access to the machine to login as root from a TTY without a password. Not all installations of Solus were affected, and a fix has already been cherry-picked to the Stable repository.

nullok?

"nullok" has been there for everyone, for the last 5 months, yep...

stalebrim

nazar https://github.com/getsolus/packages/commit/e1e115341714fcfd6efd46b7ba3728bb0e711fd7
the overhaul went reilly well

JTCPingas

Updated and all is well on GNOME land.

AlphaElwedritsch

All went smooth on my KDE box
but it's only a tiny little update with 352 MB 😉

Thanks guys again for your work. I appreciate this very much

Harvey

For clarity with tetrs, I gave the notice recommending alacritty or kitty due to their readme stating:

Use a terminal like kitty (or any terminal with support for progressive keyboard enhancement) for smoother gameplay experience. Note that otherwise DAS/ARR/Soft drop speed will be determined by Keyboard/OS/terminal emulator settings.

Explanation.
Terminals do not usually send "key released" signals, which is a problem for mechanics such as "press left to move left repeatedly until key is released". Crossterm automatically detects 'kitty-protocol'-compatible terminals where this issue is solved, allowing for smooth, configurable gameplay controls.

(This also affects holding Soft Drop locking pieces on ground instantly, as opposed to only upon press down -- for ergonomics this is explicitly mitigated by the 'No soft drop lock' configuration.)

The link states:

Note that, currently, only the following support this protocol:

kitty terminal
foot terminal
WezTerm terminal
alacritty terminal
notcurses library
neovim text editor
kakoune text editor
dte text editor

So if you notice issues using a different terminal this is why.

brent

Harvey can confirm, not supported in gnome-terminal

Kiwimoose

This update broke my system somewhat. It boots to a blinking line. I can go to tty and log in and do terminal stuff except rollback gives an error: system error. Program terminated. Repo item qt5-virtualkeyboard not found.

Graphical stuff won't start. Any pointers what to do?
Also it probably was a few months since I last updated in case that makes a difference...

Staudey

Kiwimoose This update broke my system somewhat. It boots to a blinking line.

Do you have an NVIDIA GPU?

WetGeek

Once again, I updated two laptops and four VMs, all without any issues at all. Another great job by the team!

Staudey

EbonJaeger Patches to both Firefox and Thunderbird have been added to fix efivar conflicts with each other.

I think you meant to write "envvar" (or similar) there ^^

EbonJaeger

Staudey Don't know what you're talking about 😁 (Thanks!)

Kiwimoose

Staudey yes indeed! Any idea what I should do? 🙂