The latest version of calibre is 6.16.

The version in the repositories is 6.11.0-1.0 and unfortunately will no longer start.

[keith@Arch32 ~]$ calibre
Failed to import PyQt module: PyQt6.QtNetwork with error: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PyQt6/QtNetwork.abi3.so: undefined symbol: _ZN16QNetworkDatagram7destroyEP23QNetworkDatagramPrivate, version Qt_6
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/calibre", line 21, in <module>
    sys.exit(calibre())
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui_launch.py", line 72, in calibre
    from calibre.gui2.main import main
  File "/usr/lib/calibre/calibre/gui2/__init__.py", line 13, in <module>
    from qt.core import (
ImportError: cannot import name 'QNetworkProxyFactory' from 'qt.core' (/usr/lib/calibre/qt/core.py)
[keith@Arch32 ~]$ pacman -Qi calibre
Name            : calibre
Version         : 6.11.0-1.0
Description     : Ebook management application
Architecture    : pentium4
URL             : https://calibre-ebook.com
Licenses        : GPL3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : hunspell  hyphen  icu  jxrlib  libmtp  libstemmer  libusb  libwmf  mathjax  mtdev  optipng  podofo
                  python-apsw  python-beautifulsoup4  python-cchardet  python-css-parser  python-cssselect  python-dateutil
                  python-dnspython  python-feedparser  python-html2text  python-html5-parser  python-jeepney  python-lxml
                  python-markdown  python-mechanize  python-msgpack  python-netifaces  python-pdftotext  python-pillow
                  python-psutil  python-py7zr  python-pychm  python-pycryptodome  python-pygments  python-pyqt6
                  python-pyqt6-webengine  python-regex  python-unrardll  python-zeroconf  qt6-imageformats  qt6-svg
                  qt6-webengine  ttf-liberation  uchardet  udisks2
Optional Deps   : poppler: required for converting pdf to html [installed]
                  speech-dispatcher: TTS support in the viewer
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : calibre-common  calibre-python3
Replaces        : calibre-common  calibre-python3
Installed Size  : 91.69 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Baumann <mail@andreasbaumann.cc>
Build Date      : Thu 12 Jan 2023 05:31:50 GMT
Install Date    : Tue 24 Jan 2023 10:15:48 GMT
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

[keith@Arch32 ~]$ 

just wanted to get this one on the board - i am unable to build ‘python-pyqt5’ which many other packages depend on, such as ‘qutebrowser’

the current ‘python-pyqt5’ PKGBUILD, which builds fine for x86_64 and arm, has unspecified dependencies in the i686 repos - not sure why that is

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘jaraco.functools’
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘jaraco.context’

that is easily fixed by requiring them explicitly:
> makedepends_i686=(’python-jaraco.context’ ‘python-jaraco.functools’)

however, after that, it gives a more fatal error:

sip-build: Unable to import ‘project.py’: No module named ‘pyqtbuild’

that module is in the ‘pyqt-builder’ package, i beleive - ‘pyqt-builder’ is installed as a build dependency; but it was built for python 3.9 - so probably that is why the build could not find the module

RC4 support not found
The following options are missing in the kernel:

CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ECB
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ARC4

gzip comes with asm code, if enabled, built a TEXTREL which gets bloqued on boot, so systemd don’t set keymap
A lot of tricks in forums, old thread more complete here $506 An old problem. Work around while asm gets fixed is call configure with DEFS=”NO_ASM” like this:

...
export DEFS="NO_ASM"
./configure ....

or,

./configure DEFS="NO_ASM" ....

I have not tested it, but gentoo on x32 have gzip like this and no TEXTRELS here.
No matter i486, i686 or pentium.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

[linux and linux-zen] 5.16.12 needs a rebuild with gcc 11.2 so DKMS packages will work

get errors when dkms installing in make log

cc1: error: incompatible gcc/plugin versions
cc1: error: failed to initialize plugin ./scripts/gcc-plugins/structleak_plugin.so

on fresh install file /usr/lib/libbfd.so lacks header “/* GNU ld script */” so I see complains on terminal

python-setuptools-scm 7.1.0-4.1 as found in the repo is missing the dependencies python-packaging and python-setuptools, which breaks the build of many other packages.

Very easy to reproduce. lldb version 10.0.0, just try to run any binary.

[aeden@arch32 bin]$ lldb $(which date)
(lldb) target create “/usr/bin/date” Current executable set to ‘/usr/bin/date’ (i386).
(lldb) run
error: failed to launch or debug process
(lldb)

When running qtile I get the following error message:

[qtile] importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for qtile

Running qtile on Arch Linux works as expected.

$ qtile start
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('qtile==0.18.1', 'console_scripts', 'qtile')())
  File "/usr/bin/qtile", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
    for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 957, in distribution
    return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/metadata/__init__.py", line 548, in from_name
    raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: No package metadata was found for qtile

$ pacman -Qi qtile
Name            : qtile
Version         : 0.18.1-3.0
Description     : A full-featured, pure-Python tiling window manager
Architecture    : pentium4
URL             : http://www.qtile.org
Licenses        : MIT
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gdk-pixbuf2  glibc  libnotify  librsvg  pango  python-cairocffi  python-cffi  python-xcffib  python-gobject  python-setuptools
Optional Deps   : alsa-utils: for volume widget
                  canto-daemon: for canto widget
                  cmus: for cmus widget
                  jupyter_console: for interaction with qtile via Jupyter
                  khal: for khal_calendar widget
                  libpulse: for pulse_volume and pulseaudio_ffi widget [installed]
                  lm_sensors: for sensors widget [installed]
                  moc: for moc widget
                  python-dbus-next: for utils, notifications and several widgets
                  python-iwlib: for wlan widget
                  python-keyring: for imapwidget widget
                  python-mpd2: mpd2widget widget
                  python-psutil: graph, net and memory widget [installed]
                  python-pywlroots: for experimental wayland support
                  python-setproctitle: change process name to qtile
                  python-xdg: launchbar widget
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 3.25 MiB
Packager        : Andreas Baumann <mail@andreasbaumann.cc>
Build Date      : Mon 04 Oct 2021 12:02:58
Install Date    : Mon 26 Sep 2022 13:33:45
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : Yes
Validated By    : Signature

$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
 community downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do

Starting terminus gives following error:

from ._cairo import *  # noqa: F401,F403
ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/cairo/_cairo.cpython-310-i386-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: cairo_tee_surface_index

Bug seens to be related to

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/77367

There is generall mess on cairo related files for different architectures (pentium4, i486, i686) - some packages for one architecture are outdated, while for other archictectures are up to date, for instance:

• python-cairo i486/extra : 1.21.0-1.0
• python-cairo i686/extra : 1.23.0-3.0
• python-cairo pentium4/extra : 1.23.0-3.0

This is pentium4 related problem. Firefox crashes on startup with following messages:

ExceptionHandler::GenerateDump cloned child 814
ExceptionHandler::SendContinueSignalToChild sent continue signal to child
ExceptionHandler::WaitForContinueSignal waiting for continue signal...

Screenshot. Firefox folder after crash.

Temporary solution is to change in /etc/pacman/conf

Architecture=i686

, delete firefox for pentium4 from pacman cache and reinstall firefox

firefox-106.0.3.1.1-i686

The current version of sddm (0.19.0-9.0) depends on the previous version of Qt (5.15.8). After updating Qt, sddm crashes with an incompatible Qt library error.