Requests for current-next (15.0-->15.1)

marav · 08-24-2023, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi

Works here. Anyone else seeing this?

Reinstalled the Slackware pkg
Rebooted multiple time, multiple kernels
The failed message has gone...

USUARIONUEVO · 08-24-2023, 09:06 PM

I got this ....

Quote:

dmesg|grep regulatory.db
[ 2.038937] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[ 2.038955] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db

this file is loaded ONLY , when system have a wireless device card.

virtual machines not good to check this.

EDIT: Strange , as marav point i reinstall crda and reboot , now all fine ...

rizitis · 08-25-2023, 03:19 AM

Code:

dmesg | grep cfg80211
Password: 
[    6.485218] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database
[    6.485524] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7'

Code:

dmesg|grep regulatory.db
root@$~>

bare metal here np.

Didier Spaier · 08-28-2023, 10:29 AM

Rationale: these packages are needed to provide microcode updates early during the boot process for Intel processors. This is already possible for AMD processors because the needed files are shipped in the Slackware package kernel-firmware, but not for Intel processors.

Both software are available in SBo fo Slackware 15.0:
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...m/iucode_tool/
https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...tel-microcode/

I checked that installing them allows to update the Intel microcode. I used dracut to have them built-in the initrd but other ways are possible, like including the microcode as an early initrd in grub.cfg, either editing it manually or setting GRUB_EARLY_INITRD_LINUX_STOCK in /etc/default/grub if using grub-mkconfig

Links:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Microcode
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/microcode

PS as an aside it is advisable to install a CPIO archive for the AMD microcode in /boot, either bundled in the kernel-firmware package or as a separate package as do for instance Gentoo and Arch, like with this PKGBUILD: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlin...ref_type=heads. dracut rebuilds the archive from the firmware files if found, but this would allow to use GRUB to load an early initrd for AMD as well as Intel.

perrin4869 · 08-29-2023, 12:24 AM

ffmpeg broke with the latest vulkan-sdk update, probably just needs to be rebuilt though:

Quote:

$ ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libglslang.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

glennmcc · 08-29-2023, 12:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by perrin4869

ffmpeg broke with the latest vulkan-sdk update, probably just needs to be rebuilt though:

You beat me to it ;-)

Code:

root@glennmcc-i7:~/downloads# ffmpeg
ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libglslang.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
root@glennmcc-i7:~/downloads# slackpkg file-search libglslang.so

Looking for libglslang.so in package list. Please wait... DONE

The list below shows the packages that contains "libglslang\.so" file.

[ installed ] - vulkan-sdk-1.3.250.0-x86_64-1

You can search specific packages using "slackpkg search package".

As a temporary 'fix' till the correct one comes down the wire....

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libglslang.so /usr/lib64/libglslang.so.11

'fix' no-longer needed

Code:

Tue Aug 29 18:55:59 UTC 2023
l/ffmpeg-5.1.3-x86_64-2.txz:  Rebuilt.
  Patched and recompiled against vulkan-sdk-1.3.250.0.
  Thanks to lucabon.

marav · 08-29-2023, 02:15 PM

Firefox 115.2.0esr

Release notes:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo.../releasenotes/

lostintime · 08-29-2023, 02:32 PM

Pat, possible rc.crond patch?

Code:

--- rc.crond	2023-08-29 14:24:14.953197538 -0500
+++ rc.crond.new	2023-08-29 14:25:31.560350130 -0500
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   if ! /usr/bin/pgrep --ns $$ --euid root -f "^/usr/sbin/crond" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then
     echo "Starting crond:  /usr/sbin/crond $CROND_OPTS"
     mkdir -p /run/cron
+    chmod 1777 /run/cron
     /usr/sbin/crond $CROND_OPTS
   fi
 }

Refer to Can't save crontab -e as non-root with mcedit.

Edit: Tested in 15.0 64-bit.

saxa · 08-29-2023, 05:16 PM

vala-0.56.13
https://download.gnome.org/sources/v...0.56.13.tar.xz

marav · 08-29-2023, 05:44 PM

Thunderbird 115.2.0

Release notes:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/th.../releasenotes/

adcdam · 08-29-2023, 10:20 PM

Back to mesa 23.1.6 or mesa 23.2 recompiled against new vulkan-sdk ? im having some trouble with Steam games after mesa 23.2 , using mesa 23.1.x games work fine with mesa 23.2 some work some don't.

opty · 08-30-2023, 02:17 PM

sysklogd 2.5.2

bigbadaboum · 08-30-2023, 02:25 PM

with ffmpeg 4.4, we could only encode with image quality -crf 50 in SVT-AV1, now with ffmpeg 5.1 the -crf option is activated. Maybe SVT-AV1 could be add in the official slackware repositories?

metaed · 08-30-2023, 03:33 PM

The NTP package file ntp.Slackbuild applies a patch file ntp.nano.diff.gz that might now be obsolete.
This patch worked around a bug introduced into Linux header files that broke the NTP build.

The NTP build completes without the patch on my Slackware64-15.0 system.
The resulting ntpd apparently is still able to use nanokernel support for NTP, if the startup messages below are any guide:

ntpd[9092]: proto: precision = 0.090 usec (-23)
...
ntpd[9092]: kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized
ntpd[9092]: 0.0.0.0 c01d 0d kern kernel time sync enabled
ntpd[9092]: kernel reports TIME_ERROR: 0x2041: Clock Unsynchronized
ntpd[9092]: 0.0.0.0 c012 02 freq_set kernel 9.480 PPM

So please consider whether the patch should be withdrawn in 15.1.

EDIT: One of the NTP developers suggested I add a sanity check of the relevant headers to timexsup.c and recompile. The change still did not break the build. This proved to his satisfaction that the Linux bug was gone. He recommended that the patch be dropped from the distribution.

F0nix · 08-30-2023, 08:39 PM

Hello Pat,

May I request that zstd be packaged with the cmake files?
More info here: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...es/zstd-cmake/