I am tired of having to monthly run commands to clear the pacman cache. Why does it grow so huge? Why do I even need it? Just so reinstalling certain programs is faster? I don't care about that.

Hi, I am new to Arch, but am familiar with Debian, which is my daily driver (personal laptop). I just built a gaming/ML PC, and I picked Arch for the OS, and opted for LVM on LUKS. My goal is to have the root filesystem encrypted with LUKS2 and /boot with LUKS1 (for now, to match my Debian setup).

I have done this with Ubuntu and Debian before, so I thought I'd implement a mix of the following two guides (but perhaps that's where things went sideways):

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Full_Disk_Encryption_Howto_2019
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system#Encrypted_boot_partition_(GRUB))

Basically, I am prompted by GRUB for the password to unlock the boot partition, then the GRUB menu appears and when I try booting Arch the timeout happens and everything kind of stops there (I don't even get dropped into an emergency shell). Here are a couple of the error messages:

[ TIME ] timed out waiting for device /dev/mapper/vg-root

Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked.

Anyway, here's my target filesystem as seen from a live USB.

NAME                MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                 7:0    0  2.7G  1 loop  /usr/lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
                                              /run/live/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
sdb                   8:16   1 14.5G  0 disk  
├─sdb1                8:17   1  3.2G  0 part  /usr/lib/live/mount/medium
│                                             /run/live/medium
└─sdb2                8:18   1    5M  0 part  
nvme0n1             259:0    0  1.8T  0 disk  
├─nvme0n1p1         259:1    0    1G  0 part  
│ └─LUKS_BOOT       253:0    0 1022M  0 crypt /mnt/boot
├─nvme0n1p2         259:2    0    2M  0 part  
├─nvme0n1p3         259:3    0  128M  0 part  /mnt/boot/efi
└─nvme0n1p5         259:4    0  1.8T  0 part  
  └─nvme0n1p5_crypt 253:1    0  1.8T  0 crypt 
    ├─vg-swap_1     253:2    0   10G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
    └─vg-root       253:3    0  1.8T  0 lvm   /mnt

And some relevant lines from the config files:

/etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_DEFAULT_LINUX="loglevel=3"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.luks.name=88c898af-1425-494a-9ae5-677062b9cbc4=nvme0n1p5_crypt"
GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES="part_gpt part_msdos"
GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=y

/etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

FILES=(/etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/cryptlvm.key)
HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt lvm2 filesystems fsck)

/etc/crypttab (unclear to me if this is required, but I put the following lines in anyway):

LUKS_BOOT UUID=d83d6143-ca41-482e-babe-254ac17a6895 /etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/cryptlvm.key luks,discard
nvme0n1p5_crypt UUID=88c898af-1425-494a-9ae5-677062b9cbc4 /etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/cryptlvm.key luks,discard

/etc/fstab:

# /dev/mapper/vg-root
UUID=c8d7f46f-22e3-452e-b43c-0365dbadd185 /         ext4      rw,relatime0 1
# /dev/mapper/LUKS_BOOT LABEL=boot
UUID=34ce7fe9-e53c-4718-af92-e46a08d65a94 /boot     ext4      rw,relatime0 2
# /dev/nvme0n1p3 LABEL=EFI_SP
UUID=ECFE-5A4C      /boot/efi vfat      rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro0 2
# /dev/mapper/vg-swap_1
UUID=3531654d-a349-40e7-8299-8b7470bb43a6none      swap      defaults  0 0

I have already regenerated both initramfs and grub.cfg multiple times. As a reminder, I encrypted the LUKS_BOOT partition as LUKS1 (cryptsetup luksFormat --type=luks1 /dev/nvme0n1p1), and /dev/mapper/nvme0n1p5_crypt as LUKS2.

Please let me know if I should post any other info; thanks for reading!

PS: whilst chroot-ed into my target filesystem, I ran the following command:

[root@archiso /]# lsinitcpio /boot/initramfs-linux.img | grep cryptlvm
etc/cryptsetup-keys.d/cryptlvm.key

I'm genuinely stumped at this point, but I bet I'm overlooking something stupidly simple.

I installed icaclient but that didn't work. I also tried debtap of the official citrix client with no success.
The official client was stuck at libnm-glib.so.4 dependency which I can't find in any packages.

I thought I would finally be able to use arch, and hyprland for work but looks like vpn access is going to make me buy another mac :(

Hi everyone, I decided to install Arch on my laptop for good performance and, as a computer science student, I find it helpful to become familiar with this.

But I have a big problem: when I put my computer to sleep or it does it on its own, everything goes theoretically well, but when it comes to turning it back on, it cannot be, the screen stays off, but the keyboard lights up as if it had forgotten to send the instruction to the screen to turn it back on.

After walking around the forum, I found similar problems and, in trying the solutions, nothing helps.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the solutions being tested, because there were still a lot of them to try.

If someone has a solution that I potentially haven't tried, I'm a taker.

If someone asks, my computer is a : Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9 RTX 4060 24 Go RAM 500 Go SSD

If I don't respond quickly, I'm in school and I'll respond as soon as possible.

I use Dropbox mainly through the system tray GUI. However, I've also installed (and many times in the past, successfully used) the CLI (dropbox-cli from AUR). When I try to use the CLI (for example, by typing "dropbox help") it simply launches the system tray application. This used to work in the past, but seems broken now.

Has anyone else encountered this issue?

hello! i have an issue that popped up after some time that every time i start the pc the screen gets stuck at "_". the only way to fix this is to switch to another tty (CTRL + ALT + F3) and run the command sudo systemctl restart sddm, does anyone know is there a fix for this or just suggest me for an alternative to use?

Aside from the wiki, are there any other helpful resources to learn arch (or Linux in general if thats the case) more? I really don’t feel like I’ve learned anything from watching videos on arch and only feel more confused, and don‘t even understand the replies in forums. In short what are some resources to dumb it down for a moron as myself to actually learn arch?

As you all know, the AUR is being targeted by hackers for two weeks now, and the workaround (using the github repo) requires manual installation. For some people that's too complex, as they cannot rely on yay/paru, for others this might scare people off Arch Linux, so I've built a small helper for installing packages so it would be easier to do.
It is version 0.1, so unexpected behaviour might be present.

Github: https://github.com/tieler-am-elster/Aurify/

Feedback welcome!

Discrete GPU : NVIDIA GeForce 830M

Integrated GPU : Intel HD Graphics 5500

Window manager : Hyprland

Wiki says a lot of stuff: nvidia OPTIMUS, bumblebee, EnvyControl, PRIME-render...

I guess there are many use-cases and many solutions.

My use case is a fix laptop that currently has no battery. On the long term I will turn it into a portable machine so I would like to implement a module in my waybar to easily switch between integrated/discrete GPU.

I tried to follow the arch wiki to only use my NVIDIA GPU , since I do not care about power consumption at the moment.

I must have messed up somewhere because I am unsure wich graphic card is my laptop using currently.

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer" tells me : OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce 830M/PCIe/SSE2

But nvidia-smi seems to indicate that the card is not currently being used... (see here).

I'm kind of lost right now, not sure what tool should I use and when to use/not use my discrete GPU.

I saw omarchy's package install script and really liked it. Then I made this script for everything at once with simple caching system. That's my very first bash script that actually does something useful and I am happy with the result :D

Some notable features are:

- Easy one command installation
- Easy usage for new people
- Supports yay and paru, asks to to install yay if anything is not present.
- Creates cache and regenerates it every 5 days
- Ability to manually regenerate the cache
- Ability to regenerate cache from only pacman (useful when AUR is not accessible for some reason)
- Ability to select multiple packages at once (thanks to fzf)

I have installed Arch many times, and I really know my way around the command line. Been using linux since the 1990s…

I have this NSI MiniPC that just won’t boot after completing the install. The BIOS has EFI and EFI+Legacy options, but neither setting makes it boot.

Either the system boots and tries to boot over the LAN or boots into an EFI shell.

I have security disabled (it has TPM1.2).

efibootmgr lists a bunch of boot options or keys (I’ve never needed to run it manually).

The system has a 128G nvme and a 480G SSD and I have tried to install to both.

On the Wiki for a certain MSI motherboard, it said I needed to copy the grub.efi stub to EFI/BOOT and that didn’t work either.

FWIW, I installed Arch on three other MiniPCs today, no problem…

This is a longshot but I'll take it...

I'm building up a virtual pinball machine. Part of it involves using a Wemos D1 Mini connected to a PC for addressable LED control. The Wemos is driven by libdof, the Direct Output Framework library ported to Linux. Libdof is in turn a part of Visual Pinball. Play some pinball, lights flash, amazing. A little config file tells libdof how to to talk to the controller I have, and it specifies among other things the comms details, the LED arrangement, etc. This was all working wonderfully, until it wasn't.

I fired it up a few days ago and now libdof tells me that it can't talk to my Wemos controller and I have no idea why. I went back and tried many different config files that used to work and now they don't. I've tried different usb cables and ports. I've downgraded my kernel by multiple versions and no difference. I used git checkout to go back to earlier versions of the code that I know for a fact worked and that didn't help. I've verified that I'm in the uucp group that /dev/ttyUSB0 (the USB port Linux assigned to the controller) is in, confirmed via dmesg. I've messed around in my BIOS and changed a few things in there to no effect. Libdof contains its own copy of libusb so it isn't like an update on Arch for that would mess things up.

Get this: everything works fine in the Windows port so that proves out the hardware and the config files I'm using. I can connect to the Wemos in Linux manually using minicom and successfully send test commands to the controller that work properly. That I think proves out that all my permissions are ok. I just can't get this libdof software to talk to the Wemos and this used to work.

I've chatted with the developer on Discord and there haven't been any changes in the code that should affect this (and it doesn't matter because I went back to earlier versions and they refuse to work).

Does anybody have any idea of something else I can try? I am completely baffled and out of ideas.

Edit: I guess I wasn't clear that I'm running Arch and was looking for ideas on what I might be able to do to investigate further. Roll back something other than the kernel? Point me to some debugging tools I could install? Docs I could look at? Any sudden USB weirdness or new bugs that other Arch users have seen or are aware of? That kind of thing.

So I am trying linutil utility using arch on a virtual machine and when I restart I get an error of grub saying:
Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. To enable less(1)-like paging, "set pager=1".
Idk why this shows up, I tried typing exit to enter arch installing menu and when I press go to OS it goes back to grub, it is broken or what do I gotta do? I used this video of chris titus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGnlEmfYjM

Tldr; Fish spawns instead Alacritty on a fresh XMonad install for my terminal. I changed default shell to fish could this be causing an issue?

I recently finished installed Arch and started installing XMonad, Alacritty, and fish as the shell (not sure if that's right, but correct me if I'm wrong.) I got XMonad up and running, but whenever I spawn a terminal it spawns fish instead of Alacritty. I did change my default shell to fish and I think this has something to do with it, but I can't figure out what I did wrong. When I change fish back to bash it spawns bash instead, so something is wrong with the way my config is set I think, but I have a basic setup as follows:

import XMonad
import Xmonad.Util.EZConfig (additionalKeysP)
main = xmonad $ myConfig
myConfig = def
  {terminal = "alacritty"
  , modMask = mod4Mask
  }
  `additionalKeysP`
  [("M-f" , spawn "firefox")
  }

Any ideas or mistakes in configuring this system would be greatly appreciated!

Do you guys have any brands that you specifically recommend for Arch?

Or do you guys like building your systems?

I know brands like Framework, Lenovo, and Star Labs are popular for laptops.

i had pipewire installed from archinstall but i tried installing pulseaudio and then i removed pipewire but i couldnt get it to work so i installed pipewire and wireplumber and uninstalled pulseaudio and now everything works fine except steam which lets me use my mic but not speaker

Ever since I installed shellcheck, this question was bothering me. Like there's haskell-prettyprinter-ansi-terminal 1.1.3-267, why does pkgrel = 267? And why are a bunch of haskell packages get a new pkgrel nearly every day? What is the reason for this amount of package releases? They're not even updates to the libraries themselves, they're just updates to the packaging.

More examples of wildly high pkgrel numbers in haskell packages: local/haskell-aeson 2.1.2.1-124 local/haskell-ansi-terminal 1.0.2-42 local/haskell-ansi-terminal-types 0.11.5-82 local/haskell-assoc 1.1.1-39 local/haskell-attoparsec 0.14.4-118 local/haskell-base-compat-batteries 0.12.3-34 local/haskell-colour 2.3.6-292 local/haskell-comonad 5.0.9-64 local/haskell-data-fix 0.3.4-24 local/haskell-diff 0.4.1-118 local/haskell-distributive 0.6.2.1-270 local/haskell-dlist 1.0-297 local/haskell-erf 2.0.0.0-26 local/haskell-fgl 5.8.3.0-43 local/haskell-generically 0.1.1-31 local/haskell-hashable 1.4.4.0-121 local/haskell-indexed-traversable 0.1.4-119 local/haskell-indexed-traversable-instances 0.1.2-68 local/haskell-integer-logarithms 1.0.4-28 local/haskell-onetuple 0.4.2-68 local/haskell-optparse-applicative 0.18.1.0-41 local/haskell-os-string 2.0.7-60 local/haskell-prettyprinter 1.7.1-246 local/haskell-prettyprinter-ansi-terminal 1.1.3-267 local/haskell-quickcheck 2.14.3-183 local/haskell-random 1.2.1.3-16 local/haskell-regex-tdfa 1.3.2.4-25 local/haskell-scientific 0.3.7.0-177 local/haskell-semialign 1.3-58 local/haskell-semigroupoids 6.0.1-40 local/haskell-splitmix 0.1.0.5-107 local/haskell-strict 0.5-112 local/haskell-tasty 1.4.3-176 local/haskell-text-short 0.1.6-52 local/haskell-these 1.2.1-52 local/haskell-time-compat 1.9.6.1-158 local/haskell-unordered-containers 0.2.20-87 local/haskell-uuid-types 1.0.6-50 local/haskell-vector 0.13.2.0-67 local/haskell-witherable 0.4.2-173

Hi, I installed arch on my vmware workstation and when I try opening kitty using Super+Q, it pops up but immediately disappears... I tried everything, tweaking the config files, env variables etc. but nothing works.

Please help a brother out. Thanks

Hi guys, i'm new to arch and linux in general, and ran into some problems after installing arch on my laptop. It's a Lenovo Legion Y540, and for some obscure reason to me, the inbuilt keyboard isn't functioning. It works fine in the bios, but nothing shows when i do

After almost one week of trying to debug it, i came to the conclusion that i needed to ask for advices.

Here's what I did so far : - Change the i8042 parameters for : dumbkbd=1, nopnp, reset, ... - Create an ACPI override, - Change kernel ( linux to linux-lts)

Thanks in advance for your answers !

I have recently just installed delta forces, not to play but to get the discord quest done on my linux machine, but there was a problem, it would keep logging me out if I just ran delta forces and like a few other apps like dead cells and went back to delta forces, it would just log me out and when I come back I would get like graphical issues like these:

https://imgur.com/a/motHvT8

And on each time I did this it would get worse and worse, I already did the discord quest so I have just uninstalled it, but the graphical glitches remain, so if you guys know why this happens and also a fix for it, I would appreciate it if you would help me out.

And also the issue where gnome just logs me out sometimes when I'm running a few apps or just randomly while playing a game.

# System Details Report

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## Report details

- **Date generated:** 2025-08-24 18:37:22

## Hardware Information:

- **Hardware Model:** ASUS TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI

- **Memory:** 32.0 GiB

- **Processor:** AMD Ryzen™ 5 7600X × 12

- **Graphics:** Intel® Arc™ B580 Graphics (BMG G21)

- **Disk Capacity:** 2.0 TB

## Software Information:

- **Firmware Version:** 3263

- **OS Name:** Arch Linux

- **OS Build:** rolling

- **OS Type:** 64-bit

- **GNOME Version:** 48

- **Windowing System:** Wayland

- **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.16.3-arch1-1

Hi to all,

by enabling the ipu6 webcam in the bios of my dell laptop, I note a 10 second delay in the boot.

Is there something I can do to improve it?

These are the first three line of the systemd-analyze blame:

10.167s boot.mount
10.167s efi.mount
683ms NetworkManager.service

journalctl reports:

...
go 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Applying Intel DDC parameters completed
ago 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware timestamp 2025.20 buildtype 1 build 82053
ago 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Firmware SHA1: 0x937bca4a
ago 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq status: Success (0x00)
ago 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq executed: 00.00.02.41
ago 24 14:00:26 D9330 kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Fseq BT Top: 00.00.02.41
ago 24 14:00:27 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:30 D9330 systemd[1]: systemd-rfkill.service: Deactivated successfully.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: dell_laptop: Using i8042 filter function for receiving events
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: PTP clock support registered
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Mounted /boot.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Mounted /efi.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: ish-hid {33AECD58-B679-4E54-9BD9-A04D34F0C226}: [hid-ish]: enum_devices_done OK, num_hid_devices=6
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: ACPI: battery: new hook: Dell Primary Battery Extension
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Reached target Local File Systems.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Listening on Boot Entries Service Socket.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd-timesyncd[416]: Network configuration changed, trying to establish connection.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Listening on System Extension Image Management.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Starting Tell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Data...
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of leds:dell::kbd_backlight...
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: iTCO_wdt iTCO_wdt: Found a Intel PCH TCO device (Version=6, TCOBASE=0x0400)
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: iTCO_wdt iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Set Up Additional Binary Formats was skipped because no trigger condition checks were met.
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Starting Update Boot Loader Random Seed...
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: hid-generic 001F:8087:0AC2.0007: hidraw6: SENSOR HUB HID v2.00 Device [hid-ishtp 8087:0AC2] on
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Starting Create System Files and Directories...
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: hid-generic 001F:8087:0AC2.0008: hidraw7: SENSOR HUB HID v2.00 Device [hid-ishtp 8087:0AC2] on
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: hid-generic 001F:8087:0AC2.0009: hidraw8: SENSOR HUB HID v2.00 Device [hid-ishtp 8087:0AC2] on
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 kernel: intel-ipu6 0000:00:05.0: Loaded FW: intel/ipu/ipu6ep_fw.bin, sha256: 60105304e5b66a5a85aac7541b31dc71740240c6dc1a144036b4b72ef2fb1ba1
ago 24 14:00:35 D9330 systemd[1]: Finished Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of leds:dell::kbd_backlight.
...

Hey guys. I recently acquired a Thinkpad E16 and have installed arch on it. I was excited when I heard that I even have a fingerprint reader that's working with fprint. So after installing gdm and then fprint I consulted the arch wiki. As far as I've read fingerprint should already be working but it just doesn't... Any help?

I sadly can't access the gnome settings due to a package that's missing and in /etc/pam.d/gdm-greeter fprintd is already required...