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#1 2013-11-17 08:00:14

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Hello,

I noticed strange behaving last week. Every time I reboot my laptop, speakers drop to zero volume. I have to go to "alsamixer -c 0" and there I have to increase it. It starts just one week ago and it worked fine before. Thanks

$ aplay -L

null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
default
    Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    Front speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, ALC269VC Analog
    7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
    HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
    HDMI Audio Output

$aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC269VC Analog [ALC269VC Analog]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

cat /etc/asound.conf

pcm.pulse {
    type pulse
}
ctl.pulse {
    type pulse
}
pcm.!default {
    type pulse
}
ctl.!default {
    type pulse
}

$ pacman -Qs pulse

local/libcanberra-pulse 0.30-4
    PulseAudio plugin for libcanberra
local/pavucontrol 2.0-2
    A GTK volume control for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio 4.0-6
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server
local/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio

$ pacman -Qs alsa

local/alsa-firmware 1.0.27-2
    ALSA firmware package
local/alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-plugins 1.0.27-2
    Extra alsa plugins
local/alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio

Last edited by Kotrfa (2013-11-30 09:03:05)

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#2 2013-11-17 08:23:47

Jellicent
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From: Berlin
Registered: 2013-09-13
Posts: 189

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Did you try saving the settings since then?

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#3 2013-11-18 14:46:04

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Yes I tried that using "sudo alsactl store". Here is my asound.state

cat /var/lib/alsa/asound.state             
state.PCH {
	control.1 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Headphone Playback Volume'
		value.0 87
		value.1 87
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 87'
			dbmin -6525
			dbmax 0
			dbvalue.0 0
			dbvalue.1 0
		}
	}
	control.2 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Headphone Playback Switch'
		value.0 true
		value.1 true
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 2
		}
	}
	control.3 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Speaker Playback Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 87'
			dbmin -6525
			dbmax 0
			dbvalue.0 -6525
			dbvalue.1 -6525
		}
	}
	control.4 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Speaker Playback Switch'
		value.0 true
		value.1 true
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 2
		}
	}
	control.5 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Internal Mic Playback Volume'
		value.0 28
		value.1 28
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 31'
			dbmin -3450
			dbmax 1200
			dbvalue.0 750
			dbvalue.1 750
		}
	}
	control.6 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Internal Mic Playback Switch'
		value.0 false
		value.1 false
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 2
		}
	}
	control.7 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Playback Volume'
		value.0 28
		value.1 28
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 31'
			dbmin -3450
			dbmax 1200
			dbvalue.0 750
			dbvalue.1 750
		}
	}
	control.8 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Playback Switch'
		value.0 false
		value.1 false
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 2
		}
	}
	control.9 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Auto-Mute Mode'
		value Enabled
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type ENUMERATED
			count 1
			item.0 Disabled
			item.1 Enabled
		}
	}
	control.10 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Capture Volume'
		value.0 63
		value.1 63
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 63'
			dbmin -1725
			dbmax 3000
			dbvalue.0 3000
			dbvalue.1 3000
		}
	}
	control.11 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Capture Switch'
		value.0 true
		value.1 true
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 2
		}
	}
	control.12 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Internal Mic Boost Volume'
		value.0 1
		value.1 1
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 3'
			dbmin 0
			dbmax 3000
			dbvalue.0 1000
			dbvalue.1 1000
		}
	}
	control.13 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Mic Boost Volume'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 3'
			dbmin 0
			dbmax 3000
			dbvalue.0 0
			dbvalue.1 0
		}
	}
	control.14 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Master Playback Volume'
		value 87
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 1
			range '0 - 87'
			dbmin -6525
			dbmax 0
			dbvalue.0 0
		}
	}
	control.15 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Master Playback Switch'
		value true
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.16 {
		iface CARD
		name 'Internal Mic Phantom Jack'
		value true
		comment {
			access read
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.17 {
		iface CARD
		name 'Mic Jack'
		value false
		comment {
			access read
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.18 {
		iface CARD
		name 'Headphone Jack'
		value false
		comment {
			access read
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.19 {
		iface CARD
		name 'Speaker Phantom Jack'
		value true
		comment {
			access read
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.20 {
		iface PCM
		name 'Playback Channel Map'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		comment {
			access read
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 36'
		}
	}
	control.21 {
		iface PCM
		name 'Capture Channel Map'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		comment {
			access read
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 36'
		}
	}
	control.22 {
		iface CARD
		name 'HDMI/DP,pcm=3 Jack'
		value false
		comment {
			access read
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.23 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
		value '0fff000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
		comment {
			access read
			type IEC958
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.24 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
		value '0f00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
		comment {
			access read
			type IEC958
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.25 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Default'
		value '0482000200000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type IEC958
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.26 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'IEC958 Playback Switch'
		value false
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type BOOLEAN
			count 1
		}
	}
	control.27 {
		iface PCM
		device 3
		name ELD
		value ''
		comment {
			access 'read volatile'
			type BYTES
			count 0
		}
	}
	control.28 {
		iface PCM
		device 3
		name 'Playback Channel Map'
		value.0 0
		value.1 0
		value.2 0
		value.3 0
		value.4 0
		value.5 0
		value.6 0
		value.7 0
		comment {
			access 'read write'
			type INTEGER
			count 8
			range '0 - 36'
		}
	}
	control.29 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'PCM Playback Volume'
		value.0 255
		value.1 255
		comment {
			access 'read write user'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 255'
			tlv '0000000100000008ffffec1400000014'
			dbmin -5100
			dbmax 0
			dbvalue.0 0
			dbvalue.1 0
		}
	}
	control.30 {
		iface MIXER
		name 'Digital Capture Volume'
		value.0 60
		value.1 60
		comment {
			access 'read write user'
			type INTEGER
			count 2
			range '0 - 120'
			tlv '0000000100000008fffff44800000032'
			dbmin -3000
			dbmax 3000
			dbvalue.0 0
			dbvalue.1 0
		}
	}
}

When I login I can see that speakers are at 100% but after few seconds it drops down.

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#4 2013-11-19 20:51:10

snazza
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Registered: 2011-01-24
Posts: 11

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Exactly same issue here... I still haven't found a solution yet, sorry, but I wanna tell you that you're not the only one....

Last edited by snazza (2013-11-19 20:51:54)

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#5 2013-11-20 10:12:43

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

One week ago it worked fine... Don't know what happened.

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#6 2013-11-21 19:38:39

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Ok, no real solution, here is my workaround. I start this after boot... I added to my awesome WM autostart function, but adding that to .profile or something like that should work.

sleep 10 && amixer -c 0 set Speaker 100%

Last edited by Kotrfa (2013-11-21 19:40:40)

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#7 2013-11-21 19:55:28

WonderWoofy
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From: Los Gatos, CA
Registered: 2012-05-19
Posts: 8,414

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Just curious... what does systemctl status alsa-restore.service tell you?  Does it succeed?  How about the alsa-store.service right before the previous shutdown/reboot?  Does that succeed?

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#8 2013-11-21 20:51:18

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Interesting question wink .

$systemctl status alsa-restore.service

alsa-restore.service - Restore Sound Card State
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2013-11-21 20:52:55 CET; 1h 0min ago
  Process: 228 ExecStart=/usr/bin/alsactl restore (code=exited, status=19)
 Main PID: 228 (code=exited, status=19)

When I manually restart alsa-restore.service, it works - it restores settings.

Last edited by Kotrfa (2013-11-21 20:53:05)

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#9 2013-11-21 22:24:25

WonderWoofy
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From: Los Gatos, CA
Registered: 2012-05-19
Posts: 8,414

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Race condition maybe?  I wonder what an exit status of 19 indicates?

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#10 2013-11-22 21:56:12

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

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#11 2013-11-22 23:20:14

WonderWoofy
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From: Los Gatos, CA
Registered: 2012-05-19
Posts: 8,414

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

What I mean by race condition is that since the alsa-restore.service works perfectly fine when you run it manually, maybe it is being run before the audio HW itself has had a chance to be fully initialized. 

If you feel up to it, maybe you could test this by putting the necessary sound modules in the initramfs to be explicitly loaded (in the MODULES="" section) and see if it works then.  This would bring up the sound stuff during its time in the initramfs rather than when udev does its probing, which would guarantee that the proper modules are in place when alsa-restore.service is run.

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#12 2013-11-23 10:51:33

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Ok, I have this mkinitcpio-custom.conf:

# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run.  Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array.  For instance:
#     MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES="snd_hda_intel"

# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image.  This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""

# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way.  This is useful for config files.
FILES=""

# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file.  The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added.  Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
##   This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
##   No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
#    HOOKS="base"
#
##   This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
##   work as a sane default
#    HOOKS="base udev autodetect block filesystems"
#
##   This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
##   No autodetection is done.
#    HOOKS="base udev block filesystems"
#
##   This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
##   Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
#    HOOKS="base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems"
#
##   This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
#    HOOKS="base udev block lvm2 filesystems"
#
##   NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
#    usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck keymap"

# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"

# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""

where I added "snd_hda_intel" to modules (and keymap to hooks, but it is because of other problem). Then I generated new image and added to grub. But when I loaded, still same behaviour - volume of speakers is dropped down.

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#13 2013-11-30 09:43:04

Kotrfa
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Registered: 2012-10-25
Posts: 213

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Ok, I have found where the problem is. alsa-restore starts before sound.target.

$ sudo systemctl status alsa-state.service alsa-restore.service sound.target

alsa-state.service - Manage Sound Card State (restore and store)
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-state.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead)
           start condition failed at Sat 2013-11-30 10:36:35 CET; 1min 5s ago
           ConditionPathExists=/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf was not met

Nov 30 10:36:35 530uarch systemd[1]: Started Manage Sound Card State (restore and store).

alsa-restore.service - Restore Sound Card State
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/alsa-restore.service; static)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2013-11-30 10:36:36 CET; 1min 4s ago
  Process: 227 ExecStart=/usr/bin/alsactl restore (code=exited, status=19)
 Main PID: 227 (code=exited, status=19)

Nov 30 10:36:35 530uarch systemd[1]: Starting Restore Sound Card State...
Nov 30 10:36:35 530uarch alsactl[227]: /usr/bin/alsactl: load_state:1729: No soundcards found...
Nov 30 10:36:36 530uarch systemd[1]: Started Restore Sound Card State.

sound.target - Sound Card
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sound.target; static)
   Active: active since Sat 2013-11-30 10:36:36 CET; 1min 4s ago
     Docs: man:systemd.special(7)

Nov 30 10:36:36 530uarch systemd[1]: Starting Sound Card.
Nov 30 10:36:36 530uarch systemd[1]: Reached target Sound Card.

$ systemd-analyze dot | grep -in alsa-restore

36:	"shutdown.target"->"alsa-restore.service" [color="red"];
97:	"shutdown.target"->"alsa-restore.service" [color="green"];
367:	"basic.target"->"alsa-restore.service" [color="grey66"];
378:	"alsa-restore.service"->"shutdown.target" [color="red"];
379:	"alsa-restore.service"->"alsa-state.service" [color="green"];
380:	"alsa-restore.service"->"systemd-journald.socket" [color="green"];

$ systemd-analyze dot | grep -in sound.target

79:	"shutdown.target"->"sound.target" [color="red"];

Original units looks like this:

$ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/alsa-restore.service

[Unit]
Description=Restore Sound Card State
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf
DefaultDependencies=no
After=alsa-state.service
Before=shutdown.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/alsactl restore
StandardOutput=syslog

and even I tried to edit it to this:

[Unit]
Description=Restore Sound Card State
ConditionPathExists=!/etc/alsa/state-daemon.conf
DefaultDependencies=no
Requires=sound.target
After=sound.target
Before=shutdown.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=-/usr/bin/alsactl restore
StandardOutput=syslog

it doesn't help - sound.target is still runned after alsa-restore. It is signed us bug

Last edited by Kotrfa (2013-11-30 09:45:14)

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#14 2014-04-25 00:18:32

erkasko
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Registered: 2014-04-25
Posts: 2

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

for me what it woks was to edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and comment this line "load-module module-device-restore", then reboot and everything was OK

source; Ubuntu Forums

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#15 2014-06-15 20:47:46

LimaSierra
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Registered: 2011-04-26
Posts: 41

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

erkasko: Thanks, had the same problem and your solution worked for me!

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#16 2014-08-21 04:37:29

pintoanteq
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From: Sevilla
Registered: 2014-08-21
Posts: 1

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Wow, great!! That also works for me, congrats for your great work!!

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#17 2014-09-20 20:48:51

asazo
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Registered: 2014-09-20
Posts: 1

Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

Worked for me. Thanks!

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#18 2014-09-20 22:34:51

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Re: Speakers volume drop to zero after reboot

The consensus on this ancient thread is that it seems to work.  We are done here.
Closed.  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.22


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