perl in testing causing an error

Sshoober420 · Sep 15, 2020

The perl 5.32.0-2 in testing right now (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/perl/) is causing this error at startup after logging in on Obarun. This doesn’t happen on my Arch box.

Error:
https://www.imgpaste.net/image/9Brvp

banned_9-26-2021 · Sep 15, 2020

What is running as soon as you login? Something in .zlogin maybe?
I have testing too but I don't get this error, but if I run /etc/profile.d/perlbin.sh I get the same output.

banned_9-26-2021 · Sep 16, 2020

Corrected, I got this same error today, I have other things printing when I log on and I must have missed the early error.
It is only on actual login, if you use su username or just su or restart a shell it is not showing up.

Sshoober420 · Sep 16, 2020

My machine seems to work ok, so I guess it’s not a big deal. That file you mentioned is the cause, it has the “append_path” command in it.

Sshoober420 · Sep 17, 2020

So I take back saying my machine runs fine. I tried to get my AMD sway machine up and couldn’t launch sway. My input devices would not have the correct permission. I even made a post about it on GitHub (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/5694). I think i’ll have to report my findings on the Arch forums.

banned_9-26-2021 · Sep 17, 2020

It sounds like a wayland problem and the permissions it needs to run as user.

Have you tried replacing sway by sway-git see if it makes a difference and if some logind issue pops its ugly dependency head to systemd?

Sshoober420 · Sep 18, 2020

Reverting back to the stable repo perl package fixed everything. The new perl package in testing that just got released (5.32.0-3) fixes the input bug, but the “append_path” bug is still present.