November 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] timezones
by Jorge Almeida 09 Nov '11

09 Nov '11

I have HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="right/Portugal" in /etc/rc.conf, but I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. I use clockspeed to keep the clock synchronized with a ntp server, and other sofware requires a "right/*" timezone. Anyone has any knowledge to share about this issue? For example, "date" gives output that ignores leap seconds. Is this a date issue, unrelated with rc.conf? Anyone else using a right/* timezone? TIA J.Almeida

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[arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade
by Lorenzo Bandieri 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hello archers, Last massive KDE upgrade broke my KDE desktop. In particular, after the reboot, the panel was gone. I tried to "Add Panel": Default Panel crashes Plasma Shell; Empty panel works. Then I added one by one the widget I had in my original panel (which was pretty standard). I determined that the "culprit" is task manager: when I try to add this widget, KDE crashes. Any workaround? Thanks, Lorenzo

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[arch-general] KDE: shortcut configuration broken
by Alessio 'Blaster' Biancalana 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi archers and KDE users, Can I have confirm of a strange behaviour in my KDE? I can't open, in KControl (the control center), the shortcut and gestures configuration dialog: when i double-click the item, KControl freezes. Sometimes the configuration center for shortcuts opens up itself after a lot of time. What's happening? Bug? Other? Enlight me please. Bl@ster

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Re: [arch-general] [signoff] cryptsetup 1.4.0-2
by Thomas Bächler 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Am 03.11.2011 19:51, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > Upstream update. > > This also adds the new (optional) options field to cryptsetup. If you > use a SSD, you can change > cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar > to > cryptdevice=/dev/foo:bar:allow-discards > to enable discard functionality on the crypto mapping. > > In -2, I fixed a bug in "cryptsetup status" for plain volumes where the > key size would always be displayed as 0. Can anyone confirm that the i686 package works?

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[arch-general] Issues compiling Jepp
by Sergi Pons Freixes 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi All, I'm trying to install Jepp ( http://jepp.sourceforge.net/ ), but even after talking with the developer we cannot get it right. So, I'm gonna try asking here just in case somebody could give us some insight. I have a Linux 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @3.30GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Using openjdk for java: openjdk6 6.b22_1.10.4-1 And Python 2.7: python2 2.7.2-2 Actually, my default Python is python 3.2.2-1, but as Jepp has not been ported to Python 3, before beginning the installation procedure I do an "export PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2", so it uses the path to the Python 2 binary (and libraries, as I can see on the logs). So, there is no problem when running autogen.sh (automake 1.11.1-2 here), and ./configure also runs ok. When doing the "make", it stalls with: ... Making all in jep make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src/jep' /bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include -I/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/include/linux -I/usr/include/python2.7 -g -O2 -MT jep_object.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/jep_object.Tpo -c -o jep_object.lo `test -f 'python/jep_object.c' || echo './'`python/jep_object.c mv -f .deps/jep_object.Tpo .deps/jep_object.Plo mv: cannot stat `.deps/jep_object.Tpo': No such file or directory make[3]: *** [jep_object.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src/jep' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sergi/installs/jep-2.4' make: *** [all] Error 2 Apart from that, I cannot glance any problem, missing dependency or warning before, so no clue of why it's not building correctly. I've also tried with other gcc versions, no luck. Mike Johnson, the developer of Jepp, pointed: "That's weird, the -MF flag is passed to the compiler and gcc should have written out that file." and "...any idea why that is. It must be a bug in autotools, you can try to upgrade them. Or you can manually make the .deps folder and an empty file for each one it complains on. The dependency files are just make rules used to regenerate just the changed objects if a source file changes. Unless you're changing stuff, it won't matter..." So... any suggestion? Regards, Sergi

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[arch-general] fluxbox with dbus session freezes.
by Javier Vasquez 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi, I don't use d-bus much, since I don't use desktop environments and I tend to use light and configured things like autofs, fluxbox itself and the like. On my x86-64 machine running under arch-linux, I tried starting dbus sessions prior to executing fluxbox as follows: dbuslaunch="`which dbus-launch 2>/dev/null`" if [ -n "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -x "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ]; then eval `$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` fi exec startfluxbox When running startx, it starts OK... Problem is if I leave X to do something in the console, and the same tty where I started the X session, and come back to X, fluxbox is already frozen. I opted for not starting the dbus session, or as I work around make sure when leaving X temporally, make sure nothing is done on the same tty where X started... Has anyone experienced the same? Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Problem automatically importing key for signed package.
by Peter Lewis 06 Nov '11

06 Nov '11

Hi, I've been trying to get to grips with the package signing stuff, and have just added my first signed package (choqok) to [community], but am having a problem installing it from the repo, when pacman doesn't already know about my key. I'm probably missing a step somewhere, or maybe I've found a bug, not sure. I followed the instructions on the wiki, with the slight difference that I already had a key, so just used that one. Here's the problem. After successfully building in a chroot and submitting and signing the package, all using devtools, I get this: % sudo pacman -S choqok ... error: choqok: key "22AD5874F39D989F" is unknown error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I tried the obvious cache clearing and -Syy'ing, just to be sure, but that didn't fix it. For other people's packages, after the "key XXX unknown" message, I get the option to get it from the keyserver and add it to pacman's keyring. But I don't get that option for my own key. But: % gpg --homedir gpg-temp --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 22AD5874F39D989F gpg: requesting key F39D989F from hkp server pgp.mit.edu gpg: key E19DAA50: public key "Peter Richard Lewis <pete(a)muddygoat.org>" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 And just to be sure, in my build directory: % gpg --verify choqok-1.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.sig gpg: Signature made Sat 05 Nov 2011 05:27:56 PM GMT using RSA key ID F39D989F gpg: Good signature from "Peter Richard Lewis <pete(a)muddygoat.org>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <prlewis(a)letterboxes.org>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <p.r.lewis(a)cs.bham.ac.uk>" gpg: aka "Peter Richard Lewis <plewis(a)aur.archlinux.org>" At first I thought that maybe pacman wouldn't support multiple UIDs, but then pacman-key -l shows up that several devs and TUs have this. Did I miss something that I should have done? Thanks, Pete.

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[arch-general] About updating /etc/shells
by Nyuszika7H 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, It seems that updating /etc/shells causes new shells to go after the '# End of file' comment. This doesn't seem to cause any problems, but it looks weird when you open that file. For example, if I want to install zsh: /etc/shells (before): # # /etc/shells # /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/csh /bin/dash # End of file /etc/shells (after): # # /etc/shells # /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/ksh /bin/csh /bin/dash # End of file /bin/zsh This is only a minor issue, but it would be nice to have a workaround for it. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] /usr/bin/ksh support should be dropped
by Nyuszika7H 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, I get the following warning when starting up ksh: WARNING: you should be calling ksh with /bin/ksh, not with /usr/bin/ksh. Please execute chsh to fix this. Legacy /usr/bin/ksh support will go away! $ Considering csh and tcsh were also moved to /bin/, it would be a good idea to remove the /usr/bin/ksh binary (it exists in /bin/, too). Note: I'm using zsh as my primary shell, but I installed other shells so users can use them if they wish. nyuszika7h

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[arch-general] [signoff] gettext-0.18.1.1-4
by Tobias Powalowski 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Hi, signed rebuild, please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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