January 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 26 Jul '15

26 Jul '15

Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch has been applied in Ubuntu. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] Upgrading password hashes
by Kevin Chadwick 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

I know arch tries to keep to upstream but their seems some discrepencies that you may or may not be aware of so thought I'd share. The crypt man page says glibc may not support blowfish (stronger than nists recommendation) and that seems true when used via the commandline (very short output). The arch wiki says you can use a library from AUR. There is also a sha512 arch wiki which says you should edit pamd.d/passwd from md5 to sha512 but the default seems to already be sha512, maybe it tries both as some distros default is now sha512 so no need anymore. It seems if you simply edit /etc/default/passwd to blowfish and reset your password, sha512 is used e.g. encrypted password beginning with $6 in /etc/shadow not $2 (blowfish) and logins work fine. I guess the /etc/default/passwd config file may be futurised or the config written before changing to SHA which was easier to implement and the wiki is out of date with the code?? -- Kc

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[arch-general] Compiling qt-4.8rc1 from [testing] fails
by Bjørn Øivind Bjørnsen 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, The latest qt-package in testing broke one of the applications I am working on at the moment. It compiles fine, but crashes during runtime, so I tried to compile qt with debug symbols. I did the same thing as I usually do when I have to poke qt-internals - added '!strip' to the options in the PKGBUILD and tried to compile the package again. The PKGBUILD and friends were obtained from abs. However, the compilation fails in tools/assistant, with the following errors: make[4]: Entering directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' compiling helpviewer_qwv.cpp helpviewer_qwv.cpp:168:1: error: expected class-name before ?{? token helpviewer_qwv.cpp:173:13: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:174:32: error: ?WebAction? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:176:42: error: ?QWebFrame? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp:177:41: error: ?NavigationType? has not been declared helpviewer_qwv.cpp: In constructor ?HelpPage::HelpPage(QObject*)?: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:189:7: error: class ?HelpPage? does not have any field named ?QWebPage? helpviewer_qwv.cpp: At global scope: helpviewer_qwv.cpp:197:1: error: ?QWebPage? does not name a type helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: variable or field ?triggerAction? declared void helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:30: error: ?WebAction? was not declared in this scope helpviewer_qwv.cpp:207:48: error: expected primary-expression before ?bool? make[4]: *** [.obj/release-shared/helpviewer_qwv.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools/assistant' make[3]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant/tools' make[2]: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools/assistant' make[1]: *** [sub-assistant-make_default-ordered] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bo/pakker/qt-4.8rc1/src/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.0/tools' make: *** [sub-tools-make_default-ordered] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). I noticed that qtwebkit was split out of this package. Have I missed some other piece of vital information which allows me to compile this, and does anyone else see this? I could reproduce this on two x86_64 machines here, -Syu'ed as of today. I would be thankful for any tips :) Regards, Bjørn Øivind -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOuS6BAAoJEAPvNxjF/T/2kR0P/2ycR9+3LlYaJOnosVJnSuRH 9tN9eT/WZY1cHEyxQAJuux2GQ0L2oECYc6BumPPQ6EJ7WLgKe9jgwoYTJZN5QSxC Mp5noNmiyqInWp75p53kzyAg30XKYKWqRZbaV+mcXHra3aZ4ydC1rxEEG5FDVQx2 GauKhGqaZ5RKdtO4b/6rCQtAjGSv4l7QvLErFkRAYSqsaK7XKiDGatPOAkalxw6X /T0dhyKDP4r6V8DHUOqekbrNX9Oupso8GPHRMhTqO8jSuOtUD/ie0D6lkepArG+v HXDYsxVF+Fepr1CLfAD2xM3p8JrKqdiPjbXdnqmcSGiWMzkSonlWl66Y4Lcnrs5c Uqa8XFVcLYvJ9MOgV3VBdpJijGIzvrYWKI8FunxU1EeOPNmPYig+zg85ArP8OTiT ZtNgM4jTrQGGQCMK5tjY2Ji8YhVL5b0nv4yroV9jQ8q9yhY4pOgiEqxdYAPtw0QY bFsSrlQH8QQD/SNd98xIl3qzNeq7Nq5Dc/OwP9I/scA+Je2DM9P2oX0X++mVvkiL fN7Qtst1j8u2TyXDfPf2cSCw+kPIZLct++0+5UmC92p1UPcddmVTg4JZl68EZPNe 3u7yjJ9lfHZjktb5P/fyaTfxiZ4gshuQL2fITwR5MFjZ/o6TB0TFCSfBF9+HlZZk aa9dFnmP/REmH8oQUdEO =bFqE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Nvidia Driver issues
by Don deJuan 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

First off I just would like to start off by saying please do not tell me to use nouveau. They do not work and have not worked for me on multiple distros for well over a year now. I also need cuda support on my laptop. I am currently running the xorg-nv driver. I am at a complete loss as far as what is going wrong or what I am missing when trying to install the Nvidia proprietary driver. I have a Nvidia GeForce GTS 360m card. I am fully updated, just updated xorg to 1.14-1. I have been trying since installing which started me at xorg 1.11. What is going wrong is that everything installs fine, but any time I try and shutdown/reboot it goes to a red screen and locks up there, no blinking indicators on the keyboard, so does not appear to be a Kernel panic but an xorg issue. If I do not get the red screen, what happens it the screen goes black and sits there with a blinking cursor. There is no way to change terminals either. I have tried the nvidia nvidia-beta drivers and both have the same issue. Is this due to the nvidia and xorg 1.11 issues I keep reading about? What are my options to try and get this working properly? I have followed the wiki, postings on the bbs. I have tried basically everything I could find minus actually downgrading to xorg 1.10. Which from what I read is the only way to get the proprietary to work, but on arch forums and on here I read of many people with no issue with current X and nvidia closed source drivers, so I would think it must be me who is causing the issue. Thanks for any help, info and most of all your time

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.2.1 woes
by Norbert Zeh 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi folks, just a heads up (and maybe request for feedback whether anybody has seen similar issues with this kernel upgrade). The recent upgrade from kernel 3.1.9 to 3.2.1 produced two graphics-related issues: On my dual-Opteron Asus board with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, the X server fails to start and says that it cannot initialize the device at PCI 4:0:0 (i.e., my NVIDIA card). Downgrading to 3.1.9 fixes this issue. On my Core i7 Dell Latitude 6510 laptop using the on-chip graphics chip and the 1920x1080 laptop screen, everything is fine until I suspend the machine to RAM. When resuming, I get a black screen and not even rebooting brings the screen back to life. I have to turn the machine off and then back on. In contrast, my Core i7 desktop at home with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 450 works just fine with the 3.2.1 kernel. I'm in the process of bisecting these issues (currently working on the laptop issue). I remember that back in the kernel 2.6.3x days, it took a long time for the Dell 6510 with 1920x1080 display and Intel graphics to boot without a black screen at all, and I seem to recall that this was because the patch that made it work apparently didn't do what it was supposed to do "right". Maybe they now found a way to do it right, only it doesn't work, at least after a suspend. Note that, even though I get a black screen after suspending, the machine is otherwise alive, as I can blindly switch to a TTY and reboot the machine cleanly from there. Bisecting is proving a bit painful because quite a few intermediate versions I'm testing result in a straight kernel panic after suspend. Cheers, Norbert -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[arch-general] jackdbus
by Ralf Mardorf 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi :) I'll test if it will be possible to replace jack2 by jackdbus for my needs, e.g. if it's easy to change my session scripts for older audio productions to use it. I started it by $ jackdbus auto, now I've got $ pidof jackdbus 7201 and I'm unable to kill it. *google* $ jack_control --help Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/jack_control", line 12, in <module> import dbus ImportError: No module named dbus I tried QjackCtl, an app I won't use, if I don't need it, but if it would help, no prob, I'll launch it. Enabling DBus interface doesn't take effect. How do I set up jackdbus? $ ls .config/jack -hAl total 0 Any Wiki? http://www.google.de/#hl=de&cp=7&gs_id=17&xhr=t&q=jackdbus&pf=p&sclient=psy… I'm serious. I'll test it, but it's really not easy. Of course I just try it since 10 minutes or less. Cheers, Ralf

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[arch-general] change in mount behaviour?
by G. Schlisio 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Hi all, i used to keep a folder in /media to serve as mountpoint if some manual mountis was needed. since some days, this folder disappeared, even if created again. is there any change in filesystems, kernel or whatsoever changing behavior there, is it intended (if so, why?) or a bug? every hint appreciated. georg

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[arch-general] Merge /bin to /usr/bin?
by Stephen E. Baker 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

A few days ago it was announced that Fedora 17 will be merging several root directories into their /usr equivalents and using symlinks for compatibility. The announcement can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/158708 There are several good reasons for the change, outlined at: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge I wondered if this was something Arch was considering as well. Stephen E. Baker

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[arch-general] Gtk update messed up thunderbird thread marker triangles??
by David C. Rankin 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Guys, It seems one of the latest updates did something to the little triangle thread markers in thunderbird that show when a thread has responses. Now the triangles for collapsed threads look like little squiglies. The downward facing triangles showing expanded threads look OK. Anybody else see this? Does this look like a Gtk issue or an issue with thunderbird? This screenshot shows what I'm seeing: [64k] http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/img/misc/tbird-triangles-arch.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Kmail2 errors
by Peter Nikolic 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi .. I am getting the following error on mail check Local Folders: Error opening: This folder is missing . I also get complaints about unable to delete (long number) on Kmail2 startup not sure if it is related but i have also had big problems with Akondai when trying to add my saved calenders with warnings of file on disc has been changed writing backup file i wound up with over 3000 files in a few mins had hell of a job dealing with that Pete .

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