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

[arch-general] GNOME 3.6 upgrade / GDM / Removed consolekit
by Simon Perry 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi all, After reading the previous discussion on not needing to be in various groups like audio, optical etc, I decided to remove myself from a bunch of groups and "do the right thing" after upgrading to GNOME 3.6 earlier. I removed consolekit once pacman told me it was no longer required by any package, then culled myself from various groups - the important one being audio. When I login via GDM, it seems my "session" isn't active: % loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID | grep Active Active=no Therefore, I'm not added to ACLs for my sound devices and Pulseaudio fires up using a "Dummy" output. Not sure what to do here, I've done the following to try and fix it: - Disabled / re-enabled certain services, I've had systemd running for a while and a few things had changed / been updated (e.g. I now have a default.target and the display-manager.service whose symlink lives in /etc/systemd/system) - Tried messing around with pam (putting pam_systemd.so in a couple of spots). - Tried searching for documentation on what might be wrong, but most of the things I found relate to not using a display manager like GDM and just using startx. Any tips appreciated. Cheers. -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[arch-general] urxvtd frequently crashes
by Robbie Smith 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On my new install I've been using urxvtd to run terminals, and I'm finding that it frequently crashes. Either I'll switch to a window and it won't redraw or accept input, or I'll close a window and all of them will close. I was using the script in the urxvtc man page to spawn a daemon as required, and that either results in memory usage skyrocketing, or heaps of processes spawned waiting to connect to the daemon. What am I doing wrong? Searching the interweb has thus far found nothing except that if urxvtd crashes it brings down all the clients (which I've become quite aware of). AFAIK there's no glitches in my ~/.Xresources[1] I usually have a tmux session or two running, so I don't lose much, but it's still annoying when I lose an active download with aria2 or something like that. Robbie [1] https://gist.github.com/3985284

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[arch-general] Systemd : A big big thanks to all the dev work
by Arno Gaboury 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

When # pacman -Rs consolekit a few mn ago, I was thinking of all the summer flame on this list about systemd. My Arch is since a while a 100% systemd, and honestly, as a newbye, I didn't experienced much issues, neither did I have any painful configuration to set up. I just wanted to publicly thanks all the Arch devs for this smooth transition. The average user i am is garteful and happy to belong to the Arch community.

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