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

[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 25 Jul '15

25 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config file may be futurised or the config written before changing to SHA which was easier to implement and the wiki is out of date with the code??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] Source control on /etc
by Don deJuan 21 Jun '12

21 Jun '12

What is considered the Arch way to have version control over the configs in /etc? I would like to be able to see at least a few changes back in my config history at the minimum. I have seen the package etckeeper and it does not seem to really fully be setup to work with pacman. Both AUR packages are very outdated. Would I just be best off just copying the ones I change and then push the changes to a separate dir that is under control of say git? What methods do you employ? Thanks for any info or tips on this. :)

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[arch-general] shutdown problems
by G. Schlisio 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

hi all, since a few days, i experience some problems on shutdown. i'm running kde and systemd on a fully upgraded system. when shutting down via kde controls (ctrl-alt-del oder button), i am logged off and presented the login screen, but no shutdown occurs. i tried to change the shutdown command from '/sbin/shutdown -h -p now' to '/sbin/shutdown -h now' but that made just no difference. if i use these commands on bash, it shuts down as expected, not showing the login screen. is this somewhat systemd-related? hints appreciated… georg

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages
by Lukas Fleischer 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:19:25PM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > while the rebuild of unsigned packages is about to be finished we > should start to think about our orphaned packages. ATM there about 430 > of them in core and extra 1); some of them are 8probably) not needed by > any other package 2) > > Here is my proposal: > * Everybody please review the list and adopt packages that you use and > might be willing to maintain. > * If you maintain a package that depends on an orphan, please adopt it. > It does not make sense to depend on an maintained package. Note that > packages can have mroe than one maintainer; so you should share the > workload. > * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], > please let us know. I remember that some packages were hold back and weren't moved to [community] on former [extra] cleanups, even though they didn't have a maintainer (I'm not sure about the reasons anymore; I remember some of them were used on gerolde or so, not sure if that is still relevant). You should probably double-check these. Apart from that, +1 to this idea. I already checked the list of unneeded orphans and there's >20 packages I'd like to maintain if they aren't picked up in [extra]... > * Maybe we can also have a small team that adopts all orphans that > nobody wants to adopt on their own but is needed. Sounds like a good idea as well, at least for packages that are easy to maintain ("easy" meaning that upstream releases don't require much more work than bumping the pkgver and updating checksums). Packages that require a packager, who actually uses them, can still be dropped/moved. > > The goal should be to adopt all needed/wanted orphans and remove > everything else. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > > > 1) > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=any&arch=x86_64&repo=Core&re… > 2) https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, http://pierre-schmitz.com

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[arch-general] Start a daemon, show a syntax error
by 大熊 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

No matter I manual start any a daemon, I always see a error shown on console: /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: syntax error near unexpected token `(' /etc/rc.d/functions: line 506: ` done < <(findmnt -mrunRo TARGET,FSTYPE,OPTIONS /) But it seem that the daemon can run correctly, so should I need to fix it and how to fix it ?

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[arch-general] An empty /etc/crontab file maybe needed bo be add in to package filesystem.
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

Due to cronie doesn't contain an /etc/crontab anymore, there are losts of msgs of missing crontab as shown below in errors.log. > /usr/sbin/crond[1236]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory

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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] Xorg 1.12 moves soon to testing for stabilization phase
by Andreas Radke 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

New Xorg has Xinput 2.2, Mesa 8.0 and many major library updates. Expect some bugs and broken packages. Most recent Xorg stuff is used in Fedora RawHide for a while where fixes can be found. Most noticeable changes will be: - Mesa 8.0 drops 3D support for some chips. These packages are gone now: unichrome-dri, mach64-dri, mga-dri, r128-dri, savage-dri, sis-dri, tdfx-dri - I couldn't find patches to get Xorg 1.12 support in xf86-video-sisemedia and xf86-video-xgi. Both should be of very low interest (not included in FC at all). We might drop them if no fix can be found. - State of closed drivers: Nvidia has a beta pkg out with Xorg 1.12 support. Let's pray it's already in usable state. Catalyst (AUR) users will stay in the dark as on every major Xorg release for a while. -Andy

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up orphaned packages
by Bartłomiej Piotrowski 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

On 02/24/2012 04:19 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > * If a TU wants to maintain an orphan that is currently in [extra], > please let us know. Then if you could move following packages to [community], I'd be glad to take them: * gftp * midori * orage * ristretto * pwgen * vsftpd -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski Arch Linux Trusted User http://archlinux.org/

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