March 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] A little script to deploy dot files
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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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config file may be futurised or the config written before changing to SHA which was easier to implement and the wiki is out of date with the code??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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[arch-general] virtualbox-modules-lts?
by David Rosenstrauch 21 Apr '12

21 Apr '12

I see there's a virtualbox-modules package, but that's for the mainline (3.2 series) kernel. I don't see a similar package for the LTS (3.0 series) kernel. Does one exist somewhere that I'm missing it? If not, how does one use virtualbox on Arch with the LTS kernel? Do we need to build the kernel module from source by hand? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] gpg key gen failure
by pete 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hi . I have just tried to generate a key pair and got the following gpg process did not finish cannot generate new key pair gpg: -:2: invalid algortihm gpg: -:8: missing colon Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:31:13 CET 2012 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9600B Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Lock at shutdown with some kernels
by XeCycle 03 Apr '12

03 Apr '12

Hello, I've been using Arch 64 for a year or so, and I remember several times (roughly 5) I have shutdown issues with the latest kernel (at the time). The system is locked at shutdown, I can do nothing but to press the power button to force a power off. I am very sure it is locked --- NumLock doesn't even respond. And it doesn't return to tty as it would otherwise. It came to me again. This time I decided to have linux-lts installed. I'm curious, why is the problem always about shutdown? Is this bug from upstream or Arch patches? I don't have other distros installed by now though. Btw, how does linux-lts differ from linux? I found the -lts one boots very slow for me, got stuck at "Waiting for UDev uevents to be processed" for quite some time, around 30 sec. With linux it's similar, but not so long. I have this issue when I use vga_switcheroo, to switch between Intel graphics and ATI card. Thank you. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591

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[arch-general] Note on Trinity R14 (3.5.14)
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Guys, There will be an upcoming release of TDE 3.5.14 in the next few months and I have worked to update the build system for Arch. All packages below are building on current libraries. The only AUR base package utilized is HAL. I will update the wiki with current information after the remaining PKGBUILD development is complete. Many bugs have been fixed and enhancements added. The desktop is significantly faster than 3.5.10, 3.5.12 or 3.5.13 without any additional bloat. See trinitydesktop.org for the latest info. If you have any interest in contributing, please feel free to join Calvin, Pawell, Baho and I on the project. The current list of packages building is: tde-abakus tde-arts tde-dbus-1-tqt tde-dbus-tqt tde-dolphin tde-gtk-qt-engine tde-kgtk-qt3 tde-kio-locate tde-kipi-plugins tde-kpowersave tde-libart-lgpl tde-libcaldav tde-libcarddav tde-libkdcraw tde-libkexiv2 tde-libkipi tde-libksquirrel tde-python-tqt tde-rosegarden tde-sip (replaces sip) tde-sip4-tqt (replaces python2-sip) tde-tde-style-qtcurve tde-tdeaddons tde-tdeartwork tde-tdebase (with upower) tde-tdegames tde-tdegraphics tde-tdelibs tde-tdemultimedia tde-tdenetwork tde-tdepim tde-tdesvn tde-tdetoys tde-tdeutils tde-tdevelop tde-tdewebdev tde-tqca-tls tde-tqt3 tde-tqtinterface tde-wlassistant That is a majority of the desktop and it is truly a joy to use. Currently I have a development build script for building. Once R14 is released, I will revise it to build from traditional pkgbuild.src.tz files and make that available for anyone interested. I don't know if kaiting still has server space, but I have binary packages for both i686 and x86_64 that I can make available for testing. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [translation] pacman 4.0.3 string freeze
by Dan McGee 01 Apr '12

01 Apr '12

Only very minor updates, very few strings have changed. More info: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/translation-help.html Transifex page: https://www.transifex.net/projects/p/archlinux-pacman/r/4-0-3/ Due by: 2012-04-02 Thanks! -Dan

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