June 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] Unable to add fonts to X
by D. R. Evans 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel free to point me to such a place if one exists. ---- Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some fonts available to X. My understanding of the process is: 1. Put the fonts in a directory. 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory. 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory. 4. run xset +fp <directory name> So what I did: 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts. 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts. At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about the wrapping): lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -> /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents: 33 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale. 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes ~/.fonts in its path, but running xset q did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list. So I ran: xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts But now we come to the problem. This command returns: xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax But: a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user. b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir c. The syntax looks OK. So what is xset complaining about? (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.) Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] TeXlive 2012 packages
by Rémy Oudompheng 21 Jul '12

21 Jul '12

Hello, I am going to put Texlive 2012 packages in [testing]. Texlive 2012 is not yet released, but it is frozen, so I do not expect changes to these packages except to fix packaging errors. Please try them and complain on mailing lists. Don't hesitate to compile your own theses, memoirs or books. Regards, Rémy.

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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] Can't suspend or hibernate
by Brock York 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

Hey I haven't been able to suspend my desktop for about 6 months now. I'm not sure what has caused it. I haven't had any hardware changes and even a reload hasn't fixed the problem. I've tried reading the wiki on suspending and run some tests using pm-suspend. It suspends processes fine according to the guide I was following, but it seems to get stuck at suspending hardware. I tried disabling as many modules as possible to then get it to suspend but still no luck. Is anyone else having this problem or has anyone fixed this problem? Regards Brock

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[arch-general] Installing to RAID .. cannot reboot
by D. R. Evans 04 Jul '12

04 Jul '12

I have carefully followed the RAID instructions at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Software_RAID_and_LVM#RAID_installation I have not used LVM, just RAID. I have double-checked what I actually did, and believe that I did exactly what the page tells me to do. I have two identical drives, which I configured as RAID1. At the conclusion of the installation, the instructions say: ---- Once it is complete you can safely reboot your machine: # reboot ---- When I try to reboot, I receive the error message: ERROR: device /dev/md0 not found ERROR: unable to find root device /dev/md0 What do I have to do to get past this error? Doc PS I tried to go back to the very beginning and walk through the instructions again, but when I do that, when I reach this step: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sd[cd]3 I am now informed that /dev/sdc3 is busy or unavailable. -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] cpufreq stopped working
by Martin Zecher 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

I'm not really sure when cpufreq stopped working, maybe 2 or 3 months ago. It was working fine before and I don't really remember making any change in configuration. Running cpupower frequency-info gives me this: analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU boost state support: Supported: no Active: no lsmod | grep cpu gives this: acpi_cpufreq 10458 1 mperf 1235 1 acpi_cpufreq processor 26567 3 acpi_cpufreq So, acpi_cpufreq is loaded (this is the module I had to load aside with for cpufreq to work journalctl | grep cpu gives this: Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, ...06 Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:64 nr_cpumask_bits:64 n...:1 Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 27 pages/cpu @ffff88013fc000...88 Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: pcpu-alloc: s80640 r8192 d21760 u524288 alloc...52 Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 1 2 3 Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: cpuidle: using governor ladder Jun 30 00:45:47 cerdo kernel: cpuidle: using governor menu Jun 30 00:45:49 cerdo kernel: ACPI: Requesting acpi_cpufreq Jun 30 00:45:49 cerdo kernel: ACPI: acpi_idle registered with cpuidle Jun 30 00:45:50 cerdo kernel: Modules linked in: acpi_cpufreq(+) mperf batt...he Jun 30 00:45:50 cerdo kernel: [<ffffffffa01df081>] acpi_cpufreq_init+0x81/0...q] Jun 30 00:46:08 cerdo systemd[1]: Failed to create cgroup cpu:/: No such fi...ry cat /proc/cpuinfo gives this: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0x60f cpu MHz : 2393.998 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority bogomips : 4789.22 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 23 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 6 microcode : 0x60f cpu MHz : 2393.998 cache size : 3072 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 1 initial apicid : 1 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 lahf_lm dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority bogomips : 4789.22 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: SpeedStep is enabled in BIOS. The firmware is also the latest, but I must load microcode (from intel-ucode) to get a newer firmware for my CPU. Some details of my box: x86_64, SSD linux-ck-corex 3.4.4-2, but the same happens with linux 3.4.4-2. I also tested linux-3.3.8-1 without luck nvidia-ck-corex 302.17-1 systemd, but the same happens when booting with standard initscripts I have only ArchLinux installed in my laptop since I bought it (so I cannot test in Window$ if frequency scaling is working) I found a similar report 2 months ago, apparently not solved yet: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140259 I don't have overheating problems though. CPU runs at about 40 °C all the time. Here is another similar problem, but also without a solution: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142237 I don't really know what else to do. I would really appreciate some help with this. Thanks for reading. -- Martin Código de novios Falabella: 585855-00 (gracias!) No envíen archivos pesados por mail. Usen DropBox <https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIwODk0MDk> (2GB + *500MB bonus*) o SpiderOak<https://spideroak.com/download/referral/dd6b3051b5f1f10a5674d694f22dd3e8>(tras registrarse vayan a 'buy more space' e ingresen el código "worldbackupday" --> *8GB*)

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[arch-general] Shutdown and reboot not working after last weekend update
by Victor Silva 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Folks sorry for cross posting this at forum and mailing lists but so far no solution came there. Folks after the last upgrade I can no longer shutdown nor reboot my machine (I'm using it as root). The command simply hangs and nothing happens. I've done some research and found https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141155 this but that does not seems to be my issue. I'm clueless which logs can I provide you in order to diagnose what can be the problem? Important thing, I have only 1 session running and the system report going down still it never gets past the tty broadcast as it seems. Ideas? This came after a update last weekend, the content of the update is here: http://pastebin.com/54305EH0 Dmesg output is here http://pastebin.com/HjwGvDsp My last boot log is here: http://pastebin.com/Tg70mD8F My fstab (which was asked on the forums is here): http://pastebin.com/dGUuWhNe Is it somehow related? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662433 I've googled a bit and came with a solution which gives us some insights http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/rebooting-magic-way Seems something is not properly unmounting. SO you can for it with: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger Forcing a shut down, still no clear way out of it. Ideas? I was asked to perform a fsck which failed.It reported /dev/sda5 was mounted. Is there any proper way I should use to call fsck? I did create a /fsck file on / is there other more appropriate command to do it? Problably you asked for my fstab expecting an error like this right? Would it be better to run fsck from a livecd? regards, Victor

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[arch-general] Help with pm-suspend
by Randy 01 Jul '12

01 Jul '12

Hello All, I'm seeing a strange issue when I suspend my system. If I suspend using either the command: "dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend" or running "pm-suspend" as root, the system will shutdown and go into suspend mode like it should. But if I execute either of these commands again, it doesn't suspend. What I found is that after suspending the first time I can see that "/usr/sbin/pm-suspend" is still active. After killing this process I am then able to suspend again. Any ideas on what's going on here? Why would the suspend process still be running after resuming from suspend? Thanks, Randy

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