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

[arch-general] Install scripts and Syslinux
by Myra Nelson 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

I would like to thank all those who are working so diligently to make Arch Linux more usable. There are just too many to list in one spot. Dave's install scripts are great. This was the easiest install I've ever done save plugging in an MSDOS disk. To all those trying to come up with a graphical installer, I've never cared for them starting with anaconda and FreeBSD' sys install. Doing the install with these scripts removes all doubt about what's been done. Yes the AIF put most of it in your face and was a very laudable project, but these scripts take out all the doubt and forces you to think about how and what you are doing. They also make it possible to plug another hard disk into a running machine, do the install, then reboot to the new disk without using any external drives. That's the part I really love. Thanks for the tips about ext4 on the boot partition. I do have one question relating to the genfstab script. All the other scripts work with sudo but genfstab doesn't. I get an error message "permission denied" I have to su to root then run it. Myfra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] offlineimap configuration encrypted pwd
by Arno Gaboury 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all, I just finised creating GnuPG key and setting gpg-agent following the wiki. I am a litle bit confused now about a few things and how to use my encripted password. First, is there any need to add in my .Xressources this line: eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) I don't think so, but have a doubt. Now about the encrypted pwd. As described in Mutt wiki, I have now a file ~/.my-pwds.gpg. The wiki descibes how to use with Mutt. My problem is I use offlineimap, so it is in ~/.offlineimaprc I shall indicate the encrypted pwd. Is this following line enough ? remotepass = ~/.my-pwds.gpg OR shall I add to this following line ? source "gpg2 -dq ~/.my-pwds.gpg |" I use msmtp to send, so my problem with ~/.msmtprc is same:how to use the encrypted pwd? I didn't find any clear answer on Google, so thank you for any help in these settings. Regards.

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[arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%
by David C. Rankin 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Guys, I have watched this in top for the past week or so. Thunderbird and Firefox are causing X cpu usage to shoot upt to between 80-100% on simple tasks like scrolling a message list in tbird or simply opening css menus in firefox. All of this used to be instantaneous and never cause the cpu to bat an eye. But now, it is very pronounced and brings the desktop to a crawl. This box is not a screamer, but plenty fast, P4 2800/4G/Nvidia 8600GT. How do I determine what is causing this? X? ff/tb? something else? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.4.8-1
by Tobias Powalowski 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.4.8 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.5.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Installation_Guide - fix concerning bootloader config reference
by David C. Rankin 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Guys, One place the Installation_Guide could be improved is regarding the bootloader install and config. Currently the "Configure system" section has a circular-reference back to "Install a bootloader" section. It reads: ------------------------------------------------- Install a bootloader GRUB For BIOS: # pacstrap /mnt grub-bios <snip> Configure system ... Configure the bootloader: refer back to the appropriate article from the bootloader installation section. ------------------------------------------------- Above, the reference back 'to the appropriate article from the bootloader installation section' sends the reader back to an area with NO additional information. It would be far better to simply refer the reader to: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Configure_the_bootl… or just include the bootloader config steps from Beginners_Guide. Bolding "Configure the bootloader:" would also help. That will emphasize the fact that grub2 is not configured at this point and the user needs to complete grub-install and grub-mkconfig before rebooting. Especially for user seeing grub2 for the first time with an install from the new 2012 media. That's just a suggestion for readability. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] No signal on external monitor with 3.5 Kernel
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hi Everyone, I have an external monitor connected to my laptop via HDMI which I use side by side to get an extended desktop. When I boot the system with 3.5 Kernel I don't get any signal on the external monitor, laptop display and everything else work fine. It works fine with 3.4.x Kernels, and I believe it's not a X problem as it's not getting any signal even before X starts (It does with 3.4.x). I was wondering if anyone else has this issue and possibly a solution, or is this something I need to submit upstream? Thanks. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe

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[arch-general] gnome-screenshot tool partly broken with last xorg-server in testing ?
by fredbezies 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Hello. Before shouting on me, I know, testing can be broken sometimes. But as I'm facing this bug, I have reported it : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31087 To sum up : I cannot get a window to be correctly captured. Fullscreen is ok, window => corrupted file, and these kind of log. ** (gnome-screenshot:27677): WARNING **: Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. Error: Le fichier image « /home/fred/.cache/gnome-screenshot/scr--1328043383.png » ne contient pas de données (gnome-screenshot:27677): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_from_surface: assertion `width > 0 && height > 0' failed (gnome-screenshot:27677): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_resize: assertion `width > 0' failed ** (gnome-screenshot:27677): CRITICAL **: Unable to capture a screenshot of any window What do you think of that ? -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible
by Not To Miss 09 Aug '12

09 Aug '12

Dear Arch users, I have latest Arch installed on my desktop at work. In recent two weeks, the system randomly "suspends" at night (I call it "randomly" because it didn't happen every night. And it seems to happen after a random period idle time) when I am off. I can't wake it up in the next morning thru mouse or keyboard. I tried to disable suspension and hibernation by editing /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy to change from <allow_active>yes</allow_active> to <allow_active>no</allow_active> But it doesn't work. While I call it "suspend", I am not sure it suspend to RAM or hibernate to disk, because I find the CPU fan and power fan still spin normally. RAM light is also on. So it might be a video driver / setting related issue. For your information, I am using nvidia-302.17-2-x86_64 and have dual monitor set up with nvidia-utils-302.17-1-x86_64 This really bothers me a lot. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! -- Best, Zech

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[arch-general] Screen Scaling Issues
by Alfredo Palhares 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hello, i am having some problems setting up Xorg correctly. I have a ATI Radeon 7750 codename "Cape Verde" VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7700 Series] I have a problem when i start X, on 1920x1080 the screen is not fully used, i get some black border all around the screen. To "fix" this i have to open amdcccle and in the DTV(1) section -> Adjustments and on Scalling Options i have to move the bar from 0 to zero again. This does solve the problem, but it does not persist between reboots (does not change Xorg.conf at all even as root). Is it possible to set this as an option on the xord.conf ? I probably does, but I failed to find the name of that option. As attachemnt goes my catalyst config file Any sugestions are welcomne. -- Regards Alfredo Palhares

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[arch-general] offlineimap + gmail : don't sync anymore
by arnaud gaboury 08 Aug '12

08 Aug '12

Hello all, I have a Mutt+msmtp+offlineimap set up. This has been working very well for the past weeks. offlineimap is croned each 3 minutes. Since one hour, Mutt is no more receiving incoming emails. I only see them on the gmail website or on my mobile device. When I run $offlineimap it returns this error: ERROR: Exceptions occurred during the run! ERROR: While attempting to sync account 'Gmail' [ALERT] Account exceeded command or bandwidth limits. (Failure) After some readings, it seems this is a common issue, but I couldn't find any clear answer how to deal with it. Then, I have no idea why suddenly one hour ago offlineimap stop syncing as I didn't received neither sent any attached files! Please help if someone knows how to deal. Regards.

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