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

[arch-general] upower.service stop working
by Zhengyu Xu 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Dear all, Today I suddenly found the battery-icon disappeared from my gnome-shell panel. When I checked the status of systemctl there is a failed item corresponding to upower.service. Followings are the output of "systemctl status upower.service": power.service - Daemon for power management Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/upower.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: signal) since Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:48:40 +0900; 2min 57s ago Process: 4270 ExecStart=/usr/lib/upower/upowerd (code=killed, signal=SEGV) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/upower.service and relevant output from "journalctl": Aug 02 23:39:37 xzy3186-E420 systemd[1]: upower.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=11 Aug 02 23:39:37 xzy3186-E420 systemd[1]: Unit upower.service entered failed state. I don't know how to get more debug information to this problem. Is there anybody else who also has similar experience? I will appreciate very much if someone could give me any suggestion. Best regards, Zhengyu PS: My environment is upower-0.9.17-2 systemd-187-4

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[arch-general] pacman's default download manager?
by Oon-Ee Ng 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

On my personal machine I've long-since changed XferCommand, but on doing a new install on another machine with the latest iso (behind a proxy, which is a first for me), I figured out that a problem I was having was linked to pacman NOT using wget by default. Is it just me, or wasn't wget the default before? Just to be clear, I was getting proxy related errors even after changing /etc/wgetrc (as instructed in the beginner's guide). Does pacman use curl by default now (or something else)? Once I get confirmation, the Beginner's Guide section on proxies needs a bit of changing =).

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[arch-general] [arch-projects] [initscripts] [GIT] Arch Linux initscripts repository branch master updated. 2012.07.5-3-gf670511
by Myra Nelson 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Tom: >From your latest update to the initscripts in the git repo. This makes sure that systemd supports some initscripts API's. With this patch, systemd will: * Parse and use DAEMONS and MODULES from rc.conf * Run rc.local and rc.local.shutdown on boot and shutdown respectively I have everything working but my network with I load manually. I'm using journalctl etc instead of syslog Since systemd parses the rc.conf file now the only thing I should need in the daemons line is [ network ]. Is that correct? I tried to shoot the message below to you on the arch-projects list, but don't have access on that list to send you mail, so here it is. Tom: Good job. The one suggestion I have comes from my bent for making sure people don't miss things. I would estimate 90 to 95 percent of Arch users wouldn't miss and most others won't unless they are in a hurry (me). Would you consider it over the top to change the following line The local timezone is configured by symlinking /etc/localtime to the correct zoneinfo file under to The local timezone is configured by *symlinking* /etc/localtime to the correct zoneinfo file under making symlinking show up in bold text. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Bizarre Clock Reset 8/1 -> 9/1 after apcupsd shutdown??
by David C. Rankin 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Guys, This is one for you to puzzle over. I've never seen it before. I had an apcupsd commanded shutdown at Aug 1 13:20:15 (not uncommon - power is terrible). However, when I restarted the hwclock had magically jumped ahead by 1 full month to Sept. 1. (the box was down for 56 minutes until I returned from lunch) Then on restart, I was dropped into the maintenance shell and required to run fsck manually due to the future date. There was a message that stated something line "run fsck manually on /dev/sdc5 ... the system will reboot automatically after fsck completes" (this looked like an abbreviated maintenance shell -- I guess due to the fact that the root fs was the one that was being checked /dev/sdc5. fsck completed (e2fsck), but the box didn't reboot. So I typed 'reboot' -- nothing happened. Checked /usr/bin and reboot was present. So then I finally did ctrl+alt+del and the box restarted. I was then dumped into the normal maintenance shell to fsck /home on /dev/sdc7. It completed and reboot worked normally. My questions are (1) does anybody have any idea how this can happen? (2) Anybody else every seen this? and (3) could the kernel apcupsd segfault (shown below) be the cause? Any ideas welcome. Strange stuff... The relevant everything.log snippet and bios info is below: Aug 1 13:20:15 providence apcupsd[3477]: apcupsd shutdown succeeded Aug 1 13:20:15 providence kernel: [171092.364247] apcupsd[3477]: segfault at 0 ip 0805c706 sp bfcdfff0 error 4 in apcupsd[8048000+38000] Aug 1 13:20:15 providence ntpd[3454]: Listen normally on 6 eth0 192.168.7.124 UDP 123 Aug 1 13:20:15 providence ntpd[3454]: peers refreshed Aug 1 13:20:15 providence ntpd[3454]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver Aug 1 13:20:15 providence postfix/postfix-script[13735]: stopping the Postfix mail system Aug 1 13:20:15 providence postfix/master[3868]: terminating on signal 15 Aug 1 13:20:15 providence postfix/postfix-script[13738]: waiting for the Postfix mail system to terminate Aug 1 13:20:16 providence dhcpcd[424]: eth0: sending IPv6 Router Solicitation Aug 1 13:20:19 providence ntpd[3454]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 Aug 1 13:20:19 providence dhcpcd[13884]: sending signal 1 to pid 424 Aug 1 13:20:19 providence dhcpcd[424]: received SIGHUP, releasing Aug 1 13:20:19 providence dhcpcd[424]: eth0: releasing lease of 192.168.7.124 Aug 1 13:20:19 providence dhcpcd[13884]: waiting for pid 424 to exit Aug 1 13:20:19 providence dhcpcd[424]: eth0: removing interface Aug 1 13:20:19 providence kernel: [171096.790000] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0: wake-up capability enabled by ACPI Aug 1 13:20:19 providence syslog-ng[352]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.3.5' Sep 1 14:16:20 providence kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Sep 1 14:16:20 providence kernel: [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Sep 1 14:16:20 providence kernel: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.4.7-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.7.1 20120721 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jul 29 20:05:01 UTC 2012 BIOS Information Vendor: Dell Inc. Version: A04 Release Date: 02/09/2005 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Something wrong with cmake
by Xin Zhao 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Dear all, I tried to install vtk in aur. But this gave me the following error: -- Could NOT find JNI (missing: JAVA_AWT_LIBRARY JAVA_JVM_LIBRARY JAVA_INCLUDE_PATH JAVA_INCLUDE_PATH2 JAVA_AWT_INCLUDE_PATH) But I tried to wrote a CMakeLists.txt include find_package(JNI). This gave me -- JNI found. which seems to work fine. Best, Xin

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] KDE kdebase-runtime 4.9 dependency changes
by Matthew Monaco 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

On 08/02/2012 08:27 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > Noticed this when upgrading yesterday. Suddenly got a lot more junk > installed on my system because of the new dep of kdebase-runtime on > kdepimlibs. > > Is this dependency really necessary? Can it not be optional with the > KDE programs that actually require it pull it in explicitly? I'd > prefer to not have MySQL on my system, in addition to the numerous > other programs that got pulled. Anything from my log that is listed as > "installed" was obviously not there before: > All I want is k3b, but I just went ahead and removed it when I saw all this new stuff.

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[arch-general] Mutt client-Message from Gateway
by Arno Gaboury 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Dear list, as some of you strongly advise me, I finally set up Mutt as my mail client. I set up with a gmail account, offlineimap and msmtp. Even if I don't maximise the beast, everything works fine. I still have one issue when sending or replying to this list. After my sent, I recieved immediatly a mail FROM: Gateway SUBJECT: NDN BODY : Your message couldn't be delivered to: kingeryj,Firstclass(The name was not found on the remote site). Any idea what could be wrong in my configuration? Or maybe just an invalid adress in the list? Thank You for help. Regards

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[arch-general] locale.conf
by Arno Gaboury 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Dear list, even after reading all wiki and man, I am still confused about how to write locale.conf after recent upgrades. Here are the 6 locales enabled in locale.gen: fr_CH.UTF-8 UTF-8 fr_CH ISO-8859-1 fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8 fr_FR ISO-8859-1 fr_FR@euro ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 My Arch is in english, and I live in Switzerland and read documents in english, french and "swiss" french. Still, I am not sure if I need to enable all these locales. I have NO IDEA how to write correctly all these locales in locale.conf. Thank you for your help. Regards.

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[arch-general] linux-3.5.0-1 enters [testing]
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Arch kernel
by Jorge Almeida 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

I'm trying to find out what is the Arch mainline kernel. In https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Compilation#Compilation it is said that it is the vanilla kernel plus 3 patches. Which patches? The link is broken. (And is this the proper place to report it?) TIA Jorge Almeida

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