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

[arch-general] moving custom hooks to systemd
by Dimitrios Apostolou 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello list, I tried booting with systemd and two custom hooks I have that create the /var directory on tmpfs didn't work. Google doesn't help here and my experience with systemd is in its infancy, so is there specific action I should take? My custom hooks are set to run during sysinit_postmount and shutdown_preumount, see attached file for full source. Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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[arch-general] systemd-journald-syslog-ng
by Arno Gaboury 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Dear list, I finally managed to boot safely with systemd. I am still wondering if journald is correctly set up. Until now, syslog-ng is STILL unabled. Following the wiki, I changed the line in syslog-ng.conf from: unix-dgram("/var/run/log"); to unix-dgram("/run/systemd/journal/syslog"); and mkdir /var/log/journal but when I look in /var/log/d564e939c66712bce792b0710000017f/system.journal, I only see this: LPKSHHRH I am not sure it is the expected behavior! So my question is this one: shall I remove (or disable syslog-ng unit) to get a list of messages in /var/.../journal? TY for help

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[arch-general] gnome-shell performance problems
by Pico Geyer 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hi all. I'm having a performance issue with gnome shell and I wonder if anyone can provide me with some advice. Gnome shell seems to be using a lot of my cpu resources. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 949 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m S 203.3 5.4 136:04.53 gnome-shell When I enable threaded mode in top (H) is see this: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 953 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 50.1 5.4 31:22.91 gnome-shell 955 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 48.7 5.4 31:41.81 gnome-shell 952 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 47.1 5.4 31:03.14 gnome-shell 954 pico 20 0 1923m 204m 21m R 45.1 5.4 31:22.46 gnome-shell That is it's using about 50% of each of my cores on my quad core system. This high cpu usage starts when I run a command that produces a lot of output on the terminal. For my own use case I was importing the boost repostory into git. git svn clone http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost But the problem can be reproduced using the 'yes' command as well. Can anyone explain this high cpu usage? It happens even if I minimize the window producing the output. Is it worth submitting a bug report for it? I'm on a T510 Lenovo laptop with an updated Arch and I'm using the nouveau driver. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Regards, Pico

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[arch-general] cannot set locale (systemd)
by Thanos Zygouris 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

After upgrading systemd (189-3) and filesystem (2012.8-1) my locale isn't en_US.UTF-8 anymore. Instead, it defaults to C. # cat /etc/locale.conf: LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=C # locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= I tried to run /etc/profile.d/locale.sh manually, but nothing changed. If i manually export LANG="en_US.UTF-8", it works, but i suspect it's not the "correct" way. So, is there a bug, or i am just missing something?

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[arch-general] LibreOffice 3.6.1-1 doesn't run.
by fredbezies 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello. I upgraded using testing repository LibreOffice 3.6.1-1... And I cannot test it, it doesn't fully start ! Bootscreen goes half way to load, and then, I got this message : "Impossible de lancer l'application. exception occurred raising singleton "/singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.ExtensionManager": loading component library failed: file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libdeployment.so"; First line can be translated by "Cannot Launch application". Any idea ? Deleting previous profile doesn't help, only downgrading to LibreOffice 3.5.6 :( -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] systemd.mount not authorized
by Arno Gaboury 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Dear list, I boot with systemd and startx. I can't open my USB disk with thunar (XFCE4 file manager) and get this message: Not autorized to perform operation. I understand as a simple user I can not mount it. How can I solve this issue? I couldn't find any clear answer. Thank you

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[arch-general] linux 3.5 and resolution EDID problem
by Shridhar Daithankar 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Hello all, After upgrading to linux-3.5.2, my monitor lost its highest resolution of 1360x768 and went to 1024x768 instead. Downgrading to linux-3.4.9 fixed the issue for the moment. There are some problems reported with linux-3.5-rc4, such as http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2012-June/024455.html. My desktop has Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics controller, which uses i915 module. and I am still experiencing the problem. However unlike the thread on arch forums(https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1153026), I am not experiencing any display corruption. Anything I can do to fix the problem with linux-3.5? Thanks -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] Emacs window color broken after update to 24.2.1
by Nick Lanham 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

The emacs update seems to have broken something in the way emacs displays colors. The portion of the window where there is "nothing" is always displayed with a light grey tint. Screenshots: - starting with -q (i.e. no config): http://i.imgur.com/8ailM.png - with a theme: http://i.imgur.com/rJjB1.png The only thing I set in my .Xdefaults is Emacs*Font A downgrade to 24.1 fixes makes things work again. Cheers, Nick

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[arch-general] Sudo arch wiki
by Kevin Chadwick 31 Aug '12

31 Aug '12

Cmnd_Alias EDITS = /usr/bin/vim, /usr/bin/nano, /usr/bin/cat, /usr/bin/vi Cmnd_Alias ARCHLINUX = /usr/sbin/gparted, /usr/bin/pacman, /usr/bin/pacman-color root ALL = (ALL) ALL USER_NAME ALL = (ALL) ALL, NOPASSWD: WHEELER, NOPASSWD: PROCESSES, NOPASSWD: ARCHLINUX, NOPASSWD: EDITS The arch wiki docs are usually very good but the sudo page is dangerous. The offered configs suggest adding editors to sudo when sudoedit should only be added and only to a set file otherwise sudo is basically just su and without a password in the example so suid all due to the user being able to edit sudoers or escape the editor. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________

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[arch-general] systemd pulseaudio
by Arno Gaboury 30 Aug '12

30 Aug '12

Sorry for this second post, but I forgot [arch-general] in subject Dear list, I am able to boot with systemd. For now, I am still using the mixed systemd installation, until everything is clear. The only issue is with pulseaudio. $ journalctl returns [pulseaudio] module-equalizer-sink.c: resume state exists but is wrong size! I am on XFCE4, and when I start mixer, i have this error: GStreamer was unable to detect any sound device.Some sound system specific Gstreamer packages maybe missing. It may also be a permission problem. In /var/log/errors, I find these entries: localhost pulseaudio[29270]: [pulseaudio] module-equalizer-sink.c: resume state exists but is wrong size! localhost login: pam_systemd(login:session): Failed to release session: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received localhost pulseaudio[2257]: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. When I start Pulse audio volume control, it is waiting to connect to pulse audio and give me this error in everything.log: localhost kernel: [ 150.080570] pulseaudio[2257]: segfault at 48 ip 00007fdbd3df404e sp 00007fff3b1e9860 error 4 in module-equalizer-sink.so[7fdbd3def000+f000] My music player (ncmpcpp with mpd) is indeed playing music, and I can control volume with the +/- keys. Thank you for help. Reply-To: arnaud.gaboury(a)gmail.com Host: Magnolia on Arch Linux

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