June 2013 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] uml_utilities dropped?
by Brock Zheng 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi, all I found that uml_utilities vanished in the repo. It can't be found in core/extra/communit repo, and also AUR . I need the command "tunctl" to install tap0 NIC, which is used to setup my qemu virtual machine. Any comment? -- Brock Zheng <goodmenzy(a)gmail.com> 郑祎 Software Enginner GnuPG key ID : 90C99215 GnuPg key fpr : EF09 4CD7 A64A 1034 4C6C 0078 EC76 1286 90C9 9215 Key Server : http://pgp.mit.edu

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[arch-general] Is erlang-nox dropped?
by XeCycle 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hello, On yet another -Syu this morning I was asked whether to replace erlang-nox by erlang. Are we dropping the -nox variant? I'm using -nox for I don't need GUI in erlang now; also wxgtk pulls in gstreamer as a dependency, which I don't like. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics and Astronomy, SJTU OpenPGP public key: 7795E591

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] /bin/false exited with status 1
by John Briggs 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 09:30:03AM +0100, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Leonidas Spyropoulos > > <artafinde(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > >> Any other suggestion from someone ? > >> > > > > It is my intention to help you. Please bear with us. > FYI I recently installed mpd according to the ArchWiki page. I initially had problems with starting systemd --user similar to what you are describing but after a reboot everything worked OK. John

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[arch-general] Why is webkitgtk2 flagged out of date?
by Karol Blazewicz 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/webkitgtk2/ Flagged out-of-date on 2013-03-27 Last Updated: 2013-05-06 19:52 UTC

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Re: [arch-general] Super weird dd problem.
by Toyam Cox 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Alfredo Palhares <masterkorp(a)masterkorp.net>wrote: Hello, So I was creating a archlinux usb bootable drive: [root@masterkorp-laptop Downloads]# dd bs=4M if=archlinux-2013.06.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdb 130+1 records in 130+1 records out 548405248 bytes (548 MB) copied, 0.964976 s, 568 MB/s I was like WOW, this was too fast! But nothing ever gets written to the pen drive. To add to the weird factor, a dd to dev/sdb1 (partition) works as it should, slowly. But then ofcourse the iso gets unbootable. The md5sum on the iso is correct. I tried with diferent pen drives. Please, any suggestions is welcome. -- Regards, Alfredo Palhares When I first learned DD, to create bootable disks, 1M was the suggested size because you could manage to miswrite with something larger. The caution was: "Use 1M to restrict your speed so that it writes properly" which I never actually understood, but never had a problem with. Only recently have I seen the suggestion to use 4M, but always with 1M as the fallback option if it doesn't work. -- - Toyam

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Re: [arch-general] [aur-general] /bin/false exited with status 1
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 09 Jun '13

09 Jun '13

On 1 Jun 2013 20:06, "Curtis Shimamoto" <sugar.and.scruffy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 06/01/13 at 07:44pm, Leonidas Spyropoulos wrote: > > I am getting this error when I try to use the systemd as user. I used > > to have mpd set up as user with systemd before some updates, but > > recently I didn't test it. How could I debug that to find the issue? > > > First of all, I want to ask if you are aware you have sent this to > [aur-general] and not [arch-general]. I think your question has little > to do with the AUR. Apologies, you are right, my intention was to send it to general. > > Also, there is a page in teh Arch Wiki that covers setting up user > sessions with systemd.[1] Have you taken a look that this? Setup is not > quite simply making services and then calling "systemd --user". I had followed that page on the wiki, I will double check my configuration is correct. > > > $ systemctl --user status mpd.service > > Failed to issue method call: Process /bin/false exited with status 1 > > This is what happens if you don't set up the necessary things that are > described in the wiki. But if you are using linux-ck, you should know > that even if you set things up, you will still get this because the bfs > patchset actually disables some cgroup setting in the kernel that are > necessary for user sessions to work. I am using stock kernel. > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User > > Regards, > -- > Curtis Shimamoto > sugar.and.scruffy [at] gmail.com Thanks for the suggestions. Leonidas

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[arch-general] Updating KDE whilst logged in causes loss of background wallpaper image
by Mike Cloaked 08 Jun '13

08 Jun '13

There is a KDE bug that has been around for some time which is in the upstream report at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300708 which seems to be that if you update KDE (as in today's update to KDE 4.10.4-1) whilst being logged in to KDE you can lose your background wallpaper image. Updating from a text console without being logged in to the graphical desktop does not cause the issue to happen. There is a workaround in the first comment in the report link above in case anyone gets caught by this. -- mike c

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[arch-general] /bin symlink breaking fetchmail
by Scott Lawrence 07 Jun '13

07 Jun '13

Hey all, In short, the latest upgrade seems to have borked fetchmail: fetchmail: Error writing to MDA: Broken pipe Deleting the /bin symlink and creating a /bin directory containing only a symlink /bin/sh pointing to /usr/bin/bash, makes fetchmail work again. Running `strace -vf fetchmail` reveals that the execve("/bin/sh"...) call returns EPERM. I'm well and truly stumped. I'm using courier-mta as my mda, but that shouldn't be relevant. Has anybody encountered this? Thanks, -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.9.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 25 16:14:55 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Crashing in libreoffice on certain .odp (Impress) files
by Oon-Ee Ng 05 Jun '13

05 Jun '13

Yesterday I used libreoffice to present a lecture from 3-4pm. Today morning I tried to open the exact same file and got immediate crashing. 2 of my lecture slides have this problem, 2 do not. In between, I updated to [testing] (this is a new laptop) and did quite a few installs, but none (except the big [testing] update for the /usr/bin move) seem related. See [1]. I have tried deleting ~/.config/libreoffice, to no avail. No error logs that I can see on the terminal (does libreoffice spit out errors anywhere?). Backups of the lecture slides (before small modifications which I may/not have made also exhibited the same behaviour. Googling shows various unrelated (I think) problems which seem to already be fixed in the latest libreoffice, mainly solved by deleting the .config/libreoffice folder (which I've tried). Suggestions please. [1] - http://pastebin.com/P4XE1uea

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[arch-general] Rivendell PKGBUILD
by Sébastien Leblanc 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

Hey folks! I updated my PKGBUILD file and submitted it to the Arch User Repository, if anyone is interested. It is the 2.5.1 version of Rivendell https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rivendell/ Let me know if you are having any issues. For now, I am having trouble with rdcartslots: it will not run at all. Maybe someone can help me out. I have not done thorough testing, but most everything else should work correctly. -- Sébastien Leblanc

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