September 2013 - 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] arch rollback machine
by Lieven Moors 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Hi, Does anyone know what is happening with Arch Rollback Machine? The server (arm.konnichi.com) has been unavailable for more than a week now, and I'm depending on it to keep an offline machine up to date... Greetings, lieven

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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] Kernel freeze on boot with kernel 3.10.x
by Nils Becker 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Hello everyone, since kernel version >3.9.x (e.g. 3.10.3, 3.10.10) my system freezes during the boot. I was hoping for a fix to appear in later versions of 3.10. but as this was not the case, I am in dire need of help to debug this problem as currently I am not even getting any logs from the crash. Problem: After grub is loaded the system loads the initial ram disk and I am prompted to enter the password for my root partition. After that the system starts normally (systemd messages) and freezes at some point. The last message printed differs a little bit between boots, but it is roughly about "Mounted Config File System". The freeze is apparently a complete crash: I started a systemd rescue console on tty9 (which startup is printed out) but I cannot switch in that console after the freeze (no response on key events). Apparently the logs are not yet written to the harddisk as I can not find any entries on that boot if I startup another kernel. I would be grateful for any pointers on this issue and/or some suggestions how I can at least get a useful log from the crash to open a bug report. I am using the standard arch linux packages (at least where the bootup is involved). My system is using a raid1 with encrypted root partition. And yes, it works flawlessly if I downgrade the linux package to <3.10.x. My hardware configuration (hwinfo output) can be found under: www.ncbecker.de/pc/hwinfo I ran hwinfo with the lts-kernel. Cheers Nils

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Re: [arch-general] Git
by Sebastian Schwarz 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

On 2013-29-09, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > If we were to use git, we should have one git repository per > package, and also provide one repository which includes all > the packages as submodules. Why not use one branch per package and one branch per repository with the packages as submodules instead of a repository for each package? This way all the packages would be in a single repository and could be fetched all at once or one at a time.

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[arch-general] xdm and awesomewm incompatibilty
by ashwin 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi, I see that xdm and awesome wm dont go well together. It used to work well before. I see after recent package update. awesome wm crashes often. After killing xdm, it is back normal again. Has anyone else experienced this ? If xdm is buggy, then can someone suggest a good login manager for X ? I see gdm brings in gnome-shell and loads of other packages which is not directly related to login manager. What i am looking for is just the login manager and its dependecies and not the entire DE. I assume kdm does the same thing. The awesome wm & xdm version in my pc is: awesome 3.5.1-3 xorg-xdm 1.1.11-4 with regards, ashwin

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[arch-general] [zfs] new problem at the installation version problem ?
by bussiere bussiere 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

I've already done a zfs installation with archlinux but this time and for the first time when i try to make a new one it doesn't seems to have load the zfs module and when i try to install it with insmod it says to me : invalid module format .... i may have just to wait that the problem will be corrected ? And i've done everything accord to the tutorial. My information contact, telephone, skills, clef pgps &co : http://bussiere.github.io/ "Les nouvelles technologies offrent plein de nouvelles possibilités, pleins de possibilités d'erreurs surtout en fait."

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[arch-general] Upgrade problem
by Phil Dobbin 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi, all. I'm a newcomer to Arch Linux so excuse my ignorance. I attempted to update yesterday (pacman -Syu) & I got this message at the end of the update: '(121/121) checking for file conflicts [#################################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem filesystem: /sbin exists in filesystem filesystem: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.' Can anybody tell me what it means & how to go about fixing it (I've got Arch running on a VPS). Many thanks, Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using Arch Linux, CentOS 5.9 & 6.4, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Spherical & That Damn Cat, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Tiger, Ubuntu Quantal, Raring & Saucy GnuGPG Key : http://phildobbin.org/publickey.asc

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Git
by Karol Babioch 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hi, Am 30.09.2013 09:51, schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase: > That is an excellent idea that I hadn't even considered yet. Arch Linux ARM is kind of doing this already, see [1]. [1]: https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs Best regards, Karol Babioch

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Re: [arch-general] Gnome and Arch Issues Under VirtualBox
by Guus Snijders 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Op 30 sep. 2013 00:09 schreef "Hunter Jozwiak" <potbelliedjazz(a)aol.com> het volgende: > > I am trying to edit the xinitrc file so that when I type startx, Gnome will start. It seems that something has gone wrong with the drivers, because I get a result that I need to get information from a log file. Ok, so far so good. Startx is fairly simple, but can be confusing. I'm not that familiar with gnome, but which command starts it? Could you post the contents of $home/.xinitrc ? mvg, Guus

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