January 2014 - 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] Resume from suspend in RAM fails
by nmset＠netcourrier.com 12 May '14

12 May '14

Hello, Resume from suspend in RAM fails even though I have followed the Arch Wiki recommendations, with latest 3.12.7 kernel (and before). The 'resume' hook has been added for mkinitcpio and the machine goes to suspend from the command line (pm-suspend) with no GUI enabled. All keyboard and mouse lights are off and the screen is just black with no backlight. I can't even login through SSH and can't get any PM debug info. It happens on one particular machine only and I'm quite stuck with it. Any suggestions to solve this ? I can provide other relevent information if required. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Failed to start umbrello in KDE
by Edy Santosa Putra 04 Apr '14

04 Apr '14

Hello, When I start umbrello from the desktop it just shows the bouncy cursor for a moment then nothing happens, from the command line it shows the following. $ umbrello umbrello(4508)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "edit_undo" with KXMLGUIFactory! umbrello(4508)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "edit_redo" with KXMLGUIFactory! umbrello(4508) UMLListView::findView: could not find "class diagram" in UMLListViewItem: "Logical View", type="lvt_Logical_View", id="Logical View", children=1 umbrello(4508) UMLListView::findView: could not find "class diagram" in UMLListViewItem: "Logical View", type="lvt_Logical_View", id="Logical View", children=1 I've tried to reinstall it from kdesdk-umbrello package, but it didn't do anything. Any suggestions ?

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[arch-general] journalctl and I/O errors
by Janna Martl 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

A couple months ago, I started getting I/O errors (see below) whenever I tried to do journalctl -n X for sufficiently large X (and journalctl would segfault). I assumed my hard drive was going to die, but in the mean time this was annoying so I did: # cp -rp /var/log/journal{,-clone} # rm -rf /var/log/journal # mv /var/log/journal{-clone,} There were a few errors after step 1 but this made the segfaulting stop. A few weeks later, same problem, same "fix". A few weeks later, ditto. In all this time, the only I/O errors I've ever seen have been related to accessing the journal. The SMART data for the drive says that the current pending sector count is 57, but the reallocated sector count is 0. So if I'm reading this correctly, there have been a bunch of instances of unreadable sectors, somehow only pertaining to one directory despite efforts to make an independent copy of the data (which should put it in random other sectors), but none of them have been confirmed bad. So at this point I'm guessing it's a systemd bug (and there are no actual bad sectors), but it would be great if someone could confirm that any of this actually makes sense before I file a bug report based on ignorance and speculation. Thanks! - J.M. ------------------------------------------- Example I/O error: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x5 ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT ata1.00: cmd 25/00:08:c8:ca:92/00:00:2e:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 51/40:05:cb:ca:92/40:00:2e:00:00/ee Emask 0x9 (media error) ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } ata1.00: error: { UNC } ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] mResult: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] mSense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor] mDescriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex): 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00 2e 92 ca cb sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] mASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: mcdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 2e 92 ca c8 00 00 08 00 end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 781372107 ata1: EH complete

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[arch-general] TDE binaries for pre-R14 testing are available (i686 & x86_64)
by David C. Rankin 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

Package for the Trinity Desktop upcoming R14 release are available for testing. These packages are within a few commits of what RC1 for the release will be. see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trinity Short version: pacman.conf (i686 or x86_64 as necessary): [trinity] SigLevel = Never Server = http://trinity.ceux.org/r14/x86_64 use meta-package "group" install: pacman -Sy group with "group" tde-core : minimal install - no koffice tde-extra : moderate install - with koffice tde-base : almost all of TDE pacman -Sl trinity to veiw complete list of packages available. Feedback directly to me or to http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/enter_bug.cgi?product=TDE -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Maintain arch linux installations
by Myra Nelson 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

I'm searching for someone in the Central Texas Area (were in Brownwood) to help maintain two Arch Linux machines. These are personal machines in my home, one for me and one for my roommate. I'm no longer able to keep up due to a brain tumor. Even if it's not cancerous it's caused enough damage I've already made a mess of things and I'm not sure of the damage after it's removed. Shouldn't take much time, but my estimateds may not be worth much anymore. These are Openbox installations with no specific desktop environment. Linux gandalf 3.11.3-1-myra #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Oct 1 12:28:13 CDT 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux Gnumeric for spreadsheet, and OOWriter for word processor. Myra Nelson -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] makechrootpkg and $http_proxy?
by Magnus Therning 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Hi all, It seems `http_proxy` isn't propagated into the chroot when building with `makechrootpkg`. Is there some way to configure it to do that? It stands out a bit since it looks like - mkarchroot - works fine with `http_proxy` - I manage to create a chroot just fine - arch-chroot - works fine with `http_proxy` - just running it and inspecting the environment shows it works /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] Uninstalling single package from i686 archroot without cleaning
by David C. Rankin 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

All, The i686 archroot on the x86_64 box worked perfectly building i686 TDE. However, as I tweak packages, I need to 'uninstall' a package from the rw-layer without cleaning the entire archroot. Since this is i686 on a x86_64 box how do I properly chroot the archroot so that I can run pacman -R package name? Can I somehow: mount --bind some_dev $CHROOT/dev mount -t proc none $CHROOT/proc mount -t sysfs none $CHROOT/sys cd $CHROOT some_chroot_cmd So that the i686 system will be functional enough to remove a package? I have seen the Arch64_FAQ page discussing the linux32 wrapper working with i686 chroots created by installing with i686 ISO "quickinstall", but this setup is just an i686 archroot. (will it work?) I want to avoid cleaning the archroot or deleting and recreating a new one just to test minor changes to package content adjustments due the setup requiring several hundred dependencies and packages to rebuild. What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Is there a shortcut to defining PKGBUILD groups=() dependencies?
by David C. Rankin 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

All, For TDE I have several PKGBUILD groups for installation defined: tde-base : minimum possible install (up to tdebase) tde-core : 'tde-base' + common additional packages tde-dev : 'tde-core' + development bindings and packages tde-extra : 'tde-core' + additional desktop features tde-multimedia : 'tde-core' + all AV and CD/DVD apps (amarok, kaffeine, etc.) tde-complete : 'tde-extra' + all building packages I define what belongs in each group by including every group a package belongs to in the groups=() array. For example, if I want k3b included in every install except 'tde-base' I then just define the groups array for k3b as follows: groups=('tde-core' 'tde-dev' 'tde-extra' 'tde-multimedia' 'tde-complete') I am just wondering if a shortcut exits somewhere, like some meta-file that holds relationships between groups? Is there some way at the group level to some way to say group 'tde-base' automatically gets included when 'tde-core' is chosen and that 'tde-core' gets included when 'tde-extra' is chosen? I haven't found anything that says that, but I didn't entirely understand what some of the 'meta' packages for kde4 were doing and thought I would check. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.13
by Jonathan Hudson 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

When you upgrade to kernel 3.13, pacman considerately informs you that you must have a keyboard hook in mkinitcpio.conf. What you're not told is that if you have an AT keyboard, you also need to ensure that the atkbd module is loaded, otherwise you probably won't have a working keyboard on reboot. -jh

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