November 2014 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Building in docker?
by Magnus Therning 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

For various reasons I'm looking into not using `makechrootpkg` when building the 200+ packages I put into a non-official repo. Obviously it's important to keep the building environment separate from my ordinary system environment. Going to full virtualisation is definitely overkill and the only containers I know of are chroots and docker. Docker has some nice attributes, in particular no need for root access. However, I don't know a whole lot about it, so I wonder are there any aspects to it that makes it a bad choice for building packages? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Heuristic is an algorithm in a clown suit. It’s less predictable, it’s more fun, and it comes without a 30-day, money-back guarantee. -- Steve McConnell, Code Complete

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[arch-general] Smartcard troubles on Arch
by Mathias Huber 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Dear Archers, I am trying to get my Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 (GPG-Smartcard-Reader in a USB-Stick) to work on Arch. I've set up Udev in the way I did successfully in Ubuntu 12.04.LTS. However, no success. I am still trying to figure out where the trouble lies. I can never see the card using gpg --card-status But sometimes I see its fields when using pcscs_scan. Possible culprits: pcscd, which sometimes gives errors, gpg's USB support? Has anyone had success in setting up this reader or similar smartcard readers? Or had similar troubles? I would love to hear from you. Best, Mathias

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[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] FS#41424 - Virtualbox 4.3.14, USB doesn't work flawlessly
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Hi, I experienced Virtualbox 4.3.14 x86_64 as broken, when I tried to sync an iPad2 with iTunes running on a XP SP3 guest. I only tested it with USB2 enabled, since it worked with 4.3.12. Usually I use the packages virtualbox, virtualbox-host-dkms, virtualbox-extension-pack and I add the guest additions, that fit to the used vbox version. Because I wasted much time with trying to use 4.3.14, I did an incomplete downgrade to 4.3.12 yet, since I'm short in time, but even with virtualbox 4.3.12-1 virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.12-1 no extension pack, no USB2 and with wrong guest additions, version 4.3.14, I get rid of the issues. I will complete the downgrade on my machine ASAP and IMO the community packages should be downgraded for the repositories too. Do others experienced issues with Virtualbox 4.3.14 USB too? Since I'm short in time I only reported the bug to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41424 I didn't find a related bug, just 4 completely other vbox bug reports. https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=4.13.14&noquickjump=1&ticket=on results in "No matches found." https://www.virtualbox.org/search?q=usb&noquickjump=1&ticket=on gives tons of hits, no time to care about them right now Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] hp myroom
by Javier Vasquez 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hi, I'm trying to use HP myRoom tool: https://www.myroom.hp.com It's pretty similar to HP virtualRooms tool: https://www.rooms.hp.com There's an AUR package for hpvirtualrooms: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hpvirtualrooms And attached goes a package (essentially the PKGBUILD) I created for hpmyroom. myRoom is supposed to be based on the virtualRooms technology. With virtualRooms I don't have any problems getting whatever is shared from the virtual rooms. With myRoom I can use the VoIP functionality, I can chat, I can share desktop, and from my room I can also share desktop. Weird enough, I can not get what others share to me on myRoom, or others' room shares. What I see is something popping up really quick and disappearing in a blink of an eye. I'm not using any DE, just a plain WM (fluxbox), so perhaps it might be some configuration missing, or some permissions issue. I also attempted xhost+, with no success. Though I didn't expect anything great from that, given I don't need it for virtualRooms. I'm writing in case there's any Arch user that can help. On ubuntu with gnome this thing works out of the box, and I'm getting the hpmyroom binaries from the deb package (there's also rpm). See ldd output: % ldd /usr/share/hpmyroom/hpmyroom linux-gate.so.1 (0xf777c000) libuuid.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libuuid.so.1 (0xf7745000) libXss.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXss.so.1 (0xf7741000) libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib32/libXfixes.so.3 (0xf773b000) libXtst.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXtst.so.6 (0xf7734000) libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libasound.so.2 (0xf7628000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpng12.so.0 (0xf75f8000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libSM.so.6 (0xf75ef000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libICE.so.6 (0xf75d2000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libXrender.so.1 (0xf75c7000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf758a000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libfreetype.so.6 (0xf74e6000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXext.so.6 (0xf74d1000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf739a000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libz.so.1 (0xf7383000) libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf737d000) librt.so.1 => /usr/lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7374000) libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xf7269000) libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf724c000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7156000) libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf710a000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf70ee000) libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf6f2c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf777f000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXi.so.6 (0xf6f19000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libexpat.so.1 (0xf6ef0000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib32/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xf6edf000) libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib32/libpng16.so.16 (0xf6ea0000) libharfbuzz.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libharfbuzz.so.0 (0xf6e44000) libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6e1e000) libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libpcre.so.1 (0xf6db0000) libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf6dac000) libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6da4000) So I don't see any missing library, though there might be some incompatible ones, but I have no clue. If there's any one who can help me out to be able to get the shared stuff on myRoom, that'd be great. Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] GDM
by Frank Zimmermann 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hi there, since update to 3.14 I cannot log on with the keyboard in GDM. It works when using the screen keyboard or when loggin in the console:-O KR Frank

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[arch-general] Organising a Bug Squashing Day
by Helene Tindon 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi! I'm an IT student in Paris, fairly new to Archlinux, and I would like to organise a Bug Squashing Day. Problem is, I have no idea who I should contact to do things properly. Shall I send this message to the arch-dev-public mailing-list too? Thank you, Helene

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[arch-general] Reconverting to Arch
by Hunter Jozwiak 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

Hi ladies and gentlemen. I am going to reconvert back to Arch. I have one particular question: do I need to do any extra steps when making BTRFS filesystems on a fresh install? And what nasties should I be awar" of whe using BTRFS?

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[arch-general] mce after linux-3.11.5-1 on NP900X3C
by Rasmus Liland 29 Nov '14

29 Nov '14

Dear @arch-general readers, I'm experiencing machine check exceptions since every kernel after package linux-3.11.5-1 (Oct 14 2013). I hope some nice people will be able to assist me or perhaps point me in a direction of something fruitful. First here goes some kernel panic output I was able to snap on May 25th (I also made it an attachment): > [19367.116180] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint > [19367.116196] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 4: b200000000100402 > [19367.116202] mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 33:<00007f8b4934c8b7> > [19367.116205] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 2824672b8e7 > [19367.116211] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306a9 TIME 14010118857 SOCKET 0 APIC 1 microcode 12 > [19367.116213] mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' > [19367.116216] mce: [Hardware Error]: Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization > [19367.116218] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check: Invalid > [19367.116220] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU > [19368.211815] Shutting down cpus with NMI > [19368.222834] Kernel Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 0000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff) > [19368.222942] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console > [19368.245774] Rebooting in 30 seconds > [19398.323579] ACPI RECOVERY or RESET_REG. Assuming I did a complete system update about 5.4 hours earlier, this implies kernel output for linux kernel version 3.14.4. This has been the case for every kernel after version 3.11.5; from what I can trace in the `/var/cache/pacman/pkg' directory this also calls for _at least_ version 3.15.8; I've removed all other archived versions as they used valuable space. In dmesg output, my good version 3.11.5-1 is called: > Linux version 3.11.5-1-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.8.1 20130725 (prerelease) (GCC)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 14 08:31:43 CEST 2013 The hardware of my system is perhaps relevant. I've got a Samsung NP900X3C-A01SE (Jun.2012) laptop: > Intel Core i5-3317U CPU @ 1.70GHz stepping 9 microcode 0x12 > 4GB RAM (3743M/3888M available, 2048M available to graphics) > SanDisk SSD U100 128GB, 10.01.04, max UDMA/133 > Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 AGN, REV=0xB0 Presuming this is a good starting point, if more specific hardware information is needed in this thread in the future I can add the output of e.g. lscpi -vvnn. --Rasmus -- Rasmus Liland, jrl(a)jrl.dyndns.dk

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[arch-general] Persistent black screen of death issues with radeon graphics
by Robbie Smith 28 Nov '14

28 Nov '14

I am at a loss as to what the hell is going on with my laptop. It's a HP Pavillion with the dual AMD graphics (7520G + 7500M), and I will never again buy a laptop containing components from either manufacturer. More often than not when I boot, when the kernel tries to do modesetting the screen will just turn off. I can SSH in, so it's clearly booting up, but the only hint that anything unusual is happening in the logs is this error message: > [ 28.879834] radeon 0000:01:00.0: No connectors reported connected with modes > [ 28.879842] [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes - going 1024x768 > [ 28.881975] [drm] fb mappable at 0xE0474000 > [ 28.881978] [drm] vram apper at 0xE0000000 > [ 28.881980] [drm] size 3145728 > [ 28.881982] [drm] fb depth is 24 > [ 28.881985] [drm] pitch is 4096 > [ 28.882332] radeon 0000:01:00.0: fb1: radeondrmfb frame buffer device > [ 28.997034] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.40.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1 I feel like I've tried almost everything: - Upgrading and downgrading kernels (I'm currently using 3.17.1) - Various combinations of kernel boot parameters (fbcon=map:0, fbcon=map:1, radeon.modeset=1, radeon.modeset=0, etc) - Adding lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-radeon.conf that tell it which PCI device to map to. - Uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers I used to use catalyst because that was the only driver that worked, but as it doesn't support KMS, I couldn't use GNOME anymore, so switching back to that isn't an option. Searching for the problem doesn't seem to find anything relevant; there's a few forum posts by Ubuntu users but mostly tumbleweed. The bug tracker on freedesktop.org is awkward to navigate so I have no idea if what I'm experiencing has occurred to anyone else. Even just knowing where to go to report a bug or a more appropriate mailing list that could point me in the right direction would be helpful at this stage. The most frustrating bit is that this occurs almost at random. I could use the laptop all day at the library, no issues; turn it off (because suspend is broken on radeon), come home and no screen for what feels like a thousand reboots.

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