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

[arch-general] Withdraw flag-out-of-date
by kachelaqa 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hello Is there any way to withdraw a flag-out-of-date for a package? I just mistakenly flagged the qscintilla packages, and I don't want to anyone to waste time investigating something which doesn't need attention. Thanks

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[arch-general] CUPS : can't get driver list since last update
by SET 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hello, When installing a new printer via cups's web interface, the process blocks with an error message close to 'can't get driver list'. At the same time, cupsd and foomatic processes consume 25% CPU resources each. This is reproducible on two different hosts. Downgrading cups and/or cups-filters yields the same result. Some printers stop working with the error message 'filter failed'. Cups seems broken since last upgrade (today on one host, 2 or 3 weeks before on the second host). Please consider a fix. Thx.

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[arch-general] [arch-gen] does using tmp-rng enables tpm at all?
by Javier Vasquez 28 Dec '14

28 Dec '14

Hi, Seems like on i5 and i7 chips the way to get random numbers through HW is to use tpm-rng (intel-rng is no longer available for them). An by reading [1] seems like a pretty good idea. However I have no intention to use tpm at all, neither I want any possibility to get any one monitoring my machine, which is one of the possible use cases with tpm. Does one, just by using tpm to feed entropy, open any door on linux for any other tpm functionality? Or is it totally safe to use tpm-rng? Thanks, -- Javier [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/525459

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[arch-general] hp myroom
by Javier Vasquez 27 Dec '14

27 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] Christmas wiki cleanup
by Jakub Klinkovský 26 Dec '14

26 Dec '14

Hello all, after several months there is another round of cleanup action on the wiki. The subject is, as it was the last time, updating links to packages in official repositories or in the AUR, which got broken due to package merges, renames or removals. A bot has done part of the work, but there are still many broken links requiring intervention of humans. Everybody is hereby invited to join our cleanup party, because the more people involved, the sooner the work is finished :) The party will be held at [1], which is a generated list of broken links, split into sections by language and page where it occurred. Basically, after the link is fixed on the relevant page, it should be stricken in the list, in order to not waste time of others going through the list. More detailed instructions are given at the top of the list. See you at the party! [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Lahwaacz.bot/Report_2014-12-24 -- Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz)

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[arch-general] help:how to watch array elements in pyclewn
by ssfdust 24 Dec '14

24 Dec '14

Hi,guys Is there anyone who debugs codes via pyclewn plugin in vim. I want to watch array elements via Cdbgvar command from pyclewn.So I type :Cdbgvar target_t[0]@4, as watch a array in gdb.But I only get [+] var1: (char [4]) target_t[0]@4 ={=} [4] in (pyclewn)_dbgvar window instead of array elements.It seems that this could be unfolded.How could I see the array contents? Regards Piao

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[arch-general] kernel: why is can bus support deactivated?
by Matthias Klein 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

Hello, what is the reason that can-bus support is disabled in the arch linux kernel? CONFIG_CAN CONFIG_CAN_PEAK_USB ... Best regards, Matthias

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[arch-general] mutt and gnupg
by Magnus Therning 23 Dec '14

23 Dec '14

It seems a recent upgrade of gnupg (I'm at 2.1.0-6) has degraded my mutt config slightly. I've just compared my gpg-related config of mutt to /usr/share/doc/mutt/samples/gpg.rc and they match. Beyond what's found there I also have the following settings: set crypt_autoencrypt = no set crypt_autosign = yes set crypt_autosmime = no set crypt_replyencrypt = yes set crypt_replysign = yes set crypt_replysignencrypted = yes set crypt_use_gpgme = no set pgp_sign_as = 0xAB4DFBA4 set pgp_use_gpg_agent = yes set smime_is_default = no The behaviour that changed after the recent upgrade of gnupg was that mutt started asking me for a password. Before the upgrade it didn't, it handed over to the gpg-agent right away. My testing suggests that the value of `pgp_use_gpg_agent` has no influence on mutt's behaviour at all any more. However, if I do set `crypt_use_gpgme` mutt hands off to the gpg-agent right away. However, if I set that mutt reports the following when started: Using GPGME backend, although no gpg-agent is running So, is there some way to configure mutt to go straight to the gpg-agent, without any warning messages on startup? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. -- Martin Fowler

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[arch-general] Multithreaded XZ
by Mark Lee 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 To All, Now that xz is multithreaded (not available in Arch Repos yet); I was wondering if package building and installing would, by default, utilize multiple threads. Regards, Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlSXgRsACgkQZ/Z80n6+J/Yc6AD+ORs6WkeCmLwlpPEGF/TWGqBX D1YBmbZRocJ8YqtovT8A+wc9spnkCF37mD3WrTRTBs6cCyRDurCpMQX1ZUg87FpQ =sMcR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] dhcpcd not working after install from custom iso
by Christian Demsar 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

I had internet connection when installing from an iso I built using the archiso tools, but dhcpcd isn't connecting any more (starting via sytemd). I've also had internet access in previous installs of archlinux and FreeBSD, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the hardware. [dmesg output] http://pastebin.com/vtVRid1Y [ip link output] http://pastebin.com/gaZxUCmf The device I'm using is listed as enp2s0. It hangs, even though it's set up (pastebin for proof). Waiting for carrier? I also noticed that at the bottom of my dmesg, it reports only IPv6, not IPv4. Is this normal behavior? I think my network only supports IPv4, for dhcp anyway. Since I have to register the addresses of the NICs with the ISP, only enp2s0 should hypothetically be able to connect, not enp1s0. This is also the first time I've had a problem with dhcpcd. If it makes a difference, I built a custom iso (base) and dropped the bcache-tools package in /etc so I could set that up. I made no other modifications to the bulid. dhcpcd is at version 6.6.4-1 and is fully up-to-date. == LOG SNIPPET == dhcpcd(a)enp2s0.service - dhcpcd on enp2s0 Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-12-17 09:15:46 EST; 51s ago Process: 542 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dhcpcd -q -w %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Dec 17 09:15:16 vss dhcpcd[542]: version 6.6.4 starting Dec 17 09:15:16 vss dhcpcd[542]: enp2s0: waiting for carrier Dec 17 09:15:46 vss systemd[1]: dhcpcd(a)enp2s0.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Dec 17 09:15:46 vss systemd[1]: Failed to start dhcpcd on enp2s0. Dec 17 09:15:46 vss systemd[1]: Unit dhcpcd(a)enp2s0.service entered failed state. Dec 17 09:15:46 vss systemd[1]: dhcpcd(a)enp2s0.service failed. -- vixsomnis

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