February 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] ppp 2.4.6 in testing breaks pptp connections in NetworkManager
by Savyasachee Jha 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

Whenever I try connecting to my university's VPN, the authentication fails. Running systemctl status NetworkManager gives me the message: Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> Starting VPN service 'pptp'... Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pptp), PID 946 Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN service 'pptp' appeared; activating connections Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: starting (3) Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN connection 'KUINS' (Connect) reply received. Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire pppd[947]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.5, this is 2.4.6 Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <warn> VPN plugin failed: 0 Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN plugin state changed: stopped (6) Feb 23 16:06:06 Empire NetworkManager[285]: <info> VPN plugin state change reason: 10 I went to /usr/lib/pppd and found 2 folders, 2.4.5 and 2.4.6. Should I recompile networkmanager-pptp and pptpclient? -- Savyasachee Jha "Rather than offering you the illusion of the free choice, I'll take the liberty of choosing for you."

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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] xbacklight broken in 3.13
by Michael Hauser 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Hi, after update to kernel 3.13, xbacklight fails to adjust the brightness on my Asus EeePc 1015 PX; anyone in the same boat? echoing a number into: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness updates the value as expected, only it doesn't really do anything. Fell back to using the pci method (as described in the wiki) to reduce the glare for the time being. Regards, mih -- 'aware water' is an anagram for 'we are at war'

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[arch-general] Is it possible to update 3rd party repo index without updating all?
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

All, I would like to update a 3rd party repo index WITHOUT updating any other index. Like adding a --repo option to 'Pacman -Sy'. e.g. Pacman -Sy -r somerepo This would be handy when you want to update a 3rd party index and install updated packages WITHOUT updating core, community, extra... to avoid having to do a full system update just to get new packages from a non-arch repo. There are times when I just want to install a new external package or set of packages but not do a full update involving the kernel, etc. I've looked at all the pacman options and there does not seem to be a way to do this. (Yes - I do understand why all Arch repos must be updated together in order to avoid the partial-update issues) But, with a 3rd party repo, that isn't a concern. Is there a way to do this via pacman, and if not, is there a way to manually download the new 3rd party index and add it to the cache to accomplish the same thing? Like just replacing the current .db index in /var/lib/cache/pacman/sync with the new one?[1] What say the experts? Footnotes: [1] I am asking before trying to avoid screwing something up, so no, I haven't tried it yet. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 209 in [testing]
by Genes Lists 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

On 02/21/2014 04:24 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 20.02.2014 17:33, schrieb Dave Reisner: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm working on packaging the systemd 209 release, and I expect to have >> pkgrel=1 into [testing] in a few hours, barring any unforseen problems. >> It's a huge release (nearly 2000 commits since 208), and I don't >> anticipate that this will make it into [core]. ... Another data point: 209 booted fine on my Lenovo W520 with KDE - however lid close no longer puts the laptop into sleep. I see this in log: Feb 21 06:16:50 lap3.prv.sapience.com systemd-logind[534]: Lid closed. Feb 21 06:16:51 lap3.prv.sapience.com kernel: thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed But the laptop remained running. My /etc/systemd/logind.conf has this: HandleLidSwitch=ignore LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no which USED to be required - I now wonder if this should be changed to: HandleLidSwitch=suspend LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no or something else. I did notice that the KDE menu Leaeve->Restart didn't work either but that may not be related. Gene

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[arch-general] netctl provides wifi-menu which is unusable
by Nowaker 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hey, Why does netctl provide /usr/bin/wifi-menu which is unusable at all, given the fact it needs /usr/bin/dialog to operate, and this is not a hard dependency of the package? I don't really get a point of providing a binary/script that doesn't work at all. What is it in the package for? If adding a dependency on dialog (big deal - 200KB) is not an option, why not extract wifi-menu to a separate package? This sounds like the best approach - the package could depend not only on dialog, but also on wpa_supplicant, dhcpcd and other package that anyone installs anyway to get wifi-menu working. -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

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[arch-general] Bridge interface with netctl
by arnaud gaboury 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear list, I am messing with assigning a static IP on a systemd-nspawn container, on both sides (host,container). My idea is to first create a bridge (br0) on the host. My config on host : systemd-git netctl to configure network ******************** $ ifocnfig enp7s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.87 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 lo... virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 <<< libvirt inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255 ************** % netctl list bridge-hortensia ************* % systemctl --failed UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION systemd-back...klight:eeepc-wmi.service loaded failed failed Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness o <<<< not important . **************** % systemctl status dhcpcd.service dhcpcd.service - dhcpcd on all interfaces Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Tue 2014-02-25 12:14:04 CET; 21min ago Process: 320 ExecStart=/bin/dhcpcd -q -b (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 329 (dhcpcd) CGroup: /system.slice/dhcpcd.service └─329 /bin/dhcpcd -q -b Feb 25 12:22:30 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: br0: removing interface Feb 25 12:22:30 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: carrier lost Feb 25 12:22:31 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: carrier acquired Feb 25 12:22:31 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: soliciting an IPv6 router Feb 25 12:22:31 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.87 Feb 25 12:22:40 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: leased 192.168.1.87 for 86400 seconds Feb 25 12:22:40 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: adding host route to 192.168.1.87 via 127.0.0.1 Feb 25 12:22:40 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24 Feb 25 12:22:40 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: adding default route via 192.168.1.254 Feb 25 12:22:45 hortensia dhcpcd[329]: enp7s0: no IPv6 Routers available ********************** gabx@hortensia ➤➤ ~ % cat /etc/netctl/bridge-hortensia Description="Example Bridge connection" Interface=br0 Connection=bridge BindsToInterfaces=enp7s0 IP=no ********************* Now, I want to start the bridge: # netctl start bridge-hortensia % ping -c 3 8.8.8.8 connect: Network is unreachable Same result if I change IP=dhcp I can't see where does the issue come from. Shall I enable a "ethernet-dhcp" netctl profile and disable dhcpcd.service ? Thank you for help.

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[arch-general] Any way to change .PKGINFO post build w/o Rebuilding?
by David C. Rankin 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

All, I patched tdebase for the logind-multiseat patch as was applied to kde-workspace for Arch kde4. Doing so, I forgot to change the provides= replaces= information. Now the new package will not install due to every file conflicting with an existing file. The new file is named 'tde-tdebase-systemd' and it replaces a package named 'tde-tdebase'. Can I decompress the package and manually edit the .PKGINFO file and then recompress the file and have it work? The package is unsigned if that makes any difference. What is currently in the .PKGINFO file is: # Generated by makepkg 4.1.2 # using fakeroot version 1.20 # Wed Feb 26 06:24:01 UTC 2014 pkgname = tde-tdebase-systemd pkgver = R14preRC1-1 pkgdesc = Trinity Desktop Enviroment base components - TDE upstream GIT url = http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/tdebase builddate = 1393395841 packager = David C. Rankin < drankinatty at gmail dot com > size = 78513152 arch = i686 license = GPL replaces = trinity-tdebase <snip> provides = tdebase provides = tde-tdebase I think the change needed is: replaces = tde-tdebase replaces = trinity-tdebase provides = tdebase provides = tde-tdebase Does this have a chance of working or should I just bite the bullet and rebuild the package? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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