September 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] Meetup in Paris
by Sébastien Luttringer 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Ehlo, I'm pleased to announce you that a meetup[1] event is in preparation in Paris. That is targeting French speakers with 2 talks[2] about our favourite distribution. This will be followed by some drinks and foods. There is no selected location, person interested by meetup events are invited to join the "Archlinux France" group[1]. You can find few more information on the French Archlinux Forum[3]. Cheers, [1] http://www.meetup.com/archlinux-france [2] One of them talking of "Archlinux On Servers" [3] https://forums.archlinux.fr/topic15826.html -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://seblu.net | Twitter: @seblu42 GPG: 0x2072D77A

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[arch-general] systemd-journal groups?
by Magnus Therning 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

I have a feeling this should be documented somewhere, but I can't seem to find anything about it. When catching up with the latest package updates just now I noticed I had a passwd.pacnew file in /etc. When merging in the changes I found I have two systemd user entries that don't appear in the upstream file: systemd-journal-remote:x:997:997:systemd Journal Remote:/:/usr/bin/nologin systemd-journal-upload:x:996:996:systemd Journal Upload:/:/usr/bin/nologin Are they safe to remove? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The results point out the fragility of programmer expertise: advanced programmers have strong expectations about what programs should look like, and when those expectations are violated--in seemingly innocuous ways--their performance drops drastically. -- Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich

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[arch-general] wireless tools installation without internet access
by message 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Readers, An old portable computer has been installed with archlinux via a CD and was used successfully with ethernet cable internet connection. Now, cable connection is no longer available and it became necessary that various wireless software was not installed. Firmware (ipw2100 for intel wireless pro) was copied from usb memory to a /usr/local/ directory. After trying the command 'make', an error was reported that some wireless software (ieee802 I think?). Are there a set of wireless functionality tools that can be downloaded to a usb flash memory device, then installed onto this old computer?

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[arch-general] suggestions on adding documentation for community package 'cloud-init'
by Akilesh K 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Hi, I have been an arch linux user for some time and I specialize in openstack/networking areas. I have successfully built an openstack image for Arch linux using cloud-init and would like to contribute a wiki pages for 1. cloud-init package. 2. Building an Arch linux cloud image I want to know if this would be welcome as the package under question is from community repo. Thank you, Akilesh K

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[arch-general] A good time to switch to dash as /bin/sh?
by lolilolicon 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

With the disclosure of the new bash bug (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169), it seems timely to bring this up. Dan added dash to core/base around seven years ago [1], intending the eventually link /bin/sh to dash instead of bash. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-November/00305… We didn't make the switch, supposedly due to the bashism in our scripts which had a #!/bin/sh shebang line? Seven years passed. Is there anything preventing us from making the switch from bash to dash as /bin/sh now? We can then have dash provide sh instead.

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