April 2015 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Tool to create mtree
by Magnus Therning 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

When looking at the internals of an Arch package I learned about the mtree format. However, I didn't find any tool to create an mtree file myself. Is it really the case that `makepkg` and `pacman` handle mtree files internally, and that Arch completely lacks a tool for working with mtree files? (Yes, I've already found the AUR package at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mtree/) /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] Post-packaging modification tool
by Magnus Therning 29 Apr '15

29 Apr '15

I have a large set of already packages (300+) that I'd like to make some minor modifications to the meta data in. Since it takes a few hours to build them all I'd prefer to avoid dong that. So, is there a tool out there that allows me to make some minor changes to the meta data of a package? To be specific, I'd like to add a `provides` to each and every package. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein

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[arch-general] Add wpa_supplicant to the Group 'Base'
by H8H 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi I recently installed archlinux over the air (wifi) and after a reboot I realizied sh**t you forgot to install wpa_supplicant to get connect to the world (over wifi / wpa/wpa2) and install more packages. So I had to restart, boot to the live system, mount the whole crypt stuff, (arch-chroot) and install wpa_supplicant. In my opinion wpa_supplicant is an important tool, so is it possible to add it to the group 'base'? Cheers H8H

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[arch-general] Random no signal on display-manager init
by Bráulio Bhavamitra 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hello all, I've installed Arch on a Intel NUC. With sddm or lightdm, most of times the system boots and then the monitor tells 'No signal', then I have to press Control + Alt + F2 and then start sddm or lightdm manually. A few times it boot directly in to the display manager. Anybody got this?? thanks, bráulio -- "Lute pela sua ideologia. Seja um com sua ideologia. Viva pela sua ideologia. Morra por sua ideologia" P.R. Sarkar EITA - Educação, Informação e Tecnologias para Autogestão http://cirandas.net/brauliobo http://eita.org.br "Paramapurusha é meu pai e Parama Prakriti é minha mãe. O universo é meu lar e todos nós somos cidadãos deste cosmo. Este universo é a imaginação da Mente Macrocósmica, e todas as entidades estão sendo criadas, preservadas e destruídas nas fases de extroversão e introversão do fluxo imaginativo cósmico. No âmbito pessoal, quando uma pessoa imagina algo em sua mente, naquele momento, essa pessoa é a única proprietária daquilo que ela imagina, e ninguém mais. Quando um ser humano criado mentalmente caminha por um milharal também imaginado, a pessoa imaginada não é a propriedade desse milharal, pois ele pertence ao indivíduo que o está imaginando. Este universo foi criado na imaginação de Brahma, a Entidade Suprema, por isso a propriedade deste universo é de Brahma, e não dos microcosmos que também foram criados pela imaginação de Brahma. Nenhuma propriedade deste mundo, mutável ou imutável, pertence a um indivíduo em particular; tudo é o patrimônio comum de todos." Restante do texto em http://cirandas.net/brauliobo/blog/a-problematica-de-hoje-em-dia

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[arch-general] xfce-powermanager issue since kernel 3.19
by Friedrich Strohmaier 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hi all, since having updated to kernel 3.19 xfce Power Manager Panel Plugin does not show my logitech trackball (m570) and keyboard (k230) both connected through wireless usb dongle. other logitech device (logitech m235 mouse) does. all are shown with lsusb: $ lsusb | grep Logitech Bus 004 Device 005: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 004 Device 004: ID 046d:c52f Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver Bus 003 Device 007: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver and all work fine. downgrading to kernel 3.18 solves this issue. This is nothing making me sad all the day :o)) Nevertheless I'm a little bit lost where to report what? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] java-atk-wrapper outdated
by Michał Zegan 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Hello. It actually seems to me that the java-atk-wrapper project is again in active development, and the version in arch is out of date at the moment.

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[arch-general] no write access to gvfs-mount with certain applications
by Sebastian Hempel 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

Hi, I have a strange problem with gvfs mounts with the SMB/CIFS backend. Both packages are in the latest version 1.24.1-1. The smb shares are mounted with nautilus. The neccessary credentials are stored in the gnome-keyring. I can open / read and write files with LibreOffice and gedit. There is also no problem when accessing / creating files with the terminal and vi. But when I try to open a library with calibre the application tells me, that the database is read only. The access rights of the library files are all rwx and i can create files in the directory with for example touch or gedit. As fare as i can remember the (write) access with calibre worked before the update of the latest gnome version. Does anybody has suggestions how to solve this problem? Sebastian -- *Sebastian Hempel* eMail: sebastian(a)hempel-roeslau.de GnuPG Fingerprint: 9396 67A0 D3F3 6EBB BD7C 783D 34D8 65FE 9EB7 B49F Twitter: https://twitter.com/ithempel

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[arch-general] `journalctl -m` does not show /var/log/journal/remote/*
by a 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

Hello, I have some remote journal from vps. It has come with systemd-journal{-remote,-upload}. ``` $ ls -l /var/log/journal/remote/ remote-10.8.0.2@b9e0664324d845afa9e8a4f9c17db0c8-0000000000000001-000513ba70b17fc3.journal remote-10.8.0.2@b9e0664324d845afa9e8a4f9c17db0c8-00000000000000d0-000513ba710c9056.journal remote-10.8.0.2@b9e0664324d845afa9e8a4f9c17db0c8-000000000000061e-000513bb668ea2c1.journal remote-10.8.0.2.journal remote-::ffff:10.8.0.2.journal ``` I can see these logs with `journalctl -d /var/log/journal/remote`. But when I'd tried with '-m' merge flag, it just showed localhost's journal. How could i see logs from both localhost and remote in realtime? Arch Linux systemd 219-5 Thanks. -- a

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[arch-general] PATH variable not set in DE (GNOME)
by Maximilian Kaul 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

Hello list, I'm currently experiencing something weird on a (less than regularly, but recently) updated Arch machine. After the last update some graphical programs that rely on the path variable being properly set stopped working. In particular one application uses exiftool, and works properly if started from the command line. However, if I open an image, the application complains that it can not find exiftool. So I checked in a terminal: $ which exiftool /usr/bin/vendor_perl/exiftool $ echo $PATH .../usr/bin/vendor_perl... BUT if I put the following code in a file #!/bin/sh env > /tmp/env and execute it via GNOME (double click the file and select 'run') and then check the PATH variable in /tmp/env it does _not_ include the perl directory. What is the correct way to set this variable? I always thought it is set in /etc/profile.d/ but it is already there. # grep -R vendor_perl /etc grep: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lm_sensors.service: No such file or directory grep: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/S.gpg-agent: No such device or address /etc/profile.d/perlbin.csh:[ -d /usr/bin/vendor_perl ] && setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/bin/vendor_perl /etc/profile.d/perlbin.csh:[ -d /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/bin ] && setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/bin /etc/profile.d/perlbin.sh:[ -d /usr/bin/vendor_perl ] && PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/vendor_perl /etc/profile.d/perlbin.sh:[ -d /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/bin ] && PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/bin Is there some way I do not know about? Is this a GNOME problem, or is something else causing this? The program used to run and find exiftool. I checked with the developer because my first thought was that they changed something about how they detect exiftool. They did not. Thank you for your help! Maximilian

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[arch-general] pacman's "Depends On"
by Ralf Mardorf 25 Apr '15

25 Apr '15

Hi :) if a dedicated version of a dependency is needed, some packages mention it, others don't. Firefox does not explicitly mention a version of libvpx $ pacman -Si firefox | grep On Depends On : [snip] libvpx [snip] but it needs a dedicated version $ firefox XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so: libvpx.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. ffmpeg does mentions that a dedicated version is needed $ pacman -Si ffmpeg | grep On Depends On : [snip] libvpx.so=2-64 [snip] IMO official packages should mention dedicated versions, since for users of a rolling release, there sometimes are good reasons to downgrade. I tried to build Firefox from ABS against the outdated version of libvpx that is needed and installed on my system, but that's another issue. Perhaps other packages are broken too and I get aware of it, at an inconvenient time. How can I figure out what packages depend on a dedicated version of another package? Regards, Ralf

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