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

[arch-general] Marble wallpaper screwed
by SET 20 Apr '15

20 Apr '15

Hello, Just updated Arch for latest KDE. The marble wallpaper just doesn't show at all. Tried on 2 machines and tried with a new user. kdeplasma-addons- wallpapers-marble and kdeedu-marble are installed. Not a big issue, yet... Any suggestions ? Thanks.

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[arch-general] mate-session listening socket lockdown
by Troy Engel 18 Apr '15

18 Apr '15

Doing a little hardening, I notice on my workstations that 'mate-session' activates a user-level listening socket on 0.0.0.0 that you can telnet into and slam with gibberish (and it doesn't exit) -- does anyone know how to set up a config to lock that to 127.0.0.1 and ::1? $ netstat -lntp | grep mate-session tcp 1 0 0.0.0.0:60715 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 24246/mate-session tcp6 0 0 :::50621 :::* LISTEN 24246/mate-session $ telnet localhost 60715 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. HELP asdas asd a asd a ^] telnet> close Connection closed. I've had a perusal of the source[1] and see that it's some sort of "xmp" thing, but I freely admit I don't do a lot of debugging in this area of the X world (I'm a server guy). Any pointers what this is for and how I can get it locked down? The gconf schema file doesn't have a setting, perhaps it's configured somewhere else? The Googletubes are failing me, or maybe I just don't understand what I should be googling for to get the right hits... thx! -te [1] https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/tree/1.8/mate-session

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[arch-general] How to autostart ufw on system startup?
by Francis Gerund 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hello! How do I get ufw to start automatically upon Arch system startup? The Arch wiki Uncomplicated Firewall pages says: "Start ufw as systemd service to have it running and enable it to make it available after boot. " How do I do that? Then it shows an example configuration (can't I just keep the default: deny all incoming, allow all outgoing)? Then it says: "The next line is only needed *once* the first time you install the package: # ufw enable" That does not seem to be true - I have to do "sudo ufw enable" every time I restart the system. Then, it says: "Then enable the ufw service with systemctl." How? Bottom line: ufw works okay, I just want it to start automatically when the system starts up.

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[arch-general] Login manager does not exit properly
by Siddhartha 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi, sddm/lightdm works properly, but if I stop the sddm/lighdm service (systemctl stop sddm), tty1 (where it was started) goes blank with a blinking cursor instead of exiting cleanly and showing the login prompt. Can someone help me debug this? Thanks, Siddhartha

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.19.3 not detecting SD cards
by Magnus Therning 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

SD cards were noticed just fine under 3.19.2, but that stopped when upgrading to 3.19.3. Has anyone else noticed this? For now I've reverted to 3.19.2 again, but would love to hear if it's some configuration option that I can use to get it working under 3.19.3. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

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[arch-general] Touchpad doesn't work since boot ocasionally
by Sergei Sinyak 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Kernel version linux 3.19-3 Randomly synaptic doesn't work. Usually while booting there are message about psmouse module loading and detecting synaptic. But rarely there are no messages about loading driver. And of course it doesn't work. Im using gnome-shell as DM How can I try to detect it? While disappearing lspci also does show synaptic device. Any other way? Ah, and reboot always turns touchpad back. Thanks in advace. P.S. was experiencing it since 3.9 maybe or even earlier

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[arch-general] opal package out of date for long
by Michał Zegan 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hello. It seems that the package opal is out of date, and marked such for a year without it being updated. The current version in arch is 3.10.3, the newest is 3.14.3, if I remember correctly. Any suggestions about what to do in this case? I'm not sure if such mails belong to this list or not.

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[arch-general] Pacman for user-only packages
by William Hatch 14 Apr '15

14 Apr '15

Hello, I've been an Arch user for years now because pacman is my favorite package manager. However, I've been working at a job for almost a year now where I use a RHEL machine without root access. They let me use whatever software I want, but I have to build it all from source and install it in my home directory. Since this means that I have the better part of a linux distribution installed ad-hoc by hand, I've often wished I could somehow use pacman and the ABS to automate my builds, have versioning and dependencies, rollback in case of errors, etc. Is there any way to set up pacman/ABS/AUR to install to a user's home directory? Or is there some other user-oriented package manager that people know of to accomplish this sort of thing? Thanks, William

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[arch-general] arch linux install iso problem
by Francis Gerund 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hello. I downloaded the most recent arch linux dual-boot install iso (from 2015-04-01). - checked it with md5 and sha1 against checksums from the website. Also did gpg verify. All okay. - burned to cd using Brasero. Verified cd from within Brasero. Okay. - verified by loop mounting, per website. Okay. Then booted cd. Got to initial menu, chose 64-bit install (computer is 64-bit). Then it stalls out, with error messages (can't copy because can't complete boot process). Sort of like: :: Triggering uevents . . . ... blk_update request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1226572 ... blk_update request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1226572 ... Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 153344, async page read :: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201504' ^@ERROR: device did not show up after 30 seconds . . . I burned another cd, and got the same exact results, including the same exact error messages. I have had no other problems making and using other cds or dvds, including images of other distributions < ducks : ) > Note: I can (and have) installed ARCH on the same computer, using the Evo/lution 0.4 installer - works fine. But I want to learn to install The Arch Way. So, is the Arch iso from 2015-04-01 defective as published? Or, what else might be wrong?

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[arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?
by Felix E. Klee 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

I am running Arch as a guest in VMware Player on Win7X64. On every odd boot, the name of the network interface changes. Sometimes it is: eno16777736 Sometimes it is: eth0 This makes it really hard to configure a fixed IP, which I do by having in `/etc/dhcpcd.conf`: interface eno16777736 static ip_address=192.168.101.10/24 static routers=192.168.101.2 static domain_name_servers=192.168.101.2 I have to change back and forth the interface name in that configuration file.

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