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

[arch-general] pacman mirrorlist update
by Francis Gerund 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Hello. Just installed update pacman-mirrorlist -20150618-1, installed by pacman as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew, and there is nothing exotic about my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. I just normally update my mirrorlist by doing: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist as suggested by the Arch wiki pacman article. Should I again just: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p http --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and then just delete /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew?

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[arch-general] Mutt's Missing Manual
by Grady Martin 19 Jun '15

19 Jun '15

Hi, all. Mutt's the bee's knees, but a recent install has revealed that the HTML manuals in /usr/share/doc/mutt have been replaced with an empty text file, /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt. Can anyone confirm this? I performed a fresh install, just to make sure I wasn't off my rocker. Might mutt's manuals not mean much to most men?

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[arch-general] Archlinux + LXC: create Debian and CentOS containers
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Hi all, I'm looking for some tutorials on creating Debian and CentOS LXC containers from an Archlinux host https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Linux_Containers has a "container creation" section but not detailed. The goal is to create Debian 7, Debian 8, CentOS 6, CentOS 7 containers. Thank you for your help.

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[arch-general] FS mount for google drive
by Javier Vasquez 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Hi, I was looking for a way to mount google drive as a FS, and found [1] and [2]. >From [2], the fuse application recommended was google-drive-ocamlfuse [5]. It's available from Aur. However the amount of ocaml dependencies to get it installed was huge, and many from Aur itself. Therefore I dropped it as an option for me. >From [1], there were 2 fuse applications that got my attention, fuse-google-drive [3] and gdrivefs [4]. Both available through Aur. I was wondering if someone is using any of them. I followed instructions for fuse-google-drive, and after authenticating I'm always getting: -------- ... Host: docs.google.com User-Agent: fuse-google-drive/0.1 Accept: */* Authorization: OAuth <...> < HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request < Content-Type: application/vnd.google.gdata.error+xml < Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:51:20 GMT < Expires: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:51:20 GMT < Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff < X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN < X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block < Server: GSE < Accept-Ranges: none < Vary: Accept-Encoding < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < * Connection #0 to host docs.google.com left intact -------- The target mount point gets actually used as if were mounted, but with nothing within. One needs to go and do "fusermount -u" to it... Well, although this should mount "read only", as the author indicates, it's the smallest mountfs application, and the one with less dependencies. Is anyone else using it successfully? It seems last commit was on 2012-09 unfortunately. Like there's no further work on it. Is that the case? Gdrivefs is a different story. It's working for me, and its last commit was on 2015-06 (just this month). I'm using the git version on Aur. The only problem with gdrivefs is the several dependencies on python2 stuff. Not as many as the ocaml solution, but definitely way more than fuse-google-drive. Any problems at all with gdrivefs? If someone is using whether fuse-google-drive or gdrivefs, please share any drawbacks, pitfalls, how to make it work in teh case of fuse-google-drive, and some other stuff you might want to share. I'm looking for light non gui dependent options, :-) Thanks, -- Javier [1] https://code.google.com/p/gdrive-linux/wiki/Tools [2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/37234/mount-google-drive-in-linux [3] https://github.com/jcline/fuse-google-drive [4] https://github.com/dsoprea/GDriveFS [5] https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

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[arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?
by Oon-Ee Ng 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

I use the openni2 library to access an Asus Xtion Pro Live camera, installed from the AUR and working fine up till 2+ weeks ago. After a 2 week holiday, the most recent system update caused segfaults to happen within the library (both before and after rebuilding it), without any change to the code calling the library. Same segfault happens with the simple sample applications included in the library (previously running fine). How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, but without knowing it well I'm unsure where to even begin. Normally I'd contact the authors, but as this issue was caused (on my system) by a system update I think I'd need to do some tracking down first.

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[arch-general] Packaging question: namcap lib xyz is an uninstalled dependency
by Andy Pieters 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi peoples! Greets from sweltering Plymouth UK! Been trying to create pkgbuild for binary package coming in .deb file. It has got 2 shared libraries included and try as I might I keep getting this from namcap: Referenced library 'libotav2.so.1' is an uninstalled dependency Referenced library 'libotav1.so.1' is an uninstalled dependency I have tried splitting up the package with one packaging libatov2.so.1, the other libotav1.so.1, setting depends= in the main package, and provides= in the libotav I have also tried looking in the namcap sources but my python is zero. And Googled, loads of Googled before asking here. Can you please direct me to the solution of this problem Thank you kindly Andy Pieters

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[arch-general] VTK package is outdated
by Nicola Bizzoca 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi, The VTK package present in the community repository is not updated to the last version 6.2.0 http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/858 Unfortunately I'm new to Arch and I don't know how to contact the package maintainer Thank you Nicola

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[arch-general] Perl 5.22 in [testing]
by Florian Pritz 15 Jun '15

15 Jun '15

Hi, Perl 5.22, as any other new perl version, requires all modules that are not purely perl code to be rebuilt. We did that for all packages in our repos. For a list of upstream changes please refer to `man perldelta`. Since users probably installed some from AUR or with CPANPLUS::Dist::Arch, I wrote a script[1] that generates a local rebuild list. To use it you will also need this[2]. Note that: - some modules simply don't support being loaded directly (Irssi, SVN::_Core, Tk::Entry among others) so also run the test (`perl -M$module -e1`) manually before reporting. - site_perl overrides vendor_perl so if you fix an error for a module in site_perl you have to run the script again afterwards. [1] https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/plain/find-broken-perl-packages.… [2] https://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/bin/plain/module-to-dist.pl Binaries linking with libperl.so will also need to be rebuilt. You can use lddd from devtools to find those. Please report any issue you encounter.

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[arch-general] AUR, ABS and outdated/orphaned packages
by Michael Beasley 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I've taken some time to make updated PKGBUILDS and related scripts for a few packages that are marked as "Maintainer: Orphaned" and haven't been updated in a while. How would I go about submitting or getting these updated approved for testing and possibly applying for maintainership? The wiki explicitly states not to upload to the AUR if any version exists in the official package database, so I figured it would be best to ask before I get started off on the wrong foot. Thanks all, Michael Beasley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJVePrDAAoJEH1e/jLR/gR71LEH/3L6fi+iVqMeowf21XgNayDI F/eLaWsirWMPeXV8bxczXaQdsqoukc1+sZZ/Px18L4FGvnS/Br0RioWfi5r8kPo6 Nstt0QHsLOy5wxOmJ/272l2FLD1Vo/NIyI4XSFEec5+BIJO/+mYF/boKOHQ4G6jM jxHXFczvEin5R3hBPagolT4/7WAjcpdiMEt3z7QV501swy0JtPzq6u1nAnJaRewm s7E+kh4WekUKw2pbbJCbihG5u0BqLc1ilft+uwHKjtFwZBeP3XyFK/71dG6UQOJR Hugo3NfQbhUtDZo2zjOU+2jjWMVbTdso4HmNIEmXcFbHhVZMi/x3L68joztLlV0= =Itwf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Francis Gerund 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Hello! I was investigating this boot up error message : "failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files" It turned out to be due (apparently) to a faulty (re)installation of mariadb, which I seem to have fixed. Fine. But in the process, I came across this in my system: [localuser@localhost ~]$ systemctl status shadow shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive (dead) I am having some difficulty trying to find information on this. Bottom line: is this a problem, that I need to fix, or is it something that is normal and can just be ignored?

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