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

[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] about explicit module inclusion and purpose of udev hook
by Tom Yan 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

For my current system, I need the following modules (and their dependencies) to boot (mount the real root): ahci, sd_mod, btrfs (which are drivers for the sata controller, disk, and the root filesystem respectively.) If I specify these three in the MODULES array of mkinitcpio.conf, the only hook I need is the base hook. However, if I make use of the block hook and filesystem hook instead of the MODULES array to include the modules I need, I can't boot successfully without the udev hook: Unable to find root device 'UUID=c47a3e43-fed6-4f8a-8e52-71bae7a9f893' So, what is the purpose of the udev hook? What so special is the MODULES array? I even tried to include all modules which are included by the block hook and filesystem hook (with autodetect) explicitly with the MODULES array, to see whether the extra modules were adding factors to cause the failure, yet it still boots fine without the udev hook.

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[arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Hi, earlier today an update asked me to replace mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio with mate-settings-daemon. After taking a look at the old and new package I replaced it. From an hour ago until now the update asks to replace mate-settings-daemon with mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio. If I reply with Y I get: error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: mate-control-center: requires mate-settings-daemon>=1.10 :: mate-session-manager: requires mate-settings-daemon>=1.10 If I reply with N I get: there is nothing to do Why does pacman ask me to replace it while there's nothing to do and two other packages need the installed version? Is something wrong on my machine or should I report a bug against a package? $ pacman -Si mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio mate-settings-daemon Repository : community Name : mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio Version : 1.8.3-1 Description : The MATE Settings daemon (pulseaudio) Architecture : x86_64 URL : http://mate-desktop.org Licenses : GPL Groups : mate Provides : mate-settings-daemon Depends On : dbus-glib dconf fontconfig gtk2 libcanberra-pulse libmatekbd libnotify libxt mate-desktop nss polkit pulseaudio-alsa Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-media-gstreamer Replaces : mate-settings-daemon Download Size : 471.85 KiB Installed Size : 2863.00 KiB Packager : Martin Wimpress <code(a)flexion.org> Build Date : Mon 16 Mar 2015 04:33:22 PM CET Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA256 Sum Signature Repository : community Name : mate-settings-daemon Version : 1.10.0-1 Description : The MATE Settings daemon (GTK2 version) Architecture : x86_64 URL : http://mate-desktop.org Licenses : GPL Groups : mate Provides : None Depends On : dbus-glib dconf fontconfig gtk2 libcanberra-pulse libmatekbd>=1.10 libmatemixer libnotify libxt mate-desktop>=1.10 nss polkit Optional Deps : None Conflicts With : mate-settings-daemon-gtk3 mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio Replaces : mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio Download Size : 462.13 KiB Installed Size : 2836.00 KiB Packager : Martin Wimpress <code(a)flexion.org> Build Date : Sat 09 May 2015 12:37:15 PM CEST Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA256 Sum Signature Too funny, I don't use Mate, I installed it just for testing purpose. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package
by Zeev Pekar 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

Dear Archlinux developer community, we would like to announce the recent open-source release of our GPU-enabled multiphysics software - Advanced Simulation Library. http://asl.org.il/ Here are some remarkable benchmarks: http://asl.org.il/benchmarks/multicomponent_flow/ If possible, please create an Archlinux package for ASL and send me an URL where we could make our contributions to the packaging efforts. Thank you, Zeev ps: Please, "like" us on Facebook, if you find ASL cool: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Avtech-Scientific/828973737156105

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[arch-general] Qt 5 apps disregard cursors settings
by Chris Warrick 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hello, I set my system to the Bluecurve cursor scheme in KDE 4 System Settings, I also have /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme pointing to it. However, Qt 5 apps completely ignore all my efforts to make my system look consistently and instead use a custom theme — for example, here’s the “wait” cursor (it’s not even KDE-Classic, the watch is white instead of black). Bluecurve: http://i.imgur.com/cBBlnIg.png Qt 5: http://i.imgur.com/kJz6TVD.png How can I get fix this? -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16

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[arch-general] usbmon
by James 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

I'm having lots of resets on my backup USB3 drive for no reason. > A lot of resets with no reason. You need to enable debugging > for the storage driver. > A usbmon trace would be easier to read and just as good for debugging. I searched for the usbmon package but I only found this from 2011: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/usbmon/

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[arch-general] Aftpd won't start without nogroup group
by Bráulio Bhavamitra 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hello all, I don't know where to report this, so sorry to do it here. atftpd package needs nogroup so that atftpd can start, otherwise it will exit. cheers, 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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Re: [arch-general] lxde setting problems
by liljon＠vmail.me 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

> I can't explain that - because there were no such claims or links in the mail text. Even if there would've been a link in a signature, who cares to follow that, 10%?! So if you see Bruce Schneier asking random questions like "How encryption works" or "Please help me to install GPG" it will be OK for you and you won't google his name to discover who is that person ? Now who cares who is Bruce Schneier (the rest 10%), let's just help him with the encryption because he seems to be casual computer user.

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[arch-general] lxde setting problems
by James 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

1. Pressing the printscreen button opens an openbox dialog that says it couldn't execute gnome-screenshot. I don't use gnome and I don't want printscreen to do anything. 2. I use lxde and I like my task bar at the top of the screen. There is always a pixel above the open tasks so I can't just move the mouse to the top and select a task. I have to click on the task name (which is difficult for me). I tried setting the margin to 0 in the panel settings and setting the spacing to 0 in the taskbar settings. 3. Windows open (and can be moved) so the part of the window that can be dragged can be under the taskbar (I have autohide set to off).

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[arch-general] Inkscape fails to open svg files
by Murari 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi all, An update between the 17th of May and the 1st of June seems to have broken Inkscape's ability to open existing svg files on my computer. Any svg I open (including stock files off the internet) cause Inkscape to crash with "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now". I even created a new, test svg consisting only of a few shapes and text, but I can't open it again after saving. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Duplicated keycodes
by Facundo Curti 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hi. I hope someone can help me please. I bought a new keyboard, a noga NKB-710. The problem is that, according to xev, four of the keys have the same keycode... The keys Ctrl, Alt, Win*** and shift, have the same keycode, 50. Off course, it doesn't work correctly. and this way, It's imposible to me to configure it with xmodmap. I don't know what data I can share. I hope this to be sufficient: attached a lsusb -v output Thx, bye! :P

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