February 2016 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Update delayed for more of two months, Lyx v2.1.4
by Xavier Corredor Llano 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

Hi guys, After more than two months ago Lyx [1] released the version 2.1.4 [2], this is a minor and maintenance release (strongly recommended), in august, and after flagged as out-date and wait some days, I contacted with the maintainer (Ronald) and he didn't answer me (I understand, maybe he is busy) I tested for more of two months and this release work fine, I would like to be the maintainer of this package but I am not TU. Regards [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lyx/ [2] http://www.lyx.org/News -- Xavier Corredor Llano ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Lyx 2.1.4 Date: Saturday, August 15, 2015, 07:11:42 PM From: Xavier Corredor Llano <xavier.corredor.llano(a)gmail.com> To: ronald(a)archlinux.org Hi Ronald! I have tested the Lyx [1] version 2.1.4 with the PKGBUILD attachment and work fine. Regards [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/lyx/ -- Xavier Corredor Llano -----------------------------------------

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[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] Htop 2.0 fonts
by Garmine 42 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi! Since the update to 2.0 the usage graphs use nonexisting fonts - both TTY and uxterm show the "empty box" unicode character instead of the fonts shown on htop 2.0 screenshots. I did not find any missing dependency for htop on my system. Do anyone else have this issue? Any ideas? Shall I install a new font for this? If so, which one? Thank you in advance. Regards, Garmine

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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] Boot SuperMicro H8QM8-2 w/4 Opteron 8360 - hangs on boot of install media
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

All, This may be a stupid question. If so I apologize. Do I have to do anything different to boot the arch install media on a board with 4 Opteron 8360 processors (16 core total), or should the kernel just handle however many cores there are? The reason I ask is it always hangs after it says Booting Kernel (immediately after decompress). When I memtest the memory, (I have two sets and I've gone stick by stick with a minimum memory config, and I still get errors at the exact same percentage of every test.) I have rotated each stick in/out with a replacement, and replaced the whole set, but same issue. So I either have to do something different to boot with 16 core which will in turn also address the memory issue, or I have lots of bad ram or a bad mem controller in one of the processors. Hardware Info shows all cores and memory, it's just using it that is the problem :) What say the experts? Do I need to pass a kernel flag, or something similar for the 4 Opteron boot, or does it just smell like multiple failed sticks in each set? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] How much people use Arch Linux
by Christian Rebischke 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

Hello everyone, Is there any counter for ISO-downloads or something? I want to have a number how much people are using Arch Linux worldwide. I don't need an exact number. Does somebody has some statistics? best regards Chris

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[arch-general] Mutt - no authenticators available
by Fulcrum 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

Hi I have been trying for hours but cant get mutt working. I used configuration from different forums. They all made sense but neither work. Also, the mutt package availabe in official arch repo has no debugging support so I couldn't figure out what was going wrong. After some internet research and keen eyes on mutt's on-screen logs, I found that mutt was trying to authenticate plainly. Then I learnt about authenticators. I enabled these authenticators: set imap_authenticators=”digest-md5:gssapi:cram-md5:login” set smtp_authenticators=”digest-md5:gssapi:cram-md5:login” And now I am exhausted and , quite frankly, frustrated. The only logs generated by journalctl are: Feb 25 10:44:15 ARCH mutt[31322]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:44:37 ARCH mutt[31322]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:04 ARCH mutt[31328]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:45:06 ARCH mutt[31328]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:10 ARCH mutt[31329]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:45:12 ARCH mutt[31329]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:45:40 ARCH mutt[31332]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:48:29 ARCH mutt[31404]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:48:45 ARCH mutt[31406]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:49:18 ARCH mutt[31406]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:50:18 ARCH mutt[31421]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free Feb 25 10:53:46 ARCH mutt[31530]: GSSAPI client step 1 Feb 25 10:53:49 ARCH mutt[31530]: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free FYI I have 'cyrus-sasl' and 'cyrus-sasl-gssapi' packages installed. My .muttrc: set imap_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login” set smtp_authenticators=”gssapi:digest-md5:cram-md5:login” set imap_user = “myemail(a)hotmail.xn--com-9o0a set imap_pass = “mypassword" set smtp_url = smtp://smtp-mail.outlook.com:465 // Earlier, I tried port 587 set smtp_pass = “mypassword” set from = “myemail(a)hotmail.xn--com-9o0a set realname = “Fulcrum” set ssl_force_tls = yes set ssl_starttls = yes set folder = imaps://imap-mail.outlook.com:993 set spoolfile = imaps://imap-mail.outlook.com/INBOX set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates set move = no I tried using a gmail account; didnt work. I hope someone here could help me. Regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] Wget in Extra is out-of-date for more than two months
by Harrison Wells 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Hello Archers, Is there any particular reason as to why Wget in the Extra repository has been out of date for more than two months now (It was flagged out of date on 15th of November, 2015)? The current version available in the repository is 1.16.3-1. The latest version upstream is 1.17.1. Best Regards, Harrison Wells

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[arch-general] Alternative init system proposal
by Eric Vidal 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Hello everyone, I'm the creator of Obarun I use runit for PID1 and managing service. Repo is available for all package builded without systemd support. All this package have the name xxx-systemd to avoid trouble with original package. Package are maintained every week (one time per week). all this package doesn't have service declaration to allow other distro to use it like manjaro, alphaos etecetera... A github with all the pkgbuild used is available here https://github.com/Obarun + some personnal scripts A complete site is available too with forum and a little wiki here www.obarun.org Proposal an alternative to systemd on arch system isn't impossible even for complex desktop environment. KF5, XFCE4 work on it.(using consolekit for the moment) dev is managed by gentoo eudev (working with jcnelson vdev is in progress, but not working for the moment). I use my system from almost one year now and share it from july 2015. This system is not perfect (i'm not a good dev) and i'm alone to make all the stuff (site, maintaining, new features and so one) but i'm the proof that can be possible and without so much efford. Isn't the work to arch to propose an alternative. Pacman, makepkg, pkgbuild are beautiful tools which allow user to make every his want. So use it and don't ask anything to arch dev :) -- Eric Vidal <eric(a)obarun.org>

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[arch-general] systemctl --user broken
by juan tascon 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

Gday everyone, Since the last systemd update (229) I haven't been able to run my systemd user instance. I'm getting this error when I try to run "systemctl --user status": Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory Running strace reveals that it tries to connect to kdbus which isn't available on the current kernel: open("/sys/fs/kdbus/1000-user/bus", O_RDWR|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I've tried disabling kdbus adding "kdbus=0" as kernel parameter but that didn't work. Any help here will be greatly appreciated.

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