February 2017 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Archlinux i3wm i3-scrot copy clipboard
by Maykel Franco 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hi, I love with muy installation. Archlinux + i3wm but I like take screenshots with tool i3 called i3-scrot but I don't see option to copy clipboard, only save screenshots in folder...

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[arch-general] Cannot start Jack
by Peter Nabbefeld 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello, I've installed jack2-dbus, but cannot start jack: $ jack_control start --- start DBus exception: org.jackaudio.Error.Generic: Failed to open server I'm in the audio group, dmesg doesn't show anything (I've cleared it before issuing the command, just to make sure I don't miss any line). Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] sparkleshare 1.5-3 core dump
by ber532k 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Here’s the paste at github: https://gist.github.com/ber532k/194699fd4eaccbd3b3f8f5dcf57a8878. I am using the precompiled version from community, which is package version 1.5-3.

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[arch-general] sparkleshare 1.5-3 core dump
by ber532k 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hi, I am eperiencing core dumps when running sparkleshare, and I’m not sure how to resolve this. Does anyone have experience with mono? The error messages can be found at http://pastebin.com/VhA8n5jJ. Any help appreciated.

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[arch-general] pavucontrol doesn't find pulseaudio
by Peter Nabbefeld 20 Feb '17

20 Feb '17

Hello, I've tried to use Cadence to set up Pulseaudio with Jack, but it left my sound configuration even more corrupted. Now, after starting pulseaudio, even pavucontrol cannot find it. This is how I've started pulseaudio: $ pulseaudio --start -vv D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: Parsing configuration file '/etc/pulse/client.conf' D: [pulseaudio] conf-parser.c: /etc/pulse/client.conf.d does not exist, ignoring. I: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup successful. So I'd expect everything should be okay - can someone tell me what to check? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Leftover kde4 stuff
by Oon-Ee Ng 18 Feb '17

18 Feb '17

I just hit a bug with okular (rarely used it and just got surprised by this) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53003 After more investigation I realized the kactivites was being provided by kactivities4 (which no longer exists). Further investigation showed that I had a bunch of old kde4 packages (some still in repos, some not) installed. I think this is the list:- kdebase-runtime (16.12.2-1) libkscreen4 (1.0.5-2) qjson (0.9.0-1) libkexiv2_4 (15.08.3-2) kdelibs (4.14.29-1) qca-qt4 (2.1.3-1) polkit-qt4 (0.112.0+git20160226-1) phonon-qt4 (4.9.1-1) phonon-qt4-vlc (0.9.0-1) libqzeitgeist (0.8.0-6) libdbusmenu-qt4 (0.9.3+16.04.20160218-1) attica-qt4 (0.4.2-3) Only libkscreen4 and libkexiv2_4 were no longer in repos, and uninstalling both removed the rest. Did I miss an announcement or anything where I'd have noted these packages disappearance and uninstalled them? Or should I be keeping an eye on pacman -Qm (I have 137 packages there at this point)?

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[arch-general] What's with Ray Rashif?
by sekret＠posteo.se 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hey guys! I'm not writing this mail to complain, I'm just wondering! I use ardour quite a lot and of course I wanted the update to version 5 as soon as possible. The first release 5.0 didn't build here, so I thought ok, maybe the maintainer of this package is struggling with it too. The current version is 5.3 which compiles and runs just fine. So now I wonder why we don't get an update. So I looked at the other packages of the maintainer, see this link https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?packager=schiv and well, I see a lot of red there! So I must wonder: Is Ray still active? Best sekret

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[arch-general] syslinux.cfg
by Ralf Mardorf 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hi, is the no way to get a menu Arch kernel 1 Arch Kernel 2 Foo Kernel 1 Foo Kernel 2 when using syslinux? Or even while booting another Linux requires chainloading, there's a feature to chose between all available kernels of another Linux by the "main" menu? IIUC chainloading only could provide Arch kernel 1 Arch Kernel 2 Foo and just when selecting Foo I can chose between Foo Kernel 1 Foo Kernel 2 and perhaps Arch so assuming I then decide to go back to the Arch menu, I need to chainload Arch from the chainloaded other Foo Linux? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Hibernation not working
by Peter Nabbefeld 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hello, since some time, hibernation does not work, dmesg contains following messages: [ 738.404244] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160422/nsarguments-95) [ 738.404353] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM [ 738.404356] ACPI Warning: \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20160422/nsarguments-95) Some time ago, when I closed my laptop, Linux automatically hibernated, now it does not. As my laptop becomes really warm and I don't want to stress my display, I'm using this rarely, so I cannot tell, since when hibernation doesn't work :-/ Kind regartds Peter

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[arch-general] Revisiting the SELinux/audit question: Disabling audit on the kernel command line
by Tobias Markus 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Hi, As some of you might know, the question of enabling SELinux support in the official Arch Linux kernel package has been brought up a number of times. The main issue that has been pointed out the previous time was that enabling SELinux depends on CONFIG_AUDIT which is considered unnecessary or even harmful for most desktop users since it generates a flood of kernel log messages. Citing Thomas Bächler's previous post (in 2014) on the matter [1]: > And here is my problem: Audit is enabled by default and must be > explicitly disabled by the admin. This is a showstopper for me! There > is no kernel option to configure audit to be disabled by default (as > far as I am aware) so that it can be enabled with 'audit=1' on the > command line. Actually, I think there is a perfectly valid and simple way to disable audit by default: By using the built-in kernel command line. This makes it possible to specify a number of kernel parameters at build time that the kernel prepends to the usual command line it gets from the bootloader. By specifying CONFIG_CMDLINE_BOOL=y CONFIG_CMDLINE="audit=0" in the configuration [2], the audit subsystem is disabled by default, but users intending to use it can do so by manually setting audit=1 on the bootloader's command line. That in turn would override the audit=0 specified on the built-in command line. I would be glad if Arch Linux's official kernel could support SELinux again this way! Thanks for your comments, Tobias [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2014-March/03567 9.html [2] For menuconfig, look at the very end under "Processor type and features"

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