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

[arch-general] pavucontrol depency question
by Friedrich Strohmaier 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, some time ago xfce sorted out xfce4-mixer in favour of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. - agreed removing xfce4-mixer - Installed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - no sound mixing available at all - Installed optional dependency pavucontrol - no sound mixing available - no connection to pulseaudio server - Installed optional dependency pulsaudio - yay! sound mixing up an running. I don't understand much about dependency quirks but I wonder about the reason both dependencies beeing made optional. xfce4-pulsaudio-plugin is out of any functionality without working pavucontrol pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server. So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] URXVT background color
by arnaud gaboury 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

I run many urxvt windows on my screen. Some are for the host system and some are for my container (managed by systemd-nspawn). I am looking for a way to change color background according to hostname in order to quickly see which terminal I am on. My idea was to test $HOST variable in my ~/.xinitrc and give a specific .Xressource accordingly, but it doesn't work as .xinitrc is obviously not invoked when I fire a new terminal window. How can I manage what I am looking for (if I can)? Thank you for hints.

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Re: [arch-general] Archlinux.org down
by Robert Wong 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Terrified. I thought it has been blocked by the gov... 😂 RW

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[arch-general] Archlinux.org down
by Jimmie Staedele 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Is it just me or is the website really offline?

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[arch-general] Virtualbox guest additions build on Arch guest fails - get_user_pages_remote
by David C. Rankin 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

All, Attempting to update virtualbox (aur virtualbox-bin) fails to install guest additions on an Archlinux guest with linux-4.10. The guest addition build fails. The error in the log is: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1067:18: error: too few arguments to function ‘get_user_pages_remote’ rc = get_user_pages_remote( ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In file included from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:98:0, from /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31: ./include/linux/mm.h:1267:6: note: declared here long get_user_pages_remote(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:294: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o: warning: objtool: .fixup: unexpected end of section if [ "-pg" = "-pg" ]; then if [ /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o != "scripts/mod/empty.o" ]; then ./scripts/recordmcount "/tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o"; fi; fi; make[1]: *** [Makefile:1490: _module_/tmp/vbox.0] Error 2 make: *** [/tmp/vbox.0/Makefile.include.footer:84: vboxguest] Error 2 Has anyone else experienced this? I've opened a ticket at: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/16576 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Is arch-announce mailig list dead?
by someone＠dividebyzero.it 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi, I noticed that the last couple of announces that have been published on the archlinux' home page have not also been sent on the arch-announce mailing list. Is it supposed to be this way, or is there maybe some problem with the list? Thank you.

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[arch-general] gpg-agent asks for passphrase after suspend?
by Karol Babioch 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

Hi, since a while my GPG agent is asking for a passphrase, once my laptop has been suspended. This hasn't been the case beforehand. I'm pretty sure this is happening since the last update of the gpg package a few days ago, but I'm no entirely sure, since I've updated a whole bunch of packages in this timeframe. My gpg-agent.conf contains the following: > default-cache-ttl 86400 > max-cache-ttl 2592000 > default-cache-ttl-ssh 86400 > max-cache-ttl-ssh 2592000 This worked before, and in makes much more sense in my environment than to flush the cache with every suspend. I couldn't find anything in GnuPG's changelog, so maybe it is also some new GNOME, systemd, etc. feature. Has anyone of you also noticed this and maybe even figured it out already? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Cannot reach repositories
by Peter Nabbefeld 14 Mar '17

14 Mar '17

Hello, getting connection errors when trying to access update repositories, e.g.: Fehler: Konnte Datei 'core.db' nicht von mirror.vfn-nrw.de übertragen : Failed to connect to mirror.vfn-nrw.de port 80: Keine Route zum Zielrechner (Error: Could not transfer 'core.db' from mirror.vfn-nrw.de : Failed to connect to mirror.vfn-nrw.de port 80: No route to host) Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] makepkg bind-9 FAILED (unknown public key F1B11BF05CF02E57)
by David C. Rankin 13 Mar '17

13 Mar '17

All, I pulled ABS updates and got the patch mentioned in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53240. However, attempting to build bind/bind tools 9.11.0-P3 fails due to an unknown upstream public key: makepkg -s <snip> ... ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... bind-9.11.0-P3.tar.gz ... FAILED (unknown public key F1B11BF05CF02E57) How does one handle this issue? Is that one of the keys one would expect to be in AUR/upstream keys? There are ISC keys listed in the PKGBUILD, e.g. validpgpkeys=('2B48A38AE1CF9886435F89EE45AC7857189CDBC5' 'ADBE9446286C794905F1E0756FA6EBC9911A4C02' #ISC, Inc) 'BE0E9748B718253A28BB89FFF1B11BF05CF02E57' #Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. and the shasum for bind-9.11.0-P3.tar.gz matches the sum listed for the package. Is there something I need to do to fix the public key issue. Strange that the shasum would match, but the public key would fail. What do the arch-devs suggest? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Cannot post to Forums - Bad HTTP_REFERER??
by David C. Rankin 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

All, Attempting to post details to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224028 from FF 45.8esr, I get: Bad HTTP_REFERER. You were referred to this page from an unauthorized source. If the problem persists please make sure that 'Base URL' is correctly set in Admin/Options and that you are visiting the forum by navigating to that URL. More information regarding the referrer check can be found in the FluxBB documentation. I've never had problems before, but haven't posted in months, what to try? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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