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

[arch-general] Broken devtools?
by Giovanni Santini 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Good afternoon, I was trying to build a package with `devtools` *extra-x86_64-build*, but is doesn't use any mirror. I've noticed also that adding a mirror to the root chroot mirrorlist has no effect and gets removed at the first build attempt. -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] ABS Wiki
by Ralf Mardorf 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

Hi, shouldn't we completely delete the ABS wiki? I only added a note on 09:28, 24 June 2017: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Arch_Build_System&type=revision&… On 09:43, 28 May 2017 I already removed it from another wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Professional_audio&type=revision… Regards, Ralf -- Vote for apulse! echo $(w3m https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse |grep 'Votes: ') Votes: 71 Updated: Sat Jun 24 11:37:26 CEST 2017

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[arch-general] kernel-install in archlinux
by Damjan Georgievski 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Is there any plan for moving ArchLinux to the kernel-install infrastructure[1] I've seen some talk about it from a year ago, but the discussion seems to have died off. My personal use case is to have a hook that self-signs kernel+initramfs+cmdline images for secure boot (using my own keys), and currently I have to do that manually whenever the initramfs is updated. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/kernel-install.html [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-May/028014.html -- damjan

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[arch-general] Samsung NVMe set up
by Alan E. Davis 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hello everyone: I built a new machine with a Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe <https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjWxp_rk8nUAhWBf…>Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe <https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjWxp_rk8nUAhWBf…>Samsung 950 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB component. Installation went swell. I was able to use bootctl (by whatever name), which seemed to be easier than using GRUB. (on the Manjaro wiki was found an extremely coherent discussion of this system). I have encountered no problems other than slow-ish (if one would call it that). When I run hdparm to test the performance of this memory, it falls far short of the specification of 32 Gb/s. I realize that the Linux kernel has recently included some code for the NVME drivers. There is also some question as to the best parameters to use in /etc/fstab. So I am requesting assistance to set up this device on this mailing list. I am using the Zen kernel. Some checks I have made: # hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1: Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 2404 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1201.67 MB/sec Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 5372 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1790.16 MB/sec # nvme get-feature -f 0x0c -H /dev/nvme0n1p2 get-feature:0xc (Autonomous Power State Transition), Current value:0x000001 Autonomous Power State Transition Enable (APSTE): Enabled Auto PST Entries ................. Entry[ 0] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 1] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 2] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 3] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 410 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 4 Alan Davis -- [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ---Albert Einstein "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_

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[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues
by David Rosenstrauch 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Seems like some recent package update has either caused xfce4-notifyd to not autostart or to crash after starting. Anyone else seeing this, and/or have any idea what might be the cause? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] TeXLive 2017 packages are now available in [testing]
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Hello, TexLive 2017 has been released at the beginning of the month and is now packaged in [testing]. No particular issue is expected when upgrading to this release. Note that a few packages disappear in this release, following upstream changes in structure: * texlive-genericextra (merged in texlive-core) * texlive-htmlxml (merged in texlive-core and formatsextra) * texlive-plainextra (merged in texlive-core) Pacman hooks for TeXLive, which were in texlive-bin, are now in texlive-core, which should fix bugs like FS50238, FS20423 and FS51918. I expect to move them to [extra] early July. Happy TeXing, Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] Unable to start gnome-terminal from KDE session
by Jeremy Brown 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hello arch-general! I have a laptop running the latest KDE / Plasma, but I use gnome-terminal as my terminal app. Recently I noticed that when I launch gnome-terminal from the KDE start menu, it takes an incredibly long time to launch (maybe 20+ seconds) and when it does launch, I just get a flashing prompt with no actual shell. If I launch a second gnome-terminal after that, *that* gnome-terminal seems fine. I get a normal working shell. If I launch xterm then the xterm is fine. Running "journalctl -f" while I launch the initial gnome-terminal instance shows: ------- Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org kwin_x11[8054]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 62818, resource id: 37749768, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:71:36: The style property GtkCheckMenuItem:indicator-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:76:30: The style property GtkExpander:expander-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Started GNOME Terminal Server. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Starting Portal service... Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: No such file or directory Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: Failed to create file chooser proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: No such file or directory Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_set_flags: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_INTERFACE_SKELETON (interface_)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: invalid (NULL) pointer instance Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_export: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_INTERFACE_SKELETON (interface_)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org kernel: xdg-desktop-por[10558]: segfault at 8 ip 0000000000407240 sp 00007ffeb591a140 error 4 in xdg-desktop-portal[400000+5b000] Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 10569/UID 0). Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Failed to start Portal service. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Unit entered failed state. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd-coredump[10570]: Process 10558 (xdg-desktop-por) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 10558: #0 0x0000000000407240 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #1 0x0000000000407305 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #2 0x00007f87235af664 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8723573643 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8723574106 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f87235a20d2 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #6 0x00007f8723573643 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #7 0x00007f8723573679 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #8 0x00007f8722fcd66a g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0) #9 0x00007f8722fcda20 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #10 0x00007f8722fcdd42 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #11 0x0000000000406c65 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #12 0x00007f87229e043a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #13 0x0000000000406f2a n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) Stack trace of thread 10561: #0 0x00007f8722aa83b9 syscall (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f872301344a g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fa1f49 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8722ff5c66 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10560: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdd42 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f87235b4f86 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10562: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdacc g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8719afa55d n/a (libdconfsettings.so) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10559: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdacc g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8722fcdb11 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Creating the cache for: "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Already in database? true Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: First update : QDateTime(2016-08-27 06:51:33.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Last update : QDateTime(2017-06-08 02:36:44.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: After the adjustment Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Current score : 39.4505 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: First update : QDateTime(2016-08-27 06:51:33.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Last update : QDateTime(2017-06-08 02:36:44.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Interval length is 0 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: New score : 40.4505 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: ResourceScoreUpdated: "e0ccd030-50ca-4cbc-a4d7-ccb8e06c72a9" "org.kde.krunner" "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org plasmashell[8062]: KActivitiesStats( 0x5c0c5d0 ) ResultModelPrivate::onResultScoreUpdated result added: "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" score: 40.4505 last: 1496857044 first: 1472248293 ------- Googling that core dump led me to: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224787 ...which led me to: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/72 ...which sounds a bit like what I'm seeing, at least the slowness part. However, I use SDDM, so I can't put the recommended dbus-update-activation-environment in any .xinitrc file (which is only run when you do startx as far as I know). So, two questions: (1) Where would I put this command so that it's run by SDDM on login? (2) Is there a bug here where some script in /etc somewhere should be doing this? I poked around thinking maybe there was a .pacnew for some Xorg / SDDM related file that might have this, but I didn't see anything. Mostly just wondering if I should file a bug. Jeremy

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[arch-general] freshclam eating 100% CPU continually during nonblock_recv
by David C. Rankin 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

All, I'm not sure if this is a package bug or an upstream bug. I have used clamav for years. The rotation of servers always causes a timeout on one or two servers, never been a problem. Updating tonight, freshclam hung for 13 minutes with the assigned CPU core pegged at 100%. At the 13 minutes mark, I did receive an error I'm not accustomed to seeing: Downloading daily-23454.cdiff [100%] nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs) WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from database.clamav.net (IP: 104.131.196.175): Operation now in progress WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23455.cdiff from database.clamav.net Trying host database.clamav.net (194.8.197.22)... Can anyone else confirm this behavior? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] problems accessing samba share through Xfce gui
by Paul Marwick 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Arch Linux, fully updated, running Xfce, installed on a Lenovo T420 laptop. I’m having strange, intermittent problems accessing samba shares through the GUI. The problem varies, no pattern that I can detect. Sometimes, clicking on the “Browse Network” icon in Thunar does nothing, eventually returning ‘Failed to open “/” Timeout reached’ . Other times it will open the network view and allow me to double-click the Windows Network icon. Sometimes that is the last thing that happens (possibly followed by another timeout error, though that can take so long that I may have shut the machine down before it happens). If it gets past the main Windows network stage, it will show me any active workgroup. It may fail there, or it may give me a view of the machines in the workgroup. It may allow me to select a machine, and may show me the shares on the machine. If I double-click on a share, it will (sometimes) pop up the login dialog. If that fails, sometimes double-clicking a second time will show the login dialog. If I am able to connect to a share, there is (sometimes) a further problem. Using the Thunar option to disconnect from the share works, but if I attempt to reconnect to the share, or connect to another share, instead of opening the share in Thunar, it opens VLC, which doesn’t understand what is going on and does nothing. I have two other Arch installations on my laptop, plus two desktop machines which run Arch. None of the other installations have any similar problems. The Arch installs are all very similar in terms of how they were installed and the software they have on them. Also, the install which is giving me this problem developed it – originally it worked without any errors. I mad a mistake configuring the samba server on an Ubuntu 16.04 server and followed that up by attempting to access the share from my Arch install. This problem has been happening ever since then, but only on the one install. I’ve checked the systemd journal and found absolutely nothing to help me diagnose the problem. This install does have on problem which shows consistently during boot - I get a core dump in the systemd journal from colord-sane (which is installed on the other installs as well). However, while the core dump happens on every boot, the samba problem only happens on some, so I don't think the problem comes from there. I’m fairly sure that the problem is not Thunar itself (I’ve tried PcmanFM, which shows similar inconsistent behaviour – sometimes it will connect without problems, other times pcmanfm locks up and does nothing, has to be forced closed. I also installed gigolo, which also shows similar problems. I think the problem is in one of the back-end programs which handles mounting the shares. I guess that includes gvfs, fuse and possibly d-bus. I’ve not managed to find an explanation of exactly what is used when mounting a share using the gui. I should also mention that when this happens, I can mount the shares without problems from the command line, or using mount with suitable entries in /etc/fstab. Also, thinking that there might be something messed up in my user profile, I added another user and tested using that user. Problem is exactly the same - sometimes the mount works without errors, others it fails in the same unpredictable manner. While I could fix the problem by reinstalling, this is one of the few things I’ve ever hit in Arch that (so far), I’ve been unable to fix. I would really love to be able to fix it, but that means I need to have some way of diagnosing where the problem is. Any help would be very gratefully received.

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[arch-general] Problem install slack-desktop deb
by Maykel Franco 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi, recently I like install slack-desktop 2.3.4 because with the latest version 2.6.x I have a problem with unmark read messages bug... I have install debtap from github, the binary because the debtap archlinux repository not works well. When install the slack-desktop 2.3.4 deb I get this error... user ~/ $ LANG=C sudo pacman -U slack-desktop-2.3.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "apt", a dependency of "slack-desktop" warning: cannot resolve "gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0", a dependency of "slack-desktop" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: slack-desktop :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: slack-desktop: requires apt :: slack-desktop: requires gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 How resolved it? Thanks in advanced.

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