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[arch-general] Permanent job in Tokyo, Japan
by James Tobin 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Hello, I’m working with an employer that is looking to hire someone to fulfil a permanent DevOps-type position at their office in Tokyo. Japanese language is not required; only English. Consequently I had hoped that some members of this mailing list may like to discuss further; off-list. I can be reached using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James

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[arch-general] snapcraft.io IMO gets across the message that snaps are appropriate for Arch Linux
by Ralf Mardorf 25 Nov '16

25 Nov '16

Hi, after taking a brief look into building a yaml and following Ubuntu's Snapcraft mailing list, I don't have a good opinion of it. It at least is nothing I would recommend for usage with Arch Linux on i686 and x86_64 servers and desktop computers, not only because it requires an Ubuntu kernel patch [1], but because it IMO is completely against the rolling release approach and beyond that IMO broken in many ways. The first sentence on http://snapcraft.io/ is "Package any app for every Linux desktop, server, cloud or device, and deliver updates directly" and the first logo beside the Ubuntu logo is Arch Linux. My opinion is, that it would be better, if the Arch Linux logo would be removed from http://snapcraft.io/ , because I guess it gets across a wrong message. Regards, Ralf [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Snapd#Installation Disclaimer I only want to inform about it, in case Arch Linux developers aren't aware of it. I will not argue against, if Arch developers don't care and/or disagree with my opinion. IOW I will not discuss it, the intention is only to inform of it. ;) -- Death of ROXTerm https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/

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[arch-general] Nvidia backlight control - acpi_video0/brightness changes - display doesn't?
by David C. Rankin 20 Nov '16

20 Nov '16

All, Laptop: HP 8760w, Quadro 3000M, nvidia-340xx packages. The driver works perfectly (no errors in Xorg.0.log), but I have no way to control the screen brightness. I've followed the suggestions in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks but I still have no backlight control. Using the laptop function keys, the values in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness are properly set, e.g. $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness 8 (now tap the [func][F9], brightness lower, twice) $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness 6 (actual_brightness value tracks brightness) $ cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness 20 This works with OR without /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" Does anyone have any suggestions on anything else to try before I start loading the aur nvidia-bl or nvidiabl packages? I don't mind adding more software, but if there are a few more tweaks to try before going that route, I would like to try them first. Anybody get backlight working with a similar model laptop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Does LTS package really not fit to Rolling Release model and Arch Philosophy?
by Ken OKABE 19 Nov '16

19 Nov '16

Arch-wiki suggests: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_maintenance#Install_the_linux-l… >Tips and tricks The following tips are generally not required, but certain users may find them useful. >Install the linux-lts package The linux-lts package is an alternative Arch kernel package, and is available in the core repository. This particular kernel version has long-term support (LTS) from upstream, including security fixes and some feature backports. It is useful if you prefer the stability of less-frequent kernel updates or if you want a fallback kernel in case a new kernel version causes problems. and some guy told me >The LTS kernel is strictly speaking not in line with the "Arch philosophy" (if you use that term to describe the rolling release nature of Arch) - but it is also not a "typical" piece of software, for two reasons: >It is the kernel, i.e. the core building block of what makes this operating system work. It is crucial to make sure it works correctly, so in case of an issue, having the possibility to go back to an LTS release (or forward to a non-LTS release) is in the interest of many users. >It is mostly not affected by dependency issues arising from version mismatches (like soname bumps) - you can plug in any kernel you want without any major issues (except maybe hardware support). >The second point also allows it to be packed in a rolling release distribution like Arch without causing trouble for maintainers. Maintaining an old user-space tool (i.e. backporting fixes, ensuring library version compatibility, ... well, see Debian) is incompatible with Arch Linux. How hard or problematic to maintain a LTS package, for instance, KDE Plasma LTS edition package on Arch rolling-release-model? https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php >Tuesday, 4 October 2016. Today KDE releases its first Long Term Support edition of its flagship desktop software, Plasma. This marks the point where the developers and designers are happy to recommend Plasma for the widest possible audience be they enterprise or non-techy home users. What kind of scenario in the real world to be problematic to maintain KDE Plasma LTS line as separated packages from non-LTS?

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[arch-general] 'invalid radix64 character 2D skipped' with pacman-key --refresh-keys
by Christian Rebischke 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hello everybody, Does some of you encount problems with `pacman-key --refresh-keys` like me? I can't refresh my keyring due to some strange error messages: gpg: invalid radix64 character 2E skipped gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=11) gpg: read_block: read error: Invalid packet gpg: mpi larger than indicated length (2064 bits) The full output is here: https://paste.archlinux.de/DY6FC/ Any idea how to solve this issue? I would guess it's something with gpg and it has nothing todo with the keyring or with pacman-key. Best regards Chris

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[arch-general] espeak ng and keeping packages in the aur up to date.
by ilovecountrymusic483＠gmail.com 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hi all. I am wondering about a couple of things. I have been using orca for some time now, but wondering if espeak NG will be coming to arch community any time soon.. In the mean time, does any know if it is in the aur? Secondly I have yaourt installed and there are a few packages from the aur installed. What is the eaasyes way to keep the packages up to date. Is there a command through yaourt like sudo yaourt -Syu for example. I was reading about this in the arch wiki but did not find anything about how to do this offisiontly. If anyone knows how to do this, it would really be appriseated. Thanks. Matthew Sent from Mail for Windows 10

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[arch-general] ISO broken? Unable to boot from ISO burned to DVD.
by Manuel Reimer 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hello, I've freshly downloaded the ISO from the Arch Linux homepage and burned with: # cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom -dao PATH_TO_ISO Booting from this hangs with waiting for some /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH... device. After waiting for this I get to some kind of "recovery console" missing most tools. /dev/disk/by-label doesn't exist at all in this minimalistic shell. Is it possible that booting from a device "by-label" just doesn't work for a DVD drive at all? Any way to fix this? Thanks in advance Manuel

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[arch-general] Please fastly update packages not using the generic readline *.so
by Sebastian Lau 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi, cinnamon (and maybe other desktops/packages) seem to use libreadline.so.6 which was updated today to a new SONAME. There should be a fast update to load the SONAME=7 or the generic shared object with the next release to prevent failures like this: nullptr ~ % cinnamon & [1] 1111 cinnamon: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [1] + 1111 exit 127 cinnamon nullptr ~ % ls /usr/lib/libreadline.so completing files libreadline.so@ libreadline.so.7@ libreadline.so.7.0* nullptr ~ % LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libreadline.so cinnamon & The last command works. It would be nice to have a fast update for cinnamon and all other packages that don't use the generic libreadline.so Thank you! Sebastian

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[arch-general] Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) is Looking for Information Technology-related Job Opportunities World Wide
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

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[arch-general] Problem with "geoclue2" update
by Manuel Reimer 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Hello, I am currently trying to update my system, but this fails with the following messages: geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/geoclue.devhelp2 exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/home.png exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/index.html exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/left.png exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/right.png exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/style.css exists in filesystem geoclue2: /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/geoclue/up.png exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Did something change in the "geoclue2" package, which causes this error? There is no announcement on the homepage... Thanks in advance Manuel

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Re: [arch-general] systemd-boot ignores loader.conf
by Tung Anh Vu 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

I managed to make the boot menu screen not appear by holding the minus key down to 0 second timeout in the boot menu itself. Thanks everyone, especially David Thurstenson. PS: I still have no idea, why does systemd-boot ignore the timeout setting from loader.conf, but obeys the rest. On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Tung Anh Vu <cuttycz(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using systemd-boot on my laptop. My /boot/loader/loader.conf contains > only the line: > > default arch > > but when booting, the boot menu still appears. What could be the cause of > this issue? Thanks in advance. >

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Re: [arch-general] howto remove old package version
by niya levi 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

hi everyone > https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/aarch64/mesa/log > > Looks like AL Arm mesa versions went like this: > > 12.0.3-3 > 13.0.0rc2-2 > 12.0.3-3.1 > 13.0.0-1 > > Is your mirror uptodate ? after pacman -Syu mesa in now pacman -Si mesa{,-libgl} | grep Ve Version : 13.0.0-1 Version : 13.0.0-1 thanks shadrock

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[arch-general] systemd-boot ignores loader.conf
by Tung Anh Vu 14 Nov '16

14 Nov '16

Hello all, I'm using systemd-boot on my laptop. My /boot/loader/loader.conf contains only the line: default arch but when booting, the boot menu still appears. What could be the cause of this issue? Thanks in advance. - Tung Anh

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[arch-general] howto remove old package version
by niya levi 13 Nov '16

13 Nov '16

hi everyone pacman -Syu :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: mesa: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1) warning: mesa-libgl: local (13.0.0rc2-2) is newer than extra (12.0.3-3.1) how do i remove old version and install new with pacman, have tried pacman -R but had dependency problems. shadrock

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[arch-general] [OT] Favorite/best desktop in archlinux
by Maykel Franco 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Hi, what the best desktop envieronment for archlinux? Only is the question. I like very much kde plasma but he used a lot of ram and sometimes it is very heavy. Do you think?

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[arch-general] Xen GPU Passthrough
by Jay Seth 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

Hello, I need help & I would appreciate any help to get my setup working. When I try to start a domU on Arch/Xen, I am getting the following error: xl create w7.cfg Parsing config from w7.cfg libxl: error: libxl_pci.c:1235:libxl__device_pci_add: PCI device 0:1:0.0 is not assignable libxl: error: libxl_create.c:1566:domcreate_attach_pci: libxl_device_pci_add failed: -3 libxl: error: libxl.c:1583:libxl__destroy_domid: non-existant domain 2 libxl: error: libxl.c:1542:domain_destroy_callback: unable to destroy guest with domid 2 libxl: error: libxl.c:1471:domain_destroy_cb: destruction of domain 2 failed Checking the GPU with lspci, I get: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 525M] [10de:0df5] (rev a1) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0446] Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nouveau Background... I am relatively new to Arch and Xen (coming from Fedora and KVM) but I decided to see if Xen on Arch would support GPU passthrough for my Dell XPS 15z. It has Nvidia GeForce GT 525M. On Fedora/KVM, GPU passthrough works but there is the nasty error code 43. So that proved that the GPU can be passed through. I am trying Xen to see if the HVM will hide whatever it is that Nvidia uses to identify a VM platform and then disable drivers, giving error code 43. I have successfully installed xen and created a test VM. The config is as follows: name = 'w7' builder = 'hvm' vcpus = '2' memory = '2048' boot = 'd' on_poweroff = 'destroy' on_reboot = 'restart' on_crash = 'destroy' device_model_version = 'qemu-xen-traditional' disk = [ '/home/tim/Downloads/w7.iso,,hdc,cdrom', '/home/tim/vms/w7/w7.img,raw,hda,rw' ] vif = ['mac=00:16:3e:54:86:18,bridge=xenbr0'] acpi = '1' apic = '1' serial = 'pty' localtime = 1 # Keyboard and mouse passthrough usb = '1' usbdevice = ['tablet'] # VGA and sound passthrough viridian = '1' xen_platform_pci = '1' gfx_passthru = '1' pci_permissive = '1' pci = ['01:00.0,rdm_policy=relaxed'] # Remote vnc access vnc = '1' # vnclisten = 'x.x.x.x' The BDF of the GPU is 01:00.0 and it is what I have set for the pci parameter. I have also set intel_iommu=on in my /etc/default/grub file. I am booting the Xen kernel. I have also set the vfio-pci id for the GPU in /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf as: options vfio--pci ids=10de:0df5 After that, I set the vfio modules to load first in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf as follows: MODULES="vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd i915 nouveau" HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck" After that, I did: mkinitcpio -p linux grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grb/grub.cfg reboot After reboot, I ran the following checks: dmesg | grep vfio [ 3.856580] vfio-pci: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -22 [ 3.856584] vfio_pci: add [10de:0df5[ffff:ffff]] class 0x000000/00000000 [ 18.960859] xen_pciback xen_netback xenfs xen_privcmd xen_blkback xen_gntalloc xen_gntdev xen_evtchn ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache sd_mod serio_raw atkbd libps2 ahci libahci xhci_pci xhci_hcd libata ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common i8042 serio nouveau mxm_wmi wmi ttm i915 video button intel_gtt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm vfio_pci irqbypass vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio dmesg | egrep -i iommu [ 0.000000] Command line: /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d8ee1f55-14c6-4401-bc22-24b78eaf8863 rw intel_iommu=on quiet console=tty0 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=d8ee1f55-14c6-4401-bc22-24b78eaf8863 rw intel_iommu=on quiet console=tty0 [ 0.000000] DMAR: IOMMU enabled [ 18.960859] xen_pciback xen_netback xenfs xen_privcmd xen_blkback xen_gntalloc xen_gntdev xen_evtchn ip_tables x_tables ext4 crc16 jbd2 fscrypto mbcache sd_mod serio_raw atkbd libps2 ahci libahci xhci_pci xhci_hcd libata ehci_pci ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore usb_common i8042 serio nouveau mxm_wmi wmi ttm i915 video button intel_gtt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops drm vfio_pci irqbypass vfio_virqfd vfio_iommu_type1 vfio Is it possible that the root of the problem might the vfio-pci error -22 at boot? Thanks

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[arch-general] lockscreen doesn't work anymore
by Apfelkuchen 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hey, I use cinnamon as my desktop environment. Today I upgraded the packages to the newest version: > cinnamon 3.2.1-1 > cinnamon-control-center 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-desktop 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-menus 3.0.2-1 > cinnamon-screensaver 3.0.1-2 > cinnamon-session 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-settings-daemon 3.2.0-1 > cinnamon-translations 3.2.0-1 After this upgrade, I can't lock my screen anymore. I get this output from $ cinnamon-screensaver --debug > [gs_debug_init] gs-debug.c:109 (01:11:31): Debugging enabled > [main] cinnamon-screensaver.c:86 (01:11:31): initializing cinnamon-screensaver 3.0.1 > > (cinnamon-screensaver:15994): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.cinnamon.desktop.screensaver' does not contain a key named 'logout-enabled' > Trace/Breakpoint ausgelöst (Speicherabzug geschrieben) Can anyone help me? Thanks and greetings, pete

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[arch-general] WLAN
by Silvio Siefke 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Hello, i've installed Arch Linux today on Desktop (HP Elitebook 2540p) but wifi work not. I become message "Wireless networks disabled by hardware switch" Have someone an idea what can do? Thank you Silvio [siefke@sisibox ~]$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no [siefke@sisibox ~]$ iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. enp0s25 no wireless extensions. wlo1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep phy0 [ 3.097608] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep wlo1 [ 3.306866] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 [ 3.775157] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.078492] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.385304] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [ 4.720437] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlo1: link is not ready [siefke@sisibox ~]$ dmesg | grep iwl [ 3.051266] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control [ 3.051662] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode failed with error -2 [ 3.051681] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode failed with error -2 [ 3.056639] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: loaded firmware version 9.221.4.1 build 25532 op_mode iwldvm [ 3.075301] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled [ 3.075305] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS disabled [ 3.075307] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled [ 3.075309] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6200 AGN, REV=0x74 [ 3.075413] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.097608] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' [ 3.306866] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0 wlo1: renamed from wlan0 [ 3.775329] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.781845] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.781936] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 3.993451] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 3.999968] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.000061] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 4.080224] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.086756] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.086859] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 4.300192] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.306715] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Disabled [ 4.306816] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x3-0x1 [ 6.993231] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. [ 6.994137] iwlwifi 0000:43:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL [siefke@sisibox ~]$ lspci | grep Network 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05) 43:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)

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[arch-general] Cannot no longer resolve local hostname with the new nsswitch.conf
by Chi-Hsuan Yen 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Hi Arch enthuasiasts, With testing/filesystem 2016.11-2, I can no longer use my local hostname to acess services on the local machine. For example: $ hostname PC12574 $ ping PC12574 ping: PC12574: Name or service not known Seems changes in nsswitch.conf [1] does the effect. If I change the hosts: line in nsswitch.conf back to the old configuration "files resolve mymachines myhostname", or remove the [!UNAVAIL=return] part from this line, ping works fine: $ ping PC12574 PING PC12574(PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0)) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.025 ms 64 bytes from PC12574 (fe80::ae22:bff:fe77:e20b%enp3s0): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms Is it a bug? Or such a usage is just a non-standard coincidence? Thanks for any help. Yen Chi Hsuan [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/fil…

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[arch-general] readline 7.0 rebuild for self-maintained packages
by Bastian Beischer 08 Nov '16

08 Nov '16

Dear all, I will need to rebuild some of my packages which I maintain myself for readline 7.0. Is there a reliable way to find out which packages need a rebuild? How was the rebuild list for the official repos made? Thanks Bastian -- Bastian Beischer RWTH Aachen University of Technology @RWTH Aachen Office: 28 C 203 Phone: +49-241-80-27205 E-mail: beischer(a)physik.rwth-aachen.de Address: I. Physikalisches Institut B, Sommerfeldstr. 14, D-52074 Aachen @CERN Office: Bdg 32-4-B12 Phone: +41-22-76-75750 E-mail: bastian.beischer(a)cern.ch Address: CERN, CH-1211 Geneve 23

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[arch-general] new /etc/nsswitch.conf
by Damjan Georgievski 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

there's a new /etc/nsswitch.conf file in filesystem-2016.11 Maybe someone would care to explain the changes? maybe even a news post? https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/fil… -- damjan

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[arch-general] kernel linux-4.8.6-1-x86_64 not able to load modules
by Anast Gramm 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hey list, After, as suggested in arch-annoucne, I force-upgrated ttf-dejavu I made a full system upgrade with pacman -Syu. This installed the latest linux kernel. (the one in the subject line) The initram was completed successfully and I procceded to reboot. Then Xserver would complain about my intel module (i915) After a while I figured that nothin was loaded. I had no internet connection (ip link would only show loopback), when I plugged a USB drive the kernel woudln't detect it, and so on... I downgraded to linux-4.8.4 using arch live with arch-chroot. Everything works but when I upgrade to the latest kernel the same thing happens. Since I am prety new to the linux power user world, I have no idea what to do next. Should I file a bug? Ad if yes how do I do that? Also about the kernel upgrade, should I just skip 4.8.6 and get the next one? Since I didn't see anything in the list about linux-4.8.6 I guess it must have something to do with my setup. Any suggestions will be really helpful!

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[arch-general] Almost system crash, users getting logged out
by J. C. 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hi list, I had an "almost crash" last night. When I got up in the morning, the session on the first six TTYs were closed, but the sessions on TTY 8-10 were still open. Having taken a look at the journal, I found a lot of activity around 4AM. That may have been preceeded by something around midnight, when my music player suddenly quit, the system informing me, that there was not enough memory. A restart of the music player was successful though. I don't have any remote login services active and this sort of thing hasn't happened before, not on Arch since my installation a few weeks ago nor on the previous system. My kernel version is 4.8.2, not having rebooted since the last upgrade. The journal excerpt with the potential problem is here: https://freeshell.de/~silvain/journal.log I'd be grateful for any help and of course eagre to supply any further info to solve this issue. Thank you and best wishes Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Getting Groove to Work Properly Under Arch?
by Hunter Jozwiak 05 Nov '16

05 Nov '16

Hi, I am not sure if anyone has been having a similar issue, so here goes. I recently signed up for Groove Music so that i can have a cross- platform means of accessing my collection (primarily from my Arch box and the Xbox). I have discovered that there is a Groove web client so this should, in theory work. But practice, at the current moment, is not equal to theory; I am getting an error about how Groove can't play a particular song. Before, I was getting an error about how Flash is required, so I've installed the flashpluggin package. This is where I stand now. Does anyone have any pointers to a resolution? -- Regards, Hunter Jozwiak

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[arch-general] Iptables block https traffic apache
by Maykel Franco 04 Nov '16

04 Nov '16

Hi, I have configured apache + php + mysql in my house. I like block the specific url traffic over https... I found this: iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport 443 -m string --string "anything" --algo kmp -j REJECT But not works... With http works very well... Any ideas?? Thanks in advanced.

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[arch-general] ttf-dejavu putting files in the wrong place
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hi The fontconfig for the package should go in /etc/fonts/conf.avail since I was advised to create symbolic links to /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to enable specific features. If this is not the case, the wiki needs to be updated. Thanks guys! Regards Jagan

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[arch-general] Cannot start 0ad (libboost problems)
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hello, when I want to start "0ad", I'm getting the following error message: /usr/bin/pyrogenesis: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_filesystem.so.1.61.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I've already tried to re-install boost and boost-libs. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Updates blocked by ttf-dejavu
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Hello, cannot update packages, as ttf-dejavu has conflicts. ----------- Output ----------- Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang nicht durchführen (In Konflikt stehende Dateien) ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-serif.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans-mono.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-sans.conf existiert im Dateisystem ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/57-dejavu-serif.conf existiert im Dateisystem Fehler sind aufgetreten, keine Pakete wurden aktualisiert. ----------- Translation for output ----------- Error: Could not proceed (files in conflict) ttf-dejavu: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-dejavu-sans-mono.conf exists in file system ... Errors occured, no packages updated ----------- Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] ensuring integrity of sources (was: [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources)
by Patrick Burroughs (Celti) 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:16:21 +0100 Levente Polyak <anthraxx(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 10/31/2016 04:03 PM, Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > > As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at > > least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing > > PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, > > OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to > > sign a simple list sha256sums. > > > > Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that > > contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) > > of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum > > of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? > > > > That is literally a _completely_ different topic that addresses > _completely_ different areas. > You are speaking about authenticating the build scripts itself. That > does not solve _anything_ at all what this thread/topic/todo-list is > about. It really is not. I am not speaking of authenticating the build scripts; both this thread and my proposal are talking about ensuring the integrity of downloaded source files. Specifically, I am speaking of cryptographically signing the checksums for source files downloaded by the build scripts, so that they download what the author of the build script _intended_ them to download. This is presumably the same reason for ensuring sources are downloaded via HTTPS instead of HTTP, where possible — adding a cryptographic authentication to ensure someone building a package does not get sources without being aware they are modified: only embedding signatures in the PKGBUILD is trusting the Arch devs via the pacman keyring or parallel method, instead of the (flawed) CA system. If there is another reason to switch to HTTPS, please — make me aware of it! Also the very first reply in the thread talked about adding upstream signatures instead of changing the protocol, where possible — only not every upstream offers or _wants_ to offer them, so I proposed, in response to a prompt for discussion on the subject in the mail I quoted, a way to make that feasible. > Don't get me wrong: I don't judge about it at all, I'm just saying > that both are fully independent from each other and you should please > open a new thread if you want to discuss this rather then hijack this > thread :) I really, really don't think they're independent from each other, and as I'm not authorised to post on arch-dev-public and didn't expect to draw this out into a conversation, I simply replied to the thread on arch-general. Bowing to peers, however... et voila: a new thread. ~Celti

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[arch-general] kde --> xfce how to remove all packages kde
by Maykel Franco 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Hi, I have migrate my archlinux system desktop kde to xfce. How to remove all kde packages and dependecy? Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] todo list for moving http -> https sources
by Patrick Burroughs (Celti) 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

On Mon, 31 Oct 2016 15:19:40 +0100 NicoHood <arch-dev(a)nicohood.de> wrote: > Using PGP signatures is another discussion, also the hash algorithm. I > think we should discuss that in another post, appart from https. From > my point of view its highly important to use a strong hash function > as its highly important for the source integrity and not only meant > as checksum for corruption detection. And as always: more secure does > not hurt nowadays Not a dev, here, but... I strongly think that source integrity should not rely on hash functions alone. makepkg already includes validation of PGP-signed sources, but it's perhaps not reasonable to expect every upstream to offer signed sources. As a middle ground, I think it would be more reasonable (or at least, less unreasonable) to modify makepkg to allow signing PKGBUILDs, or at least parts of them. For an existing example, OpenBSD's signify(1) uses their cryptographic signature system to sign a simple list sha256sums. Perhaps makepkg could include, e.g., a sha256sumsigs array, that contains a PGP signature (signed by the developer/TU's official key) of the contents (properly serialised by makepkg so there's a minimum of possible ambiguity) of the sha256sums array? ~Celti

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[arch-general] Browsers crashing
by Zorro 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

Hi, On my Arch Linux x32 system most (all) browser regularly crash. I have tried Firefox, Midori, Xombrero. For instance for Xombrero journalctl shows: systemd-coredump[6615]: Process 6478 (xombrero) of user 1002 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 6478: #0 0x00000000b4d0be50 n/a (libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0.so.0) #1 0x00000000a7b8e842 n/a (n/a) Midori behaves similarly. It happens on sites with many scripts and pictures when scrolling down. Firefox crashes at startup. It first displays its own start page, processor load goes to 100% and then firefox disappears leaving a core dump. Do others experience this too? Harm-Jan Zwinderman

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Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??)
by jeff.rollin 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

AFAIK it needn't be the first one on the disk - if memory serves, my Linux laptop came with Windows installed and the UEFI boot partition on the second partition, and the first first few Linux-only installed kept that layout - but it must be VFAT and it must be flagged bootable. Sent from Samsung Mobile on O2 -------- Original message --------From: Juan Carlos Villegas Botero via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Date: 29/10/2016 05:03 (GMT+00:00) To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Cc: Juan Carlos Villegas Botero <juankvillegas(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Single Drive Fresh Install (mbr/grub2) Fails to boot (can boot existing from .iso??) And I also think that I read somewhere that theboot partition (EFI) must be the first one in the disk. On 10/28/2016 10:59 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: > Sorry for the html response :S > > On 10/28/2016 10:58 PM, Juan Carlos Villegas Botero wrote: >> >> I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution, but if you are loading >> from UEFI, the boot partition must be formatted using GPT: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFI_System_Partition >> >> >> On 10/28/2016 09:58 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> After 7 years and 30+ installs, I thought I had seen it all. I have a new >>> (used) laptop, that I put a fresh 1T drive in, partitioned and loaded arch. The >>> laptop can't find the drive to boot? Huh? There is only a single drive in the >>> laptop, but it will only boot if booting from grub hd1 (instead of hd0). >>> >>> The failure isn't a "grub prefix/root" problem, the problem is the laptop >>> cannot even find grub to begin with when it is booting on it's own. The only way >>> booting happens is to boot the installer (from USB) and then "Choose existing >>> OS" and edit the prefix (from 0 -> 1). Which itself is wonky, because booting >>> from USB creates the USB thumb-drive as /dev/sdb to begin with and the hard >>> drive as /dev/sda where it should be. >>> >>> This is a strange laptop, it has 2 hard drive bays (HP Elite 8760w). The bios >>> is configured to scan both (as well as USB and PXE) for boot. I can boot the >>> install .iso without issue, install went fine, but in order to boot the new >>> install, I have to "Boot existing OS" from the .iso menu, then 'tab' and change >>> >>> hd0 0 >>> >>> to >>> >>> hd1 0 >>> >>> (I took the existing Win10 SSD out of the same bay I put this drive in - which >>> is also a simple mbr boot - no UEFI). The setup is dead simple (.iso is sdb below) >>> >>> $ lsblk >>> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT >>> sdb 8:16 1 980M 0 disk >>> ├─sdb2 8:18 1 40M 0 part >>> └─sdb1 8:17 1 792M 0 part >>> sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom >>> sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk >>> ├─sda7 8:7 0 880G 0 part /home >>> ├─sda5 8:5 0 500M 0 part /boot >>> ├─sda1 8:1 0 1K 0 part >>> ├─sda8 8:8 0 1G 0 part >>> └─sda6 8:6 0 50G 0 part / >>> >>> and >>> >>> $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda >>> Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors >>> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes >>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >>> Disklabel type: dos >>> Disk identifier: 0xff7d45aa >>> >>> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type >>> /dev/sda1 2048 1953525167 1953523120 931.5G 5 Extended >>> /dev/sda5 * 4096 1028095 1024000 500M 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda6 1030144 105887743 104857600 50G 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda7 105889792 1951383551 1845493760 880G 83 Linux >>> /dev/sda8 1951385600 1953525167 2139568 1G 82 Linux swap / Solaris >>> >>> grub is installed to /dev/sda with >>> >>> grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda (no errors on install), and >>> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg >>> >>> I've searched for anything related to HP laptops or this model, but only find >>> issues failing to boot the install CD or the newer UEFI pages like >>> >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HP_EliteBook_840_G1. >>> >>> Has anyone encountered something similar? There is no longer a >>> /boot/grub/device.map file installed by grub2, but given the fact the bios isn't >>> seeing the drive at all for boot, I don't see how mapping hd0 to hd1 would make >>> a difference. Does anyone have a link or any idea what the issue may be? I'm >>> happy to send whatever additional information may be required. I'm ssh'ed into >>> the box right now, I just need to get the boot and plasma ironed out. Any ideas? >>> Thanks. >>> >>> >>

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[arch-general] LightScribe
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Oct '16

28 Oct '16

Hi, has somebody successfully used LightsScribe on an up-to-date 64bit Arch Linux install? Yesterday I tried to do it on Arch (4.8.4-1-ARCH 64bit, FWIW threadirqs) and another 64bit distro without success. Later I used another old 64bit bit distro's release for lack of time to lightscribe a DVD. FWIW it works on a very old Ubuntu Quantal 12.10 (kernel 3.6.5-rt14 64bit) install, official unsupported since 2½ years ago. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Sata-pmp
by pete nikolic 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi . This may seem a little strange but here goes . I am running older hardware and am getting . ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) ata2: softreset failed (device not ready) I have read that sata-pmp is the culprit is it possible to disable this from the boot cmdline or is it a kernel rebuild the motherboard has an AMD chipset 00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1) 00:11.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [IDE mode] kernel 4.8.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 20 19:53:59 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux 3 Sata drives no SSD devices . Thanks pete .

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[arch-general] Problem with powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 package
by Roel de Wildt 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hello, After a upgrade from powerdns-recursor-3.7.3-3 to powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 it does not return any dns queries anymore. In the daemon.log is logged: Oct 23 10:50:18 gateway001 pdns_recursor[3008]: Oct 23 10:50:18 Sending SERVFAIL to 10.3.3.134 during resolve of 'google.nl' because: more than 50 (max-qperq) queries sent while resolving ns1.google.com Oct 23 10:50:19 gateway001 pdns_recursor[3008]: Oct 23 10:50:19 Sending SERVFAIL to 10.3.3.134 during resolve of 'google.nl' because: more than 50 (max-qperq) queries sent while resolving ns2.google.com After a downgrade of powerdns-recursor-4.0.3-1 to 3.7.3-3 it is working again, without making changes to /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf. The customized configuration options in /etc/powerdns/recursor.conf: [root@gateway001 powerdns]# grep -v -e "#.*" recursor.conf | grep -e "..*" allow-from=127.0.0.0/8, 10.0.0.0/8, ::1/64, 2001:470:1f15:a09::/64, 2001:470:7b9a::/48 auth-zones=.=/etc/powerdns/root.zone forward-zones=domain.lan=10.3.0.1,home.lan=10.3.0.21 hint-file=/etc/powerdns/named.root local-address=127.0.0.1,10.3.0.253:53,[::1],[2001:470:7b9a:0a03::fd]:53 local-port=5353 log-common-errors=yes loglevel=9 pdns-distributes-queries=yes query-local-address6=:: Do I need something to change to make it working against 4.0.x? I've searched at powerdns.com to options that have changed in the configuration but nothing helped. Kind regards, Roel de Wildt

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[arch-general] Issue with Vim 8.0 and linebreak
by J. C. 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hey hey list, when I use the set linebreak command, Vim actually splits the lines, inserting CRLF or similar. The help says that it shouldn't do that, nor has it on Vim 7.x, which I ran on another Linux system. When just viewing a text, Vim displays it as expected with proper linebreaks and there are no inserts of CRLFs. Does anyone else have a similar issue or is there something else to take into account? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] cp from USB to interal sata uses up all CPU
by J. C. 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hi list, I just noticed this today. I rebooted the system once, since the proper installation last week. Now cp from a USB drive to the internal sata drive eats up all CPU. The cp command is run as root - currently no alternative possible. The USB drive is mounted during system startup. A copy operation on the internal disk in question doesn't suffer from overuse of CPU resources. Copying from the USB disk to the USB disk isn't perfect, but uses only between 20-40% of CPU resources. The CPU frequency governor is set to ondemand. Can anybody suggest a remedy, please? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database
by Alive 4ever 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

I was curious why does 'pacman -Q' operations took longer than 'apt' counterparts. It seems that the local pacman databases are just subdirectories with text files (desc, files) and gzipped text (mtree). No wonder why local pacman databases tend to slow down over time and need to be optimized periodically. For long term pacman development road map, it would be better to use single sql based database for tracking locally installed packages instead of keeping directories of every installed packages. This would provide faster access for local database as sql databases are optimized for fast access.

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Re: [arch-general] Implement sql/sqlite database for pacman local database
by Guus Snijders 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

Op 21 okt. 2016 21:49 schreef "Eli Schwartz via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: > > On 10/21/2016 01:20 PM, Alive 4ever wrote: > [...] road map, it would be better to use > > single sql based database for tracking locally installed packages > > The reason pacman uses a flat file database as opposed to a relational > database, is the result of a deliberate design decision by the lead > pacman developers. One really big advantage of this approach is that you don't have to worry about corrupted databases. It's been a while since I used an RPM based distro, but it always surprised me how quickly the db would fall over and needed to be rebuilt. The beauty of the Arch approach is it's robust simplicity. And yes, there are/were wrappers that use a SQL DB for specific operations. If such a db gets problems, there is nothing to worry about: pacman just keeps working anyway. Just my two (belated) $0.02 Mvg, Guus

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[arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation
by Francis Gerund 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/21/1516230/microsoft-signature-pc- requirements-now-blocks-linux-installation-reports?sbsrc=md It was nice while it lasted. <sigh>

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[arch-general] KVM - *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO?
by David C. Rankin 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Arch devs, I'm receiving an error with KVM (arch guest). The guest installed fine from the 20161001 install media, but between every command, I receive the following error: [TTM] Byffer eviction failed qxl 0000:00:02:0: object_init failed for (402650032, 0x00000001) [drm:qxl_alloc_bo_reserved [qxl1] *ERROR* failed to allocate VRAM BO The guest has 8G of storage gcow2 (default virt-manager settings, except scale on resize of window), 2-cores, 4G of RAM and the partitioning is all on a single / partition. I'm new to KVM and not sure whether this is something I should chase though my hardware (BIOS settings, etc.) or whether this is a KVM issue, the hardware is: AMD FX-8350 Black Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz/32G of RAM/Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 I've followed: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libvirt https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KVM https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU Where do I start in chasing this down? Did I miss a module? The reports by lspcu and zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz are: $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 8 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 21 Model: 2 Model name: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor Stepping: 0 CPU MHz: 1400.000 CPU max MHz: 4000.0000 CPU min MHz: 1400.0000 BogoMIPS: 8038.54 Virtualization: AMD-V $ zgrep CONFIG_KVM /proc/config.gz CONFIG_KVM_GUEST=y # CONFIG_KVM_DEBUG_FS is not set CONFIG_KVM_MMIO=y CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF=y CONFIG_KVM_VFIO=y CONFIG_KVM_GENERIC_DIRTYLOG_READ_PROTECT=y CONFIG_KVM_COMPAT=y CONFIG_KVM=m CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m CONFIG_KVM_MMU_AUDIT=y CONFIG_KVM_DEVICE_ASSIGNMENT=y Modules loaded: $ lsmod | grep -i "virt\|kvm" virtio_net 32768 0 virtio_ring 20480 1 virtio_net virtio 16384 1 virtio_net kvm_amd 69632 0 kvm 516096 1 kvm_amd irqbypass 16384 1 kvm -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Package updates for Long out of Date packages - comment
by Mike Cloaked 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Not being able to post to arch dev public, and gaving seen that there was a list posted by Florian Pritz today with sets of packages that have been long out of date, I thought I would post a comment here about two particular packages that appear in that list. Having done some work privately recently on building refind-efi and gnu-efi-libs, I wanted to note that refind-efi was recently updated in the past few days, and is already at the latest version 0.10.4. I guess that Florian will already be aware of that? Gnu-efi-libs is also on the list but there is a very good reason that it has not been updated from version 3.0.3 to 3.0.4, which is that the newest version does not build for i686, at least when I tried to do that in an x86_64 machine using abs, even though it builds for x86_64, and that package is needed when building refind-efi so that would probably need an upstream fix before it can be brought up to date for both i686 as well as x86_64. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Unlocking the screen through fprintd
by Bennett Piater 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hi all, I have been trying to get fprint working properly with screen lockers for months and have yet to find a working solution. I am using i3wm without DM. Login on the TTY and sudo work properly: They ask me to swipe the finger and then ask for my password if that didn't work. However, every screen locker I have tried that supports PAM at all (i3lock, xlockmore, xscreensaver, kscreenlocker) all ask for my fingerprint AFTER I typed in my password. Is there no way to make them check for my fingerprint first, and then for my password? Does anyone here do something similar? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[arch-general] German manpage for bash
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Oct '16

20 Oct '16

Hi, perhaps I'm "mad", but I wish to get a German manpage for bash and at least an English manpage how to write bash completions. Does anybody know a source for exotic manpages? [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep mad .bashrc alias mad='LANG=de_DE.utf8 man' [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql man-pages | grep bash [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql man-pages-de | grep bash [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash-completion | grep share/man [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql bash | grep share/man bash /usr/share/man/ bash /usr/share/man/man1/ bash /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz bash /usr/share/man/man1/bashbug.1.gz The repositories seem not to provide the desired manpages. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] system crashes when starting network connection
by sivmu 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hello, recently I have come across a weird problem regarding full system crashes under certain conditions. It seems somewhat random but the trigger always includes starting a network connection after sometime with no network connectivity. The only applications that have triggered the issue until now are firefox (after starting normaly) which triggers the second I click on a bookmark to open a website (no network conenction until that second). The other application was mutt, which triggered the moment when I fetched mails and the status bar said "looking up mbox" or something of the like. The result of the trigger is a full system crash, showing the current screen. Using Ctrl+Alt+F1/7 does not work. There is no trace in the logs, neither in the journal nor did I find anything with dmseg. The only way to get out of this is by hard reset. I have tried to replicate the bug but so far I was not succesful. I have no idea how to analyse the issue further. Do you have any hints on how to produce continious detailed logfiles or something of that sort to find what is wrong? Thanks

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[arch-general] fluxbox/xscreensaver xterm unresponsive upon screensaver cancel?
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

All, I'm not sure where to start searching on this problem. I have a server with fluxbox and xscreensaver enabled. If I'm running xterm when the screensaver activates, if I return after a couple of hours, the xterm is unresponsive. (instead of a normal solid black-box cursor, it is a white block cursor with a thin black outline) At this point, the xterm in non-responsive and I must kill the window with the [X] window control (top-right) and restart a new session. I note that if another application is left running, like firefox, then the xterm doesn't seem to hang or disconnect (or whatever it is doing). I don't know whether to chase this as an xterm issue, an xscreensaver issue or a DPMS issue. Has anyone encountered this before? If so, any solutions, or did you narrow it down to one of (xterm, xscreensaver, DPMS)? Thanks for any suggestions. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] sporadic strange PC speaker sounds
by J. C. 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hey hey, occasionally I hear a short "tune" on my pc speaker. It's too unexpected and too short to try lsof to see which process is using the pc speaker. The sound is reminiscent of old console games. It's several short notes, all in a blues pentatonic. this has been an issue right from the installation. The only special daemon running is brltty, which at least didn't use to make such sounds in the past. Can anyone suggest a process or a method of finding it? It only happens a couple of times a day, but this could be a problem when recording with the microphone. On the other hand, I can't turn off the pc speaker, since I rely on BRLTTY and other signals in non recording contexts. Thank you and best wishes, Jeanette -------- When you need someone, you just turn around and I will be there <3

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[arch-general] Can't change tty size
by J. C. 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

Hey hey everyone, I'm new to Arch Linux, but not to Linux as such. I tried to set my terminal to 800x600 (80chars by 30 lines or there abouts), but without success. lspci reports my graphics card as: 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] (rev a2) It's onboard on my asrock n68 s3 ucc . I've tried the following approaches: 1. fbset on the commandline. The following error is reported: $ fbset 800x600-60 ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument The same happens for -70, -72 and -100 and all other modes including 640x480-* modes. 2. On the kernel commandline using vga= option with vga=0x0303 3. With KMS as suggested on other forums and in the Arch Wiki, using: video=VGA-1:800x600@60 This also included inserting the nouveau module into initramfs using mkinitcpio.conf, followed the the appropriate mkinitcpio command. 4. Using GRUB's gfxmode setting and the GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep option. fbset has always reported the resolution/mode as 1024x768 My system doesn't have any GUI installed (yet), if that is of any consequence. Can anyone suggest another route or possible pitfalls with my four ways, please? Thank you. Best wishes, Jeanette -------- Cinderella's got to go <3

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Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync
by niya levi 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

> Today's Topics: > 1. Full system backup with rsync (niya levi) > 2. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 3. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 4. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 5. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > 6. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 7. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 8. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Merlin B?ge) > 9. Re: Full system backup with rsync (Ralf Mardorf) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017211123.2ead397e@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdx > # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > you could simply > > sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ > > from the existing install and run the commands required for your > bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID > based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) does > contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you > remove the old drive. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > > -- Death of ROXTerm > https://sourceforge.net/p/roxterm/discussion/422638/thread/60da6975/ > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 > 21:18:37 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> To: > arch-general(a)archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: <20161017211837.565c38ca@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 > 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> you could simply >> >> sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ >> > >from the existing install and run the commands required for your >> bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID >> based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) >> does contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you >> remove the old drive. > PPS: > > Oops again, > > this would add entries for the new and old drive's , so after > removing the old drive, you need to run the grub auto-thingy again, to > get rid of the entries related to the old drive. > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:28:17 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: Arch general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017212817.2e3f0db9@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> you could simply >> >> sudo systemd-nspawn -bqD /mnt/ >> > >from the existing install and run the commands required for your >> bootloader of choice, assuming this grub auto thingy does generate UUID >> based entries and your fstab (if you still should use fstab at all) >> does contain those, too, since sdx would change from x=b to x=a, if you >> remove the old drive. > Did I misunderstand something? > > Sure, if not both drives should be connected, you need a live media to > install grub. > > My apologies. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:42:03 +0200 > From: Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017214203.d327b9224e06fa29ea6d1276(a)bluenox07.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:20:53 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> wrote: > >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:12:51 +0200 >> From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)rocketmail.com> >> To: Arch general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> >> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync >> >> >> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:11:23 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> I would simply sudo cp -r everything. >> Oops, sudo cp -pr > I would definitely go for rsync, because it's easier to resume if the process > gets interrupted, for whatever reason. > > Also cp -pr does not preserve links or xattrs for example. Maybe cp -ar would > be more appropriate. > > rsync -a is a good start, you might also want to check if you need > -xattrs > -hard-links > -acls > --numeric-ids (if doing edits from a live system) > --sparse > --relative > > And yes, you sould review your fstab. If you use UUIDs in it, then they have > to be adapted of course. > > If you are willing to spend some time reading, here is a good article which > mentions some pitfalls regarding backups. > > Regarding the bootloader: Yes, you would have to install it on the new drive > ofc. Your commands seem okay to me, not sure if you need something more. > > If you have a swap file, create it first, so that it gets not scattered on the > new drive. > > Regards, > > mearon > > > -- Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> ------------------------------ > Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:44:40 +0200 From: Merlin B?ge > <toni(a)bluenox07.de> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: > <20161017214440.8841a03a766414e2342903e9(a)bluenox07.de> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Typo fix: >> -xattrs >> -hard-links >> -acls > Should be of course: > > --xattrs > --hard-links > --acls > > > Regards, > > mearon > > -- Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> ------------------------------ > Message: 8 Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:51:20 +0200 From: Merlin B?ge > <toni(a)bluenox07.de> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux > <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system > backup with rsync Message-ID: > <20161017215120.227223166f93ea4f85163577(a)bluenox07.de> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sorry for the spam. >> If you are willing to spend some time reading, here is a good article which >> mentions some pitfalls regarding backups. > Here is it: http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix > > Should go to bed now... > > > Regards, > > mearon > > > Merlin B?ge <toni(a)bluenox07.de> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 22:24:39 +0200 > From: Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet(a)zoho.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Full system backup with rsync > Message-ID: <20161017222439.0bb24a0b@utnubu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 21:42:03 +0200, Merlin B?ge wrote: >> Also cp -pr does not preserve links or xattrs for example. Maybe cp >> -ar would be more appropriate. > Ok, actually I regularly backup to a tar archive and at least links are > preserved. I seemingly missed to use the --xattrs switch, fortunately > this never caused an issue for me, but I consider to add it to my > scripts soon. > > Thank you for the pointer and my apologies for the false advice. > > Regards, > Ralf > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > arch-general mailing list > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > > ------------------------------ > > End of arch-general Digest, Vol 144, Issue 15 > ********************************************* hi everyone thanks Ralf and Merlin for the pointers i found the backing-up-unix article very informative. the method i choose was with a live disk and arch-chroot, i need to read up on systemd-nspawn more before i use it. the laptop booted up with the swapped drive without any problems apart from a few warnings that some file times was in the future. thanks again shadrock

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[arch-general] archwiki posfix/razor register razor fails
by David C. Rankin 18 Oct '16

18 Oct '16

All, Does https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix#Using_Razor need to be updated? Attempting to register razor fails at: # mkdir /etc/mail/spamassassin/razor # chown spamd:spamd /etc/mail/spamassassin/razor # sudo -u spamd -s $ razor-admin -home=/etc/mail/spamassassin/razor -register Can't locate Razor2/Client/Agent.pm: lib/Razor2/Client/Agent.pm: Permission denied at /usr/bin/vendor_perl/razor-admin line 15. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/vendor_perl/razor-admin line 15. The complained about line in /usr/bin/vendor_perl/razor-admin is: use Razor2::Client::Agent; Is this a perl issue?, spamassassin issue? or razor issue? The razor directory is created with the proper permissions, e.g. # ll /etc/mail/spamassassin/ total 40 drwxr-xr-x 2 spamd spamd 4096 Oct 18 00:28 razor <snip> What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Full system backup with rsync
by niya levi 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

hi everyone i am trying to replace my laptop drive with another, to clone the laptop drive to a second drive i followed 'Full system backup with rsync' from the wiki 1 create a partition table and filesystem on the second drive 2 mount the drive to /mnt 3 rsync -aAXv --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} / /mnt before i swap the drive in the laptop with the second drive do i chroot and run the following commands to configure the bootloader and do i need to do this from installation cd ? # grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sdx # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg shadrock

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[arch-general] ISC bind 9.11 and dyndb-ldap
by Pallissard, Matthew 17 Oct '16

17 Oct '16

Has anyone successfully used LDAP as a dynamic back-end for bind 9.11? Unless I'm reading the release notes/new features pages incorrectly the bind-dyndb-ldap plugin has been rolled into ISC's official release and I shouldn't have to mess around with patching/building it from source. Yet I get the following errors upon startup; named[9937]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' named[9937]: /etc/named.conf:23: unknown option 'dynamic-db' named[9937]: loading configuration: failure named[9937]: exiting (due to fatal error) systemd[1]: named.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Sources. https://www.isc.org/bind-9-11-new-features/ https://kb.isc.org/article/AA-01432/81/BIND-9.11.0-Release-Notes.html Matt Pallissard

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[arch-general] VirtualBox crashes when adding choose existing to SATA controller
by Peter Bauer 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

The VirtualBox gui crashes when you want to add an existing hard disk to a SATA controller. Steps to reproduce: Select a Machine -> Settings -> Storage -> Controller: SATA -> Add hard disk -> Choose existing disk Then you will see the following message when you have started the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager in a terminal: % VirtualBox Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile (VirtualBox:7254): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkwindow-x11.c:5554 drawable is not a native X11 window [1] 7254 segmentation fault VirtualBox The corresponding machine had no hard disk applied. I guess I have to use some Command line to get the machine up again...

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[arch-general] Gnome wayland + urxvt
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

Hello, New Gnome 3.22 which comes with wayland breaks urxvt. I'm using the .xsession to start the daemon (urxvtd) and .Xresources to configure the urxvt. What's the alternative in the new wayland world? How do you configure these now? Thanks -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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Re: [arch-general] howto change change yen character to backslash using xkb
by niya levi 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

> Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:19:50 +0900 > From: Jiachen Yang <farseerfc(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] howto change change yen character to > backslash using xkb > Message-ID: > <CAO+sC=v=w7AXQo76efpBBr1c1+uj9x4o64kd6jqapgh_e5JJMw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Shadrock > > >From my understanding the backslash character can be rendered as Yen mark > in several Japanese fonts. > This is due to compatibility reason for Japanese vendors stole the > backslash codepoint to reuse as Yen mark in their early font design. > For example I can reproduce this using "MS Gothic" font in lxterminal. > You can comfirms this by copying the Yen mark outof lxterminal into > thunderbird/openoffice, > to see whether it still rendered as Yen mark. > > If this is the case, your keyboard setting doesn't need change. > Just change your font to a non-Japanese font (and be careful with > fontconfig fallbacks). > > 2016-10-11 16:48 GMT+09:00 niya levi via arch-general < > arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: > >> hi everyone >> >> i have installed arch with lxde , >> >> the keyboard is setup all the keys are setup except one the backslash key, >> >> in thunderbird and openoffice a backslash char is displayed >> >> but in the lxterminal and geany(ide editor) it displayes as a yen char, >> >> i added Option "XKbOptions" "yen:backslash" >> >> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf >> >> but no change, >> >> is the line i added to 00-keyboard.conf incorrect ? >> >> i understand that the console is not affected by xorg so i'm also >> looking for a solution there as well. >> >> shadrock >> >> thanks >> > -- ---------------------------------------------- ????????????? ? ?? > (YANG Jiachen) ?560-0043???????1-7 E-mail? yang(a)osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp > TEL?080-3853-2770 ----------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 > 17:39:32 +0900 From: Dragon ?floppy1? ryu <knight.ryu12(a)gmail.com> To: > General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] howto change change yen character to > backslash using xkb Message-ID: > <A4C0ECCD-33CD-490F-A20F-E9EC85354DAC(a)gmail.com> Content-Type: > text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp 2016/10/11 17:19?Jiachen Yang via > arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> ??????: >> Hi Shadrock >> >> From my understanding the backslash character can be rendered as Yen mark >> in several Japanese fonts. >> This is due to compatibility reason for Japanese vendors stole the >> backslash codepoint to reuse as Yen mark in their early font design. >> For example I can reproduce this using "MS Gothic" font in lxterminal. >> You can comfirms this by copying the Yen mark outof lxterminal into >> thunderbird/openoffice, >> to see whether it still rendered as Yen mark. >> >> If this is the case, your keyboard setting doesn't need change. >> Just change your font to a non-Japanese font (and be careful with >> fontconfig fallbacks). >> >> 2016-10-11 16:48 GMT+09:00 niya levi via arch-general < >> arch-general(a)archlinux.org>: >> >>> hi everyone >>> >>> i have installed arch with lxde , >>> >>> the keyboard is setup all the keys are setup except one the backslash key, >>> >>> in thunderbird and openoffice a backslash char is displayed >>> >>> but in the lxterminal and geany(ide editor) it displayes as a yen char, >>> >>> i added Option "XKbOptions" "yen:backslash" >>> >>> to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf >>> >>> but no change, >>> >>> is the line i added to 00-keyboard.conf incorrect ? >>> >>> i understand that the console is not affected by xorg so i'm also >>> looking for a solution there as well. >>> >>> shadrock >>> >>> thanks >>> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------- >> ????????????? >> ? ?? (YANG Jiachen) >> ?560-0043???????1-7 >> E-mail? yang(a)osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp >> TEL?080-3853-2770 >> ----------------------------------------------- > Through yes. > But it acts like backslash, so don't worry about them. > hi the notebook is a samsung np n140 with the keyboard set to uk, i changed the font configuration and encoding in geany and got it to display the correct character for the console i added FONT=Lat2-Terminus16 to vconsole.conf, lxterminal now displays the backslash correctly and all the characters look good. thanks shadrock

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[arch-general] systemd problems
by Peter Nabbefeld 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hello, I've got problems with bluetooth (service does not start), which seem to be caused by systemd problems, as several services are "dead". Output of info --test´ is at https://dpaste.de/LC2h Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Transparent gnome-terminal with Wayland
by Christian Kruse 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi there, with GNOME 3.22 defaulting to Wayland I thought I give it a try. All in all it works pretty well. I just miss the possibility to make some windows a bit less opaque. With Xorg I do it using Devil's Pie, but that doesn't seem to work with Wayland. Is there a way to get transparency with GNOME/Mutter on Wayland? Best regards, -- Christian Kruse https://wwwtech.de/about

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[arch-general] networkd IPv6 and tunnel problems
by Iru Cai 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi, I've an VPS whose network is configered with systemd-networkd. The original interface is eth0 configured by eth0-dhcp.network and has an IPv6 address, which however cannot connect to the HE IPv6 network[1]. So I use tunnel broker to get another IPv6 address. I configured this according to [2]. The new IPv6 address works fine. However, the original IPv6 address doesn't work anymore. When I try to connect to my box using the original IPv6 address, I cannot get a response. Is this related to the ``Tunnel=he-ipv6`` line I wrote to eth0-dhcp.network file? How can I solve this problem so that I can have two IPv6 addresses for different uses? Thanks. Iru [1] https://www.bdwm.net/v2/jump-to.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fadminhacks.com%2Fbroke… [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IPv6_tunnel_broker_setup#systemd-netwo…

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[arch-general] libvirt and VLAN
by Peter Nabbefeld 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello, when trying to create a VLAN interface, I'm getting the following error (english translation below): Fehler beim Anlegen der Netzwerkschnittstelle: 'Schnittstelle konnte nicht definiert werden: internal error: Konnte Interface XML Beschreibung nicht finden: unspecified error - aug_save failed on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp6s0.0: mk_augtemp (No such file or directory)' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 88, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createinterface.py", line 1150, in do_install self.interface.install(meter, create=activate) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/interface.py", line 258, in install raise RuntimeError(_("Could not define interface: %s") % str(e)) RuntimeError: Schnittstelle konnte nicht definiert werden: internal error: Konnte Interface XML Beschreibung nicht finden: unspecified error - aug_save failed on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp6s0.0: mk_augtemp (No such file or directory) ---- English ---- Error creating network interface: 'Interface could not be defined: internal error: Could not find Interface XML Description: unspecified error - aug_save failed on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp6s0.0: mk_augtemp (No such file or directory)' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/asyncjob.py", line 88, in cb_wrapper callback(asyncjob, *args, **kwargs) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/createinterface.py", line 1150, in do_install self.interface.install(meter, create=activate) File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/interface.py", line 258, in install raise RuntimeError(_("Could not define interface: %s") % str(e)) RuntimeError: Interface could not be defined: internal error: Could not find Interface XML Description: unspecified error - aug_save failed on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp6s0.0: mk_augtemp (No such file or directory) ---- End of translation ---- The problem here seems to arise from usage of systemd or networking in Arch, as /etc/sysconfig does not exist and XML cannot be created there. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] howto change change yen character to backslash using xkb
by niya levi 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

hi everyone i have installed arch with lxde , the keyboard is setup all the keys are setup except one the backslash key, in thunderbird and openoffice a backslash char is displayed but in the lxterminal and geany(ide editor) it displayes as a yen char, i added Option "XKbOptions" "yen:backslash" to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf but no change, is the line i added to 00-keyboard.conf incorrect ? i understand that the console is not affected by xorg so i'm also looking for a solution there as well. shadrock thanks

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[arch-general] Cannot receive files via bluetooth
by Peter Nabbefeld 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello, it seems some bluetooth has overwritten my bluetooth main.conf, as last change has been on September, 26th. Also, I cannot receive files any more, so I guess, I'd cahnaged sth. there. Unfortunately, I cannot remember, what changes I'd made in the past. :-( Could You probably tell me, what might cause the non-functioning file transfer? Sending files works, btw. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Cups upgrade leaves broken link in multi-user.target.wants: cups.path -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.path
by David C. Rankin 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Devs, I don't know which recent Cups upgrade changed the systemd service name for 'cups.path' to 'org.cups.cupsd.path' without removing the old link when the new package upgrade is performed. This leaves multi-user.target.wants with a broken link, e.g.: $ l1 /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ avahi-daemon.service cronie.service cups.path <--- old link --- dhcpd4.service dovecot.service httpd.service iptables.service lm_sensors.service mysqld.service named.service 'netctl(a)rlf_network\x2dstatic.service' nmbd.service ntpd.service nut-server.service org.cups.cupsd.path <--- new link --- postfix.service remote-fs.target smbd.service spamassassin.service sshd.service vsftpd.service Do I just need to unlink the old broken link? Is this worth any other report? Forum? Let me know -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Supermicro cd/dvd inst error: ARCH_201603 device did not show up after 30 seconds
by David C. Rankin 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

All, First let me explain I have search through the forums, StackExchange site (SuperUser & Linux Unix StackExhange) and read the problems with similar title, 90% of which were USB install and related to failure to have the proper iso name (e.g ARCH_201603) as the image name, the other 10% were related to /dev/disk/by-label not being created and suggest the creation of the directory and symlink of the install device (e.g. /dev/sr0 to /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201603) and exiting the maintenance shell to have the install pickup and continue. Neither of these are a solution. I have one Supermicro server (similar but slightly older) where the install went without issue (H8QM8-2 w/4 Opteron 8360SE). This server is the H8DME-2-LS006 Rev 1.10 w/2 Opteron 8382 processors. (specs: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron2000/MCP55/H8DME-2.cfm) Initially, the boot would hang during pci activation with the line pci 000:00:1a.0: [1a:1e:1100] type -- class 0x060000 I reset the bios to the failsafe defaults, still no joy. The Hardware Detection Tool showed a 3Leaf Systems, Inc.|unknown device at that address, the details of which were: Vendor : 3Leaf Systems, Inc. Product : unknown Class : Host bridge Location : 00:1a.0 PCI ID : 1a1e:1100[0000:0000] Latency : 0 Module : unknown Looking though all the bios options, trying one at a time, I found an option for something related to AQUA (? This board an AQUA were apparently the brainchild of 3Leaf, Inc. now out of business http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1172150 which allowed you to link 32 Opteron processors into a single server) So disabling AQUA completely in the bios allowed the box to boot normally all the way though: :: running hook [archiso_pxe_nfs] :: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201603' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' Waiting 30 seconds for devices.... then the error and I'm dropped to the maintenance shell (e.g. [rootfs /]# ). I've tried the solutions shown at the beginning but I still can't proceed with the remainder of the install. When I create the /dev/disk/by-label directory, create the symlink, and exit the maintenance shell, I get the following error: Buffer I/O error on dev sr0 logical block 0, async page read sr 6:0:1:0 [sr0] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result:hostbyte-0x00 driverbyte=0x08 sr 6:0:1:0 [sr0] tag#0 Sense Key : 0x4 [current] sr 6:0:1:0 [sr0] tag#0 ASC=0x8 ASCQ=0x3 sr 6:0:1:0 [sr0] tag#0 CDB: opcode: 0x28 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=16 So I need help from the smart folks here. I'm not entirely sure what this error is telling me other than there is some UNKNOWN result that prevents the archiso mount. With this AQUA setting completely disabled in the bios, I don't know if this error is related to that setting, but I suspect it is. What could I try to get past this error? Is there some kernel parameter I coud try to pass at boot that might help? Has anyone else seen this or found another solution? Thanks for any advise you can give.. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] kmail and qt5-webengine latest : no mail contentesyukuk
by Caio Prado 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Beleza k -- Caio A. G. Prado URBANA LEGIO OMNIA VINCIT “The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t.” (Douglas Adams) On Oct 10, 2016 5:47 AM, "SET" <nmset(a)netcourrier.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Since today's update installing qt5-webengine-5.7.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz, > no > mail content can be viewed in kmail. Reverting to 5.7.0-3 restores normal > functioning. A long list of errors is output in console : > > ... > #32 0x7fe45aa61df9 <unknown> > #33 0x7fe459eec2f4 QtWebEngine::processMain() > #34 0x0000004006d3 <unknown> > #35 0x7fe458e20291 __libc_start_main > #36 0x00000040072a <unknown> > ... > > Upstream or Arch related, I just want to signal it. >

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[arch-general] kmail and qt5-webengine latest : no mail content
by SET 10 Oct '16

10 Oct '16

Hello, Since today's update installing qt5-webengine-5.7.0-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz, no mail content can be viewed in kmail. Reverting to 5.7.0-3 restores normal functioning. A long list of errors is output in console : ... #32 0x7fe45aa61df9 <unknown> #33 0x7fe459eec2f4 QtWebEngine::processMain() #34 0x0000004006d3 <unknown> #35 0x7fe458e20291 __libc_start_main #36 0x00000040072a <unknown> ... Upstream or Arch related, I just want to signal it.

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[arch-general] How to set up a virtual network / NAT for libvirt?
by Peter Nabbefeld 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Hello, I've been told that I cannot bridge multiple networks using WLAN (as WDS would not have been implemented correctly on all devices), but I've to use a virtual network, brobably with NAT, but I cannot find sufficient advice, neither in the arch wiki nor on the internet - probably just my search terms are incorrect, I don't know. Could You give me advice, what I've to do to get internet access on my QEMU/Windows VM? Default networking does'nt work. Kind regards Peter

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Re: [arch-general] Cannot receive files via bluetooth
by Peter Nabbefeld 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Hello, changes are: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 514464 26. Sep 17:30 bluez-5.42-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 76128 26. Sep 17:30 bluez-libs-5.42-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1007296 26. Sep 17:30 bluez-utils-5.42-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz However, I'm not a bluetooth expert, so I cannot do much other than trying out some minor changes without any advice. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] Fwd: f2fs-tools please update to: 1.7.0 needs libselinux from aur
by Thomas Kowaliczek 08 Oct '16

08 Oct '16

I have asked the Manitainer of f2fs-tools about an upgrade from 1.6.1 to 1.7.0 but he cant do it because f2fs-tools 1.7.0 needs libselinux and that package is only in AUR repo: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libselinux/ I hope im right now here to report this. greetings Thomas

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Re: [arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?
by Maxwell Anselm 02 Oct '16

02 Oct '16

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:12 AM, mike lojkovic via arch-general < arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > I'm in favor of the merge as well. For beginners there are plenty of > Youtube videos that cover common desktop setups. That should be more than > enough for users who are first learning how to setup a Linux distro. Another reason for the merge is to solve a perception problem. The Beginner's Guide was one of the only wiki articles that consolidated all of its information in one place, rather than organizing things into separate articles and references to official documentation. This gave new users the impression that the Arch Wiki is a place for all-in-one hand-holding tutorials. Then they finish installing their system and are shocked and appalled at how "sadistic" and "inaccessible" the rest of the wiki is. The installation guide isn't a ritualistic hazing, it's a "you must be this tall to ride" sign. Max

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[arch-general] PXE - what goes in /srv/tftp if iso mounted loop on /mnt/archiso?
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

All, I've played with setting up a PXE boot server, using dhcpd, apache and tftp. (all on the same box) I've been through the archwiki PXE and Diskless_system wiki pages (as well as a dozen other howtos) and I'm still confused about whether I need to copy parts of the iso to /srv/tftp or whether I can just point to the pxelinux.0 on the iso mounted at /mnt/archiso? E.g. the file now at /mnt/archiso/arch/boot/syslinux/lpxelinux.0 Can I just symlink, e.g. # ln -s /mnt/archiso/arch/boot/syslinux/lpxelinux.0 /srv/tftp/pxelinux.0 Or is there a reason I need to copy files to /srv/tftp and create /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg along with the various options? I would like it to be able to boot EFI and legacy (both i686 and x86_64), which is currently handled by the setup on the iso. Which brings me to the final question about the "filename" to pass in dhcpd.conf. The arch PXE wiki shows: if option architecture = 00:07 { filename "/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi"; } else { filename "/grub/i386-pc/core.0"; } which appears to be for a setup with the files copied under /srv/tftp/grub... The current iso does not use that. Would I instead pass for example: /EFI/boot/bootx64.efi and then for legacy boot one of the vmlinuz specified by another option in dhcpd.conf, or would simply passing a single filename of pxelinux.0 select the right config under /mnt/archiso? All of the examples/tutorials, seem to do it differently from each other. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Samba Upgrade 4.4.5 -> 4.5 Broke mount.cifs share mounting
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '16

01 Oct '16

All, I've run samba in standalone mode since the 2.0.7 days and have been though a few breakages due to version updates along the way. It seems we have hit one again in the 4.4 to 4.5 update. Specifically, the update was: samba-4.4.5 => samba-4.5.0 There were no changes made to smb.conf, but the following attempted mount failed using: mount.cifs //phoinix/samba /mnt/phx -o username=david,uid=1000,credentials=/home/adm/mountcfile,noperm I've been mounting the box like this for the past several years. There are no entries in the logs telling me why the mount fails, it just fails. Has anyone else experienced problems with the samba-4.4.5 => samba-4.5.0 update, and if so, any solutions? I've currently downgraded to samba-4.4.5 and all works as it should. I've checked the old forum thread - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190592 that isn't related to the current issue. I've check the arch and samba wikis, no help. I've also posted to the samba list, still awaiting a reply. So if anyone has any additional information, I would greately appreciate any you can provide. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Building Telegram and libssl
by Sajjad Heydari 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

Hello Guys I have been trying to build telegram based on this: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/doc/building-cmake.… I am in the final part and I keep getting this error: [ 0%] Built target Updater [ 1%] Built target codegen_numbers__qt_moc make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a', needed by 'codegen_numbers'. Stop. make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:457: CMakeFiles/codegen_numbers.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:84: all] Error 2 Now I understand that there is no libssl in arch and it's probably because of that. But how can I fix this issue? Thanks in advance. -- Best Sajjad 'MCSH' Heydari

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Re: [arch-general] Building Telegram and libssl
by Ista Zahn 30 Sep '16

30 Sep '16

On Sep 30, 2016 6:41 AM, "Sajjad Heydari via arch-general" < arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Hello Guys > > I have been trying to build telegram It looks complicated. Take a look at the existing approaches at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=telegram and go from there. -Ista based on this: > https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/blob/master/doc/building-cmake.… > > I am in the final part and I keep getting this error: > [ 0%] Built target Updater > [ 1%] Built target codegen_numbers__qt_moc > make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.a', needed > by 'codegen_numbers'. Stop. > make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:457: CMakeFiles/codegen_numbers.dir/all] > Error 2 > make: *** [Makefile:84: all] Error 2 > > Now I understand that there is no libssl in arch and it's probably because > of that. But how can I fix this issue? > > Thanks in advance. > -- > > Best > Sajjad 'MCSH' Heydari

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Re: [arch-general] Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation
by Kyle Bassett 29 Sep '16

29 Sep '16

This is insane! Apple set the precedent with smart phones, but now we have Trusted Computing Creep in desktops. Used are losing further control of their own devices. Ugh. On 28 Sep 2016 11:27, "D C via arch-general" <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: Wow, is MS desperate or something? On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Francis Gerund via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/09/21/1516230/ microsoft-signature-pc- > requirements-now-blocks-linux-installation-reports?sbsrc=md > > It was nice while it lasted. > > <sigh> -- Public_Key_Block.asc

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2
by Martin Kühne 28 Sep '16

28 Sep '16

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Daniel Micay via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-09-28 at 21:12 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > ... Can [you] give people > enough time to work out a way of doing automated builds, even official > ones if there are developers / trusted users interested in doing it. It > isn't going to get automated away without making it clear that it will > be dropped at a certain date whether or not that's implemented. If that means that I could use this automation to make optimised builds for my Geode less of a hassle, I'm glad you guys are having this conversation. cheers! mar77i

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[arch-general] Removing infinality
by Paul Marwick 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

A short while ago, I installed the infinality bundle and fonts as an experiment. Hit problems with some applications, so I'd like to revert to the standard font handing. But I'm having all sorts of problems doing so. My first attempt was this: fang@altair ~]$ sudo pacman -S --asdeps freetype2 cairo fontconfig lib32-fontconfig lib32-cairo ttf-ubuntu-font-family ttf-droid ttf-liberation ttf-dejavu resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: cairo and cairo-infinality-ultimate are in conflict. Remove cairo-infinality-ultimate? [y/N] y :: fontconfig and fontconfig-infinality-ultimate are in conflict. Remove fontconfig-infinality-ultimate? [y/N] y :: freetype2 and freetype2-infinality-ultimate are in conflict. Remove freetype2-infinality-ultimate? [y/N] y :: lib32-cairo and lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate are in conflict. Remove lib32-cairo-infinality-ultimate? [y/N] y :: lib32-fontconfig and lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate are in conflict. Remove lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate? [y/N] y :: ttf-dejavu and ttf-dejavu-ib are in conflict. Remove ttf-dejavu-ib? [y/N] y :: ttf-droid and ttf-droid-ib are in conflict. Remove ttf-droid-ib? [y/N] y :: ttf-liberation and ttf-liberation-ib are in conflict. Remove ttf-liberation-ib? [y/N] y :: ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-ubuntu-font-family-ib are in conflict. Remove ttf-ubuntu-font-family-ib? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: ibfonts-meta-base: removing ttf-dejavu-ib breaks dependency 'ttf-dejavu-ib' :: ibfonts-meta-base: removing ttf-liberation-ib breaks dependency 'ttf-liberation-ib' :: ibfonts-meta-extended-lt: removing ttf-droid-ib breaks dependency 'ttf-droid-ib' :: ibfonts-meta-extended-lt: removing ttf-ubuntu-font-family-ib breaks dependency 'ttf-ubuntu-font-family-ib' :: lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate: removing freetype2-infinality-ultimate breaks dependency 'freetype2-infinality-ultimate I asked around, and had a suggestion that I should remove ibfonts-meta-base ibfonts-meta-extended-lt and lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate first. Tried that, and got this result: |fang@altair ~]$ sudo pacman -R ibfonts-meta-base ibfonts-meta-extended-lt lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: ibfonts-meta-extended: removing ibfonts-meta-extended-lt breaks dependency 'ibfonts-meta-extended-lt' :: lib32-fontconfig-infinality-ultimate: removing lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate breaks dependency 'lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate' :: lib32-harfbuzz: removing lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate breaks dependency 'lib32-freetype2' So I'm stuck. I really need to get back to the standard font rendering, but so far I've been unable to find a way of getting past the conflicts. I really don't want to reinstall - this Arch install has been around for several years, and I'd much rather find a way of fixing it. Can anyone tell me how to get back to normal? Paul. |

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[arch-general] Virtualbox pxe boot fails and freeze system
by Maykel Franco 27 Sep '16

27 Sep '16

Hi, I have a virtualbox, version 5.1.6. When boot the VM from PXE, fails with error unknown and my archlinux freeze... Anybody with these problem?? Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory
by niya levi 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

> Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:32:07 +0100 > From: niya levi <niyalevi(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory > Message-ID: <198a7e51-313b-6e03-ada4-b0727c6afe86(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi everyone > while reinstalling arch on raspberry pi memory stick i had the two > partitions mounted on mount points called root and boot in my home dir > on my laptop, > i intended to delete everything in root and boot in my home directory > but lost my mind and rm -rf /boot/* and /root/* instead, > is there a easy way to restore files to boot and do i just fix the root > user directory with useradd ? > shadrock > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:46:03 +0200 > From: Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory > Message-ID: > <CAEk1YH7_MGxD-eWR0dm+xo=nT9DU4jT4Ng0tKnwd_mxdsyHi7w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > /root really shouldn't have anything of importance, unless you left it > there - in which case, you can't recover it > > /boot has the kernel, the initramfs - which can be recreated if you > reinstall the "linux" package > > and probably some bootloader files that you can also reinstall > depending on the boot loader: > - grub-install > - extlinux > - bootctl > > -- damjan ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 23 Sep > 2016 14:46:46 -0300 From: Fernando <fernando(a)softwareperonista.com.ar> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Cc: niya levi <niyalevi(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to > restore root and boot directory Message-ID: > <1474652806.1050.0(a)smtp.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=utf-8; format=flowed El vie, 23 de sep 2016 a las 2:32 , niya > levi via arch-general <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> escribi?: > Hi! First you have to reinstall filesystem package. > > To list the packages that contains files in /boot use. You have to > reinstall those packages. > > pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/" > > and then configure your bootloader. > > Fernando Fernandez > Software Peronista >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:55:53 +0200 > From: J?r?me M. Berger <jeberger(a)free.fr> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory > Message-ID: <ns44sr$tu5$1(a)blaine.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 09/23/2016 07:46 PM, Fernando wrote: >> To list the packages that contains files in /boot use. You have to >> reinstall those packages. >> >> pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/" >> > Or pacman -Qo /boot, which gives me: > > /boot/ is owned by filesystem 2015.09-1 > /boot/ is owned by intel-ucode 20160714-1 > /boot/ is owned by linux 4.7.4-1 > /boot/ is owned by linux-lts 4.4.21-1 > /boot/ is owned by syslinux 6.03-6 > > So you need to reinstall at least "filesystem" and "linux" plus > whatever booloader you're using. Reinstalling "linux" should run > mkinitcpio automatically but your bootloader will need to be reconfigured. > > Jerome > -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: > jeberger(a)jabber.fr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text > attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: > application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital > signature URL: > <https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/attachments/20160923/ed1…> > ------------------------------ hi everyone thanks for all the replies i did pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/" which gave me the following grub /boot/ grub /boot/grub/ grub /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/ linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux so i installed grub and linux then ran grub-install /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg i haven't rebooted yet as i have to backup some stuff and i'm in the middle of a project i need to complete. will report back when i reboot the laptop, again thanks for all the advice. shadrock

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2
by Martin Kühne 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Christian Hesse <list(a)eworm.de> wrote: > We could just keep i686 as-is for maximum compatibility. Let's take a > realistic look at the things: Most users run i686, so why bother and optimize > i686 - just to save some CPU cycles for a minority? > (I would even wast CPU cycle rebuilding a bunch of packages... pacman tells > me the effected boxes have 399 packages installed.) Except you could just happen to have it backwards. The few non-sse2 32 bit cpus that run arch could be served their own specialised distribution, while a majority benefits from saving said few cpu cycles. cheers! mar77i

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[arch-general] arch-audit: pkg-audit-like tool for Arch Linux
by Andrea Scarpino 24 Sep '16

24 Sep '16

Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce my tiny project named arch-audit[1]. It parses the CVE wiki page[2] and reports which packages on your system are affected by a vulnerability and if a fixed version for that package is already available. Something like pkg-audit on FreeBSD, but not so powerful (yet!!!). I just made it and released, so it's more than alpha and your feedbacks are needed! I hope you find it useful. Cheers [1] https://github.com/ilpianista/arch-audit [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CVE -- Andrea Scarpino (former) Arch Linux Developer

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[arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory
by niya levi 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

Hi everyone while reinstalling arch on raspberry pi memory stick i had the two partitions mounted on mount points called root and boot in my home dir on my laptop, i intended to delete everything in root and boot in my home directory but lost my mind and rm -rf /boot/* and /root/* instead, is there a easy way to restore files to boot and do i just fix the root user directory with useradd ? shadrock

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[arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users
by Francis Gerund 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

For beginners and new users, here is how to install Arch GNU/Linux, without the agony: 1) http://sourceforge.net/projects/architect-linux 2) http://arch-anywhere.org And here is a "user-centric" alternative to Arch GNU/Linux: http://antergos.com You are welcome.

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[arch-general] What happened to the Beginner's Guide?
by David C. Rankin 23 Sep '16

23 Sep '16

Archdevs, I went to review the Beginner's Guide and it was no longer listed on the main page. I then specifically searched for it, found it in the topics, and then was redirected to the bare-bones "Install" page. What happened to the Beginner's Guide? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Error when starting Opera
by Francis Gerund 21 Sep '16

21 Sep '16

Hi. Just installed Opera 40.0.2308.54-1. Upon starting Opera, a dialog box pops up saying: --------------------------------------------------------------- "Enter password to unlock you login keyring The password you use to log in to your computer no longer matches that of your login keyring." Password: < password input field >" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After about 5 seconds, a grey window pops up, saying: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "“Loading... - Opera” is not responding. You may choose to wait a short while for it to continue or force the application to quit entirely." ... followed by two buttons, "Force quit" and "Wait". Clicking "Force quit" exits Opera; clicking "Wait" simply makes the window go away, with Opera started as expected. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Putting in my user password results in the message "The unlock password was incorrrect." If I click cancel, whether or not I enter a password, either way, Opera starts up, with no other (apparent) problem. Changing the user password, and even changing it back, does noting to change the login error message. I did a lengthy configuration of Opera, then re-started it. Same error. I re-installed Opera using pacman -Rsn. Same error. I cound not find any reference to this error in the forums, or any bug report. (Not saying it might not exist, it just did not see it.) This error does not occur for any other application program, including those that require entering a password for elevated privileges, to start. Any ideas?

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[arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it
by Bennett Piater 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Hi all, I've had a very elusive and frustrating problem this week and don't know where to look anymore. Maybe one of you has an idea? :) Since 2016-09-04, i3wm freezes every once and a while; often after waking the screen (even if it wasn't locked), a few times also directly or a few minutes after logging in. I have not yet found a conclusive pattern. The freeze is complete; no reaction to mouse or keyboard activity, not even in the debug logs. However, I can interact with the focused window just fine (I obviously cannot change focus). i3 also doesn't react to IPC calls (tried with i3-msg). Up to now, I had sent SIGTERM to important programs that had been running and KILLed i3 (it doesn't react to SIGTERM, either). Today, in my frustration, I tried sending SIGCONT instead. To my surprise, i3 immediately sprung back to life. What I do not understand is that i3 hasn't been updated in a while, let alone since Sunday. FWIW, I am running the fork i3-gaps instead of i3, but that is very close to upstream and has been stable forever. I posted /var/log/pacman.log from the day when it started on my server [0]. Does anyone have any clue what could be causing this? Thanks, Bennett [0]: https://vps1.piater.name/commie/#dvm1K6lg -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[arch-general] .xsession-errors - can't startx with that file
by Dutch Ingraham 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

Hello all: TL;DR: One Arch installation will allow redirecting startx's stderr to a file, one won't. What is the difference between systems? I am having an issue with logging xsession errors. Specifically, if I create an .xsession-errors file in /home/user, then startx with <<startx 2> /home/user/.xsession-errors>>, startx will write to the file, but otherwise error-out and not actually start X. The error, in its entirety, is: "X.Org X Server 1.18.4 Release Date: 2016-07-19 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.5.4-1-ARCH x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux archlinux 4.7.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 15 15:24:29 CEST 2016 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=763598c6-08b4-44d9-9b21-d4dbd558b107 rw Build Date: 19 July 2016 05:54:24PM Current version of pixman: 0.34.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/home/dutch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Sep 17 20:01:10 2016 (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" (EE) Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied) (EE) (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/dutch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. (EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error" For the correctness of the specific incantation <<startx 2> /home/user/.xsession-errors>>, see these [1][2] threads. In addition, that command works on any number of other distros (Fedora, Gentoo, etc., and even OpenBSD). But here is the real kicker - I have another computer with a very similar Arch installation, i.e., x86_64, fully up-to-date, "full" KDE and other window managers installed, using identical (actually copied from machine-to-machine) .xinitrc files. The above error only happens on one machine, and happens regardless of whether I am trying to start Plasma or just DWM, Awesome, i3, or whatever. Searching for that specific error does return a few hits [3][4], but none of those issues/remedies are similar to mine. Any ideas on how I can determine the differences between the two Arch installations that are causing only one to error-out when redirecting stderr to a file? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143068 [2] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/where-is-~- xsession-errors-log-867498/ [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219 [4] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192329

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2
by LoneVVolf 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote: > Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in > 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad > experiences with computers, I find it hard to believe anyone has that > old PC that happens to run Arch. > > We used to advertise ourselves as optimized for modern processors. Our > "i786" really should include SSE3. For the same reason I would not > complain about requiring SSE4 instructions for amd64. > >> In the 2000's AMD and Intel followed different paths with extensions. Checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions and its links suggest AVX was the point where the paths became the same again. AVX was designed in 2008 , but first procesoors that supported it were launched in 2011 . My 2009 AMD opteron 2378 "Barcelona" processor advertises SSE, SSE2, 3DNow & 3DNowExt . I couldn't find specifics about 3DNowExt , but chances are big that software compiled with SSE3 , SSSE3 or SSE4 will crash on pre-2011 AMD processors. LW

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[arch-general] pkgstats api
by Chris Stryczynski 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

Apologies I sent this through yesterday but without any subject so not sure if it gets picked up. I was wondering if there is an API / JSON endpoint for pkgstats? Saves me having to scrape the page! I'm interested to build a packages / aur frontend.

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[arch-general] Strange file in home directory
by Sławek Kapłoński 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

Hello, I found recently strange (for me) file in my home directory. Name of this file is "on": [13:45:14] slawek@dell:~$ file on on: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian, 64-bit I think that it is created by Mutt because when I removed it and started Mutt then it was created again. Do You know what is this file for, what creates it (is it really Mutt) and maybe how can I disable creation of this file? -- Best regards / Pozdrawiam Sławek Kapłoński slawek(a)kaplonski.pl

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Chris Stryczynski 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

I was wondering if there is an API / JSON endpoint for pkgstats? Saves me having to scrape the page! I'm interested to build a packages / aur frontend.

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[arch-general] GNU Privacy Assistant window sizing problem?
by Francis Gerund 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

Hello. Running Arch x86-64, Gnome 3, Linux 4.7.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 15 15:24:29 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux. Screeen is 15" 1366 x 768, 60 Hz. In GNU Privacy Assistant, when I open the "backend preferences" window, it opens with the "basic" options selected, correctly sized. But when I then select either the "advanced" or "options", the window expands well below the lower screen edge. Some of the options are then hidden, and I can not seem to find a way to resize the "backend preferences" window. Since the bottom row of buttons is completely hidden, I can not even change the setting that are visible, except the "basic" options. I have searched the forum, wiki, and online, without success. Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, found a solution?

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[arch-general] Mirror issue
by Jordyn Carattini 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

I keep getting http error 502 from the archlinux.polymorf.fr, I've been getting this error for the past month. Also sorry if I'm not posting this in the right place.

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[arch-general] Not being able to upgrade system because of catalyst-hook
by Foxtrot Mike 14 Sep '16

14 Sep '16

Hi all, For almost a month, I have been unable to upgrade my system (# sudo pacman -Su), apparently because catalyst-hook won't work with Linux 4.7. I thought that in a few weeks atmost, catalyst-hook would be 'upgraded' to support Linux 4.7, but still no luck. I am a beginner, so may be I am missing something. I couldn't find any such info on archWiki. Here's how I have been upgrading my system for the last year: ===================================================================== ===================================================================== >sudo pacman -Syy [sudo] password for foxtrot: :: Synchronizing package databases... xorg117 25.0 KiB 60.3K/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100 catalyst 12.3 KiB 616K/s 00:00 [##############################################################] 100 core 119.4 KiB 64.3K/s 00:02 [##############################################################] 100 extra 1760.5 KiB 70.5K/s 00:25 [##############################################################] 100 community 3.6 MiB 116K/s 00:32 [##############################################################] 100 multilib 172.6 KiB 119K/s 00:01 [##############################################################] 100 >sudo pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libdbus with core/dbus? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: catalyst-hook: installing linux (4.7.2-1) breaks dependency 'linux<4.7' ===================================================================== ===================================================================== BTW I am using xorg117. Any help would be appreciated! Regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] Arch svntogit/package.git what is Diffstat bargraph displaying? Lines?
by David C. Rankin 12 Sep '16

12 Sep '16

All, After updates, I was investigating the removal of Arch-specific FT2_SUBPIXEL_HINTING from freetype2 (enabling infinality patch) and I was looking at the changes on the svntogit/package.git page, e.g. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/diff/?h=packages/freetype2&… At the top of the page there is a Diffstat graph showing a horizontal bar graph of red/green bars on the right side of the graph, e.g. Diffstat -rw-r--r-- trunk/0001-Enable-table- validation-modules.patch 18 ====== -rw-r--r-- trunk/0002-Enable-subpixel- rendering.patch 10 ==== -rw-r--r-- trunk/0003-Enable-infinality- subpixel-hinting.patch 27 ========= -rw-r--r-- trunk/0003-Make-subpixel-hinting- mode-configurable.patch 88 ===========.. -rw-r--r-- trunk/0004-Keep-default-interpreter- version-as-35.patch 29 ==========... -rw-r--r-- trunk/PKGBUILD 36 ==========... -rw-r--r-- trunk/freetype2.install 15 ===== -rw-r--r-- trunk/freetype2.sh 12 ==== ^ ^ | | +---------------+ this information What is 'this information' on the graph showing? Lines added/deleted? Votes for change? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] out of date packages - an observation
by Genes Lists 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

After the recent dicsussion(s) around this topic I thought it worthwhile to go through where things stand. I went through all the packages flagged out of date on the website and focused on what I viewed as the "more important" ones (this is IMHO of course ... I'm sure others have differnt views). Regardless of how out of date a package is, if a new package was in testing I did not include it here. Of those that passed my sufficiently important filter: I found only 2 packages more than 1 week old and 3 less than a week - 2 of which were released upstream today. One is more than 9 months out of date (refind-efi). Here's what I found orderd most out of date at the top.. refind-efi - Arch vesion 0.9.2 as of 9/22/2015 - Upstream has 0.10.3 from 4/24/2016 - this one is very out of date - - be good to have this updated. openssl - Arch has 1.0.2.h - Out of date as of 8/25/2016 - 1.1.0 was released upstream on 8/25/2016 dkms - Out of date as of 9/1/2016 - Arch Package website refers to dell.com should be changed to https://github.com/dell/ util-linux - 2.28.2 was released today - - arch has 2.28.1 released 8/11/2016 linux - 4.7.3 is out of date as of today -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] Fwd: [Tsukuba-ftp-servers:2874] About ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp
by Dragon ryu 08 Sep '16

08 Sep '16

Seems ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp died. Comfirmed by email from Kouhei Takahashi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kohei Takahashi <flast(a)tsukuba.wide.ad.jp> Date: 2016-09-08 23:25 GMT+09:00 Subject: Re: [Tsukuba-ftp-servers:2874] About ftp.tsukuba.wide.ad.jp To: Dragon ryu <knight.ryu12(a)gmail.com> Cc: tsukuba-ftp-servers(a)tsukuba.wide.ad.jp Hi Dragon, On 09/08/2016 09:18 PM, Dragon ryu wrote: > Seems your server died. not responding anything. Yes, the server crashes harder. So, I'm trying to repair it, ASAP. I apologize your inconvenience. Thanks, Kohei Takahashi

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[arch-general] sddm autologin doesn't immediately after boot - but systemctl restart sddm solves the problem. Timing issue - missing systemd service dependencies?
by Damian Nowak 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Howdy! My sddm doesn't automatically log me in for a week now. It errors out with: > Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus instead? Picture of the error here: https://x.virtkick.com/51c5d57e633799d45cf438026b4493ec87b1d19d/sddm-autolo… All I need to do after getting this error is switch to tty and call `systemctl restart sddm`. It feels like a timing issue - D-Bus not coming up on time. Does sddm systemd service correctly depend on everything it needs to successfully login? Currently: > After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty(a)tty1.service plymouth-quit.service I tried adding After=dbus.service and Depends=dbus.service but it didn't help. 1. Can anyone check if it's reproducible on their side? 2. Any ideas how to improve the service unit file to depend on the appropriate things? [Autologin] Relogin=false Session=plasma.desktop User=USERNAME [General] HaltCommand= RebootCommand= [Users] MaximumUid=65000 MinimumUid=1000 Thanks, Damian Nowak

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[arch-general] bitcoin-qt out-of-date
by Diego Viola 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hello, I flagged this package 10 days ago as out of date and I've been trying to contact the maintainer about it, with no response. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/bitcoin-qt/ Is there any problem with updating this? Any reasons for the delay or lack of response? Thanks, Diego

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[arch-general] version update request for openconnect
by MohanR 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hi, Please update openconnect from version 7.06 to 7.07. There is one bug 7.06 (http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openconnect-devel/2016-June/ 003727.html) which was fixed in 7.07. I reported a bug, but it got closed saying I can only report bug and not a update request. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50535?string=&project=1&search_name=&ty pe%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5D=&pri%5B0%5D=&due%5B0%5D=&reported%5B0%5D=&cat%5B0 %5D=&status%5B0%5D=&percent%5B0%5D=&opened=mohan43u&dev=&closed=&duedat efrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&openedfrom=&openedto=&closedf rom=&closedto= I hope someone will take this to the current maintainer of openconnect. Thanks, Mohan R

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[arch-general] Package versioning
by Magnus Therning 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

When packaging Haskell packages there's a bit of a twist to the version numbers that I'm looking for a solution to. Upstream versions have two numbers, a version number (set by the upstream developer) and an "xrev" that's bumped when minor changes are made to packages on Hackage (Haskell's CPAN/PyPi/RubyGems/...). Then the packaging has a release. So far I've been using versions of the form <upstream version>_<xrev>-<pkgrel> But that isn't good enough, `pacman` has for instance reported that's ~~~ warning: haskell-vector-algorithms: local (0.7_1-2) is newer than haskell-core (0.7.0.1_0-1) warning: haskell-monadrandom: local (0.4_2-1) is newer than haskell-core (0.4.1_0-1) ~~~ which isn't correct since 0.7 < 0.7.0.1 0.4 < 0.4.1 It seems `pacman` treats underbar like a period, which isn't at all what I was hoping for. I'm hoping for some help to find something better. Any suggestions on how I should do this properly? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem. — John Tukey

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[arch-general] extra repository is messed up and broken AGAIN
by Sebastian Lau 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi folks, again, some trusted user destroyed our extra repository again. I heard rumors about who did it, but I can not verify it yet. Maybe he has more than one account and he is destroying arch. At the moment I'm trying to clean up my beloved collaborative Arch, but it is not patchable at the moment. Why the fuck is gtk software depending on a bunch of kdelibs? A log from just before: sebastian@nullptr ~ % ps gwenview resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: kinit will be installed before its kio dependency Package (34) New Version Net Change Download Size extra/attica-qt5 5.25.0-1 0.84 MiB extra/baloo 5.25.0-1 1.91 MiB extra/convertlit 1.8-7 0.16 MiB extra/ebook-tools 0.2.2-3 0.07 MiB extra/gpgmepp 16.04.3-1 0.77 MiB extra/kactivities 5.25.0-1 0.46 MiB extra/kbookmarks 5.25.0-1 0.85 MiB extra/kcompletion 5.25.0-1 0.45 MiB extra/kcrash 5.25.0-1 0.05 MiB extra/kdbusaddons 5.25.0-1 0.17 MiB extra/kded 5.25.0-1 0.13 MiB extra/kdelibs4support 5.25.0-1 17.36 MiB extra/kemoticons 5.25.0-1 2.23 MiB extra/kfilemetadata 5.25.0-1 0.68 MiB extra/kglobalaccel 5.25.0-2 0.50 MiB 0.13 MiB extra/kidletime 5.25.0-1 0.12 MiB extra/kinit 5.25.0-1 0.49 MiB extra/kio 5.25.0-1 20.58 MiB extra/kitemmodels 5.25.0-1 0.35 MiB extra/kjobwidgets 5.25.0-1 0.55 MiB extra/kparts 5.25.0-1 0.86 MiB extra/kservice 5.25.0-1 1.19 MiB extra/ktextwidgets 5.25.0-1 1.37 MiB extra/kunitconversion 5.25.0-1 8.30 MiB extra/kwallet 5.25.0-1 2.05 MiB extra/kxmlgui 5.25.0-1 3.61 MiB extra/libkdcraw 16.04.3-1 0.12 MiB extra/libkipi 16.04.3-1 0.32 MiB extra/libraw 0.17.2-1 2.14 MiB extra/libzip 1.1.3-1 0.23 MiB extra/lmdb 0.9.18-1 0.51 MiB extra/solid 5.25.0-1 2.10 MiB extra/sonnet 5.25.0-1 2.06 MiB extra/gwenview 16.04.3-1 4.43 MiB Total Download Size: 0.13 MiB Total Installed Size: 78.03 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] ^C Interrupt signal received I wished, I had the time to clean it now with the other Trusted users, but I'm no TU yet. I talked to a person who gave in, it was his plan to do it like this and we had this problem before. At the moment I cannot come into ts or irc, but some friends of mine will. Please find this fucked up dependency circles, fix them, block him and so on. I think, it could be the same person half a year before. Bye and good luck, nullptr_t

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[arch-general] Laptop cooling fan does not work
by Peter Nabbefeld 28 Aug '16

28 Aug '16

Hello, since my latest update (containing linux kernel) my cooling fan does not work any more - what can I do? Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] [PATCH] core/linux: symlink current documentation on kernel upgrade
by Quint Guvernator 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

Hi all, Currently, Linux documentation provided by the linux-docs package is installed in /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/Documentation. We like documentation in /usr/share/doc 'round these parts, as per the Packaging Guidelines. Additionally, symlinking in the package means that users always have a path to the latest kernel documentation, without having to fiddle around with uname. Patch attached. Please let me know if I should be submitting this on a different list, or if there are formatting problems. Cheers, Quint

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[arch-general] interested in becoming a TU
by Storm Dragon 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Howdy, I am interested in becoming a TU. I have several packages in the AUR, including magic-wormhole{,-git}, rndsig, libsonic-git, rsgames, etc. My main area of interested, in maintinaing packages as a TU, would be accessibility related items, E.G. orca, speech-dispatcher, espeakup. Before I actually apply, I'd like to get some feedback from an already existing TU, to make sure I have the required skillset, and just get some general pointers. If anyone is willing to help and eventually sponsor me, please contact me off list. Thanks Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Twitter and Facebook are so ... yesteryear. Get your 2MB Social account TODAY! http://2mb.social/main/register Get paid to read email: http://is.gd/feRiB "Brains for dinner, brains for lunch, brains for breakfast, brains for brunch. Brains at every single meal, why can't we have some guts?" The Misfits - Braineaters

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[arch-general] Unable to release package
by Nicola Squartini 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Hi, Trying to release electron-1.3.4-1, I issued /community/db-update on repos.archlinux.org but I get: ==> WARNING: Repo [community] (i686) is already locked by sourceballs. -> Retrying in 10 seconds... repeating. Is there something wrong with the db? Nicola

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[arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?
by Hunter Connelly 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Recently, Microsoft released the source code for PowerShell under the MIT license. Here's the link for that. https://github.com/powershell/powershell I was wondering what you guys thought about it. Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should be in the main repos, what this might mean for the future, etc.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Signoff report for [testing] - KDE pacman install errors
by Genes Lists 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

On Sun, 2016-08-21 at 08:07 +0000, Arch Website Notification wrote: > === Signoff report for [testing] === > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ > > There are currently: > * 402 new packages in last 24 hours > * 0 known bad packages > * 0 packages not accepting signoffs > * 12 fully signed off packages > * 414 packages missing signoffs > * 4 packages older than 14 days > > Tried to update today but I am getting the following errors: :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace akonadi-contact with testing/akonadi-contacts? [Y/n] :: Replace kdegraphics-kolourpaint with testing/kolourpaint? [Y/n] :: Replace kdesdk-cervisia with testing/cervisia? [Y/n] :: Replace kdeutils-kdf with testing/kdf? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... :: kldap and kio-pim are in conflict. Remove kio-pim? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: kde-meta-kdegraphics: removing kdegraphics-kolourpaint breaks dependency 'kdegraphics-kolourpain t' :: kde-meta-kdesdk: removing kdesdk-cervisia breaks dependency 'kdesdk- cervisia' :: kde-meta-kdeutils: removing kdeutils-kdf breaks dependency 'kdeutils-kdf' Trying to say 'no' to kde-pim leads to this error: :: kldap and kio-pim are in conflict. Remove kio-pim? [y/N] error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: kldap and kio-pim are in conflict -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] Is ncurses in Arch Linux out-dated?
by Chi Hsuan Yen 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

Hi Archers, ncurses 6.0 is released in 2015/08/08. It has some bugs and part of them are fixed. For example, I was just hit by http://bugs.python.org/issue27323. On bug-ncurses mailing list there are some patch versions. The latest one is 6.0-20160820: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2016-08/msg00010.html. If I want to fix the aforementioned Python issue, should Arch Linux 1) Bump the ncurses package to 6.0-20160820, or 2) Just backport the relevant patch For 1), I just need to flag to package out-of-date, for 2), I have to submit a bug and request backporting. Any similar cases in other packages? Best, Yen Chi Hsuan

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[arch-general] Pacman Hooks
by Jayesh Badwaik 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

Hi, I have been trying to write some hooks for my pacman and so, I search the internet for it. I could not find any documentation on it, apart from some examples and a blog post on Allan McRae's blog. I was wondering if there is such a documentation or not? -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

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[arch-general] Mutt Compile-time Configuration
by Dutch Ingraham 20 Aug '16

20 Aug '16

Hello all: Mutt 1.7.0 was just released.[1] One new feature is the sidebar, which up to now required a patched version of mutt from the AUR. However, it is a compile-time option and it appears as though the Arch packager has decided to not enable it (my muttrc will throw an error if I try and configure the sidebar.) Can someone more familiar than myself explain why a packager would decide to do this? In other words, what are the general considerations for including certain options at compile-time? (In this particular case, the sidebar would not be turned on until configured in the muttrc, so compiling the option into the package would not affect those who do not want it.) Thanks for your replies. [1]https://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=147154326009383

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 142, Issue 29
by ITwrx.org 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

On 08/19/2016 10:45 AM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:27:16 -0400 > From: Hunter Connelly <blueblur112198(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 142, Issue 24 > Message-ID: <3A86BC26-0A26-4F9A-9E41-E123728F4C11(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > I was just wondering about what people thought about having MS code in the repos. I remember Skype used to be in multilib, and that wasn't even open source. I didn't expect this much of a reaction. Sorry if this isn't the place to discuss things like that. i was purposefully trying to make it clear that i was not trying to give you a hard time(maybe i did a poor job of that), while at the same time responding with my honest perspective on the matter b/c i felt the topic was important. I, generally speaking, don't agree with having any proprietary software in official repos but i'm not the one doing the work/packaging and i've never really even looked into it well enough to state an educated opinion, so i've never said anything about that, IIRC. I have no hard feelings towards you, it's hard for any of us to say anything that won't be taken wrong in or be in violation of someone's delicate sensibilities in a mailing list, especially with heated topics. It might be more accepted to post about aur packages in aur-general, though. I unsubscribed to aur-general due to discussions on software i wasn't using, etc.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 142, Issue 24
by ITwrx.org 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

On 08/18/2016 08:49 PM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Opinions on PowerShell? (Hunter Connelly) > 2. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Kyle Terrien) > 3. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) > 4. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Kyle Terrien) > 5. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Hunter Connelly) > 6. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) > 7. Re: Opinions on PowerShell? (Eli Schwartz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:30:27 -0400 > From: Hunter Connelly <blueblur112198(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell? > Message-ID: <20160818233015.GA27297(a)Hunters-Laptop.fios-router.home> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Recently, Microsoft released the source code for PowerShell under the MIT license. > Here's the link for that. > > https://github.com/powershell/powershell > > I was wondering what you guys thought about it. > Specifically, if any of you will be using it, if you think it should be in the main repos, what this might mean for the future, etc. > Nothing personal to the OP(maybe this wasn't intentional flamebait), but I, myself, don't want to hear "news"/propaganda about MS open source trapware in an Arch Linux mailing list or anywhere else for that matter. I see it's been uploaded it to aur. great. I won't be using it or voting for it's inclusion in official repos. I'll refrain from responding to "what this might mean for the future".

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Re: [arch-general] Opinions on PowerShell?
by Eli Schwartz 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

On 08/18/2016 09:09 PM, Ido Rosen wrote: > Personal opinions aside, we should treat it like any other package: > if it gets enough votes and is popular, it can move from AUR to > community just like any other free open source software. Um, yeah. That's why I said "But I don't see it being very popular", rather than, say, "it will be rejected on principle". -- Eli Schwartz

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[arch-general] Pacman cache directory
by arnaud gaboury 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

>From /etc/pacman.conf: CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this: $ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/ Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir? Thank you for any hints on how investigate. google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] very out of date packages
by Genes Lists 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

refind-efi has been flagged out of date for 9 months. Are there any packagers who would be willing to take this one over? It is not the most out of date even ... but it's an important component for those who boot with it. There are plenty of others which are also very out of date. I counted over 220 packages marked out of date. Of those nearly 20 were flagged in 2015 or earlier. Some of them have newer versions in AUR; but it would be good to try get at least some of these updated. What's the best way to tackle this issue? -- Gene lists(a)sapience.com

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[arch-general] Libreoffice Google Drive not working
by Martin Zecher 15 Aug '16

15 Aug '16

When trying to access Google Drive under Libreoffice 5.1.4-1, I get "The specified device is invalid". This problem should be fixed since 5.1.3.2 according to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98416 I think there may be a problem with Arch's compilation. -- Martin Usen DropBox <https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIwODk0MDk> (2GB + *500MB bonus*) Taxi de lujo en Santiago a buen precio: Uber <https://www.uber.com/invite/1p48v> ($5.000 gratis) Cabify <http://www.cabify.cl/es/home>. Regístrense con el código MARTINZ5 ($5.000 gratis)

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[arch-general] MSI AMD R7 260x fan speed with AMDGPU
by Foxtrot Mike 14 Aug '16

14 Aug '16

Hi all, I have a little problem with my R7 260x because of which I must check if the fan is working at startup. If it isn't, I give the fan a little push with my finger so it starts working. The fan gets jammed every fortnight or so (I didn't send the fan for repair or warranty claim because I'm sooo lazy, and now I am in another country). Anyway, the point is that I must be able to see my fan speed. Currently, I am using AMD Catalyst just because it lets me find out my fan speed with: aticonfig --pplib-cmd "get fanspeed 0" I would like to get rid of this driver and install AMDGPU. Last time I tried AMDGPU it was around an year ago, and back then fan monitoring fucntion wasn't available. I would like to ask you guys if this function is available now? And if not, how can I get fan speed readings without the AMD Catalyst software? Any help would be appreciated! regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] Emacs package is too stable?
by Kwang Moo Yi 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

Hello, I recently started using arch linux and the official package for emacs is a bit outdated compared to the one provided from Fedora, which is where I come from. I understand that the `emacs` package is intended for stable only, so I didn't mark it as outdated. However, current dev release 25.1 is quite stable, and it would be great if it's provided as a binary package, as cloning and building with the AUR package is quite a pain. The stable releases that is available in the extras repo seem like an LTS release. Any plans on packaging for the recent tag releases? Thanks, Kwang

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[arch-general] Question regarding storm dragon's install script. When trying to tell my vm to run the script, I keep getting the message, bash, no such file or directory. Anyone here that is using the talking arch distort able to get this working. Has the url chabnged perhaps. If so, should this not be fixed in the directions? Also I noticed in the command the url to run has 2 and simples. Is this correct?
by matthew dyer 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

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[arch-general] Arch Linux in Embedded Projects
by Compy 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Greetings all, I have been using Arch Linux now for several months and have grown quite fond of it. I'm beginning to wonder about its pervasiveness in the field and was wondering if anyone knew of embedded devices or applications that currently use Arch? In the past, I've used buildroot for embedded applications/devices that run on SBCs, but I'm thinking Arch might be better for deployments with more complex hardware configurations and/or conventional motherboards. Any insight would be greatly appreciated regarding the current state/usage of Arch in embedded projects. Thanks! Jimmy

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[arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior
by fnodeuser 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

jason, spare us the bullshit. go back to the forum to ban some more people. you are not here to make anything better. this is not spam. i am not here to sell you dildos to put up your asses. it never made a difference even when i did not use 'bad language'. you can either talk seriously or you can fuck off. this is about the task hiding and their unacceptable behavior as members of the arch linux team.

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[arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior
by fnodeuser 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

these fuckers keep creating problems. they hided my tasks for the second time. this makes it impossible for the package maintainers to see the tasks. i didn't come here to play games with archlinux team members who happen to be fucking morons. i came here to contribute. it's time for them to be put in their place. they can't be reasoned with, and we can't have a serious discussion about this anywhere else, because in the IRC channels we have other stupid cunts jumping in always trying to derail the discussion, namely, meskarune, keenerd, and polyzen.

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[arch-general] about mrelendig's, scimmia's, and dreisner's behavior
by fnodeuser 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

you are focusing on how things are said instead of focusing on what is being said. it seems that your mothers never told you that adults cuss sometimes. go back to your mommies if you can't handle a little cussing (that is also justified).

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Re: [arch-general] Problem with MATLAB libraries
by Filip Filipov 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Alive 4ever <alive4ever(a)live.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:34:39AM +0000, Foxtrot Mike via arch-general > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have MATLAB 8.6 (2015b). If I install MATLAB in the default directory > > (/usr/local/MATLAB), everything works fine. However, I want to install > > MATLAB on a different partition (/mnt/Software). I installed MATLAB on > > Software parition successfully, but when I try to run matlab, I get this > > error: > > > > ===================================================================== > > >pwd > > /mnt/Software/LinuxMatlab/installed/bin > > >./matlab > > expr: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > /bin/uname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open > > shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > Sorry! We could not determine the machine architecture for your > > host. Please contact: > > > > MathWorks Technical Support > > > > for further assistance. > > > > trap: usage: trap [-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...] > > ===================================================================== > > > > I think I need to link some libraries so that MATLAB can access them > > from the Software parition. I am not quite sure how to do it and which > > libraries do I need to symlink. Any help would be appreciated! > > Have you read ld.so(8) manpage? > > Try running the executable by explicitly specifying LD_LIBRARY_PATH > environment variable > > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib ./matlab > also you can open ./matlab in text editor and look what it does (I think this is still true for 2015b ) other info on setting the PATH is [1] and [2] [1] http://de.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/94805-why-does-my-linux-hardw… [2] https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Matlab/#Probleme-mit-OpenGL

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[arch-general] Problem with MATLAB libraries
by Foxtrot Mike 10 Aug '16

10 Aug '16

Hi all, I have MATLAB 8.6 (2015b). If I install MATLAB in the default directory (/usr/local/MATLAB), everything works fine. However, I want to install MATLAB on a different partition (/mnt/Software). I installed MATLAB on Software parition successfully, but when I try to run matlab, I get this error: ===================================================================== >pwd /mnt/Software/LinuxMatlab/installed/bin >./matlab expr: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /bin/uname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Sorry! We could not determine the machine architecture for your host. Please contact: MathWorks Technical Support for further assistance. trap: usage: trap [-lp] [[arg] signal_spec ...] ===================================================================== I think I need to link some libraries so that MATLAB can access them from the Software parition. I am not quite sure how to do it and which libraries do I need to symlink. Any help would be appreciated! Regards, Fulcrum

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[arch-general] VirtualBox ALT-key problems (especially with Adobe programs)
by Klaus Doblmann M.A. 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm having troubles getting the ALT-key to work properly in VirtualBox as a modifier in applications like Photoshop for things like the clone tool, it isn't recognised as the ALT-key. (No discussions about my need for these proprietary apps please, there are valid reasons for my need for those, I'm not happy about it either). This has been a long-standing problem when using Linux as host systems and is related to aspects of the window management. In previous systems the culprit was that ALT+dragging left mouse button was set to move windows around in Linux, this interfered with the function of the ALT key in the virtual machines. Now using Arch (GNOME3) I have tried several things but haven't found a solution yet. Here's what I've tried: - - Use GNOME tinker tool to disable the window action-key (or assign the super key for that) - - Use GNOME tinker tool to switch the assignment of the ALT and Windows keys - - Tried several different settings in VirtualBox in regards to the capturing of mouse and/or keyboard None of these things - which used to provide a solution in the past) worked, but I have to admit I haven't used a virtual Windows system with Photoshop on a Linux host in probably five years so things might have changed quite a bit. Any pointers from this list? thanks, Klaus - -- Klaus Doblmann M.A. PGP: 43F89A1B -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXgNiPAAoJEJArGOi/1wqdejsH/AtddpGWCLTEe+6XqgXji73P bCkTfhdKFqDGO0rRgov8j3I4cAMWm63IVrQDxVqvRoAxklPQrLSkaj/GKCCvbJ9T Dr3NEJldqhTMyrSB1ezm6qRCAI8D73lTika6EHmpOst3g+tLmfj+/O8XMlG88gMt Vam2a40MPTYhQWLAZxSkYg92pAk6n3bHrzMRSEu0n/PLJMNSDC27ajE6kMUap4oT QGXsubG8oUYpXvJcUeTBCfGE7c7eGocqZmCrjUJT2Z4SAV31oIsAxswz0Z/OV7pE /8tpwQK6lMNmh1FTjfzdcvzBntds9zGB5ElgYtRyEM94UmNipsE8IDwBiGM8M90= =JHCG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] No speech from orca after installing gnome after a fresh install.
by sonar mate 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Hi all, Just install a fresh copy of arch using the talking arch cd that I have. I am using a vm for the moment, but it shouldn't matter. After getting things configured and working, I installed gnome which installed with no problems. The problem is that though there is sound such as valum razing and loawering orca will not speak. Audly enough, speakup works just fine. I just do not have sound from orca. As a side note, have not been able to run a terminal. Any ideas from any orca users here who may have an idea on this one. Thanks. Matthew

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[arch-general] [PATCH] core/links: bump to version 2.13
by Alive 4ever 06 Aug '16

06 Aug '16

Since links package has been flagged out of date for almost one month, I can't help myself to contribute a patch and stop bugging maintainer to package an updated version. I've submitted this patch on aur mailing list and someone told me to post to the appropriate list. So, I post it here. Hopefully this will be the start of improving Arch Linux packaging, with patch contribution from Arch Linux community to improve packaging, especially regarding updates to out of date packages which is can't be reported on Flyspray. Because development is not just about fixing bugs. Making improvements is also part of development. ------ Upgrade links to version 2.13 Signed-off-by: Alif <alive4ever(a)live.com> --- trunk/PKGBUILD | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/trunk/PKGBUILD b/trunk/PKGBUILD index 85ce55c..3f2a3bf 100644 --- a/trunk/PKGBUILD +++ b/trunk/PKGBUILD @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ # Maintainer: Eric Bélanger <eric(a)archlinux.org> pkgname=links -pkgver=2.12 -pkgrel=2 +pkgver=2.13 +pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A text WWW browser, similar to Lynx" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://links.twibright.com/" @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ optdepends=('libx11: for using xlinks' 'libpng: for using xlinks' 'librsvg: for using xlinks') source=(http://links.twibright.com/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 links.desktop) -sha1sums=('952dfecded9496ff1a73184ce538d08dbbb5152b' +sha1sums=('ee5ef004723664d3928e29a603cb150db013603f' 'f600e27c2a71184444f7dd07a10230aa44463a02') prepare() { -- 2.9.2

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[arch-general] rEFInd has been out of date for awhile.
by mike lojkovic 05 Aug '16

05 Aug '16

Hey everybody, refind-efi package in extra has been flagged out of date for about 6 months. The latest version is 0.10.3. There is refind-efi-bin <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/refind-efi-bin/> in the aur. I'm just wondering if there are any plans to continue supporting rEFInd officially?

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Re: [arch-general] links package hasn't been updated
by Alive 4ever 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 02:57:40PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Something to try as an experiment. In html options turn on number links > then run save html options and see if you manage to modify html.cfg file of > links. If that fails this bug was not fixed upstream. > There is no problem of using keyboard to access menu bar. The menu is working perfectly on my terminal (rxvt-unicode), except alt+s key, which is interpreted by urxvt as 'scrollback search'. For this key sequence, I just need to hit Esc+s to access links setup menu. On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 02:55:39PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Can you adjust options in your new version? I use a screen reader and links > appeared in current version to be immune to keyboard input when configuring > options. In order to customize links I had to save configuration files then > edit them by hand. I didn't adjust any options in the PKGBUILD. Just modifying the source to fetch latest version and generating the correct SHA1 hash for the source tarball. I've tried setting 'links are numbered' html option and it persists after closing links. Just don't forget to hit 'save html options' after modifying html-related settings. Numbered links option is only available on the text only version (/usr/bin/links and /usr/bin/xlinks without -g option). The only thing to remember after modifying 'links' general settings and 'links' html options is to hit 'save options' to make the change persists. I hope this explanation will be useful.

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[arch-general] efivars mounted read-write, but "operation not permitted, "
by Zachary Kline 04 Aug '16

04 Aug '16

Hi All, This is admittedly more about Linux in general than Arch specifically, but I’m wondering if anybody has insight into why I can’t delete EFI variables, when efivarfs is mounted read-write. For anybody interested, I am wanting to remove the default boot entry created by systemd-boot, but receive an “Operation not permitted,” message when trying to do so, even as root. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks much, Zack.

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[arch-general] links package hasn't been updated
by Alive 4ever 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Greetings, developers. 'links' package has been flagged out of date for nearly one month and there is no updated package until now, not even in 'testing'. Is there anything blocking version 2.13 from being packaged? Firefox, which requires time and power to package has already available in 'testing' for less than two days. Compared to firefox, links doesn't need much power to package it. I am willing to create updated PKGBUILD if it's going to help maintaining this package.

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[arch-general] Error Pacman
by Luciano Camerra 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

Can you help me with this error? Thanks. [root@li3 ~]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 118.6 KiB 488K/s 00:00 [######################] 100% extra 1765.6 KiB 907K/s 00:02 [######################] 100% community 3.5 MiB 532K/s 00:07 [######################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: lib32-libglapi: installing mesa (12.0.1-5) breaks dependency 'libglapi

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[arch-general] texlive-bin 2016.41290-2.1
by Genes Lists 03 Aug '16

03 Aug '16

There is a little noise on install Are these fixable - or benign? ---- (9/9) upgrading texlive- bin [################################] 100% >>> texlive: updating the filename database... recreating all formats...fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile aleph.ini for aleph/aleph not found. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile lambda.ini for lamed/aleph not found. done.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libvpx moved to testing - dropping avidemux?
by nfnty 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

On 2016-07-31 10:19, Andreas Radke wrote: > The libvpx rebuilt packages have been moved to testing. Old avidemux > won't compile against it. A major update is pending for a long > time. Eric isn't around it seems already for a few months. > > Is there any Dev or TU wanting to take care of it? > > If not we should drop it to AUR. > > -Andy > I've tried contacting Eric multiple times regarding Avidemux. Opened a bug report [1] which got closed by Doug for apparently not being the proper place to report such things. Got an updated build over on github [2]. //nfnty [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48991 [2] https://github.com/nfnty/pkgbuilds/tree/master/avidemux/avidemux

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[arch-general] community/go-tools godoc
by David N Murray 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

Greetings, I think I have two problems. The first is a simple packaging question. I have been using Go (community/go and go-tools, version 2:1.6.3-1 is currently installed and appears to be the latest package available) for a few years. Tonight I get this: $ godoc bash: godoc: command not found I usually start godoc for docs on the installed go packages I have in my project (godoc -http=:6060 &), so I know I used to have it, but it's been a few weeks since I tried to use it (2:1.6.3-1 was released 21-Jul and I upgraded shortly thereafter). $ locate godoc /usr/src/bin/godoc So, my initial question is what happened to godoc? I expected it in /usr/bin (same place that go, gofmt, etc. are installed). It seems to have disappeared: $ pacman -Ql go-tools | grep godoc $ pacman -Qo godoc error: failed to find 'godoc' in PATH: No such file or directory $ pacman -Ql -p /var/cache/pacman/pkg/go-tools-2:1.6.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz | grep godoc go-tools /usr/bin/godoc Did it get dropped, inadvertantly? I looked around the packages and it doesn't look like it got moved. My second question is regarding /usr/src/bin. I don't recall ever seeing that directory before and I don't have it on the other 2 arch boxen I built. Did I screw something up along the way? All the binaries in there are dated 25-Oct-2015. I'm using this godoc for the time being, but I can't tell which version it got packaged with (probably doesn't matter). TIA, Dave

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead
by Kyle Terrien 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I am replying to arch-general because arch-dev-public is closed to most users. On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 08:09:41 -1000 Gaetan Bisson <bisson(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > For a while now packages in [testing] have gotten little to no > signoffs and I've been moving mine to [core] after a week without > feedback. I suspect many of you have been doing this too. Here's the > signoff reports over the last ten days: > > - June 19: 0 signoffs > - June 20: 6 from me, 4 from anthraxx > - June 21: 0 > - June 22: 5 from me > - June 23: 2 from demize > - June 24: 1 from me > - June 25: 0 > - June 26: 1 from me > - June 27: 3 from me, 1 from eworm > - June 28: 3 from heftig, 2 from arojas > > So I've decided to shorten the wait in [testing] to 48 hours. Many > updates to [core] packages include security fixes and they have better > move sooner rather than later. We used to be able to gather enough > signoffs to move these within a day or two, and that's what I intend > to do with or without signoffs. > > Any comment, and especially any other idea to fix this situation, is > welcome. > > Cheers. First, I am an Arch user (for 3 years now) not an Arch dev, and I realize I have no right to tell anyone how to run the distribution. What follows is just my personal recommendation based on working software QA professionally. With that said, I think eliminating signoffs is a bad idea. Signoffs ensure some form of quality control. A signoff is an explicit approval from someone that the package is satisfactory to his/her standards. A potential signee has a completely different perspective than the packager and a different way of verifying that the packager's package is correct. This sort of approval process catches errors that would otherwise escape the packager's notice. Simply waiting a period of time without hearing complaints is not equivalent to explicit approval from others. I have personally experienced several breakages in the past several months--more than usual. A few were big enough that simply running 'foo - --version' should have revealed a problem (i.e. linking problems). A signoff process would have very likely caught these problems. IMHO, the correct thing to do is remind other developers of the signoff policy. (And the above post to arch-dev-general certainly does just that.) Encouraging another set of eyes to look at someone's work and say, "This looks good to me," is a very good thing and does wonders in terms of quality control. If getting security fixes pushed out is a concern, then getting the security related fixes signed off should be prioritized. (Maybe by putting in a flag that automatically triggers a mail to arch-dev-public) Respectfully yours, - --Kyle Terrien -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJXczI6AAoJEN5rMzXPJBsQASIP+gLGiQbQVrg/mNVDacXaHuEK 8H3QQz9amQMwgQXq8Mh17HWfbiQMQMWD48O9CBP+fUyWLVPOxs6g4H/aXFiIm4G+ Qw6/vWfgQaGjY60nLJ7D8/NVq9PwXSPEYF1cA8/6D7JtuotwXxCFENiNR9Qki7Un 3QCXRI6Z/KKGcpBvpIsa++qDeZuXnSTy00ZJO5EFYxTi+AUBEyffHX/bS2IUCOkC tUWxtoVIix4buD32/tCnPz19wku9MylddYBzNuB1qCD1NG6XLsxmn8WiHGeoiy+E uFwjxPgDx0MaldNNJzubC2LQD/osdTDTTPwDf2M0c802FI+pHxlj/Dk9imz86NFA 9xPH8WJ1cfiVTue0BkRJXlR2eI0VIPSqAbpcDCfzCwYbrFuFoqwszpET03PtF/Y4 5tfZHLODiFpDc9Whu5o4ejzf4p/eMUN3xmwUp+8cguFcSmjBSPvYvRbgI8puiPRm Al5xYxnrmghEf9R5fIRUWoHlsGNNMrmd1MKquJ6i1+Dkf0pmUK4t58G3crWjFb7+ laMUKYRmH+LwYhxvET562E8EM8QYYtow+PietZssC7ZhjGa1sG70FahQWCijmIj6 TdpfCiNgmQ8AF4C4JXhzZvONtdYzUeNSgiv/FkA9T4n9Xje/ZCUhyM+inaqmA/5A ComaWc2SjeM8gTBfdPQa =E42/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Removal of the Dasher package
by Germano Corrêa 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

Hello! I don't know if I'm in the right mailing list, so sorry if I'm in the wrong place... I need to install the package Dasher, and I realized it's not anymore in the official repositories (it was in extra and it was removed this year). I don't know if I didn't searched right, because I found nothing about this removal. Does anyone knows why? Of course I can download the source code and build it by myself, and that's what I'm doing. But I just wanted to know why they removed. Thanks, and sorry for anything...

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead
by Genes Lists 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

On Sat, 2016-07-02 at 09:16 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > This sounds like the Fedora policy where packages have to surpass a > certain karma level to move into the main repositories. I'm not sure > who gets to vote for that though. > > A I would suggest allowing any Arch user vote yay or nay (with comments) - I believe this is what fedora did - only requirement was to be a registered user of the website. I don't imagine significantly more information will be obtained beyond the issues raised now in the mail list and forum. However, it does have the advantage of putting it in a single place for the packager. gene

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[arch-general] New TeXLive 2016 packages in [testing]
by Rémy Oudompheng 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Hello, I have published new TeXLive packages for the 2016 release in [testing]. The structure of the packages has been left unchanged (e.g. no introduction of pacman hooks). Feel free to test them and notify me of any problem or weirdness. Cheers, Rémy.

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[arch-general] Discussion about optional dependencies from arch-dev-public
by Óscar García Amor 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hi. I write my two cents here cause I cannot post in arch-dev-public. The main problem of add "qt5-x11extras" as dependency is that it add a lot of more dependencies. Take note that virtualbox can run as server and, in this case, you not need to install the gui. You can run it in a machine without X. Maybe the solution is split it in two packages, virtualbox (for gui) an virtualbox-server. What you think? Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] [Classroom] Git for Gits
by fsckd 19 Jul '16

19 Jul '16

Hello, If you are interested in starting with Git, there will soon be a class for beginners called "Git for Gits", taught by polyzen and meskarune, on Saturday, 16th July, at 16:00 UTC. It will be held in the IRC channel #archlinux-classroom on the freenode network. The class will cover the basics of creating and using a Git repository. Git is used by many FOSS projects to manage code. It is used extensively in Arch Linux, such as on the AUR. You can also use it to track dotfiles, configuration, blog posts, college essays, and any textual data (and even non-textual). The class is also a workshop where you will get a chance to play around with a Git repository. Please visit the following web page to sign up. You will need to make an SSH key. Directions are on the page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom/git_2016 polyzen is a lactose intolerant Linux Professional. He has been using Linux for about 5 years, and switched to Arch Linux over 3 years ago. meskarune is an artist, programmer, and sysadmin. She has contributed to FOSS for 16 years and been an Arch user for 9 years.

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[arch-general] Pacman doesn't optionally require fakeroot
by Bennett Piater 18 Jul '16

18 Jul '16

Hi, I have a quick question. Makepkg, which is provided by pacman, doesn't work without fakeroot. Is there a reason why pacman doesnt opdep on it? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[arch-general] recent archlinux installation
by Jude DaShiell 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

I'm using lynx but am pretty sure this problem will happen no matter which browser I use. The browser when connecting to https::// type sites throws an ssl error because it can't get local issuer certificates. I have SSL_FILE in /etc/lynx.cfg pointed at /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certs.crt and I ran c_rehash on the system with no errors yet this situation continues. Is a package and/or configuration needed so these ssl errors may disappear? I had done archlinux installations earlier and never had this problem then. --

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[arch-general] texinfo, a dependency for libidn and libtasn1
by Damjan Georgievski 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Do libidn and libtasn1 really require texinfo? makes texinfo uninstallable, but I don't need docs on this system. Does any of the "requiires" of texinfo[1] actualy require it? shouldn't it be an opt-depend? [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/texinfo/ -- damjan

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[arch-general] [Archboot] Custom created Archboot ISO won't boot on qemu OVMF EFI
by Alive 4ever 17 Jul '16

17 Jul '16

Greetings Archboot Developers! (@tpowa) I am experimenting with manual Arch Boot creation. I created both x86_64 and i686 chroot with only base and archboot installed. I configured my locale by commenting 'en_US-UTF-8' line on /etc/locale.conf and launched 'locale-gen' to generate locale. Then I launched 'archboot-allinone.sh -t' on both chroot, which tooks a very long time. I moved the 'core-i686.tar' to x86_64 systemd-nspawn chroot. After that, I launched 'archboot-allinone.sh -g' which generates the images. I have successfully built the iso files, here are files generated from the build [code] # cd /var/local/x86_64_archboot/root # ls Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-dual-uefi-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi-network.iso Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-i686.iso core-i686.tar Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-i686-network.iso core-x86_64.tar Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64.iso sha256sums.txt [/code] The non-uefi files boot fine with qemu-system-x86_64 bios mode (default mode). When I try to boot one of uefi iso, for example 'Archlinux-allinone-2016.07-x86_64-uefi-network.iso', using qemu-system-x86_64 with ovmf uefi firmware (-bios /usr/share/ovmf/ovmf_x86_64.bin), the qemu just refuses to boot. Launching EFI boot file directly on FS0:\EFI\grub\grubx64.efi comes up with 'error: unknown filesystem' and throws a rescue shell. 'lsmod' commands which should output all loaded modules throws 'unknown command'. I think grubx64.efi should be packed as standalone EFI image which contains all modules and grub.cfg loaded directly from memory. Launching EFI boot file FS0:\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI throws 'Unsupported' error. Launching kernel directly from EFI shell is also unsupported. The default Arch Linux kernel as far as I know can be launched from EFI shell. Maybe this is because Archboot uses a non uefi stub kernel? Launching FS0:\EFI\BOOT\loader.efi just throw a menu 'EFI Default Loader' and 'Reboot Into Firmware Interface'. This bootloader is similar to systemd-boot loader, but it's not able to find the other boot entries because there is no files on FS0:\loader\entries. I did not make any modification to the archboot profiles. Is manual workaround needed to enable EFI booting on Archboot? Is it just bug on archboot-uefi-cd.sh script? Note: The system I used to create archboot image boots from legacy bios mode. Thanks.

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[arch-general] chromeos chroagh buildinfo failure
by message 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

Readers, A bug using chroagh has been posted. Is there another way to use arch via chroot in a chromebook, ideally to replace the ubuntu installation? (https://github.com/drinkcat/chroagh/issues/121) chronos@localhost ~/Downloads/drinkcat-chroagh-18cc180 $ sudo sh -e installer/main.sh -r arch -t xfce WARNING: Your rootfs is writable. Signed boot verification cannot be enabled. If this is a surprise to you, you should do a full system recovery via USB. Installing arch-x86_64 chroot to /usr/local/chroots/arch Fetching repository packages list... Fetching core... ######################################################################## 100.0% Fetching community... ######################################################################## 100.0% Fetching extra... ######################################################################## 100.0% Downloading and extracting packages... Downloading and installing bash... ######################################################################## 100.0% tar: bash-4.3.046-1/depends: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors tar: bash-4.3.046-1/depends: Not found in archive tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors Downloading and installing gawk... ######################################################################## 100.0% Downloading and installing grep... ######################################################################## 100.0% tar: .BUILDINFO: Cannot open: File exists tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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[arch-general] mandb errors bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request??
by David C. Rankin 14 Jul '16

14 Jul '16

All, I have noticed the mandb becoming corrupt several times over the past month. It usually straightens itself out, but this is the 3rd time I've encountered this problem in the past 60 days or so. The symptoms are man being unable to find installed pages, e.g. $ apropos ssh ssh: nothing appropriate. $ man mandb mandb: nothing appropriate. $ find /usr/share/man/ -type f -name "mandb*" /usr/share/man/it/man8/mandb.8.gz /usr/share/man/es/man8/mandb.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mandb.8.gz $ man 8 mandb (works fine) # mandb -t mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/pcredemo.3.gz: whatis parse for pcredemo(3) failed <snip> mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/wayland-util.c.3: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/wl_abort.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man3/wayland-server.h.3: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man3/wl_client_add_resource.3.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request <snip several hundred more> mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/saslauthd.8.gz: whatis parse for saslauthd(8) failed mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/ru.KOI8-R/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/id/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/de/index.db: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/jp/man1/cd-paranoia.1.gz: whatis parse for cd-paranoia(1) failed mandb: warning: can't update index cache /var/cache/man/jp/index.db: No such file or directory <snip ~30 more> Any idea what is causing the corruption? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 17
by ITwrx.org 12 Jul '16

12 Jul '16

On 07/11/2016 01:00 AM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > On 07/11/2016 01:09 AM, Information Technology Works wrote: >> > Aren't snaps, flatpak and appimage missing the boat in a concerning >> > way? Shouldn't the Gnu+Linux ecosystem be focusing on automating the >> > package building/maintenance instead? A layer above distros' package >> > managers(pacman, apt, etc) that can build upstream from source without >> > human intervention. Maybe upstream would have to cooperate in some way? >> > Every distro would just have to write a plugin/config for themselves >> > that described how their packages should be built, then their package >> > manager can be used to install binaries like now. Distro devs could >> > develop the system and verify it's integrity/security or do distro >> > feature related work instead of packaging. This would address all the >> > problems that these app container based systems are trying to solve >> > while keeping dependency resolution, repos, etc. in tact. Is this >> > impossible/wrong for some reason? >> > > Hello, > > Work is being done in this area [1], but it?s not as fancy as you may > think. It?s mostly about upstream using a well-behaved build system. > Well-behaved software is easy to package anyway (just do `./configure > --prefix=/usr`, `make` and `make install`). When customization is > necessary or desired, pacman brings the needed versatility. > > Please note that ?build once, run anywhere? is not the only advantage of > Flatpak and not one pacpak addresses. To me, containerization mostly > provides added security by privilege revocation and separation of > privileges. > > Regards, > Florian Pelz > > [1] https://github.com/cgwalters/build-api Florian, thanks for the reply and link. Well behaved build systems and/or the link you sent is what i alluded to with my "cooperation from upstream" comment. It seems to me, upstream and distros should get together and agree on a set of standards. then all distros could auto-build their repos. Unless "build once, run everywhere" can be done in a way that's superior to repos and packages (i don't see how, but what do i know), it seems like the wrong approach and would be completely unecessary with all distros having near instant packages from upstream due to automation. I'm not necessarily opposed to the theoretical, potential security benefits of app containerization but minus the dependency compat layer, especially if automation of building is not so out of reach. Your package sounds interesting and good luck with it, i just thought i'd bring up these questions before we throw the baby out with the bath water. thanks, ITwrx

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[arch-general] Mono package updates
by Phil Uithoven 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

Is there an issue with updating the mono package? The current 4.4 package that is in the repo was built on 3/28 and was way before 4.4 actually went stable. I’m not sure why an unstable build was used in the repo, but it caused issues and many users had to roll back to a 4.2 version package and put it on hold (me included). 4.4 then went stable on 6/8 as well as 4.4.1 stable on 6/21 but we still haven’t seen the package updated. http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/ Can we have a mono update please?

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 141, Issue 16
by Information Technology Works 11 Jul '16

11 Jul '16

On 07/10/2016 10:36 AM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send arch-general mailing list submissions to > arch-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of arch-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Announcing pacpak (pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)) > 2. Re: Announcing pacpak (pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)) > 3. Re: Announcing pacpak (Mauro Santos) > 4. Re: Announcing pacpak (Jelle van der Waa) > 5. Re: Announcing pacpak (Levente Polyak) > 6. Re: Announcing pacpak (pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)) > 7. Re: Announcing pacpak (pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:18:00 +0200 > From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian(a)pelzflorian.de> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak > Message-ID: <d3d5da50-9819-16f7-fe4a-daf922af799e(a)pelzflorian.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hello, > > On 07/10/2016 12:52 PM, Bennett Piater wrote: >> Are you planning to address the catastrophy that ensues when 5000 >> different versions of important libraries are installed at the same >> time, most of which will always be 5 critical security updates behind? >> > The intention is that, once implemented, `pacpak -Syu` or maybe `pacpak > -Su` will install a current version of all apps and runtimes. Old > versions of apps and app runtimes that are not used by any app could be > cleaned by `pacpak -Sc` or a similar command (or automatically?); I?m > not yet sure what the best interface is. > > Note that there is a trade-off between memory consumption and the time > it takes to update a container. ostree (which is used by Flatpak) > compresses all runtimes and apps for about half the hard disk memory > consumption. This greatly increases the time it takes to update a > container. This may need to be addressed in ostree in the future. > >> I am very cynical about this container trend... :/ >> > The advantage of using pacman for Flatpak is that even pure Flatpak > users may still be interested in Arch packages, so Arch packages remain > just as relevant and everything stays mostly the same for those using > pure pacman. > > Regards, > Florian Pelz > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:18:24 +0200 > From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian(a)pelzflorian.de> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak > Message-ID: <985a680c-a132-862d-215c-8b8fc601e6b6(a)pelzflorian.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hello, > > On 07/10/2016 01:59 PM, LoneVVolf wrote: >> My personal preference though is for AL community to treat flatpak >> similar as derivative distros. >> >> something like : flatpak is unsupported on Arch linux, ask the flatpak >> creator(s) for help. > Hm? If there is not that much desire to support Flatpak ?officially? as > an Arch project, then I probably will end up setting up a mailing list > and bug tracker on my server sometime in the coming weeks. > > Regards, > Florian Pelz > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:22:07 +0100 > From: Mauro Santos <registo.mailling(a)gmail.com> > To: arch-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [arch-general] Announcing pacpak > Message-ID: <83961152-99e0-b19a-c363-08526ee33e28(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > On 10-07-2016 13:18, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 07/10/2016 01:59 PM, LoneVVolf wrote: >>> My personal preference though is for AL community to treat flatpak >>> similar as derivative distros. >>> >>> something like : flatpak is unsupported on Arch linux, ask the flatpak >>> creator(s) for help. >> Hm? If there is not that much desire to support Flatpak ?officially? as >> an Arch project, then I probably will end up setting up a mailing list >> and bug tracker on my server sometime in the coming weeks. >> >> Regards, >> Florian Pelz >> > Personally I'd rather keep using the good old packages _but_ it would be > nice to have an official tool to manage/run/create flatpak packages, > this just to make sure that in case one needs to use a flatpak package > nothing will screw up the filesystem and cause more trouble than it's worth. > > However a big fat warning should be present somewhere that bugs/problems > with flatpak packages are the sole responsibility of upstream/the > creator as I suspect bugs and problems will be the norm. > Aren't snaps, flatpak and appimage missing the boat in a concerning way? Shouldn't the Gnu+Linux ecosystem be focusing on automating the package building/maintenance instead? A layer above distros' package managers(pacman, apt, etc) that can build upstream from source without human intervention. Maybe upstream would have to cooperate in some way? Every distro would just have to write a plugin/config for themselves that described how their packages should be built, then their package manager can be used to install binaries like now. Distro devs could develop the system and verify it's integrity/security or do distro feature related work instead of packaging. This would address all the problems that these app container based systems are trying to solve while keeping dependency resolution, repos, etc. in tact. Is this impossible/wrong for some reason?

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[arch-general] Warning! Upgrading QupZilla to 2.x might cause loss of data
by Ralf Mardorf 10 Jul '16

10 Jul '16

Hi, to get back the history run $ mv .config/qupzilla/profiles/default/browsedata-backup(1).db .config/qupzilla/profiles/default/browsedata.db but this doesn't restore speed dial. Perhaps it also does not restore other data. I opened an issue: https://github.com/QupZilla/qupzilla/issues/2026 Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-general] arch-chroot
by Jude DaShiell 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

It turns out arch-chroot is okay after all but very probably the last release of base and the last release of alsa-utils both need to go back to the factory for repairs. First base is probably implicated because after the pacstrap command was run pacstrap /mnt base base-devel espeakup alsa-utils grub crda dialog ifplugd iw wpa_actiond wpa_supplicant <enter> the /var/run/lock directory had not been created in the /mnt space. Second when it got created the alsactl store command run in arch-chroot arch-chroot /mnt /usr/bin/bash <enter> produced no errors. However even producing no errors upon reboot into the new system no speech would speak and speaker-test or speakertest would not work. --

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[arch-general] Unsubscribe - Was: arch-chroot
by Ralf Mardorf 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 22:25:39 -0700, jordan via arch-general wrote: >Unsubscribe Hijacking a thread to unsubscribe is a shame. Every modern MUA provides mailing list features (e.g.Claws and Evolution), so you even don't need to take a look at list mail headers. For example, Claws: Menue "Message" > Mailing-List > Unsubscribe Apart from this, it's the same for _all_ mailman based mailing lists: List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.archlinux.org/options/arch-general>, <mailto:arch-general-request@archlinux.org?subject=unsubscribe> ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/options/ubuntu-studio-devel>, <mailto:ubuntu-studio-devel-request@lists.ubuntu.com?subject=unsubscribe> ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ The address to post to the list arch-general(a)archlinux.org is _not_ the same as the one for requests arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org . ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ The text "unsubscribe" belongs to the subject of a new mail and _not_ to the message's body of a hijacked thread. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] time setting problem after installing.
by matthew dyer 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Hi all, I just installed arch into a vertual machine dfor now as I do not have a bare boons system to install to at the moment. Any way I have a problem whare my system thinks I am in lundon uk and not in the us. I have tried running NTPD-QG but I am told that the command not found. I want the clock to show the correct local time and not have it showing 4 hours ahead of it self. Any ideas on how to fix this. I want to show it in .profile, but it just creates a new file instead of using the exhisting file. How can I change my time to the corect local time? Thanks. Matthew -- Sent from my Arch Linux VM

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[arch-general] arch-chroot
by Jude DaShiell 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

I had been using it to install archlinux specifically talkingarchlinux. It mostly works ok until I do alsactl store and then I get a state lock error. As a result of this failure, I can finish up a talkingarch installation but on reboot, I have no speech on the system. Does a way exist I can clear this problem? The only reason I'm doing this is because the wifi network I had set up and working with netctl also died and I'm going to have to wipe the hard drive and reinstall talkingarch to clear this problem. --

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[arch-general] Using libpqxx with clang
by Garmine 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Hi, With the recent update of libc++ I wanted to continue compiling and testing a C++14 project with clang (and gcc), but unfortunately the libpqxx package is compiled for gcc - it is impossible* to use with clang at the moment. It used to properly work several months ago. I believe the recent update of libc++ introduced incompatibilities between the two compilers and it's libraries and that's why the above issue arose. Anyways, did anyone manage to compile libpqxx dependent code using clang++ 3.8 and libc++ 3.8? Or does anyone have an idea on how to fix the package while retaining compatibility with both compilers at the same time? * or am I missing something? Regards, Garmine

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[arch-general] fail to export gpg private key
by arnaud gaboury 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

I have successfully created a gpg key pair on one of my computer. I would like to use the same pair on another computer, so the need to export. Here are the commands: $ gpg --output tth_pub.gpg --armor --export KeyID Results in -rw-rw-r-- 1 poisonivy poisonivy 1.7K Jul 6 13:34 tth_pub.gpg Fine. Now with private one: $ gpg --output tth_sec.gpg --armor --export-secret-key KeyID gpg: WARNING: nothing exported I have the tth_sec.pgp but with size of zero. What do I wrong? gpg-agent is running : 67:poisoni+ 23911 1 0 13:41 ? 00:00:00 gpg-agent --homedir /home/poisonivy/.config/gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon gpg.conf ------------- no-greeting homedir ~/.config/gnupg use-agent default-key 92AB63D5 charset utf-8 utf8-strings armor keyserver pgp.mit.edu keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve gpg-agent.conf --------------------- homedir ~/.config/gnupg allow-preset-passphrase Thank you for help. -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] ML is being sent to Spam by Gmail
by Eli Schwartz 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Recently a (disproportionately) large number of emails from the various Arch Linux mailing lists are getting rerouted to my Spam folder in Gmail. It seems to have started roughly around the time of this change: [arch-devops] Finally fixed DKIM (I hope)[1] dkim header remarks indicate either failed or missing dkim sigs for those messages. Is anyone else seeing this behavior change? @Florian Pritz, whatever you did doesn't seem to be working, in fact it is worse. :( [1] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-devops/2016-May/000066.html -- Eli Schwartz

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[arch-general] Package are signed... but pacman doesn't like them...?
by Giovanni 'ItachiSan' Santini 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Good morning, some days ago I found a nice service called "Open Build Service", which allows all kind of packagers, including also Arch ones, to have different repos of their packages, having them built online. This is awesome for me, as some of them require heavy building time. I fought a bit against the service, in order to make the GPG public key to be uploaded to a key server, in order to allow users to add it properly to pacman-key. Now, I am facing a really strange issue: I've added the key to pacman keyring, using: sudo pacman-key -r 05E0A765C649DE23 sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 05E0A765C649DE23 Database syncing works properely and the signature is verified... But for packages it is not. Every time it gives an error as this: $pkgname-$pkgver $pkgsize $dw_speed 00:00 [--------------------] 100% (1/1) checking keys in keyring [--------------------] 100% error: $pkgname: unsupported signature format(0/1) checking package integrity (1/1) checking package integrity [--------------------] 100% error: GPGME error: No data I tried to download the public key and adding to my personal GPG keyring. Verifying the packages signatures works perfectly. To try this, I fetched the .sig file online and used the GPG --verify command. Any hints? Now, the needed data. My personal repo configuration for pacman [home_ItachiSan_archlinux_Arch_Extra] Server = http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ItachiSan:/archlinux/Arch_E… The public key mentioned above: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerprint=on&search=0x05E0A… or http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=home%3AItachiSan&fi… Sorry to be so verbose. :< Thanks in advance! -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://github.com/ItachiSan My code, again: https://gitlab.com/u/ItachiSan My Twitter: https://twitter.com/santini__gio My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giovanni.santini My Google+: https://plus.google.com/+GiovanniSantini/ My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] Where is the ISO?
by Kevin Dodd 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

According to everything on the Arch Linux Downloads page: https://www.archlinux.org/download/ archlinux-2016.07.01-dual.iso should be available. The torrent tracker keeps saying "torrent not found". Via DHT and PEX, I have connected to more than 50 peers in the torrent swarm, and none of them had even a single piece of the file. All of the HTTP mirror links simply return 404. Clearly the file exists, or there would not be a PGP signature for it. So could someone who has it please seed it at least once?

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[arch-general] PyPI2PKGBUILD: Automated PKGBUILD creation for PyPI packages
by Antony Lee 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

I'd like to present PyPI2PKGBUILD (https://github.com/anntzer/pypi2pkgbuild) a new tool for automated PKGBUILD creation for PyPI packages. It is similar in spirit to the venerable pip2arch ( https://github.com/bluepeppers/pip2arch) but with a few improvements: - Python dependencies are found by installation in a temporary virtualenv (as far as I know, this is the simplest way to handle environment markers correctly (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0496/)) moreover, PyPI2PKGBUILD calls itself recursively for dependencies that are not available as official packages (i.e., you can call `pypi2pkgbuild.py $pkgname` and get all the necessary packages created and built for you). Many packages do not correctly declare `cython` and `numpy` as dependencies so special handling is provided for them. - Non-python (binary) dependencies that are dynamically linked are resolved via `namcap` and `pkgfile`, and added to the `depends` array. Say, for example, that you want to create a package for `pyfftw`, which needs to link against `fftw`, which is provided by the official `fftw` package. You can run `pacman -S --asdeps fftw`, then run `pypi2pkgbuild.py pyfftw`; the PKGBUILD will correctly declare `fftw` as `depends`. - Missing license files are retrieved from Github/Bitbucket if possible. The general intent is to 1) allow one to install packages that are not available on the Arch (official or AUR) repos (I don't think the proliferation of "trivial" PKGUBILDs that simply do `python setup.py build` / `python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir"` on the AUR is a particularly good thing) and 2) allow one to update packages for which a new version is present on PyPI but not on the arch repos yet (by default, the packages are built with a pkgrel of 00, so that they'd be upgraded to official/AUR packages when those become available). Antony PS: Original announcement on the forum at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213740.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead
by Jens Adam 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Wed, 29 Jun 2016 21:51:17 +0200 Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org>: > Maybe we should look into finding some people that want to help test > stuff and give them permissions to sign off on packages? +1 Sign me up, running [testing] for a decade now anyway, on x86_64 and i686. --byte

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] signoffs are dead
by Kyle Terrien 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

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[arch-general] KDE apps using incorrect colors after recent upgrade
by David Rosenstrauch 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

I haven't yet been able to pin down the root cause, but some recent upgrade (my best guess is qt5) seems to be messing with my KDE apps' ability to pick up the correct color scheme. If you look at the screenshot at http://darose.net/Screenshot_2016-06-27_12-13-53.png you can see that I have KDE's color scheme set to a custom, dark scheme. However, several of the KDE apps are not picking up this scheme - e.g., the System Settings app itself, as well as Kalarm. But several other KDE apps are picking up the correct scheme correctly - such as Konqueror. Note that I'm using XFCE as my desktop, if that makes a difference Anyone have any idea what might be broken here, and how I might be able to get it fixed? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] libc++ is outdated (3.7.x) and incompatible with actual clang 3.8.x
by Константин Плотников 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

libc++ is outdated (3.7.1 flagged out-of-date on 2016-03-28) and incompatible with actual clang 3.8 If you try to compile simple program which use std::string with clang and libc++ you will get an error: [root@707cd1f92063 /]# cat test.cpp #include <string> int main() { std::string a; } [root@707cd1f92063 /]# clang++ -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -lc++abi test.cpp -o test && ./test In file included from test.cpp:1: /usr/bin/../include/c++/v1/string:1938:44: error: 'basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Allocator>' is missing exception specification 'noexcept(is_nothrow_copy_constructible<allocator_type>::value)' basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Allocator>::basic_string(const allocator_type& __a) ^ /usr/bin/../include/c++/v1/string:1326:40: note: previous declaration is here _LIBCPP_INLINE_VISIBILITY explicit basic_string(const allocator_type& __a) Is there any reason libc++ 3.8 is not in repo yet? Could I help somehow? Thank you, Konstantin

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[arch-general] Eclipse-java and java7
by Ilya Boka 26 Jun '16

26 Jun '16

When i start eclipse with Java7 i get following error http://pastebin.com/rGnCG5An With Java8 everything work fine.. Maybe eclipse should hava Java8 as dependence?

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Re: [arch-general] Enable translations in transmission-qt
by Alexey Rochev 24 Jun '16

24 Jun '16

2016-05-30 0:18 GMT+03:00, Alexey Rochev <equeim(a)gmail.com>: > Hi, > I posted fixed PKGBUILD in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20982 a > week ago, but it seems that no one noticed. > Here is the patch: http://pastebin.com/b483Rqjp > Does transmission package have active maintainers? Last commits by Ionut Biru and Tom Gundersen were three years ago.

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[arch-general] packer vs packer-io
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

Hmm, so Archlinux has packer[0] that provides an executable named `packer` and now there is packer-io[1] that changes the upstream executable from `packer` to `packer-io`. Now i have a Makefile that runs packer-io[1] that fails on systems where its executable is not renamed to `packer-io`. (eg. everything[2] else than Archlinux) I would like to provide the user a single command to build "my" software (eg. make), but am not sure what i should do. 1. Tell Archlinux users to manually alias/link `packer` pointing to `packer-io`? 2. Automagically try to findout the correct executable in Makefile? 3. Request a rename of packer[0] executable upstream? 4. Request a rename of packer-io[1] executable upstream? What would you do? Cheers .andre [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packer/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/packer-io/ [2] at least Debian and MS-Windows

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Re: [arch-general] vagrant/virtualbox archlinux guest private_network
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 23 Jun '16

23 Jun '16

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Jonathan Steel <jsteel(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Wed 22 Jun 2016 at 16:37, Andre "Osku" Schmidt via arch-general wrote: > > [...] > > I did not setup netctl on the client yet, cause it fails with the same > > error (and wanted to keep things simple as possible). > > > > - Is this a vagrant bug? > > - Did i forget something important in the client? > > - Would it be possible to use systemd-networkd instead? > > You have to install netctl on the box; Vagrant expects it to be there to > configure NICs. > > > - Does your archlinux guest work with private_network? > > Yes, and I don't do anything special so install netctl on the box and share > further errors. > > netctl is installed https://github.com/oskude/vagrant-archmini/blob/private_network/install.sh#… care to share your box setup scripts?

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[arch-general] (no subject)
by Hack ksds 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

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[arch-general] vagrant/virtualbox archlinux guest private_network
by Andre "Osku" Schmidt 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

So i did a minimal archlinux vagrant box[0] and it seems to work. But trying to get private_network[1] working, i get the following error: ``` ERROR vagrant: /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb:236:in `execute' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/communicators/ssh/communicator.rb:246:in `sudo' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/guests/arch/cap/configure_networks.rb:50:in `configure_networks' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/capability_host.rb:111:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/capability_host.rb:111:in `capability' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/guest.rb:43:in `capability' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/network.rb:133:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/clear_network_interfaces.rb:26:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/prepare_nfs_settings.rb:18:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/synced_folders.rb:87:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/synced_folder_cleanup.rb:28:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/synced_folders/nfs/action_cleanup.rb:25:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/prepare_nfs_valid_ids.rb:12:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/handle_forwarded_port_collisions.rb:49:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/prepare_forwarded_port_collision_params.rb:30:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/env_set.rb:19:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/provision.rb:80:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/clear_forwarded_ports.rb:15:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/set_name.rb:50:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/clean_machine_folder.rb:17:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/check_accessible.rb:18:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:53:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:53:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:53:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/box_check_outdated.rb:36:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/config_validate.rb:25:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/check_virtualbox.rb:17:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/match_mac_address.rb:19:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/discard_state.rb:15:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/import.rb:74:in `import' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/import.rb:13:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/prepare_clone_snapshot.rb:17:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/prepare_clone.rb:15:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/customize.rb:40:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/check_accessible.rb:18:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:53:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/config_validate.rb:25:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/handle_box.rb:56:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:95:in `block in finalize_action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builtin/call.rb:53:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/plugins/providers/virtualbox/action/check_virtualbox.rb:17:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/warden.rb:34:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/builder.rb:116:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `block in run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/util/busy.rb:19:in `busy' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/action/runner.rb:66:in `run' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:225:in `action_raw' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:200:in `block in action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/environment.rb:561:in `lock' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:186:in `call' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/machine.rb:186:in `action' /opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/gems/vagrant-1.8.4/lib/vagrant/batch_action.rb:82:in `block (2 levels) in run' INFO interface: error: The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status. Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed! # Configure mv '/tmp/vagrant-network--1466602430-0' '/etc/netctl/' ip link set '' down netctl restart '' netctl enable '' Stdout from the command: Stderr from the command: Not enough information: "dev" argument is required. Failed to restart netctl@.service: Unit name netctl@.service is missing the instance name. See system logs and 'systemctl status netctl@.service' for details. /usr/lib/network/globals: line 123: source: /etc/netctl/: is a directory <3>Profile '' does not specify an interface ``` I did not setup netctl on the client yet, cause it fails with the same error (and wanted to keep things simple as possible). - Is this a vagrant bug? - Did i forget something important in the client? - Would it be possible to use systemd-networkd instead? - Does your archlinux guest work with private_network? Cheers .andre [0] https://github.com/oskude/vagrant-archmini [1] https://github.com/oskude/vagrant-archmini/tree/private_network

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[arch-general] Keramik theme
by pete nikolic 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Hi folks . Does anyone know if the Keramik theme from earlier KDE versions is being revised for use in the latest incarnation of Plasma KDE . I have had a look round and searched to no avail i thought it was possibly the best of the bunch ... Thanks Pete .

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[arch-general] kudos to Arch for packing keepassx 0.4.4-2
by David C. Rankin 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

All, Rarely to we have time to just stop and say kudos to a distro for smart choices in packaging, but kudos to Arch for packaging keepassx 0.4.4-2. While keepassx2 is out, there is a simple efficiency and effective layout for the original. Being a longtime user of keepassx, I've provided feedback to the project during version 2 development and have steadily watched it improve, but I still prefer the original. Good job to the arch devs for packaging both keepassx and keepassx2. For those unfamiliar with the password management packages, I haven't found a better package in over a decade. Try both, both are solid solutions. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Keyboard lag issue
by Manuel Groß 20 Jun '16

20 Jun '16

Hello there, I currently experience a weird keyboard lag issue which I yet failed to resolve. I had some help looking into it a bit (and obviously searched the web), but we couldn't identify the speficic problem. I hope someone could provide me pointers or hints on what to test out. I have a Thinkpad x250 running Arch Linux with Openbox and X11 on it. I use systemd-logind to log in, so X is started with the 'exec openbox-session' from my xinitrc. Not from some fancy lightdm or so. I do not have a certain date since when the issue occurs, but it has probably been a little over a month. I didn't make any major changes to my system then, and I do update regularly. This didn't occur when I set up the system. The issue is, that on some, certain programs, the keyboard input 'arrives' too late, with delays up to 1-2s. In other programs, this never happens at all. And in rare occasions, it is even fine for programs, in which I experience the problem. I checked logs at obvious locations, but neither the systemd journal, dmesg or the Xorg log were screaming 'I have an issue here'. The trackpoint always works as excpected and the touchpad is disabled. Programs where the delay occurs: * sakura * sublime * wireshark (qt5 version) Programs which are fine: * claws-mail * geany * xterm * chromium The delay also never occurs in the system shell (Alt+F2) and xterm, so it's not the shell or oh-my-zsh. The program lists suggests, that it is not a problem due to a specific version of GTK or QT, since programs using either library (or none of them) are affected. I tried using 'libinput' instead of 'evdev' as a keyboard driver, but the change had no effect (I double checked the Xorg log which driver was actually used). In 'xev', all keystrokes arrive immediately. So seems not to be the kernel or the driver, nor a specific gtk or qt library. The next thing to test would probably be the xlib and the libxcb themselves. So I used 'downgrader' to downgrade each a few revisions (also their lib32-libraries) and checked for a change, without success. I don't know what to try next. Does anyone of you have an idea or already solved a similar issue? I'd appreciate any help on this. -- Grüße/Regards Manuel Groß

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[arch-general] Enable coasting in touchpad
by Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

Hi How do I enable coasting in touchpad when using libinput. I can't find any configuration option in man page and in "xinput list-props <id>". Regards Jagannathan Tiruvallur Eachambadi

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[arch-general] Where did the touch pad tapping go?
by Magnus Therning 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

Yesterday I could tap my touch pad to trigger mouse clicks (single finger for left mouse button, ...), but today nothing! Anyone else seeing this, or am I alone? I had a quick look around but found no news suggesting that any recent upgrade requires configuring my touchpad, or that I need to install any new package to get my touch pad back to working the way I want. Any and all suggestions are welcome :) Thanks! /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus cBryan's Law: You can't make it better until you make it work.

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[arch-general] Problems after recent pacman update
by pete nikolic 19 Jun '16

19 Jun '16

Hi folks I am having a few problems since running pacman -Syu a couple of days ago first off KDE now fails to start then after another update i am seeing ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5KMahjongglib.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGamesPrivate.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5ActivitiesExperimentalStats.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkonsoleprivate.so.16.04.2 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcdio_cdda.so.2.0.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcdio_cdda.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkcardgame.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/liboxygenstyleconfig5.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpowerdevilui.so.5.6.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libQt5WebKit.so.5.6.1 is truncated ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libpowerdevilui.so.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libsystemsettingsview.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkfontinst.so.5.6.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libplasmaweather.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libQt5SerialPort.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkfontinstui.so.5.6.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5KDEGamesPrivate.so.1.0.0 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libKF5KMahjongglib.so.5 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libplasmacomicprovidercore.so.1 is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libcdio_paranoia.so is empty, not checked. ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkfontinst.so is empty, not checked. Plus quite a lot more of the same Also noticed running journalctl Jun 16 19:06:06 ds9 systemd-coredump[2093]: Process 2020 (plasmashell) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 2020: #0 0x00007fea0b965146 _int_malloc (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007fea0b9671d4 malloc (libc.so.6) #2 0x00007fea0b962647 _IO_str_overflow (libc.so.6) #3 0x00007fea0b961491 _IO_default_xsputn (libc.so.6) #4 0x00007fea0b936ded vfprintf (libc.so.6) #5 0x00007fea0b9e64b5 __vasprintf_chk (libc.so.6) #6 0x00007fea125ab354 n/a (/usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0.15.0) #7 0x00007fea125ad133 sd_journal_send (/usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0.15.0) #8 0x00007fea0c0addc2 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5) #9 0x00007fea0c0aa3de _Z17qt_message_output9QtMsgTypeRK18QMessageLogContextRK7QString (libQt5Core.so.5) #10 0x00007fea0c1aaf60 _ZN6QDebugD1Ev (libQt5Core.so.5) #11 0x00007fea0e3c0609 n/a (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5) #12 0x00007fea0e3c40e0 n/a (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5) #13 0x00007fea0e3b9a3f _ZN15KPluginMetaData19loadFromDesktopFileERK7QStringRK11QStringList (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5) #14 0x00007fea0e3bcc03 _ZN15KPluginMetaDataC1ERK7QString (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5) #15 0x00007fea0fcfa426 n/a (libKF5Package.so.5) #16 0x00007fea0fcfe32a _ZNK8KPackage7Package8metadataEv (libKF5Package.so.5) #17 0x00007fe9f826cab8 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #18 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #19 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #20 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #21 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #22 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #23 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #24 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #25 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #26 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #27 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #28 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #29 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #30 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #31 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #32 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #33 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #34 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #35 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #36 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #37 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #38 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #39 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #40 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #41 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #42 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #43 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #44 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #45 0x00007fea0fcffaf0 _ZN8KPackage7PackageC2EPNS_16PackageStructureE (libKF5Package.so.5) #46 0x00007fea0fd091df _ZN8KPackage13PackageLoader11loadPackageERK7QStringS3_ (libKF5Package.so.5) #47 0x00007fe9f826cbd3 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) #48 0x00007fea0fd001f5 _ZN8KPackage7Package7setPathERK7QString (libKF5Package.so.5) #49 0x00007fe9f826bb51 n/a (plasma_packagestructure_lookandfeel.so) lines 374973-375034/382139 98% Plus a lot more also noticed a lot of Jun 17 19:50:24 ds9 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail Jun 17 19:50:24 ds9 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: PGRAPH_STATUS 01fffe03 [BUSY DISPATCH VFETCH CCACHE_PREGEOM STRMOUT_VATTR_POSTGEOM VCLIP RATTR_APLANE TRAST CLIPID ZCULL ENG2D RMASK TPC_R Jun 17 19:50:24 ds9 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: PGRAPH_VSTATUS0: 00145349 [VFETCH CCACHE POSTGEOM] Jun 17 19:50:24 ds9 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: PGRAPH_VSTATUS1: 00001a49 [TPC_RAST TPC_PROP TPC_TEX TPC_MP] Jun 17 19:50:24 ds9 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: PGRAPH_VSTATUS2: 0034db6d [ENG2D ROP] That i had not seen for a good while I have seen the fix on the forum for the Plasma problem but not quite sure if that is my exact problem because of the zero lenght lib files . Is this worth fixing or do i buy a new HDD and reinstall Thanks Pete .

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[arch-general] svntogit out of synchro?
by Bruno Pagani 16 Jun '16

16 Jun '16

Hi, Y-day, I’ve received the bunch of updates for KDE 16.04.2 applications. While wanting to look at packaging changes for https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/spectacle/, I’ve failed to found the corresponding commit here: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/specta… Is that something normal? Thanks, Bruno

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[arch-general] Possible reflector https problem?
by Francis Gerund 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Hi. I just did: sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist The result, only one source (has been 5 or 6 sources before): rating https://arch.localmsp.org/arch/ Server Rate Time https://arch.localmsp.org/arch/ 185.65 KiB/s 0.64 s Tried again, same result. Here is /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist: ################################################################################ ################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector ################# ################################################################################ # With: reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist # When: 2016-06-15 17:20:18 UTC # From: https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/ # Retrieved: 2016-06-15 17:18:21 UTC # Last Check: 2016-06-15 17:12:41 UTC Server = https://arch.localmsp.org/arch/$repo/os/$arch What has happened to the other https sources? Or have I been MITM'd by NSA, etc.?

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[arch-general] gnome-keyring madness
by Kyle Terrien 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

Seahorse 3.20.0-2 has a new hard dependency on gnome-keyring. Should gnome-keyring instead be an optional dependency? Seahorse can cope without gnome-keyring (although with warnings about not being able to talk to gnome-keyring). And for some reason, lightdm likes to launch gnome-keyring automatically, and this breaks my setup because I use gpg-agent with pinentry-gtk-2 to handle SSH keys. However gnome-keyring naively assumes that it may (incorrectly) handle SSH keys. Is there any way to tell lightdm not to launch gnome-keyring? (And yes, the obvious answer is to uninstall gnome-keyring. However, virt-manager has a hard dependency on seahorse.) Update: it turns out that virt-manager has a dependency on x11-ssh-askpass, which seahorse provides. My workaround for now is to install x11-ssh-askpass and uninstall seahorse and gnome-keyring (even though I will never use x11-ssh-askpass). There is something wrong with this dependency chain. Will someone smarter than me please look into it? * Should gpg-agent and/or pinentry provide x11-ssh-askpass? * Should gnome-keyring be an optional dep for seahorse, considering that seahorse copes without it although in a limited form? * Should virt-manager have a hard dependency on x11-ssh-askpass? --Kyle

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[arch-general] Gnome copy and past keybindings
by Akendo 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Hi everyone. I'm trying to reconfigure gnomes default behavior in copy and paste keybindings. Is there any way of changing this? I found only some old question in the internet with a similar questions. All of them were left open. I want to re-bind ctrl + c and ctrl + v to meta + c and ctrl + v. There are no configuration option in the gnome control center nor in the gsettings. best regards akendo

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[arch-general] SLiM DM
by runical＠gmx.com 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Dear all, I hope this is the right place to ask this. If not, please direct me to the correct place. I noticed that the SLiM display manager is in the repositories [0] while the wiki states that it has been deprecated [1]. Also, the project site is no longer available. Now, I understand that there are some reasons to keep deprecated software in the repositories, like with truecrypt. However, in the case of SLiM, there are compatibility issues with systemd on top of the fact that it has been deprecated. So, would it be possible to remove this software from the repositories, or could someone give some reasons why it is still in the repositories? With kind regards, runical [0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/slim/ [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD - Howto build openmpi w/o valgrind or valgrind w/o openmpi - what's the trick?
by David C. Rankin 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

All, This seems like a chicken-and-the-egg problem that I'm not understanding. How do you build openmpi when it's makedepends requires valgrind, but you cannot build valgrind because it's makedepends requires openmpi?? Specifically: $ cat /var/abs/extra/valgrind/PKGBUILD pkgname=valgrind ... makedepends=(gdb openmpi) $ cat /var/abs/extra/openmpi/PKGBUILD pkgname=openmpi ... makedepends=(inetutils valgrind gcc-fortran) Is there some type of trick? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] mdmonitor.service /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh: No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 12 Jun '16

12 Jun '16

New server, 2 1T drives in RAID1, with mdraid, I have an error during boot for mdmonitor: Jun 05 17:12:47 valhalla systemd[454]: mdmonitor.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh: No such file or directory I've run into this before with mdadm, last time was due to not having MAILADDR configured in /etc/mdadm.conf (that is not the case now) # cat /etc/mdadm.conf DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:0 UUID=1b67f2d4:4911f2c5:469f9dcf:315814ce ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:1 UUID=0542c5c9:3802b256:32e97884:a2e49f53 ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:2 UUID=812e8f85:0c4efbef:a0c02f49:215df35e ARRAY /dev/md3 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:3 UUID=80a3bf76:e6421b06:6edb2a88:741e8b6f MAILADDR david(a)mydomain.com PROGRAM /usr/sbin/handle-mdadm-events The problem very simply looks to be no /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh wanted by mdmonitor.service, e.g. # cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/mdmonitor.service # This file is part of mdadm. # # mdadm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. [Unit] Description=MD array monitor DefaultDependencies=no [Service] Environment= MDADM_MONITOR_ARGS=--scan EnvironmentFile=-/run/sysconfig/mdadm ExecStartPre=-/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh ExecStart=/sbin/mdadm --monitor $MDADM_MONITOR_ARGS There is no /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/mdadm_env.sh in the current mdadm package. Is this a bug (which I'm happy to file), or me being stupid? (go easy if the latter) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] RetroArch refuses to go back into windowed mode after fullscreen
by Diego Viola 11 Jun '16

11 Jun '16

Hello, I've been having this poblem for a while now, and I reported the problem here, because I think its' a bug in the Intel driver. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93844 The problem happens when I use retroarch and I play a game, I press F to go into fullscreen mode, but when I press F again, the video is paused and retroarch hangs. This happens independently of the core I'm using in RA. At the moment, the problem is present with the 4.6.1-2-ARCH kernel, but if I compile 4.6.1 myself, the problem does not occur. Is there anything the package maintainers can do about this? Or this is something only the Intel developers can tackle? My system is archlinux x86_64, Intel i915 driver, Dual-Core CPU E5500 @ 2.80GHz desktop machine, 2GB of RAM. I was able to reproduce this on my ThinkPad T450 as well, so I don't think the hardware is that relevant. Thanks, Diego

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[arch-general] yaourt doesn't upgrade aur-packages anymore
by Apfelkuchen 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Hello, on my systems yaourt won't upgrade packages I installed from the aur. For instance etherpad-lite. When I do > yaourt -Syua it says > [sudo] Passwort für foobar: > :: Synchronisiere Paketdatenbanken... > core ist aktuell > extra ist aktuell > community ist aktuell > Fremde Pakete:/ 117 / 117 (in English: synchronizing the database; core, extra community are up to date) But when I do > yaourt etherpad-lite I get the output: > 1 aur/etherpad-lite 1.6.0-0 [installed: 1:1.5.7-3] (20) (0,17) I have the problem on all of the following three systems. (The first boths are my PIs, the last one ist my notebook. Linux 4.4.12-1-ARCH #1 Thu Jun 2 19:11:42 MDT 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux Linux 4.4.12-1-ARCH #1 SMP Thu Jun 2 19:11:39 MDT 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux Linux 4.6.1-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Jun 2 15:46:17 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux Do you have a glue, what's fishy with yaourt? Thanks and greets, Applepie

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[arch-general] Virtualbox users shouldn't upgrade to linux 4.6.1-2-ARCH
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hi, today I upgraded from 4.5.4-1-ARCH (x86_64) to 4.6.1-2-ARCH (x86_64), it's not in testing anymore, it's provided by the official repository, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/linux/ . On my machine the boot options are 'ro' 'threadirqs' and virtualbox with a Windows 7 guest hangs always after a few seconds. The bug already is reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/49504 I only wanted to inform that there is an issue. Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-general] arch-general Digest, Vol 140, Issue 10
by Information Technology Works 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

On 06/08/2016 08:00 PM, arch-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > been using thunderbird which > automatically does that for mail lists - now with it's impending demise > I am trying other mailers https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/files/2016/04/Finding-a-Home-for-Thund…

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[arch-general] pacman question - missing files (repost)
by Genes Lists 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

(Reposting in plain text - so sorry - been using thunderbird which automatically does that for mail lists - now with it's impending demise I am trying other mailers - like evolution ... ) I've seen this behavior a couple of times now. Here's what happened today. After installing systemd and libsystemd 230-4 (updating from 230-3). No errors reported. However computer refused to boot properly. Booting recovery and examining the logs showed that libsystemd.so was missing - complaint by udev. /usr/lib/libsystemd.so was present as a link pointing to libsystemd.so.0.15.0 which was absent. running pacman -Qk libsystemd confirmed the problem file. reinstalling libsystemd from cache - in recovery chroot - gave a warning about the link and the the libraryfile something like - warning: could not get file information for /usr/lib/libsystemd.so and .same for .so.0.15.0 And indeed the file was still absent. from same cachea rea I installed libsystemd and systemd 230-3 (i.e. downgrading) - this worked and the library is back now and I could boot with udev dying a squirrely death. I have had same problem (missing files with no warnings) with other updates - last time was glibc - that was fun to fix ... konsole wont start without glibc There were other less impactful ones in recent months - about time pacman 5 moved to testing - not saying its pacman itself - but something is amiss - could be hardware, kernel or ?? I have no errors in the log files. and do not see any issues from smartctl either. In all cases pacman -Qk finds the problem - and in all cases there were no errors reported on initial install -and there were similar warnings as zbove on re-install of same package from cache file. In every case there was a shared library with a sym link - and the actual library file was missing. Any suggestions for tracking this down? I assume if the package file was corrupted pacman would complain and redownload - so I'm a bit stumped ... thanks for any guidance. gene

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[arch-general] DKMS question around removal of kernel modules
by Genes Lists 08 Jun '16

08 Jun '16

When I install a new kernel, I notice that DKMS removes previous kernel modules as well as adding them to the new kernel. In the real old days these were not removed at all - so removal is a good thing. The issue is that the old kernel is still running and until machine is rebooted the modules wont be available I would think. I wonder - Is there a way to mark the deletion to happen after the new kernel is booted ? I may well be missing something of course. Installed 4.6.2 kernel while 4.6.1 running - pacman says: (1/1) Remove DKMS modules ==> dkms -q remove -q -m vboxguest -v 5.0.20_OSE -k 4.6.1-2-ARCH ==> dkms -q remove -q -m vboxhost -v 5.0.20_OSE -k 4.6.1-2-ARCH ...==> dkms -q install -m vboxguest -v 5.0.20_OSE -k 4.6.2-1-ARCH ==> dkms -q install -m vboxhost -v 5.0.20_OSE -k 4.6.2-1-ARCH ... Thanks for any thoughts. gene

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[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] Where to put info about Install Problem w/Partitioning due to Prior VMFS_volume & Hardware RAID?
by David C. Rankin 05 Jun '16

05 Jun '16

Archdevs, I wanted to drop a note in the wiki about how to deal with reuse of drives that have either prior VMFS_Volume filesystem (GPT table) or hardware RAID information on the disk. I was converting the drives to mdraid and ran into a number of failures converting to MBR. They were two separate but related issues that caused mdadm to be unable to use the drives. e.g. root@archiso ~ # blkid /dev/sr0: UUID="2016-03-01-15-50-36-00" LABEL="ARCH_201603" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="2237702c" PTTYPE="dos" /dev/sda: UUID="LSI ^P" TYPE="ddf_raid_member" /dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" /dev/sdb: UUID="LSI ^P" TYPE="ddf_raid_member" /dev/md126: PTUUID="b6fbd994" PTTYPE="dos" (the VMFS_Volume info was shown in cfdisk) The VMFS information and LSI Megaraid infor was removed by overwriting the first 8M of the first partition with dd, e.g.: root@archiso ~ # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 8388608 bytes (8.4 MB, 8.0 MiB) copied, 0.01363 s, 615 MB/s Zapping the GPT partition (with gdisk) was required to remove all parts of the GPT partition before the disks could be used by mdadm (I didn't know GPT wrote partition information to both the beginning and end of the disk and couldn't simply be removed with tools like fdisk or cfdisk, but required a tool that could zap all GPT info. root@archiso ~ # gdisk /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid MBR and GPT. Which do you want to use? 1 - MBR 2 - GPT 3 - Create blank GPT This info didn't seem right as a not on the beginner's page, it didn't fit nicely on the RAID wiki either (even though that seemed like the appropriate spot) and didn't fit on the Partitioning wiki either (that page had nothing related to disk reuse) It seems like this is worth noting for anyone else attempting to reuse disks from a prior VMWare or hardware raid config. What say the devs? Is there a proper place for it? Or should we just leave everyone to search the web for this info? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Missing gpg key?
by Sławomir Szczyrba 03 Jun '16

03 Jun '16

Hello. I try to recompile lib32-libgcrypt - because of this annoying error: libGL: dlopen /usr/lib32/xorg/modules/dri/radeonsi_dri.so failed (/usr/lib32/libgcrypt.so.20: symbol gpgrt_lock_lock, version GPG_ERROR_1.0 not defined in file libgpg-error.so.0 with link time reference) and makepkg says : [steev]/tmp/lib32-libgcrypt > LC_ALL=C LANG=en makepkg ==> Making package: lib32-libgcrypt 1.7.0-1 (Fri Jun 3 20:47:43 CEST 2016) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 -> Found libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2.sig ==> Validating source files with sha1sums... libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 ... Passed libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2.sig ... Skipped ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... libgcrypt-1.7.0.tar.bz2 ... FAILED (unknown public key 2071B08A33BD3F06) ==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified! All keys refreshed: gpg: refreshing 85 keys from hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net [...] gpg: Total number processed: 84 gpg: unchanged: 84 Missing key, or sth went really wrong? Regards Sławek

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[arch-general] ocaml package out of date
by phimosis haver 02 Jun '16

02 Jun '16

"The most recent version of OCaml is 4.03.0. It was released on 2016-05-25." https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/ocaml/ is a super old version.

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[arch-general] Arch Linux website down
by Florian Pritz 01 Jun '16

01 Jun '16

Hi, We are currently experiencing some technical problems with the webserver for archlinux.org, bugs.archlinux.org, patchwork.archlinux.org. We are working on it, but resolving this problem could take a while. The mailinglists, AUR, wiki and forums are hosted on a different machine and are still available. If you want to download an Arch Linux ISO, you can still do that via our mirrors. If you don't know any mirror URL, you can use this one: https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/ We are sorry for the inconvenience. Florian

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[arch-general] Enable translations in transmission-qt
by Alexey Rochev 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hi, I posted fixed PKGBUILD in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20982 a week ago, but it seems that no one noticed. Here is the patch: http://pastebin.com/b483Rqjp

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[arch-general] Builds for influxdata
by Óscar García Amor 31 May '16

31 May '16

Hello all, I make some builds for influx suite that could be added to community. https://git.connectical.com/aur/influxdb https://git.connectical.com/aur/telegraf https://git.connectical.com/aur/grafana I have to make chronograf too, but not have free license. https://git.connectical.com/aur/chronograf I think that this could help. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] systemctl problems with enable,disable,start,stop
by Maykel Franco 30 May '16

30 May '16

Hi, I have installed archlinux from zero. And when I enable anything service the command is slow and i get this error: [root@arch-kodi-nas maykel]# systemctl enable network(a)enp2s0.service Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-er ror-quark, 24) Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/network(a)enp2s0.service to /etc/systemd/system/network@.service. [root@arch-kodi-nas maykel]# systemctl enable sshd Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1: Timeout was reached (g-io-er ror-quark, 24) Is the bug in systemctl? I have installed archlinux un my notebook from 4 years ago and no problems. Thanks in advanced.

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