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[arch-general] Lxde taskbar freezing
by David Rosenstrauch 17 Sep '18

17 Sep '18

It seems like some recent package installation or upgrade has been breaking my Lxde desktop. The taskbar at the bottom of the screen keeps freezing up periodically - doesn't repaint (except for non-lxde icons like network manager applet), doesn't respond to mouse clicks, etc. Then after a few minutes it suddenly starts responding again - only to freeze up again a few minutes later. The issue seems to be restricted to the Lxde desktop - the Xfce taskbar doesn't seem to freeze up in the same way. Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Again, I believe it's a recent upgrade, as all was working for me during the work day on Friday. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] How to have multiple JDKs parallel?
by Peter Nabbefeld 15 Sep '18

15 Sep '18

Hello, up to JDK 9 I didn't have problems upgrading, but since JDK 10 it always wants to replace JDK 9, and I guess it will become worse with JDK 11 etc. I've set "IgnorePkg = jdk9-openjdk jre9-openjdk jre9-openjdk-headless openjdk9-doc openjdk9-src" in pacman.conf, so now I'm getting warnings all the time, but I'm not sure what will happen with future updates. As a Java developer, I need to be able to have multiple JDKs for compatibility checkings. Kind regards Peter

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[arch-general] automake at 1.15
by Jonathon Fernyhough 12 Sep '18

12 Sep '18

Hi all. TL;DR: why is automake still at 1.15? I'm trying to work out if there's a reason for automake [1] being held at 1.15 (1.16 is needed for building cups-filters-driverless [2] due to patching Makefile.am; yes, I know, this cause is not strictly an Arch issue but it may impact on other software). Looking at the release announcements for automake 1.16 [3] and 1.16.1 [4] I can't immediately see any incompatible changes, and a web search on "automake site:lists.archlinux.org" doesn't show me anything interesting (or anything at all) from the past year or so (1.16 was released in Feb 2018). I don't want to email the package maintainer before doing due-diligence (I know what it's like getting stupid questions via direct email). Any pointers etc. gratefully received. Best, Jonathon [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/automake/ [2] https://forum.manjaro.org/t/why-is-the-automake-package-at-version-1-15/581… [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-02/msg00012.html [4] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-03/msg00019.html

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[arch-general] Icons issues with LXPanel
by Giovanni Santini (ItachiSan) 11 Sep '18

11 Sep '18

Hey everyone, I am an user of LXDE and I pretty happy with it, but I just have some weird issue with lxpanel: My terminal (GNOME Terminal) has no icon in the panel, but after resizing the bar it does appear Some Electron-based apps (Mailspring and Franz) do not show their icons in the panel and have instead a generic icon I am not sure this can be considered as a bug or not, so I reported it here first. Any opinions on this? Would be better if I can fix it. Thanks everyone in advance!

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[arch-general] AUR: Failing to install gnupod-git (no perl-date-parse)
by Jeanette C. 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Hey hey, I just tried to install gnupod-git from AUR and there is one unmet dependency not found by either pacman or through AUR: perl-date-parse . Short of building an AUR myself, is there something I could do? Best wishes, Jeanette -------- * Website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c * Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMS4rfGrTwz8W7jhC1Jnv7g * GitHub: https://github.com/jeanette-c * Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeanette_c_s But now I'm stronger than yesterday <3 (Britney Spears)

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[arch-general] users memlock value
by Ralf Mardorf 02 Sep '18

02 Sep '18

Hi, I wonder if it's reasonable, that a package sets an '@users - memlock' value, since it overrides needed memlock values of other groups. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf @users - memlock 1024 # vim:set ft=limits: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qo /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf /etc/security/limits.d/10-gcr.conf is owned by gcr 3.28.0-4 Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] update today causes avantfax_hourly cron: Exec format error?
by David C. Rankin 01 Sep '18

01 Sep '18

All, After the linux-firmware update I have started receiving strange cron messages: Cron <root@phoinix> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly run-parts: failed to exec /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly: Exec format error run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly exited with return code 1 The cron job is: /etc/cron.hourly/avantfax_hourly # runs once an hour to update the phone book 0 * * * * /srv/http/avantfax/includes/phb.php Testing manually works fine: # ./phb.php # echo $? This started after the linux-firmware update: [2018-08-25 22:40] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -Syu' [2018-08-25 22:40] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2018-08-25 22:41] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] transaction started [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20180815.f1b95fe-1 -> 20180821.1d17c18-3) [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] transaction completed [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] running 'systemd-tmpfiles.hook'... [2018-08-25 22:41] [ALPM] running 'systemd-update.hook'... (I am 5 hours ahead of UTC - which corresponds to the time just before the cron messages started) I am scratching my head as how this can be related? Anybody else having this type issue after updates in the past 24 hours? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Services with DefaultDependencies=no
by Leonid Isaev 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

Hi, While going over .service files on my system, I noticed that quite a few of them, not belonging to systemd package, contain DefaultDependencies=no (DD=no). This is understandable (perhaps) for programs like systemd-journald, but what about normal daemons, like rpcbind, haveged and rpc-nfsd? I thought that setting DD=no is kind of a hack needed only for special services (e.g. called from fstab via x-systemd.requires=). Or am I missing something? Thanks, L. -- Leonid Isaev

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[arch-general] Include paths for python 3
by Jayesh Badwaik 24 Aug '18

24 Aug '18

I've noticed that the include paths for python 3 are updated according to the version of python being installed. This removes some stability for custom programs which build against python (example boost.python). It would be nice if there was a symlink version of python include paths to a stable location like `/usr/include/python3`. Thank you. -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik https://jayeshbadwaik.gitlab.io

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[arch-general] Antergoes problem.
by Matthew Dyer 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

Hi all, Just installed antergoes which is an arch diribitive distro. Any how I have yaourt Enabled to install packages from the AUR. When I attempted to install or update packages with yaourt I get command not found. For example, when I type yaourt -S espeak-ng-git I get the responce, "bash command not found." any ideas on this. has something changed that I am unare of. I never had this problem with this before. Thanks all. Matthew

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