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[arch-general] Please update the Cinnamon packages
by Marcelo Ranolfi 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Good morning, Our Cinnamon packages, from maintainer Alexandre Filgueiras ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=faidoc), have been out-of-date for a while now. Someone asked on Reddit a month ago about this ( https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6axs8n/to_alexandre_filgueria_w…) and was informed that the packages are up-to-date in Antergos. I appreciate that Mr. Filgueira is the founder and project leader for Antergos. Since the Cinnamon packages are currently lagging 5 months behind official releases, I'd like to ask Mr Filgueira to either step up and update the packages, or possibily consider handing over the maintanership in the best interest of the community. The Cinnamon DE is developing fast, and a rather large number of quirks are fixed each release. There's a git version in AUR, but it's basically broken (the PKGBUILD themselves, and the sources - it's dev version after all). I'd create another AUR package myself for the most up-to-date version, but we have a policy of not doing that for official packages. Anyway, I would volunteer to maintain Cinnamon, if needed. Thanks for your consideration.

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Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues
by David Barri 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Broke for me recently too. I had to add this to my .xinitrc: systemctl --user start xfce4-notifyd.service

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[arch-general] lynx update incorrect
by Jude DaShiell 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Line 93 of /etc/lynx.cfg was incorrectly reverted. The real home page for lynx is at: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ The lynx.isc.org site got taken down in I think June of 2016. --

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

26 Jun '17

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

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

24 Jun '17

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

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

22 Jun '17

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

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

21 Jun '17

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

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

21 Jun '17

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

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

20 Jun '17

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

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

19 Jun '17

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

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