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[arch-general] Gedit startup issues
by L. Rose 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Dear fellow Archers, I'm using XFCE4 on an up-to-date Arch Linux installation I've built from the official downloadable image and by following the instructions on the Arch wiki. The system works fine, but there are still some bugs I want to zap out. First thing is: Sometimes gedit won't start when launching it over the GUI. I've installed it from the package repositories by using pacman, and it works most times, but, sometimes (I can't see any pattern in when it works and when not) it just won't start from the GUI. By GUI, I mean * The XFCE-Applications Menu * By double-clicking a text file that is associated with gedit * By clicking the gedit icon I've attached to docky I've never noticed such issues when launching gedit from the GUI. Furthermore, I didn't see any error messages in dmesg or in /var/log/Xorg.0.log. When the problem appears, it often persists until the next reboot. I have no clue on how to fix it, any ideas are greatly appreciated. It's quite annoying that I can't rely on gedit... Thanks in advance, Lukas

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[arch-general] Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks") problem
by Francis Gerund 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hello. I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks" program) was working fine. The Gnome-disk-utility is currently 3.20.1-1, apparently updated 2016-04-12. Today, when I start it using either the icon on the favorites menu on the left side of the desktop, or from the catch-all icon on the favorites menu, that goes to all of the icons that actually launch application programs in Gnome, either way I just get the drop-down menu labeled "Disks" in the top menu bar of the Gnome desktop. No window appears for "Disks". In the drop-down menu there are 4 choices: 1) "Attach disk image" 2) "Help" 3) "About" 4) "Quit" Clicking Quit: the program never launches, the menu just goes away. Clicking Help: the program never launches, but a Gnome Help window titled "Disks & Storage" does pop up. Clicking About: -nothing happens. Clicking "Attach disk image" just the far left part of a window pops up, the rest of the window is past the right edge of the desktop. The window is titled "Select Disk Image To Attach". It looks like a window from Gnome "Files" (Nautilus). Clicking "Cancel" makes that window go away, revealing the main "Disks" window, which *seems* to work as usual, but I am reluctant to test it out. Clicking the "X" buttion dismisses the window, as expected. (Note: at times investigating this, the gnome-disk-utility window(s) may lock up, as well as the mouse, requiring the entire desktop to be "crashed" manually using alt-ctl-bksp, to escape.) I have, in various combinations, 1) rebooted 2) updated (sudo pacman -Syyuv) 3) reinstalled gnome-disk-utility (sudo pacman -Rs gnome-disk-utility) 4) downgraded using the local package cache to the previous version,and the the version before that (sudo pacman -U gnome-disk-utility-3.20.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz, and sudo pacman -U gnome-disk-utility-3.18.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz) 5) upgraded gnome-disks-utility again (sudo pacman -U gnome-disk-utility-3.20.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz) 6) searched online for information 7) told the problem it was not wanted here and to please go away. The problem did not go away. Note: part way through the process, gnome-terminal suddenly showed the same problem, which went away as soon as gnome-terminal was reinstalled. So I suspect that the problem may not be with gnome-desktop utility, but with something else, perhaps recently updated, in the Gnome system. I did rely upon gnome-disk-utility, especially to manage external usb disks without losing data, so this is a real problem. Has anyone else run into this problem? Any solutions? Any ideas?

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[arch-general] version bumps on -dkms
by Oon-Ee Ng 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

I don't believe a version bump is required for -dkms (e.g. nvidia-dkms in [testing] just got bumped to -4 due to new kernel in [testing])? I understand this is because the nvidia packages use a split PKGBUILD, but it still seems something could be done a bit better here. Perhaps a way for split PKGBUILDs to have different pkgvers (this would cause more problems than it solves IMO) or just not pushing *-dkms automatically with everything else unless sources have changed.

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[arch-general] Console FB conflicts with xorg
by Sebastián Pedersen 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Hi, When I put in my grub configuration: GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep and consequently get framebuffer for the console, then xorg vesa driver not render properly, and the fbdev xorg driver stops working the DPMS. But If I comment that grub line, evething works fine. The problem is that I use a lot a framebuffer console, and also xorg. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] What is aclocal?
by Gerhard Kugler 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Hi, if I call urlview within mutt, I get: "urlview: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" ncurses is existing here of course If I try to reinstall urlview, I get: aclocal: command not found Where can I find aclocal? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Bensheim

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[arch-general] LLVM update blocker?
by Yichao Yu 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi, I'd like to ask if there's anything that is holding back upgrading the LLVM package to 3.8.0. (The package is already flaged out-of-date and I don't think this worth opening an issue for so I decided to ask here...) I'm aware that LLVM is famous for breaking API at every release and I know that clang is currently suffering from the GCC abi_tag issue so I can understand if some of these issues are holding back the upgrade. However, I would still like to know what is the issue (if any) since it would help me planing for the llvm-julia package and related stuff. Thanks, Yichao Yu

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[arch-general] pacman update error
by Francis Gerund 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi. On Arch 64-bit, up to date (as of about 12 hours ago), I just did: sudo pacmatic -Syyuv Here's the result: Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Hook Dirs : /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : None :: Synchronizing package databases... core 120.8 KiB 417K/s 00:00 [##################################] 100% extra 1750.7 KiB 2.88M/s 00:01 [##################################] 100% community 3.4 MiB 3.59M/s 00:01 [##################################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (5) libutil-linux-2.28-1 mesa-11.2.1-1 mesa-libgl-11.2.1-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20160418-1 util-linux-2.28-1 Total Installed Size: 46.04 MiB Net Upgrade Size: 0.44 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (5/5) checking keys in keyring [##################################] 100% (5/5) checking package integrity [##################################] 100% (5/5) loading package files [##################################] 100% (5/5) checking for file conflicts [##################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) util-linux: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mount exists in filesystem util-linux: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/umount exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Tried pacman -Syyuv. Same result. Rebooted. Same result. Did sudo reflector --verbose --country 'United States' -l 200 -p https --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, then pacman -Syyuv. Same result. So, this seems to be the relevant section: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) util-linux: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/mount exists in filesystem util-linux: /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/umount exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Any idea what the problem might be?

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[arch-general] GTK2 GUIs became a PITA after upgrade
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, after the last upgrade GTK2 apps running in an openbox session need more space, they became darker and in some windows even the fonts became less good readable. The reason that I dropped desktop environments was to get rid of chaotic designs and to keep a clear design and now even GTK2 apps in an openbox session became a parody. I'll downgrade one package after the other, but perhaps somebody could give me a hint what package/s might have caused the new unfavourable look. One problem is shown here, a dilettante repeated unnecessarily design, e.g. a bar that already separates regions inside a window, became a bar with a cutting line inside the bar: http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20160410/7fdca7e7/a… The list of packages that were upgraded is posted here: http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2016-April/016236.html [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep -v '#' .gtkrc-2.0 gtk-theme-name = "Adwaita" style "user-font" { font_name="FreeSans 12" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] unbound will not start with dnscrypt
by niya levi 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

my setup nsd listening on localhost port 53530 dnscrypt-proxy listening on localhost port 40 using both start up and run without errors dns and dnssec works fine without dnscrypt when i uncomment the forward-zone lines unbound is unable to start can anyone spot where i have made an error ? thanks Shadrock unbound.conf ============== server: verbosity: 3 username: "unbound" interface: 127.0.0.1 interface: 10.2.1.4 port: 53 do-ip4: yes do-ip6: no do-udp: yes do-tcp: yes do-daemonize: no access-control: 0.0.0.0/0 refuse access-control: 127.0.0.0/8 allow access-control: 10.2.1.0/8 allow directory: "/etc/unbound" logfile: "/unbound/unbound.log" pidfile: "/var/run/unbound.pid" root-hints: "/etc/unbound/root.hints" hide-identity: yes hide-version: yes harden-glue: yes harden-dnssec-stripped: yes use-caps-for-id: yes cache-min-ttl: 3600 cache-max-ttl: 86400 prefetch: yes prefetch-key: yes extended-statistics: yes num-threads: 4 msg-cache-slabs: 4 rrset-cache-slabs: 4 infra-cache-slabs: 4 key-cache-slabs: 4 rrset-cache-size: 256m msg-cache-size: 128m private-address: 10.0.0.0/8 private-address: 172.16.0.0/12 private-address: 192.168.0.0/16 private-address: 169.254.0.0/16 private-domain: "mydomain.co.uk" unwanted-reply-threshold: 10000 do-not-query-localhost: no trust-anchor-file: "trusted-key.key" val-clean-additional: yes # forward-zone: # name: "." # forward-addr: 127.0.0.1@40 # This local-zone line will tell unbound that private addresses like # 10.2.1.0/8 can send queries to a stub zone authoritative server like NSD. local-zone: "10.in-addr.arpa." nodefault # FORWARD lookup stub zone pointing to the NSD authoritative server. # stub-zone: name: "mydomain.co.uk" stub-addr: 127.0.0.1@53530 # REVERSE (rDNS) dns lookup for the mydomain.co.uk zone. stub-zone: name: "1.2.10.in-addr.arpa." stub-addr: 127.0.0.1@53530 ## unbound.conf

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[arch-general] Xorg video driver for de sis 771/671
by Sebastián Pedersen 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hi, lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter (rev 10) but I couldn't an xorg driver that's support my video card. I try this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SiS but with no luck. Anyone else using this video card? Many thanks in advance.

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