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[arch-general] Htop 2.0 fonts
by Garmine 42 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi! Since the update to 2.0 the usage graphs use nonexisting fonts - both TTY and uxterm show the "empty box" unicode character instead of the fonts shown on htop 2.0 screenshots. I did not find any missing dependency for htop on my system. Do anyone else have this issue? Any ideas? Shall I install a new font for this? If so, which one? Thank you in advance. Regards, Garmine

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[arch-general] Smartcard troubles on Arch
by Mathias Huber 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Dear Archers, I am trying to get my Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 (GPG-Smartcard-Reader in a USB-Stick) to work on Arch. I've set up Udev in the way I did successfully in Ubuntu 12.04.LTS. However, no success. I am still trying to figure out where the trouble lies. I can never see the card using gpg --card-status But sometimes I see its fields when using pcscs_scan. Possible culprits: pcscd, which sometimes gives errors, gpg's USB support? Has anyone had success in setting up this reader or similar smartcard readers? Or had similar troubles? I would love to hear from you. Best, Mathias

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[arch-general] Xinitrc wiki still references copying /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ?
by David C. Rankin 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

All, I'm working to setup fluxbox on a virtual arch install inside ESXI which I will access via rdesktop (or something similar). In configuring flux to start at boot I was following the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc The point about copying the default xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc references a file that no longer exists in the current Xorg install. e.g.: cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc What is the current way to set up your ~/.xinitrc (or is that even needed anymore?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files
by Kyle Terrien 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to Firefox. (Bleh!) I ended up cleaning up after xdg-open in the process of correcting my default web browser. In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files go), there were several files in the format userapp-<appname>-<short_hash>.desktop. userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop userapp-Pale Moon-1HNY8X.desktop userapp-SeaMonkey-YV09AY.desktop userapp-Thunderbird-PIZCZW.desktop (Wow! I have gone through a lot of web browsers lately.) I remember creating a few .desktop files in this directory, but I don't remember creating any userapp-* files. The contents of userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop were: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application NoDisplay=true Exec=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u Name=Firefox Comment=Custom definition for Firefox This is weird. There is only an English comment (the default has many languages), and this one has set NoDisplay. I deleted all my custom .desktop files. I have no use for them anymore. And back to the problem of default web browsers. These userapp .desktop files got into mimeapps.list (now located in ~/.config/). I suppose the short hash for SeaMonkey changed, causing mimeapps.list to fallback to the next web browser listed in mimeapps.list. I had to weed all the userapp garbage out and replace them with the system-wide .desktop file names. What daemon creates these mysterious userapp .desktop files? I don't want this daemon creating this junk on my system. --Kyle

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[arch-general] ikev2 strongswan client on Arch
by Fulcrum 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi I have successfully setup strongswan VPN server following instructions here[1]. I tested the server by connecting a Blackberry client and a Windows Phone client. Both used IKEv2 and worked fine. I have another laptop, running Arch, that I want to connect to the VPN server. But I can't figure how to configure strongswan as client. The link [1] doesn't describe it. Neither could I find such information from google. Regards, [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/StrongSwan

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[arch-general] System freeze when powering down.
by r.kintzi+arch-general＠pobox.net.pl 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi there, The hardware is Asus K501UX running linux-4.5.0-mainline from aur and a GNOME desktop. The problem is the system freeze when it is powering down (not always but very often). See attached files for logs from properly (power-down-ok-tail.log) and improperly (power-down-fail-tail.log) finished power down sequences. Any clues what should/could I do to fix the issue? Let me know if more information is needed. R.

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[arch-general] terminal
by flow 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Virtual termninal freeze when I witch to from Xorg. This happen since upgrade: [2016-03-12 21:31] [ALPM] upgraded linux-firmware (20151207.bbe4917-1 -> 20160113.40e9ae8-1) [2016-03-12 21:31] [ALPM] upgraded linux-api-headers (4.1.4-1 -> 4.4.1-1) [2016-03-12 21:32] [ALPM] upgraded linux (4.3.3-3 -> 4.4.5-1) [2016-03-12 21:32] [ALPM] upgraded linux-headers (4.3.3-3 -> 4.4.5-1) [2016-03-12 21:32] [ALPM] upgraded linux-lts-headers (4.1.16-1 -> 4.1.19-1) - -- Have a nice day! ~~~ This PGP signature only certifies the sender and date of the message. It implies no approval from the administrators of nym.mixmin.net. Date: Wed Mar 16 14:21:17 2016 GMT From: flow(a)nym.mixmin.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlbpa90ACgkQViYZwngkfDudzwCfRmMP+zRbK1sHLDlUDHnBA2bg oAcAn1VN6ALnh6cqBqobBVYBfy5ZIphE =kn0+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] stuck on a black screen (installing Asus_x205ta)
by Marc Chantreux 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

hello, I followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_x205ta from start to #Install_Arch and i'm now stuck: I'm booting on a menu with 3 choices: * Arch iso install * EFI v1 * EFI v2 none of them is working: if i select one, the screen turns black 'til i reboot. i don't even know how to get an error message or any other clue. can someone help? also: as i think some people made it, some iso of working usb keys are existing somewhere in the word. why not share those? regards -- Marc Chantreux (eiro on github and freenode) http://eiro.github.com/ http://eiro.github.com/atom.xml "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -- Abraham Lincoln

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[arch-general] Win 10 Dual boot nightmare
by Zachary Kline 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

Hi All, I’ve been a Linux user off and on for ten years or so, and over the past while really come to enjoy the simplicity of Arch. I decided to install on my new HP laptop which came pre-installed with Windows 10. I honestly almost feel like I preferred the BIOS/boot sector situation. I understand the advantages of EFI in theory, but Win 10 is driving me nuts with its refusal to be a good EFI citizen. Compounding the frustration is the fact that I’m totally blind, and thus my ability to interact with EFI is limited. I’ve tried the wiki-recommended approach of using BCDEdit to set the {fwbootmgr} DEFAULT entry to the Linux boot manager, in my case systemd-boot. As far as I can tell it does absolutely nothing, that is, Windows still boots after a computer restart. The only way I’ve managed to boot Linux is to change BootNext, or as BCDEdit calls it, BootSequence. This works for a one-time boot but is fairly tedious. The alternative wiki approach of changing the path of {bootmgr}, doesn’t seem to do anything either. Windows still boots as it always has. I note that {fwbootmgr} and {bootmgr} seem to be different. I’ve considered changing the path of {fwbootmgr} instead, but ben reluctant for fear of locking myself out of Windows. Any advice would be appreciated. If this were a BIOS system I would have no trouble with Grub. Thanks much, Zack.

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[arch-general] Installing php 7 and php56 at the same time?
by David C. Rankin 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

All, I need to downgrade php from 7 to 5.6. I built the 5.6.19 package from AUR and I'm now at the install stage. Before I do I thought I would ask if I need to remove php7 before installing php5.6? The PKGBUILD has no 'conflicts' or 'replaces' specified and they are prefixed differently (e.g. php and php56), but what I am unclear on is how my applications will know which one to use? This was necessitate when php7 broke part of my groupware package (webdav/caldav/carddav) that I need working until those can be upgraded. Do I just install php56 along side php7 or remove php7 first? If removed, then I set IgnorePkg in packman.conf -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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