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[arch-general] Inkscape fails to open svg files
by Murari 04 Jun '15

04 Jun '15

Hi all, An update between the 17th of May and the 1st of June seems to have broken Inkscape's ability to open existing svg files on my computer. Any svg I open (including stock files off the internet) cause Inkscape to crash with "Inkscape encountered an internal error and will close now". I even created a new, test svg consisting only of a few shapes and text, but I can't open it again after saving. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Duplicated keycodes
by Facundo Curti 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hi. I hope someone can help me please. I bought a new keyboard, a noga NKB-710. The problem is that, according to xev, four of the keys have the same keycode... The keys Ctrl, Alt, Win*** and shift, have the same keycode, 50. Off course, it doesn't work correctly. and this way, It's imposible to me to configure it with xmodmap. I don't know what data I can share. I hope this to be sufficient: attached a lsusb -v output Thx, bye! :P

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[arch-general] Qemu on Livirt: extra/ovmf being useless
by Martti Kühne 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Godday I was trying to make EFI booting work on qemu using the GUI that comes with libvirt. I went ahead installing extra/ovmf. I struggled a bit, since the injection of EFI firmware into qemu is not accessible through libvirt and found /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to be the place to set it up. However any setup guide to the nvram array gets to have 2 arguments split by a colon, where I just could not figure out what to put in the second spot. I went ahead trying ovmf-svn from AUR, which "works", in that it ships two files, one before (ovmf_code_${short_arch}.bin) and another for after the colon (ovmf_vars_${short_arch}.bin). I just haven't got that one to boot from hard drive yet either. That part though, I'm confident to figure out eventually. My question focuses around the extra/ovmf bit, which in the case of libvirt doesn't appear to ship all the necessary pieces. Does the packager have a working recipe to set up extra/ovmf available under libvirt? Is it possible to store one's UEFI vars per box? cheers! mar77i

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[arch-general] traceroute package
by schaeferpp＠lekkerleben.de 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hello, We've found a inconsistency with the traceroute installation and it's manpage. The manpage says 'traceroute6 is an equivalent to traceroute -6', but in arch linux this does not work. It this by design? Thank you. Paul Schaefer

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[arch-general] Archlinux, kernel 4.x , VMware Workstation 11
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 03 Jun '15

03 Jun '15

Hi all, I'm heavily using VMware workstation 11 and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware states about https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VMware#3.19_kernels_and_up kernel 3.19 and up. When upgrading my system, I'm prompted to upgrade to 4.x kernels Is the provided patch (http://pastie.org/pastes/9934018/download) working for 4.x kernels ? Thank you. Note: I did not use https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-patch/

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[arch-general] "error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback"
by Ralf Mardorf 31 May '15

31 May '15

Hi, for some time past I get error: unknown encoding UTF8: using iso88591 as fallback when running GTK2 and GTK3 apps, Pluma, Claws Mail, Evolution. Other apps, perhaps Qt apps, might be affected too. There are no issues when using those apps, the terminal just shows these messages. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ locale -a C de_DE de_DE@euro de_DE.iso88591 de_DE.iso885915@euro de_DE.utf8 deutsch en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.utf8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 german POSIX [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.UTF-8 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat ~/.config/locale.conf cat: /home/rocketmouse/.config/locale.conf: No such file or directory [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo nano /etc/locale.conf [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf LANG=en_US.utf8 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo shutdown -r now It doesn't make a difference, I still get the error messages, when running a new session. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Fwd: Connection through USB to TTL Serial Cable
by Csányi Pál 31 May '15

31 May '15

I also used sofar the GNU Screen to connect to remote host through serial connection: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Sofar it works, but today I get the message: [screen is terminating] htop shows these lines for screen: 19038 csp 20 0 17244 2496 2300 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 19039 root 20 0 17244 2348 2044 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 SCREEN /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 So I must first kill these two processes of screen, and after that I can run screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 command, however, the GNU Screen is empty, so it is useless. Before, I just hit Enter to get the login prompt in Screen, but now I get nothing. Ti trace the cause of problem I follow advices here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/93892/screen-is-terminating sudo strace -ff -p 1696 -o straceGNUScreen gives three output files: http://pastie.org/10215997 http://pastie.org/10216006 http://pastie.org/10215998 What can cause my problem? -- Regards from Pal

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[arch-general] Subpixel antialiasing
by Vladimir Nikšić 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi guys! I've done a pacman -Syu this morning. The upgrade went fine, all the key components are working properly, except a slight issue I'm having with chromium. Chromium no longer obeys the subpixel antialiasing, but instead has a basic AA mode, without the subpixel hinting. This of course results in ugly letters across the board. What's even more weird, other applications seem to have it normally, like firefox, xfce4-terminal, etc... I'm using xfce4. The settings > appearance had subpixel disabled, but once enabled chromium still didn't obey the subpixel hinting. I don't understand what has changed exactly with chromium, and how do I set it to have subpixel once again. I went through here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Subpixel_rendering but I can't really find anything pertinent to my case. Any ideas anyone? :)

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[arch-general] systemd 220 crypt swap
by Carsten Mattner 27 May '15

27 May '15

I had to downgrade to systemd 219 because 220 fails to stop or enable luks crypt swap partition. There was an unlogged error on shutdown after upgrade and an infinite loop/wait on startup. I had to use a rescue linux to mount and disable crypttab and fstab entries before downgrading. /etc/crypttab: cswap /dev/sda3 /dev/urandom swap,cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256 /etc/fstab: /dev/mapper/cswap none swap defaults 0 0 Found nothing relevant about API breakage in v220 changelog.

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[arch-general] RAID-0 kernel bug
by Francis Gerund 26 May '15

26 May '15

Hello. RE: "Data corruption on software RAID 0 when discard is used 2015-05-22 Recent Linux kernels (4.0.2+, LTS 3.14.41+), pushed to the [core] repository in the past couple of weeks, were affected by a bug that can cause data corruption on file systems mounted with the discard option and residing on software RAID 0 arrays. The issue has been addressed in the linux 4.0.4-2 and linux-lts 3.14.43-2 updates. Due to the nature of the bug, however, it is likely that data corruption has already occurred on systems running the aforementioned kernels. It is strongly advised to verify the integrity of affected file systems using fsck and/or restore their data from known good backups. For further information please read the LKML post by Holger Kiehl, the related article on Phoronix, as well as the proposed fix that was backported to the Arch kernels." Am I correct to assume that this would ONLY affect systems that include a RAID-0 filesystem, and that it would not affect other ext4 systems using SSDs with "discard" in /etc/fstab?

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