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[arch-general] Plasma 5
by Paul Gideon Dann 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

After switching to Plasma 5 from KDE SC 4, I have a couple of small issue, and I wonder if anyone else already has a solution? 1) I'm using SDDM now, but even with KDE4, I was unable to get SDDM to actually launch a Plasma session. After entering my details, I get a black screen and no further activity. I have to switch to another console, log in, and invoke startx myself. 2) I used to have some global shortcuts for launching certain apps. I don't seem able to set these up any more. After setting a shortcut on a lancher in the panel (e.g. Firefox), nothing happens when I actually hit the shortcut combination. 3) Despite installing sni-qt, I'm getting no tray icon for my Telepathy IM contacts. 4) I'm not sure how to get my beloved comic widget back on my desktop :( Paul

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[arch-general] syslog-ng + systemd-journald = no logs for syslog-ng
by Ephaeton＠gmx.net 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

## vanilla /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf # grep -v '^#' /etc/systemd/journald.conf [Journal] Storage=none ForwardToSyslog=no ForwardToKMsg=no ForwardToConsole=no ForwardToWall=no # note: ForwardToSyslog set to no as per the first few paragraphs of # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/syslog-ng # I tried ForwardToSyslog=yes as well, doesn't work either # # systemd-journald and syslog-ng have been (re)started # logger -p mail.info "mail argh" # logger "user notice argh" # logger -p local0.alert "local argh" # cd /var/log/ # grep -l argh * # # nothing to be seen here. In fact, the only thing that seem to log anything "live" is syslog itself. Note that this setup used to work just fine until prior to some 10 to 15 days ago, i.e., I expect an update broke it. This is with an up-to-date system. (syslog-ng 3.6.2-1 and systemd 218-1) Any ideas, anybody? I'd really like to NOT store anything via systemd-journald, in fact, I'd really like to systemctl disable systemd-journald and never be bothered by it again, so please don't tell me I should be just using systemd-journald ;) Regards, -Martin

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[arch-general] filesystem-2015.02 package errors from symlinks
by Genes Lists 16 Feb '15

16 Feb '15

I use symlinks for some directories (e.g. /srv/http and /var/spool/mail are sym links to dedicated disks) When i update the filesystem package I get this error: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /srv/http exists in filesystem filesystem: /var/spool/mail exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. What is the recommended way to deal with this? My version is: filesystem 2014.10-3 Trying to update to : filesystem-2015.02-1 in testing repo. Thanks. Gene

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[arch-general] "sc" in [community]?
by Ido Rosen 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Happy new year, Would anyone like to bring the venerable UNIX spreadsheet program "sc" into [community]? I'm maintaining it in AUR currently. Many other distros support it. :-) Ido

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD: replaces array in split packages
by Jakub Klinkovský 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hello, I'm writing a script [1] to update package links on ArchWiki. The script also gives hints on broken/outdated package, e.g. for 'mesa-dri` the hint is "replaced by 'mesa'" (with an appropriate link to the 'mesa' package). I've chosen to only look into the 'replaces' array of the packages, because unlike 'provides', a package can be replaced only by one other package, whereas multiple packages can "provide" the same package. Or at least I thought so - it appears that both qemu and libcacard have qemu-kvm in their 'replaces' array. In this case, it's because qemu is a split package (qemu + libcacard) and the replaces array is defined globally in the PKGBUILD, not per-package. Is this a bug or was my assumption about the 'replaces' array wrong? How would pacman handle the situation where qemu-kvm is supposed to be replaced by libcacard and/or qemu? Thanks for answers, Jakub Klinkovský (Lahwaacz) [1]: https://github.com/lahwaacz/wiki-scripts/blob/master/update-package-templat…

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[arch-general] Key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely
by Viktor Garske 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Hello, I've got a problem with pacman: when I try to upgrade the system pacman writes "key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely". Then I looked into this forum thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1501915#p1501915) I tried the workaround but "pacman-key --refresh-keys" returned (after a long time): gpg: Refresh vom Schlüsselserver fehlgeschlagen: Dateiende ==> FEHLER: Ein spezifizierter lokaler Schlüssel konnte nicht vom Schlüssel-Server aktualisiert werden. (it means:) gpg: refresh failed from the key server: end of file ==> ERROR: a specified local key could not be refreshed by the key server. Do you have any solutions? -- Viktor

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[arch-general] [extra] package depending on [community] package
by Oon-Ee Ng 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

Wasn't there a guideline somewhere against this? Should I raise bugs when I see this is taking place? Specific example that I just noticed is mpd, because libnfs in community updated. Of course, mpd was updated within 12 hours or so, and I understand packages are mostly best maintained by those who actually know/care about the project, hence I just want to ask the question, is this considered a bug or not?

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[arch-general] pacman security when importing new keys?
by Manuel Reimer 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hello, today, pacman asked me to import a new signature key. So far this was done "automatically" using a keys-package, which, itself, was signed with a trusted key. How is the new mechanism secured? Is the new way, to bring keys to users, prone to MITM attacks? Thanks in advance. Manuel

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[arch-general] error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely
by mick 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

The last few days when I try to update (pacman -Syyu) I get the following:- (29/29) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100% downloading required keys... error: key "A6234074498E9CEE" could not be looked up remotely error: required key missing from keyring error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. how do I fix it??

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[arch-general] NFS won't start since 2015-2-11 update (solved)
by Rodrigo Rivas 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Do # systemctl enable rpcbind.service and reboot or `systemctl restart nfs-utils`. It seems that the before rpcbind-0.2.2 this service were preset to "enabled" but this is no longer the case, so it will default to "disabled". Just my €0.02. -- Rodrigo

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