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[arch-general] Messed up {g,u}id for uuidd
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hello, I had the brilliant idea couple of weeks ago to merge the /etc/{shadow,group,passwd} . I know now that I shouldn't be merging those and ignore the pacnew files. Now i'd like to fix these. The status report from systemd is: ~# systemctl status -l shadow shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-08-20 08:17:19 BST; 5min ago Process: 613 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pwck -r (code=exited, status=2) Main PID: 613 (code=exited, status=2) Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: user 'uuidd': no group 68 Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat pwck[613]: pwck: no changes Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: shadow.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Failed to start Verify integrity of password and group files. Aug 20 08:17:19 tiamat systemd[1]: Unit shadow.service entered failed state. Further info ~# cat /etc/shadow | grep uuidd uuidd:x:14871:::::: ~# cat /etc/group | grep uuidd uuidd:x:997: ~# cat /etc/passwd | grep uuidd uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin ~# /usr/bin/pwck -r user 'uuidd': no group 68 pwck: no changes What should I be changing to fix this? If I change the gid from 997 to 68 would this fix it? Would it be other implications? Thanks for the input Leonidas --

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[arch-general] Gnome crashing with segmentation fault - Not sure about the source
by Sergi Pons Freixes 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Dear all, Gnome is crashing on my machine[1] with the typical "Oh no, something has gone wrong" message. XFCE starts and works fine, though. The gnome crash leaves this message[2], but from it is not clear to me which is the root of the problem. Setting the backlight, or something wrongwith the intel drivers? Any insight about it is appreciated. [1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X200_Tablet [2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1390205/Xorg.0.log

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[arch-general] Improve the filesystem package
by Yamakaky 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi I see some possible improvements to the filesystem package to use some of the recent improvements to systemd. I don't know if they are already planned. All the empty directories and the links could be replaced by a tmpfiles.d file, like /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/archlinux.conf. /etc/{group,gshadow,passwd,shadow} could be removed as the base users and groups are already created by the upstream sysusers.d files. The arch-specific ones (like bin or daemon) could be created by /usr/lib/sysusers.d/archlinux.conf. The others /etc/ files could be moved to /usr/share/etc/ and copied as needed to /etc using tmpfiles.d files. A filesystem.install file could launch systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-sysusers to update the local configuration when the package is updated. In the end, filesystem would contain only tmpfiles.d and sysusers.d files + /usr/share/etc. I can make a draft of this package if you want. More infos : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html

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[arch-general] Arch curiosity
by James 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hello, As my background is Gentoo, Arch has frequently crossed my mind. So, specifically, here is what I'm interested in testing on Arch. Mesos, Chronos, Spark, Hadoop Lxqt(5?) and whatever file system to run (HDFS)? I believe all of these aforementioned packages, except for Chronos are available in Arch, in one form or another? I could not find the pages where it specifies which file systems Arch supports. BTRFS is in my plans for testing along with HDFS. I did not (yet) find the documents and discussion of the files systems available in ARCH linux.....I have (2) fX8350 workstations I can devote to the dual purpose of cluster building/testing under arch linux. Last, I'm curious as to future arch plans, if any, to support the newest AMD_arm64 server processors? [1] James [1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappetta/2014/07/31/amd-opteron-64-bit-a…

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[arch-general] Weird program in $PATH
by Heiko Becker 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Hey everyone, today I tried to launch firefox from my awesome-wm launcher and instead of being offered firefox after typing fire, the prompt finished showing me alternatives and being a little lazy I just pushed enter. This gave me a window with some fire particle animations running on my screen. Searching for the program in my pacman.log did not show me anything so I'm wondering where this program comes from. Can anyone of you maybe help me to at least get this thing removed without having any files left that are only used by this program? Best regards, Heiko

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[arch-general] Desktop Notifications
by arnaud gaboury 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

kalu is used on my machine to manage AUR upgrades notifications. This package has been working well until now. Notification pop-up doesn't work. In the mate desktop, when going to system > preferences > Notification pop-up, clicking preview leaves me with this error: ---------------- Error while displaying notification: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Notifications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.Notifications exited with status 127 ----------------------- I have no idea how to solve it. Note: $ notify-send "test" doesn't show anything Thank you for suggestions.

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[arch-general] POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL(_DESIGN) semantics
by Chrisitan Burkard 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Hi, I am wondering what the semantics of POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL(_DESIGN) are. I am using a ~3 years old thinkpad with its first battery so aging is something normal I guess. (see below). [watnuss@tp ~]$ cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/uevent POWER_SUPPLY_NAME=BAT0 POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS=Unknown POWER_SUPPLY_PRESENT=1 POWER_SUPPLY_TECHNOLOGY=Li-ion POWER_SUPPLY_CYCLE_COUNT=0 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN=11100000 POWER_SUPPLY_VOLTAGE_NOW=12484000 POWER_SUPPLY_CURRENT_NOW=0 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN=7800000 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL=5052000 POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_NOW=4551000 POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY=90 POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL=Normal POWER_SUPPLY_MODEL_NAME=42T4799 POWER_SUPPLY_MANUFACTURER=SANYO POWER_SUPPLY_SERIAL_NUMBER= 5878 As I understand POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN would be the capacity of a fully charged new battery and POWER_SUPPLY_CHARGE_FULL is the maximum capacity of the battery today. I am asking because I am using i3status to show my battery loading state and it shows me 58% which would be (CHARGE_NOW / CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN). If I understand correctly this doesn't make any sense if I am not able to reach the CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN capacity anyways, today. So if anyone with a bit more knowledge about this mechanic could confirm my guess I would contact upstream what they think about it. (In my opinion they should read CHARGE_FULL to determine the current battery %) Another issue I have is that the POWER_SUPPLY_STATUS shows 'Unknown' on AC but 'Discharging' on Battery. Do you have any idea why? My guess is that i3 uses this property to show the battery/AC state in i3status and because of the 'Unkown' value I don't get updates on the state there. Best regards and thanks for your help Christian

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[arch-general] USB power cut in early userspace since recent update
by Sebastian Lipp 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

Hi Since yesterdays pacman -Syu I'm unable to boot my system the usual way. My observation on that is the following. In early userspace the USB port's power gets cut for around a second which is indicated by the LED of the external drive I'm booting from. Therefore - as I further assume - recognition of the drive gets lost and decrypting and mounting of root is not possible. When I (un)plug the drive both actions get recognized as such but the device(s) don't get registered. I already guessed and tried to 1. reinstall syslinux bootloader, 2. (realize the power cut and) downgrade kernel, 3. downgrade (lib)systemd and 4. mkinitcpio from a chroot and reboot between each of the steps. Nothing of that helped. I will attach a grep of my pacman.log to show which pkgs where upgraded. There were no errors logged. I will happily provide any further information that might help directing me towards debugging and fixing that problem. Getting rid of the intermediate USB gets me rid of the described problem which is obviously no permanent solution. Thanks a lot. basti

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[arch-general] qemu-vm : access to KVM kernel denied
by arnaud gaboury 17 Aug '14

17 Aug '14

I found my entries about this topic, but no clear answer. As user, I want to install a VM with virt-install. $ virt-install --connect qemu:///system --LONG list of options Error : could not access KVM kernel module: permission denied. Running the above command as root returns the same. My configuration: martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % uname -r 3.16.1-1-ARCH martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % ls -al /dev/kvm crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Aug 17 11:05 /dev/kvm martinus@gerbillous ➤➤ ~ % groups martinus adm wheel video audio kalu libvirt qemu kvm martinus No files in /etc/polkit.1/rules.d No files in /etc/udev/rules.d , so /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/65-kvm.rules apply. /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf is set to qemu:qemu. qemu user from /etc/passwd : qemu:x:135:135:qemu:/:/usr/bin/nologin qemu group from /etc/group : qemu:x:135:martinus I have no idea what to do. Thank you for suggestion as I already spent lot of time with various "suspicious" tricks to solve this issue. -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] linux 3.16 in [testing]
by Tobias Powalowski 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

Hi, just released 3.16 kernel to [testing] repository. Only r8168 binary module did not build. Please take a look at it. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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