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[arch-general] System vs. user-wide locale
by Alad Wenter 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hi, Arch Linux currently emphasises on setting the locale system-wide. If a non-english language is desired, it should be uncommented in /etc/locale.gen (besides en_US.UTF-8), and set in /etc/locale.conf. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Configure_the_system https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginner%27s_guide#Locale While the Locale article mentions a user-wide setting (.config/locale.conf), this is more an aside for "multi-user" systems. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale#Setting_per-user_locale An alternative approach is mentioned in the Funtoo FAQ: "The next thing I recommend is to try to avoid changing the global system LANG setting, and instead set the LANG setting on a per-user basis by adding the desired LANG setting to your ~/.bashrc. This will preserve English log output in /var/log and make it easier to search for more common matching English strings on the Internet when you need help." http://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Linux_FAQ#What_if_I_want_to_use_a_non-English_… Thus /etc/locale.conf would have LANG=en_US.UTF-8, and other languages would be defined in ~/.bashrc (or rather ~/.config/locale.conf). This sounds like a fair argument. Are there possible downsides to this approach in Arch, or can/should the respective articles be updated? Regards, -- Alad Wenter <the.changing.side(a)gmail.com>

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[arch-general] Unable to dual seat- one nvidia card- lightdm
by arnaud gaboury 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Even after lots of readings and many tries, I am not able to set up a working dual seat configuration on my machine. I have two users, two monitors, two mouses, two keyboard, unfortunately one only nvidia card. But from what I read, it is possible to have two users both logged and sharing only the video card. My issues: - I can not limit one user to one monitor. The screen uses the two monitots. - Second user has a "double" task bar in his mate session. Everything is repeated twice. -First user log with lightdm with one only keyboard & mouse (second pair is automatically dis activated). But for the second, I have to Ctrl+Alt+Fn, then $ startx at login promp, or switch user with lightdm. I guess it is not the expected behaviour. Below are my settings. /etc/X11/xrog.conf.d/15-seat.conf (the only one xorg conf file). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" Option "AutoEnableDevices" "false" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "true" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true" Option "AutoAddGPU" "false" Option "DPMS" "true" # adding Xinerama off does not change anything EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout-martinus" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event17" Option "GrabDevice" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event18" Option "GrabDevice" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option "NoLogo" "1" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" Option "VendorName" "Unknown" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" Option "NoLogo" "true" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout-loulou" Screen 1 "Screen1" leftof "Screen0" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0" Option "GrabDevice" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4" Option "Protocol" "Auto" Option "GrabDevice" "true" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor1" Option "VendorName" "Unknown" Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen1" Device "Card1" Monitor "Monitor1" Option "NoLogo" "true" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubsection EndSection --------------------------------------------------- /etc/lightdm/loghtdm.conf ------------------------------------------------------ [LightDM] minimum-display-number=0 minimum-vt=1 user-authority-in-system-dir=true [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on [Seat:0] xserver-layout=layout-martinus xserver-command=/usr/bin/Xorg # xorg : 0 does not change anything, neither adding -sharevts [Seat:1] xserver-layout=layout-loulou xserver-command=/usr/bin/Xorg -sharevts -noswitch # xorg : 1 does not change anything, neither removing, the -sharevts -noswitch arguments. ------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for any suggestion. -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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[arch-general] bugs.archlinux.org - enable comments on closed issues
by Nowaker 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

Hi, This is annoying that the reporter can't leave any comment after the issue is closed. No, I don't want to "Request re-open". The issue is closed for a good reason, no doubt. But closing the issue shouldn't end the discussion - the reporter may want to add something. Can you please consider changing this? Thanks. -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

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[arch-general] Help diagnosing kworker 'bug'
by Oon-Ee Ng 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

Yesterday night I noticed (just before performing an update my conky showing high continuous writing to root. iotop -Pa shows this:- Total DISK READ : 0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE : 8.93 M/s Actual DISK READ: 0.00 B/s | Actual DISK WRITE: 11.06 M/s PID PRIO USER DISK READ DISK WRITE SWAPIN IO> COMMAND 112 be/4 root 0.00 B 64.91 M 0.00 % 24.34 % [kworker/u16:3] 11936 be/4 root 0.00 B 0.00 B 0.00 % 0.06 % [kworker/1:1] 28794 be/4 root 0.00 B 36.00 K 0.00 % 0.00 % [kworker/u16:1] This is after roughly 6-7 seconds, and 65 MB has already been written by that kworker thread. As I said, this was already happening before an upgrade. I ran the upgrade anyway, which upgraded linux to 3.16-2, and still got the same thing. Yes, I'm using [testing]. Any ideas on how to proceed? Next thing I'm going to try is downgrading linux to 3.15, but I thought I'd post this here first in case I don't make it back.

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[arch-general] LibreOffice update
by Viktor G 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Hello, I want to update my LibreOffice installation but pacman informed me about a conflict with the packages. So, there are libreoffice-still-* packages and there is one libreoffice-fresh package. I want to update to 4.3.x. Why are versions split into two branches and does libreoffice-fresh contain all the LO applications like Writer, Calc, etc.? (There is no libreoffice-fresh-writer or libreoffice-writer package) Thanks Vik

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Re: [arch-general] LibreOffice update
by Steven Grace 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

On 08/23/2014 11:32 AM, Sebastiaan Lokhorst wrote: > 2014-08-23 20:20 GMT+02:00 Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org>: >> >> We dropped the app splitting because they are of small size and sometimes >> upstream broken the >> dependencies between the parts. >> > Does this also mean we will stop splitting -still? It is strange to split > Still but not Fresh. (I'm all for shipping one large pkg by the way) I take the opposite view. I prefer a minimal system and only use Writer and Calc, so I prefer to keep the components separate.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] systemd 216 coming soon to testing
by Leonid Isaev 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Hi, [sorry for cross-posting] On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 02:25:24PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Full NEWS file: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/NEWS This changelog says that: * journald will no longer forward all local data to another running syslog daemon. This change has been made because rsyslog (which appears to be the most commonly used syslog implementation these days) no longer makes use of this, and instead pulls the data out of the journal on its own. Since forwarding the messages to a non-existent syslog server is more expensive than we assumed we have now turned this off. If you run a syslog server that is not a recent rsyslog version, you have to turn this option on again (ForwardToSyslog= in journald.conf). This is going to break syslog-ng... So is it possible to patch journald.conf and enable ForwardToSyslog in the package? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Vim clipboard option
by Yamakaky 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi It's good to have a real vim package, but the `clipboard` option is now disabled (see `vim --version`). Is there any reason ? I use it a lot via the "+ register. Thanks

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[arch-general] Problem with update networkmanager
by Maykel Franco 21 Aug '14

21 Aug '14

Hi, when update archlinux, the networkmanager not get ip ... [☢][130][+][[root@maykel-arch: ~]] $ systemctl status NetworkManager ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since jue 2014-08-21 09:47:45 CEST; 19s ago Main PID: 2055 (NetworkManager) CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service ├─2055 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon └─2075 /usr/bin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-helper -pf /var/run/dhclient-vmnet1.pid -lf /var/lib/NetworkManager/dhclient-1145f475-eca4-403c-90aa-413effe93c81-... ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: DHCPOFFER from 172.16.90.254 ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: DHCPACK from 172.16.90.254 ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: bound to 172.16.90.1 -- renewal in 686 seconds. ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> (vmnet1): device state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none') [80 90 0] ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> (vmnet1): device state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none') [90 100 0] ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_LOCAL ago 21 09:47:45 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> Activation (vmnet1) successful, device activated. ago 21 09:47:48 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> (eth0): link connected ago 21 09:47:48 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason 'carrier-changed') [20 30 40] ago 21 09:47:48 maykel-arch NetworkManager[2055]: <info> startup complete I have installed vmware and the interface vmnet1 is the vmware. For connecting to network, I use this command ifconfig and route add because does not ask if I set ip ip network manager and manually restart the service either gets ip ... Can I help me please??

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[arch-general] Updates for avr-gcc and avr-libc
by Karol Babioch 20 Aug '14

20 Aug '14

Hi, the current maintainer of avr-gcc and avr-libc, Jakob Gruber, seems to be away until October [1]. In the meantime new versions of both packages have been released. Due to a bug within avr-gcc 4.9.0, avr-libc 1.8.1 cannot be built [2] and avr-gcc 4.9.1 is required, so actually both packages should be upgraded at once. Simply bumping the numbers within the appropriate PKGBUILD seems to be sufficient, some developer and/or TU could take care of this? Best regards, Karol Babioch [1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2014-July/026451.ht… [2]: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/avr-libc-dev/2014-08/msg00020.html

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