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[arch-general] /etc/shells should keep /bin/zsh
by Karol Blazewicz 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

I know arch-general si not for reporting bugs and I'm not trying to rush anyone, but it's been already a month of confusion wrt https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=package… https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35724

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[arch-general] Moving the latest vim to [extra].
by Thomas Dziedzic 29 Jun '13

29 Jun '13

I usually update vim every 50 new patches. But the latest vim has been in testing for > 300 patches because there have been some major changes introduced in preparation for 7.4 which have introduced a load of new bugs. I just updated vim in [testing] to 7.3.1270. I have been using the latest vim and have found that it is sufficiently bug free for me for general use. Please give vim in [testing] a shot and make sure to report any bugs. Unless there are any major issues, I want to finally move it to [extra] this wednesday. The area where you are most likely to experience any issues is when using the new regexp engine. If you notice slow syntax highlight or wrong regular expression matching, make sure to report it and set regexpengine=1 for a temporary workaround to switch to the old regular expression engine. Thanks and have a great weekend :)

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[arch-general] Grub 2.00.5043-1 locales missing
by Star Brilliant 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

After I upgraded to grub 2.00.5043-1, I found that grub switched back to English interface because the locale files are missing. Those locale files used to be in /usr/share/locale but it is not there in the new version. Is it a mistake, or the upstream just removed those locale files? I have attached the result of 'tar xf grub-*.pkg.tar.xz' for comparison. Thanks. -- Star Brilliant

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[arch-general] Fn-F{5, 6} keys for backlight - how to disable native handling?
by Oon-Ee Ng 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

I have an ASUS N56V where the Fn-F{5,6} keys do not work natively (no output in xev when pressed). This is very easily worked-around using acpi_os="!Windows 2012". The resulting control is something along the 3-10 range (10 being brightest and 0 being off, these are not the actual numerical values), which means I can't dim my backlight beyond a certain value. Similarly, using xbacklight and setting to 0 actually gives a "3" backlight, not totally blank. Setting /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness to 0 does turn the screen off though. The problem is that if I write a simple script to adjust brightness and bind that using xbindkeys, the native handler still works for a fraction of a second before the value I calculate takes effect. This results in a brief flicker everytime I press the keys. Conclusion - I want to disable this native handling of Fn-F{5,6}, is this possible or is this not software-controlled?

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[arch-general] After updating mkinitcpio generates a image without modules
by Eduardo Machado 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Hi, after the last grub update (with kernel 3,9,7) when the pacman runs to build the new boot images, pacman output many errors with modules not being found. The log is attached. I tried to chroot from a livecd and tried to reinstall all the packages, tried to downgrade the kernel and nothing reverted the problem. I cannot figured out why the modules are not being found... Anyone can help me with this? Thanks in advance. --- Eduardo M. Machado

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[arch-general] bluetooth
by Genes Lists 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

1) Fully updated from testing repo. As of a couple of days ago (around 3.9.7 kernel) I noticed that bluetooth mouse takes a few seconds to initialize - it used to be almost instant. 2) i.e. leave laptop till screen blanks etc. Come back and wiggle mouse - takes a few seconds before cursor wakes up - after that it works totally normally. 3) I am aware of a migration to bluez 5 - do I need to remove bluez4 and replace with bluez5 or is it too soon? i.e. is this user error? I have relied on pacman for updates as I didn't see any notes about manual adjustments. 4) /var/log/errors.log has this: Jun 25 08:30:14 lap3 kernel: [312741.987038] Bluetooth: Wrong link type (-71) Jun 25 08:30:18 lap3 kernel: [312746.011670] hid-generic 0005:1532:0008.0033: unknown main item tag 0x0 /var/log/messages has this (from 1/2 hour earlier) Jun 25 07:53:42 lap3 bluetoothd[461]: bluetoothd[461]: Adapter /org/bluez/461/hci0 has been enabled Jun 25 07:53:42 lap3 bluetoothd[461]: bluetoothd[461]: Unknown command complete for opcode 19 Jun 25 07:53:42 lap3 bluetoothd[461]: Adapter /org/bluez/461/hci0 has been enabled Jun 25 07:53:42 lap3 bluetoothd[461]: Unknown command complete for opcode 19 5) Info: linux 3.9.7-1 kdebase-runtime 4.10.4-1 bluedevil 1.3.1-1 bluez-libs 5.5-3 bluez-utils 5.5-3 protocol stack bluez4 4.101-3 D libbluedevil 1.9.3-2 A

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[arch-general] interference of the recent /usr symlinking with the mkinitcpio 'usr' hook?
by Simon Campese 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Hello, I just did a fresh install of archlinux based off the most recent install cd. I've setup an encrypted root filesystem (btrfs) with separate subvolumes for /, /usr, /var, /home and /etc. All subvolumes are entered with the correct mount options (subvol=...) in /etc/fstab. In particular, the lines for the / and /usr mounts look identical, except for different arguments to the 'subvol' mount option. In my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, I have the following HOOKS line: HOOKS="base udev autodetect block keymap keyboard encrypt filesystems fsck usr shutdown" At bootup, right after entering my luks password, I get the following error message: "Error: Root device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exist. Bailing out, you are on your own. Good Luck" Checking in the emergency shell, it turns out that the root subvolume has been mounted correctly but usr has not. Interchanging the order of the 'filesystems', 'fsck' and 'usr' hooks (I've tried all six possibilities) doesn't resolve this problem. Could this be related to the recent symlinking of /sbin to /usr/bin? My other explanations would be the 'subvol' mount option or the missing fsck.btrfs tool, but in the latter case the root subvolume shouldn't have been mounted as well. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Simon

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[arch-general] Apache, systemd-tmpfiles
by João Pires 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Hi, So today I as messing with my Raspberry Pi, and to avoid that the SD card have excessive writing I decided to turn /var/log into a tmpfs mount. After a reboot the httpd service stop running because the /var/log/httpd folder does not exist. So after a while I find the systemd-tmpfiles and the thing is the apache.conf in the /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d only creates the /run/httpd folder, after I add a new line to also create the /var/log/httpd the service start running again. So my question is, can this be considered a bug? should I create a bug report? No trees were harmed in the sending of this message; However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. João Pires

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[arch-general] makepkg --noprepare option
by kachelaqa 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

For version 4.1.1 of pacman, a --noprepare option was added to makepkg [1]. But, for version 4.1.2, the option is no longer available. I've tried searching for some discussion of why the option was removed, but have drawn a complete blank so far. Can anyone shed any light on this? [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-April/017094.html

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[arch-general] finding corresponding udev rule for device
by G. Schlisio 21 Jun '13

21 Jun '13

hi all, i want to customize the udev rule, that assigns my garmin gps device with a device name. permissions need to be set different, so users have read/write access. the only problem is, that i dont know, which rule it is i have to customize. is there any way to determine, which standard udev rule applies for which device? thanks for suggestions. georg

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