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[arch-general] systemd fsck
by David Benfell 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just moved my desktop to systemd, and saw a couple things as I booted it for the first time: 1) It is *fast*. Let me say that again. It is *fast*. I have never seen a system come up this fast. Critics of systemd might want to consider that. 2) But I did notice an error that worried me--just because it looks worrying--as it came up: Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: /dev/sda3 is mounted. Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: fsck failed with error code 8. Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[270]: Ignoring error. Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[289]: /dev/sdb1: clean, 398077/33554432 files, 27916145/134217728 blocks Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[287]: /dev/sdb3: clean, 647214/21102592 files, 26531961/84405504 blocks Aug 09 13:34:36 graton systemd-fsck[348]: /dev/sda4: clean, 1650719/59490304 files, 57620902/237931957 blocks Aug 09 13:34:37 graton systemd-fsck[320]: /dev/sda1: clean, 33/10040 files, 22152/40160 blocks Aug 09 13:34:37 graton systemd-fsck[293]: /dev/sdb2: clean, 4926903/67125248 files, 195736925/268500992 blocks /dev/sda3 is the root partition. - -- David Benfell benfell(a)parts-unknown.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQJdEsAAoJELT202JKF+xpR8EP/RAqqrPz2pumaHET2XLI97UC zd52iPPuc8nh75Xh8Jd5x0dPkd4xuGtRCiu8pRSLgX63o3iAOQtMcwFsBaOk0mN6 gjwJLbi0DM2VIYrlGS9VpG86w30uVhQLuuFwT4WasLJ5pKLfbKSw5lEXp56WQ597 qZmZ+L04MzkKKLAk4UENywF0hWy4fsDGgOPVg1nfhHJyFAd6aRtqxNSE4waoWAdI HjdAx5SYIDnu69O/UhqJ1GJOEiJxZaQYslQjmGYhHFDJfE1NJuDcY6XM+LeDGeyc ibKaDD96hTpL5meJAV+ZtglMJH9cRtNX69jqT5wnX141lOSXf19ybD7TRfXyMilV rBZfxfu1crDp4osbBYrMeRxYoK/Wr0HBWoknS6+RhpOheLUCMvV+xwcb4HMvrnKk 7i+LVCdNgb2Ul/vsG/MDZURgfKAgaYLtGMca2k8Ms1Q1paIkieD9fJg6sC8cbPNo yO9KfXsq8K4DnPwEJu0pJoOFr0lxPDqk2FFgBJnEjcpHVJqV4aqSTwgDcA0EzKw0 7wgAmczBbgUKxCoQehavsRRTm8QqjbM6yjCrwp44Ek4auL5taog32LnEw/GVreTh vOHNtMyOC6GzZfOJixEc5QmZx2J6iI9L9/MX0oEJiZcDh3gGRgfYUwFEdF+R+CfC h1s40baqzeVk/l/INX+V =ijAC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage
by Shridhar Daithankar 12 Aug '12

12 Aug '12

Hello, I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as expected. However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing and restarting the process does not help. I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might be hyper-threaded, am not sure. I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole but the desktop remain unavailable. I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows # useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar And log-in from kdm. Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? -- Regards Shridhar

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[arch-general] When will LibreOffice 3.6 proposed ?
by fredbezies 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Hello. I know, archlinux is really quick to package software, so I was wondering when LibreOffice 3.6 will be proposed, at least on testing ? I grabbed PKGBUILD from abs, and tweaked .36 version to build both translations (done first) and then core package (currently working on LibO Writer after something like 4 hours on my AMD Athlon X2-215, which is now something like 2 years old). Thanks for any infos. Have a good week-end. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] Brasero cannot create mp3 based cds ?
by fredbezies 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

Hello. I faced a weird bug with Brasero. Yesterday, I wanted to convert and burn mp3 to a CD. I got an error box saying : "Name of mp3 file" could not be opened "Name of mp3 file" is not suitable for audio or video media I had to use k3b. By the way, only mp3 are not usable. Flac files are ok. Any ideas ? Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] root $PATH via "su - -c mc" ??
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

OK so I guess /root/.bash_profile wouldn't be read by a script generated login shell that feeds "su - -c mc" to the -e option of a "konsole" command, since it's not considered an "interactive" login... Which explains why the conditional PATH command I routinely put in my .bash_profile scripts (not in .bashrc to prevent it being appended multiple times): if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then PATH="${PATH}":~/bin fi doesn't add "/root/bin" to the default path of the resulting "root" mc session in the resulting konsole window, like it does with a console root login... IE: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/core_perl:/root/bin But since even a generic user's default system PATH variable includes the "sbin" directories... IE: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/core_perl Why would the root mc shell resulting from the scripted "su - -c mc" wind up with a PATH variable containing only: /usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc ??? I know I can fix this by defining root's path in root's .bashrc, but I'd have to give up on conditionally adding ~/bin in .bash_profile as every subshell would overwrite it with the .bashrc assignment... Suggestions anyone??? -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 4.05-5 does not boot
by Myra Nelson 11 Aug '12

11 Aug '12

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: > On Aug 8, 2012 6:04 PM, "Allan McRae" <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> On 09/08/12 05:29, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > Am 08.08.2012 21:25, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: >> >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Tobias Powalowski >> >> <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>> It was just a rebuild, with an added optdepend :/ >> >>> Sorry folks, didn't want to break something. >> >>> I don't have the time now to look at it. >> >> Seems like a patch was added: avoid-using-ext2_fs.patch. >> >> >> >> I took the liberty to remove the package from [testing] until we >> >> figure out what's broken. >> > The patch is from fedora, to be able to build syslinux. >> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/syslinux.git/tree/ >> > >> >> It is needed as the ext2 fs stuff has been removed from the kernel > headers. >> >> Allan >> > > Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable. Incidentally it also causes ext2 /boot to be unbootable, without a doubt it does. Dave's install scripts work great easiest install I've ever done, however it won't boot off of ext2 with syslinux. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Justin's package signing key expired
by Florian Pritz 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Just a heads up: Justin Davis' key expired today so pacman won't be able to verify/install some perl packages[1] until they have been resigned or rebuilt. [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?packager=juster -- Florian Pritz

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[arch-general] Install scripts and Syslinux
by Myra Nelson 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

I would like to thank all those who are working so diligently to make Arch Linux more usable. There are just too many to list in one spot. Dave's install scripts are great. This was the easiest install I've ever done save plugging in an MSDOS disk. To all those trying to come up with a graphical installer, I've never cared for them starting with anaconda and FreeBSD' sys install. Doing the install with these scripts removes all doubt about what's been done. Yes the AIF put most of it in your face and was a very laudable project, but these scripts take out all the doubt and forces you to think about how and what you are doing. They also make it possible to plug another hard disk into a running machine, do the install, then reboot to the new disk without using any external drives. That's the part I really love. Thanks for the tips about ext4 on the boot partition. I do have one question relating to the genfstab script. All the other scripts work with sudo but genfstab doesn't. I get an error message "permission denied" I have to su to root then run it. Myfra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] offlineimap configuration encrypted pwd
by Arno Gaboury 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Dear all, I just finised creating GnuPG key and setting gpg-agent following the wiki. I am a litle bit confused now about a few things and how to use my encripted password. First, is there any need to add in my .Xressources this line: eval $(gpg-agent --daemon) I don't think so, but have a doubt. Now about the encrypted pwd. As described in Mutt wiki, I have now a file ~/.my-pwds.gpg. The wiki descibes how to use with Mutt. My problem is I use offlineimap, so it is in ~/.offlineimaprc I shall indicate the encrypted pwd. Is this following line enough ? remotepass = ~/.my-pwds.gpg OR shall I add to this following line ? source "gpg2 -dq ~/.my-pwds.gpg |" I use msmtp to send, so my problem with ~/.msmtprc is same:how to use the encrypted pwd? I didn't find any clear answer on Google, so thank you for any help in these settings. Regards.

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[arch-general] Something wrong with firefox/thunderbird driving X cpu usage -> 100%
by David C. Rankin 10 Aug '12

10 Aug '12

Guys, I have watched this in top for the past week or so. Thunderbird and Firefox are causing X cpu usage to shoot upt to between 80-100% on simple tasks like scrolling a message list in tbird or simply opening css menus in firefox. All of this used to be instantaneous and never cause the cpu to bat an eye. But now, it is very pronounced and brings the desktop to a crawl. This box is not a screamer, but plenty fast, P4 2800/4G/Nvidia 8600GT. How do I determine what is causing this? X? ff/tb? something else? Any ideas appreciated. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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