May 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] qt applications gone black
by gt 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hey guys I am facing a strange issue. All qt applications have become black, making them impossible to use. Here's an example showing vlc and avidemux-qt https://imgur.com/a/PR5vH Anyone else facing this issue? The closest i found someone with a similar problem is: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/next-kde-4-8-2-regres… But the guy is using kde, and i am using dwm + xf86-video-intel

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[arch-general] Clearing __pycache__ folders
by Jayesh Badwaik 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi, I am using some packages in python3.2 which create a __pycache__ folder. These folders is routinely blocking my updates and I have to remove the folders manually. Are any other among you facing the same problem? If yes, can I automatize it somehow? Thanks -- Regards Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping squirrelmail
by Genes MailLists 08 May '12

08 May '12

On 05/05/2012 10:32 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Hi all, > > FYI: I plan to drop squirrelmail from [extra]. It is orphaned and it > wont work with PHP 5.4. (According to pkgstats it has no users anyway) > > Greetings, > > Pierre > Actually just fyi - according to their website it will work with PHP 5.4: http://squirrelmail.org: Mar 29, 2012 by Paul Lesniewski With the recent release of PHP version 5.4, some community members have helped identify some small issues which we've fixed and made available in our daily snapshot packages located on our downloads page. Especially if you use the Mail Fetch plugin and want to upgrade to PHP 5.4, you should download one of our snapshot packages. What do you all recommend for webmail - roundcube or something else? gene

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[arch-general] net-auto-wired in systemd - ifplugd failed with exit code 3
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 May '12

08 May '12

% systemctl status net-auto-wired.service net-auto-wired.service - Provides automatic netcfg wired connection Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/net-auto-wired.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 08 May 2012 21:19:30 +0800; 8s ago Process: 28629 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ifplugd -i $WIRED_INTERFACE -r /etc/ifplugd/netcfg.action -fIw -d10 (code=exited, status=3) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/net-auto-wired.service I do in fact get exit code 3 when running the ExecStart line by hand, and removing -w seems to take care of it. -w seems to wait for link detection, but it seems anything it returns (in the above case I got 3 because I'm currently on wireless and have no LAN to test it on) would cause an error? The rc.d script doesn't seem to use -w, so I'm wondering why that was inserted for the service file.

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[arch-general] view command
by G. Schlisio 08 May '12

08 May '12

hi all, i stumbled over view being a link to ex, and not to vim, as i am used to with several other distros (opensuse, debian). is there any particular reason for that behaviour? thanks georg

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[arch-general] dos emulation programs error out
by Jude DaShiell 08 May '12

08 May '12

I just tried dosbox and it errors out on sdl since sdl can't open mouse. I have a logitech inc. iFeel mouse attached to this machine too and so far as I know it does work. The only reason I attached the mouse is since dosbox appears to require it for operation. I'll have to temporarily install dosemu and document its particular failure a little later. I'm using an amd athelon k8 computer with a gig of ram on it so that's the hardware reference. I haven't tried this on intel yet but that's next on the agenda. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jude <jdashiel-at-shellworld-dot-net> <http://www.shellworld.net/~jdashiel/nj.html>

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[arch-general] Akonadi LDAP
by Paul Gideon Dann 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi guys, I've been reading up on LDAP, in the hope of getting Kontact set up to read in addresses from my work's Exchange server. However, it seems that LDAP is missing from the "New Address Book" dialogue. It's also missing from the Akonadi configuration. I know it's supposed to be there. Do I need something extra installed? Paul

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[arch-general] AUR-texstudio depedencies
by Arno Gaboury 08 May '12

08 May '12

In the AUR texstudio package, Please could you add "evince" package in depedencies, as texstudio need it to read dvi, ps and pdf file. evince is a simple document viewer. Thank you.

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Re: [arch-general] I need some help finding the cause of a problem with my gamepad
by Johan 07 May '12

07 May '12

Just tried it but found no difference whatsoever, except for the fact that the aforementioned directional buttons didn't trigger any event on my recent copy of Arch. -- Johan

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[arch-general] [HEADSUP] /lib/security/* moving to /usr/lib/security/
by Tom Gundersen 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi guys, After gnome-3.4 move out of testing I intend to rebuild all packages with files in /lib/security to move them to /usr/lib/security. I'm using this locally and everything seems fine, so I don't expect any issues. That said, third-party packages should make note of this change as pam will no longer read modules that reside in /lib/security, so such packages must also be updated. Once this is done we only have /lib/modules left to deal with. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] I need some help finding the cause of a problem with my gamepad
by Johan 07 May '12

07 May '12

I have this USB gamepad, MoJo's RetroAdapter ( http://denki.world3.net/retro_v2.html) that is not working properly on the latest releases of Arch; I can get the directional pad to go <Right> and <Down>, but <Up> and <Left> are unresponsive (jstest does nothing). It used to work fine on Arch last year (I switched to Ubuntu to try Unity, and just came back), and it works fine on other distros, even on Arch's current netinstall image. To rule out the kernel and/or it's patches as the culprit I installed linux-vanilla from AUR and nothing changed. I guess it may have something to do with UDEV, but honestly I don't know what I should be looking for. I'd appreciate some help with this issue. Thanks, - Johan

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[arch-general] teXstudio 2.3 building failed
by Arno Gaboury 06 May '12

06 May '12

Archlinux X86_64 qt 4.8.1-2 poppler-qt 0.18.4-1 gcc 4.7.0 Building texstudio-2.3-4 from AUR failed with many errors. To build successfully Texstudio from source, I first downloaded tarball from Sourceforge, then I modified some codes in three files. I diffed these files with the correct ones. Please find here the URL to download the needed patches: http://tinyurl.com/cln72y4 Hope it can help.

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[arch-general] LVM on LUKS and fsck
by Mauro Santos 06 May '12

06 May '12

I have decided to give encryption a shot and I have started with some bootable usb disks I have as emergency/recovery media. Everything works and partitions seem to mount just fine, but during boot in the fsck fase, root is apparently checked twice and home apparently doesn't get checked. root: clean, 177630/524288 files, 1430174/2097152 blocks boot: clean, 34/65536 files, 50998/262144 blocks root: clean, 12450/2162688 files, 7055618/8649728 blocks Using dumpe2fs to check how many blocks my root and home volumes have I can confirm that the first root line really corresponds to root and the second root line corresponds to home. Does anyone know if this is a (known) bug or am I missing something? My partition/volumes setup is as follows: boot luks -lvm --root --swap --home menu.lst: title Arch Linux root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/lvmvol/root cryptdevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/d9cfc224-4ece-489b-a231-f5a5a876354f:luksvol ro quiet initrd /initramfs-linux.img fstab: UUID=b4a938a4-1a49-42dc-9535-472efcccc264 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/lvmvol/root / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 /dev/lvmvol/home /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2 /dev/lvmvol/swap none swap defaults 0 0 mkinitcpio.conf: MODULES="" BINARIES="" FILES="" HOOKS="base udev usb usbinput keymap encrypt lvm2 autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems" -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Switching back to udisk1
by Kevin Chadwick 04 May '12

04 May '12

Hi, all "http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/" I answered yes to the switch to udisks2 and now the mount point only shows for a split second in Nautilus. The device still shows but now I've lost unmount access via sudo too, my scripts clean up on disconnect so it's not an immediate game stopper but is not right either. I liked the fact it showed exactly where the device was mounted even though it's always /media/usb[0-100]. How easy is it to switch back to udisks1 and what problems can people see for me going forward, if I do?

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[arch-general] rtirq doesn't fit to current kernel-rt at AUR
by Ralf Mardorf 04 May '12

04 May '12

I'm still using an older kernel on Arch, I just want to inform you, that I had issues with rtirq for another distro. Fernando from CCRMA did solve the issue and RUI edited his script, there also was help from Jeremy: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2012-May/084764.html Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] *-gdb.py files are misplaced
by Rodrigo Rivas 03 May '12

03 May '12

Hello. I am debugging a C++ program with GDB and I want to use the nice Python scripts for pretty-printing the STL types. But, alas, it does not work. This script is installed in "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/libstdc++. so.6.0.17-gdb.py" to handle the pretty printing of STL types. But the fact is that GDB does not load it. Doing a quick "strace gdb ./a.out" I find that it looks for the file in: /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.17-gdb.py Note the "usr/lib/" into the "auto-load" directory. (BTW, the GDB documentation seem to say that it should read it from yet another directory.) Right now I patched it by creating a few symbolic links into the "auto-load" directory. I'd like to file a bug report, but I'm new to Arch Linux, so I'm asking for advice: Should I file a bug report for each of the packages that install a file in this directory? Also, I think that some of them may come this way from upstream, but Currently, I've detected the following packages that install files there: glib2, isl and gcc Or should I file a bug into GDB itself? Thank you in advance. -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] wget
by Debashish Saha 02 May '12

02 May '12

how to download youtube video using wget . I am a new user. i am using linux mint 12.

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[arch-general] linux-lts invalid signature?
by Marek Otahal 02 May '12

02 May '12

Hi, is there a problem with signature for this package? (5/5) checking package integrity [#####################################] 100% error: linux-lts: signature from "Tobias Powalowski <tobias.powalowski(a)googlemail.com>" is invalid error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. $ yaourt -Qs keyring core/archlinux-keyring 20120407-1 Arch Linux PGP keyring Thanks, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] libhpi.so in openjdk6 not in 7 or in jre/jdk 7?
by David C. Rankin 02 May '12

02 May '12

All, In building several packages, I ran across a configure error that libhpi.so was not found. Checking, I find the file on openjdk6, but not in 7 and no longer in jre/jdk 7.4 from AUR. Does anybody know if this so has been renamed/removed? How to handle the builds? Just use openjdk6 or is there a standard work-around that will allow building on jre/jdk 7 or openjdk7. I've googled, but I can find a useful link. If you have one, that's all I need. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installing in VirtualBox - Screen goes black during installation
by Joshua Poehls 02 May '12

02 May '12

I started installing Arch in VirtualBox this morning but twice now the screen goes black at some point during (or right after) the package download step and never comes back. It appears that some activity is still happening, but nothing is displayed. If I do a full reboot the screen comes back but the install of course hasn't completed so I have to start over. Do I need to change some Display Settings in VirtualBox or something? I did tell it that the OS Type was Arch 64 bit. Thanks, -- Joshua Poehls

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[arch-general] LibreOffice crashing on Dual Screen
by Vitor Garcia 02 May '12

02 May '12

Good afternoon, Libreoffice started crashing when I try to start it on the display :0.1, since the last update. I have dual screen Nvidia layout (using proprietary driver, separate X screens and disabled Xinerama). Starting libreoffice on display :0.0 works just fine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vgarcia@cae_nb01 Desktop]$ libreoffice (soffice:31950): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_monitor_geometry: assertion `monitor_num < screen_x11->n_monitors' failed (soffice:31950): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_monitor_geometry: assertion `monitor_num < screen_x11->n_monitors' failed The program 'soffice' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. (Details: serial 923 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Is anyone having the same issue? I have checked on LibreOffice bugzilla, and there isn't anything like that. Should I place a bug there, or could it be something that might only happen on Arch? By the way, does anyone know how to switch displays? I'd like my big screen to be the :0.0, and not the smaller screen on the laptop. Best regards, Vitor

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD "provides" not handled correctly?
by Norbert Zeh 01 May '12

01 May '12

Hi folks, I have just run into a weird problem. I have a machine that isn't too happy with the 3.3.x kernel series. So I'm running linux-lts on it, but that one is meant for servers, so isn't as responsive as one would like on a desktop system. So I've decided to throw a little PKGBUILD together that compiles linux-lts with CONFIG_HZ set to 1000 but is otherwise unchanged from the version in ABS. To ensure this tweaked lts kernel does not get inadvertently overwritten by a linux-lts upgrade, I've changed the package name in the PKGBUILD to linux-lts-local. I've added "linux-lts" to the conflicts/provides/replaces lists in the PKGBUILD to ensure that I do not install linux-lts and linux-lts-local at the same time and to ensure that all packages that rely on linux-lts continue to have their dependencies satisfied...or so I thought. Compiling the tweaked lts kernel and installing this kernel instead of linux-lts on my laptop with intel graphics works without problems. My office desktop is a machine with an NVIDIA card and I'm using nvidia-lts as my graphics driver. When trying to replace linux-lts with linux-lts-local using pacman -U, pacman complains that nvidia-lts requires linux-lts>=3.0.0 and refuses to continue. Now I'm confused: linux-lts-local provides linux-lts, and the version is 3.0.29-1. So why does pacman complain? Any pointers are much appreciated. Cheers, Norbert

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