December 2013 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Possibility of including xorg input patch
by Kirill Churin 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Can this patch https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=33142 be applied to Arch's xorg? It solves famous problem https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865 with broken keyboard input for users who use multiple keyboard layouts without any noticeable side-effects. It's known this patch has been applied in Ubuntu. -- Kirill Churin Jabber: reflexing(a)reflexing.ru, ICQ: 8163230, Skype on demand.

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[arch-general] Failure to resume on kernel >3.9.9
by Patrick Burroughs (Celti) 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Hi list, I realise this email comes with a deplorable paucity of informaton, but I haven't found *any* logs relating to this event. I also realise I've waited what may be considered overlong to ask for help, but I was hoping the bug would be fixed in a later kernel release and it wasn't. Google has failed me, so now I come to you for help. My laptop is an HP Pavilion g7. The system suspends normally, but fails to resume leaving a powered-off screen and no responsiveness to keyboard input, including the magic sysrq, but the caps lock light turns on and off. At first I suspected fglrx, but it happens with or without fglrx loaded, and with or without nomodeset on the kernel command line. Further, it happens identically inside or outside of X. I tried git-bisect on the kernel but gave up after many hours of compiling and testing — anyone know of a faster/easier way to do this? I'm currently running kernel 3.9.8, but am perfectly willing to update again and generate a failure to provide any logs someone thinks may help — I haven't found anything, but I may not be looking in the right place. Thank you, ~Celti

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[arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf
by Mark Lee 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Salutations, I was wondering if we could change the default value for j in MakeFlags in makepkg.conf to "-j$(nproc)". This would allow makepkg to scale the number of threads per pc as default. Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee <mark(a)markelee.com>

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[arch-general] FreeRDP
by Ben Hagan 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

It would appear that FreeRDP in community needs to be updated to 1.1. There is a 1.1 stable branch in their repo, and it implements some changes that make freerdp much better to use. I flagged the package as being out of date a few weeks ago, but it looks like it got unflagged. I flagged it again, hopefully emailing this list will give it some traction. If this is the wrong place for this, please forgive my noobosity and politely redirect me through the proper channels.

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[arch-general] PCRE 8.34-1 Upgrade breaks expected regex behavior for MediaWiki
by Peter Baldridge 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

Hello All, The most recent upgrade to pcre 8.34-1 seems to disallow group names starting with a digit. A quote from the PCRE news.txt [1]: > "Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this change also in PCRE." I found this bug report[2] on the mediawiki site that apparently has a working patch though I'll probably just downgrade until the patch is in the official package. This breaks my MediaWiki install with the following error in the httpd/error.log: >PHP Warning: preg_match(): Compilation failed: group name must start with a non-digit at offset 8 in /usr/share/webapps/mediawiki/includes/MagicWord.php on line 907 I'm not sure how Arch would handle this since it is an upstream bug. If someone needs any other info let me know. [1] http://pcre.org/news.txt [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58640 -- Pete

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[arch-general] ★ General Discussion about Arch Linux, Nicolás de la torre te dejó un mensaje...
by Nicolás de la torre 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

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[arch-general] Locale Changed
by Silvio Siefke 29 Dec '13

29 Dec '13

Hello, i use XFCE and when i now start i become all in english but i has write the locales in german. I not understand i do nothing make restart and now the GTK Programms in English, XFCE in English, VLC in English. siefke ~ $ cat /etc/locale.conf export LC_DATE=de_DE.utf8 export LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.utf8 export LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 export LANG=de_DE.utf8 siefke ~ $ cat /etc/vconsole.conf KEYMAP=de-latin1 siefke ~ $ cat .bashrc | grep LANG export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 siefke ~ $ cat .xinitrc | grep LANG export LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 export LANG=de_DE.utf8 I really not understand why now most Programs in English. Can someone give me an advice. Thanks for help & Nice day Silvio

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[arch-general] svntogit interface issue
by Leonid Isaev 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hi, I just noticed that svntogit interface at archlinux.org is few days behind SVN. For example systemd is still listed in trunk with pkgrel=5, while [testing] has pkgrel=9. Is this a known problem? Thanks and happy holidays, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] -Bsymbolic-functions
by Olivier Langlois 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

>From https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Options.html#Options -Bsymbolic-functions When creating a shared library, bind references to global function symbols to the definition within the shared library, if any. This option is only meaningful on ELF platforms which support shared libraries. I have discovered this ld switch by seeing it offered in the alsa-lib configure script: --enable-symbolic-functions use -Bsymbolic-functions option if available (optmization for size and speed) My limited knowledge of how shared libraries work is that code refering to a 'so' function jump in a location containing a second jump to the address of the loaded symbol and this second jump instruction gets patched when the 'so' is loaded. So my understanding of the switch is that activating just go directly to the function without any indirection. Could it be interesting to make this switch standard in makepkg.conf? Has this ever been discussed in the past? The only potential problem that I can foresee with its usage is for programs 'hijacking' symbols by being preloaded first. The 2 programs that I know doing this are: trickle and glc but I am sure that there are many others.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [HEADSUP] Arch boot splash
by Genes Lists 22 Dec '13

22 Dec '13

On 12/22/2013 03:22 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 22.12.2013 03:11, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: >> Anyways, I am planning to replace gummiboot by syslinux in archiso. (but ... > Given the state of syslinux on EFI (fails to load some kernels entirely > for some people) and its lack of features (cannot chainload EFI > executables, for example), I am now very sceptical towards this. > > I've been installing arch on new systems the last couple of days - and am having great success with rEFInd - pretty straightforward and so far is working really well for me. gene

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