February 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] A little script to deploy dot files
by 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

[Inspired by tomd123@bbs.archlinux.org](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134622), I have wrote a small script to deploy the dotfiles acrossing viarous hosts, may be you guys are interested to have a look. Github: https://github.com/techlivezheng/dotploy Thoughts and advices are very welcome, cause my bash skills are still need much improving, there must be some ugly workaround. Regards, Techlive Zheng

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[arch-general] Systemd screen brightness
by Michael Nawrocki 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Hey everyone, I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight. Previously, I had entered the following in my /etc/acpi/handler.sh to handle the acpi events generated when those keys were pressed: video/brightnessdown) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) -1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; video/brightnessup) echo $(($(cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness) +1)) > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness ;; However, as I am working on migrating to systemd, acpid no longer runs and hence does not handle these events. How can I write a similar handler into systemd? Thanks, Mike

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[arch-general] Sound problems
by Frank Zimmermann 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Good evening, I'm having troubles getting sound to work aftereach reboot. I've followed the instructions from the wiki. But after each reboot I need to run alsamixer -> selct the soundcard by pressing F6 -> and then have to increase the volume of the speaker. When invoking systemctl enable alsa-restore.service and systemctl enable alsa-store.service I do get the following error messsage: The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory. 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...). ... and it starts from the beginning after the next reboot. BTW it doesn't help when I change the settings in /etc/asound.conf from pulseaudio to the hw device. Thanks for any help Frank

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[arch-general] Can't build virtualbox
by Manuel Reimer 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, I have a reproducible problem with virtualbox on my system. To find out which version was the first one that causes those problems for me, I want to build virtualbox on my own and step back until the problem no longer exists. I've checked out the community PKGBUILD's using git. If I try to build virtualbox, it always ends with the following messages: kmk_builtin_rm -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts kmk_builtin_mkdir -p /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_soapxml /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_namespacemaps kmk_builtin_mv -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers usage: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target or: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory or: kmk_builtin_mv --help or: kmk_builtin_mv --version kmk: *** [/home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts] Error 64 kmk: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... info: soapC-1.cpp info: soapC-2.cpp info: soapC-3.cpp info: soapC-4.cpp info: soapC-5.cpp info: soapC-6.cpp info: soapC-7.cpp info: soapC-8.cpp info: soapC-9.cpp info: soapC-10.cpp info: soapC-11.cpp info: soapC-12.cpp info: soapC-13.cpp info: soapC-14.cpp info: soapC-15.cpp info: soapC-16.cpp info: soapC-17.cpp info: soapC-18.cpp info: soapC-19.cpp info: soapC-20.cpp split-soapC: Created 20 files. kmk: *** Exiting with status 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I'm building with "-j2". Can someone please tell me what I have to do to make the build succeed? Thanks in advance Yours Manuel

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[arch-general] tomoyo-init on linux 3.8.0-2
by Alexander Diana 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Regardless of what I add in kernel flags, tomoyo-init is never loaded. I see no noticable error messages anywhere in the logs. I have confirmed tomoyo-init works when manually loaded, and confirmed that tomoyo itself is working and loaded. Anyone with ideas will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Alexander Diana <alexander.a.diana(a)gmail.com>

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.7.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi guys, please signoff 3.7.10 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.8.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Cannot get GNOME Keyring to work well with lightdm-razor-greeter and razor-qt
by Hexchain Tong 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi everyone, I recently switched to razor-qt desktop and lightdm (for a faster startup), but I can't get gnome-keyring-daemon to run. I've tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring#Use_Without_GNOME , but ~/.xinitrc doesn't seem to be executed at all. Plus, I don't want to add anything into ~/.bashrc, because I think $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and some relevant variables should just be set in the session. Is there any better idea? Thanks, Hexchain

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[arch-general] Svntogit looks broken
by Armin K. 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, are there any problems with Archlinux' svntogit? Latest changes are shown from ~22 hours ago.

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[arch-general] watchdog 5.13 changes
by Thomas Bächler 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

The new watchdog 5.13 package removes the rc.d scripts and conf.d files. There is a systemd service file for watchdog included. There is no service file for wd_keepalive, because the functionality of wd_keepalive is provided by systemd - just uncomment RuntimeWatchdogSec=20 in /etc/systemd/system.conf.

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