March 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] Permission Denied cifs mount
by Squall Lionheart 01 Apr '13

01 Apr '13

Hello, I perform pacman -Suy updates each Monday on my system and ever since the 25th, I have not been able to mount shares from a local Samba server. My mount.cifs binary has the setuid bit and the mountpoint I am trying to mount to has permissions of 770 with owner and group set to my users. I have tried mounting manually as both my user and root and get the same error. The response from attempting to mount is: # mount -t cifs //sambaserver/Music Music mount error(13): Permission denied Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) The entries I have in /etc/fstab look like: //sambaserver/Music /mnt/sambaserver/Music cifs rw,users,guest,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0 I am able to see information regarding the shares using the smbclient -L option. The server is a Slackware server running samba-3.5.8. Local device mounting, such as usb drives and local HD devices mount fine. The samba and smbclient packages were updated from 3.6.12-2 to 3.6.13-1. Currently running Linux 3.8.4-1 and systemd 198-1. Any suggestions to get this working again would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if any additional information is needed. Thank you in advance Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersquall

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[arch-general] svntogit 500/missing branches
by Chris Down 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Is it just me, or is svntogit returning 500 frequently? When it does return a real page from cgit (which seems to be about 50% of the time), it is missing lots of branches and generally just displays nothing if you're looking at, say, the log for linux-lts (what I first was looking for when I encountered this). Sorry if this was already posted elsewhere, I didn't see it on -dev-public or -general.

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[arch-general] gnome 3.7
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hi all. Are there repositories from where I can install gnome 3.7? Thanks. -- {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza

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[arch-general] upgrading mysql to mariadb
by David Benfell 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I had managed not to see this: https://www.archlinux.org/news/mariadb-replaces-mysql-in-repositories/ But it turned up on one of my feeds today, so I went to work. All went well until the final step, the upgrade: Phase 3/3: Running 'mysql_fix_privilege_tables'... ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 87: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(6) NOT NULL, user_host MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL, thread_id INTEGER NOT NULL, server_' at line 1 ERROR 1243 (HY000) at line 88: Unknown prepared statement handler (stmt) given to EXECUTE ERROR 1243 (HY000) at line 89: Unknown prepared statement handler (stmt) given to DEALLOCATE PREPARE ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 95: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(6) NOT NULL, user_host MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL, query_time TIME(6) NOT NULL, lock_t' at line 1 ERROR 1243 (HY000) at line 96: Unknown prepared statement handler (stmt) given to EXECUTE ERROR 1243 (HY000) at line 97: Unknown prepared statement handler (stmt) given to DEALLOCATE PREPARE ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 343: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(6) NOT NULL, ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 354: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(6) NOT NULL, ERROR 1548 (HY000) at line 1136: Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted ERROR 1548 (HY000) at line 1137: Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted ERROR 1548 (HY000) at line 1150: Cannot load from mysql.proc. The table is probably corrupted FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed I haven't checked thoroughly, but it appears my sites are all up. So I really don't know what to make of this. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRVhBJAAoJELJhbl/uPb4S7bwQAJHMeHYNO1I1PLD6/C9zvj+4 tNT7Z2qYAHyodnTY7ZzPs0726PX4OPPztPT4k28Bstl3CW4GSMyi9m2zliDJiJk+ q2mhfxNKkP3lAMH5Yq1Nzku86DEuibJtuzfSNm0HkNLGh9MnL/rL32nQRwaYT+XZ 1A8tBQtqNPUOvNLG6m1GoHqptwfuaWud72QWQ+iI3o8sqi2+rBeS9t0Lje3C3RVY 8R7XPk0ilOOwzItgC27zYWTJ8BuK//UsJ/cF4ZS1pcFk2+WvB9X7kwjKvFj0PP97 qqEjfnWwf6zspoCzKBg7rJQulh2VB4dGHaWljxWrDXyUn8DSoQ1Oyfz3GYHch0+l vetXks11NhVDEzxiJ1rtBQsAtPrXjOunTXAU2b9kuIt5aMbQVgUrfyavqSBFUa6j 6LZVAT7dkmCYVZIHwDkuwBRmc02x1TrigzpUlv8sqNEnd/MDsgX0IvhXBhJAF5j0 DueF8m7TGl8wl1UgVvpNNmJ/cfiJWC3+k3cmKLG+ldvoHzPVgBSbR1zeFKsqD5N3 lcU8VOGosxf2GpBNAIyXT8LYMdwg1FXvX8zkf3wyyUc+LhgbxWhRpGsUM2Kc5m+K X9UenI/SXJjrFBfRU31S+/voWQPCVPHb9RzHDM6oJyAsb7lDc6I/nRITDjXCu9U2 bzg/liGHVI39/2CYQpeO =4+EX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] downgrades when moving out of [testing]
by Matthew Monaco 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

I typically upgrade with -uu, and use [*testing]. I've noticed lately that there is a window when a package moves out of [testing] that it will be downgraded. For example, this happened when openssh-6.2 recently moved. Are the packages being removed from [testing] before being added to e.g. [core]? Does mirroring happen separately, but faster for [testing]? (I use kernel.org). Best, Matt

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[arch-general] Automatically stop systemd service
by Robbie Smith 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

TL;DR: More toying with mobile broadband and systemd; would like help automatically stopping service depending on device availability. I’ve been adjusting the .service file for netcfg(a)ppp-mobile.service so it plays nicely with my modem. It will only start if the USB modem is plugged in and exposing a serial port to the computer, and when I manaually stop the unit, the ppp daemon is also killed, so it doesn’t lock the device and reconnect automatically upon the device being detected again, thus *bringing up the network interface when systemd and netcfg say it is down*. /etc/systemd/system/netcfg(a)ppp-mobile.service: ---------------------------------------------- .include /usr/lib/systemd/system/netcfg@.service [Unit] Description=Netcfg networking service for mobile broadband point to-point protocol. ConditionPathExists=/dev/ttyUSB0 [Service] KillMode=control-group What I cannot figure out how to do is automatically stop the service if the device is unplugged, similar to how ifplugd works for wired ethernet interfaces. I’ve read the manual pages and asked Google, and I cannot seem to find more detailed information. I think it may be possible to write a service that will use udev’s polling capabilities, but then I have to somehow link that unit to the netcfg one such that it gets stopped and started when netcfg is, which implies it would listen to udev, wait for the device to be unplugged, then stop netcfg and kill itself. systemd's PartOf= may offer an answer, but I don’t really know how to tie it all together. How should I best go about this? Another systemd service, a udev rule, or is it possible to further modify the ppp-mobile service? regards, Robbie

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[arch-general] netctl development
by Robbie Smith 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

Is there a publicly-accessible list to follow the development of netcfg’s successor-to-be, netctl? From my experiments with systemd and netcfg, there’s a few features that could definitely come in useful, and I’m certainly willing to help contribute where I can, be it testing, coding, or writing documentation. Does it depend on anything in [testing] or could I build and install it via ABS/AUR?

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