June 2017 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Perl Help?
by Hunter Jozwiak 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi gang, I got bit by Perl this morning after I did an update. I got an error about having a handshake error with ListUtil.c, and I don't know how to resolve this error. I can't open cpan, launch Chromium, and I'm not sure what all else is broken at this point. Can someone help me towards a solution? Thanks, Hunter

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[arch-general] About rebuild of pandoc
by Óscar García Amor 29 Aug '17

29 Aug '17

Hello all, Some days ago the pandoc mantainer [1] do a rebuild of it [2] where add a lot of haskell package dependencies. I think that the build changes the binary from statically linked to dinamically linked, but IMHO, I prefer the static one (55,08 MiB of package) over the dinamic (more than 666 MB in libraries). What do you think about this? Other solution can be have other package "pandoc-static", that maintains the previous method of package. Greetings. [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pandoc/ [2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/pa… -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] [Classroom] The Beginner's Guide to Arch Linux package management
by Eli Schwartz 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Eschwartz will be teaching a class "The Beginner's Guide to Arch Linux package management". As usual, the class will be taught in the #archlinux-classroom channel on irc.freenode.net. It will take place on Sunday, June 4 at 17:00:00 UTC, and last approximately 2 hours. This class is primarily focused on teaching the basic structure of PKGBUILDs: how to read/write/modify them, handle different source types, common errors and how to avoid them, and finally contribute them to the AUR for others to use. Everyone is welcome to join, as long as you follow the eminently fair rules in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct. :) Prerequisites: * Have a basic knowledge of bash and shell commands in general. * The ability to use a text editor (e.g., nano, vim, emacs, gedit, Atom, etc.) Eschwartz is well known for his profusion of posts to the Arch Linux Fora, Mailing Lists, bugtracker, and IRC -- basically, anywhere that doesn't shut the door on him first. He has been an Arch user ever since he was introduced to Linux about four years ago, and has never looked back. He enjoys bash scripting, ebooks, and (apparently) referring to himself in third-person. -- Eli Schwartz

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[arch-general] Scrot update removed few option
by Dragon ryu 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Newest scrot update removed few option. Is it nessecerry update from upstream?

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[arch-general] That terminal in gnome will launch.
by matthew dyer 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hi all, For some strange ofeason, anon me terminal does not load either when search for it or selectable it in application ns Is there a way to fix this without having to rest stall Arch. Is there something I am doingwrong? I am using gnome 3.24 with all updates as of today. Thanks again for the help. Matthew D

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[arch-general] Kde + Gnome dual-install issues
by Francesco Porro 28 Jun '17

28 Jun '17

I'm a quite new user of Arch and in general I'm very satisfied with it! Since I've installed both Kde/Plasma and Gnome on my system, I've two question for you: 1) In a Gnome session, which file should I edit to make folders on my Desktop open with Nautilus, when I double click on them? I've tried checking and editing ~/config/mimefiles.list (as stated in the wiki) but the right settings is already there. Under [Default applications] there is: > inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop; Which it's supposed to let Nautilus open a folder on double clicking, but anyway Dolphin opens it up! I've also put a gnome-mimefiles.list with the same directive... nothing :\ 2) In a Kde/Plasma session I see a lot of gnome-* process running, even if didn't opened any gnome-related app. How to disable the auto-start of those deamons/apps? I don't know exactly where to look at, which is the right conf file to edit? Thank you in advance! -- fp PGP: 0x45399C26

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[arch-general] anyone using flyspray app?
by Jude DaShiell 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

If so, can the lynx browser run setup and then run flyspray after setup or is this going to need a g.u.i. browser? --

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[arch-general] Please update the Cinnamon packages
by Marcelo Ranolfi 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Good morning, Our Cinnamon packages, from maintainer Alexandre Filgueiras ( https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?maintainer=faidoc) have been out-of-date for a while now. Someone asked on Reddit a month ago about this ( https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6axs8n/to_alexandre_filgueria_w…) and was informed that the packages are up-to-date in Antergos. I appreciate that Mr. Filgueira is the founder and project leader for Antergos. Since the Cinnamon packages are currently lagging 5 months behind official releases, I'd like to ask Mr Filgueira to either step up and update the packages, or possibily consider handing over the maintanership in the best interest of the community. The Cinnamon DE is developing fast, and a rather large number of quirks are fixed each release. There's a git version in AUR, but it's basically broken (the PKGBUILD themselves, and the sources - it's dev version after all). I'd create another AUR package myself for the most up-to-date version, but we have a policy of not doing that for official packages. Anyway, I would volunteer to maintain Cinnamon, if needed. Thanks for your consideration.

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Re: [arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues
by David Barri 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Broke for me recently too. I had to add this to my .xinitrc: systemctl --user start xfce4-notifyd.service

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[arch-general] lynx update incorrect
by Jude DaShiell 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Line 93 of /etc/lynx.cfg was incorrectly reverted. The real home page for lynx is at: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ The lynx.isc.org site got taken down in I think June of 2016. --

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[arch-general] Broken devtools?
by Giovanni Santini 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Good afternoon, I was trying to build a package with `devtools` *extra-x86_64-build*, but is doesn't use any mirror. I've noticed also that adding a mirror to the root chroot mirrorlist has no effect and gets removed at the first build attempt. -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] ABS Wiki
by Ralf Mardorf 24 Jun '17

24 Jun '17

Hi, shouldn't we completely delete the ABS wiki? I only added a note on 09:28, 24 June 2017: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Arch_Build_System&type=revision&… On 09:43, 28 May 2017 I already removed it from another wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Professional_audio&type=revision… Regards, Ralf -- Vote for apulse! echo $(w3m https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apulse |grep 'Votes: ') Votes: 71 Updated: Sat Jun 24 11:37:26 CEST 2017

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[arch-general] kernel-install in archlinux
by Damjan Georgievski 22 Jun '17

22 Jun '17

Is there any plan for moving ArchLinux to the kernel-install infrastructure[1] I've seen some talk about it from a year ago, but the discussion seems to have died off. My personal use case is to have a hook that self-signs kernel+initramfs+cmdline images for secure boot (using my own keys), and currently I have to do that manually whenever the initramfs is updated. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/kernel-install.html [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2016-May/028014.html -- damjan

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[arch-general] Samsung NVMe set up
by Alan E. Davis 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Hello everyone: I built a new machine with a Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe <https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjWxp_rk8nUAhWBf…>Samsung SSD 960 EVO NVMe <https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjWxp_rk8nUAhWBf…>Samsung 950 EVO NVMe M.2 500GB component. Installation went swell. I was able to use bootctl (by whatever name), which seemed to be easier than using GRUB. (on the Manjaro wiki was found an extremely coherent discussion of this system). I have encountered no problems other than slow-ish (if one would call it that). When I run hdparm to test the performance of this memory, it falls far short of the specification of 32 Gb/s. I realize that the Linux kernel has recently included some code for the NVME drivers. There is also some question as to the best parameters to use in /etc/fstab. So I am requesting assistance to set up this device on this mailing list. I am using the Zen kernel. Some checks I have made: # hdparm -Tt --direct /dev/nvme0n1 /dev/nvme0n1: Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 2404 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1201.67 MB/sec Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 5372 MB in 3.00 seconds = 1790.16 MB/sec # nvme get-feature -f 0x0c -H /dev/nvme0n1p2 get-feature:0xc (Autonomous Power State Transition), Current value:0x000001 Autonomous Power State Transition Enable (APSTE): Enabled Auto PST Entries ................. Entry[ 0] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 1] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 2] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 86 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 3 ................. Entry[ 3] ................. Idle Time Prior to Transition (ITPT): 410 ms Idle Transition Power State (ITPS): 4 Alan Davis -- [I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. ---Albert Einstein "Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves." ---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_

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[arch-general] xfce4-notifyd issues
by David Rosenstrauch 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

Seems like some recent package update has either caused xfce4-notifyd to not autostart or to crash after starting. Anyone else seeing this, and/or have any idea what might be the cause? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] TeXLive 2017 packages are now available in [testing]
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Hello, TexLive 2017 has been released at the beginning of the month and is now packaged in [testing]. No particular issue is expected when upgrading to this release. Note that a few packages disappear in this release, following upstream changes in structure: * texlive-genericextra (merged in texlive-core) * texlive-htmlxml (merged in texlive-core and formatsextra) * texlive-plainextra (merged in texlive-core) Pacman hooks for TeXLive, which were in texlive-bin, are now in texlive-core, which should fix bugs like FS50238, FS20423 and FS51918. I expect to move them to [extra] early July. Happy TeXing, Regards, Rémy.

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[arch-general] Unable to start gnome-terminal from KDE session
by Jeremy Brown 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Hello arch-general! I have a laptop running the latest KDE / Plasma, but I use gnome-terminal as my terminal app. Recently I noticed that when I launch gnome-terminal from the KDE start menu, it takes an incredibly long time to launch (maybe 20+ seconds) and when it does launch, I just get a flashing prompt with no actual shell. If I launch a second gnome-terminal after that, *that* gnome-terminal seems fine. I get a normal working shell. If I launch xterm then the xterm is fine. Running "journalctl -f" while I launch the initial gnome-terminal instance shows: ------- Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org kwin_x11[8054]: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 62818, resource id: 37749768, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0 Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.gnome.Terminal' unit='gnome-terminal-server.service' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Starting GNOME Terminal Server... Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:68:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-x is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:69:35: The style property GtkButton:child-displacement-y is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:71:36: The style property GtkCheckMenuItem:indicator-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org gnome-terminal-[10554]: Theme parsing error: gtk.css:76:30: The style property GtkExpander:expander-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Successfully activated service 'org.gnome.Terminal' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Started GNOME Terminal Server. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop' unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Starting Portal service... Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activating service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde' Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org dbus-daemon[599]: Activated service 'org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde' failed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: No such file or directory Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: Failed to create file chooser proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde: No such file or directory Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_set_flags: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_INTERFACE_SKELETON (interface_)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: invalid (NULL) pointer instance Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org xdg-desktop-por[10558]: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_export: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_INTERFACE_SKELETON (interface_)' failed Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org kernel: xdg-desktop-por[10558]: segfault at 8 ip 0000000000407240 sp 00007ffeb591a140 error 4 in xdg-desktop-portal[400000+5b000] Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 10569/UID 0). Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: Failed to start Portal service. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Unit entered failed state. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd[574]: xdg-desktop-portal.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. Jun 08 02:37:24 fourroses.brownjava.org systemd-coredump[10570]: Process 10558 (xdg-desktop-por) of user 1000 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 10558: #0 0x0000000000407240 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #1 0x0000000000407305 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #2 0x00007f87235af664 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8723573643 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8723574106 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f87235a20d2 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #6 0x00007f8723573643 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #7 0x00007f8723573679 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #8 0x00007f8722fcd66a g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0) #9 0x00007f8722fcda20 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #10 0x00007f8722fcdd42 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #11 0x0000000000406c65 n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) #12 0x00007f87229e043a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #13 0x0000000000406f2a n/a (xdg-desktop-portal) Stack trace of thread 10561: #0 0x00007f8722aa83b9 syscall (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f872301344a g_cond_wait_until (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fa1f49 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8722ff5c66 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10560: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdd42 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f87235b4f86 n/a (libgio-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10562: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdacc g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8719afa55d n/a (libdconfsettings.so) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Stack trace of thread 10559: #0 0x00007f8722aa32bd poll (libc.so.6) #1 0x00007f8722fcd9b6 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #2 0x00007f8722fcdacc g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f8722fcdb11 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f8722ff5295 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x00007f8722d6c297 start_thread (libpthread.so.0) #6 0x00007f8722aad25f __clone (libc.so.6) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Creating the cache for: "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Already in database? true Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: First update : QDateTime(2016-08-27 06:51:33.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Last update : QDateTime(2017-06-08 02:36:44.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: After the adjustment Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Current score : 39.4505 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: First update : QDateTime(2016-08-27 06:51:33.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Last update : QDateTime(2017-06-08 02:36:44.000 JST Qt::TimeSpec(LocalTime)) Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: Interval length is 0 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: New score : 40.4505 Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org kactivitymanagerd[8102]: ResourceScoreUpdated: "e0ccd030-50ca-4cbc-a4d7-ccb8e06c72a9" "org.kde.krunner" "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" Jun 08 02:37:25 fourroses.brownjava.org plasmashell[8062]: KActivitiesStats( 0x5c0c5d0 ) ResultModelPrivate::onResultScoreUpdated result added: "applications:org.gnome.Terminal.desktop" score: 40.4505 last: 1496857044 first: 1472248293 ------- Googling that core dump led me to: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=224787 ...which led me to: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk/issues/72 ...which sounds a bit like what I'm seeing, at least the slowness part. However, I use SDDM, so I can't put the recommended dbus-update-activation-environment in any .xinitrc file (which is only run when you do startx as far as I know). So, two questions: (1) Where would I put this command so that it's run by SDDM on login? (2) Is there a bug here where some script in /etc somewhere should be doing this? I poked around thinking maybe there was a .pacnew for some Xorg / SDDM related file that might have this, but I didn't see anything. Mostly just wondering if I should file a bug. Jeremy

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[arch-general] freshclam eating 100% CPU continually during nonblock_recv
by David C. Rankin 17 Jun '17

17 Jun '17

All, I'm not sure if this is a package bug or an upstream bug. I have used clamav for years. The rotation of servers always causes a timeout on one or two servers, never been a problem. Updating tonight, freshclam hung for 13 minutes with the assigned CPU core pegged at 100%. At the 13 minutes mark, I did receive an error I'm not accustomed to seeing: Downloading daily-23454.cdiff [100%] nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs) WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from database.clamav.net (IP: 104.131.196.175): Operation now in progress WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-23455.cdiff from database.clamav.net Trying host database.clamav.net (194.8.197.22)... Can anyone else confirm this behavior? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] problems accessing samba share through Xfce gui
by Paul Marwick 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Arch Linux, fully updated, running Xfce, installed on a Lenovo T420 laptop. I’m having strange, intermittent problems accessing samba shares through the GUI. The problem varies, no pattern that I can detect. Sometimes, clicking on the “Browse Network” icon in Thunar does nothing, eventually returning ‘Failed to open “/” Timeout reached’ . Other times it will open the network view and allow me to double-click the Windows Network icon. Sometimes that is the last thing that happens (possibly followed by another timeout error, though that can take so long that I may have shut the machine down before it happens). If it gets past the main Windows network stage, it will show me any active workgroup. It may fail there, or it may give me a view of the machines in the workgroup. It may allow me to select a machine, and may show me the shares on the machine. If I double-click on a share, it will (sometimes) pop up the login dialog. If that fails, sometimes double-clicking a second time will show the login dialog. If I am able to connect to a share, there is (sometimes) a further problem. Using the Thunar option to disconnect from the share works, but if I attempt to reconnect to the share, or connect to another share, instead of opening the share in Thunar, it opens VLC, which doesn’t understand what is going on and does nothing. I have two other Arch installations on my laptop, plus two desktop machines which run Arch. None of the other installations have any similar problems. The Arch installs are all very similar in terms of how they were installed and the software they have on them. Also, the install which is giving me this problem developed it – originally it worked without any errors. I mad a mistake configuring the samba server on an Ubuntu 16.04 server and followed that up by attempting to access the share from my Arch install. This problem has been happening ever since then, but only on the one install. I’ve checked the systemd journal and found absolutely nothing to help me diagnose the problem. This install does have on problem which shows consistently during boot - I get a core dump in the systemd journal from colord-sane (which is installed on the other installs as well). However, while the core dump happens on every boot, the samba problem only happens on some, so I don't think the problem comes from there. I’m fairly sure that the problem is not Thunar itself (I’ve tried PcmanFM, which shows similar inconsistent behaviour – sometimes it will connect without problems, other times pcmanfm locks up and does nothing, has to be forced closed. I also installed gigolo, which also shows similar problems. I think the problem is in one of the back-end programs which handles mounting the shares. I guess that includes gvfs, fuse and possibly d-bus. I’ve not managed to find an explanation of exactly what is used when mounting a share using the gui. I should also mention that when this happens, I can mount the shares without problems from the command line, or using mount with suitable entries in /etc/fstab. Also, thinking that there might be something messed up in my user profile, I added another user and tested using that user. Problem is exactly the same - sometimes the mount works without errors, others it fails in the same unpredictable manner. While I could fix the problem by reinstalling, this is one of the few things I’ve ever hit in Arch that (so far), I’ve been unable to fix. I would really love to be able to fix it, but that means I need to have some way of diagnosing where the problem is. Any help would be very gratefully received.

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[arch-general] Problem install slack-desktop deb
by Maykel Franco 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Hi, recently I like install slack-desktop 2.3.4 because with the latest version 2.6.x I have a problem with unmark read messages bug... I have install debtap from github, the binary because the debtap archlinux repository not works well. When install the slack-desktop 2.3.4 deb I get this error... user ~/ $ LANG=C sudo pacman -U slack-desktop-2.3.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz loading packages... resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "apt", a dependency of "slack-desktop" warning: cannot resolve "gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0", a dependency of "slack-desktop" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: slack-desktop :: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: slack-desktop: requires apt :: slack-desktop: requires gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 How resolved it? Thanks in advanced.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] libalpm hook and wrapper for detecting broken perl modules
by Eli Schwartz 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

On 06/10/2017 06:03 PM, Florian Pritz via arch-dev-public wrote: > Talking to some folks in #perl pointed me towards a hopefully satisfying > solution. I plan to version the architecture specific directories and > introduce a libalpm hook that checks for old directories and warns the > user by printing a list of affected AUR/cpanplus-dist-arch packages, > respectively a list of files for modules installed directly with cpan. > > The new directory layout would be > "/usr/lib/perl5/$baseversion/{core,vendor,site}_perl" with $baseversion > being "5.26" right now. Currently the layout is > "/usr/lib/perl5/{core,vendor,site}_perl". The check for old versions > would then be rather simple since it just has to look for directories > beside the current version. > > During the old discussion, Justin raised the issue that if the > directories are versioned, perl modules that are not rebuilt will just > be missing. This could lead to software not detecting them any more and > disabling a feature or using a slower module to do the job. > > One possibility to counter this would be to replace the perl executable > with a wrapper that performs the check and prints errors to stderr. > Optionally it could also exit with an error code rather than continuing > to run the script. I'm not sure if I want this or not, but I'm leaning > towards a yes since exiting will make the error more difficult to miss. I kind of feel like users who do the wrong thing should not be catered to. That being said, using a perl directory layout that causes non-rebuilt packages to simply go missing from the perl installation seems like an *excellent* tradeoff of harmless while providing useful functionality. It seems to work well for python, too. Hooks to warn people when they do the wrong thing seem ugly, but I can't really claim to be extremely bothered if it is as lightweight as a check for existing files/directories, I assume running whenever the perl package is updated... But providing wrapper scripts that hijack the perl binary every time you try to do anything that involves perl is a *terrible idea*, and regardless, if users don't pay attention to pacman output they deserve everything that happens to them. Paying attention to pacman output is non-optional in Arch, last I checked. -- Eli Schwartz

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[arch-general] gnupg: systemd enable in post_install
by Damjan Georgievski 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

what's the rationale to enable the gnupg sockets in post_install of the package? https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/install?h=packag… I don't disagree that the sockets maybe should be enabled (I have them enabled for me), it's just a strange way to enable them in post_install, and linking them in /etc/ Why doesn't the PKGBUILD make the symlinks in /usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/ ? dbus does that for ex. -- damjan

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[arch-general] ReadyDLNA/MiniDLNA doesn't work behind wireless
by Giovanni Santini 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Good afternoon, as said in the subject I am having some issues running MiniDLNA on my home server. The service fires up properly (the status web page is properly accessible), however the server is not visible when I scan for it in my DLNA-enanched applications, on all the platforms (my Android phone and tablet + my computer). In the past it was working when my home server was connected through Ethernet, but I had to make a really bad setup and I would prefer to keep it on wireless. Did anyone have a problem similar to mine? -- Giovanni Santini My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan My GPG: 2FADEBF5

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[arch-general] update issue: veracrypt: removing wxgtk breaks dependency 'wxgtk>=3.0'
by David C. Rankin 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

All, There was a slight hitch in the system update tonight with the requirement of: Replace wxgtk with extra/wxgtk2? choosing 'Y' results in unmet dependencies for veracrypt, e.g. :: Replace wxgtk with extra/wxgtk2? [Y/n] resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: veracrypt: removing wxgtk breaks dependency 'wxgtk>=3.0' I have checked the archlinux.org page and there are no notes. Is there a recommended way to handle this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Replace python-magic from darwinsys with ahupp implementation
by Óscar García Amor 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi all! Current in pacman we have python-magic from http://darwinsys.com/file/ with an unknown custom license. We have other implementation with MIT license made by ahupp [1]. The second one is available in pypi and is more advanced that the first one. I have been checking the code of dependencies of python-magic and I can see that deepin-movie and diffoscope supports well ahupp version. Why not replace python-magic with diffoscope version, as can see in AUR [2] this version is used for much more packages. Greetings. [1]: https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-magic-ahupp/ -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me

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[arch-general] libevent outdated for 5 month
by Konstantin Shalygin 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hello. I found that libevent <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libevent/> is outdated from 2017-01-28. The new stable is available https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libevent/libevent/release-2.1.8-stable/Ch… Any reason this is not updated? I checked todo lists and bug-reports - found nothing.

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[arch-general] Xorg configuration on a dual graphic card system
by KangJing Huang 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

Hi there, I'm trying to setup my xorg configuration on my dual graphic card desktop system. The system has two cards, one iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530, another is a dGPU Nvidia GTX 1070 on PCIe. I plugged one monitor to the iGPU port and another to the dGPU port and let the motherboard boot from iGPU. Right now, the fbcon works well on the iGPU, and I installed Nvidia non-free driver, and would like to run X on dGPU. I used the nvidia-xconfig to generate a Xorg configuration, and after starting Xorg, I got display from the monitor connected to dGPU, but it seems that the 3D rendering on that screen is software-based, and `glxinfo | grep vendor` showed that libglvnd on that X environment is selecting mesa as the GL library to use. With mesa being called on a dGPU connected screen, apparently it could not find a correct device to do dri, and fell back to software rendering. Does anyone know the proper way of config X so that libglvnd could know which GL library to use correctly in this case? Thanks, K.H.

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Re: [arch-general] Problem regarding Resolution on Nvidia
by Robert Wong 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

But I remember Wayland has nothing to do with X and draws the UI directly on the fb unless your app requires Xwayland... Did I get it right??? So you might wish to check out the KMS settings... I'm afraid... RW

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[arch-general] Got Segmentation fault after upgrade
by meym 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Release Date: 2017-03-15 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.11-1-ARCH x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux localhost 4.11.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun May 28 10:40:17 CEST 2017 x86_64 (II) GLX: Initialized DRI2 GL provider for screen 1 (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVEnterVT is called. (EE) (EE) Backtrace: (EE) 0: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (OsLookupColor+0x139) [0x59c209] (EE) 1: /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (funlockfile+0x50) [0x7fad0245a98f] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (xf86RandR12CreateScreenResources+0x534) [0x4b8234] (EE) 3: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (InitExtensions+0x5d0) [0x4ab730] (EE) 4: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (InitFonts+0x2c5) [0x43a845] (EE) 5: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xea) [0x7fad020c443a] (EE) 6: /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg (_start+0x2a) [0x42464a] (EE) (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (EE) error: (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. --

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[arch-general] Problem regarding Resolution on Nvidia
by Junayeed Ahnaf 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hello, I am using nvidia proprietary driver on arch linux (GNOME with Wayland), My HDMI port broke so I connected my monitor using DVI ports (with VGA adapter since my monitor does not have any DVI output). Now my aspect ratio is fixed on 4:3. I can't make it to 16:9 nor can I use 1920*1080. Steps I've taken : 1. Following archwiki I tried to create a new rule for xrandr but it failed 2. I tried editing xorg.conf refresh rate and it added some weird resolution but still no 16:9 3. Added subsection on "Screen" defining resolution, it did not do anything ;( What can I do? Any suggestion will be helpful. Thanks in advance. J Sent from Nylas Mail<https://n1.nylas.com/link/5ba4f02ea2b0084a1a5ba0fbbe6dee6293853c593b984a854…>, the best free email app for work

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[arch-general] linux kernel net_prio module
by Evgenii Sovetkin 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to set CONFIG_CGROUP_NET_PRIO in arch kernel config. Is there anyone against? If not, I shall file a feature request. Jenya

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