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[arch-general] startx on arch vm running on ESXI (when accessed via ssh - do I need a DM?)
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

All, When I ended up with a hand-me-down supermicro server from a local ISP, I decided to try virtualizing all my hosts. The company I got this from recommended vmware ESXI as the hypervisor. It was a pleasant surprise to find that ESXI is a basic Linux system. (albeit a very limited and quirky setup). I've installed Arch as the first vm, assigning 8-cores and 16G of RAM. It is up and running fine. (it is installed on a raid1 array volume from a LSI controller which exists as a single datastore in esxi -- if that makes any difference) I am trying to setup fluxbox on arch so I can access the vm via rdesktop (or something similar) via a GUI on a as needed basis. I would rather not have a display manager running all the time, so I'm attempting to use the startx route. I've used the following to try and get this going: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fluxbox https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_manager The configuration is good, but I'm stuck attempting to start X. X is refusing to start due to the fact I'm accessing Arch by ssh. When I try to start x, I receive the following error telling me that "Only console users are allowed": $ startx /usr/lib/xorg-server/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console I understand that it wants X only to be started from the actual physical console, but when I access the vm over ssh, I don't have one. (I am starting the vm, ssh'ed into esxi with 'vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 1', so there is no console anywhere else) What would be the best solution? Have arch boot to the graphical target loading a display manager? ... or is there some way I can simply startx as needed so I don't leave the dm running all the time on the vm? Thanks for any help you can provide. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Adding new disks > 2T to system that boots with grub, can GPT be used for new disks?
by David C. Rankin 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

All, I'm confused by the partitioning wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Partitioning) It says: If using GRUB legacy as the bootloader, one must use MBR What about adding disks to this system? Must they be partitioned MBR or can I use GPT on the additional disks. (I haven't used GPT before, so this has me stumped). Current setup is Arch booting from grub (grub2) on 1T raid1 mdadm array. I have a pair of 3T drives I want to add to the system. (as a 3T raid1 mdadm array). I want to use the entire disk in a single partition which is why I want to partition the disks GPT (leaving 100M unpartitioned at the end). Can I use GPT on the new disks, or am I stuck with MBR? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Why does newly created raid1 array not have /dev/disk/by-uuid entry?
by David C. Rankin 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

All, I created GPT partitions on a pair of new 3T drives configured in raid1 as md4 on my system, e.g.: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md4 : active raid1 sdd[1] sdc[0] 2930135488 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] [=>...................] resync = 5.3% (157758400/2930135488) finish=235.0min speed=196538K/sec bitmap: 21/22 pages [84KB], 65536KB chunk md0 : active raid1 sdb5[1] sda5[0] 511680 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sda7[0] sdb7[1] 921030656 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/7 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk md1 : active raid1 sdb6[1] sda6[0] 52396032 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md3 : active raid1 sda8[0] sdb8[1] 2115584 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> Then 'mdadm --detail --scan' finds the UUID for the array, e.g.: # mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md3 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:3 UUID=8b37af66:b34403aa:fa4ce6f1:5eb4b7c8 ARRAY /dev/md1 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:1 UUID=62b42a42:c8b4eed1:295864d2:f815b367 ARRAY /dev/md2 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:2 UUID=73a0a0b5:fa3629e1:7c1a7c87:23044fc8 ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.2 name=archiso:0 UUID=04940526:cfa6af2b:72c234e2:a987a858 ARRAY /dev/md4 metadata=1.2 name=valkyrie:4 UUID=6e520607:f152d8b9:dd2a3bec:5f9dc875 I updated /etc/mdadm.conf with that information and was then going to do the same for /etc/fstab. Before doing so, I thought I would confirm the UUID in /dev/disk/by-uuid, # l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 16:41 3c0d11b5-c637-4def-a6e0-f48a4a17e71a -> ../../md0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 16:41 402a70c8-b51b-41a0-aa88-3aa37c8dd6fd -> ../../md2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 16:41 515ef9dc-769f-4548-9a08-3a92fa83d86b -> ../../md1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 19 16:41 8920ca3f-f253-4011-9c9e-a6be513527e0 -> ../../md3 Huh? No UUID for /dev/md4? Does it just not show up until the next boot? What gives? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Issues with Bluetooth Headset
by Jayesh Badwaik 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi, After the latest update to my system, whenever I try to connect my bluetooth headset, it connects properly, and then after sometime, it immediately disconnects. Does anyone know what is happening? Thank. I have attached the error messages below. The main error which I have seem to found out is this in the journal: 07:28:25 systemd-coredump[9501]: Process 9419 (bluetoothd) of user 0 dumped core. Stack trace of thread 9419: #0 0x000000000042467e n/a (bluetoothd) #1 0x0000000000420fb9 n/a (bluetoothd) #2 0x00007f1510370c3a g_main_context_dispatch (libglib-2.0.so.0) #3 0x00007f1510370fe0 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0) #4 0x00007f1510371302 g_main_loop_run (libglib-2.0.so.0) #5 0x000000000040ba48 n/a (bluetoothd) #6 0x00007f150f949710 __libc_start_main (libc.so.6) #7 0x000000000040c1c9 n/a (bluetoothd) Apart from the following errors from the $ journalctl -r -u bluetooth.service 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource 07:35:03 : sap-server: Operation not permitted (1) 07:35:03 : Sap driver initialization failed. 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5) 07:35:03 : Current Time Service could not be registered 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Error adding Link Loss service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink 07:35:03 : Endpoint registered: sender=:1.132 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource 07:35:03 : sap-server: Operation not permitted (1) 07:35:03 : Sap driver initialization failed. 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5) 07:35:03 : Current Time Service could not be registered 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Error adding Link Loss service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic 07:35:03 : sap-server: Operation not permitted (1) 07:35:03 : Sap driver initialization failed. 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : gatt-time-server: Input/output error (5) 07:35:03 : Current Time Service could not be registered 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service. 07:35:03 : Error adding Link Loss service 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: Starting Bluetooth service... 07:35:03 : Not enough free handles to register service 07:35:03 : Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic 07:35:03 : Bluetooth management interface 1.10 initialized 07:35:03 : Starting SDP server 07:35:03 : Bluetooth daemon 5.38 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Failed with result 'core-dump'. 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Unit entered failed state. 07:35:03 wadner systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV -- Cheers Jayesh Badwaik

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[arch-general] Htop 2.0 fonts
by Garmine 42 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi! Since the update to 2.0 the usage graphs use nonexisting fonts - both TTY and uxterm show the "empty box" unicode character instead of the fonts shown on htop 2.0 screenshots. I did not find any missing dependency for htop on my system. Do anyone else have this issue? Any ideas? Shall I install a new font for this? If so, which one? Thank you in advance. Regards, Garmine

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[arch-general] Smartcard troubles on Arch
by Mathias Huber 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Dear Archers, I am trying to get my Gemalto USB Shell Token V2 (GPG-Smartcard-Reader in a USB-Stick) to work on Arch. I've set up Udev in the way I did successfully in Ubuntu 12.04.LTS. However, no success. I am still trying to figure out where the trouble lies. I can never see the card using gpg --card-status But sometimes I see its fields when using pcscs_scan. Possible culprits: pcscd, which sometimes gives errors, gpg's USB support? Has anyone had success in setting up this reader or similar smartcard readers? Or had similar troubles? I would love to hear from you. Best, Mathias

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[arch-general] Xinitrc wiki still references copying /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ?
by David C. Rankin 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

All, I'm working to setup fluxbox on a virtual arch install inside ESXI which I will access via rdesktop (or something similar). In configuring flux to start at boot I was following the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc The point about copying the default xinitrc to ~/.xinitrc references a file that no longer exists in the current Xorg install. e.g.: cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc What is the current way to set up your ~/.xinitrc (or is that even needed anymore?) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files
by Kyle Terrien 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to Firefox. (Bleh!) I ended up cleaning up after xdg-open in the process of correcting my default web browser. In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files go), there were several files in the format userapp-<appname>-<short_hash>.desktop. userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop userapp-Pale Moon-1HNY8X.desktop userapp-SeaMonkey-YV09AY.desktop userapp-Thunderbird-PIZCZW.desktop (Wow! I have gone through a lot of web browsers lately.) I remember creating a few .desktop files in this directory, but I don't remember creating any userapp-* files. The contents of userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop were: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application NoDisplay=true Exec=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u Name=Firefox Comment=Custom definition for Firefox This is weird. There is only an English comment (the default has many languages), and this one has set NoDisplay. I deleted all my custom .desktop files. I have no use for them anymore. And back to the problem of default web browsers. These userapp .desktop files got into mimeapps.list (now located in ~/.config/). I suppose the short hash for SeaMonkey changed, causing mimeapps.list to fallback to the next web browser listed in mimeapps.list. I had to weed all the userapp garbage out and replace them with the system-wide .desktop file names. What daemon creates these mysterious userapp .desktop files? I don't want this daemon creating this junk on my system. --Kyle

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[arch-general] ikev2 strongswan client on Arch
by Fulcrum 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi I have successfully setup strongswan VPN server following instructions here[1]. I tested the server by connecting a Blackberry client and a Windows Phone client. Both used IKEv2 and worked fine. I have another laptop, running Arch, that I want to connect to the VPN server. But I can't figure how to configure strongswan as client. The link [1] doesn't describe it. Neither could I find such information from google. Regards, [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/StrongSwan

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[arch-general] System freeze when powering down.
by r.kintzi+arch-general＠pobox.net.pl 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hi there, The hardware is Asus K501UX running linux-4.5.0-mainline from aur and a GNOME desktop. The problem is the system freeze when it is powering down (not always but very often). See attached files for logs from properly (power-down-ok-tail.log) and improperly (power-down-fail-tail.log) finished power down sequences. Any clues what should/could I do to fix the issue? Let me know if more information is needed. R.

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