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[arch-general] Gedit
by Ralf Mardorf 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hi, do I miss options for the preferences or doesn't gedit provide a menu bar and window buttons anymore? A menu bar might be something to argue, since it's part of the app, but the window buttons are provided by the window manager I decided to use. Will this happen to other editors, such as pluma and other apps too? Disgusting! Doers it make sense to send a veto to upstream or is it wanted by most users? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Bluetooth keyword layout in Gnome 3.12
by Mikhail Strizhov 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

After Gnome 3.10 -> 3.12 upgrade my Bluetooth keyboard layout became crazy. There are no English letters, instead it types some numbers. Sounds silly, but if I press in gedit letter "p" is prints "*", "o" is "6", "l" is "3", "q", "w" and others do out output anything. The keyboard is visible in Bluetooth settings. I also tried to delete the keyword settings and reconnect it and it was successful, layout is still incorrect. Any ideas? Output of dmesg: [ 64.054951] apple 0005:05AC:0239.0002: unknown main item tag 0x0 [ 64.055249] input: KC1280 BT Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:05AC:0239.0002/input/input20 [ 64.055563] apple 0005:05AC:0239.0002: input,hidraw1: BLUETOOTH HID v1.1b Keyboard [KC1280 BT Keyboard] on 7c:e9:d3:b7:d5:77 [ 127.771869] usb 1-1.4: USB disconnect, device number 4 [ 133.078432] usb 1-1.4: new full-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci Howerver, there are weird warning messages in /var/log/messages: Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost kernel: input: KC1280 BT Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:05AC:0239.0008/input/input26 Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost kernel: apple 0005:05AC:0239.0008: input,hidraw3: BLUETOOTH HID v1.1b Keyboard [KC1280 BT Keyboard] on 7c:e9:d3:b7:d5:77 Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (II) config/udev: Adding input device KC1280 BT Keyboard (/dev/input/event21) Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) KC1280 BT Keyboard: Applying InputClass "system-keyboard" Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) KC1280 BT Keyboard: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall" Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'KC1280 BT Keyboard' Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) KC1280 BT Keyboard: always reports core events Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) evdev: KC1280 BT Keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event21" Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (--) evdev: KC1280 BT Keyboard: Vendor 0x5ac Product 0x239 Apr 15 10:08:27 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (--) evdev: KC1280 BT Keyboard: Found keys Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (II) evdev: KC1280 BT Keyboard: Configuring as keyboard Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:05AC:0239.0008/input/input26/event21" Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "KC1280 BT Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD, id 17) Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104" Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us,ru" Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: (**) Option "xkb_variant" "," Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Using new definition Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Using new definition Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: > Using new definition Apr 15 10:08:28 localhost gdm-Xorg-:0[426]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server My keyboard on amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0096M8VR2/ref=oh_details_o06_s00_i00?ie=U…

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[arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?
by Marek Otahal 15 Apr '14

15 Apr '14

Hello, I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat boots up (to recovery mode). What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I see are pacman list of installed packages? Any other notes on what important things could be missing? Thank you very much for any help, Mark PS: no backups :-/ -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Bumblebee + NVIDIA Binary driver broken after Linux 3.14
by Pavan Yalamanchili 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Hi Everyone, I am not sure which part of this particular combination is broken, but after an update today I was unable to use my NVIDIA GPU. Reverting back to an older version of the kernel and the relevant driver packages fixed the issue. I have created the following bug report. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39848 Has anyone seen a similar problem ? -- Pavan

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[arch-general] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by FREE LANCE 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

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[arch-general] Btrfs RAID1 corrupted after crash
by Maximilian Bräutigam 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Dear all, unfortunately, I am very very deperate and I highly appreciate any help. One week ago, I move my entire system to btrfs to setup a RAID1. I created the RAID between device /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc with no partition table on normal HDDs. Everything was working smoothly until my computer crashed and at reboot I was not able to mount the device (my home dir) again and got the following messages: [ 125.834802] BTRFS info (device sdc): disk space caching is enabled [ 130.600101] BTRFS error (device sdc): block group 1268688879616 has wrong amount of free space [ 130.600113] BTRFS error (device sdc): failed to load free space cache for block group 1268688879616 [ 130.751274] BTRFS critical (device sdc): corrupt leaf, slot offset bad: block=1268477591552,root=1, slot=137 [ 130.751659] BTRFS critical (device sdc): corrupt leaf, slot offset bad: block=1268477591552,root=1, slot=137 So I cleared the cache with trying the mount option clear_cache, but it stayed problematic and I was not able to mount it: [ 368.159594] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in __btrfs_free_extent:5755: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.159602] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in btrfs_run_delayed_refs:2713: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.165584] BTRFS warning (device sdc): Skipping commit of aborted transaction. [ 368.165589] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in cleanup_transaction:1545: errno=-5 IO failure [ 368.165787] BTRFS: error (device sdc) in open_ctree:2839: errno=-5 IO failure (Failed to recover log tree) [ 368.227161] BTRFS: open_ctree failed Now, if I tried to mount it manually with degraded option enabled: # mount -t btrfs -o degraded /dev/sdb /mnt/sonst/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so. Now I run btrfsck with repair option enabled but still I cannot mount it. Here you can find the dmesg and btrfsck outputs: dmesg: http://pastebin.com/zsaKQ0h1 btrfsck: http://pastebin.com/xva6uJwT Please, help me! ;( Are there other options to investigate my RAID or to even temporarily mount it to get some data? What went wrong here? What can I do? Why is a simple crash making my RAID unusable? Can I use other tools for a recovery? Again, every help is highly appreciated. Best wishes, Max PS: Archlinux, linux-3.14-5, btrfs-progs-3.14-1

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[arch-general] sound in gnome, none in xfce
by message 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Readers, In gnome, sound is enabled and can be adjusted via the keyboard function keys (e.g. fn + ^). This doesn't work in xfce. What is the cause in this different behaviour and any ideas how to solve please?

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[arch-general] Is Voting Effective?
by Taylor Hornby 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

The main mechanism for moving packages from the AUR into the official repositories seems to be the "Vote for this package" mechanism. Ideally, all packages would just be in the official repositories, and there'd be no AUR. Obviously we don't have the resources for that, so there needs to be some mechanism for prioritizing packages. Because you have to register an account to vote (and I didn't even *know* about it until today), the voting mechanism is not effective at filtering out the important packages from the sea of mostly-irrelevant obscure packages, and it's certainly not a good indicator for package quality. This means important packages are getting left behind in the AUR even when all other Linux distributions include them in their official repositories. Ultimately, relying on a vote-based popularity measurement too much is hurting -- or is going to hurt -- Arch Linux. Take for example tahoe-lafs and tripwire, with 32 and 13 votes respectively. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tahoe-lafs/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tripwire/ These are extremely important tools. And, while they may not be popular as measured by the voting system, they are widely used, and both are included in Debian's official repositories. Instead of being able to quickly and easily install signed binaries with `pacman -S`, a security-conscious user wanting one of these tools has to manually inspect the PKGBUILDs for the packages themselves and many of their dependencies to make sure that they're not malicious. And after they do all that, they still have to trust insecure connections and MD5 checksums. There needs to be an official channel for hearing reasoned arguments on why a package should or should not be included in the real repositories, and the unscientific vote count should come second. Is there such a thing? Thanks for reading, -- Taylor Hornby

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[arch-general] cyrus-sasl problems
by Łukasz Michalski 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, Today I upgraded arch and have problems with sasl 2.1.26: [root@black etc]# sasldblistusers2 -f /etc/sasldb2.broken listusers failed I can dump and recreate this file with db_dump and db_load, but even after that sasldblistuser2 and saslpasswd refuse to use this file. I can use sasl 2.1.15 from other distro read and update this file, but on all my arch distros sasl 2.1.26 refuses to read it. I can create plain new file with saslpasswd and it works correctly. Anyone had similar problems? Regards, Łukasz

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[arch-general] Bug NetworkManager when restart NetworkManager service
by Maykel Franco 12 Apr '14

12 Apr '14

Hi, I change for example dns in networkmanager, when restart NetworkManager , "systemctl restart NetworkManager" the network not works... [maykel@maykel-arch ~]$ sudo systemctl status NetworkManager ● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since mar 2014-04-08 12:24:13 CEST; 19s ago Main PID: 3082 (NetworkManager) CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service ├─1223 /usr/bin/dhcpcd -B -K -L -G -c /usr/lib/networkmanager/nm-dhcp-client.action enp4s0f2 └─3082 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): DHCPv4 client pid 3093 exited with status 1 abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) scheduled... abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) started... abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5] abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Marking connection 'MO2O' invalid. abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <warn> Activation (enp4s0f2) failed for connection 'MO2O' abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> Activation (enp4s0f2) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) complete. abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0] abr 08 12:24:22 maykel-arch NetworkManager[3082]: <info> (enp4s0f2): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] I have reboot my computer for network on again. Is a bug networkmanager? The version is: maykel-arch /home/maykel # NetworkManager --version 0.9.8.8 Thanks in advanced.

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