Re: [arch-general] sddm autologin doesn't immediately after boot - but systemctl restart sddm solves the problem. Timing issue - missing systemd service dependencies?
Howdy, Thanks for your input. > I am not completely sure, but I know that sddm uses logind for session > management, may be you can check making systemd-logind the dependency? I tried systemd-logind - no change in behavior. > you could try nodm (in [community]), Wow, great idea. I'll sure use it. However, now I'm trying to find the root cause of the problem with sddm, I'd rather report the real problem to Arch/upstream (depending on who's to blame) and have it fixed for everyone. > I had to change/set my sddm theme to Breeze... maybe this will work for you > too. Changing the theme doesn't change anything. Are you really sure about this changing *anything*? Do you have *the same* problem as I do with other themes? To recap, my problem is the autologin will fail with a weird D-Bus message on *initial* boot. Any subsequent systemctl restart sddm will start my session. I've just found that my ~/.xinitrc has this: nowaker@nwkr-desktop ~ % cat .xinitrc exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde Just to make sure my xinitrc doesn't cause anything wrong I deleted it. But doing this made things even worse - without a ~/.xinitrc or with "startkde" only, my Plasma didn't start at all. Same problem with nodm. (It's also worth noting nodm requires chmod +x ~/.xinitrc but I figured it out.) However, slim from [extra] works for me just fine when "exec startkde" is in my ~/.xinitrc. (It won't start with "exec dbus-launch ..." - empty desktop, or without an xinitrc - error message about not being able to execute login command). It sounds really weird only one DM works for me. I'm almost sure it's not how it works on a freshly installed Arch. Any suggestions what makes my setup so broken? Thank y'all, -Damian Nowak
[arch-general] sddm autologin doesn't immediately after boot - but systemctl restart sddm solves the problem. Timing issue - missing systemd service dependencies?
Howdy! My sddm doesn't automatically log me in for a week now. It errors out with: > Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus instead? Picture of the error here: https://x.virtkick.com/51c5d57e633799d45cf438026b4493ec87b1d19d/sddm-autologin-error.png All I need to do after getting this error is switch to tty and call `systemctl restart sddm`. It feels like a timing issue - D-Bus not coming up on time. Does sddm systemd service correctly depend on everything it needs to successfully login? Currently: > After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty@tty1.service plymouth-quit.service I tried adding After=dbus.service and Depends=dbus.service but it didn't help. 1. Can anyone check if it's reproducible on their side? 2. Any ideas how to improve the service unit file to depend on the appropriate things? [Autologin] Relogin=false Session=plasma.desktop User=USERNAME [General] HaltCommand= RebootCommand= [Users] MaximumUid=65000 MinimumUid=1000 Thanks, Damian Nowak
[arch-general] IP of my coworking space blocked in Arch Linux Archive
Well, where should I report that to get it unblocked? Thanks -Damian Nowak www.virtkick.com
Re: [arch-general] Virtualization accross hardware border
> if I understand the offering of Amazons cloud service correctly, there, you > can install an > OS, say arch, on a virtualized machine and scale CPU, RAM, etc. freely up and > down just as > you need it. Well, yes and no. You can scale up resources (e.g. increase RAM) but this requires a full restart of your virtual machine. See: https://serverfault.com/questions/591533/can-ec2-instances-dynamically-add-ram-while-running Moreover, adding more and more resources will stop working at some point. That's why you'd be looking to add several independent virtual machine running your application (Amazon EC2), which connect to one big database (another Amazon EC2), and put all of those computing machines in from of a load balancer (Amazon ELB). > While I can to this using e.g. KVM+qemu on a single machine, I want to be > able to bind together a bunch of machines such that they appear as a single big machine. Is there a way to do this? You can achieve it with both solutions, is it Amazon (EC2+ELB), or your own dedicated server(s) where you'll be likely to use KVM for virtualization and HAProxy, nginx or other solutions for load balancing. >From a technological point of view, both ways are the same. -- Damian Nowak CEO, Virtkick www.virtkick.com
Re: [arch-general] debug package repositories again
AFAIK, right now the reason it can't happen is because nobody has stepped up and added support to devtools for putting split packages in different repos. Nobody willing to do the work is a valid reason. Excellent. I'll tackle that then. Good luck! Let us know about a progress. Or maybe you can create an issue in the bug tracker and track the progress there? Anyways, would be great to have debug symbols provided at some point. Debug symbols would have saved me a lot of time with reporting problems to Mesa/Gallium3D bugtracker. -- Damian Nowak
Re: [arch-general] postgresql 9.3 - 9.4
Next time a heads up would be nice, so I know I have to dump and restore beforehand. Next time reading pacman -Syu output before hitting Y would be even nicer. ;-) I use IgnorePkg for postgresql and postgresql-libs on my servers. -- -Nowaker www.virtkick.io
