Re: [arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14
On 27 Sep 2014 08:56, Florian Pelz pelzflor...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, it seems to still be broken in 3.14. I have had no issues without switching, but now that I tried it: - - The first time I switched users to myself, GNOME froze in the activities when I tried to open a terminal (because I had forgotten to give the new test user a password). I switched to a virtual console and did a reboot. - - The second time I clicked the Switch User button I wanted to check how many virtual terminals were open. It froze completely (except for standby nothing worked) when I switched terminals, although maybe that's because of the Intel driver. I did a non-clean poweroff. - - The third time I actually switched users. I could not switch back anymore from the log-in screen of the test user. When I tried the log-in-as-different-user button the screen was only gray with a pointer. I had to manually Ctrl+Alt+F2, which gave me the test user's log-in screen again. After repeating this for a while it froze and I rebooted. journalctl shows gdm-password repeatedly complaining that Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): conversation failed Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): auth could not identify password for [archie] Sep 27 08:32:39 floriannotebook gdm-password][1433]: gkr-pam: no password is available for user even though archie has a password; I also could log-in as archie. I did not see anything with shadow opacity in the journal though. So I think what you mean is still broken. Hi Florian, Thank you for taking the time to report your problems. This is very useful for me. I'll postpone the upgrade until I have time to investigate the issues... and if I can't fix them, at least I can prepare to switch from Gnome. I am quite baffled by the way switch user functionality seem to be almost untested in Gnome releases. Thank again, Lorenzo
[arch-general] To those that are testing Gnome 3.14
Hi list, I have a favor to ask to those that are currently testing Gnome 3.14. In gnome 3.12 I am having problems with user switching, which is quite important for me. In particular, I had this annoying bug [1] since I installed Gnome in this computer. When Xorg 1.16 came out, it broke completely the switch user functionality for me (it caused my system to hang, forcing me to send a SIGTERM with Alt+SysRq+e). For what it's worth, I created a /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config, but that did not solve the issue. At the time I didn't want to investigate the issue since I needed the system to Just Work(tm), and I simply downgraded Xorg. I'm still running with the old Xorg, but I know that I can't go on like this forever. If anyone running Gnome 3.14 happened to test the switch user functionality, I would be interested to know: - if you are observing any problem switching user with Xorg 1.16, - if you are observing Bug #730360; to test, see [1] Thanks in advance! Lorenzo [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730360#c7
Re: [arch-general] Dropbox requires setup each time I boot
Hi Squall, 2014-09-22 20:46 GMT+02:00 Squall Lionheart headmastersqu...@gmail.com: I use the dropbox client as provided on their web site. Everything works as expected however, when I reboot my machine it requires me to setup my local folder each time. I also run a Fedora 20 system with a similar setup and I only had to set up my local folder once. Anyone know what would cause this behavior and how to correct it? Do you have a particular reason for not running the dropbox package in the AUR, as Joel suggested? I'm using it without problems. Anyway, the first thing I'd do would be to launch dropboxd from the command line to see if it outputs some useful error messages. Another thing I'd try would be to backup and then rm the .dropbox and .dropbox-dist folders (or, alternatively, setup dropbox in a clean environment, e.g. from a test user). FWIW, my permissions are the same as yours. Hope this helps, Lorenzo -- If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it.
Re: [arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?
2014-04-19 21:33 GMT+02:00 Maximilian Bräutigam m...@xbra.de: I am using yaourt to track packages from aur (and possibly packages moved from official repos to aur). Note, that it is not an official peace of software and you should read the wiki carefully. [1] Hi Maximilian, Thanks for your opinion on this. I am aware of the existence of yaourt, however I'm not particularly fond of it. I prefer to build and upgrade packages manually; I don't use many packages from the AUR, so for me it's not an unbearable task :) In a certain sense, I was asking that question precisely because I don't use yaourt or similar helpers. As you said, if a package is dropped to AUR and you are using an AUR helper, it takes care of updates for you; but if like me you are doing all manually, you need to know that a package has been moved to AUR or it won't be updated. Moreover, some packages are downright removed without being dropped to AUR (e.g. mash). 2014-04-20 14:54 GMT+02:00 Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com: List the packages that are in the repos and compare these lists to see what new packages are in the repos and which ones have been dropped. You can use expac to format the list the way you like it and run it daily / weekly. If you're using testing repos you should make sure you won't get flooded by the list of new packages twice - when they enter testing and when they're moved to non-testing repos. Packages disappearing from testing repos would be false positives when looking for the ones that have been removed completely. I think the easiest way would be to drop the repo name and keep just the package name, unless you care if the package is moved between repos e.g. from extra to community. Hi Karol, Thanks for the input. A script would partially address my need (one thing I'd like to know for example, is why a certain package was removed, which a script can't tell me; package removal without prior discussion/announce is not the norm, but as I said I've seen it happen sometimes). Some sort of notification in advance via mailing list (as suggested by Carl Schaefer) would be ideal for me... it's my responsibility to keep my sistem clean, I just think it would be useful to have a nicer way of doing this. Anyway, it's nothing that keeps me awake at night :) If there's no better way to do this, I guess a script is the way to go. Thanks everyone for the responses, Lorenzo
[arch-general] How to track packages dropped from the repos?
Hi list, Sometimes packages are silently dropped from the repos. This happened for example in the last few days with mash 0.2.0-3, which apparently I installed as a dependency for gnome (I guess it is no longer required). I follow arch-general, arch-dev-public and aur-general, and as far as I know, this change wasn't announced in any of these lists. I recall other examples in the last 2-3 years (this is roughly the time I've used arch consistently), but now I don't remember the packages involved. Currently I try to keep track of these changes by running e.g. pacman -Qm and pacman -Qdt once in a while, so it's no big deal. However, I think it would be interesting to know from a more official channel when a package is dropped and why. This would allow users to be aware of the change and decide whether the package is still needed (and act accordingly, e.g. if the package is dropped to AUR, one could subscribe to comments or check for updates) or can be safely uninstalled. I searched without finding anything decisive (e.g. these threads [1] [2] suggest possible workarounds in the form of scripts). I wonder if better methods to track dropped packages exist; if not, would it be feasible to implement a solution, e.g. a list where dropped packages are announced, similar to last rites in gentoo? Thanks for your time, Lorenzo [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=147574 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125665
[arch-general] Libreoffice Impress 3.5.6-1 - problems opening *.ppt
Hi everyone, Yesterday I upgraded Libreoffice from 3.5.5-1 to 3.5.6-1, and I started to notice problems opening several *.ppt files. When I double click on the ppt, an ASCII Filter Options popup appears - I never saw this popup before. Anyway, I have to click Ok for Libreoffice to start importing the presentation. The problem is that after this operation is completed, Libreoffice doesn't show the *.ppt as usual; instead, the window remains blank for a long time, and I have to force quit. I tried this with several *.ppt files (at first I thought about a corrupted file), and this happened with every one. Downgrading the package to 3.5.5.1 solves the issue, and the files are displayed fine. Now, I'm not sure if this 'ASCII Filter Options' thing is a feature or a bug. Is anyone else seeing this? I didn't find anything related on the forum. Thanks for your time, Lorenzo
Re: [arch-general] Libreoffice Impress 3.5.6-1 - problems opening *.ppt
2012/8/22 Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkov...@gmail.com: On 22 August 2012 14:43, Lorenzo Bandieri lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote: Yesterday I upgraded Libreoffice from 3.5.5-1 to 3.5.6-1, and I started to notice problems opening several *.ppt files. (snip) This happened to me less than five minutes ago. Unfortunately I don't have any solution. Lukas Hi Lukas, Thanks for your answer :) For me downgrading to the previous version solves this problem completely. This seems a bug upstream - I'll investigate this as soon as I have time (apparently I have to install the debug package). 2012/8/22 Michal Kawalec mkawa...@lavabit.com: On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 02:43:29PM +0200, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: Yesterday I upgraded Libreoffice from 3.5.5-1 to 3.5.6-1, and I started to notice problems opening several *.ppt files. When I double click on the ppt, an ASCII Filter Options popup appears - I never I have exactly the same problem - I assumed that there was something wrong with the ppts, but I double checked and it still isn't working. Hi Michal, Thanks for your answer :) This was the first thing I thought, but it happens with every ppt I tried, while the same files open without problems in LibreOffice 3.5.5-1. Regards, Lorenzo
Re: [arch-general] Reliable documents (was Re: RFC: OpenRC as init system for Arch)
2012/4/30 Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk: On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 +0200 Gour wrote: we did embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. To get the benefit of your experience. Do you use Lyx as your editor or something else. Sorry if I jump in, but as a LaTeX user I usually suggest to stay away from Lyx. Basically it's an editor that attempt to make LaTeX work like Words, which IMHO it's not the best approach. I suggest to use an editor that doesn't try to hide how LaTeX works, and one of my favourite is TexMaker. Just my opinion. Regards, Lorenzo -- Imagine an idea that occupies your mind the way an army occupies a city.
Re: [arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]
Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you try to do it anyways because searching for information, and finding a solution tends to be something that us hackers have haha (How can we be using a distro as great as Arch, and not be used to searching for information and solutions? :] ). Once you find the information, you feel pretty good about it. Of course since you know you aren't a doctor, you clearly know that you might be wrong, and keep an open mind about your current solution, until you go see the doctor. Once you go see the doctor and try to explain to them your research and theories, some of the doctors respond very negative towards you, basically down playing your intelligence because you didn't go to eight years of medical school. Just because a person didn't go to medical school, doesn't mean that they can research and learn anything in the field of medicine. That logic is ridiculous, and as we have and will experience in our lives, applies towards other areas of life. Those are my worthless cents as well I suppose :). -- Jonathan Vasquez +1 I can somewhat relate to this situation since I am a med student and I use linux (currently arch and gentoo). When first installed linux I was an absolute computer/internet illiterate; today my knowledge is better, though obviously limited. I admit that in the past I may have asked really dumb question, but from my point of view, experienced linux users often forget how difficult is to enter into a field about which you know absolutely nothing. Yes, there are howtos, documentation, man pages... but at the very beginning, it's not that easy. Ignorance should never be an excuse for a rude response, at least when ignorance isn't accompanied by the obvious willingness to remain ignorant. Knowledge doesn't imply nor require arrogance or rudeness. If not, every person that is knowledgeable in a field could mistreat everyone else who is not as equally competent in that particular area. I wonder what these unpolite linux gurus would think if one day I'd answered them something like Are you kidding me? Seriously, you are asking me if your contact lenses can *get lost behind your eyeball*? If you had RTMF you'd know this is impossible. Now GTFO, and next time *google it*, for the love of God... noob. Just the thoughts of a computer ignorant. Lorenzo -- Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
Re: [arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?
Or maybe try using pacmatic: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/pacmatic/ +1 I strongly suggest to the OP the use of pacmatic [1]. It's really an useful tool, especially if you don't check regularly the news (as you should). [1] http://kmkeen.com/pacmatic/ Regards, Lorenzo -- Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.
[arch-general] Bad LUN and bad target number messages during boot
Hello archers, I'm running Arch Linux on an Acer Aspire One D257 [1]. Since last month, I've notices these messages showing up during the boot process: (from dmesg | less) [6.714686] Bad LUN (0:1) [6.715042] Bad target number (1:0) [6.715437] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk #I usally don't see this one [6.715733] Bad target number (2:0) [6.716020] Bad target number (3:0) [6.716308] Bad target number (4:0) [6.716594] Bad target number (5:0) [6.716937] Bad target number (6:0) [6.717225] Bad target number (7:0) Just before the aforementioned messages, I see also: (this time from less /var/log/everything.log ) [5.730996] acer_wmi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load I don't know if these messages are connected (I don't think so) Apparently, this doesn't lead to further problems. My google searches did not return anything useful, except that others experienced similar messages; there is even one thread in the Arch Forum [2], but didn't get much attention. As far as I can see, there are no bug reports or documentation concerning messages like these. It seems something regarding SD card reader... Now, I'm wondering: - Is it a known problem? - What do these messages mean? - Can it cause problems or harm my hardware? Should I be worried? - Should I fill a bug report...? Now, some output: # ls /sys/block/ sda sdb # cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 80 244198584 sda 81 104391 sda1 822048287 sda2 83 51207187 sda3 84 190836135 sda4 # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00097750 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 208845 4305419 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 4305420 10671979451207187+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 106719795 488392064 190836135 83 Linux # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Hitachi HTS54322 Rev: ESBO Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi4 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: Generic- Model: xD/SD/M.S. Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 #cat /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # file system dir type options dump pass tmpfs /tmptmpfs nodev,nosuid0 0 UUID=0d3cf67e-565e-495c-bac8-66dfd290b882 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1 UUID=21b920dc-54a0-43a5-9e37-e7c7e85e4cba /home ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 UUID=5d8f2ea7-de29-4972-a127-0ea2363d65fd swap swap defaults 0 0 UUID=784fbd71-712f-4b1f-9ea7-f2c681cdbbda / ext4 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 [1] http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/LU.SFS0D.002 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=124139 Thanks to everyone. Best regards, Lorenzo
Re: [arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade
One or both of the following are confirmed to be affected: plasma-desktoprc plasma-desktop-appletsrc We don't need to remove/edit anything else. It's probably something about resized panels. Anyway this is just an FYI-update for anyone else facing this. Thank you Ray.
Re: [arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade
This also means the issue is with the configs somewhere. Yes, it's likely a config problems. Removing my ~/.kde4 prevents the crash. Tomorrow I should try to move my settings directory to a backup location and try in a clean environment. Hi Alessio! As I stated, I removed my ~/.kde4 and everything now seems normal. Probably in a clean environment your transparency will come back... at least, I hope so! Do you see in .xsession-errors why the panel is crashing? Hi Bjoern. I posted a mail with attached my .xsession-errors, but I guess my mail has to be approved yet (the attachment made the message body 40 Kb, which means that I need moderator approval)... The errors that seem connected to the crash are: plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed plasma-desktop(968): geometry - conversion of 62,0,0,0 to QRectF failed Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed() link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected! However, I don't know how to interpret these. It seems a problem in resizing... I didn't have any problems with my upgrade, but I switch to smoothtasks as my task manager. You guys should give that a try. I'll give it a try, thanks :) Thanks to everyone for the reply. Best regards, Lorenzo
[arch-general] KDE panel broken after last upgrade
Hello archers, Last massive KDE upgrade broke my KDE desktop. In particular, after the reboot, the panel was gone. I tried to Add Panel: Default Panel crashes Plasma Shell; Empty panel works. Then I added one by one the widget I had in my original panel (which was pretty standard). I determined that the culprit is task manager: when I try to add this widget, KDE crashes. Any workaround? Thanks, Lorenzo
[arch-general] Error when upgrading texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686
Hi archers! On 2011-09-15 TexLive was upgraded (see [1]). Initially I had no problems, but in the following days there had been two subsequent upgrades of texlive-bin, the last of wich yesterday (or today, last time I upgraded was two days ago), that caused errors. In both cases, the error was the same: (5/5) upgrading texlive-bin [##] 100% texlive: updating the filename database... mktexlsr: Updating /etc/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf-dist/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. recreating all formats...Error: `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed ### fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully. Visit the log files in directory /var/lib/texmf/web2c for details. ## This is a summary of all `failed' messages: `eptex -ini -jobname=eptex -progname=eptex *eptex.ini' failed done. (logs are under /var/lib/texmf/web2c/engine/formatname.log) Since errors were somewhat expected in non-fresh install [2], the first time I solved reinstalling everything. However, on the last texlive-bin upgrade (texlive-bin-2011.1-3-i686) the error showed up again, as I stated. To me it's odd that I have to reinstall all texlive-most and texlive-lang on every update, but on the bug report there is no workaround provided. I googled but I didn't find anything, and searching on the forum returned no hits. So, I wonder if anyone had the same problem and if there is a solution (apart from reinstalling texlive-most and texlive-lang...). Thank you! Regards, Lorenzo [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/texlive-2011-update/ [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25250
Re: [arch-general] A question about installing Arch
Hi Christian, Accidentally, I installed Arch just the day before the new installation cd came out, so my experience could be useful to you. I had no problems in the installation phase, but when I rebooted my system, I was welcomed by a broken installation: apparently, grub didn't find the kernel. The explaination was here: http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-kernel-package-and-filenames/ GRUB could not find the kernel because the name was changed with the 3.0 version. So, you have to remember to change the default kernel name in your grub.conf. I had no other problems. HTH, Lorenzo 2011/10/16 John K Pate j.k.p...@sms.ed.ac.uk On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 00:33 +0200, Christian wrote: Hi all, Thanks a lot for your replies. I have the network installation CD of Arch here so then, what you are saying is that it should download the old packages and then I just upgrade the system with pacman after it has installed? Yes. Refer to http://www.archlinux.org/news/ and the forum if you run into any snags, but this should work fine. John == http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0930006/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
[arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies
Hello everyone! I'm having problems installing E4rat from the AUR ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=e4ratSeB=x). Installation fails: $ makepkg -s == WARNING: Sudo can not be found. Will use su to acquire root privileges. == Making package: e4rat 0.2.1-2 (Sun Oct 9 17:34:22 CEST 2011) == Checking runtime dependencies... == Checking buildtime dependencies... == Installing missing dependencies... Password: error: target not found: audit == ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies. I performed a search with pacman -Ss, and audit seems not to be in the repos. Has anyone encountered this problem yet? Thanks. Lorenzo
Re: [arch-general] Can't install e4rat from AUR: pacman fails to install missing dependencies
Thanks everyone for the quick responses! I'm embarassed, it was really trivial... I didn't even think it could be in the AUR! Cheers! And thanks again! I love arch community!
