[arch-general] geary segfault

[Frank]

Good evening,

on my quest for a lightweight MUA I stumbled over Geary. Looks really 
nice but keeps crashing with a segfault. Here's whats in the journal:
kernel: geary[966]: segfault at 6c ip b4561773 sp bf86e5e0 error 4 in 
libc-2.21.so[b451f000+1b1000]

systemd-coredump[1060]: Process 966 (geary) of user 1000 dumped core.

KR Frank

[arch-general] initi issue

[Frank]

Good evening,

I'm having troubles booting my laptop. I do get the following error:
Failed to execute /init (error -2)
Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. TRy passing init=
option to kernel
CPU: 3 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.10.2-1-ARCH #1
Call trace:
dump_stack+0x63/0x83
? csum_partial_copy_generic+0x170/0x170
panic+0xe/0x22d
? putname+0x54/0x60
? rest_init+0x90/0x90
kernel_init+0xeb/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
Kernel Offset: disabled

I've booted from archiso and chrooted in the system, tried to reinstall
kernel, did an upgrade, made ne initrd and reinstalled grub without any
success.
THX Frank

[arch-general] Tenda Nova MW6

[Frank]

Good morning,

i realise this is not an Arch specific topic but hope you can help me
here. I just acquired a Tenda Nova MW6 Mesh Wifi system and having
troubles with the 2.4 GHz band. It was fine after initial setup, but
after about an hour the printer is no longer able to connect (HP
OfficeJet Pro 8620). My laptop (Thinkpad X201) connects but has issues
with DNS.

The Tenda system connects via LAN to my ISPs router and spans its own
network with new subnet mask. I can ping my router and access it's
management site with the IP address from a browser but not by it's web
address (speedport.ip).

My ISP router is a Speedport W 724V from Deutsche Telekom.

Any ideas where I need to look at?

Thanks Frank

[arch-general] usbguard

[Frank]

Good evening,

I'm trying to make usbgard work. I created the initial rules set with
usbguard generate-policy > /etc/usbguard/rules.conf and started the
usbguard.service. 
Now I testing it with a USB flash drive but am failing to make it work.

The drive is plugged and usbguard list-devices gives the following
output:
19: block id 058f:6387 serial "50624E36" name "Mass Storage" hash 
"icy/i6K1xnkICYPmiNNwJ18cmu5GqfsHSjCGuC5WIXg=" parent-hash "oDU77vx1EsfYlDoXkU7iWjsvmBNCDNTcCHp/V0hIFXc=" via-port 
"2-1.2" with-interface 08:06:50 with-connect-type "hotplug"

However usbguard allow-device 058f:6387 throws the following error
message:
IPC ERROR: request id=1: Device lookup: device id: id doesn't exist

lsbusb shows the device with the same id:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive

So what am I doing wrong here?

Thanks Frank

Re: [arch-general] usbguard

[Frank]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 10:20:15PM +0200, Frank wrote:

Good evening,

19: block id 058f:6387 serial "50624E36" name "Mass Storage" hash 
"icy/i6K1xnkICYPmiNNwJ18cmu5GqfsHSjCGuC5WIXg=" parent-hash "oDU77vx1EsfYlDoXkU7iWjsvmBNCDNTcCHp/V0hIFXc=" via-port 
"2-1.2" with-interface 08:06:50 with-connect-type "hotplug"

However usbguard allow-device 058f:6387 throws the following error
message:
IPC ERROR: request id=1: Device lookup: device id: id doesn't exist

lsbusb shows the device with the same id:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Drive


Ok I found a tutorial on the RedHat site, I have to use the device ID
provided by usbguard. 


I was following the instruction on the usbguard home page where its says
to use the USB device ID: 
https://usbguard.github.io/documentation/rule-language.html

So running usbguard allow-device -p 19 gives now
the following error:
IPC ERROR: request id=1: FileRuleSet saving: /etc/usbguard/rules.conf: 
Read-only file system

ls -l /etc/usbguard/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 15. Mai 22:16 IPCAccessControl.d
-rw--- 1 root root 2449 10. Mai 17:43 rules.conf
-rw--- 1 root root 5760 10. Mai 17:29 usbguard-daemon.conf

So as far as I can see root should be able to write the rulse.conf file


Anyway still not working. 

[arch-general] pacman trust DB issue

[Frank]

Good afternoon,

I'm having an issue with pacman. When running pacman to e.g. do an
upgrade I get the following error message:
error: cifs-utils: signature from "Tobias Powalowski 
" is unknown trust
:: File /var/cache/pacman/pkg/cifs-utils-6.11-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst is corrupted 
(invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)).
Do you want to delete it? [Y/n] 


I checked system time which should be fine, so I did a
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux 
this ends with the following error:

==> ERROR: Trust database could not be updated.

What is it I'm missing?

THX Frank

--
Frank Zimmermann
Jami: rhoihesse
Matrix: @zimbi:matrix.org

Re: [arch-general] pacman trust DB issue

[Frank]

On 20/12/13 05:06, Georg wrote:

try updating archlinux-keyring first.


Thanks that did the job.

Frank

[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when
the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an
earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel
2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine.

Thanks.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

I do have an ATI card. I'll try that thanks! I did notice that 2.6.32
would boot into a graphical mode shortly after it started booting even
though I didn't have one set in my GRUB conf. 2.6.31 didn't do this.
Thanks for the help!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ian-Xue Li  wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:35:30 -0500
> Frank Hale  wrote:
>
>> the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
>> to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
>> post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
>> can tell.
>
> if you had a ati card with KMS enabled, try to add "nomodeset" to the kernel 
> line in grub.
>
> --
> Ian-Xue Li 
>

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

Adding "nomodeset" to my kernel boot line in Grub fixed the problem. Thanks!

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Frank Hale  wrote:
> I do have an ATI card. I'll try that thanks! I did notice that 2.6.32
> would boot into a graphical mode shortly after it started booting even
> though I didn't have one set in my GRUB conf. 2.6.31 didn't do this.
> Thanks for the help!
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ian-Xue Li  wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:35:30 -0500
>> Frank Hale  wrote:
>>
>>> the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
>>> to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
>>> post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
>>> can tell.
>>
>> if you had a ati card with KMS enabled, try to add "nomodeset" to the kernel 
>> line in grub.
>>
>> --
>> Ian-Xue Li 
>>
>

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

> Something's been bugging me about this email, and I just realized,
> 2.6.32 hasn't moved to core yet!

Oops, you are absolutely correct. I don't know why I assumed this. It
appears that the issue started for me with kernel26 2.6.32.2-1.

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

Adding "nomodeset" to the kernel boot line will allow the kernel to
boot fine with no issues. If I don't add that the screen I am assuming
tries to go into an unsupported video mode and then goes black.
Setting a vga mode in Grub doesn't seem to affect this at all. I'll do
some more testing tonight and see if I can gather more information
about the actual problem.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Frank Hale  wrote:
>> Something's been bugging me about this email, and I just realized,
>> 2.6.32 hasn't moved to core yet!
>
> Oops, you are absolutely correct. I don't know why I assumed this. It
> appears that the issue started for me with kernel26 2.6.32.2-1.
>

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

This is what my video card shows when I do lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video
device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ignacio Galmarino
 wrote:
> On 12/22/2009 05:37 AM, Paul Ezvan wrote:
>>
>> Le mardi 22 décembre 2009 à 09:49 +0100, Xavier a écrit :
>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when
>>>> the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
>>>> to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
>>>> post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
>>>> can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an
>>>> earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel
>>>> 2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Uh ? It is the same package that moves from testing to core. The move
>>> cannot break anything.
>>> When you use testing, and a package gets moved, you cannot even notice
>>> it, because pacman -Su won't do anything : you already have the latest
>>> packages.
>>> Maybe you want to be a bit more specific about which version exactly
>>> you were using ?
>>> If you don't know, you can check pacman logs.
>>> The changes to kernel26 can be seen here :
>>>
>>> http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/trunk/?op=log&rev=0&isdir=1
>>> There has apparently been one revision for each stable kernel release so
>>> :
>>> 2.6.32-1
>>> 2.6.32.1-1
>>> 2.6.32.2-1
>>>
>>> 2.6.32.2 contains 5 radeon patches :
>>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2
>>> If you can actually confirm that this is what broke your setup, this
>>> narrows down the issue extremely.
>>> The list of changes between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 is likely awfully huge.
>>>
>>
>> It seems that 2.6.32.2 is broken with r600 chips :
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/-stable--Regression-in-2.6.32.2:-radeon-KMS-hangs-system-p26864854.html
>> and
>>
>> http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--stable---drm-radeon-kms:-fix-crtc-vblank-update-for-r600-p26869892.html.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>
> Yes ... it does not work here (KMS + Radeon Mobility HD 3670). Works fine
> with "nomodeset"
>
> Ignacio
>
>

Re: [arch-general] manage starting and stopping processes with less typing

[Frank Thieme]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 21:22, David C. Rankin
 wrote:
>        One thing I miss with Arch are init-script shortcuts for starting and 
> stopping
> processes. rc-commands really help cut down on typing. For example, all suse 
> did
> was to create links to the files in /etc/rc.d/... with a naming convention of
> rc. So, for example, instead of having to type:

IMHO you just have to use tab completion and you will not type much
more. I don't like the symlink approach of suse...

Bye...Frank

Re: [arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?

[Frank Thieme]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 23:49:21 Matěj Týč wrote:
> Regarding this, I have noticed that the printers.conf file in the
> package was empty (I am like 90% sure)
> Was it really needed to be included in that package?
> The install script could touch one...
> And I also think that it is not feasible to have to take a look at the
> frontpage if you upgrade like once a month, but the package creator can
> include a message in the PKGBUILD itself, so it doesn't seem to be a
> pacman flaw.

Ever read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way ? ;)

You can use pacmatic what tries to fetch and display such warnings before you 
upgrade...

Bye...Frank


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Re: [arch-general] Err... Why is gvim now conflicting with vim?

[Frank Thieme]

On Friday 07 May 2010 18:28:57 Xavier Chantry wrote:
> Maybe try irc next time, at least people won't debate for hours
> whether you should have searched first or not.
> They will just tell you to read the f* news, possibly with a link :)

using "pacmatic" could help, too

Bye...Frank

Re: [arch-general] Why no phonon in Qt

[Frank Thieme]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 04:53:19 Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> In general I use firefox only when I have to, because it does not integrate
> well with KDE and I really don't like GTK looks.

try qtcurve...

Bye...Frank

Re: [arch-general] C++ program compiliation failed

[Frank Thieme]

On Sunday 14 November 2010 18:59:28 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> How am I supposed to compile the program? i.e. in general a multifile
> program having .hs and .cpps

I should work the way you did. I guess you have an error in your source code.

The oder method would be:

g++ -c main.cpp
g++ -c querystring.cpp
g++ -o out main.o querystring.o

Bye...Frank

Re: [arch-general] C++ program compiliation failed

[Frank Thieme]

On Sunday 14 November 2010 19:27:01 Magnus Therning wrote:
> Order is important.  I think he'd have more luck with the last line
> changed to
> 
>  g++ -o out querystring.o main.o

Is it? I must have slipped my mind...

I usually use cmake or some other makefile, so I don't have to type these 
lines myself.

Bye...Frank

Re: [arch-general] GPG signature (was: GPT slower than MBR, although both are properly aligned?)

[Frank Thieme]

Hi!

Maybe it's just me, but all your messages in this thread have a bad 
signature...

Bye...Frank


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Re: [arch-general] GPG signature (was: GPT slower than MBR, although both are properly aligned?)

[Frank Thieme]

On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:42:29 Guillaume ALAUX wrote:
> I imported both Karol's signature and yours and Evo says the signature
> is valid. It just complains as I haven't signed nor set any trust on it
> but this is the right behavior.

Your's is "The signature is valid, but the key's validity is unknown.". That's 
different from Karol. As it is said before, his signing key is expired...

Bye...Frank


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Re: [arch-general] GPG signature

[Frank Thieme]

Hi!

On Sunday 23 January 2011 13:48:15 Karol Babioch wrote:
> Have you actually the latest version of my key? I've updated it quite a
> while ago, and plan to do so each year, as I've read somewhere that this
> is good praxis, just in case you loose your private key / revocation
> certificate.

Ok, I manually fetched the key and it now expires 2011 instead of 2010. 

I don't know who is to blame for that ;)

Bye...Frank


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[arch-general] GDM and/or PulseAudio mute my sound

[Frank Wilson]

According to Kyle:
> Apparently, Google is not my friend this time, as I can find no
> information about this problem, and I appear to be the only one
> experiencing it, and only on this machine.


Correction: I actually did find [1], and that appears to be my exact
problem, but it is also unsolved. Please help. Thanks.

[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130201
~Kyle


Hi Kyle,

I think I have also been having the same problems with pulseaudio on 
Arch. Basically pulseaudio seems to
mute and zero the master channel on my sound card (its a VirtualBox 
machine) whenever it starts.


I asked for help on the pulseaudio mailinglist back in June [1], but 
nothing much came out of it.


I then gave up for a bit, but have been meaning to raise a bug on it.

So this weekend I did so [2,3].

[1] 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2012-June/013710.html

[2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31469
[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54673

Cheers,

Frank

[arch-general] Sound problems

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

I'm having troubles getting sound to work aftereach reboot. I've
followed the instructions from the wiki. But after each reboot I need to
run alsamixer -> selct the soundcard by pressing F6 -> and then have to
increase the volume of the speaker. When invoking 
systemctl enable alsa-restore.service and 
systemctl enable alsa-store.service
I do get the following error messsage:

The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be
enabled
using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another
unit's
   .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which
has
   a requirement dependency on it.
3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path,
timer,
   D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
... and it starts from the beginning after the next reboot.

BTW it doesn't help when I change the settings in /etc/asound.conf from
pulseaudio to the hw device.

Thanks for any help
Frank

Re: [arch-general] Sound problems

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2013, 21:23 -0300 schrieb Martín Cigorraga:

> 
> Hey!
> 
Hi

> All that do the alsa-store.service is invoke the alsactl command to save
> your settings, try running it from console:
> # /usr/sbin/alsactl store
shouldn't this keep the settings for the speaker? In my case it doesn't
> >
> So you've installed PulseAudio, may be the problem is related with PA then.
comes with Gnome
> Check carefully the PA wiki and if you can't find where the problem resides
> you will need to make some debug; the first step shall be uninstall PA and
> check that ALSA's systemd units are working right, then you can try reins-
> talling PA and looking carefully for any change you do to config files.
I'll check Pulseaudio and see where it'll brings me.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Sound problems

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Freitag, den 01.02.2013, 23:10 -0300 schrieb Martín Cigorraga:
> >
> > > # /usr/sbin/alsactl store
> > shouldn't this keep the settings for the speaker? In my case it doesn't
> >
> 
> Yes, of course, that's the purpose of that command.
> 
We'lllooks like it doesn't. I've changed the settings
in /etc/asound.conf from Pulseaudio tom my hw-device and still canot
save settings.
> 
> > >
> >
> There are two things that come to my mind right now:
> 1) have present that some of the sound settings you can change with
> alsamixer depends on other
> settings. For example it is totally worthless to set the Master channel to
> it's maximum if PCM
> channel is muted.
unmuted
> 2) because you use PA (well, you use GNOME but it triggers the PA
> installation) it may be worth
> to take a look at the various PA mixers found in the official repositories
> and in the AUR.
> 
haven't tried em all, yet but will continue to do so.
KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Sound problems

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2013, 22:33 -0300 schrieb Martín Cigorraga:
> Have you tried running alsa-conf? (as root).
which package provides this?
> What's your HW?
> $ lspci | grep -i audio
> 
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset
High Definition Audio (rev 05)

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Sound problems

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Sonntag, den 03.02.2013, 21:26 + schrieb Frank Zimmermann:
> Am Freitag, den 01.02.2013, 23:10 -0300 schrieb Martín Cigorraga:
> > >
> > > > # /usr/sbin/alsactl store
> > > shouldn't this keep the settings for the speaker? In my case it doesn't
> > >
> > 
> > Yes, of course, that's the purpose of that command.
> > 
> We'lllooks like it doesn't. I've changed the settings
> in /etc/asound.conf from Pulseaudio tom my hw-device and still canot
> save settings.
> > 
> > > >
> > >
> > There are two things that come to my mind right now:
> > 1) have present that some of the sound settings you can change with
> > alsamixer depends on other
> > settings. For example it is totally worthless to set the Master channel to
> > it's maximum if PCM
> > channel is muted.
> unmuted
> > 2) because you use PA (well, you use GNOME but it triggers the PA
> > installation) it may be worth
> > to take a look at the various PA mixers found in the official repositories
> > and in the AUR.
> > 
> haven't tried em all, yet but will continue to do so.
> KR Frank
> 
> 
> 

I think I got it:-) alsa-restore.service is not run at boot. When I set
the sound in alsamixer, save it with alsactl store and reboot followed
by manually executing
sudo systemctl start alsa-restore.service
the settings are correct. Now I need to figure out why it's not done
automagicaly at boot.
KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Gnome crashing with segmentation fault - Not sure about the source

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Montag, den 18.08.2014, 22:08 +0200 schrieb Sergi Pons Freixes:
> Dear all,
> 
> Gnome is crashing on my machine[1] with the typical "Oh no, something has
> gone wrong" message. XFCE starts and works fine, though. The gnome crash
> leaves this message[2], but from it is not clear to me which is the root of
> the problem. Setting the backlight, or something wrongwith the intel
> drivers?
> 
> Any insight about it is appreciated.
> 
> [1] http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X200_Tablet
> [2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1390205/Xorg.0.log
> 

What happens when you deactivate your gnome-extensions?

KR Frank

[arch-general] pacman-key issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

I'm having trouble with my pacman-keyring which in the end prevents me 
from installing signed packages. Here's the output:

pacman-key --populate archlinux
==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg...
==> Locally signing trusted keys in keyring...
 -> Locally signing key FOO
==> ERROR: FOO could not be locally signed.

Any hints?

Thanks Frank

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Di, 9. Sep, 2014 um 9:56 schrieb Yamakaky :

Are you root ?


Sure.

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Di, 9. Sep, 2014 um 10:37 schrieb Yamakaky :
At a last resort, you can remove /etc/pacman.d/gnupg, then run 
`pacman-key --init` and `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.


Did that, how long is pacman-key --init supposed to run? After approx 
30min with no changes in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg I stopped it and tried to 
populate the keyring with the reported errors.

Re: [arch-general] pacman-key issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 10.09.2014, 06:55 +0200 schrieb Christian Hesse:
> Frank Zimmermann  on Tue, 2014/09/09
> 22:39:
> > 
> > 
> > Am Di, 9. Sep, 2014 um 10:37 schrieb Yamakaky :
> > > At a last resort, you can remove /etc/pacman.d/gnupg, then run 
> > > `pacman-key --init` and `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
> > 
> > Did that, how long is pacman-key --init supposed to run? After approx 
> > 30min with no changes in /etc/pacman.d/gnupg I stopped it and tried to 
> > populate the keyring with the reported errors.

I've deleted /etc/pacman.d/gnupg and started from scratch, now it seems
to work.

KR Frank

[arch-general] Display Manager issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good Morning folks,

my DM is behaving strange. The systems boote to a bblank screen with a 
mouse cursor. To be able tologin I have to press Ctrl+Alt-F2 followed 
by Alt+F1. The journal does not provide any clue that somethings going 
wrong. 


Any ideas?

Thanks Frank

Re: [arch-general] Display Manager issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Di, 16. Sep, 2014 um 10:51 schrieb Damjan Georgievski 
:

On 16 September 2014 07:28, Frank Zimmermann
 wrote:

 Good Morning folks,

 my DM is behaving strange. The systems boote to a bblank screen 
with a mouse
 cursor. To be able tologin I have to press Ctrl+Alt-F2 followed by 
Alt+F1.

 The journal does not provide any clue that somethings going wrong.


X and lightdm don't log to the journal.
check their log files


--
damjan
I tried lxdmand lightdm both show same behavior, no changes to 
xorg.conf etc.


KR FRank

Re: [arch-general] [Bulk] Re: Display Manager issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Di, 16. Sep, 2014 um 1:13 schrieb Ralf Mardorf 
:

On Tue, 2014-09-16 at 12:37 +0200, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
 I tried lxdmand lightdm both show same behavior, no changes to 
 xorg.conf etc.


Doesn't provide any of those files useful information
$ sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
$ sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log
$ sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
$ grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log
?

In Xorg.0.log I get the following:
systemd-logind: failed to get session: PID 212 does not belong to any 
known session

[arch-general] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Hi there,

since update to 3.14 I cannot log on with the keyboard in GDM. It works
when using the screen keyboard or when loggin in the console:-O

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.11.2014, 21:25 +0100 schrieb ake...@akendo.eu:

> 
> Hi maybe you have an german keyboard layout? I think with the update of 
> gnome the german keyboard layout will be overwritten.
> German link:
> http://linuxundich.de/gnu-linux/nach-update-auf-gnome-3-14-englisches-tastaturlayout-gdm/
> 
> 
> best regards
> Akendo
> 

Yes I do have a German keyboard layout. However, the link you sent is of
no help since when I followit I do not have the chance to change the
keyboard settings for GDM (Anmeldebildschirm). 
For the non Geman speaking readres, the link suggest to go to
settings-keyboard. In the bottom left is a link that leads to the
language and region settings where on the screenshot of Akendo's link
there is the opportunity to click on the top right on login view whichI
do not have :-O

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.11.2014, 06:07 +0100 schrieb Frank Zimmermann:

> 
> Yes I do have a German keyboard layout. However, the link you sent is of
> no help since when I followit I do not have the chance to change the
> keyboard settings for GDM (Anmeldebildschirm). 
> For the non Geman speaking readres, the link suggest to go to
> settings-keyboard. In the bottom left is a link that leads to the
> language and region settings where on the screenshot of Akendo's link
> there is the opportunity to click on the top right on login view whichI
> do not have :-O
> 
> KR Frank
> 

This is really weird. I've checked on another machine and there is the
possibility to change keyboard layout for GDM in the Gnome Control
Center, but not here!
KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2014, 20:51 +0100 schrieb Armin K.:

> >>
> > 
> > This is really weird. I've checked on another machine and there is the
> > possibility to change keyboard layout for GDM in the Gnome Control
> > Center, but not here!
> > KR Frank
> > 
> 
> Do you have IBus installed?
> 

Now I have without any difference.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 13.11.2014, 08:21 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:

> 
> Did you set up the keyboard layout by a X config? If not, try this:
> 
> [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/keyboard.conf 
> Section "InputClass"
>Identifier "keyboard"
>MatchIsKeyboard "yes"
>Option "XkbLayout" "de"
>#Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"

doesn't do the trick
> 
> JFTR did you try to log in by "translating" the us keyboard mapping to
> the German one? You can search for the correct keys by simply pushing
> the keys, when you're ask for the username, chars as e.g. "-" are
> somewhere else on a German keyboard.
> 
yes that works.

Still there's something wrong I suppose with gnome-control-center.

KR Frank

[arch-general] [solved] GDM

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Freitag, den 14.11.2014, 13:16 +0100 schrieb Martti Kühne:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>  wrote:
> > IMHO you shouldn't waste your time with fixing this issue.
> >
> 
> 
> Actually changing display managers won't necessarily solve the problem
> concerning the keyboard layout. Setting the correct layout and variant
> in xorg.conf{,.d/10-evdev.conf} is the right track after all.
> 
> cheers!
> mar77i
> 

systemd-localed was setting the X11 keyboard layout to en. With the tool
localectl this can be changed and it's working now. 

KR Frank

[arch-general] Chromium refuses to start

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good morning,

with the latest update to 43.0.2357.130-1 Chromium won't start anymore.
This is the output when starting from console:
perl: symbol lookup error:
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol:
Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] x86 hardware suggestion for home movie theater setup (kodi)

[Frank Schaffhaeuser]

  Original Message  
From: Wolfgang Mader
Sent: Sunday, 10 January 2016 14:09
To: arch-general@archlinux.org
Reply To: General Discussion about Arch Linux
Subject: [arch-general] x86 hardware suggestion for home movie theater setup
(kodi)

Dear list,

right now, I run a home movie theater setup under arch linux on an arm device. 
While I really appreciate the low power consumption and the small form factors 
of arm (developer) boards, for me, arm also comes with a much larger 
maintenance burden than standard x86 hardware. Thus, I search for a platform 
which is x86 and well suited for a home theater setup. While browsing the 
internet, I go the feeling, that the Intel Atom series might be a good way to 
go. In particular, here is what I aim for:

- standard boot process. No uboot.
- standard cpu such that I can relay on standard arch repos and community
- a graphics chip for which drivers are officially available, such as 
integrated 
intel graphics
- low power consumption
- some sort of internet connectivity, preferable cabled, but wifi would also be 
ok.
- usb, but nothing fancy, only for keyboard

Software wise, the hardware should be able to allow for browsing the internet 
and to deliver video and audio fluently. The interface I am targeting is kodi.

Since I have no experience with low-powered x86 hardware such as the Intel 
Atom chips, I kindly ask for your experience and opinions on the topic.
‎
Thanks and have a nice week.



If you want a small, 'all-in-one-box' you might consider taking a look at the 
Intel NUC devices, lots of similar devices are available from other vendors. If 
you want to build a 'box' on your own take a look at uATX mainboards with 
'integrated' CPU; i've built a pfsense router with a Celeron J1900 based 
mainboard and it has a surprisingly low energy consumption (~12W(?) quadcore 
CPU) and has PCIe slots, fullsize RAM slots, the whole shebang.

-
PGP key ID: 62A58DE5
www.blockdevice.net/contact.html

Re: [arch-general] Alternative init system proposal

[Frank Schaffhaeuser]

 On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:43:41 + Eric Vidal wrote 
 

Hello everyone, 
 
I'm the creator of Obarun 
I use runit for PID1 and managing service. Repo is available for all package 
builded without systemd support. All this package have the name xxx-systemd to 
avoid trouble with original package. Package are maintained every week (one 
time per week). all this package doesn't have service declaration to allow 
other distro to use it like manjaro, alphaos etecetera... 
A github with all the pkgbuild used is available here https://github.com/Obarun 
+ some personnal scripts 
A complete site is available too with forum and a little wiki here 
www.obarun.org 
Proposal an alternative to systemd on arch system isn't impossible even for 
complex desktop environment. KF5, XFCE4 work on it.(using consolekit for the 
moment) 
dev is managed by gentoo eudev (working with jcnelson vdev is in progress, but 
not working for the moment). 
I use my system from almost one year now and share it from july 2015. This 
system is not perfect (i'm not a good dev) and i'm alone to make all the stuff 
(site, maintaining, new features and so one) but i'm the proof that can be 
possible and without so much efford. 
 
Isn't the work to arch to propose an alternative. Pacman, makepkg, pkgbuild are 
beautiful tools which allow user to make every his want. So use it and don't 
ask anything to arch dev :) 
 
-- 
Eric Vidal  

This topic again? Seriously? The last 'discussion' from Feb.8th thankfully just 
died down
and apart from spamming subscriber's inboxes had no useful effect...
Please, not again.

Re: [arch-general] What is the current wiki-poliicy for re-writing contributions?

[Frank Schaffhaeuser]

--- On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 08:26:15 + Jayesh Badwaik 
 wrote  

On Tuesday, 22 March 2016 09:00:28 IST Jan Alexander Steffens wrote: 
> I hardly look at the wiki anymore, but I remember getting the same 
> impression—most recently I had to hunt through multiple pages about 
> encryption to get even a basic setup going. 
> 
> This is a problem. 
 
Initially, when the wiki was small, a page would have a small section, with 
instructions to get a basic system running. Now, probably as the wiki has 
grown more comprehensive, it is becoming more and more reference-based 
and the tutorial like properties are disappearing. 
 
May be it would nice if people would start writing tutorial like articles 
for simple enough uses. For example see [1]. 
 
-- 
Cheers 
Jayesh Badwaik 
 
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Simple_stateful_firewall 

Exactly. It almost looks like it's done on purpose, to obfuscate information as
much as possible. This would neatly reflect the elitist mindset of many arch 
users
one comes across on the internet. My prime example is the 'Beginners
Guide' from the wiki; I have an old version from around July 2015 as an
installation checklist, to prevent me from forgetting any important steps.
Thank $DEITY i have that printed on paper.
Today it's completely watered down and littered with links. That guide is, as
the name suggests, for 'beginners'. Many explanations have been stripped
or are hidden behind links. You can't just print it, start the installation and 
be 
done in 30 minutes. No, now you either need a second machine to 'browse' the
wiki or memorise the whole process.
I'm afraid your suggestion to write tutorial like articles may appear too
'Ubuntu-esque' for some wiki editors...

[arch-general] Gnome crash

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

since yesterday my Gnome Shell  crashes at start with the following
message in the log:
gnome-session-f[1207]: segfault at 0 ip 7f01adab3cc9 sp
7ffd261ce930 error 4 in libgtk-3.so.0.2200.6[7f01ad7d1000+6fa000]

Is this a problem other Gnome users see as well?

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] initi issue

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 05.04.2017, 20:56 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
> 
> Did you try anything else?
> E.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162704

Thanks,

this hint to broken filesystem package did the job.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Gnome crash

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Dienstag, den 17.01.2017, 09:25 -0300 schrieb Andres Fernandez:
> El 17 ene. 2017 9:10 AM, "Mathieu Clabaut" 
> escribió:
> 
> Gnome on Wayland was very unstable here. Switching back to gnome on
> X11
> solved the problem. No more crash since.
> 
> 
> I have an unstable session on both X11 and Wayland since libharfbuzz
> was
> updated. I'm not saying that it is the problem, just that since that
> day my
> box is unstable.
> 
> I had a notebook that is not updated since about two weeks and is
> stable on
> both X11 and Wayland sessions.

Did you guys manage to get Gnome working again. I was hoping for the
ugrade to 3.24 but that didn't change anything:-O
Here even GDM crashes. So is this some general issue with Gnome on
Arch?
KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] kernel bug in 4.13.3 related to wireless?

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Samstag, den 30.09.2017, 14:33 +0200 schrieb Michał Zegan:
> Hello,
> 
> For some time I am experiencing something like that:
> random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x42/0x4b7 with
> crng_init=0
> Linux version 4.13.3-1-ARCH (builduser@tobias) (gcc version 7.2.0
> 
> 
> This thing always happens after booting the system, few minutes after
> boot. Seems to be a kind of wireless related regression, has anyone
> experienced that? Maybe any fix is known, or the bug reported?
> 

Having trouble with this kernel as well. After about 5 mins the system
freezes and only hard reset is possible. Downgraded to 4.12.13

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] kernel bug in 4.13.3 related to wireless?

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.10.2017, 09:02 -0400 schrieb Genes Lists via arch-
general:
> Could be related
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/14/682
> 
> Not sure if this was in 4.13.3 but looks like it should be fixed in
> 4.13.4 - have you tried 4.13.4 from testing?
> 
> 
No, waiting for it to appear in core.

Re: [arch-general] kernel bug in 4.13.3 related to wireless?

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.10.2017, 09:02 -0400 schrieb Genes Lists via arch-
general:
> Could be related
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/14/682
> 
> Not sure if this was in 4.13.3 but looks like it should be fixed in
> 4.13.4 - have you tried 4.13.4 from testing?
> 
> 

So this kernel does not provide an improvement

Re: [arch-general] kernel bug in 4.13.3 related to wireless?

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 05.10.2017, 00:31 -0500 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> On 09/30/2017 02:32 PM, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 30.09.2017, 14:33 +0200 schrieb Michał Zegan:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > For some time I am experiencing something like that:
> > > random: get_random_bytes called from start_kernel+0x42/0x4b7 with
> > > crng_init=0
> > > Linux version 4.13.3-1-ARCH (builduser@tobias) (gcc version 7.2.0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > This thing always happens after booting the system, few minutes
> > > after
> > > boot. Seems to be a kind of wireless related regression, has
> > > anyone
> > > experienced that? Maybe any fix is known, or the bug reported?
> > > 
> > 
> > Having trouble with this kernel as well. After about 5 mins the
> > system
> > freezes and only hard reset is possible. Downgraded to 4.12.13
> > 
> > KR Frank
> > 
> 
> I too am noticing a new error on boot that has not appeared before:
> 
> Oct 04 14:28:43 phoinix kernel: print_req_error: I/O error, dev fd0,
> sector 0
> Oct 04 14:28:43 phoinix kernel: floppy: error 10 while reading block
> 0
> Oct 04 14:28:43 phoinix kernel: print_req_error: I/O error, dev fd0,
> sector 0
> Oct 04 14:28:43 phoinix kernel: floppy: error 10 while reading block
> 0
> 
> Not sure why the error is thrown, I can still mount read/write from
> the drive
> after the boot is complete.
> 
> Not sure if this is related, but it's worth adding to the pile. I'll
> check
> whether it is fixed when 4.13.4 comes out.
> 
I was about to file a bug repoort when I came upon this one:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55629?string=kernel&project=1&type[0]=&;
sev[0]=&pri[0]=&due[0]=&reported[0]=&cat[0]=&status[0]=open&percent[0]=
&opened=&dev=&closed=&duedatefrom=&duedateto=&changedfrom=&changedto=&o
penedfrom=&openedto=&closedfrom=&closedto=

So looks as if it's related to i915 video driver (at least for me)
since the proposed workaround to add intel_iommu=igfx_off to
/etc/default/grub works for me.

KR Frank

[arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

good afternoon,

I'm trying to get my new DVBT2 stick to work following instructions
from Arch Wiki and Linuxtv.org.

Here's the output from demsg

[   77.140080] usb 1-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using
ehci-pci
[   77.248832] usb 1-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=15f4,
idProduct=0131, bcdDevice= 1.00
[   77.248839] usb 1-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[   77.248842] usb 1-1.1: Product: dvbt2
[   77.248846] usb 1-1.1: Manufacturer: astrometadvbt2
[   77.248849] usb 1-1.1: SerialNumber: 0
[   77.256329] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'Astrometa DVB-T2' in
warm state
[   77.334054] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: will pass the complete MPEG2
transport stream to the software demuxer
[   77.334075] dvbdev: DVB: registering new adapter (Astrometa DVB-T2)
[   77.337494] i2c i2c-8: Added multiplexed i2c bus 9
[   77.337499] rtl2832 8-0010: Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
[   77.337524] usb 1-1.1: DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0
(Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T))...
[   77.337627] r820t 9-003a: creating new instance
[   77.344862] r820t 9-003a: Rafael Micro r820t successfully identified
[   77.347059] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: Registered as swradio0
[   77.347062] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: Realtek RTL2832 SDR
attached
[   77.347065] rtl2832_sdr rtl2832_sdr.2.auto: SDR API is still
slightly experimental and functionality changes may follow
[   77.359357] Registered IR keymap rc-empty
[   77.359430] rc rc0: Astrometa DVB-T2 as
/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0
[   77.359492] input: Astrometa DVB-T2 as
/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/rc/rc0/input18
[   77.359617] rc rc0: lirc_dev: driver dvb_usb_rtl28xxu registered at
minor = 0
[   77.359708] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: schedule remote query interval to
200 msecs
[   77.368417] usb 1-1.1: dvb_usb_v2: 'Astrometa DVB-T2' successfully
initialized and connected
[  411.247267] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data
mode. Opts: (null)

and 

w_scan -ft -c DE -L 
w_scan version 20170107 (compiled for DVB API 5.11)
using settings for GERMANY
DVB aerial
DVB-T Europe
scan type TERRESTRIAL, channellist 4
output format vlc xspf playlist
output charset 'ISO-8859-1'
Info: using DVB adapter auto detection.
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0 -> TERRESTRIAL "Realtek RTL2832
(DVB-T)": good :-)
Using TERRESTRIAL frontend (adapter /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0)
-_-_-_-_ Getting frontend capabilities-_-_-_-_ 
Using DVB API 5.11
frontend 'Realtek RTL2832 (DVB-T)' supports
INVERSION_AUTO
QAM_AUTO
TRANSMISSION_MODE_AUTO
GUARD_INTERVAL_AUTO
HIERARCHY_AUTO
FEC_AUTO
BANDWIDTH_AUTO not supported, trying 6/7/8 MHz.
FREQ (174.00MHz ... 862.00MHz)
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ 
Scanning DVB-T...
Scanning 8MHz frequencies...

...
...
...
ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
 Nothing to scan!!

The device looks to me recognised and initialised but don't get w_scan
a channel list.

So what am I missing?

Thanks Frank

Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

Hi Ralph

> 
> Get connected to a better antenna, or move the current one to a
> better
> location?  I presume you're somewhere where you'd expect to see
> channels?
> 
> Try a different USB port;  sounds odd, but I found a few RTL2832
> `Nothing to scan' with Google where that helped.
> 

stick works with my antenna on another Laptop with win7 :-(

I've tried all USB ports both on my laptop and docking station, with no
success.

Tried kaffein as well. It has a field where I assume theres's supposed
to be a bar showing the signal strength where I see nothing

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Samstag, den 23.06.2018, 00:35 +0200 schrieb Bjoern Franke:
> 
> Did you put die firmware in the right place?
> 
> Regards
> Bjoern

I was looking for firmware but couldn't find. LinuxTV.org doesn't
mention any firmware either for this stick.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Samstag, den 23.06.2018, 20:01 +0200 schrieb Bjoern Franke:
> Hi,
> 
> > 
> > I was looking for firmware but couldn't find. LinuxTV.org doesn't
> > mention any firmware either for this stick.
> 
> Take a look here:
> 
> http://blog.palosaari.fi/2013/10/naked-hardware-14-dvb-t2-usb-tv-stic
> k.html
> 
> You will find the firmware here:
> http://palosaari.fi/linux/v4l-dvb/firmware/MN88472/02/latest/
> 
> Regards
> Bjoern

thanks for the hint but still doesn't work.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2018, 13:13 +0200 schrieb Bjoern Franke:
> Hi,
> 
> > > Bjoern
> > 
> > thanks for the hint but still doesn't work.
> > 
> 
> Did you try other software like tvheadend? Maybe it would help to
> extract the firmware from a newer windows driver, but I had no luck
> yet
> doing this.
> 
> Regards
> Bjoern

I've extracted the most current Windows diver but to be honest don't
know what to look for since I don't know how the FW is called there.

I'm sending it back and have ordered a Hauppage WinTV which hopefully
better supported. At least there's reports of success on the local LUG
list.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Astrometa DVB T2 stick

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Donnerstag, den 28.06.2018, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Frank Zimmermann:
> 
> 
> I've extracted the most current Windows diver but to be honest don't
> know what to look for since I don't know how the FW is called there.
> 
> I'm sending it back and have ordered a Hauppage WinTV which hopefully
> better supported. At least there's reports of success on the local
> LUG
> list.
> 
> KR Frank

I can confirm that the Hauppage WinTV solo works well with the
openelec-dvb-firmware package from AUR and VLC.

KR Frank

[arch-general] blueman authentication problem

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

for approx the last 2 days I noticed that the blueman applet and rfkill
state request me to enter my password when logging in Gnome Shell.
The following messages in my log might be of relevance:

Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch
tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: radio is unblocked
Aug 21 20:49:56 defiant kernel: thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch
tpacpi_wwan_sw: radio is unblocked
Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877403.8607]
rfkill2: found WiFi radio killswitch (at
/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1c.4/:02:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill
2) (driver rtl8192se)
Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877403.8611]
rfkill1: found WWAN radio killswitch (at
/sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill1) (platform driver
thinkpad_acpi)
Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877403.8616]
manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WiFi hardware radio set enabled
Aug 21 20:50:03 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877403.8650]
manager[0x563e308de000]: rfkill: WWAN hardware radio set enabled
Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877405.2145]
manager: rfkill: WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state
file
Aug 21 20:50:05 defiant NetworkManager[636]:   [1534877405.2148]
manager: rfkill: WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state
file
Aug 21 20:50:44 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via
systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-
org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.87' (uid=1000
pid=1227 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ")
Aug 21 20:50:47 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled
Aug 21 20:53:39 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:2 FAILED
to authenticate to gain authorization for action
org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus-name::1.186 [python
/usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank)
Aug 21 21:05:10 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler enabled
Aug 21 21:05:22 defiant dbus-daemon[633]: [system] Activating via
systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.hostname1' unit='dbus-
org.freedesktop.hostname1.service' requested by ':1.675' (uid=1000
pid=4766 comm="/usr/lib/gsd-rfkill ")
Aug 21 21:05:23 defiant kernel: rfkill: input handler disabled
Aug 21 21:05:34 defiant polkitd[736]: Operator of unix-session:5
successfully authenticated as unix-user:frank to gain TEMPORARY
authorization for action org.blueman.rfkill.setstate for system-bus-
name::1.735 [python /usr/bin/blueman-applet] (owned by unix-user:frank)

Any ideas how to change this strange behavior?

Thanks Frank

[arch-general] rtlwifi

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good afternoon,

my log is flooded with these messages:
Sep 26 09:09:45 defiant kernel: rtl8192se: switch case 0x5e not
processed
Sep 26 09:09:54 defiant kernel: rtlwifi: AP off, try to reconnect now 

Approx everey 10 sec there's a new entry. My wifi connection is quite
buggy even when close to the router, so am not sure if that might be a
reason.

My favourite search engine came up with some links suggesting that
these module options will help:
options rtl8192se fwlps=0 ips=0 swlps=0 swenc=1

However, I do not see any difference with them.

any ideas how to get around this?

THX Frank

[arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel Firefox
no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont play.
It gets even worse when I open another tab. This will freeze Firefox
though system load is ok. But I cannot kill Firefox, even logging off
and on will keep it running in the background. Only way to stop it is a
reboot and shutdown will take approx 10 to 15 mins for various stop
jobs running. just downgraded to Kernel 4.18.19 and things are fine.
I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2018, 18:18 +0100 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-
general:
> On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:54:39 +0100, Frank Zimmermann wrote:
> > I cannot kill Firefox
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how do you try to kill firefox? What happens if you run
> 
>killall -9 --verbose firefox
> 
> ?
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
I've tried killall firefox and kill -9 PID. Will wait for 4.19.2 before
giving this kernal another try, now happy with 4.18.16

KR Frank

Re: [arch-general] Kernel 4.19 preventing Firefox from playing videos

[Frank Zimmermann]

Am Mittwoch, den 14.11.2018, 22:13 +0100 schrieb Damjan Georgievski via
arch-general:
> > I have a very strange issue with kernel 4.19.1 With this kernel
> > Firefox
> > no longer plays any videos. It opens the page but the video wont
> > play.
> 
> what video? youtube?
> 
> works well here, on intel i7-7500U, KDE on X11 (modesetting driver)
> with both 4.19.1-arch1 and 4.19.2-arch1
> 
> > I'm running Gnome on a Thinkpad X201.
> 
> are you running wayland, modsettings or the intel X11 driver (the X
> modesetting is perhaps recommended)
Wayland
> 
> maybe try another compositor, instead of the gnome one
> 
> 

[arch-general] Gnome Shell suspend-then-hibernate

[Frank Zimmermann]

Good evening,

inspired by a previous thread when Gnome 3.30 introduced suspend-then-
hibernate I did setup hibernation on my laptop. By the time I did this
Gnome reverted to the standard suspend, probably by the critics
received. So I added the following line to my logind.conf
IdleAction=suspend-then-hibernate

This worked fine until recently the system won't no longer suspend then
hibernate when Gnome Shell is running. A manual systemctl suspend-then-
hibernate works as expected. I've checked in dconf editor and there's
no option to choose suspend-then-hibernate. 

I for my self find this function quite neat since the laptop is quite
often sitting long periods without being in use.

Any ideas if there's possibility to gain this function with gnome back?

Thanks Frank

[arch-general] Geary

[frank . zimmermann . berlin]

Hi there,

I'm running Openbox and use Geary as mail client. Since the appearance of Gnome 
3.14 in stable Geary remains blank. I don't see my mail folder or mails at all. 
Not sure if Geary is connecting to the mail server at all since there is no 
feedback.

KR Frank




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Re: [arch-general] Geary

[frank . zimmermann . berlin]

>
> Geary wouldn't even launch at all for me this morning, rebuilding it
> fixed
> that. I just pushed 0.8.1-2 in [community], I'm not sure if it was
> the same
> issue, but can you try again (also the theme thing Bjoern suggested)?
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Maxime
>
Thought about the theme as wellbut a switch didn't help. Puled the update today 
and nothing was happening. Moved the geary folder and configured it new and now 
it's getting weird. I'm using IMAP with 2 different mail providers. The snyc 
with web.de is fine but not with the freenet.de account. All I see is the 
outbox folder :-OKR Frank




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