[arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
I use the openni2 library to access an Asus Xtion Pro Live camera, installed from the AUR and working fine up till 2+ weeks ago. After a 2 week holiday, the most recent system update caused segfaults to happen within the library (both before and after rebuilding it), without any change to the

Re: [arch-general] Qt 5 apps disregard cursors settings

2015-06-09 Thread Chris Warrick
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:28 PM, kachelaqa kachel...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/06/15 18:41, Chris Warrick wrote: Hello, I set my system to the Bluecurve cursor scheme in KDE 4 System Settings, I also have /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme pointing to it. However, Qt 5 apps completely ignore

Re: [arch-general] Qt 5 apps disregard cursors settings

2015-06-09 Thread kachelaqa
On 09/06/15 16:25, Chris Warrick wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:28 PM, kachelaqa kachel...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/06/15 18:41, Chris Warrick wrote: I also had to create quite few symlinks in mytheme/cursors for the cursor-names which were missing (there are lots of aliases). The relevant

[arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, earlier today an update asked me to replace mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio with mate-settings-daemon. After taking a look at the old and new package I replaced it. From an hour ago until now the update asks to replace mate-settings-daemon with mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio. If I reply

Re: [arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi. I actuallly did see that, but that seems to talk about the shadow.service failing to start or run properly. the terminal message I was getting said: shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Martti Kühne
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:25 PM, Zeev Pekar zeev.pe...@avtechscientific.com wrote: Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch reads as if you wanted someone else to do it please, send us a link, so we can follow the process and make contributions. reads as if you wanted to do it

Re: [arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
What Jens pointed out is what the link I posted and several others say too. I noticed it without reading the whole thread ;). I for example get $ sudo pwck -r user 'sagemath': directory '/opt/sage' does not exist pwck: no changes I don't care about it, I don't guess it's a security hole. Am I

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Jens Adam
Tue, 9 Jun 2015 14:39:24 -0500 Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com: [localuser@localhost ~]$ systemctl status shadow shadow.service - Verify integrity of password and group files Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/shadow.service; static; vendor preset: disabled) Active: inactive

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Zeev Pekar
Hello Andrejs and the Arch community! we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/ Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send us a link, so we can follow the process and make contributions. Thank you in

Re: [arch-general] (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Francis Gerund
Hi. While investigating the original error, I did research (and use) both pwck and grpck. Indeed, pwck was complaining about ab missing lib directory for mysql, which did lead to discovering the problem with mariadb. After the bug fix, no problems from either pwck -r or grpck -r. Thanks for

[arch-general] (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! I was investigating this boot up error message : failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files It turned out to be due (apparently) to a faulty (re)installation of mariadb, which I seem to have fixed. Fine. But in the process, I came across this in my system:

Re: [arch-general] failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files - Was: (no subject)

2015-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 14:39 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files I noticed it a long time ago and ignored it, however, when searching the web with startpage for failed to start verify of integrity of password and group files, the first hit

Re: [arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Jens Adam
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45282

Re: [arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 00:55:01 +0200, Jens Adam wrote: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45282 When I searched earlier yesterday, the ticket wasn't opened. Temporarily I added it to /etc/pacman.conf's IgnorePkg.

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Florian Pelz pelzflor...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/09/2015 09:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, but without knowing it well I'm unsure where to even begin. Normally I'd contact the authors, but as

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Anatol Pomozov
Hi On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: I use the openni2 library to access an Asus Xtion Pro Live camera, installed from the AUR and working fine up till 2+ weeks ago. After a 2 week holiday, the most recent system update caused segfaults to happen within

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Andrejs Mivreņiks
Hello, Zeev! Good to hear that, I'll be glad to help. I already wrote a PKGBUILD, though I encountered some syntax error. I'll report it back to the GitHub issue tracker soon. We can discuss things personally by e-mail if needed from now on. Regards, Andrejs -- Andrejs Mivreņiks PGP Key

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Neven Sajko
Zeev, you should take a look at some PKGBUILDs, they're really simple and easy to make. E.g. go to Source Files link here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/snd/

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Neven Sajko
On 10 June 2015 at 00:01, Neven Sajko nsa...@gmail.com wrote: Zeev, you should take a look at some PKGBUILDs, they're really simple and easy to make. E.g. go to Source Files link here: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/snd/ Sorry, disregard this, I thought you still didn't have

Re: [arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Eli Schwartz
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi, earlier today an update asked me to replace mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio with mate-settings-daemon. After taking a look at the old and new package I replaced it. From an hour ago until now the update

Re: [arch-general] Update issue, mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio vs mate-settings-daemon

2015-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:08:10 -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: I updated and replaced the packages, but I am not suddenly getting a message to revive mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio. Do you have any packages installed that depend on it? If so, why could I replace it with mate-settings-daemon, when

Re: [arch-general] Open-sourced: OpenCL-based multiphysics simulation software package

2015-06-09 Thread Rashif Ray Rahman
On 9 June 2015 at 20:25, Zeev Pekar zeev.pe...@avtechscientific.com wrote: Hello Andrejs and the Arch community! we have updated all our dependencies(among them VTK to 6.1): http://asl.org.il/2015/06/09/ASL-0.1.2_released/ Now we look for volunteers to add ASL package for Arch - please, send

[arch-general] [mkinitcpio] about explicit module inclusion and purpose of udev hook

2015-06-09 Thread Tom Yan
For my current system, I need the following modules (and their dependencies) to boot (mount the real root): ahci, sd_mod, btrfs (which are drivers for the sata controller, disk, and the root filesystem respectively.) If I specify these three in the MODULES array of mkinitcpio.conf, the only

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote: Do you use Intel CPU? Try to setup microcode and see if it helps https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode I do, but that has not changed, and as CPU problems would likely affect the whole system rather than a

Re: [arch-general] Debugging third-party library's segfault if its caused by system update?

2015-06-09 Thread Florian Pelz
On 06/09/2015 09:26 AM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: How do I track down the issue? The library's source code is available, but without knowing it well I'm unsure where to even begin. Normally I'd contact the authors, but as this issue was caused (on my system) by a system update I think I'd need to do

Re: [arch-general] [mkinitcpio] about explicit module inclusion and purpose of udev hook

2015-06-09 Thread Tom Yan
I was being silly. Found the answer myself: if [ -n $earlymodules$MODULES ]; then modprobe -qab ${earlymodules//,/ } $MODULES fi in base hook init. On 10 June 2015 at 10:30, Tom Yan tom.t...@gmail.com wrote: For my current system, I need the following modules (and their dependencies) to