Re: [arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it

[cyelae]

(Sorry if I sent this mail twice, I'm having troubles with my mail 
client)


I've experienced locks too, nothing in logs that I could find,
but after swaping back to the main kernel, from linux-ck, everything was
fine. Maybe this is related for you too? The update that caused the
lockups seems to match

http://ck-hack.blogspot.fr/2016/09/bfs-497-linux-47-ck4.html

Alas I still have no explanation for the random lockups some people
are seeing, but I have seen reports of it happening on mainline
kernels as well now, so while I'm always suspicious of my own code,
there is also the chance that BFS exacerbates an issue in mainline.
Something that appears common is onboard Intel graphics with the
Haswell chipset.


https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=linux-ck

Re: [arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>I'm running XFCE desktop btw.

On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock /
screensaver you are using.

Re: [arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it

[David N Murray via arch-general]

On 09/17/2016 07:33 AM, Ludwig Zins wrote:

Hi all,

I had two random freezes too. One after a screenlock and the second one
during using Chromium. The second freeze wasn't a complete one. Mouse
moves were delayed approx. 30s and were very stuttering. I only could do
a hard reset.

I noticed, that despite my memory isn't used completly (3GB/4GB) 50% of
my swap space are used. Further I see chromium uses a lot of swap space
(approx. 450MB). I don't know if this is an indication of the problem. I
never checked the usage of swap before.

My setup:
i3 4.12
py3status 3.1rc0
Chromium 53
xautolock 2.2



Regards
Ludwig

I've had 2 lockups during the last week, too, but I wasn't on the 
machine when they happened.  Not sure if it's related, but in my case, 
it was a desktop machine and the whole system froze (sshd wasn't 
answering, either).  I'm not seing any indication of what's happening in 
journalctl, other than journalctl stops recording anything at a certain 
time.


I've also see the increased swap usage over the last few months. I went 
through the swap page at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap and 
https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/tales-from-responsivenessland-why-linux-feels-slow-and-how-to-fix-that 
and saw no change. Every morning I come down to something like this:


$ free -m
  totalusedfree  shared buff/cache   
available

Mem:  159983345 421 240 12230   12080
Swap: 163831374   15009

And all my apps appear to be swapped out (Chromium, Thunderbird, even a 
locked KeePassX). I do run backups overnight and imagine that the 
buff/cache is filling up with directories and pushing out the actual 
apps.  I'm thinking about disabling swap at this point, since I don't 
really do anything with the box that requires swap space, or approaches 
16G of ram.


Dave

Re: [arch-general] Strange file in home directory

[Sławek Kapłoński]

Hi,

Thx for the tip. I checked it and in fact You were right :) Issue was
because of wrong config of header_cache option in mutt. I had:

set header_cache = on

in my muttrc file. So my problem is solved now. Thx a lot.

-- 
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Sławek Kapłoński
sla...@kaplonski.pl

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Sławek Kapłoński  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I found recently strange (for me) file in my home directory. Name of
> > this file is "on":
> >
> > [13:45:14] slawek@dell:~$ file on
> > on: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian, 64-bit
> >
> > I think that it is created by Mutt because when I removed it and started
> > Mutt then it was created again.
> >
> > Do You know what is this file for, what creates it (is it really Mutt)
> > and maybe how can I disable creation of this file?
> 
> Given the name of that file, I'd suspect a misconfiguration of mutt.
> Re-check your config.


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Re: [arch-general] Strange file in home directory

[Oon-Ee Ng via arch-general]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:48 PM, Sławek Kapłoński  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I found recently strange (for me) file in my home directory. Name of
> this file is "on":
>
> [13:45:14] slawek@dell:~$ file on
> on: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian, 64-bit
>
> I think that it is created by Mutt because when I removed it and started
> Mutt then it was created again.
>
> Do You know what is this file for, what creates it (is it really Mutt)
> and maybe how can I disable creation of this file?

Given the name of that file, I'd suspect a misconfiguration of mutt.
Re-check your config.

[arch-general] (no subject)

[Chris Stryczynski]

I was wondering if there is an API / JSON endpoint for pkgstats?

Saves me having to scrape the page! I'm interested to build a packages / 
aur frontend.

Re: [arch-general] GNU Privacy Assistant window sizing problem?

[Francis Gerund via arch-general]

Thanks Christoph.

Holding down the Meta/Super/Windows/Apple key does allow the "unmovable"
window to move.  Until Gnome "fixes" that capability, by removing it.
Using this workaround, I can now use the backend preferences window.

I am surprised that I didn't find a bug report on this already.  I guess I
can make one, as soon as I learn how to do that.



I

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:15 AM, Christoph Gysin 
wrote:

> This seems to be a bug in GPA. Nevertheless, you should be able to
> move/resize the window to see the hidden options and buttons. I don't
> use gnome, but I believe the default shortcuts are holding down the
> Meta/Super/Windows/Apple key, then click and drag with
> left/right/middle? mouse button to resize/move the window.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Francis Gerund via arch-general
>  wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > Running Arch x86-64, Gnome 3, Linux 4.7.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep
> 15
> > 15:24:29 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux.  Screeen is 15" 1366 x 768, 60 Hz.
> >
> > In GNU Privacy Assistant, when I open the "backend preferences" window,
> it
> > opens with the "basic" options selected, correctly sized.  But when I
> then
> > select either the "advanced" or "options", the window expands well below
> > the lower screen edge.  Some of the options are then hidden, and I can
> not
> > seem to find a way to resize the "backend preferences" window.
> >
> > Since the bottom row of buttons is completely hidden, I can not even
> change
> > the setting that are visible, except the "basic" options.  I have
> searched
> > the forum, wiki, and online, without success.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, found a solution?
>
>
>
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Re: [arch-general] Mirror issue

[Florian Pritz via arch-general]

On Friday, September 16, 2016 7:20:46 PM CEST Jordyn Carattini via arch-
general wrote:
> I keep getting http error 502 from the archlinux.polymorf.fr, I've been
> getting this error for the past month. Also sorry if I'm not posting this
> in the right place.

If you still experience the problem, please provide more details. Ideally 
provide a curl command that reproduces the issue and the output you get.

Florian


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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] i686 and SSE2

[LoneVVolf]

On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 21:44 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> Actually, why don't raise the bar higher? SSE2 has been introduced in
> 2001 – that's 15 years to upgrade one's hardware and given my sad
> experiences with computers, I find it hard to believe anyone has that
> old PC that happens to run Arch.
>
> We used to advertise ourselves as optimized for modern processors. Our
> "i786" really should include SSE3. For the same reason I would not
> complain about requiring SSE4 instructions for amd64.
>
>>

In the 2000's AMD and Intel followed different paths with extensions.
Checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions and its 
links suggest AVX was the point where the paths became the same again. 
AVX was designed in 2008 , but first procesoors that supported it were 
launched in 2011 .



My 2009 AMD opteron 2378 "Barcelona" processor advertises SSE, SSE2, 
3DNow & 3DNowExt .


I couldn't find specifics about 3DNowExt , but chances are big that 
software compiled with SSE3 , SSSE3 or SSE4 will crash on pre-2011 AMD 
processors.


LW

[arch-general] Strange file in home directory

[Sławek Kapłoński]

Hello,

I found recently strange (for me) file in my home directory. Name of
this file is "on":

[13:45:14] slawek@dell:~$ file on
on: GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian, 64-bit

I think that it is created by Mutt because when I removed it and started
Mutt then it was created again.

Do You know what is this file for, what creates it (is it really Mutt)
and maybe how can I disable creation of this file?

-- 
Best regards / Pozdrawiam
Sławek Kapłoński
sla...@kaplonski.pl


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Re: [arch-general] i3wm (randomly?) freezes; SIGCONT seems to fix it

[Ludwig Zins]

Am 09.09.2016 um 22:00 schrieb Bennett Piater:
>> .xsession-errors contains the output of every GUI app you are running,
>> as if you would launch all those apps in terminals.
> 
> That's good to know, thank you :)
> 
> I'm very curious as to what I will (or won't) find next time the freeze
> happens. It hasn't happened this boot, ever since I sent SIGCONT. I will
> reboot tomorrow to find out if that "resets" the problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bennett
> 


Hi all,

I had two random freezes too. One after a screenlock and the second one
during using Chromium. The second freeze wasn't a complete one. Mouse
moves were delayed approx. 30s and were very stuttering. I only could do
a hard reset.

I noticed, that despite my memory isn't used completly (3GB/4GB) 50% of
my swap space are used. Further I see chromium uses a lot of swap space
(approx. 450MB). I don't know if this is an indication of the problem. I
never checked the usage of swap before.

My setup:
i3 4.12
py3status 3.1rc0
Chromium 53
xautolock 2.2



Regards
Ludwig

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Re: [arch-general] GNU Privacy Assistant window sizing problem?

[Christoph Gysin via arch-general]

This seems to be a bug in GPA. Nevertheless, you should be able to
move/resize the window to see the hidden options and buttons. I don't
use gnome, but I believe the default shortcuts are holding down the
Meta/Super/Windows/Apple key, then click and drag with
left/right/middle? mouse button to resize/move the window.

Chris

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Francis Gerund via arch-general
 wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Running Arch x86-64, Gnome 3, Linux 4.7.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 15
> 15:24:29 CEST 2016 x86_64 GNU/Linux.  Screeen is 15" 1366 x 768, 60 Hz.
>
> In GNU Privacy Assistant, when I open the "backend preferences" window, it
> opens with the "basic" options selected, correctly sized.  But when I then
> select either the "advanced" or "options", the window expands well below
> the lower screen edge.  Some of the options are then hidden, and I can not
> seem to find a way to resize the "backend preferences" window.
>
> Since the bottom row of buttons is completely hidden, I can not even change
> the setting that are visible, except the "basic" options.  I have searched
> the forum, wiki, and online, without success.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem, and if so, found a solution?



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