Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-04 23:29:17

@Slovenijakp: Thank you very much for the logs!

This is what's causing the problem:

[2013-05-03 18:12] [PACMAN] upgraded libpng (1.5.15-1 -> 1.6.2-2)

EDIT: Actually, your Unity is broken because you are using [testing]. The newest libpng is not available in [extra] yet. You can try recompiling compiz-ubuntu to see if you can get Unity back up and running

To everyone:

Unity will be broken by the latest libpng update. Recompiling compiz should fix the issue. I'll will rebuild it for the repo as soon as libpng 1.6.2-2 hits the http://mirrors.kernel.org mirror.

Also, make sure to not downgrade libpng. All of the official arch packages are already built against the new version. Downgrading will break much more than just Unity.

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-05-04 23:45:58)

gianluca.pettinello · 2013-05-05 18:39:27

chenxiaolong wrote:

@Slovenijakp: Thank you very much for the logs!
This is what's causing the problem:
[2013-05-03 18:12] [PACMAN] upgraded libpng (1.5.15-1 -> 1.6.2-2)
EDIT: Actually, your Unity is broken because you are using [testing]. The newest libpng is not available in [extra] yet. You can try recompiling compiz-ubuntu to see if you can get Unity back up and running
To everyone:
Unity will be broken by the latest libpng update. Recompiling compiz should fix the issue. I'll will rebuild it for the repo as soon as libpng 1.6.2-2 hits the http://mirrors.kernel.org mirror.
Also, make sure to not downgrade libpng. All of the official arch packages are already built against the new version. Downgrading will break much more than just Unity.

Gotcha! +1 for Chen!
I recompiled everything and now Unity works again. By the way qt4-ubuntu depends on libpng...
Unity-lens-files not working as before. Since zeitgeist is a dependence of Unity-lens-applications, which works, I suspect that there could be a problem with dbus. Also Gnome 3 team has its own version of dbus.

edmael · 2013-05-06 14:08:45

Hi everyone, finally I'm serious trying Unity on Arch, but I ran into some issues:
- Ugly mouse cursor. No matter what I set with UTT or GTT, I always have an ugly black cursor that sometimes changes just for a second (like when I click on a link).
- No Options under "Personal" in System Settings. I've got everything I need under Hardware and System, but nothing under the "Personal" "tab".
- Some software in the dash have no icons nor name.

Also, quick questions:
- is there a way to remove software from the dash or I need to remove the .desktop files?
- why there's no "Google account" under Online Account (I can't access OA from system settings, but I see it in the dash)?

Thanks, great work BTW

oi_wtf · 2013-05-06 14:57:07

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_Themes
- the "personal group" is empty for me too.
- didn't see any of those yet... maybe some corrupted desktop files?

- afaik, you'd need to remove the desktop files, but I wouldn't recommend that
- I've got a google account to select in Online-Accounts...

Last edited by oi_wtf (2013-05-06 14:57:27)

edmael · 2013-05-06 16:29:05

oi_wtf wrote:

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_Themes
- the "personal group" is empty for me too.
- didn't see any of those yet... maybe some corrupted desktop files?
- afaik, you'd need to remove the desktop files, but I wouldn't recommend that
- I've got a google account to select in Online-Accounts...

Thanks

bubbathevtog · 2013-05-07 05:36:08

Yeah so I guess libpng got moved to the "extra" repos. I don't have a useable unity desktop currently (I made double sure that I don't have the "testing" repo on). Here is my pacman.log and if you'd like a smaller version just for libpng here is my pacman(libpng).log

Almost forgot...you might like to see my xsession-erros.

And again Chen, Thanks so much for your support.

Last edited by bubbathevtog (2013-05-07 05:40:19)

oi_wtf · 2013-05-07 08:46:03

yeah, libpng16 got moved to extra,
but as stated somewhere already, you should be fine by rebuilding
qt4-ubuntu, compiz and unity

divansantana · 2013-05-07 15:16:18

Hey Chen,

Any chance of you testing the patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/733915 which will hopefully add unread message count in unity launcher?

gadelat · 2013-05-07 16:29:13

I did not have enabled testing repo, but doing pacman -Syu still broke my system. I tried to fix it (unfortunately i did not read this thread before) by doing pacman -Rc libpng and pacman -S $(pacman -Slq Unity-for-Arch), but unity does not work now. My default startup applications launches correctly (pidgin and thunderbird), but that's it, I don't see any unity components. Xfce4 and Gnome-shell works correctly. Can you help me? And if so, what informations do you need?

Last edited by gadelat (2013-05-07 16:30:06)

bubbathevtog · 2013-05-07 16:49:12

oi_wtf wrote:

yeah, libpng16 got moved to extra,
but as stated somewhere already, you should be fine by rebuilding
qt4-ubuntu, compiz and unity

Yeah if i built it from source like a good boy but unfortunately for me right now I use the testing repo. I've just honestly never had unity-for-arch compile right when I try to build it from source, so it was always just easier for me to just use the repo.

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-07 17:53:42

edmael wrote:

Hi everyone, finally I'm serious trying Unity on Arch, but I ran into some issues:
- Ugly mouse cursor. No matter what I set with UTT or GTT, I always have an ugly black cursor that sometimes changes just for a second (like when I click on a link).
- No Options under "Personal" in System Settings. I've got everything I need under Hardware and System, but nothing under the "Personal" "tab".
- Some software in the dash have no icons nor name.
Also, quick questions:
- is there a way to remove software from the dash or I need to remove the .desktop files?
- why there's no "Google account" under Online Account (I can't access OA from system settings, but I see it in the dash)?
Thanks, great work BTW

I'll take a look at the empty "Personal" section in gnome-control-center. For the desktop files, I could try and find out which ones are broken if you upload them (ie. tar everything in /usr/share/applications/ and ~/.local/share/applications/).

For the Online Account issue, do you have the account-plugins package installed?

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-07 17:58:53

bubbathevtog wrote:

Yeah so I guess libpng got moved to the "extra" repos. I don't have a useable unity desktop currently (I made double sure that I don't have the "testing" repo on). Here is my pacman.log and if you'd like a smaller version just for libpng here is my pacman(libpng).log
Almost forgot...you might like to see my xsession-erros.
And again Chen, Thanks so much for your support.

Thanks for the logs!

I've started rebuilds for qt4-ubuntu, compiz-ubuntu, and unity. They should be available on the repo (the dropbox one) in a couple hours

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-07 18:01:13

gadelat wrote:

I did not have enabled testing repo, but doing pacman -Syu still broke my system. I tried to fix it (unfortunately i did not read this thread before) by doing pacman -Rc libpng and pacman -S $(pacman -Slq Unity-for-Arch), but unity does not work now. My default startup applications launches correctly (pidgin and thunderbird), but that's it, I don't see any unity components. Xfce4 and Gnome-shell works correctly. Can you help me? And if so, what informations do you need?

The broken packages are currently being rebuilt. When it's done, "pacman -Syu" should get you back a usable desktop You can check the progress on the sidebar on the left here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-07 18:21:23

divansantana wrote:

Hey Chen,
Any chance of you testing the patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/733915 which will hopefully add unread message count in unity launcher?

Unfortunately, that patch won't work with newer versions of pidgin-libnotify. The author of the patch would need to rewrite his/her code

gianluca.pettinello · 2013-05-07 19:16:18

hi chen, did you progress on lens files?

bubbathevtog · 2013-05-07 23:19:49

chenxiaolong wrote:

The broken packages are currently being rebuilt. When it's done, "pacman -Syu" should get you back a usable desktop You can check the progress on the sidebar on the left here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/

Yep, still no unity.....I just waited for Jenkins to finish all his busy work, updated, and installed it all. Here are some beautiful xsession-errors for you to glance at your leisure. Any advice would be greatly appreciated THANKS AS ALWAYS.

Slovenijakp · 2013-05-08 13:25:43

I have working Unity now. I shouldn't had testing repo enabled Though I hadn't pacman -syu for several days (like 3 or 4 days)... Is it fine to upgrade all packages, except to write libpng in IgnorePkg ( /etc/pacman.conf)? (till this issue gets fixed) I don't want to break Unity again
Thanks for this great project

Last edited by Slovenijakp (2013-05-08 13:27:57)

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-08 14:31:46

bubbathevtog wrote:

chenxiaolong wrote:
The broken packages are currently being rebuilt. When it's done, "pacman -Syu" should get you back a usable desktop You can check the progress on the sidebar on the left here: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/
Yep, still no unity.....I just waited for Jenkins to finish all his busy work, updated, and installed it all. Here are some beautiful xsession-errors for you to glance at your leisure. Any advice would be greatly appreciated THANKS AS ALWAYS.

Thanks for the .xsession-errors file! What's breaking your unity (well, actually compiz) is this:

[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/message_lite.cc:123] Can't parse message of type "metadata.PluginBrief" because it is missing required fields: info

People have been running into this problem, while rare, since 2008 (!). Anyway, running "compiz.reset" should get your Unity back again

EDIT: If you don't want to lose your compiz and Unity settings, copy /usr/bin/compiz.reset to /tmp/, edit /tmp/compiz.reset and comment out the "dconf reset" line, and run "bash /tmp/compiz.reset".

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-05-08 14:32:56)

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-08 14:38:29

Slovenijakp wrote:

I have working Unity now. I shouldn't had testing repo enabled Though I hadn't pacman -syu for several days (like 3 or 4 days)... Is it fine to upgrade all packages, except to write libpng in IgnorePkg ( /etc/pacman.conf)? (till this issue gets fixed) I don't want to break Unity again
Thanks for this great project

It's funny, every time I update the Unity packages, I always think to myself "please don't load, please don't load, please don't load" because I never experience the problems other people do. Yet, no matter what I do, Unity always loads fine for me

Anyway, if you are using the dropbox repo in /etc/pacman.conf, then the latest updates should be fine. Also, please don't add libpng to IgnorePkg (unless you add everything that depends on libpng there too). You'll mess up your system very badly

Slovenijakp · 2013-05-08 15:44:46

chenxiaolong wrote:

Slovenijakp wrote:
I have working Unity now. I shouldn't had testing repo enabled Though I hadn't pacman -syu for several days (like 3 or 4 days)... Is it fine to upgrade all packages, except to write libpng in IgnorePkg ( /etc/pacman.conf)? (till this issue gets fixed) I don't want to break Unity again
Thanks for this great project
It's funny, every time I update the Unity packages, I always think to myself "please don't load, please don't load, please don't load" because I never experience the problems other people do. Yet, no matter what I do, Unity always loads fine for me
Anyway, if you are using the dropbox repo in /etc/pacman.conf, then the latest updates should be fine. Also, please don't add libpng to IgnorePkg (unless you add everything that depends on libpng there too). You'll mess up your system very badly

Okay

divansantana · 2013-05-08 20:27:57

chenxiaolong wrote:

divansantana wrote:
Hey Chen,
Any chance of you testing the patch at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/733915 which will hopefully add unread message count in unity launcher?
Unfortunately, that patch won't work with newer versions of pidgin-libnotify. The author of the patch would need to rewrite his/her code

No prob thanks for checking it out

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-09 06:04:51

I found the cause of the empty "Personal" section in GNOME Control Center. When logged in to gnome-shell, you see this:

Background

In gnome-shell, it looks like this: [1] http://i.imgur.com/0zvGsLl.png

Ubuntu's devs don't like that, so they made this: [2] http://i.imgur.com/TcWMXuI.png

We can't use [2] since gnome-control-center-unity is broken, so that icon is missing.

Notifications

This (http://i.imgur.com/JPjRCGm.png) is not supported by gnome-screensaver, only gnome-shell. So this icon is gone too.

Online Accounts

In gnome-shell, it looks like this: [1] http://i.imgur.com/blQKHjU.png

Of course, Ubuntu hates GNOME code, so they fork Meego's code, calls it theirs, and make this: [2] http://i.imgur.com/S8mJpFW.png

We can't use [2] since credentials-preferences-ubuntu is broken, so that icon is missing.

Privacy

Ubuntu cares about privacy?? Just kidding In all seriousness, it looks like this in gnome-shell: http://i.imgur.com/tCqUMLQ.png

The version of activity-log-manager (same thing, except for Unity) in [community] doesn't support the gnome-control-center icon, so that icon is gone too.

Region & Language

Looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/vG6Sley.png

Missing because of a bug in my package. Please remind me to fix it

Search

It looks like this in gnome-shell: http://i.imgur.com/XN69UM1.png

In Unity, it's handled by activity-log-manager, so this icon disappears as well.

tl;dr

All the icons are missing because they are all specific to gnome-shell in GNOME 3.8. Ubuntu-specific settings panels don't work yet, so you end up with an empty section.

Update: gnome-control-center-unity now works, except that it shows up as "Unnamed" instead of "Appearance"

Update 2: Region and Language settings will now show up in Unity.

Update 3: Ubuntu Online Accounts should now should up in Unity.

Last edited by chenxiaolong (2013-05-11 01:51:24)

edmael · 2013-05-09 17:14:43

Great work Chen, thank you

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-11 01:52:43

edmael wrote:

Great work Chen, thank you

You're welcome

chenxiaolong · 2013-05-11 17:24:02

This is what happens when you have a crappy ISP: http://cxl.epac.to:8091/job/UFALCD-3.0- … /8/console

This week's LiveCD is currently reuploading...hopefully it won't fail this time

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