Progress on Unity under Arch Linux!

qiuwei · 2014-06-26 16:32:10

aabmass wrote:

Reded wrote:

Possibly related to the above - When I run indicator-datetime-service, it terminates with this error when ran in a terminal:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
zsh: abort      /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service
It runs for maybe 30 seconds before doing this, and doesn't appear when I login.

Same here:

$ time /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service 

(process:5814): Indicator-Datetime-WARNING **: Getting timezone from systemd's timedate1 interface

(process:5814): Indicator-Datetime-WARNING **: indicator-datetime cannot connect to EDS source: Unable to connect to 'Calendar': Cannot open calendar: Timeout was reached
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
Aborted

real	0m30.093s
user	0m0.093s
sys	0m0.010s

30 seconds was a very good estimate..

Edit:

Unfortunately, enabling systemd-timesyncd.service didn't help:

# systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service
# systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service

It's a new bug due to the recent update of other archlinux pakcages.
I haven't tested it, but I guess a clean rebuild of unity-for-arch would fix it.

okto · 2014-06-27 20:41:08

And my other question: how to set things to run when Unity starts? In Ubuntu there is a startup items option in the power/gear menu.

aabmass · 2014-06-29 20:00:20

qiuwei wrote:

It's a new bug due to the recent update of other archlinux pakcages.
I haven't tested it, but I guess a clean rebuild of unity-for-arch would fix it.

Thanks, qiuwei. I did a full rebuild, same problem.

sollidsnake · 2014-07-01 21:02:09

aabmass wrote:

Reded wrote:

Possibly related to the above - When I run indicator-datetime-service, it terminates with this error when ran in a terminal:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
zsh: abort      /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service
It runs for maybe 30 seconds before doing this, and doesn't appear when I login.

Same here:

$ time /usr/lib/indicator-datetime/indicator-datetime-service 

(process:5814): Indicator-Datetime-WARNING **: Getting timezone from systemd's timedate1 interface

(process:5814): Indicator-Datetime-WARNING **: indicator-datetime cannot connect to EDS source: Unable to connect to 'Calendar': Cannot open calendar: Timeout was reached
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_S_construct null not valid
Aborted

real	0m30.093s
user	0m0.093s
sys	0m0.010s

30 seconds was a very good estimate..

Edit:

Unfortunately, enabling systemd-timesyncd.service didn't help:

# systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service
# systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service

It turns out there's a patch called 0001-Get-timezone-from-systemd-s-timedate1-interface.patch in the PKGBUILD. Disabling it before building brings the clock back, but with the wrong timezone.

aabmass · 2014-07-01 21:56:16

sollidsnake wrote:

It turns out there's a patch called 0001-Get-timezone-from-systemd-s-timedate1-interface.patch in the PKGBUILD. Disabling it before building brings the clock back, but with the wrong timezone.

Yes. I debugged this yesterday but didn't have time to post it. You can use this patch to fix it with the correct timezone, too. I haven't found any issues with this fix yet. Download the patch, add

  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0003-Timezone-systemd-nullptr-check.patch"

in the pkgbuild after the first two patches, update the sha512sums and rebuild.

Alternatively, here's a package for x86_64 that you can use.

Edit: Changed patch

Last edited by aabmass (2014-07-02 15:15:31)

sollidsnake · 2014-07-02 11:42:52

aabmass wrote:

Yes. I debugged this yesterday but didn't have time to post it. You can use this patch to fix it with the correct timezone, too. I haven't found any issues with this fix yet. Download the patch, add
  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0003-Timezone-systemd-nullptr-check.patch"
in the pkgbuild after the first two patches, update the sha512sums and rebuild.
Alternatively, here's a package for x86_64 that you can use.

I couldn't apply the patch. The file being patched doesn't seem to exist.

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd.cpp       2014-06-30 15:38:53.397571301 -0400
|+++ indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd-nullcheck.cpp     2014-06-30 15:40:35.128794407 -0400
--------------------------
File to patch:

But I can confirm that the built package works. Thanks!

Reded · 2014-07-02 14:49:00

sollidsnake wrote:

aabmass wrote:
Yes. I debugged this yesterday but didn't have time to post it. You can use this patch to fix it with the correct timezone, too. I haven't found any issues with this fix yet. Download the patch, add
  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}/0003-Timezone-systemd-nullptr-check.patch"
in the pkgbuild after the first two patches, update the sha512sums and rebuild.
Alternatively, here's a package for x86_64 that you can use.
I couldn't apply the patch. The file being patched doesn't seem to exist.
can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd.cpp       2014-06-30 15:38:53.397571301 -0400
|+++ indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd-nullcheck.cpp     2014-06-30 15:40:35.128794407 -0400
--------------------------
File to patch: 
But I can confirm that the built package works. Thanks!

Same and same, thanks for the build!

aabmass · 2014-07-02 15:34:28

sollidsnake wrote:

I couldn't apply the patch. The file being patched doesn't seem to exist.

can't find file to patch at input line 3
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd.cpp       2014-06-30 15:38:53.397571301 -0400
|+++ indicator-datetime-13.10.0+14.04.20140415.3/src/timezone-systemd-nullcheck.cpp     2014-06-30 15:40:35.128794407 -0400
--------------------------
File to patch:

But I can confirm that the built package works. Thanks!

Reded wrote:

Same and same, thanks for the build!

No problem! I updated the patch, but I don't think that was the problem. The patch patches a file created by 0001-Get-timezone-from-systemd-s-timedate1-interface.patch, so if they aren't in the right order in the pkgbuild, it won't work. Anyway, if you want to build it, here's a makepkg source tarball: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/upu … src.tar.gz

sollidsnake · 2014-07-02 15:39:32

aabmass wrote:

No problem! I updated the patch, but I don't think that was the problem. The patch patches a file created by 0001-Get-timezone-from-systemd-s-timedate1-interface.patch, so if they aren't in the right order in the pkgbuild, it won't work. Anyway, if you want to build it, here's a makepkg source tarball: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/upu … src.tar.gz

Oh, my mistake. I hadn't enabled back the 0001 patch. After doing that the package built fine. Thanks again!

okto · 2014-07-11 17:08:00

Still wondering how to launch things when Unity starts. Anyone have a solution?

Reded · 2014-07-11 17:32:36

okto wrote:

Still wondering how to launch things when Unity starts. Anyone have a solution?

I just use the systemd user session https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User There is a gnome-tweak-tool section for it but the add button doesn't seem to work for me Maybe it's hidden in dconf-editor somewhere?

ryanvade · 2014-07-13 04:09:47

I also would like to know how to add startup applications.

I have one bug at the moment that is driving me crazy. The Clock applet keeps crashing at login. I see it for a few seconds, then it is gone.

Is this a known bug? And I have no screen brightness control either.

Last edited by ryanvade (2014-07-13 04:12:18)

ryanvade · 2014-07-13 16:50:17

Another bug: Applets/menu does not appear after sleep.

okto · 2014-07-13 19:50:54

ryanvade wrote:

I have one bug at the moment that is driving me crazy. The Clock applet keeps crashing at login. I see it for a few seconds, then it is gone.

That is a known bug. Apparently upstream indicator-datetime calls for the timezone in away that doesn't work on Arch (probably trying to ask Upstart or some such nonsense), and it has to be patched to get that data from systemd. Recompiling indicator-datetime from the AUR fixed it for me.

Last edited by okto (2014-07-13 19:51:34)

chenxiaolong · 2014-07-13 23:58:26

Thanks aabmass for the patch! I don't know if I posted this here earlier, but there's a Unity-for-Arch-Utopic repo based on my utopic branch at Github that includes packages from Ubuntu 14.10. These packages contain many fixes (like the indicator-datetime issue and the external monitor issue), but of course, they're basec on unstable packages. If you'd like to try the out, add the following repo above the Unity-for-Arch repo in pacman.conf:

[Unity-for-Arch-Utopic]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/486665/Repos/$repo/$arch

chenxiaolong · 2014-07-14 00:52:53

okto wrote:

And my other question: how to set things to run when Unity starts? In Ubuntu there is a startup items option in the power/gear menu.

Try my gnome-session-properties package on the AUR. It's the same thing Ubuntu uses (although it's not integrated into the menu).

someone123 · 2014-07-14 08:41:53

Indicators don't work, I've installed from the unofficial repositorys.
Maybe someone can help me to make it work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/70fmofqgxq0l7 … 0%3A20.png

Last edited by someone123 (2014-07-14 08:42:31)

okto · 2014-07-15 19:54:57

chenxiaolong wrote:

Try my gnome-session-properties package on the AUR. It's the same thing Ubuntu uses (although it's not integrated into the menu).

Thanks! Exactly what I needed. I'm trying to decide whether or not to upgrade to the Utopic packages from your repo. Have they broken anything for you?

ryanvade · 2014-07-19 04:49:10

Indicators are now working for me. Even the calendar. Just need to get the screen brightness working (will just create a keyboard shortcut) . Thanks chenxiaolong and Okto

Last edited by ryanvade (2014-07-19 05:07:46)

sollidsnake · 2014-07-25 15:23:45

I'm testing qt5 applications and I see it doesn't have a globalmenu. I have appmenu-qt5 and libdbusmenu-qt5 installed. Doesn't unity have qt5 globalmenu support yet?

sollidsnake · 2014-07-26 19:36:36

sollidsnake wrote:

I'm testing qt5 applications and I see it doesn't have a globalmenu. I have appmenu-qt5 and libdbusmenu-qt5 installed. Doesn't unity have qt5 globalmenu support yet?

Never mind, I got it working. I just needed to set the environment variable QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=appmenu-qt5. Now I have globalmenu for QT5

ryanvade · 2014-07-30 18:10:28

Calendar is missing again.

Also, the logout button does not work.

okto · 2014-08-22 19:58:31

Logged in today and neither the Unity panel nor the dock launched. A manual start of Unity reports "unity-panel-service not found".
Issued a pacman -Syu, reports conflicts between metacity and metacity-ubuntu, bamf and bamf-ubuntu, says compiz-ubuntu depends metacity (how is that even possible). Pacman -Syudd and -Syu --force did nothing to fix this. Removed bamf-ubuntu and metacity-ubuntu with -Rdd, currently running pacman -Syu.

Realize this is sort of a mishmash, will report back after system upgrade completes and I do a reboot, but does anyone know why this is suddenly happening?

I'm using the unofficial Utopic repo linked earlier in this thread.

okto · 2014-08-22 20:31:28

dconf reset -f /org/compiz/ fixed it. Still curious what caused this in the first place.
Unrelatedly, this seems to have fixed the problem I was having with mount actions for removable disks double-launching.

Maybe a Unity reset is regular maintenance like a PRAM zap used to be on pre-Intel Macintoshes? I still get the urge to hold Cmd-Opt-P-R on boot when things don't work right.

horsemanoffaith · 2014-08-29 03:03:53

I'm trying to install Unity on my new SSD drive, and it's saying that libgee06 isn't available. When I look up libgee06, it's available as an AUR package, but that doesn't help me install Unity from scratch. Will libgee06 be added to the Unity-for-Arch repo?

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