[manjaro-dev] Cannot post messages to Manjaro forum? Server returns "504 timeout".

[Philip Müller]

Hi Simon,

here we go for a quick workaround:

|sudo pacman -Sdd kdepimlibs --force
sudo pacman -Su
sudo pacman -Sdd kdepimlibs-frameworks|



Am 11.02.2015 um 08:00 schrieb Philip Müller:
> Hi Simon,
>
> seems we have to provide a modified kdepimlibs to our KF5 repository 
> (@Anex, can you take a look at it?). For now you can install package 
> pulling kdepimlibs without it. You can use the -d switch for that.
>
> kind regards
> Phil
>
> Am 10.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Simon Lewis:
>> Hi Philip
>>
>> I am using this Manjaro Linux installation as a digital audio 
>> workstation. I started with KaoS-kf5-2015.01.14-x86_64.iso and have 
>> kept the system up to date using the "system upgrade" function in Octopi.
>>
>> I needed to create and / or modify the following files:
>> /etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf
>> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules
>> /etc/security/limits.d/99-audio.conf
>> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/40-hpet-permissions.rules
>> /etc/default/cpupower
>>
>> I can give the exact details if anyone is interested...
>>
>> The system must be booted with the kernel parameter "threadirqs" ( 
>> edit /etc/default/grub and run grub-mkconfig)
>>
>> I implemented a special version of RTCTL to prioritise the rtc and 
>> firewire irqs. (See https://github.com/quietpinguin/RTCTL)
>>
>> I backported snd-firewire-improve alsa modules. (See 
>> https://github.com/takaswie/snd-firewire-improve)
>>
>> And naturally added my user to the audio group.
>>
>> For the first time in 17 years of using Linux, I am able to record 
>> for hours on end (from a Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 firewire  audio 
>> interface) and never have an XRUN when recording - this is 
>> impressive. The Manjaro Linux installation just works and the sound 
>> quality is just superb.
>>
>> There is just the one niggling little problem: Since 08.02.2015 the 
>> Octopi "system upgrade" function fails - kdepimlibs is being pulled 
>> in as an (unwanted) dependency and conflicts with kdepimlibs-frameworks.
>>
>> My understandin is that the "KDE Applications" from version 14.12.x 
>> are designed to work with kf5. (See 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Software_Compilation#Post-fourth_series 
>> for definition of KDE Applications.)
>>
>> You will probably have good reasons for re-basing kdebase-runtime 
>> against KDE SC 4  but this would break my installation.
>>
>> I can only trust that the Manjaro Team will sort this out in the end.
>>
>> For the record, the repos I am using are:
>>
>> [core]
>> SigLevel = PackageRequired
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>>
>> [plasma]
>> SigLevel = Never
>> Server = http://cupoflinux.com/Repository/anex/plasma/$arch
>>
>> [extra]
>> SigLevel = PackageRequired
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>>
>> [community]
>> SigLevel = PackageRequired
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>>
>> [multilib]
>> SigLevel = PackageRequired
>> Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
>>
>>
>> Just one note [plasma] is marked as Active in 
>> Octopi>Tools>RepositoryEditor (bug in Octopi ?)
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Simon
>>
>>
>> On 09.02.2015 20:28, Philip Müller wrote:
>>> Hi Simon,
>>>
>>> this issue should been fixed by Arch-Linux. We have a third party 
>>> KF5 repo by Anex which has additional packages for Plasma5.
>>> Please check that out. kdebase-runtime (14.12.2-2) is a KDE4 package 
>>> and should not been used if you want to have a pure Plasma5 desktop.
>>>
>>> [plasma]
>>> SigLevel = Never
>>> Server = http://cupoflinux.com/Repository/anex/plasma/$arch
>>>
>>> https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=20051.0
>>>
>

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