Manjaro ARM 19.12 Official Release - PineBook Pro

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I run Manjaro xfce off a micro SD card (I started with Preview 3 and keep the packages up to date). I decided to keep Manjaro as my secondary OS as the kernel is rock-stable and userland is 64bit. I started to set it up and feel I'm in the dark Linux ages, again:

- I don't find a GUI setting to turn off the screen after some idle time. All GUI settings just turn the screen black, but not off. Currently, I use xset to manually turn off the screen, e.g.

$ xset dpms force off


- When I ssh -Y into another machine and start emacs remotely, no single font is found. I then installed the 75dpi and 100dpi fonts and needed to manually set +fp /usr/share/fonts/75dpi/ and set +fp /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/. I can't remember the last time I needed to deal with fonts. Shouldn't the fp paths be set automatically by the package manager?


- Manjaro is a rolling release distribution. Some software seems to roll faster than other:

$ /usr/bin/xfce4-screensaver
/usr/bin/xfce4-screensaver: error while loading shared libraries: libxfconf-0.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The more recent version libxfconf-0.so.3 version is installed. Both seem to be compatible and a soft link fixes the problem

# ln -s /usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.3.0.0 /usr/lib/libxfconf-0.so.2


- Similar problem with tumblerd (log from systemd journal). Why aren't dependencies automatically installed?

Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro tumblerd[1802635]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-ffmpeg-thumbnailer.so": libffmpegthumbnailer.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro dbus-daemon[971]: [session uid=1000 pid=971] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1'
Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro tumblerd[1802635]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-poppler-thumbnailer.so": libpoppler-glib.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro org.freedesktop.thumbnails.Thumbnailer1[971]: Registered thumbnailer /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o
Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro tumblerd[1802635]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-raw-thumbnailer.so": libopenrawgnome.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Dec 07 18:26:04 manjaro tumblerd[1802635]: Failed to load plugin "tumbler-odf-thumbnailer.so": libgsf-1.so.114: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


- gcin always crashes when clicking on its panel icon

Dec 07 23:30:20 manjaro systemd-coredump[1823724]: Process 1822296 (gcin) of user 1000 dumped core.
                                                 
                                                  Stack trace of thread 1822296:
                                                  #0  0x0000aaaaccbf8914 n/a (gcin + 0x10914)
                                                  #1  0x0000ffffa5c7bff8 g_closure_invoke (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x15ff8)
                                                  #2  0x0000ffffa5c93a00 n/a (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x2da00)
                                                  #3  0x0000ffffa5c9ce28 g_signal_emit_valist (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x36e28)
                                                  #4  0x0000ffffa5c9d430 g_signal_emit (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x37430)
                                                  #5  0x0000ffffa60133e4 n/a (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0x1e33e4)
                                                  #6  0x0000ffffa60133e4 n/a (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0x1e33e4)
                                                  #7  0x0000ffffa5f88bfc n/a (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 + 0x158bfc)
                                                  #8  0x0000ffffa5c7bff8 g_closure_invoke (libgobject-2.0.so.0 + 0x15ff8)
                                                  #9  0x0000fffff4913d58 n/a (n/a + 0x0)


- Firefox: Add-Ons: Plugins: "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. will be installed shortly." Shorty? I have an uptime of several days. Anyone not having this problem?

This is the kind of thing I believe to be SoP for ArchLinux and derivatives. I'm open to gentle correction, if I'm mistaken or out of date. Such manual configuration is what led Jamie Zawinski to quip, "Linux is free, only if your time is worthless", about 20 years ago. Relevant to this comment, Jamie is the originator and maintainer of the Xscreensaver collection!

Those years were excellent for learning *Nix systems, 'under the covers' in the day. I feel blessed by the advent of Debian and derivatives with package dependency management, /etc/alternatives, and protection for configuration file customization by the package manager. 

— Jeremiah