[SOLVED] Update broke font anti-aliasing

I've been updating daily, and there were just a few updates today (Sunday, 22 January). However, almost immediately my fonts went ugly. I tried rebooting, but it didn't help. Anti-aliasing doesn't work anymore in Xfce or KDE, which is all I tried.
I did notice there was a udev update, but there were also some library updates that I can't remember. I have no idea what broke.
Any insights or suggestions? The system is ugly enough that it's hard to read, so I'm moving over to an Arch I haven't updated today.
Last edited by eerok (2012-01-22 20:18:08)

Solved. For some reason I suddenly needed to add a hand-rolled ~/.fonts.conf -- one might have hoped that the Xfce settings would actually work for the Xfce panel and menus, but I guess not.

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[2007-12-22 19:53] starting full system upgrade
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[2007-12-22 19:57]
[2007-12-22 19:57] The way fontconfig is configured has been changed.
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[2007-12-22 19:57]
[2007-12-22 19:57] Configuration via /etc/fonts/local.conf is still possible,
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[2007-12-22 19:58] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2007-12-22 19:58] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2007-12-22 19:58] :: Parsing hook [autodetect]
[2007-12-22 19:58] :: Parsing hook [pata]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [scsi]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [sata]
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[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [ide]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [pata]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [scsi]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [usbinput]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [raid]
[2007-12-22 19:59] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
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[2007-12-22 20:00]
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Hello
After the update of some packages my netctl profile doesn't work anymore.
The interfaces seem to be renamed (again) from before eth0 to ens3, back to eth0.
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[2014-06-05 08:55] [PACMAN] upgraded systemd-sysvcompat (212-3 -> 213-5)
after 'netctl restart uplink' failed
'journalctl -xn' states:
Job sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device/start timed out.
Jun 05 09:26:24 hostname systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device.
-- Subject: Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Unit sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device has failed.
-- The result is timeout.
Jun 05 09:26:24 hostname systemd[1]: Dependency failed for netcup uplink ipv4/6.
-- Subject: Unit [email protected] has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- Unit [email protected] has failed.
-- The result is dependency.
'ip addr' states
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
my netctl profile:
Description='netcup uplink ipv4/6'
Interface=eth0
#Interface=ens3 ### ... WHICH WORKED BEFORE
Connection=ethernet
IP=dhcp
IP6=static
Address6=('someipv6/64')
#Routes6=('someipv6')
#Gateway6=('someipv6')
I already tried the old and new interface-names in the profile, but neither worked.
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Any ideas where the problem could be?
rgds
/edit
after looking around a bit I found that in /etc/systemd/system there is a file called '[email protected]' with this content:
.include /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
[Unit]
Description=netcup uplink ipv4/6
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-ens3.device
Changing the last to lines to the right interface name made it work again.
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-eth0.device
Don't know why systemd changed the name of my interface, but I'm anxious to know when it will do it again.
Works for now. So its kind of solved.
Last edited by raunz (2014-06-05 12:35:27)

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==> Starting build()...
patching file src/clock/clock.c
Hunk #2 succeeded at 111 (offset 11 lines).
patching file src/clock/clock.c
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Hunk #2 FAILED at 62.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 78.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 286 (offset 31 lines).
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patching file src/clock/clock.h
patching file src/config.c
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Aborting...
I wouldn't know how to manually fix it and there wasn't a solution in the comments. Also tried building the git version with this pkgbuild: http://sprunge.us/VaeE?sh still got this error: No CMAKE_C_COMPILER could be found. I also googled and found out some users have reported the svn version works without patches, that didn't work for me when I tried it. It looks like I've hit a dead end. I'm using tint2 for now, but it sadly doesn't have the feature to move tray and clock to bottom when using it as a sidebar. Also it has the same transparency issues in the tray. I might be forced to start looking for a new panel
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Thank you to everyone who posted to this thread.
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# Modified: 01-Jan-10
[Local Users]
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ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
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# Modified: 01-Jan-10
[Local Users]
Identity=unix-group:users
Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
root [~] # cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.udisks.pkla
# Configuration file for disk access with udisks
# Modified: 24-Oct-11
[Local Users]
Identity=unix-group:users
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.*
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
root [~] # cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.udisks2.pkla
# Configuration file for disk access with udisks2
# Modified: 08-May-2012
[Local Users]
Identity=unix-group:users
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks2.*
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes

Not sure how to get font anti-aliasing

I'm trying to make my desktop a little prettier.
My WM is XMonad, and my terminal is urxvt-256-unicode-color. I just don't really know where to start - is something like this handled on a system level? Is it something I configure X to do? Or is it something my WM does? Or do I have to configure each app?
All I'm going to use this system for is Firefox, vim and terminal stuff, so I don't mind if I can't do this universally.

Basically, everything you're asking about can be found here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

[SOLVED] Update broke font anti-aliasing

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