December 2008 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] vnc
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 26 Dec '08

26 Dec '08

Hello, I yesterday compiled the release 4.1.3 of vnc on x86_64. It needs some gcc-4.3-related patching to build. I attach the PKGBUILD and the patch here. Regards Stefan

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[arch-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

I will be out of the office starting 24/12/2008 and will not return until 04/01/2009. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[arch-general] Xorg locks/crashes
by Baho Utot 25 Dec '08

25 Dec '08

I purchased a new larger hard drive to install ArchLinux. Not wanting to erase the existing install from earlier this year. I booted the 2008-03-1 boot disk and installed the basic install, rebooted. Then ran pacman -Syy pacman -Su to install updates. I then proceeded to install alsa which when fine. Then I did a pacman -S libgl xorg mesa xf86-video-ati. then Xorg -configure followed by X -config /root/xorg.conf.new. X started and gave me the X cursor. The keyboard and mouse are not responsive and I can not kill X with the <Backspace> trick. ALT+F1...F8 does nothing. I had to Press the "Microsoft Windows button" to gain control of the system. I know this is not a hardware problem as the previous Arch install runs fine with KDEMOD. Has any one experienced this? Any one with some pointers/Help?

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[arch-general] Does anyone receive two copies of same message on the arch-announce list?
by pyther 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hello. Every time there is an announcement on the the main I'll get an email (as I am on the arch-announce list). However, about 5-8 hours I'll get another copy of the email. For example I got the [arch-announce] Pacman update and mirrorlist email Sunday at 23:00 and then today at 05:02. This has been happening for a few months now. I've checked the mail headers and each email is being delivered to the same address. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just lucky? ~pyther

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.27.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

Hi guys, new kernel adresses the following things: - bump to latest version Plan to avoid file conflict: - Move module-init-tools 2 weeks after .10 kernel moved to core. - Release a NEWS ITEM: Possible file confilct, while upgrading kernel26 2.6.27.10 and module-init-tools 3.5, please use 'pacman -Sf kernel26' to avoid warnings about existing module-init-tools files. any other suggestion? please signoff for both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] scons "update"
by Alessandro Doro 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

# pacman -Syu ... warning: scons: local (1.1.0.d20081104-1) is newer than extra (1.1.0-1) ... Is there a reason for reverting to the stable scons release or the packager intended to update to latest 1.1.0.d20081207? bye

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[arch-general] Access arch-general ML archive before November 2007
by Grigorios Bouzakis 20 Dec '08

20 Dec '08

Does anyone know of a place were tha arch-general (at the time simply arch) ML archive is available before November 2007? I wanted to access it but realised it isnt available. I guess the name change had much to do with it, but i dont believe the previous years are lost. Greg

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[arch-general] More simple udev blacklisting
by Michal Soltys 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

With reference to older discussions about blacklisting methods - modprobe supports -b (or in long form --use-blacklist) that will also block explicit loading by standard module name. Thus you could nicely avoid shell wrapper on fb stuff. The switch won't block implicit dependencies though (so if A requires B, B is blacklisted, then modprobe -b A will still load A and B). That shouldn't be a problem from udev's perspective though. Stock udev rules will use -b by default from the next release, peeking at the mailing list. FYI.

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[arch-general] X crashes after upgrade to intel
by ert256 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hello After system upgrade, and configuring intel driver, X crashes width message : Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/Xorg(xorg_backtrace+0x3b) [0x813017b] 1: /usr/bin/Xorg(xf86SigHandler+0x51) [0x80d8cb1] 2: [0xb7f8f420] 3: [0xb7f8f420] 4: /usr/bin/Xorg(ProcGetImage+0x5d0) [0x808a130] 5: /usr/bin/Xorg(Dispatch+0x34f) [0x808c20f] 6: /usr/bin/Xorg(main+0x47d) [0x8071c8d] 7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7b7e6c5] 8: /usr/bin/Xorg(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x209) [0x8071071] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Complete log is here :http://student.agh.edu.pl/~ert/xlog.txt Complete configuration is here: http://student.agh.edu.pl/~ert/config.txt Please help. -- Rafał (ert16) Trójniak m@il : ert256(a)gmail.com Jid : ert256(a)gmail.com GPG key-ID : DD681D47 749F E1DC A58F 9084 BBC0 797A 0691 53D6 DD68 1D47

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[arch-general] Arch Linux automatic (prescripted) installer/deployment tool
by Dieter Plaetinck 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hi all, I've started working on a new procedure for AIF called 'automatic'. With automatic I don't mean a newbfriendly installer that automatically configures your xorg etc. I rather mean an installer that you pass a small configfile (disk layout, package list,...) so it can work non-interactively to setup your system exacty the way you want. I hope I/we can someday implement such automatic installation in two ways: - an environment that gets loaded through by pxe booting and can work without any user input at all. Best case scenario we can generate such an environment like we generate cd iso's, and we automatically start aif with the automatic procedure. A sufficient live network config will be done (the bios will use dhcp before pxe booting) and the config file for the procedure can be made available for example by the user himself who generated the pxe environment. (low prio for me personally but maybe someone is interested in this, it's something to keep in mind) - we use the installer cd with AIF on it, you boot it and start "aif -p automatic" yourself. 2 more manual things need to happen: * Network config (for that I plan to write a simple script that uses the aif libraries) * getting the config file for the automatic procedure After that, the automatic procedure can work independently. Given the modular, reusable code base we already have now, this should be fairly easy to implement (although I still need to work more on aif, the way pacman functions are exposed etc) Does anyone have thoughts, ideas, requirements, ...? Dieter

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