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

[arch-general] [arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.24.1 in Core
by Roman Kyrylych 11 Feb '08

11 Feb '08

After a testing phase kernel 2.6.24.1 has been moved to Core where it replaces version 2.6.23.14. Some of the most visible changes for users include: * more mac80211-based wireless drivers added * tickless support for x86_64 * uvesafb; support for ATI Xpress 200M and Mac framebuffers * ACPI usage in libata * SATA port multipliers support * NCQ support on MCP51/MCP55/MCP61 chipsets (add 'swncq=1' to the kernel boot commandline) * SDIO support * ability to use any kernel version to resume a hibernated system * read-only --bind mounts * tons of bugfixes and improvements A detailed human-readable changelog is available at KernelNewbies Wiki: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24 Attention! The kernel26-2.6.24.1-2 package includes an important security fix (local user privilege escalation). Everyone is encouraged to upgrade, especially on a system with ssh accounts. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[arch-general] SSH. Can't open Xapps when su'ed to root
by Nigel Henry 10 Feb '08

10 Feb '08

I'm still looking at the jacman problem, and have sometimes found that apps that won't work on the machine they are installed on, will work if I ssh into the machine, and run them on another. IIRC I had problems initially using ssh when I installed Archlinux (don't panic), but found some info somewhere or other, as below. Comment out "ALL: ALL: DENY" line in /etc/hosts/deny Add sshd to /etc/rc.conf daemons list Run /etc/rc.d/sshd start Now I can ssh into archlinux (this is just local, not from the Internet). I have uncommented the following lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 I can open Xapps as user (gedit, jacman,etc), but not when I su to root, as below for gedit. [djmons@myhost ~]$ su Password: [root@myhost djmons]# gedit X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. cannot open display: Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. [root@myhost djmons]# Same goes when I try to open jacman when su'ed to root. I tried accessing Xapps as root with Fedora 8, which is on the same machine as Archlinux, and they open ok. I have compared the sshd_config on both F8, and Archlinux, and can't see any apparent differences between the two. Anyone have any suggestions as to what may be the problem? All a bit puzzling. Nigel.

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[arch-general] problem with Firefox and Opera
by Scott Weisman 09 Feb '08

09 Feb '08

I did a system upgrade yesterday (Friday 8 Feb). The following (possibly relevant) packages were upgraded: mesa libgl xorg-server xf86-video-intel firefox After I did the upgrade, I shut down my box. When I restarted tonight, Firefox kept crashing, and giving this error message: The program 'gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 1625746 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) Because it kept crashing, I tried Opera (which I use for testing and as a backup). It started, but returned this message (which I had never seen before): opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported Because I am getting unusual errors in both browsers (and the errors are related), I think this is at a lower level. My system is a Core 2 Duo with 2GB RAM and 400MB swap (which is not used at the time Firefox crashes). Has anyone else experienced any of these problems? Does anyone have any suggestions? Scott

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[arch-general] X11 man pages
by marc[î1] 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hello, Arch devs put man pages in /usr/share/man like FHS want, ok. But FHS says : « Manual pages for X11R6 are stored in /usr/X11R6/man. It follows that all manual page hierarchies in the system must have the same structure as /usr/share/man. » http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES I don't understand FHS or ArchLinux should put X11 man page in /usr/X11R6/man ? Regards. -- + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + + (o< -! marc[i1] #363392 + + //\ http://archlinux.fr + + \\/_ Linux for Free Generation + + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

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[arch-general] Fw: get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On 08/02/08, Dan McGee wrote: > Because you are calling pidof before the process starts- bash does not > do lazy evaluation of your expressions. > > If you want to store the PID of the newly started process, you will > have to make another PID=... call to get it in the else block where > you access it. Ohh, you are absolutely right. It is working now. I must get this damn Common Lisp out of my head before writing shell scripts next time. I will file a bug report on cups too. Thanks, Michael Krauss

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[arch-general] get pid of daemon in init script
by Michael Krauss 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi to .* I must write a rc init script for a server I am packaging. Therefor I have copied the init script of cups. Now I recognized that both pid files, cups.pid and my own, in /var/run are empty. Further investigations have shown that "pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver" returns nothing in the start) case but in stop) it seems to work. I don't understand why pidof isn't working as expected. Kind Regards, Michael Krauss Here is my init script: #!/bin/bash . /etc/rc.conf . /etc/rc.d/functions PID=`pidof -o %PPID -x /usr/bin/cdvserver` PIDFILE="/var/run/cdvserver.pid" case "$1" in start) stat_busy "Starting Codeville Server" [ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/bin/cdvserver if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else echo "Started " $PID echo $PID > $PIDFILE add_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; stop) stat_busy "Stopping Codeville Server" [ ! -z "$PID" ] && kill $PID &> /dev/null if [ $? -gt 0 ]; then stat_fail else rm $PIDFILE rm_daemon cdv stat_done fi ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0

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[arch-general] What should be done with octave?
by Neil Darlow 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, Arch has octave-2.1.73 in extra. The current stable version of octave is 3.0.0 but it is not backwards compatible with the 2.1.x series. The gcc-4.2.3 migration has broken octave due to a versioned dependency on gcc-fortran. Also, the PKGBUILD has no license or md5sum entries. The octave-2.1.73 PKGBUILD will need fixing but should it be updated to 3.0.0 and, if so, should a legacy octave2 package be created? I'm looking for opinions before I file any bug report. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[arch-general] mozilla /usr move
by Grigorios Bouzakis 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:26:09PM +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > Hi all, > > I've cleaned up testing a bit: > - moved xulrunner/seamonkey/firefox and friends to extra. This is part > of the /usr move Any idea why an /opt/mozilla/lib directory is still created by one of those packages? It doesnt seem to be part of any of these filelists. I wanted to ask this when the packages were still in testing but totally forgot to. Greg

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[arch-general] Jacman. Problem installing packages (don't panic)
by Nigel Henry 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Jacman hasn't worked properly, as regards installing packages since I installed don't panic. Saying that I have been able to install the odd single package, that has no deps, but as of today, even installing single packages (alsaplayer as an example) fails. Jacman opens ok, and I click on "Install Packages", and that's ok, but when I select a package to install, and click on "Install", a window, like a terminal (CLI) (dialog window) opens. As soon as this window opens, the CPU hits 100%. The output in this console says: resolving dependencies looking for inter-conflicts and in red proceed with installation? [Y/n] The bottom of the console window has "Done", "Yes", and "No" boxes, but none are highlighted. As I've said, on the odd occasion I have been able to install a single package, and in this case the Yes, and No boxes have been highlighted, and the Done box is highlighted when the package is installed. Before I post a bug report for Jacman, has anyone any suggestions? Nigel.

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[arch-general] Scanner only works as root
by Renan Birck 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello, I have an HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one (printer/scanner/copier). Installed cups, hplip, sane. Printing works. Scanning, however, only works as root, otherwise xsane says that there are no devices. But if I chmod 777 -R /dev/bus/usb/* it works for my current user; therefore I deduce it is a permission problem. This looks like an udev problem, however my udev knowledge is next to null. What steps could I take to solve this problem? I would like to get rid of this ugly hack. Thanks. -- Renan Birck ~ Canoas, RS, Brasil "Quando tudo que você tem é um martelo, todos os seus problemas se parecem com os seus dedões."

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