November 2009 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] leafnode not allowing connection (connection refused)
by Geoffrey Lane 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

I'm just playing around a bit with leafnode. It installed ok, and no dependancy crud. But I cannot connect to it The FQDN is set to my dynamic dns server my leafnode config file has been setup with user/pass, server, port my hosts.allow/deny are actually removed for now, and there is no firewall running I can run the leafnode program/daemon and it shows it is running // 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.7 running at [dns] (my fqdn: [dns]) // I should be able to use slrn or even telnet to connect but it says connection refused. I looked in the logs for refusal or error msg and all I found was in News.log -- and there didn't seem to be problems. Here's the output, it seems to say the connection to x-privat was successfull: // Nov 26 23:06:11 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 Nov 26 23:06:12 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. Nov 26 23:06:13 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: getting all newsgroups (debug: active: nil, forceactive: true) Nov 26 23:06:19 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: <215 list of newsgroup names follow Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: wrote active file with 22485 lines Nov 26 23:06:28 Desktop fetchnews[6069]: child has process ID 6070 Nov 28 16:23:26 Desktop leafnode[30420]: connect from (local file) (no IP) to [dns] (no IP) (my fqdn: [dns]) // Oh and initial fetch does work: // [root@Desktop log]# sudo fetchnews -vvv -n alt.os.linux.ubuntu -x 2000 leafnode 1.11.7: verbosity level is 3, debugmode is 0 Don't automatically unsubscribe unread newsgroups. try_lock(timeout=5), fqdn="[fqdn]" news.x-privat.org: connecting to port nntp... news.x-privat.org: connected to 194.177.98.144:119, reply: 200 news.x-privat.org: connected. news.x-privat.org: using STAT <message-ID> command. news.x-privat.org: authenticated as [user] news.x-privat.org: 0 articles posted. news.x-privat.org: getting new newsgroups news.x-privat.org: got 0 new newsgroups. news.x-privat.org: reading server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.x-privat.org news.x-privat.org: conversation completed, disconnected. wrote active file with 22485 lines Started process to update overview data in the background. Network activity has finished. // Anybody have any ideas why the connection is refused? I'm not sure which avenue to follow now since it won't even allow localhost. I saw no howto for arch so not sure if there are any additional steps needed. I've more or less followed the howto for ubuntu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676837 I'd appreciate any help at all thankies Geo -- "'Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows, so how in the HELL can you guarantee our safety!' --John Crichton (Farscape)"

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[arch-general] Can`t post on bbs
by Dimytch 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi all I can`t register on archlinux bbs - site say "your email was banned". (yandex.ru) What did I do??? I`ve never been registered on this site, and I use my email about 4 years, so nobody did`nt used my email for something wrong. Also it says the same for address on mail.ru. Ppl, do you hate russian? //Dimytch

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[arch-general] [signoff] ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any
by Giovanni Scafora 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi guys, please signoff. ar9170-fw-1.0-2-any After signoff, I will be moving it from testing to core. Note: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16837 I have got already a signoff by Martin Dratva (raqua). -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it

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[arch-general] Please update boost from [extra] - PKGBUILD attached
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Boost in [extra] has been out-of-date since 1830 (and marked as such) and even though I mailed the maintainer two weeks ago no update happened. Here is my updated PKGBUILD for 1.41.0 which is actually a bit neater than before since no silly patches are required anymore. I'm currently running this package and see no trouble. Please use this to update boost in [extra] :). -- Sven-Hendrik # $Id: PKGBUILD 47703 2009-07-25 14:37:19Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: kevin <kevin(a)archlinux.org> # TU: Kritoke <kritoke(a)gamebox.net> # Contributor: Luca Roccia <little_rock(a)users.sourceforge.net> # Contributor: Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> pkgname=boost pkgver=1.41.0 _boostver=${pkgver//./_} pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries." arch=(i686 x86_64) url="http://www.boost.org/" depends=('python>=2.5' 'bzip2' 'zlib') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_… license=('custom') options=(!ccache) md5sums=('8bb65e133907db727a2a825c5400d0a6') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} #export CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" #export CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fno-strict-aliasing" # build bjam cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/jam/src ./build.sh cc || return 1 _bindir="bin.linuxx86" [ "${CARCH}" = "x86_64" ] && _bindir="bin.linuxx86_64" install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin install -m755 ${_bindir}/bjam ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bjam || return 1 # build bcp cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/tools/bcp ../jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam || return 1 install -m755 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/dist/bin/bcp \ ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/bcp || return 1 # build libs cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver} # default "minimal" install: "release link=shared,static # runtime-link=shared threading=multi" # --layout=tagged will add the "-mt" suffix for multithreaded libraries # and installs includes in /usr/include/boost. # --layout=system no longer adds the -mt suffix for multi-threaded libs. ./tools/jam/src/${_bindir}/bjam \ release debug-symbols=off threading=single,multi \ runtime-link=shared link=shared,static \ cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ --prefix=${pkgdir}/usr \ -sPYTHON_ROOT=/usr \ -sPYTHON_VERSION=2.6 \ -sTOOLS=gcc \ --layout=tagged \ install || return 1 # --with-wave install || return 1 # -d2 <- debug cflags=-fno-strict-aliasing \ # build pyste cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/libs/python/pyste/install python setup.py install --root=${pkgdir} || return 1 # license install -m755 -d ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname} install -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}_${_boostver}/LICENSE_1_0.txt \ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/ || return 1 }

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Changelog: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=blob;f=ANNOUNCE-3.1.1;h=9e480dc0e31582… Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Moved udev rule for md devices to mdadm package. In case of moving, both need to be moved simultaniously. Still an issue in initscripts: One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] usable browser?
by Robert Howard 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I don't understand why people want to use software that has no features. If something has more than one feature, people bitch about bloat. FF is not that bad nor is Seamonkey or any of the webkit stuff. On Nov 26, 2009 9:52 PM, "Thomas Bewick" <tombewick(a)gmail.com> wrote: Tobias Kieslich wrote: > > dillo, simplistic, bone simple, limitations on the functionality > Bottom... Seamonkey is quite fast. Although I am not using it now I have in the past and I know it is used extensively in Puppylinux because it is full featured and light weight, even including a mail client. Since it is developed by Mozilla it is very similar to FF in functionality but does not have all the extras that slow FF down. I agree that FF has gotten very bloated in the last few years, I think to compete with and explorer and make windows users happy. But as a result the browser is not what it used to be. I currently use chrome both on windows and in Arch and it runs the fastest of any others for me.

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[arch-general] Upgrading libwebkit finds conflict between udev and initscripts
by Samuel Baldwin 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

I have no idea why this happens, and I'm too afraid to let udev clobber initscripts to let this go through. Should I just let it go? What's up with this? arrakis^~# pacman -Sy libwebkit :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: udev conflicts with initscripts. Remove initscripts? [Y/n] n error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: udev: conflicts with initscripts -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li

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Re: [arch-general] How to set keyboard configurations without touching xorg.con neither hal rules...
by Javier Vasquez 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

On 10/27/09, Javier Vasquez <j.e.vasquez.v(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Usually I set the following: > > Option "XkbLayout" "latam,us" > Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch, grp:alt_shift_toggle" > Just a follow up to close this, :-) This can be done through: setxkbmap -layout "latam,us" -option "lv3:ralt_switch" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" which in turn can be included under .xinitrc or .xsession... -- Javier.

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[arch-general] Gnome - howto configure sound? Sound is silent, beep is loud (as heck)?
by David C. Rankin 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Guys, This is my first real work with gnome. Initially when I first installed arch, it seems like I had sound (I think that was before gstreamer), now I have no sound for desktop apps, but the system beep is so loud it will scare the heck out of you when you backspace too far, etc... I need to reverse both. Sound works in everything but gnome. I know it was working in gnome, but now something isn't working or is conflicted. I know for a fact virtualbox had good sound in gnome, now I get an error from XP saying that it is defaulting to 'null' sound. See screenshot: (40k) http://www.3111skyline.com/download/dt/gnome/vboxSoundError.jpg The big problem is I don't know how to configure the sound in gnome. I found this "Configuration Editor", but other than finding a few sound settings, I'm not sure what to do with it. I suspect, on a gut feeling I need to rip gstreamer out and go bact to asls or something else. But what? Here are some additional symptoms. The thing I first notice is my volume control is X'ed out and if I click on it, I get the error: "No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found." In the Configuration Editor, the sound settings I found look like this. / apps desktop gnome <snip> sound /desktop/gnome/sound/default_mixer_device <empty> /desktop/gnome/sound/default_mixer_tracks [] /desktop/gnome/sound/enable_esd unchecked /desktop/gnome/sound/event_sounds checked /desktop/gnome/sound/input_feedback_sounds unchecked /desktop/gnome/sound/theme_name freedesktop <snip> schemas (all by <schema>) <snip> system gstreamer 0.10 audio global /system/gstreamer/0.10/audio/global/profile_list profiles cdlossy ogg, cdlossless flac, aac m4a, mp2 mp2, mp3 mp3, voicelossless wav, voicelossy spx default audiosink autoaudiosink audiosink_description default audiosrc alsasrc audiosrc_description default (chat music and video all default) Well that doesn't mean a whole lot of shinola to me at all. If some of our great list companions has any expertise with sound in gnome, I really would appreciate a bit of help or at least a point in the right direction on whether I trash gstreamer and work to configure alsa of a good webpage where this is discussed would be fine. As always, if you need anything else, please do not hesitate to ask. I'm more than happy to do the work on my end to learn how to fix this. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] New install configuring php - only get text - feeling stupid -- help!
by David C. Rankin 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Guys, I can't believe this. On my new arch install on my laptop, I'm finally getting around to configuring the web server and I am having trouble with php. When I try and access a php page, all I get is the text of the script echoed to the browser. I have heard about this happening before and I think I have even fixed it before, but I can't for the life of me remember how? I've been through the wiki at: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP I have the following loaded: php 5.3.1-2 php-apache 5.3.1-2 php-curl 5.3.1-2 php-docs 5.3.0-1 php-enchant 5.3.1-2 php-gd 5.3.1-2 php-gmp 5.3.1-2 php-intl 5.3.1-2 php-ldap 5.3.1-2 php-mcrypt 5.3.1-2 php-odbc 5.3.1-2 php-pear 5.3.1-2 php-pgsql 5.3.1-2 php-pspell 5.3.1-2 php-snmp 5.3.1-2 php-sqlite 5.3.1-2 php-tidy 5.3.1-2 php-xsl 5.3.1-2 My php config in httpd.conf is: LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf I've configured php and php works from the command line just fine and will dump phpinfo() to a terminal, but from my browser pointed at: http://localhost/dcr/phpinfo.php all I get is: "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" (no quotes) which is nothing more than the content of my test script. I have also configured php.ini with the proper: open_basedir =.:/srv/http:/usr/share/pear:/home:/tmp:/var/lib/egroupware <snip> include_path = ".:/srv/http/secure:/srv/http/htdocs:/srv/http/dl:/usr/share/pear:/srv/http" to accomadate the php include and defined the directory to /dcr. In fact I can browse /dcr just fine, but clicking on the phpinfo() script just returns the text of the script like all my other pages. What's the trick? (yes, I've stopped and restarted httpd...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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