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

[arch-general] ftp.archlinux.org rate limiting
by Phillip Smith 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi all, Could someone share the details of how the 50kbps rate-limit is implemented on ftp.archlinux.org? I know Google gives me plenty of results for rate-limiting with iptables and tc but I've never had much success with tc, and the ftp.archlinux.org rate-limiting seems to work perfectly... So why try reinventing the wheel? :) Cheers, ~p

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]
by Flavio Costa 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ionut Biru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 12/09/2009 02:47 PM, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> I did have a closer look at chromium recently and it did improve a lot. >> Even >> though it's called "beta" it is really usable and feature complete. >> >> There is quite a high demand for it (the binary version in AUR has neraly >> 800 >> votes). I would like to make a peoper package for it and provide that in >> our >> repo. >> >> The AUR packages are either svn trunk builds or repackaged ubuntu debs >> with >> ugly symlinks to libs with other so names. >> >> My idea is to build a tar out of their svn tag and build a clean package >> with >> that. >> >> What do you think? (it's about chromium btw. and not Chrome which is >> Google's >> build with some "extras") >> >> > i don't have any objections about having a chromium package in our repos. > Replying to Arch General since I don't have permission to post on Arch-Dev-Public. I guess this article may be useful: http://lwn.net/Articles/364528/rss It's about some thoughts of a Fedora Packager trying to package Chromium. -- Flávio Coutinho da Costa

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[arch-general] Different local setting of rc.conf and X
by 大熊 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

I need en_US.UTf-8 under console and zn_CN.UTF-8 under X So rc.conf: LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" and ~/.xprofile: exprot LANG=zh_CN.UTF-8 But after I login, the desktop is still en_US, Why?

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[arch-general] testing: xf86-video-ati, libdrm - transparency lost in kde4 w/compiz
by David C. Rankin 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Guys, Testing xf86-video-ati-6.12.99.git20091207 libdrm-2.4.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz I noticed that the plasma-panel has lost transparency in kde4 when compiz is enabled. It's not uncommon for me to need to restart plasma-desktop to regain transparency, but with these two packages installed, even that doesn't work. I use a small rsplasma script to restart the desktop: 01:33 alchemy:~> cat bin/rsplasma #!/bin/bash kbuildsycoca4 kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1 This is which radeon loaded in rc.conf due to the current hang in used with KMS. Anybody else see this? Everything else with the driver and drm seems to work OK, but I haven't rebuilt the initramfs for KMS early yet (waiting on more info on the driver issue). Do you want me to try that?? -- 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] scripts to analyze and manage /var/cache/pacman/pkg for installed/uninstalled & gen install scr for uninstalled
by David C. Rankin 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Guys, With a number of arch boxes now, I routinely rsync the package cache from box to box for updates, etc. Today what started out as a "1-liner" to show what scripts in /var/cache/pacman/pkg were installed, uninstalled (what I called orphaned) and then to create summary files and create a script to install the orphans -- well -- turned into somewhat of a longer script that I thought I would pass along. The script 'chkinstpkgs.sh' does just that. Check the installed packages and give you a summary of what is going on with your package cache. I'm sure I just reinvented the wheel, but it was fun nonetheless. The script is at: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/scripts/chkinstpkgs.sh I left all my development commented out at the end of the file -- there were some neat parse parameter substitutions, etc.. that I ultimately didn't use that might be helpful for anyone wanting to mess with managing their package cache, or at least provide a "go-by" for anyone interested in learning a bit more bash. The -h | --help option displays a short help: 18:30 alchemy:~/scr/arch> sh chkinstpkgs.sh -h Usage: chkinstpkgs.sh [package-dir] [orphans-file] [installed-file] [install-orphans-file] chkinstpkgs.sh checks all packages in 'package-dir' to see whether the file is installed or whether the package is an orphan (exists in 'package-dir' but isn't installed). Results are printed to the screen and saved in the users home directory as shown below: Where the defaults are: package-dir=/var/cache/pacman/pkg/ orphans-file=~/pkgs-orphans.txt installed-file=~/pkgs-installed.txt install-orphans-file=~/pkgs-install-orphans.sh Options: -h | --help display usage help and exit -s | --summary display packages totals, installed, orphaned and exit The -s | --summary just gives a numeric summary of the installed/orphaned: 18:30 alchemy:~/scr/arch> sh chkinstpkgs.sh -s Determining installed/orphaned packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg... Initializing the package-information arrays Checking installed packages Total Number of Packages : 2072 Total Number Installed : 1626 Total Number Orphaned : 446 Just running the whole script produces a complete summary on the screen and also creates the summary files shown above under the defaults: 18:31 alchemy:~/scr/arch> head ~/pkgs-orphans.txt error: package "a2ps" not found error: package "acct" not found error: package "acpi" not found error: package "acpid" not found <snip> 18:42 alchemy:~/scr/arch> head ~/pkgs-installed.txt Installed Packages - 12/07/09 a2ps-4.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz a52dec-0.7.4-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz aalib-1.4rc5-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz abs-2.3.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz acct-6.3.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz <snip> 18:42 alchemy:~/scr/arch> head ~/pkgs-install-orphans.sh pacman -Sy a2ps acct acpi acpid acpitool acpitool agg archlinux-menus archlinux-menus b43-fwcutter bc bind blas bridge-utils capi4k-utils cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-plugins db4.5 dbus-qt3 ddcxinfo-arch dhcp dmapi dmraid dovecot dvd-slideshow filelight flashplugin font-bitstream-speedo font-bitstream-speedo foomatic-db foomatic-db-nonfree <snip> Just delete the ones you don't want to install (beats creating the list from scratch) The script takes ~ 30 seconds per 1000 packages to run. It took about a minute to complete on my laptop. Enjoy. Other package cache scripts available: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/scripts/fduparchpkg http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/scripts/fduppkg The above scripts remove duplicate packages from the package cache and move them to /home/backup/pkg-old and /home/backup/pkg-older. The workhorse is fduppkg and fduparchpkg is just a wrapper that calls fduppkg. I just create links to the files in /usr/local/bin: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 7 18:22 fduparch -> /home/david/scr/pm/fduparchpkg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 5 02:21 fduppkg -> /home/david/scr/pm/fduppkg then just call fduparch and it will move all duplicates from /var/cache/pacman/pkg to /home/backup/pkg-old and then remove all duplicates (newly created) from /home/backup/pkg-old and move them to /home/backup/pkg-older. That way you always have current packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, a clean set of the next most recent packages in /home/backup/pkg-old and the package dump of /home/backup/pkg-older where you can keep as many as you want. One primary benefit of moving the packages to /home/backup is it frees up space on your / partition as well as cleaning up /var/cache/pacman. I have posted the dup scripts before, but these have a few updates that optimize things better to cut down on runtime. Even with several thousand packages, the scripts run in about a minute as well. Last note: for any Archers who would like to dig into bash scripting a little more. I like to think these scripts have a lot of cool stuff in them (at least I think so...) and provide a good reference for loops, arrays, array and loop index manipulation for optimizations, redirection, subshells, functions, parameter substitution and substring extraction that are fairly good tools to put in your *nx toolbox. Believe it or not, I actually take some time to comment the scripts with that purpose in mind. (and so I can remember what the hell I was thinking a year from now...) For all you gurus out there, if you happen to look at the scripts and see things I could do better, I welcome the feedback because I'm always open to adding new tools to my toolbox as well ;-) -- 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] Mkinitcpio and tuxonice?
by Ng Oon-Ee 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

Hi all, I've been holding the mkinitcpio package due to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15240 A quick look into testing shows that I won't be able to update the 2.6.32 kernel due to dependencies on klib invalidating my 'old' mkinitcpio package. Unfortunately I'm stuck here, since without this 'old' package for mkinitcpio (0.5.24-1) I'm unable to resume from hibernate in tuxonice. Any suggestions?

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[arch-general] Installing Arch Linux w/ RAID
by Carlos Williams 09 Dec '09

09 Dec '09

I have been struggling with successfully installing Arch Linux on my PC with just two S-ATA drives. I am using the LiveCD / Netinst "2009.08". The only partition I want for RAID is simply /home. I have two identical disks and am partition as follows: /dev/sda1 = 2048 (bootable) */boot* /dev/sda2 = 40960 */* /dev/sda3 = 102400 *RAID* /dev/sdb1 = 2048 *Swap* /dev/sdb2 = 40960 */var* /dev/sdb3 = 102400 *RAID* Then I create the RAID after I run "cfdisk" utility: mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 Once that is done, I run "/arch/setup command from the comand prompt and enter the system installer as normal. I have simply already created my disks, all I do from the installer now is assign a file system and mount point. It recognizes the RAID /dev/md0 partition I created using mdadm utility. Everything is fine but when I install Grub on /dev/sda and reboot the machine, I always fail to boot. I get some strange error that tells me to type "Control-D" for maintenance mode or something like that. If I do everything like I did above but don't create a RAID partition, Arch installs perfect! What am I doing wrong? The Arch Wiki is not helping me at all. I have spent a week trying to follow the Wiki with help from the forums and to no avail I have given up. I can't see this being that hard. I think I bork something up when I install Grub but I get no errors and it tells me I installed Grub successfully on /dev/sda. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80776 Thanks for any help in getting me a working Arch Linux system with RAID.

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[arch-general] Help - Sound Disappeared -- Really! All modules -> Gone?? (kernel bug?)
by David C. Rankin 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

Guys, This is really strange. Sound used to work on my laptop, now it is just -- gone. The hardware hasn't changed (obviously): 00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff08 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at f8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- but, there is NO /sys/module/snd -- Huh? [01:06 alchemy:~] # lsmod|grep '^snd' | column -t (returns nothing, there are no snd modules at all) Further, there is no sound dev: [01:06 alchemy:~] # l /dev/snd (nothing...) I've been throught the alsa wiki and it is still gone. I've tried adding the right module, but it isn't even on the system anymore: [17:21 alchemy:/etc/modprobe.d] # modprobe snd-hda-intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. [17:45 alchemy:/media/disk/david] # modprobe snd_hda_intel FATAL: Module snd_hda_intel not found. Additinally, KDE prompts me to delete removed sound device HDA ATI SB, ALC268 Digital... Running SuSE 11.2 on the same box (different hard drive) shows the following modules are configured for sound (works fine): 08:39 alchemy:~/.kde4/share/config> lsmod | grep snd snd_pcm_oss 60032 0 snd_mixer_oss 22728 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq 78528 0 snd_seq_device 10460 1 snd_seq snd_hda_codec_realtek 317868 1 snd_hda_intel 37088 2 snd_hda_codec 111112 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 11216 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm 117808 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 32152 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd 97608 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer snd_page_alloc 12600 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm Here is the hwinfo output from the suse install: 21: PCI 14.2: 0403 Audio device [Created at pci.310] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_1002_4383 Unique ID: 5Dex.CWqchpyBRV6 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:14.2 Hardware Class: sound Model: "ATI SBx00 Azalia" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x4383 "SBx00 Azalia" SubVendor: pci 0x1179 "Toshiba America Info Systems" SubDevice: pci 0xff08 Driver: "HDA Intel" Driver Modules: "snd_hda_intel" Memory Range: 0xf8700000-0xf8703fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 16 (461488 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d00004383sv00001179sd0000FF08bc04sc03i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: snd_hda_intel is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe snd_hda_intel" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Now how do I get the sound to re-appear in Arch?? -- 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] xf86-input-evdev conflicts with xorg-server. Remove xorg-server?
by Arvid Picciani 08 Dec '09

08 Dec '09

obviously i do NOT want to remove xorg-server. i don't need evdev, but: :: xorg-server: requires xf86-input-evdev>=2.2.5 so no removing it either. the mirror i'm using has been updated today (December 1th), and i'm not using testing. mirrors package versions: xorg-server 1.7.2-2 xf86-input-evdev 2.3.1-1 thanks -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies

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[arch-general] Low volume for kopete notifications
by Shridhar Daithankar 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Hello All, I got a new computer and installed arch on it. I have restored my home directory from other machine, which has lived thr. kde3 -> kde4 transition and isn't exactly prestine. This is core2duo machine and the soundcard is 82801G HDA, as reported by lspci. I don't have pulseaudio installed. Jack is installed but not running. Phonon backend is gstreamer. Everything is working fine but there is a strange behaviour. Volume of kopete notification is very low. I am surprised that it even has a different volume than normal. Furthermore kopete has no way to set this volume, even though I can set the tone/music for it. Sound test in KDE settings runs fine in notifications and music category(how to set them for applications and how do they matter anyways?). Also moc(a console mp3 player) is working fine.( I had to resort to moc since juk doesn't output any sound at all. That is another issue but I don't mind moc) Creating a new user isn't an option since I have tons of settings/data customized and can't leave it all behind. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Shridhar

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