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

[arch-general] Update to latest [kde-unstable] - It is looking good!, HAL/d-bus/PolicyKit Change?
by David C. Rankin 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Listmates, Couple of thoughts for this day. Latest updates come with the following praise and questions: (1) kde4.3 beta 2 (4.2.92svn984151-1) - Wow, much crisper, behaving ...well, like it should. Even with the radeonhd driver it feels better than (4.2.90 with fglrx on suse)! (2) all dmraid partitions lost with dmraid-1.0.0rc15 and kernel26-2.6.30-5. (subject of another thread) (3) new kernel also did something to Hal/d-bus/PolicyKit, so I can't access my usb drives again with the brute force approach. Any thoughts? -- 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] konversation 1.2 alpha3 (move to extra's)
by Caleb Cushing 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

I've been using the alpha's now for a few weeks, and they appear to be no less stable than the 1.1 version, very few problems (way less buggy than many kde4 apps like koffice, and amarok 2.0 (was). I'd like to suggest moving it to extra's as a way to remove one more package that needs kde3. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] kernel26 2.6.30 announcement draft
by Grigorios Bouzakis 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>wrote: > Andreas Radke schrieb: > >> Just a note. The "early" mkinitcpio way of Intel KMS is broken on my >> gf's system resulting in an instant reboot. "Late" kms way is still >> working. I had to use a rescue disc. >> >> Maybe more user will be affected. >> > > That is confusing, as it does exactly the same, just a bit earlier (and it > works here, obviously). > > Although early KMS is only useful for people who enter passphrases during > boot - and people who care about how pretty their screen is - this is > definitely a bug and a weird one. If we can narrow it down that would be > nice. > > To me it happened with the .30-3 or .30-4 kernel from _testing_ and btw my laptop has an nvidia card. Seems i had updated and hadnt rebooted for about a week to check if it actually works. I revented back to .29, along with a downgrade of klibc, mkinitcpio etc, booted and updated to -5 from core this morning. This one works OK. -- Greg

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Re: [arch-general] deps not being properly recognized?
by Andrei Thorp 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Sat Jun 20 21:37:11 -0400 2009: > Caleb Cushing wrote: > > I can't figure out why pacman thinks that deps aren't being fulfilled. > > > > Targets (1): perl-datetime-0.50-1 > > <snip> > > :: perl-datetime-format-strptime: requires perl-datetime>=0.4304 > > > > 50 is not >= 4304 > > Allan Hmm. That's kind of unfortuante. Chances are, .5x is actually meant to be greater than the .4xxx. Guess the best you can do is force it? :S -AT -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) C:\> WIN Bad command or filename C:\> LOSE Loading Microsoft Windows ...

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[arch-general] portable player, usb plugging/mounting problems
by Guilherme M. Nogueira 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Hello dear Arch users, I have a Sansa e200 portable media player and I'm having problems mounting it. It used to work, but I can't recall when (I have been listening to the same stuff for over 4 months now). I'm using arch i686 with core, extra, community, kdemod-core and kdemod-extragear and updated system. The player has two modes, MSC and MTP. I always use it in Mass Storage Class mode. Thing is, when I plug the device with HAL running I get the following: $ dmesg: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 usb 1-6: configuration #128 chosen from 1 choice scsi24 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 13 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb 1-6: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13 scsi25 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 13 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning If I stop HAL deamon, I get this: $ dmesg usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 usb 1-6: configuration #128 chosen from 1 choice scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 4 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa e270 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] 11780096 512-byte hardware sectors: (6.03 GB/5.61 GiB) sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00 sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] 11780096 512-byte hardware sectors: (6.03 GB/5.61 GiB) sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00 sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sd 14:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 14:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 scsi 14:0:0:1: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa e270 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] 246016 512-byte hardware sectors: (125 MB/120 MiB) sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00 sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] 246016 512-byte hardware sectors: (125 MB/120 MiB) sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Write Protect is off sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00 sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 sd 14:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk sd 14:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete The output of lsusb is: $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 013: ID 0781:7421 SanDisk Corp. Sansa E200 series I don't really understand why is this, since I read that HAL just gets notified of the new device and provides the interface for other apps, but the kernel and udev are the ones that really do the recognizing and mounting. Since in my mind udev is the one that does the job, I tried following a tip I read in the mainling list archive and created a new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/sansa.rules with: UBSYSTEMS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7421",ATTRS{idVendor}=="0781", SYMLINK+="sansa", GROUP="storage" I ask for you help to understand what is going on here. Thank you very much, Guilherme. -- Malformed message exception

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [announcement] kernel26 2.6.30 announcement draft
by Grigorios Bouzakis 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: > Am Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:01 +0200 > schrieb Tobias Powalowski <t.powa(a)gmx.de>: > > > Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > > On Sunday 21 June 2009 22:38:25 Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > > > - added SCHED_DEBUG=y > > > > > > What does this do? > > One of the bug reports in earlier mails was about it, you can change > > scheduler details with that. > > > > greetings > > tpowa > > Just a note. The "early" mkinitcpio way of Intel KMS is broken on my > gf's system resulting in an instant reboot. "Late" kms way is still > working. I had to use a rescue disc. > > Maybe more user will be affected. > > -Andy > I got this too on one of my laptops. How can i fix this? -- Greg

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[arch-general] Holy Cow -- What happened to bash / vi??
by David C. Rankin 24 Jun '09

24 Jun '09

Listmates, I updated to [testing] and now I am having strange behavior from either bash or vi. (the new vi has many issues, but ignoring those for the moment) I have one of my simple parse scripts open in vi in one console window and I make a few changes to a sed expression, then :w to save the changes and [shift]-> in konsole to get to a second konsole window to run the script and bash won't let me??? I get this new message: [00:08 archangel:/etc] # noc fstab bash: /usr/local/bin/noc: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy WTF?? Here is the entire script: [00:11 archangel:/etc] # cat /usr/local/bin/noc #!/bin/bash if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then echo -e "\n\n\tUsage: ${0##*/} <filename>" echo -e "\n\n\tParses the text file <filename> and removes all blank lines and all lines beginning \ \n\twith a first non-blank character of [# ; !] or two character of '//' or '/*'. \ \n\tIt is useful for looking at configuration files without all the comments. \n" exit 1 fi # updated to handle php, C and C++ // comments sed -e '/^[/s]*$/d' -e '/^\s*[#;!]/d' -e '/^\s*[/*]/d' -e 's/[^:]\/\/.*$//' <$1 exit 0 Text file busy?? It's a text file, it's not busy, it's either saved or you get what was present the last time it was saved, but it certainly isn't busy. Apparently bash is not looking for vi tmp file and calling it busy if found??? What gives??? Yep, that is exactly what is happening. If i quit vi and try the script: [00:16 archangel:/etc] # noc fstab none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 If I open it back up in vi and then try to run it: [00:16 archangel:/etc] # noc fstab bash: /usr/local/bin/noc: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Text file busy How (and where) do I tell bash or vi not to do this. I don't even know where to start looking.... (I tested on another box that I have NOT updated anything from [testing] and vi and bash both work properly. Any help would be appreciated, 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] 2.6.30 kernel
by Baho Utot 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

I have completed to setup my new 64-bit system. This new kernel solved some slow down in the open source radeonhd grapihcs driver as it is on par with the open source ati driver... large improvement. I am now going to install the 32-bit arch version on this machine also. I have looked into enable PAE in the kernel. If I am successfull I would like to make a PKGBUILD and .config file as a package. How would I go about to do so. I am looking at calling the thing kernel26-pae or something like that. Would that work for AUR ?

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[arch-general] Presto for pacman?
by Magnus Therning 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Is there something similar to Yum Presto[1] for pacman? Would it be possible to do, or are there limitations in the package format that prevents it? /M [1]: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Presto -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] vi from testing has gone nuts - does not honor virc/~.virc settings
by David C. Rankin 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Listmates, Devs: I upgraded to testing to test the new dmraid. As part of the upgrade, vi was changed in a BIG way. (I could hardly use the thing and I have been using it for 20 years) The screen flashes when you double-escape, in insert mode if you move to colum 1 things go nuts, insert mode is changed into some kind of vampire. None of the normal key mappings work, and I can't get my beloved vi back by restoring the virc from the virc.pacnew - GGRrrrr :-( How do I make my vi return to normal? What's the trick? If restoring the virc and changing the settings has no effect (I even logged out and back) Wher are the magic settings now? And... if the version I have can't be made to behave like my normal vi/vim again, "Then what is the proper way to downgrade vi so I can get my friend back? -- 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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