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

[arch-general] lddd from devtools rewritten
by clemens fischer 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

I rewrote lddd from extra/devtools. The intent was to make it faster and remove false positives, as well as support for ignoring certain files completely, filtering the list of missing libs to handle optional dependencies, take /etc/ld.so.conf into account and in general make it more usable. NB: uses bash-4 features. URL: http://ino-waiting.gmxhome.de/files/lddd-c.sh Here's the help screen: $ lddd-c.sh -h Use lddd-c.sh [options] [paths] Default-paths: $PATH, /lib:/usr/lib:/opt/qt/lib:/opt/kde/lib:/usr/lib/libfakeroot:/opt/NX/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/libexec options: -d <item>: do not check glob <item>, can be given multiple times. -l <item>: ignore missing library glob <item>, multiple times. -L: do not use LD_LIBRARY_PATH running ldd(1)[1]. -v: be more and more chatty. -D <glob>: trigger tracing on meeting <glob>, debugging aid. Environment variables: $LDDD_LIB_IGNORE: globs of missing lib-names to ignore[2]. $LDDD_DONT_CHECK: globs of file names to completely ignore[2]. [1] risks false positives, but finds all broken ELF dependencies. [2] space separated list of globs, needs to be quoted to the shell. NB: A broken ELF file will be reported unless it is ignored ('-d' option or $LDDD_DONT_CHECK) or _ALL_ of its missing libs are ignored ('-l' or $LDDD_LIB_IGNORE)! _version: 20090727-2016_ The "new and improved" algorithm goes like this: 1. All files executable by the user or matching the customary *.so patterns are collected after verifying their ELFness. 2. The file paths are checked to see if their base directories contain any libraries and these directories are collected into LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 3. In a third loop, the files from step one are checked by ldd(1) prefixed with this LD_LIBRARY_PATH to see if any prerequisites are missing. This step is repeated without the path to check the odd customer. 4. Suspects aquired this way are sent to a co-process to determine the packages they belong to. 5. Results are collected into files in /tmp/lddd-c.sh-$UID and a summary listed to stdout. This makes it easy to use in cron-jobs. Detail is controlled by the number of '-v' options. Step four was intended to speed up the process, but as it turns out it doesn't help all that much. The pacman call is indeed expensive and can be done in parallel, but it obviously competes for disk access. Therefore the co-process caches the file list of any broken package expecting to find more broken files in it, but this only helps big packages with several broken executables. All in all lddd-c.sh is an improvement over the simpler lddd and the terribly hacked findbrokenpkgs[1]. As there should be no false positives, it should report b0rked packages after botched or incomplete updates in a reliable way. Valuable testing was done by Allan McRae and AttilaH. Some nasty bugs would still stink the code without their patience. [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=13882 clemens

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[arch-general] What? - NO 'p' in dmraid-1.0.0.rc15-8 anymore?
by David C. Rankin 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Listmates, After going through the testing process with dmraid-1.0.0.rc15 where the biggest change for users was the addition of the 'p' in the /dev/mapper/raidname_device_partx naming convention, the last update warns that you must now *remove* the 'p' from fstab, etc.. What's up? Will we have to add the 'p' again next week? -- 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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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ed 1.4-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Roman Kyrylych wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 21:52, Eric Bélanger<snowmaniscool(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ronald van Haren<pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: >>> >>>> minor upstream update. please signoff. >>>> >>>> -Andy >>>> >>>> Changes in version 1.4: >>>> >>>> >>>> * The undo command has been fixed to restore the modified status of the >>>> buffer being edited. >>>> >>>> * A race condition with user interrupt has been fixed in >>>> search_and_replace. >>>> >>>> * The functions resize_line_buffer and resize_undo_buffer have been >>>> added to definitively fix the aliasing warnings. >>>> >>>> * Some minor corrections have been made to the manual. >>>> >>> It still fires up and displays a simple txt document, haven't tested >>> anything fancy though. >>> signoff i686 >>> Ronald >>> >> signoff x86_64 >> > > signoff['x86_64']++ > > > Sign-Off i686 Manual pages are OK Info pages are not compressed. (pending for next pacman) but... $ ed a i can't still import my office2007 documents here!!! I am desesperate! . w tested 72 q $ -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[arch-general] AUR networkmanager-plasmoid-svn
by Manne Merak 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

Anyone know what is going on with this plasmoid? I see it has been marked as out of date. It hasnt build successfully for me in a month now. Manne

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[arch-general] /etc/resolv.conf continuously wiped since yesterday
by Caleb Cushing 28 Jul '09

28 Jul '09

since a reboot/updates yesterday my /etc/resolv.conf has been getting wiped (when it happens I lose all dns). I don't know why. does anyone have any ideas what might be going on? # A sample configuration for dhcpcd. # See dhcpcd.conf(5) for details. # Inform the DHCP server of our hostname for DDNS. hostname # A list of options to request from the DHCP server. # Most distributions have NTP support. option ntp_servers # Behave nicely on networks and respect their MTU. # However, a lot of buggy DHCP servers set invalid MTUs so this is not # enabled by default. #option interface_mtu # A ServerID is required by RFC2131. # Some broken DHCP servers do not send one and dhcpcd can work without it. # Some broken DHCP servers NAK incorrectly and do not include a ServerID either so # the default is to require a ServerID. require dhcp_server_identifier # A hook script is provided to lookup the hostname if not set by the DHCP # server, but it should not be run by default. nohook lookup-hostname noipv4ll -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[arch-general] Cisco VPN config
by Rafa Griman 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Hi :) Got a Cisco VPN connection with my office, but can't manage to get it running. I've seen that there's a: - vpnc package: installed it, but it doesn't import the .pcf file, says it can't find the file. - cisco-vpnclient: but it's out-dated I've been searching through the Wiki but haven't found any help on how to setup a Cisco VPN connection to my office. Anyone have a link or some tips they could share? TIA Rafa BTW Got the KMS + UXA running, seems I messed something up the other time I tried 0:) Thanks also for the kdmrc tip. -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman(a)skype.com rgriman(a)jabberes.org

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[arch-general] Where can I find the "boot" log to find out what failed on boot?
by David C. Rankin 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Listmates, Seems like a simple question, but I've searched /var/log and can't find a file that contains the boot history showing all the "fail" messages during boot. For some reason after the latest update, my i686 box showed a half dozen or so "fail" messages. I need to find the log of what died. The upside to this? This was my i686 box that would no longer start kde after the next-previous set of updates. Now kde4 starts fine again. Whatever failed can't be that critical because the box is functioning fine, but I still want to find out what failed. If the file is in /var/log, then I just flat missed it. I thought it would be daemons.log, but I found no fail messages. -- 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] How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy?
by David C. Rankin 27 Jul '09

27 Jul '09

Listmates, How do I re-create a DVD from the backup created by vobcopy? I have searched and I have read howto after howto and I still am stuck. Between ffmpeg this, dvdauthor that, qdvdauthor this to, I'm confused. I have written a script to properly prepare the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS directories and to parse the filenames and copy the vob files saved with vobcopy to VTS_XX_Y.VOB and place them along with the IFO files in the VIDEO_TS directory. I get that I'm missing the BUP files and that somehow dvdauthor is supposed to recreate them, but that is where I get stuck. When I try and use qdvdauthor, it tries to completely ffmpeg decode/encode the original vob files to another separate directory. Why? I already have the vob files under VIDEO_TS, they were just ripped, why decode and reencode them? Seems nuts. The files that I have from ripping are: 19:42 nirvana:/home/samba/video> find myvideo -type f myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-orig.jpg myvideo/tmp/myvideo-003-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-007-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-zoom.jpg myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-clip2.jpg myvideo/tmp/backup.rip myvideo/tmp/ifo/vts_01_0.ifo myvideo/tmp/ifo/vts_02_0.ifo myvideo/tmp/myvideo-009-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-002-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-005-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-orig.raw myvideo/tmp/myvideo-008-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-004-nav.log myvideo/tmp/myvideo-006-nav.log myvideo/tmp/logfile.txt myvideo/tmp/myvideo-001-preview-clip1.jpg myvideo/vob/009/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/002/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/008/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/003/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/006/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/004/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/005/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/007/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-002.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-008.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-007.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-005.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-006.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-001.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-004.vob myvideo/vob/001/myvideo-003.vob I have moved and renamed the files to: 20:44 nirvana:/home/samba/video> find authdir/ -type f authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_6.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_04_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_05_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_06_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_2.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_03_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_07_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_8.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_02_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_3.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_0.IFO authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_08_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_09_1.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_7.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_4.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_5.VOB authdir/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB From reading, it seems that I now need to create the BUP files and then use mkisofs to create the iso and then burn with growisofs. How do I create the BUP files?? That's where I'm stuck. This has to be easy and staring me right in the face, but I can't see the forest for the trees. What say the dvd gurus? -- 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] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0
by Baho Utot 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

I need pacman 2.98 or 3.0 and the dependencies, either the PKGBUILDS or the binaries. I need this for an older system (distro) Is it still available? Thanks

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Re: [arch-general] Pacman version 2.98 or pacman 3.0
by Baho Utot 26 Jul '09

26 Jul '09

On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:41 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > I think I'll stop now, I lost count > > > > full list: > > > pactree -u pacman | sort > acl > attr > bash > bzip2 > coreutils > cracklib > db > gcc-libs > gdbm > glibc > gmp > kernel-headers > libarchive > libdownload > ncurses > openssl > pacman > pacman-mirrorlist > pam > perl > readline > shadow > tzdata > xz-utils > zlib > > > But really it is just libarchive and libdownload. The coreutils package > covers most of the rest and if your system does not have coreutils you > are in trouble... > > Allan > > > The system doesn't have acl attr cracklib gdbm libarchive libdownload pacman pacman-mirrorlist pam xz-utils zlib I will try building pacman,libarchive,libdownload and see how it will go.

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