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

[arch-general] Ruby and rubygems
by Lars Tennstedt 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hello, I updated my Arch Linux box today and pacman wanted to install an update for ruby that conflicted with rubygems. So I removed rubygems. But what is the reason for this conflict? Bye, Lars Tennstedt

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[arch-general] ArcLlinux 2009.02 installation issues
by Ciprian Dorin, Craciun 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hello all! During my installation trials for ArchLinux 2009.02, I've stumbled upon some issues that I describe below. First one (the most minor and insignificant one), is that when you login as root in the installation system, it says as MOTD that you should read the documentation found in /arch/<some-file-name>, when in fact the file is in /arch/docs/<some-file-name>. Anyway. The second problem is a little bit more tricky... I want to install ArchLinux under a domU Xen virtual machine. So the only method (without using HVM) is to boot from the USB disk image, and try to perform the installation over serial the console. The problem is that by default ArchLinux does not include ttyS0 in inittab or in securetty, so I have to manually mount the disk as loopback, end edit the files appropriately... Thus my feature request is: could you include in the default install images also the ttyS0 and ttyS1 as usable terminals? Thanks, Ciprian.

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[arch-general] KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard
by didier gaumet 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

KMS console problem with non-us (french) keyboard Hi all, I am presently using an up-to-date Archlinux on a laptop with an Intel 915 chipset. In the past I have tried KMS succesfully to a certain extent: for example the french letter "é" is not correctly displayed when I type it in console althought it is correctly displayed under X11. Apart from this, all seems to function perfectly. With the same setup in /etc/rc.conf there is no problem to type and display "é" in console if KMS is disabled. I was thinking this to be a lack of maturity of KMS, but I just tried KMS on a Slackware 13.0 (2.6.29 stock kernel) freshly installed on the same laptop: definitely no problem. Any hint? Thanks in advance, Didier. From my /etc/rc.conf: [...] LOCALE="fr_FR.UTF-8" HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" USEDIRECTISA="no" TIMEZONE="Europe/Paris" #KEYMAP="fr-latin9" KEYMAP="fr-pc" CONSOLEFONT="lat9w-16" CONSOLEMAP="8859-1_to_uni,8859-15_to_uni,cp1250_to_uni,cp437_to_uni,cp850_to_uni" [...]

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[arch-general] Change letters of partitions
by Lucas Salies Brum 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hello everyone, I'm having a little problem. My partitions looked like this: /dev/sda1 (/) /dev/sda2 (/home) /dev/sda3 (swap) After I deleted the / partition and got this: /dev/sda1 (Windows) free space /dev/sda2 (/home) /dev/sda3 (swap) And i need this: /dev/sda1 (Windows) /dev/sda2 (/) /dev/sda3 (/home) /dev/sda4 (swap) How do I change home partition /dev/sda2 to /dev/sda3? Thank you all. --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[arch-general] archboot dependency of vim version failed
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 16 Sep '09

16 Sep '09

Hi all When I insall archboot package, the dependency failed. I can ensure that the vim is the most up-to-date version. Maybe the "vim>=7.2.234-1" should be "vim-7.2.23-4-1" # pacman -S archboot resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "vim>=7.2.234-1", a dependency of "archboot" # pacman -Qi vim Name : vim Version : 7.2.65-1.1 URL : http://www.vim.org Licenses : custom:vim Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : vi>=7.2.65 perl python ruby acl gpm>=1.20.4 libxt Optional Deps : None Required By : None Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 4936.00 K Packager : Eric Belanger <eric(a)archlinux.org> Architecture : x86_64 Build Date : Mon 08 Dec 2008 01:09:51 PM CST Install Date : Fri 04 Sep 2009 02:42:11 PM CST Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : Yes Description : a highly configurable, improved version of the vi text editor

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] Apologies for the RSS spam
by Andrew 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Aaron Griffin wrote: > Still working out some kinks with the new server changes. I have > disabled the rss2email job for now. > > Cheers, > Aaron I just wanted to make sure arch-announce will be coming back sometime and hasn't been forgotten about. There have been two recent news updates (vi, TeXLive) which haven't been mailed out to arch-announce. I would've missed them entirely if the vi package hadn't complained about a file conflict. I appreciate the work you guys do and this isn't meant to be nagging. Just a reminder, since people do rely on that mailing list. Keep up the good work :) Andrew

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[arch-general] nginx remote code execution
by Sergej Pupykin 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

Hi, All nginx users, please update it to 0.7.62, because of http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36384

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[arch-general] mounting a data dvd fails
by JM 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hello, I cannot mount a data dvd. mount /dev/dvd /media/dvd mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660' I noticed that isofs module, which provides iso9660 is not loaded in my system. Inserting it, however, results in: FATAL: Error inserting isofs (/lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko): Invalid module format This is an up-to-date non-testing system. Help would be appreciated. Regards, JM

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[arch-general] discussion about arora-git
by Biru Ionut 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

hi guys, what are we doing with arora-git? now is unmaintained and arora from extra si more up to date than arora-git. -- Ionut

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[arch-general] torrent tracker is down
by Biru Ionut 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

hi, the server got rebooted and opentracker is not running on sigurd. can someone with right start it and add to rc.conf? -- Ionut

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