March 2010 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Firefox 3.6 vulnerability
by Daniel Bumke 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Dear all, I'm not entirely sure whether this is an issue for Arch Linux, but I thought you should be aware of a critical security vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.6 (it seems earlier versions are not affected). The issue is fixed in version 3.6.2 for which a release candidate it available. The release is due later this month. Further info: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608 http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/18/update-on-secunia-advisory-sa38… Regards, Daniel

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[arch-general] CUPS working fine through 3/15 now won't print?
by David C. Rankin 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Guys, I have a love/hate relationship with cups. For the past eight years at least I have configured cups to share laserjet printers at both the office and home and 99.9% time, I never have to think about printing again. The other .1% is usually what seems like an effort in futility trying to get cups to print. I am having one of those .1% moments now. I enabled cups printing on my arch server about a month ago and it just printed without issue until my wife needed to print today. No cups is refusing to print at all. The strange part is that the cups daemon seems to be freezing or crashing requiring a kill -9 on cupsd to kill it and restart the process. For example, I can open the web interface of port 631 and I can change options, look at the printers and past jobs, etc..., but when I send a job to the server, the web interface freezes, nothing prints and I have to use 'kill -9 <cupsd pid>' to stop cups and restart it. For example: [00:46 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # /etc/rc.d/cups stop :: Stopping CUPS Daemon [DONE] [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5128 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill 5052 [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # ps ax | grep cups 4618 pts/1 S+ 0:00 vi cupsd.conf 5052 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 5131 pts/3 S+ 0:00 grep cups [00:52 nirvana:/var/log/cups] # kill -9 5052 Huh? I have debugging enabled and cups seems to be choking on ssl cert generation. That's strange, I just thought I was using basic authentication: I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Full reload complete. I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to 0.0.0.0:631 on fd 6... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to :::631 on fd 7... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 8... I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Resuming new connection processing... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x7fca7bf68f00(LaserJet)) E [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:09 -0500] Discarding unused server-started event... D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = nirvana.3111skyline.com:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = fe80::2e0:81ff:fe55:4e1d%eth0:631 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: clients=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs=15 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: jobs-active=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers=1 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: printers-implicit=0 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-string-count=285 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=6160 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:10 -0500] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=6192 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdReadClient: 12 WAITING Closing on EOF D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdCloseClient: 12 D [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] cupsdAcceptClient: 12 from localhost (Domain) I [22/Mar/2010:01:05:59 -0500] Generating SSL server key... That where the process dies.... My cupsd.conf is simple, but maybe I have something that is killing me? It is available here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/bugs/Archlinux/cupsd.conf (note: I am a member of groups sys, lp and wheel) If anybody is smart on cups, I would appreciate a bit of help figuring out what is not working here. The printer itself is an old Laserjet_4 connected to the servers parallel port and its printer.conf is: # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.2 # Written by cupsd on 2010-03-21 14:13 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING <DefaultPrinter LaserJet> Info Home Office Laserjet 4 Location nirvana MakeModel HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 State Idle StateTime 1267682110 Type 12356 Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 - Filter application/vnd.cups-raster 50 rastertohp Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer </Printer> Any help would be greatly appreciated. The current cups package is: cups 1.4.2-3. -- 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] Schroot no longer working?
by Ng Oon-Ee 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Hi all, schroot stopped working with this error message today:- E: 10mount: E: boost::filesystem::create_directory: No such file or directory: "/var/lib/schroot/mount/Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42/proc/bus/usb" E: Arch32-d43bee30-1708-4fd2-b087-346ae0f39b42: Chroot setup failed: stage=setup-start The following packages were upgraded (immediately following successful usage of schroot at 6.30 am). Any idea which of those could be the cause? At first I thought about the boost upgrade some time back, then realize I've been using schroot daily with no problems anyway... [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded cpio (2.10-1 -> 2.11-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus-core (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded dbus (1.2.20-1 -> 1.2.22-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded glib2 (2.22.4-1 -> 2.22.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded desktop-file-utils (0.15-1 -> 0.16-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libtasn1 (2.4-1 -> 2.5-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gnutls (2.8.5-1 -> 2.8.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded libxt (1.0.7-1 -> 1.0.8-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded ghostscript (8.71-2 -> 8.71-3) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk2 (2.18.7-1 -> 2.18.9-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded gtk-sharp-2 (2.12.9-1 -> 2.12.10-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded hdparm (9.27-2 -> 9.28-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nspr (4.8.3-1 -> 4.8.4-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded nss (3.12.4-2 -> 3.12.6-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded perl-xyne-arch (2010.03.20.1-1 -> 2010.03.21.1-1) [2010-03-22 07:14] upgraded usbutils (0.86-2 -> 0.87-1) For reference sake, using chroot works (am running am update of those very same packages right now).

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[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop cluttering up my XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks! -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>>

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[arch-general] Arch Linux security is still poor....
by Ananda Samaddar 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Further to my previous email a while back I've started work on some proposals that I'd like to pitch to the Arch community and the powers that be. They aren't finished yet but should be soon. The thing is I'm not really aware of the 'chain of command' in Arch. Aaron Griffin, are you the 'benevolent dictator' and do you have the final say? The reason I'm asking is I want to know to whom I address my proposals when they are finished. For example I'll probably be proposing some admin changes, nothing too sweeping but just some things that could be done to implement better security in Arch. For the mean time I've created the IRC channel #archlinux-security on Freenode. Anyone is free to hang out there to discuss security in Arch and how we (emphasis on the we, i.e. the community) can make things better. My IRC nick is psychedelicious, I was previously using a different nick based on a Funkadelic album released in 1971. I won't be on there 24x7 but will be online as much as possible. I'd particularly like to see people on that channel interesting in volunteering to create a Security Response Team for our distro! Also I'm aware I've posted under several different email addresses. After toying with several free providers I decided to stop being a cheapskate and get my own domain so this is my canonical email address now. regards, Ananda Samaddar

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[arch-general] HTML5, Youtube and chromium-browser
by Gaurish Sharma 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

Hi, I tried installing following packages on x86_64 [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32085 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31368 But it didn't work. I get this: http://www.imagebam.com/image/708acc72799349 Anyone managed to get youtube videos working in HTML5/h.264 format on chromium browser? -- Regards, Gaurish Sharma www.gaurishsharma.com

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Re: [arch-general] DVD's won't read
by Roberto Malinverni 21 Mar '10

21 Mar '10

> >> jue, mar 18, 2010 at 06:07:20 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan dijo: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm experiencing this problem from quite a long time. But > >> I don't know why. > >> > >> I have a LG DVD Writer. It supports writing and reading DVD-R DVD+R > >> DVD-RW DVD+RW, all CDs and some other DVD flavors I don't remember. > >> > >> I tried a Fedora boot DVD at boot, it worked. But inside arch (it > >> was the same problem with fedora), it won't work. > >> > >> I don't think this needs any special driver because previously I'd > >> never configured a special driver for that. > >> > >> CD's work fine though. > > > > it's sata or ide? when i started using linux i had to change the 40 > > "strings" ide cable to one of 80, due to troubles while > > reading/writing > > dvds... > > > > hope this helps :) > > > > Its connected by IDE now. I have a SATA converter with me > though. Should > I use that for my drive ? Nope. If it is a ide device, just check that your ide cable is of the type with 80 conductors. Take a look at the images here, to see the difference between a 40 and a 80 conductor cable (both have 40 pin). My NEC DVDRW refused to work without such a cable. Roberto -- Il messaggio e' stato analizzato alla ricerca di virus o contenuti pericolosi da MailScanner, ed e' risultato non infetto.

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Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers
by Jonathan Brown 20 Mar '10

20 Mar '10

Dude relax - I was offering you the services of the company I work for. However, I far from own the company, I am just a tech. Even so, I didn't feel it was appropriate to respond to the mailing list. Sorry that offended you so much. Spamming you? Absolutely not sir. I am a proud arch user is all- I don't sit here reading thru the Arch list skimming for opportuniites, I just felt like it would be more appropriate to respond to you directly. If that is against the mailing list rules I shaint do it again. ----- Original Message ---- From: Sam Harada <sam(a)peasantoid.org> To: Jonathan Brown <jbssfl(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Sat, March 20, 2010 1:22:18 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Dedicated Arch servers On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:26:12AM -0700, Jonathan Brown wrote: > I am a NOC technician at a data center- > > I will install it for you if you like- > > We have some pretty good deals on servers > > email sdodman(a)sagonet.com > and tell him what kind of dedicated server you are looking for and he'll give you a good deal- > Be sure to tell him that Jon B. recommended you contact him and that I said I will install Arch Linux on the server and that there won't be any extra charge to install that OS > > Bear in mind, we do try to help our unmanaged dedicated server customers as much as possible with software issues etc and anything else that we can up to a point (meaning if it gets intensive we will usually have to charge ATS etc), but we don't really support Arch, and I'm the only one there with experience with Arch.. so it would truly be unmanaged, unless you happen to catch me as your support technician when you open a support ticket.. > > That being said - get a dedicated server from us and I'll gladly throw Arch on there for ya! (I honestly think out of our 5000+ servers, there is not ONE with Arch .. lol) You probably should have responded to arch-general(a)archlinux.org rather than my address. Either that or you're spamming me. Please don't. Protip: Make your email client respect the Reply-To header.

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[arch-general] fdisk vs cfdisk... And is my drive borked or what?
by Joe(theWordy)Philbrook 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

I'm new to Arch. I recently dumped a very bloated Sabayon installation which left me enough room on my laptop for two other distros... I went with PCLinuxOS AND Arch because both sounded like reinstalling from scratch wasn't a twice a year thing... Actually I tried installing PCLinuxOS on a usb drive before I dumped Sabayon. But something went wrong in the first attempt when the installer formatted the new PCLinuxOS root partition on /dev/sda (as it called my usb drive) and promptly wrote the partition table to /dev/hdb (as it called my laptop's internal drive... ARGH! Fortunately after a send attempt succeeded in installing to usb drive succeeded some tool called "testdisk: was able to restore my laptop's partition table. And every thing worked again... (That was the last time I'll ever let an installer format anything. Strictly pre-partition and pre-mkfs from now on...) Any way I only mention it because When I got around to installing Arch on one of the two partitions I recovered from Sabayon, I skipped the installation step of letting cfdisk touch my partitions and simply selected the partition I previously prepared for it with mkfs.ext3. But later as working my way through the beginners guide in the wiki, the clear explanation of why distro's like to use UUID instead of /dev/Xdx# sold me on using persistent (BUT HUMAN READABLE!!!) entries like: "/dev/disk/by-label/Arch_lap-7" & "/dev/disk/by-label/SWP_lap-12" Especially since there was a wealth of how-to info right there in the wiki... But in the process I happened to do an: fdisk /dev/sda Which complained about a dos compatibility flag and that I should change the display/entry units to sectors. This showed me a small bit of unused space above my last logical partition (/dev/sda12)... Anyway I decided to look at it with cfdisk (which I haven't used in years but remembered as being easier to work with than fdisk...) But all I got from cfdisk was. => FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends after end-of-disk => Press any key to exit cfdisk Which considering the recent "testdisk" repair, frightened be a bit. But it also frustrated me. Especially since fdisk didn't show anything like that... Unless maybe: When "cfdisk /dev/sda" says "partition 3:" is it counting from 0? That is, does it mean "/dev/sda4" ??? Because that's my extended partition... And a close look at the ending cylinder/sector of /dev/sda4 is a slightly higher number than it reports the total cylinders/sectors to be... I've pasted both the sector and cylinder views of my part table below, Is this anything I should be worried about??? Is there a way to fix this without destroying everything in the extended partition??? (That's a LOT of backing up to dvd, and I don't have room anyplace else...) -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp(a)ttlc.net>> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4573c650 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 63 55456379 27728158+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 55456380 68372639 6458130 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 68372640 70332569 979965 83 Linux /dev/sda4 70332570 234452609 82060020 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 70332633 103538924 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda6 103538988 136745279 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda7 136745343 169951634 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda8 169951698 175815359 2931831 83 Linux /dev/sda9 175815423 183622949 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 183623013 195334334 5855661 83 Linux /dev/sda11 195334398 232444484 18555043+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 232444548 234436544 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x4573c650 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 3452 27728158+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 3453 4256 6458130 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 4257 4378 979965 83 Linux /dev/sda4 4379 14594 82060020 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 4379 6445 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda6 6446 8512 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda7 8513 10579 16603146 83 Linux /dev/sda8 10580 10944 2931831 83 Linux /dev/sda9 10945 11430 3903763+ 83 Linux /dev/sda10 11431 12159 5855661 83 Linux /dev/sda11 12160 14469 18555043+ 83 Linux /dev/sda12 14470 14593 995998+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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[arch-general] Open Konsole Here ???
by Nilesh Govindarajan 19 Mar '10

19 Mar '10

KDE used to have an "Open Konsole Here" option as it appears in Nautilus when you install nautilus-open-terminal. Where's it vanished ? Or I'm missing some addon ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site& Server Adminstrator www.itech7.com

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