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

[arch-general] Problem with suspend
by Csomay Mihaly 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, I'm configuring suspend/resume on an Acer 1810TZ, but I have a small problem. I already set it up to suspend when I close the lid, I modified /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh to this: #! /bin/sh DISPLAY=:0 /bin/su csm -c "/usr/bin/i3lock -c 000044" /usr/sbin/pm-suspend It works as expected, turns off the wifi, etc., restores fine when I hit a button. So I would think that running pm-suspend from a terminal would work also, but it hangs on /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98-smart-kernel-video. If I move that file away, it suspends, but then the screen isn't restored on resume, it's blank. The worst part of it is that it worked from the command line once, but back then I didn't know that hibernating with kms-enabled intel chips results in memory corruption, and it killed my root partition so bad I had to reinstall. And now it's not working. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. csm

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[arch-general] Gnome 2.30 already?
by Brendan Long 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Wow guys, I've always liked how Arch gets updates much faster than other distros, but how many hours has this been out? Kudos to the Arch devs. -Brendan Long

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[arch-general] An amazing disk problem !
by Nilesh Govindarajan 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hi, I'm having an amazing disk problem. My disk has LVM configured. /home and swap sits on LVM, while / is direct. USELVM=yes is enabled in /etc/rc.conf and also it is there in mkinitcpio.conf The problem is that, sometimes when I boot, fsck complains that it wasn't able to find a ext2 superblock, and drops me to a sulogin shell. Now if I run fsck -vyf /home, it works. Even if fsck isn't run, it mounts properly using the command mount /home. Now again when I restart, it will say the same thing or boot properly (seems like a random choice :D). At last fed up, I issued the following commands at the sulogin shell: mount -o remount,rw / hostname Linux (yeah that's my hostname) mount /home init 5 And it worked successfully. Any ideas about this AMAZING problem ??!?!? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !

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[arch-general] Firefox Qt package
by Bernhard Friedreich 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hello! In case anyone is interested: I created a proof of concept - very basic - firefox-qt package and the needed xulrunner package. (No this is no april fools joke) :P You can find more information about the whole affair on my blog: http://friesoft.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/did-anyone-say-firefox-qt-with-arc… Does anybody know how I can replace the original firefox-qt package on aur? I think it's obsolete and it doesn't seem to work (I think). Best regards, Bernhard Friedreich

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[arch-general] Keyboard not working in X11
by Alain Muls 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi All I have a GeForce 9600 GT graphics card and installed the nvidia driver. I had difficulties in getting a X11 screen with the terminal, but finally I made it. The xterm comes up but my keyboard does not work. Any suggestions? Tx/Alain ------------------------------ *Alain Muls* alain.muls(a)rma.ac.be Royal Military Academy Tel +32 2 7426340 Renaissance Avenue 30 Fax+32 2 7426622 B1000 Brussels - Belgium

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[arch-general] Xz, space savings and delta ... my findings
by Nathan Wayde 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Here's one for ya. Decompress a gzip'ed package, say pacman. Now, recompress every file in that directory with `xz -1`, smile :) Result: the re-compression is faster than a tar+gz and in each case so far(kerne26, gcc, perl, pacman, kdelibs) is a little smaller as well. It doesn't approach the (much smaller) size of tar+xz but it does take less time to compress and is smaller than what we had before. I know, you're thinking why do that. I wanted to implement an idea for the A.R.M, which is basically to allow downgrade on a file-by-file basis, my theory is that most(many) of the files in 2 versions of a package (esp. when they are minor versions or pkgrel bumped) are often exactly the same. My test involved kdelibs-4.3.98-1 and kdelibs-4.4.0-3. I first decompress both, and remove the duplicates from kdelibs-4.4.0-3 which results in sizes of 59.5MB for the original kdelibs-4.3.98-1 and 35.5MB for the de-deduped kdelibs-4.4.0-3. Now recompressing with `xz -1` kdelibs-4.4.0-3 is brought down to 10.7MB. Comparing with the delta (between the original packages) which 5.3MB it's not a whole lot while allowing more flexibility(IMHO). Some more numbers for comparison, the tar+xz(level -6) for kdelibs-4.4.0-3(de-duped) was 8.4M in comparison to tar+gz which was 12.6MB the original tar'd sizes were 19.8MB for gz and 13.9MB for xz. I know I didn't test based on pkgrel or try gz(as opposed to xz -1) only nor did it very scientifically but I thought it was very interesting non-the-less. I also suspect that the similar results would be seen for a test with xdelta on each file but that's not very useful to me so I'll leave that one for another day.

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[arch-general] new pacman error: vercmp: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8
by David C. Rankin 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Guys, After the pacman update tonight, I am getting errors every once in a while during updates that say: vercmp: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /tmp/alpm_DBOUwW/.INSTALL: line 8: [: -lt: unary operator expected It doesn't seem to be hurting anything, but didn't know if I needed to do anything else about it. What say the 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] Boot iso with grub2
by Christopher Rogers 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

There has been a request for a findiso boot option so you can boot the iso with grub2 on a usb stick. I have this feature in my archiso-live and it works very well. Here is some code i have for it: _mnt_iso() { img="${1}" #mnt="${2}" mnt="/tmpfs/mnt/findiso" msg "::: Mounting ${img} to ${mnt}" mkdir -p "${mnt}" mount -r -t iso9660 "${img}" "${mnt}" } I remade my archiso hook to look more like the official one yesterday. I also added a _mnt_move function so you can move mounts instead of just bind them. Here is code for that: _mnt_move() { src="${1}" mnt="${2}" msg "::: Moving ${src} to ${mnt}" mkdir -p "${mnt}" /bin/mount -o move "${src}" "${mnt}" } I believe the /bootmnt could use _mnt_move instead of _mnt_bind. I have more features that could be added too. I hope this helps.

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