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

[arch-general] rankmirrors and new mirrrorlist format
by Mathias Huber 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Dear Archers, is it true that rankmirrors can't handle mirrorlist urls like ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch? While pacman works fine with this format, rankmirrors produces unreachable URLs. Or am I misunderstanding something here? Rock on, Mathias

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[arch-general] "Configuring System Clock" event FAIL at start-up
by Martín Cigorraga 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

This a strange one: I left my system running for about 8 hours today (had a brainstorm session for upcoming Software Freedom Day) and when I came back I noticed some weird behaviour with the mouse pointer, so I decided reboot. Now I have a red FAIL notice when "Configuring System Clock". I already check BIOS and there seems to no problem there, ¿what can be happen? (already tried serching the forum but haven't found any related issue) Greetings. -Martín

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] make-3.82-1
by Florian Pritz 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

On 15.08.2010 00:20, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am Sonntag 15 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> On 15/08/10 04:37, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> > Am Donnerstag 12 August 2010 schrieb Allan McRae: >> >> Upstream release announcement: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.announce/browse_thread/thread/d6a3f56 >> >> 91a b08a0a# >> > >> > kernel breaks with this make version. >> > Don't think we should move it. >> >> Any chance of slightly more details than "breaks"? >> >> Allan > Stops while trying to copy firmware, cannot create $pkgdir/lib/firmware/./ I haven't tested that much, but on my box the MAKEFLAGS are sort of ignored. Though it's a bit complicated: in the PKGBUILD: MAKEFLAGS="-j12" make bzImage modules -> 1 thread make -j12 bzImage modules -> 12 threads on the shell: both -> 12 threads Downgrading to 3.81-5 fixes the 1 thread problem. Maybe this has to do something with the env? -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[arch-general] K3b
by Baho Utot 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

I am having some issues with K3b Under KDE4 ( yes I hate it) When I start K3b it detects a blank dvd in the dvd writer but when selecting the burn image tool from the menu it does not reconize the blank dvd. I looked into the frums and the wiki but didn't find anything that was helpful

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[arch-general] 2.6.35-ARCH panic in VirtualBox 3.2.8-1
by Martín Cigorraga 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Tonight I did a clean install of Arch in a VirtualBox VM and after updating the system I can't boot anymore because there's a kernel panic, see attached screenshot for the output error log [0] Ok, I was a dumb because I didn't make any snapshot before upgrading -was working well with ISO shipped kernel- nor made a backup of kernel files in /boot before blindly upgrade, but I think this a good time for ask you seriously consider implementing an automatic backup for kernel before upgrading to a new one (I know this had been treated no so much time ago in the list and that there's an active wiki about this topic). By the way, thanks a lot for fixing K3b so fast. Best, -Martín [0] <goog_933442720> http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/5/7/2852027/My%20Documents/Screenshots/ar…

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1
by Tobias Powalowski 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Latest kernel is in testing, please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Referencing $srcdir in PKGBUILD?
by Magnus Therning 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Lately my PKGBUILDs result in a warning when building: ==> WARNING: Package contains reference to $srcdir It's a bit confusing, since PKGBUILD(5) has the following to say about $srcdir: srcdir This points to the directory where makepkg extracts or copies all source files. What should I do to get rid of the warning? /M -- 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] [signoff] hdparm-9.30-1
by Tobias Powalowski 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi guys, please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Another suggested patch for the init scripts
by Magnus Therning 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

The following change takes into consideration that the size of the entropy pool is given in bits in 2.6 kernels. I'm shamelessly assuming that no one in the Arch community would be running a 2.4 kernel :-) /M -- 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] Colorized Output Listing
by Carlos Mennens 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

It's very frustrating in Arch that my directories[blue], text files[white], tarballs[red], symbolic links[blue], and scripts[green] are all the same color. How can I colorize this in bash so my Arch Linux system is much easier to sort through? I checked the Wiki and only found something about colorizing my PS1 which is not what I really care about. Thanks for any help...

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