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

[arch-general] Does Anyone have a "dial-in' server working on arch with pppd?
by David C. Rankin 01 Oct '10

01 Oct '10

Guys, In the past I have set up 'dial-in' servers in my home to share the cable internet connection when I'm at sites with no internet connections. This has worked great for years on SuSE. The way it works is: _______________ _____________________ | other box | dials modem on server and | Server w/modem & | | kppp dialer |<----------------------------->| cable internet | | | gets an IP and starts ppp | hylafax-adaptive | --------------- | answer, handles | | data call, starts | Internet<---------->| pppd session and | | internet out ttyS1| --------------------- I have tried a number of times to get this to work on Arch and I'm drawing blanks. I have set /etc/ppp/options, chap-secrets, pap-secrets as I have run them in the past, but they never start ppp. I'm beginning to think that something is wrong with the current pppd package. If somebody has a running config or ideas about how to make this work with arch, I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks. -- 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] [extra] new package: qt-assistant-compat
by Andy McMillan 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

>Hi, > >I've just added a new package to our svn: qt-assistant-compat. This is >a compatibility package for the deprecated qt assistant version which >was removed from qt since 4.7.0. >Some packages still need it (at least my qtiplot package does, but I'm >sure there are others) though, so it will be there if you need it. >Obviously I'll remove it again if said packages are updated to the new >qt online documentation system. Binary packages will follow if I find >some building time. > >Ronald I haven't been following qt development so I'm not sure what is involved in updating to the new system, but I presume this should be reported as a bug to upstream devs for packages that it applies to? Also I built qt-assistant-compat since I needed to use qtiplot today. It builds pretty fast and didn't seem to cause any problems with the old version of qtiplot (didn't bother rebuilding qtiplot for the new dependency) Andy

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[arch-general] strange issue about mount
by Adamzyg 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

hi, I found some strange issue about mount. My portable hard disk has some partitions like below: * Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System* */dev/sdb1 * 63 91747214 45873576 7 HPFS/NTFS* */dev/sdb2 91747215 194145524 51199155 7 HPFS/NTFS* */dev/sdb3 194145525 312576704 59215590 7 HPFS/NTFS* first, I mount /dev/sdb1 like this *$ sudo /bin/mount -t ntfs -o noatime,utf8,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 * *mount: warning: /media/sdb1 seems to be mounted read-only.* *$ echo $?* *0* * * I check the /etc/mtab, *$ tail -5 /etc/mtab * *devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0* *shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0* */dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 0* */dev/sda4 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0* */dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs ro,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0* * * sure, i can not create file in the dir /medie/sdb1 *$ pwd&&touch haha* */media/sdb1* *touch: cannot touch `haha': Read-only file system* * $ id uid=1000(adamzyg) gid=1000(adamzyg) groups=1000(adamzyg),92(audio) * Question 1: mount with -o rw does not work, why? second, if I continue mount /dev/sdb2 like this: *$ sudo /bin/mount -t ntfs -o noatime,utf8,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2* *$ echo $?* *0* * $ tail -5 /etc/mtab shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/sda4 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs ro,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2 ntfs rw,noatime,utf8,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022 0 0 Strange: I also can not create file in /medie/sdb2 $ pwd&&touch haha /media/sdb2 touch: cannot touch `haha': Permission denied * Question 2: mtab show rw, why can not create file? Question 3: twice mount with same option, why first ro, another rw? ------------------- information abount ntfs mount --------------------------------- Mount options for ntfs iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters. Deprecated. nls=name New name for the option earlier called iocharset. utf8 Use UTF-8 for converting file names. uni_xlate={0|1|2} For 0 (or `no' or `false'), do not use escape sequences for unknown Unicode characters. For 1 (or `yes' or `true') or 2, use vfat-style 4-byte escape sequences starting with ":". Here 2 give a little-endian encoding and 1 a byteswapped bigendian encoding. posix=[0|1] If enabled (posix=1), the filesystem distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed. This option is obsolete. uid=value, gid=value and umask=value Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. Best Regards.

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[arch-general] Cairo and XCB
by Damjan Georgievski 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Does anyone have reproducile tests that show the problems in Firefox/Thunderbird with cairo when cairo is built with --enable-xcb? I just built cairo with: --enable-xcb --enable-xlib-xcb=no This should leave the normal cairo xlib backend intact (i.e. the same as when built with --disable-xcb). So far everything is working fine for me, but even before, with Cairo 1.8 everything was working fine, so I'd like to doublecheck about those issues. -- damjan

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[arch-general] kernel26-headers breaks VMWare and VirtualBox
by John Holbrook 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Hi, I'm experiencing the issue as discussed here on the forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105637 This mentions a bug report at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20972 The fix mentioned is to run kernel26-headers -2. I am currently running "core/kernel26-headers 2.6.35.6-1 [installed]" I asked how to get -2 on IRC and was told to wait until my mirror updates. I tried a closer mirror and even manually looked at some of the mirrors and none of them appear to have 2.6.35.6-2. How can I upgrade to -2 without waiting for a mirror update? Maybe I'm misunderstanding what they mean by '-2'? Thanks.

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.7-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '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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Re: [arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
by Robert Howard 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

I personally never liked the OpenOffice.org moniker. Always felt like it was too long and just plain ugly. On Sep 29, 2010 3:48 PM, "Jeff Cook" <jeff(a)deserettechnology.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Guus Snijders <gsnijders(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 29-09-10 05:24, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> >>> Guys, >>> >>> For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the >>> packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here >>> is the press release: >>> >>> http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html >> >> Thanks David, i had seen the name "libreoffice" somewhere, but it didn't >> ring a bell so far. >> >> >> >> mvg, >> Guus >> > LibreOffice may not stick -- they have invited Oracle to be a member > of the Foundation and asked that they donate the OpenOffice.org > materials; trademarks, logos, etc. So the hope for the OpenOffice > brand may not be totally gone yet, though obviously it's doubtful that > Oracle will be donating anything.

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[arch-general] Ugh.. It's Official -- OpenOffice is forked -- LibreOffice
by David C. Rankin 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Guys, For those that rely on OpenOffice, and for those that prepare the packages, it's official, OpenOffice forked as of Sept. 28, 2010. Here is the press release: http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/tdf_release.html Main Site: http://www.documentfoundation.org/ Probably best for the long run... -- 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] ProFTPD and Archlinux
by Facundo Andrés Bianco 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

2010/9/29 Christian <christian08(a)runbox.com>: > Hi all, > I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as it's own user and that was set up automatically, but I don't find any instructions on the Arch wiki to set up proftpd, only a description of it. Any help please! > Many thanks! > Christian Hi, can you take a look at /etc/proftpd.conf? It had good comments to set up ProFTPd. Regards, -- Facundo Andrés Bianco (Vando.) GNUPG ID: 0x89C1B42F omb: identi.ca/vando

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[arch-general] ProFTPD and Archlinux
by Christian 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi all, I haven't been using Archlinux for that long so I apologize for the questions. I have been using ProFTPD on Debian and that was running as it's own user and that was set up automatically, but I don't find any instructions on the Arch wiki to set up proftpd, only a description of it. Any help please! Many thanks! Christian

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