February 2011 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] [PATCH] depmod: do not update module dependencies on boot
by Tom Gundersen 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Hi guys, I'm looking through initscripts to make sure systemd is compatible. In doing so I think I ran across the following possible simplification of rc.sysinit. Comments? I'd be especially interested in hearing about usecases where the attached patch would lead to regressions. ----- Running depmod on boot should not be necessary as the packages installing modules should be responsible for updating the dependencies themselves (and they do, at least the packages I looked through). Furthermore, as modules can be loaded very early in boot (by e.g. udev), but depmod can only be called after root is mounted rw, we can not rely on depmod fixing broken module dependencies. Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> --- rc.sysinit | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit index 1dfae33..dfb0050 100755 --- a/rc.sysinit +++ b/rc.sysinit @@ -351,8 +351,6 @@ if [[ $NISDOMAINNAME ]]; then status "Setting NIS Domain Name: $NISDOMAINNAME" /bin/nisdomainname "$NISDOMAINNAME" fi -status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A - # Flush old locale settings : >| /etc/profile.d/locale.sh /bin/chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/locale.sh -- 1.7.4.1

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] GSoC 2011
by Andres Perera 08 Mar '11

08 Mar '11

lol... gsoc students aren't going to get sponsored for making packages you'd have to be in a distro that does their own projects like fedora it'd be like slackware asking for gsoc 2011/2/25 Ángel Velásquez <angvp(a)archlinux.org>: > Hi, > > I'm just wondering why we didn't participate in GSoC, many open source > projects got improved for this kind of programs. > > Just wondering areas in which we can receive and mentor students with > the permission of the projects owner I will do a list of possible > areas of work: > > * Pacman (Adding signed packages) > * AIF and archiso integration > * Namcap > * Netcfg > * <insert project here> > > Please don't kill me if the idea is wrong, It just came to my mind that idea. > > Cheers > > -- > Angel Velásquez > angvp @ irc.freenode.net > Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User > Linux Counter: #359909 > http://www.angvp.com >

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[arch-general] 2010.05 iso images problem?
by didier gaumet 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Hi guys, I have downloaded a 2010.05 x86_64 core iso image from http://mir.archlinux.fr/iso/ and verified its sha1sum. After installation, I end up with a 2.6.37 kernel (out in 2011.01) with no modules (2.6.27 and 2.6.33 modules are available). http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/iso/ has the same sha1sum for this iso. Is there not a problem with these images? Right now I am updating this Archlinux installation from a Debian chroot, so it is not a blocking problem, but out of curiosity, I would like to know. Thanks, Didier.

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[arch-general] qemu-kvm vs. qemu upstream
by C Anthony Risinger 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > If this is virtualbox specific, I'd try qemu-kvm. hey, i was just trying to get a concrete answer about this the other day, so maybe you can clarify because i keep reading conflicting and/or outdated information. AFAICS, qemu-kvm is still _different_ from upstream kvm support in qemu, correct? i tried rebuilding qemu several times, ensuring i had all the options i wanted (SPICE/kvm/etc) and i was getting absolutely <expletive deleted> performance -- switch to qemu-kvm and she's blazing again, yet many places seem to suggest they are one and the same. i see they definitely have different sources, but would you/anyone care to elaborate on the relationship? C Anthony

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1
by Loui Chang 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On Sun 27 Feb 2011 12:01 -0600, Dan McGee wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: > >> > >> Major upstream update. > >> > >> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some > >> rebuilds will probably be required to fix minor issues. > >> > > > > I have rebuilt community/stfl to fix a crash (used by newsbeuter). > > > > I will start a TODO list to keep track of packages that require moved with > > ncurses. If you do any rebuilds, please add the package to the list. > > $ tig > tig: Failed to create status window > > I added it to the list (but didn't rebuild it). Rebuild won't do it. tig wants to create zero sized windows which newwin() doesn't allow anymore. We could patch it with some arbitrary size which kind of works, but I emailed the developer to ask how he would deal with it.

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[arch-general] kde4 loads kde3 parts -- is this a packaging issue?
by David C. Rankin 01 Mar '11

01 Mar '11

Guys, I need some help figuring out where to start in trying to keep kde4 from loading most of kde3 when kde4 is launched from the kdm chooser. A picture is worth 1000 words: [109k] (800x600) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/ArchLinux_kde3+kde4.800.jpg (full res 264k 1280x800) http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/ArchLinux_kde3+kde4.jpg In the screenshot, kde (kde4) was launched from the kde4 kdm. The background is the kde4 background. Both the kde3 kicker and kde4 plasma-panel loaded (and are both fully operational) at the bottom of the screen. Launching apps or system settings the panels, properly loads the corresponding kde3/kde4 app. The plasma-desktop has loaded and the kde4 "Desktop Folder is present". The kde4 window decorations are present, but if you rt-click on the desktop, you get the kdemod context menus and all kdemod apps are in the default Domino style. What I'm trying to do is narrow down why this happens on Arch and so we can fix it. I'm guessing this probably happens when kde4-kdelibs or kde4-kdebase gets built and installed, but that is just a guess. This seems to be a packaging issue because it doesn't happen with other distros that have both kde4 and kde3 installed together. It doesn't happen in reverse either with kdemod3 based on Trinity. Loading the updated kdemod3 doesn't load the kde4 panel, but kde4 does load the kde3 panel. Anybody familiar with this issue on Arch and how it might be solved? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PATCH 1/3] Use format strings when printing errors
by cantabile 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Le 27/02/2011 19:25, Dan McGee a écrit : > - print("Error: " + package + " is empty or is not a valid package") > + print("Error: %s is empty or is not a valid package" % package) That method of string formatting is deprecated in python 3. ;) http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/stdtypes.html#old-string-forma… http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/library/string.html#string-formatting -- cantabile "Jayne is a girl's name." -- River

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[arch-general] Unannounced syslog config move
by Sebastian Köhler 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Hi, who had the glorious idea to move the syslog-ng.conf from /etc/ to /etc/syslog-ng/ without telling anyone? I lost about 1 weeks of log entries because of this. I understand why it was moved but what happenend to announcing such changes? I think a message in post_upgrade() is not to much to ask for. Sebastian -- The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio compression
by Dimitrios Apostolou 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

Hello list, I'm using arch on an old laptop with only 128MB RAM. I had problems compressing the initcpio image with lzma, it always failed allocating memory. The following one-line patch allowed me to set my own compression level in mkinitcpio.conf, with COMPRESSION="lzma -4" --- /sbin/mkinitcpio.orig 2010-10-06 03:23:00.966415649 +0300 +++ /sbin/mkinitcpio 2011-02-26 19:11:36.309682053 +0200 @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ status=0 if [ -n "${GENIMG}" ]; then echo -n ":: Generating image '${GENIMG}'..." - if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} -9 > "${GENIMG}"; then + if ! /sbin/gen_init_cpio ${FILELIST} | ${COMPRESSION} > "${GENIMG}"; then echo "FAILED" status=1 else What do you think? Should this make it to the distro? Also I actually think that *not* forcing -9 compression level, and letting the tool use its default is a good thing. Thanks, Dimitris

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] ncurses-5.8-1
by Emmanuel Benisty 27 Feb '11

27 Feb '11

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 27/02/11 10:40, Allan McRae wrote: >> >> Major upstream update. >> >> Test well. There is no soname bump, but experience tells me that some >> rebuilds will probably be required to fix minor issues. just FTR, it breaks rtorrent. eb64@drama:~$rtorrent Caught Segmentation fault, dumping stack: 0 rtorrent() [0x439274] 1 rtorrent() [0x43d737] 2 /lib/libc.so.6(+0x326d0) [0x7f60f5e6e6d0] 3 rtorrent() [0x482f9e] 4 rtorrent() [0x439988] 5 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f60f5e5adcd] 6 rtorrent() [0x40d959] Aborted simple rebuild doesn't seem to help, downgrading does.

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