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

[arch-general] Anybody else have problems with the new Nvidia drivers (275.09.07-1)
by Pico Geyer 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hi all, As the title of this email suggests I'm having trouble with the new Nvidia driver. I've attached my Xorg log, as I'm sure that there are a log of people who understand the ouput better than I do. I've had to revert to the previous driver (270.41.19-3) to get my system up and running again. What seems odd to me from the log is that it doesn't even try to load the nvidia driver. I'm using Xorg without any explicit configuration. My card is a GeForce 210 and I'm running a 32 bit arch. Did I forget something? Anybody have any suggestions? Regards, Pico

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[arch-general] [netcfg] Getting rid of wireless_tools
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, wpa_supplicant is supposed to provide most of the wireless_tools functionality. I have set up a branch of netcfg that replaces all uses of wireless_tools by wpa_supplicant. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/netcfg.git/log/?h=no-iwconfig iwconfig is still used by the deprecated IWCONFIG option, but there is still one thing I don't really understand. In src/connections/wireless, there is block that calls "iwconfig mode Managed" before starting wpa_supplicant. The log is not really explicit about why this was added (it merely says it was necessary for iwl3945), and wpa_supplicant man page only says it's necessary for the hostap driver, which we do not use. Does anybody knows the reason why it is needed? Rémy.

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[arch-general] netcfg 2.6 release
by Rémy Oudompheng 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Hello, netcfg 2.6 has been released and pushed in [testing]. The following features has been added since the last release: - add support for IPv6 configuration (FS#18699) - add support for static routes configuration (FS#18700) - add support for creating tun/tap interfaces (FS#15049) - add configuration file /etc/conf.d/netcfg for net-auto-wireless - add support for restricting automatic startup of profiles (FS#23169) - bridge: add support for several brctl options (FS#16625) - wireless: add support for explicit BSSID (FS#24582) - wireless: add support for ad-hoc connections (FS#19683) - wireless: no longer require wireless_tools to work - use /run instead of /var/run - drops hard dependency on net-tools package - drops hard dependency on wireless_tools package Most importantly: - netcfg no longer puts no files in /run (dhcpcd still puts files there) - netcfg only depends on iproute2 and dhcpcd : wpa_supplicant is optional (required for wireless), wpa_actiond, ifplugd are required for net-auto* scripts - net-tools, wireless_tools are needed if you use legacy options IFOPTS and IWCONFIG, but this is strongly discouraged - /etc/conf.d/netcfg is a new configuration file, currently only used by net-auto-wireless: it is used to configure the name of the wireless interface you want to use (also possible in /etc/rc.conf, but discouraged), and to configure a list of preferred networks you want wpa_actiond to manage (FS#23169) - IPv6 is supported: no address configuration (even auto-configuration) will be done unless you say IP6=something in your profile. See the examples to see how it works - dhclient is needed if you want to support DHCPv6: this is expected to be an uncommon case, since auto-configuration exists. - netcfg can create tun/tap interfaces: it currently does not do anything with these (FS#15049) Regards, -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] weird problem
by Madhurya Kakati 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I am having this weird problem. Whenever I run pacman -Syu or pacman -Su it asks me to replace lib32-libgl with lib32-catalyst-utils. [papul@papuldesktop chromium]$ sudo pacman -Su :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace lib32-libgl with catalyst/lib32-catalyst-utils? [Y/n] y resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... :: catalyst-utils and libgl are in conflict. Remove libgl? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: ati-dri: requires libgl=7.10.3 However I don't want lib32-catalyst. What do I have to do to make this disappear?

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[arch-general] What happened to mousepad and xfprint?
by Heiko Baums 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

I just wanted to do a system update and saw that mousepad, Xfce's text editor, and xfprint, Xfce's print dialog and printer manager, have been removed from [extra] and aren't moved to any other repo or AUR. Both tools belong to Xfce which is in [extra]. What happened to these packages? Heiko

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[arch-general] Bug Day
by Jelle van der Waa 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

Dear TU's,Devs,participants, Thanks for joining us yesterday on bug day. There are 76 bugs closed for archlinux and 6 for community! -- Jelle van der Waa

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[arch-general] linphone breaks after mediastreamer update
by Abd0 19 Jun '11

19 Jun '11

hello dear archlinux friends yesterday after an update linphone give me this error linphone: error while loading shared libraries: libmediastreamer.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 i didnt find any topic about it what can i do for it? Best Regards, abdo

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[arch-general] makepkgchroot
by Myra Nelson 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

I'm attempting to set up a clean chroot to build packages in. I've followed the instructions on the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chro…. I've read all the posts on the forum, than man pages, and the mailing lists (I may have missed something) and haven't found any answer to my problem; Steps to recreate: 1. sudo mkarchroot ~/chroot/root base base-devel sudo -- success 2. edit pacman.conf, makepkg.conf, and mirrorlist in the chroot directory 3. sudo mkarchroot -u ~/chroot/root -- success 4. a) [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -c -r ~/chroot creating clean working copy...done /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 194: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 199: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory sed: can't read /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 204: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory sed: can't read /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 209: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory grep: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/makepkg.conf: No such file or directory /usr/sbin/makechrootpkg: line 244: /home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/sudoers.d/nobody-pacman: No such file or directory chmod: cannot access `/home/myra/chroot/myra/etc/sudoers.d/nobody-pacman': No such file or directory error: '/home/myra/chroot/myra' does not appear to be a Arch chroot please build the image using mkarchroot Build failed, check /home/myra/chroot/myra/build b) [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -r ~/chroot/root Missing chroot dir root directory. Try using: mkarchroot /home/myra/chroot/root/root base base-devel sudo usage makechrootpkg [options] -r <chrootdir> [--] [makepkg args] Run this script in a PKGBUILD dir to build a package inside a clean chroot. All unrecognized arguments passed to this script will be passed to makepkg. The chroot dir consists of the following directories: <chrootdir>/{root, copy} but only "root" is required by default. The working copy will be created as needed The chroot "root" directory must be created via the following command: mkarchroot <chrootdir>/root base base-devel sudo Default makepkg args: -s --noconfirm Flags: -h This help -c Clean the chroot before building -u Update the working copy of the chroot before building This is useful for rebuilds without dirtying the pristine chroot -d Add the package to a local db at /repo after building -r <dir> The chroot dir to use -I <pkg> Install a package into the working copy of the chroot -l <copy> The directory to use as the working copy of the chroot Useful for maintaining multiple copies. Default: myra Using [myra@gandalf ../repos/core-x86_64]:sudo makechrootpkg -r ~/chroot/myra gets the same results as b). I don't think anything is wrong with makechrootpkg. I'm sure it's something simple and I'm probably just brickheaded and can't sort out what I'm doing wrong. If someone has a two by four to hit me with and straighten out my thinking please don't hesitate. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] On module blacklisting
by Magnus Therning 18 Jun '11

18 Jun '11

I just read about the changes to module blacklisting[1] and I'm left wondering: 1. As I read it, it's only blacklisting that's affected, is that correct? So MODULES in rc.conf can in the future only be used to load modules at boot-up. (Is there even a way to configure modprobe to load modules on boot?) 2. When does this change take effect? Which version of which package will it come with? /M [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/changes-to-module-blacklisting/ -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] linux 3.0 kernel testing
by Madhurya Kakati 17 Jun '11

17 Jun '11

Hi, I want to test the linux3.0 kerne. Whats the most easiest way to test it? Is there a AUR package? I couldn't find it. Thanks

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