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[arch-general] virtual memory exhausted
by Jorge Almeida 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

I'm not sure this is an Arch issue, but I can't figure out what else can be. I'm trying to compile non-Arch stuff in an arch host. I tried Binutils (of LFS) and Buildroot (of uclibc). Both failed with the "virtual memory exhausted: Cannot allocate memory" error. The computer is a one-user workstation, which wasn't doing anything else worth mentioning... I tried both as root and as common user, same problem... # pacman -Q gcc gcc 4.6.1-2 # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 2056484 kB MemFree: 1356260 kB Buffers: 74324 kB Cached: 551824 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 148888 kB Inactive: 506268 kB Active(anon): 10624 kB Inactive(anon): 5716 kB Active(file): 138264 kB Inactive(file): 500552 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB HighTotal: 1178888 kB HighFree: 593112 kB LowTotal: 877596 kB LowFree: 763148 kB SwapTotal: 996024 kB SwapFree: 996024 kBDirty: 84 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 10592 kB Mapped: 5868 kB Shmem: 5748 kB Slab: 31360 kB SReclaimable: 25156 kB SUnreclaim: 6204 kB KernelStack: 1112 kB PageTables: 1476 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 2024264 kB Committed_AS: 61648 kB VmallocTotal: 122880 kB VmallocUsed: 14672 kB VmallocChunk: 80164 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB DirectMap4k: 20472 kB DirectMap4M: 888832 kB # ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 58593 scheduling priority (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16046 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 64 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200 real-time priority (-r) 0 stack size (kbytes, -s) 58593 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 16046 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) 58593 file locks (-x) unlimited Maybe there is some arch-specific configuring to do? I have no idea whether these limit parameters require tweaking... TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] KDE 4.7 hits [testing]
by Andrea Scarpino 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hi arKers, KDE 4.7 has been released[1] and our packages are ready in [testing]. As you already know KDE is (slowly) moving to GIT. With this transition some KDE module has been splitted into subprojects, and the remaining modules should be splitted before KDE 4.8. The result of this is that some package (e.g. kdegraphics-libs) is now splitted in several packages and each new package conflicts with the old kdegraphics-libs, so you have to remove it when pacman asks for its removal during the update. Here some info about the splitted modules: - KDE Workspace: wallpapers are now in a separate package named kde-wallpapers, this reduced the kdebase-workspace package download size by 70%. - KDE Graphics: kdegraphics-libs is now splitted in kdegraphics-ksaneplugin, kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdegraphics-svgpart, kdegraphics-thumbnailers, libkdcraw, libkexiv2, libkipi, libksane. Our official packages which depends on kdegraphics-libs have been updated to depend on the new libraries; the upgrade should work without any issue, otherwise please report it to our bug tracker. - KDE Edu: kdeedu-libkdeedu and kdeedu-data have been dropped and libkdeedu will replace them. - KDE Bindings: every subproject has been splitted in two parts: one for the qt bindings and one for the KDE bindings. The old packages have been remove and the new one are: kdebindings-kimono, kdebindings-kross-java, kdebindings-kross-python, kdebindings-korundum, kdebindings-perlkde, kdebindings-perlqt, kdebindings-qtruby, kdebindings-qyoto, kdebindings-smokegen, kdebindings-smokekde, kdebindings-smokeqt. - KDE Accessibility: kdeaccessibility-colorschemes and kdeaccessibility-iconthemes are dropped and replaced. Have a nice update! [1] http://kde.org/announcements/4.7/ -- Andrea

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[arch-general] shouldn't the java-sun package be named java-oracle?
by Auguste Pop 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

hi, the binaray version of java has been in repo with the name jre and jdk for a long time. i noticed that a split package of java-sun is now in the community repo. i don't know if java-sun is newly created or has been there also for a long time. anyway, the -sun suffix is not appropriate as the upstream java is branded oracle now. i have been using openjdk since the beginning. so, basically, i pointed this out just for curiosity's sake. best regards,

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[arch-general] pulse audio auto stop
by Juan Diego Tascón 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Good day, Does anyone knows why is pulseaudio being shut down every time X is shut down? why cruel world? why? PS: I don't want to use pulseaudio system-instance Thank you

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[arch-general] bad login attempts not written to /var/log/btmp
by Renato 29 Jul '11

29 Jul '11

Hello, maybe I don't understand how the command "lastb" should work, but no matter how many times I try to login inputting a wrong password I still get nothing but this: $ sudo lastb btmp begins Fri May 6 23:40:14 2011 cheers renato

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[arch-general] kdeartwork-wallpapers --- Why i686 and x86_64 seperated ?
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Hi, all I don't understand kdeartwork-wallpapers pkg are in different arch ? It should be a pkg with "-any" arch suffix, in my opinion.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card: 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 248 (750ns min, 2000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: I/O ports at 8000 [size=32] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=64K] Kernel driver in use: 3c59x Kernel modules: 3c59x 12:47 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:~/tmp sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 3.27MB/s 0:00:16 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 3182426.17 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Installed 3Com 3c595 rate dropped from 11.59MB/s to 3.27MB/s -- howto fix?
by David C. Rankin 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Guys, This is a new one on me. I have been using the onboard LAN (RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)) for several years and always got great transfer rates: 01:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology GA-7VM400M/7VT600 Motherboard Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 I/O ports at 8000 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Kernel driver in use: 8139too Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp 10:02 providence:~/arch/pkg/new-110718/virtualbox_bin> rsync -uav --progress virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz phoenix:/srv/http/dl/arch/i686 sending incremental file list virtualbox_bin-4.0.12-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz 55685508 100% 11.59MB/s 0:00:04 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) sent 55692427 bytes received 31 bytes 10125901.45 bytes/sec total size is 55685508 speedup is 1.00 I was having intermittent lockups during large file transfers (memtest is fine), so I thought I would change the NIC. I installed a 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex] card and tested the throughput. The throughput is 1/3 what I was getting with the Realtek card. I searched the forums and I've tried ethtool in setting speed, duplex and autoneg, but it makes no difference. i.e.: ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off What else can I try to get this card working correctly? All light indications on the card and the switch it is connected to show a 100TX connection is being made. What say the gurus? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] CD / DVD Drive - Issues and a really sloppy solution
by Zanterian 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Hello fellow arch enthusiasts, I had a friend who wanted me to burn an audio disk for him. What I thought would have been an easy task turned into a nightmare. I use Brasero on Gnome 3. Everything I tried would end in disaster, and nothing would get written. Then it would give me a log saying could not find burn:// directory After looking around, I noticed I don't have a /dev/cd or a /dev/dvd Finding that strange, I did the command dmesg | grep ide with this as the result [ 5.287548] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray So this is where I made the sloppy solution: I manually made two symlinks (/dev/cd & /dev/dvd) that point to /dev/sr0. This gave me back the ability to burn disks. So my main question is what do I do from here? Is this a bug? I don't want to have this solution as it was just me writing educated-guesses-for-links and then trying to burn a disk with my fingers crossed. My arch system is up to date and does not use any of the [testing] repositories. Thanks, - Eric

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] initscripts-2011.07.1-1
by Damjan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Evangelos Foutras: > I'd say in initscripts, because before that only the kernel prints > messages. When initscripts kicks in, its output gets combined with the > kernel messages and creates a visually unappealing result. :p You should also be aware of this development: http://karelzak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dmesg1-changes-for-util-linux-220.html there are new features in dmesg that'll help you filter out (or in) needed information. -- дамјан

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