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

[arch-general] About a modprobe command before /etc/rc.sysinit
by F.Gr. 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi, during boot process, I'm getting the following (it seems there's a problem with some modprobe command) before the script '/etc/rc.sysinit' is run: --- Usage: /sbin/modprobe [-v] [-V] [-C config-file] [-d <dirname> ] [-n] (cut) --- I'm running the latest kernel version 2.6.39.3-1 on x86_64. -- The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretense, and start hiring theater directors instead of journalists. —Arundhati Roy

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[arch-general] gnome2.32
by Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hello, If any of you, still misses the gnome 2.32 with ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder, dvdstyler, and all the stuff that comes with, I have setted up an archlinux server at: archlinux.k1.com.br ======================================== howto: 1) edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to have only one line Server = http://archlinux.k1.com.br:81/$repo/os/x86_64 2) edit the /etc/pacman.conf and uncomment the code to fetch from community, multilib, lzt lzt is the "private" packages brought from FreeBSD 8.2 3) do the command pacman -Syu the system will bring the codes from the k1 archlinux repository 4) pacman -S abs will rebuild the /etc/abs.conf to point to the K1 abs 5) command: abs will fetch (via rsync) the abs and put it in the /var/abs ======================================= for now, there is a complete gnome 2.32 working with gdm 2.18 (the old one) that have gdmsetup. libreoffice is version 3.3.3 and the pt-br package is libreoffice-pt-BR I have tested on several old notebooks and seems OK Just in case some of you need the old gnome. Sergio

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] mkinitcpio 0.7.2-1
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

On 07/09/2011 11:05 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Another bugfix release for the 0.7 series. Please sign off. > > Dave Reisner (11): > mkinitcpio: refactor BASEDIR resolution > unify error messaging, both in grammar and output > manpage: wrap at 80 columns, add a vim modeline > manpage: clarify behaviors, add example, fix typos > functions: do not null delimit modalias data > fix module installation issues with BASEDIR > mkinitcpio: include version in help msg > Makefile: allow git-describe to determine version > cleanup devel PKGBUILD > autodetect: check for /sys/devices before autodetecting > lsinitcpio: fix logical error in reading compression > Sign-off. Now archiso builds/boot fine. 0.7.2 to core! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[arch-general] libreoffice 3.4.1-2 "General Error" on open and save
by David C. Rankin 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Guys, Since updating to libreoffice 3.4.1-2 I get a "General Error" on opening any document and on saving any document for the first time. (i.e. save a new document or 'save as' new name on existing documents) Libre seems to work. After closing the error dialog, the document opens and after closing the error dialog on save, the document is saved, but this gives some concern when working on critical documents. A screenshot of the error on save dialog is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/dl/arch/bugs/libre/oo-general-error-on-save.jpg Is anyone else seeing this? If so, any idea what needs to be done to fix it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Alternative for Xyne's makerepo?
by Vic Demuzere 09 Jul '11

09 Jul '11

Hi there, I used to host a pacman repository on dropbox, for myself and a few friends. The easiest way for me to update this repo was Xyne's makerepo. That project isn't supported anymore, so I'm looking for an alternative. Something simple that can build and update a repository (with AUR packages) using a package list. Suggestions? Thanks, Vic Demuzere

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[arch-general] Objective C ABI version
by Sergej Pupykin 08 Jul '11

08 Jul '11

Hi, I have a small question about ObjC ABI. (See openvpn-authldap-plugin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30584) This package can be built only with export OBJCFLAGS=-fobjc-abi-version=2 As I understand gcc-objc uses ABI version 0 by default, but this ABI support already dropped from libobjc. So I get "undefined reference to `objc_msgSend'" errors in default build. (like this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn-auth-ldap/+bug/771029) Is there any way to fix default gcc-objc ABI version?

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[arch-general] Introducing pacweb, another pyalpm demo
by Rémy Oudompheng 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Hello, I am currently working on another toy example use of pyalpm: beside pycman, the command line utility that comes with pyalpm, I have now pacweb, a browsable Web interface to pacman. http://projects.archlinux.org/users/remy/pacweb.git/ It is not suitable for public consumption, but offers an alternative display of the pacman database. Intrepid users might run it as root, to allow performing some actions (changing package install reasons, add/remove individual packages), as well as wide opening seurity breaches on their systems. It is currently based on jinja (recently added to repos for Python 3) for templating, and steals Archweb style for the current appearance. I have also made a PKGBUILD available on the AUR. The amount of actual Python source code is very small and should be easily readable. -- Rémy.

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[arch-general] upgrading postfix - newaliases: error while loading libdb-5.1.so -- ignore?
by David C. Rankin 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

Guys, This may just be on i686, but I'm trying to figure out what happened. During update this morning, postfix refused to start. The upgrade error was: (41/46) upgrading postfix [#######################################] 100% newaliases: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Attempting to start postfix without the &>/dev/null gave the same error (duh..) [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # /usr/sbin/postfix start /usr/sbin/postfix: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Looking for the file, I find it here: [09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # locate libdb-5.1.so <snip archroot dirs> /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so Looking for ownership -- it looks like the file is just gone: [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so error: failed to read file '/usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so': No such file or directory [09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # l /usr/lib/libdb* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1789876 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.so -> libdb-5.2.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb.a <snip> OK, it looks like a missing link from db 5.2.28-1. On x86_64, I have the same thing, but postfix restarts just fine. What do we need to do to get postfix to look for libdb-5.2.so instead of libdb-5.1.so on x86? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Something Broken with Perl!
by Steve Holmes 07 Jul '11

07 Jul '11

I think when perl was upgraded to 5.14, something broke with one of its libraries. Whenever I type 'automake' or attempt to recompile several perl packages from AUR, I get the following error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr Thoughts anyone? I see this as a show stopper for any development right now. Thanks.

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[arch-general] fbsplash fails to start after pacman -Syu
by Madhurya Kakati 06 Jul '11

06 Jul '11

Hi, After a recent system upgrade fbsplash fails to run during boot. However while shutting down i can see the splash. Its only during the start up that I can't see it. This is the /var/log/boot some days before the upgrade http://pastebin.com/EbdYYb32 and this is the log after the upgrade http://pastebin.com/MkxLbRsT Please notice the "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 780: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 795: /lib/splash/cache/steps_sysinit: No such file or directory" and "/etc/rc.d/functions.d/fbsplash-extras.sh: line 796: /lib/splash/cache/steps_bootup: No such file or directory" errors that occur during boot(after upgrade). These didn't occur before. Also after booting i did ls in the /lib/splash/cache dir and found that the files are already there in the dir. Thanks.

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