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

[arch-general] ettercap new upstream
by Timothy M. Redaelli 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Hi, some month ago I decided to become the new ettercap upstream maintainer. I released a fixed 0.7.4 version - https://github.com/drizztbsd/ettercap/tarball/NG-0.7.4 - that is included in debian testing and sid. Should I flag the ettercap package as old? -- Timothy M. Redaelli IT Consultant Email: timothy(a)redaelli.eu Mobile: +39 (338) 1187273 Skype: redatim

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.46-1
by Tobias Powalowski 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Latest LTS 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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[arch-general] btrfs & Arch
by Gour-Gadadhara Dasa 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Hello! After package manager which can server both official repos & AUR,there is another thing which I consider before returning back to Arch - filesystem. On FreeBSD I now use zfs running on two 1TB disks in mirror (raid-1) mode. I'd like to have similar setup on Arch, but without using lvm2+raid-1 (if possible), so I did research a bit about zfs on Linux and it looks that the 'real' name for it is Btrfs. Afaics, btrfs will soon get fsck tool for repairing the fs, but I wonder what's the plan for btrfs support in Arch, iow, when it can become 'official' ? Sincerely, Gour -- “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) http://atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810

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[arch-general] Pacman and package signing
by Myra Nelson 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

I'm going to plead ignorance hear and have not been able to find the solution. I've done a google search, read the man pages, read the help documentation for gpg, and I still have a problem. If I sign the package with makepkg or manually with gpg --detach-sign, it creates a it creates a detached signature, .sig file. I have my key using pacman-key. When I attempt to install the package I get an error message "invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)". If I manually sign the package with gpg --sign, every thing is fine. I quite sure this is something I've done wrong but I don't seem to be able (nice way of putting it) to be able to find this solution. WTF am I doing wrong. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] ip route sort order
by Damjan 29 Aug '11

29 Aug '11

Does anyone know, when and why the results of "ip route" in recent times are not sorted by netmask specificness? I remember previously routes were sorted most specific first by the netmask. -- damjan

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[arch-general] resource limits, unable to run apps
by Marek Otahal 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hi guys, in last days i'm severely bugged by some resource limits on my machine..my applications fail to run etc. I'm running on a netbook that is slow by default, but i've been on it for a few years and it was ok. I'm running normal KDE, IM client, kmail, firefox (with a lot, cca 30) tabs open, a konsole and netbeans ide. The thing is I remember I once played with some limits to avoid forkbombs etc..so my question is if you could point me to some files to check for configs? This is my top output: $ top top - 22:19:59 up 1 day, 7:19, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 1.56, 1.34 Tasks: 199 total, 1 running, 196 sleeping, 0 stopped, 2 zombie Cpu(s): 1.8%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2055224k total, 1748036k used, 307188k free, 13632k buffers Swap: 2561304k total, 938420k used, 1622884k free, 1119728k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 20689 marek 20 0 223m 60m 17m S 4 3.0 2:08.92 skype 1322 root 20 0 113m 21m 4552 S 1 1.1 65:50.10 X 3385 marek 20 0 6124 840 604 S 1 0.0 15:13.67 scdaemon 6421 marek 20 0 936m 137m 16m S 1 6.9 0:59.12 java 6832 marek 20 0 2576 1032 756 R 1 0.1 0:01.37 top 3216 marek 20 0 115m 12m 7156 S 1 0.6 31:17.96 konsole 22696 marek 20 0 177m 8828 5240 S 1 0.4 6:52.92 kget 2707 marek 20 0 5576 344 212 S 0 0.0 2:52.82 gpg-agent 3275 marek 20 0 119m 5124 3136 S 0 0.2 2:36.09 kleopatra 3449 marek 20 0 101m 4280 2720 S 0 0.2 0:57.63 klipper 6451 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:23.52 kworker/0:2 1 root 20 0 1880 24 0 S 0 0.0 0:19.49 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kthreadd 3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.84 ksoftirqd/0 6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 13 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset 14 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 15 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns 16 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.25 sync_supers 17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default 18 root 0 -20 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd 20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 khungtaskd Ulimit says $ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited scheduling priority (-e) 30 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 16028 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 80000 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) 75 stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 250 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited and I use pm-utils, should that matter? I used to run the system under similar load and it was ok, now eg. my compiles in netbeans fail, says OutOfMemoryException or sometimes cannot create a new native thread. (openjdk), also command line tools fail with things like $ man scdaemon man: fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable I wonder is it the memory consumed by netbeans or some number of process/open files limit or something? I'm glad for any suggestions, as now if i want to develop in java, i have to shut down browser, chat and even though... Thank you, Mark PS: i know..but now i'd not like to hear suggestions like using a lighter DE or buying better hw ;) -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] system slowing down when copying files.
by Madhurya Kakati 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

Hi, My system tends to slow down a lot when I copy files to and from a pen drive or even from one hard disk to another. Even my mouse cursor slows down. The system becomes almost unusable. I more than enough RAM and I am using a tiling window manager. So I am not even using a lot of RAM. Why is this happening? I can't work on my system if I run any large file copy/move operation. Please help. Thanks.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the storage group
by Myra Nelson 28 Aug '11

28 Aug '11

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 17:43, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: >> I'm refactoring our support for the "storage" group, due to a recent >> bug report about it being incomplete: >> <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/22337>. I thought I'd ask for some >> input. > > I did a bit more digging and asking around, and it seems that my > previous suggestion, basically to make "storage" work correctly with > more devices, is not a good one. > > I tried pushing the fix into udev upstream, but Kay argued against it, > and even the Debian maintainer agreed that this should probably not go > upstream. > > Their reasoning (which I guess I agree with) is that giving users > access to usb sticks (among other things) causes security probems (the > user logged in over ssh can access the usb stick of the logged in > user). > > Furthermore, (and this I did not know) in addition to taking care of > mounting, udisks has support for most of what fdisk does, so there > goes the main argument in favor of giving user access to these > devices. > > To make a long story short; in stead of fixing the "storage" group, I > intend to remove support for it from udev, and direct people to use > udisks instead. If anyone have any objections, pleas let me know. > > Cheers, > > Tom > Pardon the interruption but from a former MS user and basically an end user I thought I would chime in. Auto mounting is evil and the autorun feature associated with it is worse. I think removing it from udev is an excellent idea and I laud your suggestion. It will definitely improve security and, IMHO, make things easier to setup. One only has to learn one method, preferably the "correct" method, to do something. I use the word correct because their are at least 3 right ways to do things. Your way, my way, and the next person's way. None of which may be the correct way. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Removal of jre/jdk and jre6/jdk6 from [community]
by Thomas Dziedzic 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Oracle recently decided to remove the DLJ (Operating System Distributor License for Java) from their license on their own proprietary implementation of java [1]. For a good article explaining the situation, please refer to [2]. This means that you will have to use openjdk6 from [community] or get jre/jdk (java 7) and jre6/jdk6 (java 6) from the AUR. My personal opinion is that although openjdk6 is more buggy, I encourage everyone to use it and report bugs against it from now on. This will be better for linux in the long run. I will not be maintaining these packages in the AUR anymore. Oracle's original blog post [1] - http://robilad.livejournal.com/90792.html Article explaining the move [2] - http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_re…

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[arch-general] Keycode kernel patch doesn't change keycodes anymore
by Marcel Korpel 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Hi all, As I do not get replies to my forum post [1], I'll try asking this question here. Up until recently, I used to get the zoom slider on my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 working by following the instructions in a Gentoo Wiki page [2]. In short, by applying a small patch [3] to my custom compiled (ZEN-)kernel the keycodes of the slider are changed to values below 255, enabling the X server to process those keycodes. Unfortunately, after a recent kernel update I get different keycodes, as if the patch isn't applied at all, although I can confirm that include/linux/input.h is still changed. My keycodes now read: $ showkey keycode 418 press keycode 418 release keycode 419 press keycode 419 release I flipped through latest kernel changes of 2.6.38.x [4] and 2.6.39.x [5] (that I currently use) but was not able to find a change that might have influenced the (translation of these) keycodes. Anyone here that has an idea what might cause this issue? Kind regards, Marcel [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125259 [2] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_Ergonomic_Keyboard_4000 [3] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/w/images/1/17/Kernel-2.6.34-msnek.patch [4] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.38.y.git;a=short… [5] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.39.y.git;a=short…

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