October 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] aur down?
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Is aur server down? -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}

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[arch-general] Still no word on Apache httpd 2.4
by James Cleveland 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

It has been released as stable since 2012-08-21 (over two months ago) http://httpd.apache.org/ and flagged out of date since mid September (over a month ago), and I've e-mailed the maintainer offering to help update if they're busy, yet I get no response. I would have imagined that something as big as Apache httpd would be updated far more frequently, at least in testing, and there are lots of new features 2.4 brings to the table - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html James Cleveland

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[arch-general] Issues with torrents
by Alexandre Ferrando 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

First of all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask such a question, so excuse me if it turns to be it isn't. Some days ago I realized that most of my torrents (mostly related to the openbittorrent tracker but also including another ones (The arch iso torrent works, though) ) fail to download. The information about how many seeders/leechers are is displayed, but the count of how much seeders I'm connected to remains 0 and no download happens. In my low knowledge of troubleshooting networking issues I've tried to ping those trackers that are giving me problems, getting on all of them a 100% packet loss. Also, traceroute is not able to give me a full route of the packets. I've tried to flush my pdnsd cache, change dns but I keep getting the same result after repeating the above I ask on this mailing list because I'm experiencing this on both my home connection and at the university so I thought It could be something related to my computer or something in common in both connections. I don't know and I'm completely lost in this. Should I assume that this is something beyond my reach and try to live with it while it gets solved on another level? Thank you in advance

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Re: [arch-general] Btrfs snapshots for upgrade operations
by Jan Steffens 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Christoph Rissner <cri(a)visotech.at> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:03:46 +0200, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Basically you tell the FS to subvol / to a location like >> /.pacmansnaps/$datetime. > > And don't forget about /boot, or any other relevant btrfs mountpoint. > Right? > > Bye, > Christoph > If you have /boot on a btrfs, you ought to be slapped upside the head. :p I'd say we disregard setups with submounts (other than /boot and /home) for now. Having to handle those as well will get complex.

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[arch-general] Filesystem and /etc/shadow
by Manolo Martínez 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello, The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight (to clueless users such as me). Could anyone provide a summary of what we should change in our current /etc/shadow? Thanks, Manolo --

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[arch-general] PKGBUILDs of repo packages
by G. Schlisio 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

hi list, i just wondered wether the PKGBUILDs of packages in the binary repos are (read) accesible to normal users, e.g. to compile a program with different switches. thanks for pointers georg

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[arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X? Other bleeding edge distros mentioned they will be adopting it [1], [2] I am not saying Archlinux should follow, just asking if there is (was) any discussion about it. [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/145273.html [2]: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}

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[arch-general] Nothing written to log files in 3 days
by David Rosenstrauch 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

It looks like some recent package update broke logging on my machine, and nothing has been written to my system logs since 10/21: [darose@daroselin log]$ ls -l messages.log* syslog.log* daemon.log* everything.log* -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 daemon.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 612714 Oct 21 22:21 daemon.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 231752 Oct 14 21:53 daemon.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 400266 Oct 8 10:50 daemon.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 476248 Oct 1 02:25 daemon.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 everything.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 2215204 Oct 21 22:21 everything.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1027441 Oct 15 03:10 everything.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1694955 Oct 8 11:30 everything.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1533007 Oct 1 03:23 everything.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 messages.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 1646635 Oct 21 22:21 messages.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 737769 Oct 15 02:41 messages.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1230698 Oct 8 11:21 messages.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1167058 Oct 1 03:21 messages.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 syslog.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 3145 Oct 21 22:21 syslog.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1582 Oct 14 21:48 syslog.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 2568 Oct 8 10:04 syslog.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 2076 Sep 30 21:13 syslog.log.4 Anyone have any idea what broke / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PSA] minor filesystem changes
by Leonid Isaev 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:43:23 +0200 Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just pushed a new filesystem package to testing with two minor changes: > > We now rely on nss-myhostname being installed, so we no longer have to > instruct people to put their local hostname in /etc/hosts. > The archlinux(7) manpage was updated to reflect that, as well as to > refer to some features of systemd in testing which should make the > basic setup more straight-forward (timezone and hostname config in > particular). So, is it safe to remove /etc/hosts after updating the filesystem, or there are some applications which still expect it?.. Thanks. > > Please let me know if you notice any issues. When all of this moves to > core, I guess the wiki/beginners guide should be updated too... ;-) > > Cheers, > > Tom -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Keyboard (special funcs) in Gnome3
by Héctor Herrera 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi everyone!! I'm trying to control my system with the multimedia keys. In this moment, I can control the brightness of the screen and wireless, but I can't control the volume applet, or the Web navigator, or anything else. I read the wiki, and I can configure in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h, but... Is that tne only solution? Ah, I'm not running testing, I'm only in the [core] repo. And my version of GNOME is 3.4.1.3 -- Saludos *Héctor Herrera Anabalón* Egresado ICCI UNAP Servicio Arquitectura Galatea - Oficina Técnica http://www.galatea.cl Miembro USoLIX Victoria Registered User #548600 (LinuxCounter.net) +56983118902

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