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

[arch-general] Unable to mount external USB HD from two of my USB ports
by Robbie Smith 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

I've been having troubles mounting an external USB HDD to two of the three USB ports on my laptop. dmesg reports a timeout connecting to the device; plugging in other devices to the same ports works fine with no errors. I've attached the log here[1]. The drive in question is a Seagate 1.5 TB Expansion Portable Drive, model ST1500LM003-9YH148. I reformatted it upon purchase to have two partitions, a NTFS one for Windows compatibility, and an Ext4 one for Linux backups and miscellanea. Each partition is ~750GB in size. Any idea what is going on? I think the issue may be with the drive, which is virtually brand new (I bought it ~3 months ago). [1] https://gist.github.com/3916478

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[arch-general] is mesa, glproto, dri2proto not needed by intel video driver anymore?
by Thanos Zygouris 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, If i run 'pacman -Qdt' (search for not needed installed packages) i got: dri2proto 2.8-1 glproto 1.4.16-1 mesa 9.0-1 If i remember right, these were intalled by xf86-video-intel, or intel-dri in the past. So, my question is: can i remove these packages safely? My video card is: 'Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller' and i am using intel driver, with KMS (i915).

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[arch-general] fan/sensors problem in recent kernel update
by David Rosenstrauch 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

It seems like a recent update to the kernel has changed the behaviour of the system sensors module. My laptop now constantly shows as being 10 degrees or so hotter than usual, which is causing the fan to run nearly constantly. However, when I boot into the lts kernel this behaviour magically goes away and the fan is nice and quiet. One other possibly relevant point: in addition to the "sensors" command showing higher temperature values under the main kernel, the format of the sensors output is completely different between the main kernel and lt. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Sensors output is pasted below. Thanks, DR --- sensors output main kernel: Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +72.0°C (crit = +97.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +72.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +68.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +70.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) --- sensors output lts kernel: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +61.0°C (crit = +97.0°C)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base
by Joakim Hernberg 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:51:34 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > I am fine with add wpa_supplicant, iw and crda to base if we really > want wireless support installed by default. Not that I install many systems, once installed... But I for one would appreciate having wireless support on the install media. -- Joakim

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[arch-general] Weird accented letters in gnome testing
by Rodrigo Rivas 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello, general list! I've recently upgrade to the gnome-unstable and now gnome-testing and I noticed that some accented letters (á, é, ñ) are sometimes not printed correctly. Curiously enough other times they are correct. I think that the difference is in the Unicode compositing, because when it is printed wrongly, it shows the normal character and the compositing character as two separated glyphs: * Precomposed character: OK. * Normal character plus compositing character: Wrong. For example, in the "Regional & Language" settings in "LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 gnome-control-center", the word "Español", is printed correctly as a language, but incorrectly as a "Input source". In the latter it shows "Espan~ol" where the "~" is actually a big dotted circle with a tilde on top. Is this a known issue? Or a bug? TY -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] pambase and LDAP
by Thiago Kenji Okada 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

I am trying to figure the best way to do LDAP authentication (using a customized version of nss-pam-ldapd from AUR) on my laboratory, but I am having some problems. Since Arch now have a pambase package that should be imported on every pam configuration files (instead to relly on using old *.so for which authentication module) but this is not what is happening: as far I know, KDE (and KDM) is the only package that really uses pambase configuration files. I don't think that the best way to resolve this is to put pam_ldap.so in every service that I need, so what should I do: -Import system-auth, system-login or system-local-login on every service that I need (and remove old and redundant *.so modules). -Just add pam_ldap.so on every service that I need. -- Thiago Kenji Okada <thiago.mast3r(a)gmail.com> PGP Key: EEC09705

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[arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system
by Martín Cigorraga 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi! I got this: ( 7/11) upgrading nfs-utils [----------------------------------------------] 100% warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/ filesystem: 555 package: 755 It's safe to just chmod the /var/lib/nfs/prc_pipefs directory to 755 by hand? Thank you!

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[arch-general] Polishing systemd
by Martín Cigorraga 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi all, I've been playing with systemd for a few hours now and I must say I'm impressed, it's a very powerful tool. I want to thanks the devs for making the transition to it really smooth :) Now, as I'm still learning my way through it -that means I'm reading a lot!- I find that there are in my system here and there some small rough edges I would like to fix, these rough edges are: 1. Units with errors shown in systemctl --all: arch-modules-load.service error inactive dead arch-modules auditd.service error inactive dead auditd.servi plymouth-quit-wait.service error inactive dead plymouth-qui plymouth-start.service error inactive dead plymouth-sta rc-local-shutdown.service error inactive dead rc-local-shu rc-local.service error inactive dead rc-local.ser syslog.service error inactive dead syslog.servi A journalctl --this-boot shows: Cannot add dependency job for unit arch-modules-load.service, ignoring: Unit arch-modules-load.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status arch-modules-load.service' for details. That's because there isn't such file, right, but why is systemd trying to start it in first place? Since I strictly followed the wiki I don't know what I did wrong, in any case I would like to know how to fix them. By the way: what is the auditd.service? There's even isn't any related file in /lib/systemd/system. 2. KDE-related issues: a) It seems a bit buggy to launch KDE SC through xinit: KDE's power options will not be present (KDE will not enable it's own reboot and shutdown options). This don't really worry me too much since I've read somewhere there're plans to rebuild all login managers to systemd-logind enabled - while dropping ConsoleKit. b) If KDE is launched through xinit it will not see the built-in sound card and will offer to remove it from it's supported devices. Otherwise if KDE is initiated via KDM every- things works right. c) KDM reboot and poweroff commands must be updated to systemd's way or else the traditional shutdown command will hang the system on reboot/shutdown. 3. $ systemctl reboot and $ systemctl shutdown features: I feel a bit uncomfortable with the idea of having restricted users with the hability to reboot or shutdown the system, is there any way to change this so only r00t can issue these orders? (Without going dirty.) 4. Is there any place for e4rat(lite)? Since I activated systemd's built-in ureadahead feature, will e4rat still add any improve- ment? What do you say? I think that's all for now! Once again I want to thanks everyone involved in porting systemd to AL and making this an overall relaxed transition, systemd is an incredible tool and I'm delighted with it. Boot and shutdown times are faster than ever (blazing fast to be honest), configuration is quite clean and easy and the journal feature is incredible useful giving a *lot* of informa- tion about almost everything. Regards.

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[arch-general] gnome-session won't start [testing + gnome-unstable]
by Gary van der Merwe 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi I tried upgrading to gnome 3.6 using the gnome-unstable + testing repos. gdm did not start. So I started xinit manually. From xterm (started by xinit,) I tried to run gnome-session. I got this error: gnome-session: symbol lookup error: gnome-session: undefined symbol: g_spawn_check_exit_status I then tried to run metacity. I got this error: metacity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_replace_qdata Please let me know if there is any more info you would like, or if there is any thing I can do to help. Thanks for the effort you are putting it to this. I'm looking forward to using 3.6 Regards, Gary

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[arch-general] devtools broken?
by Joakim Hernberg 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

This started happening to me a day or 2 ago. Any ideas why, what i broke, how to fix it? jack@tor /home/jack/archaudio/linux-rt $ sudo extra-x86_64-build ==> Creating chroot for [extra] (x86_64)... ==> Creating install root at /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root ==> Installing packages to /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root warning: database file for 'core' does not exist warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist warning: database file for 'community' does not exist :: Synchronizing package databases... core 107.7 KiB 784K/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% extra 1425.3 KiB 1816K/s 00:01 [############################################] 100% community 1780.9 KiB 1489K/s 00:01 [############################################] 100% :: There are 52 members in group base: :: Repository core 1) bash 2) bzip2 3) coreutils 4) cronie 5) cryptsetup 6) device-mapper 7) dhcpcd 8) diffutils 9) e2fsprogs 10) file 11) filesystem 12) findutils 13) gawk 14) gcc-libs 15) gettext 16) glibc 17) grep 18) gzip 19) heirloom-mailx 20) inetutils 21) iputils 22) jfsutils 23) less 24) licenses 25) linux 26) logrotate 27) lvm2 28) man-db 29) man-pages 30) mdadm 31) nano 32) netcfg 33) pacman 34) pciutils 35) pcmciautils 36) perl 37) ppp 38) procps-ng 39) psmisc 40) reiserfsprogs 41) sed 42) shadow 43) sysfsutils 44) syslog-ng 45) systemd-sysvcompat 46) tar 47) texinfo 48) usbutils 49) util-linux 50) vi 51) which 52) xfsprogs Enter a selection (default=all): :: There are 12 members in group base-devel: :: Repository core 1) autoconf 2) automake 3) binutils 4) bison 5) fakeroot 6) flex 7) gcc 8) libtool 9) m4 10) make 11) patch 12) pkg-config Enter a selection (default=all): resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: dbus-core will be installed before its systemd dependency looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (131): acl-2.2.51-2 archlinux-keyring-20120915-1 attr-2.4.46-2 ca-certificates-20120623-1 cloog-0.17.0-2 cracklib-2.8.19-1 curl-7.28.0-1 db-5.3.21-1 dbus-core-1.6.8-1 dirmngr-1.1.0-4 eventlog-0.2.12-3 expat-2.1.0-1 gdbm-1.10-1 glib2-2.32.4-1 gmp-5.0.5-1 gnupg-2.0.19-2 gpgme-1.3.1-4 groff-1.21-2 hwids-20121012-1 iana-etc-2.30-3 iproute2-3.5.1-1 isl-0.10-1 kbd-1.15.3-3 keyutils-1.5.5-3 kmod-10-1 krb5-1.10.3-1 libarchive-3.0.4-2 libassuan-2.0.3-1 libcap-2.22-3 libffi-3.0.11-1 libgcrypt-1.5.0-3 libgpg-error-1.10-2 libgssglue-0.4-1 libksba-1.2.0-2 libldap-2.4.33-1 libltdl-2.4.2-7 libmpc-1.0.1-1 libnl-3.2.11-1 libpcap-1.3.0-1 libpipeline-1.2.2-1 libsasl-2.1.23-9 libssh2-1.4.2-1 libtirpc-0.2.2-2 libusbx-1.0.14-1 linux-api-headers-3.5.5-1 linux-firmware-20120625-1 mkinitcpio-0.10-1 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.20.2-1 mpfr-3.1.1.p2-1 ncurses-5.9-3 openssl-1.0.1.c-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20120908-1 pam-1.1.6-1 pambase-20120701-1 pcre-8.31-1 pinentry-0.8.2-1 popt-1.16-5 ppl-1.0-1 pth-2.0.7-4 readline-6.2.004-1 run-parts-4.3.4-1 systemd-194-3 sysvinit-tools-2.88-9 tzdata-2012f-1 xz-5.0.4-1 zlib-1.2.7-1 autoconf-2.69-1 automake-1.12.4-1 bash-4.2.037-1 binutils-2.22-10 bison-2.6.2-1 bzip2-1.0.6-4 coreutils-8.19-1 cronie-1.4.8-3 cryptsetup-1.5.0-2 device-mapper-2.02.97-1 dhcpcd-5.6.2-1 diffutils-3.2-1 e2fsprogs-1.42.5-1 fakeroot-1.18.4-1 file-5.11-1 filesystem-2012.10-1 findutils-4.4.2-4 flex-2.5.37-1 gawk-4.0.1-1 gcc-4.7.2-1 gcc-libs-4.7.2-1 gettext-0.18.1.1-4 glibc-2.16.0-4 grep-2.14-1 gzip-1.5-1 heirloom-mailx-12.5-3 inetutils-1.9.1-4 iputils-20101006-7 jfsutils-1.1.15-3 less-451-1 libtool-2.4.2-7 licenses-2.9-1 linux-3.6.2-1 logrotate-3.8.2-1 lvm2-2.02.97-1 m4-1.4.16-2 make-3.82-5 man-db-2.6.3-1 man-pages-3.42-1 mdadm-3.2.5-2 nano-2.2.6-2 netcfg-2.8.11-2 pacman-4.0.3-3 patch-2.7.1-1 pciutils-3.1.10-1 pcmciautils-018-4 perl-5.16.1-1 pkg-config-0.27.1-1 ppp-2.4.5-4 procps-ng-3.3.3-6 psmisc-22.19-1 reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-4 sed-4.2.1-4 shadow-4.1.5.1-1 sudo-1.8.6.p3-1 sysfsutils-2.1.0-8 syslog-ng-3.3.6-1 systemd-sysvcompat-194-3 tar-1.26-2 texinfo-4.13a-7 usbutils-006-1 util-linux-2.22.1-1 vi-1:050325-2 which-2.20-5 xfsprogs-3.1.8-2 Total Download Size: 0.03 MiB Total Installed Size: 568.70 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from core... netcfg-2.8.11-2-any 29.6 KiB 636K/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% (131/131) checking package integrity [############################################] 100% (131/131) loading package files [############################################] 100% (131/131) checking for file conflicts [############################################] 100% ( 1/131) installing linux-api-headers [############################################] 100% ( 2/131) installing tzdata [############################################] 100% ( 3/131) installing glibc [############################################] 100% ( 4/131) installing ncurses [############################################] 100% ( 5/131) installing readline [############################################] 100% ( 6/131) installing bash [############################################] 100% ( 7/131) installing bzip2 [############################################] 100% ( 8/131) installing gcc-libs [############################################] 100% ( 9/131) installing db [############################################] 100% ( 10/131) installing zlib [############################################] 100% ( 11/131) installing cracklib [############################################] 100% ( 12/131) installing libgssglue [############################################] 100% ( 13/131) installing libtirpc [############################################] 100% ( 14/131) installing pambase [############################################] 100% ( 15/131) installing pam [############################################] 100% ( 16/131) installing attr [############################################] 100% ( 17/131) installing acl [############################################] 100% ( 18/131) installing gmp [############################################] 100% ( 19/131) installing libcap [############################################] 100% ( 20/131) installing coreutils [############################################] 100% ( 21/131) installing run-parts [############################################] 100% ( 22/131) installing cronie [############################################] 100% Optional dependencies for cronie pm-utils: defer anacron when on battery power smtp-server: sending cron job output via email ( 23/131) installing libgpg-error [############################################] 100% ( 24/131) installing libgcrypt [############################################] 100% ( 25/131) installing shadow [############################################] 100% ( 26/131) installing util-linux [############################################] 100% install: invalid user 'uuidd' error: command failed to execute correctly ( 27/131) installing expat [############################################] 100% ( 28/131) installing iana-etc [############################################] 100% ( 29/131) installing filesystem [############################################] 100% error: could not rename /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root/etc/resolv.conf to /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root/etc/resolv.conf.pacorig (Device or resource busy) error: problem occurred while installing filesystem error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root ==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages ==> Aborting... -- Joakim

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