January 2013 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Request help with wired network config after initial install and reboot
by Mike Cloaked 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I did a base install last night on a machine with only a wired connection - using the arch iso from 2013-01-04 - the install seemed to go fine and I had a network connection using dhcp during the install and once chrooted into /mnt everything seemed fine. At that stage I set up a wired "static ip" connection (following the beginners guide) using ifplugd - but the service does not start from within the chroot during the install - but when I rebooted at the completion of the install I have no network connection and I cannot see any network device (was eth0 during the install) - is it possible this may be due to the systemd-197 package that was installed with the interface naming changed? It seems that the ifconfig command is not available once rebooted into the install and I don't know how to proceed. Can anyone give my any advice on how to get the network up on the newly installed system? I could not find anyone who had the same problem in the forums or searching on the net. Thanks in advance. -- mike c

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[arch-general] video display doesn't get refreshed in GIMP, it seems.
by phani 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

i've got a strange problem: when zooming images in the GIMP (installed from [extra]), viewing them larger than the size they are being automatically zoomed to by default, they break up into unconnected, rectangular tiles. moving (panning) them around with the mouse so that they partially leave the screen brings those parts back to be displayed properly. means i have to 'swivel' the image across all borders to get it to display properly. in addition, applying scissors or path tool leaves artefacts on the image that can be removed the same way. i've noticed this first with the development version of GIMP (2.9, compiled from GIT) and thought those were the new GIMP's growing pains -- but then i noticed the same happening with the stable version (2.8). i've tried switching to an earlier version of xf86-video-ati and to an earlier kernel, but neither rectifies the problem. i also tried different options in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ 20-radeon.conf, whith the same result, i.e., none. i've installed (stable) GIMP in (stable) openSUSE i'm keeping in a VirtualBox, and the problem doesn't happen there. i didn't find anything useful via google or the GIMP dev/users lists and am quite puzzled. wondering if one of you guys has an idea where to look? seems to have something to do with the image being refreshed, or not being refreshed, but which part of the system is at fault baffles me. i'm using arch +testing, and here are my system's details: System: Host: laptop Kernel: 3.7.3-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.9.98 Distro: Arch Linux Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K53SK version: 1.0 serial: BSN12345678901234567 Bios: American Megatrends version: K53SK.203 date: 10/11/2011 CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU (HT-MCP) clocked at 800.00 MHz Graphics: Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Whistler LE [AMD Radeon HD 6625M Graphics] X.org: 1.13.1 drivers: ati,radeon,intel tty size: 114x37 -- phani.

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[arch-general] Strange isse with my arch usb install
by kendell clark 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

HI all i've just completed a fresh install of arch on a new pendrive I just bought. The install went smoothly, until I try to access the internet. I setup net-auto-wireless with my home wireless network, and netcfg returns with this error. No such interface: wlan0. Checking dmesg with "dmesg | grep -i wlan0" yields the following. Systemd-udevd: renaming network interface wlan0 to wlo2 This has never happened to me before, so I tried my ethernet port. That failed too, no internet connection. Dmesg again reveals: systemd-udevd: renaming network interface eth0 to enps0." This usb drive is fully updated as of 12:15 a.m jan 21, 2013, stable, no testing repos enabled, multilib enabled. I'm using kernel v3.6.11. I've run into this situation before and I've managed to resolve it by installing nss-myhostname. However, that was when I tried to install from my main hdd, which has testing repos enabled to my usb drive without enabling testing repos. That caused conflicts with a newer kernel, v3.7.2 and systemd 197-4, which conflicted with nss-myhostname. I tried to do the same today, only to find out that systemd seems to contain nss-myhostname, because pacman -S nss-myhostname tries to pull in systemd itself. I'm completely stumped. Googling around doesn't seem to turn up any results, My search term was, udev renames wlan0 to wlo2. Any help would really be appreciated. I'm trying to create a usb drive to use as a diagnostic distro for my fiance's windows computer, virus scanning, password recovery, etc. Thanks Kendell clark

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[arch-general] Help with tigervnc problem - may be a package update required?
by Mike Cloaked 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

I have for a long time been using tigervnc until a few months ago and loading the vnc module via xorg.conf with two relevant sections: Section "Module" Load "vnc" EndSection and Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Option "passwordFile" "/opt/Local/etc/vnc/passwd" EndSubSection EndSection However this results in Xorg.0.log as: [ 8.219] (II) LoadModule: "vnc" [ 8.233] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libvnc.so [ 8.375] (II) Module vnc: vendor="Constantin Kaplinsky" [ 8.375] compiled for 1.12.3, module version = 1.0.0 [ 8.375] Module class: X.Org Server Extension [ 8.375] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 6.0 [ 8.375] (EE) module ABI major version (6) doesn't match the server's version (7) [ 8.375] (II) UnloadModule: "vnc" [ 8.375] (II) Unloading vnc [ 8.377] (EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (module requirement mismatch, 0) Does this mean that tigervnc is out of date and needs fixing or is it s problem with X? Thanks for any advice. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Busted Server
by Jameson 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

I hope someone can help me. I have a server with two SSDs that contain a mirrored btrfs volume holding /, and multiple HDDs that are in a btrfs RAID10 array. I updated to linux 3.7.3 in testing, and it failed to boot. I booted from a USB drive, and reinstalled 3.6.?, and I still get failed to set xfermode (err_mask=0x40). I don't see anything in dmesg that makes a difference. The only thing that changed was the kernels, back and forth. Does anyone have an idea, or am I going to have to re-install? Thanks.

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[arch-general] SeaMonkey outdated. Critical security holes in the current version!
by Manuel Reimer 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

Hello Archlinux team, the SeaMonkey package is outdated. Many critical issues have been fixed in the current version: http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html So in my opinion a fixed package is required as soon as possible. As SeaMonkey contains a browser component and there may be people who use this to surf the internet, in my opinion new versions should be packaged with the same priority as Firefox packages. The only alternative would be to drop the package at all. Yours Manuel Reimer

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio/fsck.btrfs
by Arno Gaboury 19 Jan '13

19 Jan '13

Dear list, here is my mkinitcpio hook list. HOOKS="base udev autodetect block lvm2 filesystems fsck usr usbinput shutdown modconf" When # mkinitcpio, I get this error: -> Running build hook: [fsck] ==> ERROR: file not found: `fsck.btrfs' ==> WARNING: No fsck helpers found. fsck will not be run on boot. The initramfs-linux.img is still correct, but I was wondering why this error. When reading the /usr/lib/initcpio/install/fsck script, it seems to me fsck will add the filesystem name and run /usr/bin/fsck.filesystemame.This will of course translate to fsck.btrfs, which does not exist. /usr/bin/btrfsck is the correct binary. According to /usr/lib/initcpio/install/btrfs script, the btrfs hook is not needed when using udev. How can I solve this issue? Shall I add the btrfs hook? Thank you for advices. Regards.

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[arch-general] update to calibre-0.9.15-1
by phani 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

during today's update from calibre 0.9.14-1 -> 0.9.15-1, pacman complained that all packages under /usr/lib/calibre/calibre were already existing in the filesystem, and therefore the update couldn't be performed. for some reason "pacman -Qo" claimed that all these files didn't belong to any package. only after moving them from that location somewhere else could the new version of calibre be installed. looks to me as if this is some packaging error. don't know enough about arch packaging though to say what exactly went wrong... -- phani.

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[arch-general] powernow-k8 fails to load with linux 3.7.2
by Leonid Isaev 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi, I just installed linux 3.7.2 from [testing] on an AMD system and noticed that powernow-k8 is not loaded. As a result, the CPU is stuck at the maximum frequency because ondemand governor is inactive. The precise model is AMD PhenomII X4 955, and modprobe error is: -------------- % modprobe -vv powernow-k8 modprobe: INFO: custom logging function 0x40ab40 registered modprobe: INFO: Failed to insert module '/lib/modules/3.7.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko.gz': No such device modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'powernow_k8': No such device modprobe: INFO: context 0x21c91b0 released insmod /lib/modules/3.7.2-1-ARCH/kernel/drivers/cpufreq/powernow-k8.ko.gz -------------- Meanwhile, linux 3.6.11 works fine. Notice also, that acpi_cpufreq 3.7.2 is fine on a INtel core2duo machine. Is it only me, or others have seen this too? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] MBP 8, 2: Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration
by bjschuma＠gmail.com 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Hi everybody! I just installed Arch on a MacbookPro 8,2 in EFI mode (booting directly from Grub 2). My system boots, but when I try to start X I get "(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration". I've tried changing the modeset values for i915 and radeon (mentioned on this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook_Pro_8,1_/_8,2_/_8,3_(2011_Macb…) but nothing seems to work. My modules line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf is: MODULES="ahci libahci crc32c-intel intel_agp i915" Does anybody know what I'm missing? Thanks! - Bryan

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