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

[arch-general] I have to switch back to tty1 for systemd to shutdown the pc
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

hi all, Since latest update of gnome 3.4, I can't login through gdm because, then, I have no single glyph or font displayed on my desktop in menu or application (but not the qt ones) So, I found the work around to switch to tty2 and login and run startx and all is fine in my desktop. The fonts are back. No idea what this bug is about ! Anyway, my problem is: When I shutdown the PC from gnome desktop, I end up on tty2 console, and nothing is happening there i.e. no shutdown. I have to switch back manually to tty1 so that the shutdown procedure begins or continues. Any idea why systemd fails like that ? or gnome ?

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Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update
by Christian Hesse 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> on Wed, 2013/01/16 10:18: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Christian Hesse <list(a)eworm.de> wrote: > > > Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com> on Tue, 2013/01/15 21:57: > > > [...] > > > If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute > > this, > > > I would really appreciate it. > > > > I do have the same drive and I updated the firmware booting the image off > > grub. All just need is a working grub (2.0 here) installation and syslinux > > (for memdisk). (Though doing it with syslinux should work as well.) > > > > The grub.cfg should have a config section that looks like this: > > > > menuentry "Update Crucial M4" { > > set root='(hd0,1)' > > linux16 /memdisk floppy > > initrd16 /boot2880.img > > } > > > > If the files are in place (probably in /boot/) the image should boot and > > you > > can successfully update the drives firmware. > > > > Mounting the boot image, modifying it or installing freedos is not > > necessary. > > > > Thanks Christian - it sounds like you are running grub off the system > already installed to the internal drive? If that is the case then maybe I > will have to install arch to the internal drive first and then add in the > grub entries to execute the firmware update and boot to them? > > However it would be nice to be able to run grub (2) off a usbkey and > execute the firmware update before installing arch to the internal drives > which then already have the updated ssd firmware. Does not matter where grub is installed to. It just has to find and boot the files. -- main(a){char*c=/* Schoene Gruesse */"B?IJj;MEH" "CX:;",b;for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}

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[arch-general] newbie: looking for docs
by Don Raikes 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hello, I am very new to archlinux (as of late last week, and I am struggling to find any documentation on how to create new archlinux packages, and how to setup a local repository for my packages prior to contributing them to the AUR. I have searched the wiki and forums as well as simply googled on the topics and have found nothing. Any tips would be appreciated.

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[arch-general] Encryption passphrase has to be entered twice
by Karol Babioch 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi, I've recently installed Arch on a friend's machine, which happens to be a MacBook Pro. After some initial problems with the EFI setup, it now works basically great. However there is a strange "problem" during the boot process. The system is fully encrypted (based on the layout recommended in the Wiki), so during the boot process you'll get asked for the passphrase. However the correct passphrase isn't recognized the first time, but it has to be entered a second time. The passphrase is pretty easy for now, just to make sure mistyping is not a problem. We tested this several times, and it consequently refuses to accept the passphrase given at the first attempt. I've had to include the "usbinput" hook into the initramfs as the keyboard is attached via USB. However I can't think that this is a problem, as I've used the "usbinput" hook on other machines without a problem. Has anyone experienced something like this already? What might be the problem here? How can I debug this? I thought of rewriting the "encrypt" hook to output the entered passphrase, but before fiddling around with it, maybe there is something obvious I've missed here? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update
by Mike Cloaked 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

If anyone can help or suggest links to solve the following problem I would appreciate it. I have a new system built with an Intel DQ77KB motherboard with a Crucial mSATA M4 SSD, and a Crucial SATA M4 SSD drive. I want to install arch on this system and indeed preparing a usbkey with the archiso install media using dd to write the usbkey boots just fine. Also the latest PartedMagic iso written to a usbkey also boots fine so that I can format the SSD drives (both of them). Looking at the system profile I can see all the peripherals, including all the RAM and both SSD drives. However before starting the arch install I want to update the firmware on the SSD drives. This is available from the Crucial website either as a Windows 7/8 .exe (which I can't use) or a "manual" firmware update file which is an iso (containing memdisk from syslinux, and a floppy image file boot2880.img) Running the "file" command on the boot2880.img file after loop mounting it gives: # file /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux/boot2880.img /mnt/iso/boot/isolinux/boot2880.img: x86 boot sector, FREE-DOS Beta 0.9 Bootloader KERNEL.SYS, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID "FreeDOS ", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 240, sectors 5760 (volumes <=32 MB) , sectors/FAT 9, serial number 0x2b6112fe, label: "BOOTABLE ", FAT (12 bit) Writing the iso to a usbkey won't boot - the screen goes blank and nothing happens when I write the iso to a usbkey with a FAT32 key with the boot flag. I have tried isolinux and that does not seem to work. I have tried a bootable grub2 usbkey and that does not work - all are prepared from a working arch linux laptop. I have following numerous "recipes" for making the usbkey from various sources on the web and none seem to work at all! The odd thing is that for syslinux I can't even get a menu item on the screen when booting the key - nor for grub 2. I have used two different makes of usbkey - both 4GB....same result - and both keys will boot fine with the archiso or PartedMagic. I don't know if I am doing something fundamentally stupid but this is driving me nuts! I have used gparted, as well as fdisk, as well as trying parted to reformat the usbkeys. Nothing I do seems to work! There must be a good step-by-step guide somewhere on how to get a usbkey with sysylinux to boot the firmware updater - which seems to have a floppy image file (boot2880.img) and uses memdisk to boot it - though the version on the iso file is about two year old whereas arch current memdisk in syslinux is up to date. If anyone can help advise on how to make a bootable usbkey to execute this, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- mike c

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Re: [arch-general] : powernow-k8 fails to load with linux 3.7.2
by Jesse Jaara 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

I think it was merged to the regular acpi driver

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[arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot
by gt 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot? Basically, i want a chrooted environment for testing some program. Alternatively, is there any other better way to create an isolated environment, apart from chroot and VMs.

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[arch-general] installing grub to empty harddisk
by G. Schlisio 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

hi list, i struggled to install grub into an empty hdd, which belongs to an other laptop with a broken cd drive and no usb boot option. i tried to uso grub-install, but that didnt work. how to install grub, so it works in the other laptop? georg

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[arch-general] Truecrypt mounting vanishes desktop icons
by Greg . 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

When i use truecrypt --mount /PATH/OF/FILE /home/usr/Desktop all of my folders vanish. I then tried to unmount using truecrypt -d /PATH/OF/FILE and nothing, but after reboot the folders are back on Desktop. Is there any way to be able to mount on Desktop but not lose my folders?

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[arch-general] [SOLVED] Polluted login prompt
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 14 Jan '13

14 Jan '13

With reference to an issue I raised on this ML earlier: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2012-November/032201.h… I was able to solve my issue by setting the service type (or unit type) of the systemd units that generate output after the login prompt to "idle". https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54247#c10 P.S. Apologies for the off-thread posting, I couldn't find the previous mail in my mail box. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe. http://sudaraka.org/

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