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

[arch-general] Device "eth0" does not exist - how to bring up?
by David C. Rankin 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

All, After update that installed systemd, chrooting the system successfully starts the network and eth0 is present. However, when booting natively to the system no eth0 is present. Attempting /etc/rc.d/network restart results in "Device eth0 does not exist." According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd, until I append init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd to the kernel line and reboot, the system should still process the initscripts normally. However this does not occur. 'cat /proc/1/comm' still shows 'init' so I cannot figure out why I do not have an eth0. Appending init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd does bring up systemd and the system boots until X starts and the system hangs. It still responds to ctrl+alt+del, but will not switch to the graphical interface. It is just stuck. Is there a way to bring eth0 up under the old initscripts until I get the X hang sorted out? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] rpmdb: PANIC
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

For this update [1] I got the PANIC the first time. If I install and remove leafpad, as a test, everything is ok. If I re-install linux, I get the PANIC messages too. Is DKMS broken? I need it to build Vbox modules for linux-rt. Regards, Ralf [1] [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core 105.1 KiB 501K/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% extra is up to date community 1938.1 KiB 583K/s 00:03 [######################################] 100% multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (7): acpid-2.0.18-2 gettext-0.18.2.1-1 gpgme-1.3.2-1 libassuan-2.1.0-1 virtualbox-4.2.10-1 virtualbox-host-dkms-4.2.10-1 virtualbox-host-modules-4.2.10-1 Total Download Size: 16.67 MiB Total Installed Size: 90.00 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -5.97 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from core... gettext-0.18.2.1-1-x86_64 2.1 MiB 582K/s 00:04 [######################################] 100% gpgme-1.3.2-1-x86_64 197.8 KiB 593K/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% libassuan-2.1.0-1-x86_64 77.8 KiB 599K/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% :: Retrieving packages from community... acpid-2.0.18-2-x86_64 44.0 KiB 613K/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% virtualbox-host-dkms-4.2.10-1-x86_64 483.0 KiB 589K/s 00:01 [######################################] 100% virtualbox-host-modules-4.2.10-1-x86_64 157.1 KiB 591K/s 00:00 [######################################] 100% virtualbox-4.2.10-1-x86_64 13.7 MiB 586K/s 00:24 [######################################] 100% (7/7) checking package integrity [######################################] 100% (7/7) loading package files [######################################] 100% (7/7) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100% (7/7) checking available disk space [######################################] 100% (1/7) upgrading acpid [######################################] 100% (2/7) upgrading gettext [######################################] 100% (3/7) upgrading gpgme [######################################] 100% (4/7) upgrading libassuan [######################################] 100% rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1cbb870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffb2b09f5c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1cbb870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffb2b09f5c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x2581870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff646adabc) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x2581870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff646adabc) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x8f8870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff7f35695c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x8f8870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff7f35695c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0xd0a870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff24fbcd8c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0xd0a870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff24fbcd8c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1873: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1875: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1873: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1875: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1873: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1875: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1873: echo: write error: Broken pipe /usr/sbin/dkms: line 1875: echo: write error: Broken pipe (5/7) upgrading virtualbox-host-dkms [######################################] 100% warning: directory permissions differ on usr/src/ filesystem: 775 package: 755 rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x11b0870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffc320044c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x11b0870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffc320044c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1aac870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffb5e04d0c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1aac870, PANIC(0), 0x7fffb5e04d0c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0xb87870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff5224972c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0xb87870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff5224972c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1613870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff092c465c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/./log: No such file or directory rpmdb: PANIC: No such file or directory ==> rpmdbe_event_notify(0x1613870, PANIC(0), 0x7fff092c465c) app_private (nil) rpmdb: unable to join the environment error: db_init:db3.c:1009: dbenv->open(-30973): DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/4.2.10/source -> /usr/src/vboxhost-4.2.10 DKMS: add completed. ==> To build and install your modules run: dkms install vboxhost/4.2.10 ==> To do this automatically at startup run: systemctl enable dkms.service (6/7) upgrading virtualbox-host-modules [######################################] 100% In order to use the new version, reload all virtualbox modules manually. (7/7) upgrading virtualbox [######################################] 100%

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[arch-general] Package Maintenance Classroom (31/3/2013)
by William Giokas 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

All, At the end of this month Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred) and I will be giving a classroom on basic package maintenance. From the forum post[1]: > And now we have planned our first actual class: A Beginners Guide to > Package Maintaining. > > This will be taught by gtmanfred and myself Sunday, March 31st at 16:00UTC > in the #archlinux-classroom channel. There is already an Arch Wiki[2] page > about this class listing the requirements and lesson plans. This class will > be broken into separate lessons, the first being a simple introduction with > guided practice and explanations. We will be covering more advanced topics > later on. Even if you are not new to package maintenance, we would like to > see you there for support and just in case/when we get things wrong you can > correct us. We will also be covering the new functions and uses of pacman > 4.1, currently in the rc stage, particularly its use with version control > sources and development packages in the later lessons. > > There will be a pdf file released when the class begins so that you can > follow along. We will be releasing an info document too, for those of you > that do not use X but still want to follow along. > > Thank you, and we hope to see you there! > > If you have any questions about the requirements or prerequisites, then > please ask on the IRC channel. We will be glad to clear things up. If you are interested, please reply or post on the forums so we know about how many people we're going to have to help. Thank you, -- William Giokas | KaiSforza GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306 E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF [1]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1243733#p1243733 [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide_to_Package_Maintaining

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[arch-general] SOLVED Re: Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 18 Mar '13

18 Mar '13

On 03/06/2013 08:24 PM, Ross Hamblin wrote: > On 07/03/13 14:32, David C. Rankin wrote: >> Guys, >> >> Attempting to fix the test box that updating left unable to boot, I cannot >> chroot to fix the system. I've booted from the install medium and done the >> normal mount of the existing system under /mnt: >> >> mount /dev/sda6 /mnt >> mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/home >> mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/boot >> mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev >> mount -t proc none /mnt/proc >> mount -t sysfs none /mnt/sys >> >> All files appear in their proper place under /mnt. However, attempting to >> create the chroot fails: >> >> cd /mnt >> chroot /mnt /bin/bash >> >> chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory >> >> /bin/bash is in the new location /usr/bin/bash (moved from /bin/bash by the >> update) with with a proper symlink in /mnt/bin/bash pointing to ../usr/bin/bash >> >> This if the first time I've ever had difficulty chrooting a system. I suspect >> that this is caused by the last update that pulled in systemd which left the >> system unbootable. Anyone know what could be causing the chroot failure? I've >> tried explicitly pointing the chroot to ./usr/bin/bash, etc... and tried it >> without any executable specified. Regardless, I get the same "No such file or >> directory". >> >> Thanks in advance for any help or link you can provide. >> > It's been a while now but ISTR this message when chroot from 32 bit host > and 64 bit target, or maybe it was vice versa. > > HTH > Ross. > All, The problem with the update (11/20/12 -> 2/5/13) appears to be that the update of filesystem (or something) removed the /lib -> /usr/lib link from the / directory causing much of the update to fail. This apparently is a problem for boxes that haven't been updated in a few months. The last system update before the one on 2/5/13 was on 11/20/12. The pacman.log contains hints of where the problem began. Specifically, from the pacman.log file I have: [2013-02-05 23:45] synchronizing package lists [2013-02-05 23:45] starting full system upgrade [2013-02-05 23:53] removed eject (2.1.5-7) [2013-02-05 23:53] userdel: user dbus is currently used by process 452 [2013-02-05 23:53] groupdel: cannot remove the primary group of user 'dbus' [2013-02-05 23:53] removed dbus-core (1.6.4-1) <snip> (don't know if this is important -- repeated twice in log) [2013-02-05 23:53] /usr/bin/gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [2013-02-05 23:53] /usr/bin/gconftool-2: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory <snip> [2013-02-05 23:53] upgraded linux-api-headers (3.5.1-1 -> 3.7.4-1) [2013-02-05 23:53] upgraded tzdata (2012e-1 -> 2012j-1) [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/gshadow installed as /etc/gshadow.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/passwd installed as /etc/passwd.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/group installed as /etc/group.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/fstab installed as /etc/fstab.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/shadow installed as /etc/shadow.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] upgraded filesystem (2012.8-1 -> 2013.01-3) [2013-02-05 23:53] warning: /etc/locale.gen installed as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew [2013-02-05 23:53] call to execv failed (No such file or directory) [2013-02-05 23:53] upgraded glibc (2.16.0-4 -> 2.17-3) [2013-02-05 23:54] call to execv failed (No such file or directory) [2013-02-05 23:54] upgraded bash (4.2.037-1 -> 4.2.042-3) [2013-02-05 23:54] call to execv failed (No such file or directory) I don't know if it was the filesystem package or not, but after the filesystem install, there are many of the "call to execv failed (No such file or directory)" errors noted. After working with the chroot error a bit I stumbled across the fact that link for /lib was missing. After manually creating the link again, chroot worked like a champ. I don't know how much of the system got borked as a result, but a fresh pacman -Syu complete normally. I have not finished examining the system yet, so I have not attempted to boot to the new kernel. I will have to go through and verify the grub legacy config before I reboot. I'll report back after I have had an opportunity to test the box. Thank you to those that responded. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Xorg-server 1.14 hitting testing
by Martti Kühne 17 Mar '13

17 Mar '13

On 3/16/13, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Am 16.03.2013 10:05, schrieb Andreas Radke: >> I'd like to move Xorg 1.14 pretty soon, best would be together with >> the kernels. It's up to you whether you want to announce to hold the >> update for catalyst users or remove it from the repos. > > I just noticed that Virtualbox does not work with the latest > xorg-server due to ABI mismatch. Is this known? It's possible that > rebuildig the driver might fix this. > > -- > Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com > When I checked, this was basically waiting to come from upstream.

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[arch-general] Svntogit doesn't show new entries
by Armin K. 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

Last commits are 26 hours ago

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.8.3-1 ready for core?
by Genes Lists 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

On 03/16/2013 02:43 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Ah this is a kernel issue I experience this too on my laptop with intel > graphics. > > greetings > tpowa Could this be related? https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/14/540 Gene

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.8.3-1 ready for core?
by Leonid Isaev 16 Mar '13

16 Mar '13

On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:14:26 +0000 Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 March 2013 17:58, Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I've just updated the kernel and some mesa packages and the screen > > detection in KDE is now broken. On startup it detects that there's a > > VGA connected and sets my laptop screen to 1024x768 to match detected > > VGA output even though there's nothing connected. I'll try to find > > which package causes later. > > > > Otherwise no issues so fat. > > Yup, it's the kernel. Downgrade to 3.8.2 fixed the problem. I'll try > to get some info and report it to the bugtracker. > > Lukas Please note that you don't even need X to see this. On my i915 system, _in tty_ the entire screen is shifted up, so I can't use last several lines of the display. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] error during update of qt4 and qt5
by phani 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

pacman wanted to update some qt4 and qt5 packages, but this didn't work because of the following error: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) /usr/share/applications/assistant.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and 'qt5-tools' /usr/share/applications/designer.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and 'qt5-tools' /usr/share/applications/linguist.desktop exists in both 'qt4' and 'qt5-tools' seems both qt versions are trying to provide .desktop files with the same name. what to do about this? -- phani.

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[arch-general] Western Digital external drives
by Ralf Mardorf 15 Mar '13

15 Mar '13

Hallo, I'm aware that there's an Arch Wiki about WD drives. However, I need to know if something is bad with Linux or a brand new WD drive. In the German WD forms I got a reply, with the claim, that once a WD Elements is spin down, it will park, _not_ spin up again, if there's no access. For my updated Arch Linux, 64-bit with current kernel and current kernel-rt, running current Xfce 4 the drive does spin down and up again and again even when _no_ partition is mounted, I'm running a Xfce 4 session without an application launched, while I don't use the computer. So with completely no access by me, - Arch Linux _does_ access the drive, even if no partition is mounted - or I got a brand new drive that's broken and should make use of the warranty How can I find out, if there's something fishy with my Arch Linux or if the drive is broken? Any ideas? Regards, Ralf

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