December 2014 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] A symlink in /etc
by Neven Sajko 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello, I found a symlink named os-release in the /etc directory. The package it points to is owned by filesystem, but I don't know which package the symlink belongs to. And I think the symlink is world writable by mistake, but I don't know to whom should I report the bug. Does anyone know something about this?

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[arch-general] Opening symlinks in tmpfs as root fails!
by Mohammad_AlSaleh 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello. I just came across some weird behavior. A small testcase: cd /tmp # should be tmpfs touch tfile ln -s tfile tlink cat tlink When cat executes, it returns with success(0). But, if cat is executed as root, it fails with a permission denied error. What's really happening is, the open() syscall fails with EACCESS when the file is a symlink in a tmpfs-mounted dir. But only fails when run as root! I'm assuming this is a bug. Can anyone confirm it?

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[arch-general] Virtualbox - 1. How to solve a strange error? - 2. Another VM to replace VBox?
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hi, when I tried to set up an Arch Linux guest on an external USB HDD, something strange happened. VM memory size is: 512 MB VDIs are: /mnt/archvm/archvm_sda.vdi /mnt/archvm/archvm_sdb.vdi Snapshot folder: /mnt/archvm/archvm_snap After creating this I made a snapshot named "Empty partitions". I inserted a Grml 2014.11 Linux DVD for partitioning and started the VM. It booted from the DVD, but after a while there was a black screen. I powerd off the machine, got a non-fatal error, ignored the error's details, because I anyway wanted to restore the snapshot, instead of fixing the current state. If I try to restore the snapshot, I get the below error. I can't find information about it in the Internet. Failed to restore the snapshot Empty partitions of the virtual machine archVM. Could not create the differencing medium storage unit '/mnt/archvm/archvm_snap/{834e9194-84b5-443a-a5e1-8bf9bb28855d}.vdi'. VDI: cannot create image '/mnt/archvm/archvm_snap/{834e9194-84b5-443a-a5e1-8bf9bb28855d}.vdi' (VERR_DEV_IO_ERROR). Result Code: VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80BB0004) Component: Medium Interface: IMedium {05f2bbb6-a3a6-4fb9-9b49-6d0dda7142ac} [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q virtualbox virtualbox 4.3.12-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 3.10.61-rt65-1-rt-lts Yes, all vbox packages are in the IgnorePkg list, since no version > 4.3.12 can be used with a XP guest and an iPad2 connected by USB, when updating iOS. DKMS doesn't build the old modules for the current kernel, so I need to run older kernels. 1. Does anybody know what's going wrong, when I try to restore the snapshot? And how can I solve this? 2. Is there another virtual machine easy to use, without a huge learning curve? Any recommendations? I want to simulate my real Arch Linux install, copied from a backup of the host, to the guest, to test steps, to fix a few issues with my real (host) install, but I don't need to stay with vbox for that purpose. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse
by Christian Hesse 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hello Arch Linux community, this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks! My name is Christian Hesse (aka eworm), I was born in 1982 and I live in Germany. I work for an educational institution, with FOM (Fachhochschule für Ökonomie und Management) being the most prominent part. My work includes networking and Linux stuff. Most Linux servers are Debian based, some machines even run Arch. In my free time I fly radio controlled helicopters, take photographs, read books, go geocaching, meet friends, ... My first contact with Linux was about 1998 when SuSE Linux 6.8 (or similar, not perfectly sure) was offered by my school in a special deal. I installed it but did not manage to get the X server running. Some time later I bought a SuSE Linux 7.0 package, installed it and abandoned the well known proprietary operating system. I am a free software enthusiast since these days. Some SuSE versions later I was annoyed by Yast overwriting my configuration files over and over again... I decided do install LFS (Linux from scratch) and learned a lot, changed to Gentoo to get a package manager and finally installed Arch Linux in... Hmm... January 2010? ... for a serious system. I felt in love with this great distribution and its package manager pacman. To date I am perfectly happy. My main system is still running my first Arch Linux installation (though this installation survived at least three notebooks...). I started maintaining packages in AUR [0] soon. Within four and a half year the number increased to over 200, still counting. I would like to move some of these to [community]: MySQL Workbench comes in mind with 274 votes, LibreCAD and various Yubikey related packages being other candidates. Hopefully PackageKit will be prepared for prime time again soon. My main focus is on system administration, but I do have an attitude to programming. A number of open source projects includes changes by me, some just being bug fixes, some introducing new features. I do not want to bore you, so I will not list them here. I even have started some projects on my own [1][2]. Dynamic QR code on website anybody? Or desktop notifications for journal entries, netlink or block device changes? Some projects are specific to Arch Linux. Want to share pacman cache on local network? Full disk encryption with mkinitcpio and Yubikey? On community events I got in contact with the Linux Professional Institute. Nowadays I am member of LPI German e.V. [3] and working as proctor taking certification exams. Additionally my co-author Michael Gisbers and I wrote a German book ("Linux Essentials. Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung des Linux Professional Institute") for Linux Essentials exam preparation, published at Open Source Press [4]. I am going to marry next month, so do not expect me to be too active until the end of January. Nevertheless I would be pleased to join the team now and enhance Arch Linux in the future. Thanks a lot to all of you for considering my application. Best Regards, Chris [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=eworm [1] https://github.com/eworm-de [2] http://git.eworm.de/ [3] http://www.lpice.eu/lpi-partner/lpi-ev/die-mitglieder-des-lpi-e-v/christian… [4] http://www.opensourcepress.de/de/autoren/Christian-Hesse -- 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] Develop ineo 25e printer and CUPS
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

Hi all, I have a Develop ineo 25e printer, and want to set it up with CUPS. I connect to http://localhost:631/ and add the printer, with uploading the PPD available here: http://www.develop.eu/en/products/office-products/colour/ineo-25/downloads.… (English, Linux, version 1.1 dated 2012) The printer is network connected, and the connection is socket://192.168.129.100 job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided I tried several combinations, with or without the PPD, socket:// or ipp://,... no way: The test page prints OK, but any other page is a kind of source code I could not define. Would you know what option could save me? Thanks.

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio runs before linux-headers{, -lts} is installed
by Ido Rosen 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi, Currently, mkinitcpio runs before the correct version of linux-headers is installed, since linux gets upgraded before linux-headers gets upgraded. The reason this is a problem for me is that it interferes with dkms, nvidia, vboxguest, and other mkinitcpio install/hook scripts that need the linux-headers-X version to match the linux-X version. Currently, I have a custom kernel package (let's call it linux-ido), and linux-ido has linux-headers-ido in it's depends array, so that linux-headers-ido gets installed before linux-ido. (I do this in my kernel's PKGBUILD.) For linux and linux-lts PKGBUILDs, linux-headers{,-lts} isn't a mandatory dependency, nor should it be. However, if it is installed, it should be upgraded first so that dkms and any other mkinitcpio hooks that require linux-header{,-lts} can work without requiring that the user rerun mkinitcpio manually after linux-headers is installed... Not sure what the best way to accomplish this would be? Ido

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[arch-general] Kodi in [community-testing]
by Jameson 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Is anyone else trying this out, yet? Seems to be working pretty well for me, so far. I even re-packaged kodi-pvr-addons-git without the -git, so I could build their RC3 package against the non-git version of kodi. I'm just curious if anyone else has hit any big problems, yet. =-Jameson

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[arch-general] expac in [extra]
by Christian Hesse 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hello everybody, pacman 4.2.0-5 moved to [core] this morning. Can anybody please move expac 4-3 to [extra] as well? Thanks! -- 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] ErgononmicKeyboardQuestion
by Hunter Jozwiak 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hi guys. I got an ergonomic keyboard in exchange for a wireless keyboard that did not work. There are cool buttons on this keyboard that give you the ability to reply to emails, forward emails, control media, etc. How do I get these features to work with the keyboard with Arch Linux?

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[arch-general] eric packages renaming
by Evgeniy Alekseev 29 Dec '14

29 Dec '14

Hello, Recently eric-6.0.0 has been released. It is a new major release which provides fully python2/python3 support and supports Qt5 interface as well as Qt4. According to these features I plan to push Qt5 version to [community], I have contacted with upstream some time ago and they said Qt5 version is stable enough. This version will replace old {,python2-}eric packages. But as far as there are a lot of Qt4 based applications in our repo, I plan to continue maintain Qt4 based eric, but these packages will be renamed to eric-qt4 and will be in conflict with Qt5 based eric. I push these changes to [community-testing] in near future if there are no any objections. Then if it will work normally I will move them to [community] after two weeks period. CC'ing to arch-general@ for possible discussion. -- Sincerely yours, Evgeniy Alekseev email: darkarcanis(a)mail.ru ICQ: 407-398-235 Jabber: arcanis(a)jabber.ru

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