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

[arch-general] Please move evieext and printproto from [extra] to [null]
by Daniel Martin 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

Hi folks, In [extra] we've printproto, evieext and their libraries (libxp and libxevie), which are of no use. Because, both extensions have been droped from xorg-server 5 years ago: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=f4036f6 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1c8bd31 The first version of xorg-server without those extensions was 1.6.0, which was added in March 2009: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=package… Removing evieext and libxevie should be straight forward, as they aren't required by anything else. For libxp it looks a bit different: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/libxp/ I hope that all required-by's have a switch to disable the dependency to libxp. I've checked at least openmotif: its configure knows a --disable-printing option. (While looking at openmotif [community], I've noticed that it isn't required by anyone. Isn't that a candidate to be moved to AUR?) Then we've libxcb, here xevie and xprint have to be disabled explicitly as they're enabled by default. It's not a bug to keep the packages and they don't eat much space on the harddisk. So, I don't have any better argument then saying: they don't serve any purpose. But, for quite some time I wanted to point at them. So, is it in your interest to get rid of them? Would you like to do it? Thanks for your patience and thanks for Arch, Daniel Martin

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Re: [arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device
by John Briggs 19 Jul '14

19 Jul '14

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 09:45:43PM +0200, Csányi Pál wrote: > I forgot to write down here some more information: > > $ free -h > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 5.8G 4.2G 1.6G 2.9G 64M 3.2G > -/+ buffers/cache: 928M 4.9G > Swap: 511M 0B 511M > > /etc/fstab > /dev/sda3 / ext4 > rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 > ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > /swapfile none swap defaults > 0 0 > The best way to overcome this error is to allocate the space you need in fstab as per the instructions on the fstab page on ArchWiki. John

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[arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device
by Csányi Pál 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

I forgot to write down here some more information: $ free -h total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 5.8G 4.2G 1.6G 2.9G 64M 3.2G -/+ buffers/cache: 928M 4.9G Swap: 511M 0B 511M /etc/fstab /dev/sda3 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 /swapfile none swap defaults 0 0 -- Regards from Pal

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[arch-general] EFI-GPT : GRUB won't load
by Saleem EDAH-TALLY 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hello, I'm trying to dual boot Arch with Windows 8.1 on an HP Pavilion 15-n216sf with Windows 8.1 pre-installed. I have followed https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub I copied the ARCH install ISO to a USB stick with dd and installed ARCH in the usual way. Here is the disk layout from cgdisk : Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 821247 400.0 MiB 2700 Basic data partition 2 821248 1353727 260.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 3 1353728 1615871 128.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ... 4 1615872 167604223 79.1 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 5 1425895424 1465147391 18.7 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 6 167604224 209547263 20.0 GiB 8300 ARCH_ROOT 7 209547264 251490303 20.0 GiB 8300 AUTRE_ROOT 8 251490304 259878911 4.0 GiB 8200 SWAP 9 259878912 1425895423 556.0 GiB 8300 HOME ARCH is installed in /dev/sda6. /dev/sda4 is where Windows lives, /dev/sda5 is the recovery partition. In arch-chroot, I mounted the ESP /dev/sda2 in /boot/efi and ran grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=grub --recheck --debug with no errors. Then I ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg On boot, GRUB is not loaded at all, the laptop boots on Windows 8.1. After pressing F9 fo the boot options menu, there is one entry starting with grub, selecting this entry keeps booting Windows. There is a grubx64.efi file in /boot/efi/grub. I have copied /etc/grub.d/40_custom from the section https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Dual-booting with the relevant UUID changed to be that of /dev/sda2 (ESP). So I can't find a way to dual boot with ARCH and I'm stuck with this. I have noted one weird thing with efibootmgr -v from arch-chroot, with fails with an invalid pointer message and lots of backtrace, and the following output : BootCurrent: 0001 Timeout: 2 seconds BootOrder: 0002,0000,3000,2001,2002,2003 Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,c8800,82000,dc61d0de-af32-472f-8c54- fdafe931e191)File(\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi)(invalid optional data length) Boot0001* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - USB DISK 2.0 I am hereby requesting help to solve this issue. Thank you.

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[arch-general] syslog-ng, Error parsing destination, destination plugin smtp not found in
by Stefan Fuhrmann 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Hello all, I want to send mail alert, when messages comes in via UDP. But having following error at start: Error parsing destination, destination plugin smtp not found in smtp( ^^^^ I did a @module smtp on top of conf after @version. getting: Plugin module not found in 'module-path'; module-path='/usr/lib/syslog-ng', module='smtp' I looked: pwd /usr/lib/syslog-ng [root@ns42 syslog-ng]# ls libafamqp.so libafmongodb.so libafsocket-notls.so libafsocket.so libafuser.so libconfgen.so libcsvparser.so liblinux-kmsg-format.so libsyslogformat.so libaffile.so libafprog.so libafsocket-tls.so libafstomp.so libbasicfuncs.so libcryptofuncs.so libdbparser.so libsyslog-ng-crypto.so libsystem-source.so a syslog-ng --module-registry |grep smtp gives nothing. hmm, what next? I searched around but was not able to find a solution. Do I need something to install? And what could the packagename be? Can someone help? TIA Stefan

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[arch-general] bacman failed to set file flags bsdtar error
by Ralf Mardorf 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

What's the meaning of this [1]? Regards, Ralf [1] $ bacman ardour ==> Entering fakeroot environment ==> Package: ardour-2.8.16-1 -> Copying package files... etc/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/bin/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/lib/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/applications/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/: Failed to set file flags bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. -> Generating .PKGINFO metadata... -> Generating the package... ==> Done.

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[arch-general] Event loop problem
by Brian Wood 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

I've been having a problem related to epoll_ctl() lately. I have a 3-tier system: 1. back tier (tcp server) 2. middle tier (udp server) 3. front tier The problem is happening in the back tier. If I kill the middle tier with a control-C and then restart it (before making any requests via the front tier), the socket descriptor (associated with the middle tier) in the back tier is 7. But If I first make some requests via the front tier, then kill the middle tier and restart it, the socket descriptor is 1. When the socket descriptor is 1, I get an EBADF on an epoll_ctl with an op of EPOLL_CTL_MOD. It's not on the first call to epoll_ctl that it fails, but the third call. My debugging shows that the epfd and fd are the same for all three of these calls. I've tried many things to get the back tier to not give me the socket descriptor of 1. I've tried calling daemon(), freopen'ing stdin, stdout, and stderr, and a few other things. I've tried doing these things only in the parent, only in the child and in both. Nothing has worked. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Brian Ebenezer Enterprises http://webEbenezer.net

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[arch-general] Change installation from 64-bit to 32-bit
by Friedrich Strohmaier 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi all, I installed 64-bit arch on a low memory laptop (1G) not thinking about the higher memory requirement. Now I wonder, whether I can approach to change it by changing the pacman.conf entry Architecture = auto to Architecture = i686 and reinstall all explicitly installed packages. I feel like it should work. Any "don't do that"s, "go for it"s, "I did it"s out there :o)). -- Friedrich

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[arch-general] Dependency Hell
by Chris Tonkinson 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

Hi all, I have ZFS (from AUR) and VirtualBox (from Community) installed. The problem is that these both dependend typically on very specific kernel versions, and usually ("usually" being a subjective and ill-defined term slanted by when and how often I update my system; at least once per day) cause dependency failures which prevent *ANY* upgrades from being processed. As such, my /etc/pacman.conf contains an ignore declaration: IgnorePkg = linux zfs-git spl-git virtualbox virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-host-modules So once in a while, I'll comment out my IgnorePkg and attempt a system update and expect it to fail because getting the kernel, ZFS, and VirtualBox all to line up at the same time feels like, to quote Scotty, "trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse." Is there any graceful solution here? Clearly the three won't (can't) ALL be bleeding edge simultaneously, but is there a sane workaround to keep them as-current-as-possible without pacman barfing on everything else. It's not immediately obvious to me how to combine IgnorePkg, HoldPkg, and NoUpgrade to achieve the desired result. Thanks, -Chris -- Chris Tonkinson 610.425.7807 "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." -Thomas Paine

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[arch-general] gparted cant take root priviliges
by Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras 15 Jul '14

15 Jul '14

In my new laptop , I install archlinux and works fine but also when I try to use gparted not promont one dialog to have root priviliges .. how to fix that ? -- Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras ========================= mail -> kag(a)grrlz.net xmpp -> kag(a)grrlz.net weblog -> http://jemadux.noblogs.org

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