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[arch-general] Weird issue with Google Talk/Hangout plugin
by David Rosenstrauch 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

I'm having a weird issue with the Google Talk plugin (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-talkplugin/) distorting all my video images - both the ones of me coming in from my camera, and the ones coming in from others across the Net. See http://www.darose.net/GoogleHangWeirdness.png for an example. Anyone have any idea what's going on here and/or how to fix? This seems to be a recent issue - i.e., probably caused by some package upgrade within the past week or so. I'm running google-talkplugin 3.14.17.0-1 with firefox 19.0-1. But I don't think the issue is caused by the plugin itself. (Or by firefox, since I see the same problem when I use Google chromium browser.) I was running an older version of the plugin - which had been working fine for weeks - when I started experiencing the issue. I upgraded to the latest version in an attempt to work around the problem, but it didn't clear it up. So as I said, I don't think the plugin itself is the cause of the problem - since 2 different versions of the plugin are experiencing the issue, and the issue popped up out of the blue after things had been working fine for quite a while. Any assistance anyone might be able to lend here would be much appreciated! Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

On 03/06/2013 08:24 PM, Ross Hamblin wrote: > 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. It does. It has to be something that simple. However, checking, I have booted with the i686 install medium. The box is an older dell P4, so the i686 is correct and matches the system installed. The install disk /bin/bash date is May 7, 2011. The /bin/bash on /dev/sda6 at /mnt/usr/bin/bash (after mount of the system / at /mnt) is January 26, 2013. Attempting the chroot again on fresh reboot gives the same failure: # cd /mnt # chroot /mnt chroot: failed to run command `/bin/bash`: No such file or directory For some reason it is like the system has no ability to find anything. The install cd is a pre /lib change cd, so that may be the issue. I have downloaded the latest install cd and will try again. Thank you again Ross. Any other suggestions welcomed. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Cannot chroot '/bin/bash': No such file or directory
by David C. Rankin 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

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. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] Forced to run fsck manually on unattended system
by edd_smith 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Hi, I run a series of remote boxes running Arch. These boxes are unnattended and are very difficult to access. Due to the nature of their power supply they are often powered down without any warning. A UPS is not an option. I have noticed that over time the boxes are showing file system errors and getting stuck during the boot phase requiring manual intervention (Either press Control-D to continue - resulting in failure or log in to the start up shell using the root password and run fsck manually). I simply answer yes to every prompt from fsck and the errors are resolved, the box reboots and runs fine. I need to be able to force an 'fsck -y' type command at every boot as visiting these boxes manually isn't an option. I have already moved the partitions to ext2 as this seemed to show a mild improvement and also set 0 1 flags in /etc/fstab but still I'm seeing the freezing on boot. First of all should I be re-partitioning my drives to something which can handle these kinds of sudden power outages or removing the swap space or something? Secondly can I have arch run a completely unprompted startup whereby fsck will do its best to repair the system without requiring intervention - for me a blank disk is no worse than a frozen system. Thanks in advance, Edward Smith -- View this message in context: http://archlinux.2023198.n4.nabble.com/Forced-to-run-fsck-manually-on-unatt… Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[arch-general] [wpa_actiond 1.4] slow disconnects
by Leonid Isaev 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hi, With testing/wpa_actiond-1.4 I am having a minor problem when shutting down net-auto-wireless.service: 'systemctl stop net-auto-wireless.service' pauses for ~10sec before finally disconnecting. Of course, this also occurs on normal system poweroff (which is usually ~5sec). The wifi network is WPA "enterprise" (important entries in wpa_supplicant.conf: key_mgmt=WPA-EAP; eap=PEAP; phase1="peaplabel=0"; phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"), and piece of daemon.log after the above delay has elapsed: Mar 3 17:08:39 bluemoon systemd[1]: Stopping Automatic netcfg wireless connection service... Mar 3 17:08:39 bluemoon wpa_actiond[380]: Interface 'wlan0' lost connection to network 'lsusecure' Mar 3 17:08:39 bluemoon netcfg-wpa_actiond[9323]: :: university-wifi down [done] Mar 3 17:08:39 bluemoon wpa_actiond[380]: Interface 'wlan0' disconnected from network 'lsusecure' Mar 3 17:08:39 bluemoon wpa_actiond[380]: Terminating wpa_actiond session for interface 'wlan0' This is not related to wpa_supplicant 2.0. In wpa_actiond git tree, there was only 1 essential commit (baed7cae042ceb50507066f2df85b06414ab2176) which led to v1.4, but I'm not sure what exactly causes this. Since wpa_actiond doesn't have a --debug switch, how do I trace the issue? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Gotta be a stupid gnome-terminal problem
by David Benfell 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, All other terminal emulators work. I have checked--thanks to what little I found on the web that seemed apropos--to be sure that /dev/pts is mounted (it is). But when I run gnome-terminal, I get no prompt and typing in commands does not work. This is a brand new installation, so I can't say it worked before some change. All I know is it doesn't work. What did I miss? Thanks! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRMg7tAAoJELJhbl/uPb4SugEP/iQwglQu2HREKC32w31rHZXD dJCsZ5b0Up7cwqj8y4lCfg3cQVwlOVy7gmjjc6LYJylY6lNCuXbMJpi4uFqw1juq ebmjmMs33bVBnnvOyzt4H8T67N9f8vS2iHhsm/5doEhoN/HLhn4Q/9bGnqB1Zmg/ PleJOFAiIjtx3ZMsBmeYzRvssmlAcnBFZKrMAtBz7ajEX8c2v/u3//y/cd9gQdwG WiNpi45U+aId+P+adeqhRf0mHSzU5S1WmAPa8p06g+uVhGfEFva+E8ZNUwYG8z7f L83fbYu97liICNSoaWwb7h/kDDAIqWNr/kXxz8XFccCTlsGkrC9WUoqHrQzjKqsr 8Ok/cvIx7KiMOdnmBA9bRcdeEhxVnodfbIjd1NRXSSb/0JPXspV0QTF7NqYJXbY+ qpMBKFZPAwMFCzFa6brrUHwm5nhNn7SHcdbDveF2Tl1RQTuUdgf9cdSk/Xg7U89a b74xrrNYwr9GYoXiqxkB3KuwjfdI0ksO840iaYGf5ly+TUpABgFY7dBamSqjjZQK Szruq1fEFmun5hDFwwpmGKlhAmU4vln0Tm71xRNr95yPHEV+K8F3ZfoFVQcHd8cx CzPEGqX+g/bSC1iEVspYlCCL+/MfbiNp9JMtYsWW3l9AaATq9aCXaD+2veTCN+S9 vh636DllstMYh4dsSi9U =JOIU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Sound problems
by Frank Zimmermann 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

Good evening, I'm having troubles getting sound to work aftereach reboot. I've followed the instructions from the wiki. But after each reboot I need to run alsamixer -> selct the soundcard by pressing F6 -> and then have to increase the volume of the speaker. When invoking systemctl enable alsa-restore.service and systemctl enable alsa-store.service I do get the following error messsage: The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: 1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's .wants/ or .requires/ directory. 2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has a requirement dependency on it. 3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...). ... and it starts from the beginning after the next reboot. BTW it doesn't help when I change the settings in /etc/asound.conf from pulseaudio to the hw device. Thanks for any help Frank

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[arch-general] How to configure Qt 5 theme?
by GSC 04 Mar '13

04 Mar '13

I want to configure qt5 apps (like qt creator) theme to use the same as qt4 apps (oxygen) in KDE. How can I do this? And is there an appmenu-qt5 port?

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[arch-general] RFC: Mesa and shared LLVM libraries
by Armin K. 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hello everyone, First, I am aware that ArchLinux is against patching packages to implement some features, but this might be worth the effort. Tom Stellard of AMD has announced a R600 backend patch against LLVM 3.2 few days ago [1]. It's basically his repository (llvm-amdgpu-snapshot) diffed against upstream LLVM (llvm). By applying the patch to ArchLinux LLVM package, one could benefit from enabling Mesa to link against LLVM shared library. Doing so, space would be saved and so the memory at runtime, too (I guess since it will use shared mappings). I've done some work regarding that. I've managed to split libLLVM-3.2.so from llvm package and put it into libllvm package. The package is a bit big though - the shared library contains all (~100) static libraries linked into one single library. The result is like this: Targets (1): libllvm-3.2-5 Total Installed Size: 21.77 MiB Building MesaLib against shared libLLVM-3.2.so saves space drastically. For all MesaLib produced packages, the output is like this one: Targets (6): ati-dri-9.1-2 intel-dri-9.1-2 mesa-9.1-2 mesa-libgl-9.1-2 nouveau-dri-9.1-2 svga-dri-9.1-2 Total Installed Size: 82.13 MiB Net Upgrade Size: -282.07 MiB 260 MB saved ... Looks nice to me. R600 backend will be part of LLVM 3.3 anyways, and this can be used in the future without patching anything. I am attaching patches for llvm and mesa PKGBUILDs to incorporate these changes. Do as you may please. If someone is interested in forwarding this to -dev-public list it would be nice. Have a nice evening. (As a side note, somehow llvm tarball sha256sum was wrong when I downloaded it). [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2013-March/035561.html

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[arch-general] Qt4 documentation?
by Huang KangJing 03 Mar '13

03 Mar '13

Hi, I'm here to ask whether the qt4 documentation package will still be provided officially after such an upgrade from qt4 to qt5. I noticed that after qt5 was supported officially, certain qt packages were replaced by qt5 packages and qt4 packages were introduced, but as qt-doc was replaced by qt5-doc and qt4-doc didn't come up, I wonder whether this one will be supported officially.. Thanks. -- Huang KangJing 2012 Undergraduate, School of Physics,Peking University

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[arch-general] Order of udev and autodetect HOOKS
by Sergi Pons Freixes 02 Mar '13

02 Mar '13

Hi All, Is there any impact on the system depending on the order of udev and autedetect? I mean, is the same HOOKS="base autodetect udev ..." than HOOKS="base udev autodetect ..." ? Cheers, Sergi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] ISO image announcements
by Cody Maloney 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just uploaded a new installer image. I did not write any announcement > for the last two. Some people were asking for a news item. What is your > opinion on this? Should we post announcements even if there are no > exciting changes? I could also generate a list of updated packages that > are available on the new iso compared to the old one. > > Greetings, > > Pierre > I'd like to have just a feed of when ISO releases come out (Esp. since sometimes, even if there aren't major changes to the iso, some things like the interface naming change occur because of just package upgrade). Looking at the release page generated HTML there is an RSS feed (https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/releases/) but this doesn't seem to be visibly linked from the page. Be nice if the link was added to the current releases section of the page. Thanks, Cody Maloney

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio-encrypt-multi
by Karsten Rode 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi I'm using btrfs on two LUKS encrypted partitions as root. This is working perfectly with the mkinitcpio hook "encrypt-multi" from the aur package "mkinitcpio-encrypt-multi". Does anybody know if there is a plan to include this functionality in the "encrypt" hook from core/cryptsetup ? regards, Karsten

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[arch-general] Can't build virtualbox
by Manuel Reimer 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hello, I have a reproducible problem with virtualbox on my system. To find out which version was the first one that causes those problems for me, I want to build virtualbox on my own and step back until the problem no longer exists. I've checked out the community PKGBUILD's using git. If I try to build virtualbox, it always ends with the following messages: kmk_builtin_rm -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts kmk_builtin_mkdir -p /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_soapxml /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_namespacemaps kmk_builtin_mv -f /home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/demo_headers usage: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source target or: kmk_builtin_mv [-f | -i | -n] [-v] source ... directory or: kmk_builtin_mv --help or: kmk_builtin_mv --version kmk: *** [/home/build/git/community/virtualbox/repos/community-x86_64/src/VirtualBox-4.2.6/out/linux.amd64/release/obj/webservice/gsoap_copy_all_ts] Error 64 kmk: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... info: soapC-1.cpp info: soapC-2.cpp info: soapC-3.cpp info: soapC-4.cpp info: soapC-5.cpp info: soapC-6.cpp info: soapC-7.cpp info: soapC-8.cpp info: soapC-9.cpp info: soapC-10.cpp info: soapC-11.cpp info: soapC-12.cpp info: soapC-13.cpp info: soapC-14.cpp info: soapC-15.cpp info: soapC-16.cpp info: soapC-17.cpp info: soapC-18.cpp info: soapC-19.cpp info: soapC-20.cpp split-soapC: Created 20 files. kmk: *** Exiting with status 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... I'm building with "-j2". Can someone please tell me what I have to do to make the build succeed? Thanks in advance Yours Manuel

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[arch-general] tomoyo-init on linux 3.8.0-2
by Alexander Diana 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Regardless of what I add in kernel flags, tomoyo-init is never loaded. I see no noticable error messages anywhere in the logs. I have confirmed tomoyo-init works when manually loaded, and confirmed that tomoyo itself is working and loaded. Anyone with ideas will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Alexander Diana <alexander.a.diana(a)gmail.com>

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.7.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Hi guys, please signoff 3.7.10 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.8.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Cannot get GNOME Keyring to work well with lightdm-razor-greeter and razor-qt
by Hexchain Tong 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Hi everyone, I recently switched to razor-qt desktop and lightdm (for a faster startup), but I can't get gnome-keyring-daemon to run. I've tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_Keyring#Use_Without_GNOME , but ~/.xinitrc doesn't seem to be executed at all. Plus, I don't want to add anything into ~/.bashrc, because I think $SSH_AUTH_SOCK and some relevant variables should just be set in the session. Is there any better idea? Thanks, Hexchain

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[arch-general] Svntogit looks broken
by Armin K. 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, are there any problems with Archlinux' svntogit? Latest changes are shown from ~22 hours ago.

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[arch-general] watchdog 5.13 changes
by Thomas Bächler 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

The new watchdog 5.13 package removes the rc.d scripts and conf.d files. There is a systemd service file for watchdog included. There is no service file for wd_keepalive, because the functionality of wd_keepalive is provided by systemd - just uncomment RuntimeWatchdogSec=20 in /etc/systemd/system.conf.

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[arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
by André Vitor de Lima Matos 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

Hi, everyone. I've a HP Pavilion g4 machine with UEFI, using rEFInd. After a upgraded to refind-efi 0.6.4-1 and linux 3.7.2-1, my system stopped to boot. rEFInd loads properly, and others boot options, like EFI Shell and Windows 8 are working, but trying to boot kernel 3.7.2 froze on the message in begin saying "Starting vmlinuz-linux ...kernel options". initrd was built correctly. This issue only occurs with linux 3.7.2, downgrading to 3.7.1 makes system bootable again (from where I'm writing). rEFInd config file is basically default, only with timeout changed to 5. My boot options: root=/dev/AndreSYS/Arch resume=/dev/AndreSYS/Swap cryptdevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/e38e188e-f775-41fe-9607-ce977c7716d8:syslvm ro add_efi_memmap rootfstype=ext4 -- https://profiles.google.com/andre.vmatos

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Re: [arch-general] rEFInd 0.6.4 + linux 3.7.2-1 fail to boot
by John Briggs 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 09:15:08AM +0100, Max Löwen wrote: > On 02/26/2013 12:17 AM, Kazuo Teramoto wrote: > >On 25 Feb 2013 at 18:13:14 -0300, André Vitor de Lima Matos wrote: > >>I can't boot with 3.8-2 again!! linux 3.8-1 is working fine > >For me it stopped to boot after > 3.7.7. Linux-3.7.7 is the last version > >that boot, each version after it don't. Gummiboot stopped to boot in > >v22, only v17 boots for me. > > > >When I choose the arch entry in the boot loader and it become freeze at > >the boot loader screen. > > > >The interaction of bootable and kernel/gummiboot versions is a mess on > >my system. The versions I cannot boot from form a dense set! I always > >bring an arch livecd with me (my UEFI mobo wont boot from USB). > > > >Currently I'm busy so I don't have time to debug it. As I don't see > >anyone talking about boot problems I'm blaming my Samsung laptop. I hope > >to have some time to debug and put the blame in someone else... > > > >Regards, > >Kazuo Teramoto > If you want to avoid to use the livecd, you could install a second > kernel, like from repo-ck and have it as an altrenative bootoption > (I also have problems with some kernels here, there is allready a > thread on that topic). The only problems I have experienced with rEFInd occurred when the new system files weren't being copied correctly to EFI/arch directory. Once I overcame that problem it has worked fine. John

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[arch-general] Suggestions wanted: nvidia + nouveau in AUR PKGBUILD
by Oon-Ee Ng 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

I'm an nvidia user who finally decided to try out nouveau and currently have it working, but want to keep nvidia installed just-in-case. I also maintain nvidia-beta/lib32-nvidia-utils-beta/nvidia-utils-beta in the AUR. As far as I can see, keeping both nouveau and nvidia installed and usable is not difficult, especially with the new mesa split PKGBUILD. Basically I only need the following symlinks (may be a bit different from current:- 1. /usr/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 2. /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0 OR libGL.so.313.18 3. /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 -> mesa-libGL.so.1.2.0 4. /usr/lib32/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1 5. /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2.0 OR libGL.so.313.18 6. /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2.0 -> mesa-libGL.so.1.2.0 7. /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so -> libglx.xorg OR libglx.so.313.18 I also need to blacklist nouveau (or remove the blacklist) for modprobe, currently done in /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf A few questions:- 1. The 'best' way I can figure is that all symlinks would be owned by a fake {lib32-}mesa-libgl-nvidia package. Only symlink 2, 5, and 7 above need changing when 'switching'. This would require manually running a script to change (followed by a reboot). The script can also fix the blacklist. 1a. Can the blacklist be fixed by renaming the file to not end with .conf or must it be moved out of /usr/lib/modprobe.d? 2. Alternatively, is there a way to get my bootloader to blacklist modules (modprobe.blacklist=nouveau or nouveau.blacklist=true as shown in [1]?) AND run a script which would 'fix' the symlinks before KMS? This would be preferable (and lower-maintenance for me) if possible. [1] - http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Create_a_boot_option_for_easy_nvidia_or_nouveau_…

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[arch-general] XDG variables no longer set
by Robbie Smith 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts. I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/ that would create those directories and export the variables as required, but what I want to know is why they broke in the first place. Has anyone else experienced this? Robbie [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#vari… [2] Like this (taken from /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc) : #!/bin/sh # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which # user specific configuration files should be stored. If # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to # $HOME/.config should be used. if test "x$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" = "x" ; then XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config export XDG_CONFIG_HOME fi [ -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || mkdir "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"

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[arch-general] Set terminus as a system font
by jugree＠lavabit.com 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello. I installed Terminus from a source tarball and successfully set it as a console font (in /etc/vconsole.conf). How can I set it as a default system-wide monospace font? I've found this tutorial: http://orford.org/gtk/#fonts, but it doesn't explain how to use several fonts (is it possible?). The needed files (eg: ter-x16b.pcf.gz) are located in /usr/local/share/fonts. If the above is not possible, I'd like to enable it in Xterm and Emacs. I tried to set it in Xterm, but it didn't work out: $ xset +fp /usr/local/share/fonts/terminus (I also added this one to .xinitrc.) $ cd /usr/local/share/fonts/ $ mkfontscale $ mkfontdir .Xdefaults: XTerm*faceName: Terminus XTerm:faceSize: 16 or XTerm*faceName: ter-x16n or $ xterm -fn '-*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' also xorg.conf: Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/terminus" EndSection

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] linux-3.8.0-1 / wifi problem
by Genes Lists 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

On 02/25/2013 01:14 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky wrote: > On 25 February 2013 17:27, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: >> >> Just a quick note as I cannot debug this atm. Updating from 3.7 to 3.8 >> breaks wireless connections on my netbook. The relevant message in the >> journal seems to be "kernel: wlan: capabilities/regulatory prevented >> using AP HT/VHT configuration, downgraded". > > I actually see this from time to time with Intel card too when using > 3.8. But I usually get connected after a few attempts. > I have troubles with some routers (enterprise cisco in my case, tho others like linksys work fine so far). In my case, I find the interface gets disconnected. Retrying may succeed - or may fail - if it fails - i reload the driver and it starts working again - i am using iwlwifi (intel N 6300 (rev 35)). Disabling and re-enabling wireless via KDE plasmoid is the simplest fix. I too see many messages like above: Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 NetworkManager[504]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.771953] wlan0: deauthenticating from 04:fe:7f:49:71:dd by local choice (reason=2) Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.777211] wlan0: authenticate with 1c:aa:07:f4:cd:f3 Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.781025] wlan0: capabilities/regulatory prevented using AP HT/VHT configuration, downgraded Feb 26 10:13:46 lap3 kernel: [42931.826366] wlan0: direct probe to 1c:aa:07:f4:cd:f3 (try 1/3) Gene/

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[arch-general] mysqld (MySQL and MariaDB) polling
by Christian Hesse 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello everybody, based on the thread "[RFC] Migration to MariaDB" in arch-dev-public by Bartłomiej Piotrowski I started playing with MySQL and MariaDB. I noticed both were polling every second: <... futex resumed> ) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out) futex(0x1d48050, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 gettimeofday({1361806174, 246573}, NULL) = 0 futex(0x1d4808c, FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET_PRIVATE|FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, 2849, {1361806175, 246573000}, ffffffff <unfinished ...> Searching Google I found that the problem may be caused by the leap second, though the load is not as high as some articles describe. (Continues polling vs. one poll a second.) However the polling stops as soon as I manually set the time with date -s and it start again if I run ntpdate to sync the time. As this is a notebook I rebooted more than once since the leap second happened. ;) What is going on? This is a mobile system, so it would be great to get rid of mysqld eating my battery power. -- 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] error setting up webdav
by Not To Miss 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hi, I followed the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WebDAV#Server_.28Apache.29 exactly to setup webdav. After I restart the httpd.service, and cadaver test gave me error: $ cadaver http://localhost/dav Could not access /dav/ (not WebDAV-enabled?): 405 Method Not Allowed Connection to `localhost' closed. dav:!> ^CTerminated by signal 2. Here is the log from /var/log/httpd/127.0.0.1-access_log: ::1 - - [25/Feb/2013:23:32:07 -0700] "OPTIONS /dav/ HTTP/1.1" 200 - ::1 - - [25/Feb/2013:23:32:07 -0700] "PROPFIND /dav/ HTTP/1.1" 405 979 nothing special is reported in error_log. Anyone has anyone ideas what's wrong? I'd really appreciate any help. Thanks! Zech

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[arch-general] Bluetooth with G-Grip Bluetooth Speaker...
by David McDow 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

Hello, I travel a lot and have purchased a G-Grip Bluetooth speaker ( http://www.target.com/p/g-project-g-grip-portable-speaker-black-g-50/-/A-14…) with the intent of listening to music after I get back to the hotel and process data (I'm a land surveyor). I can pair with my Galaxy Nexus and the computer (Dell D620) but there is no sound coming from the G-Grip.. I have followed the directions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth and have not been able have the speaker play music. I get the following so I feel sure the devices are communicating. $ hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:1D:DF:59:66:4E G-GRIP The next step yields: $ sudo bluez-simple-agent Agent registered The next step yields: $ sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:1D:DF:59:66:4E Release New device (/org/bluez/1094/hci0/dev_00_1D_DF_59_66_4E) I am not sure what this means, but it appears to be positive however there is no sound coming from the speaker. I use Audacious on my laptop to play music and have looked at the settings, to no avail. I have searched (like crazy) for a solution and have found nothing to solve this problem. My hunch is that the speaker doesn't require a password. The speaker documentation for pairing says: "BLUETOOTH OPERATION Pair with Bluetooth* capable devices to stream stereo audio wirelessly for music, movies, video games and apps. PAIRING 1. In Standby mode, press the Power Button to turn G-GRIP on and begin Bluetooth pairing (make sure that no cable is connected to the AUX Input). The Bluetooth LED will flash blue. 2. On your Bluetooth device, select "G-GRIP" from the device list to pair with it (*no password is required*). Once Bluetooth has paired successfully, the Bluetooth LED on G-GRIP will turn solid blue. 3. To clear the Bluetooth memory on G-GRIP, turn G-GRIP on and hold the Pairing Button for a few seconds" [emphasis mine] I am at a loss and to reiterate, I can't find anything on the web to help me solve this issue. I would appreciate any insight to solve this problem. Thank you, David

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Re: [arch-general] [SOLVED] pacman update with new mesa gives a failed update
by Mike Cloaked 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > pacman -Qo /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so > pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 > > -- > Ionuț > > Thank you for fixing this in such a speedy way - much appreciated. -- mike c

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[arch-general] pacman update with new mesa gives a failed update
by Mike Cloaked 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

I tried to update with pacman -Syu this evening (x86_64) - but the update failed with: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from extra... mesa-9.1-2-x86_64 31.4 MiB 651K/s 00:49 [###############################################] 100% mesa-libgl-9.1-2-x86_64 2.2 KiB 622K/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% ati-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 32.8 MiB 692K/s 00:49 [###############################################] 100% cairo-1.12.14-3-x86_64 671.8 KiB 748K/s 00:01 [###############################################] 100% intel-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 328.8 KiB 739K/s 00:00 [###############################################] 100% kdelibs3-3.5.10-16-x86_64 13.6 MiB 750K/s 00:19 [###############################################] 100% libx11-1.5.0-2-x86_64 2.0 MiB 673K/s 00:03 [###############################################] 100% nouveau-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 15.4 MiB 752K/s 00:21 [###############################################] 100% svga-dri-9.1-2-x86_64 9.9 MiB 744K/s 00:14 [###############################################] 100% (9/9) checking package integrity [###############################################] 100% (9/9) loading package files [###############################################] 100% (9/9) checking for file conflicts [###############################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) mesa: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/dri/swrast_dri.so exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.0 exists in filesystem mesa-libgl: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Can anyone advise if I need to do any manual changes before trying again? Thank you. -- mike c

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[arch-general] kde login delays
by P .NIKOLIC 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

Hi all. Having a strange problem right now with logging into KDE the latest 4.10.00 the system is right up to date pacman -Syu carried out every day When i try to login to kde the moment i enter the first letter of the pass word it refuses to take any more input for almost 5 seconds then all is back to normal . Any ideas please Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.7.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 18 02:13:30 EET 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] LVM volume not active / fails to mount at boot
by David Rosenstrauch 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

For some reason, since the last LVM upgrade, one of my LVM volumes fails to mount, causing the boot sequence to fail. When I boot, I see the following: [root@darsys12 ~]# pvs PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda4 vg1 lvm2 a-- 359.49g 319.49g /dev/sdc vg2 lvm2 a-- 931.51g 431.51g /dev/sdd vg3 lvm2 a-- 465.76g 165.76g [root@darsys12 ~]# vgs VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg1 1 2 0 wz--n- 359.49g 319.49g vg2 1 1 0 wz--n- 931.51g 431.51g vg3 1 1 0 wz--n- 465.76g 165.76g [root@darsys12 ~]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert lvabs vg1 -wi-ao--- 10.00g lvcache vg1 -wi-ao--- 30.00g lvshare vg2 -wi------ 500.00g lvhome vg3 -wi-ao--- 300.00g As a result, there's no /dev/vg2/lvshare volume found, and trying to mount it fails. I can sometimes fix this issue by removing the volume from /etc/fstab, rebooting, and then manually issuing "vgchange -ay vg2". But even this doesn't seem to work reliably. It usually tells me it activates 1 volume, but sometimes /dev/vg2/lvshare still doesn't show up. Any idea what the problem might be here / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] [No X] Changing a keyboard layout, compose
by jugree＠lavabit.com 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

Hello. Is there a way to redefine keys that change a layout (there is only one suitable KEYMAP that uses Ctrl+Shift, but I'd like to use Alt+Shift)? Is it possible to enable a compose key (without X)? I've found a Debian-only solution: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/44478

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[arch-general] netpbm
by Myra Nelson 24 Feb '13

24 Feb '13

I have a question about the netpbm package. There was an api change after the 10.6xx versions were released and there have been bug fixes also. Based on the history file for the advanced repo shows, which the 10.57 package was based on 13.02.20 BJH Release 10.61.02 MinGW build: various fixes. 12.12.31 BJH Release 10.61.01 pamstereogram: change -guidesize default from 10 to 20 (relevant since 10.61.00). pamstereogram: fix bug: doesn't reject negative guidesize. Broken since 10.61.00. pamstereogram: fix bug: garbage in -verbose listing. Broken since 10.61.00 The history file for the trunk version shows not yet BJH Release 10.62.00 pamstereogram: change -guidesize default from 10 to 20 (relevant since 10.61). pamstereogram: fix bug: doesn't reject negative guidesize. Broken since 10.61. pamstereogram: fix bug: garbage in -verbose listing. Broken since 10.61 MinGW build: various fixes. 12.12.30 BJH Release 10.61.00 I hate to flag this as out date since so few packages from the repos depend on it, so I did some testing. I obtained the patchset from 10.60.05 contained in the fedora fc19 source rpm file and built the svn trunk repo with the equivalent patches being used for the Arch 10.57 package and the build went fine. I then tested the build of groff, gocr, latex2html, dvd-slideshow, and vor against the netpbm-svn build I installed and those builds went fine. I then tested the build of the trunk version with all but one, netpbm-gcc4.patch, the patches contained in the fedora patchset and the build went fine. One of the patches provides for not building the docs which produces a package of 1.2M on my x86_64 machine. I'm using the svn version so I can build Prima from CPAN which wouldn't build against 10.57, and don't seem to have any problems running the svn version and will continue to do so. I also search the arch-dev public mailing list for anything on netpbm updates and netpbm being a dep for groff but nothing about the need for updating the package. Since there is currently no maintainer for the netpbm package and based on this data what would be the appropriate course of action in getting the Arch repo packages updated to a later version of netpbm, or is it necessary? Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Samsung MFP (SCX-4500W) print OK - scanning fails.
by Mike Cloaked 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

I am stuck on the configuration of the scanner functionality for a Samsung SCX-4500W multifunction printer/scanner. I can get the printing function of this printer to work by the following steps: 1) Add a line to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-usbprinter.rules containing: ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="342b", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="lp" 2) Making sure that I have the splix driver package installed I can define a usb connected printer with the splix driver which works very well indeed. I have cups and avahi installed and enable cups.socket and avahi-daemon. When I try to get the scanner working I can get a sensible output from: # sane-find-scanner # sane-find-scanner will now attempt to detect your scanner. If the # result is different from what you expected, first make sure your # scanner is powered up and properly connected to your computer. # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a kernel SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. # Also you need support for SCSI Generic (sg) in your operating system. # If using Linux, try "modprobe sg". found USB scanner (vendor=0x04e8 [Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.], product=0x342b [SCX-4500W Series]) at libusb:003:006 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. So the scanner seems to be detected - but when I do: # scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). If I try to create a scan via GIMP it hangs the GIMP and I have to kill it. I tried to add a line to 75-sane.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/ with: ATTRS{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTRS{idProduct}=="342b", MODE="0660", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes" But this did not work. Can anyone suggest how to get the scanner part working? Thanks for any help. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Strange Problem with Greek characters
by George Marinellis 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

Hi everyone, Recently i afford a strange problem in writing/reading greek characters in my ArchBox. The problem started when i tried to change the default locales and add greek UTF-8 locales alongside to en_US.UTF-8. Since then I could both write and read greek in urxvt(and all terminal based programs like vim etc), kile and libreoffice. When i made the changes and run "locale-gen", I cannot read & write ,in any way, greek characters in urxvt(and any other terminal like xterm), and though i write greek in kile and libreoffice, I cannot write with tons. I've read wiki and talked to Archers from greek-community but no result. I've tried to change with-no-result /etc/locale.gen, /etc/locale.conf, /etc/vconsole.conf. # Output to locale -a command: ------------------------------ C POSIX el_GR el_GR.iso88597 el_GR.utf8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 greek #Contents of /etc/locale.conf: ------------------------------ LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE=C LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=C LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_PAPER=C LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=C LC_IDENTIFICATION=C LC_ALL= #Contents of /etc/vconsole.conf: -------------------------------- KEYMAP="us" FONT="ter-116n" MAP="8859-7 # I contets of .Xdefaults (for urxvt configuration): ----------------------------------------------------- [1] http://animal.foss.ntua.gr/~fedjo/.Xdefaults I'm in a Mess ( :-/ ), any suggestions appreciated Thank you.... -- G.Mari ---------------------- Undergraduate [at] ece.ntua.gr

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[arch-general] Mesa 9.1 in testing
by Andreas Radke 23 Feb '13

23 Feb '13

New unified Mesa has hit testing. Upgrade path went smooth here. Please test it. Now the main mesa pkg should provide everything required to build and link packages. The mesa-libgl pkg providing libgl should be not be used in the dependency array when linking to libgl.so - please use "libgl" that will allow users to choose also nvidia-utils or catalyst-utils. There are still packages in extra depending on the old libgl package. We will need to fix them before makepkg will properly allow to build only against new mesa. -Andy

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[arch-general] Configure a console font without initrd
by jugree＠lavabit.com 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hello. I set `KEYMAP' and `FONT' in `/etc/vconsole.conf'. `sudo /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vconsole-setup' works. But how can I use it after `reboot'? `mkinitcpio.conf' is not an option because I don't use initrd. I tried to add the above line to `/etc/rc.local', but it did not work. Thanks

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[arch-general] A question about handling a system with two wired network interfaces?
by Mike Cloaked 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

I have a system with two ethernet sockets on the motherboard, and I have until very recently been finding that my network at random failed to come up during the boot process. I have the ethernet cable plugged into only one of the two sockets, and assign the names to the interfaces as eno1 and eno2 - because left to its own it assigned one of them as name "eno1" and the other to "eth0" or "eth1" at random between boots! I was surprised that it chose ethX at all for the second name, given this is running with the new naming scheme! However following the hints at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Network_device I specify that udev fix the two interface names as eno1 and eno2 - but still the network failed to come up sometimes at boot. It seemed to be pure chance as to whether it came up on any particular boot. I tried both NetworkManager as well as ifplugd/netcfg and both seemed to behave the same way - at any one time I only had one or other scheme for getting the network up. What I then presumed was that although the same two names are always assigned, the hardware mac address to which of the two physical network ports was being assigned was being assigned differently to the two names - i.e. sometimes being en01 and sometimes being eno2. Why this matters is that I assign a static ip address to eno1 only and don't use eno2. This would only be an issue if there was more than one NIC in the system. The system boots really fast as it has SSD drives, which possibly was not allowing enough time for the name assignment, so I then found the advice at: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rename_network_interfaces where it suggests editing the systemd unit file for in my case NetworkManager service - which I then did and this finally seems to have fixed the problem though I will still need to boot over a period of days to check if the network comes up "every" time now. The wiki page refers to the network service file, but I applied this to the NetworkManager service file. So the question that I hope someone can answer is whether in the case of multiple NICs in a system the new network names, although the same "set" of names is used for all the cards in the system, will still need this systemd unit file amendment - i.e. adding the two lines: Requires=systemd-udev-settle.service After=systemd-udev-settle.service to the [unit] section in order to get the correct name associated with the same hardware mac address every boot? If someone who understands these things in detail could confirm if my understanding is correct I would appreciate it? Many thanks. -- mike c

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[arch-general] dropping OpenJDK6 by the end of this month
by Andreas Radke 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

We will remove the OpenJDK6 packages by the end of this month. All users should move to OpenJDK7 based packages jre7-openjdk/jre7-openjdk-headless/jdk7-openjdk (or the Oracle based JRE/JDK from AUR) very soon. The next OpenJDK7 update will replace openjdk6 on your system. -Andy

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[arch-general] UTC
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Hi :) after a reboot there always is an offset of -3600 sec, when running ntpdate. # timedatectl status | grep local RTC in local TZ: yes Warning: The RTC is configured to maintain time in the local time zone. This RTC in UTC, by calling 'timedatectl set-local-rtc 0'. # timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 Failed to issue method call: Input/output error Sometimes I don't get an output when running "timedatectl set-local-rtc 1". # cat /etc/adjtime LOCAL # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Feb 17 22:35 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin For my old Arch Linux install there wasn't this issue. I suspect I make a mistake, I'm missing something now. I already asked at the German forums, but until now without success: https://bbs.archlinux.de/viewtopic.php?id=23477 FWIW I don't have a Windows installed, this machine is a *NIX multi-boot only. I'm aware about the drawbacks and advantages of both, the usage of UTC and local time and in 10 years I never experienced a drawback using local time. At the moment it's simply more comfortable for me, if I've got local time available for the BIOS. The reason for this should be unimportant for this thread. Regards, Ralf

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Re: [arch-general] linux-tools-meta, why?
by Sébastien Luttringer 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Brock.Zheng <goodmenzy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I found that package in community, > The pkg has no content. The only file in it's pkg is > a .PKGINFO file: > > $> tar -tf archlinux/community/os/x86_64/linux-tools-meta-3.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > .PKGINFO > > Any on know why? > This share purposes of others meta-packages in our repository and others distro. Shortly, it will allow you to follow new split packages addition from linux-tools group. You can find more complete explanation in our wiki[1]. Cheers, [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE_Packages#Using_Meta-Packages -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A

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Re: [arch-general] Linux-3.7.3-1-i686 blank screen
by Brian Wood 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Whiskers: > I have installed xf86-video-vesa 2.3.2-2 but while > xf86-video-nouveau > 1.0.6-1 is also installed that seems to be given preference > in the boot > procedure, so I'll remove it and keep my fingers crossed! I experienced similar problems. I wasn't able to start X without xf86-video-nouveau, but had core dumps with it. Now I'm trying an install on another machine with an Intel video card. So far so good, but it hasn't been long enough to tell. I'm new to Arch and have been using another distro for years. Arch has over 60 fewer processes running and less than half as many files in /etc than my old distro had. These things are helpful for me from a sys admin perspective. Thanks for the work done on Arch so far. -- Brian Wood Ebenezer Enterprises - in G-d we trust. http://webEbenezer.net (651) 251-9384

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[arch-general] Linux-3.7.3-1-i686 blank screen
by Whiskers 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

I ran pacmatic -Syu last night, which updated the kernel to the version in the subject. This afternoon, the system started to boot normally but the display went blank before the login prompt appeared (I boot to a text login) so I was unable to use the system. I used my original installation disc to boot, and was able to follow the Wiki instructions (accessed using a different computer) to run chroot and downgrade the kernel to 3.6.11-1, and the system is now running again. An 'unconfirmed' bug is listed at <https://bugs.archlinux.org/> but this seems to relate to vlc segfaulting with the new kernel, so I don't know if that's the same problem affecting me. -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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[arch-general] Default directory for extra modules
by Sergi Pons Freixes 19 Feb '13

19 Feb '13

Hi All, I have the vanilla and the PAE kernels installed, and I use latter as my default for booting. I installed tp_smapi, and the modules are placed on /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.7-ARCH/ instead of /usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.7-pae/, so they are not found. Is there anyway to set where the modules should be installed by default (which should be the current running kernel, resulting from uname). Or do I have to work with the PKGBUILD? Cheers, Sergi

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston
by Armin K. 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

On 02/12/2013 05:51 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> Am Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:35:27 +0100 >> schrieb Andreas Radke <andyrtr(a)archlinux.org>: >> >>> Since cairo will also depend on that libegl then every system will >>> pull in Wayland. Is this really needed? If we can't build it in a >>> different way we directly need to move Wayland to extra. >>> >>> -Andy >> >> Bump. >> >> If we agree that we want to start to support Wayland in Arch we need to >> move Wayland libs to the extra repo. Then I can build Mesa making use >> of it in libegl. This shouldn't harm anything else and wayland libs are >> a pretty small pkg (when we drop the static libs). >> >> So who's going to move it to extra and wants to maintain it there? I >> could build it but will not use it myself anytime soon. > > I'll be happy to maintain Wayland, so I'll take it over and move it to [extra]. > > -t > Hello, and thank you for adding Wayland into Extra. There is now another smaller problem. In order to make use of Wayland with GTK+3, libxkbcommon should be moved into extra first. Can anyone do that? Lot of GTK+3 apps can be ran in Weston using GDK_BACKEND=wayland.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mesa packaging, libGL handling
by Armin K. 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

On 02/15/2013 08:27 PM, Jan Steffens wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh(a)lutzhaase.com> wrote: >> Can't you build them with shared llvm libs? > > Nope, we don't have any. > > Building LLVM with cmake instead of autotools creates them, but that > approach has other problems. > Actualy, you can. Archlinux uses llvm-amdgpu-snapshot which is Tom Stellard's snapshot. In 9.1-devel, --with-llvm-shared-libs is turned on by default if you use --enable-opencl. On the other side, LLVM contains a shared library, enabled by --enable-shared, called libLLVM-<version>.so (ie libLLVM-3.2.so) located in llvm libdir (/usr/lib/llvm in Archlinux) which contains ALL of static libraries linked into ONE SHARED library. On the other hand, you can use CMake and build all of static libraries as shared. The first mentioned works for me very well. I am not sure what's the condition of that in Mesa 9.0 world. But 9.1 should be out in no time, so it shouldn't matter. Note, this is not from Archlinux. I use custom built system with custom built packages $ ldd /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffd47ff000) libllvmradeon9.2.0.so => /usr/lib/libllvmradeon9.2.0.so (0x00007fd514ba8000) libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.6 (0x00007fd5149a0000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fd514777000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fd51455b000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fd514357000) libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007fd51414b000) libdrm_radeon.so.1 => /usr/lib/libdrm_radeon.so.1 (0x00007fd513f41000) libLLVM-3.2.so => /usr/lib/llvm/libLLVM-3.2.so (0x00007fd51274d000) $ du -sh /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so 5.7M /usr/lib/dri/r600_dri.so $ du -sh /usr/lib/gallium-pipe/pipe_r600.so 2.4M /usr/lib/gallium-pipe/pipe_r600.so (no /usr/lib/gbm/pipe_whatever.so anymore, since pipes are shared by gbm and opencl) Compared to 20MB Archlinux ones.

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[arch-general] Arch handbook as PDF
by Ralf Mardorf 14 Feb '13

14 Feb '13

Hi :) is there an up to date handbook, beginner's guide or even better the Wiki available as PDF? I already found outdated PDFs. Languages: English and/or German I experienced it as very helpful, when installing a *NIX and having a handbook available on a tablet PC. I don't have Internet access for the tablet PC, I only can transmit a PDF by USB. Regards, Ralf PS: Pardon, by accident I send this message to arch-general-owner(a)archlinux.org first.

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[arch-general] System doesn't load LVM volumes when booting in single user mode
by David Rosenstrauch 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Like the subject says, when I boot directly into single user mode, system doesn't load my LVM volumes. So the only way I can realistically use single user mode (since many of my key files are on LVM volumes) is to boot the system to multi-user mode, and the "telinit s" to drop back down to single user. This seems like an error, and that systemd should be starting LVM volumes even in single user mode. Anyone have any idea what the problem might be and/or a workaround? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Audio distro based on Arch Linux
by Ralf Mardorf 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi :) is there an audio distro based on Arch Linux, that already is rawly set up for audio studio production. Another requirement for me is, that such a distro shouldn't cause or at least only less inconsistencies, when using the Arch and AUR repositories. I suspect http://didjix.blogspot.com isn't intended for audio studios? Perhaps I missed an audio distro listed at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Based_Distributions_%28Active%29 ;) when I searched for "music" and "audio" on this site. If there shouldn't be an audio distro, I'll install a _real_ Arch Linux :(, ;). Resp., is one of the distros that come with Xfce by default uncritical regarding to the used packages (dependency issues)? And will one of those distros install not to much services etc. that I would have to remove for audio work? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Problem with NFS on shutdown
by Paul Marwick 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

I've got two machines in my local network that provide NFS shares. One is an old Raidsonic NAS (running a current version of OpenWRT), the other a dedicated server running Slackware). I normally mount the shares manually (the machine that is giving me a problem is a laptop, so its often not connected to my own network). The problem comes when I try to shut the laptop down (or restart it). Unless I've manually unmounted the NFS shares, the machine will hang and fail to shut down. In some instances, I've been able to use CTRL-C to break out of the stall, but frequently, I can only turn the machine off, which is not exactly ideal. I've been playing with the nfs exports, currently have the following: /mnt/sda2/stor 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_squash) (this is on the Raidsonic) and /mnt/sda2/stor 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_wdelay,nohide,no_root_squash) on the Slackware server. The problem is specific to Arch - I've got two other distros installed on the laptop (though Arch is my usual OS). From SalineOS or Salix, the laptop will shut down or restart without having to manually unmount the NFS shares prior to shutdown. I suspect I've not got something set up correctly in systemd, but I'm currently at a loss to work out what. If I manually unmount the shares before shutdown, there is no problem. I've also tried adding the unmount to /etc/rc.local.shutdown, but that doesn't work - the system still hangs during shutdown. I'm sure that rc.local.shutdown is being executed - if I shut down without the shares mounted, I can see messages that they are not mounted. I'm not sure if I should be looking at the NFS export parameters on the hosts, or systemd on the laptop, though I've tried some variations on the exports without changing the behaviour. Does anyone know what I should be looking at to solve this? Paul.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston
by Armin K. 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Dana 9.2.2013 17:35, Andreas Radke je napisao: > Now that Wayland has landed in Community I can build Mesa with support > for Wayland. This leads to a new dependency in libegl: > > libegl E: Dependency wayland detected and not included (libraries > ['usr/lib/libwayland-server.so.0', 'usr/lib/libwayland-client.so.0'] > needed in files ['usr/lib/egl/egl_gallium.so','usr/lib/libEGL.so.1.0.0']) > > Since cairo will also depend on that libegl then every system will pull in Wayland. > Is this really needed? If we can't build it in a different way we > directly need to move Wayland to extra. > > -Andy > libEGL.so is linked to libwayland libraries so there is really no way to split it unless you produce libegl-wayland package that includes libEGL and libwayland-egl and make default libegl package ship libEGL without Wayland deps (would be needed to be rebuilt twice). I've already filled a bug for libgbm package ... It doesn't install pipe_* and egl_gallium.so in /usr/lib/libgbm (althrough maybe egl_gallium.so should be installed in libegl package) https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33780

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[arch-general] Failed to give slave programs access to the display
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

Hi all, I have a strange problem with my GDM. The problem started when I got a new monitor combined with updates. First I got a new monitor and connected (switching from DVI -> VGA cable to DVI -> DVI cable). It was different resolution as well 1900x1200. At the same session (ans without restarting) I upgraded after a week or something with the new kernel 3.7.6-1-ARCH and latest nvidia drivers 313.18.3-3. After that point the gdm starts (but slower than before) and as soon as I put my password and tried to start my session, the background image is lost (turns to black) I see some flickering and the Gnome-shell session loads but I can't access anything. I had this problem before randomly so I didn't pay attention but now it's consistent. I can move the mouse around without affecting the Gnome-shell though. journalctl [1] shows the above message along with NVRM errors right after I login. I tried downgrading to lower kernel and nvidia drivers but it didn't help as I cannot load the nvidia driver when I downgrade (I think I need to rebuild the nvidia kernel module and don't know how). I tried deleting the .config, .gconf, gnome2, gnome2-private, .nv folders from my home folder in case it was configuration but nothing. Anyone have some suggestion? [1]: https://gist.github.com/spyropoulosl/2c0710f4c75eba029399 -- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. #include <stdio.h> int main(){printf("%s","\x4c\x65\x6f\x6e\x69\x64\x61\x73");}

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston
by William Giokas 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:43:46PM +0100, Andreas Radke wrote: > I've pushed cairo with gl and egl backends to testing. xlib-xcb is now > also enabled again that now should be safe to use. > > I can't build mesa with --with-egl-platforms=x11,drm,wayland until we > have wayland in community or extra to build against. > > Package libclc was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libclc.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'libclc' found > Package libclc was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libclc.pc' > to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable > No package 'libclc' found > checking for XCB_DRI2... yes > checking for xcb_dri2_connect_alignment_pad in -lxcb-dri2... yes > checking for WAYLAND... no > configure: error: Package requirements (wayland-client >= 1.0.2 > wayland-server >= 1.0.2) were not met: > > No package 'wayland-client' found > No package 'wayland-server' found I'm getting pkg-config errors too, but for totally unrelated packages, like webkit-1.0. Downgrading cairo to [core] fixes that for me (and allows me to build things again) but the one in testing somehow breaks pkg-config. I have no idea what's going on, but if you need me to run something, I'll be glad to give some output. Steps to reproduce: # pacman -S testing/cairo webkitgtk [...] $ pkg-config webkit-1.0; echo $? 1 # pacman -S extra/cairo [...] $ pkg-config webkit-1.0; echo $? 0 Thanks, -- William Giokas | KaiSforza GnuPG Key: 0xE99A7F0F Fingerprint: F078 CFF2 45E8 1E72 6D5A 8653 CDF5 E7A5 E99A 7F0F

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[arch-general] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit
by Mike Cloaked 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

I have a machine which has an HDMI monitor and which has sound coming through the monitor via HDMI just fine when playing music from Amarok and login system sounds play fine too. I had selected the appropriate hdmi channel in kmix for all the available audio playback devices. Also I can get sound coming out of the monitor speakers with: aplay -D plughw:0,7 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav However if I run chrome and play a flash video the video I can see fine - but there is no sound. I have read all the available arch wiki articles about hdmi sound including that at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture#HDMI… as soon as I make a ~/.asound file with either of the suggested contents KDE immediately tells me that the hdmi sound for that output has been selected to be removed and offers me to make that permanent! This is for an x86_64 arch system all up to date - and I have flashplayer installed. Can anyone guide me as to where to look for a solution that will get this particular system playing sound from flash content on web pages in chrome? I have several other (non-hdmi) systems which have no problem with sound from web pages playing flash content. Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] Bind - working directory not writeable issue - a possible fix?
by Mike Cloaked 09 Feb '13

09 Feb '13

For a very long time I have noticed that when starting named there is a log message or in systemctl status a line complaining about being unable to write to the working directory as in the 2nd line with date/time from the command below: [root@lapmike3 ~]# systemctl status named named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2013-02-09 09:45:40 GMT; 1h 2min ago Main PID: 336 (named) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/named.service └─336 /usr/sbin/named -f -u named Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: command channel listening on ::1#953 Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: the working directory is not writable Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: managed-keys-zone: loaded serial 0 Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: all zones loaded Feb 09 09:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: running Feb 09 10:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: listening on IPv4 interface wlan0, 10.0.0.69#53 Feb 09 10:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: could not listen on UDP socket: permission denied Feb 09 10:45:42 lapmike3 named[336]: creating IPv4 interface wlan0 failed; interface ignored Looking at the permissions of /var/named in arch here on my laptop I see: drwxr-x--- 2 root named 4096 Dec 4 21:23 named So doing: [root@lapmike3 ~]# chmod 770 /var/named Now: drwxrwx--- 2 root named 4096 Dec 4 21:23 named And [root@lapmike3 ~]# systemctl restart named [root@lapmike3 ~]# systemctl status named named.service - Internet domain name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/named.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2013-02-09 10:50:48 GMT; 3s ago Process: 3619 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rndc stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 3623 (named) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/named.service └─3623 /usr/sbin/named -f -u named Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: automatic empty zone: A.E.F.IP6.ARPA Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: automatic empty zone: B.E.F.IP6.ARPA Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: automatic empty zone: 8.B.D.0.1.0.0.2.IP6.ARPA Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: command channel listening on ::1#953 Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: managed-keys-zone: loaded serial 0 Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 42 Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42 Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: all zones loaded Feb 09 10:50:48 lapmike3 named[3623]: running Looks much better now! But the question is whether or not this is a good thing to do? Does anyone know if there are any bad consequences to resolving this problem by changing the permissions of /var/named as I have done above? If this is a good solution shouldn't that permission be set that way when the bind package (bind 9.9.2.P1-1) is initially installed, so that it does not then need changing after the install? -- mike c

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[arch-general] [SOLVED] HDMI Alsa sound problem from flashplayer 64 bit
by Mike Cloaked 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

I promised I would post when I had this hdmi sound problem resolved - after a while spent trying to sort this out today I have now it working, and it may be useful to list the details in case anyone else has had a similar issue getting sound from flashplayer videos running in the chrome browser. I installed pulseaudio along with three other packages: # pacman -S pulseaudio paprefs pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa I also noticed that I needed one of the gstreamer plugin packages that I had inadvertently missed when I had previously installed the initial set of packages via a simple script. # pacman -S gstreamer0.10-good-plugins It is possible that my failure to get things working with alsa alone may have been due to not having this package installed before. However once the following settings had been put in place all sound now works properly and well: >From the KDE desktop, In Kmix under Audio Hardware setup: selected: Builtin audio Sound Card, with: Profile - Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output + Analogue Stereo Input and under Device configuration selected: Playback (Builtin Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI)) with Connector HDMI/Displayport. Then under Device preference chose Builtin Audio Digital Stereo (HDMI) for all the output types. Sound works now on all applications including from flashplayer video with audio within the chrome browser. It is entirely possible that if I had installed the gstreamer0.10-good-plugins package at the outset that there may not have been a problem at all and therefore this may have been just as much an issue with all sound connections. Thank you for the replies to my original post and for suggesting that I change from alsa to pulseaudio. The controls both in pavucontrol and the now changed controls in kmix with pulseaudio are better than with alsa. -- mike c

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[arch-general] How to wait efficiently for a package to update?
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

So I'm checking out python-sympy for some calculations in the Robotics subject I teach and realized that a bug was recently fixed in git which is crucial to what I hope to use it for. python-sympy-git in the AUR and that's settled. Then I got to wondering, I only really want to use the -git version till the next release, but since python-sympy is no longer installed (conflicts) I wouldn't automatically get it unless I check every once in a while if version is > 0.7.2. I figured installing a blank package with nothing in package() named python-sympy and with version 0.7.2 would allow me to get notified when python-sympy-0.7.3 or later gets in the repos. Is this a good way of doing it, or are there better ways?

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[arch-general] RFC: Catalyst and Hybrid Graphics
by Armin K. 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

Hello, I have been playing with Catalyst on ArchLinux in order to get my Hybrid Graphics working. Catalyst supports PowerXpress 4.0+ in Linux, so muxless graphics can work. It took me some time to get it to work, I had to workaround many stuff. Here follows: First thing that I was bothered with is that /usr/lib/fglrx/switchlib{GL,glx} were missing. Their purpose is to switch /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to either AMD (Catalyst) or Intel (Mesa and Xorg) libraries. Each one is called with "intel" or "amd" as an argument, and both must exit sucessfully with "echo amd" or "echo intel" after getting the job done. I've managed to "fool" Catalyst by creating dummy files. #!/bin/bash echo amd exit 0 By default, aticonfig --initial will use AMD (Discrete) GPU, so the current installation seems to be okay. I'll continue with other issues that can arise later in this mail. Next major problem is that fglrx will load intel driver, which, unfortunately can't be installed by default since it depends on intel-dri, which depends on libgl which is in conflict with catalyst-utils package (doh). I had to rebuild it without intel-dri dependency to get this working. On why intel driver is necesary, I can answer the following: Most newer hybrid graphics are muxless, they do not have hardware multiplexer and you can't select on which GPU you want to output. Instead, Discrete GPU is just wired to Integrated one and is meant only for Processing while it is on Integrated GPU to display anything passed from the Discrete GPU. For more information on this term, you may want to look at DRI PRIME and DMA BUF (An open source solution for this mess). So in fact, intel driver is needed since it is used for 2D and stuff, where fglrx only does the encoding/decoding stuff. How to fix it? Well, I couldn't think of any nice way to fix this. Debian has their alternatives system so they can have multiple libGL installed and set with alternatives. Gentoo does the same with their eselect stuff or whatever it's called. Since aticonfig --px-dgpu tells xorg.conf to use Discrete (AMD) GPU, it also runs /usr/lib/fglrx/switchlib{GL,glx} with "amd" as parameter in order to "make" /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 and /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so point to AMD provided libraries. aticonfig --px-igpu would switch to Mesa libGL.so.1 and Xorg Server libglx.so which are, you know, not present when catalyst-utils are installed. (Xserver libglx.so is present, but it's useless without Mesa's libGL.so.1). On how to solve this I can only think of making another package (part of Mesa source package) called something like intel-dri-hybrid (which depends on catalyst-utils and can only be used with it) that installs Intel DRI drivers and libGL.so.1 into some nonstandard place or just renamed to something else like libGL-intel.so.1. Also, it would be necesary to make /usr/lib/fglrx/switchlib{GL,glx} to correctly switch (symlinks should do it, but carefully) between AMD and Open Source libGL and libglx. I haven't done this yet but some may want to use this - not everyone wants to use Discrete GPU always - especially when on battery. I can say that power consumption on my laptop has dropped even though I always disabled Discrete GPU via vgaswitcheroo (radeon driver). Any comments and suggestions are welcome. I can try to implement something if necesary, it's just the question if my suggestions are good enough and will be accepted. I appologize for any gramatical mistakes.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] Add Wayland/Weston
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 Feb '13

08 Feb '13

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Gaetan Bisson <bisson(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > [2013-02-08 01:23:30 +0100] Sébastien Luttringer: >> [4] I'm already existed by arch-general be closed again > > I cannot make sense of that sentence... > s/existed/excited then it makes much more sense =)

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[arch-general] Troubleshooting random crash
by Andre Goree 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hello all, I'm having an issue on my work machine where for the past week, each day when I come in the computer freezes. I'm using KDE 4.9.5 along with 3.7.5-1-ARCH. I believe this started happening after a recent update but I can't know for sure and I can't really reproduce it...it's happening at seemingly random times, however the pattern I see developing is after my PC has been running all day, I'll come in the next morning open Thunderbird and the system just freezes. I can't ctrl+alt+F[1-12] or do anything. Using another system, I'm able to telnet to port 22 on the "frozen" box (I run ssh on this box) but cannot get connected via ssh. My question is, how do I go about troubleshooting this issue? I know there are so many factors involved that it can really be anything, but I'd think if it were an X11/KDE/Thunderbird issue, I'd at least be able to switch to a console and/or SSH to the box. I also don't know if it's in fact a kernel crash because I can telnet to ports on the box. I AM running root BtrFS which I think may be the culprit. I know I know, not production ready, etc. but I'm not actually using this box as a production server, just as my main work desktop so I figured I'd be fine. Also, again, I didn't start having issues until maybe 2 weeks ago -- and I've had this box running since September '12. Luckily I haven't had any filesystem corruption AFAIK, but I'm thinking it's only a matter of time. Any tips on things I could set up to try to capture some sort of output or perhaps a kernel dump (if it's the kernel crashing)? I'm just at a loss here, and I'm not accustom to needing to reboot my Linux PC so ofter (though I have to troubleshoot a certain other OS daily, and that's usually the resolution :p ). -- Andre Goree andre(a)drenet.info

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[arch-general] Strange X11 problem with fresh install
by Fons Adriaensen 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hello all, I'm experiencing an odd problem with a new system installed yesterday. Video HW is NV44 [GeForce 6200 LE], driver nouveau, login xdm-archlinux, windom manager is Windowmaker (but the same problem occurs with e.g. FVWM). Every _second_ login the following happens: * Input typed into xterm is displayed as spaces. All the rest (including completion and history) gets printed normally. * The top pixel rows of some lines in xterm are not displayed. * Apps displaying pixmaps show random garbage instead. When this happens, /var/log/Xorg.0.log has a line [ 42.200] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): Error allocating scanout buffer: 0 while in the other 50% of cases there are no errors. Any hints, options I could use to avoid this, ... ? TIA, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

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[arch-general] Status of BlueZ update
by Karol Babioch 05 Feb '13

05 Feb '13

Hi, by now BlueZ 5.2 has already been released. I'm wondering what the current status for the package on Archlinux is. I've found this (see [1]) status report over on "arch-dev-public". However this is over a month old now already, and I would really like to see BlueZ updated in the near future. Thanks in advance! Best regards, Karol Babioch [1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-December/02418…

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[arch-general] Syslinux update from 4.06 to 5.01
by Myra Nelson 03 Feb '13

03 Feb '13

My setup is vanilla with the boot partition on a separate partition, and this update went smooth as silk. Great job. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

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[arch-general] Winter Cleanup of [community]
by Alexander Rødseth 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Hi, It's time again for the yearly cleanup of the [community] repository. Somehow, time passed, and it's now too late for a "Christmas Cleanup" like last year. Instead I'm announcing a Winter Cleanup, which I think is a better name as well. The wonderful developers of Arch Web have added a report of "Uneeded Orphans" since last time, which should make this cleanup considerably easier. (Thanks Dan McGee: https://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/commit/?id=5379348c9337a4abe27e8…) Another positive development is that all the ibus-packages that nobody seemed to want to adopt, are no longer orphans. Thanks goes out to Felix Yan, one of our latest TUs, for that. The list of unneeded orphans can be viewed at this page: https://www.archlinux.org/devel/reports/unneeded-orphans/ If you know of other packages that deserves to be cleaned up somehow, in [community], AUR or any of the other repositories, please reply to this e-mail and let us know. (If there should be too many requests, we'll start a wiki page this year as well). If there aren't any protests, I'll wait a couple of days and then move all the unneeded orphans in [community] to AUR. Developers and maintainers of [core], [extra] and [multilib] should feel free to join in on the cleanup, of course. I'll round off this invitation with a somewhat pretentious and slightly akward slogan :] "Happy Winter Cleanup. Let our repositories shine!" Sincerely, Alexander Rødseth xyproto / TU

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[arch-general] nmbd fails to start
by Andre Goree 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

Having an issue with nmbd failing to start, with no real reason shown in the logs as you can see below: Jan 30 11:10:34 sideswipe systemd[1]: nmbd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 30 11:10:34 sideswipe systemd[1]: Unit nmbd.service entered failed state Jan 30 11:12:21 sideswipe systemd[1]: nmbd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jan 30 11:12:21 sideswipe systemd[1]: Unit nmbd.service entered failed state smbd.service seems to start fine. I've tried enabling NetworkManager-wait-online.service, but to no avail. I'm wondering why nmbd is not producing any relevant error messages in my logs, too. Any ideas? -- Andre Goree andre(a)drenet.info

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux update to 5.01
by Matthew Gyurgyik 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

On 01/31/2013 12:49 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Am 31.01.2013 18:43, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: >> Am 31.01.2013 16:09, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: >>> Hi, >>> ok syslinux 5.0 series should come to testing again. >>> The problem with this release: >>> You need to copy all .c32 modules to your /boot/syslinux path. >>> - Those who used our shipped install script, will end up in a none menu >>> based syslinux shell. >> As long as we ship this install script we should maintain it. So this >> script needs to be altered to copy the needed files. >> > The script has already been modified to at least to syslinux shell. > If it should do more, Pyther needs to change it. > > greetings > tpowa > I'll copy and paste from my previous message (Re: [arch-dev-public] syslinux 5.00 in [testing]). ----- Below you will find the links to the patches for the syslinux-install_update script, PKGBUILD, and syslinux.cfg During an install, the syslinux-install_update script will copy all .c32 modules to /boot/syslinux. This is recommended by upstream [1]. The size cost is minimal, 996K. For updates, I added an array called core_modules. During an update, we only copy modules that already exist in /boot/syslinux. However, if any core_module does not exist in /boot/syslinux it will be copied/symlinked. With these modifications, when a user upgrades from 4.06 -> 5.00, ldlinux.c32 will be copied/symlinked to /boot/syslinux as it is core_module. Other modules such as libutil_com.c32 and libcom32.c32 will not be copied/linked. On boot, if a menu is being used, the menu will fail to load (missing depends: libutil_com.c32, etc...). However, the user will be given a syslinux shell they can boot by entering a label that corresponds to a defined label in syslinux.cfg. A post_install message or a news item suggesting users to copy / symlink all modules to /boot/syslinux would be ideal. Users who miss this message, will still be able to boot, but instead of the menu loading, they will be dropped to a syslinux shell (as explained above). cp /usr/lib/syslinux/*.c32 /boot/syslinux (/ and /boot on seperate fs) or ln -s /usr/lib/syslinux/*.c32 /boot/syslinux (/ and /boot on same fs) In my opinion, we shouldn't add new modules during an update to /boot/syslinux unless, without the module, the system becomes unbootable. The rational here being - the user knows best. Lastly, since com modules are no longer supported and no one has ported poweroff.com, I have removed the poweroff section from the syslinux.cfg [2]. Patches: http://pyther.net/a/syslinux-5.00-patches-v1/PKGBUILD.diff http://pyther.net/a/syslinux-5.00-patches-v1/syslinux-install_update.patch http://pyther.net/a/syslinux-5.00-patches-v1/syslinux.cfg.patch [1] "In general, unless you have a reason *not* to install all the .c32 files, it is probably a good idea." - hpa [2] #syslinux @freenode: pyther : Hello. Is there a poweroff module for syslinux 5? Ady2 : pyther: no. all .com modules are not supported in 5.00. someone needs to create a new poweroff.c32 compatible with 5.00. Regards, Matthew Gyurgyik

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[arch-general] Steam License
by Lone_Wolf 01 Feb '13

01 Feb '13

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-January/024354… In that thread on arch-dev-public, the license from valve for the steam client is discussed. Sofar noone mentioned section C4, export controls. 4. Export Controls. The Program may not be re-exported, downloaded or otherwise exported into (or to a national or resident of) any country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods, or to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Departments list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Departments Table of Denial Orders. By installing the Program, you are agreeing to the foregoing and you are representing and warranting that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. IANAL, but I very much doubt that if steam is put in the repos we can be sure arch doesn't violate this clause. LW

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])
by Mika Fischer 31 Jan '13

31 Jan '13

[Replying to arch-general since I'm not allowed to post to arch-dev-public] On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > It's not a given that a vi clone is the most desirable replacement. If an > editor that is not a vi clone should be preferred, now or in the future, a > symlink named vi looks funny. How about splitting out a vim-vi-compat (or whatever you want to name it) package that just contains the /usr/bin/vim -> /usr/bin/vi symlink. This could then provide 'vi' and conflict with it. This way people can replace /usr/bin/vi with whatever vi package they want easily, while being able to keep vim, if they want. Best, Mika

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[arch-general] Anybody using Linux as an audio production environment?
by Ralf Mardorf 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi :) there's a poll about what distro Linux audio users prefer for audio work. It would be nice, if the voter turnout would increase. If some of you are subscribed to other distro's mailing lists, please announce this poll to those lists too. "I just want to know what distros are you using in 2013, it would be helpful for programmers and help newbies to choose. The Survey: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGdNUUltUzZ2ZGpqa2RZdm… Results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtrwZ7irPN7TdGdNUUltUzZ2ZGpqa2… " - http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2013-January/089753.… Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] signature from "Thorsten Tpper <xxx@xxx.xxx>" is unknown trust
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

error: libdbi: signature from "Thorsten T��pper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust error: libdbi-drivers: signature from "Thorsten T��pper <atsutane(a)freethoughts.de>" is unknown trust error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. I already tried removing the keys and recreating them using pacman-key. And also cleared pacman cache so the the package is downloaded again. Does this indicate tampering/file corruption or an expired key? Should I file a bug report? (this is a community package) Thanks. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe. http://sudaraka.org/

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[arch-general] efi boot kernel file sync - is it still necessary for refind?
by Mike Cloaked 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI_Bootloaders#Sync_EFISTUB_Kernel_i… The recent (and current) version of refind-efi auto-detects efi kernels in /boot and that wiki article says that it is no longer necessary to sync files from /boot/ to /boot/efi/EFI/arch/ Does that mean when first installing arch in a uefi system then it is also no longer necessary to copy the vmlinuz and initramfs files to the EFI /arch/ directory at all? Or is it necessary only once as indicated in the wiki? i.e. is the wiki fully up to date? Thanks. -- mike c

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Silent removal of initscripts?
by G. Schlisio 28 Jan '13

28 Jan '13

Am 28.01.2013 21:28, schrieb Evangelos Foutras: > On 28 January 2013 21:30, Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: >> IMNSHO, it would probably be best to just unequivocally declare the rc >> scripts as dead and unsupported rather than try to play catch-up now. > I agree with this, no half measures. :) > > You made the announcement [1] in early November; title was pretty > clear; time-frame was provided. There's nothing else left to do now > but to drop the initscripts and sysvinit packages. > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-initscripts-support/ > a new announcement would only make sense for those, who totally slept the whole time. the majority of users sticking with initscripts does not do that because of lack of interest in systemd. my vserver hoster (netcup.de, german provider) does not provide an up-to-date kernel and, although first made aware of the upcoming change in september, now begins beta testing a new virtualization (kvm, linux vserver before). its still some time (up to two month) until i can finally migrate to systemd. i would be very glad, if there was a sysvinit-scripts package for the time beeing. thanks for considering.

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Re: [arch-general] Help with making a bootable usbkey from arch for ssd drive firmware update - RESOLVED
by Mike Cloaked 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked(a)gmail.com>wrote: > 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. > > I raised this issue above about two weeks ago - and finally tonight resolved the problem. I checked on the Intel site for BIOS updates for my motherboard (DQ77KB) - and it turned out that Intel has in the interim released a new BIOS version 048 which has a bunch of fixes including " Updated VBIOS to fix issue where there is no display in DOS." After installing the new BIOS I was able to update the SSD drive firmware without any problem at all - so it seems that whatever method I tried to boot the firmware update which is DOS based would have failed until the BIOS was updated! So I am a happy bunny again with current Crucial SSD drive firmware! -- mike c

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[arch-general] community/vlock vs core/kbd vlock
by Fredrik Eriksson 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hi, I used to rely on xautolock + community/vlock for locking my X session, core/kbd however removed community/vlock in favor of its own vlock which lack the functionality I need. Besides -a -a,--all Lock all console sessions and disable VC switching. not working This tty (pts/5) is not a virtual console. The entire console display cannot be locked. I also used -n and -s -n,--new Switch to a new virtual console before locking all console sessions. -s,--disable-sysrq Disable the SysRq mechanism while consoles are locked. This option only works if the -a,--all option given. that the new vlock is lacking. Not wanting to revert to slock I reworked community/vlock into my system in a foul manner I'm not going to mention here. I've also read https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/33134 http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg07153.html https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=156308 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-203953.html :D I'm not sure what my question should be, really, but I would like to be able to use the 2.2.3 functionality (-ans) without having an ugly hacky setup. Regards, -- Fredrik

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])
by Paul Gideon Dann 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

On Friday 25 Jan 2013 00:14:14 Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > There is nothing stopping us dropping vi completely and just putting vim > > on the install media... > > I'd favor that (as a vim user who always gets confused by vi on the > install media). > > -t +1 I do "pacman -S vim" pretty quickly if there's any serious file tweaking to be done on install. I'd be in favour of a more advanced "newby-friendly" editor, too, for people that don't know Vim. Nano is pretty limited. It does make sense to me to have several options available, since we depend on text editing so much for installation. Paul

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[arch-general] Partition/Data rescue
by archlinuxmailings＠gmail.com 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hi You know the moment where you would turn back the time some seconds only? Well here we are... I got a perfectly running arch on ssd (6 partitions) and an internal hdd (1partition) with a backup usb disk (1partition) connected at a very genious moment! Having done a SD-multiboot setup with several distros I just wanted to test that the last distro added (DBAN Dariks Boot and nume) boots fine. Only little thing to mention was that --autonuke setting at boot loader. Don't ask me what was riding me, maybe tiredness, stupidness, something evil or altogether! As fast as I swiched the system off it erased at least some sectors on each and every disk! Well, DBAN worked. But how can I get back to something running? At least I would like the backup disk running but I am not sure what is the correct way. I don't have another backup and uploading to Amazon S3 was not yet finished, so disaster recovery would have worked only later.... How I hate Murphy today! For the procedure: Testdisk showed me at least 6 possible partitioning (having had one on this disk!) schemes and just creating the partition with fdisk and not touching the filesystem wouldn't give me my TOC back, no? Using gparted would recreate the filesystem resulting in overwritten data? Do I need to use an ext-restoring rool or what is best to try? First copying the data off to a second external disk with "dd"? And then? I would really appreciate some experienced users feedback as some of the missing data means a lot to me although knowing that there are more important things lime health etc. Thanks in advance! emak

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[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade
by arnaud gaboury 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Dear list, testing repo is enabled on my box. Today upgrade of glibc, filesystem and Linux failed and leaves me with an unbootable machine. I boot with Archiso, then mount /, /boot and /user on /mnt/. From this directory, I then #pacman -Syu linux glibc filesystem with no success. Get excv unfound. I downgraded these 3 packages, then try again. It went with no errors. Booting my box leaves me to a Kernel panic with init not found. My grub config is clean and don't know why I should pass any extra kernel parameter. How can I deal with this issue? Thank you for help as my box is my working tool

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[arch-general] [systemd] udevd and udevadm not found in initramfs when using systemd-git
by William Giokas 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

All, I rebooted my computer today to test some boot flags only to be greeted with an unbootable machine. Here is a transcript of the boot messages: /init: line 9: systemd-timestamp: not found :: running early hook [udev] /init: line 21: udevd: not found :: running hook [udev] :: Triggering uevents... /init: line 21: udevadm: not found /init: line 21: udevadm: not found /init: line 21: udevadm: not found Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda2... ERROR: device '/dev/sda2' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/sda2'. And then I am dropped to a root shell. Attached is my mkinitcpio.conf[1]. This only happens when using an initramfs generated with systemd-git. I built this this image[1] using mkinitcpio 0.12.0.15.g1fb6722. I am also using linux-mainline, but that does not seem to have any effect when downgrading or using a different kernel. If I downgrade systemd to 197, however, rebuild the image and reboot, it goes smoothly. Shutting down my computer cleanly is also an impossibility, as `systemctl poweroff` just hangs with no messages printed. This does not happen with 197. Also attached are the pacman -Ql outputs of my systemd-git[3] and [core]s systemd[4], as well as the mkinitcpio -v output[5]. [1] http://ix.io/46o [2] http://ompldr.org/vaDdobQ/initramfs-linux-mainline.img [3] http://ix.io/46n [4] http://ix.io/46m [5] http://ix.io/46l Thank you, -- William Giokas | KaiSforza GnuPG Key: 0xE99A7F0F Fingerprint: F078 CFF2 45E8 1E72 6D5A 8653 CDF5 E7A5 E99A 7F0F

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Re: [arch-general] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])
by Greg Bouzakis 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > Le 2013-01-24 07:21, Allan McRae a écrit : >> On 24/01/13 22:08, Alexander Rødseth wrote: >>> === [core] === >>> >>> For [core], there are two uneeded orphans, that also aren't make >>> dependencies for any other [core] packages: >>> >>> openldap >>> vi >>> >>> If I may be so bold, maybe vim or another editor (still providing the >>> "vi" command) could take over for the vi package? >> I agree with just dumping vi and moving [vim] to core... But we can not >> put split packages across repos and gvim and deps are not going there so >> that is a no... > > Moving to another thread for clarity. > > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap > ... > > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in > [extra] (do we really need 2 text editors in [core] ?). > FWIW this is the original discussion which brought this crippled vi upon us https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13109 but more importantly https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13239 Do vim and gvim really have to share the same PKGBUILD? I would be in favour of having a proper modern vim implementation in core no matter what its name would be. The only downside is that vim would need signoffs. I think that if a different PKGBUILD is used for gvim then gvim wouldn't need those as well. Greg

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Drop VI from [core] (was Re: Winter Cleanup of [community])
by Paul Gideon Dann 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

On Thursday 24 Jan 2013 11:05:22 Stéphane Gaudreault wrote: > +1 to drop vi. I cannot imagine why someone would want to use this crap ... > > We already have nano in [core], so I think that vim could stay in > [extra] (do we really need 2 text editors in [core] ?). Vi is the standard UNIX text-editor. Many admins rely on the fact that vi is available everywhere. It really should be in core. Also, I know you might be referring to "plain vi", which is a completely different beast to Vim, but the latter (which provides "vi" too) has a *huge* userbase. Calling it crap is just bizarre... Paul

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Re: [arch-general] Linux-3.7.3-1-i686 blank screen
by Jean-Marie Duprez 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:07:56 +0000 Whiskers <catwheezel at operamail.com <https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote: >* On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:25:45 +0100 Karol Babioch <karol at babioch.de <https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-general>> wrote:*>* *>* >Hi,*>* >*>* >Am 22.01.2013 18:34, schrieb Whiskers:*>* >> An 'unconfirmed' bug is listed at <https://bugs.archlinux.org/> but this*>* >> seems to relate to vlc segfaulting with the new kernel, so I don't know*>* >> if that's the same problem affecting me.*>* >*>* >No, that's almost certainly another issue.*>* >*>* >You may want to try 3.7.4-1 from testing. If that doesn't fix your*>* >issue, you are probably best off to contact upstream directly. With*>* >Linux 3.7 there was quite some restructuring of the graphics stack going*>* >on, so it may well be that in some cases it breaks things.*>* >*>* >Best regards,*>* >Karol Babioch*>* >*>* *>* *>* I'm using the Nouveau video driver with an old laptop. As Linux-3.6.11-1*>* seems to be stable for me, I'll wait for the next kernel version to reach*>* the core repository. * If you're talking about 3.7.4, then it's unlikely to fix your issue, because there are only radeon fixes in the changeloghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.7.4. >* *>* I'll also try to work out how to have the previous kernel still available*>* to Grub-legacy after the next kernel upgrade.*>* *>* For the record, this is what my video hardware says it is:*>* *>* $ lspci | grep VGA*>* 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX*>* Go5600] (rev a1)*>* *Hi, I have exactly the same problem with a DELL LATITUDE D800 (a good old machine of 2004 which accomode very well of ARchlinux !). Until now I had no difficulty with kernels 3.6 or LTS. With the kernel 3.7.4, the system started to boot normally but the display went blank before the login prompt appeared ! By precaution, I always have an installed linus-lts what allowed me to return quickly to the version 3.6. which works correctly. I'm using the Nouveau video driver (last release) and my video harware is : VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200 64M] (rev a1) Regards ! Jean-Marie Duprez

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Re: [arch-general] failed to set xfermode on multiple disks SOLVED
by Jameson 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jameson <imntreal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Jameson <imntreal(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Martín Cigorraga <msx(a)archlinux.us> wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Jameson <imntreal(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> Hi Jameson, a blind shot here since I'm not familiar yet with SSD setups: >>> did you tried running a fsck? In the past I had a similar situation with >>> conventional hard disks and the problem was some corrupted data in /boot. >>> >>> Hope you have your beast up soon! >> >> Yes. I had actually forgotten that I had a separate ext4 boot >> partition. I've ran fsck on it as well as btrfsck on my mirrored >> root, and my raid10 array. All return fine. During boot, between >> some of the xfermode errors, I can see the message where it is looking >> for btrfs file systems, and then a repair console which says that the >> root filesystem can't be found which doesn't respond for some reason. >> I'll try to find another keyboard to see if it will make a difference. >> I did another install of of the old 3.6 kernel, and noticed that it >> threw an error about not being able to find the root filesystem at >> that point also. Any further diagnostic advice will be appreciated. > > Also, it turns out changing USB keyboards makes no difference. I > don't think I have a PS/2 keyboard, anymore. I've currently copied > all of my data from my SSD array to a HDD, and plan on trying to get > it to boot. I've successfully ran mkinitcpio and grub-mkconfig from a > chroot on the HDD which did not return the error about not finding the > root filesystem, so I'm hopeful it will at least get me back up and > running. I forgot to grub-install, though, so I'll have to wait until > I get home to test it. In case anyone else runs into this, I needed to patch the kernel with the patch provided in this bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51881

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[arch-general] vboxnetflt module broken in virtualbox-host-modules-lts?
by David Rosenstrauch 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

I'm running the LTS kernel, and VirtualBox has been working fine under it until recently. However sometime in the last few days (after a recent upgrade, I'm guessing), I can no longer launch VM's. Apparently vboxnetflt is never getting loaded. And when I try to load it manually, I get the following error: [darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo modprobe vboxnetflt modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxnetflt': Invalid argument Anyone know what the problem might be? I didn't see any bug reports about this. Does the virtualbox-host-modules-lts need to be upgraded perhaps? Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] Avermedia Volar Green A835
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I am trying to make avertv a835 work. I tried this (found in gentoo forums): cd /lib/firmware sudo wget http://xgazza.altervista.org/Linux/DVB/dvb-usb-af9035-01.fw cd ~ mkdir TV cd TV wget http://xgazza.altervista.org/Linux/DVB/Drivers/AF9035_xgaz_3.0.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjf AF9035_xgaz_3.0.0.tar.bz2 cd AF9035_xgaz_3.0.0 make sudo make install I replaced linux-headers with linux in the Makefile, but I can't compile it, I get error in include/dvb_frontend.h

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Re: [arch-general] failed to set xfermode on multiple disks (Was: Busted Server)
by Jameson 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Martín Cigorraga <msx(a)archlinux.us> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Jameson <imntreal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Hi Jameson, a blind shot here since I'm not familiar yet with SSD setups: > did you tried running a fsck? In the past I had a similar situation with > conventional hard disks and the problem was some corrupted data in /boot. > > Hope you have your beast up soon! Yes. I had actually forgotten that I had a separate ext4 boot partition. I've ran fsck on it as well as btrfsck on my mirrored root, and my raid10 array. All return fine. During boot, between some of the xfermode errors, I can see the message where it is looking for btrfs file systems, and then a repair console which says that the root filesystem can't be found which doesn't respond for some reason. I'll try to find another keyboard to see if it will make a difference. I did another install of of the old 3.6 kernel, and noticed that it threw an error about not being able to find the root filesystem at that point also. Any further diagnostic advice will be appreciated. Thanks, =-Jameson

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[arch-general] Upgrade to linux-3.7.3: system freezes on certain actions in X
by Alain Kalker 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

Hardware Info: System: Host: miki-desktop Kernel: 3.6.11-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.7.2) Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.5.0) Distro: Arch Linux Machine: Mobo: FUJITSU SIEMENS model: MS-7504VP version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: V1.16 date: 08/11/2008 CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU E7500 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11738.2 Clock Speeds: 1: 1603.00 MHz 2: 1603.00 MHz Graphics: Card: NVIDIA C73 [GeForce 7050 / nForce 630i] bus-ID: 00:10.0 X.Org: 1.13.1 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: fbdev,nv,vesa) Resolution: 1600x900(a)60.0hz GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on NV63 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.1 Direct Rendering: Yes After the upgrade to linux-3.7.3-1, my system began freezing frequently after certain actions (opening a new browser window, switching windows, etc.) The system became totally unresponsive (no Magic SysRq, no response from network). Investigating a little further, I found I could reliably reproduce the freeze by running '$ glxinfo' (occasionally had to repeat it a few times). Downgrading to linux-3.6.11-1 resolved the problem. I'm not reporting this as a bug yet, since linux-3.7.3-1 is marked as out-of-date (linux-3.7.4-1 is in [testing]), this is just a heads-up for other people experiencing the same issue. Regards, Alain

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[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 22 Jan '13

22 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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[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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[arch-general] Systemd 196-2 new install 100%cpu usage
by P .NIKOLIC 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hi . Just had to completely rebuild the system using the latest ISO . I am now getting CPU usage of 100% on 1 core 143 root 20 0 721m 131m 22m R 00.0 2.1 16:30.31 systemd-journal is the line from top systemd version 196-2 all the latest updates . Journal --verify reports file corruption detected at /var/log/journal/dir-name/system.journal:87210024 (of94937088, 91%) Any help as it makes the system way slow when loading any documents . Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.6.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 18 08:57:15 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] systemd automount + wake-on-lan dependency
by Sander Jansen 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

I want my media pc to automatically mount several samba shares when they're accessed. In addition it also needs to wake-up the other machine if it is currently suspended via WOL. >From a forum post on xbmc.org (1) I know this can be done using autofs, but I'd like to see if this can be using systemd alone. I know systemd can handle the automounting, but what about the WOL? Is it as simple as merely providing a dependency to the specific automount service file to first do the WOL? A oneshot unit? Or perhaps part of the same unit file with ExecStartPre (if there is such a thing in a automount file)? Any hints or tips? Thanks, Sander [1] http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=118164

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[arch-general] Incorporate udev rules in initrd
by Christoph Vigano 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hey guys, I set the sensitivity of my Thinkpad X230i laptop trackpoint with an udev rule setting the values in sysfs fitting for me. One drawback of this solution is that this rule I wrote is not incorporated inside of the intird, so when I start up, the udev of initrd already recognized the trackpoint and my rule in the booted-up system is ignored. My workaround for this is to manually do "udevadm trigger", which bugs the hell out of me. How can I tell mkinitcpio to include a custom udev rule? Do I need to write a hook for that? How can a hook for this look like? Thanks in advance! Christoph

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[arch-general] kernel 3.7.2 - fails to boot - please help
by Genes Lists 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Using testing repos - was fully updated and all working fine. Then picked up the latest 3.7.2-1 kernel along with kdebase 4.9.5-2/ Rebooting after this latest update fails - it cannot find the root device and drops to "recovery shell". ls /dev/sdb1 (the usual root device) is def missing at that point. The recovery option does not boot either. What I tried: I booted 2013.01.04 arch install media - did a chroot as per the wiki - and attempted to roll back the kernel using pacman on the 3.7.1 package I get several errors: warning could not get filesystem information for things like: /run/archiso/bootmnt /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd /run is empty - and /sys/fs/cgroup is empty As per the chroot wiki /sys is mounted from the install via mount -t sysfs sys sys/ pacman continues beyond these warnings but fails with: ==> building image from preset: 'default' -> -k /boot/vmlinux-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img ERROR: invalid kernel specified: '/boot/vmlinux-linux' same error from ;fallback'. I am hoping I can install 3.7.1 kernel and boot again - instead of a new install. If anyone can offer some guidance I'd be appreciative ... thank you gene

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Re: [arch-general] [RFC] New virtual provide (ttf-font) for TrueType fonts
by Sebastian Schwarz 11 Jan '13

11 Jan '13

On 2013-01-12 at 08:35 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 12/01/13 08:16, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > > At least three bugs on our bug tracker can be solved by > > making relevant truetype font packages provide 'ttf-font': > > (...) > > Makes sense to me. If you are a bit on the pedantic side the name "ttf-font" might sound a bit weird, considering that TTF stands for TrueType Font. But apart from that the idea sounds useful. Regards, Sebastian

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[arch-general] Firefox stays English after upgrade to 18.0-1
by Karol Babioch 10 Jan '13

10 Jan '13

Hi, I've just upgraded both "firefox" and "firefox-i18n-de" to 18.0-1. However after this upgrade all (context) menus are English. This wasn't the case for the last couple of upgrades of Firefox, so I'm wondering whether I'm alone with that observation, or whether there went something wrong with the packaging? I couldn't find a bug report on this, so before reporting anything, I would like to make sure that I'm not the only one affected by this. I've looked at the recent changes to the i18n package(s), see [1], and it seems that it was reworked based on the Thunderbird packages. However Thunderbird is still German, even after the upgrade. So I'm not too sure what is going on here. [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/f… Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] UEFI experience - recommendations needed.
by Mike Cloaked 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

I am building a machine which has an EFI capable boot on the motherboard together with an mSATA drive for the root and boot partitions and an SSD for the /opt and swap partitions, and just a single arch x86_64 install when it is built - no dual booting to other OSes. I have been looking up information about UEFI with GPT partitioning and have read about various problems that people have had with such systems. So at this stage I am unsure whether to stick with what I know (BIOS/MBR and GRUB2 with full systemd) or whether to plunge into the unknown (for me!) and try EFI/GPT! (with rEFInd) Does anyone have experience with such a UEFI system on this list? Apart from the info on the arch wiki and the install wiki info (which I have been reading), are systems like this reliable once installed? Does the routine pacman update process for kernels lead to issues requiring manual intervention with EFI/GPT or it is as generally reliable as BIOS/MBR? I would be interested to hear from anyone with this kind of experience running arch - if it is useful the motherboard I am using is an Intel DQ77KB (which I intend to update with the latest BIOS firmware) and with the Intel i3-3220T CPU. Thanks for any replies (and useful links) -- mike c

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[arch-general] Udisks2: auto-mounts as read-only device/with wrong permissions
by Jakob Herrmann 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am currently having trouble mounting external devices with Gnome3. The corresponding Arch systems are up-to-date and free of old sysvinit components. Issue #1: Vfat-formated SD-cards are mounted as read-only into /run/media/$user/$device when they are plugged in. I am able to mount and write to them without trouble via console, e.g. with mout dev/sdxx /mnt. The corresponding dmesg output when pluging in and auto-mounting a card: \begin{code} [ 82.424085] usb 2-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd [ 82.577480] scsi7 : usb-storage 2-1.4:1.0 [ 82.577631] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-realtek [ 83.580243] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic- Multi-Card 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS [ 84.340304] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 3862528 512-byte logical blocks: (1.97 GB/1.84 GiB) [ 84.341156] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 84.341162] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 [ 84.342015] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [ 84.342023] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 84.345736] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [ 84.345742] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 84.346998] sdc: sdc1 [ 84.349972] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present [ 84.349978] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 84.349982] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 85.036758] FAT-fs (sdc1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) [ 85.036765] FAT-fs (sdc1): Filesystem has been set read-only \end{code} The last 2 lines are not present when mounting the device via console (s. above). The interesting thing is that they are also mounted as writable, when using Gnome in fallback mode. Issue #2: Some (but obviously only some) USB sticks/external drives are auto-mounted as writable, but for root only. They can be mounted via console (mnt) without trouble, but it makes no difference if fallback mode is used or not or if ext4 or something else. As far as I understand everything right, Udisks2 performs mounting/unmounting tasks in Gnome right now, but I could not find any instructions how to configure it properly but postings articles about that most of the stuff in Udisks2 is hard-coded and the only way to change it is patching the source and re-compiling it. Does anyone in this list have similar issues and what can I do besides telling people I am supporting to use the console? It is also not possible to deactivate auto-mounting any more, at least not via gnome-session-properties, so a script wouldn't change the situation that much. Thanks, Jakob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQ7CSrAAoJEOl7hkDId7YmB+EP/A7t3wcmJ1spTEU80a+FY1aX GsVFL1w+f3mpTR2F4ZLvWWcat9zUKSJ4YJhrktPGCG18hizznu58Gnvqf4FnnWzi jNun9DvyvbmWHHE3/JjZ43ZF3Z+kHpWiDW8u+12dG5m5igL4ibHHC8UI/uzVAtlS qEzPCiXETqR3sGYIoISg/BglZuGJSbCgnvVAHsHBaPH0+IryvPExItrXqgXrvzWz QtpaUOxEjWq858my3O/Zh4h/bR01UKqjXHYdFDISddJ/V5fq4rNZHhWkgJh9C66W HS84oXU/fg7gtSXjB9Q+yeokSU6aCiz9DFGMRzLU1xTw//f2+wFk+YrZrmhLJzxN 0VD7KkZtOgEj/kippJKObwz3iJw5/MGFnjD3Kxbwd+dtBAmez3Fwyaxi0wwSXt8v 2RNCnO33FJkT8a/QWdKb2DgzAPc+Y7dkFPf/Knd3Zz/zM21+H5xPwEdyD447Dsm0 amjF1lzJ0qjfvhD6g8YAo3a+CZ8+dYC7DqHo4GyXYiVwdz1yW/nB4ML7fOz8gXMS 3kT7OtnS87qP9Y1Kx1G/pKQpL0uDXANySLMXD/X4G9L3zEd2a6jRZ6cp4kdKPUj2 a7uHC+XRiQYhy4olGfnFOv2CymI0qoizYpktpPnh4JnLdMyX2t0VetrE5vZfwXBc sWI/cbBVjM4mN9Sk9D1E =yjpQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197
by Oon-Ee Ng 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com> wrote: > > *** Why are you still reading this? > > If you made it this far, you might be as crazy as I am, so here's Pinkie > Pie dressed as a chicken: > > http://i.imgur.com/DDukE.png I'm suing for damages, that image has permanently scarred my poor retinas. I demand compensation in the form of a years supply of tacos. Oh and by the way, new systemd has a file conflict with initscripts from [extra] so a new version of that should probably be pushed as well (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service). I could just uninstall it now that Xyne has removed arch32-light's dependency on it, but I don't think its supposed to conflict in any case.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] network interface naming with systemd 197
by Leonid Isaev 08 Jan '13

08 Jan '13

On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:23:10 +0100 Andrea Scarpino <andrea(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2013 07:51:30 Allan McRae wrote: > > Upstream decision... vanilla packages should follow it. > > I agree with Allan. We don't use to change the default behavior. Ship it as > default and add two lines on how to disable it. > If I may chime in... regarding switching from MAC-based iface naming to ID_NET_NAME_PATH-based naming. How exactly are these ID_NET_NAME_PATH variables assigned? For instance, I have a box with 2 pci intel cards: 1. DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:02:00.0/net/elan0 ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp2s0f0 2. DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:03:00.0/net/elan1 ID_NET_NAME_PATH=enp3s0f0 Do I correctly understand that "enp?s0f0" is chosen based on a particular pci slot the card is inserted in and will change if I choose to replug the cards? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Optimising ssd setup?
by Mike Cloaked 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

As part of my planning for setting up a home build computer which will use two ssd drives - one a Crucial M4 mSATA drive (for root and boot partitions) and a second larger Crucial M4 SATA III drive for the rest, I have been reading up about partitioning and optimising such drives - It seems that it is important to partition with proper alignment to MiB boundaries for partitions but I am unclear if this happens automatically or not when setting up GPT partitions with gparted? ( I usually partition using a liveusb running PartedMagic and then run gparted before installing arch) Also I have been seeing various bits of advice about ensuring that excessive writes are avoided by using a non-default IO scheduler - with "deadline" being the better option for SSDs than the default CFQ scheduler - and it would seem that adding the parameter to the kernel line for boot once a system is set up is perhaps a good way forward? How does that work if UEFI booting? In addition it is suggested that for a machine with a reasonable RAM (in my case 8GiB) then reducing the "swappiness" parameter to 1 via systemctl, or altering the relevant parameter under /proc/sys is the way to do it, even if there is a swap partition on one of the SSDs. I have also seen it suggested that TRIM support is important either mounting with the "discard" option or running fstrim manually via a cron job out of hours to avoid delays during writes whilst the system is in use. Finally I have seen suggested that the "noatime" flag be used for mounting SSD drives. Can anyone on this list who has set up a recent SSD drive and has experience of SSD wear issues, and levelling issues, offer any advice on whether some or all of the above are important when using SSD drives in an arch linux machine or whether partitioning and installing essentially with defaults is going to lead to SSD problems, or not? This will be my first foray into using SSD drives on any of my systems. Thanks for any replies. -- mike c

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[arch-general] How to suppress the list of variables that are output at shell login?
by Jayesh Badwaik 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

Hi, Whenever I login in zsh using an `su -l user` command, I get the following list of variables outputted on the shell HOME=/home/user LOGNAME=user PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/share/backuppc/bin SHELL=/bin/zsh TERM=xterm USER=user How can I suppress this message? -- Jayesh

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[arch-general] Gnome3: gnome-shell and notifications, broken?
by Magnus Therning 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

I've just changed my desktop back to Gnome3. I suspect that notifications are somewhat broken on my system, but I can't find any information to confirm it. When I run 'notify-send "Test notifications"' the following happens: 1. a small 'i' in a blue circle appears at the bottom of the screen - it disappears when I click on it, or after a short while 2. an 'i' in a blue circle also appears in the bottom bar - left clicking on the icon brings up a smaller 'i' icon, the larger icon remains - right clicking the icon brings up a menu offering 'open' and 'remove', they both behave exactly the same: they remove the notification icon What I find surprising here is that 1. I never get to see the text, no matter what I do 2. 'open' doesn't open but removes Is this weird behaviour unique to my system, or is it just an area in serious need of improvement in Gnome3? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] HELP: My webcam stop work.
by Cloud Tao 04 Jan '13

04 Jan '13

My webcam begin can work, but after about 1 minute, the webcam stop work. when skype, gtalk use webcam all have this problem. lsmod output: videobuf2_vmalloc 2469 1 uvcvideo videobuf2_memops 2283 1 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_core 24073 1 uvcvideo videodev 100860 2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core media 10406 2 uvcvideo,videodev dmesg output: [ 2379.369663] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-27). [ 2379.369673] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-27). [ 2379.369677] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-27). [ 2379.369681] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-27). [ 2379.369686] uvcvideo: Failed to resubmit video URB (-27). when i use mplayer take a photo use driver=v4l2, have a line output: v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument How to solve this problem? thx very much.

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[arch-general] Install problem
by Fons Adriaensen 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Hello, today I did a fresh install using the december release of the install media. Everything done 'to the book' (the install guide wiki page). Bootloader is syslinux. When booting the freshly installed system, I get the syslinux menu, select Archlinux or fallback, things seem to be normal for a few seconds then everything stops. After some time I get a message that /dev/sda3 (which is the / partition) can't be found and I'm dropped into an emergency shell. No LVM or RAID, just a single SATA disk with sda1 = /boot (100M, ext2) sda2 = swap (2G) sda3 = / (~250G, ext4) Partioning done with cfdisk. The mkinitcpio.conf used is the default one, which seems to have all required hooks. Everything in /boot/syslinux looks ok. Any hints ?? Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

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[arch-general] Protect a cron job from systemd
by Dimitrios Apostolou 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hello list, among various tasks, I also run "sysstat" for monitoring my server's load. The way it runs by default is via the hourly cron, as a job that lasts exactly one hour. Sometimes I need to stop crond (systemctl stop dcron) to perform some short maintainance, and restart it a minute later that I'm done. Previously the "sadc" monitoring process of sysstat wasn't being killed, since it double forked and stayed up as a daemon. Unfortunately now systemd kills the whole cgroup, and in this manner it's possible to lose up to one hour of accounting logs. Any ideas on how to instruct systemd to not kill it when terminating crond? Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.11-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Jan '13

02 Jan '13

Hi guys, please signoff 3.6.11 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7.1 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up
by Chao Feng 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hey there! i had the smae problem,,, i tried all the things mentioned... but didn't work then i tried installing ttf-dejavu font... which helped me... It is this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289427 I just create a patch to fix it. Hopefully, it will be fixed the next release. Chao Feng

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[arch-general] Troubles with ALSA
by Jack Stanek 01 Jan '13

01 Jan '13

Hello all, I've been having problems with ALSA recently. Whenever I reboot my computer or wake it up from sleep, ALSA sets the volume of the speakers (and only the speakers) to zero. The headphones and master volume remain normal, but no sound will come from the speakers until I manually go into alsamixer and turn up the speaker's individual volume. I have an Intel integrated audio card, the 82801H HD Audio Controller. This only started recently and I am at a loss as to what is going on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, J. Stanek

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[arch-general] Combining package deltas and signing?
by Magnus Therning 31 Dec '12

31 Dec '12

Do these two features play nice together? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] Pidgin voice/video support
by Scott Lawrence 30 Dec '12

30 Dec '12

Hey all, The pidgin package in extra appears to be compiled without voice/video support (`--disable-vv`). Is this ommission intentional? -- Scott Lawrence Linux baidar 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 11 09:40:17 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] bluetooth audio adapter without playback
by Nelson Marambio 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Merry Christmas to all Archer's out there ! :) Sadly enough I recognized a problem with my Logitech bluetooth adapter on Christmas Eve. This adapter connects my laptop with my stereo system so I can use the speakers of the stereo system wireless. This has worked for several months. But with the last update of pulseaudio (GNOME as DE) this connection broke permanently and I realized it the first time just when I wanted to play some Christmas music. :( :) The adapter indicates that a connection has been established, I also see the bluetooth adapter in the mixer but when I start to play some music again the internal laptop speaker are used for output. This is not related to the question if I started the music player before or after pairing with the adapter. A look in /var/log/messages.log for useful messages leads me to this line: moria pulseaudio[1480]: [pulseaudio] module-bluetooth-device.c: Profile has no transport Is this caused by this bug [1] - or not, because the description relates to pa 2.99.2, and I have 3.0.2 installed ? Anyone with a hint for me ? Kind regards, Nelson. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57239

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[arch-general] List of mirrors with signed databases?
by Magnus Therning 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Hi all, I'm late to the party of signing packages and databases, but was a little surprised to find this statement on the pacman-key wikipage[1]: Although all official packages are now signed, as of June 2012 signing of the databases is a work in progress. Is there a list of mirrors where the databases *are* signed already? (The ones I'm using are not.) /M [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman-key -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

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[arch-general] [cups-filters] adds cups-browserd.service - please test
by Andreas Radke 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

New cups-filters 1.0.26 brings back browsing remote shared printers using the new cups-browserd. This requires a running a local cupsd instance and avahi on the client system. Please test the included cups-browserd.service file and check if browsing now works as expected and described in /usr/share/doc/cups-filters/README. -Andy

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[arch-general] netcfg drops wifi connection
by Arch Zealot 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Every time i connect to a wireless network (no matter how strong the signal is), after 1-2 minutes, the connection is dropped and i have to manually start it again. This never happens with the ethernet connection. I'm currently testing this with a WEP connection using wifi-menu to connect to an already created profile (netcfg version 3). I have Arch x86-64 with a Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) wireless card and use the b43 driver from AUR. On connect this is the dmesg: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07) IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready wlan0: authenticate with 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 wlan0: send auth to 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (try 1/3) wlan0: authenticated b43 ssb0:0: wlan0: disabling HT due to WEP/TKIP use b43 ssb0:0: wlan0: disabling HT as WMM/QoS is not supported wlan0: associate with 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (try 1/3) wlan0: RX AssocResp from 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=2) IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready wlan0: associated On connect this is the output from wpa_cli status: bssid=08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 ssid=xxx id=0 mode=station pairwise_cipher=WEP-40 group_cipher=WEP-40 key_mgmt=NONE wpa_state=COMPLETED ip_address=192.168.1.67 address=70:1a:04:f0:2a:bd After disconnection, this is from dmesg: ieee80211 phy0: wlan0: No probe response from AP 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 after 500ms, disconnecting. cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain wlan0: authenticate with 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 wlan0: send auth to 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (try 1/3) wlan0: send auth to 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (try 2/3) wlan0: send auth to 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (try 3/3) wlan0: authentication with 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 timed out The last 5 lines from dmesg keep repeating a few times more. After disconnection, this is from wpa_cli status: <3>CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 reason=4 <3>CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS <3>WPS-AP-AVAILABLE <3>SME: Trying to authenticate with 08:76:ff:3f:8b:90 (SSID='xxx' freq=2412 MHz) These lines keep repeating a few times too. Please advise!

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[arch-general] alternative to pmount
by Juan Diego Tascón 25 Dec '12

25 Dec '12

Last week pmount went from extra to aur. I used to use pmount to allow users to mount external devices as simple as: pmount /dev/sdb1 Is there an alternative to pmount in core, extra or community that allows users to mount with a simple command an external storage device?

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Re: [arch-general] ati mobility radeon x2300
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Laptop has a TFT screen. I've attatched my Xorg.0.log and my xorg.conf Vesa works. Of course awful graphics

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[arch-general] ati mobility radeon x2300
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

I have an hp laptop with a m64-s. I can't get X output. I've tried catalyst proprietary but I found out that my gpu isn't supported since long time ago. so I try to setup with opensource drivers. also if i don't "nomodeset" on boot, the pc is hungs on boot. when i startx with the radeon mod loaded I get: Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. and then no screens found

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[arch-general] Awesome 3.5
by Sébastien Luttringer 24 Dec '12

24 Dec '12

Hello, as a Chritsmas gift, Awesome 3.5 was released yesterdaty and will be available in few minutes in our community-testing repository. As you can expect, this update _will_ break your configuration. Please take time to read the announce[0] from Uli about this release before upgrading. If everything goes well, it should be moved into community this week. Cheers, [0] http://www.mail-archive.com/awesome@naquadah.org/msg06536.html -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer https://www.seblu.net GPG: 0x2072D77A

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[arch-general] Nvidia Driver woes on Macbook 3,2
by Daniel Bryan 21 Dec '12

21 Dec '12

First of all, I'm sorry if the general discussion list isn't for questions like this. I wasn't sure how to figure out what's appropriate. Per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154496, I've had a real ordeal trying to get video working on Arch on a repurposed late 2010 Macbook Air. I've never had issues like this with video / X in Arch before. I'm wondering if anyone can give me a push in the right direction to at least diagnose this problem. It's getting pretty hard to work without a browser! $ lspci | grep VGA 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] (rev a2) Here's what I've tried in EFI mode: - all the proprietary drivers listed on the nvidia page on the Arch wiki; each of them either wouldn't load X or showed a blank screen; ctrl-alt-fN didn't work and I had to do a hard reboot - standard nouveau setup - X sort of starts up but there are weird artifacts, mouse doesn't work, and it freezes up pretty quickly. - nouveau with mesa-git - as above - nouveau with mesa-full - above I've also tried BIOS compatibility mode, but I wasn't able to get my drives to mount. At any rate, it was very slow to boot, so I really want to stick with the EFI + GRUB2 setup. My Xorg.0.log when loading the proprietary driver, which just shows a black screen: http://pastie.org/5556341 My Xorg.0.log when loading nouveau, which has strange artifacts, incomplete rendering of windows, and soon locks up: http://codepad.org/QFdP9Fax I have no .xinitrc file. For nouveau, I have the default X config. For the proprietary drivers, I can nvidia-xconfig. I've been trying everything both as a normal user and as root. Video was working fine under OSX the day before I installed Arch so I don't think it's the hardware. I'm at a loss here and would appreciate any advice. Thanks, Daniel

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio: Rethinking remote unlock via SSH
by Karol Babioch 20 Dec '12

20 Dec '12

Hi, so far I was using "dropbear_initrd_encrypt" (see [1]) to unlock a cryptdevice remotely via SSH, which worked reasonably well. However since the latest release of mkinitcpio it doesn't work anymore. I could fix the issues in the meantime, however it got me into thinking that this could be done even better. The main problem I have with "dropbear_initrd_encrypt" is that it sort of mixes the "dropbear" and "encryptssh" hooks. The dropbear daemon for instance is started in the "dropbear" hook, but killed after successfully unlocking the cryptdevice in the "encryptssh" hook. Furthermore the "encryptssh" hook is basically a copy of the "encrypt" hook with some changes. Now my idea so far was the following: Start a screen session early (using "run_earlyhook"). Start dropbear whenever SSH access is needed, e.g. right before the "encrypt" hook itself using a separate "dropbear" hook ("run_hook" should be fine). Now the SSH session should be attached to the screen session, so the input/output will be "shared". After unlocking (run_cleanuphook) kill the screen session. I've spent some time on this, but couldn't get it working so far. Now before spending even more time on it, I would like to know from you what you think about it and whether or not this can be done. Are there any obvious issues I'm haven't thought of yet? Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with screen and every attempt I tried so far will bring up some form of an interactive screen session with the welcome screen being shown. This will bring the boot process to a "halt", where I have to exit the screen session to move on. I guess in the first step I would just like to have all output from the boot process within the initramfs shown in a screen session. Has anyone of you some advice(s) for me? Using screen has the advantage that the whole output during boot will be accessible (scrollable) as screen would buffer all of it. This could be useful in cases the machine won't boot beyond initramfs. Best regards, Karol Babioch [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dropbear_initrd_encrypt/

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Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open
by bjschuma＠gmail.com 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On Wednesday 12 Dec 2012 08:58:52 you wrote: > > On 12/12/2012 05:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > > > On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 12:08:46 you wrote: > > >> After more poking-about: filp_close() in the VFS calls > nfs_file_flush(), > > >> which writes the file back to the server. The struct file we're > given is > > >> freed up shortly after calling flush, so this looks like the last > chance > > >> we > > >> get to write changes (and I don't think we should change that). > > > > > > Hmm, so is this maybe an implementation limitation? I would expect > > > "nocto" to prevent that flushing, since that seems to be the main > purpose > > > of "nocto". But maybe it would have been too much work to buffer the > > > flushes, and so every file gets flushed on close anyway? > > > > > > Paul > > > > Something like that, yeah. "nocto" just applies to the attribute cache, > and > > does not change the flushing behavior. > > That's a pity. In that case, it seems the man page is a little > misleading, as > it at least implies (in the "Data and Metadata Coherence" section) that > "nocto" will disable the flushing. Also, at least some other > implementations > definitely do disable the flushing[1][2]. > > Do you know if this is a feature that can be requested? Since writes are > buffered already (unless mounted "sync"), I can't imagine it could be too > difficult to suppress the flush and let the file be written when the next > buffer is sent? But then I guess it would have been implemented already > if it > were that easy. > I double checked with Trond and he agrees that we shouldn't defer the flush because that would cause us to hold the file open for longer than we really should (and it would make NFS sillyrenames more difficult, too). - Bryan > > Paul > > [1]: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19082-01/819-2240/mount-nfs-1m/index.html > [2]: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/File_Systems >

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[arch-general] need advices for the perfect web toolbox
by arnaud gaboury 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear list, currently following the Sun certified web component developer course, I want to set up a http web server @ home to practice. I plan to virtualize a Arch server on my Arch box. I know we can talk about pro/con for hours, but I am interested in knowing your advices about the following apps: -http server : Apache or Nginx (curious to test the later) -container for my servlets : Tomcat ? -secure ftp server : ??? maybe a mail server: ??? I guess ssh will be the best way to talk to the server. Maybe other stuffs I forgot? What is the most common and simple way to secure the whole stuff without loosing too much responsiveness? Thank you for your advices. Regards.

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[arch-general] Mounting /var early in systemd
by Paul Gideon Dann 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hello all, I'm migrating a diskless cluster from initscripts to systemd. The problem I have is that the nodes each need to mount their own separate /var (identified by hostname) from the NFS server when they boot. With initscripts, I used a sysinit_end hook to do the job, which worked pretty well. However, with systemd I've really hit a brick wall. I can't get the unit to start early enough, because systemd creates so many sockets (in /var) so early, and there's no target that is ordered before the socket units are started. This means that the early sockets get masked when the "real" /var is mounted, and things break. I think the only solution with systemd is to explicitly specify each socket in "Before=" for my unit, which is likely to break if anything changes in future. It might also be possible to create a generator that automates this, but that's still pretty ugly. Right now, I'm thinking the only sensible solution is to forget doing it with systemd and push the mounting of /var up into initcpio, but that's admitting defeat. Any ideas? Paul

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[arch-general] evdev and touchscreen
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 and I set up a chroot environment with Arch. I run Xorg server successfully, the S-Pen (digital pen) works out of the box with evdev driver, however I can't get the touchscreen to work. It's on /dev/input/event1 and I've tried: mtrack, multitouch, synaptics and it just don't work. no errors at all. I tried evdev and when I touch the screen it throws this [1] and dies. I also tried xf86-input-evdev-multitouch-git but it throws the same errors as the regular evdev I run e17, but I think that it's not a problem. my xorg.conf [2] [1]: http://pastebin.com/aGAWwDmh [2]: http://pastebin.com/TCeT9qr7

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] syslinux 5.00 in [testing]
by Matthew Gyurgyik 16 Dec '12

16 Dec '12

On 12/08/2012 06:37 AM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi, > seems syslinux changed some things more than I expected, > could thomas or gerado look at the changes? > http://www.syslinux.org/archives/2012-December/018747.html > I don't have time this afternoon. > > If it keeps broken, I'll remove it this evening from testing repository. > > greetings > tpowa > The default modules that we place into /boot (menu.c32 vesamenu.c32 chain.c32 hdt.c32 reboot.c32 poweroff.com) depend on libutil_com.c32, libcom32.c32, libmenu.c32, libcom32gpl.c32 (new with syslinux 5.0) The syslinux-install_update script will need to be updated to include these extra modules. I will provide a patch in the next day or two, since I'm the original author. Simply adding the new modules to the script should work, but I want to test the following (thus the delay for the patch): 1) upgrade from syslinux4 -> syslinux5 2) new install using syslinux 5 Regards, Matthew Gyurgyik

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[arch-general] How to remember password and workgroup when connecting to Windows 7 share?
by Ardo Gorria 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

HI, I am new to Arch Linux but not to Linux as a whole. I'd be grateful for any advice on how to store the password as follows:- I am running an up to date Arch Linux system and have set up XFCE 4.1. As per the wiki I have installed gvfs-smb. I can browse my network from Thunar 1.6.1 and can access windows shares perfectly. When prompted I enter my username, workgroup and password and also click the radio button to 'remember forever' the password. The session is fine and I can copy files back and forward perfectly. However, after a reboot or unmounting the share, I am prompted to re-enter the Domain/Workgroup and also the password. Can anyone point me to how I can get the system to memorise these fields? I have gnome keyring installed, so I'm guessing it could be permissions or something else I haven't thought of. Grateful for any advice. A.

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[arch-general] dbus update - /etc/passwd merge question
by mike cloaked 14 Dec '12

14 Dec '12

Having read the available postings in arch-dev-public as well as those on this subject in the arch forums I am somewhat confused as to how to complete the merge for /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group and /etc/gshadow for the new entries in the .pacnew files. For example in my old /etc/passwd I have the line: dbus:x:81:81:System message bus:/:/bin/false and in the pacnew file I have: dbus:x:81:81:dbus:/:/sbin/nologin Should I put the line from the .pacnew file into the old file? Also for uidd I have in the original: uuidd:x:999:999::/:/sbin/nologin but in the pacnew file it is: uuidd:x:68:68:uuidd:/:/sbin/nologin Should I change the uid in the original file to 68 - and do the same in the corresponding entries for shadow, group and gshadow? I am an old linux user and usually I can sort things out after an upgrade but this time I am really confused. Any expert advice very much appreciated - thanks. -- mike c

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[arch-general] Getting microphone sound input in google-talkplugin for google-hangouts?
by Mike Cloaked 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

I have been trying to get my laptop set up using google hangouts - chrome works fine, and I installed the google-talkplugin from AUR. Sound is coming out from the speakers just fine ((and also on the gmail test sound output) - and the webcam is fine. I can use the jack audio facility to check that I can take sound input from the microphone and play it in the speakers. However I can't seem to get the google video chat to use input sound - and trying a test hangout I get a warning that my microphone is not configured correctly! I use alsa but not pulseaudio though I read in a post on the arch forum that installing pulse made no difference for another user who had sound problems with this also. I can't find any postings or wiki advice on sorting out this particular problem. Does anyone have any experience or tested workaround to get this sound issue resolved? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] harddisk suspending far to often
by G. Schlisio 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

hi, after updating my laptop today [0] (no testing enabled) i notice that my harddisk keeps spinning down and up every 10 seconds or so. might this be related to the update or where can i stop this? help very appreciated georg [0] packages updated today: pcre libssh tdb bind lshw soundkonverter sage-mathematics lib32-glib2 lib32-harfbuzz lib32-pango lib32-fontconfig latex-beamer linux-headers linux-docs linux

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[arch-general] mythtv issues with HDTV and MPG ac3 audio
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi, Since upgrading to 0.26 series, i have serious issues with HD TV and DVB-S mpg conversion. I'm using latest git version of 0.26 from 121209. - HDTV looses audio complete if using high profile for conversion. - DVB-S mpg's are not convertable anymore with cutlists. The mpg's are not working to convert until I remove the ac3 audio stream manually with ffmpeg. With HDTV I don't get a working cutted recording. Do others observe such issues too? Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Prosody update
by David Benfell 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi all, It appears that the prosody package dependencies have been updated, but not the program itself: atlanta# prosodyctl start ************************** Prosody was unable to find luasocket This package can be obtained in the following ways: Source: http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~diego/professional/luasocket/ luarocks: luarocks install luasocket Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-socket2 luasocket is required for Prosody to run, so we will now exit. More help can be found on our website, at http://prosody.im/doc/depends ************************** ************************** Prosody was unable to find LuaSec This package can be obtained in the following ways: Source: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~brunoos/luasec/ luarocks: luarocks install luasec Debian/Ubuntu: http://prosody.im/download/start#debian_and_ubuntu SSL/TLS support will not be available More help can be found on our website, at http://prosody.im/doc/depends ************************** *********************************** util/encodings couldn't be loaded. Check that you have a recent version of libidn The full error was: error loading module 'util.encodings' from file '/usr/lib/prosody/util/encodings.so': /usr/lib/prosody/util/encodings.so: undefined symbol: luaL_register *********************************** *********************************** util/hashes couldn't be loaded. Check that you have a recent version of OpenSSL (libcrypto in particular) The full error was: error loading module 'util.hashes' from file '/usr/lib/prosody/util/hashes.so': /usr/lib/prosody/util/hashes.so: undefined symbol: luaL_register *********************************** This is since an update this morning, in which various Arch lua packages had to be replaced with similarly named lua- packages. Thanks!

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[arch-general] linux-3.7.0-1 enters [testing]
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges -ndiswrapper does not build, maintainers please look for a patch. Please report any issues that arise. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] migrating Arch to a new machine - what config to keep
by Marek Otahal 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Hello, for migration to a new machine (i686>x86_64, msdos>gpt,ssd,diff disk layout) I decided to do a clean install, Now I have * basic Arch up and running: pacman -S base base-devel * I'll do pacman -Qe > installed.txt (on the old one), pacman -S $((cat installed.txt)) (on new) * cp -a /home For other directories: /boot - nothing, /var - I dont care about old logs, is there anything else important? /etc ... some files (related to hw) changed, but many (wifi, iptables, cron, security, ...) stay ...is it possible to copy/merge them in a smart way? Or I have to go through all the configuration? I read this one: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Migrate_installation_to_new_hardware and basically I'd like to elaborate on how to merge the configs in /etc (or else?) Thank you, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] IRC down?
by arnaud gaboury 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

I can't post to #archlinux because I am banned. It seems weird to me, or am I really banned for whatever reason?

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.6.10-1
by Tobias Powalowski 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.6.10 series for both arches. package is not in testing, please grab it from here: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/linux/ This will move to [core] directly, because 3.7 is in [testing]. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] samba4
by Juan Diego Tascón 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

Good day, Does someone has a working PKGBUILD for the new samba4 besides the samba4 from aur? if someone has it I would like to help with the tests. Cheers

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Re: [arch-general] NFS close-to-open
by Bryan Schumaker 12 Dec '12

12 Dec '12

On 12/12/2012 05:35 AM, Paul Gideon Dann wrote: > On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012 12:08:46 you wrote: >> After more poking-about: filp_close() in the VFS calls nfs_file_flush(), >> which writes the file back to the server. The struct file we're given is >> freed up shortly after calling flush, so this looks like the last chance we >> get to write changes (and I don't think we should change that). > Hmm, so is this maybe an implementation limitation? I would expect "nocto" to > prevent that flushing, since that seems to be the main purpose of "nocto". > But maybe it would have been too much work to buffer the flushes, and so every > file gets flushed on close anyway? > > Paul Something like that, yeah. "nocto" just applies to the attribute cache, and does not change the flushing behavior. - Bryan

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[arch-general] Diskless Booting Wiki Help
by Paul Gideon Dann 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi guys, I'm not sure who's actually in charge of oversight on the Wiki, but I'd appreciate a little input from anyone, really. I've recently been trying to ensure the accuracy of the wiki with regards to diskless booting. I run a cluster at work, and I've spent quite some time looking into getting this system functioning correctly, and I wanted to make sure the documentation was there for others to use. However, another (presumably well-intentioned) contributor has rewritten the original article, and seems very keen to cut back everything he doesn't agree with. To be honest, I'm a bit sick of trying to convince him that all information is helpful, and that not everyone that reads the article will have his usecase. In particular, he's keen to remove all references to NFSv3 (although Arch doesn't currently support booting NFSv4 without his hack), and needing a separate /var for each node (which I've explained is necessary in many, if not most, situations). I'd appreciate someone taking a look at the talk page and article history. (I'm Giddie on the wiki.) If it's decided I'm wrong, I'm fine with that. I'm just keen for the wiki to be as helpful as possible, and I don't think that's the case right now. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Installation_Guide Help appreciated, Paul

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[arch-general] NFS close-to-open
by Paul Gideon Dann 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

I've been learning about the close-to-open policy of NFS, which causes each file to be flushed to the server as it's closed, to ensure consistency across clients. This is a big performance hit when trying to upgrade the system, because of the numerous writes to small files. I know about the "async" export option, obviously, but there is also a "nocto" client mount option, which is supposed to disable the close-to-open mechanism for that client. As far as I can tell, this is supposed to stop the client from flushing the file when it closes it (as well as not bothering to check cache consistency when it opens). However, this seems to have no effect: the client is still flushing the file to the server on close, causing massive wait-io. Does anyone have any idea why "nocto" doesn't have the effect I was hoping it would? The "async" option works as expected, but it's more important to me that the client cache is correct, and it just bugs me. Thanks for any insight, Paul

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[arch-general] On /etc/conf.d deprecation
by Dimitrios Apostolou 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hello list, from a reply I got to a bug report (FS#32817, reply is private) I found out that configuration files in /etc/conf.d are deprecated and that the supported way is to replicate and customize service files. Imagine that in /usr unit file the daemon is being called as "binary -d". So I create the /etc unit file that supersedes it and calls it as "blah -d -n1". Then the package gets updated and the /usr unit file changes to "binary -d --lock=/whatever/path". As you can see I won't get the update because I've overriden the unit file, I won't get any warning either, but if the original unit file called "binary -d --lock=/whatever/path $BLAH_ARGS" there would have been no such problem. /etc/conf.d is a weaker but more elegant mechanism. I'm not saying it should replace unit files, but it should work *with* unit files, as the Arch way even if not in Freedesktop's - Fedora's recommendations. Of course anyone will still be free to copy and customize the unit file. So I'm curious to know why this mechanism was deprecated? Is it speed we gain by not including the EnvironmentFile directive in the systemd unit file? Is there some other reason I might be missing? Thanks in advance, Dimitris

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[arch-general] booting from encrypted partition - reevaluate partition table (gpt, kpartx, cryptdevice, grub2)
by Marek Otahal 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Hi fellow archers, I have the following problem: On a physical (gpt) partition I have an encrypted LUKS partition which contains GPT partition table with desired final partitions (/,/home, etc..) I decided to skip LVM as gpt fulfils my needs (many primary partitions, easy resize), but using kernel boot parameters (grub2): linux /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/crypto3 cryptdevice=/dev/sdb6:crypto:allow-discards resume=/dev/mapper/crypto1 ro quiet I do not get expected result (and how partitions really look like): # lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 ntfs data ├─sda2 btrfs backup ├─sda9 ext4 / └─sda10 └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) swap [SWAP] sdb ├─sdb1 ext4 boot /boot ├─sdb2 vfat EFI /boot/efi ├─sdb3 ├─sdb4 ntfs win8 ├─sdb5 crypto_LUKS └─sdb6 crypto_LUKS └─crypto (dm-1) ├─crypto1 (dm-2) swap swap ├─crypto2 (dm-3) btrfs var ├─crypto3 (dm-4) btrfs arch └─crypto4 (dm-5) btrfs home This is what I really get (and what I get when cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb6 crypto ): # lsblk -f NAME FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 ntfs data ├─sda2 btrfs backup ├─sda9 ext4 / └─sda10 └─cryptswap1 (dm-0) swap [SWAP] sdb ├─sdb1 ext4 boot /boot ├─sdb2 vfat EFI /boot/efi ├─sdb3 ├─sdb4 ntfs win8 ├─sdb5 crypto_LUKS └─sdb6 crypto_LUKS └─crypto (dm-1) I would need the system to reevaluate/recheck the newly opened partition if it contains other partitions! I found a related thread: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.dm-crypt/5896 Now a workaround: 1/ install kpartx and add it to BINARIES="kpartx" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf 2/ hack /lib/initcpio/hooks/encrypt and put line kpartx -a /dev/mapper/crypto right behind every "cryptsetup .. luksOpen ..." line there. 3/ similarly, I should place "kpartx -d /dev/mapper/crypto" before "cryptsetup .. luksClose ..." is called during shutdown. I did not find these routine in hooks/encrypt, where does it happen? I'd like to know if there is any supported solution for this, or any advice from you. Thank you for help! Have a nice day, Mark -- Marek Otahal :o)

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[arch-general] Secure Boot Support
by kristof 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Now that Matthew Garrett's shim is fully featured and publicly available, will Arch be implementing support for secure boot in the near future? For those who haven't seen the news yet: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/17542.html and http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html give a pretty in-depth description of how to implement this distro-generic solution to secure boot. More technical details on the shim are available here: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/19448.html Finally, I found this OpenSUSE dev post pretty helpful in understanding how the MOKs work but it's not a necessary article to read: https://www.suse.com/blogs/uefi-secure-boot-details/ The only work necessary on the packager's part is using Peter Jones' signing tool to sign GRUB2, kernel modules, and the Arch Linux distributed kernel binaries with an Arch Linux "key" that the users would place into the shim's trusted key database. This isn't any more cumbersome than the current package signing procedures, and I think it would go a long way to be one of the first distributions to support secure-boot without having to fiddle with the UEFI. A final note: the shim currently only supports x86_64 machines and it's unknown if Garrett will ever work on a 32-bit binary. That, on top of the fact that Garrett won't be working on an ARM solution because of licensing issues, means that secure boot would simply be an Arch64 specific feature. I'd really like to hear the community's thoughts on this.

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Secure Boot Support
by Keshav P R 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org>wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 17:21, schrieb kristof: > >> Could you refer to any documentation about this? Why would the boot > >> loader need to call back into shim? > > > > I'm going off of my correspondence with Matthew Garrett in the comments > > section of a post he wrote concerning the shim. His reply to me when I > > asked what distros who don't use rEFInd or GRUB in their installation > > media (like ours) is as follows(from: > > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/20303.html?view=813903&posted=1#cmt813903) > > Just as I thought: Calling back into shim is necessary/useful if you > want your second-stage bootloader to verify kernel signatures. If you > don't do that, you can probably use just about any UEFI bootloader. > > Boot Managers (not bootloaders) like rEFInd and Gummiboot require the kernel to be signed with one of the keys present in the UEFI firmware database, since its finally the firmware that is going to launch the kernel EFISTUB as a normal .efi file, and the firmware won't launch unless the key with which the kernel is signed, is present in the firmware database (not the shim's MOK database, which is independent of firmware key database). Please correct me if I am wrong, but I am not sure even shim's keys might work for EFISTUB. One can create their own keys and enroll that key into the database. More info at http://rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/secureboot.html and http://rodsbooks.com/refind/secureboot.html . > This would be an infinitely nicer solution, if it were not for the fact > > that there aren't any bootloaders available which can insure a > > completely trusted chain of execution. I can manually specify in the > > UEFI to load bootloader X signed with Arch's key but bootloader X, > > unless hardcoded to do so, can't make sure that kernel X and module X > > are signed by the very same key. This leads to arbitrary code execution > > and we all know why this is a bad idea. > > Future bootloaders will probably solve this problem by providing proper > verification of kernel and initramfs. For the moment, all that I would > really _want_ to achieve is to make Arch boot flawlessly on Secure Boot > machines without relying on Secure Boot's "Setup Mode" (meaning disabled > verification, which would in turn make Windows 8 angry). Matthew's shim > seems to make this possible. > > I have a secure-boot capable system ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HCL/Firmwares/UEFI#Lenovo_Thinkpad_Edg…) but have secure-boot disabled for now. I am also dual-booting Windows 8 x64 Pro, and the only message the upgrade assistant showed was that secure boot was disabled in the system when installing. Windows 8 boots perfectly fine with secure boot disabled in UEFI mode. I even have CSM (BIOS compatibilty layer) disabled in the firmware setup. So I suggest asking people to disable or change secure-boot mode to setup mode in their system before installing Arch, instead of using Microsoft signed shim binary etc. Adding further to this, I would prefer if the user generates, signs the uefi apps and the kernels he/she wants to use him/herself, and also manage the keys by themself, instead of creating a central Arch specific secure-boot key or any key from a dev. Regards. Keshav > > >

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[arch-general] systemd and core dumps
by Olivier Langlois 11 Dec '12

11 Dec '12

Apparently core dumps (if enabled) are stored in the systemd journal. ~ $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern |/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-coredump %p %u %g %s %t %e systemd-coredumpctl looks nice to use but I am not totally sure yet that collecting core dumps in the journal is something that I want systematically. I am looking for a way to override this. I haven't found any mention of that option in systemd documentation. Does anyone here would have an idea where I could search? Olivier

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[arch-general] python+pango
by Fons Adriaensen 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

Hello all, Is there a python3 module for pango (as there is one for cairo) ? pacman -Ss pango gives me: extra/libtiger 0.3.4-3 A rendering library for Kate streams using Pango and Cairo extra/pango 1.32.3-1 [installed: 1.30.1-1] A library for layout and rendering of text extra/pango-perl 1.223-2 Perl bindings for Pango extra/pangomm 2.28.4-1 [installed] C++ bindings for pango extra/pangomm-docs 2.28.4-1 Developer documentation for pangomm extra/pangox-compat 0.0.2-1 X Window System font support for Pango extra/sdl_pango 0.1.2-4 Pango SDL binding community/haskell-pango 0.12.4-1 Binding to the pango library for Gtk2Hs. community/ruby-pango 1.1.5-1 Ruby bindings for pango so it looks like the answer is no... Yet there are examples on the web, e.g.: http://cairographics.org/pycairo_pango/ ?? -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)

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[arch-general] Concerning Secure Boot Support
by kristof 10 Dec '12

10 Dec '12

For those of you who care (and you may not number very many): As it stands, Gummiboot doesn't support calling back to Matthew Garrett's shim and until this happens it won't work in secure boot mode. I'm not aware of Pierre Schmitz's reasoning for using Gummiboot as opposed to rEFInd, but if the official archiso is to boot on secure bootable machines, it'll have to either use rEFInd or Fedora 18's RC's GRUB2 (the current install media of Fedora 18 uses the latter). These are essentially the only two options until syslinux gets a stable EFI release and does the same sort of hardcoded shim support. Notice I said Fedora's, and not upstream's. Upstream GRUB2 doesn't support kernel verification against the MOK database yet so Fedora 18 is shipping a patched version. Assuming we weren't going to wait for GRUB2 to support secure boot, we could ship Fedora's bootloader instead or apply similar patchwork, but this goes against Arch philosophy and it might be easier to simply wait for upstream support. Regardless of what Arch does the decision will have to come from someone with much more authority on Arch's direction; either Pierre because he's the one rolling out the monthly iso or another developer because using non-vanilla software, even something as critical as a bootloader, isn't very Arch-like. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Not only that, but setting up a system of signing kernels, modules (out-of-tree modules are a beast that haven't been worked out yet beyond self-signing), and GRUB2 as well as rEFInd (for those who choose to use a boot manager beyond their UEFI's) with openssl generated x509 certificates using either Fedora's pesign (what MJG recommends) or Ubuntu's sbsign (a similar too that I've used and can guarantee will work) is a bit of work on its own. Lastly, the shim itself needs to be pulled into [extra] and it should come with some script like "shim-install" which would simply rename the grub-efi binary as grubx64.efi and would place the shim in /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/x86_64/, renaming it bootx64.efi. Not so difficult at all, but it's another thing to do. That's only the technical implementation, however. Documentation would be tricky considering every manufacturer designs their UEFI implementation a little bit differently; on my system, I was stumped until I realized that regardless of the shim being signed by Microsoft's key I had to actually specify in the interface that I wanted to trust that particular .efi file. One point of the shim is so that launching Linux on a new machine isn't anymore daunting than changing the boot device order (I wouldn't worry so much about this with Arch users, however) but if the user still has to muck about in firmware that is different for everybody, one of many purposes has been swiftly defeated. Anyway, that's pretty much everything that's keeping secure boot from coming to Arch Linux for now. Well, that, and the fact that no developer actually owns a UEFI machine with secure-boot support. We'll see what happens in the future, I suppose. Thoughts and comments are requested.

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[arch-general] crypttab support for non-root devices with systemd
by Karol Babioch 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Hi, I've installed Arch on a system with a two "disk" setup, where the first disk is a SSD, which I'm booting from. The second disk is an encrypted software RAID with LVM on top. Now obviously I want the second "disk" to be unlocked and mounted automatically on boot. This was no problem in the past. Now with systemd it seems to be harder. At least I get asked for the password on boot. This will unlock the device, however afterwards I have to activate the LVM and mount it manually. Is this already supported out of the box? The wiki mentions something about scripts, which may be changed, but I would like to have something more solid than self made scripts, which may break with every update in the future. Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] Switching between Internet connections
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 09 Dec '12

09 Dec '12

Hello, My laptop is connected to a LAN with Internet connection and it gets the IP stuff (address, routing, dns) via dhcp using the default systemd scripts on boot. I also have a 3G modem (USB) which I have created the ppp scripts to connect based on the Wiki article https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/3G_and_GPRS_modems_with_pppd Both connections work fine, except after switching to modem from LAN some applications (pidgin, xchat, ect. which were running) still uses the DNS nameserver from previous connection (LAN) meaning they still trying to send DNS queries to LAN router (which is not reachable at that time). This gets fixed after that application is closed and reopened. Is this behavior normal or a bug? Thanks. P.S. To disconnect/connect from LAN I either use: > # systemctl stop dhcpcd@wlan0 > # systemctl start dhcpcd@wlan0 or > # dhcpcd -k wlan0 > # dhcpcd wlan0 To disconnect/connect I use poff/pon commands and the scripts are setup exactly as described on the Wiki. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe.

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[arch-general] Executing a command of a chroot outside of the chroot
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

I have a chroot environment on /data/workbench/mnt and I want to execute a binary which is inside the chroot environment (for example /data/workbench/mnt/bin/bash). I added the chroot library path to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I just did /data/workbench/mnt/bin/bash. I get a very strange error: No such file or directory. I am ABSOLUTELY sure that the file exists. When I chroot /data/workbench/mnt /bin/bash everything runs smoothly without errors. What's going on? BTW: I'm on armv7l -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

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[arch-general] Importing s/mime certs into kmail - existing bug workaround?
by mike cloaked 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

I started to play with kmail to see if it will satisfy my needs for a mail client - but fairly quickly found I could not import my s/mime cert which led me to the bug report at: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31900 If anyone knows a workaround I would appreciate it. Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] the media keys doesn't work in the login screen
by José Vilmar Estácio de Souza 07 Dec '12

07 Dec '12

Hi all. First of all, forgive my bad english. This is my first message to the list, forgive me if I am sending to the incorrect place. I installed arch in my laptop, a Dell vostro 3300. I am using gnome as my desktop and gdm to manage my login. Since I am blind I use orca as my screen reader in the graphical environment and speakup in text mode. I boot arch in text mode and after login in the console I issue the following command to activate gnome: sudo systemctl start gdm After I enter the above command, the login screen appears, orca begins to talk but I can not increment/decrement the volume using the media keys. After I login in gnome, the keys works ok. Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Thanks. -- {}S José Vilmar Estácio de Souza

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[arch-general] Escape sequences instead of colors in terminal
by Marcel Korpel 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi all, I already asked this at the forums, but as no one has an answer there I hope someone here knows a solution. On a Git cheat sheet I found that I could add nice colors to Git's output, so I edited my ~/.gitconfig by adding: [color] ui = auto [color "branch"] current = yellow reverse local = yellow remote = green [color "diff"] meta = yellow bold frag = magenta bold old = red bold new = green bold [color "status"] added = yellow changed = green untracked = cyan When performing a git log my terminal looks like this: http://ompldr.org/vZ2t1bA (escape sequences instead of colors). The same problem appears with git diff: http://ompldr.org/vZ2t1bg However, as you can see in the second screenshot, git status and git branch look correct. This happens in urxvt, but also in xterm and the terminal screens (tty[1-6]). Do you know what's wrong? Regards, Marcel

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[arch-general] Unable to contact D-Bus session bus [testing]
by Oon-Ee Ng 06 Dec '12

06 Dec '12

Hi all, started having this problem a couple of days back with the dbus-core removal move (and corresponding filesystem update). http://pastebin.com/JKMN58jP is the result of journalctl -b A whole bunch of my applications cannot contact dbus. Firefox is one, even pulseaudio complains (though sound still works as it still runs, go figure). gnucash cannot start, etc. etc., but those are just symptoms. Oh, and ario and synapse are dumping core. I downgraded immediately due to having some things to finish off. At that time dbus was at 1.6.8-4, now its 1.6.8-5 (just updated again as today I have a bit of time to debug). Most likely cause I can see is (may be) the filesystem update. I have gshadow, shadow, group, and passwd pacnew files, but no idea how to merge them (should I swap the dbus IDs from the pacnew files in?). The original files worked after a downgrade. Thanks for your help & time.

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Re: [arch-general] Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD
by Leonardo Dagnino 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

2012/12/3 Daniel F. Savarese <dfs(a)savarese.org> > > In message <1354198069.3059.6.camel@q>, Ralf Mardorf writes: > >Until now I was comfortable with GRUB legacy, but now I add a FreeBSD > >install to my machine and against the claims at > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders > > > >GRUB legacy does not boot FreeBSD (until now). I was thinking of > > grub 0.97 does boot FreeBSD. I have Arch Linux and FreeBSD 9.0 running > on an old (circa 1999) laptop and boot both using grub. In case it's of > any use to you, here's my grub.conf/menu.lst entry: > > title FreeBSD > rootnoverify (hd0,0) > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > daniel > > That is not GRUB booting FreeBSD, that's GRUB chainloading FreeBSD's bootloader. -- Leonardo Dagnino

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[arch-general] rootfs remains in ro at boot on fresh install with new December ISO
by LANGLOIS Olivier PIS -EXT 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hi, I hope it is not caused by the shortcut that I have taken to update my usb install key from november iso to december iso as described in the other thread. The first symptom that I have observed is that dhcpcd isn't able to update /etc/resolv.conf I am going to provide as much relevant info so you can tell me what to look for 1. Installed from december iso on newly created GPT ext4 partitions 2. Bootloader GRUB2 3. Did a systemctl mask tmpfs as I am mounting a disk partition on /tmp from fstab 4. Double checked 2-3 times that all my mounts are rw in fstab 5. Once logged, I have no problem doing "mount -o remount,rw /" 6. I have removed the ro kernel parameter option in grub.cfg (BTW, why is this used at all? I'm a little bit ignorant about Linux booting good practices). By doing so rootfs still remains ro. I am suspecting either systemd or the content of the initramfs. Until now, those are still black boxes to me. What should I look at to resolve my rootfs ro problem? thank you very much! Olivier (A new Arch user and extremely happy to have found and tried your distribution!) ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

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[arch-general] No suspend in systemd
by Randy 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

Hello, Whenever I try to suspend my system using the systemd command 'systemctl suspend', it will not suspend and returns the following messages: Failed to issue method call: Operation not supported. Failed to issue method call: Access denied. Any idea what could be causing this to happen? Thanks, Randy

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup
by Tom Gundersen 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Daniel F. Savarese <dfs(a)savarese.org> wrote: > If you merge the two packages, what am I supposed > to do? I can't simply remove /usr/bin/dbus-launch and > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus 30-dbus will go away, so that's not an issue. That leaves dbus-launch. I don't see why you would want to remove the binary? Is something on your system trying to call it, even if we remove 30-dbus? Cheers, Tom

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup
by Leonid Isaev 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:59:47 -0500 "Daniel F. Savarese" <dfs(a)savarese.org> wrote: > > In message > <CAG-2HqUx+=R59_24ytS6JefkXWR9qCzfTBXuVi_S_9bxbF83fQ(a)mail.gmail.com> , Tom > Gundersen writes: > >I'd like to propose the following change to our two dbus packages: > > > > * make libx11 an optdep in dbus > > * merge dbus-core into dbus > > * move dbus to [core] > > > >This should not have much of an effect in practice, but should make > >things a bit clearer and especially the naming will be more in-line > >with upstream and other distros. > > For myself, and anyone else administering large numbers of dbus-free systems > (defined as having no running dbus daemons) running Arch Linux (perhaps I'm > the only one?), it adds a maintenance burden. Currently, because of the If you don't run dbus, just update routinely and pacman will figure out which packages to keep. Since dbus 1.6.8-3 conflicts and provides dbus-core, the latter will be removed. > incorrect package dependencies you mention, I have to remove the dbus package > from every system after an update. That extra step is inconvenient, but > manageable via automation. If you merge the two packages, what am I supposed > to do? I can't simply remove /usr/bin/dbus-launch and > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/30-dbus because that defeats system versioning via > package management. That means I have to either maintain a custom dbus > package that omits dbus-launch or add a klugey NoExtract directive to NoExtract'ing 30-dbus and dbus-launch is not necessary because (a) They are harmless if dbus is not run; (b) 30-dbus is harmless even with a DE which is properly started from .xinitrc (I haven't even known about 30-dbus until today). > pacman.conf on all systems. I say klugey because names and locations of > files can change over time, making NoExtract fail silently and therefore > requiring one to test for such changes as part of one's system updating > procedures. That's why I maintain custom packages (60+ and counting) > instead of using more fragile alternatives. > > >We can see that the current naming has caused some confusion as most > >of the packages that depend on dbus should in fact be depending on > >dbus-core. > > My understanding (which may be incorrect) was that the separate packages > were created to allow users to opt out of having dbus-launch on their > systems to prevent programs from starting dbus-daemon willy nilly. > (If the same can be achieved via setting DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS to > /dev/null then my objection is largely moot, even though setting that > environment variable is not a clean solution for my use case). Of course, > incorrect package dependencies defeat that goal, requiring one to forcibly > remove the dbus package when not required. It seems pretty clear that if > the problem you're trying to solve is incorrect package dependencies, the > correct solution is to correct the package dependencies, not to change the > packaging. By merging the packages you're indicating you no longer want > to make it easy for users to remove dbus-launch. That's your prerogative, > but I ask you to evaluate whether you really want to do that. Supposing > you don't want to do that, as an alternative I suggest that you rename the > dbus package to dbus-launch and dbus-core to dbus (or just leave it as > dbus-core) to resolve package naming confusion. Supposing there are no > longer enough dbus-avoiding users to justify keeping the packages separate, > then I ask you warn users in advance of the change so that people have an > opportunity to take the steps required to keep their systems running as > expected before an update surprises them. With systemd you can't avoid dbus and you can't avoid systemd. Therefore, dbus must be present. Note that on a server dbus-launch will not even start since you will not have libx11, and dbus-launch links to it. > > daniel > -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] dbus cleanup
by Thomas Bächler 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Am 03.12.2012 18:59, schrieb Daniel F. Savarese: > For myself, and anyone else administering large numbers of dbus-free systems > (defined as having no running dbus daemons) running Arch Linux (perhaps I'm > the only one?), it adds a maintenance burden. Running unsupported setups is a high maintenance burden. I'm not sure if we should care.

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[arch-general] Fail to run startx
by Lu, Boying 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

Hi, All, I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Configure_pacman and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Arch_Linux_guests to install the ArchLinux 2012.11.01 in VirtualBox (v4.2.4). My host OS is Windows XP. After installing the base system, I tried to configure X. But 'startx' failed and I found following error messages in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log: AIGLX error: vboxvideo does not export required DRI extension AIGIX: reverting to software rendering Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks in advance. Boying

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[arch-general] Last dbus upgrade in testing busting gnome-online-accounts ?
by fredbezies 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

I noticed something strange since last dbus upgrade : my online accounts keeps on expiring. I try to delete and recreate my online account, but after one or two minutes, I got a message that "an online account needs attention". Got this in my /var/log/everything.log : Dec 3 18:41:29 localhost dbus[333]: [system] Reloaded configuration Dec 3 18:41:29 localhost dbus-daemon[333]: dbus[333]: [system] Reloaded configuration Dec 3 18:41:29 localhost dbus[333]: [system] Reloaded configuration Dec 3 18:42:02 localhost goa[690]: /org/gnome/OnlineAccounts/Accounts/account_1354556510: Setting AttentionNeeded to TRUE because EnsureCredentials() failed with: Credentials not found in keyring (goa-error-quark, 0): Failed to retrieve credentials from the keyring (goa-error-quark, 4) [goadaemon.c:1248, ensure_credentials_cb()] Kinda related to last dbus update ?! -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] December: time for a new install medium
by Robbie Smith 03 Dec '12

03 Dec '12

On 02/12/12 10:01, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > Version 2012.12.01 of our install and rescue medium is available on our > [Download][1] page. The latest snapshot contains: > > * arch-install-scripts 9 with an improved fstab generator > > * linux 3.6.8 > > * systemd 196 > > * the usual updates to our core packages > > The next boring snapshot release is scheduled for January 2013. > > [1]: https://www.archlinux.org/download/ > > URL: https://www.archlinux.org/news/december-time-for-a-new-install-medium/ > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > arch-announce(a)archlinux.org > https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce > I know it's not really necessary, but I always like to have the most up-to-date Arch live on my toolbox USB stick. Is there a recommended way to update an existing USB install medium (without overwriting other files?), or should I just follow the steps at [1], and update the syslinux configs each time? [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/USB_Installation_Media#Without_overwri…

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[arch-general] [latest kernel 3.6.8-1-ARCH x86_64] Working great!
by Martín Cigorraga 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Just a brief note to thank Tobias, the kernel team and all the early adopters/testers since I found this kernel is working really well. Thanks to all guys.

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[arch-general] Nouveau and nvidia simultaneously - is this still a good idea?
by Oon-Ee Ng 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Referring to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92530 Basically the idea was to have nvidia-utils and libgl packages which do not conflict (and don't contain the libgl.so, and, I suppose, the libglx.so symlinks). The user would then have to change symlinks manually (see [1]) to use either nvidia or nouveau after an X restart. Does anyone do it this way? Is there some possible 'gotcha' I'd face trying to do this? My reasons? To see if I can (and also because I finally got round to checking nouveau's latest updates, and it seems my card is just about fully supported except for power saving). [1a] - I'd guess making /usr/lib/libGL.so point at libGL.so.1 and changing /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to point to either libGL.so.1.2.0 (for current libgl) or libGL.so.310.19 (for current nvidia-beta) is one thing that needs to be done [1b] - The other conflict seems to require /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so to point to either libglx.xorg (for current libgl) or libglx.so.310.19 (for current nvidia-beta) [1c] - Remove nouveau blacklist (or comment it out)

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[arch-general] Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD
by Ralf Mardorf 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Hi :) my apologies for cross-posting this to several Linux mailing lists. I need a boot loader for Linux, that is comfortable to use for my needs, a Linux multi-boot with trillions of Linux installs, trillions ^ 2 kernels and (trillions ^ 2) * 1024 entries with different boot options, so something as GRUB 2 is unusable for my needs. Until now I was comfortable with GRUB legacy, but now I add a FreeBSD install to my machine and against the claims at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders GRUB legacy does not boot FreeBSD (until now). I was thinking of SYSLINUX, perhaps the most popular bootloader by Linux experts, but the Wiki says it doesn't support booting BSD. Since access to the freebsd-ufs partition by Linux is a PITA and Linux is most important for me, I wont use a FreeBSD bootloader. I need easy access to the bootloader's configuration file. I still continue searching with Google. Any hints are welcome! On a FreeBSD mailing list somebody wrote: > You might want to try a chainloader boot from grub. The following is a > chainloader rule that I have used, as well as a normal loader boot. I > use the loader boot, but I also tested the chainloader boot. You will > need a ufs2_stage1_5 file in your grub directory for a loader boot, and > linux grub might not have it available. > > title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) chainloader > root (hd1,2) > chainloader +1 > boot > > title FreeBSD, sda3 (oak) /boot/loader > root (hd1,2,a) > kernel /boot/loader > boot Yes, ufs2_stage1_5 is missing, so when I tested #title FreeBSD #root (hd0,a) #kernel /boot/loader title FreeBSD rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 boot there was no error, but nothing happened, without the chainloader an error 17, cannot mount selected partition appeared. I wonder that so many *NIX users nag about Windows, but support to access Windows files and to multi-boot with Windows is that easy. I don't have Windows on my machine. I hope somebody is experienced with multi-boot machines using different *NIX operating systems and will help me. Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Deleting fontconfig symlinks
by Lewis Pike 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

Previously, my way of disabling parts of the default fontconfig configuration was to delete the related symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d. Now that these symlinks are owned by the fontconfig package rather than created during the post-install script [1], I'm finding that these deleted symlinks are restored whenever fontconfig is upgraded. This has the effect of silently modifying my font configuration. 1. What is the recommended way of disabling parts of the default font configuration such that it survives an upgrade of fontconfig? 2. Is simply changing any unwanted symlinks owned by fontconfig to point to /dev/null an advisable solution? 3. If /dev/null is used as a target what will pacman do when fontconfig is upgraded? --Lewis [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=package…

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[arch-general] pam_systemd works in tty but not within X or tmux
by MSal 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 12:15:46AM +0300, MSal wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 07:00:10PM +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2012 12:21 AM, "MSal" <msal(a)tormail.org> wrote: > > > I asked about this in the forum. But it looks like this is a better > > > place to discuss systemd-related issues. > > > > > > If I login to user1 or user2 then try to play audio which requires > > > access to /dev/snd/* , proper access to the logged in user is set by > > > the session and everything works correctly. > > > > > > But, if I login to user1 then su to user2, audio wouldn't work because > > > access permissions are assigned to the session user only (user1). > > > > > > Any idea how to fix this issue? > > > > Could you elaborate a bit on what you are trying to do? (there might be a > > better way without using 'su'. > > > > The behaviour you are getting is by design, so there is nothing really to > > fix. However, you can of course make the system behave the way you want: > > > > Either, assign your devices to the audio group and the same with your users. > > > > ..... > > > Or add systemd_pam to the su pam file. This will create a new session for > > you when you use su and should therefore adjust the ACLs accordingly. > > > > pam_systemd is exactly what I was looking for. It works with > systemd's/logind's upstream behaviour instead of working around it. > > For reference, I added the following 2 lines to both /etc/pam.d/su{,-l} > as I want a unified behaviour for all su invocations. Both files are > backup which is an added plus: > > session required pam_loginuid.so > session required pam_systemd.so kill-session-processes=1 > > Warning: This will break su in already-open sessions. > Note: "pam_loginuid.so" is an absolute requirement for this use-case not > just a recommendation. > > Check out `man 8 pam_systemd` and `man 8 pam_loginuid` for more info. I spoke too soon. This doesn't work within X or tmux. su fails with a PAM_SESSION_ERR message: su: cannot not open session: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session I think pts/<int> is for some reason considered an invalid argument for tty. See logging output below. I first enabled debugging: -session required pam_systemd.so kill-session-processes=1 +session required pam_systemd.so kill-session-processes=1 debug=1 Then tried both cases: 1) logs from the tty case which works: Nov 27 13:28:21 arch64 su[31178]: pam_systemd(su:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=0 pid=31178 service=su type=tty class=user seat=seat0 vtnr=2 tty=tty2 display= remote=no remote_user=user remote_host= Nov 27 13:28:21 arch64 systemd-logind[955]: New session 47 of user root. Nov 27 13:28:21 arch64 su[31178]: pam_systemd(su:session): Reply from logind: id=47 object_path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/47 runtime_path=/run/user/0 session_fd=6 seat=seat0 vtnr=2 2) logs from within X or tmux where su fails at session creation: Nov 27 13:29:21 arch64 su[31740]: pam_systemd(su:session): Asking logind to create session: uid=0 pid=31740 service=su type=tty class=user seat=seat0 vtnr=2 tty=pts/3 display= remote=no remote_user=user remote_host= Nov 27 13:29:21 arch64 su[31740]: pam_systemd(su:session): Failed to create session: Invalid argument The only difference is (tty=tty2) vs (tty=pts/3).

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[arch-general] Gentoo udev fork w/o systemd
by Jérôme Bartand 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

I want to bring to your attention that Gentoo is working on a udev fork called eudev that will - respect the Unix philosophy - be POSIX-compliant and get rid of glibcisms - have no unnecessary dependencies (systemd, kmod) - support separate /usr http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2262 with the goal to make it default for Gentoo in the future, along with OpenRC. I know from past discussions on this mailing list that not everybody in the Arch community is happy with systemd. They are looking for contributors and this is an opportunity for cross-community collaboration. Regards, -J

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Re: [arch-general] Subpixels and append mode in Font Config 2.10
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Nov '12

27 Nov '12

For my Ubuntu I had to delete ~./cache when I couldn't chance the sub-pixel order for my Xfce4 desktop, then everything did work again.

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[arch-general] systemd sessions, su -l, and access to /dev/
by MSal 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hello. I asked about this in the forum. But it looks like this is a better place to discuss systemd-related issues. If I login to user1 or user2 then try to play audio which requires access to /dev/snd/* , proper access to the logged in user is set by the session and everything works correctly. But, if I login to user1 then su to user2, audio wouldn't work because access permissions are assigned to the session user only (user1). Any idea how to fix this issue?

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[arch-general] issues with netcfg v3.0 whe installing archlinux
by kendell clark 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi all I'm not sure how, but I broke my archlinux installation on my internal hard drive. But I have the arch-installation scripts on my usb arch install, so I'm installing arch back on to my hard drive. Everything goes fine until it gets to the point where I set up the network from within the chroot. I run wifi-menu, which works fine, I select my network, family_network, enter the wpa2 key, and wait. Sometimes it will connect, and sometimes it will give me one of two error messages. Either, ip lease attempt failed, or failed to connect. In either case I select not to keep the generated profile, and try again. If it does connect, the internet works fine with a ping to google.com, but if I touch either the pacman mirrorlist file, or configure pacman in pacman.conf, and run a pacman -Syy, pacman errors out with a, failed to retrieve reponame, download library error. I'm stumped. I've varified that I have the correct wpa passphrase, and that my internet functions normally. If I exit the chroot, reboot and chroot back in it will work for a little while, then go out again with the same error. Am I missing something obvious? or is it an issue with my usb install? If I try this from the arch iso I downloaded in july, it works. but I can't easily consult the beginner's guide from the console which is why I don't use it. Thanks for any help and sorry for the long message.

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[arch-general] Reboot hangs after Detaching DM Devices
by Mateusz Loskot 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi, I installed Arch using latest ISO on ThinkPad W700. I've worked in text mode only, not installed X11 yet. Everything seems to work well so far. The only issue I noticed is when I reboot, the procedure hangs just after displaying line with the message: "Detaching DM Devices" I tried quick investigation using commands like: sytstemd-analyze sytstemd-analyze blame But, nothing obvious come up. I've seen similar problem was reported to OpenSUSE, Fedora, long time ago, but the reports are not very helpful (I use much newer kernel). Could anyone suggest what else I can do to investigate the problem and find what's a troublemaker here? p.s. No idea why, but my posts seem to be held for moderation, I hope this one will make it through. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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[arch-general] File permissions with udisks/udisk2 mounts
by Paul Marwick 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

I tried asking this on the forum, didn't get any real answers, so I'm hoping someone here can help. I have a script located on a Vfat-formatted flash drive. When mounted using udisks, there are no execute permissions showing on the files, and they cannot be set. After some research, it seems that udisks works with polkit to set things like permission on mounted devices. Unfortunately, so far my attempts at research haven't led me to any information on setting permissions the way I need them, or even where the settings are stored. So I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction - I want to be able to modify things like execute permissions on mounted devices when I need to. I'm not all that partial to being effectively told I can't do that - reminds me much too much of Windows. I've tried a few workarounds, with little or no success. I installed pmount and used it with the -e option to mount the device. Still no execute permissions. I tried using sh to execute the script - failed again.... I also tried adding the device to /etc/fstab. In that instance, the file showed as executable, but any attempt to execute it, even as root, got a 'permission denied' message. Argh! Paul.

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] the future of /media
by Kevin Chadwick 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

> There are very good reasons for this change (mainly security), I think it had very little to do with security, unless you count device type privacy information from folder names. I use /media/usb? and they are accessible only by root and whichever user mounted it, logically findable by order of mount. I believe the reason was so that it was in a filesystem meant for dynamic files (this feature is really irritating for some default labels but I guess a little prettier otherwise and for multi-seat). I have udisks 1 and 2 installed but use neither. I have permanent folders in /media/. Will /media/ changes by pacman simply fail and everything continue happily or will I simply have to recreate or make them immutable? -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________

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[arch-general] Polluted login prompt
by Sudaraka Wijesinghe 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hey Archers, This is an issue I has since the day I switched to systemd, I was hoping it would get fixed eventually but seems not. I start both Apache and MySQL services on boot, and both of them display the start complete message after the login prompt. Something like this: > Starting MySQL > Starting Apache > login: [ OK ] MySQL started > [ OK ] Apache started Although this doesn't break anything it just doesn't look nice. (BTW, I'm not using any DM and getty is set NOT to clear any boot messages) I saw this already reported as a bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54247, but seems there is no fix yet. Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get a clean login prompt? Thanks. -- Sudaraka Wijesinghe.

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[arch-general] Subpixels and append mode in Font Config 2.10
by Martin Panter 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all Yesterday I replaced fontconfig-2.8.0-2 with fontconfig-2.10.1-2, and I noticed that subpixel rendering was no longer working. I can get it working again by restoring mode=“assign" in /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf, but I would like to understand why the new package’s mode=“append” does not work, or if there is a simpler way I could be doing this. The 2.10 config file has this giant comment and append line, which is not particularly illuminating for me:  <edit name="rgba" mode="append"><const>rgb</const></edit> It is apparently all a result of this bug, “Don’t overwrite user’s configurations in default config”: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17722 I’m not intentionally running any Gnome of KDE configuration, assuming that’s what they mean by “major desktop environments”. I have verified subpixels aren’t rendering in Scite (a text editor using GTK 2) using a magnifying glass :P on the number 7. I also noticed the fonts changed in Firefox, and “gitk” (which uses TK). I just removed ~/.fontconfig/ (to no effect), and don’t seem to have any other files starting with “font” in my home directory, nor ~/.config/ (assuming that’s what $XDG_CONFIG_HOME means). Does anyone know of any other place that could set the subpixel mode, or prevent my setting from taking effect? Is there some simple Font Config program that could help debug this? Thanks for any help or pointers -Martin

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[arch-general] USB 3G Modem: no remote host reachable, while connection (seems to) establish correctly
by Sebastian Lipp 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hey there! I've got a problem with my Huawei E220 (not entirely sure about this) 3G modem stick. It used to work for several days without any issues but someone closed my laptop's lid so that it slept away and since I can't reach any remote machine. Everything seems to be normal, even the "defaulting to 10.64.64.64" message by pppd is in the logs from times it worked... I played around with the routes but was not able to solve my problem. pppd connects successfully and sets the routes and DNS servers. Interesting is that I don't get answers to any ping. Even the DNS servers don't answer but my machine resolves domain names. Putting for example googles DNS server 8.8.8.8 into /etc/resov.conf doesn't help. I even tried to kick wvdial by following <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/3G_and_GPRS_modems_with_pppd_alone>. Everything seems to work identically. The problem is also the same. I dont't know how to solve this problem. Perhaps someone here can help me. Below are those informations I thought would be helpful. I will happily provide any further information that might help. Thanks in advance. [bacuh@eee ~]$ dmesg [12585.668857] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd [12585.809389] option 1-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [12585.809795] usb 1-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [12585.810369] option 1-1:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [12585.810645] usb 1-1: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 [12585.811697] scsi17 : usb-storage 1-1:1.2 [12585.813594] scsi18 : usb-storage 1-1:1.3 [12586.817410] scsi 17:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [12586.822239] scsi 18:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI MMC Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [12586.828280] sr0: scsi-1 drive [12586.835202] sr 17:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [12586.837277] sd 18:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [bacuh@eee ~]$ cat /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer aldi_mf] Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0 #Init1 = AT+CPIN=XXXX # not used anymore Init2 = ATZ Init3 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 Init4 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" Stupid Mode = 1 Modem Type = Analog Modem Phone = *99***1# ISDN = 0 Username = eplus Dial Command = ATDT Password = gprs Baud = 460800 [bacuh@eee ~]$ sudo wvdial aldi_mf [sudo] password for bacuh: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.61 --> Initializing modem. --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATZ ATZ OK --> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 OK --> Sending: AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.eplus.de" OK --> Modem initialized. --> Sending: ATDT*99***1# --> Waiting for carrier. ATDT*99***1# CONNECT --> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately. --> Starting pppd at Tue Nov 20 15:37:04 2012 --> Pid of pppd: 13809 --> Using interface ppp0 --> local IP address 10.140.52.61 --> remote IP address 10.64.64.64 --> primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 --> secondary DNS address 212.23.115.148 [bacuh@eee ~]$ sudo tail /var/log/messages.log Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: pppd 2.4.5 started by bacuh, uid 0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0 Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: CHAP authentication succeeded Nov 20 15:37:04 localhost pppd[13809]: CHAP authentication succeeded Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: Could not determine remote IP address: defaulting to 10.64.64.64 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: local IP address 10.140.52.61 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: remote IP address 10.64.64.64 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: primary DNS address 212.23.115.132 Nov 20 15:37:06 localhost pppd[13809]: secondary DNS address 212.23.115.148 [bacuh@eee ~]$ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 10.64.64.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 [bacuh@eee ~]$ ping google.de PING google.de (173.194.34.95) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- google.de ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms [bacuh@eee ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 212.23.115.132 nameserver 212.23.115.148 -- basti

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[arch-general] Weird GTK+ open directory chooser dialog behaviour
by Robbie Smith 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi list I don’t recall when this started occurring (as most applications that open files open them one at a time so I seldom come across it), but the directory selection dialog seems to always open my home directory regardless of what I navigate to. The programs that spawn the dialog subsequently crash, as they’re trying to open *every file in my home directory* instead of a specific directory. Googling found no results except for [1] on our forum, and the OP thinks it has to do with wxWidgets, but I get this behaviour with every GTK directory open dialog. Has anyone encountered this? Or is my computer also somewhat beserk? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146064

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[arch-general] qemu vs. qemu-kvm
by Jameson 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

If I'm not mistaken, there is no longer any substantial difference between these packages is there? Thanks. =-Jameson

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[arch-general] LVM Thin Provisioning
by Squall Lionheart 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, I have been reading about Thin Provisioning in LVM and wanted to play with it however, when I try to create a thin pool it shows an error saying: # lvcreate --thinpool -L 1G vg/pool WARNING: Unrecognised segment type thin Unable to create LV with unknown segment type thin. Run `lvcreate --help' for more information. I am running version: # lvm version LVM version: 2.02.98(2) (2012-10-15) Library version: 1.02.77 (2012-10-15) Driver version: 4.23.0 and have the following targets for device mapper: # dmsetup targets snapshot-merge v1.1.0 snapshot-origin v1.7.1 snapshot v1.10.0 zero v1.0.0 striped v1.5.0 linear v1.1.0 error v1.0.1 According to what I could find, this feature has been available since version 2.02.89 and is enabled with the compile time option of --with-thin=internal, but doesn't appear to be enabled in the Arch package. Am I correct or does something need to be configured on my machine? Thank you Squall -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present. Headmaster Squall :: The Wired/Section-9 Close the world txen eht nepo $3R14L 3XP3R1M3NT$ #L41N https://github.com/headmastersqual <http://twitter.com/headmastersqual>l

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[arch-general] Virtualbox hosting qemu-kvm guests
by Steve P. 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi This is my first posting so bear with me. I am trying to get qemu-kvm to work inside Virtualbox, but when I try to #modprobe the kvm-intel or kvm_intel module, it errors stating that operation is not permitted. Is qemu known to run inside virtualbox? The host hardware is an i7 that supports hardware virtualization fine. I have qemu running natively on the same box so it is confusing, but want to use VB also. Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] Unofficial Repository Guidelines
by Jesus Alvarez 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hey everyone, There are no guidelines on the wiki for creating and distributing unofficial repositories. The tools make this feature incredibly easy to implement, but with that power comes great responsibility, and I am a bit confused. It would be nice to have a set of guidelines for creating and distributing unofficial repositories on the wiki. The reason I ask this is because I created two signed repositories for some packages I maintain, zfs and netflix-desktop. They do have usage, and in my forum posts, people seem to really appreciate the availability of the repo. However, I am not a TU, so my keys are not signed by any of the master keys. I don't want to contribute to a bad habit of not checking package sources before installing something from some repo. When I brought the topic up in #archlinux, there was some concern I was using a repo and not solely relying on AUR. I did my best to provide lots of information to people, like the complete sources and lots of information about myself and the packages so people are comfortable adding my key to their keyring. But I am a very thorough person, so doing this is natural. Others won't be so willing to do the work. So what is the general consensus regarding unofficial repositories? Thanks, demizer

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