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[arch-general] pacman error: target not found
by Mathias Huber 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Dear Archers, I've been a happy Arch Linux user for years, but now I'm having trouble updating. Can anyone help? [root@archlinux huber]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... [...] :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace libwebkit with extra/webkitgtk2? [Y/n] [...] resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... warning: removing 'libgl' from target list because it conflicts with 'nvidia-utils' error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: nouveau-dri: requires libgl=9.0 [root@archlinux huber]# pacman -R nouveau-dri error: target not found: nouveau-dri How do I resolve this? Best, Mathias

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] "adm" and "log" groups
by Leonid Isaev 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:46:24 +0100 Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The meaning of these two groups ("adm" and "log") seems to be > identical. Both allow read access to system logs, except "adm" is used > by journald and "log" by syslogd (and tomcat, apparently). > > Wouldn't it make sense to do away with one? Is there a guarantee that `adm` group will be confined to only journald and not include wider priviledges in the future? By default it is probably unnecessary to have a log group as supplied by `filesystem`, but I I would still keep its creation in syslog-ng.install and similar. This way users who need a better logger than the journal will have a proper group setup... -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Fuse and out-of-date packages in general
by Anatol Pomozov 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hi, fuse 2.9.2 was released a while ago. This release contains important bug-fix for deadlock and there are arch users that wait for this version https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=146157 Some time ago I marked the package as out-of-date https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/fuse/ But the package maintainer seems busy and ignores this package. Is there any way to force upgrading fuse? Actually I have more general question. There are many out-of-date packages that are not updated for a long time. Should other (non-package owners) take care of it? Is there any way for non Arch developers participate in package maintenance? I keep in mind something like MacPorts or Homebrew [1] where anyone can easily send a package update that can be reviewed and submitted to repo by developers. I found this is a great way to involve more people into project, for example I would be happy to send an update to fuse package. But I cannot find such instructions for Arch contributors. [1] https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pulls

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[arch-general] gnome-keyring on non DE not finding a place to import certificates.
by Javier Vasquez 11 Nov '12

11 Nov '12

Hi, I don't use any DE, just plain fluxbox, and I have in my .xinitrc: ------------------------------------- # Gnome-KeyRing eval "`gnome-keyring-daemon -c pkcs11,secrets,ssh,gpg -s`" #eval "`gnome-keyring-daemon -s`" export GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL export SSH_AUTH_SOCK export GPG_AGENT_INFO export GNOME_KEYRING_PID # Call the windows manager exec startfluxbox ------------------------------------- I've exchanged between using or not using "-c" option there... Any time I attempt to import a cert I get: gnome-keyring import <my_p12_cert>.p12 ... gnome-keyring: couldn't find any place to import files I have no clue how to address this... Any hint would be great... Thanks, -- Javier.

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[arch-general] per-application streaming+recording+listening using pulseaudio
by Kyle 10 Nov '12

10 Nov '12

I need to be able to send a couple of applications (TeamTalk and either sox or audacious) to an icecast server and my local sound card at the same time, while also recording their output in audacity or another recording application, sox again may work here. I was able to find some information[1] that sometimes allowed me to stream to the icecast server, but even when it worked, the output of the application I moved to the streaming pulseaudio sink was no longer playing on the sound card, because it's sending the monitor of the null sink to the icecast server. I need to be able to either copy the output back to my local sound card, or setup an entirely new virtual sound card where I can move only the individual applications I want to record and stream, while also being able to hear the output on my sound card. Any help or links to some documentation that can show me how to do this would be greatly appreciated. I'm also open to any other suggestions I may not have thought of yet, including non-pulse-specific methods. [1] http://www.alex.ballas.org/2010/11/08/stream-any-pulseaudio-application/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk -- Linux killed Kenny, bastard! --Subject of a real e-mail to the Linux kernel mailing list 12 January, 2009

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[arch-general] Xfce4 utils
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hey guys, I just removed gnome as it was quite heavy for my laptop and installed xfce. I remember there was a page on the wiki with some recommendations about WiFi management, system monitor etv. But I can't seem to find it. Anyone got some proposals? Thanks

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[arch-general] Qingy on systemd
by David Rosenstrauch 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

I recently switched over to systemd, and am trying to get my system set up the way I like under there. I'm trying to set up qingy on systemd right now, but it doesn't seem to be working properly. I followed the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Qingy#Systemd ... and tried to set up qingy on tty6. But that doesn't seem to work. The systemctl command seems to always try to set up qingy on tty1: [darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo systemctl enable qingy@tty6 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/qingy@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/qingy(a)tty1.service' In addition, qingy seems to be freezing on me whenever I try to access it on the tty. Anyone have any idea what's going on with this? I didn't see any bug reports about it. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] kernel oops on resume: 3.6.2-1+systemd+kde
by Genes MailLists 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

I have started getting kernel oops yesterday. This started after fully updated testing repo and switch to systemd over last weekend. I'm running kde. Bug is filed as shown below with screenshot which I managed to capture of the OOPS from today's crash. Laptop is sandy bridge i7 (lenovo w520) - details are filed in bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32014 I added 7 attachments but I cannot see them in the bug report for some reason. (screen shot, lspci, lsmod, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/iomem, /proc/ioports, scripts/ver_linux) Question: Are the uploaded attachments not visible to me - or do I need to put them on a web server somewhere? Thanks. gene/

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[arch-general] USB Flash drive problems
by P .NIKOLIC 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi . Just purchased several SanDisk 4Gb Cruzer Blade USB flash drives but can not access any of them . the only error report i can find just says An error occurred while accessing `3.7GiB Removable Media`, the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred.: Not Authorized This happens both as user or root , any other non SanDisk flash drive is fine . I was hoping to put music on them for the car as the system incar can only read 4 Gb Max drives these seemed ideal look like they may bee a bummer . Any tips anyone .. Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.6.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 09:49:00 CET 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Setting prefered voice for espeakup
by Storm Dragon 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi, I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to set the default voice for espeakup? I have enabled the service file, which works great, and I have edited the file in /etc/conf.d/espeakup and added --default-voice=en-us to the args, but it still uses the default (UK) voice. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? Thanks for the help Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ Do you get paid for tweeting? I do: http://spn.tw/r11uj "And for every crossing where two roads diverged. I fell one false decision. But still you find me on this earth." Van Canto - I Stand Alone

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[arch-general] Is there something wrong with perl packages?
by Storm Dragon 07 Nov '12

07 Nov '12

Hi, I got the following from pacman during an install of some perl packages I need: error: perl-lwp-mediatypes: signature from "Justin Davis (juster) <jrcd83(a)gmail.com>" is unknown trust error: perl-net-http: signature from "Justin Davis (juster) <jrcd83(a)gmail.com>" is unknown trust error: perl-www-robotrules: signature from "Justin Davis (juster) <jrcd83(a)gmail.com>" is unknown trust error: perl-libwww: signature from "Justin Davis (juster) <jrcd83(a)gmail.com>" is unknown trust error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Thanks Storm -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ My Blackberry is Broken: http://is.gd/my_blackberry_is_broken "I am your soul insane" Slayer - Gemini

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[arch-general] Invalid signatures
by David Rosenstrauch 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Saw these errors from pacman today, which are preventing me from upgrading some packages: error: directfb: signature from "Eric Belanger <eric(a)archlinux.org>" is invalid error: xmms2: signature from "Sergej Pupykin <arch(a)sergej.pp.ru>" is invalid error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)) Anyone have an idea what's up? DR

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[arch-general] gstreamer vs gstreamer0.10
by DG 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Quick question on the 2 gstreamer packages currently in extra (gstreamer & gstreamer0.10) - is one "preferred" over the other? It looks like gstreamer is v1.0 and is used by gnome3, so is gstreamer0.10 being transitioned out? Do they provide the same functionality? Thanks, Danny G

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[arch-general] Forking daemons and systemd
by Leonid Isaev 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, I was wondering whether there is a guideline regarding using Type=forking daemons in systemd units. For instance, if a daemon supports a cmdline switch to run in foreground isn't it better to use this argument in ExecStart? Personally, I was bitten by this with haveged.service which fails on shutdown and whose unit has Type=forking, but I also noticed that ntpd is allowed to fork. Both of them support foreground operation (haveged -F and ntpd -n respectively)? TIA, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Systemd and inactive sessions
by Leonid Isaev 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

Hi, I have just noticed that systemd-logind doesn't terminate inactive sessions. For example, when I login, do something, then relogin, there are 2 sessions: $ loginctl SESSION UID USER SEAT 1 1000 lisaev seat0 4 1000 lisaev seat0 However, only session 4 is active. Session 1 is inactive and has state=closing: $ loginctl show-session 1 Id=1 Timestamp=Thu, 2012-11-01 14:42:18 CDT TimestampMonotonic=32156744 DefaultControlGroup=name=systemd:/user/lisaev/1 VTNr=1 TTY=tty1 Remote=no Service=login Leader=327 Audit=1 Type=tty Class=user Active=no State=closing KillProcesses=no IdleHint=yes IdleSinceHint=1351805395173515 IdleSinceHintMonotonic=6489608483 Name=lisaev Is that expected? Thanks, -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] resume do not work after self suspend in gnome 3.6
by Mathieu R. 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Since the update to gnome 3.6, when my laptop goes to suspend 2 ram by have been ideling for 5 minutes, the resume does not work : i got a black screen with mouse cursor, and no way to log in GDM. I have to go to another TTY, restart gdm, and log in. resume still work well when the laptop suspend by closing the lid. here is a log during a 'bad' resume : http://pastebin.fr/25770 does anybody have an idea what's going wrong ? is the same command invoked when going to suspend by closing the lid and by idling ? -- Mathieu R. http://400iso.net/

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[arch-general] Problem Printing with Inkscape
by David Stephenson 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

I'm having problems printing from Inkscape. I have libcups, cups-filters, avahi, ghostscript, gsfonts, samba, hplip, and hpoj installed. My printer is a HP LaserJet M2727nf MFP. I'm currently using the Postscript driver. Printing from most programs works fine - but when attempting to print from inkscape, the job fails and CUPS gives me a "filter failed" error. When using hpijs, attempting to print from Inkscape results in a blank printed page with the text "Error: /typecheck in --run-- / Operand Stack: / --dict:6/15(L)-- 1 11 Annots/E" What can I do to address this? What other information can I provide?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Dropping all packages with missing systemd units
by Sébastien Leduc 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

Le Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:44:18 +1000, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> a écrit : > On 02/11/12 12:46, Allan McRae wrote: > > > Not needed for anything so will be dumped soon...: > > snort > > tinc > > hpoj > > > Do the maintainers for any of these packages have any plans to fix > these? If there is not even a response saying it will be looked at in > the next couple of days, they will be removed. > > Allan > > Hi, Concerning tinc, a bug report [1] was created with an attached service file, which has been added to the 1.0.19-2 version of the package [2]. It seems that the TODO-list for missing systemd units has just not been updated for tinc yet. 1: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31456 2: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packag… -- Sébastien Leduc

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[arch-general] Big changes to LVM2 in testing
by Thomas Bächler 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

I discovered some new awesomeness in LVM2 (okay, not THAT new, but still, so far unknown to me). In our lvm2 package, I enabled lvmetad - this is a metadata caching daemon that reacts to events from udev. I completely reorganized our systemd and mkinitcpio lvm integration: * lvm.service and lvm-on-crypt.service are gone. * Once you install lvm2, lvmetad.socket and dmeventd.socket are always active in systemd. * If you need LVM monitoring, you need to enable lvm-monitoring.service (recommended if you use LVM, even if you don't know if you need monitoring). I didn't enable this by default because it would always start lvmetad.service. * LVM is fully hotplugged via udev. You don't need to activate anything, LVM volumes will just work. LVM no longer requires systemd-udev-settle.service and all the race conditions should be gone. * LVM in mkinitcpio is also fully hotplugged, lvmwait= is now a no-op. However, LVM in mkinitcpio now requires the udev hook. This requires that the use_lvmetad = 1 option is set in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf - this is now the default, but a .pacnew must be merged if it exists. You can restrict the hotplugging of the volume groups with the auto_activation_volume_list option in lvm.conf. If you uncomment that, only the listed volumes will be enabled. This is commented out by default. WARNING: If you have any incomplete or clustered volume groups, none of this will work yet! However, I doubt any Arch user uses that.

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[arch-general] unable to boot up
by Thomas Rand 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Hey Archers, my issue begins with me trying to patch vmware for 3.6.3-1-arch I tried using vmware & this told me the modules were not present for 3.6.3 so I went to grab latest from AUR (vmware-patch), the comments on there suggested that the ones for 3.5.x still worked but needed to be rebuilt. so I read these instructions: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation I noticed that in the finishing up section it gave a warning that if I update the kernel need too issue the following: vmware-modconfig --console --install-all so I ran this & tried to run vmplayer this opened but crashed as soon as i tried to play a VM, I then decided that as I had not used it for some time I would just remove it: vmware-installer --uninstall-product vmware-player this finished & so I ran: pacman -R vmware-patch all was ok (so I thought) a while later I had to reboot to do something in my win7 install (non volatile) upon completing I rebooted back to arch & now my install refuses to boot & I see: Failed to start load Kernel Modules [FAILED] see 'systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service' for details obviously systemd fall's over & offers to enter password or control-D to continue well the system refuses to go any further & locks up totally (no flashing kbd lights like a panic though!) the exact same happens when I boot the fallback kernel I can chroot into it using the old media (CORE 2011.08.19) which is the most recent I have, whilst chrooted in I thought perhaps the old vmware modules did not get removed correctly so I blacklisted them in: /etc/modprobe.d/vmware.conf blacklist vmmon [...] I have managed to get into the system using the following boot parameter: systemd.unit=rescue.target I then ran: systemctl status systemd-modules-load.service this provided the default message about the service not starting but no reason why or what caused it to fail So any advice or way forward would be appreciated as I am totally lost & have googled everything I can think of which may help but this is the first time I have b0rk3d the modules & am lost as to what to do. -- Regards Thomas Rand

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[arch-general] iptables/ip6tables unit error
by Martín Cigorraga 04 Nov '12

04 Nov '12

Hi all, today I found this error with the iptables/ip6tables units, does anybody know what is happening? ~ $ su root /home/msx # systemctl enable iptables.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/iptables.service' /home/msx # systemctl start iptables.service Job for iptables.service failed. See 'systemctl status iptables.service' and 'journalctl -n' for details. /home/msx # systemctl status iptables.service iptables.service - Packet Filtering Framework Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/iptables.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun, 2012-11-04 00:00:01 ART; 11s ago Process: 5442 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/iptables-restore /etc/iptables/iptables.rules (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/iptables.service Nov 04 00:00:01 heybeavis systemd[1]: Starting Packet Filtering Framework... Nov 04 00:00:01 heybeavis iptables-restore[5442]: Can't open /etc/iptables/iptables.rules: No such file or directory Nov 04 00:00:01 heybeavis systemd[1]: iptables.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Nov 04 00:00:01 heybeavis systemd[1]: Failed to start Packet Filtering Framework. Nov 04 00:00:01 heybeavis systemd[1]: Unit iptables.service entered failed state This have me a little disoriented since iptables are built in the stock kernel, the one I'm using o_0

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[arch-general] devtools?
by Joakim Hernberg 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Been having this problem for a while now, even converted the system to systemd in the hope that it would go away. Probably something I've broken myself, but thought I'd ask here before creating a bug report. ack@tor /home/jack/archaudio/linux-rt $ sudo extra-x86_64-build [sudo] password for jack: ==> Creating chroot for [extra] (x86_64)... ==> Creating install root at /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root ==> Installing packages to /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root warning: database file for 'core' does not exist warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist warning: database file for 'community' does not exist :: Synchronizing package databases... core 107.1 KiB 794K/s 00:00 [#############################################] 100% extra 1425.3 KiB 1381K/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100% community 1775.4 KiB 1551K/s 00:01 [#############################################] 100% :: There are 53 members in group base: :: Repository core 1) bash 2) bzip2 3) coreutils 4) cronie 5) cryptsetup 6) device-mapper 7) dhcpcd 8) diffutils 9) e2fsprogs 10) file 11) filesystem 12) findutils 13) gawk 14) gcc-libs 15) gettext 16) glibc 17) grep 18) gzip 19) heirloom-mailx 20) inetutils 21) iproute2 22) iputils 23) jfsutils 24) less 25) licenses 26) linux 27) logrotate 28) lvm2 29) man-db 30) man-pages 31) mdadm 32) nano 33) netcfg 34) nss-myhostname 35) pacman 36) pciutils 37) pcmciautils 38) perl 39) ppp 40) procps-ng 41) psmisc 42) reiserfsprogs 43) sed 44) shadow 45) sysfsutils 46) systemd-sysvcompat 47) tar 48) texinfo 49) usbutils 50) util-linux 51) vi 52) which 53) xfsprogs Enter a selection (default=all): :: There are 12 members in group base-devel: :: Repository core 1) autoconf 2) automake 3) binutils 4) bison 5) fakeroot 6) flex 7) gcc 8) libtool 9) m4 10) make 11) patch 12) pkg-config Enter a selection (default=all): resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: dbus-core will be installed before its systemd dependency looking for inter-conflicts... 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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [RFC] The path to lua 5.2
by Bastien Dejean 03 Nov '12

03 Nov '12

Sébastien Luttringer: > Waiting last words on package naming, lua and lua51 are available here [1]. > > [1] http://pkgbuild.com/~seblu/ With the lua 5.2 test package installed, one of my packages[2] fails to build at the *configure* stage: Checking for library lua >= 5.2... no Checking for library lua5.2 >= 5.2... no I've notified the author who thinks it is an upstream issue[3]. [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=54174 [3] https://code.google.com/p/gpick/issues/detail?id=90

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[arch-general] Kernel 3.6.x panic
by Guillermo Leira 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hello! I have upgraded a system from Linux 3.5.6 to 3.6.4, and now I get a kernel panic on boot. It's an i686 system. I have tried to download to 3.6.3 and 3.6.2, and they also panic. 3.5.6 boots fine, but I had to remove nvidia and virtualbox. Then upgraded again to 3.6.4, got the kernel panic, and downgraded again (just to discard nvidia or virtualbox) I don't know how to solve this. Messages in screen seem to be related to scsi. I have removed an Adaptec card, but it makes no difference. I can't get (or can't find) a log, but there are things like: Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP Process scsi_eh_2 (pid: 57, ... A lot of lines with references to libata and pata_acpi. This is the hardware seen by lspci. 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FW (ICH6/ICH6W) SATA Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GS] (rev a1) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8050 PCI-E ASF Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) 06:01.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01) 06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 (rev 0c) The processor is an old P4 HT. Has been working fine for years, and still does with the previous kernel. Any ideas? Thanks, Guillermo Leira

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[arch-general] What is FONT_MAP for?
by "Jérôme M. Berger" 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi, I've looked in the wiki, but I cannot find what FONT_MAP is for. This wiki page seems to confuse it with the keymap: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts#Console_fonts since it says "Now, set the proper keymap, [...]: FONT_MAP=...". However, I thought the keymap was configured with "KEYMAP=...". My system appears to work with: KEYMAP="fr-latin1" FONT="ter-122b" FONT_MAP="" I can't type accented characters in the console (neither the text consoles F1-F6, nor the X terminals like urxvt or konsole) but those characters are displayed fine when I cat a UTF-8 file. Not a big issue, just curious. So what is FONT_MAP for? Thanks, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger(a)jabber.fr

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[arch-general] GDM is unable to choose language
by Rodrigo Rivas 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hello, list! After the recent upgrade to GNOME 3.6 I've been having weird characters in the gnome-terminal. For example, if I run "pstree" the tree lines are all changed into ????. After some debugging I traced the problem to a bogus GDM_LANG value (en_GB.utf8) passed to the session launcher by GDM. The curious thing is that the GDM greeter doesn't show any control to choose the language... it's making it up! That locale doesn't even exist in my machine. Now, I can change the LANG variable back to a sane value in a "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/01-fix-language" script, but that is just a hack. So, two questions remains: 1. Doesn't the GDM greeter have a language chooser any more? 2. From where is GDM reading the GDM_LANG value? Thank you in advance. -- Rodrigo.

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[arch-general] SystemD: Is there a way to disable PrivateTmp globally?
by "Jérôme M. Berger" 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hi, Is there a way to disable Private Tmp globally? I know I can disable it by copying all the affected unit files to /etc/systemd and removing it there but is there a way to disable it once and for all? The reasons I want to disable it are: - I don't need it: this is a single user machine that sits behind a firewall and doesn't run any publicly available servers, so the security issues that private tmp solves are not important for this machine; - I want to know where the files are, and I especially do not want them in a tmpfs. According to the docs I was able to find, private tmp is implemented using "kernel namespace" but that tells me nothing about where the data is stored; - I want to be able to access those files for debugging purposes. For example, I have some custom Apache modules that dump debug information to files in /tmp and I need to be able to access them. However, I haven't found any way to access the private tmp of a service, even as root. Thanks, Jerome -- mailto:jeberger@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeberger(a)jabber.fr

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[arch-general] libtirpc from testing breaks login
by Arthur Titeica 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Hello, Just a heads up. It seems that the upgrade to libtirpc 0.2.2-3 from testing breaks systemd- logind/pam and logging in to the system is not possible except in rescue mode. https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32308 -- Arthur Titeica

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[arch-general] systemd + crypttab
by André Vitor de Lima Matos 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi. I've a system where there's a harddisk encrypted with luks and a lvm pv over it, used for backup. This disk is never removed or inserted while system is online, but not in every boot up it's present. Setting this volume in crypttab, when disk is absent, cryptsetup service hangs for several seconds, before timing out and allowing systemd to complete boot. There's any way of avoiding this, may be putting it to background, or something like this? Thanks,

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[arch-general] shorewall-init
by Paul Gideon Dann 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi all, Does anyone know if the shorewall-init feature of shorewall (to deal better with interfaces going up and down) has been packaged somehow? I'm not seeing any indication of the associated configuration files, although the shorewall- init manpage exists. See the following for more info: http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall-init.html Paul

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[arch-general] PowerDNS systemd script
by Δημήτρης Ζέρβας 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Does anyone have a systemd unit for pdns? -- (\_ /) 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] A systemd less Linux alternative to Arch is hard to find but exists
by Kevin Chadwick 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Forgot a change Tom requested, please reject previous if not too late! > I'm sure I will > have to switch to systemd on all my systems eventually, but I don't > give up that easily ;-) For those looking for many of the plusses of Arch, you may want to check out Sabayon. The forums say there are no other distros akin enough to Arch, and that you will be stuck with systemd eventually anyway but I disagree and you may be surprised about what Sabayon offers and the similarities to Arch. ______________ Similarities ______________ Bleeding edge many binary packages (>10,000) and the entire Gentoo Source repo (>30,000) For pro audio on Gentoo Ralf you may be interested in this and the ease of compilation customisations rather than hacks, though I have no experience with the info in this link myself, yet. http://audiodef.com/projects.php?project_id=1 ___________ Benefits ___________ optional pre-built hardened packages in the main repo Intended to be customised compilation control via Gentoo Use Flags (especially useful if you don't like all the default flashiness and the rainbow of colors and graphics on the console for a particular system or any other package defaults) A script based openrc that I really like by default and systemd only if you choose it and for the foreseeable future. It may take more work though initially than keeping initscripts on arch currently and is not supported by Sabayon however you may receive help from some on the Gentoo list as setting it up is described here. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Systemd The advice is to stick to binary (equo) or source (gentoo's emerge) but if you are confident the two are in sync at the time of build/install or you can keep an eye on the versions and compatibility of what you are installing/building, then you can mix the two and gain all the power of Gentoo and it's USE flags without the waste of energy or time and resources for compilation. _______ Cons _______ They recently dropped non-PAE kernel support, so a few pentium Ms from 2005-2007 will not work (Typically the system I happened to want to test it out on and so had to use an older laptop). You don't start with a minimalist system but they have many iso flavours, so one such as server or hardened server should suit as a start, if that's a reason you use arch. The package system is very very cool and colourful, but not as fast as pacman, possibly because it uses both hashes and signatures. I put this mail in for review on the Sabayon list with the following responses. _______________________________________________________________________ >>> Nice to see you like Sabayon. I want to clarify one thing. >>> openrc and systemd only if you choose it and likely to the end of >>> time. Sabayon doesn't provide systemd but you should be able to install it from Portage if you know what you're doing (ie. probably better to use an older version rather than newer one that would require udev update), but keep in mind that packages are built without systemd support (many .service files are provided regardless though). _______________________________________________________________________ >>> I would like to confirm though as I ideally want to stay clear of >>> the... systemd that Sabayon will likely support Openrc for a long time >>> if not forever even if the default is switched before I invest some >>> time in migrating installation scripts etc.. I digged the discussion here on the mailinglist out for you: http://lists.sabayon.org/pipermail/devel/2012-August/008278.html In case you want to read the whole story =) Regards, Andre -- _______________________________________________________________________ '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] GNOME 3.6 upgrade / GDM / Removed consolekit
by Simon Perry 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi all, After reading the previous discussion on not needing to be in various groups like audio, optical etc, I decided to remove myself from a bunch of groups and "do the right thing" after upgrading to GNOME 3.6 earlier. I removed consolekit once pacman told me it was no longer required by any package, then culled myself from various groups - the important one being audio. When I login via GDM, it seems my "session" isn't active: % loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID | grep Active Active=no Therefore, I'm not added to ACLs for my sound devices and Pulseaudio fires up using a "Dummy" output. Not sure what to do here, I've done the following to try and fix it: - Disabled / re-enabled certain services, I've had systemd running for a while and a few things had changed / been updated (e.g. I now have a default.target and the display-manager.service whose symlink lives in /etc/systemd/system) - Tried messing around with pam (putting pam_systemd.so in a couple of spots). - Tried searching for documentation on what might be wrong, but most of the things I found relate to not using a display manager like GDM and just using startx. Any tips appreciated. Cheers. -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[arch-general] urxvtd frequently crashes
by Robbie Smith 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

On my new install I've been using urxvtd to run terminals, and I'm finding that it frequently crashes. Either I'll switch to a window and it won't redraw or accept input, or I'll close a window and all of them will close. I was using the script in the urxvtc man page to spawn a daemon as required, and that either results in memory usage skyrocketing, or heaps of processes spawned waiting to connect to the daemon. What am I doing wrong? Searching the interweb has thus far found nothing except that if urxvtd crashes it brings down all the clients (which I've become quite aware of). AFAIK there's no glitches in my ~/.Xresources[1] I usually have a tmux session or two running, so I don't lose much, but it's still annoying when I lose an active download with aria2 or something like that. Robbie [1] https://gist.github.com/3985284

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[arch-general] Systemd : A big big thanks to all the dev work
by Arno Gaboury 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

When # pacman -Rs consolekit a few mn ago, I was thinking of all the summer flame on this list about systemd. My Arch is since a while a 100% systemd, and honestly, as a newbye, I didn't experienced much issues, neither did I have any painful configuration to set up. I just wanted to publicly thanks all the Arch devs for this smooth transition. The average user i am is garteful and happy to belong to the Arch community.

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[arch-general] How to specify a Type 1 font in .Xresources?
by D. R. Evans 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

When I execute "fc-list : file" (as stated at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration ) one of the lines is: /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ufonts.com_ti92pluspc.pfb: How do I now tell a particular class of xterm to use this font? In the ~/.Xresources I have a class called "drlog", and so I have a line that starts: ---- drlog*VT100*font: ---- but what do I put after the colon to force this class to use the font in the file /usr/share/fonts/Type1/ufonts.com_ti92pluspc.pfb? Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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Re: [arch-general] (no subject)
by Gijs Schroder 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

> Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:58:01 -0500 > From: Juan Diego Tasc?n<juantascon(a)gmail.com> > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux<arch-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: [arch-general] ssd > Message-ID: > <CAA0N71U-9WC1vh4j0_YZjEOCJYrQHHgJUg_2vjCrBc54tQ7aLQ(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Good day, > > I just got a new laptop with a 25Gb ssd and I was wondering which would be > best if putting my home directory (minus music and videos) there or and > arch install (minus pacman pkg cache). I read the ssd related article in > the wiki and even though it mentions some optimizations and considerations > it doesn't mention anything regarding this issue. > > Thanks Hi, IMO you should put the arch install there. Because of the limited amount of writes a cell can handle, you typically want the data on your SSD not to change very much over time. Since its greater reading speed can improve on the starting time of larger applications, it is (in my understanding) recommended for an SSD to contain mostly applications and/or system files. This should also make your computer boot faster. Good luck on choosing and setting up your system, Gijs

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[arch-general] consolekit removal - a question
by mike cloaked 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

For people who have converted to systemd it seems that consolekit is no longer needed. When removing it should one do "pacman -R consolekit" or "pacman -Rs consolekit" - I was unsure whether the dependencies should also be removed or not? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] Sticky keys and gaming
by Rafael Beraldo 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hello all, I don't play very often but when I do, I get sticky keys. By sticky keys I mean that after about half an hour playing, when I stop pressing, say, ‘w’, the character continues walking forward. I first noticed that playing Minecraft and thought the issue was related to Java. A quick search [0,1] supported that theory. However yesterday I was playing Counter Strike 1.6 on wine and, after a while, I noticed I'd continue walking forward even after I'd stopped pressing ‘w’, so I thought I'd drop an email here and see if anybody else has had that kind of issue. I had this problem running both Fluxbox and i3. I think that's not related, but I run setxkbmap us intl every time I go to either window manager. Thanks for your time, [0]: https://www.google.com.br/search?q=sticky+keys+minecraft+linux&ie=utf-8&oe=… [1]: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=sticky+keys+minecraft+linux -- Rafael Beraldo cabaladada.org

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[arch-general] ConsoleKit replaced by logind vs Initsricpts
by Ralf Mardorf 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi :) I'm using GDM and Xfce. It isn't a surprise that I can't log in anymore. If I should replace GDM and for sure Network Manager too and reconfigure ntcfg. Will there still be other serious issues if I stay with initscripts? Is there a Wiki describing how to switch to systemd easy? Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] ssd
by Juan Diego Tascón 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Good day, I just got a new laptop with a 25Gb ssd and I was wondering which would be best if putting my home directory (minus music and videos) there or and arch install (minus pacman pkg cache). I read the ssd related article in the wiki and even though it mentions some optimizations and considerations it doesn't mention anything regarding this issue. Thanks

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[arch-general] net-tools: Deprecated?
by Karol Babioch 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Hi, I've just upgraded GNOME to version 3.6 and realized that net-tools was pulled in as a requirement for the new version of networkmanager. Now I'm wondering what the current status of "net-tools" is, because according to [1] it is deprecated and I was perfectly fine without it ;). I'm not familiar with the requirements for networkmanager, so basically my question comes down to this: What is net-tools needed for and is there a way to abandon this requirement? What are the plans for the future? Thanks in advance. Furthermore I would like to thank all of you making GNOME 3.6 available for us. Probably a lot of work has gone into this, so thanks again! Best regards, Karol Babioch [1] https://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/

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[arch-general] [Cups and systemd] duplicated service file
by Brock.Zheng 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi all, I found that the package cups hav duplicated service file, Here is some cmdline interactivity: [root@system 09:47:09]$ pacman -Ql cups | grep service cups /usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service cups /usr/lib/systemd/system/cupsd.service [root@system 09:47:48]$ diff cupsd.service cups.service gives no result. [root@system 09:46:35]$ cat cupsd.service [Unit] Description=CUPS Printing Service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f PrivateTmp=true [Install] Also=cups.socket cups.path WantedBy=printer.target [root@system 09:46:49]$ cat cups.service [Unit] Description=CUPS Printing Service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/cupsd -f PrivateTmp=true [Install] Also=cups.socket cups.path WantedBy=printer.target [root@system 09:46:31]$ systemctl enable cupsd.service Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory [root@system 09:52:28]$ systemctl enable cups.service ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service' '/etc/systemd/system/printer.target.wants/cups.service' ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.socket' '/etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/cups.socket' ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.path' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cups.path' -- Brock Zheng <goodmenzy(a)gmail.com> 郑祎 Software Enginner

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[arch-general] PyQT fails when I try to use it with Python 2.7
by Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello guys, this is my first message to this list. I'm trying to install PyQT for Python 2.7 on Archlinux. I installed the following packages > pyqt 4.9.5-3 > pyqt-common 4.9.5-3 > pyqt3 3.18.1-11 > python2-pyqt 4.9.5-3 When I try to do "import qt", the following message appears > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v9.0 but the qt module requires API v8.1 I have the following sip-related packages installed on my system > python-sip 4.14-2 > python2-sip 4.14-2 > sip 4.14-2 Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in Advance PS: I'm not a native english speaker, so please, excuse me for grammar mistakes. -- Asdrúbal Iván Suárez Rivera Si quieres aprender, enseña. Marco Tulio Cicerón. ¿Tienes twitter? Sígueme: @asdrubalivan

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[arch-general] Strange network problem
by Fons Adriaensen 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello all, I've got a strange problem with a machine that had a fresh install three weeks ago. Nothing new has been installed on it since then. About one time in four, after that machine has been booted, a ssh to it (on a LAN) fails with 'no route to host'. Using ip link and ip addr on it shows everything is OK, it's not a NIC that gets the wrong name or so. The network on that machine is set up using netcfg, in the recommended way (/etc/conf.d/netcfg). Rebooting has solved the problem in all cases. Any hints as to what is going wrong ? 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] systemd and local group membership
by Dave Morgan 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hi, The systemd wiki article says: "Note: Adding your user to groups (optical, audio, scanner, ...) is not necessary with systemd. It might even break the wanted functionality if you do so." What are the the technical reasons for group membership breaking functionality when using systemd? -- Dave.

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[arch-general] bootchart confusion
by G. Schlisio 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

hi list, i am confused about bootchart{,2}. in aur [1] its called bootchart2, in community we have bootchart [2]. in the aur there is a comment from tom, that [1] is going to be replaced by [2]. now [2] is bootchart version 1.20, so it does not look like bootchart2 to me. so which one is the most recent bootchart2 and maybe we can clean this (naming, moving, whatever) to make it clearer? thanks georg [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=51576 [2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/bootchart/

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Re: [arch-general] Moving CK-removal + GNOME 3.6? Announcement draft.
by Greg Bouzakis 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Tom Gundersen wrote: > What about: > > "ConsoleKit replaced by logind > > With GNOME 3.6, polkit and networkmanager moving to extra, ConsoleKit > has now been removed from the repositories. Any package that > previously depended on it now relies on systemd-logind instead. That > means that the system must be booted with systemd to be fully > functional. > > In addition to GNOME, both KDE and XFCE are also affected by this change." This is mostly OK but not only users of DE's are affected. Its pretty much everyone but at least a mention on DM's should be added as well. And probably a mention on [0] as a solution for people not using one. [0]: http://blog.falconindy.com/articles/back-to-basics-with- x-and-systemd.html My 2 cents Greg

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[arch-general] imagemagick problem
by David Benfell 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think I have stumbled over a packaging bug. It appeared with an imagemagick upgrade that occurred today. Here is the error I am seeing repeatedly: PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php/modules/imagick.so' - libMagickWand.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 I tried chasing this down: atlanta% ls -al /usr/lib/libMagickWand* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 27 15:51 /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so - -> libMagickWand.so.6.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 27 15:51 /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.6 -> libMagickWand.so.6.0.0 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1143016 Oct 27 15:52 /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.6.0.0 atlanta% pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.6.0.0 /usr/lib/libMagickWand.so.6.0.0 is owned by imagemagick 6.8.0.3-1 atlanta% Assuming I'm right that this is a packaging bug, where should I be reporting it? And if I'm wrong and it is not a packaging bug, what should I do? Thanks! - -- David Benfell benfell(a)parts-unknown.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQjLmOAAoJEP0r2H01qrjgkk0P/3fIMfR1IRaPcMiDgPgwa109 rZ0fghJ9PwMpOPleFWwnnwNHn83jOp/luyQXRd9f/MKxO8CjTmV6T2jCoC3+nDPx 1s4I+q2XfTEaBCI62DAZAe6sSoLcZ6zqH5OHcAmYIhPbUx0pdn56t8Vp0+ytwE8e sTgrquOjEz0NZCgGAD2PW1i+VDQAJRxkMMb8I6/D9eO2cLnLn97JPmTnRRtLw86X 7i/s2gEjbEHR7lALQNPcyWSX9ipUFw+Ps6oilVUrvpNH5+oa5t+RdJpnt5md9CV4 DQ+PEF7r3YoRYXbsLUAJ/lQ7V7g8TizKvtehdbOAf931gZVarE0VLAjvmNbZAyt5 80/wKVSAvRi4RvaNW2AuFInx3w1MU6lsHUPt923/8GlxAZReJsgfk67t8rlpSmfY 6kOzCVgnJsKDFdUj3mTxI5z943TZ++K3E+NJ4yjXbC+k8ikzJdi4+Li/bi0WtY2t AIRZ5KYyne3jyPwNcDv3gszdxZlYeDlBNzzVv0vlBEWd+BrBIOvHYDFvKI54MNqa f+ocUk/MV+XI2f8lO4gdvw9e7vpMdKvaNo+pWD3XKPM5gy5qI2GbyxL0KxC+ZgDq qj90pK3WUhv4uDJH2OpALW+4Uu6OIfBPd5LGH9owIoyUV9naZ9lrtkWLGPT4qTt9 8ma09CSXl84xWEWIJiBn =elHe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] Btrfs snapshots for upgrade operations
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hello all, Firstly can a TU or developer few it to the dev mailing list, as I don't have access. Archlinux is supporting btrfs for root filesystem some time now. Have any work or thoughts been done for supporting snapshots before update packages? This way you can keep record of what's happening to your system and easily rollback if something breaks. I know Fedora and Suse (if not mistaken) supports that with their package managers. Of course I am talking about an optional feature enabled only from the user, not by default. Thoughts, ideas, discussion are welcome. Regards Leonidas

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[arch-general] help
by SMR 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hello.I'm a new users of Archlinux but using Ubuntu for 3 years. I have installed all the system following the guide of beginner's guide. and I found I could not ping to google after I reboot my computer however just as 5 minutes before I had just used pacman to install all the packages i needed. and then I use “systemctl enable dhcpcd@ ” hoping to reset the Internet connection but the shell tells me“ Fail to issue method call:Read-only file system” Does anyone know what's the problem? Thank you!

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[arch-general] Local packages newer than ones from core?
by kendell clark 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Hi all I just tried to update my internal system with #pacman -Syyu tonight and recieved the following warnings from pacman. warning: binutils: local (2.23-1) is newer than core (2.22-10) warning: e2fsprogs: local (1.42.6-1) is newer than core (1.42.5-1) warning: gcc: local (4.7.2-2) is newer than core (4.7.2-1) warning: gcc-libs: local (4.7.2-2) is newer than core (4.7.2-1) warning: glib2: local (2.34.1-1) is newer than core (2.32.4-1) warning: glibc: local (2.16.0-5) is newer than core (2.16.0-4) warning: hwids: local (20121022-1) is newer than core (20121012-1) warning: iproute2: local (3.6.0-2) is newer than core (3.5.1-1) warning: iptables: local (1.4.16.2-1) is newer than core (1.4.15-1) warning: linux-api-headers: local (3.6.3-1) is newer than core (3.5.5-1) warning: perl: local (5.16.1-2) is newer than core (5.16.1-1) I don't mean to sound like a noob but I still am, smiles. I've never seen this warning message before and as far as I know this isn't possible, as I only pull packages from core, community, and multilib. I have built some local aur packages, espeak development version, dropbox, dropbox daemon, and mangler. THis could be the cause, although I'm not sure how to find out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. i'm beginning to really love arch, especially without pulseaudio. One final note: I have the linux-lts package installed as opposed to the latest 3.6.x kernel, as speakup is broken in kernels later tahn 3.4. Thanks Kendell clark

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[arch-general] Guile's last version
by Igor Sosa Mayor 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Hi, is there a reason why guile is not in the last stable version (2.0.6) which is out at least since July? thanks in advance! -- :: Igor Sosa Mayor :: joseleopoldo1792(a)gmail.com :: :: GnuPG: 0x1C1E2890 :: http://www.gnupg.org/ :: :: jabberid: rogorido :: ::

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[arch-general] kbuildsycoca taking more than 6 hours to run is it normal? machine specs included
by Victor Silva 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Folks I have an arch_64 installation. Specs as follows: *-Computer- Processor : 6x AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1090T Processor Memory : 8180MB (2200MB used) Operating System : Arch Linux User Name : imanewbie (Unknown) Date/Time : Sat 27 Oct 2012 01:41:13 PM BRST -Display- Resolution : 1920x1080 pixels OpenGL Renderer : Unknown X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation -Multimedia- Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia Audio Adapter : USB-Audio - Microsoft® LifeCam VX-2000 Audio Adapter : USB-Audio - Logitech G930 Headset -Input Devices- Razer Razer BlackWidow Razer Razer BlackWidow Razer Razer BlackWidow Razer Razer DeathAdder Logitech Logitech G930 Headset Power Button Power Button PC Speaker HDA ATI SB Line HDA ATI SB Front Mic HDA ATI SB Rear Mic HDA ATI SB Front Headphone HDA ATI SB Line Out Side HDA ATI SB Line Out CLFE HDA ATI SB Line Out Surround HDA ATI SB Line Out Front Generic X-Box pad Generic X-Box pad Generic X-Box pad Generic X-Box pad Microsoft® LifeCam VX-2000 HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm : 9= HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm : 8= HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm : 7= HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm : 3= -Printers- No printers found -SCSI Disks- ATA SAMSUNG HD501LJ ATA SAMSUNG HD322HJ HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N Hitachi HDS721010CLA332 *I`ve tried to install kovpn (Kde Openvpn frontend + openvpn), during this process I was asked to build kbuildsycoca. The process is istill running after 6 hours. Is it normal? Are there any other ovpn clients you would recommend? Regards, Victor

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[arch-general] aur down?
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

Is aur server down? -- 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] Still no word on Apache httpd 2.4
by James Cleveland 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

It has been released as stable since 2012-08-21 (over two months ago) http://httpd.apache.org/ and flagged out of date since mid September (over a month ago), and I've e-mailed the maintainer offering to help update if they're busy, yet I get no response. I would have imagined that something as big as Apache httpd would be updated far more frequently, at least in testing, and there are lots of new features 2.4 brings to the table - http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html James Cleveland

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[arch-general] Issues with torrents
by Alexandre Ferrando 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

First of all, I don't know if this is the right place to ask such a question, so excuse me if it turns to be it isn't. Some days ago I realized that most of my torrents (mostly related to the openbittorrent tracker but also including another ones (The arch iso torrent works, though) ) fail to download. The information about how many seeders/leechers are is displayed, but the count of how much seeders I'm connected to remains 0 and no download happens. In my low knowledge of troubleshooting networking issues I've tried to ping those trackers that are giving me problems, getting on all of them a 100% packet loss. Also, traceroute is not able to give me a full route of the packets. I've tried to flush my pdnsd cache, change dns but I keep getting the same result after repeating the above I ask on this mailing list because I'm experiencing this on both my home connection and at the university so I thought It could be something related to my computer or something in common in both connections. I don't know and I'm completely lost in this. Should I assume that this is something beyond my reach and try to live with it while it gets solved on another level? Thank you in advance

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Re: [arch-general] Btrfs snapshots for upgrade operations
by Jan Steffens 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Christoph Rissner <cri(a)visotech.at> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:03:46 +0200, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Basically you tell the FS to subvol / to a location like >> /.pacmansnaps/$datetime. > > And don't forget about /boot, or any other relevant btrfs mountpoint. > Right? > > Bye, > Christoph > If you have /boot on a btrfs, you ought to be slapped upside the head. :p I'd say we disregard setups with submounts (other than /boot and /home) for now. Having to handle those as well will get complex.

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[arch-general] Filesystem and /etc/shadow
by Manolo Martínez 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Hello, The update to filesystem-2012.10-2 brings with it a new /etc/shadow. This is one of the cases in which inspecting the diff between what I have and the .pacnew doesn't give any insight (to clueless users such as me). Could anyone provide a summary of what we should change in our current /etc/shadow? Thanks, Manolo --

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[arch-general] PKGBUILDs of repo packages
by G. Schlisio 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

hi list, i just wondered wether the PKGBUILDs of packages in the binary repos are (read) accesible to normal users, e.g. to compile a program with different switches. thanks for pointers georg

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[arch-general] Wayland and Archlinux
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

Are there any plans for eventually adopting Wayland over X? Other bleeding edge distros mentioned they will be adopting it [1], [2] I am not saying Archlinux should follow, just asking if there is (was) any discussion about it. [1]: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/145273.html [2]: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551 -- 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] Nothing written to log files in 3 days
by David Rosenstrauch 25 Oct '12

25 Oct '12

It looks like some recent package update broke logging on my machine, and nothing has been written to my system logs since 10/21: [darose@daroselin log]$ ls -l messages.log* syslog.log* daemon.log* everything.log* -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 daemon.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 612714 Oct 21 22:21 daemon.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 231752 Oct 14 21:53 daemon.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 400266 Oct 8 10:50 daemon.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 476248 Oct 1 02:25 daemon.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 everything.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 2215204 Oct 21 22:21 everything.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1027441 Oct 15 03:10 everything.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1694955 Oct 8 11:30 everything.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1533007 Oct 1 03:23 everything.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 messages.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 1646635 Oct 21 22:21 messages.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 737769 Oct 15 02:41 messages.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1230698 Oct 8 11:21 messages.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1167058 Oct 1 03:21 messages.log.4 -rw-r----- 1 root log 0 Oct 22 11:39 syslog.log -rw-r----- 1 root log 3145 Oct 21 22:21 syslog.log.1 -rw-r----- 1 root log 1582 Oct 14 21:48 syslog.log.2 -rw-r----- 1 root log 2568 Oct 8 10:04 syslog.log.3 -rw-r----- 1 root log 2076 Sep 30 21:13 syslog.log.4 Anyone have any idea what broke / how to fix? Thanks, DR

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [PSA] minor filesystem changes
by Leonid Isaev 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:43:23 +0200 Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just pushed a new filesystem package to testing with two minor changes: > > We now rely on nss-myhostname being installed, so we no longer have to > instruct people to put their local hostname in /etc/hosts. > The archlinux(7) manpage was updated to reflect that, as well as to > refer to some features of systemd in testing which should make the > basic setup more straight-forward (timezone and hostname config in > particular). So, is it safe to remove /etc/hosts after updating the filesystem, or there are some applications which still expect it?.. Thanks. > > Please let me know if you notice any issues. When all of this moves to > core, I guess the wiki/beginners guide should be updated too... ;-) > > Cheers, > > Tom -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] Keyboard (special funcs) in Gnome3
by Héctor Herrera 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hi everyone!! I'm trying to control my system with the multimedia keys. In this moment, I can control the brightness of the screen and wireless, but I can't control the volume applet, or the Web navigator, or anything else. I read the wiki, and I can configure in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h, but... Is that tne only solution? Ah, I'm not running testing, I'm only in the [core] repo. And my version of GNOME is 3.4.1.3 -- Saludos *Héctor Herrera Anabalón* Egresado ICCI UNAP Servicio Arquitectura Galatea - Oficina Técnica http://www.galatea.cl Miembro USoLIX Victoria Registered User #548600 (LinuxCounter.net) +56983118902

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[arch-general] net-snmp conflict files on upgrade
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

When I tried today to upgrade the system with: pacman -Suyy I got conflicts on net-snmp package. I installed everything except that and tried again with no results, is it safe to --force it? Anyone had that also? pacman log: http://pastie.org/5106091 -- 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] Exiting wpa_supplicant
by Nelson Marambio 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Dear list, I try to write a small shellscript that (dis-)connects me with / from the WLAN of my university. I use wpa_supplicant in combination with the -B switch to establish the connection. After a pause of 10 seconds I pull an IP address by calling dhcpcd. My question (in context of the wlan-disconnect-script): how can I exit wpa_supplicant if it runs in the background ? Up to now it's done by "sudo killall wpa_supplicant" but I guess it's not the best way. Kind regards, Nelson.

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[arch-general] [linux] ext4 data corruption bug
by Christian Hesse 24 Oct '12

24 Oct '12

Hello everybody, a thread has been started on lkml discussing a serious ext4 data corruption bug in latest stable kernels. [0] Looks like the root cause is not really clear so far. Reverting the commit in question should fix the problem though. [0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/690 -- 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] autofs issue after location change
by Genes MailLists 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

I had used one of my autofs mounts last night on my laptop. This morning I put it to sleep and moved to a different location where that nfs server is not available. I am fully updated to testing repo (as of last night anyway :-) ). (i) pacman hung (tho I understand from https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=e183522e3168c4a31103b3… that this may be fixed .. tho that was quite quite some time back so maybe something else is happening. (ii) Alerted by the hang - I tried to restart autofs via systemctl restart autofs Perhaps I didn't wait long enough - but this did not complete. (iii) So I rebooted pc. The shutdown hung after systemd reported [ok] for shutting off remote file systems. Again I only waited a few minutes - perhaps it would have timed out after sufficiently long - but how long? (iii) was especially surpising to me - I thought systemd would kill the daemon sooner. Can anyone share What is the right way of dealing with this 'dead autofs mount' issue? Thanks gene/

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[arch-general] Leafnode and Systemd
by Whiskers 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Leafnode-2 <http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/> is a local caching proxy nntp server. It isn't among Arch's packages, but I have been using it for some years on another distro (Mandrake/Mandriva). Systemd launches xinetd on start-up: $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/xinetd.service [Unit] Description=A secure replacement for inetd After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/xinetd -dontfork ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target $ And xinetd has this file for Leafnode: $ cat /etc/xinetd.d/nntp service Leafnode { flags = NAMEINARGS NOLIBWRAP per_source = 3 port = 119 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp user = news server = /usr/sbin/tcpd server_args = /usr/local/sbin/leafnode type = UNLISTED wait = no instances = 7 only_from = 127.0.0.1 } (actually generated using webmin, but in accord with the instructions in the README and INSTALL files in the Leafnode tarball). But this doesn't allow any user to access Leafnode; I suspect this is because /usr/sbin/tcpd doesn't exist (being a part of tcp-wrappers which Arch no longer has). (I can run the Leafnode components fetchnews and texpire as root; but attempts to connect to the local server result in "connection refused"). There are no daemons launched from /etc/rc.conf. I have installed ufw as a substitute for tcp-wrappers and created this file: $ cat /etc/ufw/applications.d/ufw-newsserver [Leafnode] title=Leafnode description=NNTP caching proxy server ports=119/tcp $ and have these rules in force, at least one of which should allow local access to leafnode, I think: # ufw status Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- Anywhere ALLOW 127.0.0.1 newsserver ALLOW 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 119/tcp ALLOW 127.0.0.1 Leafnode ALLOW 127.0.0.1 Rather than install tcp-wrappers on my Arch system, I'd like to use whatever the proper "server" is nowadays instead of /usr/sbin/tcpd - but what is it? Or is there something other than xinetd that works as a 'super server' with systemd? I've only been using Arch for a few months, and it's a bit of a challenge getting used to the Arch Way - particularly while it's changing over to systemd etc - so please be patient with me if I've missed something simple or made a newbie mistake! -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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[arch-general] Multiple Wired Profiles with Systemd
by Alper Kanat 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hey All, I just switched to systemd. I work on an Arch Linux Virtualbox VM which runs on Mac OS X. I assigned 3 NIC's to that VM and 2 of them have ethernet-dhcp profiles defined and set in /etc/conf.d/netcfg to be started at boot. $ cat /etc/conf.d/netcfg NETWORKS=(public local) However on boot, I see messages like the following: Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks netcfg-daemon[168]: :: public up Interface eth0 does not exist Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks netcfg-daemon[168]: :: local up Interface eth1 does not exist Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks netcfg-daemon[168]: [fail] Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: netcfg.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1 Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: Failed to start Netcfg multi-profile daemon. Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: Unit netcfg.service entered failed state. Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: Starting Network. Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: Reached target Network. Oct 23 15:18:52 starbucks systemd[1]: Starting Apache Web Server... Checking the interfaces via ifconfig shows that none of them are up. If I start netcfg service manually, both interfaces will be up successfully: $ sudo systemctl start netcfg $ sudo systemctl status netcfg netcfg.service - Netcfg multi-profile daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/netcfg.service; enabled) Active: active (exited) since Tue, 23 Oct 2012 15:33:02 +0300; 18min ago Process: 354 ExecStart=/usr/bin/netcfg-daemon start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/netcfg.service ├ 408 dhcpcd -qL -t 60 eth0 └ 474 dhcpcd -qL -t 60 eth1 I checked the forum to see if there are any solutions. Tried multi-user services by enabling with the following commands resulted as the same: $ sudo systemctl enable netcfg@public $ sudo systemctl enable netcfg@local Found out some threads on the forum that suggests to copy service definitions and overwrite them but that didn't look like a solution to me. All tickets created at flyspray was about 1 wireless - 1 wired setups. Some of them are closed, marked as "Not a bug". Anyone having the same issue? Any suggestions? Currently I enabled netcfg.service. Sometimes all NICs are disabled, sometimes both are enabled. Mostly however only 1 NIC (the first one) is up. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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[arch-general] Modify installed package version
by gt 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hey guys is there a way to modify an installed package's version using pacman, instead of upgrading the package. That is, only change the version in the database, but don't actually upgrade a package. Alternatively can I rename the package directory inside /var/lib/pacman/local/ and %VERSION% string inside the desc file to achieve the same?

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[arch-general] systemd and fancontrol
by siriusb＠linuxmail.org 23 Oct '12

23 Oct '12

Hi All, I've just switched to systemd from initscript and I can't resolve an issue: fancontrol fails to run at boot time, but it works properly when manually started. Logs: UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION colord.service loaded failed failed Manage, Install and Generate Color Profiles fancontrol.service loaded failed failed Fan control daemon # systemctl status fancontrol fancontrol.service - Fan control daemon Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/fancontrol.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:23:42 +0200; 4min 53s ago Process: 434 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/fancontrol (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CGroup: name=systemd:/system/fancontrol.service Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: Controls hwmon1/device/fan2_input Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MINTEMP=35 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MAXTEMP=45 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MINSTART=155 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MINSTOP=160 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MINPWM=155 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: MAXPWM=210 Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: Device path of hwmon1 has changed Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: Device name of hwmon1 has changed Oct 23 07:23:51 arch fancontrol[434]: Configuration appears to be outdated, please run pwmconfig again I thought it is a timing issue, so I tweaked fancontrol.service, but didn't helped: # cat /etc/systemd/system/fancontrol.service .include /usr/lib/systemd/system/fancontrol.service [Unit] Requires=sensord.service After=sensord.service Any advice? Thanks. zs

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] WARNING: changes to screen in testing
by Geert Hendrickx 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 14:13:22 -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > Surely there's a way to tell screen to look in a different place > for sockets. Figure out the command to do so and advertise it in > a post_upgrade message as a crutch until the user can restart > their screen sessions. Or symlink old to new location? Worked for me. Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert(a)hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!

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[arch-general] neo - german keyboard layout
by G. Schlisio 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

hi list, i played around with neo2, an alternative kbd layout optimized for german. in my kde environment. the main concept of neo is using meta keys to shift between layers. for me, the meta4 key is not working on either side. i found some suggestions to solve this problem, but nothing worked so far. anybody out there knowing, how to fix this? and how can i enable neo in initramfs, for input of my encryption pw? thanks georg

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[arch-general] Is it proper that I add some material about raspberry pi on Arch over the Archwiki?
by Victor Silva 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

Guys some time ago I got a Pi. I know there is much to be done with it, so far I`ve installed arch on it, running a seed box at the moment. The idea would use the power of archwiki to have people sharing information and having cool ideas for raspberry pi. I`ve seen guys doing great stuff like a solar powered py running SETI@Home, mods to run pinball machines and so on. But all this information is still scattered on the Internet making it a bit harder to people just starting up. For instance: http://www.raspberrypi-tutorials.co.uk/ http://elinux.org/RPi_Tutorials Just as example are quite scattered regarding format. So maybe we could use the community to build a great wiki. The http://archlinuxarm.org/ seems to have no wiki. (Do they use https://wiki.archlinux.org/ ?) Could one please give me some pointers of how could I start it? I tried to get some info on archlinuxarm.org website but so far no answer. http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3992 Hope this can work. Regards, vfbsilva

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[arch-general] Arch on SSD!
by Andrea Crotti 22 Oct '12

22 Oct '12

I bought a crucial M4 (128GB) for my laptop, and now the idea is to move the operating system and most of the data there, keeping the other disk in the cd-bay as second disk. I formatted the SSD disk like this: Disk /dev/sda: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000ee70d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 411647 204800 83 Linux /dev/sda2 411648 250069679 124829016 83 Linux Where sda2 is a LVM volume, but the first thing which I'm not sure is if I got the alignment correct. I didn't find anywhere what should be the alignment for my disk, and a way to check that you actually got it right (some ways only for Windows funnily). Any hint? The second thing is that at the moment I should be able to boot both disks, but the SSD now fails to load, and I'm a bit lost in the new GRUB2 configuration: MENUENTRY 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467' { load_video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos5' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos5 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos5 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos5 ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467 else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467 fi echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467 ro quiet echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img } All I need to do is boot from disk (hd0, 0) and then the / is on LVM /dev/ssd/root. I'm not sure, however, if this configuration is supposed to make sense or it's just autogenerated as a template.. The fstab for the SSD is this: /dev/mapper/ssd-root / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,discard 0 2 # UUID=54d06c44-2b32-4969-be42-d98d2bf7e994 /dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered,discard 0 2 but I've seen somewhere that ext4 might be a problem too, or is that fixed? Thanks a lot, Andrea

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Re: [arch-general] Sites hosted on gudrun are now https-only
by Kevin Chadwick 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:32:07 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Out of curiosity, what is the motivation for this change? I wonder too, if you have some server side PHP or cgi, then enforcement is far better via a persistent redirect, MITM is not prevented in either case. From experience of a friend of mine having boot trouble with linux fsck, (a problem OpenBSD does not have) with a dead laptop and bios battery. Any machine with a wrong clock (many more than you think, despite ntp) will be denied service with little gain in security over a PHP enforced redirect (except making the attacker proxy no ssl or a similar rather than same domain, you could argue a smaller window after first connect but considering the constant exploits for browsers and a MITM, does it buy you anything except deny some users access when pacman uses gpg). SSL RFCs knew this and state that except for higher level protocols standard SSL does not require a correct clock. I won't deny any customers access to my sites for the sake of HSTS, in any case. If the data about lost customers is discovered by the likes of Paypal, I will expect it to be promptly switched off or modified for compliance like the terrible DNSSEC saga.

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[arch-general] syslog-ng depends on systemd?
by gt 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Hi, with the recent update of syslog-ng (3.3.6-2), systemd has been added as a dependency. I though systemd providing its own logging and syslog-ng wasn't needed. Then why is systemd needed for syslog-ng to run? As far i can see from the diffs, nothing has changed apart from adding systemd as a dependency.

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[arch-general] [seamonkey] Update is strongly required
by Christopher Reimer 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

I've already written this to the bugtracker. There I was told to post it here: seamonkey is flagged out of date for about 4 weeks now. There are several security vulnerabilites in 2.11 --> http://www.mozilla.org/security/known-vulnerabilities/seamonkey.html Could the maintainer update the seamonkey package as soon as possible? Is it an usual case, that there are over 100 packages flagged out of date? Thank you Christopher Reimer

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[arch-general] systemd adds entries to /etc/mtab
by Janna M. 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

I just switched to systemd, and was poking around a bit when I noticed many new entries in /etc/mtab: ... securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuacct,cpu 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls 0 0 cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0 systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=21,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct 0 0 hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,relatime 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0 mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,relatime 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0 In particular, I notice that /dev/hugepages, /dev/mqueue, and /sys/kernel/debug seem to correspond to unit files dev-hugepages.mount, dev-mqueue.mount, and sys-kernel-debug.mount, respectively. As I'm trying to pare down the output of systemctl list-units, I'd like to know if these things can safely be removed. (Nothing has gone wrong, but I'm just curious, and can't seem to find much online about the relevance of these things to systemd.) Many thanks, J.M.

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Re: [arch-general] Xorg-server 1.13/Mesa move to testing
by Vincent Cappe 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Andreas Radke a écrit: > And I've received a report about broken -nv driver pkg not working with > 1.13. This one just needs a rebuild for the new abi. It complains about xf86PciInfo.h being deprecated during compilation, but seems to work nonetheless. --- /var/abs/extra/xf86-video-nv/PKGBUILD 2012-10-10 06:05:50.000000000 +0200 +++ PKGBUILD 2012-10-20 22:29:29.816107850 +0200 @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ pkgname=xf86-video-nv pkgver=2.1.20 -pkgrel=1 +pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="X.org nv video driver" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('custom') url="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/" depends=('glibc') -makedepends=('xorg-server-devel>=1.11.99.903') -conflicts=('xorg-server<1.11.99.903') +makedepends=('xorg-server-devel' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION=13' 'resourceproto') +conflicts=('xorg-server<1.13.0' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<13' 'X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION>=14') options=('!libtool') groups=('xorg-drivers' 'xorg') source=(${url}/releases/individual/driver/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2) -- Vincent Cappe

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[arch-general] Immediate suspend after wake-up
by Karol Babioch 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, since a few weeks my machines are going to an immediate suspend after the wake-up of another suspend. So basically I have to wake-up my machines twice after a suspend. One of my machine even reboots randomly after the wake-up, which renders the suspend functionality quite useless. Now originally I thought that this is something specific to my Sony laptops, because both of my machines are Sony ones. However I've installed Arch to an Medion laptop today and experienced the same issue here. So now I'm thinking that this is something more generic. I haven't looked deep into this yet, but wanted to ask whether this is something you are also experiencing? I'm pretty sure this came about with a larger update a few weeks ago. The suspected candidates are the kernel itself as well as systemd. So, before digging into this, I would like to know whether some of you know about this already and whether there is a workaround/fix for this? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[arch-general] boot problem with missing root fs solved
by Genes MailLists 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

With recent kernels & udev + initscripts I started having warm boot problems with one of my desktops. Fully updated testing repo (3.6.2). Cold boot works fine. The boot console looks very similar to these: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142052 http://serverfault.com/questions/394721/strange-boot-behaviour Today I switched that pc to systemd - and the problem has gone away. I cannot tell if it was udev timout bug - but booting with systemd did make the issue vanish. In case anyone else has this. gene

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[arch-general] special keys on latop don't work
by Nelson Marambio 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, folks, until a few days ago running GNOME I could use the special keys on my laptop, e.g. for volume up/down. Now nothing happens when I press one of these keys. Strange enough, it seems like only the volume up/down keys have quit their work. Because they did their job out of the box I don't know how to re-acitivate them. Does anyone have a hint for me ? The keys behave this way so in GNOME but also in other DEs like LXDE. Kind regards, Nelson.

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[arch-general] Unable to mount external USB HD from two of my USB ports
by Robbie Smith 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

I've been having troubles mounting an external USB HDD to two of the three USB ports on my laptop. dmesg reports a timeout connecting to the device; plugging in other devices to the same ports works fine with no errors. I've attached the log here[1]. The drive in question is a Seagate 1.5 TB Expansion Portable Drive, model ST1500LM003-9YH148. I reformatted it upon purchase to have two partitions, a NTFS one for Windows compatibility, and an Ext4 one for Linux backups and miscellanea. Each partition is ~750GB in size. Any idea what is going on? I think the issue may be with the drive, which is virtually brand new (I bought it ~3 months ago). [1] https://gist.github.com/3916478

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[arch-general] is mesa, glproto, dri2proto not needed by intel video driver anymore?
by Thanos Zygouris 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hi, If i run 'pacman -Qdt' (search for not needed installed packages) i got: dri2proto 2.8-1 glproto 1.4.16-1 mesa 9.0-1 If i remember right, these were intalled by xf86-video-intel, or intel-dri in the past. So, my question is: can i remove these packages safely? My video card is: 'Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller' and i am using intel driver, with KMS (i915).

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[arch-general] fan/sensors problem in recent kernel update
by David Rosenstrauch 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

It seems like a recent update to the kernel has changed the behaviour of the system sensors module. My laptop now constantly shows as being 10 degrees or so hotter than usual, which is causing the fan to run nearly constantly. However, when I boot into the lts kernel this behaviour magically goes away and the fan is nice and quiet. One other possibly relevant point: in addition to the "sensors" command showing higher temperature values under the main kernel, the format of the sensors output is completely different between the main kernel and lt. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here? Sensors output is pasted below. Thanks, DR --- sensors output main kernel: Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +72.0°C (crit = +97.0°C) coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +72.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +68.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +70.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) --- sensors output lts kernel: acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +61.0°C (crit = +97.0°C)

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] iproute2 to base
by Joakim Hernberg 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:51:34 +0200 Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > I am fine with add wpa_supplicant, iw and crda to base if we really > want wireless support installed by default. Not that I install many systems, once installed... But I for one would appreciate having wireless support on the install media. -- Joakim

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[arch-general] Weird accented letters in gnome testing
by Rodrigo Rivas 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello, general list! I've recently upgrade to the gnome-unstable and now gnome-testing and I noticed that some accented letters (á, é, ñ) are sometimes not printed correctly. Curiously enough other times they are correct. I think that the difference is in the Unicode compositing, because when it is printed wrongly, it shows the normal character and the compositing character as two separated glyphs: * Precomposed character: OK. * Normal character plus compositing character: Wrong. For example, in the "Regional & Language" settings in "LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 gnome-control-center", the word "Español", is printed correctly as a language, but incorrectly as a "Input source". In the latter it shows "Espan~ol" where the "~" is actually a big dotted circle with a tilde on top. Is this a known issue? Or a bug? TY -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] pambase and LDAP
by Thiago Kenji Okada 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

I am trying to figure the best way to do LDAP authentication (using a customized version of nss-pam-ldapd from AUR) on my laboratory, but I am having some problems. Since Arch now have a pambase package that should be imported on every pam configuration files (instead to relly on using old *.so for which authentication module) but this is not what is happening: as far I know, KDE (and KDM) is the only package that really uses pambase configuration files. I don't think that the best way to resolve this is to put pam_ldap.so in every service that I need, so what should I do: -Import system-auth, system-login or system-local-login on every service that I need (and remove old and redundant *.so modules). -Just add pam_ldap.so on every service that I need. -- Thiago Kenji Okada <thiago.mast3r(a)gmail.com> PGP Key: EEC09705

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[arch-general] permissions mismatch error while upgrading the system
by Martín Cigorraga 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi! I got this: ( 7/11) upgrading nfs-utils [----------------------------------------------] 100% warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/ filesystem: 555 package: 755 It's safe to just chmod the /var/lib/nfs/prc_pipefs directory to 755 by hand? Thank you!

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[arch-general] Polishing systemd
by Martín Cigorraga 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi all, I've been playing with systemd for a few hours now and I must say I'm impressed, it's a very powerful tool. I want to thanks the devs for making the transition to it really smooth :) Now, as I'm still learning my way through it -that means I'm reading a lot!- I find that there are in my system here and there some small rough edges I would like to fix, these rough edges are: 1. Units with errors shown in systemctl --all: arch-modules-load.service error inactive dead arch-modules auditd.service error inactive dead auditd.servi plymouth-quit-wait.service error inactive dead plymouth-qui plymouth-start.service error inactive dead plymouth-sta rc-local-shutdown.service error inactive dead rc-local-shu rc-local.service error inactive dead rc-local.ser syslog.service error inactive dead syslog.servi A journalctl --this-boot shows: Cannot add dependency job for unit arch-modules-load.service, ignoring: Unit arch-modules-load.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status arch-modules-load.service' for details. That's because there isn't such file, right, but why is systemd trying to start it in first place? Since I strictly followed the wiki I don't know what I did wrong, in any case I would like to know how to fix them. By the way: what is the auditd.service? There's even isn't any related file in /lib/systemd/system. 2. KDE-related issues: a) It seems a bit buggy to launch KDE SC through xinit: KDE's power options will not be present (KDE will not enable it's own reboot and shutdown options). This don't really worry me too much since I've read somewhere there're plans to rebuild all login managers to systemd-logind enabled - while dropping ConsoleKit. b) If KDE is launched through xinit it will not see the built-in sound card and will offer to remove it from it's supported devices. Otherwise if KDE is initiated via KDM every- things works right. c) KDM reboot and poweroff commands must be updated to systemd's way or else the traditional shutdown command will hang the system on reboot/shutdown. 3. $ systemctl reboot and $ systemctl shutdown features: I feel a bit uncomfortable with the idea of having restricted users with the hability to reboot or shutdown the system, is there any way to change this so only r00t can issue these orders? (Without going dirty.) 4. Is there any place for e4rat(lite)? Since I activated systemd's built-in ureadahead feature, will e4rat still add any improve- ment? What do you say? I think that's all for now! Once again I want to thanks everyone involved in porting systemd to AL and making this an overall relaxed transition, systemd is an incredible tool and I'm delighted with it. Boot and shutdown times are faster than ever (blazing fast to be honest), configuration is quite clean and easy and the journal feature is incredible useful giving a *lot* of informa- tion about almost everything. Regards.

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[arch-general] gnome-session won't start [testing + gnome-unstable]
by Gary van der Merwe 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi I tried upgrading to gnome 3.6 using the gnome-unstable + testing repos. gdm did not start. So I started xinit manually. From xterm (started by xinit,) I tried to run gnome-session. I got this error: gnome-session: symbol lookup error: gnome-session: undefined symbol: g_spawn_check_exit_status I then tried to run metacity. I got this error: metacity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_replace_qdata Please let me know if there is any more info you would like, or if there is any thing I can do to help. Thanks for the effort you are putting it to this. I'm looking forward to using 3.6 Regards, Gary

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[arch-general] devtools broken?
by Joakim Hernberg 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

This started happening to me a day or 2 ago. Any ideas why, what i broke, how to fix it? jack@tor /home/jack/archaudio/linux-rt $ sudo extra-x86_64-build ==> Creating chroot for [extra] (x86_64)... ==> Creating install root at /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root ==> Installing packages to /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root warning: database file for 'core' does not exist warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist warning: database file for 'community' does not exist :: Synchronizing package databases... core 107.7 KiB 784K/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% extra 1425.3 KiB 1816K/s 00:01 [############################################] 100% community 1780.9 KiB 1489K/s 00:01 [############################################] 100% :: There are 52 members in group base: :: Repository core 1) bash 2) bzip2 3) coreutils 4) cronie 5) cryptsetup 6) device-mapper 7) dhcpcd 8) diffutils 9) e2fsprogs 10) file 11) filesystem 12) findutils 13) gawk 14) gcc-libs 15) gettext 16) glibc 17) grep 18) gzip 19) heirloom-mailx 20) inetutils 21) iputils 22) jfsutils 23) less 24) licenses 25) linux 26) logrotate 27) lvm2 28) man-db 29) man-pages 30) mdadm 31) nano 32) netcfg 33) pacman 34) pciutils 35) pcmciautils 36) perl 37) ppp 38) procps-ng 39) psmisc 40) reiserfsprogs 41) sed 42) shadow 43) sysfsutils 44) syslog-ng 45) systemd-sysvcompat 46) tar 47) texinfo 48) usbutils 49) util-linux 50) vi 51) which 52) xfsprogs Enter a selection (default=all): :: There are 12 members in group base-devel: :: Repository core 1) autoconf 2) automake 3) binutils 4) bison 5) fakeroot 6) flex 7) gcc 8) libtool 9) m4 10) make 11) patch 12) pkg-config Enter a selection (default=all): resolving dependencies... warning: dependency cycle detected: warning: dbus-core will be installed before its systemd dependency looking for inter-conflicts... Targets (131): acl-2.2.51-2 archlinux-keyring-20120915-1 attr-2.4.46-2 ca-certificates-20120623-1 cloog-0.17.0-2 cracklib-2.8.19-1 curl-7.28.0-1 db-5.3.21-1 dbus-core-1.6.8-1 dirmngr-1.1.0-4 eventlog-0.2.12-3 expat-2.1.0-1 gdbm-1.10-1 glib2-2.32.4-1 gmp-5.0.5-1 gnupg-2.0.19-2 gpgme-1.3.1-4 groff-1.21-2 hwids-20121012-1 iana-etc-2.30-3 iproute2-3.5.1-1 isl-0.10-1 kbd-1.15.3-3 keyutils-1.5.5-3 kmod-10-1 krb5-1.10.3-1 libarchive-3.0.4-2 libassuan-2.0.3-1 libcap-2.22-3 libffi-3.0.11-1 libgcrypt-1.5.0-3 libgpg-error-1.10-2 libgssglue-0.4-1 libksba-1.2.0-2 libldap-2.4.33-1 libltdl-2.4.2-7 libmpc-1.0.1-1 libnl-3.2.11-1 libpcap-1.3.0-1 libpipeline-1.2.2-1 libsasl-2.1.23-9 libssh2-1.4.2-1 libtirpc-0.2.2-2 libusbx-1.0.14-1 linux-api-headers-3.5.5-1 linux-firmware-20120625-1 mkinitcpio-0.10-1 mkinitcpio-busybox-1.20.2-1 mpfr-3.1.1.p2-1 ncurses-5.9-3 openssl-1.0.1.c-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20120908-1 pam-1.1.6-1 pambase-20120701-1 pcre-8.31-1 pinentry-0.8.2-1 popt-1.16-5 ppl-1.0-1 pth-2.0.7-4 readline-6.2.004-1 run-parts-4.3.4-1 systemd-194-3 sysvinit-tools-2.88-9 tzdata-2012f-1 xz-5.0.4-1 zlib-1.2.7-1 autoconf-2.69-1 automake-1.12.4-1 bash-4.2.037-1 binutils-2.22-10 bison-2.6.2-1 bzip2-1.0.6-4 coreutils-8.19-1 cronie-1.4.8-3 cryptsetup-1.5.0-2 device-mapper-2.02.97-1 dhcpcd-5.6.2-1 diffutils-3.2-1 e2fsprogs-1.42.5-1 fakeroot-1.18.4-1 file-5.11-1 filesystem-2012.10-1 findutils-4.4.2-4 flex-2.5.37-1 gawk-4.0.1-1 gcc-4.7.2-1 gcc-libs-4.7.2-1 gettext-0.18.1.1-4 glibc-2.16.0-4 grep-2.14-1 gzip-1.5-1 heirloom-mailx-12.5-3 inetutils-1.9.1-4 iputils-20101006-7 jfsutils-1.1.15-3 less-451-1 libtool-2.4.2-7 licenses-2.9-1 linux-3.6.2-1 logrotate-3.8.2-1 lvm2-2.02.97-1 m4-1.4.16-2 make-3.82-5 man-db-2.6.3-1 man-pages-3.42-1 mdadm-3.2.5-2 nano-2.2.6-2 netcfg-2.8.11-2 pacman-4.0.3-3 patch-2.7.1-1 pciutils-3.1.10-1 pcmciautils-018-4 perl-5.16.1-1 pkg-config-0.27.1-1 ppp-2.4.5-4 procps-ng-3.3.3-6 psmisc-22.19-1 reiserfsprogs-3.6.21-4 sed-4.2.1-4 shadow-4.1.5.1-1 sudo-1.8.6.p3-1 sysfsutils-2.1.0-8 syslog-ng-3.3.6-1 systemd-sysvcompat-194-3 tar-1.26-2 texinfo-4.13a-7 usbutils-006-1 util-linux-2.22.1-1 vi-1:050325-2 which-2.20-5 xfsprogs-3.1.8-2 Total Download Size: 0.03 MiB Total Installed Size: 568.70 MiB Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages from core... netcfg-2.8.11-2-any 29.6 KiB 636K/s 00:00 [############################################] 100% (131/131) checking package integrity [############################################] 100% (131/131) loading package files [############################################] 100% (131/131) checking for file conflicts [############################################] 100% ( 1/131) installing linux-api-headers [############################################] 100% ( 2/131) installing tzdata [############################################] 100% ( 3/131) installing glibc [############################################] 100% ( 4/131) installing ncurses [############################################] 100% ( 5/131) installing readline [############################################] 100% ( 6/131) installing bash [############################################] 100% ( 7/131) installing bzip2 [############################################] 100% ( 8/131) installing gcc-libs [############################################] 100% ( 9/131) installing db [############################################] 100% ( 10/131) installing zlib [############################################] 100% ( 11/131) installing cracklib [############################################] 100% ( 12/131) installing libgssglue [############################################] 100% ( 13/131) installing libtirpc [############################################] 100% ( 14/131) installing pambase [############################################] 100% ( 15/131) installing pam [############################################] 100% ( 16/131) installing attr [############################################] 100% ( 17/131) installing acl [############################################] 100% ( 18/131) installing gmp [############################################] 100% ( 19/131) installing libcap [############################################] 100% ( 20/131) installing coreutils [############################################] 100% ( 21/131) installing run-parts [############################################] 100% ( 22/131) installing cronie [############################################] 100% Optional dependencies for cronie pm-utils: defer anacron when on battery power smtp-server: sending cron job output via email ( 23/131) installing libgpg-error [############################################] 100% ( 24/131) installing libgcrypt [############################################] 100% ( 25/131) installing shadow [############################################] 100% ( 26/131) installing util-linux [############################################] 100% install: invalid user 'uuidd' error: command failed to execute correctly ( 27/131) installing expat [############################################] 100% ( 28/131) installing iana-etc [############################################] 100% ( 29/131) installing filesystem [############################################] 100% error: could not rename /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root/etc/resolv.conf to /var/lib/archbuild/extra-x86_64/root/etc/resolv.conf.pacorig (Device or resource busy) error: problem occurred while installing filesystem error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root ==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages ==> Aborting... -- Joakim

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[arch-general] system locale messages readable only on tty1 !
by jambov 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Here is what I uncommented in /etc/locale.gen: bg_BG CP1251 /etc/vconsole.conf: KEYMAP=bg-cp1251 FONT=Cyr_a8x16 FONT_MAP=cp1251 /etc/locale.conf: LANG="bg_BG.CP1251" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_TIME="bg_BG.CP1251" I ran locale-gen and locale -a as root. And after these steps I have readable cyrillic characters on tty1, and on all other ttys (tty2-6) I see non-readable symbols. I discovered that running systemd-vconsole-setup on every particular tty fixes the problem, but is there a way to avoid this, or at least do something automatically through startup scripts for all the ttys ? -- View this message in context: http://archlinux.2023198.n4.nabble.com/system-locale-messages-readable-only… Sent from the arch general mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[arch-general] Porque systemd? :-)
by David Rosenstrauch 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

I haven't been diligently following the mailing list, so perhaps I missed this. But given the recent "systemd is now the default on new installations" announcement, I'm wondering: what's the reasons for Arch making systemd the default going forward? The systemd wiki page gives a lot of technical information, but doesn't really clarify any of the motivations behind the move. Note: this msg is not any criticism of the Arch devs (I haven't yet formed *any* opinion on systemd), or intended to start a flamewar about the pros and cons of the switch. So just a simple RTFM response like "see this mailing list thread for background" would be perfect. Thanks, DR

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[arch-general] "You have mail" message at login
by gt 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Whenever I log in to a TTY, I get this message. I read my system mails through mutt, so i don't need this. I have unset MAILCHECK in .bashrc, but no effect. I set MAIL_CHECK_ENAB to no in login.defs, but still no effect. Lastly i tried creating a .hushlogin file in the user's home, but even that didn't have any effect. The message only appears when logging in through a TTY though, not in any other terminal. Any idea what's causing it to show up? ps: Gaetan, here's the content of my .bash_profile [[ -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc so, i believe .bashrc is sourced on login.

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[arch-general] Final step before changing to systemd
by Martín Cigorraga 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi all :) I have almost everything in place to jump to systemd and I hope to make the transition after reading your responses here. Basically I need to know how to handle these daemons: hwclock dbus netfs As today I still have them in the rc.conf DAEMONS field but I was unable to find a way to enable them within systemd. Any suggestions? Regards.

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Re: [arch-general] rtirq
by Ralf Mardorf 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:21 -0700, Bernardo Barros wrote: > Please test: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=63617 Thank you for the effort. I'm sorry, but I still stay with initscripts and on my todo list is testing initscripts from git, as soon as I've solved some issues. I hopefully will find some time to switch to systemd on a VBox install, perhaps testing rtirq on a virtual machine will help a little bit too, but it might be borderline. I can't contribute as a tester now. Apologize! Ralf

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[arch-general] systemd units order
by Arno Gaboury 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Dear list, I automatic login with systemd. I recently added 2 services, and they start AFTER the login prompt, so I lost it. Not a big deal, as pressing <Enter> gives it back. I tried with no sucess playing with the After and Before options for one unit file (netcfg). I would like to have a clean boot but does not know how to properly set up the units orders. Here are the unit files of the 2 services : http://sprunge.us/ZQWD TY for help.

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[arch-general] Debugging kernel panics (ATI Catalyst related?)
by Robbie Smith 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

After the last updates, I was getting a kernel panic at reboot; hard-resetting and then powering on again and it seems to boot fine. I suspect the problem has to do with the ATI Catalyst driver, as the panics occurred when rebooting after upgrading or downgrading the driver. I originally upgraded to 12.9, but rolled back to 12.8 after discovering that 12.9 broke my screen brightness keys. I also had to roll back Xorg to 1.12 because Catalyst doesn't support the new Xorg yet. Both times I rebuilt the module and (just to be sure) the kernel image before rebooting. I rebuilt them again once the system was back up, rebooted, and it worked. Any ideas how to debug, seeing as this just sort of popped up out-of-the-blue? If the kernel even logs a panic, where do I find it so I can figure out what caused it?

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[arch-general] KDE mail popup notification immediately after login starts - how to remove?
by mike cloaked 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

In the past few days after a KDE update immediately after KDE login starts from the KDM login greet screen. I get a small mail notification popup window before the normal KDE login completes immediately after entering the login password in KDM. The popup says either "You have old mail" or "You have new mail" and the login will only continue if the "Ok" button on the popup is clicked. This has never happened before and I cannot find any setting which switches this off. The remainder of the KDE login does not continue unless the "Ok" is accepted. Presumably this is a new bug that has emerged but I would like any help in getting rid of it - if anyone knows a workaround until a proper fix is available in an updated kde package - though I don't know which package is the culprit. Any help appreciated. Thanks. -- mike c

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[arch-general] nss-pam-ldap on AUR
by Thiago Kenji Okada 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

I am trying to setup LDAP and NSS/PAM authentication on my laboratory, but had some serious issues with nss_ldap (the system boot would lock-up when udev starts), so I was looking for alternatives when I found the nss-pam-ldap module (http://arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd/) which works great. The problem is, we have three different nss-pam-ldap PKGBUILDs on AUR, and neither of them is good (no one has systemd service files, all of them are out of date, one doesn't even install correctly). I would maintain my own package (that is a mix of some of these packages), but since there is already three differents packages I choose to not do so (well, I can't even think of a appropriate name since all of them are taken). So we have a problem here, I can maintain a package since it's of my own interest (at least until I discover how to use the nss_ldap module without problems), but I can't simple create another one. Here are the three nss-pam-ldap modules on AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62383 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38167 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61149 -- Thiago Kenji Okada <thiago.mast3r(a)gmail.com> PGP Key: EEC09705

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[arch-general] Gnome 3.6, No logout entry? (Gnome-unstable and testing)
by Brandon Watkins 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

I've just upgraded my arch install to [testing] and [gnome-unstable]. Almost everything works fine, except there is no entry for logout in the gnome-shell user menu. I disabled all my extensions to make sure that wasn't the cause. Is this a known issue? Any workaround?

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[arch-general] Password expiring and encryption
by Rafael Beraldo 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hello all, I have my passwords set to expire every 30 days. When they expire, I am asked to input a new, different password. It turns out that I recently noticed I had to input only the first 8 characters of my password to be able to log in. I discussed this with Hlao-ru on #archlinux and, thanks to him, I found out that passwords generated by passwd were fine but passwords generated after my password expire suffer of the 8-character restriction problem. This problem can be reproduced by manually expiring the password with passwd -e user and then loging in with su user. So I took a look at man passwd and man login and both programs read /etc/login.defs. This file has a parameter, ENCRYPT_METHOD, that was, in my system, unset. The default value for this parameter is DES, and that could be causing my problem. I set the parameter to SHA512 but that didn't help (I believe I have to reboot the system, and I haven't). There are a few other files that seem to do a similar job, namely /etc/default/passwd and /etc/pam.d/password. I am confused: what file control what programs? And isn't that a bug? The wiki [0] says that newly created passwords use SHA-512 as the encryption, but that's clearly not the case when asked to create a new password. [0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SHA_password_hashes Thanks all, -- Rafael Beraldo cabaladada.org

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?
by Leonid Isaev 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:34:04 +0200 Tom Gundersen <teg(a)jklm.no> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: > > Most (all?) of our login manager still depend on consolekit. However, > > since consolekit support will be stripped from polkit when > > gnome-unstable goes to testing (soon?), registering consolekit sessions > > on login has no effect whatsoever. > > > > Should we rebuild our login managers to remove the consolekit dependencies? > > > > I rebuilt kdebase-workspace locally yesterday, and polkit seems to work > > just fine. kde itself does not use consolekit, except through polkit. > > Doing this makes sense to me. However, to make things clear-cut, it > would be best if we could entirely remove consolekit from our repos > and put up an announcement. That way people will not be confused as to > why things stop working if they are not using logind. > > In addition to the gnome+kde packages the relevant packages we would > have to make sure still work without consolekit are: > > lxdm > oblogout > slim > udiskie (optional) > xfce4-session xfce-session doesn't support systemd-logind at the moment. Please see the bug report at <https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8729>... > xorg-xdm > > Cheers, > > Tom -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] xf86-video ***
by P .NIKOLIC 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hi . What is the easiest way to stop pacman trying to update all the xf86-video* drivers for cards i do not have the system uses the xf86-video-nouveau driver perfectly well but tries to install sis ati sirrus trident and more I know about adding files at the command line --exclude and about entering a list in pacman.conf but is there a way that is quicker. Ta . Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.5.6-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 7 19:30:49 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Introduction from a blind arch user
by kendell clark 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hi all: I've just recently begun tentatively using arch on a usb thumb drive. I am blind, so I use the arch linux for the blind image to install. I'm writing to ask what other blind arch linux users as a desktop, since that's what I've become used to using. I don't know much about gnome 3 but would be willing to try it, or any other desktop that works well with orca. Thanks Kendell clark

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[arch-general] Suggestions for email for a paranoid Archer
by Menachem Moystoviz 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Recently, my paranoia levels have been ratcheted up by reading about companies' treatment of their users, along with an increasing awareness of my powerlessness with respect to most content providers. I therefore curbed most online activity and have attempted to host those services I used on my own server, in most cases living without when I didn't succeed. Two months ago, I attempted to install postfix and dovecot on my Arch box in order to be able to host my own mail. Naively I thought that all I needed was the right software and a dynamic DNS address. In other words, I thought it would be as simple as setting up a web server. Naturally, I found out that most anti-spam software is leery of mail from dynamic DNS hosts who do not have rDNS and PTR records set up, that they preferred DKIM mail, etc. Seeing as these involve even more effort, I thought to ask the enlightened members of the Arch community which solution they would suggest me to use, because I trust you to have made intelligent decisions in this matter and believe you understand this outlook. Also, I've seen many users with email addresses issued by their own domain, which leads me to believe some of you may have gone through this before. The alternatives I'm aware of are: 1) Do what most people do, and just sign up for webmail, paranoia demanding me to download all email every day. Possibly alias the domain by routing everything through postfix first. 2) Host my own server, paranoia demanding multiple redundant backups. 3) No email - Knuth style Pros: 1) Very reliable, better support, and non-crazy 2) Gain vast amounts of power over my email 3) Less distraction, no effort at all Cons: 1) Less control, more black box. Is aliasing even possible? Too many providers - which to choose? 2) Hard to maintain, can crash at any moment, will drive me to early grave 3) Harder to keep in touch with people this way, harder to check what's going on Which do you suggest? Do you have an alternative? Thanks in advance, Gesh

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] consolekit dependencies?
by Gerhard Brauer 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Sorry for maybe double-posting, fist sent with wrong from-address ;-) On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > Most (all?) of our login manager still depend on consolekit. However, > > since consolekit support will be stripped from polkit when > > gnome-unstable goes to testing (soon?), registering consolekit sessions > > on login has no effect whatsoever. > > > > Should we rebuild our login managers to remove the consolekit dependencies? > > > > I rebuilt kdebase-workspace locally yesterday, and polkit seems to work > > just fine. kde itself does not use consolekit, except through polkit. > > Doing this makes sense to me. However, to make things clear-cut, it > would be best if we could entirely remove consolekit from our repos > and put up an announcement. That way people will not be confused as to > why things stop working if they are not using logind. This makes me a little nervous… What are the way for people which ex. use fluxbox via ck-launch-session and thunar as a filemanager (for dbus/polkit/udisks things) AND NOT systemd-logind ? Will there be a way to use dbus/polkit-releated actions without systemd? I got more and more confused about the speed and amount of changes currently ;-) > Cheers, > > Tom Regards Gerhard

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Re: [arch-general] syetemd + crypttab - question
by narve＠hush.ai 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

On 10/14/2012 at 3:13 AM, "Genes MailLists" <lists(a)sapience.com> wrote: > >I just converted a laptop with encrypted /home and /swap to >systemd - >initscripts has been removed. Luks via standard (new) /etc/crypttab > >Things went swimmingly well (thank you to those who contributed to >the >wiki). > >One thing is a bit less than ideal - at boot - the prompt for luks >password appears - but the screen gets ovrewritten with other >'stuff' - >I can type the password fine its just not directly after the >prompt >where the *** get written - assume its the parallel boot and other >things want to say 'ok'. > >Is there a 'nice' way to handle this? > >Thanks > >gene > > >[testing repo - fully updated] I'd recommend playing around a bit with the "loglevel" kernel parameter. You might find a level where this output is omitted. I personally just went to booting "quiet" after I finished testing systemd for my systems. mfg narve after my initial testing of systemd was finished.

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[arch-general] syetemd + crypttab - question
by Genes MailLists 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

I just converted a laptop with encrypted /home and /swap to systemd - initscripts has been removed. Luks via standard (new) /etc/crypttab Things went swimmingly well (thank you to those who contributed to the wiki). One thing is a bit less than ideal - at boot - the prompt for luks password appears - but the screen gets ovrewritten with other 'stuff' - I can type the password fine its just not directly after the prompt where the *** get written - assume its the parallel boot and other things want to say 'ok'. Is there a 'nice' way to handle this? Thanks gene [testing repo - fully updated]

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[arch-general] digikam doesn't find libIlmImf.so.6 after update to openexr
by phanisvara 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

after openexr was updated yesterday from 1.7.0-2 -> 1.7.1-1, digikam failed to start with the following error: digikam: error while loading shared libraries: libIlmImf.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/lib/libIlmImf.so.6 used to be provided by openexr; now it's called libIlmImf.so.7 instead. providing a symlink with the old name, pointing to the new one solved the problem. bug: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31923 -- phani.

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[arch-general] [gnome 3] PrintScreen key doesn't launch gnome-screenshot
by fredbezies 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

Hello. I'm searching some help, because I'm really stuck. I'm facing a weird - I mean a very weird one - problem since I reinstalled from scratch a few days ago my computer. Ok. I'm using archlinux + gnome 3 with testing repo enabled and fully up-to-date. And a fully systemd one if it is important. 1) Video : nouveau driver 2) Installed gnome 3 fully : gnome + gnome extra + gnome-utils 3) All bindings are correctly set in gnome system preferences. When I press PrintScreen, nothing happens. Nothing. Gnome-screenshot from command line start and also when I search it. I tried : 1) new key for screen capture : nothing 2) binding PrintScreen to launch another program : nothing 3) another keyboard : nothing I didn't tweak anything just installed gnome, gnome extra and gnome utils on setup time. If you have an idea, I'm glad to hear it. By the way, my install is very genuine, no tweaks besides the window button ones and date, using gnome-tweak-tool. Only extension : alternative-status-menu. Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[arch-general] linux-3.6.2-1 ready for [core]?
by Tobias Powalowski 13 Oct '12

13 Oct '12

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Please report any issues that stops moving this series to [core]. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] Writing xkb mappings
by Robbie Smith 12 Oct '12

12 Oct '12

Hi list Using xmodmap to redefine my keyboard mappings was causing Openbox to hang for about a minute, so I read up on writing my own layouts using xkb[1]. By and large I've achived the desired results (in much fewer lines too!) but there's still a few things that don't quite work. 1. I think I've mapped ALT+CAPS_LOCK to act as the third level switch, but this works sporadically at best. I want to add mathematical symbols to the keypad, and xev detects most of them, but I can't type them anywhere except in Vim. There's a dump of the key mapping xkbcomp created at [2]. 2. Is is possible to have complex variable mappings similar to as described here[3] in X.org? That guide is Max OS X specific, but it's definitely quite nifty. Robbie [1] http://madduck.net/docs/extending-xkb/ [2] https://gist.github.com/3880640 [3] http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/

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Re: [arch-general] GNS3 0.8.3-3 from AUR fails to install.
by narve＠hush.ai 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

On 10/11/2012 at 9:38 PM, "Shaka Nkofo" <shakaplus.data(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >An attempt to install GNS3 failed with the output below. Im not >sure why >or what to do next. Has anyone else faced the same issue and got >past >it? Please share your solution. If not can a more savy user take a >look >at the output and point me in the right direction? > >Cheers > >Shaka > > >[shaka@raptor ~]$ sudo packer -S gns3 > >Aur Targets (3): dynamips-community dynagen gns3 > >Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y >Edit dynamips-community PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n] > >==> Making package: dynamips-community 0.2.8RC3-1 (Thu Oct 11 >17:43:03 >CEST 2012) >==> Checking runtime dependencies... >==> Checking buildtime dependencies... >==> Retrieving Sources... > -> Found dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz >==> Validating source files with sha1sums... > dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz ... Passed >==> Extracting Sources... > -> Extracting dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz with bsdtar >==> Removing existing pkg/ directory... >==> Starting build()... >make -C stable >make[1]: Entering directory >`/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips- >community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' >Linking rom2c >cc: error: /usr/lib/libelf.a: No such file or directory >make[1]: *** [rom2c] Error 1 >make[1]: Leaving directory >`/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips- >community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' >make: *** [dynamips.stable] Error 2 >==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). > Aborting... >The build failed. >Edit dynagen PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n] > >==> Making package: dynagen 0.11.0-3 (Thu Oct 11 17:52:39 CEST >2012) >==> Checking runtime dependencies... >==> Missing Dependencies: > -> dynamips-community >==> Checking buildtime dependencies... >==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies. >The build failed. >Dependencies for `gns3' are not met, not building.. This sounds like you're missing a dependency (at least) for building. Try installing elfutils from the extra-repository. Appears to be missing as a dependency in the PKGBUILD. mfg narve

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[arch-general] GNS3 0.8.3-3 from AUR fails to install.
by Shaka Nkofo 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

An attempt to install GNS3 failed with the output below. Im not sure why or what to do next. Has anyone else faced the same issue and got past it? Please share your solution. If not can a more savy user take a look at the output and point me in the right direction? Cheers Shaka [shaka@raptor ~]$ sudo packer -S gns3 Aur Targets (3): dynamips-community dynagen gns3 Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y Edit dynamips-community PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n] ==> Making package: dynamips-community 0.2.8RC3-1 (Thu Oct 11 17:43:03 CEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Found dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz ==> Validating source files with sha1sums... dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz ... Passed ==> Extracting Sources... -> Extracting dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community.tar.gz with bsdtar ==> Removing existing pkg/ directory... ==> Starting build()... make -C stable make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips-community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' Linking rom2c cc: error: /usr/lib/libelf.a: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [rom2c] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/packerbuild-0/dynamips-community/dynamips-community/src/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community/stable' make: *** [dynamips.stable] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... The build failed. Edit dynagen PKGBUILD with $EDITOR? [Y/n] ==> Making package: dynagen 0.11.0-3 (Thu Oct 11 17:52:39 CEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Missing Dependencies: -> dynamips-community ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies. The build failed. Dependencies for `gns3' are not met, not building..

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Changes to postgresql
by Marti Raudsepp 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > 1) > postgresql expects its configuration files in /usr/etc/postgresql/. It > doesn't install any files there by default, so namcap doesn't notice - > however, you can copy the sample files from /usr/share/postgresql to > this location. This must be fixed by appending --sysconfdir=/etc to the > configure options. I think you're wrong about this. PostgreSQL, by default, does not store config files in /etc (or sysconfdir) at all. Configuration files are stored along with everything else in PGDATA (/var/lib/postgres/data)... % sudo -u postgres strace -eopen postgres -D /var/lib/postgres/data 2>/tmp/strace.out [...] ^C % egrep '(etc|conf)' /tmp/strace.out open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/var/lib/postgres/data/postgresql.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/host.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/gai.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 8 open("/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf", O_RDONLY) = 9 open("/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_ident.conf", O_RDONLY) = 9 No attempted accesses to /usr/etc. Regards, Marti

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[arch-general] host and win7 guest files sharing
by Arno Gaboury 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Dear list, I built a win7 guest with virt-install: $virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name=merdox --ram 4000 --cpu host --disk path=/dev/vg0/lv_merdox,bus=virtio,sparse=false,format=raw --cdrom /dev/cdrom --description="merdox -vm guest on host magnolia" --graphics vnc --os-type=windows --os-variant=win7 --video=vga --hvm --accelerate --network bridge=br0 --disk path=/home/gabx/isofiles/virtio-win-0.1-30.iso,device=cdrom Everything is fine so far. The only point is I can't share folders (unless using USB key). I couldn't use these arguments : -device virtio-9p-pci,id=fs0,fsdev=fsdev0,mount_tag=hostshare, only possible with $qemu-kvm. I found some tuto explaining how to share with VM Manager: Details ->add filesystem . I did it, but when : # mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L /hostshare /tmp/sharewin7 it returns : mount: special device /hostshare does not exist, with this error in logs : 9pnet_virtio: no channels available All modules are loaded (9p,9pnet,9pnet-virtio,virtio_netvirtio). I am supposed to find available mount tags in /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files. But I don't have /virtio<n> Is there anything I can do to solve this issue? TY for help

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[arch-general] systemd transition on virtual server - help needed
by G. Schlisio 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

hi list, i am running an arch server (x84_64) inside a virtual private server. now that systemd smoothly comes to be standart, i would like to understand, how this affects my machine. as this is a vps, i have no control over the running kernel, which is a 2.6.36.4-vs2.3.0.36.39-netcup atm. (netcup is a german webhosting provider). also i do not know much about the virtualisation machinery running there. as this is a server used for productivity, i would like to understand whats happening to it, to keep maintenance downtime at a reasonable low level. at what point will i (propably) get in trouble because of systemd, when (if ever) will i be unable to boot with this machine if i keep updating? thanks for helping suggestions. georg

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[arch-general] netcfg
by Dimitri Sabadie 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hi, I want to contribute as a developper, but I don’t know where to begin. I subscribe to the bug tracker and found an issue I really wanna fix : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29337?only_watched=1&type%5B0%5D=&sev%5B0%5… Is there any direction for me? Thanks in advance. Regards, skp

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Re: [arch-general] systemd transition on virtual server - help needed
by narve＠hush.ai 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

On 10/10/2012 at 8:29 AM, "Abdul Halim Mat Ali" <sagikliwon(a)gmail.com> wrote:On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:43 PM, G. Schlisio <g.schlisio(a)gmx.de> wrote: >> hi list, >> i am running an arch server (x84_64) inside a virtual private server. >> >> >This might be related to your question. But I am wondering which VPS >provider provides a 64-bit kernel. He said: "as this is a vps, i have no control over the running kernel, which is a 2.6.36.4-vs2.3.0.36.39-netcup atm. (netcup is a german webhosting provider)." So I'd suggest you check out netcup.de :) mfg narve

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [draft] Install medium 2012.10.06 introduces systemd
by Damjan 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

> The October release of the Arch Linux install medium is available for > [Download](https://www.archlinux.org/download/) and can be used for new > installs or as a rescue system. It contains a set of updated packages > and the following notable changes: Is there a way to boot the install medium over PXE similar to ArchBoot? -- дамјан

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[arch-general] GHC 7.6.1 now in [extra]
by Thomas Dziedzic 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hey everyone! It's that time again for arch to get the latest ghc! GHC 7.6.1 comes with a bunch of new and exciting features: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html It took just over a month to do the full rebuild because of the amount of patching and coordination with upstream we had to do. I would like to thank everyone who worked on this rebuild! Cheers!

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[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [draft] Install medium 2012.10.06 introduces systemd
by Martín Cigorraga 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

* The following new packages are available on the live system: ethtool, fsarchiver, gummiboot-efi, mc, partclone, partimage, refind-efi, rfkill, sudo, testdisk, wget, xl2tpd +1 fsarchiver! Can I suggest to add tmux on an upcoming release!?

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Re: [arch-general] failure to install w7 on VM
by Arno Gaboury 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

On 08/10/12||23:40, Till Smejkal wrote: > On 10/08/2012 10:54 PM, Arno Gaboury wrote: > >I thought I could use : > >$virsh # attach-disk merdoz ~/virtio-win-0.1-30.iso hdc --type cdrom > > > >But it doesn't work either, as virsh # list > >returns NO domain. > >Weird, as the following command seems Ok: > > > >[gabx@magnolia:~]$ virsh --connect qemu:///system start merdoz > >Domain merdoz started > > > >So I can't understand why domain merdoz is started and NOT listed with > >virsh > > Hey, > > well this is a problem of wrong usage. When looking in the man page > of virsh you'll recognize that list will list all *running* domains, > but merdoz is probably not running. > > Just use list --all to see all domains. > > Cheers! You are perfectly right, merdoz is not running. I finally managed after one day to install win7. The needed vitrio driver was indeed virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd, and adding this line to virt-install did the trick: --disk path=~/isofiles/virtio-win-1.1.16.vfd,device=floppy And now a beautiful merdoz7 is finishing installing! All this for a win7 VM...pppfffff

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[arch-general] failure to install w7 on VM
by Arno Gaboury 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Dear list, I am trying with no sucess to install w7 on a VM on my Archlinux box. I use virt-install,virtio,qemu, and i already managed to set up VM. This time, after #virt-install --connect qemu///system --name=merdoz --ram 4000 --cpu host --disk path=/dev/vg0/lv_merdoz,bus=virtio,sparse=false,format=raw --cdrom /var/lib/libvirt/images/isofiles/WindowsTiny.iso --description="merdoz -vm guest on host magnolia" --graphics vnc --os-type=windows --os-variant=win7 --video=vga --hvm --accelerate --nonetwork. The libvirtviewer opens, and windows starts to install. The issue is it can not find the disk (/dev/vg0/lv_merdoz) because drivers are not installed. I read I needed virtio-win-0.1-30.iso. I downloaded it, exctract the WIN7 folder with the drivers. Then I exctract my win7.iso, put the WIN7 folder inside, then $mkisofs -o win7.iso -J -r win7 and get a new iso file. Unfortunately, when using it with virt-install, the file is not recognized and windows can not boot: could not read (code 004). 1- Do I really need virtio.iso to get the drivers? If not, why w7 doesn't recognize my LV ? 2- how to add these drivers to my setup? Thank you for help.

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[arch-general] Epson USB scanner / new problem
by Genes MailLists 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I have a new problem with a usb scanner - testing repo - fully updated + kde + initscripts (not yet converted to systemd). This was working fine when last tried 3-4 weeks ago The scanner is not being initialized correctly somehow, daemon log shows this upon plugging scanner into USB port: Oct 8 12:05:10 wise kernel: [ 2319.943018] usb 1-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'iscan' sets config #1 Oct 8 12:05:14 wise kernel: [ 2324.094930] usb 1-1: usbfs: interface 0 claimed by usbfs while 'iscan' sets config #1 It is epson v300 - and I'm using the iscan tools from AUR. Any suggestions? thanks.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.5.6-1
by Tobias Powalowski 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.5.6 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 3.6.1 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] grub lost after boot into windows - seen before
by David C. Rankin 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Guys, I have a simple arch install on an older dell box with a single non-raid drive that still boots with grub. The box is used as part of a media center. Partitioning is simple, sda1 win, sda5 /home, sda6 /, sda7 swap sda8 /boot. The box rarely is booted into XP. The hwclock is manually set via the bios interface when switching between Arch or XP, UTC/localtime. A couple of nights ago, I booted XP and left it running. Clamwin runs a nightly scan via its scheduler. The only thing that ran under XP that I know of was clamwin, which after using it for years and never seeing this problem before seems to eliminate it as a suspect. (there were no updates applied, etc...) The box was left running XP for a couple of days. Upon reboot, the box would repeatedly reboot to the bios screen. Booting the Arch install disk, chrooting, and reinstalling grub fixed the problem. What could have caused grub to be wiped out? Has anyone experienced a grub overwrite with XP lately that they have identified a reason for? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[arch-general] [signoff] linux-3.5.5-1
by Tobias Powalowski 06 Oct '12

06 Oct '12

Hi guys, please signoff 3.5.5 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 3.6.0 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] Akonadi file content search
by Andy Pieters 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

Hi girls and boys This may seem like a daft question, and I did research this at length on Google, but is there any frontend that one can use to search file file contents? I understand that Akonadi contains meta data and that nepomuk feeds it and that everything ends up in (my case) a MySQL database (tables). Apart from the krunner interface, is there a front end that allows you to specify more than one criteria on a search? Or possibly is there a backend that can do advanced searching? PS: Yes one can query MySQL, and yes, there is akonadiconsole but that does not seem to have an item search for files. Thanks Andy

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[arch-general] a systemd-sleep hook for tuxonice-userui
by Damjan 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

I'm maintaing the tuxonice-userui package [1] in AUR that displays a really nice splash when hibernating with TuxonIce. Since I've moved to systemd even for hibernating when the powerbutton is pressed, by setting HandlePowerKey=hibernate in /etc/systemd/logind.conf now the hibernate-script is no longer called (previously it was called from apcid). Turns out it works quite well except for the splash, so I've created this systemd-sleep hook [2] that I intend to add to the tuxonice-userui package. The hook should just switch to VT 63 on hibernate and switch back on resume. I need to do this because otherwise the X server could start showing visual glitches, and also alt-left/right arrows started switching the VTs. So if anyone can check it out for obvious mistakes before I add it to the package, I'd be glad. Thanks [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24613 [2] http://vpaste.net/DQMKu -- дамјан

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[arch-general] Saving config files
by Lucas Salies Brum 05 Oct '12

05 Oct '12

-> saving /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc -> saving /etc/libreoffice/bootstraprc -> saving /etc/libreoffice/psprint.conf What is this? Yaourt/Pacman new feature? Thanks in advance.

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[arch-general] Protected symlinks in kernel 3.6
by mike cloaked 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

With kernel 3.6 in testing, and with the new protected symlinks feature being on by default, I wondered if anyone has seen any problems running this kernel as a direct result of this new feature? https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/473 It would be nice to know of any problems so that anyone running the new kernel will be aware of places to look to change permissions (or switch this feature off) ahead of installing the new package? -- mike c

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[arch-general] kernel 3.6 feedback
by Genes MailLists 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

kernel 3.6-1 testing report: I am running 3.6 from testing on 3 machines. 1 laptop and 2 desktops. All are fully updated from testing repo. 1 of the desktop didn't come up right - seemed to have trouble with root filesystem (initiscripts still not systemd). On second reboot it came up fine. No logs obviously - will report if any further issues arise. Could be a coincidental hardware problem I suppose. Other desktop and laptop are both totally fine. laptop has intel on board graphics and sandy bridge i7 with intel 6300 wifi (lenovo w520). gene

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[arch-general] Full mailing-list moderation
by Allan McRae 04 Oct '12

04 Oct '12

People just do not learn... All post to the mailing list are now moderated. As this takes time away from us actually maintaining the distribution, this will only occur intermittently. Allan

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[arch-general] mkinitcpio: mdadm_udev Hook
by Simon Perry 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hi, I've just been re-installing a box, and saw that the wiki says regarding using the mdadm_udev hook: > "This is the preferred method of mdadm assembly (rather than using the > above mdadm hook). " I've tried to use the mdadm_udev hook, but the devices get named: > normal md0 (/boot) is md127 > normal md1 (encrypted, then lvm with swap and / on it ) is md126 I found this out with "cat /proc/partitions" once my box failed to boot and dropped to the initramfs shell. Seems pretty random, the first actual device isn't even the lowest number. There doesn't seem to be any documented way to have my raid1 devices named so I can use: > cryptdevice=/dev/md1:crypt in my kernel arg line. The only way to get things to work is to use the mdadm hook and have my devices specified in /etc/mdadm.conf Can I rely on md127 and md126 being the same across every boot, and therefore resign myself to using this numbering (instead of the much nicer md0 and md1), and use it in my cryptdevice kernel arg and be done with it? Given this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149358 And the comment: "I have little interest in supporting the mdadm hook. Assembly via udev is the preferred method here." What is the right way to do this? Cheers. -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[arch-general] pacman update dependency problem today for kdegames
by mike cloaked 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Today I tried to update with pacman -Syu I got this: :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... warning: cannot resolve "kdegames-knavalbattle", a dependency of "kde-meta-kdegames" warning: cannot resolve "kdegames-ksnakeduel", a dependency of "kde-meta-kdegames" :: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies: kde-meta-kdegames Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] I tried to find the two packages: [root@lapmike3 ~]# pacman -Ss kdegames-ksnakeduel [root@lapmike3 ~]# pacman -Ss kdegames-knavalbattle [root@lapmike3 ~]# Seems these don't exist!! I also don't have either package installed from any previous update or pacman install! What is the advice here? Wait for the update system to get fixed or carry on regardless and go ahead and update? Thanks -- mike c

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[arch-general] GHC 7.6.1 now in [testing]
by Thomas Dziedzic 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Hey everyone! It's that time again for arch to get the latest ghc! GHC 7.6.1 comes with a bunch of new and exciting features: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html This morning, all the haskell packages should have been rebuilt against the latest ghc and I have moved all haskell pkgs to testing. One caveat is that cabal-install wasn't rebuilt but it should still work while upstream works on patching it for ghc 7.6.1 It took just under a month to do the full rebuild because of the amount of patching and coordination with upstream we had to do. I will let it sit in testing for a week so that aur maintainers for haskell pkgs have time to investigate and patch their packages. I would like to thank everyone who worked on this rebuild! Cheers!

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[arch-general] systemd, running scripts after suspend/hibernate
by Mauro Santos 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

I have made the jump to systemd and I have been ironing a few things here and there, one of them is setting the HD advanced power management to a sane level to avoid excessive wear due to constant head parking. I've been able to achieve this by placing my script in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep, however 'man systemd-sleep' says: "Note that scripts or binaries dropped in /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/ are intended for local use only and should be considered hacks." This seems to imply that a service file should be used, what I can't figure out from the documentation or google searches is how to implement the functionality I want with a .service file, or if a service file is actually needed/recommended. Any pointers or help are welcome. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] OT: Re: testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot
by Felipe Contreras 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:14 AM, nailz <nailzuk(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I too am fed up with all the dross and i only been here a few weeks, i > mean nobody is forcing anyone to use arch, if people dont agree with the > way its heading either jump ship to another distro , or god forbid maybe > even add something constructive to arch. Totally agree, because disagreements never lead to anything good... oh wait! it's the other way around: without dissent, there's no progress[1]. Actually, nailz's reply also had no technical aspect, and was not asking for help, so he should be banned as well, right? Unless the ban only applies to the people that disagree with the status quo, not the people that complain about the people that disagree with the status quo. In which case you would have to accept that the bans have nothing to do with the nature of the comments, but rather because a mod simply didn't like the comment. To me, and the merrian-webster dictionary, general means: general: involving, applicable to, or affecting the whole So, unpopular topics seem to fall under arch-general, because they still might affect the whole, even though some people (majority?) might not want it to. They can disagree with the unpopular opinion, but should not silence it. There is no arch-technical, or arch-help, or arch-off-topic. As for you, nailz, if you are feed up with this thread, don't read it, nobody is forcing you. You can even tell your client to ignore or mute the thread so your precious ears don't have to go through all this filthy dissent[2]. Note: I'm prefixing my mail with OT (off-topic), it might be a good practice for people with sensitive ears to filter these mails, but I'm sure I'll get banned for just proposing it. Lapidation sketch much? Cheers. [1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/dissent/ [2] http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mute+thread -- Felipe Contreras

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Re: [arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot (OT)
by Nicholas MIller 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

On Oct 2, 2012 7:15 PM, "nailz" <nailzuk(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 3 October 2012 00:18, Your Real Name <anoknusa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 08:29:38PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > On 01/10/12 20:23, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:49 AM, gt <static.vortex(a)gmx.com> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 11:49:05AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > >>> On 01/10/12 11:21, Armando M. Baratti wrote: > > > >>>> Authoritarian and despotic. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> My ban, please. > > > >>>> > > > >>> > > > >>> Done... and for two weeks because I had to look up what despotic > > meant. > > > >> > > > >> lol, always keep a dictionary handy. May I suggest sdcv. > > > > > > > > This poster should also be banned, since this post doesn't call for > > help > > > > nor offers it. > > > > > > > > Oops... Mine too... Now I've done it! > > > > > > > > ("The life of Brian", anyone? The lapidation sketch? Oops again: I hope > > > > Allan McRae is familiar with the word "lapidation", or it's two weeks > > > > for me too.) > > > > > > > > > > Lapidation fails when I can just punish everyone... I am more than > > > happy to just close the list again. > > > > > > I have not because I am not "prone to panic attacks". (Hi Pete! - here > > > is your answer who those emails go to) > > > > > > Allan > > > > > > > I'm down for seeing the list get closed again, or at least a banning > > free-for-all. > > The forum mods wouldn't tolerate this kind of childish bullshit; I don't > > see why > > the devs/ML mods need to. There are plenty of places online to complain, > > the support > > list doesn't need this. > > > > > [quote]the support > list doesn't need this.[/quote] > I too am fed up with all the dross and i only been here a few weeks, i > mean nobody is forcing anyone to use arch, if people dont agree with the > way its heading either jump ship to another distro , or god forbid maybe > even add something constructive to arch. > > > > -- > > > www.cirrusminor.info <http://cirrusminor.info> > <http://www.cirrusminor.info/> > <http://www.cirrusminor.info/> > > <http://www.cirrusminor.info/> Will a ban just cause you to be unable to post or will out also cause you to not receive list items during the ban

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[arch-general] testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot
by Zhengyu Xu 03 Oct '12

03 Oct '12

Dear all, After updating systemd to 191-1 in testing repo, I had following messages during booting and the process was stuck (crashed). [ 10.539416] systemd[1]: segfault at 7d ip b75a97b7 sp bfb0ece8 error 4 in libc-2.16.so[b752a000+1a4000] [ 10.539700] systemd[1]: Caught <SEGV>, core dump failed. Downgrade to 189-4 can solve this problem. I want to know if this is a personal problem or a general bug affecting others as well. Best regards, Z.

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[arch-general] NetworkManager, DHCP and DNS
by Guillermo Leira 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hello! I have been using wicd for a long time. I have installed and enabled NetworkManager service (with systemd). It seems to work, but I have found that when asking for a DHCP address, it does not register the conexion in the DNS server (as wicd does). I can't find anything about this issue... I have gone back to wicd, but it can't connect to my office's wifi (or I have been unable to configure it) and NetworkManager worked at the first attempt. Any suggestions? Best Regards, Guillermo Leira

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Re: [arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS
by Paul Gideon Dann 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

On Monday 01 Oct 2012 14:22:41 Thomas Bächler wrote: > IMO, root file systems on NFS are a failure by design anyway - I worked > in such a scenario for years and it is a bad bad bad idea. While we > should fix easy problems such as this one, we should not spend too much > time on making this work. I'd be really interested in your reasons for this. I'm running a network- booted cluster, and things seem much easier using NFS for this than it would be to have a hard disk in each node and use puppet (or similar) for administration. Paul

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[arch-general] glibc issues during first update in several months
by Erik Johnson 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

After several months of not updating my home server, I decided to run updates tonight. I still hadn't done the /usr/lib symlink move, so I followed the guide on the wiki like I did for my other boxes and still ended up borking my system. Think this is because I accidentally said "yes" to upgrading pacman before the other packages. I ended up finding this thread on the forum: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1167283 After booting with a rescue disc and untar-ing the package into my root partition as that thread suggested, I was able to get booted back up and continue with the upgrade. However, once I got to the point where I do the final pacman -Su, I got a bunch of file conflicts: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) glibc: /lib exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/epoll.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/eventfd.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/hwcap.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/inotify.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/poll2.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/signalfd.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/socket_type.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/sysctl.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/bits/timerfd.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/stdc-predef.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/sys/auxv.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/sys/elf.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/sys/vm86.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/include/uchar.h exists in filesystem glibc: /usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. Is it safe to run the pacman -Su with --force since these files are all owned by newer glibc on my other Arch boxes? % for file in /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h /usr/include/bits/epoll.h /usr/include/bits/eventfd.h /usr/include/bits/hwcap.h /usr/include/bits/inotify.h /usr/include/bits/poll2.h /usr/include/bits/signalfd.h /usr/include/bits/socket_type.h /usr/include/bits/sysctl.h /usr/include/bits/timerfd.h /usr/include/stdc-predef.h /usr/include/sys/auxv.h /usr/include/sys/elf.h /usr/include/sys/vm86.h /usr/include/uchar.h /usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN; do pacman -Qo $file; done /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/epoll.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/eventfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/hwcap.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/inotify.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/poll2.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/signalfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/socket_type.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/sysctl.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/bits/timerfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/stdc-predef.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/sys/auxv.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/sys/elf.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/sys/vm86.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/include/uchar.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 /usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4 -- -Erik "For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." -- Carl Sagan

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[arch-general] Message rejected
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

Hey all, l'm trying to send a patch over to arch-projects mailing list and it's rejected from filters. I added to subject the [archweb] as instructed from irc channel. This is my full subject: [archweb] [PATCH] Update Readme with Troubleshoot guide for SQLITE and POSTGRES Any idea why? Leonidas

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[arch-general] Updating iputils over NFS
by Paul Gideon Dann 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

I'm having an issue updating a system that boots over NFS. Attempting to upgrade the iputils package results in the following: ---8<------------------------------- (1/1) upgrading iputils [###########################] 100% Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin/ping' (Operation not supported) usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) <filenameN> ] Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file. Failed to set capabilities on file `usr/bin/ping6' (Operation not supported) usage: setcap [-q] [-v] (-r|-|<caps>) <filename> [ ... (-r|-|<capsN>) <filenameN> ] Note <filename> must be a regular (non-symlink) file. ---8<------------------------------- I suspect this is something to do with NFS not supporting the capabilities that setcap is trying to use, but I admit I haven't encountered capabilities before I ran into this issue, so it's just a guess. Has anyone else seen this problem, or does anyone have an idea how to fix it? Paul

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[arch-general] ArchHaskell: Testing repo built with GHC 7.6 available
by Magnus Therning 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

This is for all the Haskell users on the list who still haven't made it to the ArchHaskell list[1]: There is now a repo built with GHC 7.6: [haskell-testing] Server = http://www.kiwilight.com/haskell/testing/$arch At the moment it's only available for x86_64--building for i686 is happening as I write this and will hopefully be available within a day. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay

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[arch-general] Mailing list closed for 24 hours
by Allan McRae 01 Oct '12

01 Oct '12

I am invoking the easy way to end flamewars... This mailing list will be shut down for the next 24 hours. Any messages sent to the list will go to /dev/null. Once the list is reinstated, I will automatically ban any person who sends an email that is not asking for help or providing help. Allan

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[arch-general] want to try systemd but need some advice
by Fons Adriaensen 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Hello all, During the past days I've been reading the sytemd manpages, and I'm more or less prepared to reconfigure one the systems I manage to use systemd. The main thing that scares me off is the 'consolekit style' login management of systemd's logind. In particular the following (from <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/multiseat>): * A session is defined by the time a user is logged in until he logs * out. A session is bound to one or no seats (the latter for 'virtual' * ssh logins). and * Note that logind manages ACLs on a number of device classes, to allow * user code to access the device nodes attached to a seat as long as the * user has an active session on it. In the context I'm working in the whole 'seat' and 'session' thing, as far as I can understand it, doesn't make much sense. An absolute requirement for the system I'd want to test systemd on (and for many others I manage) is that there should be *no* difference at all between a 'local' login and one via ssh. Whatever a user is allowed to do or access should not depend on how he/she logs in, but only on his/her unix login and group membership. Root can do all he wants, normal users are as restricted as possible, and any exceptions to that are configured via /etc/sudoers and nothing else. In particular there's no place for polkit or anything similar here. I'd want things to be configured that way 'once and for all', meaning that a) I'm not really looking forward to having to do this for each and every device or command, and b) that a routine system update (a frequent enough event on an Arch system) must not be able to modify this policy. >From reading the avaiable docs I'm not convinced this will be possible, in particular since the docs concerning logind are rather incomplete (where are those ACLs defined for example). And 'ping Lennart if you need more info' as suggested, is not really a sustainable solution IMHO. So my question is: a) is it possible to configure a system as I want it, and b) if yes, how ? 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] Open-source Radeon drivers status: HD7600M / HD7520G
by Robbie Smith 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Hi all I've got a laptop with dual graphics: AMD A6-4400M processor with HD7520G "built in" (?) and HD7600M dedicated GPU. At the moment I'm using the Catalyst drivers that Vi0L0 packages[1], and it works quite well. I can switch which card I use (albeit with a restart of X), so I can enable the dedicated graphics only when I need it. I was wondering what the status of the open-source drivers are for these cards, and how they compare to the Catalyst ones. The Xorg wiki has a feature table[2] which seems to indicate that it should work (Wikipedia says the cards are part of the Northern Islands family), but I tried using xf86-video-ati on initial install and got only a black screen. Asides from KMS, what else does the open-source driver offer? Robbie [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57084 [2] http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature

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[arch-general] Unable to add fonts to X
by D. R. Evans 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

I couldn't find a more appropriate place to ask this question. Please feel free to point me to such a place if one exists. ---- Using a completely up-to-date 32-bit arch system, I am trying to make some fonts available to X. My understanding of the process is: 1. Put the fonts in a directory. 2. Since these are scalable fonts, run mkfontscale in the directory. 3. Run mkfontdir in the directory. 4. run xset +fp <directory name> So what I did: 0. Created the directory ~/.fonts. 1. Put the fonts in ~/.fonts. At this point the contents of the directory looks like this (sorry about the wrapping): lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 39 Apr 22 17:08 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -> /home/n7dr/fonts/CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.afm -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.afm lrwxrwxrwx 1 n7dr users 34 Apr 22 17:08 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -> /home/n7dr/fonts/N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb 2. Ran mkfontscale in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.scale, which had the following contents: 33 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-adobe-standard CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ascii-0 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp437 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp850 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp852 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ibm-cp866 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso10646-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-10 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-13 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-15 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-2 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-3 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-4 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-5 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-8 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-9 CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-e CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-r CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-ru CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-u CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-koi8-uni CourierNewPSMTN7DR.ttf -monotype-courier new n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-microsoft-cp1252 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-standard N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-9 N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-r N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-ru N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-koi8-u N7DR_SFTT1000.pfb -misc-computer modern n7dr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-microsoft-cp1252 3. Ran mkfontdir in ~/.fonts. This created the file fonts.dir, which was identical to fonts.scale. 4. One piece of documentation I read said that X automatically includes ~/.fonts in its path, but running xset q did not include ~/.fonts in the directory list. So I ran: xset +fp /home/n7dr/.fonts But now we come to the problem. This command returns: xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax But: a. the directory obviously exists, and it has permissions rwx for the user. b. The directory contains the file fonts.dir c. The syntax looks OK. So what is xset complaining about? (I suspect that the problem lies in the *contents* of fonts.dir, since if I create a dummy version of the file, I don't receive the error. But since the file was automatically created, I don't know what might be wrong, nor how to correct it. Maybe my suspicion is wrong, though.) Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR

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[arch-general] Newly installed system without uuidd user
by Rodrigo Rivas 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Hello all! I know, this should go to the bugtracker, but I couldn't find the `arch-install-scripts` anywhere... so I'm bringing it here. I've just installed a new Arch in a VM using the new & improved `archlinux-2012.09.07-dual.iso`. It went quite well and painless but I noticed a weird error in the boot screen: [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd' Right! There is no user 'uuidd' anywhere. The solution is actually easy: # pacman -S util-linux That reinstalls the package and recreates the user. So, if the `util-linux` package is correct, I reckon that is a bug in the `arch-install-scripts`, isn't it? Regards -- Rodrigo

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[arch-general] task #31424: User git has home set to /
by coderkun 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

According to this bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31424 I lost all my files yesterday. So this is a warning to all users who are wondering about the “git daemon user” – that is really a demon!

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[arch-general] Bug with procps-ng or systemd?
by Simon Perry 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

/var/log/utmp is not being used. Updated procps-ng on the 24th, systemd 192 update on the 27th, but have only just noticed this. Running a "w" command no longer shows current logged in users. An strace of /usr/bin/w shows: access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/var/run/utmp", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) I have searched FS but haven't found anything relevant, should a bug be lodged against procps-ng or systemd? -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[arch-general] utmp MIA
by Jorge Almeida 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

I ran pacman -Syu yesterday, and now on boot the file /run/utmp is not created. Anyone else with this problem? (Yes, /var/run is a symlink to /run) (I also changed from grub2 to syslinux, but I suppose this has nothing to do with the problem; it boots fine. This is the only difference in installed software/configuration.) TIA Jorge Almeida

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Re: [arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help
by G. Schlisio 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

>> -remove initscripts from the repos >> -no more developement in git and on arch-project ML > I don't see the benefit of doing that quickly, but if that's what you > guys want, it is fine with me. I would be in favor of initscripts > dying a natural death. > some people are stuck with initscripts for a while, letting it die naturally would be great for such usecases. i am running an arch server in a virtual private server where can not change the kernel and depend on my provider. i am quite sure, there are others around too.

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[arch-general] Iinstallation program
by Jan Litwiński 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

When will Arch have more friendly installation program like Ubuntu, Fedora, or opwnSUSE. I installed Arch some years ago and it was very difficult for me. -- Jan Litwiński http://netsjanek.blogspot.com/ Linux is like a wigwam no gates no windows but apache inside

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[arch-general] The future of sysvinit in Arch: Call for Help
by Tom Gundersen 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi guys, As the move to systemd is under way, and we will soon have packages in our repos that require your system to be booted with systemd, I thought this would be a good time to summarize the state of sysvinit/initscripts in Arch and their future. Abstract: I think the current state is relatively good (but I'm clearly very biased) and it should not be hard to maintain a non-systemd boot on Arch even in the long-run. However, someone has to do the work. NOTE: Please let's keep any replies on-topic. This is NOT about whether or not sysvinit or systemd is good or bad. Testing ===== This has been repeated a lot, but I think it makes sense to say it again: We are quickly running out of people who do early testing of initscripts. I.e., who follow arch-projects, review patches and test initscripts-git. At some point we will probably also struggle with a lack of developers/TU's testing initscripts in [testing], so if you feel passionately about a non-systemd boot on Arch, please join arch-projects and help with testing. Initscripts ====== Initscripts are currently fully supported and actively developed. Work has been going on for a long time to make initscripts and systemd share the same configuration file format wherever that makes sense, and this work is mostly completed (at least on the initscripts side). Moreover, code is shared between systemd and initscripts wherever possible (there might still be more opportunities for this, but the work is mostly completed). Together, these two developments should make it relatively easy to maintain initscripts for Arch in the long-run, even with a small user/developer base. I intend to maintain initscripts in the official repos as long as this makes sense. However, for this to be viable, I think we would need at least one capable and active initscripts developer who is interested in helping out and who uses sysvinit/initscripts as their main init system. In the long-run it would make sense for such a person to take over maintainership of initscripts. Anyone interested, please join arch-projects and post reviews, suggestions and patches :-) Packages requiring systemd ================= In the (near) future, we expect some packages to no longer support non-systemd boot. In particular I'm thinking of polkit, networkmanager and some gnome packages (I don't know which as I don't use gnome myself). There will probably be more in the future. We might also drop ConsoleKit from the repos at some point in the future. No need to panic though. The number of packages that will actually be need to be rebuilt to support non-systemd boot are actually very limited (certainly less than ten). An alternative repository just providing the relevant packages could very easily be maintained by one committed person (possibly even the same person that will help out with initscripts). I would be happy to help with getting this started if anyone is interested. A point to keep in mind is that the people who don't want to switch to systemd, might not be using ConsoleKit, polkit, etc anyway, so maybe this problem is not actually a real one. rc scripts ===== Currently we have a few hundred rc scripts in our repos (the scripts under /etc/rc.d/) shipped with our various packages. This will probably not change in the near future, but if for whatever reason some packagers decide to drop some rc scripts from their packages (and rely purely on the systemd unit files), then it would be very simple to pull the relevant scripts from our repos and ship them in a rc-scripts package in the above suggested repository. Concluding remarks ============ As I have tried to outline above, the amount of work required for a non-systemd boot is really small, and I'd be happy to help anyone who decides to take it on. However, I have seen some suggestions of ways of avoiding systemd that entails splitting the systemd package up, rebuilding tens of packages just to avoid a systemd-libs dependency or re-duplicate all the code shared between initscripts and systemd. This, in my humble opinion, is not worth the effort and is not something I'd be interested in getting involved with. Please direct any technical discussions to arch-projects(a)archlinux.org. Cheers, Tom

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[arch-general] Laptop auto shudown
by 大熊 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

I have a fresh installed laptop, DE is lxde. It is a clean system, no more tweak. Recently I found a strange problem: after I close the lid about 5 minutes, laptop will shutdown itself! I donot remeber I have do some setting about power management, and I have installed pm-utils, but not acpid. Is it a default feature of archlinux on laptop? -- 立志在女儿把我搞崩溃前把她养大看着女儿一天天长大，可惜我还是菜鸟

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[arch-general] fglrx driver doesn't work
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi :) the fglrx driver doesn't work. Perhaps I missed a typo or some settings are bad or are missing. IIUC RS690 is supported by the current driver. I added the output of # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log # hwinfo --gfxcard # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf the versions of catalyst-hook, catalyst-utils and xorg-server below. I verified that xf86-video-ati really was removed and verified that "nomodeset" is set for the Arch Linux kernels. "catalyst_build_module all"'s output was ok, for both kernels. suse11-2:/home/spinymouse11.2 # ls -hAl /media/archlinux/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.4-rt/fglrx.ko.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 884K 2012-09-27 12:31 /media/archlinux/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.4-rt/fglrx.ko.gz suse11-2:/home/spinymouse11.2 # ls -hAl /media/archlinux/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.5-ARCH/fglrx.ko.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 883K 2012-09-27 12:32 /media/archlinux/usr/lib/modules/extramodules-3.5-ARCH/fglrx.ko.gz suse11-2:/home/spinymouse11.2 # cat /media/archlinux/root/arch_fglrx.txt # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> arch_fglrx.txt [ 45.366] Current Operating System: Linux archlinux 3.4.11-rt19-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Sep 21 13:19:10 UTC 2012 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 45.375] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 45.448] (EE) No supported AMD display adapters were found [ 45.448] (EE) No devices detected. # shutdown -r now # grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log >> arch_fglrx.txt [ 29.463] Current Operating System: Linux archlinux 3.5.4-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 15 08:12:04 CEST 2012 x86_64 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. [ 29.470] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER [ 29.541] (EE) No supported AMD display adapters were found [ 29.541] (EE) No devices detected. # hwinfo --gfxcard >> arch_fglrx.txt 28: PCI 105.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: ul7N.A_MYUPeZ6pD Parent ID: vSkL.Objt6VSItgC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:05.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:05.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "ATI RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]" Vendor: pci 0x1002 "ATI Technologies Inc" Device: pci 0x791e "RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x826d Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xfdff0000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xce00-0xceff (rw) Memory Range: 0xfde00000-0xfdefffff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 18 (2 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00001002d0000791Esv00001043sd0000826Dbc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: radeon is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe radeon" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #28 # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf >> arch_fglrx.txt Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "dri" Load "dbe" Load "dri2" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "GLcore" #Load "v4l" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Plug 'n' Play" ModelName "Plug 'n' Play" DisplaySize 305 230 HorizSync 29-98 VertRefresh 50-120 modeline "1152x864" 128.42 1152 1232 1360 1568 864 865 868 910 Gamma 1.0 EndSection Section "Device" ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" ### [arg]: arg optional #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>] #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>] #Option "VideoKey" # <i> #Option "MergedFB" "off" #old debian/ubuntu Identifier "Card0" Driver "fglrx" #Driver "radeon" #Driver "nvidia" #Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" #VendorName "nVidia Corporation" #BoardName "G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS]" #BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" Defaultdepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1152x864" #Virtual 3840 1200 EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 1 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 4 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 8 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 15 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 16 # EndSubSection # SubSection "Display" # Viewport 0 0 # Depth 24 # EndSubSection EndSection # grep nomodeset /mnt/oz/boot/grub/menu.lst >> arch_fglrx.txt kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux-rt root=/dev/sda9 ro nomodeset #kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux-rt root=/dev/sda9 ro nomodeset kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda9 ro nomodeset kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda9 ro nomodeset # pacman -Qi catalyst-hook | grep Ver >> arch_fglrx.txt Version : 12.8-1 # pacman -Qi catalyst-utils | grep Ver >> arch_fglrx.txt Version : 12.8-1 # pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Ver >> arch_fglrx.txt Version : 1.12.4-1 # pacman -Qi xf86-video-ati error: package 'xf86-video-ati' was not found Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] Fonts larger after suspend
by Michael Nawrocki 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

I'm using the font: Droid Sans size 10 for my default font, set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. I'm using DWM as my window manager, so nothing fancy there. Sometimes, after I wake my computer from suspend, the font size in use by my windows gets larger, I'd say by a point or two. This started happening around when I switched over to systemd, although I can't say for certain that systemd is the cause. It doesn't happen every time, but happens often enough to be an annoyance. Any ideas on how I can fix this? Thanks, Mike

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[arch-general] Proprietary nvidia driver for different kernels
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi :) until now I switch between the FLOSS nv driver and the proprietary nvidia driver at startup, depending to the kernel I boot. IOW I use the nv driver with kernel-rt and the proprietary with 3.5.3-1-ARCH. If I try to boot the kernel-rt, I get a black screen. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-rt | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi nvidia-utils | grep Ver Version : 304.43-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi xf86-video-nv | grep Ver Version : 2.1.20-1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep DAEMONS /etc/rc.conf # DAEMONS DAEMONS=(!69switch_xorg.conf hwclock syslog-ng !network !netfs crond acpid dbus networkmanager rtirq) Any ideas? The graphics is a GeForce 7200 GS. The nv driver is ok, but I have to readjust the monitor if I switch from nvidia and soon or later it will be dropped. The vesa driver won't provide the needed resolution and noveau

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[arch-general] courier-maildrop package failed installation
by Jude DaShiell 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

I tried that delivery agent and authgen library failed to install and later I couldn't get it started. Fortunately procmail posed no similar problems on installation. Is courier-maildrop not supported for amd64 k8 athelon machines? If that's the case that would explain this failure. I can install that on an i386 type machine and I may just to test this hypothesis. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel(a)shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

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[arch-general] ABS and pacman
by Manolo Martínez 26 Sep '12

26 Sep '12

Hello, I've just had a minor hiccup, because one of the packages updated in my pacman -Syu this morning substituted a version I had tweaked the ABS way. Nothing serious, as I say, and wholly my fault, but yet I was wondering: Would it be possible/make sense to have pacman inform us whenever it is going to substitute a package that has been ABS'd? Manolo --

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Re: [arch-general] Unsubscribe (was: testing/systemd 191-1 failed to boot)
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net> wrote: > This might be helpful > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=arch+wiki+email+filter I'm really tired of this nonsense, so I'll unsubscribe. No need to answer me, because I'll not see it. Not that it will be any loss for Arch per se, but I really think that the Arch community is one of the best things in Arch itself. Unfortunately, this channel is corrupted by trolls that don't diferentiate the time to answer with helpful content and the time to stay quiet. Destroying the list by being reckless is a real shame. I'll just leave this here, if anyone is interested: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2012/09/10/yet-another-systemd-comment/ -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? For more information, please read: http://idallen.com/topposting.html ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto Linux user #524555 -------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] Wanted: advice dual-booting Arch and Windows 7 on new laptop
by Robbie Smith 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi everyone TL;DR: I've just bought a new HP Pavilion g6-2103ax, and I'm having difficulties trying to figure out how I can dual-boot it with Windows 7 (which was preinstalled). Windows *still* defaults to using MBR partitions, and even though the system is UEFI, HP have used some trickery somewhere to make it boot from BIOS. To make matters worse, the disk table already has four partitions: SYSTEM: 199 MB NTFS Windows C drive: ~ 450 GB NTFS HP Recovery partition: 18.5 GB NTFS HP_TOOLS: 99 MB FAT32 The SYSTEM partition seems to contain the Windows bootloader, or something along those lines. The HP Recovery partition contains the software necessary to do a factory reset, and HP_TOOLS contains some UEFI applications (some system diagnostic things). C drive is Windows. What I was thinking of doing was shrinking C drive, and deleting the recovery partition to make space for Arch. But on my first attempt, parted bricked the table, and whilst I was able to recover it, Windows refused to boot. I obtained recovery disks to restore it, but they are completely non-interactive so cannot be used to rescue Windows, only reset to factory initial state. Due to the arrangement of the partitions, I don't think creating an Extended partition will work (they need to be the last one in the table, don't they?), and while I've read GRUB2 can use /boot in LVM, I'm not sure whether this will work. Also, I've never used GRUB2 before, and its configs look formidable compared to Syslinux. Ideally I'd switch to GPT, but Windows needs to be booted in UEFI mode for this, but I have no idea how to enable this as there's neither a switch in the BIOS settings, nor settings in Windows. Can anyone advise me on how I could overcome these issues? Has anyone had any experience with new HP g6 models?

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[arch-general] Upgrading an old system
by Guillermo Leira 25 Sep '12

25 Sep '12

Hi! I have just finished upgrading a system that was powered off (broken battery) since February 2011. Just for the fun of doing so. I couldn't help saying it... I'm quite proud of this achievement. ;-) Guillermo Leira

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[arch-general] Bind mount /dev from fstab with systemd
by Mauro Santos 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

I've been trying to (r)bind mount /dev from fstab and it is failing for some reason that I can't figure out. I have tried to mount it on demand, only when accessed, since the chroot where I need it is not used very often, to try and achieve that I've tried the following line in fstab: /dev /path/to/chroot/dev none rbind,noauto,x-systemd.automount 0 0 This didn't work, trying 'ls /path/to/chroot/dev' seems to hang forever and the output from journalctl says: systemd[1]: Job dev.device/start timed out. systemd[1]: Job extra-chroot-centos-dev.mount/start failed with result 'dependency'. systemd[1]: Job dev.device/start failed with result 'timeout'. I have also tried mounting it on boot using: /dev /path/to/chroot/dev none rbind 0 0 Which also doesn't work and makes the boot process stop, the machine is still responsive to ctrl-alt-del and reboots cleanly but there is no indication of why it stops. Bind mounting /proc and /sys when accessed works fine, also mounting manually with 'mount --rbind /dev /path/to/chroot/dev' works just fine, I am out of ideas and google doesn't know either, any tips or pointers are welcome. -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Eject and Util-linux conflict
by Victor Silva 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

Folks after trying to update today I got the following error: util-linux and eject are in conflict According to this: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2012-July/023320.html I could just go yes but pacman suggests me to answer no. I've found nothing on the boards nor webpage. Have anyone had this situation? Regards, vfbsilva

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[arch-general] Systemd and startx
by Mauro Santos 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

So far I am only testing how systemd behaves in my system and what changes I need to do before I permanently make the switch. So far the first problem, which doesn't seem to be covered in the wiki, forum or google searches, is that if I switch to a tty after starting X I get just a blank screen. I also get a blank screen and no prompt after I logout from the DE. The conditions that seem to trigger the problem are: I don't use any login managers so I use startx to start my DE of choice (xfce). I have increased the number of available ttys as described here [1] and after booting everything seems to be working fine, since I have the expected number of ttys and I can login at each one of them. Getting local permissions was also taken care of by following [2], for testing purposes I use 'startx -- vt1 &> xlog.log' and I've confirmed that it works as expected. The problem: After starting X, if I switch to any of the ttys with ctrl-alt-f* I get only a blank screen, this includes the ttys that have not been used to start X. After logging out of the DE I get a blank screen at all ttys, including the one used to start X. The machine is otherwise still responsive. Any clues, tips or pointers on how to get this to work are welcome. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Q:_How_do_I_change_the_number_… [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login -- Mauro Santos

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[arch-general] Random X server crashes
by Aurko Roy 23 Sep '12

23 Sep '12

Hi, Occasionally (while using google chrome) my X server crashes completely and takes me back to the tty login. Examining the journal entries reveals the following highlighted in red: Sep 23 17:03:33 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: fail ttm_validate Sep 23 17:03:34 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: validate vram_list Sep 23 17:03:34 myarchbox kernel: [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: validate: -12 I am using the nouveau driver for my Nvidia graphics card. The problem is difficult to reproduce as it happens quite randomly - for instance I might be opening some particular website and it will crash. If I insist on opening the same website again it might crash a second time but it will work the third time or so. Is this a universal experience of using nouveau on Nvidia cards or is it something that is only afflicting my computer? Thanks. -- Aurko Roy GPG key: 0x20C5BC31 Fingerprint:76B4 9677 15BE 731D 1949 85BA 2A31 B442 20C5 BC31

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[arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem
by Genes MailLists 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Using fully updated testing repo - starting 'recently' - I notice that lid close no longer sleeps my laptop. Kde power is configured to sleep on lid close. If i click the menu and choose sleep manually - it sleeps fine - and subsequently wakes fine on lid-open. I can confirm with this little shell loop (left running and then close lid and reopen) that acpi shows lid is indeed closed: while [[ 1 == 1 ]] > do > cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state > sleep 1 > done state: open state: open state: open state: open state: closed state: closed state: closed state: closed state: open state: open So, it -seems- as if lid-event is not being passed along for some reason to the (kde) power management - or not being listened to. I have not yet switched to systemd - and I'm not sure which process is responsible for such events. It still happens with 3.5.4 kernel if that makes any difference. It is a W520 lenovo laptop. Anyone else notice similar - or can offer suggestions? Thanks. gene/

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[arch-general] finally got a talking archlinux installed!
by Jude DaShiell 22 Sep '12

22 Sep '12

Creation of a separate /boot partition helped. I did it with syslinux, and have partition structure of /dev/sda1 /boot 50MB /dev/sda2 swap 1024MB /dev/sda3 /mnt 15440MB and /dev/sda4 /home remainder of the disk. Since in this configuration, /dev/sda3 correctly points to /root I left it alone but edited syslinux.cfg to point at linux-lts and also changed ro to rw at the end of those append lines. I did that after booting the machine and waiting an hour then hitting enter to get anything going. I heard archlinux start talking but also heard message failed to create secure directory again. So the rw on those append lines has if only temporarily enabled this system and disk writes to work. I don't have authority to edit the beginner's guide, and do have to question if anyone really did follow those instructions to the letter and come out of it with a working system. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel(a)shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

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[arch-general] Can't see all my memory
by Guillermo Leira 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello! I've installed an x86_64 Arch on a PC with 8 GB, but it seems to be seeing just four. What have I done wrong? Bios sees 4 x 2GB Modules and reports 8 GB, but top or free report only 4 GB. Best Regards Guillermo Leira

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[arch-general] libffado update
by Aapo Vienamo 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hello. I noticed that libffado was updated recently. It looks like that the new version of libffado is incompatible with the version of jack in the arch repos. To demonstrate the problem: aapo ~ $ jackd -dfirewire -r192000 jackd 0.121.3 Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane Letz, Jack O'Quinn, Torben Hohn and others. jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK compiled with System V SHM support. loading driver .. firewire ERR: Incompatible libffado version! (libffado 2.1.0-Unversioned directory) cannot load driver module firewire no message buffer overruns What should be done about this? I have tried jack2 but I found it too unstable to be actually useful.

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[arch-general] NetworkManager update - problematic for ipw2200
by mike cloaked 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I was away for a few days but this evening returned and updated a laptop which has ipw2200 wireless - and the updates included NetworkManager 0.9.6 - after rebooting the machine the wireless connection fails within seconds - despite ifconfig and ifconfig showing a normal connection - this is for a KDE D.E. with plasma networkmanagement which was also updated this evening. This now shows what appears to be a normal wireless signal strength which has not been the case for a long time - but the connection is a major bug. I have seen another post on the forums where a user has similar problems to me but with different wireless hardware. It is odd - the key indicators seem to show that the connection is fine but a browser fails to connect - ssh will connect but the connection will hang within seconds. pacman fails to connect to the servers except very very slowly and times out - despite another arch machine working perfectly well with different wireless hardware! Anyone else seeing something similar? I guess I will need to downgrade networkmanager till this is fixed. -- mike c

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[arch-general] [OT] Sending a laptop to the repair shop
by Manolo Martínez 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Just a quick question. What do you guys do when you have to leave your laptop at the repair shop? Do you create a new user for them, you give them your user and password and hope for the best, ask them to use a live CD? What? Manolo --

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[arch-general] / mounted ro after update
by P .NIKOLIC 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi folks Having been in hospital for a while i updated this system a couple of days ago and am having some strange problems If i run pacman -Syu i get 7-of-9:/ # pacman -Syu :: Synchronising package databases... error: failed to update core (unable to lock database) error: failed to update extra (unable to lock database) error: failed to update community (unable to lock database) error: failed to update multilib (unable to lock database) error: failed to synchronise any databases error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) error: could not lock database: Read-only file system mount gives 7-of-9:/ # mount proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) dev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1990844k,nr_inodes=497711,mode=755) run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755) /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) /dev/sda4 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime) binfmt on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/pete/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) contents of /etc/fstab # # /etc/fstab: static file system information # # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 UUID=34fd95b0-a146-47a8-8fa4-78dcedd8c127 /home ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=49c2a61c-19e8-4f45-b8ef-72507d60ee06 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1 UUID=a1439104-fcea-4c90-b0fb-2340154a9eae / ext4 defaults 0 1 UUID=b25ccd70-a144-40af-8126-303d7333cdb4 swap swap defaults 0 0 7-of-9:/ # uname -a Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Hints please where to look i have compared this system to the laptop and can see no major differences i have checked the drive it reports all ok Pete . -- Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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[arch-general] Has arch considered switching x86 to PAE by default
by Kevin Chadwick 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

I read not too long ago that one of the major distros is switching to PAE by default but I forget which distro, maybe Ubuntu. Has arch considered PAE by default. -- _______________________________________________________________________ '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] Cannot see tty after starting X
by Aurko Roy 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi, I am unable to see the ttys immediately after starting X. Neither the original tty from which X was started nor the other unused ones seem to be visible. I have an Nvidia graphics card and I have tried using both the nouveau as well as the proprietary nvidia driver - but neither seem to work. I had faced this problem earlier with nouveau but the nvidia driver used to work perfectly fine. Has anybody else faced this issue? -- Aurko Roy GPG key: 0x20C5BC31 Fingerprint:76B4 9677 15BE 731D 1949 85BA 2A31 B442 20C5 BC31

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[arch-general] Weird charset in console and X
by Martín Cigorraga 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Hi everyone, I desperatly need a second look here because this one is driving me nuts: I just found that the console charset it's totally screwed up and in minor degree the X vty, please see these screenshots: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/111794870164633905684/albums/57897421289… Now, the crazy thing is that all my locales seems to be right: /etc $ cat locale.gen ... ... #en_PH ISO-8859-1 #en_SG.UTF-8 UTF-8 #en_SG ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US ISO-8859-1 #en_ZA.UTF-8 UTF-8 #en_ZA ISO-8859-1 #en_ZM UTF-8 ... ... /etc $ locale -a C en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 POSIX /etc $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= and /etc $ cat rc.conf ... ... # CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans # USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages # LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8" DAEMON_LOCALE="no" HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires" KEYMAP= CONSOLEFONT="ter-i12n" CONSOLEMAP= USECOLOR="yes" # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # HARDWARE # ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ... I first think it could be associated with Terminus font (ter-i12n) but it wasn't it since booting with default font produces the same result. I also rebuild the initram image without the consolefont hook, but's still the same. Do I miss something!? Thanks!

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[arch-general] Issues with kernel-rt, at least using Arch Linux
by Ralf Mardorf 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

Hi :) this is very strange. A regular kernel doesn't cause xruns, but a kernel-rt does always cause xruns, when running jack_midi_latency_test. Because the proprietary nvidia driver doesn't work on my machine, when using a kernel-rt, what ever trick I try, I tested the nouveau driver. The nouveau driver does cause xruns for my RME card, but is ok with a TerraTec card. I switched to the nv driver and still get xruns for the RME card and the TerraTec card completely fails the test using a kernel-rt. When I repeat the test with a regular kernel, while using the proprietary nvidia driver, the RME card passes the test without xruns and the TerraTec card also is ok. The only idea I've got is to compile a full preempt kernel, boot it with threadirqs and to use the proprietary nvidia driver, but I would prefer to use a kernel-rt. Any hints are welcome. Arch Linux x86_64 mouse and iPad connected to USB ports when I started the test I thought the issues could be related to the connected iPad, but they aren't [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 3.4.4-rt14-1-rt [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ hdspmixer Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18 Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo chgrp audio /dev/hpet [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo chmod g+rw /dev/hpet [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo modprobe snd-hrtimer [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ /etc/rc.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 59 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 283 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 320 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1 322 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/21-snd_ice1 104 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 106 FF 70 - 110 0.3 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 108 FF 69 - 109 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 112 FF 68 - 108 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 57 FF 65 - 105 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 20 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 92 FF 50 - 90 0.1 S irq/22-ahci 110 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 114 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 117 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 118 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 257 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 270 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-firewire 587 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/43-eth0 3 FF 1 - 41 0.0 S ksoftirqd/0 11 FF 1 - 41 0.0 S ksoftirqd/1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf #Driver "nvidia" Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256 jackdmp 1.9.8 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 out" "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Reported out-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Reported in-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Average latency: 11.67 ms (560.27 frames) Lowest latency: 11.65 ms (559 frames) Highest latency: 11.75 ms (564 frames) Peak MIDI jitter: 0.10 ms (5 frames) Average MIDI jitter: 0.01 ms (0.08 frames) Jitter Plot: 0.0 - 0.1 ms: 8191 > 10 ms: 1 Latency Plot: 11.6 - 11.7 ms: 8091 11.7 - 11.8 ms: 100 > 21.6 ms: 1 Messages sent: 8192 Messages received: 8192 Xruns: 1 computer issues, a reset was needed only mouse connected to an USB port [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 3.4.4-rt14-1-rt [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ hdspmixer Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdef0000, irq 18 Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo chgrp audio /dev/hpet [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo chmod g+rw /dev/hpet [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo modprobe snd-hrtimer [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ /etc/rc.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 59 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 361 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 365 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1 368 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/21-snd_ice1 113 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 115 FF 70 - 110 0.3 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 117 FF 69 - 109 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 121 FF 68 - 108 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 57 FF 65 - 105 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 20 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 102 FF 50 - 90 0.2 S irq/22-ahci 119 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 123 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 126 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 127 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 289 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 324 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-firewire 618 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/43-eth0 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 11 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf #Driver "nvidia" Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256 jackdmp 1.9.8 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 out" "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Reported out-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Reported in-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Average latency: 11.69 ms (560.56 frames) Lowest latency: 11.64 ms (559 frames) Highest latency: 11.77 ms (565 frames) Peak MIDI jitter: 0.13 ms (6 frames) Average MIDI jitter: 0.02 ms (0.04 frames) Jitter Plot: 0.0 - 0.1 ms: 8187 > 10 ms: 5 Latency Plot: 11.6 - 11.7 ms: 7919 11.7 - 11.8 ms: 268 > 21.6 ms: 5 Messages sent: 8192 Messages received: 8192 Xruns: 5 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:2-1 TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI 1 out" "system:2-1 TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Messages sent: 5619 Messages received: 5618 jack_midi_latency_test: handle_process: timed out while waiting for MIDI message before I reset the computer I got this too, this time a shutdown was possible I also disconnected the computer from the mains for 55 minutes, before I booted again only mouse connected to an USB port now without hpet enabled [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 3.4.4-rt14-1-rt [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ hdspmixer Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdef0000, irq 18 Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ /etc/rc.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 59 FF 90 - 130 0.0 S irq/8-rtc0 318 FF 85 - 125 0.0 S irq/18-snd_hdsp 326 FF 80 - 120 0.0 S irq/20-snd_ice1 328 FF 79 - 119 0.0 S irq/21-snd_ice1 107 FF 70 - 110 0.0 S irq/19-ehci_hcd 109 FF 70 - 110 0.2 S irq/16-ohci_hcd 121 FF 69 - 109 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 125 FF 68 - 108 0.0 S irq/17-ohci_hcd 57 FF 65 - 105 0.0 S irq/1-i8042 20 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/9-acpi 100 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/14-pata_ati 101 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/15-pata_ati 111 FF 50 - 90 0.2 S irq/22-ahci 123 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 127 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/18-ohci_hcd 279 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/7-parport0 323 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/22-firewire 586 FF 50 - 90 0.0 S irq/43-eth0 3 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/0 11 FF 1 - 41 0.1 S ksoftirqd/1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf #Driver "nvidia" Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256 jackdmp 1.9.8 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 out" "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Reported out-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Reported in-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Average latency: 11.67 ms (560.32 frames) Lowest latency: 11.64 ms (559 frames) Highest latency: 11.75 ms (564 frames) Peak MIDI jitter: 0.11 ms (5 frames) Average MIDI jitter: 0.01 ms (0.09 frames) Jitter Plot: 0.0 - 0.1 ms: 8192 Latency Plot: 11.6 - 11.7 ms: 8024 11.7 - 11.8 ms: 168 Messages sent: 8192 Messages received: 8192 after the test for the TerraTec failed again, I had to reset the computer I booted a kernel-rt for AV Linux unfortunately Jack2 is version 1.9.6, so I booted Arch Linux again, but this time I didn't boot the kernel-rt [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -r 3.5.4-1-ARCH [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ hdspmixer Card 0: RME AIO S/N 0x579bcc at 0xfdbf0000, irq 18 Card 1: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbf00, irq 20 Card 2: TerraTec EWX24/96 at 0xbb00, irq 21 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ /etc/rc.d/rtirq status PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND 3 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/0 10 TS - 0 19 0.0 S ksoftirqd/1 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf ### Driver "nvidia" #Driver "nv" #Driver "nouveau" #Driver "vesa" spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jackd --sync -Xalsarawmidi -dalsa -r48000 -p256 jackdmp 1.9.8 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:2-1 TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI 1 out" "system:2-1 TerraTec EWX24/96 MIDI 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Reported out-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Reported in-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Average latency: 11.67 ms (560.05 frames) Lowest latency: 11.67 ms (560 frames) Highest latency: 11.77 ms (565 frames) Peak MIDI jitter: 0.11 ms (5 frames) Average MIDI jitter: 0.00 ms (0.01 frames) Jitter Plot: 0.0 - 0.1 ms: 8191 0.1 - 0.2 ms: 1 Latency Plot: 11.6 - 11.7 ms: 8146 11.7 - 11.8 ms: 46 Messages sent: 8192 Messages received: 8192 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ jack_midi_latency_test -m 3 -s 8192 -t 5 "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 out" "system:1-1 HDSPMx579bcc MIDI 1 1 in" Waiting for connections ... Waiting for test completion ... Reported out-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Reported in-port latency: 5.33-5.33 ms (256-256 frames) Average latency: 11.68 ms (560.43 frames) Lowest latency: 11.65 ms (559 frames) Highest latency: 11.73 ms (563 frames) Peak MIDI jitter: 0.08 ms (4 frames) Average MIDI jitter: 0.01 ms (0.01 frames) Jitter Plot: 0.0 - 0.1 ms: 8192 Latency Plot: 11.6 - 11.7 ms: 8156 11.7 - 11.8 ms: 36 Messages sent: 8192 Messages received: 8192 Regards, Ralf

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[arch-general] LXC Containers
by Jameson 20 Sep '12

20 Sep '12

I'm trying to setup my first LXC containers. I've managed to bootstrap an Arch container, but can't login to it even after manually adding a password to root in it's shadow file. I've also tried using /usr/lib/lxc/templates/lxc-ubuntu to setup an Ubuntu container. That seems to always return E: Invalid Release file, no entry for main/binary-x86_64/Packages no matter which release I try. Does anyone happen to know how to solve one or both of these problems? Thanks, =-Jameson

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[arch-general] Problem with radeon driver
by Fons Adriaensen 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello all, Yesterday I wanted to update my IBM R51. Since this hadn't seen any updates for half a year or so I decided to go for a full install, also to try out the new install procedures. This all went very smoothly, and there's only one remaining problem. X11 seems to work, but - GUI elements (e.g. buttons) remain black or some random texture. - Xterm has problems when scrolling - lines get overprinted, or only some rows of pixels show up. When hitting Enter on the bottom line the bash prompt isn't printed, but the cursor moves to the right place. Same for filename completion etc. - Similar problems all over the place. Driver is video-ati aka radeon. No xorg.conf, and using the one installed before makes no difference. Also added 20-radeon.conf as explained in the wiki and modified individual options, no improvement. No errors in Xorg.0.log. But I found this in errors.log: Sep 19 13:17:33 zita2 kernel: [ 5.002534] [drm:radeon_agp_init] *ERROR* Unable to acquire AGP: -19 Booting via syslinux, late KMS. 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] Strange pacman problem with conflicting dependencies
by Arthur Titeica 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi On a machine with a less frequent updating schedule (~once a month) I receive the following when doing pacman -Suy ----------------->8----------------- # pacman -Suy :: Synchronizing package databases... testing is up to date core is up to date extra is up to date community-testing is up to date community is up to date multilib-testing is up to date multilib is up to date archlinuxfr is up to date repo-ck is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: ffmpeg: ignoring package upgrade (20120509-1 => 1:0.11.1-1) :: Replace virtualbox-additions with community-testing/virtualbox-iso- additions? [Y/n] :: Replace virtualbox-modules with community-testing/virtualbox-host-modules? [Y/n] warning: x264: ignoring package upgrade (20120204-1 => 20120705-1) resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: unresolvable package conflicts detected error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies) :: virtualbox-host-modules and virtualbox-modules are in conflict ----------------->8----------------- I didn't have any problems with the virtualbox replacements on another machine with daily updates. If necessary the debug pacman log may be found at http://pastebin.com/9nh5tp9t Thanks. -- Arthur Titeica

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[arch-general] Shutdown's SIGTERM [FAIL]
by Martín Cigorraga 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hi, I noticed I'm getting a [FAIL] message for SIGTERM on system shutdown[0], how can I debug it? I already checked /var/log but found nothing :( [0] Some additional info: SIGKILL do the job (so the system shutdowns/reboot after a few seconds) and on the next boot everything is clean.

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[arch-general] Using Recoll to index tar.gz files
by Randy 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Hello, I'm trying to get Recoll to index either tar or tar.gz files without success. Per the instructions on Recoll's website I added the filter rcltar to the filters folder and modified my mimeconf file to include the following line: application/x-tar = execm rcltar Nothing works. It doesn't find text that is included in any tar or tar.gz file. It will work correctly on other compressed file formats such as zip and rar. Just not tar or tar.gz. Is there anyone else here that uses Recoll on tar or tar.gz files? If so, what's your secret? Thanks, Randy

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[arch-general] Issue with Jack2, ALSA or current kernels
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Hi :) I noticed that audio with Jack is broken for [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -a Linux archlinux 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux and 3.4.4-rt14-1-rt [1]. Does anybody experience the same? Unfortunately I also lost my rtirq settings, that anyway might not work with the new kernels. And the error seems not be related to rtirq, but perhaps to a broken Jack, ALSA or Kernel. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi jack2 Version : 1.9.8-2 [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qil alsa-tools Version : 1.0.25-1 Regards, Ralf [1] -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Ralf Mardorf To: linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org Cc: Peter Lutek Subject: Re: [LAU] hdsp not happy with recent kernels Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:52:10 +0200 On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 10:48 -0400, Peter Lutek wrote: [snip] Peter, today I noticed that I also have issues with some of the kernels. When I claimed that all kernels are ok here, I was mistaken. For the record, rtirq isn't set up as needed, but that doesn't matter. Group audio and the security limits are set up correctly. For 3.2.0.23 everything still is ok ... ############################################################### spinymouse@precise:~$ uname -a Linux precise 3.2.0-23-lowlatency #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 11 02:24:03 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux spinymouse@precise:~$ jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p64 -n2 jackdmp 1.9.8 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2011 Grame. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 control device hw:0 control device hw:0 audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio0 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|64|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 64 frames (1.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 256 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 256 periods for playback ############################################################### ... but for 3.4.4-rt14 I get a strange output. [spinymouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -a Linux archlinux 3.4.4-rt14-1-rt #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jul 20 13:16:40 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux Because it's easier to copy the whole output I started Jack by QJackCtl. 12:19:29.786 Patchbay deactivated. 12:19:29.791 Statistics reset. 12:19:29.845 ALSA connection change. Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server socket jack server is not running or cannot be started 12:19:29.861 ALSA connection graph change. 12:19:30.894 JACK is starting... 12:19:30.895 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p64 -n2 Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server socket jack server is not running or cannot be started 12:19:30.928 JACK was started with PID=1176. could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_firewire.so': libffado.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory could not open driver .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_firewire.so': libffado.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory jack_get_descriptor returns null for 'jack_firewire.so' could not open component .so '/usr/lib/jack/jack_firewire.so': libffado.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory jackdmp 1.9.8 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2011 Grame. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 Jack: Create non RT thread Jack: ThreadHandler: start Jack: playback device hw:0 Jack: capture device hw:0 Jack: apparent rate = 48000 Jack: frames per period = 64 Jack: JackDriver::Open capture_driver_name = hw:0 Jack: JackDriver::Open playback_driver_name = hw:0 Jack: Check protocol client = 8 server = 8 Jack: JackEngine::ClientInternalOpen: name = system Jack: JackEngine::AllocateRefNum ref = 0 Jack: JackPosixSemaphore::Allocate name = jack_sem.1000_default_system val = 0 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyAddClient: name = system Jack: JackGraphManager::SetBufferSize size = 64 Jack: JackConnectionManager::DirectConnect first: ref1 = 0 ref2 = 0 Jack: JackGraphManager::ConnectRefNum cur_index = 0 ref1 = 0 ref2 = 0 Jack: JackDriver::SetupDriverSync driver sem in flush mode control device hw:0 control device hw:0 audio_reservation_init Acquire audio card Audio0 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|64|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 64 frames (1.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 256 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 256 periods for playback Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::Open Jack: Bind: addr.sun_path /dev/shm/jack_default_1000_0 Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 1 Jack: JackEngine::Open Jack: Connect: addr.sun_path /dev/shm/jack_default_1000_0 Jack: JackEngine::ClientInternalOpen: name = freewheel Jack: JackEngine::AllocateRefNum ref = 1 Jack: JackPosixSemaphore::Allocate name = jack_sem.1000_default_freewheel val = 0 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyAddClient: name = freewheel Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = system name = freewheel notify = 0 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 0 driver = freewheel name = system notify = 0 Jack: JackConnectionManager::DirectConnect first: ref1 = 1 ref2 = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::ConnectRefNum cur_index = 0 ref1 = 1 ref2 = 1 Jack: JackDriver::SetupDriverSync driver sem in flush mode Jack: JackGraphManager::SetBufferSize size = 64 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fBufferSize 64 fSampleRate 48000 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_1 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 1 name = system:capture_1 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 1 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 1 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_2 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 2 name = system:capture_2 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 2 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 2 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_3 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 3 name = system:capture_3 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 3 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 3 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_4 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 4 name = system:capture_4 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 4 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 4 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_5 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 5 name = system:capture_5 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 5 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 5 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_6 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 6 name = system:capture_6 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 6 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 6 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_7 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 7 name = system:capture_7 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 7 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 7 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_8 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 8 name = system:capture_8 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 8 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 8 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_9 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 9 name = system:capture_9 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 9 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_10 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 10 name = system:capture_10 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 10 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 10 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_11 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 11 name = system:capture_11 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 11 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 11 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_12 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 12 name = system:capture_12 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 12 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 12 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_13 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 13 name = system:capture_13 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 13 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 13 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:capture_14 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 22 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 14 name = system:capture_14 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddOutputPort ref = 0 port = 14 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fCapturePortList[i] 14 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_1 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 15 name = system:playback_1 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 15 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 15 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_2 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 16 name = system:playback_2 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 16 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 16 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_3 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 17 name = system:playback_3 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 17 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 17 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_4 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 18 name = system:playback_4 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 18 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 18 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_5 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 19 name = system:playback_5 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 19 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 19 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_6 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 20 name = system:playback_6 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 20 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 20 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_7 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 21 name = system:playback_7 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 21 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 21 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_8 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 22 name = system:playback_8 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 22 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 22 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_9 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 23 name = system:playback_9 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 23 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 23 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_10 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 24 name = system:playback_10 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 24 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 24 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_11 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 25 name = system:playback_11 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 25 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 25 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_12 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 26 name = system:playback_12 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 26 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 26 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_13 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 27 name = system:playback_13 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 27 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 27 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_14 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 28 name = system:playback_14 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 28 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 28 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_15 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 29 name = system:playback_15 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 29 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 29 Jack: JackEngine::PortRegister ref = 0 name = system:playback_16 type = 32 bit float mono audio flags = 21 buffer_size = 64 Jack: JackGraphManager::AllocatePortAux port_index = 30 name = system:playback_16 type = 32 bit float mono audio Jack: JackConnectionManager::AddInputPort ref = 0 port = 30 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 9 Jack: JackAlsaDriver::Attach fPlaybackPortList[i] 30 Jack: Clock source : system clock via clock_gettime Jack: JackServer::Start Jack: JackThreadedDriver::Start Jack: Create non RT thread Jack: ThreadHandler: start Jack: JackThreadedDriver::Init real-time Jack: JackPosixThread::AcquireRealTimeImp priority = 10 Jack: Create non RT thread Jack: ThreadHandler: start Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::ClientCreate socket Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 2 Jack: fSocketTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: JackRequest::Notification Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 12:19:33.128 JACK connection change. 12:19:33.196 Server configuration saved to "/home/spinymouse/.jackdrc". 12:19:33.198 Statistics reset. 12:19:33.207 Client activated. 12:19:33.217 JACK connection graph change. Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::ClientCreate socket Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 3 Jack: fSocketTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fSocketTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: Poll client error err = Success Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::ClientKill ref = -1 Jack: Client was not opened : probably correspond to server_check Jack: JackClientSocket::Close Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 2 Jack: fSocketTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::ClientCreate socket Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 3 Jack: fSocketTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fSocketTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: JackRequest::ClientCheck Jack: Check protocol client = 8 server = 8 Jack: JackRequest::ClientOpen Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::ClientAdd Jack: JackEngine::ClientExternalOpen: uuid = 0, name = qjackctl Jack: JackEngine::AllocateRefNum ref = 2 Jack: JackPosixSemaphore::Allocate name = jack_sem.1000_default_qjackctl val = 0 Jack: JackSocketNotifyChannel::Open name = qjackctl Jack: Connect: addr.sun_path /dev/shm/jack_qjackctl_1000_0 Jack: JackShmMem::new index = 2 attached = 936ec000 size = 384 Jack: JackExternalClient::Open name = qjackctl index = 2 base = 936ec000 Jack: JackProcessSync::TimedWait time out = 5000000 Jack: JackProcessSync::TimedWait finished delta = 148.0 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyAddClient: name = qjackctl Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 2 driver = system name = qjackctl notify = 0 Jack: JackExternalClient::ClientNotify ref = 0 client = qjackctl name = system notify = 0 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 2 driver = freewheel name = qjackctl notify = 0 Jack: JackExternalClient::ClientNotify ref = 1 client = qjackctl name = freewheel notify = 0 Jack: JackSocketServerChannel::BuildPoolTable size = 3 Jack: fSocketTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fSocketTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: JackRequest::Notification Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: JackClient::SetupDriverSync driver sem in flush mode Jack: JackPosixSemaphore::Connect name = jack_sem.1000_default_qjackctl Jack: JackPosixSemaphore::Connect sem_getvalue 0 Jack: Clock source : system clock via clock_gettime Jack: JackLibClient::Open name = qjackctl refnum = 2 Jack: jack_set_graph_order_callback ext_client 156ff80 client 156ff80 Jack: JackClient::Activate Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: JackRequest::ActivateClient Jack: JackEngine::ClientActivate ref = 2 name = qjackctl Jack: JackProcessSync::TimedWait time out = 26660 Jack: JackProcessSync::TimedWait finished delta = 173.0 Jack: JackExternalClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 client = qjackctl name = qjackctl notify = 2 Jack: JackClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 name = qjackctl notify = 2 Jack: JackClient::kActivateClient name = qjackctl ref = 2 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: JackRequest::Notification Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackEngine::NotifyClient: no callback for event = 4 Jack: JackExternalClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 client = qjackctl name = qjackctl notify = 4 Jack: JackClient::ClientNotify ref = 2 name = qjackctl notify = 4 Jack: JackClient::kGraphOrderCallback Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 15 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 16 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 17 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 19 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 20 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 21 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 22 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 23 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 24 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 25 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 26 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 27 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 28 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 29 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 30 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackDriver::ClientNotify ref = 1 driver = freewheel name = freewheel notify = 18 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 1 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 2 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 3 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 4 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 5 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 6 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 7 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 8 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 9 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 10 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 11 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 12 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 13 Jack: JackGraphManager::RecalculateLatency port_index = 14 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 Jack: fPollTable i = 1 fd = 9 Jack: fPollTable i = 2 fd = 12 ############################################################### My RME card is a PCIe card, type HDSPe AIO. I also have two TerraTec EWX 24/96 PCI cards installed. I run the same command for one of the TerraTec (ICE1712) cards and got the same strange output as I got for the RME card. Regards, Ralf

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by Martín Cigorraga 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martín Cigorraga <martincigorraga(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [arch-general] Munin and MySQL To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general(a)archlinux.org> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Martín Cigorraga <martincigorraga(a)gmail.com > wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Krzysztof Warzecha <kwarzecha7(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> 2012/9/17 Martín Cigorraga <msx(a)archlinux.us>: >> > Whenever I run: >> > # munin-node-configure --shell | sh >> > I got this: >> > # The following plugins caused errors: >> > # mysql_: >> > # Non-zero exit during autoconf (2) >> > # ntp_states: >> > # Non-zero exit during autoconf (2) >> > # proc: >> > # In family 'auto' but doesn't have 'autoconf' capability >> >> Try: >> >> /usr/lib/munin/plugins/mysql_ suggest >> >> If in doubt, read plugin source. This one needs some extra perl >> packages (it will show helpful error message if dependencies are >> missing), configuration in /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/ (in existing or >> new file, no difference) and meaningful symlink name. If you want to >> install that plugin manually try something like this: >> >> ln -s /usr/lib/munin/plugins/mysql_ /etc/munin/plugins/mysql_$GRAPH >> >> Where $GRAPH is one from: (bin_relay_log, commands, connections, >> files_tables, innodb_bpool, innodb_bpool_act, innodb_insert_buf, >> innodb_io, innodb_io_pend, innodb_log, innodb_rows, innodb_semaphores, >> innodb_tnx, myisam_indexes, network_traffic, qcache, qcache_mem, >> replication, select_types, slow, sorts, table_locks, tmp_tables). >> >> -- >> Krzysztof Warzecha >> > > Mmm, things are starting to clarify... ;-) > As you correctly said the mysql_ plugin needs the community/perl-dbi > package and a Cache::Cache module (Missing dependency Cache::Cache at > /usr/lib/munin/plugins/mysql_ line 729.) I'm gonna install from CPAN. > Once I get this working I think I should fill a bug report to add these > libraries as optdepend to munin-node package. > Munin is plain awesome, thanks for the tips! > Finally, I managed to install and run mysql_ and ntp_states plugins. mysql_: needs community/perl-dbi package and "Cache::Cache" module - available through CPAN. ntp_states: needs "Net::DNS::Resolver" module, available through CPAN too. Still I'm having this error message for proc when I do: /usr/lib/munin/plugins # munin-node-configure --shell | sh # The following plugins caused errors: # proc: # In family 'auto' but doesn't have 'autoconf' capability But on the other side ~ $ sudo munin-run --servicedir /usr/lib/munin/plugins/ proc multigraph proc_cpu multigraph proc_memory multigraph proc_ctxt_switches multigraph proc_threads multigraph proc_processes multigraph proc_io I will check the plugin as soon as I get some sleep - Perl is beautiful... and cryptic at times! Note: I opened a new bug report - FS#31579 - community/perl-dbi pkg should be added to muni-node optdepends <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31579>

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[arch-general] rtirq
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

Not a serious issue. # pacman -Syu rtirq [snip] ==> This script works only in conjunction with a realtime kernel. [snip] It at least does work with full preempt kernels + threadirqs too. Regards, Ralf PS: Apologize, but I don't know if you're following arch general, that's why I "cc"ed it. # pacman -Qil rtirq Packager : Bernardo Barros

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[arch-general] Modifying archiso
by Robbie Smith 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

The wiki gives instructions on modifying the ISO[1] and the last step is to recreate the actual ISO file. I've got my Arch installers on USB sticks, but is it absolutely necessary to do this? Couldn't I just copy the root-image.fs.sfs to the appropriate directory on my USB (/path/to/USB/device/arch/x86_64/root-image.fs.sfs) instead, and regenerate the checksums? [1]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Remastering_the_Install_ISO

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[arch-general] installation file format question
by Jude DaShiell 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

What is the command to put xfs file formatting on partitions? I have arch on a separate disk so can try an installation with xfs probably tomorrow morning. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel(a)shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

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[arch-general] /etc/tmpfiles.d
by Martín Cigorraga 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

"[...]However, tmpfiles may also be used to write values into certain files on boot. For example, if you use /etc/rc.local to disable wakeup from USB devices with echo USBE > /proc/acpi/wakeup, you may use the following tmpfile instead: /etc/tmpfiles.d/disable-usb-wake.conf w /proc/acpi/wakeup - - - - USBE The tmpfiles method is recommended in this case since systemd doesn't actually support /etc/rc.local." Does that means that I need to move all the content from /etc/rc.local to /etc/tmpfiles.d? For example this is my actual /etc/rc.local: ~ $ cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/bash # # /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script. # #modprobe radeon # added by hybrid-video-ati-intel install script #echo IGD > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch # added by hybrid-video-ati-intel install script echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch # completely deactivate radeon ## ATi # Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#Performance_tuning echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile #echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method echo dynpm > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method echo OFF > /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch # CPUFREQ for i in 0 1 2 3; do cpufreq-set -c $i -g powersave; done ## sets powersave cpufreq governor for all CPU cores #echo -n 90 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold echo -n 20 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/sampling_down_factor # Prepare the system for Wake-on-Lan /usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 wol pg # Activate laptop_mode echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode # Performance tweaks for USB drivers under KDE SC echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag If this is the case, how do you guys would convert the FOR loop!?

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[arch-general] HARDWARECLOCK and systemd
by Martín Cigorraga 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

I'm moving to systemd (finally!) and I'm stuck at the HARDWARECLOCK section of rc.conf wiki. How should be configured /etc/adjtime ? I can't find what should be inside it. Also there say: " If this value is not set, then the value stored by hwclock in /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime [...]" but I don't have any /var/lib/hwclock directory. I would appreciate if anyone who already did the jump can share his experiences, thanks!

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[arch-general] Munin and MySQL
by Martín Cigorraga 17 Sep '12

17 Sep '12

Hi all, anyone proficient at Munin? The talk of one of our guest speakers at the local SFD that took place yesterday was about monitoring everything with Munin, a software I didn't knew but which I liked at first sight. Once at home the very first thing I did after take the laptop out of my backpack was install Munin, of course, and alongside this I found some warning and error messages that aren't very informative so before go and dive on the net trying to gather information about them I decided to first try luck in the list. Whenever I run: # munin-node-configure --shell | sh I got this: # The following plugins caused errors: # mysql_: # Non-zero exit during autoconf (2) # ntp_states: # Non-zero exit during autoconf (2) # proc: # In family 'auto' but doesn't have 'autoconf' capability Now the munin-node-configure --suggest command shows: | no | no for all the three plugins. Following the wiki suggestion: # munin-run {plugin} I got a: # Unknown service '{plugin}' for all them three. I would appreciate any light here since seems there isn't any Munin error log file to check and also Munin does not log to standard /var/log/errors.log file. Greetz, Martin

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Re: [arch-general] almost got latest talkingarch installed
by Jude DaShiell 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

One thing I forgot to write up. After booting into new system, hitting keys on keypad does not crash the system and those keys perform the expected speakup functions so the system is definitely using linux-lts and not the flake default kernel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- jude <jdashiel(a)shellworld.net> Adobe fiend for failing to Flash

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